skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, it’ll happen much sooner. About $626B in debt is coming due for debt collateralized by office buildings in the near term (my note: refinancing? at these interest rates? hooboy). I'd expect much more rapid consolidation, office demos, and conversions to residential considering the financial pain.

> Landlords who try to hang on and weather the storm are likely to take a bigger hit than those who cut their losses more quickly, according to Bitner.

> “There’s going to be a reckoning,” he said, “and everybody that waited to deal with the problem is going to regret they did.”

With my apologies to Marie-Antoinette, "Let them take haircuts."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-23/landlords... | https://archive.is/2oRH8 (Landlords With $1.2 Trillion of Debt Face Rising Default Risks)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36901012 | https://archive.is/ELJET (US Office Space Is on Track to Shrink for First Time on Record)
I've never experienced the level of wildfire smoke that we've had in the past few years, in my lifetime, in South Dakota. the cause of the smoke is wildfires in Canada, and, to a lesser extent, eastern Washington. why aren't Montana or North Dakota (or South Dakota, for that matter) similarly on fire?
Oh, this is a good idea re: "pricing"; right now it's on the homepage under the section "Flexible plans built for every brain". Thank you for this—will be adding today.

Hm, I'm not able to replicate the blank screen. For now you can bypass this section by going to app.shimmer.care and creating an account directly, but let me check in with my co-founder on the blank screen issue.

And awesome, glad you resonated! Let me know if I can help with finding the right coach! chris@shimmer.care
Which alternatives have you found to be better?

Zoom isn’t great but Teams is worse.
I'd fail an interview candidate that suggested adding 1 each time for subsequent prime testing
Yes, that's what "the country" means, it's shorthand for "the government of the country".
Yes indeed! Dan, we sincerely appreciate the work you do nurture, moderate, and maintain the HN community!
One man making computers out of wood
Are the businesses forcing people to buy their goods and services?
Bitcoin has been very stable against the USD for a while now.

And that's just bitcoin, stable coins are more reliable.

And of course inflation only robs holders, at least volatility goes in your favour half the time.

I also would not call it an investment: there is no reason to expect prices to rise. Bitcoin does not grow in the way a company can (making shares an investment) or pay interest like a bond. It's at best a speculative asset, like maybe gold?
Meaning that about 14 hours out of the day you can do whatever you want muahauahha

Up that to 25 hours a day if on IPv6!
IIRC you can set a PIN without fiddling with security settings or GPOs, but if you want to use a password instead of a PIN, then you've got to jump through some hoops to enable that. It always struck me as a very, very strange design choice - why make it so difficult?!
Thanks for this. This is what I come to HN for — to learn something outside of my field.

Do AI systems have the potential to weight or inform those transactions based on historical historical data then? The “experienced” aspect of learning all the things that turned out to be true or false in previous comparisons or data decision points would seem to be the obvious missing piece, but I have never really understood the specifics.
This types of lawsuits are NOT common. This is an extremely political prosecution by the DOJ. They know what they’re doing.

Let’s not normalize this as common occurrence.
does SO means Stackoverflow here? kidding
Whole subs on Reddit are essentially rendered worthless because the comments are all low-effort, meme responses. This is one of the only places I've been online where the discussion of Prigozhin's death wasn't just 500+ "Fell out of a window" comments.

THANK YOU
Why is the fact that the person is Spanish relevant enough to merit being included in the headline?
On a quick scan, I'm not seeing anything in your linked article that counters either your selected quote, or the thrust of the OP. Can you help me out by pointing to a section or summarizing the argument?
I mean downloads not uploads in the first sentence.
and scissors cut paper
Mhh not just about the past, you can see such in current answers from Bard.

They are generally okayish, closer to "meh", than something outstanding.

Yes the shell script solution is better, it doesn't give rm -f anymore, but is still somewhat closer to a bad solution instead of just giving rm -i.

I'm just really happy and excited to see that a free-to-download and free-to-use model can beat a commercially-hosted offering.

This is what has brought the most amazing projects (e.g. Stable Diffusion)
Brics countries are corrupt hellholes run by non-intelligent despots…that’s exactly why they won’t succeed.

Imagine South Africa that can’t even supply stable electricity to their citizens trying to rebuild the global financial order, lol. They should try rebuilding Eskom first..
Is this the same Ray Peat that claimed Mexican Coca-Cola could cure almost any medical emergency?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE-PEJ9Uu50
It's a silly gotcha. I don't think Zoom ever advertised itself as eliminating all in person work, it's simply a conferencing tool. Sort of like going "you can't work drunk at the Whiskey distillery, what a bunch of hypocrites!" I said it early during the pandemic already but I think it's become more obvious over time that video conferencing is not a panacea and doesn't wholesale replace face-to-face contact.

Honestly reassuring that a CEO does not treat its own product as the solution to everything.
I did three installs of Pro this year. Two of them required hacks to force local account creation because the motherboard (Asus) ships with a _literal rootkit_ that injects a wireless driver that Windows itself does not ship with. So you either have to disable that in firmware before first boot to Windows OOBE, or run the BypassNRO cmdlet from a hidden shell to convince it that you do not, in fact, have internet access.

I tried to domain join the third device to see what that flow is like. It asks:

1. Personal use / Work or School

2. You are asked to login to Azure AD. You have to click a small (10pt?) link for "Sign-in options." with no indication that will let you join to the domain.

3. Pick "Domain Join instead"

4. It asks you to setup a local account ("Even better, use
an online account" :-)

5. _You finish setup without the device actually being joined to the domain!?_

6a. You now have to login (click)

6b. and go to the system settings (click)

6c. go to accounts (click, ad for M365),

6d. go to "Connect to work or school" (click),

6e. click another "Connect" button with no indication that
it will join it to a domain,,

6f. Click another small link for "Join this device to a local Active Directory domain" to domain join the PC.

So, I'm sorry, but if you think the Pro SKU is better in this regard you are just incorrect. There is no excuse for these dark patterns, this is user-hostile behavior designed to convert you to being recurring SaaS revenue and not retail revenue.

As an added bonus I just tried to create a Windows 11 VM in hyper-v to confirm my memory, and _Microsoft Hyper-V_ doesn't even correctly configure itself to allow Windows installation to proceed by default. (Secure Boot enabled, but no vTPM.) It then proceeded to download updates to the installer and reboot without a prompt or any option to skip it. Microsoft _clearly does not give a shit_ about the OOBE if you are not using their cloud services.
how about 3090? and also their performance to price ratio
Easier to ship when you have so many fewer users.
Very cool!

Hey, you know a feature which I would love to see (and maybe it's already in there) -- would be the ability to "orchestrate" Java code. In other words, to be able to add external event hooks from functions/procedures/methods -- at runtime...

These event hooks, when encountered, would be able to do such things as:

* Print/pipe a debug message to an external program or log or log viewer;

* The debug printer should contain the function/procedure/method name, parameter names, and parameter values automatically (there should be functionality to have them in both the invocation and after the function/procedure/method's code is complete, prior to returning to the caller, so two possible places per function/procedure/method...);

* The ability to selectively turn on/off such events at runtime;

* The ability to add additional code which could be evaluated for every such event (also at runtime), and make the determination if the event should be processed or skipped;

* The ability to do all of the above programmatically, via API...

* Some sort of GUI which automatically imports all function/procedure/method names of a running Java program at runtime, then gives the user the ability to track/log whichever ones they want, by simply selecting them to a secondary listbox of tracked function/procedure/methods...

Now, maybe some or all of that -- is already baked in there. I didn't look at the codebase long enough to know...

But if it is in there, that's awesome! And if one or more of those features are missing, then maybe a future version maintainer or forked version maintainer might be persuaded to add them in there...

(Side note: It would be nice to have the above functionality for all programming languages!)

Anyway, as said previously, looks very cool!
> The DOJ will sue them and win (SpaceX might not even fight it) and they'll pay a fine and have the correct language.

It seems weird that they're suing them, and making such a big splash about it. Like you said it's doubtful they did this intentionally. I would think that some sort of out-of-court agreement would be made without going to trial.

It feels like there's political interest in prosecuting Musk companies, even if the lawsuits aren't very meritorious.
Almost nobody buys Windows though. The vast majority of users get given a laptop with windows on it from work, where the robust AD system is pretty great, though O365 is a letdown in a lot of ways, and the rest get Windows pre-installed on their laptops from the store, where microsoft gives OEMs a sick deal.

The only people who "buy" Windows are those who build their own gaming machine. Even then, they usually buy a sketchy "volume license" key off ebay.

I bought windows retail, because I actually like the Windows kernel, and despise running pretty much any install of Linux that isn't just a command line to boot daemons and web servers from. I use my computer every single goddamn day, and don't ever want it to randomly break, which Linux has always done to me. The steam deck is the first Linux install that hasn't been utterly useless or shit the bed on me.

Every single problem I have had in Windows has been caused by shitty hardware, or AMDs abysmal drivers.
Insert Mister Mxyzptlk reference...
I agree with you. Except for criminal charge. There no complex, big, up-to-date and bug-free program in a world.
Yes, and crashing the door down may be the only option for others who think the door is a brick wall.
The real issue with Reddit is the capricious insanity of the mods. I got banned from enough subs over total nonsense that I just quit the whole thing.

It makes sense though, the mods are unpaid volunteers doing work that people generally don't appreciate and often criticize. You'd have to be a crazed zealot to sign up for that.

All that to say HN is nothing like that.
> I think the problem is that SNNs aren't suited to standard von neuman architecture.

This is where we begin to disagree.

If you are content with moving from actual real time to synthetic time, all of the potential frustrations fall away again. Think about online vs offline rendering in computer graphics. Theoretically, you could render all of Toy Story on a RasPi4.

Most of us would be willing to wait days for answers, assuming the batch size is acceptable and the answers are correct.
Good point, I should have clarified on time period, my experience was circa early 2010s, and I hear it’s more commercialized now.

I didn’t intend to claim that BM is actually solving these problems or going in the right direction, just that in a specific time and place and community, there was a glimpse of something very different. (I understand it’s a lot to do with community size and selection effects.)
The guy TJ De Vries works at Sourcegraph + contributes to neovim and he’s building sg.nvim - a plug-in to hook Sourcegraph AND their code assistant Cody to neovim LSP.
At least for me, the Android app is completely free - all seasons have the pricetag "FREE". Is the need for in-app purchases geofenced or something?

I'm not complaining, it's just a bit strange. :D
I don't have a Mac.

So it's either have a Mac or don't run locally if you want to use this service?
I like to do a simple “thank you because X” where X is an encouragement for others to read the link (usually that’s what’s thanked, anyway).
>If I needed all of those tools for my daily workflow I’d be on macOS without hesitation.

And how do switch my existing PC from Windows to MacOS, without spending money to buy new proprietary HW in a locked-down unrepairable unupgradable ecosystem that comes with insane markups on RAM and storage?

At least Linux, works with what I already have and doesn't require me to spend money on proprietary HW and then spend more money on paid apps just to have some functioning window management out of the box. :drops mic:
I don't know, I didn't read the article.
Your account is fine.
... but the question was how they were different from Monero or ZCash. Why couldn't you apply the same argument to those? The developers of both Monero and ZCash definitely know that their systems are in fact used for illegal activity. Monero is probably predominantly used for drug transactions. Surely at least some money laundering too. And absolutely no AML/KYC or other "due diligence".

Some of the developers probably even know about specific illegal acts by specific actors. And the illegal activity has been happening throughout the lifetimes of those systems, with plenty of overt acts during any given developer's personal involvement.

So if the Tornado Cash people were conspiring with their users to launder money, how are the Monero or ZCash people not conspiring with their users to launder money? What's the required threshold of coordination or participation? In both cases, you're basically looking at somebody sticking some software out there and letting other people use it.

It's possible that Tornado had more active participation in specific incidents, but if so, what aspects of that participation matter? If it's a matter of hosting the UI, well, many the Monero and ZCash developers probably also run nodes, so they're actively operating systems that are accepting and relaying obscured transactions, with no attempt to filter out illegal ones. And they can't exactly claim they're ignorant about that.

I'm not claiming Tornado Cash is or was not a conspiracy, but if it is, then it seems hard to say that Monero or ZCash isn't.

By the way, as far as I know charging money doesn't matter, and I'd put about zero weight on allegations about "running relayers", since there aren't any recognizable "relayers" in the system anyway. The government has a strong interest in ignoring how it actually works, and in muddying any potential distinctions between the automated actions of the smart contracts and the intentional actions of the developers. They've issued actual sanctions forbidding "any interaction with" the smart contracts themselves, and if they let those distinctions become significant, they run the risk of having to explain how the smart contracts are "entities" within their authority to sanction.
Hi.

Im one of our founding developers and I don't even try to say that I am super experienced with LLM/AI stuff. We've wrapped around this AI tool that helps you shop online (or at least should) so that you wouldn't have to wonder on every page when you are trying to find something useful.

What you guys think, would this be any useful for release? We haven't announced this yet anywhere, but we have already created a small CTA to the end of the messages to potentially get some users for our app which is our main product.

And yes I know, the first comment will be ''I would have built this in 1 hour''. Rather than that all the feedback is well appreciated :D
The problem is that press releases often only give one side of a "story", while news articles often present it in a valuable narrative context.

E.g. a new product was announced because the old one used to catch fire. I mean the context isn't usually that dramatic, but there's often important information about a price change, or a response to previous consumer complaints, or how it fits into the broader product line, or is a response to competition -- all of which is much more valuable than anything in a press release.
rather than A100 or H100, I would love to run these models on more affordable gpu cards like A10 or even T4
Who is “we”? Current self-driving research is almost entirely funded by private investors. We’re way past the days of it being a darpa science project.
I haven't used a device that Windows didn't ship drivers for In twenty years!
its not good news - you are not alone

San Francisco Bay Area in 2017 had the worst air quality in the entire world for a few days.. the Sun was not completely visible through the dark reddish orange haze. There are many pictures of it. Its not over, sorry to say.
I find Google Meet much better. It has superior audio and video quality and a vastly superior UI all inside the browser.
^exactly, Replicate or Together are only options that are potentially more convenient
Bad credit rating and prior overdrafts is all it is. That's the complete story. Not even extensive overdrafts, like three a year before they lost their ability to get an account.
> As for useful error messages, or lacktherof, I’d like to introduce you to programming, we’ve been waiting for you ;) but for real, useful error messages are the rare exception, and many apis are this way.

This has been my experience with vitest lately - not sure if it’s the project, the build, or who knows what, but when a unit test fails I get an error that would be enough to work on with the given offending line of code displayed, except it is never any relevant LoC It sometimes highlights a line in a different test function all together, but usually just N lines down or up from where it should be.

As for other useful error messages… “what the fuck does PC load letter even mean??”
Under the hood macOS is Unix though... so there is a lot to be said for that. I can run tools like sed, awk, grep right out of the box. As someone who is in a shell 24x7 on multiple remote linux servers it is nice to also have a very similar experience within my local desktop environment.
You're absolutely right. That is particular example is bad because you don't actually need the power of flapMap/bind. But, if the available containers depended on the flavor and the available toppings depended on the flavor and/or container, then you would need flapMap/bind and do-notation would pull its weight.
Thank you for the confirmation, dang! Big fan of the job you do around here.
Yes, we need IDs to make sure they’re US citizens or green card holders in order to vote. How else would you know?

We don’t check IDs to do the most basic thing that holds democracy together. The rest of the world requires ID to vote.
I can't agree about Office and Windows tho. They still have quirks, and I definitely can put finger (a lot of fingers actually) at points that stupid and I can't stand, but in general I like working with Office and Windows. I tried Open Office, Libre Office, few Linux distibutives, but return to Windows everytime.
Reading the sibling responses so far, my only advice is to not take advice from random strangers on the internet about this sort of thing. You will just get bad takes tainted by survivorship bias.
Many Reddit subreddits use AutoModerator to automatically remove comments by users with substantial negative karma, e.g. -49 or lower. There are definitely false positives, but this policy removes a lot of drive-by troll comments.
Shadowbanning is when you don't tell the user that they're banned. When an account has an established history on HN, we tell them we're banning them and why: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

Shadowbanning is something we only do for either (1) spammers or (2) new accounts that are showing signs of being repeat abusers. This seems to be roughly the correct tradeoff.
One feature of living things is that, in a metaphysical sense, the whole precedes the parts (you might get away with calling them simultaneous in some simple cases, but it isn't the case with complex organisms). To call a collection of things incidentally arranged "living" is to either pass the buck and assign "life" status to the thing doing the "using", or to adopt a mechanistic view of reality that renders the notion of "life" meaningless.
I enjoy reading the discussions about politics on HN. Most comments are refreshingly thought out and not just lines being drawn and people parroting what they hear somewhere else. I don't know of anywhere else on the internet that has actual thoughtful political discussions.

Also, HN-ers tend to have very sharp BS detectors which really helps.
Docker is still helpful even when you want to compile for source. Something that's simple with containers but maddening on bare metal is build or runtime configs where different versions of packed/libraries are required. A container lets you have a super customized build environment for a single application that can spit out a binary that'll run on bare metal but might otherwise pollute the machine's build config.

Some languages make building harder than others but containers can obviate a lot of that difficulty even if the runtime target is bare metal.
I remember I'd save random mouse drivers I found on different machines at school looking for the one that used the least amount of ram. God, what a nightmare.
perhaps it's just my use case being not complicated (or specialized?) enough, the original model is already pretty good at generating realistic images, unlike previous models, which still need a lot of prompt engineering or fine-tuning or bunch of hacks
In 2013, I did that to get a free luggage trolley at Chicago O’hare. Just swiped an old credit card for the dollar and it immediately unlocked.
Indeed! After pulling a model with "ollama pull codellama" you can access it via the REST API:

curl -X POST http://localhost:11434/api/generate -d '{
"model": "codellama",
"prompt":"write a python script to add two numbers"
}'
It is remotely controversial.
Winner’s Curse: Negotiation Mistakes to Avoid
Big agree. Tinkering with code to some specific end is gonna teach you a lot more than just scrolling through files, unless you're just curious about the basic architecture or how they implemented some specific thing.

Either way, have a goal in mind when reading code. If nothing else, take notes on what you learn.
It's not my definition. It's literally the definition of the word.

> Sure they can ask, and if your intention is to be available on the phone the moment they ask then your examples are irrelevant to the entire thread, which is about not needing your phone except for things you deem of primary importance.

The whole point I'm making (and please note that not all of the above replies are mine) is that everyone's lives contains unexpected elements which can become urgent under the right circumstances.

I can't imagine a life in which a call from a friend, family member, the authorities, or even a coworker can NEVER be urgent.
There is a middle ground between the cloud and on premise. You can get a VPS or a dedicated server from a traditional host. If you have a running tab with them, which is common for operations like this, you get your servers in a few hours, sometimes minutes.