skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the main point is the fast-tracking. Developers don't care if they need to add some landscaping to the whole thing, it just makes things more expensive in the end. What they care about is they don't want to start working on projects that then sit in drawers for years.

Of course "LA cracked" nothing, because the construction industry is in absolute shambles. It basically regressed into this cutesy artisanal nonsense, delivering a lot of single family homes (from the ugliest flimsiest Florida-grade paper-thin boxes to the enormous McMansions), and a few fancy high-rises.

Because there's nothing industrial in much of construction. It's one-off bespoke custom things with their separate paperwork. About as productive as wrapping rice by the grain.
What a fantastic project, I hope you get it all to work and it is definitely inspirational material.
Sounds and words – an experiment in timbre semantics
Interesting read. I can say that I have been a very successful student (graduated with best GPA in class, did a PhD, now a professor) and I did things very different to what's described here. Goes to show that different people might need very different studying styles.

Calculating hours of study per week beforehand? No way. I studied what was needed. If a semester was easy I studied less, if a semester was hard I studied more. I only counted hours after the fact (sometimes) to track progress. But IMO the variance in course difficulties is so large that if you allocate a constant amount of time to studying, you will fall short sometimes and study too much other times (yes, one can study too much: studying when it's unneeded and you'd rather be reading a novel, doing sports, having a drink, or whatever is wasting time).

Rewriting notes? No way. Notes took in class were the final version (at most, I could add things that I missed, but I never rewrote anything). I do concur with the author in that I did prioritize taking notes over immediate understanding - my notes were quite appreciated by the class because I took down practically everything (using a fountain pen helped!).

Highlighting text, be it with markers, underlining, etc.? Never.

And what I consider to be the key that made my study work (this was mostly a post hoc realization): I used a variant of what the post calls "read-recite-review method" (I didn't know the method formally, this is just what I did spontaneously) but where "recite" wasn't just reciting, but explaining the material to an invisible audience, aloud, while walking around the room, with a quite dramatic tone, gesticulating, and in English (whereas the material was written in Spanish).

When I started to do that I think the main reason was just to avoid boredom (which of course is no small matter when studying), but later I realized that needing to explain the material, and especially translating it to a different language in real time, is a way to force your brain to understand it and not just merely recite in automatic mode.

Not sure if it would work for other people, though... and it does have the drawback that you need to have a room for yourself with some privacy. I hardly ever studied in libraries :)
If your dense housing leads to higher housing costs that's actually great news; it means that your city is enabling higher-productivity arrangements that boost local incomes, and all the concern about "lowering property values" was 100% bunk. That's the pattern you see in places like Manhattan. Wouldn't it be nice if most people in the U.S. had a bunch of Manhattan-level cities in their state that they could easily move to if they wished?

> Want truly affordable housing? Bring jobs to smaller cities. You don't have ANY other option.

Want big houses and cars? Bring good jobs to smaller cities, that still have little need for density. That's a pretty natural pattern of development. But the really high incomes will most likely still come from the very densest places, where people willingly put up with tradeoffs like living in a smaller place and doing without a car, because they're actually a lot better than the alternative.
A software system differs from the chaos the trading world represents. You can try to evaluate traders, but the deep truth is that very good traders can become very bad traders seamlessly because nothing guarantees any success of any kind in that domain.
When interviewing software engineers you shouldn't care that much about the abilities that someone shows during the time of a technical interview on a specific day; that's not an appropriate way to measure the skills you need for your business. Leet code is an appropriate way to measure how much such engineer is able to perform as a competitive coder. You will never need a competitive coder in your team; because what to be done in SE is not about coding less than 10 lines of code in less than X minutes to transform data A into data B. But back to candidate selection, due to the short amount of time you have to meet applicants, you finally decide to hire whatever person that succeeded to find the fastest solution to the almost scholastic problem you proposed because in the end, you fail to understand what could be the appropriate selection method : aren't all candidates more or less equivalent if you stop proposing leet code problems ? What can prove that X person with 5 years of exp is less good than that one that worked at google for 6 years ? Does it really matters than candidate Y doesn't know Go when all the languages we use aren't that truly different ? Is someone from nowhere, without any education of any sort, but that seems to be an hobbyist programmer since his childhood really a bad candidate ?
You never know, but because whether you're HR or the person with technical authority in the team, you don't want to risk anything, and you believe that a good leet code solver can do the work.
And finally, to me, that's the truth : more than 50% of the persons you decided to offer an interview would have done the work with success, and at least 20% seemed very nice, and you couldn't choose so leet code was the thing.
And was I dreaming that Cavium/Marvell had probably got funky dual
elliptic curve RNGs? Didn't that come out in Jacob Appelbaum's PhD and
then... wind/crickets/tumbleweeds....
Barely spacefaring. We are like fish on the shore who can survive in the mud long enough for the tide to come back to rescue us, if that.
Talk about a poorly defined rule.

Cell phone goes off? Straight to jail.
Your child asks a question and you answer? Straight to jail.
Shoes squeak on the pavement? Believe it or not, also straight to jail. Rattling wheel on your stroller? Still jail.
I loved the “luxury” techbro condos of Seattle. I’d take a cookie cutter glassbox any day over my disgusting Manhattan prewar.
Are the ray tracing cores in Nvidia cards used for compute?
The official deprecation was made in Dec 2023. Removing it in the next feature update is too soon. Lots of people still having working WMR units, so this feels super cheap.
What is the vertical limit of the park? If I build a ramp and jump off it in a vehicle, at what point in its arc is the vehicle "in the park?"
Would this also make sense for video recordings, educational content on YouTube? I wanted to give making educational YouTube content a try, but the whole setup and video editing were just daunting.
Looks like the only autoconf bit they use is an old copy of config.guess that was used in the LLVM they forked from (I think they've since taken it out entirely in the LLVM upstream).

There's actually a carveout in config.guess's license that lets you redistribute it under whatever license you want but only if you're actually using an autoconf-based build. The LLVM version this is based off of only uses config.guess and not anything else from autoconf, so that carveout doesn't apply. Instead LLVM just relied on the fact that config.guess is only getting called via the command line, so the GPL's "virality" doesn't apply; LLVM (and now Microsoft) just distributed config.guess separately licensed as GPL alongside their code.
Ask HN: Are BigTech firms increasing their hiring?
I saw a comment online saying that Google is hiring back the employees it laid off recently. Has someone else seen this in other companies as well?
Explaining the reasoning while solving the code puzzle is the most important part, though. Just being able to solve them without speaking a word has never been enough. Unless you are talking about automated coding tests (but that also has never been enough).
How does building dense housing lead to higher housing costs? That seems unintuitive to me.
Only a Joke Can Save Us - Todd McGowan and incredible and accurate analysis of what comedy is.
> implication that humans are possibly one of the earliest sentient spacefaring species to have appeared so far.

Or that perhaps we're a simulation.

We exist in a very interesting time in history when the pieces are coming together.

Our hypothetical future robot descendents may be very interested in learning about their past.
There were such chips sold under the Microchip brand. I may still have one somewhere in a box.
That's already the plan, though it would help push things if the government stopped subsidising the industry.
I’d consider salaries and such too. It seems reasonably likely that someone making $200,000 has many options for work and is choosing money over morals.

Someone making $70,000 or on an H1B may not have other options in this field, may face hundreds of applications before getting another interview.
Trillion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39310563

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/repor...
Now assume the park contains a billion people, some of whom are explicitly interested in doing things you wish to disallow, and some are explicitly interested in annoying you. Both of these groups continually do antisocial things not defined by the rules, even as you add more.

Then then start a political party to defend the parks service for discriminating against them when you create rules seemingly targeted at their legitimate misbehavior.

Is it still simple?
This got me curious. Are you seeing things I don't? Certainly possible. I loaded this into Word to let its spelling & grammar checker go to work.

Detroit stood as the first major U.S. city to instate Prohibition"\ -- "instate" should be "institute"

A tunnel of psychedelic lights connects Detroit Metropolitan Airport’s A and B/C Councourses to an original soundtrack. -- "Councourses" should be "Concourses"

Almost as quickly as the law was enacted, underground smuggling and speakeasies began to appear, with some experts estimating Detroit’s river crossing to Canada -- I think Word thinks wants a "that" before "Detroit's." I don't agree.

Below ground, an elaborate tunnel system connected the Fisher to New Center and General Motors buildings to ease employee commute. -- should be "commutes" or "commute times."

A tunnel system connects each of the hospitals making safe, seamless travel -- comma after "hospitals", add "for" after "making"

The steam loops ran on coal until converting into natural gas in the 1970s -- should be "converted"

The unique system of service tunnels set a precedent for surrounding shopping centers, although they were off-limits to the public and remained closed and unpassable after the mall's closure in 2015 -- I would have written "impassable" but "unpassable" is correct

What else?
That actually seems like a good idea. Interesting, practical and you can see if they are socially inept. I’d actually try this.
HN is on a pair of servers.
You're describing whispering, not shouting.
Somewhere your right to film someone in public crosses over into harassment, which is illegal. That line will vary in 100 small ways if you ask 100 people to define it.
I mean, if you knew you only wanted to find/replace on line 4, why not simply stop the search after the first match?

The syntax escapes me at the moment, but I'm quite sure I've used sed (or maybe awk?) in the past to do exactly that
I hear you. There's definitely a stur up going on these days.

> When we go, we will take three businesses and as many of the people working for us as possible out of CA. Logistically, it is far more likely that the move will happen within the US, of course.

I'm replying because this is just the tiny vocal minority. California is fucking BEAUTIFUL. People will want to live here until CA breaks off and sinks into the ocean from a major earthquake. Plenty of people. It's a non-issue.

disclaimer: born and raised CA kid. I hate that the West is so car centric. There's much to love about other places. But there is no place like CA.
> we all know what a complete piece of utter garbage it is

Are you saying this as a qualitative statement, or as an emotional and irrational outpouring of hate?

By qualitative, I mean things like performance, compatibility, UI/UX, programmability, software design, etc.

Somehow I doubt it's the former...
The point is that if the universe is entirely deterministic then it is entirely described by its starting conditions: from the point of view of entities within it, it makes no difference if you run the simulation or not, they exist from their own perspective. Running the simulation only matters to you. So in the case where you have recursive simulations of the same universe like in the story, even if you turn of your simulation, implying the universe 'above' turns off theirs, you will continue to exist just fine, as far as you can see. That is the core idea of permutation city: they set up a simulation containing themselves and then don't bother to continue to run it: it doesn't matter to the simulated version of themselves (of course, you can ask the question whether they would need to set up the simulation in the first place. And then things get more crazy).
All organisms interact with its environment collecting data and acting according, so they are all sentient. But there is more: Modern machines are also sentient.

Cars are aware of its own self. Know for example its own inner temperature. They know if they are too hot and warn us about it. Know if they are stopped or moving, and how fast. Know in real time the position of many of its parts and take delicate complex actions with this info.

Cars are also aware of the environment. Don't have eyes, but know if is dark or sunny. Don't have ears, but can echolocate. Don't have touch, but register the pressure of the air at real time, or react to our fingers on a screen.

They are as sentient as animals are.

If this proves something is that "sentience" was not used before, because is a term totally useless.

Should we jail somebody if it crashes a car "killing" it?

What if he/she scratches a key against a door, torturing the poor paint layer and creating a permanent scar?
> delivering a lot of single family homes [...] and a few fancy high-rises

Yes, because it turns out that local zoning and permitting in most major US cities makes everything else nonprofitable. Construction companies will build what is effective to build.

Change those local rules, as in the article, and suddenly lots of companies rush in to build that middle-density housing as soon as they can actually make any money doing so.
What don't they agree on?

They don't agree that you should take a common sense approach to moderation, provided that you are actually doing the job of moderation? Or they don't agree that those were the instructions of the "no vehciles in the park game"?

If the game has instructed you to "pretend you are an enforcement official, and your only official guidance is this sign, understand that the purpose of this rule is to keep the park safe, but you might get reprimanded if you kick someone out of the park and you can't convince a jury that they were breaking this rule". This would probably be sufficient context to get everyone to agree that none of the examples given were examples. It seems like a lot of caveats, but most of these are implicit if you're an officer, which is a fair context to apply to moderators.
It's super easy to filter for that though. Just change the problem slightly. If they give the rote answer you know what you need to know. It does require that you know the answer though. :)
If it is unclear what I am saying, read my comment again.
Pretty obvious what I am saying that as a currency Bitcoin is garbage.

The value is artificially propped up with tether, easy trading and illegal activity. The energy costs undoes any green movements all so number goes up.

It provides 0 useful economic activity for a Country and should have been banned years ago if governments were run competently.

The world would be a better place if it never existed and proponents are garbage people.
Almost always, when headlines end in a question mark, the answer is no.
Fair point. I don’t live in LA and was not aware of the school issues there.

But by and large, CA does have great public school, and top-tier public universities.
There is plenty of history showing the long term effects and outcome of dense housing run by the Government. Dense housing ran by private companies will always be a race to capture the most amount of profit. While Government ran dense housing will be affected by an ever decreasing budget and ever increasing cost. OP is right. We need to invest in “fly over” states. There is an abundance of land and opportunity to achieve the American dream. Humans living in a tiny cube and commuting in a tiny cylinder (bus, subway) to a tiny office cube ad nauseam is the worst.
Thank you! Yeah, I seem to have come to the same conclusion.
I might be missing something here, but why would alien (or any) civilizations continually expand at a constant rate?

While I'm not an expert, it appears that by observing life on Earth (not just humans), groups of living things do not expand linearly, and eventually hit an upper limit (this happens at all scales, from colonies of bacteria to entire civilizations).

Who's to say that other "loud" aliens haven't already expanded and begun spacefaring, but simply are not expanding out to where we are?
That article was almost comical.

Come see our amazing tunnels; gestures at blocked pedestrian crossing.
If grandparent's example is representative, German education is not teaching people what they actually need to know. The ssh stuff you can get in five minutes' reading of the man page.
There are more games than AAA games and there are more graphics applications than games. Something that is fine for your average 100GB AAA game may not be for a 30MB game (of which 24MB are DXC) on itch.io or a 3D model viewer/converter/animator/whatever on someone's website.

In addition, even for AAA games (but also for other games and software, this adds extra dependencies that may be broken outside your control. At a company i worked several years ago, we spent more effort upgrading Visual Studio because for some middle we only had DLLs (and their libraries) to link against and had to obtain new versions (part of the effort was that the company that wrote said middleware hadn't upgraded their own so we also became QA for their compatibility with the newer VS, though i don't remember if there were any issues in practice).

Of course having the code doesn't mean updates will be frictionless, but there will certainly be way less friction and you wont need to wait for someone else.

(btw i think Visual Studio has tried to be backwards compatible in recent versions with binary C++ libraries, but i don't think this is something you can rely on in the long term)

Also all that are with the assumption that the requirement is that your code remain on the same platform and targets. But at some point you may want to work with another platform (be it as host or target) and not having source code can make that from incredibly difficult to impossible. This may not seem much of an issue for something as platform-specific as DXIL - but actually notice the article mentioning that the binary blobbiness of DXIL made it impossible to precompile shaders on platforms outside specific Windows and Linux architectures for which the DLL was provided by Microsoft.
Not really.

Snow is pretty rare in Ireland/UK winters, rarer in Ireland. Due to the Gulf Stream and such.
Not to detract from your point, but 2-bedroom apartments in Tokyo are 60 sqm or something.
> Advanced aliens really are out there

Stopped reading right there.
Nvida will go bankrupt
And that’s ok! But those protections are worth it for a lot of other people. :)
Because it’s introducing a magic global compiler directive - $props - that’s unique to Svelte.

Everyone knows what

export let prop = 10

means. But what’s $props? It’s a magical invocation (literally, a rune) of a compiler directive. So while it’s valid JS, it’s actually a signal to the compiler, with special behaviour. It’s something you need to learn and understand beyond just JavaScript.

Also, to your point, it’s not actually destructuring. This statement is declaring “prop” as a new property.

And finally, this statement actually does export “prop” to a user of the component. But that’s no longer explicit.
To keep doing RL research, stop calling yourself an RL researcher (2023)
Credit has to be given to the governor Gavin Newsom here. He's made some questionable policy choices, particularly with seemingly random vetoes (which the legislature could override but they haven't done in decades because that would take up time in the next legislative session).

Prop 13 was about the absolute worst thing to ever happen to California housing. Rising property prices make people feel like they're richer but really they're not. You typically still own one housing unit of wealth in almost all cases. It's just the nominal value is higher. For this benefit, eye-wateringly massive subsidies have been given to Disney, institutional property holders and the very wealthy for absolutely no gain.

But this goes to show how powerful NIMBYs are and the level of delusional self-interest people possess.

For those unfamiliar, Prop 13 capped the annual property tax increases to 1-2%. Property tax rates are reset when the property is sold. Property held in LLCs is never reset because the LLC not the property is sold. This is why Disney's property tax rate was basically set in the 1960s and never been adjusted for current values. The net effect is that incumbent property owners from the 70s and 80s pay a tiny fraction of the assessable property tax on their properties and this has been a massive drain on state budgets. This was sold as not kicking seniors out of their houses. Texas handles this a lot better: property taxes can be deferred until death or the sale of the property.

But it gets worse: this beneficial tax rate can be inherited. It's just locking in generational wealth. It's also not allowing people to move because they can't keep this beneficial tax rate.

Recently, there was a very minor partial rollback on this known as Prop 19. What is it? It limits this beneficial property tax rate inheritance to only one property. That's right. If you owned 10 properties then your family could inherit all your tax rates prior to this. So this only affects people who bought multiple properties in the 20th century and sat on them. That's probably less than 1% of CAlifornians.

Prop 13 passed with only 51% of the vote. 49% of voters rejected this very minor reform. That's how powerful the NIMBY brain rot is.

Now against this force, which tends to overtake all local cities, towns, councils and planning boards, there have been a whole bunch of reforms: stopping the abuse of CEQA to block any development, increasing density without years-long planning approvals in certain cases (eg on major roads), all CA municpalities having to plan for how they're going to build more housing (aka the housing element) with real consequences for not complying (eg the builder's remedy) and so on.

Passing any of these given the power of NIMBYism with voters is a major accomplishment and I think these are starting to have an effect.