skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh, I disagree. As someone from Tunisia, the early focus on education has led a considerable number of people to become wealthy (me included). I still remember the days (early childhood) where I was helping my father farming and selling food on the street. That life is quite different from where I am today. I attribute this to the solid education I had early on and the particular culture where I grew up (mid-coast).

I don't think education alone is enough for the path to richness in a nation. Tunisia is still stuck with an inability to re-innovate and free its economy, and resolve its corruption issues. I don't think centralized government is the answer either (neither is industry as some comments suggested; Tunisia could have jumped directly from an agricultural to an information economy, but so many things went wrong).

Maybe it's the Mediterranean? There is hardly any Mediterranean country that had economic success in that same time-frame.
Sorry, this sounds like classic smelly person nonsense. Have you ever asked anyone you trust to tell you if you smell? I’m more inclined to believe you’re just blind to your own stank, same as you can’t smell your own home until you’ve been away on vacation.
There are levels of industrial zones, with specific businesses and industries allowed in each zone.
What you’re describing here is Stockholm Syndrome
I've found adding "reddit" to my Google search yields results closer to what I'm looking for than a Reddit search or a regular Google search.
Show HN: A statically compiled 32-bit Wine because why not?
There’s waaaay more reasons to why Americans are obese and stressed, than single family houses zoning.
I agree, but he deserved his legendary end. He is a lesson in both incessant questioning, and how not to talk to people if you want to keep your head. I think I would have hit him too
Some people have tamed fire, invented wheel and overcame population bottlenecks. We don't know their names but their legacy is profound.
in Many EU contries a house has to meet sone limits on noise and other pollution or it will not be allowed to be sold as a residential property.
But that doesn't mean they're nonsentient.

That may change if the Supreme Court overturns O’Connor v. Donaldson. (1975) (This is the decision that ended locking up those mentally defective but not dangerous, and enforcement of vagrancy laws.)
Removing the ability to have ‘hyper local interests’ means everywhere within the given ‘zone’ this is being done in is going to be similar, or at least under the same set of rules. Which pretty much means similar, eventually.

When rules have real concrete impacts that help or hurt one group over another (which is impossible to not happen), of course different groups are going to fight for or against it based on how they’re currently benefiting or not
from it.

The push for removing zoning laws in broad strokes seems to be between the established current residents vs folks who WANT to be residents/or get established.

Which is cool and all, though if the desired area is currently ‘exclusive’ (which most nice areas are, the exclusivity is what allows them to push out what they don’t want, even if it offends someone), it’s hard to not see that this will destroy that exclusivity. Which will often destroy or largely alter the character of that place.

Atherton isn’t going to be Atherton (or why folks who like Atherton consider Atherton so nice), if every lot could be subdivided to high density condos, for instance.

Removing the ability to stop that would certainly allow a lot more people to live in Atherton, but it’s not like we have a shortage of actually livable space anywhere in California, or the US.

We do have a shortage of space where people want to live/be right now, but that is inevitable no matter what we do - and a lot of the high demand areas are because of the existing exclusive rules

More people want to be in the ‘place to be’ more than the ‘middle of nowhere’ (or close to jobs not in a place with no jobs, or in a place with beautiful views instead of the middle of a wasteland, etc!) and that creates a demand gradient where the most in demand places are always more in demand than they have supply, assuming supply is less than infinite, which is almost always is for real estate.

If it’s ‘exclusive’, that generally means even more restricted supply.

Harvard only allows so many students, for instance, and it’s not because they could not actually teach more to some standard. Making it so Harvard has to admit anyone who applies means Harvard isn’t going to be exclusive anymore, and that’s going to change what Harvard is and means a huge amount pretty quick.
Dammit, was a mental lapse. Appreciate the correction!
> What’s wrong with you people? just fix what’s broken.

The process for fixing is significantly more complicated than the process for starting fresh. Trying to make even minor changes gets bogged down in essentially the same magnitude of bureaucracy as starting from scratch. Endless public consultation, money interest lobbying, etc. the effort is almost never worth it for minor changes.

Your attitude of incrementalism is, IMHO, why we can’t have nice things today. When something’s obviously broken, sometimes it is best to admit it was a failed experiment and try again.
When you think about human sentience simply being electrochemical gradients among neurons, you get a clear answer. I can’t believe anyone who’s involved in the technical aspects of neuroscience would believe that humans are sentient.
I did read the text and I have to say it doesn't say anything ... there's no substance in it whatsoever.

TL/DR: make X more fun so people want X (X being adulthood)

Also - is the entire premise even true? Do people not want to become grown ups? Actually I think this is inevitable. Maybe the author comes from a proviliged pampered background but anybody else will have to pay the bills which makes you responsible for that and is pretty serious and tends to make people also mentally pretty serious. So, I don't know what that guy even intends to communicate.

To me it looks like the author is trying to push his Art Of Maniless brand and last week he didn't know what to write about. Then he coughed up this half cooked piece of tofu ...
They're dense and expensive because they're desirable.
I'll also throw in - there's something to be said for faithful reproduction, per se. I'm just coming to terms with the fact that I'm never going to fix up all my old video game consoles, and I'm going to find someone who is willing and able to do something with them. And part of why is that I know I can find an emulator to faithfully replicate it, and I can set up a raspberry pi or something some day and have the same experience.

People with old PC games might want to play and faithfully replicate them again just the same.

(Though modernized versions are often fine too.)
NYC is brutal for having kids in.
MMT is an accounting framework.
Mailsac had been around for 10 years.
I think what it means is that you shouldn't procrastinate anything or think that you can make up for things later. There may be no later, so just do your best here and now. That of course includes resting when needed, so it doesn't mean always be doing something.
My view is Java is good. Spring ruined it.
It depends on the game.

Not facetious - for me it's all about whether you build memories,and whether you'll regret time later.

Mass effect, deus ex, back in the day Another World or Sierra's space quest and Rama etc - these are important memories and experiences to me.

Overwatch (nearest call of duty analog I played, maybe), let alone all the phone games, are just time killers in the sense I do them to pass the time. They are games I actively regret playing moments, not even years after I'm done.
Noise rules could be quiet hours between certain times, rules about measured decibels, etc.
Thank you for letting me know.

I understand the issue with a closed-source client. It wouldn't be trivial to open source at the moment, but maybe there's a path to do it in the future.
> It has been so energetically hyped. Real standards don't have to be promoted

I find this interesting because it's the first heuristic I use to judge anything new, technical or otherwise (e.g. TV shows or games). Did someone pay to put it in front of me?

It turns out to be a mostly true assumption that you'll hear about good things organically.
Language: Tunisians speak fluent French.

Network effects: Tunisia is quite close to Europe.

Visa Access: It's limited but still https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunisian_diaspora vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas_Chinese. Relative to population size, Tunisians moved more overseas.
If I understand correctly, they have a lot of agreements on title between Private owners preventing each other from doing certain things, like somewhat informal, market-based zoning. I’ve heard it can be difficult to develop there despite the lack of zoning because the negotiations between private parties don’t have clear and objective processes.
… first Norman queen. 1066 and all that.
you are missing the forest for the trees.
zoning does not prohibit you from owning a pig as a pet. have you ever seen the kind of nutrient rich runoff a pig farm produces?
What is your own personal takeaway, from reading that material, as far as the alternative to capitalism (if any)?
> Except the people making these decisions or pouring the concrete often don't live in the neighborhood

Sure, but would you feel okay about ruining someone else's home as long as it's not in your neighbourhood?

> or care, they're "just doing their job".

This is the problem I want to address. When you are knowingly doing harm, you are never "just doing your job". You are intentionally taking the role of acting harmfully.

As a species, we already know this. When a war crime is committed, it is private first class John Baluzki holding the rifle who will be dragged to the Hague. "I was just following orders, please go after my superiors" is not a defense.

Individuals perform actions, corporations or dictators are powerless without individuals willing to go along with their crap. Those individuals are responsible for what they did.
That’s my point. When asked “should abortion be legal?” It’s about 60/40 split.

If you asked “would you get an abortion?” The numbers are likely more skewed.
You mean a JIT? Or are you talking about something else, like some sort of hybrid interpreter/AOT compilation?
I was waiting for it. "It's free how dare you not call it wonderful?"

I mean, people have called the GNOME team everything else, maybe it'll take stronger words to get a message across?
Thought experiment: take all of the queries that Google deals with during a year. Then run all of the results together to get a set of webpages represented by the first five pages of results (does anybody still try to go beyond page 5?).

The remove the rest of the web. Who will notice?
Services tend to be blocked when they get abused by spammers. So if you want something like this to last, it would make sense to heavily leverage either plain old CAPTCHA's or the newer privacy-preserving "proofs of human presence".
I'm increasingly leaning towards algorithmic zoning based on pre-existing use.

For example, allow adding x% of floors above the average of the surrounding buildings, rounded down, might be a rule to consider. Similarly apply classifications and allow one step "further" in the classification system than the average of your neighbours. Allow more if all neighbours consent. Allow more if e.g. adjacent to transport hubs.

So e.g. if your neighbours are all single floor bungalows, you might be automatically allowed to put up a two floor building, and you might be automatically allowed to change use from purely residential to, say, run a shop on the ground floor without late opening (just to take an example of a minor low impact step up from purely residential), but you'd need to apply for an exception if you want to build higher or do something higher impact. If there are automatic permitted developments with reasonable limits, the threshold for exceptions can be fairly high.

Most of the time a model like that would allow a neighbourhood to change gradually and dynamically as people move in who want it to change, while not so fast that it ought to drive out people who like it roughly the way it is.

Neighbours on both sides adding a floor more than you presently have? Suddenly you might have an automatic right to add 2 if you like, but your neighbours might not be allowed to match you unless neighbours on other sides also gets with the program. So done carefully, changes are contained in pockets, and as a bonus you get neighbourhoods that are not all cookie cutter but can still retain a distinct character. Density would naturally "radiate" out from existing high density areas and transport as people take advantage of the more lenient limits of high averages of surrounding buildings, and you "automatically" get gradually declining heights rather than huge abrupt steps (e.g. near me there's been recent planning conflicts over a number of new 20-30 floor buildings almost directly adjacent to two-floor terraced single family homes. But the building pattern is like that in the first place only because planning for decades resisted gradual increases).

Getting the patterns right to e.g. protect pockets for parks and essential services would take a lot of work, but you'd also have the benefit of being able to program visualisations to show immediate impacts on rights for neighbours etc. of allowing exceptions or when tweaking rules. And it'd allow streamlining approvals if more of the planning process is fully predictable.
He didn't say zoning, he said homes so I was asking them why a single family home was elitist.
Source? in what way are the planning permissions in the UK “more zoning” in the US? What else is regulated that is not in the US?
On our small farm, we use ducks for fertilizing our fruit trees. We put a temporary fence for them around a tree.The ducks are out during the day, at night inside the fence. After a week or so we move the fence to another tree.
One reason England is so beautiful, most of the country is zoned for agriculture and can’t be built up:

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/land-cover-atlas-uk-1.74...
I miss the non-commercial web of old. It's got into the point where I think my ultimate search engine is one that ranks pages by fewest ads.

And I get that people make a living by putting advertising on their pages. I'm not really against that. (Though I don't do that myself for my own reasons, I wouldn't presume to tell other people what to do with their websites.) But it's been abused to the point where number of ads on a page is a decent proxy for how crappy the content is.

When people decide to put ads on their content, the temptation is there to produce content to carry the ads. Before ads in the old days, you just produced content to produce content. Again, I'm not saying that ads are bad. But the purity of the old web is lost.

I don't think there's really a way to bring it back. I think the answer is that we just have to get better filtering on our ends to get the specific information that we want.
You mean like here? https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/BCOMTR:IND

You're right! It started in 2020, not 2021. It only accelerated in 2022 - months before the invasion of Ukraine.
I feel like these sorts of analyses are missing the bigger picture. First, we don't even really have a good working definition for what constitutes sentience in the first place. And I think we're quickly heading towards a future where our inability to concretely define sentience (a la Blade Runner) is going to land us in hall of mirrors where we're vastly unequipped to separate the real from the artificial. And the distinction may even cease to matter.

Let's perform a thought experiment. Back when ELIZA was introduced, there was some small percentage of the human population that, upon spending a week talking to the computer, would still believe that they were talking to an actual "sentient" human. Today, we're much better at tricking people that way, so that even people like Blake Lemoine, who ostensibly know what's behind the curtain, end up believing that they're conversing with a sentient being (by whatever definition of sentient we choose to ascribe).

What is that going to look like 5 years from now? Or in 10 years? I believe we'll eventually reach a point where our technology is so good at pretending to be human that there will be no actual humans on the planet capable of telling the difference anymore.

At that point, what even is sentience? If the computer is so good at faking sentience that no living person can distinguish it from the real thing, what good is it to rely on our (faulty, incomplete, likely wrong) working idea of sentience as a means of dividing the real from the fake? Especially when the structures inherent in the neural networks that embody these fake intelligences are increasingly outside the scope of our ability to understand how they operate?
Have you tried prompting GPT-3 for your personal dossier or autobiography?
Because it has a VM (portability, multiple languages interact seamlessly, bytecode manipulation at runtime, low compile times), insanely fast GC, best tools in the industry (IDEs, static code analysis, debugger, libraries), and it's still fast enough to write HFT software with it.

It's even possible to compile it ahead of time, making projects like a Clojure CLI scripting runtime with almost instant startup time possible (babashka).
If 99% of issues required cross-repo coordination, then those repos by definition should not have been distinct from each other. Splitting code into separate repos only makes sense if changes can be shipped in isolation.

1 repo == 1 bounded context == 1 isolated unit of deployment.
Wait til the regulators come for your industry. Modern IT has to prove to Auditors amongst other things that no one rogue person can contribute malicious code. I've worked in companies that let people do their own thing but then let them deal with Audit. A much better company had a sophisticated custom SDLC process that meant Audit just checked you used the process.
Looks nice, but what I would really like is a proxy service like this that would proxy inbound mail traffic in addition to web traffic so I can run my own mail server behind CGNAT.
could you quantify the "betterness"?
Not only that, but benign positions today might be totally taboo in 20 years, and when that time comes, they will be just an Internet search away. You have no idea whether something harmless you say today will be used to paint you as a terrible person decades from now. I think back to some of the stuff I said 20 years ago which at the time were entirely uncontroversial, that I'd get fired for if I said today.
In the sense that the whole is more than the sum of its parts? Of course!
The author conflates GPT-3 and LaMDA. There’s a fairly large gap between the two. Essentially LaMDA has a
GPT-3 plus a couple more important systems.

I agree there’s a bit of “leading the witness” in Lemoine’s interview. Until I see the experiment performed against LaMDA itself, I’m not convinced.
You don’t keep your phone with you?
> It isn’t just that it is exclusionary.

Oh no, far from it, but it’s the root.

> There’s a pretence of knowledge that modern planners are smarter than all who have come before, and the result has been an abject failure that planners won’t admit to.

They’re only a failure if you assume planning in the US is about sustainable, equitable, liveable spaces.
I suspect it has to be an esoteric language that’s used in more than the hiring company. Otherwise, you take nothing away with you other than reputation when you leave. This could occur if, say, the compiler is licensed as part of their software offering.
> Probably something to do with homeowners that oppose any marginal incremental density in their neighborhoods.

This is my biggest problem with zoning and public consultation. Why do people feel they have the right to tell someone else what to do with the land they bought and paid for? Where does that “right to control others” arise from? If it isn’t actually directly impacting your enjoyment of your own property, then why is it even your business?
Eric Schmidt is working to ensure Google won't be replaced and by that he means he will disable the semiconductors of anyone who tries. You don't own your Intel/AMD/Apple/Qualcomm device.

Only Russia and China have their own independent semiconductor fabs, so only they can, maybe, replace Google.
> rules to regulate the negative externalities that zoning was supposed to address, but has failed miserably

But that's zoning? Zoning doesn't need to be "only suburbs allowed here" or "only factories allowed here". In fact zoning in Europe usually is the opposite: "if you want to build 1000 houses here you have to also build a school, a library, park, healthcare and a nursery within 3 km".
It also puts the onus on policing. This is exactly the issue that people have with Airbnb and short term rentals. It's "evil" because it bypasses zoning because people "don't want to live next to a hotel or party".

If you're not going to push for zoning, then you're asking for one-off governmental agents to decide when something has gone too far.
Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant – Loss of Offsite Power Simulation [video]
if they were undesirable they woupd be cheaper than suburban properties. obviously the demand is there
The GNOME HIG is barely a thing anyway. I've read it, it's like 3 pages of vague platitudes like "Make things nice for the user".
Whatever happened to the golden rule? Do people really need instructions on how to not be a selfish ass?

If this god isn't an asshole then he sure is needy in getting a ton of people to have a "relationship" with him/be aligned to his "will" in order for them to be happy.
Abolish and replace with what? How do you ensure that the outcome doesn't resemble post-soviet privatisations that are impossible to get undone within 100 years, if even that. It looks great on paper, until it doesn't in practice when it turns out there are bazillion ways to game an anarchic system which some "architect" assumed will self-govern.

Discarding zoning, I can already see public parks getting converted to smelly pig farms and for profit cemeteries. Land is leased for infinite time durations, so very very hard to undo.
In my opinion, Tunisia's problem is cultural. I see the recent mass-immigration of sub-Saharan as potentially significant to let Tunisia lose its culture and identity; and finally break from it toward a liberalized economy and order.
If that were the case, you'd expect to see forking of 3rd party libraries rather than writing of new ones.
The way you store your source code is 100% tied to how your system is deployed. Repos are the thing that define atomic changes at the source level. If a change at your business level requires atomic changes at the source level between X Y and Z, and X Y and Z aren't in the same repository, then you done played yourself.
283. If a man be an insufferable pedant, he shall be put to death.
Old person (58) perspective -- You don't remember what it was like before the internet. We had a (1) local newspaper, Channels 2,5,7,9,11 and 32 on the TV. The most artistic things available on TV were William Alexander, Julia Child, and The Woodwright's shop.

There was an explosion of things when VHS and Cable TV showed up, but still... the variety wasn't that great because they had to satisfy mass audiences.

We've now got the long tail. If you want to watch a person clear out plugged drains for amusement, there's Post10. If you want to watch the machining of metal, there's MrPete222, ThisOldTony, ClickSpring, etc. If you want to learn about math, 3Blue1Brown, Mathologer, etc. There's PeriodicVideos, etc.

And the Podcasts... so many podcasts. The tail is long and wild and wonderful.

If there's something you're interested in, there's a niche somewhere exploring it.
its clearly more expensive than the alternative.

it excluded poorer people from the area