MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toomuchtodo | 2025-11-11 03:40:47+00:00
I’m unsure if that solves this.

China has built enough housing for everyone who will ever live in China, because they overbuilt during their housing frenzy [1] and they’ve reached the decline of the population curve where more people are dying every year versus those being born. Japan has more housing than people because their population has also reached the population curve decline [2], and will continue to decline forever (creating surplus housing supply). We need enough housing to cover peak population in each country [3], but also a system to lock out investment from front running humans for the ownership. Otherwise, Capital will consume housing while also trying to destroy jobs with offshoring, AI, and automation. To those who say, “just build more,” well, let me know when you’re going to show up to pour a foundation and start framing, because the evidence is robust in the US we’re having a heck of a time building more supply. You have to build more (which includes supply chains for affordable materials and a constant supply of tradespeople), and what you do build, ensure that supply gets into the hands of folks who need affordable housing (instead of housing anyone under 40 cannot afford, or entire built to order subdivisions by investors that are going to be rented out). The political will is lacking, because strong policy intervention will be required.

If immigration in flows to the US have mostly stopped due to this administration’s policies, ~2M+ people a year 55+ die every year, and ~3M people turn 18 every year, assuming a continuing declining total fertility rate (currently 1.6 and continuing to fall) and smaller family formation (couples and families with only 1-2 children, if any, versus families >4), what is the target build rate and the delta to get there? You can either build more, destroy demand, or some combination of both.

I’ve seen various reports that the housing shortage is anywhere between 2M-8M units, but I think Fannie Mae’s estimate of ~4M is likely the most accurate [4]. I’m a big fan of the Vienna public housing model [5], but again, political appetite is lacking to implement.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-housing-glut-populatio... | https://archive.today/OqYat

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/look-japans-reverse-housing-c...

[3] https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slides_London.pdf

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38252549

[5] https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/economic-growth/regio...
by nimih | 2025-11-11 03:41:04+00:00
It provides a nice interface for managing and editing tags that integrates well with other command-line tools and keeps your file system well-organized/up-to-date as you edit the tag contents. The batteries-included integration with datasources like musicbrains and discogs is nice, but, at least for me, beets is mainly a better tool for accomplishing the same tag and file janitoring I was doing with things like foobar2000 and eyeD3 a decade ago.
by zdragnar | 2025-11-11 03:41:05+00:00
A highly acute dose could kill in seconds, but a lower dose can cause confusion, headaches, dizziness and more prior to inducing a coma and death.

It is not outside the realm of possibility that he became confused and in pain, decided to lie down to sleep it off, then died in his sleep. My own father in law suffered a significant blow to the head and, despite knowing all the signs of a concussion and what to do about them, got up and slept it off- the very last thing one should do. He was simply too confused to do anything else.

His story had a happier ending than Alan's, but it goes to show that the accidental death theory isn't implausible.
by com2kid | 2025-11-11 03:42:55+00:00
It has been that way for decades, but prior the parkour stuff was exploiting bugs in game engines and only the top 1% or less of players could even pull off the complex inputs needed.

Personally, I was in the top 10% of HL2DM players but because I couldn't master the inputs for skating I wasn't able to compete with the truly elite tier players who would zip around the map at breakneck speeds.
Show HN: Drop-in replacement for Handlebars template engine, weighing 5KB
by EGreg | 2025-11-11 03:43:53+00:00
This is part of the Q.js framework that I'm putting out. Which itself replaces Angular, React, Vue, etc. while being smaller than React even without ReactDOM.

But the Handlebars.js one posted here is just a drop-in replacement.
by linsomniac | 2025-11-11 03:45:33+00:00
I think we're largely in agreement here, though I wouldn't go so far as to say it's limited to "little tiny" things, but I guess that's a matter of scale. I use it for a lot of tooling, which is typically in the 500-5,000 line size, and it works really well for these sorts of things. A lot of them it will just one-shot and not break a sweat.

I have cases where it saves hours for sure, but they are fewer and further between. Last week we used it to solve 600+ linting warnings in 25 year old code, which probably saved me the better part of a day. It did a fantastic job of converting %-format strings to f-strings. I created a skill telling it how to test a %-to-f conversion in isolation, and it was able to use that skill to flawlessly convert all of our strings to modern usage.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-11-11 03:47:02+00:00
Yes. They have 99.9% of the mobile phones.

The phone was the end of open computing, the tech companies obtained an iron grip on the platform, this time with fully accepted total monitoring and data collection down to everything you say, hear, everywhere you go, and with smartwatch biosensors, everything you feel. The only thing left is to get smart glasses and they will know everything you see. Smell they can probably interpolate.

It happened over a decade ago, and that might as well be 100 years ago in modern attention spans. All the governments have to do is pay the companies money, or simply force-legislate, or threaten under the table for all that info, and for permanent forever access to active tracking and monitoring.

AI provides all the analysis they need to watch the firehose. It's all there.

At this point it doesn't matter if an alternative comes. It'll be such the minority, that the social graph will fill all the holes. And they can simply track your IMEI regardless from the towers, listen in with other nearby microphones/phones. There is no escape.

All that remains is for the key to be turned for worse-than-1984 authoritarianism. It's right there, ready for the AI-empowered 50% of consumption controlled, 90% of stocks owned oligarchy to use.
by wkat4242 | 2025-11-11 03:48:00+00:00
Yeah you describe it very well.

VRChat is not perfect, it has a lot of rough edges. But it's buzzing with activity. People enjoy themselves. Do sometimes weird stuff but not bother anyone. It's like the real world.

Horizons is a boring moderated infantile playground. I guess they're super worried some conservative senator's grandchild hears the F word there and is scarred for life. But in mitigating this they have eliminated any attraction to the whole product. Us adults, we need a little gritty. It's why we don't watch Kung Fu Panda when we're not with kids.

For example I found a few rooms where people go to sleep around others when they're lonely. Complete with a calming environment. I haven't seen anything like that in horizons. Just some attempts at mildly boring games and funhouses.

Also the furries have a home there which works fine. I've never seen anyone with 'anatomically correct' avatars in the wrong space. It works and they have fun. That's what it's all about, human connection.
by ipcress_file | 2025-11-11 03:48:06+00:00
Not quite. Late in the war, the British Navy landed British troops who burned the White House.

About 85% of all Canadian militiamen remained at home when called up in 1812. In 1812 and 1813, British regulars and Indigenous warriors (from both the U.S. and Canada) invaded Michigan and Ohio, but didn't get any further than that before the U.S. counter-attacked.
by Alupis | 2025-11-11 03:48:26+00:00
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you'd still have to compile it from source on nix, no?

On my relatively powerful workstation, Erlang/BEAM takes about 7 minutes to compile.

We're working around this currently by having a fat devcontainer image, pre-built with Erlang inside (from source) by our CI. It chews through CI minutes unavoidably due to how docker layer caching works.

It would be awesome to just download and unpack a tarball, regardless of which distro you're using.
by bradlys | 2025-11-11 03:52:28+00:00
The paper scanning is hardly the limitation with onboarding.

I feel like you never fly because if you did, you’d know the biggest limitation in boarding speed is the inefficient method they use to board people… not the scanning part. If everyone scans efficiently (something you see often at places like SFO), you just are waiting on the jet bridge… It only takes one person who needs to take off their coat before they sit down or has trouble putting their oversized carry on in storage, etc. to completely shutdown onboarding.
by marssaxman | 2025-11-11 03:52:40+00:00
Some guy I once met in a bar told me that he liked to mix a 1:1 solution of elmer's glue and water, put it into a spray bottle, set the nozzle to "stream", then squirt it all over the lens of a traffic camera near his house which he found offensive. His logic was that this made more sense than destroying the camera, because he could do it over and over and over: the company operating it would have to send someone out to clean the lens off each time, which would probably cost them more money than the camera was worth.
by andyferris | 2025-11-11 03:53:16+00:00
I see we need to add special syntax to the signature for dependent type variables.

If you take Zig, it's `comptime` parameters are kind of similar. They can be used to create functions that return types or whose output type depends on the inputs, etc. It seems to fulfil the three axioms at the start, no? The erasure stuff seems just as relavant.

Can I say that `comptime` is dependent types in imperative clothing? Or is there a missing capability making it strictly weaker?
by Ucalegon | 2025-11-11 03:53:41+00:00
Qwen3-VL-8B is quite amazing and has made translating screenshots of text so much easier via LM Studio. Does have some issues and edge cases, but being able to take a screenshot of text or some website doesn't have copyable text, thats a solvable issue for less than 16GBs of VRAM or unified memory.
by noname123 | 2025-11-11 03:55:43+00:00
If picking as a finishing poker position, I'd definitely to end up as the 95 year old with a trillion dollars. When you're 95, life is about reflecting and living more with the past - and I like reflecting about that outcome with its share of certainly many greats and bads it takes to accumulate that kind of fortune. 25 years old with a thousand dollar on the other hand, statistically speaking, is starting and will finish with mediocre chip stack. Just the laws of averages sorry.

If picking as a starting poker position, I'd definitely want to be the 25 year old with a thousand because you'll be able to play more hands and have more experiences and hopefully have more fun even if you'll most likely end up very average or lose your entire chip-stack. I guess what I'm saying is there's no virtue in poverty and no guarantee wealth will bring you ultimate satisfaction either. Your choice is a false mutual exclusivity imho (in that everyone is 25 AND 95 [assuming that that they in everyone lives to 95], someone wanting to be 25 again doesn't imply that their previous journey to 95 is somehow intrinsically worth less - like an adrenaline junkie wanting to ride again the rollercoaster he just got off from).
by glenstein | 2025-11-11 03:56:07+00:00
Thanks for making it. Please do what's best for you and don't regard my comment as a feature request. I was kinda-sorta wondering out loud whether existing Nextcloud apps on android could be pointed to BewCloud (as opposed to Nextcloud plugins).

But now I think the right train of thought is there should be an webdav-based notes app that just looks in a notes folder for a combination of folders and text files, which it displays in a Nextcloud Notes-app kind of way. But that could be done and benefit people without it having to be your job to do it.
by alsetmusic | 2025-11-11 03:56:15+00:00
> making it appear he was instigating the occupation

> The inciters gave their fiery provocations, then Trump told his recruits, "We're going to the Capitol, and I'll be right there with you."

I don't know anything about what footage was or wasn't edited, but if you think he didn't instigate, we're not going to agree on much about that day. I didn't just read this right now. I searched for it because I remember seeing him say it.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/letter-testimony-jan-6th-hearings...
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-11-11 03:56:38+00:00
There’re 2 constraints at work here- any piece of software only needs go as fast people will put up with.

The subtler one is that if interactive software goes too fast, people get suspicious.

These are human constraints, which means they’ll tend to eat up every tech improvement, dragging things back to just as slow as before.

But I think they’re cultural - not innate. Better education can lead the market to demand better.
by scotty79 | 2025-11-11 03:57:12+00:00
After years of using git I got back to svn.

Svn has one great feature, you can checkout (clone) repo partially.

This way I can keep all my experiments in a single remote repo and easily pull any part of any project locally wherever I want.

I don't really care about branching in svn. If I want to try variants of some code I still use git with multiple branches.

I'm not sure what I would prefer for a team project. I'm sure svn got decent merging.
by Wistar | 2025-11-11 03:59:02+00:00
The Redmond City Council made a recommendation to turn off the cameras on Nov 3rd, two days before the ICE arrests. There had been local concern aired the week prior about feds/ICE possibly accessing Flock camera data. I think it was on its way to being shut down but the ICE activity perhaps hastened it.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/11/a-preliminary-v...
by wtallis | 2025-11-11 03:59:23+00:00
The DGX Spark, Ascent GX10, and related machines have no relation to NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB200. The chip they are based on is called GB10, and is architecturally very different from NVIDIA's datacenter solutions, in addition to being vastly smaller and less powerful. They don't have anything resembling the Grace CPU NVIDIA used in Grace Hopper and Grace Blackwell datacenter products. The CPU portion of GB10 is a Mediatek phone chip's CPU complex that metastasized, not NVIDIA's datacenter CPU cut down.
by gsf_emergency_4 | 2025-11-11 03:59:47+00:00
Totally OT but I just saw your force diagram question.

The force diagrams I came up with have "invaginated arrows".

In the std diagram students get confused about what forces act on which objects so the invaginated arrows trip them up just enough to make them figure out the right orientation on their own ..

If you press me, I'd say these are nothing more than UX trials..
by photochemsyn | 2025-11-11 03:59:49+00:00
Not a bad analogy as a river is fed by its watershed (shareholders, inhabitants, landowners, state reserves, etc.) and delivers water downstream (customers, clients, dependents, etc.) as well as having its own inherent structure and function, water quality, biodiversity support (eg providing steady employ to 100K people in a local region, the daily structural business of capital and material flows, etc.).
by summa_tech | 2025-11-11 04:00:31+00:00
The thing is, when you're 95 years old with a trillion dollars, you have lived 70 years making a trillion dollars (which can be quite fun! Warren B certainly seems to have enjoyed it) and along the way you've - no doubt - spent a decent amount of time as a billionaire. Do not discount the part of life behind you... it's just as real as the part ahead.
by kwk1 | 2025-11-11 04:01:25+00:00
From Moby Dick, on the Great Lakes:

> they are swept by Borean and dismasting blasts as direful as any that lash the salted wave; they know what shipwrecks are, for out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AMoby-Dick_(1851)_US_ed...
by yes_really | 2025-11-11 04:03:26+00:00
It is bizarre how you can be at the same time so arrogant and so wrong. If Israel were trying to "exterminate as many Palestinians as possible", Israel would simply perform semi-indiscriminate bombings in the wake of October 7th. This would kill many more Palestinians and would spend much less geopolitical capital. Instead, Israel spent two years performing a very targeted military campaign against Hamas. This resulted in many FEWER civilian casualties (in fact, it had a much LOWER rate of civilians-by-combatants casualties than average urban wars).
by leejoramo | 2025-11-11 04:04:40+00:00
Beyond the UHK keyboards there are others with trackpoints

TEX had a whole line https://tex.com.tw/products/shura

The classic Happy Hackers Keyboard has one. https://hhkeyboard.us/hhkb-studio/product

And Lenovo itself offers several usb keyboards with TrackPoint https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F3U4TQS
by idiotsecant | 2025-11-11 04:04:48+00:00
In what way do you think ENS can be compromised if devs are not 'out of reach'? You're comparing a permissioned mixing service whose authors made it centralized on purpose to extract fees with a decentralized DNS system. There is nobody in charge. There are no master keys. There is no means by which a government can shut it down, short of shutting down the ethereum network itself, which I think they would find to be easier said than done.

This is the problem with crypto discourse - people view the guy selling snake oil on the sidewalk outside the gas station on the same level as legitimate infrastructure project that is the combined work product of hundreds of people who aren't trying to scam anyone, just make useful stuff.

The only solution to this is being willing to learn about the technology, which is a very unpopular view on HN.
by EB66 | 2025-11-11 04:05:54+00:00
You don't even need to film it, it's on Google Maps Street View: https://maps.app.goo.gl/cdyFttFsQPhpBHR48

That street view was filmed taken two months ago, when it was still warm and nice out, so tent activity would've been at its peak.

I wish I had seen your post earlier because I literally walked that stretch of road earlier this evening -- a couple friends of mine from out of town are going to the Patti Smith show at the Paramount tonight and we had drinks nearby. No tents in sight though we did encounter someone walking around with a blanket wrapped around their head. But still, one probable homeless drug addict is hardly "overrun".

It's really not as you describe... I agree things were getting worse in ~2019 and then became way worse during the pandemic, but it's much different now.
by ilaksh | 2025-11-11 04:06:06+00:00
ok.. when I tried to use pay-as-you-go it was unusable for me because there were a ton of 429s and 503s. one test it was just constant for a few seconds when I tried it, 429 or 503.

I am using it for a voice application though so retrying causes a delay for the user that they don't expect. especially if it stays unavailable for a few seconds.
by RavSS | 2025-11-11 04:06:43+00:00
SPARK is practically just a restricted version of Ada with a few added features for formal verification. You can write a program primarily in SPARK but disable said restrictions based on circumstance by setting the `SPARK_Mode` pragma/aspect to `off` on a package, procedure, function, etc. Mixing Ada and SPARK is trivial.

I guess it is similar to Rust code that uses `unsafe {}` as the other poster mentioned (maybe `unsafe fn` for a closer analogy). My knowledge of Ada/SPARK is much greater than what I know about Rust, so I might be guessing wrong.
by soVeryTired | 2025-11-11 04:06:48+00:00
The word “some” in the quote from Box is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

If a model is useful, I’d like to see it being used (outside academia, where there’s minimal penalty for complexity and a high emphasis on novelty).

If models like these are widely adopted at social media companies or news agencies, it’s fair to say OP’s take isn’t valid. Otherwise they may have a point.
by JustExAWS | 2025-11-11 04:07:18+00:00
I don’t enjoy coding. I haven’t enjoyed coding since the first 6 years I started coding in 6th grade in 1986 in a combination of Basic and assembly through 1992 when I graduated high school.

After that it was to get my degree and after that it was to exchange labor for money to fund my life. There hasn’t been a time since 1996 that I haven’t had some outside interest that I would rather be doing than sitting down at a computer after work.

While my official title hasn’t been “software engineer” since 2020 and the last time I had to get a job based solely on my coding ability was 2012, I am still at 51 expected to know how to spit out production level code as part of my job. If AI can help me create code that gets me paid faster so be it. At 51, no one hires me based on my coding skills or even interviews me based on it.
by ashwindharne | 2025-11-11 04:07:24+00:00
I think performance takes a hit due to WASM, and I imagine pricing is worse at big qps numbers (where you can saturate instances), but I've found that deploying on CF workers is great for little-to-no devops burden. Scales up/down arbitrarily, pretty reasonable set of managed services, no cold start times to deal with, etc.

Only issue is that some of the managed services are still pretty half-baked, and introduce insane latency into things that should not be slow. KV checks/DB queries through their services can be double-to-triple digit ms latencies depending on configs.
by sethherr | 2025-11-11 04:07:45+00:00
I think the fact that Apple is having to fight this fight is evidence of why they were right to make a secure walled garden. I don’t know of any other service I would recommend my mother use for securely backing up her phone.

I think the UK is ultimately going to roll back this law. I don’t think this means that iCloud E2E is hostile to Apple or its users. I think Apple is going to win.

The war isn’t won by telling people to use GPG https://moxie.org/2015/02/24/gpg-and-me.html
by bigyabai | 2025-11-11 04:07:52+00:00
> On this you should be on their side

If Apple was transparent, I would be. But they are user-hostile and trust the federal government more than their customers. Apple is on-record[0] admitting that the US government requires them to their cover-up cooperation with surveillance. After decades of users demanding proper accountability from Apple, this is exactly what they warned would happen.

You have no right to demand that I take their side - Apple's disregard for privacy nauseates me. Everyone who sincerely trusted Apple to protect them against the fed is a lost cause. Go ask Apple to save you.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...
by dmix | 2025-11-11 04:08:06+00:00
At a minimum I write my own automated tests for LLM code (including browser automation) and think them through carefully. That always exposes some limitations to Claude's solutions, discovers errors, and lets you revisit it so you fully understand what you're generating.

Mostly LLMs do the first pass and I rewrite a lot of it with a much better higher level systems approach and "will the other devs on the team understand / reuse this".

I'd still prefer deciphering a lot of default overly-verbose LLM code to some of the crazy stuff that past devs have created by trying to be clever.