skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's quite the ask. It's quite unreasonable and flippant to simply want the US to model Dutch transportation and infrastructure as if the US were a greenfield project. You can't ignore legacy and existing infrastructure, culture, habits, needs, etc. that we need to consider. From the point of view of a human life, urban planning and architecture are practically permanent: once a street grid or some buildings have been built and put in place, it is VERY difficult to change any of it. To see just how lasting this can be, consider the street grids in old Italian cities look at how the still follow the original Roman planning. The amphitheaters may be gone, but the streets that used to encircle them are still there, and the buildings that stand where the amphitheaters once stood even incorporate the original foundation work. Or look at smaller US cities like Hartford that were wrecked by highways. There are people working for the administration of these cities who know how many problems these things cause, but there are no realistic options available to make all but the smallest changes and improvements. The result of the Big Dig in Boston is desirable and welcome, but the cost was enormous (in part because of unnecessary losses, but good luck eliminating those). Maybe carpet bombing could liberate these cities from certain aspects of their legacy, but even then, the cost of rebuilding would be enormous (disregarding the evil of such a thing).

This is why it is ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL that cities take urban planning VERY seriously instead of letting developers do whatever they please. Urban planning is not a private matter. It is a matter of the common good and concerns not just the public today, but the public of the future.

The US made a radical "bet" (under the heavy influence of the auto lobby) on cars, and this has been, in retrospect, a bad move in many ways. Something more balanced would have been better. Now, this doesn't mean we can do nothing. We can make conservative or incremental improvements. We can influence the direction infrastructure and development take. We just have to keep in mind that radical and sweeping changes are easy to demand, but difficult and even uncharitable to make in practice. Comparing Amsterdam to most of America is folly. The two do not afford the same opportunities for urban planning.
Browsers are increasing in importance even today, not decreasing.

And as I said, the sustainable solution is browser ballots back by the force of law. It's worked where it's been tried.

Anti-trust based solely on narrow definitions of consumer harm on the other hand, serve only the capital owners. And they'll leverage and co-opt any and every popular and useful innovation: open source, community contributions, open standards, patterns light or dark, etc.
The relevant peer-reviewed preprint, from eLife [0]. It is worth reading the peer reviews (spoiler: they're brutal) [1].

[0]: https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/89106
[1]: https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/89106/reviews#t...
Good catch thanks for pointing this out
It is, and that’s what the paper is about. The Drake equation folks aren’t accounting for that huge source of errors. When you do a proper accounting, as the paper does, the number of civilizations approaches N=1 and the paradox dissolves.
He has been said to have Aspergers/ADHD (as much as one can diagnose from biographical information, which is not that little), so this figures!
Your healthcare depends mostly on a solid foundation of technology. Otherwise everyone can have full access to all the witch doctors.
Göttingen. We can know and we shall know.
Isn’t this at least one goal of setting appropriate controls such as tariffs?
> Or the best of both worlds: American employment while living in Canada.

But then wouldn't you get double dipped on taxes?
I don't think detaining a criminal is the counter-example you want to be using here. If anything, the horrific and egregious ways that the incarcerated are treated is proof that the government is incapable of not further harming people who they deprive of human rights.
Once you ship the dies overseas there is no going back.

Apropos Milwaukee: I had one of their circular saws which dropped from a roof that I was working on and I thought for sure it's a goner. Climbed down, not a mark on it, still dead straight. It must have landed very fortunately but still that was quite the drop. and you'd at least expect some impact damage. There was a scratch on it, but that may well have been there from before the drop and it didn't look like anything to do with impact.
perhaps at theme parks or bribing bouncers/maitre's d

not at government checkpoints
Sure. I guess also the worry in the hyper capitalist world we now live in, is that our very lives are optimized to shop. Every minute of life has become financialized. We are these hunks of meat walking around trying to optimize everything. Shame.
stx::backtrace looks quite nice.

The documentation seems nice as well...except I can't seem to find a link to the code itself. I have to believe it's right in front of me and I'm just not seeing it.
Age-Period-Cohort graphs for suicide and drug overdoses
Category: Things to remember if ever dealing with Yale University.
Try Banished.

It's like 10 years old, but kind of scratches that simple old lifestyle itch without any war or fighting elements
I suspect that it has more to do with the desire to have tools. No one in the year 1900 would have said they did not want tools. They were essential, and even if you had no particular need for a tool yourself, it was something to loan for favor trading. If someone would've have given them high quality tools, it'd be like gifting you or me a spaceship.

Today? Who wants a tool, they live in places where they can't even keep more than the tiniest assortment of tools, and they use them infrequently enough for them to be more of a burden than an asset.

If such people do not want tools, they sure as hell don't want expensive, high quality tools. Those are like the cheap ones, but they cost more and you cry more when you lose them moving to the next apartment. And if no one wants high quality tools...

Well, no one's going to bother to sell them.

If I'm honest, it's a little bit of what you say and the two effects play off on each other as it spirals down into the void.
Hi, I'm the main developer of Egregoria.

I did not expect to end up on hackernews that early. While I've been working on this project on and off for 3 years it is still in its infancy. I have so many things I want to rewrite, so many features missing even for the most basic game loop. So many 3D models I have to make.

And so little time! Working on this as a side project with a full time job has been hard at times. I do not recommend making city builders :D

I wish I anticipated the attention so I would have given the README bit more love.

Anyway, I will try to answer any questions in the comments.
GPokT: ChatBot to navigate docs for our open-source project
Justin Frankel is a pretty interesting guy. Kind of ahead of his time. He had a warehouse space down the block from my business in SF and I got to hang out with him a couple times. I think these days, he's trail running and still making music.
In an environment where staff are a cost optimization, tech debt and things like CI/CD are luxuries. Much of it will be half baked or poorly implemented. Automation of unit tests and validation are going to be afterthoughts at best.
If a company has really good products that never have issues, who would ever know whether they have good customer service?

I kid, sort of, but I've seen awfully expensive equipment in use for years before anyone really stress tests the vendor support, and so much of reputation is just advertisements and luck. And the quality of support seems to change pretty quickly... though usually for the worse...
> This is about maintaining long-term leader position in military technology of which AI is a big part.

Yes, but this is part of the strategy to contain CCP while competing with it, deterring it from trying to take over Taiwan, preventing another Ukraine, which could be costly even if the war is won.

The strategy to compete with CCP, instead of co-operating (as a factory of the World and a reliable trade partner), became mainstream since 2018 or so, when CCP show that it wanted to challenge the current world order (see the China 2049 Initiative by Xi).
Productivity is not a universal good. Productivity on its own does not lead to better business outcomes. The problem with management that doesn’t do or know how to do the work is that they get detached from what should be done — they can be neither visionary nor maintainer. This can be overcome when management loses their ego and listens to those doing the work, merging their high level view with the data gotten from perspectives on the shop floor. I can count the number of people in management I’ve observed capable of doing that on one hand in a decade.
I personally only use my Macbook Air unplugged for 90% of work which includes a lot of typing and reading. This works fine for me because the vast majority of the time I'm not on my desk - sometimes I'm on the couch next to the catering area, sometimes I'm on the bench on the balcony outside, sometimes I'm in a meeting room, sometimes I'm at a cafe outside, etc and I move around all the time. IMHO, moving often and taking stretch breaks trumps any benefits you would get from a fancy ergonomic setup.
iOS backing up apps is such a scam. By default all apps get added to it consuming lots of MB from the low 5GB of storage.

Does the Home Depot really need 200MB of storage backed up? I'm not even signed in...

Why isn't Apple's review process protecting me from this?
Nope. In my case I’m paid Canadian dollars and receive a T4 and am not on the radar at all for US taxes.

I think there’s a lot of ways for it to be handled.
>Craftsman used to stand for quality, with a lifetime no-questions-asked guarantee wherein, if the tool fails for any reason, it will be replaced. Period. No questions asked, no receipt required. Quality. And men proudly used their father's or grandfather's tools.

This means people bring in 25, or 50 year old worn down tools, and Craftsman replaces them for free. While having to pay modern material and labor costs to replace a tool that was bought 25-50 years before. If that happens too much, it becomes a huge liability on the company. Hopefully the person walking in to replace a damaged or worn hammer or screwdriver decides to buy a set of wrenches while standing there, making it an upsell for Craftsman, but likely it didn't happen enough to keep them viable.
That's basically correct. The one other thing to note is that many in the profession are now wanting to use this to settle their personal and professional vendettas under a culture war aegis.

The other thing is that allegedly (I am not privy to any details so this is only based on what I've publicly read) the posters on that webboard had exposed some plagarism issues of one of the authors of the paper that doxxed them.
I've read your comment twice and don't understand the point you're trying to make. Care to try again?
In some cases, because we make it illegal for Americans to act on it even they were willing/interested. That’s not the majority of the story, but it’s part of it.
> When you are shopping you implicitly want others wages as low as possible.

Maybe I'm splitting hairs here, but this isn't true stated like this. I'm surely not representative of most shoppers, but I don't want wages lower, I want the actual workers to get the largest cut of what I spend. Higher ups are salaried and have a guaranteed stable income which is not anything like an hourly wage. Lowering prices by simply cutting bonuses to people who already have a stable income is not at all the same as wanting hourly employees to take pay cuts to make your junk cheaper.
Globalism wasn't "sold" as a good idea. Shareholders of companies that make tools just realized they profit more by increasing the difference between cost of production and final sale price.
Almost none of the farmed produce of Australia is native to Australia.
> [In the 1980s] Microprocessors started to replace integrated circuits.

Author implies (in the quote above which occurs after the discussion of the invention of personal computers) that the early personal computers from the 1970s did not use microprocessors. This of course is false: All the early "personal computers" used microprocessors. For example the IMSAI used an 8080, the Apple II used a 6502, and the TRS-80 used a Z80. Microprocessors -- which were never intended to be the basis for entire general-purpose computers -- were repurposed for exactly that application by visionaries like Woz. Microprocessors made personal computers possible.

It would be more correct to state that in the 1980s microprocessors began to replace integrated circuits in mini and larger computers.

A subtle related point is that it would be even better to point out that by "integrated circuit" above the author really means discrete small-scale integrated circuit. All microprocessors are integrated circuits, but not all integrated circuits are microprocessors. Microprocessors are large-scale integrated (LSI) circuits or nowadays very large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuits.
There is a relevant Wikipedia page. The format used by the "Yes, Minister" joke originated with Bertrand Russell.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation
what's the point in education if the AI does everything?

all employment, music, art, ...
Well don't keep it all to yourself. Break it down for me so I can understand.
> esp. those in the tech community

It’s a vocal minority of the tech community that shares that opinion. The silent majority knows it’s just fud marketing. Personally when i encounter a customer support chat bit i immediately assume low quality services and products. When i meet a software engineer blown away but chatgpt’s “coding skills” i assume that engineer is not particularly competent. There are valid use cases and the tech has obviously got potential but we are not there yet.
> lots of mentally ill people don't get proper treatment, yet are still a huge burden on the health care system.

I'm not saying you're right or wrong, but why do you believe that?
Should they sew their own uniforms? Build their own laptops?
This is what happens when you optimize the wrong metric.
The ability for contract manufacturers to simply source things from neighboring companies is a very real thing - and usually the quality is pretty good. Somehow, working between companies is a quick and fast thing, where here making a new business relationship is seemingly mired in problems.
I wish I could work on it full-time. However, after reading a lot about indie game developers, and judging from my situation, it seems like keeping it as a side project is a better decision for me from a financial and mental health standpoint.

Keep up the good work on Metropolis 1998! I have followed your work and the dev community you built around it and it is very inspiring.
I have no problem with and want regulators to regulate on worker safety, plant emissions, and truth/fairness in advertising.

I don’t want regulators to force rules on lifetime warranty, sales methods, tolerances and material specifications and the like. The latter is where the tool truck brands are often winning for demanding users of tools.
Odds are he’s a third party contractor—so despite driving an Amazon van with Amazon branding in an Amazon uniform delivering Amazon packages to Amazon customers, he’s got no employee protections from Amazon.
Yep, it would be nice if they had used standard terminology. Example: a "virtual router" that you could configure (with internet, NAT, connections to other VPCs, firewall rules, etc.) Instead, you have all sorts of one offs: "internet gateways", "NAT gateways", "egress only internet gateways", "transit gateways." We're going to wind up with a whole generation of engineers that only understand "cloud" and not how things actually work.
Perhaps this isn't just a case of labor costs and failure of automation but also a story of business venture that simply failed due to a once-in-a-century pandemic and our government's poor handling of it (by two administrations):

"Executives said at Stanley’s May 2019 investor day that the factory would be in production in 18 months. Former employees said that timetable, thrown off by the pandemic, meant the system wasn’t properly tested before being brought up to scale. "

Consequently:

"By then, Stanley had already announced it was divesting its security business, its oil-and-gas unit and a door-making division in a bid to become a more focused company. An earnings call in July 2022 revealed that the core tool business had suffered a sudden drop in demand after the boom times of the pandemic."
I just mean that it seems like actually a somewhat possible number for humans to build, though obviously it's more like infeasible than impossible. I pretty well realized how fucked humanity is around a decade ago, so it has been interesting to watch the realization spreading.
One of the things I appreciated about this article was the subcurrent of lack-of-knowledge. Ok, there was the pandemic, manufacturing problems, supply chain issues, etc. However it sounds like there was a chronic lack of people who had done this before.

When you move manufacturing overseas, you’re not just eliminating jobs: you are eliminating knowledge.
When I read the original story and this metformin one, I'm so glad I live in a country where I basically can walk to a pharmacy and by most drugs without a prescription.

I can buy 60 slow release 500mg tablets online for about $10 usd and they'll send them to my home for about 1 extra dollar.

Fuck the government, fuck their controls. If I or someone I love is dying, I'll make sure to try ANY and all options, even if it has a slight chance of working. Everyone has a right to fight for their live.

[1]https://www.fahorro.com/metformina-500-mg-liberacion-prolong...
For property I might mildly suggest basing fines off the property tax.
Lazy Layout: A fun application of circular programming
I suppose the "real" way to travel is to hitchhike into town and get by with no money. Bonus points if it's a conflict zone, like eastern Ukraine. No thanks on that one.
HTTP/3, HTTP/2, many useless JS API are pushed by Google.

Is there any real alternative to the multimedia Web? Or do We need to make one now?

What we need:

- hypertext, links
- raster and vector images
- videos
- responsive layout system of said hypertext (cassowary)
- programs that can control the page content fully
The thing is, these stores budget for loss (shrink).

The problem is when they go over this budget, the store will need to reduce costs to cover their larger shrink budget.

The largest cost for stores is employees.

The executives and corporate don't lose hours, the low level employees do.

You might think you are sticking it to the man, but in reality you are screwing over the low level employees
The title doesn't even make sense. First, does "Every economist" mean literally every one? What does it even mean to be "on Mastodon", considering that Mastodon is software, not a platform?

Is the author really saying that every Mastodon instance on the planet has been compromised and scanned, and all instances of economists found, and their data downloaded? Or do we just not care about silly things like facts and correctness?

The article starts with a complete lack of context and without any explanations at all. It's as though we walked in to the middle of a conversation, and nobody bothered to recap.
If "anything can be broken down to a zero sum game" just means "time is finite, react accordingly" that's all well and good. Kind of banal, though. I was hoping for something more theoretical...
> Who does a person belong too?

Their Maker if you believe in one (read declaration of independence to see similar views around foundation of America), or no one I suppose if you are an atheist. This is why the government shouldn't tell you what to believe in.

> We are nothing without our communities. Naked apes at the mercy of fate.

You own your community/government in the US. Not the other way around. For example, conscientuous objection to participating in combat, for soldiers! (As government property as you get) is a thing because ultimately the government lacks authority over a person to override their beliefs or ways. The "community" as you put it only has authority over you over activities that affect it. My suggestion is to simply remove people from a community who refuse to play by its rules while allowing them to pursue their own ways.

> It is our communities that make us able to survive. Our families, neighbors, friends, foes, we are all in it together. Bonds of love and mutual obligation

Communities are consensual relationships not ones formed out of natural hierarchial authority over others. None of what you said here is relevant because the subject here is when people are being forced to do things against their will just because the majority wants it that way, making them lesser subjects and prisoners of the community instead of equal and consensual participants of it.

> Supporting each other, meeting the needs of others and having our needs met does not mean we live in North Korea

When your support jails people or makes it so that they can't function without conformance, it does indeed become opressive to them.

> Mutual aid is not the end of individual liberty. It is the engine that makes it possible

That's nice but what part of this topic is mutual aid?
For anyone who wants to bring back asylums: first and foremost, you must imagine that you will be subjected to asylums as they existed. You could simply be protesting while black or female, considered insane for protesting and forcibly detained-- for which you can be raped and assaulted, and any reporting to the police of your trauma isn't taken seriously because you're considered insane.

It's nonsensical to say we should bring back asylums and then not seriously consider what asylums were at the time. Women who tried to fight for their right to vote were put in asylums and raped.
It's not about travel, it's about vacation. For a lot of people, their vacations are about the only time they can truly be "lazy". People pay money to not need to think.
Yah Stephen hit him on that point, he counters with Austin Texas and the nightly bat flocking behavior which is true. There’s all kinds of bats in Houston Texas too.
It took about 40 years to find efficient ways to treat AIDS.

It took about one year to find efficient ways to treat COVID-19.

So, if you have a condition with a few years of life expectancy remaining, maybe it's worth it to wait for some promising scientific results to turn into an approved medicine that will cure you. If you have a few decades (e.g. the normal life expectancy), even more so. If you doctors give you a few months though, maybe the "try anything" approach is a better gamble.
The paper shows that when multiplying seven unknown numbers together, the expected result is much, much less than multiplying seven fixed estimates together.

Sagan et al come up with a long sequence of reasonable sounding estimates that when multiplied together result in, say, N=10000, that is ten thousand advanced civilizations in our own galaxy alone. But each one of the terms involved in that calculation was highly uncertain. This paper shows that if you multiply the probability distribution for N_a and N_b together and then sample, you get a value less than sampling N_a and N_b separately and then multiplying, as Drake, Sagan, et al do.

If you perform the calculation properly using their very same estimated terms, but multiplying probability distributions instead of pre-sampling, you end up with an aggregate N value very close to 1. Meaning we should expect to be alone, and therefore no paradox.