skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder quite often how this will unfold. You’re right. And thanks for saying it because a lot of Canadians don’t seem to see it this way; they don’t appreciate the history of our economy nor the ongoing trajectories, and seem to soldier on through the madness. Perhaps because the madness is still fairly comfortable.

But we have large numbers of immigrants coming here, and I don’t know how they’ll fare given that most immigrants aren’t initially big earners or afforded nearly as many opportunities as their non-immigrant counterparts. What will happen to them?

Then the young ones without generational wealth… Where will they go? How will they succeed? We don’t seem to have a great strategy in place. Or any strategy I’m aware of.

Our government seems fairly out of touch with what’s happening to them, too. They focus more on current voters I guess, in slightly more influential and older demographics. I wonder if that will seriously backfire and lead to a lot of disillusioned people in their 20s and 30s in a decade. It could be a good thing, but I can’t imagine these people believing any current party gives nor ever gave a shit about them.

I’m not trying to be doomsday about this. I know people are resourceful and resilient. Canadians, maybe not as much as we should have been for the last 60 years, but here we are. The kids are alright and they’re going to find a way. I just wonder what the hell it is.

My kids living in my city (Victoria) seems laughable too. The rental market is so expensive and volatile, I’d almost hope they don’t stay for their sakes. Yet I’d be sad as hell if they left. Maybe that would be my cue to leave. I’m not going to sit around here if I have grandkids somewhere else. Even if that’s in the boonies somewhere. All the better.

Strange times for sure. I’ve been very cognizant of this descent for the last 15 years or so, and I keep checking with myself: am I imagining it? Surely Canada can do better than this? But we keep sliding down.
Or "small claims" court:

https://fairshake.com/transunion/how-to-sue/
My kids hate it that when my phone buzzes I don't look at it right away. I do sometimes miss important things, but not being a slave to my device is wonderful.
This kind of hits the core.

As the DB (Deutsche Bahn) is a private company now (although they are 100% owned by the state), they have to make a profit.

How do you make a profit? Either raise prices or lower costs. Doing both is the best and that's what they do. Raising prices is easy, it just gets more and more expensive, even the "cheap" Deutschlandticket is too expensive, experts say it should probably be around 29 Euro/month to make a real change.

How do you save costs? You do only the bare minimum of maintenance, don't invest in building more tracks and instead reduce tracks and track switches. That's what they've done the last 20 years or so. [0]

This leads to ICEs being stuck behind slower trains as there are simply no more tracks to switch to and pass cargo trains etc. So, if some train gets stuck somewhere or has a defect, every other train is stuck behind that for some time.

Now, as the state subsidizes some parts of Deutsche Bahn, building something new is also cheaper than maintaining what is there. So they let some things rot down so far that they have to rebuild it completely. As the subsidization is then higher, that's better for the turnaround numbers.

There have been thoughts about splitting off building and maintenance of the tracks completely of the rest but that didn't work so far. In that scenario the state would take care of the infrastructure and DB would just "rent" it to drive on it.

To add something else to it:

I think David Kriesel has it in his talk [1]: DB also "found out", that you can reduce delays in your overall network when you start skipping stops or canceling them completely. If you know that you're too late at your last two stops, just cancel those stops completely.

Cancelled stops are not part of the delay statistics of DB, so not driving somewhere at all is, statistically seen, better than arriving there late. Only a little bit problematic for the people that want to get there or board there.

Turning around early also has the "advantage" that your new train will be back on time again easier.

It's a mess for long distance travel.

[0]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DB_Netz#Netzentwicklung
[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rb9CfOvojk
Geometry behind Geometric Series (8 dissection visual proofs without words) [video]
Way to go Alyssa!!!!!

I knew you were going to get this done!
I don’t disagree, but if we build a digital ID the free internet will finally be permanently dead.
That seems like an odd thing to takeaway from this. Envisioning the cellphone and it's social implications in 1919 is quite impressive. Making it a reality wasn't hard because it was missing the right person to build it, it was literally impossible without half a century of enabling technology development.
Lifepo4 is always protected by a BMS that takes away all your concerns.

Lead-acid is really, really not recommend anymore for solar.

In a solar project like this, the battery will never stay at 100% for long.
The iPhone is perhaps the worst example you could have picked. Its many competitors are more interested in pushing lock-screen ads than offering a quality phone.
Kill the Alarm Clock
>the CCP wants tiktok users to see inspirational content and science and happy stuff, while the west gets whatever addicting smut we can manage to produce.

If TikTok was a US based company I bet the content would be about the same. It's in the very American capitalism-influenced cultural tradition to have business practices that skirt the edge of the legal/acceptable to maximize profits, and patronizing speech regulations (recommending science instead of "addicting smut") are as un-American as it gets.
What about PWA?
"We should delete data so that people get upset" is just shy of "we should shoot some kids so people will finally get upset". If we're going for over the top statements anyway.

When we look at the actual current US sociopolitical climate, we see that people don't actually care about either of those things. Quite the opposite, they are more than happy to burn books.

So what we can expect instead is that they'll care even less about a bunch of folks hitting the delete keys that wipe out several generations worth of historical record because it happens to be digital. If anything, they'll cheer about it.
Mostly because longer meditation practice is more frequently associated with something called the dark night of the soul https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/the-dark-...
I have windows 11 and its not blocked
I'm thinking about launching a startup in the area of air defense. I'm located in Ukraine, so there is plenty of opportunity to beta-test new features right away; however the ukrainian jurisdiction is not suitable for business, so that's kind of a paradox.
> This is largely because speed limits are too low.

Research is clear. For every 5mph increase on a highway you can calculate how many people per year per mile will die more.

If you want more people to die, then sure, speed limits are too low.
When cannabis went legal in Canada there was a flurry of interest on the benefits, how it's better than alcohol, etc. Gladly this has died down a lot. I think your statements hit the nail right on the head. It's a drug, and it has its place, but a lot of the excitement comes from enthusiastic users. I have heard of some pretty dramatic relief online for Parkinson's, but I haven't witnessed any real-life miracles myself.

I was disappointed with the hype vs reality of CBD in my personal experience, but so much of this is variable on the strain/concentration/my personal metabolism, etc.
I'm not allowed to eat this candy bar. I wrote a sticky note that says I'm not allowed to eat it. Its not like I can just ignore or rewrite the sticky note whenever I want.

Congress passing a law saying it can't do X doesn't mean they can't just come back a few years later and decide to remove that rule, assuming its not unconstitutional.
What Happened to the Wirecutter?
What's your biggest wirecutter fail? I remember when they recommended Cisco Webex for pandemic era work-from-home newbies looking for easy video confrencing.
“ What the US establishment actually doesn't like is that TikTok wields a capability to influence the American public by amplifying certain topics and deranking others, also with their content policy.”

Ding Ding Ding. Agree the issue is the ability to control the national narrative. Too many US users on TikTok means that US powers may not be able to control all the topics and discourse like they want .
“It’s so expensive, nobody wants to be there”

Kind of like “nobody drives, there’s too much traffic.”

> Most Canadians I know have multi generational wealth so they are going to be fine

Translation: Canada is wealthy including most Canadians I know. That’s why things are expensive.

Canadian cities rank highly for livability, including expensive ones Toronto and Vancouver. No US cities were on the list that I found.

Canada ranks higher than the US on the human development index.

Canada has better healthcare than the US (#5 in the world according to US News and World Report, ahead of Switzerland).

I straight up don’t believe you that there aren’t decent jobs in those cities. They’re like the NYC and LA of Canada.

My hot take is that living in a small rented apartment isn’t some kind of catastrophe. For one thing, North American housing is already considered large by the standards of many countries.

More importantly, the size of your dwelling is only one aspect of quality of life, and it’s a factor that’s less important than most people give it credit for. Are Dutch people unhappy because their apartments are small?

People want big McMansions to store their consumerist junk because of our HGTV culture but you can live a good life in much less. Your kids can share a bedroom, they’ll even likely be happy with it.

Just as a cherry picked example, I’d rather live in a tiny apartment in Vancouver than live in a big house in places like New Orleans, where I have to worry about higher crime and gun deaths, worse education, worse and more expensive healthcare, worse city services and infrastructure, weather and climate flooding my house away, and worse job opportunities.

Obviously, Canada needs better housing and immigration policy, but I’d call those pretty minor and resolvable problems for a country that is doing so well.
Someone should ping Tim and let him know Alyssa is not working at Apple for some strange reason.
> A group in the US Army performed a serious analysis of the Gateway Hemisync process, concluding that "there is a sound, rational basis in terms of physical science parameters for considering Gateway to be plausible in terms of its essential objectives", which include "out-of-body movement", "terrestrial information gathering trips", and "possible encounters with intelligent, non-corporal energy forms when time-space boundaries are exceeded"

They concluded a lot of woo around when they were looking into silly things such as Targ's Remote Viewing. All of that later was revealed to be nonsense. Army and CIA, while are generally rational, are not necessarily great at critical thinking or science.
BuSL-1.1 converting to Apache-2.0 in 5: https://github.com/exograph/exograph/blob/v0.2.5/LICENSE
We've been here before... when VB6 and Delphi were out and popular, it became possible for domain experts to build a passable application and get the job done. There was still a large demand for programmers to come in and clean things up, fix all the edge cases, etc. if it turned out to be useful, when there was a larger target to adapt it for.

The current situation seems quite similar to me, tools to make code easier to write, but not easier to maintain. I think programming jobs are safe.
Nobody's having issues connecting them to modern TVs, the issue is they don't look even remotely the same.
It's true that you have to use their DNS, but that's it. You don't have to use their CDN (it's easy to turn off) and you don't have to use their SSL certs.
Thanks for the feedback :) Yes, it’s on the roadmap.

However, in practice, indirect transfers usually don’t give you good exchange rates - I might be wrong though
I switched to Firefox about a year ago mostly for containers, plugin enabled android app and my increasing dislike for Google. Never regretted it!
> Nearly every study on the topic has concluded that faster vehicles get into less accidents

Citations definitely needed. Not just of the studies that perhaps support your point, but of the reviews that do a quantitative overview of that the majority of studies conclude what you claim. Everything else is "I want to drive fast, slow grannies out of my way".
As silly as that hotel concept seemed, I was still hoping it would make it. A hotel with a couple of family friendly locations really focused on shared entertainment areas could make for a nice concept.

There are a few other brands that have had some success along the same lines.
I'd say ruins are a precursor for cities to become beautiful--computation concerns similar strolling along age old paths and alleyways.
Is this legal?

I would expect image libraries prohibit this type of usage in ther TOS. Why would they do all the hard work and then let someone else build a similar service on top of it?

Pixabay for example prohibits distributing their content "on a Standalone basis" which seems to be what you are doing when you offer to download the images:

https://pixabay.com/service/terms/
Chemistry can sound complex, but the compound mentioned is relatively simple for an organic chemist. Metal nanoparticles are fairly routine. Since this is a catalyst, not that much would be needed (relative to the likely difficulty of making it). Probably a rounding error in terms of the expense of the entire system.
And what are your go-to alternatives aside from Reddit?
In general, property tax and ownership data is public. You can somewhat increase your privacy by purchasing property under a business name, but business formation documents are also public for the most part.

For example, I can go to the website of my county’s registrar and pull up the formation and renewal documentation of my LLC with just a last name.

I don’t think you can effectively hide ownership of property without a shell corporation. The Corporate Transparency Act passed in 2021 requires you to provide ownership records to the treasury but I believe that ownership of the corporation can stay anonymous to the general public.
The concept under description is effectively Bagehot's "dignified" vs. "efficient" parts of government. The head of state being the "dignified", the personification of the nation, and the head of government being the "efficient", the wielder of political power.

I generally favor the American-style presidential system over the British-style parliamentary system, but I think one flaw of the American one is that it combines the roles of the dignified and the efficient, often conflicting with each other, into one office.

The French semi-presidential system is a little weird, with technically the prime minister being the head of government, but the president still wields most of the executive power.
A complication here is how large the Python distro this appears to be using is. I don't know if you've ever set up a container with all of anaconda, scikit, statsmodels, pandas, Matplotlib, seaborn, and more but it gets pretty big. A lot of people would complain about the bloat if Excel installed it by default.

Another complication is they claim the container isn't just "a docker container", but for increased security isolation (they don't want a repeat of VBA malware) it's a mini-VM focused to run on top of Hyper-V (the Windows Hypervisor) itself. That's a really complicated install process on the average machine (like installing WSL2) that sometimes involves flipping entire Windows Features on, so also something unlikely to be a smooth experience out of the box for Excel.

It might be neat if they made that an optional install and let users have offline support, but it sounded like they wanted to focus on online and collaborative UX first.
That's awesome, glad you like it :-D
worth checking out Quadratic for an open source approach to Python + Spreadsheets: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35456509

theres going to be multiple people tackling this problem but I see it as a worthy one, theres no reason we should be needing VBA in the future when we can run Python in browsers.
Honestly, the shortest solution to these problems would be to reshape the law so that banks are 100% responsible for fraud. As in, if they open an account tied to somebody and it turns out to be tied to somebody else? 100% on them, the person who they were deceived into believing they were doing business with is fully protected by the law from any ramifications.

Of course, this would completely change the risk model banks operate under and fundamentally reshape commerce as we know it. Thanks would become hypersensitive, all business would be conducted in person, banks would reserve the right to tie up your money for years if you couldn't prove who you were (think getting your Google account unlocked when Google suspects fraud, except now it's your money in the bank down the street...).
> I'm not convinced by arguments that FSD is no worse than normal humans

Has this claim been made by an independent third party? (About Tesla's FSD, specifically.)
When I feel this way, I think about how many films about filmmakers and books about writers I've experienced.

It doesn't really help, but I do think about it :)
The impression they give about needing money is wrong. They intend to give that impression. It’s lying.

I think Wikipedia should go away. The entire philosophy is wrong. It’s a toxic mess. But until it does, I don’t see any problem with punishing it by visiting its pages.
McNamara fallacy:

> The McNamara fallacy (also known as the quantitative fallacy),[1] named for Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, involves making a decision based solely on quantitative observations (or metrics) and ignoring all others. The reason given is often that these other observations cannot be proven.

> US Air Force Brigadier General Edward Lansdale reportedly told McNamara,[4] who was trying to develop a list of metrics to allow him to scientifically follow the progress of the war, that he was not considering the feelings of the common rural Vietnamese people. McNamara wrote it down on his list in pencil, then erased it and told Lansdale that he could not measure it, so it must not be important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy
Learning about neural networks has helped me understand meditation better.

The ‘bias’ number fed into a neural network neuron is determined by the external training data (or for humans by our experiences)

Meditation allows the neural network itself to reprogram its bias itself internally rather than rely on new external data.
Evidence Labs – experimental data viz components for evidence.dev
The "get the plugin" link is a 404.
> basically no exceptions when it comes to banking.

That depends on your megabank. KYC and what staff will do over the phone is about relationships. I get things done over the phone at local credit unions and even mid-size regional banks. Banking and identity regulations allow a lot to happen, and your personal relationships make a difference.

The back offices of mega-banks generally prevent personal service. Choose a different banker.
I don't think Atari+ is worth 125 dollars, honestly.
Did your friend exclude situations where the previous king had no sons?
https://www.tlo.com/about-us

TLOxp is the latest version of the game-changing technology that ushered in the science of data fusion

Who Uses TLOxp
Collections
TLOxp for Legal Professionals
General Counsel
TLOxp for Licensed Investigators
Financial Services
TLOxp for Insurance
Corporate Risk
Investigative Reporters
TLOxp for Law Enforcement
State, Local, and Federal Government
Asset Recovery and Repossession
> Our team has been in the AI space since 2018 and built numerous LLM apps & copilots.

could you please elaborate?
Isn't that what the CORS Everywhere extension is for? Or am I misunderstanding.
I always thought they were pseudo-government entities, or at the very least a heavily regulated, government-anointed big three.

But after a quick Google right now, it looks like they're just random private companies that get to do whatever they want because they have such strong established relationships with our major financial institutions.
Another half-baked Microsoft cloud thing. Get wrapped around that axle? No thanks.
Hitting all the APIs on every keystroke. Who released this?
We don’t want your proprietary Discord room—we want to see open options like an IRC chatroom, XMPP MUC, or Matrix Space.
I still don't understand why people think in 2023 that Android can not be a viable alternative to an iPhone. I would never use an iPhone for certain software and UX related issues (biggest is the missing back gesture/button). My Pixel does better photos than ANY iPhone on the market.

Macbook Air M1, just look at Dell XPS series.

Samsung S9 tablets have an OLED display. OLED... you don't get that on any iPad.

Apple Watch really has no competitor which matches 100%. On certain areas like fitness (Fitbit) or hiking (Garmin) there can be also some good and better alternatives but it does not match 100% of the features.

I think there is always a choice except when looking at the Apple Watch.
> TikTok is literally the CCP attempting to influence americans.

With lots and lots of gay/queer/trans content and cooking/baking on my FYP it seems to be doing an awfully good job at making me want to spend time away from the computer and back in the kitchen making delicious food and putting on makeup.
I agree.

I personally think it's about the world becoming more and more uncertain. Everybody is supposed to switch careers a bunch of times during lifetime, everybody is expected to push their limits, everybody is expected to stay on top ever changing social norms.

It's just too much pressure. There is very little average Joe can do to have a fairly sure good living. While the system has a lot of opportunities for talented people, just getting by on working hard, being punctual, trustworthy and such, is increasingly hard.

As lord Vetinari says, people mostly don't want tomorrow to be better - they want it to be the same. It's more and more unlikely nowadays.
Isn't crates.io owned by The Rust Foundation?
Really? There are tons of people who learn while working, which is what I assmue you are advocating for rather than literally "eliminat[ing] the distinction between education and production," which would include school children working. This is especially true in the top end of fields like medicine. Surgeons create and learn new surgeries, for example. And I don't think Sergey Brin took a course on how to create Google in university, and the Google engineers did not learn how to scale it there either. See also the massive research arms of Google et al. So "every single human being" is trivialy false.

But even in the general case, college does not directly prepare you for your profession (nor is it meant to) and you are expected to learn on the job. And if what you say is true that you are not learning while working there would be no reason for companies to seek employees with experience.
How come Google and Bing get to do this?
Sadly I've been in many organizations that have a kind of "vibes for me, data for thee" approach to things. Meaning, "data drives decisions" is the official philosophy ... until it isn't.

It takes a certain amount of rigor and product maturity to make metric-based decisions work — and some types of applications are better suited to this than others.