skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Well, I'd very definitely agree with that comment. I have firsthand experience of eucalyptus trees and bushfires and I find it truly perplexing why people in other countries would want to put their lives and property at risk by planting this dangerous invasive species that often grows faster and more robustly there than it does in Australia.

Trees that grow fast and robustly are great for developments! After you've bulldozed everything flat, built up homes of ticky-tacky, you've got to put trees in, and larger trees makes the development feel established; therefore trees that get large quickly are desirable. Building around existing trees is harder, if there even were any of size.

IIRC, eucalyptus will be happy to grow pretty close together, and you can have a line of them for a windbreak, and/or to soften highway noise.

Danger is for someone else to worry about. And cleaning up the tree droppings will fall on the homeowners association.
AirBnB is not the same thing as long-term rental, it’s a major oversimplification to bucket all types of rental properties together.
This guy is going phenomenal work and publishing a good deal about it. Highly recommend checking out his engine videos
I saw him give a talk a couple years before his death where he said he wrote it when he was very depressed and regretted ending the series that way: he was considering writing another
I've never used composer, so can't really comment. I'll check it out sometime! Thanks for the tip.
Says your uninformed medical opinion.
What a disgustingly materialistic and capitalist way to write off entire communities of people as worthless simply because you can’t find a six figure job there. No wonder the coastal elites get hated so much.
I'm not holding my breath for this, either, but I'm still going to follow it as more comes out.
Yes I tried a few other prompt: from what I recall "syndicalist flag" gave a similar result, "hacker emblem" was refused as being potentially NSFW, and "anarchy" was the only one to give an actual result… of a cop emoji! Definitely not working well.
My understanding is that the reminders will only start in December, and then actual deletions will only follow after the appropriate grace period. My point is that you shouldn’t be surprised that you are not yet seeing any indications of your accounts being considered inactive. I have several inactive accounts myself and haven’t received any reminders as well.
>This was a pretty long time ago, like early-Millennium.

LOL, yep, I'm officially old!
A magician's guide to zero-knowledge proofs
The investors aren't building the houses. They're not developers. They're speculators. They're the real estate equivalent of scalpers buying up all the Taylor Swift tickets and reselling at huge markups. Except they're doing it with shelter, a basic human need, rather than a luxury entertainment product.
Yeah would want to know this upfront. Feels misleading.
Look at the big concerns:

1. Inadequate launch pad let debris fly. - Fixed as proven by SpaceX's static fires.

2. Leaky fuel tank caused all kinds of problems. - Fixed by fixing the launch pad.

3. Faulty FTS - Obviously a huge priority at SpaceX, so probably fixed.
There is certainly a housing problem in Canada, but isn't some of this attributable to the Canadian dollar getting weaker since 2009? It went from 1=1 to $1.4CAD to $1 USD today. Real housing prices will increase as wages in Canada decrease in USD, and asset prices increase in CAD.
> it also doesn't allow you to constrain what types are accepted by your functions.

It does, if by constrain you mean “succeed or fail”: just write a comptime if statement and @compileError. If you mean a mechanism like concepts or SFINAE then you are correct.
I think that green credits for heat pumps etc are not available unless your home is already well insulated.
Can you show your working on this assertion?
Zig doesn't have any features integrated into the language to make reference-counted objects painless to use. For that matter, neither does C#.
You need to take physics again. You clearly don’t understand it. The physics of stopping a car is nothing like the physics of stopping a train. The mass is so different it’s comical for you to even say that. The propulsion system is not even remotely similar.
In the context of the article, they are talking about replacing old boiler systems which were generally designed at the turn of the previous century. During that time, steam systems were designed to provide heat in buildings where the windows would be open to allow fresh air in (due to the idea that sickness was caused by “bad air”, so opening windows was considered a health thing), so they blasted heat at full tilt without any regard to efficiency. Those same buildings also weren’t designed to be airtight or insulated.

With a heat pump, you really need to make an effort to keep the heat inside, as the heat output can’t match a boiler. So you need to redesign the whole building.
Just to be clear, this appeals ruling mostly reversed the original decision of the original court. The original court's decision applied 10 different restrictions on government officials. The 5th circuit (itself widely known to be conservative) overturned nine of those ten restrictions, and also overturned many of the agencies they apply to.

The appeals ruling, therefore, is being interpreted here (and, in many cases, intentionally spun) in a way exactly opposite to what it actually found, which is the government largely acted correctly.
For anyone curious, this is the clip mentioned, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D5qK8oh5lY
The average net worth of someone who flies private is $190M, and flying private has an outsized carbon footprint. Okay if we tax those miles and pay Climeworks (direct air carbon capture is currently the only legitimate carbon offset mechanism) to suck the CO2 back out of the air? This is not even hard, we can bill based on their ADS-B broadcast flight track.

Agree that the problem with the investments of the wealthy driving climate change is consumer demand that needs to be destroyed (EVs, heat pumps, solar, factory farming protein, etc).

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/04/carbon-f...

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/billionaire-emits-mi...
Interesting, I only knew about <https://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/index.html> which makes no reference to =~ nor any such // syntax but it seems there's an IETF draft that is (a) an actual specification (b) includes more modern stuff like what you used: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-jsonpath-base-07....

And, while whatever is powering https://jsonpath.com/ does honor your syntax, albeit with an absolutely useless result:

[
{
"name": -1
},
{
"name": -1
},
{
"name": -1
}
]

I found that `pip install jsonpath-ng` does not accept it nor mention it <https://github.com/h2non/jsonpath-ng/tree/v1.5.3?tab=readme-...> so I think it's out on the bleeding edge or something
> But it’s quite stupid: In both countries you need AC, [...]

Almost no residential building in Germany has AC, and I'm unsure what you mean by "need". Also the buildings are built to last, so no remodeling every few years like in the US.
That means one is stuck with most of the utility built into the house from the start. Remodeling a regular central European brick-and-mortar house to accommodate floor heating or duct vents is difficult and expensive.
That's one interpretation of the data.
I am afraid a too candid discussion about what is being censored on these plattforms is a discussion that easily leads to flames. I also certainly don't mean to just talk about censorship performed at the request of governments. (a request without explicit threat of coercion, but a request nonetheless) I also highlight the censorship which these same social media companies perform on society at large on a variety of contentious political topics.

I hold the belief that these social media companies have become new types of a public square, and the freedom of expression must be guaranteed on these platforms just as well as freedom of expression is guaranteed on a irl public square in most western countries. They should be required to carry and broadcast ideas which they themselves do not subscribe to, just as well as telecom companies are required to transmit phonecalls between people they dislike.
Canadian housing prices are not irrational. Assuming that no new housing gets built in canada, but canada keeps welcoming immigrants, no new supply but increasing demand, the prices will rise even further.
Probably a kernel module for Linux that involved non-documented hardware with reverse engineering and fumbling around in the dark, essentially.
Lmao yes, my uninformed medical opinion does say that.
What kind of novel problems do u mean?
They have and do. The issue is fraud and account compromises are so common (due to password reuse being the norm and every other site under the sun getting compromised), that they’re in a catch-22.

Support can be Social Engineered easily (especially if you don’t spend massive amounts of money on it). Making support not socially engineer-able is essentially impossible too with their user base, as the user base is too diverse.

Technical solutions currently suck, even if we ignore that most of the population is unable to effectively use them.

There is no consistent way across their user base to even verify a person exists, let alone that they are who they say they are, let alone that they are who created or owns the account!

And no one even puts the closest local equivalent into their Google account for legitimate reasons anyway.

Like who would want to upload their Birth certificate? Or passport? Or DL/ID? That’s a terrible idea. And many people don’t have the US equivalent to one anyway.

Not to mention, deep fakes have gotten really good. Not that a US company is going to have much luck identifying a fake (or real!) Belgian equivalent for instance anyway.

So they go with heuristics, which always have edge cases, try to hide what rules they use to avoid being gamed at scale, and hope for the best. Not great. But seriously, what else are they going to do?
The Warp Reactor Concept (PDF, June 2023)
It’s going to differ a lot based on the size of your company and the auditor you end up picking. If I had to guess you’re looking in the 30-80k range for everything.
I wonder how much other things like urbanisation need to be controlled for. Eg skimming Wikipedia, over 40% of canadas population is in urban areas with a population over 500k whereas the percentage for the US is much lower. (Though my guess is that different classifications for ‘urban area’ mess up my quick counting).

For example if you plotted similar lines for each of the nine census divisions in the US, how much of an outlier would Canada still look like? What if one tried to make some synthetic Canada-like regions of the us where people are more clustered in big cities?

It seems plausible to me that Canada would still stick out, but I’m not sure by how much.
It is easy to write plugins for in Python, which is one reason I picked it. I don’t know Go at all, I do know JS but there are all kinds of tools like Pandas I could use if I wanted to make data tables or something like that.
Aside, the mentioned Audie Murphy has an impressive record.

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

> He received every military combat award for valor available from the United States Army, as well as French and Belgian awards for heroism.

> After the war, Murphy embarked on a 21-year acting career. He played himself in the 1955 autobiographical film To Hell and Back, based on his 1949 memoirs of the same name,
From Nordic viewpoint Air-to-Air heatpumps are affordable and easy enough to install. Couple thousand for unit and professional installation. For single-family and even terrace no brainer. Next step up is more complicated and expensive, but still possible.

And for rest district heating is common enough. And there a centralised solutions make sense, even real efficiency gains like using waste heat from factories and datacenters.
I'm reminded of the quote from Keynes:

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

While I think the author does a good job pointing out how unsustainable this business model is, predicting the end of the subscription model seems a large leap. Given that the author doesn't frame the discussion with a solid prediction, this article comes across as a "it doesn't make sense to me" rant with a little bit of embellishment to predict a downfall at some unstated time in the future.
Oh, I’m so glad you brought up “How to with John Wilson”. I didn’t know there were new episodes and now I’ve got to watch these! I was floored by the first season, especially ending on Covid, so my hopes are high!
Dealing with text would still be a huge problem. Drawing text on canvas and making it selectable is still a hard problem, you have to think about all the intricacies of text (character widths, spacing, RTL, etc)
Although not the point of my comment (I don't want to sign in at all) -- I personally like a username/password the best.
Good lord based on this guy I am now worried…
For me (been using paperwm since ) the real point of having them is that a lot of windows don't really benefit from extra width (heck even hacker news website shows white bars in the sides) so by having 67% windows not only I'm not losing anything but now I have a context of which windows are to left and right of currently focused window and that helps me to remember where everything is located in this big wall of windows. I remember installing something using apt and looking for when it's going to be finished in the remaining 33% of screen (This use case is not that prevalent and is really limited in how much information of the other window can be perceived)

Another benefit is how sick it looks (In my opinion). Anyone looking would be interested.
lolwut windows is worse now than it was 20 years ago.
In my experience this has been a source of problems as well. Tacked on insulation tends to keep moisture in, ruining the walls over time.
Alternatively, use Mastodon, which is a great website.
Love this, thanks for sharing!
Or the German G43 for that matter.
Attempt 2:

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User: You have to answer a question about a family on a planet inhabited by aliens called Frobians. Here are some rules for a family

Each Frobian can be one of two types Frobel or Frobo.
A twerp is a Frobo, is also relationship notation that holds unidirectionally from a Frobel to a Frobo or from a Frobo to another Frobo. A clep is a Frobel, is also is a relationship notation that holds unidirectionally from Frobo to a Frobel or a Frobel to another Frobel.

In a family Master Foo, a Frobian, is of type Frobel. Master Foo has 3 twerps in their family. Each twerp in the family has 2 cleps. How many Frobels in total does Master Foo have?

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ChatGPT:

Let's break down the information given:

Master Foo is a Frobel.
Master Foo has 3 twerps, which are Frobos.
Each twerp has 2 cleps, which are Frobels.

First, we know Master Foo is a Frobel, so that's 1 Frobel.

Master Foo has 3 twerps, and each twerp has 2 cleps. Cleps are Frobels.

So, for each of the 3 twerps, there are 2 cleps:

3 twerps * 2 cleps/twerp = 6 cleps (which are Frobels)

Adding Master Foo, who is also a Frobel:

1 (Master Foo) + 6 (cleps) = 7 Frobels

So, in total, Master Foo's family has 7 Frobels.
> I like it
Thank you :)

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This is the scary bit for me. It doesn't take much imagination to speculate that homes are possibly dramatically overvalued at present and current prices are unsustainable. This can't end well.
> At the end of the day, I would love for our governments to provide taxpayer funded facilities around the city and even on several of our major highways. We used to have a lot here but they closed almost all of them.

You are almost there. Now we should ask why this happened:

> but they closed almost all of them

There is no civic sense in large swathes of the population. Strict enforcement of basic rules will help us a lot here.
And what does the author think the alternative is? He mentions the collapse of advertising, so they clearly don't think that ad-supported models are the way of the future.

I am completely unconvinced. The fact that the "average/median" income from these models is low is completely unsurprisng. We should expect that the vast majority of the income would go to the very top performers. This is not an indication that subscription doesn't work, just that it's going to end up looking like acting, music, and professional sports. Those are all real careers that have persisted for a very long time where the "average" wage is extremely low.

This article does a bad job clearly stating what the author thinks the problem is (just vaguely gesturing at average wages without explaining why that should matter), doesn't suggest an alternative at all and instead seems to snidely be sniping at non-mainstream journalists and creators.

I am deeply unimpressed.
It's not a paywall, just a marginally less obnoxious demand to subscribe before seeing the content. At least Substack waits for you to get 3/4 through
When moviegoers started watching films from the beginning
Epping and Devizes are both towns in the UK. The idea is to take an interesting sounding proper name, pretend it's just a normal word and then come up with your own definition.
Vehicles with sliding rails and the like.
It's always easier to choose the option that costs less to install but more to use. That's why lots of homes have poorly insulated pipes and lots of people use cheap printers that require expensive ink.
Is that really the bottleneck, though? They are already dramatically more efficient than combustive or resistive heat. But they are usually not drop-in replacements, and it's harder to retrofit older single family homes with them, vs a smaller apartment where you can just drop in a mini split and take out the old furnace.
> Truthfully I don't think this is an issue the federal government is in a position to solve any time soon.

I agree in general. There is some stuff the federal government can do, which is to return to funding social housing. The Federal government for a long time provided subsidized housing in the post war period up to the 1970s-80s.

> If I had a singular policy suggestion, after having talked to some friends in the industry, it would be to pump federal money into expediting site plan approvals and environmental assessments done at a county or municipal level.

I've seen similar. One of the biggest issues that is almost never talked about is development (land improvement?) taxes occur late in the process. So when it comes to multi-dwelling development, there is substantial risk the developers have to take on and manage, because they could get slapped with losing all their profits in surprise taxes near the end of the project (besides all the risks for building costs in general). I think the stats is in the ballpark of 2/10 building are successes, 6/10 are break even, and 2/10 are are losses. At $100-$400 million a piece for a medium sized tower, imagine taking on that risk profile... I can't. So cities need to understand the risks they're transferring to development, and fund their infrastructure upgrades through good and solid planning upfront.

Another related idea I saw from a youtube video on Vancouver I think it was, was the return to the Vancouver standard house plan. It was one of the post war house plans, and while there were a couple variations and you could make superficial changes, it was extremely cheap to get approvals for because the city was basically approving the same structure every time, and were so used to it the reviews were cheap and easy.

So you're right, just finding the opportunities to optimize that process for both the City and Developer is essential. And also allowing basement apartments and other medium density development. The giant towers are hella expensive if that's the only density getting built.
Of course. Money Hoovering megacorps gonna megacorp. I had an H-1B boss at Meta before layoffs. They didn't lay off the non-engineer workers who sat around the office and socialized all day... hot seat rto bullshit.

The main way out is worker-owned co-ops.
It's like old reddit vs new reddit, old is plain but easy to see a lot of content. New is pathetic. HN is much better to look at. Make a science HN just like HN and you have a winner.
Society would not even come close to collapsing, that is unrealistic.
> It's practically possible to throw the Earth into the sun.

Source? From my understanding that's by definition impossible for humans circa 2023.
Also because Brave is pretty sketchy, like promoting their own cryptocurrency, replacing sites' ads with their own ads, etc.
So have undeveloped land prices risen as much as existing houses? It seems like the obvious solution is to add new housing outside of town to serve the unmet demand, as every metro area in the US has done for over a century. With so much land and so few people, why hasn't Canada done this too?
I'll never understand why more cities haven't invested in the Portland Loo or similar concepts for public bathrooms...

https://portlandloo.com/
This is impressive. Good work.
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I don’t understand this. I’ve lived in America my entire life (I’m roughly 40) and literally never been unable to find a public restroom.

I’m sure there are certain cities where it’s harder (maybe NYC, etc.) but “Public restrooms are hard to find in America” is stretching the truth pretty far.
I think the Atlas range is still growing. That means plates coming together.

I lived in Morocco (and have visited Marrakesh), but that was in the late 1960s. I also lived in East Africa, where they still have some active vulcanism, but I think things are subsiding.

Morocco had a bad earthquake in Agadir, in 1960. A huge number of folks died. I think it was mostly poor people, who live in rather slapdash shanty towns.
Imagine a man playing the worlds smallest violin to accompany SBF's tale of woe
I see. You have no idea what's going on right now.

You might even be posting from inside a mental institution for all I know.

Well good luck to you.

Hope you get the mental health care you need.
Use ungoogled-chromium: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium
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Show HN: Leverage Falcon 7B blog post
Hi HN community, I wrote this short blog post on ways to leverage the LLM Falcon 7B.

In this blog post I cover:
- zero shot prompting
- few shot prompting
- Finetuning with QLoRA

I evaluate how Falcon does on classification tasks when compared to Bert and Distilbert.

Moreover, I talk about different ways you can deploy the model, and the associated costs!

The code for all of my experiments are available on: https://github.com/georgian-io/LLM-Finetuning-Hub

Happy reading and learning!
Ex-Apple employee files RICO lawsuit over whistleblower retaliation
Yes and if you change what's on offer you'll see the demand change. Consumers are good and service takers, the only person that can stop releasing carbon is the person actually releasing the carbon.

You will never move a river by asking each drop, you build a dam.
The legacy of Star Trek: The Animated Series, 50 years on