skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm seeing this in my area too. But I wasn't seeing it ten or fifteen years ago when these debates first came onto my radar. What it looks like to me is a success story of identifying a problem and working toward improvement, but simultaneously far more slowly than the proponents of the solutions want and far more quickly than opponents want.

A decade ago, YIMBY-leaning people and groups were mad but mostly obscure and NIMBY-leaning people and groups were powerful. Now both sides are mad, the YIMBY side because it is still taking a long time to build enough to see affordability improve (especially with the interest rate shock), and the NIMBY side because they can see all those new townhomes and apartments going up in suburbs and smaller towns and densification projects in the city center, and dislike that.

I remember I used to complain that housing was so expensive and you never saw anything getting built despite there being plenty of great places to build things. And then one day I realized that a lot of construction was happening in a lot of those places I was thinking of, and I should stop complaining, since what I wanted to see happen was actually happening!

It's hard to feel like it's "better" for both sides to be mad while affordability is still bad, but I do think it's better than what seemed more like an insurmountable problem to me a decade ago.
Good lord, this is a terrifying story. What’s puzzling to me is that it seemingly downplays a lack of action by the police. Multiple times it seems the platforms reported the members of this cult for CSAM and police only seemed to act when a more severe crime occurred? Like that killing in Romania. Is this just a result of bureaucracy slowing things down? It’s hard to blame Discord when they try to do something but the law doesn’t help.
That's a closed loop operation. It's pretty common to train these robots on closed loop demonstrations.
Seems like a real problem to me. On average around 1,200 people die from COVID in the US every week, including the guy in the article that started this conversation.
This is something I'm clueless about and can't really understand. They say this is 24kW hungry. How does CPU power consumption really work on electrical level, what warrants that much power, even for regular CPUs? Like, from the basics level.. is it resistance of the material with frequency of switching or what is really going on there? Where does the power go on such a relatively small surface?

edit: thanks people, makes sense now!
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If I can walk less than a mile to a theatre and pay $10 to watch a movie on a giant screen, I won't want to pay $10k to create a home theatre. If I can get food from around the world by walking 10 minutes to 20+ restaurants, I won't want to pay $20k to have an 800 sq.ft. kitchen. If I can entertain my guests at a community center or beer garden, I won't need to have a $15k patio and outdoor bar area.

People pay absurd amounts for these things because they can't get them in their own community.
That feels a little unfair. Every driver in the 1920s would be be breaking today's laws. They were exploring a new technology when it wasn't clear yet what the rules should be. The laws at the time (inherited from horse-drawn vehicles) only set speed limits in specific places like cities and bridges. You could ride your horse as fast as you dared anywhere else, and the same with cars.
League of Legends players discovered this like 15 years ago (the "13 health pot start"), I wonder why this didn't cross over. I suppose the player bases don't actually intersect very much?
I'm just speculating, but my guess is it serves both purposes. Filling US youth with destructive stuff is also excellent for engagement. Two birds one stone
Good to hear your wife got better :)

I skimmed over maladaptive freeze response and from what i could understand, it affects a person in situations which were stressful for them in the past, but for me, i haven't had any extreme traumatic experiences that i remember, except bullying but my inaction has extended to normal, everyday things like academics which has been particularly emphasized by my parents and i have had a positive view of learning since early childhood but maybe due to low mental capacity, never really learned much.
Another one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39373327
That’s a very cavalier way of looking at things. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of people have died already, and millions of people live now as refugees. What does it take to make something high stakes in your view?
In China right? You know they are the equivalent of people in LA who live so far away from their job and have 2 hour car commutes right?
>if China can convince US citizens that China deserves to rule Taiwan, for instance, the US government may find itself without the popular support or political will to take action to protect Taiwanese democracy in the event of an incursion by China

What is so awful about the idea that people in the United States might be convinced of something? What does it matter who is doing the convincing? You just don’t like the hypothetical outcome you suggested.

Are you opposed to a Taiwanese propaganda campaign, conducted through a newly popular Taiwanese social media app and directed at convincing U.S. citizens to support Taiwan in the event of an incursion by China? What’s the difference?

I find scary the idea that the U.S. government would try to protect its citizens from anyone’s speech or ideas. The best response to speech you don’t like is to argue forcefully against it; not to suppress it. We can make up our own minds.

I don’t want the government trying to suppress or protect me from thoughts or ideas it thinks are bad.
No, no, no. China and Russia are banning Facebook, Instagram and whatnot because they are evil dictatorships. The US is banning TikTok because China is evil dictatorship.
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Thanks! "It costs thousands of dollars a month, which is feasible enough that people will find a way" sounds pretty reasonable.
Not that you're incorrect in all cases, but generally speaking, you do get what you pay for. SWEs who are charging $500/hr can charge $500/hr due to significant domain knowledge or overall experience, and as such their opinions and work are _worth_ that amount per hour to the market. SWEs who are charging $9/hr are either selling themselves extremely short, lack experience, or operate in an organization that doesn't allow them to negotiate their rate (in which case they should move to a new organization) and thus most likely generate lower quality results. To imply there's no relationship between the hourly rate and the quality of work is to pretend that there's no underlying reason why certain SWEs can charge premium hourly rates.
> To achieve that 10% speedup, it ate up about 20% more power, so efficiency-wise, it's not worth it.

There’s a trade off between single threaded performance and power, right? I’d expect the increase in power cost to be between the performance increase squared or cubed. If you expect a one-to-one trade it is never worth it to increase frequency, haha.

The universe will give you throughput at a fair rate, but it is very stingy about latency, in general.
Just to be clear, is this based on your own experience, or did you just see a video or news article (or other piece of propaganda) making this claim?
Your "obvious" claim seems more like a strong assumption, that you know the not only the behavior but the mechanism of douyin based on... Obviousness?
> The answer to CCP-style propaganda is not CCP-style oppression. Let us slow down before we blunder down this very steep and slippery slope.

There can be no 'free market' when you're dealing with communists. It's like claiming we should have factories using wage labor competing with slave labor out of 'fairness'. It's not a fair playing field when one side of the equation is more than a firm, but rather an entire government. Governments are distinct from firms in that they (1) hold territory and (2) can use coercion and violence legally without any resort. When you have a firm owned / controlled by a government, there is no 'free' market they can engage in with American companies. There is always some imbalance of power without recourse. We've seen this in many instances with the CCP in particular, where Chinese subsidiaries 'go rogue' or IP is stolen.

In order to access the American market, there should be a requirement that firms are not government controlled.
What’s interesting is you also see the is was sponsored by Chevrolet (on the title screen), so it seems monetization-wise, it’s no different than today when YouTubers have a sponsor read at the start of a video. I just wonder if then it’s simply a matter of more creators competing for less ad-money-per-person, which leads to the kind of “optimized” content we see today.
Apple is not a social media company.
I'm based in the US. Most of those options are available from Amazon.

I've owned both the Viture glasses and the nreal air (back when they were called nreal rather than xreal). The picture quality on them is more than enough to use as a second display, but where it shines for me is on flights. It mostly just looks like a normal pair of oversized glasses, but presents an incredible display on that is miles beyond any in flight entertainment system.

I only bought the Viture because I lost/forgot my original nreal air glasses on a flight and they were never found.
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Does this save environment variables and aliases defined in the Nix devshell?
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> I don't think we should "lowest common denominator" to oppressive regimes.

Chinese approval of their government is much higher than most Western regimes including the US. I think you are right about how we ought to apply the 1st amendment here, but I don't find that Chinese propaganda is any more insidious or pervasive than American. We just manage it differently: in China the state directly controls the media, while in the US business interests directly control the state and the media.
I think that statement held true before widespread availability of computing; when most computer science was really theoretical. I once skimmed a few chapters of a graduate-level textbook on Category Theory and realized that it was the foundation of object-oriented programming.

The biggest issue is that a lot of "Computer Science" is really applied software engineering; much like confusing physics and mechanical engineering.

Or, a different way to say it: Most students studying "Computer Science" really should be studying "Software Engineering."

More practically, I have a degree in Computer Science. When I was in school, it was clear that most of my professors couldn't program their way out of a paper bag, nor did they understand how to structure a large software program. It was the blind leading the blind.
That's my point. Good writing can come out of LLMs and nobody has to take my word for it.

When part of the OPs point seems to be that LLMs can't write good stuff then that's proof enough.

If you're talking about replacing professionals wholesale then I never made that argument.
I agree. Nice cities are just attractive places to be. Even for people who live in the single family homes near them. An expensive city is expensive everywhere, regardless the type of housing,

> they're rightfully concerned

Yeah for sure. A lot of the pushback against development is a gut feel concern, the fear of losing something, it's not rational. The "rightfully" part I guess is because institutions groom people in borrowing for single family homes, and specifically that e.g. Try financing a multi-family on the same favorable terms. Few people enjoy pensions at an old age, so you're kind of thrown for the wolves if you don't own a home. The system really is maladjusted.
While I agree with your general point I am really not sure it's as binary as you present it. I live in a apartment building and I cook all of my food and clean my dishes... in my kitchen. I also fix/do diy in my apartment. I can repair my bike in the basement area.

If I were hunting/growing my own food, sure I'd want to live in a house with terrain around but that's a level of self-sufficiency that's quite rare in suburbia last time I checked.
> I don't think it's fair to complain about the cost of solar if it's not required.

I didn't read the solar comment as a complaint but rather an additional enumeration of costs. They wanted solar so it's a non-zero cost on the house. They could have also gone with the cheapest-to-regular slab thickness and saved money but didn't.
Most likely Reels and YT Shorts.

The same thing happened in India in 2020 after their Chinese app ban which included PUBG and Genshin as well.
Why is it a problem for large corporate investors to develop? I've never understood this. New things are being built, who cares who builds them?
I don't see it as being significantly different from our laws prohibiting foreign ownership of tv and radio stations.
This would be an interesting test, although I don't think even a VPN exit node in China is good enough unless your device also feeds bogus GPS coords that show you are in China. I used to do with the Xposed all the time (because apps have no business knowing where I am) but now that Android is so hostile toward root and power users, I don't know how doable it is anymore (though I'd love to hear if someone does).
It’s like talking to zip file sometimes. Very difficult to make it actually do something you don’t expect it already to can do. Like a smarty index decorated with language.
Just because they can't be certain that they'll never get it in the future doesn't mean that all attempts to minimize cumulative infections are pointless.
[dupe]

Some more discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39641953

And here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39648170
lol I thought this was going to be complaining about how many GPUs it takes to create a new foundation model (not really anyone’s fault IMO), but turns out its “the AI hype is so large that all the PhDs want to work in corporations and get paid more”.

My brother in Christ that’s the WHOLE SYSTEM. Thats always true because academia is a small corrupted line item in American society, and industry is where all the resources flow. The solutions are a) invest WAY more in universities, or b) socialism. IMO. Anything else would be ineffectually treating a symptom

Ofc this doesn’t apply to private universities. Haha sucks to suck I guess you’ll just have to fade into no existence, what a shame…
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Plenty of people in Europe live in flats and have kids, pets and all that, myself included.
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i can definitely see some similarities from a brief read up on cptsd but i don't know if it could affect me so badly that i literally procrastinated years away on things that i have been told are necessary, partly due to delusions of superior ability and partly due to feeling tired a lil bit after attempting some mentally consuming task.
Guess which language C.A.R. Hoare means on his 1980's Turing Award speech.

"A consequence of this principle is that every occurrence of every subscript of every subscripted variable was on every occasion checked at run time against both the upper and the lower declared bounds of the array. Many years later we asked our customers whether they wished us to provide an option to switch off these checks in the interests of efficiency on production runs. Unanimously, they urged us not to--they already knew how frequently subscript errors occur on production runs where failure to detect them could be disastrous. I note with fear and horror that even in 1980 language designers and users have not learned this lesson. In any respectable branch of engineering, failure to observe such elementary precautions would have long been against the law."
easy: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/

how much did you pay for emitting all that Co2?
What human right is being violated? This is about what types of business are allowed to domestic and foreign entities. I've never heard anyone declare "its a basic human right for institutions designed to do business behind a liability shield to do as they please anywhere and any time".
It's puzzling that the police aren't active in it, or it's puzzling that the washington post downplays their inaction? Because I find both very consistent with the history and incentives of these institutions.

Police being unwilling to get involved in internet crime, especially harassment and abuse, has been well known for decades now. Originally when the internet was new it was "how will police respond to online crimes" and then it gradually shifted to "why won't police respond to online crimes."
This is a common misunderstanding of what the first amendment means.

Speech and individual expression are individual rights and not institution rights. Perhaps you have some argument with "freedom of press" but that's a pretty hefty uphill battle for TikTok to prove that they are press and not just a random social media business.

Some of our oldest and most well supported laws revolve around limiting what a business can and can't say. For example, a supplement company can't advertise "This fish oil will cure your cancer!"

The interstate commerce law gives congress the power to make laws that regulate businesses (that operate over state boundaries). That power includes things like outright banning a business for pretty much any reason.
There's no evidence of that happening & it really isn't even about that. It's about the popularity of pro-Palestinian content on TikTok. The other social media giants have censorship policies on this that tilt things towards a pro-Israel perspective, but TikTok does not and is being targeted for it.
> Bingo, media is really one of those sectors where PRC has assymetric advantage in exploiting western corporations vs western corp in PRC will never get PRC media filtering to budge

They really do. The idea was that by doing business with them they would shift away from authoritarianism. If you look at the last years it is clear that exactly the reverse has happened. Companies are mainly profit driven and not by morals. They will happily compromise on their morals in the name of profit. In contrast the PRC will happily compromise on profits to keep control.
Strong Towns is not a reliable or neutral source. They aren't necessarily wrong, but they do cherry pick data to suit the urbanist narrative that they're trying to promote. It can be a useful source for understanding the issue but don't take anything you read there at face value.
Go make some videos about Taiwan, Tiananmen, or Tibet and see what the algo does to you.
The ones who "made" their billions, sure. Not their kids.
I agree GP should have been a lot more humble in their claim and is not acknowledging the level to which they are speculating, but aside from the untactful approach, location does seem an important point especially for a company as data hungry and adept at mining/using that data as bytedance.
Loyalty is a spook designed to exert control over people. The only people who care about loyalty are tyrants. Loyalty is nothing but a willingness to abandon your values for certain people.
In Oregon, it became legal to build ADU's a few years ago. [0]

In Washington, certain cities put restrictions on SRO units. The state is passing legislation to make that easier. [1][2]

These are just cities I've lived in. I would imagine other cities are facing similar zoning questions.

Some of us think that more housing is a good thing, and laws preventing units like ADUs or SROs are prima facie misguided.

[0] https://www.oregonlive.com/hg/2021/09/put-a-spare-home-or-tw...

[1] https://www.seattle.gov/sdci/vault/micro-housing

[2] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/real-estate/once-curbe...
I mostly get some science videos and old comedy sketches. It will just recommend content you're into, same as any other social media network.
This. And I'm sure many here can relate, but when I left home there was no home for me to ever go back to. Even just knowing that I had a childhood room available to crash in would have allowed me to take larger risks in my 20s.
Not nix based, but I really like https://github.com/jdx/mise too to manage dev tools.

It’s a modern version of https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf written in Rust.
The line about nix making it easier for newcomers in the readme and similar statements always trigger me. I am quite a competent person and I've never once thought "that was easy" when trying to use nix.

I adore the concepts of nix, but the user experience is awful. Maybe that's what this tool solves? It takes a frustrating amount of effort and incessant config tweaking with little to no documentation and navigating seemingly endless already-deprecated methodologies to reach that point. Perhaps I'm just dumb, or looking in the wrong places.

In any case in my experience the end result is every time I see something related to nix, I find myself thinking "I can't wait til that's easy"
> main stream media are basically propaganda

I'm not from US, rarely I have even watched anything from these (MSNBC, CNN, FOX NEWS, WASH POST, NYT) in my life. Blank statement like 'main stream media are basically propaganda' seems wild to me. There are also other 'mainstream media' from US... are those propaganda as well? Like AP? There is bias, sure, but how can you say propaganda?

I read 'main stream media' - not just in English language and content there is not that bad - usually there is delay - which is good, because not everything what is posted is accurate.
Having done a research report on redwoods years ago during summer language school, I learned that giant trees once covered all of North America and Europe.
Unless you are suggesting removing the solar day and solar year, you fundamentally have a little over 365 Earth axis rotations per Earth orbits.

Attempting to build decimal parts fundamentally results in ~36.5 deci-days. Assuming we extract the non-integer part with intercalary days, we are still left with 36 deci-days which has a prime factorization of 2*2*3*3, so you can choose 2:18, 3:12, 4:9, 6:6. Might as well choose 3:12 since it is closest to the current system. I guess 9:4 might also be reasonable to denote entire seasons.