skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We all love to make fun of US citizen. It's an endless source of entertainment, but zoning restriction make sense to me?

But maybe because I never lived on the west coast?
Is zoning restriction a poorly use tool there?
I also wonder if leaves on deciduous trees muffle the sound after winter.
it's more like homeowership.
They never replicate the developer experience, of whole stack frameworks with quite nice productive tooling and modern languages.

I guess nowadays KDE is the only one that comes close, GNOME doesn't really know what they want to be and everyone else never cared about full stack experience.

The way pixels are rendered is a tiny part of the OS experience.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34158033 with a bit of dialogue with someone from the company about what they are doing (not about this latest event).
Related:

‘Chekhov Becomes Chekhov’ Review: The Great Listener - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34056298 - Dec 2022 (5 comments)

No writer understood loneliness better than Chekhov - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24852362 - Oct 2020 (33 comments)

How Chekhov invented the modern short story - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380587 - Sept 2020 (44 comments)

Love in the Time of Numbness; Or, Doctor Chekhov, Writer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14228231 - April 2017 (4 comments)

Chekhov: “Cultured people must, in my opinion, satisfy the following conditions” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13866586 - March 2017 (209 comments)

The Notebooks of Anton Chekhov - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11226676 - March 2016 (1 comment)

"The Bet" by Anton Chekhov - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1288463 - April 2010 (16 comments)

(you can look up the gun separately)
I've lived abroad for over a decade and spent considerable effort learning the local language but I wouldn't shame someone for not doing the same. Learning a language as an adult is incredibly difficult and imo the benefits are limited unless you are learning the absolute basics (e.g. learning the 200 most common words) or you're able to get to a high level (which again is incredibly difficult to do).
The answer to that is vested interests and a government almost entirely staffed by fifth generation nepo-babies.

But maybe they’ll pull up the ladder if you ask nicely - it would be quite advantageous for them for your children to not receive your wealth, but for them to instead redistribute it amongst themselves and their friends.

And I say this as someone who fundamentally agrees with your point in essence, but can’t see a practical way that doesn’t involve the collapse of nations.
I think a better question is - why does everyone have to live in LA? One answer is that America lost jobs that used to be done in the rest of the country and concentrated cities are the only places conducive to few remaining jobs like tech and finance. This can be tackled by making competition with the rest of the world more fair - if we have certain labor laws or environmental regulations, we can require goods produced abroad to comply with similar laws or face tariffs to compensate American businesses for extra overhead. At the same time, we can make tech/finance more accessible everywhere in the country through remote work and skill training. But America as a whole is NOT overpopulated, there are plenty of places where homes are cheap and that desperately need more people.
>If you engage in editorializing (read: controlling) content beyond what is necessary to comply with laws and regulations (eg: no child porn, no tangible death threats), then you should be liable for the content you subsequently publish.

So how do you propose forums deal with spam?
Preventing private organizations from unregulated experimentation in releasing chemicals into the atmosphere? I don't know what you're asking, but I suppose that would be considered dogma from the liberterian extremist perspective.
I still haven't really figured out how to read people. If some aspect of their behaviour is really obvious, then I might pick up on it. If not, well ... not.

I would recommend talking to someone who is a specialist in the field. Autism doesn't manifest in the same way for everyone. That's why it's called a "spectrum" and why they used to have multiple conditions named for what is now considered the broader spectrum.

I've never been formally diagnosed, but I've taken the "Adult Autism" tests, and I score pretty high. But I've also had over fifty years to learn coping mechanisms.

It sounds like you're already doing surprisingly well, but a specialist in the field may be able to help you figure out some additional techniques you can try that may help you do even better.
> Is it succeeding in lowering housing costs?

Give it time, there's a lot of long-term damage to the housing market and this is just a baby step in the right direction.

> What is the net impact on quality of life?

Well hopefully when this thing really gets rolling, quality of life might improve for the 25% of renters in the state who are paying over 50% of their income in rent and utilities.
> So if you live in 4 countries over four decades in your adult life you will learn 4 new languages?

Yes.
Agreed. You can currently do two-step process to get to the old useful search by clicking "Find image source" in the side-bar Lens results, but it's inconvenient enough that I barely use it any more.

In some browsers/profiles I use a "Search by Image" extension that still works properly.

When Chrome first made Lens the built-in image search, there was a way to turn it off. Does anyone know if that's still possible by some more-hidden method?
One of my best friends bought a house the moment he got his first job. His dad fronted the down payment, and he paid the mortgage.

His dad's reasoning was simple: he graduated from a good college, and by all accounts, he was going to have a strong career ahead of him. It was almost a certainty that he would make more money in 10 years than he was making currently. The mortgage might be XX% of his income at 22, but at 32, it would be just X% of his income.

It took a toll on his finances early on in his career, but by the time he reached 33, he'd paid off the house. Now he's starting a family and he never has to worry about saving for a house or paying off a loan.

So depending on your situation, it really does make sense to take on a heavy loan upfront, especially when you have a strong career ahead of you.
I dove in pretty far - to the point of running dtrace on the flexcolor software, and it seemed to get stuck in a thread that was receiving data from the scanner. The Firewire port is dying (well, now it seems to be dead) so this is not a software issue and more a "i'm not prepared to drop 5,000 Euro on something that may not be fixable".
We're using Flutter for plenty of apps internally. Just yesterday we showed off Google Classroom, which has just been rewritten using Flutter for both iOS and Android. Classroom also uses Flutter for the web-based practice sets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVJF_M9bgj4

(Disclosure: I work on the Flutter team.)
> While Gonzalez tries to distinguish “recommendations” from “publishing,” we argue that does not make logical sense. This is because Gonzalez’s definition of a recommendation is so broad that it covers nearly any attempt to arrange, curate, or organize content. However, without arrangement and curation, content on the internet would be disorganized, full of spam and irrelevant information, and useless to readers. Nobody would be able to find what they were looking for. It simply is not possible to publish things without also organizing and curating what you are publishing in some fashion.

No? It is very easy and possible. Domain registrars and web hosting providers can do that, but they cannot? Either you curate and endorse the content or you are free from liability. That sounds simple and reasonable. You can't have your cake and eat it.
Ability to learn new languages (as an adult) follows normal distribution. Moreover, the further the new language is from one’s mother tongue the more difficult it is. Furthermore, people who excel in mother tongue (with enhanced writing and expressive abilities) often fall on the lower end of the spectrum with the ability to learn new languages. Shaming people over that is quite … shameful.
> Basing wealth on productive assets instead of unproductive land

Land that is used for housing or industry is the opposite of "unproductive". In fact, next to intellectual property, I would argue that land is the most valuable asset. I feel if it true that land and house values in Japan always depreciate, we must investigate why. It might tell us the root cause behind the country's decline.
Does kebab-case even work, generally speaking? Does it not clash with the subtraction operator?
Then no algorithm holds state, because an algorithm is just a ruleset.
That must be his original pamphlet unless the metadata is wrong. My copy is much longer.

I appreciate the irony of ordering it from Amazon, but do your local bookshop a favour and order it from them.
Will you be open to reconsidering your base premise if/when this experiment fails to produce the intended outcome?
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Ahh yes, the old "we're too successful to be able to operate responsibly" argument.

Here's a thought: there's nothing that says that Twitter and friends have to exist. There was a time when being able to comply with the law was part of the business model, not a minor obstacle that needed to be worked around.

As a (purely hypothetical) heroin dealer, I can't run a business if I keep getting thrown in jail. What's the solution?
Amazing book, it explains so much about the deep layers of our culture that it can make modern usage of terms seem hollow.

For another epic collection of history tidbits for the following period check out From Dawn to Decadence - Jacques Barzun
You think without Section 230 more people would’ve voted for Hillary Clinton? Come on. We have 2020 as a counterfactual.

Also, Cooley’s more a general tech law firm.
Why didn’t this project use one of the well known and (court) tested open source licenses but instead opted to use Yet Another New License that is not adhering to the Open Source Definition by the OSI? Muddying the waters this way isn’t really helpful from a community perspective, it only serves to help corporate lawyers and makes reuse of code in other projects a legal risk. Le sigh.
You would have achieved the same via Delphi, C++ Builder, VB6, .NET.

I do Windows since version 3.0, and very seldom have touched raw Win32 other than for some university projects where I had no choice to do otherwise.

Having said that, NeXT and Apple frameworks are great.
> It's not really a "lecture" when I'm just re-stating the facts in the story, is it?

If that was indeed what you were doing, no. But that was not what you were doing.
> Having a working knowledge of German, Italian, French, English was fun, valuable, and normal especially when doing business in diverse countries and with diverse peoples.

That's nice with all these very similar languages using latin alphabet and now try it with Chinese characters and tones in China or at least kanji/hiragana without tones in Japan. Characters are huge barrier when learning the language, because you don't see words to memorize everywhere you look, you see just bunch of strokes. I really wish Chinese switched completely to pinyin as Vietnamese did (and Chinese intended, but didn't finish), it would remove huge barrier in communication (and also tehcnologically wise, after all most of the Chinese already write pinyin anyway on smartphones/computers, which just transcribe their pinyin back to characters) and people would realize Chinese is actually very simple language, where you don't have tenses, plural, etc.

As someone speaking English/German and my other two mother languages I can still understand some Italian, French or Dutch (which is basically English mixed with German by drunk sailor), because of how similar these languages are, so picking up some of them would be very easy compared to Chinese/Japanese (well at least Japanese has much more loaned words from English than Chinese).
yah. I think you'r sadly right.
Not sure what the answers to your point is beside some unpleasant time.
Yandex translation and maps were also substantially better than Google in Russia when I traveled there in 2019
The Illusion of Expertise
But why not allow research?
Presumably, a plywood wall painted to look like a road to a camera will still look like a wall to the radar/lidar.
edit: Wh is independent of voltage I mean... of course a product is dependent on its factors...
Thank you for your reply.

Proper servos with high torque are quite expensive.
I wanted to keep the project under a certain amount to scale it.

With the springs to compensate the static loads (gravity) I can use weaker servos but I didn’t yet completed the “sensitivity table” of the generated angular momentums.

Yes indeed, the ~10arcmin should represent something like 5mm at about 1m distance.
Plus the ~30mm of the 1.8deg/step again at 1m or 3mm with 10:1 gearbox.

I thought I could tackle it by using more expensive parts (but weaker) at the end part of the arm for instance and write a software to orchestrate all the 6motors together.

I didn’t know about the harmonic drive I’ll look into it.

Thank you again for the references.
Unlocking Hidden Features of Lytro Cameras
Git Grep Like a Pro
> Yes, Internet companies will have to go to court more. That's a good thing.

Isn’t this textbook regulatory capture? Only companies that can afford to go to court will continue to exist. Or move to IPFS, I guess.

We should do a better job as a society in using the Web as a tool rather than letting the Web use us as attention engines. We used to tell people “don’t believe everything you read on the Internet,” “don’t message strangers,” and “Mom hang up the phone I’m trying to play Quake!” Maybe we should bring that mindset back rather than trying to make hosting user content financially infeasible.
I think a distinction should also be made between single family homes as rentals and multifamily properties as rentals. The latter are purpose-built to be rented out, and that is a necessary use.
I just checked ebay and they are shockingly cheap. I can't even get DDR3 memory for the price they're selling 24GB of GDDR5... with a GPU thrown in for free.

Why is this? Did some large cloud vendor just upgrade?

Are there any deals like this on AMD hardware? Not having to deal with proprietary binary drivers is worth a lot of money and reduced performance to me. A lot.
> According to Section 230, the host of a website is not treated as the publisher of anything uploaded by the website’s users and, therefore, cannot be sued over what users upload.

I fully support protections of Wikipedia, they are a gift to society.

Section 230 protects YouTube (Google) from the bad content users upload. There is a statistic floating around that 400 minutes of content get uploaded to YouTube every minute. This would obviously not be possible if Google had to be liable for the content, because its too much content to manually review.

I myself instinctively defend that this is how the internet works, and governments shouldn't intervene because we need this to be how internet businesses work. I don't think I've ever questioned if its a good thing that Youtube gets so much content that it's impossible to review. Obviously a lot of good has come out of it, like the entire YouTuber industry, and social media, but is it the "natural" way things should be? What would the internet look like if companies couldn't do mass aggregation? Surely people would still be social, so maybe they'd just use smaller services, would they be federated, or would there be more 1x1 chatting? Surely people would still share content and media, but would that mean more hosting instead of using Facebook et al? Or would people need digital mailboxes that they had at home and were always online?

I'm not saying this is the future we want or a good future, but as someone involved in the tech industry, I've never truly probed the question of what would be.
Kebab-case is used in languages that don't have subtraction operators in arbitrary locations (in the sense of C), like Lisp and CSS.
Dogma? The idea that the people of the earth should have a say in altering the earth? I'll accept that "dogma".

The plan might be defended as just a pure research project maybe. But otherwise, government might not be the best representatives of the broad populations' view but they're better than one random startup.
Almost as if rural folk don't actually care about democracy
Because 'winging it' like this would be akin to doing your development on prod environment. And if by a complete accident one of these would make money for them (through gov bribery, carbon credit equivalent sales, vc investments, etc.), even if the initial one wouldn't poison everyone, a 100 more would immediately spring up and would poison everyone as long as they can make a cool billion before going to jail. That's why there has to be a sensible, globally agreed upon framework for global-scale geoengineering.

And "the economy" is fighting to keep the climate change going to the last breath, because taking any tool from the chest (and we have an overflowing chest right now!) that is effective and working would 'hurt the economy'.
Homeowners have voting power. You need to convince the homeowners by giving them a rebate on the land value tax.
EA/lytro_unlock: Documenting reverse engineering of the Lytro lightfield camera
This isn't a Mexican company; the person behind it is.

> Luke Iseman, a serial inventor and the former director of hardware at Y Combinator ... he started tinkering with releasing sulfur dioxide particles into the atmosphere with balloons, raised venture capital to fund the startup, and brought on co-founder Andrew Song to manage sales.

Why did they choose Mexico? They couldn't get away with it in the US, so it's ok to do experiments with the atmosephere of the people of Mexico? After they were forced to stop,

> In a mea culpa blog post published on Wednesday, the startup acknowledged it had barged forward.

> "We appreciate the Mexican government's concern for protecting communities and the natural environment and support their call for scientific expertise and oversight of climate intervention activities. We also appreciate their concern for national and local engagement and regret that we had failed to take this into consideration sooner," Make Sunsets said.

Who believes that? Who would guess that the people of the community and country might want to control experiments in their atmosephere?
In Russia the copyright rules are more relaxed though. As long as you stay small nobody will enforce it
Yes that's true. And there are others who believe governments are the peddlers and enablers of the most abhorrent crimes, from slavery to arms trafficking to war and assassination and "intervention" to human experimentation, and should absolutely be fought at every step of the way in their neverending thirst for more power and control, particularly where private speech is concerned.

The former group sadly does make a great strawman for people who are emotionally hysterical and don't care to think very deeply about the issue though.
> That way, we could invest in productive assets instead of land.

Housing is worse than "land". The building itself is inherently depreciating, yet many think that they "invest" when they get a new kitchen or bathroom.
German is not lingua franca spoken by people all around world, so yes, this comparison is ridiculous comparing lanugage taught everywhere in world with niche language, which is less popular than Chinese as foreign language.
Funny, as "Tonne" is the german word for barrel or cask. And also for a metric ton, equaling 1000 kilograms, or 2000 german "Pfund", i.e. pounds.
Right, if she wanted to finish school she couldn't leave Australia.
> I've pretty much resigned myself my game plan is to suck all the capital I can out of the united states and then play the same game somewhere else where I can be the big bad foreign investor buying housing.

This is absolutely beautiful showcase of the core issue here, and HN is definitely not above it - if you own, you are happy to see your (potentially only ever) investment to gradually rise in price (or often more like matching inflation) and all is good within limits of reality. You don't care about some social justice or poor people yelling.

If you are on the other side, then all is bad, social injustice, we should rehaul whole system because owning my fucking big house is a basic human right given by some Geneva convention (writing this from same Geneva right now). There is no middle ground apparently.

Mankind is selfish, simple as that, and absolutely nobody is above that, its just a basic human trait in same way as having 2 hands.

I've done few (happy to say now) rather small investments in stuff like stocks, crypto etc. They all bombed in medium term although were stellar short term, crypto probably long term. No way I am ever pouring money into that casino again, and most people don't even have my level of knowledge of those topics. Housing is something most people reasonably grok, can understand + and -, cashflows and maintenance required, etc. Plus you can actually live there. You would have to make owning properties in general absolutely horrible for people to not invest in it, if they can. Ie here in Switzerland there are various punishments for owning, ie imputed tax on potential rent even for your primary residence, and people still buy whatever is available.

And with earth population growing higher and higher, while everybody wants to live in the rich cities or very close to them, the policies would have to be very draconical to reverse the trend. Now which politician, regardless of country, would ever do that to their voters.
Proportional representation solves this problem.

Each state has x districts drawn by an independent third party which must pass a certain threshold for compactness, and y seats not associated with a district.

Via any mechanism you choose (preference, ranked choice, FPP with parties, whatever) votes are assigned. Any voter in one of the x districts that does not get representation from their local member has their vote flow to one of the y seats.

The exact implementations have tradeoffs, but all are far better.
So maybe this will lead to more p2p Internet services like IPFS.
And maybe for Google and such you have to use their p2p version probably baked into the chrome browser with an authentication system.

Something like the old AOL dialup but decentralized like ipfs and per website or with some kind of audit trail.
They would go the way of GNUStep, always playing catching up and never delivering the full experience of the original.
It’s opportunistic I think. Rev is up and as you say SAP is like tar to get out of.

IMO There’s a market expectation that “big tech must make cuts” and therefore they either feel their share price would be under pressure if they don’t show something, or more cynically they see an opportunity to trim a little that would look a lot less worse than if they did it another time.
Paper media does not produce the advertisements, the customers or ad agencies do that. For decades the classifieds section, entirely 'user generated' was of massive import to society, to the degree that sunshine laws still frequently require governments to publish important announcements in the classified section of the local "paper of record."

In other words, traditional media produce and own content, but there has always been a tremendous amount of user-generated media mixed in.
You're right. Far better to have a tyranny of the minority instead.
But if we aren't assuming the original order was particularly nice, we are simple substituting one random (or arbitrary) order for another. No reason to expect it to be any worse or better.