skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a fascinating conference filmed and on youtube at UCL on this subject (in my history, looking for it).

The upshot is roughly that the owner of farm (hedonic) land knows how much their land is worth both with and without planning permission and the minute housing is thought of the price of the land 10x.

And that's fair - no one wants to look like a chump. So any house building scheme to solve the housing crisis suddenly has this price built in, and thus any house building scheme immediately becomes too expensive to undertake.

There was a solution in UK in early 1950s. A 100% land value tax. If you bought land for 10k and sold it for 100k you owed the government 90k.

This quite simply took the heat out of the market, and allowed the government to invest in roads and schools and hospitals and so on. It mean that UK built two whole New Towns (widely seen as concrete monstrosities) but the point is they got built - enough new housing in a handful of years to create towns that still live breathe 80 years later.

If we want house building schemes we have the answer.
I often find this for some libraries. Like the new library Foo.js "inspired by Bar and Baz, but better", where the documentation is made up of, say, two simple examples and that's it. Fortunately, often this is not the case and documentation is very well written.
Justice Department Targets ‘Spoofing’ and ‘Scalping’ Short-Seller Investigation
https://archive.fo/aQBNM#selection-4047.5-4047.87
all, but switch to top and top within an hour.

if you dont have those settings, use redditisfun
This is my take on this too. Software in general takes a huge amount of work to reach "completion". Mvps exist because of this.

Somewhere in the "hardcore software" book (1) Stephen Sinofsky touches on the amount of work to ship desktop software.

(1) https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/about
I'm a double bassist, so I have more than 12 pitches, unfortunately. ;-)

I think of the 12 tone system as a technology.

Somehow the sound of 12 tones took root, like a meme, we don't know when or why, but it's like the Omicron of tuning systems, and 2500+ years later, it's pandemic.

We know that as a technology, it has co-evolved with culture. Technologies do that. We know something about its history based on things that people wrote. For instance the harmonic series was known to the ancient Greeks (attributed to Pythagoras). Music that used the harmonic series probably existed before Pythagoras, for him to have discovered its underlying secret. We know that they used "diatonic" scales, but don't precisely know which notes they chose for which scales, for instance whether their Dorian scale is the same as ours.

I suspect that the harmonic series made it easy for musicians to make and tune their own instruments, when that became important to them. Musical culture did not just consist of music, but also knowledge about making and playing instruments, and singing. That's what I mean by a technology. A harpsichord needed to be tuned before every performance, by the musician. The need for a tune-able music technology persisted for centuries, swept along by the 12 tone pandemic.
> Honesty sounds like AWS is giving up on providing hosted elastic search.

Yes, Elastic’s press release is carefully crafted to give that impression, but, AFAICT, all AWS is doing is using the name of the open fork (“OpenSearch” [0]) for their service, which is now labelled “Amazon OpenSearch Service” and subheaded “(successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service)” [1], and not using the ElasticSearch name (except as a historical reference.)

[0] https://opensearch.org/

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/opensearch-service/
There are a few techniques:

Patch clamp recording: you are literally sticking a needle into a single neuron and measuring it’s activity

EEG/MEG: using electrodes to measure activations of many thousands or millions of cells
What Earth was like last time CO2 levels were as high as today
> The question was not "would it be FOSS". The question is whether you can have the benefits of FOSS, or as much of them as possible.

And it is in the best interests of FOSS to make it clear, time and time again, that the answer is no, and to work to ensure the answer is no.
So you are saying there are incentives for the governments to not print money? What, on the other hand, are the incentives to print money?
Yep. Seems to be just a convenient excuse to hate on environmentalists, when nuclear power is just too damn expensive (and also takes too long to build), especially today when there are cheaper alternatives.

I was all for nuclear power myself before I started seeing how infeasible it was to get us to carbon neutral with them. I'm still fine with any new nuclear power plants that want to be built but it looks like pretty much no one wants to invest in them anymore anyway.

"The cost of generating solar power ranges from $36 to $44 per megawatt hour (MWh), the WNISR said, while onshore wind power comes in at $29–$56 per MWh. Nuclear energy costs between $112 and $189."

"Capital flows reflect that trend. In 2018, China invested $91 billion in renewables but just $6.5 billion in nuclear."[1]

"Nuclear power plant construction costs—mainly materials, labor, and engineering—rose by 185 percent between 2000 and 2007. More recently, costs have been increasing even faster: In mid-March, Progress Energy informed state regulators that the twin 1,100 MW nuclear plants it intends to build in Florida would cost $14 billion, which “triples estimates the utility offered little more than a year ago.”

Jim Harding, former direc tor of power planning and forecasting for Seattle City Light, estimates that nuclear plants constructed today would provide electricity at between 12 and 17 cents per kilowatt-hour. To put this cost into perspective, the average U.S. electricity price in 2006 was 8.9 cents per kWh, and well-placed wind turbines can produce electricity for less than 5 cents per kWh."[2]

"Study claims that investment in a new 1GW nuclear power plant leads to average losses of approximately 4.8 billion euros." [3]

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-nuclearpower/nucle...

[2]: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/10-reasons-not-to-i...

[3]: https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/07/24/nuclear-a-poor-invest...
If we are lucky we might get a new season of Battle Bots: Lunar Edition
Here's the activity difference for the last year

repo | commits | authors
------------+---------+---------
elastic | 2719 | 179
opensearch | 265 | 54

Here's a breakdown based on commits with at least 15 lines of code churn (lines added, changed or deleted).

repo | commits | authors
------------+---------+---------
elastic | 1681 | 122
opensearch | 153 | 41

What is interesting about these numbers, is they clearly show a lot of people (57 authors) took the time to create a small pull request, which goes to show how popular the project is.
Pretending like they have something for the future, which they don't.
As a proponent for advancement, I will hope for the latter while laughing at your comment.
Appreciate the pointer, kind stranger! I'll have to load this up onto my Asus router that is no longer supported by Merlin. I hate that the stock Asus firmware doesn't let me monitor IP traffic per client. This looks to be supported by FreshTomato.
Alondra Nelson Named Director of White House Science and Technology Policy
Gnome has a high contrast mode and UI font size options. What do custom themes add for accessibility?
What would it mean to adopt the logic of the post without sending your traffic through an authenticating proxy? I thought the whole point here was to use an authenticating proxy instead of a VPN server.
Seneca didn't say it was true. They simply questioned acdha's claim that it was false. This is fair to question. But I suspect based on the rest of acdha's post that "it's not true" was shorthand for the more reasonable "I'm not convinced that it's true".
Just my dumb opinion here, but... there's something extremely implausible on its face about the idea that a sufficiently complex spreadsheet could calculate the difference in value generated from kids going to school versus kids not going to school.

If people could be convinced that this was something more than a castle in the sky, maybe it would get more attention.

I imagine a bunch of academics put their fingers to the wind and made wild guesstimates, and Caplan took it all very literally as some sort of sound foundation to evaluate education as a whole.

I mean jeez, what did he even compare our status quo education system against? Where did the kids go in the counterfactual no-education scenario? Did the kids all go home to an infinite supply of stay-at-home moms? Did they go to extended daycare, all the way up to age 18? What did they do with all that time?
Google AI Blog: Good News About the Carbon Footprint of ML Training
Thanks! Teller looks really cool - there's definitely a real market for what you're doing, though I don't envy your position having to deal with the big banks given how misaligned incentives are in the retail banking industry.

You made some good points about direct integrations - some of the public APIs we deal with are totally separate from the brokerages' internal APIs and that's made painfully apparent during an integration. It has taken us months to get access to prod keys at some of the largest institutions and many of them seek to impose pretty onerous conditions on our customers and their users once we get through their compliance processes. Still, we've seen brokerages becoming more receptive to the idea of opening up their APIs, so we're optimistic that we can form partnerships with them and nudge them toward building better public APIs.
I stopped riding two years ago after 30+ years. This was mostly based on my recent experience as a pedestrian- I just watched way too many people running stop signs while staring at their phone. Figured I'd have a good run of it and better to get out while the going was good.
A new atlas of cells that carry blood to the brain
I'm probably pretty close to that. I find that I bookmark 20± open tabs into a folder while doing research. Looking to organize them all, though want to pass them to a crawler and set up for indexing and tagging.

HN upvotes have supplanted some of my link hording the last few years, but are essentially bookmarks but another name
On the other hand, being honest on LinkedIn may not be wise. I have never seen anyone not being enthusiastic on LinkedIn.
i think this is good. exchanges are giving cover to the more fraudulent nature of dryprocurrencies.
Computer models show how crop production increases soil nitrous oxide emissions
Funny you mention that. I just got a Mac and I spent 30 minutes trying to figure out how to save a screenshot from the screenshot menu only to rage quit out of frustration. 2 days later I found out I have 20 screenshots from all the failed attempts saved on my desktop!

Nothing about the UI telling me how or where these things were saved. It confused me coming from Ubuntu a lot :)
A genetic database to identify missing persons in El Salvador
I think it really boils down to, they need a near future myth for investors to speculate their stock price up. That myth is, ubiquitous, always-on AR is just around the corner, and they're going to be the platform it runs on.
You get the same output with "perl -c". (Actually I've just updated README to use that.)

Note that the error message is "friday.pm had compilation errors, so yes, there's a compilation phase. It's not compiled to the machine code, though.
I don't think so. I was a delivery driver and so was also responsible for pulling the pizzas off the end of the oven conveyor, slicing them, and boxing them, so I can't be sure if some special government cheese was used in the prep line. But my memory of the pizzas was that they were the same, just sliced different.
Why Elon Musk is so successful
How does this differ from, say, catt[1]?

[1] https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt
I've seen something similar where some automated unit tests always passed and when I tried to run it locally would always fail. After digging around I realized it was making assumptions about the timezone it ran in, which was on the east coast, whereas I was on the west.
Has anyone here read the book? I have a hard time imagining that a technical education (e.g. engineering, physics, forestry, chemistry) would be worthless if someone wants to work in that field.

Social sciences however... but of course I'm biased there.
I am thinking from an energy perspective. Energy used to grow an animal or a plant is energy not used to warm the planet.

Perhaps we should design a system that builds a carbon structures using the sun's energy. Rather than Solar Electricity we have Solar Carbon.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/splitting-carbon-...
Ditto. Really want to support Elastic but have found their cloud offering just randomly breaks.
Latest problem is we lost a node and the new node couldn't recover its shards from backups. Constant crashing until we upsized the instance to have more memory. Makes no sense and support wouldn't lift a finger to help.
I think the most frustrating part of app review is the inconsistency. Ive seen it happen while I worked at FANG level companies down to my own apps and doing contracting for startups. Each time you submit an update you are rolling the dice that a feature that was perfectly fine for every single app submission previously will be flagged for rule a violation.

A perfect example is one of the apps I do contract work for has a web view directory feature that doesn't have any login pages on it directly, but after about 3-4 clicks you can get to one for the people who's listings are on there. After 7 years of this app functioning exactly like this (and 1.5 years of sign in with apple existing) they decided it violated the app store rules because it didn't feature sign in with apple... It took an app store appeal and almost 2 weeks of back and forth over the exact wording of the sign in with apple rules to get them to agree that the original reviewer had overstepped their bounds.

Although my absolute favorite rejection has been for putting a small apology to my users that I had quarantine due to a covid exposure and thats why the app update was delayed as I was unable to work and keep my family safe. It again took an appeal and 2 weeks for the apple to realize that my app hadn't suddenly become a covid app, which should have been obviously from the first glance at the covid flagging.

Its gotten so bad I've even started selling app store pre-review services to some of my old clients that now have internal teams as I feel like I know the app store rules better than I know swift at this point.
After the Fact
Thx! I still find weird they don't mention it at all in the article, but this is fair at least :)
Lots of things the government pays for though is not supposed to be hugely profitable - no one questions why we have Fire departments for example and they are a huge "loss" when everyone is just sitting around.

The power not stored though is of course still just a problem in general for efficiency sake - I wonder if there is something we could pair with nuclear plants that would use the otherwise wasted energy to accomplish something productive.
This is the best description of why it's completely infeasible to make a system to guess it.

It would be only be possible if the password length was below a certain threshold (maybe 30 characters) beyond that limit, there wouldn't be enough atoms in the known universe in order to store every hash/password combination.... making it physically impossible....
Status icons were built on old and fractured technologies. They are coming back. Designs and technical discussions are happening right now.
> “I barely sleep three to four hours a day, which results in me making serious errors in the market,” he says. “I’ve also started developing pain at the back of my neck and shoulders due to high levels of stress.” Das has bipolar disorder, and says crypto has been tough on his mental health. “Crypto will wreck you emotionally and physically,” he warns. “You will get scarred for life.”

Damn, what a situation. Poor guy. Hopefully he's connected with some experienced traders as well. This kind of story is as old as time. There are a lot of really helpful tools and perspectives out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVvwCkB-JLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTV7afiYE6A

There's also a fantastic story about someone navigating an even more scary scenario in the first chapter of Schwager's _Stock Market Wizards_.
https://www.mage.ai/blog/mage-is-soc2-certified
My dad, born in toward the end of WWII, has complained for at least the last three decades that it keeps getting harder every year to find usable boards at lumber yards. Tons of them warped, damaged, way too many knots or other problems, and so on, and that's when you are shopping a couple tiers up from the worst stock. I don't know why that is, but that seems to be the trend he's seen over his life. Makes sense, if he came into adulthood about halfway between the unthinkably-nice framing & foundational lumber in that 1910s house, and now, and it was a somewhat continuous process instead of some sudden change.
Rust is hardly a "desktop-native" language. I expect it will have to jump through all sorts of hoops to interface with the Obj-C underpinnings of MacOS desktop libraries.

Regardless, even if the backend were pure Obj-C, the point is still that now you have a UI stack and a backend stack, instead of a single desktop-native stack, and you have to manage their communications. But I guess the money they save by not managing desktop-specific codebases eventually adds up...
The difference between rules in programming and rules in music is that in the first case they're normative, in the second case they're descriptive.

Music theory can tell you why a specific combination of notes and a chord progression in a musical piece are pleasant to the ear, but does not guarantee that using similar combinations and progressions will result in pleasant sounds.

Part of the reason is subjectivity, in the sense of music is intended to be heard by subjects. And these subjects have their own experiences of music, which in turn conditions their expectations and their reactions to sounds. What sounds good is different from person to person, let alone from culture to culture. Coming from a classical background, when I heard jazz at a young age, I considered it chaotic and awful. Today, it's the most pleasant style of music for my ears. I've seen people who had never, ever heard opera music listen to an aria and laugh to tears because for them it was comically awful.

Another is reason, I think, is that music is embodied by who plays it. I can play Blackbird in the exact same way Paul McCartney does, but when I do it the best I can expect is people saying "that's nice!". When McCartney plays it, the entire stadium hold their breath and get chills, some are in tears. I don't see how that level of emotion can be explained in a scientific way.
And one is learned after the other.

If you learned the same thing twice, it would probably not show up as two things.
So, I mod a subreddit that provides a somewhat important volunteer service for subscribers. The details aren’t important. My question is: what would be the most ideal off boarding experience to bring these folks to another platform from a subreddit?

At first, I thought about forking teddit in such a way that the hosted app would have a domain, and would use teddit to proxy to the Reddit subreddit. I’d bootstrap existing users using oauth attestations, because the day will come where we’ll want to cut loose from Reddit but this would allow for sticky identities cross platform (unless I use Keybase instead for crypto identity attestation).

And now I’m thinking about just using a mailing list and hosted Discourse instance, and I don’t think Mastadon is a fit for this use case.

Thoughts?
Well, is it calculable? If yes, then a sufficiently complex spreadsheet ought to be able to do the job.

However with no auditing, we don’t know whether Brian’s did, or even approached the level of complexity needed to in his calculations. He tried to bring math to a subject that is typically argued through rhetoric and that’s respectable enough.
I hear people say this but I also almost never meet environmentalists who are super against nuclear power. Most will say they of course prefer something extra clean like solar or geothermal but nuclear is usually the sort of middle of the road option in those circles. And many of the less idealistic I have met also think it is our only real solution.
There’s nothing more frustrating to me than seeing a billion/trillion dollar company being so lazy. That’s like spitting in the face of capitalism.
Thanks for commenting - funny enough I was actually telling our team about Teller the other day - it's awesome how much you've been able to achieve. Would be great to stay in touch!
Seems pretty selfish to keep all that money when he could give it back to Meta.
The goal of removing the excuse of "oh it's behind a VPN" is in and of itself not bad, but I have a hard time getting behind the methodology. Modern VPNs aren't just ways to get around fucked up NAT disasters in organizations that can't be bothered to learn IPv6, they also have user, protocol, and application awareness that can be utilized to make fairly granular distinctions about who can access what without ever specifying a ip/mask range.

In practical terms this new model is demanding a 5-10x increase in the number of security focused people at any subject organization, and there frankly aren't that many people out to be hired that are actually any good at it. (and the "cybersecurity" organizational mentality does not overlap as much as might be imagined with security research or forward-thinking computer science, those people would be bored to suicide filling out the forms all day that they know no one ever reads)

Most organizations are going to find a way to out-source this to things like "government clouds" so it's mostly a major revenue windfall for existing larger players in the same vein as other defense and government contracting.
ASCII is part of Unicode, so for Unicode it's also «a limited set. Yes, errors are made and occur. They're reasonably easy to code defensively against».

> Unicode ... vastly expands the attack interface.

Limit yourself to 0..9 to be safe.
Interesting - so a clean room implementation is somehow more attractive than complying with the AGPL.

So AGPL is open source, but in practice it seems like it's so much more restrictive than something like BSL that is not open source.

This just makes OSS vs not-OSS seem like even more of an theoretical line in the sand.

As for

> Hence, Mongo relicensed under a new license, the SSPL, that says if you implement an SSPL-covered API, the SSPL extends.

That definitely looks ugly on Mongo, implementing an API is such a fundamental part of software compatibility. Seems like the exact wrong way to go about it.
The priest’s story of the gang first coming upon him sitting on a rock in the middle of the desert like he had been waiting for them somewhat supports that.

“There he set on a rock in the middle of the greatest desert you’d ever want to see. Just perched on this rock like a man waitin for a coach.”
On a certain level I might agree.

On the other hand, I think it's a reasonable point that if we disagree with him, go find the parameter he's chosen wrongly or forgotten, since it must exist somewhere if he's wrong.

On the third hand, that's probably unfairly much to ask of your audience, since it requires auditing work that took a year.
The shutdown was explicitly not working. :(

I also clearly knew how to do a screenshot. But once you have set it to go to clipboard, command shift 4 will silently do that from now on. And I am not at all clear on how I would discover to change that.

And the pdf claim was with preview, not another app.

Worse, though, I could write a very similar rebuttal for any computer in this vein. If you know how things work, discovering is not hard.