skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, these are generalizations. Also, I did say that the labor per square foot range was wide, 0.5 to 2.

The truth of the matter is, as a percentage of the population, very few people live in 600 square foot homes. This is particularly true in the case of families. That's where you really have to start talking about double that space.

Anyhow, all-up home construction via traditional means is not cheap. These days transportation costs likely add a non-trivial amount of money to the total. Costs do vary across the country, and so does median income.

It would be interesting to find a comparison of construction costs of the kind of home the average family is looking for to the median family income for the area in question.
Yes. It can't be walkable if it's car-friendly.
Sure! Admittedly I was being a bit casual with the distinction.

With a little time and experience maybe one could develop a set of heuristics. Or maybe site selection would just be case by case.

Curation is a long standing challenge, and perhaps growing in importance given the recent influx of advancements in generative technology.
https://www.seia.org/initiatives/concentrating-solar-power
Thank to IdreesInc for this font. Its really good to see.
> we're not teaching electronics students here (or are we? Zig as first language for electronics students makes some sense)

From an educational viewpoint, I don't like that EE and SWE programs have very little overlap. A lot of EE tools could be improved if EE's learned more software (particularly parsing and compilers). A lot of SWE don't get into the dirty details of a CPU and what makes it tick and see it some sort of magical black box, and ergo don't understand digital logic.

Datapoint: There are now thousands of programming languages. There are primarily two digital logic languages: VHDL and Verilog.

If you ever cross over to the EE side, you'll understand how terrible some of the software is.

> I still think the first language when I was an undergraduate (so, last century) was the correct choice: an ML in our case SML/NJ

Again, I don't know. So much of Computer Science programs hinge on getting that first educational experience right. Not so much a problem for MIT, but the program I'm aware of that used Scheme for there CS100 course shrank over time. People just dropped and changed their degrees, when in reality if Scheme/ML were a junior level course, they probably would have more students, higher budget, etc -- and possibly most students would have an easier time after learning a little bit of imperative programming.

Perhaps it's a fair point that CS100 should be a weed-out course. But on the other hand, we don't teach the theory of calculus before we teach students trigonometry.
Don't buy Apple. Problem solved easier.
Do we still call it an invention when it’s the proprietary and fully integrated take on an existing job to be done ?

It’s kinda like saying Google invented the Pixel phone and it’s so well integrated and working seamlessly in the Google ecosystem.
"when I try to search for Pixel 5 crash detection Google tries to autocomplete it to Pixel 5 crash loop"

Not so - just checked and it auto-corrects that to Pixel 5 Car Crash detection. Even the strawman argument is proven false.
The article accomplished its purpose with me. I started by scoffing at non-physicalism, but by the end I agreed that there is a basis not to scoff— which is all the authors claim to want. They are trying to create a little space for humility about alternative theoretical constructs. They are NOT trying to debunk physicalism.
Except on mobile.
China has vast resources and every reason to try and track down the natural source.

But yes, you're right, it's possible we can never know. And thus we should act upon the probability distribution of the cause behind millions of deaths, and try and improve the safety of both wet markets and labs.
Looks official! Launched by family & friends: https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/7/23342222/steve-jobs-archiv...
It's got layers of course.

If you don't mind the way the Pixel device works out of the box, then obviously it's basically on par with an iPhone in terms of ease of use and setup. They trade blows obviously, but I'd call the experience comparable. I can switch between iPhone and Pixel with absolutely no confusion.

But if you do mind the way it works, you don't necessarily have to throw out the baby with the bathwater. Sometimes, you can get the changes you want without having to do a whole lot of work. If all you want to do is sideload an APK, like the F-Droid store for example, it's some straight-forward taps. The system even guides you into it, no blatant dark patterns in my view of it. This is honestly pretty good, maybe even nicer than the modern macOS defaults!

That will get you Fennec F-Droid and uBlock Origin very easily and quickly. No developer mode. No confusing dark pattern UX. No $100/yr payments. No flashing ROMs, no rooting, nothing. Just tapping the screen a bit. Keep in mind that Android also has the intents system so many default things can be changed, not just browser or e-mail client; pretty much any action that can open a third-party app can be supported by another third-party app.

If you want to go deeper, you might root your device, install something like Xposed, or at least modify system APKs. It's not all that bad, although obviously the tradeoffs start to hit here: Safetynet no longer passes unless you bypass it somehow, OTA updates might undo some of your modifications, etc. But, it's still pretty powerful for not all that much work. Guides and tools are usually made so that moderate power users can do it. Plenty of kids do it for sure.

And finally, if you want full control over everything, you can install third-party ROMs like GrapheneOS. Honestly, sometimes this is even easier than rooting, but it does come with some downsides still (I don't believe SafetyNet would pass on most third party ROMs, although miraculously, Pixel devices do support Secure Boot with third party ROMs, which I honestly feel was a very unexpected improvement of recent years.)

Are Android phones generally less usable? I don't know. My whole family has always used Android phones and it seems fine. I do think the ecosystem of Android phones is a little weak right now, but at least we finally have CPUs that aren't so damn weak; that was one major score in favor of iPhone that was really hard to argue. They're probably still not all that close in the benchmarks, but it doesn't mater; the subjective experience is better. Android phones can finally drive high-refresh-rate displays very smoothly, and Firefox no longer feels like trying to browse the internet on a Pentium II. What I will say is that Apple has more advanced features for casual users provided that you stick to their ecosystem, but the "stick to their ecosystem" part is a hard sell for some of those features.
Are there are big reception blackspots in the US to explain why this feature is needed?
Truecaller is not bad in some areas like EU, US etc as there are strong privacy laws. They have slightly different versions based on the country and jurisdiction.

But where there are no strong privacy laws like india, truecaller is straight up spyware

https://restofworld.org/2022/how-truecaller-built-a-billion-...
https://www.sensorscall.com/#HowItWorks

Plug in "night light" smart devices that detect pattern of life and deviations from it, reporting to a connected smart phone.

I like it.
Nura is still going and are miles ahead of anything Apple are doing sound quality wise. I’ve got both the Nuraphones and the Nurabuds and listening to anything else in a similar price range is such a step down. You can also use Spatial on them if that’s your thing.

New ones coming out soon

https://www.nurasound.com/
you’re underestimating how good pots call quality was before digital switching and voice compression
I don't get it. Isn't Darwin open source ?
10x developers are not modest people
No, that's exactly my point, Apache is _not_ a copyleft license.

Under the GPL, you cannot change the license in a subsequent version. You must continue to license any derivative works, including subsequent versions, under the GPL. If someone wants to ensure that the projects they're contributing to remain open-source, they should limit their contributions to GPL projects!

The Apache license does not require you to license derivative works under the same license.

This is why people have strong opinions about different licenses, because some of them provide stronger guarantees than others. If someone ignored these "details" and is now disappointed that they didn't understand what it meant, I don't think that's anyone's fault but their own.
Pretty sure that in all those cases 10-20% of software engineers are women and you get 50% because in other jobs (marketing, hr) 80% are women.

You would have a point about discrimination if 50% of applicants had women but e.g. only 15% of those were accepted.

This data is not published but I highly suspect that 15% of applicants included a woman and 15% were funded.
> It's a limitation of Bluetooth's available bandwidth

Other bluetooth headsets work fine, that can’t be the excuse
Show HN: TattoosAI – AI-powered tattoo artist, using Stable Diffusion
Hey HN, last week I've been building TattoosAI as a little learning project to get comfortable with Stable Diffusion & DALL-E. I'm absolutely shocked by how powerful SD is... Just like how GPT-3 helped copywriters/marketing be more effective, SD/DALL-E is going to be a game changer for artist!
With no research, I can give an emphatic "yes."
I think your skepticism goes too far. If you sincerely would like to help through charitable donations, it would be enough to find one charity and give your money there -- you don't have to engage in the project of finding out what fraction of charities are doing good or bad.

Have you looked at GiveWell's review process? What doubts do you have that the charities GiveWell recommends are close-to-impeccable? Are you suggesting the documentation of interviews, onsite visits, etc are not based on reality? To insist on principle without looking at how things are seems to be a disingenuous armchair philosophizing, rather than a desire to do any good.
It seems like a family-backed project – https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_ca/201533410035

Although Laurene Powell Jobs was only added as an officer last year.
You would be surprised. I was always astounded by how easy it was to push my friends’ sailboat by hand. With them and their gear on board that boat was around three metric tons.
This is a very real thing, and it works both ways. The study I linked in another comment actually calls this out in the abstract:

> Their scorings of pleasantness correlated negatively with the degree of MHC similarity between smeller and T-shirt-wearer in men and women who were not using the contraceptive pill (but not in Pill-users).

I've twice had a very solid-to-that-point relationship just... stagnate and fall apart for no apparent reason after the woman involved went on birth control. The second time, I recognized the pattern and things went back to normal after she went off it (we're now married, with two quite healthy kids).

On birth control, it seems the preference is for "similar genetic structures" in that region - which, when pregnant, makes sense. Hang out with family who will make sure you're safe. But if you meet/marry while on birth control, then go off to have kids, this stands a very real chance of causing problems. And they're deep enough that it's not something one can easily just will their way through.
I tend to avoid writing complex code in production for various reasons. Of course if I ask copilot to write an new complex algorithm using my unique data structures in one try, it will not generate perfect code. But usually I try to go slowly line by line in these cases.

Copilot shines to write the boring easy code and help you line by line, but it’s not there yet for advanced unassisted programming.
this only matters if there is a cap on radiation per area which there isn't.
Laurene Powell Jobs, Jony Ive, Tim Cook, and others team up to launch the ‘Steve Jobs Archive’.

For more context about the project:
https://9to5mac.com/2022/09/07/steve-jobs-archive/
Some of you people strawman like a murder of crows is attacking your field.

Coordination is necessary. Communication is valuable. Running a business is complex. Product managers do valuable work. Designers do valuable work. QA does valuable work. Leadership does valuable work. Engineers do valuable work.

The core of an EXTREME number of complaints about modern professional software development lies in the pervasiveness of Career Management; and EMs are an extremely attractive entrypoint for people into this kind of track, who have no experience in any of the IC-facing roles, yet now they're managing ICs.

Just go look at the vast majority of job postings for EMs. The requirements are extremely bare on actual, hard engineering experience; maybe you see the last requirement read something like "built an app in java or c++", and it never gets covered in the interviews.

You can't manage a role you haven't held, I will die on this hill. Senior leadership is fucking hard; that takes specialized skills, MBAs maybe, a little bit of crazy as well. EMs are not that, and anyone who tells you what EMs do is remotely as specialized as what the people higher up do is probably an EM. At their best, EMs should have an engineering background (or at least PM/PO; having worked with engineers as peers); they should know what it takes to build modern software systems from the inside; they should know how to mentor. At their worst, EMs who don't know any of this, but know management, spend their days as a Jira parrot and can make the lives of the people they manage miserable.

Its actually astounding to me that this is controversial, and that people don't recognize that the only reason companies change the requirements bar for EM positions is because, if they made the bar what I describe, that candidate would also make a great engineer; and companies are short engineers, not short "people who manage people". Its not out of some grand design that the best managers live on the management track. Many, many other specialized disciplines don't do what Big Tech does. The tracks for Engineers and Engineering Managers shouldn't be separate; they should be one track. But Big Tech companies don't want their engineers leaving the IC role, so they make do; and the irony of it all is all this does is lower the average quality of EMs in the org, which causes engineers to leave anyway; just to competitors.

That's why Engineering Management is bullshit. It doesn't have to be. Much of what that role does is necessary; its just overwhelmingly filled by the wrong people, who then morph the role into some bastardization of what it should be, get promoted, then write the job spec for their replacement.

[1] https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/engineering-manager-payment-...

[2] https://careers.google.com/jobs/results/77396557743170246-en...

[3] https://boards.greenhouse.io/cloudflare/jobs/3135805?gh_jid=...
Those scroll based animations are really nice. The UI feels fun to use.
Alternative frontend version: https://nitter.net/TechEmails/status/1567712985979707393
I'd also need a counterfactual Canada where alcohol taxes were low.

We don't have that. But we have other countries and times to compare through, and there really is no question that accessibility affects consumption.
the italian plug is nice, and you can rotate it 180°. Some people don't like that because it makes it ambiguous which lead is neutral, but IMO in the real world you can't rely on stuff like that anyway because as long as it works both ways, people will wire outlets inconsistently
Integers / floating point / bignum is such a problem in almost any language, with multiple competing implementations in most languages. I’d argue it’s probably a harder problem than Unicode support, although Python also managed to make that difficult with multiple implementations in the wild (both UCS-2 and UCS-4 are commonly used, depending on how it was compiled).
The FDA considers zinc oxide and titanium dioxide to be the only safe sunscreens in existence. It allows a whitelist of about 10 chemicals to be sold as sunscreen. Everything else "doesn't have enough data" but there is evidence that many of the chemicals on the FDA sunscreen whitelist are endocrine disruptors.

I appreciate that zinc oxide is a UVA blocker in addition to UVB. I always thought more SPF gave me more protection until I realized it does not measure UVA whatsoever.

Turns out that depending on where you live if you are outside before 9:30 am and after 3:30 pm you won't get sunburned because the UV index is less than 3-5 at those times

Windy has a new UV layer but I would trust a UV measuring device more. Just collect some sample readings over a few typical days to get a feel for the irradiation in your area so you can plan accordingly.
You can with this command:

sqlite3 ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/places.sqlite 'SELECT title, url FROM moz_places'

Unfortunately it doesn't work while Firefox is running though.
Have you considered adding ActivityPub comments?

I would love to see every social bookmarking service and RSS reader to have an interoperate-able comment section.
Why should I manage my bookmarks outside of the browser if not for the benefit of receiving additional information about the articles?
Anyone here recall “delicious” (wasn’t that what it was called, basically the first bookmarking app…

This sounds like that.

I want a cross between delicious and workflowy
The outcomes are definitely less of a win for the open web in many cases. It is astounding that I have to deal with Apple proponents unironically trying to argue that WebM and Opus are bad things.

Of course Safari on iOS supports Opus, but it just doesn't support it in any standard container... which is one of the most pointless things I can think of.

Wikimedia doesn't care. They just load a polyfill with WebAssembly-compiled codecs for VP8/9/AV1/Opus/etc. and do it on CPU. The net effect is that iPhone users get a worse Wikipedia experience for basically no reason.
Yes. PLBs are a very important thing to have for backcountry/wilderness exploration and offshore boating.

[1] https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/personal-locator-bea...
I'm fond of Mint Mobile. $360 for a year of 35 GB of 5G data, 5 GB hotspot data, and unlimited talk and text is nice.
There is no proof that personality traits have any identifiable distribution, let alone normal distribution.

Heck we don’t even know what personalty is, or if it is even a useful scientific term. Evidence suggests that peoples behavior varies wildly between situations, way more then any preconceived notion of behavior dictated by personality.

If tests show a normal distribution of a personality trait, it is most likely because it has been standardized to do exactly that. Not because people’s behavioral patterns align neatly in our favorite distribution.
App Library is a perfect demonstration of the adage that "Artificial Intelligence isn't." Mine has Audible, Clock, Settings, and Contacts in the first box, Craigslist, WhatsApp, something I don't recognize, and a folder of crap I don't use in the second, DDG, the App Store, Calculator, and another folder of crap in the third... Why would I ever use this?

EDIT: If it were marginally "intelligent," it would have a box for "listening to stuff" (Podcasts, Music, Audible, ...), "reading stuff" (DDG, Safari, Books, ...), "scheduling" (Calendar, Reminders, ...), etc. But I don't need AI constantly figuring these things out. I can put those apps in folders or known places on my home screen once, and never have to worry about them wandering around because an AI was trying to be helpful.

From Apple's support documentation (https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/find-your-apps-in-app...): "The apps in App Library are organized in categories intelligently, based on how you use your apps. You can add apps in App Library to the Home Screen, but you can’t move them to another category in App Library." So I can't even make it less useless. Great.
The tech people I knew detested BART and completely ignored MUNI.
It was Uber for them.

I've no idea what point you're trying to make, but you've demonstrated quite clearly why tech workers get treated with so much disdain. Not to put too fine a point on it but a bunch of carpetbaggers who are too good to be seen near th proles sneering down at you from their ivory towers isn't a good look. It's especially ungrateful after the city created the 83X - Tech Bro Express that connects Caltrain to Market.

As for Muni (it's an abbreviation not an acronym), every BART station within San Francisco (and the Daly City station) gets Muni service except for Glen Park. The Glen Park station is a short walk from the J.
If Apple would just not go full Apple on somethings, like allowing interop Qi standard and reverse wireless charging, you could just top it off from your iPhone (or Android or wireless charger).
Dewalt Recalls Nearly 1.5M Miter Saws
So if I book the same url, and you do as well, then have both conglomerates comments (anon) and private notes as well?

That sounds good.
See the wiki page, the function multi-versioning stuff means you can use AVX2 in select functions without adding -mavx2. And using SIMD Everywhere you can automatically port that to ARM NEON, POWER AltiVec etc.
> You can't just point an antenna at it and have it work. The antenna needs to track the satellite. And it needs to have a constant line of sight free of obstructions.

People already do this when communicating from the ground via amateur satellites on handheld radios. Here the fellow followed the sweep of the sky with his yagi.

https://youtu.be/jmCgIk8eVWw
I like that philosophy!
Don't try to put words in my mouth, and don't try to act like you get to
be a gatekeeper on who belongs in this city.

If you don't like it, leave. If you're not getting value from the things that the city/county budget funds, leave. It's that simple.
yep. What's actually needed is easy to use, small-claims court style processes, no or low fees, and fast processing.
It sounds like there's a solution in not discharging directly from the beach showers. I wonder if it might be feasible to collect that water somehow and use it as greywater elsewhere: watering plants, for instance.
How is that archaic? It's making a distinction between the operating system and add-on software. Bash is add-on software (not part of FreeBSD).
While I understand your point, reading a good book can also be addictive. Far more than any technology I use. I have to enforce reading bans on myself when I have a big deadline because I will sacrifice work, sleep, and gym to get to the end of a good book.

To anyone reading this wanting to switch their habits, find some “booktubers” who have recommendations you like, follow them, and try to train your phones algorithms to show you that content. Try some of their recs. I can almost guarantee there are books out there that will grab your attention and be far more memorable than any TikTok videos
Even though the market disagrees, I'm saddened that the mini isn't going to be an option in the future. The form factor was great, even though some didn't feel the compromise on battery life was worth it. Ah well.