skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it’s unlikely that San Francisco’s current majority at the Board of Supervisors would opt in to this program. Both because they are hostile to housing in general and because they have a special aversion to condominiums (which they likely conflate with an unrelated displacement issue when existing apartments are converted to condos and the tenants are evicted).

To be fair, however, they did pass an ordinance that allows up to 6 units per lot and condo subdivision, but the catch is that the extra units are rent controlled, making them less appealing for unsophisticated buyers (https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/o0210-22.pdf).
> "...75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less (meaning, never). Nearly 70 percent of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less."

I don't see how this shows that people aren't using their trucks. Off-roading seems like a odd use for this purpose and towing is not a great metric because you can easily utilize a truck for a ton of hauling that doesn't require towing.
It's too bad our technology for mining and battery production is permanently stuck in time, never to advance again. Otherwise, we could safely assume minor issues like this would be resolved in due time, given the neccesary investment, as countless thousands of similar issues have been resolved in the past.
The laws of physics get in the way. There is only so much energy in a gallon of gasoline (pick a different unit, point is the same). We are already close to the max theoretical efficiency of a gas engine (when run in perfect conditions which are hard to get in the real world).

We can eliminate safety features to make cars lighter. We can accept higher pollution levels. Those are both trade offs we are not willing to make.

We can make cars more aerodynamic, but style often gets in the way and consumers are not willing for that trade off. (or so it is claimed).

We can make cars smaller, but people often find large cars more useful. (even though a small car is good enough for 99% of all trips, that last 1% makes it worth having the larger car. Renting is so expensive that even for the 1% trip it may still be cheaper to have the large car for everything)

There are options of course. However car makers have been working on this problem for at least 50 years (energy crisis of the 1970s is obvious, even before that fuel mileage was a concern). All the easy solutions have been done already. What is left is often a lot more expensive than what was done before and also cannot possibly return a whole lot on investment.

The reality is gas and diesel engines investment is a dead end. They are not worth any more investment as everyone in the industry already knows electric cars are coming. While they probably will live on in a few niches, those niches are not large enough to support investment in making them better, today's engines are about as good as the future ever will see.
I believe I've seen dang comment that downvoting shouldn't be for disagreements ...

dang explicitly refutes this:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310088>

Downvoting content that runs afoul of HN guidelines and/or drags discussions in uninteresting directions is functioning as intended:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22891768>

(Searching Algolia with "by:dang <terms>" (in comments) is a useful way to check for moderator views on a particular topic or question.)

"by:dang downvote disagree" <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>
> it's the best option we've currently got.

And if everyone continues with the kind of sentiment prevalent in this thread that's likely the best we're ever going to get.
Yeah, the unroll.me fiasco was really disappointing. I was a user and felt so deceived when the news broke about the data misuse. It definitely made me more careful about the tools I grant access to my inbox. I haven't tried goodbyemail yet, but it's refreshing to see this approach to privacy here.
But that’s atypical, so it’s irrelevant. Most ADUs in California cities are things like converted garages and similar sized units.
I am not sure why anyone should switch to something different so that it can eventually be as secure as paper - maybe I misunderstand.

What experience needs improving in the paper ballots that needs to go beyond paper? What bar needs to be lowered and is that desirable?
I am not going to keep arguing with you because your ideology compels you to treat me the way you do, in a derogatory, condescending fashion. I am doing my small part (as I think everyone should, in proportion to their means and impact), and I work to find leverage points for scale (early investor in Tesla, donating to political reps who supported the Inflation Reduction Act). If you don't agree with me, that is your right, based upon your mental model. I am satisfied with what I can do with what I have, and mostly with the present velocity of change. I don't need buy in from people like yourself. The data shows it isn't needed, nor material to solve for climate change. If you don't believe climate change is real, or of the level of risk communicated by domain experts, we have nothing to discuss.

EDIT: I'm not telling the poor how to live. Living is expensive. It has always been terrible to be poor. That is what subsidies are for, to help the poor deal with climate change. I fully support subsidizing those who need the subsidies to accomplish these goals. Increase taxes if necessary, as high as necessary.
Voices in the Net [1], a Tangerine Dream discography, has a similar early-net vibe. Looks like it hasn't been updated for a couple of years though.

For a couple of decades Tangerine Dream have been my go-to coding music - along with Eno and Harold Budd, and more recently Max Richter, for when I need something less driven.

[1] https://www.voices-in-the-net.de/
Kinda heinous to link to a big PDF when that entire site is amazing and deserves support not more serving costs.
Just looking at the Edinburgh study it is almost comically bad:

> 4.5 ‘Before’ and ‘after’ surveys were also carried out at a selection of locations where
the 30mph speed limit was retained. At these locations, average ‘after’ speeds in
2021 fell by 2.32mph compared with average ‘before’ speeds in 2016. This is a
further decrease of 1.83mph since average ‘after’ speeds were recorded in 2019.
Although many factors may have influenced this speed reduction, it could in part be
attributed to the effect of speed reductions on surrounding streets, with drivers
slowing their driving behaviour throughout Edinburgh.

So the "control" streets also saw a decline in average speed, and the conclusion wasn't that
the primary effect was due to increasing congestion over time, but instead clearly the
speed limits just magically work everywhere.

And the highest average speed on these streets was 32 mph to start with, before setting the
speed limits. The roads already were doing the work there. That doesn't compare with the ~40 mph
stroads we have around here that they've slapped a 25 mph sign onto and called it a day.
> In a different time, they were called "Granny units". A place where someone who doesn't need much can live, and remain local to their entire support system and social network.

Yah, but this is different from when we have a separate marketplace of these units. They're going to end up unbundled from the nearby house pretty quickly.
Plenty of new housing has been built-- luxury (mostly vacant) condos in downtowns and McMansions in the burbs. The real issue is affordability. Housing has been turned into a speculative commodity.
I'd rather just use a proper firewall I think. One thing that's super annoying about NAT is how hard it makes it to host your own server. I remember setting up FTP on my router at one point, but it was so annoying and flaky that I ended up not using it. But I can't say I'd be that afraid of having an SFTP server on the internet with a strong password and every non-relevant port firewalled. The whole NAT thing doesn't make it any more secure, it's just way more annoying to setup
"You should look into over policing and how it impacts those summary statistics"

This may have been the case 10 years ago, but we have started defunding the police in many major cities. Have we seen a change in crime stats?

"if you look you will find someone breaking a law but bad behavior in one group gets ignored as an exception whereas in another group each incident is treated as emblematic and needing strong corrective action"

I think if you look at what's actually happening, you might change your opinion on this.

"In my experience both groups are full of pretty similar young men, which makes questions like yours pretty obviously loaded; why are you expecting one to be measurably different?"

This may be your experience, but probably not reality. I don't really think they care about theory and statistics when there are shootings and violent behavior on certain nights of the week.
But this problem already exists. Many people live in homes for 30+ years and pay property tax on the land + improvement (physical home) value. Why would it be so much harder to hypothetically value the land without a recent sale (required for a LVT) than to hypothetically value the land + improvements without a recent sale (required for property taxes which currently exist in almost every city in America)?
How is this different to FreeSync/GSync or running high Hz?
>which is the direct result of the housing crisis

The homeless crisis is better described as a mental health and substance abuse and addiction crisis.
Manaus is an eletronics manufacturer for brands such as Samsung, LG, Panasonic and other big corporates, that is why Brazil taxes imports. To protect the local market otherwise people will buy ar conditioning and tx on amazon and aliexpress for example.
> You are throwing your employees to the wolves when you do that. Once you've sold, the decisions are now ultimately made by a new entity with new priorities (for better or for worse).

At its heart, tech is adapting to change and uncertainty through the fusion of creativity and process. Job changes are just another input.
One single mine in Nevada that covers ~6000 acres, which is large but not incredible by mine standards, will more than 10x US lithium production, and will 1.5x world production, all on its own.
ok, so NIMBY then.
please no more proxy wars…
Change*
They very much have. Perhaps exaggerated for the sake of example, but it makes a point.

In Europe, a woman rides her horse every weekend for dressage/fun/whatever. So she hooks a horse trailer up to her Audi station wagon and takes it.

In America, a woman rides her horse every weekend at her home. But she needs to move it to a different paddock twice a year (summer, winter). So it's obvious she will require an F-350 dual wheel truck as a daily driver...
Timescales matter. US may not be able to sustain a top-tier military on its own long-term, but short term, they do have the top-tier military and their "allies" don't, so international diplomacy remains the art of skate-dancing around explicitly talking about where the US aircraft carriers are parked now. And that's skating constrained to boundaries defined by MAD, let's not forget that.
I've used LibGDX a few years ago. It was easy to create a basic game, but it seems to be moribund today. Most of the showcase projects are 4-5 years old.
Good ol' Betteridge, destroying fun conversations everywhere.

(There's a place to choose words carefully. Talking about games doesn't have to be one of them.)

As for RPGs. They're just backgammon, with more pieces, a bigger board, and some art. But yeah, I probably like a good RPG better than backgammon as well. But no RPG has lasted 5,000 years like backgammon has, so which game is better?
Why a spinning magnet can cause a second magnet to levitate
I'm struggling to find some examples of contemporary electronic music around that genre, but I'd recommend listening to some of the tracks from This Never Happened [0] label. Lane 8, Le Youth, Massane, Jerro and a lot more have pretty nice and energetic tracks, some without vocals.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@Lane8
One might surmise that the demand for housing in the part of the Southeast you're thinking of is much lower than in urban California.
I found this website: https://crast.net/438657/how-ai-agents-roaming-the-internet-...
They are absolutely a bandaid for the politics of homeowners and their rule of housing supply.

Homeowners can see themselves benefitting from ADUs, so they support them. Apartments, townhomes, etc. only weaken their market power, make homeowners think about traffic, etc.

The politics of housing is completely broken because the incentives are broken, and so is the political discourse, which is dominated by creationist-level magical thinking that vacancies, or foreign buyers, or AirBNB, or "financialization" or literally anything could be the cause of the problem rather than a shortage of housing stock.
> Yes, but, the way their antilag works is identical to a cheat - it's actually hooking/detouring the game's own functions, which any anticheat will see as an obvious hack.

Which is to say that their anticheat system is defective because the method it uses has false positives -- as exemplified by this case, which is not an attempt to cheat.
There's not an argument from economic efficiency to tax by rock content.
Trillions of dollars is a significant motive.
It's easy to generate all proofs in any system, just pick any axiom, then apply any inference rule, and repeat. So if you ever generate both P and not P, then you've proven its inconsistent.

So if it's inconsistent, it's straight forward to prove. It's only if it's consistent that we can't prove it in any finite time.
Yeah Brazil unfortunatelly is a 3rd world country, and corruption, narcotrafficking and high crime rate is the status quo over here.
While you part remains small I don't think you have a leg to stand on when it comes to telling those much poorer and less fortunate than you, how to live. They have had a rough time lately let's not make transportation even more expensive for them. They can have some luxuries if it isn't a big enough deal for you to give up yours.
EIA has a nice flow graph that shows energy sources and sinks here: https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/flow/total_...

Coal was about 10% of total US energy production in 2022, 27% of total US electricity production.
> Renting is so expensive that even for the 1% trip it may still be cheaper to have the large car for everything)

I find that incredibly hard to believe, unless you're renting a large truck once a month.
Doesn't seem too bad. The great 'Musk exodus' to many were predicting never happened.
I understand. I think the reason why they charge more for lossless is the additional bandwidth required to download them. Cloud host providers charge based on bandwidth, so they pass that cost on to buyers. I do know 320k VBR is usually undesireable, sometimes converting a 320k Mp3 back to WAV can cure some problems with frequency loss and artifacts... I don't know the specific answer to your dilemma, as flac formatted files are not usually something I use. Best of luck though! :/
Any consensual porn would do fine. The goal is to harm the website owner with something taboo/offensive/nsfw, not to harm the viewer with trauma.
The most significant acts restricting arms federally are the NFA (1934) which was a (at the time onerous) tax because they weren't sure they had constitutional power for many other methods of regulation.

The other was the GCA passed in 1968.

After the passing of the NFA was the beginning of many modern era challenges such as US v.no legal counsel of dead guy (Miller). Unsurprisingly the undefended dead guy with no counsel lost setting a long precedent and the rest of NFA is history.
It’s a bit of a stretch to use the term “theft” in the headline (and “steal” in the image) to describe this situation, no?

Neither unauthorized hotlinking nor iframe embedding are “theft” or “steal”ing.
Gas is 8 a gallon (1.85 eur/l) here, and it’s about 50c/l in road fuel tax. (As compared to the agri diesel prices)

The spike since the Ukraine war hasn’t really changed behavior that much, possibly because the baseline vehicle here is far more fuel efficient than the US.
Only semi related, but we have a synagogue here with it's own small police station. But I'm in Germany, it has been burned twice already.
> That's impossible if the devices have privacy extensions enabled

Wrong. Try what I said. It was recent enough the results are reproducible.

> An ad company can no more track my individual computer inside my house than it could your computer inside yours.

Yes, they can and my testing showed me, they do:

https://johannaullrich.eu/assets/papers/ullrich2015_raid.pdf
Wrong.

“It is estimated that the U.S. alone will need 500,000 metric tons per year of unrefined lithium by 2034 just to power EVs. The U.S. produces just a fraction of that today. The current global production of lithium in 2020 was about 440,000 metric tons of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE, contains about 18% of pure lithium), and not all of that is in pure enough form for batteries, according to Chris Doornbos, president, and CEO of E3 Metals Corp, a lithium extraction firm located in Calgary, Canada, which plans to produce battery-grade lithium hydroxide.”

As he said, we are not just below the amount necessary, but much of what is produced can't meet spec.

https://www.onecharge.biz/blog/u-s-role-in-global-lithium-ba...
Sadly (as one of the few people honest enough to admit humans are bad drivers), I don't see significant investment in anything other than the car city.
the actual argument for that is "but now they have iPhones"

to my eye, similar slippery-slope arguments for the value of labor, or the expectation of stability in a job, occur regularly here.
The DOJ being notificed could result in a lot of people spending time in prison. It could also result in no action. Retaliation by local officials could be limited to a few hours and a few hundred dollars of lost income. It could also be a lot worse. Based on my personal experience I certainly wouldn't bet a few hundred dollars on the former in either case.
And then you have Ukraine.
He's almost like the caricature image of a techbro douchebag scammer CEO, but then all kinds of people can look like all sorts of things and be far from them. SBF, the biggest techbro douchebag scammer CEO of them all, doesn't really look at all like what he is. He perhaps should have looked more like this guy and a few less people would have been fooled (maybe).
Ask HN: Do you think influencers are a waste of time?
In my limited time in this life, in my limited time on the internet, in my memory of silent heroic hackers since 2000, i myself can't stand influencers anymore. Too much noise for nothing meaningful.

So i decided to ignore/block their presence in my virtual life.

How about you ?
I tried a few of the servers, the pages load very quickly, search is fast etc. But when I click on the play arrow, a long time elapsed before the video starts.
Is this expected? (is this because ads are being skipped in the background)?
> I suspect this is aimed more at the Saudis

A16Z is a solid fund, but they are definitely mimicking Softbank hype-train wise now.

Their Enterprise and Gaming portfolios are solid, but that's largely devolved to some very competent partners.

Tbh, idk how much day to day impact Andreessen has at A16Z anymore. I think he always wanted to go the thought leadership route, but also wanted to still be in the game.
Even ignoring that your facts are wrong, even the high energy use at construction, the bad energy mix in electricity used to power EVs combined with the charging inefficiencies and the fact that EVs are considerably heavier, etc. ICE cars are still worse in terms of carbon emissions. And the size of the gap will only increase from now on.
Rocket league meets the authors criteria. The fact that it's a physics simulation means that the player who's better at predicting the bounces/other player has an inherent advantage, but if the other player puts a top corner shot at unsavable speeds it doesn't really matter how good your predictions are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2kcGht3vGA
My gut was that most of what they sold were "giftable" things. But, taking away games, music, and movies feels very against that.
The police have shown up to mediate between my sister's abusive boyfriend and my parents, arrested him for beating her and put him in jail, investigated and caught murderers that killed in my parents' neighborhood, etc.

If I had been the one to call the police in any of those situations, I would expect that they did what they did, which was show up and provide a threatening presence to decrease the risk of further uncontrolled violence.

I don't mean to phrase this as an emotionally hostile reaction to your idea. Sometimes people hide their reasons for thinking something and then bring them out after drawing the person they're arguing with out into the open. That's not what I'm trying to do. I'm merely pointing out that sometimes I need a situation to be dealt with by violent people with resources, and that's what they do.

I agree with you that they won't help with break-ins or with bicycle theft. But I would like them to be able to, because I don't like break-ins or bicycle theft and I'd like the people who to that to be put in "societal time out". This would require an agent permitted to detain someone with violence to investigate and catch people committing bicycle theft and break-ins.
> I don't think the 39m primary E-ELT is designed to do full sky surveys. AFAIK it is to do targeted observations using multiple instruments.

Correct. I wasn't able to quickly find the maximum size of the FOV available at the E-ELT, but the FOVs of the first generation instruments[0] are not large enough to efficiently survey the sky. The largest FOV instrument for the E-ELT is 6.78arcmin across, compared to 3.5deg for the Rubin Observatory[1] (i.e., 960x larger area).

The E-ELT is large (39m diameter vs 6.5m effective collecting area for Ruben). So the E-ELT has a factor of 36 more collecting area.

However, the Etendue (collecting area * instantaneous FOV) of Ruben is 26x larger than that of the E-ELT. So for surveying a large portion of the sky to a fixed depth, Ruben is ~26x more efficient than the E-ELT.

[0] https://www.eso.org/sci/facilities/eelt/instrumentation/phas...

[1] https://www.lsst.org/scientists/keynumbers
Unpopular opinion: Wealthy individuals are inspiring and we should listen to what they have to say. They became wealthy by building stuff that millions if not billions of people value.

May be you're forgetting this? Or is this just the normal cynicism that we must exhibit?
Or to have a miscarriage in the state of Texas.
> treat him with disdain

That's the pride and anger I was expecting to find. Your commentary towards God and his works is hostile, quick to judge, to the point (I would say) of even being unfair and hasty. Any excuse for an insult! Any reason to reject!

That's really common among atheists. I knew a young lady, an atheist, who - after you peeled all the layers off the onion - was fundamentally angry at God that her mother had died. Lee Strobel's atheism was founded in a broken relationship with his father. C.S. Lewis', for all its intellectual styling, was based on a lot of personal tragedy and a broken world. I know it's patronizing to psychoanalyze, and I apologize for that. But it really does astonish me - you can almost set your clock by it. Uncertainty can make an agnostic or an unaffiliated, but atheism seems to call for something special. If you want a citation that belief is about emotion and not evidence... I mean, you're kind of providing one.

No insult intended, impossible as that might be to believe. It is a condition common to all humanity. The type I see a lot of among Atheists is just one flavor.

For what it's worth, I have benefitted a lot from conversations with atheists over the years, and I bear you all a great deal of affection.

Take care.