MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by reducesuffering | 2025-08-01 16:37:09+00:00
We need to break the chain of real estate speculation by building enough so you don't see 5-10% YoY real estate appreciation based on no improvements.

The problem is there's so much FOMO in housing, because of the 7-9% yearly appreciation, that it causes people to keep piling in assuming whatever they buy at, they'll also average 7-9% eventually, in a positive feedback loop.

When we build enough so we stop seeing that kind of appreciation, people will stop treating housing as a speculative investment asset they're going to be imminently priced out of, as they could always buy in the future when it's roughly the same price.
by newfocogi | 2025-08-01 16:37:11+00:00
I love checking out the Starlink launches wikipedia page every so often [1], which is regularly updated. Here's stats as of today:

"As of 31 July 2025:

Satellites launched: 9,314

Satellites failed or deorbited: 1,237

Satellites in orbit: 8,096

Satellites working: 8,077

Satellites operational: 7,040"

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Starlink_and_Starshiel...
by smallerfish | 2025-08-01 16:37:38+00:00
I've gone off Schwab big time over the past year.

a) I cancelled my "intelligent advisor" accounts (which was a pain to do by itself) and had the money xferred back into regular IRA accounts. After this was complete, I was no longer able to see any trade history for the past 12 years of those Intelligent Advisor accounts, *even though they were ostensibly backed by regular Schwab IRAs*, and my historical "wealth" tracking in Schwab made it look like I'd simply never had the $NNN^n that was in those accounts for that period of time, or in other words as if I'd added $NNN^n to my accounts on the day of the transfer. Definitely some hackery there. I had one Schwab rep who acknowledged this as a (rather severe) problem, but the other 3 I spoke to did not even understand why it was an issue.

b) For an example of their approach to data in general, take a look at their historical chart for the WEED ETF around the time of the reverse split in 2023, and compare it to how WEED themselves chart it, and how Fidelity charts it. Schwab's presentation of the price history isn't justifiable, and essentially omits information. (https://www.schwab.com/research/etfs/quotes/summary/weed, https://www.roundhillinvestments.com/etf/weed/, https://digital.fidelity.com/prgw/digital/research/quote/das...). Their support brushed this off.
by victornomad | 2025-08-01 16:37:42+00:00
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by darksaints | 2025-08-01 16:38:00+00:00
MacOS is a hybrid kernel, which has been becoming more microkernel-like over time, and they are aggressively pushing more and more things to userspace. I don't think it will ever be a full microkernel, but it is promising to see that happening there.

Ironic (in the alannis morrisette sense) that Apple has strictly controlled hardware AND OS-level software...if there's anybody out there that can possibly get away with a monolithic kernel in a safe way, it would be them. But Linux...where you have to support practically infinite variations in hardware and the full bazaar of software, that's a dumpster fire waiting to happen.
by dkarl | 2025-08-01 16:38:09+00:00
Lawyers go through standardized postgraduate training and bar examination. Doctors go through standardized postgraduate training and examination, following by years of residency where they practice under the supervision of fully qualified doctors.

There's no standardized postgraduate training for developers. Many CS grads are about as well prepared to work in industry as a new grad with a bachelor's in biology is prepared to practice medicine. That's something that should be corrected, but nobody agrees on whose job it is to correct it, and AFAIK there are no changes on the horizon that will.

> I don't think I've heard of managers having to mock manage a team for an hour

Companies do suck at hiring managers externally, but on the other hand, I've seen bad managers get hired and fired/"resigned" in less than six months. The pay and position does seem to come with a higher degree of accountability, even if I don't always agree with how a company enforces it.

Edited to add: Licensing is an imperfect and onerous system, and we resort to it in the case of doctors and lawyers because they often work unsupervised providing high-stakes services to members of the public who aren't qualified to judge their competence or the quality of the service they provide. Hiring a developer into a software development team is as close to the opposite situation as you can get.
by MisterBastahrd | 2025-08-01 16:38:23+00:00
There are still hundreds of thousands of journalists around the country who don't have ivy league educations and are getting paid a pittance to work in their fields. I once worked for a publisher which hired reporters making $12 an hour who easily worked over 60 hours a week. Big city reporters might push out a few stories a week. The small town people are cranking them out by the dozen, with about 3/4ths of their bylines being "<newpaper>" Staff so that people remain unaware of how understaffed these papers are.
by cnst | 2025-08-01 16:38:26+00:00
A screenshot develops evidence of something happening or not happening according to the person who took the screenshot.

If you start claiming that it can be photoshopped, well, what prevents anyone from photoshopping a real camera shot? Or photoshopping a screenshot, and then taking a "real" shot with a camera? With AI, you can now even do this with video, too.

For practical purposes, your suggestion is simply unrealistic. It's unrealistic to be using a second phone to be taking random confirmations from your main phone, and it's even more unrealistic if you're doing trading where every second counts, and where the whole reason that Schwab cannot execute properly, is because orders are placed and cancelled than once. It's even yet more unrealistic because of focus and angle issues, and reduced precision, and increased file size etc.

BTW, I have personally encountered this consistency bug at Schwab Brokerage. I wasn't even using Schwab's app, precisely because it doesn't let you take screenshots. In my case, the loss was not major, and not worth pursuing.

But other people reported that their IRA accounts sold shares short as a result of this consistency issue, which is kind of a problem for everybody when you cannot buy it back if it has 10x'ed since the sale like GME once had, and cannot even add any more money even if you have it, because it's a tax-advantaged account with limits on how much you can add each year.
by jeroenhd | 2025-08-01 16:38:52+00:00
The Internet Archive's "library" system wouldn't fit the legal definition of a library here. They'd need to register (cheap and easy) and comply with national law (needs review from a lawyer).

The Internet Archive is rife with pirated content and basically a well-intentioned The Pirate Bay when you look at it from a copyright standpoint. The American laws that make it possible for the IA to exist don't apply elsewhere. Things like "public domain" simply don't exist in other countries.

Making the IA work internationally is forcing a square peg through a round hole. It'll only limit what the IA is capable of accomplishing. I'm quite at peace with "the IA is banned from countries incompatible with the IA's mission".
by liotier | 2025-08-01 16:38:54+00:00
In 2016, I visited a call center in Bamako - it was powered by an Asterisk VOIP system... And that is what I expected the article to cover...

Anyway, yes... Think America is the land of infinite suburban sprawl ? Meh - Africa is where it's at, with the obvious severe negative impact on urban development, mass transportation etc. Similar challenges as the USA, but a tenth of the resources.
by shahbaby | 2025-08-01 16:39:04+00:00
There's another layer to this which is not often discussed but is crucial; knowing when to talk, or more specifically, when to verbalize your thought process.

I recall reading advice that you should just verbalize all your thoughts and have found that this is not optimal.

It's okay to take some moments of silence and talk strategically. For example, I'll tell the interviewer that I'll be silent for a few minutes while I read and understand the question. I'll then talk out loud to confirm with them that I've correctly understood it. From there I'll talk on and off as I narrow towards a solution.

While writing code and debugging, I'll start talking if I get stuck on something.

So the idea is to use talking in a way that doesn't slow you down and may even help you solve the problem faster.
by danenania | 2025-08-01 16:39:08+00:00
It's interesting how multi-dimensional LLM capabilities have proven to be.

OpenAI reasoning models (o1-pro, o3, o3-pro) have been the strongest, in my experience, at harder problems, like finding race conditions in intricate concurrency code, yet they still lag behind even the initial sonnet 3.5 release for writing basic usable code.

The OpenAI models are kind of like CS grads who can solve complex math problems but can't write a decent React component without yadda-yadda-ing half of it, while the Anthropic models will crank out many files of decent, reasonably usable code while frequently missing subtleties and forgetting the bigger picture.
by pixelatedindex | 2025-08-01 16:39:10+00:00
Definitely. I also think it has blurred the lines even more, and exposes how arbitrary it is. Do I tip if I scan from a QR code and order, where I have almost no interactions with the server? How is it any different than counter service? All that changed is instead of self-service order it is self-service pickup. I probably still have to flag down a server to get utensils or water.

Why did the tip percentage go up from 15% as the norm to like 18-20%? It’s a percentage so if things go up in price so does the tip. At what point is it their job vs quality of service? Why don’t we tip fast food workers, because they probably face more abuse / deal with unruly customers more than dine-in (at least from experience).

Can you tell I think about this a lot? lol
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-01 16:39:25+00:00
> we are seeing crazy amounts of inflation

We had two bad years, 2021 and 2022, and then it's declined. It's not stellar, it'd be nice if it were lower but it's not "crazy". In US history, the 1970s and 1980s were overall far worse, and if you look at other countries around the globe our worst isn't even that crazy.

https://www.investopedia.com/inflation-rate-by-year-7253832

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.DEFL.KD.ZG?locat... - Argentina. That's crazy amounts of inflation, and that's not even the worst out there. Meanwhile, Argentinian society is overall doing alright.

If the US collapses with 3% inflation, then it wasn't the inflation that caused the collapse. Something else is fundamentally wrong with a society that can't be resilient against that.
by Tiktaalik | 2025-08-01 16:39:28+00:00
> Jane Jacobs veto

As an aside, puts on Jane Jacobs defender hat I just want to point out that Jane Jacobs was on the record with the assertion that an ideal urban fabric was effectively small apartment buildings at densities well beyond what your typical North American city and suburb currently has.

It's deeply sad that Boomers took her ideas and distorted her message to preserve an ultra low density single family detached housing status quo.

https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2012/06/01/jane-jacobs-style-d...
by yieldcrv | 2025-08-01 16:39:41+00:00
It gives the option of better self custody for that attack vector.

There are court filings where they included seized Monero wallets, and had no idea of the balance, no idea of the how to access the wallet due to lack of password, and most importantly, no proof that the balance they THINK they seized is still there

since you can retain access in multiple ways and can move funds from that wallet, that means the FBI seized a copy of a lock where funds were ostensibly behind. But no key, and not the only lock.

You can also use Monero as an intermediary mixer to fund anonymous wallets in other currencies. Since program and smart contract platforms have so many other assets to hold, like stablecoins. The governemnt won't seize those, while the government will seize your exchange accounts and the transparent wallets you transferred to from the exchange accounts. You want to unlink your assets.

This has worked for 10 years consecutively, and Monero has increased its security and continues to as computation performance improves.

It is likely that more blockchains go opaque with opt-in transparency, as computation continues to improve.
by gruez | 2025-08-01 16:39:49+00:00
>That's not quite an accurate statement about supply and demand. It's supply of the thing relative to demand for it. So a pretty niche product can be very expensive if supply is even more limited.

Yes, veblen goods exist, but given that coastal cities also happen to be the most populous cities, and such cities have underbuilt their housing supply for decades, it's pretty obvious that the current housing crisis phenomena is simple supply and demand.

>Lots of people wouldn't live in NYC if Wall Street was out in Topeka, Kansas instead.

What's preventing Topeka, Kansas from becoming NIMBY and choking off housing supply after it becomes a desirable place to live? After all, silicon valley isn't in new york, it was in California.
by kaushiikk | 2025-08-01 16:39:58+00:00
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by G4Vi | 2025-08-01 16:40:14+00:00
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by jborden13 | 2025-08-01 16:40:18+00:00
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by anonzzzies | 2025-08-01 16:40:29+00:00
Great. But no-one currently has any idea how to get there. The current approach is 'more power' 'agentic' 'prompt engineering'. It gave us bizarre things but it's not the answer and cracks are starting to show; everyone is bleeding money especially for the hard stuff we exactly WANT to solve. We need a new fundamental model as the transformer is shagged out (yeah yeah it'll make incremental improvements, I know). No one will get AGI with this model and the idea you need gigawatts to get where our brain uses almost nothing is really weird. We will get there but not this iteration.
by twoWhlsGud | 2025-08-01 16:40:48+00:00
I was there starting in 86 and I can tell you that at least some of the Lisa folks were still upset about how the project was treated. I think there's an argument that preserving the Lisa as a high end product would have made sense. The workstation market remained a thing for some time (think Sun) and having a common application base spread across a consumer and workstation-ish product line could have been very lucrative, especially in the late 80's and early 90's when Apple really started to lose steam. Internal efforts to come up with a Mac OS that took advantage of memory protection hardware (available as an option starting with the 68020 and becoming built in starting with the 030, I seem to remember) ran into challenges and their failure limited Apple's ability to differentiate against Windows. (Heck MS ended up arguably beating Apple to a high/low strategy with 95/NT.) Also the Lisa folks I knew tended to be more principled designers than the hack-forward Mac team. Pushing forward with both sort of folks leading would have preserved an essential creative tension that the company kinda lost as a result of stomping on the Lisa team.
by jborden13 | 2025-08-01 16:40:56+00:00
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by nudgeOrnurture | 2025-08-01 16:40:59+00:00
> assertions without evidence to back them up

IMO:

This is becoming an increasingly annoying statement. Evidence and proof are spread across hundreds of books and manifest in institutional and corporate decisions every day. The news are a rolling release version of these manifestations that are a result of the entire spectrum between historical and current events and now even of the future, as AI companies and the particular policies entirely fail to account for the impact of the gap outlined in the article and other missing links.

A lot of problems were badly addressed or not at all because of the benefits for a few. Others and the very same and or but evolved problems were badly or not all addressed due to a shortage of manpower, which is a result of certain industries getting more marketing and attention and which came with a share of the benefits of those few. There was a lot of intention.

Mathematical models and historical evidence and even brutal proof were not enough to convince enough of the few to change course, exactly because people kept cancelling opinions and observations due to allegedly missing evidence to back up claims.

It really isn't about what individuals can do about the problems they see but about making more of the few understand that there is a dire necessity to accept that literally everybody knows what they and the people they hired have done and what they and those people are ignoring and what they absolutely can do but won't, usually because of some nonsensical narrative like behavioral lock in. It's bullshit. Pivot strategies are fucking awesome.

Those people understand articles like that, and those people understand their role and potential impact and while some might call that elite bashing and what not, it's really just a kind and constructive call out. They are a communist collective. A portfolio communist collective. If any of them alone act against the portfolio but for some greater capitalist good, that one individual gets thrown under the bus, which is why they must admit what the fuck they did and can do. Too many of them won't. These decisions are not made individually.

Individual biases, feelings, perceptions amplify collective biases, feelings, perceptions. That shit snowballs and turns into avalanches.

Humans are very used to stealing, poisoning and then laughing and diriving and driving feelings of dominance and supremacy from that. That's so damn mediocre medi-evil, it's not even nonsense anymore.

It's a common pitfall to demand evidence and proof that has been put into words, pictures, hard data and visualizations thousands of times prior and is presented everywhere, in contextual pieces and all the time.

The gravity of problems eludes the few because they think like communists and have a survival of the fittest bias. Only pieces of narratives can help them fix their cognitive processing. And a piece like "leverage arbitrage divergence" does a good job in booting up cancelled, repressed and electively ignored regions, layers, processes of brain and mind.
by Jtsummers | 2025-08-01 16:41:27+00:00
> Obviously. Hence the purpose of civil forfeiture, to discourage violations of the law. Civil forfeiture is a potential consequence of doing pickpocketing, beatings, and robbery, to keep to your example. Criminal fines are meant for after all the illicit money has been seized, they're meant to come out of their McDonalds paycheck not their robbery proceeds. Otherwise fines are useless against criminals who profit from their crimes.

Are you really conflating civil asset forfeiture, where no person is convicted of a crime but their property is seized and not returned, with criminal fines which are imposed after a conviction?

Are you ignorant or a troll? This isn't an either/or situation of course. You could also be an ignorant troll.
by furyofantares | 2025-08-01 16:42:11+00:00
Somewhat interesting thing with my 9yo. She's a pretty good artist, she can draw various characters and objects pretty well.

With this she clearly just wanted to do the standard stick fish shape, but it turns out she only knows how to do it facing left. Facing left, looks typical, facing right, almost a figure 8. So after like 6 attempts being judged by the computer she's getting frustrated, and I'm like how about this, turn the phone upside down to have her draw facing left. But now she can't do it left either!
by bitbasher | 2025-08-01 16:42:14+00:00
This blog post reminds me of _why_ I use tmux. Did you see how much they needed to do to even resemble the workflow of tmux? Jeez, just use tmux. I don't mind dealing with wonky copy and paste once in a while.

> In summary: multiplexers add unnecessary overhead, suffer from a complexity cascade, because they actually have to translate escape codes, modifying them in hackish ways to get them to work with their concepts of windows/sessions.

What does that have to do with you using tmux? You're not the one maintaining tmux's codebase.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-08-01 16:42:59+00:00
Mechanical failure is usually a probability distribution and with a large enough population, you get outliers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Light

“ The Centennial Light is an incandescent light bulb recognized as the oldest known operating light bulb. It was first illuminated in 1901, and has only been turned off a few brief times since.”