skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, the "investor community" wasn't really well informed. Tesla wanted to pull out of California due to regulations, and was only considering Texas and Oklahoma for the CyberFridge. Texas was selected the year after the initial CyberFridge announcement.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/22/21334860/tesla-cybertruck...
How is putting an extended battery pack in the bed of a truck novel enough to get a patent...? It seems so obvious and uninventive and we already do this with liquid fuels. Guess we'll have to see if Rivian wants to try and defend it and what the courts think about it
North face of Jannu wearing North Face, no less
Makes me wonder, has anyone actually physically seen Sam A. lately? :-)
I quit complaining about cyclists scrapped my car and chose public transport
Not op, but I'm anti-IP. I couldn't care less for IP "theft" (ridiculuos concept it being. if two people share each an idea, they both now have two ideas. no material property is being destroyed). And as for R&D output, China already outpaces U.S. in many key sectors. Take a look at Nature's top science cities list. #1 is Beijing. Perhaps U.S. should steal some ideas of the Chinese, such as effective central planning in transportation projects (high speed rail, metro lines), transmission lines (HVDC) or energy projects (nuclear).
Except it's not a real connection. Except it's some guy in the Philippines and it's literally lying through their teeth about who you're forming your "connection" with. Except many regular people spend huge amount of money they wouldn't otherwise spend.

It's the exploitation of (mostly male) loneliness.
The general consensus (in the places I've read) is that the old board were incompetent blunderers. TFA seems to agree, without saying so outright.

I don't see how you can build an $80 billion operation, with a board full of blunderers. I get that it was those blunderers AND sam, until about a year ago; and I get that a year earlier still, they had several experienced businessmen on the (then larger) board.

None of the "blunderers" has spoken yet, AFAIK; I doubt they've taken the cloth and become Trappists, so I assume they're keeping their powder dry, and waiting to see how the situation shakes out.
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I brought this back. Wondering if there is a great vertical market for this, or if it will be forever relegated to cuteness.
I mean, they have to, no? To the best of my understanding, gravity isn't a force, it's the bending of space around us caused by mass. Everything is forever moving in a perfect straight line from its perspective, but that line is curved depending on the mass of nearby objects, which affects the speed of movement (time). We're all moving around the Earth, which moves around the sun, which moves around the galaxy, which moves around the universe. This includes all particles which makes up everything. The idea that the gravitational field has no effect on them makes no sense. The question is simply "how much" of an effect.
have they cleared this with the tolkien estate?
Might be underwhelming because the rollout of allowing authors was extremely limited? That’s how I felt.

I pay for ChatGPT and never got off the waitlist when first announced. Killed all hype for me.
appreciated, but do you mind forwarding the email itself? it's not that I don't trust you, just helpful to have. I won't use your email for anything.

edit: thanks to all who sent.
You can skip all that even when in the office. However you run into real danger of getting fired because you are producing things that they don't need.
If you think that's bad, wait until you find out who's mining the metals for the solar panels. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/03/child-la...
Use 4% then. You're left with 280k (400-120) a year. That's 9 times the median US income, and very close to being in the top 5% income. Not to mention that capital tax is usually lower than income tax.

Even ignoring investment returns completely, $10M is enough for anyone to live extremely comfortable the rest of their life, just using this money!

Taxing the very rich (as the top 1% is) is reasonable, also when they are retired.

You speak as if the money itself can't be used, only the returns. As if it's somehow 'not a lot of money' if it's not possible to live indefinitely on the capital gains alone.

But I agree that it's unworkable, but only because this is a powerfull group (wealth is power after all). I think it's completely unrealistic for that reason alone. But it's a good idea, and $10M is a lot of money.
Sounds like a skill issue, perhaps you should study the humanities to improve your analysis.
I think the point is that humans need a lot of infrastructure to live. Reliable water/sewage, internet connectivity, schools / day cares if you have kids, access to healthy food (google "food deserts"), etc.
My understanding is it has definitely been solved by the use of much thicker gloves or gloves with heating elements. But doing difficult technical climbing at very high altitudes also requires good dexterity and you are often up there for many days. Also lithium batteries don’t work much at all in temperatures that cold.

I could imagine some kind of warm water tube system that takes heat from a heat exchanger on your chest and transports it to your hands and feet, and is pumped by the action of walking. Not sure if that’s been tried before.

There’s a lot of great engineers who’ve done a lot of climbing so my guess is pretty anything that works sufficiently well to keep hands and feet warm, is also too complex, expensive or bulky to be useful in really extreme mountaineering environments.
I've heard this described as stack ranking with extra steps, seems accurate!
> Any company that contracts with the government will require a 4 year degree and it is a hard requirement.

Which government? That is manifestly not the case at any of the national governments I've worked with. I know engineers that didn't even finish high school that have done business with the US government in almost every employment arrangement possible.
We've always had weird shit. Look up "The Goon Show" on BBC, or Firesign Theatre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmWFrMq3qNY
Well this would just be the excuse. I'm typing this on a Ryzen 5950X w/32 GB of RAM and a 4090. So I guess I already have the beast?
It's because we'll never stop feeling the effects of trade normalization with China that placed the final nail in the coffin of unionized labor in the US, resulting in the poor quality of life we feel daily here.
Firefox, but it works fine now…
I wouldn't say that sex work is fundamentally immoral, but using deception to manipulate people into giving you money is hard to defend. Of course this occurs in many other industries, too.
> If you taxed the top 100 billionaires at a rate of 100%, it would fund the existing federal government (and no new programs) for about a year, and then there would be nothing left for next year.

The point to taxing billionaires is not that "the government needs their money to spend". The government will spend the money anyway regardless of whether it has it. The point to taxing billionaires is to even things out and nudge society to be more equal counter to market forces continuously concentrating wealth. I'd fully support a tax on billionaires where the money just gets burned in a furnace.
Enteric glial hub cells coordinate intestinal motility
Clearer examples highlighting the mechanics of Endb:

https://docs.endatabas.com/tutorial/sql_basics.html

At first I was like "nooo!" because of my MongoDB schema-less PTSD, but pushing through it I find the design and operation of this architecture appears to be interesting and novel with intriguing potential. I haven't encountered another database with semantics quite like this one (not to say one doesn't exist, I just haven't seen it).
> this tendency to wipe out their competition with systematic violence

Is there a term of art for researching this from a biological perspective?
Go ahead and point out the lies and/or misinformation.

You are asserting anecdotes ("it'll make driving slower for sure!"), compared to strong towns and https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes, who are professional planners and civil engineers.

They specifically address your exact points in their videos, stroads are bad for everybody, even cars.
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That isn't an extreme example at all, people used to mill grain and make clothing by hand, now we don't. We somehow are not sitting around getting fat even though technology takes care of those tasks.

The parents suggestion is that if we don't have to learn languages that will lead to us all laying down drinking big gulps while robot slaves take care of us. Their take is the extreme example. People have literally made this same suggestion about every technological advance and it never comes true.
I don't think that's pay bringing happiness as much as pay removes some sources of unhappiness. But this is getting into semantics, so I'll shut up now.
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>Would the US still be using single-shot vehicles that are little more than incremental upgrades of 70s Apollo technology

It would have been better than the road we took. Don't believe me? While NASA Administrator, Michael Griffin wrote in 2007 that the shuttle program had been a colossal mistake and that Apollo-Saturn-Skylab should have continued <http://aviationweek.typepad.com/space/2007/03/human_space_ex...>:

>Let’s assume that we had kept flying with the systems we had at the time, that we had continued to execute two manned Apollo lunar missions every year, as was done in 1971-72. This would have cost about $4.8 billion annually in Fiscal 2000 dollars.

>Further, let us assume that we had established a continuing program of space station activities in Earth orbit, built on the Apollo CSM, Saturn I-B, and Skylab systems. Four crew rotation launches per year, plus a new Skylab cluster every five years to augment or replace existing modules, would have cost about $1.5 billion/year. This entire program of six manned flights per year, two of them to the Moon, would have cost about $6.3 billion annually in Fiscal 2000 dollars. The average annual NASA budget in the 15 difficult years from 1974-88 was $10.5 billion; with 60% of it allocated to human spaceflight, there would have been sufficient funding to continue a stable program of lunar exploration as well as the development of Earth orbital infrastructure. I suggest that this would have been a better strategic alternative than the choices that were in fact made, almost 40 years ago.

SpaceX has finally done reusability the right way, but that does not mean that the shuttle was ever the right way.
The problem I've got is that colloquially in my brain street and road are pretty interchangeable. The thing they're calling a "road" I would call a highway or a freeway, I'd happily call either a street or a highway a "road". So my brain gets stuck on the pam "they're the same picture" meme.

And it doesn't matter how wikipedia defines them or whatever, nobody needs to bother pointing out their definitions, my point is that colloquially I certainly grew up using them completely interchangeably. So now you're stuck both re-educating me on words that I've used incorrectly for decades while introducing a brand new mashup word. Then you have to start teaching why the mashup word is useful.

I'm perfectly fine to accept it and move on myself, but I think in the larger scheme of things this argument is going to land on some obstinate fucks who will just drag people into arguing that "streets are just roads, so the term stroad is stupid". And generally we're stuck in this country between people who enjoy precision and exactness and fairness in language and think its the foundation on which everything is built, and other people who don't see the importance. Since we both speak English we miss the fact that we're not talking the same language and attempts at persuasion aren't working at all.
Most people live near but not in the flood zone. So long as you are above high water it doesn't matter that the river is flooded.
My point stands. Getting investment into those places is tough. Towns and cities don't construct themselves. Construction is especially sensitive to monetary policy.

Land by itself is not useful -- if you can't make a living what's the point of having land? Land is most useful when it's in proximity to opportunity, and opportunity-adjacent land is scarce and only getting scarcer.
Please, please don't store any passwords, health, or financial information in your stack unless you solve this!!!!
If you can't be bothered to write it, why should anyone be bothered to read it?
Call me a bleeding heart but child labor is an 'actual' problem. You can keep destructing societal issues until you reinvent the universe from scratch. It may be difficult to solve global poverty but it's not a lot to ask extremely profitable companies to enforce the supply chain checks they've committed to.
Vietnam in the 60’s, South America in the 1970s and 80s, Iraq in the 90s, Afghanistan and Iraq in the 2000s .. would all like a word. Liberal democracies have looked much less liberal away from home. I’m not saying the “other guys” are better or the same, but the capacity to kill people at lower cost and less risk doesn’t seem like a net win for humanity if it lowers the bar for anyone.
The issue with all peacetime weapon systems is that they necessarily have to work within the peacetime procurement system. They become optimized for capturing contracts, not capturing battlefields. Anything that's actually optimized for capturing the battlefield, in the absence of a real battlefield to capture, fails to win the contract and languishes in some bankrupt startup.

Usually the way wars go is that the first 2 years are spent in utter chaos as the belligerents realize that all their plans don't survive contact with the enemy, and then you get rapid technological development, usually from outside firms that were initially part of non-defense industries, once the belligerents actually get serious about winning the war.
https://archive.ph/H7htR
Chicago is not one of those cities that have transitioned to Democratic control recently - they haven't had a Republican mayor since 1933. Even NYC had one as recently as 2012 or so.

Unfunded mandates are not going to be popular, no matter which political party does so. Reading the article, it appears that the federal government has provided about half of the EPA-estimated cost of replacing all these pipes. So that means either states paying for the rest or forcing customers (i.e., ordinary people and businesses) to cover the cost. Since the COVID-related tax income flush has trickled off, state budgets will be tight, so this will probably have to be funded with a tax increase or water bill increase (functionally the same as a tax).
Some members of the OpenAI board had found Altman an unnervingly slippery operator. For example, earlier this fall he’d confronted one member, Helen Toner, a director at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology, at Georgetown University, for co-writing a paper that seemingly criticized OpenAI for “stoking the flames of AI hype.” Toner had defended herself (though she later apologized to the board for not anticipating how the paper might be perceived). Altman began approaching other board members, individually, about replacing her. When these members compared notes about the conversations, some felt that Altman had misrepresented them as supporting Toner’s removal. “He’d play them off against each other by lying about what other people thought,” the person familiar with the board’s discussions told me. “Things like that had been happening for years.”
And a third time: reputation

Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino were two of the most well-known behavioral economists. Hell, Ariely even published a a board game about it (as well as a bunch of popular books). They've both been accused of data manipulation this year.

My friends in the field are worried that the whole field will be tainted. It grew out of a controversial idea - that despite what past models demand, people don't consistently behave in a rational way. If the two biggest practitioners of a new discipline are outed as frauds, what does that do the the reputation of the discipline as a whole? Will people be skeptical of any behavioral hypothesis that bucks tradition because Ariely was accused of fraud?
i don't get it, how does that solve the same problem for an interactive website?
Absolutely, but most of this stuff happens outside of what shows up in the paper like coming up with excuses on why data points can be dropped or shopping around for different statistical methods that make things look the best. There can even be legit reasons for doing this kind of thing and that's what makes it hard to detect, it's basically just the honor system on whether you're "p-value hacking" or following common methods.

This is kind of why it annoys me a bit when I hear people harping on about trusting science, most science is not as simple as finding objective truths and just reporting them. That's not to say all science is bs and you're better off consulting a magic 8 ball, just that it should never be discouraged to look at methods and conclusions with a critical attitude. There is room for things to be fudged or pushed and very strong incentives for people to do it given how much money and prestige are on the line. It doesn't even have to be as big as a drug trial, one high profile publication can be enough to make a career so you can see how tempting it can be to just change a couple pixels in an image to boost a theory you earnestly believe is true
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The rails world is filled with stuff like this:

class Something

def execute

first_method

end

private

def first_method

second_method + 1

end

def second_method

2

end

end

This should have been just one method instead of thousands of tiny one line methods. I blame Uncle Bob and that whole group for brainwashing the Ruby community.
The important point - who's paying? Looks like the federal government may cover up to half of the cost, so there's quite a bit of unfunded mandate that states will have to come up with:

"""

The Biden administration is proposing new restrictions that would require the removal of virtually all lead water pipes across the country in an effort to prevent another public health catastrophe like the one that came to define Flint, Mich.

The proposal on Thursday from the Environmental Protection Agency would impose the strictest limits on lead in drinking water since federal standards were first set 30 years ago. It would affect about nine million pipes that snake throughout communities across the country.

“This is the strongest lead rule that the nation has ever seen,” Radhika Fox, the E.P.A.’s assistant administrator for water, said in an interview. “This is historic progress.”

Digging up and replacing lead pipes from coast to coast is no small undertaking. The E.P.A. estimates the price at $20 billion to $30 billion over the course of a decade. The rule would require the nation’s utilities — and most likely their ratepayers — to absorb most of that cost, but $15 billion is available from the 2021 infrastructure law to help them pay for it.

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Even the native original version needs the proper context. Sometimes you need the entire sentence to figure out what the sentence was really about.

I'm reminded of Mark Twain complaining about verbs arriving at the very end of sentencess in German (among a myriad of other complaints)

"The Awful German Language* -Mark Twain https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html
Prices have never been cheaper and yet deletion strategies remain important. The flaw in this assumption is twofold - data creation grows faster than the price drops and “garbage” data can have performance implications. Cloud storage providers love it if you never delete data because they’re charging you more than it costs, but internally they need to carefully and speedily delete data you’ve asked them to delete because it’s a cost (you’re not getting billed for it).
Thankyou for the very informative article, I appreciate the irony using a post titled "Stop building databases" to announce a new database :-)
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Because Econ in good schools is extremely math heavy and is obviously STEM-adjacent.
Some discussion is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36839800

Sorry, I don't remember all the details.