skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The classic corporate PPT slide is a disaster of over-information! I try hard to keep my slides short, with text that is a jumping off point for my actual presentation, but my effort to teach this method has mostly fallen on deaf ears.

When the information density is high, or there is a just a lot of text, then the audience reads the slide instead of listening to the speaker (that is, they're reading the slide instead of listening to me).

When I gave a colleague this feedback, he just told me that the information density is a positive thing, and then showed me a 100 page PPT from a previous job that amounted to the spec for a contract.

So, different strokes? I guess if the PPT is meant to be standalone, to not accompany a speaker, then the high information density works. I still try to convey only one major idea per slide, and I leave specs to written documents.

A final comment: the only thing for me that is personally more distracting than a high density slide is looped animation in the slide. My ADHD brain just locks onto that visual cue, and it takes serious conscious effort to keep focused on the presenter.

[edited to correct a typo]
I agree that (void)bla is desirably clear, pithy and unambiguous. And I like something like this if I'm dealing with functions with more than a couple unused parameters:

static void unused_(int x, ...) { (void)x; }
#define unused(...) unused_(0, __VA_ARGS__)

This way you can just have one `unused(foo,bar,baz,quux);` line at the top of the function listing all unused parameters.
It would work better if people were forbidden from living in homes they also owned, or at least taxed extra for doing so.
Is restricting new construction the problem? I believe the problem is airbnb, mega-corporations/banks buying up and renting out homes, homes that sit empty trying to get exorbitant rental rates, vacation homes and non-homestead homes that sit empty...

When I was in LA, I met up with a friend who brought another friend as a tagalong. He had a job at a software company nearby which we got a tour of, but he lived with his parents 40 minutes away. That night I stayed at an airbnb a three minute drive from the office that would have been perfect for the guy to own and live in. The airbnb was a 2br/2bath with electric locks on the outside and inside doors so they could double-rent it for the night.

Landlords, empty houses, and airbnb are destroying the lives of young people.
‘Robo-Taxi Takeover’ Hits Speed Bumps
I agree with this but I’ve found that the people making the decisions of who to hire usually have some incentive to hire from a certain country.

Those reasons could be kickbacks, family stake in the company, etc.

Edit: This is completely anecdotal. Grain of salt and all that.
What definition of "monopoly" are you using here...?
Having unfortunately watched my mother in law go through Alzheimer, at no point in the process was she willing to admit or even really aware (other than for very short flashes) that she had a problem.
Surprisingly, gatling guns are not consider automatic by the definition or the atf [1]. But if one were to attach a hand drill in place of the crank?

[1] https://tippmannordnance.com/22lr-gatling-gun/
Well, no. https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/neda-suspends-ai-chatbot-f...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/30/tech/gannett-ai-experiment-pa...

If the AI is a lot cheaper than a human, then it can make business sense to replace the human even if the AI is not nearly as good.
Every time you would have direct control over the hardware it’s considered UB and the compiler throws the code away.
It's crazy, almost like people don't trust corporations to be reasonable when they have such vague abuses of the law to escape into. Maybe we shouldn't have to trust corporations not to spy on us in spaces that carry reasonable expectations of privacy. Maybe we should regulate their greedy data-grubbing into the ground so we don't even have to speculate, and so the miserable people who work at these corporations are stymied from even attempting it. What a splendid utopian ideal.
This is why hardware manufacturers should be required to place schematics and software source code for all components into escrow, and it becomes public when they discontinue meaningful support and or shipping a product.
Show HN: AI tool for teachers to create resources
I work at a STEM school and we've been exploring how to use LLMs for education. We made this simple app for teachers to generate resources they can edit and download.

We add additional context to the prompt that helps it generate resources aligned with evidence-based practices.

The goal is to save teachers time. Would appreciate any ideas you have to improve or extend functionality.
World’s first crewed liquid hydrogen plane takes off
A minor pedantic point: not "as well", since the comment you replied to talked about "in the Anglosphere" which by pretty much any definition certainly includes Australia :)
How about we put the few human-animals back in their cages, so the rest of us can live in a civilization that doesn't need to have clear bags full of trash on display.
I have never had to witness this with someone close to me. Do you think there is a window where you realize what's going on and still are capable of exiting on your own terms?

I remember a case where a famous person in Germany (Gunther Sachs - [0]) ended his own life because he suspected having Alzheimers. It was controversial because he never got an official diagnosis and there was some suspicion he didn't even have it.

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/gunter-sachs-germ...
Trying every technical blogging platform
Juicing = shrinking nuts & roid rage.

If a biological male needs more T, clomiphene is the way to go.
> Not sure you will ever be able to ban investors from owning properties that are rented out long-term

Why not? We are making up the rules as we go. The government has the guns, it can do what it wants.

> - a fair amount of the population wants to, or can only afford to, rent

Well a fair amount of the population wants to buy a home remotely close to where their job and family is, but it turns out there's a population representing 30% of all sales that thinks they ought to be landlords.

> - and someone needs to be the landlord.

Doubt.
The problem isn’t housing and zoning. The problem is people absolutely refuse to go live in places where housing is cheap because they’d rather live in the popular hotspots.

You want a cheap house? Sub 300k? Come to the Midwest, you’ll get one easy. Oh what’s that? You’d rather live right in downtown San Francisco or Manhattan? Well…

Sometimes I think about just selling my expensive city apartment and moving out to a small rural mountain town and finding a wife there.
This is true and not true. Desirable land aka location is where everyone wants to buy. This drives the price up. Building in the middle of nowhere increases available housing, but doesn't solve the problem really, because no one wants to live there.

In theory remote work could help with this problem, but honestly it's really only available to workers who work in offices. People with physical jobs like Amazon warehouse workers and restaurant staff and construction workers...all have to live somewhere near where they work.
There's also plenty of relatively inexpensive housing in many areas of the US (can't really speak to Canada) but many people are less inclined to live in those areas for a variety of reasons.
It’s on going to get worse with autonomous cars.
Interesting read. I have just setup a very similar cluster this week: 3 node bare metal cluster in a 10G mesh network. Decided for Debian, RKE2, Calico and Longhorn. Encryption is done using LUKS FDE. For Load Balancing I am using the HCloud Load Balancer (in TCP mode).
At first I had some problems with the mesh network as the CNI would only bind to a single interface. Finally solved it using a bridge, veth and isolated ports.
> Is restricting new construction the problem?

"The" implies one driving issue but like most big problems, the current housing crisis has a number of drivers.

Think of a grease fire where the people throwing water on it are making it worse. So are the people pouring gas on it. So are the idiots with the big fans trying to blow it away from their own stuff.
It probably shouldn't be in places where there's no public restroom access.

It's probably still a holdover from when San Francisco wasn't as crowded and had adequate access to public restrooms.

It's not really an issue in most of the country because there's at least adequate public restroom access.
Sounds like someone's not been paying attention to how the international student game works. If you think luring international students by for-profit academia is a Canada thing, you have some learning to do.

Also the idea that Canada can retain folks with a Canadian degree is hilarious: the location factor for backwater rural Washington is higher than the location factor for Vancouver or Toronto: you think those students are gonna stay in Canada after they graduate instead of moving South and getting paid twice the amount for the same position? Because if you do, that's another bit where you have some learning to do.
Wow!!! Thanks for showing me the `foo[static 1]` trick. I had never seen it before. Really cool!

I added https://github.com/fin-language/fin/issues/6 to track.

Also good point on accessing float storage for numerical algorithms. Hadn't considered that. Hmm... that code will not be portable. It might make the most sense for it to live in regular C code. Fin generated C code can call hand written C and vice versa.

If you have time/interest, I think the fin project could benefit a lot from your suggestions and guidance.
This comparison is verging on hyperbole. I can't recall any soda ad that implied any health claims or encouraged drinking in excess. There's nothing unhealthy about sugar in moderation. What danger that exists is only expressed after years of heavy abuse. Even then, we have treatments for diabetes and heart disease. Unhealthy diets are not communicable diseases! Soda isn't forcing doctors to use garbage bags as PPE or fashion ventilators out of surplus hardware. Soda isn't cutting down young athletes after a single exposure. If there is to be any censorship or just fact-checking alongside misinformation, it's clear which occasion deserves it.
>To most people Propaganda is only things they don't believe. But if they believe something, its reality.

Interesting.

For me propaganda is simply any broadcast that has a hidden agenda. Propaganda can lie, it can tell the truth, or it can be more nuanced, but if its made with an idea of furthering a certain cause it is propaganda and one should treat it all with a grain of salt regardless if it is propaganda aligned with my worldview. There is hostile and friendly propaganda too.

Perhaps this "definition" is unique to my generation or area. I remember seeing on Polish TV a brief exchange with some Ukrainian official when a (Polish) reporter made some comment about how effective "your propaganda" is. One could tell there was some offense taken about these words. The reporter was definitely using my definition of propaganda, but was misunderstood.

I believe this definition of propaganda is not unique to my country either. A number of countries in the past had "ministries of propaganda". Surely of they considered all propaganda false they would not use that name?
It's not common. I was on a call with a group of Indian contractors and one of them announced they were relocating to the USA. The cheers on the call were insane.

From an employer's point of view it's easier to stick to X countries as the source of H1Bs as the process overall can differ between countries.
Most people will replace their phones way before this will be an issue
Looks interesting for someone who wants to bootstrap only those "stores" they support, and want to write in a DSL that doesn't translate to other usage scenarios.

Don't get me wrong, it serves the general users with 4.6k stars, must be very useful for many people. But mine only serves me and serves me better than that—not that my code is better, but because I know what I need.
OpenAI really ought to provide some sort of hash of the model to be included with stuff like this. Right now there's no way to know if the results are comparable. As an extreme example it's possible that they're not even running the model for this question and are just opportunistically feeding back canned responses.

That is, we know that OpenAI are saving the responses, it's not unlikely that they train on bad responses.

It's the same problem as GPU benchmarks in the olden days, when drivers would detect the usage pattern of the benchmark and enable special optimizations that boosted the benchmark.
While I agree that TurboTax shouldn’t exist, I’d much rather they be forced to retroactively honor their lowest advertised price (since that’s required by law, and much more than the damages the court decided one).
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/resea...

During a test run, 90 percent of 1,008 generations were the same 25 jokes
Yes, the same people that agree that there’s a housing crisis and that their city should in general have more affordable housing, just not in their specific neighborhood.
For me personally I would like to determine the level of deterioration for lack of a better word where this is done on my behalf. Like an AI monitoring my cognitive levels and pulling the stops at a certain level. I understand how controversial and dystopian this sounds and how many problems this may cause on a society level but it would let me go on a lot longer than if I had to take care of things myself.
We also need to create cities, and revitalize dying ones. There are many small towns in the US and Canada where I'd love to buy a house, but they all tend to suffer from the same terminal decline pattern: crumbling infrastructure, lack of opportunities, and a single WalMart supplying everyone while choking out all other business.
On Windows, I like using TreeSize for this.
Though technically container apparments would be "affordable housing" -- which I think might be one part of the solution.
One thing that is not clear is if this data collection and phone-home works even if there is no cellular plan active on the car?
> However the limiting agent in this environment is governments willingness to zone and permit new housing construction.

Yep. So they cause the problem in order to be the ones who conveniently have the solution. One that has the added benefit of keeping them more and more central and overreaching over your lives.
I've got no problem with people informally using the word real in the way you suggest (and in fact I only reference things like electron charge as exemplars of the objective, not to suggest that we can only speak of the brutally physical as real). Nevertheless, however, asserting that a border is "real" or ought to be thought of as real is not a description of "the facts on the ground that impact our lives," it is an assertion that some particular state of affairs should be acceded to by some set of people. Characterizing it as a dispute about reality is deeply disingenuous.
Over half the population of the world shits in the street.

It's not a medical symptom.

It's a symptom of poor access to restrooms.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-ind...
> This should get mandated with fines for the city itself if it doesn't help the people who can't help themselves because the system's been designed to prevent them from getting help.

The problem is that "help" means different things to different people.

For years, the general view was that addicts in Canada got help via safe injection sites, first responders trained in administering naxolone, free housing available, and no real consequences for petty crime. Keeping them out of jail and making sure they had housing and clean drugs was seen as helping them.

It's only been in the past ~2 years, now that it's spiraled out of control during COVID, that some are redefining "help" to mean forced rehabilitation and/or institutionalization and keeping them off the streets if they commit crime. But there's no consensus on this.
More accurately, the earliest "C Reference Manual" that I have seen has the date 1974-01-15.

It includes all the new features that have differentiated C from B, most of which have been implemented during the summer of 1973. Therefore, by January 1974 C was complete.

The next significant modifications of the language after that date have occurred only during the ANSI standardization process (which ended in 1989, so perhaps the poster above has meant that Amiga happened between K&R C and ANSI C).
There wasn’t a stereotype; we were discussing different incentive structures (national vs foreigner was not a salient part of the discussion). No one is hinting toward nationals being innately lazy or foreigners being innately hard working
Shared reality doesn't break down when people disagree. It breaks down when people are unable to understand the other side's perceptions/interpretations enough to understand the disagreement.

As a concrete example, many conservatives in the United States understand border control in terms of national security, sovereignty, cultural integrity, etc. They often do not understand the interpretations that advocates of open borders base their views upon; things like viewing freedom of movement as an inherent human right, seeing borders as a way that corporations undermine labor, seeing Mexicans as having historically inhabited the American South West, etc. As a result, those conservatives misinterpret advocates of open borders as unpatriotic, attempting to undermine America's sovereignty, attempting to replace their culture, etc.

Basically, the issue isn't the disagreement, it's lacking the shared understanding of the situation that would allow discussion of the disagreement.
I cannot edit my comment, but you're completely right about it being optimised. I will say that I'm not familiar with what idioms might the Mojo compiler be able to optimise better (a problem arising with the Mojo compiler still being closed source, in comparison with the open source nature of Julia), and, in this sense, I don't know if there is more "compiler friendly" code with the same semantics for Mojo that might allow it to get nearer to Julia results.
I wouldn't say restricting new construction is negligible but it seems more like an SF/bay area problem. New housing is going up everywhere but if the airbnb rentals all went to new owners who lived there you would not need the new housing for awhile.

Another search states that there are 329,283 airbnbs in California in 2021. These should go to families first.

New York has 955,437 empty houses according to a quick search, and it's 4th behind Florida, California, and Texas. Take away renting out houses, short-term or otherwise, and sell those houses to people who don't have a first house, the crisis would away. It's simply greed.
Tokio and glommio using interrupts is ironically another misconception. They're cooperatively scheduled so yes, a misbehaving blocking task can stall the scheduler. They can't really interrupt an arbitrary stackless coroutine like a Future due to having nowhere to store the OS thread context in a way that can be resumed (Each thread has its own stack, but now it's stackful with all the concerns of sizing and growing. Or you copy the stack to the task but now have somehow to fixup stack pointers in places the runtime is unaware).

https://tokio.rs/blog/2020-04-preemption#a-note-on-blocking

> Tokio does not, and will not attempt to detect blocking tasks and automatically compensate
...or back to their original countries with the prestige of a foreign degree.
How would you categorize it as being different 20-30 years ago than today? I ask because my observations of friends and family who were buying / selling in that era is that the more things change, the more they stay the same. When I think about the baby boomers I know who have real wealth, every one of them will tell you a story of buying real estate in the 70s and 80s…
Show HN: Productonboarding.com – Mobbin for SaaS product onboarding
Hey Hackernews, Eric here!

Wanted to share a new website we just built called productonboarding.com (Next.js and RSC). The site has screenshots and videos of product onboarding from companies like Figma, Notion, Framer, and more. It’s sort of like Mobbin for web-based product onboarding.

We build a lot of product onboarding at our startup Frigade, and over the last year we’ve put together an internal library of hundreds of product onboarding examples that we refer to all the time with customers. It helps them find and copy patterns that work at other companies so they don’t need to create net new experiences or A/B test their way into the best performing pattern from scratch.

Given it's been so useful to us, we decided to open it up to the world. We bought productonboarding.com and have started adding examples from our collection and made them browsable and sortable. We’re planning to add new examples weekly.

Hope this is helpful to any of you who are currently thinking through building new onboarding experiences. Would love any ideas and feedback. Thanks!
> 50 million years to breathe up all the oxygen our atmosphere has stored

Surely CO2 level would reach unsustainable levels long before that? IIRC it would only need to increase to ~0.5% before air would become unbreathable for more than a few hours..
The notes at the bottom say all the tests were run with a temperature of 0, so they should be deterministic except for GPT-4 which has other sources of randomness.
Since demand won’t be going down the only solution is expedited development as you suggest. We’ve seen government pump record money into businesses so it’s frustrating that in both the US and Canada more isn’t being done to solve the problem of housing affordability by pursuing the only real solution.
I bought a condo in Toronto in 2015 for $592,000 CAD. I live here and quite like it. It's been my home for eight years.

Similar units in the same building now sell for $1.2m.

This means that my family's wealth has increased by $75,000 per year just from owning our home. That's more than the median income in Canada!

I don't say this to gloat. I say this as an example of how badly wrong things are. Nothing about this is sustainable. If it continues for another decade, we can presume no young person today will ever be able to afford a home.
Almost kind of proves ideas shouldn’t be copyrightable.
0 QAs as well...
Surprisingly, people don't think that living under a racist theocracy in Tulsa is a substitute good for living in a liberal democracy.
But fire though
Data from the St Louis Fed clearly shows that the issue is under-building since the mid-1980's: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/COMPUTSA

The problem is compounded by the fact that new entry-level housing isn't built and that the old stock is deterioriating. Please, no fairytales about hand-me-downs here, you cannot subdivide an exurban 3600 sqft cardboard palace into 3 1200 sqft condominia. Zoning regulations are against it, and the infrastructure (water, electric, roads, schools) would require a massive upgrade.
And on this farm he had OCaml. Ei Eio.
As a satellite launcher, Starship would be incredibly cheap on shared payloads, and refueling would not be necessary there.
I used the API from Together[0].

Thanks for sharing your results, they're indeed pretty different. I looked at the source again and did append a "# " before every prompt made by those 10 `code` models (during testing thought that formatting it as a Python comment might help them).

Will re-run the script without that to see if it matches your results.

[0] https://docs.together.ai/docs/models-inference#code-models
Could you, please, give more details. This seems very unintuitive, to me.
Tech workers in California are outliers. For most people in developed countries buying/investing real-estate is the only way to build wealth. Profits from real estate speculation is the only income that has low taxes here in Denmark.