skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Negative value isn't really possible in this scenario. I'll buy a floor of one of these buildings for $1, and promise to pay for its upkeep.

I'm sure I can find someone willing to rent a 10,000+s.f. downtown manhattan apartment for more than the cost of maintenance (and the property tax on the $1 the floor of the building is apparently worth).
I want to build an email builder that generates email layouts which can be used in outlook. I have a limited knowledge of Html and CSS. Is this something that can be achievable. Do i have to learn JavaScript? How realistic is this?
Not quite the answer to your question, but there are quite a few people looking at doing eventually consistent database syncing with CRDTs. Two interesting ones are:

https://electric-sql.com/ - SQLite and Postgres syncing

https://vlcn.io/ - SQLite syncing

I've been experimenting with Yjs and merging documents in database via SQL, for both SQLite and Postgres. And allowing you to query the contents of those documents, similar to how you can query JSON. Early days, these are just tests:

https://github.com/samwillis/yjs-sqlite-test

https://github.com/samwillis/yjs-pg-test
More of a Tomato fan myself (used multiple ASUS routers), but using a router with stock firmware always seemed not worth the risk when there are so many great alternatives.
On Amazon? How? Does Amazon provide an API allowing that?
We have one "legal" switch, then other .. less than stock switches. We buy the games on the legal one. What happens after that is between me and my other switches.
Is there a reason they couldn't just jack up the PWM frequency? Most OLEDs seem to be under 500 Hz[0], which leads me to believe that there's something limiting them from performing any faster. Basic LEDs on the other hand can easily operate at frequencies in the 1-5+ kHz range and can be pushed very far if the entire system is designed well. A display running at 10 kHz might not be noticeable to even the most sensitive people.

[0]: https://www.notebookcheck.net/PWM-Ranking-Notebooks-Smartpho...
They learned from US via IMF.
Thanks. People tend to fantasize so many problems that doesn't really exist, or not anymore that it gets sometimes annoying and frustrating. Like on that other thread where people who don't use Gnome desktop environment were complaining of a missing feature...except that feature did in fact exist.
This reminds me of one of my personal rules... Whenever I turn on the dishwasher, I always set the delay for at least 1 hour (the smallest delay my dishwasher offers).

This is for a similar reason given in the github explanation -- even when I think I'm done, I almost always find one more cup or utensil that I missed.
Ditto, RT-AC68U running merlin with no issues.
It is not possible to calibrate it away without knowing what the central wavelength of the LED is. That would require a spectrometer and if you manage to build one on chip per pixel which is currently not possible/practical.

I don’t understand what you mean with the GPU. It is has no information about the exact color of the LED.
I sure hope you don't pay $500 for hardware that retails around $199-$249.
Automatic Differentiation in Prolog
Making use of more data requires more compute (e.g., longer training, more powerful hardware, or both).
Same.

Works so much better in its native environment. Everything is faster and more stable.
> It just seems like I’m giving up on security by switching to passkeys, away from randomly generated passwords.

This is true for you, but the majority of people reuse poor passwords all over the place and do not have mfa setup.

For the average user, the risk of a breach on some poorly secured third party site is significantly higher than someone stealing their phone and cracking their passcode somehow.
Interesting- thanks for the correction. I’m off to read more!
3 hours to go 400 miles in France vs 6 hours in the US?

The United States sat out the HSR revolution. China built 26,000 miles in the past 20 years. The US has essentially nothing.

Personally, I think the creation of China’s subway system is even more impressive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metro_systems#:~:text=....
It’s not only that. Even ignoring security checkpoints, jet planes almost always take people from where they do not are to where they do not want to be. Using them to go from where you are to where you want to be means spending additional time to travel to and from the airport.

Trains (most of the time) are a bit better in that regard because stations are more plentiful and often closer to where people want to be.

Cars, bicycles, and feet (mostly in that order; depending on infrastructure, it may be faster to get into your car than to hop on pot your bicycle) are even better.

Speed wise, it’s reversed. If there are no obstructions, speeds are feet < bicycle < car < train < jet plane.

That means that, only looking at trip duration, the detour to an airport and from the destination airport only is worth it for fairly long trips. Similarly, walking can be faster than cycling if you don’t have to go far, cycling can be faster than taking the car, etc.

Unfortunately, people also take trip costs into account, and those often are cheaper for air planes, compared to trains.

So, to ‘quit’ cars, we have to make it easier for people to go to a train station or to hop onto their bicycle and/or have to make it more difficult to hop into their car.

Banning on-street parking, requiring car drivers to walk a few hundred meters to a parking garage cuts multiple ways there. Using less space for parking allows for higher density, which leads to shorter travel distances, and increases the time to hop into one’s car.
Taiwan relies on external materials as much or more than Manhattan. They have at best under a month's worth of food on the island, and other raw materials supply is measured in days.

One thing people miss with the china/taiwan discussion is that China doesn't need to make a single violent move towards Taiwan to subdue it. A naval blockade would force Taiwan's capitulation in almost no time at all.

Even a forceful blockade wouldn't be totally necessary, if China just passed any sort of sanction stopping the export of materials or food to Taiwan, prices would immediately become unsustainable on the island and it would also have to capitulate.
I blame the software methodologies for this. And the dogmatic LoC per reported hour.
Imagine a hacker saying: i need 5 story points to figure out for the REST API how the bootloader works.
LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)
It’s huge but not game changing.
Unit Testing eBPF Programs
The ribbon keyboard navigation is significantly slower to use though than the classic menus, because you need to release the Alt key first, and also many sequences are longer. With the classic menus, many commands were like Alt+B+C where you could press those keys almost simultaneously like a chord, in a fraction of a second. The new keyboard shortcuts always feel clumsy and awkward to press in contrast, and they don’t build muscle memory well for that reason.
If standardizing something is a public good, then why are the standard documentation kept locked?

Nobody on this thread said a word against standardization. It's really important. You are replying for some comment that isn't there.
> and it also came over cartoonish and game-y: Effectively, used UI patterns from a video game in a context where users wanted to get serious work done.

Hey hey hey. To an enthusiastic 12 year old like me, Clippy was pure gold! I could spend hours having fun with that guy. The doggie version was cool too.
Ok, it's realistic :) I use React.
> I don't think ignoring the aesthetic experience of where one lives is a wise idea

Nobody says to ignore it. Just not to make specific expressions of it a red line.

Windows are a great example. New Yorkers get emotional about windows. Guess what: nobody is egressing from the 57th story of a burning building via the window. Yet go to a community board meeting and every numpty who Ctrl + F'd the fire code will pull up photos from 1911 to argue for windows an aircraft carrier can fit through.

You know what you can provide the residents of a building with tiny, tiny windows? A rooftop garden. Modern heating and fresh, filtered air. Potted plants in the hallways, community spaces, warmer lighting et cetera.
Nintendo didn't develop those.
I think in principle this is a great idea and maybe the future. I just wonder what this will do to your eyes if used the whole day.
Everyone I've talked to about their experience in MBA programs say that it feels designed to teach you to think of people as if they are somewhere between cattle and plants, mere generators of productivity metrics for spreadsheets and dashboards. The only perspective is quantitative, and it's largely based on arbitrary, misleading metrics.
The passcode fallback isn't available for passwords, just for unlocking the device. In fact, IIRC I don't think you can set up iCloud Keychain without FaceID being enabled...
> You're acting like residential retrofits have never been done. They have. These are workable problems.

I didn't say residential retrofitting can't be done. I said that they can't be done while still demanding the resale value (read: net profit) that the building owners are demanding.

> Most of New York City's CRE tax revenue comes from mid-sized offices. Not from skyscrapers.

This comment thread is on an article titled "NYC Skyscrapers Sit Vacant, Exposing Risk City Never Predicted". So we're talking about things that apply to skyscrapers.

> As others point out, the killer is plumbing. Not fire escape.

There are multiple issues. I addressed fire escape only because you brought it up, not because it's the only issue.

Again, this whole thread is in response to your claim that the limiting factor is "aesthetic requirements" in the building code that are not motivated by safety concerns. So far, you haven't pointed out any.
"Nevera" means "storm"; specifically a storm on the sea.
How familiar are you with how manufacturing works? A BOM (bill of materials)/COG (cost of goods) cost !== the retail price. You have things like NRE costs (i.e. what it costs to pay people to design and bring the thing to mass production, machines you have to buy/manufacture to support your assembly lines, marketing, legal, etc etc) and profit margins to factor in. Apple's 20-30% is rare and PC margins are closer to 2-5% (often even negative for Android phone manufacturers as they try to recoup that through revenue sharing on the software side with Google).

Basically, BOM/COG is things you pay for that you pass on directly to the consumer. However, the retail price has to cover a bunch more than that so you can't compare the two directly. A good rule of thumb is ~2-20x markup depending on the profit margin you are targeting.

A $2 licensing fee in the BOM is thus probably closer to ~$14-40 retail. Considering how thin profit margins are, 3% of retail going to nothing but marketing is not nothing especially considering that Apple doesn't have to pay this fee and also getting a cut of every product you sell to boot. Think about it this way - frequently towards the end of the development cycle as you're heading towards mass manufacturing, companies will look to shave tens of dollars and be trying to find 10-20c here & there to add up to that. $3 is massive.

You see similar dynamics with MFI. It requires a special chip (space within the product, battery costs) and licensing fees (Apple gets a cut of every sale you make making your competitor product more expensive or less profitable). It's why none of the major tech companies have MFI in their products AFAIK. It cripples any competitor product you try to make (not to mention that you're further at Apple's whims around licensing agreements changing if you build your product around MFI).
Yes, talent and presumably investment.

Not that what's said on the Glassdoor has anything to do with anything. I've seen enough cases of glaring (epic) discrepancies between what's said on Glassdoor about a certain company, and what I know first or (highly reliable) second hand, to make a firm realization of this fact.

That said, the negative reviews (when they are allowed to slip through) can be quite useful. Caveat emptor, etc.
I'm never going to give a single crap about TikTok specifically being in the loving arms of the CCP as long as everyone else is just collecting my data anyway to either bombard with ads or sell to government entities. China is way down on my list regarding potential hostile actors to my personal welfare.
Hm. I see, so we are captive.
LLVM's MIPS maintainer stepped down a while ago...and that role still hasn't been filled AFAIK. Uh oh!

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/mips-backend-code-owner/60737?u...
What value can this really achieve other than being a glorified notification server (annoying).
I’ve been trying to commute by train in the Bay Area and I’m probably going to give up based on this.

The VTA train smells of pot and the CalTrain often smells of sewage. Periodically there are crazy people yelling on the VTA and regularly there are people having could-have-been-an-email loud conferences calls on CalTrain.

I really like trains and dislike car dependent cities. But it’s hard for me to walk-the-talk when it’s so unpleasant so consistently.
> Does it matter though?

Yes.

> The primary purpose of using literate programming is expository.

Right. A big, zero-context block of includes prefaced with a comment that you should just "skip ahead" past it to the "interesting stuff" and offering no insight about the stuff that you're skipping over is the opposite of expository. The main program—what it actually does—is sufficient to serve as exposition for the includes that it ends up needing to be put it. So actually write it that way.

> That's the benefit of WEB[...] The presentation order is not dependent on the code order, it's dependent on what makes the most expository sense.

The argument is that it doesn't make expository sense to write the includes the way Knuth is. It's just yet another form, as taeric observes, of boilerplate—which makes us a slave to what the (LP-unaware) compiler expects, and which LP is supposed to liberating us from...

* * * *

It strikes me that there are probably only two ways to really deal with includes in the spirit of literate programming, which is to either (a) put them at the end after having already shown us why they're necessary (accompanied with with e.g. a comment along the lines of "Recall that our program is using printf—a part of the C standard library and defined in stdio.h—so it's necessary, therefore, that we include it in order for our program to compile") or (b) to use WEB/CWEB's appending facilities—after having written a routine that uses printf for the first time, you write an interlude not altogether different from what I just described that adds that include to the "running sum" of necessary includes, which the tangle step will take care of as part of the build.

(I say "only" because these are the only ways that occur to me that it can reasonably be done. I'm not committed to that being true—I'm open to the possibility of there being more—and it's not as if I started with that in mind, but it's hard for to imagine others. The only thing I'm really committed to is that what the article says about Knuth's two examples being wrong is accurate. I know Kartik has softened his stance since originally writing it, but I haven't. The examples given are individually each an awful way to demonstrate LP considering how antithetical that is to the whole thing. Totally indefensible.)
Dark mode is very tricky, but I have an idea that I will demonstrate later this summer.
I love going to the office, but recognise I'm in the minority (at least in our industry). What's always puzzled me regardless, is the insistence of all going to the same city.

Alright, offices, sure, but why do we need them all in London? Are businesses _visiting_ each other? What was the rationale?
This is actually how independent study worked at the university I went to. You got a big stack of material to learn. There were designated study group times with a room provided, but that was if you wanted to show up and discuss with other students.

At the end of the semester some guy showed up and gave you an oral exam followed by a written exam. They were usually a professor at another nearby university that actually offered the course. If you passed both you got a passing grade for the course.
Here's what I care about:

1. If I can fully physically own some of my authenticators. Aka if Yubikeys or similar hardware tokens are supported, so I don't have to long-term trust any corporation to correctly and securely store my credentials - with Yubikeys the only trust is that hardware is free of vulnerabilities or backdoors.

2. If I'm guaranteed to be not bound to any single specific authenticator. Aka if I'm safe if I lose a Yubikey, assuming that I've prepared ahead of time (also see the next point).

3. If I can enroll an authenticator without having it physically present. Aka if I can sign up with one Yubikey and then tell the website "here is my phone, here's the public key of the Yubikey I keep in a safe, and here's a public key of a keypair I've generated on an airgapped machine, etched onto a titanium plate and buried in a secret stash, accept those for me as my alternative authenticators even though I don't have my private keys present". Aka if I don't have to run around the house (or worse) to just sign up for a website.

4. If I'm guaranteed to be able to use a software authenticator of my own development, shall I want it (despite whatever site owners may think of it). Aka if there are no attestation requirements that force me to use authenticators I don't trust.

If it's "yes" to all four, then I'm in and advertising this to everyone I know about, because this is much better than a password manager. If 1, 2 and 4 are "yes" then I'm probably in with a mix of one HSM and one software authenticator with exportable private keys (so I have a guaranteed way out), but voicing my displeasure wherever I can as the system is inconvenient. If not, then I'm probably sticking with passwords for the time being.
> "Flammable" isn't supposed to be a word, even though people keep using it.

On the contrary! "Flammable" has been used in English for centuries (https://www.etymonline.com/word/flammable) and at this point it's used intentionally to make it clear that we really do mean something can burn.
For more stories about products badly named for international markets, heck out "International Business Blunders". It's the only business book that's made me laugh out loud.
> Sorry for the tangent poster and readers, but this minor quibble seems important.

I fully agree. It's not just important, it's actually the essence of the problem.

1. Forest fires are hard to solve because many of the loudest voices on the topic are people who see them as an opportunity to bring up their favorite issue.

2. The fact that root causes are intertwined also means that real progress will be slow and potentially limited, at least in the short to medium term.
House Panel Bolsters Oversight on Open Source Software
See my response to Jtsummers. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35989931>
Maybe you are overconfident in your abilities.
Hi, the exact wording on the poll was
"If given the option, I would prefer not to be tracked online."

The reason why I didn't define "tracked" for the people taking the poll is that I think that's the most representative way to replicate the question that consent boxes are theoretical asking, but in an abstract way out of the context of a specific website. When a user sees that consent box, they have little to no idea of what tracking is actually happening.
Ok, I will be the first to say that I hate offices: the culture, the aesthetic, the rituals and customs. But I'm not necessarily sure that--especially for young people--work from home is the best option. Someone who is married, has kids, has a whole social world in their neighborhood, that person would enjoy and promote work from home, but that person is usually in a higher power position. A young person just starting out or at least earlier on in their career doesn't really have the opportunity to make friends, meet people (romantically), or otherwise make social connections while working from home.
Narrowing down a bit, I think it's the "downtown business district" that's on the way out -- and the accompanying high office rents, long commutes, etc.

My home is a place of rest and family, not work. Work happens at a dedicated location five minutes from home, on foot.

I think we'll see more of this in the future--mixed neighborhoods with a lot of residential space next to offices. What I think we won't see as much of, are huge office blocks very far from residential areas, where the majority of the workforce commutes an hour+ every day, each way, to work.
Similarly, as I've been promoted (and spend more time advising), my skills have atrophied

I used to be excellent at kernel hacking, random Linux things that would often be several-weeks trials. Now that I'm not 'in it' constantly, mostly just advising, I've lost a lot of that sharpness

Doesn't help the onslaught of the day really kills my desire to learn/play around
Photoshop will be eaten by generative AI in the next few years. Lightroom is still the best, Illustrator is in a duopoly with CorelDRAW. I used to be a pro photo/cinematographer and I can replace most of my Photoshop needs with stable diffusion + ControlNet + ClipSeg. DaVinci with plugins made After Effect irrelevant for my needs as well. Certainly Adobe still has momentum but their future after they switched from engineering/art company to rentier monopoly company doesn't look that rosy.
Well, when the government spends $1 it contributes $1 to GDP (regardless of what it's spent on), but note that whether or not an investment helps the economy of the US expand is an entirely different question to how it impacts the world. Things can be a net negative to the world and expand the economy.

Also note that I intend these as descriptive and not proscriptive statements. I'm not trying to say the government isn't wasteful (though 90-98% waste is an overstatement) or that it's the best way to do things, I'm just trying to illustrate why seemingly ponzi-like systems like national currencies can be economically productive and stable over long periods of time while truly ponzi-like systems rarely have longevity (Herbalife and Amway being exceptions to this rule, in my opinion) because they don't actually produce anything.
Just William (read by Martin Jarvis) and Jeeves and Wooster audiobooks (various narrators, but obviously they must be British!) are also very good way to while away a journey.

Though, if a child these days got up to half as much as William, the parents would be in jail for neglect and the child would be in care and up to his eyeballs in Ritalin. And that's before we get onto the Famous Five constantly trying to get themselves murdered by smugglers.
Gonzalez vs. Google – Supreme Court rules against reexamining Section 230 [pdf]
Yeah, living in these legacy markets has become clunky, and the markets can't be changed. If I found out that I no longer needed to swallow rocks to digest my food, why would I ever go back to doing so?