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chizhik-pyzhik··on Infinite Mac: Resource Fork Roundtripping
The resource fork concept was always something that confused me about old mac. Anyone have a recommended blog/guide to learn more about how that works?
chizhik-pyzhik··on US Visa Applications Must Be Submitted from Country of Residence or Nationality
it looks AI generated
chizhik-pyzhik··on Learning Is Slower Than You Think
Unfortunately and ironically this has all the marks of AI writing.

> The problem isn’t the intention—it’s the architecture. You can’t optimize one part of a child and expect the rest to unfold naturally. Learning isn’t modular. Once efficiency takes hold, it doesn’t stay in its lane. It reshapes what matters.

use of "not this — that", em dash, staccato sentences to make a point, unnecessary metaphor, etc

I stopped reading at this point.

chizhik-pyzhik··on Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto
This is a story about zoning.
chizhik-pyzhik··on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
"I read their marketing copy and it says they're the best"
chizhik-pyzhik··on The $1.5B Bybit Hack
In a multisig interaction there are 3 ways to get hacked:

- The multisig smart contract is owned

- The computer you're signing on is owned

- The hardware wallet (ledger, trezor) you're using is owned

The multisig contract in question here (Gnosis Safe) has shown to be incredibly robust, and hardware wallets are very difficult to attack, so the current weak point is the computer.

Cryptocurrency companies need to start solving this by moving to a more locked-down, dedicated machine for signing, as well as actually verifying what is shown on the tiny hardware wallet screen instead of blindly clicking "yes".

chizhik-pyzhik··on The YIMBYs Won over the Democrats
The YIMBY movement is an interesting political topic in the US because it really cuts across the normal political lines. You get democrats who support it for the social justice/living cost aspects and republicans who support it because it's solving a problem through deregulation/allowing the market to work.

Seems like less of a left/right axis and more of a for/against change axis.

chizhik-pyzhik··on A 'cowboy ski town' where high earners can't afford a home faces housing battle
1. Desirable place has a lot of people that want to live there.

2. Residents refuse to change zoning laws, so very little new housing can be built.

3. Demand exceeds supply, so the prices go up.

State governments need to pass laws forcing cities to allow housing, or this will continue to just get worse and worse.

chizhik-pyzhik··on LAUSD to purchase 180 electric school buses
Electric buses are nice to have, but they seem sort of performative. For the same cost we could simply increase the number of buses and eliminate people driving their children to school alone.
chizhik-pyzhik··on Blacksmithing is alive and well in Kentucky
NYT in 2100: "Software Development Is Alive and Well in San Francisco"

Meet the developers writing code by hand, as it was done before the great AI boom of the 2030s...

chizhik-pyzhik··on Discovery of the historic Great Lakes schooner Trinidad
and a link to their 3D scan of the ship: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/schooner-trinidad-1867-1881-...
chizhik-pyzhik··on Care for Environment and Don't Drive Often? Buy Gas-Powered Car, Harvard Study
here's the actual study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00862-3
chizhik-pyzhik··on VanMoof encryption key exporter
A cursory look at the code and this seems legit, nothing that would steal my login credentials. It's a small codebase.

I'm curious how long the hardcoded api key here will work, though: https://github.com/grossartig/vanmoof-encryption-key-exporte...

used in https://github.com/grossartig/vanmoof-encryption-key-exporte...

chizhik-pyzhik··on Show HN: Prototype for ETH Signing for endorsing Wikipedia updates
More people have an ethereum wallet than a gpg keypair.
chizhik-pyzhik··on Show HN: Prototype for ETH Signing for endorsing Wikipedia updates
No TX fees here, since signing is not on-chain- the advantage is just that having eth accounts means people are already set up with a keypair, often without even realizing it.
chizhik-pyzhik··on Run 100B+ language models at home, BitTorrent‑style
plural of waifu is wifi, actually
chizhik-pyzhik··on Who is still inside the metaverse?
It's disappointing to not see any mention of VRChat in articles like this. It's niche, but vrchat has a pretty large and consistent fanbase.

Meta gets all the headlines because they tried to create the same thing and ended up lighting billions of dollars on fire.

chizhik-pyzhik··on Apartment rents fall as new supply hits market
The article says rents are falling while housing prices are remaining stable.

I wonder if this means we'll start to see a lot of apartments convert to condominiums to equalize this imbalance?

chizhik-pyzhik··on Denver's mayor hopefuls want to arrest homeless living on the street
I agree that mental health issues are a serious driver for homelessness. We see that 20-25% of the homeless population has serious mental health issues... not all of them, but much higher than the regular population.

However, this doesn't explain why some cities have way more homelessness than others. It's not like there's way more insane people in Portland than other cities. Take a look at the third chart on this page- https://www.sightline.org/2022/03/16/homelessness-is-a-housi...

chizhik-pyzhik··on Denver's mayor hopefuls want to arrest homeless living on the street
I read the book 'Homelessness is a Housing Problem' by Greg Colburn recently, it has a lot of data and makes a good argument for this position. A good direct comparison is between Seattle, WA and Charlotte, NC... they've both experienced a ton of growth in the last couple decades, but Charlotte's more favorable geography has made it much easier to build housing to keep up with this growth.

You can also look at places like West Virginia, or Balitmore, which have high rates of crime/addiction but low rates of homelessness- housing is cheap over there.

chizhik-pyzhik··on Denver's mayor hopefuls want to arrest homeless living on the street
More likely this is simply a function of housing cost. Median home price is much greater in Portland and Denver than any major city in Florida.

It's tempting to see homelessness as an individual problem, but cost of housing is a much stronger correlation than addiction/mental illness.

chizhik-pyzhik··on The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans (2012)
Mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20210309005828/https://www.other...
chizhik-pyzhik··on We can reduce homelessness if we follow the science on what works
One of the linked studies shows that it's ultimately cost-effective, though:

"participants had... median costs of $4066 per person per month... Median monthly costs decreased to $1492 and $958 after 6 and 12 months in housing, respectively" [1]

This was looking at 1811 Eastlake in Seattle- which exists specifically to help alcoholic homeless. NPR has a good article about it. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/01/19/1454774...

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/183666

chizhik-pyzhik··on We can reduce homelessness if we follow the science on what works
This article is a good overview of the research about treatment-first vs housing-first approaches.

The last paragraph is pretty clear on the real difficulty:

>The major obstacles to resolving homelessness remain ideological. It is politically hard to sell the idea that people who take drugs or are disruptive should get free housing – even when the evidence shows that is actually what works.

chizhik-pyzhik··on Amazon removes “contact us” support, disables support for wrong grocery orders
Sometimes the 'frugality' leadership principle wins over 'customer obsession'.
chizhik-pyzhik··on Blockchain.com lays off 28% of staff
What does blockchain.com even do?
chizhik-pyzhik··on QBittorrent v4.5.0: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Legible Text
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/issues/18078
chizhik-pyzhik··on Alt-Enter doesn’t Window DOS graphics in XP, but worked in NT and Win2000 (2006)
how much karma do i need to downvote posts on hacker news?
chizhik-pyzhik··on Ask HN: In mid 40s. What non-tech job can I do?
I actually did this, I was laid off a few months ago and went to work at a bakery part-time. The shift wasn't crazy early, I was working 6-9am 3 days a week... this was still too early for me, I ended up moving to helping close up and prep for the next day, so 1-3pm or so.

Working at a place like this is totally doable, so many bakeries and cafes are desperate for workers that are more competent than high school kids. The work is busy and technical but much lower stress than resolving on-call incidents.

chizhik-pyzhik··on Mark Zuckerberg Is Going to Kill His Company
This blog post seems like a lot of angry emotional statements without much analysis
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