skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I briefly looked into this, it appeared that my town's school budget absolutely dwarfs the budget for things like roads, so if the roads are bankrupting us, we're really screwed if we need to somehow fund education. So I'd be a bit wary of taking their claims at face value.
I don't mean inefficiency in the bureaucratic sense. I mean it in the economic sense. Where stuff costs more than it actually should. There's a lot of rent seeking and middle men in the medical world that inflate costs.
an individual real estate agent in Nashville posted this month that "the median price of a single family home here has risen from $178k to $380k in the last five years"
I wonder what will happen if someone figures out that fused FP mult add is no longer needed (e.g. just count spikes and add subtract permanence). This could be a big problem for the guys with all their eggs in one basket (like NVIDIA).
> Recycling just increases the chance that it's going to end up as low-quality plastic polluting the environment.

I don't follow your logic. Say you consume 10 units of plastic per year; if 5 of them are still good to be recycled, and 5 end up in the landfill as degraded "low-quality plastic" (whatever that means), you net landfill contribution is 5/yr.

Why would be sending 10 units/yr of "high-quality plastic" be any better?

In practice, the issue is economic; it's cheaper to produce new plastic than to fix the entire recycling supply-chain.

Until we have a carbon tax over plastic manufacturers that equalizes the recycling costs, it'll be hard to create systemic change just based on consumers' consciousness.
There’s the physical hassle. It was very difficult for me to fit 1 3090 in my case.
Fair, I totally get what your point. But that’s an argument for getting rid of “for the memes” media, which incites unjustified hatred towards other people. I’ve known people who got into those rabbit holes as well.

However, my argument was about “having common topics for discussion in real life”. As of now, you don’t really need to meet up with people to go down the conspiracy guy rabbithole. As you mentioned, you can be siloed and find your people online.

But yeah, I guess we’ll see where the whole “media curated for one person only” tactic takes us with all the implementations of recommendations algos.
We just need to build a spaced based array of microphones (comsaphones???) to listen for the high pitched squeal or the pfffft sounds as the air is rushing out the opening.
> People want to buy them and they won’t get hurt, let em, I guess.

I would qualify that as, if people know what they're buying and want to buy them.
Solar alone won't cut it in the winter. We need wind as well.
But if they work without phenylephrine then why do companies put that in them? Why not just put everything except that? The story doesn't check out for me.
It could be better researched. But you don’t need coordinated efforts when the issue speaks to a particular worldview. There’s a cohort within the country that has a particular notion of public education as a way to socialize children into a particular brand of American values, and that cohort dominates both the education profession and journalism. Folks who share this ideology may, for example, have the same visceral reaction to the prospect of home schooling being a way to socialize children in religious values: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/44461/data-contradic.... These folks dominate the professions, especially education and journalism.

In a way, it’s a continuation of the mid-20th century conflict between mainstream Protestants (now their secular children), and Catholics/Evangelicals over public education.
I’ve never been to Beirut but Manila, I just remember being stuck in traffic all the time. It didn’t seem worse than China, just a complete lack of infrastructure causing everything to seize over. China has more traffic deaths per capita (15/100k) than the Philippines (10/100k), in any case.
Interesting. Nice way to put it: "I think LLMs are not a language tool - they're an attention tool. They're a way to purchase attention for cheap"
> is my mental model

Exact proof what what I'm saying. Your mental model isn't a "fact" it is a perception group of beliefs.

A red ball is red is a fact.

"all code is technical debt" is a stupidly worded headline as if its a fact, when it is absolutely nothing more than a useless opinion in a sea of a million contradicting other opinions that say the opposite.

Instead, a headline can be worded to not be stupid by not attempting to write it as a fact, but as the ACTUAL benefit, or ACTUAL point being made...

Your perspective is unique, special, in makes you different. Share THAT, emphasize THAT. dont water it down with stupid genericness.

The original title by Paul McMahon is equally as stupid as this one

Yet, people keep doing it, over, and over, ad nauseum. I think people just simply don't realize how unoriginal they are, its like do they have even a fraction of awareness to try to be different?

Your headline is how you captivate people, actually try to state the intent/purpose so it's useful, to get into the mind of the person reading.

Not to use a hammer trying to clean some fine china.

"Keeping my projects maintainable by thinking about them differently" or something, literally anything. I didnt look at your article except skimming, and this is an off the cuff idea in 1 second, but you get the idea. It's something that the reader sees as a benefit, or something nuanced that they can learn... some part of your perspective they can integrate... not some basic-level statement of fact they're going to immediately agree/disagree with... as if this is your only tool in your toolbox to get attention or build curiosity
Yeah it's pretty windy out.
There's a difference between "I'm 4x safer", and "I'm expected to be 4x safer than the average person is now".

The GP is arguing that there is a way to actively become safer than the average person by avoid getting into "dangerous" situations. This may or may not be 4x safer than average though. There's this element of control that is lost when it comes to AI driving.

The relevant point to you is, if you already have good driving skills, always drive responsibly, and generally avoid driving in areas/times that have more drunken drivers around, then you might not actually benefit 4x.
> "lines of code" without context is a liability, more is not better.

Doesn't more lines == more features == more value.

How is that not better?
Who decides if life begins at conception? Usually it’s fundamentalists and extremists who insist on that, and as a mainstream Sunni Muslim, I’ve not heard convincing evidence that Jewish, Christian, or Muslim texts support that position. In fact, I know that in Sunni Muslim tradition there is wide disagreement on when ensoulment of a fetus occurs.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_abortion

And let’s assume, for the sake of argument, that life does begin at conception. Isn’t the life and/or welfare of the mother also important? And who would you want making such a specific determination, a healthcare professional or Ron DeSantis?
The companies that make the clothing you are wearing see it as an investment.

In the same way, real estate investors are necessary to build apartment buildings.

You are right that a piece of clothing is a depreciating asset. And maybe what you mean is that a house should also be a depreciating asset.

Well, we can make it so by properly taxing the land value.

Maybe that's what you mean, and in this case I'd say we agree!
> Turning these exploits/vulnerabilities to black market is not only immoral but also highly illegal

I assumed 'black market' here means irresponsible disclosure, which there are many sites operating legally (Zerodium being a prime example)

Who are the customers? Theoretically nation-state actors, but do we really know? Either way, you're selling the vulnerability to a private party. To my knowledge, selling knowledge of an exploit to almost anyone is legal (unless it could be classified treason or a threat to national security or something).

As is publishing the security research after responsibly disclosing (as the blog author did here), though we've had to fight pretty hard to get to the point where warning people of threats to their digital safety (often because companies are too lazy to protect their users) is generally understood to be legal.
Visibility of multiple networks can be used to refine the position.

GPS takes time to acquire and isn't always available indoors. SSID method is quicker, and it's most likely the method your phone uses to get the position first.
What I'm saying is you can automate a fair bit of this. When a new keymap is loaded, dump it and let the user know of it.

Things are super complicated with this general idea, though, as don't forget that the standard letters are also basic keybindings. People can and do take advantage of that fact. Right? I'm assuming you would not want those to be special cased here?
I remember reading Paul Kidby's intro, to one of his Terry Pratchett graphic novels, where he talked about working with Sir Terry, in developing Discworld maps.

Pratchett was a geologist, by training. That meant he was pretty demanding, as to the realism of the maps (of a giant disc, on the back of four elephants, on the back of a giant turtle).

He mentioned being corrected for not having rain shadows, for example.

Making realistic fantasy maps is a bit more involved than one might think.
You should develop those ideas in a post!
EULA https://huckridge.notion.site/Hucksh-EULA-5f69019f12a04487a9...
> OTC decongestant sprays

That is nasal not oral. The mechanism of delivery matters, and those aren't directly comparable to the oral medicines which are currently under scrutiny.
Before jumping to conclusions...

Nah, I'm jumping straight to this conclusion: if you hit something in front of you that didn't leap out in front of you at the last second, you fucked up. The object that you hit was erratically slowing and speeding up? You should have left more room to allow for the unpredictability. It was raining, can't see, the roads are slick? Leave more room in front of you.

Yes, I way too often don't do that, either. But if there's something in the road ahead of me, and I hit it? Man, there are few scenarios where I can claim that there was nothing I could do. And in the case of a full-sized vehicle in front of me, I don't care how erratically it's driving, don't run into the back of it.
Good luck with getting ALL situations.

My theory is that as we face climate change more and more and as the economy goes out of whack owning a car will be a privilege for the rich and super rich. Sort of like it's already the case in parts of Europe.

At that point this self-driving crap is going to look ridiculous. Even without it it's ridiculous testing this technology on public roads and gambling with everyone's life.
It must be, because I misunderstood that difference myself. I've edited my original comment to reflect this.
Udemy permanently bans Instructor for Tweets on Israel
now you're getting somewhere.

Pre-acquisition the unwritten rule on Twitter was you could always do (and could never do) anything that aligned with the board and the equity holders. The rules that existed were theirs.
No, I don't think I'm suggesting that Seattle build a house for everyone in the US + immigrate; only maybe that there is some curve where building more doesn't result in increased demand.

I don't see why some would have more of a right than others to live in a place on a baseline level and at the same time I don't think it would be right to force people out of their homes just to make it fair to everyone to have a chance to live there.

If a place is desirable, the people who were already there are more likely going to be the ones who have been contributing towards making it a desirable place to live than ones who were not already there.
> I’m not a chemist, but as I understand it, meth isn’t too often made with PE anymore, yet, it sits behind the counter forever now.

Sadly, far too many laws, once on the books, are never considered for removal, even when the original reason for their enactment no longer applies.

Unless enough of us voters badger our congress critters to repeal the "hide the PE" law, it will continue to sit behind the counter.
Nostr makes fun of the idea that you can have centralized moderation and moves it explicitly to the relays. It is up to the relay owner to determine what is allowed or not.
When I download the Windows .exe using Chrome, it says "Malicious download blocked", just fyi
How would they do so better than the current tools?
This is an interesting take given that deepfake images are being used right now for propaganda in the Israel/Hamas conflict.

Videos are three-sense. People believe that stuff far more easily than they believe something they read.

And couple it with the fact that people want to believe the propaganda and you have a massive political lever.

So I'm only not worried insofar as I'm not worried that politicians and superPACs will not utilize a massive political lever.
When a headline is written as a fact, I see it as a fact.

I refuse to read uncreative factually written headlines as any other way, as its basically attempting to spoon feed the reader into some basic idea.

This is in a similar way to how CNN or popular news stations talk to you as if you are a 5th grader.

I read headlines as they're written, and creative headlines get my attention, and stupid headlines go into the waste bin of all the other stupid headlines stated as facts which are not facts.
It does help to have billions to invest. AMD in the last 20 years was basically broke and they bet the farm on Zen. If they split their limited resources between Zen and CUDA they probably would have failed at both.

But their Zen bet has paid off and now they're playing catch up.

Intel, OTOH, I'm not sure what their excuse is.
That makes no sense, there's no way AI "could never have happened".
My point being the connector, which is the topic here, is the exact same form factor while still delivering 10x what that chunky one does in the poster's situation. The choice isn't "small tesla form factor and slow" versus "chunky and a tiny bit faster"

The cost of the supercharger isn't really relevant either, most US homes are gonna max out at 200 amp service which is a max of 48kw, but realistically probably half that due to your house needing electricity and a single custom circuit unlikely to be over 100 amps.
On the other side, who's going to love them at school? Overloaded teachers? Administrators? Other still very immature students?

Lack of love is a problem. School is quite clearly not a solution to that.
That's the only thing about getting downvoted here that irritates me -- I rarely know why people are downvoting. Sometimes I can infer why, but most often it's just a complete mystery.

Knowing why the downvotes are happening could be a useful signal to help me improve commenting in the future. Not knowing why just makes the downvotes informationless noise.
In practice, plastic recycling can be worse than other solutions, like incineration and well managed landfills.

That's when plastic is sent to "recycling" centers overseas, which not only burns fossil fuel getting it there, but may end up in nature instead of being recycled when no one is looking. And by overseas, I mean countries like Indonesia, China used to be one of them but they are now taking the environment a bit more seriously and are starting to refuse to greenwash western trash.

Plastic recycling can make sense in a limited way, but it shouldn't hamper other efforts. The most important being avoiding dumping in in nature.

And remember that plastic is carbon. Burying it where it doesn't degrade is carbon neutral (for oil based plastics) or carbon negative (for bioplastics).
Here in Finland we already have some autonomous public transportation buses running in my neighborhood. They're great! Can't wait for the day where they displace human drivers in all non-sporting arenas.
Oh interesting, thanks.
It is generally available behind the counter in chemists all over the UK. One simply has to ask, and there are no ID requirements.

There is a limit to how many they will supply, but I'm not sure what it is. Generally available now in two forms, with and without paracetamol.

It used to be available off the shelf, but that changed about 15-20 years ago, for the same illicit drug production issues.
Because it currently allows them to put "nasal decongestant" on the box.
We have an RV problem so we’ve also gotten good at picking out stealth campers, not that it matter much since I really don’t mind someone who is just sleeping in our neighborhood if they aren’t doing anything crazy.

People sleeping in cars are also common, and pretty easy to spot since unlike a van, it isn’t common to block out all windows in a car. I’m guessing those are all economic cases.
"You're killing me here. Yes, most humans seek to maximize their returns. Or course. I never argued they wouldn't."

You kinda did

>My initial "snark" is a statement that J.R.R. Tolkien didn't create his works under the ridiculous copyright regime we have now.

It's a pointless observation. No one said that works would never be created without the extensions.

>Many authors would love for their heirs and assigns to be paid in perpetuity. They'd probably love a lot of things. That doesn't mean society is obligated to give those things to them.

No one argued that.
Or youtubers like Marshall of WatchRevival.

https://www.youtube.com/c/WristwatchRevival
> What if I told you ... Matrox is still alive.

What if… you read my comment more closely, and saw it was a parenthetical example after "also-ran" and not "now-defunct".
Would you take the same in New York?
Running Steampipe extensions in SQLite-utils and Datasette
That's 100 new SQLite extensions released into the world at the same time!
You’re just more aware of it now. The privacy controls are MUCH tighter now than they were in that era.

If you’re a software developer, you must understand that the user cannot actually understand what any code is doing. Even if you’re using open source, it’s an illusion to think you know what it’s doing. Heck, even the developer doesn’t know what it’s doing a lot of the time (how long does it take to figure out what’s happening with a tricky bug?).

So yes, Apple’s policies do mediate what a developer can do on behalf of the user. That’s how it works.
I was thinking it should have been called "My Code Is Not Technical Debt."

It still defeats the "all code" claim, though.
Beeper – Moving Forward
Is it the sheer volume of code that bothers you or is it poorly organized in some way?
Stop worrying and consoom product.
NextJS is a batteries-included full-stack framework, Vite is a lot more minimal.

If you're just looking to stand up a SPA frontend for your BE, I'd recommend going with Vite, or using NextJS but going full SPA-mode.

Doing things in a properly "NextJS"y way requires buy-in to the SSR/React Server Components paradigm, which takes some time to learn, if you're used to doing things in the SPA way. You have to architect differently -- specifically the way you handle data fetching/caching. I think it's worth digging into if you have the time, just depends on your goals.

Also worth mentioning, since NextJS is full-stack, deployment will be more involved. You might not notice any pains if you use Vercel, but definitely doesn't match the simplicity of sending along a single JS bundle with Vite.
It's particularly impressive to me given the stormy conditions. I remember about twenty years ago when my area got a huge wind farm and they used to "turn it off" if it got a bit too windy which always seemed amusing to me.

Look further at the 'past day' stats on that page, 61% of power came from wind in the past 24 hours and 78.5% from 'zero carbon' sources overall (also including hydro and nuclear). This is fantastic progress.
One company being lucky doesn't mean another company will be similarly lucky.
Because there's no rule saying they can't.

I think.

Legal advice about what is and isn't legal under GDPR (and equivalents) varies a lot.
Boston is the IDEAL place to test out autonomous driving. The narrow roads, lined as they are with trees, rocks, and parked cars, mean that when an autonomous car makes the wrong decision, the damage will be primarily to property, Waymo's and the other guy, and Waymo can just cut a check, learn some lessons, and move on.

(BTW, Boston's reputation as a place for aggressive driving is undeserved. Insurance companies pay a lot for fender repair for the reason above, making the city look bad, but for injuries against a person, insurers just pay the limit, which an injured pedestrian can run up in the first 24 hours in a hospital. Anything beyond that doesn't show up in car insurance statistics. Houston and Austin have far more aggressive drivers, for instance.)
> Same problem we've had with antibiotics.

I suspect the much more impactful driver of antibiotic resistance would be the antibiotics feed to live stock in mass.
'People are proud of this green spirit': how a small Spanish city rejected cars
> Weeks per year

> The long years, with 53 weeks in them, can be described by any of the following equivalent definitions:

> any year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D or DC) and any leap year starting on Wednesday (ED)

> any year ending on Thursday (D, ED) and any leap year ending on Friday (DC)

> years in which 1 January or 31 December are Thursdays

> All other week-numbering years are short years and have 52 weeks.

None of those 53 week conditions describe 2023, so ISO says 2023 has 52 weeks.
Is this a problem that needs solving? Would you be comfortable dying in a car crash where it's due to faulty software? What if you replace the humans with machines and after that as a result of a bug you get 200k deaths in a year?
It's long past time to remove that regulatory friction. Instead, it's spread to other drugs. My wife got a cold last week and sent me off to get some other non-pseudo drug. Despite being on the shelf, unlocked, it triggered a driver's license scan at checkout. Very dystopian.
Thanks this is helpful, I'm aware of the Sudafed/meth issue but I didn't realize the alternatives were all clearly labeled PE. That explains why it's so obvious to a lot of people.
somebody thinks a new experimental shell/terminal is a viable commercial product; why not mine?

I'm glad people are working on these although as you say yourself, commercial viability is tricky. I like the non-SaaSyness of this but then I'm still left with having to:

1. change my shell

2. change my terminal

3. but not on Windows

4. rely on a single person for bugfixes, security issues, features

5. pay $40/yr for the privilege

None of these things are individually an insurmountable hurdle but they add up to a pile of friction. In the words of sales theorist J. Winnfield, "Well we'd have to be talkin' about one charming motherfuckin' pig".
This is very much a by-product of the current regulations that, AFAIK, mandate that a human driver should be able to take control at all times.

That might make sense but this is obviously a little tricky to implement safely.
> Well for me I remember the big news about gangs buying up cold tablets for the pseudoephedrine that they had in them to make meth, so the pharmacies making it harder to buy them.

You missed the step where cartel super-producers (that didn’t depend on small qtys of feedstock from pharmacies) just started producing 5% more to make up for it.

The organized producers appreciated the government shutting down their nibbling competitors.

Sucks for the public though, paying the price for an ineffective measure.
I don't know, if maybe not that much thrust is required in some scenarios, perhaps a tiny alteration of course can already be enough to avoid hitting Earth

Of course as you say, if the nukes do it even cheaper, makes sense. Perhaps a bit risky to be launching them though! (sensible risk for a sure-hit asteroid, not for deflecting low-probability ones)