skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your comment.

I was involved in a Business Process Modelling research and I am sure the SAP world models business processes pretty intricately.

I like your idea of modelling the "work" that needs to be done.

I think it's partly an allocation problem, farming has automated food production that we have a lot of people that need to cover their costs. Recruitment is expensive and tedious and there's a lot of unsolved problems there.

Internet advertisements guarantees attention to something for a cost, I am sure businesses would like to guarantee capital and runway.

I think your use of the word "wants" is the key word here. If pushed to it, people could probably try work out what they want and someone else could try fulfill what they truly want. Software requirements are not always great, but there is a want behind every product or marketplace.

Allocating resources to ideas seems to be something that could transform the world. Identifying the good, profitable ideas is the hard part.

One of my ideas is a "Want app" which is that I can insert a demand for a doctor in my local area, or want for a fast food restaurant in this area, or I want a job that uses X, Y, Z technologies.

One of my ideas is "wantsfiles" [1] which is a machine readable file you put at the root of your domain and and then people automatically match orders with you based on what you want, as a form of automated business. For example, you could put an order on your wantsfile that you will buy "milk" at this price or you want someone to host "mirror.tgz" for you and you'll give them $X a month for it. There is also the idea of a generic purpose "wants app" where you specify what you want. [2] I wrote about that idea here [3]. It's a machine automatable order matching system.

This problem is very important to me. I spend my time on programming language implementation technical projects but I am also thinking of an idea that shall make the world better for everyone and sharing it openly. If you want to talk about ideas, I'll listen.

[1]: https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Wantsfiles#1598878006

[2]: https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Wants_20app#1578226067

[3]: https://github.com/samsquire/ideas2#5-open-demand-mapping-an...
It’s still interesting/useful, though. Once you require factoring in average train wait times and stuff like that the project is going to be way too complex to ever be achievable.
The rental scene would become different if the incentives were to change. Currently, it is not attractive to rent, so of course the cost and convenience to rent is not optimized as much as it could be by the market.

I can name at least 5 family and friends right off the bat who have large pickup trucks that I guarantee have never used for anything that could not have also been hauled on top of a car with some ties. My neighbor has a 2020 Tundra which I have watched her use to transport her two kids back and forth from the elementary school 1.5 miles away for years now.

It just makes no sense that in the last 20 years, all of a sudden there have been huge increases in the population of the US doing hard, manual work moving heavy workloads such that they can no longer manage with cars that used to work for us in the 1980s and 1990s? I'll go with "it's 90% vanity".
I'm not in doubt on this question. Please refer to https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/02/22/energy-... for a digestible piece on this topic.
Errr... why not just use their official tool?

https://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request

I sent in a request and a few days later had a bunch of .csv files containing everything I've done with my account.

OK, CSV isn't JSON - but it's pretty easy to parse or import into a database of your choice.
> I think the loophole is that Airbnb is profiting massively by renting all of these properties, but each property owner individually is not making significant profits.

While I do think that the government would like more tax revenue from AirBnB and other "foreign tech", I think that in touristy areas property owners are making a killing.

Aside from the "loophole" discussed here, another one is that, for example in Paris, these rentals aren't covered by the rent control laws. So even though you need to put in a bit more work for short stays compared to long ones, you're practically guaranteed a good occupation rate for your apartment and can cash in on the much higher rate you can charge.

I don't know how true this is, as opposed to a knee-jerk reaction by locals, but it would seem that in other touristy places there's been an influx in "holiday-rentals" pushing locals who can't afford the rising prices out of the market. These areas have more of a season effect (think seaside resorts, only popular in the summer). So, the way they "measured" it was that during the low season people would find rentals, but no-one would want a long-term contract covering the high-season, when all the properties would be put on the short-term market.

Another regulation which these rentals can side-step is having to provide an apartment with a certain minimum "energy grade". The goal of the scheme was to push landlords to improve the insulation of their properties to lower heating costs (broadly speaking). The issue is that rents being fixed, this had to come fully out of the landlord's pocket. Which, of course, they'd rather avoid. Bonus points for having to add this insulation on the inside, which reduces the area of the property, so the rent they can ask. This is compounded in "tense" markets, such as Paris, by the fact that many of the flats are concerned by this, or will soon be.
I don't get how raising all of this money doesn't cause significant dilution. And doesn't it also subject your company to increasing terms and conditions that might be antithetical or orthogonal to your interests/mission? It just seems like this is CEO speak and the reality is probably more dicey..
Cost overruns, they got permission from the utility commission to raise rates to recoup.
Yes, it's conjecture. I explicitly, outright said it was an unproven anecdote. Demanding citations when I'm explicitly giving a "feel" narrative is misplaced and not charitable.

As to how many uniques you can expect from a front-page on HN, go ahead and search. Pre-2020 you can find countless people detailing 30,000+ uniques in the first few hours (my own, personal, direct experience was 50,000+). Now, if you average out more recent reports, you can expect about 11,000 over the first 24 hours.

And sure, the most inclusive possible discussion gets a few hundred comments. Everyone wants to put some paint on the shed. There is a 4 hour old submission on the front page with 2 comments. Eh, guess it doesn't represent much.
MusicGen from Meta on Hugging Face
My personal opinion is that good typescript to C transpiller would do a way better job, tons of microcontrollers supported out of the box. I would be also happy to use it for desktop. With some tricks it could even support references and additional numeric data types (u8, i8 ... ) without breaking any syntax
He is for sure far right. He's against increasing taxes on the wealthy, vowed to lobby against transgender health care, endorsed Republicans in the midterms, launched Desantis's campaign, and constantly rails against woke culture. There is not an ounce of left in this guys body.

I seriously question the motives of people saying this guy is a "moderate." You cannot gaslight America into thinking the far-right is middle of the road.
Somewhat OT, but I think it's interesting that YC has specifically employed patterns on HN to prevent deleting the comments you've made.
I probably would have appreciated such an encyclopedia as a kid. I actually got a "computer encyclopedia" (a single heavy book with way over a thousand pages) as a birthday present once, and I simply read through it from start to finish, brute force style, skipping only the most boring articles. My attention span was almost unlimited back then.
Damnit!

Reinstalling...
I'd like to mod Cliff Racers into every Bethesda game.
A recent article explained how to effectively use information marketing to reach the HN audience (and beyond).

How to hack Hacker News (and consistently hit the front page): https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/35912649
maybe for the truly cheapest products, but USB-c PD chipset can be pretty cheap these days.
Something similar was parodied hilariously in Silicon Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYu-d6y5HRo
HN Karma obviously!
They discuss that in the article:

Reddit does have a feature to export your data into a GDPR archive, but it's pretty barebones ... the highest fidelity data comes from the API.
I also used shreddit a year or two ago. Though for more personal reasons. It's so great I could delete my old history completely.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know such an iplementation, which fully follows the standard?
Though the only field they show that's not in the GDPR export is the subreddit, which you can get by parsing the URL
the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36192497
Data-wise, what additional data does this include compared to Reddit's default export?
Well if the company goes bankrupt, theoretically other companies can buy e.g. 3M's patents / processes / subsidiaries and continue their production. THe company isn't unprofitable, so it would be sold off in parts and the proceeds of the sale (theoretically) would go towards settling lawsuits.
You think Hollywood is bad, you should see the porn industry!

Nothing but bipedals and pizza guys. They can’t start an orgy with a delivery of healthy foods for once? Geez.
I think that's what I was suggesting.
That would be hitting separate API endpoints which are not hosted in the same place as the portal itself.
Rude accusation. GPT talks like the average internet commenter, it shouldn't be surprising to find a genuine comment written in a voice similar to GPT.
My parents bought a set of World Book when my sister and I were in elementary school. It might be the most important purchase they ever made for our education, as it not only helped with our information gathering for reports and whatnot, but was entertainment for us when bored. We loved just hopping into a random page and reading about whatever that thing was. It made me the info-junkie I am today, I think.

This has got me thinking about buying a set for my friends with kids (I'll check with them first and see if they have the shelf real estate).
Has always been the case, i remember my legs getting cooked by apple's magsafe charger brick. GaN makes this better now though
I'd argue its not just forums, but other key parts of the internet. Like Microsoft training co-pilot AI on github code, but not following the licensing of some code they straight up copy and suggest.

I'm kind of curious what is next.
Improved Bitcoin energy consumption estimates
They probably should share YouTube premium revenues with content creators then
I see where you're coming from calling out AI data miners for rent-seeking, but most social media platforms are also engaging in rent-seeking behavior.
MAIL FOR THE MAIL GOD!
STAMPS FOR THE STAMP THRONE!
This is really useful, thank you.
There is no bridge or tunnel. One was started back in the 1920s and parts of it still remain but it was never completed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten_Island_Tunnel

It’s kind of a political hot potato few want to touch these days. A tunnel feels like a no brainier but a lot of NIMBY types in Staten Island don’t want a fast connection to the rest of the city as it would likely change the area dramatically.
This is cutting off one's nose to spite their face. It's not like it'll be replaced by a new trove of historical conversations going back over a decade. That's still valuable to people not named Reddit.
>Let’s assume instead they used a harmless chemical tracer. Would that still count as a violation? What about releasing flour through ducts?

Would the IRB let me do those things to people without their informed consent?

I very much doubt it.
There's also: https://github.com/aliparlakci/bulk-downloader-for-reddit
It would be interesting if he specified how he came up with RGB values for sky color, like what is his neutral grey point etc.
I have been working with Qt since v1 in ~1999. I have written 3 commercial products for Windows and Mac with it. Currently I have a small business license. My gripes are:

-The Mac version has historically been a lot less well supported and stable than the Windows version. There have even been gaps where a new major macOS version came out and it was some time before Qt supported it.

-Too much emphasis on all sorts of new shiny things I will probably never use. I really just want the C++ core and widgets to be super stable.

I understand why. Apple is a dumpster fire when it comes to backward compatibility. Also there is probably more money in shiny new features. But, despite these caveats, overall I think Qt is pretty great.
Wow lots of insightful data at a glance. Def excited to try out more. Aesthetically pleasing as well compared to other desktop based trading platforms. Interested to see where this will go.
Nowadays, seeking abortion/family planning could -literally- result in being jailed, and forced to give birth.

Mental health is a big deal. For better or for worse, if your employer/licensing org is aware of any mental health issues, then they could adjust how they treat you.

Crappy bosses could use your history as a way to discredit or manipulate you. That's exactly what the CIA does, whenever someone blows a whistle on them.

Some medical conditions can be interpreted by different people, in intensely negative ways. For example, at one time, being left-handed, meant that you were possessed by the devil.

Often sexual orientation/behavior is a part of your medical history.

But I'm suuuuure that no one would ever use this information in a questionable way.

Look at the "mug shot protection racket" sites. These sites leverage personal information that has been made public, as a way to force you to pay them to remove it (and then immediately republish it in another venue).

I guarantee that a number of folks on this very site, run those sites, and sincerely believe there's nothing wrong with it.

No. Just because "I have nothing to hide," does not mean that I get to force others to divulge intensely personal stuff.
> I'm [...] childless

So it wouldn't be too presumptuous to treat the chances as being very high that you've never given a child the gift of a very large cardboard box.
The U.S. is perfectly nasty to immigrants coming from the "wrong" countries, especially Mexico and Central America. However the situations which they are fleeing from are even worse.
What it should mean is the US government taking ownership of the company, appointing its' own executives and either selling the company to pay for the cleanup, or using the forward profits from the company to pay for it.

That won't happen, but wouldn't it be nice if it did? Just once.
I just tried installing this from my very new Linux install (I didn't even have pip installed!) and got the following error:

File "/home/XXX/.local/pipx/venvs/reddit-user-to-sqlite/lib/python3.10/site-packages/reddit_user_to_sqlite/reddit_api.py", line 1, in <module>
from typing import Any, Literal, NotRequired, Optional, Sequence, TypedDict, final
ImportError: cannot import name 'NotRequired' from 'typing' (/usr/lib/python3.10/typing.py)
I mean, the entire shape of that graph changed radically with the invention of the Pill, so it's probably very hard to predict going forward when we have no idea what upcoming technological innovation or cultural change will affect birthrates.
What's the point of HN Karma honestly ?
While maybe true, that’s completely at odds with the site’s “experiment” goal and hypothesis. I suggest you take a look at the welcome page for this site once more.
I wonder - could a bankruptcy court simply transfer ownership of all 3M stock to the injured parties?

Seems to me that would make them as whole as possible, while retaining 3M's ability to manufacture other crucial products.
If nothing else, now you know what behavior was triggering the thing you don't like. Maybe now you can start to make it only happen deliberately, which might make it less annoying.
Yeah. A mechanical watch is almost like a companion.

It only "lives" when you wear or wind it. It's only a few seconds of active "work" on your part per day but I find myself feeling kind of paternal toward them, or like I'm caring for a little mechanical pet buddy or something.

Quartz watches and computers in general are also miracles to me, as well!

But mechanical watches are their own special sort of miracle that I really appreciate.
I think Apple might have a stronger moat this time, even purely from a technology point of view. I think "EyeSight" is a bigger deal than some people make of it just yet. I think Apple really did crack something technically that Meta (or anyone else, except for maybe Microsoft's HoloLens) isn't well-placed to duplicate, especially because Apple made it clear they've patented it and a lot of related parts to it and may not be in a mood to license such things just yet.

"EyeSight" may seem like a gimmick in demo videos, but I've got the impression it truly was a key missing stair step to general usability for AR/VR.

(Also, I agree, Meta's playbook could be to try to be the somewhat more open platform here. I doubt that's Meta's vision of what they are doing though.)
> The Soviet Bloc fell apart not because it was destroyed by overwhelming forces from outside, but because, by the end, nobody inside it believed in it or wanted to fight for it anymore.

Always the ideoligical simpletons. I suppose a united front by the West for four decades had absolutely nothing to do with it. Better we listen to old Mearsh and blame ourselves as no one on the other side ever has any agency.
What JavaScript Tests Could Learn from RSpec (2021)
A girl?

That looks like a painting of a geriatric.
Budget collapses would be karmic, given how many local governments court commercial real estate while neglecting residential real estate by not encouraging (or actively fighting) the development of new homes. Too many city halls decided that housing people who work in their city is someone else's problem, and would be quite happy with 0 new residents within city limits if it meant all new developments are commercial.
> we sold very little in this round (1.4%, so there is minimal dilution to employees)

If they sell very little, then they're not as subject to dilution as well as control (since the shares they'd sell are also voting shares). It's the same way Facebook was able to grow while keeping Zuckerberg as the sole majority voting power on the board, he sold very little of the actual company while pumping the valuation.
> Vello is progressing well, it's most of what I spend my time on these days. I can't promise a date for a stable version, but I would say that for the most part we're on our roadmap.

That's fantastic to hear! Really looking forward to it.
If you could find a way to summarize the comments too, that would be a huge win IMO.

Either way, very cool.
Never heard that one.

Also common to say they're "making biscuits".

When our cat comes to sleep w/ us we ask him to make some biscuits, he usually does.

If you're lucky and the biscuits line up he'll give you a nice massage.
> there's really just one: the Google Play Store.

And sideloading. I prefer to sideload when possible.
I've been on https://tildes.net a lot. https://www.themotte.org/ is also interesting.
Honest question: why not hire a designer then and get some better mock-ups?
You have more courage than me to say that here.
This doesn't explain why the Vogtle AP1000s had cost/schedule overruns. You can blame the NRC rules for adding complexity and cost but you can't blame the NRC for the nuclear industry's wildly over-optimistic estimates.

According to that article, the airplane strike rule was added in 2009. The reactors began construction in 2013 with certain cost/schedule estimates. If the airplane strike rule significantly increased effort, that should have been accounted for before they actually started building. They had 4 years in advance to figure it out (or, if they couldn't figure it out in time, to postpone until they understood the consequences). After construction started the project kept slipping and costs kept going up for 10 years, despite the rules remaining the same since construction was actually under way.
I do the same on Reddit and similar sites (including HN), though I never delete any comments, just the accounts. I've become increasingly uneasy about leaving a digital trail, especially as there are increasingly advanced techniques to correlate accounts via stylometry.

For Reddit specifically, if I needed to, I would look up old comments in Pushshift if I could remember enough information to locate them - keywords, approximate date, subreddit, username. It's somewhat annoying that this service no longer exists. Though there are dumps, and backups of those dumps, so hopefully someone will release a similar search tool for these, eventually. Perhaps also including the data scraped by Archive Team. Maybe I'll have a crack at it myself as a side project.
You are on Python 3.10, you need 3.11.
Oh no, not the UTM params!
Test many PinePhone mobile Linux distros with a single microSD card
Endorphins when you see it going up.
Good news: Your karma stays around even after you delete all your posts/comments!
Bought a World Book set at last year's Berkshire Hathaway meeting, for something like $650 including shipping. Awesome deal.

My kids (10, 8) earn "check marks" for each 20 minute chunk of time they spend reading it, which they can trade in for various goodies. Usually before they go to sleep

Edit: Also, they have used it for school projects. 2nd grader had projects on Poland, Neil Armstrong, and pygmy rattlesnakes this year. Very handy as an introduction to a wide variety of topics.
I do in fact life in the area. From Tuesday afternoon to Wednesday afternoon it smelled a bit smokey and it was hazy and the sun reflected off the particles. Was eerie.

And I kept my windows closed and we did not go to the playground. But the dog was still walked and I went about my business walking around or driving when needed. It was an exceptional scenario but it wasn’t dangerous.

People need to get over themselves I think. It was fine for the short duration it was.
I'm guessing this is your work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9r_f8un3NE
Some HN features are gated on karma.
it doesn't seem surprising to me. people were in the lab playing with DC and AC and clearly heard "clicks" from remote instruments that correlated with them turning switches on and off.
I'm a big fan of microbrands--especially Chinese ones.

From perpetual watch co.: their "simple classic." Enamel dial and blue steeled hands: https://www.perpetual-watch.com/sc.html
They service these too for a very reasonable price.

From Merkur: double tourbillions for $1000 (select black dial white index):
https://www.merkurwatch.com/New-Pierre-Paulin-Luxury-True-Do...

From Tsar Bomba: Richard Mille style watches. https://tsarbomba.com/collections/mechanical

From Meisterstein (Germany), a tasteful watch assembled by a Glasshute trained watchmaker.
https://www.meisterstein.com/uhren-1

From former Soviet style sold out of Germany: Sturmanskie OCEAN / OKEAN. https://www.poljot24.de/en/3133-1981599.html

Also from Japan: Japanese watches with special Japanese materials e.g. Arita Porcelain: https://www.seikowatches.com/us-en/products/presage/special/...

Also, a favorite dress watch: a watch that says I don't care too much about what the time is exactly: https://www.movado.com/us/en/shop-watches/museum-classic-aut...