skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I struggle to rationalize how companies wouldn’t rather utilize flex space as needed for group huddles than commit to long term leases."

Because larger companies have a stable enough need for space, even in the remote realm, to make it worthwhile to have long-term leases. Even if offices become group-meetup spaces rather than more traditional desk space, it still makes sense to run your own if your scale justifies it. A company like Microsoft for example has enough persistent need that they should just reformat their existing holdings to be group-meetup-y. They have no need for an intermediary like WeWork.

Which leaves the market only to companies too small to justify running their own offices - which coincidentally is the same market WeWork targeted pre-pandemic, so remote hasn't actually changed much, much less significantly expanded their TAM.

Also worth a heavy and hearty thumbs-up on the other reply: be aware if the service you love is because the company is very well-run or has some technological advantage... or if it's because you're being sold $100 worth of goods/services for $50.

Free shit is always a good product.
Aren't there countries that still do public executions and corporal punishment?

Incarcerations isn't the only form of punishment.
Video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrjAt-wvEXI

I wonder how long it is until someone finally figures out how to combine MCTS + RL (like AlphaZero) with LLMs and it's game over for humans. I truly think that has a pretty real chance of creating AGI.
> FWIW, the modern Catholic church's official stance is that Genesis should not be taken literally

The non-literal interpretation of the Bible is not modern: (Saint) Augustine of Hippo (354-430 AD) wrote about not taking it literally.

* https://spectrummagazine.org/article/news/2010/01/30/augusti...

* https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/243740
That's most likely all cpanel php WordPress stuff that relies on .htaccess files
That's not a person checking it.
You make it sound like the other $85 that the bank got sits in a vault somewhere, extracted from the economy and hoarded in a stockpile. Actually the banks have their own costs (e.g. salaries) and much of the money is further invested. In fact, the natural state is to keep so little cash on hand that Dodd-Frank forced the banks to hoard more than they otherwise were inclined to.

Yes I've oversimplifying a lot of differences (payments infrastructure vs. investment banking, for one) but the point remains. I do think that day-to-day realtime debit-style payments should be a publicly-operated, minimal-or-zero-fee commodity rather than a massive source of rent, but having access to electronic payments for consumer retail is literally responsible for trillions of dollars more economic activity than you would see if we went back to cash-only.
Idk what definition of "semantic web" you have in mind, but AFAIK, it usually relies labeling words and names, and adding some vague relations. That's not enough. You can't build enough, inspectable, correct knowledge that way. Sure, you can list genealogical trees and and the components of a car, but it won't help you one bit when someone asks "give the five most important things about XML in gangsta rap style" (0), because none of the needed knowledge can be represented in any form of semantic web I've seen, and there isn't an engine capable of running the required inferences.

[0] https://libreddit.de/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/13lgv3u/chat...

You may think that's a joke, but from the performance perspective, it's utterly impressive. Summarizing a paper is even more impressive, and is equally far outside the scope of the semantic web.
Kind of. Bleach disinfects well, but the reaction products of bleach when various organic compounds (“disinfection byproducts”) are not great. Modern water treatment in the US takes measures to reduce DBPs.

edit: The article also mentions backpackers. Liquid bleach is not amazing for backpacking. Dichlor and trichlor are not amazing disinfectants. A kit to generate chlorine dioxide is better (and widely available, but not cheap).

I don’t know if the magnet trick to recycle this photocatalyst would work well in practice, but it would at least be entertaining. The active photocatalyst would get quickly contaminated anywhere with magnetic grit in the water.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/bbd05de19aa2af1455c04946...

75 antivirus tools ...58 saw no problem with the file, 16 failed to process the file
and only ONE flagged it as a ZipBomb
I hate being the poo pooer who says that subtitles are available via the API and wish the tool went that route.

I'm all for stuff being archivable with tools like youtube-dl, but I much prefer to see tools like this use the API despite its quotas because it goes beyond archiving a copy for reference. Tools that (ab)use scraping only justify anti-scraping efforts that journalists and the like use and escalate that arms race. I think one could still scrape a channel or two per day within API usage limits [1]--50 units per list, 200 units per download; quota 10,000 units per day.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/captions/downl...
It is incredibly difficult and miserable to starve to death. Experiencing death slowly - isn't living enough for that?
> everything north of the user's web browser

I'm not sure what this means.

> it's drop-in from the perspective of the user

From my perspective as a user, if after doing the drop in replacement, I can't use my bank's web site or browse Hacker News the same way, or watch TV on Hulu, it's not a drop in replacement because what I did before no longer works. It's not clear to me if this is the case with Freenet.
How about getting estimated wait times for pickup for riders even remotely correct? That helps drivers too:

Recently I had a severely delayed flight that didn't land until after 1am, and was by far the last flight into my podunk airport. My apps showed a 3 minute pickup time from Uber and a 20 minute time from Lyft, so I booked a ride with Uber. After 3-5 minutes of "this is taking longer than expected", it finally found a driver, and the pickup time wound up being 20 minutes (just like Lyft). So I cancelled and got into a waiting cab and was home by the time the Uber would have picked me up.

If Uber would have just been honest about the pickup time, I would have never booked a ride and would not have wasted some poor driver's time when he got the ride request. This also delayed me by 3-5 minutes (the matching time on the app), which irritated me. I'm gradually being conditioned to not trust Uber, and to just use Lyft and Taxis..
Well it really depends what your goals are, right? What kind of books are you reading, to what end? I personally struggle to think of any book I have engaged with which I got value out of, that could be meaningfully summarized in a couple of hours. The author was an expert on the subject and they only managed to summarize it down to a few hundred pages - if there was only a couple of pages worth of ideas in there presumably they would have just written a blogpost.
A Log Analytics Solution 10 Times More Cost-Effective Than Elasticsearch
"Ten times more cost-effective means": 2 times faster query performance with 1/5 of the storage space that Elasticsearch uses
TikTok only publicized the fact that these cars lacked immobilizers(required on all car in many countries for some time now)
Several times I accidentally touched it, putting it in rear mode. Roll down the window, realize it was the wrong window, then switch and roll down the front. Often that's at a fast food or pharmacy window or whatever, and being rushed, don't take the time to switch back and then roll up the back. Next thing I know I'm going down the freeway with my rear window open. What happens when this causes injury to a pet or child?
A small group that's used a different selection mechanism than the primary population is really a poor metric to judge the majority. It seems likely that we'd find that migrant populations that have to a lot of work to get where they are have a higher motivation level than the general population.

One should look at Asian obesity level growth, then compare the populations you're talking about in particular

https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/320411/a...

Some Asian countries still have rather low obesity growth compared to the world average.
Hah. Post it on HN, and let Cunningham's law help you :)

Snark aside, I feel that on HN, there are enough actual proper experts who will point out avenues of research and gotchas that a single person chasing down rabbitholes on their own is unlikely to discover.
> I make no claim that a country has to have a written constitution.

The claim that the US has the oldest constitution, even with the caveats necessary to exclude older written constitutions, is simply false; countries without single integrated written constitutions still have constitutions, and many of those are much older in continuous operation than the US constitution (or the US).
It would seem Toaq was started by a former Lojbanist, interesting.
Letting? Nobody is forbidding workers from taking less shifts. It's workers themselves who decide that higher compensation is more important for them than leisure.
> For 99% of use cases webserver speed is rarely an issue.

OK. But you might as well use a fast setup if there's no cost in complexity to do so.
Well, yes, I'm telling you exactly that. That's how planning poker works, you have to speak up. You don't even have a choice because the process requires you to.

It sounds like you have a very dysfunctional team if you're characterizing it as a team leader and his "minions".

I'm sorry that's your situation.

Some larger corporations have agile facilitators precisely to nip this kind of problem in the bud.
Strong agree from me, though what I do is less involved than the article. I normally just take a few per-chapter summary notes in an org-mode outline, in a filename that starts with the year I read the book.

Recently I started creating my own topic index with pointers to which books I found certain insights in. I know I could generate such a thing automatically with tagging, but I enjoy manually curating my index.
Is that more or less compassionate than leaving them to die on the streets?
I’m at 47 books read this year so far and mostly disagree with the author of the article. When you find a book that’s worth summarizing, do it. But I get exposed to many more ideas (and find the ones worth thinking about more) simply by reading more.

Also, I just like reading. My goal isn’t to have some kind of personal knowledge base to prove how much I’ve comprehended to myself.
Are cleanliness standards relevant in this context? As far as I can tell, the tardigrades — and everything else mentioned in the article — were put there on purpose.
We work scammed about 40b+ in price that never existed as value.

They frittered the rest
> I mean if winning is the thing, then once the sheep is sheered, who cares about the sheep anymore? It's all about the wool and what you do with it.

One of the scoring criteria of the Maryland competition featured here is "Appearance of sheep after shearing". I'd assume judges would not look kindly a sheep covered in blood
While a little disappointing at first, after thinking about it I suppose they have to use the dyed stuff instead. Otherwise they won't be able to get the impressive patterns and artwork that are part of the point of the competition.
I've already pointed out that suffering is inherent to life for most of us, so it encompasses far more than "a few weeks or month[s]". You seem to be focusing on the aversion of physical or spiritual pain, but that's merely one sort of suffering which is not different in nature from the far subtler and less obvious suffering we all experience throughout our lives.
The German press agency (DPA) has (had?) a saying/motto:

> Be first, but first be right.
ChatGPT will do this.

But also, try quizzing yourself about what you’ve read the day before. I bet the retention is slim.
The only thing saving YouTube from going down under is that Google supplies it with bandwidth. Egress-dominated bandwidth is hella expensive, and video (especially if you're going 4K) demands tons of it.

Netflix eases that problem by providing ISPs and other interested parties with racks full of what are essentially ultra-performant NAS systems [1] for free, but that's only realistic because the utter majority of Netflix's load comes from their top movies/series and it saves them all the egress fees and the ISPs a hefty chunk of their connectivity needs - ~15% of all Internet traffic is Netflix [2] and even serving a quarter of that by ISP-local caches takes off a lot of load.

Youtube, Vimeo and their smaller competitors, in contrast, have way too much different content to make such an expense worth it.

[1] https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/

[2] https://www.statista.com/chart/15692/distribution-of-global-...
If you’re in a place without clean water, chances are pretty good you’re also in a place without electricity to run UVC lamps.
It's common knowledge that you need bribes to get anything done in Greece. Building codes, health and safety violations, etc are more like bartering chips than serious considerations.
> Targeting the four horsemen(t2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, heart disease, cancer) is a better use of time and money, but they are relatively much harder to identify early.

All of these diseases have significant input from bad diet and metabolic disorder. Alzheimer's is considered a variation of t2d in some circles.
Although cbdc is a goal, the main purpose of UPI is simplified digital payments. UPI grew because of its technical superiority to existing methods, even regular people could see that difference. It's not because of incentives that it is so popular and most people never recieved them
I love gentoo but it is impossible to leave it alone for a long time and just start upgarading it.
As a note, this is slightly incorrect:

> The Indian model is inspiring others. Brazil’s Pix, which facilitates bank-to-bank payments with a small fee, was launched in November 2020. It now accounts for some 30% of Brazil’s electronic payments (credit and debit cards take up around 20% each)

In fact, Pix is free, which is the main reason why the Brazilian population adopted it so widely and so quickly. Before Pix, you'd always have to pay a significant fee to make bank transfers, and they could end up taking a whole day to go through.
The Durham report restated everything we already knew for years as a result of his multiple failed convictions. How come Durham wasn't able to reach any convictions due to his "bombshell" report?
If getting exposed to a lot of ideas is the goal then spending your life on this site and reddit would be the way to go.
A good way to think about it is that the "semantic web" was all about finding some kind of universal data representation for the world's data, and that has failed in large part because data representation is inherently application-specific.

The only practicable version of the semantic web needs to embrace that reality. We need tools for converting, extracting, and interpreting data from one application-specific data representation to another.

Sometimes that's LLMs, sometimes it can be done heuristically, but either way, the notion of the universal data structure simply isn't realistic.
But nobody knows who will work on it and you'll stop the meeting during the blind estimation process because you have to estimate points and you don't know what anybody else is estimating.

All of the points you're raising are solved inherently by the way points estimation works with the points playing cards.

You're not stopping the meeting. But it will be your turn to explain why you think it's the number of points you chose, so you'll do that.
Automatic labor vs. Manual labor
Great to know, Zephyr is on my to-use list and I need move it up the list more. Heard good things about it. It might become the Linux OS for low resource MCUs as the trend goes, it's also a LF(Linux foundation) project and vendor neutral, very promising.

For me my plan is to use Zephyr with RP2040.
“High dimension cubes are qualitatively more like hedgehogs than building blocks.”

https://plus.maths.org/content/round-peg-square-hole-or-squa...
I think it is more than just loss of communities, although that is a big part of it.

It is also a hallowing out of the human experience and the inability to enjoy simple pleasures available to anyone alive.

Consumerism is so deeply entrenched in the minds of people that they usually blame their unhappiness on a lack of material goods and external factors.

Meanwhile, There are millions or billions of people who can find pleasure and satisfaction with with practically nothing. Enjoying a quiet cup of tea in hovels, reading books for pleasure, or taking in everyday beauty.

To me, this indicates that a large part of dissatisfaction on depression are about mindset, which should be obvious.
Oh hey I'm in that discord. I'm the one with that weird highly domain specific loglang and occasionally obtusely adversarial question (aka "trolling")
If you're in Germany I'd like to get in on that. :P
When I've done them, I always feel like I benefit from reflective practices like these.

Does anyone have tips for successfully building reflection into one's life? In the mean time I'll reflect on it.
Surely some of these costs / economic activities are just like the parable of the broken window? For example, the meal makers. Construction works buy their lunches from shops nearby - that's great for those shops. But how is this improving the economy? Those workers would have needed lunches anyway. If they weren't working, they could have made their lunches at home, and not had to eat out. It would have (probably) been cheaper for them than buying lunches from the local shops.

So maybe the workers spent more money buying their lunches, but that's just extra inefficiency, and not extra economic acitivity. Just like the broken window, the workers spend more in one area and so have less money to spend elsewhere.
Interesting, didn't short it? I see that you're an operator of a fintech info/news company? What sort of analysis did you do on WeWork?

P.S. Is the about link in your profile correct? https://finsight.com/about/our-products seems to 404.
That's not what the semantic web is about at all. It has nothing to do with text.
You'll have to be more specific about what part of my comment you're referring to as "it". Because obviously the investigation wasn't a campaign stunt.

And if you want to read about how the investigation was properly predicated, here's the IG report: https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2019/o20012.pdf

The existence and thoroughness of this report begs the question as to why the Durham investigation was ever needed in the first place.
Sure, ChatGPT can do this. Just like you could drive a car over a marathon route. That’s not the point though, the point of summarizing is to force yourself to understand. It’s the journey not the destination that’s important.
Ampere launches a new cloud native processor family with custom-designed cores
> Such a clever move from Meta. Drags down rival Twitter while retaining maximum eyeballs within their ecosystem.

So more centralization wins again?

> Unlocking ActivityPub content as a new option to slap ads over for folks who stay within the Meta ecosystem, of which there is no shortage of folks.

This 'ActivityPub' interoperability also happened with Gab, which became the largest Mastodon instance at one point and then almost all instances de-federated with it.

If Instagram interoperate with Mastodon, Instagram will essentially be the largest one using ActivityPub and like Gab, there is a good chance that these other Mastodon instances will instance-level and de-federate with Instagram.

Instagram's success on ActivityPub is also Mastodon's nightmare and it tends to more centralization.
Well you definitely can do that to my somewhat contrived example that is loosely based off of an example from the `do` expression proposal, but I'm not sure its better.

Part of the beauty of `run` is that you don't have to declare and name a function `calcX`. In longer and more complex examples, declaring a function inline like this is potentially confusing because you don't get to see where it is used, whereas with `run` you assign the return value immediately to a variable.
Oh, I know. Best thing people can do in that situation is to move on. Life’s too short to spend 1/3 your waking hours in an environment you hate.

I think the thing a lot of people in this thread are missing is that intrinsic motivation isn’t just about the person. It’s mostly about the workplace. It isn’t possible to create intrinsic motivation, but it is possible to destroy it. Micromanagement, useless interruptions, excessive meetings, unreasonable deadlines, all that devex stuff, and yes, unfair compensation… it’s all going to lead to an environment where people hate their job. If you’re in that kind of environment, get out. It’s bad for your soul.
Another one for the collection: vísteme despacio que tengo prisa.
Unless it’s an interpersonal transaction or a business which I frequent or close to where I stay I do not use UPI. The Transaction can remain in “In Processing” for upto 48 hours and then it can go either way. I mean someone had to be especially challenged to not consider this in a modern payment system.
>the European Space Agency (ESA) set up a satellite test bench

>Throughout the exercise, ESA had access to the satellite's systems to retain control and ensure a return to normal operation.

Was this a test bench or on orbit? The release seems to contradict itself. Did they do it on the test bench, and then for real?
Here’s a really good trick: Read a book then find the nearest victim to excitedly tell all about what you’ve learned. The back and forth conversation is even better than writing it down.

If you really found the book useful, go write a summary after that conversation. It will be a much stronger summary and also way easier to write.
in Spain there's Bizum
PaperWM – Scrolling Window Manager for Gnome
Bleach isn't great against certain parasites[1]. Also, bleach breaks down over time[2].

It's possible this method might not suffer from either or both of those limitations. If so, that could be pretty useful. At least for certain purposes like emergency preparedness.

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[1] "Disinfectants can kill most harmful or disease-causing viruses and bacteria, but most disinfectants are not as effective as boiling for killing more resistant germs, such as the parasites Cryptosporidium and Giardia." (https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/emergency/making-water-safe...)

[2] "When properly stored away from heat and direct sunlight, Clorox® Disinfecting Bleach will last up to a year. After a year, the natural breakdown of the sodium hypochlorite bleach active into salt and water rapidly accelerates, and the active ingredient concentration becomes too low for EPA registered uses like sanitizing or disinfecting." (https://www.clorox.com/learn/how-to-tell-when-a-bleach-bottl...)
I'm not thrilled to see a discussion of contracts.. How do the system designers intend to avoid a speculative tulip market for small amounts of processing? Can anyone bring up all the computing they would ever need by plugging it into the Internet?

The P2P aspect looks much better, but naturally there's the question of how this is differentiated from something like Tor with .Onion sites?
Consider the metric where the distance between <a1, a2, …> and <b1, b2, …> is

max(|a1-b1|, |a2-b2|, …)

In the this metric, no point of a unit n-cube is more than one unit from any other point.
With some help... - https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/01/14/watch-cnbcs-full-inter...
I feel like this works a lot better with a typical nonfiction novel, and not eg. a reference textbook.