skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> new housing can be allowed, but only if it is constrained to a tiny area (which becomes increasingly dense)

You seem to say that in a negative tone? Isn't increasingly dense exactly what most housing advocates wish for?
Early google represented "the good guys" against the bully Microsoft.

Back then, they created Google Talk which rivaled MSN. Android started as a "open source mobile Linux" which rivaled Windows Phone.

People trusted Google as the good guys open source powered company and, when it got big enough, it screwed everyone over.

And that disappointment and outrage is still there
They mention others' property value as a rallying tool to stop the neighbourhood changing. I think it's less about the property value to them and more about the status and type of neighbourhood. Living in a neighbourhood reachable by people other than their peers isn't going to impress the people they want to impress.
Ask HN: Did you notice a big productivity drop after having kids?
They prefer it to systems that follow money transfer regulations. As soon as USDC transfers follow money transfer regulations, they become more expensive and slower than tradfi money transfers because decentralization has a cost. Net result is that crypto is only better if you ignore the law. The problem for crypto-suckers and crypto-hucksters is that the law won't ignore them.
It's included on the price difference between PC and Macs with similar specs.
I’m pretty sure indexing and searching the entire internet satisfactorily to all is harder than rocketry or surgery…
Yeah, no.

I spent time in Singapore. Incredible transit system, carefully designed "Garden City" with plenty of outdoor areas, modern, efficient, affordable public housing.

And what did people aspire to? Single family homes, with their own yard and a car. What HN sees as "people are forced to live in the suburbs", is in reality, people just choosing what they like best.

Same in all the other countries I've lived in. Sure, 20-somethings love living in "hip" cities with "trendy" restaurants and "fun" bars to go and are willing to trade all that for tiny apartments. I don't deny that.

But a very substantial part of the population don't want that. They want space, quiet neighborhoods and are willing to have to drive to get that.
Something like this for compilers would be amazing. There's a lot of folklore knowledge around compilers and programming language implementation that isn't easy to learn on your own. A hands-on implementation based course would make it a lot more accessible.
> Category 3: Cumaeans are stupid

I haven't heard this in English now that you say it, but in Spanish it's also a whole category of jokes, just instead of "Cumaeans" it's "Lepe" (a small town).

"Lepe is known for its strawberries, and for Spanish jokes referring to its inhabitants as stupid."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepe
> a rare sight these days

Rare sight? Where do you live around if you don't mind me asking.
Absolutely, in so many ways he is humble enough to ask the simple questions and let the guest give his view on it
Yes. Try adding 1 to a number which is already (in binary) all '1's. If you don't know the size of a byte, or an 'int' or a 'long int' etc for the language you are using you will be mystified why it is now 0, or maybe some other number your language decided was sensible to use (signed vs. unsigned etc). Then extrapolate that times 100 when dealing with floating point etc and presenting a sensible total in your shopping cart web app. If you don't know this stuff learn it or stay away from programming.
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debug by bisection is one of those things which I think only occur in some projects. The ones which do atomic commit (or near atomic, at least atomic to the problem intent of the commit) -If you fold 100 updates to random codepoints in one commit, bisection only delivers limited help. How do you unwind the interrelated changes, possibly in one file? So if the style is to stack up edits, save, commit, move on, you will never do this.

it's a fantastic tool, but if you are chasing a kernel bug in an OS, its intensely time consuming to do, without the local clone of the repo to walk back the atomic(ish) changes and my lived reality is the kernel re-make is a lot slower than you want because imputed dependency chains typically re-compile a LOT more than you think.

I would not be surprised if duck debugging and printf() yields the outcome faster than what is (forgive loaded language) blame-finger pointing, sometimes.

It unquestionably works. It is not low-cost. The goal of preserving it is worthy. This is sensible.
I'm going to go out on a limb and claim that 100% of McDonalds parking lots have been used for drug activity. At least once a week. 20% of them, probably once per day. And McDonalds is aware of this.
It seems to me that's where most of the world is going (except America?). I moved yesterday in a similar setup in Istanbul. I could take the elevator down and in a 100m radius there is a coffee-shop, convenience store, gym, food places, and other commerce. There is also a co-working space in the next building. I've been in similar places in Bangkok/Kuala Lumpur.
Yes it is shameful but it's not a public utility like a bank doing it.
I think the problem is that buildings like you describe don't contribute to the city at street level. If the residental buildings are smaller then the gym, sauna, swimming pool will have to be in the neighborhood available to everyone.
We don't disagree at all about what DallE does or what I would expect to see on certain outputs. What I'm saying is maybe that output is actually correct and we just don't know it yet. Maybe the brain really does encode some amount of information on just the sound fragments. Maybe vocabulary words aren't wholly arbitrary signifiers but instead come from some deeper system our brain uses to encode things. There is already a known human version of consistent output given nonsense words. Its called Bouba and Kiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect

There's other evidence in support of this idea, but it would be a hassle for me to dig it up now.

>Your first random prompt is far from random. It contains the fragments "sublim", "chr", "cross" and "corpt" in addition to the isolated "E", which all project the solution down towards Latin and Christianity.

Oh right, I omitted a sentence. DallE gave me churches. DallE-mini gave me bicycle racing and beetles. Both of them behaved self-consistently, but were not consistent with each other. I did test changing some of the words that seemed like they might be having the steering effects like you pointed out. The new phrase was "E sublumary widge fraus chronly non estoi". DallE mini gave me mostly doctors/medical procedures with a few indiscernible scenes mixed in. Real DallE gave me scrabble, word tiles, pages from a book.

Its like this. If you talk to a dog with the "who's a good boy" voice, the dog will understand "who's a good boy", even if you're actually saying "who's a little asshole". Likewise, a pronounceable string will generally feel like it belongs within a certain envelope of meanings, even if its not actually a phrase in any real spoken language.

I showed some maps that DallE generated which happened to have some places labelled with its usual gibberish. People said the place names felt vaguely like they might be in Eastern Europe. Interpretation of nonsense words works both in the direction of human to DallE and DallE to human!
In case there is interest in other implementations of TeX: I'm collecting the ones I know here: https://github.com/tex-other and have an answer here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/507846/are-there-any...
If anyone is keen on making some vim colorschemes based off of this, you might like romainl's colorscheme template:

https://github.com/romainl/vim-rnb

> RNB is a template designed to help vimmers create their own colorschemes without much effort.
Is the title really accurate though. They never made a public announcement saying they would do this. Someone just leaked an internal discussion and it blew up.

A lot of things get discussed and evaluated that never eventuate.
What are Google’s political positions?
I don't get this mentality. First you go through hoops to serve the Google crawler with a full version of the article. Then you get pissed when Google presents it to the user.

I think the publishers should go ahead and create their own paywall content search engine but I would like the option to have my search results actually be available when I click them.
Urban wealthy YIYBY types are typically either driven by political ideology, a profit motive or plain old simplistic virtue signaling. Most of the big western world metropolises infrastructure is exhausted and creaking at the seams, yet the desire to pack more and more people into environments with massive issues around water, sanitation, energy and transport is sold as a human right.

Far better to create new cities close to natural resources and stop 'old world' cities becoming swamped by overpopulation imo
The fine art of Italian hand gestures: A vintage visual dictionary (2012)
You've clearly never been in an abusive relationship. At best it's a bad faux-dramatic attempt at humor that trivializes what abuse actually means.
>White Americans are descended from Europeans, and the post was talking about being proud to be white

White Americans have never experienced oppression in America. Full stop. Europeans typically are not racialized and do not identify as white, instead as Italian, German, etc. This discussion is obviously about whites in the US.

>Though I don't see why oppression is a requirement for pride - does achievement not suffice?

It's not an achievement when you spent centuries conquering, colonizing, and extracting everything you can from BIPOCs. When you start out so far ahead in a race it's not an achievement when you win.

>And "white fragility" is simply a way to dismiss objections without addressing if they are factual.

I addressed them, you're not factual. White Americans recoil to the facts that they created and live in a society that upholds their supremacy.
Was it earphones. I used to love my iPhone for music. I've a really nice set of noise cancelling headphones. Now I have a dongle (that always goes missing). I almost never listen to music with my iPhone anymore.
> when it got big enough, it screwed everyone over

How did it screw everyone over? Almost all my non tech friends adore most Google products.
Probably Lincoln Park GC, adjacent to the Palace of the Legion of Honour.

There's also the Presido Golf Course (on the grounds of the former Presidio), and a total of six in The City, AFAIU.

https://www.google.com/maps/search/golf+course+san+francisco...

https://www.sanfrancisco.org/golf
In my experience, quoted search works very well. I do a lot of really, really obscure searches with quoted search and Google finds the pages for me. Maybe other people get different results, but I'm puzzled by all the complaints about quoted search. You're all using double quotes ", opening and closing, right?
Atherton has zoning that, for the Bay Area, is both very restrictive and very permissive, in a way that makes it a sweet spot for rich people to realize a specific but wide-spread American dream.

The restrictive part is that lots have to remain gigantic, but the setbacks from those lot lines are gigantic as well, and this is rigorously enforced, but within that build-able footprint the homeowner has nearly complete free reign. The result is a near complete isolation from having to see or contemplate neighbors, let alone "the poors", and yet it's within driving proximity of pretty much everything; that is, it enables the real-deal modern day version of the "country manor" of which the neighborhoods that comprise over half of American housing stock are merely cheap and shitty knockoffs.
Well you don't want the areas people live in to get too overgrown because animals move in.

Many animals are harmless of course, but many aren't and the ones that are harmless living in your yard are the ones that dangerous animals prey on.

I don't carefully manicure my lawn by any means but I do make sure it's not too overgrown because I don't want skunks to move into my back yard
It's not at all arrogant in my reading, more like lightly exasperated? They understand exactly what the color scheme is trying to do, they gave reasons why it is naive, and they basically said, "go with God".
Big lots and big houses are rare in suburban areas. Space between them and neighbours. Room for pools and tennis courts and ornamental gardens and large garaging, etc.
They are most welcome!
You may feel screwed over, meanwhile a billion people happily chug away on Google, GMail, and YouTube.
Show HN: I created a browser automation tool
I created this tool a few months ago to automate some of my tasks.
I use it to collect prices and files and to get notified when something changes on certain websites. The task runner uses Playwright.

I'm not sure if it can be useful to anybody else besides me :) Any feedback is welcome.
It is wild that Apple even slightly risks their platforms with ads. They have always been tasteful with the small amount of ads they allow, but why even risk it?

I wonder if this is to offer a free tier of AppleTV and Apple Music. whole DSP would not really be required if it was just for something like the App Store. Typically a DSP is for something like TV and radio.
You can get the benefits of a typed schema with GraphQL, while still using JSON under the hood.
Gitlab projects are way bigger than you’d expect. The actual git repo is usually not the biggest part. It’s the build artefacts and docker images. The average project I have worked with on Gitlab has been in the tens of gigabytes while active repos like the gitlab itself repo are in the terabytes.
It's pretty easy to get it to start losing details; if you ask for too much in one picture, somehow everything gets worse.

https://labs.openai.com/s/xI4wV6WOKOcgwZATmvPXyfBu

(this also shows you can get different variants on a concept by mixing languages)
Fake news probably works just as well.
> But his neighborhood owns his neighborhood

By that logic, the country owns the country, and the country should be able to force any part of the country to do what the broader country wants, and that is not considered force because, well, the country owns the country.
Generally speaking it's due to not wanting to test multiple browsers (laziness).

However, at $BIG_CORP, we had a massive internal website that did exactly this. Naturally, people bypassed this by changing their user-agent. When the product owner realized this, he flew into a rage on Slack and threatened that people bypassing the block could be help criminally responsible for damaging infrastructure. I never figured out what his reasoning was.
Why negative reinforcement would be necessarily bad? If you only do what you feel like doing, at the moment you feel like doing it, that's the perfect recipe for disaster.

I am against the modern hedonistic zeitgeist and, on the contrary, think a lot of current social issues could be mitigated by more discipline and "hard work".

On a side note : am I the only one who is tired of the current (decade(s)-long...) trend in blogs/articles of "deconstructing" positive/common-sense behaviors? "The dangers of tidiness", "Embrace your bipolarity", "Why I stopped aiming for excellence" etc... (I am not denying the risks of being too extreme and I understand the "click-bait" need of those writers, but still, it is very telling...)
I think those who are naturally pessimistic/optimistic, do think they are being realistic. Unless there is overwhelmingly conclusive data, what is "realistic" is going to be tinted through their life experience and biases.
A bad analogy is a bad analogy. If you want to illustrate the mechanism at play, come up with an analogy that fits the situation.
Bacterial protein generated via renewable energy and air capture of CO₂ (2019)
"developer would likely seek offices with rents much lower than $55/SF" we can easily see some at $25-35/SF given ~25%+ a yielding $0/SF. Depress the building costs as well. Too many models hung up on the pandemic and tech bubbles.
I think we are actually agreeing here. If users are left alone, they cannot be blamed for trying whatever they can to make things work. ERP only works when IT and business works together.
> You think "if I don't force myself, I won't do it."

Sometimes this is true, at least for any meaningful timescale.

For example, I figured that I'd finish a showcase of my past projects on my homepage, yet the task itself just looms over me - needing to go through years of notes, figure out what even can get disclosed and then actually finishing the functionality for displaying them in my site.

Since I haven't forced myself to do it, that task has now not been finished for about 8 months. The most progress I made was fixing some technical debt of the site itself, which still doesn't really solve the actual problem that I should have been solving, even when doing so is like pulling teeth.

Ergo, if you want results, sometimes you need discipline, instead of counting on fickle motivation.
HEVC has been supported by mobile phone hardware for years now, both encoding and decoding. And the difference with AV1 is negligible.
> Some angry contributor will disable the CI.

I will reject any such contributions and ban anyone who persists with them. I’m not sure what lies below the fold, but if this is a baseline assumption then you’re already fucked.
Social and Psychological Needs of the Aging (1952) [pdf]
>One thing is good though - the inevitable fall of Google, hopefully will bring some breath of fresh air.

I don't see great things on the horizon... all I see is thousands of slowly marching zombies begging for more ̶b̶r̶a̶i̶n̶s data.
Part of that is because of the codec it is using. h264 would be nice because almost everything has hardware encoding/decoding of it, but they decided to go with VP9 instead and it wouldn't surprise me if they planned AV1 to replace it already even though not many machines have hardware decoding for it yet.
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I always thought we should give every SSN/EIN an account at a state-ran bank, structurally obliged to serve all legal uses.

This would ensure everyone had access to direct-deposit payment (eliminating most of the case behind the "it's almost a real bank account" prepaid-card products with exploitative fees) and create a single huge audience to target for "over the top" services to develop.

Perhaps it could be put together as a "portable" service-- you can link your state-bank account with your preferred brick-and-mortar to handle cash and in-person services. There would be phone-number style portability, to encourage them to compete for most features/lowest fee/subsidy requirements.
What you are describing is unspecified and implementation-defined behavior [0].

Avoiding UB (edit: in general) doesn't have anything to do with the code being portable and everything with the code not being buggy [1][2].

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/behavior

[1] https://blog.regehr.org/archives/213

[2] http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
I've driven regularly around the SF Bay Area.

While driving on 280 and 101 I do see some stupid driving regularly, on the 880 I see near-suicidal driving every time. It's no secret that one side of the bay, particularly up those corridors is much less affluent than the others. I wonder if there's something there, or just bad correlation with too small of a sample size of just my observations.
Brain can be like machine if it is debilitated. But it is usually more than that.
I don't think there's any "almost" about it.

What's hilarious is that, in this context, "poor people" probably means millionaires.
Thanks for letting me know of this category of jokes. My favorite is this one that I encountered on the early Internet - too long to put here, so I'll link it: https://www.jokebuddha.com/joke/Bad_Conductor
Ah. Not that I think golf courses are a good use of public land, but it’s worth noting that that’s a public golf course run by the city.
And of course his wife is a self proclaimed philanthropist who wrote a book called "Giving 2.0".

Doesn't get any more SV than that.
I wouldn't swim in a "neighbourhood pool", doesn't seem hygienic.

A neighbour gym would also be crowded all the time, all my friends that have to go out for the gym always complain about that.

The public sauna seems ok, but I've never seem any of that in the streets besides "erotic saunas" that are not really intended for the same purposes...
Yep, I'm a believer in the two pronged approach of land value tax replacing all other taxes and reduced zoning restrictions. Henry George had the remedy over a century ago.
> Why the words of rich people are important is beyond me.

As a culture we value money more than many other things thus financial success is often considered a proxy for virtue, intelligence, or both.
https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1177/00027162522790010...
The code they wrote for doing this has been public all along: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/85689
And GitHub makes it 1-click easy to make a pull request full of underwear so it happens all the time.
That fact seems to be lost on many atheists, who are very eager to "convert" others to their non-faith - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheist_Bus_Campaign (I also wonder why atheists think religious people are worried and unable to enjoy their life - probably because they take the various rules of the various religions more seriously than ~99% of religious people do?).
I do feel like social media platforms are lowering the barrier to entry to “put stuff out there” in a way that is way more appealing the to average person. I do wish personal websites would come back but I don’t really see a path towards that unfortunately.
There are tools out there that make building a website easier but a lot of them are either really technically challenging (I’m talking coding your website, HTML, JS, React) or paid (Squarespace) which I get the sense just can’t compete with creating a “free” account on a social media platform if all you want to do is share some photos.

I would really like personal websites to take off but I’m not quite sure I see a valid reason or incentive for individuals to do so?