skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This mostly isn't a Republican versus Democrat issue. Most housing development decisions are made at the county and city level, and those races are usually either non-partisan, or effectively single party. You can just show up at a campaign event and ask the candidate for their positions on housing issues.
US Postal Service releases national dog bite rankings
This is fascinating. Especially that they're essentially using a little diy lisp to get around content security policy.
Don't forget that lower FPS also means less battery usage.
Actually, it’s even simpler than that. Mathematically, if you are in a network with 100 people, the platform can show you a higher proportion of posts before you hit that Dunbar number or limit of how many posts are going to read. If the same network has 1 million people, and you have thousands of connections there, then obviously, each person’s posts are seen less and there is more filtering happening. The real question is, how much advertising, memes, cat videos in general garbage the network pushes into your feed.
I don't think that these comments can be taken seriously either as an endorsement or a critique of GPT-4.
> a fresh linux system with fresh wallet software connected to the internet only when you make the transaction

wow, what a practical way to be able to store and use money!
Right, Malvino introduced the SAP concept/architecture, by his i meant Ben Eater's implementation.
> 50% verus 10,000% makes all the difference.

so like airline tickets then?
ARM SBC entry costs have jumped upwards of $100 and low powered Intel machines (used thin clients, nucs, workstations) have become more accessible than ever. When the 4 was brand new, 4 cores/4gb was pretty killer for the entry price.

The Pi had an incredible impact but it's pretty obvious it doesn't fit very well into a lot of usecases any more given other options. I hope that over the next few years the Pi foundation can focus on its original goal for the Pi: a cheap and accessible device that could be used in schools to teach programming
I didn't hate or fail math in college but it wasn't my favorite subject in engineering school. Math is now a hobby. In college math was either taught by the math dept. and stressed all the tedious proofs or it was taught in the engineering dept. so we just memorized "recipes" to setup and crank out solutions using math without much foundation or understanding of the math. I know it is a tough line to draw between the theory and the practice/use of math but to me this was the worst possible case and I hated both methods.

A few years out of school I ran across a math problem (not work related) that was interesting enough to dig in to and started hanging out on math stackexchange and later even bought mathematica to help me understand AND solve problems FOR FUN and I was hooked.
> It's reasonable to expect the 5 to arrive in 2024 at the earliest

My expectation is 2025 at the earliest, tbh. Mostly based on the CEO's repeated statements, and the complete lack of rumors about any developments. If a new lineup of PIs were going to launch next year, they'd have to be pretty late in development already.
Don't think Illumina would be fighting so hard to hold onto their purchase if it was BS e.g. https://qz.com/ftc-illumina-grail-acquisition-antitrust-carl...
What Hong Kong’s Victoria Park looked like 5 years ago today versus
Here's a weird idea. Bundle materials into tuition expenses.

It incentivizes the right people with the power and market participation to optimize for the right thing. Presumably, teachers and departments would have to justify costs from a materials budget to an admin forcing real downward pressure on the textbook market.

The current state of textbooks acts like a surprise fee(dark pattern) where you purchase a product(education via tuition) and choices are made for you(textbook selection) that you have to pay for in order to pass the class(see the realization of tuition). That's fundamentally broken market mechanics.

The folks in charge of making the market decision(which textbook to use) should be the same ones paying for it. We have a term for this pattern - moral hazard, and we shouldn't be surprised when students continue the same pattern of behavior when the system continues unchanged.
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https://kids.kiddle.co/Gilbert_U-238_Atomic_Energy_Laborator...
We had paperback editions which were a fraction of the cost of the US editions.

Some years ago, to prevent US students from using these versions, most publishers changed the page numbering, some content and the problem sets.
A decade on, Edward Snowden remains in Russia, though U.S. laws have changed
*For Posts about climate and biodiversity. Which a very small amount of users on the platform who cares about that.

Now the numbers for overall engagement compared with the rest of the other social networks?

This time no dismissals like 'You can't compare Mastodon to <INSERT VERY FAMOUS SOCIAL NETWORK>'
Thanks!

I think you meant ClearVideo128. ("ClearVision 128" doesn't seem to to exist.)

https://www.etsy.com/listing/770927968/clearvideo128-for-com...

Once again, HN delivers! :)
How is that the brands fault? For better or worse they even prioritized commercial products despite it not being their core audience.
Underneath it all, it is all echo chamber. Your awareness and insights you have gained are your greatest asset in developing yourself as a more full being.

Remember however, it is all echo chamber. That is what people freak out about on psychedelics, or when a doomed hypocrisy runs it’s full course (mid life crises, challenging existential epiphanies, etc.)

You’re just missing that everyone else struggles with their own sooner or later (normalcy is a fraud.) Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance anyone?

This is the nature of the mind, and the interface with the world it composes.

One might consider the mind and consciousness to be exactly that, an introspective echo chamber, and these entities of thought you’ve found influential are kinds of memes.

Memetic thoughts are viral information which infect and take on their own forms, eventually influencing the host and propagating themselves!

In ancient times people who come to such realizations became ascetics (sic., Siddhartha, or even Jesus, or the quarter billion who followed their trend) or alcoholics, or maybe philosophers (Rumi?)

Here are some witty self inoculations I came up with in my own time:

- undeceive the self. In a Universe governed by entropy, ignorance and confusion is the natural state of mind.

- Happiness is not the ultimate pursuit for the wayward person, fulfillment is. Sometimes one must sacrifice happiness to gain fulfillment.

- know that the present state of humanity is not its highest form. Before we were all driven useless or insane by modernity (something to do with delegating this personal responsibility that may only be resolved on one’s own), there are so many stories and accounts of greatness among us scattered throughout history. They must be found out! Follow the coattails of some notable historian or three. Learn more about how humans were before everything was spoken for. Know more about what you are than what you’ve come to assume!

Good luck!
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fkeith-mcnulty.medium.c...
I mean in the context of this post, paying for textbook is an afterthought(i.e. pivacy)
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The raspberry pi becomes even more outdated....
I studied law for a few years in Denmark and I remember the insane amount of money required to purchase all the books on the curriculum

Most of them were written by the professors who taught the course and every year or two, they'd reshuffle the contents of the book to make it harder for students to follow the course by purchasing used copies from the previous year

Most of the time only a small part of the books were actually part of the curriculum. It wasn't unusual to spend $100-$200 for a 700 page book only to later realise only 50 pages from it would actually be part of the curriculum. It seemed to me the page count had only been boosted to inflate the sticker price

I can understand why students turn to pirated copies when they realise they're just viewed as cash cows by the teaching staff
Augmented Reality Needs an iPhone Moment
The issue is not "is the cost more?" it's "is it 10x more?" This is hundreds of millions of dollars in this case. There is no evidence that anything at all has been changed in terms of hardware, satellites etc. Maybe you to have to hire extra cybersecurity personnel but not $100m worth (and you could tell if they had).
I don't think an experiment with a single post on a single topic with accounts on vastly different scales can tell you either of those things.

There are a few holes glaring holes in this methodology but just one is that she has 8.7k followers in Mastodon since joining in late 2022, while she has 241k followers on twitter since 2009. It's not surprising that the users that followed her in the last 5 months are more engaged than the ones that followed her in the previous 14 years. Are the people that just aren't interested in her content or that just stopped using twitter after a 14 year span necessarily grifters/leeches/spammers?

I don't know about 1 but simply due to scale 2 is probably true, however this experiment isn't saying much.
Pivot to what? Any sort of product based on SBCs had supply chain issues. The supply chain risk with comparable board was and still is higher. Maybe if you target a common denominator you can amortize that, but that also has a bigger upfront cost.
Even this I would consider to be bad practice. Old versions of secrets are never relevant. Easy way to break your system:

1. Write code v1
2. Add secret
3. Write code v2
4. Rotate secret
5. Oops, some kind of problem, let's go back to known-good and redeploy (2). Broken because it tries the older secret, not the rotated secret.

Just don't store secrets in version control.
Container Freight Rates Back to Pre-Pandemic Lows
That's not a trial, that's a joke.

You have to give it to literally everyone (or a large chunk of the population, let's say 80%) and wait a couple months to really see the effects on inflation and other metrics.

Just a handful of people is wishful thinking with little actual information received.

The best parallel for me was the stimulus checks and packages many governments gave during the pandemic, and we know how that ended on a macro-economic level.
I saw "change your friends" and noped out. Toxic mindset. That is a key to isolation and an unhealthy, sad life. Makes him sound like a LinkedIn nutter.
Indeed, the Australian system is pretty good, and would be nice to have even without compulsory voting. But I am extremely skeptical we will ever get voter IDs in the US, least verifying voter registrations. One party is extremely opposed to any ballot security measures. Makes one wonder why is it so...
The recent strategy I’ve heard of is to release new version of books with special online codes needed to access other content. That way, the students can’t even purchase used books.
As far as I understand, most thin clients nowadays are just PCs, usually AMD embedded SoCs with very good support for Linux.
The answer to all of this is "where's the fun in that"? I can afford to pay Amazon <$10 a month to host progscrape.com given the absolutely minimal amount of traffic I get, but there's something fun about using an underpowered, popular platform to build something that a handful of people use, and keep it up over time.

The original home computing explosion didn't come about because of the power of those early platforms -- it was because the thrill of accomplishing something under the limitations of a popular platform is the reward early pioneers needed to keep going.

So yeah, the Pi is not ideal for so many use cases, but successfully arm-wrestling this well-known-but-limited platform into serving web traffic or doing something equally useful is why people keep using it.
Uranium ore is about as dangerous as a fierce banana habit.
Great video. Most neat parts for me:

- Removing the ballast from a section at a time to do the cleaning means that the rails and sleepers are floating in the air (~1:30 to 2:35)

- They're doing all this work, including transferring waste to another train, underneath catenary wires. low clearance!! (3:40 to 5:20)

Also important to note, they aren't so much washing the stones (though that may be part of the process), they're sieving (grading) the stones to remove everything that's under a specific size (looks like they're removing everything that passes a ~25mm/1" sieve, but scale in a video can be deceiving). Rail ballast is very uniformly graded, i.e. every piece of aggregate is about the same size. Vibrations over time will cause edges of the stones to chip and wear down, with these chips contaminating the ballast. It also leads to rounding of the aggregate, so there's less interlock between the particles.
> When Facebook was a friends feed pre-2014 something and not a rage feed none of this was a problem.

2014 is significant, as it is 1 year after the IRA went online in early 2013 and Cambridge Analytica was also in operation. The new techniques they unleashed haven't gone away and there are copycats all over the place.

I see no solution short of a massive education campaign for every person in society as to what the human brain flaws are in regard to favoring mythological media patterns. A history of humanity favoring nonsense and falsehoods, a map to the weak spots in the human brain. Machine thinking has been doing sorting the output of social media for a long time now on media platforms, and 'trending' has proven for a decade to be a race to the bottom of exploiting flaws in both the hardware of the human mind and our lacking education on faults in chasing false signals.
> You can ask my question about any city though: for every 1000 broken car windows, how many convictions (or even arrests) are there? I know that number is extremely low in Seattle as well.

There's two reasons this type of crime occurs: gang activity and homelessness. People turning to gangs represents a crisis in opportunity. Things like hate groups, gangs, etc do not generally occur in places where peoples needs are met and when opportunity to change your circumstances if desired are bountiful.

> That’s been the cornerstone of policy in cities like Seattle for years and that’s why those cities have the biggest problem.

The problem is actually both. Progressive policies fail because progressives are allergic to enforcement, conservative policies fail because conservatives are allergic to addressing underlying causes. It's a tale as old as time.

If you want to improve things you need to address underlying causes like the housing and opportunity crisis. Enforcement can be used in a way that changes their circumstances rather than putting them in a box. You need both.
I need to give it two more years to see how stable the supply really is, before planing to extend on it.

Right now it's basically supporting the old systems to keep those at least running.
During a boy scouts summer camp, we were on a separated camping area near a railroad track. We created a fireplace and used some stones from the track to build the fire on.

A pretty big mistake as it turned out. Because the stones were in fact vulcanic, they exploded when heated - so we were bombarded with stone fragments.
The pricing of drugs is always weird to me. Is there a good book / article / primer on why a drug can cost the price of a good house per person ? Is it just about recouping R&D, does manufacturing requires very rare raw materials, is the bill going up because of regulation, etc... ?

How big a check would a government have to do to just "buy" the rights to a drug ? (Both in the "legal" and in the "an offer the CEO can't refuse" version ?)
Child Labor Is on the Rise
It's purely aesthetic. The sharp edged stone contrasts nicely with the polished rail and the dark woody tie.
Ask HN: Why are Europeans less concerned about their national debt?
I have been reading about US national debt recently and noticed other developed countries have similar or higher national debt per capita but people in those countries seem far less concerned about.

Why are people in other developed countries less concerned about their national debt?
I agree that third parties have been paying for terminals and services (I pointed out the 1300 terminals which were being paid for by the UK), but there seems to be a reasonable amount of info out there confirming that the majority is donated by SpaceX. A lot of it is just buried in misleading reporting from the usual manipulative sources.

For example, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/08/us-quietl... highlights that the US has paid millions for Starlink terminals 'contrary to SpaceX's claims', while burying that SpaceX had donated 3670 terminals with free service for 3 months, compared to 1500 terminals purchased by USAID.

Then we have the first half of CNN's manipulative reporting (https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/politics/elon-musk-spacex-sta...), where, after setting the tone to bias readers against SpaceX by citing outages and 'having to request Starlink services to be turned on in liberated areas' (conveniently skipping over the explanation that that's necessary to avoid Russia using the terminals), they sneak in a few lines about how 70% of the service costs were being borne by SpaceX.

Both also reference an "85% of terminals partially paid for by entities like the US and Poland", but that doesn't fit with the numbers, since the 3670 donated is greater than 15% of the 20k total terminals which had been sent by then, implying that 'partially paid' includes things like transportation costs, masking the true numbers regarding the costs of the terminals themselves (which obviously wouldn't be necessary if the number wasn't unfavorable to the narrative they were attempting to push).
> We are profoundly shaped by outside forces that manipulate, distract, arouse, and impede us.

Every time I read an article like this, I think it would be better to spend time learning to meditate so your decisions can be more rational and thoughtful in general. The best case from this article is that while other people are tricking and manipulating you, you can also trick and manipulate yourself. Not to say that people who meditate don't use these same strategies, but they are less of a necessity and used in a less underhanded way.
What the Ukrainian Armed Forces Need to Do to Win
80s lawn darts seemed pretty bad looking back with sharp metal tips.
The reason hobbyists had shortages was because they allocated supply to businesses to help them stay afloat. Possibly your old boss was not right.
Out of curiosity—how does DNSSEC fail to address this specific vulnerability? Wouldn't it make it impossible to get an HTTPS/DNS record response for this zone, taking it from a "fail dangerous" MITM attack that could violate confidentiality to a simple "fail safe" DOS attack that only harms availability?
Nesterov Accelerated Gradient and Momentum
I'm not saying anyone was wrong to limit mastodon.social, but for comparison: since Twitter was bought, I have been periodically checking the main feed Twitter shows an non-logged-in visitor, maybe a couple times a week. The "large amount of cryptocurrency spam" my instance saw from mastodon.social was maybe ~15% of what that couple-times-a-week visit showed on Twitter (to say nothing about my old account's poor DMs). Sure, anecdotal as heck, but I'd unscientifically class Mastodon's current spam problem as approximately equivalent to the level of spam one gets as an Instagram user being tagged into posts for sunglasses or diet pills etc.
I quit a mandatory econ course, in my engineering track, because the teacher insisted that we buy their 200$ textbook. I switched class to his competitor.
I wouldn't hold my breath for small AMD based boards.
For example PC Engines (they make the APU and ALIX boards) has stated that AMD is increasingly difficult to work with as a small manufacturer. And all their old SoC's have been EOLed.
I wasn’t involved in this study but the cancer center I just left was one of the sites for the upfront Lu177 vs chemotherapy trial. Speaking casually with the physician involved recently he said the results weren’t promising thus far.

I don’t think this is published yet and I’m not familiar with prostate ca treatment literature so take this with a grain of salt.
It’s an expression. When someone wishes you have an uneventful time, it’s in the hope that nothing bad happens.

Please stop assuming others have ill intentions towards you. Accept positive wishes for what they are. Or don’t. I have no idea what I could say that you wouldn’t find a way to turn around.
Since SpaceX has no (official / publicly disclosed) ground stations in Ukraine, are they using only laser links between satellites for backhaul to stations in western EU, or does Starlink support terminal-to-terminal connections, outside of publically routable Internet?
That’s fine if society can afford it. If we do it, we must already be at a post scarcity economy, otherwise it will be disastrous. It can’t just be in the path to a post scarcity economy. People have really high standards on what dignified living means.
Incidentally this is also the mundane reason behind the Women in Tech controversy. Women in tech reported more asshole behavior by men because the probability of encountering a man was higher, than in other industries, and not because tech has more assholes (if anything I have found tech people to be nicer and meeker in general than others, like comics or lawyers). If the ratio was more 50/50 then this phenomenon would go away. (Also, tech workers get a lot of money and prestige which is why it makes the news more than, say women in plumbing or carpentry.)
When I was in school, if we could find a way to take a course without buying a full price book we would. Piracy was a no brainer — it opened doors to all kinds of learning. I’m hugely thankful to the cracking teams that made some textbooks free and helped me learn Photoshop for $0 as a student.
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How does it get updates?
According to this Stack Exchange Physics answer, your assessment seems to be correct: https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/608612
Sounds like we have to peacefully protest until Citizens United gets overturned so the publishers can't just out lobby/spend us. Then continue peacefully protesting to change the tuition/book cost structure.

Totally realistic set of goals, but until then I'll be pirating.
> Cave painting is less limiting than an old computer, not more.

What are you trying to say here? That old computer art is the most restrictive artform imaginable?
This is the best worst thing in software that I have ever seen. I love it so much.
This is still my favorite: Elevated https://youtu.be/jB0vBmiTr6o
In a world where the people trust their government to serve them and look after their interests such a system could work.

Until then, no.
Search engines probably just look at page length and domain authority. Anybody can create a 10,000 word blog post on [topic] but something that gets a lot of discussion on a message board (Hacker News, Reddit, Metafilter) is a reasonably good proxy for relevant content (if not "high quality").
This is similar to my own subjective experience across these social networks. Mastodon posts are actually read and engaged with, while on other social networks it seems they aren't.

If you look at your own feed on these networks you will notice how you are yourself more engaged with the feed on Mastodon because it's largely about people you have chosen to follow.
That's how it works for many courses now.

A strategy I thought was fair at my school was - the main text is free, but you can pay for extra practice problems written by the professor for like $50.

That seemed fair to me since I know these adjunct professors aren't making anything for the amount of time they spend.