skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having unintentionally lived in a "tiny house" at university, never again. Mind you, it wasn't supposed to be a "tiny house", they had a rush remodel and half the apartment was rendered useless.

My wife (then girlfriend) and I agreed never to live in one again. Just this morning, we were reminiscing about how we used to have to get our utensils, then eat on the utensil box I made to hold them because we didn't have counter space. We also recalled the brick wall had a brick sticking out just slightly too far that you couldn't open the oven. So we had to file down the brick.

Just... just no. Give me my 2600+ square feet house any day.

The real trick is not living somewhere where you need that kind of housing. Outside of a submarine, there really is little reason.

I live in rural Illinois, make close to an SF salary, enjoy my 5 min commute, and pay less than this guy for a five bedroom house.
It's political today. These projects are given to friends of politicians at inflated prices and are used as sops to specific communities to stop them from kicking up a fuss or backing someone else. Here's the classic story of how costs can spiral without reason https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
I actually had both general recent testimony and Reagan-era inquiries. The pattern is rather older, it seems.
The quote:
https://i.imgur.com/OA5K2Ty.png
Disagree with the non-apology part. It's clearly very grovelling, although it's late and a response to the snowballing community reaction rather than because it's the right thing to do.

Of course, it's possible that that reaction has prompted genuine reflection and contrition and the apology is sincere as well as a panic measure.
100%! And that’s a desire he exploited to build his empire at all costs. With the city so polluted and crowded, who can argue against a park (or a “parkway”)?
> To much of non-first world countries, buying an iPhone Pro Max would evoke the same question. That amount of money symbolises food for a long period of time.

The median yearly income in the very very poorest countries in the world is $500-1,000. So an iPhone might be 3 years of salary.

Most of these supercars are worth more than what the average American would make over 40 years.

Beyond the fact that rural environments in poorer countries don’t even have the structured economies needed to make some of these comparisons, there are orders of magnitudes differences at play here.

There might be some people who think “if I had that much disposable income why would I spend it on that?” But these aren’t iPhones. These are private jets. They are fundamentally out of reach for everyone and are immense signs of wealth.

There’s surely a bunch of engineering and cool shit to nerd out on from it, but there’s no democratization of the super car. If these companies wanted to they could mass produce and sell at 1/10th the cost. But that defeats the purpose of these cars existing.
Even the median income comparison is probably too favourable - Wuhan and LA are apples to oranges. I'm sure LA is one of the higher-income cities in the US, and Wuhan is one of the lower.
The primary cost in housing is not the size of the house, but the cost of land. I don't understand this tiny house obsession -- frankly condos are 'tiny houses' and they are mostly insanely priced in hot markets.

Tiny house is not a movement about affordability. It's an aesthetic movement. One mostly participated in by people of higher income.
Wuhan median is $34k and $65k in LA.
Interestingly, this article [0], indicates that in theory at least, it may be possible to develop a privacy-respecting secure network that is capable of optionally (per node operator) rejecting some traffic. However, assuming such a thing is possible, it would still not satisfy the TLA’s (assuming what they’re really after is the ubiquitous transparency).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21169768
$3 million is enough money to buy a decent used 8 seater twin engine or an L39 fighter jet and still have $2.5 million left over for thousands and thousands of hours of operations, maintenance, etc.

Hell, it would be enough to buy an F5 supersonic trainer and gun it for a few hundred hours over the ocean
Agreed, although that might be easier to prove/disprove.

Also to be clear, it's not a fine, but a type of civil claim made through the FTC instead of a court. With the main difference being: you receive the spam fax, then you get the $200.
They give a sorta example on https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.10515.pdf#page=8
If you like Monty Python, and you own a Tesla, try naming your car after some of the characters, you mind find something hidden...
Basement apartments are problematic from a fire code perspective, especially if it's a "true" ADU that doesn't connect into the main house.
Paris has more historical buildings to worry about. Is there data on the relative added cost of either?
How to solve the hardest logic puzzle ever
Truly revolutionary humor, top notch.

I can't wait for the pendulum to swing back the other way and make offending everybody acceptable again, when done for the proper reasons.
> It would take them a few clicks to undo their mistake and reinstate the mod, no?

I'm not convinced that removing Monica as a moderator was a mistake.

She made it clear in a comment quoted by The Register that she refused to use the singular they in any circumstance, even when it was known that it was someone's preferred pronoun.

And in the leaked transcripts (if you trust them) it seems she was repeatedly asked to rethink her stance on this by other moderators, and repeatedly refused.

Obviously SO could have done a better job in terms of the process, timing, and communication (which is what they apologised for), but ultimately it seems that she's just not not a good fit for SO. There's no suggestion that SO is not going to enforce a rule requiring moderators to use people's preferred pronouns, when known and when appropriate, and Monica was very clear that in at least some cases she would not do so. So...one way or another, she was clearly going to be removed, right?

Arguably she could be re-instated today and then re-removed later in the week when the CoC changes come into force, but to what end? That doesn't help her, SO, or the community. (And that assumes she didn't violate the existing CoC, which is still disputed.)
Don't thinking taxing it will really help if the zoning doesn't allow multi-family dwellings. You'll just make the McMansions into actual Mansions, not get more total units.
Peak pricing is an interesting thought that hadn't occurred to me. Seems like a good way to increase rates in a somewhat progressive way. Presumably rush hour commuters could afford more than others.
On Sitting Still in Nature
The article is about banning cars (it's right there in the title). Cars don't carry freight they carry people. Still fine to bring in freight to Manhattan in small trucks & vans but we should make them all have to be zero emission and limit their speed to 30 km/h.
Just live in Pickering. 500k will buy you a house in Pickering and it's 30 mins away from Union Station by Go train.
We're talking construction costs, not operating costs, so the wages of a train driver have no effect here.

Note that labor costs include more than the wages of the people who work on a project. Employer taxes, such as social security obligations and Medicare charges, also factor into labor costs, as does employer-provided healthcare, disability insurance, and the like. If we're tracking from 1904, that's a lot of extra surcharges that weren't present 100 years ago that will get included in the labor column.

I should note that I didn't order the list in any particular order. The reason why 1940 costs are higher than 1904 is likely driven in larger part by labor costs than other considerations, whereas the more modern spike is probably driven mostly by incompetent management and cost-control (for example, failing to push back against featherbedding).
Used to be there were competitive Manitoba plans but Bell bought MTS and those disappeared (now you maybe save $15/month vs the half price it used to be). It’s just a matter of time before one of the big three buys SaskTel, either Bell or Telus most likely.

More than telecommunications, it’s irritating how much of cable and network TV is owned by these companies, with lucrative US licensing and distribution rights for many properties so they can sell you a four-way bundle of home phone, cell phone, TV and Internet. So few companies can offer all of the above, and while it’s nice that we’ve CRTC-mandated limited competitive sharing to a limited extent on Internet lines, for everything else the CRTC is incredibly anti-consumer, only going after the worst behaviour when it’s been happening for a decade as “normal”.
And what does "systems thinking" oh-so-conveniently mean this time?
The way I read it - Bloomberg writes an alarmist article.

Nothing to worry about, unless you're invested in automation stock.
It bothers me because these vehicles apparently kill people at a significantly higher rate than "normal cars". That's what this whole thread below the parent of my original comment is about. When innocent human lives are extinguished by completely avoidable causes, it absolutely bothers me. It bothers me on behalf of myself, my friends and family and loved ones, and every single person out there who deserves better than being snuffed out before their time by some moron who's decided to purchase an identity for themselves by way of an F-250 XLT 4x4 TEXAS RANCH KING EDITION CUMMINS POWER STROKE SIX-POINT-TWO LITER FLEX FUEL. Or whatever.

I've rented many trucks in my life, at times when my car at the time wasn't big enough. In each case it made perfect sense.
Um... a personal jet starts at 10x the Bugatti price and goes up from there.
But the trains run underneath the streets, not the skyscrapers.
Exactly. If you looked at my order history at Apple you'll see I order a new MacBook Pro every year. By that end of a week, the laptop is back in Apple's hands and I'm receiving a full refund.

Unfortunately all their "efforts" to fix the keyboard are absolute rubbish and the Touch Bar continues to be an anti-feature with no place in a serious laptop.
Right, I'm not sure with OCaml is inconsistent there. -> is also used in pattern matching and in the syntax "fun x -> x + 1", perhaps it's some historical thing to avoid ambiguity?
The PRC still largely does not manufacture or design semiconductors.

RISC-V is popular in that young industry because it is credible and meets their criteria, and that value is similar elsewhere (particularly in India).

> For better or worse...

If the world would let the PRC gain a lead in semiconductors, it would be an unequivocal moral failure; I say this with great personal warmth for Chinese people. The world is a more grotesque and unfree place with every gain of the CCP.
> Why was a rewrite necessary?

Most likely because original authors were laid off or moved on; it's cheaper to rewrite software than to fix existing one; both need very different skillset and there are more people that can write their own algo quickly than fix somebody else's.
Chernobyl's Infamous Reactor 4 Control Room Is Now Open to Tourists
I'm not really clear how it's rent free when you're making monthly mortgage payments? That seems rent free in name only.
That probably doesn't accurately reflect the income difference between LA and Wuhan. Large parts of China are still effectively the third world. Urbanites in America make more than rural folks, but the difference is less drastic.
Its actually a regulation problem. City councils, local govts create this problem with restrictions on buildings and what type of things can go into their city. These people should rise up and realize their living in something created by govt.
And zoning laws won't let you build dormitories anywhere, which reinforces that it's a policy problem.
At the same time, we've seen the result of deregulation in New Zealand, which in part resulted in the Leaky Homes Crisis [1]. Developers tend to put profit first, if the house falls apart 10 years later it doesn't matter to the developer or the builder, they already made their money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_homes_crisis
ISTM that "tiny homes" are just mobile homes rebranded for hipsters without the stigma of living in a trailer park.
People are downvoting because the statement "I was fired for being assertive" brings nothing to the discussion. Expand on it with an anecdote or some more details about your experience, it's always interesting to hear about things like that.
Hint: It's because LP has a free version
Is it possible that getting rid of the subsidies might improve worker efficiency?
ADU size depends on lot size and zoning.

In Santa Cruz county, ADUs inside the "utility zone" are limited to 10% for normal lot sizes up to a max of 640 sqft. Large lots can have an ADU up to 800 sqft.

Outside of the "utility zone" ADUs can be as large as 1200 sqft if your lot is greater than 1 acre.
I like to think the people of Sask wouldn’t allow Sasktel to be privatized.
"By diverse means we reach the same end"

https://medium.com/@phillip_hayes/montaigne-1-by-diverse-mea...
I mean one reason is that you like it? I’ve never lived in an apartment larger than 600 square feet and 2600 seems so excessive to me.

Heating it, cooling it, filling it with stuff. Why bother?

I can bike/walk anywhere I need to go in town, have a $20 electric bill, am 90 minutes from the pacific and 90 minutes from the mountains. 80 miles of running trails 3 miles from my door. I’ll take that over some giant house in the middle of nowhere.
Copy that. I’ll take a look.
If so, they should have said “could” instead of “would”.
How many people can you feed on $60 a week? Is this in the USA?
Why is no branch delay slots a bad thing?
I'll read it with much interest, thanks a lot.

You know, I like the sound of you and the makers of Xabber. The "myth" of XMPP being unsuited to mobile / IM is clearly overblown if you're only even half-right about it all (because then that means there's no "fundamentally broken" paradigm). It's great to hear the community is active nonetheless! ~
There's a wide variety of options between "tiny house" and 2,600 square feet. Many of the post world-war 2 era homes in my area are ~1,000 sq. ft. (+/- 100 sq. ft). It's more than plenty for 2 people.
Why bother? So there's space for your spouse and two kids.
With the morality police drunk with power and so few media conglomerates in control of all advertising dollars, free speech as we once imagined it may be dead.
I haven’t read it. A list of his books:

http://www.mathcs.duq.edu/drozdek/
> I live in rural Illinois, make close to an SF salary, enjoy my 5 min commute

You are certainly a statistical outlier in multiple ways. Rural incomes rarely match their urban counterparts. Rural commute times are less than urban but hardly 5 minutes.
It has been a while since I looked at anything in the MIT Scheme dialect. Really readable code.

In the 1980s, I did a one weekend self imposed hackathon while the rest of my family was out of town. I took my highly hacked version of OPS5, written in Common Lisp by Charles Forgy, and converted it to MIT Scheme. It worked but was slow.
> So the government destroyed the system through price controls. Odd that City Lab doesn't explore that angle further.

It isn’t odd because City Lab is generally in favor of leftist economic and urban policy. Exploring price controls might call into question their fundamental bias. Price controls are anti-market and typically so is City Lab.
Peak pricing is also a market approach that embraces supply and demand. It’s a good idea.
And that's why we won't get affordable housing.
Just because the nuclear plant is connected to an active grid (in the process of restarting or otherwise), doesn't mean the grid has capacity to supply power for the plant to start.

The 1967 study was conducted in the wake of the 1965 blackout.
More surprise for you. Government can be sued too.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1434836/hebei-man-be...
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I've constantly encountered this problem in American buildings made of wood. No one puts that sandwiched layer of sound insulation in. In the UK, on the other hand, thick stone/concrete/brick where I lived and if I shut the windows I could barely hear anything. Quiet as a mouse. Never actually heard the neighbours.
I agree that there used to be a noticeable markup for e.g. electronics sold in Australia when the AUD was worth more than the USD. However, now that the AUD is worth ~USD 0.67, prices are close to the exchange rate plus 10% GST. For example, I recently bought the Pixel 3a for A$650 which is close enough to US$400 + GST.
Going out of business doesn't mean it didn't work.

It might have made the owner lots of cash and they just stopped.
Yes, but in the minds of so many people in California and New York, Kansas doesn’t exist.

Having moved to SF from “flyover country,” it’s astonishing to me how many people here are totally unaware of the rest of the country, and have never even visited anything outside of the Pacific Coast other than NYC or maybe DC. If you ask why they don’t move someplace in the Midwest, the answer is they consider it to be a nearly mythological place that they only vaguely know exists and are, frankly, terrified of. It’s bizarre how common that is.
Comments like that are such bullshit. Nobody is perfect. Surely that person has made plenty of mistakes in writing (so why should we take any stock in their dissenting comment?). One small mistake doesn't make you any less qualified. The fact that you're actually doing it makes you 100x more qualified than someone who doesn't have any experience doing it.

English is my native language and I write a popular blog. My blog won a web award and a W3 writing award, so you could say that a number of industry professionals believe that I'm a decent writer. That said, I fucked up once and swapped lightning/lightening in one of my posts and I got a very similar comment to yours.

Those comments may have a tiny bit of truth - that you got something wrong - but the rest of them is bullshit; because, if we didn't trust experts who make small mistakes, we couldn't trust anyone at all.
Those policies are influenced at the local level. Unfortunately they’re also often basically controlled by special interests. If anything could change it, it would be people en masse taking an interest in local elections at significant rates. There’s no voting power larger, in the US, than the people who sit out. It’d also mean going to meetings, probably.
Some delicious foods smell terrible during cooking, or even emit slightly dangerous fumes during cooking, like dishes that contain a lot of chilis (the source of pepper spray).
Really, probably not much? A $200 meal is already --- except I guess maybe for very high-end Japanese --- pretty much topping out the scale. The Salon at Alinea is ~$200; you can pay $100 more to go from 14 to 18 courses, but, as someone who's eaten at Alinea before, I wouldn't recommend that.

Anthony Bourdain has a whole chapter about the $800-meal phenomenon in NYC in Medium Raw, and, long story short, those people are getting rolled.
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> Not really a service that the company would ever have to cut to save money.

That never seems to stop them.

How much money could Google Reader possibly have cost to maintain?
Will Smith and Arnold Schwarzenegger also post regularly on tiktok. I don't think tiktok needs to do any more marketing. There is a craze among teenagers to get on there
I was closely involved as CTO and then SVP of Engineering at Mozilla from the inceptions of both WebGL (originally Canvas 3D) and asm.js (see http://asmjs.org/ for docs), which led to the 4 day port via Emscripten or Unreal Engine 3 and Unreal Tournament from native to web and in Firefox at 60fps. This prefigured WebAssembly, which came in 2015 after it was clear from MS and the V8 team that one VM (not two as for Dart or PNaCL) would win.

Gary added the insight that system call overhead is higher than VM safety in one process (he may have exaggerated just a little) to predict migration of almost all native code. The general idea of a safe language VM+compiler being smaller and easier to verify than a whole OS+browser-native-codebase, as well as having lower security check overhead, I first heard articulated by Michael Franz of UCI, and it inspired my agenda at Mozilla that led to the current portable/multiply implemented JS+WebAssembly VM standard.
I grew up with 2 parents and a sibling in a house under 1,000 square feet. I guess just a different approach to wastefulness and what it takes to be comfortable.
That people should be allowed to assume whatever identities they like is a liberal position, but telling people what they cannot say and should not think in relation to identity (or anything else, really) is not. There may be some muddled overlap between those two sets but they are absolutely not the same.

The latter is, generally, a leftist thing. The political left is concerned with egalitarianism, often to the extent that they believe specific and deliberate actions should be taken to reduce inequality. See also: social justice. The identity politicking we're discussing here is predicated on the idea that there are marginalized groups, i.e. folks who do not comfortably fit into the established gender binary and/or gender-sex clustering, and that people outside those groups should change their behavior to reduce that marginalization.
Coworking spaces help solve this. At least 2-3 times a week. Or find other remote devs to work with at a space.

Nothing beats being around other smart and motivated people sometimes.
Wife, kids, and me, all home all the time. I work from home, wife takes care of the kids and school. Plus we have hobbies. I would like a larger garage for shop space, but we could deal with a smaller yard tho.
I assume you're using hyperbole, but there are zones you can build dormitories in.

There are also a few places without zoning regulations.
Whilst the smell can be good in the sort term, over time, it can actually work against you. Trying to go to sleep with the delicious smell of baking bread through your sheets? Good luck with that :) Also, waking up first thing in the morning with the smell of last night's curry still in the air? Not the best.

If you burn milk or something else on the stove? Best leave the windows open and rent a hotel room to stay in for a few days!
Not a way to run a business, upset the customers by taking a crap on employees/mods who can help customers.
> Its actually a regulation problem.

That's another way of saying "a housing policy problem"
Oh interesting. It's basically working in a similar way to Colchicine then. Colchicine blows up the microtubules so the chromosomes don't segregate properly. The combination of the two might be effective, though I suspect there's a toxicity issue or something else I'm missing.
I'll add that I am on T-mobile living in Canada and have been for 6 months and haven't switched over because all in we have two people @ $100, 24 gb data, unlimited can, us, mexico, and all sorts of other random data perks. The quality of the service has been great for the most part. No penalty fees for being in the US or in Canada - except any Canadian people calling us or texting us get charged since it's international (ridiculous). Technically we're supposed to be kicked off our plan but we keep returning to the US to keep our plan alive (and for business, etc). Not saying it's amazing - but way better than the Canadian telco plans we've seen.
6GB doesn't sound untenable if one were to store map/graph data in some optimized text or vector form, rasterizing tiles as needed with a cache mixed in. Maybe keep the 20-mile tiles hot all the time... I guess this depends on the geography covered and use case though.
Can't any program on your computer also just keylog your master password and get your whole database? That's worse than getting individual passwords from the clipboard.