skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> scientists don't seem to become as wildly inflated as priests or cult leaders

Isn't that simply because they don't have anywhere near the amount of power or followers? For power to corrupt, you must first have power.
> within milliseconds.

I think you're overestimating the speed of sound a bit. You'd need nearly 5 seconds to hear artillery fire a mile away.
This has nothing to do with convenience, it's about business which run large losses to expand their customer base. What Matt Levine calls the "MoviePass economy". https://archive.ph/bHsJV
I'm not 100% certain if I'm understanding the requirement correctly - but would something like this help?

https://github.com/ctxis/SnitchDNS
I have actually fully replaced my jq installation with gojq (including an `ln -s gojq jq`) for a few years, and no script has broken so far. I'm super impressed by the jq compatibility.

If you are going down this route, do be careful with performance. I don't know which is more performant as I've never really had to work with large data sets, but I can't help but feel jq will be faster than gojq in such case. I have no benchmarks backing this up, but who knows, maybe someone will benchmark both.

One of my favourite features is the fact that error messages are actually legible, unlike jq.
Promotion is difficult, creation is difficult... destruction is always the easiest path.
Nordic countries do all much better than others in my experience. I'm sure that they have their own problems, but such level of bullshit and disrespect is not one of them indeed.
Would be nice if they linked the study or at least an article about it.
Many republics (including Singapore) do not have "states", so clearly "states rights" is not "a fundamental construct of a republic".

Nobody sane has ever cared about "states' rights" consistently - it's a silly concerpt. It was invented as part of the Lost Cause mythology to justify secession. (Fugitive slave laws, which are pretty antithetical to 'states rights," were very much something the antebellum South pushed for.)
> The driver has to be liable, until the L5 system has lower error-rate than a human.

Which that was promised to be completed in 2020. Where are the Level 5 robotaxis that Elon was confident enough to release by that year?

> For regulatory and liability reasons, it should be registered as an L2 until it's perfect.

And FSD was advertised as Level 5 by Tesla and was due to be complete by 2020 deadline. Even before that, many customers fell for this and were promised that future updates would eventually make it Level 5.

See how the scam works? Not only it was meant to be 'Level 5' as advertised by 2020, Tesla knew that it won't get there all along and continued the deception as their fans bought into the false promise and customers realised that they are paying for a broken contraption that didn't function as advertised and will continue paying for it as the price keeps increasing.

> No one has ever claimed that FSD is a finished product.

Yes. Elon (and Tesla) were the only ones that claimed and promised that it will be finished with robo-taxis on the road, at Level 5 FSD by 2020. This is the pied-piper scam and they have sold a false promise to their loyal fanbase and they will pay for an unfinished product until its 'perfect Level 5 FSD'; whenever that is and will continue to raise prices.

I also don't think it is ok to use unfinished safety critical software on the roads and put many driver's on the roads lives at risk.
We are all part of the same system and we vote for politicians that refuse to regulate businesses even when they actively harm people.
> You have to pay people royalties for broadcasting their work.

Might be a dumb question - but is this a contractual thing? Why do people still need to get royalties for broadcasts of something made 40 years ago vs just paying them for it back then?
> 2. Well, they are. A teaching certification used to only require two years of higher learning compared to typical 4 for other things. That said, most teachers are actually more highly educated than the average person because schools use educational attainment as direct basis for pay.

Incorrect: it depends on the state, the subject, and the grade level. For secondary education of a core subject, in Michigan, for example, I had to take all of the classes for a normal 4-year degree in the subject, plus taking the equivalent of two years of education classes. Taking 18-20 credit hours per semester, it took me five years to graduate. So the requirements can actually be much more difficult than a normal degree.

When I taught Title I, there was an additional requirement that you had to be "highly qualified". That typically meant a 4-year degree out equivalent experience, no matter the subject or grade level.

Many teachers have a master's not due to pay, as you claim, but because states essentially mandate it. In Michigan you're required to get continuing education credits. I believe the requirement drops off once you have a master's. So it doesn't make a lot of sense not to get one.
SQLite has pretty limited builtin functions
I don't buy the premise of the article.

I think that convenience will get harder because the economic system in the US prioritizes everything but automation. Have a business plan where you can hire tons of people? Great! Here's your loan. Have an asset as collateral or the money itself before you need it? Great! Here's at least that much money. Have an invention to completely solve the problem of delivery because robots grow food in your backyard? Get lost!

I often think of the lyric from the Cheers theme song: "making your way in the world today takes everything you've got". Well, Millenials and Gen Z have about half the disposable income that Gen X had, and Gen X has about half what the Boomers had. In other words, it was 4 times easier to make it in the 80s than it is today. I was there, I remember what leisure was. And art and civic engagement and public works and everything else that we've all but lost today. Now our cities don't even have safe drinking water. That kind of travesty was unheard of in the 80s.

As the realities of late-stage capitalism crush down on the world harder and harder, the cost of making it will eventually pass what people are willing to pay. I think we're seeing the start of that with The Great Resignation and #vanlife.

If my feeling on this is correct, then deregulation and lower interest rates will speed the decline. Stuff like austerity backfires, and half the population knows that through experience now since stuff like 9/11 and the housing bubble popping.

So any hope of fixing supply chains powered by low-wage workers in the third world is a fantasy. They've seen the internet, they know that their best shot at a better life is not to succumb to servitude like their parents did. They're all going to organize and demand better compensation, like they should have done a generation ago.

Another way to look at this is that the value of things stays the same, but the value of currency falls. In another 10-20 years, currency will be so worthless that a home in some cities might cost $10 million. We're losing the ability to buy things because we can't hedge against that with our own ability to make things.
Jennette McCurdy
Humans have opposable thumbs, have created civilization and are proud of that fact.

Dolphins have no opposable thumbs, have not created civilization and are proud of that fact.

(badly) paraphrased from Douglas Adams
The idea is that when you donate to charity, the money is never “yours” - you never benefit from it.

Analogously, if part of your compensation was a donation to charity, you wouldn’t be taxed on it.

> it would be better if there were no donations in the first place, and the government just

A lot of Democrats in red states and Republicans in blue states disagree.

If America removed the charitable tax deduction, the big losers would include churches, Planned Parenthood, Human Rights Campaign, ACLU, etc
Hand scribed and illuminated manuscripts used to cost the equivalent of a house today. It's sad to know that those treasures were lost. I wonder how many just ended up in the dump since the owner's descendents didn't think they had value?
If you can find fresh oiled packed (refrigerated, typically not salted) white anchovies, a small handful of them feels similar to taking focus enhancing drugs. They are also delicious.

By contrast, tin packed/anythong not fresh has no effect for me.
>change from .tar.xz to .zip format. this doubles the size, but speeds up file access from 30s to 0.01s

Perhaps not the best trade, than again, the choice might not be necessary at all: xz is rather slow on decompression. What were to happen if the format was .zstd instead of .zip (with/without .tar)? We should be able to achieve a lower size than .zip without being so slow.
Thank you for the detective work! I'll look into this. This is not intended behavior at all. In fact, my own username on the platform is leobg - so, no space, no caps. Whatever it is, I'll fix it!

Also, thanks for adding a marker to your test domains. That was really thoughtful of you.
Offtopic, it confuses me how "cervical" refers both to something related to a neck vertebrae and to something related to the female reproductive system.

How did we end up with this homonym?
On the otherhand, if you're a user and not a developer, you know something written in bash will be written to run on any machine out there. Doesn't matter if it's old or new. Whereas if it's written in C++xx or Rust or the like it'll only compile/run on rolling release distros (or for the 3 months after a normal distro is released that it's up to date).
New evidence shows water separates into two different liquids at low temperature
Isn't this amendment adding an obligation on which lifestyles the state can subsidize though?

If the state should be free to choose, it should be free to choose, not be limited by the constitutional text.

You'll have to explain how gay people being allowed to visit their loved ones on their death beds as a culture war against "the population" though.

Are gay people not part of "the population" ? I'd expect the population to be the set of all people in the country, not some subset that you happen to like
If you want to know if the person can chat right now, you can always say "Oh, hello. Do you have time for a short chat right now?"

Every other time when you don't need to know that, you can still not get all the problems of the empty "hello" message.
> Why shouldn’t car infrastructure now bear the defunding that other modes have historically suffered in order to accommodate cars historically, infrastructures which has historically created social costs to local communities?

Because it devalues a whole lot of land and capital that have seen substantial investment under the prior equilibrium.

Fixing historic wrongs or not, churning our transport infrastructure incurs a whole lot of external costs and can't be just considered in terms of "road costs" vs. "rail costs".
I'm not an expert on this topic, but one author in particular that I came across as a younger man was James Allen and his writings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Allen_(author)

And in particular there is a 3-volume series that was available for a few years that put together a lot of the work he had done during his lifetime, even though his most popular seemed to be "As a Man Thinketh".

The Wisdom of James Allen I, II, and III:
https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-James-Allen-Including-Prosperi...
https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-James-Allen-Difficulties-Trium...
https://www.amazon.com/Wisdom-James-Allen-III-Heavenlylife/d...

It's been a number of years since I last read them, and unfortunately the publisher above went out of business so you can generally only find the titles above used, but I did enjoy the philosophy/thinking shared in the writing, even if their titles may indicate a somewhat religious slant, overall I'd say the writings focus more on leading a good life.

This is a good reminder I should read them again to refresh my memory on all that is discussed within the pages however, since it has been probably over 15+ years since I first read them thoroughly.
You can, but it results in non-linear increases in fuel consumption. A nuclear reactor can be run at a high power output continuously without substantial reductions in efficiency. It also allows for infinite range and reduces cost and turnaround time caused by refuelling. Using Ammonia would have none of these benefits, require expensive infrastructure, and involve enormous energy losses.
It's not that they're not paid to care, it's that they're not paid to teach. At least at research universities, tenured/tenure-track faculty's job is to do produce research and get grants. Teaching is a thing that's piled on top of it that doesn't help your career and takes a whole lot of time away from your primary job function.

A lot of professors do actually care about teaching and genuinely want to help students, but the system as designed strongly disincentivizes (or actively punishes) doing more than the bare minimum. I know a professor who was recently denied tenure at a research university that likes to describe itself as very "undergraduate teaching focused" -- he had decent but not outstanding research output, but had gotten several university-wide teaching awards and was broadly considered by students one of the best lecturers in the department. Some of the comments he had received suggest that this actively hurt him for tenure, because they felt he was too focused on teaching over research.
Montaigne once said that he often found himself listening to multiple perspectives and being convinced by all of them, even when they contradicted one another.
I see. I was so confused by the original comment that I guess my brain stopped working.
Michael Sugrue

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB5ShJRcpNFPz_2uazuT4XJ3y...

I didn’t think it possible to learn this much this quickly.
She could not conceive. She finally found a doctor that helped her conceive but she lost the baby and it was likely due to her weight.
4 million books holy smokes
> everything is private property only if a sovereign authority says it is

This is simply untrue. Private property proceeds the existence of the modern state.

Many parts of the world have extremely weak states, yet a distinction between private and public property remains.

Arguably, the states role is to ensure private property protections are available to the weak and the powerful, not just the powerful.

“The commons” - in the European and British sense were/are public property long before a meaningful state became involved.

Both s public and private property proceed modern states, and can have their origin in customary law as much as legal statutes.
In my previous job I asked my boss if he would let me drop down to 3 days per week (60% salary). To my slight surprise, he was totally fine with it

I did this after working hard for ~1 year at the company. Once you prove your worth, it's in your employers interests to keep you i.e. it would cost them way more if you left for another job with shorter working hours so don't be afraid to ask

If it was doing it again though, I'd request this during my yearly review, and I'd ask for a 4 day week with no drop in salary

There are already companies offering a 32 hours work week though:

https://4dayweek.io/

Disclaimer: I'm the founder
See also Marcionism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcionism
Our visual field isn’t really elliptical.

If you close one eye, it’s clear that each of your eyes sees a side of your nose, but if you open both, the nose sort-of disappears from your perception (you can still see it, but have to cross your eyes to do so)

Your brain somehow creates a unified geometry from those two views (and manages to keep that around if you move your eyes)

And it’s weirder: your brain/body also knows how the various angles of the joints in your arms and legs combine to move your arm to things you see, or to direct your gaze to parts of your body (try directing your gaze at your index finger with your eyes closed. That’s fairly easy, but the goniometrisch isn’t).

Also, the world isn’t flat, so why would pictures and movies be flat?

Given that, I don’t think making picture frames rectangular because that’s easier makes a difference.
It's an open protocol but it's not an open system, just like SMS. You can't just set up your own RCS provider like you can with the web, email, IRC, etc. So it's at least a little misleading to call it "open".
> Why would someone choose to be a teacher making around the median when you could be a software engineer and make 3x as much?

Is that a serious question?

Why indeed? Maybe because a union job with a state pension (yes, defined benefit pension) that starts at 62K and has an advancing pay scale based only on education level and seniority (yes - job performance unrelated to pay) and very high job security ain’t bad place to be if you can get it.

(And also I suspect that a lot of the people getting those teaching jobs simply would not be able to get 200K software development jobs.)
That's a viable strategy for bulk commodities, but this was a discussion of passenger transport, and people are unlikely to use sailing ships for point-to-point travel.
Yes, but Singapore has much stronger rule of law than China, which is why the city state doesn’t fall apart.
Jordan Peterson
Elon Musk
Douglas Adams
A lot of the people who espouse the "shoulders of giants" myth use it to discredit the idea of the "lone genius" (without thinking about who the giants are). They believe that the giants represent societal knowledge, not individuals who made great contributions.
Scraping Websites with Go
In a recent side project of mine I needed to scrape some websites. In this short blog post I cover two approaches I used for scraping and compare between the two
I won't offer names, but I have a contrarian piece of advice: whenever you find yourself 'resonating' too much with a certain thinker, a certain religion, ideology etc. stop, take a deep breath and start asking why that is.

The odds that any particular person will always be right are basically zero. It's way more likely that you're just consuming things that reinforce prior beliefs and make you feel good.

Make sure that you're periodically engaging with people who challenge your beliefs.
By that logic, your posting uses public funds. The government could have taxed your comments, but they didn't.
I think there's a paradox here: I also don't care about occasional spam, and the possibility of missing messages matters much more to me. But I probably wouldn't select an email provider with no spam protections at all, and Google is optimizing for new user registrations.
> The educational aspect of schools is (mostly, but not entirely) redundant to the resources available for free on the Internet.

I think this overestimates it. What I've found from internet 'learning', myself and others (and the students I used to teach) is that there's more often the illusion of learning than any actual learning. Let's not equate watching a YouTube video and thinking we understand it to actual learning. I've been victim to that myself when trying to learn pure math, and with kids it'll certainly be worse.

And the same issues will carry over to any online textbook too. Teachers are there to actually assess what the kids really learned, not what they think they learned, or what they can google to get past the next question on their assignment. The internet just fosters the illusion of learning (and let's not even get to critical thinking from it).
What do you think is do advanced about Japan ? Have you been there ?
I remember that Caddy (web server) tried adding ads to their HTTP headers, and even that didn't go well with some non-paying users:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19741730
Is it truly about users if scammy paid apps rise to the tops of the charts?

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/07/study-finds-scam-top-pa...
Same thing happens with GABA, theoretically it should not work in a supplement form because it does not cross the BBB. And it always comes with the same "GABA is useless" advice. Except im literally dreaming again after starting taking it. Could it be a placebo? Sure. But if its working, why should i believe its useless? I know HN is probably not the right place to say it, but taking every decision in your life (even minimals one like starting take a vitamin) based on underfunded studies might lead you to miss some some improvements in your life.
a) Apple does give a choice about whether to send location data. It's in System Services within the Privacy section and consists of 18 checkboxes. Do you have evidence that with all of these disabled they are still capturing location data ?

b) How would the App Store even work at all if they didn't store your purchases.
You do a super neat hero page with the features your product will have. You say you are working on it but they can preorder. When they click on preorder with the price you actually say that no payment is required but you will shoot them an email when the product will be ready to be tested.

That way the person saw your product, saw the price, and was ready to buy it.
Awesome, thank you for the link and the answer!
Then why is the UK in particular doing so badly with this? A more-likely scenario is that this is the outcome of prioritising Covid (and avoiding Covid) over all other healthcare since March 2020, which has been a relatively unique factor with how our NHS has handled the pandemic.
I am considering how the demografic development shapes this.

In the span of 40 years or so, we will from 6 / 1 working to non working to 2 / 1 conclusing in the mid 2030s.

I mean, indifferent to what means of redistribution schema we use, we simply won't get more labor, and issues might need to be solved along other axis. Not expecting the same level of service, etc.
> All modern engines are fuel injected, so the intake valve only ever sees filtered air.

How modern are we talking?

There are plenty of fuel injected engines in production/use today that inject fuel into the manifold [1], right before the valve.

Those valves definitely make contact with fuel-laden air, not to mention EGR[2] recycling exhaust gasses into the intake manifold for emissions/efficiency improvements.

What you're talking about is direct injection, which is becoming more and more common, but is not "the norm" if you take the cross section of total vehicles on the road today

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold_injection
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhaust_gas_recirculation
The same problem is happening in NL, it's a downwards spiral really that concerns me a lot.
The government is trying to improve the situation by increasing pay a little, but with the current inflation it is probably too little, too late.

A relative of mine became a teacher after a career switch, and while she likes the work, there are many frustrations:

- Parents have a 'the customer is always right'-attitude, and complain about everything, but their kids are perfect of course.

- Some years ago NL decided to cut down on schools for kids with special needs, so every class now has a few very disruptive kids who have nowhere else to go. This is a very frustrating situation for everyone: the disruptive kids don't get proper guidance, the 'normal' kids get lower quality classes, and teachers have to deal with problematic behaviour.

- The shortage of teachers makes it hard to find replacements when calling in sick, plenty of teachers feel pressure to work when sick. This is of course a bad combo with the whole Corona situation.

- Teachers spend a lot of (unpaid) time grading and other administrative BS.

- Management is out of touch, they don't listen to their staff and think up time-consuming plans that are doomed to fail. (well, this is not specific to education)
- Management is very unstable. The schools my kids go to had a different director pretty much each year.
The GDP of Singapore is around $340 billion.

Goldman Sachs manages $2.5 trillion dollars worth of assets.
Coleman Hughes,
Thomas Sowell,
Ayn Rand,
Milton Friedman,
Friedrich Hayek