skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The risk if climate science is wrong: In the west, we only make a bunch of imaginary problems for ourselves that waste the time and money of the average citizen on a daily basis. But in the global south, billions of people are forced to live in perpetual and worsening poverty with no chance of economic improvement.

If climate science was right and we still allowed carbon to burn, yes the world would heat but if we used our minds I'm sure we could solve a lot of the challenges as they appear.
Institutions in the us have never really worked for the people. It's always been an oligarchy of one type or another. Sf is just the latest chapter in this story.

Places like Vienna are more functional because they have governments that are working for the people rather than corporate interests. They have centuries of real social development, rather than what the us has which is only economic development.

I think most people in america don't really understand the concept of society. They see the state as a mechanism to keep just enough peace to enable money to be made, and to fight wars. They don't see it as a tool to craft a society that benefits the main thrust of it's people. Despite all the lofty ideals and language in our founding documents it's never been that type of endeavor.
> What's the policy you want to write that would fix things?

Let's go through them.

> Well, a brick and mortar home isn't as well insulated.

Brick is actually a pretty good insulator. They don't use it because it costs more than what they do use, so that can't be the reason.

> You've also got major appliances that weren't common place a century ago (fridges, washer, dryer, dishwasher, etc), waaaay more lighting, HVAC systems, etc.

Houses literally have had appliances and HVAC systems for a hundred years, and largely modern ones for at least half that long. This doesn't explain why construction costs so much more than it did in the mid-20th century.

> Another not insignificant problem that people are aware of is that all the zoning/permitting also adds significant hidden cost to the process because builders have a lot of downtime waiting for that.

This is where you get into a real issue, but it also has a real solution: Have combined permitting and combined inspections. Don't require separate permits for every part of a new house, have a single permit application for "building a new house" with a single approval.

Also, comb through the regulations and remove the ones that are effectively micromanaging minor trade-offs. Legal prohibitions should be for major safety hazards, not to legally mandate every marginal improvement anybody can come up with for anything which then has to be individually evaluated, inspected and signed off on in every new construction project.

Put all of the marginal improvements into an optional certificate builders can get if buyers demand it -- and if buyers rarely find it to be worth the expense then reevaluate the cost effectiveness of what it takes to get it. The goal is to make sensible trade offs rather than to raise construction costs, right? (Note: The goal may previously have been to intentionally raise construction costs.)
Whenever I misname a tool I can tell my dad wishes I had never been born. lol
Various Exceptions. Usually places where it is very easy to built or demand is low.

Most US locations outside of the Big cities. Even some big cities like Houston.
> If houses were made in factories the way cars are, you wouldn't be complaining so much about construction costs.

Hopefully 3d printing could put pressure on housing labour pricing. This is probably our best hope.
It's not clear to me what you're trying to argue, as your claims and evidence seem to contradict each other. Of course I agree that even individuals born into the greatest of wealth can certainly squander it all with bad decisions, as has happened countlessly throughout history. But this rather precludes anything like a caste system where those born into the elite can never full from such; nor can those ever born as an untouchable rise from such.
Hmm I’m not sure about that. How would the non profits get enough capital to own all the real estate? Universities are a counter example because they are well capitalized.
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Long if you have high-tech blankets https://www.snow-forecast.com/whiteroom/finnish-resort-to-cr... but you can also low a tech version with saw dust https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sawdust-slows-rate-of-melting-s... which is also good.
I see that they recently changed the intro of WasmEdge on Github [1] to " WasmEdge is the easiest and fastest way to run LLMs on your own devices. "

Since it's a wasm runtime capable of many things I find bizarre that they now start describing it with a ultra-specific use case

- [1] https://github.com/WasmEdge/WasmEdge
Lemmy has been great for me. It took me about a week of scrolling through Lemmy's r/all equivalent to find enough interesting communities to sub and filtering out the rest. Now both my subscribed feed and all feeds are generally high quality and aligned with my interests. It does feel like they're growing.
It's also a "sanctuary city" and a literal icon of the LGBTQ movement. It's basically all the things the right think are ruining America.
Unless you’re talking about feature phones or Nokias before 2010, mobile games can have graphics just as stunning as AAA games and an effective canvas size of 720p or up — definitely not constrained to “icon-style art design”.
> has better performance (lower latency) than turning your smartphone into an access point and using that

Generally I've had good performance running an access point on my phone, this is the first time I've heard otherwise. I'd be interested in benchmarks if anyone knows of some?
Ah thanks! I've augmented the list in my comment.
Your opinion is perfectly valid.

The main expectations I am driven by are to provide the child with adequate resources to thrive, to not neglect the child, and to give them a good footing to navigate this life. I'm not sure if these are expectations that can reasonably be relaxed, I'm just pretty much resigned I'm in for a long slog to provide these for the good of the child at great effort to myself whether it pleases me or not -- the circle of life I guess.
Show HN: I built a guided Build your own DNS Server challenge
Hey everyone. It's Sherub here, author of the Build your own DNS Server challenge on CodeCrafters. Currently it’s available in Rust, Go, and Python and is free while in beta.

https://codecrafters.io/dns-server

I've kept the challenge accessible but still challenging for an intermediate developer. This challenge, like others from CodeCrafters, is self-paced. You can use any tools you prefer (terminal, editor, etc.) to build the project.

At the end of the challenge, you will have created a DNS forwarding server. The server can create and read DNS packets and respond to DNS queries. As you go, you'll learn about the DNS protocol, its format, servers, and A records. All while getting to hone your language skills.

Some of the challenges and choices I had to make:

* To make the stages easier, I had to break them up, such that each step builds on the previous one. This was especially challenging for the 2nd stage, where we write a DNS packet's header contents. Even though I’d have liked it to be easier, breaking it up further would have been weird.

* Instead of implementing a recursive resolver, I've restricted to a forwarding server. We made this decision so that most developers can still use it. To add more complexity, we can use a challenge extension (noted below).

* Deciding how much instruction and context the stages should provide. I’ve decided to keep them as thorough as possible for most of the stages. Developers can choose to have thorough details or just skim through them.

I would love your feedback and questions on the challenge. You can try it out for free here: https://codecrafters.io/dns-server (no CC required).

I also have challenge extensions planned. You can find them at https://app.codecrafters.io/vote/challenge-extension-ideas?c.... I'm also keen to hear what you think about the extension ideas.
Especially when the schools themselves start begging for a new taxpayer paid stadium.
Why do the majority of the people in the world think the universe was created by an all powerful deity? It’s the same phenomenon. Wanting to believe in something because it strikes a chord despite an absence of evidence.
Coincidence?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jaymcgregor/2023/11/23/google-w...
Alternatives have grown tremendously, although none have really reached the critical mass yet.

Personally, I have moved to Lemmy, and I use Tildes, too.
How can we Digg Reddit? You are correct the nosedive of Digg was stunning in force and speed. I remember it so clearly.
That’s nothing new. Many of the books supposedly by GMs are ghostwritten by non-titled players.
It's nearly 1:1 with civ V, just with different graphics and a few missing systems (e.g. forest auto-removal).
It would help, but addressing only one side of the supply and demand equation won’t solve the problem. Property investment is still very lucrative relative to productive enterprises, so people will continue to funnel money into it instead of businesses until taxes capital gains or land taxes increase to a sufficient degree.

Further, Australia is operating an EXTREMELY aggressive population expansion policy. This can and should be reduced significantly.

The solution is some mix of your suggestion and mine. Unfortunately most Australians own or live in an owned property. They won’t vote for this. In a few decades they will be in the minority, and life-long renters will be in charge. When that happens we can expect some wild policy swings. Similar patterns are developing all over the Western world.
If you require an English-speaking country with with a warm climate, and stable infrastructure, you have barely any other options. Bear in mind foreign languages are not a strongpoint of the Aussie education system.
Frankly kids are language sponges. Just pop a kid in proximity to somebody speaking another language for a couple hours every few days, and they'll start being able to speak it at a basic level after less than a year.

Teaching a kid a language using flashcards is obviously different, but I don't think it indicates some kind of savant status by any stretch.
The “employees” you can talk to can't provide any help either; have a current billing issue due to a ui error, and there's no escalation path, it's just increasing unlikely variants of “try pressing the button on a brand new stock android device using the foo app in safe mode”.
This isn't an unexpected result of political incentives: Property owners want housing prices to go up, so they want to limit supply. Builders want to make more money, and their two ways to do it are to build more housing or make more money per housing unit.

The thing that satisfies both of them is regulations that increase the cost of construction. The builders get to put the money in their pocket (bill for more hours on the same house) while raising the price and so discouraging more housing from being built (so the landlords get to keep collecting high rents).
I guess the more important aspect (although not totally unrelated) is that humans are mortal.
If the value of your house increases by, say, $100k, the play is not to sell the house but to tap into that equity to make new investments. The ability to do that will depend on your income, as you still need to be able to service a larger loan. But if your loan-to-value ratio improves you will also get a better rate from your bank, which makes this process a little easier.

The main benefit is to individuals who have a high income but not a lot of capital. Generally this benefits early or mid career professionals who are high earners but may not have come from really wealthy backgrounds.
Can 100% confirm this, still in Australia.

I was at a drop-in health centre the other week. There was an old guy - 80s - who had come in from country NSW to have his wounded leg looked at.

While we were waiting he told me that there were no doctors in his local hospital. None.

His son lives in Canberra and he'd told him to drive in to be able to see someone.
Unlike a chess game, a tennis match can't be lost with a single "blunder," unless it's a serious injury ... so I'm not sure it's a good analogy, mathematically speaking.

We should ask Marc Esserman.
Found this weird programming language
One big important project, which is making good progress, is "tagged PDFs".

The biggest advantage of these is that they should be, eventually, accessible to blind people, unlike normal PDFs created by LaTeX which are not that much better than a blank page to be honest (this isn't PDF's fault, Microsoft Word PDFs are very accessible).

For exciting reasons to do with the internals of TeX (mainly, it's actually a programming language, although it looks like a markup language), I know this has been a major project that has taken many years, and will take many more -- but I personally consider it a fairly big embarassment of academia, which often claims it wants to be open and accessible, that we lock so much of our research in a format which many people simply can't read.
You are injecting capital into their economy also, so it isn’t just bidding up the local real estate market. A lot of Southeast Asian locales are also overbuilt on housing, so adding a few expats into a luxury tower isn’t going to influence the housing market for locals very much. Plus, the Philippines has laws against foreigners owning land (they can only buy a condo in a building where 60% of the units are owned by locals).

The biggest problem with retiring abroad is Medicare doesn’t transfer, so you have to fund your own medical care (and family you can’t see as often).
It is their duty to perform QA.

Just like how car manufacturers don't make speakers but get B&W or Bose, if those speakers are at fault, do we send the car to Bose/B&W or to the car dealership/repair centre?
You’re free to set up a tax free secular literary, scientific, or educational organization that functions exactly like a church with a meeting hall, performance venue, lectures discussing mark Twain, classes on bicycle repair, cheese making, model railroading etc…

Here is a list of the purposes for which you can setup a 501(c)(3) organization.

“charitable, religious, educational, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, fostering national or international amateur sports competition, and preventing cruelty to children or animals”

If you remove religious for some reason, churches will just operate as educational or literary organizations, so you’d need to remove those as well.
These two belief systems are compatible. Both groups believe everything was created by some higher being, who might be watching us right now.
Because most of the online models are neutered so much they are almost useless. I get the morals lecture several times a day now.
You can try Chip defence

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.chadenas.cpudefense/
IMO, this is the best course to start with. It has everything you need from theory to pratical code. Very high quality stuff.
> > Is this any good?

> Depends what you're looking for. If you're in the market for high-res graphics, amazing soundtracks, animations etc, I highly recommend Firaxis's Civ-V-like game, "Civilization V".

> If you want a small, fast, moddable, FOSS, in-depth 4X that can still run on a potato, you've come to the right place :)

I installed it on f-droid about a year ago. It's lots of fun, though a (decreasing) number of things still aren't implemented.
I had no idea Norway made missiles!
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In theory, but what's happening is that they're all being bought by foreign investment and remaining empty. That's what happens when housing becomes an investment vehicle.
Those are both American countries, but that isn't necessarily the point, which is a historical one. Tapping bits of seemingly infinite natural resources to expand land-owning constituencies has played an overwhelming role in the history of the United States and all over the New World.
That is still the default. People backlashed against excessive modding and power abuse. Top commenters are still top commenters and guide the conversations with authority. They are still in most threads with the most upvotes.

Communities are defined by the content contributors first and for most. That's something Reddit forgot.

Reddit started with a little bit of modding to clean up the mess which is always needed (how it works on HN). Then every year it seemed to grow and grow, mods were now self-annoited editors of their own pet magazines. A hundred plus mods were added to major subs, where in some 50% of comments can get removed in major threads. r/science has many many threads where 75% of comments were removed, almost entirely as they didn't fit some idea of what should be discussed, what was acceptable.

That's a big difference from RTFM culture on forums.
I think I'm very suspicious whenever infinities come into probability calculations, because I think human institution's break down when it comes to infinites. What I like about pointing out that the information content of the a cubed square foot has a ceiling is that it implies that there can't be an infinite number of simulations except in the way that there is an infinite amount of space (at least without throwing out that bit of physics) and an infinite amount of space is something I feel more capable of reasoning about.

Unless we think most information exists in simulations than if you take a random bit of information out of the universe it's more likely to be associated with the root existence's goinings on than it is with any kind of simulation. This works because it's an argument about that bit of information, not anything else. I think you could push back and say that really actually information isn't what's important and that actually even if we think that most information won't be part of a simulation most consciousnesses will be, but idk, that seems suspect, we don't have any reason to think that. Certainly most simulations we do now seem not to include consciousnesses.

I think the idea of Boltzmann brains fall apart because in that sea of possibility space it actually seems much more likely for the seeds of a universe to form than a complete brain full of consistent memories of writing 3/4th of a post on a randomly generated website called hacker news. I think it's just another illustration of the problems apply infinity to probability.
WFH won't last and prices won't decrease unless there's pressure to do so (less demand). There isn't going to be less demand unless 1. we're not having children and 2. the country keeps immigrants out. So it's a debatable decision. By moving out of major cities one could gain by not having to breathe the polluted air but then they lose on commuting costs and time wasted commuting, unless they work in agriculture where the pay is usually crap.
Hinton vs. LeCun vs. Ng vs. Tegmark vs. O
> This? It's a silicon valley bit.

it’s not, it’s not a product, it was for a silly (and p good) youtube video
I wish I could give you a great answer. But my country is not really tech savy in a sense, that it even takes convincing to have them sign up over to Reddit from Facebook.

Yeah not sure how it works over there with new platforms and everything but that won’t just fly here.
Amazon won't, so their reps can't.
> I understand the "corporations-bad" source of the hate for Starbucks

No, you don't. If you did, you wouldn't talk about it like that.

And their coffee is bad, not [just] in a "this company illegally attacks unions, treats their workers heinously, undercuts small businesses to gain a monopoly, and are currently actively supporting a genocide" kind of way, but in a "these beans are literally burnt" kind of way.

Some people might like burnt beans, in the same way some people like burnt steak, or prefer McDonalds over a real burger. Fine. You're allowed to like bad coffee.
Overleaf does a great job of being a web based LaTeX editor. It generally isolates errors well and has a decide mapping between the PDF and source.

If you start from one of their templates it’s probably approachable. At least within the scientific world I’ve found overleaf makes it more approachable for students and even experienced people appreciate the value add of the collaborative features.
Sharing personal and business documents with a third party provides no real "convenience" despite any initial perception. If you haven't yet comprehended this, rest assured that you will soon. It's essential to recognize that convenience and privacy typically stand in opposite realms, offering divergent outcomes.
It's very, very rare that people move to a less expensive area or downsize. The exception is when you're too old to take of your house.

I talked to a friend of mine and pointed out that if they sold their house in the city they could move to the inexpensive part of the country where I live and basically retire and live off investment returns.

But it didn't even register as an option.
> Houses aren't like this

That's not surprising. Distributing the cars to the customers from that centralized assembly line is easy.

Houses, not so much. Mobile homes can be built and distributed that way, but that's the hard size limit since you have to transport them via roads.

With mass-produced houses they do put together cookie-cutter sections of walls and roof structures at the assembly line and truck those in to the site where they get assembled together. But you'll always face a hard size limit since no section can be larger than what can be trucked in. Even a tiny house is far larger than what a wide-load truck can take on the road.
Civ 2's limited sight distances and "every unit in a stack dies if one unit loses a fight" are pretty good anti-stacking measures until you're well past the inevitable victory watershed line of a game.
Yes. Subvocalisation is a fundamental part of reading. Even in scripts that (ostensibly) have no ruleset for phonemic mapping (e.g. Chinese), written language has a "voice" for accomplished readers.
I think it's fine to imagine that there might be a root universe that doesn't share this one's restrictions on information density, but we don't have any reason to believe it and without believing it the argument that there should be near infinite simulated realities starts to break down
No, it's impossible to do random access to retrieve a character, if you are dealing with code points, because code points do not have a fixed byte size. I thought this a good intro <https://tonsky.me/blog/unicode/>.
I've been using pipe() lately (along with poll()) to tell threads to quit, and other simple inter-thread signalling. Super easy, very little code needed. I guess socketpair() would work just as well.
I lived in Taiwan for years and there were plenty of students using flashcards for various subjects - maybe it's different for the mainland?
Tech Community Scrutinizing Satya Nadella, Sam Altman's High-Stakes Friendship
Still I believe it's illegal what Paul Graham does here.
>spatial component is hard to describe in text

Idefics, mingpt4, Next-GPT and LLava are open source multimodal LLMs that can read images.
> Incorrect, it depends of the value you pass down to your kids.

At some point, they will be unwilling to listen to you, so you have to enforce something or else you won't be passing down any values to them.

Kids don't magically know what is best for them. What we do is we force a routine until it becomes routine and then you don't have to force it anymore.

Brushing teeth? Some nights/mornings the kid will simply say no. Wearing clothes? Sometimes your toddler will simply say no. Eating veggies? Sometimes your kid will simply say no.

Whatever you do to get them to change their mind (cajoling, threatening, bribing) is, exactly, forcing your will on the child.

There is no such thing as raising a child without having to enforce some rules.