skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another perspective, (Los Angeles) rent control makes turn over attractive. If you are capped on increases in a way that your rents falling below market means they can only reach market when a tenant moves out, you want to rent to people who move out often. That means building units that rent to students and are unsuitable to start a family in.

This isn't the dense city I want you live in. I would love to have long term stable tenants in normal market conditions. The price controls just structure it so that this is not attractive anymore.
One anecdote I've seen is that the right way to run them is to maintain a near-steady-state temperature in the house, including overnight. I'm not sure if that's maybe a bit extreme and just how they suggest use to non-savvy home-owners, but it makes sense... They're not going to blast out heat to raise the house temperature 10 degrees in an hour in the morning. Spreading heat-increase over several hours is more feasible. Good insulation presumably helps a bunch, too.

For a similar reason, heat pump water heaters tend to have a larger storage tank, as they take longer to heat the water and you want more of a usage buffer.
See falsisign: https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/falsisign
You make good points. The 'history lesson' aspect of it especially interests me, as I am currently pursuing further education in historical research.

Also, something clicked when I read this

> But nowadays, the knowledge is much higher-level

High level is the standard metaphor for 'highly abstracted away from fundamentals' but I think 'highly nested' would be more appropriate. More abstraction levels doesn't always lift you up, and often obscures important stuff.
When there is a one person $1B company someday, which I think is very possible, I believe it will come after a series of events that will make it obvious that such a thing could exist. For example, the existence of several multi trillion dollar market cap companies, plethoras of small companies worth several billion dollars, and probably a radical rethinking of compensation and capitalism in the economy.
Samba Was Written (2003)
You're presenting two claims here:

1. The judiciary makes some distinction between a 500-to-1 and a 1,000,000-to-1 ratio.

2. Speech cases are somehow specially protected from high ratios between punitive and compensatory damages.

I know of no evidence in favor of the first point.

Your second point is patently false because TXO is about speech - it's literally a disparagement case.
Which models are y'all using out there on HN, and for what square footage/location?

I'm in SF and have a gas heater, but a 115 year old house with only 4 vents (none in bedrooms), and it's been cold. I'd like to replace, maybe DIY, but not sure.
it isn't just california either, deficient and neglected infrastructure is basically a national-scale problem.

around my area we blew up two substations during a heatwave last summer. we constantly get brownouts at 4-6pm during the post-work peak load such that I'm almost not even comfortable running the freezer/etc anymore (brownouts are really hard on motors). and now you want to push all the gas heating (and this area gets cold!) onto the grid too?

a lot of this is that urban and suburban areas are subsidizing rural and ex-rural areas - more than half of my bill is already capacity-charges and delivery fees and not the actual cost of the electric, and we're still blowing up substations regularly due to strained and overloaded infrastructure. Where is the money going? Mostly to keeping miles and miles of power lines out to the middle of nowhere, I'd think.

That's a problem America is going to face in a lot of "ghost town" scenarios - when "the mine dries up" or "the train doesn't stop here anymore" and a place stops existing, the infrastructure costs to service the 20 people still living there don't. Repaving the roads every couple of years, plowing and salting them during the winter, etc aren't free and the reality is that in some areas there's really almost no economic activity anymore to justify the cost. We just have covenants and mandates that prevent ever undoing it. And that runs up the bills for everyone else.

We have 400k people in this county of 700mi^2, and that's suburban, not-particularly-dense either. Another county we have 40k people in 2700 mi^2. Should everyone in the former have to subsidize the lifestyle of the latter? We are talking about 2 orders of magnitude less density here, while it's not quite 1:1 there's no doubt they are incurring significantly higher infrastructure costs for their lifestyle and we are paying for it.

And since people won't pay for it, what we end up with is everyone's infrastructure falling into neglect, to pay for a handful of rural customers.
Or perhaps the reality is that society is no longer high-trust, and those who still believe otherwise are now easy marks.
> They also chart growth that exists purely in theory.

Not really, unless you think the economy and resultant stock market is purely theoretical with no bearing on reality, in which case, there would be nothing left for me to tell you with such diametrically opposing belief systems.
> as an American living in Portugal [...] Just everything in Europe is tiny.

Sorry to invoke a cliche here but... Europe doesn't start and end in Portugal.

There are plenty of large-family apartments in some cities. Especially new developments usually have a mix of studios, one-bedrooms and beyond.

In terms of old buildings (i.e. older than ~100 years), many European cities have apartment buildings designed for wealthy families that would house their staff in the same building. The problem there is actually that these are too large to rent out to most families, not the opposite.
Once again, IP addr is not a person. If you want to reveal who's who, you need to have a search warrant.
This. Arguably, it makes most other GC-based languages look like 90s in 2024.
My definition of judicial activism would be ruling in a biased manner to get a politically desired result rather than solely on the basis of the facts and the law as written.

You can rule in a biased manner in favor or individual freedom or against it. My point is that that's not relevant to the definition.

I do agree with you however that the current U.S. constitution is centered around the idea of a limited federal government with enumerated powers and that therefore an unbiased interpretation of the constitution as written will tend to result in rulings that support individual freedom in general, though that's not a hard and fast rule.
Good luck with that, someone will have to supervise them. And supervise the supervisors.
This is a great point. I'm not sure about London but in NYC, SF, and many other big cities in the US there just isn't the will to intervene. A strong police presence that intervenes just isn't the goal. I don't really know what goal this furthers.
Novella, free to read: The Epiphany of Gliese 581

https://borretti.me/fiction/eog581

>A linguist, a chemist, and a comparative psychologist explore the ruins of a dead superintelligence.
6.8% seems like a pretty reasonable target for non-regrettable attrition. GE famously aimed at firing the bottom 10% of performers every year. In Facebook engineering management the internal target was 6% IIRC.

It feels a bit paradoxical because there are many 10-person teams with no poor performers that should be fired. Yet if you have an engineering director heading a 150 person department and that department allegedly has no poor performers, that probably indicates a lax culture that accepts poor performance.
You can run a lot of things on Google Colab for free as well. KoboldCPP has a nice premade thing on their website that can even load different models.
> In a way this is the market doing what it's supposed to. There's a shortage of electricity because of everyone doing electrification upgrades, so the price of electricity rises

PG&E electricity rates have absolutely nothing to do with free markets. The only thing setting PG&E rates is corruption and incompetence, but mostly corruption.
WW1 coupling is a blip compared to today.

I'm not sure how a singular war somehow disproves centuries of declining conflict levels and overall still the most peaceful period in modern memory post-1960s.
Spam texts wouldn’t say “This is search and rescue. We are attempting to contact you. Please call or respond.”
It's the fewer-fire-stairs lobbyist again.

Another option is more stairways, fewer halls.
> What is a "career" (other than path that is out of ones control)?

Why would a career be out of your control? You control what skills you learn, what companies/projects you apply to. Sure, you're not in control of which companies/project accept you, but that doesn't mean that your career is out of your control.

> But I see a world filled with more and more young people who have not, and have no hope of ever having a "career". That fills me with vast hope that truth is on the march again.

That sounds like you've confused fatalism with truth. But it's more truthful to say that we are in a partnership with the world around us. The world gets a choice and we get a choice. Neither necessary gets their first choice, but both are active actors.
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The hospital
Thanks, just the punchline I needed
You cant legally drive when you had one small beer. You can legally buy beers or other alcohol when you already had one beer. If the store is not selling you alcohol due to intoxication, you should stop driving several drinks ago.

I can get good selection of beers or other alcohol at reasonable price in the regular store within 5-10 min of walk anywhere in the city assuming it is not middle of the night.
Layers of Abstraction == Magic
If you're trying to understand the US housing market, do yourself a favor and don't start with the SF Bay Area - it's so twisted into political and ideological knots that the local branch of the Sierra Club fought against eco-friendly (i.e. relatively dense) housing, ostensibly to save a parking garage.
AI professional headshots are quick and easy. But should you use one?
> It's now more expensive to fuel a vehicle with electricity than gas

This is very hard to believe, what are you paying for electricity? California gas prices are also way above the national average at the moment. Here's a per-state comparison from last year, I'm sure it's a bit out of date but I doubt things have completed flipped in a single year: https://energyinnovation.org/2023/07/27/ev-fill-up-savings/
Is it correct to assume that the "cancellation" part of `Context` is similar to C#'s `CancellationToken`? Also, it looks like it allows to pass some "implicit parameters" to another function. If that's the case, why does Go have a single entity performing two roles: cancellation + implicit parameter passing? I would expect to have these things separated.
I can relate as I also spent countless hours exploring abandoned places when I was younger. Similarly, I watched a friend fall through a floor exploring an school, but luckily in our case no injuries came of it. The risk is under appreciated but when you're a teenager you don't care. Amazing memories though.
PGE goes up to 66c/kwh during peak now and in San Diego I think is >70c/kwh. Off peak base is 34c/kwh for PG&E. Gas is $4.5-$5/gal so break even I think ends up being near 50mpg ish for a 300wh/mi EV.
https://archive.ph/HFjBO
In the famous book "the Wealth of the Nations", it points out that when people get more money they typically spend it on larger/better places to live. Just looking at the historical economy of US and the rest of the world post WWII it shouldn't be a surprise that people live in larger apartments in the US in general. Larger fridges are another luxury that I'd expect in the US as well.

However this article is about people who live in apartments - in the US that means either those without a family or poor.

Those without a family may want 3 bedrooms - either for offices (his and hers) or a guest bedroom, but cannot really see need for more than that. They also want them to be large and so are happy with the current state of things.

You would expect the poor to want to compromise on smaller fridges, and bedrooms - but many would prefer to have 4 tiny bedrooms (with only beds in them), and 1 bathroom, all in the space of a current US 2 bedroom apartment. They still dream of the larger bedrooms, fridges and the like - but they well know they cannot afford it.

Like you said, fire needs to be considered. Current codes are harming the poor, but it may be less harm than from allowing fire to kill them.
You might mean Michael Eliason, who is part of the OP's organization:

https://www.centerforbuilding.org/our-team
> Voltage Holdings and Screen Media Ventures cited Reddit posts in which users say that Frontier didn't terminate their Internet service despite sending many copyright infringement notices about torrent downloads. One of the users wrote, "I got a total of 44 emails from frontier about downloading torrents and that it could terminate service. They haven't yet. And I kinda feel like if they didn't do it after 44 emails. That they won't… ."

Don't they just want to file a lawsuit against Frontier? What is Reddit's involvement other than their website being used for this communication?
Napkin math:

My crossover EV gets 2.5-3.5 mi/kWh. Call it 3. / $0.2/kWh = 15 mi/$

Avg fuel economy in US ~ 25mpg. At $3.50/gal that's 7 mi/$

So at 20c/kWh, your dollar goes roughly twice as far on electric. California has been seeing brutal rates, though -- 40c/kWh not uncommon.

Californians can play games with Time-of-Use rates (charge at night), get onto EV-specific rates, be on a CCA which tend to not have the try-to-not-burn-down-the-state adjustment fees, get solar +/- NEM2 vs NEM3, etc., so your numbers may vary. And different cars will have different MPG's of course. But all of that is to say, "more expensive to fuel a vehicle with electricity than gas" is not necessarily wrong in California.
Public speaking engagements and conferences are other ways to grow that network.
The fact that some parts of the command are the same doesn't excuse the other parts being pointlessly different. It's a paper cut for beginners. One of hundreds, which makes the whole Python UX completely awful.
How does legally requiring people to leave up unused "historial" buildings prevent foreign investment, strip malls, or parking lots? These seem like completely different issues to me.
I don't read Thai, but both Google and ChatGPT translate รายได้โดยเฉลี่ยต่อเดือนต่อครัวเรือน รายจังหวัด พ.ศ. as "average monthly household income" rather than median. I find it rather difficult to believe that median incomes are Thailand because prices seem lower in Bangkok than even a tier 3 city in China.
This is reality, fortunately or not. How can you change this? Push back about specifics that won’t work, but in large terms.

Example. Well we could build that, but in order to monetize it, it would cost xxx monthly which would require a gross sales increase of xxx just to break even. You may not know gross profit margin, but your exec does. So focus on costs along with strong technical reasons as to why something is ridiculous.

Programmers hate being asked “how much time will this take”.
This needs to be utilized and flipped around - like your crazy ass idea will consume 5000 core programmer hours which will set back the follow priorities and we can’t see a use case.
"Better Ads Experience Program Certified"?
Color wheel – color theory and calculator
Did you factor in possibly improving the incident angle of the sunlight? Solar benefits massively the more perpendicular the incoming sunlight is.
I have found that HN sentiment (not just in the case of my comment above) does not suffer criticism of markets well.
Some of those are wine stains. The pkg does both.
Living in Philly, I can pretty confidently say there’s a 0% chance a theater in Lansdowne, even a nicely restored, historical, theater, will attract 100000 visitors in a year.
The outdoor unit goes through heating cycles though to prevent that. I'm in Vancouver, BC, where it doesn't get that cold but my unit had no problem when it was snowing and -15C or so outside. It did have to work pretty hard though. We don't have electrical heating backup for the heat pump but we do have a gas fireplace as backup (so I know the heat coming from the vents is 100% heat pump, not an electric heater in line).
Heat pumps are much more common in warm areas than cold ones, because the difference between an A/C and a heat pump is really just the ability to reverse the refrigerant flow, and they're very efficient at heating in mildly cold weather. I grew up in Florida, and pretty much every house there had a heat pump even thirty years ago, with electric resistive heating that kicks in when ambient temperatures drop below 40F or so. Where heat pumps don't work so well is when ambient temperatures are very cold, which is why adoption in northern states has been much slower.

EDIT: My grandparents' house had a thermostat that looked like this: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/uqsAAOSwTVlbyNN9/s-l1200.jpg They would call very cold (for Florida) weather "blue light weather", because the blue "aux heat" light would turn on on their thermostat, indicating that the system had switched from the heat pump to the resistive heat strips.
> Where is the optimism?

The same place it's been for almost 40 years, at the Free Software Foundation / GNU.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/keep-control-of-your-computin...

> With software, either the users control the program (free software) or the program controls the users (proprietary or nonfree software)
Come down to Tacoma. I got > $1k in rebates from the gas company replacing my 20yo furnace + water heater with a HE gas furnace and a gas tankless water heater.

Housing prices are up now, but early pandemic it was like just south of $600k for a 3k sqft house built in the late '90s in a nice neighborhood.
The West and Russia have been decoupling economically since the 2010s.

People are too easily swayed by 'current thing'. Russia's invasion is in the context of centuries of declining conflict globally - and even in Europe an unprecedented level of peace for the past 70 years.
One issue with heat pumps is they are more complex in terms of modes they can be in, especially if you have multiple zones. I was troubleshooting an auxiliary heat issue and had to pull from the Ecobee API just to make sense of what was happening on cold nights across zones.
PG&E charges more like $.50 and it will soon be $.60-&.70. The regulator is corrupted and the infrastructure is failing because PG&E spent money that was supposed to be for infrastructure maintenance on share buyback programs. As a result the infrastructure failed and killed a ton of people, so now the utility is in even more debt because of the restitution owed.
where are you located? I was quoted 14k to replace a gas furnace for a single family in NJ
Google’s poorly-thought-out half-baked 1-day-old product is another data point in an existing solid trend that is now months in the making. The conclusions people are coming to are not on the basis of one data point but quite a few, that form a distinct trend.
I still think it looks ugly and syntactically "incorrect".
I'm pretty certain that there is a layer before the LLM that just checks to see if the embedding of the query is near "election", because I was getting this canned response to several queries that were not about elections, but I could imagine them being close in embedding space. And it was always the same canned response. I could follow up saying it has nothing to do with the election and the LLM would respond correctly.

I'm guessing Google really just want to keep Gemini away from any kind of election information for PR reasons. Not hard to imagine how it could be a PR headache.
I asked Gemini to help me write Certificate Authority code, and it simply kept refusing because it was a security risk. Quite frustrating. Haven't tried on ChatGPT though.
Because even California dips below 68F and so your house gets cold.
Yes it a major part of their marked strategy.

In the past iPhones living long enough to allow a second hand marked was a major part of how they where able to capture such a huge market share. Without that they would have struggled to establish themself to the degree they have due to being "just for the wealthy".

Also one of their main selling points is the label of a "super well build best of engineering" product. People still associate longevity with that.

With the world wide financial situation of most not wealthy people getting worse in recent years and iPhone having gotten even more expensive longevity has become an increasing important reason why non-wealthy people might still buy new iPhones, even if it's second hand still for a high price.

BUT the more they make them long lived the more they want repair (or worse upgrade) to not make monetary sense for anyone. At the same time the more they gain from pretending they care about repair, and it's just because of user safety and similar that the price of it is so high and/or it not being possible. I mean a "super well build best of engineering product" should normally be repairable right?

Also Apple engines are not their sales team and they care about trying to make an actual "super well build best of engineering product" often looking down intentional brittle products.
Which Egan is your favorite?
> Breakfast? I don't need to pay someone else to fry me an egg.

Yet in the US there are a lot of restaurants open for breakfast. Some of them are not open any other part of the day.

In short what is your personal culture and what is really US vs Europe? I think you are correct the in Europe people shop more often, but I'm not sure we eat out that much differently as a whole - people who eat out eat out a lot, while people who don't don't.
When Will Pluto Complete Its First Orbit Since Its Discovery?
That was a disaster for DEC. It cost $Billions to develop and was barely faster than an NVAX that fit into a desktop case.
I also find it curious that a language with a preemptive scheduler requires manual "yield" points by constantly checking on the context if the current function should stop executing.
People are indeed too stupid to spot dangerous talk, which is why Qanon was able to attract the numbers it did despite being overt Nazi propaganda. "A group of pedophile elites form a shadow government that rules the world in secret and only we can stop them," is Nazi propaganda.

After experiencing comment sections 2016-present, I understand why LLM trainers wouldn't want their models to churn out, "how do six million cookies fit in an oven lololol," style of content. Ideally we could get rid of that shit entirely instead of having LLMs greasing the pipeline for radicalizing gamers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right_pipeline

I don't know what specific policies of OpenAI are being mocked with this website. But I seem to have more in common with the cynical vision.
The ollama binary goes into /usr/bin which it doesn't have to but it's convenient. I haven't checked what else needs root access.
> One egress on above ground floors is many decades since illegal to develop in EU harmonized bulding codes. The only exception I think if there are sprinkler points in the rooms.

I might be misunderstanding, but isn't the OP all about how Europe allows single-stairway and the US does not?
Heat pumps make lots of sense in California. It gets hot enough to want air conditioning and still gets cold enough to need heat in much of California. California has many types of climates. Even in the desert areas like near Joshua Tree, you will still need heat in the winter. It snows there.
I really don't need to hear this on a Friday....