skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I subscribe ťo the same service and I find it pretty handy. There's no way to stop the incessant junk mail so it helps me filter what needs prompt pickup and the junk that can stay a couple days before I check the mailbox.
It was over $750K. No garage. No frills. Just a 1100 sq ft rectangle on 2 acres. It's cheaper than Cupertino. Insurance is ~4K per year.

Some of the homes in my neighborhood (much older but roughly the same size) have gone for $700K-$800K recently, so new construction isn't much different in cost either way.

It just takes years to build.

I'm a software developer, and many familiar with Silicon Valley home prices will look at the SC Mountains and see immediate 50% or more reductions in house prices and just think they have discovered a real life cheat code to home ownership in coastal California.

It helps to like rain, yard work and chain sawing up large trees that fall after strong windstorms, doing one's own home/car repairs, and have a generator for the weeks long power outages. This isn't the type of area where contractors are thick on the ground and ready to work at a moment's notice. All of my neighbors do their own repairs. Public road closures after winter storms are common.

So the price differences between Silicon Valley and the SC Mountains reflect a lot more than just distance from one's favorite amenities.

I'm not being snarky, btw: I love it here.

Everything is a calculated risk and some people are just going to stay no matter what. Including me. And 3 of my neighbors who do their own work -- one remodeled his own house personally, where I used subcontractors to build mine -- work in the tech industry themselves. So the area does attract new residents.

It just takes more work than an average urban/suburban homeowner may expect or be used to.

With that said, in lots of the San Lorenzo Valley (like Felton) or adjacent areas like Scotts Valley one can have a pretty comfy small town living and still feel like one is in the redwoods.
During your career as a software developer, it is inevitable that you will have to interact with social scientists and other activists who care a lot about investigating your work for potential biases. It’s normal to have an initial reaction to this curriculum suggestion along the lines of “this is irrelevant, teach me about data structures and control flow instead”, but I would encourage you to view it useful practice for challenges you will likely encounter. After all, a bad answer to these challenges is much more likely to get you fired than other mistakes like causing an outage or pushing inefficient code to production.
"Our website does not work without JavaScript."
the internet is more or less unusable without script and ad blockers. sorry not sorry.
Yeah we have a few talks about this and a chapter about this very issue in https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/seeking-sre/97814919788.... Totally agree that in a well designed system the sources of data loss are certainly not disk failures.

As far as I know Magic Pocket has had 100% durability, but that's obviously beside the point.
Controlled burns are optimal, but not Pareto optimal.
Is this a therapy that can be done at home?
What are the unpopular directions?
Client-attorney communication is explicitly privileged/protected.
I feel like that team should go one step further and enable TLS natively with something like this:

https://github.com/classilla/cryanc
Yet, destroying all the items is worse. What other options does one have? I mean, yes there is a perverse incentive, but that's more for cash forfeiture without a crime, which is a real thing too in the US..

Generally auctions are considered the least-unfair way of disposing of property. Outside of forfeiture or lost property, in some causes a court can force shared-ownership property to be auctioned, to give it a "fresh start" without the problematic shared ownership. This also happens with hundreds-of-millions-of-dollar real estate.
A company’s employee backed my vehicle into another in a parking lot and it ended up being around $30,000 to fix. The high price was largely due to costs and required labor expertise to weld an aluminum body part that also functioned structurally. It sounds wild but the body shop made the case to the business’s insurer and convinced them it was absolutely necessary.
Practical AI with Postgres
This problem solves itself, just stop bailing those homeowners out with firefighting that’s actually a net bad for the forest and any government funding to rebuild infrastructure or burnt homes.

The properties will become uninsurable and you can still live there as long as you can pay without insurance (and likely without a mortgage either).

We should not eminent domain this property, that’s a terrible incentive and precedent. I don’t want my tax money spent on bailing out a clearly unviable living arrangement.
I’m pretty well versed in debt and it’s evolutions and convolutions but it is hard for me to avoid feeling it is somewhat unnatural, like eating the apple before the tree is planted; the cow before it is born.
These are all much more similar to the work of inventors than engineers.

Except Rollercoaster Tycoon, which is more like the work of an artist.

Like, coming up with Linux is a lot like Guglielmo Marconi putting together a working radio transmitter/receiver in his parents' attic.

These things can overlap. Art Fry, inventor of the Post-it note, was in a kind of 'principal engineer' equivalent role at 3M when he came up with it (he was the senior scientist in a lab team).
The perspective of PENVM is the application. It is meant to tie processes of an application (just one) together to produce results.

So it is different from wireguard mesh which is for setting up VPNs.

It is different from docker compose because it is works within the application. One area that does seem similar is that resources are booted on behalf of the application. However, there is no need for docker or containers.

It looks like netmaker is about actual networking, a-la VPNs and the like. So, it is different from PENVM.

From a Python example, suppose an application has a function "calculate". With PENVM, an alternative function named "calculate" could be provided (in its place, taking the same arguments) which runs across a network of machines (as specified in a .penvm configuration file). This would be transparent to the application itself.

I think the pvx tool (https://github.com/penvm/penvm-pvx) actually demonstrates how PENVM can be used. The Jupyter demos show this as well (https://github.com/penvm/penvm-jupyter-demos) with videos (https://penvm.dev/docs/examples/jupyter/jupyter-demos-videos...).

Let me know if those examples clarify things.
Just plugged this comment in, also claims to have written your comment!
Ad blocking is the anti virus of this generation.

If someone is using ad blocking, especially with custom rules, they are saying, loud and clear, they DON'T WANT most JavaScript running.

web developers should just respect that and move on, not try everything the browser allows in order to ram it down their throats. Theres really no excuse for it. with browsers essentially acting as operating systems these days, you're basically trying to justify malware.
My friend showed me his $700 jacket once (a long time ago). It was given to him while gambling in atlantic city, when he lost $700.
They actually don’t. They work fine for a few words then the ink fades out and is basically gone after the fifth or sixth word. I just tried (go ahead and try it yourself, I used just a regular Bic pen). A similar thing occurs when writing on a vertical surface.

Pens also do poorly when cold.

Space pens use a pressurized ink cartridge that works independent of orientation and works when hot or cold. They’re cheap. It’d be dumb to NOT use a space pen on a mission now.

Before the pressurized ink cartridge of the space pen was invented, they used grease pencils.

Actually, the space pen is an example of successful private invention inspired by and then applied to and utilized by NASA.
What confuses me about OpenAI is that, after poaching the copyright of so many sites to train their model, they expect those who use "GPT" in their product names to comply. They did this for Craiyon.com (their new name now), and unfortunately, I expect to see more of this legal hunting.

I'm glad that Reddit has finally asked for a piece of the cake and demanded a profit for their APIs and content.

The biggest hurdle that AI will face won't be a technical one, but rather copyright laws and EU guidelines.
> The warfare was absolutely horrifying by modern standards, and I imagine that even the best warriors of Rome would have had severe PTSD.

I'm not actually sure this was the case. We don't actually really hear of things like PTSD for anything before the Great War - and we do have veterans of prior wars saying something was different about WW1.

It seems that the constant, unending chance of combat or death really might be different than what came before.
So one possible use case. At least for me and other people that want quick access to a terminal without having to fire up a notebook or pc.
Sadly, it really sounds like it isn't. It was amazing.
A bit off topic - but does anyone know of a „pod“-solution with a mobile UI / optimized workflow?

I often find myself wanting to code on an existing project from my phone. Yes, vscode kind of works but it‘s not a quite the experience i‘m looking for.
> The point is, if a solution already exists, it's implementation details would simply be imitated and no further research would be required.

Imitating ideas from one language to improve another is a form of research, and can be fairly difficult.

> As far as I'm aware, pattern matching on function signatures is impossible for Javascript as it doesn't even permit function overloading

There's no syntactical support for function overloading in JS, but it's fairly trivial to accomplish the same semantics using normal control flow (i.e. conditionals). This is why type narrowing (which uses control flow analysis), is relevant here. The paper I referred to above actually points this out. On page 6 under the section labeled "FUNCTION OVERLOADING", the author wrote:

"However, intersection types let us express ad-hoc polymorphism (i.e., function overloading) if coupled with some mechanism that allows functions to test the type of their arguments."

The author then goes on to describe this technique in more detail on the very next page:

"OCCURRENCE TYPING: Occurrence typing or flow typing [59, 46, 17] is a typing technique pioneered by Typed Racket that uses the information provided by a type test to specialize the type of some variables in the branches of a conditional...This method of refining types according to conditionals is important in type systems for dynamic languages and in those that enforce null safety: some examples include Ceylon [38], Dart [27], Flow, Kotlin [37], Typed Racket, TypeScript, and Whiley [47]."

> But to refer back to the stated project goals:

Thank you for linking to the list of project goals. The second bullet point under the list of goals says:

"To capture some programming patterns used in Elixir programming one needs to resort to the techniques of gradual typing, parametric polymorphism, and occurrence typing, three tools whose theoretical aspects have been already studied for semantic subtyping".

TS of course exhibits gradual typing and parametric polymorphism (generics), but did you notice the mention of occurrence typing? The same form of typing I referred to above, and which the author explicitly mentions exists in TypeScript (amongst others).

I honestly don't have the time to devote to this conversation any longer. I will most likely allow you to have the final word, because this discussion could carry on ad infinitum and is incredibly unproductive. As Paul Graham once said this might be taken as a tacit admission of failure [1], but I have things to do.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34043420#:~:text=when%2....
Agreed. This really feels like an ES6 moment for CSS.
How about this, some guy uses his capture card to capture shows he is interested in and then distributes them via some sort of peer to peer network to other users who could help "seed" the file in return, ensuring it remains available for others who desire it.
We had a lot of requests for open sourcing MP but I don't think it would have been very useful. The code itself is interesting to look at but the system is designed for very large data sets, has a lot of moving parts to manage and configure, and would be very difficult to operate at anything below at least double-digit petabytes.

MP was designed for multiple exabytes across many data centers and geographic regions. A different system design (or just using S3) would be more appropriate for use at smaller scales.
I've started to play with the Ai.txt metaphor, but pushing it closer to the semantic solution mentioned, focusing on Content Extraction and Cleaning. Happy to share the file example if anyone is interested.
> A reasonable question, and one not terribly often asked, is "What is the point of the economy, growth, etc?"

This is asked all the time. Google "economy growth reddit" and you'll see a bunch of posts questioning why it's important.

> I deal with it regularly, since my office is a standalone, off grid power system. I just use less energy, by an order of magnitude or so, in the winter - and I bundle up out here.

I mean, yes, on margin for a single person, this reduces overall energy consumption. However, cities are more energy-efficient per capita.

Take a look at the energy expenditure per-capita states by state, and you'll see that the states with the smallest energy expenditure per-capita generally have the largest cities, and the ones with the most energy expenditure are rural states:
https://www.eia.gov/state/seds/data.php?incfile=/state/seds/....
That's how conditionals work.
Music Engraving on Metal Plates
What's sets this apart from https://www.chatpdf.com/?
I’m surprised they don’t just sell the bumped car and give out a brand new one. The damage in the original is very small and I’d not mind having it as a beater.
We need limits on liability for cases like this. If you want to drive around a piece of engineering artwork... the risk should be on you. Every driver will (statistically) get into an accident at some point regardless of how cautious they are. It's not really fair to the average roadway user.
fvwm2 may work for you. With enough effort put into configuring it and its modules, you may get almost any look-and-feel.

Depending on what do you mean with “NeXT philosophy”, Window Maker and the whole GNUStep suite may also be worth checking.
The macro's input syntax could be improved by more directly matching the generated code ([C-EVOCATIVE][0]).

Rather than

pub node Expression =
| BinOp -> Node<BinaryOperation>
| UnOp -> Node<UnaryOperation>
| Num -> Node<Number>
;

pub node BinaryOperation = {
lhs: Node<Expression>,
op: BinOp,
rhs: Node<Expression>,
}

write

pub enum Expression {
BinOp(Node<BinaryOperation>),
Node(Node<UnaryOperation>),
Num(Node<Number>),
}

pub struct BinaryOperation {
lhs: Node<Expression>,
op: BinOp,
rhs: Node<Expression>,
}

[0]: https://rust-lang.github.io/api-guidelines/macros.html#input...
Yes, that's why the life expectancy of the US, the richest empire in history, is ranked 51 out of all countries, just below Cuba and above Albania.
So are dolphins doesn't mean they don't get into the drag net.
I don't think I agree that the distribution of development poses a significant challenge.

If that were the case, you would see at least some controlled Burns in undeveloped areas, but that is not the case. You might see more logging or a small low risk Burns near inhabitated areas.

The fact that we still see essentially no control burns is strong evidence that the barrier is Still what it has been for the last 100 years. Bad government policy informed by Environmental emotion instead of environmental science.

At the end of the day, the rationale is stupid but simple. People don't like the Aesthetics of a burn Forest for the smell of smoke in the air. Actual risk to life and property from controlled Burns can be effectively minimized. In some areas of the state they never existed in the first place and still don't exist

The solution isn't rocket science. You just start with small safe Burns adjacent to communities. Nobody wants to look at a burn scar for several years, so instead they roll the dice on their Community burning down
I prefer to use my $25 dashcam on my car (I did my research to find a pretty decent one). This dashcams always recording and mounted.
I think the Lexus owner’s insurance should pay a standardized repair cost and the Rivian owner’s insurance should have to cover the difference.

Why should I have to cover the cost of someone else’s poor decision to buy an ultra expensive to repair vehicle?
"It’s fairly easy to design a system with astronomically high durability numbers. 24 nines is a mean time to failure of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years. When your MTTF dwarfs the age of the universe then it might be time to reevaluate your priorities.

Should we trust these numbers though? Of course not, because the secret truth is that adherence to theoretical durability estimates is missing the point. They tell you how likely you are to lose data due to routine disk failure, but routine disk failure is easy to model for and protect against. If you lose data due to routine disk failure you’re probably doing something wrong."

https://medium.com/@jamesacowling/how-many-nines-is-my-stora...
This would've been easier to institute in the '90s.

For around 20 years, CS departments have been pipelines to "greed is good" careers.

It'll be interesting to see whether it gets genuine traction, and what will have to happen before then.
What’s your definition of cheap?

I’m in Portland, OR and pay less than $1,300 a month for a 1-bedroom in a great part of town. For me, can’t beat the weather, bike/pedestrian friendliness, and access to the outdoors for the price.
YC Interview Questions Gamified
If you have an interview coming up, this might help
> > resulted in extensive controls being put in place on the US national security apparatus to prevent the things it discovered from continuing

> Who told you that?

The laws, including FISA, adopted shortly after and in response to the Church Committee findings expressly directed at dealing with the abuses identified by the Church Committee.
I think Microsoft is being silly with “Studio Effects” requiring an A.I. block because those kind of image filters can run just fine on the CPU although they can be a power efficient way to get the job done on a phone. I have an FPGA dev board and some projects that barely fit in an AVR8 and sometimes think I’d like to make the plunge but there are so many other hacking projects to do.
> The space of possible future human technologies is effectively infinite, to say nothing of extraplanetary resources.

You are underestimating how quickly exponential growth gets out of hand. Take population for example. If we wanted to have 1% annual population growth, in ~12 100 years the volume of humans would be 9 x 10^60 m^3.

If we started expanding into space right now, and we expanded at the speed of light, in 12 100 years we'd have access to 6 x 10^60 m^3, which is not big enough.

Of course by then we may have bioengineered smaller humans. That doesn't help much. It just changes that 12 100 to 12 800.

Or how about energy? If human energy use grows by 1% a year in ~9300 years we will be using 5.3 x 10^59 Joules per year. That's about the same as the amount of energy you would get if the entire mass of the Milky Way galaxy were converted to energy (E=mc^2).

Forget the Milky Way. Let's think big. What if we converted the entire freaking universe--all the observable mass, and all the dark matter, and all the dark energy--into energy for humanity. At 1% annual growth from now we'd be using that much per year in 12 000 years.
Landmark Technology’s Terrible Patent Has Survived (2019)
This is an unfair characterization. At least for how Codepen is using it. They aren't doing anything with this besides measuring how many people are using ad-blockers. (and if Codepen tried to block ad-block users with this technique I'm sure rules will be updated to subvert them quite quickly, causing them to lose these analytics)
People have a really hard time admitting there are negative externalities to density.

Some may be small, all may be worth it, but they do exist.

And straight up cash can make many go away either in the form of reduced taxes, improved services, a new park, etc.
Why didn't you refinance in 2020-2022 when interest rates were so much lower? If the prevailing rate is 3%, you're leaving money on the table by sticking with your original mortgage (unless it's almost paid off)
Ask HN: How much is Twitter Blue today?
I don't have time to track down the right pricing page. What's Elon charging for Twitter Blue today?
OK, I tried this, and it appears like this option has external access, but it is actually just hallucinating a response based on the title of the document. Crazy.
I'm perfectly fine with a webserver having logs of HTTP requests I send to it. I'm just not okay with executing arbitrary third party code. This seems like a decent solution. And as a positive side effect it will actually record the group of people with very slow to load or no javascript that are almost always missed by JS only surveys. Maybe with more accurate representation of these numbers devs won't fall back on the old "everyone executes all javascript" fallacy and they'll start designing HTML documents again instead of javascript web applications.
If their 3.75% mortgage was originally for $1M and has 25 years left, just the cost of giving that up is about $250k. I don't think anyone's giving out a $250k sign-on bonus for a non-executive.
Well yes. But what I meant was that at the time it collapsed, it was all fraud. There was no real business profitable business to continue. Fraud was what it did by the end.
Just a guess: is this answer GPT output?
This only applies to Plus accounts, as far as I can tell.
Or at least that's what Netflix is telling it's Ad customers.
> If you have a premium account your search is not rate limited so you can iteratively scrape anything you want even though it's technically a violation of the terms of service.

Well. This is certainly not true.

Even with Premium subscription you can hit a hard limit of personal profile views while just actively going through profiles without any automation. And Linkedin will temporary restrict and threaten to ban your account.
Soundstorm: Efficient Parallel Audio Generation
Even without all those folks whose financial futures depends on them refusing to understand that hydrogen is bunk - my guess is that hydrogen would still have billions of True Believers. There seems to be a profound mythical/religious aura around it - "magically pure, as natural as the sun, creates only pure carbon-free water when it burns...". The stuff pushes far too many emotional buttons in a lot of people, and seems to have gotten incorporated into America's culture wars.
Oh man I wish I was still in uk i would so be there.
Housing has gone down in nominal dollars only a few years in the last century. Even if nothing else improved regulations and the cost of construction would lead to higher prices.

Mayhap the best we can do is ensure supply is more than adequate and wages rise accordingly.
No. Romans assimilated any race into their empire. They were practical.
It’s not epapper
Practically every time I read any transcripts I imagine them as Microsoft Comic Chats. Including criminal trial transcripts.
works great with pi zero 2. Needs a front-light to see in low light.