skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I skimmed the transcript it seems to be a pretty poor video. The argument presented seems to be "yeah california HSR is behind schedule and over budget but that's fine because road projects are also behind schedule and over budget", followed by some pot shots at the usual enemies (ie. "americans" who hate/don't belive in transit, corporations, koch brothers, neoliberalism).
IIRC the royalty rates for books under $2.99 are also severely reduced. It seems like a pretty clear tactic to try to keep ebook prices in the $3-10 range.

Not sure why you don’t think that makes sense? If they’ve done the research and figured out that’s how they sell the most books, it makes sense to push prices into that range
Does this meaningfully tip the balance? Even if you don't get evicted (let's be clear - made homeless), your credit is still in shambles at this point.

I've rented from several different single-person landlords. None of them have ever done any preventative maintenance on the property and every single one dragged their feet terribly when it came to urgent and necessary maintenance. Two summers ago my AC broke and my landlord was uncontactable (I tried for days). I arranged for a HVAC company to come and repair it on my own and my landlord refused to pay for the bill because I didn't use their normal company (I was never informed of their normal company). Even though in my state it is a legal requirement that rented homes have working air conditioning, it was a huge fucking ordeal to get my landlord to take the cost off my rent.

Now imagine I'm a non-native english speaker who didn't have spare time to dig through state regulations and this happens to me. I'd just get fucked. That's what happens to a huge number of tenants.
It’s possible (with the ISO week calendar) to have a week 53– on years where Jan 1 is on Thursday or Wednesday for leap years.

2022 was not such a year; there appears to be a bug here.
Yep don’t forget the second option. Direct action is always possible. I subscribe to a “block of marble” theory of politics: you can always METAPHORICALLY beat those in power into shape.
Investigating Pelosi for something that is explicitly legal for politicians is the definition of incinerating tax money.

Also, considering nearly every house politician engages in insider trading (again, because it’s explicitly legal for them), there nothing unique about California re-electing Pelosi, that voters from every other state are also not doing.

Edit: This is not an endorsement of insider trading by politicians. This is a reminder of the ridiculous situation where insider trading is legal for politicians. Investigating Pelosi for something that is currently legal makes no sense (also, why only Pelosi…nearly every House and Senate member engages in insider trading).
I note these are mostly US-specific reasons, but the property bubble has been a thing all over the world both now and pre-2008. It's a phenomenon of popular cities everywhere.
The accessibility challenges are all the extra different failure modes HTTPS presents, such as client date offset, older devices, expired certificates, hostname mismatches, and many others.

Security is not the only priority in existence. Sometimes people just want to access the information. And when that is the case, HTTPS can be a huge impediment.
It sounds like you're suggesting the reason these people are struggling socially in middle age is that they were overly social as younger people. Seems unlikely to me.
What? Noah’s point about America’s inability to build things has nothing to do with swapping out Gavin Newsom.
Honestly with how serious we take zoning laws I don't understand why Airbnb isn't already banned everywhere.

Airbnb essentially rezones residential units as commerical hotels
Excess at-birth human males die way younger than females. From other males and higher genetic variance. It evens out and even skews the other way.
I think housing prices will come down a bit more in the US. The FED is walking a fine line with interest rates. I predict they will have to backtrack and lower the rates in the second half of 2023.

I think the new 3nm process from TSMC will help to accelerate new NVIDIA cards to support GPT like AI, but TSMC will have to rapidly expand fabs outside of Taiwan to offset the risk from China.
If you have any interest in mechanical engineering or manufacturing technology, I strongly recommend you check out his whole YouTube channel. In particular, I recommend his history of scientific instruments. Extremely intelligent and knowledgeable person.
Yeah I mean I've thought about how I can go skiing, or go to the gym, or have a routine that gets me out of the house. But really, it's sitting in my house that bothers me. Because it's like the same as you aren't supposed to use your bed for something other then sleeping because as soon as you do sleeping get distracted by the other thing you do in bed. My home is for chilling. Work is chill but it's not a chilling activity.
No need for OO hierarchy, just use a protocol
You need to import the constraint logic module.

:- use_module(library(clpfd)).

Goes at the top of the file (leave off the :- if you're in the repl).

The arithmetic built in to prolog is traditionally of the form

A is 1+2,
B is A+3,
... etc.
For contrast car accidents in 2019.

(36,096 / 350 million) * 100

0.0103%

Considering that each person on the road increases car accident fatality chance for others.

Just interesting to look at what we allow from a safety perspective in comparison to COVID.

(that is actually larger since to keep it simple I didn't calculate that only 90% of Americans have a driver's license)
2nd. Waiting for one day a year and (usually even only) then make a resolution for the next year to me sounds like 'maybe could use more self-reflection and/or realistic view'. Self-reflection with the intent of figuring out the reason for needing that one day in the first place (maybe it wold be fun to just pick another day from now on?), but also to figure out whether one is not just being untrue to oneself. For example are you perhaps afraid of making resolutions and then just pick the day of which you know it's common for others to do so as well, making it less bad when you fail at the resolution, because the others more often that not (mind you this is just from purely anecdotal evidence of people around me) also fail? Wouldn't it be better and then just make no resolutions at all? Could be a win on the self-knowledge front? And then from that perhaps shift to making well thought-out resolutions for yourself, whenever is the most appropriate or perhaps even spread over longer periods of time (e.g. start with 'try to achive x' but then don't be too stubborn to halfway decide x sucks, or maybe y is better, or a modified version of x is better, etc.).
Specs matter, but differently, at least for me. I don't need the best performing chip out there, I just want an efficient chip. I love having a simple ESP chip that I can connect some wires to and flash ESPHome on. When I was a kid I only dreamed of such simplicity and efficiency. Especially with things such as Raspberry Pi's, which makes DIY computing really affordable too.
Lots of US suburbs have roads with 3 lanes in each direction.

Then you add one or two left turn lanes at the intersection and a shoulder/bike lane, and you get to an 80ft+ crossing easily. All the infrastructure is built for cars and cars only. All the businesses and places for kids to go will be along these huge roads.

This is an example of what is commonly built:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/wpdBbQJggYrpjeNz8?g_st=ic

That crosswalk/sidewalk is purely built for plausible deniability. You would have to be crazy to regularly walk across that to get to the grocery store/restaurants at that intersection.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/rnjYVbLweNQZYFqW9?g_st=ic

https://maps.app.goo.gl/bu4ow3HVTM3VTRct9?g_st=ic

https://maps.app.goo.gl/owb32s3zPFShPXJ48?g_st=ic
I grew up thinking the Warner Bros. characters were the superior cartoon stars (and that Daffy is better than Bugs; my wife and I still argue about that). Disney is more like Apple...the people who like them really love them and get sucked into the rabbit-hole, but everyone else sees them as a cult.
I don't see a reason why it would not be commercially exploitable either. Trade and commerce is part of any human community
Traditional property developers don't usually hold onto the properties they build, they sell them off. Even skyscrapers sell off their apartments and commercial sections. Maybe some don't now, but I think that might reflect a shift from building being most profitable to renting being most profitable. In that case, eventually a renting-developer would lose incetive to build more as not to dilute their rental margins.
I was going to suggest calling on people who haven't used their phone in a while, but there it was in the article.

Anyway, a better solution would be for people to have some kind of neighbourhood association so that they can interact and support each other. I don't know Koreans to assess if this would be possible.
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Everything about this is stunning and incredible. It’s one of those webpages that is art itself. Such a beautiful presentation. It’s also amazing to see someone walking through this kind of problem. It escapes me entirely but you make it look so obvious in the end!
Perhaps a dead man's AC would be better?

Set it to minimum temperature if the timer isn't reset after 12h.
I don't know about Ireland, but in UK they are known for buying huge amount of land getting all the grants and permits for building say, 10k houses, then they build ~500 houses a year, because if they built more it would crash the price. So now there is no land to buy and build on by yourself, and developers build fewer houses than they theoretically could to keep the prices high. Not to mention absolutely abysmal quality of newbuilds at every price level, and the smallest(by area) size of newbuilds anywhere in Europe - the average new house in the UK is smaller than an average flat in most of EU. And of course there are only really 3 big companies which have completely strong armed the market so you either buy from them, or pay 4x the price from a "boutique" developer just so your walls aren't made out of cardboard.
This Tour of Heroes tutorial can teach you just about everything that you need to know about Angular, and it can be completed in a pretty short amount of time.

https://angular.io/tutorial/tour-of-heroes
In the vast majority of situations (1) you'll prematurely optimize in the wrong place and (2) yes the profiler will point to a single, easy-to-fix smoking gun.

Situations otherwise are the exception, rather than the rule, and it takes an expert to (1) recognize those situations and (2) know exactly how to write optimized code in that situation.

That's why "don't prematurely optimize" is a good rule of thumb - because it works the majority of the time, and it takes experience to know when not to apply it.
In most metro areas, zoning is the limiter, not land. You could quickly double the housing supply if you allow townhomes, duplexes, and small apartment buildings in areas currently captive to single family homes.
Yes 100%

"Mom and Pop" never fix anything and keep security deposits with no justification all the time in my experience.

Big corps might not have nice stories to tell you about how the neighborhood was 50 years ago but at least they behave predictably
> But like how would one know they are going to die and crawl in?

It does not seem like a very practical idea, no.

A practical non-social solution would be like triggering a timer when the door is locked from the inside. If it is not re-triggered in three days the timer sounds a fire alarm, or something.
Noah Smith and Scott Galloway are national treasures for their ability to be wrong about seemingly everything they open their mouths about...lots of value as nearly perfect contras.
Singular anecdotal counterargument wins again!
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Is it me or does $1B not seem like much? At an average cost of $75,000 per unit, they’ll have around 13,000 units. There are 126,000,000 units in the US, giving them 0.01% market share. That is absolute peanuts compared to large property developers.
How should we factor in Bent Flyvbjerg's work?

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235953040_Delusion_...
What can I buy instead of an RPi for my nephew to learn to program on?
I just need a simple and cheap computer for my nephew (11yrs old) to learn to program on. It needs to run Scratch and python and that's it. Raspberry pi's are sold out everywhere in the UK.
I need it now because he just has been given a programming book for Xmas (by me) and he's excited to start!
Great, thanks a lot for this!

PS: on iOS there’re issues with the autocomplete form, rss.brain doesn’t allow iOS to auto fill with email and password to login.
Hook up an apple watch or similar device to you while you live in the freezer that isn't turned on. Perhaps you just sleep in it. API call triggers if you die and it turns on, sends money to your utility provider from your bank.
It doesn't help his case that Noah Smith has no original ideas, is ungenerous with people who do have them or who disagree with his strictly conventional, mainstream takes, and is smug and obnoxious in general. He's even, physically, a gross slob hiding behind a 'heroic' avatar, which makes it doubly offensive to have things 'explained' by him.
You explained it well: it is hard so we just don’t build it.

Of course it is hard.
A major argument for why landlords should make money is that they provide risk smoothing. They take on risk and the renter pays a premium (like insurance) for that risk. But that means that some landlords have to lose. The idea that landlords should never lose money breaks the entire arrangement. If that is the case then there should be absolutely zero risk premium and renters should just be paying for the cost of maintenance (often skimped badly by landlords) and the marginal opportunity cost of having either a mortgage or having equity tied up in the property (often much lower than the nominal rent).

Landlords often retreat at this point and just say "well we are charging what the market rate is" and leave behind any pretense that this is a fair economic transaction. In that case, landlords can get fucked, in my opinion. A system that buys up a scarce and necessary resource and then sells it back at prices disconnected from the actual value provided by landlords is unethical.
I don't get how it is significant. Almost all tech stocks are down by roughly that much ~50%. Silly.
I love Rust but I kind of agree. It’s really, really rare for a web service to need the low-level stuff Rust provides. A garbage collected is going to be just fine.
“Sheer expansive distance between cities…”

Perhaps we should elaborate? If a train leaves city A traveling at 220 mph towards city B… How far are we talking before we are too far away to travel by HSR in say, 4 hours?
Slick design. Love that it doesn't try to do a million things. I think this would be really nice as a smartwatch face or an iPhone widget.
The argument is that the payoff will be worth many times more than whatever they go over budget by, as proven in Japan.

I don’t agree with the argument because Japan was connecting cities that already had, or built out, incredible public transport, and not a city like LA which is almost designed to make public transport as ineffective as possible. I’m not sure LA-SF will be as effective when the rider has to then rent a car on the LA side at least, which means it’s almost certainly cost and maybe even time effective to just drive.

The argument that you’re pointing out is a defense against the loud criticism CA HSR is receiving, and is actually a valid argument…if we had to criticize stuff, when you consider the cost inefficiency of a lot of the money being poured into roads, CA HSR would not be on the top of the list of public infra projects to criticize.
1. The next wave of social. FB is dead. Twitter is imploding. The govt is trying to get rid of TikTok. Mastodon is too hardcore for your mom in peoria. But there's still a need, and someone is going to figure it out. So 2023 will see a flowering of ideas most of which will die and one of which will win.

2. Investors move into water. The US Southwest is at a crunch point now. Its not so much that people have seen evidence that makes them want to change as seeing evidence that there is money to be made trading rights to water. I actually thing water wars are a megatrend, but even if Im wrong there, the situation out west is dire.

3. There will be an implosion in corporate real estate as leases terminate. Some downtowns will collapse.
Maintaining the property is certainly a service.
No. She wasn't able to be okay with it 50 years ago. And she isn't okay with it now. It happened. Did you read the article?
Elliptic Geometry
True, I probably was using Rust for the wrong type of problem, i.e. was hoping to write a user-level application with a graphical UI at the time.

Rust is probably better used for writing fast low-level libraries that you call from higher level languages, possibly with a garbage collector, so you don't waste time thinking about memory management while you design/write your high-level application.
This has come up before, so I probably should mention it in the README at this point. There are some differences:

The main feature of sd is the command descriptions in autocomplete. PATH_DIRS doesn't include these, so it's hard to compare them.

At least by default, PATH_DIRS won't autocomplete nested directories. If you have blog/publish, it works fine. If you have blog/admin/ssl, you won't get autocompletion for admin. You can still run blog/admin/ssl with PATH_DIRS, but the subcommands are not discoverable anymore. (I'd love to know if there's an option to change this!)

Finally, a trivial new script would be very easy to write, but giving it autocomplete for existing directories `new blog/admin/whatever` would not be trivial. And an "edit" script (which I use more often than new) would be very annoying without the same autocomplete. And if you write those, then, well, you've basically just implemented sd with SD_ROOT=$HOME/bin :)
The same argument can be made for becoming a regular at a bar, lol.
Higher profit risk means you won't bid as high for investment property. Sounds good to me.

If you could increase the rent and still find tenants you'd do it right now. No reason to wait for any legislation
>Because low-brow jokes about Mrs. Slocombe's naughty bits are highly intelligent and sophisticated as long as the accent is British.

What 'naughty bits', all I rememeber are joks abut her pussy.

And, for any non-English, or ESL-speakers, 'it' is ithe funniest word in the English language. For any English speakers (mother tongue etc) - prove me wrong. You'll notice, the more you try, the harder it gets.
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Those specific reasons might be US-specific, but other countries have other policies to favor home ownership for the same reason (ie. "voting demographics skew towards property owners"). For instance, it's pretty common in other countries to have capital gains exemption on houses.
I think it speaks volumes that most of the international firms who excel in building rail pulled out or no quoted California.

Sometimes the risk of working for an erratic customer outweighs the money you could make
It was a normative statement I believe ("companies should not be people and should not have rights") rather than a factual one (I'm sure they're aware & that's why they felt compelled to make the declaration). English is sadly lacking in this regard, where you often get to make a strongly worded statement or an unambiguous statement, but it's very difficult to do both at the same time.
That basically says more supply can't CAUSE price increases.
So Steven Tyler at the time when he was talking about this is also unreliable?
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I’d love to switch to a Linux based phone. But sadly most of the important Apps will probably never be ported on there. Like my banking or credit cards apps. And all these 2FA apps needed to use them.
I think the market is yet too small for forcing companies to bring out a version for a Linux phone.
Maybe I should consider just having an old iPhone at home, with apps for doing these authentication. And use a Linux phone as daily driver for non commercial stuff. I’m tired of being trapped in a Google/Apple 1984 world.
I'm not sure if the shallow, mostly transactional relations men build help in the context of loneliness.

Non-religious versions of "churches" seem to fail due to a lack of regular attendance. Free Masons seem to have solved this by building some kinds of pressure to attend. I genuinely wonder why they fell out of favor. Did they just become uncool?
Good luck on this quest!

For anyone else not seeking to quit porn, one thing I do is just watch the same favorite clips, only looking for new clips maybe once a month.

The way this practice feels is much different from binging on the firehose.

Another thing I do is mix exotic dancing with these clips. It lowers the "direct" stimulation level and adds a sense of beauty and rapture to the experience.

In fact, frontman1988, I would recommend this latter practice as a fallback. If you feel you absolutely need to look at something sensual, don't dive all the way down into the deepest smut you can find. Just allow a little titillation instead, and you won't have gone off the path as far.
Ask HN: What tools/strategy do you use for backups?
I use restic for incremental, encrypted backups, with ssh+rsync as fallback for any excpetions. Using keyfiles for restic results in headaches with securing it and passphrases means no automation.

I am curious how you guys manage your files in a convenient and secure way.
China and the United States will have one military incident next year that will bring us breathtakingly close to war.
Nah, that is too much more work than blaming Capitalism lmao.
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At that point why not make an automated call or text to the local police for wellness checks or to 911?
For years I thought I wasn't using Amazon, finding this website called The Book Depository that offers free shipping to where I'm from (while Amazon charges ~$60).

One day I randomly looked up who owns it. Amazon subsidiary since 2011. Amazon is mentioned zero times on the homepage, zero times on the about page, zero times in Terms & Conditions, and once in a random help article.

So I've discovered I didn't go years without Amazon as I thought I did.
A used Thinkpad can be had for under $100, and will include a screen and keyboard. If you toss Ubuntu on that and preinstall Python/Scratch, you'll probably have a happy camper.
I don't disagree. I think we would benefit from a survey that shows how many people actually want to be renting. Since property is so expensive, thanks to how lucrative of an investment property has become, individuals are struggling to buy since they are competing with deeper pockets. I argue this isn't a free market, it's a market slowly being cornered by investors. Not a problem for say, fancy watches. A big problem for a core living utility.
If only we could do it in a way that doesn't involve make-believe sky deities and cult leadership going mad with power, like the average mass religion does.
I've always found it quite weird (though obviously convenient) that Warsaw and Madrid are on the same time zone
I see where you're coming from, but I hope that we'll find many and better ways of building such communities, without the need for religion. Religion can be used as a tool of inclusion or exclusion.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that works for you. We need to see, feel something bigger than us.