skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vienna is always held up as a model. Also Berlin, until recently.
That's effectively what a mortgage is. But then the "rent" would have to be higher by the amount that buys out the existing owner's principal, which is generally higher than a mortgage payment when you also expect the existing owner to pay to maintain the property in the meantime.
If a single line item that seems irrelevant to you makes you think the whole process of security hardening is useless, you are a fool.

Frankly you sound like the tired BOFH trope, if you don't see the benefits of security hardening I hope you are never responsible for anything important infrastructure wise in your organization.
I bet it would work if you invert the control image!
I heard of it ages ago, but it was a terrible experience (constantly opened new browser windows with ads etc) compared to torrents and by the time I actually got interested in music the industry had come up with convenient legal means to buy it. Didn't know that site is still alive though.
The resources and social stigma is vastly different between the two, and way worse for opiate users. The path for getting addicted in the first place is also very different, lots of opiate addicts got hooked after getting them prescribed to them
As long as there's a separate vote for each dimension, this seems like an improvement. Gerrymandering would be significantly harder on age and income, since they're one-dimensional. If age is defined by birth year, then that would have no gerrymandering at all.
I’ve been devoting at least 20 minutes later in the morning to rest for months now. It really makes me incredibly sharper through the rest of the day.

Another thing I’m learning: blocking my eyes so I can focus on something I’m hearing to better absorb its content. Thinking of really good interviews with heady scientists or programmers.
You need to challenge your assumptions more, why couldn't you just make single family dwellings illegal in high demand areas? And have the state in charge of housing? Unless you mean to argue about current laws and situations, the main point of these discussions
and this post is that they are not working.
Amazing guy, I've been using vim daily for decades. I donated 5k to his charity a few years ago as a thank you. He sent a personalized thank you email.

https://iccf-holland.org/
I mostly agree, but it's the same as the argument for immutability in systems more generally: if you can afford the RAM / GC / storage costs then great. Eventually though costs will decrease and new systems will routinely capitalize on the productivity benefits in spite of reduced peak efficiency. HTAP database systems illustrate this trend.

But it's not clear to me that existing, popular database engines will ever be able to evolve to make bitemporality an efficient or easy default choice. And in the meantime countless person-years of effort are wasted rediscovering and solving the same time-related problems over and over.

A world where bitemporality was (somehow) a realistic default choice would be a simpler world, I reckon.
> I assume everyone in Australia has multi-region DVD players and Blu Ray

No, why would we?

Most people will buy whatever dvd/blu ray player they can get at JB HIFI or use their console
I recently fell into a cargobike youtube blackhole.

The bike in the article is back cargo bike. There are two other types, a front cargo bike [1] and cycle trucks [2], a mini version of cargo bikes that I feel is more practical.

Cargo e-bikes can a good car replacement for rides that are nearby your house, like ~10-ish miles one-way; this is the sort of distance where range and effort anxiety wouldn't even kick in (most bike batteries have at least have ~25 mile battery range), but still allow you to do most of the chores you would otherwise do in a car.

I wish this indiegogo campaign [3] of a drop-in system for converting normal non-electric non-cargo bikes into electric cycle trucks would have succeeded, but it didn't match it goals and now even the website is expired; but the idea is nice.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqCKsRxyX0A

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijfmEkNPAsU

[3]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gMmHG4M15k
Intelligence is not a spectrum you can place people along and then point to a dot and say "this is where stupid comments stop"
Well, you're right that would be bizarre and make you look insane.

You know that isnt what we do right? German is our word for them, it isnt what they call themselves.
I have one of these, they are just as durable as an actual laptop. Even more so, as a matter of fact.
Dealing with Pandas nullable float dtypes
> This style of concern trolling drives me up the fraking wall,

It shouldn't because it isn't.

> given what we know about abuse statistics.

If marriages are safer for female spouses, I suggest it's because marriages have to compete with other relationships.

In my parents day (silent gen), marriage had little competition and were commonly a safe environment for abusers.

I personally witnessed mom in traction & my brothers broken. Most of her relatives/friends were mistreated by their husbands (possibly all but not everyone confided). Similar stores could be said by the children of that generation. And, my observations were far from unique. Family abuse was everywhere (victims confide in victims).

For my cousins' generation, many things are improved. eg:Their understanding of abuse. eg:The meaningful expectation for men to not mistreat their loved ones. eg:The expectation for men to support all obligations in a household (not just the ones they want).

Meanwhile, if we are more vocal about More Marriages than we are about better marriages, I suggest we have lost our way.
As opposed to that healthy crack.

I guess this is clickbait based on the fact that there are so many alcohol users that the total alcohol related damage is worse (think car accidents and such).
This is a good point. No human could possibly have envisioned a teddy bear swimming in an Olympic pool, as we did not previously have the words or conceptual framework to describe that. That image could never have existed before the invention of transformer technology.
not models.

monkeys.
Ex Nihilo: The Truth About Money [video]
As a landlord in SF (talk about bad life choices): if you can't rent out your units, you're charging too much. Simple as that. It's no different than a renter being frustrated because he's looking for a penthouse condo for $100/month.

It might be sad if you ended up in some overly leveraged position, but you did that knowing the risks and expecting to make a lot of money using that leverage. But no one is entitled to risk-free money.
The first animals in the fossil record aren’t even a billion years old. Intelligent life is probably merely be a temporary phenotype seen on earth anyhow, like countless others that developed, came to dominance, and then disappeared over millions of years. Planning for something a billion years down the road, using current resourses to boot, is a little bit mad.

And if the situation is dominance on the moon over China, a remote operated lunar base is far better than anything human staffed. A battle could happen and all the highly trained operators on earth are fine when their crafts meet their end. For a space based human army, however, when you lose your craft you lose highly trained operators as well as that massive investment you made placing them and maintaining their presence in space. A remote army therefore always wins, since it has a massive thermodynamic advantage of deploying cheap and light cargo into space versus people and the support they need.
In my experience people watch YouTube in those corner bench sections, talk gossip for an hour at the cooler and take personal calls in the meeting rooms. Let's not pretend that everyone works all the time and is focused at work. Productive people are mostly productive no matter where, with +/- a couple percent favoring one setting over another.
It's pretty clear we disagree a bit here, but I just wanted to thank you for being thoughtful and respectful in your posts. It's something I'm not always perfect about myself, and it's part of what makes HN a better community.
Yes, GPT has access to memory.
Right. Public housing as practiced in the US throughout the 1950s, 60s, and 70s was rife with racism and classism that caused a lot of problems. That doesn't mean it cannot be done well. It has been done well in other places. The prerequisite for success is the policy makers have to respect the people they're helping. That's all.
> You don't need proportional representation to get away from FPTP.

But you should, since proprortionality as a property has strong evidence of being practically producing better piblic satisfaction with government, as well as having a strong theoretical argument for being the best measure of the degree to which a “representative” body actually is representative.

> Approval voting and score voting look especially good and they wouldn't require a change to the constitution.

Approval voting and score voting look especially bad for public elections in a multicultural society, since they call for abstract ratings that where there are well-established cultural variations in assignment for the same actual sentiment, and treat them as having consistent meaning.

And rough PR in the House (e.g., by STV) doesn't require a Constitutional amendment, either, only a statutory change.
I think FTL is reasonable cop-out. So just existence alone does not make something fantasy. At least if the implications are properly explored and things are consistent.

Neither Star Wars or Star Trek do things well. Some other material does things reasonably well explained and thus actually are on Fiction side.

Hardest possible take does not really leave too much room to go around. Some expectations make more interesting stories and explorations.
What’s the cost difference though? Could it be the foundation of your house? 40x20x2 feet is about 45 cubic meters.
If they had 1 paying user that's clearly not sufficient to pay for servers and engineers, so at some level this is not accurate. The same is true for ads, but you have the advantage of much wider markets, and in some cases, higher revenue per user compared to paying users.
80C is really low for pulling shots. Normally it's 90C:

https://bigcupofcoffee.com/espresso-brewing-water-temperatur...
Instant Messenger to define Future of Work after we join next YC batch
If the first step is to remove something that few people want to do without, you’re just saying the first step is to do nothing.

There are many things you can do to make a city more walkable without immediately jumping to currently unworkable ideas like “ban cars”. Like property tax rebates for shaded sidewalks.
Is it? Give me the full attention of a Fields medalist for any number of years and it will not make me a Fields medalist.
> LLMs are forcing us to confront the fact that intelligence isn't some magic force or elusive unobtanium--it's just the product of brute force pattern matching.

Always be wary of the word just.
Vim tortured and delighted me for many years. I still use it all the time - wild how much space it occupies in our minds.

Thanks Bram!
This report needs an adjustment for patterns and prevalence of use. The adjustment would modify the ranking to conform to our expectations of the personal and social impact of drugs. Alcohol and tobacco would still be close to the top.
I'm really curious where you found "spire lines of code". I can't find anything for that in a google search. What does that mean?
> Interestingly, this led to a convergence with certain principles of modern web design. For instance, I counted out the total characters in a few full lines from the first edition of Hortus. They average roughly 35 to 45 characters across, which is what contemporary designers recommend for mobile view on websites.

it's almost like designers have figure shits out before web design came about.. oh wait, they actually did. a long time ago. print medium is old as fuck. i've learned & worked on them for print mastering before `internet` was a word that people spoke in daily life.

claiming to be historian professor but acting as if websites are the reference point is hillarious, you're just another tech fanboy.

on related note: any people in design related fields within tech companies ignoring graphic design & "finding" design principles are just another version of douchetechbros
You only perform tasks instructed to you by other people?
The article mentions controlling for this in numerous ways. It was looking at elective surgeries, as well as county wide mortality rates and not just a single hospital. That said, in the elective surgery cases it could well be a spin on what you're mentioning and people just deferred their surgeries until after the strike. You'd think surely they also controlled for this, though.
> "Yeah, fuck off. Why are we trusting executives' opinions on day-to-day lives of their line workers anyway?"

'cause executives are the ones whose neck is on the line for success of their business division so they are extremely motivated to keep a close eye on profitability and progress on business goals, particularly when the economy looks wobbly. [mic drop]

(Yes, there are examples of executives who are incompetent and/or just plain dumb, but they are the minority.)

And, of course, before I get attacked as pro-RTO, I myself WFH and only go to the office when circumstances require it.
That's incredible! 69 individuals having such an impact on the ecosystem around them is astonighing
Free market principles do not apply well for apartments because of the limits on supplies and services and other externalities so I (like most here) am pretty supportive of legislation managing this. However, the legislative ideas and overall process for coming up with good, fair, and efficient laws in SF is absolutely abysmal. The lawmakers listen to the voters and the voters insist on laws that are just, well, bad. This affects every aspect of life in SF from housing, homelessness, schools, small business, etc.

Later in this interview they get into public schools, and the implications of the lottery system. While this is well-intentioned this is really a terrible policy, I personally moved out of SF largely because of this issue (I have 3 kiddos so private school is not an option).

The example he gives is that despite living a stone's throw away from a high school his child was allocated to a school 1 hour bus ride away. This is really how it works for anyone living near one of the better schools. In addition to it effectively destroying the community aspect of schools where your kids go to school with the neighbors which facilitates neighboring families meeting each other and becoming friends, walking to school together, and so on.

The policy is well intentioned, but ultimately does more harm than good and everyone who is closely involved and knowledgable about the system is completely powerless. The voters just don't care what any experts or those affected say, they just vote on ideology. Quite frankly it feels a lot like the way in which Texas voters could not, evidently, care less about the plight of women with complications in pregnancy.
The older I get the more I am convinced success is less about talent and more about information warfare. Those with inside information not only avoid the storm but profit from it. Those without knowledge suffer.
So you want the entity responsible for the DMV and civil asset forfeiture abuse to be your landlord?
The thing is, I want to design and write code. I don't want to remember a bunch of command line parameters for other stuff.

With Mercurial I didn't have to, it just flowed.
Just looking at the per month commit counts, it looks like they dropped substantially from February this year compared to the past.
I work as lead programmer these days. In the past I worked in a factory / in retail. I am horrified by how well everyone treats me now compared to back then. Everyone assumes good intentions from me now, forgives me, is in a hurry to help me. Back then, they assumed I was lazy, stupid, selfish, untrustworthy. The main difference is my clothes and my car, I’m the same person. Even landlords stopped withholding damage deposits, assuming I was a good guy, hand waving any imperfections in the unit I’m moving out of—this wasn’t true for most of my life

I am frankly not comfortable revealing to my boss or coworkers that I grew up poor because they’ll think of me differently, stop assuming such good thing about me, become wary, etc
Well said, I appreciate you sharing this. I consider myself almost completely neutral on the extrovert / introvert scale, but when it comes to this topic, there’s a lot of spurious assumptions made about the type of person that prefers to be in office. It strikes me as caricature.
if i walk by a pile of shit in my neighborhood and make a comment on it, i'm not the same as the person that took/excreted the shit in my neighborhood.
The analogy is about abstraction. It is not about emergent properties. A computer program is characterized differently when it's a 3D engine versus a a series of instructions.

Same with LLMs. We can characterize an LLM as a text predictor at the lowest level. But when the LLM gives me a novel response and solves a bug in my code, is text prediction really the only way to characterize that? Obviously there is a higher level analysis that we cannot fully comprehend yet.

In this case yes, the 3D engine is not an emergent property while the novel responses of an LLM are emergent. But this dichotomy is irrelevant to the analogy.
Vivek Ramaswamy argues that these actions are still first amendment violations because the government pushed corporations to do this, under something called “state action in private enterprise.”
Maybe the surface will get so hot that you can only move about on it in conditioned vehicles - but underground sidewalks in tunnels will become the walkable city.

Kind of like how in some snow cities you can get from skyscraper to skyscraper in elevated walkways.
Why would you hold opinions that you don't think would benefit from your strongest advocacy? Why believe things yourself that you don't think other people should believe?

To be clear, I'm not saying that you should strongly advocate for other people to strongly believe things that you only weakly believe. But you should strongly advocate for other people to weakly believe those things. Furthermore, I don't think strong advocacy implies closing your mind to differing opinions. You can be a strong advocate for your current viewpoint while also being willing to change your mind.
From the main Fedora repo. Also, thanks for the link, I'll check it out later
This research brought to you by Hunter Biden s PR team?
Petals does a layerwise split I think. You could probably run separate experts on each system. I don't think this sort of tech is very promising so I haven't looked.
Accusing Paolini of "stealing" dragonriding from Mcaffrey made me dump all the limited credibility this post had for me. I love both series and have the capacity to comprehend very few ideas spontaneously appear in a vacuum without external influence.

There were also a large number of dragonriding stories written in between Dragonquest and Eragon. Did they steal from Anne, too? Is the omnipresence of elves and dwarves in modern fantasy all theft from Tolkien?

Did Anne steal dragons from $GeneralEuropeanMythology?
Did she steal the idea of colonizing other planets from early scifi writers?
Did she steal the idea of aliens causing a galactic war early scifi writers?

Dumb take, bad opinion. All writing is derivative. The tone of Pern and the tone of Inheritance are substantively different.
It seems to primarily cater to a German speaking audience. That's probably why it isn't more well known. I'd never heard of it either.
The Apple IIc+ did this with a 4MHz 65C02.
Sounds like a great metric to game though. Undercounting crime is not far fetched at all. Such a metric needs to be maintained independently from the local government (or independently verifiable).
It only works as an investment vehicle if construction is constrained which keeps the prices going up as demand increases and supply can't.

If you want to screw the people doing that, build enough new housing that prices go down and they lose money on their investment.
Ask HN: Most secure language for a CRUD app?
What is the most secure language/framework for creating a new CRUD (create, read, update, delete) web application? Think of a brand new banking portal, which will be threat modeled, pen-tested, etc. I have a few ideas of my own about this, but want to ask here. Most of the infosec resources I've found are about vulnerabilities, not much info on what languages are better for security.
Yeah, plenty of northern outposts (and even a territory capital) in Canada that are 100% geo-satellite fed for internet. And no local caching (big miss there imo). And cabins with marginal cellular data, and when available, it's $$$. And days are short with (debatably) not a lot to do outside in winter...
C-Suite FUD
> but Newtonian mechanics AFAIK says nothing to forbid this

In the Wikipedia article on Newton's laws of motion, the first law is stated as "A body remains at rest, or in motion at a constant speed in a straight line, unless acted upon by a force.". Here it would seem that we leave the state of rest not due to a force, but due to some other cause, which the first law would forbid. So I think that the particular interpretation of Newtonian mechanics used by the author is a bit of a strawman.
Today I learned The Epoch Times has a YouTube channel!

Summary and background: the Epoch Times host interviews a landlord who’s concerned about the impact of SF’s Proposition M, which imposes a vacancy tax on residential units in multi-family dwellings with three or more units.

The landlord manages a 25-unit building, which his uncle and father acquired decades ago. He blames the WFH phenomenon and crime for people leaving SF for cheaper cities and suburbs. He says he no longer can find people willing to rent his units on his terms on Craigslist or Zillow. He’s also concerned about the cost of implementing seismic retrofitting and complying with fire safety regulations. He’s worried about how long it will take for his building to regain its value: at its peak the building had appreciated and was appraised at “10.5 or 11-million" but his broker now appraises it at “between 6 and 7 million.” He goes on from there to a broader range of complaints about the city’s policies, over-regulation, how things have changed in his time, and how the balance of power seems to have shifted to favor tenants.

As to the residential vacancy tax that theoretically prompted this:

From 2024, after a residential rental unit has been left vacant for 6 months, a tax of between $2,500 and $5,000 (based on the apartment’s size) will apply in the first year, doubling each subsequent vacant year to a maximum of $10,000-$20,000 in the third and subsequent vacant years. Proponents of the vacancy tax mention that they’re particularly concerned about corporate landlords allowing units in rent-controlled buildings to remain vacant.

Single-family homes and duplexes are exempt. The city estimates that 4,000 of the city’s 40,000 vacant units will qualify for the tax in the first year [1]

[0] (pdf) Ballot measure text: https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/20220207_E...

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/san-francisco-voters...
In meantime I can recommend BBC's https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE-%D1..., it's not terrible.

Tbh this is a bad move for the company. I would rather prefer they ignored Russian gov. Just let them make all iphones illegal and see how the kids of happy unseeing unhearing "I am above politics" rich upper middle class in Russia finally wake up to the clusterfuck and make the next revolution happen. Joking but only sorta