skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the best strategies to attract remote workers to a location?

* Utilities such as roads, water, high speed internet feel like table stakes now. Fiber internet is quickly spreading in rural areas, and I know people with septic tanks and a fiber line. Ten years ago Google Fiber was a major selling point for Kansas City.

* Governments have little control over climate, nearby geographic features, time zone, and a million other details. They can highlight their strengths in marketing campaigns.

* Cost of living only works for so long. We've seen areas in the last decades that have an influx of population and they usually see a corresponding increase in COL. There are approaches governments can take to slow down the growth of COL, but it seems inevitable.

* Taxes and local regulations might help attract some workers. Cannabis consumers might be more inclined to move somewhere they can gain access legally. High income workers might be attracted to places without state income tax. Women might migrate to a state that aligns with their abortion politics. Motorcyclists might prefer places with lane splitting.

* Large projects such as professional sports teams, well connected airports, large hospitals or ski lodges might play a role. Governments can attract these types of projects.
Ask HN: Alternatives to Sidewalks?
Hello. I live in a midsized city in the US that, for the most part, lacks sidewalks. As a results, the walkability of the city is poor. The reflexive response is, “just build more sidewalks”. But this can be expensive and I would think might interfere with utilities (ie water to residences, sewage line from residence, etc). Does anyone know of examples or alternative schemes for making streets more walkable that have actually been put into place?
whisper is extremely simple to use on the command line. Just install it with pip and you are off to the races.
An Update on Our Team
The Big Lebowski Turns 25
I don't see any benefit over using Whisper locally or the API directly
So the submission score is the sum of the “upvotes minus downvotes” — and not just the sum of upvotes?
Exxon Ends Multi-Million Dollar Support to Algae Research
I don't know what prerequisite knowledge is implied for that paper, but for someone who had to dabble in theoretical econometric and ML papers during my graduate studies it is absolutely not clear what is going on. In my experience, a paper written in such fashion where you don't even define what objects you are working with wouldn't even pass as an acceptable undergraduate paper.

For example, if someone works with a probability space (Ω, F, P), they would state so very clearly in their paper even though it is quite obvious from the notation that it is supposed to be a probability space.

Similarly, if someone writes "Given a symmetric monoidal category C with tensor product ⊗...", it is understandable what is going on, or at least it is understandable what I should look up. But in that paper I have no idea how I am supposed to interpret "C", "⊗" and "=" in such a way that the formulas make sense.

> It's a type signature, not a formula. C is not values.

I am not sure what distinction you are trying to draw, but surely any sequence of symbols that adheres to a given formal grammar is a (well-formed) formula; and surely if by value you mean a mathematical object, types and type signatures are values.
Ask HN: Do you use RSS? If yes, which reader do you use?
VW says sorry for child carjacking fiasco, makes safety service free
Or: Americans wanting to delete Instagram have a harder time figuring out how to delete apps than users of other apps.

Or: Instagram is the most-used app.
> OpenBSD provides NOTHING to protect against an attacker who gets remote root, it just really really really hopes they won't.

Alright, if we're talking about things that are objectively true, this is objectively false. They specifically go to great lengths to make it impossible to get root.
Heh, I read "relevant" as meaning "containing the terms I'm searching for". You comment made me realize that the definition has shifted over the years. I agree with you -- I think that Google, for instance, trying to read my mind for what I "really want" is the main reason that Google search sucks for me. I expect no better when any other search engine tries that.
The article is valid in speaking specifically about US states competing, but otherwise I find the idea of treating governments, and countries, as mere economic platforms, that compete like a business would, disturbing.

They are representatives of their nations, and their duty is to their people, to whom they are guardians, of said people and their homelands. They should not be 'competing' for more residents just as families shouldn't compete to attract other's children.
I've owned houses in two cities in my life.

One called itself "A developer-friendly community" and the other "A healthy community"

The cities were organized around their taglines. One was 300 years old and focused on parks, trails, conservancy, and community centers. The other a younger city focused on growth and sprawl, tax abatements, and new businesses.

You should live where the government aligns with your phase of life and personal goals and be free to choose a new government later. Also, democracies can shift over time but generally it is easier to move somewhere new than to feel entitled to change a municpal culture simply because you got older.
Thread on previous (retracted) paper,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32993556
I doubt you could give yourself diabetes from fruit without really trying. The chewing just gets old real quick.

But I also don't think you miss much by cutting fruit out entirely. It's a bunch of sugar, a lot of fiber, and a few vitamins that you can easily get from other places like green, leafy vegetables.

Really nothing unique about fruit unless you just really like fruit.
It shouldn't change much, since you barely interact with the main system.

And only the main system is going to be using SID.
There is some truth in that but it is also about having a diversified economy.

Water conservation could go a long way in both the rural and urban areas. In fact, if LA could find a cubic kilometer of water storage it could be self-sufficient based on rainfall.. With the concern that you might have to clean up PoPs in manufactured products in a way that makes Prop 65 look like a mashup of Phillip Morris and the 3M corporation.
My understanding is the fiber of the whole fruit is important: it slows absorption of the sugar and adds bulk to aid digestion in general. Typically some or all of it is removed in juices and smoothies. I think of removing fiber as similar to adding sugar.

fwiw, I eat a low-carb diet (up to ~90g of net carbs, so not strict keto). I often eat some fresh or from-frozen fruit: blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, orange (half a navel or a whole mandarin), or a few apple slices. I never drink juice. I don't feel fruit gives me any nutrition I can't get elsewhere. I can get vitamin C for example from various vegetables including red peppers, cabbage, and dark leafy greens. I also take a multivitamin because it's hard to get enough of some nutrients (notably vitamin D) that fruit doesn't help with anyway.
Sounds like they’re happy and healthy. Why are you criticizing?
I was talking about Newsom being anti-NIMBY and my dad says "Judging from people I talk too, that seems anti-democractic" and my response was "Well actually for any given backyard, 99% of the population wants housing built there" So it is an important, if subtle, distinction.
I've been using UniFi cameras for a couple of years now, writing to a local SSD (~ 40 days of storage), stored in a UDMPro.

The initial outlay is a bit more expensive but the setup is rock solid, provides tons of network analytics, has smart lights paired next to the cameras, and continues to work even when my ISP has issues. I've _voluntarily_ given footage to the police a couple of times but it feels much better when the entire system is within my control, sitting in my office.
I don’t know where you live, but I had to pay extra for my SFH, a condo or townhome in an equivalent location is significantly cheaper
It's a good metaphor for a good part of the startup scene: good looking gift wrapping around tools built by smarter people.
>Vanilla OS as an immutable and atomic version of Ubuntu Linux

what does that mean? I checked their home page and FAQ as well, where they repeat it but also don't explain it. It makes me think of it installing itself on your hard drive, and then immediately marking it read-only, never to be changed again
I think the argument is around accessibility and ability to copy it. If it's available from your home, everyone could easily access it and also easily copy it.

If you have to go to a dedicated computer, at a physical location (California, US no less), basically only a small percentage of people actually have access to it, and are more or less unable to copy things at a grand scale.
Better it’s left up than killed off.
Just need one to survive for it to multiply somewhere later down the pipeline. It can also be introduced other way I guess
The problem isn't self-hosting. It's the ongoing setup and management through their DSL.
I would add Everything by VoidTools. It completely changes one's workflow.
The existence of heritage designations and the related restrictions also encourage developers to completely tear down any existing, older, undesignated buildings on their properties as soon as they acquire them, even if the buildings are still usable, and the new developments may be years away.

The developers don't want to risk the buildings being designated, or even just the designation process itself being used to introduce lengthy delays and extra costs, at some point in the future.

Rather than helping to preserve older buildings, the risk of a heritage designation just speeds up the destruction of them. In the end, there are fewer older buildings, and more empty lots.
So your username is "ZeroGravitas", huh? :P
"the modern webapp experience is so miserable for the average person."

Hyperbole. Web apps would not be so ubiquitous and popular for solving business problems if your claim was true.
It just need connection to a cloud model
The cascading risks you mention are certainly real and serious, and are worthy of our best and urgent efforts to solve. Effective altruists are rightly concerned about these effects e.g. https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/climate-change/

My comment was written with the summary of that article in mind (I didn't make this clear):

> Climate change is going to significantly and negatively impact the world. Its impacts on the poorest people in our society and our planet’s biodiversity are cause for particular concern. Looking at the worst possible scenarios, it could be an important factor that increases existential threats from other sources, like great power conflicts, nuclear war, or pandemics. But because the worst potential consequences seem to run through those other sources, and these other risks seem larger and more neglected, we think most readers can have a greater impact in expectation working directly on one of these other risks.

There is an excellent chapter on the existential risks associated with climate change in Toby Ord's book The Precipice, which you can get a free copy of at https://80000hours.org/the-precipice/
Wireless can't make a real dent in high speed competition due to congestion issues. It's only competitive in rural/less dense areas.
I use it for running containers on Windows, that's the only reason I even come close to it :/
There already are programs to attract residents that can boost a country’s tax base and add investments to economy. Media likes to call them “golden visas” and have derided them all the same. Sure there are issues like risks of ill-gotten funds getting laundered or criminals getting a new start without facing consequences of their crimes, but the same can be said about companies that are used as fronts for the same individuals. In the end, very large sums of money seem to open most doors, whether it is for individuals or companies.
Would be nice to have a name to the "philosophy" indeed, but as someone who never heard of Harbor Freight before, maybe something internationally known would be better? :)
Sure, but I think the transition through my stages is a sharp S-curve, and then going through your stages is a more gradual increase. And based on how many wealthy people behave, it seems like the happiness curve peaks at some point and then starts dropping again for many of them.
The same holds true for the Texas Leica, the Fujica G690.
why not? we have 98% of GDP debt and we kept funneling money into this debt.
why suddenly the pension funds are the problem?

it states that in 10 years there will be 20 billion deficit , that doesn’t include the raise of salaries to match inflation (it was removed in france in 1983) I ll wonder what would be the numbers if we do this simulation but pretty sure it will be positive.

Finally, 20 billions is nothing for france, we spend 40 billions on immigration so by your logic we should just stop pouring money and lock our country?
Realme shamelessly clones Apple’s Dynamic Island with newly launched C55
Familia Toledo http://www.biyubi.com/eng_tecnologia.html

Also, Oscar Toledo made nanochess and other boot sector programs: https://nanochess.org/
Because it says:

> Plankalkül was more comprehensively published [vague] in 1972. The first compiler was implemented by Joachim Hohmann in his 1975 dissertation. Other independent implementations followed in 1998 and 2000 at the Free University of Berlin.

So it was never implemented until mid-1970s, which likely made its design process less constrained than languages that came soon after it in 1950s etc.
I don't know too much about Zuse but from what I do know he was far ahead of his time / environment.

From my understanding the way his ideas surrounding computer design developed was dependent on the limitations of German resources during the war. As such Zuse was focused on mechanical designs while others in the rest of the world focused more on electromechanical dominated designs.

The end result is that Zuse spent a lot of time going in different directions after the war, developing things that seemed to be curiosities at the time but may end up being critical in space exploration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odwgpKRnWM8

https://www.iaarc.org/publications/proceedings_of_the_27th_i...

http://zuse.zib.de/assemblyLineSelfReplicatingSystems
You Goodwin'd yourself in the first line, killer.

The Nazis have nothing to do with this, it's bog-standard regulatory capture, which is a thing everywhere but extremely prevalent in the US.

Take a look at the F500 (or F50) list and see how many large insurance and healthcare companies are on there. None of them are Nazis; most of those companies have straight-up woke policies. But they lobby hard, and that's why the model is broken.
The idea money doesn’t buy happiness has been pretty thoroughly debunked in psychology for years, was my understanding.

That greater income and wealth have diminishing returns is easily observed, but this idea there’s zero benefit past some threshold was always just innumeracy.

It’s just that people are terrible at understanding curves that look vaguely logarithmic, combined with small sample sizes of people with very high incomes willing to take psychology surveys.
Menu(≡) / View / Facing
No one is allowed to state the actual reason they oppose high density housing, so any will do.
They must run ads too, right?
Record room-temperature superconductor could boost quantum computer chips
This is the same group that already had their publication retracted by Nature the last time they made such a claim. Maybe Nature's reviewers got better and this time it is legit, but I wouldn't count on that. So there's nothing to see here until this gets independently replicated. They totally deserve all the scrutiny and resistance they seem to be getting.
Yea a lot of it is that your palate actually changes after a few months. It usually takes 4-6 months for me and then, when I go back, I notice that I don't enjoy the foods as much any more. Instead I've found new favorites to enjoy on my new diet.

Definitely happened with keto. You notice too that even when you get really hungry you don't fantasize about candy any more but about steak :)
> This is the first I’m hearing about it.

The corruption in southland policing departments is absolutely nothing new. Rampart comes easily to mind here, but the list is unfortunately a long one and wikipedia has many documented examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal

Rampart, for instance, was such a large media issue that they even made a movie about it. Not a small one either: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640548/

EDIT: Dorner should also ring a lot of bells too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Dorner_shootings_a...
That's great to see! I haven't been aware of this news.

I do hope it doesn't become one more of those red state vs blue state ideological lines. "Come to Texas, we won't build a condo complex next to your American Dreams-style picket fence."
There's no trap here, and from your other reply you didn't even read the whole article. Maybe that's an additional source of your confusion.
That app is super addicting and totally toxic. The shit it puts in my feed is crazy. It's like 100s "normal" posts and then all of sudden it's like here some whacky shit what do you think about this eh?
It's probably possible to build a quality 5-over-1, but I haven't seen it. Poor-quality insulation, cheap sheathing and poor sound insulation inevitably leads to fast depreciation.
NMDA is a receptor, not a molecule.

Memantine slows the amount of calcium that enters the NMDA receptor in a way similar to magneisum. Zicn also inhibits NMDA but by a different mechanism

https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S00283908070022...

It is the calcium in the cell that triggers nerve excitement and oxidative stress that triggers the anxiety. I am over simplfying all of this.

I have the opposite problem. I have slow NMDA receptor function but my Anxiety is caused by issues inside the neuron (NOS1). Magnesium gives me anxiety.It may be that my porr NMDA receptor function helps me a bit.

Really the root cause is low Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate (cAMP) signaling in the neuron stemming from low Nitric Oxide or slow NMDA receptor function.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/2bc96085-ac06-4a3b...

Klonopin and ethanol increase the flow of GABA into the cell and this
Yeah, why is 1GPa being referred to as "near-room pressure"?
I use QuiteRSS reader on Windows.
> You can build highly sound-proof timber-framed walls, but most people don't because it's more expensive. Like everything in modern construction, the cheapest permissible option usually wins.

Especially when reduced cost is the reason mid-rise wood construction became popular in the first place.
Do people still use Zip disks? I've got a dozen of those.
Hackers and spammers too. Famously bad security (which somehow got PHP got blamed for, rather than specific software) principles.
I'm sure it varies a bit, but generally not good in my experience. Except between the ground floor (usually retail, lobby, parking, etc...) and above everything is wood, no concrete slabs. They typically use the cheapest, least sound isolating materials so neighbor noise, both through walls and floors, is very noticeable. It's a bit jarring because they are modern and not usually low cost, but isolation is much more like the smaller building since they share more construction techniques with a cheap two-story row apartment.
Except isn't density the reason why they can't build HSR between LA and San Francisco but only between Fresno and Bakersfield?

Attitudes have a lot to do with why transit "doesn't work" in California. People who've never been to LA think it is "sprawling" but it "sprawling" because it is large, compared to other American cities it is highly dense, it is as dense or denser than the outer boros in NY.

One bad attitude is that "nobody takes the bus" but if you ever took the bus in LA you'd find it is crazy crowded.

It is not bad to take the bus from Beverley Hills to Hollywood or take the subway to downtown and then express bus to the airport (in the HOV lane at high speed with a view that shows you what inspired The Jetsons.) There is no bus that stops on Rodeo Drive, since there is a social stigma about the bus, but the bus does stop on the next block over so the people who work there can get to work. It's that sense of stigma that's the problem.

Similarly for some perverse reason BART terminates in Milbrae despite there being a perfectly good track that is barely used that heads through Palo Alto and further south from San Francisco. Places in Germany that are similarly populated as Palo Alto have excellent train service (ever heard of the S-Bahn or Metro North?)

Granted I imagine a Utopia where the density of the neighborhood around that rail line was doubled by demolishing a single family house or two per block and putting in an 8-12 story high tower (think some neighborhoods in L.A. or some very nice neighborhoods like Moema in São Paulo) and an occasional duplex or triplex. Attitudes get in the way.
I got so many links to github repos which didn't exist lol
The article isn't super clear, but I think what it's saying is that the data recovery method they were testing (when looking at recovering a single bit) was as good as 92%, and as bad as 32%, depending on how the data was overwritten and other factors like the specific drive. Thus you likely can't just flip the result to get better odds because in a real scenario you wouldn't know which category you fall into (whether it's really good, or really bad), and overall if you don't know that information then the odds are close to 50%.

Edit: And of course even a high of 92% is abysmal for a single bit, since the combined odds of multiple bits quickly goes to zero for any sizable amount of data.
I love how not using some sort of JS framework/library is confusing people! I for one appreciate the fact that you are not for multiple reasons.
> Having jobs is a major part of attracting new residents unless you are a (sub)tropical paradise.

The theory is that for a whole range of lucrative jobs, “everywhere with Internet” can offer residents those jobs through remote work. So a neighborhood doesn’t need to compete to attract a big office building.

Personally I think that remains to be seen… we’re clearly still in the hangover from the pandemic. Society might look very different 10 years from now, and 10 years is a reasonable horizon for major civic planning. Most of the things that attracted Amazon to Crystal City were put in years or decades prior to their little competition.

> A business that doesn’t employ anyone or consume any inputs from other state businesses is not going to be a particularly interesting business to incentivize.

Exactly, that’s the whole point of the piece. If all the most lucrative jobs for your residents are remote, then maybe your civic planning will need to revolve around attracting people rather than incentivizing businesses.

Again, remains to be seen IMO. One big downside, from the perspective of local governments, is that taxes on individuals will have to go up. Quite a lot of local tax revenue passes through businesses, hidden in prices. You can’t hide on a W2 or property tax bill though.