skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zillow calculates it's rent based on previous and current listed rental prices.

CPI calculates rent by asking people how much they are currently paying for rent or how much do they think it would cost to rent their place.
Ask HN: How do I find early stage startups to invest in?
I’m interested in being a very early seed/angel investor and want to find tech startups that haven’t even received major funding yet. I’m aware of secondary markets but they cater to more mature startups.
Just submit one related CL Repl with qt support

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31006097

Qt is great for its cross platform support. This is a demo of this capability, not exactly pure qt. Qml. Ecl etc.
> start making chips at home!!

This is what every country should do. Reduces interdependency and foments high tech industry.
They have shut down all immigration to non-SARs, prohibited inter-hukou travel to infected zones, and reports on Weibo from Shenzhen allege the quarantine workers actually are killing dogs. The answer to "we have to do these extreme measures" seems to be to actually enact said measures.
What the world’s most remote islands were like before humans arrived
Steelmanning the opposing side’s perspective is an extremely effective tactic to convince people of your own perspective.

That sounds cynical, but what I mean is this:

- Steelmanning the “enemy position” indicates that your argument takes into account all of the nuance of the “enemy position”

- It indicates that you’re arguing in good faith, and not going for an easy win

In other words,

- Steelmanning indicates: “I have looked at the problem space, and this position fits it the best.”

- Strawmanning indicates: “I will present the problem space in a way that fits this position the best.”

Subtle, but important and gives you a lot of credibility as a speaker.
Which raises the question of how the bogleheads strategy weathers an inflationary economy. Since apparently that's all Main St. can do.
I used this as a base image for a static site, but then needed to return a custom status code, and decided to build a simple static file server with go. It's less than 30 lines, and image size is <5MB. Not as small as thttpd but more flexible.
> I think all the great stuff has been invented, it's all boring now.

This reminds me of a half-joking quote I think I saw on HN years ago about CS being mostly completed by the 80s.
But what prevents me from saying I'm a manufacturer of tamper proof gspr cameras, that just happen to generate deepfakes?

Surely there will be enough cheap devices out there that not everyone can be expected to remember the names of venerable manufacturers? I personally have no idea who makes the camera in my phone.

Anyway, the point is moot. The analog hole is still there, you'll just feed the pixels straight from the deep fake generator into the Really Real Tamper Proof Canon's CCD.
Outsiders have always been targets of sexual attraction.
That would be my take as well, only an effective vaccine allows you to go on as normal.

China must think they don't have that and given they have absolute control of the country, nobody will dare to say otherwise.

Thankfully, in democratic countries the best vaccine for the job was chosen.
This is really great - I saw it linked on HN some time ago and have been addictedly trying to read all the articles in my free time. Quite a few gave me an interesting pause.
gif is pronounced like gin
| Something you can't really do anymore.

In a virtual kind of way, you can do this in Minecraft.

I play on a private server with a group of seasoned high tech types, and we have a tendency to explore very far from civilization (as it were). It’s a dangerous process fraught with peril, but if you can get back to civilization with the maps you make along the way, there is great benefit to the other players.
Similarly, when someone wants to take the opposite stance of a well reasoned stance for reasons unrelated to the stance itself (feelings, etc.), I tend to want to take the stance of the original to counter the person taking the opposite stance. I'm going to start staying GIF (like JIF) again.
Boris Johnson is squeezing the war in Ukraine for all it's worth.
This sounds much like the old "chess positions" memory test studies - in which chess masters were found to be vastly better than novices at remembering chess positions taken from actual chess games. But just as bad as the novices at remembering random (non-game-like) arrangements of the playing pieces on a chess board.

Plausibly, their years of experience had given the chess masters a far better compression dictionary - for situations within the scope of that experience.
Tech Workers Are Unionizing: Collective Actions Tripled Since 2019
There's not even a single area on https://plus.cnn.com that would answer your question either. It doesn't even tell you it's not free, or have a pricing page either. You apparently would have to sign up for an account to see the pricing.

Edit: Ah, so if you try to click play on a video, it offers just a little info "Plans start at $2.99/month for a limited time only"
I'm not the parent, but I did something similar. It's an editor for fractal flames where the UI is done in QML and rendering and generation is done in C++ and OpenGL. https://github.com/chaoskit/chaoskit

I liked that QML allowed me to iterate quickly on the UI. It was really quick to just compose a bunch of components together and have something working. I also enjoyed the integration with the C++ side. Overall I found QML pretty solid. If I'd build a desktop app again, I'd definitely consider it.
Authentication is just one piece of the "protecting your APIs" puzzle.
Other pieces including rate-limiting and billing. Those are more challenging.
Now there's an idea. What's the correlation between those who pronounce hard-g/soft-g and those who prefer tabs/spaces? I wonder what this could say about a split between old and new programming culture. If anything.

Probably not.
Disruption is still very regional. Where I live Kijiji (Ebay) is dominant, in other locales it's still Craigslist. FB Marketplace is still an "and also" player but not dominate here
The highest end chain place I eat at is Chipotle, but I have noticed several increases in local restaurants. One we go to regularly went up 25% mid-late 2021, and recently went up another 33% on our normal order. Which I guess I should be glad about because most other ones have shut down.
https://puri.sm/ir/convertible-note/
> various applications that were being folded into / integrated with Google Drive

The Photos/Drive integration was removed a long time ago. What other integrations were behind the original requirement? I'm curious to know if the extra complication was worth it in the long run and how long the integrations that needed this feature hung around for.
When everyone that knew how to access the Settings menu on their phone or power cycle a router are considered geniuses by everyone around them. My point is, tech being used by everyone now, even though they are just using the product instead of creating them.
I haven't watched CNN via TV for years, mostly because i cut the "normal TV" cord years ago. Although back when i did have regular and cable TV, i actually liked it the best as far as Tv News was concerned. For several years now, i have simply subscribed to their daily "5 Things" email newsletter...which aims to give a brief top 5 things one should know. It started out amazing; helping me get the gist for top headliones all while being really short and succinct. Over the years, the amount of content in each daily issue has grown both in content and ads, which i can understand becuase they are still a for-profit business after all...and it is still brief enough for me to skim through every morning. Oh, and its free, so while it does ppiont links to their cnn.com website (which is a different awful beast of advertising hell), i feel that its worth it...and in fact, sort of the kind of reason why i liklely would never subsrcibe to this CNN+ type of subcription.
to be fair it's scarier that someone with a immutable secret number can steal your identity.

credit companies now have to do their due diligence before shooting loans left and right.

this is THE normal in most of the world.
I think the thing that makes it a rather useful Tweet is that there are so many reasons to justify what he's saying.

The big one in my mind, and I expect his given his other comments as of late, is that there is an increasingly real possibility of WW3 (alongside more ambiguous possibilities of general social disruption). It's still very improbable but WW3 going from nigh impossible to very improbable is about the time you start preparing for the worst and hoping for the best. And if the worst does happen then one of the first things that's going to happen is the internet is going to go poof.

The underseas cables we rely on for the internet are completely vulnerable and there are endless motivations for various sides to clip them for either domestic or foreign purposes: strengthening domestic propaganda, preventing foreign propaganda, sparking social disorder, disrupting communication pipelines, etc.. Satellites, GPS, and so on will follow shortly thereafter.

This exact logic motivated me to recently download Wikipedia. If anybody else is interested in doing so: https://www.kiwix.org/en/ Wikipedia is about 87GB in total with pictures included. I hope that 87GB is just completely wasted and never touched, but the value gained if I ever do end up needing to access it creates a nice risk:reward ratio.
Probably because I was a Peter Pan kid but I loathed the Jiff commercials. No joke I was angry about the slogan because I loved my mom and Peter Pan PB.

I'm going to keep calling it GIFT (with no T) because no one has ever misunderstood me. And I'm not about to start putting Giff in my PB sandwiches. Jiff or GIF is also such a small thing. Like alu-mi-nium or alu-mi-ni-um perhaps?
Yes, I have tried to find a partner to talk with, but sometimes it's difficult to match schedules with a 8 hour work day.

Thanks for the correction!, I use my Spanish there
This was my experience with Unions as well.

It fomented nepotism and all sorts of other "land grabs" where people would be on a wait list and their plan was to get in, stay in and coast the rest of the time like the other senior Union members.

This does not deny that they may be a necessary inefficiency in some industries and that in the past they did contribute to better labor conditions and are part of labor's patrimony, but are in many sectors of the economy anachronistic.
Same, they lost me when I see the register section.
In 2019 a US military funded think tank wrote a prescription for how the US could provoke Russia into over-extending itself. Ukraine plays a central role. Notably, the "risks" section explicitly says that implementing these provocations could result in Russia feeling the need to push further into Ukraine.

It's an interesting read. I recommend as you read through the recommended provocations, try to figure out which ones we implemented and what was the result. There's quite a few such as withdrawing from peace treaties, arming Ukraine with lethal weapons, and performing military exercises on Russia's border.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html

If anyone perceives this as being "pro-Putin" don't bother responding. He's an evil dictator who should be in prison for the rest of his miserable life and I'm uninterested in hearing you parrot the regime's propaganda that if you criticize them you must be pro-Putin.
That non-transparent gif logo makes me sad. That's not a #000 background as they probably thought from making it on a monitor that wasn't color corrected.
Another section I noticed there that is horribly wrong:

> Without using a secure, privacy-centric DNS all your web requests can be seen in the clear. You should configure your DNS queries to be managed by a service that respects privacy and supports DNS-over-TLS, DNS-over-HTTPS or DNSCrypt.

These things do very little for privacy as we painstakingly write about in this article https://www.privacyguides.org/technology/dns/
The term 'battle tested' has nothing to do with amount of features, it's about how proven the stability and/or security of the included features included are. The term also usually carries a heavy weight towards older systems that have been used in production for a long time since those have had more time to weather bugs that are only caught in real-world use.
Redbean supports UEFI too. Although we haven't added a bare metal implementation of berkeley sockets yet. Although it's on the roadmap for the future.
But this is partly on Putin right?

If he didn't attack the oil price won't go increase further.
Ah yes, Hilgard's article is great. I link to an article that links to it elsewhere in this thread. SPRITE and such are very clever but such ammo is very limited. As Hilgard himself points out, the first thing institutions do when faced with a claim of fraudulent data is immediately tell the accused everything. Then there's either no investigation at all or a useless one. All this approach does is teach fraudsters how to avoid detection, and let's face it, the moment there are any consequences, fraudulent scientists will just start running SPRITE and GRIM on their own papers before publication. Fighting fraud requires massive consequences for fraudsters, otherwise if they fail they'll just keep trying again until they learn to evade detection.

Full blown red teams would be great, but seem very hard to set up. I've actually talked to British MPs about this and made some concrete proposals along these lines, but there are several blockers:

1. General apathy / lack of political will. Some of the more savvy MPs know their scientific advisors weren't reliable in COVID and understand the underlying issues, but the vast majority do not and would rather not think about it.

2. The moment you say let's set up a red team, you face the question of how to find high integrity well trained people that have exactly the same idea of what good science is as you do. Particularly problematic: do you have field-specific red teams? If so what stops Ferguson-style problems where the entire field agrees that it's unreasonable to even expect mathematical models to be replicable? You really need outsiders with the highest standards, who won't accept justifications like "We rewrote our dataset with a model because that's just how we do things in our field and who are you to argue with us?".

I think there's a meme about how physicists are always telling other fields they're doing it wrong. Maybe red teams need to be made of physicists :)

3. What exactly is Science, proper noun intended? To red team you need to have a very clear definition of what the scientific method actually is. Who should come up with this? I ended up suggesting a committee of MPs should do it even though that sounds wrong, because ultimately they're the ones authorizing the flow of money, and they're the ultimate outsiders. The moment you start picking insiders it's going to turn into a huge fight (who are these physics nerds to tell us we can't do experiments with 30 undergrads? etc)
Wanting to own your own web presence is reason not to host them on GitHub.

For static websites, CDNs are largely unnecessary. My potato of a website hosted from a computer in my living room has been on the front page of HN several times without as much as increasing its fan speed.

It took Elon Musk tweeting a link to one of my blog posts before it started struggling to serve pages. I think it ran out of file descriptors, but I've increased that limit now.
I'm confused why this administration isn't hammering that point. If you eat the entire bag of Halloween candy in one night, you will face consequences. Cause and effect.
I've been using the app for a couple of years now and I have mostly enjoyed the experience relative to the few other VPN solutions I've tried (OpenVPN, Nord (old version), ProtonVPN).

Things I mostly like:

- The relative simplicity of the app interface (though 'advanced' settings should just be a sub-section of 'preferences')

- How quickly/easily I can get connected (download, paste in account #, click connect - or change location.

- Relatively easy split-tunneling

- Easy switch between OpenVPN and Wireguard protocols

- Easy local network sharing (preference toggle)

- Tracker and ad block options (have not tested efficacy, appears to be DNS-based)

- Internet kill switch (will not fall back to non-vpn connections if set)

Things I don't like:

- Can cause issues on boot/reboot if kill switch is enabled (Windows - disable kill switch, restart app, re-enable kill switch)

- Limited options for mobile apps (and some unexpected disconnections on android)

- No configuration of app layout or color scheme

- Somewhat annoying upgrade (not bad, just no in-place upgrade solution)
Any significant feature in a data set is going to look (relatively) smaller when you include that in a much larger data set. You can argue that M2 is more relevant to inflation (I'd disagree), but it doesn't change the fact that M1 has seen drastic increases.

Time will tell how much effect this has on inflation, but it's odd that so many of the people complaining about inflation insist that it must be related to anything but the increase in money supply.
I said it before, and I'll gladly say it again: Yes! I would so love for someone to send some probes for long-term observation of Uranus and Neptune.

To be fair, I get the impression that no matter where we look in our solar system, we discover heaps of unexpected stuff, and it's all fascinating. But compared to Jupiter and Saturn, we still know fairly little about Uranus and Neptune. :-(

Sadly, I think it's rather unlikely this will change anytime soon, but a person can dream...
I occasionally get insight into what unions are and are not doing for some of my friends and their co-workers. A strong union seems to be great. For-sure various abusive or simply needlessly-shitty practices in their workplaces would carry on without the workers knowing the union has their back when they challenge them, to pick just one thing.

Weak unions seem to be pretty bad, but that's mostly because they don't/can't do anything. The active unions seem awesome.
used it on macos, ios, linux.
the app is solid. wireguard rules.
Too true.

In this case the citizens who consume the pro-sanctions narrative are expected to toe the line while they pay higher prices.

"See what Mr. Putin made me do to you, on your behalf!" seems a greater leap than saying, "See what Saddam made me do to those Iraqis on your behalf!"
Apparently, expertise with Rust is a pre-requisite.
This is similar to those factoids that say "if everyone on the planet had the current American quality of life" we'd need 7 planet earths worth of resources.

The implication is it's impossible, and people start looking for reasons to genocide the non-americans.

The real takeaway should be that American lifestyles are often burning obscene amounts of energy just to make them miserable. (e.g. if you're stress eating and putting on weight that takes more energy than growing/eating what your doctor would recommend as a healthy diet, or burning coal that causes air pollution related heath issues) and that there's societies that are happier, healthier and wealthier because wasting energy isn't seen as a virtue.
What if I have some sort of trigger (accelerometer attached to a door connected to a serial port, for example) that makes the system kexec to memtest86 before the system is taken?
What I recall is that there were several layers to handle receiving actions from users and broadcasting state to other users, others to represent entities and a few more to represent locations.

Like WoW in the early and middle years, the Open World feel is a bit of a fiction. WoW started with sharding akin to availability zones, but at ten million subscribers there’s only so much sharding you can do before people can’t meet each other. There were artificial choke points designed into both games that could be leveraged to offload some of the most intense interactions to separate hardware. Later WoW introduced phasing, which turned the map into a 4 dimensional space where actions were not observed by all observers (and map state could vary based on quest progress). The grouping system at that point had more situations where it could match you up with anyone in the same region not just the same availability zone, with or without moving you to a new hardware to do so.

Everyone noted how brilliant it was going to be for scaling the system up, but I’ve found that the best scaling designs are bidirectional. Both of these games made a system where they could respond to post-content-release flash crowds, and also power more hardware down. The other thing Blizzard did that in a non-cloud world I found particularly clever: before a major content release they would upgrade hardware, migrate users to the new machines, use the old hardware for load shedding tasks, release the content, wait for traffic to subside, then decommission old hardware to get back to steady state. You get to test the new hardware before the Big Show, and rely on burned in hardware to get you through to the other side. Very good operational intelligence IMO.

In Blizzard’s case some of the scaling tricks I mentioned earlier also improved the problem of users getting orphaned by declining subscriptions being spread out between too many AZs. In a pinch when traffic was low, you had access to the entire region (though I can’t say if that was controlled algorithmically or not). Previously the best they could do was a sort of traffic shaping by offering to move people from one server to another for free, where usually they charged a fee for doing so. That could take months to achieve load shedding. My suspicion is that at some points they had pools of hardware that belonged to the region and was parceled out between zones based on load. That allows you to absorb flash mobs better because those will be isolated to one zone instead of dependent on game state or time of day (after work on Friday everywhere with a low ping rate to that region, for instance).
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I was confused because it really is a confusing wording.
Thats really the wrong metric to look at. Yes they are the largest but the median age of their viewer base is 70 years old. They are mainstream only in a few circles but don't really represent the mainstream of America. In fact along with MSNBC/CNN(median age 65) they have declining viewership numbers. This is why all these networks are making a big push(failing) into streaming.
I'm super curious to know what the value to people who see that happens to be. It's serving static websites, why do I need to wrap THAT of all things in a container?

Really, enlighten me
Thx - for anyone who wants to chat >> omri [at] routable
I've heard from multiple people now that a dose of LSD brought their smell back. Reasoning theoretically, any 'neural annealing'[1] or 'neuroplasticity-promoting' activity may have the same effect. Try engaging in sensuous, pleasing activities (meditation, music, spa revery, gentle play in nature) where you temporarily lose yourself and let your brain discover new connections.

In other words, if you don't take psychedelics, try cultivating vibes like [2] or [3] in your life, or whatever your version of that looks like. Certain films are also a good pointer, like [4] and [5].

[1] https://qualiacomputing.com/2021/05/08/healing-trauma-with-n...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/c/cnliziqi/videos

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL49M0WkcLc

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrAz1YLh8nY (Terrence Malik)

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRW_GgqUzjU (Tarkovsky)
U.K. data but accidents and cancer exceed intentional self harm for teenagers.

https://stateofchildhealth.rcpch.ac.uk/evidence/mortality/ad...