skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is kind of what I'm talking about.

There is data backing up that early morning sun is better. It being light out when kids go to school and when we drive to work is more important. There are also things about our circadian rhythms and what not.

The "more hours of sun" is only an issue in the winter. In the summer/spring/fall, the sun goes down at reasonable enough times for you to still do all of your recreation. But in the winter, the sun is going to go down earlier anyway. And what sort of after-work recreation are you doing that requires the sun to be out?
> The pedagogical level is far higher than what seems common today.

This is a growing pet peeve of mine. I used to think that advancing media formats and productions tools would generally make conveying knowledge faster, better and deeper. Instead, we see most media intentionally engaging in overall 'dumbification'. It's not just more content being shorter or more summarized, as I'm trying to compare 'apples to apples' here in terms of content targeting, length etc.
Do you think that Hamas (or supporting countries) has successfully been using psyops/propoganda?

Anti-Israel skew is not being driven by government interests. Well, except for multiple hamfisted footguns by Israel (where their influence has backfired causing harm to Israel).
Yes, it’s totally rational to want to live in a SFH. That’s the beauty of allowing (not requiring) other types of construction: people like me who don’t want to live in a SFH can and people who want to live in a SFH can continue to.

I even suspect SFH owners will see some benefits. Their underlying land will become more valuable as the parent explains but SFH buyers will no longer be competing against people who don’t really want a SFH but have to rent or buy one because that’s all that’s available. A lot of my friends end up doing a group house thing with 4-5 people because they have to live somewhere without apartments.
Yes, but the point is the sentenced time for federal crimes tends to be much closer to the result of calculations under the federal sentencing guidelines than it is to the statutory maximum for the charged offenses.
> I don't see how Nvidia has to do anything since PyTorch works just fine on their GPUs

It was an example. The example was: competition from pytorch meant that tensorflow had to improve their DX to keep up.
The Beauty of Writing
I don’t get the impression that materials are the rate limiting element of the housing crisis
War of the Wordles: did the New York Times go too far?
I hear this a lot but I'm pretty sure China has mindless social media apps like we do. I think it's called Douyin or something, if you go to https://www.douyin.com/discover you'll even see the tiktok logo. I'm pretty sure you can only watch people help the elderly cross the street so many times before you start looking for something more entertaining.

For example do an internet search for Chinese people live streaming under a bridge. I'm pretty sure these people are not all demonstrating job skills.
I think technically you could probably have a western social media app in China. Just you would need to partner with a Chinese company, have all the data on chinese servers, give the chinese government access on demand and censor what they don't like. Most western companies logically think that handing over your IP, all the control and half the local profits is not really worth it.
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I wouldn't spend time dwelling on this. You're right & it's not possible to work well with everyone. The original post indicated difficulty getting to the interview stage. We have basically no information about your social skills or if that's the cause of anything.
I've owned flatbeds since the original SCSI CanoScan 300 in 1994 (couldn't afford the 600dpi CanoScan 600 then), so I'm jaded. The digital camera option works, but only if you have a high-CRI light source, a proper macro lens and a good copy stand. The Fujitsu SV600 is an excellent option as well.

Museums actually used scanning large-format backs like the Better Light Dicomed, a flatbed scanner-like back that slots into a 4x5" large-format camera, so the camera is also a scanner...
Id consider that they're a US nexus since they accept American dollars, therefore the US constitution should apply.

Unless they've committed some crime, the property ownership should be protected
They only remove support for 32-bit OSes, not for running 32 bit code in general:

> To further clarify, 32-bit x86 user-space software would continue to work on modern 64-bit operating systems with X86-S.

A lot of Windows binaries, including most Electron apps, are still 32 bit, and are run unmodified on 64 bit Windows.
No, it's an attempt to force them to sell it. The us government has zero motivation to ban any social media site.
This sounds like a maladaptive freeze response (fight/flight/freeze/fawn responses). My wife was the same way. She was basically completely shutdown physically and emotionally because before I met her she was stuck in an emotionally incestuous relationship with her father after her mother passed away.

It's taken more than 10 years (mostly because we didn't know anything about anything emotional until recently and therefore couldn't get her help), but she's finally getting past a lot of the symptoms you mention.
> I think the primary argument for banning TikTok should be based on reciprocity rather than moral and/or security concerns.

Reciprocity of policies isn't really conceptually coherent.

There was some semi-recent news (really, not that recent) to the effect that Saudi Arabia would allow women to drive.

Now imagine our policy toward them before they made that change. We could ignore them because they have their own country. Or we could give up on that and try to impose some kind of penalty on them.

But one thing you're unlikely to see an argument for is reciprocity. "So, they don't let their women drive? How barbaric! We'll show them -- we won't let our women drive either!"
Try this one later, of all linked in the thread, it looked very clean to me

https://github.com/1943time/bluestone

https://www.bluemd.me/

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bluestone-markdown/id645139147...

I myself am currently playing with WriterSide from JetBrains but it's still in experimental stage.
Original source link:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cLUD_NGE370
> start a completely new profile and see what is recommended.

That just speaks to what people in general find interesting. Instagram and YouTube shorts do the same thing.

Use the app for more than two minutes, and you're out of the "popular" bubble.
TikTok is heavily a trade matter with regards to China blockading (or heavily restricting) US companies out of having access to their economy. That spans from Facebook to McDonalds to AWS to Disney (Disney isn't even allowed to outright own its parks in China).

The US has been far too lenient in the past with responding to China's hyper biased, anti-trade policies. If US social media companies can't operate in China, then Chinese social media companies shouldn't be allowed to have access to the US economy.
To citizens. Citizens are important in America.
The page reminds me the git revert last commit panic search.
Get me out this ultra efficient editor!
The US Constitution guaranties US citizens rights not the general population of the Earth. Our government has no way to enforce or protect rights from entities outside of the US (other than force). If as you say it is just a "giant printing press" then ownership is irrelevant - change it and print away. If on the other hand the Chinese government has a vested interest in influencing what 136 million Americas consume as information - it will probably stay under a Chinese Government sphere of influence by order of the Party.
One of my colleagues predicted, when ChatGPT was first released, that AI would reduce the value of knowledge work relative to manual labour, but I disagreed as I think the main thing holding back robots from replacing many manual labour jobs at the moment is the difficulty communicating with them. I argued that ChatGPT indicated that we were not too far away from being able to tell a robot to pick the apples from a particular row and put them in the green barn as the usual red barn was being painted today. This video suggests that I was right, and I in fact suspect that such manual labour is a more realistic type of work for AI (with robots) to substantially replace first than most knowledge work, where I think it will remain as an assistant for some time.
I Still Find Programming Inspiring, 8 Years Later
birthday balloon? In front of a landing plane at 170mph?
"But a government should represent the interests of the locals" when it comes to housing seems like a motte-and-bailey argument where you use an agreeable platitude to launder in the less agreeable scenario of local home owners just voting for "fuck you, I got mine" and suggesting that's best for a city and the rest of its residents.
A couple other good ones:

How Differential Steering Works (1937) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYAw79386WI

Flak (1943) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8zPNMqVi2E
OMG this page was hilarious. What's funnier is that I don't think the author was trying to be funny, I think the author was trying to seed Google searches.

Anyway, sometimes Git is misconfigured and dumps me into vi. (I use Windows.) When this happens, I just open Task Manager and kill the process. Otherwise, I have no need to learn vi, nor do I think vi is a useful skill to learn.
You're allowed to have preferences! You don't have to live next to a "gross apartment building". You can achieve your preferences by (a) paying more or (b) accepting a larger commute from the nearest urban center. Property values don't scale with your particular preference. Among many things, they're a function of:

* (Probably foremost, in IL at least) the perceived quality of the school districts

* The property tax burden

* The diversity and quality of amenities

Missing-middle multifamily improves all of these things.

SFZ neighborhoods and munis are locked into a death spiral on property taxes and schools: residents are incentivized to plow money into schools (attract new residents -> increase home prices; you "get the money back" you put into schools) which quickly gets you across a threshold where the only rational buyer of property in your muni is a family with children. Multifamily allows for aging-in-place (rather than moving out when your kids graduate, a phenomenon sometimes called "renting the schools") and diversifies the tax base.

Amenities scale with foot traffic and usage. Expensive bedroom communities tend to be commercially moribund. In addition to not being fun to live in, it also shift the levy towards property taxes and away from sales tax and licensing fees, which in turn depresses home prices.

The first answers you get on this policy question always seem to come from people who think it's dispositive that they and people like them don't want to live near apartments. Municipalities make policy decisions for the welfare of the entire mix of people who will reside there. When you do the math on overwhelmingly SFZ munis you sometimes realize that the people loudly complaining about multifamily are a minority interest to begin with.
I don't want to live next to a huge building, so I selected a town where that was not allowed. So don't tell me changing this is a win win for me. It isn't.
Better sell all nvidia stocks. Once these chips are common there is no need anymore for GPUs in training super large AI models.
> Wood is fantastic material. But using half a forest to build a 2000sqft house is certainly not the direction we should be going, we should be finding ways to build with 1/2 the amount of wood we currently use

Wood is inherently a carbon sink. I suspect stimulating forest production via added lumber demand (similar to how Christmas tree demand stimulates tree farms) would be a net pollution win, albeit potentially at the cost of a nice looking forest somewhere.
It takes significantly less materials to build a multi-dwelling apartment/condo/townhouse structure than a single family home. In addition, the required square footage per person drops by huge amounts when people can walk to nearby community centers, restaurants, kitchens, theaters, and bars.

We are building massive 3-4k sq. ft. homes for families of four because all of their food, entertainment, and social needs are not met by their community. Everyone has their own bar, restaurant, theatre, and community center. There are 8 unit apartment buildings that are smaller than some of these houses.

The housing crisis is an urban planning crisis.
Then you should not have said 320,000 illegal immigrants brought in, since you agree they are not illegals.
Well said. This type of writing is perfectly doable but it does take effort and a lot of experience.
Oh yeah, I use pandoc + lua in Continuous Integration to build docs from their sources and it's pretty effective!
Who will buy the products?

Because they won't be bought be the displaced workers.
Agreed.

If you stick a mask on a dummy in a lab and fire COVID at it, it might show pretty good protection. However, at the population level there is no evidence that masking confers any benefit in preventing the spread of COVID.

The Cochrane Review demonstrated this: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

There are also numerous dis-benefits of masking, especially among young children.
Colonialism is still alive and well, as proven by non-First Peoples' resistance.
If some of you want to try out a fully web based approach to markdown editing checkout https://bangle.io
"holding it wrong" OMG ;-)
I find it frustrating how the UN uses 'experts' in their various organizations to come up with recommendations rather than scientific conclusions.

Clearly this is anti-science and pro-authority, and maybe the UN doesn't claim that their organizations like the World Health Organization are science based.

However when a common person hears the World Health Organization gives a recommendation, they likely have no idea that a panel of experts gave an opinion with potentially no scientific backing. (Citation for this particular incident was the WHO recommendation on number of hours a <1 year old can watch tv, 0 hours before age 1, no scientific basis.)
they would have had the operator reverse the charges I assume?

by the way the old bell system technical journals are a fun read and are generally available at places like archive.org
France Travail hit with a hack leaks 43M people data
Social media can and is already being used as a weapon by internal actors against democracy.
> Is it actually possible to beat Nethack without reading up some "spoilers" upfront?

If people are playing nethack without reading the source, they're needlessly hobbling themselves.
> What's the reason there?

The same. Canada's population grew by 3% last year but housing supply remains inelastic. Small developers have difficulty getting loans, zoning, NIMBYs sue projects, etc.

> I think these are more plausible than just zoning and cars.

It may be more complex than "just" zoning, but it's certainly more-so zoning than the conceit that people want larger houses. People want houses period.
Damn, got some competition hey haha. Good luck to you too
The roller kit is a field-replaceable unit and Fujitsu supplies them in a boxed kit, so it can't be that hard (I'm still on my original roller, even though I bout a roller replacemnt kit, so I have no idea how hard it is).

It's a great unit, but official software support lapsed a few years ago so I am now using it with third-party software (ExactScan Pro).

Here are a few scanners I ran through a comparative color fidelity test a while ago, I was surprised how good it is for scanning artwork when it was designed for documents:

https://blog.majid.info/scanner-group-test/
> and when your home-owning parents die, you now have two homes instead of one

While I absolutely believe it's a thing for someone.
It's not a thing for anyone I know.

Two factors there.

People live longer. An then parents die (70+), they kids ( avg. 2) are at the age of 55+. At that point they housing situation is figured out. Also if ( big if in Canada) house was paid off you inherit half of it ( unless you are single kid which was rare 50+ years ago in Canada).

However in Canada what I see is that houses were reverse-mortgaged to supply income on pension and/or live in a retirement home, and thus my friends got trivial inheritances in a tune of tens thousands of CAD dollars after estate liquidation.
What is BCI?
>There's plenty of places in the US that you can still get a house for under 200k.

I bought 3 houses all for under $20k each over the past 2 years. I use them all as rental houses. You can get waaay under $200k. The problem when you bring this up to people online is they say, "well I would never want to live there". So they are very happy to tell people that already live somewhere that they can move if they don't want new large housing complexes built, but if you tell them that they can move to somewhere more affordable, they act like you are attacking their human rights.
There just aren't enough of the plants, though. I run around as fast as I can, and I still run out.
How did they get the incandescent bulb on the receiving end to switch on and off fast enough to avoid blurring the picture?
The buggy model I reviewed had, amongst other problems, floating point non-determinisms. The average software dev is going to be better at this stuff than someone who only learned enough to make some numbers appear on screen, and are those numbers right? Well, hard to say, probably doesn't really matter.
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I would love to see a "landlord tax" that squeezes owners to either live in, rent out, or sell.
I'm not familiar enough with Fly.io to say. Probably would depend a lot on the use case and whether that use case is overkill for what fly.io does.

Zero interest rate architecture is a term I've loosely coined to represent software and infrastructure with some combination of:

* A general level of complexity far in excess of what's necessary to get the job done.

* Lots of expensive SaaS, often multiple pieces of it chained together in complex work flows. E.g. git commit to Github triggers build at service X and deployment to service Y authenticated by service Z and fronted by yet another thing and with logs sent to Datadog and... and... and... and...

* Despite the use of expensive SaaS the system still requires a lot of babysitting and manual administration, negating the point of using SaaS. Using expensive SaaS makes zero sense, full stop, unless it is saving you enough time and cognitive load to more than pay for itself.

Any static web site that costs more than $5/month kinda falls in this category for me. I picked on Vercel because JAMstack often fits these criteria.

I've seen companies spending thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars a month hosting static web sites. These could have been built on one workstation using a container or a VM and deployed at any static hosting service, but instead you have this complicated gitops workflow with multiple interlocking expensive services. The whole thing has dizzying complexity, tons of moving parts, breaks all the time, and costs a fortune.

The goal guiding these designs seems to be a desire to avoid doing things in house. In-house things are complicated and ad-hoc and expensive. So instead of doing things in-house you jam together a bunch of services... which ends up being complicated and ad-hoc and even more expensive. When it comes to complexity you've just moved the peas around on the plate, and you're spending more.

I call it zero interest rate architecture because the absurd cost of this stuff wasn't a big deal when VC money was basically free. "Just grow as fast as possible. You can optimize later."
Conversely, I know several couples who have gone back, especially after child rearing.

What people want is far more complicated that "single family homes", but a range of preferences. Most prefer a detached home from any thing non-detached. Most prefer access to good schools (while/if they have school age children) opposed to poor schools. Most prefer being close to work over a long commute. Most prefer easy access to cultural/social aspects of a city over not having access. Etc. etc.

Every buying choice is a set of tradeoffs unless you are almost unfathomably wealthy (20m detached home in a dense city with a helicopter pad ticks a lot of boxes). I think a lot of focus not so much on "vertical housing" but density and "missing middle" housing is just the fact that current (US, anyway) city design is hitting some walls, and "more of the same" isn't going to work.
Basically I'm an idiot. I pay for ghost, which costs money. I have some stuff on AWS to manage SSL (which imo shouldn't cost as much as it does and maybe I'm doing something dumb). I pay for fireside, which is _basically_ a static site.
I also have a site that _should_ be static, but I tried to be fancy and do server-side rendering, which is costing me, because again, I'm an idiot who was once ambitious.
I love this guy's blogs and this particular one is on point.
Not a study, a review.

Also doesn't claim what people like you says it claims.

Also, look at the history. Date of the original review is 2007. You know what didn't exist in 2007?
What are the actual economics of this, after platform tax and… govt tax? This barely supports a one-man operation or?