skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until a week ago I lived around the corner from the n+1 office and the buildings they're talking about. It's astounding how expensive the new developments are around there — like, $8k/month 2-bed rentals — and how terrible much of the new architecture is. It's a part of Greenpoint that has some of the most beautiful buildings in Brooklyn, most built in the late 18th and early 19th century. Which is all to say, I understand where the author is coming from and mostly agree.

That said, there actually are some attractive buildings in the mix. The massive OMA development, Eagle+West, is grossly overpriced but also shows what some amount of creativity and care coupled with new building techniques and materials can offer. It's not perfect, but we probably have to build in new ways if we want to solve problems of homelessness and affordability — again, my example is not affordable, but I think that has more to do with the developers than the actual input costs.

When you look at the beautiful old streets in Greenpoint you're seeing an investment of human labor and materials that is incomparable in today's terms. Those homes were built in a time when labor was cheap, and the people they were built for far wealthier relative to the labor pool. I just moved into a townhouse built in 1900 and when I hire a mason or plumber for repairs there's a good chance they earn more than I do — and I'm a well-paid developer.

This is all to say, I don't think there's anything fundamentally beautiful about the old — survivor bias, lack of context, and aesthetic conditioning are all at play. Nor does the new have to be universally ugly. I've seen plenty of new, dense construction in northern Europe that is beautiful and affordable.
If the matter is trailing at 99.99% the speed of light as reported, it gives us 800k years.
oh right, "you are not an artist or an engineer therefore you can't understand my biased opinion that prevails"

"it's ugly" is a very compelling argumentation

i think there is a difference between the Eiffel Tower and the random office building in the middle of Roma
> All they need is for Ford or Benz to turn their bare bones cargo vans electric

These are already a thing, at least in Europe. Ford only released theirs this year and the Mercedes ones are next year, I think, but Peugeot and Renault have had various electric vans out for a while; you see them around a good bit in Dublin.
Is that the right way around? If `a<b` then `a-b` will be negative, surely, and adding that to `a` will be moving down from `a`, not from `a` to `b`?

cf https://go.dev/play/p/SgdWzzqDygn
That's GP's point. Service providers will block the IPs of abusive clients. If those clients are your cg-nat neighbours, you're blocked with them.
I'll just say that earlyoom is much more bearable out-of-the-box than what this sounds like and much better than waiting for Linux to trigger the internal OOM killer (or trying to remember the SysRq key sequence to just trigger it. I always forget and don't have it close by when I need it :) ). I had to play around with the configuration a little to get it to match the conditions I could potentially get an OOM, but when it did reach it on my desktop, it would kill something like Slack, definitely not the whole X session. (FWIW, this happened when building a large Java project, that would burst with memory usage at certain stages of a build, on my computer that just has 16gb. Outside of managing OOM, it's something to play around with before giving up and just upping the RAM. :) )
'iPhone 14' Was the 8th Most Searched-For Term on Google in 2022
> People who cultivate a persona in any sub-culture or domain seem to be a fish out of water when confronted in a different context.

It's possible to generalize too much:

1. The size of the different context and the extent to which someone feels like a fish out of water matters. It's one thing to say that someone might feel a bit out of place if they were suddenly dropped into an unfamiliar festival in another country. It's another to say that many people in a particular subculture are almost incapable of having normal human interactions in any offline context.

2. Sub-cultures aren't all equal, and it's possible for certain subcultures to encourage behavior that most people would consider anti-social or unhealthy.
And then compete with the horde of h1b's/offshored people.....
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> but there is much precedence for rebel leaders who took on dynasties to be of millenarian, even foreign beliefs.

The modern Chinese government’s suppression of Falun Gong makes sense from this perspective.
Referring to people as "Plaids" is dehumanizing. 260 talented people were let go.
> The solution is probably to de-fascize(?) classical and romantic aesthetics.

This is all so funny. Rewind a generation or two and all this "fascist" talk was directed at folk who admired men wearing togas while emitting Latin. Back then, 'to strip down to its essence and meaning' was the revolutionary act.

> [Architecture] is a form of "we are smart people who know better and are going to centrally plan and re-make culture the way we think it should be,"

And that is the point of architecture (vs mere act of building). Your myths, religions, literature, music, philosophy, and architecture and most matter of significance that is part and parcel of your culture was most likely created and promoted by a tiny (tiny!) subset of the population. Always has been. Everywhere.

> to centrally plan and re-make culture the way we think it should be,"

Is, has been, and will always remain the prerogative of the ruling class. All this aesthetic talk is blather masking the underlying and reasonable social angst regarding the highly distorted wealth and power distribution among the population. The clique in power sets the tone and direction of culture. Heck, your kings used to have dreams, wake up and change religions, and then presto pagans become Christian or Jew or Muslim. [Don't shoot the messenger. Just pointing out facts.]

And if you think this gray "putty" business is bad, I invited you to review K-Mart catalogues from 70s. Everything came in two neon colors - some washed out puke blue and a variation of 'dirt color'. I remember asking my dad when we first came over to US (and I got my first k-mart shock) as to why won't they make nicer colors for the common people. It remained a puzzle for a long time, this insistence on making cheap consumer items look even cheaper.

So this gray is actually the progression from K-Mart Puke Pallet -> Gap's B&W T -> faux-thoughtful "gray". It is progress, of a sort, believe it or not.
I'm assuming this blog post is a public copy of an internal email
The problem (at least for me) is that science is inherently collaborative and most authors on a paper have no say on where a paper is submitted to. Yes, I can say, "We shouldn't publish this in an Elsevier journal because of all the shady things they've done to increase the costs to libraries while providing little added value" and they'll say "The paper is about X. Everybody who works on X publishes in Elsevier's Journal of X. If we don't publish there nobody who works in the field will know about our work".
No. The race to the bottom doesn't explain the extreme rupture that happened in the 40s.

Another thing that may play into it (beyond a psychological breakdown), that's we diverted spending on architecture to spending on maintenance of car infrastructure. The public realm is experience through a car, and as such, sensory details, sense of closure and safety, are irrelevant. Rather, what becomes relevant is asphalt, large easy to maintain buffer zones between car infrastructure and building.
Did you ever evaluate FreeBSD? My hesitation with Illumos and downstream distros is the small number of people maintaining the ecosystem (not that any of the BSD's have huge dev teams by comparison, but still).

That said, I think OpenSolaris is technically superior in most ways to any of the BSD's.
Ah, I'm noticing that my parent comment didn't quite say what I intended!

What I wanted to say, was that helix should make an additional keymapping file that has nearly identical keys to vim. Repositories like gitui [0] do this, so vim users can just jump in guns-blazing. Granted, they have far less keybinds to cover.

The second link, "Migrating from vim", doesn't nearly cover all the differences between vim and helix. If there wasn't a keybinding file I could use, I would need a document that covers as many differences as possible between vim and helix. I found this document when trying to figure out a mapping in helix, and it didn't cover it. I can't remember what the mapping was though.

I really want to use helix - I want lsp and tree-sitter out of the box in the terminal. I hate managing a neovim config. But I also use tons of other machines, and vim is on all of them - I can't afford to unlearn that muscle-memory. I think you can make helix both it's own editor with it's own take on things, and capable of adapting to people who are heavily invested in the vim paradigm.

[0] https://github.com/Extrawurst/gitui
I'm wondering if this might be the better submission URL. It might be a bit lower on details but at the same time it conveys a richer overview of what the release is about.
a* monstrosity

Use "an" only if the following word starts with a vowel (with few exceptions) -> "The Eiffel Tower is an abomination".
A whole lot of ISPs are doing CGNAT for IPv4 now, mostly in Asia. Starlink does it. It's mostly OK but has a lot of drawbacks, particularly IP-based geolocation. (Starlink does not support IPv6 although they seem to be rolling it out this month.)
yep that sounds reasonable, no idea why Apple doesn't do that, my wild guess is that there aren't enough technical writers that can understand low level code, or just a company/team culture that doesn't value it.
> Our Hosting provider, Hetzner, has recently started charging for public IPv4 addresses

Well actually, they were charging for IPv4 addresses for a while, but just changed pricing... to outrageous pricing. The setup fees are actually insane!

And yeah IPv6-only is quite a terrible experience, I tried out a few days ago. I suggest just using nat64.net if you want to access IPv4 sites over IPv6.

One quite funny thing, I recently asked my ISP if they were ever going to add IPv6, they told me no, there's "not enough demand"... well there's "not enough demand" because there's barely any IPv6 websites, and then websites refuse to add support for IPv6 because... you guessed it, "not enough demand".
Yeah, they're not targeting your use case. The vast majority of these vans, I suspect, are used for urban delivery or trades roles, where 200km is fine. 900km range vans are perfectly possible, but will be very expensive and most van users won't need them.

EDIT: Also, in many countries you can drive a van with a normal driver's license provided it's under, usually, 3.5 tonnes. Once you go over that you need a special license. 900kms worth of battery might make it difficult to fit a reasonable payload under the legal limit.
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Outside of a small set of Twitter/Tumblr/TikTok bubbles (which overlap in userbase), pronouns are fixed: he/she/they (rarely they). Xe/Xir is not something average people will honor or use.
Are you saying that Victorian homes, as a rule, are aesthetic disasters? I'm curious to learn more about this as it's not something I've heard before. If you have any recommended reading about that I'd greatly appreciate it.
No? I didn't say that my opinion was right, just that most people aren't willing to do the work in order to have a deeper discussion on the topic, so they just revert to relativism.

I also didn't say the Eiffel Tower was ugly, I said most people don't think it's an exemplar of beauty, even those that like it.
> How is it that America can still be traumatised from the world wars architecturally but europe is not?

Europe is too, it's just that a lot of the older things survived. You can see brutalist and similar architecture that sprang up in the Soviet bloc. I don't think Europeans are that much more "sophisticated" than Americans or anyone else. It's more of an inheritance by happenstance.

Europe (in general) didn't have the wealth to build car-only infrastructure so it never really suburbanized and mass-manufactured homes like America did.

The factors influencing aren't quite the same. Amsterdam is a popular case [1]

I generally agree with your post, though. The caveat is that it's less about capitalism and more about lack of ability to make choices in the market (lack of capitalism and markets). You can't anywhere in America choose a new home that's built in a walkable neighborhood. It's simply not for sale (new). You can only buy existing homes in neighborhoods that survived demolition after the 1920s, and of course those are the most expensive homes by median in the country because of a lack of additional supply.

[1]https://exploring-and-observing-cities.org/2016/01/11/amster...
> Instead of all-out alphabet reform for Russian, the early Soviet Union mandated spelling reform, wiping the language clean of archaic or redundant Cyrillic characters.

Overall poor quality article with a bunch of issues already pointed out. I’ll throw in one more - the reform was originally proposed during early 20th century and was viewed as idiotic and a hack job on the language. Soviets realized that they could make old text almost unreadable to the newly educated people and ceased on that as a way to break with the past. Soviets instituted a near monopoly on print after and eventually enforced the monopoly with oppression. See for more info https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Russian_orthograp...

While I find Cyrillic letters to better represent sounds found in Slavic languages (latin scripts require more combinations of letters and special symbols, where Cyrillic has a dedicated letter), switching between say Polish and English reading is a bit easier/faster mentally.
I think the poster means "you can't pattern match with a function value
If he indeed committed suicide out of depression, I would imagine that maybe he realized after years of relative successes that nothing, no achievement, no appreciation/gratitude by others, will cure his depression. At least that wouldn’t be an uncommon pattern for high-intellect people with severe depression.
Like many others, there's a lot of reason still, today, to go sit down in a dark theater after spending $15 on a ticket.

Yeah, we have large 4K HDR TVs, but they aren't as large as what's down at my local movie theater. I have a decent sound system in my house, but it's not as loud or tuned as nicely as what's in that theater. Being able to see a film on a large screen is still a unique experience that very few people can truly replicate at home. I still love that experience as it provides a much more immersive way to experience a movie. Certain movies I think require that kind of screen and sound to work properly.

Plus, depending on the movie, the energy in the room of a packed movie theater also plays into that experience. Personally, I am willing to spend that $15 for a ticket to support the kind of films I want to see as well. I feel like I'm throwing a few bucks at the director and saying, thanks for making this, I appreciate it.

(I'm the kind of person who still has a large physical media collection, buys blurays, 4K blurays, etc.)
Congrats on the launch! How do you mitigate that you just get too many pings on slack?
Cool. Would like to see that.
The only real way out is solitude.
No objection to Signal, but mentioning that in the same breath as Telegram hurts my head.

Telegram is not end-to-end encrypted in any practical scenario (you can‘t use it on multiple devices, for example), their end-to-end encryption uses some ridiculous/scary homebrew cryptography ("with the power of 5 math PhDs and a bug bounty worth millions!!!"), and being open source doesn‘t help a bit if the service provider just gets everything in plaintext anyway by default.
A great way to test the difference between the online and offline world is to boast about something you accomplished in a family gathering, say thanksgiving.

"I scored 3 goals in last weekend's game".

That's wonderful! (nobody truly cares, but it's still recognized and celebrated.)

"I got 40 likes on my last tweet"

???

"Wait, it gets better: 20 people watched me play a game. Had to stay up until 4AM but still, worth it."

???

Truly, nobody gives a shit. It means so little that people will not even pretend to recognize it. It's more like a negative accomplishment that gets people worried that you have poor judgement in life.
So ORAN is a specifications layer for telecom? But who's actually manufacturing the equipment, and how do you stop them from being bought out by conglomerates (possibly Chinese) in a few years...?
Oh you’d have a password!

Because you just said people lose their passwords all the time. So then what?

Unlike private keys they can also enter them in other sites, reuse them, and get phished and much more.

But yes, private keys bad! because they are cryptography and cryptography is crypto and crypto is scams and grift and there is a whole new cargo cult we have to be in now…
I don't really think this is a new or interesting phenomenon just because it involves the internet; since the first subculture existed, people have sought them out and/or molded them in order to be a big fish in an incredibly tiny pond. This guy doesn't represent "online" or "the internet" any more than Bob Smith, who rules the entire North Boise Yu-Gi-Oh community (all seven members of it) with an iron fist, represents the physical world and human interaction in it.

As other commenters have noted, the subject of the article is apparently also a terrible person and possibly a psychopath. Which again, runs true to type; he's found the largest possible community where he capable of being enough of a Big Deal to abuse people with impunity. Which, as it turns out, is pretty small and esoteric.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1600196995389366274.html
Tastes are different.

The author could have written, some buildings are ugly. I don't like them.

Yet, the author wrote, “everything” is ugly.
True. The other problem is that many companies have neither the capital, nor the risk-tolerance, nor the expertise in building and maintaining an R&D department. That's where the "curiosity itch" gets scratched, and where hacker and corporate interests are pretty much aligned.
For some reason, I recalled Whisper to be on-par or slightly worse than the other open source ones, but much better across languages. I appear to be wrong.
Functional GPU drivers were a big missing piece! Even if they just do 2d bit-blitting for the desktop (and they seem much more functional than that), it saves the CPU a ton of work.
> he concluded that if he kept cycling Ironman distances on open roads — 112 miles for the bike leg, which in the race is sandwiched between a 2.4-mile swim and a full marathon — there was a 100 percent chance he would be killed.

I'd love to see the math on this one, I'm highly skeptical.
My first exposure to a computer was in approx 1979, at school. We didn't actually have a computer at the school, but a local insurance company did. So we wrote our small programs on punched cards (in a dialect of BASIC IIRC), and at the beginning of next weeks class, were given listings of our compilation errors! I loved it! It was definitely the future!
I realize "incel" is a loaded word but I didn't mean to trash the author.

Simply, I feel like he's coming at the issue from the perspective that men-women relationships are transactional. I think that's wrong, and that it is an incel view of the problem. With no disrespect to incels, because I also grew up thinking like that.

Also I'd say the definition the article uses for "intelligence" is reductive. There's more to intelligence than pure logic.

Romantic relationships aren't that different from friendships. And you wouldn't try to be friends with someone just because they have a nice car or score well at IQ tests. It's all about being a good/fun person. And that can be pretty subjective, compatibility plays a big part. People with similar interests and values are more likely to get together.
Listening to that demo, it's incredible how far we've come!

Or, not.

Racter was commercially released for Mac in December 1985:

Racter strings together words according to "syntax directives", and the illusion of coherence is increased by repeated re-use of text variables. This gives the appearance that Racter can actually have a conversation with the user that makes some sense, unlike Eliza, which just spits back what you type at it. Of course, such a program has not been written to perfection yet, but Racter comes somewhat close.

Since some of the syntactical mistakes that Racter tends to make cannot be avoided, the decision was made to market the game in a humorous vein, which the marketing department at Mindscape dubbed "tongue-in-chip software" and "artificial insanity".

https://www.mobygames.com/game/macintosh/racter

https://www.myabandonware.com/game/racter-4m/play-4m

It's only amazing that chatGPT backed by GPT-3 is the first thing since then to do enough better that everyone is engaged.

I owned that in 1985, and having studied AI/ML previously I've been (and remain something of) an AGI skeptic. But now in 2022, I finally think “this changes everything” ... not because it's AI, but because it's making the application of matching probabilistic patterns across mass knowledge practical and useful for everyday work, particularly as a structured synthesis assistant.
I really, really think that negative feedback needs to make a comeback. Anything besides a hugbox counts as bullying now, even when _people desperately need to change_. The people in this article are horror shows who need introspection, not encouragement.
Unfortunately, in a highly regulated environment like finance or healthcare this is the norm for opsec reasons. Can't have disgruntled laid-off employees taking revenge actions against the company or customers.
How wide is this jet here? Does it cover the entire Milky Way?
One of my favorite quotes about software engineering, sorry not sure who to attribute it to:

"First you learn the value of abstraction, then you learn the cost of abstraction, then you're ready to engineer"
So what is the way (are optimal ways) from the beginning?
Perhaps if there was some shared goal like those presented in an online game was presented that would motivate me to join a virtual world. Absent that though my answer is "No, not to just read or participate in an online forum or even a chat".
This is a fascinating conversation.
16 weeks of base pay - perhaps this is becoming industry standard for big company layoffs? (influenced by CA WARN act?)

Interesting they are paying the cash equivalent of 6 months of healthcare, rather than just extending healthcare for 6 months.
Yeah there this this problem where sellers want to acquire appreciating money and buyers want to dispose of depreciating money. So, the goal is to somehow balance it out so that you have money that both seller and buyer want to use. The rule of thumb is 2% inflation. Of course you might argue that 0% inflation is better and -2% as a demurrage/negative interest is better because this means prices stay the same and savings are not devalued.
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No need to spell it

Send a QR code or a link that can be used only once.

Why have an identifier that any number of people can use to contact you?
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I'm pretty sure the employees received noticed before it went public.
Whether Frankenstein is human or not is the question directly asked by Mary Shelley's book. As in our "making or not" problem, ironically, the answer is neither black nor white, as the monster is alive, yet made of dead flesh, and can be cruel, yet display human-like sensibility.

My point is that the line is blurry. "Configuring" a system with a large amount of parameters can be considered "creating something". A good example is how the knobs on a synthesizer can be tweaked to achieve a peculiar sound.