skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In fact, no serious study of the construction industry pins cost increases on stuff like that. There are far more powerful factors at play. The laborers you hire want to be paid more than before (and the government is rising minimum wages). Compliance is getting costlier due to ever-evolving building codes, environmental and energy regulations, and zoning. Customer expectations are increasing (higher finish, more sqft). To the extent the materials are getting expensive, it's usually not your lumber mill being greedy.

In general, you're probably seeing some increased disparity between the cost of things that require some significant levels of labor--especially if skills are involved to any great degree--and those that can be dealt with mostly by "just" throwing capital at the problem.

Over time I expect you'll see more automation, more self-service, and--yes--more just doing without of things that cost more to deliver than you can or want to pay for.
I would argue that living in the wild in the Yukon is hard work. Isn't 8 weeks the most your friend was employed, rather?
Even if that's the case, that's a problem. First, it's bad for society to write people off. Are people going to be willing to contribute if they aren't sure whether they might be the next write off? Second, a small number of disenfranchised people can still cause a lot of problems if they get despirate.
Most sweets are not 100% sugar or xylitol either. You‘d need to compare cocoa powder to xylitol instead, not the diluted form (baking chocolate).
Have you use a broad fork? It's like 4-6 blades spread across ~4 feet. The mechanism of action is totally different, and no, it does not break up the soil in the same way tilling with a spade or rototiller does.

If you are here only to argue semantic and prescriptivist use of language, you can stop responding. I'm not interested. You might be right according to some dictionary definition of these terms. In practical use by gardeners, however, these two techniques have different names and achieve different goals and only one is called tilling.
That’s a pretty weird take to me. Crime stats and polling of people’s perception of crime show this as clearly the wrong approach for instance.

Most studies show that no matter what direction crime is going in, a substantial majority of people think their neighborhoods are safer and that everywhere else is basically a war zone that is getting worse. There’s a total disconnect locally/nationally in perception that is also detached from crime stats.

All of this is to say that the anecdotes are basically all but worthless in the case of understanding how bad crime is on any appreciable scale beyond a few blocks of one’s neighborhood.

* https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2016/11/16/voters-pe...

* https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/many-americans-are-conv...

* https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23663437/crime-violence-m...

* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/as-concerns-grow-aroun...
Economic theory asserts that where there is profit to be made you will find entrants. So unless something stops entrants for mills (ie funding availability) we should anticipate economic profits to decrease.
> cheap piecewise affine approximation that is achieved by adding the bit representation of the floating point numbers together as integers ... with little to no performance impact

> we show that we can eliminate all multiplications in the entire training process, including operations in the forward pass, backward pass and optimizer update, demonstrating the first successful training of modern neural network architectures in a fully multiplication-free fashion.

This reaches demoscene levels of crazy/impressive!
A lot of comments in this thread put an almost moral dimension to this. "China is forcing this by slave labour/subsidies". "No they aren't". "It's still wrong".

I think for the most part, subsidies and tariffs don't have a moral dimension. They operate at a level above that, where there barely is "cheating", only balance of power and economics.

So neither is it evil that China is using subsidies to subvert Western industries, nor that the West responds in kind. Still, it needs to align with the real goal.

Fwiw I listened to a podcast on "the rest is history" (episode about Dickens I think) where they tangentially mention that late 19th century USA had no respect for foreign copyright, and IP theft from Europe was rampant. USA did it not because it is evil but because it could.

The West found itself in a different equilibrium for a few decades, where cooperating countries had more of a benefit from playing (mostly) by the rules than not. Now China is breaking these rules.

I'm concerned about where China, and indeed the West, are going, but not because either their subsidies or Western tariffs are morally wrong.
Interview with Elon by Ellie in Space - this is around the time stamp: https://youtu.be/tjAWYytTKco?si=Iz1k7sfNsGK3vZp7&t=141

He says it was 6 kilometers off geographically, but executed the landing well.
Yeah I love the simplicity of Piku, being able to actually understand what is happening behind the scenes is a great quality. :)
Freudian slip ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freudian_slip
The photo was taken in the early 2000s though!
This glacier had a good run but party’s over for it. Humanity parties on…
Everybody is self-taught. If you went to university (for example), the professor was there to set the curriculum and force you to study (things that otherwise you didn't know were important or didn't want to pick on your own). Teachers helping with a student's question is a very small fraction of learning. We learnt x because we practiced x ourselves.
I've heard the erection points downwards if you slice the ligament holding it up on the top side that could make it fit down the leg better
Somehow, late stage capitalism seems to bring us to this winner-take-all environment. We are being separated into rich and poor and forced farther and farther apart.

In large part for the reasons you stated, I'm sending one kid to a $100k per year private university instead of the $7k per year state school.

I was helping my kid try to apply for summer jobs. It involved a lot of 2FA apps and QR codes, which needed to be installed on a phone with the latest security updates, plenty of space, and a fast internet connection. The same was true onboarding the student onto the university.

Why do we tolerate this world where the bar is so high and getting higher all the time?
Intellectual monopolies disincentivize development and incentivize rent seeking. Here, rent seeking is legal action and lobbying intended to protect and extend monopolies, instead of advancing science.

Other than economic logic, we have natural experiments to back this up: i.e. the steam engine patent granted to Watt and Boulton in 1772 and its chilling effect on engine duty improvement (and the explosion of progress after patent expiry), and the modern pharmaceutical industry developing most strongly precisely where chemical patents were not granted, in 19th C. continental Europe, and slowing down wherever patent protections were eventually introduced, at the request of rent seeking lobbyists.

https://fee.org/articles/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-inno...

http://www.dklevine.com/papers/anew09.pdf
A trucker at the time said the transition was instant: people just did it, it was that easy.
It’s just a 10-line script, I’ll see if I can sanitize it and add to the docs (one of the samples already does something similar, you can peek at the repos to get ideas)
Instagram, the beloved photo and video-sharing platform, is stirring up a storm with its latest experiment: unskippable ads. This potential feature, currently in testing, has sent ripples of frustration through the Instagram community, sparking debates about the future of the user experience.
I thought it hit EOL 5+ years ago
Yes, we're heading back to Pliocene conditions at full tilt, no doubt about it, and the trigger has been pulled, the tipping point is in the past, so better start adapting to these new conditions. Don't buy property in flood zones, or in wildfire zones, or in low-lying coastal hurricane zones, and if you do, expect to evacuate regularly at the very least. However, life was abundant in the Pliocene, so hysteria about 'existential threat' is overblown - at least, it is if we stop using fossil fuels over the next half-century or so. Given the boom in solar led by China, this is entirely feasible.

Climate change and tropical Andean glaciers: Past, present and future
Vuille et al., Earth-Science Reviews 89 (2008) 79–96

> "Temperature in the Andes has increased by approximately 0.1 °C/ decade, with only two of the last 20 years being below the 1961–90 average. Precipitation has slightly increased in the second half of the 20th century in the inner tropics and decreased in the outer tropics. The general pattern of moistening in the inner tropics and drying in the subtropical Andes is dynamically consistent with observed changes in the large-scale circulation, suggesting a strengthening of the tropical atmospheric circulation. Model projections of future climate change in the tropical Andes indicate a continued warming of the tropical troposphere throughout the 21st century, with a temperature increase that is enhanced at higher elevations. By the end of the 21st century, following the SRES A2 emission scenario, the tropical Andes may experience a massive warming on the order of 4.5–5 °C. Predicted changes in precipitation include an increase in precipitation during the wet season and a decrease during the dry season, which would effectively enhance the seasonal hydrological cycle in the tropical Andes."
It's actually worth taking your joke seriously to compare and contrast:

- piku deploys via git rather than scp/sftp, but authenticates via ssh like those tools

- piku supports a number of runtimes, including Python, Ruby, Node, Go, Clojure. The runtimes are implemented rather simply, you can add your own rather easily, see examples here in the code: https://github.com/piku/piku/blob/8777cc093a062c67d3bead9a5d...

- For each runtime, a mechanism is utilized to install and isolate package dependencies (requirements.txt in Python, Gemfile in Ruby, packages.json in Node, etc.)

- a Procfile and ENV file are used to declare your application entrypoints and envvars akin to Heroku / 12 Factor App ideas

- a CLI (ssh shim on dev client machine) is provided for checking status and logs from the client (as well as stop/start/restart)

- since all applications are managed via uwsgi on the remote, there is also support for worker/sidecar processes and cronjob-style scheduled tasks

- HTTPS via Let's Encrypt (acme.sh) is handled automagically for web apps

I describe more about how piku works in this tutorial:

https://github.com/piku/webapp-tutorial?tab=readme-ov-file#b...

You're right that PHP apps have a simple deployment story, and in a way piku brings something akin to this level of simplicity to other web programming runtimes.
Having a non-binding referendum and moving against the 85% vote takes balls. And we're forever greatful that they did. Presumably people thought it would be inconvenient and voted no, while politicians realized the cost of doing it later would be much larger than just ripping the band aid off. At the time, the number of massive motorway crossings and similar was probably nearly zero. Today the cost would be unimaginable. We would have caved in the 70s at the latest, and at a cost many times larger.
yeah it's basically a longwinded way of saying "market power is a thing", and a clumsy one that kludges absolute monopoly rentiers like Verisign, companies reneging on partnerships and conventional market leaders tend to put their prices up when their product is much more useful than the alternatives all into the same bracket.

Market power obviously is a thing which affects pricing, but market power in BIM software doesn't have anywhere near as much to do with construction costs or everyday experience as fuel price increases or labour shortages.
In defense of their argument (not their choice of words), the final script is doing a `git clone`, so if they're going to ask the user to copy-paste anyway, their copy-paste code could be something like:

PUBLIC_KEY_FINGERPRINT='SHA256:KnownPublicKeyFingerprintHere'
git clone 'https://github.com/piku/piku-bootstrap' 'piku-bootstrap' && \
cd 'piku-bootstrap' && \
(git verify-commit $(git log -1 --pretty='format:%H' -- README.md) | grep 'Good "git" signature with ED25519 key '"${PUBLIC_KEY_FINGERPRINT}") && \
(git verify-commit 'HEAD' | grep 'Good "git" signature with ED25519 key '"${PUBLIC_KEY_FINGERPRINT}") && \
./whatever-command-from-this-repo

(EDIT: Feel free to clean it up a bit, adding other variables to make it a bit more readable, etc.)

From the user's POV it's the same thing: copy from somewhere, paste into terminal, press enter. But now you're trusting two fewer places:

- piku.github.io (the deployed version)

- github.com/piku/piku.github.io (the source code that supposedly generates the deployed version)

I'm not saying to do exactly these steps, and they are not perfect anyway (you're still trusting a `git clone` before even doing any kind of verification), but at least you're not YOLOing[1] without first doing some minimum verification of integrity before something is executed, so you know at least the first installation step has not been tampered with[2][3].

The git repos don't have commit signatures, and the verification doesn't have to use specifically those kind of signatures (could be a minisign public key hosted somewhere), but you get the point.

The updates are also a `git pull`, meaning, if the commits were signed, and the installation copy-pasta (or script) included a step that added the author's public key to the allowed signers file (TOFU-style), e.g. with a `curl` to the author's GitHub's keys URL, then `git pull --verify-signatures` could check new commits against the already-known key, and automatically warn about any changes so the user could decide if trust the new key or not. Stuff like that.

[1]: Nowadays, saying "install with `curl | sh`, but you can also do install these other ways", is equivalent to saying "verify integrity with `md5sum`, but you can also check this other file if you want to see other hashes"; technically correct, but if the installation instructions already contain questionable defaults, it makes me question what other questionable defaults are in the actual code.

[2]: "Has not been tampered with" as in "the last modification of `README.md` and the most recent commit are signed with the same key". Not perfect, but it's not YOLO.

[3]: Emphasis on "first installation step". Obviously anything that happens after that simple sanity check would need more scrutiny in case the author tries to run unsigned/unverified code in one of the next steps.
Antitrust is different in China.

State-Owned Enterprises and locally backed private conglomerates tend to help put downward price pressures on a lot of goods [0][1] plus there is a system of price ceilings depending on the commodity or product.

Local subsidies and tax breaks also help with minimizing the upfront cost allowing for smaller margins being sustainable over a longer term.

[0] - https://businesslawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archive/chinese...

[1] - https://global.oup.com/academic/product/chinese-antitrust-ex...
>You definitely didn’t read beyond the first few lines on the page…

I always do a mental `exit 1´ upon encountering `curl | sh´. It's just a good practice.
Apple's AI Push Sets Stage for Everything from Glasses to Robots
> Every waterfall project is secretly an iterative project because there's always a Phase 2 where the requirements get updated

This is a false equivalence. Waterfall is iterative in requirements but not in code. Changing the requirements document is much, much simpler than changing the code to conform to new requirements.

> The optimum amount of tech debt is not zero. Tech debt is a product of changing the product plan/vision/design in reaction to learning from customers. If you're not accruing tech debt then you're not learning from your users.

Not sure I agree with the implication "learning from users entails accruing technical debt". Technical debt is a rough measure of the inherent resistance of your program to adapt to customer requirements. Some architectures are flexible enough that you could learn how to configure the architecture differently based on what you've learned from users, but I don't see how that necessarily entails the addition of technical debt, ie. as a rule.
The escalators in London had signs with "please stand right" the times I've been there.
The crossroads of education and religion
Part of the problem is that that “intuition” changes based on how you the ask the question and who you ask it to. A good example of this is polling that shows Americans as a whole believe the country’s finances will be worse off a year from now at twice the rate as their own personal finances[0]. So I’d argue that even anecdotes and intuition need to be taken with grain of salt, particularly given that it’s an election year with a polarized electorate.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/05/23/views-of-the...
Perhaps... but "prompt engineering" right now seems like throwing paint at a wall until the black box evaluates to the relative "truth" you were looking for. It's like a stochastic wrench you turn until it serves your intensive porpoises.

Tokens? The way I see these things operating (in my head) is as a hyper-dimensional merge sort which lose there context/bounded-domain during evaluation, leading to something less than the sum of its parts because the weights between tokens correlate linguistic/phonetic relationships--which lose their causal-relationship to the real world.
Lately I've been more in favor of making notes with hyperlinks in markdown over bookmarks as I can search those better with vscode and will have more context to what those links are used for.
That is why the gene is put into a harmless virus which will injects the gene into cells. It takes advantage of what virus usually does.
"Well, it runs on my machine" - some small mammal, ca. 50 million years ago
Come on feel the noise: I unplugged my headphones and reconnected with the world
Did Spain's B-Mincome Experiment Prove Unconditional Basic Income Doesn't Work?
Every keypress-sound.

Otherwise the experience is good. Well Done!
> As Norway has become progressively richer these jokes in Sweden about Norwgians have more or less disappeared however.

Yeah, the prevailing notion in Sweden is now that Norway is so much better off that we swedes should declare war on Norway.

After which we promptly surrender, and all our problems become Norway's problems instead.
This isn't really the DMV's doing on its own. Same thing happened when I moved to Texas (or at least when I first needed to get a driver's license). In both cases, the root cause is GOP control of a purplish state trending blue shutting down offices and restricting ID services on purpose to suppress voting turnout.
This is the entire basis behind the movie "I Care A Lot;" apparently, becoming the LPoA for lonely/forgotten folks on the brink of death and collecting their insurance payouts/assets is big business.
Same happened to me. I used random then deployed to product. I could see the CPU on grafana going nuts. That was one rollback I never forgot.
> it's harder to do well individually (and thus have any fun) if your teammates aren't doing well.

Perhaps this is the actual cursed aspect. In a free-for-all context (i.e. a team size of one), you would never have this kind of a problem. As you increase the mandatory team size to six, you are creating an entirely new universe of effects to compensate for.

In my experience, 99.99%+ of the frustration in Overwatch and League of Legends emerges from dealing with your own teammates, not your opponents.
The utility sector has a 10% profit margin. Hardly an example of a monopoly abusing its position. If utilities were nationalized the maximum possible gain is 10% and the potential loss is the unlimited capacity of the government to waste resources.
I don’t think anyone disputes that it is possible to typeset documents like this in Microsoft Word, given sufficient effort. But in LaTeX, I can create documents which look far better than this with far less work. It’s not simply a matter of ‘disliking mouse-and-click’: LaTeX is designed for high-quality typesetting, in ways which Word is not. (To take just two examples, it enables kerning and ligatures by default.)
Maintainer and co-author here. If you like simple, minimalist deployment tools, check out https://github.com/rcarmo/ground-init for a very much down to earth take on cloud-init…
Yeah, our netcode forward predicts from the server state to the local time to allow the local player to see their own character without network artifacts, and see other players in approximately their true location. It's the 'server authoritative, with client side prediction and rollback' technique. Consult Gaffer On Games' blog posts to learn more.
The problem is Rails by default isn't async. And I know the async author Samuel has been pushing for it.
>Are you being like this on purpose?

Yes? Fact based and logical. I call it being a reality driven adult.

>Also, what's up with White being capitalized?

English may be a second language for you (or possibly you're just anti-White). Racial and ethnic groups are designated by proper nouns and are capitalized.
It cuts, it seems like a big cut, then you see them coming down Peters Ln, then onto Cowcross.
I try to not mention Xitter because I just want it to go away. It was terrible as a conversation format before, and it's completely unusable now. Oh yeah, the owner is a raging douchecanoe too. But mostly it's just broken.
is this working because agents are just another way of chunking context across models to keep them from drifting off topic?
SVT-AV1 Encoder and Decoder
Yeah we use libdatachannel. tbh we didnt see much (if any) network improvement using WebRTC over WebSockets, but our testing/analysis is pretty shallow (3 person company - whos got time for that, lets make products)
This is very cool.

I found shapes that do not work well with the simulation: a very wide and narrow shape (like a needle) oscillates wildly and does not seem to stop or to even slow down.
You mean it’s why we don’t see sentient glaciers traveling the galaxy? ;)
Kerning and ligatures in Word: Simply CMD+D (fonts) and enable anything you want.

My point is the marginal benefit of using Latex to make documents slightly prettier is negligible. The focus of the researcher should be on the content.

Don't use Latex for 6 months and see if you still remember all the necessary syntax.
> Our method for understanding the economy is flawed

There is no misunderstanding. In the Soviet Union, the rulers and their media would every day report on how fantastical the economy was doing and how production was beating records etc. Get used, because this will continue for the rest of your life.
What about build quality tho?
piku installs an agent on the remote machine (piku.py) which itself also provides the support for making that machine a git remote.

There is no commit hook on the local machine. On the local machine, you simply have a shim named "piku" which is essentially running "ssh remote /path/to/piku.py $@" to control the remote machine.
Where's William? How Quickly Can You Find Him? What's a Python Hashable Object?
You mean states, or some tribes here and there?

Like, you're adding say USA (350M), China (1.4B), France (80M), etc with say, some Amazonian tribe of 5K people (which you don't count as part of the 99.999% patriarchical Brazil)?

I guess in that way it's enough that 200 tribal villages (more than the UN nations iirc) to be matriarchical for the world to be "predominantly matriarchical" or at least 50%-50%.
Dunkin's are franchises.

What you're describing is an inventory cataloging issue caused by limited quality and inventory control from corporate over franchisees.