skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And disabling zooming?

I had a weird experience with Google Groups recently - I zoomed in because the text was too small and ... the page resized the viewport to its original pixel size even though the font was scaling. Ended up with about 10 characters in an unscrollable viewport. HILARIOUS.
C Corps can just be banned which tend to be the biggest problem examples.

(You can trivially make the ban pierce any ownership structures)
> Institutional investors own the vast majority of rental units

This is what I mean about left-wing science denialism. Try even reading your own article

1. "According to the RHFS, individual investors were the biggest group in the rental housing market in 2015, accounting for 74.4 percent, or 16.7 million rental properties, followed by limited liability partnerships (LLPs), limited partnerships (LPs), or limited liability companies (LLCs) (14.8 percent);"

This is literally the exact opposite of your claim. But let's pretend that your claim was correct:

2. They're price takers.

3. Why is this a bad thing? If this were true (it isn't), then they're basically the only people who will rent at all anymore. The alternative is net worse for affordability - places without institutional investors have far fewer shares of people renting because there is literally nobody offering places for rent.

e: And of course I'm downvoted simply for pointing out that the article linked says the opposite of the claim.
Direct registering walking, too (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8riT_b8xbxg). Whiskers to feel air currents, sense prey close to their face, and estimate the dimension of holes. Swiveling ears to precisely locate faint scurrying sounds. Raspy tongues to hold prey. 200-degree visual fields with crazy-good motion detection.

I love my cats, but I often think about how utterly terrifying they'd be if I were prey-sized. (I.e., Adjusting for scales, I'd probably rather take my chances with a Xenomorph than a good mouser domestic cat.)
Someone needs to recreate the original okcupid. Back when it was a quirky site made by a handful of Harvard and MIT math grad students. It was the best dating site ever.
We're in the overshoot, and that will inevitably bring stagnation and decline, as the carrying capacity of the environment starts to decline.

The Club of Rome predicted this in 1972. Recent reviews of their work have confirmed the 'business as usual' trend, suggesting it's about to play out in the next few decades.
Minneapolis tamed inflation by changing zoning laws
Companies should be required by law to publish a standard service agreement and to inform a user if any changes are made to their account that deviates from that agreement. It's a necessity for companies to be able to manage their user community, but who among us wants a company to secretly change or restrict an account we use regularly without our knowledge and no recourse?

And sure, restricted users will make new accounts, but that's a problem as old as the internet and something companies just have to fucking deal with.
Looking at the affidavit, it seems that Zorn may have lied about the purpose of the DOR request. Nothing in the list explicitly applies to a journalist researching specific people. Option E almost sounds relevant but it's just for debt collection matters. Option M maybe could be relevant if doing a public records request in regards to a liquor license is legal under Kansas law is related to "public safety". If Zorn really did lie about her identity to obtain the records, it does sound like a crime was committed here. Obviously there is some beef between the paper and some people in the town.

Off topic: Is it really necessary to have such a bureaucratic process for obtaining a liquor license? Why does having a DUI prohibit you from selling liquor? I remember talking to a local taco shop that wanted to sell beers for dining-in consumption. He had to put an ad out in the local paper saying how he was applying for a liquor license to give everyone notice and time to submit any comments to the ABC board.
We were all hoping to be able to move out of inner cities to more affordable areas, but then corporations and even government banned telecommuting because it hurt commercial real estate's bottom line.

You want to discuss home affordability, WFH has to be a pillar of that discussion. We came within an inch of being able to populate a substantially larger previously non-commutable area of the US, and then it was pulled back.
That's fair. It sounds like they wanted to iterate on something that's been established on a preliminary basis, which makes the choice to stay within the parameters of of the original study likely the correct one. We have to be choosy about which variables we tweak when building upon previous works, otherwise people will correctly point out ambiguities if not outright flaws in reasoning when the authors analyze current results in the context of the previous study (the whole point of iterating).

This approach does have it's drawbacks though, such as rapidly fading into irrelevance and obscurity given the ever-changing landscape of the study environment. It is of course your prerogative to disregard research as you see fit, but hopefully we can agree that this isn't bad science (at least not on that basis), even if you find the results uninteresting.
To be clear, Shibboleth is often self-hosted and usually the grey-beards understand how to maintain it. It's been around a long time and is very stable/robust and at least as unlikely to fail as Duo/Cisco (which are overall fairly robust with rare enough breaking failures). OTOH, rolling their own 2FA would likely create points of failure that rear their ugly head more often, not less often.

Shibboleth is kind of an outlier here, due to its age/maturity and position as a very old-school piece of foundational tech that got implemented when academic IT salaries were quite a bit easier to live on than they are today.

The disparity between tech salaries in academic institutions and FAANG/SaaS corps has grown immensely in the past 20 years. Most of the people who do the real work at academic institutions have been employed there for 25-40 years. Most of the young people can't stick around for long because they need to earn more money to build a stable life.
The standard Year of the Linux Desktop acceptance speech hasn't changed often in 20 years. The, "We fixed X now, so people will actually use it!" one only gets used on special occasions. 'X' being literal in most of them.
I agree with everything you say except for one point:

> none of which is owned by the average joe

About 66% of US households "own" a home (often with a fixed-rate mortgage, which makes rising inflation doubly good for those homeowners) and 58% of homes are owner-occupied. The median Joe is a homeowner, not a renter.
Pure Python implementation of LSH nearest neighbors search
Ask HN: How long until quantum computers break 512 bit RSA/ECDSA? 1024 bit?
The more detailed your answer the better!
For all it is rightfully derided, it is this aspect of "user story phrasing" I find valuable. If you can politely ask stakeholders to state their problem in the form "As a _____ I want to _____ so that I can ______", then you can find out that why as filled in on the last blank. And then you can use that why to figure out the best actions to take, being careful that you still scratch the itch the that middle blank in that story brought up.
For reference the original code was a bit more complicated than just sorting integers which may also have been a reason for the choice.

/*
* Perform a bubble sort of the system initialization objects by
* their subsystem (primary key) and order (secondary key).
*
* Since some things care about execution order, this is the
* operation which ensures continued function.
*/
for( sipp = (struct sysinit **)sysinit_set.ls_items; *sipp; sipp++) {
for( xipp = sipp + 1; *xipp; xipp++) {
if( (*sipp)->subsystem < (*xipp)->subsystem ||
( (*sipp)->subsystem == (*xipp)->subsystem &&
(*sipp)->order < (*xipp)->order))
continue; /* skip*/
save = *sipp;
*sipp = *xipp;
*xipp = save;
}
}

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/2b14f991e64ebe31...
I don't think that's the case across the wallace line... could be wrong.
Did you write this? Wow!
I’m going to be going through your guide with a friend! If I can think of anything helpful to add based on the process I will let you know!
fwiw, I'm on the left - I just can see that our old pattern of finding a boogeyman that isn't policy choices to blame it on simply will not work for this problem.
How would demand grow proportionately? People have a limited attention budget to listen, watch, and read things.
How much is Posthog costing your startup?
The 1m events free is an awesome draw to get in. We'll get a sense of our pricing once we see our usage over next couple months. But curious what others are paying who are scaling on PH? Is it along the same lines as Pendo and Amplitude, or more reasonable?
> That's the problem. People can suspend disbelief when the wizard casts a spell, they can't when the guy with the mundane gun does something they "know" is impossible.

Is it really, though? Have you heard about wire-fighting kung-fu (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_fu)? Did the "5 point palm exploding heart technique" prevent people from suspending disbelief during Kill Bill, ruining the finale? (No, it did not.)

And does the guy with the mundane gun have to do something impossible, after his development arc? Why not just something impressively skilled?

IMHO, suspension of disbelief isn't really a function of the kind of thing depicted, but a function of how the storyteller makes that thing "fit" into the story.

Edit: I have some company in my view: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspension_of_disbelief:

> J. R. R. Tolkien challenged this concept in "On Fairy-Stories", choosing instead the paradigm of secondary belief based on inner consistency of reality: in order for the narrative to work, the reader must believe that what they read is true within the secondary reality of the fictional world. By focusing on creating an internally consistent fictional world, the author makes secondary belief possible. Tolkien argued that suspension of disbelief is only necessary when the work has failed to create secondary belief, saying that from that point on, the reader ceases to be immersed in the story and so must make a conscious effort to suspend their disbelief or else give up on it entirely.[16]
Personally I'm ok with "cancelling" openly racist Nazis.
That's easily solved by just meeting the girls. If you're dating anyways -- it's your main goal.

In Asia for all the popular sites like Tinder, Badoo and OK Cupid -- I've never had a girl not show up where there wasn't mutual interest. Continued after yes or no -- that's just a human problem. But the girls are real for sure...
>Maybe always being the word getting your research gears engaged.

Yes, but I've been following legal decisions since it was obvious there were severe issues with many local jurisdictions. The current SCOTUS seems to be pretty strong regarding rights lately, Roe being the exception.

>What does the reverse look like where the cases were ruled in favor of law enforcement?

I dunno, maybe point out some recent decisions you don't like, lets discuss them.
I think the barrier to making new dating apps is actually rather low, as they tend to spread via word of mouth within small communities.

I remember it was always a constant "which app should we be using now" conversation with acquaintances
Back when most everybody ran Connectix RAM Doubler and Connectix Speed Doubler on their Macs (which actually worked!), I was praying for Connectix to release Boot Doubler, that made every other boot instant!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectix

https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/RAM_Doubler

https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Speed_Doubler

https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/connectix-speed-doub...

https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31852

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21768641
I try to do that, but there are a lot of times where I find myself thinking "I don't care, I just want this to work" and blindly copy anything that's not super fishy. Especially after nvidia updates.
65 Things I Want from the Web (But Almost Never Get)
I still remember living in California and every year checking the turbotax box that said I was not claiming a deduction from the Armenian Genocide Restitution Fund or whatever.
People have a really hard time with "there is no treatment for helping you right now, go home and rest".

That happens to every kind of sickness, at every segment of society.
Several Hid Driver Improvements Ready for Linux 6.6
This is correct.

I also neglected to mention that the car wasn't neatly pulled over onto the side of the road but had driven itself into the ditch between the road and a field.
Dig into that number and you'll see that it is including relatively small landlords with more than 1 other property as 'institutional investors.'

Regardless, these investors are paying way below the typical average for new homes in Texas, but somehow responsible for the affordability crisis?
Man, Steve Jobs' Palo Alto must have been a truly special place. The only memorable thing I encountered in Palo Alto's street (while working there a few years ago) was the overwhelming stench of urine in the underpass beneath the Caltrain Station.
It's not about getting "browbeaten or shamed", but rather whether it makes sense to apply energy to a certain topic at the expense of other topics, and how legitimate criticism gets abused to fuel illegitimate pop culture nonsense.

If I were a voting machine researcher or cryptographic voting was my hobby horse, my goal would still be to talk about voting despite the political circus. But rather I'm just a security generalist talking about these things casually. I can choose to spend effort talking about voting, or I can avoid this topic and spend my effort on topics that are more productive.
Some drivers aren't who they say they are
I don't want any more Disney live-action remakes, but I'd like to see more variety in art styles, like the latest animated Spiderman and Ninja Turtles movies, which I understand are made with the assistance of generative models.
It doesn't look like it obligates me to do anything. It contains a request to cite, not a requirement:

If you use programs that use GNU Parallel to process data for an article in a
scientific publication, please cite:

Tange, O. (2023, July 22). GNU Parallel 20230722 ('Приго́жин').
Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8175685

This helps funding further development; AND IT WON'T COST YOU A CENT.
If you pay 10000 EUR you should feel free to use GNU Parallel without citing.

More about funding GNU Parallel and the citation notice:
https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/parallel_design.html#citation-notice

To silence this citation notice: run 'parallel --citation' once.

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This is really similar to the kerfuffle where the maintainer of Home Assistant asked distros to not repackage HA; it's a request, a bit at odds with community norms for libre software, but one that people are legally free to ignore.
The complaint seems to be:

> On Friday August 4, 2023 at or around 1851 hours I received an email from Eric Meyer. In. the email he states that he received a copy of someone's private Department of Revenue Records... I then contacted Marion City Administrator, Brogan Jones, and told him that an internal investigation should be conducted. Brogan stated he was aware of the Department of Revenue Record (DOR record) because City Council member~ Ruth Herbel, sent him a screenshot via email of the DOR record belonging to Kari Newell.

> My investigation revealed the letter was not stolen from her mailbox, rather it was downloaded directly from the Department of Revenue. The Department of Revenue advised the individuals who downloaded the information were Phyllis Zorn and "Kari Newell"... Downloading the document involved either impersonating the victim or lying about the reasons why the record was being sought.

(p5 of the affidavit).

This seems to clearly contradict your claim that the newspaper was using public records. I have no idea if a search and seizure warrant is a proportionate response to a private record being accessed like this, but whoever downloaded the document pretty clearly breached the law. Around here its common to think "if it's available by clicking through pages on the internet it's public" but that's not how the legal system tends to see things. In this case breaking a "pinkie promise that I have a legal reason to request this record" might be enough to give air cover for the search.

To be clear I'm not supporting this raid, it's a bad look and it's not obvious that it's reasonable to assume there would be evidence of a crime on those computers, but it does seem there is another side to the story here, and it's not as simple as the narrative that's been spun by the defendants.

Checkpointing the rest of my investigation; IANAL, here's what I found on the specific violation that someone committed:

The penalties for violating the DPPA are outlined in 18 U.S.C. § 2724. They include:

> Criminal Penalties: A person who knowingly violates the DPPA can be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

> Civil Penalties: The Attorney General may bring a civil action in a U.S. district court against any person or entity that violates the DPPA. The court may award:

> Actual damages, but not less than liquidated damages in the amount of $2,500;
Punitive damages upon proof of willful or reckless disregard of the law;
Reasonable attorneys' fees and other litigation costs; and
Such other preliminary and equitable relief as the court determines to be appropriate.
Private Right of Action: An individual driver may bring a civil action in a U.S. district court against a person or entity that violates the DPPA with respect to that driver's information. The court may award the same types of damages as in a civil action brought by the Attorney General.

Now again, you could argue that the Kansas DMV was negligent here, and the ToS that was clicked through was invalid? I'm not sure what precedent would say on that one. Interested in others' thoughts, if anyone has more experience here.
It is almost as if innovation happens in a vacuum and not from the pull of demand that happens in a economy with too much capital and too little labor.
Well, in lots of parts of the country, that 'weird expectation' is the law.
Politician just respond to their constituents wishes.

"We should build more houses"

Proposals for for new development.

"... not here."
> And disabling zooming? WHO EVEN DECIDED THAT WEBSITES SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO DO THIS?!

Applications such as maps, image editors, presentations, and flowcharts benefit from having control over zoom. (And you'll notice that almost every one of them does.)

This of course is only one difference of many between "documents" and "applications" and the web is being used for both.
Yes, this is the solution. Send government goons with guns to tell people they have too much house.
"Can't" == "refuse to lose money on the transaction".

That's not a luxury we plebes have when buying and selling homes. If the market happens to have crashed just before we have to move, for whatever reason, we have to take the loss, no matter how much it hurts.

So these lovely people (I'm sure) just lock up vast amounts of real estate at unrealistically inflated prices, hurting the entire system, purely so that they don't have to record a loss.
It never made sense to me how this theory treats all decisions as fungible.

Go for a short walk through the woods and you've made hundreds of decisions including where to step, what scenery to look at, how to respond to a noise you heard, etc. but that experience is generally considered refreshing.

Meanwhile, your whole day might be dampered if you have just one really important decision looming over you, or which you just made and are unsure about.

If I'm writing a fun personal code project then none of the decisions faze me, but if I'm fixing a bug in some awful code I might need a break.

Diagnosed with ADHD myself. The prescribed stimulants definitely make it easier to deal with annoying decisions.

I noticed mental fatigue around a task is just an illusion I might have picked up from observing others? If I just don't think about it, I can start on a big daunting thing and just keep going, like I always tended to do in the past. If I let others' descriptions of task paralysis or whatever seep into my head then it gets harder.
I think often someone tries to frame things into bets to pierce the layers of instinctual contrarianism and "have strong opinions weakly held" that often pervades internet discussion.

More charitably, reframing into a bet gives a relatively neutral opportunity of re-stating the discussion/argument to more clearly identify areas of agreement/disagreement (since a clear definition of the disagreement is crucial for forming a bet).
SDXL is more resolution-agnostic than SD1x, 768x768 works fine, but admittedly going down to 512x512 does tend to produce cropped images.
True but I feel like people are assuming these limitations will be long term.

But we have seen progress in leaps and bounds. LLM-based coding tools are getting better. LLMs are getting better. Context size is increasing. And the interest in LLMs is even motivating development of new approaches that will be more effective.

Give it a few years, things like Lecun's JEPAs or whatever hybrid supercoder DeepMind is working on, or some open-source LLM, will blow GPT-4 out of the water for programming.
> Dalle 2 was out April 2022

Sorry, thanks! I accidentally gave the date for the first DALL-E.

> OpenAI has been red teaming a new version for months that goes way beyond anything we've seen today.

Any sign that it's better at understanding complex textual prompts, and not just at making high-quality images?
It was employees' personal MP3 collections that seeded their library, so while that statement is true it is a little disingenuous without further context

There are lots of other examples of this happening too... I believe some of the early nintendo retro releases were emulators running pirated roms
Well, did you? lol.
If you are less choosey, and happy to choose 'ugly' people, can you still have a good time on these apps. I'm married and not interested in trying it. I'm just interested in how it works.
Streaming 101: The world beyond batch
Praggnanandhaa: How India is emerging as a chess powerhouse
I should have spotted it but didn't: They took me out skiing one day between interviews (they were courting me pretty hard, and good snow was a selling point for the region) and I met the CEO for the first time on the slopes.

He wore a full motorcycle-style helmet with a mirrored face visor which he refused to open; it was like talking to a member of Daft Punk. It had fake hologram bullet-holes on it.

More importantly, he skied like an asshole: cutting people off, sudden stops or changes in direction without checking if anyone else was coming, cutting ahead in the lift line, stopping to readjust his gloves or whatever directly in the lift exit ramp, shouting at people who he felt were in his way -- just totally self-absorbed and borderline dangerous.

It turned out to match his management style 1000%.
I would have moved there just for Chef Cho's potstickers!

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/blogs/p/2018/12/04/after-39-y...

https://kellanskitchen.com/menu/chos-the-end-of-an-era/

https://www.masterstech-home.com/the_kitchen/recipes/Interna...
An unlimited supply of unoriginal music because artists don’t have the luxury to experiment anymore.
Who says you have to use libc?

Eg Rust has no-std crates that you can use even if you can't use the standard library.
Don't innovate what? Maybe this is our opportunity to innovate what's referred to as the "care economy"?