skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the solution to this issue is a Henry George-style Land Value Tax (LVT) [1]. Properly implemented, this sort of tax would totally wipe out any returns from buy-and-hold investment in real estate, essentially turning it into a depreciating asset. Holders of unproductive/underproductive real estate would be forced to sell to developers or continue to lose money.

LVT is also nice because it cannot be passed on to tenants in the form of rent increases. Raising rent causes the value of the land to go up with it, leading to higher taxes which claw back all of the gains from the rental increase. If the landlord chooses to continue raising rent to stay ahead of the taxes, this upward spiral will price the property right out of the rental market, leading to high taxes and vacancy, causing the landlord to lose money.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
>in even major cities with high population density

I'd say that was typically where the issue is. I wouldn't expect to find a bathroom in the middle of random forest of course but pretty much anywhere in suburbia/exurbia has grocery stores, Walmarts, McDonalds, gas stations, with restrooms you can use. Worst case, make a small purchase.
> Sometimes this leads to remote code execution vulnerabilities, that if exploited could actually result in your hard drive being encrypted, or a keylogger being installed.

Have you got a link to a CVE of an RCE that was caused by UB being exploited by an optimizer?

Im with you that UB is dangerous, but let's be honest in 98% of situations it's correct to assume that integer overflow can't happen, and that if you pass a pointer into a function and don't check it that the call site has checked it.
Wouldn’t be the first time the ATF had an arbitrary and capricious interpretation of a statute.
Yes that is an issue. There isn’t only one issue. As an extreme illustration, think about trailer homes and trailer parks as an example.[0]

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/27/us/mobile-home-park-owner....
This is a single graphic dressed up like an article. I was actually kind of interested by the title but this isn’t really any content at all.

I think you just want to sell your AI prompting course.
> specially with a massive number of concurrent users

I think that's where you're wrong... first of all, the number of hotel booking transactions is nowhere near the number of interactions on a social media site/app, for example. It's not massive at all -- it's something any modern database server can handle easily, with replication for reads as required.

And secondly, even if it were massive, it's not massive per-property which is the only thing that matters in terms of transactions here. Database sharding in this case is incredibly straightforward, compared to many other types of websites. And in both cases, just use standard database transactions.

Now, in reality, as other commenters have attested, it's actually an optimistic communications process with each property that has nothing to do with databases at all, and overbooking can absolutely happen when both Booking.hom and Hotels.com book the same last room before the hotel has confirmed one or the other. And then it gets sorted out manually, by the hotel, because the hotel is aware of it.
My favorite luxurious office equipment is low-tech
radio telescope arrays can probably pull that much.
Actually you cannot use your present Mullvad account to do so. Instead, Mullvad provided exclusive API for tailscale as partner account to do so, which you can only get from Tailsacle if you choose their service. Mullvad only allows those data to go through its server.

Given that Tailscale is a ridiculous company that advertises on privacy while force user to login via SSO by tech giants or OIDC which is shit in privacy, I will stick to my current origin Mullvad account and keep away from this service.
There's already a category for that, the EB-5 investor visa.

If we understand the act of giving a green card to mean the US wants that person to join the society for the long term, is "taxes paid" really the best measure of desirability?
nice - is this using LiteLLM for making the completion calls?
No need. Just upzone lots of land and developers will do it for you.
Those aren’t neutral either, however. The only way to be neutral in this regard would be to show not just the recognized borders and specifying that they’re not agreed upon, but show WHY they’re recognized (NATO consideration, anti-Russian sentiment in USA politicians, etc).
If I sell you a burger, I haven’t limited your dinner.

Instagram offers what they offer. A forum for a topic or a medium offers something to you. The fact that they’ve chosen not to offer other things isn’t a limitation on your expression, any more than my burger shop is for not selling salads.
It seems like lots start off like that but it never lasts. I think it's an effect of having shareholders: it all boils down to money in the end
[sharing too much mode: on]

Coffee almost always makes me "move my bowels" pretty fast. I solve this by making sure I never have coffee unless a restroom is available.

A corollary to this is that long flights are a nightmare to me. I mostly avoid having in-flight meals, if I can.
That’s a lot of people. Where are all those people going to be housed? Where will the resources for their education and gainful employment come from? Is the Canadian job market exploding with a huge amount of well paying jobs such that Canada’s children have multiple options to pick from, or will everyone be competing for scraps?
Bootlin’s training for embedded Linux and driver development is second to none.
Personally I think Microsoft belonged more than Netflix, because Netflix is tiny by comparison. Same reason Twitter never belonged. But if you leave them both out you can get a good acronym.

M(eta)
A(pple)
N(vidia)
G(oogle)
A(mazon) -> MANGA

Yes, it ignores the Google/Alphabet change, but they still seem to be pushing the "Google" brand more than Meta is pushing the "Facebook" brand so I think that's reasonable.

P.S. It also seem rather apropos that they're only one letter away from MAGA.
Me too. That would be very cool and I'm surprised nobody is offering this as a service.
I also got my start in tech with an irrationally benevolent technical manager. He was a PhD research scientist who has built this incredible system and was quickly building a team out to scale it.

I was just getting out of the military, and trying to find what was next. I had no internships or previous engineering experience. The most I could speak to was some comp sci classes I was currently taking for my MS, and a background in excel. He didn’t grill me with leetcode. There wasn’t really even an interview. We just talked about big picture ideas for 45 minutes. And then he told me he wanted me on board. Keep in mind this was at a large, well known unicorn - hiring didn’t normally work like that was but somehow he just sort of made it happen.

The code base was in Java. I had never written Java, but he knew that and told me I’d probably figure it out. The team also didn’t have the bandwidth to upskill someone as junior as I was. I appreciated the opportunity to sink or swim and prove myself.
Well it does work in hardware, but not with the normal shift instruction. Just use a ‘double shift’ which you can get with __int128 (or with inline asm, or just full asm).
There is a difference that the intended use is to actively monitor you. Intent is very important!
thanks for your concern! I get a check up every year! healthy as a horse!

Having regular bowel movements is actually a really healthy thing.

It's only really a problem when there's no public restrooms available.
Hey thanks for checking it out and offering your thoughts. I've actually gotten the same feedback from other professional video editors -- uploading their footage to Cosmos is a non-starter for most cases.

To address this I'm developing a desktop app so footage doesn't need to be uploaded manually and the size doesn't become a problem. I'm also working on supporting exports to the major NLEs (Premiere, Resolve, Avid) to better fit editors' workflows (think of Cosmos as the organization step before editing begins).

Thanks again and if you're open to talking further, please let me know. I would love to hear any other thoughts you might have about what could make your workflow better.
I don’t think people with moral character can be reasonably expected to always have moral views on every subject matter. Not to be political but this is what people mean when they talk about intersectionality. For example a women’s rights advocate might unintentionally exclude disabled women, or be harder on black women they work with than white women for being ghetto or ratchet.
Zoning hurts, labor shortage hurts, speculation hurts, sprawl hurts, etc.

We don’t really need to look for a single cause. All of these things are happening and interacting with each other.
Whether or not a social convention is "real" or not is entirely the point of my original comment. If we throw out arbitrary sets of social conventions and call them fake we effectively operate in our own non-shared reality.

My primary point is that this trend seems to be accelerating from my perspective so it's fitting for online maps to reflect this as well.
Here's the template I'm using - https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/5ca8b23e22139a4f49bd...

Anything I'm doing incorrectly?
Why are you assuming Japanese people want this? This is likely just strict laws to please entertainment lobbyists. The culture in Japan is not even remarkably different from the US.

Legally, the police can shoot you in your sleep in the US. Do we unironically dismiss criticism of this as not understanding American culture?
Many small hotels use software provided by booking.com to manage their own hotel or b&b. The hotel reservation center would, in those cases, be software written by booking.com
"In 2022, Canada’s population grew by an unprecedented 1.1 million people, most of them permanent and temporary immigrants."

From StatCan - The Canadian Census. "alt-right" my ass.

https://www.statcan.gc.ca/o1/en/plus/3861-40-million-strong-...

Your CBC news link 404's.
I mean they were sued by Viacom for a billion dollars. Google didn't put ContentID in for fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y....
It's also a hedge against rent, though in that case one must do a lot of maintenance personally.

As to kids, those of us who grew up in suburbia have a fondness for a yard, garden, and air gap between living spaces. Now if only the former owner had not put so many landscaping pebbles and bushes...
Well, MANAMA is the capital of Bahrain.

So maybe MANNAMA ?
I second advice to focus on embedded systems, but I'd stay away from raspberry pi. I'd much prefer something you could debug easily from outside. There are plenty of arm chips one can debug with openocd and gdb. Sometimes being able to debug a running kernel from the outside can make a huge difference when troubleshooting.

If also choose some class of device and get to know it. Many Linux drivers are very similar across a class of devices. For example CSI cameras on top of V4L. Thankfully the code in the Linux kernel is very readable. Also it is well documented online.

I definitely recommend a good ide too.
You seem to be reading into and responding somewhat defensively to subtext that doesn’t appear to exist
Not in the majority of Europe, especially places like England or Poland which had strict restrictions on what serfs could do for hundreds of years.

Part of the reason for Britains diverse regional dialects is due to this.
"The sad part is I'm in my 30s. "

The sad part is, many who are in their 30s, forgot how to play and have fun.
Countering String Bloat
Corrupt is a big deal, but not insurmountable. Convincing people that traditional methods aren’t earthquake resistant is one way to sidestep the issue.

It’s not particularly expensive to build somewhat earthquake resistant structures. Quite a lot of it comes down to building techniques rather than significant effort or expensive materials.

Multi story stone building generally do extremely poorly, but there’s a few cheap methods to significantly improve things such as timber bracing. The goal isn’t to make the building survive unscathed but to minimize casualties.
California has CCPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Ac... Could this be used to force these companies to delete all personal data? It would have to be done periodically since after deletion the data would accumulate again. It seems like there's a potential business idea here of automatically sending out CCPA deletion notices to companies on a schedule. While this wouldn't stop the collection of data, regularly interrupting them with deletion requests could make storing personal data costly enough to at least reduce whatever profits they would get from it.

EDIT: Looked at a few privacy policies and the CCPA link is often hard to find. Keywords to look for: "CCPA", "California Privacy", some examples of links I found:

https://www.honda.com/privacy/your-privacy-choices

https://www.tesla.com/legal/privacy#data-sharing

https://www.ford.com/help/privacy/ccpa/

https://ksupport.kiausa.com/ConsumerAffairs/PrivacyManagemen...

Something interesting I found is also this: https://www.honda.com/privacy/CCPA-Metrics which shows how many requests Honda received. It seems not many are aware of CCPA rights and this number of requests is not enough to deter companies from gathering personal information. These metrics need to be orders of magnitude higher to make a difference in company behavior. It seems like an automated service to send these requests and more public awareness of CCPA could help here.

EDIT2: A lot of these forms ask whether you're submitting the request for yourself or you're an authorized agent doing it for someone else. I found more details on "authorized agents" on the CCPA FAQ: https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa. Maybe an organization like Mozilla or EFF could setup a service where you can authorize them to do this for you? Then you could just select a checkbox of companies that you want CCPA deletion requests for and it would be sent on a regular schedule (quarterly? yearly?). If such a service became popular, it could really disrupt the personal data gathering of companies.
>Solar panels are cheap

Not cheap enough for this.

That's OK, Microsoft can afford it.
Raising interest rates increase rent prices.
Here in Vancouver the rent prices increased by 50% in like 3 years and it seems the reason is mostly to cover mortgage + have income.
Really bad.
> maybe now is the time to stop letting other people manage your DB and just run it yourself

> With 100 connections and a p99 request-response cycle with DB hits being <50ms, you can handle a lot of traffic.

You would be shocked and appalled at how little many devs know about DBs, or how long something _should_ take. I've had to explain that triple-digit msec latency on a simple SELECT is in fact not normal, and they should fix it. And that's just using it, not running it. There are a massive number of orgs that don't want to have to ever think about things like backup strategies or patching, and so they happily fork money over to a cloud provider to do it for them.
Citizenship is meant to limit external actors influencing the vote of who should represent the people of any given area, and being qualified to represent the people by virtue of a sustained commitment and longevity.
You appear to be making this personal for no reason whatsoever.
there is also the: don't touch these, play with your own bricks phase
Deepest condolences to one of nicest people on earth. I had to been to Morocco on a vacation and the warmth and welcomeness was highlight of the trip. On top of that, people of Morocco love kids and accommodate a lot.
Lol really?

This a big news to me.
I did this, and it's a good first call, but the slides look designed to be talked along with, so I am not really any wiser now
I own a HEXA robot, I was a kick starter and paid a price for it.

When I first purchased the robot it never required phone GPS. And that now if you disable it at any point it disconnects you from the robot. It sits gaining dust because I wish not to use an IOS app with GPS enabled for no reason.

Questioning support to why this is required they said "people are happy with GPS on" and that was that.

I look at it sadly because it runs Linux, has full root access and so much potential. But, I just don't like the fact that could be potentially tracking GPS coords back to HQ.
I'm just going by the HN guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Because the extent of "harm [to] society" is mostly propaganda pushed by the entertainment industry (in America too, by the way). In no way is copyright infringement comparable to the vast majority of other things deserving of 2 years in jail.

Different cultures can do things differently, but some things are still universally acceptable and others universally unacceptable. We do not look at Russia "disappearing" controversial political figures and say "well, that's just Russian culture."
Binance has been doing this forever. Nothing new here.
Most people find it hard to imagine what my work even looks like (I'm a software developer, approximately). Then I'm operating at... [complete the sentence].

Or if you don't want to complete the sentence, you may instead explain why abuse handling at scale is something people should understand while the 120-frame stack trace involved in my current task is too complex/difficult/whatever.
I don't deny that immigrants are beneficial at the moment. However, some people aren't going to have jobs. Besides, it's not as if noncitizens should be paid less just because they can survive with those wages. I'm saying that if the US actually cared for all of its people, I'll say present immigrants included, there won't be room for an arbitrary number of new immigrants. Are you going to try to stretch that limit until something bad happens? I have no interest in excluding people of "other races" or something like that, but pragmatically, I think the line needs to be drawn somewhere at some point.
So I don’t know how much you know about economics but it’s well known that gaining an increased population of working aged adults is actually pretty good for the economy, because they generate demand (create jobs) and then also take up jobs (generate supply). Immigrants are more likely to be entrepreneurs and statistically consume less social services.
The US military's new M7 rifle with its 6.8x51mm cartridge suggests current military leaders do not think the full-power rifle cartridge was a mistake.
It seemed to me that Google were struggling to stay its their limit as a company which supports government initiatives and is trying to find a way of working within them, whilst pointing out that most of what is being proposed is totally unworkable. I think they did about as well as one can in that situation. They put in a couple of very strong warnings about what they would do if it wasn't changed but I don't think it'll have much effect without some much stronger arm twisting. The measures seem to me to have little to do with protecting children and would not be very effective in that respect, volunteer groups work at detection very successfully but the law and police don't really support them. What they do wouldn't really be covered by this at all. It seems something the security services and the control freaks in government want, and who's going to oppose it and be liable to being called a paedophile supporter?
I’ve had pretty good success with vectorizing raster images in Inkscape (IIRC it’s a feature called “trace bitmap”) and then doing some cleanup and adjustments. There is some manual work involved, but it really depends on the source. I was once given a small, low-resolution gif and was told that was the only copy of the logo for the government agency I was doing the work for. A few days later, I had a fully scalable SVG that became the agency’s official replacement of the logo. As an aside, Inkscape is a wonderful tool and I have used it to easily create complete icon sets (hundreds of images), which is extremely impressive for FOSS. It even has an API you can use for things like batch processing.
MBA Students vs. ChatGPT: Who Comes Up with More Innovative Ideas?
having regular bowel movements is actually really healthy.. it's only an issue if youre in a place with no public restrooms available
Yeah, they should have a membership to NATP so they can ask questions to a pool of actual experts if they don't already know the answer. Tax professionals in the US just want to bill as much as possible and get the return out the door as fast as possible. All of their business is compressed into three months out of the year.

I worked in a tax prep business my family had for over 40 years. We fixed CPA trainwrecks and H&R Block Block/Jackson Hewitt knightmares for a living. Constantly batting down customer scams in the process.
They appeared before the committee six months before they wrote this letter.
LLMs are deterministic. However to make them more "creative", the outputs of the LLM can be sampled using something called temperature that adds some randomness. You can set the temperature to 0 and it will be deterministic.

Having said that, GPT4 is not deterministic even at 0 temperature, either because of a bug in their implementation, or because of some load balancing among their alleged mixture of experts.
Mug warmer! Yes! Life is too short to deal with silly little annoyances, most of which can be resolved by a low tech solution that you won’t ever have to think about again. Room-temp tea is near the top of the list for me.

Also add a notepad and pen. I funnel all of my todos into an app, and try to digitize all of my notes, but I still need to buffer things thru paper if I’m taking something down live.
Many potential forms of ISP data collection are unlawful in the US thanks to wiretap laws, which is why we don't generally see this level of surveillance from ISPs here.
I have an ancient alternate identity Yahoo account which I used as the recovery account when I created a similarly named Gmail account.

Have used each every few months.

Each specifies the other as the recovery or backup account.

Neither has 2FA set up because I did not want to tie my cell phone to the identity.

I am now locked out of both accounts because…each sends a second factor code to the other.

It isn't a huge loss to me…though recruiters trying to recruit the related but obviously fake LinkedIn profile may be saddened to never get a reply.

I totally understand why Google, Yahoo, and others are purging inactive accounts. Between GDPR and widespread account takeovers it's an expensive nuisance (and if the account is "inactive" then it's not generating meager advertising revenue to pay for the nuisance).
Technically, the answer depends on the definition of "sister" and "brother" vis-a-vis half and step variants, which would change the possibility space.

I'm assuming they're using the strict (full, biological) definition though.
You don't know what the problem is the title is highly misleading.
> concrete blocks that are "stackable"

I've heard these called 'Benton Blocks', though, looking that up now, that seems to be a brand [0], not sure if there's a more specific generic term other than 'concrete block'.

> Somewhat related: The famed "Jersey Divider" is cast in a similar way, albeit without any consideration for vertical stacking.

I think Jersey Barriers are usually re-enforced with steel rebar and all the ones that I've seen have a steel cable running through them with a loop at either end to link up to the one next to it, by dropping a pole or similar through both sets of loops, to create a continuous wall. (Though, interestingly, the Wikipedia article [1] doesn't seem to mention that feature.)

[0] https://betonblockusa.com/us/products/concrete-blocks
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jersey_barrier