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> that's done because the safety needs of residential buildings are different from the typical safety needs of office buildings

You're acting like residential retrofits have never been done. They have. These are workable problems.

As others point out, the killer is plumbing. Not fire escape.

> only really being advocated for smaller and mid-size buildings, not the tall skyscrapers discussed in this article

Most of New York City's CRE tax revenue comes from mid-sized offices. Not from skyscrapers. Everything I'm suggesting is aimed at, and has been proposed for, those.

> I'm really only aware of one

There are many more. I'm winging the solutions. Not the capacity for them, which has been and is being studied by architects, engineers and psychologists.
Honestly expect this to only get worse as a Premium user. Now its ads on cast, next it’ll be a 15s ad every video, and so on and so forth till you’re forced to watch 1m ads per video. And it’ll absolutely cost more too.

Us non-Premium users? Probably unskippable 5m before, during, and after.
> My car can take me from my front door to anywhere else in the country that I want to.

This is nice, but you absolutely must recognise that the amount you're paying for your car does not begin to match what it costs the country for you to have a car.

Road infrastructure is heavily subsidised by the tax payer.

If you had to pay 3x more to operate your car, would you be more or less likely to be in favour of bolstering public transport?

Population density is definitely a factor, and private vehicle ownership should always be possible. But the sheer size of our current personal vehicles and the tiny amount we pay vs their actual cost to society needs to be addressed.
> Priced at $2,000, the Spacetop is purpose-built as a business tool, with an optimized Arm processor, AOSP (open-source Android) operating system, and, of course, the custom headset. But you’ll need to act fast: Sightful is inviting just 1,000 early adopters to purchase the final hardware, enticing them with the opportunity to provide feedback on subsequent products.

It sports a Snapdragon 865. I don't see anything here that could possibly justify that price. You're basically just paying for exclusivity as a beta tester.
Alternatively, we are extending the interglacial, which is already longer than expected.

The climate models that the IPCC relies on don’t model glaciation.
The passkey needs to work like faceID does on apps, quietly, quickly, and without anyone even really noticing.

Apple Pay is nice when a website supports it AND it works, but those two are sadly vanishingly rare.

Works well on Apple's store, however.
Potential counterpoint: most gig work is on a contract/self-employed basis and may not be included in "employment" metrics.
Passkey folks - can someone explain to me how this makes things more secure?

For example, let’s take Apple. Apple Passkey support is great - I can store a passkey and it syncs through iCloud to all my devices. So my phone can login, my macbook can login. Neat.

But thinking about this a little more, Passkeys on iPhones are secured with FaceID, so to login I have to use FaceID or other biometrics. But on iPhone you can skip the FaceID check if you know the device passcode as fallback. So now, if someone has access to my iPhone and knows my passcode, they have access to ALL my accounts that have Passkeys stored on my iCloud.

Previously, even if an attacker had access to my iPhone, they still wouldn’t be able to login because they don’t know my password. And 1Password itself uses a separate unique password and can’t be skipped with device passphrase.

I’m honestly surprised that we can’t lockdown passkeys on iOS with a separate password/key that’s used to encrypt those. It just seems like I’m giving up on security by switching to passkeys, away from randomly generated passwords. IMHO it should be: FaceID, and if you can’t use biometrics, you HAVE to specify that unique passkey-only encryption phrase to unlock it. Not device passcode.

If not that, then I would have expected passkeys to be factor 1 authentication to directly replace passwords, and then have something else as second factor, such as TOTP/yubikey/SMS auth. But current implementations on any website I’ve seen so far treat Passkey as “ok you’re in”, while going the password route usually triggers a second-factor check.
Yeah I tried to cover that with the start-ups implication. The US has that in spades in regards to aggressively funding start-ups by the zillions when a new tech inflection hits (whether software, Web, mobile, cloud and now AI). The VCs always go overboard, which is ideal (billions in destroyed capital is meaningless compared to producing the next Nvidia, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc).
It seems silly to me to adhere to cliques like that. Software makes the hardware. I like the Switch because it has loads of games I want to play.
Imagine how many they would sell if it ran on something else besides a switch. I'm not paying $500 just so I can play the three switch games I'm interested in.
> older buildings with windows and load-bearing walls are actually better candidates for residential conversion than newer buildings with glass curtain walls and structural columns

Structurally, yes. Politically, community boards will claim they're hellscapes and then trot out studies on the health benefits of open air and sunlight and whatnot.
IIRC UK libel laws are somewhat unusual in that you can win a case without actually proving that the allegedly libelous statements are false.
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FPS is a fair criticism of these games. They are fundamentally enjoyable games, so you look past the flaws. But low FPS in sections is still a flaw.

If you let your kids play a version that had a smooth 60+fps throughout, then play a version with 15fps stutters, then asked which one they enjoyed more, they'd prefer the higher FPS one. Stutters are immersion breaking, but it's not going to make you put down the game until it drops to the single digits.

I'm not stranger to loving flawed games, so I get it. I played this shit out of Pirana Bytes games, and managed to finish an early build of Cyberpunk. I've loved many flawed games; but I just wish they didn't have those flaws.
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What are some of the difficulties? Are there compromises that would allow them to be ok residential use at some tradeoff (like fewer units per floor)?

For buildings that are partially built, can they still be converted or is it too late?
> I think the reason, plain and simple, is that most developers aren't really in it for the passion anymore, but rather the money.

Tho, people you call hackers fairly often do not actually like actual work involved in actually doing the programming work. They like tinkering with technology, reading about it, but they do not like creating and maintaining software.

And fairly often, people dismissed by hackers as not passionate, because they are using boring technology, are passionate about actually finishing functional software.
> Well, it kinda looks like Great Britain is becoming less Great each passing decade.

I'm a brit and unfortunately I think you're broadly right. I wish my children were growing up in a more confident society that looks outward and forward, not inwards and to the past.

The current government wants the uk to be an "powerhouse" (or whatever the latest slogan is) for AI, EVs, biotech, etc. But they're stuck in a view of the world that is somewhere between nostalgic nationalism and outright nativism. And pumping out constant culture-war paranioa about "immigrants" and betrayal.

So we get brexit - an economic catastrophe - and their desperate need to be seen to be competing rather than collaborating on science research. Non-uk students avoid our universities because they can't get visas or because they're actively harrassed by the government once they're here. Scientists leave the UK for countries where they can get grants and decent equipment and actually do collaborative research.

Meanwhile we build useless aircraft carriers that we can't afford to operate, and stage bread and circuses pagents in London - while the food banks have never been busier, and huge numbers of people grind away in poverty. But the important thing is that we're good at tradition and we have history.

The country's industrial and scientific base is decaying, as is its infrastructure outside of the London bubble, and none of the grifters and fantasists running the country have a clue. I'll be advising my kids to emigrate.
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> As a couple we still own two cars but really only use them to transport our dog to trailheads.

You can probably lose one.

When the wife and I left the Bay Area for the midwest we kept only one car. It simplified moving and if we needed another we could get one in the midwest.

Soon we'll have been a single-car family for two years.
I don't think this is quite the same thing. It's nice that godoc autogenerates documentation on the functions + types each module in the stdlib provides (like here: https://pkg.go.dev/compress/bzip2@go1.20.4) but it doesn't look like it goes any further. In LP you'd get explanation of the implementation details interspersed with little chunks of code, it wouldn't necessarily be in the same order as the final file would be (just the order it makes sense to see it in).

It might be worth checking through the PDF the sister comment to yours linked - http://literateprogramming.com/knuthweb.pdf - you'll see what I mean.
I always worked as an engineer, no connections in other industries.

> Almost all industries are underserved by software.

Theoretically true. But practically some markets are already saturated or difficult to enter. For example, data warehousing markets, very difficult to enter.
Turing explicitly designed it to account for this EXACT concern. From the "Turing Test" Wikipedia:

> ...the question has become "Can machines do what we (as thinking entities) can do?" In other words, Turing is no longer asking whether a machine can "think"; he is asking whether a machine can act indistinguishably from the way a thinker acts. This question avoids the difficult philosophical problem of pre-defining the verb "to think" and focuses instead on the performance capacities that being able to think makes possible, and how a causal system can generate them.

The whole point of the test is that we'll NEVER build a machine that we think is "intelligent" or "thinking", because those words mean about as much as "love" or "meaning" in a scientific or engineering context.

Maybe the fact that we've built computers that pass the test means that we're close to AGI? Worth reexamining some priors :)
The only improvement was working with big files. The new UI in excel (the ribbon) is shitshow.
Because you missed this line:

> Holding ALT to scroll faster is cheating and not allowed.

or wilfully decided to not cheat.
The BT group run Openreach who most other UK ISPs will resell as their own connection. Customers switching to other providers won't harm them as much as you'd think.
> I haven't been able to justify buying OLED for those with how even the best can still exhibit burn-in.

My oldest OLED TV will turn 6 in August and has exhibited no burn-in.

I think it ultimately comes down to what you're watching. You're likely to experience burn-in if you watch something with a persistent banner like 24 hour news.

For example, my 2 year old LED VA Panel monitor already has burn-in where the task bar is displayed.
I skimmed the article and I feel like nothing really answers the question to "How to quit cars", aside from pricing parking better. Personally, I'd love to be able to rely on cars less. They are kind of the epitome of tragedy of the commons. But as a lifelong suburbanite with 2 cars in a 2-person household, this is what I'd have to see to quit cars:

- Ability to get a vehicle on-demand (say within 5-10 minutes) 24/7/365, anywhere in Upstate NY, from cities to boonies.

- That vehicle would need to allow me to transport large goods, bulky goods (to an extent), lumber <6', flammable solvents

- also needs to accomodate 2 medium dogs

- I'd need dedicated bike lanes to the nearby shops and groceries before I could even attempt to use that as an option. There's stores only a few miles from me but the roads to get there are treacherous

There's more but those are the bare minimums, and I don't see that changing any time soon.
I've been working remote from NYC since 2008, and for a chunk of that time I had rented a cheap, no-frills loft space in Brooklyn with some friends. I had space to have a soldering setup, another area for a shared work bench, storage for tools, bookshelves for CS/math books, space for some couches, a sink, etc. I think we paid around $400/month each to split amongst the 5 of us. It was a lot of space.

Finding that now in NYC is pretty difficult without paying a ton, even with all this unused commercial space. Co-working spaces have all these amenities I don't want and charge $1200-2000/month for a closet you can kind of fit a few small desks in. A lot of these buildings are holding out to get one or two big corporate leases. I'd totally rent a small space in Manhattan if the price was right, just to have the option to head into the city when I want to get out of the house, but I don't think anyone is trying to cater to a bunch of hacker/artist types anymore. Until then I'll just work from home.
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Many Latin-derived languages have that one problematic word. It's not only English.

The opposite of it would be "non-inflammable", so it's not really ambiguous. It's just anti-systemic and confusing. "Flammable" isn't supposed to be a word, even though people keep using it.
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> The fact that it takes six hours to get from Baltimore to Boston, when a faster train can cover the longer distance between Paris and Marseille in four...

The TGV (high speed train) between Paris and Marseille takes 3 hours and ten minutes, not four hours. The distance is 780 km or 480 miles. The distance between Baltimore and Boston is ~410 miles (660 km).
>What? I've been playing emulated N64 games with sixtyforce on my Mac without issues for years, easily since I was a kid in high school.

And all those emulators use the same graphics plugin system, which only had TERRIBLE plugins until a couple years ago when angrylion and PareLLEI showed up. The RDP was always poorly emulated.

Compare to Dolphin, which is an open source emulation masterpiece, and has things like ubershaders to give you both performance and emulation accuracy.

For over a decade, you couldn't play through perfect dark with just a single graphics plugin unless you were cheating your way through a mission.

Even Nintendo's official n64 emulators for VC are mediocre
I'm hoping to find a literature review that situates CRDT text algorithms along with text differencing and source control. Are there some key "contours" where certain algorithms shine with regards to (a) number of concurrent edits; (b) length of source text; (c) length of changes; (d) time difference (is this a reasonable metric?) between synchronization; (e) reconciliation / merging / verification.

Apologies if this sounds like a professor without funding asking for free work. I can assure you I am not a professor, but it is true that I have no funding.
Interesting... I've spent 10 years crafting HTML emails. Your HTML templates look good in dark mode as well. Is there any chance to preview the dark mode without sending a test email?
Hrm you're right, digging a bit it must have been windows xp right after i switched from 2000 but nonetheless comparable
> I pay <10€/month for mine

> you can watch HD video

I wonder... do you primarily watch HD video over this wireless connection, or are you watching it via a more traditional broadband connection? In the US, I pay ~$10 a month for wireless data (across two phones), but these phones are on WiFi 90% of the time and we never watch video on wireless.

Even if you have an unusual plan that allows unlimited streaming at that price (without limiting the video bitrate), it seems like it would probably not scale to most people switching to a wireless plan without a price increase.
this is a cool concept, but I have tried some VR devices, none of them are clear enough to be a monitor replacement.

I also don't know the long term impact of these devices to my eye sight.
No one is saying that China can't be an adversary. People are saying that maybe US politicians shouldn't be blatantly labeling them as an adversary just to score some sinophobic rageporn points with Fox News viewers.
The reference implementation is written in Fortran, but I'm not sure about the implementations actually used. OpenBLAS has fortran components, but I believe cuBLAS and MKL are vast majority C/C++.
Okay I see that majority of comments here on HN including yours have one big flaw. So I'll just try to share perspective as person who was actually born in Russia and lived there good chunk of the year till February 2022.

For some reason people from outside of ex-USSR usually suppose there is at least something rational about this war. But USSR does not exist for 30 years and there are no massive political machine. It's just a autocracy / kleptocracy where all decisions taken by a very small groups of incompetent people whos only goal is to preserve their power.

Neither there is any real ideology in Russia. Putin is a much closer to The Dictator movie than to Stalin or Hitler. He care of his giant palaces and yachts far more than about gaining 42M extra subjects to rule. This whole war is just a presidental PR campaign 2024 gone wrong.

PS: Yeah, that's it. It's not some great powerplay to control the world. Not a war with NATO or US. Not even a war over reasources or territory. It's just aging kleptocracy that stumbled and now is killing 100,000s in pointless war.
I think it would be more helpful to call it a pre-order on the button. If I click "order now", I'd expect it in 6 weeks, max.
Wireless spectrum is limited and thus should be used for stuff that can't be wired such as mobile phones. Using it for static connections that can use wires is a waste.
One use-case for /bin/sh over /bin/bash these days is that the alpine docker image (base image for a lot of docker images) has /bin/sh but not /bin/bash
I had an epiphany at some point when I realized my elementary school was easily within walking distance (~1 mile away) but the thought of walking or biking to school absolutely _never_ crossed my mind because I was in a subdivision and a four-lane split highway with a 55 MPH speed limit separated my house and the school.

I got into running after college and lived in a borough where things were walkable and some decent landmarks were no more than two miles away. Things felt close, and accessible. I went home for Thanksgiving once and realized that, while there were plenty of things that were kind of in range (grocery store ~2.5mi, shopping mall ~3mi, mini-golf ~1.5mi), the fact that it all ran through that highway made everything feel far, and it was never feasible to do anything but drive.

And I'm not even sure the solve needs "make my hometown area dense"! But if you had protected bike lanes on the highway and made everyone slow down a bit to let pedestrians through, that could be a massive improvement for everyone.

Now that people are working from home, it might not be necessary for suburban families to have two cars. I would know, I've been one-car for over four years now I think. Additions like walking paths and bike lanes and better bus access can make a huge difference and can save thousands of dollars a year on vehicle costs.
NYC is weird.

Been there a few times and it always gave me the impression it's one of those fake cities in Disney.

A sea of people on the streets but some buildings seem like 90% empty.

Some shops are highly suspect too. My wife wanted a selfie stick and we got one in an electronics shop in 7th avenue, a couple of blocks from Times Square, big store but completely empty.

We went in, browsed, bought one selfie stick for few bucks (not expensive) and left, no other shoppers in sight. Later that day we went to exchange it because the button didn't work, same ordeal.

I'm not an economist, but I pretty sure that a business in that location with that rent cannot be profitable without a continuous stream of shoppers, no way.

The whole city seems like a money laundering operation.
Ditto with a physics education, although I specialized in statistical mechanics and simulation pretty early so it made sense to catch the ML wave.
The memory-wiping thing was also the premise of Paycheck.
Deservedly so. The game has tons of content, it's fun, and very polished; it has no right to run as well as it does on hardware as constrained as the Switch. It still dips of course and pop-in is noticeable, but it's very minimal.

Props to Nintendo for making an excellent game.
There's nothing in the law, as far as I am aware, that requires an otherwise banned enterprise be allowed to operate because it also allows people to speak freely on the premises.
Looking into the past, I think it's more likely that the development would be analogous to what happened to old industrial zones in developed cities, such as SoHo in Manhattan. People started moving into old, derelict industrial buldings, and eventually the style became so trendy that it's now one of the most expensive neighborhoods of the city. If the downtown office building truly stops being a thing, I could see something similar happening.
I disagree. I lived in NYC for 10 years without a car and used public transit for everything. There are plenty of passengers, and that didn't matter. It was just a larger captive audience for whoever was having their mental breakdown.
You have repeatedly failed to explain what a smart contract is going to be doing that is providing any value in any of those situations, since as you say, "software cannot prevent fraud". Since trust in legal power prevents fraud, which is what a conventional contract represents, why would I need a smart contract at all to deal with any of those circumstances?

Specifically, what value is Blockchain providing that is not provided by a simple database run by the trusted party who would be necessary to execute any part of the actual physical interactions where all the value is provided?
> at the price the building owners require

Supply and demand will fix this. Real estate speculators will eventually realize they've already lost the money they put into the building, then sell it at a loss (or at bankruptcy). Then, the residential conversions will happen, producing a supply of large, irregularly shaped manhattan condos that will certainly sell.

Capitalism does have its advantages.
A question only someone who frets way to much about AI would ask: are you serious? Or is this just a "other people are dumber than I am" joke? Would be very interested to hear your stance, if the former :)
Not new. Go read 10 year old Mr Money Mustache.
Multipass is my go to for canonical ( no pun intended) environments across different machines. For example to create identical development VMs for all team members.

The limitations are part of why it works well. Very little to configure and the base image is fairly lean.
I believe .tk and .ml are currently closed for registration after financial concerns and lawsuits about malicious domains. I'm working on a project that offers free subdomains under the condition that they are routed to private IP ranges. I believe this will reduce malicious use while still helping people use Let's Encrypt and other domain verified certificates.

It's still a rough MVP but it's online and working: https://www.getlocalcert.net/
I have been running openwrt on my router for decades, buy one that openwrt supports.
The old one says you need a fortran compiler to build numpy, the other one explicitly says you don't need a fortran compiler to build numpy.