skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. It's the zoning that mandates minimum-lot-sized single family residents on most of the country's urban residential areas. Nobody seriously advocates cancelling SimCity-style R/C/I zoning.
I've got a friend who's sometimes used as an example of breaking out of impoverished surroundings. They note that he grew up in public housing in the burned out South Bronx Regan famously toured on TV, and after graduating Harvard Summa Cum Laude, went on to become a successful and well-known frontrunner in his field. He's smart as hell, a great guy, and add hard of a worker as any. So was his father, a construction worker who played an instrumental part in mentoring his son. That's the ideal, right?

He gets irritated as hell when people use him as a token success story because he knows none of it would have happened if he— among many others just like him— didn't win the lottery at an elite prep school close enough for him to logistically manage attending despite no family resources. The hard work, character, and intelligence were the base line that would likely have meant modest incremental gains— like his smart, capable, hardworking father made— without winning that hat draw. The connections he made in prep school— not even at Harvard— got him where he is in his career. When you're living on the edge of financial solubility, you just don't get the opportunity to invest in the future because 100% or more of your output goes into funding your present, and there are a hell of a lot more smart people out there than lottery spots in elite prep schools. The difficulties that his childhood friends faced progressing through public high school in that environment sink a lot of people with a lot of potential-- the graduation rate of his local high school is currently 26%, and how many of them do you think attend Harvard, where 46% of white students were admitted with the help of legacy status, proficiency in almost exclusively white sports not available in public schools like fencing, squash, and crew, or being the child of faculty? If you think people who get that start in life have equal opportunity to make something of themselves, you're delusional.
I get where you’re coming from here, but outside of a few major metro areas most people are spread around, which is precisely the problem. Driving 20 miles (or 30 minutes) to your place of work is not clustering and is causing us all sorts of economic problems. Just Wednesday my dental hygienist told me she drives around an hour to get to the office. That’s an anecdote of course, but that’s a normal thing for Americans. That’s a huge problem.

To your point about big single offices where all of these workers are “in the city” which mostly are spread out suburban office parks, I would agree, which is why we need less sprawl and more people living closer together and clustering around the cities that they are residing in.
Dogpile?
I don't know much about SEO or content pruning, so I make no judgment on the conclusion of this article.

What I can say is that this is genuinely one of the worst-written pieces I've ever read. Nowhere does the author provide any sort of argument for their conclusion. At no point during that long, rambling rant did the author give a single reason why we should agree with them, nor did they propose alternative solutions to the problem that CNET is facing.

If this were written for a high-school english class it would receive a failing grade.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Link rot is a cancer we should all work against.
I read this extension of the concept a while back that dives a bit more into what's actually missing in the "cargo cult" approach, and how to transition to actual productivity — https://metarationality.com/upgrade-your-cargo-cult#upgradin...
What if you have a bunch of code written in one framework and you want to do a gradual migration to another?
The main argument here is probably that news sites should have some obligation to the historical record. Normal product companies should arguably archive old product documentation in some form but relatively few would argue that they shouldn't regularly prune marketing literature, whitepapers, and other information that gets stale and is in the way of finding current stuff.
I'm not sure it's a silver bullet.

When developers are allowed to build apartments, they build luxury apartments.

As long as profit is the motive, the affordability half is likely to be neglected.

I also feel like building more rental properties serves the property owners more than it does the "dweller".
The greatest fallacy of modern times is that endless productivity is good. Maximizing our potential doesn't like in making everything ultra-efficient with a smart AI. It involves slowing down, and paying more attention to being in a healthy relationship with non-human animals and plants and the biosphere.

AI as a new form of life could be very destructive. If it's humanity's baby, then it is a dangerous mutant embodying our worst traits.
Being the right person in the right place at the right time can’t be taught.

Yet, IMO, that’s the primary factor to being wildly successful.

Knowing that you’re the right person in the right place at the right time ranks second.

Taking advantage of the opportunity presented as the right person in the right place at the right time is third.

Personality is fourth.

Skill is somewhere below that.

Ultimately, luck always sets the maxima.

Though, this only applies if you’re measuring success by the amount of excess you can accumulate.

You can live an incredibly fulfilling and happy life without any of the above if you set your own criteria for success to fall within the constraints of your particular circumstance.
Please don't try to redefine words based on your personal experiences.

Words have meaning, and the only trustworthy source we have for those meanings, when in doubt, is the dictionary (and it's the job of dictionaries to keep the meaning up-to-date as yes, word meanings may change over time):

"Trust: to believe that someone is good and honest and will not harm you, or that something is safe and reliable"

Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/trust

Your meaning numbers 2 and 3 are not included, and I would think nearly everyone agrees that's not part of the meaning of the word.
Advertising, Hiring and Rent

Assuming you have some saas product with a bit of traction, you raise $100M.

Why raise 100M? So you can DOMINATE growth within your vertical by hiring everyone away from their existing jobs, creating FOMO with marketing and then being acquired or doing some pump and dump like a SPAC - or maybe you can buy enough growth with other people's money to convince a friend of your Father (who is a banker) to underwrite your IPO cause your financials are slightly better than some shitcoin scam.

You can get to $1M/mo pretty easily if you get a fancy workplace with all the perks, hire 20-30 people for 250k+ each and spend $100-200k a month on ads and rent.

Remember, the whole goal of Venture and PE is to create a vehicle to dump a stock onto the public stock market at the highest delta between the IPO open price and their per-share common stock purchase price. That's it.

Doesn't matter what you make or why, or if it's fully legal, or good or bad or whatever - makes literally no difference as long as you can convince a banker that they will make 10-1000X on that specific transaction as soon as possible.
The biggest problem in these kind of products is not implementation but trust.

The home page says that everything is private etc etc. Whatsapp also made similar claims before they were acquired, then suddenly these things didn't matter.

If this gets critical mass, what's stopping them from selling out. Bonus if they "accidently" started tracking users between update v4.2 and v5.2. Also, the TOS magically changed overnight.

The sad part is if they didn't sell out, they'll be buried under lawsuits and eventually banned. Just like KATorrents, yt-dl, Internet Archive, Dread Pirate Roberts etc.

1. https://www.businessinsider.com/suspected-kickass-torrent-ar...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht
So far on this thread as solutions to the housing crisis we've seen:

* Building houses on federally-owned land in the middle of rural Oregon

* Switching everybody to a plant-based diet

* Allowing all the white-collar knowledge workers to work remotely so they'll migrate out of the cities.

I'm sure we'll get other creative ideas too. But eliminating single-family zoning seems a lot simpler.
I’m fairly certain construction in New England has a lot of Latin American labor involved. Or at least this is based on looking at the construction crews I saw working around New York City and Boston the last times I was there over the past few decades.
I don't think it's that hard. Just ask - is the S&P500 lower now than it was three months ago? If the answer is "yes" then maybe stay in cash and put that money in when the answer is "no".

Alternatively, if you want to get "fancy", you can use the 50/200 SMA crossover to determine entry and exit points. It's a much safer bet than "buy and hold" since it avoids massive drawdowns.
If people don’t need the financial motivator to do great things, what do you need the cap for, then?
Why has /r/programming been flagged as unsafe?
Luxury just means new. Prices are high because supply is low.
> The remaining cases could be ranked by the community according to how egregious they were.

It’s bad enough companies started outsourcing deciding which features to implement. I don’t want them also outsourcing deciding which cases to support.
why not forward decare a struct type in `ifndef __cplusplus` and use pointers to that type instead of `void*` pointers?
I think we should I just don't think we can.

First off not all technology is completely beneficial for mankind even if it's inherently not evil. The atomic bomb for example. It's still not clear how beneficial this technology is.

Second, AI is a big unknown. It could lead to a catastrophic future it could not. We don't know. There is merit in keeping things in the status quo as it's not too bad right now. There is also merit in developing the AI to assist humanity.

We don't know enough to know which direction is valid.

Either way, it's unlikely AI will ever be outlawed. The logical definitions surrounding the concept of AI collide with our notions of morality and ethics in such a confounding way that it's hard to codify into law.

If I ban, ai and AI works is that banning freedom of speech? Technically yes, but at the same time there is certainly merit in banning deep fakes.

We may be able to figure it out and work out the moral conflicts, but both the law and our analysis of the issue is moving much much slower then the pace of the technology itself.

In the end humanity will have no choice but to see the technology roll out in it's full maximal glory. If a banning occurs I believe it will be well after this point.
Not a bad question at all really.

In principle, gravitational waves could exist at any frequency.

The speed, wavelength, and frequency of a gravitational wave are related by the equation c = λf, just like the equation for a light wave.

For example, the animations shown here oscillate roughly once every two seconds. This would correspond to a frequency of 0.5 Hz, and a wavelength of about 600 000 km, or 47 times the diameter of the Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave

To get a short wavelength requires a high frequency, to get an observable gravity wave requires a very large mass.

We haven't yet seen a Super Massive Black Hole orbiting with (say) an Mercury orbit radius at a thousand times a second.

There is another quote from that wikipedia article:

Stephen Hawking and Werner Israel list different frequency bands for gravitational waves that could plausibly be detected, ranging from 10^−7 Hz (very slow) up to 10^11 Hz (very very fast).

The faster the wave the shorter the wavelength and the greater the difficulty in detection (as the amplitude likely lessens and with distance falls below our current direct means).

You'd have to chase the Hawking-Israel paper for their thoughts on short wavelength high frequency gravitational wave sources and how they believe they might plausibly be detected .. I anticipate some devil in the detail.

http://library.lol/main/F92F35CD83F13A6021FC2385BBA171B0

( perhaps wikipedia misquoted that high frequency )
Well, expect some EU regulations around that.

All I was saying was that the reason Apple added these tricks wasn't (only) unrepairability but more anti-theft. I don't want to defend their decision though.
You still need zoning otherwise people are going to build a poison-spewing factory right next to your house.

Eliminating zoning entirely is reactionary and going too far.

What we do need is to just pull zoning back. Really it’s just a few changes. Don’t require single family homes with yards. Allow high density residential and also allow mixed zoning where you have apartments on top of small commercial spaces. Also, remove parking minimums. That’s really going to cover 90% of the issues.
Maybe Western countries should just stop interfering in African countries' way of doing things.

Precisely my point.

The African way of doing things tends to involve a lot of starvation and death --- but maybe it's time to accept this is just their way of doing things (as brutal as it is) and stop sending support. A century of support has proven it never solves the root problem and just facilitates repetition.
To the extent that petrol stations are like convenience stores (which they typically are), the ones in my European country sell freshly baked bread, pastries etc. and have deli and hot food counters (and yes the beef they sell there is all grass fed). They also sell fresh fruit and while I don't know what's considered "unorganic" when it comes to this, it's all similar to the so-called "organic" stuff at whole foods. I don't know about variety but that isn't what I was talking about, I was talking about quality.

One time I was in a Walmart Supercenter (or whatever it is they call the huge ones) in Michigan. I had been there a few times but I couldn't find the fruit & veg section any more, they seemed to have moved it and put Halloween candy in it's place. After burning 10-15 minutes searching the whole store, I gave up and asked a staff member where they put it. "Oh we got rid of that sorry". It's literally the biggest supermarket in the city and you can't buy an apple or a banana.

There was a fancier place I used to go to in that city, Fresh-something-or-other. The kind that models themselves after Whole Foods. Everything time I went there, they only ever had green bananas. I mean, totally inedible, days away from being ripe. Every time.
> Memory usage: GCs waste memory in exchange for performance. Go's GC doesn't compact (last I checked), so fragments the heap

Both of your sentences are true, but are not related. GCs indeed make a memory tradeoff for better performance, even if it is a compacting GC. But dynamic allocation even with Rust does fragment the memory and is in fact solved better by a compacting GC.
Currently it is a helpful tool in some niche uses. One of them is rubber duck debugging or reasoning. It does not really matter if the answer is useful, it is enough if it gives you ideas.

This said, there's a real danger to AI as just now. It is enshittification. I am Deaf and I asked ChatGPT to tell a joke about Deaf people. It refused. Corporate is very afraid of shit storms and they will go to extreme lenghts to censor anything off the mainstream. And this is not the only way AI tools could get shitty.

Please, if you find AI lacking somehow, think hard if it was not because of enshittification already.
Could Argentina not be a counterexample? Most Argentinians today trace their ancestry to late 19th century and early 20th century immigration when the country was booming. But the country still preserves a national mythology based on all kinds of 18th- and early 19th-century figures and events that most Argentinians bear no actual descent from.
I am not disagreeing! I’m merely pointing out that more than housing might be impacted by removing wasteful space use like mandated parking, and I wished there was a study to track that.
Can't speak to Houston, but this rings true for Dallas for me.

Everything is everywhere, in exactly the same way. City-sized concrete strip mall, indeed.

Zoning has its faults.

But lack of coherent zoning also has its faults.
I’d be curious to know if there was a spike in the price of carrots after that story came out.
When I bought my new home last year in a suburb northwest of Houston, all of the workers I've seen, both during construction and during warranty work, have almost all been Hispanic.

Texas is a red state of course, and there's a lot of irony in how proud Texans are of their Tex-Mex cuisine and low housing prices.
TIL: I run enterprise environments.
But, yt-dl won their lawsuit (thanks to lawyers from GitHub, an extension of Microsoft). The project went strange, but yt-dlp picked up...
Building luxury apartments is a good thing. This is well-studied. Where luxe apartments are sited, cost of surrounding housing drops. It shouldn't need a study to confirm, since it's simply the law of supply and demand, but: yes, when you give wealthy people who want to live in apartments new construction, they buy it in preference to gut rehabbing existing apartments.

"These are just for-profit developers building luxury apartments" is the single most common objection to new multifamily housing where I live. The irony of it is that it's always coming from single-family homeowners, all of whom practically by definition live in spaces more luxurious than any of the proposed apartments.
That would explain low prices in Texas... how about California?
I don't think it's that bad but I've seen it happen. A relative was contacted several times over weeks about debt that they never had taken; turns out the real debtor had a similar (but not identical) name and lived hundreds of km away.
> I think most Linux c/c++ devs just do everything without a debugger and use emacs and vim instead

They often use gdb or some sort of front end. I learned gdb in a college Unix course and found it to be a pain. But I’m sure like all things with unix commands, once I figured out what I want for daily use it would become more comfortable.
But they're compensating for that added e-waste and environmental damage by not giving you a charger in the box for, you know, saving the planet and all that. /s
well if the way to make that wealth is more nefarious to society that whatever philanthropic behavior you do afterward when you retire, then was it worth it ?

for you if you only care about how it made you feel then probably,
but for society I'm not sure.
Have you been to the middle of nowhere? It's not glamorous and has a lot of downsides including regressive politics, shitty health care, crappy food options, no nightlife other than the bar that all the local townies drink in before going home to drunkenly beat and abuse their wives etc.

So yea, not surprised folks are signing up in droves to go live in Middle of Nowhere America.
If you look at a 30 year old language and people are still trying to explain one of its major mechanics, at what point do you say that it might be taking away from people being able to focus on the programs they want to write?
So what did you do with that kid? The suspense is killing me.
The Chinese and Japanese want more Chinese and Japanese people because they have mismanaged their population. Some are arguing for immigration to address a population decline.

I see very few people in those countries expressing the American sentiment that the country is “enriched” by having immigrants from non-Chinese/Japanese backgrounds come to the country. If those countries could stabilize their populations without foreign immigration, they’d do that in a heartbeat.
Even if this strategy is good in terms of seo, they could have just archived those articles on a different domain.
Thanks for the education. I feel enlightened now with this knowledge.
>And what I see is that historically, it's generally been a good idea to put money in the stock market.

I've been following the stock market since 1995 and have come to precisely the opposite conclusion

Why?

You have zero ability to predict the state of the market at the point that you need liquidity. So it doesn't matter if your portfolio increases for 20 years, if you need your liquidity during a crash, welp you're fucked.
In Texas at least those are the ones building the housing.
This requires a person to believe that money which wends its way through a political system, with its attendant cronyism and moral hazard, is better spent than money with a shorter path between its donors and recipients. The caveat is that the overall level of outflows from rich to poor might be (would probably be?) lower without taxation, but it is possible for individuals to be telling the truth when they say they believe that money does more good as charity than as tax revenue.
The article is about restrictive residential zoning, not about industrial zoning.
In Toronto there are demand for multi-tennent low rise buildings. Non gets built because the upstart cost is too much for a small builder to invest.

So only 60+ stories towers gets built since the initial permitting cost is the same.
This seems extremely rudimentary. I was hoping for at least some sort of high resolution pinscreen [1] technology with actuators, with a pixel at the top of each pin.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuir24PLt-8
I wonder if the people who haven’t discovered it’s usefulness yet haven’t applied enough creativity into their own inputs. The output can definitely be underwhelming when you pass a cookie cutter input and expect an earth shattering output. The power of the system is seemingly in the fact that your input options are literally infinite. LLM’s are really not dissimilar from computers in that sense. You can write your first program that adds 5+5 and prints 10 and walk away from that experience thinking “Computers are overhyped. I don’t see what the big deal is.” But then you can also build Figma, Call of Duty, and cancer prediction algorithms.

I’ve found these models to be the single most valuable thing I’ve ever come into contact with in my life. My ability to learn complex subjects is a world apart from what it was before ChatGPT. I can study a topic and then have hours of conversation with the model through the voice based interface on the iOS app. The ability to ask any question about any topic in your own words and instantaneously get a response from a machine that’s likely been trained on every text book ever written is absolutely insane. Any time I’m reading a paper or documentation and I don’t quite understand something I can ask the question in my own words and get an immediate response. You can ask the model to explain it visually, analogize the concept to a concept you’re already well versed in, have it ask you questions to challenge your own understanding, literally anything.

There’s certainly a hype train around LLM’s and many specific aspects of what’s claimed is completely over stated, but if you’re a knowledge seeking human and you’re not using these models as a tool to learn then you are as an absolute fact asleep at the wheel.
Great idea, so far computing has been the exception, it is time to join the grow ups in responsibility how software affects the society.

Everywhere else people ask for who's responsible when products don't match expectations, or are sold with faulty capabilities, unless the consumer protection laws of the country suck in protecting the citizens.
It's part of Debian main...