skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well...My town is Coeur d'alene, ID. So not far off from Tahoe. Although, just 20 years ago people laughed if you told them you were from Idaho. This was the place in the middle of nowhere that nobody wanted to live.

The majority of apartments are owned by commercial entities. Smaller individual rentals are being converted to vacation rentals. Commercial rental collusion on a massive scale (empty high priced commercial units all over) causing issues with running a small business.

The local real estate people and the newspapers were saying there have been housing prices dropping by 10k/month...but somehow Zillow shows my parent's house gaining 20k. Clearly someone is not telling the truth.

June 2020 we had investor groups knocking on doors buying houses at 40% over market value...I spoke with more than one.

What will happen when people start to realize that these investments are not panning out? What happens when the large corporate investors (REITs too) start dumping their positions? Maybe it will never happen...

Biggest issue is that the illusion people live by is that rents follow market value...but the reality is that rents are set by what people can pay. Most who rent in the area cannot afford increases of 20%/year. If they could...they would be homeowners already. There are not local jobs to support the type of cost of living increases that we are seeing. Not sure there is a solution.
> You can weaken the grip of the ruminative mind by frequently taking a few seconds to be quiet and listen to your surroundings.

This is useful advice.
Yeah I totally get that. Not really the best framing.

A slightly better framing is they languages within stricter static types put up guardrails. They’re meant to keep you safe. Sometimes they also make it hard for you from going where you want to go.

Don’t get me wrong i like static languages too. TS is one of my favourites. My time with Java was good. Just trying to give a different perspective on Ruby
When you have kids you have no time to be lonely.
A great player can make a Squire sound like a Studio Strat. Indeed. The type of strings make a difference too.
I would only give up static typing to have at least the amount of power that I get using Common Lisp
How do ActivityPub/Mastodon servers monetize (or stay online)? Same way?
Show HN: Create sick leaderboards for your product in minutes
yoo what's up guys. i'm a senior in hs and founder at flywheel - an app that lets you create custom, pretty leaderboards in minutes.

tbh it's kind of a hassle to make a leaderboard whether you're a game dev or a hackathon organizer - so i built this tool to make it easy.

currently you can only create a leaderboard through your dashboard and instantly get a live link you can share with people you want to join your leaderboard - but users are asking for an api that they can hit to create the leaderboard component and render it in their own frontends. this would also allow the leaderboards to be a lot more customizable and modular.

i'm building the api right now and working w/ a couple startups to test it for their leaderboards!

try it out and lmk what you think - i launched v1 of this a couple months ago at founder's inc in san francisco and have been iterating ever since (product is very different now lol).

what i really want to know is how badly this is needed. are the pain points of creating a leaderboard actually that acute?
How does one even measure carbon footprint accurately?

If I take the bus, am I responsible for 1/(city population) of the public transit system emissions or zero since the bus would still do the same trip if I hadn't taken it?

If I rent and my apartment is badly insulated (like in the article) are the emissions on me or on my landlord (since they would have been emitted whether or not I was there).

Your diet can produce emissions in a very wide range depending on its composition, how it was produced, wrapped, transported, etc. This is impossible to measure and online calculators won't do it.

Depending on how I measure it, I'm pretty sure I could get 0 tons in one case, as well 20 tons in another.

I do everything I can to reduce my ecological footprint. But as highlighted in the article, there's only so much we can do without changing the system, and that'll never be under my control.

To be honest, I'm eagerly awaiting the (hopefully gradual) collapse so we can build something new, a society based on resilience, minimalism and community instead of growth, consumption and individualism.
what contract terms can you enforce against Facebook?
I have a tiny VPS that costs less than $2 per month. I run a chat server on it. In seven years it has had no failures and one hour of planned downtime. That's better than any of the major cloud services. Simple stuff is surprisingly reliable.
Not sure how early stage. They have upper stage prototype hardware. They may do their first "hop" test before Ariane 6 takes off. https://twitter.com/stoke_space/status/1650910680667787264
Pardon the sidebar. What does FTA stand for? Googling the term doesn't seem to yield results that make sense to me.
Wow, you used non-Hi-Fi VCRs? I used a VHS Hi-Fi unit as an audio recorder, and also to bounce tracks from a POS Tascam four-track.

Before DAT, Hi-Fi VCRs were by far the best audio recorder you could buy for home use. The only problem (which I pretty much never heard talked about) was a "purring" noise that would accompany high-frequency sounds. I suspect this was caused by switching between the audio heads on the spinning head drum.
Yep! Our research team publishes a lot of work (waymo.com/research).

If you're interested in Transformers and attention in particular, the excellently named Wayformer [1] paper is pretty easy to follow and SWFormer is impressive on a lot of levels [2].

The main challenge for autonomous vehicles has been (large) multi-modal inputs, while delivering real-time inference performance on the road. Many of the large-language model things you see produce cool results, but would be much too slow or expensive for a real-time, safety-critical application.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.05844

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07372
Please don’t do this here. From the guidelines:

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.
in general they're either labors of love or they run on a donation basis. it's a really good question.
For me, the point is not to avoid having to admit some kind of difference between human and bat experience (clearly they are different!). But I feel like the fact that this question ("what is it like to be a bat?") is hard (or even impossible) to answer is used in support of the thesis that there is something non-physical about human experience. By analyzing what this question really means in a technical and rigorous sense (and if it's even a coherent question at all), I only want to push back against it insofar as it is used to support that conclusion.
It looks pretty good to me. I think a non-AI generated website would probably have a 'New to Idli?' section to help people who might have had it once at a restaurant or something and wanted some background information, but otherwise nothing stands out to me as 'artificial'.

Of course, with a short product-oriented website like this the text does not need to be very complex or sophisticated. Usually in longer blocks of text I will notice little giveaways if it is AI generated (like DAll-E is famous for having trouble with hands). But this all looks Good Enough to me.

I bet if you ask, ChatGPT will give you advice on how to build traffic by spending small sums of money on advertising. Best of luck!
It’s just straight–up fraud. People have been defrauding each other for a while now; I don’t think we need to invent hypotheticals like “neofeudalist late stage capitalism” to explain that behavior.
What is a "mapping" structure?
Article should be: "Content on TikTok is categorized, TikTok tracks the categories of content users watch. There exists a gay content category that TikTok tracks."
It makes sense that TikTok tracks interests like this, and there's some legitimate concern with folks being on a list that can get you executed in quite a few countries.
I imagine there's Neuralink, and then animal research facilities that go to great lengths to be as humane as is possible in such a line of work. In the same way, I bet free-range animals live very humane lives, yet factory farms kind of suck: https://benthams.substack.com/p/factory-farming-delenda-est
A lot, Firefox ( and every other browser on iOS) are effectively skins on Safari.
Apple will only allow third party browsers that use WebKit on the App Store.
Labs, at least, are often clustered in geographic areas. Zoos are often near large metro areas with other places to inspect.

Breeders and remote zoo-like facilities are probably the most difficult to get to.
From The Article, I assume.
Thanks. I've tried it out of curiosity after reading your comment, and found Libredirect extremely confusing and frustrating :

- it rewrites URLs in content that I write, so when I posted a HN story about a youtube video, it changed the URL to some random Invidious instance

- its icon is not shown in the extension list in Firefox, so I never know whether it's on or not

- it seems to not work on Youtube anymore after I disabled it temporarily, despite the toggle being back on

- to change the config, I can't just click the icon (like I would in, say uBlock Origin or even Privacy Redirect), no, I need to go to Extensions > Libredirect > Click the three dots > Settings

I feel like the promise and the actuality of this plugin are worlds apart, sadly.
> maybe the solution is that we should just pay for what things cost?

Well I bet how much those free accounts were costing is way less than $10 per month per user. The self hosting page suggests that you can have "up to 1,000 users" on a few dollar VPS. A little more if you need to upload tons and tons of images.
You might enjoy the archives of Over The Edge[1] which I always felt like it captured the zeitgeist of 80s culture. (Edit: better link to internet archive [2])

[1] https://kpfa.org/program/over-the-edge/
[2] https://archive.org/details/ote?
As the article says: “Social-media and ad-tech industry practices, however, discourage tracking potentially sensitive traits such as sexuality, according to people who work with digital information. This data can essentially create a list of vulnerable users in parts of the world where some LGBT people face harassment and violence.”

There don’t tend to be laws against liking kites or airplanes, nor violence against people who like them on the basis of that interest.
Guess my post was too much of truth to handle, but I guess that’s just a proof of what I’ve said, at the end, I’m happy that social media is dying in its current form.
Ex-Uber CSO gets probation for covering up theft of data on millions of people
Today, they come back to the depot to be recharged. People plug them in and unplug them when done.
I've never had to do any of that. AirBNB is way cheaper for my family of 6 (3 adults, 3 kids)
Eta Aquariid meteor shower peaks this weekend, and will be one for the ages
Tech leaders conveniently ignore Peopleware but still cry about productivity loss
I think I agree with you, but maybe not for reasons you agree with. You see, the Turing Machine is a Form, in Plato's sense. I can formulate all of the programs and machines imaginable (at this current moment in our lifetime) with Turing's process for creating machines. The individual machines created from his process may not be able to run Turing-complete code, e.g. a calculator formalized as a Turing Machine.

But our machines, our computers, are machines which can accept other machines as input. And even in this limited domain we cannot solve the Halting Problem, so I consider them a part of the Turing Machine class even if they are descendants of Turing's Form.

Edit: In more concrete terms, one can design a very simple program in C, but that doesn't mean that C isn't capable of being used to design more complicated programs. It also isn't very useful to measure a _specific_ C program, especially a simple one, as a measure of what _all_ C programs may be able to do.

Edit^2: After thinking about this more, I think a better argument is this: it is true that our physical machines must exist in some sort of finite state, but if our big problems (such as the Halting Problem) were merely symptoms of infinity, then we would have solved them by now in our limited and finite domain.
You should use Zulip not because it's free, but rather because it's excellent and kicks the pants off of Slack and its clones, who are more of an impediment to productivity than an aid. (Well, the desktop experience is excellent, but the phone app is lacking.)
Telcos need another $3B in cash to remove Chinese network kit, says FCC
> For instance, Rust has a pretty solid type system (not quite Haskell, but more intricate than Java) and lets you do things like generate serialization and deserialization code for arbitrary structs at compile time, which most languages would do at runtime by inspecting fields or something similar.

For that matter, Haskell can do exactly the same thing, and as you note its type system is even more sophisticated than Rust’s.
https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/tsvbh2y

> U-ie n.

> also U, U-ee, U-ey, U-turn, youie

> (orig. Aus.) a U-turn; thus chuck/bang a U-ie, to make a U-turn.
> No media source I have ever found is 100% honest.

It's very hard to constantly caveat everything you communicate with your biases. It can be argued that this same skepticism should be trained on everything anyone communicates.
never attribute to malice…
Ex-OpenSea exec convicted in first-of-its-kind case of insider trading of NFTs
Thanks for the link, that was a fascinating read.
Underground bike race features clowns, aliens and Mario Kart
This is a good list of papers with annotated code:
https://nn.labml.ai/index.html
Couldn't act further from your username.

Lightning supports unlimited transactions per second.
If an ad for a depression medicine on the tv has time to say crazy things like “side effects may include depression, […] and death”, I am sure Charter and Comcast have enough time to say that their gigabit coax service is only gigabit for downloads, not for uploads.
It seems unworkable to me. If you filter the trolls, but the people you follow don't, your feed isn't going to make sense. This causes a race to the bottom in terms of moderation, which causes a bad experience for everybody.
However, China has 1.4 billion people, they will do whatever to collect resources, including information and user stats which powers the recommendation system behind TikTok, which is ruining your next generation.

Have I mentioned that China and Russia are deep allied and are probably sharing intelligence? I don't think the US government is worse than Russia's.
Firefox developers work for Mozilla Corporation. Mozilla Corporation is a subsidiary of Mozilla Foundation. Mitchell Baker is CEO of both.

In 2005 they said a for profit subsidiary was for revenue flexibility. Where did you learn it was to limit corporate developers influencing Mozilla Foundation?

Google's sponsorship of Firefox continues. Most of Mozilla Foundation's revenue comes from Google through Mozilla Corporation.

Mozilla Corporation employees develop Gecko. They developed Servo until it was transferred to the Linux Foundation. They land code with no sign of Mozilla Foundation review routinely. Can you show a PR Mozilla Foundation rejected as "only serving corporate interests at the expense of the user."?
For Greek speakers it just means “sky” so no big deal. The namer of the planet was German (Johann Bode) so he wouldn’t have known its unfortunate double meaning in English. Every time you say it it’s like a punchline.
I Decided to Go Offline
You can’t really give many more examples than wireless. There is no way to make concrete that uses much less energy. No way to make steel. No way to heat or cool your home without using a lot of energy. No way to move yourself around to more than bicycle distance without expending vast amounts of energy on building infrastructure, vehicles (cars or trains), and powering them.

If the poor billions are to have any chance to live in any kind of comfort resembling what wealthy westerners or Asians do, they need to massively increase their energy consumption. There is no wireless way around it.
This is well written, but it doesn’t really explain how or why Zulip will maintain its free plan forever. However, the existence of this post also makes Zulip committed deeper to not pull the rug on the free plan. Whenever that happens, I’d like to believe that there would be grandfathering for existing users on the free plan (unlike the rug pull that Google attempted with its free GSuite/Workplace offering and decided to not do it after a lot of backlash and bad press).

One thing I dislike about these chat platforms is limited message history. The 10,000-messages or 90-day message search history limits are arbitrary as well as too short to be useful for any group that has more than a few members on a specific topic/area. For some (or many?) people, this will be a practical and annoying limitation that makes the platform useless for anything other than trivial chats where history doesn’t matter (except for “this is what you said two days ago”).

Instead, they could consider offering very small (?) teams unlimited history. Platforms like Telegram (and Discord too, not sure?) are offering more and more features for free. Enterprise application integrations may be one area where Slack/Mattermost/RocketChat/Zulip may have an advantage for the time being.
Now you pay a gpu to complete your homework, not a person. That's one example.
Perhaps they misspoke, or perhaps they misunderstood, or perhaps their usage of the term is different then yours or mine. I understood them to mean it in the sense that the FDA holds democratic legitimacy by nature of its assistance as an org within the US government, which is by any reasonable definition a democratic institution.

The point is that its not really relevant to the point they are making, which is that the FDA as an institution has some weird incentives.

> motte-and-bailey.

I'm not familiar with this idiom so I cant say.
Turnover still applies to the “free” users. If the burden is simply so high the company is going to fail otherwise then do what you got to do, but don’t assume grandfathering people in means spending X$/month for the next hundred years or anything.
Everyone is selfish - aren’t the junior employees being selfish too ?
This is really cool. Absolutely fantastic editor! I'm blown away
Depending on the facts, you can just directly search Wikipedia (or other more specialized websites) - I have had it on the w keyword for nearly two decades now...
Because the whole advertising industry and thus the tech industry (and US govt surveillance) relies on the same features.
You're going to need to do a lot more than that to convince me that the internet is a human right and public need.

And yes, you do need to convince me: If it's "publicly funded" then I (and everyone else) am/are paying for it. Personally, I would sooner pay for another US navy aircraft carrier.
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97
Wear sunscreen

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it
A long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists
Whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable
Than my own meandering experience, I will dispense this advice now

Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth, oh, never mind
You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth
Until they've faded, but trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back
At photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now
How much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked

You are not as fat as you imagine

Don't worry about the future
Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing Bubble gum
The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind
The kind that blindsides you at 4 p.m. On some idle Tuesday

Do one thing every day that scares you

Saying, don't be reckless with other people's hearts

Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours

Floss

Don't waste your time on jealousy

Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind
The race is long and in the end, it's only with yourself
Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults, if you succeed in doing this, tell me how
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements

Stretch

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life.
The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives
Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't

Get plenty of calcium
Be kind to your knees
You'll miss them when they're gone

and so on
What do you mean "the type of strings"? In pretty much every programming language, String is one of the most fundamental types. There's no "different types of string".

(yes, this is a joke, a bad one at that. badum tish)
I suppose another workaround is to firewall every IP everything except your SIP provider's range and your local subnet. Probably a good idea for all ATAs unless you actually need to web-admin it externally.
I have been using a free plan for over two years. Zulip is awesome and, in my opinion, way better that slack. I use both on a daily basis.
> This is well written, but it doesn’t really explain how or why Zulip will maintain its free plan forever.

i don't see anywhere zulip has made that claim, merely that it is currently free. in fact, it explains that they're careful about what promises they make, so that they don't end up having to break them.
This phone has only three year of updates. It is not eco design and repairability.
And only two Android OS upgrade.
Any info on that? They're both CNS stimulants, both phenylethylamines, why would THC affect them so differently?

But you're right that the narcissism of small differences is often made manifest in chemistry.

Just wanted to say though, if someone is getting a "high" from Adderall or Ritalin, they're not taking it medicinally, and that's the problem with these discussions, it's very easy to conflate prescribed use with abuse, which ignores the fact that recreational dosages are far higher than medicinal.
This is a cost centric perspective. I wish I could find the YouTube talk where Merck switched to a metric of "cost of not implementing" IE: how much revenue do you lose per day by not implementing. They found out of 100s of projects, that about two were 3 orders of magnitude larger, yet they delayed shipping those projects so they could get more in a release cycle, and diverted resources. From that new perspective, it was obvious that they should stop doing everything except those two projects. From the same talk, Microsoft found a third of projects were revenue negative! (Better to just not do them at all)

The point of the talk was ultimately that the revenue of projects usually dwarf the cost, to the extent that if a project is worth doing, it is clearly so whether it takes 3x or even 10x the time estimated.
I can't believe you're ONE person who made all of it. Absolutely incredible work!
> You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth

Some people are legitimately ugly and their youth offers no benefits in this sense
The part about exercise I feel is the most important. If you could only have one universal piece of advice to give someone for living a better life, it’s simply: Exercise.

From there, everything else follows.
The two ideologies, liberals and conservatives.
Nobody wants to work anymore. Also it's not like we could just... pay people more for the jobs people don't want to do. That would be too capitalistic for our society.
In many jurisdictions contracts can't actually be "forever" though. They need to have some kind of possible end state.
(Mostly) Worked for Sinclair…