skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I looked at getting a nice small office for my backyard. I looked at prefabs, thinking they should have been the way to go. They were all super expensive, products. I'm a pretty well off guy, but I don't really want to pay >$200k for an office.

I ended up buying a 6x9 shed (https://cedarshed.com/products/cedar-studio-shed) for about $5k delivered. I then spent about $9k to have it assembled, outfitted with drywall, filled with noise cancelling insulation, electricity to the unit, lights, plugs, blinds, laminate flooring, and painted. Most of the work was done by 2 handyman for about $5k. Electrical was about $1k. Materials were about $1k. AC including installation was about $1.5k. I helped out, and it was definitely some work on my part, but in the end it turned out great and was all in about $14k. All this was done in the last year.

Now this isn't directly comparable to their product (no bathroom/kitchen and it is about 10% the size) but I am tired of all these super luxury prefab homes, and I want to see costs come down for construction.
Seriously. You can get a really nice Class A RV for 70-150k too. Just park it on a slab with a full hookup.
These are called kill points in sales.

For this kind of kill point however, you better make sure not just your own endpoints have cleanly passed scrutiny, but your entire modeling and process around them doesn’t produce insecure endpoints. Otherwise it is best not to let your sales team use such a kill point.
NVIDIA kept founders edition cards at MSRP too.

what implication are you trying to draw from that as far as whether MSRP is good or not?
Why do we need to make elections more secure? Has there been any serious issues since the countries founding?
>> "never combine" seems to be an anti-pattern

For me anything other than "Never combine" is an anti-pattern. Every application instance should have its own taskbar button that I can identify by looking at it.

>> if you hide search, I think you can get about 8 non-collapsed windows. do you really need more than that?

I have a huge ultra-wide monitor. I can easily get 20+ non-collapsed window buttons on the taskbar. Combined taskbar window buttons waste my time and impair my productivity.
I love the designs that Dwell highlights, but the price ($720/sqft) is eye watering. It's the opposite of the spirit of the pretty nice and low cost furniture they did with Target some years ago:

https://corporate.target.com/article/2016/10/modern-by-dwell

For reference, I completed a custom full house rebuild about a year ago in the insanely pricey Bay Area construction market, built to an equivalent high-end design and construction quality as this, and construction costs were still $450/sqft. I brought the $ cost down even a bit further with sweat equity.
I understand how marketing works, but it still drives me nuts that everyone knows what the main questions will be, but they hide it anyway.

Main page: picture of a pretty house. First question: how much does it cost?

Scroll, scroll, scroll, lots of pictures, here's a floor plan, it works as a pool house too, premium materials, click here to reserve one, oh, hey, a link about pricing.

Pricing page: it's a great investment!

Scroll, scroll...just $1,577 a month! Get out magnifying glass, read fine print. 4.5% interest rate on a 30 year term. Okay, let's get out a calculator, what was the interest rate formula again? Gotta solve for P...about $400,000.

Why do we have to play these stupid games? I don't care that it drives up click-through, you need to tell me how much it costs.
Ask HN: What do you think is the most promising branch of AI?
I've been an engineer for 15+ years, and dabbled in various areas like image generation (years ago, before DALL-E), NLP, Deep Learning.

I'm looking to dive in again, but without a specific goal, I'm curious what people's opinion on what are the most promising fields of AI?
One thing I learned about the industry is that dealership salespeople are hired from the same pool as, say, McDonalds employees. These are not college graduates who have white-collar job offers. They join with no existing skills at low wage. Turnover is massive, the average sales agent leaves within a year. Meanwhile, the whole industry is pushing hard to adopt Tesla's model of fixed pricing and replacing people with software.
If I wanted a 550 sq ft prefab house, I'd be looking at whatever was the higher-end/better quality market segment of the "singlewide" manufactured home industry, which are built in a factory and come all in one piece and are delivered on their own wheels by semi truck.

But then of course you have the problem that many cities ban manufactured houses and they are only considered socially acceptable in lower income rural areas.

If you look at the floor plans of some modern "singlewide" manufactured homes they are totally a fine amount of floor space for one or two people to live, though obviously constrained by the maximum legal road lane width allowable and their long/linear design.
Yup, it is sadly still unusable without https://startallback.com/ :(
This is priced around what it would cost to build something similar from scratch in the back yard of an existing house in an area like Seattle. The caveats make sense, you can easily spend $100k in permitting, site prep, and foundation if your site is not flat (common in this area).
Show HN: TaskTXT, plain text task-timing notepad
I built TaskTXT.com based on my experience timing my tasks. I found that committing to a task before I start helps with my focus, and guessing how long it will take, then timing it prevents me from wanting to give in to distractions because I'm "on the clock".

Video Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOYO0c_D6w0

There's also a Mac app which you can download here: https://dl.todesktop.com/22080519n9z1jew/mac

Video overview of the Mac app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMs-V5v5gZY

But I didn't want the tool to be distracting, so its based on plain text. That means the UI is very familiar and you can use it for generic notes in any structure you like. When you work in TaskTXT you are working directly on its data format, I made a video about this concept here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZdBgVZn5NI

I think this tool is uniquely suited for programmers, so I'd be interested to hear any feedback about the product, or its viability as a business.
Install yt-dlp, optionally create an alias for the settings you prefer, then paste the URL into a terminal and you’ll download it without ads and also with sponsor segments cut out (if you enable that feature).
For anyone who might need to know: in the US you have an affirmative right under federal law to have someone of your choosing (although IIRC you may not choose your boss/employer) accompany you into the voting booth in order to assist you in casting your ballot. And assistance isn’t limited to people who are blind or have a disability that prevents them from being able to mark a ballot. If you struggle to read or if you struggle to understand how to fill out the ballot you have a right to get assistance.
Certainly. That's the downside of heuristics and in this case collapsing a multidimensional non-linear space down to a linear value. Any point on that projection doesn't necessarily map to a commonly held/centrist belief.
Yeah unfortunately the author hasn't kept making these articles.

You can see the React+Redux implementation here:

https://github.com/khaledosman/react-redux-realworld-example...
Shutterstock is removing AI generated images
>> Lots of engineers are introverted and hate writing

I think it’s the time that introverts start going to a therapist to get it fixed, because they’re slowly getting to the top of my most hated bunch of people with this expectation that the whole world need to be put in a passive and painful misery to accommodate them
I just want Android apps to work outside of the US :| How can a feature like that be region locked? Ridiculous.
Everyone Is Going Cloud HTAP Direction: MySQL Heatwave on AWS GA
You might be an excellent person to ask:

How many layers of abstraction is that in total, including (probable virtualization > VM OS > JVM)?
(I think) Their ideal buyer is someone who owns a home in a high CoL area(purchased when housing was much cheaper), who doesn't have a major other source of income, and who wants to plop an ADU on their property and earn some rental income without inviting roommates into their house.

In that sense, they want you to think of the cashflow opportunities, not the overall cost. You're not supposed to think this is $400k, you're supposed to think "I'll earn $1000/mo from renters if I buy this".
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... And the taskbar is still anchored to the bottom of the screen. As a multi-monitor user who has tried Windows 11 this restriction hurts immensely.

Please let us dock the taskbar to the side of the screen.
I'd be surprised if they don't do it properly. The output side should be a female connection and the wall port should be male. It should really be a locking connector as well. That's the main safety mistake here.

The risk to linemen is also significant, but its a separate issue.
They usually undervolt/clock the GPU, but not the memory. VRAM temps can be an issue and only some miners will try to address that properly with copper shims, etc.

The 3090 is notoriously bad for mining because it has memory chips on both sides of the board, leading to more heating in one spot and poor cooling for the 'back side' chip. Other cards tolerate it much better, but it can be an issue.

So while overall mining cards should be good, there are some specific issues to watch out for. A failed memory chip is not an easy fix, requiring a reball/replacement of that chip.
There are about 170 cities in the US where individual residents pay federal income tax, AND state income tax, AND ALSO local municipal income tax. Usually they use the 'taxable income' line item from your federal 1040, and charge you a percentage of that. Baltimore and NYC charge about 3% of your 1040. https://taxfoundation.org/city-income-taxes/ You may be referring to city business profits tax, sales, or property tax, but that's unrelated.
Looks super cool to bad no remote roles
Often, things don't get bloated because the developers are bored, it stems from users requesting features because they are doing it wrong.

Sort of how AWS keeps mucking with Lambdas so that thier customers can keep doing it wrong and paying too much.

Or how doctors just give patients scips if they ask about a drug and it won't incur them any liability.

Over and over I have seen the world shout the praises of a new paradigm that solves a problem...except they totally misunderstand the concept and run in an unintended direction. No one can fight that momentum. So they don't. It happens with nearly everything in tech.
Yeah, but which of those luxury brands have a product which is a true Giffen good?[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good
Looks like the rust web devs are downvoting my comment. Oh well
I can recommend this book currently in beta, that has been pretty good at keeping up to date with most developments in LiveView.

https://pragprog.com/titles/liveview/programming-phoenix-liv...
> But it seems this is marketed towards CA residents (who might be used to much higher costs).

See my sibling comment for specifics, but this price/sqft is higher than construction costs in even the priciest CA construction markets.
Fairweather really doesn't have the best connotation, but yes it's a spectrum like the weather. They're friends that are easy to maintain to upkeep without much commitment or effort.

But whether it's by your choice or theirs, the result is the same: they won't be around when it's tough. But if it's by your choice, you'd never know if you didn't ask, sometimes people exceed expectations. In my experience, it doesn't hurt to ask for the favor; people are rarely offended when you consider them a closer friend than they are as.
This view is actually very narrow-minded, much more than simply having views you aren't able to deftly articulate or defend against a dedicated opponent. It compresses an absolutely huge realm of human experience (believing things???) into a very small one (arguing about them on the internet), and then tries to judo it so the first doesn't matter unless you can ably commit to the second. Tragic reduction of your world here.

This is such a content-lite view of intelligence it's embarrassing to even take it seriously. It really comes across that you consider intelligence a virtue and it just isn't. You probably have a lot to learn from "people of average intelligence" about actual virtues like obligation and responsibility, commitment, compassion, understanding, and growth. We aren't lesser than you and I'd take a "average intelligence" person over this sort of smart ass shit as my teammate, business partner, lover, or friend in a second.
Even those skip a lot of the expensive parts of "building a house" which are the permits and fees and utilities.

What would be exciting about these companies (any of these companies!) is getting a state like CA to pre-exempt local permitting so that if you meet certain requirements you have a shall-issue one-stop permit to install.

Just spitballing but saying something like "any property that is over 1/4 acre and currently has less than 2000 sq ft of dwelling space may add one of these subject to a utility inspection only" or something like that.

Then suddenly the modularity is really useful; skip all the permitting/inspections that are for stickbuilt and use these.
I opened all three of these, but did not read any of them

I did a Ctrl-F for "subsid" (to find subsidy or subsidies) 0 hits
I did a Ctrl-F for "decomm" (to find decommission or decommissioning) 0 hits

Having read many of these types of articles before, I've learned some shortcuts on how not to waste time.
Maybe, but would you need async rendering if React wasn't so slow?
> Cancel Ring Nation’s letter emphasizes how, in a post-Roe world especially, people should understand how Ring cameras can be weaponized against them

And Ring Nation will help them understand. Surveillance should not be discreet. Unless people are aware, they won't try to stop it. I can think of no better way to raise awareness than a reality show hosted by an ex-NSA agent.
I tried out this design system but got a bill for $125,000 for scrolling charges
There is no conflict of interest, I'm not trying to sell cards here on HN.

You are literally making stuff up now. The 10m+ of stock is worthless if nobody would buy it. If anything, it'll cost us to e-waste it. So, the price ceiling, if we were to sell it, is simply the cost e-waste and moving it around.

That was a winky face... a joke. I was kidding because the OP was unhappy with the statement of half price, which I also made up as a random baseline.
Plastic is also cheap because it draws down on a stockpile of oil that nature has been saving for us for the last few million years.

It won’t be so cheap when we have to synthesize the feedstock.
My experience buying my last GPU (1080ti) leads me to fill in the blanks. GPU mining became popular shortly after the 10xx was released. I know this because I couldn't find one in stock and even when I did, it was much more expensive than the launch price.
Really enjoyed this piece, but…

> Instead, we must ensure the system is always processing the shortest, most valuable items.

Typically the most valuable items are always the longest leaving this criteria impossible to evaluate. Do you do the most valuable? Or the shortest?
6 people didn't ignore you, they didn't get your reference. However, the fact that you interpret it personally tells me that you are lacking in self-confidence. People are attracted to positivity and repelled by self-doubt.
> I believe part of the problem is they went with 24 GB gaming cards a couple years ago and the need for that didn't materialize.

To be fair the ability to easily purchase the cards didn't materialize either until recently. Why develop for what your consumer can't get?
Who are the most credible folks in Kubernetes space?
Wish to get in touch with folks who are deeply invested in Kubernetes. Please help in tagging relevant people.
I definitely agree. Just wanted to point out how the personal computer energy challenge might have a larger scope than just laptops.
I think one interesting thing about Cloudflare is that once enabled on a domain, it can be used to serve different versions of that domain to different audiences, enabling things like selective censorship and propaganda.

Cloudflare has also taken investments from the intelligence agencies (at least in the US).
People using a feature differently from how you would, doesn't makes it an anti pattern.

> First, would you really want that?
Yep. I was forced to buy StartAllBack, just to be able to use "Never Combine" in Windows 11

> and second, why do you have so many windows open, that this is becoming a problem? if you hide search, I think you can get about 8 non-collapsed windows. do you really need more than that?

Because people have different ways of working. I have 32 gb RAM in my laptop and at any time I have dozens of windows open. I have dozens of browser tabs open at the same time as well. When I am at work, I open each mail that I want to look at later, in a window by double clicking it in Outlook. And then later on, resolving each one by one.
Same thing goes for email address when registering. Correct email => “already in use” is still frequent, although some websites (such as github) have changed it to “incorrect or already in use email”
It's definitely feasible and even pleasant to write a frontend app in vanilla JS, if it's relatively simple. I hate to be that guy, but... does it scale?

Perhaps it can. I haven't really tried to write a large scale frontend app in vanilla that is similar in complexity to apps I've worked on that have millions of users. Maybe it's feasible, but it would take a lot of dedication to "do things right" by the developers on the team.

Also, reactive templates pretty much kill any desire I would have to by relying on direct DOM calls. With something like React or Svelte alone, there's practically no disadvantage to using them even strictly for rendering besides added file size. With vanilla, it would take more effort to make things efficient because you don't necessarily just want to call render() whenever something changes. It's really nice having a templating system that allows you to change things surgically without doing a lot of extra work rerendering things that shouldn't actually change.

However, I think vanilla JS rendering definitely has a place in terms of writing small, purposeful, modular components. Frameworks should make it straight forward to use vanilla components so that things that would be more succinct in vanilla can be written as such.
Would love to hear about ideas for plugins if you would like to share
It doesn't have to be toxic. If the team gets along well, it's all a bit of fun.
I don't think either approach is an anti-pattern - different use cases will be useful for different users. I've found combining application instances to be quite useful since I use a lot of applications with no internal instance switching (PuTTY is the biggest offender here) but to each their own. This setting being a setting just felt like a good idea.
Here is open source code you can run yourself showing irregularities from PA's official 2020 vote data: https://github.com/douglasroth3/PA2020Analyzer

Here is a list of other such evidence: https://hereistheevidence.com/

To be clear, not every theory is sound. I happen to think what Sidney Powell was pushing is pretty flimsy. But there is video evidence of ballot harvesting, stuffing, and more.
It does seem to include pulling the utils and a slab foundation, so that's a lot less out to lunch. Still very high end pricing.
By the same extension, would you consider your comment worthy of the same classification of "cringey"? How you feel about the delivery is not relevant to the topic, and if you had opted not read to it, it would not be the person in the arena that would be at a loss because of it.
what if one side benefits when less votes are counted?
I have been able to find 2000 sq ft homes for around $500K in Modesto, CA. Even if you assume you are getting land for free, I think it is insane that a 540 sq ft home would cost almost same as a 2000 sq ft home.

Even then if you assume a 50% markup due to difference HCOL and better rates big builders would get, I think we are still talking about construction rate of about $375/sqft. So a 550-600 sq ft homes would cost around $225K.

But as an anecdote I did an additions project a few years ago and got quotes ranging from $100K to $300K. And surprising to me, the $300K quote guy was very busy. So I guess there are people who sort by "High to Low" and go with the highest bid.
It's official. Microsoft has nothing but chucklefucks working on their flagship operating system -- all the talented guys are now working for the cloud division because that's where Microsoft makes its money. Remember these are the same people who said it takes a Ph.D. to write a terminal emulator that doesn't run like ass, only to be shown otherwise by -- I believe it was Casey Muratori.
In Rust We Trust: Microsoft Azure CTO Shuns C and C++
We mainly use go and java, with different dbs and way too many http clients. But the instrumentation is even just a small part of it, we actually had most services fully instrumented with OpenTracing, but then they decided to abandon OpenTracing for OTel... And even then, the more difficult thing is running the trace ingestion without it crashing or running out of resources all the time, and balance that with just having everything disabled. Our most stable setup was just running with the in memory store so we at least have a trace for a few hours when we need it, but we essentially just gave up.
I actually really enjoyed this post! Thank you for posting it. I often feel like I am looking for a Junto!
Used car salespeople are even worse! Are you buying from individuals or from a dealership?
are the appliances and fixtures 24k gold? you gotta wonder what their cost to build one is.
I wish Valve would put a bit of investment into TF2, as it's still a very popular title with ~100k players on average[1], yet it's 32-bit ONLY and stuck on DirectX 9. The Mac version doesn't even work anymore because it was never updated to be 64-bit. The dedicated server, SRCDS, is also 32-bit only and struggles with 32 players and some fairly light admin mods. It's also mostly single-threaded, so it tends to run better on Intel CPUs with high clock speed.

1. https://steamcharts.com/app/440
We're actually coming at it from the other side -- we built it to take the pain out of standup and encourage more meaningful communication. It's definitely not designed as a people management tool.
People in HN get a chuckle about the name. 99% of people would see it and just download something else that isn’t “minus” for some reason.
So in Windows 11 they removed a lot of useful features which users really miss, and meanwhile replaced it with a lot of advertisements littered around the OS and dark patterns which make it increasingly impossible to use anything but Internet Explorer Edge and Bing as a Windows user. Is Windows 11 generally understood to be the Vista like follower to Windows 10 or does anyone actually like it? (Although I remember people also saying they liked Vista and then years later the same people were making jokes about Vista when it’s image was beyond repair)