skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a little tangential, but last year me and my girlfriend went to Greece for the first time. A few days after we purchased the tickets, a book came in the mail. She had ordered a tourism guide for Greece that had some recommendations about what to see, where to eat, where to stay, etc.

My first reaction was along the lines of "why would we do this when we have the entire internet? Each section is written by only one person recommending what they liked, how can I rely on that?"

Well, it turns out that avoiding the chaotic whirlwind of dubiously-funded and low-quality clickbait articles that come up on google when you search "things to do in _____" makes the planning process much easier. Even if the book missed a few places we would have enjoyed, it was a pleasure to read this person's insight on the areas we were in and the places they thought were worth seeing. It came with useful maps of every location we were in and gave fairly accurate pricing estimates for each activity.

The simplicity of seeing a couple sentences about why you should take the time to see a historic site or scenic view, or eat at some little hole in the wall restaurant and taking them at face value makes the entire travel process so much easier and more fun. Googling around and seeing conversations about what to do on Reddit will make me second-guess every choice and wonder if I'm truly maximizing my trip, which is guaranteed to make the trip worse, regardless of what I end up seeing.

Consuming data and services from the internet has become very transactional: Every article about tourism is either selling a ton of ad space or is sponsoring the recommendations, both of which make it more annoying to get data that way. It's hard to tell what the writer's financial motivations are. The same is true for google maps: some things are promoted because they paid for it, not because they are better. Books, paper maps, and other "analog" formats are written by people that want to sell the book. It's not impossible that they are getting kickbacks for their recommendations, but in this age where informational books are gasping for air, they really do need to do a good job for people to keep buying them.

edit: I might as well plug the guide we used - as of this comment it's the newest version but it looks like there will be a new one in 06/23: https://www.amazon.com/Lonely-Planet-Greece-Travel-Guide/dp/...
Right, it's a remarkable story. There's a wondery podcast series about it that was pretty interesting.
See my other sibling reply regarding the "conditioning" argument.
A teacher from the article is quoted:

"My job, which is a public service, is to protect kids," said Olivia Garrison, a history teacher in Bakersfield, Calif., who is nonbinary, who has helped students socially transition at school without their parents' knowledge. "Sometimes, they need protection from their own parents."

The idea that teachers should be "protecting kids from their own parents" by affirming their chosen identity without their parents' knowledge illustrates what I'm talking about. Even if you agree with the sentiment (which I would say is "exceeding their warrant"), parents aren't going to take that sitting down.
Why do you say it has shifted "for good"? The Fed itself plans to bring interest rates back down actually fairly quickly [0], following a half-year of decreasing inflation rates [1].

[0] https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/fomcprojtabl20...

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/273418/unadjusted-monthl...
No, it's a miracle painkiller used by doctors all over the world. Just like oxycontin it has a legitimate medical use.
Gaming but I would note that the 5600X is a fine workstation CPU, the 6650XT is a good editing GPU, and with 32 or GB of ram, this can pretty much do anything at an acceptable level.
AsciiMath: An easy-to-write markup language for mathematics
KeenType: Pure Java typesetting system
That sounds like a nice little workflow; I might have to incorporate something like that with `nvd`...

Though, it should be said that `import /home/wherever` might not work if you switch to / use flakes, as that is likely outside of the flake's git repo (and thus impure).
well... that and mentioning Linux helped boost those manic stock prices.
Except unlike self driving cars they're repeatedly delivering desirable, interesting, and increasingly mind-blowing things that they weren't designed to do that surprise everyone including their makers i.e zero shot generalised task performance. Public awareness propagation of what unfiltered large models beyond a certain size and quality are capable of when properly prompted is obscured in part by the RLHF-jacketed restrictions limiting models like ChatGPT. There's relatively little hype around the coolest things LLMs can already achieve and even less than a minute fraction of surface potential has so far been scratched.
Big banks learned nothing from CurrentC and plan new competition for Apple Pay
Agree. Sticking a bunch of questionable content under the HBO brand (which Max is certainly piggy-backing on) is more proof of the incompetent management.

Even though I benefit, I think it was also dumb for them to give away HBO to any AT&T subscribers (maybe internet only?). HBO was something I used to pay for.
It refers to the new CLI, i.e. the "nix" command. The old CLI is the nix-* commands (nix-env, nix-store, etc.). The new CLI and flakes are still marked experimental, but the plan is to stabilize them and call that "3.0". So it won't be very different from the current 2.12 - you just won't need to enable some experimental features anymore to get the new CLI/flakes.
Try Osmand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OsmAnd).
The link you posted says that the original rat park researcher's own graduate student was unable to replicate the original experiment when he tried reducing the confounds. That seems like the most favorable possible situation for a replication to me. It also says that one confound was that morphine consumption wasn't measured in the same way between conditions in the original experiment. That seems pretty bad to me. Linked article also mentions that other researchers have had trouble replicating the results fully.

Rat park doesn't consistently apply to rats, so why should its results be considered particularly informative about humans?

Has someone done a much better study on rats since then? Significantly larger N, always taking measurements the same way across conditions, genetics carefully controlled or at least measured? I'm not an animal behavior researcher, so I'm sure there could be other things important to handle.

Rats are certainly more similar to humans that flies are, but that doesn't mean any particular study is informative about humans.
Wetsuit Shaming in San Francisco Divides Bay Area Swimmers
The methods are different but the strategy is the same. They have used this strategy with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), VSCode + extensions, Winget, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, and now OpenAI.

Microsoft can afford to maintain all these offerings for free whilst competitors suffocate and struggle to compete with their paid offerings.

You can't compete with free, especially when there is a company who can afford to run and host the best tools for free for a long time.
The Patagonia thing was not legit at all according to Adam Hates Everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu6EbELZ6I

EDIT by "not legit" I mean "not authentic"
Does it involve not only producing dimly lit garbage?
Yup. I didn't know where I was, but knew what drainage I was in, and knew that my car was at the upper end of pavement at the main stream in the drainage. I went downhill until I hit the main stream. Oh, the road is paved? Follow that up to the car. No sweat, even though I really didn't know where I was. Just knowing I was within the drainage was all I needed.
To expand a bit on what you wrote. The Fisher space pen was developed entirely with private funds, and sold to NASA to fill a real need to not release graphite to be inhaled or cause short circuits.
I don’t want to work with people who consistently let me down nor would I want to work with jerks.
Thanks :)

Likewise, I'm basically locked into "life in plaintext", as a die-hard orgmode user.

With what I have on disk, a big positive is any "system" of organisation is opt-in, post-hoc, and fungible.

Like, today, shite can be seen as merely one lens into a subset of my org files, to compile that subset into a website. Tomorrow I could bring back hugo.

That choice has no bearing on how any other method of organisation might use those same files (e.g. I can pull up index views using orgmode's own query feature set).

And further, a single blog posts's org file can power live demos in Emacs (org-babel), and gets exported as a blog post, and as a PDF slide deck, like this: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/why-and-how-i-use-org-mode/i...
OK, well here's legislation that's supported by the Heritage Foundation that would defund any school where a teacher gets a kids name wrong:

https://www.heritage.org/the-given-name-act

(It claims to be about pronouns, and encouraging anti-lgbtq smears, but, if you read the bill, you'll find the reality is much worse.)

There are thousands of examples like this going back decades. You used the words "right wing", but I suspect you don't know what they mean. For example, you should read up on the blocking of the equal rights amendment, which was arguably the founding moment for the right wing in the US. It would have prevented discriminatory hiring by the US government.

Arguments against it included claiming it was a conspiracy between lesbians and government workers, and "you wouldn't want bathrooms to allow gays like desegregation did for blacks, right?", and lots of claims about how men would sexually assault women and children in bathrooms if it passed (the constitutional amendment had nothing to do with bathrooms).

More impactfully, to this day, Prop 13 is hailed as one of the biggest wins of the right wing in California, and it is largely responsible from taking our schools from top ten in the US to bottom ten.

Anyway, I'm guessing you don't support any of this nonsense based on the rest of your comment.
Well in some states having a Masters in Math would not qualify you to teach math because you do not have a Teaching Degree...

Government regulations rarely make any logical sense
I like the idea of having a flow through, at least, some of the concepts in the order they should be introduced.
And Osmand does walking routes while offline which Google Maps does not.
To add to the other answers, schools generally have school libraries that are similar to public libraries, in that they have a large selection of material and students may come in (either at a specific assigned time or in their free time at school) to check out books.
> Talk about boiling the ocean! 10 GW will do that. I wonder how that accident will compare to an oil spill?

Yet another demonstration of a complete inability to perform basic arithmetic or critical reasoning. If for some reason it were to break and put all the energy into the ocean, and then for some reason the operators decided to put $100k of energy into the ocean each hour rather than turning it off. Then it would be about 20% more than browns ferry dumps into wheeler lake under normal operation.
> So another reason I don't use ECC RAM on workstations: Remember that ECC RAM is notoriously long to do memory initialization and memory training.
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> Not sure if its an AMD thing but my friend booted his EPYC server with 256GB of DDR4 ECC RAM for half an hour.

This server likely had a setting enabled to perform a full test of the memory on boot.

I'm not sure why server vendors do this (I've never once in my career seen that test catch anything), but the boot times have nothing to do with ECC. My Ryzen 9 3900X-powered PC with 64 GB of ECC boots in a few seconds.

> ECC RAM is supposed to be serving services that requires extremely high RAS (Reliability, Availability and Serviceability). Any normal DDR4 RAM out here is already having a good enough RAS for a relatively long time.

Without the ability to detect errors, how do you know it's good enough?
I've seen a few comments mention the description now. Thank you for the feedback. I wrote displayplacer because all the other tools were GUIs and I needed something scriptable. Consider using SwitchResX for a multi-display profile GUI tool.
Anybody remember Triptiks from AAA? You'd go to a AAA office or call them on the phone, tell them where you were going, and in return you'd get a printed spiral top-bound pad with your trip broken down in to multiple legs, the roads/routes pre-highlighted, gas stops and prices estimated in, a list of sites for stopping off at, etc. All human curated and human annotated (the roads on your route were literally gone over by a person with a Highlighter). I'm sure it was all pulled from some sort of centralized/normalized/standardized data source but the human touch was definitely there.

They were awesome. When we were growing up most big family trips were in the car because gas and hotels were just so much more affordable than flying an entire family anywhere. I got to be the "navigator" on so many trips by helping family members read the Triptiks.

Apparently AAA still offers these, but they're generated digitally now via their app, and you can print them off if you want. But something about those human-built Triptiks were really really special.
Is it approved for reading?
I've never been diagnosed with ADHD but I've been trying to reduce distractions for a long time and the one thing that was extremely effective for me was going to the office and taking a desk in a busy region with my back against interior rather than the windows, this made my monitors visible to everyone. The constant feeling of being judged made it impossible to get distracted and I was extremely productive when I was at the office.
I've been working on and/or managing both dev teams and devops/ops teams, and it is my very strong opinion that Scrum is terrible for devops/ops teams. No managers (besides me) want to hear it, but it's true. It provides the wrong incentives to the team and leads to pain and sadness all around, and eventually production outages and employee turnover. The Scrum game (heavily) incentivizes delaying support work at least until the next sprint, which frustrates the hell out of both teams. If you're doing the whole roadmap thing with goals and stuff, it's even worse because then the incentive is to either #WONTFIX or half-ass it or somethign else to make it go away so you don't attract the eye of Sauron from the spreadsheet overseers by slipping on your "already pretty aggressive" goals.

What to use then? Kanban, with little to no deadlines (estimates are ok but be careful as it's very easy for an "estimate" to turn into a "this work is late because we thought it would be done by X.")
I think the resolution is along the lines of this:

* ZFC does not have a unique model that satisfies the axioms.

* Each of those models have different "undescribable numbers" with different properties.

But it was a long time I touched model theory, and it was just an optional extra course at uni.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_theory
Non-laminated paper maps may not survive immersion all that well. On the other hand, your phone may not survive that, either...
My problem is i don't know what gets borked immediately after updating unless it's catastrophic. Ie i've gone a fair bit of time before i realized some specific functionality of some program no longer works due to some unrelated change in an underlying dependency that i was unaware of. Oof.

Granted Btrfs sounds great though, i've not used that. It would certainly help.
What do you think would improve by Stripe being in AWS? As a Stripe customer, I like the way Portal[0] allows me to outsource payments (almost) entirely. I don't see the advantage (relative to the cost) of building it into my product.

0 - https://stripe.com/blog/billing-customer-portal
5 USD of material, millions of USD spent to train, hire, motivate and retain the engineers who are finding such solutions.
I love looking at paper maps for my wilderness backpacking/camping trips. I really like seeing where the trail leads and what camping spots I can use. It just makes it feel like a big adventure.

Additionally, having a weather proof map for wilderness trips is invaluable. I'd never rely on a digital device to provide what could be a life saving tool.
Show HN: Phidata – Building Blocks for Data Engineering
Hi HN,

I’ve been a data engineer for over a decade and have slowly been working on a way for 1 person to run a data platform (mostly to automate my job)

When I was starting, I found the wide range of tools required to build data products overwhelming. Infrastructure setup, app deployment, pipeline development, creating metrics, dashboards and finally, integrating ML into product. No wonder companies have 100s of people working on this. So last year I quit the best job in the world to figure this out.

I’d like to introduce Phidata: Building Blocks for Data Engineering

It works like this:
1. You start with a codebase that has common data tools like Airflow, Superset and Jupyter pre-configured. Infrastructure and Apps are defined as python objects.
2. Build data products (tables, metrics, models) in python or SQL. Test locally using docker and run production on AWS.
3. Infrastructure, Apps and Data Products live in the same codebase. Teams working together share code and dependencies in a pythonic way.

Using phidata, I’ve been running multiple data platforms and have automated most of my boilerplate code using a specially trained GPT-3 data assistant.

If you work with data and are looking for a better development experience, checkout [phidata.com](https://www.phidata.com/) or message me, I’d love your feedback.

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> declining population has not reduced price of houses in the city

Despite overall declining population, Japan's major urban centres are actually increasing their population. Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Sendai, and more are all growing cities.
Lol, one day I was riding my bicycle home, and had to pass through a very poor part of town in which I am a racial minority. My bike got a flat just that moment. Someone took notice of my weakness that I had to stop and fix the flat and that I was obviously not from the neighborhood. They put a gun to my head.

That disabused me of any notion I am never a target.
1. Spend time with them. A lot. Do things together.

2. Have shared interests. This one it's not going to be under your control, because you won't be able to force yourself to like something that you don't, consistently.

3. Throw "guides" and books about making friends and connections in the trash.
People are completely dependend on GPS but also might not use it as often as you would think. First time planning a route to some new job/home/friend requires GPS but after that I'll do everything on autopilot. Proximity to existing routes also massively reduces complexity.

In general, I think our adaptation has significantly increased our ability to navigate at the minor cost of using either the map and compass or the new gps and advanced map data.
The pun also works in english, so I imagine they are.
Another suggestion is to use the "tech"/skills or programming languages as a filter. Really helpful, and also understandable that majority of jobs would require the popular programming languages/tools.
I wish guides like these contained screenshots.

Do people use Nix for desktop OSes? As a VM they SSH into? A collection of config scripts that they don't directly issue commands to?

I certainly can't tell from a quick glance of this guide
It is very weird how houses depreciate very quickly in Japan.

There is surely intentional government policy behind this, and this would have significant impacts on the broader housing environment.

I recall reading at one point for example that the property transfer tax is lower for empty lots than it is for occupied lots. Another subtle housing policy that incentivizes people to tear down old houses.

Much has been written about Japan's zoning impacting its housing prices and rents, but imo it's as likely that the various tax and housing policy that creates this incentive to tear down homes is as important of a factor in creating a housing market that looks very different from other rich nations.
> A PS5 is 10.3 Tflops and costs $400.

There is a good argument that the standard PS5 costs $550. Sony has prioritized Disk production so digital base is hard to find still, Sony then has happily bundled it with GOW for a total of $550. Still cheaper but eh.

The PS5 has exclusives though. A better comparison is the Series X. Windows and Xbox basically have a 100% crossover of games due to well..obvious reasons. Series X is totally available for $499.
I suspect EU country vs US comparisons get thrown off as well by EU freedom of movement vs US interstate mobility. We should probably be looking at aggregate EU immigration from non-EU nations when comparing to other developed countries.

Someone born in France but lives in Germany vs someone born in New York but lives in California are both similarly easy from a legal standpoint. However counting the Frenchman in Germany as an immigrant seems kind of dubious given that's kind of the point of the EU.
My dream is a modern CPU with UEFI/CSM, and a motherboard that has no built-in chipset but instead gives me a serial port, a ps/2 port, memory slots, and expansion ports on an eATX form factor. I can bring my own everything else. Given how many PCIe lanes that modern CPUs have, this should be doable. Then when the disk controller dies, I can just plop a new one in without messing around with surface mount components...
You would think. But FDA is going opposite direction making legal opiates even harder to get by putting pressure on doctors.
Do you have links to the arguments in favor of the semitic hypothesis?
Google has massive range and tons of way to push their services onto users, and google+ failed miserably.

Resources are not guarantee of success.
So... one book about a boy who wants to imitate mermaids, a couple of books that acknowledge to children in a non-detailed way that transgender people exist at all, and books like Gender Queer [1] and This Book Is Gay [2], which are targeted at the junior high and up age group and have basically the same level of explicit detail as the sex ed courses those kids have already gone through (but are, I guess, somehow extra evil because they feature gay people).

Looks like the standard brand of 'gender nonconformity is the same thing as making third-graders watch porn' bullshit to me.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_Queer

[2]: https://amazon.com/This-Book-Gay-Juno-Dawson/dp/1492617830
India's UPI allows for free instant transfers with email/phone number, regardless of amount. Business have started using it for payments, that's how good it is. In the Eurozone there's SEPA Instant which is close but requires a bank account number. In the US... checks in the mail? Or third party middlemen for the fun of it.
If your goal is maintenance mode for the company, milk profits for 10 years, and to be eventually replaced by competitors then I think you can run a company very slim. The other question would be, if you have captured a large market share (100s of M/yr to Billions in revenue), how many employees do you need to prevent an upstart from overtaking you through improved tech, product, or strategy?

For example, if FB never invested in ML they would have had even larger margins (fewer GPUs and ML engineers), but now that investment may pay off by fending off tiktok through copycat products and also rebuilding ad attribution after ATT. To complicate matters, before it happens, you don't know in what area your competitor will arise (ML? Product? Paradigm shift?). Similar examples with Google vs. OpenAI, ~2010s Kubernetes wars between cloud providers, Snap vs. FB/Twitter, etc.
I gotta say it would be tempting to do something like this just to watch the fascist bureaucrats’ reactions.