skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super scrapers amaze me when I think of the logistics of food and water going into the building and garbage and sewage coming out, not to mention the electricity demands, etc. Shanghai Tower for example can hold 16,000 people. That's a lot of flushing toilets.
Densification doesn't require skyscrapers. Istanbul and Paris are denser than any American city and they're mostly filled with midrises packed closely together with few vacant lots in between. Dubai should not be our model for a sustainable city.
I got hooked on electronics by building things I needed. I was into headphones so started with a Altoid tin headphone amp called a cmoy, from there fm radio, desktop amplifier, DAC etc. Those project you don’t need to understand the whole circuit to start but you will get a ton of hands on experience especially in sourcing components and troubleshooting with a cheap DMM and will have a much better base to learn the theory from.
Computers: I use older computers which others pass on to me or which I get from recycling.

Clothes: Either hand-me-downs or from the free pile in Salvation Army.

Soap, toothpaste, etc: I don't use most of this stuff.

Travel: I do pay for changing places occasionally. Most of the time I look/wait/pray for someone driving the same way I'm going and riding with them. If it's a bus or a train, it is paid for by people who support my work. (I write foss.) I don't use airplanes anymore.

Food: Various sources. On this one, I am a bit of a spiritualist, so I generally wait for acceptable food to appear before me or be given to me and only then eat it. (If someone offers to buy me something, I generally refuse.) I believe in the benefit of fasting, so I fast until acceptable food appears, but I rarely fast unintentionally. You may not realize how much abundance we live in, but by some estimates 40-50% of food produced for our society is discarded in the trash (many "composting bins" are complete bullshit and go directly into the same trash pipeline as the regular trash). So finding some extra food without pulling it out of the supply chain via payment is not that hard.

If you want a good primer on this stuff, look for a book called "The Man Who Gave Up Money", it does a pretty good job of explaining. A free copy should not be too difficult to find online.
Not really, "invisible" is a fair way to describe complexity that developers never interact with. Especially when most other popular languages forces developers to deal with irritating async/await bookkeeping when it comes comes to concurrency.
I think MSR and Google Brain are counter examples, in that, they do a lot of research and put it in public domain.

Apple doesn’t do much of this —- they’ve never really done it. It makes one wonder why.
I have two kids, had a 14 year marriage and many relationships after that :)
LOL that's actually very useful as I'm trying to find out how the thing works
while knowing your tools is always a good idea, i disagree with the overall notion of "don't divide labour" because a lot of the real-world problems software has to deal with are fractally complex. for instance, to pick a seemingly well-contained problem: if i wanted to write a collaborative text editor i would absolutely want to rely on someone else's work for font rendering or fault-tolerant networking, because each of those are problems that i could spend years on, and still not have covered all the failure modes and corner cases.
Omidyar-Greenwald-Snowden: A Triangle of Deception
I must be getting awfully good at hitting the heart of the problem instead of feeding trolls if people are thinking I'm a bot. Turing tests ftw.

I answered your earlier questions already. I encourage you to read full threads.
> Note that the definition of a household includes "or two or more people who live together and share facilities (such as for cooking) in a private dwelling".

Well yes, it was ever thus. Many people do this and would prefer to live alone, but during this time, average household size has continued to decline.

> If housing prices were flat then people would buy them largely for the rental income.

No investor is going to pay $1,000,000 for a rental return of $40,000/y (before expenses) if there is no expectation of capital gains. I recently signed a lease for $45,000/y on a property valued at $1,500,000. Prices are only this high because of the expectation of capital gains. Without that, prices won't remain flat, they will fall and those that want to buy a home but currently can't will have a better chance. Especially because the major stumbling block for most is saving for the deposit (20% required in most cases).

> Many people resist believing more supply will reduce prices.

I don't deny that it might help. There is obviously some magic number of surplus homes that would cause prices to fall but that number is going to be very high. Any reasonable amount won't have an effect as significant as addressing the demand side of the equation (i.e. making property less attractive than it currently is relative to other investment opportunities).

I once had a job that made me very familiar with the number of residences in certain parts of Wellington city. In a single year, in an area of just a few blocks, the number of residences went from about 800 to about 1300. Prices continued to rise. What did have some effect was the credit crunch following the GFC which kept prices subdued for a while.
I only eat food of acceptable quality.

I actually have not eaten from a dumpster in months.

But most dumpster food is quite safe, because it is still in packaging, or it is of the non-risky variety.
Loom is an awesome research project that might begin to be relevant in the actual practice of production Java once it is 1-2 LTS releases old.
Is the page down now?
Your comment here crossed into attack, which is one reason this thread turned into a flamewar—and you perpetuated the flamewar badly downthread. Please don't do those things on this site, regardless of how strongly you feel about science.

HN is an internet watercooler—not an academic journal. The goal is to have curious conversation. Conversation involves anecdotes and it involves people being wrong about things, including important things, much of the time. If someone happens to be wrong, or you feel they are, piling on and shaming them is definitely not helpful. It is only going to evoke worse reactions from themselves and from others, and throw the thread off balance.

Fortunately, we don't have to look far for examples of how to get this kind of thing right. These other users all responded to the same comment in a conversational way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30042547

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30041780

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30040903

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30040694

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30040674

They made much the same point that you did, but they did it respectfully and in keeping with the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. If you'd please review the guidelines and use HN that way too from now on, we'd be grateful. Of course it's not always possible—we all have our triggers and we all get into states where the internal reaction overflows. But in those cases, it's important not to post.
Most definitely.

For me one of the biggest revelations for cooking damn near everything was "of COURSE moisture ruins the ability to get a good sear, how did I not realize that before"

So many things come packaged wet, or at least moist, and then I'd get a pan ripping hot... and still have a mediocre sear.

It's something I learned for cooking steaks but has been pretty universally applicable.
You can have the attitude without the piece of paper, no? Your point about people getting married without it proves my point: don’t get married. At best all you need is the long vault attitude. At worst it is much easier to end a relationship.
Why should they necessarily put the sole R&D center in America? They are all international companies, unlike the old AT&T.
Unfortunately, while the Sandifer article does make some valid points about Scott Alexander's writing, it also deploys plenty of questionable rhetorical tricks and shoddy reasoning itself. I'm personally not impressed by either article.
I used a software that required you to drag the mouse to draw lines to connect components and I remember several other users getting pain in their wrists from the repeated dragging action with the mouse. The act of pressing the button and dragging seems to be much less ergonomic than moving the mouse alone. So I now think that two separate clicks should be preferred.
The point is that’s now how it is framed by the school. So people grow up thinking there’s an absolute, precise, and “correct” answer and anything else is “wrong”
Most of them? That having liberal views on almost every flashpoint issue (guns, abortion, immigration, vaccines, etc.) save one or two, usually just one.

Take Kenny Xu, how do you justify categorizing him as "racist and intolerant"? Is the idea that college admissions should not discriminate on the basis of race really so abhorrent?
> The human body and the ant colony are units of reproduction; an individual ant, like an individual cell, cannot reproduce. Only the colony or the human can do that.

I honestly don't know if you're trying to be rhetorical here or what, but individual cells DO reproduce and individual humans do not.
I wish I could believe your assumption that there are no flat earther politicians, educators, physicists, pilots or mapmakers, but somehow that's being too hopeful.
I made a decision a few years ago to not go out of my way for food, except for social reasons, and I generally follow this most of the time.

I basically wait for food to "manifest" for me to eat, and do not eat until it happens.

To "fuel" this manifesting, I practice karma yoga.

I developed this practice based on reading various teachings, finding parallels between them, and then poking about and experimenting until I found what works.

Sort of like how I learned computers...
This is something we know to be true already. The more invasive, the more powerful the placebo effect.

>Weirdly enough, surgery’s invasiveness may explain some of its potency. Studies have shown that invasive procedures produce a stronger placebo effect than non-invasive ones, said researcher Jonas Bloch Thorlund of the University of Southern Denmark. A pill can provoke a placebo effect, but an injection produces an even stronger one. Cutting into someone appears to be more powerful still.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/surgery-is-one-hell-of-...
If you’re on an iOS device, Safari will search the text in the images which I thought was quite neat.

https://ibb.co/7j8kgvs
Fair enough. Perhaps I should have said “uncertainty”, but I judged it scientific jargon with respect to the people I was talking about.
Yeah; really hard to guess at the effect a feature that hasn't been finalized, has been in progress for years, and has yet to land in a release in any form, will actually have in an environment that is as slow to roll out updates and adopt new features as enterprise Java dev tends to be.

Optimistically we may be able to answer op's question sometime in 2024.
Yet they are fine with running microcode as long you don't update it. It doesn't make sense. Blobs don't disappear just because they are hidden in ROM.
Consider what the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had to say about pandemic management in 2008: “The notion that we need to ‘trade liberty for security’ is misguided and dangerous. Public health concerns cannot be addressed with law enforcement or national security tools.” 13 years later, in a guest essay in The New York Times, the ACLU proclaimed that “the real threat to civil liberties comes from states banning vaccine and mask mandates”. Think what you want about these policies, but the shift in the Overton window and ACLU values is real.
HEY! im moving to chicago soon, they have really nice butchery shops (and some are argentinians and not too good).

I think there is one way to cook for every one that is cooking. And you will find a lot of ways to cook them, some you will like, some you will not.

Lets do a hackers barbacue next time there!
Attacking another user like this will get you banned here, regardless of how right you are or feel you are. Please don't post like this to HN, and please don't fuel any more flamewars.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I've got the feeling the author has read my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30036588

What is said about librem5 is irrelevant: it is not certified.

What is said about gaming the certification is irrelevant: no currently certified devices does it.

There are modern certified devices: Talos motherboards.

There are no modern laptops certified? Blame the vendors. OK, this may not make them change their mind, but while we are not fully independent, I see no other way.
> Why accuse the FSF of hypocrisy?

I'm not sure I fully agree with the author, but I think their point is that the FSF makes exceptions for binary blobs in some places because of usability, but then denies similar exceptions elsewhere because they're not libre. The complaint is that the decision on what counts as being included in the loopholes appears largely arbitrary, at least from an outsider's perspective.
> Would be a nice gesture, given how much $FB has benefited from running the entirety of the worlds largest social graph on top of MySQL.

There are plenty things to shit on Facebook for, but "not contributing to open source" is definitely not one of them. React, GraphQL, Cassandra, etc. are all hugely successful and influential projects.
> the draft doesn't apply to women

Or any other gender. There is no draft.

We're all required to register with selective services in case there is one, though.
Very few people or organizations willingly give up control. The whole reason of using copyright law to "enforce" freedom by preventing free software from becoming unfree was because of how much the current legal framework around imaginary property is stacked against a libre approach. So, it's a tough game to play, but FSF didn't achieve what it has thus far by being soft or compromising. Substantial change with hostile parties doesn't happen by constantly yielding.
> despite appearing to say that human societies, unlike humans and ant colonies, cannot reproduce?

This is not even an attempt to approximate what I said. I said that humans are composed of cells which cannot reproduce, colonies are composed of ants which cannot reproduce, and human societies -- unlike humans and ant colonies -- are composed of humans which reproduce independently of the society. When I specifically indicate that what distinguishes human societies from ant colonies is that ants can't reproduce and humans can, what else could that mean?

This makes nonsense of the idea that a human society could be viewed as a superorganism. They don't have the coherence; they are constantly subject to betrayal by the humans of which they are composed. There are historical processes which look like the reproduction of a society: in the wake of Alexander the Great, northern India received a bunch of Greek colonists who built theaters, spoke Greek, practiced Greco-paganism, and wrote a lot of history, which marked a big contrast with the existing societies which built stepwells, spoke Sanskrit, practiced Buddhism, and wrote almost no history. And then the Greeks took up Buddhism. And they started speaking Sanskrit. And they stopped writing history. And they stopped building theaters. But they didn't go anywhere.

If societies were superorganisms, that couldn't have happened. The loss of Greek culture in India would have simultaneously been the loss of all the Greeks.
I worked for several people like this in high school. In fact all of the people I worked for in high school were like this. One example being having to clean hot outdoor bathrooms in mid July heat with a mean case of mono and a temperature of 103. Never mind being “allowed” to call in sick. It took many, many years to realize that work wasn’t supposed to be this way.

After being what I consider a very talented member of our industry for 15 years and having no career advancement whatsoever, I’ve been asking myself over the past couple years whether these experiences are to blame. Getting reamed out all the time seems to have had a lasting impact on my ability to take ownership, do the kinds of things you need to do to get ahead, etc.
I argue that instead of pushing for marriage equality it might have been better to push for marriage to become a private contract matter, with expiration dates, extensions, remedies, and such built in. There is zero reason for the government to treat a couple as a couple rather than as two individuals. In the past it might have made sense, when the expectation was that the man worked and the woman didn’t and gay people didn’t exist. That is not reality. Why are we pretending like there is some kind of virtue in throwing a $30k party and then falling out of love five years later but staying together because divorce is expensive?
A 2009 thinkpad is rather capable of being a daily driver for most people. Saying otherwise, you're only contributing to the growing problem of ewaste.

Even the T60 offers a decent performance if your usecase is browsing the web, mail and other simple tasks.

The FSF might be wrong in some aspects but there's no real alternative to Libreboot. The Framework laptop is not free software friendly. Even if it was corebooted, it would require many proprietary blobs and it's highly unlikely, if not impossible, that they will be ever able to remove the Intel ME.

There are other options that are nearer to be completely free (as in freedom) hardware, eg the Pinebook Pro. I'm unsure if there are any proprietary blobs required to boot it tho, but the lack of Intel ME makes it a much better candidate for a new generation of 'libre' hardware.
Agree with you, but a quick clarification: PCIe IOMMUs exist now, a PCIe device doesn't get DMA access to main memory.
Even further back in the day, the Algol-60 reference language used bold and/or underlining for keywords - handy when all you have is a typewriter:

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/ALGOL/report/Al...

http://www.algol60.org/reports/algol60_rr.pdf

(Although technically this was actually syntax, not just syntax highlighting, since that's how the reference language distinguished between keywords and identically spelled identifiers.)
A friend once recommended a video game and when I asked if it was worth the price he said it was "a solid 100 hours of gameplay".

There's definitely an alternative framing for entertainment. My friend gladly traded $60 for something that promised to take 100 hours. If it only took 50 hours, he would have found it less valuable.
Ha! I am the same with OLED. Ever since I saw a video recorded in an OLED lab, where one of the guys had a transparent foil, looking just like those for the overhead projectors in high-school in the 80's, connected to a HDMI cable. He switched it on and a movie was playing on that foil. He bent it, rolled it and said, this could be cut to any shape and size.

I would be in DIY heaven, if one could buy such foil by the meter, for a sensible price. Just imagine, what kind of displays for DIY devices one could accomplish!
The compiler can't know if page 0 is mapped.
My situation is somewhat more interesting than most, but no I didn’t need to convince my partner(s) of any of this and everyone thinks of it the same way. That was one of the things that attracted me to the person with whom I have been living for the past several years.
It mentions that the the current tallest building is empty in the top 29%
Maybe HN could have a Reject Club for everyone who's tried and failed to land a job at a FAANG company. That's probably a decent size group.
WP is possibly the most powerful and widely adopted footgun we’ve ever seen.
A big factor is the rise of VC doing spike projects. We fund a group of very young, energetic people, gas them up on an idea, and burn them to validate a concept. Sometimes they make out well, and sometimes they fail completely, and sometimes they get fully screwed by liquidation preferences and other ridiculousness. It rises to the level of exploitation in a lot of cases.
There are multiple possible explanations. People sometimes get confused about which account they're posting from, which is not the same thing as intentionally using a sockpuppet. Alternatively, people in the same household sometimes both post to HN, and same-household would readily explain same-dog. Either way, it seems unlikely that there was any attempt to deceive here.
It sort of is though. I wouldn't go as far as saying it will be as wide-spread as e-commerce; it will remain much more niche.

But if you think the subcultures which are now being built around this are going to disappear, it's because you've only been exposed to the kind of media coverage that focuses on the speculative bubble and animal picture cash grabs.
only if they are independently wealthy
I'm having flashbacks. Then USR merged with 3com and that was tricky because 3com sold some winmodems?

Google images on those external ones from USR took me back a bit though. I didn't have one of those but I saw them.
This is just what these displays are capable of. I guess, that also might be the reason, they took book covers from the 1940's. Vintage look is quite attractive, this way, but it would be worse with modern high-def imagery.
Wishful thinking, I hope the same
many of us are still here, and wonder why these young'uns are reinventing the wheel everytime :-P

Other times, I wished to go back to the simpler days of X windows, latex/postscript, instead of this newfangled another-react-framework-that-promises-to-make-things-easier ala xkcd 927
Right. Everyone thinks they can beat the odds/that their relationship is stronger than average. Yet most people are average.
The reliability and legitimacy of The Atlantic gets worse and worse. The Left lean doesn't bother me at all. The shameless elitist disconnect is unacceptable.
What kind of evidence are you looking for?

History of full of example of patents slowing the deployment to technology, the latest clear example is 3d Printing which really only became affordable to the home user, and abel to be hackable by people doing novel things with it after the patents expired

I would assume the same thing would happen with eink
Warren Buffet has done quite well. So maybe it exists but only one person in the world is capable of it.