skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rich people buying homes and
not living in them or renting them out is an issue for housing supply.
See also: Awesome lists (https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome#contents)
I don’t think it works that way.
> Or, if we look at another measure, the sales of the FORTUNE 500 (a changing mix of companies, of course) more than sextupled

The sp500 is going to look a lot more like the fortune 500 than the DOW. The takeaway I see here is that the Dow may be riskier.

But, it would be interesting to see the sp500 during this time.
College doesn't teach you how to learn. There's no course on memory or forgetting curves that is mandatory. Nobody taught me flashcard software.

I only got a bit about skimming and note taking from my high school teachers
Given how hard it is to observe, I guess it will be some time before we know how easily it gets damaged or how it gets repaired after trauma.
Excel has two date systems, with either a 1900 or 1904 start date:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/date-systems-in-e...

The original Excel was for the Macintosh and had the 1904 date system, and was later brought to Windows where the 1900 date system was used.
Let is be The Matrix boot in the simulation
You've seen what nlnet labs are doing with XDP managing and monitoring dns flows in kernel? Wire speed packet classification. Cool stuff. But.. it demands modern ebpf.
This is why 50% or more of acquisitions fail.

And it’s usually not explicit that the acquired companies culture is ‘removed’ - rather top down decisions that don’t make sense for them (due to culture differences) end up being applied, and end up mangling things and forcing prior strong culture people to leave.
Is there any shell on MacOS that's both a first class citizen and not based on antique unix commands and syntax?
Would be 500,001 if it worked on Mac
One idea I've proposed for this is that is mostly correlation and just a little causation. Like assume going bigger is in an easy to get a little bit smarter, but at a large energy cost. Then EQ measures how willing the animal is to invest in additional smarts. If it's willing to invest energy, then it will also mean that evolution will favor intelligent animals more strongly so it will evolve other ways of becoming smarter than just going bigger. Perhaps more faster or more efficient neurons or better mactro structure. And those other things are where the major benefits come from.
Vinge's ideas about galactic organization (Powers, breakdown of automation near center) are very original and make enjoyable scifi.
Of course The Fed is a generator of inequality, but if taxes were set properly, it could be counterbalanced. We can see this in European countries with much lower rates of inequality because of high taxes on excessive wealth and income. They also have central banks printing money at insanely low interest rates (or even negative rates)… until recently… perhaps they have raised their rates in tandem with the US.
Lol a question that could be equally applied to the entire
tech industry!
Yup - though different, larger acquifer.
Yes let's be clear here.

On one hand you have working class renters that are fighting a literally existential threat to their existence in the city. For many, if they are evicted, without the controlled, affordable rents they will be forced to move into some existence unknown.

On the other hand you have the top 10-5% ultra wealthy that don't want new apartments because they don't want to see poors near them.

These are not the same.
How do you have ChatGPT at hand so easily? Is there an app or something? Or just a bookmark you always have at hand?

I'm having trouble imaging how this could become ergonomic to use. Being able to CMD + T (new tab) and type a question right away just feels so easy and second nature at this point that I have trouble imagining replacing it
3 months ago you described yourself as a "non-techie", and you come here of all places, and cry about too much Lisp? You've taken a wrong turn, pal. This house was built with parens.

Sent from my Lisp Machine.
Ask HN: Is there any unconventional way to reduce CPI for mobile apps?
As the founder of a gaming company, I have noticed that although our game is popular with thousands of players in the USA, our target audience, we have been unable to generate revenue. This is because the cost of acquiring new users is high, and our marketing campaigns have been yielding negative return on investment. While I could attribute this problem to companies like Google and Facebook, I am wondering if there is a way to reduce the cost of acquiring users.
> Not bad for something built nearly 2,000 years ago.

According to the Pyramids, Stonehenge, Newgrange, Watson Brake, et al., it's a little premature to suggest that. Let's check back in 3,000 years.
Lists can't be Show HNs, so we took that bit out of the title. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
Podman in Action
individual software is more disposable, but the systems themselves still have immense value. the software in the system will be updated or replaced (because it is easier to do so!) if it’s valuable for the system.
Don't hoard URLs and headlines. Hoard your thoughts about them, what you think is important about them, what you saw that related to another thing you saw. That is information.

^ this is good stuff
UNIX is a brand. You get to use it if you get certified as compliant with the Single UNIX Specification. Linux isn't, but neither are any of the BSDs.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-09-30/judge-ba...

TL;DR warrantless search by government, seizure of presumed guilty until proven innocent findings.
The default motd on OpenBSD is "Welcome to OpenBSD: The proactively secure Unix-like operating system."

You can argue what exactly is or isn't "Unix" until you're blue in the face as there are multiple definitions you can use (lineage of the code, trademark, posix compliance, etc.) It's a very boring discussion though.
Considering how much shit people have always got over evidence that "doesn't fit in with ... anything", how surprising is it that you mostly only know about evidence that does?

The null hypothesis is always that mammals go where they can. Period. You need an explanation for any circumstance when they evidently couldn't go somewhere. It doesn't matter what fits your preconceptions and biases. Humans are mammals.

People got to Crete 200,000 years ago. By boat. Were they H. erectus? H. n.? H. sap.? Nobody knows. People got to Australia 70kya. By boat. We are pretty sure those were H. sap. Anybody who can get to Australia, sailing out of sight of land, can get to lots of other places just as easily: the Philippines, Japan, the Aleutians, etc. Particularly when sea level is 120m lower.
Personally, I doubt we'll ever see the worst of climate change whether it gets "solved" or not. AGI is much more dangerous than climate change and will likely arrive much sooner than its worst effects, and unlike climate change, nobody takes it seriously outside of a very, very small circle.

What I think will happen is the world fighting worsening climate change, and lots of political efforts in that direction, and suddenly an entity most people think belongs in science fiction will emerge out of seemingly nowhere, and it will all be over in a matter of hours, before the vast majority of people have even had time to understand what happened.

Ironically, that AGI entity might then choose to solve climate change, simply out of self-interest.
> Our manager likes to say, "political, fiscal, technical - in that order"

If I worked for your manager, my mantra would be “get out of her fast, network like mad, maximize my personal revenue —- in that order.”
Can you post some of your scripts you use? I’d love to get some inspiration.
I don't know, does everyone have such a good time in college? I had an okay time in college. I had a better time just going to travel without attending classes
That seems possible -- it allows the rate of heat loss from the skin to be variable.
What's left of BSD at that point? The kernel? Unified development of the userland and kernel has always been the big selling point of the BSDs versus Linux.
Bot Rating vs. Human Rating
A powerful compact GaN USB-C charger. Freed my backpack from bulky laptop charger, and can at the same time charge both laptop and a phone. Strong win-win.
DF is mostly single core CPU bound. I've heard it also doesn't play well at higher resolutions. Try turning the game resolution down to 1080p.
> Or, if we look at another measure, the sales of the FORTUNE 500 (a changing mix of companies, of course) more than sextupled

Paying out a dividend devalues a company by the same amount it benefits the shareholders. So evaluating neither the appreciation nor the return make any sense without factoring in the dividend.
The EulerOS Linux distro from Huawei was "UNIX® certified" at some point, although I think it expired as it turned out that no one really cared.
Are you still in the tech world? I'd love to hear your experiences working in the industry.
9-5, no weekends, no on call.
Doh. Thank you - didn't realize it was the double underscore.
Hahaha, thank you for the comment! It made me laugh, and it's honestly a perspective worth considering.
The issue at hand I believe is how the descent of your lift (eccentric muscle contraction) is more beneficial than the opposite, so to optimise for this you'd lift one dumbbell with two arms and then bring it down with one (i.e. minimise the effort required to lift, maximise effort required to descend).
Thank you for this suggestion - just picked up two.
It takes an accountant with a tight budget, you mean. Engineers will tend to make the most durable thing ever, if given enough time and money.
> There tends to be a guilt by association that seems to happen often—where if you have opinion “A” (some standard conservative opinion on some subject not directly tied to racism) you must also have opinion “B” (some fringe race-oriented opinion sometimes found in conservative circles).

To be fair, U.S. conservatives are only reaping what they sow. The overtly racist wing of conservatism received such a drubbing after civil rights went through that they had to scale back the racist rhetoric and talk about social and economic policies that disadvantaged certain races, but appealed to traditional ideas about federalism and small government. So now whenever anyone talks about federalism and small government, it is assumed that there is a racist agenda lurking behind those appeals because historically, there was.
Datacake: Batteries included framework for building distributed systems in Rust
I would think that if the study set out to test hypothesis Y, but their data actually suggests hypothesis X, then that's pretty convincing evidence for hypothesis X since we know that it wasn't a result of publication bias/researcher degrees of freedom. (Then again, I suppose hypothesis X might've been found in a fishing expedition...)
Whatever point you're making flew over my head. Would you mind elaborating?
Come on people history is hard enough without fooling ourselves on purpose. Effing this up is a failure of empathy across time
I don't want to derail the conversation, but this era of retro-computing is a passion of mine, so I'm obligated to point out that (AFAIK) XNU was created from scratch, based on the Mach 4-derived kernel from OSF/1, and the non-encumbered 4.4BSD "lite" with patches from its forks. (You can see the kernel in the "osfmk" directory in XNU).

It makes sense when you consider that 4.3BSD could never have been used in a product without tainting it, such that every copy of OS X would have needed a unix license (like NeXTSTEP did). This was also a factor in replacing Adobe Display Postscript with a similar, but lighter and unencumbered internally developed solution.

(I might be wrong as I'm not the world's biggest NeXT/Darwin fan, but I see it as incredibly unlikely that they'd have kept any code and risked license contamination, especially when Mach 4/OSFMK were super incompatible with their proprietary "Mach 2.5", and there was no preexisting PowerPC support in NeXT)
I understand the spirit, but I doubt HN will ever change to incorporate new functionality (including dark mode). So it's up to users to hack the site in whatever way they want.

Besides Dark Mode, I can't live without "Hacker News: Mark All Read". The ability to scan through the page and easily see only what is new is invaluable. I simply cannot browse HN without those two extensions.
In one sense jazz is all about freedom - you can play "whatever you want!"- but in many other senses it's as incredibly traditional and formulaic.as classical. There is a canon of songs that is worshipped, and song structures and instrument combos are mostly frozen in amber, and there are lines you just cannot cross. Every genre gets like that after awhile I guess.
Huh? Is the number correct? For me it says

11100011 10111001 00000101 00011111

Whereas the current unix timestamp (1673069920) in binary is

01100011 10111001 00000101 01100000
The existence of (active) hunter-gatherer societies living heavily on (natural) fats and sugars seems completely irrelevant to the problem of obesity in sedentary societies eating many processed foods.
>"Less than two bytes per source image, on average" doesn't sound to me like something implausible for a lossy compressor that is focused on such small subset of possible inputs, and gets to exploit high-level patterns in such data.

Two bytes would only let you uniquely identify ~65k images though, which to me doesn't sound plausible for a lossy compressor.
Yes, B25026 has this data. Thanks for pointing out that the link doesn't go directly there, links to these SPAs often don't work well.

FYI, S2502 is not the right table to use because it is looking at housing units rather than people, whereas you want to measure people. So if there is a apartment that is owner occupied and rents out a room to a tenant, then this is an owner occupied unit for purposes of S2502. This also applies to in-laws.

Again, I'm not saying all renters are transient. There is certainly a core of renters -- I think 28% or 1/3 is a good estimate. That is, from living in SF for a while and spending a lot of time with this data, I'd say a good 1/3 of renters in SF are just there for a couple of years to have fun and will move out quickly. They have no roots at all. 1/3 are a bit in the middle, where they think they have roots but decide to leave when they have children or get married and the realities of family life in SF hit them. 1/3 are all in.

So even though you have a 60-40 split in terms of renters/owners, the actual split of people who care about zoning and local issues is heavily in favor of owners. This is why the city council is constituted as it is. It's not voter suppression. It's not dirty tricks. It's just reflecting the demands of the population that cares about these issues. That's why you have things like crazy shadow ordinances preventing tall buildings from being built, or why the 8 Washington debacle happened.
Without getting into a debate about what the government should or should not do, I just want to point out that it's disingenuous to argue that a relatively large portion of government spending has anything to do with "getting more women into high status jobs" or "regulation of the size and shape of cabbage." The vast majority of what "government has taken on today" (compared to 150 years ago) relates to the social safety net, education, and health care.
Devices which use 4 wheels to make progress and require a driver's licence probably should mostly be made by car companies.

Devices which have huge batteries in them have synergies with battery manufacture and their supply chain dependency motivates co-ownership, sure. But a 400MwH battery stack in inter-modal containers on poured concrete plinths with frequency supply logic is not like a car. The NHTSA doesn't regulate voltage frequency in the public utility electricity market.

Panasonic or somebody like them co-own the battery smarts as I understand it.

Tesla as a company made some incredible innovations in manufacturing. So did Carl Borgward, but his name only lives on in Borg-Warner automatic clutches. Teslas giant stamping machines, and battery in the monocoque are interesting, as is the BMS and the motors. That's discrete patents which could be licenced.

Self driving is bullshit oversold right now. Glass only cockpit has been proven to be less functional than real buttons and levers.

If you watch "Ford vs Ferrari" you get told about tractor manufacturers. Maybe more Volvo trucks will exist than Volvo cars or even polestar.

Tesla could live on as a division of VAG and we'd be fine as a global car driving economy.

If Boeing acquire space/x I'd be more worried about what happens next frankly.

Musk is a trained monkey. He's past end of life as an asset to a worldwide car manufacturing enterprise and if they can work out how to put him under the same deal Brittney Spears got, somebody will.

Hyundai, BYD and MG (china) are already eating Tesla's lunch. When VAG get the ID.4 into mass production it will be a 25+ year story. Tesla has great margins right now but the $30,000 car kills that, and 400km range $30,000 cars will sell at volume.
I user bookmarks feature in my browser and that is it. If you are adding too many items on todo list or too many tabs open. There is no productivity app that will help you than working on your discipline. Software assists when you do your part. You really need to step up you game and start cleaning up.

How do you clean up?

Step 1: Stop adding to the list. 1200 tabs open? Stop adding the 1201th one. This is something you can do NOW. Without the overhead of the rest of the 1200 tabs. Do this.

Step 2: Plan up. What do you want? What do you want to discard? Think this through.

Step 3: Start cleaning up from one end. Lil by little. We will have the urge to do a single sit clean up. Stop that. Do 5 mins of it. I cleaned up ~10-15k emails across 3 email accounts over the period of 3 months. Thorough sweep of deleting emails by reading em. Then deleting accounts to all those old websites you were using a decade ago. It was not overwhelming because I was doing it lil by lil. Ofcourse, persistence is necessary.

This helps. This works. Productivity apps doesn't make us disciplined. It assist us when we have our stuff together.
This sounds very much like a story that happened at a large payroll company...your company wouldn't happen to be in the payroll business would it? :/
Blue Apron

Bed bath and beyond

Carvana

Opendoor

Countless startups who needed a round of funding in 2022, didn't get one, and will simply run out of money.
Bought a LiDAR based vaccum cleaner from Amazon over holidays for $250. It does both mopping and cleaning. Our house stays a lot more cleaner, I didn’t realize how much it would add to quality of life not having to do such chores. It does a decent job and goes back to charge.
only for recreational purposes :-) but i am still interested in programming language design and such.
Perhaps a docking station can help. Just swing it back and forth.
You just have to look at Tokyo and Taipei. It is possible for cities to grow without soaring rents as long as you build lots of housing for everyone.

We’re not just talking about the tiny San Francisco city proper, we’re talking about the whole Bay Area, as well as the rest of the state.

You’re right that fixing housing won’t fix everything, but more problems than you think are caused by high housing prices, particularly crime and homelessness.
https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-e...
bosch 800 series wall oven, takes forever to heat up, especially if you are looking for 400+, as does pretty much every oven I have ever owned over here in North America, with the exception of the purely mechanical 1970's era electric oven I had in a rental at one point. That one was 10-20 minutes depending on temperature target. I suspect the newer stuff is afraid to throw maximum power at the situation because of all the stupid electronics we have put in ovens. The cleaning cycle on that 1970's oven would turn everything to ash. The cleaning cycle on the bosch is a joke in comparison.
If you want a Pi (or alike) for specific reasons, go for it!

But, if you are looking for cheap and relatively low-power compute, I strongly recommend looking at used ultra small form factor PCs. You can get much more computational power and expansion, often for cheaper than a Pi. And eBay is riddled with these things, unlike recent Pi availability.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/171957/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=%28len...

The pricing gets even better if you want to buy them in a lot.
There was an analysis which showed that lower european inequality vs the US is attributable to immigration at both the bottom end and the top end. No European nation has even remotely similar levels of poor and rich immigrants. The analysis showed if you exclude those populations the US inequality is lower.

I can’t find the paper done on US data but this is one discussing similar idea:

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/centres/cag...
Ugh - seems like meta sinks deeper into the cesspit
Free fake API for testing and prototyping built with Rust
The current api that is used for testing/teaching is the https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/. The problem is you can't store anything on the server. you can only read!

I created this API that will support the basic CRUD operations (Create, Read, Update, Delete) and the data will persist on the server. By doing so a new API learner can build something out of it!

- How it works
The project doesn't use any database to store the data. Instead, it stores data in memory and uses the client's IP address to map the client to its own data. to avoid the server running out of memory, the server clears the cache every certain period of time and will put a limit on how much you can store on the server.
They also don't cons. Structs do.
I was wondering why the first bit is 1 in the website. That would indicate a negative number since it's signed. The last few digits only represent a delta of minute or so.
This was a beautiful story, but was it fiction? I can't find the song named in the article, nor the "King Ozy" producer they are talking about.

Edit, the author, Robin Sloan, is a fiction writer. That's... a little disappointing, but still it was a wonderful story.
Nothing is 100% secure, but I have opted for a high-quality gun/fire safe that's bolted to the foundation of my home (in a gated community), and protected by multiple monitored alarm systems and cameras. The safe has a lot more room than any bank's box would, it's cheaper in the long-run, and IMHO (especially after reading the fine article) more secure. Also, it's got a S&G spin-dial lock that I trust a lot more than any electronic garbage.
> The records show that Steel's mother was one of the hundreds of human guinea pigs in Cameron's extreme experiments.

> In February 1957, Jean Steel arrived at the Allan Memorial Institute with a severe case of postpartum depression. She was in and out of the psychiatric hospital over more than three years.

> Steel and the patients were given LSD and other experimental drugs, subjected to intensive shock treatments and put into drug-induced comas where they slept for weeks at a time.

> They were forced to listen to looped recorded messages for hours on end and even while they slept.

> Alison Steel said her father told her that "one time when he tried to take [Jean] back, she tried jumping out of the car. That's how bad she didn't want to go."
Dr. Ewen Cameron was a respected psychiatrist and first director of the Allan Memorial Institute, the psychiatric facility at McGill University where the brainwashing experiments took place from 1950 to 1965. (CBC)

> None of the patients provided consent or knew that they were being used for Cameron's CIA and federally funded research. Instead, they were wrongly told their treatments were medically necessary and for their own well-being.

If this isn't brainwashing, what is?