skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue is more subtle than this, and I would also not put European cities in the same bucket as North American ones.

In North American cities, there's a clear low density issue at play. Most of the previously dense urban cores were completely hollowed out to make room for roads, highways or parking lots.
One can argue that the current reluctance to the pulling down and rebuild mindset is a direct consequence of the misguided development policies of the post war era.
So much damage was done—and continues to be done—that people get very cynical of large scale development/infrastructure projects.

Whereas big European cities like Paris are very dense already. Maybe we could make them even denser, but I think at some point you start getting into negative return territory. I'd personally hate to see a bunch of magnificent 7 floors Parisian buildings getting torn down just to build sky scrapers. (Note: Sky scrapers are cool—but I don't think they are a scalable solution to housing, and by nature tend to require big developer involvement with political connections which then lead to perverse incentives—my personal preference would be to have a lot of smaller developers working on a lot of medium density projects, rather than very tiny number of big developers with very large pockets working on very few projects).

The focus should instead be on bringing areas surrounding the old city limits to the same level of density than the city proper—which is actually starting to happen in Western Europe now that we're starting to roll back some of the car centric policies of the past.
That's why "book time" is based on a newbie that has no idea what they're doing.

Fairly common for a job that gets charged out at X hours to only need X/2 hours. And then there's work that gets charged at shop mechanic rate but gets partly or completely done by an apprentice/assistant.

But being from the rust belt, I know what you mean about corrosion.
There is a video on YouTube in which YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki received the Free Expression Award (which were sponsored by YouTube).

At the time of the check I just did, that video currently has 227 upvotes and over 56,000 downvotes, making it the worst ratio’ed video on YouTube I have ever seen.

That incident may have played a role in this decision.
This is circular and incomplete as an argument.

Google did not need to dump dislike buttons. Google, and or others who want them to dump the button, wanted to dump the button.

"had to" has no place in this discussion.
From the article, 30% of US traffic fatalities involve alcohol.

I'd wager that nearly 100% of them involve humans driving.

Note that neither claim actually shows cause.
A lot of people say things like this, but then with their actual voting power, elect to put leaders in place who pursue exactly these outcomes.
They are very much still in use in at least one government.
The numbers of electric F-150 planned is pretty pitiful. Even if they take it seriously, they don't have the battery supply to truly scale it anywhere close to where they need.
I'd noticed it too in the COVID-related threads. I wonder if the owners have noticed? The shift seems pretty fast, to me.
Ask HN: Finding clients for a test engineering company
If you were me, and trying to start up a software test engineering consultancy that helps companies get their software quality back on track (everything from helping build test strategies through to concrete automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines), how would you go about finding clients?

I'm struggling to find anything beyond augmenting teams as a senior contractor but I'd like to take it a step further and find multi-person contracts as an agency instead. It's relatively easy to find these projects for product development but quality is far harder (it seems). Has anyone had a go at this before?
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So instead of govts using manufactured consent to control us like 1984, Facebook does it to glean money/data out of every view, but it still ends up probably pushing us into some authoritarian nightmare... this is why I limit FB to very very infrequent visits, or chats w/ family in messenger, and pretty much only stick to reddit/HN.

there's a bit more intellectual discourse or at least witty sarcasm (in reddit's case), that appeals to me, and can keep my ADHD attention... FB is just stupid memes, and flame wars.
it's not the bank, but the borrowers who need the currency.

So an increase in borrowing from various parties pushes the interest rate higher (the banks would want to charge as high an interest as possible, but no higher than what would make the client move to a different bank for the loan).

The central bank could potentially alleviate and increase borrowing without interest rate hikes by allowing the banks themselves to obtain funds from CB at a lower interest (than another bank), and the competition between banks would push the interest rate back down.
The Patreon or buying merch route doesn't really work for wide scale though. I can do that for a handful of the very top channels I watch regularly but I can't chip in a buck a month for all 400ish channels I'm subscribed to. Supporting a few creators is easy but giving a trickle the a wide field is kind of the sweet spot for ads.

It'd be really nice to have a way to say spread say $10 a month among the channels I watch, with maybe some options to weight towards smaller channels too.
the surplus comes from late payment fees, penalties, foreclosure fees, etc. On paper there is no surplus, in reality all equity is wiped out
I believe they have done a ton of R&D. They recently announced commercial availability of some of their custom Houdini add-ons. https://weta-h.com/
I like the concept of chrome extensions as overlays on pages, adding a new dimension to the page. Seems like one would be useful in this case...
Cool!

YMMV, but for me setting the font slider to a considerably smaller value than the default gave a more visually impressive result.

The controls will apparently self-hide after a few moments with no mouse activity, if you want to get a screenshot of something.
Please don't do generational flamewar here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29181413 was much much better. Talking about personal experiences usually is.
It's hardly pedantic, the differences can be on the order of kilometers over large distances. The GPS uses WGS 84 as the reference ellipsoid model, for example.

(if my memory serves)
The obvious solution is to serve the people. That's not happening and the sell job is getting increasingly harder.
HN isn't a place for every conversation, and this is one that people can't go slow enough to digest properly.
Yeah, an echo chamber is much better. They should get rid of red lights too. They don't really offer any further clarity. Let's just have only green lights (no light at all means stop, of course) /s
Rivian is a new automaker. It took Tesla a decade to build up service centers everywhere.

Lets see how well their costumer service does when need to repair it.
This comes off as preachy and has a gate keeping vibe. "No other foreigner understands Japan the way I do!"

Tourists are gonna do tourist things. Do I care about the plane loads of tourists flooding American scenic spots -- nope. Do I care if they are obsessed about some relic that I don't even know exists -- nope.

People like what they like. Tourists, by definition, aren't gonna be into the same things as the locals.

Also, I asked my fiancé what the "Shinsengumi" was, and her reaction was definitely not "wide eyed excitement", but rather like, "yeah I know about it...why?"

I definitely agree there is some romanticization that goes on with any and all things Japanese -- but, it also goes both ways.

Also, you do realize the hypocrisy of you stopping to take pics of this very building. But I suppose you, being so enlightened, are doing it the proper way.
> But why would anybody even need a store then?

How else would Apple and Google tax the entire mobile software market? Getting a cut of all sales in the mobile market is a dream come true.
There are way too many 15 minute videos along the lines of "How to do X in Y" which should be 30 seconds long. The downvotes are telltale for these, then the most upvoted comment tends to be, "actual answer at 13:30".

Or the video just isn't what the clickbait title says.

I get that some things get brigaded sometimes, but in my experience that's few and far between compared to false junk.
Restaurants and the like are different. But, for example, have you gone up to the Space Needle? That's kind of a tourist only thing. I live in near the other Washington (DC) and only went up to the top of the Washington Monument a few years ago when guests wanted to.
This article might help: https://cen.acs.org/articles/89/i22/Making-Peptides-Large-Sc...
What if press organizations were not allowed to be for-profit?
Are you saying they falsified the specs given to them by the manufacturer?
they switched the water source and didn't add enough hydroxide to adjust pH to level to maintain the caco3 coating the pipes, so the water ended up being too acidic
NFC Performance: It’s All in the Antenna
Reminds me of Gab's "dissenter" extension which added comments and live chat to any web page. I don't know if it still exists since it got removed from extension marketplaces.
The author is writing his truth. That doesn’t make him a jerk. Do you think everybody who says something you disagree with is a jerk?
Counter at >$8k. Always reject their first offer.
We have censorship everywhere you look. There is no porn on Facebook, not many links to illegal stuff in Google.

I've been thinking about it all day, and perhaps it is OK if half the world is walking around thinking the earth is flat. Perhaps it doesn't really matter if our leaders don't believe in science. Does it really matter that 700,000 people died of covid unnecessarily?

But does it really matter if your speech is censored if nobody believes what you say anyhow? just another mad voice in a sea of madness?

But assuming the whole point of society is to try an improve the lives of people living in it, I think we need a foundation of trust, and we should do out best to suppress things that undermined that trust. Trust in our officials, Trust in our media, Trust in each other.
> Go was a niche language suitable for 10x programming.

At first I read this as "suitable for programmers who are 10x more productive than average ones". But they must be able to judge when/how to use generics.

Do you mean programming with 10x more code, or 10x more developers?
It was the same on ios in the early days. My first app was a sound board. People paid money for it.
> I'm a musician, and have dealt before with competing musicians downvoting me in hopes of driving my videos below theirs.

This implies there are more competing creators than total viewers.
No, Sam Zeloof started from blank silicon wafers and did four layers of photolithography to produce PMOS gates. He used boric acid for the boron diffusion. He sputtered an aluminum layer on top for the metal and etched it with phosphoric acid.

http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/
Who would you personally hold responsible?
Yes true.

People who don't have funds for education at home might have a hard time moving to the US for education (unless they have a scholarship or something).
> Today's computers are hundreds to thousands of times more powerful.

Thought I'd look it up. https://gamicus.fandom.com/wiki/Instructions_per_second

C64 6510: 0.43 MIPS. PS4: 200,000 MIPS.

A 3950X is 749,070 MIPS according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second

So it's actually almost 2 million times more powerful...
Public education is one of those rare positive externalities. I think it would be a mistake to abandon it.

If we wanted to succeed here, we would likely need to invest more money to hire more or superior teachers that could work individually with these students that struggle to meet the requirements. The worst part would be that even with that investment it may not even be enough. Some portion of the students who don't achieve are not interested in excelling, and individual attention may not help much there.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a press that would just tell us that there is not enough information to know one way or the other.

Too boring. Won't generate enough clicks.
Having worked with JAMF's API... I don't like it, but yeah, this is not normal and something as to how your company is using JAMF.

The people in charge of this are usually more of the IT than 'self respecting engineers'
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> They didn't have recorders or scanners, just sit on a known frequency and wait for the Japanese to transmit something

Weird, I could have sworn that there were already some (admittedly primitive) scanners in WW II. At least here in Europe.
European cities that are not Paris do indeed have some density issues. It's nothing like the North American shit show, of course, but it still shows an issue.

Fine if you want to keep your historic downtown, but you should build a modern dense "La Défense".

UK fails, Anglosphere housing shortage issues too. London is not dense enough and has no strong CBD proportional to its size.

Germany fails, as Berlin should be bigger than Paris if it weren't for WWII and the division. Germany is full of bad austerity and the "polycentricity" is simply a failure to catch up after development was interrupted. (Consider if they properly developed Berlin maybe there would be fewer AFD issues in the former East.)

Not sure what the situation is with Milan.
I'm on the left, but probably favor option #2, or potentially option 2+3... which would be to divorce the 50 states into their own countries, w/ a weakened D.C. that still manages interstate disputes, commerce, etc more like the EU than a country unto itself.

I'd like to see more communal type "intentional communities" w/ farms, eco-designed homes (earth bag/earth ship), that doesn't have religious aims, but only has one tenet which is to cut down on consumerism (not asking for major commitments, just limit spending, and buy things the entire community can share like ATVs, RVs, etc that could be loaned out.

You can build an entire home using earthbag tech for <10k. (It might take 4 years to DIY, but it's feasible) and you can buy tiny homes for <50k, or a yurt to live in until the home is completed, then reuse that for an airbnb or something. Pool up w/ maybe 20 other families to buy land, create a community garden, and a community toolshed+library of shareables (tools, printers, atvs, etc), and maybe have potlucks a few times a month, and some nice outdoor activities that make living their fun, and people wouldn't have to travel to have fun, and waste gas.

Could have a building w/ some offices too, for people who work from home.
Do your concoction have also l-taurine and ascorbic acid? It's the bomb.

Edit: oh it have all these and yohimbine, kudos!
Might as well get at VRoid Studio...
We have contractors in the US as well. But we also have labor laws that govern who can be considered a contractor, as do other countries. It’s more complex than this, but in general treating someone like an employee and paying them as a contractor isn’t legal. If this arrangement gets popular enough to disrupt the labor market, you can expect more enforcement actions.

Regardless of any actual enforcement, most US companies don’t want to deal with the potential issues of getting tangled up in foreign labor disputes, or getting tangled up in foreign courts over IP disputes.
What would this be used for? I'm looking for a way to handle state with web components in a browser, would this work for that?
I feel completely opposite about this. I have never (and I mean never) viewed the dislikes as an indicator of the quality of the video, or it’s content. It’s only ever been a number that some arbitrary set of people have incremented. To me the video’s quality is self evident, pretty quickly.
> crazy people

Translation: opinions I don't like need suppressing.
IMO, the number one hurdle for ebikes is theft. The things cost a decent chunk of money and there is basically no way to secure them properly. I have owned an ebike and it's such a fun way to get around, but I quickly sold it because I was in constant fear of it being stolen. And shortly after, one of my cheap non ebikes was stolen while locked inside my apartments bike storage area.

I think electric scooters might have a bigger impact on transport as they are easier to store inside.
This blog post is very well written. It is also the platonic ideal of "articles about category theory that I love to hate."

The article concludes by saying:

> Hopefully I’ve convinced you that Chu spaces are indeed a mathematical abstraction worth knowing. I appreciate in particular how they provide such a concrete way of understanding otherwise slippery things.

But, I'm not convinced. What problems do Chu spaces allow me to solve that I couldn't solve before? Do they at least facilitate solving some problems more quickly or easily? If not – how do they help me understand the various "slippery things" better? How does this improved understanding manifest itself in terms of novel theorems (or novel proofs of known theorems)?

For most abstractions in mainstream mathematics, I can give plenty of concrete answers to those questions. But having read this article, I still don't know the answers for Chu spaces.

(I would further suggest that if someone is trying to sell you on a mathematical abstraction, but can't answer those questions convincingly, you should reject the claim that the abstraction has value.)
> What matters is how hard it is to build and maintain complicated stuff.

What matters is how hard it is to deliver a product to the end users. As I gave in my personal user story, yeah, I had to eventually pay the piper and refactor significantly to make sure things were maintainable. But it was a good lesson learned, and I've met many other developers over the years who got hooked on C# in a similar way.

> And there WPF blew WinForms (and VB6) out of the water.

WPF would be fine for this scenario. If we could do things like this at a WPF level of designer I'd be happy. It's got a little more of a cognitive load to get started but long term is easier to reason about long term and from a conceptual standpoint is more transferable to other contexts (i.e. Web MVVM Frameworks.)

I haven't looked at Avalonia in it's current state (last time I gave it a peek, it was still in a 'almost-ready' status) but if they really are able to do multiplatform as I see they say now then perhaps that's what I'm saying is needed. (Which may be more of a statement on the state of Real OSS Awareness in the .NET community.)

Definitely will give it a go, since I know it's supposed to be a replacement for WPF so I'm hoping(?) that the existing tooling out there is usable
I’ll always be a big fan of Monty Python but Cleese hasn’t been much more than a professional grouch for decades now. This would seem to follow that pattern.
> Auto manufacturing is not suddenly going to become the most profitable business in the world.

Tesla's mission statement has nothing to do with cars: "Tesla's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy". Transport just happens to be a very large segment that needs to be transformed to use sustainable energy so that's what they're focusing on.

Tesla has just become an energy supplier in Texas. That's another market that's been stagnant forever and is going to see a huge shakeup when tech such as virtual power plant become widespread. Tesla is already running some of the largest energy storage for the grid in the world.

Then there is AI. What other automotive manufacturer do you know that has 1000s of people working on AI, makes their own chips and has training data from millions of cars on the road? AI isn't just to make your car autonomous. There is the Robotaxi potential which in itself is an entire market. AI doesn't stop there: once Semi is out with autonomous driving, that will cut the cost of transporting goods by a large chunk - no more paying drivers and way less cost on fuel. That's another market entirely and will large fleet companies rushing to save cost by purchasing trucks from Tesla.

In case you missed it (which I believe you have), there is autonomy in general manufacturing which Tesla is planning to target. That's yet another completely different market with a huge potential.

Did you hear about the car insurance? Ye, that's another one which Tesla is targetting.

I'm pretty sure there is a bunch of things I forgot.

Tesla is not a car manufacturer. It's a behemoth in the making which will overtake Apple, Google, Meta, Fossil fuel and some more combined, times 10.
You're right that you can't inject into orbit with this. But unlike a balloon it seems to me that this does allow you to cheat the rocket equation, because you exit the atmosphere with not insignificant velocity in a somewhat useful direction, never having had to carry the fuel to do so.
The other car companies were never vertically integrated. Huge parts of their profit went to dealerships and suppliers. The suppliers and dealers often have better market valuations comparatively.

Current manufactures make almost no margin on cars and make decent margin on supply of parts.

Tesla own that whole chain end to end. As they scale up and build up a huge fleet of cars that need service that is not covered this will become a hugely profitable business.

Other car companies are buying batteries and that is almost 1/3 of the cars price. Tesla will make their own batteries. Most other car companies will buy their driving assistant tech, Tesla has it in-house.

Solar and utility storage are small markets now, but they will continue to grow and no other car manufactures has anything in that range.

Maybe Tesla will not be worth what they are now, but they deserve to be way higher then GM/Ford and so on.
Astroworld's safety plan called for deceased to be referred to as "smurfs" : https://text.npr.org/1054543388
Good idea. Suggestion add some examples there so people can see what it looks like when you have broken data.
You can't possibly know what you are talking about if you are going to say that G Suite "isn't a proper business e-mail solution".

Sorry, I know tons of highly effective organizations, large and small, that enjoy the benefits of using Workspace for email, calendaring, and the whole rest of the lot.

Back in 2007, I was supporting massive educational organizations, with hundreds of thousands of users, to move their entire email and calendaring operations to the then-called GSuite. That was 14 years ago.

Google created the cloud-based office solution. MS has been playing catch-up, trying to lovingly recreate the experience of managing an on-prem Windows/AD/Exchange stack for the metaverse equivalent of self flagellation.
So if used cars double in price, then that's 2.5% of absolute inflation before anything else moves.