skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A small construction contractor might be able to drive out of business through dumping some similarly small moribund competitor, at which point every other competitor will fill the small gap in the local market that they have paid for.

A strategy of mergers and acquisitions seems more productive, but good management to actually build something without going bankrupt is still needed.
> I found the famous claim that nothing dsappears from the internet to be greatly exaggerated.

It is exaggerated, but many cautions are. Some things you post on the internet will likely disappear, but many won't, and the key factor is after you've posted it, you quickly lose control over its ultimate fate.
Scientists used ChatGPT to generate entire paper – is it any good?
Music education got cut entirely in the East Bay public school district my kids attended. Had to move out of state.
Too bad it was Windows only.
I'm thinking playing Genshin on my Linux Laptop instead of my potato phone
You just need to make the application complex enough that phoning home is convenient and nice-to-have functionality is deeply intertwined with tracking. Like what Google Chrome does.
Wow, it's like I am living in 1990's vision of the future!
I personally think that it was Twitter Spaces that killed Clubhouse. Clubhouse was pretty novel when it came out, but it had the major downside that your network wasn't there like it was on Twitter and you needed an invite. It was the cool thing when it was the only game in town but once Twitter Spaces came out people realized that you could do the exact same thing over there without needing an invite and you had your entire network there.

It's the same thing that happened to Snapchat when IG Stories came out. Except in the case of Clubhouse it happened even quicker because their was no technical moat.
Especially since most CEOs are at a minimum work addicts. Most probably use various chemical “enhancers”
> US style, incorporate the migrants into the fabric of society by forming detectable enclaves that, nevertheless, don't riot in the streets.

I seem to recall street riots in the US during the summer of 2020. Is the US actually avoiding the same fate as Europe, or is it just not currently at a flashpoint?
Anyone who is interested in programming will learn about it regardless. It's especially easy today with things like Google and Youtube.
Some hunter-gather society where there is no division of labour and no means for people to accumulate power? There have been class divisions since agriculture and permanent settlement allowed the accumulation of material goods with a corresponding power over others.

In fairness, I’d be curious to know which country has citizens who don’t perceive it as having a class structure.
Very cool, and I like the name!

I'd be interested in reading about how Matcheroni compares with PEGTL and Lexy.

https://github.com/taocpp/PEGTL
https://lexy.foonathan.net/
I'm sure my district is worse than yours, but here the public schools are a waste of taxpayer resources. They are corrupt, with more than a handful of superintendents being arrested for sweetheart contracts. They have extreme administrative bloat. They spend more per student than almost any other district in the world. And the outcomes are absolutely garbage. 25% of high schoolers are now in charters here, and honestly it's not for any reason other than the utter incompetence of the public school district. Why should we be giving more money to the system that parents have roundly rejected? At this point I'm forced to see the public schools as a waste of taxpayer resources that reduce funding for the more successful charter schools. We need competition to make schools better. The district was resting on its laurels since they were just counting on poor students showing up no matter how shitty the product was. The public can't accept that.
Joke? This whole thread is about religion.
People are arguing that they need Private Schools so they can have the 'choice' to indoctrinate their kids into their specific religion.
And because public schools 'bad', religious schools 'good’, They feel justified in taking public funds, to support those religious schools. This breaks the separation of church and state.

Think this is the old “I Require more proof from you, than I provide” argument.

No, posting an entire policy and implementation plan to reform the education system, is not commonly done in internet arguments with trolls. Neither have you provided any detailed analysis of your point. I venture to say, the rest of the world does NOT make their policy decision based on something posted in an online argument.
Why don’t you go put your money where your mouth is and go build homes for free.

Capitalism is the only reason developers create shelter in the first place…
Is that wrong or just unusual? IIRC entity escapes are allowed in attributes.
This take is reductionist and irresponsible.
It's also not really helpful to generalize like that in the sense that I've known plenty of 50+ senior engineers who were very curious and very capable. And they often had a lot of advice about pitfalls to avoid when applying new technologies because they had used the same technology 20 years ago when it was called something else or sold by a different vendor. People often deride experience on here, but I've gotten a lot of mileage professionally out of learning from other peoples' experiences. Occasionally I have to explain that "yes, things are really different now" but that's good because if I'm wrong about that I get to find out before I invest a bunch of time in a bad approach.
That’s part of the problem. The bigger problem is that housing is an investment vehicle, and so the incentive is only for increasing property values which, one component is limited supply. Maybe it’s cause of land use regulations and maybe it’s because investors do not want to devalue their portfolio.
Any suggestions for an alternative to switch to?
The stench of "Web3" really ruined the .xyz TLD.
Ask HN: What are some new interesting startups/products?
I’ve been following HN for years, and usually every month there’s 2-3 new things that intrigue me.

Over the last 1-2 years this number seem to have gone down drastically, by about 80%. Maybe I’m just getting old and sceptical, maybe there’s too much noise, maybe it’s the downturn, or maybe I’m just missing stuff.

So, what are some new things that got you excited?
Hmm.. I’m torn because on the one hand, you’re definitely correct that a non-trivial amount of our lives is subconscious, which is different from auto-pilot in my pedantic opinion.

However, anecdotally I’ve found that whether you think you can do something or whether you think you cannot—you are correct. That is to say, I feel like admitting to the biological truth actually becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy which causes me to fall to my biological default.

However, if I reject that biological “truth”, I will more often find myself empowered by the notion that I can do anything I set my mind to, whether it be drugs or going for a run.

It’s the classic “mind over matter” phenomenon. Your fundamental beliefs can override your biological defaults, so I think it’s very important to regulate and review your beliefs.
At their current cost? No. But if you could come up with a dependable and repeatable solution that reduced the labor cost of human construction down to about a week of robot construction, then yeah, I think the cost of manufacturing the robots would quickly pay for itself.
Many public schools simply cannot expel problem students.

The school district must educate everyone. When a school expels or excludes a student that student is still a live human that must somehow be educated. They may need to be bussed somewhere. Or to be sent to another school in another district. All of this is very expensive. Never mind that someone needs to administer this.

So in a public school expelling a student increases costs significantly, several fold. In a private school, it decreases costs. The private school just tells you to hit the road.
I'm surprised that the chargers aren't more of a target for theft (or maybe there are already). They have enormous copper cables which could be fairly easily stolen? Especially in our of view highway rest stops.
I jointly ran a window and door software company (I was responsible for product/dev). You wouldn’t believe the amount of staff that joined “how hard can windows be?” Consistently and without fail 3 months later “what the _____! I never knew!”

And that’s just one component of a building.

Buildings are not simple things…
Aren't we already 8B people?
A somewhat modernized version is to say: it's not nature, nor nurture, it's stigmergy [1]. Or another way: the organism is larger than the collection of the cells [2] [3].

[1] "mechanism of indirect coordination, through the environment, between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an individual action stimulates the performance of a succeeding action by the same or different agent", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy

[2] 2023, Michael Levin, Bioelectric networks. The cognitive glue enabling evolutionary scaling from physiology to mind, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-023-01780-3

[3] Michael Levin and Wayne Frasch (2023) From molecular physiology to anatomical form, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3l8I4gJ6D0w, at 27:32 the hybrid agent frog cells + scientists + AI exploring morphospace.
A recent real estate thread detailing the decline of Airbnb revenues (avg yoy revenue is down by almost 50% in cities like Austin and Phoenix) puts things into perspective.

For example, there are 10x as many active AirBnb rentals in Sevierville, TN (a popular mountain tourism spot) as there are homes on the market. The overall percentage of home ownership by investors might be small, but they represent a large percentage of real estate transactions taking place today.

Buying a house today largely means being able to outbid people with millions of dollars in cash and real estate at their disposal, you will see this firsthand if you ever try to buy a home in a competitive area.
I could be wrong, but I think intentionally operating at a loss in order to make it impossible for others to compete would run afoul antitrust / predatory pricing laws in most countries.
it's a complete non sequitur. even if there's a non-zero effect of FPS games radicalizing young people, the causality is absolutely suspect.

and you know, there's also airsoft, paintball, and ... watching actual combat footage.

oh, and ... who knows, maybe the effect is actually negative, as in FPS is a way to let the steam off.
Legacy Update doesn't support Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0 SP3+ Windows 98 First and Second Edition, Windows Millenium Edition.

Windows Update Restored (purportedly) does.
Why is this not "Ask HN"?
Yes. This article is criticizing the primitive chat bots deployed by companies today, not good ones that ought to be possible with the latest and upcoming LLMs.
Probably SecureCRT.

It’s a great ssh client.

Honorable mentions: popcorntime, transmission.
Most kids yes, but for the generation who are living in their echo chamber, without anyone telling them to stop, without authority reference or brainwashed that is a different god, they consider life is a big GTA or secular laws don't apply to them. You can see that on YT, TikTok, Reddit etc, and this anywhere in the World.
Hell, 5-6y old were playing squid games last year during recess.
Custom Lego Transformers Builds
When you open it, there is a download button on the top right of the frame around the PDF.
It's blocked on most corporate VPNs as well .
I am squarely in the business and there are successful and failed startups everywhere. It is dynamic, challenging but there is defintely no shortage of people succeeding. Perhaps the startups just dont have the buzz or respect?

Many successful ones are already mentioned, like Procore for example. There are many more focusing in the data collection and modeling space including BIM. For example, there are still tremendous opportunities solving little problems with data collection and selling to Trimble. Or automating tasks in software and selling to Autodesk. Or add CAD like tools to a PDF reader and sell that for a hundred million (BlueBeam). The list is pretty endless, no shortage there. I believe the shortage is perhaps the humble humans that understand construction thoroughly AND understand technology to a level that would allows a bridge between the two to be constructed.

My favorite failed unicorn startup in this space that I believe demonstrates the difficulty of construction is Katerra. I personally dealt with them as a vendor and immediately knew they would fail even before Softbank gave them a billion dollars. The hubris was off the charts. A bunch of tech people that tried to hire people in the business but just couldn't understand the scale of difficulties or challenges. I must admit they generated a fair amount of schadenfreude in me.
One of the study authors here.

On targeting front-desk employees, we did this both to allow relatively portable cross-country comparisons and for reasons of internal validity (e.g., if we placed wallets on the ground, then can participants "select" into the study which compromises our ability to draw causal inferences).

On your last point about whether it's dishonest to hold onto a wallet. The question is about the treatment effect --- all things equal, is it more dishonest to hold onto a wallet with money vs no money? We polled nationally representative samples in the US, UK, and Poland and in all three countries most people thought so.
That still only goes so far because sometimes its a disrupted life at home that causes the in class disruptions.
I think the css vs query selector debate really boils down to personal preference.

Especially in combination with modern frontend frameworks, complex frontend libraries like jQuery can cause all sorts of chaos. I remember it breaking one of my personal projects a while back that was using AngularJS.
Mr. Chickadee did an addition like this: https://youtu.be/8fdm9R1Cbm0

Not sure if that’s a Japanese design, or where it came from.
That number is nominally pretty close the US which is interesting, but I don’t really know what it means in terms of purchasing power parity. I wonder how able a minimum wage worker is to afford their health insurance and rent. And it’s probably relevant what percentage of workers make that wage. I’m really not all that knowledgeable about Japan other than a little bit from talking to people who’ve been and catching the odd online talk/documentary, but it does seem like an I interesting place.

In the US for instance, it seems like minimum wage is a dead letter law since it was never indexed to inflation and had been left to wither away.
> For example, Bluesky right now is ironing out a fairly novel moderation system. They are doing this not only transparently, but with the input and active involvement of the users.

So the old Slashdot moderation system, only with multiple layers?
> but customers can get those answers already from the app or website.

We’d need to have access to the specific company’s call categorization to know this.
Just last week I was chatting with someone in their mid-thirties who was telling me how they don’t have an ATM card or access their bank through the app or website. Everything is done in person at a physical branch. They need money? They go to the teller. And I know many older people who are the same way.

This is why many companies already have automated phone systems that walk customers through the easy to solve problems with mostly rote formulas. Add in a chatbot that can be better at handling slight exceptions and now the company can solve customer issues without having to pay a human to do the interaction.

From my time answering phones for an internal IT department for a large-ish company, it’s clear that some people called just to interact with and talk with a human. Even if they could have solved their problem through an app before a human answered the phone.

> Instead, the reason people go to customer service is because of a question that’s so specific, or complicated, or gnarly in some respect, that there’s no way the app will have the answer: you need a human

I’d suspect most of these aren’t all that specific or gnarly, but just that it can’t be done through the customer facing app, yet. When switching from physical SIM to eSIM, Verizon’s website kept erroring and directing me to call. I looked online and many posts said it was quickly solved with a call. I called and they fixed it quickly. That could almost certainly have been handled in an automated way, just not yet. I don’t think they even asked any questions, other than confirmation style ones, which a chatbot could have done.
I needed to waste time calling and waiting in a queue to talk to a human. The company needed to pay someone to be waiting to answer that call and spend a few minutes with me. Seems like a great spot for a chatbot.

My expectation from my limited experiences is that the number of calls that a sufficiently large business receives are not the specific or gnarly cases. I’d love to see real data.
The books themselves feel a bit flimsy though, compared to well-printed books that have a sturdier feel. They still cost £30+ each and the quality of the finished product doesn't really match up with the price. And we're not just talking about indie self-publishers, I've noticed a drop in print quality from PragProg, Packt and O'Reilly too. For a while I thought this was just Amazon shipping shit quality material until Waterstones and Bookshop were sending them too.

The lower barrier to entry for self-publishing is not an excuse for a race to the bottom on quality. I can't imagine many of these books surviving as long as, say, my battered copy of K&R C.
If you wanted to work out how many people are buying flowers at your shop, rather than putting up a poster asking customers to mail in their receipts after every purchase you’d look at the anonymous sales data.

Opt in is renders the data statistically useless in the same way.

This data is required to allow Homebrew to continue to operate and make decisions.
Like the Metaverse?
Do you have any links for the claim? That would be interesting to learn.
I'm pretty sure it's because the government enforces more restricted content to children. The company will do anything to increase engagement given the restrictions, but in the US there are no such restrictions.
You both are correct from what I can tell. The HOA-less areas properties in my area are going quickly, anything larger than 5 acres is going quickly, etc. But to your point near-zero interest rates cause demand to rise which also puts upward pressure on price.
The thing is that the only reason mturk exists is that the work providers can get cheap as dirt “labor” to do very menial tasks. Having to build all those guardrails would defeat the purpose. The cost per task is some cents, having to pay even one engineer would 1000x the cost
I've seen numerous findings that support this. It could just be cherry-picking, so do your own research.

- High incidence of MS in northern hemisphere compared to low incidence near the equator. http://www.bandolier.org.uk/booth/neurol/MSgeog.html

- Better outcome for skin cancer patients if diagnosed going into summer vs winter. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dth.13625

There's a decent article on the subject on nih.gov here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2290997/

And another by Harvard here: https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/benef...
OPML (when used in this context) is basically a list of URLs with a touch of metadata. It is the most common format for importing and exporting lists of feeds to move between feed readers.

So you generally don't subscribe to an OPML file, it just provides a list of feeds to subscribe to.
Idk. I consider myself a pretty good engineer (received exceeds expectations / max rating at every company I’ve worked at) and I made the salary cap for my level at each level. I make more than EMs.

When I tried being a manager I was told that they felt the team slacking without me doing the heavy lifting just 6 months in.. so I went back to being a team lead.

I’ll be honest out of a dozen plus managers in my career only 3 stand out as memorable. 2 of them are among my best friends today. Everyone else was forgettable at best or incompetent, but they got me my money which I care about more.

Now I’m starting my own company. There’s no challenge left for me technically speaking because I want a challenge that I can’t figure out easily.

Don’t worry too much about being managed by younger people or whatever. Who cares.

If you are working for someone else, and you do not have significant equity (99% chance you won’t - even getting 1-2x salary in RSU isn’t significant imo when we are talking about 1 trillion plus market cap)… just get the max money you can and enjoy life.

Stressing about this is a waste of energy. Trust me.
What if a product is finished and needs no further improvements? And even if it isn't, isn't it better to talk do your users and find out their pain points with your product directly, instead of trying to guess at them from analytics data?

The only improvement I personally want for Homebrew is for library packages to never include version numbers in the dynamic library file names.
this worked! thanks
Historically poor, married women did tend to stay at home, but frequently worked from the home sewing, washing, small scale manufacturing etc… The Industrial Revolution reduced the value of that kind of work though.

Until near the middle of the century running a household of as too time intensive for most women to go off to work.

Nannies and maids were generally unmarried, childless women.

I’m the early 20th century only 5% of married women worked outside the home in the US https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-history-of-womens-wor...

Also only about 7% of children lived with single mothers in 1900.
I think you'd be surprised. A solid hour of walking goes a long way.
While it's not necessarily a jailbreak (the OS itself isn't the one preventing you from messing with these files) it's very close to injecting Google Play into an Android ROM that doesn't come with it (like custom ROMs, or maybe Chinese import phones).

Google Play isn't just an app you install, you to give it quite a few system level permissions for it to work right. Without root access and a patched system image, Google Play simply can't work right.

Compare it to getting Apple's iPadOS store to work on macOS or iOS. You can't just extract an .ipa and install it like with other apps, you need to modify the surrounding system and drag over some support libraries or the entire thing won't even be able to start. Or try installing Windows 11's file explorer on Windows 10, you'll need the same level of messing about with dependencies and system integration.

One major difference between the unofficial method and the Google method is that there's an API Google uses for remote attestation (SafetyNet) that requires root access to sort-of bypass, but can't be bypassed entirely. If Google's package contains the code to certify the PCs running it, that'd make DRM compatibility possible without hacks upon hacks.
I hate this whataboutism. The odds of getting shot in the US are so incredibly low especially for tourists.

Not to mention I’ve never in my life seen a firearms check next to the coat check in any establishment.