skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the industrial revolution to some time in the early-to-mid 20th century, materials were more expensive than labor. It made total sense to ornately decorate things as the cost was not much more than the material itself.

Now labor is vastly more expensive than materials. Making this easy to build makes them way cheaper.
You are right: The headline "Mandatory Helmet Laws Make Cyclists Less Safe" is accurate in that the article you're about to read is about the _laws_, not the helmets. I stand corrected!
Perfectly sound line of reasoning. The obvious counter is to point out that many of the world's biggest economies require young productive folk paying taxes to support the elderly. That's a problem for developed economies with falling birth rates and low immigration. And the counter to that counter is to point at the economic model that bakes in the requirement for growth.

Remaining childfree avoids a lot of exhausting and messy complications. Just as remaining celibate avoids emotional entanglements and STDs, at the cost of loneliness. Historically, virtue has attached to celibacy in many religious traditions. Maybe a sufficiently strong and pervasive environmentalist worldview could impute virtue to the childfree. It is possible to change popular ethics in a decade or so: cf LGBTQ rights or attitudes to drink driving.
I gotta say this essay is a bit disappointing. It seems mostly an excuse for the author to grouse and enjoy their own flowery prose. It's the kind of writing I'd expect to see in a Neal Stephenson novel, and it's fun, but it's not really useful as an essay -- it offers very little insight or information.

I've often been curious - besides the obvious problems of municipal red-tape, why is construction so expensive now? Here in the first world we have more money than ever and condos were going for a million apiece, so why do we build with the cheapest imaginable materials? Why can we no longer afford solid steel and concrete and ornament? The leftists blame corporate greed, but surely with margins that huge somebody would be cutting in and either making buildings that were either actually affordable or that used proper materials.
The Hangul script is the most compositional of them all. It marks individual features, that get combined together to form consonants and vowels.
I use ncdu a lot. It’s not strictly necessary but it’s really nice to have in the toolbox. Also IIRC there is a standalone binary available which comes in handy when you can’t install packages on a full filesystem.
My actual question what's happening under hood ?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaokao

My understanding is that Beijing University gets the test results for every high school graduate in the country and automatically admits the top scorers. It's a method of elite production that allows for social mobility and limits the ability of parents to pass their status on to their children. I've wondered if much of reason why Harvard-associated people have been negative about standardized tests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man

is precisely because a test-based system wouldn't produce the same elite Harvard produces.
At no point did this article address the elephant in the room: that all the example activities that it yearns for are potentially disruptive and damaging to other students on campus who might not want to deal with frat houses doing things like fucking around with bulldozers on campus or setting their house on fire.

This article yearns for the days of the casual alcoholism of playing "beer die" at all hours of the day, but to me it fails to answer the question of "Why?" Why are all these activities considered to be an integral part of developing creativity?

It's equating creativity and free thought to a bunch of really juvenile activities, but because it's Stanford that means it was actually really classy and intellectual, unlike those state schools where setting a couch on fire is just what you do after a football win.

The other vibe I get from this article is that it's written by a former frat boy upset that the next generation of frat boys can't get girls to hang around naked by slapping a "co-op community" label on a frat house.
Do you need to have static typing in your byte code for static typing at the language level to be useful?

I ask because the JVM lacks static typing[1] at byte code level but Java and Scala have it at the language level where it seems to be useful for correctness and performance.

1. https://wuciawe.github.io/jvm/2017/03/04/notes-on-jvm-byteco...
> Is it user-hostile for me to, say, require javascript for my site to function? Maybe, but that's still entirely my prerogative as the person making the website

but that is exactly what he is talking about - ie the culture of user hostility (and also code obfuscation) in js front end development
I’d actually be surprised if it was insulated much at all by modern standards. It’s a mid century construction. My guess is the air gap between the insulation/siding and the masonry is carrying the heat up and out of the attic/roof.

And yes the radiation on the exterior is quite noticeable. It’s being felt by a few bushes.
Sure but so does javascript, it doesn’t mean it can’t be added at compile time and add a lot of value.
Also, where does the ugly truth come in.
"The Favorite" won best picture, director and original screenplay in 2019, and it's the first film in a long time a worthy film took the accolades. "The Favorite" is a black comedy and totally not the type of film you describe. I was astonished it did so well.
x64 has a 9/17/33/65 bit rotate using the carry as the extra bit. So for unsigned ints should be 2 instructions IIRC. Something like

ADD a, b

RCR $1, a
Isn't it about time?
> The ability to pause, rewind and get up to go to the bathroom changes the experience for the worse. You just don't have to get serious about watching a movie anymore. You don't have to prepare to settle down, be quiet, and focus.

I disagree. Nothing is stopping anyone from staying at home and acting like they're in a theater. If that's what you really value you can choose to just ignore any important dialog that you didn't catch the first time instead of rewinding to hear it again. You can be distracted by the fact that you have to pee without pausing the film to run to the bathroom. You can divert your attention while you try to be as silent as possible while eating or opening snacks so as not to annoy anyone else in your virtual theater.

I think that it's far easier to focus on a movie when I'm at home and don't have anyone else talking or kicking seats or getting up and walking between me and the screen. While I have the option to obsessively check my phone while the movie is playing at home somehow I see fewer screens blaze up like beacons when I watch movies with the family than when I'm at the theater.

I can also fully control the lighting and temperature, and all while not spending a fortune on crappy food and drinks.

The one time I actually prefer to see things in a theater are live performances or special events where part of the fun is being in a crowd. I have some good memories of special showings and long awaited releases where the whole audience was buzzing with excitement while lined up outside and cheering and clapping while the film was rolling. None of that is getting serious about and focusing on the movie though, it's more about being a part of a shared experience and that's something genuinely harder to replicate at home.
Hard to imagine to own a computer for 80 years, technological progress moves so fast. Like the author, I also have a couple of typewriters at home and even there it's obvious that you wouldn't want to keep using let's say a model from the 60s if you had access to one from the 80s, as it's a world of difference in terms of ease of use. It's also hard to imagine how you would non-destructively transform the 60s model into the 80s one, as everything is so different (size, key layout, materials, etc.).
This article seems focused mainly on Stanford's apparent efforts to reduce the importance of the the fraternity and sorority system. It casts this as an effort by "bureaucrats" to stymie "natural social expression" but that seems disingenuous.

Is the Greek system really a natural form of social expression? I can't speak to Stanford, but many universities provide lots of official support to fraternity and sorority chapters as well, including governance and valuable real estate. Additionally, national chapters and wealthy alumni provide political power, liability insurance and capital contributions.

Maybe the university is taking a hard look at the pros and cons of continuing to support that system, and pulling back.
Hetzner should provide free CGNAT IPv4 Addresses (IPv4 Gateway) for IPv6-Only VMs
I suspect that is very seldom the case. Depression is cyclical. There are moments of joy and content. I think it speaks to a loss of hope in society at large.
Depends on the target language, with german:

Ц -> Z

Ш -> Sch

Ч -> Tsch

one could argue that german should also have one character for the "sch"-Sound instead of 3.
The article is down for me so I am guessing at it based solely on the comments, which is dangerous.

Something that has become apparent to me is the connection between aesthetic expression and religious expression, which I think used to reign but now is missing from the process.

To use an obvious examples, consider something "small detail" like the ornate doors of an old European cathedral, they were crafted beautifully because their beauty added to the religious experience for congregants, they would see the beauty and catch an emotional glimpse of the divine.

Similar, I think, the classical composers and painters who saw their arts, at least in part, as a conduit for divine beauty into this world.

While this ethos still exists in religious art and architecture/ design, mainstream society's aesthetic has diverged from serving a religious purpose, so it no longer aspires to make you feel awed in the same way. And what you don't aspire to, you don't achieve.
I grew up in a British suburb. One may not drive in the UK until 17, and the cost of insurance makes that basically impossible for all but the very wealthy. Even with that said they seem better than the suburbs where I live now in the US.

It was frankly so miserable I have resolved never to live in anything even remotely approaching a suburb again - in the UK I’d countenance the idea of living in a village with at least two pubs, but actually live in a city where I can walk to dozens of different events, bars etc every night if I want to and never see a situation where I would accept anything less.

The NYC suburbs are vastly different to suburbs in TX or CA, of course, and many are much more livable simply due to having a train to NYC.
Abstraction is expensive
Nanoparticles from food additives can reach fetuses, and cause food allergies
I think what you are upset with is the fact that it is Latin script that is used in Pinyin where it should be a hypothetical “Chinese alphabet”, rather than that the Latin-based-Pinyin being not perfect. That might be felt like the Western hegemony is bulldozing Amazon rainforests worldwide, and it might be true to extents that it needs some actions and remediations.

But rest assured, modern Chinese language having tons of homophones, itself, has nothing to do with the Latin script. They always had them.
Some people have Javascript disabled and/or third-party resources blocked by default, in which case the only indication that there is an embedded video (instead of just some kind of blocked advertisement) at the top of the page is the text "[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]" at the top of the article. It's easy to miss.

(The first time I read an article on that site, it looked a bit strange to me, as if it were stage directions for a video; only by reading the comments here on HN I learned that it had an embedded video, and that the text was just a transcript of it. Unlike this one, that article didn't have a note at the top mentioning that it was a transcript.)
Can AI Write Authentic Poetry?
Transliterated-to-Cyrillic Polish actually looks quite a lot like a Belorussian with somewhat Russianized, so to speak (more "o"s instead of "a"s), spelling. Which makes sense, I guess, given the history of the languages/dialects situated geographically between the Polish and the Russian.
When I look at pretty old buildings, what sticks out are hand-molded wrought iron, hand-laid brick quoins, hand-carved window siding, hand-assembled decorative fences — surely, you can see the common factor?

So it's cost disease.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol's_cost_disease

Modern buildings are made principally of prefabricated components designed to be packaged and shipped efficiently and assembled quickly. Why lay bricks when you can nail on a layer of fake brick?

Hopefully, 3D printing will save us.
I don't think this is a valid argument. Humans could always relatively easy pretend to be a chatbot, just the inverse didn't work until now.

In this case, the knowledge limitations of the model are well-known, so if you wanted to fake this, your human operators would be instructed to play along and not reveal any information that the model could not know.
Dora: A open-source Rust DHCP Server
This feels huge.

I haven't messed with WASM yet but I do love the idea of being able to build something that targets wasm/wasi with Docker like I'm already doing today and still package all of its dependencies into a single Docker image.

I also love the fact that code that targets wasm can run in a browser or on the machine in an isolate without hard forking.
> Lufthansa is your friend as the sole operator of the passenger version 747-8

Korean Air and Air China also operate the type, but Lufthansa does fly more than half of the 747-8I production, excluding VIP-configured aircraft.
It's also the one that's much more regularly updated.
And that's self-reinforcing. I bought my first new-from-dealership car (a Prius Prime) a few years back and wanted to get one with a color, and learned that this would mean waiting months and paying more, while the grey one was on the lot right now. Because the grey is the most plentiful option, it's also now the easiest to acquire unless you're really looking to go out of your way for color.
Modernism started and co-evolved with the industrial revolution, long, long before World War 1.

Esthetics is a favorite topic for far right thinkers where the demise of civilization is caused by some art that confuse them.
In my limited testing, I've found Whisper to be much better (accuracy-wise) than other STT models.
> Or that different lengths have a length in between them. All are legitimate and compelling arguments.

Except that's wrong, not all lengths do have a length between them.
The weird thing is: that aesthetic is also completely gone in fascist art. Look at New Rome, or Speer's plans. The human aspect is gone.
A form of a suicide note possibly. I hope I'm not reading it wrong but that's what I took from his post especially in context of his sudden passing.
NATO Prepares for Cyber War
One might be tempted to wonder how a communist or at least strongly government-regulated economy would fare. When you have only one supermarket chain, for example, why do advertising at all? Why have dozens of variations of the same products, just with different brands, assaulting your eyes the whole time you walk through a supermarket? Or worse, not just our eyes but also our ears with "store radio" yelling at us to try the new novelty super-soft toilet paper?

That is maybe the worst side effect of the USSR collapse: once the counter-example went away, capitalism had free rein in going as excessive as it wanted, because the alternative (not being blared at by ads all the time) simply didn't exist any more. We literally can't imagine such a place any more... it reminds me of 1984, with the difference that we don't lack the words to describe that, instead we know that without a worldwide revolution, there will be no realistic way of turning the wheels.
While ncdu does the job I've found gdu (similar tool written in Go) significantly faster for larger directories.

https://github.com/dundee/gdu
This article calls everything ugly without even defining what it thinks it -- or beauty -- are. (And if they did past the first paragraph or two of what looks to be an incoherent rant, they did so way too late)
I like Signal, and I use it... with one other person. No one uses Signal.which is its biggest problem. Without adoption it's a useless app.
If you paywall important news, everyone will share free articles instead.
Does the birdseed press ever paywall?

Edit: compare https://www.lemonde.fr 's cookie/subscription wall with https://www.thesun.co.uk
>Cyrillic has custom characters for character pairs in western European languages. For instance, {a,e,i,o,u} are in both Cyrillic and English (for example), but Cyrillic has custom single characters for what English would spell as {ya,ye,yi,yo,yu}, and then similarly for what English writes as {sh,zh,ch,shch}.

I would consider that as 1:1 mapping while technically being 2 characters in most latin languages.
I wonder if it's not much different than what we saw years ago from the far left. Whichever ideological wing isn't in power, fights against the state apparatus. It seems that since the ideological left currently holds most state power, you see far right groups on the attack. When the right had the power, you had far left groups on the attack. Just a dispassionate observation..
Have you flown on a 747-8I? I remember that being roughly comparable to a A380 in noise-terms, but definitely _vastly_ quieter than a 747-400.
Success != Intelligence
Yes exactly. When choosing colors or amenities for my home, my real estate agent and contractors would bristle — "that's not going to be good for resale value"

This has impacts on the industries surrounding as well. If I want a custom siding color, it's going to be more expensive. We're normalizing everything around the most widely palatable, so it's all fairly bland.
Need long-lived pseudonyms that can accrue reputation. Ideally they'd be securely portable from site to site. Some schemes for this use fancy cryptography, which may have some value. But something simple with web domains might be able to do the heavy lifting.
Experimentally Inventing a Programming Language Using Chat GPT
>So clearly all you did was get angry about a couple of lines in the article that were disparaging to Charlie.

Rather, I read the whole thing, and grasped its tone, intention, and structure.

>That Charlie is likely in the small group of people today who are setting the norms for tomorrow?

Charlie and his "influence" is insignificant to the "norms of tomorrow", and if you take away the jabs at "weirdos" like Charlie from the article, the only thing that remains is a tired old "online vs offline" diatribe, the kind of which has been written 200 times a day since 1997 or so.
repackaged $200 INFIRAY P2 Pro/T2S+, SNDWAY SW-8256
I went in not expecting much.
I ended up enthralled.

A fascinating article.
growlight may be of interest as well:

https://github.com/dankamongmen/growlight#readme
Transitioning from first to 2nd-generation large-scale agile development method
Which is a monstrosity.
Murdering your self is still murder. There are other victims besides the person committing it. The reason why it is a taboo subject is because it is contagious in a way. When the idea is broadcast at large, there is an increasing likelihood that people on the edge will follow through. Suicide should not be romanticized or indulged.
Maybe this is the true super power of Rust, enabling groups of people to collaborate quickly.
Wow, thanks for sharing, I was wondering about that! Very nice to know :D
What does the frequency you mention affect?
DAP – Debug Adapter Protocol
Swift (https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/AdvancedOper...) uses

a = a &+ 1

or the shorthand

a &+= 1

IMO, that looks ugly, but that probably is a matter of getting used to it.

Compared to the %256 option, it has the advantage that, if you change the type of a, you won’t have to remember to change the modulus.

They also chose to not make modular integers separate types. That makes mixing ‘normal’ and modular arithmetic on integers easier (with modular types, you’d have to convert between regular and modular integers all the time) (edit: that also is consistent with the fact that the bitwise operators work with regular ints, and ook not require a special “set of 8/16/32/…” type that’s implemented as an integer)

I wouldn’t know how common such mixing is and, hence, whether that is a good choice.
Ask HN: Could I find a summary of the news in the last N days
I’m becoming disinterested in using major news services as the writing is abysmal and the titles are too clickbaity. I’m wondering if there’s not a way anybody knows of where I can get a summary of news events from the past month at the end of the month.
>his orthopedic sneakers couldn’t touch the floor...

>his tiny frame perched a few feet away on an oversized leather chair...

>a crooked smile that reveals a row of nubby teeth

>disappointing to meet the “worst person on the internet” and find that they are nothing at all

I think the author has missed the point about why Charlie is the way he is, why he has spent so much of his social life online, she did apparently reveal how this Charlie is looked upon by "normal" people in real life through no fault of his own.
No, they are not and Jimmy Wales politely gave them the finger.

This is why they are quitting in droves, and this is why I stopped donating to them.
Scott loves attributing increasing prices to Baumol's cost disease, but I'm not sure I've ever seen him do the work of establishing that it's actually what's happened.

> If stonemasonry is a low-tech industry, and new high-tech industries are arising all around it, stonemason wages could get prohibitively high (compared to everything else) until nobody wants to hire them anymore. This would create pressure for architectural styles that require as little masonry (or, generalized, human labor) as possible.

Stonemasons make about £20 an hour:

https://uk.indeed.com/career/stonemason/salaries

More than an unskilled labourer, but not even twice as much.
paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.16537.pdf
Because I don't like reading shallow hit jobs, and I think it's not just sloppy writing, but reflects to their authors too.
If you want somewhere remote and quiet in England go to Northumberland.

Another option maybe be one of the retreat centres in the UK I can personally recommend this one: https://www.holyisle.org/
If everything appears ugly to you, ask yourself:

1. Is it really? Or this is some weird sentiment towards things that passed? I prefer modern “ugly” architecture and “modern” medicine, then flamboyant, impractical and wasteful building accompanied by poor health; maybe we just recentred our attention? … alternatively

2. you are depressed; and I don't mean it in a snark way; futility, greyness and ever present gloom can be signs that you're getting depressed.
I have had to work so hard not to make a sexual innuendo with that comment.
I rather meant, if a significant bunch of people use this service for illegal things still being out of prison, hence you can consider this "metric" too (along with others) whether Telegram is secure. However, thre is no statistic for "being out of prison" people who used Telegram like this.
Configuring Your Outbound Webhook Requests with Static IPs
Were proportions mentioned in the article? I couldn't find it.

But I'm intrigued now -- I thought I've heard all of the complaints about modern design, but I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone say that proportions have gotten worse. What specifically are you referring to?

The only particularly noticeable thing I can think of is cars having gotten more "bulbuous" rather than sleek, but that's entirely due to crumple zones for safety.