skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To specifically rail on the "liberal" Bay Area and numerous other "liberal" cities in the US:

The NIMBY housing policies and restrictions on building new housing are a massive part of sprawl, and with it the huge amount of excessive carbon emissions from commuting in single passenger cars.

A dense city is about the best organization of people for the environment. To get things you need, you travel the furthest distance. You centralize utilities and infrastructure. You preserve natural habitats. You reduce the effective footprint, actual and resource-wise, of the average person by huge amounts. It maximizes the effectiveness of public transport, and makes private transport less valuable. It makes transport modes like bikes, ebikes, scooters, or even walking viable. And people generally seem to prefer it.

Of course it's America, the incentives are completely messed up. The carbon tax exists as the one policy that everyone agrees would have helped reduce fossil fuel use to help avert global warming.

The other big environmental issue we face (well that we aren't facing up to) is the sixth mass extinction, which is primarily coming from sprawl. And the simple solution to that is to property tax the shit out of land in the exurbs and suburbs so that urban organization of housing is cheaper than suburban and rural, which is currently the opposite.

The externality to sprawl is the illusion that land is infinite. It most certainly is not. The real abundant supply in modern human architecture is going vertical, or even subterranean.

To get back to liberal cities where housing supply is being restricted, this is DIRECTLY causing environmental impacts, and has been for decades. It's not just a racial issue, it is very much an environmental one.
Amazing tool, btw. It's like a google analytics, but much better
Well, we already got examples with companies implementing the "take as much PTO as you like" benefit, the counterintuitive result is that employees tend to take as much or less days off than what they had before in fixed amount, without QoL improvements.
The thing is, the fact that something is possible doesn't mean that people will feel comfortable doing it. Cultural norms, management style or habits aren't easy to change.

I live and work in France, where you legally have 5 weeks of PTO. The 5th week has been introduced 40 years ago. And yet, it's still hard for a lot of HR departments to make sure that employees properly take all of their PTO each year.
Contrary to what seems to be popular belief, left unsupervised with goals to reach, it seems that most people tend to overwork themselves rather than laze off.
Arguably, the biggest barrier to any creative domain is technical capability.

An immediate thought is that locked-in people who can only communicate by text would be able to share their thoughts more expressively.

In terms of the creation loop, anyone can create a bunch of AI-generated images. Wombo is huge right now. The differentiating factors will be prompt design, commitment to iteration, aesthetic-driven curation of generated works and presentation.

Photographers take and process thousands of photos to create just one masterpiece.
What do you use for your hub software? I've heard good things about home-assistant.io but I haven't tried it.
Just need a music one please.
Where the Gay Things Are (2021)
> Ukraine just showed that regular ol' cruise missiles are still sufficient

The attack on Moskva wasn't simply a pair of R-360 missiles. It was a coordinated attack using drone threats to distract the target combined with poor weather conditions and the naivety and perhaps (in)competence of the Russian Navy. A hypersonic weapon, at least while they remain unstoppable, could forego these sort of preconditions.

A cruise missile salvo requires a salvo launching platform. A large ship with many launchers and a large magazine, for example. A hypersonic weapon could forego that as well; a small, agile and far lower cost platform such as a single aircraft or frigate class ship could deliver the same result.

The high probability of destruction means a stealthy long range aircraft such as B2 armed with air launched hypersonic missiles could deny entire oceans to enemy ships. That is far too compelling and ensures the pursuit of this capability.

Like it or not this arms race is already under way. The argument is already settled.
It can't be reduced to just zoning. Corporations also buy up 30-50% of new housing. Also immigration rate doubles than of new housing starts.
Eliminating a subset of buyers, i.e. slightly decreasing demand, is an easy and obvious action to take. Will it have a significant and long lasting effect? Very likely not. But when examining the supply-demand equation, it's painfully obvious to say "foreigners who don't live here should not be allowed to buy residential housing". It's way, way easier than incentivizing developers to build affordable housing and dealing with all of the in-place bureaucracies and regulations and all of the hard stuff that comes along with constructing new neighborhoods and large residential buildings.
Pixel: A Biography (2021)
Both adding more salt and eating less flavored food seems more preferable than a chopstick tethered to a giant battery attached to the arm.
"you solve that buy building more homes _where people want to live_. But that's difficult because cities have all these veto points"

I'm not going to pretend there isn't some literal gatekeeping going on here that make this more difficult than necessary. But I'm also not exactly surprised that in cities as already densely packed as Los Angeles that there aren't exactly acres or hectacres of land just sitting around to be built "where people want to live". That's how we ended up with tiny studio apartments everywhere that still cost way too much.

Part of it is simply physical limitation. Land (unlike so many arbiturary policies nowadays) is a finite resource. Made more finite when the pareto principle kicks in.
What ‘Severance’ Gets Right About Infantilizing Office Perks
https://archive.ph/zbzfZ
So much so that there are now multiple browser extensions that replace 'nft' with 'beanie baby' everywhere[0].

[0]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nft-to-beanie-baby...
To add to the sibling comment and to make a shameless plug to my own project: if you want to accept payments with crypto, take a look at Hub20 [0], a self-hosted payment gateway for any blockchain compatible with Ethereum.

I'm working on the upcoming release (hopefully by the end of this month) which will make it a lot easier to add stripe-like checkout systems, so you can have a donation page or even "sell" sponsorship packages.

And yes, to get it on github [1] sponsors was a royal pain. Github/Stripe kept denying my application because they thought I was asking for crypto payments.

[0]: https://hub20.io

[1]: https://github.com/sponsors/mushroomlabs
It's not going to get solved, simply ignored and pushed under the rug.
For example, it would be nice to be able to build a dormitory- or barracks-style high-density, low-creature comforts housing, where multiple rooms may share a common bathroom and a kitchen, in areas with high homelessness to give those folks a place to call home. This is not currently legal in many jurisdictions due to building code limitations.

I might feel that a gigabit fiber connection is necessary to maintain basic human dignity ;-) but I don't think that should be enforced via law. One should be able to opt out for something more afforable.
In the UK, the Spiritualists National Union[0] is very popular among people who have an interest in mediumship / metaphysical, and the Churches across the country are widely accepted.

[0]: https://www.snu.org.uk/
While I moved to Edge after 19 years on Firefox and I'm happy with it, for me it's clear that Brave is the new Firefox.
IoT switches work fine (specially those with local control) and they can have the exact same role as the current switches - with the ability to also be controlled remotely. Which means that you can control them even if you are not present. Those downstairs lights you forgot to turn off? Yes, those. Or maybe you forgot to turn the coffee machine off and went on a trip? Can be turned off too, remotely, on a timer, or by sensing the reduced power draw once your cup is done.

They can also be turned on and off based on presence, on time of the day, on the fact that you just turned on your TV, etc.

If companies were actually trying to make good products, there would be almost zero drawbacks if we turned all current switches 'smart'. It's just a single bit in the case of switches and lights. The problem is that they want to monetize said bit in addition to the device cost, they want it to talk to a cloud, they want to make it so only their hub can flip the bit, etc. Oh, and they will have unnecessarily complex firmware with security vulnerabilities and that require regular updates. EVEN when most of the logic is in the cloud, which is mind-boggling. And cloud integrations will randomly fail.

I do like the ability to be able to make all things 'smarter'. In particular, I want to be able to collect data from all devices(this all feeds to Home Assistant in my case). When you have all the data, and the ability to remotely control, you start thinking of all the use-cases you can automate.

Today, I can automate when light switches turn on or off, I can have my robo vacuum not run if my 3d printer is running so it won't bump it, I can have reminders to plug in my EV (when the @#%6 Nissan API works properly). I have locally controlled power switches. I can have reminders when laundry is done. If my dishwasher was 'smart' I would be able to control when it runs (as it is, I'm going to jury rig my own solution). Also thinking about automating my garden next (I already have weather forecast information, just need moisture sensors and a pump).

Honestly, we could turn our homes into a Star Trek ship bridge today, if only companies got their act together. I think there will be an 'IoT winter' as consumers get fed up with all the shenanigans.
Sounds like it gets the worst of both worlds? The difficult training of a GAN with the slow runtime of a diffusion model.
Similar here. I'd rather set up my own home tech than pay for some connected service. My stuff isn't actually smart home stuff, but stuff like PoE security cameras with ZoneMinder, home assembled cycle timers to run sprayers or air bubblers (agriculture related), etc.

I built it, so if it breaks I know how to fix it. No chance of the cloud shutting down bricking my devices.
I suspect you are correct, but at the same time I think about 7 years ago what EV options were available. There could be a lot more options for car buyers 7 years from now. Realistically, the mandate is a starting point - it's just saying that new license plates go to EVs and the clock starts running on ICE. It's still a multi-decade switch over.
Earlier I saw a tweet where Google Docs flagged the word "landlord" as non-inclusive.
Not all housing need to go to a 4-person family. In my late teens and early 20s I shared a bathroom and a bedroom and never felt my dignity impinged. At that age it was much more important for it to be cheap than for it to be good.

It should not be illegal for such housing to exist.
If the dog was vegetarian like a cow/horse, would it be okay to use as fertilizer?
Agreed that increased electrification of previously fossil fueled applications will create upward pressure on prices, as will the decomissioning of fossil fuel power plants. However, this will eventually stabilize as we (1) increase renewable capacity and (2) increase our efficiency (American energy consumption is decreasing gradually as we improve efficiency).
Make no mistake, I think DB constraints are a best practice.
One with a public bathhouse culture
I strongly disagree. Their focus should continue to be 100% on making it possible for their authors to make a living. Anything else is a distraction. Bundling, while a possible option to help this, is probably a distraction at this point, and could also muddy the waters, in terms of the Substack/Author relationship.
Manhattan (where I live) is extremely underbuilt. Lots of people want to live here!

But yes, the implication of a housing abundance agenda is that places will change. I think it's generally underrated exactly how much the cities we know today changed during the 20th century as they grew in population.

That said, you don't really need a lot of high rises to drastically increase density. Even row houses and low rise apartments make a pretty large difference and would be more than enough to meet demand for most cities that are experiencing a crunch.
The exception for "foreign students" seems like clearly an invitation to game the system.
Scientific Nihilism
VP Kamala Harris: the US will halt tests of anti-satellite missiles
Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.

https://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_poli...
The crazy thing is everyone is carrying around devices that would provide much better proof than a "wet signature".

It is trivial to take a timestamped and geo stamped video in this day and age of a person agreeing to a contract, and yet the standard is still "signatures".

Meanwhile people are posting video clips of themselves and their locations all day on WhatsApp/instagram/tiktok/youtube/facebook.
I don't think that contradicts what I wrote-- it's an example of it.
"s y s Tab c Tab" works for me.
Any local camera recommendations?

I got quite fed up with existing solutions and bought a couple of ESP32 + camera to try to create my own.
> Are 100 developers enough? 200? How much does that cost?

100-200 developers probably roughly costs on the order of 25-50 million a year (assuming a made up number of 250k fully loaded cost with benefits and taxes, which might be lower or higher than their average, idk. This number seems almost too conservative to my gut). From this back of the envelope math, I don't think the royalties business is enough to support the development cost alone.

> Do they all need San Francisco salaries to develop a good browser?

If you don't want them to leave to work on safari or chrome, probably? This experiment was more or less tried by opera, right?

Brave gets away with a lot lower overhead by bascially piggybacking off chrome. Opera similarly gave up selling their own browser engine and cut their development teams while switching to another wrapper on blink. Firefox could become yet another skinning of blink and chrome code, but it's not clear to me how that's helping them with being "Google's bitch in a more intentional way".

I think there are problems with Mozilla's side project expenditures, there is definitely some bloat, and they have had some expensive failures like Firefox phone. However I don't think Mozilla could have survived without Google's funding and people vastly underestimate how expensive quality software is.
Service availability decreasing with population density is still old school thought. Rapid advances in technology over the years enable stretching infrastructure outwards. Who knows someday we may be extending our infrastructures to cover the whole globe and even to outer space. It is not subsidized and it is certainly not for the elite only. It is more about human aspiration. As a species we can look towards piling on top of each other or we can choose to expand and live a quality life according to one’s own aspiration. Look at the big picture.
> And I am low balling that number. It could be closer to 1 million.

Canada's population has increased around 4 million over the past ten years, so I don't know if that velocity of closer to million tracks.
This is probably less invention, more marketing.

Manipulating ions requires a lot of current. Drop an AA battery to a soup and nothing remarkable happens quickly, but lick the same battery and you will definitely feel it immediately.

If you do it while something sour/salty is in your mouth, your tongue may get confused, since it's only prepared to detect 5 flavors plus hot and cold, and it may simply assigns the extra feeling to the strongest sour/salty/umami taste currently experienced.

The electronics is probably just to cut the current when the two chopsticks touch to prevent short circuit.

There are similar articles from a few years ago, like this:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a15702/simulatin...
e) a land value tax
It's funny because if you go watch the iPhone launch presentation, Jobs was all about the web, and having web apps on your phone. Fast forward and PWA are just recently possible, barely supported, and Apple would really prefer you not to use them. The incentives are clear, but it's still a sad story.
Property taxes should be doing that already, maybe we just need a national property tax? I'm all for basic income as a form of wealth re-distribution (as long as the money does't come from nowhere and stoke inflation).
There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs (2007)
Feels like "likes/upvotes" serve to inform you of what is important, but also causes you to gauge the crowd and censor your dissent.

Though an elegant argument is usually welcome in all quarters...
Netlify pricing has always been confusing to me, but I'm not entirely sure why. I guess I'm more accustomed to pay-as-you-go in this space (CFW) than tiered plans (Netlify bundles their features into starter/pro/business).

It seems that the free plan is 3M invocations/mo, starter is 15M/mo, and business is 150M/mo, but there aren't any ways to increase those limits (business says to contact them for higher limits).

Personally I'd prefer true pay-as-you-go without hard limits, even if it's a bit more expensive. To me the point is to sign-up-and-forget-it without having to worry if I'm within those limitations.
Yes, that's the carrot. Now look for the stick.

>what if AMP is actually a good thing?

People said this when AMP was first announced too.

Good for people with lives comfortable enough to be so off-guard that this didn't set off any alarm bells; but businesses are not your friends.

Thankfully with the benefit of time and hindsight the Texas Attorney General has documented some of the catches for us:
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/ima...
For one (minor) thing, they're a great way to add certain HTTP headers which can't be handled through other means. I use a Cloudflare Worker to give my site the necessary headers for its Content Security Policy (some parts of which aren't to be added via a <meta> tag[0]), as well as the nonces[1] for that CSP. This only scratches the surface, of course.

[0]: https://content-security-policy.com/examples/meta/

[1]: https://content-security-policy.com/nonce/
I haven't personally hired anyone there, but I've heard a lot of good things about https://lemon.io/
Poorly insulated houses are windy with the windows closed because cold air drops. Air close to the windows gets cold (a single pane of glass doesn’t provide much insulation) and the cold air drops to the floor displacing the other air in the room, thereby creating a current. It’s like opening the fridge with bare feet. You can feel the cold air falling on your toes.
There is more to the world around us than we understand.

Tarot cards / systems of interpreting them are a good window into how human minds work, and insofar as that's relevant may indeed be useful. Many of them are also pretty.

The tools of rationality, collection of evidence and the scientific method are the best ways we have yet developed to further our understanding of the world. They are not (nor ever will be) complete.

Blanket dismissals of the metaphysical are as baseless, and no more worthy of consideration than, the simplistic assertions like "the sun revolves around the earth... because we say so".
> Not even gonna get into that whole "NATO expansion" clusterfuck. If you think a fascist dictatorship should have veto powers over which defensive alliances its democratic neighbours voluntarily choose to join, there's not much there left to discuss.

Russia now a "fascist dictatorship"? Hmm...

What about a western democracy (US) that claims "veto powers over which defensive alliances its" neighour (Cuba) has? But than it is different, right, when it is Nato, and it has scared it's population shitless for "the communists". Then it is allowed to invade... Yeah right.

To me Russia invading Ukraine is like US invading Cuba: you could see it coming from miles ahead. The big bad agressor's "security needs".
WeChat had this feature years ago. Theirs is better because you even get the courtesy of being warned in real life.
GNU/Linux phones are immune to this (or at least they make it easy to fix bugs and separate the modem from the OS): Librem 5 and Pinephone.
Thanks for the last paragraph, I would also like to know. To me it looks as well as linear algebra with a lot of smoke and mirrors.
You don't NEED home assistant no, but likely if you have many different smart products form many different vedors and want to be able to see what is set to what and set up automations etc it would be nicer than sniffing packets to figure out what you need to say
This is actually helpful. Right now even definition of "woman" is a mine field.

Foreigners often struggle with most recent dialect of P.C. English. Imagine someone who learned English from 1980ties movies and Southpark, and did not updated much...

For example we could use "African-American" in non ironic way, correct word now is probably capitalised "Black", that was offensive just a few decades ago.
I guess we will figure that out quite soon, but does it matter that much? Your only job with DALL-E 2 is to prompt it properly so if you want a female scientist, just say it so. If it comes up with the "wrong" gender or ethnicity, then it takes a second to fix it, which would probably take a bit less than ranting about it on Twitter :)
My take-away was that art is not zero-sum:

Art is zero sum in that there are a limited number of artist residencies, exhibitions and funds available.

In this case, we will likely see further contraction in the number of artists able to support themselves. There will ofc always be the super stars and hobbyists.
I assume the response would be that with policies that allowed for rampant building/sprawl, the market would sort this all out regardless of the population.

However, these kinds of price spikes still happen in lots of places that have neither a ton of immigration or constraints on building, so it's not clear to me that either one is really a singular root cause.
> The difference is seeing 30 coffins on the way home, compared to one coffin returning to he's home village.

> 1 Coffin = Bad, but it is like it is.

> 30 Coffins on one Flight/Picture...terrible.

Is that what the Russian government is doing?

Restricting photographs on government facilities to prevent bad optics (while allowing reporters to write, say, publish, and broadcast whatever they want)?

Reporters in Russia are free to publish what they want?

Remember, you brought this up to draw a parallel with what the Russian government is doing.
What does this bring to the table vs normal WebRTC?
Sure, I get it as a curated list of things to add, but it kind of has a hierarchy that resembles the one in customize.
It would actually be nice if Google Docs could keep the gender right in a sentence. Like if you say, Lucy, my landlord and the suggestion were to change it to Lucy, my landlady.
> On Twitter my name is "BraveSampson,"

It doesn't look like this is the case, fwiw. (Unless your HN profile lists an outdated handle?)
Exactly. Which makes the subsidies a funnelling of taxpayer money into the pockets of landowners - obviously this is not good, but if you have a population of majority landowners, then this is a sure-fire way to get votes.