skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Dallas and Houston _each_ built more homes last year than the _entirety of the state of California_, and routinely have been doing so since 2010. Here's one from 2014, but you can find articles from 2021 and 2020 with a cursory google search, too.

Are the ones from 2020 and 2021 also just straight-out lying? The 2014 one you link both claims Houston to be higher than CA as a whole (without providing numbers for current Houston starts or CA starts) and claims that the rate in Houston is expected to peak at around 50k starts/year a couple years later in 2016.

But, in 2014, single and multifamily starts in California were each already around 50k, and growing.

https://journal.firsttuesday.us/the-rising-trend-in-californ...
Clickbait indeed, I actually clicked because I knew it was wrong.

The true story is that the server started in 1993 as Debian 0.93R5, getting upgrades from time to time, the last one being Jessie to Bullseye.

I expected some bullshit or parody, but here, it is genuinely impressive.
So what is the most cost effective way to do so? China's pouring hundreds of billions in subsidies into fabs. South Korea is pouring hundreds of billions in subsidies.

Tariffs alone would only allow for domestic balancing of those subsidies but lose you the global market. So again, what would you recommend instead.
iPhone has been losing market share and never had a killer app.

And given the Quest2 has a been a commercial success perhaps like the iPhone there is no one game changing single app but a range of apps and features.
The software in question seems to be a simple VR ad for the magazine?

If you’ve used the Quest, their software is actually miles ahead of the competition. It’s a pleasure to use in comparison to all the Windows Mixed Reality crap.
This is my impression to, as a person deep into the Linux desktop ecosystem from back then.

I even managed to give gnome2 to my mum at one point and she remarked how nice everything was and easy to find. I had more difficulty than she did since I was much more into computers and had learned all the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of Windows.

Then gnome3 came and was a huge regression in terms of flexibility, ease of use, aesthetics and performance.

Plasma was the same, though, subjectively it looked better and was a lot less antagonising than gnomes radical redesign, it was still really heavy and buggy compared to kde3 (or whatever the predecessor was, I think 3).

Plasma/KDE was also very windows-like, so I don’t buy the argument that Microsoft was the cause, it was mostly gnome devs thinking that they could get a radical touch-first redesign in before anyone else.

This is a very long way of saying: the parent is correct in my opinion.
This still has the free rider problem at a nation state level. Let's say China invests 100 billion a year in innovation, and makes it all open. France then comes along and says "I don't need to bother with spending on innovation, I'll just use China's legwork, and spend my billion on out marketing china". China would eventually run out of cash for research.
These kind of fluctuations that average out make the money useful on an immediate or long-term timeline, with the cost of medium-term fluctuations (think hold under a few months or over 5 years). Fiat as currently found in places like the US makes the money useful in the immediate or medium term timeline (think under 5 years).

I think which you prefer depends on your station in life and your spending choices. Personally when fiat hits my bank account I want to shit-can it as soon as possible, eithre for equities or commodities. If I were paid in the kind of unstable but averaging out dollar of the 1800s I would very much prefer that, rather than losing money to middle men converting to some commodity like that (such as a commodities index, silver, whatever) and then converting back whenever I need to spend.
GNOME 2 was perfect. I use the spiritual sucessor MATE wherever it’s possible. It’s not perfect and arguably “boring” but there is really something to it https://mate-desktop.org/

On a side note a similar project exist for KDE 3. Trinity Desktop https://www.trinitydesktop.org/

And on a second mildly related side note: /r/linux had a thread about a modern (2009) OpenSuse spin with KDE 2 a few months ago. It was released as an april’s fools joke but the ISO file totally disappeared from the internet. Or at least the sub couldn’t find it (and the archive.org mirror is corrupted) https://blogs.kde.org/2009/04/01/new-kde-live-cd-release-bri... Maybe someone here have it? :)
I think this is a good take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBo4GViDxzc (and that John Oliver has gotten better and better at distilling the why of current events)
https://archive.ph/AAwsJ

https://web.archive.org/web/20220717011807/https://www.nytim...
The Democrats could have been smarter tactically. Trump’s first SC nominee was Gorsuch, certainly conservative but a stellar jurist, and an uncharacteristically good pick from Trump (compare to the other names on his 2016 shortlist). The Democrats had no cards besides obstruction, which would certainly lead McConnell to kill the filibuster. If they had made the reasonable guess that Trump’s next pick would be easier to beat, saved their powder, and reluctantly let Gorsuch through, McConnell would have had to kill the filibuster for Kavanaugh. For Kavanaugh, a far more controversial pick than Gorsuch, he wouldn’t have had the votes.
> CF capsules (862 mg CF)

I'm guessing that if you drink cocoa instead of taking cocoa flavenol pills, the sugar and other ingredients probably negate the effect.
This is flawed logic.

Security is what allows everything else to exist. You can't just say "Let's liquidate military and spend all that money on children". This would last only shortly until China or somebody else invades US.

Now, I am not saying to not pay for meals. Investing directly in children is probably one of the better ways to improve future outlook of a country.

I am just saying your logic is flawed and there is no easy way to compare the two.
I think you’re really overestimating Street View’s impact. Anyone remotely interested in India is already aware of how far behind the key infrastructure is and how governments have failed them. Street View is the last thing they will be looking at for confirmation.

Governments haven’t cared about failures when actual users of the infrastructure (Indian citizens) have complained. Things aren’t going to change because Google is now showing how streets look like for someone outside India.
Possibly because nodejs is running on v8, that the primary creator is Google?

EDIT: thinking about it again, I guess the domain where nodejs is excel at has already being done in Hack, which already grow within FB.
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen" -- Lenin
I like Jimmy Carr's opinion on comedy, that comedy establishes an expectation or ideal and then pulls the rug on it, revealing a new truth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV5K3v0u1J8
Zuckerberg doesn’t need to care about shareholders when he can’t be removed.
This is an example of what stupid people think is a smart project.
They're rather important in roller-coaster rides, see for example https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0143-0807/37/6/06...
> but even "emissions" isn't a simple calculation

Yes, it is. Tax the fuel on its carbon content at the point of sale of the fuel from the refinery.
> Why is it an issue that wealth is not as insulative as it once was against crime?

I think it depends on social context, but at least in the US, and I would suspect in much of the West generally, people work to acquire wealth primarily to better the lives of themselves and their family, and a big portion of that is where they live (e.g. a home purchase is usually the largest purchase in any person's life). Given that, if you cannot reliably buy a home in a safe place, it leads to significant increased risk for productive members of society and general breakdowns in social cohesion. I don't want to be that guy, but I see parallels between our current zeitgeist and the fall of the Roman Empire.

> What about those who want wealth but can't acquire it but also do good in a community to prevent crime? What if we were forced to make communal change instead of buying our way out?

"Buying your way out" is a form of communal change, it's literally the basis of suburban living, HOAs, inner-metro townships & associated township policing, et al. I don't know of anyone who "wants wealth but can't acquire it", I know of many people that want some subset of what wealth might bring and are unwilling to do the things necessary to acquire what they want. Unwillingness and inability are not the same, nor is materialism and safety/piece and quiet.

> Children across all spectrums of wealth have engaged in vandalization or theft for the entirety of humanity, whether for social media points or other variations of clout.

Yes, anti-social behavior is part of the human condition, but generally speaking is confined in some way except in times of social strife and turmoil. By most metrics this is not a time of social strife and turmoil, but we are seeing a rise in anti-social behavior that would indicate that it is.
All the successful tech entrepreneurs also seem to limit or delay what tech their kids are allowed to use far more than regular parents.
Huh? Looks much better and does not clash IMHO, they did their homework on the restoration. I welcomed them even though they could probably do even better. Guessing economics and luck of the draw limited the quality to just pretty good instead of excellent.

But, still an order of magnitude better than the "dirty bowling balls" look of the original. Perhaps a few lighting tweaks and a rerender at higher resolution could improve it a bit at a low cost.
> the actual maximum sizes [and how various factors] influence the practical limit are far from obvious.
Usually you go the other way with that.
reddit was never social bookmarking.
I think you're right on the money, continuous storage of long term memory + cognitive feedback of those memories _is_ consciousness in my book. We already know that decisions can happen before your conscious mind is aware, that's because consciousness isn't about this moment, it's about past moments, it's a feedback loop.
I don't get how that description sounds like a good way to spend your time. Why do you need hours of throway content in your life from people you don't have any connection to? Why not like go to the gym or hike or cook your self a healthy meal.
Wouldn't you say that a neural network that learns to play a game by playing the game does so via experimentation?
There's a video of a panel with Moxie Marlinspike who says something along the lines that there is value in being able to break the law. It's how society evolves. Complete surveillance means no broken laws, means a relatively static society.
> It's broken on every conceivable level

And yet it's still really good.

People like Larry Sanger prattle on about how awful wikipedia is (and make multiple websites for collecting mistakes, which mostly seem to be blank), rarely with any concrete evidence. In fact Sanger in particular refuses to browse wikipedia at all - except that he does but through a proxy, because giving wikipedia.org traffic is "icky". I pointed out that this is childish behaviour and he blocked me, go figure.
> Tiktok has nailed the delightful "stumble upon" effect

Am I the only one who hates this usage of the word "delightful"? I think of delightful as nearly a synonym to the word "serendipitous", in that there's a rare joy to it -- difference between those two words that serendipitous is unexpected while delightful could be expected. I associate this with events like running into close friends or family, or just having a beautiful day and being able to have fun outside. It needs an element of rarity, whereas TikTok and Instagram are novelty on demand, and so that serendipitous joy fades into habit-forming addiction.

I am probably making an old-man-yells-at-cloud argument here, but I recently read an article that described the Android Compose toolkit as a way to make developing Android apps a "delightful experience" and it made me realize how much I despise that usage of the word for fairly mundane things.
Yeah, yeah,

"Up yours woke religious moralists. We'll see who condemns who."
This is definitely an engineering disaster. Sometimes we get too caught up in how to do something that we never ask ourselves if we should.
The energy cost difference with regenerative braking is essentially negligible between these two cars. Adding several hundred pounds to my EV driving around makes little difference by my measurements. And as to the idea of the lithium being wasted, that might not necessarily be true as well. Its not like those extra cells will never be used, its just the pack will never really hit 100% charge and will never really hit 0% charge, it'll essentially always be somewhere above 0% and below 100%. This will allow better wear leveling over the whole pack, so if the car is used a decent bit it'll get more miles on its life than the smaller pack.
I was thinking the same thing, but wouldn’t these be okay if his workload is mainly WORM?
> No, you couldn't, because they did not use force to get into the space of your children.

Why is use of force the line? What about burgulars who enter without using force?
Twitter Inc. vs. Elon Musk - complete plaint with timeline and details [pdf]
RFC 1035 did in one part suggest a model in which some bigger more powerful machines may run a recursive resolver as the local resolver, but other machines would probably use a stub resolver that redirected a local service running a recursive resolver as a service to the network.

This had benefits like the centralized cache of the local networks' recursive resolver being more beneficial.

Implementation wise, most implementations are either stub resolvers, or full blown dns servers capable of serving up arbitrary sets of domains authoritatively. There are fewer implementations that do recursive lookup without a full authoritative server implementation. Obviously including a full capability DNS server in every OS install is absurd, so they come with with the stub resolvers instead.

And originally when the Internet was just big organizations connecting their networks, each network running a recursive resolver for the other machines made sense and worked fine. But along comes home internet, where originally just one machine running windows was getting connected. ISPs could perhaps have required users to run their own recursive resolver, this would be painful, and inefficient. (Keep in mind that a recursive resolver's cache is more efficient the more machines it is providing services to). So the ISPs ended up running recursive resolvers for customers.

But now since the ISPs customers don't all trust each other, concerns like cache poisoning become possible, which were not much of an issue when you ran and trusted your own networks recursive resolver.
Oh to live in such a world... Unfortunately the Supreme Court is not a compiler that returns rulings from some objective process. The justices have massive leeway to decide how to interpret every part of the constitution, and they do so to align their rulings with their own personal and political goals. If we swapped this court with 9 other judges they would return very different rulings on the exact same cases.
TikTok feels radically less innovative to me than Quest VR, but if you're focused on MAU, I see how it TikTok feels more impactful.
Actual title is “Q&A on the CNIL's formal notices concerning the use of Google Analytics”.

This editorializing by the OP is a bit too far.
If work is neutral ground, one might argue then, that all personal (political) opinions should be kept private and not discussed in the work place. Regardless of if they are left or right leaning …
I appreciate that in the heat of the moment, you want to correct the record quickly; but this adds very little to the discussion. I look forward to your longer comment / blog post setting the record straight.
The easiest way to get rid of coal plants is to tax the carbon content of fuel. Natural gas has twice the energy per C atom, so this would naturally(!) favor gas power generation over coal power.

Tax it, and let the market sort it out.
Lol. I came here looking for your reply.
Well, technically you're no longer playing nethack. You're playing a new game, comprised of nethack and cp.
1.1GB/sec throughput is pretty good over a 10Gb/sec network. That’s 88% saturation. Right?
> Is there a reason corporations even pay taxes, versus just taxing individuals once they get money distributed to them from the corporation?

Yes - because without corporation tax the revenues might get funneled out of the country and taxed elsewhere in tax avoidance schemes (both at the 'corporate' level in foreign-owned businesses, and at the individual level with the ability for the rich to setup shell corps to avoid income tax).
The overall picture looks promising... except the gov just blocked one of their latest acquisitions, which may mean the end of that.

They're best positioned to combat the ATT changes. No one can handle the engineering costs of navigating that and the data limitations as well as them. Their direct response advertising base has no where else to go, snap just proved that.

The meta verse re-brand is meant to be forward looking (although IMO not close enough for their needs). They can't grow social media forever - especially as social views of it sour.
That’s a laughably short duration to produce mass appeal VR
Unfortunately I don't think nothing is more quick then developer time for money. Small projects can yield okay results but can also end up being time consuming.
This lends some credence to Thomas Nagel's remark that Dennett's work is basically Gilbert Ryle plus Scientific American.
US national security law is perfectly capable of applying the same subpoena pressure and sealed requests for data to any provider operating in the United States that it is to Google. If your argument is "Google is bad because it complies with the laws of the countries it operates in," I have bad news about enforcement authority and governments in general.
The military is full of young people who grew up in poverty. It might be good for national security if more of them didn't have nutritional deficiencies. They aren't separate issues.
Equally it's a sorry indictment of our economic times that the meaning of unlawful has been hammered into a understanding that non prohibition is permission. This aggressive and putative new use is refuted by every founding principle of the common law in Anglo Saxon countries and most of the western world. See the argument of letter vs. spirit for a effect.

Ed. cleared up phrasing around new use, replaced meaning with use for .. meaning.
I do not believe that human perception has anything to do with "true" colors. Such a complex system with so many quirks cannot be called the true way to deal with wavelengths. And yes it starts with cones in a retina, which wipe out most of information about a spectrum of a light. Some information got lost completely, some is mixed up, to a point where it is just vaguely represents the source signal.

But if it seems to you too vague, then I can come to a point from a different angle: did you hear about tetrachromacy? "A study from 2010 actually suggests that a rare condition known as tetrachromacy exists in up to 12% of women in the world."[1] Don't you think that these women see colors in a "more true" way than other people? I personally think they are. It means, at least, that a more common way of a trichromacy is not the true way to see colors. It gives us not true colors, but some approximation which is very far from reality.

You mentioned "most humans" as a reference point, so probably you believe that the truth can be established by a voting. I do not. I know that the objective truth is an unattainable ideal, but I do not believe that the majority of votes would be enough to establish an acceptable approximation to the ideal. It needs something more than that.

[1] https://azretina.sites.arizona.edu/index.php/node/852
> companies mark up prices by 5x because they can, not because they have a shortage

These are the same thing. Fuel is a competitive market. If people are paying a premium and producers aren't undercutting each other, it's less likely a conspiracy than math.

The crack spread, i.e. "the differential between the price of crude oil and petroleum products extracted from it," has risen, but not much more than crude [1][2][3]. Given fuel, labor and shipping costs flow gap the traded price of gasoline to the price at the pump, that's not an unreasonable increase.

Pumps aren't making much money. Refineries are doing well. And primary producers are making off like bandits. To the degree intermediaries are profiting it's because people are paying a premium to ensure supply. A hallmark of a shortage.

> house is even trying to get the government to investigate that

It's an election year and people swallow tripe.

Gasoline is unusually transparent in that its primary (crude), intermediate (gas) and final (gas after transport + tax) forms are publicly priced. You can add up numbers to see who's making how much more than whom. If you find a way to take the RBOB, ship it to your town and pay the taxes while undercutting the local gas stations, I'm all ears--there is a thriving market of private petrol shipment for commercial use.

> alluding that the original comment is “nonsensical” and “illiterate”

Never my intention. Price gouging describes short-term, localized increases in prices of essentials. If Oreos prices are increasing nationally, it's not price gouging. Because it's widespread. And they're Oreos.

What it might be is profiteering. But both profiteering and price gouging are closer to philosophy than economics. They're used when we perceive prices to be unfair, with the moral definition of fairness being invoked more than an economic one.

To the degree we can define either, it's a sustained jump in profits following some calamity. (A steady-state seller, noting a jump in demand for e.g. fuel, might raise prices today, temporarily raising their margins, in anticipation of their higher input costs tomorrow.)

Anti-gouging laws are shortage-aggravating, in some cases, inducing [4]. But it leaves us with a society that feels fairer in emergencies. That psychological benefit may be worth the cost paid. But it should be recognized for what it is: paying with shortages for a notion of fairness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_spread

[2] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/marketreview/petproducts.p...

[3] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-09/crude-...

[4] http://journal.apee.org/index.php/ajax/GDMgetFile/Parte1_202...
The environment is what allows everything else to exist. By your logic, that should be the #1 spending priority. And that’s only the lowest hanging of the rotten fruit of this argument.
I'm not sure that's how it works. Couple of things (IANAL):

1. I don't think ip address alone constitutes PII but needs to be combined with other data to be applicable

2. Even if it were, I would imagine it falls under article 6 provisions where ip is required information to fulfill a contract which in case of HN as an example means delivering the web page to the browser