skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s amazing how little inefficient land use/NIMBYism is discussed in American politics. It is actually even more important than healthcare as a cost of living issue. Especially for young people living in major cities.
Fossil fuel has also enabled a population explosion which fuels the coming crisis. Much harder to get inside planetary boundaries when so many people need to share the finite resources.

I.e. populations of any organism grow to consume the available resources unfortunately.
I know a lot of poor people. None of them ever said “let me get that one bedroom”.

They all did the same thing, move somewhere cheap. Live in a one bedroom, and work until they can buy a house.

My point is no one wants that one bedroom, except those well off who want to live in the city. Which by definition creating apartment complexes will destroy the aesthetic and overwhelm the city resources and utilities.
Technically you’re supposed to be paying for the codec packs you download as well.
Dear Yonghao, no matter what you improve, when I see 6 ads before any actual search results everything turns to shit.
You can never really know who someone is. Only what they’ve chosen to share with you. With that in mind, this is just one more data point to form your own opinion around.
this comment assumes we always take actions that optimize our life long-term and that our cognition stays invariant as we consume content, TikTok is hacking our cognition my dude. It's a disgusting system.
> This is admittedly speculation since the inner workings of Google search are not released to the public.

No, no, Eric Schmidt openly said that "Brands is how you sort out the 'mess'" (in search). And he started prioritizing big brands in search results and disappearing everyone else.

Panda even wiped out individual webmasters or small software houses - they were adding small back links to the websites that they built for their clients, per google's OWN recommendations, for years.

Then google turned around and suddenly penalized all of those legitimate links while 'sorting out the spam'. millions of small businesses, developers, software houses found themselves with zero traffic within a day. their hard earned traffic coming from legitimate business clients. whose sites were also affected similarly.

This caused the rise in internet marketplaces. from amazon to elance, upwork. because the small businesses and individuals were now totally invisible in search results and instead 'brands' dominated. a side effect was killing of independent content in search results and forcing everyone to have to post in social networks for visibility, forcing content creators out of their own blogs into social networks. Which exacerbated the damages that algorithms because now everyone had to obey individual corporations' unaccountable algorithms.

So yes, google has created this mess to a very large degree. Their nonchalant, uncaring attitude towards their users, customers that plagues all of their products crippled search as well. By saying "Brands is how you sort out the mess" and enforcing it top-down, one single ceo single handedly decided the fate of millions of small businesses, blogs, professionals. In a totally unaccountable way with no input from anyone affected.
Isn't this what people mean when they say they are more productive working remotely?
It's not just that they greenlit this change, it's that it's far from the first time they've pulled something like this. It is utterly baffling to me that there isn't someone in senior management who can say "What? No, that's utterly stupid, you can't do that".
They are all around us, and if you keep up with the news, you probably have a clue of what a startup is—maybe a group of guys who started a wildly innovative company in their garage using some ground-breaking business strategy.
You might be in an unhealthy marriage.
I’m not going to defend this but I also really don’t come to HN for twitter witch hunts. It’s really not that interesting.
I was thinking of depictions of programmers in movie and tv are unrealistic. And hacking a firewall is not like playing a videogame.
No, Mozilla was founded by developers and tech people to create a browser from the Netscape sources.

Mozilla says so itself

"The Mozilla project was created in 1998 with the release of the Netscape browser suite source code. It was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the internet and fuel unprecedented levels of innovation in the browser market. "
What is on your bank account is not cash. It's a mere promise to produce cash on demand.

Cash is actual bank notes and coins in your pocket. They cannot be terminated for undisclosed reasons. Which is the point.
One hacker's audacious plan to rule the market in stolen credit cards (2008)
Several things:

- "we need to take community input into account" gets transformed to "a small handful of people acting in bad faith can stop any process"

- homeowners tend to have more access to these, but are not the only people affected by these decisions (you think the teachers or cops having to live 90 minutes away cuz they can't afford to rent in these areas are showing up here?)

- Home ownership in particular just generates a perverse incentive to try and profit off of your home. That might be great for homeowners, but there's a reason rentseeking is its own economic term.

I believe that the specific thing here is that community input on planning as it exists in the US is bad, for the same reason that deciding everything by referendum is bad. If you put every part of urban development up for line item veto, then you can't make much of a great plan!

I personally think that public comment and the like is ... fine and good. But I do think it should be possible for a city government to lay out requirements for building a thing, and for people who meet those requirements to be able to do the thing, no matter how much others whine. If there are issues, change the requirements for future projects!
Until one of your tools makes a backwards incompatible change, and then boom, your whole git history goes down the memory hole. You've got to vendor everything too. Since with a broken commit you can always have git slide back one commit. But it's much harder to spin up a Docker container with the same distro you were using for every part of the bisect.
Yes but no. It's best to give the knobs for the people to control the algorithm
and it's shown for them. Also make the algorithm transparent to the user
A public comment opposing policies that would lead to more affordable housing isn’t “gossip” or “conjecture.”
when you have dozens contributing to unstable CI builds it can be hard as hard as keeping CI builds sane. For a project that is 10+ years old. I try to use git bisect but I have to do it in a few steps because over a range file can have multiple failures and failure you need might be somewhere I between start and some failure that was fixed within the range. Or multiple failures.
Ditto. Sometimes stuff reaches a point where it's mature or stable and doesn't need more development. Sometimes life gets in the way and years down the road someone stops in to pick up the torch. That's open source.
Gitlab is great but they don't make money out of me and I'm not sure why.

There is no reason for me to go to a paid account. There is no way that I could justify the cost to my boss. We have 5 slots for the team and only need 3. There is nothing that we'd gain from paying.

If they said tomorrow that we had to pay $60 a month to get what we're getting now, then I'd say to my manager we need to pay for this or we won't be able to keep developing our software without deploying infrastructure we have to maintain. At that point we'd start paying.
I wrote payroll software for my dad’s company when I was 14 that did paychecks, attendance, indemnity, advances, headcount etc. He says it’s the best software he’s ever used, still using it after 15 years. He has tried a bunch of alternatives but nothing is even remotely as accessible.
>I feel like tech giants just absolutely never admit mistakes.

The only one that comes to mind is Apple's mea-culpa on the Trashcan MacPro. They actually sat down with reporters and admitted it was a bad design. That one stood out due to the actual admission vs the typical silently revert design back without admission of bad idea (like the butterfly keyboard, magsafe, touch bar, etc).
Searle’s argument is not about qualia; it is (as Searle himself has repeatedly stressed) about syntax, semantics and understanding. The argument simply does not consider what the room’s occupant feels.

Even if it were about qualia, calling the argument sound “to the extent that” we don’t know enough to tell whether its premises are correct would be a misuse of ‘sound’ and a rather blatant case of burden-shifting - effectively saying “so prove me wrong!” to skeptics.

Materialists can and do make question-begging claims, but that does not somehow cancel out Searle’s own question-begging (furthermore, somewhat ironically, Searle describes himself as a materialist!)

The soundness of the argument cannot be established by showing that current technology is far from being strong AI, as the argument claims much more than just that - it claims it to be impossible in principle. Anyone making such a claim has assumed a heavy burden that demands stronger arguments than you are making here.
Weird. I was using Mosaic on DECs at the beginning of the 90s (when WWW came to university around 1993), then Netscape (commercial "fork" of Mosaic) on SGIs (at my first startup) and then Firefox on Linux.

[Edit] I still remember Coherence also [1], yes I'm that old ;-)

[1] "Cameron made a joke every 30 secs - noone laughed in the audience though I found them all funny." https://svese.dev/i-want-to-meet-cameron-purdy/
Single unit zoning in Atherton means at least a one acre lot. Have you ever heard of semi-detached housing? That’d count as multi-unit zoning here. Half an acre lot with a good sized house seems pretty nice to me :)
I honestly don't necessarily want any particular area to be densified.

What I want is:
1. Anyone be able to build any type of housing anywhere.
2. Really steep land value taxes

I have no issue with a clique of hyper reach folk living in a low density neighborhood, as long as any of them is be able to defect and build a tower if they feel like it _and_ they all pay their LVT.
That just makes him a stable, consistent sounding board for his guests and listeners.

This "uniquely individual, but authentic and consistent persona" factor is a great trend for public persons. The reason why it works is because even if you don't agree with or like the host, say Lex or Joe, they are authentic and consistent enough that you can 'subtract' the difference between your average opinion and theirs from a conversation with a guest and still get back a reasonable read on the guest from your perspective.

It's like they're a human guage block, constantly measuring their guests with their own personality and reporting the relative measure. Then you slap your Rogan-to-infogulch guage block on top and now it's like you're measuring their guests yourself by proxy. (I'm tired but this seems like a reasonable analogy.)
Few years ago, I tried to un-squatting an username from both GitLab and GitHub (yes, GitHub were doing this back then), both with success. During the attempt I studied the policies for both service and noticed the difference between the two: For GitHub, they were lean towards not to release the username especially when the account is valid and not "empty"; For GitLab however, they will release the username if the account was inactive (not pushing/posting issues/login etc) for a period of time (See [1]).

[1]: https://about.gitlab.com/support/gitlab-com-policies/#name-s...

That knowledge about GitLab left a weird and confused taste in me. It gives me an impression, that is if a free tier user becomes inactive, they're no longer valuable for GitLab and can be treated as second-tier.

For that reason, I cannot seriously being myself to use GitLab. If you knew that all of your investments will rot to nothing as soon as you stopped paying, you'll probably consider to stop investing it.

Sadly, this idea of removing "dormant" projects followed the same train of logic: If you're not constantly contributing (paying/publising content) to our platform, you're second-tier, and we can just kick you out.

From the previous article where they announced the plan:

> GitLab is aware of the potential for angry opposition to the plan, and will therefore give users weeks or months of warning before deleting their work...

GitLab don't seemed to understand their users well. "Angry opposition" is what might happen if GitHub decides to remove dormant repositories, not GitLab. GitLab users will just feel disappointed and leave (to self-hosting, or maybe host it (back) on GitHub).

GitLab should seriously re-learn what's more important for their service: user engagement or the code hosted on it. Tip: GitLab is not running a social network business.
Yes, animals often die by predators who have no alternative. This is the way of nature. But humans DO have alternatives. We absolutely do not need to lock up animals in cages and kill them with machines. We don't need to use them at all.

Sure, you can say compassion is an emotion. But can you really even be a part of society without compassion? To say we should be willing to enslave and kill animals because we should set our compassion aside... why? Why do you argue for a world without compassion? Yes nature is brutal. And yet we have child seats for cars because we don't expect to expose our children to random brutality. What about a pig or a cow makes you feel it deserves brutality when we will work so hard to shield one another from the same?

We don't live in the jungle. That is not the point of society. We do care for one another, and compassion drives many aspects of our society. I see no reason it should not play in to what we eat.

> We are not ruminants. We don't have multiple stomachs.

This doesn't have anything to do with veganism. Vegans don't eat grass from the ground. We don't need multiple stomachs. This is a straw man.
> You can make eggplant flour, canned, salted and pickled vegetables.

Farmers grow food, they don’t process it outside what a combine does. This further increases costs as now you need mass grinders, canners, and pickling machines.

> Thats exactly the point of my critique that for the individual farmer it doesn't make sence to invest so much effort, but as a society wouldn't it be nice of we didn't waste what we had, we'd have something to fall back on.

Yes I get your point, but I’m a realist. Things expire, things can’t store as long. It’s not feasible to have a farmer be the entire, or even a majority of, the food supply chain. You’ve clearly never grown anything at scale.
A really bad implementation of the WebExtension API (many missing features compared to other browsers and next to no relevant documentation) that also requires wrapping each extension with an iOS app and distributing it on the App Store.
Commercial is not easily reusable for residential, the requirements are totally different.
For the tenth time in this thread, even if one agrees with that point of view, the issue isn't that Andreessen holds that view, it's that he's gone on record many, many times espousing the exact opposite of it.

It's insanely hypocritical, and points to him saying one thing in public to gain the kudos of like-minded people while in private being something completely different.
I don’t know what you’re talking about. You can go to squarespace and set up a site in 15 mins. I know because I did it last month for my business.
You can use what you want, but that doesn't really make Firefox relevant...

I think a lot of Firefox users also tend to be power users who have unusual settings and blockers, like you. To companies who own websites, that's even less incentive to support them.
I have wondered this as well. In theory, I want to say yes. But in practice, at least in this subfield, there are so many unimportant details that might make this really difficult.

It's not a perfect analogy, but some parts of the proof feel more like neural networks than procedural algorithms. So instead of verifying the composition of two procedural algorithms g(f(x)), you have something more like g(nn(f(x))), where nn is some sort of ML model / neural network. Interestingly, we are starting to see progress in importing ML models as libraries (eg Huggingface), so maybe that can carry over someday? I don't know.

Another challenge is simply a practical one. You would need someone heavily interested in both black hole mathematics and formal proof verification to be able to do this. Both of these require years of training.
In the EU patent office, software patents are not a thing. So good riddance to them.
It's interesting that 'decreased home value' is considered a coherent argument.

Imagine I come to you and say you need to stop making positive changes in your life because others compare you to me and I don't like my 'value' being decreased by your improved lifestyle.

Also, can you move out of my neighbourhood? You're causing noise pollution and traffic.
> > Mozilla, like most nonprofits, has always been run by activists

> No, Mozilla was founded by developers and tech people

“Developers and tech people” can also be activists, so that's not a contradiction, but...

> Mozilla says so itself

Except it doesn't in the material you quote, it says (emphasis added):

> It was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the internet

It doesn't say it was founded by tech people, it says it was founded with the (activist!) intent to harness the power of tech people.
We already deny communities "community voice" in all sorts of issues. The list of issues communities aren't allowed to determine for themselves is called "state law", and there's a lot of it. Demsas (Twitter has stripped some of this context off, which is probably part of why it seems insane to you) is advocating for blanket SFH zoning to be added to the list of things communities can no longer decide for themselves, because when you let communities do that, they naturally and with near-mathematical inevitability (literally, as in the forces that lead to this are almost mathematically inevitable and have nothing to do with equity or justice or privilege or anything like that) work to exclude multi-family housing.
Just to be persnickety: If you do a search for "dog" (with the quotes), do you expect to find hits with only "dogs"? What about "doghouse" or "Dogbert"? "Dogged" (the past tense or past/passive participle of the verb 'dog')? If you search for "goose", do you expect to also see "geese"? (And for good measure, what should be done about languages where most nouns have case marking suffixes, like Russian, or languages with lots and lots of suffixes, like Turkish or Finnish.)

I'll agree about synonyms, if you use quotes you shouldn't see those.
The irony was that googles original claim to fame was that it was the first engine to start including all terms by default and respecting quotes perfectly. Then they just went back on it. Maybe it’s SEO pressure, or maybe it’s just incompetent product owners who didn’t understand what made their product click.
Comments are already turning into flaming dogpiles.
Highlight of Woodside is The Village Pub, a pretty good Michelin star restaurant for Sunday brunch with a wagyu steak!
But indeed, if they had the _option_ to escape from reality from time to time, people like Cypher would be happier (I know I am when I do it :D). Indeed the irony of partaking precisely in the thing that you fight against is there; however, what they actually fight against is the enslavement by it, not the casual enjoyment of it: it's bad to be a medieval serf forced to toil the soil, it's quite another thing to play gardener to take your mind off the day..

They have an unsophisticated, binary view of the world (for plot reasons, I guess) while some nuance and tolerance would have had made a more realistic and_human_take on the situation.
to be fair it isn’t even implemented in chrome
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I exclusively used Firefox on mobile and desktop for years, and I complained to myself every time I updated, then told myself "but the only other option is google", then one day I updated the mobile browser and I was only allowed to install 5 "curated" add-ons.

I was done. I rage quit Firefox on all devices within an hour and I have not regretted the decision. I'm done making excuses for them.

Now I use kiwi browser on mobile (chromium fork with extensions support) and qutebrowser on desktop (uses chromium's engine, keyboard focused and fun to use) and ungoogled chromium for dev related stuff when I need to.

I don't like web browsers and I don't like the web. But I don't find myself constantly making excuses for a piece of software I have to use anymore.
Why have code if we're going to throw all the laws out the window? Millennium Tower in San Francisco, Champlain Towers South in Miami, etc.

And what if said developer was a former president building exclusively for his followers?
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I would prefer we did not do that. Just personally. As an introvert and someone with a general distaste for being around most of the public, I'll keep my not-so-dense living situation. Whether it's mixed income, mixed familial structures, cultures, the last thing I ever want to be - if I can avoid it - is on living on top of people.

Speaking only for myself - and yes, I am keenly aware of the injustices many groups have faced here over the years - at least some of the American dream was to create an environment for both of us to share these mutually exclusive stances in harmony. I am grateful for the ability of some percentage of Americans to have more space between their neighbors than simply one wall, even if that percentage is much smaller than it ought to be. And I grow increasingly resentful of the mechanisms both internal and external that keep that number so small.
Don’t move the goalposts
Yeah a social network that 0.05% of the population can realistically set up is not really all that social.
I've been thinking about doing this for my grandpa, who is in his 90s. Were there any questions you were particularly glad you asked?
Given that the fatalities in 2020 went up a lot among black Americans, barely budged among white ones and went down a lot among Asian Americans, I consider the above theory to be total bunk (unless somehow only black Americans were benefitting from congestion reduction, while white Americans were as stuck in traffic as ever).

https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/...

Given that racial patterns of changes in traffic fatalities match very closely those in homicides since 2020 (where, again, rate of homicide victimization went up a lot among black Americans, and only mildly among whites), I’d rather suspect common reason behind both.
> Hence why my point wasn't about preference but rather just pointing out that there are differences one has to adapt to when switching from one platform to another (whichever direction that switch might be).

Think about this from the high level, it’s obvious yes? Why did you write an essay on “Windows, Linux, and Mac key shortcuts are different” and then “it’s clearly subjective” These are obvious statements.
I agree the technology does seem down to earth, and they're trying to make it quite practical. I'm also excited.

I just think of so many hurdles...I hope they make it. I originally wrote a huge reply explaining my thinking, but sounded like a rant.

If it works, maybe it can also be used to quickly bore the underground tunnels Musk has been working on. Could be life-changing tech.