skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been several programs over the years - most recently you can look at the Biden's "Infrastructure bill" (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act) which $65B for broadband.

Older than 2020 has been:

1. Connect America Fund (https://www.fcc.gov/general/connect-america-fund-caf) which has been around 2011

2. Obama's stimulus package of 2009 which allocated $8B (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvest...)

I'm pulling these acts from this book: http://irregulators.org/bookofbrokenpromises/

and cross referencing them with wikipedia or other sites. People have been really sore about since the breakup of Ma Bell in 1984. The fact that so much money was spent and America isn't covered in Fiber is a real tragedy.
http://web.archive.org/web/20240203182221/https://www.washin...
I'm not the one with the power to stop that evidence from being gathered.
Aside from that, having health issues even if younger, I was surprised how valuable deadlift (with 5 to 10kg kettle bells) and squats were important for your body. The ability to go down softly without efforts or joint pain is such a relief.
Remember when banks made their money by taking in as many deposits as possible, and then lending that money out?
> the molecules can linger in soil, on trees, and on hunting bait for years or decades.

Given the proliferation of biological life, I assume that there's some scavenger, decomposer, or abiotic process that is notable in destroying proteins lying around...

Are these prion-proteins unusually durable, or is it about average?
> 10 Day MBA

Googling I see at least three different books with similar covers but attributed to different authors. Which one should I persue?
This is exactly it. Even at its height, it felt like everyone was trying to build a brand and a following, and that was the primary motivation for the answers.
> not because money in the bank itself disappeared in some way.

It did in many European banks.
I've used the LG frontloaders. They are not effective at removing muddy stains. They simply can't do the job.

Wirecutter doesn't publish their methodology, but every "tester" who has focuses on questionable metrics -- such as testing stain types that don't require agitation to remove.

In my experience most people who are happy with them don't have very dirty clothing to begin with.

Regarding normal water usage: It is not true that washers "gain nothing" by using more water. More water protects clothing under agitation and aids in removing dirt. From the SQ manual:

"Wash delicate items usually washed by hand on this cycle. A full tub of water is recommended (even for small loads) to allow the delicate items to move freely through the water. More water helps reduce fabric wear, wrinkling, and provides for a clean wash."

https://speedqueen.com/au/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2019/0...

This is the precise issue:

1) Regulators required low-water modes

2) Low water modes clean less effectively and are rougher on clothes

3) Front loaders are designed to work with low water loads, but still don't clean well

3) All modern washers are now terrible, except models that intentionally skirt regulations - such as SQ

High-water agitation is the best by far. The only drawback is increased water use - which is insignificant. The entire issue is a result of bad washer regulations.
Unfortunately you can't use it for Kotlin/JS anymore. Jetbrains recently removed the Maven support from the Kotlin/JS tooling, so it now just pops up a message telling you to migrate to Gradle.
> Global cancer diagnoses will reach 35 million in 2050 ... from the 20 million cases diagnosed in 2022.

How much of this can be attributed to population growth?
I can say it 'cause I am one.
> > Their height makes them harder to get in and out of and to load/unload cargo from.

> My Honda CR-V is much easier to get in and out of then my Honda Civic was.

With that statement GP was comparing modern pickup trucks to 20+ year old pickup trucks. And you respond by stating that an SUV is easier to get into and out of than a sedan/hatchback?
You should get into crypto! Seriously, all of them are still here.
Surely if you're walking around a plane and looking at it physically while holding a laptop, you're moving around, not sitting still on a chair for 8 hours, so I don't see how it would benefit that particular case. You were talking about monitors fixed on a desk.
>I never said anything about splitting a commit.

Jujutsu is the topic of this comment section and in Jujutsu all changes are always part of a commit, so splitting commits is the only way to separate changes into their own commits. And yes, with git I have wanted to retroactively split commits apart too. I don't always get everything perfect on the first try and may want to move certain changes from one commit to another.
For what it's worth I did qualify my statement using most. A few of the older cellular networks are slower to adopt and sadly I can understand why having worked for one of them. If you find it interesting here [1] are some rudimentary stats from the US. It's not an all inclusive picture of things.

[1] - https://ipv6-test.com/stats/country/US
Pakistan's aggressive EV goals hit a roadblock: An engineer shortage
This is just smoke screen, there might not be an Ethiopia in a few years, the country has been in turmoil for years now and spiralling to collapse. Just yesterday they announced a state of emergency yesterday in the Amhara region, militias that were used by the government to crush the Tigray rebellion in a 2 year civil war are now themselves refusing to put down arms. Other regions are also seeing rebellion.

To sell the public that he achieved the dream of giving Ethiopia “access to sea”(which they already have access to) they recently announced an illegal deal with a rebel region from a neighbouring country (Somalia) where they annexed some land for a military base in exchange for “recognition” which is causing a lot of conflict in the region.

From how things are going there likely will not be an Ethiopia in 2 years time but 4-5 separate countries.
> cars are the most expensive form of transportation

I think you'll find private jets are more expensive than cars. Worse in every regard to your other points as well.

Jets are still permitted. So your points can't be the reason as if it was you'd also ban private air travel.
1 Amp == the flow of 1/(1.602176634 × 10^−19) elementary charges per second.

The medium used for flow isn't important for that calculation at all. Just as it would be for liters per second.
At my university, the drivers are very used to stopping to let students cross, but a lot of people don't seem to look around or even lift their eyes from their phones. If I tried doing that, I'd be really nervous that I would be the one where a driver unfortunately doesn't stop in time. I really don't get those people.
Off topic but...

> I work at a startup where business evolves really fast, and requirements change frequently, so it's easy to end up with big piles of code stacked together without a clear structure, specially with tight deadlines

That smells.

It sounds like the team could benefit from better stack technologies and a bit more discipline in how it is applied to solutioning.

> Enforcing some dependency rules that allow/forbid dependencies between different parts of the application.

What is the alternative to this tool that lowers the cognitive barrier / builds the right muscles for the team to understand what they should / shouldnt depend on?
Thanks a lot!

1) I guess you mean the wordclouds? If so I get your point :)

2) Yes, I though about training my own model eventually once I got enough data

3) No, it's going to be free (and ad-free) for the foreseeable future. I built this for myself and if someone else likes it even better.
I have no experience running a site centered on user generated content, but it seems to me that the biggest problem/threat to any of them is the people who start showing up once it gains traction and becomes more popular.

Early users are a different band of the population, on every successful platform from StackOverflow to Uber they create a particular culture which is impossible to maintain as the general public arrives in large numbers.
Really people write a web server from scratch? What industry? Don’t tell me it’s some CRUD
Are you confusing Sudan with the moon? I spent a month teaching at the university of Khartoum, and another couple of weeks travelling around the country, and Sudan has working infrastructure that is only inhibited by sanctions.
Cork has always been used is lots of shoe footbeds, Birkenstock just makes it visible.
Atlas of Natural Regions (France)
TL;DR: people in higher income societies have more children if they have good access to childcare and education?
For some reason my brain went the opposite way and I was wondering what would an MBA in DIY skills look like.
Non-scalable government backed farming to replace free market farming will result in massive famines.
If the harm of outlawing a useful product exceeds the harm done by that product then even greater harm is done through the prohibition.

Plastics are ESSENTIAL for everything from medical devices, electrical insulation, to pipes. There are simply no alternatives. We are not going to replace PE or PVC jacketing for wires with cork.
Old Nvidia gaming GPUs enjoy performance uplifts from DLSS 3 to FSR 3 mod
I can't reproach to Firefox that it's refusing to bite the hand that feeds, but the last time I tried it, there were other issues:

- it was prefilled with icons for facebook and twitter (bit let's say people who switch may be lost without these icons)

- it keeps trying to push pocket to me (no excuse for that)

- if had the feature for antitracking multi-account-containers, but didn't push them

- it lacked advanced anti tracking (ex: fixing the canvas size, the fonts etc)

I'd prefer Firefox with a focus on privacy and antitracking to Edge cool new features, but I think Microsoft has both a financial interest and the technical capacity to protect me from google panopticon while also delivering cool new things.

I don't like Firefox interface including its lack of innovation (edge has tab groups, split screens), and how the only redeeming point that could make me consider Firefox (privacy) is not put front and center.

I will keep checking Firefox now and then, but I don't see much chance of improvement as Google money keeps Mozilla warm, comfortable, and also totally disconnected for what its potential users would like.
I would be very interested to see how this compares across demographics (think NHANES). I wonder if it could be turned into a check where clinicians measure baseline performance and use it to track reduction in performance over time. If it works, it could be an inexpensive way to identify individuals at risk of a fall before their motor control degrades enough to be at high risk.
To be clear, there was a yellow line separating the lanes and they were in the wrong lane?
And yet the Odyssey has more than double the interior space, which shows how inefficient the SUV form factor is

An MPV such as the ford cmax will have as much practicality than a much bigger SUV
I used to be half decent at navigating and using Linux, writing ksh, etc. With cloud, I don't have any need to know that information anymore. I guess it's kind of good in general, but feels bad to have significant portions of my professional skills be essentially obsolete.

Pretty soon developers will be measured by how fast they can tell an LLM what to build for them.
That's really not what business school is about, but studying these and not just reading them could help
Yeah, it's probably more accurate to say

> Every for-profit contributor-driven platform has eventually jumped the shark
Prions are nightmare fuel. It's surprisingly not as much talked about despite the damage they can cause.

- There is not cure or prevention
- can linger in soil, on trees, and on hunting bait for years or decades
- really hard to detect, since it takes years to show the symptoms
- induce behavior where prions get to spread more
- potential to jump species, including primates
someone has to pay for our big rewards program!!! :)

often as high as 2-2.5%
Events since 1989 show California has no intention of solving anything.
Critical vulnerability in Mastodon is pounced upon by fast-acting admins
Or Anywhere in the Middle East as well.

Source: I'm from Middle East, wife is Spanish. You can imagine the fun chaos we had at our wedding as our two families united.
And yet, the EPA is working towards restricting the use of or potentially outlawing vinyl chloride, a key ingredient in PVC. Nothing is impossible, and essential might be relative, depending on use case.

Of course, cork isn’t the solution to all plastic use cases, just a potential replacement in some use cases. Like phasing out combustion vehicles, you have to signal that you’re forcing the sunset of the material so alternatives are identified and supply chains can reconfigure accordingly.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2023/12/1...
14 days seems like a ridiculously short trial period for a first generation device if Apple were really serious about this platform
This topic comes up a bunch still. Someone please correct me, but as I understand it anyone using new chips that use Intel ME (or AMD's equivalent) have a gaping hole in their security that no OS can patch.

I know puri.sm[0] takes some steps to try to plug the hole, but haven't read up to see if it's effective or no.

[0] https://puri.sm/learn/intel-me/
Pretty much every study ever has concluded that some exercise >>>>> no exercise, and also that moderate exercise >>>>> some exercise.

Total anecdote, but aside from injuries and a brief period of wildly overtraining for university rowing, I have _never_, in my life thought after exercising "I feel worse than I did before starting". It's basically the magic pill.
https://archive.is/FhukV
Barely a country? Without a shred of infrastructure?

You haven't been to Ethiopia, or learned about its history, clearly.

Ethiopia is not only very much a country (with that name since 330 AD), but one orders of magnitude older and more deeply rooted in human history than, for example, the USA. The earliest known hominid archealogical evidence is from Ethiopia (circa 4 million years ago). It's the only African nation not to be colonised by genocidal Europeans. Haile Salassie - former emperor of Ethiopia - led the country to victory over fascism, and changed the direction of Euro-African relations, and is revered in the Rastafarian religion. This barely scratches the surface of how worthy of your attention Ethiopia is.
Are you arguing that this kind of advertising is a good or neutral thingm. Or that life just kind of sucks and we need to get used to it? I'd rather push for better software and advertising practices, personally...
Small electric vehicles are winning customers from gas, just look at the rise of small 2 and 4 wheeled electric vehicles in India: https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/22/business/india-electric-vehic...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/22/business/india-electric-vehic...
Don't know about teams but outlook now has an option to chose ithe browser used to open the links. By default, it's not the default system browser of course...
This update was pushed this year, but not sure if my employer is late with updates or not.
There have been a few companies advertising something like this (e.g., oneday.io) where you build a startup and earn an accredited professional MBA along the way.
I was expecting am article about a new trend in asian car mods....
The research paper:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376769551_Demonstra...

This is indeed an extremely important result.

The successful demonstration of a new semiconductor material suitable for power electronic devices is a very rare event.

During a century of evolution, the semiconductor materials used for power devices have been copper oxide, selenium, germanium, silicon, silicon carbide and gallium nitride.

Now it is pretty certain that aluminum nitride will be added to this list.

Besides those, a few other materials, mainly gallium arsenide, have been used for very high frequency devices, but at much lower maximum powers than those from this list.
A weird artwork. It feels like watching the landscape during roadtrip.

Also a great example of brutalist web design.
You do not have to pay for a subscription for their IDEs. You can pay just once and get that version of the IDE forever plus a period of updates. Or, use the community edition and pay nothing.

The "AI" service consumes real resources - it is not free for them to operate, and is a new cost burden that cannot be absorbed by the existing pricing. It makes complete sense for it to be its own cost.

You can also use the offline-only mode, which is 100% free and just runs on your machine.

I hate the "everything as a subscription" model with a passion, but JetBrains is one company that does appear to do it the "right" way where you're paying for continued development, not continued access to the same version.

> Well that's what happens when some mysterious new plugin finds itself on your dev tools without much acknoledgement

It was in the changenotes with a huge section, it was in the newsletter, and the blog.

JetBrains releases a lot of features of plugins, as they always have, so you can choose to slim down the IDE or replace functionality with 3rd party stuff (like copilot).
This is the same way you make a train capable of traveling from Los Angeles to New York in 1 second. A sufficiently long train.
Burying plastics is a great way to sequester carbon
Use solar energy to convert CO2 into polyethylene. Throw it in a land fill. That carbon no longer contributes to global warming.
Until Apple Pay and other smartphone-related payment methods became common, the USA credit card was technologically behind much of Europe, Canada, and other developed countries.

Chip-and-PIN (EMV, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV) is the standard in Europe and Canada for relaying credit card info & authentication.

Many USA retailers were stuck using the credit card's magnetic stripe for entering card info. Evidently the USA still hasn't moved to Chip-and-PIN, with Chip and Signature being more common. Updating the point-of-sale terminals has been the chokepoint supposedly, https://lauraclery.com/chip-and-pin-united-states/.
So.. you're suffering from a persecution complex about a car brand?

I think there are bigger and better things to worry about than Tesla's image. You're not even getting paid to be Tesla's volunteer PR flack and spin doctor.

If you want a career in PR then at least get paid for it.
I wrote up my thoughts on it here https://joshstrange.com/2024/02/03/apple-vision-pro-first-im...
I guess it strikes me as not just a documentation and awareness gap, but a different paradigm in a more fundamental way.

I think your last sentence gets at that too: For Nix, configuration management is just one component of a broader and more powerful paradigm. And it seems to me like putting a square peg in a round hole (or as you say, a bit silly) to try to use it to solve this narrower and simpler problem.
There were a couple of global contribution during the development why pick literally the least valuable and most simple to replace one to highlight? We even had perfectly serviceable alternative at the time.
A minivan allows much easier ingress, egress with large doors. Also, there are no SUVs with 8 seats that I know of. There are minivans with AWD or even limited 4WD. But they definitely carry social stigma and don't look sporty. That's important for a lot of people, I guess.

Also, wheel base and weight are not the best way to compare overall utility of a vehicle.
On #2 I have seen low dose naltrexone work really well which is amusing given its counterintuitive nature as an opioid antagonist. This was a fun puzzle to think about.

My current best guess on how it work starts with the fact that when taken in low doses that only last a few hours it results in upregulation of the opioid receptors. A high level pathway you have for pain and turning off the pain would be:

Pain stimulates nociceptors => increased substance P => increased cytokines, chemokines, etc => increased T-lymphocyte => increased β-endorphins => inhibit substance P

So with LDN less β-endorphins is needed to "turn off the pain" and you now get a shorter pain on / pain off cycle or really a shorter substance P cycle.

It's obvious first use is when the opioid receptors have been down regulated, but it has lots of extra benefits for instance, the immune response is time limited to the necessary duration of pain, reducing the likelihood of autoimmune complications. Additionally, diminished cytokine levels result in less hypothalamic activation, mitigating excessive appetite (not to mention better TRH response). This helps many with fibromyalgia may struggle with weight management. Numerous other secondary effects have been documented over time (last 40ish years), underscoring the multifaceted impact of low-dose naltrexone.

However, I agree that it is crucial to acknowledge that while this can effectively alleviate symptoms, it may also mask underlying issue(s). That could be something as simple as Zinc deficiency (due to diet or genetic predisposition) or more complicated such as classic like EDS.
I would like a books describing how to build roles and systems, to grow from 50 to 200 employees, any ideas?
>It's a well known problem that it cannot consistently add arbitrary numbers.

Neither can humans. Calculators aren't just for saving time. Humans regularly mess up arithmetic.

Can you add arbitrary numbers any better than GPT-4?. Test it out yourself.

>As for feedback: This is obviously not part of the training process so can't be part of what is "learned".

A token that is part of the process of an ongoing recursive computation in text being fed to a transformer is definitely part of training. Training directly incentivizes being recursive in token space.
"I don’t think we need to argue plastic incurred harm, it should be obvious."

?
I'd like a clear and obvious reference.
The people who have the power to limit your freedom don't need to make up numbers in order to do so.
I recently had an uncomfortable realization that driving is a bunch of people trying their best and some not trying their best, all in a fast-paced context. People needing a car to get to work every day...makes me appreciate public transportion all the more. We need it last decade.
Step two of installing Copybara is to install Bazel [0], so that doesn't exactly contradict my claim that if you're not already using Bazel you probably won't use Starlark.

[0] https://github.com/google/copybara
This is neat :)

I love going and making containers smaller and faster to build.

I don't know if it's useful for alpine, but adding a --mount=type=cache argument to the RUN command that `apk add`s might shave a few seconds off rebuilds. Probably not worth it, in your case, unless you're invalidating the cached layer often (adding or removing deps, intentionally building without layer caching to ensure you have the latest packages).

Hadolint is another tool worth checking out if you like spending time messing with Dockerfiles: https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint
This is something I am very curious about too. I’m kind of hopeful the fatigue and limitations imposed by Vision Pro will make my overall computer usage more intentional, similar to how wearing an Apple Watch and tossing my phone in my backpack made my overall phone usage when I’m outside more intentional. The Apple Watch is a pain to use for anything productive, and I appreciate that.

The biggest question will be if it’s too much of a pain that I don’t want to use it at all.
in an ideal scenario

There's no such thing.

a manageable list

Do you enjoy managing lists enough that that's what you want to do with your free time?

Good luck.