skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that used to be the case and I would have argued as such as early as 2018 w.r.t NIMBY and San Francisco but I think it's becoming less true. Now sure you can buy a trailer in the middle of nowhere in the Nevada desert, but what were previously considered "cheap" houses in places like Des Moines are increasing substantially in price, and that's not just the cool spots either. You might say "Well just rent then" but rent is going up too.

With that being said, naturally homes near economic activity should be more expensive. It's more expensive and always will be to live near Google's HQ in Mountain View than it will be to live in Grand Rapids, Michigan or Toledo, Ohio. That's just economic physics. It's ok, normal, natural, acceptable, and economically good. And these homes are only going to get more expensive over time as energy costs increase (EVs won't save us), road maintenance costs increase (already far out of control), and people move to live in more walkable areas. But as these costs increase, people who were expecting that it would be cheap to live in the suburbs are surprised because energy costs and moving far away just won't save them anymore like it did in the past (oh I'll live here and just have a 40 mile commute) - hence it appears that we have a housing shortage when in reality the costs are more reflective of economic reality and were artificially cheap. New housing won't help here because even if we could build more faster we'd still be building it in an economically handicapped way and rely on traveling far distances in cars and on highways, which just will not work when we can't pump cheap oil out of the ground.

You have two options. The first option is dense skyscrapers. But those aren't going to be efficient enough in places unconstrained by geography. They also have maintenance issues and it'll be too expensive to keep them going in the future with much higher energy costs. The second option is medium-density mixed-use development. Think the beautiful streets with brick single family homes next to townhouses and 2 story apartments with a cafe or an office at the bottom, bikes, walking, and street cars or other similar efficient transit. These you can repair yourself and the maintenance is much lower on the long-run and they don't rely on cheap oil to be livable.

But we'll keep building skyscrapers and suburbs (I didn't mention these as an option because they aren't) and the prices will just keep going up.
Amy real facts you can show besides your sentiment on blog posts?
Be careful when choosing which versions of which licences you use, if you are mixing them with other licences, as this can alter your options if found to be (unintentionally or otherwise) in breach of them. GPLv3 and CC v3 & later licences have a cure provision clause which makes it clear that you can simply stop using the code with 30 days as one of your options to rectify the breach (the other two key options being to negotiate different licensing terms, or in the case of GPL go the GPL route yourself). CCv2 and GPL2 did not have these clauses and this can lead to copy-left trolling as discussed in https://archive.ph/N84oj
Definitely, the web design and UI immediately grabbed my attention.
> expected

By whom?

> proliferation

Unlike firearms, the critical and expensive part of these weapons is the round, not the launcher. And they're being used up at a huge rate.

What exactly is the worry scenario, that after the war is over the Ukranian state, newly forged in adversity, will immediately lose operational control over its units which will then decide they aren't imminently going to need these weapons for homeland defence, so they can sell them on the black market?
> Why does perl being linked have anything to do with that? The perl script itself is GPL...

First of all: IANAL.

Yes, and the perl script will remain GPL, but that doesn't make the rest of the program a derived work. That even seems to be the position of the FSF:

> The Free Software Foundation [...] asserts that an executable that uses a dynamically linked library is indeed a derived work. This does not, however, apply to separate programs communicating with one another.

Perl (and the script) is a separate program, the entirety of CheatEngine is not automatically a derived work of the perl script. Thus the script can remain GPL and CE could be licensed any way it wants without a problem.

Wikipedia has a section dedicated to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Lin...
Yeah Fedex is a "you get what you pay for" company. They bid low and underdeliver.

The problem they have is that geography drives the business, and their hubs are usually near competing hubs for UPS. They must have made a policy decision to not get into a price war re: wages with UPS.

My guess is that Amazon's logistics buildout is hurting them more than UPS.
one problem i have with licenses like the GPL is that the effort spent integrating and fixing open source code such that it achieves commercial usability or quality, cannot be protected. competitors can take the 10 lines of code you spent years on and which make all the difference, and they don’t need to pay you. it unfairly serves the interests of large companies where this cost is negligible.
We spoofed ENS domains for a $15k bounty
Pointing hypocrisy in that particular case.
Medium used to be good, but nowadays it's mostly filled with low quality content so I tend to avoid Medium links. I would assume Quora evolved in pretty much the same way.

Substack has a more journalistic feel to it. It also seems to have a broader audience than Medium, which I mostly associate with tech content.
Yes--it was bleak. Getting tired of watching people run into sharp corners in the process of that was part of why I got involved with trying to fix it up, myself.

There were some dumb (but common in informally-organized OSS...) reasons it malingered. Most of them are still problems (though a few have improved or are slowly moving towards it). A lot of the fixes entail investments in improving leverage of time spent on the installer. Better automated testing, more organizational structure/memory/accountability, etc.

But those issues wouldn't have been enough headwind to drag the situation out like it did if there was always one obvious straightforward politically-acceptable solution from day-1 that just needed to get implemented.
Goes to show how useless these forecasts of 'bubble', 'crisis', 'froth', etc. are. Home prices in the Bay Area still going nuts despite endless predictions from 2013-2020 of bubble.

If prices are rising 20%/year then all you need are 3 years of gains to come out ahead even if the bubble bursts. Each year that passes in which prices rise and the bubble does not burst means you're one year closer to crossing the point at which even if the bubble does burst you will not lose money.

It's easy to lose perspective that in-between crashes there are gains. So the accumulated gains matter more than the endpoints. https://greyenlightenment.com/2022/02/28/the-ignoring-the-mi...

Waiting for the bubble to burst, whether it's stocks or homes, often means missing out as prices keep going up year after year. Even if the market does crash, you will never get a chance to buy back at the price your originally wanted to buy at. If you didn't buy a home in 2013-2017 because of bubble fears, even if the market does crash, you will not be able to buy at those prices again. To quote the Superbowl FTX ad, you did miss out.
One thing I find really interesting about the DALL-E-2 is that the popular blog name ("DALL-E-2") never shows up in either of the research papers that describe it. The paper commonly referred to as DALL-E-2 calls its own algorithm "unCLIP". UnCLIP is _heavily_ based on a paper from a few months earlier called GLIDE - in fact you can't really understand the unCLIP paper by reading it without first reading the GLIDE paper.

I suspect what's going on is that OpenAI has decoupled their PR activities from their science activities. They told the researchers to publish papers when they're ready, and then the PR apparatus decides when one is good enough to be crowned "DALL-E-2" and writes a blog post about it.
And who here thinks the way Amazon warehouse employees are treated is a good thing? Drivers, too. Peeing in bottles. 14 hr shifts. Buffer companies between Amazon and the customer, so they can easily skirt labor laws, etc.
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> "Anti-censorship" is hugely unpopular with the mainstream intellectual community these days.

I'd disagree. It's unpopular with left-leaning mainstream audiences, but among intellectuals who write for a living, I imagine that extra assurances of not getting kicked off the platform are rather attractive.
It's not really growing. They just used to come inside the device, and now they are changing into the distro. That's an improvement, just not as big one as it could be.
"IANAL but GPL does state that you can relicense under any other later version of the license"

No. GPL encourages people to say "GPLv2 or later" or "GPLv3 or later", but being under one version of the GPL does not automatically afford "or later" unless the copyright holder says so.
You can't just adjust for inflation like that because there's nowhere you can put your money and get inflation-rate returns. 1 dollar in 1920 is still 1 dollar now. The closest safe rate you can get is a savings account or CD but that is much lower than inflation.
This is just one Ajax battle, many others were fought in the Trojan wars. I think we need some kind of JS-http thing called "Hector" which would be about as good as Ajax.
This actually has a nugget of wisdom. I wish I was more open to soaking up wisdom - and less likely to argue a point - when I was a junior dev. Or still now, really.

Moreover, if your PO can't define the goals, and what needs to be tested to get there, well you have a problem. Assuming the team is committed to some form of Agile and you have such a thing as a PO.

However, I also disagree with the main thrust of this comment. A PO should have responsibility, sure. But if that gets translated into an environment where junior devs on the team are expected to not know requirements, or be able to track them, then you no longer have a team. You have a group with overseers or minions.

There's a gray area between responsibility and democracy. Good luck navigating.
Now is your chance to “I run arch btw”.
But is it at war?

Perhaps the Russians got convinced by the internal logic if their own propaganda where they are engaged in a "special operation". By that logic it is ok to be relaxed about readines as well as have conscripts on board.
What's your strategy?

Using compression? Second instance for old data? Creating in-between states?

Just curious :)
What I didn't like about the books is the "eat or be eaten" attitude. But I'd still rather wait until we are at least able to control what happens at home.
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I see from your edit that your complaint is:

A piece of software that includes source from a different project at build time, but which does not need those other projects present at run-time due to the language compiling those dependencies into target binary, does not list the build-time dependencies as part of it's run-time dependencies?

Did i get that right?

If so, I think that's ridiculous. How come you're not opening tickets on the docker or k8s or repos for the exact same behavior: there's quite a few 3rd party build dependencies that are not listed as system dependencies to install it! What about the fact that those don't list `make` or `go` package dependencies to build nor as system dependencies to use the software?
That would explain why fast.com is slow and speedtest.net was fast. Wow, I thought just the servers of fast.com where just a bit overloaded, when I checked recently after the tariff-upgrade.
Can you hire professionals to do the bidding on your behalf? That would be ideal. Get some a wolf in sheep's clothing. Some old gran who is actually a bidding shark.
That's simple whataboutism. What's your point?
>Can you provide an example of where factual information has been censored?

I love the way you worded this. There's a trivial example of covid censorship being the lab leak story. But I guess you'll retort that it's not factual.
Hey @mrbabbage! Retool customer here! Great service :)

Non distributed RDBMS is a great (yet underrated) choice. Thank you for the good writeup.

I was thinking you could have a much less delicate migration experience next time (some years from now). So you can go for a quicker parallel "dump and restore" migration.

For example:

- Client side sharding in the application layer: you could shard your customers' data across N smaller DB instances (consistent hashing on customer ID)

- Moving the append-only data somewhere else than postgres prior to the upgrade. You don't need RDBMS capabilities for that stuff anyway. Look at Elasticsearch, Clickhouse, or any DB oriented to time series data.

WDYT?
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I think crypto has already proven itself. Every time it's increasing people say it's a bubble, then it retraces and they say "see!", and then it recovers and excels and they repeat. Only the delusion would disagree.
Who decides what is “cleaner” and “simpler”?

It’s such a strange take in the coding world. I don’t know why other developers get to decide what is clean, simple, easier to understand, etc, when it comes to my code or the way I write code.

I’ve been using xmlhttprequest for YEARS and honestly, it’s pretty dang simple. It’s pretty darn clean. And when we see it, we know what it’s doing and how it works.

I’m not sure of the motivation behind changes and new API’s like this that keep trying to fix what really isn’t broken for most uses.
It is not the case that the words "free software" are defined by the FSF or GNU.

This is good old fashioned Orwellian language control. Many things are genuinely free software that do not fit the FSF's "definition."

They are not an authority on the language or all software.

Much of my software costs $0. That makes it free. I do not follow the FSF's demands. It is still free software, even though you found a link with a bullet list that says things.

None of these "essential freedoms" actually are essential to anyone but FSF people.
Yes this is an odd one. This thread led me to view the original, and I was not paywalled, and all was good. But then I shared it with friends because it wasn't paywalled... and they were paywalled.
I never liked SU. One out of every 10 links was interesting and I was genuinely surprised one out of every 100 links. It was taken over by spammers trying to get traffic. Hackernews, Reddit, & Pinboard are my go-to staple for articles & sites that I am interested in, and don't have to 'roll the dice' to get a good article, I simply hand pick the page.
Openly Ukrainian nazi youth training camp video, by the Guardian (western MSM), in 2017, easy to find on YT. And organizer also has ties to Kiev gov't. Story unfolding... But down voted :)
Here's a very naive blur implementation (which is your most expensive operation there),

https://codepen.io/almosnow/pen/abEXBZP?editors=0011

(at the end of the blur pass it prints the elapsed time to the console)

You're right, it does get kind of slow at 2x, but not that slow, on my laptop it takes around 1 sec/page, while on your site takes 20-30 secs/page. Also, my very naive code does not take into account "warming up" and some other code optimizations to make the blur much faster, you could easily get it down to 100ms/page, I'm sure!

Best luck!
I feel that this sort of simplification is common to our mis-understanding of health and nutrition. I also heard similar myths like: Calories in = Calories out, you are what you eat (meaning if you eat high fat you'll gain fat), etc.

Can you explain why you think salt raises blood pressure?
What facts are you looking for? I just described the steps from this document: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/failover-clu... -- specifically, the "Perform a rolling upgrade or update" section. There's nothing else to my post other than contrasting the SQL Server upgrade process to the one described in the article, and musing about my growing appreciation for SQL Server; I apologize if it seemed like it was going to be deeper than that.

EDIT: I realized you're looking for the other PostgreSQL blog posts. Here's an example of two recent HN posts about PostgreSQL issues that I pulled out of my comment history. Both of these blog posts exist because PostgreSQL doesn't have query hints. SQL Server has them; I've dealt with issues like these blog posts describe but they have trivial fixes in the SQL Server world. Nothing to write a blog post about. I don't have a link handy regarding PostgreSQL's txn id wraparound problem, but SQL Server doesn't have that problem, either.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30296490

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29981737
It's unpopular among people who consume the writings of the intellectual community. It's less popular among intellectuals themselves, and even the pro-censorship intellectuals only want other people to be censored, not themselves.
>do you feel it's ok for the hiring company to ask you what exactly you currently make so that they can offer you $1.00 more than what you currently today?

Yes but I don't have to accept it and I can then tell them what I want and they're free to turn it down and it's a discussion. The hiring equivalent would be every applicant would write their expected salary down. Then the lowest wins with no negotiation.
buy yourself an ESP32 and have some fun. Or if that's too resourcey, an Atmel 8-bit.
In this case, we know they would be able to interact via electromagnetic waves. So we would not need to invoke quantum wavefunctions in order to get the right behavior. The tricky bit is predicting the type of wave, their growth, and their propagation characteristics.
Technically it did recover. The price hasn't but if you factor in dividends (ie. total return), you'd be up 32.228% between 1989 and 2021.
Yes if you interpret "measurement" strictly then you can't measure anything at all. I don't even have a ruler I can measure the length of something with that isn't in some way a proxy for the true length.

The error bars of our measurements may be large, and the there may be many confounding variables to the measurement, but it is still a measurement.

Having said that, I agree with the overall sentiment above. We often pick metrics that don't measure what we think they do or do it so inaccurately as to be useless. And at the same time we invest too little in finding the right metrics before they become ingrained in the org structure.
Diffusion models seem like they're poised to completely replace GANs. They obviously work super well, and you don't have this super finicky minimax training problem.
The fact russian propaganda is not using this comparison with cuban crisis means they're absolutely incompetent. It's so obvious and pushes the reader to go beyond the "goodies and baddies" understanding
Thank you. I fully understand prioritizing the features that get you off the ground fastest and appreciate it when a platform eventually goes back to accommodate the outliers. To me, the issue with newsletters is just that push notifications of any kind are so absolutely drowned in spam that I don't want to deal with them for anything other than absolutely essential things I need to remember on a time-restricted basis, like "hey, remember you have a flight later today."
No one is required to use GPL software. You're free to implement your clever idea in a way that doesn't make use of GPL software.
Does Canada have the same problem as the US with "big corps" buying houses to rent out?
> Service availability decreases with population density, and relying on subsidized last mile delivery for the economic elite is not a sustainable model for an entire society.

I don't think this is strictly true. I don't like the model, but big box stores seem pretty sustainable (everyone drives to a distribution center for their goods). An actual last mile distribution system (a la Amazon) also appears to work pretty well. Neither of these are exclusively available to the economic elite.

> The road network alone is a funding quagmire, to say nothing of hiding the infrastructure burdens of servicing sprawl into the eldritch horror that is the municipal bond market.

I don't doubt that infrastructure costs decrease with density, but density doesn't keep urban municipalities from building infrastructure that they can't afford to maintain any more than other places. Quality of governance and density are almost certainly independent variables.
Not in practice.

In practice, everytime you want to take a bite of the banana, you need to log into a web portal and verify you have an active, fully-paid license for the banana service.

Draconian IP law and the arbitrary fees they enforce are why software makes so much money.
I gave it a shot and several things were broken. It's a nice idea, but definitely needs more polishing.
> "Not everything encountered in real life will be as easy to use as an app, nor should it be"

Yes should it be. There's no value in "I suffered to learn this, so everyone should have to". There is a ton of value in "you can now pull data from five easy to use systems in the same time you used to spend on one hard to use system". That's not dumbing down, that's progress. It's raising the abstraction layer and hiding the minutiae. (This is not the same as apps forbidding you from getting to the lower levels. An easy to use UX and access to the lower levels are both desirable, and not in conflict. That apps have one and block the other is not a reason to reject easy UX.)
The tweet(s) are from 2020- so Im not sure they're relevant now? All it shows is Twitter had a bug 2 years ago-- are there any recent examples?
Would you say it's easier or harder to buy your first home after 20+ years of all these first home owner policies?

Find it hard to believe anyone could say such a thing with a straight face. Every time these subsidies are announced the median price rises.

Negative gearing is a distraction that completely skirts the real issues regarding supply, density and infrastructure.
> How do you explain their success?

Red Hat is a rare outlier.

The vast majority of business related software is not GPL, and cannot be.
Does that pattern you describe require any considerations when writing code? I’m thinking of applications I’ve worked on where events are triggered by change, and so a database rolling back independent of my application would be a nightmare. I treat the database as a place to store data, not an authority: the application is the authority. Do you approach it differently? Thanks!
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No support to the fact that she resigned in protest. Please don't spread this whitewashing of Yandex. Many Russian executives stepped down so not to be hit by sanctions. She was already scheduled to be replaced by Khudaverdyan and then invasion started.
I have jellyfin[0] installed on my home server, then use finamp[1] on my iphone to listen on the go via streaming and usually download just the playlists to the device, which eventually get rotated.

[0] - https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin

[1] - https://github.com/UnicornsOnLSD/finamp
Generic wishful suggestion for courts, regarding any sort of computer-processed data which is a basis for legal action: Coin some fancy-sounding Latin phrase meaning "obvious computer failure", and make liberal use of that phrase in curtly dismissing legal actions (with prejudice) where some key piece of the assertion is clearly a product of "garbage in, garbage out".

That might at least give some incentive to those running GIGO-excreting computer systems to clean up their sh*t.
You can cache them in the spotify client. I was referring to the other kind of downloading.
Don't see why the government deserves to profit off it.
Immigration must be limited to the degree that construction can happen. Because it can be raised almost to an arbitrarily high degree it's very easy to overwhelm domestic home production.