skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People prefer having a job, the higher paying the better. High paying jobs exist mostly in metro areas, so folks move there for work.

People work minimum-wage jobs and choose to live in cities. These individuals are not preferencing a city for the wage, but rather the lifestyle, access to amenities, the lower cost options it offers, car-free life, etc.

I think it's super disingenuous to claim that people only live in cities for work. There are tons of social options in cities, tons of civic amenities, and tons of lifestyle differences that draw people to a city.

> their perfectly natural tendency to want as much space/land/house as they can afford

Is this a natural tendency? I don't think this "natural" tendency holds true globally, and I'm even skeptical it actually holds true in America, where suburbs are unusually popular.

> I'm quite confident the majority of suburbanites would strongly prefer living on 20 acres if they could still get to work in 20 minutes and the grocery store in 10.

I'm quite confident that the majority of people (ie city dwellers, which are the majority of humans) would preferentially prefer the access and amenities of a city home at the expense of 20 acres. Which is the reality we see globally.

But it's of course a ridiculously illogical claim that people would prefer rural living if only it had all the benefits of city living. What are the benefits people derive from the hypothetical 20 acres? What does it even mean in this context, because it's incompatible the whole premise of this argument. People prefer "grocery store in 10 [minutes]" more than 20 acres, and that's why cities exist.
Timepass in India
That kinda reminds me of this https://aantron.github.io/dream/
It was a 17M cut from a greater than $800 million Fire allocation, not 23M. Of that:

> The budget reduction, approved last year by Mayor Karen Bass, was mostly absorbed by leaving many administrative jobs unfilled, but that left about $7 million that was cut from its overtime budget that was used for training, fire prevention, and other key functions

(see up thread peer comment for source)

Further, with a constrained revenue and something like 63% of the entiire state budget going to Police and Fire it appears that the California Fire budget lost out a little to the California Police budget.

There's the arena for fighting this out, a good old badge on badge bar fight over $$$'s.
What if loops are a design mistake?

Look at C: it has 5 loop-related keywords (4.5; 'break' is two-timing in 'switch') yet it is still not enough.
I live thousands of miles away and I can't help but wonder what natural disaster will hit me, eventually.
https://archive.ph/e6ID1
Stack, Zoom, Trello, Dropbox, Canva, Notion, AirTable..

Asana, Figma, Miro, Box, Evernote, ClickUp, Basecamp, Zapier, HubSpot, Calendly, Shopify, WordPress
This is a somewhat different situation. Gödel's theorem gives you independent statements but they are highly contrived (containing expressions encoding provability and consistency in an ad-hoc fashion).

This is talking about the cardinalities of very basic sets, and it was (is? haha) extremely unclear to what extent statements about them are independent, if at all. I would personally be shocked if you can prove independence of CH directly from the incompleteness theorem, though I would love to be wrong! It required a lot more delicate machinery to be developed (Cohen's forcing method).

Numbers certainly exist in a useful sense - they model real properties of the universe. But I agree that higher set theories may be moving away from that...
> But now let's divide each element of E by 2 to produce a set D.

You are assuming that this doesn't change the size and certainly that's how the normal notion of size works. But the question is whether we can create any order relationship on the sets with the desired properties.

The properties he mentioned defines a partial order and partial orders can be extended to total orders (given axiom of choice). So it is in fact possible.
No, because it is not a pearl earring.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/08/the-girl-with-a-g...
If urgent care doesn't fix the problem, you should then escalate--go to the hospital emergency department if nothing else.
Correction: among the most pleasant _when natural wildfires don't burn everything down_. People need to take long-term conditions into account when choosing locations for habitation.
I remember growing up with supermarkets that had no sealed packaging, no pop-top drinks, just glass no plastic, no drinking water, the ice cream choices were only vanilla/strawberry/chocolate/neopolitan and maybe rocky road, chips were only plain, ruffles, fritos, or BBQ, there were no barcodes only price stickers, no nutrition labels, no microwave instructions, only oreo or hydrox, no expiration dates, no plastic bags, no security cameras, no self-serve checkout.
Do they? It’s city dwellers who never seen prey and feel guilt. Regular hunters just skin the carcass and think where to store it. Guilt is a social emotion that leaks into areas which are not clearly separated in an experiencing mind.
Underwriters Laboratories, UL. Look at the back of pretty much any mains powered device and you'll see their mark. They were founded 130 years ago, and test and warrant devices (typically high voltage) to be safe. Security is a new thing for them, but they're well suited to provide the services.
You can have the partial order A ≤ B iff A ⊆ B. But if you want size({1}) = size({2}), size({2}) = size({3}), etc., then you’ll find that size({1,2,3,…}) = size({2,3,4,…}) and there’s really nothing you can do about it.

But yes, the ordinals might be more to your liking. If you equip your sets with more structure you can say more things about them.
My current thought on this is to use Web Components but with a very simple server-rendered approach. Ie, render the custom element and all the markup it needs on the server, and have some JavaScript that loads the definition of the custom element so that it becomes interactive once rendered in the browser. I am planning to create some server-rendered custom elements in this style for my framework.
its tough being racist and getting banned on neopets
Actually it's pretty in-line with it. Natural circadian rhythm is ~25hrs, with some individual variance, and it's easier to extend a circadian rhythm than shorten it. Jet lag research finds that flying west (lengthening), you can adapt at a rate of ~1hr per day. It's not crazy to think that someone might naturally be at 26-27hrs, then stretch it an hour each day no problem.
How do you avoid this becoming horrendously expensive per run? Are the results cached if the DOM doesn't change?
Microsoft 365 is good value, and it comes with many services. I wouldn’t have a personal license but it makes a lot of sense at work if you don’t mind sharing your data with USA.
> It's 45% of LA County's entire budget, totalling almost $2 billion. The LAPD's budget for one fiscal year is larger than most country's GDPs, yet crime is still rampant in Los Angeles. So that's the first place I would start.

That's like arguing that since Los Angeles public school's budget is $18.8 billion[1], yet scores are still poor[2], we should cut the public school budget.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-26/lausd-ap...
[2] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-10-11/lausd-ma...
Okay, but shouldn't she at least have a glass teardrop-shaped bauble?
That’s basically ideal.

I hate when companies over staff and it becomes like a clusterfuck of developers of the same type that literally break up a task like vultures trying “share” a paltry piece of meat.

Ownership in these companies become “Joe owns the one line sql change, and Mary owns updating the config file”. It’s the most soulless shit ever.
An email exchange has two users: one is the sender, the other the receiver. As the receiver, having proof that I received an email from you is potentially a feature, not a problem.

More generally, authenticated communication has a long history of being considered a useful thing for society. Physical mail includes delivery confirmations where the receiver must sign for the receipt, proving to anyone that they did receive the letter. People would often add hard-to-forge personal seals to letters in even older days, that could prove to anyone that they were the ones who sent that document. And even common letters were usually signed rather, even when typewritten, again making it hard to later repudiate.

While I absolutely see the value in making it possible to securely send repudiatable email in some specific circumstances, I think having non-repudiatable email as the default is a net benefit to society, and has been the de facto standard for at least a few hundred years before email ever came along.
I was really confused until I realized they're talking about nightclubs, not raves
When I last talked to USFS folks, one big issue is complaints and even legal action from folks about smoke when they do burn. It’s a lose/lose situation for them.
i don't really care how many people i respect liked it, i have to be honest, i hated strang's "linear algebra and its applications."

there's a strang text on computational science that was much more my speed (less of the baby talk and repetitive manual arithmetic exercises) and i think that some of the revisions that came later (+ "learning with data") were better.

i did not find doing endless exercises of gaussian elimination or qr factorization by hand on small matrices to be all that enlightening.

this michigan course looks awesome!
A lot of the risk in the high desert of the western US is the ubiquitous sagebrush. Old growth sagebrush is basically a short tree and it burns pretty easily and very hot (excellent wood for grilling though). Fortunately, the large plants of the high desert (sagebrush, juniper, etc) grow very slowly.

When lightning or people start a fire in the desert, both relatively rare, they tend to be limited by two things. First, if areas that have been burned out sometime in the last century or two, the plants haven’t grown back enough to really support a proper wildfire, so it is easier to contain. Prior burns are a natural firebreak and they last a really long time. Second, the high desert of the US is an active volcanic province. There are fresh basalt flows everywhere, some less than a thousand years old, in the terrain. It takes tens of thousands of years for these to support enough plant life to carry a burn. These natural barriers place limits on where they can go and how far they can get.

The desert does have fires but they tend to be muted and often self-limiting because large contiguous regions of dense fuel aren’t as common.
Yep, pretty common, at least they allow it though - mine wouldn't let you take such a courseload unless you had a stellar academic record, and they would require grades significantly above average to recognize equivalent classes from lower education.
I have a policy of not following anyone with a large number of followers, as they are generally not worth listening to I've found.

Anyway I'll probably delete my twitter, haven't used it in a long time.
> hostility to informal economic activity

America in a nutshell…
Threadpinning.jl – pin Julia threads to CPU-threads
My idea is to have [optional] speed limiters. The generalized speed limits are very crude. Setting different speed for [small] parts of roads using signs has its limits. We attempt to fix dangerous spots by design, it is a wonderful art but not perfect. You can probably solve a lot of congestion by raising the maximum speed where it makes sense. It also allows for limited control over how many cars try to uses the same road. Traffic jams become bugs. It can log your speed on different roads, if there is a violation it can be treated like a bug too rather than a violation. If you don't have a limiter you can still move along with traffic. If there is a mark on the license plate it is not going to fast.
> Since there are only a countable number of formulas, there are only countably many definable reals

It always seemed like it should matter that the constructable formula strings include strings that define multiple numbers (e.g. "three; also pi squared") which at least seems like it should be aleph one rather than aleph nought, but smarter people than me assure me it doesn't work that way for (reasons)
Some thoughts:

0. That specific riff is usually in response to people who are unemployed, not finding work, and asking what to try. It is both harder than hoping to get lucky and often more likely to result in a job.

1. Taking cold calls from recruiters is networking. Some people naturally network. Some people ignore recruiters. Some people abuse them and in some workplaces it is a competitive sport.

2. Being born into existing networks is an ordinary path for access to good first jobs.

3. There’s no upside to burning bridges with early peers. They probably get potentially life changing cold calls too. And the judgements of our youth are made in the absence of experience…that older coworker who was focused on family might make a good recommendation at a later stage of your life.

And those people with more schmoozing skill than technical skill are likely to wind up in better positions they are unqualified for, and maybe at a place you want to work someday. They will know who to call.

4. The young tend to get more benefit of the doubt.

5. In general if you are the kind of person other people want to work with it is easier to find work. If you are the opposite type of person, it will be increasingly harder to find work the older you get.

6. My GP comment is an extension of Dan Luu’s discussion of an internet-famous blog post by Joel Spolsky. https://danluu.com/hiring-lemons/
This is exactly correct. This is Salesforce's 3rd or 4th rebranding of Customer Data Platform, which has never taken off. This latest positioning is targeting Snowflake.
> No need to listen to the gatekeepers. Rave is a verb. Raves are where people rave!

While true, I think in this case it is referring to the noun, which peaked in the 90s early 2000s underground movement and was the basis for the PLUR culture that is uniquely absent in the club scene; and I say that as a person who has mainly been into clubs as I was too young at the time but knew plenty of those candy-ravers growing up but was really into various genres of psy music (ambient then, techno and then finally trance) before I ever went out to party.

I read the article, and it's maonly focused on techno heavy parts of Berlin and OZ but I know there is a contingent of early dubstepers and to a lesser extend DnB (which was more widely accepted at the time) here on HN that grew up and went to events that were analogous to this as we listened to pirate radio from the UK and went to underground parties out in warehouses and in outdoor parties when things were only starting up because we couldn't go to Plastic People in London.

This is the closest we had to the early rave scene, where everyone sort of knew everyone (including the artists, promoters or venue owners) and we still called it 'raving' as you mentioned, but these became the state-side analogues (Dub-Warz [0] in EC and SMOG [1] in WC) to DMZ [2] nights and eventually to things like Red Bull Academy sponsored events and Outlook festival [3] [4] when adoption had peaked.

All of this is to say, that the verb and the noun represent unique periods, that latter I think can still be found in festivals but have ultimately a more corporate and capitalistic motivation than just a bunch of party people bootstrapping and renting a bunch of generators and PAs and taking them out into a warehouse, desert or forest and dancing all night and day.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP9ve9YEjGY

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T150ZZZ0Luo

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TziN0N40X3E

3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbRb2Ds9s58

4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXNSbjhREDY
I mean... other than the fires ripping through and destroying everything.....
I find this kind of thing most useful for microcontrollers and real-time embedded systems that don't require full networking. I've used many of these concepts but maybe not all at once on what many would call "bare metal" systems with no OS.
Audio gizmos like cheap synths, LED nodes, things you want booting really fast with well-bounded functionality. An OS can get in the way with this kind of system if all you really need is some timers and simple I/O. You may still want a primitive scheduler, sane interrupt dispatching, and filesystems.
They integrate a number of sources. Satellite, cameras, weather, CalFire, etc. Check out their app, it’s free. They are a non-profit Startup, which is an interesting approach.
Interesting. Wikipedia [1] also says that these biomes are supposed to have canopy fires rather than smaller burns. I'm a bit skeptical (seems awefully convenient), but it looks like the 500 year climate record supports this idea [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaparral

[2] https://doi.org/10.1006/qres.1999.2035

If this is the case, then homes in this biome need to be engineered to survive nearby canopy fires every few generations.
yeah, it's a fair point; I should probably check if there's an in person exchange facility nearby
Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
Consider this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox
Just to mention a few: Not knowing how to use their tools. Now knowing how to read the diagnostic/error messages they received. Not knowing how (and refusing to) to learn new things. Not understanding and/or not caring about the product they were working on, and thus adding bad changes to it.

Very frequently one person can bear multiple of these properties. If none of this is familiar to you, then just wait, and you will see how extremely lucky you are...
That and insurance no doubt.

What's needed is the reeducation of the NIMBY crowd .. I live in a state where many local community members are motivated to egage with local volunteer bush fire services and cool burning is less of an issue.

As the urbanisation and luxury housing increases the resistance to "inconveniance" seems to also climb.
that we shall either go mad from the revelation

When Jensen showed the robotics simulation (generative simulation) at CES, I had this brief flash of the simulation theory.

It was a very dark thought. Imagine a sadistic God, that is showing us, literally telling us, that we are in a simulation and this is how it was built.

I was like, no, that’s … cruel. But, I mean …

Jensen literally showed us how we are in here. Crazy shit, I don’t believe it since it’s too scary and cruel for God to do that.

But damn, but what if that’s what’s happening. Like, people outside the Matrix are literally giving us all the hints, AI, robots, simulations, but we just ….

Not ready to accept it I guess. I just hope its a good god and not some 15 year old who is simulating pandemics and mocking us by showing us exactly how it all works (yeah, your thoughts are vector queries bro, deal with it).

Spoiler Alert:

I was high AF during CES, but I still find that specific thought revelatory.

I don’t believe this really, but we have to consider the possibility that someone will turn our simulation off if we start figuring out the simulation. The advanced alien species you don’t wanna run into might be the server admin.
I have one sewn on my messenger bag, yes.
I worked in a small kiosk in the late 80's. Most cigarettes were the same price, but Camels were quite a bit more expensive (25% or so as I recall.)
Our target market was, how shall I put it, price sensitive. The Camels weren't terribly popular :)
Have you heard of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox ?

It seems to run into the same sort of thing that led to ZF axioms, namely that you can have a language that is a bit too "loose" and therefore leads to contradictions. I think Kurt Godel showed that any non-trivial language is going to have something like that.
yes, that's the case often brought up, and valid

but it in no way can this case be translated into "wrong quite often"
Interesting that there is some research (though only n=11!) on 28h days:

Neurobehavioral Performance in Young Adults Living on a 28-h Day for 6 Weeks

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2706904/
That wasn't true for the first spreadsheet apps or database apps. Or Autodesk back when it first appeared.
Perhaps humans wouldn't be able to hear a thing, but what about birds, rodents, and other animals? 100dB is something only humans can produce. To assume that other species aren't negatively affected seems wrong to me. I don't have the data to prove it, however.
After hurricane Andrew Florida changed their building codes to account for hurricanes. But can California do the same for wildfires? Is it even possible to construct fireproof homes? (With stone construction or whatever?)
Does anyone do this?

SoCal, NorCal, Seattle - Earthquakes

SoCal, NorCal - Fires

Midwestern States - Tornadoes

North Easy - Blizzards

South Easy - Hurricanes

Which part do you suggest everyone move to?
I don't have much skin in this argument but I'll offer one more perspective. Some people enjoy work and some people enjoy risk taking. I have a feeling that are some people in prison that like being badass and the hero and this job seems like an excellent opportunity. Your point that they would rather fight fire than be in prison strikes you as they must really hate prison when some people are just wired differently and may want the risk. Maybe they're just bored in prison.
https://archive.is/zzU57
Not the same thing (although I thought it was), according to the Python docs, but related:

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/compound_stmts.html

See sections 8.3, the for statement, and 8.2, the while statement.
Those could be legit backfills.
> My original point was about there being a well-documented shortage of housing across the country.

Can you point out the shortage on this graph: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1koDH ?

We do NOT have a housing crisis. Not even close. Housing is more affordable and of better quality than ever.

We have a DENSITY crisis. People are forced by economic forces to move to relatively few unaffordable locations.

> You point at few absolute price decreases which is true but don't take into account multiple variables (like population increases, inflation, tax policy) or understand higher order derivatives. In which case you've got no business arguing in these threads.

What "higher order derivatives"? I read most of the new research on urbanist policy. And so far everything I've seen confirms what I said.
It's a little hacky, but we have a method in the act() handler called performPlaywrightMethod that takes in a playwright method + xpath and executes the playwright method on the xpath. There's definitely a lot of room for improvement here, and we're working on making observe() fill those gaps. I think observe() aims to be like GitHub Copilot's gray suggested text that you can then confirm in a secondary step; whereas act() takes on a more agentic workflow that you let the underlying agent loop make decisions on your behalf
Thanks, I have now!
Show HN: Site to Post College Rejections
Hey, I'm Dris. I'm a senior in high school, and I made this site to help normalize college rejections.

The site is open-source, so maybe someone can make a job rejection site for all the CS grads.
atlassian is the big one - jira actually beat out basecamp (and fogbugz), despite them being quite similar at the beginning, and ousted the incumbent that is ibm rational suite and their ilk.
They aim for the low-hanging fruits like summarizing, thinking it could not go wrong. Oh boys, how wrong they could be! If they aim high like Jobs always war, Apple Intelligence could actually provide values instead of being an annoyance.
An n of almost 40,000,000 seems pretty substantial to me.
Are you making at least $80K a year? Again that’s what an entry level CRUD developer can make. They would be much better off preparing for interviews than selling sweet potatoes on line
Do you know why I only drink grain alcohol, Mandrake?