skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author is referencing a court ruling: "The Alabama Supreme Court ruled [in Feb 2024] that frozen embryos are human beings and those who destroy them can be held liable for wrongful death" thereby putting IVF clinics in jeopardy. (That particular problem was later fixed by the legislature.)
The free market isn't anarchy, but free competition unrestricted by those with market power. For example, the state meddles with monopolies because monopolies hinder the free market.
> a large premium would imply something very strange about housing as a market.

It is an investment and the actions to protect such an investment is detrimental to using the house as a home. Corporations get representation in government these days so nothing changes to benefit the would-be family home buyer.
Using Mathematics to Make Money by James Simons
I doubt Matrix has a Discord.
No special tools, I can use vim, Emacs or any text editor to changed files. File format is very simple.

With HTTP the formatting is far more complex.
this is not an issue between union and corporation, but more like societal issue. Other countries provide prolonged maternity leave (Sweden has 16 months leave) and free/cheap childcare.

Its just that American lawmakers don't value traditional American family, they'd rather woman have an abortion, instead of subsidized childcare and 12+ months of paid family leave.

This is not a gender issue, this is the issue of American elites refusing to provide incentives to working American families.

Remember, most of the American societal "struggles" across artificial wedge lines (straight vs gay, male vs female, democrat vs republican, pro-choice vs pro-life, coastal vs rural, etc etc) => are artificially created by the mainstream media and Uniparty in the DC to leech taxes from working families and selectively prop up one side of the struggle, so that another side is outraged and fought the other.

There is only one struggle in America: rich rentiers on Investment income/Trust funds vs Working class on W2 income.

everything else is distraction
The other side of the coin is that Germany being fiscally responsible can now splurge huge amounts of money and take massive amounts of debt in times of need.

The issue is...they don't really have clear plans on how and what to do.

You can't just throw money at "innovation" and hope it happens.
> ChatGPT is legit the fastest growing product in history in terms of users.

Misleading. Fastest 1 million users is not a meaningful metric to compare products over a time when population itself is exploding.
Maybe if you cannot convince them why switch, they're not meant to be switching?
it's still more voluntary than the city. An HOA can't claim a non HOA house.

If you think avoiding an HOA is hard, do you really think it's easier to avoid a city government?
OpenAI Predicted Outputs
Code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines
Hyperpolarization also allows for cheaper MRI scanners. With hyperpolarization, you achieve polarization (needed for SNR) without the need of big magnets (=expensive). Even in rich countries, MRI scanners reach their physical and technical limits. 3T magnets are already 7-figures and costs of bigger magnets will increase non-linearly. Moreover, with higher fields, side effects increase, too.
I’m sure there are a few Neal Stephenson fans in the ranks of the Meta SysAdmin types! Hopefully there a few computers/systems/whatever named after things out of his books.
> malware that works everywhere is a small price for software that works everywhere

Yes.

Although the malware we're talking about doesn't actually work everywhere but only one one brand of GPU. But I would take it working everywhere over my computer not being useful.
FDIC accidentally reveals the Silicon Valley Bank depositors it bailed out (2023)
I know this is more of a throwaway cynical quip, but this is a biased line of thinking. CEO's are, for obvious reasons, more likely to do things they wouldn't be held liable for, versus do things which would see them likely to be punished. So executives might, for example, get away with things by successfully skirting the line of legality.

Say an AI CEO blatantly crosses this line, now who is liable?
I had a reasonable experience with Diagrams previously. I have always been somewhat of a sucker for the theoretical potential for diagrams as code. As a Diagram is generated programatically - it can also be generated dynamically - for example reflecting API responses. As I remember there is reasonable support in Python based Static Site generators - I think we used Sphinx without much issue.
Mypy vs. Pyright
“Union teacher” isn’t the distinction, as unions also provide useful professional insurance even in states where they do practically nothing when it comes to employer/employee relations, so many teachers are still members. Do states with strong teachers unions have lower firing rates than those where the unions do almost nothing? I’m saying we may have to look elsewhere for the explanation, if the firing rate in states with nearly-useless teachers unions aren’t closer to where you think they should be.

I’d guess the rates remain low even with weak unions because schools are piss-pants scared of bad publicity, due to the public’s role in (indirectly) hiring and firing the top of their pyramid, and in allocating funding. But maybe I’m wrong and rates of firing are closer to whatever you consider a desirable rate, in states with weak unions. I did go looking, but couldn’t find datasets tackling that in particular. Frustrating, because with that we could get at least a strong hint of the actual effect of unions on this specific thing.
Makes sense, Fark is diminished from its prime but it still hits way, way above it's weight for journalists
I believe that when you read different mystics the repeating patterns are explicit. Of course an AI could process and summarize a big amount of diverse texts, but I wouldn't expect to learn anything new from that, because I believe the patterns are easy to notice after some investigation.
In articles like these:

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/real-estate/who-s-outbiddin...

"Who's outbidding you by tens of thousands of dollars for that home of your dreams? A hedge fund"

I am assuming "outbidding you by tens of thousands of dollars" means they are paying higher prices right?

10k+ extra is a nontrivial amount of money for most Americans. That's enough to help offset taxes or pay the real estate agent fees.
I agree with both of you, but I still don't want to use Python to generate my diagrams.

Diagrams are a visual thing. I prefer a visual designer. I can send that to some random nontechnical person for a presentation and they can edit them, etc.

I find with things like this, it works pretty well until you want to do something off the beaten path, then it's a pain where you're trying to figure out how to get it to render like you want it to.

Reminds me of the ole "just move it 2px to the right" in the CSS of yesteryear
China is authoritarian and free-market (since Deng Xiaoping), also I think the key party members have scientific backgrounds whereas US politicans are mostly lawyers.

Would the US economy persist if China stopped shipping products? -- doesn't really seem like it.
Oh, so that’s why Cryptonomicon has so much detail/plot points about submarine cable laying!
Yeah, the amplifiers need 10,000 volts. The way the cable is constructed is to have the fiber pairs inside a copper tube (there's some other stuff in between too). The voltage is carried by the tube. The ocean itself serves as the ground.
He’s not a consultant is he, you can tell. At the end he should have said 10 months and this is my fee. 6 times that of what he’s on now.
We have a free labour market

Do we? Your spelling suggests you're not from the US, so I wonder how familiar you are with market conditions. Gotta say your arguments here and above come off as a little shallow.
just metaphorically crushed under the boot of capitalism
I read the article and I think this is the most important part:

"These activities likely won’t prevent the brain damage that leads to dementia. But if someone does get Alzheimer’s disease, cognitive reserve “can mask the effect and delay the onset of symptoms for a few years,” Dr. Verghese said."

So start (and keep) playing games!
I also sent an email last month with a followup email a few months later.

I have experience in the tech stack requested.

I have a feeling some jobs here aren't actually hiring. This isn't the first company on this list I've seen do this.
Nice but I nearly stopped
Reading after the use of “OG”
Typosquat Campaign Targeting NPM Developers
I worked lots of places. Never worked for a manager I didn't trust to fire me.

Most managers are pretty good but organizing lots of a people is really hard. And there is something like a leaky abstraction for every level of the organization as goals and context and understanding get filtered and warped as information travels up and down the org chart. You're manager is your closely interface to the insanity of distributed human decision making, so they usually are seen as bad and are blamed for all of the dysfunction of the organization when they're trying to make the best of an imperfect situation.
Low-poly image generation using evolutionary algorithms in Ruby (2023)
> it simply works better this way

That is simply not true.

> clang messing up x86 intrinsics code

The code is correct, and on some processors runs slightly faster than the original. Clang is the only compiler which does anything like that. And the example is irrelevant to ffmpeg because it operates on FP64 numbers, video codecs mostly do integer math.

> they're so hard to read that the asm is actually more maintainable

That’s subjective, I’m using SIMD intrinsics for years and I find them way better than assembly.

Another thing, you can treat C as a high-level language as opposed to portable assembler. If you define structures, functions and classes in C++ which use these SIMD vectors, readability of intrinsics becomes way better than assembly. Here’s a good example of a library designed that way: https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXMath
Unregulated markets tending to monopolies means that markets require regulation, not that a monopoly is a market.

Unregulated markets are not the "natural" state of a market, and not the meaning of a "free" market. A free market is one in which there is competition and new agents are able to enter the market, not ones where there is no law.
>privatize everything

Maybe we should do like China and have multiple big state-owned enterprises in the same sectors competing against each other. The competitive forces stay without the intervening short-sighted interests of the ownership class.

I wonder why this Chinese model is not included in discussions about government vs. privatization. Almost half of the Chinese economy is made up of SOEs competing against other SOEs. In some sectors that means the Chinese have multiple competing state-owned options to pick from while we in the "capitalist west" only have one state provided option.
Maybe, but these days, I believe microwave towers are preferred, lower latency and shorter paths. https://www.rec-usa.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/High-Freq...
How many young lives are you willing to throw away?
They can use the lumber fees from the forests to pay for the cost.
I would prefer that they made it so that the batteries had to be removable by design, similar to AAA batteries.

That would expand the market and decrease the waste.
Appreciate it! Looks like it's just on my end.
I've experienced the same with this job specifically. I wish forum mods would crack down on this as it's quite ridiculous
There are a few historical types of deed restrictions that have been judged illegal and unenforceable. A corporation placing a deed restriction on a parcel to prevent competition with itself sounds like an illegal class of restriction
Same thing since the previous owner is the counterparty for the land sale.
CA wildfires specifically have little to do with trees. The mix of wet and dry periods create a lot of extremely flammable material every year.

Trees also play a roll, but it doesn’t take much vegetation to destroy a subdivision etc.
This is a very valid comment, for once— especially as we’re talking about a disease model rather than the disease itself.

Nonetheless, we gain very important and interesting mechanistic insights from this, which truly helps us better understand human pathobiology.

(biochemist)
In AWS iirc NVMe max out at 2GB/s - I'm not sure why that's the case. I know there were issues with the PCIe controller in the past being the bottleneck, but I suspect there's something more to it than that.
Hey that was my idea!

I've thought exactly the same thing. To me it makes a lot of sense and bears investigating.

As I said in another comment, close to 50% of Americans are deficient in Magnesium for instance (or so I've read).
That's also known as playing your cards effectively
I don't get it, sorry...
> There's a lot at play when comparing now and then, I don't think its as easy as pegging it fundamentally on immigration laws. Our government was much smaller then. Our legal system was much smaller then. Policing looked much different. We didn't have welfare programs helping those in need. The list goes on and on, pinning crime statistics on immigration impossible.

From an external point of view it feels almost ANY US welfare program (starting with education or healthcare for everybody) is terrible compared to the counterpart of Europe ones for example so that's not a good argument for uncontrolled immigration in the US.

Then, you'll also see that people is Europe are slowly realizing exactly what I said about some cultures that cannot mix, so maybe the quality of welfare programs have nothing to do with it ?

> Maybe, that would depend largely on how much you think the individual matters compared to the collective. Going back to an earlier era with effectively open immigration, our country was driven much more by the rights of the individual than it is today. If that's what most people want there's nothing wrong with that, but the question isn't as simple as people getting to decide who they want to let in.

Yeah well indeed when there's not much of a society and you're a new world there's no point to gatekeep, indeed. Once you've reached peak country in economy & some values it thus may be worth trying to preserve the culture that brought you there instead of saying it's "oppression" and it must be "deconstructed" by immigration for example.
Can you identify such a rule?
It may not be typical but the vanguard Total market index fund is up 19% year to date. Robinhood is still paying 4.5% interest just for you to leave cash holding in their pockets. If they can afford that kind of interest rate to just park cash with them that you can pull it literally anytime how much do you think they're really making? Still think they're just getting 7% a year?
filetype:mp3, just to see what it would say.

I got a 3 paragraph lecture on how wrong it is to steal music, then 5 sites that allow for streaming music from legitimate sources, and 0 responses that indicated that a website had mp3 files on their site visible to the public.
except none of that is accurate. After the 2017 Tubbs fire, Gov Gavin Newsom did real work and caused a new, binding agreement to be signed between the stakeholder agencies, State, local and Federal. IANAL but I did read the agreement announcement from the Governor's Office. Next, California terminated the employment of the life veteran CalFire Chief, passed a budget increase for CalFire that was ... 10x larger than it had ever had before (?) over time minus details... and set out to work on fires with multi-state partnerships for well-paid fire fighting groups from other states to work on emergency basis.

And work they did .. subsequent years included massive fires that broke records, mostly 2018 and 2020. All the new money and agreements and on-call resources did ameliorate but did not prevent or even lessen, the massive catastrophic fire destruction.

Now, in an election year, someone is definitely jockying for new agreements somehow, but who knows the details... maybe someone here?
Not without Congress doing something to enable it.
Nice insight. Maybe Indiana and Rand were both influenced by a third source?
What the… wow, how about that. https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/26/24186373/verizon-new-logo...

They found a way around the sign problem. All they have to do is change the V, and remove the checkmark. —_—
Maybe I live in a bubble (Southern California), but as far as I know none of my friends have any kinda trouble visiting any sort of grocery stores, Mexican, Indian, Middle Eastern, East Asian, etc. Where is this idea of yours coming from?
But they write software for NYTimes, they don't write journalism.

Additionally NYTimes benefits from huge networks effects – both in that they are a comprehensive source of (reasonably) reliable journalism which attracts lots of readers but also that they know lots of sources. It also helps that it's one of the better newspapers around (probably second to the FT).
I wonder if it is because Tailwind is the target, and it's reflecting default Tailwind font stack. Brackets notation is often used for size values but probably pretty rare to use for a font stack, as this kind of thing typically goes in config.
"I'm sure most would say crime, but that's just not a compelling argument. We will never have a bulletproof immigration system, people will find ways to sneak through went we don't want to let them in. More importantly, crime isn't a foreign problem - we have domestic crime that has nothing to do with immigrants."

So let me rephrase: "we have already some internal crime so there's no point trying to limit another source of crime" ?
Scientists might just need to keep a low profile depending on how misguided the law is already,
Somewhat meta, but can someone explain what an organization like this CEPR .. actually is?

I see these types all the time, they're the ones that produce various "studies" that are always get linked on HN. They usually have some generic name, some combination of various buzzwords, and their website is them displaying all the various "research" and "studies" they've produced.

Their stated goal is apparently to just "promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people’s lives".

How do they actually make money? They say they've got 33 staff members and 14 board members/advisors. Do they all work for free?

Do they actually sell some product somewhere? I see nothing on their site where something is for sale or where you can hire them for anything. Are they supported by ads somewhere?

All they seem to do is just spend year and year pumping out various "studies" and articles. Are there unknown backers paying them to produce this content?
Too true. I think there's a lot of people who don't want control; freedom is responsibility, as the saying goes, and responsibility can be stressful, even if it's liberating also.

Worse is better, sadly.
>Maybe we should do like China and have multiple big state-owned enterprises in the same sectors competing against each other. The competitive forces stay without the intervening short-sighted interests of the ownership class.

Where's the incentive for the various SOEs to actually compete? At least in capitalism there's money on the line. When all the executives/board members are political appointees of the same party, things can get really chummy between "competitors".
In these cases, I don't think the devil needs any more help. They've already got all the money for advertisements, astro-turfing, misinformation, bribery-via-lobbying and convenient sheep doing their work for free and don't need any more.
Let keep it going until there are no young Ukraine men alive. That's what is best?

Most Ukrainian want to talk peace but the powers in charge want to keep Russia fighting and weak even if it means more Ukraine deaths.
what is the societal benefit of allowing land use restrictions when selling land? it seems like all the arguments are "it allows for permanent green spaces or mandatory sidewalks or mandatory affordable housing or mandatory low pollution areas" etc but that all seems like stuff that could just be enforced on a city level with new developments and permits rather than as a contract between two private people.

or to put it different, how does society benefit from a system where kroger can sell me land, but with the stipulation about what i'm allowed to put on it? it seems to me that if kroger wants a say in how that land is used, they need to lease it rather than sell it, which is exactly what happens in the article. the article doesn't seem to expand much on the "the supermarket giant put a requirement on the deed that no grocery store could open there until 2038" aspect
Males might feel threatened while imposing themselves without consent on women's and girls' spaces? Sounds great to me. Hope it scares them off even trying.
This is a cry for help, not some myopic bureaucrat thinking they're clever. Most of the USFS budget goes to forest fires (both fighting them and prevention), up from 16% 30 years ago, and they're now saying just fighting the fires is taking up too much of their budget to do much of anything else. The USFS already announced they won't hire any seasonal employees next year, which means basic things like emptying trash cans probably won't happen.

Unless you think they should just let the fires burn, which would be catastrophic.
https://archive.today/doZtx
Can you identify a single such rule?

HOAs are a creature of state law and only have power to the extent state law confers it. They are not voluntary associations of the sort contemplated by the First Amendment. You can't choose to join an HOA unless you own land that belongs to it, and you can't choose not to be a member when you acquire a property.
This always amazes me when visiting the US. I'm from a dry part of Australia where bushfires are a regular summer threat, but the smoke seems to dissipate quite quickly. In the US, I've driven more than once for a week across areas where the sky is thick from smoke coming from a fire 1-2 states away. And it's a fire that started weeks prior.

It struck me last trip that an adversary so inclined could really sap lives, morale and resources from huge areas of the country by having rogue individuals secretly starting fires on top of regular lightning and firebug sources.
Okay, I did a little more digging and it seems you're right eszed! Even undersea cables can increase their bandwidth, at least in some cases; seems to be dependent on some modulation factors that I don't fully understand.

If I'm reading this right, BPSK - used on the longest transpacific cables - can't really be upgraded to have higher bandwidth but QPSK and other modulation schemes used for shorter distances can be (?).
> claims like these always irk me, like did you just compare averages by race/gender? Whoever made this claim, did they control for other factors, like job title/level or productivity?

I can’t speak for these numbers, but when we do them we account for these things. Obviously pay isn’t going to be fair, but it should be less unfair than it is at many places.

Part of the reason women get paid less where I currently work is because they ask less. That doesn’t mean every white man is paid much better, because not all men ask either. In general, however, you can generalise across experience, productivity, seniority and so on and say that some groups are paid less. There are a lot of factors which play into this beyond people not asking. Our metrics also show that employees who ask less frequently or are in general less assertive are also much less likely to leave their jobs. As such it becomes less of a risk to not give them raises. Risk of employees leaving is a factor you consider when balancing your budget, and I’m sure you can imagine other things which may play into this, some of which, shouldn’t.