skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of this makes me ask the question of, "How does a company go public without losing themselves? Is that even possible?"

This type of going public and chasing shareholder, share selling, cash infusion (sorry for the word salad, I couldn't think of a better way to put it) - which is often needed for growth past a certain point - how does a company not compromise their vision and bow to the shareholders once they go public, when their directive then becomes "Maximize stock value for the shareholders"?

NOTE: I'm an engineer who graduated with an art degree, so this is way out of my wheel house. I've always built things, and have not been privy to the business side of the show. It's a bit foreign to me.
https://www.amazon.com/Confidence-Game-Fall-Every-Time/dp/01...
Generally speaking, I'm a back and side sleeper, but sometimes if I really need to sleep, I always find stomach sleeping works the best (and lowers stress -- if something was keeping me up, stomach sleeping usually helps). That being said, it hurts my back to sleep on my stomach. I've found the putting a pillow under my stomach helps, but not completely.
Initial testing was in San Francisco, where corn stover is relatively tricky to come by because corn is not widely grown in California, and agricultural residues cannot be brought into the state because of the bugs. Wheat straw was much easier to procure in-state.

Since encountering the differences, we tracked down the rarer corn growers in California and now use corn stover for testing as well.
But that was my point, I don't necessarily want to do more. In general I want results faster, and am not willing to trade build speed for more safety checks unconditionally.

Having some additional features and checkers is nice, and can even be a life saver, but having to pay a high cost each time I hit compile is not acceptable.
The Unity goal of democratizing game development specifically targeted game engine royalties which were a massive barrier to entry. 5% may seem small but before Unity stole their thunder, Epic used to charge upwards of 20% royalty plus a massive upfront cost in the six figures, which put a commercial engine out of reach for independent developers.
That last one looks like an alligator enclosure at a zoo.
Do you know what would motivate this behavior? Naively, any rent is more than zero rent, so why let a unit sit empty?
Nyxt 3 Pre-release 1 (a Lisp powered web browser)
The Hopf Fibration
Social media has certainly bastardized this, but I think healthy behavior is often dependent on your natural instincts. If your instinct is towards virtue signaling, then advertising your genuine random act of kindness for the clout is probably bad.

But I'm shy and don't value social media clout. It then morally to me seems that despite the fact that you may judge me for advertising my "random acts of kindness" I should do it anyways, because if I inspire someone else to do said good act, I maximize the good in the world, even if it is a reputational hit to myself or I am embarrassed to do so. This seems compatible with the kingdom of ends, even if it is oppositional to what I see as the general interpretation of it, which is to do the best good, it must be done in private.

Anyways I guess in the spirit of this, I make micro-loans on Kiva (https://www.kiva.org/) and you should too ;-). Or take this time to donate to whatever cause you're passionate about.
Photographer Turns the Game Boy Camera into the Mirrorless Lo-Fi Camera
From the article:

> Since then, the site’s importance to global politics and culture has grown, and a long-lasting outage could even have had a material effect on the Conservative party’s leadership election, where runners and riders have been trading barbs since Boris Johnson announced his resignation last week.

This is downright dystopic and people don't get it. A countrys exceptional situation where a they get a new leader which is not being democratically decided by the people, but a minority of Tories that have the time to read "barbs" on Twitter. It is insane to think that the availability of a tech platform like Twitter has a material consequence on how the Tories elect their new leader. But if it is true that it has consequence on the result, a minority that have the time to write and read Twitter instead of working for the people(like the politicians are supposed to) are deciding the result of their leadership.
Who are these "founders of nuclear energy" you reference?
> But somebody has to maintain the property, somebody has to prioritize upgrades and improvements, somebody has to cut the grass

In many buildings these things are simply not done.
> What do you mean by that

That in a "debate", you could value the proponents and rank the proposals accordingly, but it is a most difficult game for a number of reasons (that the proposals are complex; that the proponents are complex and encompassing strengths and weaknesses; that your judgement over them may be mislead; that circularly it is not clear how to (who will reliably) evaluate them etc.),

or that at some point you may want to shift the investment from the pieces of the debate to your ability to assess them critically and build the grounds for a more reliable judgement.

Just a general principle of distance from contents - heavyweights are hard to find so our ability to delegate judgement is restricted.
4. Tenant refuses to pay "rent", exercises squatter's rights
My idea is more along the lines of asking each redditor to label the sentiment of 20 of their own (recent) comments, building a dataset and model from that, instead of having unrelated people guess what they meant.

Personalizing to the actual subculture the interaction takes place in would be another step. You probably need both.
Reminds me of the case of U+237C ⍼ RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW [0], also discussed on HN [1].

[0] https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012865
I haven’t used wire transfers in 10 years. Costs were around $30 for each $1000 at the time. I use wise.com, and it’s less than $3 per $1000. It’s gotten cheaper as well over time I’ve used the service. Not sure if they use crypto in the background but they certainly don’t advertise it.
I would never trust that CARD again if they instantly block the whole card for suspected fraudulent transactions at one single retailer. I've had several cards suspect transactions, both fraudulent and legit ones and never had a card outright blocked.
The Turkish lira’s currency code is an unexpected source of problems (2019)
> cities in the US have 80+ of its land zoned for single-family units

How is that even a city? Single family zoning is a suburban desert at best. Even remote villages have more life and vibrancy than that.
I don't even know how well American English generalizes within itself. I've found the internet diaspora has their own language patterns which often differ quite a bit from "normies". You also have a tremendous amount of code-switching based on the platform, by the same individuals. I would actually suspect that groups from the same platform but different native language might cluster more closely, than same-native-language but culturally/socioeconomically/regionally different.
My understanding is that houses are being built, but they're not affordable. This Last Week Tonight segment from a few weeks ago covers this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4qmDnYli2E&t=676s
This points out the much more ubiquitous problem of people simply misunderstanding one another. It's very, very common for someone to post a comment intending to emphasize or convey one idea, but it gets interpreted as emphasizing or meaning something different, just because it's read by a person different than who wrote it.

It's not limited to Reddit comments, or even to written communication either. "You're ignoring me!" "No, I'm trying to give you space."
Ask HN: How to Teach Git Rebase
One of the projects I work on has a Git Rebase workflow. Developers looking to get their changes into the main branch:

1. Do a rebase to get their branch in-sync with main,
2. Squash their branch's commits,
3. Make a push/force push to their branch, and
4. Create a pull request.

Which is lovely, but the process has a gnarly learning curve for our junior devs.

Is anyone familiar with documentation or tooling that does a good job of streamlining this sort of workflow?
OMG, not a leftist!
Somehow you never quite get the real raw material when you ask for samples, no matter how careful you are.

I worked on a system once upon a time that fed steel balls into a ball mill. We tested it thoroughly in the workshop with the same steel balls used on the customer's site, but when we went to commission it, it jammed non-stop.

Turns out a hundred randomly selected balls won't contain most of the outliers that you'd get in even one tonne of balls, and when you're feeding 5 tonnes per hour, that's a lot of jams. We had balls with big craters in them, half-balls, balls with two halves offset by 50%, and everything in between. Not the kind of thing you could rely on rolling nicely.

Also, of course, when you ask a mill ball manufacturer for a sample, they might be inclined to send you the very nicest examples they can find, because they think you might buy their product...

Anyway, unless you're super careful about sourcing legitimate feed samples it's easy to think you're testing against the real product when you really aren't.
Renters in Greater Boston are offering above asking price to get a lease
It’s the four billion tons of uranium dissolved in the ocean and the trillion tons that replenish it as it’s removed that I was referring to. [1]

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-s...
This statement from the spokesperson just reads to me as "we are doing as little as possible about this".

If this...if that...not actually proactively doing anything unless they really get pressured to do it.
In the mean time keep enjoying yearly trips to tropical locations where you can soak up the sun and enjoy some BBQ.
150k Qubits Printed on a Chip
How Water Fleas defend themselves against carnivorous plants
Cannot speak for the poster, but the big current issue is that the value of residential units has gone from being strongly linked to wages to residences being an extremely valuable chip for playing financial games. Residences, especially inherently valuable ones like NYC apartments, have sufficient demand from financial game players that wage earners are barely able to keep up. Exactly how things break down is not clear, but there is this idea that demand for residences for financial purposes is competing aggressively with people who want homes.
I thought there was a ton of empty housing in NYC, it's just insanely expensive.
If corn stover is a critical importance to your business and business model, wouldn't it be more effective, efficient, and beneficial to your business to be where the critical resource and information and experience is? Basically why not move to Kansas instead of stay put in California?
I largely agree, but if there is a scarce good (where there is less of it available than people want -- i.e. supply is less than demand) then we have to ration it /somehow/. The American way is by bidding up the price, so whoever is willing to pay the most money gets it. The Soviet way was by queuing, so whoever gets in line first gets it. We could also do it by lottery. We can come up with any number of schemes and most of them are "fairer" than market pricing, but they do all involve the "price" going up in some sense. Either you pay more in money, or in time, or in luck, but the price has increased because there are more people chasing the stuff than there is stuff to chase.
I can't be the only person who thought the character would be , right? (based on the first line of the Communist Manifesto: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_the_Communist_Pa...)

edit: ah the character (hammer and sickle) does not show up
> They had made previous ‘commitments’ to Wall St that they had a way to circumvent Apple Tracking Transparency by using ML to do the tracking without all the device information.

Those pesky consumers, who have explicitly chosen not to be tracked.

When Apple Tracking Transparency first came about, many of my clients had a hard time grasping the situation. They couldn't understand why we couldn't track them anyway, even though within the agreements between all parties it was clear that the consumer has not allowed you to track them. The attitude for some business owners is that their engagement with their consumers is not an agreement between two parties, consumers are just feedstock for their advertising apparatus.
We're also working on the Third Room project which has virtual worlds with 3D positional audio built on top of the same tech as Element Call. It's still very early, but the project is up here: https://github.com/matrix-org/thirdroom
At least brutalism gave us (at least here, in Eastern Europe) relatively cheap mass-housing projects (I’m writing from an appartment located inside one of those buildings right now), not that much cheap mass-housing projects coming from the stararchitects of today.
Very high quality comment and very insightful!
Can it be used to implement automatic serialization on simple struct / class types?
//go:generate
Second that for a menu bar. Something to quickly glance up to see if I'm talking too much. PS, just downloaded, looks promising! Will try it and let you know.
This post is stupid beyond all measure.

One of the principal reasons Manhattan rent is so ridiculous is because of state intervention. More intervention, the worse it is going to get.

> Rent is the main detractor of disposable income which hurts the rest of the economy,

This is a silly statement. Rent is part of the economy. Paying rent doesn't damage the economy anymore then paying for food or paying your electrical bill.

> and property owners provide almost no value,

They provide and maintain their property.

> but to provide access to housing for people who has no capital for it,

And for a wide variety of other reasons. Not everybody wants or is a place in their life were massive permanent investment makes sense.

> which is service that could be perfectly provided by a state entity.

Absolutely not.
Because I grew up in Brooklyn and Queens and saw what all of the new development did to the demand. The street that my grandmother used to rent an apartment for in the early 2000s for under $1k/month now only has units that go for $5K/month.

Here's greenpoint as an example: https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/new-york-ny/greenpoint. Same goes for LIC.
It's hard to say. I was doing a lot of hiking and outdoor activity last summer, and it didn't really make that much difference (if anything, being in better shape gave me more energy at the end of the day).

I do find I have an energy slump in the early evening and wonder if there is some way to take advantage of that, but haven't been able to push myself to try a sleep schedule change that drastic (and my hunch is that it'd just push that slump earlier and I'd start drifting again, just starting from an earlier point in the evening).
Yup, MSC3401 https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3401
If you rely on material that is scarce in one location but widely available in another, wouldn't it make sense to test where the material is abundant..?
every apartment i've rented in the last 20 years has had a thermostat with some kind of clock and program capability. never used any of it, but I don't think they are rare
Princess Mononoke: The masterpiece that flummoxed the US
Because analysts have always been so accurate forecasting Tesla...
Academia has started referring to our category as Biomass Carbon Removal and Storage, or BiCRS (pronounced like “bikers”):

https://www.icef.go.jp/pdf/summary/roadmap/icef2020_roadmap....
I have been reading closely. We're on a subthread started by you saying you thought it was audacious to charge a subscription for news and microtransactions are more appropriate. Now you've said you do pay for news subscriptions, which I think someone wouldn't do if they didn't understand the value, so I think we've gotten to the bottom of this.
New York City already has a significantly higher population density than Tokyo (~11,300/km2 vs ~6,300/km). It's easier to develop more housing when you have more land.
That's a great story. The inability to represent a name with standard characters reminds me of when Prince changed his name to a symbol and they had to send all of the media floppy disks containing a custom font with a single character.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2016/04/princes-legendary-fl...
Weird metaphor, right? We're probably missing context for that one. My theory is that it boils down to "don't nickel and dime or be overly concerned with recording the amount of your charitable giving"

The reason I think that, is because in ancient Roman times they had a way of counting on your fingers where you could count up to 100 on your left hand alone (then you could use your right hand after that for even larger values). [1]. So if the context is "small values" and charitable giving, it makes more sense to me at least.

[1] https://tookmund.com/2020/05/roman-finger-counting
Let them charge what they want if it's theirs. Otherwise, your demands on what they charge amount to asserting that what is theirs isn't really. And, to put responsibility on the actor in question, you're asking that the lost potential value be stolen from the owner, for the benefit of non-owners. Can people own stuff, or not?
Housing/rent is a part of your disposable income. Some people live in expensive places because they want too, but no one is required to live in an expensive place because they have too. I agree in the idea of affordable housing but I don’t think it’s fair to promote sweeping changes because people decide to live in expensive cities like NYC.
Very few new games use their own engine. Excluding legacy titles and AAA publishers who have their own tech developed across decades, I believe proprietary engines are less than 10% of the market today. The only exception is the Japanese market but even that has changed in recent years with Unity and Epic making inroads.

It’s very difficult to justify the expense of developing your own engine, especially if you intend to release for multiple platforms.
Interesting post.

Is there a "mechanical engineering for dummies" educational path (Book? Software? Kit?) that would equip someone for doing like 90% of the mechanical design&prototyping work?

Interesting point: "when you solve one bottleneck you find a new one somewhere else."
Given that he recommends "at least 16MB" of RAM .. I would wager quite a few on a modern gaming PC :)
True.

People are asking how you would lower the price though.

If you don't _want_ lower prices, then the NIMBY positions make sense, don't build more to meet rising demand, keep prices high and poorer people out.
> people holding the purse strings turning around and asking "Why don't we just use an open source engine or build our own?"

Those people should be fired
I’m not saying that. I’m saying it’s quite possible to introduce regulations into the existing system that force certain actors to behave. I’m not expecting anyone to behave without such restrictions, in fact this article is precisely the evidence that people will exploit others and the system when no such restrictions exist.

Many of these landlords are up charging on properties that have not been materially improved at all, because, as I said, people are making dumb decisions to live where they want to, so they can arbitrarily increase the price up to the limit of what someone will pay. This is great for landlords since they can double their money without doing any work.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m really frustrated by these incoming renters too. A lot of these people fled and abandoned the city like complete cowards when the pandemic hit and suddenly they want to return while they left the responsibility of keeping the city going on all the rest of us that are actual residents that stayed. These semi-nomadic people are just as bad as the landlords and want to live somewhere only so long as it benefits them—they have no allegiance to a community. This, in conjunction with land owners behavior creates disastrous effects for actual long-term residents who invest in the local communities and don’t run away the second things get hard.
We're all very aware of how the economics should play out, but look around you, it's not working that way in a bunch of places. That's because houses are being used as investment vehicles, with rentals being thoroughly flogged because they know people have no choice but to pay. No amount of building will help if the value of the property is not intrinsically linked to the supply and demand of places to live for people who want to live there, but is instead linked or at least heavily influenced by what investors with increased buying capacity are willing to pay.
It's possible that whatever you bought the domain for will be existentially dependent on an urgent need to talk to a human at your registrar (such as in the case of transfer, fraud, hacking, or a mistake).

Never ever use any google product if you might need to talk to a human.
So out of the 30 gigatons of CO2, up to 22 are from biomass? That's way, way more than I would have thought...
I've been using emacs for over a decade and when it comes to notes in emacs I'm usually on org-mode. This package is interesting, and I like the naming concept. But, I'm not convinced plain-text is a good general purpose note-taking medium.

To be clear, I don't think the issue is that the content is just text. I think text-only systems are great (I built one myself [0]). But, like org-mode, the system should help you make sense of what the text is for or about. I mean what it's about in a mechanical sort of way: such and such format means X and can be recalled like so.

Here's the thing, there's so much you can accomplish with a note-taking practice, whatever medium you choose. I do my books, budget, keep track of my time, manage a running task list, track aspects of my health, all in addition to collecting notes. The _process_ of capturing all this information is exactly the same, I shouldn't need multiple tools for each thing.

But, if I rely on plain-text notes all these functions would add up to a significant time commitment, both on the collection side and the recall side. Not to mention the fact that a lot of time I'm not at my computer to crack open an org-mode buffer.

The thing is, the note-taking system can (and should) supply functionality to support all the things you might want to include in your note-taking practice.

And sure, there could be some specialized functions that are not practical within the note-taking system. But as long as there's an easy way to extract the information to plug into something else -- it's all good.

[0]. https://tatatap.com
Fact or Fiction: Is the current Supreme Court bench illegitimate?
I hadn't seen this before, but I'll absolutely look into this, thank you!

As for why AWS doesn't use it (if that's your question), I assume they didn't want to deal with the need for a system dependency also. That's something that is kind of a pain to me with PHP as well. Some PECL, some Composer makes mentally tracking and managing deps a bit trickier.
Wright was designing buildings before Le Corbusier was born, although Le Corbusier definitely fits the bill as another architect who was well-known even among non-architects.
In Germany you hit the higher tax brackets much quicker. I just input the numbers into a calculator and at 150k in NYC you pay 34.5 and in Bayern 43.4% taxes.
Now that I've said some nice things about landlords, I'll say something less flattering: bad landlords find convenient cover in supply-constrained markets. Which, of course, is what we have. If you want to stick it to lazy, cheap, do-nothing landlords, then let somebody build a brand-new apt complex right next door to their crappy units and see how long they can get away with their insouciance in that kind of market.