skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure. It's completely possible to build a house in the US. But it's a big place.

The rules vary by state (50), by county (Ohio alone has 87 counties), and municipality (if in a city) or township (if rural), and/or other AHJ. There are thousands of combinations of rules so it's hard to generalize beyond "Yes, it's possible."

Some areas have very strict zoning, building codes, and inspections. These can be challenging to build in, with oversight over many details, but it can be done and people do accomplish building homes all the time in these conditions.

Meanwhile, some other areas have no zoning at all and only the most rudimentary of building codes (rudimentary like "There must be a working sewer connection or septic system" and approximately no other requirements). As a practical matter, in these places a person who owns some land can build what they want and nobody is empowered to tell them not to.

And, of course: There's a myriad of in-between variations.
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey
Still leaves a lot to be desired versus Object Pascal from Apple/Borland days, or Delphi afterwards.
Decent article, but flagged for the misleading title change. The subtitle might be better: "Why being an effective environmentalist can often feel like being a bad one"
This is surely useful right now. I wonder what will happens to all the nice X11 tools once Wayland (hopefully soon) will be the golden standard. There are options to enable X11 behaviors in Wayland but I guess that is just a fallback to the insecure implementation.
isn't this a textbook definition of racism and inequality?

Why do you give forgivable loan based on the color of skin?
can't things just be fun
thanks a lot, i'll add a comment with the video I had in mind soon
The premise of this article is that when you train a model all cores need to be on a single cluster in the same physical location. Is that actually the case? I figured these jobs are massively parallelized and could be distributed to compute clusters around the world.
o1 is much much much better at mathematics. I am am a phd student and sometimes give it small problems to play around with, just to get some inspiration. That's the thing: It actually plays around and tries stuff instead of just spitting out a remembered answer like GPT-4o.
Are junior devs cooked? This mini tool made in 20 min of prompting ReplitAI
I was planning to build 100 mini tools for SEO.
The goal was to hire a dev team. I approached an oursroucing agency and they told one tool will cost 1k-4k. So the budget is between $100k-$400k.

I decided to try to do it with AI developers.
Tried bolt.new, v0 and then replit.
Replit did the work the best. It took me less than half an hour to make the tool I wanted.
Now I wanna spend the next 10 days making all these tools myself.

Anyone doing the same?
The house is "made more expensive" because land and materials are scarce.

You can, right now, build your own house. And it won't be cheap if it's anywhere that matters.

Also we have standards and regulations. Turns out burning down entire cities because of some cost cutting sucks, so we did away with that.
It’s mostly about project management. In a project, the unit is a task. These tasks will then have discussion around then and then get assigned to the people that are going to do the implementation. After the latter is done and approved, it will be deployed and the task will be marked as done.

Having your git history reflecting this is great when you need to take decisions. Because no one will care about your individual commits. Every discussion will revolve about the task. So you make the PRs a bijective relation with it, and by extension the commits on the main branch. Then for special group of tasks like features, you have a specific branch you manage the same way. The other branches you create PRs from can be as messy as you like. And your local copy is yours to do whatever you want.
Interesting. Probably won't scale for each screen size and they have few "video sizes"
>It's simple. Human writing is short and to the point (either because they're lazy or want to save the reader's time), yet still manages to capture your attention. AI writing tends to be too elaborate and lacks a sense of "self".

Corporate (and SEO) writing has always been overly verbose and tried to sound fancy. In fact, this probably is where LLMs learned that style. There's no reliable heuristic to tell human- and AI-writing apart.

There's a lot of worry about people being fooled by AI fakes, but I'm also worried about false positives, people seeing "AI" everywhere.
In fact, this is already happening in the art communities, with accusations flying left and right.

People are too confident in their heuristics. "You are using whole sentences? Bot!" I fear this will make people simplify their writing style to avoid the accussations, which won't really accomplish anything, because AIs already can be prompted to avoid the default word-salad style.

I miss the time before LLMs...
Exclusive for hacker news comment readers: this was a 7 figure purchase but full details will be released later.
would also be keen to find one with a temperature sensor, looks like there's nothing remotely near this price point yet?
Some want money so you don't have to wait 4-6 months. Imo I can wait. Submit and forget.
thank you, this is useful
They can't have burn through like that and achieve the kind of rapid reuse Starship needs to be useful outside low to mid Earth orbit, to go outside of there it requires a large number of flights to refuel the one Starship that will go on to Moon/Mars. Without the ability to refuel for Moon or beyond trips Starship is trapped in LEO/MEO because it's hauling around so much extra mass for it's own reusability.

IMO a better use for it might be to ferry up large pieces of purpose built craft with less excess dry weight. A single reusable Starship launch can put the entire mass of the Apollo craft needed to make it from LEO to the Moon and back into LEO. Put a craft in two launches and dock it in orbit and you've got a huge capability to put a lot of mass onto the moon and still use the cheap cost to orbit Super Heavy gives.
o1 annoys the hell out of me. it ignores my custom instructions, and after using a highly customized gpt-4 for a while I can't bear the blandness of the default models anymore.

it doesn't swear or yell at me, it's verbose, apologetic, overly correct in its language, gives me endless bulleted lists that convey little information.

unbearable.
The lack of visible productivity growth. In particular, it's not as visible as you expect in the GDP statistics.

Take TV Guide, for instance. Now, if anybody watches broadcast television, they can use the internet to find out what's on when. Is that better or worse for users than having a paper TV guide? In many ways it's better. But it shows up in the GDP as a negative, because nobody's buying TV Guide any more.

Or take Google. I can search for any information I want, for free. That creates immense value - immense in every sense except the GDP, where it doesn't show up at all, because it's free.

Wikipedia. Linux. gcc. The Wayback Machine. Even HN. All this is available to us, whenever we want it, for whatever purpose we want, for free. There's great value to us. Just nothing that shows up on the GDP statistics, because it's all free. (Yeah, I know, RedHat sells Linux, and Wikipedia asks for donations. They aren't Microsoft selling Windows and The World Book, though. You can still use them for free, and not get sued or jailed.)
I haven't seen a crusade against private equity. That would be odd from someone whose company took funding from private equity.
Messing with this thing sure seems like a great way to stay focused.
It's been a while, but IIRC it was on pg12. "Stopped working completely" I'm basing on the vacuum statistics saying the last auto-vacuum started weeks ago for these tables and never actually finished. Frequent updates means regularly rewriting 10 million rows (at various places) throughout the table. I also should mention that there were 100+ materialized views built off this table which I'm sure had an impact.

In any case, this got resolved but caused a huge operational headache, and isn't something that would have been a problem with MySQL. I feel like that's the main reason VACUUM gets hated on; all of the problems with it are solvable, but you only find those problems by running into them, and when you run into them on your production database it ends up somewhere between "pain in the ass" and "total nightmare" to resolve.
> Probably ...

What is that based on?
I'm sure microwave is not always the most efficient way to cook, even for the things it actually can cook. Pressure cooking seems way better for many cases.

But anyway, I think we're about to enter an age of abundant sustainable energy, and energy efficiency is going to be much less important than material and 'environmental' efficiency.

It will matter far more that the avocados sourced from Chile are grown sustainably in a way that matches the local environment, how they are packaged, etc, than how much transport energy is needed to bring them to market.
Examining and quantifying the genes that give heat tolerance in the same species will allow polyp replacement - driven evolutionarily. That way they will occupy the same 'burrows' and can reform the reef more rapidly without the need for the slow growing coral skeleton?
I am aware of only three ways that diving could affect coral.

1) Boat's anchor doing physical damage, which is why popular dive spots have mooring buoys.

2) Many popular sun screen lotions are really bad for coral.

3) Physically touching the coral can do damage, even if gently.

Are there any other factors of which I am unaware?
Hypercubist Math has the ambitious goal of imbuing an intuitive sense of 4-dimensions to people. Currently at Vol. 2 of a several-volume series, will be interssting whether they succeed or not if user feedback is anything to go by.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SwGbHsBAcZ0&t=509s&pp=ygUQaHlw...
Add an alarm to play VERY LOUD if the button is not pressed in a 5-7 minute window to keep you working. If you fail to do so the entire office/house has to hear your alarm going off
This is a valid concern as Thailand barrier reefs made great recovering during the covid period (hinting that tourism could have had major effects)
Apparently there was something to it, otherwise we wouldn't have every other day a WebAssembly startup being upvoted.
Many editors can search for whole words.

Some editors like Kate highlight whole words by just selecting them (and it will not highlight letters in words). Some also do that just by placing the cursor on a word.
On decently-sized tables (100,000,000 is, as you say, not small but not huge), if you haven’t tuned cost limiting and/or various parameters for controlling autovacuum workers, it’s entirely possible for it to effectively do nothing, especially if you’re in the cloud with backing disks that have limited IOPS / throughput.

It continues to baffle me why AWS picks some truly terrible defaults for parameter groups. I understand most of them come from the RDBMS defaults, but AWS has the luxury of knowing precisely how many CPUs and RAM any given instance has. On any decently-sized instance, it should allocate far more memory for maintenance_work_mem, for example.
nit: I don't think the Core Guidelines actually suggests it's better. It's just "one style." There are pros and cons to both styles.
Deprecation warnings are in 8.0. It's disabled in 8.4.

If you are up-to-date with all your libraries it all should go well, but if some project is stuck on some old code, mostly old mysql libraries, one might get surprises when doing the switch away.
Factor is worth checking out, too, which is Lispy in some ways: https://github.com/factor/factor
> but this is giving me pause about using other software by the same author

Go read the article again. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
> due to consoles being equipped with fiber-optic cable by default

I would NEVER imagine a graphical console that’s connected that way to a machine. This is why preserving these machines is so important - it’s hard to even know the tech we’d lose (and be doomed to reinvent) when the machines are lost to time.
Global IQ: 1950-2050 (2004)
Don't try to come up with an "idea."

Look at companies already operating and think to yourself, "Meh, I could do that." and then do it.
Thanks. I already use Linux for my dev box so it's fine. Right now I'm just not motivated enough to use it in daily drive.
This is something that I have always strived for, and try to practice every living moment. You put in clearer and more detailed words what I have been trying to develop by myself.

I will be forever grateful for the time I spent practicing martial arts when I was younger. I was lucky enough to find a master that did not teach the practice as a means to reach agonistic goals but instead as practicing mindfulness and self observation. It was never explicitly told or explained in detail how to do it, it was simply practiced over and over again, indirectly, by checking the positions of your body, legs and arms, are they in the correct position? Am I engaging the correct set of muscles? Does the position feel powerful? Is my attention (ki) flowing in the correct direction, in the right spot? Am I aware of my surroundings and perceptive of my practice partner?
We were slowly taught to pay attention, by means of watching ourselves trying to perfect something.
Later in life I realized how much of an impact this had on my ability to concentrate, be present, not only in the physical sphere but also in the mental and spiritual or emotional sphere.
I slowly began to realize that the real practice of the martial art and striving for the perfect form were always a mean to the real goal of instead practicing mindfulness and perseverence.

To me that is the “art” in martial arts. I am not trying to put them on a pedestal, I believe that this “art” is proper of any activity a human can do, that can become art when it is a means to practice this kind of mindfulness.
Not the GP, but I've moved from bi-weekly diving in South Florida and the Keys in the mid to late 90's, to once every couple of years for this reason, among others.

Even then, you could see the difference in the John Pennekamp State Park reefs from when I first snorkeled them in the 1970's.
That's not true. The RDS 5.7 instances are EOL so you have to upgrade them at some point.

At least in RDS, that will be a one-way upgrade ie: no rollback will be possible. That said, you can upgrade one instance at a time in your cluster for a no-downtime rollout.
This is a common misconception.

The choice isn't between a mildly worse life -or- a better life.

The choice is between a mildly worse life -or- a horrible life as the planetary life-support system reconfigures itself into a radical new climate regime.

And really, living in harmony with Nature is fun and fulfilling, so the choice is between a mildly inconvenient transitional period to a hip, swinging, easy living, eco-friendly life -or- a horrible life as the planetary life-support system reconfigures itself into a radical new climate regime.
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Yeah this is a good succinct way to put it.
I read a similar explanation on slashdot a few decades ago that's stuck with me.
It's limited by physics: if a reusable rocket can carry a maximum payload of X tons, it can only be reused when it carries a payload of X/N tons, and (1-X)/N as extra fuel. How large X and N are of course depends on the rocket design, but N is always going to be greater than 1.

So, for any rocket, flying it reusably is going to mean not using the full capacity.
Well, sure. I don't prefer hotels that haven't been well-maintained either. But that's a totally different thing than being "old and dated". I've encountered plenty of old hotels that were well maintained, and plenty of new hotels that weren't.

I prefer older hotels because newer ones tend to be uncomfortable.

> If you read thousands of reviews online

Online reviews reflect a fairly narrow demographic slice.
All we need is a search quality report as I indicated before and our team will look into it. The fact that there is no or little spam for other things Kagi users care about, is a testiment to our determination to deal with it.
Honestly, the idea is less important...execution and marketing is what determines success.

Checkout

indiehackers.com

for lots of stories/ideas on this topic.
> Do you have any alternative theories?

I have no evidence and also very little contextual knowledge of Tibetan language and culture. Anything I said would likely turn out to be worthless and, worse, false.
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> I have definitely not used Windows for a hobby for 19 years

I never said you did. In fact, I never said anything about you using Windows at all, yet twice now you seem to have taken what I wrote as though I did.
Once ChatGPT puts in "we did the needful" we're all doomed.
If you’re not using a loan to finance the construction or land purchase, it’ll definitely be economically advantageous because you’re not paying all the interest on the mortgage. At current interest rates you’d pay over $400k in interest on a $500k 30 year 20% down mortgage. Even at 3% you’d still pay over $200k in interest.
Well, the difference between the actual military and all these other groups is that the military is organized under the Constitution (specifically Article I, Section 8), whereas the other groups are not.

There really doesn't seem to be any meaningful difference between a militia and a gang. They're exactly the same: organized for some (usually unlawful) purpose, armed, dangerous, some form of leadership, pursuing their goals through violence or threats of violence. Very little difference between the Oath Keepers and the Crips.
emacs' smerge has always worked well for me.
To my mind, I'd add the heat effects of the various forms of transportation involved, both in direct contribution and the CO2 increase as a result of their use.
> Instead, let's encourage local areas which are walkable/cycleable that contain 95% of what people need

The only way to achieve this is density. Urban areas.

When people want to live in big sprawling suburbs with nice homes, you just can't get this. It's not possible.

The problem is that you can make MUCH more money building huge homes than affordable housing. And people, being ultra-individualistic, believe they need the huge home as opposed to denser housing. So here we are.
Sure, a bigger rocket could carry this particular payload while being reusable. But for any rocket there will always be payloads it can't carry while also having enough fuel to land.
Good point. I finally know what to do with the old iPads my kids don't use anymore.
What perspective is that?
Yep, and you can find lots of commercial companies that are doing this

https://exoanalytic.com/space-domain-awareness/
First thought, the person who wrote this seems to be showing strong signs of ADHD.

> step by step... Just as a mountain is climbed not in great leaps but in steady, measured steps

Umm, why does it need to be like a mountain climber and not a multi-core GPU with parallel processing? In fact when thinking about a difficult problem it's best to abandon a narrow incremental way of thinking for a much wider holistic one.

> It asks that we slow down, that we look more closely

What if not all brains are equal and some can move leaps and bounds where others are just able to barely scratch the surface?

> This process of simplification is not an escape from complexity. It is, in fact, a way of engaging with it more meaningfully.

No, pretty sure it is an escape from complexity and it doesn't make it not so just because you added that sentence. You are saying cut down the stuff that goes on in your brain at any given instance, you have two choices to do that a. speed up your thinking b. reduce the number of things going on. You certainly did not advocate for a so b it is.

> It is tempting, in moments of ambition, to think that we must change everything all at once, that the path to mastery or peace requires a sudden, dramatic shift. But this is rarely the case. In truth, most lasting changes come from small, deliberate actions.

I like this bit and I think clarity does come from deliberate actions. But again very much sounds like something that someone with ADHD would say.

> This is not about control in the traditional sense, but about clarity. To act, not from reflex, but from intent.

That sounds like control to me, to act from intent means you are in the driver's seat and not a merely reactionary passenger. Yup I know there is stigma against control and more so in recent times, but in essence you're saying control without actually saying it because of the fear of negative associations with that word.
Yes and I return to this series https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGVpxD1HlmJ-dLBoRLP91gvRJ...
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This is how Swiss medical appointments are billed. I forget exactly how granular, but it's pretty small - 5-10 minutes. As a result, you tend to be quite efficient when going to the GP, because it’s a few Francs a minute

If I retain a lawyer at $1k an hour, you bet I want 5 minute billing.
Sorry, I wasn't clear: I meant that the blog post describes the good that comes from your efforts, not that you wrote the post.

Thanks for the link!
The reason people jump on AI is because YC and other VCs favor it heavily. Got a genuine B2B idea/solution with a provable track record? Nice but not for YC/VCs.
"The way they implemented this process makes it easy and quick to get compensation while other carriers - who are supposed to follow the same rules - make it quite a bit harder to get compensated."

For the last compensation I tried to get it took Deutsche Bahn 15 days to send an automated acknowledgement that they had received my request. I took another 20 days until they processed it.

I would not call that quick, but was it easy?
Here is the procedure for the form translated from their site:

Procedure in the digital application in the customer account:

To do this, first select the main ticket for your journey in your customer account and start the online application.

If you had no other disruptions (e.g. delay), enter "Delay of less than 60 minutes". In the next step, a new message box will appear with the following sentence: "I had additional expenses due to the delay | I was unable to use my reservation". Click on the appropriate box and follow the next steps.

Alternatively, you can also request a refund of the reservation fee in writing (informally). Please send your request to the following address:

DB Dialog GmbH
Passenger Rights Service Center
60647 Frankfurt am Main
Germany

Needless to say that the form had me fill in a lot of useless stuff they either don't need to know or should know already. And of course
you can send paper...
Enforcing a good history can be as simple as writing a long commit message explaining things in detail. A good mental model is to default to a two-section message, explaining why a change is made and how it is made. And then when you squash & merge, include all of the detailed commit messages. Fun fact: at a previous company I'm in the top 1% for writing long commit messages.
It's an engineering tradeoff of payload vs. booster cost. It's heavily one-sided for this launch—you get 4x more payload to this interplanetary orbit with the expendable Heavy vs. the reusable one [a].

Future launches with Starship, analogous to this one, would refuel their upper stage in orbit to their full capacity, so there would be no performance downside to recovering boosters; you would need more launches, but they would all be reusable.

[a] https://elvperf.ksc.nasa.gov/Pages/Query.aspx (I queried for a high-energy orbit with a C3 of 42 km^2/s^2, which I think is correct, or at least very close)
I don't understand, what is the significance of a 20kb binary? The only person using this would be someone who takes Zoom meetings on a company-issued computer and I can't imagine such machines are disk space-constrained.