skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pitfalls to Beware of in AI Journalism
A good description of what the project does, installation instructions, and decent example usage where appropriate.

I like to show:

1. What it is.

2. How to install it.

3. What command-line flags there are, for CLI apps, or what the API is for embedding if a shared library.

4. Notes on how to run the tests.

5. A comment about reporting bugs.

Some projects have more sections, others less, but I think clear instructions for downloading/using, as well as a "What even is this?" is a good start.
I think I agree with others here - this isn't a real concern. If the only value you're adding to a market is your site design which anyone can legally view and copy then you aren't adding anything. If your product has true value then that will win out - if others can easily copy and make a better version then that's still better for everyone overall because you're business model isn't as good as theirs
Wonder if the MFM acquisition factored in this
What Is Dam Software?
Succinct explanation of DAM software.
As an only child, low/middle-income earner, I'm terrified of what happens when my parents can't live on their own anymore. My dad says they have enough money for retirement, but the way things are looking it seems like they could blow through all their assets real fast and still wind up receiving terrible care.
In "Work without email", Cal Newport explain a case where a whole financial institution was margin-called for the exact same reason.

They knew it was coming. They were willing to fix it. They spent weeks exchanging emails on how to setup a meeting to solve the problem. The problem eventually solved itself.

Had a pretty similar experience with management early in my career that was wide-opening on how incompetent every single manager was. Became a manager myself with the intention of avoiding that. I could not. Changed career path.
Ah! Not me. I should have made that clear. A Mathematician named Alexander Zvonkin wrote it. The book's super well written and is full of useful ideas though!
> I guess that one full-time person is just all that's needed?

Emphatically not. I mean, just look at the bug tracker. Or how about this data point: my Lemur Pro (lemp11) could not suspend at all when shipped -- the model started shipping in Summer IIRC, but the relevant workaround/fix was only finally released in November. So yeah, the Coreboot/firmware field is very understaffed.
I 100% agree, they can prioritize however they want, but please for the love of well-meaning techies, drop the "replacement for Windows and macOS" talk, and make a pop-up warning that reinstallation is going to be necessary in the future before you download, so that you don't spread it everywhere only to discover you've just sunk everyone.

It's really not that hard, just a "Note: Elementary OS does not support in-place upgrades. You will need to reinstall Elementary OS every time a new major version comes out every 2 years. If you want to support our in-place upgrade development, please donate. < Donate > < I Understand >".
The front end is beautiful, how did you build it?
lol, I think some people just got inordinately freaked out by that demo of stylometric analysis of HN users (which was on the front page about 45 days ago...)

This comment [0] from yyt554 in that thread seems to be aging well:

> Fun exercise would be to find all accounts that suddenly stopped posting around today and correllate them with new accounts created around today.

> All those scared folks who naively think that it's not too late yet. Busted.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33756734
I would be giddy with excitement if I worked IT for this company. Yes pleeeeease let me answer phone calls, put me in, coach.
Firmware modding tool for the OP-1 synthesizer
"Pre-2010"? Heroku only launched in April 2009. So I would assume the vast majority of current customers are not actually from a "pre-2010 era". Heroku didn't even have a postgres add-on until November 2010 -- the salesforce purchase went through in Dec 2010. In fact, the heroku "golden years" were mostly during the early salesforce period. (Heroku put matz, creator of ruby, on staff in July 2011; there was no Heroku API until 2014!). (source for timeline: https://www.heroku.com/about)

Heroku is still quite a bit of value-added over "AWS with some basic CI integration", people chose it and still choose it because it requires a lot lot lot less in-house expertise and management hours than AWS for most kinds of standard apps. (I'm not totally sure what AWS services/architecutres you are thinking of when you say that; but I'll say: for pretty much all of them.)

(Heroku def has more competition in that space than it did 10 years ago, opinions differ on the relative merits)

AWS of course already existed when Heroku was launched, so if you do consider them just "AWS with some CI integration" then I guess they would have been from the start? What would have made that true now if it wasn't then?

I think Salesforce thought it would somehow be more "synergistic" with their other offerings than it has turned out to be. That they'd get Salesforce customers on heroku when they needed something beyond the "no-code" tools Salesforce already provided, or that they'd do better at converting heroku customers to salesforce customers than they have been. It does seem to be true that salesforce stopped really investing in new heroku features or improvements some years ago, and seem to be looking to minimize costs while continuing to collect revenue, I agree. (Sometimes I'm not even sure how much they care about continuing to collect revenue...)
many others have pointed out how tunnel-vision you are being, but just wanted to add:

Low traffic → Less cars driving

How do you get less cars driving? People need realistic options. How do you get those options? Density to support transit and Density to support having businesses close to everyone's homes so they can just walk or bike. Car-dependent suburbia IS the problem, and the more of it you have in the city the bigger the problems of traffic and unaffordability get.

Finally though:

> want to keep them that way

Look, don't get carried away. Unless a very significant block of homeowners in your beautiful leafy neighborhood are itching to sell, you have literally nothing to fear. Maybe when a large mall is demolished a mile away from you, someone will build something other than single-family tract homes. Big whoop.

*Nobody is coming for your suburbs with bulldozers* just because "SFH" might not be enshrined as the only way anything can be developed.
All I've been able to find is some test slabs they poured in 2021 and a bunch of news/pr articles. It doesn't appear to be widely available or used despite the ease of doing so (it's just an additive added at the plant).
I'm not sure of the data, I was linked this by a friend, I'm not really sure how a proprietary saas company ends up as the good guy, while we're trying to ensure the next big search platform remains open, end up as thugs.

It seems the main mods problem with what I did is plugging our github url, which made it obvious I diverted attention from needl's launch, mistake I made.
I'm not deleting any comments, because I prefer context to mod interactions stand in broad daylight.

I'm truely sorry, I like this forum, mods here are awesome.
You are asking teachers to be good at their job. But is teaching a merit-based profession?
The author's account is about as anonymous as Lemony Snicket is pseudonymous. Technically, but not practically.

Don't get me wrong, I don't dislike this person. It's not a "boycott". I'd just prefer not to be their customer, because this story goes a bit over where I'd draw the line of oversharing. I don't imagine that it will every actually come up, and I hope it never does.
It’s in the deed so owning the property means you agree to follow the rules of the deed. The HOA can sue you for enforcement.

At a high level, anyone can sue you to enforce a deed term, as long as the organization/person with an interest is around to do it and knows to do it. As an easy example, a long time ago people added racist stuff to deeds, but those family descendants no longer enforce it. HOAs don’t die like people and collect dues so they don’t run out of legal fees.

You can try to get dead HOAs removed from a deed, and you can try to get a living HOA removed from a deed. Obviously one is a lot easier because it doesn’t fight back. You can also get the residents to vote to dissolve an HOA. Some HOAs expire after so long if the residents don’t renew.

TLDR you can’t buy the house without agreeing to the HOA.
Xe here, uhhhh I can write something I guess? What kind of information would you want there?
The power usage isn't great, but it's as good as any non-Apple compact laptop I've ever owned. It sleeps fine, but not in the "hibernate" type of sleep.
Active Scripting, including JScript, still ships out of the box in Win11. The file extension association is also there, but I don't recall if it's active by default, or you get the "how would you like to open?" dialog first.
My bad, thanks for letting me know.

I tend to see Needl as peers, not competition, sometimes peers behave in bad taste.
OpenAI's text completion has an option to return "log probability" or something for each token. That might apply. You can also turn down the temperature parameter which reduces hallucinations to some degree.
No one forced them to apply.
The smelter is "Industrial" not "Commercial". At least in SimCity abstractions.

Usually commercial and some level of manufacturing overlap in zoning, but smelters are in a different category.
So true. Oh wait, I took that exit. No wait I didn't. No wait, I'm back on the entrance ramp!
> Old law proposes to turn the Bay Area's zoning system into something like Japan's in just two days.

Would be exciting to see this flip switched because it would help resolve some debates at the very least.

Clearly the housing market in Japan is dramatically different than that of North America and it would be very interesting to see if it is indeed the zoning that is the dominant reason for this difference.

Many have pointed to the zoning as being the core thing that induces more affordable housing in Japan, and hand in hand with that is the notion that if we adopted a more Japanese style zoning that we'd see some of our housing problems solved, but there are many other differences between the housing economy of Japan and NA than just zoning.

If we more closely mirror Japanese style zoning and we don't see the same results, it means there's more to it than just the zoning.
It's really convenient for you to not see California as one entity. Unfortunately for you, that's not reality and we are, in fact, part of a single entity.

> Beverly Hills and Santa Monica just happen to be "winning" (rather arbitrarily). Using authority to punish them for (peacefully) winning is tyranny. Just let them win.

The residents of those areas have been using authority to make their "wins" a fait accompli for nearly 100 years, but yeah, it's tyranny if we remove their priviliges.

> The state should not be able to supersede local authority for local concerns, it's authoritarian.

California voters elected the legislature and executive who signed off on it. If Santa Monica restricts housing, it affects neighboring cities. Please explain how it is authoritarian for the state to balance these concerns?
Are you allowed to inform paying customers that you are going to do this? This is my primary complaint here. I don't understand how this oversight happened. This is going to cause an enormous amount of time and energy to recover from this.
Awesome. Good on you! The kids are lucky that you organized one.

Edit: Just looked through your website. Love the math and the satire. Keep it up!
Yes. I personally still find this far too simplistic, and would prefer non-exclusionary zoning.
No, I picked a new Thing just to makes things interesting (but its not a super exciting one - Tai Chi - I should really learn an instrument next)
I don't have Autopilot or FSD but my Model 3 has AEB and it saved my butt with in a week of owning it when some jackass in a Mercedes cut me off abruptly. We joke about the car being bossy with our child because it makes beeps when it thinks we're too close to other cars, walls, etc; but these safety systems are a fantastic addition to vehicles.

The safety systems like lane keep, obstacle avoidance, and AEB are not exclusive to Tesla; and Tesla does them really really well.
Be nice but remember you have objective skills and you need to suss out the CEOs objective skills.

1) Can they raise money? Proof is good here. Sometimes someone will say "I want you as my co-founder to go and raise my seed round" and you can condition leaving your current job on getting at least some checks in. Remember, this founder _knows_ you can deliver the goods, you are an employed software engineer. Can they?

2) Can they recruit? The process might be a mess but are they treating your time and concerns with respect?

3) Do they view you as an equal partner? Make sure you nail down exactly what they want. If they want a true co-founder, ask for 50%. If they don't, make sure you understand what it means to be an employee to a non-technical founding team.
I think this is only applicable if said community is isolated enough. But most communities in the Bay Area (for example) are not isolated. People live in one city, work in another, on the weekends they drive out to some other cities for R&R.
26% good
I also had this happen - unbelievable really
Whether or not you think the tone is justified, that type of thing is just against the rules. User dang is the moderator of this site. He will rarely intervene and if he does please follow his requests.
Perhaps not coincidentally, Berkeley's housing element was just rejected today (the deadline by which they needed it certified in order to avoid the Builder's Remedy). The provisions in this piece will kick in there tomorrow.

As for CEQA, here's what a local law firm has to say: "In particular, the intersection between Builder's Remedy and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) remains untested. Jurisdictions may try to use CEQA to regain discretionary authority over Builder's Remedy projects. Whether that tactic will prove effective remains to be seen, given that CEQA may not be used to do that which other statutes prohibit. Pub. Res. Code, § 21004; CEQA Guidelines § 15040(e)."

https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2022/10/build...
Because https://xeiaso.net/pronouns
Currently the false positive rate is far lower. E.g. I get 500-ish submissions over a school year then a 1% false positive rate would mean I'd falsely accuse 5 innocent students annually, which isn't acceptable at all - and a 9% FP rate is so high that's even not worth investigating; do you know of any grader who has the spare time to begin formal proceedings/extra reviews/investigation for 9% of their homework?

For plagiarism suspicions at least the verification is simple and quick (just take a look at the identified likely source, you can get a reasonable impression in minutes) - I can't even imagine what work would be required to properly verify ones flagged by this classifier..
Do you experience joy when you perform activities that brought you joy in the past? Do you find your capacity for joy and activities in general to have decreased? You might get checked out for depression or nutrition/hormone levels. In cis men, low testosterone can cause you to lose your passion for a lot of stuff. But so can not enough magnesium and other trace minerals.
If the new construction is near the coast, more desalination plants is a solution. Most California water usage is agricultural anyways.

Regarding wildfires, what we really need are more goats. Armies and armies of goats. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/goats-may...
Is playing the guitar a good "rest" from coding? Or does it use the same muscles?
But is the helium really required for the drive to function or is it just an efficiency thing? So that if all the helium leaks out the drive would just be slower or consume more power?
Disagree. HTML, until HTML 4.01 published 1999, was formulated as an SGML vocabulary. Then, starting in 1997, W3C (technically, the SGML Extended Review Board in cooperation with ISO) "went meta" and created XML as an SGML subset in anticipation of a wealth of new vocabularies on browsers to be supported, of which SVG and MathML made it. Today, these vocabularies are integrated into HTML, with HTML rather than XML parsing rules (for example, element names are treated case-insensitive). HTML itself still uses tag inference and attribute shortforms that are only part of SGML but not the XML subset of SGML. Basically, the multi-year detour of creating XML was not worth it for the web since everything XML could do was by definition possible using SGML as well, it being a strict superset of XML, despite XML being hugely successful in enterprise computing and the publishing industry, and most HNers only knowing XML.

What XML (XHTML2) was onto, however, was a completely unrealistic attempt to redefine browser behavior and vocabulary, with no buy-in from browser vendors (except Opera?), and with things such as XForms and wildly unproven RDF/SPARQL stuff. Ian Hickson was right in 2004 to fork HTML; browser vendors had no alternative.
The original plan from the developer included multiple 8 story towers. But the property is right off of a major freeway and just a few minutes from 20+ story towers in San Jose, so I see no reason to hold back.
Japan is much more child friendly in terms of that. For example, young children are regularly sent to do errands on their own (see the Old Enough tv show for an exaggerated version of that). So people may believe it to be the case, but I'm not convinced our zoning style achieves that goal.
I definitely wish you guys had advertised that earlier / better. I feel like I got lucky because I put off migrating until just before the sunset, at which point I discovered eco dynos. I swear they either didn't exist or were harder to find when the sunset was first announced. Thanks for making them available at all, though.

(Context: I maintain an app for an event that runs about one week a year. The ability to use free dynos the other 51 weeks means we retain the ability to do one-off analytics queries, minor development work, etc. during the off-season, without having to delete and recreate the app or something every year. Eco isn't quite as good as free, but it means we can still have separate staging and production instances during the off-season, without paying extra for staging to be idle, and without having to destroy and recreate staging every year.)
You can't ban cars before you have the infrastructure and commercial resources to replace what cars were used for.
For reference here's the email another user received in November.

"Remind HN: Heroku will delete all free dbs and shut down all free dynos Monday" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33755651
RAID or not, if you lose an active drive you will need to 1) restore from backup, 2) fill a new backup drive

If it takes days to fill your new 50 TB backup drive, you have the same problem RAID5 has with rebuild times. The drive might fail in the middle.

RAID isn't a backup mostly because if you overwrite RAID data, you wrote over every copy at once. Non RAID offsite backups don't solve any problem related to drive size, they just make it a lot less likely for a single event to take everything out in the same minute.
In my experience this works super well UNTIL you inevitably switch ticketing systems and lose it all. Happened to all of our stuff twice now :(.
It seems like all the big players are pretty crappy to deal with --then comes the deployment costs... oh, boy!
If I were uncharitable and cynical I would claim that it looks like somebody has a goal to implement central device procurement and management and have built a system to enable that to happen.
Housing is most people's largest purchase in life. Zoning is put in place to make sure that that purchase is suitable for the purpose intended so people feel comfortable making that large investment. They tried to get a variance to my local zoning to put in an asphalt plant, that would spew crap into the air my kids breath. That makes my house unsuitable to the use I purchased it for, and that the county promised it would be for via zoning, as my entire purpose was to raise kids in a healthy environment.
You're right Houston doesn't call it zoning, but they basically have the same rules. This video sums it up well: https://youtu.be/TaU1UH_3B5k
Heh - I should re-start reading books - I feel like they make like more colorful for me.
Glad I could help! You can also add quotes around the search text to restrict results to the search term exactly as it is. Example: "Tell HN:"
> Anti-cheat and anti-crack has created far too many issues for me as a legitimate customer.

Let me get this straight, though: you would rather that CoD, Fortnite, LoL, Lichess, etc. just make it open season; no anti-cheat. You believe that as a gamer, your gaming experience would be enhanced if there was no anti-cheat.

If that's your logical conclusion -- that no anti-cheat is the answer because there are always going to be some cheaters -- then I have nothing. We'll just have to agree to disagree. As a gamer, I'm happy to install anti-cheat if it can defeat the majority of casual cheaters -- even if it costs some frames or adds overhead to the startup time.
This is very true. Sadly there is zero chance of finding a politically-palatable solution for this one in California.
Higher speeds. Suburban streets/roads/stroads optimize for traffic safety, not pedestrian safety.

The wide roads and large front yards promote higher driving speeds. For a long time the thinking was even that front yards can work as a place for cars to stop safely if they fly off the road.

They talk about this in Strong Towns iirc
Alternate explanation: Xe, Rachel, and quite a few other people (patio11? tptacek?) have been at this a while, have worked with a lot of people, and have consistently put out high quality content. They put in the time to build an audience.

It's not that "the system" knows them as valuable, it's that people have gotten to know them over time and trust them. These are people, for me, whose articles I'll always make time for. I suspect a lot of HNers feel similar, so that's a lot of upvotes, so that's a lot of frontpage hits.
I wonder what's worse: not supplying open firmware at all, or doing it at the S76 level. You get laptops that don't suspend as shipped, you still cannot remove of disable Intel ME, but yay another desktop shell!
No, it’s dumb because the state rejected all these plans. Now they have zero say over what gets built because they tried to play games.
Nihilist, pronouns something/whatever.
"We made science a team sport, and in so doing, we made it no longer science. It became us versus them, and "they" responded the only way anyone might expect them to: by resisting."

An uncommonly wise interpretation of how the other side (of any controversy) thinks.
It's an unoficial "feature". You just write "Tell HN:" before the title instead of "Ask HN:", and leave the URL empty. There is no support in the server, and they get mixed with the "Ask HN:" and other variations people can imagine.

(The "Show HN:" started like this, until the mods decide to make the official and add a filter for them.)
Just to clarify, System76 doesn't make Framework laptops; that's a different company.
> Are they? Isn't it possible that people who live in beautiful neighborhoods with mature trees, nice big yards, and low traffic streets that are safe for kids to play around, want to keep them that way for primarily those reasons?

You're describing European cities, there. That is literally how I grew up in a big city, and we were lower middle class at best.
Out of curiosity (I do not know the answer), is there a study on the percentage of time that children spend playing outside in urban vs suburban vs rural areas?