skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a while in my town, circa 2000, they had an experimental-format store. The signage said 'Radioshack.com' on the front and it was the size of a small grocery store and went to all those places-- they had a build-your-own-PC department, I want to say ham radio stuff, non-trivial electronics kits, and a large counter for components. I still have a long string of 470 ohm resistors because the guy at the components counter noted there was a price break and I was better off buying 100 than the 15 I needed then and there.

I wonder if their franchise model stymied the format-- they could hardly tell the franchisee who had rented out a standard mall location that he needed to quadruple his footprint.

What's funny is that they were like 1km from a more conventional electronics-parts shop, a little run-down outfit with no marketing budget or retail presence, buried behind a rail yard, and that company's still in business today (albeit at a slightly nicer location).
If you’re in a sinking boat it is the amount of water inside the boat that you worry about, rather than the amount of water in which the boat is floating.
> A lot of the mods seemed to be fine with the destruction of their communities as long as it was them who got to pull the trigger and not the admins.

Well, yeah. Most reddit mods are in it to some extent for the power, not pure benevolence. This tracks completely.
> So, taking that as the reason for wielding a two-handed backhand

That's your mistake. Here's another quote from the article: "The two-handed backhand is far more stable, he said, and the motion is shorter and simpler." There are a number of good reasons for amateur players to use a two-handed backhand, and that's indeed why countless amateur players do use a two-handed backhand. Are you seriously claiming that they're all wrong, and also all of the tennis instructors who teach them are wrong too?

It's really quite simple: many players, amateur and pro, hit the ball better and play better with a two-hander than with a one-hander. So why wouldn't you use a stroke that makes you play better?

> "Ignorance" can only be applied to intellectual matters, not to a backhand

Disagreed. There are difference kinds of knowledge, e.g., knowledge-that and knowledge-how.

> "Solipsistic" means that I believe a world view in which only my consciousness is real.

Check the dictionary. It also means "very self-centered", for example.
the cultural lens of "it's not okay to casually curse in professional settings" doesn't agree, unfortunately.
Maui Sent an Evacuation Alert. Why Did So Few People Get It?
Why not stop and think for a moment about what is "the unkown" instead of keeping talking about what I have personally seen or my personal feelings.
> Except those who feel that prices will go down further and don't want to be left holding the bag. It's a classic prisoner's dilemma.

It’s not. The current mantra is that if prices go down, on a timescale of like 10-20 years they will eventually go back up. This is the way things have gone for at least the last century. AirBnB can go bankrupt tomorrow and wit will do exactly nothing to dispel this thought.

> With the current interests rates, this is straight up magical thinking.

Do you think that matters even the slightest bit? A nontrivial proportion of homeowners could afford to buy second homes outright at this point.
Sure enough. It's right there. Completely missed it. Thx!
> but I don't know what else to do.

You could get rid of the car...
https://archive.ph/HEmGe
Ask HN: Why not have a “MacBook Home” that requires a Mac mini in your home?
So this would be a low cost highly portable MacBook that you can use anywhere in your home and is powerful since it would act as a terminal to a Mac mini in your home.
STRs are still a small fraction of the total housing market, as are institutional investors. People need houses, this market is organic, though reacting to the massive flux in interest rates.

Some data here: https://www.housingwire.com/articles/datadigest-inventory-an...
You can find data related to this phenomenon when searching for “imported emissions”. But then it's only going to be related to the CO2 emissions, not energy, and the measure appears to vary a lot depending on the methodology (from a quick search, France is estimated to import between 117 and 750Mt of CO2 a year, quite a large error margin…).

> if wealthier nations were exporting energy demand via imports I would expect that number to be climbing

Why? These exports from China generates GDP in China so it just grow the energy consumption as well as the Chinese GDP, making the ratio flat.
Last time I looked into this, some models came with UEFI or BIOS booting built into the board firmware and just needed a flag set in developer mode on Chrome OS, but on other models this code was either absent or too buggy to be usable. On those models, you needed to flash an updated/modded version of the firmware, which usually required removing a specific screw that doubles as a jumper to enable/disable writing the chip.
Call me paranoid, but this sounds like a marketing campaign by someone who would prefer that schools didn't buy Chromebooks.
All the reasons:

[1] The compilers don’t produce great instructions;

[2] The drivers crash frequently: ML workloads feel experimental;

[3] Software adoption is getting there, but kernels are less optimized within frameworks, in particular because of the fracture between ROCm and CUDA. When you are a developer and you need to write code twice, one version won’t be as good, and it is the one with less adoption;

[4] StackOverflow mindshare is lesser. Debugging problems is thus harder, as fewer people have encountered them.

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were crucial when we had enough supply of NVidia GPUs, but if demand described in https://gpus.llm-utils.org/nvidia-h100-gpus-supply-and-deman...

is real (450,000+ H100)

Software bottlenecks most likely will be addressed sometime soon
https://mrchromebox.tech/#devices

You probably want one that supports uefi firmware, which I think is libreboot.
Feel free to explain that to the whales.
Nonsense, a region that is forested has a proportion of carbon locked up in biomass indefinitely. If that region is deforested and no longer has any carbon locked up in biomass that is unambiguously a net source of carbon.
Open Source Licenses
>There's no need to sugarcoat what these shitty companies are doing.

if you're fine with it remaining as internet ramblings, sure.

If you want anyone serious to challenge these companiies, then you already made their jobs harder to do. But I guess the internet never really cared about change. Just a place to yell into the void.
I think it's a joke about how all finite sequences will repeat during infinite time. But it doesn't really add anything to the discussion.
Well, that's the downside of publicly funded healthcare: government pays for your treatment, so government gets to decide if you are worth the expense. Which of course is completely fucked up.
Aviator (YC S21) is hiring a senior engineer to build the future of monorepos
It does allow for improvements in surgical technique in some ways, it introduces severe limitations in other ways.

Many of the positives you highlight are true for any modern laporoscopic surgury, not just Da Vinci. In most indications, manual laparoscopy is by far the market volume leader for lots of reasons. Reasons like big surgical systems like Da Vinci are huge and require dedicated large ORs that are expensive. Meanwhile they still need to get surgury done in the smaller, more common, more cost effective ORs. Don't get me wrong, Da Vinci is a modern marvel, as I've said in other comments here it's truly a remarkable work of engineering. Its also a monopoly that makes a ton of money, and also far from how every surgery is done or should be done. Those two things don't go together, monopoly and shouldn't be the whole market. That's all I'm saying. It's not the panacea it's made out to be often.
Did you make this? Wow.
Honestly the only thing stopping me from toting around an old low value laptop is their battery life, which is generally awful. The modern web making their fans get angry and noisy also isn’t great, and barrel jack PSUs are a pain compared to USB-C PD.

It’d be cool if there were efforts to sell kits that allow users to outfit old laptops with higher-capacity (but not physically larger) batteries, quieter cooling, and USB-PD.
Many applications don't need multiple physical machines worth of database.

Persistent storage has been a solved problem, especially when using a managed Kubernetes service. What's the problem with running stateful workloads on a cluster?
Mine broke a few weeks ago (MacOS - Open Remote - SSH v0.0.42). What version are you running and are you connecting to your remote hosts via your ssh config file or using username@ip?

Just curious, since I cannot get it to connect to any hosts.
A key argument appears to be based on incorrect data.

Specifically, as I write this, the OP states that the number of housing units per capita in the US is at an all-time high, per this plot (unless the OP changes it):

https://www.oftwominds.com/photos2023/housing-per-capita8-23...

Federal data shows otherwise. Here's the actual number of housing units divided by number of persons in the US:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=18r64

Otherwise, I'm reluctant to call the US housing market a "bubble," because I haven't seen the classic signs of financial mania.
https://archive.today/wIDtr
https://youtu.be/XxbJw8PrIkc?si=1FUhvPxAu4kKdwvX
Also tragic is people without homes fighting a proxy war with “developers” because of their podcast centric understanding of economics. It’s more important that developers don’t make a profit than increasing the supply of homes and nothing will change their minds.
If new housing supply has the word “luxury” in the name then lord help you. Gentrifying a community with new houses is like the worst thing a person could do.
Economic growth doesn't necessarily require energy expenditure growth. Figuring out how to do something more efficiently (for half the energy) is also economic growth.
Sure they can. Abs(). Or if you prefer to not have quite so much micro-nano, you could also use Cumulative Distribution Functions [1] which are basically just sums of Probability Density [2].

Are they a 4σ programmer, 1σ programmer, -0.5σ programmer, -2σ programmer?

Plus, most people are "average" not negative productivity, and CDFs let you use really fun stuff like Beta Distributions (variable, shapable distributions) and Gamma Distributions (exponential distributions). They're super sweet as far as probability statistics.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_distribution_functi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_density_function

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_distribution

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_distribution
Ask HN: Show us what you'd share if an recruiter asked you for code samples
This way it will output time in H:MM:SS

find . -type f -print0 | \
xargs -0 -I {} ffprobe -v quiet -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 {} | \
awk '{s += $1} END {printf "%d:%.2d:%.2d\n", s/3600, s%3600/60, s%3600%60}'
> average salary ($135k - $190k

Wtf? Are salaries THAT high in the US?
After having had a home flood and another burn, and being refused a claim in each case (the flood was caused by a river, and so isn’t covered, and the fire was a wildfire, and also isn’t covered - only fires starting in the property are covered - same for our truck that was incinerated), I no longer bother with home or vehicle insurance - if they don’t pay out, there’s no point in having it. Come to think of it the only insurance claim I ever had pay out was when I deliberately set out to defraud an insurer. Never have they paid out in a situation where it would have been helpful.

I would wager others will follow the same way, once they realise their policies are just a tax that they get no benefit from, and then insurers will have to come up with some new racket to defraud marks.
I wonder what it take to convince people some of the coast of Florida, much of California and other disaster areas are uninhabitable. I definitely wouldn't want to live in a home that is not insured or have insurance that is exceedingly expensive. Also places in the middle of the desert that are going to literally run out of water.
It's not ironic, it's concern over the influence big tech yields over society with said data, unlike your concerns which are scoped on you and immediate.
The long-term historical baseline interest rate for any kind of debt is 6%. I tend to see it as normal too, though may go high for a while in reaction to the artificially low rate of the last decade. Home prices relative to household income are high though.
"Pretty sure" is not gonna cut it here. White supremacy is nothing but a threat.
The Ones We Sent Away
Hey, I like the job profile, Do you have opening for individual contributor (software dev)?
Not to mention that you are supposed not to use the official vscode extension repository if you don't use the official vscode build IIRC.
Nope. Common belief but not true: https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2

More specifically: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita
I had to abandon it over screenshots. I realise X is deprecated, but it works and it never gives me a reason to notice it. Wayland gave me a few. Till it matures I don't mind sticking with x.
I found the Hans Rosling series of talks quite good and a bit reassuring. If we survive the next 100 years, we'll probably do OK for a while longer.
Why not use VNC to achieve the same goal?
No, science is probabilistic by nature. Science seeks to generate models to explain reality. The process is to test said models against reality (probabilistically).
20000X the energy of a current human shows how absurd it would be for growth and energy use to not decouple. I can’t even imagine what I could do on Earth using that much power. Fly my own 737 to a new city every day?

I suppose spacefaring humans might use that kind of power but if they are living in space they are no longer part of the biosphere of Earth.
Yes, certainly!

It's those OTHER people doing bad things to animals & their environment, not you. Right? (wink wink)

Most whales would probably fall for that (or give you benefit of the doubt).. many humans do.
Tell HN: Rip glTF models from IKEA for fun and profit
Ikea now has 3D previews on their product pages, but there's no button for downloading the models. However, the browser's network log allows you to see a URL for downloading the viewed model in plain standard glTF! You can import this in Blender and it's just ready - scaled in metric and painted with basic materials!

I've been using Blender for planning moves between small flats - testing furniture setups in a virtual model is so fun besides being useful. Even a crude model allows me to make concrete decisions well in advance.

Modeling a non-rectangular room is pretty straightforward with a perspective matching tool like fSpy and a few measurements in real life.

Trying and comparing different furniture setups is as simple as animating the room over time! Blender allows you to split your UI to show multiple synchronizes views across the room. Add timeline markers to label each setup for easy discussion. Marker names will be visible in each 3D view screenshot!

Blender's Eevee gives excellent live previews without much hassle. I've been very happy just using the builtin interior HDR map and slapping screen-space AO/reflections on top.
I really don't understand how a XB-1 flight 5+ years late is a huge milestone. It doesn't change the economics and issues with the Overture.

> Boom aims to roll out the Overture craft in 2026, with the first flight of the aircraft planned for no sooner than 2027.

This just not even remotely believable. They have barley started engine development.

And the economics of this plane also just don't make sense even if they could develop it.
With the number of applications and acceptances isn’t it inevitable that a few get by? This is the first I recall, but surely there have been others? I don’t envy the folks doing the filtering with so much at stake and such an emphasis on the effusive pitch.
Sci-fi idea: binary star system is really the remnants of an advanced civilization, originally orbiting a single (much larger) star on their own planet, that collapsed in on itself from the consequences of its energy generation technology.
> I also want to stipulate that I am not talking about people of modest means who acquired rental properties by scrimping and saving their earned income and making sacrifices for decades--a strategy that is part of Self-Reliance ; I'm talking about the already-wealthy who are seeking to "maximize returns" on their unearned "surplus capital."

The mental gymnastics folks go through to say "this behavior is ok if people I like do it, but it's wrong when those other gross people do it" always amuses me.
> My guess is that it was meant to be completely textual at first

It indeed started life as “not Turing complete postscript with an index” (those makes it easy to render just the third page of a PDF file, something that’s impossible in postscript without rendering the first and second pages first). Like postscript, that was a pure text format.

One nice feature is that you can append a few pieces and a new index to an existing PDF file and get a new valid PDF file (which would still contain its old index as a piece of “junk DNA”)

I think compression was added because users complained about file sizes. Ascii85 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii85) grows binary data by 25%.

> but then requiring the xref table to have fixed-length entries is odd

My guess is that made it easier to hack together a tool to convert PDF to postscript.
> In NYC, another sign of STVR buildings are lockboxes chained to metal railings outside.

Maybe as a correlation, but these lockboxes are used for everything in NYC, dogwalkers, nanny’s, house cleaners, apartment viewings, etc.
The novelty of the work stems from the fact you’ll doing it on Saturdays too; doesn’t that excite you!?
And with privately funded healthcare, there may be no treatment at all. That's even more fucked up.
> A systemic driver of this bidding war for rental properties is the "AirBnB" model of monetizing individual properties to compete with hotels and resorts for lodging... This has led to an artificial scarcity of housing in popular tourist destinations.

This is fundamentally untrue, there is nothing "artificial" whatsoever.

AirBNB allows a city to host a larger number of tourists than hotels alone can provide, which stimulates the local economy with lots of spending etc. This is not "artificial", it's real local economic growth.

The scarcity of housing is then not caused by AirBNB -- it's caused by not constructing enough housing.

It doesn't matter whether demand for new housing comes from tourism or people moving to the city to reside. Demand is demand, and tourism is not "artificial". Nobody calls people moving to the city for work an "artificial" cause of scarcity, and neither is tourism.

The solution is to build more housing. Period.
I wonder if you could install chromeos flex on these eol devices.
Wouldn't that be slow and possibly limited?
Has this guy ever been right? I just remember him writing about the coming housing crash for the last 15 years. It never manifested itself and just kept going up. He has never been correct in his predictions, so I would actually use him as a contrarian signal.
Read Programming as if People Mattered from 1991. Even back then frontend was a mess of spaghetti code that needed to be periodically tossed out. That’s just how frontend works. UI is ephemeral. The backend can be pure, crystal logic that lasts for decades or maybe centuries. The frontend is a rat’s nest of conditions that will get junked as soon as fashions change.

It’s the difference between manufacturing denim and selling jeans. The denim business is forever. The jeans business is constantly changing.
I am not sure what you are trying to say. No one pretends these laws make discrimination go away, they just provide some mechanism to get relief. If you feel you have been discriminated against because you are an Asian male, speak to a lawyer and see if you have a case.
GPT-4 Can’t Reason: Addendum
Yeah, if you aren't skipping levels you are sitting still. Takes balls and the ability to handle when it goes sideways. It is often a gamble at first. Most people don't want to bring on this type of stress/uncertainty--but when it works, it works.

I went from "lucky to get hired" application support engineer peon to being groomed for CTO by stepping out of my lane. My supervisor had a sign on his wall: "Stay in your lane." I did not (he ended up sacked by the CFO). I found that even pissing off some key executives (CEO/CFO) a few times just helped my profile. I got lucky but it was all deliberate.

One of the executives I inflamed (CFO) had to sign off on two record setting raises/promotions for me. All brought before the board of directors/investors by the then/current CTO.

To be fair, I was also super productive/knowledgeable and a high-performer. Everyone else was used to working at big companies, I had been sitting at home the previous ten years playing on my computer and gardening.
> It's a simple solution to give the file the right extension,

Oh, I see now.

Do you work with many tools that can't work with files if they don't have the "right" extension? I thought that was mostly a Windows problem.
Only when it works for them. The Lord, in his infinite wisdom, makes it rain for the rich and rain on the poor alike.
At first I was concerned about abuse of WFH by employees too, but then I realised, people in the office often aren't particularly productive either.

From my own team, if I had to guess, the actual number of productive hours are similar.

Granted, I think it probably varies dramatically by company / team, and I get the impression that some places take WFH much less seriously than we do (as in, not goofing off).
> UK a consultant earns £100k pretax

While it depends on the specialty, in Australia it is not uncommon for consultants to be on AUD 300-400K (= 150-200K GBP, 200-250K USD). I don't understand why salaries in the UK are so low, even for highly educated professionals.

My grandfather was a GP. He hated the NHS so much, he left the UK and never went back. Pay was likely a factor, but he also viewed the NHS as a denial of his professional freedom. While Australia eventually adopted something akin to the NHS (Medicare), I don't think he objected so much to that, since it involved less government control over the how of his job.
Install Parallels with Windows so it is actually usable.
>>> Would you mind explaining what model-free science looks like? Is it just cataloging observations?

Anything that can be tested and replicated with all things exactly equal, except that which is the hypothesis being tested.

Most if not all of social science, ecology, geology, climate science may not be possible to do this way, since it often involves humans and/or earth, and its physically impossible to duplicate earth, or a human (with identical thoughts,feelings, or experience)
It’s not clear if she is being supported by NHS or fully private insurance.

The UK does exercise triage on long term cases. The flip side is no country can afford to maintain every patient with a terminal condition indefinitely and doctors are allowed to exercise judgement.
Experience shows that of those closed-without-payment, some kind of get-out-clause will have been invoked by the insurer - but it’s all above-board and legal, but is it right?
That's not how it works, the time the carbon got stored has an effet on the climate, the same way that 1 euro tomorrow isn't the same as one euro today.
The deciding factor here is if the owner can find a cash flow source that covers the mortgage payment, property tax, and maintenance costs. NYC lease rates have surged since the state revamped rent control laws.