skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he means communal spaces in densely populated urban areas, not national parks and forests that are remote enough to keep most of the antisocial scum away.

Take for instance, Pioneer Square in Seattle. If you look at the structure of the parks, buildings, sidewalks and streets it should be very nice. Lots of nice trees, wide sidewalks and it's pretty flat and easy to walk around. But in reality it's filled with awful people which ruins it.
This seems extremely premature.

According to the article so far 36 people live there.
out of the expected 1.000 people who will reside there
when the development is finished in 2025

I think you should wait till everyone has moved in,
and then give it a year or two, and then write an article
about how people are much happier there.

I have confidence that results probably would not change that
much since the development is custom built and hyped
as a car-free place to live.

It will attract people who are looking for that and you would
think they would be happy.

However, you cannot use this as an argument that people in general
would be happier with such changes, since you start out with
a highly biased sample.

I have nothing against walkable neighborhoods. It is nice
Personally, I have zero desire to live Phoenix Arizona without a car.
I have lived there, and it gets insanely hot during the summer.

(a side note: Arizona already has major trouble getting enough water
for everyone who lives there already. I dont think expanding the
population is sustainable idea)
It's merit is utterly irrelevant. It's good enough, and good enough with other avenues of investment win over "the greatest thing of all time" every single time.
Programming in dependent types with univalence (Homotopy Type Theory) is an awesome way to see this realized.

The typing statement has to be proven by realizing the isomorphism demanded by substitution. You are more than anything directly proving what you claim in the type. Since proof is isomorphism here, the computation in terms of lowering the body of the definition to a concrete set of instructions is execution of your proof! (possibly machine code or just abstract in a virtual machine like STG). The constructive world is really nice. I hope the future builds here and dependent types with univalence is made easier and more efficient.
I was car-less until I was 27. I lived in cities with crappy public transit and great. I even lived in France for a summer. I continue to say that I like towns that are "bikable". I hated being in the heat, the rain, and the snow without a car. It's infinitely more comfortable, but I don't want to _forced_ to drive everywhere. I honestly hated the kind of mixed use that true urban mandates.

I like where I live now. A proper town that got eaten by a major city so it's a "suburb". Because it was always meant to be a functional stand alone city, it has everything you'd need within a reasonable walk or bike. You can bike the whole town. I can walk to 3 grocery stores and the basics, but there's a proper (in my opinion) segregation of concerns. I think the town could use a basic bus system for the kids in town and then it would be perfect, but NIMBYs alas.

I'd honestly prefer something like this. Which i guess when why I live in a small town. I really prefer driving everywhere. I like space, but I don't like the idea that lacking a car means you starve to death.
We can say "it's very possible" to a lot of things in the absence of data.
I've done several CCPA data requests. You get very detailed data (the actual data).

Some companies do not comply with the law, however-- the penalties are a slap on the wrist. Enforcement is only from the California Attorney General's office and the California Privacy Protection Agency (no individual action is possible unless your data was released in a breach where you can demonstrate negligence). Enforcement and penalties is the main place where the CCPA / CPRA is _much_ weaker than the GDPR.
From a first principles perspective, would I be able to grow enough food for me from the waste fertiliser from me? my intuition is that there wouldn't be enough
The degree of human involvement and human creativity involved is a very critical part of copyright law.
This was on a 16 acre site in the middle of Tempe (a city with over 25,000 acres, for reference). That is any given cluster of 10-50 houses in suburban areas. The USA has ~30 million acres of suburbs.

While the design and execution of the project look great, the key is that it's legal. If building like this was legal, by right, in more places, then the market would naturally transition to something like this if people desire it. Right now, any deviation from zoning has to be fought for with time and money, and as a rule of thumb, everything that gets built will stay that way forever. If successful, desirable, small scale projects like this lead to zoning being loosened, then hopefully the existing urban layouts will no longer be stuck.
Exactly! Merely allowing a tiny fraction of already developed land to be redeveloped at what were natural rates 120 years ago would mean that the suburbs would be almost completely untouched while those who want something different can also get what they want out of life.
The / at the end of a terminal line where the line in the file goes off the edge, using ^S for incremental search. Not being installed by default on most Linux distro.

These two things are incompatible with using cut-and paste in Windows, not to mind some other OS. One reason I switched to vi was I found vi worked better in mixed workflow where I sometimes used an IDE like IntelliJ IDEA, used a lot of web applications, and did a lot of cut and paste, which “just works” with vi assuming you go into insert mode when pasting.

Also at the time I was doing a lot of sysadmining where I would have to use somebody else’s account where there might be no emacs and certainly not my customizations or be working on a broken machine where the package manager might well be screwed up so installing emacs is not easy, besides the stakeholders on that machine have gotten along fine without emacs so why install some package just for me?
The trouble with using the word "theft" while making an argument about unauthorized copying is that it never holds water - does the popular singer lose their ability to sing? If not then the closest you can really get and still come across as genuine is to say they "stole" the uniqueness of their talent, rather than their unique talent itself
// The alternative more or less imposed by law

What do you mean imposed by law?
This evidence seems weak...

The birds might just see waves in the distance and head for them... Or be able to see/feel storm weather patterns and know where that means the ideal weather conditions for hunting are.
So in other Julia geometry-related projects that may be true, but for this particular corner of the ecosystem the main author (Júlio Hoffimann) has actually implemented much of the underlying geometry and other code from scratch (to the best of my understanding) in pure Julia in a whole set of packages, including e.g.

https://github.com/JuliaGeometry/Meshes.jl
https://github.com/JuliaGeometry/Rotations.jl
https://github.com/JuliaEarth/GeoStatsBase.jl
https://github.com/JuliaEarth/PointPatterns.jl
I found llama-2-70B to be a bit worse than GPT-4. (So, pretty good!) But I did not compare with GPT-3.

How do llama-2-70B and Mistral 7B compare with GPT-3?
Playgrounds require you to have children with you - for example I don't think it would be socially acceptable for a group of unaccompanied adults to show up to a playground and sip some beers while they chat amongst themselves, like you might do in a public plaza in Europe.

Municipal parks, like the kind you can find in Savannah GA, are nice third spaces. But I think there are very few such parks in suburban America that are not also mostly playgrounds. I would not count nature reserves as real third spaces.
Easy-to-Use Is Hard to Build
FreeDVDBoot – Hacking the Playstation 2 through its DVD player (2020)
That "it isn't matrix multiplication" argument is completely equivalent to "no computer can do it", and to "nobody can ever understand it". And is practically equivalent to "you need a soul to have intelligence".

The same applies to "brute force algorithms" and "otherwise gears could do it".

It's very likely that the current crop of LLMs do the wrong set of matrix multiplications. (If you ask me, it's a certainty.) But that doesn't change the fact that matrix multiplications can do anything.
keees? kiots maybe
> I think the whole point of social media is to connect us to the wider world.

I can't agree with that. I signed up for social media to keep in touch with friends and family, not listen to the crazed rants of their distance acquaintances and marketers. By the time I left, all the actual organic friends and family content was buried by the mountains of irrelevant spam.

I'd totally pay for a service that's limited to only people I care about and know. I can get my outside engagement elsewhere. I want an intimate space, not a town square.
I would question that second assertion; given the rise of pet insurance, private equity buying up clinics, and the increases in cost of veterinary care entirely out of line with inflation, my suspicion is that we're in fact in the early stages of the buildout of a vet industrial complex.

Seems like the usual suspects have realized that there's a ton of money to be extracted by the veterinary industry and we're seeing the direct (hey, our CFO did some analysis and we can raise prices 500% and only impact sales 20%!) and indirect (hey, since there's a lot of money in this industry now, we've developed a new veterinary surgical instrument that improves outcomes 10% for only 20x the cost!) effects of that process.

And in this case, veterinarians are caught in the middle since they don't have a powerful cartel to protect them like human doctors; they end up with all of the stress and none of the profits.
Your examples presume that the interviewer actually has actionable feedback for you.

Many people who interview candidates have no clue what they're doing. I also started out winging it. And I don't see much training being given to new interviewers, apart from being interviewees.

The chief mistake is interviewers not giving feedback on the spot to check their assumptions/conclusions. Following procedure, but not actually collaborating with the candidate on their shared objective; finding out whether there's a good fit.

On both sides of the table, my advice would be to ensure that the conclusions you're reaching are openly and explicitly put on the table for discussion right there and then.
love the pixel vibe!
Many people are pretty mean, so it's also a sign of a dis-functioning society that causes a lot of underlying depression.
It's waaaay easier for people to move into new land than it is to get them to move back and also change existing areas.
Hundreds of millions of people in India and around the world are just fine without meat, it’s not like we have to eat it. Could even be better for us not to.
Ask HN: What hobbies have you picked up recently?
My answer: I don't remember when exactly (probably during the pandemic), but I've gotten very into birdwatching. It is really "easy to start, but hard to master" and the rabbit hole is endless.

The birds near me are mostly crows, pigeons, and sparrows, but occasionally I'll see something more rare. Crows and sparrows are particularly fun to watch, as they are much smarter than I think most people realize.
Many coffee shops in my town have closed due to high rents. The ones that have stayed have had their hours shortened. The one I got to is only open for 8 hours/day. My drink is now $6 too.

Libraries have to constantly prove their relevancy. My town again had a huge city council fight to fund a new library district - it wasn't pretty.

There was an announcement last week that the largest gym in town is closing. My gym costs $100/month and that's one of the cheaper ones.

Many of the bookstores in town are still open, but the used bookstores are mostly long gone. A lot of them are turning to be more like gift shops with books. The only used bookstore left is also a coffee shop (another favorite).

One of the bigger outside seating, family-friendly (cringe for me) bars with food trucks and all that has been run through the mud lately because of their ties with an anti-woman, anti-gay church that rented (well had been given for free) space for worship there. It all gets messy.

And let's not forget Covid shut most all this down for a time and people changed their daily living patterns.

Helps for any third space left that this is a university town where PHD graduates stay as well as a training ground for athletes of all types (though leaning more on endurance athletes).
how to you secure a submarine cable?

build a literal sealab staffed by the french foreign legion? they were on the right track when they tried to move to five g, and could learn a lot from africa, where they skipped the copper lines in many ways because they would get scooped up the zef folks.

(i'm half joking, but maybe it would be better to focus on things like "the first draft of that comment suggested the swiss guard, then we rememberd the swiss aren't actually in the EU, just literally inside it, like west berlin was inside east germany")
"Channels are nice, until they are not. I feel as though it's easier, though not necessarily easy, to write correct programs using mutexes than Go channels in many cases."

The rule for mutexes is, never take more than one. As long as you only ever take one, life is pretty good.

When all you had was mutexes as your primitive, though, that became a problem. One is not enough. You can't build a big program on mutexes, and taking only one at a time.

But as you add other concurrency primitives to take the load off of the lowly mutex, and as you do, the mutex returns to viability. I use a lot of mutexes in my Go code, and I can, precisely because when I have a case where I need to select from three channels in some complicated multi-way, multi-goroutine choice, I have the channels for that case. The other concurrency mechanisms take the hard cases, leaving the easy cases for mutexes to be fine for once again.

The story of software engineering in the 1990s was a story of overreactions and misdiagnoses. This was one of them. Mutexes weren't the problem; misuse of them was. Using them as the only primitive was. You really, really don't want to take more than one at a time. That goes so poorly that I believe it nearly explains the entire fear of multithreading picked up from that era. (The remainder comes from trying to multithread in a memory-unsafe language, which is also a pretty big mistake.) Multithreading isn't trivial, but it isn't that hard... but there are some mistakes that fundamentally will destroy your sanity and trying to build a program around multiple mutexes being taken is one of them.

(To forestall corrections, the technical rule is always take mutexes in the same order. I consider experience to have proved that doesn't scale, plus, honestly, just common sense shows that it isn't practical. So I collapse that to a rule: Never have more than held at a time. As soon as you see you need more than one, use a different mechanism. Do whatever it takes to your program to achieve that; whatever shortcut you have in mind that you think will be good enough, you're wrong. Refactor correctly.)
That's because they don't turn a profit, or enough of it to justify the rent.

American third spaces used to be bowling alleys, community centers, and Elks / Masonic Lodges. There's a shift away from those and now our third spaces are gyms, McDonald's, and malls.

Wherever old people congregate is a de facto third space.

https://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-mcdonalds-old-p...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/mall-st...
You're right, that they're not completely indifferent.

Their strategy is "my way or highway", which is what I would consider "hostile" on desktops.
yes, however now, we have soil turned to sand and really aggressive nitrogen run off because it doesn't pay to manage the soil properly.

In the Netherlands, they have so much shit, that its limiting how much cattle they can produce (because of laws about nitrogen runoff.)

Now the soil is fucked, it doesn't absorb water. That means that not only does it dry out quicker, it means that it can't generate rain as much, which means more drought, and higher temperatures. Worse still, because it can't absorb as much water, you get worse flooding.

Farming needs swales, ground cover, mixed planting and shite. lots of shite.
That's exactly my perspective. Tailwind tries to make inline CSS workable, but there are so much better options in available in a frontend frameworks.
If you did the same study on people, I bet it would give similar results.

But the reality is that peoples travel plans are pretty correlated with the weather - and on a gloomy day they're more likely to just head home and watch TV. Didn't need any infrasound to figure that out!
Except such mandates never exist, the only mandates on unit sizes are minimums, not maximums.

Though I do propose such changes as part of my "urban planning is 100% wrong, simply replace the direction of every single cap and you will get a better result plan", this has not caught on with anybody but me.

Also, rich people still get around maximums by joining together adjacent units. For example, SF board of supervisors (think city council) member Aaron Peskin did this with two units so that he could have a bigger more luxurious living space, even though nobody else is allowed to bend the permitting rules that way. (SF has permitting rules that disallow making two units into one, but it does not have any limits on maximum unit size, as far as I can tell.)
That feels like damning with faint praise: we encourage Louie.ai users to only do GPT4+ level models for code gen related tasks. Even GPT4 has a lot of ways to go. Saying other models are only around 3.5 for this task isn't great. I'm hopeful for starcoder etc, but still not there yet afaict...

Agreed on prompts. We are doing a lot to guide it, and even autorepair loops. Likewise, keeping the interaction model to generating small code likewise helps the chance of any individual step being right and repairable..
That’s definitely a concern. Considering that 60% of all car trips in the US are less than six miles, the goal would be to provide alternatives so she doesn’t have to drive.

Unrelatedly this is actually the irony of the 15 minute cities fracas in my mind: america is already full of fifteen minute towns. 15 minutes from leaving the door to your destination in a car. That kind of thing can feel freeing, but it is really a prison that ties you to making money if you want mobility. In contrast I see older folks and disabled folks moving around all the time in my walkable city with ok transit. Their mobility still requires money, but much less money.
No. My logic is that when it comes to computers, it's a battle of the brains: who is smarter than the other one. And the result is usually a novel way of attacking someone, and then finding novel ways to defend and on and on. So that's why I strongly believe in hiring smarter people to defend your castle, rather than swatting people smarter than you because you're not as smart as the other side.
I meant the West Coast. User edited their comment
New houses aren't the solution to droves and droves of empty ones. There are plenty of existing homes that should be available.
No idea what or why I would ever use this in an actual website, but I love the visuals.

> Please use WebGL responsibly™.

Yes. :)
Banks enjoying high returns in favorable times could be 'warning sign'
>Here is where the AI robots could make a big difference

Usually when someone says "AI will save the world because" it is followed by a bunch of naive hyperbole.

However, you are 100% right. A few robust robots with an AI to spot pests and poor nutrition could decimate input costs for a farm and solve several environmental issues in one go.
> The problem is the "intelligence" word causes more harm than value.

By this measure "learning" could be inaccurate too. Does a human learn if they just commit something to memory? Programming is chalk full of people who know the code but haven't "learned" to program. Intrinsically we all know there's something deeper to learning than just memorizing or retaining to memory.

I think GP has a point. Marketing terms are to the benefit of the user to be relatable, whether accurate or not. We can and, to my knowledge, historically do retain the stories of what the correlation of a marketing term versus its actual technology is.
The population of Arizona is expanding one way or another. But you can see houses with lawns less than a mile from Culdesac, so development like this would bring the per capita water usage down.
I cannot take and sell a photograph of you, capitalizing on your image and likeness, for my own profit without permission (the violation is called "conversion") unless the photos meet exceptions such as being newsworthy or just a general street photography photograph (but the people captured by street photographers aren't captured specifically for who they are but how they look in a scene and could have been anyone without changing the essential nature of the photograph).
Afterglow of cataclysmic collision between two planets seen for first time
A nuanced view of the Israel – Palestine conflict
I spent all last weekend trying to configure an Doom Emacs instance following the latest guides and watching countless tutorials. I tried it on three different OS and was unsuccessful with different reasons each time.

I've come to the conclusion that Emacs is a black hole, and people who profess their love for it in 2023 are likely exhibiting some form of the sunk cost fallacy. Life is too short to spend all your time configuring it.
Who defines what illegal and misinformation mean? If the EU actually cared about this topic, they would hire a bunch of people to use the already_existing community notes feature. Of course this is implying they care about the topic, which is probably irrelevant to them. They just want control of information because both sides in this war act scummy and inhumane. Of course if they were to do this they would get challenged by every other user who wants to "fact check", which rightfully dilutes their appearance of authority of truth.

It's 2023 and people still don't understand the premise of government censorship. Guess what: deleting misinformation is still censorship, it does not attack the issue itself; it only probably antagonizes the people who put said (false or not) information, and 'downgrades' the filter of the people who are actually interested in the truth. The information being false or not is actually irrelevant, it's the process of censorship that's damaging. We've been over this with covid already. You don't even have to be an optimist to notice that, most often than not, truth eventually comes out. And what's more interesting is that the more open and free a medium of information/discussion is, the >faster< it gets out. This is because even though humans are impulsive and emotional, we're still rational beings. Fabricating things not rooted in reality is harder and impossible to maintain.
Surely it would be better to use a purpose-built "long space" character, as would be done in typesetting. Em Space U+2003 might be a good candidate.
Does this intentionally have almost the same icon as orbstack?
> Call it what you want, but they're the ones making and providing goods we all agree are necessary :)

Bullshit. The owning class doesn't make anything, and the actual workers won't see a cent of that surge pricing.
Exactly, preventing from copy/past at least )
I've years of experience with frontend dev, maintain Rust bindings for AppKit on macOS, and have built things in Slint.

Slint is 100% capable of matching this, lol
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What the FIRE movement gets wrong