skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They're thriving elsewhere.

I'm not so sure, based on my anecdata:

In my Midwest city, out of 8 traditional malls I can think of...

- 3 have totally closed and are being torn down

- 4 are drastically lower quality, lost their anchors, and have much lower traffic

- 1 is still doing about as well as it did 30 years ago.
I did make a scrollbar that appeared to stick to the bottom of the table. I used a div with the same width as the table, used a scroll event listener to update the tables actual scroll position and only had it appear when the user was currently over a table and that table overlapped the bottom of the viewport. It worked well in the sense that people would use it without thinking about it.
Maybe the solution is to weight upvotes by the number of upvotes cast that month in the "subreddit"

If there are 100K upvotes per month in some small city sub, and 100B in the videos sub, getting 1K upvotes in the city sub would would be the equivalent of 1B in the videos sub (in terms of your distribution)

This would encourage people to participate in smaller communities, which could be really nice for keeping the "small town" vibe of early reddit.
Typical sna Francisco story. Property owner says it’s the crime and deterioration of public city. The city says it’s actually not their fault. San Francisco defenders say it’s actually just economics and nothing is truly wrong with their city.
IMO TLDR: Expensive=return on assets from the perspective of the city. Low ROA=unhappy citizens.

Cities requires a minimum tax-revenue per square mile to pay for city services, including schools. Revenue comes in many forms (property/sales/income taxes), but are physically constrained by density (not just space).

The more spaced out a city is, the more expensive it is for cities to cover everyone with services (police, schools, etc need to travel farther).

"More profit" means happier citizens. Cities constantly in the red go into death spirals. Cities in the black have a better better schools, better police with less taxes, less debt.
Beer is incredibly difficult to keep shelf-stable. International beers, unless very specific efforts are taken, will taste off. I heard a story that Austrian beer enthusiasts just assumed American beers tasted "skunky" because that's how they tasted after importing them. Time, temperature, and light are enemies. Anheuser-Busch has a dozen breweries across the US.

I'm not a fan of hops, but the PNW grows 96% of hops in the US--so it makes sense local breweries up there are known for IPA. Historically, beer styles leaned into local water mineral content; Pilsners from Germany/Czech Republic and Stout/Porter from Britain/Ireland.

Regional wines (local wines shipped widely) make sense and local beers do, too.
The state of debate in the ethics of computer vision
How to Succeed in an Informatics Project Course
"Living on twenty acres sounds great until you realize you'd like TVs, internet, toilet paper, a car, and education for your kids. Turns out those things cost money because there's only so much of them - how are you gonna make an income living in the middle of nowhere to pay people to send it all your way?"

With a remote tech job, like I've been doing for over a decade while living on a rural four acre lot. I started with crappy satellite internet and now have decent satellite internet. And also toilet paper, etc.

I love it out here and can hardly imagine wanting to live in a city anymore.
What do you think is missing?

I love Cities Skylines, but I wish it was a bit less car-centric. It's fun to solve traffic problems, but having micromanage intersections gets old fast.
Elegance is matter of perspective. Epicycles are a very elegant way to explain planetary orbits from a geocentric view point, but they are very wrong.
You are also right. I was responding to this. (Italics mine)

> Like, if the government (or anybody, really) wants an invention to be open,

The government literally does want inventions to be open. It's in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 of the constitution. [0]

[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To promote the Progress of Science and
useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the
exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

[0] https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C8-1/...
How does one fix expensive education and a cartel limiting the number of qualified doctors with immigration?

Why would I, a qualified and respected doctor in my country want to move to the US (or Canada) if it involves going through 4 more years of bullshit just to get re-qualified for a system that adds even more red-tape, expenses, and middle-men between me and the patient?

I know, you're probably saying, "oh, but so many people have" - but hey, that was in the past. Unless my country is getting bombed to hell, I'm probably making a damn good living where I am, because, guess what? There's a shortage of doctors everywhere outside of Cuba!
Aether: Frequently Asked Questions
In addition to radar and lidar, they use cameras for something according to the article. That's probably the component that doesn't work as well as night. (If I had to guess what the cameras are for maybe traffic light detection, lane detection, and human review of video after an incident)
I find myself writing like this all the time. I omit the 'I', writing it like I say it.

Then I read back my own words and invariably insert the 'I' as I realise it doesn't make sense.
The main link missing here is the need to drive to the mall in America. You just can’t support as many people and as many shops because you need more parking square footage than the size of the mall to accommodate the cars.

Without the density the economics of most malls don’t make sense. Well that and we built too many anyway.
> But I think it is the siege mentality of the marginalised trans community that explains why you got blocked.

100%. Trans people will talk about all kinds of possibilities and realities with nuance, patience, and insight when they feel safe with the people they're talking to and confident that the discussion is in good faith. But the 'issue' is so hot right now that those conditions are virtually never met in public online spaces.

This creates some serious bias problems in terms of what people get to see. If you're not close to any trans people IRL, most or all you get to hear from trans people will be colored by that 'siege mentality'.

I think it'll unfortunately be several years before that dynamic can change. It may take a generation.
It's also very close to zksync
Why does it always need to be about "immigration can solve it"? How about solve it by paying American workers more.
post left anarchism is an interesting topic in recent years
>Remote work affects all of this but even then it's a dangerous proposition - if the winds change you're done for, and your network is still going to be shot.

I also moved out of the major metros - some things are worth the risk :)
>It's clear to me that you're either not a long-term user of the site, or one of those users who consumes only low-value content, which has never been the true value of reddit and in my opinion has continued to destroy the value of the website. Reddit's value is not vested in image macros or other low-effort memes; its value derives from its communities, and their power to enable in-depth discussion in almost every conceivable variety, in a way that no other social media platform has achieved.

Well, this discussion was talking about the front page of Reddit, which is largely dominated by image macros and other low-effort memes, and basically looks the same today as any other day just with more posts about the protest or just attack spez.

There are communities that are still open, eg. /r/AskReddit. Have they devolved into 4chan with these fabled powerusers deciding to Go Galt? As far as I can tell, not yet. But perhaps I'm not among the Chosen who are qualified to make this discernment.

>I think they'd have to -- you know -- actually pay them, if they wanted to exert some level of control.

I doubt it. I don't think mods being able to pin their own political screeds to posts or to ensure that only they can generate content or any other number of deleterious behaviors is an essential non-pecuniary benefit that keeps the equilibrium wage at zero (claims of "entitlement" could be lobbed just as lazily at the mods as they could at me and/or Reddit.) But hey, maybe I'm wrong - at the least, Reddit should explore in that direction and see what happens.
Would a single schoolhouse with a single teacher teaching mixed ages also not count as a real school?
They must not have read this memo.

The official app does not support landscape view, or at least that is a big reason why I use Infinity on my tablet.

I couldn't trigger a layout shift on purpose.
Living on 20 acres isn't even necessarily that "rural" - anyone who wants that can live in any number of exurbs surrounding large metro areas while commuting to work in the city (price permitting). I have family with a dozen acres and they still get their overnight Amazon deliveries and opera concerts while living on a well and septic tank. All funded by a position at a scientific institute on the other side of the metro area with a one way commute time under an hour (not great, but still better than some commutes they've suffered through in LA).

Rural is when you have to drive to get to your nearest neighbor. I think the vast majority of people who live in rural areas only do so out of generational inertia. The entire rural population can very easily be fit into the exurbs around metros if that's what they wanted
Amazing work. Can’t wait to share with all my healthcare friends
Is your application a networked one?
That doesn't really work when they have to pay for each account they use to upvote though.

Even if they boost their own post a bit for it to get the attention of others, they're still paying $2 per upvote for that. And if their post is no good, people might even just cancel those out with downvotes.
Is the UK really the best backup to the US in terms of "regulatory environment" (and by that they of course mean "limited regulation")?
Nah there’s a lot of breaking changes per minor upgrade.

Python 3.8 supports tkinter, but not python 3.9. All my projects broke on that upgrade.
Wasn't there also another OCaml-to-Javascript compiler called called js_of_ocaml?
Moderation is not the same as censorship
Neat idea.

Can it just open to the front page of articles in view mode instead of first signing up?

That would be a little more like Reddit.
I've been happy with Hashicorp Terraform Cloud and HCL except for the very recent price hikes which may force us to leave them so we are keeping our eyes out for alternatives.

The AI assistant seen here is a very good idea. I will actually share this with my team.

I imagine the terraform conversion doesn't work when you use in-house written providers (in golang), is this correct?
> Look at the price of the MacBook Air. Then tell me you can get anything that remotely approaches that level of performance from any other major vendor, at anything remotely close to the same price.

> You can't, because it doesn't exist.

Your tunnel vision is appalling. You're obviously not aware of what the market is offering.

From Apple, at $1000, you get an overly priced laptop with weak specs: 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM and an M1 CPU (which is weaker than a Core i5-1240P or Core i5-1335U), with no path to upgrade: https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-m1/ That's essentially a mid-range tablet in a laptop form which is poised to become an e-waste in a few years.

You can get a laptop with such specs for around half of that price from virtually any vendor.

However, it's not just the base price: want 2TB storage? I can just get a Samsung Pro 990 2TB for $160-$170 an install it, but Apple won't allow you to do it and will charge you $800 for their soldered 2TB SSD.
Want more RAM? You can get 64GB DDR5 for less than $150, whereas with Mac Book Air 16GB is the max you can get (which makes it is pretty useless for science or engineering applications, and 16GB RAM will probably become very limiting even for casual users in the near future) and it costs an extra $200.

I will also have the option to upgrade it to an 8TB (or 16TB by then, who knows) SSD and 96GB DDR5 when their prices come further down in the future, adding more to its life. I will also be able to easily replace the battery myself when the time comes. Whereas your option to upgrade will be to buy the brand new M6 or whatever Mac laptop, perhaps for another $2000 with hopefully half the RAM and SSD of what I will have.

Like most people who use laptop for work, 18 hours of battery life isn't addressing a real need that I have. People have mostly moved on to smart phones and tablets for watching video, casual browsing, etc in the absence of an electrical outlet. Nonetheless, for those who actually need such long battery life, it is possible to buy such laptops from other vendors for still half the price at those specs though (like Acer Swift 3 mentioned in another comment).

But nonetheless, you still feel you need to run to defend this company? It sounds like you've invested so much in Apple and just don't want to be wrong about it, even if it means living in a world of alternative facts in which any laptop that "remotely approaches that level of performance from any other major vendor" for $1000 simply "doesn't exist".
> half the modern developer ecosystem via VSCode

Granted, there is a reason it got to that place.

It's pretty good. Otherwise it wouldn't have the userbase it has.

How that was pulled off in Electron is insane to me.

They took HTML, JS (well, TS) and CSS and sprinkled in some WASM (I think?) and you get that?

The result of essentially a "web app" is impressive, gotta give 'em that. And they started on it 12 years ago.
I find it interesting that people are upset that this, for lack of a better term, philanthropy achieved by MrBeast, while yes, its for the likes, the YouTube popularity, its a cottage industry of "feel good" that he's producing, is somehow bad?

I wonder how sustainable this will be ultimately, but it seems like he's able to just give all this stuff away and help people, and yes, they have to agree to be being filmed participating in some manner, but seriously, he's helping folks who need it. Every day people.

He also makes other content, but this seems to be the "bread and butter" of what makes MrBeast famous. I'm not seeing an obvious downside to what he's doing, seems like a net win for many people
My kids love Mr Beast. I'm uncomfortable with it and can't put my finger on it. It feels like he makes life look like you stand a good chance of having someone walk in and give you $100,000. Maybe there is no harm in thinking that? But it feels like the same thing as buying a lottery ticket. I guess YouTube is free? But is the time spent on that channel worth it over doing other things? I admire the approach he takes with his craft but I don't really enjoy or respect the work.
Exactly. I remember the alpha screenshots. Although not many seem to somehow
https://www.ahd.com/free_profile/030068/Mount_Graham_Regiona...

Mount Graham Regional Medical Center in Safford, AZ, is a Level IV trauma center. It has 25 staffed beds. Safford has a population of just over 10,000, and is approximately two hours to Tuscon by car. A Level IV trauma center provides initial evaluation, stabilization, diagnosis, and, perhaps, surgery and critical care, but what it mostly provides for serious cases is transportation to a bigger hospital, especially in the case of Mount Graham, which is listed as a short term acute care facility.

This comes directly from combat medicine: Small facilities save lives, especially if they're geared up to send serious cases to bigger units. Level IV trauma centers are at the bottom of what the American College of Surgeons recognizes as a trauma center, but they're still a vital part of the infrastructure.

https://www.traumasurvivorsnetwork.org/traumapedias/462

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_center
Can Large Language Models Infer Causation from Correlation?
From the article:

> "Dowry usually emerges in highly stratified societies, like caste-structured India and colonial Latin America, whereas the reverse convention, bride price, is more likely to appear in communities with less socioeconomic differentiation, as in much of sub-Saharan Africa. Some critics object to the way “paying” for a bride seems to commodify women, but there is little evidence that bride price harms women’s well-being. Dowry, in contrast, encourages two forms of violence."

Occam's razor says that while bride price does, in theory, objectify women, it also places an objective metric ($$$) on her value – you must pay $$$ in order to receive this precious artifact. Whereas it seems that dowry places the opposite objective metric (-$$$) on her value, i.e., please, take this burden off our hands and we will pay you $$$.

EDIT: An afterthought, it seems what might also be at play is that doing work on something (or, paying a lot of hard-earned money for something) makes us value it more. This is borne out in the Ben Franklin effect, where doing someone a favor makes you like that someone more, not the other way around. [1]

1 - https://www.forbes.com/sites/sap/2011/11/16/do-me-a-favor-so...
Say what you want about BBEdit no longer being useful in the modern era, but whenever I have to work with a multi-megabyte file that my IDE chokes on, BBEdit can open it no problem.
Situation seems to be a lot different in Australia. All malls, especially those in the CBDs, are completely packed all the time. Though iirc, Australia has far fewer malls per capita. So perhaps the US simply built too many malls and is now correcting to something sane.
Postmill: DIY open source Reddit clone
https://archive.is/LXwH7
I think most 'Reddit alternative' options that people are trying to show off are missing what made Reddit great. I've always described Reddit to new users as 'a community of communities', because that's what it is.

Tagging posts with hashtags or topics or labels or whatever misses what actually made reddit great, which is the sense of community in (mostly?) smaller subreddits, and the ability for specific subreddits to have their own rules, moderators, and general sense of what that place was for and why people would want to be there.
Is the federal government the only entity in the country that has money to spend?
You don't. Immigration is not a "solves all problems" solution. Its a "drive down wages so that we live in a 3rd world country like the immigrants we are paying" solution.

I used to be a big libertarian proponent for immigration and now I've become the complete opposite after seeing how much money wall street (and almost exclusively corporate special interests) puts into increasing immigration.
There is a shortage of trained professionals.

The baby boomer generation has more chronic health problems than the generation before them. And, there are more of them. This leads to more health care services needed.

Yet, where I live the nursing schools have not expanded the number of graduates per year.

Supply and demand. Demand is going up. Supply is staying constant.
Served off a small $10/mo vultr VPS. Today it's transferred about 200GB of content across 6m requests. I'm quite happy with how it's handling it!
Aether: Open-source,self-governing, public communities with auditable moderation
> LLMs are not particularly good at arithmetic, counting syllables, or recognizing haikus

I suspect most of this is due to tokenization making it difficult to generalize these concepts.

There are some weird edge cases though, for example GPT-4 will almost always be able to add two 40 digits number but it is also almost always wrong when adding a 40 digit and 35 digit number.
Can we take all the people suffering from fentanyl addiction and get the federal government to pay for their medical care to prop up these hospitals? In my opinion this is the only way we can manage this crisis.
Earning money from this site doesn't particularly interest me. Raising money for charities, and using that as a fun bragging metric to friends totally does. If you want the community to have a great vibe to it, seeing top level users who have donated thousands to charities is a great way to start that. It's a bit hard to troll the community when your raising money for sick kids at the same time.
SF has some crappy stuff, but putting up rural America as an example of how things are good is quite a take. Religious fundamentalism, racism, homophobia, and outright Nazism are taking over a huge portion of rural America. A huge portion of rural America supported a coup.

Usually when people talk about leaving cities, it's because of the cost of living in many cities.

Plus, are people leaving cities? Click on Population Change at https://mtgis-portal.geo.census.gov/arcgis/apps/MapSeries/in... and zoom a bit. Rural America is emptying out. It's one of the reasons that services like hospitals are becoming harder to support. The counties containing Raleigh and Charlotte in North Carolina have grown by 25% and 21% while rural northeastern North Carolina is seeing double-digit declines. In Georgia, the Atlanta and Savannah metro areas are growing and there's a lot of decline in rural areas.

You might not like cities, but it's rural areas that people are leaving and it's rural areas that are failing.
But the lack of PvP or other strong competitive elements makes it still fun to play free as long as you're in it for the game & story and not for the collecting and minimaxing.
The github link is in the post.
This was my first “real” editor. I guess that was… 23 years ago. Wow. Writing HTML and discovering CSS, it was a window into a brand new world.

Toggling between BBEdit and the CSS Zen Garden. Those were the days.
The biggest risk of exposing youth to MrBeast is that it devalues the concept of money and hard work. But there's no denial that he's doing some good work for those who are in need.
That makes sense, but why don't you let people submit their own content? For example, if someone has a webcomic or a blog, or a photography site, or writes tutorials, or is making an amazing new app... Surely that's exactly the kind of thing that you want. Or at least an important part of it. As it stands it looks like you're saying only other people who find the webcomic (for example) can submit it.
> Very clearly false dilemma.

No. It's game theory. It's geopolitics. It's why russia, britain, france and china developed nukes. It's why india and pakistan developed it.

> That's a strong word for what you wrote.

Not strong or weak. Just reality.

> I'd link it to you, but you said you don't want to read "silly blogs".

No. What I actually wrote: "The ability to think is a far greater tool than reading silly blogs. Take it from someone who has read too many silly blogs and watch too many silly youtube videos."

What do you think "take it from someone who has read too many silly blogs" means? You aren't going to link to anything I don't already know.

As I said, wishing there was no biological weapons is a noble thought. But believing nobody is working on biological weapons is naive. No serious rational intelligent person could believe it. But like I said, maybe life has made me too cynical.

Hey chief, these white men aren't going to take any more of our land. Here's the treaty we signed with them proving that. Hey stalin, germany isn't going to attack us. Look at this non-aggression pact we sign with them.