skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And practice, practice, practice
US definitely has declined from its peak position of '90-'00. By the end of the last century, even allies were openly voicing concerns over US being a hyperpower and not just a mere superpower. [They are calling us a superpower again.]

9/11 is the inflection point (and subsequent matter is my opinion) and regrettably for us Americans, the store was in the hands of neocons, who stupidly (they wrote in late 90s a document announcing to the rest of the world that ~'US will never permit anyone reaching parity to challenge', shit like that) misused our global position, and give motivation for various powers, including w/o a doubt ~Western allies, to review Swift's Gulliver's Travels ..

We pissed away blood, treasure, and reputation during the regime of the neocons (which spans D and R presidents, btw).

Do you think the laughably comical criticism of "world order" by the "mutlipolarity" gang, the likes of RF or CPC and junior friends, would be taken seriously by other world leaders/nations if US had not acted like a bully these past 2 decades?

We absolutely must re-examine our stewardship performance vis-à-vis the tacit acceptance of other major powers for this arrangement under sane leadership of US of A.

Second, Putin's adventure would not have happened in an environment of robust US prestige and power, but you appear to forget just how oddly our nation has been acting (at least as viewed from an external lens) in terms of our domestic politics. We've lost prestige on that end as well. What made this little man so confident? Why is he still hanging on? It should have been well over by now.

Finally, RF appears to have forced US to use mechanisms -- confiscation of sovereign reserves, etc. -- that I assure you must have scared the living light from all spectators with treasure trusted to the "international order". They are all saying 'but by the grace of god of mamon there go I'!

So we need to get our act together as a nation, if we intend to continue to insist that we are the responsible steward of the Global order.
Possible upgrade to the HTTPS protocol? :-)
Moderate Republicans are called RINOs and Conservatives tend to dislike them.

That isn't limited to guns or because of the gun lobby. It's because moderate Republicans might as well be Democrats.
That is how you land in court in a case titled *United States v $400,000 in digital currency".
I'm on the fence about calling myself an "AI artist". I think a better term is "muse to an AI"

I couldn't possibly create the images that I get out of Stable Diffusion, so I consider it the real artist. But it can't possibly come up with the ideas of what to draw, so I am the muse.

What's more, I feel that the ideas that I come up with are uniquely my own. By which I mean, it is unlikely for another human to have the same idea.

For me, the point at which it becomes art is when it expresses something. It has to evokes thought in the viewer.
Abandoned homes aren't the same as vacant homes. Most cities have low double digit vacancy rates. Whatever city you live in, odds are good there are units sitting vacant while people are homeless.

https://anytimeestimate.com/research/most-vacant-cities-2022....

Edit: even in supply constrained cities like Seattle, there are ~10 vacant units for ever homeless person.
nostalgic !
No, it was ease of use that won out in the end. It's easier to pay YT Premium than to torrent and manage music locally.
From what I have herd (but I was unable to find any written source at this point) the sampling only applies to the Gore-Tex Pro Shell brand. Meaning that products needs to be sent in and certified by Gore before they can be sold under that name.
A petition against UIDAI sharing India's Aadhaar data with foreign contractors
Does the high trust stem from interpersonal solidarity or draconian persecution of misbehaviour?
I've lived in shared; government subsidised; private association, and private-landlord housing. Currently have mortgaged home. As someone who has never had a problem in the private sector, quite the opposite, why shouldn't private landlords exist?
(Personally, my beef is with private utility companies, but even so....).
this diffusion of responsibility for shared spaces or public spaces is one of the peculiar things the USA will share with the PRC.
It’s a bit sad to see Musk pulled in so many different directions. He probably could make a really interesting, innovative smartphone, but probably not with everything else currently on his plate.

And in an alternate universe, I would love to see him follow through on his quip that he was serious about starting his own candy company. I bet it would be successful too if he could concentrate on it.
Well, if this anonymous alleged intern said the CEO of the company was dumb, that's good enough for me!

Musk has made significant accomplishments in disparate fields - payments, electric cars, rockets. The idea that Musk is a simpleton stumbling his way into success in these disparate fields and to becoming the world's richest man is absurd. The evidence for this is an anonymous person's Tumblr (or tweet - also saw this posted there)?
Yes though increase in diversity brings higher demand for authority because it seems to be the only thing that can bring order. Some would call Singapore "authoritarian" (how compatible is it with "Democracy" of the West? Or post-Imperial Japan for that matter -- the main topic here). They invest energy into micromanaging it.[1]

There was a lot of racial tension[2] in Singapore before Lee Kuan Yew straightened them out. Mandates on what languages to use for what ethnicities, with English being the main language, seems to have worked.
As well as a racial quota system to prevent natural self-sorting into ethnic groups, and to enforce integration.

"To prevent conflicts and ethnic isolation (Singapore is the safest city in the world according to Gallup) ethnic quotas are mandatory.The distribution of public housing is carried out based on these quotas and it is impossible to find a block of apartments in which the percentage of Chinese, Indians and Malay people gives preference to one of the groups (with regard to the country’s population). And since the construction and ownership of the property are strictly regulated, given the lack of space on the island, it is extremely hard to escape the system. These quotas are also applied within the administration itself, in businesses and even in some activities such as leisure.To date, the system has been a success that has almost prevented any sign of segregation. However, the model depends on a system of surveillance, punishment and repression, which feels somewhat Orwellian, but without which, its implementation would not be feasible. This is, paradoxically, a society that voluntarily relinquishes certain freedoms related to the way in which citizens interact with one another, in order to guarantee their coexistence."[3]

[1]https://www.asianews.it/news-en/Ethnic-and-religious-violenc...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_race_riots_in_Singapore

[3]https://tomorrow.city/a/forced-integration-plan-singapore
Assuming this is different from: https://github.com/boyter/searchcode-server which is in Java.
Exactly. Imagine if the supply of new cars dropped through the floor and prices shot up, especially for used cars.

Oh wait, this actually happened during the pandemic and nobody was like, "oh this is good, people's car equity is going up!" because with things that aren't houses people have a saner view of finances.
I'd be interested to see more of what the likes of Singapore do, especially for larger metropolitan areas. As I understand it, and I could be way wrong here, but I think there's a government office that buys and sells properties, but with restrictions on price and who can buy through the schema. Anyone else is totally free to conduct private property transactions, but get slapped with an almost-unmanageable property tax, making it more economical to go through official channels. This then lets the government rather than the market set the fair rate for a particular house in a particular area.

https://darrenong.sg/blog/a-complete-guide-to-buy-a-property...
>NYC and Tokyo, well there’s many factors involved.

And the most obvious one is demographic composition.
Engineers working on the kernel and drivers have a dilemma. They cannot test the code for every conceivable platform because they do not have that many resources. They will test the code for the devices they have, and then ask for others to test on other similar platforms. This is because the code is near metal. The most the developers can do is to develop using the design-by-contract methodology. But that too goes out of the window when others start supporting more platforms and devices.

So the only approach that has worked is solid code reviews. There was a very interesting email exchange between Linus and an engineer from Sun. Linus was rejecting his patch because there was a spelling mistake in a comment. That's how strict he is about code quality.
This was an explicit goal of housing policy in the US 100 years ago. Read any text from that time period and you will see that housing was viewed as an investment and the foundation of wealth. Policy was therefore supportive of this view.

It's time we revisited this now that the country looks very different.

- For one, there is a large trend towards urbanization which changes the makeup of the country.

- The 30 year fixed-rate mortgage and mortgage interest deduction (now capped, and less impactful given higher standard deduction amounts) have been a large contributor to housing values being distorted from normal market prices.

- Throw in low interest rates, widespread speculation, financialization of real estate (ABNB, loanmls.com, etc)

you end up with a human right being divvied up by institutions, speculators, and an aging wealthy populace that has no interest in sharing the pie.
I Wonder if there are some simple legal solutions to this.
Like only individuals and non-profits are allowed to own houses or you can only own a property if you are registered as a resident of the city.
I like the sliding scale tax idea but I think the firms would just find ways to continually invest in new properties and use that to dodge tax until a point where they offshore :(
Gore tex has been many many years around, hasnt its patent expired?
It will kill you to know that in San Francisco it was reported that 61k houses were empty. Either vacationing or waiting for rents to rise again.
P.S. https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/61000-homes-are-empty-in...

Yeah...

P.S. Not sure why one would pick San Francisco for seasonal use?!

P.S. 2 Let's see how the empty home tax works out https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/voters-approve-san-francis...
Want to add, I understand the debate is also around the revenue loss in the commission/fanart/online art scene. But from having looked at lots of these over the years, I'd still argue the same thing: that IMO the really good series and artists are good because of their ideas and themes, and not their technique. But if a particular artist's revenue is 90% from drawing lewd fanart, unfortunately it seems like they'll have to adapt and compete, using the skills that humans are still dominant in.

And although I'm just an dumb anon on the internet spewing these ideas, I know I sound harsh, but I think I'm correct. Because the reality is that now, everybody's downloaded the SDv1.4 weights onto their hard drives, and the cat's out of the bag permanently.
I agree that integration tests are more important, but a lot of components (particularly anything mathematical or with a functional design) benefits hugely from unit tests.

For example, checking that your backoff works correctly in the case of dropped packets is really hard to do at a higher level, because that part of your API isn't exposed publicly but is still critical to the correct function in degraded environments.

The people who insist on unit tests for 1-line functions are crazy and dogmatic though, I agree. But if a large fraction of your codebase is 1-line functions I'd also argue your architecture is crap. A codebase where effective unit testing is useless or difficult is a distinct smell.
> Xorg also doesn't prevent you from using an application that does have these functions. Wayland does prevent you.

Surely, as much as seatbelts prevent my movement. And literally every wayland compositor has this functionality, that there is not a universally supported standard here sucks, but that’s just the way of life of the bazaar. There is no one company exerting a cathedral approach over the whole thing, and I believe that is what most of the linux users prefer. It just so happens to have some tradeoffs as well.
Aggressively tax vacant units is the simplest to implement, but there's a lot (lot) more that could be done.
Rising price of gas is not because of Putin's invasion. I've got increased bill by 600% in 11/2021, four month before invasion. Politics who blames war for rising prices clearly lies, period.

Ideologies like green deal and drastic lockdowns shake prices.
Well it's the guardian, they didn't even link the study, naturally.
Farewell, My Lovely (1936)
So basically, you find it important to test already tested code, with...your own tests?
Cures for a cancer.
I need to wait longer than five seconds per move, otherwise the clock stops.
I don't understand this at all. There are certainly plenty of problems in the housing market, but the existence of landlords isn't one of them. Even if you ignore the substantial amount of work it takes to actually maintain a property, find and deal with tenants, the basic tenets of capitalism still apply: somebody has to allocate capital in a speculative manner to predict future needs.

It is very easy for a landlord to lose their shirt in even conservative investments. Landlords justify their rate of return due to the financial risk and the cost of capital. My parents lost a lot of money buying and renting property. You can lose money due to tenants destroying property, you can lose money due to insufficient occupancy, and you can lose money by the value of the house going down.
According to their FAQ page this only applies to products with a “guarantee to keep you dry” label inside.

https://www.gore-tex.com/support/frequently-asked-questions
> The time/effort to produce art has effectively become zero.

But not so the effort needed to produce "unique art".

When everybody can push a button to produce "art"
then how do you make the results of your button-pushing unique?

The value of art is in its uniqueness, and originality.

Using AI to generate art based on input training models is not that different from photography. Each generated art-piece is like a photograph taken from different viewpoint. And when everybody can use the same programs to generate their "art" the results are bound to be more or less non-unique, non-original.

The scary part for artists may be that now programmers can create new original generated works of art. You can be an artist without knowing how to draw.

Then again we could have a conventional artist with a unique style who would train an AI model to only generate versions of their existing paintings. Laws may need to be adapted to make it illegal to generate art based on someone else's existing art. Lawsuits will follow.
Why use a DSL and not your favorite scripting language or test-framework of choice for this? All the examples on the front page can be written in same number of LOC in many such popular languages.

- chaining - It's just code so put multiple get calls after one another
- captures - Just variables. With sessions you can also get automatic cookie-capture.
- Payload - Yes
- Parsing responses - stdlib has json and xpath libraries that also can be written as oneliners. Html not always being pure xml is a problem, but can be solved with other libraries, like beautifulsoup.
- Retries - a bit more hassle to set up but also doable with relatively small effort.
- Comments - yes

What's missing would be benefits given by the declarative nature, such as more human friendly output on jsonpath assertions. But that's often easily extended with functions in the test framework and outweighed by the flexibility given by allowing you to extend the capabilities with more functions or put computations between chained calls or other external inputs/outputs needed in the tests. How often do you really need to test only the http call and nothing else?
TIL submarines can fire ballistic missiles while submerged. It helps them maintain stealth. Here's a video from the 60's showing Polaris firings:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1960-07-21_First_Polari...
Recommended to use a 2560x1440 screen running OpenBSD at 150% with DWM
It’s almost like there are layers to security. You don’t have to be root, but nor should any random npm install script be able to steal keystrokes and send them away. While we are it, linux desktop security just sucks all around.
There are studies on the effectiveness of unit tests (and other layers of tests) from the 1980s. Unit tests catch about 20% of bugs. Integration tests catch 40% of bugs, but the overlap between the two is small, so you still benefit from having both.

Which one came first is irrelevant, the question is if they help us write better software.
Among others (Tomahawk being notable), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGM-27_Polaris was designed to be launched underwater, in service from 1961.
Here are a few recent ouputs from the service:

Editing Binaries in DOS (2002)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33737207
This is a technical report on editing binaries in DOS. The author describes how to use the debugger program DEBUG.EXE to edit binary files without requiring additional tools. The author provides two examples of how to edit a binary file. The first example edits a string of bytes in an executable file. The second example edits machine instructions to alter the behaviour of the program.

Elon Says He’ll Make His Own Phone If Apple and Google Deplatform Twitter
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33750616
This is a news article discussing a potential new phone by Elon Musk. The article discusses the controversy around whether or not Twitter should be banned from Apple and Google's app stores. It also discusses the possibility that Musk may make his own phone if Twitter is banned.

IRS warns taxpayers about new $600 threshold for third-party payment reporting
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33750598
This is a news article from CNBC discussing the IRS's new $600 threshold for receiving Form 1099-K for third-party payments. The article explains that the change applies to payments from third-party networks, such as Venmo or PayPal, for transactions such as part-time work, side jobs or selling goods. The article also explains that the IRS is reminding taxpayers that they may receive Form 1099-K for transactions they don't expect, such as reselling Taylor Swift tickets at a profit, for example. The article advises taxpayers that if they receive Form 1099-K for personal transactions, they should contact the issuer for a correction.
There are some percentage of those 550K homeless who just need a home, but it's much lower than 50%. If you've seen a homeless person screaming at their reflection in a car window and then punching it repeatedly until their hand seems broken you will realize that that particular person's problem is not the lack of a housing structure.
Thanks for the information, I saw it too, but what I like about them is that they are constantly refreshing it with new offers.
Koyaanisqatsi and Sunless by Chris Marker are movies I come back to and rediscover over and over.

Sunless can be watched on you tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdusEgrbhgA
If cash is banned and a central bank gets the funny idea of setting the short term negative interest rate to -5% permanently, then corruption would disappear because the return on money obtained via corruption is no longer guaranteed to be positive unless it helps the economy more than the initial corruption damaged it. A few years later cash with demurrage fees would be implemented.
Are these houses or apartments?

I don't see a problem with these real estate developers that are building and managing large apartments complexes themselves. Seems like they're doing a lot to add supply at the lower end. Even if they do maintain a certain vacancy rate.
Not trustworthy. For a more accurate view listen to this interview with Mueller, the main engine designer at SpaceX: https://youtu.be/Uu9sobNjPFY

Conclusion: Elon has been instrumental in engineering decisions, often overruling the opinion of the rest of the team and later proven right (though not always). Later in the interview when asked who his role model is he answers "Elon", for having completely changed the way he thinks about engineering and business. Building multiple billion dollar businesses is not luck, and is not simply the result of a "child king". For more details on his engineering and management of SpaceX I recommend the book "Liftoff". The anti-Elon rhetoric has gone too far and is completely detached from reality.
In which the main problem here is "United States", not the digital currency donation.

US agencies have too many overreaching regulations like the OFAC one, together with a lot of fake regulations.

The SEC was close to FTX and totally blind to the whole fraud operation that was going on. Likewise, many things in traditional finance markets (debt collaterization, etc.) are legal and regulated, but they're often nothing else but outright scams.
Rewrote it in python.
A fun thought experiment - imagine a fantasy society with no credit. Everyone who can buys a house based on their wealth.

Introduce a bank into the picture, making loans. How does that change the situation? It might not cause more houses to be built, because the physical situation hasn't changed. but it does mean that everyone ends up having to spend a lot of time working for the bank because it ends up that people with access to credit end up in a bidding war to try and buy houses.

We've tried very low interest rates in the west for a long time now. There is a dire shortage of hard evidence that it has helped people to own houses. Credit unwinds are painful in the short term, but in the long term I don't think it will be a major problem. Profound sadness for the people who were caught out with debt in the near future though.
this one exception is pretty nice, but not realistic or common
Isn't that ratio being high a good thing? For every person that becomes housed, that figure goes up.
>There are diverse countries that have similar levels of safety like Singapore.

Any examples for this statement?
Europe actually has a significant defense capability. More trained soldiers than the US or Russia. Arms r&d, lots of aircraft, ship building etc. It doesn't spend as much as the US and only a couple of European countries have projection, namely France and the UK, and not that much at that. But the idea that Europe as a whole would be unable to defend itself against Russia's conventional military is pretty much just hawkish propaganda.
It’s early, I thought I read that prices were down 30%. It’s the activity of home purchases by companies. To be honest the remainder is still absolutely too much.
Whatever city you live in, odds are good there are units sitting vacant while people are homeless.

100% true and while I appreciate your perspicacity, this will not resolve the issue.

Seattle has a vacancy rate of 3.6% according to your cited source. Cities need a supply of vacant homes, lest we all become New York (vacancy rate 1.4%): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-02-18/looking-t...

As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the only way out of this is to build more homes.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33668539
Watch and share the FSF's latest animated video “Escape to Freedom”
Yep

If you're going to do a single request or a few requests in isolation, curl is the way to do.

If you wanna do a full fledged testing suite, might as well using a proper scripting language or a test framework.

Hurl hits the spot between those two for me.