skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is that you can drag a lot of unrelated things together and get an increasingly predictive metric, despite the underlying factors being unrelated, which simply means that "being predictive" is not by itself dispositive of some underlying mechanism. It doesn't mean prediction isn't real! The problem is people going from "prediction" to "inferred ground truth" --- which is exactly what happens in the "g" discussions.
My guru (I'm Indian) was an astrologer. Every time Mars goes retrograde I tell people "astrology is nonsense, but this Mars retrograde thing gets me every time..." and surely enough, every time...

I was raised on Karl Popper and Thomas Kuhn. There can't be anything to it. It has to be nonsense.

December 06 2024 is the next Mars retrograde. See if things don't go completely to hell right around then.
I don't think there's any value in astrology. The fact that people believed in it (and still do) for a very long time doesn't change that, as humanity has had many long-standing beliefs that turned out to be entirely wrong (e.g. geocentrism, that there was something particular about biochemistry that couldn't be recreated synthetically, aether, ...).

The fact that it may serve a certain psychological function means that we can understand why humans are intrigued by it. And I do agree that we shouldn't be too quick with judgements, because all humans are fundamentally irrational and we have to expend some very conscious effort to think rationally (and nobody can claim to do that at all times, so we all have certain irrational beliefs).

But that doesn't change whether astrology itself is, epistemically, telling us anything of value about the nature of the world, which I'm pretty convinced it doesn't.
s/ai/loom/ the sentiment is always the same and it doesn't work that way. Worry about concentration of wealth and power, sure, but automation never net removed jobs from the economy it makes more.
It's a crime. Maintaining continual access to every major vpn provider increases the probability of getting caught breaking the law towards one while continually risking the methods required to acquire such access each time your implant is discovered.

If you are using unknown exploits not passed on to relevant software projects each discovery further risks said exploit being discovered then used against us individuals and enterprise.

It is a potentially very high cost for mediocre gain as criminals can turn to more secure methods leaving you with a lot of data on whose hiding piracy from their ISP but little of actual value.

Meanwhile you can direct attack targets any other ways when they are likely to have actual intelligence instead of hoping they log into nord VPN.

In brief speculation is incredibly likely to be based on bad logic and should probably attend more to actual know.

Eg most people aren't important enough to directly target. Uncle Sam probably knows the entire contents of your Gmail but not what you do via nord VPN. At such time as you become an international drug lord your privacy is likely to fall apart when Sam starts serving providers who do business with you.
> the lack of a license [agreement] cannot give you more permission than a restrictive license [agreement]

That is clearly false. It's hard to imagine the confusion of ideas that would lead you to such a conclusion.
This idea is not really new - the California Master Plan for Education essentially promised a free higher education to everyone in California. In 1960. [1]

As these things go, the plan was eroded over time, with the (in)famous Proposition 13 of 1978 dealing a big blow.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Master_Plan_for_Hig...
This site doesn't limit posts to only tech. The social culture in this site simply makes technical posts more likely to hit the front page.

I'm not surprised techies are inherently interested in some socio-political stuff. Especially a topic like education where they may feel it should be an egalitarian endeavor (the interpretation of "egalitarian" inevitably causes conflicts, of course).

>any mention of certain cities or states, even in a tech context, brings out the culture warriors.

any mention of any high level topic will bring them out. I don't know what to say about that. As long as they are engaging with the topic and arguments and not devolving into attacking users or spreading hate, there's nothing wrong with a strongly opinionated comment.
"Is the city government elected?"

We've had tons of voter initiatives totally steamrolled by lobbyists in Sactown and SF. We passed a law to restrict rent increases, a couple years later the corporatists got it shut down before it could become a law. doesn't matter if the citizens elect the city government when rich people and rich corporations can come in and literally bribe their way out of anything.
Gotcha; JSX, by colocating related JS and HTML, tempts inexperienced developers to write JS hacks for behaviors already available natively in HTML and CSS.

I think that is a fine tradeoff when the alternative is an arbitrary separation of technologies, a web of querySelectors, imperative DOM manipulation, and walls of incoherent stylesheets.
There's a certain delicious irony in using the socket API to complain that the only thing BSD brought to the table was the license.
I see what you did there... - https://www.guitarworld.com/news/brian-may-sixpence-guitar-p...
Equity is a stake in something, for its outcome.

Investment is one a thing.

Having access to opportunity is another
Is it because of a heavy reliance on government, or a general issue that we face when dealing with hard problems?

Put another way, when we don't rely on governments to help with things like this - does that incentivize people to take on responsibility? I suspect not...
Military ai won't mix linen and wool
If you read my post carefully, you'll see I call it a "hot take", which should indicate it's a bit tongue in cheek. But more importantly, you'll notice that I used the word "eventually", with implies that I recognise that these capabilities are currently beyond us, without putting a timeline on when I think these capabilities could arise.

That said, it doesn't seem to be outside the realm of possibility. Which is why I said it.
You have cheaper water in the Bay Area than in San Jose, Costa Rica.
It would be great.

But K-12 delivery would need to be reasonably similar quality everywhere, and it’s not, and that would take a decade or two of waiting.
> those numbers make no sense.

Perhaps in the sense of "on average, families have 1.6 children" (or whatever it is) ­— i.e, these are aggregate numbers, not to be taken as specific examples of actual households. Interpreting statistics can be tricky like that.

Also, to be fair, that study (I briefly looked) just lists toilet per-capita GPD in the quoted section ("Daily Per Capita Use"); it does not equate it to a number of flushes. They do have a whole section devoted to toilet flushes though — see "ULF Toilet Savings".
This ignores that many individual situations were bad simply because of their skin color.
> UC's are a huge exception

UNC Chapel Hill, UVA, Virginia Tech, College of William & Mary, Georgia Tech, UT Austin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin Madison, Purdue...

America has a solid stable of top-tier public universities.
>Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I think you can argue there's an interesting new phenomenon here. By these rules, I'm guessing the original "Russia attacks Ukraine" post would be allowed, but not the 50th update on the war.
Exactly. During my English & Film Studies major we studied all kinds of texts, some of them very poor quality e.g. the early 90s adaptation of The Scarlet Letter - but the lecturers always found something useful to say about them, and almost never talked about them as 'good' or 'bad'.
but can't really afford to pay for school

Oh, they're paying for it all right.
imo, 1/3rd of that is more than enough to be 'comfortable'. Certainly enough for a small apartment or roommate situation, yearly international vacation and multiple domestic, mix of eating out (3-4 times per month) and cooking at home (packing lunches is required imo), going to a few concerts/museums/plays per month, cheap gym membership, etc. Add a spouse w/ shit income into the mix + children, okay, not good ... but those are choices ;)
> If you think hitting dot in your IDE and choosing among the options is as much as you should be required to learn, you are asking to use NERF toys instead of power tools.

It depends. It's really great when that does work out. It's traditionally my first step (copilot frequently beats me to the correct use of an unfamiliar API today), second step being the documentation if that's not enough. Step 1 is almost always sufficient.
Desalination seems ideal for cheap but unreliable energy like solar or wind. You just need a water reservoir to act as "battery".
So tell me, how are state congressman chosen? Senators? Federal congressmen? Local school boards, state judges, county sherriffs. What happens before a new president takes power? What procedure is implemented to facilitate that?
Relevant XKCD, "keyboard heating":

https://xkcd.com/1172/
It was sold as a way to fix the wrongs of institutionalized bigotry. Unfortunately certain minorities get turned away from AA benefits because the narrative is focused on only one group despite historical slights affecting many more. As implemented, it wasn't even fair to the people it was claiming to assist.
> The important difference from ICE refuelling is that you don't have to be by the car when it charges.

That's a disingenuous take. ICE fueling takes significantly less time. So it's not an advantage that you can take a 20-30 minute break away from your car when you can just gas up your car in a few minutes (attended) and be on the road again.
Does being a foster child automatically mean you're poor though?

Could one be taken away from rich abusive parents with a mandated allowance?
I try to avoid propaganda. The fact your authoritative source is the LA Times provides important context as to why you think the things you do

That said your link does not prove your claim, the fact that Newsom is supported by liberal elite is not news, and only 1 of the families in the story seemingly have connection to being landloards

The other were a oil company, a retailer, and 2 owners of hotels, of which all of them seem to be old money with seemingly no direct connection to current San Fran real estate market.
I don’t know, what he’s done so far has created a massive vibe switch so I think what he has done is take Twitter from negative social value to neutral.
There’s probably a relationship between the severity of a pathogen’s disfigurement and uptake of vaccines among the people who don’t get routine medical care.
I'm not sure how many people understand how much of a badass move this is.

Andrej is helping apple and Facebook and more importantly the open source movement while also being paid really well by OpenAI(MSFT)

But they are not going to push him out because he will go directly to Tesla or xai.
Yeah Cyberpunk wasn't so much a dream as a dystopian reaction to modern life; instead of exploring space, people do crimes to scrape by. I certainly wouldn't want to live in Snow Crash or Neuromancer...
>Why would certain planet not represent certain traits?

Why would they? How would they possibly?

>Who has really studied it scientifically?

Many, many people, over many, many years. Absolutely no scientifically credible or experimentally replicable effect has ever been found to lend any credence whatsoever to astrology, in any form, ever. Here is a wikipedia article on the subject to get you started[0]. You can find other examples with a simple Google search.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology_and_science
> Would you say Equality and equity are the same?

It depends on with whom I'm speaking. Even the Wikipedia page for the former is a disambiguation [1].

The historical (and international) use of the former is closer to that of egalitarianism [2]. I fail to see what is gained by redefining equality and creating the term equity
when equal opportunity vs. equality of outcome has decades of scholarship behind it, to say nothing of being clearer on first glance.

I don't know enough to render judgement. But it smells like the tail-chasing semantics the social sciences love, randomly re-appropriating jargon instead of debating the underlying problem.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarianism
Can we get a (2021) in the title?
Indeed it's hard to make unambiguous statements. But somehow business leaders do, and subordinates are able to make reasonable assumptions, ask clarifying questions and produce something that approximates what the business requested. Perhaps riddled with bugs and way past deadline, but ultimately something that produces value.

If you don't think that's ever going to be possible with AI (notice how I used the word "eventually" in my post) then I don't know what to say to you.
> It's hard to determine tor's net-value to society, since it's such a double bladed sword. I'm not sure it's something deserving of thanks.

This is a good point. It’s hard to determine any tool’s net value to society. I’m not sure any tool ever made is deserving of thanks.
I understand both the mechanics and the implementation. What I was asking for was the use case.

Making assignment easier and compile time at the cost of making access costlier and runtime seems like an unusual tradeoff. I'm very interested in the case that makes that worthwhile.
> I think the easy way to look at this is that a certain segment of society will always want to believe in something beyond the observable world

Even if you believe that, this can also in principle be studied at least somewhat more rigorously by considering philosophy.

There's no "right" or "wrong" answer to "is there anything beyond the observable world?", but there's arguments that are principled and reasoned and others that aren't even internally consistent.

I'll agree though that majoring in metaphysics is unlikely to be something many people will be able to (or willing to) achieve.
> This thingy: https://extranet.bundesbank.de/ams

My favourite thing on that website is the script block inside a noscript tag that they actually expect to run. Things like that tend to suggest the developers have absolutely no idea how to code for a web browser.
The only ecological problem I've heard of is pumping back the extra saline water to the ocean.

Which to me sounds completely negligible in real world terms.
So you've gone from "nested ternary is hard to read" to "This is an introductory text, let's mix arithmetic with numbers and booleans by using true and false for 1 and 0"? That's a remarkable turn in just a few comments toward the side of obfuscation.
The hydrogen cells in production and used in motorsport are literally bulletproof. The type of accident that results in your tank exploding would have to be so severe you would be dead before the gas had time to ignite.
Used it for half an hour and I’m on the verge of making it my default.

Glad to see Reader mode is planned. Am hoping there will be a setting to make that the default mode for the browser.

And it’s really fast on my 2020 SE.
Why don't you name the pieces of facts that are missing then so the parent can respond to it?

You keep making personal attacks and asking if the parent is employed by the state of Florida. What does their employment situation have to do with anything?
American universities have an incentive to seem extortionate
This article [0] describes how Houston has lots of land-use regulations, they just try to avoid calling it by the word "zoning". They enforce deed restrictions saying what can be built where. There's density policies based on location. There's tax reinvestment zones. Much of the metro area is covered by federal airport zoning regulations. There's buffering rules limit building heights, setbacks, and construction styles. There's historic preservation rules. There's rules covering lot sizes. There's also regulations on parking space requirements [1].

Houston seem to have most of the same rules incentivizing the same kind of development seen in most other cities in the U.S., and they look like most other cities in the U.S. Are they really doing anything different?

I would agree that most people who complain about the prevailing zoning rules in the U.S. don't want the kind of rules that development in Houston has to abide by, either.

[0] https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/forget-what-youve-heard-ho...

[1] https://www.munistandards.com/texas/houston/parking-requirem...
What happens when students switch (functional) languages?
I agree with you, I really do. Some meal is better than no meal.

But we forgot how to make decent food at scale.
1. Loved discovering that shebangs are handled by the kernel in Chapter 3 - I did not know that.
2. Enjoyed reading the `execve` walkthrough.
3. I also like that you make it a point to include what the Mac OS and Windows equivalents for Linux terms are.

If you could enable opening of the graphics such as the one illustrating the hierarchical page table concept to their original high resolution, that would be nice for readability.
USPS is (since 1970) an Independent Agency rather than an agency of the executive branch. This was sort of a semi-privatization measure that isolates USPS from the federal government, USPS operates mostly as a government-owned independent corporation. There are a number of other independent agencies as well, they way they relate to .gov domains varies. I don't think there's a well-settled policy on whether independent agencies should use .gov domains. Amtrak doesn't, the CIA does, NCUA does, Federal Reserve mostly doesn't (except the board which is a federal agency). I think it depends mostly on brand identity and how much they want to be perceived as private sector vs. government agencies, since independent agencies often straddle a line between the two.
looked up my username (in inverted commas), and got such useful results like:

0--0----------------------------------------------------logopod.ru

0--0-hosting-obzor--hosting-obzor--hosting-obzor--hosting-obzor.ru

0--0.xn--p1ai

And just a ridiculous amount of broken-UTF8 and Chinese sites.
Second devil's advocate here: I know this isn't necessarily "good" in terms of security, but it's a very common pattern for higher-level tools these days to connect directly to databases. A LOT of marketing/analytics tools support this seemingly because users want this (see: Customer.IO, Looker, etc.)

So again, I'm not saying you're wrong in that this might be a bad security practice, but OP is not alone in taking this approach and many SaaS vendors are seeing success and getting users because of it. So OP is going down a trodden path.
Then why talk about “breaking” changes? Just say “changes.” Of course, the reason we use the phrase “breaking changes” is that we are making a distinction between certain types of changes.
> If boot firmware implemented it, I wouldn't count on it being updated very often. Every OS these days has a pretty good update process that patches things frequently.

Not only that, but updating firmware is always riskier than updating the OS. If an OS update is broken, you can easily use the firmware to recover (booting from the OS install media and working from there); recovering from a failed firmware update can be much harder and/or obscure.
You're describing the old Firefox before they became Google's controlled opposition. Since 2011 all they have done is continuously stripped out every useful power user feature in a bid to turn into a shitty copy of Chrome; the last straw was gutting their powerful XUL/XPCOM extension system in favor of Chrome's far limited web extensions because muh security (and since then there's been more, not less cross browser malware). Today you can't even write your own extension for use on the main build thanks to forced extension signing (which ended up disabling everyone's extensions a few years ago due to an invalid certificate).
And that's before all their unethical tracking, in browser advertising and privacy violation over the years, that requires various 'hardening' about:config changes out of the box, or the erosion of configurable features with almost every release. Mozilla are woke hypocrites today, financially dependent on Google while claiming to be privacy champions and squandering their money on multiple other projects instead of focusing on Firefox.
The only browser that continues to be the old Firefox in spirit - the one that upended Microsoft's IE monopoly - is its hard fork, Pale Moon (which gets derided as oLd aNd iNSeCuRe by Mozilla fanboys). Doesn't need any 'hardening' because it doesn't snoop on you to begin with, and the latest versions have massively improved web compatibility while retaining support for the original powerful XUL extension system.
There is something wrong with it.

I think about it information theoretically. Oversimplifying, the information content of something is how unpredictable it is in a given channel. On HN, in 2023, the information content of yet another comment ranting about some given city or state or group of people is basically zero. Everyone has seen those comments a thousand times recently and it adds nothing to the discussion.
Well good news, The local elections in San Fran I believe are already your dream.. How is that working out?

I really like our electoral college system, believe we need stronger ID requirements to vote, and believe we need to repeal the 17th amendment returning more power to the states, removing it from the federal government.

I will agree with one of your reforms, that of a voting holiday, though i would prefer instead to just have Voting week, starting on Sunday, ending on Sat, with no state allowed to release results until the next Monday eliminating the 24 hour news cycle on "election day" and eliminating problems like "voting day bugs" or "rain outs" etc. and the constant battle for "news" organizations to "call" an election 2 seconds into the voting
Taxing mega corporations more aggressively is one often cited approach, but I agree this doesn’t really provide enough for UBI. 1000 a month to each household would be about 1/20th of our GDP.
Honestly we'd be better off cutting out everything political and err on the side of being over-inclusive with "political." California deserves to be dunked on for a lot of things but should hacker news be the place for that?

I'm sure someone will glibly informs me that "everything is political". So please tell me how "High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system"[1] is political like this discussion about controversial public policy. Clearly, and thankfully, there is a spectrum.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36820544
Millions of people over thousands of years can't be wrong!

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be afk for a while because I recently caught a miasma and need to bleed the demons out from my bilious humors.
Did they correct for COVID deaths by motorcycle accident, gunshot wound, and heart attack? I don't think a vaccine would have prevented those deaths.

> As the CDC report notes, “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.”
In other words, 94 percent of Americans who have died from coronavirus from the week ending February 1, 2020 to the week ending August 22, 2020 had, on average, almost three comorbidities that played a role in their death.

> Anecdotally, there are several stories of cases in which people with COVID-19 had deadly heart attacks, yet these cases were coded as COVID-19 deaths. In one extreme case, a Florida man who died in a motorcycle crash happened to also have COVID-19 at the time, yet was coded as having died from COVID-19, not because of the motorcycle accident.

https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/514915-is-us-covid-19...