skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is essentially why C++ is here to stay. I've wasted a lot of time fiddling with bindings despite knowing C++, and ultimately the best answer is to just do most of your work in C++, and write application-specific bindings for Python/Lua/whatever if you really need to.
You can buy a residential battery today that provides real value. The limitation on batteries is for grid scale supply.
There HAS to be a way to quickly detect such forms of fraud. This is extremely damaging to democracy.
I mean here's my responses to each of the four points you raised:

1) Interest rates make existing housing stock less expensive as people are unable to afford a property of the same price based on fixed monthly payments.

2) Housing standards are relatively consistent, and you know Tokyo is on a fault line right?

3) Developers will happily add any kind of unit they think they can sell, just look at what the city of SF is rejecting on a regular basis. But even if you only build luxury housing, that pushes existing wealth out of less fancy units opening them up to lower wealth tiers. New supply is new supply. Period.

4) Lack of available workers factors into cost of construction, but cost of construction is absolutely dwarfed by market prices. If we were close at all to it, we could include (4) but we're just not.

> Tokyo is incomparable for a few reasons, but you can start by examining Japanese birth rates, immigration policy, and California's comparable car-only infrastructure.

This constrains demand, but the point remains that in their market supply and demand meet. Supply and demand can meet by increasing supply or by decreasing demand. Btw, Japan’s immigration policies are actually very lax, but the perception of their culture as unwelcoming to outsiders creates little actual demand. The US immigration policies by contrast are significantly more stringent.

Density and transit are a chicken and egg problem. More density however allows you to invest more in transit.

> If you want less expensive housing you'll have to live somewhere else.

This wasn’t the case historically and there’s no reason to think it can’t be the case in the future except for lack of zoning reform. Anyways if you want to take up the supply/demand thing feel free to take it up with Wikipedia, which cites plenty of sources that provide contrasting examples.

> That's just how the world works.

I disagree, but thanks for your perspective.

I look forward to your treatise on why supply and demand stops working when it’s nice outside ;) Especially since during COVID rents fell massively in SF as supply outstripped demand - even thought the weather remained lovely.
It's cited at the end of the article.
Stop suggesting ideas. They'll try these.
Answer is no.

It is about where the shoe fits. If you become too heavily dependent on modules you risk module incompatibility due to version changes. If you are not the maintainer of your dependent module you hold a lot of risk. You don't get that with microservices.

If you focus too much on microservices you introduce virtualized bloat that adds too much complexity and complexities are bad.

Modules are like someone saying it is great to be monolithic. Noone should upright justify an overly complicated application or a monolithic one.

The solution is to build common modules that are maintainable. You follow that up with multi-container pods have them talk low level between each other.

Stricking that exact balance is what is needed not striking odd justifications for failed models. It is about, "What does my application do?" and answering with which design benefits it the most.
Nice idea...

... sounds like I should pay someone to do it!
For a first pregnancy, the doctor shouldn't make any assumptions about what the couple knows and doesn't know.

Even if the advice was "Let her listen to her body, she will know when she needs help and support" would go a long way- both in assuaging the father's concern, and in reinforcing that it is both acceptable and encouraged to ask for help as the mother's body changes.
Did you mean to link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paregoric instead?
You may be right - this recent presentation on Complementary foundations for mathematics https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34197169 seems to be following a similar POV.
> And I'm not advocating for unit tests, nor do I treat them as replacement for types. The fact that they occasionally overlap doesn't mean they serve same purposes.

So you don't advocate for unit tests, you don't want a powerful type system, what do you want?

> Every solution comes at a cost. Where is Ada now?

A source of features for newer languages, thus is the circle of programming language life.

> Sounds like dynamic typing with extra steps.

Static assertions based on build flags have been around for a very long time, in all sorts of languages. They are a performance/safety trade off.
Since when is resale value a consideration for a commodity device that is likely to be used until the day it dies?
True, but also, sometimes the answer to a problem is getting rid of the thing that is the problem.
The tolerance runaway with Ketamine is legendary, and how people get addicted.

At some point, people have to give up "that first dose" effect and take what Ketamine does offer in the long term.

That's why doctors tend to lock the dose at one single point. This is what happens with nearly any drug like this, but Ketamine is certainly severely strong in this aspect.

Let's not have another opioid crisis please.
Alright. Who gets to confiscate the pre-quantum keyed Bitcoin? Miners or codebreakers?
This is exactly the reason why I'm trying my best to keep my non-smart vehicle running as well as possible for as long as possible.

I have no idea what exactly will be exposed to the manufacturer's backend, what can be manipulated and hacked on the front-end, and the possible safety repercussions involved with this.

Who's to say some government/corporate espionage results in a manufacturer getting their back-end hacked and having every online vehicle immediately get their brakes applied? Definitely some Black Mirror-esque stuff...

Not to mention the convenient ability to surveil any vehicle and their locations with a busted and easily crackable API - why does it take external hackers with a (thankfully good) sense of morals and ethics to bring these things to companies' attention?

It'll probably take something hitting national/international news before lawmakers or companies take this security seriously.
Resale value? TVs are so cheap even goodwill doesn’t want them.
Can a quantum computer fit in an answering machine? :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5bAa6gFvLs
Ok, we've changed the title to say investment. Thanks!
I'm surprised that you feel that strongly on induction of labor which is routine, very safe and used frequently. My wife was induced to help reduce the need for emergency c section.

Induction is mostly boring (you spend a long time hooked up to an IV).
So my next concern is: how does Mastodon control spam?
Molly, you keep an amazing website that's brought me much joy over the last year; keep it up!
I have open WiFi. If you are close enough to receive a signal from my WAP, you are already on my property (or intentionally using a high gain directional antenna.)
Now if only Microsoft would put some of their recognizer smarts into Excel so that ZIP codes like "02201" don't get converted into "2,201".
Do non-Christian women have the same procedures forced upon them?
This almost certainly varies with the specific labor market, but what I've heard anecdotally is that there's tons of demand for experienced tradespeople, but the prospects being fresh out of school aren't great unless you have connections.
Nix is also now intentionally breaking any packages that use Python 2, in my experience, so unless you're using a specific, older Nix channel, you're unlikely to have much success with anything that needs Python 2.
I wouldn't say I have "stopped", but my productivity has improved greatly after I went through this course: https://www.drdavidmaloney.com/procrastination-course-101
Procrastination is a psychology issue and some of the things that cause it are counter intuitive. This course gave me a toolbox to both recognize and deal with the different causes.
Ah I'm sorry man, it really was honestly not my intent to cast you as some Putin shill but I guess it is bound to appear that way regardless of whether I included the disclaimer :) But I didn't include it flippantly, there was a reason behind why I raised this, I just didn't articulate it very well.

The reason I mentioned it is that I've seen this line so many times in the context of these pro-Putin/Z guys and the stuff they copy-paste every time that it nearly lost all meaning to me - it's just line noise that is the same as all the other Putin propaganda. The only way it could be elevated beyond that is if it was validated by Russia also invading Finland (which they definitely won't ... I hope). Because that right there is very real NATO expansion on Russia's doorstep, a massive new NATO border and two very militarily-capable nations joining, in Putin's eyes, an organization hellbent on your destruction.

Remember that Ukraine's accession was certainly not guaranteed prior to 2014, was definitely not going to happen while Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea were occupied (since that would mean NATO was suddenly and willingly at war with Russia) and is now a near-certainty if Ukraine succeed in driving Russia out.

So it just seems so self-defeating - if the intent is to reduce conflict with NATO and discourage any countries from joining then why do something that demonstrates the value of being a NATO member in a country that was not in the position to become a NATO member? I cannot stress enough how much of a profoundly bone-headed own goal it is, if that was the intent.

Sorry I'm maybe just repeating myself at this point. But it just seems more insane a reason to me than a quick patriotic land-grab or some "regime change" does, regardless of what we anyone in the Kremlin says.
I'd rewrite sections like this to be a bit less "insulting the intelligence of the question-asker".

The models do not understand language like humans do.

Duh? they are not humans? Of course they differ in some of their mechanisms. They still can tell us a lot about language structure. And for what they don't tell us, we can look elsewhere.
There is also the savings from the solar your house produces and uses directly instead of pulling from the grid at the price per kWh.
My guess is that they're measured in replies per hour instead of in resolutions per month.

From my past experiences, it's clear they don't even bother to understand what I wrote. Reading comprehension is zero, which seems to indicate a strong disincentive to actually comprehending and helping.
> This happens approximately never (see: Qanon), and when it does, the chances of a good result are even more remote (see: Bolshevism).

I would also count Russia in the current war into the "never bucket". Many expected them to overthrow the dictatorship, but the internal situation only became worse since 2022. If anything as more people leave, system becomes more homogenous and even more supportive of current status quo.
Another benefit of microservices is it allows you to have a permission boundary, which can restrict the scope of damage if a single server/service is compromised.

And for that matter it can (but not necessarily) limit how much damage a bad code release can do.

Of course you don't get those benefits for free just by using microservices, but impleminting those kind if boundaries in a monolith is a lot harder.
Yes but it’s literally a single point of failure. You probably want at least two servers in separate physical locations. Also how do you do deployments without interruption of service on a single server?
I think it's also true that on a small local scope it is easy to write a function that takes the old state as argument and returns the new state as result. I think that in some sense makes it easier to reason about the 'evolution" of the actor.

I'm not sure I can explain why I think it would be simpler that way, but perhaps it is that conceptually you can then "package" the logic of how the actor-state changes over time into a single (local) function.

You want to understand and describe how the actor-state evolves over time? Read and understand the logic of this single function, whose results depends only on its arguments. Note that such a function does not have any internal state itself, it calculates the new state for the actor, always the same way based on arguments the system gives it.

I think that's the key to understandability here, the programmer does not need to know and keep track of the state and where it is stored and how to modify it. The system/runtime gives the current state to them as argument. It is not hidden into some variables somewhere who knows where. It comes as argument to function local to the actor. It is part of the definition of that actor.

This is how Erlang works, right? Is there a specific name they use for such a state-evolution-function?
There used to be places for them but they were replaced with immigrants, women, automation and outsourcing.
Germany. I think the GP is exaggerating the legal risk.
Legalize apartment buildings.
Sure, but not all micro-services are vital. If your "email report" service has a memory leak (or many other noisy-neighbor issues) and is in a crash loop then that wont take down the "search service" or the "auth service", etc. Many other user paths will remain active and usable. It compartmentalizes risk.
Did you see the "against their will" portion?
> Today many don't even need a keyboard on your computer

And yet tablets/phones offer software keyboards because they're not obsolete yet. But that's a tangent, and I get your point.

And it's not an unreasonable point. But we're not there with cars yet. At least not those whose engines still include a link between the accelerator and the engine.

For example, I can see why knowing your RPM in a hybrid would be useless, since the motor/engine combination is entirely controlled by a computer (I still wish it was there, perhaps only because I'm used to having that information, and I feel poorly equipped to drive the car well without it).

But in an ICE vehicle, even a modern one, you still have surprising amount of direct control over the RPM. You also have control (or at least pseudo-control) over the operation of the transmission in most automatics. Even my CVT Subaru has the ability to override the CVT and set my own gear.

All this means that you can still operate the vehicle at or above the "unsafe for the engine" line... You still need insight into how quickly the engine is turning over.
What it is is using the wrong solution for a problem. Vice-versa the number of devs who justify monolithic apps is absurd. The justification of microservices is just as problematic.

It is about striking a balance. No reason should something be overly compounded or overly broken up.
AT&T's predictions of the future (1993)
Is there any concrete research on the behavior of smart TVs when you've disabled telemetry? I leave mine disconnected but I'm curious to what extent different brands actually honor the opt out settings that are available.
[...] to reestablish Russia as a regional hegemon [...]

Without any implications whether I agree or not and ignoring the means used in case this is what Russia wants and does, purely looking at the supposed goal - is this a bad goal?
The article says the prisons are probably doing it for "liability reasons." Given the horrible state of medical care in prison in general, they're probably trying to make sure that labor happens with doctors available, rather than spontaneously when nobody might be around to provide any medical help at all.
Keyword here is "sometimes". Is there a reason to believe that this is such an instance?
> I'm surprised that you feel that strongly on induction of labor which is routine, very safe and used frequently. My wife was induced to help reduce the need for emergency c section.

Presumably because it's being done without their consent.

> But all three women said they were told by prison medical providers they were being induced because it was a policy of the Arizona Department of Corrections for all pregnant incarcerated women, not due to their individual conditions. The women say they were given no explanation for the policy, but they believe it is being implemented to reduce liability for the prison system.
A root canal is also a fairly safe procedure but I would be rightfully upset if it was done to me without my consent.
It's hard to imagine a C programmer so professionally ignorant that he's
yet to realize C++ is a superset of C.
> I'm pretty sure society is not obligated to have an interest in you

It somewhat stops being a society if it says to some members "whether you live or die is irrelevant to me, I will not care either way". That's what some people experience at least some of the time.

There's a social contract. Is it still binding you if society doesn't hold up its end?
I specifically bought a Samsung 'digital signage' display instead of a 'TV' because that was the closest I could find to a dumb TV, and I have the same experience. There is an accept terms & conditions popup that requires the internet that takes up the bottom third of the screen which comes up basically when doing anything with that involves the TV remote.

Even if you do accept the terms the conditions, it comes back as soon as you are disconnected from the internet. I am extremely disappointed with the experience.
I just checked and there is no open wifi near my apartment. Telecoms don't default open wifi anymore for their routers.
> If you are encrypting data that will be at rest for more many years it's time to start think about migrating to post-quantum crypto so you don't end up one day discovering you're entire corpus is vulnerable

Because Bitcoin is centralized, if it would get cracked tomorrow, the major miners could decide to save everyone.
Prisoners in the United States have zero human rights whatsoever.

In fact, the 13th amendment (abolishing slavery) specifically carves out an exception for criminals.
Ok, we've changed the URL to that from https://github.com/microsoft/Recognizers-Text/tree/master/Ja.... Thanks!
It's not about replication, it's about compartmentalizing code changes / bugs / resource utilization. If you deploy a bug that causes a service crash loop or resource exhaustion isolating that to a small service reduces impact to other services. And if that service isn't core to app then the app can still function.
In the days of Gopher and WAIS, they would talk about the different supercomputer models being in agreement or diverging. The NAM would say one thing but the ETA would say something else. If you remember what ETA was, good on you. :)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETA10)
I believe the current answer is yes. Certainly the Ukrainians are on board with this plan.

The current damage and loss of life and health in Ukraine is already larger than a megaton bomb placed over a large-ish city.

Also, the US & NATO voiced publicly their planned response to the usage of a much smaller (kiloton range) nuclear device, namely the complete destruction of the Black Sea Fleet. They did so in the usual way of making former generals speak to the media.

It is also important to notice that it's not US/NATO/whoever's decision. The Ukrainians will fight with whatever they have available, a short talk with anyone in the country makes this crystal clear.
The ramp-up to "I need to save this for extreme circumstances only" happened over about a couple months, during which I'd use it maybe once or twice a week. I didn't feel any particular longer-term boost attributable to it; it felt very much like just an acute treatment. Maybe I'm due for more experimentation, I'll keep your comment in mind the next time I'm anxious and feel like giving it a another try. Regardless, thanks for your comment.
That would break the business logic of millions of small businesses globally who rely on write-only excel spreadsheets to encode their business logic.
It's called Impagliazzo's Worlds Paper:

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=14678868687868063...

A classic paper that explores what happens if various scenarios come to pass. Would be worth exploring some of the updated versions and fictionalizing them.
Zoning makes this illegal in most cities.
Bankman-Fried Pleads Not Guilty, Faces Trial in October
Worth noting that these are machine-generated from a more verbose and clear codebase.
The proper word for it is actually "cruel and unusual punishment".
Ask HN: How to protect against possible Identity Theft in motion
Hi HN, long time user but using a throwaway for obvious reasons. I think someone has been trying to get into my accounts starting with Credit Card account for now. Since Christmas, I have replaced my credit card twice which tells me that the credit company has BS security. But today I found out that supposedly someone called them as me and asked for a new card/PIN. To be fair, they did put an alert on my account and flagged it so that's nice but I am now worried if this person has access to more of my details including SSN etc.

I am reasonably wealthy (as a small business owner) and have decent amount of assets including almost a million in cash between personal and business accounts. I am very good with security in general (use secure passwords everywhere, keypassx, 2 FA whereever possible, alerts/notifications enabled on transasction etc).

But I am now really worried if someone is actively trying to get into my accounts. What are some of the additional steps I can take ? Note that I am not 100% sure yet but I want to be prepared in case.

Should I freeze my credit in case they have access to my SSN ? I read that credit agencies are a joke so not sure what precautions I can take ?
Not sure about apple TVs but many set top boxes like rokus are just as bad if not worse in terms of content recognition and telemetry.
They don't though, that's what I'm saying. Take a look at https://www.usdebtclock.org- the US government is funded by debt, not taxes. If the government accumulates so much debt that it becomes a mathematical impossibility for tax revenue to ever pay it down then what is the actual purpose of paying those taxes? The purpose is to remove privately held currency from circulation, which is necessary if you want to print trillions of newly-created dollars without instantly triggering hyperinflation. If that were not the case, they could stop collecting taxes altogether and operate exactly the same as before- the only difference being the national debt rising at a faster rate. In the US at least, taxes exist solely as a release valve to enable shockingly irresponsible monetary policy
Since there are people who want to sell them. Like the nearly 400 sellers on ebay just for Sony: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=bravia&_sac...

Those people deserve a solution, too.