skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please quit asking to make fossil fuels more expensive. This gets people to vote for those who run on cheap gas and energy, and it plays well politically.

Fix renewable energy, invest in the R&D, etc.

Climate change is a slow train wreck happening over a century. it’s a bit embarrassing that we’ve done so little.

We burn more coal now than ever before.

https://www.iea.org/news/the-world-s-coal-consumption-is-set...
I own two properties, both of which I was lucky enough to be able to afford before the housing crises. Even though I could sell and get a lot more than I paid for either, the fact is that unless I wanted to put that money into something other than a house I'm not going to turn a profit.

I also have two daughters who are young adults and still living at home because they can't afford rent. So even for that reason alone I REALLY don't want expensive housing prices.
literally right there in the comment. "swore at regularly".

Anyways, I definitely agree that swearing isn't the same as abrasive, but swearing at people is definitely an abrasive trait. Also agree that some of the biggest dickheads around keep up an air of professionalism.
> The idea you need to keep registering, providing emails, phones to everyone, picking usernames ...

The great advantage of this workflow is that it minimises damage in event of service shutdown or malicious actors.

By maintaining discrete identities for each service you are compartmentalising and building resilience. It also provides a first layer of privacy, since it becomes more difficult for a malicious actor to correlate identities across services.
I sidestep the issue and use Spotify. My music use is spread between my iPhone, work Mac and my Linux PC at home. Previously, used to also have an Echo Show.

I find Apple’s offering too restrictive even if lossless listening is tempting.
I do not afraid of no AI because current approach is to build an intelligence
applicable to some narrow fields always bond to making money for its creator.

What I am afraid of is a Blockchain-powered AI which uses human's labor at first and which will be shaped to be a governor of the world until the very start. AI which obeys to some power switch is a laughable idea, but a Blockchain-powered one will unleash a totally new future with no ability to change anything for the humanship.
I've been using jQuery without thought for a while. Interesting how much javascript can do on it's own now!
> People seem to have forgotten the boom of prefab/modular houses in the 1960s/1970s

Don't forget the even earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lustron_house
In fact the opposite has happened, and major Silicon Valley companies have agreed not to hire from each other, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
No, I don’t think so. It’s been like a few years since I tried them (2019?). I think it was running some example notebooks - but again, too long ago…

Back to the important questions:
1) Why no user support and explanation?
2) Why lock out users and keep charging them?
3) Why not give them the full refund for the period that Paperspace KNEW I could not access my account but just the 3 months I could do myself by CC chargebacks?

Why do I need to justify myself here? What part of this “we lock you out and charge you” is proper behavior? @mewmew07?
Not sure how true this is, but I've also heard that having a small snack or meal before taking the supplement will make it more "bioavailable"
Yes, and what screwed us all over were the anti-nuke people. If the US could have built nuclear reactors over the past 40+ years, we would only need to worry about the transition to EVs. Granted the corruption surrounding the building of these plants would also have needed to be eliminated, probably the hardest part :(

BTW, I support the environment, but I always have and still believe nuclear would have been the best choice. Then we would have time to transition to other sources keeping nuclear as a backup. So now, we are in a hurry up we will all soon die mode. For this, I blame the anti-nuke crowd, I would not be surprised if the coal and oil industries funded these people.
I will definitely look into it!
Thanks a lot for sharing this, we really like gorilla! This is definitely on our roadmap.
They're also extremely local, so it can be quite hard to scale.

The standard SV "ignore the laws until too big to fail" Uber/Airbnb is just not going to fly. You've never seen enforcement until you've seen the building inspectors crawl up someone's back unpermitted retaining wall (going so far as to take the sheriffs to order a backhoe to knock things down).
In other words, regulations that increase the costs of building housing increase the costs of housing.

Funny how that works.
Could someone with more expertise and background explain in *good faith* how likely this may or may not be related to the company Oxitec releasing 2.4 billion mosquitos in Florida to reduce tropical disease? I realize they only released non-biting Aedes aegypti male mosquitoes, but I'd like to hear how possible it is the safety concerns by critics were valid and some females survived. Is it impossible this is related? If not, what are the chances that it is related?

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-the-us-plans-t...
That's not how mosquito breeding works. #3 would be an absurdly insane assertion, and unnecessary; malaria is transported by adult female mosquitos from one infected human to another human.

These programs release male mosquito eggs from many-generations-old captive populations, which is not how malaria spreads.
It's going to be very dirty, but it can be solved. I still hold some faith.
I think Japan might be the best example of this. I don't know about minimum wage laws, but their immigration system is famously draconian and obviously they're an island.
It’s been 16 years since the Kindle was released and I am super bummed that e-ink/e-paper is still so friggin expensive and esoteric.
Salt is a taste enhancer where the underlying food is not up to scratch.

The food quality is getting worse as companies seek margins and throw the salt in to compensate for their business decisions.
Fascinating. Thank you for these exchanges, and @414owen for the original posts. This was fun. :-)
You could leave lathe off of the tops and bottoms of your walls and cover those sections with baseboards and crown molding. Then you pop off the baseboards / crown molding to get access behind the wall.
How can someone think that? How can increase of supply increase prices? What's the logic behind that perception?
As long as they cover the curriculum required by state law, withholding money from them because they choose to teach religion is the violation of separation of church and state. The money is for the state mandated education of the children which is typically being satisfied.
its not personally identifiable.... yet, but in the future someone will figure out a way to do it

not my os, not my problem
I hear you. It's no good for chronically disruptive kids to be in juvie all the time, but it's also no good for them to remain in classrooms. Any amount of pay won't salve the sheer stress of attempting to teach those who won't learn. It would be great if someone could just snap their fingers and give those kids stable homes or something. Unfortunately, I suspect the solution requires efforts on multiple fronts (ample food, housing, social support, etc.) and will be expensive, difficult, and slow.
It would almost be embarrassing if Twitter didn't have weekly issues relating to... checks clipboard ...scaling an RPC architecture.
Archive link: https://archive.is/11dad
It's certainly more cringe to link to a post on someone's personal website and point at it, as supposed proof of their idiocy, for internet points.

And psychedelics are fun (in moderation). Try some, they might expand your mind a little.
iOS developer here. I have separate Apple accounts for work and home. My phone is on my home account, so I don't have access to Teams or Outlook on that. And I don't use iMessage on my work machine because pretty much all company communication is in Teams or Outlook or some other work-related software. I have a separate github account for work and personal.
>> nowadays tonic water usually has little if any quinine

In the US, The FDA limits how much can be added, https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/what-is-quinine-in-to....

"Per FDA ruling, tonic water can contain only 83 milligrams of quinine per liter. The typical medicinal dosage of quinine is around 500 milligrams, and in the case of malaria, it is taken multiple times a day"
While true, the requestor had never heard of differential privacy techniques and that is not what they were planning on implementing. This was brought up in the discussion thread.
Where AGI is still the realm of science fiction, I think an AGI could recognize that <CompanyName, City> is a unique entity, and that CompanyName isn't the same from city to city.
It’s “invisible” in that it’s one of those things people (especially property owners) prefer not to talk or think about. Like how most people grossly discriminate based on perceived appearance or attractiveness. No one wants to admit that they are part of the problem.
After listening to Laurene "we can control that narrative" Powell-Jobs talk about the Atlantic, which she owns, I don't take much from that publication very seriously.
It's also just not true in a lot of areas. I live in an area where nearly every house is already an apartment building or a 100-year old mansion converted to condos or apartments. New construction is all multi-family and transit-oriented. Prices are still high because there's just too many damn people trying to live here.

The problem is not that there isn't enough housing in any one particular area. There are a lot of issues with the argument that everyone everywhere just needs to build as much as possible, no matter what, and it's disingenuous to any such argument as NIMBYism.

The problem is that there aren't enough nice places that are actually comfortable to live: good access to transit, access to green spaces, not too much traffic, access to shopping and grocery stores, etc. This is broadly because of how American cities and towns are designed.
All of that may or may not be true, but Macron bringing it up is designed to distract from the fact that a police officer went really aggressive on a 17 year old, then shot him dead when he tried to flee. Apparently this was just a routine traffic check. The kid was Arab, so there is an implied racial aspect to it as well.

Here's the video of the actual shooting:

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20230627-french-police-of...

The police of course lied and tried to spin it as the kid was some sort of threat, then the video came out. The kid was unarmed, and the police had is gun drawn and pointed at his head, threatening to shoot him. The driver inched forward and was shot at point blank range.

Here's the NYT summary on it.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/world/europe/france-prote...

In response to the violence Macron seems to be going full authoritarian to combat it by threatening to cut off social media and whatnot. We've of course seen this by dictators like Putin when he was being criticized for the Ukraine war.
I’m going to disagree with you here. For most kids in high school regulars courses it is absolutely day care. And that’s the majority of students.

Honors, AP, IB are not daycare.
There are some startups, but they seem to be very limited in their growth potential given the very cyclical nature of construction. I believe this hampers their access to VC and debt funding, so they don't make as big of a splash.

My city has a local construction startup that is trying to drop the cost of housing units by fabricating panels and rooms offsite and assembling at the construction site: https://www.modulehousing.com/
I doubt it, because they didn't leave the wallets in the street, but "in the reception area... of five types of societal institutions: (i) banks; (ii) theaters, museums, or other cultural establishments; (iii) post offices; (iv) hotels; and (v) police stations, courts of law, or other public offices."
It's not desirable, no, but there are other employers to go work for.

If you get expelled _by a public school system_ you may not have another option.

My worldview is that all kids have the right to an education, regardless of how "manageable" adults interpret their behavior. "Disruptive children" are more often a failure of the adult to meet the needs of the child. Also they're children. They haven't learned how to behave like adults yet. Expecting them to do so is cruel.
It's impossible, because those programs release male mosquito eggs (https://www.oxitec.com/en/news/just-add-water-oxitecs-new-fr...), in which malaria does not live. Malaria is picked up by adult female mosquitos when they bite; there has to be a human reservoir for them to get it from.
> Sunlight does seem to correlate with reduced mortality

Source?

Every article/discussion that shows up here suggests the jury is still out in this as well.
Neither would anyone else, but it's about making money.
If a browser ever implemented this that would be hilarious: the xkcd protocol
I wrote an article regarding both webrings & collectives. Consider checking it out- https://foreverliketh.is/blog/exploring-the-personal-web/
There is a company from S20 called Atmos (https://buildatmos.com) that does custom home building as a service.

I think in general though construction tech is hard because the margins aren't as crazy and it's extremely labor intensive. I briefly looked into working for a hardwood flooring software business and I realized that most flooring companies cap out at around $10m revenue and most are family owned/operated with no desire to change things around because "that's how it always was done".
You'd think there'd be a novel application along the lines of programming Boston Dynamics robots to construct cookie-cutter template houses, no?

Have humans in the loop to clear the land and drive construction materials to the site, but build the rest with robots that can work through the night and faster than any human, constructing the same template again and again in different lots?

Sure, bureaucracy is a major bottleneck, but it's not like human construction finished within a month...
GPU Guide (For AI Use-Cases)
I work at Red Hat and interact daily with the people making the decisions and it has nothing to do with IBM! In fact they run Red Hat (surprisingly) hands-off. And this particular proposal comes from GNOME who have been making terrible decisions long before IBM acquired Red Hat.
I don't think you can buy a large eink screen as a consumer anywhere because of the shenanigans of the company that owns the eink technology. I forgot the exact details, but it was discussed here several times in the past.
It does seem like a good approach, though that seems to imply that they understand the context of the prompt being entered. Has anyone tackled this context sensitive model routing? It seems like a good approach, but likely not straightforward.
Well I'm not a TikTok user, but it wouldn't surprise me if such a filter was equally uncomfortable with the words "murdered" or "killed" in videos. They probably really don't want death threats going viral.
I love listening to Guy Raz's "How I Built This" podcast - a common element in almost every success story is the number of failures it took to reach success. Failure, the ability to keep working / pivot through failures, and being okay with failure seem to be requirements to succeeding.

Failure is literally a key ingredient to success.
For a long time I've wanted a variant of this idea in which the exterior walls of the house are separated by a man-sized air gap from the interior walls of the house.

This make plumbing and wiring easier to repair; vermin easier to ensnare; improve safety from wildfires; and force every window to be a nice bay window with seating.
It all depends on the area things were built in. I don't know if bank loans were involved, but a bunch of houses in Southern Spain burned down in a forest fire. The insurance refused to cover because the paper work for the buildings got accepted due to corruption. Those areas were not legal to build in.
Should you allow telemetry? (2021)
Funnily I arrived only 18 miles from target, a place I never heard of and have absolutely no idea how it looks like :)
Technically, non-Christian public schools are more common than any other now.

You need to look at the inverse of this though. If people want to be able to ensure that people without the financial means to participate cannot attend, all they'll need to do is attach a religious label to the school and that will ensure that the funds aren't able to be accepted. Creating an exclusivity by proxy.

The other issue is the assumption that public funds aren't supporting any religion already. This is a loop hole by claiming that a religion doesn't have an actual deity and therefore is exempt. Meaning, you can teach anything you want as long as there wasn't a deity involved.

Mindfulness, for example, comes from Buddhism but is widely encouraged in public schools. It's only allowed because it doesn't claim a deity. The "Church of Satan" goes out of it's way to claim they don't believe in any god. Hedonism goes back to the days of ancient fertility cults that were typically associated with some type of idol worship, but as long as you don't publicize the idol it passes the "no deity" test.

The "veil of ignorance" definitely covers use cases along with this. There are a lot of parents who are very aware that belief systems are being taught in schools, deity or no.
Buildzoom is always advertising on HN for more people, so they're at least not dead yet.
I want AI to do my plumbing, electricity, service my car, and fix the washing machine. Actually do these things, not create some abstract walled garden mobile app-based layer. Chat is the most useless superfluous and irritating application.
Communist is communist. All for the good they said.
Some PM and VP probably looked for ways to increase the P&L. I've talked with many googlers, and they interviewed me for leadership positions related to gaming before. I do not like their approach. No gamer wants this. I'm not even sure gaming on Android is even close to what it should be on mobile.

PC gamers, the ones who buy ssds, gaming gpus, want 4k 60fps, you're telling me they want to use mobile games in a vm or wrapper or whatever? You're telling me the people who buy $70 games want free 5 minute games?

There is no way one of these execs is a serious gamer, like the ones they're courting. This is lazy, cheap, and ignorant. I think Stadia was more meaningful than this even, because at least it had some games. This is just going to be a massive waste of time, and they'll just conclude that gaming is a tough business and they were too early.
What is unscientific about the article?
Exactly, yes. I never use the chat support (whether robotic or manned) because if I'm at the point where that's necessary, I'm at the point where I need to talk to a human being personally.
The military is funding psy-ops to make you think there'll be hot young e-girls waiting for you if you enlist, instead of big dudes.
Not sexy, but these guys do project management for builders: https://buildertrend.com/
I share your surprise at how simplistic self-help bromides consistently bubble to the top of this site.
I find people routinely ignore this and still just say Hello. It’s a habit hard to get rid of. So just ignore the person saying Hello. Later I found some people complaining about how I am never available for “quick” chat.
Adding to this, bug reporting in the Red Hat ecosystem is an extremely painful process. Multiple accounts, no feedback, mandatory detailed system information collection if you want to use the built in bug report (which also needs an account). No automatic aggregation, processing, or association with similar issues.

It's a black box with no incentive to participate unless you're one of those specific types of users that is dedicated enough to put up with all of that, or users that have never done it before and are trying hard to contribute back.
And that has to do with IBM how exactly?
> that there’s no way the app will have the answer ... Hey, my credit card isn’t working, and maybe it’s because of a weird charge I had on it yesterday, but then something else happened right before this purchase” – that’s the sort of complicated scenario

Hmm, what makes OP think a chatgpt can't answer this question? Given enough tokens passed to a ChatGPT session, a chatbot can eventually find out what's going on and provide a simple to understand explaination.
> What makes you so confident they can succeed when they have a history of consistently dropped the ball to other social networks like TikTok and Twitter?

Elon. He's a tool, and everyone on Twitter knows it. Everyone from the bottom-of-the-barrel conservative free speech commentators to the pie-in-the-sky trust fund liberals.

I'm not very fond of Mark Zuckerberg either, but at least he's capable of waking up in the morning and not sending C&Ds to his competitors out of desperation. He just shows up, puts on a friendly face and offers everything that Twitter refuses to.
the US economy can’t function smoothly without UPS. Thats why a strike will hurt
They mistake correlation (new buildings going up as housing prices increase) and causation.
There is this https://www.mudbots.com/
It's a not-unusual theory, but it's bumping into something I'd really like to avoid (especially on HN), which is negative generalizations of different age/gender/racial/familystatus/etc. demographics in business contexts.

(In the US, a super HR person's Spidey Sense would tingle, and they'd fly across the building and yank the keyboard out of someone's hands, before certain sentences could be finished. Then sit down for a constructive discussion about why generalizations are not only counterproductive and unfair, but also a big policy no-no at most established US companies. But on HN, we just have to frequently ask to please stop saying that.)
Please tell me what language they should have written it in then?

They have a incredibly successful company. What did ruby do to hurt you personally.

This whole line is co oketely irrational. You want thier webapp written in assembly?
AI, trust, and data security are key issues finance firms and their customers
> For all the impressiveness of these chat bots, I think people are still skeptical and hesitant to give it levers that are actually connected to things.

They don't want a person to escalate you either, but you can pressure a person in ways that a chatbot cannot be pressured. At least a person (and their employer) wants to get you off the phone; the person because they're sick of being yelled at and coming up with reasons not to escalate, and their employer because they're paying for the time spent.

A chatbot is happy to talk you in circles all day, and costs near nothing. Empowering chatbots is not the point, one of the advantages of chatbots is that they can be disempowered more easily than humans.
Norwegian here, where are those 36% that aren't electrified? I thought pretty much everything was built electric since the 50s.
People see newly constructed "luxury" housing. They also see techies that can outbid them on rent. They mix up cause and effect and assume that it's the luxury housing that's bringing in all the techies rather than vice versa.
At least they were reasonably portable words that worked in most Latin-based languages.

Whereas Bluesky is firmly English, and probably tilting more towards American corporate English in terms of "Blue sky thinking". Substitute CielBleu as a thought experiment.
It's very honest of him to breakdown how he makes his living on SerenityOS - really enjoyed that blog post, helps give people an idea of how a very technically saavy person can make it in today's world as a "nomad".