skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Refugees don't want hand-outs, they want opportunities to work and provide for themselves. If you deny them decent opportunities and humane living conditions from the start, they're guaranteed to turn to crime to survive, then everyone looses.

Isn't that what American citizens want, those same opportunities. Perhaps, they also deserve what you want to give to refugees.
> This is 2016 data though, so take it with a pinch of salt as things could have changed significantly since then.

It's the same. In today's world of hyper SEO optimization and human-like AI content, the only game in town left is authority. And the way to build authority is backlinks.

> Some friends made a sports site for fun. They were a bunch of FB marketers in the early era and just experimented, plus it was a topic they loved ranting on. They did FB ads then funneled the traffic to a WP site. They hit 4 million pageviews/month in less than half a year. Automated ads didn't work, they paid too little and dropped quality too much.

Hah, as it happens, I know quite a bit about that niche. With the legalization of online sports betting around US states in the last few years, there was actually quite a bit of money to be made by high traffic sports blogs working as affiliates. There was also quite a bit of M&A activity, some of these technologically simple blog sites selling for millions to the bigger sports affiliate groups.
The trickiest part was to know the effective distance component in the North/South direction. Luckily the Nile is roughly oriented that way anyway so the distance between the two cities is roughly the same as the North/South component
“Long live e-ink”

i’m always worried it’s just around the corner from outliving its usefulness/profitability to most people. even within my tech/gadget bubble it still feels like a relatively niche thing. this keeps me upgrading my Kindle pretty much anytime a new one comes out because i’m always worried the technology will be discarded. i really love the fact that i can fall asleep reading on it pretty naturally. this DOES NOT happen when i’m in bed on my phone or tablet. i’m glad to see devices like reMarkable and Scribe pushing it further, and i just hope research continues to get the tech to a point where it can refresh quickly without artifacting at near lcd quality. and yeah, it’s nice to have a device where i physically can’t distract myself with inane social media or other silly things. i’m generally of the Alton Brown thought that anything uni-task is unnecessary, but i’ll continue to make a happy exception here.
Lots of first world countries take in more immigrants per capita than the US
No, you cannot impede manned vehicles in the same way. If you put a traffic cone on the hood of a manned vehicle at a stop light, the driver will simply get out (when safe), remove the cone, and continue. It takes all of a minute to recover. Whereas the unmanned vehicle requires the responsible person to be notified and to arrive from who knows how far away to resolve the situation.

The fact that this prank can be done quickly, cheaply, safely, and without property damage means the car software needs to be prepared to deal with it without becoming a public nuisance. If the software is not prepared, the car is not fit for widespread deployment on public roads.

The equal possibility, which you raise, of dangerous impediments on both manned and unmanned vehicles is not relevant here, because the argument has not been made that the cars inadequately deal with dangerous impediments.

Finally, our society is largely comfortable with the current level of risk that manned vehicles entail, together with the ongoing progress of safety improvements. Not many would agree that the concept is a big mistake.
I don't intuitively see why trains would be massively cheaper than a circle nowhere interesting (underground).

HS2 is too expensive, sure, but the LHC is built next to ~a century of research institutions and took a very long time, whereas trains can actually be on somewhat tight schedules in the places where it actually matters and requiring bulldozing a fuckload of expensive land, houses, and history etc.
Ah what a fantastic presentation. It answers a lingering question about the use of spectroscopy and apparent brightness to determine the distance to a star. The key step that I had missed was using the stars with distances measurable by parallax to calibrate the color/apparent brightness so that it could be used for stars that were beyond the distance for parallax. Obvious in hindsight, but wonderfully and clearly explained here.
Top HN Posts from February 19, 2007
> move

Allow me to point out the millions of immigrants that walk across a continent to try and slip over the border into America. The ones that make it rarely have more than the clothes on their back.

Yet they moved away from a bad situation to a better one, and have made it to every corner of the country.

> but that there are systemic problems preventing these people from being able to take these steps.

Nobody there has their feet nailed to the ground.
The founders initially created fake accounts to make it seem more busy so one of theirs I guess
niiice - i also worked on an llm menubar app until i added enough that I found myself using it as a secondary browser

https://github.com/smol-ai/GodMode

more approaches the better! i considered adding ollama but no ui and i have a ui centric approach
That was a fantastic read. Thanks for sharing this link.
Ok genuine question: what other tools do you use?

Slack won’t seem that bad, until you use something that’s actually good.

The loss of performance on commonplace applications has been a real “boil the frog” situation; we’ve lost so much performance and responsiveness, but it’s happened so gradually that most people don’t notice.
A pity it didn't get specific at all about the mechanisms that steal focus.

And even though cold turkey detox is not a viable solution, there are things individuals can do that help. Like disabling notifications for absolutely everything except messages from a small number of people.
Yes, that’s all I saw, the first post.
We played Set with my son when he was ~6.5yo, and he immediately loved it. After a couple of games, he was spotting sets almost as quickly as we were. But his performance and interest varied based on distraction, tiredness etc.

If you want a one-player Set game, there's a nice open source one here:

https://playset.netlify.app/

The 'AI' looks for solutions randomly. Every 2 seconds (in easy mode) it picks two of the visible cards at random, and sees if the card needed to make a set is visible.

If your kid is totally new to Set, you probably want to adjust the delay to 5 seconds or something.

Set is more fun against human players of course.
By the way, your site is a tad broken on Firefox on Android.

Screenshot: https://photos.app.goo.gl/D1sTRNZqZArTMAbSA
Sense is sense, who cares about only one facet in the real world?

Also the scope is much larger than military, IT has worked its way into every aspect of life.
Look for a second hand device then? I don't know what the situation is like for Remarkable, but Kobo has been around for over a decade and used ones are floating around the second hand market. (The Kobo Touch was introduced over a decade ago and is hackable.) If you're willing to scavange just the screen, there are even more options since you don't have to worry about the device itself being locked down. The drawback with scavenging screens is you have to figure out how to interface to the screen, which is quite the barrier to entry.
I never saw anyone complain that crates.io isn't curated. Why is this suddenly an issue when discussing shipping prebuilt binaries? If it's somehow ok to download the source code as-is, why is it a problem if crates.io builds it for you?

Some problems have solutions, but people need to seek for solutions instead of collecting problems.
Market 'Much Worse Than Expected’: Analysts Pitch New Bitcoin Economy Framework
Yes, in a previous blog post the author says he read Zwonkin's book in preparation for running his circles.
Ah it was working when I posted it I think. Here it is in book form: https://www.amazon.com/Math-Three-Seven-Mathematical-Prescho...

I suspect you can find an online pdf if you search for the title.
The US takes in more immigrants every year than any other nation on earth.
How does Coalton's type system compare to that of Typed Clojure? Recently, Typed Clojure received huge improvements to local type inference such that

(let [f (comp (fn [y] y)
(fn [x] x))]
(f 1))

can be inferred to return a value with type (Val 1) through serious amounts of symbolic execution.

Does Coalton have similar capabilities? I would love to try out some kind of "typed Common Lisp", especially since I prefer Common Lisp over Clojure any day, but recent advancements in Typed Clojure have been raising my eyebrows, as they it can finally do things that were once considered infeasible (declaring types for higher-order functions and heterogeneous collections in a dynamic language).
Oh? Solar panels made today have an expected e80 of 30 years before refurb is required. What is the expected capital lifetime that you'd consider not to be replaced 'constantly'? This compares pretty decently with natural gas turbines, especially considering that panels have a small fraction of the capital cost.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36704510
Genuinely curious, what kind of Crazy Stuff do you need for a static site generator? It strikes me as one of those technologies I want to be as boring as possible. I never want to debug why my content is not being rendered.
It seems to be absolutely everywhere now.

Currently spending the weekend packing for my first move in 5-6 years and, no exaggeration, every single new contract (lease, utilities, garbage, etc) had a forced arbitration clause.

When did these things become universally forced? I distinctly recall arbitration clauses being Big Corp Only things not too long ago - and in many cases, they allowed you to opt-out. Now it’s just a standard part of every boilerplate contract that you have to sign away your rights.
Show HN: Stapl, Workflows to Trigger Email and Push Notifs Based on User Actions
> people have completely given up on society and said fuck it, we'll make our own.

Fwiw, this type of thinking played a pretty strong role in how America began (and in other social/moral movements). It's not always a bad thing.

> This is sad. The real solution is not to homeschool. It is to force ALL kids, regardless of age, location, and income to be forced into the same school system. Want to improve things? gotta make it better for everyone.

I get your point, but just to continue my analogy, King George might have said something similar in the late 1700s. A good general counter-narrative to this line of thinking is James Scott's "Seeing like a state" which documents the degree to which governments regiment society in ways that reduce social welfare.
Public transit has been run at barebone levels in the US for so long that hardly anyone even thinks of it as something that should, or even can, function well. For a route in my city, a 14 minute drive in a car is 83 minutes on public transit. The three buses come every 30 minutes, 40 minutes, and 60 minutes respectively. There are no bus lanes, because drivers are a powerful and greedy constituency. There's no political will to convert one lane on each road to bus-only, to add traffic signal prioritization, or to buy enough buses and hire enough drivers to have 10-15 minute headways.

Even if we did, we're fighting uphill against 70 years of suburbanization and the general pattern of very sparse and sprawling development. The level of taxation necessary to make transit work well in many areas would be far more than is politically feasible. Plus there's the perception of public transit being dangerous, for criminals and drug addicts, etc.
First-hand personal experience and then uncovering the thousands of similar complaints across reddit and review sites.
For me, that’s at the center of the awe and wonder. To be in sole (or very rare) possession of the biological machinery necessary to achieve the levels of sensory input, information processing and storage, intelligence, etc, all within the subjective experience of consciousness, whatever that is, and to be able to muse about the rather limited perspective of a rock, or to have the capacity to experience awe and wonder, all points back at the awe and wonder.

The rock doesn’t know it’s amazing, but we know the rock is amazing.

I guess you could say the universe is very impressed with itself.
The way I’ve seen it is each kid usually has a grade-specific curriculum they are following. There can be cross-pollination on some topics/deep dives and extracurriculars that different ages will get different amounts out of, but the typical model isn’t ‘all the kids are in the same classroom learning the same thing synchronously’. Rather, you are switching between between each as they asynchronously progress in their individual lessons: Johnny needs help on this math lesson while Sally is making independent progress on vocabulary, and vice versa. Even if they are waiting sometimes, the dead weight loss is still way smaller than in 30-person typical classrooms.
Have you heard of "Not In My BackYard?"

It means people in SF/NYC say they're already so big enough, they should build somewhere else.

It means people in small towns say they should stay a small town, and go build where there's already big cities.

It means people don't build housing enough and people go homeless.
I dunno, is that really true? The indices into the array can be 4 instead of 8 bytes on a 64-bit system for example, that would double the indices available in one cache line. And then you have the possibility of storing the in/out node references as indices also, halving the memory there. And I know that work lists and stacks of nodes are common for certain transformations, so that would also have an impact. And that's just one thing, having an index effectively means that you can split your data structure into multiple arrays ('struct of arrays' fashion), which might mean that you're doing fewer accesses and jumps over all.

Considering all of that, I'm really not convinced that plain pointers will beat indices. I also don't see what alias analysis has to do with it in this case, sounds like a compiler could easily do alias analysis on A being accessed only as a T by virtue of A having the type Array<T,N>.
That's not a good analogy. We actually could do this, in the same way that society has banned various other categories of harmful products.

The business model of slave plantation is another one that society got rid of.
That's a red flag for the relationship right there.

If "not wasting money" is a core value for you, but "status" is more important for your partner, things will go sour sooner or later.

Of course it's very difficult to be rational in limerence.
Still annoys me to no end that Hugo chose RSS and it requires some song and dance to make ATOM formatted feeds.
How will an AV handle a situation like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnTPKU2HHRA

I think it will politely park and let you be robbed, kidnapped, or worse.
Hugo is one of the most popular static site generator and it's written in Go, most people don't need to extend it.
Why in the world do you think “big tech” would single out one shitty German hosting company not even covered by the post in question, and I can't just be one pissed off ex-customer warning others to stay far away?

Hetzner is pretty terrible.
No, sanctuary cities are munis that state they won’t treat illegal immigrants, refugees, etc like shit that are already there. They aren’t trying to necessarily _recruit_ and/or ask for more.

States shipping them there are abusing the empathy of these cities.
Lol no. Obese people are not the cause of a booming SUV, and now truck, market. Almost every single one of my friends drives a SUV, truck, or both and literally none of them are obese.

Edit: a few are overweight, yes
~6 seems to be the right age. I tried with with my kiddo at 5 and with another kid when they were 5 with no success. A bunch of first graders, on the other hand, were quick studies.
> Why are we scoping down to just Russia?

Because the soviet union was russia. Russia is the successor state of the soviet union. Which country would you use? Moldova? Estonia?

> If you scoped broader to include the other post-Soviet counties you’d include all the countries where life expectancy has significantly increased since then.

Even russia's life expectancy improved after the initial disastrous decline. My point was that overall population hasn't recovered since the soviet collapse. This is true for ukraine, moldova, russia, estonia, most former ex-soviet nations. The only one to buck the trend are muslim ex-soviet nations.

> I would argue that WW2’s direct effects on thousands of millions of people deserve more weight than the fall of communism, which affected hundreds of millions.

WW2 didn't affect 'thousands of millions'. The world population in 1940 was around 2 billion. Also we are talking about the effects of the fall of the soviet union. Why I limited it to russia/soviet union.

> If we don’t take this type of scoping into effect I could claim that one person’s cancer diagnosis was a worse quality of life drop than WW2, and the discussion gets a little absurd.

Maybe it's a language issue. You don't seem to have a solid grasp of the english language. My point was that the fall of the soviet was worse FOR RUSSIA than ww2 was FOR RUSSIA. I'm not saying that the fall of the soviet union was worse overall than ww2. That's another discussion. So no. One person's cancer diagnosis isn't worse than ww2. One person's cancer diagnosis is worse than that person's diagnosis of ankle sprain. You see. You have one person and two bad events. You have one russia and two bad events. You compare the bad events on the one person or one russia.

You are being very disingenious here. I can't for the life of me understand why.
> The new silicon chips, made by Chicago-based p-Chip, use blockchain technology to authenticate data that can trace the cheese as far back as the producer of the milk used. [1]

I assume that this is easily pirated/copied?

[1] https://p-chip.com/
That URL used to contain a PDF of this book:

https://bookstore.ams.org/mcl-5
My wife was homeschooled and that's the main reason, along with the other families in their group.
More or less the same experience here. I also think it prepared me pretty well for WFH (which I now absolutely love).
Illegal shooting along power lines a leading cause of death for bald eagles
History and Development of the 567 Series GM Locomotive Engine (1951) [pdf]
Plenty of "tech elite" live and walk San Francisco all the time, so...
Not even brainfuck comes close
My sincere condolences to anyone who thinks their teenage years were or were supposed to be "the best years of your life".

As for the blanket cynicism disguised as analysis, you're wrong. Schools were not originally conceived of as a capitalist daycare system, even though people love to say that. It's first and foremost a capitalist training system, or at least socialization more generally. Daycare was not necessary for most people during the first hundred years or so of public schooling.
According to Aristotle and Hegel, yes
Hear also: “The Roar of the 567 EMD 2 stroke Diesel Engine” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciJqIxLdjyQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtE6kEzE_Rc

Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_567
The state university I grew up near in NYS was serviced by a private bus system for more than a decade. I don't remember much about it other than the busses being painted blue and being full of college students.
You need to re read op.
I assume you’re not trying to be intentionally misleading but those graphs do not support your assertion that the US, presumably referring to the average American, is less wealthy today.

You can’t just cherry pick things that have become more expensive and ignore the many things that are cheaper when making such a general assertion.

Here is a better source for your reference:

In comparing household incomes of the middle class in the United States in 1980 to today, we conclude that real incomes for today’s middle class are somewhat higher than they used it to be, particularly for households headed by two adults. It is also clear that failing to adjust for demographic shifts in the population relating to age, race, and education can indicate a more positive outlook than is truly the case.

We find, as in prior research, that prices in housing, healthcare, and education have risen more than middle-class incomes and so are relatively more expensive. However, we also find that these price increases are offset by relative price decreases in transportation, food, and recreation, among others, making real middle-class incomes slightly higher than in the past.

https://www.clevelandfed.org/en/publications/economic-commen...
I obviously don't "know it". But I can say it's something I've witnessed a number of times.

It may be due to the fact that I live in Idaho which has extremely lax standards for homeschooling (which is why some of the cases I observed happened, people fleeing other states so they could avoid oversight on their kids education).

I will admit this is mostly just my own anecdotes. But, it's also the reasons given by a number of my family members and people from my former church that go down that route.
But then you're in Europe. I'm vaguely European in a certain British interpretation of the term but we're not the same.
I don't particularly mind cashless but I have certainly noticed a sharp uptick in "we've gone cashless" signs in London the last month or so.
A modern day equivalent happened just a few days/weeks ago

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/23/chinese-dissid...

How dare these people, don't they know that real communism hasn't been tried?
Pretty sure many appliance and auto requirements are indeed law and not suggestions. Much like ‘smoking in bars,’ these are things that the providers won’t do unilaterally because some large segment of consumers strongly don’t prefer it (and I greatly appreciate no smoke in bars!) But nobody actively wants an A/C or toilet or fridge that works worse, modulo the negative externalities that some care about but even they would want the better appliances if possible.

And I promise you many people including most serious chefs would say there is a giant quality of life improvement from using gas stoves.
> disabling notifications for absolutely everything except messages from a small number of people

Doesn't everyone do this? Maybe that's why I find articles like this so confusing
It’s generally a bad idea to buy stock in the business where where you work. It’s the opposite of diversification. If it’s equity compensation OK, but you should diversify that into other investments as soon as you can.
You can’t see countries under a microscope either, but that doesn’t mean countries are magic.
Totally agree, Joseph Stalin! Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to comment.
I can go buy a new AMD card right now with decent performance for gaming for a decent price.

I can also go buy an intel ARC GPU with 16GB vram, for an even decenter price.

For comparable prices to above, a moderately weak nvidia (3060, 12GB), used, probably for crypto mining, so warranty probably voided even on "2nd hand warranty" brands. If you need compute cheap, used nvidia. if you want current gen gaming for the same price, amd, and with a measured attitude, intel ARC.
What exactly happened? I m curious because I and my customers have been using it for years now without a hitch