skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>This whole "unincorporated land" execuse is a sad state of affairs. The whole "You're not with us, so it's not our problem" mindset is really why America is so low down on every single ranking in the world, except for military might.

I'm really curious where you're from.

On the specific point of unincorporated land, I think you're vastly underestimating how physically large the US is.

For example, Rovaniemi seems pretty isolated from the rest of Europe, right?

It's level of isolation (both in terms of distance to the next large city and hospitability of the land in between) is similar to Las Vegas. Salt Lake City isn't too far off either. America is huge.

The US just has too much empty land to offer urban-level fire services to everyone who chooses to live in the country side. It's logistically not possible. So instead if you choose to live in the wilderness, you can also choose to pay for protection, but if you don't, then I'm not sure exactly what your expectations are.

In terms of 'whataboutism' - Europe (assuming that's where you are) sure loves shedding the responsibility for the chaos they caused in the colonies, while living in buildings paid for by/made out of materials physically stolen from those colonies.
I think it may be a GNU extension to explicitly allow it, but I'm no language lawyer. This header is from glibc; it may explain why it's not available on some platforms.
Most people getting laid off aren't SWEs. This is what I'm hearing from a headhunter friend. She also said that hiring folks are using layoffs as a proxy for "not high performer". I told her this was unfortunate and probably not that accurate of a heuristic.
Ahhh, a self-hosting option. I might actually take a look at it!

I'm so tired of systems handling highly-confidential information (such as passwords and secrets material) being Cloud-only. Or even cloud-first.
I am writing some stuff that will hopefully be published next year, so I don't want to get into it too much now.

But it basically started with this sequence of text from "Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?" [0]:

> Parallel programming has earned a reputation as one of the most difficult areas a hacker can tackle.

> However, new technologies that are difficult to use at introduction invariably become easier over time.

> Therefore, if you wish to argue that parallel programming will remain as difficult as it is currently perceived by many to be, it is you who bears the burden of proof

We are now in an era in which is it nearly impossible for the average consumer to buy a computing product that doesn't have multiple cores, SIMD, and a GPGPU. So I felt that it was time to explore how to do it with everyday basic general computing tasks. I was starting with nearly zero experience and writing what I've been learning :)

By the way, even the Raspberry Pi 4 does very nicely with ARM Neon, though it doesn't improve with multiple threads concurrently executing SIMD code like Apple Silicon does!

[0] https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/paul...
It means that I'm seriously worried about him and his mental health but that there isn't a thing I can do about it.
You have it backwards: it returns true on error.
Love it and thanks for open sourcing it!

My 3 cents: To save issues with enterprise lawyers not approving to use your repo because it has a non standard MIT license, I would HIGHLY recommend creating a separate repo for the paid features, and leaving the open source one intact. A small additional effort to break your monorepo into 2, a huge time saver when you try to monetize it and realize this small addition goes from "automatically approved, regular MIT license" to "I need to open a ticket with legal as our open source compliance tools (e.g. blackduck) flagged it as non standard"
Nice, some years ago I worked on the Apache PDFBox code that powers this. Great to see people build on top of it.
I’d recommend reading the complaint. To my surprise, regardless of the ratings, Epic was explicitly marketing to 10+. Like there are written statements to that effect.
"The Beautiful Tree: a personal journey into how the world's poorest people are educating themselves" by James Tooley.
It's a very interesting book about low-cost private education.
State and local governments aren't exempt from tort laws, etc. If they commit to service a location 100 miles away, and can't practically do so, or someone gets hurt in trying to make heroic efforts to do so, they can and will get sued. And in such a suit, making that sort of unrealistic commitment can and will be held against them.
I think it's an article where you need some context.

A relative is a retired fire chief of a city department and overall fire buff. He's spent 15 years engrossed in this stuff for various cities in the US - the answers vary! Usually in the 19th century there were different types of fire service. A fire brigade or volunteer company focused on protecting the city or subscribers, and protective companies who salvaged buildings or contents of buildings. Sometimes they worked differently in different places, and you need to understand the context of precisely when and where you are talking about.

Keep in the mind the nature of 18th and 19th century buildings - often row houses, often with shared attics, etc. Protecting property, then and now might mean sacrificing some buildings to protect others. Consider the destruction of San Francisco... when the leaders of the city fire department were all killed, and underground water cisterns damaged by the earthquake, a madman Army officer blew up half the city to "save" it.

The property insurance folks had a first priority to save the contents of a house - they may be dragging the piano and hutch out of a house while the house 3 doors down burned. Or they may have helped. From the perspective of contemporary eyewitnesses, what they report and write down may vary.
In all experiences I’ve had with black, Latino and East Indian employees the response to these trainings has ranged from indifferent to overwhelmingly negative. Feedback has ranged from “its cringey” to “I feel like the team looks at me different now.” Especially negative feedback was from an Asian employee who was told she exhibited “bias associated with whiteness.”

Not even going to bring up the feedback from white people.

The positive feedback you get to these things is from other HR managers and DEI managers who like to pat themselves and each other on the back.

My take on them is they are unlikely to survive the recession and will be remembered as a relic of the times. Using them as a shield from lawsuits has not materialized as in some cases these programs can lead to their own discrimination suits.
$520M is a pinch, I can assure you it will change their behaviour in some ways.

I worked at a company where this happened, the legal polices that came afterwards were actually prohibitive. We couldn't shit without a lawyer.

CEOs have bosses and they don't like to lose money like this - it's a 'headline' loss as well, making it feel worse.

What remains to be seen is the nature of the change because so often it's just an over/under or 'bad' reaction, rarely do they get it right unfortunately.
It returns a bool, but true means error, not false.
Recursion, Blake Crouch was an amazing ride.
The Bible (NASB95)
You end up needing this stuff to write fast parsers of text formats, but you need a bunch of other stuff too, and there isn't really any introductory material online.
>he's planning for an AGI company.

This is something I think will break the mystique around Carmack. Back in the 1990s and early 2000s he was considered the whiz kid when it came to rendering engines but in reality something that's as nuanced and still not fully understood (intelligence, especially AGI) is likely too far out of his expertise to develop. Why? Because the last 60 or so years of development in the field hasn't yield much in the way of results in pure research or practical application. Machine learning and other hat tricks aren't even in the realm of AI properly but rather probability models that work well enough on a narrow set of problems to possibly commercialize them (ex. chat bots for help desk replacements). The thought that anyone, and I mean anyone, is going to develop artificial general intelligence before the 2050s or even later is to me laughable. We barely can understand how to talk to parts of our own brains, we're still learning more from other so-called lower lifeforms with respect to how they solve problems (fun fact: it seems bumble bees like to play or at least do things that are roughly analogous to being play-like, all without any kind of human or hominid-like brain so fancy that). So, it just seems like hubris to imagine any corporation, research department, or a singular scientist cracking this nut. I think we're more in the technological Bronze Age with respect to computing than anything else. It would be nice we finally got started on our computing Iron Age.
The problem with this is, even the best funded police departments still suck for various reasons. A great example is the best funded city police departments in the USA: Baltimore PD and Wilmington PD

https://thedailyrecord.com/2022/08/11/bpd-faces-two-new-laws...

https://whyy.org/articles/wilmington-police-samuel-waters-in...

I think Willink definitely has a point though about undertrained and overworked officers. We should definitely have much stricter standards for officers and annual re-certification. Too many officers out there barely know their butt from the fourth amendment. Also, there should be work logging requirements similar to truckers. Some officers work insane hours and are probably barely able to drive, much less deal with a DV call. Police unions should be on top of that, but they seem to be more focused on political junk.
Prior to the modern era, the Royal Navy and others had boys sometimes 12 or younger on ships as servants, sometimes (those boys with higher ranks) being trained to be officers. The age for this sort of thing was gradually raised with time, but even during WW2 there were still minors serving on combat vessels. 134 boy seamen died when the HMS Royal Oak was sunk in 1939.
Isaacson's biography of Da Vinci. Beautiful man.

The biography went really deep into his art and pointed out what made it so special. As someone who knows nothing about art, this gave me a wonderful new perspective both on Da Vinci and on art in general.
I hope Mastodon doesn't "replace" twitter (as in becomes like twitter). So far Mastodon is much nicer than twitter so I hope Mastodon stays like it is and is something better than twitter had become.
My understanding is that Xi and the CCP he controls simply didn't prepare for this besides administering without mandates the PRC's two major indigenous vaccines which appear to be subpar in general. Although as inactivated whole virus ones in theory they could stand up better to variant mutations by presenting more proteins to our adaptive immune systems than the spike focused ones, see how in early testing Bharat Biotech's Covaxin showed activity against the nucleocapsid protein.

But building capacity in real hospitals or facilities that can do the basics of for medium serious cases that for example require supplemental oxygen? Nothing I've read of, just austere isolation facilities to support Xi's Zero COVID policy. Now we can be sure Xi and company are focusing on managing the fallout from the policy's end that was forced on them, which only tangentially will have anything to do with limiting the population's morbidity and mortality.
There's also BookWyrm, which is ActivityPub-federated and has less of the library-management focus in favor of the now reading/just finished status updates: https://docs.joinbookwyrm.com/
You will not be disappointed! Possibly my favourite game of all time.
The commenter you’re responding to was specifically talking about digital cash, not digital currency. Properties of cash are distinct from other forms of money in specific ways. “Ease” of conversion from one to the other doesn’t make them identical.
Google, Mozilla to collaborate with Apple on fresh WebKit browser benchmark
> They don't even support having a healthcare system

Democrats are the ones pushing for universal healthcare: https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/achievin...

> or banning guns.

Yep, they're the ones pushing for gun control too: https://democrats.org/where-we-stand/party-platform/healing-...
Cốm and poha flattened rice are a bit different from oven-roasted, high-moisture rice as a breakfast cereal.
What HTML document from 10 or 20 years ago does not still render in a modern browser?
Modern browsers are extremely good to maintaining backwards compatibility at all costs (aka "don't break the web"), to the degree many on HN often argue it hinders evolving web technologies.
> CSV of IP geolocation information

That is called a geofeed. If you own a large block of IP addresses, it is a good practice to have a geofeed data publicly available.

Our IP correction webpage is quite easily accessible for geofeed submissions [1]. You can email us, submit a link to a csv file or even a Google sheets page will work as well. Even though we appreciate geofeed submissions, it is not the most accurate or updated data source for IP geolocation, so we still have a lot of stuff to do to provide accurate data.

[1] https://ipinfo.io/corrections
> This isn't a thing in the US. Hospitals will stabilize anyone, regardless of ability to pay

This is the bare minimum to avoid a PR disaster. When someone is dying slowing of a chronic condition (diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease) the US system will just watch them die unless they have insurance.
Best paper I read was "Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (2011)".

https://pages.lip6.fr/Marek.Zawirski/papers/RR-7687.pdf

CRDTs get a lot of hype on HN, 95% of the time it's for collaborative editing. But they're much more than some JS library to build an app around - they're a formalism of distributed systems that are strongly eventually consistent. What this means is if the mathematical properties [0] of CRDTs hold, there's no conflicts, no rollbacks, no user intervention - provided the same data is received by every node (in any order, mind you), they will all be in an identical state without a consensus.

For me this is massive, and I'm convinced this has big industrial applications, ie distributed systems in domains where the source of truth is most naturally modelled as append only events. In this scenario, the whole database is a single CRDT.

Also - and I hope I'm not outing myself as a pleb here - but each time I re-read it I discover new things, stuff I might have glossed over, didn't fully understand, or didn't appreciate before.

So yeah, have to hand it to this paper. It's really broadened my horizons.

[0] way less scary than you think. If you're comfortable with first year abstract algebra, operations, sets, relations etc you'll be fine.
No wonder mammals are afraid everything's trying to kill them and think everything's poisonous.
> *VPNs for IP masking.

ah yes, a great counterpoint because users so often don't use a different IP address under their VPN.
This seems fake. ChatGPT gibberish?
U.S. Capitol riot panel recommends charging Trump with insurrection, obstruction
I have my own ASN. Getting the geolocation information updated in the IPinfo database was extremely easy; however, months later Google still doesn't get it right for my IP ranges.

Kind of annoying, but I'm assuming Google doesn't even touch geofeeds.
https://healthcostinstitute.org/emergency-room/ouch-new-data...

$80 billion of 3.4 trillion. A rounding error.
FTX's Bankman-Fried does not yet agree to extradition to United States hearing
That's pretty close to what we think of as the Children's Crusade. It was peasants with little weapons or training
There are telehealth options now and while thay arent uiversal or a cure all, it expands the scope of possibility
>This isn't a thing in the US. Hospitals will stabilize anyone, regardless of ability to pay. First responders- police, ambulance, fire fighters- will save any life they are able to. Preventative health care is a different story, and even that is complicated.

The US has the highest preventable death rate in the developed world. People die because they don't get to see a doctor. First responders will save you. However, the amount of deaths because people couldn't pay is massive for a so-called developed country. Have diabetes and no insurance? That's pretty much a death sentence and they'll watch you die. Need surgery? No insurance? No surgery and death because of complications caused by the lack of surgery.

> Unincorporated land holds a very tiny percentage of the population of the US; trying to use this as an analogy for the rest of society is just disingenuous.

As used with the multiple other examples, it's an entire culture. Not just "Oh unincorporated land, that's just crazy". It's disingenuous to act like my point is hinged on unincorporated land.

> So does the US. Even unincorporated land falls under the jurisdiction of whatever county it happens to be in as well as the state and federal governments; the only difference is it doesn't have a local town government... because there is no local town.

There are state troopers who have jurisction over certaint things. However, there is then an array of other law enforcement agencies such as towns having a police department and sheriff departments which have jurisictions over certain things. They don't have a simple police force that deals with everything in that area. This results in crimes not being truly investigated because no one is sure whose job it is.

There is no regional fire department as shown in the linked news article. The fire department that was paid by a neighbour to ensure they didn't get fire damage ignored a fire nearby because they weren't paid by someone else. The ignoring of that fire resulted in fire damage to the paying customer. A regional fire department would have dealt with that.
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Rationality goes out the window when you have disposable income and see something you want. At the same time, the overall selection of toys seems to have shrunk. Stores have limited shelf space and dedicated megastores are rare.

It's a different story online, but toy shopping is a sensory experience. :)
The BCR also has a web UI at https://registry.bazel.build
To add to this, the ones that survive outside that range are typically anaerobic and can't survive being exposed to air, so that makes it even less likely to be a vector for food poisoning
Police pull up to sounds of a rifle shot; active shooter. They hear another loud shot. 4 seconds later, someone is peeking around the corner, their hands on the trigger and grip, 30 degrees pointed up. That's 1/4 second away from returning fire, with the firepower to kill every police that showed up, and if they let that happen, any number of civilians thereafter.
> North Korea has amassed a veritable crypto fortune, hundreds of millions worth

Hundreds of millions isn't a fortune for a state. Certainly financing a credible nuclear program costs way more than that every year. Let alone everything else a state needs to finance.
When there's no other way, I'd agree with you. I personally can't watch low quality videos because it strains my already very poor eyesight (even with prescription glasses on). HD videos have a kind of soothing affect on my eyes.
Streaming is extremely competitive, and may really only work best for a certain group according to the former CEO of Hulu:

"I believe there will be multiple business casualties in the paid streaming wars and a few (3) business victors. The companies that get to the other side of the river will earn 300 million global subscribers at an average of $15 of revenue per month between advertising + sub fees. The 3 companies that get to scale are each likely to generate $10B/yr in cash flow from their streaming services, far greater than what most entertainment companies have ever generated per year. For these precious few, the considerable streaming investment will be well worth it"

https://twitter.com/jasonkilar/status/1600053919907880961
True, but how is it relevant to the comment you replied to?
Agreed. The Audio-Technica lower end range are great for those who aren't already heavily invested in hifi equipment. The make them pretty much plug and play - no need to worry about a phono preamp as it's built in the deck.
The most polluted capital city
Townships only exist in New Jersey and Pennsylvania; most of the rest have counties. As you say, it varies from place to place; any of them could start a fire service if the residents vote for it and fund it via local taxes.
In the recent weeks, monads finally clicked for me, and I was introduced to Christopher Alexander’s ideas on “unfolding” (and thus, generative patterns). (https://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/whatisanunfolding.h...)

It tickles me to see this in food. The article talks about how those flavor profiles change over time.
a while ago I asked some probing questions on Codeium: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33887665 and eventually this led to us talking offline and producing this guest post about the AI infrastructure behind it. Hope it helps someone building Copilot for X out there!
Always with Honor (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55807906)

Memoir from the leader of the White Army during the Bolshevik revolution. Sparked an interest in Russian history for me.
Video games and helicopter parenting (in the usa, anyway).

On the flip side, it seems like we have a great many more risk-averse and game-addicted adolescents (both, not necessarily the same ones) and young adults.
Why didn't Meta just buy VRChat and improve that? Why did they have to build their lame metaverse from scratch?

Serious question
> It's level of isolation (both in terms of distance to the next large city and hospitability of the land in between) is similar to Las Vegas. Salt Lake City isn't too far off either. America is huge.

Right. The issue isn't so much that "America lets people die because they don't pay." It's that "America gives people the freedom to live in the middle of fucking nowhere, including where a state or local government can't reasonably commit to offering reliable emergency services."
TVA is a federal project, not a state regulatory body.
That's hard as I wouldn't back pay but my insurance company goes back and forth on doing roadside depending on if you have comprehensive and has changed the rule and rates to be more or less competitive with AAA. When it's cheaper I use my I aurance, when not AAA. If they made me back pay I wouldn't use them. But I generally don't just do the sign up and tow immediately.
Don't forget:

* $10B+ wasted on completely failed SC nuclear plant, which basically led to its collapse and subsequent buyout by out-of-state (Dominion) utility https://apnews.com/article/sc-state-wire-south-carolina-busi...

* GA version is still lurching to completion... at cost now approaching $30B https://www.ajc.com/news/as-vogtles-nuclear-units-move-towar...
>To show me things that I want

That’s an extraordinarily generous interpretation of Facebook’s motivation.
A new type of Chess/Sudoku puzzle
To solve a puzzle, simply arrange the chess pieces so that the number of threatening pieces matches the large numbers provided.
>Here is how much they accept it, firefighters literally stood and watched a building burn down instead of playing with their toys.

I assume insurance of any kind doesn't exist in the rest of the world, since everyone else would have long figured out that you just don't need to pay it and then reap the rewards afterwards by just claiming it then? Or would insurance companies in Europe just stand by with their big bank accounts and refuse to pay? Sad state of affairs, very third world of them.