skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Talk about a first world problem.

Anyway, few ideas. Structurally, open source and decentralized technologies should make it feasible to create cities with multiple levels of infrastructure and fully automated private transport.

Rather than a bunch of independent skyscrapers, more like egg-shaped megastructures connected by multiple levels of roadways for small self-driving cars. And modular buildings inside the structures along with greenery and water features.

And more emphasis on mixed use and residential rather than offices.

Obviously, that involves massive investment.

Another technological approach to more friendship opportunities will be the increasingly realistic and comfortable VR, AR and MR systems. One can imagine a few years down the road if you want to meet someone then you put on a lightweight comfortable pair of goggles or glasses and "teleport" to a shared virtual space. The system will create a very realistic digital avatar without the goggles that matches your eye and body movements and photoreal room.

There are still latency limitations but much less than requiring actual physical presence.
Yes! I have Ubuntu at my office and is difficult to get the latest emacs. I found a PPA but it has a bit of lagging behind..
Perhaps you think they should fill out tax forms too.
For their entire existence, newpipe and youtube-dl/yt-dlp have frequently stopped working and needed to be updated to deal with changes in youtube. This is nothing new; youtube was never open.

It's also not as if most other video sites provide an open api that doesn't need to be scraped
Yeah just look at the recent hunter Biden trial to see what can happen when money and influence gets thrown at the legal system. It’s just systemic corruption through and through, it simply got caught up on one ethical actor so we get to see all the dirty laundry
You can build in the same spot, but it seems some insurers require raising the property to do so. This was more common with beach houses which sometimes look like they're thirty+ feet in the air to me. But now it's happening in Houston suburbs as well. Driving around Myerland or near any of the bayous and you'll see little 50s ranches at ground level next to a modern two story house that's also sitting on an elevated lot.

What's truly absurd to me is thanks to (I hear) outsized influence from builders on city and county government and little to no zoning laws, we've seen development in reservoirs that were previously runoff areas! I mean I remember the flooding that happened after Alicia and driving by the flooded and closed Addicks Reservoir. Fast forward thirty years, and that same area was developed and subsequently flooded by Harvey.

Unfortunately only now the Army Corps of Engineers is saying they'll settle claims with homeowners in the area but only at the expense of granting the ACE a flooding easement, when the ACE should have had the power to block development and leave that land as a catchment in the first place.

Insurance of last resort is steadily increasing in price. So like property taxes, it will eventually price people out.
I'm misunderstanding the theorem. Take f(x) = x + 1. That is a continuous function. But there does not exist an x where f(x) ~ x holds. What am I missing?
Rainbolt is an amazing geodetective without doubt.

There was also a great talk about Overpass Turbo and related OSINT tools on the 2021 CCC Congress, also showing examples outside the US.

The talk is available in english as well: https://media.ccc.de/v/rc3-2021-r3s-112-osint-ich-wei-wo-dei...
Very blunt, I appreciate that. Though, engineering leadership is certainly different than other types of leadership. Managing through example was my current way of working. I'd be collaborating with engineers, and try to coach them when I could, or sponsor them when I couldn't (provide with either internal or external coaching).

I didn't mention that I'm coding in my initial post, and the reality is that I currently don't code at my job. So while I appreciate your answer, it doesn't really apply to my case, or my question.
> Aren't they just writing notes and ordering meds?

This is the mistaken assumption. There is a _lot_ more going on. Sibling comments have given some examples but here's some more:
- appointment booking and scheduling
- waiting lists
- referrals to other institutions (which may use a different IT system)
- communications with patient (including automatic appointment reminders, bulk contacts etc)
- integrations with many, many other systems
- reporting
- billing
- complex IAM: there are many different roles in a healthcare setting all with different access requirements

Fwiw a lot of institutions _do_ use office 365, sharepoint etc but those tools just don't do enough by themselves and aren't integrated in the way that EHR software typically is.
Why take your property taxes to educate our nation's children when you don't even have children? Am I unfairly framing your argument?

Society (that's us) want things for society and it turns out they cost money. We would love to pay for these things with razor-like efficiency but we live in an imperfect world. (The "waste" however still goes into someone's wallet and can be in turn spent at a local restaurant or on groceries.)

The only real issue I see is how we balance the tax burden in a fair and equitable way that also benefits society. (And here the increasing wealth disparity we have been seeing is almost certainly bad for societies health.)
Why so defensive? I'm asking the room because it's a smart room, usually, and often there's someone who'll be far better informed than I could be with a quick search. That's literally why I spend time here.

Regarding your links, I'm sure I could find similar studies about nearly any kind of food. I have a friend who won't eat peanuts because he's afraid of aflotoxins, which are real, genuinely dangerous, and if you think that peanut products are tested well enough to 100% guarantee the aflotoxins are always below safe levels in all peanut products you'll ever eat... Well, I'll disagree.

https://inspection.canada.ca/food-safety-for-industry/food-c...

So again, why do you think supplements are worse than other food products? I don't agree that your links answer this question.

They do show that there's often contaminants in supplements. They _don't_ show that supplements are unusual in this regard when compared to other food products.

Your third link focuses on heavy metals in supplements. Here's a similar study showing they are also in baby food:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/heavy-metals-in-baby-foo...

So is it just supplements and baby food? Unlikely. More likely it's that supplements and baby food are both things that make people worry about contamination, so they test them more. Meanwhile your ketchup might be loaded with all kinds of contaminants but you'd never think of testing it.
Gradient descent also allows batching, which reduces the memory requirements, can the other methods support that?
The API doesn't fit in my head either, but grepping through https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-all.html usually gives me the option I need.
I sure hope you don't have a bag/case for it and leave it clearly visible so that any passing thieves knows it's an apple-device they should leave be.

That people encourage being stripped of rights is just wild. Can't wait to see where this will take us...
Ideas are cheap, execution is all that matters.
The publisher's. They're scummy rent seekers who produce nothing worthwhile.
Go to Amazon and look for "Mini PC" and you will find sub $150 hardware.

As for software, you have Gimp and Blender as examples of software that far exceed the capabilities of what SGI had in the 90s.
And which power company? PG&E has made it almost not worth it to harness the free power of the sun on my roof with their NEM 3.0 rules, that they passed just before holiday break after delaying for so long and against mass public outrage. They also snuck in a rename to “net billing tariff” (NBT), also called “solar billing plan” in some contexts. https://aurorasolar.com/blog/cpuc-voted-californias-net-bill... Has a decent overview of the changes for the curious.
If there was a keyboard shortcut to focus the menu searchbar I wouldn’t mind ribbon at all, typing ctrl+hekwj is just as fast as typing ctrl+/grou+enter
Emacs can handle JPEG XL files as long as you build it with ImageMagick enabled and ImageMagick is built with JPEG XL support.

You can try evaluating (imagemagick-types) to see if it's enabled. If it fails with "void-function" that means that your Emacs was not built with ImageMagick enabled. If it returns a list of file types but the list doesn't contain "JXL" then your libMagick might be too old or not compiled with JPEG XL support.
I get what they’re saying though. It often has an accompanying tone that’s borderline meme-like. It’s this thing we say the moment somebody takes a tone we take any issue with - or we think we can publicly proclaim we take issue with to get those around us on our side. I think many of us were guilty of this at least once and would acknowledge it if we really sat back and thought about it.
(I haven't even yet written a "parse into RDF and load into triplestore/quadstore" probably because just full text search over teh hnlog with Ctrl-F is usually good enough to find the citation I'm trying to recall; but search engines do index URL edges with some magnitude)
Most ML papers I used to read fell into a couple of categories...
1. Baseless empirical result that probably was p hacked.
2. Mostly untested result.
3. A rediscovery of something know for decades without attribution to the source they probably read it from.
4. Incomplete description of problem, resolution, or probably fraud/incompetency.
5. Useless in general. Unverifiable, etc.
6. Review article.
7. A derivation with way more omissions/flaws than say an engineering paper.

I'm somewhat seasoned on optimization methods personally, but yea it seems once people go ML they tend to um stop studying the fundamental literature that ML came from. "Online masters program learn AI in 12 weeks from nothing!". Oh okay so calculus won't be included in that... Or statistics... Or... Yep it's going to be scikit learn notebooks
...
I do see it as my job, and my responsibility. I also see it as my job to help more junior colleagues, and even to teach what I've learned to undergraduates. I don't want to do any of those things. I don't even want to write papers. I just want to sit on my couch, code, and discover new knowledge that blows my mind.

But, people pay me to do a job. It's not in my contract in any clear terms, but to do my job well I need to do all those things; and I like doing my job well.
In Wright's case what's funnier is that after his little trickery in his attempts to prove he's Satoshi (which fell to bits immediately), he was willing to go to extraordinary lengths to keep up the act. He came up with some Back To The Future style excuse for not being in possession of certain keys saying that he'd somehow split them into N parts and had arranged for some bonded courier to show up at a given day (which obviously didn't happen). Additionally he fought against the estate of a former business partner, persuaded the judge that he was Satoshi and therefore worth billions and owes the estate $100m in damages:

> Following a three-week trial in late 2021, a jury found Wright liable for conversion but awarded Kleiman's estate US$100 million in damages while Kleiman's estate had sought upwards of US$25 billion at trial. Wright took the position that verdict served as a vindication of his role in inventing bitcoin and stated that he would not appeal the jury's findings

Really childish stuff.
This feels a bit naive.

It's a political battle with those who have financial interests in fossil fuels, and it sounds like this author (while probably well meaning) gets most of their info on the topic from sources funded by those people.

> Even when we are being very cynical, it is hard to see why the world would persist in burning fossil fuels once the cleaner alternative is so much cheaper.
https://bazqux.com/faq says:

Is BazQux Reader re­ally writ­ten in Haskell and Ur/Web?

Yes. I love to use the best tools avail­able.
> You can pick any macroeconomy textbook and you'll see it written plainly that raising quickly the monetary supply leads to inflation.

Mostly monetarist textbooks:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetarism

Keynesian ones would probably emphasize the velocity of money:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money

Even though there was a lot of money supply creation in the US in the 2010s, where was negligible inflation (folks were actually complaining it was too low). Why was that? Well look at what happened to velocity in the 2010s:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V

Looking at money supply statistics is useless. A good analogy by Cullen Roche:

> But also – why do so many people insist that inflation is an increase in the money supply? This makes zero sense. Here’s why – our economy is mostly a credit based economy. So, if I take out a loan for $100,000 then the money supply has technically increased by $100,000. But what if I don’t actually tap that loan? What if I borrow the money because, for instance, house prices just went up 25% and I want to have some cash around for emergencies? This doesn’t tell us anything about prices, living standards or really anything. But this is what so much of the money supply represents – money that has been issued and is just sitting around unused. Why is this useful? It’s like calculating your weight changes by counting how much food you have in your refrigerator. No. That’s potential calories consumed and potential weight gain. The amount of food in your fridge tells you little about your future weight changes just like the amount of money in the economy tells us little about the actual price changes in the economy.

* https://www.pragcap.com/three-things-i-think-i-think-i-see-d...

The money supply in Japan has been steadily going up for decades, and yet their inflation rate has been flat (going negative more than once) in the same time period:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1680i

The idea of more money supply -> more inflation is contradicted by the historical data. Even Milton Friedman recanted the idea (Financial Times (UK), June 7, 2003):

> The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.
Soooo, yet more rich folks using government money to grow their own riches?
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Flixbus acquired Greyhound in 2021. This made them the largest operator by a wide margin.

They also own or control a number of other inter-city bus operators in the US.

They also have a monopoly (about 95% of the market) in Germany.
The setup was "Suppose room temperature superconductor technology is validated and replicated", so most of your comment is irrelevant to the question asked.
If you read the second paragraph of the Wikipedia page for "slashdot effect" you'll see that the term was, in fact, "flash crowd".
The title of the study is "Decreased nitrosylation of CaMKII causes aging-associated impairments in memory and synaptic plasticity in mice" - that would have been the base of the shortened title, if the study had been submitted.

The dissemination article was chosen for submission because it was the one from the source University. (There are more around.)

Further from using clear, synthetic expressions, it contains more information than just the (available abstract of the) research article - it is where an author of the latter states that next steps are pharmacological and involving humans.
The government is the people. Time and time again people vote for services even if it means higher taxes (especially on the rich and on corporations). This is because some things don't really work if they're only funded by individuals. For example, none of the infrastructure investments in the IRA, the Medicare block grants in the ACA, etc. Do you have good examples to the contrary, like not one-offs but large, complex societies working via voluntary contribution alone?

To turn your point around, can you point to any large nation with low taxes and good outcomes? Is your argument that corporate services would outperform government services? I think it's pretty clear that most of those are predatory and enshittified. Are you arguing that corporations that are in no way beholden to us voters would be more responsive to our needs than a democratic government?

Maybe my tone is coming across as too incredulous, but most libertarians I get in front of tend to shut down when I challenge their ideology, so I'm earnestly curious here.
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The Post Office and the DMV are always given as examples of how terrible the government is at providing services. Have these people not visited either one in the last 15 years? Maybe they used to be terrible, but I’m always in and out with whatever I needed done, and the people working there and friendly and competent.

Parks and libraries are pretty well managed, too.
What I like about D is if you already know it, it can adapt to just about anything you want, from these kind of shorter "scripts" to experimenting on bare metal to regular applications.

But yeah, if you already know ruby and python and perl and awk and the unix shell, there's not much to be gained in these examples. Just if you don't know those things and know a little D, it can meet you where you are and take you where you're going.
Point of view about some skills front end engineers must have to distinguish themselves from the rest without changing the direction of their work or the type of it.

https://medium.com/p/77d86100d2
Cheap 100% efficient batteries.
> Their job was to supervise an autonomous driving test

The "driver" performed her job flawlessly, by acting exactly as any other "driver" who's been rendered redundant by fully-automated systems. This "driver" exemplified the human indifference to the task when our attention isn't demanded by complete immersion in an interactive experience.

By causing the vehicle to start operation, the driver accepted responsibility and liability, per the current laws on SDCs. Therefore, "scapegoat" is a misnomer that wrongly implies innocence or detachment from the sinful deed(s). The driver accepted her fate by signing up and settling into the left-hand front seat.
I used this approach as well for my personal site. I made a shell script to build out the complete HTML files which can be served as static content using a no-server host of choice. Currently I'm using GitHub Pages behind CloudFlare for TLS.
Getting rid of conditional branches is also a major brain-teaser when you're writing safe constant-time cryptography code. In assembly code, a common trick is exploiting the side-effect of the carry/borrow flag. You write the code in such a way that the condition will set the carry flag. Perhaps it's an overflow during an addition, or perhaps it comes from a bitwise shift. The carry flag can then be expanded into an integer by subtracting a register from itself via "subtract with borrow". If the carry flag was not set, the register becomes 0x00000000, if it was set, the register underflows to 0xFFFFFFFF. Then one can use it as a "yes/no" bitmask in some bitwise expressions.
It didn’t go well for Obama when he made that argument publicly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_didn%27t_build_that
Don't follow your line of arguing, Im pointing to the arguments made by the authors of an article published in Nature. Neither this Article or my comment referred to the motivation of the manufacturer.
Those numbers can be audited. Or simply opened up to competitive bidding.
Knowing things is part of skill.
I believe that for the most part, those who call the shots in law enforcement prefer that people involved are subordinate to them such that important exceptions can be made when necessary. Getting amateurs involved screws things up, though it would substantially improve fighting crime.
very much subject to debate. depends a lot on what "markets" means and what "government" means.
There’s a whole film about ‘Rhubarb’, prompted in part, I think, by that premise.

https://youtu.be/EOiwJkMvIYI
I think the assumption of genius is a false one, but I admit I might be wrong about that. I'm not saying there aren't differences between individuals in their cognitive or creative abilities, but I don't think there are outliers in the way the term implies, and also believe that progress continues in a much different, more cumulative way involving many more people than a standard narrative suggests.

There was an article I read several years ago that I've tried to find since with no success that made the argument the notion of genius is a sort of secular replacement for or parallel to the saint concept. I thought it was apt.

I think the idea of genius is a bit dangerous, not only because it robs others of credit, but it sets up unrealistic expectations about how to make progress in society. I think it lays a certain kind of societal bait too, in that the arguments for tyrants and geniuses are probably two sides of the same coin.

Having said all that, I think the underlying topic of the essay — whether some time periods are characterized by more progress than others, and if so, what makes that happen, is probably worthwhile or important to discuss. It's extremely difficult though, as basic definitions are murkier than they seem and there's little in the way of hard quantitative or other empirical data to make arguments from.
Microcontroller programming is one option to learn low-level fundamentals. You can get dirt cheap dev boards for the Atmega328P (the chip that the Arduino uses.)
For me personally, I've been working from home for years. While the world around me changed, my life stayed the same.
Apparently, the law generally indicates that the "driver" of an SDC is the one who causes it to begin operation. So, the vendors will have banks of remote operators who will theoretically bear liability and responsibility for the cars they run.
> Emacs on my system is ~8sec load time, vs ~5sec load time for Code

yeah, but i don't give a damn. I do this once every few weeks.

ps. also, emacs is < 3 secs on my system, so even if i did care ...
Ask HN: What problems did you face while using freelance marketplaces?
I want to learn about your bad experiences as a freelancer or hirer with online freelance marketplace platforms. How do you think online freelance marketplaces can be improved? Any idea that simple to implement but haven't done yet? What I see is generally Terms of Service is too much restrictive. Other issue is Dispute Management, what can be done for a better process.
Blasphemy! Repent and join the Church of Emacs!
> Why take your property taxes to educate our nation's children when you don't even have children? Am I unfairly framing your argument?

I don't have property. The whole thing that set this entire discussion off was the parent poster that stated everyone that implied the government was wasteful was a paid shill by billionaires.

> The only real issue I see is how we balance the tax burden in a fair and equitable way that also benefits society

Yeah this post is about some billionaire dodging taxes. Billionaires are the obvious scapegoat but the fact is tax increases on billionaires are not enough to fund the multi trillion dollar ambitions of the government. The real tax base of our society is generated by the middle and upper middle class and they will be the ones that will bear the largest brunt of tax increases.
I think you might want to contemplate that "Fashionable" is semantically equivalent to 'dated'. You are excited that it's dated to 'now'.

I know you see this fashionable UX as an advantage, but what I think about is how you're going to have fashionable evolution in UX thinking inflicted on you. It feels to me like someone coming into my shop and moving all my tools.

Gratuitous example from an adjacent area of nerdliness: Were you around when Microsoft decided to drop the UX they'd been using for a few decades and change to "The Ribbon" ?