skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s absurd. Why would a 1 br apartment need 2-3 parking spots? That creates a car centric city by default.

If there’s no dangerous cars around, and everything is close by, you don’t need more than a bike, and therefore no parking spots.
Large-scale meat synthesis is a bacteriological outbreak nightmare even falling far short of that, but yeah.
lol looks like I forgot to limit the user input length, clearing those now…
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41682379> amongst others.

There's value in not being too closely related to your food supply.
some of these are really old. Take this one for instance: http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/bambi_godzila

Excuse me if everyone knows this but me.
> I don't think fission is loosing because it's too expensive: it has acquired a reputation of being dangerous and it's probably too late to convience people otherwise, maybe younger generations.

I just saw an article about financiers not being willing to invest in current fission plant construction, because they don't make business sense - they are not profitable.
Reminds me of https://j2html.com

Which I have also been starting to use for one project, with quarkus, been a nice experience so far.
They didn't come back, though. It's still a success in the sense that it was a test mission and determining there was a problem is valuable, but Starliner is not ready
Honestly looking at the paper there are enough statistically significant benefits to make this societally worthwhile and even more statistically insignificant but uniquely important to each participant that this seems like a no brainer to continue.

"GI recipients were significantly more likely to secure full-time
employment than to remain unemployed not looking for work, compared
to control participants across the duration of the pilot."

"The treatment group demonstrated a significant decrease
in food insecurity and an increase in health-promoting behaviors."

"Far more GI recipients reported that their children participated in enrichment activities, such as
sports, lessons, and clubs, than control participants. At Baseline, approximately 44% of the treatment
group (vs. 40% control) had their children in at least one enrichment activity"

Secondary effect of positive life conditions for dependents isn't even quantified in any of the research or other comments in this thread, that starts to compound the benefit.
I think he agrees more with you than you think.

Evolution also picked it up as "satiation" - eating icecream feels good however you can't keep eating 1 per minute, same with pretty much everything.

In art it means not hijacking everything for some local maximum.
But not cost-effectively, afaik ?
Why SSH does not do this by default? Why the average Joe wants his SSH session to timeout?
The lack of miata is always the answer comments in this thread and the readme are troubling.
I'm not sure there's a lot of SEO-friendly back linking juice. They're marked as rel="nofollow sponsored"
I’ve nothing substantive to add, but I note that the logic gymnastics on display in comments from all perspectives is somehow telling. Of something. Not sure what.
That’s a very different thing. These are basically sponsored placements in App Store search results based on keywords and not targeted ads based on tracking or cookies.

(That’s also why they are often very bad and not relevant, a common complaint from app developers)
Nginx always more businesslike.

proxy_cache_use_stale updating;
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> Personally, I've been many times to New York. It's a very fun city. But if I booked a weeklong trip that against my will it became a yearlong one, I'd mind it.

You didn’t spend years of your life and beat out 1,000 other candidates just to earn the opportunity to visit New York. Your full time job does not primarily consist of preparing and training to go to New York. You don’t get up every day and go to a job that earns a federal government salary when you could earn twice as much in the private sector because that’s the only way you can achieve your childhood dream of occasionally visiting New York. You certainly didn’t volunteer to take a test flight on a vehicle that could very plausibly catastrophically fail and kill you because that was the only way you’d ever be able to go to New York again. And if you did get stuck in New York, you probably wouldn’t become mayor.
> Piece of a fission reactor became radioactive due to neutron bombardment.

> Lost track of this radioactive piece in the pool, found it by accident, zap!

> Neutrons make hardware radioactive.

> Many on Hacker News fantasize about fusion (not fission) reactors. These fusion (not fission) reactors will be an intense source of fast neutrons. All the hardware in a fusion (not fission) reactor will become radioactive. Not to mention the gamma rays.

> If you have to deal with radioactive materials, why not just use fission? After 70 years of working with fission reactors, we know how to build and operate them at 95%+ efficiency. Fission can provide all the power we will need in our lifetimes.

What do you mean by 95% efficiency? Fission reactors are heat engines, their efficiency is much lower typical reactors are 35% while modern designs can reach up to 45%. That's the thermal efficiency, if we consider the energy stored inside the fission material it's much lower still.
We can clone animals and grow them in a lab.
It’s a failure in that for decades we thought we had to circumlocute theoretically about all kinds of made up things for consciousness to exist rather than just leverage a bit of looping evolution like the universe did.
Money grows in central bank ledgers.

There is no intrinsic limit to the money supply.

There is intrinsic limit to what that money supply can buy. But that's an entirely different question.

And adjustments to the money supply will have effective redistributive effects depending on where and to whom that new money is distributed. Which tends to prompt "money doesn't grow on trees" commentary from those adversely affected or politically aligned with those, whether for or against their own interests.

See generally: MMT.
blasting music, smoking drugs, feeling unsafe...
consequentialist ethics less prone to SiGINT failure modes?
It is still relevant. The fact that it is preexisting is obvious evidence that it shouldn't have been granted or was immediately overturned on challenge.

The trademark office would not give me a trademark for "computers", "the internet", or "AI" if I walked in tomorrow
Yeah it’s a virtue signal that one has written some language that doesn’t focus on first person anecdote. It’s a sign someone is a hard drive of prior knowledge.

We leaned on spoken tradition education to pass down knowledge as written literacy, paper, writing tools were hard to come by until the last century. It was never about the student but the future. Still the same today; one student isn’t propping up reality.

People think learning a linguistic style means discovery of net new knowledge.
Yes, I think intelligence is social and we kind of write off the social part and prefer to think in heroic terms, like "Einstein was so smart!"

I prefer to use the concept of search instead, it is better defined in search space and goal space. It doesn't hide the environment, the external part of intelligence, or the learning process.
The author is the creator of the nano-emacs package [1], by the way.

[1] https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs
I get your angst. The little guy unable to compete against the giant corporation. We've seen this play out for decades in every possible tech space.

The trick is to leverage your strength, not your weakness. There are advantages to being small - being creative in exploiting those advantages is the key.

In terms of AI blockers, that's not useful. In the same way that Google blockers (robots.txt) doesn't harm Google. Individual actions are meaningless in a world drowning in content.

Sure you can block your blog. But the AI has plenty of material to train on without your blog. If it makes you feel better then go ahead and block it, but don't expect that to have any real-world effect on you or it.

Most of the "new knowledge" you posit does not come from blogs. It comes from Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and all the rest.

Plus, AI doesn't have "knowledge" in the way we understand it. It's a giant probability engine. It's not about "new knowledge", it's about "average knowledge".

In short, my advice is not to spend too long thinking about this. Adapt to the changing world, don't fight it.
> No, but I want to live somewhere my kids have the freedom to bike and walk around town safely.

Hmmmz, kids can do that practically anywhere in NL (and have good schools). Except maybe in parts of the big cities.

Countryside is both cheaper, safer, and the air is healthier. But don't go too rural. Because then wolves will get your kids for breakfast.
> a testament to the absolute ingenuity of human pursuit of knowledge

I think it is more like searching and stumbling onto some great idea than pure-brain-ingenuity. That is why searching and social collaboration is essential and why I say we're not that smart individually, but we search together. It's slow, it took us years to get to Flash version of attention, but we get there, someone finds their way onto a major discovery eventually.

It took humanity 200K years to accumulate our current level of understanding, and if we lost it, it would take us another 200k years. Not even a whole human generation is that smart. It's also why I don't fault LLMs for mass-learning from human text. We do the same thing, 99% is inherited knowledge. The whole process of knowledge discovery moves slowly, and over large populations.
As I understand it, Britain will no longer be able to produce steel from iron ore, only from scrap. Which doesn’t sound good strategically.
Edge case of an edge case I imagine.

I can’t remember the last time I saw a plotter in a store either.

That said, it wouldn’t be hard to convert any standard 3D printer into a plotter. Keep Z at 0, rubber band a marker to the side of the print head is probably all it would take.
The argument is that regardless of what metic is chosen, it'll create deminishing returns followed by negative returns.

What it means is the objective can't be static - for example once satiated, you need to pick different one to keep improving globally. Or do something else that moves the goalpost.
Which is why UBI/GMI policies must be paired with confiscatory taxation on economic rents.

Those price-fungible goods and services you name capture surplus value to the seller. A Georgian tax on such goods captures that surplus value, limits price growth, and could further finance UBI/GBI and other public welfare projects.
When I was a kid a lifeguard helped me out in rough waves in the Atlantic. I was doing ok but not great and probably should have gone in earlier. I asked if he had rescued me because I wasn't really sure what was going on ... he said he had given me an 'assist'. It probably is the right word here too.
In India, 90% of the inkjet printers use refillable ink tanks. The ink is way cheaper than in the US, there are no ink cartridges, print quality is the same, and the printers are roughly the same cost too (in USD).

Americans are dumb for accepting locked inkjet cartridges.
The main problem here is gradual upgrades. Signed and unsigned code act exactly the same on dates before 2038, so you can upgrade piece by piece at your leisure.

The suggestions for messing with epoch or the timescale wouldn't work nearly as well, for those just switch to 64 bit.
I'd prefer they just block articles that use sensationalist headlines (when possible without blocking the entire topic).
The reason we hate them is we rarely reveal our true secrets and methods. These stacks of creative building blocks (digital and physical) serve an artist well. Now anyone can be almost as good as a resourceful artist with a little effort.

The reason we love them is the same reason we love art… To create something out of nothing with the resources at hand.

Most artist love and hate, xor love to hate while simultaneously hating to love ai.
> I’d like to use a (somewhat) wider range of basic symbols than whatever we had in ASCII last century. Even allowing comparison operators like ≤, <, ≠ and = that align consistently would be a useful start.

Like ALGOL?
I think you are thinking of capillary action, adhesion, and vacuum pressure. Water does not have tensile strength.
Here is the original paper https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx8/52/10629161/10629169.pdf. It’s not much longer and I found it easier to read.

In fact, the linked rehash feels uncanny, using similar words and phrases from the original, that are otherwise unusual. Made by AI?
TIOBE can remain transparent and also be seriously flawed in its methodology, which has been already questioned for many years. No popularity indicators would be entirely free from flaws, but anyone who are aware of TIOBE's possible flaws always quote multiple indicators including PYPL [1] and RedMonk Top 20 [2]. That's how you can remain convincing even with only possibly flawed data sources.

While C/C++ will remain an important language for many years, its continuing decline is also clear from those indicators. In fact even the most recent TIOBE has reported the lowest ever position (4th) for C, and that fact was already well known for other indicators: PYPL indicator for C was roughly in decline for a decade, so did its RedMonk ranking as well. They both estimate the current use of given language by looking at popularity of tutorials or questions, while TIOBE estimates the cumulative use of given language. All things equal, TIOBE is going to be systematically delayed compared to others, yet still TIOBE ranking for C is now falling and there is no reason to believe otherwise.

[1] https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html

[2] https://redmonk.com/rstephens/2024/09/12/top20-jun2024/
Also it leads to a rigid system that is inflexible to deal with unknowns.
Why is Windows target support tier 2 and not tier 1?
Leds, solar panels, and distribution is not cheaper than glass or plastic sheeting.
Salary is set by the year, and with the calculated 6.7 milliseconds of time dilation in the reverse direction (i.e. they will be 6.7ms younger when they arrive), sounds like they should be docked a cent or so.
The fact that subsidies provided to improve affordability of rents generally increases those rent costs is long-recognised. Winston Churchill in 1906:

Some years ago in London there was a toll bar on a bridge across the Thames, and all the working people who lived on the south side of the river had to pay a daily toll of one penny for going and returning from their work. The spectacle of these poor people thus mulcted of so large a proportion of their earnings offended the public conscience, and agitation was set on foot, municipal authorities were roused, and at the cost of the taxpayers, the bridge was freed and the toll removed. All those people who used the bridge were saved sixpence a week, but within a very short time rents on the south side of the river were found to have risen about sixpence a week, or the amount of the toll which had been remitted!

<https://www.landvaluetax.org/history/winston-churchill-said-...>

Tax those rents.
I don't think that is possible. You may be thinking of the bottoms of some craters, which are always in shadow.
> The bureaucratic red tape is one of the artificial restrictions.

My point being that bureaucracy does not inherently need to be so bad as to be perceived from the outside as slow and inefficient. Chinese rail and construction were built while dealing with Chinese bureaucracy; yet, they were able to build much more, much faster, for much cheaper.

The reasons why the bureaucracy are too slow usually boil down to some combination of: too many stakeholders with veto rights, stakeholders granted too much time to review, too many stages of review. Lots of these issues are emblematic of a lack of strategic direction at the public level, where coordination of all the elements needed for good-quality housing are set up for developers who are then sold charters for the actual construction and then public governance gets out of the way; instead of forcing developers to come up with all the elements themselves and overcome all the stakeholder vetos.

> People do go into the trades for the right salaries. Their salaries did rise.

And with the rise in compensation, so did the cost of construction (because "non-tradeable", but I disagree that it is inevitable as such, because labor can be imported) and therefore the cost of housing. Net loss. Like it or not, affordable goods and services are usually built on the backs of cheap labor; leadership can decide to either import labor or build cultures that glorify labor, American leadership (outside of agriculture) largely decided to sit on its hands and do neither, with large compensation rises (and concurrent cost rises) as a result. Where labor is neither imported, glorified, nor adequately compensated, there are currently major hiring crises in America, specifically teaching and policing.
There is a fundamental tension between efficiency and resilience, you are completely correct. And yea, it’s a systems problem, not limited to tech.

There is an odd corollary, which is that capitalistic systems which reward efficiency gains and put downward pressure to incentivize efficiency, deal with the resilience problem by creating entirely new subsystems rather than having more robust subsystems, which is fundamentally inefficient.
To be specific: if you can find a way to make fridges for half the previous cost, and you can sell them for three quarters the previous price, you don't want to talk people out of buying more fridges. In fact, them buying vastly more fridges is exactly what you want.
Perhaps some code running on the CPU of one of the Voyager spacecrafts?
I would also recommend "The Mountain in the Sea"! I have mentioned this earlier on hn that I like it because it focuses on complexity of inter-species communication, even when both parties are intelligent. Interesting and somewhat unusual focus, plus loved the style of writing.
What's the performance like?

The comment at the end

OO language with a static type system that feels as low-friction as a dynamic one

Sounds nice, but does the performance act like a dynamic language or is it super speedy? I'd be happy with half the speed of C.

I'm still on the lookout for a language that feels as low-friction as a dynamic language but could do some form of iterable.map in parallel on all cores transparently.

There's a blog post on paralellism in Crystal https://crystal-lang.org/2019/09/06/parallelism-in-crystal/ but that's a fair few years ago now.
I don't know. When I google this question in French, I see people whose fridge door does close on its own, asking for how to solve this issue; so they must find it inconvenient.
Accusing me of taking issue with Elon's ownership is funny, considering that usually I'm accused of being an Elon shill :)
I read both many years ago, first 1984 and later Brave New World.

It's been so long I've forgotten some of the details.

Though, to my surprise, I remember while reading Brave New World, finding myself agreeing with a lot of the practices of that society.

A gram of soma, less aversion / denial of death, more liberal sexual norms.
As someone who literally jumps on any passkey I see given to me as an option - I hope people are using them because I just want to use them more.

Passwords are dumb for most use cases. They’re okay if you follow best practices, the thing is 99% of people don’t. So most people re-use passwords, and if asked to create new ones they append a character or something ineffective.

No thanks, just do a LiDar scan of my face and get me into Netflix please.
It would be cool if you could apply even the most basic reading comprehension here where it says there was zero change in team size and stop spreading nonsense.
I'll agree on no parking, but only because the future is the transit agency-owned robo-taxi.

There you have it, 3 people, 4 opinions. If only the housing cartel was 1/10th as disorganized.
My framing of what you're saying here is that you could put on a DUI defense that consists of "I knew the risk, it was zero, and so whether or not I acted in conscious disregard of that risk, I was not reckless."

I'm struggling to see how you could truly analyze the additional risk of being > .08 as zero but 1) I expect you're about to make an example and 2) I reckon the example is out there.

A one foot journey on a flat road during the day in good weather seems a bit degenerate, no?

Your "at what point is that a rationale for incarceration based on risk alone" reminds me a little of banning fireworks. We're not banning fireworks because we hate fun, we're banning them because of the risk of a deleterious effect that is not possible without an explosive. Do we incarcerate for fireworks possession? We usually do not. This is a thing that is worth thinking about.

I guess you could say we're not imprisoning because of the risk; we're imprisoning because drunk drivers are unable to follow a very bright line rule. Why would I be imprisoned for driving 180 mph? Same reason.
That's actually something I've been slowly working on. There's a bug in the go parser tho that kinda slowed things down a lot.
This would be a killer app and one I would gladly pay for.
> produced consumer level software on an annual cycle

This can also be generalized "produced software on a release schedule".

I would assume that the vast majority of software engineers are not working on supporting the operation of online/SaaS services, but rather develop products.
How is ScyllaDB (the solution used in the article) a vanilla SQL DB? Its the complete opposite!
It actually makes sense strategically. Britain already has more steel than it will likely ever need, in fact it's one of the world's major exporters of scrap metals. But it depends on imports for iron ore. Why import iron ore (and coking coal, for that matter) when the resource you need to make better, more valuable steels more efficiently is already here?
I think you're probably right tbh. But I do think this point could be stressed a bit more. Especially when we're talking about how easy it is to trick ourselves into thinking we're doing what's good enough.
I apologize in advance for my possibly off-topic linguistics-nerd pun:

Q: What do you call Windows with its UI translated to Hebrew?
A: The L10N of Judah
Thanks! Added this example to my training slides.
This brings up an interesting question of salary for near-lightspeed travel. Is it Earth's frame of reference, or the astronauts?
Per the change log in https://transparency.meta.com/policies/community-standards/p... the bracketed language below, providing for exceptions for newsworthiness, was removed from Meta’s policy on June 27, 2024.

> {Except in limited cases of newsworthiness, }content claimed by the poster or confirmed to come from a hacked source, regardless of whether the affected person is a public figure or a private individual.

Coincidentally, this was the exact same day that, per the indictment (pg. 27, https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25176674/iran.pdf), Iranian hackers allegedly reached out to try to share the documents in question with campaign officials.

It’s exceedingly fast for a leak about the hack to have turned into legal language changes, and it’s unlikely the events were directly related, unless there’s more to the story. But this is also in the context of Meta’s shutdown of other transparency tools: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

In isolation, it’s perhaps good that Meta is not setting itself as an arbiter of newsworthiness, if the rule is applied evenly and equally to future hacks of various parties. But the rule is too new, even setting aside coincidences, to know if it will be.