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Have you tried any leading LLM? Something better than GPT 3.5. Given the same source data AI will write with far less bias (and often more insight) than your average human journalist.
What does one have to do to secure a $1100 a month apartment in NYC?

I'm sure everyone else wants it.

Get drawn from a rental lottery at random? Offer your first born child? Supplement your rent with sexual favors to the landlord?
It can and does work in many places. Whole cities like Stockholm mostly consist of rent-controlled apartments which have same rents paid since WWII era, which now amount to almost nothing. It creates awful social distortions and indirect costs, but it certainly does work.
Ya ive been hoping to see something similar emerge. Both in terms of putting the story within big picture numbers and a chain of stories to explain what and why it happened as more time passes.
The smelly front loader thing seems to be intentional planned obsolescence. They all keep a reservoir of dirty water at the bottom of the washer below the pump, and that water keeps the inside of the machine moist and full of mildew. Ours has a little emergency / cleaning drain hose, but it's so short that it pours back into the machine unless you hold a container inside the door (it's a Samsung). I can easily imagine a little third-party gizmo that clamps on to that hose, detects when the machine is done running, and then opens a valve to drain the water into a bucket or a floor drain. It'd probably cost $50 and more than double the lifespan of the washing machine.

I wish the energy efficiency regulations would be updated to ban designs that leave standing dirty water inside appliances.
I thought this seemed fair till i read it was in flushing. Nyc is the worst, but, if you’re American where else can you get a city that international and walkable
French has the same dual meaning in the verb laisser. It can be used when departing, or allowing. No idea if other Romance languages are similar.

I'd hazard that it came into English from French, or maybe the other way around.
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ah yes, the good old “no true scotsman”
>The game explicitly says to ignore everything except...

I don't agree with that condition, and ignored it. I live in the real world, not hypothetical-land. Too much of what's wrong with the world starts with people ignoring the real world, and going hypothetical.
FWIW, River was directly inspired by Oban: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38351067
- "Prosecutors were not seeking the death penalty so life would be the worst outcome he would get if he went to trial and lost."

Right: he accepted a plea for the same maximum penalty the prosecutors would have sought at trial. That's not strategic.
Send magic packet from PHP to wake up a host using "Wake on LAN"
Here you go: https://stratechery.com/aggregation-theory/

In brief, all value is captured by monopolies, aggregators necessarily are monopolies, news websites want to be monopolies themselves.
I’m curious if there’s a big regional difference in cost of the pretty skilled labor involved in power generation and delivery.
Who cares if something is customer driven? Ethics is still a thing. You can't just sell a ship where the front falls off because your customers want it.

Bad journalism clearly causes societal harm, and it's time we regulate it. Passing the buck to social media by saying "it's what people want" is simply a way for these people to rinse their hands of any accountability.
What do bodybuilders do to minimize muscle loss when cutting?
> It creates awful social distortions and indirect costs, but it certainly does work.

I don't think this meets the criteria most would consider “working”.
misleading headline. "They fired me for allegedly taking pictures or videos — but they didn’t know, because no one saw it — when the body of Dariusz, a colleague of mine who had died during his shift, was moved to the hearse, which they considered inconsistent with their values and social standards."
It's a good example exactly because it demomstrates how people will disagree about easy rules. All while they somehow remain unable to acknowledge this. That's the actual point to me.
It's been a long, long time since I read it (ca.1970s), but IIRC Berne: (a) does not consider every social interaction a game, only the ones following scripts, of which he provides a few examples, (b) does consider that his games can also be played in positive manners (IIRC adult-adult ought to result in a positive conversation), and (c) does at least touch upon switching games.

We probably think of "games" slightly differently than he does; "Scripts People Follow" or "Loops People Never Terminate" might be a more appropriate title for computer geeks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_People_Play_(book)

An example, one of the games he hilights is "Ain't It Awful", which basically has the script of all participants complaining about how nothing is good but making no attempt to discover either (a) why things might be the way they are, or (b) how one might at least ameliorate the awful things.

We might say his players are getting dopamine hits from participating, but not really making any other progress.

Eg:

— Isn't it awful how Lisp has all those parentheses?

— Yeah, and APL is completely unreadable!

— But how about those pointers in C: complete footguns!

— Don't forget the EnterpriseJavaFactoryFactoryManager...

— oh, and wat about JavaScript?

— No, PHP, now that's truly awful!

— etc.
> the news media could have shifted to providing context that helps people keep track of long-running processes that affect them

This was Vox's initial schtick, but they kind of abandoned it after a while- it didn't bring readers in, and they wanted to be ad-supported.
> Sometimes you don’t want libraries, instead you want to implement similar stuff in your own code.

That's always the tradeoff, isn't it? You can implement the logic yourself, or modify three lines and immediately get parallel evaluation of you loop (add the dependency in Cargo.toml, add an import statement and modify an .iter() call to .par_iter()).

> And Rayon uses unsafe to workround the compiler limitation of the safe rust I was talking about.

So does the standard library. Using unsafe is not a cheat, it's not a defeat. It is letting the library developer express something that the borrow checker cannot yet comprehend, at the cost of the developer taking responsibility of upholding the language's invariants.

Those "safe rust limitations" are the point, not an accident or misfeature. "If we restrict ourselves to handling the 90% most common cases of problems, we can automate the checks and provide an escape hatch for the other 10%" is the unofficial Rust ethos! The alternatives would be to either sacrifice performance in the general case or sacrifice safety in the general case.

Btw, the author of rayon is Niko Matsakis. It's not part of stdlib because of many reasons, but the quality of implementation is not one of them.
Replace, maybe not; but put out of a job, absolutely. So in a way, that's a replacement in the sense that the end user gets the same product (infotainment) but from an LLM
The only news here is that lots of people, especially older women in my experience, continue to be allergic to lifting weights despite overwhelming medical and anecdotal evidence that it's one of the most potent quality-of-life interventions available.

0.01% of people will have some pre-existing condition that prevents them from lifting. For the other 99.9%, I don't care who you are or what your excuse is. Practice some sort of resistance training and you'll be much fitter, happier and healthier as you age. This goes double for every decade above 20. I wish I could pop a pill that's just as potent as a squat but the facts are the facts are the facts.
If your criteria as to if something is actually long term useful/the best tradeoff is if you can find it at your local shopping mall, you might want to rethink that a bit.
The media's ability to adapt has been abysmal. They were all bankrupt before Trump got in, he saved their bacon, but that's not a sustainable business model.

These companies don't even have the skills to put their own ad blocker solutions together. There is no capability, no innovation, and no future for any of them.

A new breed of news companies will emerge, the old guard is done.
This opensource implementation can be included in existing game engines without requiring the programmer to know or understand what dxil.dll even is. The Mach engine, for instance, can use this to create a compiler that compiles zig code into shaders across all its targeted platforms in a way that doesn't require any additional setup or dependencies for the end user, it's just built into Mach's core.
> My general infrastructure advice is “less is better”.

I found this slightly ironic given there are ~50 headers in the article :)

I liked the format of the writeup
What I like best about XSLT is that it reminds me that someone thought this was a great idea. They went so far as to declare it as “the way” and everyone should use it everywhere. There were conferences, books, blogs, everything. Anyone who criticized it was harshly rebuked and criticized. It isn’t just XSLT. The highway of IT progress is littered with these. XML, XSLT, CORBA, JEE… It’s helpful to keep in mind that nothing has changed, the current ones just haven’t blown up yet.
Clicked the link. Immediately greeted with a CTA banner, a Google ad, and a cookie banner. Dismissing the cookie banner immediately reveals another Google ad, but this one is sticky and follows me as I scroll. Reading through the article I came across at least three more advertisements.

Kind of difficult to take this seriously.
LLMs are not magic, they inherit whatever bias is in its training data.
What memory fences does the Rust compiler emit without you asking?
Right! We keep arguing about the gray areas, and in the mean time we make headway in refining them and defining what is black and what is white, little by little, right? Lawyers don’t usually argue over things that are well defined though, unless they’re trying to make a contrived point. They treat the ‘no vehicles in the park’ example differently than most people. The example invites assumption. It would be entirely different if the example said the park’s pathways are public sidewalks and as such are under the same laws. Then it would be more obvious that the survey results isn’t exhibiting disagreement, it’s exhibiting lack of knowledge and incorrect assumptions of the existing laws.

You’re right we have a lot of laws, but I’d argue the laws aren’t actually that complex, framing it as millions of pages might not be accurate for which laws apply to me. Each state has their own laws, the majority of which are similar. For any given topic, say driving in traffic, most of it is covered by a modest number of rules & pages. The large number of total pages in US law is more about the large number of topics and behaviors and technologies. It’s true that a simple shared rule cannot cover driving a car, copying a movie, getting into a fight, trading stocks, and food safety all at the same time.

Edit: for fun, I just looked it up and the US federal code is ~60k pages. It’s large, but it’s easy to see why looking at the list of 54 titles https://uscode.house.gov/ I don’t see page counts for any state codes I’d tried to lookup, but I’m not surprised if it’s similar. On one hand, to your point, it’s a lot of laws. On the other hand it’s almost surprising that state and federal laws combined are less than a million pages, considering the breadth and enormity of the topics that is covering hundreds of millions of people.
Does Jira still have multiple flavours of markdown for different fields and editors? Last I used it, it used a different flavour for creating and editing a ticket. Also another flavour for bitbucket. None of these were compatible and it would convert between them in the backend but I was left confused every time when I would have to switch formatting styles
That's a real shame, but it's clear they stopped investing in it years ago. This is just an acknowledgement of that fact.

I have a WMR collecting dust as we speak. I loved the concept for a usable VR workspace! And it had a LOT going for it. But too many issues, bugs, and QoL issues were never addressed in the workspace:

* Allowing a user to exclusively use a physical keyboard (the floating keyboard would automatically pop up if you clicked inside a text box or app)

* Only about 4 windows/apps floating in your view could actively refresh (a damn shame as having a bunch of floating SSH sessions felt quite cyberpunk, and it put tabs for browsers to shame)

* Only one desktop view at a time, even if you had multiple monitors

* Bad performance on most mobile devices

* No support for non-WMR headsets (i.e. I could never use one of my Quests with it)

* They made a tease of a Halo demo that never panned out (OK, I admit this was sour grapes, but it was just a tease at the end, just when it got interesting)

So much potential. But they basically created version 1 and either never listened to the audience, or never invested in it again.
This sort of feels like what Wikipedia does for ongoing events? Here's an example I'm thinking of with background, prelude, timeline of events with links to more articles on different aspects:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

Problem is we need the same for local news. A place where all the research gets archived, and events are tracked. Seems like nowadays the only people with a complete-ish picture of what's going on at a local level are the people directly involved themselves.

Anywho, things aren't looking good. One of the media giants in my country just cut 4,800 jobs across the country:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/david-eby-br...
Fran Lebowitz on life without the internet (2022)
GPT2Tee – Design and Order a T-Shirt in Under 1 Min
I love making my own shirts and hoodies with AI, so after GPTs came out, I was thinking - why not try to make an end-to-end GPT to make shirts?

This is the first version - I am thinking of adding more features.

While building this, I encountered some interesting issues:

1. It turns out that the GPT developer doesn't have access to the image link when the user generates an image using the native image generation. So I needed to generate the image off-premises, to be able to pass the image to the shirt manufacturer. I went for the Stability AI API, since the DALLE limits and prices are too high.

2. I really needed to play around with the system message to get GPT2Tee to have the tone that I was looking for. The most annoying thing was that it wouldn't always display the image of the shirt, sometimes it would just link to it. I finally cracked it when I asked it to display the image using the proper markdown (![imageName](imageUrl))

3. It's not perfect - I want to have the ability to put the image in different locations on the shirt, and also to remove the background when I don't want it, or when it's appropriate.

I hope people enjoy it.
I was going to reply something along the lines of this.

FB/X are sites that want to have broad appeal in order to attract as many as possible to sell their eyeballs to advertisers. But attracting as many people as possible means you are going to have groups that do not and cannot agree which causes strife.
I recently watched a Rails World 2023 conference talk where Aaron Patterson was laughing hysterically and making jokes throughout.

Someone should check on him.
As someone into heavy women I’m genuinely concerned about the future.

I don’t want to live in a skinny-girl dystopia.
The "context" approach was the whole "Explainer" period that happened in journalism, most famously done by Vox (as another commenter mentioned)--but also many others.

What you end up getting is the approved narrative of "how things are" by the same class of people who all hobnob with each other.

Glad to see it's end. Look forward to what's next.
I wish there was a button I could hit to format this site into something readable about 8-10 inches wide.
If you don't like the job and/or the working conditions, isn't the simplest thing to just quit?
This is incredibly lazy “journalism.” Just come out and say you don’t like the guy because of his political activism.
From a quick skim, MyStore looks like any other e-commerce website.
Actual Amazon is a hellscape of generic brand knockoffs and sponsored listings that make search unusable.
> If a convenience store says "No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service", no reasonable worker would refuse service to someone wearing a dress.

Odds are good they will if they disapprove of the dress, or if they disapprove of the someone’s wearing of a dress.

Because the rule is not actually about shirts or shoes, it’s about throwing out people considered undesirable. Those signs were invented to throw out hippies.

Similarly “please wait to be seated”, used to be only in high-end restaurants, lower end ones introduced them so they could ignore / refuse to seat hippies. It’s much easier to make a patron leave when they’ve been standing at the entrance for half an hour than when they’ve seated themselves.
If it weren't legal, we'd instead just see deals like this go to friends/family of the owner, or the payment would be under-the-table instead of an upfront broker's fee.
I interpreted that to be the legal excuse given for an illegal firing, of which Amazon could not substantiate.
Once upon a time I was setting up a fresh Windows 2000 Server with a public IP address, it got hacked before I was done installing the operating system, and patching it to the latest service pack. (< 30 minutes) I did all my OS installs with a private address after that.
> This isn't a problem because it's a small fraction "extrapolated over the whole fossil fuel industry."

This isn't what the article/researcher says literally or figuratively.
Why should you quit when you can organise better working conditions?
> It's easy to tell who is at fault with a spurious lawsuit, to wit: the filer.

This directly contradicts your linked comment above:

>> I once talked with a judge who told me "I try my best to be just, but when it's impossible to be just, I have to settle for arbitrary".

This is a terrible idea. It also makes this irrelevant:

> One doesn't blow a whistle when nothing has happened.

You don't get to choose.
I agree that context is sorely missing in a lot of news reporting these days. However I don't think there's enough content in the form of 'context' to justify a typically-staffed news outlet. I'd love to be proven wrong.

It also seems like journalism is suffering a similar problem as software engineering, in that people think they can take shortcuts. "I'll just walk around and ask people questions" is not the same thing as journalism, just as "I'll write a To Do app" is not the same thing as doing software engineering. These are disciplines with exacting standards, quality levels, and rigor, and require years of diligent study and practice.

And in the case of well-practiced journalism, it really is "the fourth estate", and we should be fearful of what our world becomes should that fourth estate ever crumble.
I wish I could help or offer advice but I'm too busy looking for an alternative. Nothing as dramatic as your situation but just so over the crappy 'support' and wildly inconsistent information it dishes out. The problem is that most merchant accounts I've seen are not great with digital businesses. I wish you luck with your scenario though!
Stop working for tech companies that don't give a shit about you. You want a business that cares about you... start one.
Gothamist: "The page you're looking for doesn't appear to exist. Please check out our latest stories below."
> The model was, the financial journalist Felix Salmon wrote, in 2010, “looking increasingly like a race to the bottom, where publishers desperately try every trick in the book to boost their pageviews and ad impressions, just to compensate for the fact that their revenues per page are very small. The results—sensationalism, salaciousness, and slideshows—only serve to further erode the value of the sites in the eyes of advertisers.”

Journalism will still be relevant in the world, but the vast majority of these outlets have been forced into a race to the bottom for sure. For corners of this industry to survive, they will likely need to form a symbiotic relationship with a more lucrative adjacent industry.

Meanwhile the outlets pushing meaningless, clickbait-first content will hopefully wither away.
If you eat much less calories than necessary, e.g. 1000 kcal/day or even less, you will also lose muscle mass.

However, if you do not eat enough proteins, you will lose muscular mass and the albumin amount in blood will diminish, regardless how many kcal are provided by your food.

So for preserving muscular mass, both enough proteins and a minimum intake of kcal per day, which varies between people, but it is typically somewhere between 1500 and 2000 kcal/day, are required.

Nevertheless, usually only the amount of proteins requires special care, because it is extremely easy to eat enough kcal per day when you eat enough proteins. Normally a great effort is required to diminish the amount of kcal of the food that contains enough proteins, especially if it is of vegetable origin or of dairy origin.

The only natural source of proteins without extra kcal is lean meat, like turkey breast or chicken breast or cod fillet. Fat meat, most dairy and raw vegetables have a kcal content that is usually more than double of what corresponds to their protein content.

For example, when the easy method of eating lean meat is excluded, enough proteins for a male of average size could be provided by eating 500 g of wheat flour and 167 g of lentils per day. That alone would provide 2235 kcal/day, which is too much for someone with a sedentary life.

Preserving the amount of proteins and also allowing the eating of other food besides that, without using industrial methods of protein extraction that are expensive and require energy and chemicals, could be achieved by making dough from the flour and washing it to remove most of the starch.

This example is meant to show that unless you eat only turkey breast or the like, as long as you eat enough proteins you normally have no need to worry about eating enough kcal.
Except in your example I’ve had numerous cases where bugs have been introduced because the developer’s primary thinking to pick a set was “fast” and “no duplicates”, only to later realize that order of items is important. And looking back at their choice, dealing with 5-20 items, using a list and checking contains() not only had no performance impact but better reflects the intent of “no duplicates”. Instead the set is left in place and the dev fixing it usually copies the results in a list to be sorted the same order prior to being in the set...
They were also trying to do it at a national level, with stories that are incredibly well-covered already. If someone did this for San Francisco, so frustrated people could get deeply-reported, verifiable answers to “why is [x] like this,” you would create an enormous amount of value.

P.S. if anyone wants to give me a million dollars to do this, I am both an experienced news editor and a senior-level software engineer, email in profile
If rent keeps going up, why don't people just buy to let?
> I don't agree with that condition, and ignored it.

Fascinating. It’s a game! No Knight moves one square to the right and two up, but it seems chess players have no problem with it.