skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And additionally, the only people who would show up already live there, when a large part of this issue is about a non-present constituency: those who have either been forced to leave, or those who would like to move there, but cannot afford to currently.

So it's even more non-representative than that!
You liked hacking, computer hacking is more or less a solved problem.

People are very interesting, consider them.
>Why would you dismiss the statistics and buy what backblaze does?

You assume people read the fine print and consider fine details.

The vast majority of Joes are going to ask who/what Backblaze is and what they're buying most and buy that, screw the details.
Get it actually working first.

So many people here (especially on the 'show HNs') just release literal crud (no pun intended)

If you want to make a product, then build it, polish it, TEST IT, get it working, then sell it.
How about just saying it'll take 6 hours between the lockouts and the wipes.
Fewer people in general but given that they’re the only continent reproducing above replacement rate, yes - specifically fewer Africans.
I meant the Americas as a continent not the US specifically, and yeah I agree that Italy gets to be an authority on the subject. I was mainly replying to the other person taking "tomatoes are 100% American" to mean all tomatoes are grown in America because that wasn't at all what the comment they'd replied to was saying.
The UK's back was broken in the Battle of France. It's all downhill from there.
Is it just programming or is it for anything else that brings you joy, e.g. any hobbies or media you consume.
Honestly if you still enjoy your day job, consider yourself lucky. Do something else in your free time and enjoy your massive FAANG salary.
It makes me sad.

I used to run ‘large’ (millions of images) photo sites before and now I run some small ones.

Once a year for the last 5 years I considered new image formats would affect my practice, last year I finally found webp was an unambiguous winner over jpeg. (The bar is high. If you want to save both storage and transfer costs you can’t keep copies in many different formats.)

I found it was not so easy to do this analysis because I have not seen good studies of quality/size/processing speed and the ones that are there are limited. I’ve seen some where people compress the kind of images you might see in the header of a blog but look close and the images are awful. I take pictures with my DSLR and the photo could be the main content, it has to look really good.

I was unimpressed with AVIF last time, disappointed really, and liked the vision of JPEG XL much better. Maybe we should be lobbying browser vendors to drop AVIF because the same arguments that have against JXL would also work against AVIF.
First, Wdired is not the normal mode for Dired. You have to hit a key to activate that mode.

Second, it doesn't actually make any changes to the file system until you hit the key combo to commit them. And the files aren't deleted immediately, even when you do commit; they're just flagged for deletion in the standard Dired interface. You'll have to hit a button to actually "expunge" them from there, and that asks for confirmation again before doing so.

Think of Wdired more as a convenient way to build up a transaction of FS changes.

And since everything is a buffer, undo works just fine until you commit it. Or you can load up fresh Dired view of the original metadata in another buffer and ediff them to verify your changes before you commit. :-)
For some reason Japanese culture is quite popular among nerdy types (be it anime? games? sushi?). I was also fascinated by Japan, even tried to learn the language but got discouraged early on by having to learn 3 different "writing systems". The grammar was also not quite easy to grok (definitely not easy as the presented code-like example).

Now I am more fascinated by contemporary China than contemporary Japan. I see that Japanese culture is based on much more ancient and broad Chinese culture. I also see a pick up in interests to learn Mandarin among my friends/coworkers.

I watched a few Chinese movies and I have to say they bring a breath of fresh air. I think whenever we want it or not we will see more Chinese media in the future, simply because they are different from what a typical person is used too. That makes them more interesting at least in the beginning.
Seriously asking: why?

In frontend engineering where there is a separation of logic and presentation you end up with flimsy, broken code. We used to write websites in html and then add some js that targeted specific elements and that was impossible to maintain.

Component based frameworks do away with all that because it doesn’t work. In react you’re mixing logic with your html too through jsx and this framework (and others like vue/svelte) go a step further and put everything related to a fragment of html in a single file.

This works really well, it means your styles don’t leak unless you want them to, your js usually only affects the html in the same file it’s written and you can build robust apps.
Just filter your text through Quillbot to get around "AI Detection".

https://quillbot.com/

Demonstration: https://youtu.be/gp64fukhBaU?t=197

The arms race continues...
"Don't build an asphalt plant near residential zones" is an extremely reasonable zoning restriction. That's what zoning should be doing.

"Don't build any apartments anywhere in this city" isn't.

There should be a range of options available for people, ranging from a house with a yard and no shared walls with anyone, to mid-rise apartment buildings, and many things in between.
so a commenter replied with this link which is a more traditional 2 paragraph bio (https://usesthis.com/interviews/christine.dodrill/) - makes you a little more legible for people with absolutely zero context as to basic things like what you've done, where you've worked, what you're well known for, how you prefer to be addressed (it wasnt even clear what pronouns you use, the comments were all over the place) as far as i can tell, Xe is unexplained, and its a cool name so i'm curious to read more and theres nothing on the site to explain it

to be clear you dont owe us any of this, i'm just reporting my own confusion after going on your site and not knowing what "Archmage of Infrastructure" is (i only realized that your resume is public while typing this... oops)
Agreed, but also more or less inherent property of SaaS. (not in theory, but in practice there's no usable solution to "pin" versions of client code)
D&B are used by most businesses for both verification and a credit rating for the business. It's not specifically tied to Apple unless something changed recently but I would have no doubt that Apple utilize them. For example I had to use our companies D&B number to get SSL certificates from Digicert/Geotrust.

If they are selling their customers information that should be directed to the privacy and legal departments of every company that uses them.
> 90% of all residential zoning in the USA is R1

well if that's based on land area that's not a very informative number. you'd want to do it by population.
If the only thing that you can do is to guard their wealth and welfare against the flocks of prey-on-the-elderly vultures infesting this world, then you'll have done them greater service than mere money could buy.
In a society with socialized healthcare, you would be harming others by making it more expensive to care for you in the future.

In a society where the price of healthcare is set by market forces alone, perhaps you should have unlimited freedom to make bad decisions.

It seems like a lot of people would prefer socialized healthcare over that unlimited freedom.
At least he is being more honest than the CEOs in the previous tech layoffs

"While we have made substantial progress in right-sizing our cost structure, and focused our resources on our core strategic priorities, we have more work to do," Schulman said in the note. "We must continue to change as our world, our customers, and our competitive landscape evolve."
And I grew up in Germany all my life and live in the US now. Maybe "places like suburbs in the US" do exist, though I doubt they are as restricted as the suburbs I'm seeing here, and that you can recognize their nature from a quick Google Maps glance.

But in any case, it does not change the fact that I grew up in a big city, with, as listed above, "cleaner air, safer streets, less traffic, a better place to raise a child and/or dog with backyards and privacy", and that that was common all around me. Children, me included, played on the streets. It's literally called a "Spielstraße", and they are very common. We just walked over to school, too, maybe took the bus for a few stations.

I've been living in the US for close than a decade now, and it's markedly different. I don't blame the US, I just hate zoning with a passion. I so miss living in a nice area in the city and being able to walk over to a small supermarket, a café, a barber, within the same area. Just live my life, without having to hop into my car and make it a journey for every tiny thing. It's so isolating here.

These news give me hope.
Sorry, it's not Devuan, but Debian 11.6, previously was 10.x and was on testing until Bullseye was released.

Works for me without systemd, no problem.

I already use systemd in hundreds of systems at work and personal servers/vps.

But on my personal laptop, I have too many custom stuff after 20 years of thinking around, glued across all the layers (kernel, boot loader, init, background services, tty, graphical environment) and I did choose to keep my laptop with the traditional equiv of all the things that systemd does, just because of that.

Debian is really flexible to allow you to choose components in the system, or to have more than one equivalent component, and to configure how they interact, and still be considered an official Debian system.

And even to allow to people like me to do your own Debian if you want. That is the "official Debian" that I like, the one that allows me, that doesn't force me.
Looking at satellite images I would guess they would not do well financially with the infrastructure costs.

But then I look at the housing prices. TimPC's explanation seems legit.
no, but they are modern c++ constructs. the title of the post did not imply that the article was about some bizzaro means of constructing the solids using template meta-programming, or such. many c++ programmers wish that people would not do such things - not everything needs to be calculated at compile-time.
Tell HN: GitHub will delete your private repo if you lose access to the original
I was surprised to see this in my email today:

> Your private repository baobabKoodaa/laaketutka-scripts (forked from futurice/how-to-get-healthy) has been deleted because you are no longer a collaborator on futurice/how-to-get-healthy.

That was an MIT-licensed open source project I worked on years ago. We published the source code for everyone to use, so I certainly did not expect to lose access to it just because someone at my previous company has been doing spring cleaning at GitHub! I had a 100% legal fork of the project, and now it's gone... why?

Turns out I don't even have a local copy of it anymore, so this actually caused me data loss. I'm fine with losing access to this particular codebase, I'm not using HN as customer support to regain access. I just wanted everyone to be aware that GitHub does this.
If the truth is that zoning is the only obstacle holding us back from idyllic, beautiful mixed-density cities, then I'm showing my ignorance, but I'm not convinced that it is. From what I've seen, developers love building places like Mission Bay in SF and Seaport in Boston, made of cheap and ugly ticky-tacky that caters to insular WFH yuppies. If that's the vision of our utopian future, count me out.
This or that non-technical person finding a technical co-founder while not being realistic about the stake each provides to the company. Ideas are worthless (infinite numbers of them are forgotten every day), executing ideas is what has the potential for realizing value.

I have seen so many people who do realize they need a technical partner, but arrive at the table thinking the valuable asset is the idea.
After adding noise to a training sample, there's still some information about the original contained in the noisy image, so the model only needs to fix it up a little with the help of the prompt. But when you start from 100% noise, all of the information needs to come from the model and the prompt.

Seen from another angle, if you take a random value for each pixel, you're unlikely to generate anything resembling a picture, let alone any given training picture you're trying to reproduce. That there's an input that makes the model output a training sample doesn't necessarily mean that it's easy to find. But the paper shows that you can find several by guessing randomly.
This comes about from job openings in places that don't have housing, so, basically a disagreement about where people should work and live, acted out on the housing and job markets.
Feels like companies are rushing to layoff now that inflation is cooling and the Fed is likely to pivot this year.
Yup - this happened to me too. It was wildly frustrating, but they did send few emails looking back - it was just a really small project and it wasn't on my radar.

What pissed me off most is that I WAS paying for the account. I was paying $17/mo for redis and dynos, so there was an active card on file.

Why not just start charging for the postgres db, and only delete if there's no active billing?

Heroku was already a no-go for me with new projects, I just keep old things running in there since it's too much work to migrate off. This just cements that for me.
I also didn’t receive a notification about it, but some good samaritan HN user posted days before to give people a heads up. That’s the only way I found out.
"Even if you look at it as a purely engineering problem you'd see that adding more red tape on trade would be most detrimental to the smallest player"

This is economically illiterate, calling it an engineering problem doesn't change that.

Trade happens when both sides can benefit. If trade stops happening, both sides lose. Artificial trade barriers do not mean one side "wins", they are always and everywhere a way to penalize some local citizens in order to prioritize others, usually owners of businesses that are favoured by the state in some way.

At any rate it's an academic question. UK exports to the EU recovered to the prior level, it is selling the same quantity as before. Imports are lower, so UK buys less from the EU. Balance of trade therefore actually improved. This is not widely reported because the media is full of people who want everyone to believe Brexit has been an economic disaster. The reality is it'll never be possible to know because any impact is so small as to be invisible against the chaos caused by lockdowns.
Great portable computer don't get me wrong. I'd make it impractical in different ways
NFTs exist, but fully, and more-or-less reliably, functioning sleep states are still something Apple can use as a differentiator in 2023.

Markets are weird.
+1 for Francis Su
Same exact thing happened to me. Out of nowhere, my (paid) app started failing. It was only after signing in did I see that the entire postgres database had been removed. No warning that this was going to happen, no ability to recover a backup. Just... deleted.

Not the end of the world for me, because 95% of the data I had in there had already been processed, but I did lose some. Complete joke of a service.
Did not expect it at all, it's so out of place I love it
I remember in Google one project sent some announcement to incorrect recipients. Upon investigation it turned on that the bug was in all SQL queries that selected relevant customers, but it was broken for years and no one complained before our investigation.
They did say big tech was starting to take over the role of government.
Regardless, there is a gigantic overlap between people who champion DEI and people who champion Marx and communist ideas.
Very interesting view.
> Someone was able to find happiness in non-material things. Good for them.

Poverty is not having to eat. Poverty is a self-compounding problem: you cannot eat, you cannot work (or not enough), you get sick, so you cannot work, etc. Every accident impacts someone living in poverty way more than someone who is not. "Find happiness in non-material things" is something only those who have their basic necessities covered have the possibility to contemplate.

> Ok, but was it absolutely wrong? Should we dismiss anything that even remotely resembles Nazism? Were there any good parts that Nazism had? E.g. patriotism or anti-communism?

"Yes", "yes", "no", and "no".

> Poor in US are among most wealthy people in the world

That doesn't address the worldview I mentioned, it's complete misdirection. The view is that the rich should get richer and the poor should get poorer. Engage with that.

(Also, poverty is not "a law of nature" and it's not true that every poor person in the US is among the most wealthy people in the world).

> Unequal rights doesn't necessarily mean someone is being taken advantage of.

Yes it is. Your proposed experiment is bullshit.

PS: you also misunderstood my prompt, which was to debate with people who believe what I listed, not debate with me. I don't care to debate with you about those awful, made-up and purposefully stupid statements. I don't want you to "teach me" anything, either.
Unrelated, interesting how many domains they have. Of course paypal.com, but then there's their investor relations site at investor.pypl.com, and now paypal-corp for publicly available internal communication, I suppose?
My 4 bedroom house in Oakland had a replacement cost/value of about $400k. That seemed high but not unreasonable. Then the Santa Rosa fire burned down 1000 homes and insurers realized that construction costs in California are insane (especially when you are trying to build a thousand in a year). Replacement cost jumped to $750k in one year. The land used to be worth quite a good fraction of the property, and then it wasn't.
> Became a manager myself with the intention of avoiding that. I could not.
I appreciate the honesty. What was that experience like?
Critical brain hypothesis: A physical theory for when the brain performs best
I think it is hilarious that the Russian Federation has indigenous designed chips in the S-400 missile system that are manufactured in Taiwan.
This is the dumbest idea I’ve heard. You’ll end up with people paying $0 for infra for 70 years then suddenly having to buy multimillion dollar projects with no cash reserves. The net result will be widespread chaos and huge social pressure on government to bail out badly managed HOAs.
Sorry I meant more in the sense that a large number of English voters don’t feel Westminister represents their English specific concerns.

Here’s a great talk by Fintan O’Toole where he explains his take on this viewpoint far better than I ever could

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1SeadvWsn_k
> Your theory is bunk, that's my point.

What part of the theory is "bunk"? Are you suggesting that the less local a government is the more democratic it is? Please also note that I said could because I'm not making a strong claim for this to always be true.

> What pits people against each other are exclusionary housing laws that the wealthy use to keep poor people separate from them, not the words we use to describe that choice.

Generic suburbs (with their exclusionary housing laws) would have to be included in this statement for it to be true. "The wealthy" whoever that convenient scapegoat is are not the only ones who do this.
They do have a security issue, because people are sending the invoices from "PayPal Inc.".

They have some basic filters in place to disallow you from entering PayPal Inc. exactly, but scammers get around it by using similar looking characters. Like a capital I instead of lowercase l.
>Developers will be allowed to propose housing at any height and any density anywhere in a city, so long as at least 20% of the homes in the proposed building are deed-restricted to low income residents who make at or less than 80% the area median income.

With neither of these percentages being 50, it sounds to me like this policy ensures gentrification.
Do we have GANs for text yet?
Great source; looks like I've quite underestimated the python-web-dev crowd's size.

I'm curious what the longer-term trends look like; not much change between consecutive years.

Data analysis is basically a pre-requisite for ML, so the combined "data stuff" usage is quite a lot bigger than web dev usage!
Because it's ok you guys are babies but it's not ok to tell us everytime you go potty.

It's banned in the rules on the site. No-one wants to hear about your off topic journey of self discovery. Maybe Reddit does?
Stable Diffusion can memorize and output
May also be type of vehicle. Big farm truck in suburbs/rural, can't see anyone under ~3ft well when they're right up on you unless you're really intentionally looking down. Also could be the children are improperly trained. False sense of security, whereas in the city it's basically entrenched in anyone that as soon as you set foot outside that the cars are trying to slaughter everyone so kids & adults alike are always on alert. Whenever I live in the city I basically assume if I'm not in a city park a car is on the prowl to run me over at any minute, which means I'm not really caught unawares.
Passions are overhyped. People keep talking about finding a passion, doing what you're passionate about. We're almost conditioned into thinking that we must have a passion or we're not living life to the fullest.

I'm 41, I have wonderful family, I live in a safe rich part of the world, my job is challenging and fun, relatively low stress, job offers are plenty full, should I want to do something else and I generally happy with my life, but I am passionate about NOTHING.

Every so often a fun idea for a coding project pops up, either for work or just for fun. Sometimes it's a DIY project, and that keeps me entertained for a bit. I'm just not passionate about those idea and projects. I don't recall ever being passionate about anything the way the internet and society leads me to believe that I should be.

You can liken it to women who expects a prins in shining armor, riding a white horse, to come and carry her away and only he will know her true self, her most inner feeling. You tend to get disappointed if that's your baseline expectation.

I'm as passionate as I ever was, which is "not much". I have interests and beliefs, both in terms of work and life, but they where never passions.
wow i absolutely did not know this. amazing.
Fixed. Thanks for pointing this out. :)
High rises are one of the most efficient ways to house people at scale. There's a reason the majority of the human population lived in cities, historically.

It's also more efficient greenhouse-gas wise, as suburban sprawl means more driving to transport goods.
It's suspicious that I can't find any news articles talking about this. Seems like a super interesting, controversial, and timely topic to cover. Makes me wonder if this blog is misleading or inflating the facts.
You should really check the air quality you're breathing. I agree about sound, but there's other ways to generate it. Seriously though, check the air quality you breath.
Framework doesn't sell Linux laptops. They have option to buy laptop without operating system, which is very rare.