skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s the grind especially when you are juggling a real job.

The eviction process in my state

- first you have to give them your own personal notice.

- if they don’t pay in 7 days. Then you go to court and file paperwork with the court

- then once the tenant gets served they have a certain amount of time to reply to the notice

- then they can make up any reason to dispute it

- then you have to wait on a court date after you win. They still have a certain amount of time to pay. If they don’t…

- then the Marshall again serves a notice

- then you have to schedule a time for the marshal to oversee the eviction.

- then you have two hours to remove everything from the house on the street while the marshal is supervising. You must have a crew of 5.

- while all this is going on, you can’t enter the house or harass the tenants in any way.

- then you have to clean the place up and fix any damage.

- then you have to find and screen new tenants.

There is a reason standard underwriting only gives you credit for 75% occupancy. The effort is not worth the money. I spent years grinding out rental property between 2002-2010 and even if the housing market hadn’t crashed, I would have been better off focusing on my career.

From 2010-2020, by concentrating on my career I tripled my compensation without having to relocate. Not bragging, it’s about that of a mid level software engineer at any BigTech company in the US (I work remotely at BigTech in the cloud consulting department). Even now if I cared to, I could put in 6 months to a year worth of practicing coding interviews and probably increase it by another $100K.

Residential real estate is not “passive income” by any stretch. I am better off just investing my income from my 9-5 in REITS if I wanted exposure to real estate.
> 3D Secure gives you discounts on the processing rate since it reduces risk of fraud

I imagine carders love Amazon because it doesn't elect 3D secure.
There is a move large companies do where after innovating they pull the ladder up behind them by trying to drag regulators into the space. Regulation establishes a moat and allows them to cruise on that innovation until enough external pressure builds up that the dam breaks (people innovating in countries without that regulation for example).

I'm not quite sure what the solution is to this by the way. I don't think the answer is no regulation, but how to improve the quality of regulation.
You mean like gollum?
Back when encryption was categorized as a "munition" under ITAR, and it was illegal to export PGP from the US except when printed on a t-shirt, there was talk of trying to claim that if it was a "munition" there was a right to it under the US second amendment. I don't think this got anywhere. You're better off taking a first amendment line of reasoning under US law.
The "robust reputation systems" made me twitch a bit...
> The Internet is a tool that governments and political actors use for control.

You want to avoid atrocities and genocide. Great! So do I. Isn't it a great thing that we're both on the same page with that? We don't disagree on ends, but we do disagree on means.

The Internet is a tool used for control. We both agree with that. Now think about what you want. You want to protect people from an authoritarian regime, yet you also want to have systems in place for speech to be controlled. These ideas are in conflict. If speech is controllable, it's a tool that will be used by people who actually want genocide.

An atrocity isn't going to come because some edgy teens call each other a bundle of sticks while discussing political ideas online or use some distasteful language while trying to blast each other in some game.

But an atrocity can come if there's systems in place to restrict allowed speech. Do you think the Uyghurs are allowed to freely use the Internet and fully communicate their experiences with the outside world? Or are the systems that China has in place to regulate China's Internet used to control what information gets out and further their abuse?
People drastically underestimate how Starship will change launch costs. Right now they throw away an expensive upper stage with every launch, and even the lower stage only gets used about a dozen times. Starship doesn't throw away anything and it's designed to be used about a thousand times. At scale it's basically just the cost of fuel and ground services, which drops cost by a couple orders of magnitude.

The book The Case for Space Solar Power has detailed cost estimates for NASA's SPS-ALPHA design. It was published about a decade ago so has old launch costs. I plugged in Starship costs and got a total cost of $0.04/kWh, which is pretty great for dispatchable power without needing storage.
In both cases, the people I met were pretty cool, but in the high paying one, I didn't met the people I would actually work with.
I have a moment of morning when a podcast I love disappears behind a firewall, most recently Heavyweight. Then I remember there are tons of other great podcasts out there I’ve never even tried and move on with my life.
Oh, telecom industry, don't ever change.
Definitely. Framing it as morality when it is business risk is disingenuous though.
One of the biggest issues with space based solar power(SBSP) is RF interference. In order for SBSP to be used for baseload power, you need to be able to beam power through clouds which means transmitting in the sub-10 GHz range.

Unfortunately, many of these frequencies are used by our tech. 2.45 GHz is one of the best frequencies to transmit at, however, this now used by wifi and bluetooth. According to this paper[0](see figure 55) it is reasonable to expect degradation of 2.45 GHz communication thousands of kilometers from the transmitter. This is due to the fact that microwaves spread out. [0] also points out that harmonics of the transmit frequency, which can't be ignored because SBSP transmits gigawatts of power, will interfere with licensed satellite transmission bands.

In short, frequency really needs to be allocated, otherwise SBSP may really be illegal. There are some good options, at least in the US, in the sub-10 GHz range used by few people.

[0]https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9318744
Computing the profile wasn’t possible on Windows

FTA: But there is one problem: PGO was up until now available only on Linux.

I think they couldn’t use a profile generated on Linux because of differences in ABI and standard library.

I also think generating a profile is OS dependent because you want it to not have much of a performance impact.
First, everything is a tradeoff. Do not expect to have a cake and eat it too.

Secondly, thiese are indeed two different levels. A database that serves as a single source of truth can be implemented as an entire cluster of serves with no single point of failure.. At least in theory ;)
> Where on Earth do we beam power long distances in any other application? If it was a good idea we would be doing it instead of running power lines through complex terrain like over mountains.

This doesn't necessarily follow.

For example, imagine a 96% efficient magic pixie beam that costs exactly as much as 1000km of HVDC transmission line and travels in line of sight.

There's no line of sight where it outperforms HVDC, but if you could cross 4000km with two hops via space, suddenly it makes sense.

SBSP is still a terrible idea though, just not for that specific reason.
The thing is, there's no way to prove you won't do something in the future if you have the ability to do it. All you can do is promise that you won't, preferably in a legally binding way (such as a privacy policy) and stake your reputation on it. That's the basis of society. Just because someone doesn't believe you doesn't give them the right to force you into a false confession.

The app developer says "all your contacts stay on your phone, we only use the internet for calls". Google says "this app is able to access both your contacts and the internet any time for any purpose". Both of those statements can coexist and be presented to the user for evaluation. The app being required to pretend like it's uploading your data is just lying to the user.
There is specific provision in German law precisely because of the concentration camps: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/germanys-laws-ant...
> post Brexit vote polling indicated that a great many people had no
idea that this was a binding referendum rather than some "national
poll of the feels"

It's remarkable isn't it, just how fragmented non-broadcast mass media
had become at this point? Huge swathes of people in London had no
real idea that an important vote was taking place, or what it meant -
being busy working and distracted by social media frivolity. The fact
that their chosen 'channels' simply did not 'feed' them vital
information allowed millions to be hoodwinked.

We still need a postmortem on "Brexit" as a kind of nation
healing. All of us, on both sides, were victims of information
warfare/abuse of one kind or another.
Oocuss: Speak Your Mind
I don't mean fog, I mean just the fact that air is blue, so things get smoothly bluer with distance (or rather, more sky-colored). Check out any mountain landscape, nearby trees are green and distant ones are blue: https://live.staticflickr.com/1009/531101849_a7d297e0cc_b.jp...
The author is a vice journalist.
I think even the phrase "negative externalities" is overstating it. There's a big difference between "I push this button and now the woods behind my house are destroyed" and "I push this button and I have what looks like a photograph of some important person naked." Photo generating AIs are not a big deal IMO. We might be talking about these things more generally but I doubt we are talking about McNukes here.
Citation please. This sounds like some completely fabricated bullshit.
You seem to forget that this AI doesn't really give a crap about your arbitrary borders, a document or an amendment to that document. You also seem forget that even if it did, most people don't live in the same country under the same jurisdiction, so even if everything you think and feel turns out to be true, it still doesn't help the conversation at all.

On top of that, you also seem to be trying to mix-and-match rules for institutions and rules for private entities as you see fit which is also not how any of this works.
It's not speech. It's data.
At the moment it does not look like there is a really an issue with job security. Due to the high rate at which boomers are retiring the next generation which always was under the shadow of the boomers has become critical to keep the shops running.
Nice! Loved driving around and trying to break the physics.

At first I was disappointed you couldn't leave the road until I found you just needed to use more speed + boost. After that I spent all the time driving off-road.

I drove backwards at the start and clipped into some geometry, causing the car to gain a ton of vertical velocity and fly high into the air up to the clouds! When it dropped back down it bounced around a lot. Found you could reproduce this by finding where the road surface was clipped and gain some speed before entering it.

This made me think: You should add some planes!

Had a great time exploring.
Nice ... needs the occasional pair of superbikes blowing by for realism. :)
Name a large company that has successfully done that recently?
Did you press Translate?
2023 will be the year of emacs on the desktop.
Thanks for you perspective from close up. I hope your predictions are correct.

> It's not entirely up to the United States

For sure, and I realize we're not the only ones helping. Just noticing this sortof equilibrium "tug of war" state that our colletive help is maybe supporting.

> Personally I don't think this is an intentional choice, so much as concerns with political fallout. Midterm elections are soon.

I tend to view these blue vs red political games as a form of public distraction while the real stuff happens in private. I would also guess that Ukraine is not a top issue for voters when compared to domestic issues, and any signaling by republicans to reduce aid is mainly a cheap way to gain votes when they don't really mean it. We'll see I guess.
From what I remember it was primarily funded by a DoD project of some sort. There probably isn't a lot of info about that. There have been a few conference talks or blogposts about it (I'm trying to remember) that talked about the process of using it.
If that’s the case then innovation in the US can be tossed out the window. Once that ball gets rolling it only ends in crony capitalism and protectionism for existing players.
I would recommend Garbage Day’s coverage of this:

https://www.garbageday.email/p/a-big-confusing-game-of-inter...

Also, for contextualizing the social media reactions (including on HN) I would recommend this recent New Yorker article:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/17/when-the-hindu...
Just like all the "we care about your privacy" BS in recent years, just PR and marketing.
Tell HN: Someone is actually paying to have his product advertised on my site
I am building a site for fully location independent jobs for over two months now.

During this period, it has hit 41k unique visitors and 101k pageviews.

I started building it after seeing all the popular remote job boards are filled with location restricted jobs/ work from home. It means that you can't move to another country while working. So, I created this site to exclusively list fully location independent jobs.

Since job boards are a kind of marketplace, I can't expect recruiters to post on my site right away, so I started looking for other ways to make the project sustainable. One such plan was to allocate a sponsor slot to earn some money. (between I got lucky and a recruiter from Canada posted a job ad on my site and it had nearly 100 apply clicks)

I tried to reach out to few businesses targeted at Digital Nomads to sponsor my site, but none of them turned out as I expected. Everyone said they'll think about working with my site in the future. So, I gave up the idea of having sponsors on my site and worked on improving the site.

Recently one of my tweet went little viral on Twitter and a course author engaged with that tweet. I quickly invited him to chat to have his course for remote workers advertised on my site. My asking price was actually $199, but he negotiated and we settled for $129.

To be honest, I didn't want to do B2C, I prefer to do B2B, but somehow this partnership is kind of B2C, but for the first sponsor, it's not bad. And a nice way for me to monetize the site. There is a lot to learn about doing sponsorship, so this will definitely help me do that and negotiate offers better.

I am happy to learn from you. Please let me know your thoughts below. Thank you.
Solar power satellites would be in geosynchronous orbit. Even if we wanted a beam tight enough to be used as a weapon, that'd be very difficult to achieve. The current designs would have a footprint of several square miles. Birds could fly through the beam without harm.

And that's with a phased array transmitter that uses a reference signal from the ground. If it somehow repoints somewhere without the ground transmitter, the beam would spread out much more than that. (source: the book The Case for Space Solar Power)
Discussion from 2019 on version 1 of the paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21141761
When a Houseplant Obsession Becomes a Nightmare
It's profit all the way-o. Simple as.

As for what they say to the public, well, fraudsters gonna fraud. It's a tale as old as time [1].

1: https://www.biography.com/news/famous-grifters-stealers-swin...
At my first internship i would have paid the company. Most of my commits were +35 -100 i think on average
> Were the physicists who discovered how to split the atom also dangerous people?

In the ordinary meaning of the word? Yes. That's why they were sworn to secrecy.

Not the same as saying they were immoral or wrong to have worked on the Bomb, that's a different debate, but in terms of sheer effectiveness they were incredibly dangerous.

An army is dangerous. That's how it works.
As someone who has worked for OpenAI and with Google as a consultant, I completely and wholeheartedly agree.

1. This is absolutely a gatekeeping, ladder pulling measure.
2. The commercial face of this industry is rife with dogmas of self importance. It’s nearly comical.
Just listen. Be thoughtful. Let him lean on you. It will be a heavy burden, but for those you love, no burden is too great.

My brother-in-law passed about 6 years ago, after dealing with strokes, seizures, etc. I was in the room with my sister-in-law and him when they took him off life support (no brain activity). His illness was long, and he suffered. I wished he hadn't. He was a great guy, and I miss him.

My SIL has a large extended family, and we all helped out. Sometimes, just being in the same room, bringing things over, listening is just what the (real) doctors order.

Just be there, be present. Look for him struggling with something, and help him do that thing. Don't ask, don't push your way in to it. If it looks like he can't do simple things, let him grieve, and you handle those. He will need processing time. Help him get it. Some people need to be busy with physical things to process. Some people need to be alone to process. But they need people nearby, even if alone.

Everyone is different, every person processes grief differently. There's no real "right" way for this. And be aware that after a time, he may want to change some things in his life, to not be reminded of this time. This is not necessarily burying it. It is moving on.
Emacs is a fun long-term ride. A gift of sorts that keeps on giving... and by that, I mean no matter how experienced you are, you'll continue learning something new at all times. I often write about things I discover or build myself at https://xenodium.com.

https://planet.emacslife.com is a great aggregator. https://reddit.com/r/emacs is handy too. https://www.youtube.com/c/SystemCrafters is an awesome channel. https://emacsrocks.com has some awesome demos. https://emacsrocks.com/e13.html is one of my all-time favorites (watch until the end, has a worthy finale).
these things need spam measures to work. That was not listed as a feature.
Totally, however as somebody who knows quite a few adult content creators and sex workers I would say the standard for the industry is actually pretty high.
The author's wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bock
From the article:

> Phased array of transmitters focuses gigawatt-power beam anywhere on Earth in line of sight.

I wonder if it's possible to steer the power beam around clouds, so you transmit power to whatever ground-station has the best view. (Unclear if it makes economical sense to overbuild ground-stations just to be able to pick one with a clear view of the sky)
Yes, on a small scale, but they do exist!
Just look up at Riseup, Disroot weho.st, or Autistici/Inventati.
Keepalive mandates that the TCP connection stays open to parse further requests and send further responses and requires the support of the two mechanisms to distinguish the boundaries between different requests or responses (explicit content length and chunked encoding).

Pipelining is just normal usage of TCP, which is a mechanism to establish two queues of bytes between two endpoints on a network.

There is no difference between sending data before or after having received data from the other party. The two directions are logically independent, even if at the transport level data from one direction contains acks of the other direction.

Now, some servers will start processing requests on a given connection in parallel, and will not correctly synchronize the multiple threads trying to write back their respective response to the client. This is just a bug on the server doing multithreading incorrectly, and has nothing to do with any framing problems in the protocol.

I suppose HTTP/2 supports that use case better, since it can multiplex the concurrent responses, but the correct thing to do is to simply treat each request synchronously one after the other, and not parallelize the processing of multiple requests on a given TCP connection.
Breadth-first search with buffer ping-pong
I think it's pretty close to perfect at this point and is a million times better that the interface they had when I started using it nearly 10 years ago.
Using the same logic lets ban the sale of kitchen knifes, they can be used for stabbing people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology_and_sexual_orientation

tl;dr it's not a "lifestyle" and you're not "socialized" into it. The fact you believe otherwise is a very discomfiting recontextualization of your other remarks in this thread about "protecting children from groomers" and "filtering out the bad". People like you are precisely why children need the ability to communicate privately with non-parental figures - thank you for proving the FSF's point.
Decision on international State of the Map 2023 and 2024
The real money comes from using starship to develop spaced based industrial capacity. Instead of manufacturing solar panels on earth, it would be manufactured in space. Once we have real space industry, doing things in orbit would be much cheaper.
Mine is always the same combination, but Apple Notes instead of GitHub[1].

So it's Apple Notes, Next.js and Vercel.

[1] https://montaigne.io
Looks like you can use the arrow keys too.
Visual Cryptography Explained
Their blogpost about translating Quake 3 was interesting: https://immunant.com/blog/2020/01/quake3/
Doing immoral things kinda fundamentally is a business risk. I'm not sure I see any tension or conflict between "We don't want to help make porn because some of us think it's bad" and "we don't want to help make porn because some of our regulators will think it's bad".
The Bob Beamon record from 1968 was an outlier, attributed in part to altitude. If you only count jumps at lower altitude, you get a much more regular/piecemeal progression.
it worked once, so let’s do it again - but BIGGER - is such a classic business mistake
Operational Security Assessment of 'Partisan Telegram'
At this point Castro is either abandonware, or they are over-polishing a huge (at this point vaporware) update…

There’s “move fast and break things” and then at the entire other part of the spectrum is the Castro team.
I'd much prefer the standard of "harms competition" except in cases of natural monopoly.
It's not rainbow flag twitter that will condemn you for the dick pics but conservative twitter.
I don’t think curl supports proxies that terminate TLS so it shouldn’t interfere with TLS end to end security.
I turned right, drove up the hill in the woods, down to a lake, kept going on the bottom of the lake and arrived to The Edge. Nices views from the top of the hills.
https://archive.ph/5nvje
Space-based solar power will always be a non-starter because anything that can beam 1 GW from space is indistinguishable from a space-based direct energy weapon.
That is just it, they never tell you
Unfortunately, many projects never benefit from PGO, because there is quite a lot of complexity involved in setting up a profiling workload, storing the profile somewhere, and using it for future builds.

I'd like compiler writers to embed a 'default profile' into the compiler, which uses data from as much opensource code as they can find all over github etc.

This default profile will improve the performance of lots of libraries that everyone uses, and will probably still help closed source code (since it will probably be written in a similar style to opensource code).
You'd better have a good firewall since you have such a tech-minded neighbor. )