skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven’t see this mentioned here, but I found Lars
Brownworth’s “12 Byzantine Rulers: The History of the Byzantine Empire“ (https://12byzantinerulers.com) particularly entertaining and informative back in the day.
I don't know about Britain but London builds and keeps tearing down homes and low quality repurposing them into 3/4 units and creating a perpetual construction state instead of descentralizing.

Planning permits are questionable in their legality and you feel things just get rubber stamped and there's a pretense of process in the same vein of the first chapter of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
Ask HN: Movie night with a person who needs dubs, I like ENG,how to split audio?
You can view the source on the page, it's all there.
That's a facetious take on a reasonable opinion. If you disagree - which there are also reasonable grounds for - snark isn't going to help us understand what your real point is.
Pretty solid article. I'm glad there was mention of the non-uniform-distribution of floats, though my biased view wishes there were a little more emphasis that floats really really want to be "near 1", to keep precision. The practice of normalizing data to a [0,1] space, doing your math there, then transforming back to "big" space is useful not just for conceptual simplicity, but also for maintaining precision in intermediate results.

Also, there's a pretty good range of integers that can be represented exactly by floats; one of the reasons the Lua developers were resistant to adding an integer type for many years. I believe you can represent about 24 bits of exact integers in a 32 bit float.

I've been wrangling with fixed-point representations a lot lately, so the differences are stark in my mind (:
Generate your webapp's UI in code using text-to-front end
Furniture is rectangular with corners. Boxes are rectangular shaped. Windows that are rectangular can slide in ways that circular windows cannot. Look at the picture in the article showing a couch and chair at angles to one another.

This is a stupid idea.
Nice loophole find.
Regarding timed entry which I hate, this popped up in the pandemic and seem to have never left. Its like all spontaneity is being eliminated in every aspect of outdoor adventures(hikes, camping, etc). I don't really go to natl. parks anymore and have been looking for camping in natl forests and more remote areas where there are few people(but are father away). Maybe the answer is first come first serve for everything? Because whatever is happening now seems to be working for nobody.
IIRC, custom WebGL stuff that he writes himself. So he's a 10x technical writer and a 10x developer.
I don't want to sound like an unhinged Tea Party loon, but what about Benghazi? The instability from which the migrants are running away from was fanned by European policies.

It's pure racism. At least in my sourthern european corner, I keep hearing screeds about low birth rates, how rural lands are empty, turning into deserts, but then thousands and thousands of people are willing to pay thousands of euros to move to Europe and there are no legal options. At the same time, Russian oligarchs can claim to be descendant of 16th century Jews expelled by the king and they get a passport, or just buy overpriced real estate and you are automatically a national.

Just undercut the criminals! They charge 5k for the trip? Sell a work permit and a plane ticket for the same amount of money.
What he should be calling for is for private sector leaders to show restraint when raising prices. But he doesn't. That just tells you whose side he is on.
I just spun up a gitlab-runner on NixOS (super easy due to how NixOS works)
There needs to be a feature on android to give fake gps data on a real device. This would be useful for any app that requires gps for no good reason.

If your flashlight app needs gps to turn on, no problem. You are currently on mount Kilimanjaro.
Great observations. I hope everyone who shares these thoughts is voting for socialist candidates in their home countries.

This is what unregulated capitalism looks like.
The goal is parthenogenesis, I think Seksmisja movie is prophetic in some sense
They are relying on holding security fixes hostage.
Comparing Developing for Meta Quest and Apple Vision Pro
Are employees of state universities considered to be employees of the state? If so, it seems like this legislation could be impactful to academia.
There is an opportunity here for Amazon to take some of this goodwill IBM/Red Hat is losing. Make Amazon Linux run nicely outside of AWS with (free) LTS. Charge for support for those who need it.

When Oracle messed with Java LTS AWS did Corretto LTS. When Elastic did Elasticsearch license change, Amazon/AWS did Opensearch.

They don't need to support esoteric hardware (at least other than their own).
This really isn't that complicated. You can't do a link through pretty much any cloud where you would say "it's cloudy". If you're not sure, the link still works but a lot worse...
> "Elections are largely monopolized by older people who mostly tend to be homeowners".

> Sounds like democracy?

Young people might get their first chance to vote at age 23 - assuming they paid for the right kind of ID, or navigated an impenetrable web of underpaid bureaucrats to get the mythical free ID. And if they manage to get off work on election day. Meanwhile the elderly are reliably on the register (because they're not being forced to move around, because again they own a home) and encouraged to vote even if they're expected to die before the results take effect.
> acquired from a popular electronics retailer in Australia.

Use the courts and public sentiment.
I wonder if Amazon wants out of the email reputation business. I was kind of shocked to find that GCP doesn't even offer its own SES equivalent, they direct customers to sendgrid.
Nice! Yeah, we're obviously big fans of NixOS over here :). In cases where build infrastructure is highly ephemeral, this sort of cache would make a lot of sense. We'd love to help get it working there!
90% of patients respond to new blood cancer treatment in trial
> If inflation is high, it is a bad time to listen to governments.

Why complicate matters? I suggest we change it into: "It is bad to listen to governments"
I liked it but I thought it was overly dramatic in a "survival of the fittest" way and indeed way too long. But I'm not a fan of the guy anyway.

It is a decent book to read once though.
I'm sure regulators will start regulating the 1550nm spectrum once they realize they can start making money off free space optics.
Sure, but it has the same problems. Who makes the labels, and do you trust that consensus? It would simply take seeing some cryptocurrency cult webinar being labeled "educational" or something to that effect before suddenly the labels become as much noise as the "related videos" section (made up over half of your recommendations instead of related videos).

It could also go the other way. Add a "misinformation" label and suddenly everything is misinformation, from Jordan Peterson speeches to live recorded NASA space launches to Spongebob clips.
Here Comes the Sun (2011)
...That's actually textbook business/enterprise risk management calculation believe it or not. Not a facsimile or artistic exaggeration.

If you want to know why so much shady crap happens, part and parcel of that is when we fo catch malicious behavior, the fines are so small as to be cost of doing business.
You forgot lock in. OIDC is an absolute nightmare for this. Watching everyone delegate all access control to Google and Microsoft is… I don’t even know what to say.

It’s such an obvious trap but it’s convenient and convenience is the only thing anyone cares about.

I’m gonna say I told you so in a few years. Nobody will care.
IIRC there was one German operator who used his sweetheart's initials over and over as the combination allowing for decryption.
I know it has been talked about this many times, but any tips for readers on how to safe guard from such issues? What comes to mind:
- don't install apps unless absolutely necessary.
- don't let apps have extra permissions when possible.
- if app is free - most likely you paid for it somehow (your data)
Anything else?
I also use 1blocker on iOS to block trackers etc, although, I am not sure if 1Blocker is not spying on my browsing.
Shit, wish I'd thought of that when I was in school.
Rent-seeking is an "economic activity to gain wealth without any reciprocal contribution of productivity". Or put another way it means societies resources are put towards wealth transfer instead of productivity/wealth creation.
(Pay/login gated article, by the way)
There's one on Airbnb near Joshua Tree NP, though I had a bad experience on Airbnb that customer service wasn't willing to attend to, and stopped using them.

https://zh-t.airbnb.com/rooms/33518282
In general, the language lacks both complex features and low level primitives that would be useful for building anything more substantial than network glue code. Go codebases are often noted for the egregious use of copy and paste. Not that I can say that there's never a time and place for that, but it's not the kind of thing you'd be excited to work with. Give me the language Ken Thompson would solve problems in, not the language he gives his goons to solve problems in.
Throwing blame on "the prevalence of psychotherapy" into this conversation, writing it all off to "pseudo-science" and emphasizing "lifestyle" (as in "if you exercised more you'd be better off", I guess) reads like a just-so story from a brain in a meat sack that's missing the substance of the conversation.

Just like "meditation" is many different things, and "exercise" is many different things, and "healthcare" is many things, and "thinking" is many different things, "psychotherapy" is many different things.

One of the first things by current therapist asked me was more or less how embodied I was. I suspect of all the relationships with other people in my life, the one with my psychotherapist is the one that's most likely to be help me build out a fuller relationship to my body in the way the grandparent comment is advocating.

The therapist before that focused on behavioral "lifestyle" changes when feelings came up, in a way that I guess superficially follows the "I am a body" model, but really felt like it only added distance and abstraction to my relationship to myself. I guess that approach was grounded in a scientific evidence base that those kinds of interventions are what moves metrics.
Thank you guys for your excellent RIP and Display Postscript on NeXT.
If we’re very lucky, will Red Hat read some poetry to us first?
You realize that isn't how it works, right? It shouldn't be OK to make wild claims without evidence that need to be backed up. It's the other way: you need good evidence to back up wild claims.
First, I don't consider that immutable. Second, that isn't true for all databases, often you have to set it up and turn it on, and think about what you're doing as there are considerations for storage and backups. Third, it isn't like you can just get the data back magically and without effort. It can be a problem to hunt through. It can be an enormous amount of data.
A few more:

"Lead in Spices, Herbal Remedies, and Ceremonial Powders Sampled from Home Investigations for Children with Elevated Blood Lead Levels — North Carolina, 2011–2018": https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6746a2.htm

"Analysis of Lead in Spices Obtained from Bulk Food Stores" (PDF): http://libjournals.unca.edu/ncur/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/...

"Heavy Metals in Cultural Products": https://www.epa.gov/children/heavy-metals-cultural-products
> I might be old fashioned, but last time I checked, government's job was not to drive down living standards.

thats because you have been reading the government marketing materials instead of looking at what they do
>Young people might get their first chance to vote at age 23 - assuming they paid for the right kind of ID, or navigated an impenetrable web of underpaid bureaucrats to get the mythical free ID.

uhh what? we're talking about britain here. I don't know what kind of yank(?) political dysfunction you're alluding to, but nobody has any trouble voting because of a lack of ID here. you don't need one to vote. you notify the electoral roll when you move into a house or flat, then a few weeks before election day you get a bit of paper in the post, you can bring it to the polling station to prove you live there.
Note that Paella is a bit old in image model terms (Nov 2022) and modern stable diffusion tools have access to optimized workflows.

My 3060 can generate a 256x256 8 step image in 0.5 seconds, no A100 needed. A 3090 is double the performance of a 3060 at 512x512, and an A100 is 50% faster than a 3090...

If you have access to an high end consumer GPU (4090) you can generate 512x512 images in less than a second, it's reached the point that you can increase the batch size and have it show 2-4 images per prompt without adversely affecting your workflow.

Too bad SD1.5 is too small* and we'll require models with more parameters if we want a true general purpose image model. If SD1.5 was the end-game, we'd have truly instant high res image generation in just a couple more generations of GPUs, think generating images in real time as you type the prompt, or have sliders that affect the strength of certain tokens and see the effects in real time, etc. Tho I heard that SDXL is actually faster for higher resolutions (>1024x1024) due to removing attention on the first layer, making it scale better with resolution even tho SDXL has 4x the parameter size.

* Current SD1.5 models that can generate consistent high quality images have been fine-tuned and merged so many times that a lot of general knowledge has been lost, e.g. they can be great at generating landscapes, but lacking in generating humans, or they can be very good at a certain style like comics but can do comic style only and lose the ability to generate more dynamic face variations, etc.
Why mention it at all?
In the Netherlands we don't really have a big NIMBY issue and we still can't keep up supply with demand. Supply is complicated and not just restricted by zoning.

One key thing to understand is that private companies build homes, not governments. And if it's not profitable to do so, it will simply stop. And if not at least 75% of the project is sold beforehand, the project is stopped altogether.

And this is how our government's ambitious plan to build ~100K new homes per year got crushed. In particular due to rate hikes, making mortgages even more expensive than before, so potential buyers opt-out.

This part is critically important to reflect on as it keeps happening. There's an economic downturn and the building of new homes slows down or stops. This happened over here from 2008-2014 creating a massive backlog, in turn leading to a pricing boom in recent years. Ideally, you'd keep building during a downturn but nobody knows how as there's no buyers and it's too big to subsidize. Hence, at least in the Netherlands, unaffordable prices are not due to zoning, they are a supply deficit based on downturns.

There's also labor shortage, material shortage/inflation, far more complicated construction due to the energy transition. And yes, higher than usual immigration is a factor. One of many factors.

And guess what? In my area, the grid is full. A few more homes can get connected but not a single new company can connect for the coming 10 years or so and it takes billions in investments to fix. This in reference to new housing supply having lots of other dependencies.

We also tried rent control on private rent. Guess what? The land lords simply sell the property, now you'll have even less rent supply. Well done.

My point being: increasing supply is not easy in this perfect storm. Surely the entire western world would not have this problem if it was a simple as a policy change. It very much involves constraints in the physical and economical world.
It's literally in the page JS source.
We usually have checks and balances in democracy so that a majority can't vote to say, take all the money from some minority group that has less voting power than them. What is happening now is that a "loophole" has been discovered wherein instead of just directly taking all of the money from some minority class the property owning class just instead condemns them to a lifetime of renting whereby just enough rent is charged to ensure that they are by and large never able to move out of renting, but not so much as to sow the seeds of a violent revolution (yet). Its democracy in the same way that voting to end all medical benefits for people over 65 would also be "democracy", which is to say it would be naked inter-generational and inter-class warfare.
You're making a lot of generalizations here.

1. First, there are plenty of roles in these companies. You could be working in a very small specialized team on open source software that is used beyond the company. It doesn't matter if the company is past its prime or not, and you're not more or less a cog that if you work for a startup.

2. I can only speak for my experience, but my compensation isn't based on politics at all. It's purely based on my contributions. Compensation is just like the interview process, highly standardized, no room for politics.

3. A lot of human-sized companies don't produce anything meaningful, with more politics, and you won't have any room for impact because you're blocked by a few stubborn people in power.

Again, just my experience but I found that in my FAANG, there's a critical mass of people with good common sense and less bullshit in general. In the couple of smaller companies where I worked, it wasn't the case. There were good engineers, but also enough annoying people with too much influence that make my day-to-day job less enjoyable.
I'd also love import from LinkedIn. Might be possible to do it client side by loading the .pdf generared by LinkedIn's CV export. There is also a browser extension to get a LinkedIn CV as json, maybe you could load that?
Your theory is assuming I'm using more toilet paper than usual, or that my budget for toilet paper has increased in the past 2 years, which is just patently ridiculous.

No, this is not a joke. I wipe the same as pre 2020. I had a couple of pay raises since then, but I still buy the same amount of TP, and the price is still 50% higher than before.
> HFT changes these "beliefs in company" to "beliefs that the stock will go up"

No, this is the part most everyone gets wrong about HFT. These systems make money off of volume, not price. They don't care if the price is going up or down. All they care about is that they can capture a small price delta by facilitating a trade faster than someone else and they are willing to do so for smaller fractions of a cent which makes them more attractive to all market participants, including you and your retirement funds. Their concerns are orthogonal to investors and they compete with other HFT firms and market makers.
Stallman was right. You absolutely cannot trust closed source to protect the privacy of your data. Reject all platforms that are not fully open, and reject all devices that come with any amount of closed software or firmware. Reading some damn "location privacy policy" is not going to cut it. Such policies are written by lawyers who lie by omission all the time. E.g. as soon as location data is "anonymized" the policy no longer applies. Which is of course a steaming lie. Location information cannot be effectively anonymized without basically nullifying its utility. Guess where that car parks? In one of two general locations for > 18 hours a day, usually. Gee, I wonder who that is. Even with 100m of noise, it's uniquely identifying of you. Don't even think about mobile phones that are accurate to the meter, tricked out with WiFi, accelerometers, and barometers. They are wireframe god mode tracking devices given the accuracy of sensors these days. What a nightmare to have these in everyone's hands and run by big tech.
I'm not sure if this is part of the plan, but I'd like to see this go farther in the direction of "search human-generated content". That's basically what I used "site:reddit.com" for in the past, "Show me answers which are slightly more free of corporate bullshit, clones of stackoverflow, ads, and AI-generated garbage".
This is the result of "intellectual property" laws (which exist entirely outside of capitalism) being used by design. It's no surprise that when people have access to your computer and you are not legally allowed to know what they are doing with it, they abuse you.
> cynicism

Why the cynicism is perceived as something wrong or even a symptom?

Cynicism is just the most probable approximation of reality stripped of forcibly uplifting false narratives.
Coinbase was "sued on behalf of Coinbase users who allege that Coinbase failed to replace funds fraudulently taken from the users’ accounts" [1]. Coinbase's "motion to compel arbitration" was denied. Coinbase filed an interlocutory appeal [2] "from the denial of a motion to compel arbitration," and asked the court to stay "proceedings pending resolution of the arbitrability issue on appeal." SCOTUS said yes: while arbitrability is being decided, the lower court's procedures (e.g. discovery) are stayed.

This makes sense: "If the district court could move forward with pre-trial and trial proceedings while the appeal on arbitrability was ongoing, then many of the asserted benefits of arbitration (efficiency, less expense, less intrusive discovery, and the like) would be irretrievably lost." It is also clearly based in law.

[1] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-105_5536.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlocutory_appeal
Argos had a website put up where you could browse every one of their published catalogues. I think they put it up in 2020 to commemorate the ending of their printed catalogue.

Alas, they weren't PDF or any sort of download and the website was discontinued shortly thereafter. Quite the shame; what I'd do to see the 2005 or 2007 catalogues again!
No worse than Apple computers, Internet cookies, email spam...
And the 3rd and 4th are HN submissions of the page, for me.
> I think you substantially over-estimate the eagerness of software developers to take on unrewarding admin work.

Why do you assume it can only be un-rewarding?

If hiring is so important, maybe it's worth paying the best people extra to get it done correctly.

If it's not that important, it'd be nice if they'd stop pretending like it is.
I've read many thousands of novels.
I read (and write) out of loneliness. Is it the same for you? Would you be here, reading these words, in preference to sharing happy time with a close friend?
I thought not.

Through reading novels I get to know the author. I hear their intimate thoughts and can try to place myself at their point-of-view. It's like talking with a clever conversationalist.

I can't see anything like that ever going on with games. Games work on actions, whose meanings are limited to the state space within which the game is conducted.

Writing is a form of human relationship, and relationships work on love. In writing - even this writing - I find myself always considering you, the reader. I try to become you, in a sense, so as to anticipate your responses. Therefore, writing develops my compassionate skills.
Maybe that's what makes writing a more socially important thing.
AdGuard as the DNS for your router + Tailscale blocks trackers and ads on all your devices in all apps, not just browsers with ad block installed. Mobile games, embedded WebViews, etc. If you are an iOS user that hates safari, you can use Firefox without ads. Something like 30 percent of what it blocks in my logs comes from trackers being blocked on my Roku and Android TV. With Tailscale it will also block ads when you are mobile.

The one caveat is that it does not block ads served natively, so you will still need a specialized app for native YouTube, Instagram, and others, but those are readily available now.