skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Critics “have to understand there is not a dichotomy” between drawing in outsiders and caring for locals.

Can confirm, I’ve stayed longer than short term in many cities and am a transplant in all cities. Some places handle it better than others, every place points fingers at a the nearest most visible externality. What they all hardly consider:

- their neighbor could have set the rent super high at any point in history, and didnt gamble on doing that then and didnt have to gamble on doing that now. the rent doesnt have to be that high and you can likely peer pressure them into not raising it to its highest acceptable threshold

- I dont care what the rent is anywhere, more on this later

- anyone that can afford the current rent, set unilaterally by a gambling landlord, is usually paying more than everyone else

- and circling back, any unit in any city would satisfy me, so even if I would pay $6,000 in Miami and thats super high, the $1500 place in Austin would remove me from the market, even though thats high to people in Austin (example, I dont actually know, or care)

- all together this puts it more so on the gambling landlords in all places, yes there are some tenants that ask for higher rent just to skip the application queue but I would need that quantified
One question is missing : "what if we had to pay for our environmental footprint" ?

Since so few ask it in a meaningful way, I dare to say it is still, unfortunately, a pretty extreme questions for those it should be asked to.
> I can assure you that d20 is one of the worst systems ever created

It's one of the worst systems, but it's also one of the best systems! :D

Then again, as Gygax famously (may have) said, "The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules."
Elon's latest tweet has a like to view ratio of 180k to 20.2m, or 0.9.
What's Australian for the most privileged account on a computer? Is there a verb for when you get access to it?
Airtight hatchway guys!
Is anyone else also getting more worried about hard takeoff AGI scenarios?
Something very weird is happening to the page indicator below the PDF, it skips 190 pages and then goes back to page 1 at the bottom of the document.

I'm sure it's just an encoding error, but I find the repeated ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ before every comment is strangely fitting for a toy this creepy.
> basic' loop in lisp is tree/heap traversal from initial outer ().

That's completely false, except that loops can be used to code a tree traversal.

Looping is a control construct centered around a backward branch, updates to iteration variables and termination testing. Loops can compile code that has nothing to do with the heap.
Is the usage of these standard dotfiles required for all developers? Personally I would always prefer to use my own dotfiles at work
Oh, I had lot of negative experiences with BBVA in USA. Those guys has no clue how to do SEPA payments, declining regular debit card payments on e-shops like DigiKey as fraud (according to them I am suppose to train their systems so it will stop doing that) and in general their support sucks.
Looking forward to Scientist GPT. Did they fudge the data? Nope! They pulled it straight out of their model. (Someone needs to make a "publish paper" button backed by Chat GPT)
Fascinating read.

I would have loked to see a quotation from the parts of the standard that are referred to here: "Although few implementations support its full generality in file compilation, a strict reading of the Common Lisp specification seems to imply that writing the following should be acceptable".
Hard to imagine this working, even in a perfect world. Set aside regulatory capture and corruption and politicking and pretend that everybody does a genuine best-effort attempt to be honest.

It's extremely hard to know ahead of time which products will ultimately be reliable and which will be flaky. Most flaky components weren't designed with that in mind -- there are some exceptions, but maintenance headaches are normally a mistake by the manufacturer. And even setting that aside, a big part of "cheap to maintain" is how many units you ship: part of why it's cheap to maintain a Civic or a Corolla is because they made millions of them, parts are everywhere, and every shop knows how to deal with them. But knowing up front if your product is going to be a hit or a flop is just not generally possible, even though that has a huge impact on maintenance costs.

Even in a world of angels, I don't know that this idea would work in general. Maybe if it was specific to some industries where the costs are easier to estimate?
Tidal locking doesn't equate to "always presenting the same face".

For example,

> Mercury .. is tidally locked with the Sun in a 3:2 spin–orbit resonance, meaning that relative to the fixed stars, it rotates on its axis exactly three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun.

> As seen from the Sun, in a frame of reference that rotates with the orbital motion, it appears to rotate only once every two Mercurian years.

> An observer on Mercury would therefore see only one day every two Mercurian years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(planet)
This is a fairly long story but only one part of this seems like genuine "bureaucracy":

> We went back to the bank (BBVA) and they said our account had been closed due to suspicious activity (the only transaction we made was the initial payment for the internet) and there was nothing they could do.

That's an absolute nightmare (though I don't understand how you weren't notified, or what the recourse typically is for accounts closed due to "suspicious activity".

The rest can be summarized as:

* A business wants billing from a local bank account (not universal, but not unusual)

* Opening a local bank account needs some information confirming your identity, which the police can do.

* Getting these forms isn't instant

* Banks don't have long opening hours
So he made a mistake and the corrected it?
As a hobby try building your own car.
No one is debating that. But clearly Google thinks the bribe is a good business decision. Which means they make more money from the users than they pay in the bribe.
UK users of HN of a certain age will no doubt, like me, be scarred by the horrible RM Nimbus 186 machines which often took the place of the beloved BBC Micro / Master in classrooms in the late 1980s. Ghastly pieces of crap which weren't properly PC-compatible, similar sort of deal to this thing.
Mercury and Venus are very near to being tidally locked, despite being thousands of times farther from the sun than the planet cited is from its star. Mars is a good distance off.

Earth got its moon via a nearly, but not quite, fatal collision. Probably most other planets did not.

Ganymede's magnetic field is news to me. I don't think we know exactly what gives a body a magnetic field, or how it is maintained, but rotation seems to be important. Ganymede's is much, much weaker than ours, and some suggest it is a remnant frozen into rock.
I agree that folks losing their homes to freeway expansions have stake in this. I am pointing out that the language shaped discourse against motorists.

This is not the only example either. Motorists are compared with rats in other situations [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_running
Most people do not even eat red meat and are doing just fine. So which is simpler solution? Is it turning desert around?
If you look carefully, you should be able to see that the mentioned line slightly overreaches the edge of the page.
Unless you require them to authenticate using that key (which would obviously require them to have the private key on hand).
In God is Not Great, Hitchens unequivocally laid into buddhism, though obviously it wasn't the focus of that book, or, as you intimate, much of his work. But within, he attributes imperialism through to kamikaze indoctrination to buddhists / buddhist dogma.

I suspect the absence of (m)any proximal adherents willing to publicly debate him on the topic is why we don't have the same wealth of quips and ripostes from him around this pseudo-religion as compared, say, christianity.
Agriculture can be scaled down a bit if you do not need to feed huge amount of meat.
What would be the most fun thing to build?

This really got me thinking, and excited!

But then…

It has to be something that makes our product better, not a random technology or unrelated market.

:(
Boo! Not so much fun anymore.
Argentina!
> I love using Elixir but I also like to think "right tool for the job" and imho Elixir is generally not the right tool for the job for command-line user interfaces

Unless you're writing a CLI utility that natively interacts with BEAM VM services without having to de/serialize JSON via a REST API first
Seems like a straightforward question, as soon as we can agree on whether Nikola Tesla was Serbian/Croatian/Austrian/Yugoslavian/American.
Except, but the time you get there we'll probably have >10% more people.
Unfortunately, it doesn't allow you to bring your own editor, so I have to put up with its half-assed implementation of Vim.
Having seen all the "new-age" bullshittery, I'm convinced that Westerners never really can understand Dharmic/Indian traditions.

To wit, even the whole notion of "prophet" and the "original teachings of Buddha" and how Zen and more broadly Mahayana are "not the original teachings" as compared to that in the Pali canon etc. that are brought up again and again by Western practitioners are hallmarks of Christian, and more fundamentally Abrahamic, thought process.

No one in Asia cares that this is so. Period.

Alas, Indians, and most Asians too are increasingly turning into half baked Christians today (see 'Navayana'), so the above is a bit of lie. The traditions too are all dying much like their country and culture of their birth... Way to go occidental monoculture!

To your point specifically, the Pali Canon is really not philosophically sophisticated. The Nalanda school which is now preserved in Tibet after the Islamic destruction of India has very deep philosophical roots as compared to those traditions in the periphery like Zen and do make very compelling arguments against the old schools of Buddhism.

The development of Mahayana has a parallel on the Hindu side of the tradition, but of course, since us brown-skinned heathens are infinitely uglier, the Europeans have made it their goal to demonize us vis-a-vis the white-skinned E-Asian Buddhists (lol). I'm not surprised to see books claiming that Siddhartha was a Scytian, and hence Buddhism is Greek (also, lol). I wonder what they'll next claim about Nagarjuna. At some point, you just laugh and move on (instead of debating endlessly with idiots on listservs).

Sadly, Mahayana and Advaita never had much debate within themselves, so the typical view on the Hindu side (prototyped by Madhava) of Buddhism is also quite outdated.
AFAIK that's the difference between a "soft" and a "hard" brick.
Natural gas infrastructure already deals with hydrogen: 2% of natural gas is hydrogen. For town gas which was used before (made from coal), hydrogen content was around 50%, so this isn't entirely new. Of course you can't re-use the existing infrastructure and use 100% hydrogen.

This isn't black-and-white. Leakage is a disadvantage, as it is for fossil fuels (natural gas, oil, coal,...). Other technologies have other problems: windmills kill birds and bats! Pumped storage kills fish! Dams cause methane leaks! It is important to quantify how much of a problem those disadvantages really are.
Oh right, git doesn't store diffs. So each time you push/pull, it fetches/uploads the whole file.. for every commit?

Damn..

Then I guess even using this under the hood would be essentially a rewrite or how git fundamentally works internally
What we are looking at is extreme shorttermism. Kind of ironic from a movement that has a subcommunity that calls itself longtermism.
Just wait until it has the power to use Google.
Someone moving from a wealthy country to a poorer one is an expat.

Someone moving from a poor country to a wealthier one is an immigrant if they intend to stay for life, and a migrant if they don't.

That's why you have American expats living in Thailand and Mexico, but Thai immigrants and Mexican migrants living in America.
I read the whole article. The midsection on mindfulness reached the non-conclusion of "but the world and people in it are still imperfect, despite the existence of Buddhism", and like, yeah? It's supposed to be? That's the whole point.

Following that, I don't think the OP's list of individual contradictions which vary by culture and belief system constitutes a meaningful critique of the whole idea (insofar as there even is a 'whole idea', which, maybe there isn't). "Someone somewhere else thinks differently than you, so what you think sucks", like, what? That obviously doesn't follow. I'm not and have not been talking about Pure Land Buddhism, so any critique of Pure Land Buddhism, is not a critique I'm responding to.

The final part of the article criticizes the form of 'western meditation' I was talking about, where you simply try and make yourself not feel things, rather than accepting those emotions as a part of life and let them flow in and out of you while acknowledging them for what they are. I agree with the author that 'self-scolding' is a terrible approach to meditation, but this is something I see more commonly in Buddhist-appropriation rather than actual Buddhist teachings. So, to my original point, I think OP and I are simply reading different texts.

I don't think OP is wrong in any capacity, I just think they've misidentified the target and are scoping a bit too broad - OP has gripes with certain schools of Buddhism and the way certain people practice it. But the whole article doesn't really contain a criticism of like, the whole thing.
Microsoft made a huge bet on this exact idea in the mid-1990s as part of their Cairo OS project.

When Cairo fizzled, the database file system became a separate component called WinFS but didn’t result in any end-user product:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
No, Portugal is different. To give you perspective: it takes 2-3 years to exchange a foreign driver license (most foreigners I know drive illegally by now), a lot of administrations frequently “lose” applications and ask you to do it again when they have too much backlog (this cost me hundreds of dollars in back and forth, certified documents etc in the past).

It’s also very common for administrations to have no one answering the phone/email. And most administrations are appointments only. So often, you kind of have to drive to different places, maybe different city halls, and hope that someone has a contact with an internal e-mail address and can hook you up. That’s just how it works. It’s the most barbaric administration and closest to a third world country I’ve experienced, and I’m French, so I know something about red tape.
There is no meaningful innovation at Google. All of the super smart VPs with hundred-million salaries and business ventures amounted to nothing except an inefficient way to consume the ad revenue.

Like many a big organisation, it's been taken over by the managerial class, which will strangle any efforts at innovation, and prefer keeping things the way they are.
What is impressive about wolfram alpha?
Hasn't been necessary in quite a while. Playing fullscreen video isn't the challenge it was in the 1990s.

(Besides, a lot of games are moving away from FMV cutscenes anyway. Rendering cutscenes in realtime using the game engine makes them easier to author and integrate into gameplay.)
Mercury is a very interesting case.

But it is much farther from the sun than announced planets are from theirs.
Learn more about Textual (https://github.com/textualize/textual) so that I can implement interactive exercises for my ebooks. I'll have to up my Python game as well (OOP, async, typing, etc).
Explain why Bitcoin went down before COVID then.

As you say, borrowing was cheap. There was no reason for it to decline after 2018 till 2020...

Reminder: other speculative assets didn't decline then :)

As I said before, Covid, with boredom and free money. No one used Bitcoin as investment and not many would borrow money for buying crypto.

Still: no one cares about Bitcoin anymore except some select people that live in the past.
In the ML section you mentioned Kompute and MediaPipe. Have you seen IREE? It has a Vulkan-like compute-only HAL. https://github.com/iree-org/iree
Alex Gulakov's Blog - JavaScript function to search like in Google
Does driving wins because you are orders of magnitude more likely to die while driving?
var search_term_is_found = base_text.match(
new RegExp("(?=(.|[\r\n])" + search_term
.match(/"([^"]+)"|[\w]+/gi)
.join(")((.|[\?=r\n])")
.replace(/\"/g,'')+")(.|[\r\n])+", "ig")
)!=null

Built Using RegEx Negative Lookaheads

bar(?=bar) finds the 1st bar (“bar” which has “bar” after it)
That is DI. The difference is that you're using a registry or container object as your DI repository.
It's entirely possible that there's non-loophole ways to solve this problem, but when a lot of money is at stake, why would landlords (or anyone else) make effort to be compliant with the spirit of the law, when they can cut corners, and abuse the letter of the law?
Plenty of think tanks and NGOs are on it. Google “personal carbon quota”
It won’t be HN user freedom social. It’ll be super tiktok. The platform of the year changes but they only get more invasive and more addictive.
No Recession
You picked the most extreme example of any account. I'd bet Elon gets a lot of hate-follows. They won't like his tweets. You can see many real people replying to his tweets, so you can tell he gets plenty of engagement.

For others without much engagement (retweets/replies), like Cory, all we have to go off of is likes, views, followers. I don't disagree that we can come up with a more accurate formula.

Also, I gave percentages, so it's more like 0.9.
Relatively few do, but for those who make use of it, the compounding benefits are immense.

Sometimes I think whether someone makes profitable use of the internet is the real social division these days.
On the contrary. Musk's obvious drug addiction and childish antics has influenced me not to buy a Tesla so far.
> Anything non standard and you get the long forms instead!

If only. Instead you run in to catch-22s and simply get a shrug and "it's not possible".

The big downside of being the "easiest/most efficient" is that it deals with exceptions poorly; once you fall outside of the "efficient" workflow you're screwed. Lots of people run in to problems with this and people literally become homeless because of this. Ironically, it's easier if you're actually homeless and sleeping on the street – as opposed to being homeless and having enough money to stay at hotels or are temporarily staying with friends – as there are some special exceptions for people registered at the salvation army and such.
There is also a small chance that the circuits survived. Some devices break at a higher voltage that the one specified in the datasheet.
When i was was apartment hunting in barcelona 7+ years ago and failed straight for weeks to get a single reply on idealista, and went to the real estate agencies and found they had siestas, still, in barcelona, i quit the country. good to visit, not to live.

ps: when i wanted a bank account, the people there acted like they didn't spoke english, until it was clear they won't give me an account, then suddenly english was not a problem.
Cuphead, Super Meat Boy and Soulslike games like Elden Ring are firmly in the "git gud" -category.

They don't hand out skips and it's just purely about the player's skill.

That's why I don't play any of them, I don't have the free time to spend that's required to get good enough.

I currently play mostly story-driven single player games like the new Tomb Raider games, Quantum Break, Control etc. on my Steam Deck.
No, disabled by default
But you're anyway passing through the list, only afterwards you hide those that don't interest you.
You should read the article to the end. We get multiple small (i.e., hardly felt) quakes throughout the year that point to a steady release in pressure in the fault.
For me, the two most important aspects were: 1) it's made by Google so it will probably be shut down soon, and 2) if you already have any hardware which can play games, Stadia is strictly more expensive than buying and playing games locally. That's before I even got to the point of considering the size of its game library or the technical qualities of the service.

I play all my games on Linux, and in general, there are extremely few games I haven't gotten to run. Many just work out of the box through Proton, games not on Steam usually work out of the box with Lutris. This suggests to me that the Linux thing wasn't necessarily a big issue, if Google was willing to put in some work to get existing Windows games to work. AFAIK, they didn't do this and instead required games to run natively on Linux, which would significantly reduce the size of their games library (after all, why would a company invest time into porting their games to a Google product that's going to be shut down?).

Whether the US is even a market that's ready for game streaming is another question. Are there enough people with a high quality, low latency Internet connection that's close enough to a Stadia data center, who are interested in playing demanding games, but don't have the money for hardware yet can afford a monthly subscription on top of a high per-game price? Maybe it would be interesting if it worked like other subscription services and the subscription itself gave you access to games. I think Spotify would have flopped if you had to buy albums at their retail price in addition to the monthly subscription.
I think most people who hear the name, if they think anything, would just think of "wes craven"
That's 0.9. It's a percentage. 0.9 is not great, not terrible.
Possibly Fendt. Fendt and John Deere have about the same reputation for mechanical durability and technology leadership (in Germany, my dad is a retired farmer). Fendt is owned by Agco, also American, so they might get the MBA disease at some point as well... but so far, the main thing Agco has done with Fendt is investment to improve and expand.

https://www.farm-equipment.com/blogs/6-opinions-columns/post...
Slightly OT, but I like the schematic gifs used in the Readme.md (pretty amazing doc overall!) like this one [0]. Does anyone have suggestions what tools they might have used (or might be used in general) to create those?

[0] https://github.com/google/cdc-file-transfer/blob/main/docs/l...
Speaking of which, I want to warn everyone that I've found that Wolfram Alpha is not always mathematically precise! Here is an easy and concerning way you can repro this:

I noticed that if you put this formula into WolframAlpha, it gives a wrong answer.
Input: 1’ 1” x 7’ 2.5”
Primary result: 1125 sq inch (correct)
Secondary result: 7.809 sq ft (WRONG)
The correct sq ft is 7.8125 (exact) or 7.813 (rounded)
Bug link:
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i2d=true&i=1%E2%80%99+1%E...
My only objection to on-die ECC is that, AFAIK, there's no way to query the number of internal corrections that have occurred. That is important information! Yes, it might freak out some sysadmins that frequent corrected errors are now "normal" (after all, the main reason for on-die ECC is that manufacturers won't have to scrap slightly imperfect DRAM), but those individuals can be re-educated, and I really want to be able to tell if a given module is running within spec yet right at the edge of failure.
Those two combined means people will sometimes have to be dropped off at a floor they don’t want to go to. Are there elevators that do that? I’ve never seen one.

I guess that may be because it would require the elevator to inform the passengers “we’re at floor ten now. Everybody for floors ten and up, get out”, _and_ the passengers would have to hear that _and_ they would have to listen. It also may mean some floors sometimes get too busy with waiting passengers.