skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So is literally everything else
https://religiopoliticaltalk.com/thomas-sowell-on-government...
Virtually anything can be made more affordable in isolation, simply by transferring resources to it from elsewhere in the economy, and having most of the costs absorbed by the U. S. Treasury.

The federal government could make a Rolls Royce affordable for every American, but we would not be a richer country as a result. We would in fact be a much poorer country, because of all the vast resources transferred from other economic activities to subsidize an extravagant luxury.

Of course it might be nice to be sitting at the wheel of a Rolls Royce, but we might be sitting there in rags and tatters, and gaunt with hunger, after having squandered enormous amounts of labor, capital, and costly materials that could have been put to better use elsewhere. That doesn’t happen in a market economy because most of us take one look at the price tag on a Rolls Royce and decide that it is time for another Toyota.

The very notion of making things affordable misses the key point of a market economy. An economy exists to make trade-offs, and a market economy makes the terms of those trade-offs plain with price tags representing the relative costs of producing different things. To have politicians arbitrarily change the price tags, so that prices no longer represent the real costs, is to defeat the whole purpose.

Reality doesn’t change when the government changes price tags. Talk about “bringing down health care costs” is not aimed at the costly legal environment in which medical science operates, or other sources of needless medical costs. It is aimed at price control, which hides costs rather than reducing them.

Hidden costs continue to take their toll— and it is often a higher toll than when these costs are freely transmitted through the marketplace.
Internet Is Hard: A friendly web development tutorials for complete beginners
Less pollution not so much, everyone will be in 2nd gear, less deaths perhaps.
My NFTs Are Worthless
If you prompt it correctly it does.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37675274
So he didn't report the bug to Microsoft? His final comments were just to say:

"This issue has been known for eight years, on many versions of Windows, and it still hasn’t been corrected or even documented. I hope that changes now."
Why does the author of this article act like there is not a difference between clearly ngo funded protest movements and grass root movements?
Please stop making the world worse with search engine optimisation.
I am just about to wrap up some prototyping comparing snowflake, typeids, uuidv4 and ulid. Why did I not bump into uuidv7 earlier?!?
Sabbath originates in Judaism
> encapsulating modules

I love vanilla JS. Are you referring to web components?
LLM is a technology that spits out statistically frequent word combinations (a.k.a stochastic parrot). Then a filter is applied on top of it all, which sees: mmm, in one response, the words "Nazism" and "Good"? Nah, gotta take them out.
*gasp*
Fine-Tuning Glue Export File Size for Athena Queries
Google joins hands with HP for ‘made in India’ Chromebooks
Do you want impact? Take tobacco out of the streets and you´ll see impact.
This is just another free solution to an almost non existent problem.
Also, in your example, if you start this remark, you will immediately get subtle non-verbal feedback, often before you have even ended your first sentence. If you see a few friends cringe, twist their mouth, or start with "errr...", you quickly realize that your opinion is unfair, strange, or has no majority. You have a chance to pull out before too much (or any) damage is done, often by simply adding an attenuating end to your sentence or by changing to tone of your voice to make it clear that you are overly cynical / sarcastic. On social media, you have usually published your opinion in several multi-sentence posts, without any non-verbal context at all, before any feedback is received.

Human conversation is a delicate dance to a fine, multi-dimensional tune. In comparison, online conversation seems like shadow boxing.
Well, Apple is trying a 'do as I say, not as I do' approach, which isn't exactly working.

For example I got an Apple Music notification the other day telling me how awesome the new Classic Music App is, or how the new season of whatever show is available in Apple TV+ is just fresh out of the oven.

I like their products, and even their services, but in this particular case, they're as bad as Uber, just at a different degree (I used to get an Uber Eats notification everyday until I uninstalled the app)
Subsidies Awarded to Tesla Inc: at least $2,829,855,494 and Counting
What do you mean by suffer? I’ve never had any problem driving at any speed in any car apart from crawling (1-2km/h) in a manual.
It's really depressing how openly easy the NGO's are to spot.
One key for all tokens or one key per token? If it’s the latter a simple XOR would do because it would be the equivalent of a one time pad.
Who funded this? Why?
Yeah but what happens when it's only conservative governments that limit immigration to skilled workers, and when the left wing government comes into power they expand it to refugees, and economic migrants?
Australia and Canada can have the right system, but it doesn't matter if it is being short circuited for short term political gain and ideological reasons
Keys are unnecessary in Nue, just like many, many other framework abstractions. If you receive another list from the server, Nue takes care of it automatically. No need for diffing.
I think this is by far the biggest reason for the preference for 30 km/h. Reduced noise and pollution are certainly nice, but killing far less people is huge.
So you'd respond by ego alone, just as the author/engineer did? Why?
I hate this, as usual all blanket statements are false assumptions. The presentation is mainly focused at new paradigms but technology is there to help us fix problems, and I totally agree that jumping on a cutting edge tech is very risky in most of the cases and can end up in wasting a lot of time finding workarounds on either limitations, bugs or immaturity of the chosen tech, BUT my problem with this is "where do you draw the line?".
Is an on premise service boring tech? should we use that instead of aws?
Is github actions too cutting edge? should we keep using jenkins for ci/cd? etc.

It really depends on so many factors (like in house experience, really understanding the product and engineering needs, costs etc) and it does not take in consideration the "problems" of boring tech and why modern tech has tried to solve or avoid them.

The last director who mentioned that to me and built everything in django and had huge scalability issues and took about 1 year and a half to refactor a part of the app to move away from context and orm.

In my opinion the only thing that matters is "how coupled are you with the tech and how optimized for deletion and change is your code/infra"
Is demonstrated pollution with such slow speed will increase dramatically. Next stage, take out cars from the center of the cities totally. Good luck if you bought there a house to take your kids to the college or to go to a better supermarket.
Airbnb is rubbing hands
I've seen reports of corrupted files and that has always stopped me from using it. I even paid for the Android app just to support them.

Is file corruption still an issue?
I wanted to say C++ but I noticed decent
The roads are narrow and meandering for a reason: cars are just one type of traffic and in cities it's generally the most inefficient, even when the roads were optimised towards cars. So there's no reason to optimise for cars at all.

Luckily in some countries governmental organisations protect their citizens from inconsiderate people who lack empathy. You can call that socialism, no one cares.
Socialism has a 100 different flavours, there isn't one universal version.
Social democracy maybe.
I opted out of all tracking on Facebook, so now it serves me the average shite I assume gets shared a lot.

Half the crap is people ranting about the speed limit in Wales, the other half is vandalism of low emission zone cameras and signs in London.
Too niche, like Haskell, Lisp and other functional languages it has a long learning curve and forces you down a paradigm. Languages like C#, java and Python allow multi paradigm programming OO, functional, Procedural etc.
So your argument is that because the things to copy are few, this feature doesn't matter? Or what? I fail to see how what you say contributes to the discussion of vertical integration in any way.
Reminds me of graphviz :)
> I stop hanging out with these types of people.

It's a natural reaction, but these people are actually suffering from an addiction and for at least some of them (those who can take remarks and act on them) it's better to tell them in a friendly way that you are having a discussion.

Most people are aware that cutting off a discussion is impolite and undesirable, they just don't realise they're doing it.
Depends which one of you persists longer: you or your wife.
>“We drive 30 for each other.”

>Not surprisingly, the socialism is blatantly obvious.

You do the speed limit only for yourself?

Is "for each other" really so triggery?
You can win PacMan and Tetris by the high score.

Minecraft is mostly a toy.
I dream that one day organizations will learn that you can in fact just put your message in plain text in the message body, rather than a 1MB PDF or docx
Yeah. Samsung update.

I just factory reset, then if I do the system updates from the control panel they come back. It's reproducible.

I don't install any app since I really only need the browser to display an html page from a server on my LAN.
No he probably meant he doesn't want to care about other people if it impacts him personally.
This does just seem like a worse version of knockout.

In knockout (with typescript annotations), the equivalent would be:

let count = Knockout.Observable<number>(0);

And it's then much clearer when you want to access the value of the observable with count() or update it with count(1234) or count(x => x+1 ).

( I may have hallucinated the ability to pass a function to the observable ).
Scorsese at 80
It would be interesting to know the financial cost of those deaths. Years of tax not paid, medical bills for the maimed etc.

It would seem likely to be a massive economic drain, quite apart from the sheer waste.

Here in NZ for a road toll of 300, 4000ish serious injuries and 30k minor injuries, the cost was $4.6 billion in 2019.

That doesn’t cover lost tax take etc. Reducing that number down is obviously helpful.

https://www.transport.govt.nz/about-us/news/social-cost-of-r...
> even using the $5 wrench method

I understand the XKCD reference but I don't understand why it does not apply to this case. Does that mean that you can't move your disk to a new machine of yours?
Show HN: Android Widget that is a puzzle game
So this is just a simple sort/slide puzzle where you sort the numbers from 1-X to win. The part that I found interesting was that it was to show you could have simple games as widgets on your home screen. This is probably not how widgets should be used, but I found it pretty fun to work around issues that came up. For example, due to the system potentially shutting down the widget at anytime, the gamestate is saved to disk each move.

Feel free to check it out on GitHub (also has a gif):
https://github.com/ddxv/NumberPuzzle

Or download on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thirdgate.numberpuzzle

If anyone else finds this interesting please feel free to reach out, I found making widgets pretty fun.
But from the end-user perspective it doesn't really. Nobody consciously sets the universal clipboard up, it comes as part of the cohesive whole of the Apple ecosystem. That's my point. Whether or not you want to dive deep into nerdland of if it's a program or not is besides the point, because for the end-user none of it matters, and that's why the vertical integration is nice.
s5 mini.

I don't think it gets new updates, but it downloads up to the last update that they put out.
if anyone is interested in a comparison, Paris has had this for some months now. The main idea was to slow / limit traffic through the residential areas (which is most of the city center). There has been an initial wave of skepticism, but things have calmed down somewhat as people seem to have gotten used to it.

Personal (anecdotal) experience :
-cars now go about as fast as some bikes. Makes it easier for cyclists to merge / left turn through even some of the bussier intersections.

-during the bussier parts of the days, speed limit is useless. Nobody is doing 50 on Monday afternoon and it seems that the 30 helps with fluidity / merging. Which (at least in my experience) means that though the traffic jams still exist, they're moving somewhat faster
For a moment I thought that print-only meant write-only read-never, definitely a new way of reading
"Vilifying" is the code word that gives the answer away, much like "combat" and "bigotry" and "vitriol".

It is like an embedded watermark :)
In the UK, speed limits don't apply to cyclists so you'll be disappointed if you try it here.
5 deaths a day in the uk is almost nonexistent?

Keep in mind the massive number of minor and serious injuries that accompany that stat.
Article bases its claim on this piece:

https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/actually-solar-is-getting...

Which does some back-of-napkin math that may be accurate, but ignores some very important issues in the process:

The numbers are [subsidies received] divided by [units of energy produced] for 2022.

Now, let's take nuclear: 'of course' a nuclear power plant built 50y ago was built without using any kind of gov't monetary support. Not relying on gov't supported infrastructure like enrichment facilities, shady deals concerning uranium mining in faraway countries, or whatever. Yeah... right.

Not saying any specific item applies! But private company building nuclear power plant using exclusively its own resources front-to-back, is hard to believe.

Fast forward to 2022. Of course that plant is chugging along as it has for decades. No gov't support needed today. And as we know, nuclear tends to be power-dense. So subsidy/energy output for 2022 works out to a small number.

Also this says nothing about who picks up the bill when a mayor accident were to happen. If so, good chance power company goes under & taxpayers pay for the cleanup, environmental & health damage, etc. Or End-of-Life of a nuclear plant.

Fossil: ignoring all costs externalized to society in the form of climate change related damage, health damage (+costs) due to environmental pollution, cost of wars to secure oil supplies in dictator-controlled countries, etc etc etc. Those costs are huge (yes there are studies on that), they do amount to indirect subsidies, but they're not accounted for in numbers mentioned in the article.

Now, take solar. Of course these are all new installs, subsidies involve upfront costs for rooftop / solar farms that will likely sit there for 20..30y, and energy output for 2022 is only a small fraction of what it's expected to produce over its lifespan. So subsidy/output for 2022 works out to a big number.

Article also mentions a big number ($900 billion) for subsidies as projected for 2060. Wut? If humans are still around by then, energy market will be veeerry different. Doubtful that subsidies for solar would still exist in 2060.

Resulting numbers are so skewed, painting renewables in such a bad light, that I can't help to wonder how much this Robert Bryce (or the Cowboy State reporter) was subsidized by some Big Oil funded thinkthank. Or somehow convinced by a Big Oil lobbyist to have a look into this. Or some other mysterious way to bring these articles about.

Not saying that's the case! Just wondering...
> Not surprisingly, the socialism is blatantly obvious.

Seeing as the social democratic[0] PvdA is currently the largest political party in the Amsterdam city council[1], with the greens a close second, that's all in line with what the people of Amsterdam want.

This is Europe. Socialism isn't a scare word here. If anything, it's a rallying cry.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Amsterdam
I've been using it since March 2022. Right from the beginning the results were better, I didn't have to append my country to every search when I wanted a local business. It's not always that snappy though.
I think it's really funny how humans can't help but use round numbers.

30 kph = 18.64 mph

20 mph = 32.19 kph

So safety rules around the world are based on arbitrary length systems. I'm all for lower speed limits for safety but I feel there is still things to be worked out in suburban settings where long arterial(?) roads carry large amounts of traffic in large cities.
Is it possible publicly talking to a recruiter on linkedin influences the omerta here? Is this beyond question?
Yeah; comments fill a different use case. And for that reason I still find comments interesting.

I'd never write a github issue unless I have a clear use case for a feature, or a clear reproducable bug. And on the receiving side, I hate unclear discussion style issues - "This is cool but its slow when I do (hacky unsupported thing)".

But with comments you surface much more "raw" reactions to things. "Oh cool - I didn't think about the problem like that". "I've always wanted something like this for (some weird problem)", or "How come everyone who tries to solve this problem uses approach X? Is there a reason people don't use approach Z?".

Maybe as a maintainer, the beauty of HN comments is that you don't actually need to reply to them. Github issues sort of demand a response by their very being. If you leave them, they get in the way and make the issue repository basically useless. If you close them without responding, its kinda rude. And responding takes time. Comments, on the other hand, can just be comments. Its lovely.
Maybe indirectly. Driving electric at that speed is pretty comfortable and clean.
How do you know it's online bullshit and not a time-sensitive message from family? I'd never do it mid-sentance, but if I hear my Whatsapp notification tone then I will make a mental note to check that fairly soon, because sometimes it is something important
> (For anyone that cares, the solution is natural rubber, which costs slight more than synthetic rubber but lasts longer. So its better for consumers, cheaper all around, and 1,000x better for the environment but Goodyear, Firestone and Michelin flat out refuse to fund research or even block innovation in natural rubber.

I’m skeptical. Wikipedia says:

> Synthetic rubbers are superior to natural rubbers in two major respects: thermal stability, and resistance to oils and related compounds. [1]

What are they missing?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_rubber
True if you look at the cities, but it misses the bigger picture. There was also a trend of people moving into the surrounding suburbs and smaller towns, and commuting to the inner city. If you look at the metro area, both have actually grown.

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/204296/berlin/population

https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/20107/vienna/population
A 30 km/h car is also a lot less likely than a 50 km/h one to hit a cyclist or pedestrian in the first place - far shorter braking distance, and longer time for the slower mover to spot and avoid them.

Also, as someone who is both a cyclist and a driver, there’s a bit less urgency and frustration to pass a 15-20 km/h bicycle when you’re only allowed to do 30 anyway than when the limit is 50.
the proof is that spiritualism and religion have independently formed in every culture and every far flung corner on Earth.
Easter Island had religion. Inuit had religion. Australian natives had religion. If humans ever settled on Antarctica they would have religion.
It´s like mixing pedestrians with heavy construction machines. Wouldn´t be better to separate both of them for the good of everyone?
I mean, not everyone has the possibility of walking a couple of streets to buy a cappuccino and then take an elevator to the office. Try having kids in a city today and then let's talk.
Yup - if you are thinking about what the story was in about 1978...

Since then there's been a big change from the idea cities were the only locus of culture and technology to a view that nomadic peoples were able to create significant ritual art, technical knowlege, and complex cultures. Of course the view from the 19th and early 20th C's was significantly informed by the need to justify all the genociding of nomadic peoples ("it's for their own good").

The idea I've heard recently is that agriculture grew out of nomadic people encouraging the food plants that they would be looking for in a years time by planting selected seeds and then going off to the next area, over time this led to crops that were more and more adapted as food stuff and this then enabled settled agrarianism. Places like Göbeklitepe are thought to be the ritual centers of nomadic cultures doing this sort of per-agricultural precession. I have read (no expert) that are similar sights in the southern united states where (now genocided) nomadic people used to come together and conduct major rituals which required significant communal investment and co-ordination.

Civilization with no cities... who'd have thought?
> However depending on the architecture that is the only motivation needed and depriving others of rewards; in the long term this could result in centralization of routing nodes (by control) and finally censorship.

Highly recommend reading the original paper (!!) as the "depriving others of reward" concern you have is exactly what is solved through sybil-proofing. So the solution addresses your concern directly -- nodes share because it is profitable for them to do so, and it is profitable for them to do so because others cannot deprive them of their due reward without losing money. If we are both nodes then I'll give you my TX flow because the only way it has value to you is if you figure out a way to get it confirmed faster than I can.

> how does the entire network agree on the minimal routing when there are many routes with the same 'depth'

A good technical analogy is to think about how POW works, but have users attach a difficulty-hash to their TXS instead of a fee. Have nodes "collect" those hashes to meet aggregate difficulty requirements. And now have consensus halve the "measured value" of the tx-embedded hash for each hop in its routing path. Early-hop nodes in this system will have a similar statistical advantage producing blocks.

The POW analogy suffers from attack vectors that are not possible in the sybil-proof mechanism, but it should give you a sense of what is happening. An attacker can create 1-hop routing work using their own money, but in that case they are making blocks with only their own wallets and pay the costs of hashing/burning to release payments entirely out of their own pockets.
I came across this in the book The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet by the historian David Kahn. I'm afraid I haven't got my copy to hand at the moment, but there seems to be a very reasonably priced Kindle version.

(I'm now half panicked that I might have misattributed to Shannon something that was actually Friedman; both of which feature in the book. The uniqueness point concept seems so obviously information-theoretic to me that I might have made the connection by mistake, it's a while since I read that chapter.)