skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is insane - rural birthrates are higher, but birthrates are falling across the developed world in both urban and rural contexts.

It's not because of density - it's because people with options other than raising children tend to pick them since kids require a lot of effort.

SF and LA could easily be several times more dense than they currently are; that kind of increase would see the capacity of the entire state grow by double-digit percentages.

So now I've gotta ask you: if cities suck for population growth, then where would those double-digit population gains come from? It's not rural America, that's for sure.
There are three problems you have to deal with.

Remote Work
You need pervasive remote jobs to move any meaningful number of people away from the companies that presently fund their lifestyle.

Government and Desirability

Flyover states are run by gross people whose theories on how our country ought to be run that are misaligned with the people you wish would move there. This is going to cause in not many years a crisis situation with doctors choosing to move to more desirable locations and small cities lack a lot of the amenities and interest of living in the big city. People are already choosing not to live there despite decrease costs. Small cities are BORING.
The one thing I've seen mentioned before is the use of "__proto__" as a object property key. Though it's valid syntax in both JSON and JS like any other string key, it somewhat uniquely does something different if interpreted as JS (setting the created object's prototype) than it does if interpreted as JSON.
I'm sure it's a thing. I work remotely for a US subsidiary of a Japanese company and several of my coworkers work from yet other countries.
Training Data for the Price of a Sandwich: Common Crawl's Impact on Gen AI
it's a fantastic game, but in terms of making money it's too easy!

you build a small service that gets you enough capital to build a line for e.g. oil from one end of the map to the other

that's it, then you can treat the entire game as a giant sandbox (which is the best bit)
This isn't the 1800s. A clear majority of the population of the modern US lives in "the city".
That's 646 square feet. That's 25'5"x25'5". For an urban area, that's plenty of space. That doesn't mean literally every apartment is that small, just that small and cheap apartments are available for those who want them, and American-sized apartments with American prices are also available for those who want to pay for them.

That's one of the main reasons why housing is so expensive in the United States. We paternalistically decide that 760 square feet is the absolute minimum amount of livable space for a one-bedroom apartment, and instead force people who can't afford that much space to split a 1200 square foot apartment with three people.

Adults are more than capable of deciding for themselves how big of an apartment they would like to live in. Banning 60 square meter apartments doesn't help people who can't afford the legal mandated minimum.
I think they need to revisit their definition of done. All I saw was a 3d render and some people who said "could I build this" and they've somehow cracked something.

Eli goldrat would say you've solved nothing until people are living in those homes and producing in your society. (Customers' customers have received value)
What hourly rate did you charge?

I have bills, and free labor doesn't pay them. If an employer spends 1-2 hours talking tech, the role, experience, culture fit, and maybe a quick "yes, I can code" toy PoC -- fine, I'll volunteer. But if one interview process requires a day+ of investment...I'll pass, thanks. Ditto for whiteboard hazing rituals, whose prerequisites include memorizing algo' arcana and cute puzzles. I have personal obligations, which I won't sacrifice to practice dancing like a clown for a stranger with a fetish for reinventing bubble sort or whatever.

Either respect my time and status as your peer, or don't bother wasting both of our time. If that means fewer opportunities for me, then so be it. My deathbed reflections won't include "Damn, I regret spending so much time with loved ones instead of learning how to optimally stack rings onto three pegs."

Apologies for the rant. I'm clearly passionate about this lol
How much of your rent is going to salaries at city hall? How much better would the city be to substitute these salaries for cheaper rent?
IMO the challenge comes from within. Can you really funnel everything into one central factory by train alone? Without traffic jams? Or can you make $XX,XXX,XXX by date YYYY?
I actually find the opposite. New perspectives make me feel better about humanity.

The 'worrisome' aspect of The Electric State (or any future dystopia) is it's parallel to a direction humanity could take. However, the fact that someone has taken the time to be aware of it and create a piece of art that's essentially a warning against it, means that, I think, we're better prepared against it becoming true.

The author/artist is an ally.
There are quite a lot of mods (called NewGRFs), ones like FIRS make the game a lot more complex and challenging by making the economy more involved. There are other ways to increase the difficulty with mods, or just with AI players. I agree that the base game can lead to Too Much Money very quickly, which does feel pointless quickly.
There is no single answer, mostly a lot of strengths and weaknesses around which formats you can use on your specific hardware / amount of VRAM / if you want to ue multiple GPUs, whether they are exact same GPU or not / etc.
Not billing for S3 and RDS replication traffic is also an unfair subsidy for those services.
I can pay overpriced cross-connect rates in giant name brand datacenters, with or without terminating one end at Direct Connect. (AFAICT the $1600/mo or so for 10Gbps doesn’t actually cover the cost of the cross-connect.)

But that extra $65k/mo to fully utilize the link is utterly and completely nuts. My mind boggles when someone calls that a good deal. I can buy and fully depreciate the equipment needed to utilize that in a couple of days. (Well, I can’t actually buy equipment on the AWS end, but I can _rent_ it, from AWS, for a lot less money than $64k/mo.)

And I don’t believe at all that it costs AWS anything close to this much to operate the thing. I can, after all, send 10Gbps between two EC2 instances (or between S3 and EC2) for a lot less money.

That $65k is simply a punitive charge IMO. AWS wants me to avoid paying it by not doing this or, in cases where I can’t avoid it (e.g. the thing is actually a link to my office or a factory or whatever) to collect as much money as they can without driving me off AWS entirely.
Oracle does not deserve a shout out for charging market rate for their service.
Vienna's plenty affordable. It takes an investment in public transit and reasonable housing policies, but it's perfectly achievable.
Read the article. Basically before the process to move graphene from a deposition chamber was:
1. Apply Scotch tape (or other stabilizing tape)
2. Use acid bath to etch away the copper the graphene was held to
3. Place the graphene where it needed to go
4. Etch away Scotch tape using a solvent

Now the steps are:
1. Apply special UV tape
2. Etch away copper substrate
3. Place the graphene where it needs to go
4. Apply UV light, so the tape is less flexible and 10% less sticky
5. Carefully peel them apart

Seems like the last step got a little easier

If they perfect it, they'd like to move larger graphene pieces (currently the largest is 10cm^2) and enabling shipping of graphene to other scientists. Currently graphene is hard to ship, as it's really delicate, usually only moved around the lab or short distances
I'd like to see some expansion of some of the points. I'll take a stab at a couple of them related to shopping.

First, in a physical store, if I wasn't familiar with that location I'd often have to pester a store employee for information of where a product is located. Now I pull up the store's app and it tells me the aisle and often bin location. Saves me time, lets the staff do their regular job (stocking shelves, etc), and it works out good for people who have a difficult time navigating social interactions with strangers.

Now the negative of this -- stores can have less staff (as they aren't getting pestered as much), and the staff they have doesn't really have to know the products that much (so you lose out on a 15 minute talk with a retired plumber working the plumbing aisle at the hardware store, getting sage advice). Flip side of that is sometimes you can get better advice by looking it up on your phone, but quick internet research isn't something that everyone is really good at.

Online ordering -- yes, I can now get access to things that were never available to me before (unless I happened to be in a very high population density area that could support certain specialty stores). Years ago I had always wanted to try something like Vegemite, and finally ran across a very small jar in a World Market store in the city. Now I can order multiple jars of the stuff on Amazon for a reasonable price.

The negative of this is once I needed an air filter for my lawn mower (about 10 years ago or so?). Craftsman mower, so I went to Sears. Couldn't find it on the shelf, grabbed an employee, they looked it up on their computer and basically ordered it for me on sears.com and had it shipped to my house. Had to wait a few days instead of fixing my lawn mower right then (like my Dad would do back in the day, by grabbing a needed part from the local small town Ace Hardware or similar). Heck, I couldn't even get a headlight switch for my (at the time) 10-year old truck from Autozone without ordering it. (But today I'd just model it and 3D print the thing).
> has skipped classes on OS/2 history lesson.

The comparison with OS/2 only applies at a very surface level - and isn't even the whole reason why OS/2 failed when it had to compete with Windows. Among other things:

1. OS/2 could only run 16bit Windows applications at a time when Windows was switching to 32bit. Even the 16bit Windows applications were not 100% compatible and that is despite using Microsoft's code.

2. OS/2 had much worse hardware support than Windows as everyone was targeting Windows. On the other hand IBM as a whole never put much effort towards OS/2.

3. OS/2 Windows support had applications either run inside an isolated environment or they looked "alien" next to OS/2 applications at a time when GUIs were still trying to look consistent. While this is also the case with Wine/Proton, the focus on games makes this point moot (and people do not seem to care as much about GUI consistency these days).

> Now with Windows based handhelds, Valve will learn what happened to netbooks.

So far every single Windows handheld review i've seen that compares it to Steam Deck mentions both how the UX is worse than Steam Deck and games are -ironically- more likely to have issues on the Windows-based one. The only two saving graces for Windows handhelds is that they tend to be faster (but only when running at full throttle which limits their battery lifetime - Steam Deck runs faster at lower watts for better battery lifetime) and that anticheat rootkits work on the Windows handhelds whereas they do not work on Steam.

And you also forget that Valve did try to get game developers target Linux and put a lot of effort in the ecosystem for literally years before making Proton, yet developers largely ignored that.
10 years. I read a lot of magazines as well, though, otherwise the number would be a bit higher!
I... use Google Maps a lot for day to day public transportation, in France. Most of the transport systems are integrated it works wherever I go, in Ile de France but also plenty of other cities, including smaller cities like e.g. Chartres. YMMV

Went to Porto too recently, same experience. Very cool, especially as a first approach when you don't know the city enough to plan and orient, or if you are like me and spend hours wandering randomly deep in cities...
I sometimes wonder if anyone's built a network diagramming / visualisation / live monitoring tool based on the OpenTTD engine?
Ask HN: How expensive is pushing to GitHub?
Anybody knows how heavy doing the average code commit push to a GitHub repo is? I guess in terms of hardware usage, or if you can translate that to environmental impact that's ok too. How much is triggered by updating the text files?
Why Norway Is Becoming the Richest Country [video]
> how would they decelerate enough to not be destroyed on arrival?

Solar sail being pushed on by the destination star? Or to begin with, even just a “drouge” creating friction against interstellar gas?
Or we could stop making it so painfully expensive and risky to try and build housing.

NIMBY policies have broken the traditional boom and bust cycles of housing in California that used to ensure there was enough housing for everyone.

It used to be that when demand was outrageously high, it'd start a housing boom where builders would start reinvesting profits from building higher-end places into building more and more until they'd overbuilt. Wealthier people would move to newer places freeing up stock for everyone else. During the bust, you'd have even more people upgrading as prices reset.

LA seems to be experimenting with suspending some of the anti-building policies which is certainly good, but they're still stuck on this idea that it should only be for below market-rate housing - as if the laws of supply and demand don't exist.
This is literally the opposite of everything the article is saying. These are not state-subsidized. They are just vanilla buildings. The city got rid of impact fees, "prevailing wage" union giveaways, and approved projects in 60 days or less, and because this reduced the costs of building by a large amount, it becomes profitable for builders to just do their thing without subsidies.
Practical Wisdom: The Master Virtue
Transit is also the same price regardless of distance.
Canada is seeing housing prices skyrocket like mad because they refuse to understand this. They recently passed a federal spending bill to help fund city planners, because a huge bottleneck in housing construction is the cities requiring a city planner to check boxes on a ton of things that were never important to begin with.

City planning is one of the most destructive professions in the United States. In terms of death, lost years of life to commuting, health issues, and social ills, it has no peer. We live shorter lives, with more health issues, and are lonelier than our rich peers in other countries because of our centrally-planned built environment. We built cities the same way for thousands of years: for humans on foot; and are only now coming to realize that our great auto-centric suburban experiment was an enormous and historic blunder.
Fastest growing subpopulation rapidly dominates the whole group.
This is true but if you add in some game scripts or download specific scenarios and add in the FIRS resource packs (with much more complicated supply chains) it can be quite challenging.

My personal favorite was doing 5min city builder blitz online. Wasn’t ever very good but would keep me occupied for hours on end!
Both, but the universal reaction to overfishing would be the major actor here. We do exactly the same, accelerating puberty when the life expectancy decreases.
Yeah, one of the things that I always really loved about the Impressions Games as a kid was they featured campaigns of ramping difficulty.

It turned it from "just build a city/logistics framework" to "build a city that meets these requirements, and then move to a map with harder logistical challenges".

It really helped me get into the city building and logistics genre rather than just dumping you into a pure sandbox, and the only recent games I can think of that had proper campaigns were Frostpunk (sort of) and Nebuchadnezzar (which has... other issues)
Government planned housing being bad is just a feature of your specific local context, not an inevitability to all government subsidized/built housing.

Governments are human organizations, and it's not a surprise that some organizations are better ran than other.
If AWS has massive diseconomies of scale that calls into question the entire model of public cloud.
Autoencoder for piece placement, active color, castling availability and en passant target square and halfmove clock for the fifty-move rule, to get a single vector to encode these informations, these encode everything you need except the threefold repetition, for that I was thinking of simply encoding the previous reversible halfmoves in the cross attention (the order shouldn't matter), 50 halfmoves is the most you can have online because of the fifty-move rule or it's a draw. This should fix the problem that the model developed by Deepmind has by being blind to threefold repetition, a better objective that consider the length of the checkmate sequence should make the model more decisive in the face of overwhelming victory and it's knowledge of the threefold repetition should discourage the model to going back and forth on a winning position.
You did not ever seem to get around to the part where we have to give credit to Newsom. He hasn't shown leadership on this issue. State housing reform has come from Weiner and Skinner, enforcement from AG Rob Bonta, and these local Los Angeles improvements are executive orders of their mayor.
It's a fantastic game to play co-operatively but also competitively with a couple of your friends. Finding silly ways to sabotage your friends and see the reactions is quite fun. And then once you get tired of that or figure out a truce its nice to try and work towards a common goal.
It was once said that the only time in a man's life that he will be able to read Proust's In Search of Lost Time is in jail. So I had someone send it to me and of course I was released the next day.

p.s. I exaggerated slightly, it took me 3 days before I installed TikTok. I'd watched silly viral videos that appeared on the news for years and so I was intrigued about it. I've loved it ever since. Just gotta get it set up right so your filter bubble is what you're into. I get half my tech news from HN and the other half from TikTok.
Modern Societies as a whole are below replacement for our own consider

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6745a9.htm
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2017/08/rural-america...

Based on actual data urban individuals (80% of the pop) aren't dependent upon rurals (20% of the pop) having babies because by the numbers most of the native born sons and daughters are born in urban and suburban areas. In fact both are dependent upon immigration to maintain the same level of population.
During the time cryptocurrency miners were buying out all the cards, nvidia could sell cards at auctions to skim the profit.
Many examples of dense government built/run housing work fine. The common problems are not a function of housing but the people living in that housing. In cities where the government owns over half of all housing stock tenants end up representing the general population well and the system works fine with generally low prices and overhead.

The temptation is to only build government housing for the poor, but that’s a well known recipe for failure. The US has instead shifted to government spreading out poor population via subsidies but that’s doesn’t fix any of the core issues.
Show HN: A platform for remote piano lessons based on the Web MIDI API
I'm building a video conferencing app designed to facilitate better remote piano lessons. My hope is to solve a lot of the challenges piano tutors and new students deal with when taking lessons through Skype/Zoom. It leverages WebRTC's data transmission to send media, MIDI state, and (eventually) send sheet music files and other musical data.

I'm surprised with how well the MVP has worked and would love to hear any feedback or suggestions!
Not very business friendly. So many horrors of having a youtube business, they can simply put you out of business with no fix, no customer support, no contract.
What're you overwhelmed to? If it's signaling, try to use one way signal with loops at the end for turnaround. If you need junctions, look it online and just copy it without much thinking until you get better with this.

Turn off vehicles breakdowns, and there's setting to change towns to follow 2x2 or 3x3 grid, which will make building easier.

To make early money, look for two cities (they have City label on their name) with high enough population and close enough distance, and make 7 length station on both. You'll want to run 7 length on every passenger train in the end, it'll simplify the design.

The ui and menus may be confusing at first, but you'll get used to it.
Amazing:

Cloudflare -- Free for most services
OVH Cloud -- Free and unlimited
Scaleway -- Free for most services

Great:

Hetzner 20-60 TB / mo per instance $1.08

Not bad:

Linode 1-20 TB / mo per instance $5.00
Oracle Cloud 10 TB / mo $8.50

A bit much:

Backblaze 3x the amount of data stored $10.00
Bunny CDN -- $10.00
DigitalOcean 100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance $10.00
UpCloud 500 GB - 24 TB / mo per instance $10.77
Vultr 2 TB / mo for most services $10.00

Uh...

Fly.io 100 GB / mo $20.00

Are you actually serious?

Microsoft Azure 100 GB / mo $78.30
Amazon Web Services 100 GB / mo $92.16
Railway -- $100.00
Zeabur 10-100 GB, depends on plan $100.00
Google Cloud Depends on service $111.60

Screw you guys:

Render 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan $300.00
Vercel 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan $400.00
Netlify 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan $550.00

(We use Netlify and have well over 1TB of monthly traffic. They're insanely expensive for what they are. As soon as we have roadmap time to revisit it, we'll move away.)

I'm starting to think of cloud as less of an asset and as more of a liability. We can leverage them for temporary scale, but in no way will we tie ourselves to a particular vendor.
This was brought to mind by the discussion of Dan Luu's "Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed" piece. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39313942 Particularly germane is the requirement of telos — clear purpose makes it possible to reach agreement. Possible.
Your Google Fiber IP is part of a residential network with a completely different service agreement and larger limitations than Google Cloud.
> They charge an arm and a leg because they want to keep you and your data on their platform. When you move it you are breaking free.

This isn't remotely true.

The bandwidth alliance exists, and a lot of cloud companies are on the list: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/bandwidth-alliance/

The actual answer is much more complicated. For example, Google Cloud offers two different bandwidth tiers: premium and standard. The calculation on the OP assumes premium since that's the default option, but obviously it's much more expensive.

Google cloud's "premium" bandwidth is much akin to AWS Global Accelerator since it utilizes Google's own backbone network for as long as possible before exiting at the nearest peering point between Google and whatever ISP your end user is at. AWS Global Accelerator has some other options available, that make it fundamentally a different product, but the routing characteristics are much more similar to GCP Premium bandwidth than anything else AWS offers.
the quadratic infrastructure cost makes it a bit more challenging too
Love TTD and OpenTTD has done a great job- I've put a lot of hours into it- but, it's honestly just a bit old hat now. No matter the industry mod or the NGRFs added, it's just not enough to keep me engrossed for long. I imagine I'll still return for a few days every year or so to play a new game, but really it's out of nostalgia.
No, it selects for people who want the job.
Especially stupid too, since they mean the actual end of the service by it, but sunsetting is the period before the shutdown, not the shutdown itself. So the Funimation sunset is right now.
You basically just described the anime Witch Hunter Robin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch_Hunter_Robin