skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They also refuse to do installs in new builds in many neighborhoods. I have lived sandwiched between two addresses that have Google Fiber, and they have refused to come out to install the last 25 feet of cable to my house for 5 years. So I'm paying $100/mo for crappy Spectrum internet that goes down all the time.

I've reached out to them several times to come out or do a survey, or run the existing fiber through already existing conduit and they just refuse.
If pictures are better, why do picture languages nearly always evolve to phonetic ones?

What's the picture for "go" ? What's the picture for "dog" as opposed to a picture for collie?

There are one million words in the English language. Are you going to memorize them all?

Picture languages simply do not work.
It's maddening that I tell my phone to stay quiet and it disobeys.

All that code and settings live in a protected partition. If I have to root my phone for this at least I'd like it to be nicer to hack on.
I don't follow how one follows from the other. If the government suddenly states that the employment numbers went up by 800,000, would that make it easier to find jobs? What if all those 800,000 jobs are all as Walmart greeters? Or neurosurgeons?
I see compose in production all the time - especially from folks that want compose support _in_ Dokku. I bought this up with the compose project manager a few months back. It seems like an interesting use case but it didn't seem like the Docker folks were... aware that this was how folks used docker compose? There is a project out there - Wowu/docker-rollout - that sort of provides this but it has some rough edges.

Disclaimer: I am the Dokku maintainer.
If you don't put gas into your car, it does not run. The chances of the car incurring thousands of dollars of damage is negligible. The insurance company will pay for the routine shot or exam since they both help to avoid medical complications that would drive up the cost of care.

Granted, the comparison is imperfect. Medical insurance won't pay for a healthy diet (another way to reduce health problems) and replacing the brakes on a car would reduce the chances of an accident causing thousands of dollars of damages ... but we are human, and sometimes it is a miracle that we even take half measures.
Sounds like a problem that paying fair wages could solve
I've been working on an extension https://github.com/phil294/search-plus-plus-vscode-extension for instant search results in gigantic repos like this one because it's a recurring pattern that bothers me. And eventually I'd like it to use its index to provide full go-to, autocomplete etc. on a pure plain text basis, because why not? I don't get the obsession with full-fledged language integration when plain text-based search results can get you all the way 9 out of 10 times, whereas a typical language plugin will constantly suffer from brokenness, performance problems and general annoyance, unless maybe you're working in pure JS/TS. And while LSP is great, you still have to fight this battle separately for every language you use. And regular "search" features are dreadful too.

It's one of these things that Jetbrains products are vastly superior in. It's fast, always works, falls back to text matching and also natively allows multiple languages per source file.
> Plenty of landlords would rather a unit in a building go empty for longer than compromise on rent in a way that weakens their negotiating position with the other units. (Also, with lenders.)

In my experience: A tiny minority (for housing - not sure about commercial). This is one of those cases where selection bias applies. As most landlords really hate vacancies, the ones you do see are the tiny few that don't. And because they let them be vacant for months, it adds to the selection bias. They perhaps own most/all of the property, so the vacancy cost is miniscule (only property tax).

I do know the bulk of landlords are fussy about the type of consumer they get (e.g. decent credit rating, etc), and will allow for longer vacancies to get them - the rationale being that a bad occupant costs more than the vacancy charge - especially in tenant friendly states like California (extremely expensive to evict).

Keep in mind - the bulk of them don't own the properties outright - they are paying a loan. In a place like where I live, they may need to pay $2000/mo on a property that they rent out for $2300/mo. That $300/mo is a very slim-to-nonexistent profit margin once you account for costs. If it goes vacant for a month, they are losing over 6 months of net revenue. When you factor in the costs, it may well be closer than a year's worth of gain. The property doesn't appreciate much here, so they're not gaining in that fashion. Now when an eviction takes 4 months to execute, you can do the math on how they may prefer a 1 month vacancy to a bad tenant.

Really: Get rid of fixed interest mortgages and you'll discourage rent seeking behavior. Most are playing the long game: They'll accept a net loss of, say, $100-200/mo because they know their costs are (relatively) fixed, and in, say, 5 years the rents will have gone up enough to break even or yield a small profit. Keep it up for the next 30 years and they've made good money (and had a tenant pay for all the equity).

If you want to discourage rent seeking, discourage the main incentive: The cheap loan.
along with setup.py -> setup.cfg -> pyproject.toml.

And distutils -> setuptools.

I still haven't figured out how to migrate away from "python setup.py sdist".
The use cases might lag behind the infra. All the services we use today are designed around the constraint of lopsided upload/download bandwidth on broadband. If you build it, it will come.
My company sells systems to DMVs, during some small talk one of the folks from the DMV said that they keep having retirees come back after retiring, the main reason: Healthcare. Working at the DMV is obviously a pretty easy job (compared to say... a roofer or even retail) so they just go back to work to save on Health Insurance. The DMV gladly hires them back too, they have the experience, know how things work, show up and do their job, etc.

I feel really bad for young people out there trying to get their foot in the door somewhere.
Wormaze: TUI Game Written in Bash
You should disclose that this is your company.
Where I live, there is such an acute shortage of skilled tradespeople, that prices are through the roof.

It seems that the world is reverting to a point where humans are in demand for hands-on jobs as opposed to BS jobs like layers and layers of white-collar management.
There are small businesses in the space. But because every person with a disability is unique, there aren't universal solutions. It's wetware not software. Good luck.
That’s totally irrelevant. The jobs were not there due to a measurement issue. The measurement is in any event very hard to do.
i hope you sued them.
> lose your scroll position when resized

That’s more a browser implementation issue in my view. It’s a hard problem though in the general case, they’d have to identify the “main” content to synchronize on. Or, barring that, maybe they could determine the position that maximizes the total area of elements that remain in view.
> No one wants to force older workers out of jobs.

<ahem> IBM </ahem>

They mention startups as a way for younger folks to do OK, and they're right, but not everyone is cut out for eating ramen for two years.

Personally, I would have been happy to join a startup. I had my retirement set, and didn't need to make a bunch of money. I am also quite willing to work long hours (I do that now, but for free). I also have multiple decades worth of experience, shipping software and hardware, running teams, and managing budgets.

But I guess there's no market in startups for us olds. The couple of startup "interviews" that I had, were really just insult sessions, where the interviewer was working through their daddy issues.
Dokku maintainer here. If you have more detailed feedback, I'd love to hear it! Happy you've found something that works for you though :)
> We should definitely remove fixed-interest mortgages for non-owner occupied purchases.

Just as with single payer health care: While it works very well in other countries, people in the US will insist it will fail here. :-)
These are not independent issues. The pension crisis is part of why the older workers aren't retiring.
This is not fully up to date but is a good start https://www.herokualternatives.com/
From the press release on the page[0] explains they got a machine from the National Archives. Though it probably would of been more fun if they directly cooperated with citizens of the public to decode the tapes.

>While NSA did not possess the equipment required to access the footage from the media format in which it was preserved, NSA deemed the footage to be of significant public interest and requested assistance from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to retrieve the footage. NARA’s Special Media Department was able to retrieve the footage contained on two 1’ APEX tapes and transferred the footage to NSA to be reviewed for public release.

[0] https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Pre...
I'm not sure that logic makes sense. Making a thing that's used ubiquitously a few percent faster it's absolutely a worthwhile investment of effort. Individual operations might but be very much faster but it's (in aggregate) a ton of electricity and time globally.
Pay a decent wage and people will do almost anything. Problem is that while the new narrative is praising blue collar work and encouaraging work in the trades, you are supposedly (love for others to chime in with experience) paid peanuts, maybe even below minimum wage, for a 2-3 years apprenticeship before you can start doing real work.

So, you basically go to college with none of the college experience. You're not in debt but you also don't really have loans to live on either. It's just not feasible unless you already have a living situation, and those that can pay for that will simply send the kid to college anyway. It's a mess all around.
Feel this in my bones even as a non-young worker. I'm almost 50 and am still a lowly individual contributor worker-bee with no direct reports, no budget, no real P&L responsibility... The mass of legacy employees perpetually above me weighs heavily. It feels like people have to literally die before any advancement can happen.
RIP. She should be credited when someone at OpenAI introduces the concept of hormones to neural networks.
CAT S22

https://www.reddit.com/r/dumbphones/s/53dbm79jyx
Calculus had poor foundation and was thus logically incoherent from Newton/Leibniz' discovery to roughly the middle of 19th Century. None-the-less it was a powerful tool and most of the key theorems were discovered then.

The basic situation, I think, is a set of tools can be consistent in the way mathematicians use them but in the way the mathematicians explain them. And the tools can be very useful despite this.

So my guess is saying "it has poor foundations" isn't saying "I'm against it, it's worthless"
Thank you! Exceptionally clarifying
the unicode angle is great for moving sparklines back into the terminal especially making it into a postgres function, since it makes so much ad-hoc analysis easier at the point of query.

it also solves the problem where sparklines feel useful to somebody reading a summary and not so useful to somebody that's just exploring data "in the moment." having it be available in postgres is brilliant.

a bit of shameless self promotion, i had done something similar ages ago but with a custom webfont and some small js to handle scaling of the input dataset, solving the problem of unicode graph characters not being baseline aligned well. http://nsfmc.github.io/chartjunk/ (turns into dust while looking at the last commit date)
Interesting, how is compose meant to be used then? Just for building images and running local dev environments?
The idea is to automate the tasks for the filing process.

> She began helping friends file appeals, too, then asked herself a question that’s typical for engineers: Could she figure out a way to automate the process?

> After a year of tinkering, she just launched her answer: Fight Health Insurance[0], an open-source platform that takes advantage of large language models to help users generate health insurance appeals with AI.

[0] https://fighthealthinsurance.com/
How does this make sense? The insurance company has an overwhelming asymmetric advantage in regards to the data that is used to make such claim decisions and would be used to train such AI agents. Unless of course you are referring to legal proceedings specifically and not the data that would be used in the case.
Hah! I knew Sudgy would be your first link. There's relatively little content about GA, but once you're hooked you begin to consume it all.

It's like you never got to study Relativity, conformal geometry, electron spins, quaternions, etc then someone comes with a simple cheat code which introduces you to these topics gently. It's like what category theory wants to do for mathematics, but simple.

Here are additional resources:

GA playground: https://enkimute.github.io/ganja.js/examples/coffeeshop.html...

A physics engine in 100 lines (Gravity, Hook, and damping laws are just one line each!), and you can go from 2D to 3D to 4D by changing a single parameter: https://enki.ws/ganja.js/examples/pga_dyn.html

Other resources: https://bivector.net/

And anything by David Hestenes: https://worrydream.com/refs/Hestenes_2002_-_Reforming_the_Ma...
Great info; thank you.
> A star growth chart

... as is included in the article (vs Dokku), FWIW.

https://blog.api-fiddle.com/post-media/0008-graph.png per https://star-history.com
I would say it's not that "young workers aren't interested in being machinists" it's more of "Society has not incentivized young workers enough to want to become machinists."

It's probably a combination of things (high schools telling every student they need to go to college, wages too low to attract new talent, other things?), but there is a low chance in my mind that 16-25 year olds are not interested in working with their hands.

The DIY / Hobbyist community has never been larger or more available. High school robotics is bigger than ever, 3D-printing and related things are very popular....
An era of uncompressed 4K?
Ojibwe and Cree are both spoken in Manitoba, but it's too far south for Inuktitut.

I read through your other comment on this post and read about the work you're doing. I didn't quite understand –I think it's hard to explain a lot of these linguistics tools briefly without uploading a lot of context– but it seemed up my alley as well.

> It's interesting to have such a niche tech challenge associated with your ethnic group of languages.

That's true, I think it can be a lot of fun and rewarding for technologists. Kevin King is a font designer who was tasked with making a new font for syllabics, then found that some syllabics had never been adopted into Unicode and set about getting them approved[1]. He worked with the communities and the Unicode committee and got them into Unicode, and that must have been really rewarding.

There's difficulty in approaching from the outside, though. I'm trying to be careful to provide value and not overstep. The Inuit especially can be defensive, because you see a lot of people online who sort of fetishize the culture, or people (certainly linguists) whose work can seem extractive to the tight-knit Northern communities.

I've always wanted to build tools working with text that people use on a day-to-day, but I also worry that this will be just another project I spend months on that will not see any use. I'm trying to make connections so that I can build value without seeming extractive. It's hard to know where to start, however.

1. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2020/20255-ucas-adds.pdf
It all depends on what (or when) you’re comparing coordination between European nations to. Having a less than ideal response to COVID or the war in Ukraine is vastly different than the openly hostile relations between European nations experienced prior to the foundation of the CoE/EEC/EU.
OpenAI supports California AI bill requiring 'watermarking' of synthetic content
It's weird that you can't see the prices for those things and that the insurance companies pay a different price than individuals. That's evidence there isn't a functioning market for most medical services in the US.

But it's not weird that the insurance company wants you to get a flu shot or exam, since those things prevent them from paying out more money later.

In reality there is some cross over point, where the flu shot isn't worth it for younger people, and is for older people. If you are young/healthy, get the flu and totally recover with a few Tylenol, and no insurance claims, then it clearly wasn't worth a $10 vaccine to prevent. That's the analysis for the insurance company. Depending on how you value your time, and time spent sick, your individual analysis may be different.
If you read my comment at all, you'd notice it leads with drawing a distinction between your hypothetical scenario and the actual case at hand. If you read my comment carefully, you might also notice that I'm being extra charitable by not pointing out that your hypothetical relies on oversimplifying how pricing signals operate in the real world. Of course you can make the problem seem to go away if you demand a simplification that elides all the details relevant to the problem.
Yah I want to actually read a blurb about the topic when I click on a node
I have a queasy feeling that's not going to be how this actually pans out.

It's clear the people adopting the AI systems are the big co's -- we've been battling half-assed phone navigation agents for a decade now, and more recently chatbots (often with humorous results -- see the "No Backsies" car dealership chatbot). AI always favors the one with more resources.

When you have AI's battling AI's, rather than making progress, I suspect it'll actually result in confusion, more delays as tighter roadblocks pop up, and probably some humorous events like the infamous Dominos-vs-Papa-Johns prank call https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALnPVybD9X8 but darker because it'll be about cancer treatments instead of pizza prices.

The only winners will be data center operators, and the losers will be everyone without access to the AI tools. In an arms race, everyone loses in the long view.
It's Atlantic White Cedar: https://www.nps.gov/caco/planyourvisit/atlanticwhitecedar.ht...
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This is my first time developing in Typescript, there are some glaring inefficiencies w.r.t. page load speeds and design. If you have any technical suggestions for improvement they are very much welcome!
A browser is as complex (more) as an operating system. Building and working on one is just going to require beefy build servers or workstations.
I just Alt+Tab instead and keep most windows centered.
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> What you describe better fits a dualistic Manichean view of the world than a Christian one.

Six of one, half a dozen of the other. The morality play was invented by Christians, by the time that happened, Manichaeism was long gone. Personifying evil had long been in the imagination of the peoples of the near-East and it shouldn't be so surprising that it would crop back up in culture.

> Denying it denies the human spirit, and produces a sickly and bland anthropology that inspires no one.

I would argue that the constant drumbeat of Christ-like figures in fiction inspires more eye rolls than attempts to incorporate non-Western moral frameworks into stories. Black Panther is probably the most interesting MCU franchise as a result. Precisely because it reimagines an African nation on technological and economic parity with the West, we get an opportunity to re-examine morality that isn't Christian.

> No great works await us.

I think this is unnecessarily pessimistic and overstates the importance of the divine sacrifice to fiction. If you've just landed on one set of works as the only works to bother trying to enjoy, all you're really accomplishing is snobbishness. The story of Jesus' sacrifice is indeed a great one, and it's mined for fictive influence all the time, but you know what else gets the same treatment? Job. Most of these imaginings of evil God doesn't ultimately stem from gnostic cosmology, but rather from Job. The difference is that in the end, all the adversary's scheming and machinations result in elevating and improving the protagonist.

> You cannot escape morality.

Sure, but you make a worse mistake when you attribute all of it to Christianity. Ethical monotheism is a useful theology, but where it can lead is to justification of slavery and oppression, the antithesis to Jesus' objective.

I enjoy romance anime, and it's very refreshing to observe other cultures' moral imaginings. There's a different storytelling language at play, stemming from Japan's unique blend of natural religion, its own philosophical tradition, and the Christianity that merely influences Japanese thought, it doesn't swim in savior narrative like the West's cultural canon.

And it's pretty far from being "increasingly boring".
Yea, I do metal working as a hobby and would love to try being a professional machinist, but I'm not willing to do it for 25% of my current comp pushing bits around transistors.
https://archive.ph/OI6x3
If you don't like their geometric algebra you can try mine:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41344163

Then you can try stuff like folding these spaces to make your own multiplication and division with numbers you don't have to explain to anyone!
> The ability to overlap is also actually pretty valuable for me. Often I don't need to see a whole window, just the pertinent portion, and sometimes window edges peeking out from behind my browser window act like post-it note style reminders.

I have occasionally thought about a system where you can zoom and scroll a view on a window, but without telling the program that you're doing it. So for example, you could crop into say firefox and only show the actual page (completely cutting out toolbars and such) without it resizing itself. This is mostly of interest on smaller screens, but it'd still give you efficiency gains on a bigger screen.
Why the `sudo ufw allow outgoing`? Wouldn't it be worth to deny all to prevent extrusion and only open ports for services that need to communicate externally?
IOW, you've made the recovery questions into alternate passwords, passwords that law enforcement is likely able to find or brute force.
I have often seen this comparison here, but this article aims to show that it’s a flawed and incorrect argument.