skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure.

In fact, one way to make money is to start a non-profit cyberschool, and have it pay a for-profit company for management and course materials.

From https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/problems-with-for-pro...

> In 2002, the Morning Call newspaper of the Lehigh Valley reported on the “cautionary tale” of a cyber called Einstein Academy Charter. Almost immediately after launching Einstein, founder Mimi Rothschild reportedly contracted with a company called Tutorbots Inc., which she and her husband owned. The school quickly collapsed, but not before passing $2.3 million in taxpayer dollars on to Tutorbots, the Morning Call reported.

From https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/cyber-school-founder...

> Over the course of four weeks, the government will try to prove that Trombetta funneled millions from the cyber school into a not-for-profit national network of digital school, and then into the for-profit Avanti Management Group along with other Trombetta-created companies.

From https://www.upnorthprogressive.com/2019/01/23/the-pace-of-em...

> Paris opened her cyber for-profit charter school on June 21, 2016. With offices in Saginaw and Grand Rapids. she offered over 250 courses and dual enrollment for students attending her cyber “school”. One month later she registered her management company, Paris Academies of Compelling Education Inc., with the state of Delaware. ... It almost seems as if Nancy Paris knew at some point people would catch on that her charter school for homeschoolers was an excuse to grab Michigan taxpayer money and live the good life. Which she allegedly did.

With all the bad reputation out there, you've got quite a slog ahead of you.
it seems that US censorship seems to be apparent to all except some people in US.
This bizzare notion that private companies somehow can't be doing censorship is terrible for free societies.
That is nothing like chargeback. It would be like chargeback if you could rescind a signature, once you notice a mistake.
UK/Hollywood lobbyist behind AB-2273, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32603337

UK Safety Tech, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/safer-technology-...

UK Online Safety bill, https://www.techradar.com/features/uk-online-safety-bill

> Protecting children by ensuring they are not exposed to inappropriate content online. This include stricter age-verification processes to access certain websites - like pornography sites - and, in some cases, the need to monitor private chat for child sexual abuse materials

> Securing adults from 'legal but harmful content' by removing such content from their platforms. This rule applies on major social media like Instagram (already in the spotlight for damaging mental health) and TikTok.
He might want to reconsider the "benefit of the few" bit. Starlink is about to offer cell phone connectivity everywhere. Just for starters, this means minimum connectivity available in disaster areas.

Meanwhile, 10 miles from where I live there is industrial open air burning of wires and other waste in order to recover metals.

I mean, I'm aware of the "starving kids in Africa" fallacy - we shouldn't focus on just one problem at one time. But this is an apples-to-apples comparison,and there is orders of magnitude more pollution for much less benefit for society.
Do you have a source for the 50% drop? It seems excessive.
I do not understand what you wrote: rephrase it with much increased clarity. I have only a suspect of what it could mean.

Statements like 'We all threw stones on the adulterer' and 'We killed the planet' and 'We all lost it screaming' would serve what? "«We»" who?

Your general point of the previous post seems clear enough, I am just telling you there is no need to add those formulas. Contextually, but just for example, I have no idea what you mean with that '«we all lost it»' (again but for the suspect of a generic idea): you are using a confusing "we" that seems to involve the reader, which may spend time that would be better invested than spent in reasoning "I was in the Philippines minding my own business - was the poster actually involving me?".
According to wikipedia: "Pakistan is a regional[21][22][23] and middle power nation,[24][25][26] and has the world's sixth-largest standing armed forces. It is a declared nuclear-weapons state, and is ranked amongst the emerging and growth-leading economies,"

To fight flooding you need to build channels and dams. And you need a bit of planning and understanding the situation on the site. And you don't need dollars for this, just a working force and machinery (if you can build nuclear weapons, i presume you have some).
All i can say is that the main issue is corruption and lack of interest (a dam does not generate any money and is difficult to calculate the return of investment). It happens also in western europe ( if that makes you feel better).
("you" here is the general form. I have nothing against you, just replied to your comment)
I'm Chinese, I want to say that the uncensored version is still circulating in Baidu's network disk.
Isn't pooping something we all do from birth? Hard to put it in the same category as fornication.
Climate change requires systematic change not enforcing "personal sacrifice". Globalization was touted as a tool to ensure the world will not descend into another world war but in the process it destroyed countless of sustainable, good for climate businesses.

We transport so much goods that could be produced locally thousands of kilometers across the planet literally just because of corporate profits.
> Universal basic utilities wouldn't work because it would need to be means-tested,

Means testing is a stupid idea. Give 2kWh/day and a (upon asking) a two bedroom house worth of insulation to everyone and properly tax wealth to pay for it.
A nice bit of Google advertising. Another public company doing government work.

Anyway, the article is light on details. Apparently 20.000 pools were discovered. How many party tents were falsely identified as pools though. How did they get their training data?

How does it work after you are identified as an illegal splasher? Do you get a fine, or does somebody actually drive over to the spot?
Meh. Network byte order is big endian. Otoh close to every device uses little endian internally and the conversion is pointless except for convention. Otoh it doesn't really matter, because the conversion is extremely fast (including hardware support in common processors).

Endianness is really perfectly named: a meaningless difference that generations of people fight holy wars over.
> As a consumer, Uber was superior to taxis in a number of ways

I'd say that likely depends where you are.
It's likely that religions adopted sex aversion from common culture rather than the other way around. The Bible for example is much less puritan than what we associate with Christian culture (see song of songs). In contrast, things the Bible condemns that aren't so culturally logical have barely entered the cultural consciousness. For example its frequent condemnation of consumption of blood
Surely then all that should matter is reviewing the code and reviewing the WIP (jira). for each manager each day

doing anything else is
pretending project managers are managers
I love this style. Is it just me? Dickens, Stevenson, ...

I would rather ask the opposite : why the need to adopt a "modern" style (well except in fantasy books, I guess).
Or cookie preferences for that matter.
so cool! nice work! maybe Munich is next? :)
>Its not tapped out in Norway or Iceland but there is enough already, they don't need more.

Apparently, Europe as a whole needs a lot more. Iceland is too far from mainland Europe to be any kind of electricity supplier anyway, and Norway is problematic too because power lines would have to cross the Baltic, so I don't see these as useful either.
when censorship was removed so were the barriers to leave … thus the good people fled
What Shell Is This?
The Daily Stormer claimed that Cloudflare were sympathizers, thereby forcing Cloudflare to terminate their business relationship.

We can make an analogy to defense lawyers. They will represent anyone: murderers, rapists, pop musicians, because they have a belief in that every person deserves representation. But if you start making claims that your defense lawyer is representing you because they agree with you, you’ll quickly be looking for a new lawyer.
The H-Pi Tonal Plexus is 205-EDO, and reasonably playable as far as I know. I'm not sure what the biggest version is, but it's about 6 or 7 octaves.
Ask HN: Best books to go from zero to one
Hello,

I am currently in Thailand and in my free time I decided to take someone under my wings to help her qui her job and start working online.

She is 23 years old Thai, pretty good English and hard working (she already tried to start a local business while having a full time job).

In October I am going to match her current salary and try to teach her setup two small business so she can quickly see that "it's possible to make money online".

In the mean time I would like to recommend books/articles that could spark interest, create lightbulb moments and help her to quickly explore many unrelated topics to see what could interest her.

It will be a fun experiment for both of us, so if you have any resources or advices, I am curious to hear them.
I mean, what stops us a life-imitates-art system where we have speech2img like in the Westworld ( the narative creating scenes ) ?

I guess, I hope someone reads this and will pick up this. Maybe coupled with a VR set?
Glacials in Greenland defrosting have past the point of no return
Obviously false, see Assange.
This example shows how you can make a drawing with stick figures and then run that through img2img with a prompt to make some art that looks artistic. The model is able to understand what the stick figures represent and then make real art in their place. People often stack output so they take the output of img2img and run it through again to let the style drift more while maintaining the original locations. You can also quickly and poorly photoshop multiple image elements together to form a composite, then pass that through img2img to make something nice.

Stick figures to art (see both images):
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wxc8bj/exp...

Other examples:
https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/search/?q=img2img&r...

I am well and truly jaded from decades of silicon valley's hype train bullshit, but after playing with this tool for a week on my home desktop, I feel like it is powerful enough to find a niche that will displace some artists. It may be though that it makes art so much more accessible that it mostly just increases our use of art, I don't really know.
With the exception of laws regarding religion itself (say prayer in school) almost all laws with religious supporters also have non-religious supporters. The views aren't purely "religious" in basis.
Only with Party Cannon

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/...
well, depends with whom your views align with more
Great use case for AI; I would imagine this is based on anomaly detection.
There is definitely a way to do it, actually the Munich S-Bahn has a realtime map : https://www.s-bahn-muenchen.de/fahren/live-map - not as smoothly animated though, and I'm not sure if the data used there is publically available. As an Easter Egg, the "50th anniversary" train (photo here, but the article is paywalled: https://railcolornews.com/2022/04/26/de-expert-s-bahn-munche...) is highlighted on the map.
My comment was literally the surface level, not the deeper one of economic theory that you gave.

"X means Y". "Really? Then explain this example of X without Y."
That's the scariest horses I have ever seen.
That has already happened with visuals in movies too. People are maybe not so sensitive about it. But atleast its still people creating those.

Spotify now has floods of AI generated ambient music pretending to be composed by humans. This is comming for visuals now.
Weird, now that prices are also at an ATL more people should get into NFTs right? /s
I've never understood why they opted for balloons over high altitude solar drones like Zephyr (1) which are much more maneuverable and can stay over a particular area.

1. https://www.airbus.com/en/products-services/defence/uas/uas-...
> To be clear, the content on this website is abhorrent and there's no nuance there. It should almost certainly be forcibly removed from the internet as hate speech.

When companies play internet police we all suffer. Taking down the site isn't going to suddenly make all of those people posting there not-racist. Having them right out in the open lets us know who they are and what they're up to.

Law enforcement is probably well aware of the site already and keeping a close eye on it (and on any racists in law enforcement who are active participants). If the messed up people on that site ever do escalate from memes and nasty internet comments to actual violence and law-breaking the police will know exactly where to start. Meanwhile, researchers and other people concerned with fighting racism can take advantage of this data as well.

I really can't understand why everyone's first reaction to seeing something they don't like is to sweep it under the rug. You can't fight something if you aren't allowed to see it, and the things you can't see in the shadows are just going to blindside you. We should work to keep evil in the sunlight so that everyone knows exactly what it is, and where it's spreading.

People who want to force sites offline for "hate speech" aren't fighting hate, they're only hindering our ability to fight it.
I use the web without an ad blocker, and I don't personally think it's too bad. Sidebar and topbar ads have been common since the 00s.
But to be honest I think it's a combination of the websites I visit, and that I refuse to use sites with intrusive ads anyway. Anything with a popover ad, I just leave the site straight away

Luckily most of the websites that are covered in intrusive ads are just tabloid/clickbait crap sites anyway, so I feel like I use ads as an indication of the site's quality.
The crazy thing about this is that it can be purely mental. My most productive coding session this year happened when I had to quarantine and I knew my employer wouldn't mind if I just did nothing. There was no pressure, but I still wanted to move on a little bit with the project. Just a few hours a day. I mai ly did this because I like the project and I would get into a lot stress later if it was not done.

I got more done in two half-days at home than in a week of full days at the office. No distractions, no meetings, no obligation to answer mails and phone calls. Paradise.
Auto-archiving != auto-locking

Auto-archived threads automatically unarchive themselves when you send a new message. Locked-threads, on the other hand, require explicit unlock.
All problem-solving methods should converge, given enough brainpower, so yes.
> This all works, people have been doing it for years in C, C++, Java, Rust, and more. In Zig, we can do better.

We can also do better in those other languages, too. For example, in Rust, I can use a crate like `bitfield` which gives me a macro with which I can write

bitfield! {
pub struct Color(u32);
red, set_red: 0;
green, set_green: 1;
blue, set_blue: 2;
alpha, set_alpha: 3;
}

Don't get me wrong: it's cool that functionality like this is built-in in Zig, since having to rely on third-party functionality for something like this is not always what you want. But Zig is not, as this article implies, uniquely capable of expressing this kind of thing.
I don't know the context of why you guys are doing these microbenchmarks, but consider doing proper custom buffering for high speed number conversion. Or at least use fgetc_unlocked() / fputc_unlocked().

The normal FILE reading functions take a lock, which is quite slow for single-byte reads and writes.
The atomic mass constant is arbitrarily defined as 1/12th the weight of a C-12 atom, it has historically also been defined as 1/16 the weight of an oxygen atom but changed to C-12 because it behaves better.
Nice! Would be more realistic (and more Mini Metro-like) if the trains actually stopped at the stations though. Also, the trains don't have to disappear and reappear at the terminal stations, they could just stay there until they are scheduled to go back - after all, that's what they do in reality as well...

Any chance that the source could be made available ;) ?
Thanks a lot for the feedback!! The "live mode" is already developed using hafas-client[1] and VBB-API[2]. I just asked VBB to give me API access, I'll release the feature when I get it.
If you are interested, VBB already made a live map[3]

1: https://github.com/public-transport/hafas-client
2: https://www.vbb.de/vbb-services/api-open-data/api/
3: https://www.vbb.de/fahrinfo/
With libsass deprecated, DART official SASS reference impl, *BSD is unsupported
the S-Bahn there actually has a DB-provided live-map https://s-bahn-muenchen-live.de

I don't know, if they have an open API though (Google of course gets access. Which is......)
What does the "I" stand for then?
Not sure if the headline has been changed since posted on here or if OP editorialised it, but it now reads:

White Supremacists Built a Website to Doxx Interracial Couples — and It's Going to Be Hard to Take Down

I searched with quotes and couldn't find any reference to the title as it appears above apart from this thread and some other Google spam, but suspiciously the Vice article is the first match if I take away the quotation marks.

Either way, Vice is hardly a picture of balance.
How did you give them access to the staging version? Via a secret url? Or with login and password?
The study of economics is not exactly known for its rigor, I'm not sure how much value that has
Live map showing trains on the London Underground

https://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/
To be frank, any language's syntax is rather busy compared to F#. That language is setting the bar how beautifully a language can look. I don't know of any that comes close, not even Haskell or Python...
If you skipped the "convert to MBTiles" part, you could host it on a normal web server... the issue is that requires each tile to be a separate file, and copying hundreds of millions of tiny files is brittle, slow, and expensive. Having a specialized web server lets us use a more effective file format for the data.
> What didn't work was trying to make big corporations play nice and care about the customer.

> What is proposed instead is not regulation but city-owned or municipal-owned fiber networks so that you don't end up with awful, vendor-locked internet at absurd prices due to monopoly on your location.

Instead, in the worst case, you get horrible city provided internet that is extremely oversubscribed due to budget.
I thought the + signified that it's a streaming platform.
I absolutely agree, it is incredibly hard to get money out of consumers pockets.

For this very reason, a lot of bootstrapping efforts go into collaboration with players in niches where consumers do spend money historically, for example the classical news medias.

The "one subscription works everywhere" story in that case is access to a lot of medias all over the world with the same subscription so that the medias increase average visitor revenue and consumers don't have to tie themselves to one or two news sites they might accept to pay for, but instead can browse freely and automatically compensate each content creator as they do so. They basically get to compete on quality, not scale.

The issue with unlocking exclusive stuff is that everybody (even very large players) is struggling to put together enough "stuff" to justify a subscription by itself. This is basically the problem subscription networks solve by making content creators collaborate on adding stuff to the package.
Given the recent authoritarian behaviour of the Canadian government you'd have to be out of your mind to advocate giving them control of anything.

Though I doubt private ownership would stop them taking it away from you if don't toe the party line.
Still ongoing it seems.

gov.me DNS namespace is still down.

https://twitter.com/UK_Daniel_Card/status/156451196109370572...
Are you saying there is a flaw in the system of democracy? If a majority of people want a certain decision (in this example closed borders) - why can't they have it without anti-democratic forces coming into play? Why wouldn't there be a democratic party offering to implement it?
I don't know if VBB used this, but most transit agencies publish their data in two standard formats these days GTFS for static schedules and GTFS-real time for real-time data. Any application you build around these formats would immediately scale to pretty much every big city.

Google maps and Apple maps provide transit directions in their apps using GTFS and GTFS real time data (partly the reason why Apple maps was able to add transit directions feature so easily - Google had to deal with the transit agencies years before that and convinced them to publish data in open source standard formats).
Also mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32611664
Would you explain how as a potential buyer of raw land it will become more affordable to me with the land value tax? Doesn't that just move part of the cost to taxes instead of up front pricing?

One of the ideas kicking around is that there is so much extra low-interest money kicking around that people snapped up real estate with bidding wars, perhaps as an inflation hedge. That one makes sense to me. But discounting the price of real estate through taxation disincentives doesn't make sense, because the one paying the tax is ultimately the property owner(s). So the owner is still paying the price, only now he's splitting the payment check to two entities: he's paying (1) the previous owner and (2)a rent-seeking tax machine enforced by men with guns. Any cost savings would effectively be by turning it into a hybrid ownership, hybrid open ended lease with society being the part owner, and thus could be considered a cheapened form of ownership rather than the same thing for better value.

In effect, LVT is saying "land is cheaper... if you're only buying N% of it and society owns the rest." Well of course it's true... but remember you're paying your rent-seeking landlord (government) your annual lease payment on their (100-N)% ownership. Move N to 0, and you now don't have to spend anything on the land, but everyone is a serf to government ownership of land. In effect, LVT is fractional communism of the land, with extremes of N=100% being full individual property rights and N=0% being full communism.
If the referee, with the power of the sovereign state behind it, is incapable of stopping the cheating (more accurately they are actually enabling it through regulation), what makes you think if they had total control they could do better?

I remember when Telus used to be run by the government (Alberta Government Telephones). Telus might be a mess today, but I don't have fond memories of AGT either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Government_Telephones
Thanks for chiming in. I am really surprised to see the grand parent comment to be the top one on this thread. I guess facts don't come in the way here when people want to collect some brownie points by self-flagellating.
This post is making me excited, I have a trip booked to Turkey next month and we’re going to be spending a few days in Göreme. Any tips from other people who have been would be much appreciated!