skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bags mysteriously disappearing is common enough that you probably know someone who’s been impacted by it.

It’s true: never attribute to malice that which can be sufficiently explained by incompetence. Except that we have proof of malice in many cases now that gps trackers have been commoditized.

If you don’t lock your bags, as many don’t, you might attribute a missing item to forgetfulness, but it’s just as likely that it’s simply been stolen.

The simple fact is that you should take care with what you check in, especially in countries of higher corruption, less security or less caring security.

In the states where you baggage likely has cameras on it from beginning to end is different, and probably just incompetence. It’s not like we send our best to manage bags (albeit I’m sure you can come up with some fine examples otherwise).
"if there's a [X] at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 [X]"
Interestingly, the advice in this article pretty much aligns with what I did, although I can't claim I did what I did with any grand strategic vision. I mostly blew off high school doing the bare minimum necessary to graduate, while spending as much time as possible in-person and online with adults who worked in tech and would mentor me, working on side projects, and volunteering on open source. I went to college, but ultimately dropped out, with my most valuable time at community college where I was able to get tech certifications as part of my classwork.

It's been more than 20 years since I left high school and I've had a very good career and life despite having no degrees and a piss-poor high school GPA, because ultimately none of that actually matters in the real world. All that matters is who you know and whether you can do the job. If you know people who will give you a chance and you can actually succeed at the job, you'll do fine. Learning actual skills that other people care about and value is far more important than being able to regurgitate bullshit for a test to get a piece of paper that's meaningless. My only real regret is that I didn't just drop out of high school and get my GED so I could focus more time on my side-projects at the time.
Society doesn’t break out into riots because of one incident. Merzouk is representative of an immigrant community that, from the perspective of the immigrants, isn’t being afforded sufficient rights and opportunities in France, and from the French perspective, isn’t trying to assimilate and is causing crime and unrest.

At the end of the day, the French have no obligation to change their society to accommodate newcomers; nor do the newcomers have any obligation to change their society to make themselves acceptable to the French. The problem is that trying to get these two groups of people to live alongside each other is a failed experiment.
Look into the Supplementary Information linked at the end, which addresses some of your concerns and enables you to design your own experiment.
I am similar wrt to bodyfat fluctuations, but interestingly enough, it did happen to me overnight. During the pandemic I reached my lowest bf% ever, single digits, despite gyms being closed.

It was after things began to open back up in summer/fall '21 that, as I started to get back into the gym, I allowed myself to "eat instinctively" and went from 160-190 in a month. The weight managed to stabilize but still slowly go up, eventually reaching in the 200's. I was hitting the weight racks but struggling to keep my weekly caloric intake in a deficit.

There's a lot more to the story in terms of what I did and learned, but in short, calorie estimates online were often over-prescribing my TDI which was a lot closer to my BMR. I now eat 600 less than my BMR every week and that's about 1.5 lbs/week lost. I'm still hitting the gym and getting 1g protein /lb of lean body mass so I am still managing to put on muscle despite being in a deficit.

But ultimately, it will have taken me 2 years of meticulous, dedicated calorie and macro tracking and diet modulation to undo that single month of damage, and return to my previous bf%. Although I have dealt with the frustration of impatience, I am finally on track and expect to hit my goals in October/November.
For a homeowner that is not interested in selling or refinancing, the price going up itself is not good news. It really only means higher property taxes.

However, home prices are, many times, also a reflection of the local economy and the earning and/or spending power of the locals (or tourists). And usually, higher earning/spending power is better than lower earning/spending power.

You just have to ensure you are in position to grab a portion of that economic activity, which is a better situation to be in than trying to grab a portion of no or little economic activity in a struggling region.
CUDA was a great technology before 2018.

Then in 2018, they prohibited usage of GeForce GPUs in data centers: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/nvidia-updates-ge... And during 5 years which followed, they have reached the point where for many use cases nVidia is dramatically worse value compared to competitors.

On my day job I do CAM/CAE, we compute a lot of FP64 numbers. Because we use D3D tech for GPGPU, we recently bought some computers with AMD 7900 XTX. These GPUs were sold for about $1000. An nVidia equivalent is L40: the AMD is 1.459 TFlops and 0.96 TB/sec memory bandwidth, the nVidia is 1.414 TFlops and 0.864 TB/sec memory bandwidth, but the nVidia is sold for about $9000. That’s an order of magnitude difference in cost efficiency.
Seems like they would be accessible from:

/Users/<username>/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/originals

If another user is a domain administrator (and depending on your AD configuration) they may be able to access the files in your home directory. Might want to check on that!
Hookworm was also a huge problem in the Southern US, up to 40% of people living there were infected with hookworm. Hookworm infestations make people tired and unable to work, but are not fatal. John Rockefeller spearheaded and funded a campaign to eradicate hookworm, which was largely successful in promoting better sanitation to prevent hookworms from entering people.

Hookworms reproduce in the intestinal tract and then lay eggs, which are passed through the body inside feces. They enter the body though the feet, and the cycle starts over. Knowing this, a plan was devised to provide outhouses, shoes, and hookworm treatment to infected people, and it was successful in greatly reducing hookworm infections. Like malaria, hookworm is still around and able to infect people.

https://resource.rockarch.org/story/public-health-how-the-fi...
Your comment does not at all seem to negate your parent. A heavily censored experience is what I would expect if pushing content of any bent (positive or negative) were the point.
Perhaps they meant astrology?
It's the same all around the world. But rules are usually less applied
A parent said, because you want to live there.

"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

There is a method actually though. Voters of the state can vote for state laws that affect all cities, and voters of the nation can vote for national law repesentives that affect all cities.
I think humans already struggle with this, without sufficient background knowledge and context. Reality is messy.
That line is what made me think they weren’t being sarcastic. I thought they were saying the 10 year age difference would be exaggerated.
My internet went down, and I couldn't reach customer service. I could only reach (drumroll), a chatbot. The chatbot couldn't confirm that anyone knew about the problem and was working on it. (How do I know that it just doesn't always say "someone's working on it?")

I submitted an FCC complaint.

A few days later, a customer service rep called me. She told me that I could contact the chatbot. I told her I'd never submit an FCC complaint if I could talk to a real person, because I don't trust the chatbot.
>You can have lots of need for nurses and carpenters, and also have lots of young people not qualified for those jobs who don’t have other prospects.

If that is the case you don't actually need more workers, but you have a very serious issue with young people leaving society and either by choice or circumstance not entering vocational training.

You do not need a 5 year degree to become a carpenter or nurse, if your country has a lack of those AND a significant unemployed youth population, the solution is obvious. Importing workers for those roles, just means that you are removing those training opportunities from your own population.
Practical ZFS
Could you elaborate? All connectors regardless of type have current rating and specify what wire gauges they are compatible with. It seems like it would be a big deal if a properly installed Wago could catch fire.

I know that wire nuts can sometimes have a better failure rate when tested at much higher currents than either connector is rated for but this is equivalent of ingredients causing disease when you consume 1000 times more than is typical.
> Everyone should be writing in public.

Some of the best conversations on the early Net were closed communities where users had a safe zone. Things like The Well and Screen Porch/Caucus "virtual communities" were mostly "conversations", but lots of just informative posts.
Heroku Is Dead
For the same reason that drugs are illegal: If there is an affordable happy pill they can't sell you their fake shit anymore. People that give up on the rat race are outside of their power.
Our liberal (as in philosophy, not institutions) ideas about freedom are very often boneheaded and unsophisticated. We are often convinced that if we abolish authority, we remove (a source of) tyranny. On the contrary, we remove a major protection against it. Remove authority, and you expose yourself to rule by power and force. In the absence of authority, power is the only remaining basis for rule. It is what rules.

You don't remedy shortcomings and failures of authority by abolishing it. Doing so only multiplies the problem.
Atmos was a YC startup that was building homes a few years ago. Not sure if they’re still around. I considered using them to build a house in Boulder, but they never expanded beyond NC.
"You are all individuals!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHbzSif78qQ
This is an interesting article, but I think it is heavily skewed toward the author’s goals in life and who they innately are. A guide for a more introverted person, or sports-oriented person, or highly social person would be vastly different.

In particular, I think the author makes the mistake of believing everyone must be a creator. The reality is most people aren’t good at it, don’t like it and don’t pursue it. And that is OK.

It also underestimates how young 14 really is, and how much still needs to be learned in general, not just in school but in life.

The difference between 14 and 18 is a vast chasm.
> UPS's, that were wrong and Amazon just refunded me without requesting a return.

That's because they contain batteries that Amazon will not accept.
Weird to see such high petty theft countries near the top of the list too.

No one tells you to pin your pockets shut when you visit NYC. Everyone tells you all sorts of ways to keep your belongings safe in Europe.
Social sciences are also based on observation and analysis. That’s the definition of science: observing and analyzing to form testable predictions. Science is not defined by whether the subject is stars or humans, it is defined by the process.
The biggest source of drama in my life has been other people.

Particularly other people who aren't living right. Past 25 and doesn't have or trying to get a stable job. Carefully evaluate if you want that person in your life.

Misery loves company, the wrong type of people will bring you down and laugh when they do so.

Likewise, people with stable lives can and often will lift you up.
"Never let schooling interfere with your education"? That's how I always approached it.

One of my middle school teachers observed with chagrin that I would rush my classwork, accepting a high B or low A when they were sure I could have gotten a 100% if I had "tried", so that I could go back to reading my book. Unfortunately, there was no reward for a 90 vs a 100 (beyond buffer to your overall grade being an A), so I just did as little as possible to get the maximum reward out of the system, and then went back to doing what I liked to do - learning.

It's also a bit funny to me that the program that was ostensibly supposed to support kids like me - "Future Problem Solvers" if I recall the name right - rejected me because they test they administered to determine if I should be invited was extremely weird to me - I mostly remember it asking me to, given a set of random lines, draw a picture using them. I think I mostly turned them into smiley faces because I was bored and confused by what they wanted. I'm sure, in retrospect, that they wanted me to show creativity in making interesting art out of the "constraints" of the lines. But alas, I just wanted to get back to reading what (given my age) was probably a book about space or a CS Lewis book or something. My best friend got in, and he ended up dropping out of college after 2 semesters of drinking, so I guess maybe it wasn't a very good program anyway.
Sure. It's desirable. What wouldn't cost if it weren't dense? For example, what do you think a single family house with an acre of land would cost within walking distance of Central Park and the Public Library? A bit more than the same house on a rural road 2 hours from that spot. It's all about location and desirability. People can afford an apartment since you can fit a lot more of them in that acre, but few people can afford that house.
Thanks for the response. Yeah, that's what I had already found out. Just trying to gain a confidence level of how likely it is female offspring of Friendly™ males and pest females actually survive and carry disease. If it's 100% impossible then great. If there's a small chance the self-limiting gene actually does NOT disrupt development in some mosquitos and they live on to carry disease, I'd like to form an educated opinion on how small that chance is. I also see the self-limiting gene can be turned off with tetracycline. I know they released Aedes aegypti, which typically doesn't carry malaria but seems like it can. Just trying to gain an informed opinion without swaying into absolutes one way or the other.

https://www.oxitec.com/en/our-technology#:~:text=Our%20Frien...!
The string can only contain 's' or 'p' if you examine how it is constructed in bench.c, and taking that into consideration yields another ~2x speedup.
> In January, the drug received what's known as accelerated approval from the FDA, based on its ability to remove the substance beta-amyloid from the brains of people in the early stages of Alzheimer's.

Whenever beta-amyloids come up, I recall that they seem to be quite divisive. Can someone explain to me what the debate is about? The FDA appears to believe that they are a cause of Alzheimer’s based on this drug’s approval
> We can certainly make flawed decisions based on data, but I'd argue that we're more likely to make flawed decisions with no data.

What I've seen in practice so far is that the use of telemetry has harmed software quality more than helped. It often leads developers to optimize for the wrong things and make poor design decisions. This happens because they tend to think that "the data never lies", ignoring the fact that telemetry always gives a skewed and incomplete picture.
Nice article. Indeed many tools used in parallel could be merged into mostly one.

After many todo lists, calendars, ... apps I personally came to the conclusion the better way to visually display tasks and events is a timeline. And in a Gantt diagram, to be more accurate.

So I am using excel and this video tutorial [0] and made different timelines for different projects and even a calendar-like events view with emojis appearing when the date is right. So far I like it.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuQpGzL_14g
Lots of brown ones, evidently: //en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland

I think the issue is that if you create an economically and culturally hostile environment, it prevents assimilation. It doesn't matter what your race, religion etc. is at that point. Recall the state of Irish immigrants in the early U.S., that's where the meme "paddy wagon" results from.
> There's 7.8 billion people in the world, so 3.6 billion qualifies as "most".

Do I have an incorrect understanding of the word "most"?
I live in one of the very high response rate countries and would imagine that the unreturned wallets were just binned, and that those containing money are more likely to be returned simply because there is obvious benefit to recipient to have it returned. When you lose a wallet you cancel your cards etc, even change the locks if you loose your keys, so people will reason that there is no big point to returning it anyway?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification
Because it’s an emotional issue in Asia. Logic takes a back seat like with Taiwan
Creepy stuff with creepy implications, pretty fun show!
Consider?

Just do it.
What if there were 20 cities like New York City?
Life is so much better without news in it.
It's probably more like 7.9 now.

Regardless how does 3.6:7.8 ie 46% constitute a majority? Most is a word. Words have meaning.

Respectfully, what you said would be less wrong if you had used the word many.
Not a good sign for whom exactly?
Undocumented API for OpenAI to track usage (custom app template)
One of our team members wanted a better way to track OpenAI usage and costs, and he discovered a "hidden" API that provides this data. So, he wrote up a quick tutorial and created a custom app template to let others quickly test this out and create their own dashboards.
Tailwind Connect 2023 – Keynote
I dunno, I was pretty shocked to see cat can read a file
Tokyo prices are reasonable?

Only per unit not per square meter.
https://join.build/
At first I thought this was pretty stupid since mobile games suck...

But I remembered I give my kids educational games on the phone, and this could be useful.

Anyway, if anyone wants to drop some Kids games that are educational, I'm all ears.
Property taxes are low? Where is this the case? Most communities base property taxes on millage (percentage) of property values which have been going sky high.
Ask anyone who manages property: every building is its own unique snowflake of issues.
So parties are good because they make it easy for people to vote without doing any work?
Although true, it is the "tight-knit" there that is doing a lot of the heavy lifting. Europe had a couple of options to merge socialism and migrations:

- US style, incorporate the migrants into the fabric of society by forming detectable enclaves that, nevertheless, don't riot in the streets.

- Focus on cheap energy over environmentalism, allowing everyone to enjoy rising standards of living.

- Migration that cynically but effectively focuses only on skilled migration, forming an over-class of highly skilled and motivated migrants to support the socialist underclass.

The issue here is they seem to be trying to bring in a new underclass, then stomp them repeatedly with COVID policies and living-standard squeezes (look at the cost of energy people, this is a crisis for someone!), then throw the police at them. A bold gambit with questionable prospects.
Very true - but the value of peat as a heating fuel is now vastly diminished as other more efficient fuels are available for a lower price.

I remember peat still being burnt in Shetland when I was young, and compared to coal or even wood it gave off very little heat.

There is still plenty of peat to be taken 'for free' as a fuel using traditional methods, but very little is burnt now, as it is easier and cheaper to heat your home, with wood, coal or more likely gas or electricity.
This list is incredibly contrived.
The actual radicalization of most US mass shooters, plus a couple of international ones of the same ideology, has been through far-right propaganda. It turns up again and again in their manifestoes and target selections, such as Anders Breivik.

Conversely much of Europe's really nasty political violence pre-dates video games. Europe is probably more peaceful now than at any time since .. 1914?

(There have also been Islamist mass murders in Europe; it's the 18th anniversary of the London Tube bombings. However that seems to have finally fallen off? I would love a good analysis as to why)
They said in their study that even when they accounted for GDP, the effect remained.
Same thing in Houston, which is essentially a zoning-free city.

Going after regulations is a red herring: the real problem is the investor class snapping up the housing supply.

I bought a townhome last year at the height of the market in a great and competitive neighborhood, paid a very reasonable price and faced zero counter offers. Why? My HOA agreement has provisions that prevent the owner from using the property as a short-term rental. Contrast that to single family homes that were going hundreds above asking price and with cash offers. As soon as you remove the incentive to purchase a home purely as an investment, the experience improves dramatically for buyers looking for a place to live.
Alexey summarizes the advice he hears me give people
I definitely want and prefer chatbots. Telephone/internet customer service isn't a job that people should be doing, it's soul destroying.

The problem with chatbots is that they make customer service time far cheaper than my time. If they have to pay $15/hr for somebody to argue with me about a $10 refund, they're motivated not to do it. If that cost goes down to $0.15/hr, however, you're incentivizing Kafka.
Looks like my Audio Technica turntable. Probably sounds no better.
I had a vision of the experimenters being prosecuted for wasting police/people's time by causing problems on purpose.

Edit: the above was a joke, but had a grain of truth. The authors addressed this specific question in a reply to readers' letters:

We did not exclude Japan from our study because their reporting rate was too low (if anything, Japan would have scored relatively high among countries in civic honesty). Since our focus was on investigating the difference in reporting rates between wallets with and without money, our decision rule was to exclude countries where individual wallets could not be identified. Japan has a unique system with lots of small police booths (Koban system) where citizens return lost objects. While we found a large number of our wallets listed on official lost and found websites, we were not able to retrieve these wallets as it would have required proof of ownership and identification documents. As a result, we were not able to find out the unique email addresses or the original locations of the wallets and we could not ascertain (among other things) to which experimental condition the wallet belonged. As we were primarily interested in the difference between experimental conditions, we had to exclude Japan from the paper. By contrast, we do not have evidence of similar systematic behavior from other countries.
Nobody ever talks about the influence of the popular Grand Theft Head on the French revolutionaries.
A central AC compressor capacitor is plug and play.

https://www.ferguson.com/product/mars-usa-455-mfd-440370v-du...

Turn off circuit breaker, unscrew ~4 screws on the cover of the compressor unit, take a picture of how old one is connected, unplug it, connect new one matching up the symbols or letters, confirm with the picture you took, screw the cover back on, and switch the circuit breaker back on.

Watch any of the available 5,000 YouTube videos if unsure.