skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangential to the broader topic here, but what's just happened in NYC with Airbnb, provided enforcement actually takes place, is going to be very telling in the coming months and could have far-reaching implications for the housing market, specifically in those markets that are popular Airbnb destinations. I have a very small, entry-level apartment in a popular downtown neighborhood in NYC (yep, I'm a landlord--guilty!). Tenants usually only stay for a year or two given a bunch of different reasons, but the reason I bring that up is that I have a long history with the NYC rental market.

I had a tenant move out this summer and for the first time in years (barring 2020 when Covid was in full swing), the place usually rents out within days of it being listed. This year, however, it not only didn't rent out right away, but required decreasing the rental rate to finally find a tenant. And this when all the industry stats stated that comparable apartment rental rates, as of June, were up 8% yoy. Now there are of course myriad reasons this particular apartment could be facing headwinds, but I am more or less convinced that the magnitude of the shift from short-term to long(er) term rentals that has been happening in anticipation of the Airbnb ban is the reason for this drop in rental rates. And just to quantify this n=1 data point, the price drop from last year's rental rate was 5%. If you believe the industry stats saying that prices were up 8% yoy in June, which likely were based on Q2 stats, well before short-term landlords would've been faced with the Airbnb ban, this may actually mean that the rental rate drop was ~12%.

Nothing about what I wrote above is scientific, but if these numbers (https://www.wired.com/story/airbnb-ban-new-york-numbers/) are to be believed, it seems likely that the drop in rental rate is largely attributable to the Airbnb ban. The yoy Q4 '23 numbers, when the ban will have been in place for the entire quarter, will confirm or deny all of this. If confirmed, though, will be interesting to see if other cities start to aggressively cut back on Airbnb in an effort to reduce rental rates. Again, not saying this is hard data, but if regulating Airbnb more or less out of existence resulted in a 12% drop in rental rates across major markets nationwide, that would be an amazing lever to almost-immediately decrease rental rates, even though the knock-on effects of declining real estate valuations would potentially cause significant problems. And I say that as a happy Airbnb user, a landlord and a homeowner. Things have just gotten too out of whack with the housing market so you have to somewhat cheer the possibility that there's actually a (low-caliber) silver bullet to reduce rents more or less overnight.
If that happens we will just end up with math libraries with tons of feature detection branches and the return of Gentoo.
I'll leave this here: https://www.centuryinitiative.ca/
Can't click to view any categories without login though, so have to scroll the homepage hoping to find things of interest.
I don't know if you've heard of DIY Perks, but it sounds like you'd love their style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Perqf0dOGLk
What's with this zero sum mentality? "replace", "cheaper"...

We are updating our expectations very fast. We are fighting over a growing pie. Maybe the cost reduction from not having to pay human wages is much smaller than the productivity increase created by human assisted AI. Maybe it's not an issue to pay the humans. AI works better with human help for now, in fact it only works with humans, never capable of serious autonomy.
thanks for the TL;DR

it saves me the same disappointment of not finding a commission in carbon footprint per protein content

I think the taste question can and will be solved, e.g. I've found some oat based "milk" doesn't taste like oat any more and I love it.

I agree the CO2/methane/whatever footprint is the core info, and the 1. 2. 3. you quite from the article are just distracting from that.
The buyers are foreign to Canada (investors), so the effects don’t affect the Canadian economy as directly as you might expect.
I tend to mostly focus on the displays. The desk(s) follow from that...

I currently have two 43" 4k displays (Philips BDM4350UC) next to each other. One directly in front of me, the other angled to the side. It's not working great - too much strain to use the right half of the side screen.

What I'm curious to test: one 43" 4k screen in the the middle with an LG DualUp 18:16 screen to each side.

Maybe I should just get two pivotable regular cheap 24-27" 16:9 displays and be done with it, a bit like this:

https://old.reddit.com/r/battlestations/comments/aogog4/my_p...
I don't have a source on me but I've read plenty about wealthy people in other countries buying large amounts of Canadian real estate as a store of value, even if it sits vacant. Mostly people in countries where there aren't so many great places to invest. But I don't know off hand if that's just a drop in the bucket compared to other things or what.
> Why make a judgement call based on something arbitrary instead of the actual content of what someone posts.

except it isn't arbitrary - for the reasoning check out the replies to the following comment (to which I don't really feel like I have to add anything):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37448531
Your run the mill AR-15 style rifle is illegal in most of Europe (barrel length) and magazine capacity is limited to 10 in Germany (you can legally buy HK415/416, the HK improved versions in 5.56/7.62 of the AR-15).

Gun diacussions with American si weirder than speed limit discussions with Germans.
Irony-meter goes really to maximum on this.
Literally no one actually wants micropayments. Having ever little event in your life become a payment is true dystopia.
The idea that “compile time checks help you write better code is unanimous and absolute” is simply false.

Rust itself demonstrates that compile time checks sometimes result in worse code, as many people have found especially when they need to do things rust doesn’t like for performance reasons.

For sure, some checks are unambiguously good. But there is also definitely a moving target of a line towards whether or not more checks has diminishing returns if not negative returns on your code. That moving line will depend on a lot of things.

You also need to be careful because “more checks” doesn’t mean “less work” as you’ve asserted. It means more work in a lot of safe pointer scenarios in rust, and more work actually does often translate to more logic bugs and more complexity when anything changes.

As far as I can tell, more checks doesn’t same any time, it often just changes where your time is spent.
As others stated, people with low quality tweets can pay to shove them in your face. I would pay for Twitter if I could rate tweets and adjust my feed accordingly.
Is there any proof Twitter Blue users are worse?
Do you consider using Ublock or AdGuard to be equally as elitist?
Plastics have become part of our culture. Just about everybody wears it on their bodies.

As for environmentally friendly alternatives, the German company Anker offers “real” bricks made of a mixture of quartz sand, chalk, and linseed oil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_Stone_Blocks
Nope, I'm sorry if I was unclear, I was saying I've removed requirement to click on articles in the feed. This is a bit more complicated task with categories (due to some backend things I need to change), but I do understand the problem
GPT is still the most annoying of them all, re-stating and re-explaining things even when explicitly told not to. So frustrating. Die, insufferable machine, die.
Show HN: Break Ideas to Refresh Your Mind and Body
It also often makes debugging harder.
I was at Home Depot to get a 6 foot butcher block countertop for this purpose, but then a 12 foot butcher block countertop caught my eye... and that's how I ended up with a 12 foot desk. Huge pain to transport. Takes up too much room. I have no regrets.

If you get a butcher block countertop from a big box home improvement store, make sure to finish[1] it right away, since they are moisture sensitive and the plastic wrap job is usually somewhat damaged by the time you get it, due to the vagaries of transport.

[1]: (finish == woodworking term meaning to apply a protective coating)
Is the connection to the robot using Bluetooth Low Energy? I believe certain BLE-related APIs are gated behind the permission setting because scanning for BLE beacons can give the app very precise location.

Would be nice if users could give BLE permissions but _not_ GPS or wifi-based location permission to an app.
Do you move much? I had two of those solid wood Ikea desks in an L shape and I eventually got rid of them because they were absolutely miserable to move. I don't remember the exact weight but I think they were something like 80lbs each and I'd have to drag them up stairs on their sides alone. I miss that desk set up but I move every year or two since I rent and I just couldn't deal with them anymore.

Now I've got a fully jarvis frame with some amazon wood top just sitting on it.
Also most USB cables I buy these days seem to have a lifespan of 1-2 years before something disconnects somewhere and it needs to be replaced or soldered if you’re patient enough
Yeah, a type is really just a set (in the mathematical sense). And a set can be defined by a function to {0, 1}. I don’t know if this function has a formal name, byt you can think of it as a “is this value a member of the set?” function.
Lol another plug. People with paruresis have trouble finding places to pee in private. Enter paruapp.com. it's mostly a personal project
Where is he? I ask because in the Northeast most game is taken at relatively short distances, tens rather than hundreds of yards. That's one heavy rifle to lug around if he's stalking. The old school Model-94 30-30 is around seven pounds and considered heavy.
Not a desk idea, but... I've thought about getting a nice seat from a wrecked vehicle and mounting it on a rolling platform for a desk chair. The nicer ones are heated and ventilated
Having to recharge batteries is a hassle. The wire never needs recharging.

And in typical HN fasion, the comments are mostly about wireless headsets when the article was specifically about wrireless keyboards.
You are incorrect. "Voting", by definition, involves a formal set of rules designed to best measure the preferences of voters. "Not accepting the speed limit" is illegal, dangerous, kills the environment, and does not have any sort of formal rules or any sort of mechanism for measuring consensus. It's extremely undemocratic.
A corporation that owns hundreds of homes, and I can say with a completely straight face that the world would probably be better off without them.
I like this article because the author chose an unpopular person. The majority of the comments are highbrow versions “ROFL eat bread bitch”, which is illustrative of a large and vocal group of people that believe that basic dignity should be punitively stripped by the state in the case of criminal behavior (of which they could never even be accused)
Practical security is the balance of security against convenience.

Being ignorant of convenience required and capability available of the target audience isn't going to help anyone.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

A 3rd party password wallet from one of the majors is vastly more secure than someone's nan using the same password for everything. Which is the alternative in practice.

You seem to think that normal people are going to learn IT security to a reasonable degree, and be personally responsible.

Many people literally aren't capable of being what you want them to be.

Yours is a beautiful dream that clashes strongly with observable reality.
Like I said before, none of this matters to the core point; regardless of SFs lack of public restrooms, no healthy person is shitting in the street.
CppNow 2023:Introducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases
Ok, we've made it just large in the title above.
I don't think so. Consider the following conversation from UndiMix-v2-13B (a local LLM running on my Mac M1 via llama.cpp). It gets it wrong at first, but then gets it right with a little hint. I don't see how the hint could work if it was merely repeating an example it knew.

User: Sally (a girl) has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters. How many sisters does Sally have?

Llama: Hello there! I'd be happy to help you with that question. Let me think... If each of Sally's brothers has two sisters, then together they would have 6 sisters in total (2 x 3 = 6). So, Sally would have 6 sisters as well. Is that the answer you were looking for?

User: no. Think about it. Sally is a sister to the brothers

Llama: Ah, I see what you mean now! In this case, since Sally is one of the siblings, she only counts as one of her own sisters. Therefore, Sally has only one sister - herself. Does that make sense?

User: yes

Llama: Great! I hope that clears up any confusion. Please let me know if you have any other questions or need further assistance.
Probably of interest to readers, a 2011 talk from Danny Hillis that this article reminded me of.

“Danny Hillis makes a case for the next frontier of cancer research: proteomics, the study of proteins in the body. As Hillis explains it, genomics shows us a list of the ingredients of the body -- while proteomics shows us what those ingredients produce. Understanding what's going on in your body at the protein level may lead to a new understanding of how cancer happens.”

https://youtu.be/scITIoJvMJ0?si=boMyciGMFf6X6AQH
My takes:

1. Everything takes investment, that's how capitalism works and if we're in a stage of capitalism where we can no longer invest in the future then the future is doomed.

2. It also might get close, be better, or people won't care.

3. People eat meat slurry chicken nuggets without complaint. If they can price themselves cheaper (which will be hard with all the subsidies the meat industry gets to be fair) and cover it in enough batter and spices, and not draw attention to it being lab made ("Naturally tasting meat!") it will sell. Not everything needs to be a steak and eating a steak is not the most popular form of meat consumption.

4. Any reduction is good. Not everything needs to be or even should be treated like it has to be some magic bullet that completely obliterates the competition. Having options is good.
When what is essentially an ultra processed high saturated fat vegetable mix is worst tasting and ~50% more expensive than the thing its trying to replace, I dont think the market will respond in the long run. Everyone I know treats these products like a novelty, nothing more.
> we could have seen a very different infantry landscape in late-WW1

but there were plenty automatic rifle designs by the ww2, still most infantry used bolt action rifles, likely bottleneck was in reliable mass manufacturing.
Best to store the ray bans in a jar of vinegar then?
Get an Eiermann 2 tubular steel base. It is (slightly) adjustable, it can support very large boards and they also offer a cable tray to hang on the frame
Any downsides to using a TV? Anything specific you have to look for or are they basically the same as monitors these days?
Edit: completely misread the above as a suggestion and not as a description of what people are doing. My bad.
Oh well, no response, so here we go [0]. It includes summaries also from another source mention in the comments.

[0] https://gist.github.com/ouatu-ro/3cca3b7a2cb978993a19a8b0592...
If a herd of deer moves into that fallow pasture do they fart?
> The New York Times costs $7 for a hard copy

This made me WTF. Crikey.
I feel like your comment is implying that it's common for renovations in the US to increase the value of the property by over $500,000 (or over $250,000 for the sort of home that an unmarried person would flip). If that's not what you're implying, then there's no difference in incentive to reno-and-flip.

It seems to me that the incentive-difference is that in the US, the tax code is telling you to flip often, or not flip at all.

Another big difference in tax policy, if I recall correctly, is that Americans don't pay tax on mortgage interest. Seems to me, that incentivizes Americans to over-leverage on paying mortgage interest. Don't worry though, in Canada these days, we too over-leverage on mortgages, because otherwise we're homeless, as per the article. I sure wish I could tax-deduct my mortgage interest, because that's the main thing I spend money on.
I think the larger point is that if the prison is unable to meet the dietary and medical needs of SBF, when they know his expensive attorneys will loudly complain in court and in public, what is it like for regular people who only have a public defender? As we all know, it's abysmally poor and should be unacceptable to anyone.
Yes, tech eliminates other jobs, and like what the OG luddites had a problem with, the issue is not the technology or even the eliminated jobs, it’s the effect on the labor population. In the situation we are actually discussing in this thread, normal employees where terminated, and then replaced by employees on H1B visas, people in a vastly more precarious position, allowing the companies far more control over its employees. If you’re an employee, I’m curious how you feel this is valuable to you? Especially in the longer run.

Are you claiming people are not employed to maintain MS Exchange? That’s just a fairly simple issue of ignorance; get out of the SV tech bubble. Those jobs are not gone, albeit somewhat reduced in numbers by competitors providing better service like you say.

Unfortunately this also brings along the concept of outsourcing these jobs to countries with lower salaries because these “feelings-based” overpaid CEOs lack any other substantial ideas for reducing costs. A union that opposed this kind of globalization arbitrage, would have forced these overpaid CEOs to provide policies that actually increased profits, instead of simply exploit desperate employees in other countries. Ergo, weak unionization creates inefficiencies, who would have thought??

See also amazon drivers unionization efforts. A union would have very simply blocked the idea that drivers should be obliged to piss in bottles and shit in bags while on delivery.

I think we can safely conclude that most people enjoy deliveries NOT contaminated by feces, YMMV.

I mean, unless you are the rare tech employee who enjoys doing your toilet needs in a garbage can in the middle of your hot desked, open office. I’ll leave it as an open exercise for others to determine what’s more laughable.
I've got a big partner desk, picture 1940s law office [1]. I've always wanted to make it a standing desk, but haven't yet found a good candidate which would require no modification to the original desk, save mounting hardware underneath the desk surface. It would need to be slim on the feet (about 2 inches of clearance underneath the file cabinet drawers), and able to support about 200lbs of gear to adjustable heights

If y'all have suggestions, please let me know! Following this thread closely

[1] - https://i.pinimg.com/736x/2e/7f/ec/2e7fecdc12ec89d510e11033e... Kinda like this, but the top is totally separate from the cabinets, and is slightly wider
> I feel like we often complain about companies making money via ads and that we should pay for what we use, and yet when a company tries to do exactly that we turn against it?

Personally I've always been on the side of ads over subscriptions, but it's not like Twitter has stopped trying to do ads. I think their paid users probably don't account for that much revenue.

The blue users being on top of replies really does make the site a lot worse experience for anyone who isn't in that version of the world
I don’t necessarily believe Blue users are any worse. This seems like a made up narrative as its been around since day 1 of Paid Twitter Blue service because people hate Elon and wanted to keep the privileged class at the top of all discussions.
Why do meetings start with dedicated reading time? Did people always come unprepared? How can I imagine this? Is it like: "Hey folks, thanks for showing up. This is the document we'll be discussing in 20min. Please read it now?".

I don't think it's bad. I like written, long form content. It just is very far from what I know.
Periodically I clean up my cabling including pulling out all the "cables to nowhere" that seem to accumulate over time.

My stereo system is worse. I periodically look at the rats nest of wiring and cables in the back--at least some of it to components that aren't in the rack any more--thinking to do something about it. But I then lie down until the feeling goes away. I know I would break stuff and it will end up being a tedious multiday project to get everything working again without much real benefit.
Some public restrooms in other countries are well kept without frequent maintenance. Most restrooms in America are gross and it'll take more than a couple generations to fix this.

This will be an unpopular opinion but I think parents should teach their children how to go #1 or #2 properly. For example, water tension will make pee drizzle splash everywhere. Pee on the left or right side of the porcelain.

Good habits begin at home and most are being taught in daycare by teachers who would rather not stare at kids while they go.
We are completely out of land in Canada and elsewhere, because prices are going through the roof, because the thing that matter most about land is location.

Land is not fungible, you can't exchance an acre of downtown Vancouver for an acre in a rural area. Nobody would ever confuse the two when it comes to economics!

Land value is all about access, about who is near by, about what natural resources are near by. When real estate prices go up without construction, land value is increasing.

In the US, restrictive zoning limits workers from moving into productive areas and being able to use their labor for more productive ends. This has been a tremendous drag on our GDP, while simultaneously concentrating wealth into the unproductive hands of landowners.

The first paper to point this out made big errors, leading to an underestimate of this effect:

https://www.econlib.org/a-correction-on-housing-regulation/

This is the difference between gains from land use and gains from the stock market: one reduces overall wealth and concentrates wealth to those with the most; stock market investing does the opposite.
The old jaw pliers were necessary when you didn’t have that little wedge they sell.
> Different things entirely

yes, they are.

> System-specific packages have no concept of C building or linking.

every day i learn something new, but this time around I’m gonna go ahead a tell you that you are very mistaken.

> Things work because of some agreement about paths + pkgconfig + others.

True. By convention, we call it “convention”, or “standard” for short, e.g. POSIX or ISO C. Call us back once you have something like that in rustland.

> This is very far from the idea of a dependency manager like cargo which is very much aware of project-specific and language features.

All good and sound, and makes total sense for userland software. But what is being discussed here is an operating system and core userland. If you can imagine that to be your “project”, such as linux or OpenBSD, maybe my tongue-in-cheek comparison of a system-wide dependency manager suddenly looks less dissimilar to cargo.

needless to say, things like Linux and OpenBSD will stay written in C for a little while longer. In case of BSD specifically, you can go as crazy as to bump and rebuild your entire system from source in place, kernel and userland. BSD is one pretty old cargo cult in that sense, and pretty cool, i might add.

> language features

right… rust 2018 edition is not really rust as of 2023, or is it? This where those pesky standards come very handy.