skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done plenty of travel, typically in the form of setting up camp in a given city for a couple weeks and getting to deeply know that place.

I've also enjoyed "pretending to travel." Yes, you only get a shallow dip/view of each place. But you kick back and enjoy luxury on a premium line. It's been nice with kids, too, where there's been good childcare built in and logistics are simpler. Cruises have been about 25% of my vacation travel days but I am grateful for the experience.

Different people like different things and different people have different circumstances. Best not to be too judgy.

(Now, cities may rationally choose they would prefer not to have cruise tourism-- that's a separate matter).
Who was left out?
A major reason is because homes became air conditioned.
It honestly astonishes me that some people still think "more brain = more smart" or a similar reductionist belief. It's so Victorian - like believing human flight will happen by furtively flapping ones arms connected to giant canvas wings.
Hospitalization is very different from an asylum.
One great thing that came from the NFT gold-rush was that it exposed a lot of well-known figures as grifters -- Tobi, the Shopify CEO, being one of them. After that ordeal, this kind of thing doesn't surprise me in the least.
So... Let me get this straight.

You handed over biometric information with the express purpose of getting out of the security theater; they have your info, they are now reapplying the security theater you originally made the (poor, in my estimation, for the reason being we'd end up at circumstances necessitating this convo anyway) decision to hand over your biometric info for, and you aren't getting bent out of shape?

I'd be livid, personally.
What memorials and monuments honoring the Nazis are left in Germany? There are none.
While I can't comment on this particular case, I sincerely recommend Americans to explore treatment options for treatable diseases in other countries - like India, South Korea, Cuba (?) etc. - that have excellent doctors and decent healthcare infrastructure. They may charge foreigners a bit more than the locals, but you will get better service that is unlikely to bankrupt you.

(Not sure about Cuba's current healthcare infrastructure).
By "retirement", people generally mean no longer working for money. That doesn't mean you can't find things to do.
Is there a rise in mental illness or more people simply being diagnosed now? We're more aware of mental illnesses, leading to more diagnoses, leading to what appears to be a spike in mental illness. I haven't dug deeply into this but I wonder if studies on this have attempted to separate the two. Psychology is notorious for it's crisis of reproducibility. I take everything related to mental illness with two heaping scoops of salt.
Advocating for "changing the conditions in society, workplace, and culture" is a bit of a moonshot.
A blue whale's brain weighs in at around 15lbs. Mine is roughly 3.3lbs. I suspect size isn't everything. You are unlikely to receive a response from a blue whale. Can you imagine trying to type on a keyboard with

As you say, corvids, octopi and others have recently been interacted with in such a way as to be shown to demonstrate unexpectedly complex behaviour. Brain size doesn't seem to be quite as important as you might think.

Note my brain is about a fifth the size of a blue whale's brain. Now I am absolutely useless at living within the sea and I have no idea how complicated it is but I suspect that based on our relative brain size, that it can be very complicated compared to what we land lubbers get up to. Evolution doesn't leave rubbish lying around unless it does not impair things.
At best, our technology messes with our heads somewhat. At worst, it leads to serious mental illness. Silicon Valley is creating the digital equivalent to forever chemicals in our drinking water.
Checkout this 2015 article: "San Francisco Firefighters Become Unintended Safety Net for the Homeless"

> With a budget of more than $330 million, the San Francisco Fire Department responded to more than 136,000 incidents last year — about 28,000 of them fires and other nonmedical calls for service, plus just under 12,000 false alarms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/us/san-francisco-firefigh...
I wonder how much can be attributed to legalization/decriminalization of drugs. Because if someone is on drugs but that is “fine” now are the classified as a mental illness incident?
sqlite is actually a perfect example of a project that specifically excludes public code contribution.

https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html
> from people who have not submitted an affidavit dedicating their contribution into the public domain.

Don’t spread FUD
No, it doesn't matter that there's no domestic manufacturing of X today. If you put a sufficiently high tariff on X you'll get it made locally sooner than later.

Tarrifs are crude but very effective centrally planned price signals.
> The existence of very wealthy people really isn't the thing holding back median living standards.

What you're missing here is the power and political influence of the ultra-wealthy. They aren't just passive participants in the system. Rather, they actively shape the system to suit themselves. They can buy politicians. Or as you said yourself, "the ultra wealthy buy up a few media firms and then gently redirect all the anger towards the middle class and/or stirs up social issues." You mentioned Musk: he bought up Twitter, the influential social network, and has turned it into his own political propaganda machine.
I upvoted the post since I think it's a overall interesting technical discussion of git's downsides and some fossil upsides.

But my response would be the same as what I argue in these React or other "popular-vs-other-frameworks" discussions that come: the alternatives may be better, faster, easier etc - BUT:

- The popular solution has the larger ecosystem, and there are more existing plugins or modules you can plug-and-play instead of having to build out your own solution for.
- If you hit any edge case or obscure issues with the popular framework, someone somewhere on the Internet has hit it and it's likely a QA on Stackoverflow / Reddit and similar (and hence ChatGPT and other LLMs as a result)
- People understand the popular solution more in depth and it's easier to learn about the architecture as well as its pros and cons.
The smart money? Do you think that Buddhists make up the whole idea of succession just for show?
The problem is the people who need help most won't seek it because it will get them labeled. There are plenty of mental illnesses that create situations where doctor-patient confidentiality has to be breached (legally). This restricts their care. A more mundane example, in some states with red flag laws a lawful gun owner could potentially introduce liability by seeking a diagnosis for depression or anxiety. Even if they don't present as a threat to themselves or others. The diagnosis alone can form a legal basis for disarmament given the right DA.

We need to fix the legal system to allow people to get the help they need. If you even remotely think asking for help will get the cops sent to kick down your door and shoot your dog you won't go get help. Often times when you do get help it's too late.
What happens when that key is stolen or lost? Would it be acceptable risk in your model to allow anyone to use it?

I'm not saying you're wrong, but it would be a definitive trade off.
Matrix already has key-based identity in the works at https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/keg... (and implemented in Dendrite at https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3A...). Matrix is set up to let folks go wild and change fundamentals like this; basically every Matrix Spec Change (MSC) is a small fork, which then gets merged into the main spec if it can be proven to work well in the wild.
The title is unclear because the author confuses Mastodon as a software with Mastodon servers. The majority of economists are on a Mastodon server called econtwitter.net.
According to the wikidocs article, there was some in the leaves, but none found in the fruits.
AI and computer vision could surely be helpful in a modern asylum or hospital setting, at least to help the humans better triage who most urgently seems to need their attention. The AI could also be used to communicate with patients but that's a bigger more long term goal with many more ramifications.
> Public transport is usually run at a loss, and at least partly funded with local taxes.

Worse-- public transport usually more than covers its variable costs at the margin, but has fixed costs related to peak use. Cruise ships help set that peak use, but don't provide consistent ridership.

That is, it's the variability that makes public transport expensive and troublesome, and cruise ships pile on variability.
It's not just about policies, it's about the layout, affordances, staffing, and so on.

If you're set to be stuffed like canned sardines in small rooms, for example, there are fewer boundaries regardless of "policy".
What percentage of overall miles driven are accounted for by cross-country (or lets just say multi-day trips) out of the total number of miles driven? The stat I can find states that for single-trip journeys 98% are under 50 miles, with those over 70 miles being 1%. Obviously "single-trip" is doing plenty of work there, but you can go surprisingly far in a day of driving and those are still pretty small numbers.

Maybe at the end of the day the car is just not the best way to go across a country as large as the US.
That's my thought about it too. I'm not convinced labor being too expensive in the US was the reason manufacturing left in the first place. I think it might have just been a cost cutting move to manufacture in Asia which was done more for short term financial gain and designed by financial types. But the loss in talent and knowledge is very costly long term.
I'd choose git over perforce any day.
I don't know that I've ever heard such a violent "woosh" as the goalposts were moved. Going from "obviously happened, consistent with evidence" to "the problem is the way it was discussed in private" is just... wow.

I wonder how this would play out if we transposed it to any other field. If I was interviewed and asked if So-And-So had proved P=NP, I'd just say "almost certainly not" knowing that any other response would require an amount of nuance that wasn't going to be conveyed - despite having plenty of private conversations that "yeah, P=NP is total possible and it'd be interesting because...". And that's a pretty theoretical problem with immediate real world impact, and relatively little new being discovered day-to-day.

I'd be shocked if there was any non-trivial topic discussed in any field where the internal debate _isn't_ broader and more nuanced in private than what is conveyed in public interviews. That's a natural consequence of communicating to a population with less expertise than the speaker, IMO.
No. The larger departments should service their own vehicles though.
Here you go.

https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/860f855ed144703d

> The project requires a document on file but it doesn't accept that document from arbitrary people. It's effectively "by invitation only" and Richard hands out those invitations at his sole discretion.
Slight tangent, but the Corecursive podcast has an excellent interview [0] with Richard Hipp, creator of SQLite.

[0] https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
And how is not going for that "moonshot" work out for you?
I have already tried talking to them, and they are generally dismissive or unwilling to talk. I understand quite a lot about AI. Not only was I a professional programmer for years, I also have a PhD in mathematics. So, I have a clue.

I understand academia quite well. Researchers are much more concerned about publications and rarely, if ever consider the long-term societal implications of their research.

Don't believe me? Email a few and ask them if they've ever considered the long-term consequences of introducing AI into the world.

Perhaps my original post was a bit inflammatory but it does make me angry how so many people simply release whatever new technology they can invent even though it might be quite harmful.
What really happened is that Eddie Lampert engineered a financial bust out of both Sears and Kmart. Extracted billions and left the carcass of formerly great companies.
I'm glad Fossil works for them, but this line is bothered me:

> In contrast, Fossil is a single standalone binary which is installed by putting it on $PATH. That one binary contains all the functionality of core Git and also GitHub and/or GitLab. It manages a community server with wiki, bug tracking, and forums, provides packaged downloads for consumers, login managements, and so forth, with no extra software required

git, for all its issues, is not bundling the kitchen sink. I do prefer the "do one thing and do it well" approach.
That's how non-web email works. If you need to configure an upstream smtp host, you're going to have client headers that include those addresses. The old school solution is to run your own relay out of some remote data center where the relay can be configured to strip or obfuscate the client headers.
The LLM world has been really good at bootstrapping models so I’m sure this will be used to create something exactly or more powerful than it without using any of its existing code.
Previous discussions:

- 2021, 356 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29125934

- 2018, 608 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16806114

I'm sure there are others, but the fact that the same document can be found through various paths (without www domain, without /drafts/ path, or without /matrix/ path) makes it harder to find previous postings.
I would say the same thing, but really it depends. Sometimes it really doesn’t matter what type of error it was, since all errors lead to the same outcome (print a simple error message and exit). Sometimes you just don’t know what kind of errors you’ll be dealing with, usually because it’s early in the design of the program and you haven’t explored the design space yet. In cases like these, crates like anyhow make perfect sense. It lets you put off making any complicated decisions about error types until you need to and are ready to.
The juice ain't worth the squeeze.

Social media has disconnected us all.

DNGAF. Amen.
"The marvel is not that the bear dances well, but that the bear dances at all." — Russian proverb
Some areas don't depend much or at all on language such as games and puzzles e.g. Rubik's Cube from Hungary. However creating a viral game is hard. Some niches are easier and less demanding such as daily puzzles for seniors or bedtime story sites for parents with young children just use Google translate or it's API.
1970 - Ice Age by 2000

1971 - New Ice Age coming by 2020 or 2030

1972 - New Ice Age by 2070

1978 - No end in sight to 30-year global cooling

2008 - Arctic will be ice-free by 2018

2008 - Climate genius Al Gore predict ice-free Arctic by 2013

2009 - Climate genius Prince Charles says we have 96 months to save the world

2013 Arctic ice-free by 2015

I give up.
Even by environmentalist website estimates, eggs, milk, chicken, and pork are 4x or so more than some crops. Going vegan is just the wrong avenue to target climate change.

That'll take a monumental effort, for a fairly minor impact. "eat less beef" sure.

People leaving the aircon on 24/7. Horribly uninsulated homes, buying and returning hundreds of items.

But ultimately, it's a shift to renewables+storage/nuclear that has to happen.

Pushing for people to go vegan is essentially counter-productive.
>According to research, the problem is rising housing prices, not compassion

While this might be true for the homeless population as a whole, I suspect the parent is talking about the people with mental illness and/or substance abuse problems. Making rent 20% cheaper or whatever isn't going to magically make them get better.
The average contribution via something like github is just a waste of time, especially if a project is popular having many users.
I put it to you that not only did I hit that point, but you just quoted the part where I explained that very thing. You're citing my words to make a point that I was also making.
After a recent horrible experience with JetBlue customer service, it has become obvious to me that the true purpose of all "customer service" at major companies is not "solve the customer's problem" but "make the customer go away."

This seems to be true regardless of whether humans or robots are involved. If humans are involved they will be low-paid hourly workers on the other side of the planet, staring at the same web page that you are, with no more ability to change anything than you have. And it will take 30 minutes to get one of them on the phone because "we are experiencing unusually high call volume" which translates as "the new vice president fired 10 more customer service agents to make his numbers look good."

If robots are involved it means "the new vice president wanted his numbers to look even better."

Companies have apparently run the numbers and decided it is cheaper to effectively ignore and dissuade dissatisfied customers than to try to resolve their issues. And since most companies insist on binding arbitration now, they're not even worried about class-action lawsuits.
The Nuremberg Code is about medical experimentation, not vaccination programs.

The Nuremberg Code is not really relevant to modern medical ethics, or even to the history of medical ethics--its authors plagiarized [1] half of it from the 1931 Guidelines for Human Experimentation [2]. The relevant standard these days is the seventh revision of the Declaration of Helsinki, by the World Medical Association.

No, the use of COVID-19 vaccines was not "experimental" [3]:

> COVID-19 vaccines used in practice and involved in vaccination mandates are either authorized or fully approved by national regulatory authorities. Hence, they are not experimental and not part of research, and thus not covered by the Nuremberg Code. Taking approved medicines prescribed or used as a matter of regular medical or public health practice does not constitute an experiment or research in any common understandings of the terms.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3121268/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guidelines_for_human_subject_r...

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10127050/
Crypto is probably the closest echoes of this era. Unfortunately the youth isn't going to follow most of this, and their fondest memories are themselves mostly going to be considered missteps, like the problems with building recommendation systems in the past decade.
So then clickbait title should be modified to say "low-price wrench"?

Makes sense that fairly paid labor is going to result in more expensive products that the end consumer will likely pass over if it's lacking in quality. And many consumers don't shop with these issues in mind. If they're on a tight budget and just need to fix something, lowest price may be their only priority. Tough problem to address from all angles.
my favs commands are

git-tease-chain

git-scrub-dangling-object

git-seize-mailmap

git-dress-graft

git-strangle-tree

git-satisfy-daemon

git-pat-tree-object
Why would one's profession be even partially a justification for one's existence (why need a justification at all)? That is a very weird way to look at the world.
I think most of the brain manages the physical body. This is why it's size is roughly proportional to the body weight.

I don'y know how much of the brain is used for "thinking", and I suspect science doesn't either.
So you wait for the mentally ill person to commit a crime (shouldn't be hard, they'll eventually commit some sort of trivial crime like disorderly), and then you jail them for treatment? Seems like a roundabout way of implementing asylums.
The data are of poor quality and confounded. I've become convinced that severely mentally ill people are generally not too much more violent, but I can't express a belief that the numbers are actually equal or less (they may be, but I have no specific belief).
For me, mostly because I was already subscribed for photo storage. It’s not worth paying for other cloud storage when it’s already there, even if it’s sub-optimal imo.
Right, but I’m not tracking your previous statement that banks don’t lend out existing deposits. They do! Sometimes up to 100% of existing deposits! I suspect we’re saying the same thing though. For example, a bank might take a $100 deposit, keep $10, and loan out the additional $90. That creates $90 because they original depositor still has the $100 in their account.
All the time. I would say at least 50% of my code browsing is done from my phone. I make heavy use of the mobile GitHub web interface for this (find-references support has been a godsend, search is still meh, I hate how they keep breaking basic find-in-page with SPA jank). Also Searchfox [0] when I need to comb through Firefox code (fast, excellent, no complaints—well, I guess blame on mobile could be better).

Context: grad student, programming languages and systems research plus a bunch of IoT hacking on my own time. Either elder Gen Z or youngest possible Millennial, depending where you put the cutoff.

[0] https://searchfox.org
Yes; I mentioned resourcing.
Direct solar light is more than any plant can handle, but the plants are adapted to this, which is why the terrestrial plants are green, instead of being black, in order to reflect a large part of the solar light to avoid overheating, even if this reduces the amount of captured energy.

On the other hand the oceans are dominated by diatoms and brown algae, which absorb a much greater part of the solar light.

There are many plants which are adapted to live in shadows and which would grow well under solar panels, but I do not know if there are many useful crops among them.
Curious if there’s any additional maintenance or safeguards needed to keep the hops off the face of the solar panel. Seems like that could be problematic
This seems like a counterintuitive idea.

Older people helping to make more products/services is a downside to society at large?

I would understand if “working” was a competition for limited resources. But if it is, in fact, a value generating activity, how does it harm society at large?

e.g. Having more doctors work until later, if they are capable, is not a net positive for our society’s ability to provide healthcare?
I don't know there seems to be a few things culminating - the pandemic and inflation. There are a lot of people that did not get the $10-25k pay raise that was necessary. Lots of people have gone homeless. Being without a home is one reason you can lose your shit. Also with the pandemic a lot of loved ones are gone forever. Some lost parents that takes a huge hit on ones mental state.
Where did you come up with the numbers 90% and 10%?

Did you just make them up?
Choosing Boredom
Not quite sure what's trying to be accomplished by giving an odd definition/description of hypergamy. Even wikipedia contains[1], "the overall practice of women marrying up...". Here's also some articles (by female authors) that explains what's usually going on in regards to hypergamy[2][3].

Attempting to date someone who is more attractive, is much more about opinion and is relative, so is harder to quantify. Where it's much clearer how much money is actually in someone's or their family's bank account, net worth, or who makes more money.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergamy

[2]: https://ifstudies.org/blog/whither-hypergamy

[3]: https://www.lovepanky.com/flirting-flings/dating-game/hyperg...
> git-erase-working-treeshould be used when you want to cautiously erase the current working tree of an upstream root and the config, and want to quiltimport to a active GUI.

sounds useful!