skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems really high, and feels like a biased population. The article says this was based on 1700 responses from 5 counties, but who did they survey?

A lot of families have deep roots here (and houses). They have businesses, friends, families, etc. despite the crap they don’t plan to move anytime soon.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this survey captured more renters, or techies / transplants, or younger folks. Then I’d believe 50%+ thinking of leaving.
Nobody is choosing between backing a fusion startup or a coal mine.

They are, instead, choosing among forward-looking long shots, such as perovskite PV, battery chemistry, ammonia synthesis catalysts. Any of those have a chance of producing something of value. The people hawking fusion are taking exactly those dollars. Those dollars then do not go to the projects that could possibly do some good.
Probably. The trouble is that we're committed to net zero, and there isn't much of an alternative to relying on wind energy this far north unless you have better sites for hydroelectric than the UK or can make nuclear work somehow. The UK does at least have a decent amount of offshore wind which is a little less intermittent than the onshore variety.
Common Lisp compiled to WASM
ECL compiled with Emscripten to WASM. This is a proof of concept port that will be merged upstream before the upcoming release.
> I would never try them again though. Too risky. I value my mental health too much.

I know what you're trying to convey but I don't think this is the right way to say it. I akin Psilocybin to a microscope. Following the same analogy, if the microscope gets too close to the specimen it might kill it. But no one would ever suggest that not using a microscope to diagnose, let's say bacteria, would be to the benefit of "valuing your health". Rather, these should be conducted with trained practitioners (e.g. someone who knows how to properly use a microscope).
Yeah, let's not fix problems, let's sweep them under false memory carpet.

But why go all that far? If we want people to be happy "in their deathbed" or in life in general, we could always mandate euphoric drugs 24/7...
Out of curiosity, have you run across any coverage of the story from any point of view other than Dr. Jones? Anything like, say, https://nyunews.com/opinion/2022/10/05/maitland-jones-nytime... ?

Anything about the spring 2022 class being experimental, with an increased workload? How about Dr. Jones receiving significantly worse evaluations than other instructors teaching the same class? For many years?

("Cancel culture" is pretty much a meaningless attack at this point.)
I ctrl+f for "patent" and got no hits, so forwarded it to someone on our team to dive in to further.
This is a no true scotsman fallacy. It is crypto. It is the shallow, lazy, dangerous way of using it it, but it is still cryptocurrency.
The irony of this is delicious. You presume that the author had a "point" aside from the story that you mistook for a "long meandering path." One might wonder why an author would even care about reaching such an audience. Irony being that the author talked about exactly that cultural divide, but I'm guessing you missed that too.
That's a good one, but Berkshire had earnings of $40M in 1981[1]. I couldn't do better than the 1980 numbers for IBM ($3.5B)[2] and GE ($1.5B)[3] but safe to say in that era they dwarfed BH.

My point is that it would have been extremely difficult for any giant conglomerate adapted to the business environment of 1981 to transition successfully to the business environment of 2021 without changing nigh unrecognizably.

[1] https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1981.html

[2] https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/01/16/IBM-reports-sharply-...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/23/business/ge-had-small-gai...
I always use <, <=, for consistency and to make the ordering clear

in mathematical notation,
0 <= i < n is sometimes used for summations where i ranges from 0 through n-1
Which probably has a lot to do with us taking nearly all our pictures of things with faces from the face facing direction.
Sounds like this one is pretty advanced down the funnel, having successfully passed phase 1 human trials, or am I missing something?
Telegram to get movies? Can you explain this?
For tools with webapp output. You can use a proxy to access it in your local browser.

Something like ngrok would work well.

The advantage of having tools with APIs
Those transactions are still undoable by a third party. Using the legal system you can file lawsuits and the perpetrator can have the cash or electronic debits removed without their participation.

With crypto, you must have the help of the criminal, because only they can unlock the wallet.
$85 million? That's pocket change for Google. I doubt that will dissuade the company from doing something like this again.
The show runners sound deluded from what I'm reading, or even dishonest. You can't say you love something and then try to change it and adapt it for "modern audiences". That just means you didn't like it to begin with, otherwise you don't touch it. They're telling their own story under an existing and beloved franchise's name, and yelling at people who point out the disconnect.

Either make a new IP, or stick to the spirit of the writings of the author (or why buy it?!). Instead they pretend to care about the source, while changing it drastically (way more than P. Jackson btw, this show has a different foundation and overall philosophy). It really seems they bought it for its marketability ONLY, and to hell with those that disagree with the changes.
Given the way the language model works these words could have multiple meanings. I wonder if training a form of textual inversion to more directly represent these concepts might improve the results. You could even try teaching it to represent more fine grained degree adjustments.
What a great band, there's a lot we'll never know about them, but I think it's crazy that I at least have a definitive answer about Mizutani being alive up until 2019, because pretty much everything you'd read said that he was so reclusive no one knew. I'm happy that he lived that long and really sad that he didn't get to live long enough for a revival.

I won't even pretend to understand their music, and the bootlegs are of varying quality, but there are some definite gems. In addition to the songs mentioned in the article, this is a great one especially for people that aren't that into noise music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CwD6iPwQeA

Here are a couple of their better bootleg albums:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87VuE5rC5EU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnlBgRpT7oo
Twitter’s encryption offers no plausible deniability. Even Twitter having the data offline might potentially be a threat in the worse case scenario, given countries have used insiders to again access to information:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twit...

Again, if you have evidence deleting the accounts of detained activists has made them less safe, please provide it.
And then there's HN's side, which is all about enumerating the sides.
Personally, I don't think there's any possible doubt that Meta/Facebook has behaved anti-competitively in a variety of ways over the years; the fact that they haven't been taken to task for this is largely because of the Chicago doctrine's absurd principle that such things only matter if they increase prices for consumers.
Does the new blood finding their way back depend on H1B programs?

(I actually do not know one way or the other, but am aware of that topic.)
Google too.

Microsoft does give cloud credits per month for employees tho.
By "techwashing" I mean using some of the money a company makes in its main business (which in the case of Meta and some other corporates has a bad impact on society) to make
a positive technical contribution to the public
, thus helping existing and prospective employees work there with less of a guilty conscience.

Similar, to e.g. a pharmaceutical company raising the price of a medicine excessively, but then donating some of the money to build a hospital.

It's just that in the case of tech companies, the reputation washing is done via technical contributions.
It's hard to empathize with "11 vs 10" hours of weekly commitment in a period where you no longer have to commute to class etc.
Material conditions is just one way of measuring quality of life. Not even the most important one, when it comes to hapiness
Unix, Plan 9 and the Lurking Smalltalk (2019) [pdf]
Judging by the responses in this thread, it seems like many folks on HN have never worked with an attorney before (which isn't too surprising).

Do you have any advice on how to find a competent attorney with reasonable fees who can do the specific work that you need done? The one time I had to do this for my business on short notice, I used Yelp and Google, and it was somewhat disastrous. I think it would be really helpful for me, and a lot of other folks, to know the right way to do this.
One thing I noticed one time on mushrooms was that certain scenes in video became absolutely incomprehensible. Modern codecs save space by basically "smearing" pixels into areas of similar color. On mushrooms, I was only able to perceive this smearing, and so a scene of a character walking down a hall just looked like an amorphous blob floating across a pool of paint and leaving a wake of color turbulence behind it. I could only tell what was going on by really concentrating and inferring from context. I can't remember if pausing made any difference.

I doubt it, but I wonder if it would be possible to perceive a merely audibly compressed audio stream as being completely garbled.
https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page

The hallucinative effects are well study. Here's a great common example: https://psychonautwiki.org/wiki/Scenery_slicing

The amount of psilocybin and type of strand have a strong influence on how drastic the effects are and what the effects are.
In the US. Outside even iPhone users use WhatsApp or similar.
Yeah it's definitely been making me pull my engagement back on HN. It even motivated me to get onto Twitter lol. At some point I want to read something a bit more stimulating than Tech Nextdoor. I originally came here from Digg and Slashdot because I enjoyed talking with other engineers and founders in the weeds, but I think the HN crowd has drifted far away from that start.

That said the conversation quality here on the non-hellthreads is still quite high. I enjoyed the thread on C yesterday. It's just that hellthreads and strident comments "feel" like they're becoming the norm here and it's harder to escape from them.
>> all that steel, copper, aluminum, and a couple of rare earth metals

> About 6-7 years for the economic payback of capital costs (not counting the unaccounted avoided $ externalities of displaced fossil fuels).

Presumably, all that steal and other material is still around in 20 years to be resold?

How much do materials like these depreciate over 20 years? I'd guess in REAL terms not even 50%.
Exactly. I'm reminded of the phrase "you can dazzle them with your brilliance or baffle them with your BS." In science and mathematics there's no room for BS. Answers are either correct or incorrect, and analysis must be applied to obtain the correct answer. American students have been conditioned to fail in such an environment, having been told all their lives (I'm American BTW) that its "too hard" and that it's okay if you're not able to do it.

Honestly, a doctor incapable of thinking is not who I want for my doctor. A doctor incapable of thinking while under stress is not who I want for my doctor. How do you test for those qualities? Many colleges use O-chem. Hence it becomes a "weed out" course.

We'll just have to wait and see whether this professor went above and beyond what's required for a "weed out" course or whether NYU just killed their premed program.
>archetypes

Staff archetypes is a meme. Here's an archetype for you: gets whatever needs to get done done. The idea of an archetype is harmful, it limits what people do and can become an excuse to not do hard grindy work.

EDIT: On a second read, I guess you do end up doing one of those things for an extended period of time. But my point still stands: don't box yourself in
It cascades all the way down to the lowest income brackets, unfortunately, with each group displacing the next group down.

It's a systemic issue and can't be fixed by focusing on any particular set of earners. The entire system is broken and needs to be replaced.
The future of the web and the only way it's growing in healthy way is, we, having vm that can runs many languages .. not thing that runs a single language .. everywhere.
> I remember making things with Golang… was torture with common hosting solutions)

What made it difficult to deploy Go apps?
I thought that one of the Hacker News commentary tenets was "Don't shit all over other peoples' work." Except if it's crypto-related? Sheesh.

Jack Dorsey is a pretty successful fellow. He sees centralization as a real problem, and is making an effort to solve it. Antagonize all you want, Jack Dorsey is doing.
Archetypes are useful in how you sell yourself. Don't forget that it's not what you are, just how you sell yourself.

You can change between these every review cycle, job, career, all you want - no one in management is keeping track of your "archetype". They are keeping track of your impact.

Lastly, you are the "person in the box" once you are senior enough. Take the archetypes, look at your org, and see which they need. Whatever is missing will be the most value to the org. How you see yourself accomplishing that box is the real challenge of executives, not this endless "what color parachute are you" self evaluation.
I straddle the line between Team Lead and Solver - but even just reading the descriptions there is a lot of overlap.
I think stockfish with limited depth to compute every move in under .1 second would still be incredibly stronger than a human to the point where their involvement would produce worse moves.
also very weird use of French-style « guillemet » quotation marks?

(not weird because they're guillemets, just kinda weird because they're in an English language article and being used for emphasis instead of quotations)
> American society has shifted towards a ruthless form of capitalism that leaves fewer and fewer occupations capable of providing their practitioners with a middle class lifestyle

While technically true, this statement is misleading. It's true that the middle of income range has decreased. But most of the movement out of the middle has been upwards, only a fraction have been pushed down to a lower rung. Many more find themselves pushed up into the 4th quintile than down into the 2nd.
"...which culminated in about a quarter of his class of 350 students signing a petition that does not seem to be publicly available."

I believe this to be it: https://nyunews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Organic-Chemi...

Linked from https://nyunews.com/opinion/2022/10/05/maitland-jones-nytime... which seems to be the only coverage not from Jones' point of view.
Particulate count is the least of your worries when it comes to cigarette smoke. The tar, acetone, cadmium, carbon monoxide, etc etc etc is going to do a lot more damage.

Do you have any evidence that indoor wood fires are more damaging that cigarette smoke?
A representative of the luddite contingent perhaps.
IMO podcasts without transcriptions shouldn't be allowed on HN. The vast majority of readers aren't going to invest an hour listening to the whole thing, so any discussion is just going to be about the title.
Yes, of course, it was a joke about American eating habits. I should avoid making oblique jokes but sometimes I can't resist.
I was working in tech in Bay Area and left to a mid-west 13 years ago. My friends called me crazy. Who is crazy now?!!

I was really burned out and though the tech scene was good in silicon valley(startups, good companies), it still felt my life was just monotonous. I had same tech friends, which were competing against each other. Talking about FAANG companies.

I took a pay cut when I moved away to my new place. I joined a small tech company and was happy. 9-5 job and skiing on the weekends. Taking dog to the walk everyday.

I feel happy.
One aspect of what you describe could be sophism, using fallacious arguments to persuade? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sophism
I left during COVID to be closer to family. I don't miss the high cost of living or the crowding, but I definitely miss the climate and access to nature. I've gained a bunch of weight now that I drive everywhere instead of walk. Just another anecdote to go with the rest in this thread.
Finding liquidity might be a problem though. At least, I don’t have any local market makers quoting a bid/ask for BTC or ETH.
Code: https://github.com/slash9494/react-modern-audio-player

Demo: https://codesandbox.io/s/basic-91y82y?file=/src/App.tsx

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Looking good!

For the demo, I don't know if there's a way to change the layout of CodeSandbox, but the preview panel currently is too naroow. The player overflows without horizontal scroll bar, making player elements invisible and impossible to click.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to playing with this library. I've been searching for a good React audio player with playlist support. The wave form view is cool too!
That's like solving the problem of not having a meaningful relationship (and sex) with watching porn.

It's a substitute alright. It's also not a solution, just a crutch.
I de-gmailed to iCloud Mail, and it's been working great. For anyone doing this, imapsync made this surprisingly painless!

https://blah.cloud/miscellaneous/migrating-google-workspaces...
The story isn't what this guy did, or where he's from. The story is in why he wanted to see the pope.
Edgy PC!
Takes way too much RAM for my ADHD brain. If I work like that, solid concepts slip out of my grasp and I have to work them out all over again. Without writing things down, I miss obvious and important problems. Very envious of people who can maintain a large system in their head.
Most American cities are nowhere near SV prices (or coastal California in general).

https://cdn.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/documents/metro-...
I think we're also getting caught up in an implicit assumption that "bad parenting == bad parent", which is absolutely not the case. As a parent, I can tell you that every parent does "bad parenting" from time to time due to stress, tiredness, etc. but that doesn't make that parent a "bad parent", just a normal human being.
Biden to pardon everyone convicted on federal marijuana possession charges
Given the current geopolitical landscape, citizenship brings a lot of perks these days and that is only accelerating. Also the fix for the issues of people being taxed without representation is immigration reform to make it easier for people to legally immigrate, not allowing non-citizens to vote. Whether by hook or by crook, we'll have to reform our immigration policies eventually because the declining birth rates of the West make it imperative if we want to maintain a world-leading economy.
I'm not against having Simula foot the bill in preparing whatever materials they may need to prepare to aid in the FCC's investigation - I think that's a reasonable cost of doing business, one that ought to scale with the size of the company, no? However, I agree that there may be valuable information you'd rather your competitor not have access to at your expense. Is there instances of, or analogues in other domains, of information relevant to the persecution of one party, belonging to another party, being reviewed in confidence by a third party? Or failing to find a fair solution in terms of that approach, how much can that information be trimmed?
Moving from California put a tremendous amount of pressure on the housing prices in Denver. And then Salt Lake when Denver got too expensive. And then Boise when Salt Lake got too expensive. And then Spokane when Boise got too expensive.

We're literally running out of cities in the west.
back in the 30s USA viewed a number of socialmovement groups, and ethnic "mafias" as a direct threat to existence, that resulted in the gun control act.

thus immigrants, and other groups were not allowed handguns,and the restriction of Short barrel rifles was incurred. it was very important to curtail common carry of easily concealable firearms, by these groups.

the interesting thing about the AR platform is the buffer tube, projecting from the rear of the weapon, its a natural position for a shoulder stock.
its possible to do away with this, using a blowback operated caliber like 9mm luger, but these in .223 cal need to have the spring and mass to push onto.

so we get the AR 15 with a short barrel [<16"] leave out the shoulder stock and call it a pistol as its [intended to shoot 1 handed] if it has no other hand grips.

you push that buffer tube, against your shoulder, and its not comfortable but it works as is to shoulder the weapon.
next you massage the shoulder stock wrist brace definitions so you end up with a wrist brace that has features making it a comfortable shouldering.
over time the AR platform evaded the definition of a short barrel rifle, and the crackdown, is on building pistols with features allowing rifle like usage, but remaining concealable, and easily moved in/out of vehilces.
Can you please explain more? How would a local sqlite database work with a typical, say a CRUD blogging app as an example? Do invidividual users have their own database in the browser?
I see. I do wonder how specific that is though. Potentially it could be toxic to other areas where vasculature could be "leaky". Like in the filtration mechanisms in the kidney.

Targeting the cancer's vascular supply is also a known anti-cancer mechanism of action (anti-angiogenics). How will this method not have the same toxicity as that one?
Has anyone read Tanya Reilly's new book "The Staff Engineer's Path"? Wondering if there's overlap in the concepts/model.
You cannot put graphic sex in, but you can put in graphic violence.

Priorities
Things happening in the UK seems to get a lot of attention abroad, probably because we're an English-speaking country, but realistically speaking the more mild of the two scenarios here would likely involve severe power shortages on the European mainland and the more severe of the two a serious global energy crisis. Both of those things are at serious risk of happening this winter, which is why these contingency plans exist.
Or the system failed by hiring him in the first place for a job he was unsuited for? Yes, I agree this was a systems issue that paired the wrong students with the wrong teacher. Maybe he should have been teaching an upper level course where the students could benefit from extra rigor or maybe he should have been release from teaching responsibility as a talented researcher.
Just listened to "Wilderness of False Flowers" on YouTube. Wow!
Ask HN: Is there a GDPR compliance privacy statement template for small blogs?
Open source licenses has done wonders for individual software developers who want to publish free/libre/open source software on the internet. We don't have to hire lawyers to carefully draft a license that to give away our software for free while protecting ourselves with disclaimers.

Is there something similar for privacy statements that can be used by small blog owners to remain compliant with GDPR?

Assume the blog is hosted on a Digital Ocean virtual machine hosted in EU, runs on self-hosted Wordpress or another self-hosted free CMS with a built-in comment form. Assume it only writes Apache/Nginx access logs, does not have any analytics in the pages, no cookies, no tracker. Only user comments and access logs. Anything handy for such blogs?
The resulting voting rule (Borda except if there is a Condorcet winner) is commonly known as Black's rule (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%27s_method).