skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it amusing that many folks here are ready to clap back at this comment about how "but people want single family homes" as if that weren't why we are in a housing crisis. Yes... people want single family homes, it's just not feasible to put 3M people into single family homes in a metro area without absorbing an unsustainable amount of costs.

Here we are talking literally the cost of construction, but there is also the cost of infrastructure, and the cost of transport. The reason we have a housing crisis is because as much as we all love single family homes, they aren't universalizable. If everyone were to live in a single family home, then after the transportation infrastructure reaches capacity, there is a cascade of issues that leads a region becoming totally unaffordable and ultimately unsustainable.

I would recommend the Strong Towns organization for anyone more interested in the interaction between long-term affordability issues and surburban infrastructure problems: https://www.strongtowns.org
Crazy what we had to do before fully digital circuits.

Also, that GO/STOP traffic “light”!!!
> However, at the population level there is no evidence that masking confers any benefit in preventing the spread of COVID.

1) Several studies from India seem to contradict this and barely had enough statistical power to be useful.

2) The fact that we can't generate a masking study with sufficient statistical power does NOT disprove the hypothesis--either direction.

Citing your source:
"The high risk of bias in the trials, variation in outcome measurement, and relatively low adherence with the interventions during the studies hampers drawing firm conclusions."

This one REALLY grinds my gears. "Well the study said that masks don't work". No, it fucking didn't. It said they couldn't prove they worked given the data and quality of data they had. And the data was lousy as adherence by the general population was terrible.

Things can work and still not be provable--especially when the experiment involves human beings since morally we can't just create two groups and infect one.

Here's your counterexample: take a look at what hospitals are still doing when handling Covid patients. Hospitals get to collect data and enforce adherence. They absolutely do not want to transfer Covid between patients. And they do not want to transfer Covid to their staff as that throws things into disarray. Whatever they're doing seems to be working. I had a stint in the hospital recently, and they had several Covid patients on my floor--they weren't isolated to a specific wing or anything anymore. The hospital managed to not give Covid to me, so something they are doing is working.

So, what that suggests is that procedures and masks work just fine. What seems to be problematic is lack of adherence to said procedures and masks.

Basically, what all of these studies manage to prove is that the general population has enough non-compliant dipshits that active interventions don't work at the population level. Consequenctly, vaccines and other passive interventions that take into account the stupidity of the general population are required.
American multi-family dwellings are constructed so poorly compared to other countries. You should not be able to hear your neighbors in a modern apartment building or hotel. Unfortunately since building permits and zoning restrictions are so tight, many MFD owning/renting Americans are living in buildings that are over 50 years old.
Where do you live that 4k sqft homes are the only new construction? I live in a major metro area and sure in the outskirts and suburbs there’s plenty of McMansion developments, but there’s also a whole host of new townhomes and apartments. And the entire downtown is practically being rebuilt into massive multi story apartments. And this is hardly the center of YIMBY land.
"Or to put it another way, while 33% of the homeless population suffers from mental illness, nearly 100% of the homeless population can’t afford housing. 100% is a much bigger number than 33%. Which is why mental health, while a factor in homelessness, cannot possibly or statistically be a lead factor."

The quality of the analysis and arguments are terrible. We can just ignore factors if they don't explain everything? And why is it missing a section on the biggest correlating factor - lack of employment? The severe mental health and substance abuse (with other factors like criminal records) greatly impact one's ability to get any job. Affordability is a moot point for people in these categories as without a job, you can't afford anything. It would be better to do more granular analysis on those who are employed but homeless. That is likely to be the marginal diffence explained in the housing cost section.
The weird thing to me is how little concern there is for sale of data by any social media company. Very intimate details about many Americans lives can easily be purchased by US adversaries. That’s reportedly the motivation for the bill but effectively it really only change who is profiting from the data by forcing a bargain price for a foreign company and directing the ongoing revenue to us company vs a Chinese company.

I suppose it would be easier to regulate a us based company should the rules around user data sale change but this bill alone effectively does nothing to advance the security principles the bill is sold on beside make it slightly more expensive for the Chinese government to use the data.
> After some time in kind of free markets the common people win

Any time now!

It's a very elegant idea, but maybe not the most empirically robust.
Not sure the article ("original post") makes that claim either. It just asserts that mass timber is (probably) not in fact cheaper, and has not been/is not going to accelerate building of more housing. A solution, i.e. what "we desperately need", is not covered in the article.
16. Now parge the lath
When a large chunk of the middle-class is counting on their home value to facilitate retirement, they're rightfully concerned about urbanization of their neighborhood.

I personally believe they're mostly wrong - urbanization probably won't harm home values. And done well, might improve the values even more.
How times have changed. At the time, I would also have been into reverse engineering it.

Today I think I should make an RNN to solve it, and how fast I can get Applesoft BASIC to run for training.
I don't know the UK situation in much depth but one of the things I read was how they were disconnected from the rest of the community (socially, services, transport, etc).
The move escalates a showdown between Beijing and Washington over the control of technologies that could affect national security, free speech and the social media industry.

I will get beat up for this question but here goes. They are using the word "could". Does this mean there is no evidence of TikTok exfiltrating sensitive intelligence data to the CCP? The reason I ask is that if this were actually taking place there would be no need to vote on breaking up TikTok or even mention the US constitution. Such actions would immediately be an act of war or at very least trigger sanctions. So is the real purpose of this to mitigate war or to confine US communications to platforms that the US already has intercept and social manipulation capabilities on or something else beyond the reasons given in the article?
NumPy vs. BLAS: Losing 90% of Throughput
Probably some sort of imitation learning
People turn to things like viewing world only in extremes, if it subconsiously validates their viewpoints or life choices. We all fall into this trap to certain extent.

Another case point - lived my whole life in apartments (thats how much of Europe runs), and preferred to buy another one instead of almost similarly-sized house. And I like cooking a lot and currently getting a maybe bit too much into various cuisines via youtube.

Once you grok few basic concepts and rules its amazing how much one can achieve with little and some skills. Plus its creativity to the max, which everybody appreciates too. Also improves your health (better ingredients, you can make stuff with less sugar/fat).

Bad thing is, your average restaurant wont feel that fancy anymore.
Could just be a retention thing. Unless legally mandated, why retain video footage longer than required?
You can easily get housing affordability crises even without single family homes, as is plainly evident right now in non-North-American cities.

It's a bit of a red herring. You end up sitting in traffic for an hour instead of standing on a bus or train for an hour for your commute, and other knock-on differences like that, which can be debated for various other reasons like ecological impact, but you still end up running into the same issues around ability to do new, denser constrution, desire of new, denser construction, and political issues and resistance to change regardless of if your urban area is full of SFH or 5-story buildings.

Is "make today's cities larger and denser forever" really the solution? Or can we figure out ways to disperse and decentralize things instead of just feeding more money back into the hands of those who own and control the current cities?
New residents don't just include immigrants: it's also all future inhabitants of the place.

Your perspective amounts to existing residents extracting all the economic value in a location simply because they bought land there first.

That's ridiculously inefficient and toxic at a national scale. Or even at a local scale, over 40-50years.

One important paper on the topic calculated 50% GDP losses in the US because of large metro areas being too expensive to move into [1]

1. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w21154/w211...
The US government working with social media companies to censor Americans (and other people) on those platforms is also pretty bad, yes. My impression is that their influence is much weaker and more marginal than is the case with the CCP and tiktok, though. But I would be sympathetic to other countries banning US social media on the ground of US govt influence.
I hadn't even noticed this leap in logic. Good catch.
>How many democratic governments have been overthrown with US assistance because it benefited oil or fruit companies?

This century? None. The civilized world has progressed. Hopefully our Chinese and Russian friends can catch up some day.
We have this: https://twitter.com/PamKeithFL/status/1767922368997970380

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/tiktok-ban-israel-...

https://www.newarab.com/news/us-pro-israel-jewish-group-back...

Most of the time the lobbying isn't happening out in public. But once it takes momentum, the lobbies usually start publicly backing it.
Don't do that. Don't give me hope.
Space Camp and the X-Men-Ification of Trans People
Since we're here talking about Vim, hope everyone doesn't mind me asking this question!

This is specifically about neovim, but I've run into the same issue with regular Vim too. I want to install and use packages like NERDTree and maybe an LSP. I do not want to have to install Node for these plugins. If I want to add plugins to neovim, is it pretty much a given I also have to maintain a Node install?
Imagine setting up a Beowulf cluster of these /s
Yep! I haven't read the article, but the core issue that DevOps is trying to solve is the old division between coding and deployment/ops.

Back in the day you would have one team writing code, and another team managing the infrastructure + deployment.

The problem with this team breakdown is the lack of ownership and the delay in feedback. Devs aren't incentivised to make the software work well, and SREs aren't incentivised to deploy new versions of software. DevOps should be a strategy to resolve these dysfunctions.

Unfortunately, most companies just renamed their infra roles to devops roles, and called it a day. They weren't resolving their core dysfunctions in their team composition.
how can i find her email address
Well you seemed prone to sensationalism to begin with, but this:

> 18-year-old children

just confirmed it. An 18-year-old is an adult with a right to own and bear a firearm by the 2nd amendment. A person is not a drone, and an 18-year-old is not a child.
ANYmal Parkour: Learning Agile Navigation for Quadrupedal Robots
Some similarities: though when app embedded we are not using a user space TCP stack, we have a suite of SDKs so that you can embed the ingress/egress, authentication, mTLS, E2EE, etc directly into your app, really easily - https://openziti.io/docs/reference/developer/sdk/. When using the Ziti tunnelers on host OS we use a TCP stack.
I'd love to understand maybe by an example.

How does the model decrypt the text if it does not have the key? If the model has the key why encrypt in the first play?
A US citizen distributing foreign media themselves is quite different than what is effectively a directly controlled broadcast owned by a foreign government.
maybe I'm wrong, but I think Tablecloth was developed as part of Darklang.
Our old editor was written in ReScript (or whatever names it had before) and OCaml. Tablecloth offered a 'common' lib for rescript and ocaml. Then when we ported the F# backend, we added an F# lib too. We killed our usage a few months ago, though
I'll consider it when they start eating their own dog food
Use Python then.
What a weird straw-man.

I live in a 600sq ft 2-bedroom apartment with my wife, and we cook nearly every meal at home, we rarely go out to bars, or spend much money in the city.

But we have 6-7 cute cafes within a 5 minute walk, so we stop in for a coffee now and then. We have a big park that we can picnic in, three blocks away. There are a ton of fun things to do for cheap or free nearby.

We don’t need a ton of space at home because our city provides us a lot of happiness.

If you can walk to handle all of your basic needs, then you don’t need to have so much at home, is the point that the GP was making.

For example, we keep much less food at home in Europe than we used to in the US, because I can just drop by the veggie stand or mini-grocery on my walk/bike home from work and get a fresh version of whatever I want to cook that night.

We don’t need a beer fridge because there is a beer store selling cold beer cans within a block of us, and with way more selection.
No, the CAP requirements are not at all as absurd as that article claims.

For the specific quote you gave, that is an obvious assumption. A client only has access to some of the nodes in the distributed system. Of course we want any node to give the correct answer - the whole purpose is to reduce the burden on the client. The client is not responsible for searching all of the nodes. And note that the proof doesn't actually require that all nodes return the right answer - the contradiction is reached as long as all the nodes that the client has access to return the wrong answer.

Another bad claim in the article is that the proof of CAP requires that the partition is permanent. Maybe it's written like that for simplicity, but it obviously only requires the partition to be longer than the client's bound on response time. If the client is willing to wait an hour for a response, then any partition event that's two hours long will lead to the same conclusion. Since clients never have unbounded time to wait, and since partition duration is unbounded even if not permanent, then the argument still holds.

Also, major network outages that disconnect whole regions of the internet for hours from the rest of the world happen somewhat regularly (more than once a year). Whole AWS regions have become disconnected, ~half of Japan was disconnected for a few hours, Ukraine has been disconnected several times, etc. If you run a large distributed system for a significant amount of time, you will hit such events with probability approaching 1.
This would be cool to see as a game dev CI tool, an end-to-end playthrough test which would validate not only UI but the writing and game flow. Imagine getting a report that says something like "time to chop first tree: +20%"
"AI heats the planet"... really? You mean marginally?

I'll assume you're asking in good faith. Using NNs allows this project to stand on the shoulders of giants: philosophically, mathematically, programmatically, but also I expect this to plug in to OSS LLMs, and leverage their knowledge, similarly to how a human child learns in a Pavlovian/intuitive response, and only later starts to learn to reason.

Wrt inefficiency, training will be inefficient, but the programs can be extracted to CPU instructions / CUDA kernels during inference. Also, I'm interested in using straight through estimators in the forward pass of training, to do this conversion in training too.

Cyc looks cool, but from my cursory glance, is it capable of learning, or is its knowledge graph largely hand coded? Neurallambda is at least as scalable as an RNN, both in data and compute utilization.
Does the belinograph need syncing though? I imagine you would just have a waste ribbon around the photo and start it after the call with say a delay you both agreed too. Or maybe you could send light in some known pattern with a starter strip and the receiver could look at the lamp.

Attenuation most have been a problem though? I guess you could send some sort of calibration photo to adjust gain? I don't think practical FM signal modulation was a thing yet in the 30s?
Interesting. Yeah, I'm broadly not sure how the first amendment applies to this TikTok bill, if at all.

I think TikTok is a security risk, but it seems to me that if the govt can ban TikTok, it can legally ban any foreign media. Which doesn't seem ideal from a free speech perspective.
>If China is unwilling to allow US companies to compete fairly in their digital ecosystem, why the hell should we continue to grant Chinese firms unrestricted access to our market?

Because there is value in holding the moral high ground.
I once needed to install a specific version of a package on my nix environment. It took me 2 hours to find how...

After a few months, I needed to do that again, but now the project supported devenv.sh. It took me 5 min.

That experience also repeated for other kinds of tasks, for example: start postgres (or redis or elasticsearch or cassandra...), install packages only if the host system is `darwin`, install old versions of packages that aren't on the registry anymore, etc...
Not the point, but firefighters actually respond to few fires (presumably better electrical codes or smokers falling asleep with a cigarette). Most of their work is now supplemental EMT, locked houses, cats in trees, etc.

This 2018 report (https://www.statista.com/statistics/376683/number-of-fire-de...) shows some 23 million medical emergencies to 1.5 million fire call responses.
> The yokes are mechanically connected up until you apply enough force to break the connection. The feedback you get as a result serves as a warning

Considering that the feedback you get might be due to outside forces, having no clear indication that the yokes are desynchronised is an issue.
Ironic that china (the dish ware) was coined[1] for a common source of porcelain at the time, China?

[1] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/china#English

Edit: Capitalization
> Mistake #1 : switching to an even more closed computing environment, where user has strictly no control

I've been with Google Nexus and Pixels for many years, roughly starting with the Nexus One. Ironically, I switched from an iphone 3GS at the time that I owned for a few months.

After many years of being on windows, then linux, then Mac, then back to linux, now back to Mac with linux on ssh, my conclusion is that user control doesn't necessarily mean a better user experience. A closed computing environment allows for consistency and sturdiness. When you start looking at your phone as a device, rather than as a computer, it becomes obvious.

> Mistake #2 : running on a tech. stack you do not control: closed-source, walled-garden

I don't control android in any way. I could read its source code if I really, really wanted to but why would I? I want a product. A device. Would you read the source code of your washing machine? Dish washer? At some point you want to live your life and stop reading anything and everything as if you actually have enough time to tinker with all of it.

> Mistake #3 : using a wallet instead of your own private cold storage to hold any kind of significant amounts of money

Meh. 'Significant amounts of money' is subjective. Some would say the amount of money I lost would be a life changer, some would shrug it off as a yearly bonus on the lower end of the scale. Fact is, I had my bitcoin on some version of a pixel for roughly 7 years and never had a problem.

> Mistake #4 : trusting that Apple is making huge efforts to secure their environment.

They made a huge effort to secure their hardware; its some of the best in the world. The thing is they put a ton of focus on hardware security but hardly enough on software / service stuff. In this case, the app store search was compromised by some bots leaving reviews.

Your general theme seems to rely on having access to open source on all levels leads to more security.

This is patently false. For example, the vast majority of smartphones use baseband processors that are not just closed source with closed source drivers, but the ICs themselves are tightly guarded secrets by their manufacturer (probably Qualcomm). There are probably a dozen or so chips in every smartphone running all sorts of firmware you have no access to. Same goes for computers.

In fact, I would argue that Apple's model might be the most secure, because they do SoC, which requires they know far more about and have much more control over the inner workings of every sub component.
404s: A place to find all those lost pages worth finding
The third book of the series was my favorite thanks to those two corvid characters (the sentience versus intelligence being alluded to, for those who haven't read the book). Their little monologue (duologue? actually, monologue?) to Doctor Kern about sentience at the end of the book was so interesting.
I end up stuck forgetting how to get out of nano more than vi(m).

Someone should make a safe "get out of any editor" sequence. Kind of like those universal remotes that send all the codes for each button.
So in the last ~48 hours a major whistleblower turns up dead and evidence ends up destroyed. Hell of a company.
Agreed, but to have NO documentation about the work, at all?
>> why just 44GB tho???

You can order one with 1.2 Petabytes of external memory. Is that enough?

"External memory: 1.5TB, 12TB, or 1.2PB"

https://www.cerebras.net/press-release/cerebras-announces-th...

"214Pb/s Interconnect Bandwidth"

https://www.cerebras.net/product-system/
Agree with all of it. I will give an example of place where in practice there is no NIMBYism, one can build more or less any shape or size of building depending on lot size. Apartments are priced as much as $200-250K which adjusted to purchasing power parity would be like 2 million dollar condo/home in US. Now they are suffering huge water shortage due to over exploitation of resources.

This is leading to people running away from the city[1]

1. https://www.deccanherald.com/india/karnataka/bengaluru/techi...
Listening to foreign radio stations on shortwave and listening their propaganda is also not illegal in the US.