skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would benefit large and established companies with stable margins, while penalizing smaller businesses and startups. I don’t think this is the intended result.

It also discourages long-term investments, and further rewards short-termism (which everyone seems to dislike).
>Covering your face, as a primate, is not a natural thing to do.

1) Neither is wearing pants or a shirt. 2) Something being 'natural' doesn't make it right.

>Assuming that obscuring the face has zero cost is clearly wrong.

It doesn't need to have zero cost in order to be the correct thing to do. The question is whether or not the trade-off is worthwhile. Let's saying masking always under all conditions is too much of an imposition, are there restrictions we can place that make the trade-off better?

For instance: Is masking in high density communal areas during respiratory disease seasons with an X drop in disease propagation worth not seeing people's faces in that setting for that time period.

To extrapolate this back to the pants/shirt distinction; human life would end in a generation if we weren't ever able to take off our pants and shirt as we would never have sex again, but the intolerability of that restriction doesn't make it socially accepted for me to rub my bare ass onto a bus seat.

We can't have a discussion about how best to adopt masks, pants, or shirts as a technology if the only way they'll be accepted is if they're always a pure benefit in any situation.
For a moment I thought the topic was about PID controllers. That would have been cool.

If the blogging gods take requests I just made one.
> Douady and Hubbard have shown that the Mandelbrot set is connected. In fact, they constructed an explicit conformal isomorphism between the complement of the Mandelbrot set and the complement of the closed unit disk.

Not sure why the existence of this isomorphism implies it is connected, but there you go
I actually have the family premium subscription.
Firefly was a mistake,

in that the corporate machine made a mistake in not extracting all that it could from it in follow-up seasons, movies, sequels, etc.

You know how good a movie is by how many sequels it took to kill it.
The law never states that you are required to carry your ID. It states that you are required to own one.

If you do not carry it with you, and have no why for them to identify you in a way that you can be looked up, e.g. because you have your ID number in your password manager, the police can summon you to the station, or escort you home or a variety of other protocols.
The police like to convince you otherwise, because it makes their job easier. When children are taught about their ID in school, this is often accompanied by a police official. As you can see in the law itself, this is not true.

However, this only applies to German citizens, and EU citizens, if you are in Germany on a visa or any other type of scheme, you are in fact required to carry you ID and documents with you at all times. In that case not carrying an ID is actually an offense with harsh punishments. In reality most of these situations are handled like with normal citizens though.

Edit: improve formatting
As near as I can tell, I could write literally anything on a self review and it would make no difference to anyone in any way. My first item has been 'stop doing performance reviews' on the 'what can we do to help you' section for years.

This is a useless exercise, raises come or not regardless of what is said or done.
> Neumann has begun purchasing apartment buildings and, as of early 2022, owned some 4,000 apartments worth about US$1 billion, primarily located in the American South.

This is Neumann's "Flow" company that a16z backed with $350 million this summer. Scheduled to launch next year, will be interesting to see how it fares in this new interest rate environment.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/18/a16z-chris-dixon-adam-neum...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(real_estate_company)
Don’t suggest such brilliantly horrible ideas during the beginning of my three week holiday… must resist urge to wander eBay.
What about using that energy to emit light that plants can use at nighttime?
I've been publishing weeknotes about once a week for a couple of years now.

They're selfish writing, for me. I use them to hold myself accountable for making progress on my various projects.

I don't particularly care if anyone else reads them.

Where they do come in useful is linking people to things. I can say "I write something about that last year" and point back to my weeknotes.

https://simonwillison.net/tags/weeknotes/
I don't actually like The Wheel of Time, so my reactions to the show are about whether it's good television: I think it was.

Rings of Power was unwatchable, I gave up.

I never really liked Foundation (although I read all the books when I was too young to realize Asimov was incapable of portraying characters that weren't paper thin). I found some of the changes obnoxious but comprehensible for building a show, but found it also to be watchable TV.

I'm pretty confident the people producing these shows care more about whether people think it's watchable TV than whether big fans of the original agree their conversion is faithful, which sounds like your complaint, here.
I mean, they just finished adapting The Expanse.
Like, how else should we talk about the topic in any other objective way? Sure, the death of any person is said and tragic. But true zero and true one probability simply doesn’t exist in reality. And we require energy, otherwise hospitals could not operate killing much much more people. So simply by that logic, one can minimize the amount of human suffering by nuclear.

And it is a fact, that non-nuclear, non-renewable energy sources kill a shitton of more people per unit energy, release orders of magnitude more radiation, let alone other carcinogenic gases.
Yes, they are within the podcast stream itself. The worst ones are in the content created for iHeartRadio that makes its way to Spotify.
Want to save the planet? Saving whales could help, scientists say
> They were often not the building owner but a lessor on their own, taking long-term leases and subleasing in pieces with little or no commitment.

I put that as the CEO self dealing. He purchased buildings and rented them out to WeWork. Had WeWork purchased the buildings themselves, the model would have been on far firmer footing. Again, I agree there was too much glamorous spending and living in the limelight, but landlords can obviously turn a profit if they keep the expenses reasonable.
TLDR: Cause unknown, maybe related to freezing temps.
A word document with an embedded excel table (or equivalent in any other office suite) works well enough.
I would recommend Crafting Interpreters (https://craftinginterpreters.com) or Interpreter Book (https://interpreterbook.com/). Excellent ways to learn how to build an interpreter. You have a functioning interpreter by the end of it, and it's easy enough to extend it into new concepts! I'm using some of the lessons learned from that to build a custom interpreter for a small project I'm working on. It's really fun!
Double the tax for double the legally distinct entities.
>So often the characters get nothing to do, nothing to say, it's nobody's job to create narrative momentum. It's just brutal.

That's exactly how the books are. Cool concept, but there's barely any plot, nobody has any real motivation, things just happen to them.
My all-time favourite is the dishonourable mention for 2004 Children's Literature:

As he entered the room within which so many a wild night of their sweltering love affair had been spent, the White Rabbit regarded her with benevolent eyes, her posture such that he suspected something was wrong, but before he could speak Alice unburied her face from her trembling hands and between her intense sobs he made out the words, "I'm late . . . I'm late."

Perfect. Simply perfect.
It's a much harder problem than that. Even if you did not find the crack just before taking the structure into use a crack could develop at any point in time after that and you're definitely not going to be emptying this tank on a regular basis for inspection.

So you either detect it before commissioning or it will eventually fail if there is a flaw.
I'm on the family premium subscription. These are ads within the podcast itself, unfortunately.
I've never heard of that, if that is a fact it would be nice to include a reference.
> Not adding it today does nothing to ensure a dictatorship cant use it in the future

Yes it does, if the people have the will to fight. Insurgencies have been surprisingly successful against the most powerful militaries in the world in the past few decades. Even in China, the threat of mass protest forced the government to soften Covid restrictions -- and the protesters didn't even have guns, or any leverage at all except their willingness to put themselves in harm's way.

Every dictatorship that has ever existed started off with the consent of the people, at least at first. All of the dictators in history were swept into office on a wave of popularity, and the people only regretted it later on. It's just not possible to impose a dictatorship on a population that doesn't want it.
Disposable masks have been routinely used in healthcare since at least the 1960s. I would be extremely surprised if there are no studies of the long-term health effects of mask use. Especially since the people who could do such research are the ones who would suffer most from any adverse effects.
I almost failed to search a 37 GB text file in under 1 millisecond
If I make a physical good in the US and ship it to a buyer in France who pays above my costs, I don't owe France any income tax.

If I have a warehouse in France, some of the profit was in France and some was where it was made in the US. Same thing here where there's lots of small pieces done wherever.
I think this is a great time to make it -- telling stories focused on women is popular now (no flamebait), with a big enough budget it wouldn't look cheesy, and it's such a great story. As long as they cast Neil deGrasse Tyson as Doc of course :)
I quizzed ChatGPT about math a few days back. It correctly answers that 1023 is odd, correctly answers that the square of an odd number is also odd, and is about 50/50 on whether it decides 1023^2 is even or odd.

The author of the linked post repeatedly refers to ChatGPT's "reasoning". But ChatGPT doesn't reason, it just generates text. Sometimes that text might look like reasoning to a human--it's the sort of text that a human who reasoned through the question would generate--but there was no reasoning involved. It's important to understand this.

> Based on my teaching experience, I’d say chatGPT scored like a second year math major.

Based on my experience, ChatGPT scored worse than my 5-year-old, who gets the 1023^2 question right every time.
Low relative humidity dries out the aerosol droplets faster before they have a chance to settle out of the air.
While on topic, how independent is Go? Is Google still the main decision maker there?
The Peripheral is also super busy, every sentence dense with information and revealing cultural context. But it does read as filmable.

The adaption on Prime is worth watching, but it's a rewrite. None of the language or density of expression is there. They probably made it more comprehensible and I won't criticize that. But the books were invigorating and mind blowing.
The EIA is very consistently very wrong.

https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/07/12/has-the-international...
I was rolling my eyes going into the article, but it was actually useful. Your perspective is kind of the starting point for the author- Analyze how the self-review is actually used.
Honestly, I think a lot of people in the First World could use a service like this. Hell, I’d use it if the price point was slightly lower for my region.
Wasn't it literally invented to ban the yacht tracker account?
I looked up a 1950s advertisement for similar boots and saw a pair for $12.95, plugged that and 1955 into the inflation calculator and it came out to $144.41. So not too far off really
hello i'm sabine mom of 4 sons.

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The "trade" paperback size seems to have largely taken over from mass-market. Not completely, but there are definitely a lot more that size on the shelf than there used to be. Except in some genres, like romance, a section of which you can spot from a mile away because of all the short, uniform, mass-market volumes—but I think even there a lot of newer material's coming out in trade, and maybe hardback, and never seems to get a mass market format release. Especially true for the material marketed at the younger end of romance readers.

I expect interest in carrying books around is lower now. Pack it for vacation, maybe take it to the coffee shop or park, but how many of us still value a portable volume you can keep on you all the time, every day, just in case you have a moment to read? Phones fill that role, and then some, now. When you get ahold of one of those slim mid-century mass-market-size sci-fi paperbacks, and happen to be wearing a blazer or other jacket, you quickly discover why that length + size combo was so successful for popular fiction. It fits neatly in an outer jacket hip pocket, and hardly even messes up the drape of the fabric. Perfect for the 1940-1950s fella on-the-go. Can't do that with a trade paperback, nor with monster 400+ page Stephen-King-esque mass market volumes. A trim 200-280 pages in mass-market format is just the thing.
For anyone who is (morbidly) curious, the "grisly suicide" -- described at the time as bizarre, was slashing his ankles and neck in a (dry) bathtub http://www.strategosinc.com/downloads/nuclear_fizzle-dl1.pdf

That article also has a ton more information on how Babcock and Wilcox failed.
How a great audiobook narrator finds her voices
While I understand the sentiment of saying that a purely individual perspective is egregious, selfish, myopic and inappropriate for a situation in which individual selfishness can cause extensive social harm, it's not a good look to tell people that you hope their loved ones die.

I don't hope their loved ones die, I hope they become better.
Traumatic brain injury is much easier to attribute to a death, rather than viruses that are more likely to be involved in some other cause of death, like a bacterial pneumonia.

If I learned anything from COVID times, it's that attributing deaths is complex, and roughly up to whoever writes the death certificate
My point is the brain metaphor does not work. The copyright act does not regulate "brains" but it does regulate software so what your brain remembers or does not remember is irrelevant.

I predict A.I. trained on LOTR will be found to be infringing because it's a derivative work unless the court determines that use of the original work constitutes a fair use.

My general point in my intentionally silly brain metaphor is brain metaphors are inapplicable and unconvincing.
How are they going to send a patch in 24 hours if their test suite takes 20 to 30 hours for a single execution, and any given change causes 100-1000 tests to fail?
I respect the teens that are doing this, for whatever reason, but I think reading too much into a trend piece is a mistake. I don't know these kids, and maybe they are 100% genuine, but the whole thing strikes me as being about the aesthetic and the fashion above all else. Wanting to be different to be different, and the best way to do that is to reject that digital society that we are all in now.

When I was their age, I was similar -- down to wearing the trendiest of trendy clothing items (that were designed to not look overly trendy, but anyone in the know would know that they were), while still thinking myself some sort of "outsider." We had a communist club (despite all of us really being capitalists and having rich parents and benefitting immensely from capitalism), we rejected television as a lesser medium (despite secretly loving our favorite shows), upheld the virtues of "arthouse cinema" (which, you know what, fair -- I still love arthouse cinema) and we only listened to certain types of music -- on vinyl (some things never change) -- and this was just ahead of the vinyl resurgence. But secretly, a lot of us still listened to pop music on MP3s in our bedrooms, watched the same trash TV we claimed to reject, and enjoyed the same populist commercial films. It was an outward rejection, but not who we really were. It was aesthetic and fashion and came out of reading and loving Kerouac and Salinger and Thompson (authors I still love) and wanting to feel like we weren't part of the suburban bubble we were painfully part of.

I look back at my pretentious, self-important 16 year old self and I don't feel pity or regret, but I see it for what it is, and it was about fashion and aesthetic and wanting to signify to the world that I was "different." But the irony is that feeling different is one of the most universal feelings a person can have.

Again, I don't know these teenagers. And maybe they are completely genuine. I don't judge them or think less of them if it is all an aesthetic. Or if some of this is a purposeful troll. But there is still an irony about a Luddite club being profiled by the biggest media organization in the world and going viral on the very platform they claim to reject.

I do dig the aesthetic tho. I would absolutely carry a flip phone for just the aesthetic today (you can tear my iPhone from my cold dead hands).
What does the word conservative mean to you?

I’m aware of it as a political leaning that people express by showing support for candidates and policies.

It does not mean “bad word that no apply to mr hero Musk man” to me.

edit:
The whole concept of “The fact that he came out and unequivocally expressed his opinion that conservatives should be in charge of the country is only a tiny bit of minutiae about his fractally-complex unknowably wise opinions on conservatives” is one of the silliest things I’ve ever read.

It is exactly the same phenomenon that you’ll notice in elderly Facebook posters that love to dissect the hidden meaning in Q drops.
> Teaching your kid to stand up for themselves

But they aren't standing up for themselves. They're standing up for decisions forced on them by their parents.

> make friends that don't care about blue chat bubbles or fashionable clothes is necessary

It has nothing to do with being cool (and I've never heard of anyone referencing blue chat bubbles that wasn't using it derogatorily like you are). It's about not being unable to communicate with people. Like, they may have friends who want to invite them to a party but don't because they put the event on (whatever app is cool). Your kids don't see it and therefore don't go to an event everyone wanted them to go to.
> Substituting our values into this formula, we get: x1 = (3 + (10 / 3)) / 2 = 5

This is really wrong, why didn't the poster notice this? They just said

> 3.4 is not a very good approximation but other than that the response is correct.

No, Newtons method produces a really good approximation for square root very quickly, ChatGPT didn't do the method correctly which is why the result is so bad. People who can't instantly spot those mistakes shouldn't use ChatGPT, and people who can spot them instantly doesn't need to use ChatGPT.
I recently got it via short contact (3 weeks ago, was positive until yesterday, still have a cough).

I went to an amusement park. None of the people I was hanging out with had it nor tested positive before or after (they were all testing regularly) so the only other explanations are random people I passed at the park, food that was contaminated, or random covid virus in the air.

Of course my getting it via short contact does not invalidate the idea that most of it is spread via prolonged contact. But, given I just caught it via short contact I'm not going to stop taking prevenative measures in situations with only short contacts.
> It doesn't need to have zero cost in order to be the correct thing to do. The question is whether or not the trade-off is worthwhile.

I don't dispute this. You're more than welcome to continue doing whatever you want and make that trade-off for yourself. I won't be participating, because to me, the value of seeing human faces vastly exceeds the benefit of avoiding a cold (assuming that is even achievable, which I don't grant).

But the metaphor of "pants" is absurd. I wear pants because they keep me warm and protect my soft bits and make me look snazzy, not because someone else is making a moral judgment about my choice of clothing being "the correct thing to do".
Moderation is soft power. People think we have the power to be heavy handed, and a lot of users think that's what we do (just look at threads like this one), but we don't and we aren't. Mostly we just try to please the community, while doing our best to foster the mandate of the site. Of course this is impossible; the community can't be pleased, because different people want different things and many are incompatible. But if there's a way to keep it least-unpleased, that's what we're going for.

The posts you're asking about are in the vexed category where parts of the community feel they absolutely belong on HN while other parts believe they don't. Not only that, but the topics themselves have contradictory qualities: they're partly intellectually interesting, partly sensational gossip, partly a political slugfest. Unfortunately the slugfest is dominating everything else right now. I wrote about this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33992824. That's also why I pinned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34010948 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34010908 to the top of the two threads last night.

I don't know if that answers your question. It's hard to talk about this briefly. I've written a lot about how we moderate politics on HN, and some of it may make sense in this context. Examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29219906

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844

Lots more at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

If you take a look at those explanations and still have a question I haven't answered there, I'd be happy to hear what it is.
Inflationary/deficit spending.

The MMT argument for taxation is that it's necessary to encourage demand for a currency, thus making it more valuable. But there's no fundamental reason that a government which controls its own currency must collect taxes to pay for various services.

Congress could pay state and local governments directly each year.

If you're willing to throw away some property rights, then state and local governments could theoretically lease land as a means of raising revenue without direct taxation. (this is a terrible idea)
That's a good guess, but I'd still like to see the final report if and when it is published and whether or not they manage to find the root cause. Likely the differential made the problem worse to the point that something gave but I suspect that there is a deeper underlying cause that made it sensitive to that difference in temperature to begin with. Either a material flaw, an assembly issue or something else.