skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some fairly big gripes with the way inflation adjustion is calculated. Mainly: I don't think it properly covers the difference between discretionary vs non discretionary spending across different income levels.

Ultimately, if you're poor, the only weightings that _actually_ affect you are (in order) food, housing, transportation, and energy. Everything else including healthcare ultimately doesn't become part of the equation, because you can't afford it.

It doesn't matter if cars are cheaper if you can't afford to buy one anyway, it doesn't matter if drugs are cheaper if you can't afford your prescription anyway, and it doesn't matter if restaurants are cheaper if you can't afford to eat out anyway.

Pretending like the price of consumer electronics (which can be a big one off spend, but amortised over the several years they last are fairly small) or plane trips matters at all to the spending power of poor people is laughable.
Ahhh, not exactly - we get our fertilizer from the air actually - it's the enormous energy draw required that causes us to use fossil fuels from the ground.

That massive carbon footprint exists because although the Haber-Bosch process represents a huge technological advancement, it’s always been an energy-hungry one. The reaction, which runs at temperatures around 500 °C and at pressures up to about 20 MPa, sucks up about 1% of the world’s total energy production.

https://cen.acs.org/environment/green-chemistry/Industrial-a...

Here in my state we're looking hard at mass production (global scale numbers) of 'green' ammonia.

https://fortescue.com/what-we-do/green-energy-research/green...
Yeah I guess I contradicted myself somewhat. Im specifically referring to the domestic politics that Nate Silver is talking about, not Chinese politics.
I’m not implying that the numbers I choose are the best to use, but I think they are a fair indication of a vaccine that is very effective vs one that is marginally effective. If you have some numbers that are less arbitrary, I’m open to new info to change my mind.

During the pandemic most health institutions were being really optimistic in their messaging about the vaccines. I guess it’s just semantics, but I don’t think you can say a vaccine is darn good then say the virus mutates too fast for the vaccine to be effective long-term. Aren’t those things in opposition?
People who qualified for better rates were steered to subprime.
Ah yes the good old days of my Sony Vaio with its 2 hour battery life and red-hot undercarriage.

Give me the unexpandabe MacBook Air M2 any day.
But 2022 still had a lot of hangover effects from the pandemic, is my view. Especially with this year on track to possibly be back at 2010 levels.

I don't deny that they are facing some problems. But I'm not willing to buy that it is the existence of instagram/tictok/etc. I have little doubt those could be involved. I have doubts that they are, though.
Chrome/Chromium is already above 75% marketshare and the EU doesn’t care, and is taking moves that will actively increase consolidation and monopoly control.

We’re literally in the thread where we’re talking about the anti-consumer moves that are resulting from that consolidation. This is what it looks like when Google flexes that monopoly control and tells you how it’s going to be. EU doesn’t seem to care.
Eulogy for Richard Lynn (1930-2023)
> It may be decades before you pay off student loans

Easy fix there. Stop requiring degrees. Carl Bernstein failed out of college.
The blueberries in my (south east Queensland) Australian garden are yellow on the inside and shockingly tasty.
Highest proportion, but nowhere near "primary."
I broke mine out a few years ago and the load times are kind of irritating, and repeated unskippable cutscenes in some games cooled my retro enthusiasm.
>Why aren't banking sites gone already?

I don't work in the banking industry so I can't answer.

>Because users expect to be able to use their desktop to do their banking.

I question if this is true. Especially amongst younger people who grew up with phones.

Regardless if with this banks are able to cut down fraud this will be a benefit to the world.
Don't forget the Java Ring!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/300495374337
"How about they take on no debt because otherwise Sapporo is going to shut this down and simply take a big loss?"

Yea, taking a big loss will help with their taxes.

But they could just give it away...
I think the industry as a whole isn't in a great spot. It was in a death spiral before Trump brought some temporary relief (through endless controversies), but I'm not sure if they were able to keep that momentum going.

Nobody pays for news anymore, and that was before GPT. Even worker coops need a source of income. At this rate I'd be surprised if the industry survives at all...
I thought it might be intentional, given how a big appeal of OSS models is the ability to generate that would otherwise hit a content filter..
> The good stuff everyone has seen

I disagree. Tons of good stuff flew under the radar over the years... I have a huge backlog to work through just flipping through ranked stuff on Reelgood.
The proposed ballot measure asked a different question from what was represented by the heatmap. It wouldn't have reduced other forms of taxation like the question posed for the heatmap, it would have instead redistributed the collected taxes to government programs. I probably wouldn't have said no because of that, but I know plenty of people who would.
What motivates you to waste so many peoples’ time in this way?
Descartes and the Delirious Origins of Modern Science
Maybe not directly in libraries but there's a few programs to make a fuse filesystem backed by a database.
Parts of Australia are indeed colder than you think, at least out in Lismore during the winter.
You still do... The model has to know JSON and YAML, its just more reliable when the generation is enforced by grammar
> all the endless techniques that were used before the internet was around

Ok that’s another fallacy though. Before, authorities could get a warrant to wiretap phones and to check the outsides of your envelopes (a “mail cover.”) Only an idiot criminal would ever make a phone call or mail a letter today for anything even remotely related to crime because e2e encrypted calls and chat apps are a thing now, removing lots of risk (nobody can do anything short of getting in the room with one party and peeking over his shoulder, which is not just hard for “lazy” cops, it would be hard for elite international spies). That’s a whole new thing, and a big deal if your job is say, stopping and apprehending human trafficking rings or organized crime.

Again though I’m not saying “and that’s why we should have a back door for cops.” I’m not and we shouldn’t. Just that people who say things have changed in a very impactful way are not being hyperbolic or dishonest.
Here’s a link to internationalblueberry.org showing the monster Eureka berries:

https://www.internationalblueberry.org/2018/03/28/eureka-thr...

International Blueberry is “a global organization bringing together leaders from around the blueberry world in all segments of the industry”

The ‘blueberry world’. What’ll they think of next!?
Cyclecomputer and GPS Owner's Manual Database
I also have kids in that range. And by and large, I agree that they would be distraught to not have Netflix/YouTube/etc. However, I also know that blockbuster movies are still raking in the money, as I have family insisting on seeing Barbie this week. Super excited about it. Kids also wanted to see the Mario movie.

And if you have kids in that range, I am willing to bet that you are also in the demographic of people that generally have a natural slowdown in going to movies and things. Turns out, having kids in this age range is a full time job.

None of which is to say you are wrong. I'm just not sold on the evidence, yet. Turns out, there is still plenty of big budget entertainment out there.
I mean the answer is obvious to me: reputational “skin in the game”. Lab leak is an extremely specific assertion that someone else could easily criticize.
Adding more structure to prefixed tokens could help avoid false positives when someone signs up for GitHub secret scanning. I notice that Pushover is apparently not signed up: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-scanning/sec...
Came here to say this - pings and sundews are a better choice; loads of sticky leaves just begging to be landed on. An Alice Sundew (Drosera Aliciae) makes a fine pet and is easy to care for.
> Chrome/Chromium is already above 75% marketshare and the EU doesn’t care, and is taking moves that will actively increase consolidation and monopoly control.

It took roughly 15 years for the EU to react to Apple's practices, and they have been anticompetitive from day one.

Chrome has caused no competitive damage to consumers or competitors (yet), give it time.
It works when logged in for me
No communist country exists, and most likely one will never exist. Calling countries "communist" is supposed to be a capitalist joke on communism being a unreacheable utopia.
I can’t print cash in my house ;) and I don’t want to keep a board of it under my mattress!
I’m in the same boat. I wasn’t all that interested in Biblical puzzle quests so I thought I’d read his book about a field I know a little about. It killed my interest in his works entirely. I managed to finish the book, but after the hero is chased down a hall by the fireball released when the computer virus caused the machine to explode like it was made out of nitroglycerin I was done.
They are basically quarks. If the gap between any two quarks gets too big, a third quark will pop into existence between them*.

*I may have grossly misunderstood my physics lecturer. It was a long time ago.
They said AI chips are just 6% of the production output. They said the AI demand is not significant enough to offset the cyclical downturn in semis demand.
Where is it slow? I'm assuming libav/libffmpeg stuff - or maybe just in IO cause videos are fat.
I agree. The SF cut-throat vibe shines through the post. I did like the post though, most people don't seem to be able to make it that far. And I don't think their intent is to be judgmental. There's a lot of work to reintegrate into humanity after being deep in that culture. Accepting "failure" is definitely a first step. Not seeing the world in terms of a single-axis success vs failure might be the next one. And Vietnam sounds like a good choice for escapism, as long as you're not too surrounded by others who are there for the same reason.
Ask HN: Do weird names do better than good names, somehow, for domain names?
Interestingly, for my fellow aviation buffs, the Navy is considering replacing the E-6Bs (built upon old Boeing C-135s—military 707s) with new C-130J planes, with stretched fuselage and those cool scimitar propellers. They're more fuel-efficient, I suspect, and they can operate out of rough airstrips.

https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/breaking-c-130-tacamo-...
It would be awesome if they supported ANLTR4 grammar syntax. Such a great tool.
This is not standard. I see now that it is legacy, but I think it still demonstrates a bit of poor judgement. I believe it was before you were at fly, tptacek

https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/multi-region-databases/
The debt will be with suppliers. Sapporo will either need to pay that, or Anchor will, if the business carries on. Otherwise suppliers will either choose to not supply, make every deal cash up front, increase prices to absorb past losses or a combination of all 3. This includes production suppliers, but also things like leases, rent etc.

By contrast, shuttering it completely, selling off the barrels, makes the balance of the debt just go away. The landlord gets to simply write off owed rent.

Obviously prior owners will often take on debt to keep the business afloat. That might be financed debt, or credit lines. Or just non payments (rent etc). Resurrecting the business is hard because those suppliers have to be made whole. That's usually the killer in saving a failing business.
In the US the regulators have been captured or are neutered. Attempts to install effective regulators are stalled until they withdraw from the appointment process.
Lovely, whataboutism. We're talking about the GOP here, and what they have done. It's not the democrats asking 'where is our voting base going'.

> Oh and one other thing, let's look at some cities that have been run exclusively by Democrats for decades: Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Washington, D.C.

Okay, let's compare and constrast this to some GOP-led major cities then. It's easy enough to go 'oh the democrats ran these cities into the ground' but lets actually have a comparison against cities of a similar size and status led by republicans.

> My point isn't Democrat bad, it's that Democrat doesn't mean automatically
good.

It sure seems the GOP these days is trying to make 'republicans bad by default' the case though.
The Robobrains are closer than we thought!

Here’s a video from 2013:
https://youtu.be/1w41gH6x_30
Hey, how about the gcc->egcs->foo->gcc upgrades?
The secret is JiffyShirts.com (or any other blank wholesaler). You can buy 3 or 4 tees for the price of one from a normal store. Buy a bunch of different "models", try them on, see which fits the best, and then order more. There is some variance in sizing if you buy the same shirt again, which is annoying. But at least it doesn't matter much at $5 a shirt.
Sure, so will all the real fintech payment companies that came before Zelle too, but you can’t count on someone to be interested in signing up. They might just say “no, screw that, I don’t like Zelle/PayPal/CashApp, I demand you pay me I with cash or check or I won’t work for you anymore.”

For all I know, they might even be banned from that app, and unable to sign up to retrieve my payment.
Science reporting is one of those things that I think a formal education could actually help with. Especially since much of the job is dealing with academics and interpreting their jargon and unspoken assumptions for the public. Those are three very different cultures (academic sciences, journalism, mainstream) and it's not trivial to flow between them. Most readers don't have even a rudimentary grasp of scientific methods or statistics.

A large part of our curriculum was looking at the challenges of science communications (especially in regards to climate, but also cultural conflicts, land use, blah blah). The background context in the field was super helpful as a news reader. I can't imagine trying to write good stories with sensible context without that sort of understanding.

Could someone self-learn it? Probably. But I think the risk there is blindly falling into some tribe or another and becoming another controversial screaming head (and some would use the same argument against formal academia).

The more I learned about the field, the more I saw it as a no-win scenario. :/
Original title: Unit testing isn't enough. You need static typing too.
From 2012.
This is how it works in Holland with Open Access fiber lines https://hollandcityfiber.com/about-holland-city-fiber/

The fiber itself is owned and maintained by the public and any number of private ISP's can offer service over it. Changing ISP provider is a software decision and as such the average cost is 42 euro/mo
I have to say that excitedly waiting for Amazon to deliver 16 lbs of bacteria makes me want to laugh/puke/write a screenplay for black mirror.
I live next to Anchor Brewery. I hope it shuts down and becomes a mall.
It's sometimes called whortleberry or huckleberry in the US, although the latter in particular may refer to any of numerous berries.

Frozen berries are exported from Europe though and can probably be found in specialist shops, the French in particular are fond of them (myrtilles). The texture is unfortunately lost but the taste does come through quite well.
Internet Explorer 6 brought front-end web development to a standstill for more than five years. Let’s not do that again.
In the village where my brother lives there are no wires. There is a 4G tower but it runs on solar panels and the connection isn't very stable on cloudy days. I spoke to a person who works at a company in that area that uses Starlink. One satellite dish would probably be enough to provide Internet for the entire village.
Kroger, Albertsons merger could be affected by new FTC, DOJ guidelines
We’ve fucked up a lot of nuclear reactors? At my count it’s 2. 2 out of over 400 over 60? Years.

And while solar is great, you still need base-load and for most places in most cases solar + storage can’t do that.
Yeah they had these java buttons too. Not sure if she's j2me or javacard underneath but it's a proper OS.
Also car interactions are seldom between competing space programs or warring nationalities with their own interests and limits on maneuvering capability and energy expense quotas.

Collision avoidance at spaceX is largely automated but for most operators there is a wide variety of response capability
They can't. Liberal arts classes are taught at such a massively lower level that this requirement would mean STEM courses would have to be dumbed down or liberal arts majors couldn't pass. Lots of failed STEM majors in history class, but did you ever run into a failed liberal arts major in diff eq?
Is expect it at least to have been removed when Microsoft rewrote the network stack in Vista.
> "Bribing" has a specific meaning, which involves quid quo pro, and "corporations being able to spend money on political ads" is nowhere near that.

Market dynamics of supply and demand bridge this gap with the same vigor they bring to any other kind of "investment."

Politicians need monetary support, they figure out what kinds of positions are likely to secure that support, they adopt those positions, and the support appears. Do they meet with corporate executives in the graveyard at midnight and sign a contract with blood squeezed from the homeless? No, but it's a bit weird to point to the absence of silly midnight rituals as exonerating evidence when it's pretty clear that the exchange happens without the need for any such nonsense.
Who was there first?
I'm not sure what you mean. I used Teams on Firefox, from my Linux laptop just this week.
News like this always reminds me of how the Western world polluted the earth and then got snippy when the rest of the world started doing the same on scale. China, India, North Korea - everyone have equal rights to do this too but I don't think it will happen without a lot of western news articles, hand wringing by experts, talking heads talking, etc. and likely some politics too.

I wish we had laws that made sure a fix of future problems (ie. with debris, astronomy, etc.) had to be guaranteed before a launch was allowed. A bit of insight of how new technology often end up causing unintended problems later (or in the case of astronomy, sometimes right away).
There is a better way to think about it esp for the tech/engineering class that hangs out over here.

Govts/corporations are full of ppl. People are programmed not just for Consumption but Conspicuous Consumption.

Social status is directly tied to what Luxuries you can afford. No one wants to work for a simple boss, but for the dude who lives on a super yatch.

The most ambitious ppl know this and take full advantage of it to trap ppl who work for them in golden cages. The greatest anxiety of a beauracrat/corporate exec is exiting the cage.

Luxuries are a gigantic WASTE. And the largest companies in the world sell Luxury cause the most ambitious of the elite use luxury to signal status and trap/control everyone.

Technical minded ppl spend most of their day trying to reduce waste. So they are the group that can come up with ways that can interfere with these cycles everyone feels they are trapped in.
Shoot neutrons into rock. Some of them are absorbed by fluids and re-emitted as gamma rays. Measure gamma return to determine fluid content.
Ask HN: Do weird domain names naturally just do better?
Asking for a friend:

In a typical audio setup, there are two components wired to a stereo system that produce sound. The exact term for these components escapes me at the moment. However, if we take the singular form of this term and append ".app" to it, it forms a domain name that my acquaintance owns.

Despite the domain's relevance to audio, it doesn't seem to attract much traffic, according to my acquaintance. It's almost as if a randomly generated domain name like ub89u98u2j39u492u.com would garner more attention, which is a bit perplexing.

This situation has raised some concerns. Could it be that the domain name is simply not appealing or memorable enough? I'm interested in hearing your thoughts.
You answered none of my questions.

What have the Democrats done to improve quality is life?

Which of their policies benefit average, everyday Americans?

> Okay, let's compare and constrast this to some GOP-led major cities then. It's easy enough to go 'oh the democrats ran these cities into the ground' but lets actually have a comparison against cities of a similar size and status led by republicans.

Feel free to. I’m personally not aware of any large cities that have been run by Republicans for decades straight that are in similar condition to the 4 I mentioned, so I’d love to learn of them.

Don’t dodge the basic question of what have the Democrats done for everyday quality of life.
> But most businesses aren't big.

Careful there. While it may be true that there are more than 10 tech companies (MAANG x2) that doesn't actually reveal a lot about the skew of the landscape, as 'most' in this case means by absolute number and not weight.

Beer is no different. There's better than a 9/10 chance that microbrew you're holding is owned by one of two companies - Miller Coors or AB Inbev (and of the two it's far more likely to be Inbev). At least, this was the case a few years ago when I was still paying attention.

If you were to count by market share or even heads employed, I think you might find that "most business" is goliaths, not davids, and in this story, david loses.

Perhaps if we had kept antitrust solid it wouldn't be so hard to keep the lights on.
LightSpeed is indeed all backhaul. Whether it is a missed opportunity depends on how you look at it. Go direct consumer and you are competing directly against Amazon and StarLink. I guess TeleSat believes the bigger opportunity is going where these companies are not.

And I gotta say that "Lightspeed" is a hell of a misnomer given the rate that this program is plodding along. The longer it slides, the more that StarLink etc eat their lunch.
Looks like a tool Guidance could use to make better use of the sampling from a local llama model.
In terms of privacy, my girlfriend and I were no longer using Facebook messenger when twice it happened that someone talked while we are on the call as if the person was on duty to monitor conversation, he even talked and we heard clearly for about 10 seconds before it stopped, it was not Asian so it is not something our much captured. It happened again the next night, but this time it is a woman. After that, we decided we wouldn't use it. It happened in 2020 or 2021.
Reminder: FAA702 is used for warrantless spying. No probable cause is required.

Apple, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others have tools available for FBI/DHS to access data in/on their servers in realtime in response to Section 702 orders from the state.

The federal police can read anything in your gmail, your google docs, your complete iMessage history, your complete iCloud photo library, etc, without a warrant, at any time, 24/7/365. No probable cause or reasonable suspicion is needed. They just get to download it.
That is interesting. I know someome who buys those herbs in NZ and also complains about flies. How did you make the connection?
As long as we can still run BSD on our VAXen, I'm happy.

http://vlc.zia.io/