MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jaypinho | 2025-04-02 05:55:27+00:00
This is a weird response - that's not what the review says at all. (I should know. I wrote it.) I'm also a YIMBY - although, as a renter, it doesn't exactly take any moral courage.

As I state clearly in the review, I share Klein and Thompson's view of the housing issue and I called that part the strongest section of the book.

My point is that what the book calls "abundance" is an incoherent mishmash of ideologically incoherent anecdotes. It's not a policy framework and it's not an agenda. So what is it?
by energy123 | 2025-04-02 05:55:44+00:00
It would, but I believe the cause and effect is roundabout.

The first thing to go down will be rental yields, because those are more directly and immediately impacted by real market forces (number of renters versus available housing stock on the rental market), instead of speculation or the wealth effect or chasing a store of value, which are factors that drive the price of housing ownership but don't drive rents.

After rental yields decline, housing as an asset class will be less lucrative and higher risk compared to the cost of capital, which then causes an unwind as investors move to other asset classes.
by GolfPopper | 2025-04-02 05:56:08+00:00
>a toy with very little operational utility

A perfect match for the modern Marine Corps! (Somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but a Marine Corps that has abandoned amphibious assault and port seizure in favor of helping the Navy with sea control has arguably lost its reason for existing.)

https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/rusi-...
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-04-02 05:57:40+00:00
Neural network based computer vision models also existed for decades. They weren't very good and weren't really used, till early 2010s when people figured out how to make them work. Now they are vastly superior to all the other ways.

This is quite common across the sciences. Some technique doesn't seem to work because of missing crucial insights or technology. Then somebody fills the gaps, and the technique works.

These types of models in economics might or might not become viable at some point.
by jaypinho | 2025-04-02 05:58:16+00:00
I think you'd get near-universal agreement that some regulations somewhere are ineffective and/or counterproductive. If that's all the book is attempting to achieve, it's an extremely modest goal IMO.

The problem is getting that same level of agreement about specific regulations - or, failing that, making a strong case for a specific reason why a regulation that many people think is necessary and good is actually bad. But Klein and Thompson, for the most part, avoid doing this.
by philjohn | 2025-04-02 06:00:03+00:00
One cohort susceptible is asthmatics.

Most asthmatics can live a long, healthy life - certainly not die at the age of 9 https://apnews.com/article/asthma-europe-london-air-pollutio...

I, along with other asthmatics, did notice a marked improvement in symptoms during the Covid 19 lockdowns as there was less traffic on the roads - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8011425/

This is the problem with "Well, these people are frail, and you have to die of something" assertions. See also, Covid 19 and "most people who died weren't healthy, they had other conditions!".
by jumploops | 2025-04-02 06:02:07+00:00
Glad you finally found Claude Code useful, Tom ;)

On a more serious note: I've found that for debugging difficult issues, o1 Pro is in a league of it's own.

Claude Code's eagerness to do work will often fix things given enough time, especially for self-contained pieces of software, but I still find myself going to o1 Pro more often than I'd expect.

A coworker and I did a comparison the other day, where we fired up o1 Pro and Claude Code with the same refactor. o1 Pro one-shotted it, while Claude Code took a few iterations.

Interestingly enough, the _thinking_ time of o1 Pro led us to just commit the Claude Code changes, as they were both finished in around the same time (1 min 37s vs. 2+ minutes), however we did end up using some feedback from o1 to fix an issue Claude hadn't caught. YMMV
by vasco | 2025-04-02 06:02:28+00:00
Linked from the article this seems interesting: https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths

But from my understanding most deaths attributed to pollution, specially indoors, relate to fireplaces, cooking, oil lighting or other "I'm making smoke indoors" activities which will cause lung issues later on. Even having candles on all the time isn't good for you.

The rest as far as I understand is all estimated by putting a finger in the air and subdividing lung cancer deaths into what they feel like the causes were.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-02 06:03:00+00:00
I think pollution is better thought of like starvation, as something that makes you frailer so that you end up dying over something that a healthier person would have survived. Pretty much the opposite of the perspective you take.

You don't see a lot of people arguing that starvation doesn't mean much because the deaths of starving people are more directly caused by disease or injury.
by energy123 | 2025-04-02 06:03:13+00:00
Your comment didn't deserve to be downvoted. This might not be the primary factor behind local opposition, but it is a factor in why it's difficult for state or federal politicians to enact real reform, even something like amending tax policy. Two thirds of the population don't see the housing crisis as a crisis, for them it's either a housing bonanza, or it's something that they don't want to see happen but are afraid of being personally injured if it's fixed due to their leverage being multiple times their annual income.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-04-02 06:03:37+00:00
That they are, energy is energy. I was part of a Battlebots team and that is where I learned the smell of various rechargeable battery chemistries when they burned :-). We also had an exothermic adventure with a battery pack we built, fortunately it was not at an event, it was in earlier testing, but it forever gave me a healthy respect for those batteries.
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by davvid | 2025-04-02 06:04:25+00:00
> It's 2025 and the closest I can find is a dictation app on my newest phone that uses online AI service, yet it's still not that great [...]

> Is there anything equally effective for any of you nowadays?

I'm not affiliated in any way. You might be interested in the "Futo Keyboard" and voice input apps - they run completely offline and respect your privacy.

The source code is open and it does a good job at punctuation without you needing to prompt it by saying, "comma," or, "question mark," unlike other voice input apps such as Google's gboard.

https://keyboard.futo.org/
by ekmungai | 2025-04-02 06:04:44+00:00
I'm the founder of microbooks, an API based accounting saas. I've been struggling to drive adoption mainly because the people who need accounting i.e business owners/accountants do not understand tech (REST), and those who do don't understand accounting. With the MCP protocol I'm thinking I could bridge this gap by say, allowing anyone to make accounting entries simply creating prompts to an MCP server that's aware of the API's context. What do you guys think?
by tptacek | 2025-04-02 06:05:05+00:00
Klein notes that one project is a dismal failure and the other a stunning success. Both are true statements, and there's really nothing you can say to make that not true. The idea that there's a single coherent set of policy prescriptions that gets you reliably to the successes and away from the failures is exactly the thing Klein doesn't claim to be offering --- in fact, you open your review by complaining about exactly that.
by holri | 2025-04-02 06:05:06+00:00
> Every example I skimmed over was some hiphop artist who ripped off music before them.

Mozart ripped of Händel. For example parts from his famous Reqiuem are a rip of of Händels Messiah. And a lot of classical Composers (ex. Beethoven) ripped of from their "godfather": J.S Bach. Altough they did not call it rip of, but learning.
by motorest | 2025-04-02 06:06:48+00:00
> I have similar thoughts and I have come to conclusion that that's the beauty and the curse of this technology.

I agree. When I read these articles on vibe coding I can't help to think that these guys are basking in the glory of the impressive maze they built around themselves. Of course running these things in production and having them reach the state of legacy code is an entirely different thing. Building a maze is one thing, having to run around it is an entirely different challenge.

It's like one of those world expos: everything looks fantastic, but the moment the event ends everything just crumbles.
by mmooss | 2025-04-02 06:06:59+00:00
> Using F-keys for the most shortcuts was standard across DOS apps.

That doesn't make it a good idea. In UI design, people don't say 'we're using this because it was used in 1980s DOS programs'.

You may find it to be fine - I don't mind function keys, but I they aren't nearly as efficient. But we're talking about the general public.
by tptacek | 2025-04-02 06:07:01+00:00
What exactly does Marc Andreesen have to do with Klein and Thompson's advocacy for zoning reform?

The answer to your question is simple. In fact, you dance around it in your review! The politics of reform are about navigating the disagreements in the Democratic coalition. Indeed! The point of the book is to present a positive vision of what a Democratic coalition focused around an agenda of demonstrated competency would look like and accomplish. The book is about the persuasive effort.

It doesn't seem plausible that you'd be so unfamiliar with Klein that you didn't know he records one of the most popular policy-driven shows in the country.
by phtrivier | 2025-04-02 06:08:28+00:00
What still baffles me is the reduction in SO2 emissions due to regulations on shipping fuel.

How did the shipping industry accept / manage / afford to switch fuels (presumably, to more expensive ones) in order to follow the regulation ; as opposed to delay / deny / deflect, or plain old lobbying the hell against the changes ?

Are we in a "Montreal protocol" situation, where the alternative was existing and acceptable and in the same price range ?

Or did one actor implement coercion differently ? Was a standard change made, that enabled drop-in replacement ?

(If we were living under Discworld-like physics where narrativium existed, I would understand _why_ the change happened : it's making climate change worst, so of course there is all the power of narrative irony.

Are we in a world governed by narrative irony ? That would explain so many things...)
by jquaint | 2025-04-02 06:08:39+00:00
Great song.

For anyone curious how to produce something that sounds like this, paulstretch is the way to do it. https://sonosaurus.com/paulxstretch/

My personal favorite use of this: https://youtu.be/XiKWfcy-Z70?si=iJTP0XTEAAObI_rU
by latentcall | 2025-04-02 06:09:35+00:00
When you have privilege, equality feels like oppression. I don’t know where I saw that quote from but I feel this summarizes your points.

Punish who for what? Can you demonstrably prove white people were harmed by DEIA? White people ran the last administration and this one too. What more do you want? Do you get upset if you see a black person drive a nicer car than you?

This anti-DEIA stuff is just cooked up to distract you from the real problems facing this country.
by hmottestad | 2025-04-02 06:09:59+00:00
Found this in an article linked to by this one:

Exposure to air pollutants increases our risk of developing a range of diseases. These diseases fall into three major categories: cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases, and cancers. It makes sense to think of these estimates as ‘avoidable deaths’ – they are the number of deaths that would be avoided if air pollution was reduced to levels that would not increase the risk of developing these lethal diseases.
by julianeon | 2025-04-02 06:11:11+00:00
Pollutions impacts people across all age groups, including children and otherwise healthy adults. Many pollution deaths aren't inevitable near-term deaths.

Health effects include:

- Respiratory diseases developing in otherwise healthy people

- Cardiovascular damage at an early age affecting long-term health

- Developmental impacts on children with lifelong consequences

- Cancer and other conditions with substantial life-shortening effects
by apgwoz | 2025-04-02 06:11:28+00:00
Help! I just made the Diarrhea Walnuts (https://www.recipeninja.ai/recipe/r_N1VSPtXzCJVV3l/diarrhea-...) recipe and it turns out I am allergic to Walnuts! I am throwing up everywhere! You’re gonna be hearing from my lawyers!
by lelanthran | 2025-04-02 06:11:37+00:00
[EDIT: Found a link - https://artvoice.com/2025/03/10/witness-testimony-raises-que...]

A particularly revealing aspect of Menchel’s cross-examination focused on Mr. Vovor’s feelings toward Ms. Javice. He admitted to sending her flowers, messages, photos, playlists, and even a card without signing his name, instead using a heart emoji. His behavior had previously led to a human resources complaint by Ms. Javice, resulting in a discussion with the company’s legal and Human Resources representative.

[EDIT: All of the below is now inaccurate]

> AFAIK, he did not deny that he made romantic overtures

Depends on how it's phrased - it's common to preface with "What's not explicitly addressed is denied. My Client reserves the right to address the unaddressed claim in the future." in court papers, but I'm not sure if that works for witness-box testimony.

TBH, if he neither denied it nor admitted it while in the witness box, then it is unlikely he was asked the question "Did you make any romantic overture to $X" at all.

And, to be even more honest, if her lawyer avoided asking that question, it's because he knew the answer already.

> (or whatever the hell phrase they used, i can look it up again if you care).

Actually I cannot find the court transcript (my google fu is failing). Do you have a link?

It seems a pretty important part of this thread's premise; assuming that the main witness [did/did not] ask out his boss on a date.
by roelj | 2025-04-02 06:12:24+00:00
Must be a late entry.. Unfortunatel the WIL metric overlaps in name with Written in Lisp:

Additionally we propose two new metrics. The Written in Latex (WIL) metric is the proportion of source code of a machine learning library written in LaTeX and the Source code of method in source code of paper (SCOMISCOP) metric is the proportion of the source code of a method that is contained within the source code of the paper.
by mmooss | 2025-04-02 06:12:30+00:00
> all the depositors were bailed out, which is what bailing out a bank means

Not at all. Bailing out a bank means funding the corporation, its owners, and its management to continue their operations. In this case, as the GP makes clear, the corporation was acquired by another financial institution, its owners lost all their money, and the management was fired.
by mlsu | 2025-04-02 06:13:57+00:00
If you're producing in volume that's when the microcontroller and effort involved becomes worth the cost savings. For a static screen that just refreshes every 5 mins a tiny MCU can go a looong way. One could do this with 96k of RAM, the data is just text with a few sprites. As a bonus the whole device would consume a few mA on average.
by alexmccain6 | 2025-04-02 06:15:16+00:00
One of the most striking aspects of air pollution is how invisible yet pervasive its effects are. Unlike more immediate environmental disasters, air pollution slowly chips away at public health, reducing life expectancy and quality of life, often without dramatic headlines. The comparison to starvation as a "frailty multiplier" is an interesting one; pollution doesn’t always kill directly but makes people more susceptible to fatal conditions.

Regarding the reduction in SO₂ emissions from shipping fuel, I’d love to see more discussion on how international regulatory pressure (e.g., IMO 2020) managed to enforce compliance in an industry notorious for cost-cutting. Was it simply a case of the alternatives being feasible enough, or did global coordination and monitoring play a stronger role than usual?
by eesmith | 2025-04-02 06:16:28+00:00
> Long a boogeyman of the political right, George Soros, the nonagenarian financier, has been a longtime supporter of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin among other left-leaning candidates and causes throughout the nation. In this cycle, he’s donated $2 million to the state party, although his Democracy PAC is not among the outside groups contributing to Crawford.

The billionaire Pritzker gave $1.5 million to state Democrats.

By comparison:

> [Musk] endorsed Schimel in January and has donated $3 million to the Republican Party of Wisconsin to date. Groups linked to him, including Building America’s Future and his own America PAC, have also spent more than $17 million, according to the Brennan Center.

It also mentions the billionaires Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein. "Richard has donated $1.65 million to the Wisconsin Republican Party and Elizabeth has donated more than $2.34 million. Their PAC, Fair Courts America, has also put $3.96 million into the race, all in support of Schimel."

Hey, I have an idea! Let's heavily tax the rich and turn all of those billionaires into multi-millionaires! $10 million in wealth ought to be good enough for anyone, right?

And no trust funds or charities or other legal methods the rich use to pretend the money isn't actually under their control.
by tptacek | 2025-04-02 06:16:54+00:00
The book identifies a problem that you yourself agree with: the Democratic coalition can't build anything, can't satisfy the needs of its constituents, is losing those constituents to Republican states that can, and is losing the faith of the electorate. It also offers a diagnosis (or rather, a set of them): the unintended consequences of localism, a legislative and regulatory system that oriented more than checking boxes with every faction of the coalition than having coherent goals like "house people" or "deploy clean energy", and an unwillingness of the coalition to revisit the decisions of previous generations in light of current challenges.

Do you think any of these diagnoses are wrong? Or are you just bored by them?
Ask HN: Why is Google's sha checksum not matching?
by valenterry | 2025-04-02 06:17:24+00:00
Trying to download https://dl.google.com/dl/cloudsdk/channels/rapid/downloads/google-cloud-cli-darwin-arm.tar.gz from https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install-sdk#installing_the_latest_version and using shasum (on mac) does not give the specified "48b64a1b9003e801cbaedb3d1a7f0d8989c1af207858ea32beea8095b26bd1e9" but a different one.

A colleague confirmed. What's going on?
by urban_winter | 2025-04-02 06:18:37+00:00
I built something like this. I am amused that mine too was built for my wife and also was one of the few techie things I've ever done that received unqualified spousal approval.

Mine shows weather and tide times at my wife's rowing club. It has the form-factor of a large fridge magnet. This led to the need to be battery powered and therefore very frugal with power - so a RPi wasn't feasible. It uses an ESP32. The data itself is collated by an AWS lambda.
by ghaff | 2025-04-02 06:19:53+00:00
I wouldn’t call it collusion but, of course, they’re aggregating what leading companies find to be best practices—although they presumably don’t share individual company IP. Not much different really from when tech folks go to conferences.

Companies benchmark and consider industry best practices all the time. If they don’t they’re idiots.

Im not a huge fan of management consultants generally, but consultants and analysts can provide useful third party perspectives, in part because they talk to a lot of companies that you may have mess directly with access to.
by phtrivier | 2025-04-02 06:20:22+00:00
To be honest: yes, at this point, and with an industry of this scale, it's a bit shocking to me.

I don't know the main actors here, but I imagine the leverage of shipping companies on western countries is incredible ? ("oh, you think our boats are too polluting ? sure, let's see how you bring "about everything that's sold in about all your shops but that is manufactured half a world away" without our boats.")
by genewitch | 2025-04-02 06:21:25+00:00
There can be 2 or more transistors in a dip-8, but I think the point is more that the wrong dip-8 was given, not which specific dip-8.

I change details when I tell stories, both to prevent eyes glazing, and because the details don't matter that much. If I told this story to a neighbor it wouldn't involve the words "dip-8", 555, or "transistor".

For instance I had a professor that just did not like me. I did all the work, the papers, but the second paper assigned was about bioethics and at the time there was a lot of negative press about that subject and I went really deep into a subject I had never heard of before. Well the prof was a bioethicist, and on some bioethics committee, and did not like my prose. I barely passed that class that semester. I think they knew they couldn't fail me because, as I said, I did the work; but they certainly made me not want to continue college, that's for sure.
by fredrikholm | 2025-04-02 06:22:49+00:00
> You gotta remember people are often picking languages based on what they can easily find out about it and extrapolating/guessing about what problems they'll run into with their expected use.

This is a good observation.

As someone who writes a lot of Lisp, I'm inclined to agree as the amount of people that have never written any Lisp yet immediately reject it over syntax over fears that it somehow hampers development is a (to me) surprisingly large number of people.

If I recall correctly, one of the motivating factors for Rescript was to reduce the perceived/real distance between Reason and JS in order to attract more JS devs, as Reason was so heavily associated with OCaml.
by pronoiac | 2025-04-02 06:23:05+00:00
Checking diskprices.com - https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new,used&disk_ty... - there's a cheaper outlier for DVD-R, then it's 25GB BD-Rs for a bit.

LTO tape can be cheaper, but the cost of the drives has long been an obstacle to dabbling.
by sharpshadow | 2025-04-02 06:23:07+00:00
It’s not easy to access them for digitalisation. The museum which holds them, have to get them out of storage for you which involves a curator and his time. Also afaik many aren’t labelled extensive making it difficult to choose the ones you are looking for.

When your estimation is accurate, then there are likely hundred thousand fragments in simple labelled boxes, laying around in storages. To digitalise them would require a lot of money, the agreement of the museums and personnel.