skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took 46 years to create the 1,900 mile, ~3060 km green belt around the 130,350 square miles (337,600 km2) desert. The linked article doesn't say anything about negatives, but the positives seem to be very beneficial for the area.

I really wish other major powers would commit to similar projects. In my opinion, communities need larger goals to strive towards, to provide a sense of continued belonging and reinvestment for the future.
This is presumably about math problems, but I always approach programming problems this way.

One issue I have with math problems is that sometimes I wish I could immediately go down one level of abstraction and see something like a physics or programming problem that applies that specific or related problem I'm working on. I haven't found a resource like this yet.
US labor productivity has increased steadily since that paper was written, outpacing most of Europe. It's rather gratifying, actually.
X-Men
Yes, restrictions are a problem where they’re a problem. YIMBY can help.

They’re not the problem. You could not only ban all zoning/building restrictions but make it legal to shoot people who suggest or support them you’d barely begin to touch the problem.

Incentives regarding what to build (or when or if) are as big a piece of the puzzle. And the fact that the very simple and hugely microeconomic concept of marginal returns rarely (if ever) makes an appearance in this conversation is a serious indictment of the economic seriousness of its players when it comes to how supply gets built. Cost disease also matters in construction. There are lots of moving pieces.

Even when supplying isn’t socially restricted, there are market forces that contribute to rising costs.
Absolutely. It’s pushed from all angles: you may not think you want kids, but it’ll be amazing. Once you do it you’ll have no regrets. You’ll never experience joy like the joy that they bring.

And that’s actually true for a lot of people. But not everyone. And there’s zero support for trying to figure it out and come to an informed decision before you dive in, and even less for concluding that actually you don’t think it’ll be that great for you and you’re not going to do it.
Fox is proudly larger than all the other cable news outlets combined. Sinclaire pens most local media, Wall Street journal is conservative, Joe Rogan is the largest of all podcasts. What does that leave, the New York Times? How is it we still view the conservative media as not part of the MSM when conservative media dominates the eyeballs and cultural zeitgeist combined? It’s like calling Apple a startup.

Congratulations, conservatives won, we can stop pretending they’re niche now.
Brain drain to the US like other professions.
Will AI Eat the Browser?
"Everybody loves to hate Frequently Asked Questions" , I've never heard this before. Guess this was a problem I did not know existed. bookmarked though! :)
The "X" rebranding is finally making sense.
It’s unclear to me why the American government doesn’t change the laws and create a new system more like a European one. I don’t think hating any of the players makes sense. Those that set the rules are ultimately responsible.
No Thanks, but I have to wonder, is this due to people fleeing X(twiter)
But GDP is measured in dollars and not in amount of things produced. If everything is expensive in your country it will have larger GDP even producing less things.
Hypothetically: $8 per month for a tricycle versus, say, $50 per month for a lambo. Is the $8 cheap?
It's time to double down and hope Russia gives up Crimea like they just abandoned Syria. Even Donald Trump is not stupid enough to miss an opportunity to play his enemies against one another.
Huge fan of Mark here. His YouTube and Patreon are a wealth of knowledge for repairing electronics. He’s an expert in everything from electronics to machining and plastics fabrication. And his demeanor and presentation style is just lovely. I hope this nonsense increases his visibility and he gains some fans.

https://youtube.com/@menditmark
https://www.patreon.com/MendItMark

I watched the Tom Evans video when it came out, and my guess is that their sham “copyright” claim comes from showing their logo or some written words on one of their PCBs.
It's a different approach, none is better or worse, people simply have preferences.

And all other features aside, it seems to be able to call commands from any subdirectory in a project, which is actually nice compared with a normal shell. I mean, you can replicate this with some lines of shellscripting, but not everyone seems to maintain an elaborated $BIN of personal tools.
All this hype yet bitcoin's returns since 2021 are pretty mediocre compared to past performance. Bitcoin was up 11x in 2017 alone. It's only up 100% for YOY. One can achieve returns comparable to bitcoin with leveraged tech funds, but minus the idiosyncratic risk of crypto.

Alex Monahan, 28, bought crypto and started betting on sports around the same time in 2019, taking the advice of his co-workers at the financial firm Susquehanna International Group. He was already “gambling other people’s money” at work, he reasoned.

He now feels as though he didn’t educate himself enough. The 2022 collapse of crypto exchange FTX erased about $400,000 from his portfolio. Although he has gotten roughly half of that back so far, he hasn’t bought crypto since. He continues sports betting and now creates videos about it full-time.

I am sure he has made more $ from his high-high paying finance job than that other stuff.
Not everything has to be purposefully designed by a conspiracy. Just picked up and used to the benefit of domination structures. These structures can well run independent from each other but find and employ the same mechanisms, narratives being a central one.

Nothing in the book suggests it’s one coordinated “cabal“.
You haven't addressed the secondary point I was making: what does an innocent child have to repent for? What is the purpose of their gruesome death? If it is for the benefit of others, that means some of us are just pawns for the lessons of others. The alternative is that some kids just die through no fault of their own and for no reason at all (which leads to the question: why would an all-knowing, loving god allow that?). Of course, this all ignores the suffering of other life like chickens that through no fault of their own born and die in the same cage without ever seeing the sun.

> Suffering is God’s wrath on sin, often through our own decisions but not always. He wants people to repent whereupon they will eventually see a world restored.

So a toddler abducted and murdered suffered to repent for what? To teach the parents a lesson? To bring the parents closer to Christ? I have asked this question to many religious teachers and all had answers similar to yours (or hid behind things like "they weren't baptized") and none addressed the core that real, innocent people die horrible deaths from time to time through no fault of their own. Others may learn and grow from the experience but what about the innocent person that died?
I don't see how your method works better than a sieve with noise.

Instead of a "noisy" sieve, you're just using the time of application as your sieve. Which, unless your job opening values the skill of submitting lightning fast job applications, is pretty much 100% random noise.

You say a sieve approach drops the best candidates. Your approach also drops the best candidates.

And if the bar is actually so high that only the best candidate(s) qualify for the job, then your approach would imply you interview an expected half of the applicants before you fill the positions.

It's pretty obvious a "noisy" sieve (with some signal) is better than sieving by application time or sorting by arbitrary order and taking the top N applications. You don't have a magical solution. The people handling those 100000 applications are not that stupid.
From Nix to Eos
The basic concept of connecting employment with insurance coverage is just so broken and backwards.
If the survival of the species depends on pressuring people to live their lives in a way that many of them don’t want, then maybe we should just die out.
I'd like this too, especially if it generated binaural audio.
I think it doesn't. But YouTubes copyright system is not a translation of how copyright actual works. Usually, these attacks are on YouTube and YouTube alone, as their system enables this.
...or that there's little demand for this.
My 1 year old can't write equations on a chalkboard. Despite that, she shows compassion and what if consider abstract thought.

The issue that I think you're highlighting is that we can't map our measures of intelligence directly on to other animals. Animals can't write, so it wouldn't make sense to use a measure that requires writing when evaluating a fox or squirrel.
The American government doesn’t have the power to change laws.

The requirement to have 60/100 votes in the senate makes it almost impossible to pass anything except the most uncontroversial bills.
Some of these are not very accurrate. That "country side" image has the entirely wrong foliage color (fall colors vs. spring colors). It also appears to place buildings when the "ground truth" image is by a small stream.

I would not rely on this tool for any meaningful data collection.
Apparently Tom Evans is a dude at the company though. Their website looks as well put together as the amp in the video: http://www.audiodesign.co.uk/index.html
You feel like you choose compassion but you assume animals do not choose because they don’t have language to express their considerations. You’re jumping the gun on choice and free will (existing at all, firstly) being exclusively something humans have been endowed with by their creator.

All the glowy, drippy, lovey, drug feelings you’re expressing might feel so intuitively, deeply true, but my guess is you’re being convinced by the human brain’s outrageously impressive ability to rationalize via language just about anything it wants in order to feel less agitated. Religion in a sense.
Dot – A Personal AI Companion
Dot’s superpower is its memory where it stores your own events, beliefs, passions and so on. If you dare to share them with it, that is…
I have a few machines I use to mirror / duplicate data from my tenants and client tenants when working on larger projects. It makes it much much easier.

While Egress pricing is a pain in the ass on AWS, that's usually a small fee on the customer side comparatively.
For that exact desire?
How does this piece hold up when the same entity controls the providers, the insurance agency, and the pharmaceutical company?
The root of the problem is that American health insurance is employer-sponsored so you don’t get to choose your carrier and your employer can choose entirely because of bribes if they so choose. As such, the vaunted American invisible hand doesn’t get to play its part.
Very similar to the process I took getting DIA to a commercial building. They said they spent $60,000 pulling fiber half a mile through a business park (we didn’t pay this). We only have one ISP device in our rack (Verizon truly ships their org chart). We paid our contractor to have fiber installed from the DEMARC to the server room but apparently the ISP would’ve done that for free, oops.

And yeah the quality of customer service we’ve gotten from three different business providers has been exceptional. It’s crazy to have actual engineers you can call who know what’s going on. You get what you pay for.
> It's only up 100% for YOY.

When you consider that it's base ledger only gets more unusable by the day, it's kinda shocking. People basically had to invent new ways to send Bitcoins to one another because the Bitcoin layer itself is fundamentally useless at this point. Nobody wants to pay for gas fees when they can use an L2 chain, miners are being disenfranchised as mining difficulty skyrockets, and users are (somehow) still demanding more digital coinage.

Every rung on the ladder is getting loose and people still want to climb it without even knowing where it leads to. The sort of stupidity that would be admirable if it was bravery and not petty greed.
No mainstream politician has a realistic plan to reform healthcare.

Bernie may have said he supported it, but he had no explanation how he’d get his reforms through the senate.
The $8 includes other stuff, it’s not just for Grok.
Just like the crypto the AI craze maybe be another instantiation of Bostrom's paperclip maximiser running on a hybrid human-machine topology.
Ignoring the snarky analogy, yes, budgets have a ceiling, so it’s helpful to have services at multiple price points, even if the value is not a linear scale of price.
Has anyone here given it a solid try for coding help? I’ve so far used chatGPT, Claude, Llama and Gemini, but I’m curious how Grok performs.
Hahahahahaha… yeah no. The demand for porn tailored to a person's fetishes is a cash cow for artists looking to triple their income from
their day job.
Well, that gets us into the question of the influence of money on American politics. The incumbent players make a ton of money from the current system, and they use a lot of that money to lobby to maintain the system, and the system is responsive to their money. Made worse by Citizens United, but it's been a problem for a long time.

Combine this with a distrust of government that is encouraged by many of those same interests and you have, well, us.
It probably needed certain infrastructure scale to make sense before offering a freemium model on an large existing platform like Twitter. Running this stuff is very expensive.
and he owned the very expensive domain name
I mean, dude, take a look at what we were originally discussing -- an app on github that helps you cheat on live interviews in Zoom.

FWIW, I've interviewed almost a hundred candidates in the past couple years and I think the number of candidates that I thought might be cheating are in the 3-5% range. It's fairly low, but if the take-home was the main thing that determined whether the candidate was hired, I wouldn't take that 3% chance.
Neither party pledged to introduce universal healthcare.

Obama had the votes to do so but passed a half-assed compromise instead.
I hear this all the time, and I somewhat disagree. The problem is that unhealthy people do not want to pay the full amount of their risk-adjusted rate into the risk-pool. Therefore, they need healthy people to subsidize them. It makes sense that pooling a group of employees together would be uncorrelated to health status, and would therefore make a good proxy for a risk-pool.
Political Contributions (or known as bribes elsewhere) is why :(
Wait, it also includes the scarlet checkmark of negative value?
> other major powers would commit to similar projects

There is African Union's "Great Green Wall (for the Sahara and the Sahel)" initiative, the 8000x15km wall of trees to stop desertification of the Sahel from the Sahara.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Green_Wall_(Africa)

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/africa-great-green-wall-...
I think you're projecting a bit. I'm sure there are a few weird KEYBOARD VS MOUSE people that occupy the same bizarre neurotic domain space as TABS VS SPACES, but most people just have their own personal preference and leave it at that.

Personally, it's not about what's faster - it's about switching. If my hands are already resting lightly on the keyboard, then the keyboard is faster - and vice versa.

To decrease the amount of switching I have to do, I use an extension called Vimium that quickly highlights all links with key bindings. For example "g i" automatically puts the first <input> level field into focus.

https://github.com/philc/vimium
This video is great. One of the better uses of the Internet.

Google/YouTube/Alphabet should be doing everything they can to encourage high-quality educational content like this, rather than being party to suppressing it.
There’s also another problem — their most loyal user base already had access to it. And still nobody uses it because of its inferiority. They’re way too late into the game, and to catch up, on top of the infrastructure, you need top notch talent. But talent is limited, and pulling them out from big players won’t be easy because they’re also pouring billions to keep them in the shop. And having even a bit of negative PR when it comes to your employer might be a deciding factor for some potential candidates.

That being said, competition is good!
This is interesting. Sorta reminds me of how bats use sonar for their surroundings.
So deep that we did absolutely nothing about it when we had the chance and now have elected someone that will make it even worse. Americans don’t realize that the country is exploitative in so many ways because they keep voting completely opposite from candidates that will help make their life better.

>John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
America's problem are similar to elsewhere: to too much demand, overworked staff, long lines . There are tons of articles about problems with the NHS
They don’t. Why would they. Alot of them are just complete grifters and waiting for that big pay day in the sky after they get acquired by FAAAAAANNNNNGGGG or any number of the subsidiary’s. If your app claims to “revolutionise” something completely mundane and trivial like getting a shower or eating a sandwich and you value it at $5 billion then it’s a load of bollocks.
model S E X Y

Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE

It would be funny if he was doing this in his 20's but for a man in his 50s it's big fellowkids behavior.
Exactly right, and more. Oh goodness.
IME the amazing part is the amount of money. The same speculative behavior we see now has been going on for decades, just not at this magnitude.

The funding rounds are 1-2 (or maybe even 3) orders of magnitude larger than during the crypto hype cycle as a comparison.
> The requirement to have 60/100 votes in the senate makes it almost impossible to pass anything except the most uncontroversial bills.

The filibuster is not enshrined in the Constitution. It's only a Senate rule that could be abolished at any time via a simple majority vote in the Senate. The Senators have chosen not to abolish the filibuster.
follow up video:

The £25,000 Pre-Amp Repair and the Copyright Strike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIrCaeVtvI
It’s a disease in tech. Xbox Series X, iPhone X, AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XTX, the X display server…
This has barely anything to do with the legal concept you studied. A “copyright strike” is not a legal concept; it is a YouTube-specific term, used in the opaque bureaucracy that is YouTube/Google ToS violations, rules adherence, and ad revenue eligibility.
It's a question, I suppose. Let's feed it in and see what happens. Grok in "fun mode":

<enormous response full of typical AI speak elided>

Let's whittle that output down a bit with bullshitremover:

Elon loves X. His first big thing was X.com. SpaceX has X for space.
Tesla Model X is part of the S3XY lineup. He even named his kid X.
Now Twitter is X. His AI company is xAI. X is Elon's thing - branding,
exploration, rebellion. Love it or hate it, can't ignore it.

Hmm. Not sure anything of value has been learned.
The current one makes a lot of money for a lot of parties uninterested in change, who then also lobby to prevent any reform. Health spending accounts for ~17.3% of GDP as of 2022. Source: https://www.cms.gov/data-research/statistics-trends-and-repo...
Indian nationals were the main beneficiaries of H-1B temporary visas for highly skilled foreign workers, accounting for 72 percent of all H-1Bs approved in FY 2023, followed by Chinese and Filipinos (12 percent and 1 percent, respectively). That's data, not racism imho. Indian nationals are the primary beneficiary of H1Bs, the evidence shows H1Bs are used to depress domestic wages for the benefit of corporate visa sponsors and those granted visas. This gets us to ChumpGPT's thesis relatively trivially.
>It’s unclear to me why the American government doesn’t change the laws and create a new system more like a European one

Because the regime decisions in the US. are much defined by the corporatocracy and lobbyists interests rather than the people's. Some further readings/videos on that:

[0]: https://harpers.org/archive/1960/10/the-politics-of-medicine... (The Politics of Medicine)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoHq6dBpxYU (The Lobby)

[2]: https://chomsky.info/20100124/ (The Corporate Takeover of U.S. Democracy)

[3]: https://chomsky.info/20110407-2/ (The State-Corporate Complex)
A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures. --Alan Perlis
IDE config doesnt belong into vcs. And a screenshot or a GIF would be well appreceated. Other than that, code looks ok for a small project
The risk pool should be as large as possible, the whole country, to minimize costs for everyone.

It's deeply unfair to tell someone that lost their job that they also now have no access to healthcare.
higher taxes would make it unpopular

Lower taxes and employer-sponsored health care is cheaper than single payer and higher taxes
What's the difference between a website accessing the USB device, and downloading an app that accesses it? (Apart from the website being more convenient and cross platform.)

To put it another way, why is it ok to trust Arduino.exe but not Arduino.com?
What if I stead of making the pooling "employees" we pooled on something else, like "citizens" or "residents"?

Why should it be "employees"?
It is extremely hard to get people to agree on any one alternative. Any system has pluses and minuses, and it's easy to scare people away from any particular choice.

It took superhuman effort, a once-in-a-lifetime political opportunity, and some outright shenanigans even to get the Affordable Care Act passed. It was a very minor tweak to the existing system, and half the country viewed it as an apocalypse. The political party that passed it ran away from it in the next election, and got massacred. But now that it is law, it too is nearly impossible to alter because the alternatives all terrify people.
Because political decisions are aligned with special interest groups such as giant insurance companies [0], not the policies that average voters want.

[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Also fun rotation in jobs. Work on one side and then have expertise to work on the other. And wise-versa... Unless you are true idealist, which will get steered out, why would you ruin the good thing going on...
> The problem is that unhealthy people do not want to pay the full amount of their risk-adjusted rate into the risk-pool.

You think it's a problem that those with genetic disabilities don't want to be priced out of having health care?
If a newspaper publishes something and it isn't under the category "op-ed", that article carries the weight of the paper.
"Affordable" healthcare and not being tied to an employer are not necessarily the same thing. I have Medicare (with a couple add-ons) and I'm paying pretty much what I would pay for a marketplace plan (although that will presumably go down once I'm a year or two further out from full-time employment). I pay more today than when I was employed.
Yep. The 9 - 5 now is seen as totally last resort and seen as a failure now.
> DDL timeouts

That’s normal for building indices on large tables, regardless of the RDBMS. Increase the timeout, and build them with the CONCURRENTLY option.

> Query speed

Without knowing your schema and query I can’t say with any certainty, but it shouldn’t be dramatically slower than single-node Postgres, assuming your table statistics are accurate (have you run ANALYZE <table>?), necessary indices are in place, and there aren’t some horrendously wrong parameters set.
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