skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm quite sure you're misunderstanding the purpose of this conversation and thread. When people talk about housing prices spiking, and that not being included in inflation, they're pretty much exclusively talking about _land_. To the extent that the structure itself gets more expensive, that's captured in increases in maintenance and construction costs, both of which are captured in inflation measures.

It's utterly beyond me how you could interpret my comment as anything close to "you shouldn't maintain structures". Please make an effort to fully understand a comment in the context of the broader conversation before posting gibberish.
It's an employer change, not a career change. And you should definitely leave a bad employer if you are a teacher or a nurse.
There are ways to address that. For example - exempting certain things like staple food items.
As a buyer, Ebay is still the place to find specialty used items. I've also bought some uncommon tools that were brand new (at full retail price) because I would rather not buy from Amazon. But the real reason you would use Ebay is for the used items. I've only been disappointed a couple times and I've bought probably 30 used items in the last 2 years from Ebay. Never had a problem with new items.
Because we have still not fixed "trust" on the internet. We're perpetually at the mercy of Sybil.

If you come to a small town and try and defraud the locals, you'll rapidly find yourself in jail, or worse. Small towns have local concepts of trust. Alice says you defrauded her, I trust Alice, that means I believe her. So I tell my friends, who trust me, and now we're coming for you. Just like that.

But online, there's no propagation of trust, I only have one source, and that's Ebay. Ebay's just not as good at trust as all of us working together.

So long as this dynamic is at play, as long as we can not propagate trust, then massive companies will dysfunctionally dominate.
1:1, as in, every commentator is both. And we usually don't know which we are.
This is actually pretty normal. A person I know worked for FamousCompany's support, and told me that the support system was buggy (which is highly ironic, since FamousCompany is high tech, while the (bottom of the barrel) support system and (unqualified) employees are third party), but they couldn't say this to the customers, so they had to say b.s.
> He agreed, the best form of government is one where the terms are longer.

That wasn't the only restriction. He also recognized that the longer someone is power, the more likely they are to be corrupted. Plato does not believe that democracy is the best form of government. According to him, equality brings power-seeking individuals who are motivated by personal gain.

In the US, there is a mix but there is a telling wrinkle. The Supreme Court is a lifelong post, but the decisions are carefully documented and deconstructed. The President (and most legislators) have a much lower level of scrutiny because of intentional obfuscation (like National Security reasoning) and closed sessions without formal reasoning for their actions. Transparency is not valued highly at the most immediate levels, which is why corruption is inevitable under the current practices.
I don't know about you, but many of us on HN make our livings with things protected by copyright, trademark, and sometimes patents. Supporting the framework that enables our livelihoods is not a moral judgment. It is a practical concern.

Also, there are legal issues over promotion of pirated content.

Also, there are ethical concerns over pirating content that is easily and cheaply available legally.

Also, I said "Please" and didn't force anything on anyone.

Also, under a strict interpretation posting directly to pirated material is likely a violation of the Terms of Use for HN. https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#tou
You've posted this "fun fact"? 4 times already. Are you this bored?
It's already trivial for spammers to purchase social security numbers and other ID's for spamming purposes.

There's no reason to believe spam would stop if an online ID tied to a social security number is implemented.
"Just because a parent wants their child to be able to play the piano with great skill doesn't mean they'll take to it"

And yet the beast, vast majority of kids who were forced to learn to play a musical instrument are grateful that their parents forced them to do it, even if they do not "take to it" i.e. 99.9% of kids. The ones who didn't get forced to learn an instrument regret missing out.

As a parent you are building a human being in your child. You can force them to play sports, play instruments, travel, go to museums, and study hard and learn useful skills. When they are 15 they will complain and wish you would be easier on them. When they are 30, they will thank you and pass on these gifts to their children.

If you let your kids laze around and do whatever, they will ignore you when they are 15, and wish they had stricter parents that forced them to do more things growing up when they are 30.

Obviously there is a balance and a right amount to push kids, but like most things in life, it's better to do too much than too little.
PayPal hasn’t been a part of eBay since 2015.
Yep :) Anybody familiar with the roots of OO will understand how wildly Java/C++ and their ilk went off the rails. It wasn't intended as a code organizational system. It's about encapsulation of needs, actors, and sending messages back and forth.
Sounds like you’re crying crocodile tears, then!
This is new? Feels like spam

2020 https://pixabay.com/blog/posts/announcing-pixabay-music-179/

There a number of other stock photo/video sites that began offering this kind of thing in the last 5 years also. Vimeo comes to mind.
There are too many stories of legitimate users having this issue and the process is too opaque to be trusted for me to assume that.
That's true as well, and a good thing to remember.
>If all these people know about it, why haven't we heard of this before?

Information hardly ever travels as fast as information can travel.

We've had arguments on HN about whether or not open secrets in tech are true. Some posters assembling a laundry list of reasons the assertion seemed unlikely or implausible. And other posters with first and second hand stories of it happening.

Why the fuck would we know anything about trains?
Ah, then let me explain it to you:

The reason why Google doesn't just take a 15-second ad with a 5-second unskippable section and turn it into a 15-second unskippable ad is because people will get frustrated with Google/YouTube and leave.

The current system causes people to stay, and blame themselves for not skipping the ad - "I'm just being lazy, it's only a few extra seconds."

That is the dark pattern.
The advancements in equipment to clean up after a large and/or complicated derailments contributes to these "acceptable" number of derailments. This includes roadbed, rail, and specialized equipment to move cars and locomotives. There are even 3rd party companies that specialize in railroad derailments.

Large wrecks can be cleaned up in 24 hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkui84o6rNA
More anecdata admittedly but I know of at least one YC founder that could say the same.
I also live in Ames, Iowa, where the author resides. I live less than a mile from the track segment he is talking about, owned and operated by Union Pacific. While I'm pretty skeptical of this author's individual concerns given the twice-removed nature of the statements from their "source", trains have unmistakably gotten longer during my 15 years near these tracks, and they are moving faster.

A hazmat situation impacting only a one-mile radius around the tracks could effect up to 30 to 40 thousand people here. I interned for Union Pacific while in college, and yes, the company will state that safety is their number one priority, but it was very clear that their business was to profit by optimizing every single little part of their business for maximum efficiency. The company has an open distain for regulations, especially safety-related regulations, and did not shy away from sharing those views internally. I would not be at all surprised if crews are being abused, and safety sidelined, for the sake of maximizing profit.
What costs are you using ? Because cloud costs are definitely outrageous, and definitely not what an at-scale operation like Vimeo or YouTube is paying.
Term limits are a band-aid without a purpose, at least in the USA, because each and every "term" person could get primaried.

Since they don't, term limits are mostly sour grapes on the part of the losing faction.

So they literally become "you can vote for whomever you want, except the person you actually want".
I use all of these features all of the time. It’s a great program, and so under-appreciated as just a cog in the OS.
It’s important to address the question of what, exactly, is the difference between whatever two things you’re comparing here.

There’s little reason to believe that optimizing an SDF and training a NeRF are any different in terms of optimization speed or resolution, those two processes are really more like different words used to describe the same thing. Training a neural network is an optimization. And NGPs aren’t just a neural network - it also has an explicit field representation.

At this point, neural fields aren’t well defined. The Berkeley NeRFs and Nvidia NGPs are two different things in terms of what the NN lears to infer - one is density the other is SDF. And Yes, these two NN papers are learning material properties in addition to the volumetric representation, while the paper here is learning purely an SDF. That’s simply asking a different question, it’s not a matter of better or worse. The advantages depend on your goals. If all you want is the geometry, then material properties aren’t an advantage, and could add unnecessary complication, right?
Just this guy, you know.
> World could undo social and economic advances and face 1.5 disasters a day by 2030, according to UN’s flagship Global Assessment Report.

Now is a good time to talk about incentives. If you are the 'UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction' you have to find disasters or disband.
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I'm with you on paragraphs one and three — there is a minimum government below which, if it didn't exist, it would arise spontaneously. Paragraph two, well, I'd like to see this country where a reasonably undistorted private sector provides healthcare. Certainly no such thing exists in the United States, where every subsector of the healthcare and insurance industries is regulated beyond any sort of fair competition.
Embedding Truffle Languages
That's a gross mischaracterization of what's going on. The fact is the web of tissue-thin Supreme Court decisions never should have taken the place of a law. Congress needs to get off its collective tukus and pass a law; their job as the Legislative Branch.

That they haven't done so is because they want this to be a wedge issue that drives people to go vote. The tenuous nature of privacy precedent was too useful as a political tool to be fixed.

Regardless, I do wish we'd grow thicker skins so that we don't waste time wringing our hands about ordinary words in puzzle games causing emotional trauma.
Scrum is collectivised micromanagement.
I also haven't seen an ad on the Gmail web client in years. Maybe because I pay for extra storage through Google One?

Edit: It looks like it doesn't happen in the primary tab and I have all the other tabs disabled which would explain it.
You could also specify the corresponding short URL of a page with a META tag:

<meta property="shortlink" content="https://bit.ly/shortlink">

Just because it's not a standard doesn't mean you can't use it. This is sort of futureproofing incase it does become a standard.
That not really something they inform subscripers about. You also don’t appear to be able to downgrade to the lite subscription. I truly don’t mind paying for ad free YouTube, but it’s not the music service I’d pick if it wasn’t bundled.
This is really interesting!

Have you given much thought to either type annotations or decorators. One or both of them could potentially be useful for attaching schema information to the DataFrame inputs/outputs of functions and for reducing boilerplate when you might want to validate those inputs/outputs before or after calling the functions.
Huh, TIL. That's interesting.
I agree with you. Google image search is flooded with Pinterest. But why blame only Pinterest, what is Google doing about it?
I might replace the references to “MVC” with “monolith” to make it more clear. MVC is a dated and painful paradigm and orthogonal to monolith vs services.

I also would advise against using Hotwire for Rails, some of our worst bugs have come from the desyncing of HTML and JS from Hotwire, as well as unexpected network status code handling. And most people only run Hotwire in production, so bugs are easy to miss.
I don't know that I agree with the idea that the government should take no direct role in managing the economy, but that's a different argument than "the government shouldn't regulate externalities". I think there's a reasonable distinction between "protecting public health" and "manipulating the economy". Certainly regulating public health will have downstream economic impacts, but those impacts aren't the purpose.
So if you want someone to answer precisely how they'll extract hundreds of millions of dollars from an emerging market, I have to imagine this isn't the correct forum to expect such answers.

Enabling the general software community access to SOTA language models will absolutely unlock an order of magnitude more money (than 100mm) over time. At least for now their obvious strategy for capturing this value is providing these APIs to enable it, and I suspect they'll gladly host such versions for the orgs that don't have the capacity to fine tune / host their own LLMs.
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>By introducing so many versions of design, it forbids a pattern to be established and recognized by the users.

I dont think the author properly acknowledges just how voracious the human appetite for patterns are. We are absolute machines when it comes to spotting even the hint of a pattern, and few things can prevent us from establishing and identifying them as a function of our basic existence. millions of years of evolution have basically guaranteed that when patterns arise or exist, we are borg-like in our pursuit.

shuffling a few choices of skip is a cheap effort that probably appeased a few C level ad execs. the biggest coffin-nail for ads is of course adblock.
Youtube Premium is a quality of life upgrade.

It's amazing what a difference it makes when you don't have to go through the tension of battling ads for every three minute video you'd like to watch.

You're free to consume videos at the speed for which you're thinking of ideas/questions.
I have no problem paying for things. I like paying for things.

Well, I like paying for value to be delivered. I don't like paying for "stop messing with me."

The path from gratis to paid to paid-at-a-higher-tier should be "yeah, I like this, I want more of it, and I'm willing to pay for it". YouTube would have to have a lot fewer dark patterns for me to say "yeah, I want more of this".
What concerns me is I see people talk about using NIFs like no big deal.

BUT, they come at the cost of potentially bringing down the entire Erlang runtime. People use Erlang, more times than not, because they want a fail-safe runtime ... so recommending NIFs shouldn't be taken lightly.

Just my 2 cents.
I'd say having a mobile app (both android and iOS) is a must for a product like this
That distinction is pretty much a rounding error though compared to supermassive black holes - matter around a planet massed black hole is extremely unlikely to emit gamma
Another great related feature is how easy it is to “print” to Preview and save as PDF. It makes it very easy to save copies of confirmations, payment receipts, etc when sites don’t provide a PDF link.

If you haven't tried it, make sure you are printing using the system dialog, and select "Open in Preview" in the drop-down list in the lower-left corner.
Time for a lawsuit
>It's all by design

I don't think that design ever expected a class of professional politicians who spend their lives in office. I think the expectation was that people would serve a few terms as a service to the Country then return to their private lives, not dictate policy for entire generations.
> f the derailments are <X% of the trains, and the rest of the trains are more cost-effective enough to make up for those

You managed to figure it out, so why blame unknown, unseen, unnamed "MBAs" when virtually anyone of modest competency can realize that achieving 100% perfection is not cost-effective? And certainly not isolated to rail transportation. Do FAANG (or any software companies) produce 100% bug-free software? Do stores attempt to achieve 100% theft reduction? Virtually everyone knows that going from 98% success to 99% is very expensive, to 99.9% even more so, and 99.99% ridiculously so. 3, 4, 5, 6-sigma, and all that. If lives are at risk in these derailments, that's an issue. But these are freight trains.
Or how many companies got broken up into small, stock-sized chunks to be profitably sold... and then once covid and the delivery chain issues hit, they were too small to survive on their own without government assistance.
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Given how obviously current politicians just "vote like they're supposed to" I fear you're correct.

You'd have to add something else to sortition, like the legislature themselves have to come up with the laws without the staffers, or sortition them too.
I can kinda see what they mean (albeit it's somewhat of a stretch).

WASM "embeds" modules within the JS runtime, in a similar way that traditional FFI "embeds" native bindings compiled separately & externally. It's still quite different insofar as the VM is a part of the runtime, but there are vague parallels.

For me though, the practical problems related to runtime env that one encounters with traditional ffi bindings calling dynamically linked native libraries are rarely present with a WASM library, as the support within the runtime is explicit (the only real exception here is architecture, which is always an issue regardless).
Well it's not really fun nor a puzzle, they simply can't pass each other, and the dispatcher will have to look for the next suitable sidings.
What I meant by reductive is, I feel like laying the blame solely at the feet of regulators oversimplifies the issue. Someone might argue that better enforcement or additional regulation (one that would prevent Boeing from circumventing the law) could have prevented the disaster.

If I recall correctly, the Netflix documentary tends to blame capitalism, the free market, and other assorted boogeymen for creating the perverse incentives the company was forced to respond to.

I suspect that neither of the two views at the opposite side of the spectrum captures the full picture.
"one or many services" is also not a Really Big Deal. You can have a few services that do a category of things and not even sniff microservices architecture.

It's not a boolean, it's a spectrum, and where precisely you land on that spectrum is not as important if you're actually focused on getting work done.
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I remember in the early 2000s, right around the time that Acrobat Reader had started rapidly bloating and becoming worse, upgrading to the first release of OS X and feeling relieved after finding out that installing Reader wouldn’t be necessary. Even in the buggy slow mess that was OS X 10.0.4, Preview was still a great deal better than Reader at most of the things you’d use a PDF app for.
> The best way to get an insect resistant form of corn? Breed corn. Don't modify its genetics in a lab

What an incredibly ignorant statement. "The best way to modify the DNA of corn? Badly. Don't try to do it well." Modifying its genetics in a lab is thousands of times more efficient than selective breeding, and we're getting better at it all the time. Why on Earth would you suggest that using an incredibly blunt instrument that takes hundreds of years is better than being fast, precise, and scientific?

This is a very typical attitude of the anti-GMO crowd: "no modifying genetics unless it's done very badly!" It makes no sense at all.
Intel Arc GPU (A370M) Tested vs. Nvidia RTX 3050
I find it more credible that there was no internal bug, but an anti fraud system that raised a flag because it does not like 4700 dollar transactions on Thursdays or something along those lines.

I think the only reasonable recourse is to hire a lawyer to send a letter asking for the money and interest.
I think a lot of folks here are missing the forest for the trees about this report. This is urging people to take a disaster studies inspired approach[1]. We need are in danger of over-optimizing; of accepting too many disruptions from foreseeable problems. There is nothing here about how many risks we should take - it's talking about the fact that we can model expected disruptions and that we are not using that knowledge to prepare for those disruptions which will, of course, make them worse.

Nearly all disasters are foreseeable and mitigable. We will do better if we prepare ahead of time. Investing a comparatively small amount of resources will have returns down the line - but you have to do the investment and plan accordingly. A laser focus on investing all resources in "progress" will end up forseeably disrupted.

[1] The work of Scott Gabriel Knowles is probably a good intro if people are not familiar.
Right, given same car count and derailment rate, 2x train length could appear as 1/2 the derailments.
RSS feed best practices? While it's nice some may be giving more serious thought to blogging/revisiting blogging - - what year is it? There aren't 500 posts like this from 2008?
https://youtu.be/m9SK1pG_BLQ Nick Janssen original video I think, not clear if the Reddit submission has any connection to the video creator. All a little nonspecific to me.
Many would suggest a government that gets nothing done is perhaps as close to perfect as you can obtain.
Younger Consumers Embrace Mobile Wallets
Well to be fair Elm runs on a completely different platform, it's just the compiler is written in Haskell. "Leveraging the Haskell ecosystem" isn't part of Elm's value prop.
Communist regimes well past that period were quite willing to sacrifice large numbers of people in the name of "progress." But those losses are large enough to be regarded as statistics rather than tragedies...
>To have a valid train ticket on your phone (for those without printer), you are also required to accept the google or apple terms of service and privacy policy. You can download a pdf ticket, but the data matrix on there is only valid if you print it out!

How does this even work? QR codes don't magically change when they're printed.
Title should be "How Google Developers Don't Write Their Comments"

As it is I came into it expecting that at Google during a review process (perhaps?) comments are written in the code by reviewers.
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