skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The construction industry ... manufactures products that are too big to fit in highway lanes.

This is why I believe the future of construction is portable 3d printing. Imagine a 3D printer which fits on a truck, yet can be assembled in an hour and can print something the size of a large house from fiber-embedded cement. The printer would have nozzles for paint, foam, tar, electrical wire and PET plastic. It would also have a scoop to remove soil.

A team would drive the truck to the worksite, assemble the printer, start it going, and come back in 2-3 days when it was done. The printer would dig foundations, lay a fiber-cement foundation, damp proofing tar layer, build double skinned walls with foam between, paint the inside and out, install wiring and pipes, and build a foam, cement and tar roof. The house would have premade cupboards, bathtub, washbasin, etc.

Humans would come back to fit carpets, electrical outlets+fusebox, appliances, windows, vacuum formed liners in the bath/washbasins, etc.
For someone whose mind is presumably so expanded I find it ironic that you struggle to conceive that different people have different experiences.
What?

This is odd given that in a lot of places, a home owner can run their whole electrical, and the inspection is just a dude plugging shit in to the receptacles.

Also, are most modern water heaters not just a standard plug in? Even my dishwasher, which was a curiously long hold out, doesn’t have direct power any more.

Around here, home owners are not allowed to plumb, not even with inspection. Plumbing permits are only given to plumbers.
It's funny how times have changed. I remember public safety videos on British Airways when you would fly into New York, before you landed, they'd play a 5-minute clip about how dangerous it is and how to keep your wallet safe. As I recall it was in English and Japanese... but I was very young so maybe I'm not remembering perfectly.
I agree, as someone who uses emulators to play mobile games often I don’t see any compelling reason to migrate from my current setup to use this. I’d probably just lose some functionality like the ability to record macros
Sure, and in fact it's not only about poverty, I think there are some relatively wealthy (maybe white) kids who struggle because their families are dysfunctional, it's all about their close environment.
Well, the software startup mentality didn't succeed in revolutionizing any industry except for software.

And it is looking quite shortsighted and unsustainable for software too.
Mark zuckerberg has literally built a monopoly of social media, lmao. At this point, since they've acquired such a large amount of users (2 billion), they can release anything and people will use it.
You don't need spikes to have computation. Deep networks don't have spikes.
Zuckerberg has years of training, youth, and general fitness level on Musk.
>It hasn’t been reproduced

What? It has to start somewhere, doesn't it? Also, it clearly offers a basis for probabilistic analysis for future studies. How is this not science?
https://robkohr.com

I was mostly writing this blog in private in a md file in Obsidian, and then created a script to make it generate all the html for that site. (article for that here: https://robkohr.com/articles/created-a-new-blog-render)

Topics include
- 3d printing:
https://robkohr.com/articles/making-a-laptop-holder

- Time management for someone who is a little adhd:
https://robkohr.com/articles/you-have-to-check-yourself

- Working out:
https://robkohr.com/articles/doubled-strength-about-1-year-s...

- Making bread:
https://robkohr.com/articles/attempt-2-at-making-sourdough-s...

And other nerdiness from someone who randomly gets interested in lots of things.
Sorry to go a bit off topic, but what was the “latest news” about Evernote?
Would Red Hat do anything that would anger IBM? Would Red Hat refuse to do anything that IBM felt strongly about?

I seriously doubt it.
> Telephone/internet customer service isn't a job that people should be doing, it's soul destroying.

That's true, but it's a different issue.

My gas company has already deployed a number of chatbots and automated phone responses. Now you simply just can't talk to a real person via phone.

These days they double-charged an invoice and I simply had no way to inform them about the problem they created. And this is not the sort of service you just move on to a competitor.
Keeping with that Apple design theme I see. I suppose it's also his style.

The turntable is beautiful but that price is insane.
> Why are there no startups in the real estate construction sector?

Fundamentally reject the premise of this question.

BuildZoom (YC), Capmo, ProperGate, Arqlite, Buildcon, Mechasys, Branch Technology, Plant Prefab, Ergeon, Cove.Tool, KEWAZO, Rebartek, etc, etc, etc

The Googleable term you're looking for is "contech".
>> even change the locks if you loose your keys

That phrase has always struck me as particularly American, and western American. In many places people talk of "getting the locks changed" rather than "changing the locks". It's the difference between doing something to the locks rather than swapping them out for new ones. I guess that is a reflection of the general poor quality of locks used in the US: Buying a new lock is cheaper than getting a locksmith to rekey an existing lock. And when I was on the east coast I do remember seeing more locksmiths (at least their storefronts/trucks) than on the on the west.
Do you have a number for what a low level count is?
So much text and you didn't give me one substantial argument why I should change my mind.

Space is a concern in cities. It is one of the concerns. If you have the same roads-to-building-ratio public transport will always beat individual transport, because that is just basic geometry.

You like to frame this as progress, but being able to transport less people while using more resources and space isn't progress.
I have yet to work with a small business that had money & time on hand at the same time, so I see an uphill battle to establish a site like this.

Not that it would cost much to run, if you're interested or somewhat curious about how the venture would go.

I don't use either site, but it seems LinkedIn & Facebook/Instagram are being used like this with many small business owners.
On the contrary I think it fits most of the USA save for maybe the Southern States. As an Eastern European myself I'm interested in knowing excactly which stereotypes Americans hold. They might be mostly true as well.
That's even worse. 10 dash maps also claim whole independent Taiwan as a China property.
I used to use Mint, and their chatbot said customer service was closed and to try back in the morning. Interestingly, I typed "emergency" in all caps three times, and it connected me with a human.
I don't think the fact that Google has two popular OSes with telemetry means that telemetry makes them better OSes. For Android, their only real competitor is iOS. Their big advantage there is cost and the reason there isn't really another competitor is the difficulty of creating an OS which requires a number of resources. For ChromeOS, the situation is similar with regards to the time to create an OS. I think there, their main competitors are small Linux distributions, but, in addition to manpower, Google has the money to procure and sell laptops with their software already on them at scale. So, I'm not convinced telemetry is actually creating a better product, their products happen to have telemetry.
Seems that the biggest problem all relates to an unstable family life.

Hey you guys remember when in the 80s we convinced all the women that it would be empowering and freeing to start slaving away as a corporate drone and that would be the best life for them, that kids didn't need 2 parents at home?

Isn't it great how that panned out.

EDIT

To be clear I'm not saying women shouldn't be in the workforce, but the fact of the matter is that at some point they convinced us all we had to have 2 parents working and that's when things went to hell. It was great for a little bit while everyone was making a bit of extra cash, but basically what happened was the supply of labor doubled, and when supply goes up...
What does that have to do with visibility?
They did not specify the charities they're donating, so it's very hard for me to form an opinion. Perhaps you have a better insight, judging from the confidence you are displaying?
Virtual Reality is not real
Yes, but if Hetzner made a blog post on how they were going to stop randomly shutting down customer's services, terminating accounts, and actually providing customer support that would be novel.
Fair enough, I phrased it inaccurately, although “likely” is subjective. I should say it’s reasonable to conclude that the results could be due to chance alone. At any rate the results do not tell us that anyone, in fact, benefited from vitamin D supplementation with respect to CVD risk.
There is pretty much no place in Canada at all that doesn't have a total blackout of availability of Vitamin D from sunlight in the winter.

All the northernmost US states have a period of insufficient sunlight/angle to produce Vitamin D, and basically all of Canada is north of that.

Maybe there's an island that is Canadian territory that is south of say New York or San Francisco that I don't know about of course.
Why doesn't anyone mention real estate agents/agencies when talking about housing prices? When I bought my first home in the early 90s it seemed like a confidence game back then and it's only gotten worse since. What I'm basically talking about is everyone in the business of selling homes, including "your" agent gaslighting you into thinking that home prices will always go up. "You should by this now. You can't lose money. This is a great investment." In recent years it's been "You should offer 20% over asking." It used to make some sense that prices would generally go up for well built/maintained homes in good neighborhoods but that nod to sanity went out the door when AirBnB came along.
Japan has modular bathrooms, it’s pretty nice (though it does mean that almost every bathroom looks like one of 3 kinds of bathrooms). Even the basic ones are more functional than what I see in 90% of US bathrooms, but it is just huge chunks of plastic and cleaning is a whole thing.
Not disagreeing with you, just trying to get a grasp of your principle here: prohibit schools from teaching/encouraging illegal acts?

Morality is beyond laws, in a sense, and you might think "immoral acts" is more proper. I don't feel like going down that rabbit hole, but I felt I had to mention it.
I think this is reasonable as well, and I wasn't trying to imply it is wrong. My goal was to point out an asymmetry in the system and to give a little more insight into the "homeowners vote, non-homeowners don't" observation of the GP.

And it ultimately seems like politicians have more to fear from the immediate prospect of losing votes from NIMBY constituents than the potential gain of future votes years down the line from grateful new residents.
NYC is an excellent case of restrictive zoning driving housing prices. A shocking number of pre-war apartment buildings in Manhattan would be illegal to build today. Not just for changes in fire escape design, but also the basic shape and height of the building. Despite being illegal designs these buildings remain highly desirable and command high prices, indicating there is a large gap between what the market wants from housing in NYC and what is permitted.

NYC doesn't have uniform extreme density, with places in Queens and Staten Island having large swaths of single family homes. The popularity of NYC should mean the city is getting even more dense, but the restrictive zoning means units are being added at a much lower rate than demand. Of course prices are going to rise.
It’s been growing consistently for like the past decade. Builders gotta build and they’re definitely working at it! It just takes time and demand has increased very quickly.
There is nothing socialist about the US. The workers do not own the means of production. Labor union membership is in the single digits.

We have some very limited vestiges of social democracy, but social democracy is not socialism. Socialists and social democrats were not allies. Google the meme: “SocDems killed Rosa.”

What you’re observing is what unregulated capitalism will always devolve into. It goes by many names: capitalism, crony capitalism, neoliberalism, corporatism, oligarchy, fascism. But the idea is the same. Labor is violently oppressed. The State only serves the interests of capitalists. The State and Capital are often indistinguishable. There is no competition. There are structural barriers that stifle small businesses and enrich rent seeking trusts. It’s a new Gilded Age, brought to life by a new Lochner era for the Supreme Court.

I have good news and bad news: this system, whatever you call it, is extremely unstable. Its collapse is inevitable, well within the span of a single human lifetime.
> Houston, which is essentially a zoning-free city.

This is a misconception: https://kinder.rice.edu/urbanedge/forget-what-youve-heard-ho...
That doesn’t contradict what I said. There is definitely a huge benefit to an IQ 110 over 70. But there is not that big a jump between 110 and 150, let alone even further.
I'm not sure how that relates to my comment which was a response to a private vs public school comment.
Contrary to most commenters, I'd believe there might be an audience for this.

All the rivalry and shady tricks on Spotify suggest that the competition to get attention as an emerging artist is huge.

What you mentioned about dropbox and screen recording was a great observation. I would double down on the niche and see how else are artist trying to gain an edge when promoting.

I think we here don't really appreciate how narrow the average online producers' technical expertise is.
This specific repair scenario is not dangerous. It is such a common failure with a cheap fix that it’s simply worth killing the circuit, unplugging the old one, plugging in a new one, turning the power back on, and seeing if it works.

Worst case scenario, you have a new capacitor. Best case scenario, you save hundreds of dollars.

Here’s a video. You can even skip all the diagnostic tests, as all you care about is replacing the capacitor. If that doesn’t work, call an expert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWH38Rg1iMI&pp=ygUeUmVwbGFja...

https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/ac-capacitor-replacement/9ba6...
I realize everyone has different dietary needs, so I'm not saying this is for everyone, but it's very, very rare for me to finish a meal at a restaurant in one sitting. I used to, but leaving and feeling stuffed got old.

I've found if I stop early, it turns out it was only my brain that wanted more food. Physically, I've had enough and am satisfied. I just need to give my brain time to catch up to my body.

Additionally, I drink a lot of water with my meals. This helps prevent overeating.

Lastly, it's always great to get two meals (dinner and tomorrow's lunch) from one restaurant dinner.
Don't forget to wrap your vitamin with fat and spring a bit of black pepper over it...
I've had interviewers mention my GitHub account twice. It's been on my resume for years. I'm unsure that having a GitHub account (well appointed or sparse) makes any difference at all to those of us in the peloton.
Plasma-based noise cancellation could silence rooms, cars and planes
If you want a more casual approach then to right away import 600 feeds into your reader, check out the feed options at IndieBlog.page - it gives you daily random posts not only from the 600 URLs of that recent thread but also from a similar one back in April last year and a bunch of other indie sources...

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> Because I do disagree with them, and don't want them here? Is that not the case for you

So you would prefer that they congregate in their own private echo chambers, rather than come to a place with differing ideals where their own convictions could be challenged? How can we ever bridge the gap if we push people into their own bubbles?
"People" aren't the ones deploying chatbots, companies are, because they successfully deflect cases.

If you think most people have done everything to avoid reaching out to support, I can only imagine you haven't worked in a "Tier 1" support role.
As a Romanian, I completely agree. The US does need a bit more civic spirit that can't be generated from market incentives -- it needs to be indoctrinated so to speak from a young age.
The article says Russia did it, but there is nothing to back up that claim.
You mean like ICON?
Actually when I think about it, it's even worse than this. Firefox has been on the receiving end of this type of discrimination more or less for as long as it's existed. It was the state of affairs when IE was the challenger too.

You have to be just mindbogglingly oblivious to not see how this has been one of their biggest problems the last 20 years.
> False Consensus Bias. Everyone is like me, so everyone should do the things that work for me.

The author makes interesting points, and "everyone" makes more sense when you scope it to the HN crowd.
Still need oil for plastics and industrial chemical production, both of which are going to be needed for the foreseeable future.
So do you get unlimited notebooks and tags when you self-host?
Andreas Kling is a true hacker, one of the remaining few. A beacon of the hacker spirit. May he sail long in the winds of the incessant specs and guide us. I hope he inspires thousands more to eschew LeetCode and be a true hacker.
Wow, no mention of DVC (http://www.dvc.org)? That has been invaluable for data scientist workflows.

I definitely do like to strip notebooks and make them run-idempotent to the best of my ability, but sometimes you just need stateful notebooks. And since .ipynb are technically json but in reality act more like a binary file format (with respect to diffing), DVC is the ideal tool to store them. Don't get me started on git annex or LFS, both of those took years off my life due to stress of using them and them bugging out.

Also I am hardly a fan of XML, but does anyone feel like notebook files would have been a near-ideal use-case of it? It's literally a collection of markup. The fact that json was chosen over xml I think is somewhat damning of xml as an application data storage format. I think xml is perfectly cromulent as a write-once-read-many presentation format or rendering target (html, svg, GeniCam api info), but it seems to flounder in virtually every other domain it's been shoehorned into, with the exception of office application formats.

Actually, downthread there is a link to a jupyer enhancement proposal for a .nb.md markdown based format. I think this is great. One theme I keep coming across in my computer science journey is that formats which have mandatory closing endcaps are kind of a PITA. It seems the stream-of-containers (with state machines as needed) is all-around better. JSON-LD is better than JSON, streaming video formats are better than ones that stick metadata at the end, zip is... an eldritch horror, etc.
"News"
It is not hard to find, and requires no special skills. Every residential AC compressor has a removable cover where the capacitor is mounted. No soldering required either, just connecting and disconnecting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWH38Rg1iMI&pp=ygUeUmVwbGFja...

Home Depot has a tutorial too:

https://www.homedepot.com/c/ah/ac-capacitor-replacement/9ba6...
Not Norwegian here, but here's a map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Norway#/medi...

...and the answer is: mostly in the North.
> How is higher net worth a benefit?

The benefit comes from gains being definitively accumulated by percentage. When your owned amount is higher, equal percent gain is greater absolute gain.

> Gains are locked into a property until sold or mortgaged.

This is essentially the equivalent of "Gains are locked into money until spent on goods or services." True. But gains are gains and worth is worth regardless of how many seconds or minutes it takes to spend. The only difference is immediate urgency of conversion within a very narrow time window (it does not take that long to get a mortgage on an owned property that is now worth X percent more than it was yesteryear).
Ask HN: How important is production like data to your development process?
Lately, I've seen a lot of companies with offerings for remote development environments and preview / ephemeral environments (disclaimer, I work for one of these companies).

However because so many people seem to have solved this issue (each with their own twist though), I've been thinking about that creating the environments and deploying them may not be the important part? Perhaps it is the DX around the data that is supplied to these environments. I think the data can come in a few different manners:

* A brand new database with the correct schema attached, however there is no data. This is useful to be able to use the environment, but a pain if you have to insert a lot of data to be able to use the environment. This is probably the easiest and could be done through a container running Postgres/Mysql/etc

* A database with the correct schema and some seed data. This fixes the scaffolding issue so the environment is immediately usable but doesn't allow for reproducing bugs from production. Again, this could be done through a container.

* A production cloned database. This allows for debugging any production bugs or issues. However without being able to scrub PII from the data, this opens security concerns. This approach could be done through a container, but doing say pg_restore into a container is going to make the startup time for this environment a lot slower. Another approach is to use something like RDS and backup snapshots to create the clones and have them ready to be used by an environment before hand.

* A scrubbed production clone. Same as above, but with all the PII removed. I think this is the top tier and would give the most benefits to developers without the security concerns.

I'm curious what other peoples thoughts are around this topic and how / if your company is providing production like data to the development process?
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