skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes the only reassurance you have is that you're in the same boat as a lot of other people who would be very angry
>"Friends" was widely mocked during its run for how unrealistic the living arrangement was.

Only by people who didn't pay attention. The show repeatedly established that Monica inherited a rent-controlled apartment. There's nothing unrealistic about the size of Chandler and Joey's apartment.
> Is public housing the main driver of lower housing prices in comparable economies?

Most other Western countries seem to be suffering similar issues, with prices rising and various regulations making it hard to increase the supply of housing.

Vienna seems to be doing better as far as capital cities go, and it has a large amount of social/public housing.

That said, rents in Seoul and Tokyo are fairly reasonable given their size and national importance, and this seems to be because it's just a lot easier to make more housing.
This is awful. I can feel the pain and uncertainty in these forum posts. Just recently Pixel users with multiple user profiles lost access to their files as well.[0] In that case the data was not actually lost and the issue was fixed in a later update.

[0]https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/239104039/can-n...
> With all that water vapor that would enter the atmosphere and increase the albedo, we’d probably solve climate change for a few generations

You realize excess water vapor = rain right? I have heard people say stuff like that before but I never understood the disconnect where they think throwing water into the air will somehow not result in it coming down within days or weeks.
Not the worst idea! I have mixed views on presonus. They have made great gear! I use a few bits of it! I haven’t used their software, outside of their drivers. Drivers have been great! But they dropped support for their FireWire gear on mac after 10.14 which was super sad.

You can still plug in a 1st gen iPod via FireWire -> TB2 -> TB3 -> m3 mac and sync it with tunes today. But my very nice mixer doesn’t have drivers for macOS.

I hope they are better with their other software offerings.
They had a gmail data loss issue back in the day as well. They lost a shitload of emails and contacts.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/03/01/gmail.lost.found/...
I feel like this would be exceptionally dangerous, like the plan would be something along the lines of

1) navigate a vessel to the site with a helipad and helicopter, while avoiding accidentally making that classic Titanic move of running aground on hidden ice or something

2) fly a helicopter to the center of the iceberg, hope the weather’s nice, as the terrain of this is likely to be “extremely dangerous and tall cliff faces on all sides”

3) plant a flag in the center of the iceberg, hoping you didn’t land your helicopter in a hidden crevasse or something equally gnarly in the process?
> So they ship because they aren't innovative?

Ok, you're clearly not trying to make sense here.

And there's no way you can believe that Google's TPUs have shipped as broadly as Nvidia's GPUs (or even just Nvidia's datacenter GPUs).
Married with Children is set in Chicago, not San Francisco. A single income at an average job can still afford a home in Chicago.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1326-S-Springfield-Ave-Ch...
Yes, once you realize even the ground you walk on is shifting cm's per year like a slow moving ocean, you see that nothing fits nicely in the world indefinitely with then precision needed for electricity infra.
And bear in mind that the US economy is better off than pretty much the entire rest of the developed world outside maybe Switzerland. Americans who think housing is expensive shut up the moment they look north of the 49th parallel, for example. So just how much worse off is everyone else?

(And if your answer is that somehow "free[1] health care" and "vacation days" are enough to compensate for non-Americans, boy have you missed the point.)

[1] No, Virginia, the NHS and Canadian Medicare's approaches are not the norm for the developed world
I used to think like this that it was a self-inflicted American thing. After talking with a number of Europeans, Australias, etc it seems to be a broad problem in most westernized countries.

If it were purely some single thing or circumstance of politics it should be less widespread. There’s clearly some structural issue in western societies. It’s still possibly self-inflicted but not by a simple reason like lack of supply.

Why would multiple Western & European countries have this same lack of supply? Is there a conflict of western values and an ideal of owning a home at all an issue with our population levels? Do our changing morals and increasing self centered-ness in our cultures lead our democracies to stall home building? I think we need more questions like these.
Yeah, I know all the letters in English and it's a 50/50 if I read a word I haven't seen before correctly.

I guess Hebrew is more phonetic, especially if written with nikud, so if you knew the letters you could probably read correctly.

No idea about Spanish.
That's neat, like a couple days after saying he would reopen it...
So many brilliant quotes here, thanks for posting
It’s bad data. They changed the way they collect data when the price of API access went up. The drop you see in July 2023 isn’t real.
If you don’t need this level of durability, then plain old local filesystems can work, too. XFS or ZFS or whatever, on a single machine, serving NFS, should nicely outperform EFS.

(If you have a fast disk. Which, again, AWS makes unpleasant, but which real hardware has no trouble with.)
Not sure if it's just me but the images are super slow to download (e.g. I've had the page open for 1 minute and it's still loading them in)
Can you expound on this? What makes you sure?
Wow, I remember following Beej's socket tutorial somewhere around the year 2000 . perhaps even before that.
> Do you really think people have a whole transition just to be able to sneak into the women's bathroom?

Maybe there is a gender which is biologically male, mentally female with lesbian tendencies, and they want to feel intimate that way. So why not?
Is the term you're looking for "cupping", ie the formation of "sun cups"?
Merkle's Boner
If you don't have any money, how will you pay for local government services like police, fire, roads, etc?
It was quite an adventure when I exported all my photos from Google Drive. It took Google a couple of days to get everything ready. Afterward, I downloaded around 15 zip files, each with a size of several gigabytes.

It was quite a task to unzip them all, perform deduplication, and import them into iCloud photos.

To keep them synced with S3, I am currently using an app called Photosync.
> But, the house they lived in when they first married could be rented for $10 USD (in 1951 I think). The 50s allowed them to get a mortgage and get in a house of their own, and start the savings treadmill...

> Minimum wage was $0.75 per hour

The general federal minimum wage didn't exist yet, that $0.75 cent minimum wage was for a limited subset of workers (basically, those either directly engaged in interstate commerce in the narrow sense or in manufacturing for it). When a broader minimum wage was introduced, it was at a lower rate than the then-current rate for that subset, as was also the case when the general minimum wage was introduced a fee years after that.

So. its misleading to compare the general federal minimum eage that exists today with the narrow one in 1951 as if they were equivalent in setting the floor for all labor.
Are there any reports of data loss from Gmail? My friend has lost all her Gmail emails since May 2023 until Tuesday 21 November.
FWIW Friends had an episode semi-explaining that, IIRC the girls' apartment was rent controlled and was in Monica's aunt's name.

Which actually isn't too far off from the situation as it exists today, where tons of people owe their living situations to the fact that their parents or other relatives owned property when it was affordable to buy it. Heck, there are tons of people who say "I'm so lucky I bought my house when I did, I could never afford this place now." We've basically ended up back at a society of landed gentry, and then everyone else is kinda screwed.
i do find joy, just not only in the way some people may expect it. (like i enjoy playing with the kids, but i don't enjoy not having much time to do so)

i think the primary problem is expectations of others. i may be lucky, that i do have a supportive family and partner that do not push any specific expectations on me, so i am free to find the enjoyment where i like. and a strong part of that for me is that i enjoy that i have been given this responsibility and am able to take care of my family to the best of my ability. in other words: i wanted this life and i am thankful to have gotten it, even if it turned out different than i thought it would be.
What's the goal of your post, aside from being snarky?
A guy gave an interesting feature of rclone, actually.
Even if that could be done, how would it be anchored in place? If anchoring is possible it might be sensible to anchor it where it is now and forget the towing.

Shame it isn't as simple as hoisting a huge sail on it.
You have to look locally. You have to go there physically, so there is no Amazon-type recommendation to give
Housing wealth is meaningless, destructive and fundamentally changing society
I back up my gdrive to a synology, which is in turn backed up to rsync.net. The notifications get fed into checkcentral. This arrangement is pretty capable and I feel good about it.

I've been thinking of going full archivist and burning all the family photos onto blurays though.
Both worked for me on iOS Safari
It's very hard to judge a book like this... (based on a table of contents?)

Who is the author ?

Have they published anything else highly rated ?

Are there good reviews from people that know what they're talking about?

Are there good reviews from students that don't know anything ?
thanks, didn't notice that link at the bottom, this article seemed much more coherent. All the hacking FUD aside (sitting here trying to figure out how or why would malware perform GPS jamming?), this seems to be the root cause:

> jamming activity is primarily carried out to interfere with missile guidance systems, but a knock-on effect is disruption to grid operators
For some languages (like Polish) it is nearly sufficient. I imagine for others it will basically suffice (perhapes e.g. Malay and Indonesian). Good luck with Chinese and other tonal languages, as well as Japanese (no word borders), Korean (dual and triple phonemes on a single grapheme and the order of phonemes on them), and Hebrew without nikud (little friendly smirk).

As of English, we come to funny question here, as in it the mapping from graphemes to phonemes is extremely irregular.
I present my fav "The Machine Stops" by EM Forster with 41

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=the+machine+stops
I also run sync to an veracrypt encrypted flash drive. I think local storage is a key part of a personal data back up strategy
Are phonemes relevant when reading?
'if you don't need all the things that make this expensive, its way cheaper' is kind of a redundant, right?
Even regular FF for Android has a lot of privacy and tracking prevention features. I highly recommend trying it out. Also install uBlock Origin.
Stratospheric kites.
On iOS, especially iPad, try:

- Narwhal 2: https://narwhal.app/

Of course, you pay the API costs. But this is pro work, countless UX details thoughtfully made.

- Winston: https://winston.cafe/

- Winston on GitHub: https://github.com/lo-cafe/winston

In TestFlight Beta, OK on iPhone but awkward on iPad unless full screen; layout is jumbled mess in stage manager windows.
I often think about this. But then I also often think about synchrotron and how they create EM radiation by accelerating electrons to high speed then bending them in magnetic fields.

When the electron bends in the field, it releases energy in the form of light. It does this as for ‘ever action the is an opposite reaction’. I can’t figure out if it emits light because it’s in a magnetic field, or if it’s because it’s a charged particle.

Either way, when being bent by a large gravitational field, would a proton emit light and lose energy and slow down?
Water vapor = clouds.

We can just use a chain of nukes to make sure it makes it even higher beyond the troposphere.
I'm not sure it's dead. It's certainly under pressure, but here in Perth I can find a few hundred properties under $400k, and banks will lend a working couple both on full-time minimum wage over $400k. Yes, they'd have to find a deposit somewhere (though something like keystart can help with lower deposit requirements). Sure, not all of them are houses (a minority are), there are a lot of villas and apartments in there, not all are in the best areas etc. etc.

Perhaps we can say it's on life support here.

Over east may be a different story of course, which is probably why we have so many posts in the Perth subreddit about moving to Perth...
Renders perfectly, readable and usable on Firefox Android.

Which browser are you using that makes this look bad?
> Graduate and go into Tech as soon as possible.

It's a good plan but if everyone did that we also wouldn't have a functional society.

My daughter is an occupational therapist for children and works at a restaurant -- guess which is better for society and guess which pays better.
> I’m not quite sure what sub I’m reading, what’s user generated, and what’s an ad

I'm unable to tell apart ads properly either quickly on reddit, and given the it's the same user action to collapse a comment and to click an ad that looks like a comment, I've misclicked on ads many, many times. It doesn't help that they place them at the top of the comments section and seem to be deliberately designed to look like gif comments.

As an advertiser I would not be particularly chuffed. I can say with confidence that my accidental ad click rate on reddit is 100%.
The problem is that there's infinite ways that someone having a disease like polio could change their actions and therefore the future, and not all outcomes are actually worse. Perhaps having polio makes some people into jerks, and for others it somehow makes them better. Perhaps having polio effectively neutralizes some people who would have caused great harm if they had stayed healthy. Imagine if Hitler had contracted polio and was stuck in an iron lung for most of his life: history would be very different. Perhaps one of the people who did get stuck in an iron lung would have been another Hitler. The possibilities are endless.
As an aside, I am curious the motivation for customers to staff huge company support forums. In some ways, it’s nice for there to be a responsive community, but in other ways, I think a trillion dollar company should pay for excellent customer service.

E.g. in this case their volunteer customer service is left with this and there is no way to even know if Google sees this:

“Sorry Yeonjoong,

As a group of volunteers, we do not have access to user accounts and can only help by sharing our experiences. In this case there is nothing we can do. “
The Rise and Fall of Crypto Lunacy
As the GP was suggesting, ideas+generative ai is not worthless. That's what makes it significant.
15-20 years ago, people generally thought that software jobs would be outsourced to low-cost countries. CS enrollments were low, because people didn't believe in the tech job market anymore. Ambitious STEM graduates who wanted a lucrative career went to finance instead.

It all changed with the Great Recession.
The issue with this, that I see, is that these are anecdotes involving highly intelligent people teaching their own kids. And they are reporting it because they are very excited about the success.

I suspect that we are unlikely to hear from those who may have attempted the same, but didn't achieve much success. And I suspect that teaching a random person's child may not yield as much results as teaching the child of a genius like Larry Sanger.

So the only question is whether Larry Sanger's child would've been worse off without this particular type of instruction, and that is a counterfactual that we cannot answer.

I think it could also be the case that the adult intelligence level will not be greatly affected by any kind of learning technique or pace during childhood. But being ahead of your peers in school can help you get better grades and thus potentially more financial success in life.
Sort-of, but no, because code points are not characters.

There's a big difference between "get the 5th code point" and "get the 5th character".

Because multiple code points can be used in a single character, it not possible to do random-character-access in a unicode-encoded string.
yeah exactly.
eg

find . -type f | grep foo

is possible to do with os.walk() in python, but to get there is so unergonomic.
I know you're (partly?) joking, but I'd gladly pay $20/mo for this kind of "cloud insurance policy" (on top of whatever trivial storage costs there are with each service).

I really wish a service like this existed.
I think this is a definitional thing. If it’s made of salt water, that’s called sea ice which is formed when water just freezes on the surface of the ocean.

An iceberg on the other hand is a broken off piece of glacier, which is ultimately made of snowfall, and therefore should always be freshwater (at least on earth!)
"If you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all."
There's also supply and demand; if supply is increased beyond the demand then what was a successful plan will stop being successful.
Yes, it has happened before. BTW, they guarantee nothing. So don't expect any other help than "Sorry we'll try to do better."
It's likely it doesn't affect all devices, the reviewer for mashable also couldn't see them.
Sometimes people don't realise that complaining about something is actually a type of compliment.

The most newsworthy complaint about the screen is that there exists an optical illusion that causes some users to think the screen is uneven:

* When off.
* Under the correct lighting conditions.

In other words, it's so close to perfect that there is that little to complain about.
Nice to see this argument quantified. I moved away my cluster nodes from VMs to LXC so I’m very keen to see how similar comparison to this article but against LXC.
Thoughts on and conjectures about finite and infinite games
Here’s where Sam mentioned his thought on short vs long timeline til AGI and slow vs fast takeoffs: Interview clip by Lex Fridman at 1:58 https://youtu.be/ZgN7ZYUxcXM?si=FqRQmKFNzCI_iHGW

I think he tweeted about the topic as well.
i am not exactly sure where you are going with this, so i am curious what you have in mind.
Not OP and not on TT, but some of my family have told me they have the same issue with movies and TV now.

I assume it's dopamine addiction playing out in the extreme.
From what I've seen, rural areas aren't doing too well. They're affordable because they're so undesirable.
> It’s still possibly self-inflicted but not by a simple reason like lack of supply.

No, it's exactly that. It's just that pretty much all the Western countries put in a bunch of regulations that made it harder to build things. These were for nominally good reasons -- protecting the environment, not running roughshod over local interests, not putting in 'nuisance' properties/buildings, etc. -- but the end result is that the pendulum swung too far in the other direction and it got super hard to build.

Ask developers or even random people who try to build a new house or expand on their existing house and you'll hear similar stories where even basic things are a nightmare bureaucracy seemingly aimed at killing your dreams.

Contrast that with Japan, where building is more straightforward, and even Tokyo rents aren't too crazy, not compared to the biggest Western cities.
I went through AWS’ example workloads e.g. analytics, CMS, web serving. Those all seem to be better / more commonly served using other storage (EBS, RDBMS, S3).

Can someone share how high-throughput EFS has been helpful ?

I’ve never had much luck with NFS in the past besides shared home directories. Anything concurrent always seemed to have consistency issues.
Colorado has commercial service to half a dozen airports including Colorado Springs, Aspen, Vail/Eagle, and Grand Junction.

And Newark is definitely a part of greater NYC, absolutely nobody is confused by that at all.

I lived in Colorado for years. Boulder is definitely a suburb of Denver. In 20 years Fort Collins probably will be too at this rate.
My mental connection is the dense snow piled by Zambonis outside ice skating arenas that lasts into the summer.
While considered 'experimental' this is state of the art in FreeCiv:

https://freeciv.fandom.com/wiki/Multiplayer_II_Dragoon_Summa...

And this giving an overview of the development up to that point:

https://freeciv.fandom.com/wiki/Multiplayer_II_Navigation_Pa...

It's not stuck in 1990. Actually rather fun to play against humans, AI still meh.
There's a lot of slop in electricity infrastructure especially in those big towers with cable drapes of hundreds of feet.

Australia, the continent, has shifted by 4.9 feet since the last local mapping grid adjustment was made to GPS coordinates back in 1994.

That's about 2.7 inches a year .. that took entire regional electrical service areas along with it as a single unit with no stretching of cables.

In your scenario you need to find electrical works spanning a fault line, rigidly fixed to both sides, and built by Engineers (civil, mech, not software) clueless to drift .. like a steel bridge constructed without expansion joints to account for tempreture changes.
I puzzled why non-employees even involved in such discussions. There is absolutely zero help they can provide in such cases.
Global talks to cut plastic waste stall as industry and environment groups clash
I knew the risks of having a baby at 45
Do you have any recommendations for dbus?
Yeah, I honestly can't think of any language where spelling is as difficult as English. Japanese: the 2 phonetic alphabets (hiragana and katakana) are extremely easy to learn IMO, nearly all letters are either vowels or a consonant-vowel pair. Russian: very phonetic, there are some exceptions to how things are pronounced but the rules are very regular. Even French, which has tons of silent letters and heck, silent syllables, is very regular, and I nearly always know how to pronounce something if I read it.
That thread mentioned that the web interface users also were loosing data. The driveFS seems to be a last chance to save some data that was cached on the local drive by the desktop app. Some files appear to still have a local cache
Dive into Deep Learning: Interactive deep learning book with codes and maths
This answer resonated with me because as the father of a 2.4 year old son, I've been forced to consider something like a downshift simply because these kids are incredibly difficult soul sucking energy vampires. Fortunately I work with a bunch of dads with older kids who completely understand this phase but are probably banking on my ability as soon as I can claw my way back from the stranglehold that this kid has on my "true" productivity
I don't remember the exact quote, but I saw a talk where he said something like "People want big/verbose/explicit syntax for the languages features they don't understand, and small/terse/implicit syntax for the language features do understand." It made me realize that many of my language design opinions at that time were a matter of personal preference.
the full quote, properly attributed to Mother Teresa, is "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything at all unless it's online"