skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think NIMBYism is a result of a home purchase being more permanent than a rental, and comes with a certain expectation of some peace and quiet for many.

It makes sense people would want to protect against the things they moved to the house to get away from.

I just bought a house a few years ago. There is 1 annoying house in ear shot of me and it’s a rental house that seems to get a new family each year, and no matter the family, it’s the house having parties, and slamming car doors at all hours of the night. It’s not every night, but it’s enough that I noticed. All the houses that are owner occupied aren’t like that.

Inviting more of that around me would make me want to move, and I’d rather not move. If you take away the reason a group of people moved to an area, they are going to find a new area. The previous area will slowly erode, and the new area will grow and thrive.. and then YIMBY people will want to come in and change the new area, and the cycle will start again.

I don’t see my house as a piggy bank. I see it as a means to stop rising rent costs, to stabilize my budget over time, and lower my fixed expenses in retirement. I’m not borrowing against it (the piggy bank), as I don’t want to risk the stable housing.
This pattern of usage always seems like abuse.

When `make` is used as a glorified front-end to `bash` scriptlets, why not use `bash` directly instead of having two-level of scripting?

See: https://blog.aloni.org/posts/bash-functional-command-relay/
> not worsening and not inherently wrong.

People saying, and believing, this, is exactly why it's depressing. At the least. Infuriating and disgusting really.

Imagine your ex or some other person you don't like, you don't consent to, peering in on you right now, watching everything you do, selling information about you to other people.

It's disgusting to think about when it's an individual who does it, right? Why do you put up with the exact same shit if a corporation or government does it? Often with the threat of violence and seizure.
>> Are you suggesting the author's site is now better for advertisers?

No. Gaming the system in bad faith was just gaming the system.

>> Google has no incentive to improve the situation - because google has an effective monopoly.

Improvement in this case I assume meaning "identifying the site gamed the rules".

I suspect, but don't know, that Google spends a lot on trying to identify site quality. But the ones building spammy (gamey?) sites are winning.
They don’t just send the amount, they would also send their work
That seems more likely to be company culture related and only slightly influenced by the language.
I just looked at the Killed By Google gallery and it's got 295 rows of 3 dead projects per row (except for the first and last rows of 2). That's 883 kills. That is truly impressive!

I look forward to welcoming "Quantum AI" to that graveyard.
I’m sorry but this is simply wrong.

You think financial pressure has zero bearing on your mental health?

What bearing does your mental health have on your capacity to form and nurture relationships?

If you read the article then you’d know the org has been given 5M euro and so far has come up with:

> strategies such as joining clubs or pursuing hobbies

You’ll need spare cash and spare time for those solutions.
Is this more sarcastic or do you actually have a classifier built that returned 86%? Genuinely curious.
This reminds me of Brazil here! Was pretty common to buy PCs at the time with Linux. Almost no one obviously were going to use Linux at the time. Most people I do say, installed later pirated versions of Windows.

This happened because no OEM license = cheaper. These days I don't think it matters anymore, because probably the OEM license is much cheaper than it was back then.
> summers are fine if you grew up in the desert

Deserts are low precipitation, not necessarily hot. Austin is not arid. It's not West Texas.

> If you've been to Las Vegas in the summer then imagine that temperature

In the midwest we say "it's not the heat; it's the humidity." Vegas is hotter and dryer than Austin. They might "feel" similar, but how people stay hydrated and how they stay cool will be noticeably different.
Think this was launched to support some L8 promo
Say you want to reply to an email, it'll write the email for you with a couple words of context (since it already has access to the past convo in the thread.)

Similarly it'll work for all things you want to author.
The article itself is actually pretty balanced despite the "doomer" headline.

As a (relatively) long time Austinite, a big part of the appeal of Austin for a long time was that it might not have all the amenities or infrastructure of a big metropolis like NYC, LA, SF or Chicago, but because it was so much cheaper, you could actually afford to take advantage of what the city had to offer. That tradeoff has gotten significantly worse recently. I.e. Austin never had the cultural attractions (major museums, first class theater, architecture, etc.), big league sports teams, perfect weather, great geography, etc. of various bigger cities, but it did have good "2nd tier options": Lady Bird Lake (Town Lake to us oldies), Lake Travis, great music scene, etc. These made Austin a great option if you wanted more of a career/life balance.

But while Austin really started getting ridiculously unaffordable (for what it offers) I'd say starting in the early 2010s, it just got into plain stupid "meme stock" territory during the pandemic. I'm not sure if it was some combination of Elon Musk/Joe Rogan/etc., but people elsewhere got this silly hyped up vision of Austin. When I first moved to Austin I was worried none of my friends from the coasts would want to visit me, and then for the past couple years if I told people I was from Austin I'd always hear "Oh, I hear that it's such an awesome city!" which honestly was a bit weird to me. Don't get me wrong, I always really liked Austin and it has a ton to offer, but the negatives have started to outweigh the positives: it's always been crazy hot during the summer, but 2023 was insane and probably a peek of what climate change has in store; public transportation is pretty abysmal so if you don't live close in to the city you'll be stuck in horrendous traffic; but the crazy explosion in housing prices mean that anything remotely central is egregiously expensive; being a woman of reproductive age can simply be dangerous in Texas (even if you desperately want to have kids).

So I think what is happening is a much, much needed correction. Austin still has a ton to offer, but not at the stupid prices of the past couple years. And if anything, housing has really started falling because there recently has been a ton of multi-family projects that have come online. I mean, say what you want about the lack of regulation in Texas, but at least we're solving our housing problem here with the only solution that really works - building more housing.
Sinks generally don't just break. If you're buying a new sink, it's likely to replace a perfectly good used one. So having an ability to easily find even more used sinks wouldn't really change much. Never mind if you're going to spend the effort/money on the work of swapping a sink, you might as well pay a little more for a new sink.

ReStore has their niches, but overall there's a large feel good hopecycling dynamic as well. So many used furniture sets just sitting around indefinitely.

Exceptions of used things people seek out basically prove the rule - things that you can't get any more (solidly built, repairable appliances, wide lumber, etc), or vintage styles coming back around into fashion.
> Google says "hey, unfortunately your site isn't appealing to advertisers."

1) Advertisers - plural? What other advertisers is Google referencing?

In this context, 'advertisers' means all the other meaningfully similar ad options that the author could choose from.

2) This wording: "The team has reviewed it but unfortunately your site isn’t ready to show ads at this time." is Google's clear and blatant refusal to extend their ad ~monopoly to his web page. A refusal that gets satisfied only after he loads his site up with useless, time wasting crap.

I'll grant the author did have a choice. The author could be denied access to Google's ad monopoly or he could crap up his web page.
Yes, sarcastic, poking fun at myself for having a gut feeling -- so no, no classifier, afaik it's impossible to reliably. Though I would like to take a test and see my recognition rate, I wonder if there's a site for that...
Teacher accused of using AI to create fake, racist recording of principal
This debacle smells of ill-preparation. Seems that none of the teams actually spent time or effort testing their systems in real life before the event.
FWIW, I was certain this was GPT by the second paragraph.
> the org has been given 5M euro and so far has come up with:

>> strategies such as joining clubs or pursuing hobbies

I could have saved them $5M by loaning them my copy of “Bowling Alone”
This is kind of a silly argument, for every item you shoplift: do you ask if you can take it without paying and then get granted permission?
Yeah, tbh, I always thought rentals would do ok because of how well Teslas have rented on Turo.

But then again, Turo is a small fragment of the market, and the hosts care about renting them out. They are also selected by the renter intentionally.

The rental companies went too far on purchases and way short on support, and often gave them out to people that didn't even want them.
A Better Boarding Method Airlines Won't Use (2019)
> What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EI08o-IGYk
The problem with falling prices is that it stalls the market. If you think you could wait an year to get the same house 10% (+ inflation) cheaper, why would you buy now?
This is a good point though I'd argue that the spec isn't all that readable for some important things.

For example the description of exception handling is sprinkled between the CSR definitions of the CSRs involved. There's no section that just lays out the exception model.
And that says nothing about China's emissions, if e.g. they continue to build coal power plants.
I’ve sent you an email
Be cool if alcoholics could get this level of sympathy from society.

Drink too much: it's a personal failing.

Eat too much: weight management is extremely challenging due to interactions between our biology, behavior, and the obesogenic environment.
Where’d you come up with 30 years? Just a feeling?

Perhaps you’re feeling the transition in increased disparity between minimum wage and cost of living that occurred ~30 years ago?

https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/21/politics/minimum-wage-inflati...
Even if somebody would have been talking about the US, I would call neither "North Dakota" nor "Ohio" villages. Both are bigger than many european countries, and you certainly are going to find regions were the population increases and some where it decreases.
Great game, really fun to play!
PG&E rates can make it more expensive than gas. That is by far the exception, though.
Do you have mechanistic model for what it means to think? If not, how do you know thinking isn't equivalent to sophisticated next token prediction?
This exactly!!!!!
Thanks
with esp8266 specifically, an ultrasonic mister for hydroponics, i even get the 8266 to generate the waveform while serving a control web page.
That's not a recipe, it's a short intro to a list of recipes. Just Learn To Read.
I'd guess that a lot of EV renters switch back to Turo or whatever company still offers them. For some reason, these threads attract a lot of people who act like noone likes renting them and very few say otherwise.

Nevertheless, there's definitely still a market here.
Eerie..I looked at the account after I posted my comment...it made several other comments I noticed this week.

Nearly every single comment I remember seeing and thinking it sounded like GPT, and yet, had enough content to be not-GPT, and I figured I was being cranky.

Same vibe here except blatantly off-topic, and less content than the others

Curious what you make of their other posts
Tested it , It's interesting man. So how do you made it? like how the long-term memory actually works? I am not into that much of the Technical part , but am curious to get some info , if you can provide some articles or something ,that's also works.
Usually WebGL games aren't that great, this one however, is a great exception, and an enjoyment to play.

Great work.
This is an intimidating contest, are there many groups working on these problems besides the people on their website? I wonder if they put "AI" in the branding to grab the attention of people in quantum about to pivot to LLM's..
You get a pretty good sixth sense for detecting GPT posts after a while. Nobody uses connectives that much.
Microsoft Releases DOS 4.0 Source Code but It Doesn't Compile Lunduke [video]
All of Google's services are also on iOS, often the apps work better than on Android. There is no barrier to switching.
The most popular EVs in the US are the Model 3 and Model Y. The oldest 3 is 7 years old, so getting it over 200k would mean ~28k/year.

And yet, there are some that have over 200k miles. It isn't uncommon to run across them.
Because you want to move in this year. Predicting another 2007 is a fool's game. Thanks to our system of mortgages that are implicitly backed by the government, house prices usually only go up. At worse the price just plateaus for a while. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
Back during the pandemic, hardware-based contract tracers were an idea. I built one using the ESP32; see https://github.com/tbensky/npct. In a nutshell, everyone generates a (non-centralized) hash for themselves based on local entropy. This hash is set to the BLE name of the ESP32. Turn it on and throw it in your backpack as you go out. When two ESP32s pass by each other, they both log the other's BLE name (hence hash). Later on, hash logs could be inspected and uploaded to a central server so you can see who encountered who. Seems like there's still some (non-Covid) applications for this (but I can't think of any). Fun project. Learned a lot about Bluetooth.
Incorrect. Hertz was the biggest corporate supporter of EVs other than the manufacturers themselves. Two different Hertz CEOs essentially bet their careers on an EV future. Your characterization of intentional neglect or feet dragging is absolutely not the case, they made big, bold Tesla purchases and aggressively deployed them in the field. The problem was that customers simply did not want to rent them.

https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/2021/10/28/hertz-b...

https://boardstewardship.com/hertz-ceo-stephen-scherr-steps-...
"No value", meaning $0 CPM? Not really plausible unless the site has barely any human visits.
Why not both?

Why not $15 Internet access to use while at home, and free Internet access to use while at the library?

What part of this potential eventuality "does not make sense"?
Austin has a high amount of humidity and is nowhere near being a nice arid desert like say El Paso. I lived in Austin during the summer of 2001, and my dashboard melted. I didn’t know you needed those sun thingies to block the sun. I got one quick after that. Not sure how bad it is now.

Tucson is also hot, but I love dry heat. Wear a hat and hydrate, you’ll be fine. Austin had some really cool swimming holes though, it wasn’t a bad place nature wise.
Edward Teller wasn't sure the atomic bomb they were building wouldn't light the entire atmosphere on fire for a while there.
https://archive.is/TjLr8
If money is saved or not depends on a lot of factors. When I was working around Chicago, a co-worker of mine paid more in property taxes than I paid in rent. I also rented a condo once, and when I inquired about buying a unit, the monthly association fee was only $200 less than my rent. The owner was basically renting the place at cost, assuming it was paid off. It made me feel not so bad about renting.

There are also a lot of extra costs to owning a home, beyond the property taxes, there is the maintenance. When renting, 0 time and energy needs to be spent on maintenance. If something breaks, there is 1 number to call, and other than that, it’s easy living. With a house the owner has to either spend time/money doing it themselves, or spend money to hire out for it, and manage all the various contractors doing the work.

The first time I bought a house it was a disaster. Every month I was having to spend at least $800 fixing something. My savings were going fast. I ended up bailing on it in less than a year for a few reasons, but one was that it was significantly more expensive than rent when it was all said and done. My current house is better for than perspective, and I was much more prepared going into it. I still like the carefree nature of renting, but after almost 20 years of renting, I was worried about how much it would cost me if I was renting into retirement, or if I still had mortgage, so I hit a now-or-never moment.
Innocent until proven guilty seems like a frivolous device until they come for you. Good luck!
There is no AI on the whole front page. Right?

Where is the AI?
Well precisely. If you can make up shit, why can't I?
IDK why these threads are like this in HN. It seems strange, given the sites tendency to attract techies, but many of them turn like this.

And yet you go into car forums and supposedly most Tesla owners are "tech bros". :shrug
> They cannot do everyone's taxes since what they know about many individuals is incomplete.

For the vast majority of people they have all the info needed. Hardly anyone can take any deductions other than the standard deduction anymore, so that's covered. For income, most people have W-2 jobs so that's covered and all financial institutions send 1099s to the IRS with all your interest, dividend and stock transactions so that's covered too.
Congrats to the author! I did a lot of research on interpreters as part of a high school project, a million years ago (give or take ;) ). There weren't any good resources, the few books I found in the university library on the topic were not that great. This book looks great and the web version is free, now just to find the time to read it!
I think you're one of todays lucky 10000 [0] learning about WLED [1] today :)

[0] https://xkcd.com/1053/

[1] https://kno.wled.ge/

Edit: not sure about the PIR sensor though...
Edit2: nevermind, it'll do: https://kno.wled.ge/basics/compatible-hardware/#miscellaneou...
It's a weak argument that resembles bullying more than it does anything else.

If that kind of crediting was necessary for something like the GNU project to be known and to thrive, then it should have been solved eons ago by including it as a requirement the terms of the GPL instead of by being indignantly recalcitrant about it later on.
Remember watching this maybe 15 years ago. Really impactful film.
Great, added!
I mean, it’s way easier to buy GOOG than get hired there, just sayin…
Your comment is phrased as a disagreement, but it's not. The GP post said the IRS can't do everyone's taxes, and you replied that they can do most. I think we're all on the same page that people would benefit from having available information autofilled while still having the opportunity to review and make corrections as needed.
I don’t know why but swiping hurts my old joints and thumb typing does not.
Home ownership goes like this:

1. Find a place you like and can afford.

2. Buy it for whatever they're willing to take.

3. Pay on your mortgage several times.

4. Sell it for whatever someone will pay.

As a virtuous person who just wants a roof over your head, which of these are you going to differently so you don't wreck things for future generations?
Looks like Mistral overfitted on Google’s interview riddles!
I had the same question. The site suggests it is a serious research organization focused on quantum computing—but with no obvious connection to artificial intelligence that I could find.

Archived versions of the website [1] mention work on machine learning more prominently, as do some of the linked research publications from a few years back [2].

Perhaps the unit was given the name AI initially but its focus later shifted to quantum computing?

Later: A Google blog post from 2021 explains the connection of quantum to AI better than the current website does [3].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20201210053216/https://quantumai...

[2] https://scholar.google.com//citations?view_op=view_citation&...

[3] https://blog.google/technology/ai/unveiling-our-new-quantum-...
This is one of the best technical books I have ever read. Having evolving code and a running program at the end of each chapter is an incredible vision, and props to the author for pulling it off. I skimmed the tree-walking interpreter as I'd written those before, then worked through the C-based bytecode interpreter and learned tonnes more.
That's not even mentioning the 8-12 hours a day many people are staring at screens. It's 1/2 - 3/4 of an alternate reality to what humans experienced from 10k BC to 1950
I looked into it briefly but Im still not sure why the aussies are chasing this so vehemently
Pretty lean extension, you basically set the playback rate of an Ad to 16 and automatically click on skip ad when it appears.

If this becomes popular, Google can copy Facebook anti blocker methods and just randomize the classnames and Dom depth of nodes for the button. And they could honey pot it with hidden elements or image buttons.
Can not love it more!!!!!
You could say the inverse about sellers.
Yes, fire them and hire better help, even if it costs more. Giving people a raise doesn’t automatically make them better.
There are very few deserts that are arid without being hot because the primary factor limiting temperature in most habitable parts of the globe is the heat capacity of water in the area vs solar energy. That's why most of the counterexamples are polar deserts.
Thats only really a problem for C/C++, which I have had the misfortune to make build systems for.

The solution is not to ship complicated and bug infested build systems, it is to fix the dependency problem in the same way any other language has done so far and until we do this, ship the dependencies with the program.

And if you aren't making a GUI and don't need to target Windows, just wrap it in Docker, which enforces a functional dependency system and means you can ship your dependencies.
> I looked into a half-dozen or so alternatives, but all the other companies were either simply Google ads re-sellers, which is an ecosystem I don't quite understand, or were extremely sketchy, and had reviews complaining about how they trick people into downloading malware and such.

This is so true. I have tried to monetize my tools with ads quite a few times before, and the only way was to use Adsense. It's actually crazy how there is literally no quality alternative.
I took the statement to imply no runtime dependencies, as no compile-time dependencies doesn’t really make sense.
Employers get what they pay for.

Pay people well (aka enough to actually save and be able to afford property) and you might see something different.

But ShArEhOlDeR VaLuE!!!! means it’ll never happen.
> you think you should’ve just been able to pay cash and potentially screw someone over

You're only benefitting the babysitter by paying them cash, big win for them. And benefitting yourself to avoid all that payroll hassle that nobody understands. Win-win.
And where are people supposed to live before they are ready to buy a house of their own?

One of the issues young people seem to have is that they have been conditioned to want immediate gratification. They are 23 and want a house on par with their parent’s home. Their parents didn’t start out with that place and worked up to it over decades.

My parents didn’t even have a shower in their first apartment. They had to take baths and use a mug to scoop up water to wash their hair. I had it better than them when I started out and got my first place; I actually had a shower.

People in general would be a lot happier if they dialed back their expectations.