skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ditch off street parking and buildings will become much more dense, which in turn will make them more valuable (manhattan land is more valuable than suburbia), smaller (because people can't afford much space when land is expensive), which increases density further.

End result: Nobody has space for a car, lots of demand for public transit, makes it worth building public transit.

Unfortunately, there probably will be transitional years of people fighting for parking spaces at ridiculous prices before the transit gets built.
This isn’t true.

If there is a demand for parking spots in an area, dedicated paid parking can be created — based on market forces rather than minimums. This parking is also often more dense and built upwards. It’s a more efficient use of city space.

As is, parking is subsidized by all residents of a city rather than the people who actually consume parking. Much of this space goes unused throughout the day, and the aggregate effect necessarily means sprawl.
Yeah, these statements really don't inspire confidence for me either as an investor or consumer, but I'm not privy to some of the investor calls where they elaborate on how they define these terms. Typically things like "business unit operating model" will be illuminated / detailed in other presentations with a smaller audience, and are just referenced in the press releases as little reminders to the institutional investors.
I'm not sure how much it is Linux vs. just most consumers have expectations of open because that's historically been how it is. I don't doubt that if Apple were starting the macbook as a new product today, it would be locked down just like the iPhone is. MS would copy and go that way too. I don't think Linux is causing either one of them to hesitate, I think it's the fact that consumers already expect those to be general purpose devices, so it's going to be a slow bleed.
Could you expand the general case of that cost optimization?
Show HN: Autopilot Coder (solve task –> gen test –> gen code –> test –> improve)
An approach to automate any non-creative development tasks, such as the monotonous task of writing html parsers.
It implements a simple but effective loop: solve the task using GPT-4, generate tests since we know the correct answer, generate Python code to solve the task at scale, run tests, and improve the code until all tests pass.
This isn't just about spitting out lots of code (as many other projects out there) — it's about ensuring it works.
The result: robust Python scripts in minutes, fully automated.

How do you feel about this approach? Let's think beyond parsers – which other domains could we shift to autopilot with this method?
100% and well said. I feel exactly the same way.
> "Resting on your laurels" always ends badly.

And history is littered with examples of technological disruption ending empires
This is sad. I have been wanting a everything from a Chromium based browser that this appears to have on the box.

I can't install this on my work computer, which is where I need to solve the M$ Teams in Chrome/Chromium making my laptop sound like a 747 while slowing to a snail's pace.

Edit: To be 100% clear, my issue is with unknowingly one day the author could accept some NSFW content into the project, and it unknowingly make its way to my corporate issued laptop through an auto-update. The guy opened the door to this type of risk when the content was put there originally. I'm all for easter eggs, but when it's NSFW content inside a thing that people use for work, nope.
When I was in high school, I lived in high school's students hostel during the week. Bit of an army-like experience, for instance there were 8 beds in a room.

Anyhow, at some point someone (one of my colleagues) stole an industrial light bulb from I've no idea where and replaced our regular 100Watt bulb in the room. I've no idea what wattage it was but probably in the 500W - 1000Watt or something. It was an experience exactly like in Seinfeld's "Chicken Roaster" episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q40fKsRsHFU

We closed the door so the warden won't see us (I dunno the word, basically the fearsome guy that was in charge of controlling some 100 restless teenagers). But light would creep out though cracks like lasers, basically everyone noticed.

Anyhow (kinda stupid probably, good think we didn't get lasting damage), we would stay in the "laser" room with eyelids shut and hands over them and gradually open them and remove the hands. Eventually we got used to the extreme light although it was clearly very bright. Then we'd exit the room to the normally lit corridor and ... stumble like blind people, effectively couldn't see anything, it seemed completely dark.

The whole fun lasted some 10-15 minutes until the warden caught notice and came shouting blasphemies to confiscate the corpus delicti (stolen light bulb).
The amount of money we collectively spend subsidizing driving is utterly insane.

Yet every public transit measure is jet with the same tired dogma of “it’ll raise our taxes” or “it will run at a loss”. Street parking tons at a loss. Why is this never brought up?

Significant money is spent by the likes of the remaining Koch brothers to fight public transit infrastructure in every city.

Yet taking drivers off the road will make driving better and faster.

The shortsightedness of this is bewildering.

Parking minimums are a start, particularly for building more affordable housing but it’s barely scratching the surface and even this small gesture will often be met with fierce opposition.
New York Times newshounds will not derail the AI copycats
I would prefer before. I was let go in January once and I hated it, since I spent a lot of money that Christmas.
"A lot of people who don't understand farming think that just buying organic produce is somehow healthy for the ecosystem"

Yes it is. Not using industrial pesticides and herbicides is already a huge deal. And not using them actually requires a different approach to mono-crop farming. E.g. planting shrubs to attract birds, who will then help control pests. And in general, smaller fields and more diverse.
https://archive.ph/rsAtU
People will come up with their reasons, but the thing is that even if you do learn these algos once in your life, and implement all these structures, unless you use them often, you'll very likely forget them. I did a lot of them 20 years ago, but completely forgot.
Fantastic to see this project... hopefully they'll remove all the enterprise cloud and MDM related requirements for using various browser policies (MetricsReportingEnabled,EnterpriseRealTimeUrlCheckMode, etc) along with a re-enabling a few policies that were annoyingly deprecated like the NTP related settings, HomepageIsNewTabPage, HomepageLocation, and easier side-loading of local extensions sources.
> it seemed natural to have a set of generations for items that have only been seen once, and then another generation for things that have been more active

Have you looked at ARC? It sounds similar - it is a cache split between LRU and MFU areas, where the split point changes dynamically depending on the workload. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8sZRBdmqc0 is a fun watch on the topic.
Please test your website on mobile.

The navbar takes like 33% screen state and can't be removed.

I never understand why people want to make them sticky and steal valuable reading screen space. You can, if you want, always scroll to the top in like 300 ms.
If you're doing more than exclusively gaming, you get hyper-v, but if all you want is WSL2, you don't need pro... Even though it uses hyper-v ...
Tax Credits to Intuit Better Spent to Fund a Free Alternative to TurboTax
Drop in replacement with less license issues, reactionary types endlessly arguing the notion of freedom, code that just works, and lots of development activity. What is there not to like for the likes of Red Hat, Ubuntu, Google, Amazon and others providing Linux based products.

In all seriousness, if you remove all non GPL licensed software from your Linux distribution because it's not pure enough, you'll be left with something that is a bit less comprehensive than your average operating system. It would miss things like a UI for example. Because both X Windows and Wayland are MIT licensed. A lot of popular server software that made Linux successful. And generally a lot of stuff that most of the OSS community uses and depend on every day. Like OpenSSH which is BSD licensed. Or things like Apache httpd (for which the Apache license was invented), etc.

The GPL vision where all that stuff was going to be GPL licensed just never played out that way. Developers and companies decided otherwise. And this is fine.

It's is not a problem that a lot of people believe needs fixing (as evidenced by a lot of non GPL OSS without good GPL alternatives). But of course if you feel otherwise, best of luck fixing that problem. The world runs on software. A lot of that is free and open source. And most of that is not licensed under the GPL.
When I was younger I would read ten to twenty books a year, of all genres. As I've gotten older it's dropped to one to two, entirely history books. Part of the problem is discoverability. There's too much stuff, and places like Goodreads aren't good at sorting through them. Since most things get limited physical releases these days you don't find them at book stores or libraries like you used to. I also refuse to support Amazon in any way because I'd rather give the money to the authors directly. Problem with that is the only way to do that most of the time is with pre-orders or drops, and by the time I found out about these authors or that particular work those are long since over.
What a world we live in, mate. What a world.
France and the UK are also world class. Anyone else?
It IS near-impossible. I have two books on Amazon (search "Albert Cory") which are actually about our industry, and I've mentioned them here many times. Fortunately I'm retired and don't need the income.

One data point for you: I've been taking various angles on my new book, looking for books with that feature, and then finding the agent who represented them. Sounds smart, right? Hasn't worked so far.

One fallout of that is, I've been checking these books out of the library (less $$$ commitment there!) and at least starting them. What dreck people read!

If the main character isn't solving a murder, connecting with their long-lost lover, fighting terrorists, or engaged in other TV-worthy plots, the book will never make it onto bookshelves. Since I don't have to care about people's lousy taste, I don't.

Lastly, the figure of $10K for an audiobook that someone mentioned is way too high, in my experience.
Gentle reminder that personal attacks are not permitted here.
https://archive.today/xgEAn

Title shortened from "Tax Credits to Intuit Better Spent to Fund a Free Alternative to TurboTax, Warren Says" due to char limits.
Note: Assuming that you're shipping a product which contains coreutils, regardless of it's modified or not.

First, you need to ship the source of that GPLd binary with the binary itself. Second, no derivative of that source code (and the binary as a result) can have a different license unless you're the copyright holder on that source code.

On the whole, I am firmly against Open Source and always go with Free Software, but this seems like incomplete knowledge.

edit: Added the "Note" section in the beginning. There was confusion it seems.
>It's astonishing how far this can boot with less than a third of the syscalls of Linux implemented.

It's a great project, but I don't find this ratio surprising at all. Any mature platform builds up logic to enable scenarios such that most things don't need most of the system. As the saying goes, no one uses more than 10% of Excel, but it's a different 10% for everyone.

You could implement 30% of Excel functions and probably have an engine which opens 99% of spreadsheets out there.....though if you wanted full doc compatibility you would still have a long journey ahead of you.
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Before: If you build a building of this size, you MUST also build at least X parking spaces.

Now: If you build a building of this size, you MAY build as many parking spaces as you think you need.

Seems like a strict improvement to me.
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This is the second company for our two Co-Founders, who have built together for the last 8 years, creating the most effective HIV testing organization in the US. One, our CEO, was recently sworn into President Biden’s HIV Council, and the other, our CMO, recently completed his medical residency at Harvard.

You’ll be our third teammate and first engineer. We’re early stage (finalizing our pre-seed round now), and you’ll have heavy impact on the technical roadmap of the product. We like to live in the intersection of helping people and having fun; love messing around, but are never messing around, and have a long track record of building industry newests and bests. We’re excited to build, learn, and grow together with a phenomenal new teammate. Here is our current technical stack:

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My MIL got a Windows 11 laptop for Christmas and it is ridiculous.

They lock down executables by default, only allowing web sites and their app store.

Guess what company doesn’t have an app? Zoom. The main thing my MIL uses her laptop for!

So I need to change advanced security settings to install one of the most popular apps in the world.
holy moly, thanks for this. gonna try it soon.

wonder why Winetricks exists, shouldnt it be upstreamed?

i guess maybe the same reason Proton exists? maybe Proton has the same fixes and i can just use a compiled version of that without having to recompile Wine? :thinking_face:

EDIT: oh, https://github.com/Matoking/protontricks
Some of the tradeoffs are paid more by different parties. For example, sending out scripts instead of content was (presumably? I don’t do webdev) easier for the developers. But it has a cost to the customers (wasting battery, starting up this crazy ecosystem where the expectation is we’ll just download scripts from the internet and run them).

When only one side pays the price, I think it isn’t that surprising that it gets dogmatic. Because there isn’t any trade off, really, for me as a user, getting scripts is simply bad, and getting plain old documents is simply good. Where’s the nuance or tradeoff? I don’t care if setting up a static site generator takes more time or is harder or whatever, I only see the output, which is obviously better in one case.

In the case of web devs talking to web devs, I’m not sure, having not been in that room. But from an outsider point of view, it seems like some sites care about this sort of thing and others just don’t. Maybe which parties are included in the cost calculation is basically an axiom, not really something that can be logic-ed out, and so it tends toward dogmatism and statements of preference? (hopefully I’ve accurately represented the fact that this is 100% a comment from the user point of view, so heap of salt and all that).
> The key there is what you are building. The problem is that people who aren't aware or don't have appealing alternatives will still build a full SPA for something simple like a blog.

In fairness, most of my experience in past 10 years is dealing with companies trying to fake SPA style apps in blog-style server side frameworks.

Maybe it's gotten better very recently, but Rails+jQuery mess is not better if folks really want a SPA-style app and interactions.
You raise a very worthwhile topic, because both fields have expanded, and they have expanded along very different paths.

The medical field has splintered. Osteopaths kind of invented their own thing and broke into medical doctors' monopoly. Registered Nurses can do some things, but not others. BSNs. CNAs. Nurse Practitioners. Physicians Assistants. Chiropractors. etc. The strength of their cartel has led to attacks by new and novel qualifications, and the compelling need for more medical providers has allowed these attacks to successfully carve out roles.

Some can prescribe medications, others can't. Some are limited to specific medications. Others can perform surgery, others can't. Some can diagnose diseases, etc. Moreover, some qualifications are a step toward a higher qualification, others are traps that don't progress you to an MD/DO at all.

The legal field seems far more egalitarian in that any lawyer can practice any area of law (except patent law), and people can generally represent themselves and their minor children without any qualifications. Folk don't need a lawyer to contest tickets, or to draft contracts that they're a party to, or to negotiate their own settlements, etc.

However, appallingly, the general public is not allowed to prescribe medicine for themselves or their children. Folks cannot buy contacts / glasses on their own, etc. Folks shouldn't need a nurse to get antibiotics for ourselves, and yet we do.
> I mostly need functional strength.

What is functional strength? I remember a story where a guy was deadlifting and a kid came up and asked, "what muscle does that work?". The lifter asks the kid if he watches football, and the kid says 'yeah'. The lifter then goes, when you watch a line backer run across the field and hit a runner - that's the muscle the DL works.
>You have to be disciplined to only use dependencies that are published on jsdelivr (npm install programmers need to clean up their act)

...what?

Are people actually using 3rd party hosted CDN scripts for anything even remotely serious in production?
Apple is not against GPLv2 since it doesn't prevent TiVoization, but GPLv3 is a complete no no for Apple as far as I can see.
This is exactly the same arguments the tobacco lobby made when faced with regulation and taxation. EXACTLY the same.

"It's not our fault that people became addicted to our product via darkpatterns, addictive chemicals, misleading marketing, corruption, and suppression."

I'm all for individual responsibility but like cigarettes on the plane, this product creates irreparable harm to children.
Thanks, hadn't heard of Peto's paradox before
Okay yeah that makes sense, I agree with you there. Creative Commons has this to say:

> Why does CC support “non-free” licenses at all? Isn’t that against its mission?

> CC hopes to promote a more open culture than “all rights reserved”. Some creators want to allow very broad use of their works. Some wish to allow some uses but restrict others. We believe that all levels of openness are worth encouraging and supporting as an alternative to “all rights reserved.” While we hope that some creators will use the non-free licenses as a stepping stone to greater openness in the future, CC encourages sharing under any of its licenses as a way to create a more open culture.

Source: https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/freeworks/

The only thing that I ask is that certain terms (e.g. Free Cultural Works, Open Source, Libre Software) retain their meaning so there's a clear goal to work towards. One thing that annoys me, for example, is companies releasing software or weights under a non-libre license but trying to pass it off as libre anyway. That's about it x3

(Libre = Free as in freedom in this case, to ease confusion)

Though to be fair GP does say "aside from not sharing it". I interpreted this as "aside from not giving it a CC license". I realise it could be interpreted as "aside from not publishing it" instead. So there might be confusion there.
That’s why it works I get it and most people wouldn’t want to live in an icy hellscape but if you like spending all your time indoors it’s not so bad.
SimLM: Can Language Models Infer Parameters of Physical Systems?
Yes, it requires an attacker in a powerful position but it does not require physical access. Any program that runs in the user's session (without any special privileges) could have autonomously retrieved the biometric key and decrypted the vault without user interaction and without Bitwarden running.
If we even take that as true, then that's just a few people on the internet.

it's like "all media was honest before the AI on internet came along and ruined everything"
When you look at home media, every major development has been Russian.

Software for cracking Blu-rays? Russia was first.

Software for cracking 4K UHD Blu-rays? Russia was first.

Software for cracking Nintendo Switch games (DBI)? Russia was first.

The new flash-cart for the Switch, assuming it's legit? Russia.

The only hacker left who can crack Denuvo video games? Russian.
Worries me a bit that an established “natural selection” process pivoted towards quick turnaround. Thirty years ago publishing house would decline 99% of the manuscripts, the rest they will heavily edit, print in somewhat large numbers, and extensively promote. Today they accept more stuff, print in small 3,000–5,000 batches, then throw away forever. To me, feels like a young but promising author went from a 1% chance of getting recognized to 10% chance of getting printed and 100% chance of getting forgotten right after.
Even the police unions are against cops (aside for a small number of specialists) carrying guns.

Fun fact: you can own guns in the UK and recreation is a valid reason. Most people simply don't want to, unlike the odd obsessions Americans seem to have with guns despite the fact that no one has actually stopped any tyranny with rifles over there. Shooting at cops would probably be a pretty bad idea I imagine.
High score: 50060

The biggest part of my strategy is to do a lot of stutter steps/dash dancing to try and collect the power up as close to the ghost as possible. Doing so is more likely to lead to a sort of "combo" state where your pacman can spawn kill the ghosts without any additional input. Fast reflexes can keep your combo state going if you know when to stutter step and when to turn back around and start comboing again in the opposite direction Getting your game state into such a combo state is even stronger in the late game as your pacman moves so fast it can almost always set up for a lot of safe kills quickly. And additionally, as you pointed out, by getting a ghost kill for every power up you get, you hasten the speed at which you grow your multiplier
If I were in charge, I would attack 90% Taiwanese and 10% of my real target. And I would leave Chinese comments everywhere. So I doubt you can point fingers so easily. These are some smart people.