skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is important to recognize that computers are symbol processors.
An alternative method for math is distinction in George Spencer-Brown's Laws of Form, aka "iconic math" or math that looks like what it is describing.
It’s bad but ironically prop 13 (which I personally think is a problem) is actually helping SF here because it never had that money to begin with. Of course a smart city would bank all the profit into an emergency fund and so prop 13 would be net negative (I think California generally has done this as a state but not sure about SF).

The statistic I read is about 50% of commercial buildings would have an impact on SF’s budget (ie they would drop below their initial purchase price).

As for the rippling out into the banking sector, it’s plausible because it’s not just SF that’s a problem. All major cities are likely affected by this phenomenon. Cities would have to start regulating employees to go into work but I think that would be politically challenging for any politicians who attempt that.
The point is that you can’t assume you can pull your order
>What a very odd article to come from a think tank, it's titled and reads like something from the NY Post.

Do you actually reason about the world this way? Kinda odd.
You can probably strike Hungary off that list.

https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-surveillance-e...

Hungary is quite nice though. Also, I'll take the Balkans over Western Europe any day. Not Bosnia or Kosovo, but the other EU countries, maybe even North Macedonia or Serbia. Or Southern Italy if you also want to be sophisticated.
Where's the story here? If you expanded this to all working Australians, you'd still be at about 90%. A long commute is the reality for almost everyone who doesn't work remotely.
Another good option and one that I’ve been using for years is a FireTV box (or stick). It can do Netflix and allows you to sideload apps like Kodi.
You can reduce the odds a bit lol

Volcanic activity has occurred in the past 600 years on all the Canary Islands except La Gomera, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura

Weather there is perfect if you want eternal June :)
I was surprised to see comments stating that flying to a vacation destination is selfish? Are there many people who think this?
He was convicted of jumping bail. But not of any actual crime. As regards the US, be specific: he's being punished for tarnishing its image by revealing extrajudicial murder on a massive scale.
Most of the US ones now are synced. I haven't tried out other countries. Initially, there were ~130 that I tried and got a 404 on all of them for the latest pacman. When I tried again a about half an hour ago, only ~50 of the US mirrors returned a 404

I would try and generate a new mirrorlist for your locale: https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/
Post mortem for San Francisco, 5 why's.

Tech firms are "abandoning" San Francisco. Why?

The costs are not worth the benefits. Why?

The benefits off attracting investor money have decreased while costs have steadily increased as San Francisco continued to legislate ways of capitalizing on them. Why?

(To pick apart the investor half of that sentence)

Investors must no longer than
See the benefit of San Francisco. Why?

This is the real question. Tech companies simply follow the money. Investors believed in San Francisco, so tech companies followed suit. Something must have changed the outlook of Angel investors in San Francisco.

Maybe the interest rate combined with San Francisco's high costs, together with lingering remote-centric investor workflows, have caused investors to seek a new center for tech and investment that isn't so costly. After all, more of their wealth is being captured by the fed than it used to, and they now can't afford to keep both the fed and the local San Francisco authorities in money. San Francisco's ordinances were written with low interest rate and cheap investor money in mind. Maybe a city with cheaper housing and friendlier board will now get a turn.

I believe that city might be Austin. Texas has always had a good story around cheap housing, and the tech scene is picking up there by several accounts.

San Francisco had momentum, and people wanted to be there because everyone else was there. The pandemic caused a reset. Now investors will converge on a new city, and the decision of which one will now be based on merit instead of momentum.
- Project Hail Mary

- Children of Time

- Accelerando

- The Forever War

- Axiomatic
All kinds of negative outcomes are possible, at all times. What matters is their probability.

If you (or anyone else) can present a well-structured argument that AI presents, say, a 1-in-100 existential risk to humanity in the next 500 years, then you'll have my attention. Without those kinds of numbers, there are substantially more likely risks that have my attention first.
These look really nice! Well done
The Unincorporated Man

(Ender's Game too, but haven't read the sequels, but I also recommend Ender's Shadow - a parallel novel from a different character's perspective.)
Paul Krugman, is that you?
You claimed all health and other benefits to investing in artificial wombs are purely bad faith marketing gimmicks. The "real" reason is to keep employees in the office working.

From your first post:

> In this case, their thinking is along the lines of how can they can get women to stay in the office longer while the kid bakes at homes. Maybe offer a short leave after it’s ready. But the economy grinds harder since the woman employee didn’t have to take time off for doctors visits or to recuperate post birth.

I argued that is an absurd justification, citing the rise of paternal leave (both availability and increased duration) as an example. I later argued that any PTO saved by not visiting the doctor would end up used as soon as the kid gets sick, needs someone to stay at home, etc.

To repeat myself, it will take an obscene amount of money to get an artificial womb to market. The payoff in doing so is certainly not going to be in the form of people taking less PTO.
My favourite (possibly apocryphal) example of meanings lost in literal translation, is "water sheep".

(Hydraulic ram).

Through an unrelated anecdote, in my head this is now bound to the music of "smoke on the water", with a sheep impression for the guitar (bass?) — "Sheep on the water, ba baa baaah, ba ba ba baaah"
>no way that owners will be able to re-rent those buildings at anything close to the same price.

Good! they were gouging for decades.

Also, why has nobody talked about all the tax incentives given to twitter to build their HQ where it is... what happened to all those tax incentives?
I think a good middle-ground would be having the default store have the functionality for verifiable builds like F-Droid. Add a banner/badge that the app you're looking at is open source, a red flag if it's closed source, a link to the release page in their code repository for that specific release, so that techie-people can verify the hashsum themselves and look at the code.

Of course, there's still plenty of possible supply-chain attacks and the like. Closed source app store, git repositories taken over or sneaking in malicious commits, binary blobs required to run your device, and so on. But we should encourage any progression in security, and turn good security practices into common sense.
Thanks for this curation, useful for me as a beginner. All the comments belittling these puzzles kinda feel rude.
> I am really struggling to see how this can succeed.

It could work if they allowed pr0n on it. They already offer the privacy which makes it a much better proposition than a Quest where Zuck is always watching over your shoulder.

But Apple will probably nanny it to death.
When younger, Ender's Game was big for me.

I read a lot of the scifi/fantasy section in our local library.

Tom Swift was pretty good too.
[Too late to edit: Just to be clear, I wrote the initial confusing redaction.]
fir wire
Because Python enables faster iterations. By the time you manage to produce a Rust program that even compiles, you can do several edits with tests in Python.
Yes, but there's no evidence that throwing more money at the problem results in better outcomes
https://youtu.be/f0JorXgqxiU
Camden can be the highest funded and lowest performing school in the state.
Inner city schools often have the highest amount of money available and lowest performance
The city should figure out how to reasonably reduce that cost (waive permitting costs, optimize the efficiency of the permitting process, etc)
School gun violence torments America's youngest generation
Ideally the source is readable, though reality falls short of that for most projects.

For example, I didn’t realize I liked C until Redis. Now I’ve found a handful of C programs that I’d put into the “readable by non-C devs” bucket, like i3 and the suckless collection.

Most build tools also are a disaster from the perspective of giving end users agency over their software. Automake, make, etc are often cryptic magic to non-practitioners. Like C, they can be made readable but most aren’t.

KISS Linux falls into this bucket of “grokable” as well, it’s minimal and the process of going from source to distribution is easy to understand. Many stock distributions are so complicated I don’t think the average tech-savvy human has any hope of truly understanding what their system is doing in a single lifetime.
I've never really understood the point of lying to children about sexual reproduction. Or trying to hide its existence I suppose.
More expensive education rarely translates to better paid teachers.
> That question is like asking a film lover, "what film is over two hours"? The answer is "lots of them"

Well, the problem in this case is that the answer isn't "lots of them" but "very few of them". And those that have options, based on reviews I've seen, are mostly cosmetic, the story is "on rails".

Being "on rails" defines the genre, I'd say. That, and terrible writing.
Keywords Studios Acquires Hardsuit Labs
What dialects of Java are there? Not versions, dialects.

(There was a court case to prevent Java from fragmenting, but I guess people around here are too young to remember.)

Also, Go and PHP don't have dialects, either. Not having an ISO standard is irrelevant as long as the actual language is unified.
Unfortunately neither iOS nor Android allow you to totally disable internet access on a per app basis. On Android side manufacturers like Xiaomi do allow it, but nothing built in for all. There is Netguard on Android atleast. I really think it should be possible to disable internet access on a per app basis.
Revelation Space - Alastair Reynolds

Three Body Problem Series - Cixin Liu

Salvation Sequence - Peter F Hamilton

(and by listing these I just realized I like stories about humanities doom)
Allbirds undergoes layoffs, co-CEO transitions to new role
I still use mu4e with gmail, offlineimap will work if you make an “app password” in gmail for it.

Sending mail works with that same app password and smpt.gmail.com, I use that to send email from systemd using msmtp as well.

It’s pretty reliable, but if you change your gmail password it revokes your app passwords. Only downtime I had was I simply didn’t know that, easy fix.
US is expanding CO2 pipelines. One poisoned town wants you to know its story
Hyperion

Ringworld

Titan
Austin will be ruined if this continues, property taxes are through the roof due to assessments that make no sense whatsoever and locals are moving out in droves.
G7 takes stand against China’s “economic coercion”
I've always been amazed at how people will put all their credentials into an Android phone. You can pretty much guarantee all your private data is being scraped and sold.
I'm far more interested in the OS and Apps, that's the thing that's going to make this a success or a flop. Hardware (Apple will almost certainly get this right) is important, but the actual user experience and use cases that Apple present are what will be the deciding factor.

Outside of gaming and industry use AR/VR have felt a little like a solution in search of a problem. I do believe though that the people who work at Apple are capable of solving that problem, finding the use cases that an every day person wants it for.

My benchmark for this is my family, they are all different, with different level of interest in tech. If I can see the majority of them having a use for it, being inspired by the UX and marketing, then it will be successful.

Until now none of them have any sort of VR kit, but they all have iPhones and Macs.

As a slight aside though, new hardware products are very hard for Apple to keep completely under wraps, too many people in the supply chain, too many factories. Software on the other hand they can lock down incredibly well (pun intended). I am somewhat suspicious that they may supprise us at WWDC with their take on generative AI. Now that could be part of the headset, but it's more likely to be part of iOS/macOS and a feature that aims to help them sell more of their existing hardware ranges.
Nvidia GPUs fly out of the fabs – and right back into them
The movie industry in America is what, $7B per year? About the same as the athletic-shoe industry? Maybe they'll have to just compete like everybody else.
Western Europe is about to get so fucked by climate change. The area is basically unlivable without the North Atlantic Current - geographically the UK/France/Germany are at about the same latitude as Alberta and the Siberian Taiga, Scandinavia is the same latitude as Alaska and the Yukon. They would have similar climate if it weren't for warm Gulf water circulating in the Atlantic.

There's evidence that the current is already slowing [1], and the midpoint of estimates for when it might collapse is at 1.8C warming, something we seem pretty likely to blow past within a decade or two.

It'd be bad for Australia and the Southwest US as well, since collapse of the AMOC would bring permanent La Nina conditions.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/14/1041321/climate-...
Can the binary be attached to the GitHub repo as a release so that the binaries can be compared?
One such incident doesn't eradicate Apple's argument. By that logic one bad sideloading incident would undermine the logic that sideloading can be safe.
ChatGPT is definitely not going to replace lawyers, doctors and other specialized knowledge workers.

The custom trained LLM models based on the proof of concept that ChatGPT was absolutely will augment them however. If used correctly you’re going to have a single human knowledge worker with the output of a dozen similarly trained peers with higher accuracy.
For architecture geeks, this is a fairly comprehensive critical look at the Centre from 1977.

‘Pompidou cannot be perceived as anything but a monument’

Reyner Banham discusses the roles of Megastructure, Archigram and modern technology in Pompidou’s design, 1977

"The Centre reflects the supreme moment of technological euphoria in Western society: the moment when we genuinely believed that ‘freedom’ was to be got by providing ourselves with endless power-supplied facility: with servicing which would be so elaborate and so heavily duplicated that you could do anything you want, any where, at any time. We are wiser now; for we know that even if our resources allowed this sort of indulgence, the political machinery we would have to forget to operate it would be so offensive that it would remove true freedom from the face of the earth."

https://www.architectural-review.com/buildings/pompidou-cann...

~

(The Walking City - Archigram)

https://archigramwalkingcity.weebly.com/
On the bright side, if it turns evil we can enlist the help of LightERNIE to convince it be less of a grumpy guy.
It would make sense that the companies pushing for a return to office either own their buildings (ouch) or otherwise have financials (corporate or executive) coupled with the value of real estate. It’s not at all surprising or irrational.
GPT-4 can understand images. That feature is just not released to the general public yet.
I can get past awful translations, and actually have for other art forms. I'm confident that this isn't the problem for visual novels, but that they are actually amateurish stories, neither books nor movies (nor games).

It's ok that other people like them though, I'm not the Good Taste Police.

> Though visual novels aren't quite mainstream even in Japan, they were quite popular. If the writing was uniformly terrible, it wouldn't have sold as much.

I'm sure you can find the flaw in "lots of people like this therefore it cannot be uniformly terrible". There are plenty of examples of this phenomenon.

In Spanish we have a saying: "eat poop, millions of flies cannot be wrong!".
The little town in Costa Rica where I live got thousands of new Canadian residents over the past 3 years. The vast majority are from Toronto. The next town over has a huge Quebec expat community.
Because the article covers a study that focuses on teachers specifically. I'm sure there are studies that show that other non-remote workers in Australia face similar problems.
Thank you so much! I spent quite a bit of time crafting the default color scheme "honey", and I'm glad people like it :)
Ad-Hominem attacks do little to advance the discussion.
It’s a lot more difficult to have a thing exposed to wind rain sun and snow that it is to expose it to… the inside of a wall.
No Bitwarden?
The $100 number is referring to the acquisition cost. Essentially, housing development is so expensive and risky in SF that the cost of the building has to be exceptionally low for there to be a chance of making an economic profit.

So you need to be able to acquire it for cheap because the costs and risk to convert are estimated at $1000. These aren’t just construction costs, but things like hiring an army of bureaucrats to get the approvals from the city, and the possibility that you might have to wait several years to get started while the paperwork gets moving.

Think of it this way: you have the opportunity to buy a house, except you can’t live in it for an indeterminate amount of time, it needs some renovations, you might have to rent the basement out at below market rates, and you still have to maintain it and pay the mortgage for however long it takes to sort all this out.

So how cheap does that house have to be before you’re interested (and can talk a bank into backing you).
Big office buildings are basically deprecated at this point, time to figure out how to convert them to residential.
Arthur C Clarke - Rendezvous With Rama
If there was some massive market for this, it would already exist.

As-is, desktop streaming apps do exist for VR. This emerging paradigm you're describing is yours for the taking, if you want it.

Screens are simply a better paradigm though. I say this as someone with a wireless OLED headset less than 20 feet away from me - I choose to instead respond and browse the internet and program and watch TV on my disappointing, $250 VA panel. There is never a time where I go "I'd rather experience this 2D, traditional content in VR now" even if the headset is charged and ready to go. Casting the content to my TV is much more comfortable, lets me share it with others, lets me eat my popcorn unintruded and works much better for binging sessions where you don't want "headset burns" on your face.

> On a plane or a train and want to watch a movie, or pull up SSH sessions or whatever else?

Yes, because this is just so difficult on my phone and laptop. If I want to watch a movie or pull up SSH sessions while I'm on a train, I would much rather do so on an interface that is not stuck to my face.
Native New Englander here, married a Californian. My wife likes to say that "Every winter in New England is a natural disaster" whenever I bring up moving back.
SF is going to lose a lot if income at a time when the quality of life is already greatly suffering there

In the boom decades many American city governments have become incredibly, grotesquely inefficient. Voters should now prioritize basic competence over ideological purity so that they can get on a better footing.
Nothing is without trade-offs. We hardly notice the ones that come naturally to us.
A few lesser known but great sci-if books:

-Permutation City

-Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect

-The Egg (Andy Weir short story)
Commercial Real Estate is valued based on Cashflow/Income (correct me if I am wrong). San Francisco should look at examples like One AT&T in STL, which was once worth 400 million that got sold for 4 million or so a year ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/909_Chestnut_Street
All that work to keep your own property from being weaponized against you.

Richard Stallman’s positions on software seem less extreme every year.

Ask 1990s or 2000s me, and I’d say he was interesting but “out there”.

Now, I’m thinking he was just 30-40 years ahead of his time.
Value is instant - a dollar in the hand.

Meaning is delayed - shaping thr future.

Choosing meaning over value is an investment.
Crazy, it was opened in 1977, already closed for a couple of years (1997 to 2000) for maintenance and rebuild, and after 20 more years it requires yet again 5 years of work? That's really a terrible building.
Software development or finance tend to be hard, lacking meaning, and not well seen by society.

You're not going to come across as virtuous to anyone if you're in finance, as opposed to if you decide to be a firefighter. When you have multiple variables, coming up with examples that stretch just one will not give you a right answer.

I agree ultimately supply is the main driver, I have another comment in the thread about it.
If you purchase an investment asset at a certain price with the expectation of earning a specific future cash flow on it, and your cash-flow target misses, you can absolutely say in retrospect that your investment wasn't worth what you paid for it. If you buy an ice cream cone, and it turns out to taste bad, you can say the ice cream cone wasn't worth what you paid for it.

People miscalculate a product's worth all the time. The "It’s worth what the market will pay for it" mantra is quasi-economic nonsense. It isn't true.
You've died of dysentery.
> They _are_ being clear: they have only tested it to work on Linux. It is you that misreads it, probably because, I'm guessing, you aren't familiar with the language of OSS READMEs

That might well be the case here. No, I don't try to win arguments on the internet. :-) Thank you.
Their blog post goes into detail on how they are benchmarking and they use the benchmarking tool developed by Redis [1]

> We ran our tests on AWS Graviton2 EC2 instances, which are network-optimized and provide the best performance for web applications. We used memtier_benchmark — a widely used benchmarking tool developed by Redis Ltd. — to test throughput and latency, and Prometheus to monitor and visualize memory usage.

It is easy to reproduce and check the claims. Redis also countered with a blog post [2]

[1] - https://www.dragonflydb.io/blog/scaling-performance-redis-vs...

[2] - https://redis.com/blog/redis-architecture-13-years-later/
I agree this is the main intended use case, but I’m not sure it’s compelling enough to offset all the downsides:

* Unless Apple has figured out true mixed reality (i.e. transparent lenses with full field-of-vision overlaid video), opaque AR goggles are a non-starter for most people. Seeing your surroundings only through a camera and screen is unacceptable. Not to mention the fact that people around you can’t see your face either.

* Unless other people have these glasses, they can’t see your screen either. Even if these glasses have no shortcomings whatsoever, I can’t imagine a future where everyone in the room needs compatible glasses to look at the same screen.

* Few people actually need enormous amounts of screen real estate, beyond what’s practical to pack in a laptop. The use cases you’ve mentioned (watching movies on the go, logging into device consoles) are fairly niche IMO. There would have to be some compelling new UI paradigm (e.g. truly 3D displays) that’s only possible at massive virtual display scale.
I don't know if and how fast GPT learns from user input.