skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zoning is a big problem. Right now, there is really no place to live but the city if you want to walk to places. In the suburbs, municipalities demand things like cul-de-sacs, mandatory front yard / back yard sizes, etc. This decreases density to the point where walking simply isn't viable. It's kind of a positive feedback loop too; nobody can walk anywhere, so stores need giant parking lots so people can drive. The giant parking lots make walking even more difficult, which means that people who don't even want a car have to have one.

The question is what will the forcing function be to make things better here. Climate change is one option. I think people feel a little far removed from the consequences, nobody thinks "wow, because I drive to the grocery store twice a week, the UK is having their hottest summer on record". So I don't think it's really changing people's behavior. (Electric cars are hailed as the answer to climate change, but they aren't going to help ancillary concerns like giant roads separating people from businesses that make walking impossible, being stuck in traffic for an hour during rush hour, etc.)

I think the forcing function will be running out of resources that support the suburban lifestyle. Stores and shopping are moving online, reducing city tax revenues. No income means that homeowners will have to pay for parks, roads, sewers, etc. instead of businesses. This will price some people out of their suburban lifestyle, they won't be able to afford the things they get by default (giant yards, living on a quiet cul-de-sac, etc.) I have no idea where these people will go (cities are somehow even more expensive), but at least a market of people that want to buy something more sustainable will develop (to save their own pocketbook, not because they hate cars or love the Earth).

Overall, I see it as a very slow burn, and that not much will change in my lifetime. The incentives aren't there yet. What makes me sad is that financial incentives hurt the most vulnerable people first. When property taxes go up, it just means someone has to uproot their kids, force them to make new friends, and waste an extra hour per day commuting. When I see gas prices go way up because of a war, my first thought is "great, now nobody can afford to drive. RIP, cars." But these people already can't afford to drive, now they just suffer, best case work overtime to be able to afford both gas to get to work and food.

Not sure where I'm going with this but we're basically doomed. The American suburb might be the greatest mistake we've ever made, because it's so hard to undo. A lot of people are going to get hurt as more dire forcing functions uproot their lives.
Sure, I'll happily give you a quarter acre in rural Nevada tax free.

A quarter acre in Palo Alto, though?
Yes, I agree that the problem is fundamental to both modes of transit. If street cars were more common, the same stigma would apply for the same reasons.
Fuel taxes WERE ALWAYS supposed to be a conservation measure and Pigouvian tax on pollution AS WELL AS a use tax. So a replacement tax that doesn’t have the same effect of taxing CO2 emissions is effectively subsidizing CO2 emissions compared to the status quo.

That seems like a bad idea.
FTX in Talks to Raise Funds After Buying Spree
Maybe subsidizing 30 year mortgages with low down payments is not such a great idea for the general populous. Imagine if house payments were similar but you paid off your mortgage in 10-15 years instead of 30. That would be a much better state of affairs.
It would be great if facebook could fix it's other bugs too. From last week:

Facebook Accused of ‘Whitewashing’ Long-Awaited Human Rights Report on India

https://time.com/6197154/facebook-india-human-rights/

HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32149678
Thank you. Do you have advice for me how to create a more welcoming and productive work environment for my colleague?
Edit: especially with respect to the automation/standardisation approach we've taken?
Given all the comments here praising the build quality and conspicuous lack of comments talking about the actual things it can do, I'm guessing it's fairly difficult to use for anything beyond admiring it's build quality
Now we just need to connect this to ffmpeg, add some fake recipe scripts, upload a video on YT, multiply by 100 videos, 100 channels make about $2.00 nice.
I guess we should be grateful our brains are complex enough to understand anything. Maybe it's too much to ask to ask them to be able to understand themselves. They would need to get more complex to understand themselves, but then that complexity would make them more difficult to understand. It's the snake trying to swallow its own tail.
Thanks I'm joining a start up in this space soon too. Good luck.
Agreed; with text, and possibly since the days of BBM, there's also the personal pet peeve when a simple answer is spread across 7 individual messaged :D

I think some counter movements are already seen; and more mainstream, people are trying to learn how to limit / constrain their phone interactions. Part of the problem is that our labeling is horrible outdated - it's not actually the "Phone" part of the rectangular device that's usually the problem, it's the "massively powerful computer and media consumption device" part :D
Europe heat wave 2022: Extreme event shows new global warming era
The solution to that problem is not a better microphone, the solution to it is noise-canceling software. It filters out something like 95% of gross mouth noises, and 99% of stupid background noises (Cars, fans, ACs, etc.)
I use this all the time to pull up C&H references.

Here’s a favorite one I found by searching for “townsfolk” (in fact one of two strips that has that word): https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/10/06
A lot of people in creative fields thrive off the presence of other creatives around them with whom they can discuss ideas, etc. NYC is hard to beat for that. You're also likely to come across more opportunities to get your work published if you live in one of the centers of the global publishing industry.

People choose to live in NYC for reasons other than narcissism or lifestyle amenities - for many creative fields (especially anything "high culture") it is objectively the best, sometimes the only, place to be if you want to develop your career.

And I'm sorry but if quantity written had any relevance on one's seriousness as an author then Stephen King would be the greatest English-language author of all time.
You aren't kidding about classical games being hard to follow. I'm a pretty strong amateur at about 2200 on lichess, but some of the recent Candidates games are so dense that I can't make sense of them without a computer analysis. With blitz even when the super GMs play I can usually tag along and figure out what's happening once I see an interesting move played.
It's not a political standard though. There is actual diversity in this world. Why wouldn't you want that in your product?
Why do there need to be new customers? If you didn't like the product before, you can look elsewhere (or look within). Seems pretty messed up to ruin the experience for those who have been enjoying the products as is for years.
Fair, although I also think it's suspicious that the page hasn't been updated in so long, especially for what has become a flagship, very widespread product.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PDQDeploy/comments/vstvct/microsoft...
> What's the difference between the two in reality?

Land value tax incentivises turning a single-family home into a multi-unit building. Property tax explicitly discourages that.
One other obvious "Turing-hard" spyware side-channel, is that it's basically up to the application developer to come up with a list of Internet domains it should be able to connect to, to put into the app's entitlements; and it's up to humans at Apple to determine whether that list is sane — often by starting up the app with syscalls to the network stack shimmed/traced, doing packet captures, and seeing what the app says to each of the domains it lists itself as entitled to talk to.

You'd think that maybe restricting connections to e.g. domains that are rooted in a zone the developer has proven ownership of, would be fine... but there are third-party advertising, analytics, and fingerprinting services that allow you to CNAME them as subdomains of your domain to evade ad-blocker signature recognition.

And, of course, no user could ever be expected to figure any of this out if asked in a prompt. "Example App is asking me to allow it to connect to abcdefg.example.com? Well, they own that, don't they? Why wouldn't I allow that?"
Unimproved? Building a parking lot isn't cheap and it does make the land more useful.
Nah. It's reporting about a new thing that is already selling well. That's kind of the job of MarketWatch -- they are watching the market.

If you're not a gamer it probably doesn't matter to you. Though I can say I'm not a gamer either, and watching a friend play it I thought it was charming. It's a puzzle game, but with very high end graphics and an engaging storyline.
Some of the IPv6 changes are good, many of them are not so amazing.

I think one can say in general that if we had of stuck to only increasing the address field size, and not changed a bunch of other things between IPv4 and IPv6 we could have gotten there a lot quicker and be mostly through the transition.

Hindsight is of course everything.
> Encourage usage, not squatting.

Yes agreed, though I do think people conflate things and vilify wrong targets, which sounds a lot like the OP.

E.g. in California it's en vogue to rail against "Prop 13" without considering why it was passed, or how it helps people on fixed incomes remain in their homes. , or more importantly how the financialization of homes has made things bad globally.
I am firmly in the camp that would pick the first arrangement, but not because of (lack of) trust. It is partially due to psychological effect on me (get out of bed, you are compensated for this) and partially because the incentives of the employer are better aligned with mine. They should view 24/7 operation as something that costs money, so that they are more willing to invest in robust solutions.
Getting to the Point
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So many tech workers bring out this line, that they don't think a union could negotiate a better deal for them.

Really? You really think that you are the best negotiator out of everyone who could join a union local in your area? You really think that by yourself you have more leverage than if you were negotiating alongside everyone else in a similar position within your company?

You look at the amount, and see that it's good, and you make a whole bunch of assumptions founded on stereotypes about unions, and come to the conclusion that you are the specialest person around...and it's a very seductive thing to believe.

But it's just one more way the people making dozens or hundreds of times more than you screw you over.
The nerd in me thinks it's very cool. :)
It's also funny that this likely won't 'unbias' any actual published images coming out of it. If 90% of the images in the world has a male CEO, then for whatever reason that's the image people will pick and choose from DALL-Es output. (Generalized to any unbiasing - i.e. they'll be debiased by humans.)
A free alternative:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini

Reminder that the OpenAI team claimed safety issues about releasing the weights. Now they’re charging, when the above link GPU time is being paid for by investor dollars. I guess sama must be hurting if he can only afford OpenAI credit packs for celebrities and his friends.
Google Cloud EMEA Limited, Ireland is subsidiary of US entity. It could just as well could be a US company with respect to privacy laws and regulations.
I loved the book Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug

Sort, simple and insightful.

https://sensible.com/dont-make-me-think/
I used to serve on a BT SIG, and the current state of things does not surprise me. I was both blown away by the technical expertise of some of the contributors, from whom I learned a ton about platform philosophy & standards that I still use today; and deeply disappointed by the role PMs & BizDev played in proactively breaking compatibility just to preserve the option to someday take advantage of the standard for short-term profit.

Really interesting though, if you're early in your career and have the option to participate in a standards body I strongly recommend it.
Midjourney recently changed their terms of service and now the creators own the image and give a license back to Midjourney. Pretty cool.
IMO, this hypothesis doesn't pass the smell test. One of the defining qualities of clinical depression is that personal success in life does not obviate the symptoms; there are many widely know examples of beloved and successful people being unable to overcome the burden of crushing depression.
But this doesn't really happen on Android now. Even though I can sideload apps and use different app stores, my bank never told me to get their app from Shady Store and the public transport company didn't ask me to you F-Droid. The official app store is still _the_ place you find apps in, you're just _also_ free to wander on your on.
Apple definitely can do more for iOS user security beyond App Store review, and much casual commentary overlooks that. Not to mention, given how the EU seems to be fairly pro-consumer protection, alternative app store guidelines will probably be subject to regulator scrutiny as well.

A lot of the doomsday scenarios about Facebook creating an app store to invasively track people seem to forget that regulators don't like that, nor their respective monopolistic practices, either. I don't think they'll be able to get away with creating an user-tracking scammy app store and then taking their existing ubiquitously-used apps off of the official App Store without drawing the ire of the EU.
> If an artist has a well-known art style, and this algorithm was trained on it and can copy that style, would the artist have grounds to sue? I don't know.

While nothing has been commercialized yet on the DALLE2 subreddit, I know that it can do Dave Choe's work remarkably well. I also saw Alex Gray's work to be close, but not really identical either. It wasn't as intricate as his work is.

It will be interesting if this takes off and you have a sort of Banksy effect take over where unless it's a physical piece of art it doesn't have much value and is only made all the better because of some sort polemic attached to it, eg Girl with balloon.
Didn't work for Aussie kangaroo problem though
> even have the common vocabulary to discuss labor issues.

This was one of the warnings of Orwell. A good example is how communism and socialism are synonymous for many people limiting their capability to discuss social improvements.
This is so impressive it acutally scares me.
Only a fool would trust statistics. Confidence is proportional to the p-value. False positives are very common. The author acknowledged that the results are not significant.
I think the 90s version would be icecreamcookiecake
> gives a value for the lot far lower than the actual market price of an empty lot in this location

Retrofitting or tearing down a house in California is expensive. Particularly if it's an old house where there could be e.g. lead or asbestos. Clean lots (presuming it wasn't previously a laundromat) command a value from the baggage they clearly don't bring.
I just said it doesn't matter, because I'm dead. But if I'm going to answer your question, friends and family would be there, just like everyone else's funeral. Even if I don't have kids, I will have other friends and family who do.
>clever code isn't usually good code. Clarity trumps all other concerns.

this is a good one to pick up early. Looking forward to my 20 in dev.
Indeed, it was a little buggy but I truly loved it. I spent way more than I probably should have on fun tiny-ARM clusters... when I was just barely no longer a teenager [and I'm much older now]
Two questions:

(1) Any opinions on if removing the watermark is possible? Is doing so against the terms of service?

(2) Appears the output is still at 1024x1024 - what are options to upscale the resolution, for example would OpenCV super resolution work?
Making magical music from live mushrooms
It's a lot of walking simulation with puzzles. It opens with a tutorial so it's even less challenging at the beginning. I didn't see any puzzles that looked at all challenging, but I've only watched a little bit of it.

It's definitely counting on its storyline and atmospherics for appeal.
Corporations are not people (whatever corrupt courts might say).

The corporations are not AGIs too https://youtube.com/watch?v=L5pUA3LsEaw
Oh we absolutely can do that. Microsoft barely avoided that fate over their antics with Internet Explorer back in the days.

Anti-American company sentiments are high across Europe, especially when it comes to big tech companies. Our people are sick of US companies playing wild west and stomping all over regulations - AirBnB and Uber caused the most public backlash here (AirBnB because of people complaining that they were priced out of their homes and illegal hotel-style operations disrupting their lives, Uber because taxi drivers have pretty good lobby connections), followed by Facebook (which was mostly a topic for privacy nerds). Also, we have not forgotten who caused the 2008 financial crisis and who keeps dodging tax and labor laws while the taxpayers are left to deal with the followup costs.

Pay up and behave or get kicked out, GDPR was just the beginning (and once we get the Irish authorities to behave, your companies are done). The EU bureaucracy is like a big tanker ship, slow as molasses, but once it is moving it is not stoppable other than by going out of its way.
They already do with DoT.

You can always block UDP 443 to stop this, given it’s over QUIC.
Today, when DALL-E was still free, my Dad asked me to try a prompt about the Buddha sitting by a river, contemplating. I did about 4 prompt variations, and one of them was an Asian female, if that gives any idea about the frequency (I should note that the depiction was of a young, slim, and attractive female Buddha, so I'm not sure they have the bias thing licked just yet).
> That makes people angry at the system, government and their fellow citizens.

The "system" and governments frequently prefer angry people direct their rage at other citizens instead of them! QED
Doesn't Prop 13 also apply to commercial property? And second/third/30th houses? I think they smuggled a bear in as a rabbit with this one.
They are pretty obviously not core OS API if you don't need them.
well, it was honest mistake, but I like your interpretation
Microsoft harnesses third-gen AMD Epyc processors for locked-down VMs
> Building a parking lot isn't cheap

It's cheaper than an actual building...

> and it does make the land more useful.

...and less useful than one, too.
A dumb solution to a dumber problem.
Regex is completely unreadable to the uninitiated. Why not try to develop a more readable syntax like SQL has?
Trivially cheap compared to a 10 story apartment building.
If your goal is to put up an apartment building, it's cheaper to rip up asphalt than to demolish a multi-level concrete and steel parking structure.
No, not necessarily. You can use these APIs directly from many different languages. For example, Python has 'socket'[1], Ruby has 'socket'[2], Julia has 'Sockets'[3], PHP has 'socket_*'[4].

1. https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html

2. https://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.5.3/libdoc/socket/rdoc/Socket....

3. https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/Sockets/

4. https://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sockets.php
Isn't there still a hypervisor present though but rather than the hypervisor running on a general purpose CPU it's running on the Nitro chipset? There's still a type 1 hypervisor involved no? How else would the hypercalls from the guests work?
When it first happened, I wondered if they would try to replace the affected keyboards with slightly different units. I think they just didn't have enough time to design and manufacture parts that (1) would fix the problem, and (2) would fit in the very limited space available.

A credit would have been nice, though it would have only worked once they actually fixed the problem, which I think was in 2020!
Same. I have an Acura and it plays whatever the last thing that was playing out the speakers or headphones of the phone was. If that was Apple Music, that's what plays. If it was Podcasts, that's what plays. For many years, I used a 3rd party podcast app, and it would play that.

It does, however, have the same connection problems described in the root of this thread. Sometimes just doesn't see the car (or vice-versa). Sometimes connects and starts playing within a minute of starting the car. Sometimes (frequently) stops playing after like 1 minute of playing. Sometimes auto-reconnects a minute later, sometimes doesn't. It's very irritating.
Not correct. They have a for-profit entity now. That's why there is a huge incentive to monetize. Any for-profit investment gain is capped at 100x, with the rest required to go to their nonprofit.
This commercialization is just as I predicted in my substack post 2 days ago that hit the front page of Hacker News: https://aifuture.substack.com/p/the-ai-battle-rages-on