skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I heard, from an architect friend, the difference in price between a builder and custom home is 10% premium. Because whatever economy of scale saved by the build is taken up in profit. To the buyer prices are just about the same. And conveniently, the commission for an architect is also 10%. So if you can design and self certify you also save a bit.
What is the best way, as a SaaS that addresses pain points predominantly for the end user, to market the product to the people with purchasing power?
I'm working on a solution to this called KB Clip: https://kbclip.com

basically it's a slack add-on that allows you to turn a conversation into a web/wiki page in just a few seconds. Essentially, lots of important, KB-worthy info happens naturally during the course of work slack conversations.

The idea being that making knowledge capture easy kind of naturally makes the usage of the knowledge base happen. KB usage is kind of a chicken and egg problem. if no one creates info, no one will look there.

We don't currently export to Confluence, but the plan is to export to most of the major wiki/KB platforms. We're going thru Slack App Directory approval process at the moment, but we're planning on doing a big marketing push as soon as that happens.

happy to answer any question about this topic or the product we're building!
Asteroid Light Reflection Simulator
A lot of these sites (including this one) do work in reader view.
At least this one wasn't foisted upon us with no choice to revert. And since I'll never enable the Chat that this requires, it never will be.
> No state is incentivized to make zoning more lenient.

Yet this is exactly what is happening in California via SB9 (though admittedly with significant local opposition):

https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/09/16/gov-newsom-abolishes-...

Ironically, single family zoning as a tool was invented in California.
I think the main lesson here is to not to jump onto trains copying the latest trend.

As for double-standards of later clones being allowed, it's probably just that this app got caught in the initial copycat-sweep with some rejection-notice visible for reviewers that will be re-used for later updates and unless fundamentally different it isn't going to pass. Later apps probably pass since they don't care adding new notes.

It might suck, but it's how the world works.
No problem :) As I said in a parallel reply, people not knowing when they get a response improves the discussion quality here.
> Even in comments I've posted about China that ended with a sentence about how I disliked the leader got knocked for being counterproductive.

I think one issue with approach by up/down voters is that sometimes the "thoughtful and substantive" thing to say is inherently ideological, and I notice that being explicitly ideological (for example, making it clear that you regard a long term trend in the economy as serving the interests of a particular group of people) is viewed as counterproductive.

This mirrors a dilemma out in the "real world" where people find it hard to bring up substantive political ideas because just doing that is viewed as divisive and antagonistic. Unfortunately, sometimes (maybe even often) this is actually what is required to have "thoughtful and substantive" discussions.
When your company makes Apple $3m, you cease to become someone casually banned by Apple, and rather a quasi-partner with some leverage. Epic’s ban from the App Store was deliberately engineered by that company’s leadership to force a legal challenge and to garner public attention; most companies of that size with apps on the App Store are met with more kid glove treatment by reviewers.
I encourage you to make home where your neighbors align with your value system, versus demanding others change theirs, where their vote is diminished when someone has more fiat than they do (as you’re suggesting “the market” regulate versus elected government).

If the market regulated well, Uber would not exist (to name just one zombie firm), having burned $30B in an attempt to reach profitability while leaving social destruction in its wake.
This is Google we're talking about. They could very easily conquer the SEO experts the same way they basically eliminated spam and most web browser exploits.
They'd have the freshest "All Your Base" memes though.
On the smaller scale, and for certain kinds of multi family purchases, government-backed financing is available and it is usually cheaper than what one might find on the private market
1. The US didn't have a "wealth tax" in the 1950s, it had a very high marginal income tax rate which applied to a tiny slice of earners.

2. A wealth tax would be hard / impossible to implement.
I think there are too many:

-posts about nostalgia, how the 'old' world wide web was better, retro computing, reliving the past, etc.

-quanta magazine math articles, because the concepts are too difficult or abstract for anyone to debate or discuss them

-posts about privacy, big tech bashing (gets tired, repetitive after while)

I would like to see fewer of those kind of posts. I would like to see more:

-personal blog posts

-posts about economics findings (instead of just the 'hard' sciences)
I also which it shared it simply as

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You are wrong. The kid GREW FUNGUS IN ARTIFICIAL LUNGS using a sterile field made out of a plastic bin with dish gloves cut into it. He didn't need medical data. Anyone could have done this- anyone with the intelligence and creativity that this kid has.
Wealth inequality is coming from land rents. Henry George was right all along. We should have listened.
It's a problem I discovered in my previous role over a number of years. And the issue is there's no clear pain point, it's numerous, and it affects more than one party i.e brands, users and media.
It depends on what sort of content you're looking for. Reasoned discussion on contentious issues demands considerable moderation, but anonymous platforms are great for legitimate niche/curiosity-driven topics.

For example of the second, there was a thread on /ck/ a few weeks back where some guy (probably a grad student; I'll never know) stumbled on a few $K of food lab equipment. Thread went on with a variety of experiments/projects which ranged from "reasonable" to "why would you even consider this" (some kind of flavored oil distillate from a happy meal, used to make ice cream).

If that was on HN, it would be someone's social-climbing portfolio blog, or I would have to wonder if it's astroturfing by some lab equipment company, or Mcdonalds. I'd question if this really was a curiosity-based endeavor, or if it was just someone trying to signal to potential employers "look at my Relevant Project!" or "look how quirky I am!" to friends.

But none of that was a concern; there is really no way for that individual to profit or benefit from this in any context. It's an anonymous forum, and there's strong social pressure to not subvert that (unless it is simply by virtue of posting similar content). It takes the game theory out of the equation; nobody is trying to sell me something.

It's not for everything or everyone, and there's definitely some effort in filtering out garbage posts. The same goes for HN, except the content to manually filter out is the sea of sometimes-veiled advertisements and self-promotion rather than plain-faced flamebait.
The dust on the moon is extremely abrasive, the temperature fluctuations are more extreme, there is no atmosphere that provides protection against meteorites and high energy particles (not that mars has a thick atmosphere, but it is better than nothing), and the gravity of the moon would be a lot harder for humans to adjust to.
The paper you linked to describes three different definitions of fairness that don't agree. I gave a single definition of fairness that is self-consistent.
This is why I'm still on Catalina. I used to be in the "trail by one point release" mode on macOS, now I'm in the "trail by 2 major releases" camp.
Thanks, any backstory on motivations for the fork?
I mean, another solution is to give warning at regular intervals beforehand (day, hour, ten minutes, 1 minute perhaps). Basically planned outages with ample warning. Of course, avoiding prime time planned outages is always good in any scenario and I'm sure goes a long way to keep all clients happy.

With that said, I doubt your 13 year old daughter client is actually paying for that level of service, so... ;-)
I think what's been even more effective than moderation for Metafilter is the imposition of a $5 flat fee to join. I would happily pay as much to stay on HN. A very affordable and worthwhile purchase for an individual, but a significant economic barrier for bot farms.
I didn't know the Fed was responsible for exclusionary zoning laws.
Thanks for sharing. Will check out that material.
Production ready eBPF, or how we fixed the BSD socket API
> what other conspiracy theories were there that turned out to be possible after all or even true?

Lab leak, cloth masks being ineffective, Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction being made up, Vietnam war Gulf of Tonkin, Epstein Pedophile island. JFK multiple gun theory hasn't been proven but seems more likely than not.

These are all now generally accepted facts but were once considered conspiracy theories.

It surprises me that an adult (that presumably lives in the US) wouldn't be aware of at least some of these.
Direnv/direnv: unclutter your .profile
Delimiter isn’t used for writes, only list operations.

S3 simply looks at the common string prefixes in your object names and uses that to internally shard objects, so you can achieve a multiple of those request limits.

aaa122348

aaa484585

bbb484858

bbb474827

Would have same performance as:

aaa/122348

aaa/484585

bbb/484858

bbb/474827
The caveat is that in many of those neighborhoods the units are rentals, so the people living in the house don't see any of the gains from the property value. They only see their rent increase as the value of the land goes up.
In a remote-first/tech world, our lives are lonely, by design. We no longer have the social touch points we typically had. Water cooler talk, coffee walks, after-work drinks with the team, and work sports are no longer a thing.

Vibehut.io is a great solution to get your social fix. Vetted video calls based on your existing social platform and crypto holdings.
Its not just company greed, you can't get any engineers to agree to maintain a service in Keep the Lights on mode. Its not in their interest, let me explain.

First, there's 0 chance at promotion doing maintenance work, so L4 (jr) engineers will bounce after a year or so as they have a clock running and have to move up or out. L5 engineers will stagnate and they will at risk for URA as they are supposed to keep improving. Frankly the work isn't L6 worthy, an L6 maintaining this as the only thing they are doing won't last a quarter.

So these services that just 'do the job' get bounced around
from team to team and perhaps when they get old and creaky enough, an L4 can promo themselves doing an upgrade/refactor. Until then, they just exist and are a bane to some team where they only produce off hour pages, even if a whole publisher segment depends on them to get paid.
You're not comparing a heavily moderated site to an a lightly moderated one. You're looking at a site that's just as over-moderated as Reddit, just in favor of the opposite side of the political spectrum. A better comparison would be something like /g/
> Another flaw: why do we even need to colonize a planet? It actually doesn't make much sense if you really think about it. I'm firmly in the camp that thinks humanity's future is in a cloud of orbitals aka an eventual Dyson Swarm.

It seems odd to quibble about which rock we should colonize when you think this far ahead.

Any species that lives in a "cloud of orbitals" or a "Dyson Swarm" is going to have colonized other planets in its solar system, if only as a temporary experiment. The thing to do now is push farther out and explore. Any rock will do but Mars has more romance to it and, for better or worse, that's a requirement.
Yeah, and they tend to operate with short term thinking front of mind.

I mean the Fed didn't even flinch at all in 2021 as all asset valuations reached bubble territory. Real estate appreciated faster than anytime in history. This becomes a real liability down the line if normalization of policy is ever needed. Bubbles can be disastrous to the economy longer term.

They removed the moral hazard of risk taking for the past decade or so.
I agree completely. While its fun to place the blame for high prices on the investors, in reality the high prices are for the same reason that we see high prices of everything else: there is a shortage.

Zoning reform is a solution to get out of this mess, but zoning is not the only cause of this problem. If you look at the last 10 years of housing construction in this country, and you compare it to the previous 50 years, you see that we have simply not been building enough housing:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST

If a nation spends 10 years not building enough housing, high prices are what happen. If you add low 2020 interest rates to the mix, the effect on housing prices are explosive in the short term.
Privacy Sandbox is coming to Android. What advertisers need to know
> but at the same time it benefits existing homeowners in undervalued neighborhoods by increasing the value of their homes.

Predominantly renter class people will not benefit from housing value increases. Their landlords will, though.
Yes, the NSA is fantastic at cryptography but doesn't understand the concept of broken trust.
The subsidies aren't the root of the problem. It's municipal zoning laws. Just look at Japan. Went from having the worst housing bubble in world history to affordability in 20 years thanks to sweeping zoning reform.
As civilization spreads to space, it will be visible.

Let's hope we don't treat the Moon like San Francisco, where you (sometimes) can only construct buildings that don't cast a shadow.
Wealth inequality isn't the problem IMO. Regulation, housing codes, zoning, and taxes are why housing is expensive. Let me build a yurt as primary residence on a 30x30ft dirt plot if I like; it would suit my family fine and get the job of housing done for under $50k yet in most cities this would be near impossible.

Even in city, land isn't that expensive outside the coasts. It's building up to code, while being restricted into what your zoning locks in, while maintaining all the permits and paying year after year of property tax.
How are they going to make this work for people that don’t have an internet connection? They do exist!
Had monetary policy not made borrowing cheap, the wealthy would have lost wealth too. To the point where economic activity would stop completely and we'd be in a great depression.

Monetary policy was necessary. Only lower interest rates for the poor, not for the wealthy or for institutions with assets.
> The old IMDB boards

Emphasis on "the old". Usenet in the early to mid 90s was pretty great too, but again, emphasis on "the old". Niches that haven't been discovered by many people yet will likely always function well.
No! That’s not the lesson. Swedish people cant play Wordle. Period. This contribution to the space brings an existing english-only experience to Swedish people. It’s by definition NOT A COPY. It’s a derivative work at best which the original Wordle also is. To write this off as a fad and say only English speakers get to experience Wordle is frankly racist.
My offer was based on how much I could afford to pay. Maybe that was the problem, I don't know. All I know is that the people who applied (and who I ended up hiring) were pretty focussed on their job description and liked to have someone tell them what to do.

There was one guy who declined my offer because it was too low who later started their own business, so maybe you are right that people with multiple skills just want more money.
I stand corrected, thank you. I had not seriously dug into where the word "infiltrate" came from or what it exactly meant. This would be a case where the sources I trust are likely sharing misinformation. From this article: https://lawandcrime.com/russia-investigation/the-words-infil...

While some might blur the line between “spying” and “exploit[ing] . . . access to non-public and/or proprietary Internet data,” the distinction is, based on what we know right now, critical. Durham has not alleged a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the Stored Communications Act (SCA), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), or the Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) — all of which are major sources of law as to the prosecutions of federal computer crimes.

I still believe I am still correct that the Steel Dossier and the Russian collusion story were entirely unfounded fabrications of the Clinton team, and I still believe that what they did there was worse than what Trump did on January 6, but this latest alleged Clinton scandal might be overblown.
Agree completely. This piece really hits a sweet-spot for my tastes in terms of a relatively balanced looked at the dynamics with new ways for thinking about it.
Liberalism is the free market of ideas. It is pretty distant from leftism and should not be conflated.
I've seen intermittent problems with some of the features for the past hour or so, although it seems to be getting better.

Desktop browser, based in the UK.
This is a good point. I'm super worried i'm "They front-load the problem with objectivity" as you put it.

My problem is more like I've potentially found a way to streamline/improve this process. Concern is however will it be important enough to get users attention, let alone monetizing down the line.
Yeah we dodged a bullet on ours. The only reason we got it was because a previous cash offer fell through at the last minute.
The phrasing "up to 10%" is already sketchy. I mean literally 0% is also up to 10%.
Why? Most users don't want them. And for those that do, there's https://www.hnreplies.com/, as well as other options mentioned elsewhere here.
Thank you! We're looking forward to sharing more about Oso cloud too :)
They didn’t resolve the issue.

There’s an important moment in the story, where they realize the fix will incur a one-time fee of $100,000. No one in engineering can sign off on that amount, and no one wants to try to explain it to non-technical execs.

They don’t explain why. But it’s probably because they expect a negative response like “how could you let this happen?!” or “I’m not going to pay that, find another way to fix it.”

In a lot of organizations it’s easier to live with a steadily growing recurring cost than a one-time fee… even if the total of the steady growth ends up much larger than the one-time fee!

It’s not necessarily pathological. Future costs will be paid from future revenue; whereas a big fee has to be paid from cash on-hand now.

But sometimes the calculation is not even attempted because of internal culture. When the decision is “keep your head down” instead of “what’s the best financial strategy,” that could hint at even bigger potential issues down the road.
1. Delete this post

2. Lawyer up
You can email hn@ycombinator.com

Users do the bulk of the flagging, your comment was almost certainly flagged by other users for, among other things, the obvious use of one of the oldest categorized bits of messageboard flame-baiting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Contact your favorite lawyer first.
I've noticed they (TV news stuff) get upvoted pretty quickly, but also they get eliminated pretty quickly when flagged.
sorry, no. but there is an emulator[1], so you can test the roms, or you can write your own code and test it without having the hw.

[1] https://github.com/iddq/sim68xx/tree/px1000
Not just in your opinion but in Adam Smith’s and Karl Marx’s as well.
Ah I was mistaken, thanks for the correction.
Unfortunately, they're obviously not distinct enough in Apple's eyes. Also, Swedish or any nationality is not a race, I would drop that train of thought altogether.

We have no indication of the many, many other copycat apps that were let through may also already support Swedish. So if that low hanging fruit is covered, scratch that as a distinct feature...
The high-contrast mode does not accommodate for all people with colorblindness. I knew a number of people in Libera who were appalled when they updated to GNOME 40 and could no longer theme the shell to be actually visible.
The Duality of Software Production
"all the way back"

This is part of the problem with the world of computing today. When a software released not quite 2 years and 4 months ago is referred to with the phrase "all the way back". Don't get me wrong, I'm all for keeping things as up-to-date as is reasonable, but the industry has far too much churn in many areas.
Honestly and respectfully, I would love to work for a company that does not have this theater of Diversity & Inclusion. To me, it is extremely fake and not genuine. Instead, work for a company that truly embraces people from all over the world with not a peep about racism/diversity/__insert_divisive_narratives__. It would be amazing.
Wow I’m sorry to hear that. I hope you find the strength to keep going.
So your argument would be, as long as the pay is right, toxic culture is allright?

No. Why would you think so?
>And no one has (as of 1133 EST 17-Feb-2022) provided a real answer for why HN has such an obvious feature missing :)

This kind of reply is exactly the reason I'm glad that HN does not have reply notifications. At least a dozen people have clearly explained that they prefer HN without reply notifications, but you're here offering a troll-ish claim of "no real answer" with a correspondingly sarcastic emoticon.
Zoning laws are determined at the municipal level. It's local government that is the problem. State governments have actually started pushing reforms thankfully.
Yep! If you pay money to Spotify, you are voting for this content in a big way. Use your speech.
> Stopped their speculative debt fueled housing bubble

Have they actually done this? Last I checked the cost to buy a home as a multiple of average income was far higher in China than it is in the US.
You mean they are using IP's as they were originally designed? Those people probably have NO conflicts or problems with things like video conferencing, VPN's, etc.

NAT is a cludge, not a security feature.
I don't think it's as simple as that, just ask any large company who is paying £100K+ for developers. It generates even more noise than before since there are plenty of chancers who will apply because if they get in then great but in the meantime, we are struggling to make good assessments of people's skills and values and it is hard to judge in a short time whether someone is working out, in which case you might have lost £30K to a Recruiter and another £15K in salary for someone who didn't work out.

If we had loads more money, we would probably pay for more specialist recruiters but nothing we have tried so far has been brilliant. We are looking at the whole package though, I think there are things that are relatively easy to do that make a job look appealing like duvet days or free posh coffee and stuff like that.
You can use the classic frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic

It uses the same algorithm, but only counts upvotes from accounts created before 2012 (iirc).

EDIT: I was slightly off, the deadline is 2008: https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#hacker...
Seek counsel prior to anything else
Don't know about the quality but the welcome banner is a real assholey move. Not everyone is out there to steal someone's work. Btw, try rejecting it for fun and going back to the same website.
I feel like todays words were designed specifically to ruin the day of the 'ROATE' users