skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue with wood based homes is that they are really good for SMALL individual homes. NOT for tall buildings despite theoretically xlam and co allow to build them...

It's not only a matter of water-leaks but also of noise, low thermal mass with the need of more effective ventilation and precise heating hard to get in a large building etc.

In ecological terms it's a matter of scale: trees keep growing IF we do not cut them too much. So at a certain level of demand wood is renewable, above it's not.

In human terms pushing revolutions is not much good because anything have and EOL and if we build much in a short period of time we need to rebuild en mass when it will reach it's EOL and we do not know up front in what kind of situation we will be at that point in time. So better a slow evolution, sparse, to have backups and low "new generation" demand in the timeline...

The real points though are IMO:

- who need apartments? People or those who sell them/sell the land since selling many apartments means much more profit than single-family homes?

- how can dense city/big buildings evolve? We know that they have a limited lifecycle, however no one seems to care up-front about it. Single family homes with a bit of land around can be rebuilt for instance at a generational change, it's easy to reach the decision as a single owner with a single family impacted, it's nearly impossible with MANY families in a single building.

- can dense area evolve well? For instance few decades ago cars was not that spread, so cities was not built for them. Cars arrive. Dense cities have struggled enormously to add them and nowadays we mostly agree that in dense are the sole option is public transports for nearly all since there is no physical place for cars for all. Cities built for cars for all on contrary struggle to maintain their road networks, their economy need a continuous growth witch works ONLY until old infra reach their EOL. Again not evolutionary plans was made up front. We are talking about flying cars nowadays, where to land tomorrow? We have seen the shift from shopping centers to on-line retails where to adapt to receive large boxes when we are not at home in a tall building? Spread enough single-family homes with small scattered buildings for work/service purpose on contrary CAN evolve. No matter much if we foresee well or not.

Well... IMVHO cities have reached the point of "too much density", there is no more economy of scale in them respect of their many issues. We still need a bit of density, we still are social animals, but instead of evolving toward bigger and bigger dense area, hubs in the middle of nothing, we need to spread, in a partially interconnected and mixed network. Like who? The classic internet vs today's one? In the end actual research shows that "any kind of network" tend to behave similarly... And those seems to be lessons no one want to take...
Fractions: Where it all goes wrong
Clasp is actually a word, and CLISP is part of GNU now so they should probably rename it something childish and cringe inducing like LURP, which is a recursive acronym for LERP: Universal REPL Programming or something.
My argument is that opposition to gay marriage isn't intrinsically hateful. The ancient Greeks had no notion of gay marriage, for example, and they weren't exactly averse to gay sex or to men who enjoyed it.

Your system of values, beliefs, and definitions may create a tunnel vision which makes it look like opposing views can only be motivated by hatred or bigotry. But the reality is, other people have different views because they hold different values, beliefs, and definitions. If you cared more about the preservation of traditional culture, and not so much about the peculiar way that homosexuality is expressed in modern western societies, then your views would presumably be in line with those of Eich.
The cost of shipping items by ocean, or the number of items shipped by ocean? Ah, English...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.4586

No mention of the fact that this study mixes data that was conducted prior to the pandemic with data collected during the height of the pandemic. Casually, it associates a small tax with TREMENDOUS reduction?

> Bleich et al. (2021) similarly found a 42% decrease (6.1 fL oz decrease) in purchases of taxed beverages in Philadelphia

> found Philadelphia experienced a far larger decline than the other four cities using a consumer panel from the marketing firm Infoscout.

> In Philadelphia, Zhong et al. (2018) used a phone survey and found that within 2 months of the tax's implementation

This is bad science, even when it's only a meta-analysis (which necessarily has a lower bar).
You’re conflating computational expense with monetary expense.

The monetary expense is _much_ higher due to the need for redundancy.
CTRL+F… text not found… what do you mean, I’m looking right at an example of this string… Edit->Find… oh by default it ignores the value of a cell and searches inside the formula that generates that value… change to search by value.

Next day… CTRL+F… text not found … what do you mean, I’m looking right at an example of this string…
Ask HN: SDR Equivalent for Fiber Optic/Light
When developing wireless network devices, one would use an SDR (software defined radio) device and software, e.g. GNU Radio. What is an equivalent for capturing and analyzing fiber optic transmissions?
The US didn't force Russians to shoot... checks notes sorry, no, brutally torture and execute civilians and level entire towns. They did that all on their own.
Hahah I'm glad I got the 16GB M1 Macbook Air because I can run Stable Diffusion on it! I'm having so much fun generating images for free to my hearts content.
Would you recommend using Bitwarden TOTP if you also have access to Yubikeys? I'm uncertain what I would like to transfer to as I'm a long time user and like Bitwarden though am working on trying to self host it and have yubikeys but manually scanning and naming twice to have the TOTP for something like discord or really any website which doesn't have near direct access to financials or private documents seems particularly annoying so if Bitwarden can act as the TOTP that seems like a solve 2 problems with one stone for lower security requirement accounts.
Ask HN: Repos with good deep learning code?
Looking for good examples where deep learning is applied in a real world setting
With current technology. But the point of this is to get a starting point for solid state and improve afterwards. Very much like how jet engines came to be better than propellers.
You are missing the biggest part of this. It doesn't matter if it's a lot of oxygen or a little bit. Because it's marketing to people who don't know and don't care exactly how much oxygen a single tree makes. It's just supposed to sound "neat" to normal people who vote and got a C in high school bio.
Homeschooling is interesting. I like the idea, but I'd be more worried about lack of socialization with other children or any kind of group learning. Even more so if the child is slightly introverted.

This is less of an issue if children are raised in the nuclear families like in the olden days, but these days what other avenues are left where children can learn something in a group and form long term friendships other than a school?
Criticism that SLS is unfit for the intended mission profile is misguided. SLS never had an intended mission profile. The mandate was always to build a rocket in these places and with these contractors and at fabulous expense, and any notion of what would be done when/if that boondoggle I mean rocket ever flew was the mere coda of an afterthought.
Please just tell me what you do
> Freight rates on the main ocean trade routes are sinking during what is typically the industry’s peak season after cargo owners shipped holiday goods early and inflation dented consumer demand.
For me, the most valuable part of this interview was -

In filmmaking, there is a time in the morning called "dailies", when the previous day's footage is examined. It looks like everyone is just sitting around watching movies and wasting time, but it is critically important in finding problems early and assuring the quality of the product. I believe that we should do the same thing in programming. We have a time every morning when the team gets together and reviews all of the code and designs that were developed the previous day.

The benefits are obvious. As an individual, you collect professional experience points faster by reviewing the work of others. As a team, you have more eyes looking for errors and faulty designs and giving praise for good work and instruction where needed.

It is easy to convince smart programmers to adopt this practice. It is harder to convince managers because the code reading time looks like lost time. But it is not. It is explicitly scheduling quality into the process. It usually does not take much time because we can not write that much code in a day. It can only work if management requires it and it becomes part of the culture.
* Superspeed is the bandwidth tiers - 5, 20, 40, and 80 soon. High speed and Basic speed are for older and/or simpler devices (defined by USB 2.0).

* They do specify power tiers, 15W is the minimum for chargers, 30W I believe is the minimum for power delivery cables, with cables being additionally certified (and marked) for 60W, 120w and 240W.

* A certified cable with USB-C ports on both ends should be a USB cable, full-stop. Negotiation of alt modes is up to the devices on both ends.

The problem is that there are a lot of vendors that use garbage terms like USB 3.2 2x2, which were never meant for the market at all. I suspect this is usually a consequence of those products not actually being certified, and thus avoiding using the official marks.

IMHO, that there was anything publicly talking about "USB 3.2 2x2" is a side effect of the USB-IF not having the teeth to enforce use of the "USB" mark. Vendors would start using the right terms and running basic conformance if, say, they found they were no longer able to get their products imported. But the Implementers Forum is made up of the same vendors who are shipping broken devices, cheap charging cables, and motherboards with spec-invalid ports.

When many people talk about USB 3.2, people assume there is some sort of semantic versioning of the port or cables itself. Thats not how specs work - everything which was USB 3.0 compliant is USB 3.2 compliant. If you want to mandate new things or break old ones, you create a new version like USB4.

Many people have the same problem with HDMI 2.1a - there is no device certified with HDMI 2.0 that is incompatible with HDMI 2.1a. Thus, advertising 2.1a support means _nothing_ compared to advertising HDMI 2 support in general. It was a marketing failure that the HDMI licensing organization allowed vendors to use version numbers to imply _anything_, vs advertising that the devices you are connecting support features like 8K/60 or VRR.
Made in 1943, published to YouTube in 2015
Ours has been out for about 5 hours now. Also South Bay. :-(
Nature certainly manufactured HCoV-OC43, another betacoronavirus very similar to SARS-CoV-2. It is the leading suspect for causing a worldwide pandemic which killed a lot of people starting in 1889.
Open Knowledge Movement: Personal Reflections
Sport clubs, local neighborhood.

In particular, I retained a childhood friend who was a street playmate. The rest of my friends last through middle and high school until they moved away, and in some case drifted apart.
If we're talking about server operating systems, yes, I commiserate with you. But the same principle is applied with Arch Linux, and I've never felt more joy interacting with a packaging system (or Linux community for that matter). Everything is packaged and up-to-date (again, sometimes too up to date). I use Fedora at home and it's at most months behind, but certainly not years, and usually strikes that sweet spot between stability and annoyance.
Not surprising that the kid of two extremely successful and intelligent parents -- at least technically and academically -- is suffocated by the pacing of public schooling. It's supposed to accommodate the needs of the general population and its standard deviations of nurture and nature. I wonder if this will become a more common pattern for the cognitive elite.
So what's the historical variation on rates? This article headline means nothing without that basic datum.
I was thinking you were going on a different direction. Like an amendment requiring newscasters to have at least a 700 on the SAT Math.
Execs are human and fallible like the rest of us. And this is a situation where simply isnt a single right answer. WFH is great for some and hell for others. Digital collaboration is great for some and hell for others. Then you layer on complicated exec level issues, like: what do you do if a WFH person works with an office based team and complains their career is not advancing as fast as the former? How do you gently unwind your positions in millions of dollars of real estate without causing a giant mess? HR has no idea, but they can smell ghe lawsuits coming. Legal has no idea, but they agree. Finance has no idea, but they surely love the idea of dumping some of that real estate. The execs are split themselves. There is no single solution to this equation.

I suspect that most companies will end up in a hybrid mode where teams WFH 3/5 of the week say and are in office for 2 days. A compromise that makes no one happy but no one truly unhappy either.
What the hell is yak-shaving? This is the second front page HN post where the author says that and I've never heard of it before.
Only inciter. After running middle East they are too scared to aggress themselves.

Fun fact, 75% of the world's population still trades with Russia .
> Taken to its conclusion, PoW and PoS are exactly the same.

> In a PoW environment you can take some of your coins, 'stake' them by buying a share in a mining pool [...]

Playing devil's advocate: there's a small but important difference in that, for PoW, you can "stake" coins from outside the system (for instance, by buying an ASIC miner with real money), while for PoS, the coins you "stake" must come from within the system itself. That is, PoS is a closed system.
It's multiple choice questions, all you have to do is not be blatant about it. The helper only needs to add a bit of side movement as the test taker brings the mouse down the list of possible answers.

Otherwise the test taker is in control 99% of the time. The helper doesn't even need to ever click or meaningfully move the mouse.

You could go another level and do a single earbud. Maybe the check for those now that AirPods are super popular, but they sure never needed to see my whole head when we I took remote proctored exams five years ago.

I've had time to think about this, just never bothered to act because the exams I was taking were a joke anyways and I was just looking to get my degree and move on, not make a point on how easy it would be to beat the system.
If they wanted a simple, verifiable database, a public Merkel tree would suffice. A Git Repository with a list of balances would be more than sufficient, and verification of proof would be as simple as "walk the tree backwards" and verifying that they all summed up correctly at each step, plus some signatures required to touch your account negatively.

Bitcoin has never been about proof and verification; it's always been about the decentralized claim, but mostly as an excuse to give it a reason to exist.
I learned pretty much everything I know from reading by myself since I lived out in the country. My parents did my homework with their left hand when I was young so I'd have time for more productive pursuits like exploring or reading. Worked pretty well for me. I aced almost every exam in my childhood. And I am quite successful.

In many ways, school just slows you down. But I liked my parents' way. That let me go to school and have that shared experience with other kids while not holding me back.

I wonder how I can do that for my kids. Unfortunately, homework is part of the grade and you can't tell the teachers to skip it for your kid. Or maybe you can.
The first instituted a few months ago... for another Amazon show.
Definitely one good way to solve this problem.
Tarantula Nebula
Google healthcare cost per capita vs life expectancy.

Last time I checked, Canada, for example, spent 1/3rd less than the USA and Canadians lived a few years longer.

IIRC, of the "universal coverage" systems, Switzerland's ACA-like system had the highest per capita, but still less than USA's system.

Much has changed these last few years. eg Our life expectancy in the USA has fallen.
I take should try an arch variant soon. I'm on an Ubuntu, and I'm at the point where I've learned to live with the jank, but don't love it.
The scenarios 1 and 2 also require a lot of assumptions, you just take them for granted.

I don't agree that my scenario requires more assumptions that scenarios 1 and 2.
They’d be doing better but they rolled back the rooftop solar incentives.
I use both CL and more recently (obviously!) Julia exclusively and extensively. Julia is almost an acceptable lisp. Except that’s it’s not homoiconic, and they f’ing mark the macros (and a couple other minor nits). So Julia can’t really be used for the primary use case of lisp, which is DSLs. So now I do my DSL-like work in lisp, and scientific computing in Julia (or lisp with a sucky ffi to python that I rolled myself — hmmm, I guess I should rewrite that to go to Julia —- hmmm) Anyway, yeah, Julia is an almost acceptable lisp. Like, close, but missed the mark (yet again, but as close as I’ve seen). Maybe if I fix the ffi as above, I won’t have to actually see the ugly Julia non-homoiconic mess, and the hemispheres will no longer be fundamentally at odds.
I comment while doing other stuff, but I spend more time because other people do too so I have more to say in response.

I also comment on many fewer posts than I would on other platforms.

I consider participating in relevant threads as working too so I don’t feel guilty doing it during the day.
Homeschooling is not the isolation that most people think it is. In fact, the vast majority of parents who homeschool (myself included) join forces with other parents who homeschool for events, activities, and learning opportunities, all of which bring with them natural socialization while still allowing for a far more tailored learning experience than you can get in any classroom. In addition, homeschool kids typically spend more time around adults and get a better understand of the socialization standard that is expected of them, allowing them to build mature relationships easier.
As a Star Trek fan I found Lower Decks to be one of the worst of the bunch. It seemed targeted at kids/teenagers though so I reserved judgement. To each his own.
Even this doesn't disambiguate. The answer is that it's about the cost of shipping:

> The cost to ship a 40-foot container from China to the U.S. West Coast now stands around $5,400 a box, down 60% from January, according to the Freightos Baltic Index.
I think this article is predicated on the belief that we should make it really easy to consume things. Creative works, perhaps yes, but manufactured objects? I may not agree. With consumerism as the prevailing cultural narrative, a lot of people are biased toward buying stuff that they don't need.

Maybe it's good to counteract that bias by accepting a bit of extra friction in the shopping process. Make space for a modicum of contemplation prior to making an impulse purchase.

Here's a tip, sign out of amazon.com. They obscure the button but it's there! Set a complex password and put it somewhere that needs to be manually copy-pasted into the login prompt. You just added a minute of friction to your next purchase. You can also delete saved payment cards so that you need to type them in again. (Also, start a habit of comparison shopping online. What if it's cheaper/faster to buy on eBay? Local big box store?)

Often, when accepting this friction, I'll decide that I don't actually need something. That decision is usually a win for both the climate and my bank account. Less plastic junk in the world.

That said, Library Extension is my favorite kind of technology and I'm happy to learn someone has made it.
>How often can you do just call up someone to fix the compiler. To be fair, I worked for a very large Fortune 50 company and had over 10k licenses of MATLAB.

Very often if you're paying upwards of $10,000,000 in licenses a month.
>Frequently they need to close emergency services in major (& minor) cities at night due to staff shortages. The wait times for basic diagnostics is on the order of months (not days or weeks).

Part of this is COVID burnout. It wasn't this bad in 2019. Wife works in healthcare and sees the difference every day. Nurses crying etc.
I would guess that a 60% reduction in ocean freight volume could only be the result of the worst global depression since the industrial revolution.

I got curious:

Year | Billions of tons

2020 | 10.65

2019 | 11.07

2018 | 11.02

~~~

2010 | 8.4

2009 | 7.86

2008 | 8.23
I never claimed it was free, I said that Tesla discovered that removing the transmission by scaling up the motor was a far better option.
Death Switch is a fantastic name for a death metal band.
> In many ways, school just slows you down.

Yes, and that's not even accounting for bullying if you are unlucky
>>... While still above pre-pandemic levels...

This endless comparison between "this year" and "last year" seems both meaningless and ripe for headlines when comparing in-pandemic with out-pandemic years.

I get it. 2020 and 2021 messed up just about every statistic ever. In 2021 we get articles about massive rate hikes, in 2022 we get more articles about massive rate falls.

2020 was like an earthquake. Such a massive disruption will have second, third, fourth order effects for a while. But measuring "earth shaking has dropped by 90% since 5 minutes ago" isn't really information of any use.

On the other hand "all buildings are restored to pre-earthquake levels, please carry on as normal" is both highly useful, and won't make it to the front page.
There is not a universal practice. Predominantly just excel, a lot of emails, conference calls and meetings. Different institutions have distinct personalities and that reflects in how things are done between them. Some people still have actual mainframes involved.

When it comes to large parties, multi-practice groups, health systems, etc, an overall fee schedule or charge master for an existing institution is typically not renegotitated line by line every year but as incremental changes from the previous. Many/most of the parties involved have been working together for decades, some even longer.

Many plans administered by familiar names like Anthem are actually funded and controlled by the large employers the plan services. In those cases the employer plays a role in defining what will and will not be covered and what will be paid and the insurer is a middleman (acting as a third party administrator).
We didn't do it with Java because JVM bytecode is very narrowly tailored to Java. For example, it doesn't have the notion of pointer arithmetic, for example, so you can forget about anything like C (one can emulate heap as a Java array and build the rest on top of that, of course - but only if performance doesn't matter).

On the other hand, wasm is low-level enough to handle C.

.NET / CLR was the previous attempt to do something like this, and it did have compilers for many different languages targeting it. But the downside there was that the runtime itself wasn't meaningfully portable for a very long time. If it were open and cross-platform from the get go, who knows, perhaps wasm would have been a CIL subset.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1250636/global-container...
fma can give less accurate results, and can give very large differences. for example 1.5floatmax(Float64)-floatmax(Float64) is Inf, while the fma version will give .5floatmax(Float64)