skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But the reason condos cost so much per square foot is regulation.

Can you cite any specific examples of such regulations here? I currently live in a condo that was converted over from an apartments (quite common). If anything, the reason a condo might cost more per square foot is that smaller houses cost more per sqft period (less sqft to 'divide' fixed expenses across).
Why would I make it up? What a bizarre accusation.
I feel most comfortable with the pilot wave approach in this regard; it is generally compatible with emergence-from-causality type theories.

Free will in the fundamental physics sense is most likely an illusion, probably one that confers mental hardiness in face of adversity out of one’s control.

However, it could be an emergent phenomenon and thus irreducible to individual quanta anyway: more than a sum of its parts. Fundamental interactions do demonstrably yield complex structures itself capable of higher order interactions.
I've been working on an implementation of Arc in SBCL which is much faster and also will easily let HN run on multiple cores. It's been in the works for years, mainly because I rarely find time to work on it, but it's all pretty close to done.
I do not like this essay, but its central point is a good one to me. It seems to me that a somewhat superficial reason people criticize "effective altruism" is because of the dogshit politics and worldviews of most of the people advocating and participating in it. The fact is that valuing efficiency in humanitarian work is commendable, and anyone arguing for inefficiency in charity is trying to rob you.

I think the motivations behind the loudest objectors, however, are because donating to charities in your own backyard, that work on things that you enjoy as a fan or as a hobby, that employ your friends and family etc. are the vast bulk of charities. And the bulk of the cash that goes to them is eaten up by a combination of overhead in the form of salaries, travel, and accommodations, and for the big boys hiring contractors with personal and political relationships to do studies and reports that deliver recommendations, rather than any direct improvement on the targets that are the nominal purpose of the organization.

People just prefer to give money to charities that get kids to paint murals, or their local art museum (where their niece works) than those that would have a far larger effect on lives farther away that they relate to less. That's of course true for plenty of the effective altruists, too, it's just that their hobbies are ideological or science fictional, so the charities that they think are effective are often outlandish, hyper-libertarian, or simply stupid.

But criticize the individual donating badly, not the idea. The complaint that effectiveness is impossible to measure so therefore the mean of all giving is inevitably moderate effectiveness is defensive nonsense and a direct appeal to the law of averages. We're just trying to hide the fact that, with the bizarre out-of-touch narcissistic elites that we've bred with our terrible politics, we pray that they're ineffective in pursuing what they think is best. Every time a rich guy accomplishes what he thinks is best, a public school closes.

But the criticism largely seems to be coming from a middle class segment who thinks that charities are best when they're about going to parties, expressing yourself, being thanked, and pushing periodic press releases to raise awareness. I think it'd be better to ditch the larger brand, and push for effective alleviation of hunger, or effective relief of homelessness, or taking effective care of refugees or immigrants. Just get the ideology out of the way immediately i.e. this is the thing that I think is most important to do, let's find the most effective way to do it.

Sorry for the rant.
why should transportation (ford), which almost everyone relies on in america more than college, run like a business.
Maybe I need to be more precise: neither party of the political establishment is remotely palatable to me. I rarely see anyone who is running who seems interested in changing that, and even if they were, most people I know are not going to support anyone truly anti-establishment.

The current state of affairs is definitely NOT convenient for me. But I’ve become jaded, and I do not believe that the current gov of the USA, nor attempting to change the current gov of the USA, is a good use of my time.

I’m kinda tired of this facade that you must support a party. I just don’t think it does anything productive, and just makes me exhausted. Maybe I am wrong, and lord knows I would be very happy to be wrong. Until then, I will chug along on a small corner of things that I can actually improve.
Who said anything about trusting In-Q-Tel, the companies they invest in (ahem, GOOGLE!), or what the agencies are doing with the fruits of their investment? I personally think the CIA should be abolished and the NSA put on a very short leash with lots of oversight. But in terms of doing what they do wisely it cannot be argued that In-Q-Tel gives numerous US Government entities access to IP and tech they otherwise wouldn't have gotten.
Most WA users I know get it, it's been a point of discussion in several group chats. But not enough you need spam filters, the need for which is the biggest problem with email because of false positives (I scan thru my junk mail folders weekly when I remember and find legitimate messages every time).
>That subsidized city transit is why we can afford to maintain the highway system.

I don't think this follows...

Cities that don't have good public transit still generate tax revenue.
The entire premise of this thread is to essentially make as much of the US like those places, from a transportation perspective, as possible.
Walkability is expensive because density. Walkability = density. And density means that real estate is small and there is a competition to get it. A walkable place just can't be big to stay walkable, and it has to include a lot of things to still be liveable.

A suburbia can cover entire continent easily and stay cheap because land, on the scale needed for private houses, is almost free. It just doesn't work this way with liveable cities that have to be small, and quickly lose attractiveness as you move away from the very core which is normally only a few hundred meters in radius.

European cities look nice for a tourist but people living in "nice" parts of them are living there either because their ancestors bought their apartments pre-WWI, or because of one-off luck, or because they are rich. Vast majority still lives in the outskirts that look a lot more like Soviet Union than "Europe" the way Americans see it.
Not at all. Creativity requires a base knowledge. To have a base knowledge on a topic you need practice from your mentor. Creativity doesn't happen from thin air.
I argue that the car is mankind's worst invention, by many metrics.
It's funny how the political class understands the things like this that need to be done, they just don't care at all until they are heading into an election cycle they are about to lose. Then suddenly the political will is suddenly found.
This is what concerns me. There shouldn't be this "shadow process". I've heard from other individuals in the same situation who were left with no recourse.

The only process should be the official process as laid out by the Department of State.
Now go tell me which one of those is C++, you know, this thing that is about to adopt every single concept in our universe :)
This is amazing but Google/OpenAI haven't released their models and don't seem to plan to. There is stable diffusion which was released and is probably slightly less good but still good if anyone wants to mess with it.

There is a huggingface instance, Collab notebooks, and local running notebooks here. [1] on the stable diffusion subreddit.

Also someone has packaged an exe that runs it with no fuss on computers with Nvidia GPUs that they posted on the media synthesis subreddit[0]

In my limited testing this compares ok to Dalle2. Style shifting works slightly less well and it's hard to force it away from normal images but with a little work it tends to be more accurate to your prompt.

[0] https://grisk.itch.io/stable-diffusion-gui

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wqaizj/lis...
Battle for Kyiv: How Ukrainian forces defended and saved their capital
The SFH + Cars lifestyle results in a higher TFR than the efficiency pods and pogo sticks lifestyle everybody's promoting lately.

How would you even fit an infant seat on a pogo stick?
YaCy – your own search engine
Not sure how sophisticated their traffic monitoring has become but to avoid this it used to be as simple as having the dyno ping itself. Doesn't avoid the hard cap on hourly compute though.
US startups seem to have it so easy compared to companies in other parts of the world. It seems they may have been getting a little extra help from government agencies.

I'm starting to realize how difficult it is to compete in the tech sector without government assistance. I thought it was a free market, but it's looking increasingly like a giant clusterfuck of government intervention. It looks nothing like a free market, it looks more like a battlefield and everyone is competing for who can get the most free weapons and ammo from their respective governments (in the form of grants, contracts and beneficial regulations). That would explain why smaller companies cannot compete against the big ones in many sectors; the big players are flush with free government money; how can any small startup compete against that.
Medawar being Medawar, you can believe it!
It’s bizarre that people tried to disprove the safety test by rerunning it and showing that sometimes the car will brake. Clearly this is a case where a single failure can nullify any number of successful tests. The problem is that the car will hit a mannequin sometimes, and it doesn’t matter that sometimes it won’t.
i do not believe that this is true. as a european citizen i have the right to live anywhere in the EU regardless if i even have a job or not. so the location of my employer should be irrelevant.

can anyone find actual laws to the contrary and evidence that they do not violate EU-law? a quick search by myself turned up nothing.

cross-border employment has been common for decades, so such a limitation would be very surprising.

what is possible is that employers may shy away from the resulting complexity because the employee needs to pay taxes in his country of residence, and not that of the employer.
You’re looking at this as a one-sided transaction. The distinction between producers and consumers is not clear cut, especially if you consider only the subset of developers who submit patches.

In reality, unless they run their own handwritten OS, the roles are going to be reversed next week, where that maintainer benefits from the other person’s work (and salary as you say) through another piece of software. This is the premise of free software. Each contributes what they can, everyone benefits.
As someone in a number of non-corporate/dev Slacks on the free tier, I do wonder when/if Salesforce will tighten up on those as well. There are some I know were just for organization during a one-time event...
Agreed, but how does labeling abortion providers facilitate violence against anti-choice folks?
WhatsApp doesn't have usernames?
Marxism actually is a theology and by proxy wokeness as well, so it is not surprising you get religious zealots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqj-MKG9SnU&t=1s
It means that like in Game of Life, the rules are set, but the outcome at any timestep is not determined until the simulation reaches that timestep.
> Like so many others I am sickened by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine

At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.

https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318

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> In addition to down-ranking sites associated with disinformation, we also often place news modules and information boxes at the top of DuckDuckGo search results (where they are seen and clicked the most) to highlight quality information for rapidly unfolding topics.

https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501717193855283201

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It should be obvious why this is problematic ...
From the article:

Researchers are asked to carefully consider the potential implications (including inadvertent consequences) of research on human groups defined by attributes of race, ethnicity, national or social origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, political or other beliefs, age, disease, (dis)ability or other status

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Say there’s an article coming out clearly disproving racial differences. Will the researchers be “carefully considering the potential implications” of this finding on people with national-socialist persuasions?

It is after a finding negativity affecting a group of people defined by, and I quote “political or other belief”.

Or is it only the correct political beliefs that one must be “carefully considering the potential implications” of?

If that’s the case, can I please know who decides the correct political beliefs?
Seeing "Randall Munroe of the New York Times" and not, "The Internet's own, Randall Munroe, of xkcd.com fame" was weird and wonderful all at once :D
When private equity takes over a nursing home
It's extremely relevant that it tries to maintain a 1:1 peg with USD, not whatever currency WHCRS is. The US controls law around the US dollar.
Oh jeez, and that was just a couple weeks ago. Thanks a ton! I've added it to the GP.
ATVs sound a lot louder at 2am in the city, but nobody is going to call you racist for complaining about the ones in the country.
You are conflating intelligence with technology. Orcas live in the water and do not have hands. It is impossible for them to develop writing systems or agriculture due to their environment. If we put a human in water, assuming a human could survive in open water, we’d quickly realize the human is powerless to develop these things as well.

The modern day human brain is essentially identical to the earliest hunter-gatherer humans. Those groups did not have writing systems, industry, agriculture, etc., and yet their intelligence remains equal to ours. It is my suspicion, based upon my reading of orca behavior and biology, that such is the case with orcas. Even modern-day hunter-gatherer societies do not have writing systems or agriculture.

On a related note, I would even argue that our modern technology exposes the limits of human intelligence, particularly that of social and emotional intelligence.

Orcas appear to have quite high social and emotional intelligence in addition to their more raw intelligence of problem solving, teaching, and language.

The biology is rather clear. Their brains are very complex, even more so than ours when it comes to folds. The areas of their brains relating to social and emotional processes are bigger, relatively speaking, than the corresponding areas in human brains.

It is tempting to rate their intelligence lower because they don’t have tractors or rockets, but I think this is mistaken. Nearly every piece of research shows that they’re more intelligent and complex than we previously thought.
Auto-generated masked emails using Fastmail and 1Password has worked very well for me when I'm using Firefox, with the 1Password extension installed, on my laptop.

I can't for the life of me, however, figure out how to get 1Password to auto-gen a masked email from their iPhone app or desktop app.

Is this possible?
thank you for the reply. that is extremely troubling and certainly seems like an unwarranted escalation in customer-hostile behaviour by Google. it runs contrary to my experience in G Suite paid customer service, and i will adjust my expectations and concerns appropriately. i hope others do too. thank you for the clarifications, important and necessary to know.
I look forward to the day that we never have to hear about Kubernetes again.
Just a few years ago Javascript was pretty awful, so people started writing transpilers (most famously Babel) to add features like arrow functions, async/await, decorators, constants, etc. Typescript is another transpiler that greatly improves the language but outputs regular old, awful javascript. Many of these features even ended up being built into the language.

I wonder if it’s time for a transpiler renaissance in SQL? It would be trivial to convert “select id from users” into “from users select id”. I’m sure theres a lot of other cool feautures/sugar you could add while still outputting valid SQL.
You think this is a big populist vote grab?
“Worldclass only if you can afford it” isn’t wordclass. One should look at how the system helps the poor, not the rich.
Not the original commenter, but as they mentioned "college town" I would offer up Evanston, IL (home of Northwestern University) as a good example. ~75k population according to Wikipedia, so a little bigger than the target, but lots to do within walking/biking range and you can take the L into Chicago if that's not enough.
You may also find astrodon [1] interesting

[1] https://github.com/astrodon/astrodon
> Robota simply means "work".

It means hard work, but not in a good sense, it's similar to "extorting" hard work from someone. It translates, roughly, into forced work. I'm Slavic, so I'm translating directly without google translate.

You created a straw-man argument. A textbook example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

Please, be kind.. you don't need to belittle someone and look for ways to disagree. The author is not unreliable narrator.
I’m the founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo. We are not (and never were) censoring results. I realize I caused the misunderstanding due to own my unfortunate phrasing in a tweet, and since then, how our news results rankings work has been highly misinterpreted.

We (DuckDuckGo) subsequently made a help page to explain it in detail: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/ne... Tl;dr: we don’t censor, we don’t move things so far down that they are effectively censored, we don't evaluate individual stories or narratives for "truth", and we don’t rank based on any political agenda or opinions. This is just a summary though so would read the help page for details.

I also put out a clarification thread about misconceptions that included this topic amongst others (like the fact that no, we’re not owned by Google), but the help page referenced above is the best and most thorough explanation of our news rankings. https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1515635886855233537
I don't understand this sentiment sometimes. There may be fraud and abuse. There may also be a material cost to a company whose detailed financial situation I'm assuming you are not purvey to.

Someone doesn't need to be "a stupid MBA" to have made this decision (in fact my guess would be it involved many cross functional and leadership perspectives given its nature).

Also, this is quite possibly something necessary for the future continued health of the business and the jobs it supports. If so, I'd consider it anything but stupid.
It's definitely unfair. I'm currently in college as a non-traditional student who worked my ass off to avoid the debt trap and socially invalidated myself for a half-decade to do so - now not only is my savings dwindling because of price inflation but I'm also being excluded from this one-time forgiveness. I get no benefit from this, nada. I could've pulled loans and speculated on this - I did in fact expect this to happen - but I believe in personal accountability. Instead of entering the workforce ahead the way things are culminating it looks like I'm going to be entering into it indebted because of shit like this.

The only fair move was to remediate the system, this is only going to exacerbate everything already in motion, worse for me, worse for my peers, worse for those forgiven. It does nothing to improve the outcomes of those in the future and everything to worsen them. It's a stupid move to buy votes.
Not just "a little"... A LOT

A good primer on the topic for the interested

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...
Porn and crypto sure, but what are nazi's using free hosting and bandwidth for?
DuckDuckGo's search manipulation is just no different to Google's since essentially they are using Microsoft Bing's search results. [0] So the manipulation, down-ranking and censoring of search results was inevitable with tons of evidence of this: [1][2][3][4]

"At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.": [1]

At this point, DDG is a front for Microsoft using 'privacy' buzzwords. Might as well use Brave Search then.

[0] https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...

[1] https://twitter.com/yegg/status/1501716484761997318

[2] https://www.vox.com/recode/22981115/duckduckgo-free-speech-p...

[3] https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/hx5dn5/proof_du...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27395635
Yeah, it's frustrating to always see "people should use public transit" in opinion pieces every week without ever making efforts to discover why people aren't - for me, like yourself, it's safety. California public transport feels entirely unpoliced to me. I live next to a transit station in southern california, which goes to places I often want to visit, but I don't ever ride it because I read news about people getting attacked on it. Which of course happens when there isn't even the bare minimum of fare verification/enforcement at the stations.

I spent a few years living in India, where most major cities require you to go through a metal detector/bags though X-ray to board. Plus decent security coverage at the stations. Yeah, it takes a lot of human resources to do all that, but really gives the population confidence they can safely take the metro to work and back.
You imply a lot, but apparently the investment to Google, according to wikipedia is because Google bought a company they invested (Keyhole, later become Google earth) and apparently they sold the stocks after the acquisition. Or do you have more info?
Along with “I am sending this to you timely, please revert.”

It’s just corp-speak propagation where a heavy proportion is alternative grammars.
https://simplelogin.io and https://anonnaddy.com
Do exactly that, both open source and self host able, and support replying from the alias(paid)

SL has been acquired by Proton, and is now included in Proton Unlimited for free.
Dependency Cruiser works great, can even render visuals:

https://github.com/sverweij/dependency-cruiser

NX[0] also has logic for handling this issue

[0]: https://nx.dev/
The website is mine to modify. I wouldn't go to great lengths to change things to support virtual COM, but if it's just a question of adding a few lines of javascript to listen to virtual COM and map to keypress events that would be possible.
I interpret it to mean something like, "you should put a lot of thought into figuring out what the best way to allocate your personal charitable donations is." I draw a contrast against other approaches to charity which are basically "give your money to big-name organizations that seem to know what they're doing and don't worry too much about it". It's the idea that a core (it's in the base of the tower, after all!) part of your approach to charity should be trying to work out a moral calculus that lets you compare one donation to another and decide which is best.
It's funny because I've never had my own office at the "office" the best I had was a decent sized cubical. The worst was sharing a room with 50 other people. Yet, at home I have an office where I can concentrate when I need to. So, I don't see what the big push is to get people back in the office.

If you want a better company culture, when I worked for a consulting company we had people all over the city so they way they did it was to have a company meeting once a month at a hotel or restaurant and some kind of after party.