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> Furthermore, those that already own land often become “NIMBYs” who lobby for restrictive building and zoning policies that restrict other landowners from building, because more housing could help meet demand, in turn lowering the market value of the NIMBY’s existing properties.

Sorry, I know this is way outside the meat of this article, but I have a beef with the whole “NIMBYs are merely pulling the ladder up behind them” bullshit.

I don’t care if I sound like a NIMBY when I say this: it’s not always motivated by profit.

I have two kids and we live in a nice neighborhood where we can walk to school. A local homeless support group wants to put an ephemeral housing lot in the neighboring block.

Having lived in a place where I lived within that very proximity to people who were homeless and in recovery, I know what to expect from it. Yeah I’m a fucking NIMBY. I don’t want it here. I moved out of the city to be further away from that shit, and I want to continue feeling safe and comfortable walking my 2 and 7 year old to school. Take me out back and shoot me.
Nanoplastic and microplastics are basically everywhere now. So there's no need to wait, your concern is already realized.
Not sure what point you are trying to make - for one, I don’t keep anything valuable in my house. Two, I have adequate security measures for the threats I am likely to deal with - I have cameras, locks on all windows and doors, and I have alarms.

The rough security/compliance world equivalent is a checklist that says “Do you lock your doors every night?” and you say “yea I do” regardless of whether or not you even have a lock or what kind it is, and they say “ok cool.”

It’s a false dichotomy that you need to choose between security and productivity.
I know microsoft has crap security, but in this case they probably aren't lying about it being encrypted. Encryption for storage simply isn't a solution that most people need for security of data on their devices. It pretty much only protects against the threat of a device being stolen, and that simply isn't the way most people lose their data. Almost every virus runs as the main user of the PC, so almost every virus will be able to decrypt the recall storage.

Microsoft should know this so it is easy to say they were disingenuous even raising this as a point. If Windows is to be secure it needs to fundamentally change its security model and that means breaking compatibility with a huge number of applications. So that probably can't happen.
Can monkeys with typewriters invent better ways to train monkeys with typewriters?

Yes, but you may need a lot of monkeys.
I assume it's a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference.

If so, that in-joke dates from 1978, making it only 8 or so years younger than when the "Unix" became the in-joke for the OS name.
> Without AI you'd still be looking at dozens of artists' mockups of wooden satellites

No, that's a false equivalence. The artists' mockups wouldn't be this bad. They'd either have gotten a real photo or based their artwork on one.

Now Google Images is flooded with images generated in two minutes from half-assed prompts.

> because they have to put something at the top of the blog post or news article to catch viewer attention.

They do not. That's just a current-year web design tic, which "AI" will probably kill.
Web apps would be fine, except that most "web" developers are actually JavaScript front-end developers. They outnumber the older generation of C++/Java/C# developers by an order of magnitude. They have no idea was "fast" looks like, in any sense. They've never experienced it, never created it, and wouldn't know where to begin if asked. These are people that think that GraphQL is what optimisation looks like.

Compounding this is the current microservices fad combined with dockerisation of everything on top of virtualisation on top of layers of cloud virtualisation. Then someone thought: Not enough layers, let's add side-cars!

Here's a simple lesson: The typical web app is single-threaded for one user, even if it is asynchronous and has multiple servers and layers. That means that at every instant in time, at most one core is "lit up" and doing useful work for that user. While data is "on the wire" between servers, zero cores are doing useful work.

Effectively, modern web apps provide some fraction of one core of computer power for each user. The more network hops, the more load balancers, firewalls, proxies, etc... there are in the path, the smaller this fraction is, eventually approaching zero.

No amount of "scale" will make the experience of ONE user better.

This just hasn't sunk in. People look to FAANGs for best-practices guidance, but FAANGS care about billion-user scalability, which is a very unique and special problem. Their solutions are all about scaling out, and almost never about making one user's experience "scale up".
AI is way beyond a research project at this point, and the level of funding doesn't seem totally unreasonable given its potential.

But I do agree it isn't a "platform".
A proper analogy would be a yearly tax on bitcoin sitting idly in your wallet, not a capital gains tax. Land is already subject to capital gains tax.
I’m not sure what distinction you’re trying to make. Maybe you can give some examples of notebooks that are not REPLs, since some of them definitely are. For example, Wikipedia says Jupyter Notebook is a REPL. The bare Python REPL (and the command line REPLs in any language, for that matter) has the exact same issue with tracking state, because what you describe is a problem with all REPLs, and all notebooks that are REPLs. That isn’t generally a serious problem with command line REPLs, because those REPLs aren’t meant or used for large system programming, they’re for trying small experiments. The parent article is pure opinion and seems a bit confused about the idea of using the right tool for the job, because command line REPLs and notebooks both have their place, as do IDE projects with lots of files.

“A Jupyter Notebook application is a browser-based REPL containing an ordered list of input/output cells which can contain code, text (using Github Flavored Markdown), mathematics, plots and rich media.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Jupyter
I used to wake up randomly like OP did. I was gasping & heart beating when waking up. It's horrible.

Doctors prescribed pills, but they don't work for me.

1. Meditation more than 40min will help me.

Warm blood flowing in my hands and feet after that. It seems I'm focusing on parts of my body instead of my useless thoughts.

2. If you don't wanna meditate, just like my mom lol. Buy a anti-snoring mouth seal.

We both wake up the second day fresh. You can see that breathing & mental state can actually harm your sleeping quality badly.
These are 303s then?
It was $2k/person per quarter, when most of those employees are making around $30k per year (average of $31k per one source I found). That’s a 30% raise on near-poverty salaries - that’s definitely life changing!
> Starbucks wants to sell you coffee, free online services on the other hand want to sell access-to-you to some third party.

That's exactly the business model of shopping malls. They create a fun place to hang out at that just happens to have hundreds of shops.

> There also aren't the same network effects. No one feels obligated to visit Starbucks even though they dislike it due to all their friends/family only conversing at Starbucks.

Most sizeable events have low ticket price but they search your bag for potential food or drinks so that they can sell you their own overpriced ones. You can bring a Kalashnikov but a bottle of water is a big no-no
Ask HN: What do you use for reading papers?
Just started organising the papers I read, was wondering what tools are out there.
Physicist can prove that economics has it all wrong
Tech heads are re-discovering what "community" actually means, after overusing and abusing the term for the last two decades when they actually meant to say "audience" or "network".
I disagree that gradient descent brute force extracts the training set. That "overfitting" kind of thing has been shown to be false many times. Transformers learn predictive models of their input, beyond what their training set contains.

But in general I agree about active inference. Clearly there is something missing there.

Doing alpha-go style MCTS would be interesting but how would you approach training the policy and value net? It's not like we can take snapshots of people's thought processes as they read text in the same way you can perform arbitrary rollouts of your game engine.
I just think it's crazy that words can be illegal. Especially billions-of-dollars illegal. Regardless of what it's about
Not really... Microsoft still wants to rule the world. The evidence is abundant, and their open source contributions don't change the situation all that much.
Ancient Carpathian oaks, illegally harvested and bought by Ikea, to be mixed with some farmed wood and sold as a controlled and sustainable wooden furniture.
Thank you for looking it up!

Is there a name for the practice of embedding a completely unrelated video into the middle of an article? I find this practice to be so mystifying. Does that work on readers?
> If it were possible to unwind corporate taxes through raw political connections it'd have happened by now for example. Or capital gains tax in its entirety.

But this has more or less been done for the most powerful, e.g. corporate income tax exists but Apple doesn't pay it, capital gains tax exists but is deferred until you sell the shares and then rich people don't do that. So then Rockefellers don't pay the tax, but you do as an ordinary peon who has a good run messing around on Robinhood, or when you start making withdrawals from your IRA. Meanwhile we can't get rid of the tax which now only applies to the middle class because people claim that you're trying to give a tax cut to the billionaires who aren't actually paying it.

> there'd be a lot more money in people's pockets if they didn't have to get bureaucrats to agree on what they should be working to support.

It's really an argument for tax simplification.

As far as I can tell the way tax policy works is that rich people hire lawyers and PR firms to cast the forms of taxation they would actually have to pay as regressive (e.g. consumption taxes, because you can't register the Rolls Royce without paying the tax and you can't sell into the jurisdiction without collecting VAT) and the forms they can avoid through shell games and accounting tricks as The One True Way To Tax The Rich (e.g. "profit" taxes, because profit is fuzzy around the edges and has high inter-region liquidity), which the rich then weasel out of and leave only the middle class paying the tax.
You know you're in a community when people help each other move house, for example.
File Separator Character
A good problem for tech to solve is this: How do you turn a bunch of random strangers into a community?
Disagree fundamentally with the idea that countries hold "beliefs" about anything.

Political figures and other individuals with their hands at the levers of power, on the other hand, do.
The fact that Recall data and screenshots are only protected at the file system level reinforces the reality that Windows lacks user-centered privacy and security. Microsoft is content to rest their laurels instead on system level control.
Most of the market is designed to look for next fiscal quarter. Index fund dump more money in stock going up. Most managed funds make money when stock goes up. So they aim for stocks that go up.

In the end there is only limited number of entities seeking value. Or long term sustainable profitability. For everyone else it is line going up. Or blindly following others.
It promotes reliance on a Microsoft product, and one that rips off your IP to train AI even if you pay for private repos.
How would you tail /dev/null?
Wow, how to give them even more data... pretend like you are in a raffle to earn something.
The real question to me was who would be fooled by an official pretending to be from a country that ceased existing a century ago.
SIdenote: this is the case right now in Netherlands (and 2 or 3 other European countries) and has been for decades. They tax capital value instead of capital gains value.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The problem with community-based moderation is that the group quickly turns into an echo chamber
Those vanilla plants can go fuck themselves. But seriously
It’s my favorite Ted Chiang story (it’s a story to me).
A lot of “paper” is coated or dipped in plastic (like the drinking straws).
Yeah. It will be interesting the day that Intel starts buying SSMB EUVL from Huawei. :-D
Capitalism ate my face
Continuing to be an equal society, or not seeing that reverse, requires strong institutions (as in culture).

You are right. And right now we see so much institutional deconstruction due to lobbying, fear of being anti dogmatic, and straight up propaganda that this should concern everybody.

This is also why regulation and transparency is needed for massive social networks.
I dislike when websites have an "access denied" page when accidentally clicking on an inaccessible or non-existent page. It's like a door hitting you on the way out of a store.

Here is a partially fixed issue https://hatonthecat.github.io/Hurl/404.html
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Why would adding fancy select or cut-and-paste features to a REPL make it not a REPL? Selectively choosing which lines to run is just a convenience to let you not have to type the whole line or set of lines again, it doesn’t really change the base interaction with the interpreter.
I would expect a public chat with 1k+ users to be considered public. Even when E2E encrypted, it just takes one person out of those 1k to leak the whole content - so what's the point?

I too advocate for privacy, but for public discussions E2E encryption would make sense only as a mean of certification (person holding the key really wrote the message)
Git is actually better than Mercurial, though they both have a lot of the same features. It's way faster and actually simpler than Mercurial. There are some rough edges for new users compared to Mercurial, but Git is still the better system.
We tried about 9 years ago :) we even open sourced the solution. At the time we felt there was not a big enough market so we decided to make it open for anyone to build upon our research.

http://pallette.io/instructions.html
Having a way to call for help or contact parents is immensely useful, even if it didn't exist when you were young. (Also, when you were young, there were probably pay phones, but those are gone now.)

Smartphones have many other very useful functions.

The real problem is social media.
That's bs, problem has been known for decades, forestry in Europe has been regulated for centuries. The only problem is price and availability, that's why ikea is fighting teeth and nails to keep "mixed"(FSC® Mix) category and be able to claim it's green while using illegally harvested wood.
Yeah. Use the compounding interest rate function with the eat/expel/eat period.
When I've read just the the title I thought the article was about laptops.
Mercurial is notoriously slow, and that is a large repo.
As long as it's not an efficient process then you have a point. But, let's say some very efficient way to clean up and break down plastic was discovered. Then, wouldn't the manufacturers actually have a point? In that case it indeed would be harmless and we could enjoy the conveniences of it while being relatively certain we can then dispose of it safely. So you wouldn't call it an "abuse" in this case.
Your health isn't a limited, shared resource
I think that your comment is spot-on
https://buildermath.substack.com/p/talking-to-ais-arc-1
Correctness checking in software already exists for mission critical applications and is seen in sectors like spacecraft or avionics and to a degree in core finance etc.

Development in those fields are lot slower and very conservative and is by no means perfect, it is matter of culture and regulation and what you are ready to spend .

Project management challenges should not be conflated with product quality. Take JWST, a notoriously hard project to manage costs or timelines, but their product quality was perfect, if we can launch a telescope like that accurately the first time we can build software well, if we can afford it.

> Imagine if the people building your house had to build half of it and then start over. Maybe twice.

No need to imagine, I have seen people do that all the time, if you have the money you can afford endless remodeling and some people actually do that.

It all comes down to appetite to spend on good quality and culture to do so, in the era of low/no/AI code or off-shoring before that, there is constant downward pressure on costs, quality and security are the trade-offs.
great comment. As an example, you don't need to look further than tiny IG fraudsters either, they're so obviously grifters/liars but their comment sections are filled with (likely paid) sycophants. Detractors are torn apart before their comments can gain traction. Honest folk don't have the time or resources to do fraudster takedowns. For fraudsters that's their entire business model
There should be a way of limiting your kids' YouTube viewing to only certain channels, so they can watch Kurzgesagt and music instruction videos (for instance), but not all the other crap. Perhaps a third-party app could offer this feature for parents.
Or they took it by force, or stole it.

Doing genealogy, one of the most interesting ancestors I have actually got mentioned in a discussion in parliament for his real estate shenanigans. His wife had inherited some small but vaguely defined land from her first husband. He then became mayor and land assessor, and drew up ridiculously generous borders (and low tax assessments) for that land. No one thought to stop him. At one point during a sale, some officials had commented that they couldn't find that he had title to this land, but they didn't follow up. By the time they complained about it in parliament, it was two generations and many land transfers ago so they didn't think it was worth it to try to unwind it.
I think the workflow improvement happens but it's not because notebooks allow you to do something that you can't do otherwise. They just improve ergonomics.

For example, there are a lot of cases my team uses notebooks for proofs of concept where we make a large expensive call to load a large chunk of data, slice a small piece of it, iteratively try to reprocess the piece until you get the reprocessing to occur the desired way, validate it reprocessed correctly, and then extend the reprocessing the the rest of the data set. That can all be done after only making 1 expensive call. Further more, if the last cell evaluation fails, it just resets you back to the line before and you can retry it.

Can you do this with a script? Absolutely. You can write a script to download the data, and a script to process the data, and sub scripts for the individual steps. But that's not the path of least resistance; the path of least resistance involves you having to edit a piece and recompile everything and reset the entry point. Avoiding really makes it easier to brute force to the desired state ASAP.
When is the last time (a subset of) Germans revolted about anything though?
The leaked documents are probably more useful than any "official" guide.
The libertarian notion that taxes are extortion is frankly childish in how overly simplistic it is.

You get all sorts of benefits in return for your taxes. You can't realistically opt out of them. You can't live without using roads or being defended by the military. You can't tell society at large that when you get hit by lightning that you want they to leave you to die and not call an ambulance

Since you can't opt out, a nontaxpayer ends up being a freeloader and social parasite. The only just option is to have to contribute to the imperfect system

The whole idea of extortion is premises that people can exist somehow outside of society which is disconnected from reality.. No man is an island
that was 20 years ago
I built a cluster of 20,000 PS5 APU's. The problem was that they didn't have ECC memory, so it was pretty hard to repurpose them for any real work. I tried really hard to find some use cases, but unfortunately getting funding to run them was going to take longer than we had time. It all got shut down.

They did work great for mining ethereum though.
Yes, indeed. It took a while, but not that long in the grand scheme. A few million years; plastic is more concentrated and more delicious, energy-wise.

I forgot to mention my theory, which is that we will be the ones who dig up the plastic to either recycle it or use it for its energy -- it will have been conveniently concentrated in landfills after all :)
> Even very simple data structures like std::vec::Vec require unsafe code, they call unsafe APIs like alloc::alloc for memory management. This can, and did, cause security bugs

That's way better than everyone writing their own unsafe vec implementation in C or C++, and then having to deal with those same security bugs over and over and over.

And I'm sure GNU's libstdc++, LLVM's libc++, and whatever Microsoft calls their C++ stdlib have had a laundry list of security bugs in their implementations of the fundamental data structures over time. Just they were found and fixed 20 years ago, in a time when the security issue du jour wasn't huge news like it is today.

> By comparison, modern C# is memory safe all the way down, possible to implement even very complicated data structures without a single line of unsafe code

You really can't compare a GC'd language to Rust (or C or C++), at least not without acknowledging the inherent tradeoffs being made. And obviously that C# runtime has a bunch of unsafe C/C++ underneath it that lets you do those things.
Lego Is Actually the World’s Biggest Tire Manufacturer
Years ago A&W rolled out a “1/3 pound” burger to compete with McDonald’s quarter pounder, but it failed miserably despite being priced the same and rating higher in blind taste tests. Why? Because people perceive 1/4 to be larger than 1/3.
I like that they put limitations next to features - this should be a standard for transparent communications
> the models they do release are probably toys in comparison to their internal models.

I'm not sure if that's true. They did say they're going to make Llama 3 400B public and if they follow through, that's no toy and I doubt they have something significantly better internally.
Canada's rich getting richer; 90% of Canadian wealth in the hands of homeowners
Some people don’t want their language model to have any creativity.
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