skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most California landowners are hardly poor. We're talking about a state with more than double the GDP per capita of Japan. And the property taxes are in some cases among the cheapest in the world. We're talking about just over a million homes in fire zones, while the total budget for the Forest Service is about $10 billion per annum. That's $10k per year per house to fund the financial equivalent of the entire Forest Service — for roughly a third the rent I pay on a studio apartment in Bergen County. I'll try to find a small enough violin for these landowners. Yes, there are some people who are asset-rich and liquidity poor, but we are not talking about West Virginia.

Effective fire prevention will also make fire insurance cheaper and reducing development in fire-prone areas will reduce the cost of forest management.
Show HN: ClickHouse on Pandas Dataframe
You could ctrl f replace tech in that article with damn near any sector and it would be true.

Workers feeling like they’ve been pushed too hard? Yeah that’s definitely totally unique to tech 2024.

Best employees will be fine? Yeah that doesn’t apply in other sectors.

Etc
I’ve worked with a bunch of men who were considered ‘assholes’. Mean or difficult women are sometimes called bitches, mean or difficult men are sometimes called assholes. There is no practical difference between the two.
That the full argument amounted had this weird structure where women should be excluded from some jobs without complaint because of the danger, but simultaneously there was no interest in making the jobs safer!

So that men work more in dangerous jobs wasn't a problem, instead that was a proper, "of course men should die more" sort of thing because it motivated the pay gap.

So the argument becomes that men should die so the pay gap is sustained, which doesn't seem like a great thing to declare triumphantly?
> The researchers took samples from brains of humans and rhesus macaque monkeys, separated individual cells and sequenced their RNA. This shows which genes are active (being expressed) in a particular cell and allows researchers to sort them into groups based on gene expression.

Thats (potentially) a lot of neurons to sift through isn't it? I wonder what their process was, or how many neurons they can sift through. Too bad the paywall (yay for greedy journal institutions profiting off the labor of scientists)
It's a great book and the material dealing with meditative practices and perspectives in Islam (Tasawwuf specifically), Jewish Mysticism and Orthodox Christianity is very interesting for sure, but the second half of the book wouldn't make sense to someone not familiar with Shinzen's style of discourse. For instance when he talks about "the source of self and world", one has to know he has switched to a phenomenological perspective, and it would help to have some experience of the 'selfing' processes with respect to craving, aversion etc and the entanglement of our senses. This isn't mentioned explicitly anywhere IIRC.

The book is edited from Shinzen's talks and an earlier version does have some guided meditations that introduce these practices but a newer version narrated by Edoardo Ballerini doesn't. In any case I think one needs significant meditation experience to comprehend the second half of the book.
Thanks, this is a much more helpful comment than most here!
I am not joking. I don't know why do you say that. Granted, not everyone is equipped to pull it off but trust me $60-$80k are good if you manage your expenses well. Here is the breaddown:

Rent: $2400 (East South of Seattle, quiet and safe area 3B2Ba SFH)

Groceries: $800 per month

Kids school: $200 per month (public school)

Kids activities: $200 (for 4-6 months). We play at home.

Electricity, Gas, Sewer - $400 per month

Gas: $100 per month (I mostly do WFH)

Emergency: $300 per month

Fun: $100 month

Healthcare: $1200 per month (through marketplace)

Childcare: None since one of the spouse stays at home.

We could lower it if we moved to an apartment but we love the place. We live happily and I get to see kids everyday rather than leaving them with strangers with cookie cutter upbringing. You can't outsourced parenting when you decide to have kids. But, most people never grow up. They want to party every weekend. They can't keep up with jonasses. We are different. This is how my family built the wealth. I will follow their teachings and path and will build my own destiny.

It is manageable with $60k to $80k. Granted, we are not contributing to retirement but this won't be forever situation.

Somehow, people have build expectation that you need $150k - $200k to live descently. It is utmost corporate and media brainwashing one could imagine.
I know plenty of dangerous jobs that are poorly compensated. I don't know many millionare inner city convenience store clerks.

Jobs compensate employees according to how much they can get away with exploiting their employees.
The synth he's playing - making the synth brass sounds - is a Rhodes Chroma.

The Fairlight is being used as a drum machine. The Fairlight's keyboard controller is the one he points to at around 30s. The Fairlight's screen sequencer - called Page R - was easier than keyboard entry for drum and bass line programming.

I don't think Hancock did any development work or had any customisation done. (Except for the black case for the keyboard. Usually they were PC beige.)

It's fascinating this tech still has a legendary aura even though it's forty years old and has been completely outclassed by a cheap modern laptop and MIDI controller.

As for Quincy - a lot of people think talent is really just effort. But some people just have it - a deep instinctive feel for what they're doing - and he clearly did.
> AI is meant to fill treatment gaps, whether their causes are financial, geographic, or societal. But the very people who fall into these gaps are the ones who tend to need more complex care, which AI cannot provide.

Do the people who propose this type of thing realize how insulting it sounds?

It's like saying to people "you're too poor for us to give a shit, here go talk to a rock for a little while, but pls let us record it so we can sell it to data brokers"

It just sounds like ragebait designed to get laypeople to hate the tech industry
That someone claimed those were opposing aims.
“Boo, Forever", also by Richard Brautigan

Spinning like a ghost

on the bottom of a

top,

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Also the name of a documentary series by Adam Curtis: https://topdocumentaryfilms.com/all-watched-over-by-machines...
Front line hospitality workers are pretty much the only ones to do that, and that's only because they were making so little to start with.

Anyone expecting their salaries to get a raise to make up for the 2022 inflation are in for a rude surprise.
Slight tangent, USFS has been using outdated models for their prescribed burns, and burned as late as July in my area, right at the beginning of fire season and months away from any expected precipitation. This turned into a big wildfire in my area and they spent ~$100m putting it out. You may have been able to get away with burning during the summer in the 90's here, but not anymore.

I'm not opposed to prescribed burns, either, I think they are totally necessary. But do them in the fall, when you've got nothing but rain and cool temperatures for the next 6 months, instead of weeks before the hottest and driest stretch of the year.

As to why they burn in early summer, they said at a community meeting it's because it requires fewer people to manage the fire.
“The curse of knowledge” is what you’re describing
It's likely you haven't come across these use cases in your professional career, but I assure you its very common. My entire career has only seen projects where you need dozen to hundreds of CPU's in order to have a short feedback loop to verify the system works. I saw this in simple algorithms in automotive, to Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and machine learning applications.

When you are working on a software project that has 1,000 active developers checking in code daily and require a stable system build you need lots of compute.
Hi Tim, I sent you a message from the email in my profile about two weeks ago but haven’t heard back yet. I’m definitely interested!
Was responding to this

> There’s little legitimate reason for people to use it.

Cash is “legal tender, for all debts public and private”. Pretty sure that’s a legitimate use.
> "I forgot to check the error code"

How is it that people "forget to check errors" but not other types, even though they are all just 1s and 0s? Or, to put it another way, why do programmers forget how to program as soon as they see the word "error"?

It seems to be a real phenomenon, but I can't make sense of how it can happen. It is not some subtle thing like misspelling a word in a string constant. You are leaving out entire functionality from your application. It is almost on the order of forgetting to add the main function.
Ask HN: How much money do you spend each month?
Someone got into heated argument over comment I made in my another thread when I said we survive well with $60k (post tax) for family of four.

Here is the breaddown:

Rent: $2400 (East South of Seattle, quiet and safe area 3B2Ba SFH)

Groceries: $800 per month

Kids school: $200 per month (public school)

Kids activities: $200 (for 4-6 months). We play at home.

Electricity, Gas, Sewer - $400 per month

Gas: $100 per month (I mostly do WFH)

Emergency: $300 per month

Fun or toys: $100 month

Healthcare: $1200 per month (through marketplace)

Internet: $50 per month (comcast 2 year deal)

Childcare: None since one of the spouse stays at home.

My spouse and I don't drink. We play board games at home. We have no TV rule at home since most TV is just brainwashing. We have internet that we use for watching shows. We don't like Netflix since every show is just sex, gore, or violence filled non-sense.

We could lower it if we moved to an apartment but we love the place. We live happily and I get to see kids everyday rather than leaving them with strangers with cookie cutter upbringing. You can't outsourced parenting when you decide to have kids. But, most people never grow up. They want to party every weekend. They can't keep up with jonasses. We are different. This is how my family built the wealth.

I firmly beleive it is manageable with $60k to $80k. Granted, we are not contributing to retirement but this won't be forever situation.

Somehow, people have build expectation that you need $150k - $200k to live descently. It is utmost corporate and media brainwashing one could imagine.

I totally understand this is not doable for everyone and your situation might be different. But, please don't deny you are not going to survive on $60k.

I am curious how much money do you spend each month and what does the breaddown look like?
From the article I'm getting that the problem is reusable vapes are subject to different FDA regulations, and "disposable" vapes are basically a loophole, at least in the US.
are you OK with charging apartment renters property tax in addition to the landlord?

On a more serious note, I think tax is a terrible solution. Who is going to value all of these use rights, restrictions, and options on an ongoing basis. Why punish everyone with any kind of good faith contract to deal with an extremely niche issue, which may not even be a problem.

Seems like the current solution is best. If someone is bothered, they can complain and the AG investigates. If someone is engaging in anticompetitive action, they get fined. It amounts to the same thing without screwing everyone over.
Its very easy to forget how quickly the amenities we have in the coastal cities fade away as you move inland. Terrain and population certainly have something to do with this of course, but to take an example there are huge swathes of Pennsylvania less than 100 miles from Philly that have no cell service, are dotted with towns of under 5000 residents, and, unless local people get involved, no chance of decent Internet. Moreover it was not cost effective for the major operators to come and deliver service to such low numbers of residents.

However due to a quirk of the US market, these towns often have tiny little orgs that once served as the town phone company, or electric co-op (think 1930s farmers getting together to light up their barns).

These are the orgs that are best placed to deliver broadband to their communities. That said, they need to get away from "more speed, yay" (because a later entrant with deeper pockets could crush them with a price war) and more into "we're your local help, the call center is 3 miles away not 15,000, and we can deliver a whole experience, like wifi, home security, scam protection etc".
You really do need gatekeeping and curation in art. Otherwise it regresses to the mean - which is where the money is, but not the danger or surprise.
https://archive.ph/9bgZI
If some sufficiently intense compute calculations were ran, will the display that shows the battery voltage drop?
Thought experiments are a springboard for an area of thought, not necessarily a literal question to be answered. When someone asks you "what would you do with a billion dollars" responses like "but I don't have a billion dollars" or "nothing, I'd be investigating how I got it" completely miss the point. It's not about whether the scenario would realistically play out it's about setting the stage for certain types of thoughts without prescribing an exact question on everyone. Maybe you'll never realistically be at a train track with a fork in a road, 1 in the alternate path and 5 in the active path, with nothing more than the option to flick the switch and no other consideration to make... but it sets the stage for interesting thoughts to consider and talk about.

It can lead to much more varied and interesting discussion that direct questions, if you're willing to get over the non-literalness.
Our premise as a startup is that we should want CEOs that use AI to make higher quality decisions, than either status quo human only CEOs or AGI CEOs that do not have direct liability. The analogy is that planes are seen as safe using autopilot because the human pilot gets on board with you. Societally I think the same thing is true of CEO decision making AIs.
> "you're too poor for us to give a shit"

That is kind of the point that is part of the healing process is to understand to be your own judge of your own life and make changes to benefit you.
Nvidia and its partners built a system to bypass U.S. export restrictions
There are some topics that we need more expert voices on, because the subject matter is genuinely complicated and requires a veteran hand to guide people through. Otherwise we end up with a bunch of "expert beginners" sitting on their local maxima of understanding and thinking they are at the pinnacle of understanding. Some of us really do want to hear how experts think, imperfect as their explanations may be. Dev-fluencers are already taking over the space with their absolute nonsense gish-galloped everywhere for that sweet YouTube $$$
Go very much is memory safe in the absence of data races.

Data races cause issues in all languages, though it's fair to say that Go is affected slightly more than languages like Java. Rust is a bit special by making data races hard to trigger (impossible in safe code IIUC), but this is not typical.
Lance is just a data format. Lance DB might be more comparable to DataChain.

DataChain focuses on data transformation and versioning, whereas LanceDB appears to be more about retrieving and serving data. Both designed for multimodal use cases.

From technical side: Lance has it's own data format and DB engine while DataChain utilizes existing DB engines (SQLite in open-source and ClickHouse/BigQuery in SaaS).

In SaaS, DataChain has analytics features including data lineage tracking and visualization for PDFs, videos, and annotated images (e.g., bounding boxes, poses). I'm curious to understand the unique value of LanceDB's SaaS — insight would be helpful!

You could think of it as OLTP (Lance) versus OLAP (DataChain) for multimodal data, though this analogy may not be perfect.
not all such terms are anticompetitive. In this case, the AG stepped in and took action because they were anticompetitive.
Wow, this is one of the best videos I've ever watched. Thanks for sharing
> The ‘Ask Meta AI’ thing they’ve put in Facebook and Instagram seems pretty useless, the comment summaries are potentially kind-of useful but surely actually reduces the engagement (if it makes people less likely to read the comments and therefore less likely to comment themselves, or like or reply to comments).

Your comment made me think... What if the idea is that Facebook (I refuse to call it meta) is afraid of the very same thing you outlined and therefore thinks that better to be in control of whatever does the cannibalizing with summaries as opposed to letting the OS vendor or potentially web browser vendors control the "AI"?

I don't know the future but maybe it is possible that what we have now with AI slop is something like an uncanny valley and there is something better once we wade through this trash? Even if not, it is probably better for them to throw cash at this and it turns out to be a nothing burger than they miss it and now their whole business is in jeopardy.
Can a company prevent the government from using its technology? I thought the government could already seize/utilize/reverse engineer anything they so deemed fit.
> So the solution here is to not have that kind of "stack".

Reminds me of my favorites debugging technique. It's super fast: Don't write any bugs!
That makes sense. So perhaps the immediate impact on operations on election day coverage / reporting is more symbolic than real?
Unfortunately, in Rails, your major breaking changes without a migration path come from the core team.
> Maybe something by Terry Davis.

Terry A. Davis unluckily died in 2018.
The Fortran-compiled List Programming Language (FLPL) had the functions XCARF and XCDRF. It doesn't look like MacCarthy and Russel invented CAR and CDR; they just stripped X...F from FLPL's notation.

IPL also used the same list structure; it used the terms SYMB and LINK.
And the boot of big government.

The vacant store has a 100 miles of literal desert in each direction and nobody can build a competing store because the environmental review process is weaponized.
Interesting. I don't think I follow your examples, but here's my attempt to read it: It sounds like you may be using the term "real" to be mean specifically something like "tangible." Like, Santa isn't tangible because he's a fictitious character. Courage isn't tangible, it is a term that refers to an idea. It can't be isolated, bottled. And likewise, society isn't tangible either. To reference my earlier example "emergent properties" isn't tangible. Like "courage," it is a term that refers to an idea. Many things can be described by it. And the specific issue you (maybe?) take is with ascribing causality to non-tangible things, in some sense. For example, "emergent properties" didn't knock me over at the beach, a wave did. Or, the answer to "how did you defeat the dragon?" isn't "You had courage," -- it is "You stuck your sword through it's heart which ceased blood circulation and killed it." Those are the tangible actions that led to the outcome.

And that is true and a useful analysis in a lot of circumstances, like when you're asking questions of "how?" To take this back to the ancestor comment, if you're looking at "how did this wheelchair ramp get built?" you can describe the chain of events from the creation of a law to the construction of the ramp and all the individuals involved along the way making decisions and doing actions. And that is a good and useful analysis. Some tangible entity called "society" is not involved in that chain. And I think that might be your original point. And yes, that's accurate, in that kind of analysis.

So now, take that chain of events, and multiply it by, I dunno, a very large number; hell, infinity. Every outcome and the chain of individuals and actions that led up to it. How do we study this? How to we increase our understanding without having to treat every single outcome and every chain of events completely independently? You probably see where this is going already... :) We could treat every possible combination of coin tosses as an infinite set of independent events. What someone flipping a coin 10 times has to do with someone flipping a coin 1000 times isn't anything tangible - the flips, the individuals who make them, and the outcomes are independent. So... shrug and move on? Nope. We study probability. It helps us describe WHY - if 1000 people each flip a coin 1000 times, most will have a near 50/50 split heads/tails. Probability isn't tangible, but it certainly is real.

My revised argument then is: society is a concept like probability. It is like probability distributions that come from an ever-changing sea of individual opinions, predispositions, and actions. We can measure certain parts of it at points in time and review historical outcomes, and develop theories about why certain patterns are more common, certain outcomes more likely, and use this to enhance our decision making and understanding of the behaviors and tendencies of large groups of people. So to say "society isn't real" is true in the sense of tangibility, but also myopic - and like saying "probability isn't real, there are only outcomes."

Hows that?
I think you're reading that the wrong way.

Rather than "talented engineers can already be hard to find, now divide that by 20".
Zillow was trying to buy / sell properties, not rent them.
https://nnfs.io is pretty cool
Japanese politics had a habit of 1 year prime ministers. Shinzo Abe was an aberration. Perhaps they are falling back into old habits.
I don't think this is the right solution to the problem, but it looks great.
I think there's two separate incidents you might be getting mixed up.

Popcorn lung was a concern with diacetyl - butter flavoring - which causes popcorn lung in large quantities, like the factories where they make microwave popcorn. Not sure if it was just concern about it or actual confirmed cases, but it was removed from all ecigarettes a long time ago.

The actual cases of hospitalization with respiratory issues were from cutting THC vapes with vitamin E oil to make them appear thicker and higher quality. It was already well known that inhaling vitamin E oil vapor is incredibly bad for you, but the makers of those illicit vapes either didn't know or didn't care.
The same could be said of Pokemon vs Digimon. Put the two side-by-side and I wouldn't be able to discern which is which.

Same with Bakugan, Monsuno, Yu-Gi-Oh, Card Fight!! Vanguard, Future Card Buddyfight, Shadowverse, etc.

I don't really see what the problem is. If Nintendo was just a little less out of touch with what their fan base wanted, they could be raking in (even more) cash. But instead of doing that, they waste their resources getting butthurt over the silliest things, like people posting game play videos of humorous single player ROM hacks of games no longer being sold (they have successfully removed more YouTube videos like this than I count by sending DMCA take downs -- its ridiculous). More focus on innovating and less focus on litigation would do them (and their fan base) well.

It's not Palworld's fault that Nintendo et al choose to release horribly unoptimized, not fun Pokemon games (like Pokemon Scarlet and Violet). I think it's great that a competitor in the monster-capture game genre is providing an actually fun game, because despite the enormity of the Pokemon fan base and the massive financial incentive to deliver a compelling game to them, clearly Nintendo either can't or simply won't do it.
How large is that dish? It doesn’t look much different in size to old school ku-band satellites that were common before cable became ubiquitous.
AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Volumes 1–5 [pdf]
19th-century ‘toy book’ demystified the techniques used by mediums