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Nihilism is life without personal values?

I mean you can happily define any term however you want.

It will cause certain kinds of issues though... but just because the community organized documentation of our massively open source project called philosophy says (very roughly):

let Nihilism: &str = "Life is without an (intrinsic|external), fixed basis for meaning."

you can absolutely redefine it in your personal REPO to mean.

let Nihilism: &str = "Life is without a personal basis for value."

But... I mean, your definition is very strange and is not aligned with the community docs, in many ways it is quite antithetical and will cause any dependent arguments or clauses to have runtime errors.

But I mean, if you want to pick a nihilism variant/alt (My favorite nihilism is Mereological Nihilism) and elevate it to be your primary definition of Nihilism that's ok!
Google offered "alerts" - email notifications when new web content appears relevant to a search string.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Alerts

https://www.google.com/alerts
I think it makes sense when writing css for isolated components - usually ignoring the cascade. Makes it possible to not name things which is a plus in componentworld.

The thing is, it’s the cascade that makes css as powerful and elegant as it is.

And not naming the things comes at the cost of listing all css properties as classes on each element.

I write CSS and must say that in 2024 CSS is an amazingly powerful and elegant language.

If one is willing / given the time to learn it.

Using conventions like ITCSS, a few libraries like https://utopia.fyi and placing colors, font sizes and spacing into variables + the use of a few utility classes provide most of the conveniences of a utility-first framework with no downsides.

I can also see how devs focusing on components prefer utility-first frameworks for the speed of development. Despite the low maintainability and the horrible markup.
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First, the police can often get a warrant very quickly (like, an hour) in am emergency.

Second, there are some exceptions in the case of an immediate threat of harm or destruction of evidence.

But if you have time to get and fly the drone, you probably have time to, in parallel to planning the observation -and your likely response- to get a warrant as well.
> homelessness is primarily driven by high rents

It stands up both to intellectual review and research studies. It’s a very clear idea that higher rents are harder to pay for, so it’s more likely you can’t pay. It’s conceptually sound AND backed by research.

> Especially visible homelessness

In many parts of the country visible homelessness is a small fraction of the total homelessness. For example, historically Boston had 5% of the homeless population on the street.

Homelessness doesn’t look like what people see. For every homeless person laying on the sidewalk having a health crisis there are 10-20 more people in homeless shelters or cars. This is where the homeless families are.

If you have bad luck (eg medical expenses, car crash etc) and suddenly can’t afford rent, high rents make it hard to get enough money to bridge that gap. This is a real risk for low-income workers - one surprise bill could easily deplete savings and risk not paying rent.

If you’re just irresponsible or handicapped and can’t work full time (eg mental health issues, physical health issues) and have trouble maintaining income and savings, then expensive rent makes it more likely you won’t earn enough any given month.

Hell, if you’re a drug addict and barely able to hold a job and always looking for your fix, high rent makes it harder to find a slummy house to get out of the rain.

You can find PLENTY of data on homelessness from your city’s homeless Census which they do every year. It’s a rigorous process and it’s done in a controlled manner in every major city in America.
I like the way Maureen K. Ohlhausen puts it:

> Let’s just change the terms of the hypothetical slightly to understand why. Everywhere the word “algorithm” appears, please just insert the words “a guy named Bob”. Is it ok for a guy named Bob to collect confidential price strategy information from all the participants in a market, and then tell everybody how they should price? If it isn’t ok for a guy named Bob to do it, then it probably isn’t ok for an algorithm to do it either.

Full talk from 2017: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements...
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Different topic, but this could be solved if somebody wrote an IDE that understood all the relationships between your HTML and CSS and let you manipulate it visually, rather than having to manually cross-reference symbols.
SerenityOS has (partially) working ports for both ARM and RISC-V already:

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Kernel/Ar...
With Windows very often using Microsoft Standard Display driver on lots of hardware it won't even recognize a second monitor.

The same hardware on Linux works most of the time right out of the box from the live distro, the problem I have seen is when you adjust the layout and resolution using the GUI, it can help if you close the settings GUI after each little change to allow the displays to adjust before opeing the GUI again for the next tweak.

Either way, rebooting can be the major factor if you're trying to switch cabling. Even though you can generally plug & unplug VGA or HDMI cables safely while in use, if there is more than one display output on the back of the PC, the ones which have nothing (recognizable) plugged in when you power up can be very likely to be non-functional until you reboot.
Heh, on Twitter, I was arguing against someone who thought that a corporation buying up apts and renting them out would result in lower rents. C'mon really?
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Documentation can reduce the interest rate on your technical debt. By writing down the design philosophy of why we are making this? What problem it is trying to solve? What it is supposed to do? The code tells use the how, but the rest gives us the necessary context to grok the system and resolve bugs faster.
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Theoretically. That’s where zoning comes in and kills any possibility to densify.
The school decisions were absolutely some of the worst decisions, especially with the number of professionals dedicated to child health and welfare begging for the exact opposite.
Open source maintainers are not obligated to provide support. They're certainly not obligated to do so for free.
I'm reading the actual opinion [1], and I feel The EFF article misrepresents it. The case doesn't really hinge on aerial surveillance, but the telephoto lens they used on the flight. The cases sited in the opinion suggest that a naked eye aerial surveillance flight could be acceptable, and to me leaves open the questions of drones with normal cameras. The discussion around curtilage is interesting, but people's subjective impression of what the private spaces around their home are, are going to vary widely by context (as discussed in the opinion).

[1] https://casetext.com/case/state-v-mckelvey-9
There are moves to abolish DST and I suspect that after that happens timezones will ossify, which will make it difficult to use them to compensate for a large DUT1. And after 1000 years of gradually shifting daylight, people will probably be used to noon being a bit late and may well prefer it.
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Agreed! Creating a high-quality finished song is not only a harder target for a product to hit, it's actually less valuable as a use-case. I wrote a response to another post detailing why as well as the product I'd actually pay for. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40563993
It doesn't always work smoothly, sometimes players can corner the market, or become too big and own both side of development, and rental. That is why we need an agency to look at price fixing, monopoly and stuff like that.

In a good system, government doesn't subsidize cost. It just enters whenever the system is broken to work based on supply and demand of market.
There are several issues with RealPage versus something like a public-data analytics tool:

* RealPage actively suggests a price for each unit without exposing the underlying fundamentals to the customer, rather than displaying aggregate data and allowing the customer to make a pricing decision.

* RealPage incorporates private data, including vacancy data, from all participating companies into their pricing model in order to generate a shared agreement about pricing. This information is being voluntarily shared in order to manipulate the market - that is, they broker horizontal collusion between players in a vertical industry. A group of landlords calling each other to say "we're going to make sure the vacancy rate stays at 5.5% this year" or "hey let's make sure we don't let these units go for under market value even though they're empty" would also be illegal collusion, it's just being laundered through an algorithm.

This is the big smoking gun that makes it a hub-and-spoke price fixing ring (also called vertically integrated horizontal collusion - ie, a cartel).

There's also the part where RealPage bought their main large-scale competitor, Lease Rent Options (who claimed to use only public data, in contrast to RealPage), in a 2017 deal that probably shouldn't have passed antitrust review, so there isn't anyone else to blame (they also own Buildium).
Seems like a good idea, but "the proof is in the puddling". Can the author make a working implementation that competes with Transformers in terms of quality?
If creating more supply were a strong effect resulting from this activity, surely housing advocates would be strongly in favor of this and asking the FBI to back off on this obviously pro-housing action.
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Either it was a shitty investment from the beginning or you actually use it very regularly and it would be worth it anyway to slowly thinking about something new.
Being Alaska, my first thought is that your "passer-by" may also be on horseback - so long as he's in a location where a somewhat prudent horseman might ventured while mounted.

And maybe add similar tests for the passer-by hearing or smelling things?
Anytime someone mispronounces an obscure word, I actually tend to hold them in higher regard.

Because like you said - that means they spend more time learning than they do with their mouth open. That's a good thing.
At scale it's easy.

If you are working full-time and have your own house maintenance _and_ you are trying to assess tenants, fill out paperwork, fix issues at the rental property, travel to and from rental property, coordinate contractors, paint in between tenants, etc., it's work.

My (ex)mother-in-law went in to a retirement home, during the first year we wanted her condo to be available (eventually) if it didn't work out. Being a landlord for that year sucked.
Super duper NYMBys!

In LA, you used to have a ton of extremely cheap studio apartments. We're talking $600 for a nice studio apartment with its own bathroom, you had SROs as well which while not luxury apartments, provided housing.

But the vast majority of this housing stock was very old and created before there was thousands upon thousands of regulations, for example most apartments in Los Angeles need to be constructed with parking. You have to have a certain amount of outdoor space, etc. So you end up having housing cost twice as much as it really needs to .

It's really sad too, because just 15 years ago or so you could have a minimum wage job and afford your own place. Now that's not really obtainable anywhere in the United States. I've met tons of young adults, some even ranging into their 30s who have really bad home lives but can't afford to move out .

Solutions to this are often really short-sighted, you have affordable housing units going up which are costing $600 to $700,000 for the city to build. Obviously this just doesn't work so you have a bizarre lottery system just to have a roof over your head.

Personally I think the solution would be a combination of subsidized high speed rail and an aggressive rethinking of what a town needs to be. Imagine being able to hop on a high speed train that goes about 150 miles an hour.

You could have a community of affordable housing that's a short train ride away from San Francisco, LA, or any other unaffordable city.

I've also noticed you have a very bizarre system where many working-class people, rail operators, firefighters, teachers, etc. They have super commutes which are ranging from 1 to 2 hours each way just to get to work.
> Language itself encodes information.

Which it does in a lossy manner. Information is independent from language. The more complex the information, the more language fails. Which is why there is so many mediums for communication. Language has three main components: the symbols, the grammar, and the dictionary. The first refers to the tokens of our vocabulary, the second to the rules to arrange these tokens, and the third describes the relation of the tokens to the things they represent.

The relation between the three is interdependent. We name new things we encounter, creating entry in the dictionary, we figure the rules that governs these things, and the relation to other things encountered previously. And thus, we can issue statements. We can also name these statements and it continues recursively. But each of us possess its own copy of these stuff with its own variations. What you gain from what I said may be different from what I intended to transmit. And what I intended to transmit may be a poor description of the things itself. So flawed interpretation, flawed description, and flawed transmission result in flawed understanding. To correct it, you need to be in presence of the thing itself. Missing that, you strive to establish the tokens, the grammar, and the dictionary of the person that have written the text.

In LLMs, the dictionary is missing. The token "snow" has no relation to the thing we call snow. But because it's often placed near other tokens like "ice", "freeze", etc,... Then a rule emerges (embedding?) that these things must be related to each other. In what way it does not know. But if we apply the data collected in a statistical manner, we can arrange these tokens and the result will probably be correct. But there's still a non-zero chance that the generated statement is meaningless as there's no foundation rule that drives it. So there's only tokens. And rules derived from analyzing texts (which lack the foundation rules that comes from being in the real world).

All of these to say the act of learning is either observing the real world and figure how it works. Or read from someone that has done the observing and has written his interpretation, then go outside and confirm it. Barring that, we reconstruct the life of this person so that we can correct the imperfection of languages. With LLMs, there's no way to correct as the statement themselves are not truthful. they can just be accidentally be right.
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Background appears to be exclusively in UI/UX design which shows because the website is very nice. But forgive my skepticism on everything else the page talks about. Might get some VC $ for the enthusiasm but not seeing any firepower behind the claims.
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Anytime we make a change to a screen we opt to upgrade the CSS template. So, only if we are working on that part of the application.

Typically it takes just a few minutes to switch out the CSS.

Now, there are a few very complex screens that require more effort (a lot of data viz and variable state). Those we evaluate - maybe we will punt on the upgrade – or maybe we dig in and do it if there is nothing urgent on the books.
Capitalism fires the people at the top by replacing them with new companies. That ensures progress will happen, either by incumbents or by disruptors, either way we aren't stuck.

When/if Google gets bad enough or their technology gets deprecated they will get replaced. You can argue it isn't happening fast enough for your taste, but its just been a decade or two depending on how you count, this rate of progress and disruptions and replacements is extremely fast compared to any other known system.
Analog conversion is the only way to get digital sound into your ears and your brain.

Wired or wireless doesn't make much difference in the overall scheme of things as far as quality is concerned.
The law of supply and demand observes that when price rises, people (and other animals!) tend to have more willingness to sell a good or service and less willingness to buy said good or service.

But you seem to be suggesting the opposite: As price rises, landlords are less willing to sell a lease, and tenants more willing to buy a lease.
Big fan of posthog. I've been using it for over a year and loving it as a replacement or augmentation to Google Analytics for funnels and user interactions.
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Supply is rising. We just have a huge deficit.

There are a wide variety of issues at play: high interest rates, localized shortages of construction workers, rising material costs, zoning restrictions, local opposition and years of underbuilding.
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Very black and white take, no rent control also implies no monopolies/price fixing behavior which is illegal and the point of this post.

“Rent Control” is just price fixing in favor of the consumer, but has also a litany of issues including the quality of the community formed

Example if rent control forces prices down, but inflation makes the cost of maintenance high, then cost cutting will be done (poor service, poor landscaping, outdated appliances, less renovations, less security).

Saying to just do rent control is just as bad as saying let free market run wild regardless of price fixing/collusion