skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re right that SFHs definitely skew the median average up, but as someone who lives in Los Angeles — you would be hard pressed to find a brand new apartment unit in the city for less than $800k. Anecdotally, almost all new-build condos I’ve seen (and I saw a lot, when I was home shopping across many different neighborhoods) are just as expensive, if not more expensive, than old/partially-renovated SFHs (which is what I ended up getting). This is pretty universal real estate rule across all LA neighborhoods, per my realtor: new sfh > new condo >= old sfh > old condo (old meaning it’s in need of at least some non-cosmetic renovation or structural retrofit)

Part of the issue is the zoning code as it is really only makes it possible for developers to build larger/luxury developments. You don’t see many 4plexes getting built because all of the red tape makes it less profitable than building a new SFH on a multi-unit lot (which I’ve unfortunately seen happen when a charming but old 4plex got demolished in place of a new build McMansion). Hopefully sb9 and sb10 change that.

I’m short, I think that at least among new build condos, Los Angeles social housing is still at or below median price per unit. It’s a shame it’s that expensive, but that’s the hole CA dug itself into by not allowing more housing to be built organically.
There are some interesting coincidences that make me think that the torpor hypothesis might be worth exploring:

- Basal metabolic rates in present-day Americans are substantially lower than they were in the past (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nqBxKGn... -- Yes, the link is from the aforementioned blog, but you can check the citations).

- Mean body temperatures today are lower than in the past (https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/1/22/21075218/no...).

- 13.2% of Americans have taken an SSRI in the past 30 days (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db377.htm). To be clear, depression and torpor are different conditions, but it seems reasonable that a torpid-like state might include depression-like symptoms, and that those might be treatable with SSRIs.

- Obesity has absolutely exploded in the past 40 years, and none of the prevailing hypotheses have much explanatory power (https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p...).
how many kettles this time
>> Boggles the mind how Windows search basically just doesn’t work at this point

Now that you've tried Windows Search on your desktop, please allow us to help (or coerce) you to use MS Bing to search the entire world-wide-web. </sarc>
Developers have always been lazy. I think some of the best developers are the laziest developers, the ones who are motivated enough to find innovative ways to do less work.

When I was programming for DOS, if I wanted to write to the screen in color I had a few options. I could use Borland's conio.h, I could invoke INT 21h and rely on ANSI.SYS to render my color, I could use INT 10h to write a character at a time in the color I want, or I could write directly to screen memory. Writing directly was really the only way to get the performance I needed, but it added complexity, since I needed knowledge of the hardware I was running on (not all video adapters map character cells to segment B800h).

Today, for a similar "text mode" application, I can use ncurses, or I can write CSI codes directly to the terminal. I can write in C or Python or even Javascript. There are more moving parts, but it would be less work to dust off my old 386SX than it would be to get those moving parts out of the way.

No matter what, I'm always going to do the minimal amount of work I need to get the desired result. If someone comes up with a way to do less work and get better performance, that's the ticket to high speed.
> Wouldn't the overwhelming liberal majority rule in California be evidence in and of itself?

It's a very good point. I find it very disingenuous to claim republicans are at fault in a blue state like Claifornia. The null hypothesis should be democrats are responsible for the state (good or bad) of California. Anyone, who claims otherwise, should provide evidences for their claim.
Perhaps. I agree that scuttling the factory wouldn't entirely deter China from attacking Taiwan, but it would definitely dent the value prospect of doing so. TSMC under Chinese ownership would be a remarkably powerful bartering chip (companies spend billions just getting their foot in the door around there), so I could really see it going either way. I know people from Taiwan, their general consensus is that under Chinese rule there would be no "ordinary life", and their goal is to make China respect their independence to the bitter end. There's definitely insufficient economic motive here, but the politics of the matter run much deeper than that.
A lower FOV actually translates to better PPD. You can use a basic formula: sqrt(hRes^2+vRes^2)/FOV. So a 100 degree FOV would give you about 36PPD, but a 90 degree FOV would actually give you an even better 40PPD. 60PPD is Apple's target for a "Retina" display, although there's a strong argument that you need double that at least for line pairs. For computer work purposes, we really should only care about matching PPD of a monitor. 36PPD is about equivalent of a 27" FHD monitor from 2ft/60cm: https://qasimk.io/screen-ppd/ and is probably good enough to start on focusing on other aspects of your optical design.

For a bit more nuance, here's a nice article that talks about how rendering geometry maps to FOV https://risa2000.github.io/vrdocs/docs/hmd_fov_calculation.h... although notably this does not account for the distortion shaders used in modern HMD pipelines to correct both for geometry and chromatic aberrations. There can be more techniques for improved text rendering, like what Oculus does with their timewarp layers: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1942692682...

For those interested, here's some discussion focused on optimal text rendering in 3D engines: https://bgolus.medium.com/sharper-mipmapping-using-shader-ba...

In a previous thread, @kanetw was actually kind enough to chat in more detail about some of the Simula's optical specs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29930547

For some basic references of different aspects of visual fidelity for HMDs, this old writeup by UC Davis professor/VR researcher Oliver Kreylos is a good place to start: http://doc-ok.org/?p=1414

If you're interested you can surf through his blog for lots of insights. Also, this doc is one I just found that does a good job covering a bunch of the optical issues with HMDs: http://almalence.com/doc/SPIE-11765-23-V3/Near-eye_display_o...
As a country that strips away voting rights from felons, it's arguable that we still don't have a democracy until all citizens are guaranteed the right to vote.
I've actually wondered if this whole gambit of his is a last ditch "legacy" hail Mary pass, because he's nearing some personal or administrative fin de ciecle (or both); whether because of his own mortality and/or because the regime is, after decades of perpetual crisis, now exhausted and running out of ways to otherwise scare the markets into sustaining him, he's now going back to the 80s for inspiration. Whether the Ukraine turns into Afghanistan part II is yet to be seen, but there are certainly enough folks still alive from the tail end of the USSR (who are not part of Russia) to recall that period, and want no part of it.

The Baltics seem to be the first to start really firing off the klaxons.

I suspect (or at least have seen no evidence to the contrary) that Putin has set up no real successor to him, so most likely if he does expire, Russia will yet again drop vertically into total chaos.
80 R29 of which half of on subs at port call

32 Bulavas on 2 Yasens in Pacific

46 R36, 6 with 20MT warheads, 40 with 10 1MT MIRV. 406 warheads total.

36 UR100

162 Topols

The Russian airforce doesn't have serious nukes, the land force don't have megaton scale weapons either.

R36, and UR100 in silos are the only genuine first strike option, everything else is a retaliation weapon. Only a coordinated first strike gives Russia a chance on victory, it's impossible with military C3 beheaded. The surviving military officers in bunkers in far reaches of the country would know that each of them don't have enough forces under their command to continue the war.
>But that's the only thing they supply. At least in Europe (I hope) they'll start decoupling from Russian fossil resources asap.

Which is the last thing anyone should want because it will simply deepen ties between Russia and China.
I would like to publish a series of posts on my build process, including cost breakdowns, because I know there is interest after seeing some similar posts (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30193899)

Without knowing much about your project, a dormer add can get expensive because you are modifying the structural envelope of the home. although the new sq footage may be small, the building process is involved and risk is high because your modifying roof-lines, bearing walls etc. A dormer addition is not simple.
Agreed that pumped hydro is the most efficient storage solution but it's limited by geography: You can only do it where there's an existing significant elevation change. Building a sufficiently elevated lake artifically by heaping thousands of cubic kilometers of dirt is not cost-effective. That is, the energy that would be required to build it would vastly exceed the total energy it could store integrated over its lifetime.
Plan 9 works like this. A file server that serves disk file systems (CWFS on 9fornt) can be made to listen for tcp/il connections as well as the ability to serve parts of a file system or namespace using exportfs (a file server itself).
Are you typing this out from a stocked nuclear bunker? Because you have an incredibly blase attitude regarding nuclear war.
Well, Russia will appreciate the gift. "Thanks for cleaning up the mess for us before we invaded."
Let by G7 but many other countries contributed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Shelter_Fund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement
Totally, you could. But in the case of a text editor, that would probably be purely to flex and not because it’s faster or better or easier, right?

People are definitely doing tons of vector rendering on the GPU. And the GPU is fantastic for vector graphics generally, mainly still because of the conversion to pixels. I posted links to Hughes Hoppe’s paper and the NV path rendering library, for example. Those can do font rendering as well, but I still wouldn’t use those for rendering fonts directly or for rendering text atlases because it would be difficult to implement.
That scared the shit out of me. Thanks.
This is a nice change. It looks like it used to be $15/mo per 100 Million rows read, $15/mo per 10 Million rows written. Now it's $1 per billion reads and $1.50 per 1 million writes. So the write pricing hasn't changed, but the read pricing has gone from $150 per billion to $1 per billion (a reduction of 99.3%). $1 would have gotten me 6.7M reads before the change and now a billion reads (150x more reads for your dollar). That's a huge pricing change!

I'm guessing the "difficult to understand and hard for you to predict" is around how the read pricing is based on how many rows MySQL needs to read in order to serve your query. That's going to depend on how the query optimizer executes your query (and what indexes you've made and such).

It does make me wonder if I'm allowed to create as many indexes as I want without incurring additional "writes". Their billing page makes it seem like indexes don't count: https://docs.planetscale.com/concepts/billing. In fact, their storage language makes it seem like indexes aren't charged for storage: "Data saved in the form of tables, columns, rows, and their corresponding relationships." I'm guessing that's just an oversight and the thinking is that "tables" covers indexes, but wouldn't "tables" also cover "columns, rows, and their corresponding relationships?" Given the expensive storage at $2.50/GB, how big things are seems to matter. Cockroach charges $1/GB (60% less), Google charges $0.34/GB for Cloud SQL HA storage, and $0.33/GB for Cloud Spanner storage (and 2-3x that if you're going multi-region). $2.50 is a big premium.

It still seems like there's an incentive to over-index rather than doing small filtering in-memory, though the incentive is now 99% smaller. Likewise, there seems to be no charge for doing something that requires sorting - or maybe they consider the sort to be a re-read of all the results? Looking over MySQL's explain analyze results, it looks like there shouldn't be a cost for reading through the index.

Sorry for the random thoughts. PlanetScale is a great project to offer a serverless MySQL on top of Vitess. I wish Vitess existed for PostgreSQL (we use Postgres' GIN indexes with JSON so it's not easy to move to MySQL).
These arms are probably what will give them their country back in the end. Nobody is under any illusion that the Ukrainian army can defeat Russia in a conventional war. But Russia is signing up for possibly decades of guerilla and insurgencies and is going to bleed dry like the USSR did in Afghanistan.

You know of what Ukrainians are even sicker than this conflict? Russian imperialism. Each instance of sabre rattling brings them closer to the West.
I suggest simplifying the content of the cards. Love this idea!
The question was, is it luxury?

> If the other option is living on the street, why not?

Those aren't our only choices.

> some people barely make ends meet. These people need a place to live, too, a cheap, non-advanced place, with many corners cut for the sake of it being cheap to build and maintain.

And they also, like other humans, need kitchens and bathrooms. Also, kitchens save a lot of money - cooking is by far the least expensive way to eat.
Indeed it apparently costs close to 10% of their military budget just to respond to Chinese incursions. That's a heck of an incentive.
As a for-instance:

The Ohio Capital-Journal simply says:

"This site not available in your country".

As text/plain.

Other sites throw 403s.

In general I don't think we're missing out on much in the way of journalism from the sites that do this, but there are some larger media groups that are still simply blocking European users rather than address privacy.
Worth noting "rows read" is not "rows returned". If you do 1000 full table scans on table with a million rows, you got a billion reads

https://docs.planetscale.com/concepts/billing#understanding-...
Have you not been paying attention to how Trump talks about tyrants? His love letters with Kim Jong Un? Endorsements of Viktor Orban and Bolsonaro? He's a "big fan" of Erdogan? For years now, he's been positively gushing about how much he admires Putin. He tried his damnedest to pull a coup last year, because he wants to join the league of tyrannical dictators. And sure, he badmouthed Biden and insisted that things would be different if he was at the helm, but has he ever shown real opposition to any actions of Putin? Or did he deliberately soften eastern Europe's defensive stance against Russia when he pulled American troops out of Germany?
Not an expert but I would doubt it. Most every part of the EU has signs at testing to the fact that X (a road, a bridge, a building) was paid for by EU funds.
This...is not wrong. Pioneer Square in Seattle used to have a lot of flop houses, part of it being the original "skid row" (logs skid to the saw mill, really muddy and not a desirable place to live). My grandfather in Spokane unwittingly ran a rooming house we cousins called the "empty arms" (inherited from his sister), which housed a lot of people who were just barely getting by.

Seattle's flop houses are mostly gone now...Spokane's are disappearing rapidly and is creating a new homeless problem in an area that used to be fairly immune to it (because of access to cheap housing).

China/Hong Kong and some of Asia have created a new spin on SROs with capsule and pod housing, China leverages a lot of sub-basements for SRO housing (without access to windows because underground), while Japan has cheap 2.5 tatami sized small room apartments. None of these would be allowed in the west, they are barely living, but maybe we should start thinking about them as an alternative to a much worse situation?
Expecting that your ideological opponents to completely back down in order to de-escalate is not de-escalation. De-escalation is incremental and generally done in small lock-steps, with all parties relaxing their postures, not by asserting polarizing and simplistic absolutes and expecting to "win". What you wrote above is part of the dynamic that prevents de-escalation.
I think the question is would you rather have a shared floor bathroom with no kitchen or live on the street. If the room is free, sure I'll take the room, but if the room has a price and I have no income, I might take the street and save the money. I think this comes down to the privileged arguing about what's best for the less fortunate. Our worlds are so different from theirs, even basic communication and understanding is difficult.
> Because the economics literature is quite clear that international trade is beneficial to all involved.

Maybe the literature is wrong?
When these things become viable they’re likely to be competing with battery storage systems for cheap power to start and restart the reactors. Though I suspect they’re likely to form partnerships, those partnerships will end up being profit sharing and blunt the prospects of such a plant.
It's pretty wild that all of humanity only exist because of that completely random spring surprise!
Sure, assuming that you start out with solid physical and mental health. Guess what homelessness does to a person's physical and mental health?
You're assuming both sides remain rational and calm when dead bodies get piling up and the safety protocols for mobilizing nukes get lifted.

Imagine you're the engineer involved with launching a nuke. In times of peace even if you get a phishing call to launch a nuke, you'd have second thoughts and probably take a couple more steps to confirm. In war time, you're already primed for the possibility of the nuke being used and it takes far less for a malicious actor to end the world as we know it.

Same for all levels of decision makers. It really just takes one trigger-happy maniac to make a wrong decision somewhere.
How? Short vs long-term thinking.

And Xi moving on Taiwan at the start of increased activities in Ukraine was the thing feared the most. What a shitshow it would be if China invaded Taiwan. The pandemic shortages would pale in comparison.
Economics is clear on nothing. The curve maximizing behaviors for international trade have a few assumptions built in, e.g. that Taiwan does not get annexed by China and suddenly the trade incentives change horribly.
I can only speak for myself, but it certainly impacted my relationship with my employer. Aside from it feeling intrusive into my personal health choices, It seemed to be an extreme ultimatum that reframed the power dynamic and how they valued me as an employee.

An apt analogy would be if your husband/wife threatens divorce because you left socks on the floor. Even if you don't mind picking them up, or were planning to already, it is shocking and damaging that they would go straight to the nuclear option.

Flip-flopping on the issue almost makes it worse. If you were willing to fire/divorce me yesterday, and don't care about the issue today, how much do you really value me and our ongoing partnership.
> You weren't specific in your criticism so I'm not sure what you take issue with

Why do you need to take issue with something?
what does this have to do with form fields? edit: I see you think that context menus are form fields. Thats incorrect.
They are going to try to get to Romania or Poland. I have contacted an immigration lawyer to see if we can sponsor them and bring them to the US.

> If you have not done so already, get a Brex virtual credit card in their name that they can use to pay expenses once they are out. Paypal is another way to move funds that does not require a bank account. There are many others.

This is interesting. Why do you recommend this? Because you expect Putin to shut down their banking infrastructure?
Is there any strategic significance to this? I thought it was closed?
It happens in politics because yes, people in general have much more emotional reactions to topics like politics and religion.

That’s why people who might otherwise have a logical and analytical approach to technical matters forget how to apply that when it comes to these topics.

That is also the reason why politics and religion are not generally “allowed topics” on this forum except when directly related to tech or a major world event.
I didn't mean geographic concentration of the resource (although that can be a factor) - geographic concentration of firms can often have a knock-on effect on both infrastructure and other supporting resources (a dock that can support exporting neon, neon-extraction-machine repair & service companies nearby, concentrated local expertise, etc).
...Because making sure businesses in economies plan for that sort of thing is generally something that you have to be a non-transient actor to ensure.

Businesses/corps come and go
... the Nation of $nation only tends to do so on the next timescale up. When their actually looking out for systemic blindspots no one else is, and not pandering to the elite.
It is government waste though given the context. It would be one thing if this was the price for public housing, complete public housing that functions like a private apartment. It's not. It's for homeless shelters. These should be spartan builds, meant to maximize units for the cost. To me, the modern example of the idyllic homeless shelter is your average university dorm: 4 people sharing a bedroom, and an entire floor sharing bathroom and kitchen facilities. Historically, this is how the lowest rung of urban housing has always been developed from ancient Rome right up until the 1950s when whites used race and class to destroy urban fabric and declare SROs (really any neighborhood with poor people) slums, fit for conversion to surface parking for white collar office workers. It makes no sense to be building these shelters in this style of a private apartment with 1 bathroom and kitchen per unit. It just drives up the costs and increases developer profit, and gives a few people their own kitchen while keeping a lot of people cooking in a nylon tent over an open fire compared to the alternative of sparing these costly amenities from each and every unit, and offering them communally instead.
My first apartment didn't have a kitchen. And it was fine, we are talking about a homeless shelter. You do not need to have stainless steel appliances, it should be a short-term stopgap until you find a better solution. Historically lower income people had to share common amenities like a shower. Just because it would be nice for every single person to have a big apartment with brand new appliances doesn't make it feasible .

I don't know about you, but given the choice between sleeping on the streets or having to share a shower with a reasonable number of other people, I'd share that shower.

Instead LA built a bunch of vanity projects which provide no real help to the vast majority of homeless people. The only thing you can really do is move your feet, which is what I did .

Anyone struggling to find affordable housing in LA should get out. You can move to Vegas and drive in every other week to see your friends.
If it protects EU, then the EU has a stake in it:

>> Russia wants to control the Chernobyl nuclear reactor to signal NATO not to interfere militarily, the same source said.
Why are the stars not magnified in the telescope? (2000)
I think your understanding is correct, but I don't see how asking for a CLA is too much of a problem. It's at least more straightforward than whatever legal spaghetti you'd be getting into just to find something that fits your definition of "fair".