skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's absolutely not that some weird and unbelievable force is working to keep poor people from "existing". As it turns out, supply and demand can largely drive the cost of goods like homes, and you can't magically delete that value so poor people can live in the more desirable parts of town.

A college town is, really, only desirable to college students and the businesses that cater to them. Thus, the demand is very low, and almost nobody stays particularly long. The exceptions to this are colleges in or near very large towns, but even housing near the college tends to be much cheaper than housing in the city.

If McD's was a self-contained economy, it too would be surrounded by cheap housing.

I wish we could have conversations about things like this which are based in reality and not some fear of a macguffin enemy trying to "keep the poor from existing".
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Obviously that depends on the complexity of the TUI. React is the best tool I’ve used to build UIs out of all the tools I’ve ever tried. I don’t love JS at all.
love the illustrations! all custom made?
Broken trust: How a Clearwater man took $100M from funds for disabled
My 17 year old high school senior told me that the suckiest thing about their school-issued laptop is lack of Notepad++. I teared up and my hacker dad skillboard got another achievement! I told him that it has a portable install and this weekend he's getting it on via Gdrive upload. Nothing will stop better editor from showing up on school machine!
Each corner piece needs to make contact with the core.

Consider when the top layer is rotated 45 degrees relative to the layer below. The corner is now about 0.707 units from the centre of the face, but the layer below only extends 0.5 units out from the centre.

If the corner pieces were smaller than about 0,207 units it would become disconnected from the cube as a whole.

So, any cube larger than (I believe) the 5 by 5 either needs to have bulging faces, or have the edge/corner pieces larger than the others.
"Let's not solve the housing crisis, let's worry about people's cooking abilities"
Grapefruits tasted bitter when I was a kid... Now they're like oranges unless they're very unripe. I think they've been improving the cultivars.
For me, sugar is the worst drug. Like, actually the only drug that is hard to not binge on and/or get off of. I must be 100% off of it for a few weeks and then I'm good, I don't crave or think about it. But if I take one row of chocolate or piece of cake, my brain will find ways to binge on a loooot more in the next period.
> There are going to be a bunch of laws about it voted on in the election next Tuesday

Also worth looking at is how these state constitutional amendments have been attacked before they were even up for vote, and how many plans are in place to attack the results.

Even so, if the new president decides to, they can effectively destroy the ability to get an abortion anywhere in the US by using the Comstock Act; by enforcing a provision of the Comstock Act which prohibits the shipping of "... every article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion."
I wonder what's the theory of harm behind such law. Employers competing over talent is... illegal? Explains a lot actually.
My wife, now deceased from MBC, took two ADCs that had the same payload (chemo) but two different antibody signatures. The first one did great for about 3 months. The second one failed, major progression. But the conclusion was still unknown, what information did that give us? Was it the cancer rejecting the antibody or mutating to overcome the chemo effects?

Tools we need (large scale):

- how can we identify when the cancer mutates, what part of the ADC is it rejecting? This information is valuable.

- how do we assign different payloads? Can this be scaled? Do new payload/antibody delivery systems need to go through the FDA each time? How do we streamline this to add a wider net to catch cancer mutations?
Starting from my mid teens, I've had around a half dozen dentists tell me that I should get my wisdom teeth removed without me reporting any problems or having any negative side effects from them. I've declined to have them removed every time and I'm still sporting four healthy wisdom teeth into my 40's which now is decades of dentists negligently telling me to get them pulled for their own profit.

My family practice doctor has never recommended that I get a pinky finger removed, I don't understand why dentists recommend removing perfectly functional and healthy body parts unsolicited. At this point I just use it as a metric of the dentist's trustworthiness.
> This also requires that you have some kind of mechanism to handle an application crash between 2 and 3, but that is something else entirely

Like a distributed transaction or lock. This is the entire problem space, your example above is very naive.
Hello! I've actually applied to your open Rails position several times and never heard anything back. Is there a direct line for this opening, or individual I can reach out to?
I am a regular runner. The accurate micro-forecasts on Dark Sky were a huge help for me to plan ahead so I wouldn't get caught in the rain. Apple Weather mostly fails at this.

Additionally, I really dislike the Apple Weather dataviz for the day's trends. This time of year, the my local weather can wildly change from early morning to late afternoon, and I want to plan what to wear. I could glance quickly at Dark Sky and see the trend almost instantly. Apple Weather requires this awkward tap and drag gesture to see actual temperature values through the day.

Apple weather puts all sorts of weather data at the same level, despite the utility being wildly different. I need to know the temperature trend for the day, or rain chance. Wind speed isn't very useful to me day to day, yet they are at the same "level" of UI access. It doesn't feel very driven by user needs, but perhaps there are a lot more sailors using the app than I realize.
Yeah I have to keep sweets as a treat that requires me to go out for. I don't keep any sweets, including ice cream, inside the house. The temptation is too strong.
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> they're not a complete replacement for simpler methods like BM25

There are embedding approaches that balance "semantic understanding" with BM25-ish.

They're still pretty obscure outside of the information retrieval space but sparse embeddings[0] are the "most" widely used.

[0] - https://zilliz.com/learn/sparse-and-dense-embeddings
XML continues to be a poor and inappropriate choice for simple stand-alone things.

In APIs you're talking to 1 server, calling 1 function, that returns 1 kind of thing at 1ce.

XML starts becoming useful when you increment those numbers - any of them.

People (including me) have been trained not to think in those ways. The web still isn't a web - it's merely a collection of computers with individual relationships.

The 90s internet had fleeting attempts at other paradigms. We should probably put serious effort into a second bite at that apple since by every measure our technology is at least 1000x better in the same way we've revisited neural networks
I haven't tried any bitter drops as I only eat grapefruits. Got the advice from "leading" nutritionist in Germany – so it should be sound advice.
Safari: Adblock, Hush (will stop the day any FOSS browser becomes closer to it in speed and resource usage; I doubt it as Safari literally comes baked with OS)

Firefox: uBlockOrigin, AdBlocker for YouTube, Adguard, Disconnect, DDG Privacy Essentials, Sponsor Block for YouTube, Unhook (Firefox is used very little, just because compared to Safari it is still sluggish on Mac)

On iPhone: tried NextDNS (and few more things) but result was such a mess that I stopped.
Getting a DNS error from confreaks.

You can get the video here:

* https://web.archive.org/web/20140207100122/http://confreaks....
Doubtful.
It might get worked into iPhoto or a new version of Aperture as part of their pro apps.
It's more like a dorm room / hostel, but with a privacy curtain.

Accomodations like this are common for low cost travelling, the only difference is that these are for medium term stays.
>Are they saying that Joe can’t tell the county commission that I bought a banana?

Yes, that's what gun-owners have been saying for decades about gun sellers.
I think someone should investigate why it took a year to permit this change of use from Credit Union to Residential Group Housing, which should be Principally Permitted in the Use District C-3-G of the address at 12 Mint Plz. According to the sfchronicle article linked, “James Stallworth, CEO of Brownstone Shared Housing, said the city’s planning department was unresponsive for around nine months as the company sought to bring the project up to code.” But sfplanning disputed this: “Dan Sider, the planning department's chief of staff, said claims that the department was unresponsive were “utter nonsense” and said Stallworth only filed an application in July after “months of noncooperation.”” So which was it?

Is San Francisco still failing to approve housing in a timely manner, or did the Brownstone drag thier feet?
5 years ago in Alabama, I rented a 1200 sq ft apartment for $750/mo. This was in Prattville. No clue if it's still that cheap, but yeah, $700/500sqft is super believable.

In a *city* of population > X?
yes this is me too mostly. i also love the sort/mark/delete marked options for extracting data.
Interview gone wrong
That's the great thing Markdown though - you don't need a plugin to edit it anywhere!
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the diseases, their effects, their causes, and their treatments are dramatically different
Do you have examples of this? Please say more!
However, before you build the Thing, you should note that the architecture itself does not make impossible to improve the performance later on, if there is a possibility that it can make The Thing much better in the end.
Some of it absolutely lands at the feet of the people willingly engaging with it, but there are far, far more people who are caught up in and and only go along with it to have a roof over their head.

I don't think the burger flipper at McDonalds, the stocker at Walmart, the barista at Starbucks, the bartender at the bar down the street, the person working the register at the gas station, or the picker at Amazon (just to name a few) share in this blame. They're all trying to eke out an existence for themselves and their families.
You may not be alone, but I have donated to Prot for the amazing Modus Operandi colour scheme. If it's something you really like, why not support the creator to try and encourage them to make more things you like?
"and so will will wait until evidence for one of those other issues is observable." said no dentist ever.
Everyone at the table understood what was meant by "private equity", the term has entered common parlance. Pulling out the dictionary just makes the "whoosh" sound even louder.
Please stop telling me how I'm supposed to feel. It's dismissive and incredibly rude.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My startup (Atomic Canyon) developed embedding models for the nuclear energy space[0].

Let's just say that if you think off-the-shelf embedding models are going to work well with this kind of highly specialized content you're going to have a rough time.

[0] - https://huggingface.co/atomic-canyon/fermi-1024
WARNING:

Do try this at home.
Not sure it’s a problem. When I was getting trained to make video in the 1990 there was a counter narrative that the landscape orientation was anti-human, made people look fat, etc.

I wanted to make a video that exhorted people to “turn their TV on the side” but it was not practical for a huge CRT. Little did I know how mainstream portrait video would become years later.
I would not be at all surprised. There are some varieties of apple that can make you fat if you overeat them. Figures they'd try to do the same to other fruits.

Another one is brussels sprouts. They used to be a lot more bitter, but that has been largely bred out. It has made them way more popular, but part of me wishes it had not changed.
This strikes me as just fine, but for one problem — other people snoring. I fear I’d have to wear earplugs or something, which always seem to fall out of my ears part-way through the night.
If people aren't paying, none of those are problems. The second you charge, that's when the headaches come.
This is a new scam?
I wonder if this can be used to detect code similarity between e.g. function or files etc.? Or are the existing algorithms overly trained on written prose?
What would you use AI for and in what way that is equivalent to what this tool is designed to do?

Which "AI"? There are a million and one different subcategories of AI or specific techniques and tools which fall under the AI umbrella. Which AI tools or techniques are suitable replacement tools for CIL and how?
Absolutely none of which have DPFs or EGRs.
Different chips though, and different links. (Also, it’d be nice if we stopped linking directly to social media posts and instead used an intermediary that didn’t require access or accounts just to follow discussions here.)
SF is essentially on a small island with no quality bedrock under it. There's really nowhere left to build. Often when excavating dirt, they find old ships buried which then need to be examined for historical relevance. It's a nightmare to build there. It's truly the worst situation to be stuck in!
Awesome game! Simple feedback, your button icons are off center. At least for Firefox mobile.
I wish it would get LSP support. There are some plugins but they seem buggy/ incomplete/ abandoned. It could be a nice lightweight alternative to VSCode.
Boarding houses would work for a single person with no possessions. If you have a partner and/or kids, you need a different solution.

> Mandate that housing needs to have individual bathrooms and kitchens for each unit, mandate that each unit needs a parking space or two, mandate a thousand other useless minutiae under the guise of safety or accessibility that don't actually matter

Many of these mandates exist because retrofitting is impossible. Got three new tenants with cars? Get the backhoe; it's time to build the underground car park. Can't get to the crapper because the doors and bathroom are too small for your wheelchair, and you won't take a dump in diapers? No apartment for you! Low income, have kids and need 3 bedrooms? No room in the boarding house. Go somewhere else.

Universal design is not expensive and makes living spaces more inclusive.

https://www.archdaily.com/994337/what-is-universal-design
While I think as an arm-chair business wonk y’all should count it as 6 queries and not 1 as a payer and consumer I’m even more likely to use it now that you count us as only a single query. :-)
That seems quite low
Do they have a nice office because of a well tuned operation/business; or is it because they were bought out by private equity or operate under a national chain?

Logically, it makes sense. More money spent to make it give the appearance of “higher quality” services; thus need to push unnecessary studies and work. But I took a look at my previous dentists, and noticed a pattern between PE/national dentists chains and high pressure sales tactics.

It was only a sample of 5 dentists though. So could be an anomaly. But coincidentally lines up with PE buying up vet offices all around the country and those vet offices pushing many services to customers or changing prices.
> Noting down the exact type adds complexity to be honest.

Strongly disagree. Metabolic-syndrome diabetes is so different from autoimmune diabetes that it should really have a different name.
Broke ground 20 years ago.
for those who don't know diabetes, this would be like publishing an article titled "Dementia risk soars for adults who repeatedly slammed their head into a wall as a child"

...and doesn't clarify that the study has absolutely nothing to do with alzheimer's / is only talking about blunt force trauma-induced damage
Yes, the industry sweetens everything and removes bitterness. Organic grapefruits however are significantly more bitter – especially to modern tastebuds – than regular ones sold in the supermarket. Getting used to high-quality organic fruits and vegetables can be quite a culinary journey.
> Should the community continue to invest significant resources into making closed systems more open, or should efforts be redirected toward promoting more open hardware standards?

False dichotomy. Do both!
The U.S. government is taking significant steps in the ongoing antitrust case against Google. On October 8, 2024, the Department of Justice (DOJ) proposed a framework to tackle what it describes as Google’s anticompetitive behavior in online searches and search advertising.
Interactive, visually appealing comparison of Trump and Harris on the issues
I spent some time building this website. It’s an interactive, visually-appealing comparison of Harris and Trump on the issues, with a common thread comparing their opinions to where most Americans stand on those issues. In other words, it sort of asks, what are the “commonsense” opinions on the topics of disagreement between the candidates, and for which/how many issues is one aligned with these widely-supported views.
Also, when you scroll through the site, you can click on any of the areas of disagreement, and you’ll see excerpted articles from the news backing up that the alleged stance of a candidate is indeed their stance.
Avoid grapefruit if you take ANY medication! It can seriously fuck you up.
OK, that's all well and good but I notice you still haven't told me where you're buying your LSD?
also, there have been points in time where established archeology was wrong, and this seems like it would produce a bias towards what we currently think is true.

for example, theories on how the Polynesian migration came to be are still in flux, to the point where one theory was attempted to be proven by actually sailing to the different islands using only traditional wayfinding.
Recraft V3 SVG, a text-to-image model with the ability to generate SVG images
It's unfortunately because they installed it with an admin user. If they would have installed in your user context you'd be able to. See if your help desk can reinstall it that way for you.
Probably "every major corporation pays them a gazillion dollars a year for enterprise-class AI services that outperform humans while running at 100x speed"?
This works really smoothly on Android. Nice job on the technical aspects!

One suggestion I have is to make the game more challenging by having a target number of moves the player should stay under and award points based on that.
Again, thanks for the interesting insights.

I personally witnessed one incident I mentioned, and for my sins tried to help my panicking classmate, I think we reached a good-enough outcome. On the subject of raw files processing, I have yet to find an ideal system, if it is even possible, where edits to get a RAW photo to its final state are handled and stored in some deterministic format, yet somehow connected to said image, in a way that allows the combination of the edit and raw to travel around.

Everything I've tried - let's see, Aperture, Lightroom, Capture One - have to use some kind of library or database and there's no great way of managing the whole show. The edits ARE the final image and the only solution I had that ever works was to maintain a Mac Pro with RAID and an old copy of Lightroom, and run all images through that.

IIRC, I never understood the Aperture filesystem, probably not meant for humans, which didn't help. Does that sound right?
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