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Bethesda enjoyers are blessed with this wonderful wiki. And action RPG fans have fextralife - another solid gold standard for wikis. It's a great time to be a fan.

https://fextralife.com/
One big, big benefit is they handle account creation & anti-spam. Anti-spam is the hardest part of hosting, it's a serious problem and time-sink.
The combination of:

1. Land costs

2. Labor costs

3. Material costs

4. Zoning laws

5. Building codes

For example some zoning laws have a height restrictions, which limits my development to 3-story buildings, when I would actually want to build a 5-story building

For building codes, some would require me to put in $100 breakers, when I could do with simpler $20 breakers, etc. etc. for a LOT of items, which also feeds into the material costs.

If you want more specifics than that - open up your county/city website and start reading. It's not up to HN to do the legwork for you.
Just like terrorism, if the person saying "Let's kidnap a government official" is an FBI agent but you didn't know, you still decided to conspire with that idea. The reason the bar for entrapment is so high is that the societal expectation is that you WON'T DO A BAD THING, even if 30 CIA agents all offer to sleep with you or give you a billion dollars or prepare everything for you and you just have to sign a sheet of paper.

You probably shouldn't conspire to kidnap someone, regardless of who came up with the idea first. You are expected to just not engage with the guy suggesting it.
China is especially interesting since it appears that much of the housing stock was built purely to be a financial instrument, and was never occupied.

There are entire towers that were never used as residences, but just used as investment vehicles based on faith rather than any sort of realized value.

This is really a story about the dangers of using housing stock as an investment vehicle.

North America has a related problem of financialization, but is complicated by rules constraining stock in the places where people would like to live.

I would argue that you need rules around financialization (punitive capital gains taxes on market based gains for non primary residence), as well as rules around allowing people to do reasonable things with their property (infill, single family zoning, etc) to increase the amount of allowable stock.
YC application, interview and then noticed a company in that batch popping out with what took half a year to distill on the product side of the project.

Again, the lesson - it is important to understand that YC is specializing on a particular way of bringing up a startup.
I find this stuff very alarming. The reporting in TFA about European politics (and the recent Heat Initiative pressure campaign here in the US) illustrate how much unaccountable dark money is flowing into these causes. I don’t think that there are huge pools of anonymous donor cash looking to influence child-safety campaigns for the sake of anyone caring about children, because that’s not typically how altruistic donors donate their money.

Instead I think it’s likely that some commercial interests see a lucrative financial opportunity in this private data (either selling AI-based scanning tools, or mining it directly as a service.) This data is currently locked up with big firms like Apple and Meta, who are (for various reasons) leaning towards encrypting it rather than exploiting its contents, and the way to solve this problem involves passing laws through naive legislatures who don’t understand what they’re doing. And frankly that possibility worries me much more than where I thought we were previously - which was just a boring dispute between government and tech firms.
Is this "not corrupting the registry" really a thing that people are worried about when you're using Windows' APIs to access it?
Guess what there is something in between the Nevada desert and the North East corridor. And also, the most popular railroads in Europe are connecting close city and villages, like S-Bahns.

And Amtrak operates in several places where there is very little other options for people, so operating at a loss at time is perfectly reasonable for a public service. US rail is the least subsidized form of transit.

And the point about Metro North, guess what if the freight railroad owned all those tracks then that would be possible either.
Calling it "scanning for child sex content" is a mistake. Finding CSAM is just the claimed initial intended use. Call it what it is, not what it's allegedly for:

"Mandatory submission of all private communication to the government" (either govt. employees, contractors, or AI systems running on your device but answering to someone else).
Intriguing maybe, but not surprising. It seems like they all grew up watching the same TV shows/news, eating the same food, and reading/watching/listening to mostly the same books/movies/music.
Negative gearing reduces your loss by your marginal tax rate percentage, so it is a real loss.
I’ve done both and found Sales Eng (also called Solutions Eng) aligns more to my own interests.
WGA never asked for 20 person writers rooms — no idea where this number is coming from.

WGA’s initial proposal in May was: “1 writer per episode up to 6 episodes, then 1 additional writer required for each 2 episodes after 6 up to a max. of 12 writers”
> Consider the very common case of tiny humans that are clearly intelligent but lack the facilities of language.

Sign language can be taught to children at a very early age. It takes time for the body to learn how to control the complex set of apparatuses needed for speech, but the language part of the brain is hooked up pretty early on.
> a real problem of public order, tidiness, peacefulness

Side note: that's part of what I meant by "crime". Usually in the states there are laws or ordinances enforcing such things even if they're not necessarily criminal statutes.
OSRS also moved to oldschool.runescape.wiki and AIUI jagex pays for their hosting and provides some kind of content access to make updating/syncing easier.

Plus they have RuneLite cooperating with crowdsourcing things like droptables and drop rates. (And of course mods often will outright tell them what certain droprates are or how they function).
They are global variables. Worth working very hard to block in any project. Separate microservices are the most effective way I saw so far to stop people in a large org from making shortcuts via global contexts. I feel bad for our frontend devs dealing with a tide of global constructs in our React codebase.
Such an occurrence should/would make international news if demonstrated carefully or replicated
> SF starts to shrink it already looks deserted

I don't think we've been to the same city, vacancy rate is around 7%.
The first thing that comes to mind is the conservative movements growing obsessions with pedophilia, real and imagined. It has become the visceral hook that seems to emotionally motivate a lot of the far-right, not unlike abortion.
What are you using then? Because Bitwarden also requires an additional secret.
This is key.

No observable impact. Until the whole thing implodes.
If you make $400k/yr, you are a fool if you have not invested the large surplus.

And that investment is the capital for someone else's business.

And you don't have a large surplus at that salary, you are also a fool.
> Nearly perfect labour of love

I wouldn't go that far. Its not KSP2, but KSP1 has plenty of jank and bugs.
Agree. It seemed odd the article called them replicas.
Yeah, I recently replayed Minecraft vanilla and I really don't understand how you are supposed to discover The End with regular play. They do have some light hints for constructing a nether portal but I couldn't find anything pointing at how to discover the end.
>Ah yes, the welfare queen rant. People aren't "refusing to work", many are sick (physically and/or mentally) and/or homeless and can't take on jobs, not because they are lazy but because no one hires someone who smells like they haven't showered in a month. Companies are the ones resorting to financial schemes and illegal activity; wage theft and union busting is big business. Companies are freeloading FAR more than sick people.

I really need to emphasis an aspect of this for anyone else reading: Wage theft is larger (in dollars) than the next biggest type of theft (robberies) by around 300%.(https://www.epi.org/publication/wage-theft-2021/) Its not even close. Corporations are literally the biggest thieves in America by a tremendous margin.
In many places, a combination of requirements become a de facto floor on apartment size. Examples include requirements for natural light, parking minimums, and shared common spaces.

Some cities, like Seattle, go so far as to set an explicit minimum apartment size. It's obviously going to be challenging to build a brand new $500/mo apartment if it cannot be less than 500 sqft.

All that said, looking few brand new cheap apartments is generally the wrong approach. There's a whole filtering process of older apartments that's supposed to assure that. Similarly, nobody expects brand new cars to be price-competitive with fifteen year old Honda Civics.
I'm not sure how much they automate the forking, but a number of these already exist and were contendors for recieving the Minecraft wiki.

https://wiki.gg is probably the biggest, but there's also https://abxy.org and https://weirdgloop.org/, who is now hosting the minecraft wiki
I believe a more accurate description is that people are choosing not to have children in the current environment; maybe something in the environment is detected as unsuitable for children, since human biology hasn’t changed but the birth rate has gone down.

If this kind of birthdate collapse happened in other organized animal societies we’d have lots of news pointing to specific environmental hazards, like that insecticide and bird eggs.
Careful selling this shit, Capitalists!

Any drug that heals trauma makes people content and secure.

They won't be addicted to alcohol, tobacco, television, mindless
games, or any of the other drugs for sale.

They'll settle for what they have, stop chasing rainbows of wealth and
fame.

Now they won't work in your factories 24/7, running an economy that
nobody really needs.

They'll stop listening to all the fear-mongering propaganda.

They'll start talking to each other, face to face, bypassing all the
apparatus of interpersonal surveillance.

They'll start helping each other, cutting dependency on your
mediation.

You can't sell them crap they don't need for money they don't have.

And if they stop living in debt and fear, now you can't control them.

There's a reason we have a "War on drugs".
The article doesn't define "Epic Book." Is it just a really long book? Is there something more to it? How many pages is the cutoff?
I love my Corolla. 22 years old, 200k miles, runs perfectly fine. Never broken down on me. Even the interior is pristine, no rips in the drivers seat upholstery - something I’ve seen happen in a matter of years in other cars.

I felt bad when that story came out about Toyota engineers pulling the panels off a Tesla and being in shock. Sure, Tesla has done some amazingly innovative engineering. But the interior of a brand new Tesla is more rickety than my clapped out Corolla. Toyota engineers shouldn’t feel bad, they build cars that last, and that really matters to a lot of people.
> we can work towards fixing it with policy that benefits the Boomers who are left

As a member of Walk Bike Berkeley and Berkeley Neighbors for Housing and Climate Action I go to war every week, against Boomers, for the exact policies that will benefit them: more housing, better transit and walking facilities. And every week they show up to denounce those policies using their tired Boomer memes. Building housing is "trickle-down economics". A street that's suitable for all ages and all modes is "radical bike lobby". Both of these organizations are full of hundreds of younger people dedicated to saving Boomers from themselves.
Didn't Boise, ID have an influx of better-off people from the coasts during the Pandemic? If plenty of luxury housing is being built it was likely in response to that. Ultimately those houses will get rented or otherwise occupied, which should free up housing at the lower end.

Compare this to places in the Bay Area, where it's not practical to spread out any farther (no good public transport because of a dozen or more transit agencies that are always fighting and Caltrain, which is a hugely dysfunctional organization that can't even run trains at a piddling frequency). We have houses being blocked using CEQA and other nonsense, all because people who work in unproductive industries or not at all (non-tech, retirees) have decided to get more than their share by denying permits for new construction.

What's better? Some housing being built or none at all?
Ok, but my point is you can't just claim the revenue is shrinking as evidence there was no demand when the service itself is getting worse. Perhaps that alone explains most of the reduction. People using the disc service in 2020 had ample time to move to streaming so clearly there was something about the disc service that they found worthwhile.
I love this article being quoted and requoted over the years, yet considering I live not one town over from there, it never fails to amuse at how much of that article is made up whole-cloth. To a rural NH native, this is basically somebody who has never actually lived in rural NH freaking out about rural NH.

- Bears are a problem everywhere, (town police doesn't deal with bears, Fish & Game does generally, and that's not the town's business. Having dealt with problem bears and Fish & Game - their response is usually "You got a gun?")

- somehow the Grafton dump is still operational, despite libertarians existing;

- ignore the appalachian trail that has long been a route for various forest squatting through-hikers that have been shitty about their trash, ignore the multiple camps of people living in the national forest around these parts due to various reasons (seasonal work, just squatting, getting away from life...)...

etc, etc.

It honestly was the first article in any news source that made me really question the journalistic profession. But we'll forever disregard the reality on the ground in favor of sensationalist bullshit.
But it's not just about the game being bad. There is a huge difference between a poor game which was made with an effort and care, and a completely soulless, effortless cashgrab.

This is the later, that's been obvious from how Take-Two handles things, with the game even changing developers midway through development.
It's essentially an invitation to test the boundaries.

"Here's some razor blades and nails, do what you want, I am an art piece!"

Everyone immediately thinks "well I guess she wants us to test her with this stuff"

It's more of a stunt than anything... and since everything and anything can be art... sure... But I'd rather call it a stunt
CoL is the big one, along with lifestyle inflation. It depends on the numbers, is a smaller percent saved off a bigger paycheck more than a bigger percent off a smaller paycheck? Too many variables to ever really say, so the thing to optimize for is hygge.
The middle ground that many people are finding between apt and tent is a vehicle. Like vanlife but carlife.
> It's an attack on the human spirit in a way. The message is, "look, humanity IS truly awful."
It didn't have to be an attack on the human spirit. It was open to that, and open to something positive. But people didn't take the positive route.

> People walk away from it thinking, "Maybe everyone is evil." Now, does that serve a good purpose in this world? Seems a little satanic to me.

That's kinda weird, given that the belief that "everyone is evil" is one of the core ideas of Christianity. Well, everyone but one person, I suppose.
We both understand that the service has to support the max load, right? The average is less than worthless for calculating capacity of circuit breakers etc.
This is similar to Freenet, right? Content Addressable URLs that have a content hash + a key, and you have to have both to decrypt the content?
I think this may be changing as older Americans realize it is their own middle class children who need affordable housing in order to live close by with grandchildren.
I think it would be more accurate to describe this as the most Getty-friendly version.
It’s just a hiring article.
Given that this performance has taken place in a large, western city with a random audience, what makes anyone think that the outcome would be significantly different if you would perform it multiple times, in similar contexts, assuming the audience has no knowledge of the other instances?

The pattern seems clear to me: you have a situation in which you are "allowed", even encouraged, to do harm to a person. You are "hidden" in a crowd. The crowd starts off with harmless actions but the get more intense over time, the boundary is pushed continuously. As long as you can hide in the crowd, you cheer. But as soon as you have to answer as an individual, you turn into a coward.

Of course you might think of specific contexts, in which the outcome would be different. But in a general setting? Why should this be the case?

The performance took place in 1974, barely 30 years after the fall of the Nazi regime. Under this regime, a whole people was put in a similar situation, where the treatment and dehumanization (i.e. objectification) of specific groups (in particular, Jews) got worse over time, publicly and continuously. I think in this historical context, the performance clearly referred to that time. I don't remember the 1970's, but in the 80's and still in the 90's, WW2 and the Third Reich were very much present in the public mind and often referred to in conversation. One example is Todd Strasser's novel The Wave from 1981, which shows how an "innocent" audience is transformed into an aggressive mob. I remember that this novel, and the movies based upon it, led to discussions where some people claimed "this certainly wouldn't happen here/to us/to me/now".

I think it needs a good explanation why today, or a different crowd, would be any different.
LLM's should be great at generating concordances and reference checks through vast bodies of boring literature that no one wants to read. In other words, most of the everyday clerical grade work of professional theology.

Similarly bodies of law and regulation; I'm surprised no one has shown off their "federal register" based search and "understand this for me" bot yet. the source material is vast, very well organized, and free. Probably the fact that there's paying customers available has kept such efforts quietly commercial.
Only the "last mile" of residential connections (and often business, if they can't justify the cost of a full fibre connection in their current location).

Up to 33k6 modems home internet was generally symmetrical: the same speed up and down. 56k6 standards introduced asymmetry: it wasn't easy (i.e. inexpensively with that era's tech) to reliably transmit at the faster rates over copper in both directions (in fact it was rare in one direction - it wasn't often I saw faster than 48k, IIRC 45k was what I'd usually get) so the upstream was half of down. If I was uploading anything like photos of force the connection down to 33k6 at the upstream rate would be 33k6 rather than 24k or less.

This continued with ADSL and then FTTC: the signalling frequencies used are allocated in a way that gives preference to downstream speed. This is a good compromise for most home users who download far more than they send back, but inconvenient when setting up (to pick one example from many) large videos recorded on modern phones, which is something many home users might want to do regularly. I currently get ~55mbit/13mbit and I'd much rather have it more balanced (something like 24mbit/24mbit?). I'll be upgrading to FTTP as soon as the cables they install a month or so ago are enabled, not for better downstream (it isn't often that ~55mbit is a significant inconvenience) but for better upstream.

Full fibre doesn't have the limits of copper connections that force the choice of how to portion limited frequencies, not just because full fibre has cleaner signalling (so far reliable throughout) anyway, but also because it is synchronous: unlike with copper the signals from each side don't interfere with each other. (Copper needn't have this limitation but to work around it you'd need to double up the number of wires and even then at the speeds offered many would prefer such a bonded arrangement to give faster downstream at the expense of upstream)
I think they were being sarcastic, and their point is taken.
Excuse the meme, but: https://i.redd.it/z3hifq228l491.jpg
It' interesting how American Football is perceived as more violent when Rugby exists and is a lot more brutal. Futból (in Spanish to distinguish it) in its simplest form seems non-violent but the players can be just as merciful and the fans just as bad.
Do mind that it's often more cost effective to take the train and you have more rental options. I've taken the train from WDC to NYC at times because there were better rental options there when travelling further north.
I really love that the british museum have an entire page dedicated to that hammer :D
> Rent control is the ultimate "I got mine" - it rewards people who got in early while making it impossible for anyone else to have housing

As opposed to someone willing to sacrifice their health by working multiple jobs to live in a such a place.

Rent control works, the problem is we don’t build enough homes to resolve the “not enough” problem. The construction industry is working skeleton crews currently due to the 2008 recession where thousands lost their jobs and never came back.

Then you have the issue with exorbitant property values in metro-like cities which prevent nonprofits and local governments from sitting at the bargaining table. Building outside of the city has its own unique issues.

Arguing that rent control doesn’t work is pretty disingenuous.
> I think we have a situation where part of the population is literally voting to appropriate wealth from another part of the population

With varying degrees of subtlety, I think this is most of politics. Corporations and small business/asset owners lobby or vote for laws that favor or subsidize them all the time. Homeowners are a very large class of voter that all own the same type of asset.

But at least for people with kids it seems very short sighted to cripple your own kids' lifestyle just for a higher number in your bank account.
If parking spaces are $400/mo, you're going to be hard pressed to have power, water, and heating for $500. The reason a tent in the city is $0 is because that is an externality that is allowed... you can't even stay for free in a campground, because water, trash, and toilets cost money.
ublacklist only works on google, and the OP was using DDG though.
It is my opinion that very few interesting successes made it before the age of 30 - https://mrsteinberg.com/creatives-who-made-it-when-they-were...
I think their main goal is to be perceived as the most advanced AI company. Why? Because that's how you get the best people working for you. The main determinant of success for companies like OpenAI is people.
"middle class" was the starting point of the discussion, with the poster trying to make believe that being a worker means you are middle class

As I commented somewhere else, if you are making 400k a year and are not investing the surplus income as capital for someone else's business then you are probably not making good life decisions. You certainly are making enough to be a rentier
They are likely in violation of the law, unless they genuinely, in good faith, believed that the role could just as easily been satisfied at $10k or $1m.
To you and me, that's a lot of money, for Google's size that's really not a lot of money. The fact that it just became profitable certainly helps the beancounters decide to keep it around though.