skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything just gets worse as you age.
Sure, my dad said it too back then, but he just didn't get how the world moved on and improved. This time around though it's real, everything gets more stupid and dumb and I hate it.
A couple is 2, but yeah it took some time after EOL to properly die anyway.
Precious industrial metals and beamed solar power would be one thing.

Spaceborne agriculture would be another, if only for species like bananas which are too vulnerable to parasites on Earth now (easier sterile, isolated environments).
People, including unhoused ones and artistic ones, need to live near downtown because that's where jobs and services are, including needed social services, and transportation to the rest of the city, as well as community. In typical cities, the art galleries, museums, schools, etc. are downtown.

If you have a family and spend your time with them and at work, a home away from the city center makes sense. If you need to do a lot with people outside your home, then you want to be where the people are.
Community First, which the article references, has hundreds of these tiny houses and homeless residents. They have on-site activities, farming, a clinic, an outdoor movie theater, and a rotating staff of volunteers that contribute time and assistance.

I volunteered there about 5 years ago. One of the residents I met told me not everyone thrives there and they churn out back to the streets, but it's still 400 fewer homeless people as a result.
For some reason the scene in the mall from The Mitchell's Vs the machines popped into my head:

> delicates, fluff n fold, carnage!
> On models without WiFi it uses sound. The washing machine plays sounds that sound similar to the sounds that acoustic modems made back in the pre-broadband internet days. Their mobile app listens to those and extracts the diagnostics data.

That's actually pretty cool! I think we should use this for more stuff to help usher in the R2-D2 future.
I think that’s a bad sign, but honestly, I think lacking motivation for any important thing in your life might have a lot to do with something else than “thing is actually bad for you”.

A poor diet, lack of sleep, or lack of exercise are guaranteed to make you hate your life — something that switching jobs isn’t going to fix.
"The RAD Debugger is currently in ALPHA"

Wouldn't really call it launched, just in development publicly.
can't you just plug it in and never configure the wifi?
Stunt Island archive is back
What's wrong with building properly dense public housing?
If I even connect them.
I have no insider information on the matter. But considering Al Gore’s¹ and Apple’s² commitment to the environment, it makes sense to me.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_activism_of_Al_G...

² https://www.apple.com/environment/
This rings false. Townhomes are seen in large numbers in almost all suburbs and I don’t think they inspire the same NIMBY fury that apartments do.
Unfortunately most countries have their own app so scraping it would be rough.
Market forces are only excluded if the entire industry is nationalized, not if one particular company is nationalized.
What are your thoughts on Fountain by Duchamp?

When you read a book do you jump to the final chapter, read it, and then shut the book?

Because it sounds like that's how you view art.
> One things cities do wrong is trying to house homeless people near downtown.

It's pretty critical to build housing where there's actually need, or it won't do much.
I am feeling the same way. It makes me get confused about myself a lot. I think it is ok that, I can fear from or fail at things that are easy for other people while something that is hard for the most people can be trivial for me.
> On a net basis, food production is likely to increase. Plants grow faster when there is more CO2 in the atmosphere

This ignores unpredictable extreme weather destroying entire harvests.
> since cellphones became widespread, it's not very realistic for a guy to run after a girl in the third act of a rom com -- a call is now enough

Seems like, if she's running away, she might not be inclined to take your call either?
https://avherald.com/h?article=513a1bd7&opt=0
Your point C is bad. Israel has a border with Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Israel tries to control its side of those borders. But Israel doesn't try to control whether those countries have sea and air ports. Israel very much tried to ensure Hamas in Gaza didn't have a sea and airport, to limit the weapons Hamas has. There was (and is) a blockade. Gaza was reliant on Israel and/or Egypt for bringing in food, fuel and electricity. If it was a regular independent country (albeit a small one), it would have control of its own sea and air port, and would be able to bring in heavy weapons from Iran.
Unfork with ArgoCD
I think you meant "in theory" instead of "in practice" :)
Five people were killed by stabbing, none by bow and arrow. While it may have been the biggest recent mass killing in that country, it's still small compared to what can be achieved with greater weapons, which was the point.
Oh, look, this blockchain technology will be a major transformer for so many industries, finance will NEVER be the same, there are 100 of startups revolutionizing everything on blockchain NOW.
... ah, nevermind, its VR and metaverse that are changing everything! join us in our hustles to build new meta experience that would change shopping and social interaction forever!!
... ah, nevermind, do you want a stupid chatbot in your application that doesnt require one?

in 2 years there will be another "next big thing", just ignore that noise and do whatever you want to do.
Seems similar to the Yuri Bezmenov interview video. I don't know if this is an actual campaign or if just coincidence. In either case, it isn't headed in the right direction. Hopefully there is a self-correcting mechanism?
I have heard from colleagues that this has happened to them.
Zero electronics? What are you using? A washboard and a mangle?
What the GP describes is a generally accepted need by planners, etc. Regarding grocery stores, look up 'food deserts'.

Also, when you are working multiple jobs, you have even less time for overhead like commutes to distant jobs and services.
And 4 in 5 business leaders are adept at faking empathy.
Assuming that those were just kids with some poison playing stupid games and finding out well trained partisan unit.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240113222428/https://johnthene...
Can I open them with general software?
From your own link.. that's only the top cause for families, which is only 30% of the total population. The causes for individuals are different and they represent the majority.

Finally.. this is all from a survey from the "U.S Conference of Mayors" which is mostly a lobbying organization as far as I can tell.
I have found that many people who receive housing benefits are very poor stewards of their personal resources.

The first thing someone does when they get housed is to invite all their homeless friends over, to shower, to eat, to crash, to do drugs, to play games, whatever.

So your typical Section 8 housing recipient is not just a single person/family benefiting from housing, they're dragging in their entire circle of loser friends who don't have those benefits, and so now you've got a cluster of mooches who aren't invested nor responsible for disruption or damage in that community.

It's really an unfortunate thing, and I just saw it over and over again. So many people lose their benefits very quickly because they can't resist helping other folks out, but that's not what you do with welfare and entitlements.
Maybe we should just have Airbus do safety reviews for Boeing and vice versa.
I read a headline, chose a position, and remember only the grossest of one-sided arguments with no chance for the other side to respond. Am I not now entitled to hold a strong opinion and try to influence others in the matter?
There's always a funny tension on the city trying to draw in artists to make a downtown area more palatable, too, in that good artists and good art is often intended as a challenge to the status quo - the goal is to make people uncomfortable.

I say this as a Berkeley-living lefty: the left often seems to espouse policies whose practical outcomes far exceed their actual appetite for discomfort or willingness to engage with real diversity.

(Standard HN disclaimer: if the above doesn't apply to you, it doesn't apply to you - but look me in the eye and tell me you don't know what I'm talking about.)
In my experience, they do, but they're marketed as luxury housing so the stigma isn't as apparent to your typical person who is sympathetic to NIMBYism.
> we can't see bitmaps! We can't hear sound buffers. We can't view vertex arrays.

I kinda miss Lauterbach...
This assumes that Five Guys is in direct competition with those other chains and that people are directly comparing prices when choosing where to eat. People are not the perfect rational actors economists like to pretend they are, and they tend to make assumptions about prices and have personal preferences (e.g. the last time I went to BK it was so bad you would have to pay me to go back).
Title clickbait. Please remove article.
Objective-C has a runtime, with automatic resource management, dynamic code loading, metaclasses...
Surely most of the time you don’t need program constants? You could already implement a slow matrix multiplication that is well typed in a language like Haskell or OCaml. It would have a type something like:

val matmul : ((float,'a) fixed_length, 'b) fixed_length -> ((float,'c) fixed_length, 'a) fixed_length -> ((float,'c) fixed_length, 'b) fixed_length

(And observe the similarity to function composition too:

val compose : ('a -> 'b) -> ('c -> 'a) -> ('c -> 'b)

.) This could work for dimensions that are unknown at runtime for Haskell or OCaml as their polymorphic functions can be implemented by a single machine code function where C++ templates / Rust generics must monomorphize (generate different machine code functions for different types). You would probably want existential types (though OCaml and Haskell have them).

I think the problems are more things like:

- that type only works on matrices, you can’t so easily express that eg * in APL works on two scalars, or two vectors of the same length, or a matrix and a rank-3 array so long as their dimensions line up appropriately.

- handling operations that change lengths is hard: concat probably wants you to be able to unify through certain arithmetical expressions, and the filter operation (take an vector and a bitvector the same length, and produce the vector of elements where the bit was set) means you probably want a natural way to handle those kinds of existential types for lengths: you get a vector, and it has a length, but you’re not sure what it is.
Compared to what though. Because the status quo also isn't working.
There are various third-party and sometimes first-party clipboard managers that give you more visual access to the things in the clipboard.

But you hit a steep uphill conceptual climb for the average user pretty quickly: the better solutions for moving data between applications end up resembling type-agnostic virtual 'registers' or Unix-style pipes for more than just text, but these abstractions seem to be too complicated in practice for anyone who isn't a power user.

PowerShell actually implements the latter solution, a kind of pipes-with-objects IIRC. And of all things the late Terry Davis' TempleOS has an ability to treat all kinds of things as text, render them, and pass them around.
As a person who expected a 30-50% decline in Russian GDP when the sanctions were first announced, I’ve been very surprised at how resilient the Russian economy has been.

I’d love to read an analysis about why sanctions were so effective at harming the economies of countries like Venezuela & North Korea but so much weaker against Russia.
Middle-density housing is all the things that are in between a single home and an apartment building: duplexes and triplexes, row houses, dense townhouses, multiple small cottages on a single plot of land, etc. They're typically all both cheaper to build than apartment buildings and better liked by the residents, but zoning in most US cities doesn't allow any of it.
I could easily see it measuring the forces and weight on the drum every 5 seconds (or even every 10 ms) during the whole wash, to be able to produce charts of vibration patterns, that engineers could use to correlate with failure. Remember -- when you're spinning at high speed to wring out the water, it's actually some pretty crazy strong forces.

Or other things measured every ~second, like stuff related to the motor, temperatues, humidity, etc. and other diagnostics.

Seems really easy to generate a megabyte if you consider time series. Even easier if it's in XML or JSON rather than a CSV.
Math expressions and notations are far more expressive than APL or J, because they are graphical, highly flexible, and not meant to be compiled. They also tend to be accompanied by text for whatever cannot be efficiently conveyed by the notation.
Seems like you just put together a plan and an MVP and show it to them, then see if they have any interest in investing? I've always avoided this as I don't like to mix personal relationships with money. Most friends and family aren't sophisticated investors, and unless they are ok losing all their money, it seems like a recipe for resentment.
No they don't. Austin has plenty of density in its urban core and has been knocking down single family homes for high rises on a constant basis for the last 20 years. Either way, this is a homeless community that reduces tents from underpasses, it has nothing to do with density.
There was a company called chirp who offered an sdk for this, they also had fun proof of concept apps where you could share arbitrary data to people around you via sound. They eventually got bought by sonos and their offerings vanished...
You could do something similar in C and forgo the standard library. No dependencies other than syscalls. I don't really see a compelling reason to do it in assembly other than as an intellectual exercise.
Would look like C/C++
Oh yea, I would love to be wrong- and if I can’t change my mind about something then I am as good as dead.

I believe we will sooner solve the electricity problem with renewables though.

Agree that a vast majority of the jobs will be automated fairly soon - just not those pesky jobs that really need to be done and no one wants to do - like cooking, cleaning, childcare, taking care of sick people.
Sure we will have some more nifty appliances that make it easier maybe, but I want (most of) that stuff fully automated, at least the cleaning part!

Anyway a beer sounds good right about now and we will just have to wait and see how it plays out I guess
and laziness,
> "Quality" for scientists is not the same specificities as "quality" for a software developer.

I disagree here. I believe quality is intrinsic to the product. There may be different attributes to the "quality" of the thing that one person may value more than another, but the intrinsic quality is the same. An over-engineered solution is rarely good. Don't use a power-boat to go across a small swimming pool, and don't use a shoddy makeshift raft to across a giant lake.

> The goal of the software of the scientist is different, so the definition of what is "quality" is different.

I disagree here, but I think I see your point. The general goal for everyone (the goal of software) is to accomplish some task. Software is fundamentally just a tool. Software for the sake of software is bad.

This makes me think of an analogy where a person is trying to redo the plumbing on their kitchen sink. Compared to a firm that will do whacky crazy things and leave the situation worse than when they started, and walk away with their bills payed and job half done. Compared to this, certainly a competent novice is better. Though, sometimes it is really important to know about certain O-rings, not only would the "true" professional do the job slightly faster & more methodically than the novice, but they'll know about that O-ring that would only become a problem in the winter. At the same time, sometimes there are no such O-rings, and a simple job is just ultimately a relatively simple job.

To that last extent, hiring software engineers can sometimes be scary. When you get very intelligent people and pay them to "solve complex problems," they do tend to build things that are very flexible, FAANG-scalable, very industry latest, AI powered, for the sake of it lasting 5 years; rather than starting simple - Gall's law: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked." Or, those engineers may start there because they know those are the "best practices" without yet experiencing why those are best practices, and when to apply those practices and when not to apply those practices.

[1] http://principles-wiki.net/principles:gall_s_law
Well that all depends on how well the features are integrated.

Often times a new feature is similar from the API perspective to pre-existing ones.

If that's the case either integration is simple, or you need to refactor the underlying API (which means that when you eventually get around to implementing the feature it (and similar future features) will integrate cleanly).
The newest form of money laundering.
Some you can, like coal
Then let's build something that's appropriate for the location with the highest land price and not tiny shoeboxes.
It seems completely inexplicable.

I don't care if it's a small percentage of my symmetric gigabit fiber, I only care why they supposedly need it and where it ends up.

A phone number or a timestamp is a tiny amount of data.

In the quaint olden days, you had to go out of your way to volunteer to be a part of some study to have any aspect of your activity recorded every few seconds 24/7 to be collected and analysed like that.

It also doesn't matter that my washing machine usage might not seem like sensitive info. It's wrong by default rather than OK by default. You need a compelling need to justify it, not the other way around. It needs to be necessary to prevent one dead baby every day or something, not the other way around. No one needs to produce any convincing example of harm for that kind of collection to be wrong.

But even so, it's easy to point out how literally any data can end up being sensitive. Washing machine usage could lead to all kinds of assumptions like, this person does not actually live where they say they do (which impacts all kinds of things), or this person is running an illegal business, or housing too many people for the rating of the dwelling or allowed by the lease, etc, or just another data point tracking your movements in general. Or even merely to get out of 10% of warranty claims.
Here is a video detailing the content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIl5Eot_B0E
That's really surprising. The GMDSS part of SOLAS requires having at least Inmarsat C at high seas (which is text-only but still bidirectional) or Iridium (for high latitudes, with HF DSC as a backup), as far as I know. That's all on top of EPIRBs.

Wouldn't it make sense to use the bidirectional capabilities of these to request specific help, if only after getting out the initial signal through an EPIRB? I can't imagine SAR not being very interested in the nature of your emergency, especially in remote areas. Engine loss in calm waters or a sinking vessel probably require a very different type of response (i.e. another ship for towing vs. a helicopter if possible).
It's not all drug addiction and low IQ. I know PhDs that have been homeless. Housing affordability and job security is a real issue.
It does not make sense, vehicle usage is expensive, becoming more expensive due to energy costs increasing over time, and car owners are not paying for the true cost of their cars because externalities like the environmental impact of cars isn’t priced in.

A major policy objective is to get climate change under control, sprawl directly makes that problem worse.

Also think about why it is that some cities are so big. Usually big cities have access to a port, a railway, things that make moving goods cheap. New York has ports, Boston has ports, SF has ports, and part of the reason housing is so expensive is that being next to water constrains the space available for development. Building towns in bumfuck nowhere may be cheap in terms of land but that’s because actually living there results in high prices for daily living. A MASSIVE part of what is driving housing prices is energy prices, because it can make sense to spend more on housing and less on energy.

What makes more sense is a hub and spoke model. You don’t nessecarily want people living in a big city, but you can still efficiently move goods from the big city to “spoke” cities, and then you have these “spoke” cities adopt things like high/medium density housing like apartments, townhouses, and mixed vertical commercial/residental. Have some residents with cars, some without, so the latter can bum off the former. Take advantage of shared transportation options like package delivery (shared truck) or ride sharing (shared cars). Also by doing things in this way, you have to ensure people have services they need locally available and can easily afford to access them even if they have no car.

If your solution requires everybody to have a car it’s no solution at all because we literally cannot afford to buy a car for everybody especially given 50 years from now we’re likely going to run dry on cheap oil and we have no replacement available that can scale to the entire US population aside from maybe light EVs like e-bikes. 50 years isn’t that long of a time when we’re talking infrastructure. We really need to prioritize our transportation energy usage and focus it to applications like shipping goods and construction, not use it to move residents around because we designed towns in a way that they’re unviable if everybody does not have a car. In fact, we should be planning for this future NOW by making livability without a car table stakes for development of middle/low income communities.
No, but the attributes of psychopathy overlap with what is needed in a business leader. Putting business decisions ahead of people is one of them.
The author's fictional works (Mars trilogy for instance) speculate that it would require the concentrated effort of the human race (via a UN type government or corporation) and Von Neumann factory robots that can replicate themselves or other robots and hundreds of years of a multiple pronged approach in space around Mars and on surface of Mars - spread out over many thousands of acres, just based on what we knew at the time of the writing. At the present time we cannnot make a Von Neumann automata outside of paper or electronic versions.
I remember seeing the Mobile Loaves and Fishes trucks constantly handing out food around Austin in the early 2000s and hearing about them trying to get this community off the group in 2008.

Pretty incredible to see what has come of faithfulness and persistence over 26 years.
Ode to Internet – V.90 56k dialup modem handshake for orchestra [video]
It's the Russians.

They've run out of their own washing-machine chips to re-use in their missiles, so they've found a way to hack into washing-machines all over the world and use those millions of chips to guide their missiles instead.
> Tiny homes reduce housing density and effectively necessitate car usage to connect people to services which is already unaffordable and will only become more unaffordable. Electric golf carts and public transit do not solve this problem.

Why would tiny homes necessitate car usage? What's the issue with public transportation?
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Health Experiments
haha helpful