skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup and as a user of things like virtualbox and docker and numerous other softwares I really hate updates and so called "upgrades". I'd rather have a stable version that gets updated far less frequently.
More housing needs to be built, of course. But it is naive to think you can just ‘build housing’.

If areas are not zoned for more housing that requires approvals. Often times those approvals can have a negative impact on existing housing in various ways. Ways that may negatively impact valuations and this would be a change that buyers of the existing inventory were not informed of or expecting. That has to be considered even if there was a magic way to somehow say ‘this new zoning will result in a net better world in the end’

Infrastructure also needs to be considered. Increased population density may not have been accounted for in roads, sewers, etc. Often a fixable issue, with lots of time and money. Schools and other public services may need to be increased as well.

There are other things to, but I think you get the point.

Meanwhile, converting short term rentals back to standard housing IS something that can be done quickly and with very few approvals relatively speaking. Things were obviously already zoned for this and buyers would have been expecting this anyway.

Converting short terms rentals back is likely to cause some amount of property holds to dump (sell) these properties that were only bought to be Airbnbs, potentially lowering house prices, at least temporarily.

Ultimately this decision likely is one of the most efficient ways to begin to address the immediate problem in the fastest and most practical way.
Hawaii is a small group of islands. In many cases it's physically impossible to build new housing. This is why people seek to treat house rentals differently from car rentals or jet ski rentals in that it's dependent on land which is a finite supply.
Why should there be a hotel in every town? May be we were not supposed to vacation in a remote town in the middle of nowhere. If locals love the idea of having their houses as short term rental so be it. If they dont, it is not for us to decide for them honestly.
I used to use a Google Sheet to drive a restaurant website's menu page. It was perfect. The restaurant could update the spreadsheet whenever something changed, and it'd instantly be reflected on the web. If they ever messed something up, they could just revert.
Honestly I read it as sarcasm all the way down, but maybe he was serious. Oh well.
AI startups can beat incumbents
Related: https://www.levels.fyi/blog/scaling-to-millions-with-google-...
I don't think that's what's being proposed.

The thesis being offered - which you will likely disagree with - can be read as - the economic capacity certainly exists, but the regulatory regime prices it out of the market.
This is a good move. I myself used short-term airbnb in Big Island. Great for the tourist me but it could easily have been rented out long term to a local. So could the 40 other airbnbs I considered. These places are off the local rental market only because the landlord has the option of renting it out on airbnb - at the expense of renting it out to locals.
Why small language models are the next big thing in AI
I can't think of anything more dangerous than to share your own residential IP address.
No censoring is happening. Brazilian law allows content to be removed in case of hate speech, for criminal investigations, when it disrespect electoral rules, and so on.
Grossly underutilized housing
There is also a Python implementation in the repo. I’m using Kubelka-Munk for pigment mixing, but the gradients it produces are so lovely that it really should be used in generative art more.
Billboards are ethically and morally disgusting.

It is trying at all cost to make drivers lose focus of the road to see your advert, putting themselves and the people around them at risk of a road crash.
It all had the usual flame-bait "look at me" vibe as much as any substance. I feel that Vlad fell for the bait more than anything.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUMNtKQLl8
In Hawaii already overpopulated, basic housing on vacant land isn't the answer.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DMNJ6QM/

i used to use this one when i had all (three of my) nvme -> 4x sata boardlets and therefore could not fit a GPU in a PCIe slot due to the cabling mess.
XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis
When Dugan walked in, huge wooden boxes containing battery-making machines, largely shipped from overseas, were laid across the mile-long factory floor. Black streaks on those wooden boxes, plus the smell, immediately raised alarm bells for workers.

Has anyone thought about nefarious foreign actors introducing biological agents to stymie the build ?
This looks great. I tried doing it myself a while back using existing client libraries for Python and was surprised how annoying the setup is, like the spreadsheet auth in particular.

I'm also surprised Google hasn't tried to kill this use-case. That's my main hesitation for using it on anything semi-serious.
Good. I've been waiting for someone to try this experiment.

My viewpoint: Tax relief for your primary residence that you actually _use_ and live in. Like nobody should pay property taxes for just living.

For additional residences, you can't have to both ways: zoned residential AND be renting it out as a business full time. Absolutely property tax the shit out out of these. Require business licensure, commericial insurance, fire sprinkler, inspections, zoning, taxation, because this is literally what hotels have to do.
What is wealth, other than having something that lots of other people want?

I don't feel personally attacked, but I do have strong priors that we should try to make society work for as many people as possible, and also that land was created by none, and must be mediated for the benefit of all.

I did not suggest that any particular set of people are the benighted ones, and honestly I'm not sure who you think I thought they were.
Didn't https://www.glideapps.com famously start with Google Sheets backend?
Sure that's true, but a lot of properties in tourist-heavy areas are owned by people who use income from short-term rentals to pay the mortgage.

It's one thing if you can look at a property and say, "well my income is high enough that I can afford the note on this property."

It's another thing if you say "well I can afford this property by using the property to pay for itself"

I would argue that a lot of the properties will be sold off.
I don't see what this has to do with IRC. But if all your users use your homeserver, then yes you should be fine.
Your seriously asking why should someone try to learn more? To live curiously, have growth, engage in lifelong learning.

This response is negative gatekeeping.
Hawaii has the lowest property tax rates in the US. It makes it extremely cheap for a mainlander to buy property and hold it empty except for the small amount of time they visit.

Combined with the high income and business taxes, they've created a tax system that favors non-residents over residents (and retirees over the working age).

Of course the system sucks. It was designed to suck.
>bulldozed the forests for 100km in every direction, covered the area in housing

Luckily we invented the elevator so we don't have to bulldoze forests to build more housing if we don't need to
> The core land use conflict is: do only a tiny number of benighted souls get to the use the land, or does the land belong to all?

I was with you up until this comment. It seems perfectly reasonable to me for a locality to prioritize their land use for their permanent residents over tourists. That is, at least regarding this topic, what you describe as "only a tiny number of benighted souls" are actually the souls that live in Hawaii vs. just those that want to visit.
After a honeymoon period, labor unions usually become just another middleman.
Are Fortune, The Weather Channel, Fast Company, and National Geographic really your customers?
Sure, but if you build a massive amount of new housing and it all gets bought up by investors who want to use them as rentals, what have you accomplished? And if your answer is "build even more" then you have to consider that at a certain point you run out of land, especially in these ultra-high-demand vacation destinations.

If you have laws in place to limit misuse of housing stock, and then you build a massive amount of new housing, the problem can actually be ameliorated.
Honestly I'm astonished there are only that many.
You are the normal user but not a normal person, Mr. Musk.
https://github.com/benborgers/opensheet#readme Is the best and simplest tool for turning Google Sheets accessible quickly.
I don't think you have looked at hotel prices
> You could approve more building, but then more people would move in until prices were high again. The area is so appealing that no matter how much housing there was, people would flood in until it became saturated again.

If supply has no effect on price, then banning AirBnBs won't reduce prices either
Levels.fyi as well: https://www.levels.fyi/blog/scaling-to-millions-with-google-...
American governments -Federal and State- in the 19th century developed eugenics laws and genocidal policies against natives, to say nothing of horrible policies against blacks. Some of those served as inspiration to the Nazis. Horrible.
This does not surprise me - the attention to detail that professional musicians play with is astounding.

A friend had a lesson with Mitsuko Uchida and she would correct his tempo from hearing the first note.

I wouldn't believe it if it weren't for the fact that my piano teacher was also such a stickler for the details and he slowly opened my awareness to just how much control of the instrument is possible.

So it doesn't strike me as surprising that Beethoven was fussy and pedantic enough to have a personal graduation of dynamics that far exceeded the standard notation. This is a man who taught himself how to listen through his teeth after all...

Being able to hear the music as Beethoven intended is a small dream to many musicians
It was mentioned in the recent Oxide and Friends podcast with the guy who, discovered the backdoor. Maybe there is a link there somewhere.
What if it's an owner occupied house. Renting out a converted garage or something. Does that pass the "not a hotel" test?
Fix my bad-smelling breath, which I am guessing this stuff doesn't fix.
Housing is limited for two reasons: First, because it's expensive and slow to build new housing, second, because people make it slower and more expensive because they don't want more neighbors, and third, because society really doesn't want to evict people from their homes when they can't afford them anymore.

Housing - especially sustainable, long-lasting, quality housing - is genuinely expensive. Not as expensive as the real estate market might make you think, but it is expensive. Especially when you're shipping materials from a different continent to the middle of the Pacific!

There are limited lots in Hawaii. It's an island! Winter here in the northern continental US is a gray and terrible thing. I'd love to move to an identical 2-acre lot in Hawaii to what I have here, and have it within walking distance of my work and my son's school and shopping. But there are only so many 2-acre lots to build, and I've got one of the biggest in my neighborhood (most are half-acre), and lots of people want that.

And most importantly, you're eventually asking an elderly native Hawaiian, living on a fixed income, who just wants to live in the house they inherited from their parents, to compete financially for ownership of a limited resource with an out-of-state engineer or business owner.

Economics says that if the native who owns a house outright can't pay as much as a millionaire from the continent can, the millionaire should come to own it, and if a developer can turn that one lot into four sublots that are worth more to 4 someone (or make them duplexes, and split to 8, or make it an apartment complex) than the millionaire's valuation of the one lot with the SFH, it should be developed. But that's only the naive case.
I think this depends on the size of the group you are traveling with and how long you are traveling. If you have a family of 4 or more, AirBnb tends for be more cost effective.

A lot of the costs tend to spread out as you get more square footage or spend longer periods of time.
I've been using Kagi as my primary search engine for over 2 years. The search is much more customizable than anything else out there, and the results are usually slightly better than Google's. I don't find their current AI offerings useful but I don't mind the experimentation because I do think there is potential for big improvements to be discovered there. I just turn the AI features off until they figure out something that really works.

I share the concerns about wasting time and money on the other silly side projects (t-shirts, email, maps..), but as long as they don't negatively affect the search product or sink the entire company I don't truly care.

I do not like that their promise of privacy relies entirely on aligned incentives and trust, but it is no worse than the alternatives that all rely on ad-tech money.
I guess this has to be said, for the another billion times, systemd is not and has never been 'only' an init replacement. And even earlier 'init' systems did more then init.
They can search your phone? Do they need cause?
Is it possible to put an antenna on a roof and capture this data?
Airbnb should be ban altogether - I haven't seen a place where it's existence didn't ef-uped local housing market just to line up pseudo "investor's" pockets... (which is another problem - housing stock becoming an investment instrument instead of being a house...
I completely disagree. They're a business. Housing would be an owner lives in it as their primary residence.
Since this comment has been downvoted, I’ll add more math.

Building housing takes anywhere from 3 to 4 years for any significant development that can make a dent. When the average investor can get 7% with minimal risk in the S&P500, you’re looking at rewarding investors a lot more than that in returns over this time period. People would rather invest elsewhere.

Once you factor that in, you’re looking at a large % required return factoring risks like lawsuits, construction mishaps, etc.

There is a reason every new development looks like luxury housing or luxury apartments. The economics don’t favor Levittown style massive buildouts anymore.

The market will reward those who can bring efficiency to something that’s clearly an opportunity to be more efficient. That’s not where we are with housing right now.
> I would argue that a lot of the properties will be sold off.

Which, if that happens, should lower the average cost of housing for long term residents, which is basically the primary goal of this bill.
Nobody is being "censored". But brazilian law allows the removal of content in several circumstances. You just ignore the context that there was a network of coordinated accounts trying to disrespect electoral rules haring disinformation about elections and also threatening authorities while a possible coup was being architected. In the past people were also criminally charged, and also had content removed for threatening Bolsonaro. But for far right extremists, it is "dictatorship" and illegal when they discover that the same laws applies for them too.
> Often times those approvals can have a negative impact on existing housing in various ways. Ways that may negatively impact valuations and this would be a change that buyers of the existing inventory were not informed of or expecting.

This is the problem. We don't build houses because people worry it will affect them, so the problem is pushed elsewhere, with everyone advocating that someone else solve the problem.
> And even if "admissions committee of private colleges" were given that exclusive power, that sounds a lot better to me than the mindless operation of an unjust lottery.

It's not. A lottery is infinitely more fair than letting an unelected and unaccountable group of people on a college campus decide basic questions like who does and does not get to become long term members of our country's society.
It is a pretty random example, but it is meant to say that the math is rarely the limiting factor for security. People spend time thinking about this type of stuff because they like it, not because it is actually important for security.

In my mind RSA is the last instance of a mathematical development changing the game of security. After that it is twists of the same idea on more obscure mathematical objects, and pyrotechnic protocols that only the truly unhinged (ethereum people) are willing to try out in practice.
Where are you getting an A100 80GB for $10k?
Its only impossible because much of hawaii is zoned for single family homes. In terms of topology and those resulting challenges its no different than a lot of southeast asian or even south american cities that aren’t afraid to build vertically.
> Hawaii has the lowest property tax rates in the US. It makes it extremely cheap for a mainlander to buy property

Or maybe

"Residents of Hawai‘i face the highest housing costs in the nation"

ref: https://uhero.hawaii.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/TheHawai...
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> a large majority of the world’s 8 billion people can’t afford to travel

Total tangent, but I don't think most people have considered the ramifications of this changing.

Increasing travel demand only takes a small increase in the amount of disposable income of people at the margins - people who want to travel but can't afford it.

Increasing travel supply is approximately impossible at the first derivative - the places that people want to travel are places that have hundreds/thousands of years of history drawing them in. You can't simply make another Florence because the first one is too busy. Same problem re: national parks (which are moving to a reservation system to try to cope).

I suspect we'll continue to see places that haven't historically been interesting to/developed for travelers try to stake their claims as alternatives. There are some small cities in Italy that are fantastic destinations at the moment - accentuating themselves with travel amenities but not yet mobbed by travelers.

This is only going to get worse over time (more people able to afford travel than there are places worth traveling) unless there's a major shock like having the concept of travel canceled by climate change activists.

I wonder what cool opportunities there are in trying to solve this.
I work at Sourcegraph and would love to learn more.

1. Which SCIP indexers did you having issues with?

2. What issues did you hit (can you share details or link to GitHub issues filed?)

Thanks!
I'm not playing this game. I'm not claiming that the law was or wasn't repealed; I don't know. You're the one making the claim that it was repealed. Cite a source or you're just making things up.
I've always understood it that datacentre equipment comes with beefier control plane processors then telco equipment. And that's for three main reasons. Firstly, the data planes themselves are less powerful and have to offload more to the CPU. Secondly, the thermal env of telco will cook a Xeon. Thirdly, SDN and extensible Linux-based software is more popular in datacente, compared to mostly proprietary telco software where the CPU has a fixed house-keeping role. Cavium's arm/mips processors were popular for telco control plane.

It's quite possible my viewpoint is outdated.
The addition of agriculture would also have meant the raising of bison much as cows.
I thought the boot config was just an override.

The things I've been searching in the last few minutes suggest that the Pi can negotiate 5A but only if the power supply explicitly offers it as a PDO, which almost nothing does.

But even if that's right, it's almost as bad as not doing PD at all.

Edit: The documentation states "If the Raspberry Pi 5 firmware detects a supported 5A-capable supply, it increases the USB current limit for peripherals to 1.6A, providing 5W of extra power for downstream USB devices, and 5W of extra onboard power budget."

It also confirms no PPS, but it's not entirely dumb.
They aren’t banning Airbnb they are giving local authorities the ability to prevent short term rentals in areas that are zoned for residential and agricultural use.

You don’t think a community has the right to regulate land use? Short term renters don’t make good neighbors, and a community full of short term rentals isn’t really a community. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to limit them to appropriately zoned areas.

I don’t see any difference between a local government telling people they can’t run retail business in residential area and telling people they can’t run a hotel.
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Are you, perhaps, confusing money with currency?

Money is just a promise. Anyone can create those. Which should be quite obvious. When you go to work to, as we literally say, make money, your employer is making a promise that in exchange for you work you can take something of some defined value later. Later, you will take that promise and turn it into something of value, such as food. Once spent, the money is destroyed. The promise is no longer valid. The deal is done.

Currency is a promise to a particular entity, such as a central bank. A central bank will loan you something of some value, you equally promise to give them something of equal value (we'll ignore interest for simplicity) back at a later date. Indeed, only the central bank can accept promises made to the central bank. If you accepted a promise on behalf of the central bank, without explicit authority, then you are quite right that trouble is coming your way.

Because there is a trust component required in promises, often promises made – such as the promise of your employer to feed you later – will be backed by a promise to the central bank. The central bank has a military to send if someone really tries to play nasty with promises made, so that carries a lot more trust than if you and I wrote up our own 'IOU'. This may be why you see money and currency as being one and the same. Often they are, but not necessarily so.

Accounting is simply for keeping track of promises. That's why we invented it. You don't need accounting for barter. It is the promises that necessitate accounting in order to keep track of what promises are outstanding and what are fulfilled. A bookkeeper doesn't create money per se, but they certainly account for money created and destroyed by the entity they are bookkeeping for.
I love how he has a link to "what is it for?" but never answers the question. As far as I can tell this is the technoblogger equivalent of end-of-society prepping?

In the event of something so catastrophic happening that the internet stops functioning for an extended period of time, you're not going to be hauling this enormous brick around with you. It's absurd.

In an end-of-society situation you're likely on foot, maybe on bicycle (until the bike breaks down in a way you can't fix, or gets flats and you can't find tubes), and your available weight and space is going to be prioritized towards basics like food, shelter, clothing, basic health/tool items, and self defense.

How you get 90% of the way there: a USB solar panel, a bluetooth keyboard, and a smartphone with an external storage memory device. Maybe a USB to ethernet adapter and a USB hub.

Many modern phones are even water/dust proof to a pretty reasonable degree, more so if you put them in a ruggedized case.

I dare him to carry that thing 10 miles...
still a better love story than Urbit
A machine owned by a corporation is not a person. They don’t get the same rights as people
The curious case of faster AWS KMS symmetric key rotation