skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If I hired two million private investigators to follow around the citizens of Dallas and record everything they do, would that be illegal?"

(No; if anything, it'd be a job-creation program at that point. ;) )
They will not work if the distribution is time-variant.
>Teachers adapted to the calculator. They can certainly adapt to language models.

The burden is once again on those poorly paid with few resources.

With this logic, one also believes that more crime leads to better police officers.
why can't you just use https://www.android.com/filetransfer/ ?
Assuming you are talking about C++, I honestly don't see any stagnation. In terms of backwards compatibility, I'm very happy that my 20 year-old C/C++/Perl codes are all working correctly.
I'm just now migrating my postman collections to .rest text files and the REST-client plugin for vscode (that name is both good and bad at the same time btw, it like marketing a new car and naming it "Car").

Grantet it does not do everything Postman does but I'm pretty happy so far. Environment variables and secrets stays in a workspace settings.json and the .rest files can be version controlled and shared.

Always bet on text!
The OP seems to have spend like $3000 for a month. What's very puzzling to me is why not go to a decent hotel? I'm positive that you can easily find 3 and even 4 star hotels for less than $100 per night in Portugal.

This question is not specifically about the OP but in general about people that pay so much money for an Airbnb when they can have a room in a nice hotel for the same (or even less) money. I'm not talking about special occations (i.e people that want to organize party and stuff), I'm talking about traditional tourists. Why would anybody choose an AirBnb vs a hotel?

Maybe I'm not in the right mindset (or age?) but I've never even considered an Airbnb when going on vacation anywhere.
In practice, good-faith and respectful interactions with law enforcement have a positive outcome.
Many years ago I was told a story by someone who ran a company that ran midsize stadium shows that traveled the company:

Basically in the 70s and 80s there were so few venues that the folks who ran the venues called the shots in terms of costs, dates, etc. They paid venues to run a show there. What choice did they have, there was maybe one venue for hundreds of miles in some cases.

Sometime later new mid sized venues started popping up all over the place. Venues run by cities and etc (who had built these places) were operating at just about break even, there were lots to choose from. Venues sometimes paid up front for a show and then would take a small cut of some other activity on the day of the show. The tables had turned, for a while.

Now venues are run by the folks running the whole thing, the venues, the tickets, all sold by the same people.

What never seems to get mentioned (often enough) is people will pay these crazy prices ...
I feel like the more typical reality is an exec looking at the site on some random browser or device, that then has to be in the support matrix, e.g. an enterprise business web app that supports the most recent 2 versions of modern desktop browsers...and the Silk browser for Kindle Fire because that's what's on the CEO's coffee table.
Lessons learned from 10 years of DynamoDB
sounds like a savior!
One is a monopoly because they outcompeted their competitors, the other is a monopoly due to state force.
The total number of moves made in the US has been declining over the last several years, even as the US population is increasing.

https://www.rubyhome.com/blog/moving-stats/
> might feel like your "investment" hasn't kept up with inflation but your next house hasn't gone up either

Unless inflation is zero, this won’t be true. Commodities will have gone up. Labor will have gone up. That fundamentally raises construction costs for new homes. For existing home prices to remain flat that requires land values to fall.

Add in real-estate transaction costs and maintenance (which are also fundamentally exposed to inflation), and yes, one will lose purchasing power in a flat housing market. Intrinsically. And relative to someone owning productive assets. (I say this as a homeowner.)
FWIW, those numbers are off because of escrow and taxes. 1.22MM house means AT LEAST 30k in property taxes a year, which mean's they'll end up at >~7.5k a payment, which means they'll need to buy a smaller house.
They already can.
Another one that's obvious to me: Removing unit-size minimums. In places like SF people are defacto already hacking around the minimum by having room mates. If nobody wants small units, the market will not provide them.
it is completly garbage on mobile
As long as the data Google is collecting is segregated per-user, then no -- it's not any different.

If Google is learning about 10-20 people per account, and that data never gets combined, then what's the problem?

Google also processes billions of people's e-mails. But they're segregated per-account. So there's no problem. What makes someone's face any different from an e-mail they send?

Again, this lawsuit is not about Google aggregating anything. It's entirely about information that users voluntarily choose to supply, that is used for features desired by those users, and that remains segregated per-account.
If the source of that cash is the stock market - or money gained from selling a previous house...

Are cash buyers really 25% of the market in the US?
Yeah, I could believe it "aces" homework in a really open-ended writing assignment. An assignment like: write an essay explaining a personal experience and what it meant to you. The people that's the biggest issue for at the moment are probably writing instructors, since the goal of those classes is to just practice writing something/anything. In computer science though, the writing I've had turned in in my classes that I suspect is LLM-generated usually gets an F. It tends to just ramble about the subject in general and not hit any of the specific points that I'm asking for.

Last year I had a take-home exam in an operating systems class that I suspect one student fed entirely as prompts to an LLM, and it was... odd. The answer to every question was a paragraph or two of text, even in cases where the expected answer was true/false, or a number. And even when I did want text as the answer, it was way off, e.g. in one I asked them to explain one strength and one weakness of a specific scheduling algorithm on a given scenario. The submitted answer was just general rambling about scheduling algorithms. Some of this is probably within the reach of an expert using clever prompting strategies, but students who can do that could probably also answer the original question. :-)

To be fair, I have seen the "ramble generically on the subject of the question" strategy manually implemented by humans too, in the hopes that if you throw enough BS at the question you might get partial credit by luck. Maybe designing assessments to be LLM-resistant will have the nice side benefit of reducing the viability of BSing as a strategy.
IMO I didn't get the sense that the title is complaining. I took the title as neutral statement and assumed the article would provide evidence for the claim and possibly commentary on it.
This is awesome, I swear kids in school are the most creative problem solvers on earth. Just maybe not the problems you intended.
Peter Thiel’s venture capital-style political strategy yields
Isn't TicketMasters service to be the bad guy. Bands and venues get to blame them for the prices and in turn ticketmaster gets a cut. Company to blame as a service.
Disagree.

Millennials have never known different until very recently. To them, housing wasn't something that appreciated at all. In fact, it's so common for millennials to say things like, "just waiting on another housing bust." It's like they think 2008 was come cyclical event that you just need to wait another year for.

I held a similar attitude towards housing and rented throughout my 20s because every single homeowner I knew bitched about how buying a house was a loss for them. People didn't make money on houses outside of rich coastal cities. Heck, I'm trying to unload a parent's home and they are disappointed that the house they lived in for 16 years has only appreciated by maybe $10k.

Covid was the when young people outside of NYC and Cali learned that it is smart to get into the housing market earlier, rather than later.
When I taught a class where I assigned essays I confirmed my own suspicions from when I was assigned essays: the majority of the sentences committed to paper are awful drudgery. I then flipped the requirements on their head and removed minimum page requirements and instead had extremely strict maximum page requirements (with of course the objective material requirements of the essay itself). So much improvement for everyone involved. I had to read through so much less pointless material and the students were forced to focus their ideas in a succinct way to be able to get to all of the objectives of the essay in the limited space. Everyone saved time and did better.
Every school (and many university professors) does "cold calls" in Italy, as far as I know; scheduled oral examinations are the exception, not the rule, before university. Not knowing the answer at a random university lecture doesn't generally impact your grades, however, because in most cases those are 100% based on a final (often oral) exam.

I wouldn't argue that it is a system without issues but it's still better than rote essay writing.
I built and sold a startup with fractional hires
This is a classic pitfall faced by novice teachers. I fell for it too.

Assign the second prompt, and I guarantee you’ll get something like this as a submission:

“Bro, the novel sucks. Trust me.”

You can’t even give this a bad grade, based on the prompt. You can't say it’s not convincing, because they’ll say “you’re not my friend, this would convince my friend”

You can’t say it’s too short, because they’ll say you didn’t provide a minimum.

You can’t say it didn’t cite the novel, because you said to do whatever.

You can’t say it didn’t compare to other literature, because you said “ideally”.

Lesson 1 of being a teacher: give the students an inch and they will take a mile.

Teaching students is not unlike programming computers, in that they both take instructions very literally. If you are vague with a computer program, you know ahead of time because the program doesn’t compile.

If you are vague with an assignment you don’t know until you get it back. The more vague the assignment, the wider the variety of submissions. If you don’t tell them the font face you get a cursive one. If you don’t tell them the font size you get huge and tiny. If you don’t tell them the margins you get wide and thin.

So even if you would personally make a good faith effort at this assignment, it’s really better for everyone to be specific and follow the same format.
> CSS has jumped the shark

"Disregard logic, acquire funds" - Ducreux
Wayflan: a from-scratch Wayland client for Common Lisp
A lot of non institutional cash buyers are using their equities to qualify as all cash, and those war chests are down too.
I Learned to Interview Engineers
Good point. Let me think through this. I have about 15T free space so this can be seeded separately in ~12 batches.
Title should be “Weed Is Coming to Circle K Gas Stations in US Next Year”.
> On the other hand, oral exams can be less stressful as long as the examiner is friendly as there can be opportunity to correct mistakes where you do know the subject matter but just had a brainfart. You also get a chance to spend more times / show off on the parts you do know better.

I don't agree with this at all. Even with a friendly examiner, they have far more presence than in a written exam. You are presenting and being actively judged, unlike in a written exam. Also, you'll spend more time on the parts you know worse precisely because you'll be slower, make more mistakes...

> they try to cram as much as possible into into the time available or were too easy (so at the top end grading becomes very nitpicky) or too hard (which can be demoralizing if no one even manages to complete all questions). Oral exams have much more flexibility to adapt to the individual here.

Badly adapted exams are a feature of the teacher, not the type of exam. If anything, oral exams are worse for more complex content, as they tend to be shorter in time.
> In condo-crazed Canada homes cost 9% less than they did in February.

OK, but how do they compare to February of 2019? According to this[0] they are still 20-25% higher than that point in time.

[0] https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/housing-index
> Don't most UK universities let undergraduate students resit exams they've failed, within reason?

I've attended 3. Two of them made students retake the entire year if they needed to resit an exam. The other one based students' entire grade on one set of final exams at the end of the 3 years and had no provision for resits at all.

I believe the first two are typical in the UK.

> And a degree consists of a good number of courses, each of which will have its own exams - so if you do poorly in one or two exams, there are plenty of chances to bring your average back up

That's true, but it's also true that a more lenient system would be more compassionate (student mental health is a huge topic for universities) whilst simultaneously being a better measure of student's true abilities.
Any idea why they do this? Is it a PR thing? Some angle like 95% of our suspects are convicted within 5 years.
Ask HN: Do you 'think', or do you 'feel like'?
And for anyone who insists that Apple is one of the good guys:

> In response, Apple contacted the Secret Service and they raided my apartment. After censoring the work online, Apple did not pursue a civil case against me.
Ask HN: How bad is hiring going to be within the next year?
I anticipate looking for a software engineering job starting ~next month (see below for what I am currently doing). If this were a year ago, I'd feel good; grind some leetcode, get hired at a big tech company for a good salary.

Now, of course, such companies seem to be laying off people way more qualified than me, freezing hiring, etc. Am I fucked?

I can provide whatever details people want, but I am not sure my personal circumstances are relevant except that I am not an exceptional dev with an enviable resume. The overall question is one many of us have: how bad is the hiring situation going to be in tech over the next year?

I also understand it's not one most people can effectively answer, but would like to know peoples' thoughts.

I used to be a software engineer. Then I went to law school, and now work in biglaw. I am a year out of law school, and have been working on a legal tech startup with a friend. If we cannot raise in the next couple months, I wish (almost need, really) to bail on the biglaw job and go back to being a dev.
This is why I prefer chain hotels. By no means perfect but does introduce some sort of floor as to how fraud-y terrible things can get...
It does make some sense to me! It's a lot easier to manage several slack messages simultaneously than several in person conversations (although the image of an engineer helping a bunch of juniors like Magnus Carlson playing a bunch of chess tables in a line is funny!)

I also like to move conversations to group channels so that even more people benefit from the conversation. It really is a force multiplier.
There's nothing easy about what you propose. It requires launch capability similar to what SpaceX has, i.e. state of the art.
This is correct, OP, if you can still edit - just put it back in.
SHA-384 is a hash function from the SHA-2 family, and it has no relation to SHA-3.
> harder to communicate orally with complex subjects than in written form

American oration is generally awful. Talent in it command a premium. Perhaps this is related to our lack of oral examination ? We’re more comfortable with written argument because that’s how we’re taught to think?
The twitter thread is suggesting prompts for essays that an AI can't handle. So the form hasn't changed, they're just trying to stay ahead of the threat.
Just like when baseball players started getting paid, there was a large amount of money being left on the table and it's now being taken.

It's decent in a way; I'd rather have the band, venue, and Ticketmaster make money directly than scalpers indirectly, but I can't really complain that people pay the prices asked; if they didn't eventually the prices would start dropping.
Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape?
> It’s not that it’s needlessly complex. It’s that you have a market with animals who have coronaviruses and you have a lab that studies coronaviruses. Both are reasonable explanations, but a pandemic similar to all other prior pandemics and lots of humans being exposed to lots of potential virus carriers with no protection _is_ a simpler explanation.

The likelihood a lab accident is independent of "all other prior pandemics", because it is not adjusted by whether there have been two natural pandemics, or two million of them. Rather, it's adjusted by the safety practices at the lab.

It's still not obvious that the wet market explanation is simpler than the lab leak. I don't see Occam's Razor making a selection here.
Millennial here. In the last 18 months I've substantially increased the % of net worth I'm comfortable allocating to a home, reflected in both purchase price and remodeling costs:

- it's not clear that pandemic-era is over, whether that be new Covid strains or other mutant viruses (not to mention global thermonuclear war)

- work from home requires much more space to do well + i'm home more often to enjoy the rest of the house

- most of my close friends work from home which means they can come and visit much more often

- due to Covid, parents are afraid of nursing homes + kids taking longer to leave the nest = intergenerational living is back on the radar

- life is short, a little bit of post-Covid YOLO

I'm not sure how widespread the sentiment is but if enough people feel this way it could make an impact.
Yes, aizuchi does sound a bit like the deeply concerning goop you left in a Kleenex last time you got a severe case of Bronchitis (hopefully that doesn't happen often),

How did we jump from something as intense as blacksmithing to having a conversation, quite possibly over afternoon tea?

Is there a Japanese word for completely pointless sentence embellishments that do nothing but slow the article to an agonizing drag?
Same here, switched from postman to insomnia when it became impossible to ignore how slow, cluttered and generally bloated it became.
Haven’t missed it since. Insomnia is pretty great. I’m sure there’s lots of stuff that postman can do that insomnia can’t, but insomnia is still very capable, while being snappy and not being in the way. Highly recommend it.
It absolutely hasn’t. If anything, the feeling has strengthened in people who once lived without these devices.
Have a look at the old Tandy m100. AA batteries, and you can type for days without distractions on a mechanical keyboard.

Or, pick up any Android based e-ink ereader and plug in a keyboard.
Do bands/venues get blocks of tickets? Do they resell those?
You're missing the fact that temporary things can still have a huge impact on individuals and populations.
I use Syncthing with a "Documents" folder for that. All the stuff I want to keep goes there. Photos go in a different folder that is also synced with Syncthing.

When I want to send a file, I just put it in Documents. Works over WiFi or internet. Bonus: the file is replicated on a server, so it's available and in an easy to find location.
If you want something like Restfox but as a CLI, that tests your APIs automatically, give Step CI a try

https://stepci.com

It’s free and open-source on GitHub!

Disclaimer: I’m the author
I learnt a bit of Nim few years ago, but haven't continue it.
My understanding so far is unlike Go, Nim doesn't have concurrency built into the language/runtime?
Inert is nothing new, you could already use pointer-events: none or tabindex or put a transparent div on top. This is just a better way to hint to the browser your intent, and for it to behave properly.
Microsoft breach may have affected 65,000 companies in 111 countries
I remember reading about Raskin's work on Ward's wiki, back before Ward and crew made it unusable. I wrote some pretty heated diatribes against it, which I'm not going to do now, but I will push back on one of his dogmas:

> Never allow customization: Consistency, though, led Raskin’s perhaps most controversial idea, prompted by the trouble he saw customers have with documentation. “Customizations are software design changes that are not reflected in the documentation,” and as a documentarian, this could not stand. The designer knows best—something that comes through strongest in Apple’s products—and “allowing the user to change the interface design often results in choices that are not optimal, because the user will, usually, not be a knowledgeable interface designer,” said Raskin. “Time spent in learning and operating the personalization features is time mostly wasted from the task at hand.” Better a consistent, well-designed interface than one you could fiddle with forever.

This is a meta-dogma, a dogma about being dogmatic about your design. Never allow the user to change your Holy Vision, because Your Beneficent Self, The Designer (Peace Be Upon You), has decreed it shall be such, such it shall always be, yea, unto the ends of the system's profitability, never allowing the user to grow in their knowledge of how to do their tasks, never allowing the user to bring their own domain knowledge to their tasks. There shalt always be an unbridgeable gulf between Designer (insert holy trump here) and user, and the user shall never trammel the Designer's Roarkian Vision. So mote it be, amen.

It's High Modernism in software. It's the exaltation of One True Vision above the people who do the work and might, therefore, know something about how the work is done. It is, in other words, utterly shocking Jobs rejected the Canon Cat and its immense hubris. Probably because it wasn't Jobs' immense hubris.
I don't see how relabelling "collapse" to "separation" and adding more or less infinitely proliferating universes solves the problem.

MWI also contradicts itself. Supposedly the universes are independent, but if their influence doesn't define the wave equation they do nothing to help explain it.

It's a very strong and exceptional claim with absolutely no evidence to support it. "Feeling" isn't enough.
Optional, though the language and standard library are kind of designed around it. So I'd say Nim can be used without the GC, but is optimized with the idea that you'll use the GC by default, with escape hatches for manual allocation when you need the power for performance or efficiency, e.g. manually managing big blocks of memory for tight loops.

Contrast to a language like Zig, which has a standard library and syntax built around the idea of manual allocators and what not, but is missing the "ease of use" of GC. Personally, I agree with GP, and like Nim's compromise of GC with a "I know better, let me do it manually" syntax, but there are domains where you want a language like Zig.
Modesty was developed across multiple societies as a way of equalizing physical attractiveness.

There was a counterintuitive study a few years ago that found wearing a hijab improved the wearer's body image: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2014/09/15/3470832...

As a guy, I may never understand the competition women feel about their looks. But it should not be surprising when some of them support the current DMZ.
no, but they're a different frequency so if someone was only jamming GPS, this would get through.