MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wahern | 2025-04-30 22:33:50+00:00
I can't find the sources I had from last time I looked into it, but here's are some that corroborate:

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/programs-surveys/a...

https://compasscaliforniablog.com/have-american-homes-change...

Note that the average square footage of news home in 1960s was 1200 sqf, but the average of a 1960s-era home today is 1500 because of additions.

Here are some articles with longer discussions:

https://moneywithkatie.com/blog/are-houses-more-expensive-or...

https://www.cato.org/blog/questioning-housing-crisis-crisis-...

If you don't trust the sources of those articles, note that I was skeptical, too (of similar articles I had read), which is why I went looking for primary sources.

There's a similar phenomenon with home ownership. The percentage of homeownership has only varied by a few percentage points over the past 60+ years. However, what has changed is the median age of homeowners: they tend to be older. In particular, younger people tend to wait longer to purchase a new home. Now, there's two ways to look at that: they wait longer because they need to spend more time saving money or they wait longer because they want to buy bigger homes or move into more exclusive neighborhoods. And those aren't mutually exclusive. But then there's also the demographic shift toward older Americans generally, which means younger people are competing with older people (with more savings) for homes.

The financial pressures are real, it's just that the sources of those pressures are much more complicated than in the popular discourse.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-30 22:34:34+00:00
A larger proportion of both House and Senate republicans voted for the '64 Civil Rights Act, true, but that doesn't change the fact that many preferred the state model. Goldwater, the party's nominee for president in '64, had been an outspoken civil rights supporter since before it was cool. He opposed specific titles on specific grounds because he, like many others, believed in upholding constitutional limitations on federal power, rather than just writing a bill and calling it solved. This was not as a proxy for racism, and Goldwater had been a major proponent of the prior two major civil rights bills in '57 and '60. He even spent many of his later years advocating for gay rights.

I am personally opposed to maintaining what I see as an overreach of the federal government. This goes back to the start of the new deal and stretches through much of what primarily the Warren Court found constitutional. Plenty of us "states rights" types are in favor of it on a whole host of other issues, e.g. many of the policies Trump promulgates. Please stop trying to erase the concept of local governance with hostile and incomplete interpretations of the past.
by nyanpasu64 | 2025-04-30 22:34:36+00:00
I'm confused. The page has a HTML5 doctype, and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/... says that UTF-8 is the only valid encoding for HTML5 documents, yet Firefox interprets the page as Windows-1252 or such until I "Repair Text Encoding". https://webhint.io/docs/user-guide/hints/hint-meta-charset-u... says you're supposed to include a <meta charset="utf-8"> or optionally Content-Type header.
by georgemcbay | 2025-04-30 22:34:38+00:00
Ran into this myself late last year. Registered as an individual developer for a free, non-monetized app and had to find 20 people (they reduced the number since) to sign up (and remain signed up) as beta testers for a 2 week period to get the app listed.

Luckily I was able to hit that number (the app is a stat tracking app for the game Destiny 2, so I was able to get beta testers via posting on a subreddit filled with Destiny 2 PvP players). But it took way longer and was way more of a burden compared to getting the same app listed on both the Apple App Store and the Microsoft Windows Store (the app is written in Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform and was relatively easy to make multiplatform).

If I didn't happen to be an Android "main" myself (creating a vested interest in wanting to make the Android version easily available) I might not have bothered with the Play Store hoops give how much of a pain in the ass it was compared to the other listings.
by poincaredisk | 2025-04-30 22:34:57+00:00
Which is a reasonable and clean solution - I love simplicity of ASCII like every programmer does.

Except ASCII is not enough to represent my language, or even my name. Unicode is complex, but I'm glad it's here. I'm old enough to remember the absolute nightmare that was multi-language support before Unicode and now the problem of encodings is... almost solved.
by otterley | 2025-04-30 22:35:05+00:00
> Meaning that it found that Harvard’s procedures did violate Title VI

Declaratory judgments aren't findings of wrongdoing. They're simply words (hence "declaratory") that describe a relationship between the parties of a case. Cases that end in declaratory judgements are also always civil in nature, so I don't believe they can be used to penalize the party later as if they had conducted a criminal act.

> I don’t see any legal reason why an administration couldn’t hold Harvard’s discrimination against students—which happened, even if the Supreme Court changed its mind about whether it was permissible—against Harvard in allocating federal funding.

That would actually be an interesting case. I find it difficult to believe that the Court would allow such an ex post facto application. The problem with this is that anyone who engaged in behavior that was lawful at the time, then subsequently deemed unlawful, could be subject to abrogation of benefits or other penalties. That said, in light of how the Court's makeup has changed in the past 20 years, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised if I turn out to be wrong. I would be very sad, though, because it would mean that nobody can be assured that their current conduct, even if lawful at the time, won't be held against them in the future if the law changes later.

> Harvard’s defiant response to SFFA provides a reasonable basis for the administration to believe it has continued to engage in discrimination

I don't think it does. I think Harvard is saying "we will continue to lawfully promote diversity however we can." There's no unlawful action being contemplated, described, or advocated in its response. Costco and Disney, BTW, do the same.

> now that Harvard has decided to fight [Trump’s investigation of Harvard Law Review’s publication policy], the administration will have to prove its belief

You're mixing up two different plot lines. We're discussing NSF and other Federal grant withdrawal resulting from Harvard's failure to implement discretionary measures Trump wants them to take relating to hiring, policy, and curriculum. This other story is about investigating Harvard Law Review, which was announced weeks after the grant rug pull. It seems pretty obvious that Trump is trying to find any angle he can to prevail in his war against the institution.
by foxglacier | 2025-04-30 22:35:10+00:00
That's better putting some numbers on it. Just to be clear, are you saying climate change is expected to cause a 1500's level of industrialisation globally? I might have misread you but if that's really your claim, you should provide a source because it's an extreme claim that's wildly different to any scientific predictions I've read about.

Why wouldn't there be any hope of progress? What is the force that would make this regression permanent? As I understand it, the whole problem with climate change is not the outcome of the climate but the speed of change being too high for plants and animals to adapt, either by migration or evolution.
by tofof | 2025-04-30 22:35:23+00:00
Can you elaborate? All I see is a lot of ghosting of the home screen items still showing all around the text, eating up the contrast ratio so it's much worse than a cheap TN panel and visually distracting, and a lot of redraw delay. I'm not trying to be mean, I just wonder what could possibly be worth tolerating those deficiencies. Yes, e-ink is amazing for battery but you said "so nice to look at" so that's a completely different and unrelated metric.

E.g. shortly after your timestamp, https://i.imgur.com/LEl1IHt.png

Ghosted icons everywhere, extremely low contrast black-on-grey top bar.. it's like reading a bad fax in the 80s.
by inerte | 2025-04-30 22:35:26+00:00
Not sure if I would tradeoff speed for accuracy.

Yes, it's incredible boring to wait for the AI Agents in IDEs to finish their job. I get distracted and open YouTube. Once I gave a prompt so big and complex to Cline it spent 2 straight hours writing code.

But after these 2 hours I spent 16 more tweaking and fixing all the stuff that wasn't working. I now realize I should have done things incrementally even when I have a pretty good idea of the final picture.

I've been more and more only using the "thinking" models of o3 in ChatGPT, and Gemini / Claude in IDEs. They're slower, but usually get it right.

But at the same time I am open to the idea that speed can unlock new ways of using the tooling. It would still be awesome to basically just have a conversation with my IDE while I am manually testing the app. Or combine really fast models like this one with a "thinking background" one, that would runs for seconds/minutes but try to catch the bugs left behind.

I guess only giving a try will tell.
by parsimo2010 | 2025-04-30 22:35:37+00:00
This sounds like a neat idea but it seems like bad timing. OpenAI just released token-based that beats the best diffusion image generation. If diffusion isn't even the best at generating images, I don't know if I'm going to spend a lot of time evaluating it for text.

Speed is great but it doesn't seem like other text-based model trends are going to work out of the box, like reasoning. So you have to get dLLMs up to the quality of a regular autoregressive LLM and then you need to innovate more to catch up to reasoning models, just to match the current state of the art. It's possible they'll get there, but I'm not optimistic.
by LatteLazy | 2025-04-30 22:35:56+00:00
Yeah, but that doesn’t matter here: we already counted the 10 when they bought them. So when we subtract the 10 because they’re imports that doesn’t mean importing a lot will lead to a net negative.

If a company 10x their imports to get ahead, we’d count the 100 worth of buying, and then subtract 100 because that was all imports. You still get zero effect on gdp from the import itself. Which is correct.

The point of the subtraction is to make imports zero impact, zero impact when big, zero impact when small.
by krapp | 2025-04-30 22:35:58+00:00
I disagree. The biggest destabilizing force in the world right now is the US. The loss of American superpower status will make the world and its democracies more stable practically by definition.

You might argue that absent American military hegemony, Russia and China become belligerent. But the US isn't really doing much about either, so that's a moot point. All the world really loses is America's interference in their affairs, which I think the world can do without.
by skywhopper | 2025-04-30 22:36:10+00:00
For some things, I agree it’s important to have domestic capability. For most things, global trade works well for everyone involved, so long as we do it in a cooperative way. The current tariff bullying approach is the worst way of building domestic capability or improving trade relations. More likely the US will sink into a decade or more of stagflation or worse as world markets move on without us, far more easily than we can become self-sustaining.

For your t-shirt example, sure we can buy US made shirts. But the US factories have a limit to what they can produce. Then what? What business person would invest in any new factories in the current environment? Where do they buy the materials to build the factory? (From our trading partners.) Where do they buy the tools and equipment used in the factory? (From our trading partners.) who do they hire to work in the factory? Former government bureaucrats? Immigrants? Oh wait!
by Keyframe | 2025-04-30 22:36:39+00:00
Having to do it at all is the hoop, and more than zero hoops is too many.

For sure, but it's a KYC for companies. How else would you expect B2B dealings and compliance to go through? They could do tax ids per country, but with DUNS, compared to local tax id, they get global ultimate beneficial owner as well as other insights. Getting a DUNS is free and relatively fast, unless you're in a hurry then there's a faster route that costs some relatively cheap amount. It's a common ID for global companies, especially those with international supply chains to rely on as "the id number" for companies.
by tkgally | 2025-04-30 22:37:30+00:00
The link is here:

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/c36ea335-6686-474d-bf...

The fumu fumu is at 01:50.

The podcast is about the impact of AI on higher education in Japan. I prompted NotebookLM briefly in Japanese about the topic, and it collected ten sources in Japanese and English that it used as the basis for the audio overview.
by 9dev | 2025-04-30 22:37:38+00:00
Tried to build a teams chatbot for our org. There are five different official starter templates, none of which work, but all use different outdated versions of the Microsoft packages required. They point to documentation that is missing (like 404 missing), outdated, containing code samples that don’t match the SDKs; the build fails after startup, or only works together with a VS Code extension. Tasks require an obscene amount of boilerplate code that is never really explained; configuration options are not properly documented, sometimes the types are broken.

Everything you could imagine being wrong with an enterprise JavaScript package and much more is in that hellish rabbit hole.
by stouset | 2025-04-30 22:37:39+00:00
As an American, is that the generally-accepted viewpoint now? That Brexit was a mistake? If so, do people feel like it was an honest mistake, or do people generally believe that the politicians and businesspeople who supported it were either incompetent or hoping to benefit personally at everyone else's expense? Something else?

I'm asking because I'd really like to believe that there's a point where a convincing majority of Americans will wake up and realize that Republican (and particularly Trump) politics are a sham and have been unabashedly so since at least the first Trump administration. I would like that, but I'm not hopeful at this point.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-04-30 22:37:54+00:00
It gets me thinking though, what would an AI PC really be? It would be a category of laptop you could buy that could be guaranteed to run decent local LLMs at realistically usable speeds, and there's an app out of the box for it, which exposes and ever advertises an API endpoint and invites the user to write their own code to use their own computer to its capabilities, also allowing them to swap out the model. But of course, going from cloud to local is the opposite of what MS is trying to do.
by gsf_emergency | 2025-04-30 22:38:09+00:00
Yeah you're probably right about the clocks but I hope that wouldn't stop people from trying :)

>The experiment was conducted at 7K so the molecule

Br is good at sticking to Ag so I suspect the 7K is mainly (besides issues connected to their AFM^W STM setup) because the Euro dudes love ORNL's cryo engineering :)
by byearthithatius | 2025-04-30 22:38:55+00:00
Token-based Gemini is 4 seconds of thinking:

Okay, let's break this down using the principle of heat transfer (specifically Newton's Law of Cooling):

Heat loss is faster when the temperature difference is greater. A very hot object loses heat to cool surroundings much faster than a warm object. Option 1: Add milk immediately. You instantly lower the coffee's temperature by mixing it with cold milk. Now, this warmer (not hot) mixture sits for 2 minutes. Because the temperature difference between the mixture and the room is smaller, it cools down more slowly over those 2 minutes. Option 2: Let it sit for 2 mins, then add milk. The very hot coffee sits for 2 minutes. Because the temperature difference between the hot coffee and the room is large, it loses heat more quickly during these 2 minutes. After 2 minutes of rapid cooling, you then add the cold milk, lowering the temperature further.

Conclusion:

To get the coffee to the lowest temperature, you should choose Option 2: Let it sit for 2 mins, then add the cold milk.
by jgalentine007 | 2025-04-30 22:38:59+00:00
It's more expensive to buy and prepare fresh food than shelf stable ultra processed foods and requires more time. Poor people have access to 'poor' calories. I would wager that children would also inherit the eating habits of poor parents.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20720258/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14684391/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4254327/
by Mawr | 2025-04-30 22:40:35+00:00
The reason for that outcome was likely two-fold:

1. If your memes were analogies to the dry technical concepts, then the simple, easy to digest analogies were the key here, not the memes themselves.

2. Pictures are worth a thousand words. The more visual you can make your writing the better. Even something as simple as using bullet points instead of dense paragraphs of text works wonders. But the key is to use graphs and illustrations to explain and show concepts wherever possible.
by mullingitover | 2025-04-30 22:40:47+00:00
Other app stores can also automatically update.

If your app is so low effort that even the off brand app stores don't want to host it, I'm going to guess that you're probably also not overly concerned about sending your users automatic updates anyway.

> People barely even like going into Google Play to download stuff.

This might have something to do with the lack of curation, though. Hence, losing a bunch of apps is actually beneficial to the ecosystem. As that snippet was pointing out, lots of these apps were just basic wrappers for text/pdf, which is is what the web and/or built-in media viewer apps are for.
by ddingus | 2025-04-30 22:40:48+00:00
Ah the specter of EDI!

I first encountered Electronic Data Interchange in the early 90's. The small shop I worked for at the time had no idea and just wanted to make the parts they quoted and send them when done.

The EDI request came in a box, with external modem, a paper with phone number and directions and then a smaller box with PROGRESS database software for MSDOS in side and a handful of disks containing the EDI system.

Good lord that was painful! I just plowed through it and all that pain completed a check box at Honeywell, who then sent us jobs electronically!

Yes, via FTP.

The CAD they were sending was Computer Vision and it was a full on solid model representation! At the time we were running CAD from the early enlightenment, CADKEY 3.5 for MSDOS!

Our best micro computer lacked the storage to handle the uncompressed file, which arrived on another handful of floppies that formed a multi part. Zip file, which uncompressed totaled about 40 megabytes and change! Entire systems only had 20!

The CAD system failed to translate the data too. 16bit pointers lacked the range needed. They had me fetch a patch a day or two later and it took a few hours to do.

300 kilobytes of wireframe CAD, and the parts we made were basically 5 percent of that data!

Crazy times!
by tristor | 2025-04-30 22:41:35+00:00
> You do not have a _right_ to kill anybody ever. However, you do have a _right to defend yourself_, within reason. That could in some situations mean that you take actions that kill someone.

You are trying to indicate a difference where there is none. It's not me that decides another person's life is less than what they're trying to rob me of, it's them by taking an action that necessarily forfeits their life when I must defend myself against their criminal act against me. A right to self defense is /necessarily/ a right to kill, because in many cases self-defense necessitates lethal force.

I have no desire to ever kill anyone, but the right to self-defense is absolute, it is the very basis of /all/ human rights and is based on a foundation of the simple principle of bodily autonomy.

> FYI most of the world do not allow you to kill someone to defend your property. That is a very American thing. If someone takes your stuff, you call the police.

You seem to be thinking that /property/ is the issue, it's the /taking/ that's the problem. How does someone /take/ your property? They use force. You have a right to defend yourself against that force, and in fact you MUST do so, or you will likely be killed or seriously harmed by the criminal through their use of force. Yes, you also have a right to defend your property, but the real issue is and always will be the force a criminal uses against you. Taking property is a forcible act. There is a false separation in the minds of some people between property crimes and violent crimes, property crimes /are/ violent crimes, in all but very narrow circumstances.
by ardit33 | 2025-04-30 22:41:36+00:00
2009 - 2013 there were some good bargains in LIC and other areas. It will take a major recession to see some prices come down again to some reasonable level.

Also, I wonder what the volume of transactions is. Because I see little inventory (I was looking into Brooklyn), and perhaps only new construction is selling, which means it skews prices higher (new construction is always more expensive).
by mitchellh | 2025-04-30 22:41:44+00:00
OSUOSL and Lance specifically (the writer of this post) was extremely supportive of me during the early days of Vagrant and Packer. Lance tried many times to try to find a way for OSUOSL to help my projects but I don't think we ever formalized anything.

Regardless, they were always big users and big proponents of the OSS work I was doing. And I remember that. I think more than the OSS project support they do, the support and education they help provide for students is laudable.

I personally think corporate sponsors shouldn't blink twice at supporting OSU OSL, but I'm not surprised given the state of... things. And the individuals choosing to judge and criticize based only on a 4 bullet point budget are infuriating.

Well, I'll help. I've emailed to setup a donation.

Thanks for everything you've done Lance, OSUOSL. And thanks to anyone else who helps support them!
by gpm | 2025-04-30 22:41:57+00:00
For what it's worth the supplemental methods file has this to say about the detergents selected

> Two commonly used UK washing detergents were selected for the assay: a non-biological liquid detergent (15-30%:Anionic surfactants; 5-15%:nonionic surfactants; <5%:phosphonate, perfume, soap, optical brighteners, methylisothiazolinone, octylisothiazolinone) and a non-biological powder detergent (5-15%: oxygen-based bleaching agents, anionic surfactants; <5%: nonionic surfactants, polycarboxylates, soap, perfume, phosphonates, optical brighteners, zeolites)

This doesn't really mean anything to me, but maybe it means something to you?

In some sense I think the real takeaway from the study is "we shouldn't be having healthcare workers wash their own patient/pathogen facing uniforms", and that takeaway seems robust against the hypothesis that only some detergents would solve the problem. As a population we can be sure that some of the healthcare workers are going to use the detergents that don't solve the problem.
by navane | 2025-04-30 22:41:58+00:00
The Italian socialist opposed joining ww1. The nationalists wanted to join, and the Italians joined, on the British and French side. They fought so bad that the British had to send troops to the new Austrian - Italian front, effectively weakening the allied effort and thus the spoils of the war were none for the Italians. Who did the fascists blame, the nationalist for joining this folly? No, the socialists for sabotaging their efforts.