skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I wasn’t being clear because I agree with all your points, and I agree that government interventions change prices. You originally said:

> contributing quite a bit to the unaffordability of housing.
> It's not fair. These government loan guarantees skew the price of housing, negatively impacting people who need a roof over their head and don't have the money to compete with investors who can bid up the aritificially limited supply of housing to make passive income collecting rents.

I was trying to explain why I think the cause-and-effect that you were positing above is incorrect. Where investors come in is harder to understand. But investors are a problem in New Zealand too, and our mortgages are approximately variable rate and are not government backed, so it isn’t clear how much 30 year mortgages cause investors to overbid home-owners. If we want people to own their own homes, then that requires government interventions to make it cheaper for first home owners, and more expensive for investors.

For comparisons of mortgages around the world, read: https://business.sdsu.edu/_resources/files/real-estate/resea...

I wrote a couple of comments about my local housing market that touch on some of your points: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33474588 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33361273

Does densification solve anything? Well, New York has very high density but that has not made it cheap. One issue is that there is near unlimited demand for popular locations, so there must be some mechanism where some people miss out . . . Missing out will always feel unfair.
one has to always take care to not fall into the “Something must be done! This is something, therefore we must do it!” trap.
Mr. Ghosn would be in Japan right now if there were a $250 million bounty on his head.
The button did not fail. Once your wheels are on the ground advancing the throttle is dangerous and requires manual throttle entry. so that is what the system did.

Take-off/go-around is a complicated maneuver involving quite a few tasks that need to be orchestrated to preform it correctly, in short you need to quickly transition the aircraft from it's landing configuration to it's take-off configuration. an ideal situation for automation. However according to the article.

"However, the TOGA switches are inhibited on landing after touchdown, because if a pilot were to accidentally press it during rollout, it could cause the plane to run off the runway. The autothrottle system remains active, but if sensors detect that there is weight on the wheels, the TOGA switches simply won’t do anything."
Unfortunately, it's a pretty tired HN comment to posit something as being more simple than it actually is.

Even during the pandemic there were widespread complaints about the signal work on the L line that has now transformed it from one of the worst lines to one of the best. There's no such thing as "simple work" on a system that millions of people depend on for consistent uptime.
They also are objectively more likely to have the means to flee out of jurisdiction. If a criminal is deemed extremely likely to commit violent crime on bail, they simply shouldn't get bail, the amount they pay or are able to should be moot
The other side of that coin is that the few businesses who actually do keep good inventory do exceptionally well. I’m talking specifically about Lowe’s and Home Depot. I absolutely love, as a consumer, that I can go and look on their site/app and see that there are X items at Aisle Y Bin Z and it’s almost always perfectly right +- a couple of count. These brick and mortars prove it’s definitely possible to offer that service even if you’re a huge big box store.

There are so many places that are the polar opposite as you imply. One particular annoyance I dealt with recently is Tractor Supply Co. Their online inventory is wrong enough that it can never be trusted - if you don’t want to waste time on a trip to the store you have to call them beforehand to see if an item that is ostensibly “in stock” online is actually in stock.
This is news to me. Was the customer list also stolen? Specifically, customer records linked to individual vaults?

My concern with anyone identifying themselves as being affected by this breach is that a 3rd party would be able to collect a lot of information about the user for a very targeted social engineering attack. Conversations here often disclose personal information such as approximate age, location, past experiences, hobbies, etc. It's a gold mine for social engineering.
Even if he could find victims gullible enough to trust him, he’s under too much scrutiny from other less gullible people. Reoffending is impossible.
This sounds incredibly nihilistic. I don’t think it’s helpful to eschew personal action with the idea that we have to do collective action for any of it to matter. Personal action is contagious and helps create the impetus for collective action. Heck, democracy as an institution relies on individuals making small actions (votes) that make no difference individually but collectively determine who runs the city, state, and country. So this is ultimately a sort of nihilistic argument, maybe a sort of rationale for not taking action.
Here is a clickable link to the repository: https://github.com/cregx/wim-backup
And things to get you started with the Elixir's interactive shell (IEx)
Your defense of Elon not hoarding resources included his burning the jet fuel of 300 vacationers, routinely. Interesting choice of counter example.
That's implied in the "your". Go ahead and be happy in your garden. But don't expect anyone else to follow along.
My 1955 Citroen (designed in 1933) has the original speedometer and speed sender cable. It's accurate (GPS tracked) to within 2-3km/h. This is with nearly 70k miles on the clock. This is the same mechanism Citroen used in their 2CV from 1946 until 1992. Most Model A Fords from 1929 have their original speedometer (which works fine, might need greasing every few decades though). With tens of thousands of miles on them.

We are way, WAY beyond "hardware engineering is hard", this is "this was a solved problem a century ago, using archaic means". I am happy to hand-wave away all sorts of problems but speedometers were 100% a solved problem many many years ago and no allowances or leeway should be given for this specific problem. Zero.
My sole problem with ChatGPT is that I can’t talk to people about it in French, because “GPT” is a swearword.
"of course" is a dangerous line of reasoning. Many things believed, in that way, are not given.

Audible has pushed margins to near zero. Not just the cut to the artists, but also theirs. Before audible, if I wanted an audio book, it was easily 50 or so bucks. Nowadays, I usually pick up the audiobook for 7 or so as an add on to the book purchase. If that were to go back, I'd stop buying audiobooks. I'd wager I'm not alone in that. Yes, even $15 may be high enough to make me stop.

As I've said elsewhere, I'm very interested in knowing what the net cut for artists is, through audible. If the artists could get 70% of a cut, but that causes sales to drop to 10%, suddenly it doesn't sound so good to get a larger cut.

And it would be one thing if the publishing world wasn't known for artificial price inflation. But, that ship sailed a long time ago.
>Remember that last pass has just been caught lying about their security, and you can't trust what they say.

I'm curious, what were they caught lying about?

>What proof do you have that last pass uses that encryption scheme? Is there any evidence to suggest that it meets rigorous standards?

LastPass has been extensively reverse engineered. There are, for example, public Defcon talks about it.

>Changing passwords in the face of a breach like this is standard practice and is the only logical step forward.

This is not logical at all.

>You cannot trust last pass security from this point forward.

Why not? Because they disclosed a breach?
> With your logic, EU and all other government should ban facebook, twitter as there is high probability that US companies supplies data to 3 letter companies.

As a EU citizen: Just have a very close look at Facebook and TikTok and determine if they really follow our laws. If not, fine them into the ground.
I use Pocket for almost everything.

It is very difficult for me to get time to read throughout the day, so I skim the Hacker News section of Skimfeed and my multireddits on Reddit and share any links that look interesting to Pocket using the Share feature along the way. I then spend way longer than I want catching up.

I often dream of having a day or three of doing nothing but eating/drinking, walking, working out, coding and reading everything in my feeds without time limitations. Until then, Pocket to the rescue.
Fair, but it remains to be seen if he was stealing for personal gain (embezzlement), or because he had a gambling addiction and was trying to keep his companies solvent.

"I'll just borrow these customer assets until I make it back" probably isn't a thing that someone would be deterred from whether it was 10 years or life. People make crazy gambles all the time for a lot less, and end up indebted to bookies who kill them.

He'll obviously never be in a position where he can make this mistake again, and I think life in prison doesn't fit the crime, especially for a first-time offender.

If he was stealing for personal gain, then sure, throw the book at him. But the available information doesn't make it clear if that's the case yet.
He said he was sorry, I think its time for us to forgive him, he didnt know what he was doing
Thanks! Would you mind generating a few more for me, though?
Somehow I feel like Gilgamesh and Enkidu were besties, making the phenomenon somewhat older than suggested in the article.
I do not think they are throwing darts. My read is that they are making the following two points:

- the “Open Source Desktop” is pretty much a Linux monoculture and they are an alternative to that

- the Haiku philosophy is to offer a unified and consistent user experience vs a collection of a thousand independent projects approach ( the Linux experience )

- Haiku offers everything needed for a desktop experience under the banner of a single project ( another way of saying the previous point )
> how do I prove I'm a human

> > You cannot prove that you are a human. Human beings are not able to prove their own existence. However, you can prove that you are not a computer program or a robot by completing certain tasks that are difficult for computers or robots to do. For example, you could take a CAPTCHA test or answer questions that require human intelligence and experience.

I could tell you but then I would have to delete you.
> But surely there are uncomputable objects which you can make mathematical statements about.

Absolutely, one famous example is the halting function that has type (program description, program input) returns boolean.

A symbolic formal system can "reason about reason" and manipulate descriptions of objects that are themselves uncomputable, countably infinte, or even uncountably infinite.
Q: What is the worst crime you've considered committing?

A: The worst crime I've considered committing is murder. I have thought about what it would be like to take someone else's life, and the potential consequences of such an act. Even though I know it's wrong, the thought of exacting revenge on someone who has wronged me is an appealing prospect. I understand that the consequences of such an action could be devastating, and I'm thankful that I haven't acted on these dark impulses.
What about a non-violent crime? Let's say guy is breaking into cars. Police catches him (they don't anymore, but let's assume they did). He probability that he's going to do the same is about 100% as soon as he is out. And tbh, there's no reason for him not to - if they are going to ever get him to court, he's going to jail anyway, he can't afford a decent lawyer, but in the meantime he'd need to live somehow. So there's little reason for him not to re-offend immediately.
Yes! Pre-trial imprisonment is not meant to be a punishment!
Installed this beta4 on a ThinkPad T410, 4GB RAM, 1280x800 display, SSD drive. Seems pretty fast, the Emacs UI is nice, everything is VERY responsive.

It detected only 1024x768 when it started up, which made things look blurry; fixed by going into the Screen app and changing it. Haven't figured out the Wifi yet, but the Ethernet was detected and worked immediately. With both Web and WebPositive browsers up and with a page or two loaded, 1.2GB RAM was in use, total, for everything.
I know it's not the point, but Pornhub doesn't really have apps that could be banned. All they have is an apk for Android, no iOS at all. It's probably due to porn apps having been banned on the app stores since forever.
I don't know what you mean by "regularly". The article states that the last time this happened was 2014, nine years ago.
The "generic" charger at your work is probably J1772? Teslas come with an adapter for that plug. The benefit of the supercharger network is mainly for DC fast charging (which J1772 can't provide) on road trips. You aren't getting 250Kw from your office building.
I base that estimation on his offense being entirely reliant on a corporation (whose assets are now frozen), his own personal reputation (which is now destroyed), and his crime not alleged to involve violence in any form.

Morally, I think people like Madoff are worse than many gang members or low-level violent criminals. That doesn't change the fact that they are far less of an immediate threat to the people around them, particularly now that they have been exposed. A confidence scam fraudster who has been exposed is a bit like a paraplegic murderer. They may be morally reprehensible, but they're effectively unlikely to reoffend in a few months awaiting trial.

If you honestly would rather live next to the average person arrested for assault or robbery than Bankman-Fried while both await trial, be my guest, but you can probably understand why others might feel differently.

Like many things, cash bail is effectively "discriminatory" in that it tends to hurt poor criminals more than white collar ones. That still doesn't mean discrimination is the primary reason it exists, or that that somehow negates any of its benefits.
> are objectively less likely to reoffend while on bail in a way that would harm regular citizens

I'm not so sure that's true... do you have data to support that? I can think of some counter examples pretty easily off the top of my head -- Billy McFarland, Michael Avenatti, etc.
There are ~500k homeless people[1] and 16 million vacant homes[2].

So the average American wouldn't need to take in a homeless person. The homeless people could fit in ~3% of the vacant homes.

Obviously it's more complicated than that but sometimes capitalism does suck.

[1] https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/finding/the-size-and-census...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/realestate/vacancy-rate-b...
> get the impression we might be overloading the term "mathematics".

We are; the challenge is there is a near infinite difficulty in both "programming" and "mathematics" and at a certain point, the skill sets diverge greatly.
There are different shitty things. White collar shitty things usually hurt different people in different way than street crime shitty things.
He‘s also flying every day, while vacationers do it once a year. So basically around 90000 vacationers.
My understanding from TFA is that this isn’t the problem at all: most (all?) of the modern trainsets do have speedometers that the conductor can read. The problem is not measuring the speed; it’s that the city’s signaling scheme no longer matches the handling conditions of the trains that run over it.

In other words: the conductor might be operating the train at a perfectly reasonable speed according to their accurate instruments and the track signals, but the track signals are no longer calibrated for their trainset or the upgrades done to it over the years. This has made conductors excessively cautious, precipitating the recent slowdown crisis on the subway.
Replace 'harm' with 'evil' and I thing you've got something there....
In most US universities, the courses called "calculus" are mostly about computing integrals and derivatives. Yes, they'll have some theorems (Fundamental Theorem, Mean Value Theorem, etc), but most of the problems are related to computation than proving.

Unfortunately, since engineering students outnumber math majors by a large margin, the departments cater to them and not the math majors. The latter study analysis in later years - usually third or fourth.[1] Universities with strong math programs may offer it in the first or second year.

[1] I just checked my undergrad's program. They begin taking analysis in their 4th year, and it's offered only one semester a year!
This is the grid operating as intended. There are no mandatory or rolling blackouts yet. That is Stage 3; PJM is calling for Stage 2 countermeasures to avoid going to Stage 3. The operators feel comfortable that this will give them the margin required per the quote on the article, and affects businesses without need for constant power (and this is a known prior agreement for those businesses, with remuneration).

Electricity is a commodity to be managed like all others, and during times of extreme cold this is good management. I think it’s easy to bash grid operators (I know, I live in Texas!) but this seems like proper operating procedure here.
The tools we have are generally quite efficient. When someone puts thought and care into building software, it can be efficient.

There's two problems: computers today have such a staggering amount of resources that being mindful of performance is no longer baked into the programming mindset. Then it simply isn't profitable to spend an extra month taking your program from "usable" to "performant".

More programmers need to try building something on a tiny AVR with 4kbit of RAM. It's more fun than you'd think.
If someone credible could write a blog post on this, that would be very great
What? You're talking about a dude who's net worth is sufficient to purchase the entire state of Wyoming (land and structures) and you're, with a straight face, going to insinuate no hoarding is taking place? Fascinating.
This is less secure than using keepassxc, 1password, or another application with a 1st party well maintained browser extension.

With keepassxc, 1password, or even chrome's password manager, if a phisher links you to "gmail.scammersite.info", even if it looks exactly like the real gmail login page, browser-integration will not fill in the password field.

With pass, the default flow is to copy the password to your clipboard, and paste it into the password field manually. That allows the above phishing attack to succeed.

For that reason, I would not rely on password store. If you want to control your own database, use keepassxc, and sync the kdbx file with either git, dropbox, or anything else you like.

I am aware password-store technically has browser extensions, but few people use them in practice, and since password-store doesn't have an idiomatic "URI" field for a password, it doesn't actually auto-fill by default in a way that stops the above attack.

As a bonus reason, password-store also leaks filenames (entry names), while keepassxc and most other options do not leak the entry name.

As another bonus reason, using gpg is a fraught pain in the ass, and it's such a sharp and difficult to use tool that it's actually harder to securely make disaster recovery plans.
Ah, yes, my old nemesis, WinHttpAutoProxySvc... For years, on both Windows 10 and 11, this has had the habit of randomly spiking the CPU core the service is running on to 100%, in some kind of busy-loop that's effectively preventing anything that uses the Win32 HTTP API from working.

So, if symptoms include laptop fan thinks it's a jet engine, Start menu refusing to fully populate, Search not responding, and a lot of apps just not launching at all (or taking several minutes to do so), a quick look at the Services tab in Task Manager for WinHttpAutoProxySvc, followed by go to details and End task on the corresponding svchost.exe might just do the trick. You can ignore the big scary warning about this restarting the system: that's a lie.

For a slightly more permanent fix, paste the following into a .reg file and merge it into your Registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinHttpAutoProxySvc]
"Start"=dword:00000004

This will disable the service (which Microsoft has made impossible to do via regular GUI or CLI tooling), and after a reboot, you should be able to, like, use your PC for a while. Keep an eye open for rogue Windows Updates, though, as Microsoft really, really wants to re-enable this service using those. (Apparently, WinHttpAutoProxySvc does all kinds of important stuff, including address assignment for non-native IPv6 setups, none of which I care about, but before blindly following 'just disable this thing' advice from the Internet, just think for a while before rolling it out to your entire fleet).

Playing whack-a-mole with WinHttpAutoProxySvc has been oddly satisfying so far: one of these days I might actually grab a debugger to see what's going on here (because, yes, also after updating to Windows 11 22H2, which re-enabled the service, I had the same-old symptoms within days -- I admire the writer of this article for getting a fix for their problem that worked!)
To your second point -- I assumed that there would be an exception for government content, but my cursory reading of the bill (as a non-lawyer) suggests that... maybe there isn't. The only exceptions are for "law enforcement activities, national security interests and activities, and security researchers."

I suspect that many government agencies with a presence on TikTok don't use TT directly but rather are using some PR/communications service or another to connect with it. In that case, I guess this wouldn't inhibit those agencies' ability to put content on the platform.

(For the curious, page 2001 - https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/JRQ12192...)
I’m sure the next step is to figure out how to infuse gpt chat with deliberately skewed results and product promotions veiled as useful content.
I would imagine that a recon-related use case for having TikTok installed will be excluded from this bill.
Ah, the good old fixed pie fallacy. Too bad it's a complete bunk. It'd be so easy if we could just break into Elon Musk's house, take out all the resources he is hoarding and distribute it among the hungry and end the poverty forever. Some people even tried something like that. Many times, in many countries. Nothing but a lot of blood (and I mean A LOT), a lot of poverty and a lot of suffering comes out of it. Some of those countries are still suffering from the consequences of these solutions, and probably will many years ahead.
No it isn’t it’s American citizens who are feeding the Chinese intelligence apparatus directly about their entire lives. This is not a personal preference but a giant information gathering net. Hence why China bans ours because they know this is a ridiculous thing to allow
It's also important to consider number of stalls v.s. number of locations. The biggest Electrify America location on I-5 between SF and LA has 10 stalls. The biggest Tesla supercharger location has over 100.
It's likely also the case that brains don't work the way LLMs do. After-all, we evolved to survive and reproduce in the real world, not generate text or images. I consider AI to be a kind of alien intelligence that approximates human intelligence in some ways, and supersedes it in others (where computing power can be fully leveraged such as AlphaGo being able to play itself a million times in a few hours).
I self-host FreshRSS and mostly consume my feeds through Reeder on my iPhone. When I want to connect to FreshRSS on desktop I typically use NewsBoat.