skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Monthly condo fees could range from $200/month to $4,000 a month or more.

Older high rise buildings have much higher fees, this is unfortunately true. (Soon as you have interior hallways and elevators...)

But as you alluded to, in general if you go through the finances of townhome complexes, the HOA dues are (often mandated by law) just creating a cash reserve to cover future expected maintenance.

Or to put it another way, realistically everyone who owns a home needs to set aside a few hundred a month to save up to buy a new roof, siding, paint fence, do pest removal, an so forth. The HOA in a townhome complex is a forcing function that requires people (again in some cities by law!) to calculate what the expected maintenance costs are going to be and to then save up accordingly for them using some low interest safe investment vehicle (or just cash, but IIRC my HOA has its money in some 2 or 3% interest bearing accounts).

> and the level of the reserves (do they have money in the bank or not).

This is the key part, a healthy HOA has reserves for the next n years of issues and has reasonable HOA dues to keep those reserves at a healthy level. Basically they know some large bill is, statistically likely, to come up, which will drop the reserves down, and the HOA dues are set at such a level as to refill the reserves before the next big bill comes around.

This is the math that all home owners should be doing.
Is there a possibility here that mining could actually have a positive impact on biodiversity?

I've read that creating artificial habitats can positively impact local fish and coral populations. Is it possible that the mining could be done in such a way that it would intentionally create these habitats as a side effect?
Sure, but Tesla could always compete against BYD here if they wanted to. There might not be much profit in it, however, and Tesla has a bit better reputation at the high end whereas BYD might still be struggling to sell its higher priced vehicles (for now).
Definitely. An example is Abdul Jabbar Abdullah[0]. Iraqi, not ethnically Arab, contributed to research at MIT. And filed under 'white[1] American' science.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Jabbar_Abdullah

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_th...
Donate more, and donate to charities that are effective (use more of the donations for actions directly related to their mission statement instead of marketing/admin/etc). The rest is interpretation, as they say. That's all "EA" is.

I won't speculate on why some people are so insistent that we must throw the baby out with the bathwater immediately, declare EA Dead, and forget it ever existed.
A representative for my state has recently been bragging about her efforts to protect peoples' privacy from such data brokers by requiring them to disclose whether they offer a way to opt-out of your data being used in certain ways, or they will have to pay a fine.

This is far, far below the bar for me, and it makes me question state government's ability to actually protect citizens from data broker spying. This legislation really needs to make any data collection in the first place illegal except on an opt-in basis. None of this, "Oh you can keep collecting the data all you like, but if someone asks you to pretty-please not use it in certain ways, maybe you should pinky-swear that you're going to do that."

When I use a bank card to buy groceries, that should not give anyone license to my e-receipts, full stop. Until that happens I'm going to keep paying with cash at stores that don't use rewards programs.
Postmodernism was an anti-rationalist movement which ascended highly in the US and did affect the sciences even (it itself was influenced by the seemingly impossible new quantum scientific breakthroughs going on).

Rationalism and anti-rationalism don't change the laws of science, the learning / teaching of it, or it's value in output. They are just fads which ebb and flow as humans and their environments do
Well according to the article, at least half of the funding goes to paying people. Even if we eliminated everything else and tuition was cut in half, it would still be too expensive imo.
ASML Took over the Chipmaking Chessboard
What’s the expected ideal experience?

Is the expectation to read an ebook on your TV? Or is this specifically for reading on your phone or somehow streaming to “ebook readers”?
I agree with the observation.

But my point isn't whether a nation is stronger or weaker but rather the tolerance of the culture for ideas.

(But on that subject...Judiasm had millennia of subjugation and dispersion -- that left a mark.)
that does not negate what OP said. your IP will still get blocked very quickly.

although existing searx instances have been run for years and they don't seem to be dropping like flies...
The way to survive is to eat your own lunch. Be the low cost competitor and cannabilize your own market.

Otherwise you don’t build the iPhone because you don’t want to lose iPod sales.
Why would the top speed be lower? Because of increased friction with the ground due to the weight? Ignoring friction, I think what I said would be true.

I hadn’t actually thought about it before but as an incredibly skinny person what you said lines up with my experience in a kart. I could seemingly go slightly faster than others but more easily span off and lost control.
But open sourceness in no way contributed to this being found, it was not in the source code.

If something like this happened in windows, it could be found in the same way, and the culprit could be identified and charged with crimes.

Just take the L for FOSS instead of trying a UNO reverse card
Where do you read that in Luke? To me, the message is very clear:

This item is Caesar's. It has his name on it, his face on it, he made it, it's his. You should return it to him.
You, on the other hand, are God's. You are made in His image, and you should return yourself to Him.

And I do not see any evidence of the listeners rejecting the message. Instead we get a jumpcut to a seductress.
That, and long spools of loose wire and spinning propellers are not a good combination.
I'm curious; what law was being broken, exactly?
The same reasons as any other business enterprise under capitalism.
How do you know you can trust the contributors?
Digger in C# .NET in Blazor WebAssembly
Do you know this game? I played it in school.
even within the same type of tissue, different patients are going to have different mutations/subclones in their tumors.
Sounds like a company that later migrated to Google Cloud
ARK's price target for Tesla (2021)
It is interesting to evaluate predictions few years after they are made.
I kind of regret reading this article. It's very long and doesn't have all that much interesting information.

It starts with the author discovering that some charities are not effective, especially when rich people go to poor countries and try to do direct actions. Then it somehow uses this as an argument that trying to measure the effectiveness of charities is bad and that giving money to charities in general is bad because sometimes charities are mismanaged.

Half of the article is basically complaining that charities in general are sometimes ineffective or have unintended negative side effects (for example malaria bed nets being used for fishing).

Guess what - the fact that it's a difficult problem to tell how to do good is exactly why EA exists - to at least try and bring order into chaos. What's the alternative? The article just keeps complaining about collecting data and statistics and trying to estimate good by saying "but sometimes the estimates are wrong!", but it presents zero alternatives. It's basically just advocating against charity in general, saying that it should be the job of the governments. Or it's arguing that you people need to only support things they are emotionally invested in, because "unsentimental calculations" are evil.

The other half of the article is citing random billionaire's opinions on the world and complaining that they are self-important and weaving in lots of random things about the SBF trial for some reason.

There's some valid criticisms of effective altruism in the article, specifically: criticizing how they try to put a value on everything (even when it is a hard problem or not exact) and criticizing longtermism (because it's difficult to say whether to weigh the present or the future more). It also mentions the common discussion about doing direct action yourself versus spending more time working and donating more money. But I think those are already the obvious discussions about EA that everyone knows about.
Hopefully one of Google's employee dig the gmail record for that accounts. It helps them level the playing field with Microsoft which its employee has found the backdoor.
The New Atlantis is a journal founded by the social conservative advocacy group the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

It is not peer-reviewed on scientific topics.

Both of the previous statements are taken verbatim from Wikipedia.

It’s very well-written, but it’s pushing a very specific set of talking points that seem suspiciously close to some standard conservative talking points. Make of this what you will.
"." repeats the last command in vim, so I'd consider it quite plausible as a typo, if we didn't know about the rest of the stuff.
Interesting longform piece about relationships, or, more simply, "finding the one."

"And the thing is, there aren’t that many people you can have an amazing life with. Maybe 10,000, spread fairly evenly across the globe? A bit more if you’re less weird than me, perhaps. Anyway, the number is small enough that you can’t afford to be casual about it. You have to never let someone like that pass you by."

This is something I used to think about a lot when I was younger. The distribution is probably not random and some matches will be off limits because of language mismatch, so the final total is probably dishearteningly small. I wish the simulation approach of "Hang the DJ" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_the_DJ) was possible.
I strongly disagree.

I believe empathy as a core engineering value is universally shared amongst the best. [1][2][3]

1: https://www.tritondatacenter.com/blog/the-power-of-a-pronoun

2: https://oxide.computer/principles

3: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/developer/T1c9b33b1b2535...
When it comes to getting the message across, never underestimate the bandwidth of a W84-equipped GLCM.
> Lucknow university was not toe-to-toe with anything

Back when my Nanu was helping with all this post-independence "mandirs of science" stuff in the 60s-70s period Lucknow University was fairly competitive in Electronics, Mechanical Engineering, and Aerospace because of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd - their secondary R&D and production center was Lucknow as it was close enough to Delhi for government oversight yet far enough that it wouldn't be impacted by a India-Pakistan War.

> universities were left in shambles

Yet Osmania, Panjab, Visevarya, Anna, etc continued to perform (and in some cases still do) in STEM.

They never truly declined in the 1960s-2000s period, while Bihar and UP's GDPs both crashed under Lalu and Mulayam, and largely because of de-industrialization in Eastern UP and Bihar due to their warped version of Lohiaism (which Lohia would have hated)
It's really not. Commercial display TVs without smart features are expensive, but easily affordable to the affluent.
Reminds me of Discworld quickly using stamps as printed currency because they’re obviously negotiable.
I do! Thanks!
yeah the api is not documented yet. its on the list of things todo. you can read the code at hynt-web on github: https://github.com/profullstack/hynt-web
This is really cool! Cxx-qt is really interesting project and this is a great demonstration of how useful it can be.

On this note, I'm a little suprised on how little attention the Qt company has given to Rust. Their major clients are in automotive and embedded, where memory safety is of high value. Yet, they seem rather uninterested in using Rust.
It can happen spontaneously even without a taxing authority

Diablo II taxed in gold (if anything can be considered taxing) but the currency was Stones of Jordan.
>The Federal government could

But will it? No. Back to the drawing board.
ESLint Config Inspector
Why CockroachDB doesn't use EvalPlanQual
For anyone who's game to run another service for audiobooks, I've found Audiobookshelf to be pretty good: https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf
Pretty much everything I have ever worked on.
Dogpile was another.
There is a lot of space between interpreters and a full JIT that is under-explored. Because developers typically skip straight to a JIT when they find a interpreter isn't fast enough.

Dolphin does have the cached interpreter, which eliminates some of the decoding overhead of a traditional interpreter, but I think you could go a lot further. Convert the PowerPC instructions to a optimal bytecode and apply various optimisations to that bytecode (function inlining, constant propagation). Common pairs and sequences of instructions can be replaced with a single bytecode implementation.

Given how fast Apple's cpu cores are, I suspect it might be possible to get a optimising bytecode interpreter fast enough so GameCube and other 6th gen console emulators can run at full speed.
I'm not saying there aren't earthquakes. I'm saying actually feeling/noticing them is extremely rare in my experience. Maybe I have just lived in exactly the right places over the years. Probably many happened when I was doing something that masked them, but nonetheless in over 30 years I have noticed just a few quakes, and only one was significant enough to leave any evidence in the form of moved objects.
Tech companies and the corporate and startup world in general have proven to be more dynamic.
If you are smart, driven, and have a 'get sh!t done' personality, are you going to waste your time with the kind of rules obsessed tattle-tale types that predominate in academia? In the real world, if you create something awesome, you get paid, and you get to do what you love. In academia, you get rewarded for bullsh*t that no one is going to bother to replicate and spend your time filling out paperwork (grants). Choose your own adventure.
I did the back-of-envelope calculation [and now you have to read it :)]:

A slug about 2 inches in diameter, 1/4 inch thick, is worth about 1 USD at today's copper price (weight = 1/4 pound).

So it might almost, but not quite, work as coinage. Maybe in a very poor country populated by body-builders.
Promptilation – compilation of pseudocode using LLMs
Samsung Tizen TVs have this bar on the bottom when you go to input or try to choose a streaming app. Right next to my apps, there is a small box promoting Samsung TV Plus shows.
I wish the author had shown their work regarding the mother's after-tax income. They apparently assume a 22% effective tax rate, but that seems unrealistically high.

The SSA says that Social Security tax was a mere 1% before 1950, and would remain below 4% until the 1970s. [1]

A 1949 Form 1040 [2] suggests that a single filer with 3 dependent children, earning $2700 that year, would have a federal income tax liability of only $7. Not 7 percent, 7 dollars.

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/taxRates.html

[2] https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040--1949.pdf
Speaking of defenestration scenes in movies, Die Hard has always been my benchmark.
Prologue on iOS is an Audible-like experience with a Plex back end as well!
> And let's not consider optimistic goals as lying

It's no longer "optimism" when you've been telling the same lie for 10 years:

https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/

His own self imposed deadlines were never met, even when he repeatedly changed them to new deadlines. Tesla's "full self-driving" is not and never has been full self-driving.
Docstrings, errors too, are nice.
But haven't the impressive flair
Of poems to which Elisp is heir.
Elisper's life is paradise!

with apologies to GLS: https://prl.khoury.northeastern.edu/img/gls-trees-poem-1979....
I would be suspicious of anyone who likes academia specifically. I know many people in academia and they begrudgingly put up with academia because it enables them to do the work that they wish to do.

They would probably all agree with the statement that writing successful grants and accomplishing what they want to accomplish are neither aligned nor orthogonal, but rather in tension, if not outright opposed.
God is not concerned with trivialities of coinage. Indeed it is explicitly stated that `No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.` (mammon meaning "riches"), which draws a clear distinction between those things that are of Godly import versus those that are merely earthly.

The point is that those items made in Caesar's image should be considered his property and reunited with him, whereas those items made in God's image (humanity) are God's property and should be reunited with Him.
Fair enough. Though you said "birth rates of migrants with low IQs," implying we're comparing the children of migrants born in Europe against the native-born population.
I rent. I pay something like $15.00 a month for insurance. My basement flooded and my landlord had to pay for an emergency plumber. It’s “built into the rent” but I still don’t have to bear the cost. My landlord assumes the risk of being ready to cover an expensive maintenance item.
I don't remember all that well but I think there aren't really sharp welfare cliffs with financial aid. The expected contribution of you and your family is subtracted from the total cost, and you are eligible for aid to pay the rest. The money you get from working is supposed to be more than your financial aid deduction anyway. So say if you made an extra $10k, it ought to reduce your financial aid by less than that.

>It makes the program exponentially more expensive to maintain because you have to hire people to track who gets it and who doesn't, look for fraud, monitor for when the income threshold needs changed, etc..

We already have a system for that. It's called the IRS. The cost of a basic fraud detection system is less than the actual fraud would be of course. They have to worry about things like people enrolling and never going to class.

>It's just terrible policy all around. We learned this during covid. It's so much easier to write people a check and tax the the high earners more to make up for them getting a check.

It isn't easier or fairer to write everyone a check, because quite a lot of people don't need any help. The average wagie is not going to seriously be disincentivized from working a meaningful way because it might disqualify their kid from certain financial aid. The whole point of financial aid is to give hope to the hopeless and help the struggling, not give everyone benefits whether they need it or not. Taxing people who don't have kids to pay for people who can afford to pay their kids' tuition seems wrong all around.
And even if they don’t, there’s still maintenance somewhere being paid by someone.

Some are lower maintenance than others (physical gold you have to secure, etc) but everything needs at least some work to keep from wasting away.

The point is that the simplistic “I made money selling my house” takes into account few if any of these costs (many which can be accounted as valid for the need of shelter).
> In the real world, if you create something awesome, you get paid, and you get to do what you love.

You and I live in very different "real worlds" and I feel like my "real world" is well above average.
Sounds just like tech companies tbh.
> “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"

That was a statement made when the Caesar was a nonbeliever, he ruled the world, and he could literally crucify you for believing the wrong stuff. It just means "Folks, let's not pick up an unnecessary fight against someone who can casually murder all of us."

Of course, later the Ceasars became Christian, and the line became a lot more blurry.
Wouldn't CAV decrease the amount of data that can be stored unless you're compensating for it elsewhere? I assume they used CAV so they wouldn't have to change the disc's speed when seeking to a different area of the disc.

The MIL-CD thing reminds me of the expansion port on very early playstations which was never used officially, but allowed exploiting the console by plugging a modchip into it.
Someone I knew was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years after taking his child to the ER. The doc there decided it was "shaken baby syndrome" and called the cops. After that, he was on the guilty-until-proven innocent track. The body was cremated with no second opinion.

He still has three or four years to go. No parole here for "baby killers."
A consulting firm I worked with had great sales people.

They could get software consultants anywhere, especially where they were not needed.

A former colleague of mine got assigned along another to assist an Italian bank with their software projects.

He told me that in his office there were 6/8 people, barely doing any work. Two of them were leads in that office and did their best to never ever be seen or meet anyone. They would just close themselves in the office the whole day doing god knows what. If you knocked they would pretend to not be there.

My colleagues tried to get some work to do desperately for months, but consultancy said to shut up because the contract was huge.

He says it was one of the most miserable periods of his life because "there's enough Youtube a person can watch for 18 months" and there were more than 2 hours per day of commuting on top of that.
> You're talking about a fertile patch near the birth of civlisation

Near --a-- birth of civilization.
> But they also lacked that depressing trajectory that made the original series so unique.

Agree. Also, in that end, there's hope, even if the characters are still flawed, they have been forced to confront their issues and illusions, and (finally) are set on a realistically human path of growth.

> The 1.11, 2.22, 3.33, and 3.0+1.0 rebuilds were much, much better in my opinion.

Disagree, because of the above. Sure, plenty of eye candy (of both kinds), but it's gratuitous in Rebuilds. The "biblical" (mid-)themes are even more confusing. The character growth is only kind of earned if you actually watched the originals (with maybe the (tragic) exception of latest Rei and "dad", who finally does get a redemption arc). And even there, at a cost, as all the suffering of old Asuka (and our whiplash of empathizing with her) has basically been erased along with her original, all the while the new pilot, Mari, is never fleshed out, so her being there at the end doesn't feel earned, with her having been all along weirdly untraumatized and also hot for Shinji (gratuitous again). Many main characters literally get wished into a fairy tale ending.
Damned. I'd be tempted to write down in my resume "Company would've saved N million dollars and 5 years of their time had they listened to me" were it not such a double edged sword.
> But, you can generally prompt around this sort of thing by asking the model to adopt a preferred context such as "you're an expert xxx", providing of course that is did see such expert-tagged material in the training set.

So, I need LM to be an expert in SAT solving and an expert Haskell programmer. This means I need LM to be trained on the SAT solving and on vast amount of Haskell code.

I think it is already easy to see that LM should be trained in an intersection of quite fringe (yes, I am watching that TV series right now) things.

I also think that it is beyond reason to ask for this.
The smallest, lightest one that works for your machine.
This is going to dredge up toxic heavy metals from the seafloor and let deep ocean currents spread the mine tailings far and wide.

This will cause an ecological disaster out of sight, out of mind. It’s a travesty.