skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same is true for a lot of meat alternatives/fake meats which use many times the inputs of producing soy of chickpeas.

Not all beef is equal. Almost all the beef I eat is from the UK, and most of it grass fed.
I think people tend to get stuck on the ridiculous charges/billing and don't often get to the point where they appreciate just how bad the provided healthcare is, and how much it utterly destroys patient agency by replacing it with bureaucracy. The provider/"insurer" dynamic is really the deep set home of the rot. As a table stakes reform, health "insurance" companies need to be prevented from managing healthcare and relegated to purely financial payers, but doing so would put so many low-level bureaucrats out of work it's politically untenable.

For a recent event, I got a whole nurse calling me from the "insurance" company, out of the blue, seemingly just to chat about the medical situation and how things are going. I haven't figured out what her KPIs are, but I doubt she remains so friendly when you bump up against them! And she obviously represents a severe misallocation of labor - the industry would be better off if someone with her education (and likely experience) was actually providing healthcare.
It already happened a few days ago (March 4th). They showed more results, but nothing ground-breaking. There is another group that is also replicating the results and publishing results (SCT Lab or something). Their paper is currently pending.
Then these are signs that there was a conscious decision somewhere in the management chain that created the circumstances to allow that to happen, which is exactly the type of thing NTSB is there to root out. For heaven sake, cooperation with NTSB gives you a legal shield from the information being used against you by prosecutors. There is no downside unless there is something so egregious being hidden that it damn well has escalated to being a point of major public concern.
I like to say that there's blame enough for everyone to share. There's truth to virtually every argument. The entire "system" is so "sloppy" and filled with points where money just leaks out.

The emergency care angle is what drives the socialism / capitalism bickering and that's what I see a the biggest impediment to actually making effective change.
> collision-only slingshot needs precision. But we're good at precision maneuvers with modern computers

That precision doesn’t get around the physics. Why do you think none of our missions to the inner Solar System have tried this?
Certainly. If supply were to increase faster than demand, pricing would fall in real terms. This has happened many times in history in Canadian municipalities.
I doubt most of the savings are passed on to the consumer. Companies will typically charge consumers as much as they can get away with no matter what their costs are and will happily poison people with shitty contaminated fruit if the lower costs mean they can stuff their pockets with more money while continuing to keep consumer prices as high as possible.
Ah, sorry, I don't keep up with their P&L, and I assumed things hadn't changed in a while.
This is because like many things this is a rich man's hobby. See mechanical keyboards for example.
> shutting down any new housing construction for decades.

That's a problem. No one is saying it isn't.

The role of Airbnb cannot be ignored; it is negatively affecting housing availability as landlords can make much more profits on short-term rentals than long-term ones.

On the building side, we've made it much more difficult to build low/mid rise apartments buildings.

General accessibility requirements alone make it impractical to build anything less than 5 floors with a large land footprint (~20 units per floor). You pretty much need an elevator and other accessibility systems, which makes construction and maintenance of low to mid rises prohibitive. Older constructions are filled with grandfathered clauses allowing them to skip over accessibility requirements.

This is why you only see requests to build ~20+ floor buildings, which people disagree to be added in their neighbourhood.

ex: https://www.ontario.ca/page/accessibility-ontarios-building-...

> Barrier-free floor access is also required for residential and office buildings over:

> 3 storeys high

> 600 square metres in building area
Section on canning starts at page 301 (page 314 of the PDF)
I remember running into this quite often. Apps would fail to draw completely and malfunction.
I am random software engineer, but from what I learned high-quality open source data sets seems to be enabler. There is shortage of golden datasets for training and evaluation in every popular and niche area you can imagine.
YouTube is way more trash than reels and tiktok. Earlier they used to have the ability to hide shorts for 30 days, now they start their android app on shorts.
Loaded fine for me on Firefox. What are you using?
Part of the issue is that being a landlord for short-term tenants is very different than being a landlord for long-term tenants. There's a misconception that "well, if we ban STRs, then they'll have to rent long-term. Checkmate." In many municipalities that have banned short-term rentals (particularly vacation destinations with many second homes), many landlords would just say "okay, I'm not renting at all then."
Ask HN: Website builders for non technical people?
Would you point a non technical person to Wix or another website builder?

Would you teach them HTML ?
How about a ghostblog ?
Why do you call that artificial? Isn’t the market clearing amount of housing when both long and short term needs are met?

Are you against all tourism or travel?
What would the overlap be between senior citizens in Congress pushing a bill and TikTok's audience?
I'm old enough to remember health care prior to Obamacare, and I can assure you it was broken before too.

Frankly the difference I noticed post Obamacare was a friend of mine was able to get insurance in time to not go bankrupt treating her colon cancer.

I can't get behind the idea that Obamacare is somehow what broke our medical system.
There's little to no evidence that banning short-term rentals materially decreases rental or housing prices.
Nearly 7% of the entire Canadian work force is building new houses.

That's double the next closest industrial country.

Canada doesn't have a supply issue, it has a demand issue.
I'm confused, wasn't this already submitted? 27 Feb 2024
Not the person you asked, but this sort of thing is pretty easy with templating languages, such as Perl's Template::Toolkit[1] or Python's Jinja2[2].

The advantage of a system like that over a plain programming language (such as Lua you mentioned) is that there's less escaping and string.format(xxx) sorts of things. The output text is the primary thing and the templating language has its own special syntax to "activate" it when you need it, rather than the other way around.

That being said, Lua's square-bracket strings are pretty good for bulk text, too (:

[1] http://template-toolkit.org/about.html

[2] https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/#synops...
Naw.

Chhapri is now used to represent the Hindi subculture similar to Pullingo, same way Punjabi and Haryanvi speakers use "Jatt" now.

It's a cool example of dialectic change due to slang.

Edit: though now that I think about it, someone like Elvish Yadav wouldn't own up to being Chhapri but his Pullingo equivalent would
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That's an interesting comment because while the author was clearly defining front end as HTML and CSS, you went to a layer with joins. Joins used to always be considered a back end activity. I think it's very contextual but in relation to the article they may also be what the author considers to be backend.

But I guess now with things like Supabase joins in the front end are normal?

It's weird how these things change. But regardless, worth noting that people are using "frontend" to mean different things.
I wouldn't say that at all. I currently live in an Airbnb that failed and my girlfriend informed me that the cute older house we went to an Open House for is now an Airbnb.
On the other hand most beef I eat in the UK is grass fed which is a whole lot better and does not consume much imported feed.
Reminds me of the discussions on hn when Intel Optane wasn't quite dead yet. Those always seemed to end with the conclusion that if separation between volatile and persistent memory had not been forced on us by technological reality, it would be a concept we'd better have invented at some point.
How is this different from pg-boss[1]? Other than the distributed part it also seems to use skip locked.

[1] https://github.com/timgit/pg-boss
Not that hard nowadays to switch to a decent developer-led neobank
Because it's been tried and there's little evidence it actually works.
No, I have a huge issue with it. I've been shouting on the internet about the Patriot Act and whatnot since it was passed. It's very, very bad.

It also has no noticeable, tangible effect on my life, or the lives of most people. It's a big problem that fucks a small number of people in a way that's semi-random.

Actually...this isn't 100% true. Abu Ghraib, and specifically Sen Inhofe's "outaged at the outrage" response, helped prompt me to donate 33% of my income to charity for several years in part. At the time, I thought that was the maximum I could deduct and I wanted to minimize the amount of tax dollars I sent to a government that was actively torturing people. My savings would be vastly larger if not for Abu Ghraib.
Actually yes, NATO without the US still has several thousand planes.
How are these numbers calculated? Are these new downloads by first time users? Do people switching phones and downloading the app to a new device tallied in these counts? Should that really count? Sure it was downloaded again, but that's not an extra pair of eyeballs. It the same pair of eyeballs on a different device.

The active user seems like the metric that would matter vs downloads.
> remain in the music business

If you're not getting paid, you're not doing "business".

Yes, there are many other examples of companies having exploratory practices the same way as Spotify. That still does not explain very well why people put up with it.

If a farmer exploits a migrant worker, the migrant worker gets paid enough for shelter and food. He is depending on that job for surviving. When artists are exploited by Spotify, the money they usually receive is nowhere close to paying for shelter or food, so they have to survive by other means anyway. Keeping their music on Spotify or removing it from Spotify doesn't make any difference for their livelihood.
> I would prefer it if anything we sell is up to our own standards. Just like any kind of branding.

the strong form of the standards argument is "health and safety standards", where we don't want DDT or chloroflourocarbons (if I have that right) used anywhere in the world, nor to inflict them on other people. However, we don't live in malarial swamps (any more). A country where malaria is a major health problem might have a different rational optimum for pesticides.

But as you move down rungs of the standards ladder, it becomes a less defensible argument. "3rd world" economies might not be able to afford cars nor have the infrastructure to support "our standards" for bumpers, air bags, etc., or be willing to use cheaper quality ladders because they are cheaper.

Then there is a strong economic argument that, if you give up the bottom of a market because it's not profitable, you will create new competitors who climb up from the bottom and overwhelm you. This is a good part of how the post-WWII Japanese manufacturing companies overwhelmed Western companies. (and essentially the path followed by all of the Asian Tigers, and before them America vs Europe) The reason this phenomenon takes place is that if you make a million crappy little cars a year, and you save $0.01 on each nut and bolt, or on installing each nut and bolt, those savings are important because they multiply, even to the point where you can afford to study and look for things like that. If you're making luxury cars only, you don't pay attention to stuff like that, but that means, ultimately, your manufacturing technology falls behind, and when the efficient producers decide to make luxury cars efficiently, they are just plain better cars. (for more information see "learning curve advantages" and "McKinsey, British Motorcyle Industry". Learning curve advantages are not scale advantages, but they work better at scale. Learning curve advantages are thought to be more or less logarythmic to scale, somewhat like moving out the tail of a Gaussian, first you eliminate the 1 of 100 problems, then you eliminate the 1 of 1000 problems, etc.)

So, for international commodity chemical companies, why stop manufacturing a chemical that the purchasers can simply buy somewhere else? It makes you smaller and helps your competitors.

The headline should not read "continue to export", it should read "continue to import", because that is what is happening; unless you show that the "Nestle of hardware stores" not only manufactures the products, but also controls the retailers in the foreign countries.
I live in Canada and mostly vacation here as well. I've used Airbnb couple of times initially but since my vacations last about 2 month in a summer I find that it is way better to find local ads and the savings are way to big to ignore. No Airbnbn for me.
There isn’t much to it. Credit unions often have the best rates. You’ll also want a safety deposit box for things like birth and wedding certificates, car titles, etc
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I am happy for you. On western continental Europe where I live I never saw that. Houses where highways are getting built see their selling prices drop though.
As a paramedic (part-time) and someone who has worked in claims benefit management systems, EMTALA (the rules/laws around emergency stabilizing care) are not what make our healthcare astronomical. It's prescriptions, imaging, and labs. You can easily be charged several thousand dollars for diagnostic imaging. My insurance covers labs 100% but a recent stool sample test charged $780 to see if I had blood in a stool.

Speaking of DI, DI is a money-printing machine, with CT and MRI machines that range from a few hundred thousand to over a million have breakeven points well under two years. And the DI companies work to find and gather physicians who want to start a DI practice. Offer financing, consulting, and then, shockingly, we find that physicians who own a DI practice or a share in one tend to over-refer their patients to imaging.
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are you guys really so invested in airbnb being present in Canadian cities? “Just build more housing”, “Just reduce immigration” all for airbnb’s benefit?
Throughout my career thus far, I’ve consistently been advised to get really good at writing if I want to make the biggest impact I can.

With that being said, I’ve been doing some practice!

Recently, I tried the Apple Vision Pro and I wrote about my experience. If you’re interested about my formerly-skeptical opinion on the future of AR/VR, check it out :)
Isn't Vancouver famous for instituting a vacant-housing tax?

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/taxes/speculation-vacancy...
Ironically this is one of the least scary forms of surveillance for me.

Like, a lot of people would rightfully feel super violated by this.

But compared to all other kinds of surveillance that an actual vast majority of all of us is subject to every single day, this one bothers me a lot less.

Ok Mr AirBnB home owner, you got to see my willy in 720p grainy illegible video from a weird angle from the bedroom ceiling for a couple minutes. Cool for you I guess.

And meanwhile the much worse forms of surveillance that happens to all of us goes largely unnoticed, and when it gets brought up everyone is like “I ain’t got nothing to hide so I’m not bothered”.
Your 'duh's escalated quite quickly, I had a Euclid postulates feelings when reading it - first four are 'duh' and then the fifth one
comes swinging.

(by the way I think you have your Newton's law order wrong, that's the second one you're referering to)
https://archive.is/5eqRK

and: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39642774
Sayings are pithy to evoke a general idea, even emotion. Obviously each individual still needs to apply a risk-benefit analysis when pursuing something that could result in failure. But there are many types of failure and it's possible that those who are risk-adverse are overly afraid of the trivial kind. What you're saying is correct, but no more correct than those pithy quotes. I guess the meta-advice is to regard wisdom carefully, with nuance, and not just follow it blindly.
Not sure if Airbnb has eaten up this much inventory

The realer issue is builders who are choosing not to build to keep prices high (profit per unit is more efficient)

Housing supply can be fixed pretty quick but not by vendors who want to keep and maintain their margins
Of course they can drop, even in [insert your country here] but look worldwide for more extreme examples.
There's always the $70 IKEA Lack Rack: https://www.instructables.com/The-$70-IKEA-Mini-Server-Rack/
You should check out the Xeon D offerings from Supermicro. They make some M-ITX motherboards with embedded Xeon D chips that sport dual 10GB Ethernet. Used one in a freenas system at one point for years

Looks like the X10SDV-TLN4F[1] has everything you mentioned besides a second m.2 slot. Although its 8 cores they are a few generations old and low power (45w TDP on x86). For true compute its not exactly fast but for something like a high performance file server in 1U connected to a disk shelf, they are really nice.

[1] https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/x10sdv-tl...
> The role of Airbnb cannot be ignored; it is negatively affecting housing availability as landlords can make much more profits on short-term rentals than long-term ones.

It can be ignored if it's insignificant - I haven't seen any evidence to show that banning short-term rentals significantly improves housing prices.
I grew up in central Pennsylvania farm country. This is a conservative area that has voted republican in every presidential election since Lincoln. The area is also rich in both Amish and Mennonite families. When a whole area is so packed with conservative ideas and individual it has a strong effect on what is "common sense". Common sense is not generally universal it is culturally based.

The best example I can think of is that 85% of the kids in my High School had the same haircut and rarely left the area. Suddenly mTV arrived on cable and the kids and hairstyles went wild. I know of parents calling the cable company to get mTV removed from the home(unsuccessfully).

It is simply a cultural standard.
This is what I'm afraid of. We already have too much microplstics in our environment, and is it worth reducing water runoff when the solution involves even more microplastics?
If Canada is building plenty of housing, why the multi-decade crisis? Governments that wish to keep housing prices rising do so almost exclusively by limiting building housing.

I've read a lot by economists on this over the years and they all agree lack of new housing is the problem in the Canadian home market so if you've got an alternative take I'd love to hear it.
That's a really confused way of looking at the issue. That the only thing we should look at is supply. Demand matters of course too.

Airbnb created massive new demand for housing for people that don't live there. Those people can afford to pay more than locals. That takes away large amounts of supply from locals.

Therefore AirBnb's effect is devastating.

AirBnb should be completely banned everywhere in the world immediately.
Yeah, but the annoying thing is that instagram now is focusing almost exclusively on content from people out of my network other than the friends I want to keep connected to. It would be good if they kept the exploration part exclusively on reels.
I don't even use the feed anymore because of so much external garbage it tries to throw at me.
For me this is the lead:

> And come to think of it, you’ll probably be expected to learn at least one backend language, too. (“So you can unblock yourself” is the reason given, although “so you can do your own job, plus a little bit of someone else’s,” is sometimes more accurate.)

The general trend is we all become poorly-trained "Full-Stack" developers.

> Every tool promises to make frontend uncomplicated and fast; that’s the only concern. They say it the same way I reassure my five-year-old that his vaccinations will be swift and painless; just something necessary to get out of the way as quickly and thoughtlessly as possible.

> But when did speed become the main concern? And why?

The general trend is that companies want to commodify development, both frontend and backend. Fewer developers is less money which is more budget/runway/profits/etc. It also drives a devaluing (in perception and in fact) of our profession where "anybody" can do it.

> The web is positively overrun with inaccessible code. Odds are, even if that specific problem doesn’t currently affect you, you still see forms that won’t submit, invisible buttons, errors surfaced in the UI, utterly broken layouts, things that don’t work on mobile devices or in certain browsers, text and fonts that are difficult to impossible to read, interfaces that are impossible to zoom or scroll, interactions that break down, and silent or unhelpful error messages—all quite likely on a daily or near-daily basis.

All. The. Time. Especially since I use Firefox as my daily driver, I see exactly which companies and websites didn't bother to test outside a Chrome browser. Even Chromium breaks down sometimes (looking at you Slack), and the fix is sending a different useragent. Opening up developer tools for a commercial site is a deluge of errors and warnings. The problem has grown far worse in the last few years even for websites I've used for decades.

To further the author's point, I think much of the complexity of CSS/HTML (and, yes, JS) these days is the sheer amount of complex `<div>` nesting that tool-assisted development spits out. Modern CSS is hard because it must conform to this nested Tower of Hanoi that makes old table layouts look appealing. Thoughtfully laying out a page is like designing an API; you have to think of its ergonomics that aren't quantified in any meaningful way. Of course, what isn't quantified is ripe for layoffs.

The greater push/reliance of tool-assisted development by commercial enterprises drives out expertise in favor of low-cost mass hiring/firing. Two decades ago I saw outsourcing developers grow to the same hype that AI is currently enjoying. Just like before, I expect a large wave towards tool-assisted development built on the hype, only for it to collapse under the weight of its own impossible expectations. By then the damage will be done.
Sounds interesting. Is there an intuitive definition of monotonicity for the purposes of distributed systems? I mean, I thought I knew what it means, but I’m not too sure now.
The fact that Russia, without foreign support or not, has not managed to capture one of the poorest states in Europe is a joke. Imagine the US failing to capture Mexico after 2 years, even if Mexico got weapon supplies from abroad. That would totally discredit the US military.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39642376
They basically banned AirBnB in New York. Net effect was it raised hotel prices without measurably affecting housing costs.
The Hard Parts of UI Development was amazing. Your teaching style really has a way of making things stick. Truly one of my favorite instructors.
> At center is a symbol representing the American Sign Language sign for “water.”

ASL sign for water looks like three fingers tapped on the chin. I'm not seeing the resemblance to that polar grid shape.