skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Doing this, he can jack up the rent and pocket the difference

> Introducing: rent-to-rent, also known as rental arbitrage, the parasitic investment strategy that is being touted across social media as a way for the growing number of people who can’t afford to buy their own home to invest in property.

> With the landlord’s consent, they then convert these places into short-term lets or houses for multiple occupation (HMO), which means they can rent them out for more than they are paying and scalp the difference.

> For one, you might wonder how responsible it is to encourage people to convert rental properties into short-term holiday lets right in the middle of a housing crisis.

My pet peeve is when authors launder their opinion into an otherwise factual article using emotionally-resonant language like “scalp the difference” and “parasitic investment strategy”. You can just tell the facts, your readers are capable of making up their own minds on it.

Worse is when it’s an opinion I disagree with. Consider the characterization of this as “scalping”. Sony seemed to put some effort into anti-scalping tech when they couldn’t meet PS5 demand. So isn’t it weird that these people are “scalping” with the landlord’s consent? Why wouldn’t the landlord just do what these people are doing and keep the money?

The answer is that these people aren’t scalping at all. They’re renting an apartment for a year, and rerenting it for a few days. By doing that, they take on more risk and have to put in some effort to furnish the apartment, which they’re willing to do for that price and the landlord is not.
> Re. WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram and iMessage are all apps you run on your phone. And if you can read the messages on them from a website (as you can if you turn on a feature for imessage), then the admins of the service also have access to your messages.

Not true. Web clients for Matrix are open source, and you can self host them if you are afraid of the default host trying to inject spyware to the page
"By next month I will have had run 50 km" - is there a BETTER way to say this sentence?
It refers to the past from the prism of next month, but also RELATES it to that point in time

"If I had continued boxing professionally, I would have been running 50 km a week"
Here's it's a conditional, I think I stuck an extra had in there by accident.

By my English textbook there's 16 tenses, 4x4

Past, present, future, future-in-the-past (would)
x
Simple, continuous, perfect, continuous-perfect (have been V-ing)

Point being, English grammar is far from simple, as this conversation clearly demonstrated
I guess use an Energizer e2 titanium battery? /s
I'm glad you're seeing him for who he really is, but there wasn't a jump the shark moment. Remember when he tried to build a submarine to rescue those kids in the cave, then called an actual rescuer a "pedo guy?"

What's complicated is he's a bit like Travis Kalanick in that he needed an absurd amount of self-confidence to go build Tesla (or Uber). This is the same self-confidence that lead to some questionable decisions later.
There you go: just clone and deploy https://github.com/RisingGeek/twitter-clone.
Doesn't seem to specifically target animals who navigate and migrate the whole way between the two, but instead focuses on that entire region and improving human <-> nature touch points and making them co-exist with less friction.
> Are you passionate about pedantry?

Yes I am and I am glad you noticed! I also like helping people follow the site guidelines; posts generally fare better when they do.

Sometimes people call me a stick in the mud. Which is fine. Without the stick, the mud might fly off. You don't want mud flying around, do you?
It's not a very good marketing angle.
Hello from California. I'm a full stack developer. Primarily Scala/JS/TS. I do some Haskell and Python on the side. Love functional programming. I built a bunch of Haskell projects that people still use. I don't have the time to maintain them anymore. Want to get back into it again. Kind of want to learn Rust. I'm currently trying to build Strava for the command line because I like minimalism. Want to build a few iOS apps next. Waiting to get a new Macbook Pro.

Cheers!
> Your example assumes there is some underlying rate at which time advances for the universe (or at least Earth and Mars) and that spacetime as we know it (including relativity and time dilation) are just some kind of modifier on top.

Not necessarily; only that time is advancing in a forward direction. Whether 1 second on Earth is 1 second or 10 seconds or 0.1 seconds or what have you on Mars doesn't change the underlying premise: something disappeared from one place and appeared some positive amount of time later in another place. The only way I see that implying backward time travel is if time on Earth or Mars is already advancing backward, and if that's the case then the effects of Alcubierre drives on causality are probably the least of our worries.

And on that note...

> There is no "pop out of existence here and pop in over there" without time travel (as best as we can tell). The whole light cone / worldline explanations are more formal explanations of that.

The whole concept of a "light cone" seems to assume that spacetime is uniform (or at least doesn't have bubbles or holes in it). If spacetime is lumpy / Swiss cheesy (as Alcubierre drives or wormholes would cause, respectively), then that would result in similar lumpiness or holeyness in the light cone. In other words: why assume that it's "cone" shaped in situations that would in all likelihood dramatically deform that cone? In other other words: the light cone / worldline explanations don't really address cases where spacetime is outright deformed to shorten the distance something has to travel in order to go from point A to point B.

Further, the "light cone" argument (as presented in the article) seems to hinge on when observers find out about events... but just because an observer observed something to happen in a given order doesn't mean it actually happened in that order. If the light from Mars blowing up reaches us one second before the light from Pluto blowing up reaches us, does that mean that Mars blew up one second before Pluto did? It doesn't seem like observations are absolute truths, and I'm failing to understand why we're treating them as such.
Are any open source image denoisers available ?
In many ways Musk represents what is usually the HN ideal: former software engineer, driven and ambitious, nerdy, past successful companies under his belt…

But because he’s doing something seen as political a bunch of nobody HN anons feel compelled to say he knows nothing about running a tech company. Amazing what politics can do to the mind.
Mastodon added 230k users in the past week, surpassing 655,000 active users
I converted my mountain bike to an ebike and I’m having a blast with it! I just moved to Oakland and there’s pretty good bike infrastructure here, so I can use the bike for transportation even for relatively large distances. I’ve been using it to get groceries, run to the bike shop, and see friends. For the nerds, I added a Bafang BBSHD mid drive motor and EM3EV 52v 20.5AH pack to my Norco Fluid HT bike. I added a rear rack with Ortlieb panniers. It’s a rock solid bike and thanks to the high power of the BBSHD the bike accelerates quickly and easily reaches 30MPH/50KPH. This means I can keep up with the flow of traffic on most surface streets and don’t have to worry about cars zipping past me - I’m usually tracking behind the car in front of me so there’s nowhere for an approaching car to go. I have a full face downhill mountain biking helmet and a smart helmet brake light from my good friends company called Brakefree that lights up when I slow down. The gear and the speed of the bike leave me feeling safe enough. And it’s a blast! Earlier this week I rode the bike 8 miles through the city to a park up in the hills. It’s fast to get there and feels very different than sitting in a big energy guzzling car. And once I got to the park I just kept rolling right on to some trails. What a wonderful feeling! I’m more convinced than ever of the power of micro mobility in cities. We need more protected bike infrastructure. When we think of cities we often imagine roads as a given. But we’re deciding which infrastructure to lay down and maintain - and we don’t have to make it all so focused on automobiles.

EDIT: I want to emphasize one point which might interest people. As I said the speed helps me feel safe as I move with the flow of traffic. I run my bike at 1500 watts. This is twice the legal limit of 750 watts, but this isn’t well enforced. In the UK, the legal limit is just 250 watts. I think policy makers assume that a smaller number is safer, but I’m not convinced this is true. While higher speed means more risk of high speed collisions, lower speed means more risk of being hit from behind. It’s worth looking at raising the legal power limits, and whether this would increase safety for bike riders. I think it might.
Seems like both.
Coca Cola would like everyone to know they're pulling their ad spend for all the right reasons, without actually reducing ad spend. They'd love to have it both ways.
How much have you travelled? From my experiences there are plenty of nations/states that make higher taxation work for the people.
You can name any successful company, and you can point to a large group of people who said that the company was going to fail.

Generally, humans have a bias towards saying things are "impossible" or "sure to fail" with limited personal understanding of the nature of that thing. Indeed, people are more expert about impossible things than possible things...they have encyclopaedic knowledge of things that don't work (this is a safety behaviour that some are more disposed to than others).

I have learned, through personal experience of getting this wrong, that people will surprise you more often than your pessimism will be justified.
Oh yeah, I studied Latin American Spanish so I did forget that Spaniards do have these sounds. But the vowel number is clearly smaller. The hardest sound is probably the "rr" rolling r

In English it's probably distinguishing between a number of vowels like BAD/BED or PULL/POOL, and words like STRENGTH that really test the limits of Mandarin speakers
https://github.com/kenp-io/not-for-iphone-usb-c
Would you drop $3k on a macbook pro, take it out and use it in the dirt and rain, and then be shocked that it didn't hold up as well as some generic $500 laptop?

Would you drop $80k on a new sedan and then be shocked that its boot capacity is the same as a $20k sedan?

$200 at a fine dining restaurant and it fills you up as well as a $10 one?

No. These things are luxuries sure but it's understood that it extends in a certain way. You buy the expensive macbook if you want to use it like normal in a home or office but have a nicer screen, touchpad, etc. You buy the expensive ruggedised laptop if you need to use it out in the field. You buy a van, trailer, ute, whatever if you need a lot of hauling capability. You buy groceries if you want to feed yourself for a month not one expensive meal.

Probably you think I'm being a jackass by comparing thinking this lock should be more secure than a generic lock but I genuinely cant see a difference. It's as obvious to me that you're paying a premium for the convenience aspects of this lock rather than security as it is that you're paying for a nice screen on a macbook not ability to withstand harsh conditions. It being on the Apple store gives me no indication that it's more secure than the average lock, nor does their marketing.

So I'm genuinely curious. What is it about this situation that makes you people who think this is a lame response, hilarious, a grift, etc see it differently from the above? Why would you not just expect it to be better in an entirely different dimension than it's marketing itself, but expect it so much so that this is being viewed as some sort of embarrassing scam?
Digital nomads almost always have a home base in some domain which has tax laws. Since we're on a US site, I'll assume many people here are American. And as Americans, we are required to file US taxes regardless of where we live in the world. And depending on local taxes we may pay, we may also have some tax burden in the US even if we're not living in the US at the time.

This "tax dodging" thing you talk about is either misinformed or just not applicable. The US is one of two countries in the world which tax its citizens on income earned while living abroad. For citizens of other countries, such as the Netherlands (where I live now), they can live abroad and pay no taxes to the Netherlands... legally.

The catch is that a lot of countries do not allow you to work while visiting them, or if you do they require you to pay taxes as a resident. If you work "illegally" while staying in their countries, then yes you are dodging taxes.

That's the letter of the law. But in the spirit of the law, if you are working for a foreign company and spending some of your income in a remote place, you are not cheating the local country out of tax revenue, but you are providing additional economic input.
> And that's Elon's role - make decisions all day long.

The key point is that Elon's decision-making tends to be very close to the coalface. He's often involved in the minutiae of factory operations at Tesla[1] and he is a core member of the rocket engineering team at SpaceX[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiMvQSWr-v4&t=651s

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
Originally arrogant or ignorant t, I'd say, and now damage control for their stock already out in the wild.

I would reckon they would change it for a v2 but they need to recoup costs first, but I could be wrong.
You don't turn a plane in flight by slamming the yoke as far left as you can. If you know how to fly, then you know how to make a fast turn, but that means knowing how flying works, how the plane responds, and how your current state will change in response to your inputs.

Twitter's business is advertising sales. Musk destroyed a billion dollars in committed pre-sales for 2023, then drove away more advertisers in his attempt to fix the situation, then threatened prospective advertisers with "thermonuclear name-and-shame." He's basically destroyed Twitter's ad sales model without a replacement revenue stream ready to go. $8 for various perqs won't replace a fraction of it even with significant uptake, and this is in the context of adding a billion dollars of annual debt servicing in a company whose revenue was only marginal profitable with the ad sales.

On top of that, cutting half the staff with zero notice and ordering a billion dollar reduction in infrastructure costs is a massive amount of organizational chaos added at the same time as he's expecting to iterate quickly and replace a multi-billion dollar revenue stream.

None of this is a sane way to remake twitter into an agile, non-ad-dependent company. This is controlled-flight-into-terrain. These are desperate, flailing measures.

edit: fixing emphasis
Musk spent half the year trying to not purchase Twitter. Or is the thinking that he was simultaneously attempting to not own Twitter while devising the management strategy if he did?
So we could live in balloons?
I've sometime wonder about passing a label for error handling

result, err := db.GetUser("12345": no_user)

no_user:
return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to query user: %v", err)

If there is an error the program jumps to the label. If no label the program panics. This implied that you have both return and return_error keywords.
Hola from San Francisco. My niece just turned 13 and really wants a model of the demogorgon from Stranger Things. I've been 3D printing for a few years and found a pretty nice little diorama I hope she'll like. I started working on the stl files and will be organizing and editing them to be printable. Then I'm hoping I will have time in the next few weeks to post-process the parts and paint everything in time for Christmas.
Hello, greetings from the American upper midwest! Currently sitting in a comfortable chair next to a fire listening to an audiobook and drifting off to sleep. I hope you have a nice day or night.
Lots of people are saying the fediverse is more friendly. Of course it is, it has only 0.001% the userbase, and all those people are super enthusiastic early adopters! Just as Twitter's tone changed over time, so will the Fediverse. If it is even lucky enough to succeed in the first place.
Great Beatles reference. That's what you're intending to do, right?

Also getting strong "go dog go" vibes, if you have kids you may know that one.
Possibly the most brutal comment I've seen about this whole situation was:

> Imagine living in a Mars colony with this management style

https://twitter.com/Jon_Christian/status/1587853397385834496
That's still how it was for the highest profile users (Trump had the check mark, remember) - but down in the lower-regions it was a status symbol for those who "made it" - and the rumor is that status symbol could be gamed.

Verification had a "notoriety" aspect - I couldn't get verified because I'm a nobody; dang might be able to, Paul Graham for sure.
He didn't single pin pick the lock, as that wasn't the point of the video. Raking is a picking technique, though, and common as a starting move in locksport competitions.
Like uber, twitter has been failing forever yet hangs on.
The most active instance, Pawoo, was started by Pixiv after Twitter banned lolicon. Pawoo is blocked/silenced by many instances in the west. Pawoo is no more the property of Pixiv since 2020.

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2017/08/18/mastodon-is-big-in-jap...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixiv
These stories always hinge on interpreting Elon Musk's tweets of saying what a product will do about being an advertisement for what it currently does and making that into a safety issue, despite the actual features being opt-in and warning you very clearly when enabled.

Also very often this is conflating the several different option packages which do different things so that you can make a crash on lane keeping assist sound like it's a crash of a "full self-driving" system.

I don't know, I don't think there are many smoking gun claims of Tesla over-advertising the current features. Hyping the future ones, yes. But always with a caveat that it's in the future. ("Soon" is in the future!) This article and the articles it references exclude those caveats from the quotes, so they sound juicer than they are.

Good to look into I guess, but I doubt this investigation will come up with too much dirty laundry. I also don't think the company would be in deep trouble even if they got the book thrown at them.
If you've ever worked at any sufficiently large company, especially where third-party agencies/contractors/analysts are involved, you'd know that "nonsense all around" is in fact the status quo.
I knew from the title that this had to be LockPickingawyer. The guy is an absolute genius.

His YT channel made me realize how mild of a deterrent most locks are.

If you haven’t watched his channel yet, I recommend giving it a spin.
Musk built SpaceX from the ground up, a company that achieved tremendous things in one of the most difficult and entrenched business domains. He played a big role in Making Tesla what it is today, in another of the most entrenched domains.

Clearly he has done lots of things right.

That makes it so odd how chaotic and inept this takeover appears.

Big layoffs after a takeover will also be chaotic, and a bandaid that needs to be ripped off ASAP. There is really no good way to do it, and mistakes will be made.

BUT Musk managed to attack and undermine Twitters two most valuable assets: advertisers and celebreties.

He claimed advertisers are trying to kill free speech, and threatened them with public shaming. All while sending all the signals that he will change the platform in a way that makes those advertisers very concerned. (less moderation, "free speech", laying off much of the teams ensuring brand safety)

He got in public spats with the second most valuable asset: celebrities. Most users on Twitter are just passive consumers, there to hear directly from notable persons they care about.

The verification system is essential to this - it gives you reasonable trust that an account is actually the person they claim to be.

Maybe a subscription model can make sense, but it should probably be separate from the verification system.
There are only ~400k verified accounts, a drop in the bucket at 8$ a pop. This drama could have been avoided by just grandfathering them in.

On top of that he has tweeted conspiracy theories by odd media, seemed to do important market analysis and price finding via tweeted survey over 2 days, and all in a has just seemed a bit unhinged.

This whole thing is a mess, and I don't get how this can happen. Eg, how can you not realise beforehand how important advertising is for revenue...

Tesla stock is falling, so Musk probably is selling to cover costs - he won't get any msignificant loans with good conditions...

I always assumed this whole takeover was a boon for the right, to get a favourable relationship with future administrations for Tesla and SpaceX.

This may still work out for Musk, but not if Twitter dies too quickly.
There is no immediate competition on the horizon though, so there is time
That's what I am thinking. Recession or not, recent financial policy is going to have many companies taking a hard look at their expenditures. A few redundant staff here, fruitless R&D project there, ad spend, etc.
They can just add more cores and more power. With modern languages like Rust making multi threading more accessible, I expect we will double down on this. You could also crowd source this, some distributed application where everyone puts their home machines towards training.
Hi from Nashua, New Hampshire!

I'm finally ditching the Javascript/Typescript ecosystem and giving a Flutter/Dart (client-side) & Swift (server-side using SwiftWASM on Cloudflare Workers / Fastly C@E) stack a try.

I'm doing this experiment with a project I've been working on to build a connections/communities app that has a few tricks up its sleeve to try to solve the problems of online dating (Tinder/Bumble/Hinge).

I'm also experimenting with a project that's a mix between podcasting and replying to other people.

Very interested in alternate/niche takes on social networking (very different from "alt social networks")
Does Mastodon have themes?

I tried a few instances and none of the UIs clicked with me very much.

With themes, I not only mean custom colors and fonts. I mean custom templates, so I can rearrange the position of elements and leave out some elements altogether.
Pretty much as if you buy a bike and it turns out it was stolen it's still not your bike someone who blindly accepts what turns out to be a chunk of someone else's code can still be unknowingly guilty of copyright violation.
If someone cases your house, they'd still pick targets based on ease and value.

If they canvas your house and see a shitty, easily bumped lock, you are now an easier target and they're more likely to break in.

I reckon opportunistic break ins it wouldn't make a big difference whether it's this lock or a better one though.
I think it changed and nobodies can get verified if they submit docs
independent scale to zero services per end user is definitely the play. people can sell their data on marketplaces if they want to cover the few dollars a month of usage fees.
Umm… what?