skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your characterization, and that's just from watching 15 years or so of This Old House, as they introduced new technology that caused my family to say "you can do that now?"

The article's definition for "same way" is, "not in a factory":

> Last year, only 2 percent of new single-family homes in the United States were built in factories. Two decades into the 21st century, nearly all U.S. homes are still built the old-fashioned way: one at a time, by hand. Completing a house took an average of 8.3 months in 2022, a month longer than it took to build a house of the same size back in 1971.

I have a hard time understanding that "8.3 months". The article links to https://www.census.gov/construction/nrc/pdf/avg_starttocomp.... where the only 8.3 for 2022 is "Average Number of Months from Start to Completion of Buildings Started in Permit-Issuing Places", but for 1971 it says 4.8 months.

That source also doesn't give sizes, but is for "Buildings with 1 unit". The average size of American homes was about 1,500 sq ft in 1970 and over 2,000 sq ft now (I couldn't find hard numbers comparing the years for new housing).

It suggests that building codes are a reason why factory built housing hasn't taken off ("government also can push for the standardization of building materials and building regulations" ... "there is no reason for Colorado to have 300 different codes") but doesn't say how many codes there should be.

That is, the article says "the county has stricter snow load regulations" than the city of Fairplay, but doesn't say that the differences are appropriate, nor does it discuss how many of those difference are due to historic districts.

Nor does it mention how this would be any improvement over the existing International Building Code.
You’re still going to pay the cost of maintaining referential integrity — you’re just doing it on the app side. You can do it faster by being not-correct — eg you don’t need a lock if you ignore race conditions — but it’s not like the database is arbitrarily slow at doing one of its basic fundamental jobs.

Of course, you can just skip the validation altogether and cross your fingers and hope you’re correct, but it’s the same reasoning as removing array bounds checking from your app code; you’ve eked out some more performance and it’s great until it’s catastrophically not so great.

Your reasoning should really be inverted. Be correct first, and maintain excessive validation as you can, and rip it out where performance matters. With OLTP workloads, your data’s correctness is generally much more valuable than the additional hardware you might have to throw at it.

I’m also not sure why dropping/creating foreign keys is a big deal for migrations, other than time spent
There is still considerable overhead turning things into buffers and back. Was there ever a good reason given as to why passing an object to a worker normally has to convert everything to string and back? It is just so completely idiotic.
Context is key.

If you have an established business or startup, data will outlive the application. However, you need a product that lives long enough for either data or application to matter.

In the startup world, that means making decisions that help you ship now, at the expense of debt/costs down the road.
I agree. After listening to 200+ audio books I have found myself having favorite narrators as much as favorite authors.

I think the stretched out audio hits harder on podcasts, but it's in audio books too.
I remember Cruise showing similar numbers and then at some point they ran over a woman and lost their right to operate in the state of California and GM cut 20% of Cruise's workforce.

I guess it's pointless to point out the WeWork-level of creative reporting bcs the "if we can just save one life" people don't want to hear it. The reality outside of the engineering bubble is that self-driving is an expensive dud with a smaller potential market than initially hoped (major cities like NYC will not see self-driving anytime soon). The expectation that there just needs to be a little more time for development has run its course and money for speculative bets are harder to come by (especially for something that's burned through so much cash already).
I don’t personally agree with a lot of what Musk says or does, but I do commend him for his propensity towards (literal and figurative) moonshots in the name of innovation. This is a refreshing take when most startups have a goal to exit in X number of years and the previously agile, lean, and innovative company becomes beholden to showing quarterly returns the moment they have the capital available to them to drive something truly innovative.
I always get super confused with the Indiana school acronyms IU, IUP, etc
Can you be more specific, confidence with what exactly? :)

I'm interpreting your reaction to the thought that "if it's so good, why doesn't it sell itself?" -- in which case I would suggest you put yourself in the shoes of someone on a platform team, or a manager trying to get everyone to do things a certain way, and they'll explain that for brand new greenfield things, adoption is generally much easier, but for existing people and processes change is difficult - so even with a better solution it just doesn't sell it self without some help.
I'm honestly surprised at the intensity with which people are going to bat for this (context: used to work on Android and generally have a dim view of the open source-ness https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38725926)

If I'm understanding you both right, I'd say their point is:

- it's not very open source if the only thing you can rely on is "API shim on top of Linux kernel", there's to some approximation no phone app, no launcher, no Settings, no browser. Those are hard!

- It's doubly so if _the apps for this open source OS regularly rely on GMS APIs_, which require a commercial relationship with Google.

and your point is:

- There _is_ a phone app, launcher, Settings, and browser. No one said the OS and a _full modern mobile application suite_ are open source.

- It is very good that the OS is open source and that shouldn't be discounted just because its non-trivial to get your own distro up and running.

- completely putting words in your mouth now :) - the GMS APIs are things that _should_ be vendored, it'd be worse if Google's location tracking was baked into the OS. Also, vendors can provide shims that allow apps to call GMS APIs "headers" even if the impementer isn't GMS
I don't think neither Beeper nor Apple is doing anything illegal here. Neither has any legs to stand on for a lawsuit.

However, it's a common pattern that large companies can shut down adversarially-interoperable projects by threatening litigation against the developers. The lawsuit might be baseless but would still require upfront resources to defend; this is what these companies rely on, so they get their way without the argument ever getting into a courtroom.

If Apple brought forward such a lawsuit and Beeper actually litigated it to the end (and actually got it into a courtroom), it would risk creating a legal precedent that would enshrine adversarial interoperability as legal and make such future bullshit legal threats ineffective. That is a major risk not just for Apple but the tech industry at large.
Very original. In exUSSR, flashing blue lights used by officials or emergency services.

Any way, this is huge leap, to admit, automatic driver is other.
Pdf isn't the source
You're not going to do this for security. It's purely for fun :)
Two live video productions, including one on the evening of 31st. I managed to push back on last minute infra/workflow changes (:
In my experience Wasmer is generally disliked by the rest of the WASM community. There’s a long list of reasons for this, including attempting to copyright the term WASM and pushing their own proprietary specs and calling them “standards” while not implementing existing standards.

Their main benefit, from what I can tell, is their “retargetable” compiler architecture, but Wasmtime is improving here as well. Wasmtime is also generally faster at implementing standards.
I reiterate that we're talking about the daily average and not the instantaneous generation.

You have solar panels that generate 100GW average, i.e. 200GW during sunlight and nothing at night. You have batteries to match this up with the daily load.

But then it's more cloudy than usual for a couple weeks, so your average generation from solar is 50GW, or 10GW, or what have you, depending on how cloudy it is. You need something to make up the difference that week or the batteries run down and the power goes out.

But because averaging 90GW over a day (when the typical average is 100GW) is a lot more common than averaging 10GW, the first 10GW of peaker plants is economical against nuclear and the last 10GW is not. And the total of nuclear + peaker plants has to add up to ~90GW because there will be times when you only average ~10GW from renewables.
you can buy an airhorn for about $20 and your cancellation will definitely be processed in a single visit. $20 may seem like a lot but it can be reused for just about any disagreement you have at any business. It's an investment for the future, really.
True.

For instance, SHA-3 is quite slow on x86 CPUs, which, unlike the recent ARM CPUs, do not have any hardware instructions to accelerate it.

If there had been an included FPGA, it would have been easy to implement a very fast SHA-3, as its hardware cost is very low.
Fair enough. I don’t disagree they saw it as a way to make some money.

I took your comment to imply that as a result of charging, their goal in fighting Apple was to “get back to charging $2/mo” which is a pretty surface-level statement. Their goal is to get iMessage on Android phones. I honestly doubt they’d care if they were the ones who eventually did it, as the main thing they eventually plan on making money off of is Beeper, not Beeper Mini.
This brings up the question how efficient the human brain is.

As AI keeps catching up more and more with human intelligence, will it also need more and more hardware? Can it achieve human and superhuman intelligence and still run on a device like the iPhone, which weights about 170g? The human brain is 8 times heavier.
> I now have to overcompensate on average to maintain the same level of safety.

Tailgating is bad, regardless of if people brake check or not. If automous vehicles are what it takes to get you to stop tailgating and follow at a safe distance, then that is just an added bonus.
If you don't want to ventilate, it would likely need to be non-contact electric rail, unless you want the tunnels to have extremely high concentrations of ozone. The arcs from electric contact catenaries produce ozone, which is fine outdoors because of immediate dissipation and short half-life. Put it in a tunnel and you either have to invest in ventilation (what most subway systems do), or mitigation (via contactless power delivery, likely induction).
I think the other version I'm familiar with is a Navy captain or new minted admiral - especially in the age of sail - someone who has to operate on their own for a long stretch. Looking around I see a bunch of variations:

- the CEO or other corporate leader
- a government leader (sometimes specifically Soviet or British)
- a pastor or abbot
- military officers of various ranks
- a distinctly non-leadership corporate role that can catch a lot of flak (sysadmin)

I wonder how old it is? How far back would envelopes have made sense? Do you suppose Ea-Nasr left three bullae to his successor?
I mean, we can now do that run at Mach 0.9 in 400 ton aluminum behemoths for the price of a nice dinner, so you know, things have changed
> you don't want to go down the road of the "FDA mandating efficacy".

This has long been a thing already.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-c...

> Many OTC medicines, including phenylephrine, are sold because they have an ingredient that FDA generally recognizes as safe and effective (GRASE) when used as recommended on the product labeling, which is documented in an “OTC monograph.” If FDA determined that oral phenylephrine is not effective, the agency would first issue a proposed order removing phenylephrine from this monograph.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generally_recognized_as_safe_a...
How do you collect and store the waste from solar+natural gas?
> the annoying bloatware, the subtle yet persistent tracking, and the endless wait for security updates.

Get a Google Pixel phone OR put AOSP a phone. All other non-Google "android" phones are that manufacturers take on what Android should be
> Dishonesty is not acceptable behavior

Drop this crap and just debate like an adult. You may have a point. But it’s difficult to see if you’re flipping out in the corner.
Small world : - ) Great work, Larry!
Just zoom the smartphone into one column. Problem solved.
California doesn't have an energy market like Texas. Correct me if I'm wrong but if the price of energy spikes during a billing cycle you don't pay any extra that month as a residential customer, PG&E has to change the rates later.
I guess it's hard to be a "NY Times bestselling author and keynote speaker" when you have to come up with all original ideas.
I've had some hobby projects that seem like a good fit here. The low-code and interactive editor make it nice for a hobbyist, even though I can code... there's a certain concentration I just don't feel like when I'm doing a hobby project.

For me personally the thing I've excited about is generating maps and worlds. It looks like the best way to do this is to export the game as JSON, programmatically edit it, and then import?

I'm a little intimidated though... the unedited tutorial world is 3500 lines of JSON. There's a lot to try to understand there.

My first idea at how to do that is to make deliberate edits and see how that changes the JSON (I also need to look up a nice JSON diff viewer). This will help point to the parts I want to touch. I'm also guessing I'll do things like collect assets and map tiles in the interactive editor.

Is this a reasonable approach? Are there tools to help here?
In computer science, the usual case is that the author fully formats the paper.
JS has an API called "SharedArrayBuffer" that allows sharing memory between processes or threads (with the aid of the host)
> If you operate at the scale where you consider the performance implications of foreign keys, you probably are not ok with anyone accessing the database or running just any query against it.

I used to work on an application where ALL database accesses were via stored procedures. Genuinly the best dev experience, to me, so far.
BBM on the BB devices used efficient transport separate from the normal IP support of the network, which is why it was viewed as premium service by the carriers. iOS does something similar as a transport for APNs (and thus iMessages) with two important differences: Apple has somehow managed to convince most carriers to not bill that as premium service and can sidestep the carriers that would want to bill that as a premium service (that is the core of what the “Additional rates may apply” message in the iOS activation/onboarding process refers to, it involves few round-trips to Apple servers over SMS). BBM on Android did not do any kind of these optimizations and thus was somewhat of a battery hog (that would not fly on iPhone, so I assume it used APNS there).
That looks great. No real feedback yet, but it's the kind of thing I've always been looking for as a better alternative to Twitter.
This will be sure prohibited. Only possible if your model will got level 3 autopilot, which now have only few models on market (Tesla's only have level 2 officially).
> dozens of reports of injury or property damage

That doesn't sound as just "lashing out".
Honestly, the array languages are special in a way that the shortest solutions are usually also the most generalized solutions. I’d be more afraid of javascript or Python codebases that were built to minimize loc.
kind of a tangent, but about 3 years ago I was thinking of joining Planet Fitness (inb4 "they're the worst gym ever", perfect-enemy-good-etc) and thought "I know, I'll outsmart them and use one of those burner credit cards so if they block me from cancelling, I'll just shut off the card!". Well this must may as well be a class in Entomological Evolution because as soon as Consumerus Cardioworkii evolves a thicker exoskeleton against Gymnascus Financialus Capitalus, spc. Captialus evolves a defense against credit cards and goes checking-account only.
I loved the hyperloop concept, but it felt like the company was too early. The real problem that needs to be solved first before this is viable is "cost effective tunnels".

Only once you have those, does adding a vacuum and accelerating make sense. I think Musk believed this as well, which is why he floated the idea of Hyperloop (pun intended) but bankrolled the Boring Company. I think another 10 years of tunneling improvements, and the hyperloop part may make sense to try.
Nope. I see you're a fan of Kiš. I haven't read his stuff, apart from the essay you linked in another comment.

I'm still trying to figure out what you're trying to say, though.

If your point is that there was plenty of bigotry in old Yugoslavia, then yeah, I know that. It's still alive and well in the remnants of it. The casual bigotry and rampant nationalism are part of the reason why I'm still "rootless", because I wouldn't fit in with my compatriots anymore.

But none of that was really the point here. The point is that a phrase might be very well recognized by some people here and totally unknown to others who might stumble into using it by accident.

I mean, I don't actually know if Vektorceraptor was being deliberately antisemitic or not. Maybe Vektorceraptor did know it and its antisemitic connotations and used it like that on purpose. Or maybe not, maybe it meant what I read from it and described in my reply.

Yeah, it's fascinating to read the history of that expression, and to find out it's not a "Western", but a Soviet expression. But I'd like to offer a gentle reminder that the countries that comprised the Soviet Union are one set, and the countries that used to be in the Soviet sphere of influence is another set, and they're not the same set.
Charging rent based on square footage or location and charging a 30% tax on all the transactions that happen in your mall are pretty different.
By "they", I mean everyone in this story except the defendant. I mean the justice system itself. "They" should be held to a high standard of expectations.
> Until someone establishes the 'spyware free, dumb tv" market that will continue to be the case I'm afraid.

Well, there is Sceptre. Unfortunately they don't seem to be available outside US.
How about instead American regulators grow some balls and start 'targeting' American tech too?

I don't want to live in (techno)feudalism: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/
Hard to know what pricing will be, but consider:
- Self-driving vehicle wait times may be reduced to less than a minute as they become more common
- Car ownership also requires the expenses of: insurance, maintenance, fuel, registration, and storage space
- Self-driving vehicles may come in many shapes and sizes: suited to carrying a single person for a family of 6
> not everyone can get it

Everyone can get it. Not everyone can get it prescribed. But I have previously-prescribed medication which I now just order in bulk overseas. Not because it’s cheaper (it is). But because the hassle of getting prescriptions filled every month is tedious.
I received the amount I asked for a food budget this month ($300).

Thank you so much!

More updates on my situation coming soon.
What you’re probably thinking of is topical (is that the right word here?) phenylephrine. If you snort it, like as a nasal spray, and it soaks directly into the inflamed nasal tissue, then it has an effect. Swallowing it does not.

Analogy: you wouldn’t eat hemorrhoid cream.
It's generally correlated with overall popularity would be my guess?
The cut and policies are almost exactly the same though?
Alright, let's not get too hyperbolic. There are FAR more things sadder in American life than not having a bunch of cousins.
Living abroad outside the US for a considerable amount of time. Not because America is terrible and Europe is amazing (both places have their positives and negatives), but because it becomes easier to understand America and what being American means from the outside. It’s not an accident, I think, that Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby while in southern France. Being outside of something helps you understand it more, and I think this is not an experience that a lot of people are lucky enough to have.
Sure. But if that were Beeper’s goal, they’d file for an injunction. Waiting for someone to sue you to set precedent isn’t a thing in civil law.
Most authors probably have no interest in learning html. Also most authors want nothing to do with the work by the time its submitted. It was probably hell getting the project to that point of publishing, they want to be done with it and move on to the next thing going on in their career asap.
There is a macro like this for Common Lisp: modf.

https://github.com/smithzvk/modf

With modf, you use the existing place syntax to refer to part of an object. It looks like you're mutating that object, but in fact it will return a clone of the entire containing object, with the modification, while the original remains untouched.
They are going to want to start putting more RAM in their machines then or they are going to find it a bit tricky to compete given how big even moderate AI is.
As someone living in the Northeast and having often made train trips of similar length (Philadelphia -> Boston), I don't see how.

If I'm driving and need to stop to use the bathroom, eat something, or so on I'm setting myself back time-wise. Plus I have to stay sitting down the whole time and have to stay focused on the road for hours.

If I take the train, I can get up, stretch my legs, grab some food, and I'll still get there at exactly the same time I would have otherwise. I can watch a movie on the way, or pull out my laptop to work on a side project if I want, or play some video games.

I'll take the train over driving any day.
The iPhone 15 neural engine does 35Tflops, which is about on par with the fastest supercomputer from 2002.

Maybe in 24 years the iPhone 39 will have the computing power that OpenAI has today? Hopefully our compression gets much better in the meantime.
Thanks, been there many seasons, and same to you all.
I don’t know I don’t have the credentials to be an engineer at Intel, but I think they know its a bad idea to end or spin off their foundry service, especially now that they have a new client that will know the ins and outs of their fabrication process.
I don't think your spglobal link really supports what you're saying:

> According to S&P Global Mobility (formerly IHS Markit | Automotive), demand for Li-ion batteries from light vehicle between 2021 and 2027 will increase a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 40% to about 2,050 GWh. Installed battery capacity in the same period will grow a 23.5% CAGR to 3,371 GWh in 2027.
see my reply above, Planet Fitness requires a checking account.
I'm totally aligned with this line of thought and I think running local is the best possible thing to do with all of the privacy risks AI presents. In the future I want my cognition 10x amplified by AI and the only way I can imagine that working is if info is being fluidly exchanged with my brain at the speed of thought. No way am I going to plug into a cloud data sink for advertisers and spy agencies to snoop my unfiltered thoughts. I want my cognition air-gapped on hardware I own.