skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, I really appreciate author trying to understand economy better in this way, even though this simulation is quite naive. I think everybody should do that.

But as others have noted, it has no concept of capital, private property, and labor market. Therefore, it's not capitalism. It's not anarchism or communism either - it lacks flexibility of workers to do something else, or state planning telling workers to do something else. At best, it could be a model of a feudal society (where the "state servants" are the landed nobility).

Furthermore, it has no concept of natural resources, energy, labor and goods. That has to be there before we even get to things like money.

Also, the money definition is problematic. Money is essentially a contract, and can be created even between three private parties as resoldable bonds. This isn't there.

I would also suggest, if the author (or anybody else) is interested, look at Steve Keen's work in economic simulation and his Minsky program. This guy is far ahead of everybody else in actually trying to understand how real economies work.

To people who wonder why don't we have good economy simulators that would reflect a real world. Well, I think the answer is pretty simple - rich people don't want that. They don't want plebes to understand what it means to be rich, most rich people know they wealth is undeserved, and don't want other people to see it flaunted openly. So they prefer hegemony (in Gramsci terms) of neoliberal economics, which is misleading about what is happening in reality.
Is housing a form of health care? A Washington program says it is
The simple answer is because I don't know how to do a semantic search on a bunch of documents, nor do "plain old vector distances." It's not my field.

The longer answer is that I think that it will also be useful to have the background knowledge (however hallucinogenic) that ChatGPT has. I'd like to be able to have a conversation specifically grounded in the papers, and if I ask about a topic that isn't specifically mentioned by those words in the article, I'd like it to be able to say "none of the articles talk about X, but they do mention Y, which is related in this way." I'm not sure if this is expecting too much of it.
This has been my observation, not just where I live, but in most other places I'm familiar with.
This is an example of what websites should be like. Whimsically creative and a little unhinged.
> cats in small city apartments are especially cruel.

nah, you're just an uncreative person. you can be involved in your pets stimulation. seeing that you think having a pet inside is just confining, i feel pretty correct assuming you see pets as just an animal you hang out with and feed and not a responsibility to nourish. instead, have the outdoors do your work for you! and if they die, so be it. shows a lot of love and care :)
> “Every day that we don’t have this tool as specced, we’re losing millions of dollars.” There was no budging on the spec.

If this is life or death, then the first reflex should be to find ways to make things simpler to ship. I understand that the requester in this case was a head of finance, but sh*t, if you want something, try to compromise once in a while.

This is a great story, but at some point as an engineer in a gig-selling company, I would have asked myself if my job was really to re-build excel.
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Plenty of Danes make less than that. Stages at Noma used to make absolutely no money at all.
The business logic here is >15 years old. Http compression was only in early stages then, and you can guarantee that many client side scripts and libraries would jot have supported it. Zip was well known. Compress and place.

If I'm not missing the point here, this was, and still is, about offering the simplest, most reliable solution over a long period. This is a near perfect example of how to do exactly that. No changing formats, no moving requirements, no big swings in frameworks, apis, or even standards. And most importantly, no breaking your customers business workflows.
https://archive.is/zCEji
Citation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEv4qvvQNl4 ("Autoworkers Strike: The Unions' Rising Influence in America - Peter Zeihan")
Thought nothing would be crazier than a Y until I got an X5 BMW for a rental. It was even more insane. It has a frantic beep when you open the door to get in or out. It honks because it thinks you’ve left the fob in it. Thanks for waking my neighbors up at 2am.
I didn't claim that they were. I'm talking about what influences housing cost trends. I'm not talking about absolute numbers.
Yes, Git was not designed for your workflow, that has a single remote and a special "main" branch. It was designed for a very different workflow used in Linux development.

Git just happened to be flexible enough to be a reasonably good fit for other workflows, including GitHub-centered workflow which is relatively common. Mostly because of easy branching/merging and great support for working off-line, I guess.

However, it does not have built-in support for such workflows, their special requirements need to be be satisfied by tools and/or practices external to Git.

What you are saying is that Git is not a perfect fit for your workflow, and that this workflow is fairly common, so why there is not something better for that need? If you stopped there, your post would be perfectly reasonable from my point of view. But you called your workflow "developer experience", as if that's the only one that exists. It's kind of offensive for the people with different workflows, and so with different experience.

Anyway, I don't know the answer to your question, but my guess is that Git + external tools/practices is "good enough" for your workflow, so nobody created a completely separate system.
In scientific writing Mass is usually referenced instead of Weight, because weight changes depending where you are, even on the same planet (being a measurement of gravitational force).

You are making my point even stronger... and weight being political is news to me.
> Apache POI lets you run headless Excel. You import and interact with sheets programmatically in Java.

How does this help you in the browser?
Two anti-obesity drugs delay the recession in Denmark
September 29, 2022
https://archive.is/51SdN
I think he looks like an interesting person: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew_Curtis

at least compared to most other local governor candidates?

The book summary was interesting too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Not_News,_It%27s_FARK
Interesting read. It’s amazing more people don’t use runtime variable value annotation tools like Wallaby.js, or a debugger.

So much time spent mentally remembering what is in what variable based on the naming.

I often find myself adding “// e.g. foo, bar” to show example cases for some lines of code…like recedes for example. Wallaby.js is a godsend for this though.
thanks for pointing to SyncThing - I'll check it out.

if you're willing to share:

1. what scanner do you use?

2. what do you do for documents that might be in two places? ex: car insurance, health insurance - in the insurance folder or the health folder? ex: medications that both spouses take, in his folder or her folder or in a "both" folder?
This is an excellent point. Thanks. Do you mind if I quote your comment in our official policies?

It's interesting because libgen also provides most fiction titles, but everyone is rooting for them.

For example, one of the books they want taken offline is from 1954, republished in 2008. So in this case they operate closer to the textbook model than the author model.
Show HN: Super Castle Game, a JavaScript puzzle under 13 KB
I wrote this for the js13kGames game jam, and thought I'd share.
GLSL is great! But it is very limited in many aspects. Js enables us to create a more ergonomic APIs for SDFs similar to processing/p5. You can easily mix the glsl and js code, and it also allows you to directly implement transformations on SDF functions, like revolving or extruding a 2D SDF into a 3D one with a transformation function:

https://shaderpark.com/sculpture/-NeEtQ1JEccER6MjPQzq

It's not meant to be a replacement for glsl, just to open up some cool new possibilities!
I don't think (read: about 99% sure) that DMCA safe harbor applies to someone serving a repository that they themselves have compiled so there's no sense in a rights holder using that process. They can ask with varying levels of niceness and/or sue.
Too many different tools with weird syntax... once you are used to Nushell, you keep using it :)

http get https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-hist.zip | gunzip | from csv | sort-by USD | first | get Date
I use both, and I have found it helpful to have nushell around when munging csv and parquet files, even when working with duckdb - I find it quicker to ask for the first few rows of a thing or do simple stuff with it, then deeper analysis with duckdb.

They're a powerful pairing
Donations are not a realistic source of income for open source maintainers. They do what they do for reasons other than money. Often, they are mission driven (doing it because they want to achieve something) more than anything else.

You can help maintainers by contributing code or even bug reports to the ecosystem wherever it makes sense to do so. When you are in a situation where you can contribute something by spending a little bit of extra time (e.g., on merging your changes,) then do it.

Although I believe that maintainers are great and that they deserve to get paid for their work, the fact is they aren't getting paid and they don't expect to get paid.
Welcome to the Python community, where type highlighting is a first class syntax feature, but actually checking it is optional (unlike the TypeScript compiler), and you get people complaining their favourite languages is polluted by ugly stuff they don’t ever use (presumably) hurting readability. You can’t please everybody.
I interviewed with Uber in 2016 with the "crystal ball" team. Reading about R-crusher, I am glad that offer never came through!
Maybe in part because it encourages you to work with a local copy, rather than just hitting the hosted .csv repeatedly?

Just guessing. I have no idea :-)
As with all of these studies, it’s important to remember that this isn’t evidence that taking MDMA by itself is therapeutic. The therapy sessions are the primary treatment in this study and the MDMA is being explored as an adjunct to therapy.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but: Taking MDMA you bought off the street and hoping it’s going to cure whatever ails you isn’t even remotely similar to what’s being studied here. MDMA is also well known to produce depressive rebound effects in the following days that can worsen mental health problems if the patient isn’t properly monitored and prepared. (and no, taking some supplements and 5-HTP won’t save you from all the side effects no matter what that guy on the internet claims)

Importantly, both the MDMA-assisted therapy and the regular therapy groups improved over the course of this study. It should go without saying that regular old therapy is and will continue to be the first-line treatment for PTSD. People will debate the relative safety of MDMA all day long, but no matter how you look at it, MDMA will always be more risky than therapy alone. The MDMA group had a 1-in-10 incidence of treatment related adverse events, for example.

Another important piece of context is that true placebo control is impossible in these studies. Patients and caregivers will know which patients received MDMA due to the dramatic effects of the drug. This doesn’t negate the study, but you do have to consider the fact that these patients went into this study expecting to maybe get MDMA with the expectation that MDMA would help them. They would no doubt be either excited or disappointed after realizing which group they were in. This will, unfortunately, impact the results in ways that can’t be measured.

I hope future studies will compare against an active control group. It would be much better to compare, for example, therapy with placebo, therapy with SSRI, and therapy with MDMA. It’s easy to differentiate from placebo, but it’s much harder to find new treatments that outperform existing options.

Another alternative would be to trial an active placebo group. For example, if one group received MDMA and another group received a dose of amphetamine then both groups would know they had received a psychoactive drug with euphoriant properties, but if they were truly drug naive (as asked in the intake screener) then theoretically they wouldn’t be able to tell which group they were in. This would more effectively isolate MDMA’s unique properties, if any, without breaking the blinding as much.
https://archive.is/4BJPV
When submitting a weight, the site should allow you to submit a reference such as a newspaper article, an archived website, or other form of proof. And the proof should be publicly visible.
Restored 1908 Steam Engine [video]
Sup PLA. The Chinese people are intelligent and strong. Why don’t you let them express that strength freely?
Or you can just zip it explicitly and remove complexity and future issues it they have to move to another web server platform.
Literally every industry publication and BOM analysis since... the first iPhone?
https://archive.is/9BojK
Caitlin McCormack Crochets a Speculative Future
Where is their skin in the game?

A doctor that makes a bad diagnostic might suffer a malpractice lawsuit, or at the very least will be known for their incompetence. What happens with Nike for customers that bought their products but never get to do anything? Do they give any type of money back?
Sure. Is there a counter argument to this?
Canutes trying to hold back the tides.

US chip manufacturers will be swamped by the flood of Chinese semiconductors in the next 5-10 years. They will meet the same fate as the US textiles manufacturers have already done.

And the Chinese had been perfectly happy buying their chips from the US until the sanctions were applied.
Really enjoyed this comment--thanks for sharing. Game development really sounds like such a different beast from standard line-of-business programming. Always enjoy hearing stories about it and reading books about it (Masters of Doom comes to mind).
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chiles-allende-myth-lives-on-am...
This was not an active placebo study. The placebo group did not receive any medication.

Benzodiazepines would not be an appropriate active placebo anyway as they are a sedative, not a stimulant. They would also be expected to interfere with the therapy because they impair memory and alertness, so that’s a no-go.
Long time ago my employer at the time had this in-house deployment system written by a guy that worked there. It worked well and we used it well after he had moved on. He left suddenly and started a company based on the idea. Employer went to sue him and discovered the ‘all your code belongs to us’ form was missing from his permanent file so they didn’t pursue it. That company is called Chef.
Arguably the most battle-tested, feature-rich program on the planet. Yeah just make it like that.
I didn’t say china can’t innovate… I said that the Chinese government actively encourages and finances at a large scale industrial and economic espionage activity.

See for example the China National Intelligence Law’s Articles 7 and 10: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Law_of...
> (Commercial fire sprinkler pipes seem to be mostly steel (!). I don’t know why. It always seems like a dubious idea to me.)

Because steel can withstand much higher temperatures than CPVC, PVC, or Pex, by at least an order of magnitude, not to mention withstand much higher water pressure too.
Alupis is simply trying to help out Science in an objective and apolitical way by pointing out that some phrases can rile people up into hooting and hollering. Phrases like “assigned female at birth” can, to use an empirical term, “whip one up into a real doozy of a tizzy” that can only be quelled by posting. Anything that might trigger Poster’s Rage is definitionally Not Science because scientific words do not make people “get all flustered”
thanks for sharing Trustworthy - I'll check it out.

if you're willing to share: do you worry about their security or do you feel that they're at least as secure as what you could do yourself or other services might do?
> What do you think?

Suspect this will be unpopular, but..

Information wants (and deserves) to be free. People make sophisticated and convincing arguments for incentivizing creation, they resonate with me but ultimately I just do not agree with them.

I think projects like yours are on the right side of history, but it will take a long while before we collectively agree.

Your ethical dilemma hinges on whether or not you agree with the above.
The implication that these are comparably impactful constitutional questions is risible. Further: zero is the number of Republicans that would accept the constitutionality of the argument you're making were the roles reversed.

This whole thread of argument you're making is, and this is saying something, distinctively hard to assume good faith about.
Meh.

What's your source?

Yes, those things can of course happen, but they're very rare and in the minority.

It is absolutely NOT common to have a "bad" experience with a drug that is chemically designed to make you feel incredible via serotonin depletion.
Ads almost always lead to mostly fake/bot clicks: https://www.reddit.com/r/marketing/comments/4smisl/facebook_...
How I Evaluate Game Engines
> western companies are bound by stronger ethics

I wouldn't say people in the west are "better people in their hearts" but they absolutely follow more strict norms regarding honesty and theft. This is one of the main reasons why companies pay a premium for workers in the west when they could hire from other places.

One example: accounting scandals in the US are rare. I don't think anyone trusts accounting figures for public companies from India or china.

> in which case I'd like to see some evidence.

The alternative to trust is enforcement. The evidence you are looking for is the prevalence of the latter principle in systems that deal with things of value.
I think electric solar heating makes sense for a lot of installations.

Wires are easier than pipes, we still need electricity, make the existing system larger rather than split between the two. Heat water during the midday when output is high. I use almost no hot water, so the system would have a long payback period. But I can heat water in a 15A kettle.

I love solar thermal, Trombe Walls should be integrated into the construction directly or added after the fact. They are for building heat, not water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trombe_wall
If you want a standalone app, Microsoft Lens is actually pretty good for creating pdfs from pictures.

I agree it's great to be able to do this natively on iphone without third-party apps.
Blinding isn’t just about the patients - It’s about the therapy providers as well. We would like to think they’d provide the same treatment regardless of what the patient received but over-eager researchers tend to get more excited about the active group and provide them more attention and enthusiasm.

Niacin isn’t a great placebo these days because it’s not the 70s any more and people going into these studies will probably Google what to expect from the drug. Also Niacin is short acting and makes people itchy and uncomfortable, so it’s not really compatible with therapy.
thanks for sharing - it's a great feature.

one problem I've found with notes is that they don't appear to have any kind of export mechanism - i.e., you're tied to apple and that app. Is that right?
The real liability is sharing publicly that you did this. But hey, people have done far worse for attention and fake internet points, right?
In the context of game development, "quaternion" almost always refers to a normalized one that represents a rotation. Many engines aren't even capable of representing anything else with their quaternion types and enforce this automatically.
Nice to learn s.th. xD. I'm probably a bit too old now anywas. I just knew bananas and nuts are good, but not why^^
> Although pulling out a simple max is easy, the data shape is not ideal. It's in "wide" format - a Date column, and then an extra column for every currency. Here's the csv header for that file:

> Date,USD,JPY,BGN,CYP,CZK,DKK,EEK,GBP,HUF,LTL,LVL,MTL,[and on, and on]

> When doing filters and aggregations, life is easier if the data is in "long" format, like this:

> Date,Currency,Rate

> Switching from wide to long is a simple operation, commonly called a "melt". Unfortunately, it's not available in SQL.

> No matter, you can melt with pandas:

> curl -s https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/eurofxref-hist.zip | \
gunzip | \
> python3 -c 'import sys, pandas as pd
> pd.read_csv(sys.stdin).melt("Date").to_csv(sys.stdout, index=False)'

You sure this can't be done in SQL? I myself don't know enough SQL, but I believe that you can decompose a single row into multiple rows in SQL by joining multiple queries using UNION ALL:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46217564/converting-sing...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52279384/how-do-i-melt-a...

Now the question is, how to make this less verbose (so that the query doesn't need to mention each of the 42 columns)
Seems to me like Libgen is "addressing" it better than Congress will, and at lower cost.
Folks on YouTube cut, heat, and flatten PVC and then scratch build scale models out of it.

This working excavator is rather extraordinary.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qam0DmWq_No&pp=ygUTcHZjIHBpcGU...
Related:

Johnny Cash Has Been Everywhere (Man) (2012) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30830222 - March 2022 (54 comments)
I'm not buying it. It's just a cable, and regular wear and tear (user error in Apple parlance) pretty-much dictates a lifetime far less than 10 years. The reason is profit, no more, no less.
PLA. What? I don’t even know what that stands for. I assume it’s the Chinese army right?

Any post that is isn’t anti China here is now labeled as paid for by the Chinese government right?

It shows how much anti-China propaganda has gotten since Trump came into power and how much the US has turned nationalist.

People here have drank so much anti China propaganda that any neutral to positive post about China is immediately condemned.
> Mass is usually referenced instead of Weight

You’re telling me buddy! People actually think that doctors weigh babies and write down the numbers they see on the scale when everybody really smart knows they measure infant Mass by measuring their liquid displacement and multiplying it by the density of the standardized homogenous baby slurry provided by NIST.

It’s like dang John Stewart in every delivery theater I tell you what
Can anyone weigh in with information as to how insulated this is from being overbearing and giving someone some form of immune deficiency syndrome?
> I'm very sceptical about mdma for medical treatment.

Data disagrees with you.

I have seen tremendous improvement in quality of life of veterans with PTSD with just a few MDMA assisted therapy sessions.
We're not worried. Our operation is anonymous, and as long as we don't slip up, we'll be fine. Though saying "don't slip up" is very "draw the rest of the owl"; it's most of the work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37346620

But we'd like to do the right thing ethically, which is hard to figure out.

Hypothetically, if you were going to set up a process for yourself outside of the law, what criteria would you use?
Commercial fire sprinkler pipes are steel because it has a high melting point, it’s durable, and it’s less expensive than copper or brass. The water pressure in a fire sprinkler system can be 100-200 psi.
Ok, we've positioned the title above. Thanks!