skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not like it is mandated by Law (within limits[1]), you can have a tiny house/apartment in the US or EU as well.

Neighbours may be another thing, but it is independent from size of the house/apartment

[1] countries may well put a minimum size for a living unit, as an example in Italy you cannot legally call something a "house" if it is smaller than 28 sqm (for 1 person) and 38 sqm (for two people), but that doesn't stop people from living in smaller sized units.
> Unsurprisingly, renters tend to have lower incomes than those who own their own homes

Not only that, but renters are often put in the situation where their rent is the same as a mortgage, but can't afford to save for a down payment. Renting is a cockroach motel.
Nothing will reproduce the almost miraculous circumstances of its growth & bootstrapping from obscurity.

No? How about Ethereum? It started as a Bitcoin clone with added features and is now on track to surpass it.

There are thousands of similar Bitcoin clones out there. And more are undoubtedly on the way.

The most miraculous thing is the number of celebrities, politicians and corporations who have thus far resisted the urge to create and promote their own.
I wish the US would do fine scaling. By circumstance I know a significant t number of people worth $200M and up. All of them consider fines to be convenience fees.
Multi-family housing has lots of issues like this. How can rooftop solar be managed for a multi-family building (especially a rental building)? For a smaller apartment building with a shared garage, even if you go through the expense of running electric lines to the garage tied to individual units’s meters, what’s to keep an unscrupulous neighbor from using someone else’s charger?

I’ve been contemplating buying a rental building and I’ve been trying to figure out these sorts of things. I’m thinking having some sort of charger where the car owner has to enter a pin to identify themselves (and thus be billed for their electric use) is the best approach to the charger issue, but I’m not sure if there’s a good way to manage rooftop solo for a 2–4 unit building.
It seems more likely that ESG will continue to be soft mandated via institutional holder requirements at the corporate level, e.g. the institutions who make the loans available. I agree we should be watchful for any source of loss of personal liberty.
Because the bad actors are bad and extracting illicit gains from the industry. Removing the fraud will lower ad costs, cost of goods and as a result the cost of products for consumers.
You rock, thank you sir!
> The team’s findings may also offer clues on how to preserve a blade’s sharpness. For instance, in slicing vegetables, a chef might consider cutting straight down, rather than at an angle. And in designing longer-lasting, more chip-resistant blades, manufacturers might consider making knives from more homogenous materials.

I'm no knife expert, but my understanding is that today's best knives use VG-10 steel, which is designed to "chip itself to make itself sharper". So its hard, flexible, slightly more brittle than you'd expect. But these micro-chips end up sharpening the blade more often than not. There's more than one way to design a blade's metallurgy.

For shaving steel, it needs to be as cheap and flexible as possible, so that machines can mass produce them. High end knife-blanks cannot be punched if the steel is too hard or strong (leading to a "price cliff", where the best steels are an order of magnitude more expensive than the punchable lower-cost steels).

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So yes, very interesting experiment. But also consider the overall picture: chip-resistance isn't everything.
Alsa fixed so many problems and caused so many more. It was great to finally get so much hardware support in the kernel
Depending on what they're buying, where they are from (PayPal and CC aren't very common outside the West), and the reputation of the seller, plenty people will take the risk.
They're facing a lot of headwinds.

- Got distracted by launching a crypto currency

- Overhired in 2021, thinking pandemic media consumption would continue. I blame this on Bay Area bias.

- Overinvested in the Oculus side project.

- Got distracted by the "Meta" rebrand. It's telling how they fell so shortly after the rebrand.

- Sandburg left. She's someone who could stand up to Mark.

- Apple and tracking. This was always a risk. It's ok to take the money while you can, but it feels like there wasn't a plan for later.

- Got distracted and didn't take TikTok seriously.
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If you have a stack of Adlib Gold cards, that might be true.
No one really wanted to do much digging when the market was good, but now that the market is bad, expect a lot of digging and a lot of suing.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/could-couldnt-...

As with the use of 'literally' to mean 'figuratively', it's now fairly standard and acceptable.
Meta has been under attack / in a negative news cycle pretty much nonstop since Donald Trump was elected in 2016, or 6 years ago.
My understanding of GDPR and e-Privacy as it applies to a payment iframe like we're talking about here is that site A would get consent for B as a payment processing vendor, and then B would have a contract with A ("DPA") that ensures it doesn't do things outside of what A will be getting agreement for. In this case, I don't see how B running analytics JS is beyond what A already needs to be getting consent for.

(I used to work in this general area, but don't anymore.)
More evidence:

My brother has a PhD in biochemistry and quit one job at a lab when he pointed out to the head scientist, a woman who had made her reputation out of a series of related papers and work, of a serious flaw in the experiments that could invalidate the result. Not only did she ignore him repeatedly without acknowledging the flaws as important (note: if my brother was right, the core result was invalidated!) but continued to churn out papers on the same topic.

This comment is not anti-science, mind you. It's just to show that when egos and reputations are involved, all bets are off. Nobody wants to be told they built a house of cards. I'm confident the conclusions from these papers are either irrelevant in the grand scheme of things (so it doesn't matter if they are wrong), or would get eventually rejected when other scientists take a look at them.
Its not trust so much as monopoly access to the digital ad market. Google has so much prime inventory (search results + youtube) that it's impossible to avoid it if you want any kind of scale for your campaigns.
I’ve worked for a company that used an Azure hosted internet gateway/firewall that all their sites connected through using an MPLS VPN. So there are definitely some non-not users with traffic coming from there. But yeah, happy enough to not see ads when piping traffic through those ranges!
The bubble dying is the perfect opportunity to re-examine the technology and determine whether it is a suitable means of freeing artists and creators from the problematic revenue models of major tech platforms. I pointed to the artist
omentejovem in another comment[1].

[1] https://foundation.app/collection/shapesncolors?sortOrder=DE...
Yes they only sold books at that point because it was the easiest thing for them to sell (thus the MVP). IIRC they did not hide their ambition to go beyond that.
There are a lot of tractors that use diesel and gasoline. Mine is a 1947, still runs like a champ. I've wanted an EV tractor but with each generation of new vehicle, more and more hostile features are added.

- Subscriptions to hardware capabilities

- AUP violations for self repair this is slowly changing, maybe

- GPS tracking and Remote telemetry. GPS makes sense for geofencing and automation but no need to dial home to a cloud, any more so than a drone

- Crazy cost of proprietary batteries / battery packs

All of those things are double-red-flags / hard stops for me.

Batteries are a topic in and of themselves. Batteries are evolving every few years and yet newer vehicles are being designed to take proprietary battery packs and this is only becoming more vendor locked-in with time.

I will buy an EV when the above items are addressed, probably around the time that solid state 3D printed batteries are forced to be in a Standard form factor and battery packs can be quickly swapped by the owner, whatever that may look like. Every part needs to be modular and easy to swap. Bonus would be after-market modules, some being vendor approved and some that obviously void warranties without having to reprogram the ECM like I do with my truck just to replace faulty ignition switches and ABS controllers.

Oh right that is another thing. The EV will need to be compatible and writable by my ThinkTool scanner, meaning the EV vendors will need to publish all of their proprietary codes and encryption keys for vehicle diagnostic tools. If I can not enable/disable features from my tool then the vehicle is not mine and I get my money back.

I also looked into getting a mid-sized EV excavator. Same as everything above. Nothing but owner-hostile features. In my obstinate view, the market is tone deaf and not appealing to the right people. Backing my view I have not seen any construction workers using EV rigs and vendors won't even list prices yet. I had to call them. The only change I have witnessed is smaller 2-stroke engines going electric like chainsaws, some yard maintenance equipment that used to be gasoline, etc...

So perhaps gasoline will be gone in 50 years but I forsee many growing pains in this market and predict blackhat hackers will have to rescue some of the equipment owners, assuming the concept of owning hardware is still a thing. If the concept of ownership vanishes then I expect something better than they existing rental process. e.g. I press a button and the hardware shows up, I use it, then press a button and the hardware goes home and I only pay for the minutes used.
I just looked this up and the CMOS battery issue has been fixed for PS4 and Ps5 but not for Ps3. :(.
Not material greediness if your kids do not have the financial means to move to you or if they have skills that are industry and location specific. Not everyone is a programmer that can work remotely.
Since this article was published, Washington State finally has a right-to-charge law, too, with the passing of HB 1793 - 2021-22, hopefully making things mildly better in Seattle.

While the article claims there is no money to be made in EV charging to incentivize and align with building owners, there's plenty of similar "amenities" that easily can help differentiate a "luxury" apartment building, hopefully they become more common.
The demo is impressive without looking too hard at what was promised by musk

But throughout the whole demo i had a feeling that there were a lot off mirrors and smoke used.

Like starting statement that its first time ever of the rig? Yeah sure, they just took a chance it will not immediately trip, fall and break.

its hard to judge if bot is preprogrammed like those old school japanese robots, or what they claim in the software part of the talk, or what they claim in the software part of following up the demo. All of the footage shown are sterile test. In comparison to boston dynamics where you have rugged terrain, or aggressive hockey-stick people :)

Other possibility to consider is that maybe this is a startup operating for years. Musk saw it, bought it, and now he is marketing as his 8 month project. Just like he pretends tesla was his making.

I am skeptical but hoping the team will deliver in the future.
Is the hostility from the right holding them back? It doesn’t seem like it. is it only the left that is not allowed to have aggression?
Buying a Tesla has caused us to bump up our timeline for purchasing a house. We are very lucky to have two charging stations at our apartment complex, but a few things make it a less than perfect scenario.

1) They charge a 40% markup on electricity. This is fair, given the upfront costs of installation and ongoing maintenance costs, but still a downside.

2) Since installing it, the number of EVs living here have tripled or quadrupled. A great thing, but also ties up the charger more frequently.

3) Their breaker apparently can't support 2 Teslas charging at once. This doesn't seem to be a problem with two non-Telsa EVs, or one Tesla and one non-Tesla, but if two Teslas plug in at the same time the breaker blows and both chargers are out of commission for 24-72 hours until maintenance gets around to fixing it.

All of that is still better than no charger of course, but we have other complaints with this complex and want to move when our lease is up. Looking for apartment complexes with chargers severely limits options and makes buying a house make a lot more sense.
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This is really cool. It'd also make a great teaching environment.
I mean, chess.com does make mistakes and then laughs them off, 'oh, you are a really good player, ha-ha, sorry for our allegations about you cheating' - I find this attitude rather unhealthy, since according to some HN users, cheating once on chess.com is enough to justify a to permanent lifetime ban from all chess events, online or over the board ones.

Regarding a 'tantrum' if Niemann is such a bad vile cheater, why did Carlsen start all this intimidation campaign only after losing? (and losing in a game where there were no obvious computer moves, just a solid play from Niemann and not the best play from Carlsen)

If he has some evidence of cheating, he should bring it to the table. Or just play according to the rules.
> illustrates only Shaw’s wiseacre ignorance.

Joke’s on Rosenfelder, since it appears Shaw didn’t come up with ghoti. The evidence, and some other facetious and funny and intentionally horrible but equally justified misspellings: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=81

> English spelling is certainly horrible and irregular, but it isn’t unmanageably irregular.

True! There are harder languages to learn than English. It’s okay to have a little at English’s expense though, right? It’s irregular enough to frustrate non-native speakers and school children, and irregular enough that English seems funny when you compare it to languages that have very little spelling irregularity, like Spanish.

Part of the charm of our language is how weird it is, and how it has mashed and mixed words from other languages. I really like learning bits of other Germanic languages and finding all the cognates we have - words that have similar roots and similar spellings and meanings. There’s a lot of inconsistency in how the spellings have translated, but finding the near equivalents in other languages is often surprising and enlightening.
> Why does that need to be monetized?

Because it costs money. Some things, e.g. contributing to the Wikia, don't cost money, they just cost time. You can't pay for a website with time, though, you need to pay a host.
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But the platform affects the contributors.

The dark patterns must drive many people away completely. You have to fight them every step of the way if you use the site. Who wants to see their creative work featured on such a site for sore eyes?

If it paid some people might overcome all that but to do it for free?
Yes, it does.

The most interesting aspect it brings are numbers. It allows to measure how much of our DNA comes from which group of humans (Neanderthals, Denisovarians, etc). It also shows that the migratory currents had a lot of details that we barely got to understand.

To understand Dr. Paabo's (and others) work, I suggested above "Who We Are and How We Got Here" by David Reich.

Read it. It is easy reading. If you liked Sapiens I guarantee you will like that book too.
It doesn't even have to die out in order to ruin you. As you mentioned, you can go bankrupt from insolvency. You don't even have to directly use leveraged trading to purchase the Bitcoin to get bit by this. It just has to become a too-large proportion of your assets on your balance sheet, and the space it occupies feeling comfortable enough that you can take out as many loans as you want for other things you need.

"Because no way am I killing my golden goose, but I might as well enjoy life"

(PSA: Pay off your loans when you can, it may occasionally look like this bull run can never end. It will always end!)
You're right that that's probably the equivalent, and I find all that stuff corny. But, it is still a lot better than celebrity gossip and feasting on people's personal failures.
Some of the content was beyond excellent, though. Like, a text file with a guide to the entirety of Baldur's Gate 2 with location co-ordinates to every single item and interactable object.
Yep, for so many NLP and vision tasks it makes sense to use a pretrained model as a preprocessing step and train a couple of dense layers with your own dataset on top of it.
I think they're more commonly called "safety razors", at least in the USA.

They are $10 for 100-blades, extremely cheap, very sharp, very good at cutting. I highly recommend them.

I only shave twice per razor. Some people shave once-per-razor (throwing away a blade each day). Its just 10-cents a blade after all...
This is very handy as someone who plays randomizer ROMs, I have a script that can generate a bunch of new Super Metroid runs for me and automatically upload them. Prior to the Deck, this process involved manually fiddling with SD cards across devices.
I've read half of the article, and of course, the title is sensationalizing: if anything, it was Leibniz with his "calculus ratiocinator" who influenced the computer, not Aristotle.
>We were lucky to live in a newer building but it still only had a single third party charger that would milk you dry if you used it (still not sure why it was so expensive).

Totally unrelated, but does anyone know if stealing power to charge your car has the same repercussions as stealing gas?
Thanks. But the animal analogy was heavy-handed and unnecessary.

The gist was, we've crashed into a single asteroid. There are zero conclusions we can draw from that sample size. So "a lot bigger" just means someone didn't consider the true range of possibilities.
Clarity. A clear idea of the meaning and objective of an undergrad CS degree that's shared by students, teachers, universities, and industry.

- What does it teach? - What does it not? - Why that, and for what purpose? - Who should take it? - What are similarly valuable alternatives, for people who want something else?
> I was aiming for a level of quality that was unrealistic and not representative of what I was surrounded with.

In my experience the people who focus on high quality scientific output are some of the smartest and most successful people in the field. The challenge is that you have to be productive as well. This is why we don't have error-free science, just as we don't have bug-free software. (And it should be said: unless you produce bug-free software [or whatever it is you do professionally] there is probably someone who could cherry-pick your errors and present the same case about your work. It's important to approach life with humility.)
Yes, I hope so. I was very surprised to see such a theory coming from someone that once was a US general - I guess a bluff could always provide a little deterrence. Perhaps a more realistic scenario could be NATO forces entering Ukraine, but keeping out from the front-line, highlighting that there will be consequences of a strike on any of their soldiers on the territory of Ukraine. If they don't do anything, it's going to be a big win for Russia and encouragement to go further.
Why does System76 spend (presumably valuable) resources on Pop!_OS when it presumably works equally well on other Linux boxen?
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Google Cloud is super keen to keep certain customers on pricey Intel VMs
i mean that's just part of the exploit chain, looks like sony probably didn't keep the kernel up to date either. a browser is just the easy starting point bc it's a widely-understood piece of open source code an attacker can use.
Fake vibrating teeth could make great hearing aids
> 3) Their breaker apparently can't support 2 Teslas charging at once. This doesn't seem to be a problem with two non-Telsa EVs, or one Tesla and one non-Tesla, but if two Teslas plug in at the same time the breaker blows and both chargers are out of commission for 24-72 hours until maintenance gets around to fixing it.

https://www.tesla.com/support/gen-3-wall-connector-power-sha... ?

Or chargers are non-tesla ?
Netflix has gone completely down the shitter in the last decade.

Ruined the UI, got rid of all the good content and replaced it with C-tier series that get canceled before concluding anyway. Oh, and have basically doubled prices. I canceled a year ago and haven’t missed it in the slightest - and I had it back when it was still dvds by mail.
The US has a massive budget for regime change, both overt and covert, and has for almost 7 decades. And we wonder why right wing politics seems to be flourishing?
What’s not clear to me from the story is if Canada doesn’t want people harvesting trees from those forests, why are they issuing licenses for logging them?
Ladies and Gentlemen, behold the lengths some people will go to avoid other people saying that they use more fossil fuel.
I wonder if we've been hitting a lot of peaks in recent times and will continue to do so in the near future. Peak-social media, peak-influencer, peak-outrage, etc. The result will be a more boring, but hopefully saner, set of spaces we point our eyeballs at.

At a high level, perhaps this was a necessary phase for human society to transition through in order to come to terms with these new technologies. Our relationship with them was always likely be chaotic at first, then settle into a more healthy and sustainable one. I'm personally looking forward to it. The past 10-15 years of this stuff has been tiring, to say the least.
Yes: it would be great if a site could use something like CSP to ensure that if they've only gotten consent for vendors A and B that vendor B doesn't go violate their contract by bringing in unconsented vendor C.

(Though in this case B and C are both Google, and in a slightly different world both Google Pay and Google Analytics could be hosted on the same domain.)
They do, not everyone buys 5 star tools, but they buy.
This is one of the main reasons I have not gone electric yet. I currently live in an Apartment Complex and getting power to an EV there would be impossible.

One of two solutions will fix this problem, either more chargers or better energy density in the batteries. The first solution is the simpler one, just add the chargers, not actually that simple but simpler than the latter option which is develop batteries with higher energy densities. If we could get to a place where your average EV could go 500mi easy on a charge, or we somehow figured out hyperfast charging so even though your car may only do 200mi on a charge, it doesn't matter because you can charge your car about as fast as you can pump gas.
I don't know - fentanyl has done some serious damage to the population. I would probably disagree with what you are saying and how you are dismissive/minimizing its damage.
Obligatory related reading: https://twitter.com/DoombergT/status/1571063488860286977
Yes the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders.
Actually, there is a recent ~"law"? (discussed on HN) that essentially forbids publishing research that may be misinterpreted by the pronoun people (i.e., any research can be banned).
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