skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to give some push-back regarding the often-heard phrase that governments should stop restricting supply. I'll be using the situation in the Netherlands to explore some complexities. These may not apply everywhere, but it serves to illustrate that the situation is far more complex than "stupid zoning".

First, the reason the Netherlands is in a similar situation as Canada (400K home prices, very tight supply) is not because the government has restricted (much) of anything. It's because in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, very few homes got built. All the way up to 2014. Builders build homes, not governments. Builders do not build homes without a buyer, and nobody buys in a crisis.

Hence, a 6 year deficit in supply in comparison to implied demand from population growth. Even in our tiny country this adds up to hundreds of thousands of homes not built. Not because of zoning. The deficit would be there with or without zoning. This is the true reason for the restricted supply.

Second, low interest rates are the multiplier as they expand lending capacity.

These two factors combined, not continuing to build in an economic downturn and low interest rates, is what I believe is responsible for the housing situation in many parts of the world. And when you think about this, it totally makes sense. The entire world faced the financial crisis and its impact, yet zoning is very local and diverse.

And there's of course secondary factors to add insult to injury. Homes are more expensive to build due to more expensive materials, more environmental regulation, and a shortage of workers that have increasing wages.

Don't get me wrong, zoning can be a factor in restricting supply, but there's far more going on.
When I take out the trash, I put on a pair of rollerblades and skate it over (I live in an apartment complex and it’s across a parking lot)

It seriously feels like a real life cheat code when I’m doing this
The common answer to this is to break the project up into a series of milestones, and then put tools down whenever payment for a milestone is late.

Generally large customers do actually have the cash, and simply have no incentive to pay on time, so why bother?

Meanwhile, their internal deadlines are very strong incentives, and can get managers in serious trouble if repeatedly missed, especially by a year or more.
On the original Apple ][, the reset key was indeed just a regular key that was easy to press. On later models (the ][ plus, I think) Apple used a spring for the reset key that required a higher force to depress it. Finally, on the Apple //e, you had to press Control+Open Apple+Reset to reset the machine... but I have no idea if Franklin did anything special to the reset key on their Apple clone.
Ah, a man of distinction and class
> Right now they are burning through huge huge amounts of stockpile from Soviet times, etc.

And relying on arms supplies from Iran and, apparently, the DPRK.
It’s also the acronym for a terrible reality show, and I hear people pronouncing it that way (as a word, not spelling it out)
I love the use of ai art in this
I'm also of the camp that does not consider “throwing confetti” to be anti-gravity, “dousing cancer cells in gasoline and lighting it on fire” to be cancer-treatment, and “swinging a laser-pointer between two stars” to be ftl-communication.
"entire segments of the criminal code void by saying they will not peruse any cases for violations of those acts. Shoplifting is one such law they often ignore"

Are you exagerating? I don't think anyone anywhere has completely stopped prosecuting shoplifting. Or if they have somewhere, please cite specifically, either with numbers, or with enough context so we can try to find some.

There are some places where shoplifting prosecutions declined due to decisions by prosecutors, for sure. That is not at all the same thing as "declaring entire segments of the criminal code void".

When we can't talk about what's really going on without exagerating it into the most absolute versions we can imagine while speaking in vague generalities that can't be researched... we can't easily get at what's actually going on instead of our imaginations.
Why would you assume it'd be a dome on the surface of mars, given there's no radiation protection? You'd need to play it in underground rooms or wearing bulky radioactive protection suits.
Can't answer the supply question, but it seems to me his problem could have been solved by drilling a line of holes into the sheet metal rail. Then have a sprocket stick into those holes.

It works for film in movie projectors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_perforations), so why not for a trash train?

It uses fewer parts, at least. But maybe cutting a bunch of holes in already-installed rail is more work than welding rack onto it.
it was a separate momentary with a red square plastic cap. I think it was under the keyboard? or on the side?
> * real-time. There are probably 20+ vendors selling real-time OLAP databases. They all claim that they are cheaper, faster, better than Snowflake/Redshift. Just name a few: Druid, Pinot, ClickHouse, StarRocks etc. Let's see who will be the winner in 2023.

These are faster but they are also very limited. Most of these have very limited support for joins, can't do proper SQL (e.g. no CTEs in ClickHouse) and require a lot of careful design for your data (e.g. StarRocks can do smart pre-aggregation but you have to tell it which columns are dimensions and which are values).

That is fine for limited use cases - like "dedicated engineering team is building specific application" - but doesn't really work for general purpose data platforms.

Snowflake I think is successful because it is pretty good at handling everything you throw at it, even if it costs a lot of money.
Ha, yes, I use "like, such as" all the time - I don't think most people get the reference though!
Wild to not consider that cheap! In Ohio, with a med card, you will pay over $300 for 1.
This will be easy to side-step as it has been done all along now. Linking a random redditors interpretation is absolutely meaningless.
I work in tech for public media and am it's almost disheartening to know what kind of resources other publications have. We have people spread across everything at once. Do you work for the technology department or for the editorial department?
Clearly you're not an ex-lastpass user. 1Password is about 100x better!
There are better places to find specifics, but there’s nothing there to protect you from religious persecution, they jail people who fail to pay their debts, or who speak negatively of their government, etc.
Not sure why this was downvoted. Across the world it is absolutely the case that we optimise for shelf-life and appearance over taste. This becomes especially obvious when you grow your own tomatoes from seed.
A lot of these properties apparently are bought by wealthy foreigners purely speculatively, and sit vacant. If they were buying them to rent them out, I'd agree with you, but as it is, they end up reducing the housing stock that's available to be lived in while the number of people stays the same, so they do drive up price.
Do you think any of my 4 bullet points is wrong? For example, do you disagree that the availability of private schooling reduces social mobility and equality of opportunity? Or do you think they are right, but that it’s not a problem that they are? For example, that social mobility and equality of opportunity are not desirable goals?

Your dismissal of the article as ‘political’ makes me wonder how far our disagreement is positive and how far it’s normative.
Is that really much different from one function calling another, the called function must be executed before the caller? There would seem to be a "temporal dependency" then as well and the compiler can not re-arrange the execution order of the said functions.
It's written in Typescript I would love to type check python in the browser without running pyodine, does anyone know how?
Why do commercial trucks have convex and concave wheels?
Nobody is complaining about William Shakespeare or public domain works that are out of copyright. The issue is that there is clearly copyrighted works in the model that living artists have not consented to being in the model.

> SD et al are defended on the grounds of being transformative use they do not distribute (ie copy) the original training images, and they are not a derivative work due to transformativeness, so the license of the original images is completely irrelevant.

If this is irrelevant, why is Stability.AI creating an "opt out" system for artists? It's almost like they know they are copying digital artists works without their explicit consent. This wouldn't be an issue if they only used images in the public domain.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/16/1065247/artists-...

And we both know that Stable Diffusion have Dreambooth which you have to pay to use the platform, so this is clearly not fair use.

https://platform.stability.ai/docs/getting-started/credits-a...
Same reason you need a driver's license to drive a car.
Some downsides of thinking in public:

* Huge potential for audience capture (https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/134792427167943065...) if you have an audience

* Huge potential for self-censorship, unless you only "think" about "the correct things"

* Huge potential for getting a lot of negative, unconstructive feedback

* Huge potential for getting taken out of context (you wrote something for your audience, but a person unfamiliar with your writing style comes in and misunderstands you)

In general I would advise against thinking in public, and if you cannot avoid it do so under a pseudonym. If you write about anything important it's quite likely that there will be people trying to tarnish your reputation instead of responding to your thoughts in writing.

I often quote one of the best essays by PG: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html "What you can't say"

"Suppose in the future there is a movement to ban the color yellow. Proposals to paint anything yellow are denounced as "yellowist", as is anyone suspected of liking the color. People who like orange are tolerated but viewed with suspicion. Suppose you realize there is nothing wrong with yellow. If you go around saying this, you'll be denounced as a yellowist too, and you'll find yourself having a lot of arguments with anti-yellowists. If your aim in life is to rehabilitate the color yellow, that may be what you want. But if you're mostly interested in other questions, being labelled as a yellowist will just be a distraction. Argue with idiots, and you become an idiot.

The most important thing is to be able to think what you want, not to say what you want. And if you feel you have to say everything you think, it may inhibit you from thinking improper thoughts. I think it's better to follow the opposite policy. Draw a sharp line between your thoughts and your speech. Inside your head, anything is allowed. Within my head I make a point of encouraging the most outrageous thoughts I can imagine. But, as in a secret society, nothing that happens within the building should be told to outsiders."

"The problem is, there are so many things you can't say. If you said them all you'd have no time left for your real work. You'd have to turn into Noam Chomsky."

and

"The trouble with keeping your thoughts secret, though, is that you lose the advantages of discussion. Talking about an idea leads to more ideas. So the optimal plan, if you can manage it, is to have a few trusted friends you can speak openly to. This is not just a way to develop ideas; it's also a good rule of thumb for choosing friends. The people you can say heretical things to without getting jumped on are also the most interesting to know."
But broken on my iPhone (tiny SE). Now I have to get off my butt to get my laptop to see it
My point is that ML-based NLP (like chatGPT) has a clear ceiling, and we seem to have reached that.

We can get coherent (understandable) output all day long, but we can never introduce logic.

ML-based NLP is a semantic word-guessing machine. It's based on entirely on how often words show up near each other in the training datasets. There is no room to add logic.

The entire exercise is like a magic trick: impressive sure, but at the end of the day, a fool's errand.
Game Boy Advance development resources
It’s too late and the problem isn’t even with the foreign buyers anyway. It never has been. Much like complaining about zoning, It’s a dumb misdirection play that people fall for every time.
Would you oppose a smelly wastewater treatment plant being built on the previously residential property right next to you? That's why they should get a say.
Hmm, that does look habitable to me. Moreover, it looks quite nice compared to a lot of places people live in.

Mars, Moon, and some places on Earth defnitely are not habitable (unless very supported), but calling most of the Canada "unhabitable" is more than a stretch.
Javascript I've seen a decent amount and tweaked/edited some of code in it but I wouldn't say I "know" it at all. Kotlin I've never even seen before and I know literally nothing about the language. Java I wrote a bit of in high school but haven't touched it in 15 years.

So yeah there's quite a lot that people wouldn't know.
I am just curious about when will you expect to launch DefraDB?
> Two years ago, I built a threadripper machine, and even more than 6 months after the CPU was released, linux didn’t work on that yet (iirc, you had to patch or used a special settings on boot, or it crashed). Ubuntu on that same machine suddenly decide

Are you perhaps thinking of a different Ryzen processor? I built a ThreadRipper PC 5 years ago, and got it running Linux weeks after launch. Interestingly, I couldn't get it to boot off a Windows USB stick; so it only ever ran linux.
I will keep on working on my Cybersecurity newsletter [1] and expand it to more things Cyber with the inclusion of adjacent tools i.e. data breaches list, privacy guides, maybe job board.

A rebrand is also likely on the way, as the concept has proven to work.

[1] cyb3rsecurity.tips
Shelf life is still around year according to the expiration dates on the medical concentrates in my state.
Many varieties were replaced with the "Camarosa", which is now the default grocery-store berry. Here's an article from the change-over:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-04-21-mn-61072-...

[edited to add: see also: https://homeguides.sfgate.com/interesting-chandler-strawberr... -- but there are a lot of astroturf pieces out there also]

Camarosa ships well (high firmness), but the taste really isn't there.

That replacement was more of a circa-2000 thing. Perhaps the further decline since then has been due to relocation of berry production even farther away from U.S. markets (e.g., in Mexico or Central America).

You can still get the other varieties from local producers, at least where I live in southern California. The taste difference is enormous, it's worth going to a farmer's market just for the berries.

Same kind of thing has happened with tomatoes.
> Getting started on anything is always better done sooner than later.

So true. It’s never too late, you’re never too old, there’s never something else you need to learn first, just do it.
In dense urban areas, yes. That's not the scenario I described though.
I'm interested in following your progress on this. I have a 2 year old who I want to show computers/computational systems to as early as possible.

I followed you on Twitter... but is there somewhere I can subscribe to hear more about this project in particular?
That sounds like some good practical advice, but also slightly vomit inducing.

>> Economists such as Lord Adair Turner, the former chair of the British Financial Services Authority, have argued that innovation in the financial industry is often a form of rent-seeking.[24][25]

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

Do they not teach this stuff in an undergraduate business classes any more? "Float" was BIZ101 and in BIZ102 you learn how to read financial statements...

The "genius restaurateur" in the article rediscovered the art of not paying your bills with a credit card, i.e., the "debt trap".
Is there a younger one? :)
> The cannabis boom seems to have been predicated largely on the assumption that it would resemble the high-end wine market, with expensive vintages, "budtenders", etc that can support lots of boutique farms and retailers.

I don't feel like founders, employers, consumers or anybody standing nearby ever believed that.

But founders had to convince investors.
But HN is?
Meditation progress tracker. Promoter and motivator tool for keeping participants engaged.
Is it cheap for Spaniards though?
> So if you appear to be more dodgy than the account opened by whomever defrauded you, you're just out of luck? And that's a sensible outcome?

Why twist things to fit race or other prejudices. I had no prejudices in comment.

What I meant is: You file a police report and bring it to the bank, Bank asks other account holder to freeze assets for this transaction while investigation proceeds.

If multiple people do the same with the same target account then it becomes easier to prove malfeasance.

Objective facts/investigation.

Nowhere does race or anything come in... (hard for me to comprehend this issue that usa has btw)

> Envision this scenario - you are walking down the street, get jumped, your attackers force to you transfer a decent sum to them, authenticating the transaction using your bank...

I have been jumped, I have gone to the police, they were very helpful, rode around with them and they got list of cameras in area, they showed a list of usual suspects, next day the guy was under arrest and I got my phone back. They did manage to guess pin and attempt to make transactions, i did get refunds from bank since i called on way to police.(not that they could get more then 150e without 2fa hardware token)

You are being very negative for no reason and make wild assumptions.

You will get support.

Unless the contrary actually happened to you then please excuse my skepticism

And before you say 'privilege', I'm not special in any way where I live.
hahahaha. Please set yourself a reminder to read your post when you get to middle age. I have to stop drinking water at least 3 hours before bed to limit my wake up and pee to 1x per night.
I recently did a migration, and have > 1300 passwords.
You can get a lot more than $500 off a single plant. Outdoors grown right into the soil, you could get a pound or more off a single humongous plant, and in California with a medical card you can have 12 of these plants growing at once. Even a small indoor tent grown plant is good for like 5-6 oz or more 3-5 months from start to harvest. Genetics are great these days for seeds and clones. Imagine parting that out for $200 oz or better yet the $30 a gram metric the cops use when they weigh their busts.
Sadly the vast majority do not..
How is zoning not a contributing factor to a shortage of housing?
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I'm a technical recruiter with specialization in hiring for ML roles. My last role was at Meta where I was a top performer. I'm seeking roles where I can continue to recruit for ML folks. I recently started a site, http://recruitingcopilot.com/, which explores the intersection between ML and recruiting.
This issue has some pointers:

https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/discussions/3222
Many films use CGI in places, but this one interests me to think about because (as far as I am aware) it is completely real-time, rather than post-processed, letting physics itself do some of the heavy work.

It also is probably a breath of fresh air for actors. Anecdotally (I'm heavily paraphrasing) I remember Ian McKellen, while returning for The Hobbit, to have complained that it is rather hard to emotionally put yourself into a character amidst a hall of green screens. This makes sense -- in Lord of the Rings, even forced perspective with a moving camera [0] was practical effects!

It was interesting to see that this bit of trivia I remembered from a Star Wars show has appeared in a few other bits of media since (without me realising as I watched them!); I wonder in three more years if it will be yet more prevalent.

[0] https://youtu.be/QWMFpxkGO_s "How Lord of the Rings used forced perspective shots with a moving camera"
Meditation tracker to help people engage and focus on themselves.
I really like your idea. Might I suggest monetizing it via a marketplace approach? You completely release your product for free as an Open-source offering. Then you create a hosted marketplace for plugins where you take a commission for each purchase there. (I've written a bit about it on my newsletter https://unzip.dev/0x00d-open-source-business-models/#forecas... - last point)
So here's the counterfactual - If there's no conversation about it, what happens? If that is the reality of that person's situation what are the outcomes if it goes unaddressed? I guess either it blows over and the person happens to pull through, or it builds up to an intolerable point and then suddenly without explanation there are 2 weeks of sick leave while the person has a breakdown?

I've had periods of my own life where I've been through tough stuff that has affected my ability to do my job - I guess I feel lucky to have had managers and colleagues who I've been able to talk to fairly candidly in these situations. In all cases I've had signal that they were grateful I shared.

In answer to your question - I would imagine a more realistic conversation might go:

"Hey I noticed X thing, what's up?"
"Yeah, I'm having some trouble in my personal life I haven't been myself"
"Anything you want to talk about?"
"It's complicated to be honest"
"Ok well take the time you need and let me know if you need anything".

That's from manager->report. Between colleagues at the same level I guess this scenario could be a bit more complex to navigate. One trivial example I can think of though is in the company I worked at during the pandemic - many moments on team meetings or 1:1 calls where people opened up about their experience of lockdown and how painful it was to be stuck inside in a shoebox of a flat in London. These moments bring people together

I also recognise that peoples' feelings on these matters are hugely cultural - I think huge chunks of the dialogue that happens in the HN comments is just people with different cultural frames of reference talking at cross purposes, but the anonymous feel of the comments section blurs this and makes it feel like everyone works at a FAANG in silicon valley.
Finding a large, long-term project that’s just mine.

Maybe code, maybe writing, maybe organizational.

But something that in 10 years time will look like a significant, positive investment.
JS-free archive link: https://archive.ph/xdkfC
Thanks! My only requirement is they have a stone event. I don't like them but when people think strongman they think atlas stones. Also needs to be in the open category; I can enter the masters division in 2.5 years but I feel that would be cheating as the weights are significantly less. I believe I have ~7 years to complete (45) this goal as age will become a factor in doing both at once.
joaquincabezas, don't listen to this person. It's a trap. In February I found myself in AirBnB alone with nothing to do, because my wife had to stay back home for an extra week and I waited for her to join me. AirBnB had a decent work desk, decent(-ish) monitor and barely ok keyboard so I decided to learn Rust. Now it's January, I'm at 3000+ LoC of Rust and about 4000 in Dart/Flutter and trying to make the project to ShowHN. Weekend project, my ass. Rust is highly addictive, you've been warned. I tried to get sober, left this project for months on end, but always relapsed.