skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% co-signed. If you want a seamless corporate subscription experience, just use whatever HBO Max is calling itself this month. If you can handle building your own media library, Jellyfin is the easy part.
I know Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) uses some of their trains but I didn't know the menu was so much broader and more shapely! Thanks.
In Australia, we have the opposite problem; houses are optimized for hot weather and are often too cold during the winter. Houses such as Queenslanders are designed to let air easily flow through the house and they are built on stilts which creates a cool area underneath the house; some houses even have gaps or holes in the flooring near some of the walls (e.g. for cabling; they don't bother sealing them). They often lack proper wall and floor insulation. Works great during the summer though.

I suspect it's difficult to build houses that are good in all weathers. I think the most adaptable I've seen was in Malta; they have relatively cold winters and sometimes very hot summers. Many apartments are narrow/deep and the areas exposed to the outside have big windows/doors at the front and back (leading to balconies) with one side usually facing the sea breeze. Because they're narrow, they don't have much surface area exposed to the outside which provides great insulation during the winter - For the summer, you keep cool by opening the windows on both sides so the wind flows through the whole apartment. It's also fine in terms of natural light; for modern apartments, the entire external wall may be glass so at least the living room gets plenty of sunlight. Bedrooms are a bit darker but that's usually a good thing; especially since many people like to sleep in on weekends.

In other parts of Europe (e.g. Berlin) they more typically have some apartments facing the outside and others facing an internal courtyard. They don't let the wind flow through and each person has a different experience.
Btw what does 3x compression mean in this case? Does the device itself do compression and if so how can it be a fixed rate, given the data is arbitrary?
I have a tremendous amount of sympathy for pilots who are forced to neglect their mental health because ordinary treatment that is well within the fairway for the vast majority of Americans can get them grounded. I don’t have a whole lot of sympathy for people overstating their benefits applications to squeeze as many dollars out of taxpayers while representing that they meet the medical criteria to fly a plane.
I don't know the details but it worked out very well for me. It still lets some heating rays in but its much more manageable, some ventilation is enough now.

These photos shows how much the film dims the visible light: https://dropover.cloud/999162

The photo of the wall shows two areas, one area illuminated by the light passing through the filter and another small area illuminated by direct sunlight through the opening.

It's a window in a small room. The window has a top-open position which provides enough ventilation to take away heat that still manages to get in. Previously, this room was getting unbearably hot and now is much better(still hot on days with no wind though).
Yes, it is a small world after all! I'll email soon.

Sorry, my memory is pretty fuzzy, but here's a contemporary photo in case yours works better: https://icecube.wisc.edu/gallery/winterovers/#modulagallery-...
> What makes you think it is "thoughtless densification"?

I'm writing a book about it :) I've argued a lot about it on the Internet, and people periodically tell: "but Tokyo!"

So I studied the situation there.

It's a great example of generational shittification: your grandparents live in a nice separate house, your parents live in an apartment, and you are forced to live in a "microapartment" because you can't afford anything else.

> To deliver services to a given population, it is easier, faster, & cheaper if they are in more dense metropolitan areas (up to a certain point).

That's incorrect. If you use the number of municipal workers per capita as a proxy, the most efficient cities are around 50-200k in population. After that, you're starting to need transit, zoning, and all other stuff.

For example, NYC has around 200000 municipal employees (excluding schools) for the population of 8 million (2.5%). Boise, ID has the population of 240000 and 2100 employees (0.9%).
Right. For instance, one story I read concerned disturbing grasslands in order to plant more trees — foolhardy because grasslands themselves are excellent carbon sinks and the trees would take a long time to be comparable. Others concerned trees being planted with little possibility of survival. I believe the first was in China and the second in Turkey if anyone wants to dig through news archives and try and find these stories again.

Obviously the problem here is people just setting “trees planted” as the metric because it’s easy to count and creating perverse incentives.
Probing for open buckets and selling the results for people likely looking to do nasty things with the is unethical IMO, but it's still more ethical to do it and then bring it up to warn others of it, than to just do it. I mean, how do you know if the people talking about this fantastic value add at the fingertips of anyone are not doing it?

When it comes to doing basic napkin math and publish the results, that I find highly ethical, actually.
You assume that getting from “48% as good” as a human programmer (on an undoubtedly biased sample) to “100% as good” is about equally hard as getting from 0% to 48%. That seems a pretty big assumption.

Many programmers also do work that doesn’t just involve stitching APIs together; GPT consistently fails badly when forced to reason, making it useless for many tasks. For example, ask it to implement a common algorithm like SHA - it will do a decent job. Then ask it to do it with an arbitrary limitation which no implementation it was trained on would have (e.g. use no integer type wider than 8 bits). In my experience, it cannot achieve this task with a correct result, even with significant hand-holding.
On the archived page he translates it to 我克藝吃玻璃，我不毀受傷。

https://web.archive.org/web/20040203215138/http://hcs.harvar...

我克藝 is the wrong translation of “I can”. 我可以 is correct. They sound similar though.
Maybe, but…presentism? Europe could do what the US has done and declared so much land federally protected that growth is stifled and property rises to a level that prevents the young from buying it. Although that’s a different topic…
Your reasons for the housing crisis are valid, but not a complete telling of the story. AirBNB for example is an issue, short-term rentals in general are, and the tendency of developers to build luxury accommodations which are purchased and left vacant is a problem. I'm not one of those people who thinks that it shouldn't be possible to use real estate as an investment, but the degree to which we do that while people can't find homes is also a problem.

And at the same time we need to acknowledge that NIMBY arguments aren't totally without merit, they're just cynical. If you believe that only half measures will be taken and ultimately neglected, that the full range of investment required to make a lot of low-cost housing work will not appear... then you're just potentially living next to a project.

Likewise with zoning laws, some are stupid, but some are there because they're the best compromise solution to proven problems. If we want housing to be both a place for people to live and a potential investment then there needs to be a degree of stability in the housing market, and zoning helps with that.
That's to account for possibly different (average) left/right steps.

Averages out better.
I’m really curious about the incidence of PFAS in adolescence and the relationship with lower testosterone levels. A relationship with testicular cancer seems to point to some relationship with PFAS and the reproductive system.
There's still a fair bit of mainframe-format data (zoned decimal, etc.) out there. These are typically in defined-data formats, a/k/a hierarchical , which is sort of a hybrid between data files and text files ("records" are lines, but often with multiple formats within a single file). These can achieve compression ratios ~= 90%.

Standard written text typically runs about 50%.

Compressed audio, image, and video data of course compress very little, if any.
I don't think you have any understanding of how quickly a human will die in a wet bulb event. AC is, by the actual definition of 'literally', literally more important to sustaining human life than FOOD is, on wet bulb days.
If you stand the fan noise, mosquitoes can be caught and trapped by a fan that blows a draft across an entrance that is stronger than their wings.
What even distracts them? IDEs are supposedly the only thing they do. Well, maybe except for Kotlin. And it's not like their IDEs are very cheap either. I mean, not that cheep that I'd like the idea of being too much mentally invested into something, that barely competes with a free source-code editor, let alone lags behind it.
Hiring based on a sustainable budget makes sense. That doesn't tell us if we should hire a few people at a high salary or lots of folks at much lower salaries.

I don't have an answer either. It's one of the few economics questions that I've never seen a good answer to. The best I can come up with is to allow some market competition to government services and then to match market salaries. That's still not ideal because labor supply and demand is distorted. I've been asking this question for decades. It's a challenging problem.
copilot? lol

I can understand using chatgpt 4 but copilot??? copilot can barely autocomplete... and half the time it does it incorrectly when variables and other stuff are involved
Print enough money and everyone's a trillionaire!

(I say that in jest, but it's awfully typical of how governments do seem to solve problems. "Trillionaires can buy whatever they want, so let's print enough money for everyone to be a trillionaire!" is awfully similar to "People with college degrees have higher lifetime earnings, so let's make college free so everyone can have a college degree!")
>That's about all I miss from working in the office: the not working part. I

To be fair, I don't think anyone except the most mission-centric individuals will ever "miss work". Many people wouldn't work if they could avoid doing so.

>It is true that I haven't developed similar communities in remote work, but I don't know where that fits in the "community building" argument for RTO.

Isn't it just that? They want people to feel like they are working with a team, not as some remote drone from home that tags in.

As you'll see from many comments on HN, some simply don't care about that, so it falls on deaf ears. But this sort of PR isn't really for employees, let alone ones who will quit rather than RTO. They are a lost cause in the company's eyes.
I never said you knew about it, speaking of delusions. I said you dismissed it when I brought it up, which is facts. Alongside everything else I wrote.

I’m as authentic as they get, can’t say as much for everyone else.
Ethically maintinaing a herd of host mother elephants, raising that many mammoth babies, the success rates for implantation, its not going to be a fast process.

"Mother" nature has one timetable which can't be altered. An elephant pregnancy lasts 18-22 months. And, a herd (assuming its Matriachal like elephants) will need to establish a dominance, and a matriarch. That will be a decade or more down the line: You can't lead a herd as a teenager.

An elephant typically gives birth every 4-5 years. So, you need multiple cycles to establish a family. This process probably needs a lot of sisters and aunties to work, they're complex social societies.

(shared a house with a Botswanian wildlife ranger decades ago, He said nothing about African herd animals is simple)
Copilot has been incredibly useful for me
By "dismissive skepticism" I was thinking of the repetitive, lazy, nearly content-free kind, like linking to "killed by Google" every time there's a topic about a Google product, spelling Microsoft as Micro$oft (back in the day), anyone talking about "techbros," or calling an LLM a glorified Markov chain.

If you can post it off the top of your head and everyone can predict that someone will say it, is it worth saying?

Something to be particularly wary of is reasoning by crude analogy. These people are all the same. These companies are all the same.

By contrast, there are skeptics who do research, like investigative journalism and the kind of short seller that digs up dirt and publishes it. This sort of research is often valuable.
Yes, yes and yes. When the filter for a given property is set to a value, but an specific item has a null for that property, the correct thing is to match the item (since it is unknown, it is wrong to assume the value doesn't match!).

I would even prefer two result groups: matching filters and "maybe matching filters". But most faceted search engines just filter out items when properties may or may not match a property.
Well it was already linked to fertility issues: https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/03/24/infertility-pfas-fo...
That’s a dependency you will need to solve first
For hot/wet, use dehumidifiers in-doors. This allows your sweat to evaporate better allowing your body to better self regulate.
My experience is more on the content side than the product side, but we have mostly just abandoned search as a feature. 99.9% of searchers just to go to google. Our on-site search gets nearly zero traction. That's partly self-fulfilling because we've deemphasized it as it dropped in use and is not buried behind nav. But still, I'd generally recommend you invest in SEO and just ignore search.
It's not people who give a shit about climate change who are saying that air conditioning is bad.

Maybe you'll find a lone crazy to validate the persection complex that compels such a mendacious post, and you'll definitely get a little mild "do you really need it at 66F in June?" rhetoric and I'm sure that hits conspicuous consumers right in the feels that definitely matter just as much as reality does--but on the other hand, it is also precisely the folks who care about such things who push for cooling stations and other ways to symptomatically address the worsening heat waves in urban areas, because heat kills and it kills the poor and the old preferentially.

It isn't those awful hippies who have a problem with air conditioning--it's the people who wish that those people (and poor people! lest we forget!) would conveniently disappear. For other people, of course. Those positing that people should just Tough It Out aren't doing so themselves.
The land that is federally protected is generally not exactly sites so as to make for prime housing. Most of it, by area, is in places like northern Alaska.
That’s the million-dollar question, isn’t it? I feel like the biggest obstacle here is that any invocation of shared sacrifice or giving up forms of convenience, even fairly minor ones, prompts howls of indignation. Maybe we’re just doing some things we can’t do going forward even if it was comfortable to be able to do so.
No it's not, at least not in the Netherlands.
I love the copy on the individual hat pages. Here’s a snippet from the Hemingway hat:

“I don't want it all crisp and ironed looking. Don't worry about it. I want it to lose the shape you give it, as it takes the shape I give it. It should be shaped by life, by experience, by the occasional careless handling, by being too dumb to come in out of the rain once in awhile, by a bottle of Havana Club and some rummy idea about what a brim should look like, maybe even by thoughtless idiots who don't know enough to keep their damn hands off another man's hat.”
I’m looking forward to the day where the problem is framed as “we need to learn how to control our climate” and become a Kardashev Type 1 Civilization.

I’ve found when I’m around people on either side of the climate change issue, they agree it’s a worthy goal to try to control and harness all of earths natural phenomena.

It might take hundreds of years, thousands of years, or maybe we never get there, but it seems like a good goal.
If they manage to defeat the technical solution then it’s a good lesson. Still a win.
Holy, this is awesome
This is seriously awesome. I'm gonna use it in my blog. Stay tuned!
Why do you continue asking after you already got a "no"?

Like...is it so difficult to understand that someone hasn't had an issue like this before?
I don't think it's either or. There are people who type in specific things in the search bar and then there are those who prefer to use toggles to narrow down to the results and both the audiences need to be catered to.
I don't know what causes folks like you to be so selfish and short sighted. You're going to be a long-termer someday (or you'll be in management and work towards exploiting union folks). Your life shouldn't revolve around work. Having the peace of mind of being shielded from layoffs because you've been working for 20+ years is huge. Hot shot developers and the rugged individualism doesn't jive with human life--most of us want to work to live not live to work.
Komagome is my favorite Yamanote line jingle: https://youtu.be/-GF_dku3Mgo?t=131
ChatGPT is pretty good about telling you what a line of code does. So I just copy it in and ask it.
The graphic designers I know all own a personal library of expensive fonts they’ve purchased over the years. Fonts being good matters a lot more than them being free
Let's say you have two 20k line Python programs: those 20k lines are all different.

But the Python interpreter is identical. The Python stdlib is identical. libc is identical. The Linux kernel is identical.

Your 20k lines of Python code is a small part of this all, and most Python programs are probably >99% identical when you count it all up. Of course, this is not really all that meaningful of a number.
Thinking back on all the breaking changes I've dealt with since 2010: 32-bit Linux distros discontinued, SMB incompatible between Windows versions (and samba versions) without tweaks, root encryption certificates added/removed, OpenSSL requiring all SSH keys manually updated: This NetBSD machine may have been running for all that time, but no way was it unmanaged. Some Morlock was turning the cranks and oiling the gears.
> You have to cultivate any farmland that comes with the deed. You cannot sell it without special permission. There is a whole lot of paperwork to deal with such situations.

In the book How Asia Works, Studwell argues that the small-plot farms that the government of Japan seems to 'encourage' don't make sense and are a hinderance:

* https://www.gatesnotes.com/How-Asia-Works

They were fine initially as developing countries have an 'excess' of labour, and small farms need more workers, but once industrialization starts, labour is better used in factories and other high value chain parts of the economy, and it's better to mechanize/automate larger farms. Japan did move up the value chain, but farm-plot consolidation didn't really happen, so a large portion of farms are run by an aging population.
He's riffing on the famous Gordon Gekko quote from "Wall Street".
Optifonts was doing something similar to that in the 90s. The results were generally mediocre to bad, but they were going for volume. I've used them in print for headlines and decorative fonts because you can adjust them manually until it looks pretty good. Both the backstory and the fonts are pretty interesting:

http://abfonts.freehostia.com/opti/

http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-27506.html
Still does make a url that currently (but is not guaranteed to in the future) points to an ape kept worth millions.
Here in South Texas the biggest difference I’ve seen in the past 40 years is people getting acclimated to the AC. It seems like too many people think you can only be comfortable inside when it’s 70F, and claim they can’t sleep unless it’s colder.
I think because in many places in the past people coped fine so there is a scare that this AC popularity will increase energy usage.

You are correct that Heating in cold climates probably is worse. AC has the advantage that the load matches sunny summer weather. At least in Europe - Asia and Eastern USA the humidity at night is an extra problem.
I read "older people insist on going to stores during the day" as meaning between 11pm and 5pm, when the weather is unbearably hot, instead of during the cooler morning period.

It's pretty rare for shops selling staples to open later than 9am, at least here in Australia. Most supermarkets open around 7am. There's plenty of time to get your shopping done before the day gets over 25c/80f in most towns, and shops in places like Marble Bar (which is very slightly cooler than Death Valley) open earlier.
Paywalled content is annoying. But it can be bypassed most of the time by cut'n'pasting the URL into the search fields of either
https://archive.is/
or
https://12ft.io/

If neither of those can let you read it, then just ignore that paywalled URL. They don't get the click, and you haven't lost anything.
Yes.

People are extremely sensitive to temperature changes above 37C/99F for obvious reasons. The higher the ambient vs. core body temp, the more you must sweat and hydrate to not overheat. If it's too humid for sweating to work, it's a miserable way to die.
This looks really interesting. I'm regularly building systems that are plugged into multiple SaaS things, and would love a way to make that easier.

I'll give this a go with a toy project and see if I can find the edges.

Do you have any performance benchmarks available to compare to other similar tools?
You do realize that the median income monthly income is $277USD/month, right? A/C is a luxury for most. And even if builders put A/C in, many don't have the money to spend on electricity to run it.

Hell, when I lived in Singapore (3 degree from the equator), most homes had A/C, but many, many people never used it because the electricity was something they didn't want to spend their money on.

People have been living in that region for thousands of years, of which only the last 50 years has A/C been an option.
Embryonic stem cell research has always been problematic for the Catholic Church, yes, and it will remain so (although there's also a strong argument even from Catholic ethicists that developing things like vaccines from stem cell lines where the contributing embryo died in the 1970s can be licit, because the participation in the death of the embryo is so remote and the benefit potentially so high).

Research on adult stem cells or induced pluripotent stem cells already didn't face the same objections.

It sounds like this is more about an improvement in the technique of inducing pluripotency that could reduce negative complications, rather than a whole new unobjectionable procedure that hadn't existed before.
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Our DNA is shared more than 98 percent with chimpanzees and bonobos, our next of kin.
You say this like the climate hasn't changed so much in the last 50 years that AC has gone from a luxury to a necessity in many parts of the world.

A substantial and growing portion of the planet is inhospitable to human life without AC.