skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's hard to say how much of that is manufactured outrage and how much is an unsettling new reality.

There's plenty of unsettling new reality, I'll give you that. And it should be reported on, even if it makes people uncomfortable.

But how is it reported on? There's a difference between "here's the economic reality of 20% of of the population" and "you should be outraged about the economy". And if you listen in order to analyze the way the story is told rather than to hear what the story is about, you can tell which is which fairly reliably.

Much of the left has gone from "we're going to report the stories that happen" to "we're going to report the things we think need to be reported, like poverty" (which is all right, as long as they also report the news), to "we're going to report things so as to make you become politically active on the side that we think you should". That last step is highly problematic. For one thing, once you're that blatantly a cheerleader for one side, can I trust that you're telling the truth about what you're reporting on, or are you distorting it out of all resemblance to reality?
A lot of employers have this. This isn't that strange. You might have the same. I've had to run open source work past employers when it's similar to the company's domain.
Actually, I'm forgetting...

Did you possibly agree to binding arbitration for all disputes?

I can't believe I forgot -that- loophole facepalm
KUOW in Seattle seems to be in trouble too. Their sponsors have been getting increasingly cringeworthy. Just last week I heard a long sponsor message from Christian Science. They seem to scraping deeper into the bottom of the barrel and sponsor message seem to be increasing in quantity.
See for example the classic association between childhood maltreatment and future antisocial behavior [1]. As intuitive as it may seem that a child that is maltreated may develop negative externalizing behavior because of that, it looks like the true route of transmission is genetics, not environmental.

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medici...
And then there was that classic movie, "Murder By Death."
I agree with you, although I wonder how we found the great fascinating wild websites before search engines even existed. I remember “web rings” but I don't think that's the whole story.
Heads up map digitizing seem to refer to the method where computer operator digitized an aerial image map by manually tagging its features displayed on the screen, in contrast to heads down digitizing where they used a special tablet.

Anyway I really need such articles from time to time not to lose my faith in humanity.
You can go straight to the source, i.e. the audited FY2023 financial statement[0]. You're right that revenues from CPB contracts amount to single-digit million dollars (roughly $7mm in 2023) a year, out of >$300mm of total annual revenues; but also from the same document:

> National Public Radio, Inc. (“NPR Inc.”) a nonprofit membership corporation incorporated in 1970 following passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, as amended

> [American Coalition for Public Radio, a wholly-owned subsidiary,] supports the educational mission of publicly funded, noncommercial, educational radio stations, networks, and systems (collectively, “Public Radio”) [...] aims to secure robust federal funding

One can register some legitimate disappointment in a "national public" radio organization, breathed into law by Congress, turning into something rather nakedly partisan. That only 1% of revenues come from tax dollars has little to do with that part.

[0]: https://media.npr.org/documents/about/statements/fy2023/Nati...
True. It would be nice to decouple it from children and expand its scope of economic impact dramatically.
Saw in the "Parents Involved" section
You have to use each chain’s app, now, to get what used to be menu prices. They figured out they could raise menu prices a ton and lots of folks would still pay it, while still keeping poor folks paying them money by providing the app option.

It’s still pretty cheap if you get whatever’s the best option from the deals and freebies they offer in the app, rather than buying whatever you want off the menu.
Which onions sites do you find interesting or useful?
yeah the language is slightly ambiguous enough where you can't for certain know. first vs newest.

the issue is that taken as a whole the quantization of the samples into 8 bins is a much bigger issue along with the problem of the no hardware watchdog or hardware malfunction alarms. along with the poor testing methodologies too.
That data is paywalled, but I've got some conflicting sources:

> Rates of relative intergenerational mobility in the U.S. appear to have been flat for decades

> Most Americans born in 1940 ended up better off, in real terms, than their parents at the same age. Only half of those of those born in 1980 have surpassed their parent’s family income

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/raj-chetty-in-14-charts-b...

Also worth mentioning that the mean income for the second quintile is only ~$40k — it's still ~$30k off from the middle quintile... so we're not talking anything close to the american dream here either way. We're talking multiple generations at best for a small percentage of the lower quintile to reach the middle.
Oh, bullshit. Marketplace is also a great podcast.
A key contributor to its success is that competitors media players often couldn't play mp3s without skipping on the hardware of the day, and that included microsoft's own media player.

So for many this was the only useful way to play mp3s on windows.
I agree that the title is linkbait. It's a list of known problematic experiments where the result is (slightly) different from the theoretical prediction. I remember most of them, there is nothing new.

The article is too optimistic, but Sabine H. usualy errs in the opositer direction. The truth is in between.

About the muon discrepancy:

I read an article a few years ago that explains that the muon creates virtual pions (everyone agrees with this part) and that we don't know enough about pions so we must aproximate them with experimental values (everyone agrees with this part) and the constants in the aproximation are slightly wrong (this is the polemic part).

I think it makes a lot of sense, but it's far from confirmed. I still hear the X-files music when I think about it, but it's very interesting. (Note that this is not my area, so I may be misremembering things or ignoring obvious problems, but I want to believe.)

About "dishonnest scientists": That's too strong. The paprwork asking money from grants is usually too optimistic (I call it grantbait), but not as optimistic as the press coverage. I think they usualy don't lie, but it's like kickstarter. The mandatory goal are probably going to be fullfil, but the strech goals may be too optimistic.
We have largely moved away from anything so crass as holding parents responsible
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Searching e.g. "xq31 curlyarrayconstructor does not use enclosedexpr":

1. In google, I get 9 results, none of which are a reference to the W3C XQuery/XPath issue. This is because google is actually "helpfully" searching for "xq31 curly array constructor does not use enclosed expr" -- telling it to not do that finds the issue, returning two results.

2. In bing, the bug report (bug 29989) is the top result.

3. In DuckDuckGo, it is also the top result.

I've had other problems searching google for specific error messages as it decides to remove quoting, tends to show results for space-separated compound identifiers (see the "curly array constructor" in what google searches for by default), does word stemming, and other "helpful" transformations on the search.
> Teach conflict resolution skills to young children.

This is pretty huge. A lot of my experience growing up in California during the 90s was "tell an adult" and "zero tolerance" coming down from school administrators. This is useful at a very young age, but it neglects to equip the children with agency for when the adults aren't around. You can't tell an adult when you're on the school bus and conflict breaks out. You can't tell an adult when you're out on a soccer trip and people are getting rowdy in the locker room. The bystander effect is very strong in school aged children because we neglect to introduce them to their inherent agency in conflict.

There is also a degree of antifragility that parents could teach as well. Your emotions aren't reality. What people say about you isn't either. Again, these should come from parents.
The time I have set aside for me to do nothing is my most valuable time! I'd rather take it from just about anything else
By focusing less on race and other identity issues, and working to remove racist policies across the board regardless of which group they benefit or harm. The 20th century saw immense improvements for almost all underserved groups, without any talking heads bickering about intersectionality or identity. Now that kind of coverage is everywhere and progress has stalled or even reversed in many areas.

My impression is that a huge portion of identity politics and coverage is more about picking fights where each side can feel smug and superior, rather than actually changing things for the better.
FreeTaxUSA.com. I’ve been using them for several years now.
wow...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro_(Apple_silicon)#/m...

no usb-a ports sucks, but I guess it's a step in the right direction.

sort of amazing how out-of-touch they (still) are with "pro" users. who cares if you need usb-a only once a year.

People might only need the bed in their pickup truck once a year, but they buy pickup trucks, get stuff done and are fiercely loyal.
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I feel like this is trying to tell me something really important but the data visualization crashed my browser multiple times.
My perception is the opposite of yours so I guess we can be as equally confused as each other. Every time I tune into the news it's usually dominated by foreign policy, domestic horserace politics coverage and soft human interest stories. There was definitely an uptick in racial discussions during all the BLM stuff but "completely dominated" is very, very far from my lived experience.

But I guess that's exactly what an LLM would say, isn't it?
Yes, but does it give you the validation you deserve as a member of society?
Exactly, and I've always said the same thing about murderers. Why should we pay for police to catch murderers when the murderers could just not murder? This seems like a matter of individual, rather than collective responsibility. If they don't murder, it is better for us, better for them, and better for their victims. Why should we have to protect the victims of murderers when murderers could simply not kill people?

Without the sarcasm now, the victims of bad parents are no different than the victims of any other crime. Yes, it may be the parents' fault that their child has a bad life just as it is a murderer's fault that his victims die, but that hardly justifies it happening. A child cannot choose their parents any more than you can choose not to be the victim of a crime. It seems obvious to me that, as a society, we should protect the vulnerable from those who might harm them.
Would agree.
OTOH, if being a cashier at the 7-11 paid $100k/yr in hazard pay, I'm sure you could find people willing to work there. the only question is where that money comes from.
TV should talk to internal hosts so it can play content that is hosted by internal hosts.

Sure, shitty-equipment is prolific but how do we fix it and how do we pressure them to stop making shitty equipment.

> The best solution is to do what others suggest; place the ATT gateway in bridge mode and get your own router that runs OpenWRT;

How? Do I just link them with an ethernet cable?
I don't agree with paying for kidney donations, but I think we should pay people to be organ donors via some tax deduction if you've been registered as a donor for the past 2 years (so you can't like, register then file taxes then unregister)
Ah, I remember listening to a "radio" show with a lady host talking about the Internet. On RealPlayer, over my 56k modem connection...
I guess all those guys that lost to Lance Armstrong over the years should have played their hands better? Being born wealthy is essentially economic doping.

I feel like when people start talking about money like this they're being intentionally illogical.
What about if you add the following: the cost of the time spent preparing the meal. And the cost (mostly time) associated with cleanup- such as driving that leftover oil to the recycling center.
Kinda but not really.

I expect a tab to stay in memory, at least in virtual memory, and not need to hit the server if it's in the background for a while and then I click on it again, unlike history or bookmarks.

I expect history to not be loaded in memory, it would be a waste of memory.

I expect bookmarks to show up in search. Searching history is different, history has a ton of useless garbage in it. "Bookmark" means "When I type this, show this one URL before all the other ones that seem relevant".
What data do you mean...?
Tell me then, funny man: what's two times zero?
Have you ever been to a mega church? They basically are a large concert. Not the 80,000 people kind, but of the size that would rival a decent percentage of touring acts. Lakewood church in Houston has 45,000 attendees a week.

I think the church idea is a brilliant TM workaround, until they lock that up too.
I don't know what that guy is smoking. It is objectively the case that the topics of race, identity politics, etc have skyrocketed since the mid-2010s [1].

[1] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/06/th...
> Assumptions will bite you in the ass.

Assumptions bite you in the ass even when you deal with humans who you work with daily. Assuming the LLM can read your mind is laughable. Despite it being all knowing you have to explain things to it like it's a 5 year old to make sure you're always on the same page.
it's a wish, probably a fantasy.

but it could be like letting smart people organize their life using email addresses in a similar way: foo+extra@gmail.com
Self-hosting means taking a second job as a sysadmin, applying software updates all the time, patching emergency security vulnerabilities, hardening services against constant attacks, deciding whether the daily "I have found a bug in your system and will disclose" mails are legitimate threats. If you fail at any of these tasks, relatively new regulations mean various governments can fine you more than your net worth over failing to report a data breach to the right agency on the right timeline. To me, that's what prevents people from standing up their own blogs and other services on a home-brew server in their house or a $5 VPS these days.
Abolish the minimum wage along with density restrictions in zoning. Make it affordable for someone making $300 per month to have shelter.
My kid is 30. But yeah I’m cooking for two, not four or five.
C# goto does not let you break `using var ...` guarantees or violate scopes of other control flow constructs.
I think that's partly why stuff like frozen pizza is kind of a meme with single people. Stuff in the freezer can generally keep for years before it really has anything off with it, and even after it starts getting a bit off, it's probably still not going to kill you.

Frozen pizzas can be had for as low as like $3.50 if you get them on sale, and since they keep forever in the freezer there's no reason not to stock up at that point...

I lived not-quite-exclusively on frozen pizza when I lived alone for about a year. It wasn't healthy for me, but it was pretty cheap living, at least in the short term.
We've more or less always had search engines as long as there has been a public Internet. But web directories were a thing early on too.
Car Talk was an NPR show.
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Except inflation, in the US we gave everyone money a couple of years ago (probably had to) and it caused (probably unavoidable) spectacular inflation. We narrowly achieved our soft landing, but that should have taught us that while sometime helicopter money works, it isn’t free.
Atlas was built for exceptional performance. The way it works, the energy is stored in a pressure accumulator (where gas is compressed) and when valves open, the gas pushes hydraulic fluid at several hundred bars through the lines, and relatively small pistons produce very large forces to move the limbs. This allows to produce high instantaneous power required for athletic jumps. The fluid is then returned from the low pressure side back into the accumulator by an electric pump running from battery.

Since there are no motors or gearboxes in the joints, the moving parts are very light, the inertia is small and the bandwidth of control loops is quite high, especially because very fast acting valves are used.

On a flip side, because Atlas is built to be an F1 racing car of robotics, all the parts are custom, complex, with relatively tight safety margins. It takes a team of engineers and mechanics to keep it in shape. It is not necessarily that hydraulics is always harder to maintain than the electric motors, but because Atlas is optimized to be as athletic as possible, it simply does not have the robustness which one expects from an excavator or even from a more humdrum industrial robot.

Also, since Atlas is a very fast and a powerful machine, it is impossible to make it completely safe around humans. Even a simple leak from a high pressure hose can produce a jet of fluid capable of causing a life-threatening injury.

The electric quadruped "Spot mini" was expressly developed to be simpler to maintain and to be less dangerous to bystanders. It achieves surprisingly good performance, but this is only possible because it has shorter kinematic chains, and the weights of electric motors do not matter as much as they would have in a humanoid robot with a large number of degrees of freedom.

There are of course other companies making very good electric humanoid robots, for example Agility Robotics [1]. But in terms of athletic performance, Atlas was in a league of its own. It is rather sad that this is the end of the road for Atlas and the team which created its special hydraulic hardware, but one can understand why Hyundai may not be thrilled to pay year after year for a project with no clear commercial value.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IdbodRG14
> No one wants to work in these neighborhoods because they are invariably awful

Yeah, no kidding. But why are they awful to begin with? I'd hazard that it's because families have been asleep at the wheel in teaching their children to be good citizens. The change for something like this comes bottom-up, not top-down.

You could try to boil it down to economics, but that's misguided. The markets are a terrible tutor of morality and accountability.

Fix the families, fix the society. Hold parents accountable. Teach morality in the schools. It's not slavery to do that. You're not harming anyone by teaching children to have a modicum of respect for their communities, elders, authority figures or eachother.
Back of the envelope, using prices from safeway.com (in Seattle) I get the cost of a quarter pound cheeseburger being about $2.60. Significant error bars on that, because it's hard to estimate how much onions and ketchup and mustard McDonald's uses, and I'm estimating on the lettuce and pickle slices.

But, in no case would I say it costs more than $3.50 to make a quarter pounder with cheese at home. I'm also assuming the ingredients McDonald's uses are not better than even the cheapest ingredients for sale at an okay grocery store, so I'm just giving them that advantage to make it possible to compare.

The current price of a quarter pounder with cheese at McDonald's looks to be $6.22[1]. So, let's call it twice as expensive.

I didn't even bother estimating the cost of making french fries after that, since there's no way they make up the difference.

[1]https://mcdonaldsprices.com/mcdonalds-prices/

I do not, for the record, doubt that some menu items at McDonald's cost less for them to produce and sell than the equivalent would cost to make at home. I would be VERY surprised if it cost less in the long run to buy all your meals at McDonald's versus making food yourself at home. Even buying ingredients in bulk, McDonald's does have a lot of overhead to pay for and profit to make.
If you haven't checked out the "Surpise me" button on https://wiby.me I strongly suggest you do. These digital gardens are still out there even if sadly stuck in time.
I don't think we're disagreeing much here. I'm not surprised that 27% of the UK are regular gamblers, my point is that it's not that evenly spread throughout the population. As you said, it's a demographic thing (although I'm trying hard not to target and demonise a particular group here).

My point is not that it's uncommon, but rather that it is very much not a feature of UK life or a defining part of culture for many people, perhaps a majority. We have a big problem with it in aggregate, but the coverage would suggest that this is something that everyone in the UK feels a part of, and that's just not the case.

The coverage of the US situation seems to suggest that the demographic split is quite different – that it's perhaps a younger crowd and perhaps not tracking so much with socio-economic status, where the UK mostly skews in different ways. There are similarities like our lotteries though. I think the US will get worse as they deregulate, although I suspect as it's in some ways a newer industry there it'll probably look a little different to ours. The problems will be the same though.
It will allow room for ticketing companies to actually exist though. Right now it's basically just livenation and a long tail of smaller companies, many of which got swallowed up by eg; eventbrite.
Could that speed up the rate of obsolescence of older iOS devices? You need to go to 12+ Pro to get more than 4GB of RAM.
Japan has already separated large quantities of reactor grade plutonium:

https://world-nuclear.org/focus/fukushima-daiichi-accident/j...

At the end of 2018 there was 9 tonnes of separated reactor-grade plutonium (about 66% fissile) stored domestically, plus a total of 36.6 t in the UK and France. That total of 45.6 t was a modest decrease from an estimated 47.3 t at the end of 2017.

Despite the name, "weapons grade plutonium" is not actually required to make a weapon. Japan could manufacture weapons of modest yield (comparable to those used against it in World War II) on a short timeline from reactor grade plutonium if it were willing to ignore the political reaction.

See this for a relatively brief technical explanation of using reactor-grade plutonium in weapons: "Reactor-Grade Plutonium Can be Used to Make Powerful and Reliable Nuclear Weapons" https://rlg.fas.org/980826-pu.htm

This is a much longer book discussion (PDF) of the same issue: "Reactor-Grade Plutonium and Weapons: Exploding The Myths" https://npolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Reactor-Grade...
> A lot of employers have this. This isn't that strange.

Right, but NPR isn't any old employer. It was created by Congress with the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 and is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a mission of "creating a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of events, ideas, and cultures." Despite it not receiving that much taxpayer funding, I would hold it to a standard of a government organization; and I expect diverse viewpoints and dissent to be a core part of that mission.
As a poor grad student, I used to unwind by watching Arrested Development playing all 3 seasons in a loop over Shoutcast. Fun times.
The original Deus Ex (with a high res texture pack).
> but there is also a bit of a schism between the 9front folk and… let’s say our current timeline.

As a 9front user who attended IWP9 the past two years (just was in Philly this past weekend) this really isn't the case anymore.