skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are a few niches for construction that haven't been solved, CLT and CMU can go up 16 stores and should be able to deliver "infinite" apartment buildings

european companies will build prefab exterior enclosure to retrofit old construction without displacing residents https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03787...

New construction:

Integrated Project Delivery - AI could solve the problem of aligning stakeholders possibly

Applying scrum/lean to construction -

BIM - there is a lot of data in a building and BIM standards are putting everything into one file,

digital twins: lidar and cameras and ai are all getting better where high accuracy scans can create as built digital twins while referencing BIM file to build it.

lifecycle analysis and building automation: precooling and preheating spaces, I believe we should have better rubric for valuing existing properties eg a window is an asset and a liability (many owners do not account for replacement costs leading to buildings in disrepair)

skilled labor - mixed reality education: if there is a digital twin then worker could use augmented reality to see preferred methods to make that happen while being credentialed and upskilling (crazy brick facades become possible)

Hadrian robot competitors: crane placing concrete blocks autonomously
As someone who currently works for Red Hat, yes. Red Hat is more than just a "department within a larger structure", it retains a separate CEO (who reports to IBM, yes), a separate human resources department, separate marketing events, we (apart from maybe a few dozen people) do not have IBM email addresses nor do we use their internal systems or vendors (except for e.g. Employee Stock Purchase Plan). There is almost no interaction between Red Hat and IBM employees apart from the highest levels.

Most of the decisions/changes which people attribute to IBM fall into one of a few categories:

* What tends to happen to any company when it doubles / triples in size to >20,000 employees, as Red Hat did from 2017 to 2023.

* Leadership shuffles, such as when Jim was replaced by Paul when Jim became President of IBM. (This happened at the same time as the acquisition, but just because one CEO made choices differently than another might have doesn't make IBM directly responsible for those decisions).

* The rise of Amazon, Google, Microsoft / PaaS and SaaS / containers sucking a lot of air out of the traditional Red Hat market segment. RHEL is still an important cornerstone of the company, but remaining a successful company 10 years from now will require finding additional niches and creating value in ways that are not as vulnerable to entities 100x our size.
From personal experience, non-confrontational petty theft in Europe tends to be an issue only in high density high tourist areas. So no wonder it can have weird contrast with civic metrics
The weird thing is Houston has this reputation without even building that much housing. They build about the same amount per capita as Dallas or San Antonio, but Austin builds way more and that has been true for 30 years.
I wrote a post about public speaking (amazingly, I'll refrain from self-promoting it here /s ) and part of that was reviewing other "advice" on speaking.

One of the things they almost always say is, "tell a story."

The problem is that everyone does it these days. You're listening and thinking, "oh, he's telling a story now."

Maybe the New Yorker's moved on, but for years, their standard template was,

1. Introduce a person A who does X

2. Expound on X, occasionally mentioning A

3. Finish the story about A.
> Buying a house today largely means being able to outbid people with millions of dollars in cash and real estate at their disposal, you will see this firsthand if you ever try to buy a home in a competitive area.

In my experience this is certainly true with any large land plot, which can easily be subdivided into smaller plots with houses.
It's too early to say whether the French Revolution was positive or not
For super simple stuff, sure, but many issues are easier to explain in natural language and a fluent UI (something with a lot of conditionals, well beyond a simple HTML form.
How long do we need to wait until whatever patent encumberance that's keeping e-ink displays at these ridiculous prices expires and we can start to see affordable e-ink displays?
Sounds like AGI will need a fedora hat to symbolize its metamorphosis into a full-blown redditor
again, CO₂ doesn't matter, despite the mediopolitical hysteria over it. it's a gas that life depends on and is well-adapted to. but pollution has been killing millions of people a year for at least a hundred years already and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. generation and transportation account for the majority of that pollution.
The 2016 Nice truck attack killed 86 people and the law that police could shoot at drivers endangering passersby was put it to address that. It's an unfortunate incident, but when you import a lot of people who are now potential terrorists you have to set up a police state to prevent terrorism. Should the police just ignore these cases given what happened? How would you feel if your child or family member was killed by that truck and how come there were no riots by the native population to protest immigration policy that was bringing terrorists into the country?
Immigration? Really? You think people escaping their destabilized homelands are going to be able to put a down payment, let alone get the credit, or even have the history to get a mortgage?

There’s other reasons for demand side being the cause but immigration has got to be pretty far down on that list.
For others with similar issues I wrote up some documentation for publishing a feed that can serve as a checklist.

https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/
Millions of bad games do not make the few good games bad. You could use the same argument against Steam.
We don’t need minerals for blood (hardly any consumers there), but for tissue and structure. Those sites store and don’t flow.
A particular type of essay that HN is an absolute sucker for — an awesome type of person that you're supposed to identify with. Paint Drip Person. T-Shaped Person. Paul Graham has also written a bunch of these, so maybe it's just in the DNA of the site.

I guess the classical example of this is the renaissance man, but that at least required different fields like art and science and not different kinds of programming.
Bacon and ham are highly processed and salted foods.
$ sudo -a -F /etc/shadow
bash: sudo: command not found
https://archive.li/EY0t6
> The construction industry's fundamental constraint is that it manufactures products that are too big to fit in highway lanes. That means they can't be shipped from a centrally-located factory to their final destinations.

As a whole, yes. But there are a number of companies that are building segments (walls) in a factory and then shipping those to be craned-in like Lego® blocks. Some factory tour videos:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-RTlbv84T8

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeHkVeJO6PE

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3QZVG-18E
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Would anyone be willing to explain this? Who is "us", what is a PCL, what is a spool, what are these random words? Is this supposed to be a puzzle?
The example of phonics vs. sight reading shows that professional educators are just the blind leading the blind. Parents have known for years that phonics work, but institutionalists dismissed their complaints as spouting off from the sidelines. Challenging established authority is the engine of progress in science and society. Appeal to authority is the last resort of those who have no other ground to stand on. If you want to elevate the discourse, engage with what people are actually saying, with their ideas, instead of dismissing them as idiot outsiders.
Perfect, thank you. Somehow the download button didn’t lead here, or at least didn’t trigger this for me. It might be because I have the GitHub iOS app installed.
"Every person on the planet" is an exaggeration. But I've had my own website for 20 years, and it's much better than Facebook and Twitter.
They chose to keep algeria during their democratic periods as well.
I never got it. Everyone says it’s fantastic, I feel like an idiot for absolutely not getting it at all when it came out and still not today.
Like Anglo countries don't have extremely close ties and similar governments and ideologies that they might as well be a single country.
At the same time, we're one of the most volunteering and charitable countries. But, I think civility is decreasing --be that due to economic conditions, mass pop culture or demographics.
Yep.

Quality of human life will decrease. Many humans will die earlier than they otherwise would have. Many non-human species will go extinct.

Life won't end. It'll suck, probably about as badly as it has ever sucked.

The Earth is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron and silica. Earth is fine. But Earth doesn't matter, because essentially nothing is going to do anything substantial to Earth. When people refer to "Earth", they're usually referring to the ecosphere of Earth. But I suspect a few people in this thread are referring to the ball of rock & iron.
It's not just an argument that they should let you in, it's a BATNA – it's an opportunity for them to argue that they are worth your time.

If they don't even try to convince you, you should probably stick with your business.
While I wholeheartedly agree that Facebook, Instagram, et al are net negatives for society, I think that it could still be a worrying for the EU if major companies and services simply decide not to do business in the EU. It will be interesting to see if this becomes a trend, if it's a one-off situation, or if it's only a temporary limitation.
Because it feeds what ever is popular,most created etc. Most kids have a pressure to be good at school, not to date the hot girl /guy at school. So it creates social craziness in college and boardinghouse but that's another matter.
Why are people using BlueStacks if WSA exists? It seems to be the standard way to play Android games on PC.
I’ve seen newspapers hung above urinals as reading material. Generally the front page or the sports page under glass.
> the connectome is there, we know all the neurons and their connections

No- each synapse has its particular neurotransmitters, and the distance, size, shape, number of receptors, and associated glial cells have very large impacts on transmission. The distance and thickness of axons also impacts the strength of signal delivered. That's all very hard to measure.

Neurons are also very sensitive to signal strength and timing. Eg inhibitory synapses work by opening holes in the cell wall, causing them to leak charge over time. You get that rate slightly wrong and it can hugely change the behavior of the cell.

The connectome is a bit like an untrained model of insane complexity, and each neuron has several weights that describe behavior over time as well as in direct response to signals. Without the weights it can't be emulated.
What I mean is that just about every aspect of medicine - teaching it, studying it, practicing it, research - is all very highly regulated with a lot of oversight both internally from those already licensed, and the government. Outside of things like finance or defense you'd be hard pressed to find anything more regulated.
As someone who actually worked in construction (excavation in my case):

- it is immensely capital intensive at scale. Your average excavator runs in the mid 5 digits, cranes and other specialized equipment way more. If you want to start a nationwide company, no one is stopping you, but be ready to shell out hundreds of millions of dollars before you made a single cent of income.

- Staffing is just as bad... you can't outsource the grunt work to the cheapest contractor overseas, you need actually certified people on site and most young people don't want to work in that area anymore as it is really hard, literally back breaking work.

- it is, and that for good reason, extremely regulated by government. No one dies if Facebook is down for an hour because someone fucked up a deployment. Mistakes in construction can cost lives or cause serious bodily harm or damages to nature (e.g. a sewer leaking into a groundwater table).

- almost none of it is automatable or in any way "disruptible" by a startup. Sure you can improve a bit by investing in automation or better digital tooling, but the ROI is in the single digits.

- most of the industry is decentralized small contractors. You can't go viral with construction, you can't build monopolies to extract rents later on.

- regulations are completely different everywhere on all levels, meaning you can't do a "build a standard whitelabel solution and sell it for cheap" job.

- most of the industry is extremely local and "knowing" people is how you get business. At the same time, purchasing is extremely local as well. If you want to construct a new home, you ask other home builders on recommendations for contractors.

- ETA: Yes of course there are giant companies in the construction world, but these companies don't do any small scale shit, these companies don't even return calls unless you're talking dozens of millions of euros of volume. But you can't really "disrupt" these either because of the sheer amount of everything you need just to get off the ground.

- ETA2: Another issue is a lot of the trades are run by older people with a ... seriously lacking understanding of modern IT. You'd be surprised how many essentially run off of Outlook, Excel and a CAD program. You'll have a very hard time pitching something to a crowd that has specialized in a specific thing and all but ossified there.

- Testing opportunities are scarce. Construction is an insanely risky business, delays causing significant followup costs and penalties, so you'll have it even harder to pitch something unevaluated to someone.
It sounds like you are using the tool wrong. Jupyter notebooks are strictly superior to anything else (namely: code only, spreadsheets, matlab/octave) at their primary use case, which is interactive data science (writing code to manipulate some data, while actively revising the code, or sharing the results of that code with others).

Nothing even comes close. There's a reason it's dominant in the data science field.

Your workflow works for you but the jupyter workflow works for millions of students, data scientists, and even developers. Heck I even know all the ways to avoid jupyter, and I still use it often, because it's so convenient.
There's probably only one Amazon Rivian van model, so if that's a Rivian Amazon van, then yes.
That's probably what the governments of ostensibly democratic countries were thinking when they decided to change their demographic destiny without actually getting the consent of the people first. "The people who complain are reductionist and irresponsible."
Reads like a content piece to push pgvector.

This is good feedback. I think this is more of a critique of my writing style than anything. I need to work on this!
In Eastern countries, officially things were "cooperative" centric, in reality, breadlines and such meant you looked out for number one.
Worth reading through for a chuckle. Don't deprive yourself.

Why_ had a type of character we can easily forget used to exist, in this modern world where everyone is either slammed through cookie-cutters to become over-socialized slimy corporate people or medicated into a zombie-like state of partial existence.
I think you literally proved his point. It’s because capitalism that developers only build profitable properties. They will not build anything that devalues their own portfolio. That’s just capitalism for you.
> The racism is definitely a problem, but you have to remember that quite a lot of the younger generation of nonwhite people are French; i.e. born in France holders of French nationality, considered to be "French" by the French census, educated in French schools, and occasionally shot at by French gendarmes.

Citizenship and ethnicity are two different things. Nobody is denying the existence of French citizenship, but this insistence on denying the existence of French ethnicity (as the French state insists on doing) is just dishonest. The difference between the two has been acknowledged for as long as multiethnic states have existed.
Sorry, who do you deal with these days who has a customer service line? The few that do, you have to go through like 3 minutes of robot "press 3 for this department," with the 0 shortcut to talk to somebody leading to an instant hangup ("goodbye") except on menu 27B where it works
Open Sustainable Tech – curated list of projects to sustain a stable climate
What does this mean in simple terms?
OK, how about becoming a doctor? Software development is a bad example for today, but was an excellent example for when I was growing up because Youtube and Google both did not yet exist and the personal computer had just started appearing in everyone's home. The resources weren't there.

How would this new setup allow me to become something other than what is immediately around me?
It seems like there's opportunity then in helping make regulations more legible/understandable, highlighting local differences, assisting with permitting and compliance, etc.? Seems like an area where LLMs could help out
Nvidia AI Tech Ramps Up Carbon Capture and Storage Predictions 700,000x
Quantum Computing: The Enigma of the Digital Age
Immigration seen that way to me is similar to considering human as cattle. If moral matters in the question.

If not. difficult to solve?

I have no strong opinion to the question of contraception but it would be sensical to promote and educate people (both men and women) that parenting is good (arguing with nature is hard) especially when the nation needs more births.

I feel obligated to apologies, but won't. I do accept to having to point out I'm in no way stating contraception should be illgal or anything of that sort.

I concede that for solutioning the short term issue of shortage of workers, there are no other scheme to employ, I'm out of idea. No wait! There are officially almost 3 million unemployed residents in France. I won't try to demonstrate it's in fact double this number, nor bring up the argument a few million don't really work given they do just as little as they get paid.

We are taken for fools. And a number of idiots found no alternative than setting stuff on fire. It's not just immigrants rioting.
The Seductive Vision of Green Aviation
> Choosing to enjoy life today instead of waiting for tomorrow for that enjoyment isn't a failure, it's a choice. It comes with risk and tradeoffs.

That dichotomy is not always true. There is a percentage of people that can enjoy their youth (travel, parties, ...) and still get a plentiful future. Other people needs to renounce to everything now just to survive to tomorrow. So, not always a choice there.
Good sign for Russia and Romania, a bad trajectory for the US.
A lot of enjoyable meals with friends and overweight is not necessaraly correlated.
There are a lot of social gourmets that have normal weight. Usually overweight comes from cheap garbage fastfood, sweet drinks and low physical movement.
Excellent food has often low calories and small portions.
Psssssh, everyone knows that New Zealand doesn't exist, it's why it's not on any maps!
For our backlist, the titles most likely going to POD are old enough that sometimes all we have work from are scans of the physical copies. Our back catalog goes back quite a long ways. POD quality still varies a lot, though short run digital printing has improved significantly in the past decade or so.
Please explain EXACTLY what is being removed from the argument, that if added, would change the argument in a meaningful way. Or, if that's too much of an ask, how about ANYTHING?

Labeling something reductionist doesn't mean it's reductionist, nor magically make the argument go away like you desire.

What you're doing is a common propaganda technique used by tyrants and oppressive regimes to silence dissent with pseudo-intellectual discourse.

You should genuinely be embarrassed at this brain dead reply.
There are checks and balances built in. For example, if you offer too much money, and the appraisal comes back and says it's not worth that much money, then your loan will not cover it and you will be on the hook to cover the difference.
I believe the conceit here is that _why is communicating to us through a printer queue or "spool". PCL files are a form of printer data file.
Interesting note on Katerra, if you visit DPR’s headquarters in Sacramento, there is a vision statement on the wall from around 99 stating their intent to become to construction what HP had been to computers - winning by driving the cutting edge with smart innovation. Not so different from the Katerra pitch, except that DPR is run by seasoned construction professionals who want to leverage lessons from tech - not technocrats who think the building industry needs to be told what to do.
PCL is postscript common language or something like that, basically an alternative to PDF as far as I know.
I recently interviewed with a fantastic startup in that space called TestFit (testfit.io).
It could also be that the study amount isn't enough. 60000 IU in a "monthly oral dose" seems like a poor way of going about it. First, it would average out to only 2000 IU/day and second, if there are absorption issues with either taking such a high dose at once or the person didn't eat enough fat or something you're going to absorb even less of it.

These doses are kind of laughable compared to what you get from the sun:

>A minimum erythema dose (1 MED) amounts to about 30 minutes midsummer midday sun exposure in Oslo (=20 mJ/cm2). Such an exposure given to the whole skin surface is equivalent to taking between 10,000 and 20,000 IU vitamin D orally, i.e. as much as 250-500 μg vitamin D

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19667143/

Sure, you might not have your entire skin exposed, but I'm the past we didn't only get 30 minutes of sun exposure either. It might just be that they didn't see any significant effect because the vitamin D supplementation wasn't high enough.

Multivitamins probably aren't going to give you enough either. Maybe if you take take them with 8g of fat and no caffeine, but even then it would depend on the multivitamin.
_why's work was much of what got me into Ruby in the first place. Not so much quirky as proudly both hyperliterate and unhinged, like the computing world's extension of depressed indie bands meeting David Foster Wallace in the early aughts.

Most of us that would've been into _why's stuff now have more traditional-looking jobs and responsibilities. But I'm so grateful for what he showed us then, and miss the more genuinely human, broken and vulnerable community he represented.
Yes! You’ve got to the point here.
People want natural parks and durable clothing, but given the set of constraints society has put on them they “choose” the more affordable and less desirable options because they’ve also got kids to feed (and/or other stuff).
Perhaps because with existing emulation you don't (easily) get the play services, with this you will easily be able to pay for microtransations to "win" in your games and google gets their 30% cut of those. Its also easier so more people will use it and pay to win. Perhaps it also gives them more data on their users since they can directly snoop on everything running, connected to or stored on the Windows system, play store services running on an emulator is less useful to google.
Evidence for Large Increases in Clear-Air Turbulence over the Past Four Decades
Implementing 402s with Lightning might be useful for an AI system to pay for calls to things it needs from the Internet. It would give it the ability to do micropayments and authentication.
Well I dunno. I prepare food myself like soups and stews and all and what I found makes the difference between my wife and kid saying "meh" or "fantastic!" is two hefty spoons of salt.