skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Investors are the ones who finance new housing. You want the investors to be purchasing land and financing new construction.

Unfortunately there tends to be a lot of interventions which make building adequate housing difficult. But remote work has allowed more developer friendly places like Texas and Florida to attract net migration.

Austin is number one (or close to) for new housing permits and every few months I see the city council changing ordinances to make it even easier. Imagine San Francisco did this 20 years ago instead of stifling every effort to build something?

Blaming developers is one of the reasons housing is expensive. Yes, they make money, but they do it because they’re providing a good that’s in demand. Thats how a market based economy works. When things are in short supply, price goes up which incents new supply/competition.
Many years ago I sat next to the CTO of Broadcom on a plane. We struck up a conversation and when I learned he worked for a chip designer I asked the question that I assumed was the most difficult part. I asked how the engineers laid out the circuits physically on the chip. He laughed and told me the engineers write software that defines the parameters and functions and the software lays out the chip (I know I am oversimplifying). I was dumbfounded to learn that hardware design was really software development. Today I think Google has an open chip design effort where you write chip specs in Python (from memory).
Integration with clothes is an open question, as well as privacy. I think this is gonna be smoked by the next generation of google glass esque tech; I think projection on the eye is a lot cheaper to run than this too in terms of power draw.
I don't think I have communicated what I meant. Stock traders would be people who trade stocks looking for return on investment through trading, not from investing in a company by holding stock.
Manoush Zomorodi's "Bored and Brilliant" addressed this really well back in 2015: https://www.wnyc.org/series/bored-and-brilliant
For a supplementary angle I’d highly recommend having a nose in both the Postgres docs and source. They’re both very readable.

I think the section on internals is a good jumping off point that leads to a lot of deeper content.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/internals.html
Where do you get daily stock prices data from?
The privacy policy also states:

> We and/or our third-party marketing partners may use the Personal Information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences.

Doesn't this imply that the third-party marketing partners get the user's e-mail address?

What's the reason behind the language server being closed-source? Do you have something to hide?
> Governments are unwilling to fundamentally reorganize the basics of property ownership and building to help their citizens lead better (or even reasonable) lives, but they will go the extra mile or three to make sure that a mass of young and angry protestors do not get what they want.

That's just categorically false. There are quite a few countries that do this very thing, like Austria.
Thanks for the shout out! "Altinity" in this case means Altinity.Cloud, which is a high-performance cloud ClickHouse. It's been around for over 2.5 years.

Disclaimer: I work at Altinity.
I agree, as a passive thing it's definitely better than nothing.
The central point is addressed, you just have to read the whole thing.

> Please, frame nuclear as a profitable investment in a marginal price energy market.

This is a whole different conversation and if you don't want to engage in good faith then there's no point to this.
I'm not sure if it's a good analogy, but I think of boost converters like hydraulic ram pumps, which convert high flow low pressure water into low flow, high pressure.
This applies to all articles from New Yorker in my experience.
Who is preventing the skeptics from posting their arguments anonymously to arxiv for us to see how the arguments hold?
Sure, but that's because everyone uses SHGetFolderPath or Environment.GetFolderPath to get these paths instead of hardcoding them. Right? Right??
No, buying from Amazon first-party is insufficient to protect you because of stickerless commingled inventory, whereby that inventory may actually originate from a third-party merchant selling fakes or worse.
Everyone slags off Duolingo on here but I highly doubt many have put in the time necessary for a fair evaluation. A quick google search will show you that the US Foreign Service Institute (e.g overseas diplomats who probably know a thing or two about this) say it takes 480 hours to learn a group 1 language which are the easiest languages for English speakers to learn. To put that in context, doing three lessons of Duolingo a day for a week will put you somewhere in the 60 - 80 minute region. Let’s say it’s the former because you had a few days where you only did one or two lessons. That means it will take you 9.2 years to become proficient in your chosen language.

Duolingo is good, but it is not a fucking miracle worker. If you’re going in expecting to put in two or three lessons a day and then are disappointed that after a year you don’t speak Spanish, you’re completely fucking deluded and it is not Duolingo’s fault. It takes a lot of fucking effort to learn a language and you get what you put into it. I have been using Duolingo for two years to learn Spanish now, and the results have been wonderful. I can read a lot of Spanish texts, I can pick up on a lot of dialogue in tv and movies and I can express quite a few thoughts in Spanish. Am I completely proficient? Probably not - but if I lived in a Spanish speaking country for a few months I think I’d get pretty competent pretty quickly. And the learning I got has cost me a grand total of about £140. I can guarantee that as far as value for money goes, I have gotten way more learning for the money through Duolingo than if I’d have spent the equivalent on human one to one lessons (how many would I have been able to get realistically for the same amount of money - between five to ten 1 hour lessons?) and definitely better value for money than what I would get through my local college.
Not every kid is from a middle or upper class family that provides everything they need and gives them an allowance of spending money. Some kids need to earn money because they don’t get those things from their parents. If those kids can’t work legally for a legitimate business, they may work under the table with no protections or do work for shady businesses (e.g., criminal enterprises).
This is a nice exposition, but it would have been more clear if they laid out the difference between inertial and gravitational masses. So far, these two varieties of mass are equivalent in all our observations, but they need not be so. Negative inertial mass is pretty weird, as the examples illustrate; but negative gravitational mass (i.e., normal and negative mass repel according to inverse square law) would be something exciting to observe.

See, e.g., https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/8616
Bothell high school in the Seattle area. It was considered a good high school, I got two years of calculus and physics out of it. I went to the university of Washington after (also considered a good university, a bit hard to get into), and it was shockingly hard compared to my high school experience. I could easily do 40 hours a week during high school (although the last two months before I turned 18, Washington state instituted a new law that stopped me from working so much), while I discovered the need to cut back a lot in university.
I completely agree with you. In Southern California, you see people all across the political spectrum driving Teslas. As more options emerge, I don’t think it’s too crazy to see their market share go down.
Low-Code Platforms vs. Traditional Mobile App Development
Not only that, but it's already selecting which news pieces to highlight. There's bias in that as well.

It's impossible to have unbiased news unless you're an omnipresent God.
Question: would you have learned from a non-native tutor as fast without Duolingo? Would you have been able to even get started with preply/italki without a baseline?

All evidence I’ve seen says it is incredibly difficult to pick up a language from scratch. Anthropologists have entire protocols developed for learning languages from native speakers with no shared language and it takes years. Sounds grueling too.

Meanwhile farting around with Duolingo got me to the point of mostly understanding the general conversation when visiting my girlfriend’s French family. Enough of a baseline that I’d probably become conversant with a few months of immersion.

But I don’t think a few months of immersion would get me far with zero baseline. Just lots of frustration.
Hey everyone, Mehrdad here, the founder of Selldone. I wanted to share an update with you about something we've been working on that I'm genuinely excited about. As you know, Selldone aims to simplify the e-commerce experience for businesses of all sizes. We're taking that a step further with our new Limited Time Deal (LTD) plan, focusing on multi-vendor marketplaces.

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A good Scots word.
Cost is just one of the interesting dimensions. For various kinds of transport energy may be more important than cost. I would be prepared to pay significantly more for an EV if had range of 1000 km rather than 500.
One thing to consider is that it’s a lot easier to assemble things once you have the basics. It takes children months/years to learn counting and addition, but it takes college students minutes to learn the operations to calculate graham’s number.

It might be the case that you pick things up quicker in tutoring because you have wide exposure from duolingo
Sure, but there's no fundamental reason for them to be the primary shareholders. The average holding time in the 1970s was 5 years.
Duolingo doesn't force people to move on soon enough. If your goal is learn the language instead of playing a game it just isn't a good system.
Wonder why they haven't killed this yet. I guess hardly anyone knows this exists
Are you saying that the claim is that meat industry is extracting as much Co2 as they contribute?
You realize this was what the law was until Sanders changed it right?

What she removed was the requirement to go and fill out a form at your school or church to verify that you were older than 13.
This is far more important than it initially appears. Current AI image generators let you create pictures of your wildest dreams and desires. The logical conclusion of this is the ability to create perfect VR worlds of your fantasies and enter and explore them. This is truly the beginning of The Matrix.
I find that mosquitos from different regions affect me quite differently. So for example NZ and AUS mosquitos barely register while German ones itch quit a lot.

Fully agreed on the sandflies. They actually relate to the topic at hand. Sandflies don't stop sucking unless shooed away. A couple of years ago we were talking to an older couple who lived in fjordland. They had moved away when their first kid was born, because the baby could not chase the sandflies away, so was tormented by sandflies which would sit on it and suck until exploded.
Data-Loading Patterns to Boost Web Performance (2022)
> The proper way to select linear vs switched is really a flow chart of some applications require super low analog noise or low quiescent current and cannot tolerate a switcher solution.

Switching pre-regulators followed by a high PSRR LDO with some filtering can work here
You realize that minor employment in Arkansas (14+) was already legal prior to the bill Hoover is advocating for right? What Hoover and Governor Huckabee Sanders want is to remove the requirement that employers verify that a job seeker is older than 13.
Completely agree. It reminds me of 'They Write the Right Stuff' (1996) [1], how a group of engineers developed the software for the Space Shuttle.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
This was an interesting read for me, particularly around the phantosmia.

For the past few decades - since puberty or thereabouts - I started to smell something unpleasant and it wouldn't go away no matter where I was, or how recently I'd had a wash, leading me to assume it must be me and that I simply smell.

After suffering for a while I finally reached out to family and bosses at work and of course their response was that I don't smell, which was news to me. I had assumed I stank and everyone was awfully politely putting up with it.

Spoken therapy and CBT helped a bit, but being the NHS it trailed off in an unsatisfactoy fashion and so I dealt with it myself over the years by becoming a hermit.

Later in life I paid for further spoken therapy and was prescribed an SSRI anti-depressant and that finally put me on the path to not smelling bad smells more often than not. SSRIs of course have side effects which aren't fantastic, but it's better than the godawful feeling that you stink!

I feel for the author who dealt with this on top of tinnitus.

It's not often that I get to talk about this, if anyone has any similar experiences I'd love to hear about them :)
Ya. I bought a BMW i4 instead due to the better interior. Although I’m missing Tesla’s better software experience.
How does that make sense? LLM's are machines that produce output from input, the position and distribution of that input in the latent space is highly predictive of the output. It seems fairly uncontroversial to expect some knowledge of the tokens and their individual contribution to that distribution in combination with the others, some intuition of the multivariate nonlinear behavior of the hidden layers, is exactly what would let you utilize this machine for anything useful.

Regular people type all sorts of shit into google, but power users know how to query google effectively to work with the system. Knowing the right keywords is often half the work. I don't understand how the architecture of current LLMs are going to work around that feature.
What’s the best way to boost a dc voltage really high like into the mega volts?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OWXoRSIxyIU

13 misconceptions about global warming

an 8 year old video
I agree completely with all of that. My added difficulty is that I use a lot of hosts and they are a mix of AMD64, Arm, Arm64, and RV64GC so having a single distribution on all simplifies my life. Ubuntu in my experience has the best support for that set, but I experimented with Arch, Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE as well. I'd welcome insights, but Fedora appears most promising for me with Debian a close 2nd. (Arch is actually awesome, but package support is very mixed).
How does the boost converter mentioned here work? I’m not understanding the explanation.
When I say basic I mean like if someone clearly and not too quickly told me "le magasin est a deux pates de maisons", i would be able to understand it. But if someone said something more complicated like "the store is, well, you must go two blocks past the red statue and then turn left onto the diagonal road", I would probably get lost. And I think that's where DuoLingo tops out at, at least for me. It's a great language intro but what it's lacking is a funnel into more immersive and challenging courses.

Also, I cannot speak the language at all. Or, barely at least. That is why I'm moving on from DL

(sorry, hard to write diacritics on this).
The Zoomers will be in charge… for a time. But then will come others, younger and more liberal. They will believe in things such as transracialism, which most Zoomers simply either oppose or have no opinion on, to them it just doesn’t make sense, but for the younger generation it will seem incredibly obvious. If a man could become a woman, why can’t a black become a white? Just believe… and make it so.
You can avoid a lot of this confusion and inaccuracy of speech by saying "machine learning".
I don't mind mowing my lawn. We compost the clippings, and it's a non-trivial amount every fortnight. I recommend this. Make sure you don't use herbicides on your lawn if you choose to do this.
I thought the article was just going to say: "Twitter".

He captured the pulpit and town square they've ( " The Media™ " ) used for promoting their stories outside of the publishing entity.

He stole their juice and just poured it all out on the ground out of spite.
This is the content I come for on HN
Humans took pictures and watched movies and TV in black and white without any issue. High def colour is nice but not a must have to communicate.
I went back to it recently and now I find it so spammed up with gamification and ads and asking for IAP that it quickly gets frustrating. I get that they need to make money off of all of this but after every lesson you have to storm through like six more screens for ads and subscriptions and more gamification points that I don't even understand. It makes me want to close the app and find something simpler.
Somethings will be easier, but it's still a lot like programming. You often need to do a lot of setup to accomplish a task. For somethings, there's just no way around creating a specific context.

In many ways, it's the difference between using a library like lodash and writing the methods yourself. You still need to understand what's being done, a library just handles more things automatically for you.
Anyone know if there’s some kind of API calls I can use to block the blues? I think this is a fabulous idea.
Of course it couldn't stay that way. It would have to be moved to the head. VR doesn't work if the user does not have control over the camera.

However the vest camera is mainly done here for the 'reality' effect and that is simply not necessary in VR. Because that offers much improved immersion on its own.

It's just that VR really benefits from photorealistic environments and most games don't offer that because it's so expensive to make them
There's a lot of attempts these days at conflating central bank digital currencies (e.g. "digital dollars") and crypto-currencies (e.g. Bitcoin).

I think it's very important to point out something that may be obvious to some, but likely not to all: these two things are the exact opposite of one another.

One is centrally controlled, the other is decentralized.

One has potentially infinite supply an can be used by governments to grow the debt to infinity, the other has a mathematically demonstrably finite supply.

One is a potentially very dangerous way for a government to have absolute control over what money is used for, the other - while not perfect in that regard - tries to be at least obfuscate what money is used for and by whom.

One allows a government to blacklist users that they deem unworthy, the other is designed so that can never happen.

One is a tool to curb freedom and make the job of government as easy as possible, the other is designed to enhance freedom, restrict government control over its citizens and be an escape hatch whenever governments become unbearably controlling.

I am very glad to see that at least some politicians understand that a digital dollar would be a catastrophe for freedom and are pushing back against it.
Yes, it is worth it. Crypto doesn't aim to solve what you just described about every market. Crypto has the same distributions seen in other markets and economies.

Crypto just lets you watch it in real time. The efficacy of its transparency selling point is actually at the crux of criticisms.

Whether its simple noticing there’s a big market for collectibles, but pretending crypto’s version of collectibles are uniquely speculative problems.

Or seeing that the cryptocurrencies have wealth consolidated in the hands of a few, as if that undermines something about an infinitely divisible asset, while the criticism is describing state currencies.

We can see the phishing attacks and hacks globally, compared to not being able to see and quantify that outside of crypto, we choose not to make an international headline every time someone falls for a scam outside of crypto.
You do have the option to pay a very low monthly fee if you don't want ads.
This analysis misses the impact of AI models being deployed, like is happening rapidly right now. Production applications built on AI will provide ample (infinite?) additional training data to feed back into the underlying models.
The answer is not much. And I'm confused why this is the case.

Duolingo treats humans like supervised large language models and only does the babbler stage. That is: they show you a bunch of data and labels and then do a loss function on that.

The problem is that humans aren't machine learning algorithms. Because of this, we need more. If you're an Latin based speaker, try Chinese, Japanese, or even Korean (especially Korean). If you haven't grown up around these characters you're going to really struggle with the introductory lessons. How do you resolve this? You get a book. ̶O̶n̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶e̶a̶c̶h̶e̶s̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶c̶h̶a̶r̶a̶c̶t̶e̶r̶s̶,̶ ̶h̶o̶w̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶y̶'̶r̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶m̶e̶d̶,̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶h̶o̶w̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶w̶r̶i̶t̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ ̶(̶s̶o̶m̶e̶t̶h̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶D̶u̶o̶l̶i̶n̶g̶o̶ ̶d̶o̶e̶s̶n̶'̶t̶ ̶d̶o̶)̶.̶(see edit) The same is for grammar and even words.

It's amazing to me that in all this time Duolingo hasn't added a "supplementary materials" section. This is included in almost every single other app that's directed at these languages. I know they want to upset the market and do things differently, but that doesn't mean to throw the baby out too.

Duolingo is great for practicing and keeping motivated. It has successfully gamifyed language learning, getting users to practice frequently. I just wish they would put more focus on language learning, because it's common knowledge that Duolingo can't get you to even a conversational level. A years worth of studying shouldn't have that poor of a result.

Edit: it was wrong to claim that there isn't a letter learning lesson. There is a different tab for it and I made this claim off of prior experience. But the app drops you right into words without even knowing how words are constructed, and I think this is a grave mistake (I'm sure they have data that could test this: if there is a higher rate of struggling/dropouts when a new character system is introduced). I do not think this changes my thesis, but I want to call out my mistake. I'll have a followup comment in the replies.