skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you could afford 20 acres you can certainly afford to figure out how to make money with it.With 20 acres you can certainly be cost competitive with seasonal crops. But that is an insane level of work. The problem is getting the 20 acres. The other poster that says people aren't moving out of cities couldn't be more wrong. The price of rural land has skyrocketed in comparison on city and suburban housing. My home in the city has gone up about 50% since ~2019 and is up to about 2.5x the 2014 purchase price. My rural home has gone up nearly 4x from the 2018 price, but it is a bit more unique as it's a vacation property. The surrounding homes are all up nearly 2x since COVID but had languished prior. The crazy thing though is that the empty land is up at least 5x from ~2018. The medium size tracts that I was hoping to buy have all been sold for anywhere to 5-20x. Very large tracts are 5-10x up and these are actual sold listings.
Why do they have to be for-profit corporations in the first place? Wikipedia, Internet Archive, and Archive of our Own are nonprofits that are capable of handing a large numbers of users creating and accessing a large volume of content.
That may explain the overall lack of doctors in the US but seems irrelevant to this thread about rural healthcare.

All you have to do is look at other countries and see the same issue playing out. Germany, Vietnam, and Australia are all very different from the US, and from one another, and all have issues with rural health care.

The reality is that low populations make it hard to provide any service and most of the "first world infrastructure" they do have is provided by federal or state/provincial government (i.e. not their own tax base). They aren't attractive places to live for many professionals, who usually trained in bigger cities and are used to small comforts like being able to eat a variety of cuisines or seeing live events (sports, music, drama) or having good schools for their children. The cost structure and (relatively) low demand affect the financial side of the equation. Etc etc.

Many countries allow "foreign doctors" provided they do some kind of provincial work (think of the old comedy series Northern Exposure) but that hasn't exactly proven to be a panacea.
Living Colorado... I pretty much feel the same way.

Within 15-20 minutes from my house there's Avery, Upslope, Left-hand, Oscar Blue's, Fritz, Wibby, Asher, Finkel & Garf, 300 Suns, Beyond the Mt., Sanitas, Wild Provisions, Vision Quest, Twisted Pine, Uhl's, etc.

All of them are at least decent... some of them are world class.
First, to be clear, I mean this within the context of self-hosting. If you want to optimize your time by not self hosting, by all means, do it!

But if you have decided to self host, I would suggest reaching for one of the many FOSS caching reverse proxy solutions first.
Putting aside the rest of the comment: I don't know how living away from where all of the redundant infrastructure in any given country is can be considered "robust" in any meaningful sense.
Oracle beats quarterly revenue estimates on cloud services demand
I never got this either. Residents, from my understanding, are paid poorly. Hospitals charge immense amounts of money. Surely they can squeeze a few residents in there without begging the government for money.
> Yet, they demonstrate a crucial point: a deeper understanding of reality simplifies next-token prediction tasks.

I'm not sure LLMs are trained to simplify anything. They have billions of parameters after all.
I'm pretty sure they do, which is a feature, IMO.

We're coming up on 10000 resources in our main Terraform repository and while there is definitely some friction, it's overall much better than having to hit the cloud API's to gather each of those states which would probably take at least an order of magnitude longer.

We also just recently started setting up a periodic drift detection build to help identify and address drift.

Could you elaborate on the circumstances that have caused your state sync issues?
> High-speed rail with hubs in urban (or urban-adjacent) areas can provide reasonable access for folks to commute to where the jobs are.

You don't need HSR for this. Actually, high-speed rail and commuting are mutually exclusive, because commuter rail lines stop way too often to reach even rural two-lane highway speeds.

The TGV is very nice and will get you from Reims to La Defense, about a hundred miles of commute, in an hour and a half (via Paris l'Est), but only because Reims happens to be on the TGV trunk line and has a stop. If you're coming in from Vaires-sur-Marne, which that same TGV line goes through but doesn't stop at? About an hour to La Defense on the commuter RER despite covering less than a third of the distance.
That's my understanding: the math required to get a concrete prediction of a model is complicated enough that “either the theory, or the experiment, is wrong” excludes the most likely possibility: that too much error is being introduced by the approximations that they're (necessarily) using to get a tractable computation out of the model.
> General Relativity doesn’t end just above the atmosphere and quantum mechanics ought to apply to everything, not just experiments.

No one disagrees, but if it were that easy to just jump straight to the final theory we would have done it long ago. For now, effective theories are all we've got.

> Oh sure, we can wave our hands at it and invoke the mass-energy relation from GR, but this doesn’t “pop out” of the Standard Model in any sense.

Yes, it does. You don't need GR for mass-energy equivalence, just special relativity. And the Standard Model is fully special-relativistic.
North Africa and Anterior New Zealand?
Vintage National Geographic Photos (1888-1999)
> Department of Computational Biology, Cornell University, United States; Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, United States; Department of Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, United States; Analytical and Translational Genetics Unit, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, United States; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, United States; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, United States; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, United States; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, United States; Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, United States; Center for Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Public and Population Health Sciences, University of Southern California, United States; Division of Genetics,Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, United States; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Harvard Medical School, United States; Department of Computational Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, United States

Who is paying all these research institutes to construct this narrative about Neanderthals? And what does any of this have to do with medicine and health?
I think having the core website be a blank canvas and letting users choose their preferred interface is completely fine, Reddit was thriving long before the official app and "new reddit" came along. Third party mobile apps did very well and power users (that are responsible for a lot of content and moderation) were happy with RES
Daniel Ariely had a great analogy for this:

Your grandmother cooks an amazing dinner each Thanksgiving, for nothing but your love and thanks.

If at the end of the meal you said, “Great dinner, Gran, here’s for your trouble,” and handed her a $20, how do you think she’d react?
Typically failed transistors are identified by the DFT scan chain. After the logic is netlisted (meaning, they create a giant list of flops, gates, and the wires that connect them), the DFT tooling adds additional inputs to each flop that let it be controlled by a sideband signal, as a giant shift register. So you can put the chip in DFT mode and set all the flops to a known pattern. Run the clock a few cycles and you know what state the chip should be in (because you can simulate it). So you scan that giant shift register back out and check for differences.

This process is automated, and for a given chip you might have a few gigabytes of stimulus total, which can collectively identify a single failed transistor (and kick that part out of the batch).

Now, I have no idea how you take a picture of a bad transistor. That's beyond me.
You could make the same argument against unicode. "Why do we need all these weird character sets? The latin alphabet works fine for me, and all the English-speakers I know."

Notes that deviate from exact 12-EDO aren't actually all that esoteric. Even in traditional western music where almost all musicians think in 12-EDO, it's not all that weird to bend notes a little to bring chords better in tune with themselves.
> 3. Ethereum has high transaction fees. Do you intend on using a Layer 2 protocol? Why not something like Harmony, which has much lower fees.

Good job recommending L2, bad job not understanding the blockchain trilemma
It is a web app that has exclusive ownership over its SQLite databases. Exactly one SQLiteConnection instance per for the lifetime of the application.
This is true, though it's still not perfect - I should have specified on the UI side I'm sure there's been a lot of valuable backend work
In Linux, these files are unlinked, so they are invisible in the filesystem. It is legal to unlink an active file descriptor, but continue reads/writes to it.

I think that lsof can still see these temporary files; I'm not sure how I first noticed it.

Windows implements a POSIX kernel layer, so perhaps this functionality could be coaxed out of it.
What is your content policy? Will this be another leftist echochamber like reddit, lemmy.ml, lobste.rs and so on, or do you plan to allow more diverse opinions to be posted?

Is it possible to create opt-in communities that do not appear on the frontpage by default? This is required for minority communities to thrive.

The $2/month fee sounds quite reasonable to me, but I don't plan to pay for a service where I have to kowtow to leftist political activists like the ones that rule reddit.
I found this article paywalled.
I love the idea. But, leaving aside the idea of federation (not against it, just aware that current implementations can't handle enough users to be useful) - how do you propose that infrastructure and developers should be paid in this model?

Look how hard Wikipedia has to fight for donations and how much pushback they get over it. Wikipedia is comparatively simple, infrastructure-wise. A nonprofit reddit would need a lot more money I think.
I'm not sure how that implies that the term "online community" is an oxymoron. As I'm typing this comment I'm watching some friends in a Discord server engaging in a passionate discussion with varying viewpoints on an issue close to them. I'd consider most of them good friends despite the fact that I haven't met half of them in real life. What makes that not a community?
“The complexity of the proton and of the neutron seems to be real, and not due to a lack of knowledge on the part of physicists. We have equations that we use for describing quarks, anti-quarks and gluons, and the strong nuclear forces that they exert on one another. [These equations are called “QCD”, short for “quantum chromodynamics”.] We can check the accuracy of those equations through many different measurements, including the rates for producing various types of particles at the LHC. And when we put the QCD equations into a big computer, and make the computer calculate the properties of protons and neutrons, and other similar particles (collectively called “hadrons”), the computer’s predictions for the properties of these particles closely resemble what we see in the real world. So we do have good reason to believe that the QCD equations are right, and that our knowledge of the proton and neutron is based on the right equations. Yet having the right equations isn’t enough by itself, because

• simple equations can have very complicated solutions, and

• sometimes it is impossible to describe complicated solutions in a simple way.

As far as we can tell, that is the situation with nucleons: they are complicated solutions to the relatively simple equations of QCD, and there seems to be no way to describe them in a few words or pictures.”

-- https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...

Probably the most straightforward and stark demonstration of why a neutron can't be just a proton, electron and neutrino all stuck together is that it entirely fails to explain where all the rest of the particles come from when you have a jet: https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-ph...
According to the Reuters article "JPMorgan ignored internal warnings and overlooked red flags about Epstein because he had been a valuable client."[1] It links to [2] for more details and apparently it all seems to hinge on this Jes Staley guy who exchanged some emails.

It seems somewhat iffy to me: in hindsight it's always easy to label these sort of things as "warnings" and "red flags" (no mention of "internal warnings" in that article though, so not sure where that's from).

Maybe there's something more ... I don't know, but with $37 billion/year net income and $3.7 trillion in assets you can afford to lose $290M to make a headache go away and reduce the risk that more stuff will come out (even if you don't know whether there is actually something more, as a matter of risk management).

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/legal/jpmorgan-agrees-settle-with-ep...

[2]: https://www.reuters.com/business/former-barclays-ceo-staley-...
bad name, bad domain and OP is chasing all sort of buzzwords which makes me think this wont last long
>You may not like Google's influence, but they don't hold back technical innovation in the way that Microsoft did with IE 6.

No, the problem with Google's huge market share is that they can use their huge market share to push the web in ways that aren't standardized or in most people's best interest. They end up breaking the web.

Example: https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/04/chrome_breaks_web/
Those three were the ones I was able to try out (and that seemed to work reasonably well). Do you have a sample Brutalinks instance running somewhere? If so, then happy to give it a whirl and add it to my list of options :)
Don't forget that fact that popular = bad. Anything popular is immediately seen as too "mainstream" or "forced" and consistent success begets accusations of favoritism, deceit or it's undeserved.
Someone's developing a reddit API "proxy" that is backed by the Fediverse. Seems like the best option I've heard of.

AFKARS, is the name, if I recall the amusing acronym correctly.
Nothing says mass-energy equivalence cannot be applied to small particles. We have a good explanation of a very large set of physical phenomena. Yes, there are always things that are unknown and more you know, the more there is to know at the edges.

No one is claiming to "truly" understand anything and your cynicism is misplaced.
What do they define as rural? Because I’m in a small town that now has a hospital AND two urgent cares and I suspect most people would call it rural but it might be “urban”.
For 2020 the Census Bureau redefined what qualifies as “urban” living (population thresholds were doubled). Despite this, the share that live in rural areas only increased 0.7 points (19.3 -> 20.0). Using the previous metrics, rural populations shrank relative to urban.

Source: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/urban-ru...

https://carsey.unh.edu/publication-rural-america-lost-popula....
> rural folks are less educated and therefore more susceptible to forces that are predatory to those who do not make a practice of critical thinking

> I don't think it's controversial to say that education liberalizes

Highly-educated city folks make totally preposterous claims with zero critical thinking all the time. So you're right that education tends to liberalize, but wrong that education somehow makes people engage in more critical thinking.

I posit that for every piece of garbage that comes out of Fox News, there's an equal and opposite piece of garbage coming out of MSNBC.
I found a link to bypass the paywall few comments up.
Please make it possible to pay without a credit card. I want to support the site but without sacrificing privacy or anonymity.
Yeah we have a 10Mb state file and it already takes 30-45 min to deploy. The main way it happens is if someone cancels a CI/CD job because they're realised something is wrong and don't want to wait that long to try again. That's not an issue if there isn't a state file, but yeah I can see how there would be a tradeoff possibly associated.
I believe healthcare as a business (in the US) relies on the fact that the utility function of healthcare services become infinite. All other utility relies on an individual's good health. As such, it becomes completely determined by wealth distribution, not the value or cost of the product being traded. It's natural that a healthcare system that attempts to follow market based solutions follows the money. In the US, all the money has moved to cities so healthcare is following.
Why is it Justine posts and seemingly only Justine posts that always get this type of comments? Do people regularly comment on the authors of other content, for better or for worse, and I miss it?
You should be validating all protected headers, in much the same way as border patrol should reject a crayon drawing of a passport.

JWS (and JWT) standardized interoperable parameters and what they mean, but applications are supposed to standardize how they are used.

An integrity protected message used as part of a transaction, one used to represent user state, and one used for document archival are going to have dramatically different requirements for verification metadata.

Similarly, a signed message issued by a single site vs one meant for use across a federation will have different requirements.

This is the #1 misconception of JWS/JWT which has led to people mislabeling it as insecure. They are only using the half that defines what fields mean, and ignoring application-specific instructions on if they are supposed to accept and how they are supposed to process those fields.
Car lovers will love The Crew Motorfest after watching the trailer
Don't worry, when they learn about billionaires, hereditary wealth and the global south. They'll have to reconcile sometimes all the hard work in the world leads to what you have now.
I've never seen a MrBeast video, but today I saw this video parodying him, which I thought was a little funny: https://youtu.be/n-tQXZCEi54
There was more. You can't just splat giant C structs with pointers into shared memory/a file, and expect another process to just mmap and be able to recreate valid state again. At the very least the pointers are going to be all wrong. There was necessary work to adjust the file format. Not rocket science, but not just turning while(fread()) into open();mmap().

Also, there were insights into how to minimize which models needed adjustment. The ideas and code were worked on by at least 2 people, and I'm an outsider on that project, but I didn't see anything untoward like "stealing credit". The magic change wasn't a perfect move, but is the kind of thing I do locally when I don't know the project/binary format well yet, so not exactly the megalomaniacal move it was painted as. Better that only the version number changed, but she's independent and doing good work, so you'd kind of hope she has a self-promotion streak! Changing the magic would be on the very very low end of letting that side go a bit too far, assuming that was the impetus.
@theo_champion nice list, but would love to see a write-up on your journey!
I'm also uncomfortable with it. There's nothing inherently wrong with philanthropy but what I'm seeing is a very successful business with an enormous and very expensive campus. MrBeast himself is very rich. So what I'm seeing is a corporation claiming to do everything for the benefit of others while actually taking a lot of the money very visibly for themselves.

His channel made $54m from youtube in 2021, and probably a lot more from corporate sponsors. Make no mistake, this is big business - not charity.

And some of his side businesses are downright shady. His burger chain is run out of ghost kitchens which make food for multiple virtual chains like MrBeast's. The burgers are apparently a crapshoot - it depends on which ghost kitchen made your burger as to what you get. Quality control is zero. Yet they charge top dollar for the MrBeast name.
Xdefiant’s next beta will be open for everyone when it is released
I'm editing this because I'm wrong but leaving original comment below.

On second thought, this research wouldn't be looking at genes that would be highly variable among human populations, that DNA tests would profile to identify individuals, but on genes highly conserved among the human genome, where 4303 changed genes would be a significant amount. I was ranting about the wrong thing.

Original comment: Point taken. Speciation is certainly messy.

4303 statistically significant coding genes is just essentially "a good start" when it comes to identify what, if any, Neanderthal inheritance modern humans might have, compared to a potential "4% of genes DNA tests bother profiling, which now could have still come from some undetermined modern human population, that just so happened to have the same alleles as Neanderthals, including non-coding genes that we couldn't pinpoint effects anyways".

I think that would explain the ambiguity in the articles about actual effects of these identified genes, that's for the follow-up research.
Robots from ICRA 2023
A great amatuer video showing all the cool robots.

ICRA 2023 Robots
2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
29 May - 2 Jun 2023
London - UK
Related HN thread from last year:

On Mr. Beast and being alone in a circle for 100 days https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33016185
Software is at least a much social as technology.
For most of my life the choice for most people has been either Seagate/maxtor or WD. What is it about the hard drive market that we have no real competitors, just a duopoly of manufacturers who both have a long history of badly designed products and screwing over consumers.
jrnl link at the top of the article doesn't exist....
Is this the correct link ?

https://github.com/jrnl-org/jrnl

Nice idea. I like org-mode for ...nearly everything.... This looks good for the command line.
Thanks
Or like they were pretending that they couldn’t understand.
The relation to medicine and health is fairly simple: all population studies on the relationship between genetics and phenotype are useful for identifying (and hence learning about, and hence treating) gene-linked health conditions.

The funding is in the acknowledgements section:

> We thank Bogdan Pasaniuc and Kirk Lohmueller for feedback on the manuscript. DR was supported by an Allen Discovery Center grant on Brain Evolution from the Paul Allen Foundation, John Templeton Foundation grant 61220, US National Science Foundation HOMINID grant BCS-1032255, US National Institutes of Health grants GM100233 and HG006399, and is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. SS is supported in part by NIH grants R35GM125055, NSF grants III-1705121, CAREER-1943497, an Alfred P Sloan Research Fellowship, and a gift from the Okawa Foundation. PL was supported by a Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interfaces and the Next Generation Fund at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.