skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I spent time in Bangkok and Shanghai and why does it seem really easy to rent a centrally located place in a quality tall building, as if it's just normal, and without a prices that seems insanely disproportionate to other life expenses? Yet in the US, it's very rare. There's not enough demand? Labor costs are too high? Laws like building hight limits in the US prevent it?

There aren’t enough of them because in huge swaths of the country it’s illegal to build anything denser than a single-family home. There’s plenty of demand for it, there’s just not enough supply.

Doesn’t even have to be high-rises, in most places it’s illegal to build the sort of mid-rises that are everywhere in European cities.

EDIT: Oh, and it’s also usually illegal to put a business in a residential area, which forces things further apart and forces people to drive to get to anything.
You are misunderstanding how the technology works. It's trained on a large scale dataset of images, not art specifically.

The reason that it's producing a specific style is that Nick manipulated the text prompt and picked images he liked. He disclosed that in the twitter thread.
I don't know if your first paragraph is sarcastic or not, but I do not think that you consider Indians or Africans "inferior" in truth, and therefore I am going to reply to your comment as if it was ironic or exaggerated for dramatic purpose.

Just like the USA has been a front runner for racial equality and LBGTQ+ rights throughout the world, some people use the argument that "homosexuality is not allowed in Saudi Arabia, but that is THEIR culture" a good one. It is a universal human right!

Unfortunately, there are many places (which correlate with Spanish speaking or non-English) where non-binary and female presenting people are marginalized and do not dare speak up, while the Hispanic population of the USA does - the young generation at least. 10 years ago people used "gay" or "f*g" as an insult, but now-a-days they surely do not!

We have quickly changed as a society, and I hope that while today some people use the same arguments for the gendered language, I think in 10 years time the young generations in many Spanish speaking countries will help their friends to ungenderify - REALLY means to remove the patriarchic heritage of the lingo - Spanish and all other non-indigenous languages.

What would you propose other than latinx or latin@?
This was attempted in the Soviet Union. I heard about it here: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-book-of-tasty-and...
Acting allows actual children to work very limited hours. By comparison it’s illegal for 11 year olds to do farm work where infants can be actors.
To replace spreadsheets, you have to eliminate the roles (jobs) that create the spreadsheets. Automation and proper BI can do both....
Taken from the post:

"Now, when I encounter a bug, I ask myself three questions:

Do I use the scientific method to chase this bug?
Do I have the correct system view of this problem scope?
Do I have the necessary telemetry tool?"

Prior coding, as you guessed. It helps as the Rubber Duck technique and the Feynman technique do, to think through a problem.
This feed is starting to have nothing but not tech trash articles.
Try Namecheap, I am using it for 4 years now. No issues.
Container unloading is starting, using two barge-mounted cranes.[1] As expected. Two large dredges are on scene, removing mud around the ship. Donjon-Smit, the salvage firm, sent divers down and report the hull is intact, so they'll probably be able to float the ship out after enough lightening and dredging.

All parties agree the salvage bill will be huge, and litigation over who pays for what is starting.

[1] https://www.workboat.com/coastal-inland-waterways/new-detail...
If you do backend and don't have any personal opinions about tooling, be it troff, man, pandoc, markdown, plaintext, or whatever,
then there's plenty of enterprise opportunity for you, but I personally don't want to work with you. So I think that it's actually a great filter. Maybe it's slightly biased towards candidates with high confidence in their own choices and opinions, but that's a tradeoff I'm willing to make.
Many Americans have noisy and inconsiderate neighbors.
Perhaps because dust storms would ruin the rotors?
Crosslinking the two posts: https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-bootrom/issues/17
So your point is let the conflict brew and let us isolate Russia but let us not help negotiate peace.
I live in the midwest too. The vast majority of people live in the suburbs or an urban area. I don’t know why those who live on farms who already have the roads they need should be the primary voice we listen to, especially when nothing changes for them. That’s the thing. Nobody is changing their way of life.

> 2) You have people like me who love the energy, convenience, and stimulation of high density living but still end up driving and having a car because the cost differential is just way too extreme to logically justify living where I want to.

Right but those places are so expensive because they are so rare. Why are they so rare? Because we don’t build them.

> I think there is also an element of space demands. You can have these nice dense places in Bangkok because people will see 300 SQ ft and still rent it. In the US people told me I was brave for trying to survive by myself in "only" 500 SQ ft. They could never "stand not even being able to breathe".

This is another end of a spectrum, one which I don’t like either. We don’t need skyscrapers. We can build with a great level of density and have the best of all worlds.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/37/9b/26/379b266652e0a2013c0c...

This is in Columbus. You can have a car, you can even have two, you can have a garage, or park on the street. But you can also ride your bike to work or walk. These aren’t 500 square foot homes.

“Yea but all of that is so expensive” yes because we don’t build them. There is no reason this isn’t affordable except that we simply choose to not build like this. That’s it. We just choose to amputate our mobility and pay outrageous amounts of money to have the privilege of driving. The high prices of these homes demonstrate that they are desired.

I don’t advocate for skyscrapers. They are an anti-pattern enabled by cheap energy and oil. The other end, the car-driven suburb is bad too. Ideally we’d have towns like they do in Europe with rural communities surrounding them. So your family can have their space and farm. And everyone who wants a town can have that too.
Only if you don't value your time. Either you're paying even more for taxis and rideshares than you would to own your car, or you're spending an hour on trips that would take 10 minutes by car.
first 2 bytes 0x11, 0x38... perhaps another scifi reference?
As stainless steel finishes became popular, magnets didn't work anymore.

Manufacturers have wised up though. We just got a brand new Samsung with s/s finish, and lo and behold: magnets work.

I don't know if they're using it's-not-really-stainless-steel, or if they are backing with something more ferrous, but either way, fridge magnets are back, baby!
Because you have to fund basic income.

And if your goal is a population that pays its way and has relatively generous working conditions and less unequal income distributions, the hyper regulated Europe looks a whole lot better than, say, Saudi Arabia where citizens can live comfortable, unproductive lives topped up by monthly payments, discrimination is rife and an underclass of non-citizens do most of the work for very little money, often in truly awful conditions.
I think another commentator already addressed this above. Employers already have access to this information via the main site. They're paying us to get the data in a spreadsheet they can plug into their internal compensation tools. They have access to the same data you have.

It's an easy revenue opportunity for us and costs have certainly gone up as we've hired more folks. Our focus remains on serving professionals and majority of our revenue comes from professionals directly. Happy to discuss all this over a call as well if you're interested. Feel free to email me at: my HN username at levels.fyi.

I'd also reiterate that HR / Eng Managers / Comp analysts often buy our data to justify internally that they should be paying more. An official way to provide the data allows us to be a data source to justify internal change. Otherwise employers are left to use stale data and remain unknowingly uncompetitive.
It favors megacorporations, who can afford to eat any short term losses as new unfavorable conditions drive smaller businesses under, eliminating competition, and then prices adjust upwards when the local market has been sufficiently captured. This is how Wal-Mart and Starbucks and their ilk take over. It's impossible to compete against multi-billion dollar companies regardless of service, quality, or loyalty because small businesses deal with local margins and megacorps have global reserves.

Walmart doesn't need to compete with mom and pop, it simply needs to destroy them.

In that context, if we see local economies as something to be preserved, better regulations are needed. There might not be a legitimate case for that, since megacorps being massive efficiencies to bear. Deliberately reducing efficiency to placate small business owners might feel justified, but to the consumer, things are pretty good these days aside from shortages and inflation.
> Also, why the hell can't I just click on the path and type the path I want?

Dunno about that but you can command-key to get a filepath dialog. Splat-G(oto), iirc.
Evicting tenants is not easy. Even with an order, you can't simply dump tenants out on the street if they have no other home to go to. And there are ways to claim extenuating circumstances. We've had our share of tenants that trashed their places badly while not paying. And we didn't get a single cent of what they owed us for rent or damages. This wasn't in Berlin, but I don't even know how much money we lost. Renting out apartments is a risky proposition in this country.
That's a management problem as well.
Expensive and sparse parking kills businesses.

I've seen a city center with hundreds of shops die out because businesses shut or moved to the newly built mall outside the city that has a huuge parking area.

There is no reason to go into the city anymore, people can do all daily shopping and errands at the mall.
Aside from how obnoxious it is to have gotten law enforcement involved just because she got called out, anyone else bothered by the continuous reminders in the article of who is black and who is white?

I moved abroad two years ago but is this how the US is nowadays?
Are you cropping just the border of a different color or you are trying to find the "interesting" part of the image?

What if the image has a footer and not a border of the same color?
The tenant has the right to refuse to have the home shown when they are moving out and the landlord is trying to find new tenants? How about maintenance workers fixing appliances or something? That seems pretty hard to believe.

Are you sure the tenant isn't just allowed to refuse "a time slot" but also must offer alternatives?
IMO you have to actually look at the current makeup of zoning. Plenty of places have great, amazing bones, because they were actually laid out in an age where people did walk to the grocery store, or maybe they took a streetcar, and there might have been a rail station in the middle of town that is currently only used for freight today. It's not a form of development that is specific to only new, dense areas, it was a form of development that was the standard everywhere in this country 100 years ago, and still remains. Look at some mid or small sized places like Pensacola FL, Sandusky OH, Corpus Christi tx, and hundreds more. They are gridded like the SF peninsula because 100 years ago they very much looked like the SF peninsula did 100 years ago, with dozens of street cars or cable cars and people walking with groceries. There are good bones everywhere, now lets shake off the dust and start improving things like bus service, affording a lane for a bike along these easy to navigate grids with commercial zoned relatively evenly throughout.
Depends. Meat, maybe.

Toilet paper? Doubtful. You are paying mortgage + property tax on the pantry space used to store it.

Not to mention gas to drive and get it. And vehicle insurance. And car maintenance.

A bidet seat (heated water, $150 at Home Depot now days) has a better ROI.
Cool! Thank you! Works great. Just have to remember to get rid of my signature as it has all my personal contact info lol
Well the aesthetic is the point of the discussion, no?

And, now that we're talking about personal experience, I've spent weeks cooking with just canister stove and a 1 liter pot, and yes, I've cooked many meals over a camp fire as well, and I stand by my preference.
This is a double edge sword, because often time there is no one validing the results of the spread sheets...

"The number looks ok" is not a good validation, and there has been some very public data errors as a result of bad spreadsheets.

I often wondered if in the average business is even 10% of the spreadsheets where actually audited what would happen.... I suspect the results would be rather shocking
> But what happened in Spain and Italy was a catastrophic disruption to normal life by any reasonable standard.

I lived in Spain through the pandemic. I saw from my apartment the army trucks racing across Madrid, the police cars with loudspeakers advising everyone to stay indoors, and army patrols going through the city to enforce the lockdown.

Do you actually know what was a catastrophic disruption to normal life by any reasonable standard? Having to commandeer the local ice rink to have a place to store all the excess dead bodies, and setting up a huge makeshift hospital in the city's expo hall to accommodate the patients.

Knowing that, do you have any idea what finally managed to reign in the outbreaks under control? Lockdowns. Two weeks since their onset, infection rates dropped to residual.

Don't talk about things you know nothing about.
Wasn't it the airlines who pressured the manufacturer to avoid the need for recertification of pilots? I think if Boeing had a choice MCAS would have never been needed?
The tragedy of the Commons is when there is a public good that, if most people contribute, everyone gets back more than they put in, but because it's rational for each person independently to not contribute (since it isn't strictly necessary for them in particular), it fails to happen.

You know, like not contributing your Union dues.
What are you talking about?

> “Wokeness,” for the purposes of this essay, refers in broad strokes to a cultural, social, and ideological movement in the West that challenges previously accepted cultural narratives (the very narratives that prior eras of relatively stable political consensus relied on), and increasingly determines outcomes in primarily elite institutions.
> (to people and systems)

Any company that does automatic resume analysis is already lost in terms of engineering quality.
Really? Hundreds, thousands of stories of new Teslas going repeatedly to service centers for things like panel alignment, missing brake pads, unglued windshields, leaks, unexplained rattles and so on... things that could have been detected on the line...

that's "nonsense that that results in higher service costs" to Tesla?
Eh. I don't mind having it handled through escrow. When it's all set up, it works well enough. It's just getting it to change was a potential issue.
> In order to have neighborhoods where cars are not required, you need density. That means fewer single family homes and more apartments.

Yes but not in the way you’re describing. Apartments would be part of the single family home neighborhood. Which is good. People who are single for example can live in the community and meet people. Which brings me to the next point:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/37/9b/26/379b266652e0a2013c0c...

> Many Americans have underdeveloped social skills and don't want to be/live near other people.

Right. Because we choose to live in suburbs and make it so we are this way. We could just, ya know, not do this? It’s like saying well I’m not using Google because Ask Jeeves has conditioned me to use a crappy search engine. Well… just stop then?
> What oracle gives us this amazing power?

Hum... Ideally, you could replicate his experiment and verify his findings. That doesn't mean his theory is correct, obviously, but you don't go destroying the career of scientists with valid empiric knowledge just because you disagree with their pick of one of the many theoretical explanations that fit it.

Or, well, people do that, even today, but they shouldn't.
Given that the AI are trained on human generated content to be human like without having understanding of the content, I would think approximately the same but even less correct.
Those aren't middle managers. Removing a middle manager entails an existing end line manager reporting to someone higher up.
> There's definitely some "I'll shit on my birth country to win Western approval" energy here..

Stop projecting.
Are you aware of any data or studies that back up this claim? I would love to read about it
Not everyone shares those sentiments -- and that's all they are, just sentiments.

And, why hasn't the EU shut off all oil and gas purchases from Russia immediately?

Why should a poor country support this sanctions regime and then witness massive internal disruption?

Most of the countries and populations of the world have in fact NOT imposed sanctions.
I agree with you that administrations can do pretty much whatever they want, but I think you are missing the point:

1. if H1Bs are not to lead to green cards per your interpretation of existing laws, then no H1Bs should lead to green cards, regardless of country of origin

2. if H1Bs do lead to green cards as we know they do in practice, as per my 'dual intent' understanding, or as per your 'wink wink' description, then they should lead to green cards regardless of country of origin

But the inconsistency in providing green cards to Tunisian H1Bs in 18 months while providing green cards to Indian H1Bs in 100 years is where the problem arises, and that is why the young author with a bright future is headed to India instead of applying his intelligence and abilities in the US.
What Malcolm Gladwell is good at is telling you yesterday's lotto numbers in a way that sounds very sophisticated and intelligent.
NGS looks interesting as a Bash alternative.

https://github.com/ngs-lang/ngs
Packaging, file locations, init systems, desktop stack in use, ...
They did define for the role it plays in the essay?

>“Wokeness,” for the purposes of this essay, refers in broad strokes to a cultural, social, and ideological movement in the West that challenges previously accepted cultural narratives (the very narratives that prior eras of relatively stable political consensus relied on), and increasingly determines outcomes in primarily elite institutions. Surviving the acade­my, getting a job in journalism or a major tech company, filling out a grant form: these are just some of the activities that increasingly require one to be adept at navigating (and by necessity, parroting) the cultural mores of a new social faith.

And furthermore, they explicitly say that "wokeness" is irrelevant and the problems come from somewhere else:

>Explanatory models referencing some pathology native to Western ideology or a dismal “Faustian spirit” cannot explain what is happening in East Asia today. Understanding the increasingly acute problems facing young people there, at first glance so different from our own concerns, can ultimately offer a clearer view of what has gone wrong in the West.
Should be called YAC (Yet Another Clojure)
Also one of the many victims of the short-termism that 4-year mandates inevitably produce.

A US president never gets to see the results of his policies in the first mandate. Realistically, it takes a year just to get to grip with the duties, and by the time they're productive the midterms arrive and dramatically reduce space for bipartisan compromise. Once that's done, soon after it's time to gear up for re-election. Even if they manage to pass anything significant in those short windows of activity, new laws have to get into force (which can take a year), kickstart the various first-order and second-order effects (again time passes), and then go through some sort of statistical collection - itself typically a process that gives results over 6-18 months.

US Presidents effectively get judged first and foremost on the day-to-day executive orders, which is why they tend to be keen on starting wars. If they secure re-election, only then they'll get to be judged on the actual legacy of their policies.
I think the bias come from a pretty obvious fact: people who drive do 100% of the whining about parking and traffic. People who walk to the shop just come in looking happy and well-adjusted and ready to spend money. So the only thing the shopkeeper ever hears about transportation is how bad traffic and parking are.
> The situation in Ukraine is more black and white than most others.

Not for India’s economy and defense. Surely, you recognize they are not a rich country and in an unstable region?
I hated every apartment I ever lived in. Dear god, why do apartments allow dogs?

Or music at 3am. Or anything.

When I bought my first house, the first thing I noticed was the silence. I could finally relax.
> if you could truly get their full output.

Getting the relative most out of the bottom line workers and finding and taking care of the underperformers is the direct responsibility of their managers, and I'm saying this unironically. Managing is about being a performance multiplier, and the most hands-on part of management always involves concrete teams of people doing concrete dirty work.

It's the manager managers that are the problem mentioned here.
I don't even think there's anything wrong with 2-3 car households being the norm in suburbs. I just want single occupancy vehicles banned from city centers, at least in places like Manhattan (where I live). They're dangerous, they're a waste of space, and due to traffic and parking requirements they're usually not even an efficient mode of travel for their owners.

If we reserved a few roads in Manhattan for busses, large commercial delivery vehicles, and people with disabilities, and left everything else for bikes, scooters, and pedestrians, transit would be faster and more pleasant for everyone.
Many Aucklanders would be very happy if developers built thousands of units without parking.
In the city you could just buy food as you needed it. Your kids could get a gallon of milk at the store in the morning and chug it on the way to school. Same for the eggs. You would just pop over to the egg man who would quickly prepare you a 8 egg omelette and side order of quiche.
The assumption that any interpersonal conflict between two people of different race must be racist in its core is horrible. There is zero chance to improve racial relations with such paranoia reigning supreme. Instead, the population will split into nervous, hunkering subgroups.

That said, the 5000 USD hourly fee reminds me of the old maxim that "the best disinfectant is sunlight". She obviously does not like the fact that this price tag for her services is now widely known.

This is how you fight corruption and similar vices. Transparency.
Turn Photos into 3D Models
Very fitting that this Easter egg is at line 442.
I believe the fact that Columbus thought he was in the Indies was why chiles derived the name of a “pepper” even though they are technically a different taxonomy, correct?
"I'm not seeing it" is very much different from "nothing is happening". I'm seeing things happening all over the place.

What's frustrating, perhaps, is that nothing is getting resolved. Neither the pandemic nor the Ukraine invasion are resolving, and may not do so for months to years. It's frustrating. It's not the same as "nothing is happening", though.