skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing "something" because something must be done is not logical either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism
Maybe it's obvious to people smarter than me but what possible advantage could there be for them to move people to a new apartment, or was it simply the apartment managers letting you know that was a way to save some money and beat the algorithm?
https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://edition....
What? No, you can store 52! unique states with a pack of playing cards. Just map each state to a data set. /j
Feedbro
Would you have been satisfied if the statement said "... are often strongly idealised ..."?

Aren't generalizations implicitly simplistic for the majority, while not necessarily true for the minority?

Couldn't you say that you are generalizing too much about the author's generalizations?

I found your anecdotes interesting, but I often wonder why people take offense at generalizations.

East Asian countries are incredibly distinct from each other. I'm not sure that they value drinking beer more than Germans, or wine more than the French?

But one vacation spot I know had drunk Chinese die from drunk drowning on a weekly basis. Which may suggest that some groups drink too much, and lack self-control.
Because it's a red flag if you leave before 1 year. So if you figure out in your 6th month that you were were getting underpaid well tough luck because you have endure 6 more of the same crap or your next job will take a lot longer to find especially in this market.
Or that they’ve been in it since they were in college. I didn’t get into the field in earnest until I was about 29 (I’m 41 now). That’s at least 7 years of earning potential down the drain. I’m doing fine. I’m not living paycheck to paycheck but there’s no way I could just fuck off and stop working already. I don’t really want to be in the field anymore and I do have an exit plan, but it’s to get into my dream gig and… continue working.

Honestly I don’t think I’ll ever stop working. But I think I’ll get to a point where I rely less on the pay for it.
I'm using a Thinkpad T480 (Core i5 8250u) with Kubuntu.

I undervolted the CPU so that it runs cooler and doesn't throttle. Then I upgraded the RAM to 32GB.

Overall, it's quite a good laptop that I paid $200 for 2 years ago. But you can't do any heavy lifting with it.
https://archive.ph/VZxdY
Unlikely. The NYT article says those are shops in Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Alstom, the giant French railroad equipment company, has a large operation in Hornell NY making transit cars and such. But that's way out in western New York state. Hauling broken cars out there for maintenance would be too much trouble.
For what it's worth, Polymaps is probably still my favorite of his creations...
The idea that you can somehow predict unpredictable things, if you wrap it in fancy math.
$34T debt triggering 2025 meltdown as mortgage rates spike above 7%
There's a lot of very weird optimism here for technologies that are VISIBLY making the world worse or aren't appropriate for the use case.

So many comments praising Discord in the 'why you shouldn't use Discord for FOSS' thread, all of which were basically 'yeah you should use it; it's cool and has a great UI' and zero substantial discussion of how it meets the needs of a support platform (because it doesn't, the searchability and retrievability is terrible.)
Centralized identity also arguably weakens security. The assumption that you can rely on this identity to disincetivize this actor from behaving badly means you'll be less strict about implementing robust protocols or policies to detect or mitigate bad behaviour. Identities will be forged or circumvented at some point, and this laxer security will make the consequences of the breach so much larger as a result.
One might be interested in looking at the Gutenberg CSS Print Framework. It hasn't failed me in all the years that I have used, recommended, and included in most needs.

https://github.com/BafS/Gutenberg
It also removes inhibitors that would prevent you from manipulating someone with lies.
There’s a lot of DIY power wall info out there if you want to replicate something like this, w/ or w/o Tesla car battery packs.
That parts fine, it's the collateral damage that's the problem. Laws don't know who're the bad guys and who are the good guys, and sometimes everyone else gets caught up in the dragnet. By all means, stop the bad guys, but unfortunately, they don't easily identify themselves, so we pass laws and apply them to everyone (in theory), but they can end up doing more harm than good.

The $10k rule by the Bank Secrecy Act wasn't indexed to inflation and would be closer to $80k today. So it should be amounts up to $80k that aren't considered worth monitoring, but instead, if you deal with, say, buying and selling cars, you get tripped up by that all the time. It's regulatory red tape overhead that costs a legitimate business extra time money that they could be better spent elsewhere.
So I'm someone who's lurked /r/politics on Reddit since its early days (2008), I'm convinced the reason it is so left leaning is because right wingers in general took too long to start using the internet. If you were young in the 2000's and up to mid 2010's you were more likely to use the internet, and be left leaning. Even just 10 years ago, conservatives/right wingers seemed to have a minority presence on the internet in general, let alone social media or a site like Reddit. In fact I think it was social media like Facebook etc, that helped conservatives realise this internet thing wasn't going away.
PSA: Not Apple's Final Cut, but rather this:

https://github.com/gansm/finalcut
I ran into this problem with a codec chip. We had to run the output at 48 khz, and the input and output clock had to be the same. Well we didn't have enough CPU to process the input at 48 khz, we only cared about 8 khz bandwidth for human speech. Boxcar averaging then decimating produced way too much aliasing, so much that the ML classifiers wouldn't work. The solution was putting a honking large FIR anti aliasing filter on the codec, like 100 taps, because -that- chip had oodles of CPU to spare as it turned out.

Why FIR? It had a super sharp cutoff and of course linear phase. If I'd known about Bessel filters at the time I'd have tried those out. Live and learn and ship it.
Observable Framework – The best dashboards are built with code
Product Managers trying to get into AI start here
Excuse me, sir, but I cannot read your message and come to any coherent conclusion that is related to the post you’re replying to. Governments, war, peace, libertarians… dishes, laundry?

I am wondering, earnestly, if you could explain it plainly with as few rhetorical flourishes as possible, that I might be able to follow. You are welcome for these purposes to consider me just a little bit dense (but well-meaning).
I went through K-12 before computers arrived. Today, there is no improvement in math, reading, writing, history, science, etc., at all in the output of schools.
maybe ibm wouldn't hire them back after they got married or had a baby
Competition here would be great.
And soon you may need one for regular old Twitter and Facebook since we want to keep the kids safe right?
'Everything is rising at a scary rate': Why car and home insurance are surging
Credit cards and SEPA at a minimum.
"Noah": Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing
That’s not what your link says, did you read what you posted?
Clear Across Australia (1968) [video]
Very well said. It should also be said that criminals that want to launder money only exist because of government regulation. Sometimes that's totally justified, say with human trafficking, and sometimes not so much, like maybe a marijuana dispensary.

The point being, sometimes undercutting criminal activity can be done be legalizing the activity rather than introducing more types of illegal activities to try and detect the original ones. The cure is sometimes worse than the disease.
It's been a wild couple of winters but this is the good side.
These aren't VMs?
In addition, for U.S.A. defense contracting, preference is given to veterans, e.g. "veteran owned", so similar arrangements are made to have affiliations in place, or "owners" established.

Another place you might see this is cannabis dispensary licenses being preferenced towards those who've been jailed for cannabis-related crimes.

In all the cases, it's likely someone who historically hasn't been paid well, so I personally don't care, since it seems to me like the preference is achieving its desired effect in the end (said person getting paid).
I frequent my city's subreddit and when it comes to politics it's mostly socialist and border-line communist content. Anything that is center or right of center gets down-voted into the oblivion so most of those with opposing views do not post anything at all.
> But you didn’t suggest individual action. You set out objectives which can only succeed if enough ppl coordinate to do it.

I suggested individual action; you attached success criteria to it that support your weirdly strong desire to paint me as a marxist.

Now, I don’t know why you’re so adamant on it, but that’s your business I guess. I think it’s kinda weird honestly.
As always, context matters.

Legal and ethical obligations aside (it is illegal in most places, and unethical everywhere [1]) there are (mostly bad) reasons for discriminating based on age in some places.

First though it's worth pointing out that the industry as a whole is young. When i started in the 90s everyone was young. Most businesses didn't have a computer at all. A generation of 90's kids went round writing software, selling computers, building networks and so on. There were -very- few old, experienced folk from the mainframe era floating around.

Today we're in our 50s, so at least we exist, but we're still swamped by folks who started this millennium.

So first problem is that most startups (founded by youngsters) probably encounter a lot more youngers than olders. Since the goal is to get-rich-quick, it seems counterintuitive to hire others who haven't done that.

Secondly, as people develop their careers they slowly stop job-hopping. Most folk in their 50s have found their home. Especially if they're good. So (consulting aside) startup jobs are not that attractive. Cheap pay, long hours, opionated (inexperienced) founders, isn't overly attractive to me.

All of this plays into the idea that "its a young person's game". Which of course is nonsense. We stood on the shoulders of those who went before, and the systems of today stand on ours. The folks who built Unix and Cisco, HP, and so on were all previous generation. Today the people who built the internet are over 50.

The valley may like to discard the old, because they remind us that the VC model mostly spits out failure. But outside that bubble companies mostly value stable, experienced, quality "old folk" who want to provide real value, not scratch lottery tickets.

[1] Ethics are subjective, but we're all getting older, so you might want to sow good karma while you're young.
It has declined. Kids have way less incentive to even learn to read. They just find the audiobook online, or have the computer read the page to them.

IMO there should be no technology in school classrooms until high school. Kids do not need computers to learn K-8 subject matter.
I struggle a lot with intrusive thoughts because I have OCD, so the idea that there are people out here who think it's a virtue to think whatever you like is almost offensive to me haha.

Furthermore, I think we can go without the judgemental bullshit about people's age.
Salsa:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/14632180/naked-models-dubai-ph...

There's more active content that's just a Google search away. ;)
Did Canon start letting 3rd parties to manufacture lenses for RF mount?
Why are you so obsessed with trying to tie my comments to marxism? That’s deeply odd.
> Imagine you record audio with perfect fidelity and extreme dynamic range. Now, you have the tiniest and the loudest sounds captured; how do you go about conveying this work?

If you're Christopher Nolan, you just release it that way, and let your audience smash the volume-up and volume-down keys over and over throughout the movie.
So, basically the same as in the People’s Republic of China
I wonder what role the non- enforcement of existing laws has upon these rates?
I would be more impressed if this guy wasn't a traitorous anti vaccine disaster of a person.

https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie
> The popular "heart" is rather abstract and does not directly depict anything biological

Just gotta think lower down
So don't JIT. Just because it's cool doesn't mean it's a good fit in every case. Get a buffer stockpile and refill as needed.

The stuff you'd need to stockpile is unlikely to deprecate in value and it certainly isn't perishables, so doing so really isn't a big deal.

Also once you get an order you already know roughly how much steel you'll need - a bit of lag as you wait for the first batches to arrive really isn't a big deal in such a project.
This is correct. Drivers get most of the land and money as it is -- but that's not enough for them. For many of them, they need ALL of the land and money to go to one option and one option only. And they call this: freedom.
The lack of manual kerning to avoid rivers of white space is something that I wouldn't even begin to know how to tackle in CSS. Maybe I'm just too muscle memory familiar with the tools in DTP vs CSS for Web, that I'm just not familiar with the proper CSS for it. The wysiwyg of DTP apps is like pure training wheels or a warm fuzzy blanket in getting work done
Would a DIY solution like this run afoul of building codes? How about insurance coverage if something happens?
On one end of the spectrum you can have say a Powerwall system wired by a electrician and with all work signed off by a city inspector. On the other end you have something like this which could possibly be safe if properly deployed, but might not be considered so legally.
I wonder. You can look at the Coney Island shops in Google Earth. That shop has a huge amount of junk outside, including an abandoned SUV, rusted shipping containers, overflowing debris boxes, rows of wheel assemblies, motors, and way too many randomly parked cars.
Photos is the place where storage gets eaten alive. People take a photograph with the camera app and it gets saved into the photos app then offloaded to iCloud. While it is true that with some effort you can copy stuff from iCloud and remove it from the photos app, it’s not a particularly seamless experience and it requires you to use another app chain than the one natively attached to the camera.

I don’t find the iCloud pricing egregious though. It’s 0.99 for 50gb, which is roughly s3 public pricing, and goes down from there in per gb pricing. That’s pretty sensible given iCloud is s3.

My bigger gripe is that the top end is actually not enough for bigger families that do a lot of video etc.

But would I turn down a chance to swap it with backblaze or something? No.
Only that kind of person would want to live off the grid...
This website has been providing high-quality music for free since at least 2011. Good job.
The majority of overconfident folks who make these statements will find out soon enough that their paper valuation was only on paper
Sorry, I'm looking for something and just happened to trip across this and am seeing it for the first time.

I am an environmental studies major who wanted a career in urban planning and I spent years homeless and most stuff aimed at "helping the homeless" does little or nothing to solve the problem. A lot of it is just crisis management -- helping them eat one more day.

I have done a lot of analysis of the problem space and the single strongest factor in increasing rates of homelessness is rising rents (presumably relative to wages) and lack of adequate amounts of "affordable" (small space) housing appropriate to the actual needs of our current demographic and it's really, really, really hard to even try to talk about that in a nutshell because people have trouble readily understanding what I'm saying at all. Phrases like "affordable housing" seem to just trigger a lot of people and not convey at all what I am trying to describe.

So I increasingly just blog about housing solutions and feel like it's mostly pointless to try to talk about "helping the homeless." I want our housing issues solved and that means largely disengaging from discussions about homeless people.

I want to see fewer people on the street and that means we need to solve our housing crisis and most people don't see it that way at all.

I feel like I already said that above but maybe not or maybe that helps clarify something for you.
That makes it a great example :)
Well this is a new twist on our post-truth reality...
Bit late but NASA/SpaceX crew-8 launch in 10 minutes
This is pretty remote context. OP's article is about subway car overhauls, that article is about building new inter-city trains.

If OP was about an Amtrak factory this would be more comparable.
Are neurons really more efficient at computing than transistors ?
I don't think that is true at all.
"Every computer where I've replugged a ps/2 mouse, it worked just fine."

PS/2 is not a hot-swappable port, by design. Your hot-swap adventures mean you started out using more modern motherboards (2010-ish) which simply have an internal USB-PS/2 adapter for presenting PS/2 ports.
Not just high friction, but a formal verification like certification would be interesting.
Phlogiston theory, formulated in 1667 - 1703 and being used 80-100 years later for its explanatory power, was a complete misconception of burning, heat and oxidation, is one example.

Phlogiston theory is post-Baconian. To me, Bacon was the first to articulate the method of thoughts that characterize good modern science: Observations, theory, prediction, experiments to verify the predictions. So I don't think saying we've thrown out pre-Baconian theories is germane to the conversation.

There is a Wikipedia page for Superseded theories in science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superseded_theories_in_science
As an occasional user: here are a few complaints:

There are too many variants, all only vaguely compatible.

The iOS integration requires enrolling one’s phone in the email provider’s MDM, at least to some extent. This is nice if you’re an admin, but it’s not so nice if you’re a user who uses (in accordance with company policy!) a personal device.

The integration with Mail.app is abysmal. It makes my memories of Eudora seem happy.

Signing in is a real PITA.

The spam classifier is comically poor. I’m honestly surprised that (hundreds of) millions of dollars aren’t lost every year when a (paying, enterprise) customer emails someone at a different business (from the native app!), they reply with an utterly non-spammy reply, and the reply is classified as spam. Seriously, the open source spam classifiers from the early 2000s understand threading — how can Microsoft fail to classify individual replies as not-spam? Google is far better. Fastmail is far better. Everything is far better.

I will give MS some credit: the iOS Outlook app is actually pretty nice.
I also thought the same originally but isn't Happy Hour just discounting during slower hours? Surge pricing would be raising the prices during busy hours. Bars still keep the prices the same at those time. At the end of the day, it's semantics, though.
The reason HK is not more dense in general is because much of the TAR is unlivable water and mountains that have to be worked around (lots of bridges and tunnels). Once you just count people on livable land, its density shoots up. It isn’t like other cities where density ever tapers off, it’s just clumps of apartment skyscrapers here and there.
Okay, you are more impressed if a person that you like does interesting things than a person that you don't like?

Sorry, but out of a technical perspective that makes absolutely no sense.
Not that we could do it but i feel like the real issue is that manufacturing a couple of univeral sizes of less form-fitting clothes is a significantly easier solution to this problem. I think they tended to expect tech to change instead of culture, while in reality our culture has adapted to what is available technologically.
If your metro area has been blighted by e-scooter rental companies littering the sidewalk with scooters, you can likely also find them super cheap on your local government/police auction site. The rental companies seldom claim them back after they get impounded. They are a great source of cheap cells for diy powerwalls
Risible storage claims. I know first hand that biological storage is quite lossy with miserable ECC.
Motion blur all the way down (2022)
Suburban Sprawl is not good for nature. Cities allow for more areas to remain nature.
Impressive work.

But can it run Doom?
> Most startups do not pay taxes properly, sometimes not at all, especially in other countries.

So this article encourages not paying taxes properly. Nice. Must be illegal.
What I find fascinating about this equation is that is in the form of the diffusion (heat) equation. The fundamental solution to the diffusion equation is the Gaussian. So you can think of solving the equation as applying a Gaussian blur to the boundary conditions (given by the terminal price of the option, which turns into an initial condition after a change of variables).

The implication is that the further out the option, the blurrier the picture gets, because we're applying more Gaussian blur.

One thing that Veritasium glosses over is that BS assumes that the stock price is lognormal distributed, so it follows a geometric brownian process instead of just a regular one. That's why the drift term on a stock price is (r - sigma^2/2) instead of just r in terms of geometric returns. Volatility lowers compounding returns. This is called volatility drag [0].

[0] https://www.kitces.com/blog/volatility-drag-variance-drain-m...
It’s directly comparable to say shoplifting which is one of the social ills complained about in this discussion

Police theft is directly comparable to burglary (which police and employers each on their own manage to vastly outnumber) or even carjacking (police civil forfeiture accounts for many jacked cars and the encounters can involve violence and coercion under threat of immediate violence or execution)
I would be surprised that a PID controller can't adjust the control signal of the fan on the order of milliseconds/hundreds of microseconds. The mass of the fan would be the bigger issue.

Something that would help is multiple fans being adjusted by the same PID controller. It's not a problem if they're spinning too fast, but if you need more cooling the controller needs to increase air flow at the fastest rate which means turning up multiple fans.
> katabatic winds

New word! So that’s what I experienced on a mountain side in Wyoming
Honestly, I moved to the suburbs and hate it with a passion. I miss density, I miss city noise, and I miss the unquantifiable energy I get from a city.

This thread has been an interesting read, city and non-city people literally like what the other sides loathes.
I feel this way about SQL—it's amazing to me that we're still using that same basic interface after 50 years; it’s so goofy and unpredictable, and I’m sure nobody today would design it that way if we were starting from scratch.
It's not uncommon for the sports books to have faster data then any TV broadcast. You almost can't watch the game and the odds are the same time as it's almost always a play or two ahead.