skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't been engaged in the discourse as long but I figured as such. That doesn't excuse the current state of the discourse as good however.

There are lots of media fandoms out there where certain parts of the fandom get much, much more fan interest than others. There have always been popular blockbuster movies, books are dominated by bestsellers, anime and manga have always been dominated by shounen works which have fandoms much larger than all the other anime and manga debuting in the year combined. Those fandoms don't seem to have their hackles raised permanently when discussing the popular properties. Instead fans of the broader medium recognize that they are a fan of the medium as a whole instead of the most popular properties. The TTRPG space seems uniquely bitter.

Even aside from the silly 5E spat, the loudest TTRPG voices tend to strongly prefer story games and the old Forge forum had a legacy of using hyperbolic language to criticize adjacent styles that were mostly a matter of taste. In my experience, TTRPG discourse is quite bad and mostly involves talking up your preferences and criticizing others'. I enjoy the hobby but really hate the childish, camp-obsessed discourse. I tend to stick to the spaces of systems I like because there's less us-vs-them going on.

The anti-D&D snark at the NASA adventure is a great example. I can think of 4 non-D&D-lineage (so non-OSR) systems that the adventure is trivial to convert to. But instead of producing translations of the adventure or thanking the NASA folks for releasing a free adventure, the TTRPG world seems to be yet again trying to find the smallest thing they can to get angry over.
Very good points! And yes, I can see what you’re talking about rent movement wise.

The challenge though is that at least the Fed data doesn’t seem to support it across the industry, at least as far as I can tell. Rents seem to be moving in almost lockstep with inflation (and fed rates?), and have been since before COVID started. Which is odd in itself, actually, and I think might support the case of ‘have to raise rents or our financing will collapse and we’ll go insolvent’. I’m wondering if these large complex vacancies are inversely correlated? If so, seems like an opportunity to short something somewhere.

I’d argue there is a third market option here too. While someone can quit drinking soda, they can’t quit having a roof over their heads.

Well, technically they can and increasing homelessness is proof of that - but that is a very extreme option with incredibly high costs, so we’ll ignore that for now.

But if remote work is an option, or if the local salaries don’t support the higher rents, people can and will move, or double up, or sublet, etc. Or just go bankrupt, and be out of the ‘renter’ pool that way.

The inflexibility of real estate does mean it takes time for all this to play out, but in your $1 million/wk option, the inevitable outcomes here seem to be:

1) the apartments keep that crazy price, have zero (or near zero - until the few crazy renters went bankrupt) renters, and eventually go bankrupt themselves. Since even if they have a cash cushion, that cushion will run out eventually. High financing costs mean they’ll even be unable to get business loans to cover cashflow issues, which would typically give them more breathing room.

And since local renters don’t make enough to pay that rent anyway ($52/mil a year on rent is hard to pay), and even hotels or SFH rentals would be dramatically cheaper. Why would Jeff Bezos want to rent one of these, after all, and he’d be one of the few would could?

or

2) have legislation passed which outlaws what they are doing by setting rent caps or the like (and there would be plenty of support).

or

3) have their properties burned to the ground by pitchfork wielding mobs.

Possibly all 3 at the same time?

Alternatively, what I think they’re all hoping for, is that income inflation for renters means renters will be willing and able to pay these higher rates, and they’ll be saved by a post-COVID boom and everyone will actually be - at worst - moderately grumpy.

Which may happen!
Stirling’s approximation?
>"Please provide me with the full name and address of your counsel so I may know to whom I should address subsequent correspondence."

>If not, report to the relevant bar association that [name] is presenting themselves as licensed to practice law (don't be spooky, send the full details to the bar association).

In the US, at least, are people not allowed to represent themselves as their own counsel?
> Some people love to drive but having the option to sip your coffee and read the news in a not-overcrowded bus going from across your street to the office building with say only one change in the same time driving requires,

I don't believe anywhere with mass transit offers this kind of experience during commute hours.

I think this is a fairy tale story about transit that just plain does not and cannot exist for a meaningful amount of time, especially as cities become more and more densely populated.
What I know about re-entry is that while out of the atmosphere it was using star charts to determine location.

My favorite fact is that the hard drive also acted as the clock. Each rotation grabbed the program codes from the disk to execute them.
My 20 year old HP laser jet costs me a minimum of $0 to run per month. And if I go 6 months without printing, it still costs me $0 a month. The math doesn’t line up, it’s a cash grab plain and simple.
I can't believe people would do this, just share and republish copyrighted works over the internet. I'm in shock and in disbelief.

Anyways...

Is RedPajama 30T and The Pile "all you need" ? ;)
Which is why everyone bordering any empire currently looks for nukes or nuke eqivalents,as the American reliability falls apart. Must be fun to work at the iaa nowadays.
> Why isn't there a NATO base in the US where German military etc. "hang out"?

Because Russia is in Europe, not in the US.
The green wall isn’t in the Sahara. It’s across sub-Saharan Africa, trying to keep the Sahara from spreading, not cover it with trees.
My bad, I assumed if you have plastics on your body then you have it in your arteries. If not then I want to know how to not get that stuff in my arteries.

Put another way, say you and I both have occluded arteries, and we are both inhaling and ingesting microplastics because they're inescapable. I have plastic in my clogs and you do not. What are you doing differently?
Upvote on Brother and refills from Costco.
An HP P4515x.

Tough to find accurate information on the actual price and release date, BUT this is what ChatGPT said (take with a grain of salt):

> me: when was the HP P4515x released? Roughly how much did it cost?

> ChatGPT: The HP LaserJet P4515x printer was released in 2008. It was designed for businesses with high-volume printing needs. At launch, the price of the HP LaserJet P4515x was around $1,800 to $2,000, although prices could vary based on the retailer and any additional features or accessories purchased with the printer. Keep in mind that the cost for such a printer model would likely decrease over time due to the introduction of new models and advancements in technology.

So I was mistaken, it wasn't $4000 new, it was closer to $2000, and it's closer to 15-16 years old. That's what I get for writing stuff without double checking.

I didn't pay anywhere near that, I bought it in 2020 used for like $150. The UberXL I had to take to get it back to my house was like another $80.

ETA: I should point out that if you decide to buy one, make sure you buy a RAM upgrade as well. It comes with too small of memory for modern documents; when it prints even moderately sized PDFs you just get an out of memory error. I bought the 512MB RAM expansion for very little (I'm having trouble finding the listing that I bought from, but I think it was on the order of $25 on eBay with shipping). Once I did the upgrade, it's been a perfectly decent printer; it doesn't do color but I almost never need color; all I ever print are documents, generally created with LaTeX, and it works fine.

Also, if you decide to buy this specific model, email me about the firmware upgrade process. HP's documentation on doing it is actually wrong and I had to figure it out myself, and the trial and error process cost me an entire ream of paper!
That's not a fundamental difference but a difference of convention. A lot of us have been in the convention long enough that it seems like a fundamental.
The linked-to piece isn't only about bikes, but also improved pedestrian use.

> The results show that making streets friendlier for bikes — and sidewalks friendlier for pedestrians — is actually good for business. The rise of “complete streets” and “road diets,” as urban planners call them, has been a huge boon to businesses in cities.

What were the two cities you refer to?

In general, people tend to see the "spandex bros", but not the poorer people who bike due to economic necessity. If we know what cities you refer to we might be able to dig up the relevant traffic studies.
Sweden hosts US troops already. There was no reason to wait for Orban and Erdogan for that.
>> Article 5

>> The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

>> such action as it seems necessary, including the use of armed force

There's no mandatory requirement to deploy specific weapons, but I believe all NATO forces would be subordinate to CMC (rotating) and SACEUR (has always been a US leader)? Inasmuch as multinational command structures work.
That is not going to drive clicks. You can achieve the same using $5 bucks (seed) device with a battery. I bought the transparent version of flipper. It is collecting dust. It is good for teaching the curious minds.
Yes! Here is some I managed to quickly dig up:

- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02876-5

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33648632/

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6364961/

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34915762/

- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35918311/

BIG DISCLAIMER before you read the next bits: I'm not a researcher/scientist in this field, but psychedelics have helped me get a handle on CPTSD, process trauma.

My take on this is that microdosing probably still has some acute benefits, since it still does alters brain chemistry. So, can it be helpful? Probably, but it should come with a big "YMMV" disclaimer.

In the context of psilocybin, my understanding is that it doesn't give long-term benefits as a "macro" dose would like DMN regulation[1] and neuroplasticity[2]; a lot of people tend to attribute these to microdosing too, but apparently it's not the case[3]. Also, due to tolerance build up, so you start getting diminishing returns from microdosing, so it's not effective long-term (even with the Fadiman microdosing protocol where you take breaks; I think there's other protocols that claims to lessen the diminishing returns). I don't think LSD triggers these physiological changes in the brain, but it's believed it can helps with the psychological aspects.

I don't take them regularly anymore (I used to take them every couple of months during a rough patch in my life, but I also did therapy on-and-off during that period too). I now take them every few years as to check-in with myself, or special occasions.

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10032309
[2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6082376; I feel like there was a another study on this too, but I can't find it now, sorry!
[3]: Only briefly discussed by Huberman in his podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIxVfln02Ss. I recommend watching the video in its entirety; it's great!
You know, there used to be a standard on how shortcuts were presented, that the developer didn't even have to think about because it was handled by the GUI widgets, and didn't require mouse interaction (but worked with the mouse too).

Every single application used to follow it.
NATO is the greatest power projection project the in the history of the world, and is in no small part why the US has achieved hegemonic status. The ability for the US to wage wars on the opposite side of the globe without major logistical issues is greatly aided by NATO bases that are simultaneously in very friendly territory, and much closer to the action.

NATO membership also means NATO equipment, which the US's military-industrial complex disproportionate benefits from, but also serves as lock-in: those extremely expensive aircraft are basically scrap without the appropriate service contracts and part availability, meaning any military that aligns itself with the US's tech is far less likely to be able to wage wars we don't approve of.

NATO also brings stability: nuclear red-line borders are unlikely to be invaded, reducing the chances of conflicts that are bad for business. A peaceful world is a profitable world, and those profits disproportionately go to the US.

NATO also provides soft power projection: NATO membership is a huge boon to its members, which grants the US leverage politically to encourage member states to adopt pro-US policies.
And these aren’t even the cities with great bike infrastructure.

Sounds like we have a long way to go.
...psychedelics have been around for thousands of years.
People like trippin'.
I've seen a handful on my local FB marketplace lately (nowhere near Hollywood or anywhere that you'd expect to see them) but ~$5k for a Epic-X Dragon with a lens.
My point is that the Israeli / pro-Israeli leaders - the ones who understand asymmetric warfare - calling Hamas somehow evil for doing it are spreading disingenuous propaganda. They know very well that an asymmetric force must blend into its surroundings. The Taliban blended into the mountains; Hamas blends into densely populated Gaza.

Hamas does a lot of bad things; they still are 'notorious'; but this thing is just fundamental asymmetric operations, at least generally speaking.
Seems like you have the power of saying "NO" but you are being non-confrontational.

Just be firm and say NO. Be professional about it. Get a Lawyer and be prepared.

Prioritize the company over this personal drama.

If she is indeed proving to be worth 10%, and contributing to an exponential growth then give it time and assess the situation in an year.
Extraordinary opinions call for elaboration.
It's still HP's fault. It's their business model and people will be people, including the too clever for their own good, irrational skinflints that are prone to raging on line.

Behavior is frequently hard to anticipate, but this isn't one of those cases. If your scheme involves everyone comprehending subscription terms you've failed: people don't do that, for better or worse.
> Harvard pays their president over $1million one year. It's gone beyond ridiculous.

Not really. There are software developers in Cambridge, MA making $300-$400K a year.

The problem is not the salary of individual administrators, but the bloated number of them.
Finland and Northern Europe prove this to be false
The TikTokers Are Revolting
You should go simple and pick something like Python, add some unit tests to check your logic is sound. Everyone would understand Python, easy to edit and update.
This a standard Russian talking point. It's a red herring and a fairly weak justification for Russian aggression in Ukraine.

The US can make demands and so can anyone. In the case of Cuba they were met by the Soviets willingly who withdrew their missiles and made a deal with the US.

Russia objects to NATO membership because it makes bullying and invasion of those with NATO membership impractical. It doesn't threaten Russia but rather it weakens Russia's hand and that is its main complaint. It didn't have a basis for a deal with NATO or the US. Russia has had nukes adjacent to NATO countries for a long time.

There is no moral justification for invasion unless you've already been invaded by that party.
The taxes were based on land valuation. This was already a relatively low income part of town, and having direct access to the light rail was seen as a value add. It was likely also a secondary effect of the new luxury style apartments that were built.

I lived relatively close to it for a few years (all before the rail was put in and during construction), but definitely wouldn't live there again.
> Germany is a vassal of the United States

No.
It gets pretty sluggish when you're working with really really big solutions (in my experience).
Agreed. And the example of crashing due to a NULL file descriptor is in the minority. Often C error handling involves checking errno. This is routinely ignored, and when some call "fails", the code continues to some point later where things don't quite work right. When this happens, it's usually much harder to determine the cause, given that the root failure context is gone.

I'm my experience, C developers sometimes just dislike exceptions in other languages because exceptions defy C code path expectations. That was my first instinct when going from C to other languages. And so additional arguments against exceptions are put forth, including performance issues (which are real) and this idea of paranoia being better than language tooling (which is rather suspect imo).
Occam's Razor would suggest we just don't have the technology to detect them, you'd need extra reasoning to explain why earth is unique among thousands of trillions of planets.
> using technology to prevent yet another of earth's natural processes.

Agriculture prevents a lot of earth's natural processes and has been doing so for millennia. We, as humans living in a relatively advanced civilization prevent earth's natural process just by living an urban area. I really don't see your point.
We changed the URL from https://gorisanson.github.io/pikachu-volleyball/en/ to the one that has more technical detail. Both are worth looking at!
Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed over 200,000 - almost entirely civilians. And those were tiny little bombs relative to what exists now a days. The biggest nuke ever tested, Tsar Bomba, is more than 3,000 more powerful than those.

And many don't seem to realize what nuclear war will be like. It's not going to be two sides launching little tactical nukes at each other's armies. If nuclear war breaks out, the involved countries are going to try to eliminate the other country. Not their army or their military, which can be rebuilt, but literally completely destroy the other country. US nuclear targets were declassified some time back. [1] While we did of course focus on trying to eliminate Soviet air capability, we were also planning to extensively bomb civilian population centers, medical production centers, industry, and more. And it's 100% guaranteed that the Soviet target list looked pretty similar.

Conventional war is nothing even remotely comparable to what nuclear war will entail.

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/23/us/politics/1950s-us-nucl...
It has been quite common knowledge that one of the US' biggest fears has always been a strong German industry paired with cheap Russian energy. It's not like Trump or anyone else had to raise some kind of alert here. The dependency was quite obvious and a choice by Germany.

Unfortunately they're nothing but a vassal NATO outpost by now so the deindustrialization is probably going to continue until some far right party takes over.
Unironically correct.

European defense contractors completely skipped making fifth gen fighters (other than some partnerships with the US on theirs), so there are literally no European fifth gen options on the table to even consider. This makes it pretty easy for the F-35 to cruise to victory in competitive selection processes, it's simply more advanced.

Hopefully this changes for sixth gen, with the two different European programs there. While I'm American myself, I think things work out better if there's some friendly competition.
1BRC merykitty’s magic SWAR: 8 lines of code explained in 3k words
Counterpoint: I live in Montréal, and the city tracks cycling usage via (infrared?) counters on major bike paths.

Last year there were 1.5 _million_ trips on a single section of a dedicated cycling path that runs through a very commercial part of town. We have so much bike traffic that there are bike-only traffic jams and long queues at stop lights (again, all on the dedicated/separated bike path). And you better believe that a lot of people shop on their bikes, myself included.
Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix
I’m domestic (my mother was born in Pak), I did a stint as an instructor so I don’t TA anymore. But even when I did they could be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Check out the style of bike called a bakfiets (or any other cargo bike) it's a game changer. I have carried my wife and groceries a couple of times, and also picked up lumber and tools with it.

Granted they're expensive (compared to most bikes), but it costs me about an ebike most of the time that my car goes into the shop, and my e-bakfiets has never needed any repairs that I was not able to do myself (even if you take it some place it's much cheaper).
The Human Side of Software Engineering Teams
This is probably apocryphal: I heard about a manual, made by technical writers for whom English was a second language, that labeled intentionally blank pages depending on whether they fell on the left or right side of the book: "This page left intentionally blank" and "This page right intentionally blank".

Edit: Some search-engining confirms this is actually true.
They did a significant amount of work themselves of taking other peoples datasets and including them without the work of the original author needing to submit the full PR to do it. I was then and to this day remain extremely busy

Also this was before most datasets were hosted conveniently on huggingface.

It's all tears in the rain now.
I don't buy that idea, an economy full of very poor people who can barely afford anything is not sustainable not at the national level and not at the global level.

Countries with very low wages are also countries with very low productivity (throwing cheap labour instead of technology and expertise at problems)
seems like a humiliation ritual
Putin's war isn't a useful term though, because there are so many of them.

Regarding change from "that Russia" to the modern one, I'm afraid there has been change, to the worse. The Soviet incarnation of the empire was at least nominally bound to the progressive ideas of socialism (which is completely orthogonal to wether those ideas are workable or not), whereas the current incarnation is openly worshipping the fascist ideas of strength and domination, and the struggle to get there.

When Russians claim that they don't understand why someone would willingly ally with others who don't prove worthy by actively coercing them, chances are it's genuine, they really don't understand. Sometimes I wonder if their language even has a word for friendship based on equality that is separate from an asymmetric allegiance based on status gradient. Perhaps all the non-gradient terminology was gobbled up by socialist ideology and now the very idea of peers is out, except where seeing it through the socialist lense still fits?
Hard to imagine a framework for thinking about this where "hand-dug" matters, but unfortunately I think it comes down to things like this.
Are there any? I think 99.9% of them are Leica “owners” rather than “shooters”. You can’t even properly manually focus on a 60mp sensor with a rangefinder.