skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not sure I follow what you’re saying, but those slightly denser and taller districts are historically called villages and they died, tragically, with the rise of national retail chains.

Walmart and Kroger like having big operationally efficient stores that they can operate like all their other stores, and can’t scale their model well to oddball village locations. So they make or buy a big building with a giant parking lot and underprice all the local stores with their hyperoptimized business model until the village is dead.

At that point, there’s nothing left to do in your dense housing district and everybody needs a car anyway, so you may as well have some breathing room and a garage.

If people want suburban density, it won’t come from zoning changes (although that will help urban density) — it’ll come from somehow making village commerce more economical. But good luck getting that kind of effort past national-retail lobbyists!

Ultimately, again, the fact is that urban development issues are different than the issues in other areas and the solutions don’t need to come at the expense of each other or in competition with each other.
"consent of the governed" ...like the majority of Nazi German that checks notes ...didn't vote for Hitler.
Did you try it out?

Aren't you impressed how well it understands your questions?

I have never seen a tech demo as good as chatgpt.
You proved yourself to be low information on at least one point (the waste problem).

Your other points may be “true” but in a rather hollow way. We’re all subsidizing the impact of fossil fuel waste for example, it just isn’t correctly accounted for.

> and think that learning to live with cheap fickle solar is a smaller problem

Even if we accept this to be true now, we will have been burning fossil fuels for over a century by the time we actually learn to live with solar at a scale relevant to climate change. I place blame for that squarely on low information liberals.
I wouldn't call it "malicious," but way more than 50% of what you download is stuff you don't want. For example, a random NY Times op-ed has 6730 characters of text, bur just the initial request is 454kb, so 98.5% of what you downloaded is overhead. Some of that is formatting markup, but probably 95% of it is junk. And that's just the initial request, which in turn pulls in the images, tracking scripts, and ads. In the end, probably 99% of what you downloaded to read those 6730 characters is stuff you didn't want.
TV shows are about human life and sexuality is as much part of life as anything. A lot more than violence. I do also wish this wasn't such a taboo.

But the US is far from the only country that's so sensitive about it. Pornography in China is forbidden, in India is very iffy. In Islamic countries it can be extremely illegal.

Even in the Netherlands where I'm from movies have become a lot more prudish since the 70s/80s.
I'm very not interested in the Sonos software & ecosystem, but that they seemingly have pretty good local LAN control makes these devices extremely tempting (if significantly not cheap).

It's feels like it's getting harder and harder to find sound gear with Chromecast built in[1]. There's few new devices being added here, and quite a few of the links to existing devices are now 404 or just redirect to the manufacturer's site.

Maybe this is a badging thing, that now I need to be looking for Google Assistant devices or some such, but I'm not really sure if they'll all also be Chromecast audio targets or not. And I haven't found a good resource for seeing what's out there. I think there's more than 10 devices, but that's all Google lists[2]!

For heaven sake, bring back Chromecast Audio!

[1] https://www.google.com/chromecast/built-in/audio/

[2] https://assistant.google.com/platforms/speakers/#find-speake...
I'm not experienced/well-read in either ML or CT, but awhile ago I remember hearing Tai-Danae Bradley equate "knowing a word by the company it keeps" to the Yoneda lemma, and I always thought that was kind of interesting (although I guess I'm not qualified enough to know whether that statement is useful or vacuous)
'Buying affordable medicine' in your argument begins false premise.

Whether or not many cheap generic substances produced for sale primarily in the developing world actually qualify as 'medicine' by US/EU standards is a very serious problem, and it's very common that these generic drugs don't live up to the standard for various reasons. Issues like under-dosing of the active compound, contamination, and use of unsafe additives are all frequent issues with drugs not intended for sale in the North America/The EU/markets that follow US/CA/EU approval in lieu of strong local standards.

In reality, the 'crime' here is buying something that may, or often may not qualify as medicine per leading standards, for which there are both safety and intellectual property concerns.
Out of curiosity, why did you disallow tabs for indentation, and /.../-style comments in the middle of a line?
Took a bit but it is finally here
Discussed (a bit) at the time (sort of):

Assertions Are Pessimistic, Assumptions Are Optimistic (2014) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9828805 - July 2015 (4 comments)
> More productive?

Yes. Capital let's you be more productive. Rest of the world is building up capital to increase productivity, but is also increasing demand. Resource limits are blips on the market.
Design-by-wire: How AI will shape designers, not replace them
Why Cloud Security Is a Coasian Hell
Standard compliant programs would be fine, but otherwise "ok" undefined behavior could become breaking. Harsh, but fair.
The fact that this disgusting industry still exists suggests enough people are clicking them.
They don't need to be. But the richer a group is, the less motivated they need to be. They have so many options and the difference between an A being studious and a B with lots of partying isn't as big to many of them. The ones that are on a mission for themselves, they'll do well. The ones that go because that's what they've been told to do, not so much.

Prisoners are also adults. I've never done time but it seems like they'd be serious about the opportunities that present themselves, which are extremely few.
"there are many that invest in government bonds"

If a government "invests" in its own bonds, that's not an investment.
Yes, also I don't see what a grad student union and an university can do about inequality in the LA community at large. It would be a recipe for failure.
Related:

A collection of non-standard punctuation marks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15438820 - Oct 2017 (87 comments)
How are you sure your suburb is not getting subsidies from the inner core?
>In order to have 100% chance of getting Peach, I'd have to spend more than ~$3,400...

I don't think the author understands probabilities. They mention the probability of getting Peach in each roll is 0.25%, but assuming that each roll is independent, there's no way to guarantee (ie. "100% chance") that you get Peach, because it's possible to fail each roll no matter how many times you roll. If we take the author's dollar amount and work backwards to see what the overall probability is we end up with 91.2%, which is high but nowhere near 100%.
Why did you interpret the outcome of that case as meaning they couldn't?
Because Google has A/B tested their ad badges to be subtle enough that most people miss them.
Everybody loves socialism until they get back less than they put in.
Iterators and Iterables in Python: Run Efficient Iterations – Real Python
BCD and floating point are orthogonal. Some early computer systems had BCD floating point, as did (do?) most scientific calculators.
What Is Bela?
I have children, and grandchildren. I didn't want my grandchildren saddled with the EU.

I've not folllowed your link, which presumably was intended to emphasise your insulting language. Learn to argue.
> move on with your lives, people.

Without a GP computer? That's a pretty large ask on a developer's site.
Desktop Operating Systems Since 1978
We have a student union in Slovenia. It's fully self-funded from a tax on student work.

One of the things the union provides is the ability for students to get "student jobs" that are more geared towards entry-level work and easier to get. Almost everyone has these jobs at least over the summer, often also part-time during the school year.

Another big thing the union provides are food coupons so you can get discounted meals at participating restaurants. Fully funded from said tax on student work.

Every once in a while the union organizes protests against tuitions and such.

The biggest outcome is that people choose to be students, at least on paper, until 26 when you age out of benefits. Because the tuition is free and the benefits are amazing.

https://www.studentska-org.si/predstavitev/english/
F*ck cars.

Luxury car brands do not deserve any special treatment.

As for all the same tired debates on HN about cars, it is so simple. Average people in the city do not need a car if the city is properly and humanely designed. Yes some workers, industries and people outside cities still require vehicles, that is not the debate. Majority of urban life should be free from pointless poisonous car driving. Luxury SUVs and sports cars are definitely something that could be curtailed.
> And ml is everywhere: voice synthesis, OCR, image analysis, image synthesis, text understanding, driving,

Just to be clear, in order those are: RNNs/CNNs, CNNs, CNNs, not something neural nets do, and multiple AI systems with widely different architecture.

The progress in GPT has very few aspects that pass over to those.
Iain M. Banks describing GPT in 2005 novel
You almost certainly want people who aren't working any longer to get some sort of base level income. And if this income comes from the government, the details may differ, but the big picture looks a lot like social security. This is especially true because, at least on an ongoing basis, few private firms offer a defined benefit pension any longer except for whatever obligations they incurred before they mostly scrapped the plans going forward.
The unique advantage of nuclear is not its price, it’s that it produces a lot of energy in any environment without polluting the air or contributing to climate change
> History is a set of lies that people have agreed upon (attributed to Napoleon).

If you hold this belief, you have no defense against all the charlatans that wish to deceive you.

Facts do exist--even in the humanities. Part of the job of modern history is actually to unearth the evidence that both contradicts and exposes the lies that have been promulgated.
If you had a modern well insulated house you could heat your house with a hair drier in the dead of winter in climate zone 5. If your stacking up to 4mwh then your house is not really a good example.
It's supposed to be a teachable shorthand for the idea that you are more likely to kill your startup by chasing enough growth to outrun spending than you are to improve your chances of success. That's a meaningful evaluation, not a truism.

Using your sports analogy, it would be like a coach getting the attention of a bunch of hotshots to improve defense by telling them they need their opponents to score fewer points to win.
looks like we found "that guy".. the one who posts about the enormous amount of used fuel circling the globe looking for a home.

There is a nuclear power plant not far from me. it went "live" in 1973 and all the spent fuel to date is still stored on site.

Step 1 : sit in a pool for around 10 years

Step 2 : sit in a dry canister for a few more decades.

Eventually we need to find a better solution, but the fact remains there is not a whole lot of it.
I posted some comments about ChatGTP in a local FB group and there was a pretty large percent of folks who responded here that think it's just an awful thing that's going to lead to the downfall of civilization.

I tried to offer that it is pretty cool, but it's just software that basically presents search engine results in a different manner along with a few other tricks, but it's not "HAL".

I live in a very red and rural area so that probably has something to do with it. They love to have new things to complain about that have no effect on any of us at all.
Just throwing this out here, but in a globalized world, by what mechanism would one expect Europeans and Americans will be able to enjoy a greater standard of living than people in, say, Asia?

The world standard of living should be equalized globally but it should be the present first world standard, not the present third world standard.

This is certainly possible given increasing world productive capacities.
I called it naive because I believe it is an oversimplification.

Strong Towns has an agenda (which I mostly agree with), and in order to promote their agenda they have a straw man argument that broadly categorizes _all_ suburban development as an unsustainable venture that is borrowing against the future.

I agree that there is (in many cases, but not all) some deferred costs and externalities that are not being fully accounted for in new development.

However, I'm not nearly so pessimistic as to think that the people living in those developments won't make changes to account for those deferred costs and even possibly some of the externalities.

I think it's naive to cry "the sky is falling".
It’s not actually true; the OEIS is capable of storing a lot more numbers per entry in the form of a “B-file”, for example: https://oeis.org/A000127/b000127.txt. You can see the documentation on this feature here: https://oeis.org/wiki/B-files.

As far as I understand it, though, these B-files aren’t indexed by the search engine.
This being any sort of ‘tit-for-tat’ response is coincidentally a pretty ‘boomer’ take on mental health.

Anxiety can be (and is often) situational, and anxious situations can be a catalyst for general anxiety disorder, etc. I’m not gonna sit here and pretend to know what it’s like to be an average income earning millennial, even though I am a millennial. But the fact that I’m sitting here on my nice fat tech worker salary (after still finding it quite hard to buy a house), supporting my partner who is studying and working part-time, and am still feeling the pinch of inflation, makes me completely sympathise with those earning less than me that are surely freaking the fuck out.
Fairly sure your maths is off there...IQ is supposed to have normal distribution, hence ~50% have below-average intelligence, 50% above-average: how can 84% possibly have low-to-average?

Either way, even if it's true that some significant percentage of voters have below-average IQ, how strong is the evidence that they'll make a "worse" collective choice of government than those with above-average IQs? That's basically assuming that the properties of candidates that will ensure they can act as part of an effective government are somehow "too hard" to accurately judge unless you have above average IQ. It seems just as possible the opposite is true - i.e. those with above average IQ aren't good at judging the sorts of properties candidates need to be govern effectively - at least partly because that implies being able to govern in way that works well for those in the below-average-IQ group (i.e. those in the above-average-IQ group will probably do reasonably well for themselves regardless of the quality of government).
I was really disappointed by that choice. I had wanted to buy it for a plane trip I had shortly after it came out, but being online only, they lost that sale.

It seemed like an anti-piracy move because the game didn’t naturally need to be online. But I never thought iPhone app piracy was much of a concern.
Yet there is still a cost to dealing with toxic waste, which encourages companies to not make any more of it than necessary. There's currently no cost (it's all profit, in fact) to promoting malicious ads in search results, so why wouldn't Google do it?

There is no reason they have to serve 30 billion impressions a day. If vetting takes that down to 1 billion, that's fine. Lower the volumes (and raise the prices to fund manual vetting) until the problem is resolved.

Toxic waste disposal is a solved problem thanks to (enforced!) regulations that force companies to do so under threat of heavy penalties, not altruism or the fact that the waste doesn't hide from a Geiger counter. We need the same for online advertising.
You're only looking at that from a consumer perspective. On the other side of that transaction is a person earning only $5 for several hours of labor minus the cost of materials.
Kaleidoscope was a favorite of mine as well!

To this day it’s the best implementation of desktop theming I’ve come across. It had few limits on what scheme artists could do, being capable of crazy things like round windows and vertical titlebars, and a single file included theming for window chrome, controls, icons, cursors, and fonts. It had almost no impact on performance.

And schemes had no installation step… no obscure magic directory to copy them into, just organize your scheme files as you saw fit, and double-click one of them when you wanted to switch schemes. You didn’t even need to open the Kaleidoscope control panel if you didn’t want to.

Just excellent all around. The closest modern equivalent is desktop Linux themes, which have UX that’s nowhere near as good and are maybe 60% as capable as Kaleidoscope in what they can do, not to mention how often they break between GTK/Qt/Mutter/Kwin/blah/blah versions.
Yes. But money is how stuff gets done.

It's not an immediate effect, but give people money to people who want food and more food will be purchased, which in turn increases the production of food.
when I did it they paid for my flight, my housing, and my food... qualifications were homeless off the streets of seattle and I-9 (but lol, e-verify is not mandatory in alaska so as you can imagine such requirement was easily bypassed by anyone who wished). There is no real 'moving' process other than getting on the plane, everything is there.

when you're working 16 hours a day 7 days a week you don't really notice much outside of the factory floor anyway. Whether it was remote or in Manhattan you wouldn't feel the difference as you do nothing but work. I was working ~112 hours a week when I was in Alaska.
It's wonderful that you're not affected by this, but sometimes people are in a hurry, or ill, or tipsy, or have poor eyesight, or have diminished cognition. Should we just toss them under the bus when they don't exercise perfect opsec?
Biden administration sued over student loan payment pause by SoFi
Why the Floppy Disk Just Won’t Die
My sentiment exactly. The premise of the article comes across a little naive because there are so many fine-tuned libraries for specialized hardware architectures that already do this computation very efficiently.

However, it did make me wonder what this might look like on a gpu-accelerated database engine that is designed to leverage the SIMD parallelism of GPGPU architectures.

Beyond using SQL/NoSQL databases for CRUD apps I am not a "database guy", so I'm not sure about the feasibility, but it would be interesting to see it implemented.
"Boys will be boys" has been deliberately conflated with a permissive attitude towards sexual abuse. Your use of what you thought was an innocent phrase describing rowdy behavior will be abused by activists as evidence of misogyny or rape culture. Together with "toxic masculinity", it's one of the ways male-associated behavior, or masculinity itself, is problematized, or in plain language, attacked.

It's second nature to walk home before the sun goes down; And put your keys between your knuckles when there's boys around - Boys will be boys, Dua Lipa - https://genius.com/Dua-lipa-boys-will-be-boys-lyrics

* The Danger of “Boys Will Be Boys” - Why this phrase should be banned from our vocabulary.* - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/gender-and-schooling...

Why ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ Is an Excuse for Bad Behavior - The time for a culture of accountability is now [..] It validates male entitlement, often excusing discriminatory and even criminal actions against girls and women. - [See many examples of criminal defense attorneys using "boys will be boys" to defend rapists? Part of the fiction these movements want us to believe is that, despite the scarlet mark that sex offenders carry, and the near-universal disdain society shows them, actually, sexual assault is tolerated and excused by our deeply misogynist society.] https://www.inhersight.com/blog/diversity/boys-will-be-boys
I feel like as an intro aimed at "normies" it still manages to communicate in a more abstract and overthinky way than necessary.

People often find it difficult to intuit examples from abstract descriptions. BUT, people are great at intuiting abstractions from concrete examples.

You rarely need to explicitly mention abstractions, in informal talk. People's minds are always abstracting.

> If I’m relating the collections {cat} and {at-cay}, that’s a standard “Pig Latin” transformation I can manage with a simple, handwritten rule set.

Or...

"Translating {cat} to {at-cay}, can be managed with one “Pig Latin” rule:

If input is {cat} then output is {at-cay}."

"Translate" is normie and more context specific to the example than "transformation". "Set" is not "normie" (normies say "collection"), and its superfluous for one rule.

Concrete, specific, colloquial, shorter, even when less formally correct, all reduce mental friction.
If you can completely ignore HTTP request data that happens to not perfectly meet the RFC at your work (or, more specifically for us, Modbus RTU responses), I salute you. Sadly, I can’t, we get some wild stuff that we still need to attempt to handle. Both HTTP and Modbus!
How green is all that construction? How expensive is it to build all those green buildings? It’s not a tricky question, I assure you, having just finished a six months investigation on rent/buy and renovate/build in Germany.
A lot of my comments get downvoted these days. Sometimes the mods even side with the downvoters and ask me to stop. If they ban me, oh well, their loss.
This was one of those things where I know just enough to realize something about the reasoning is not right. Thank you for putting that feeling into competent words.
Of course people find different things intellectually interesting, but a site dedicated to intellectual interest is still a completely different thing than general news.

I'll diss the corporate press release any day! Beyond that I'm not sure I follow your specific point. What do you think we should do differently?
> I'm still patiently waiting for future digital mixing consoles to do all processing in software on inexpensive x86 or ARM processors.

Harrison Consoles have done this for more than 10 years.

I cannot confirm this in the same way, but I think it also likely that both Lawo and Studer digital consoles do this, and also possibly Allen & Heath. All 4 companies run Linux internally on their consoles.
I have ¿ and ‽ on my standard android keyboard.
The US government.
>abstraction is the only weapon we have against complexity

I don't agree with this. We also have stinginess and stubborness as potent weapons against complexity. If we are stingy with our time and effort then we insist on getting much use out of every tool we learn. We are stubborn, and so we do not add new tools quickly, or throw old ones away quickly, and we are skeptical of easy solutions. tldr: first cut away needless complexity, then use abstraction on what remains.
Is 40 hours a week of overtime available at canning jobs?
I use an ESP32-A1S board for that. I use this project https://github.com/pschatzmann/arduino-audio-tools/ and the platformIO vscode plugins.

Have a look at this example to see how easy using that library is :
https://github.com/pschatzmann/arduino-audio-tools/blob/main...