skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Race absolutely enters into it - the states (in the US) and countries recommended in the Travel section are often much less friendly to non-white visitors. Basically, race is ignored, when at a practical level (for non-white people) it can't be.

To answer your question about visas - it is country-dependent. Some countries offer Digital Nomad visas or other long-term non-permanent visas. I agree with you that it's another big omission of the article.

Which all adds up to make this a fluff piece.
Same, I've been using this cron script for that: https://github.com/allen-munsch/obsidian-daily-cron/tree/mai...
How do you know that the downloaded binaries are built by the GitHub action? If I must audit the code and build it myself every release, then how is this a usable product?
I absolutely hate that practice and CNN is far from alone in doing it. It's become extremely common. When it comes to mainstream news CNN tends to avoid outright lies, but they do omit a lot and their bias comes out in what they choose to report on and how they talk about it.
I'm not sure what you are aiming at?

Most of the competition in life comes from other living things. So any organism's failure to survive and thrive is often because some other organism is stealing their lunch money. But the 'lunch money' (eg a spot in the sunlight) doesn't disappear.

> There's a fixed amount of time on earth or perhaps the universe.

For the universe: it looks like the universe will expand forever, and more and more of it will recede behind the cosmological event horizon (because places that are far enough away will recede faster from us than the speed of light). The amount of usable energy within the spacetime we can reach is most likely finite. (Where 'usable energy' include considerations of entropy.)

Time might be unlimited in an endlessly expanding universe, but usable energy ain't.

But here's the savings grace: as far as we can tell, the physical lower limit of usable energy required for doing computations is proportional to the prevailing temperature. And expansion decreases the temperature of space, or rather its background radiation.

So if you have 1J of energy left in your civilisation, you can expand half of it now to do some unit of computation. Then you wait until the temperature of your corner of the universe has dropped in half, and you expend another half of your remaining energy (1/4 J), to do another unit of computation. You can in principle keep doing this indefinitely, and get an infinite amount of computation. You can use that computation to power eg a simulation of life.

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Of course, this assumes you have found materials or mechanisms to run your computation on that can persist for arbitrary amounts of time in stasis without decay or using energy.

The lower limit of energy usage for computation also only applies for irreversible computation. Reversible computation can be had for free, in principle.

With long enough timescales, Boltzmann brains or even Boltzmann planets or Boltzmann galaxies also become a consideration.
I'm an armchair urbanist who follows all the channels and forums, including yours. In 2022 I took a year off to travel the world to figure out where to move. My top list ended up being Paris, Lisbon, Miami and Praia, Cabo Verde. Weird list for someone who's into urbanism right? Only Paris and Lisbon fit the bill. And why isn't Amsterdam and others on it?

Thing is as much as I love good urban design, there's more to life than that. Eg, Amsterdam has terrible weather and tbh I find Dutch culture and lifestyle monotonic and boring. Lisbon is diverse and great but salaries too low. Paris is diverse and amazing but too cold and salaries too low. Cabo Verde you need a good remote job to live. Miami has mostly terrible urban planning but is diverse, fun, gives access to good USD high paying jobs and has nuggets of gold which if you chose your neighborhoods, activities and lifestyle wisely can be much, much more livable than it looks. So I ended up in Miami.

I live car-free in Little Havana, walking distance to both Brickell and Ocho. Plenty of restaurants, supermarkets, pharmacies and every imaginable service within walking distance. I ride my electric bike to South Beach, Little Haiti etc in ~20 minutes. (Wynwood and Overtown in like five ten lol) (that's faster than driving, esp in case of traffic or even just if you include parking) I can take the TriRail and Brightline to Ft Lauderdale and beyond. I can even ride the Amtrak all the way up the East Coast. Not living in Kendall or Hialeah, and not having to drive everywhere, I'm simply not as affected by the bad aspects of Miami's terrible urban planning as most people fuming in traffic on I-95 on the daily are.

Don't get me wrong, Miami gets a solid F in so many ways when it comes to urbanism, so I don't want to plug it too hard. But yeah def not just doable but outright enjoyable if you make the right choices.
Only 52 US companies have been on the Fortune 500 since 1955 (2021)
About #10:

> because to unify them at this point would be a breaking change

Couldn't they change this in a future edition without breaking older editions?
"Bribery exists in every economic system" is not an argument for being okay with bribery in this system.
São Paulo

Pros: it's the business and tech city in South America, lots and lots of immigrants and their delicious restaurants, basically all shows and band tours in South America pass through here. Good internet and infrastructure. Good doctors and healthcare. Cheapest place to travel abroad from Brazil.

Cons: it is not very safe[1]; not much nature like Rio.

[1] safe is a relative standard, I never suffered any kind of theft or robbery living here for 10+ years.
Houston

pros: INCREDIBLE food and beer scene, lots of events, surprisingly great museums, really great zoo, symphony is top notch, friendly people, surprisingly cheap, very high cultural and political diversity, good parks system, did I mention the food?

Cons: swampy, brutal summers, public transit (it exists but won't get you anywhere you want to go), suburban sprawl for miles and miles, parks aren't picturesque, Houston is to oil and gas what the bay is to tech
Super interesting project. I love the idea of crazy low power low latency color e-ink in the future.

And this is definitely a good demonstration of our progress.

For now, that ghosting would kill me if I tried to use it as my main driver.
Absolutely return as defective. Make it sting a little.

If it doesn't say on the box "requires constant internet to function" in big bold letters, it should.
That actuality sounds pretty standard. That would be from 5pm-10pm. Evening news, game shows, then like two 1 hour long shows and it’s already been five hours.
> Is there a scenario where intentionally crashing a vehicle on property that you do not have permission to crash a vehicle on isn't reckless endangerment/reckless driving?

Arguably whenever you could expect that not crashing the vehicle would lead to a worse outcome. In the plane example, this might be true if you expect to loose control of the plane at some point (due to mechanical failure or force) and a controlled crash is the best option to avoid (possibly) impacting a more populated area. But I agree that this is a rare scenario.
Throwaway account because this is an honest question. Why did the researcher have to look like that? It makes the person an easy target for further disinformation. I could post that the person hates white males and people would believe it without question, even though I have no basis for that statement. Facebook and Harvard got lucky that this person was a non-obstacle to removal by appearing so uncharismatic. It is a near certainty that most of you who opened the link formed your opinion of the matter shortly after looking at the picture of the propaganda researcher in question. I almost wonder if this is some sort of advanced test, since I have never heard of this researcher.

For whatever reason though this is a controversial element, even though a change in the person's appearance would make a greater impact to their career than anything else. If it were okay to discuss, someone would have told the person by now.

On a lighter note, propaganda research is not a new field at all, even if it is being rebranded as disinformation studies. Noam Chomsky comes to mind.
Southern California.

Pros: mountain biking.

Cons: Drains all your money, then squanders it through corruption, laziness, incompetence.
Nice, I will have to pick that up once it releases.
I am very skeptical about these side effect claims. Do you have hard data supporting this or doctor hearsay. Years ago I remember watching Charlie Rose Brain series where one of the professors said something like “ we know of two drugs that we are certain are very safe for human beings: alcohol and aspirin.”
It isn't a cancer drug, so that isn't a fair comparison. GI symptoms from eating more broccoli and not ever drinking are also pretty mild compared to cancer drugs. Aspirin appears to be a preventative according to some initial research. National cancer institute says even the most at-risk age group (age 60+) is still only has cancer rates of around 1 in 100. How long are you going to take low dose aspirin?

Are GI symptoms mild if you take low dose aspirin on a daily basis for 30 years? 40? Longer even? All to reduce your odds of getting cancer from 1 in 100 to 1 in 120 at the latest stage of your life. The gains are marginal in younger stages of your life where cancer rates are much lower.

Don't get me wrong, if this is validated it's a very interesting result. A mechanism of action could be potentially groundbreaking. It doesn't mean start taking aspirin every day for the rest of your life at age 38 just to be on the safe side, however.

It is also worth considering that this is purely an association at this point. It is possible that some of this effect is because cardiovascular disease, the primary reason for taking low dose aspirin, tends to kill people before the odds of getting cancer have time to really flex their muscles. We might assume that ethical researchers without perverse incentives working within a system primarily concerned with scientific truth would have ruled out that possibility... but then we would be idealists who are ignorant of how the world works. Or any other number of reasons why this might turn out to be a big old pot of nothing to get excited about.
Sure but delivery mark ups and high delivery fees are a recent thing. Plenty of restaraunts offered the same price in-store as for delivery, and the fee was usually $2-4 plus tip. It's not like technology has gotten worse or cars have gotten slower. So it was sustainable, and now they want us to believe it's not sustainable.

Right now yes food delivery is a luxury. I guess the point is... how and why did that happen?
Try sitting down.
This is a bit odd since Adam D' Angelo, the remaining board member from the previous group, is the CEO of Quora which builds a competing LLM, Poe. This came up a lot during the drama a few weeks ago.

But Sam Altman went to bat for Adam, even defending him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1730032994474475554

"I recognize that during this process some questions were raised about Adam’s potential conflict of interest running Quora and Poe while being on the OpenAI Board. For the record, I want to state that Adam has always been very clear with me and the Board about the potential conflict and doing whatever he needed to do (recusing himself when appropriate and even offering to leave the Board if we ever thought it was necessary) to appropriately manage this situation and to avoid conflicted decision-making. Quora is a large customer of OpenAI and we found it helpful to have customer representation on our Board. We expect that if OpenAI is as successful as we hope it will touch many parts of the economy and have complex relationships with many other entities in the world, resulting in various potential conflicts of interest. The way we plan to deal with this is with full disclosure and leaving decisions about how to manage situations like these up to the Board."
>In the meantime, the US has NEVER had a war on its soil.

Only if you don't count wars in the US against Britain, Mexico, Spain, Native American nations.
I find it also a bit frustrating because browsers may even ignore your network's DNS settings so you can easily get unexpected behavior (yes, I know it's expected if you are a domain expert but I'm not and it shouldn't be surprising when users are shocked that they implement a pihole and see their machine is using a different DNS than expected. I'd actually expect novice users to be surprised in this case)
And if you search the lat/long he uses:

The more precise coordinates are actually in the middle of the Rocket Garden at the Visitor's Center of the Kennedy Space Center complex.

The atom-level coordinates are obtained by appending digits of e and pi to the Rocket Garden coordinates.

From: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2170:_Coordinate_...
Almost all strokes are ischemic strokes.
Ha, that's fair, I missed that. I wasn't optimistic about them in 2019, but sinking ship would definitely be a strong claim about that time, and my point is moot about that time.

Probably some motivated forgetfulness on my part, because I'm just so glad that their attempts to bind podcasts exclusively to their platform seem to be failing/diminishing.
As far as I know (please correct me if I'm wrong), you can look at price per square foot and see the same story. Prices of 100-year-old 1400-sqft homes are going up too, faster than consumer prices and faster than wages.

> more people wanting to live in fewer areas

> Housing would probably be cheap if we chose to live in the same types of remote areas we did 60 years ago

As far as I know, people wanting to live in remote areas was a relatively short-lived phenomenon in American history, facilitated by a number of economic and political factors that are not repeatable. My personal belief is that improving mass transit (think: Netherlands) is the best and most sustainable way to mitigate the current crisis, especially in the Boston area.
Portland, OR

Pros:

• Best city for running in the US

• Relatively cheap still - I pay $1200/month for a 1-bedroom

• Easy to get around without a car if you bike

Cons:

• Tons of restaurants and local businesses shutting down

• Increase in property crime as a result of drugs

• Average summer is going from a few days of 90+ to a week of days pushing 100 degrees with hardly any overnight cooling
Wouldn’t it be more racist to list as a pro?
San Diego.

Pros: Weather, activities. People are chill and the Mexican food is dank.

Cons: Spensie and the wages aren't great; prefer to work remote for that Bay Area $
You joke but XQuery isn't too far off
Eclipse, hailed as proof that one person game dev teams could work. Then he ended up chasing his tail with eclipse2, releasing it late, looking like a game from 2 years prior to the release date. Proving the days of the solo game dev was over, at least for a while.
Allowing negative numbers in this problems still leaves it NP-complete. That's much better, but still hardly tractable.

Instead, allowing fractional numbers (with or without allowing negative numbers, doesn't matter), allows us to solve the problem in polynomial time.

Debt is an interesting topic in economics (and sociology), but it's not the deciding factor here.
I was wondering about libraries that do Numpy-like things, not libraries implemented like Numpy.
CGS?
It's not perfect, but as an immigrant, I can usually split locals into two groups as soon as I meet them: Those who spent time overseas and those who never left. The conversations are so distinct!
Austin, TX

Pros: cheap cost of living for a tech city, warm most of the year, BBQ and live music

Cons: it's hellishly hot for 2-3 months, it's expensive compared to other (non-tech) cities, politically liberal folks will find state politics oppressive

I wrote a much more in-depth analysis of the best city for techies in 2024. TLDR, I think Seattle is probably the best place overall. The Bay is still king if you want to maximize for career growth, though: https://overthinkingmoney.com/2023/11/21/best-city-for-techi...
It's the same level of racism either way.
Nice. That makes me realize I’ve seen it as part of nightly builds. Seems like it should just be standard though.
The feature I miss that spotify has is being able to control music playing on my desktop from my phone or vice versa
Were there actually legal restrictions on those things in many places prior to the routinization of passports and passport controls in World War I?
It works for me in Firefox and I've got uBlock Origin with the EasyList Cookie filter enabled. The intent to block ad-blockers seems to be there at least.

It's really hard to know what the actual issue is when these kinds of things happen thanks to all the gaslighting A/B testing brought to the web.
There are some misunderstanding here. Artemis isn't really a program. SLS, Orion, HLS (Starship) and a few other things are all their own program. Each has their own political logic and its cancellation depends on many things. Cancling all isn't really possible, no matter what the marketing term 'Artemis' means. Artemis is literally just a marking term a clever NASA Administrator made up in order to get money for a lander.

SLS and Orion have survived many changes in program, their survival is independent.

The HLS program is fixed-price, and once award can't really be changed canceled. They can only not renew the contract for more missions.

If NASA engineering talent is so shit, why has Commercial Crew and Cargo program been some of the most successful NASA programs since Apollo? The same people selected the HLS program.

HLS (Starship) is anything but a Jobs program for NASA or SpaceX. Its literally the future SpaceX (pretty good engineering company) is banking on.

Artemis is a complex program with a complex history of sub-parts and lots of political constraints. The programs most like it have been successful. This is a larger version of those ideas, but those ideas were clearly more successful then what NASA has been doing for the last 40 years.

(Look at the countless failed projects)

> Government contractors deliver parts, without control or accountability about the performance of the entire system.

Contractors didn't have this during Apollo.
> You can audit the build pretty easily,

Please define "easily"
Chapel Hill, NC.

Pros: mild winters, reasonably pleasant weather year round (although the summers here are a bit hot for some folks' tastes). Lots of good college sports action, reasonably good night-life. Educated people, cool coffee shops and cafes, decent food scene locally. Lots of tech jobs in the greater Triangle area. Plenty of outdoor green spaces, mountain bike trails, running trails, places to fish.

Cons: "good night life" is relative to where I grew up which is completely in the sticks. Chapel Hill has a lot compared to that scene, but can't compare to the really major cities like Chicago, San Fran etc. The same could be said in terms of food, and many other factors. OTOH, the cost of living tends to be less here, so it's a tradeoff to weigh. There are plenty of tech jobs, but locally there is nowhere near the same access to venture capital funding, which can be problematic if you're wanting to go the startup route. In regards to public transit, at least in Chapel Hill proper the buses are free, which is kinda nice. But unfortunately when you look at the Triangle region as a whole, the public transit scene here pretty much sucks. The live music scene here is OK, but we don't have a truly metal oriented club (that I know of) since the old Volume 11 / The Maywood folded. Walnut Creek is a nice outdoor amphitheater venue and gets some nice shows, but still, a lot of major tours bypass our area in favor of Charlotte or whatever.

On balance though, I'm pretty happy in Chapel Hill. I think this a really nice balance of many factors, and I don't feel any particular urge to leave. Although I'm not saying I never would under the right circumstances.
I live in a residential part of Northern Brooklyn.

Pros: Mostly quiet, good food, cheap, I have a backyard, I know my neighbors. Manhattan is ~25-30 minutes by subway, my friends are ~10 minutes by bike, the good bar/nightclub area is ~15-25 minutes by foot.

Cons: I'm dependent on one okay subway line and one pretty bad one, and I'm a 10-12 minute walk from either in opposite directions. My landlord doesn't like to fix things. People like to ignore driving laws in my neighborhood and paper plates are common (by far the most common crimes, by several orders of magnitude).

I've lived in NYC my whole life, and I'm happy to share any experiences you might find helpful. My email's in my profile!

Edit: My subway lines are okay/bad in terms of reliability, not crime or cleanliness. They're average on the latter.
> “That’s a very natural restriction for a model of reality,” said Wojciech Czerwiński, a computer scientist at the University of Warsaw. “You cannot have a negative number of apples.”

I realize this is probably outside the interest bounds of the problem space, but I could indeed have negative apples if I owe someone apples I don’t have.
Combinatorics and integers are hard.

If you allowed fractional exchanges, this problem becomes easily solvable in polynomial time.
NYC (Brooklyn, mainly) for north of 10 years.

Pros: Amazing food, music, "culture" in general. In general, if you enjoy some cultural niche, it is probably most at bloom in the U.S. inside the doors of some random address within the NYC boroughs. Compared to many cities, it's relatively easy to make new friends. In most neighborhoods, you can be born, go to school, play, eat every meal, go grocery shopping, get married, get divorced, spin out, find yourself, etc. in a walkable or at worst bikable distance.

Cons: wickedly expensive. You can trade-off some things to make it more affordable, but you have to get creative. It helps to know a local. If you want consistent access to real nature, you realistically need a car. Owning a car in NYC (usually) sucks.

I sum it up as a three-legged stool. It's a great place to have few-to-no responsibilities, be youthful (at heart, at least), and very gainfully employed. If you're short one of those three things, it becomes a shaky proposition. I've wanted to leave at one point or another for at least half the time I've been here, I'll probably still be here in 10 years.
Not yet. Best practices can change.
where did you move from?
see my comment above

Pt sees Dr in office A, has labs and scans ordered. Labs order is printed out and given to pt, who takes it to lab A. Scan #1 is ordered, and order faxed to facility B, who independently calls, schedules, performs, and interprets scan #1, same for scan #2, but at a different facility. Office A has no electronic link to any of these facilities

How does LLM get the data?

A human knows the patterns in the area, and calls around for it, then collates it and feeds in to office A's EHR, where if lucky, LLM can do it's thing

LLM is only saving the bare minimum of the work

In an industry that is still reliant on the fax, I'm not holding my breath for the advent of the LLM savior
Add crime to the list of cons unless you live in the suburbs.
They aren't - in no other situation would anyone be allowed to delete random information off the device of an adult who broke some private rule. The only thing they could generally do is kick you out of wherever you are and tell you to not come back.
I’ve never had a display refresh rate higher than 144, but maybe because I play games but I can definitely tell the difference between 30/60 and even 60/120. After 120 the difference between 120/144 starts to diminish but there’s still a slight difference though it’s more pronounced in very fast moving objects like moving a mouse.