skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Federal debt? gov keep borrowing or printing more to payoff past debts

college debts? hope Dems get power in DC

biz debt? declare bankruptcy

its hard to find a type of debt that cant just be magically blinked away with a procedural wave of the hand
I've also heard of YouTube bypassing ad blockers every now and again, but again that's never happened to me.
4 times the population for the same land size means greater density to justify rail transport.

The car is actually an amazing transport concept. And very hard to beat
Where could someone interested in doing this learn more?
And if you think I exaggerate the permitting reform stuff..

North of ~80% of IRA/CHIPS related investments since Aug 2022 have gone to red districts.
https://www.ft.com/content/06fcd3dd-9c39-48d3-bb08-6d75d34b5...

This lines up with the other numbers we have seen of oil&gas loving, renewable-hating Texas is also... the leading builder of renewables. Why? Because regardless of what the party controlling the statehouse prefers in red & blue states, it's just easier to build anything in a red state.

Similar anecdote re: housing permitting/building in blue districts/states - in the entire 5 boros of NYC, there were ~200 housing unit permits approved in July.

Look at some of the "housing units built per capita, by state" numbers like this - https://constructioncoverage.com/research/states-investing-t...

Blue northeast states like NY/PA/MA/NJ/MD are clocking in 18-30 units per 10K residents of construction. ID/UT/CO/SC/FL/NC/TX range from 66 to nearly 90 units per 10K residents. DC is an outlier as a high construction blue area around 66 as well.
We should not be optimizing for search engines. We should be optimizing for humans. If Google wants to shoot themselves in the foot by refusing to show their users the content they're looking for, let them. Don't let Google drag you down with them by encouraging you to make your site worse.
Uhh Dallas-Houston is more like 3 hours driving?

High speed rail at that distance is completely viable. Taiwan runs HSR up and down their entire island for a total system length of like 350km (same ballpark at Dallas-Houston), and they do it with like potentially up to 8 stops.

I won't argue about the time to takes to get to and from the station - last mile connectivity will be portion of the viability of this.
Is there an AI model that will generate questions and it's answers from the text provided..looking for educational purposes?
Is everyone in Germany a Chancellor? Are you?
You can frame this as a lack of political willpower, but that won’t get you closer.

China will have spent far less per commuter, in this process. Whether you want to chalk it up to the lack of certain standards in China, or onerous regulations in the US, doesn’t matter. End result will be the same. Just like Europe is not a fair comparison for the US, neither is China, or Siberia, for that matter.
be even more hyperbolic why don't ya
I didn't mean to imply Amtrack was unrelaible nationwide.
Thinking that critical thinking is a specific thing (what makes one thought “critical” vs any other?) shows a lack or critical thinking. Thinking critically is not.
Same also with their web browser. Isn't their new browser based on Chrome (which in turn was based on KDE's KHTML library)?
I’d love to build tools that automatically exercise your rights as a consumer against these large corporations. The simple truth is that they rely on the social norms of a society as weapons against them, whilst simultaneously breaking the codified ones.
Being rich is not the same as being intelligent
Mercury build up is also a know and awful issue about hydroelectric dams.

This has become a big issue in the north in Quebec:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/world/canada/clean-energy...
My theory is that nature implemented a timely death so that one can stop bothering the following generations.
I've used intercity buses and trains extensively where I grew up. It was okay, but I would much, MUCH rather use a car instead. There was no car culture in place where I grew up, cars are simply more convenient despite the higher personal cost.

It is hard to see that most people would prefer to use a train than a car to travel between cities unless they were going from a place close to a station to another place close to a station. So maybe the population might be simply democratically making choices to not invest in this because it goes against their preferences - instead of them being "deluded".

A different thing is intracity public transportation, like subway and bus systems. In many cases, I'd rather take the subway than use a car. But I lived in a very high density city, and it would take decades, if not over a century, to turn Dallas and Houston into high density so intracity systems would be convenient.
Domes, Planetariums, Fisheye, Spherical Mirror
Of course there is a ballance. But Rust isn't indecipherable nonsense which nobody can grasp.

The language forces stronger assumptions about the code (e.g. lifetimes), which allows the compiler to guarantee that certain bugs can not happen.
That observation is greatly amplified by the existing "successful" northeastern Amtrak corridor (relative to the rest of the Amtrak network), interconnecting northeastern cities like New York and Washington D.C. that have amongst the best local public transport in the US. Cities outside the northeast, not so much.
I wonder how much that motivation is about 'well, if I sold out- these other people are purely about the monetary gain from it and me cashing out' vs the original mission. Or in other words, the altruism of the motivation.
The theory of general relativity says that "gravity" and "distorted space(-time)" are one and the same phenomenon. So it's a question of whether you believe that theory is correct.

We've known for a long time that GR predicts that when black holes and/or neutron stars collide, they should emit gravitational waves with a very specific shape. The LIGO and Virgo observatories detected faint signals that seem to match this shape, which gives us confidence that the theory is a correct explanation of the data.

This adds to the mountains of other evidence for GR, and complements it by showing that GR still holds in environments where space-time curvature is extremely strong.

Technically, we don't know for sure that it's impossible for GWs to be produced by other sources than moving masses, but we have neither theory nor evidence to suggest such a thing is possible.
Engineers Develop Deep-Learning Tech That May Aid Personalized Cancer Therapy
Ask HN: What software decisions do you regret and what will you do next time?
I mean related to building software as a developer, and using software as a user. Could also be other kinds of tools/tooling.

What are the ones that you regret and are kinda awkward or hard to undo easily, and what will you do next time?

I regret buying Google Workspace through Namecheap - then whenever I add a new email to a domain I need to first buy more seats through namecheap. For future I'll buy google workspace directly through google.

I regret using Netlify, I've had a much better experience with Cloudflare but I don't like the process of needing to switch hosts. For future I'll use cloudflare.

On a more meta note, there are also instances where I regret building something as a web app first. For future I'll generally start off products I'm building as local python scripts, iterate until I'm happy with the scripts, and then turn it into a web app later.
the reply implies that they were using vscode, I guess op was telling them to stop doing that because?
> Rust is C++ done well.

Then Zig is C done well :)
you are notanemployee though, so your first line seems suspect
mvn2nix is a flake, though. How would I run a project that uses Niv and isn't a flake?
Relatable, but if the proceeds go from 100% fossil fuel production to less than 100% that seems like an obvious net gain.
Link to Patrick McKenzie (the actual source, rather than Cory Doctorow's blogspam):

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-waste-stream-of-c...
I personally disagree that enjoying nature and being at peace is the definition of a good time for humanity. To be human IMO is to grow and change, explore and embrace the unknown. Maybe that’s the Trekkie in me, or just old fashioned enthusiasm. Being in nature is for vacations. I understand some folks prefer that peace, and I hope they all find corners of the world where they can attain that.
While airports do scale their capital costs somewhat differently (better?), airports are actually multi-billion dollar construction projects. Here's Dallas' 5 billion dollar airport expansion plan (https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/dallas-fort-worth/news/2023...), and here's Houston's 1.3 billion dollar terminal expansion (https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2021/08/17/billion-...)
#Menot

The raising idiocacy of the monkey horde bothers me more and more.
This feels like these infomercials that show people being super inept at something to sell their product.

Like, yeah, node projects use a lot of config files, and Deno can help you skip some, but come on. How is Deno going to help you with you .gitignore, your .editorconfig or your Dockerfile? They're laying on the sales pitch a bit thick.
No. That's not how the law and the legal system work.

The law was written prior to the existence of digital computers.

That law, as written, made copying a program into computer memory to execute it illegal.

The law was dumb.

But judges enforce the law. That's their job. They have discretion when laws conflict with each other (including with the Constitution) or provide space for ambiguity or flexibility, but otherwise the law is the law.

So Congress did their job (a novel concept these days, I know) and updated the law to reflect the realities in modern technology.

You don't want judges legislating from the bench. If laws need to be updated, lawmakers should update them. That's how the system works.
Ask HN: Niche LinkedIn Platforms?
LinkedIn is clearly the largest amalgamation of different professionals on a single platform. Oftentimes, however, it falls short when you want to either connect with or learn about professionals in a particular niche (real estate, investing, content creation, etc.)

Do you know of any LinkedIn-like platforms that cater to connecting niche groups? (Besides Discord/Telegram channels or subreddits).

And are there any niche LinkedIn platforms you wish existed for your professional endeavor or hobby? If so, what would it be?
Someone else could take that position and you'd have little trouble finding someone qualified and willing to do it.
I've been WFH of over 20 years and my wife has been WFH for 10, we live in the city so our living space is smaller than most ~1100sqft and we've worked within 10 feet of each other for a decade. I do have a small office but I only go into it when I have an important customer call and I want to put everything on a bigger monitor than my laptop and I expect to do a lot of talking. Aside from that she's usually on one end of the couch and I'm on the other, with the two fat cats sleeping in between.
> millions of American short hop regional flights that are taken each year.

"Millions of Americans" could be less than 1% of Americans. How do the short hop regional flight numbers compare to the number of American driving equivalent distances?

Intrastate flights can be better than typical flying if you're using regional airports without the TSA, but these aren't the kind of airports near major population centers. There are a few scenarios where roads aren't an option, particularly Hawaii where short-hop flights are competing with ferries, not roads. Hawaii alone is probably a substantial fraction of that millions.
My 4 year old daughter knew when the system was not going to boot or not because she recognized the icons. If it got hung on one, she'd let me know she needed help.
Seems you are not arguing in good faith. What you say is true, but totally irrelevant: language creators are not trying to make useless languages.
Sports gambling apps hit the jackpot with ‘parlay’ bets.  As they win, you lose
Can you think of any companies who don't want you to give them more money?

The "Apple wants money" stick is shaken every time, but isn't that true for every company ever that's isn't a literal charity?
Yo dawg. I love conspiracies in my conspiracies. Do you have a newsletter.
It's basically stalking made a profession.. So it draws a certain crowd.
What's with people not offering RSS?
Knifemaker Explains the Difference Between Chef's Knives [video]
> Venture capital enables the perpetuation of unsustainable models in favor of eventual scale. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The runway to experiment has been critical for any number of businesses. But any good thing taken to excess can become problematic. The same is true with capital
They do for games, which now that Proton works so well are actually a reality.
Lol. Look, after having worked for most of these guys, I can assure you of something: all of them come from old money, have basically a fuck-all understanding of what IA is or does, and It wouldn't surprise me if they were playing some emulated nintendo games on AI's online emulators while being fed this bullshit lawsuit.

As a music producer once told me "it's LA man, there must be something in the water."

If you want a good idea on how these guys operate, check that Fyre Fest documentary on Netflix.

Do you know what they do understand? Lawyers. The same lawyers that told them to sue the Archive because they can make more cash this way (or not, it's not really a cause of concern of their lawyers other than making them spend more money) will tell them to stop keep pushing for a lawsuit once they realize they can lose a lot more money they were planning to make and they have to skip this month trip to Thailand or something.
The average amount of energy to extract new reserves has steadily increased. I think ATM it's around 1/8th of oil/energy extracted is needed to extract said oil.

So even if it's not scarce, the factor of how economical it is to grab it is a factor.

Sorry, no source, but I'd read it recently.
As a lawyer who has fought a few collection cases, I would disagree with the notion that the collectors typically can’t document the debt. They can. Moreover the fdcpa doesn’t require the collector to prove the debt to you with absolute metaphysical certitude. They just have to verify it.
Yo. But that can be and has to be studied.
> there is no coming back from this

German here. Absolutely no chance? What would be the first step in this direction?

I imagine that to make HSR happen, first one would have to create walkable cities which make people want to use public transport so that the local transit network gets expanded which in turn makes high-speed rail viable.

Couldn't one start locally with closing downtown to cars? Would there be any chance for this to happen anywhere?
Sure, if you need 10ms rate, just spin up another instances. I personally prefer cloud product with lies here and there than pay so much.
Petroleum is also an amazing concept and hard to beat doesn’t mean we should not try to improve things
>Websites get redesigned, companies go out of business

these two things are not remotely the same. if you are redesigning your website then it's your responsibility to make the old links redirect to the new pages. if you don't do that, it's a broken redesign.
I think is true that C++ is the most complex programming language and historically didn't came with batteries included (e.g. basic stable and secure libraries that really abstract the problem at hand).

But I don't think Rust is C++ done well. It is another programming language. The Err and Ok could seem weird, traits could really be confusing. This is not against Rust, just saying that it is another programming language.
Thank you for the wonderful explanation!
Give me examples.
"minres outperforming cg" likely depends on the stopping criterion, since different norms are used.
Thanks! Actually, it looks like both spellings are acceptable, but "sycophant" is more common. Maybe using the less common spelling was a Freudian slip on my part...?
I think part of it is simply competition against other collection efforts. The scariest collector will probably get paid before the others.
Meh! The hype around it does not hold in real world. There is some momentum in a few niches. Other than that, not much getting build with Rust.
Exactly, if its not personal, what is it ?
Because who wants to waste battery to render a screen saver on a device while it's shoved in someone's pocket or buried at the bottom of a purse? Even if it was sitting on my desktop next to my keyboard would I want the screen doing anything. Also, that for a lot of people, if the phone is not in their hands, it's probably in the hands of a kid playing games.
Paul Bourke's website is great; don't forget to check his other articles!

Over 10 years ago, it inspired me to play with strange attractors, which eventually ended with me writing https://github.com/chaoskit/chaoskit.

It was fun and I learned a lot, but it's definitely a deep rabbit hole. I've moved on since then.
Now this is the kind of high quality, well thought out, insightful commentary I look for on HN. Thank you for your contribution.
> I think we probably shouldn't allow them to get away with

How could they be held accountable for that?
I kinda wonder whether the chicken or the egg came first. All Anglo countries have a strong individualist streak. Did America cultivate that individualism to the degree that now they can't see a nation as being anything more than a collection of unrelated individuals? Or did wave after wave of immigration--resulting in a society where people had less and less in common--produce/reinforce that mindset?
It would make a huge difference if that style were used more in practice.

OOP is just functions that are only polymorphic in 1 argument, when you want it on all of them.
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From landing page:

> Hello guys,
We would like to inform you that we have decided to shut down our site.
The past 2 years have been very difficult for us - some of the people in our team died due to covid complications,
others still suffer the side effects of it - not being able to work at all.
Some are also fighting the war in Europe - ON BOTH SIDES.
Also, the power price increase in data centers in Europe hit us pretty hard.
Inflation makes our daily expenses impossible to bare.
Therefore we can no longer run this site without massive expenses that we can no longer cover out of pocket.
After an unanimous vote we've decided that we can no longer do it.
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It is fine to have different preferences, but American city design has contributed to multiple negative externalities such as the obesity epidemic, lack of social connection, environmental damage, etc. Some preferences can be better, for a commonly accepted definition of better, than others.

Also, American cities bar NYC, DC, and a few others do not allow for people to have preferences; you are forced to live a car-centric lifestyle whether you want to or not.
Isn't there like a credit score system in the US that companies can check?

In Mexico there's something called the Credit Office (buró de crédito) that banks can check if you've paid all your debts.
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This article reads like someone dumped a bunch of random Rust facts into ChatGPT and told it to generate a blog post.
Each state has different rules about the required notifications of legal action against the debtor. If they're not easy to find, giving the required legal notice might become a costly process. Sending a "You owe us $500" letter to the wrong person is generally different downside from having a process server give notice to the wrong person and them ending up in court with a judge demanding to know why you forced them there.
I visited Europe for the first time and absolutely loved being able to think my thoughts without getting rage honked at, being terrified of running over old ladies or students on a jog. If it takes me 35 more minutes to go to work versus 15 I’d do a bus.
Huh? You're going to have to clarify that one. If anything, not needing a root daemon makes it much more appealing to just about every environment.
I think you need a bit more info about this project before being so pessimistic. It's far from a done deal, but I've followed this project for a while and it has unique characteristics that can make it successful:

- They are targeting business airline travel. The volume of business air commuters across this corridor was specifically why they decided to start with these two cities.

- This is privately funded (although certainly with government help like airlines).

- Dallas & Houston are 239 miles apart. It's really the sweet spot for HSR to be very competitive with air travel, especially when you factor in the airport experience.

All that said, there are SO many hurdles yet to overcome and the project has stopped and restarted a few times already. But I think this project is very well informed by the challenges and failures of California's HSR efforts and probably has the best shot of actually happening across all the national initiatives I know about.

EDIT: There was already an Amtrak partnership in place but it was really just allowing passengers to purchase tickets for the Texas Bullet Train via Amtrak. This seems like conversation to broaden the partnership, though details are sketchy. More partnership from Amtrak almost seems to add risk, though I understand it may be a necessary evil.
> Without addressing the politics of it, the impression among many informed people that most defaulted debt is medically-related is the result of successful advocacy work rather than being substantially based in reality.

Is this actually an impression informed people have? I’m the prime target for such opinions because of my issues with the U.S. healthcare system, but even I always understood the common understanding to be that most bankruptcies are caused by medical debt, and not debt defaults in general (most debt default doesn’t lead to bankruptcy, especially with credit card debt. It usually just leads to a payment plan).
It’s an oversimplification in the media, this is a time series analysis esp. at the macro level. Then you do some fancy math and estimate the counter factual -> the delta between observed and estimated is your excess mortality.

Google has a tool for doing this called CausalImpact (available as an R & Python library if you want to play with a tool that can do this analysis).
And how do you propose making that happen?
In modern times, this only applied to MSDOS
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The use of noun-, verb- and adjectival phrases, in lieu of either inventing a neologism or writing out in full a dictionary definition every time you want to use the associated concept, is commonplace in the English language, and complaining about it is not going to change anything, as it is more convenient than the alternatives.
I think you missed my point. All of the trying in the world isn't going to replace the luck that's required for most people to succeed-- be it being born white and in a middle-class or better household in a middle-class-or-better town, not being sidled with familial or health obligations, or even being born with a cognitive profile that has workplace utility. Being comfortable enough to live with a parent and be lazy is already a privilege that a giant chunk of the US population doesn't have. Nobody is arguing that people born into opportune circumstances can succeed without doing anything. They just have the opportunity to make that effort turn into significant results when many others don't.
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Of course an article about native plants in one region is not something to follow blindly in a different region.