skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apartments.com seems very corporate, I doubt most people are even aware if they are allowed to post on there.

Check Craigslist, that’s the main place people who are looking for randoms to rent a room will post:

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/roo?max_price=1000&min_p...

Of course, most people would prefer to room with family or friends (especially if we’re talking about multiple people in the same room). That’s not an SF issue, it’s human nature. So a lot of roommate groups are going to be formed through word-of-mouth, or smaller community group chats/boards.
I'm talking about those that "claim that wages are driving inflation", not the current administration. If they are also doing so, I will happily retract my statement and focus my ire more broadly.
Excuse me but how in the hell did they get the figures so wrong?

And this isn't real vs. actual, everything was heavily revised. WTF?!
Keep in mind their CEO fraudulently impersonated Reddit users by logging into their accounts and posting as them, and Reddit was just fine with this.

They seem to be fully aware of what they're doing and what they're about.
Thanks for the long reply. Your observation agrees with mine about the automation part and thats's exactly the reason I love the job. I did a lot of automation for the team.

But I'm missing a lot. I know absolutely nothing about network. I don't know how to build infra-as-a-service as our DevOps does -- I only use and dev on top of them. I'm especially wearing a blank face reading your "system and signal" paragraph.

I guess my best shot is to learn by earning a certification and go from there. I found all companies need sort of a senior DevOps who can immediately begin work. I need to fill at least some of the gaps.
A quote that ringed in my mind for years after wondering why this keeps happening.

>The moral of the story is: if you’re against witch-hunts, and you promise to found your own little utopian community where witch-hunts will never happen, your new society will end up consisting of approximately three principled civil libertarians and seven zillion witches. It will be a terrible place to live even if witch-hunts are genuinely wrong.

For the most part, people are fine as long as the boat does rock TOO much, and for the most part Reddit's boat hasn't rocked to the extent Digg did back in the day. It may not even be possible for that to happen with the current population of users. Digg's exodus happened in 2005-6 right before the big boom of social media in 2008-10. The users were generally pretty saavy back then.

These days? Everyone uses social media, and inevitably with any mainstream, most people will only use it very casually, perhaps amongst a small friend group or for very casual browsing. They never comment,they may never even check comments. As long as the content comes, they won't even be aware of the sausage underneat from power users. But they are also the real lifeblood of the site.

These sorts of sites may be too big to fail now. You can't promote a site based on "hey we're not X". It just needs to have the right content at the right time a la TikTok. Sadly, one big incentive of that may include monetizing people for making posts and participating, and that sort of goes against the whole premise of the classic internet forums of the 90's/00's
Are these human brain cells? And how many do you have to grow before it becomes an ethics issue, i.e until it grows into a proper brain that has subjective experience?
A fun anecdote: I taught him some machine learning for an afternoon! He used to spend a few months per year in Oxford, and he had gotten in touch with my PhD advisor to ask some ML questions, as at the time he was writing his new book about linear algebra and learning from data. My advisor couldn't make it to their meeting so he sent me at the last minute instead. So bewildered me, a PhD student, met with Gilbert Strang to explain him some basic machine learning concepts! Interestingly, whenever I'd asked if he was already familiar with some concept, he'd always say no, which I suspect was a strategy to hear it explained in new words.

Anyway, Gil is a very polite and kind person, his encounter will stay a great memory.
Yeah... no.

We do not need to embolden things like this when it has led to clear societal issues. You may have a right to be wrong, you shouldn't have the right to spread those views as if they're right.
I wonder if there are areas/towns that could use additional sources of revenue/jobs that larger cities could help subsidize with homeless relocation services and funding.
Prison is a concept that has existed since the dawn of society. Maybe you disagree with criminalizing homelessness, that's certainly understandable and perhaps a bit illiberal, but it's certainly not unprecedented. And anyway, what I'm calling for is mandatory community service for the homeless, and then imprisonment/commitment/send them to kansas when they refuse to do it, not just criminalizing homelessness.

But if your question is if I believe in absolute freedoms, I absolutely do not. You are not free to harass people on the street. Not free to monopolize public parks. Certainly not free to be violent.
> often a distain for middle class

I've literally never seen this, but I regularly see upperclass people misrepresent themselves as middleclass.
I started taking Gilbert Strang's "new" course, "Matrix Methods In Data Analysis, Signal Processing, And Machine Learning" (18.065), in my free time after hearing about his retirement news.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/18-065-matrix-methods-in-data-an...

It's been 17 years since I took 18.06 with Professor Strang and I've always been disappointed with my grasp of Linear Algebra, especially as it's become more and more of an important and applicable topic. It very much stopped then and I've never felt terribly confident in it.

The course is great because it starts with a 6 lecture refresher that brings you back up to speed on the basics of Linear Algebra before diving into the meat of the course.

To avoid being completely 100% on the Strang bandwagon, his lectures are a little off the cuff and could probably benefit from some visual aids or interactive tools outside of white boards to help students visualize what's really going on with these matrices, but the current version of the course (https://github.com/mitmath/18065/tree/main/psets) has a bunch of Julia IJupyter Notebook assignments that help you get down and dirty with what you're really trying to learn - the application of Linear Algebra.
The figure of of a million units of SROs torn down comes from Wikipedia.

Between 1955 and 2013, almost one million SRO units were eliminated in the US due to regulation, conversion or demolition.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy

I'm pretty sure the stats on 1950s housing vs. post 2000 housing were federal stats, but I don't have a citation handy. I've been talking about housing issues a lot of years.
Depends very heavily on the product, but short answer 'yes'. I already do pay for Open Source SaaS products.

For very critical infrastructure or for situations where I care a lot about data security, maybe not. It's still not a totally easy sell, I don't seek out SaaS solutions to my problems necessarily. But there are situations where I would (and again, actively do) pay for convenience and for someone else to handle deployment and security for me.

It's actually a much, much harder sell to get me to pay for a SaaS solution that can't be self-hosted and that isn't Open Source. Just as one example, I pay for Wallabag because I don't want to deal with deploying it. I would not pay for Pocket.

The Open Source part of a hosted software solution is about giving me a sense of security that it's safe to use the product in the first place. The way I see it, the hosting is a completely separate service from that. Once you've convinced me that it's safe to use your product and that if something goes wrong I can just move to self-hosting, then at that point you can make the sales pitch to me, "and also wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to self-host?"

> would you still pay around $5 to get the cloud version of the app?

I'll also say that for personal usage around $5 a month falls basically squarely into my "this is kind of an impulse purchase" bucket. If you're charging $20-40 a month for a personal service that I'm using just for myself independently, then like... I don't know, do I really need it? Is it really worth paying for something I can do myself?

But $5 a month is very squarely in the range where that thinking completely flips and I start saying, "I don't know, do I really need to spend a day setting up a VPS? Over $5? It's not worth it, I want to just shoot the dev some money and have one less thing to worry about on my monthly todo list."

But again, obviously that's somewhat software-specific and depends a little bit on whether or not it is genuinely something that I really want to use. For business use-cases where it's something more important, I'd probably be willing to pay more.
Capitalism means a society ruled by Capital owners, who happen to love child labor. That’s the justification. It makes them money, so it’s good!
Because you can type much faster on an onscreen keyboard on any cheap Android tablet.

I did the test on my iPad, i reach around 70% of the typing speed compared to my favorite PC keyboard.

There are some Tablets that include a keyboard in the cover, so in the end you have the same functionality and much better usability.
Does it play pong well? Random noise can "play" pong, in that it can be translated into commands to erratically move the player's paddle and occasionally hit the ball by chance. Can anyone with access to the full paper report on how impressively the DishBrain plays? I'm not necessarily expecting human-level skill, but at least something to indicate that it's responding appropriately to the game's state and working towards winning, rather than just wobbling the paddle around randomly.
Its been the same with the jobs numbers for the last couple of months, I don't know why they even publish the numbers with such a big margin for error.
During the initial lockdowns, I strolled into a Beauty Supply storefront at the mall, and innocently asked for some Barbicide. That's the commercial-grade sanitizer that's blue; barbers drop combs into a branded glass bottle.

The first one or two times they said "gee, sorry, no" and explained the supply chain problems and they haven't seen a shipment in a long time. After that it became sort of a comedy where I would hardly expect them to stock it anymore for ordinary mortals. I meticulously priced out beard trimmers and hair clippers for personal use.

However, the barbers still seemed to sanitize OK. (I did have to switch to one that would trim my beard and not force me to keep a mask on during the service.) On a related note, even during the egg crisis, I've inadvertently ordered food featuring eggs at restaurants and I was not noticeably overcharged.

It all just goes to show you the disparity in the commercial vs. personal supply chains. It was explained to me that commercial food service has extremely different requirements in terms of packaging, volume, pre-preparations, shipping, processing and ingredients, and during the lockdowns, the world feebly attempted a massive shift in those supply chains, and that's partly why they had problems, because they are not interchangeable.
What’s going to happen to Twitter? Will Mastodon, Bluesky or another contender take its place? Will they all coexist? Perhaps an open protocol will take over? Or maybe the bird will become phoenix and rise from the ashes. Who knows, who cares (I do, but maybe I shouldn’t as much).

Some things are hard to predict.

If, on the other hand, you’ve been caring a third of your weight on your back for years and you suddenly see someone with a pushcart for the first time in your life, it’s not hard to predict you’ll want one too.
Apologies to you too, I should've said corporate landowners. I think that mostly puts us in agreement, though I don't think developers are the problem. It's property managers seeking to maximize profit that are more the problem there.

> More housing = affordable housing. Not subsidized housing, not regulated housing. Just more of it will help America.

Last caveat that I'd add to this is also more diverse housing street by street. Having space for single family homes alongside dense housing isn't just a good vibe, I think it also incentivizes a normalization of value. Combine that with shopping/retail and I think you can build some pretty equitable places with shorter commutes.
I don’t understand. This seems pretty innocuous to me.

>“If you’re an average internet user, you may not think too much about your privacy when you visit a random website” Surely you don’t dispute that? Like, maybe the average user should think about their privacy when they visit a random website, but it’s not dizzying to say that they probably don’t.

And the rest of statement is just saying that some users are more at risk of what is a targeted exploit. Probably both in terms of the chance it is used against them, and the consequences of that use.

Your point that unmasking gets used against a wide range of people is well taken, but it hardly invalidates the argument being made here, does it?

You believe it’s more important to emphasize that everyone should care about privacy. The author seems to believe that it’s more important to emphasize the impact on populations more likely to be targeted. Both are fair perspectives.
To the sibling: Where else do you go when no one will let you use the bathroom?
"do not guess that it will be your weakest opponent nor guess what they will try, prepare for your strongest adversary and all that they can do" -- mutatis mutandis, Sun Tzu, Art of War
That has nothing to do with ransomware.
Certainly don't take my post as argument that they are the best company I can imagine. I'm fairly convinced this area is far harder than most internet commentary allows.
Some hardware guys think software is easy. You can fix it in the field and most stuff is hacks in tcl, nothing difficult there. This leads to grossly inaccurate ideas about complexity and time in software development.

In the worst case, you get a model where the software guys aren't worth paying well because their stuff is easy, and somehow their stuff is always late and broken anyway so they can't be worth much.

Then noone can sell the hardware because it's worthless without the code and the company fails and it's all the fault of the software engineers who couldn't do the easy thing that, uh, the hardware guys also couldn't do.
There’s also one of MetaBallStudios perspective comparisons. They usually get recommended for less serious videos, but this one is something else: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Zb5qTdb6LbM
It's easy to see that *certain website* has not yet found this host, judging by the lack of *certain words*.
One would imagine so, but it seems it isn't a problem. Not sure why. Perhaps the elasticity of the metals is sufficient to absorb that change over typical temperature variations? Maybe they would fail if you poured liquid nitrogen over them?
I loved the ending too. I found it very emotionally resonant and I teared up a bit.
analog chips like what MythicAI is developing seem like the next obvious leap forward for deploying inferences broadly. ASIC/FPGA wouldn't be much different than a GPU. ASIC seems like a brittle solution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsUOuSjvcg
> San Francisco’s climate and permissive camping policies help absolve a lot of the housing related issues that are involved with being homeless.

Of course they don't. Living out of a tent on a street makes it extremely hard to get your life onto target for rejoining the economically healthy portion of society. I'm sure you know that. I don't know what you were trying to say.
> As far as science knows, axial elongation is reversible in rhesus monkeys and isn't even fixed in the first place.

Source?
> This. I really do not understand why people use fail2ban when the threat is somewhere else.

Fail2ban keeps my log short enough that I can review them daily, I don't have to sift through thousands of login attempt.

> It won't stop a ddos but will certainly, at some point, prevent you from logging in.

Yup, losing my key and having no password access will do that.
This has been done before elsewhere, and it was exactly as effective as doing nothing. I'm not much for gambling, but I'd put money on this attempt ending the same way.

It's a mindset that is action-biased. Results don't matter, being seen to be doing things is what matters, apparently.
The Self Destructing USB Drive Is Ready
Absolutely the wrong interpretation of this decision. Read the June 1 "Money Stuff" instead.
> If you're operating at small scale, store your backups on another provider, and periodically test that you can quickly restore them to that provider.

Sure, but that's not what people mean when they say cross cloud. It usually implies running active workloads.

Orchestrate hundreds of workloads that each depend on one another across several clouds and they reorganize upon a failure introduces a lot of new failure modes.
You're probably right. When I was in the Bay I met a lot of people who would've lived in single unit housing who split mansions and single family homes with other people.

In Texas I don't remember seeing much if any SROs. I've only seen them in abundance since I've lived in Portland.
Protections are difficult in this unprecedented recession buildup.

Like we’ve never dumped trillions into the economy in a couple of years and then jacked up interest rates so fast.
They relocated to where they are though. A lot, or even most of the people living on the streets of SF are not from SF, or even California for the matter.

They aren't "tech bros" down on their luck either... they're not failed entrepreneurs, or folks who just couldn't afford one too many rent payments.

They're people who chose to be there for many reasons, including the friendly environment that tolerates their lifestyle.
PentestGPT: GPT-Powered Penetration Testing
Gasoline already has benzene in it. Adding a tiny bit more with the ethanol doesn’t matter.
You want citations for, "if you make something easier to consume, more people will consume it?"
Benzene combusts to carbon dioxide and water, which are both relatively harmless.

(Gasoline is also not something you want on your skin.)
>Why isn't there (or is there) some kind of service you can use to map some crazy URL to your personalip:port,

You might be able to do this by responding with a hyperlink which points to ssh://x.x.x.x:1234

Some browsers will recognize that format and pass to an ssh client application to spawn an appropriate ssh connection.

The reason why it's not a worthwhile idea is that there is a limit of 65535 ports to chose from on a given IP address and they all can be scanned pretty quickly in order to locate an active SSH service port. This really makes the URL idea ineffective.

Port-knocking may be a little bit more effective because the SSH service will not reply to a connection request unless you've attempted to establish a connection on a different port first. Scanning for an open SSH service becomes much more difficult.
Yes, it's the amps that matter for wire gauge (at typical voltages). Regular 12/2 or 14/2 NM cable (Romex) is used for US 240v circuits all the time. The only requirement is to color the white wire at the ends black or red to signify that it is a hot conductor with reference to ground.
I bet the developer snuck in there intentionally. And the "tips" go directly to, well, guess where.
This is not one I will cede without evidence, so yeah. With the amusing extra burden that I have yet to know a safe driver that used a dash camera.

I have been in a car where the alert went off that it was engaging aeb. The driver was far too close to the car in front of us...
That's not what your parent comment asked for.
This kind of knee jerk snarky comment doesn’t really contribute to the conversation at all. If you want to make that point, make it better.
I'd assume it's fear of being sued by Nvidia. Probably quite well founded.
"it might even be possible at some future date to ''recreate'' long-dead movie stars to appear in new movies."

I've been waiting for the new Jimmy Stewart/John Wayne movie for years now. AI, step up your game!
The problem with giving homeless people free housing is that you remove the incentive to work your tail off to pay your rent and not get evicted. Then more people fall onto the cushy safety net, and the costs of maintaining that net go up.
See my response to this upthread[0]. Moving requires time and money, which many people in this situation don't have to spare. In a way they are locked into their current location, because even though it's already financially precarious, the simple act of trying to find a new location and a new job could easily tip them into deep financial trouble.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36171583
wow I just got a lesson in css for free. Thanks for taking the time!
Perhaps the preliminary numbers are 'estimated' high or low for political purposes - ie. to grab the right headlines or to push markets in the right direction.

Then the real figures can be quietly corrected later.
If we want to kill the tree of hate, we have to kill the roots too.
> So you suppose the US military being too incompetent to discern balloons for what they are?

So you suppose there's no reason for the US military to deliberately appear this way?

"Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak" - Sun Tzu
No.

All the blue light from monitors and phones are simply too dim to be part of any physiological changes. All the papers that people quote that are of both quality and actually show anything involve blue light far brighter than your monitor; all the papers that are quality but involve relevant brightness show no effect.

There are also papers of low quality, which should not be mentioned, but seem to provide the backbone of the myth.