skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>this is just another instance of how low property taxes and the absence of land value taxes massively benefits low-value businesses

Thank god we haven't optimized that fully. This is how small businesses like local cafes, delis, bookstores, and "mom and pop" stores are able to survive in cities.

I wouldn't want to live in any capitalist shit-hole where land value taxes force high-value businesses.
I don't think there's anything new and interesting in that FAQ. It describes what they mean by a Living Standard, but it doesn't mean they're not running a treadmill operation.

They seem to be making reference to things like the RFC system, but those get updated too.
Not the ones who moved to a high-COL area for the non FAANG jobs
I would love to make the switch, but my house is from the 1930s era and heated by gas/steam. Mini-splits might work, but I'd need 4 for the top floor and 2-3 for the first. Then I would have a "discussion" with my partner about how the inside part of mini splits doesn't clash with 1930s millwork all that much.

Punching holes in plaster also carries an asbestos risk from the plaster and vermiculite insulation. joys of an old home...
Check out: https://github.com/uncss/uncss

I've only used it once but it did the job (NOTE: Plain HTML, plain CSS, no build pipeline. So YMMV)
If you have the ability to cool the cpu then it's not a hard limit; just one that's not practical for mainstream consumers.
...for those lucky enough to be able to do so. I've been promised the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 systems will be replaced in two years. 10 years ago, they were to be replaced in one year.
Doesn’t seem like they’re catching anyone for that to be released. And I don’t buy it.
So you can see how it might not be a fair comparison?
LOL. Busts in the 1800's led to people starving to death. Nobody from that time period would call 4% unemployment a bust
>are the automated checkout companies increasing prices

How would this work? The items have price tags on shelves. You can't arbitrarily jack up prices without attracting consumer outrage and/or regulatory scrutiny.

>perhaps they’re charging a percentage of the items that go through their machines

That wouldn't affect the raw sales data, which is how "shrink" is determined (ie. goods you've bought - goods you've sold)

>It’s never theft

What makes you so sure of this? Theft is a real phenomenon, so it's at least somewhat plausible that it's affecting stuff. You'd have to have pretty good exculpatory evidence to assert it's "never theft".

>specifically it ends up being something like “our stores are costing because of downtown theft” then you find out it’s because downtown stores are doing half the business as before the pandemic and it was never theft.

Source?
I helped with implementing site on the side, so not involved in its operations except as a friend. But I think the business owner aims to expand to more visa consultancy categories instead of other countries

As such, I'm also not sure about relative prestige of different countries, but my understanding is there's a lot of demand to study abroad anywhere. Canada in particular tends to have overlooked openings because most people will only focus on Quebec for French studies, but there's plenty of French studies (& francophone population) in northern Ontario, east coast, & even Saskatchewan
Some of these images are actually 3D models you can manipulate.

I point this out every time that page is posted because it's really easy to miss. They probably should give these a slow rotating animation to make it more obvious.
> not a real reflection on any other part of the product line or what is even "reasonable", just what is "possible" (barely)

As an example: to hit these speeds, Intel and AMD are pushing 1.4V into chips built on processes that work best at and below 1V. And the result isn't a stable, long-lasting chip: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39478551
I've had this exact same thought since I was a kid. Agreed, it's only a matter of time
You're reading a website published by ISW, founded by Kimberly Kagan (sister-in-law to Victoria Nuland and Robert Kagan). Please do not be under the impression that it's a neutral source of information.

Robert Kagan is a "leading advocate of liberal interventionism", and everything ISW publishes is colored with the intent to make US intervention appear to be a good idea (or at least not a bad idea). As you may be aware, that hasn't worked out very well for the U.S. or foreign nations the past 24 months. Which by the way is probably a major factor in Niger's decision to kick the U.S. out
Right, I get it, monopolies are bad and this is something I completely agree with. At the same time those well connected elite will commonly band together to create monopolies via predatory pricing, so it turns out that no matter what way you do it you have to have regulatory markets that seek to benefit the consumer.

The elite have all the tools they need already, they always have had that. Representative government is the modern change that keeps them from dominating everything.
Yeah the camera is the only feature that would really make me want to switch phones. In my case it's more about being a broke CS student without a job lol.

But the low-end device thing still stands. At least here in Argentina where I live most people can't buy a $1000+ phone without going into debt or saving money for a stupid amount of time to get it. Some people that really can't afford to do so still buy them though. Maybe it is reasonable for some but I never saw any appeal in spending so much money (comparatively to a monthly salary) on a non necessity. I happily spent that kind of money on a PC to use for work/study, but a phone? Nah.
The UK system is going broke, and Australia and Canada are weirdly efficient with their government spending and the US has no hope of matching them. I don’t think we could implement universal healthcare and education as efficiently as Italy. We are basically the richest Latin American country at this point.
Bro, it really is that simple. Literally everyone (except apparently you) is stealing from these retailers.

The shrink rate is an order of magnitude higher on self checkout compared to a cashier lane with a human.
I believe that they also had growing quality issues due to sabotage from slave labour and shortage of materials and alloys. I remember from Wages of Destruction and Albert Speer's memoirs that the loss of certain mines in the East were devastating to them because they could no longer produce certain alloys.
Yup,. you get it, exactly! It's not a surveillance state, but don't be stupid, and certainly don't LEAN into it.
Lots of human beings behave exactly like that...
Most games love cache. AMD's X3D CPUs tend to be either better, or at worst extremely competitive with Intel's top chips for games, at a far lower power budget.
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20240317222546/https://euromedmo...
Why the need for all things to be browser based? Why introduce the performance hit for something that brings no compelling justification? What problem is this solution solving? Why can't things just be native workflows and not be shoveled into a browser?
Gonna use this for Dwarf Fortress.
After I got home, I got my wife to call the phone, and they said they would give it back to me if I gave them $300. We were trying to see if we could figure out a way to get them to reveal themselves but it didn’t pan out.
> People like my grandparents built this country by saving and sacrificing their comforts.

I don't mind saving and sacrificing, that sounds awesome. The problem is that I'm not saving, sacrificing, working hard, etc. for any meaningful purpose, it's exclusively to subsidize some greedy CEOs/oligarchs luxurious lifestyles.
>but which of those appeals to pop psychology

It doesn't appeal to, it is an attempt to use pop psychology (the notion of resistance to X owing to fear). Hardly better than the "who hurt you?" bro retort.
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> Some cities have combined or separated sewer systems.

I wonder how many cities still have a combined system. At least where I live, I could totally see the amount of water coming from the sky regularly beating the amount coming from household drains. Along those lines, our city is spending money replacing private sewer laterals (normally a 10-20K job the homeowner is responsible for) just to cut down on the water intrusion the old laterals (especially party lines) let into the sewer. It's cheaper to pay for the new laterals than it is to build a larger treatment plant.
Tiktok's content/users is strongly favorably towards Palestine/against Israel. That's all you need to know to understand why they are trying to ban tiktok now.
We don't know they didn't send a letter. They may not have to send a letter to Grok, they would more likely contest the USPTO application which is still PENDING

I'm not convinced it's satire, though it is unprofessional language. I read it more as trying to get under Elon's skin, to elicit a reaction using similar tone to what Elon uses
Because if it's an influencer, it's usually a crap product someone has paid as a marketing expense for someone to promote to generate sells. There's a huge difference between a sales pitch and an influencer peddling wares. If you can't understand this basic principle, then there's no room left to have a sane conversation
Market forces; If the AI company can pay $20 for a thing, but human people can only pay $5 for a thing, who are you going to sell to? Now, energy isn't fungible, I can't feed a bushel of wheat to my computer, nor can I drink gasoline, so I don't buy it, but that's the theory.
Section 174 is only _one_ part of the picture.

I was very curious about this and I've been looking into this to better understand for myself what is going and why it's happening. Most likely it's a combination of things, and 174 is probably not the biggest factor:

- ZIRP (0% interest rates) is gone, investors can get an easy 5% from bonds/money market, why put money into risky assets like startups

- Investment money is FOMO-ing into AI rather than conventional non-AI startups

- Post ZIRP investor mentality switched incredibly quickly from grow-grow-grow, to show us your revenue and profits, get fit (lean, reduce employee count, operating expenses)

- Section 174 probably plays some role, but I haven't seen it mentioned at all by VC-types and financial news sources online. I've only seen it mentioned a couple of times on HN. But I'm sample size 1 and I don't go on twitter, so maybe I'm missing out on some discussions where 174 is discussed
From what I know, the phone apps have more players on it like Dr. Gomoku and Gomoku Quest. Despite the 'Gomoku' name, they're actually using Renju rules.
Which is the slow unwinding path? The one from libbfd?
The OP asserts (I agree) that the real profit from running a car wash is not the daily turnover of car washing, but the capital appreciation of the land the car wash sits on. The part about leverage assumes you are able to get a loan/mortgage to purchase the land the car wash sits on. In effect you are using the car wash as a reason to justify a mortgage you wouldn't otherwise be able to get for real estate speculation alone.
IMO someone would have to be pretty anal retentive to get bent out of shape over just hosing down your car with a hose. That's not really any different than what happens when it rains hard. My local jurisdiction only cares about the car wash soap you use. Even then, they just ask that we use phosphate-free soap, not that we don't wash the car in the driveway at all.
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Permeability, amount of precipitation, land usage, evaporation, avg temperature, temperature variation, soil composition, erosion, wells, flood plain, wetland, etc.
It makes little sense that low interest rates get credit for fueling the current housing bubble, but higher interest rates are somehow ineffective at curbing it.
That's the vanilla Gomoku / 五目並べ without limitations for Black. The Renju version is called 連珠 in Japan.
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In a sense, OTel is a big threat to Datadog, so I can imagine slow-rolling support is one way to manage that without looking actively hostile to it, similarly to how Datadog has other OTel "support" that doesn't play nicely with a lot of their more valuable tools/features.
> A generalized rule by definition is an analogy.

> For example a rule that says do not walk on the lawn might govern a specific section of ground that has a mix of blades of grass, a pebble, one bottle cap, and some bare dirt, is analogous to "lawn" as a concept. Were it to change, at some point, it would be sufficiently devoid of grass, or the other things that make up the concept of "lawn" that it would, in fact, more analogous to something else.

> That's how everything works. Are you familiar with our legal system and the concept of precedents? Basically a precedent is an analogy, and the common law is a massive collection of analogies that have been extensively discussed over time.

> If you ever end up in litigation, you'll notice that basically the whole thing involves trying to figure out which analogy is more applicable to the specific set of facts in question. This is usually called the "theory of the case" and the side that more convincingly matches its favored analogy tends to prevail.

Okay, that's mostly true, and would be relevant if we were trying a case in court.

But we aren't trying a case in court, we're disagreeing about the nature of reality. When I say "arguments from analogy are fallacious" I mean "analogies don't prove anything about the nature of reality".

> For example, we're talking about "drug prohibition" but that's not actually specific at all. Are you talking about caffeine or heroin?

You aren't confused about which of these drugs I'm talking about, and I'm not going to entertain a conversation where you pretend you are.

> Both are drugs, but which analogy would you compare your policy solution for consumption of heroin with?

I wouldn't compare my policy solution with an analogy, I would say which drugs I'm talking about.

> If you believe in legalizing opium, do you by definition believe in legalizing Fentanyl?

No, but not because of analogies, because they are two different things that exist in reality.

> Or are the two sufficiently different that a different analogy applies?

No analogies apply, ever, to determining the nature of reality.
Nice! I just ordered a copy and can't wait to read it! Getting Steve Wozniak to write the forward is quite literally a "ringing" endorsement. ;-)

Woz spoke at UC Berkeley (might have been 1998 commencement), and I asked him to sign an issue of 2600 magazine. After he signed it he flipped through it and asked if 2600 was still good and worth reading because he was thinking of getting a subscription for his son.
> Most LLMs are currently run at a loss as far as I know.

that's the entire question. Inference is cheap as all hell. I think Open AI is covering the cost of compute for $20/month per user because I can run llama on my laptop without the fans spinning up. of course, only OpenAI knows how much it costs to run, but that's what your argument hinges on.
I had a project a couple months ago that required very tiny font: I did want to make a mod for the Binding of Isaac game on Nintendo Switch. The idea is to display some additional info about items that you encounter randomly in the dungeon. You can find final version in my codeberg repo [0].

While pc version has extensive mod support, console ports lack necessary Lua api. So the only way I came up with to implement this - is to draw additional info on the sprite textures. And sprites are tiny - 32x32 pixels. Ok, I can't put a lot of text in such small space, but maybe I can fit item name and then add some simple 8x8 icons for effects.

I started searching for a good font I can use, but ultimately most of the 3x4 and 3x5 fonts I tried had one issue - they're almost unreadable if the background color is not absolute negative of font color. I could've put an opaque black background behind text, but that would hide more art than necessary and even look somewhat hideous.

While trying one font after other I found gremlin-3x6[1], it's only 2 pixels higher, but 5-10x easier to read. And it's under public domain license.

Ok I mostly don't care about height, but width is still an issue - almost all item names exceed 32 pixels and have to wrap around on second line and some need a third line. That I absolutely do not want.

I had an idea - If I can't shrink letters to less than 3 pixels, I can remove space between them. Wouldn't it make harder to read? Not unless all letters have different colors! That also solves the problem when background matches the color of font!

[0] - https://codeberg.org/Archargelod/isaac-extended-icons-mod
[1] - https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1488093/gremlin-3...
Interesting. I'm using Kubernetes, so I don't think i can tweak this.
Four or 5 car washes for a city of 17000 people? That’s 1 per 3000 or so people, of which I’m sure only _some_ actually own cars to wash (vs, say, children). Assuming one uses a car wash for 10 minutes maybe once a month, the 5 car wash locations have capacity for something like 144,000 washes a month. Basically 10x the need for a town of that size.
When it happens, it only happens for less than a minute as thermal throttling kicks in, unless you're doing heroic cooling things that cost extra $$$.
> dozens of hotels… feature not bug

One hotel (hub) with differentiated service levels could be more efficient, effective, and ecologically minded. Think Vegas casino property without the casino.
I would be surprised if it was not controlled airspace, if not restricted airspace they would have had protocols to follow even just being near the base.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/158178-amd-unveils-wor...

Officially, 10-11 years ago. (This first 5Ghz CPU wasn't that impressive, and part of the reason "chasing Mhz" started to fade into irrelevance.)

For modern AMD, it wasn't until 2022 that they ventured back across 5Ghz, but this time it's much more impressive.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/23/23137217/amd-ryzen-7000-c...
I'm just getting to know about vector. I have noticed that most Vector examples and discussions are targeted towards databases or complex multi-tenant applications. And looks really cool!

Has anyone tried Vector in the context of autonomous vehicle, essentially distributed system, where vector would serve the purpose of aggregating the op-logs, system state, input and output of every application at every instance?
It's called fulling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulling

First they soak the fabric in stale urine. Then the tiny stinging hairs on the nettles acts as a natural brush to lift and separate the wool fibers.
The Luftwaffe towed their jets with horses. Don't judge an army by the what-could-have-beens from their R&D department.
I wouldn’t worry about theoretical garage bio labs. It’s hard enough doing microbiology, molecular genetics, and bioinformatics even with a real lab full of experienced scientists and technicians. The idea of one or two people doing anything threatening even with millions of dollars ignores the fact that nobody has the requisite expertise to not only perform all the experiments and analyses, but somehow keep the equipment running without service contracts.

Good luck getting an Illumina or Agilent tech to your clandestine garage operation to set up and calibrate your gear.
> ridiculously low insurance minimums

This looks like a claim that car owners should be required to have even more insurance, which seems inconsistent with your claim that widespread car ownership is the product of onerous regulation.

All in all I think this is a pretty glib take that I’ve seen enough times that I’m bored with it. Suffice to say that most of the regulations you’re complaining about mostly postdate the widescale adoption of cars. Nobody was instituting parking minimums or insurance mandates ahead of time in order to encourage car ownership; instead, as soon as car companies figured out how to make cars cheaply enough that even their own factory workers could afford them, governments made regulations in response to the overwhelming number of cars that everyone ended up buying.

But that’s a fundamentally different mindset. Back then, living in a democracy where everybody was buying cars meant that the government’s job was to notice that people wanted to drive cars and work to accommodate that. These days, people think the government’s job is to decide for us what we should want and then shape the regulatory environment in such a way as to shape our behavior, because they know better than we do.
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I think there's a historical rhyme here in that there was a weird fad around the turn of the century during which several companies tried to push the concept of "virtual" models/actresses, presumably wanting to amortize the astronomical costs of high-quality modeling/texturing/rigging (at the time) across multiple media franchises. And the media at large actually seemed oddly on board with that project as long as it grabbed eyeballs.

The most well-known example was probably when Squaresoft founded a whole-ass CGI film studio in Hawaii and pushed remarkably hard to promote "lead actress" Aki Ross of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within as a "Hollywood it girl" [1].

Who could have predicted that what the collective id was actually crying out for was massive advancements in the fields of realtime computer vision and cel-shaded rendering so that people could transform themselves into quirky parasocial anime waifus/husbandos?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy:_The_Spirits_Wit...
I thought VoIP codecs all chopped the frequencies that seems like it would be very detrimental to a data signal. Is the "HD" quality high enough for that, or was the analog data signal not as full frequency as I'm thinking they would be?
I won't defend that, but at least that will mostly be cached and reused. There is really no excuse for huge pictures like that, especially when they can be losslessly compressed to a fraction of their size.
The dream of moving humanity to an interplanetary one needs money, and alas the military is the most facile source of it.

Yeah, it would be great if arms were redirected to climate change mitigation, or humanitarian ones like healthcare for all.

But... those people at the top so love their game of thrones.
I live in an area of the PNW where it snows and rains a lot during the winter, and rains more during the summer. Mud loves to stick to everything, and the Magnesium Chloride they use to de-ice roads loves to oxidize the frame of vehicles.

I have everything at home to clean our vehicles, but I can’t just run the hose during the winter when it’s most important because of the MgCl; so I’ll take our rigs to the wash if we are in town (nearest car wash is 60 minutes away) to clean the undercarriage and minimize rusting.
Depends on the climate. In parts of California, rain can be rare.
This doesn't make sense. You are arguing that a monopoly (1 hotel in an area) would be more efficient than a dozen in an area who compete strongly?

For customers the area that has many hotels that compete with each other will be better than the area that just has one. The area with one hotel would have a single hotel that would have no incentive to be efficient or effective.