skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does this program differ from OpenSCAD? (https://openscad.org, https://github.com/openscad/openscad)

I'm a bit surprised there's no mention of it anywhere in the repository or on the website.
At Replit, the toughest people we have to fight are dark web hackers
It's hard read these stories and not wonder about the parents.

At the same time I'm often drawn to the story of my high school buddy's youngest sister. His family was as normal as you might expect, the kids were perhaps unusually "driven", but in good ways, music, athletics, academics, all three even.

But the youngest was driven to rebel in the most distributive ways possible, the usual running away from home, older / inappropriate men, drugs, alcohol. Everything short of physical violence, although that occurred too.

It got so bad it was almost impossible to physically keep her in the house or apply any kind of rules. Any rule was just a goal for her to obliterate and more.

The parents eventually sent her to some of these camps, she escaped, was notorious even among other troubled kids there.

It all took an incredible toll on her parents. Financial and psychological. They would have done anything to help her, anything, so at times they chose those camps, even if it seemed just to provide physical safety.

Eventually she turned 18 and left. Some contact here and there, she seemed to want the contact but also was aloof in a way. It seemed like she really kept in contact to keep up with the family dog more than anyone there.

Years later in her early 20s she showed up at the family house unannounced. She was pregnant, her mom answered the door and she asked if she could come home.

I don't know what happened between 18 and showing up that day, but after that day she was "back" and was a different girl. She worked for the family business for a while but she quit saying it wasn't for her. She took some college classes but didn't like school and the rules.

She eventually took a job at a pet store grooming pets and loved it. She started doing it privately and my wife's family financed her buying a truck and remodeling it into a mobile pet grooming van (this was really early in the days before mobile pet grooming was "a thing").

Eventually the previously very troubled girl had keys to any number of houses in town (so she could pickup the pets while the owners were away) and she has been great since, kids, family, met a great guy. She's a model local small business person, mom, etc.

I often want to ask her what changed, but I feel like mentioning it would reinforce a "troubled girl" label that I'm sure she knows some folks still think of her as.

As a parent now I think on that other girl. It's unsettling to think of. These kind of camps are disturbing, but in some cases ... I get it when you feel like you're out of options. There are kids who misbehave, and there's situations that are orders of magnitude beyond that.
TFW you see “Limitless” and “Power” in the same sentence.
On FF desktop it doesn't bother me too much, but on iPadOS Safari I was having quite a challenge editing a URL param due to selecting all on touch with no obvious way to switch to cursor mode (!).

My solution: touch to select all, touch again to reveal sliders, drag the (only visible) left slider to the right to reveal some unselected text, touch the unselected area to get a cursor, touch+hold to drag cursor to end of URL, edit URL, profit! I've seen easier puzzles in puzzle games!
Everything's been normal for me, or I just haven't noticed.
Whoever did the marketing on this is a genius, since the release created near-riots in Singapore:

https://cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/style-beauty/omega-...

The craziest thing is that this is not a limited edition, since the planned production run is hundreds of thousands, and probably more now given the hype.
The prison as a distilled form of the structure of most social institutions is a big idea in the work put forward by Michel Foucault
Look at Lapsus$. They were enabled by corruption in the IT community. Due to effects of scale, corruption in IT doesn’t have to be widespread to have major effects worldwide.
Feels like places trying to make up for any covid losses over the last few years.
Higher socio-economic areas tend to have more stable price fluctuations, because they are sure bets and a lot of their value has been priced in (barring the whole region rising as is happening right now). Lower socio-economic areas are more risky: you could more likely get a deal or a horrible situation, leading to a lot more volatility. Gentrification takes time to work, and isn't always successful.
That's for Velvia 100, Velvia 50 is still available.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/512063-USA/Fujifilm_1...
Omega is a subsidiary of the Swatch Group, it's all the same company.
Oh please. You're cherry picking examples.

Did you use Microsoft Foxpro on Mac? I can assure you MS killed it without a migration path. What about the Zune? MS Money? Microsoft Reader?
> Sexist? Please, shove that word.

Respectfully, fuck no.
I guess JS is only used as a tool to demonstrate the algorithm.
In the early mockups I saw for Proton the floating tab buttons never existed. I wonder what happened that we ended up with such odd tabs.
Ya, the price bubble hasnt really burst. It just deflated a little but remains a bubble.
Two of us!

I was busy and never got around to purchasing lumber when the price of a 2x4 dropped to $3.50-ish. I didn't realize you had to time your purchases.
Now I sit here, cut lists ready, wondering who is buying 2x4s for $8.30.

But the price will come back down... right?
Dispatch: Interview with a Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot
Debt only makes sense if there are at least two entities involved. If you think of humanity as a single entity, there can't be any debt: You can't be in debt to yourself!

And that is not what Graber is talking about. The point was about US Treasuries. Everyone treats them as cash equivalents because nobody believes that the US Government will default. But Graber says and I quote:

> American imperial power is based on a debt that will never-can never-be repaid. Its national debt has become a promise, not just to its own people, but to the nations of the entire world, that everyone knows will not be kept.

And this is the kind of nonsense that is sprinkled all over the book.
But the disk does not get corrupt frequently because (1) user apps cannot write to it directly, they have to use a restrictive API, (2) each write operation is limited to a single logical part, and cannot affect other parts and (3) disk structure is designed to be recoverable.

As a result, in the existing system, if the video driver gets corrupt and messes up kernel memory, there is a very high probability that all the files are intact and system will be fully usable once I reboot. Maybe the single file that I was working on will be damaged. Compare this to fully persistent memory system, which has a high chance of being unusable afterward.
Microsoft should have never killed MSN messenger. It still blows my mind that Microsoft went through evolution of so many chat apps only to be overtaken by Slack as the business chat app.

Teams is good but the experience is still not great compared to Slack.

Same on mobile. They had windows mobile evolved for so long, only to be overtaken by Android and iOS.
> Nobody wants to lose money leaving their real estate investment empty. Vacancy rates are low.

People do leave properties empty - it's easier to do in a rising market when it will still make you money via capital gains (and leveraging equity to purchase further properties).

It's worth keeping in mind that industry reported vacancy rates are typically the proportion of properties that are on an agent's books and are currently vacant. Many properties are not included (land-banked, holiday homes, AirBnB, those currently being renovated, up for sale, etc).

I live in a house that is currently valued at NZD1.7M. This same house was purchased for NZD0.56M 12 years ago. That gain totally dwarfs the amount of rent the owners could have collected in that time.

Consider NZ.

According to Statistics New Zealand in 1991 there were 1,307,000 private dwellings and 1,252,600 households. A difference of 4.16%.

In 2017 there were 1,855,500 private dwellings and 1,734,800 households. A difference of 6.5%.

During this time household sizes decreased and house prices increased far in excess of inflation. In 1991 the average house was NZD173,000 (in 2016 dollars). In 2016 it was NZD495,000. Today it is over NZD1,000,000 (or about NZD900,000 in 2016 dollars).

Consider Australia.

Prosper Australia's Speculative Vacancies Report [0] (looking at water usage to determine under-utilised properties) suggests areas with high vacancy rates in Melbourne correlate with areas where capital gains (i.e. percentage price increases) are greatest. Desirable areas have higher vacancy rates, even approaching 20% by their reckoning. This is the opposite of what you would intuitively expect in a naive supply and demand equation.

Consider the UK.

A study in the UK [1] using council data found that high property prices correlate strongly with what the study refers to as 'low use properties' (LUPs).

A speculative boom creates extra demand. As Ireland discovered during the GFC, when that investment demand dries up, the empty homes (and over-supply) are revealed. This will happen again and it will be when people can no longer take on more debt (most likely due to rising interest rates).

[0] https://www.prosper.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Specul...
[1] https://theodi.org/event/friday-lunchtime-lecture-empty-home...
You can actually skin Spotify! I used to run a different spotify theme through Spicetify. I think its CSS based.
You just solved a mystery that has been knocking around in my mind for over a decade.

Thank you.
I don’t buy the thing about syntax highlighting. Even if I did think turning it off made me write better code — I do not — I still have to work with code that I have no control over.

I agree about tabs and proportional fonts, but I think those are lost causes.
I think the closest analogy is the circulation of insecure software with aggressive marketing and its adoption in the sphere of direct and de facto coercion. The Equifax situation did not receive a great public post-mortem that went deeper into generally applied business practices than "credit processors bad".
No, knowing obscure open source tech doesn't look great on a resume
I'm not 50/50 on ubisoft, they sell level boosts and stat upgrades in a singleplayer games (assassins creed) it's hilarious
Ah, yes, I’m sure the Chrome team is entirely unfamiliar with ways to improve memory safety. Snark aside, every browser vendor is working on this, it’s just that migrating is nontrivial.
The zig compiler itself (which is written in Zig) compiles C, `zig cc` just indicates to the zig compiler to parse C compiler options (`zig cc` has the same interface as Clang).
I am going to bet these people were axed by the ads machine learning and not by the Google play team. Please make sure to not rely only on ad income; it ends badly as Google has the monopoly on those; other ads generally do not pay unless you can do media buys which are also dangerous as usually you don’t have that many actual different brands buying. As with anything, you need to diversify and make sure Adsense/admob is 33% or less of your income and that 66% is enough for you to survive.
Threw it at VC++ 6 in a Win2k VM but it wouldn't compile (something about the syntax being incorrect). Funny how modern dev tooling can build the code better than the more era-appropriate tools. I would've expected the exact opposite.
I don’t think that’s right.

I’m pretty sure the idea is that a kugelblitz would be a black hole not a white hole?
> The problem in California isn’t land, it’s politicians.

You mean the voters who vote for the politicians that do what they want vs. not vote for the politicians who would do what others would prefer? It is no secret that politicians can't act unilaterally or nefariously without being unelected at the ballot box.
Interesting, I just heard of this today from this video https://youtu.be/aZyIjBxxpTY?t=6177 in a not so flattering context. She doesn't cite any sources for the debunking and google didn't really bring much up, anyone have more info?
> It’s not really software vs hardware, it’s the fixed function pipeline api vs the shader api.

...that sounds like software vs hardware though?

Lighting used to run as a fixed (hardware) function and now it runs via a shader (software) function.
I don’t work in this field, but my impression has been that groups tend to share techniques and code patterns that can help tie them back to where they came from.
Battling Management with Competence
So then there's a plan to pay it all back?
Some relative "misery"; if they can afford to own a house, they're probably not that miserable.
> I'm amazed that Californians vote this nonsense onto themselves and then are astonished that nobody else does.

Almost every other rapidly growing state is complaining about the same problems, so it isn't "Californians", and I don't think they are astonished by the impact. Those that want to live in a zone-light place like Houston Texas have already moved.
I'll be the first person to jump on the hatewagon towards pay2win and lootbox gacha games, but...hear me out. You can just NOT play those games.

The amount of games available on Steam is such that you can play indie games, old classics and anything to your liking for decades, while completely avoiding the types of game the author laments about.

There were plenty of just horrible, bad games back in the day too. Games that would crash all the time, had terrible gameplay, graphics, story, you name it. You just avoided the bad ones.
1. Most art is like the example given, not just video games. For the avengers, you can watch the movies at the theatre but you need to pay another $10/mo for Disney+ to watch their tv series. Art, NFTs. Etc.

2. There are many games that aren’t loot box-esque. To say “video games have become this” is very unfair.
If a carrier CEO has two options, with the following estimate outcomes:

A) Profit +10%. ARPU -1%.

B) Profit +5%. ARPU +5%.

Do you think they might choose A?
2 then 5 when I get into the distributed part of the work.
If you want people to _want_ to move to apartments and condos, then they need to be built so they're desirable.

Yes, absolutely this. Ever since I was a kid playing Sim City and seeing the Arcologies I dreamed of living in a high rise apartment. Eventually in my 30s I was able to do so, and the whole experience was terrible. Sure, the place looked great in photos. But the lint and smells from laundry, cooking, weed, bathrooms, etc. all got funneled into my unit, and the soundproofing was nowhere near adequate.

These buildings, if they have operable windows, really need isolated per-unit ventilation systems (with a hydronic loop for heat/cold) and, as you say, dead silent soundproofing.

So now I'm back into a house with no shared walls. It's also poorly built, but it's way quieter way out here than in a city, and overall much higher quality of life. And I can still drive or take a train downtown to access food/etc.
Here’s a question I expect you’ll never answer: is it within the capabilities of any groups within the West (state-sponsored or otherwise) to fabricate the information you’re using to make those assessments? And if so, how have you decisively eliminated this possibility?

I ask because it’s broadly accepted that there are extremely powerful and wealthy entities in the West who benefit from an aggressive US foreign policy and heightened geopolitical tensions.
> I feel compelled to move to Ukraine

if you are moving to Ukraine, you could hire a contractor?
Being able to get a loan to buy a home in the past doesn't imply being able to afford to own it now, especially if the loan was an ARM, had an interest-only or negative amortization period, etc. (but even with a conventional fixed mortgage, financial situation can change for the worse after buying.)
Most investors don't let homes sit empty; they let renters subsidize their speculation. Investment properties often have renters in them.
She doesn't mention the whole tether fiasco at all, which is the strongest point against bitcoin currently in my opinion.

Tether is a completely unregulated de facto 'bank' that makes up a very significant portion of the demand for bitcoin. If that blows, bitcoin will inevitably go with it.

Buying bitcoin is betting not on bitcoin, but on tether.
I mean, your point is that because LA and SF are hemmed in by geography (mountains, water, etc...), that they are more limited? But you see the same geographical effects in places like Seattle and Denver.

And those two Californian metros still have plenty of sprawl, people realized they could keep building out a long time ago. Housing in Lancaster CA (about 1 hour from LA without traffic) is much cheaper than LA, though still expensive.
The "Joe vs Elan School" comic you're referring to is really good, so I'd second this recommendation.

Grim, but good.

https://elan.school/chapter-1-5/
> Instead of asking people to be nice on the internet you should hold those accountable that are in a position to manufacture a narrative.

Nope, Hacker News is the place where you be nice to each other on the internet rather than assuming they’re trying to manufacture consent. This is quite literally spelled out in the site guidelines.
Exactly was I was gonna say until I read your response. They’re the barest servers I know of. Oracle cloud or IBM cloud might have what he’s looking for as well.
Graeber is a poor economist but a good anthropologist. Debt: The First 5000 years deserves props for debunking the myth of barter coming before credit and for its observations on how small economies of mutually known & trusting people operate. It doesn't make sense to scale these up to society-wide systems; indeed, the reason we can have societies on the scale of nation-states comes from financial innovations that replaced mutual trust & credit with ledgers and double-entry bookkeeping.

Interestingly, you can see the emergence of small-scale credit forming with things like how a group of mutual friends splits the tab when going out to meals. "I'll get mine, you get yours" doesn't usually survive as people get to know each other and start interacting more regularly, rather it's "I'll get this time, you get the next time", and it all works out as long as everything feels fair, because everybody has a pretty good memory for when they get shafted.
I suspect the answers to this will depend heavily on how this all ends.
Yes unless something has changed with the root issue, zoning laws, prices will probably continue to rise.
Take care of how?
IMO, it’s the platforms that turn down novel ideas in preference for money making products, resulting in less visibility for the underdog. Apple’s App Store routinely promotes paid for apps over free ones. Steam does the same. Google search is obviously the worst offender.
Just started playing fortnite after resisting cause free to play rules. Its a really fun game, and theres no buying competitive advantage.

I bought a skin to support the devs, just like I did on Among Us.

As a generally “always by the cart” type of person, I think I'm starting to come around to the “pay what you want” model.
The other option is to apparently blanket your game with advertisements. I spent some time yesterday looking for word games in the iOS store, and it seems like everything was “free”, but had non stop, unskippable ads. One offered to remove ads for a fee, but even after paying they remained in various parts of the game.
> Have you written some Rust, Kotlin, Swift, ReasonML/ReScript/OCaml, Haskell, Elm or Clojure?

Nah, I like to get shit done and make buckets of money.
Let me clarify it then. The poster I responded to claimed that Malthus is a butt joke of economics, which is patently false, and to support that, he cited Marx, whose economic theory is in fact a butt joke of economics. Is that clear now?
Why do you think you can qualify someone’s purchasing ability based on their looks? Aspirants tend to show wealth more than people who have it.
All that really means is the house was listed below its market value to drive more bidding
Thank you for the detailed response! I just recently picked up an RTL-SDR, and for a moment though that I have this bandwidth thing figured. Nope, more learning ahead. I'll probably write some simple demodulator to better understand this stuff.
Question : Why would people (these days) be motivated to spend time on reading about a subject slowly as opposed to trying to read short targeted content (blogs/tutorials) quickly and jump into the practical bits?

May be it's just me and the kind of people I have been meeting who do not seem to have as much patience and time and would prefer getting hands-on experience quickly.

I can see how I might sound complaining about going through ~30 pages of information whereas full books with several hundred pages take much longer to read and this is relatively much shorter.
Ukraine Evidence: open data and info verification project about the conflict
I have family in So Miguel and Santa Maria...the attitude is much the same.
I think the author meant to put this in the crypto section:

> During World War II, when the Japanese Empire invaded regions throughout Asia,
> they would confiscate hard currency from the locals and issue their own paper
> currency in its place, which is referred to as “invasion money“. These
> conquered peoples would be forced to save and use a currency that had no
> backing and ultimately lost all of its value over time, and this was a way for
> Japan to extract their savings while maintaining a temporary unit of account
> in those regions.

The author also fails to cover fraud and wash trading. Besides Invasion Money, Crypto is the only other thing on the list where debts can disappear without any transfer of value.
Mortgage rates went from ~2.5% to 6% in a matter of a few months. People generally feel that given the low supply of housing that prices wont go down, but instead will stagnate with higher rates. If that's your belief you'd be in a mad rush to buy a home as your primary residence before rates go even higher.

Personally, if rates continue this path housing prices will go down. A 500k mortgage at 2.5% has the same monthly payments a 330k mortgage at 6% or 225k at 10%.
I think the literal most important thing I've learned working in computers is to appreciate best practices, off the shelf code, and a militant avoidance of the new, the creative, and the elegant, unless of course it's a new industry standard. Anyone can learn them in a week, unfortunately it seems to take years to actually appreciate the value.

Some people seem to have an amazing ability to innovate. I can't confidently say I've built anything interesting or innovative in the last decade and actually benefitted from it.

I'm not even fully sure that I learned anything useful in all my early years of random toy projects.

I think I learned more in six months of working with people who have background in enterprisy, by the book stuff than in years of making my own crappy language and editor, designing network protocols, and such.
ive had more days like this recently.
Is Elden Ring not a AAA game?
Of course there won’t be any repercussions. And especially not any on his wife, a former drug dealer. Honestly seems like such a trashy family.