skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wonder how much of it is related to contractors underbidding to win a contract and then saying they need more money which slows everything down. Or just throwing a bid out without really doing the due diligence required to understand what needs to be done. For example the New York tunnel project that's billions over cost and years behind. I see this every time I hire a contractor to do work on my house, every experience is terrible and over cost and behind schedule.

Currently looking to raise a sunken living room due to flood risk. I have a room that is connected to the sunken living room that is raised currently via a wooded frame. The dry wall is open so its clearly visible. There is clearly open space under the floor lift. Guy gives me a quote, I was very clear when I met him that I needed under the side room filled as well and that the goal was to prevent water seeping in due to the floor being lower than ground level. I have him come out again because I am ready to hire him but want one more walk through. I ask what the risk or complication is pouring concrete under the raised side room and the existing floor lift system. He acts surprised and says it was not part of the quote. I ask the complexity of pouring the concrete behind the fireplace because there is a gap behind it and the wall. He acts surprised and says its not included. All of this was clearly visible when he came out the first time and the stated goal was to raise the floor to prevent water seepage due to height discrepancy inside and outside. He says he would have to demo the giant fireplace...

My prior experience I had a contractor that I was working with who kept telling me that the crew was at the house working and I had to call and tell him over and over that no one was there. For months...

They do this nonsense every single time, they submit a BS quote just to get the job figuring once they are in they can just charge whatever and figure it out. I have yet to meet an honest or competent contractor.
Feel-good rallying cries like this make for cheap virtue points but are completely meaningless in a reality where pretty much nothing is a binary choice with a low number of variables.

For example, it's easy to sit in an air-conditioned office and say "thou shalt not overload the trucks" but when you actually drag your ass to somewhere you can observe the conditions in which the per-load work is being done it becomes clear that much analysis must be done to figure out if more trucks at 80k is in fact safer than fewer trucks at 120k.
>sell a new product to help solve the mess that one of their previous products created

That's gotta describe like 75% of US healthcare budget, right?

Red Dye #40, BPA, preservatives, emulsifiers, PFAS -> ADHD, Anxiety, Depression -> Adderall, Xanax, Prozac

Sugar, seed oils, preservatives, endocrine-disrupting chemicals in food, water & air -> Obesity, hypertension, diabetes -> Lipitor, Insulin

Alcohol, smoked/grilled meat, tobacco, microplastics, pesticide residues, air pollution from cars & factories -> cancer
Poe's Law[0] strikes again!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Just saying, since neither humans nor rodents typically live in cages, maybe rodent experiments would be more predictive of human behavior if they weren't forced into living in small cages.
from another comment: https://nypost.com/2022/04/22/floridas-banned-math-textbooks...

So you should teach how to read graphs in Math. But if those graphs show that racial prejudice exists, that's a felony. Simple.
There used to be, the document was updated, see these twitter feed,

https://twitter.com/m_ou_se/status/1615736570400890883?s=20&...

At least some people screenshot the original.
This announcement is really beating around the bush and burying the lede. The sentence "And for this reason, today, we are reducing our employee base by about 6% across the company." comes after about 10 paragraphs, and is 70% down the length of the text.

The vague, ephemistic title "An Update on January 2023 Organizational Changes" doesn't help either. If I saw this article on its own, I would probably miss its main point. But because I saw this from HN, the title from HN - "Spotify reducing employee base by about 6%" - told me what I needed to know.
> I wonder how often they do the opposite

[From my contract-drafting course materials:] The parties in a 2020 Vermont supreme court case might have been better served if they had done periodic check-in calls — in that case:

- In a project to rebuild a railroad bridge, a subcontractor was supposed to handle one aspect of the project.

- The subcontractor encountered an unexpected problem.

- The subcontractor spent weeks trying to fix the problem — and billed the prime contractor an extra $120,000 for its efforts.

- At trial, however, it came out that — for only $9,600 — there had been a simpler way to solve the problem.

- If the prime contractor and subcontractor had just talked to one another — perhaps using the SPUR agenda, discussed at 7.2.6 — they just might have solved the problem sooner, at much-lower cost (and without having to go to litigation).

See Construction Drilling, Inc. v. Engineers Construction, Inc., 2020 VT 38 ¶¶ 6-7, 236 A.3d 193, 196-97 (2020) (affirming denial of subcontractor’s breach-of-contract claim). https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=144056062390412...

[The SPUR agenda is a general-purpose meeting agenda: Status; Problems; Uncertainties; Risks.]
Yeah those lazy builders need to stop working from home and put on a damn tie!
Building construction technology _has_ improved, but, particularly for residential stuff, people do not care for some of the improvements. You could build Soviet-style modular apartments, but, well, no-one really wants that.
From what I understand, while it is up to code, pro's don't put sharkbites in walls.

I've gone with ss crimps instead of copper rings too. Mostly cause I live near the ocean and the ss crimps just seem easier to use.

200' of blue/red sharkbite brand pex b tubing is only about $70 on amazon right now, amazing.
I don't want to come off as a troll, but I honestly believe that a person can do both those things at the same time:

1. Do what you can to make all neighbourhoods better. (Donate to or volunteer at local organizations working to improve neighbourhoods, get to know your neighbours, vote for positive change, join neighbourhood watch, etc.)

2. Do what you can to protect yourself until Step 1 comes to fruition. (Avoid high-risk areas, maintain situational awareness, train in self-defense, carry self-defense tools, etc.)
I'm glad this guide is focused on flakes. If you're starting out with Nix, forget about home-manager, nix-env, and the pre-flake configuration model.
> There are really only two possible answers in the current public school systenlm:

There is one more option. Have a small group of people push their agenda while the masses are mostly unaware.
> This inspired Nostr which seems to be all the rage lately

Lately for me seems to be since last week, at least on Twitter. People started promoting Nostr whenever someone mentioned moving to Mastodon. The posts associated with the hashtag #nostr seem to be directly or indirectly associated with cryptobros, a significant red flag.
You could still OD, but it would not be a fentanyl OD, because the fentanyl in the drug would not be able to interact with the brain. If you took this vaccine, it seems like you would be just as likely to OD from heroin as you would from fentanyl+heroin.
"Harbinger" is an unusual word, and it's interesting the way the paper distinguishes between "leader," "bellwether," and "harbinger."

In Japanese politics during the nineties there were a couple of parties whose names were commonly translated as "Harbinger Party" (Sakigake) and "New Harbinger Party" (Shintō Sakigake). (Or maybe these names referred to the same party?)
I'm not familiar with Environment Modules. I see they're popular in HPC?

One difference: On Nix's homepage (https://nixos.org), the first word which stands out is "reproducible". -- If I search the read the docs for "reproducible", the word shows up once. https://modules.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Not sure if there's anything recent, but links from this may be useful:
https://github.com/freuk/awesome-nix-hpc
Maybe I'm just a weirdo but those icons seem perfectly intuitive to me.
One way to think about this is that CSVs are poorly specified, and what specifications do exist are ignored by CSV generating processes from popular RDBMSs. The advantage of a binary format with a specification and approved standard that is adopted would be having robust test suites that are followed that makes data generation unlikely to produce a bad file.

In the case of text delimited files, it is simply too easy and too common to generate, from the start, a malformed file that other systems cannot read. Because data loss is inherent in a text-based format, folks don't even bother to check if the files they generate can be successfully interpreted by their own system. PostgreSQL, Oracle, and MS SQL will all gladly produce CSV files that cannot be read back successfully. I'm not talking about some loss of metadata, I'm talking cannot be read.

In the "real world", of course I run validations on the data I accept. A common one for me, since the files are essentially "append only" when they're updated is to check for meaningfully fewer records than previous data loads. That's my best way of determining that when the file was read, records were dropped or lost because of things like quoting being messed up or an incomplete file transfer.

It's still not great that a mismatched quote, which is quite common, doesn't even trigger a warning in the validation methods of these parsers.
What a fascinating license.

This is a particularly compelling line from it:

3. You must not distribute the modified file with the filename of the
original file.

Just in isolation, outside of the other aspects of the license, this is pretty much completely crippling for a Java program.

Simply, if you change a file, you can't use the same name. Well, in Java, the name of the file is the name of the class. You can't have the file name differ from the class inside.

That means you can't change a Java file in this codebase.

Fascinating.
I'd heard of GitHub Desktop, didn't know about GH CLI. Don't use either, nor the git/GitHub IDE integration other than 'blame' to show commit hashes/dates on lines. Also use IDE to do 3-way diff conflict resolution, but initiate/commit/continue from command-line.

Do all git mutations from command-line using `git`.

One useful tip is that you can go to github.com/<org-repo>/pull/<branch-name> rather than PR# and it will redirect.
OP probably just ballpark estimated… but you can certainly have spent $3k on Spotify since they now allow you to buy audiobooks.
Many compiled languages with strict type checking still have various sorts of "unsafe" type coercions for when you think you know better than the compiler (things like structs that have the same layout but are still nominally different types). In many of those languages the goal is that you need to opt in to the unsafe type coercion sometimes literally with a language keyword even named something like "unsafe" and know that you are doing something dangerous up front, in direct contrast to a language like C/C++ asking you to opt in to type safety and not doing anything about it up front unless you ask.
Adam's argument seems to be:

1. If instead of donating the company he had left it to his kids he would have paid a lot in taxes (2:58)

2. He donated the voting shares of the company to a 501c4 that will remain controlled by his family and is allowed to lobby the government (4:10)

3. Normally when you make a donation you're giving up influence over what happens after that (4:25).

4. Other billionaires do other things (rest of video)

But #3 isn't actually true: any of us can donate to a donor-advised fund, which will let us later choose what charity we want the money to go to. This is a good idea if you want to donate but haven't decided where to donate yet, or want to fund opportunities that aren't available yet. They did it through new organizations instead of opening an account at Fidelity, but it's the same thing other than the scale. I wouldn't call your donations "not legit" for using a DAF.

Similarly, Adam sort of implies that #2 was tax-deductible, but donations to a 501c4 aren't. They had to pay tax on those shares based on their fair market value.

Overall, I don't see how this makes the donation no longer "legit" or "authentic"? By making the donation he has given up almost all of the benefit of having that money: he can't spend it for the benefit of himself or his descendants anymore. It can't buy them yachts, fancy houses, etc. Instead, they have to use the money to benefit others, which is why we give a tax break for it.
You can't count on your nose to warn you, but when your nose does warn you it pays to heed that warning. If your nose is screaming at you to GTFO, listen to it.

You listen to your other senses, right? When you touch something hot, you listen to your sense of touch telling you that you're about to get burned. That doesn't mean your sense of touch can warn you of all hazards, but you certainly shouldn't ignore it when it does.
> Crossway does publish the ESV with apocrypha.

I'll have to take another look, last I checked i couldn't find one meeting my specifications but I may have missed something. Thanks!
"good at few things".

.. track history proves otherwise.
I think there's some validity to this thought process. I'm of the opinion the books shouldn't be banned, but this point gives me pause.

There's an obvious difference here via the 1st amendment, which doesn't regulate social issues, but that's more legal technicality than philosophy.

My experience as a kid (after these crusades) was that religion wasn't forbidden as a topic, but that endorsement or derision of any particular religion was forbidden. E.g. it would be fine to ask what the difference in belief is between a Catholic and an Amish, but a teacher would probably refuse to answer if asked which one is better supported by historical fact. One of the history classes spent a week or two on the various common religions.

If I'm recalling correctly, the school library had copies of at least the Bible, the Quran and a Hebrew Bible (I feel like there was a better term but I can't recall it). There wasn't an attempt to hide the information, the school just couldn't endorse a particular religion. Tolerance was generally encouraged to all religions (or lack thereof).

This feels like it's going further than the religious issues. It's an attempt to suppress knowledge, rather than to suppress opinion.
Sounds like another lucrative industry located in California
Copyright is supposed to promote the creation of new works. You just described a system where a song written well over 100 years ago is preferred over over a new artist creating a new work.
I’d say it’s a mixed track record, and that risk of disappointment is enough to deter customets from content they might actually like.
I wonder, how injuries and death on construction sites have changed at this period.
World Health Organization: Billions Still Exposed to Toxic Trans Fat
> Don't get me wrong, his books are great with good eye for character and plot. They're dreadfully slow, but that's just his style. I'm mostly amazed at the frequency to which articles about le Carré make the front page.

I think it's more that he offers an inside perspective during one of the one of the most renowned espionage defections of the 20th century than his ability as an author although I did enjoy his books.
> Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed lawmakers to boost starting teacher salaries to $47,500, which ranks 16th in the country. Overall though, Florida’s average teacher pay is ranked 49th.
Yeah, it sounds like you’re assuming two things things here which are often (or usually) wrong:

1. No cross-validation, and

2. You have the ability to solve for additional parameters without losing accuracy.

Statistics is not intuitive.
But what if I manage my home-manager configuration with flakes.
Microsoft is squarely positioning itself to be the top provider of cloud AI. They want to sell the shovels in this gold rush.
They were taken down, because they cannot cover all scenarios of language evolution, in grammar, language semantics, across compilers, binary libraries and ABI, as such failed to gain wide support.
Zig compiler provides working cross-compilation out of the box.

zig-gamedev project provides Win32/D3D12 API bindings that can be used on Windows and Linux.

Wine with VKD3D-Proton provides robust solution for emulating Windows runtime.

Above components combined together gives very nice development environment for building DirectX 12 applications on Windows and Linux.

Project homepage:
https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev

Minimal DirectX 12 application that can be developed on Windows and Linux:
https://github.com/michal-z/zig-gamedev/tree/main/samples/mi...
Considering older people tend to use computers and be more tech savvy while younger generations only interact with tech on their phones it will be interesting how this turns out.
Once a contractor told me my apartment building, which was built in 1939, has very good load bearing walls that "they don't do nowadays". I do think that it could be more of "nowadays we can use lighter material to do the same job" angle.

I also vosited quite a few apartments where they used thinner material and sound proofing is not exactly great.
There's also the fact that you're selecting for some of the worst teachers by confining them to curriculum and harshly punishing deviation or expansion. The best teachers are good precisely because they do those things, and if you take that away it's not the same job anymore—they're just reading a script and serving as a mouthpiece for the state rather than serving the students the best they can. That's not what they signed up for. They'll leave.

Check teacher forums, this kind of over-management and micro-management are major reasons for discontent in the job, and one of several factors pushing good teachers out of teaching.
It's been a while so I've forgotten the details, but I believe in some versions of constructive mathematics AC is enough to derive LEM.
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i don't care how simply it's coded when it's so much better at cutting through the marketing speak that I use it for all my "what is X" questions instead of needing to go through multiple cycles of X vs (autosuggested alternative) pages on legacy search engines.
Note that there's some selection bias to those 100 year old windows. The houses built cheaply a century ago aren't around anymore.
Because it was updated.

https://twitter.com/m_ou_se/status/1615736570400890883?s=20&...
Considering that Iceland has a population of less than 400k, more than doubling the population over a 12-month period in the cold would be a death sentence not just the the country, but for all the new immigrants that are moving there.
I'm still looking for something that Scrum isn't terrible for.
Who pays for your rewards? Redistribution in the credit card market [pdf]
To me using the word opinionated is a deterrent. Any time I hear the word opinionated used it usually means the opinion(s) expressed are overly strong, stubborn, and/or negative. I was expecting the guide to call out issues with the official documentation in a way that could upset the people working on the official docs. But this is just an alternative method. Hardly opinionated.
Those glue on walls seemed to be priced at “we know how much tiling costs”. £36m2 (cheapest I could find on a site similar to Home Depot) for some composite plastic seems crazy. They have some double that price too.
What are technology readiness levels and why should you care
From the questions in the parent post I wonder if it would be good to have a clear definition of what Nix is, what NixOS is, how they're different, and when to use each? Could just be a short paragraph, but if the site is for people just starting out it might be helpful...
>Does Florida know about the internet yet?

Yes[0].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/24/22451425/florida-social-m...
Affordable housing is just a zoning issue. The cost of construction is a tiny fraction of the cost of a new house in major metros.

The cake you can't have and eat at the same time is: "I want affordable housing" and "I want my house to be a good investment."
Manufactured homes have been a thing for decades now. The problem with them is that their efficiency gains don't scale. It's relatively cost effective to produce a single-wide trailer, but not so much when producing cookie cutter two story homes with basements.

For American-style suburban homes, it's most efficient to build most of the home on site, and only manufacture off-site a handful items like roof trusses. People might not realize this, but a small crew can frame several houses in a single (very, very long) day.
Note that this is using a counterintuitive definition for "productivity". Most comments here are taking it to mean that construction projects get less stuff done (foundations dug, concrete poured, etc...), but it's actually measuring it as an economic value in units of "value added per full time worker".

That seems to be rather more related to the distribution of capital than work output. If the construction industry were getting more efficient, you'd actually expect its margins to be declining, right? I don't think this is measuring what people want it to measure.
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic and ideological flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Also as part of this exchange Microsoft will own 49% of the company.
the language barrier would definitely slow things down as well, I've seen plenty of construction sites where there directions have to be translated to Spanish and things are frequently lost in translation. Plus it prevents general brainstorming between a large chunk of the construction team who only have a 1-2 people capable of translating between the groups
Well, Lisp and Dylan also did it first.
IF $prompt IN $output PRINT
"You have been eaten by a grue"
You mean inflating the currency to hell has negative consequences? Shock.
It seems like most casual listeners just don't understand this no matter how many articles there are about the current model not being sustainable or how many time their favorite artists complain about it.

There is not enough money in music for both the record companies and spotify, et. al. to simultaneously rob the artists. These streaming companies being the new middle man are going to be the first to lose out. Especially if the record companies wake up and start making their own stores/services.
You can pay the greenie winnie tax and go full passive house and be completely off grid sitting pretty in an airtight optimally efficient home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhbLjEKKLVM

It would also triple the construction cost of the house. Reasons. But hey, $0 energy bill.

Most builders don't do any of that stuff, like at all. Just the bare minimum required. They aren't incentivized. Most consumers would - and do - opt for single pane windows over dual, and dual over triple, 'etc. Even when the windows would "pay for themselves" over their lifetime.