skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is land. The private sector isnt going to make new land. Nobody makes land. Not in the private sector. It'll build apartments on freed up land but it won't make new land.

If private investors dont lose money on inefficiently used land then they will hoard it as jealously as a goldbug hoards gold or a crypto bro hoards bitcoin.

Right now one theoretically could build a mansion in London with 100 rooms and pay $1500/year in property taxes. This isnt theoretical. I live about a kilometer away from a Russian oligarch who did exactly that and that is indeed how little he pays in tax on it.

We can either jack up property taxes or jack up land taxes but either way until land hoarding is made a shortcut to bankruptcy then the housing crisis will only ever get worse.
While that may be true, it is also true that the market is red hot right now - the prices are still going up for the stock that IS available.
>> I do know for sure that laziness, sloth, and sitting around will never make one a billionaire.

It can actually, consider a multi-millionaire who becomes a billionaire due to finding a lucky stock pick. People tend to perceive wealth as equated to hard work, but the reality is it's luck. Just as we perceive ill-fortune as random, so is extreme wealth. It's because that most people really want money to equate to success.
Gitea, as someone using GitLab. Both will intefrate with editors though GitLab's MR/ Issues tend to have more mature integrations (if you want that in your editor).

GitLab is good for teams or when you want to play with a fully featured CI/CD and have a solid Issue/ MR System. It however is also quite a hassle to maintain sometimes though the omnibus installations have gone a long way. Also be prepared to spare some RAM.

Gitea on the other hand is light and comes with some QoL things like non-paywalled Repository mirroring and compatibility with GitHubs CI. It's also a bit snappier and very easy to run. The ressource usage also reflects this both from disk space and RAM.

It's kinda like comparing vscode to a full blown IDE.
Show HN: Brainglue, an empirical playground for AI experimentation
Hi HN.

My name is Juan and I'm the creator of Brainglue.

Brainglue is a fun and empirical playground for large language models that allows anyone to build powerful prompt chains that can solve complex generative AI problems.

Brainglue focuses on providing an easy-to-use environment for prompt chaining.

It's now well understood that chaining prompts is one of the most effective ways to leverage LLMs for GenAI problems.

Prompt chains yield better reasoning and more accuracy, but experimenting and productizing these chains isn't yet trivial.

With Brainglue, you get an environment where is easy to build these chains and configure them for specific GenAI tasks.

Brainglue also comes out-of-the-box, comes with a straightforward API that allows you to use your AI chains from other applications and services.

Still early days, but I have high hopes for this kind of AI scripting form factor.

If you try it out and have any feedback, please let me know at brainglue@rasterwise.com
I have an open source implementation of normalized JA3 fingerprinting at https://github.com/fidraC/canary (Includes CreepJS and other stuff to be added / WIP) it’s not very complicated but I did waste some time before realizing that grease was everywhere, not just extensions.

Note: That is my secondary account for school. I’m not stealing someone else’s work. I use a different name as a sort of mental compartmentalization between different spheres of my life.
I must have missed when SpaceX created space telescopes and sent probes to Mars, the Sun, Europa, Titan, interstellar space...

NASA also plays a key role in collecting meteorological data.

They're doing a bit more than just launching rockets.
It helps to think of FLOSS as an ecosystem, not individual components. Also those large companies use many parts of the ecosystem and chances are some of your code, just not necessarily the component you are using (most). Even only using the ecosystem reinforces it for others and in turn the chances support existing or publish new tools in it.
I used to have a setup where I'd boot the Linux-hosted version of AROS (so not nearly the same as booting from scratch certainly) straight into FrexxEd, and it started AROS + FrexxEd faster than my Emacs install started on the same box...
The Google Pixel from 2016 has Type-C USB 3.0
Ask HN: How many SREs do real SRE work?
I want to start with an apology if the title question sounds rude, but I want to be straight to the point.

The reason I am asking this is, cause,

One, I work as an SRE. In fact as an Lead SRE for one of the largest startup of India ($10B+ evaluation). And have been working as an SRE since last 7 years. Before that I was a Linux Admin with awesome bash scripting skills for around 8 years, and before that a Network Technician (and somewhat of a Network admin) for around 5 years.

And two, if I am to go with the Google SRE book's principles to evaluate myself, I have done little SRE work and more of Linux Administration or Operations work. I did automate things, but 80% of it was using bash, and the remaining with python script, with many of those python scripts calling bash commands in the end. My automation spanned automatically replacing bad Kafka Brokers, Hadoop DataNodes, doing automatic MySQL Master switch in 5.6 version of MySQL, and similar things for Redis and Zookeeper.

I also wrote code to test 2 very large distributed services.
1. Ingesting PB scale data every day, a Log Aggregation Service and
2. again ingesting PB scale of data every day, a message broker service,
end to end, by throwing multiple log line at the service to its ingestion endpoint regularly and then seeing whether can I see it at the querying end, measuring various metrics in the process and raising alerts for any thing which looked off.

What I want to ask is to all SREs out there, can you give examples of real SRE work that you have done? I know I may be comparing myself to others, but I want to know how many SREs are doing SRE work? Am I at the wrong end of the title? Is it Okay to have a large proportion of your work being standard operations? Or is it that only few companies implement strict SRE automation kind of work.

Note: I understand that company culture matters too, and in the company I work in its not that enforced, but I always lived by own principles and worked as per my own standards, and am sure if I were to do a good work, no one would oppose me.
Excluding shelter, inflation is already bellow 2%.

Not building enough housing is majorly undermining the Fed's effort to fight inflation.
Nicely formatted PDFs there. Bookmarked :D
>Instead they quit making Android tablets until the subject of this article was released.

Which is why I jumped on the Pixel Tablet when it came out. The Android tablet scene kinda sucks. I guess the Samsungs are good, but I'm not interested in their custom OS bloat and they're also pricey.

Again, the iPad is still the king here, no doubt. But this tablet is the best Android one I've used.
With booking.com I have customer support I can talk to, would not even touch some hotel's own half broken booking system (much less give them my payment info... nope)

Unlike hotels large airline booking systems are generally decent so I am okay with them, many are just white labelled Amadeus I think. But still, with expedia for flights I can (at least pre covid) get cancellations free of charge even if airline tariff doesn't have that, useful when applying for visa etc. But let's not talk about AirAsia, once booked with them direct and now get spammed for eternity, they don't unsub you no matter how hard you try. Had to set up a filter...
I'm not intending to be defensive (I'm sure there's loads of people on here with more knowledge about licensing terms), but usually a corrective post is something that we can learn from. Just saying something is wrong with no more info seems against the spirit of HN.
Lending tree did a study which ranked states on % vacant.

https://www.lendingtree.com/home/mortgage/vacancy-rates-stud...

If you trust the data (some of which comes from the 2020 census), it implies a nation-wide vacancy rate of 11.67%. Which was lower than I suspected, but higher than @falcolas' guess at 10%.

Also... I think I saw something go by indicating prices were still falling, at least in some markets.

This is from last year: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/22/homes/us-home-prices-falling/...

And more recently: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/bay-area-home-pri...

Though that last one is a little confusing, citing data from the last three months in one section and data over 2 years in another. But it does (at least) make a nod towards explaining pricing in terms of supply and demand. I assert, and I think this is similar to @falcolas' point, that participation in the market by builders, foreign and domestic investors and banks has veered US house pricing noticeably away from true elasticity.

I do not damn builders for trying to increase their profits. We're a "wealth creation" economy, after all. But there does seem to be some conflict between stated national policy objectives of "affordable housing" and "profitable housing market." Alas, I bemoan the erosion of sensible policy-making in Washington. In the old days we would have just come out and said something like "we have affordable housing targets and will manipulate the market to achieve them." Now we're too spooked to say anything lest we upset the markets; or at least it seems.
Housing barely appreciates above inflation. About 4% on average, yearly. It would be better if we didn't interfere in the market, or there are going to be some nasty consequences.
Infrastructure needs maintenance, culpability only makes sense if there are enough funds for such maintenance and if there is an organization level compatible with the kind and scope of the work. I wouldn't make any assumptions about that in the case of Lybia.
But much of Europe kept its monarchies: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Spain, The Netherlands...
> it looked like your great-grandparents' brand

I think that's the value in it. A brand that hasn't changed in a hundred years, that you remember in your grandparents cupboard where you were five years old, that's been in the background for your entire life... you can't invent that provenance, and once it's gone, it's gone.
Repeat after me: building new lanes reduces traffic for all
I'm impressed with this project! I built something similar a couple of years ago but it wasn't as polished. This is a prime example of a well-executed open-source hardware (OSHW) project.

I also noticed, like others here, that the tracker's size is a problem. My cat managed to remove the collar with my smaller tracker in just two minutes. I've been considering designing an even more compact tracker, integrating it into the collar itself. It would include a battery, GPS, LoRa with an antenna, and a microcontroller with power management. I'd use a small Heltec LoRa+Bluetooth transceiver for this.

Your work has inspired me to revisit my old project. Thanks!
Felienne Hermans Interview: Creator of Hedy, a programming language for kids
Got nothing to do with introvert extrovert imo. It’s got to do with “I like my home life and family more than a commute and can digitally be extroverted enough for office politics” and those that can’t/don’t.

I’m an eng on a leader path, have a strong background in leadership, and like people well enough.

There’s nothing stopping you from being an extroverted leader in a digitally-defined environment. It’s easy, it works. Be social-ish, be professional but casual, be friendly, produce output, and soon enough you start winning at tech leadership - produce output on high vis projects (what matters/is seen in remote-first), and be seen doing it and have “friends” (as in, banter on slack a bit - the other part that matters, people need to like you).

If you’ve grown up in chatrooms, text message first (so, born early 90’s and after), the argument that to be extroverted means to be in-person is nonsensical.

You just have to take these digital social skills, wrap a bit of professionalism on it, and you’ll do fine climbing (if that’s what you want).

So more accurately - it’s a split around people who know how to build IRL outcomes via digital context and also like their IRL home lives, and those that can’t and don’t.
These days, I just let Strcat live his life. If he wants to move out, that's fine, his call. Just meow at the door if you change your mind.
Can't NYC just start rebuilding all the old 1890s tenements and squeezing families of 12 into small apartments without bathrooms or proper kitchens?

People need to live smaller.
Public companies see their stock rise when they fire thousands of people even though they are profitable. The entire system is perverse.
The Lightning connector was superior in many ways. I have no idea why everyone is celebrating this downgrade.

You say it's a downgrade, but the only issues I've had with cables in this context are lightning connectors where the cable connector broke off into the device and required a good amount of work to get all the pieces out.

And that's with only a single device using a lightning cable and many other devices that are USB-C.
Hostelworld has absolutely cornered the hostel market, with most venues signing away pricing. This allows hostelworld to equalize prices in a given location, raising them above board although occupancy is down (many empty places during the busy season) while the guests are focused in a few places (as lower rated places can't lower their prices). So for hostels, 3rd party booking is all that is left. Often, contacting them directly, they won't even know what their price is (while a few years ago they would give a discount to hostelworld, hostelbookers etc.)
>but to say they didn't do something because of weight or cost doesn't really appear to have any bearing considering it's the heavier, more expensive tablet.

So they should have made it heavier and more expensive? I don't understand your argument.
I feel always conflicted about expedia.

I travelled a lot with them before people pointed out that you get subpar rooms, and worse treatment. Like, a lot. 150 nights or so. And I do confirm those rumours, many subpar rooms, sleep next to elevator, that wonky corner room that is smaller than the others, ...

I liked it because it was business travel to an area without a Hilton or Mariott, so I still got some points for my personal holidays.

But now years later, I still use expedia a lot. Somehow their prices are better than what Hilton can offer, even if I call them up for a price match (because I do prefer hilton points over Expedia points). Same for IHG.
Yes I get the occasional room with the broken door on the closet, and sleep next to the elevator practically alwyas, but anytime I needed support from Expedia, they came through. And I use them for personal travel if I actually have to pay for it myself
>The whole point of interfaces is that you're not supposed to care how a method is implemented, only what it does which is explained by a combination of context, naming and documentation.

There are, however, cases where code is a better explanation of "what it does" than naming and documentation. Both naming and documentation are hard and can become out-of-sync. Code is less ambiguous than natural language.
Seriously correct. You call the hotel to change something and they act like its not their hotel anymore. You call expidia or whatever and they tell you to talk to the hotel. Translation, never pay up front for anything that requires service at a future date.

Note I have breached this wall by doing what used to be common before 2000 before we all got a little too polite. Getting really angry and not going away. Eventually they will cave and do what they knew was fair all along. Definitely NOT worth it though.
It’s porn of a person made without their consent, not really all so different.
We show a "dumb" ad at the end of each user flow, which is enough to make a fairly large profit margin. We're also currently working on API integrations, which will be paid but at a much lower cost (likely a few cents per document sent) than current market offerings (which are normally close to a dollar per document sent).
Kind of feels like this is the Boeing--McDonnell Douglas of game engine acquisitions.
It is notable that the Neanderthal risk haplotype occurs at a frequency of 30% in south Asia whereas it is almost absent in east Asia - look at India and China on the map
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2818-3/figures/3 (?)

What about other coronaviruses ?
99% of my phone charging happens on a Qi pad, this saves me from needing to carry a special cable around just in case I need to charge my phone with it once a year.
Who could stop you and how would they know about it?
> yet builders are loathe to invest in a major way

This is not true in areas that make it easy to build housing. The reality is that builders are loath to get caught up in NIMBY bullshit that stops them from building after they dump a million on bureaucratic nonsense, not that they are trying to protect housing prices.
Heh.

I see that someone flagged my comment.

I suspect that it was not because it was hurtful or destructive, but because I chose to use the national currency of Israel as the denomination (instead of dollars, which would actually be disrespectful), and someone that skipped Social Studies, thought it was being "anti-semitic."

Sort of like the paediatrician in UK, that was attacked, because some idiot thought the sign outside her office meant she was a paedophile.
https://archive.is/T9HNK
A significant number of HN visitors work at Google.
When a CxO gets their 2nd or 3rd company broken up they'll find it very hard to find a ship willing to let them on board.

If you let the company get away with crimes over and over and only punish a CxO the company will simply hire a guy to take the fall for them. There's an endless number of people working minimum wage who would happily take a CxO title and salary for years knowing full well that there's a chance they might get fired eventually.
When lightning came out, it was also desirable because it was durable and reversible, and USB-C didn't exist yet. Its main problem is that it stayed around for too long.
> in my corner of the world prices have been growing exponentially during the past decade

Even steady inflation results in an exponential growth in prices.
“hardware decoding” in this case meaning “implemented at the transistor level” and more to the point: “as optimized and low-power as possible”.
BS. You wouldn't even get past your first hello world if you read all the code that underlies a one liner hello world.
I opened up the hood of a car once and there was loads of empty space inside there. Why are they not filling up every cubic inch of the engine compartment with more pistons, or making the compartment water-tight and then filling it with even more petrol to increase the car’s range? Admittedly I don’t know a single thing about car design, but surely all of that empty space is an indicator of poor design right?
That's the end goal, so anonymity is basically destroyed on the internet, and people are condemned to digital dystopia and inescapable surveillance under the guise of "protecting the children".
But imagine having to do that if you owned the arcade game.
They might pull an AMD and make nm a useless marketing term like amd did to GHZ.
I said the app was simple, not the stack.

Along with the rise of complexity in tooling, the data has risen in complexity and quantity, as well as the importance of getting it right.

Back then, a dentist, lets say, could get by with a cobbled together VB program for patient scheduling and CRM. Now patients and doctors expect a system that manages digital records in a HIPAA compliant way, can text message reminders to the patients, allows self service on the web, and automatically submits billing details to insurance. Plus, it should be pretty, with all sorts of cute animations!
Are these groups impairing their future profit interest, discounted at the cost of capital, by building more homes? You assert the answer is ‘yes.’ Why?
If it's true, and has no downside, then it's not greenwashing.
Have you tried wiping ChromeOS and installing Linux on it?

https://itsfoss.com/install-linux-chromebook/
UT 99 and Quake 3 Arena came out at the same time. But UT with its modes and different game types was just amazing.
Portugal is famous by the situation where all local workers that can try very hard only to work remotely for a company in some other country.

So yeah, something like that could happen there.
https://www.amazon.com/KELLY-CAPITAL-GROWTH-INVESTMENT-CRITE...

this book?
Well yes, but the "other group" commanding them to do so is municipal governments, at the behest of existing property owners.
I hoped that some kind of blockchain could solve this, but they were too busy getting rich to solve actual problems.
99% of the time, you’ll get the same or better deal by booking online with the hotel directly. (Airfares, I’m less sure - the proliferation of hyper segmented economy and fees make me dubious about what the actual all-in cost of any given flight is.) And the other 1% of the time, calling the hotel will get you the same (or better) outcome or you’ll find out straight from the horse’s mouth they don’t actually have any availability for the room you want, and you’ll save yourself a lot of grief upon arrival.
Nah, the old EJBs had a terrible programming interface. JavaEE 6 introduced a lot of good changes, but it was too late to convince people to switch back from Spring. To me it's like people abandoned JavaEE because it was hard to write fairly simple applications using EJBs (because it was) and switched to Spring, and then started writing large monoliths in Spring and realized they need to break them up into modules, so they invented microservices, but implemented them as standalone Spring Boot instances... when now it would be easier to go back to EJB + JMS. Microsoft has quite a similar "technology" called Microsoft Orleans, but it doesn't get much attention.
Woah, I completely missed that this has been going on since the 13th?! That’s outrageous, surely something can just be rolled back.
This is some good insight, but what would the alternative(s) be, realistically?
False dichotomy. That money wouldn’t have made it to workers anyway.
Except this was in connection with Battlefield 3, a title you’d have to buy. So it’s more like buying the arcade machine but somebody still takes quarters from you anyway.
This. We're still in the midst of an asset bubble due to fiscal and monetary excess. Monetary policy changes haven't largely taken effect yet while we are still stimulating the economy on the fiscal side with deficit spending.
Greece has not been treated well, but you should also admit that Greece really fucked up. They even falsified their stats to adopt the Euro.

> Imagine if a US state were in serious debt

Except the EU is not responsible for and does not control their member states' finances. The EU has a limited jurisdiction. E.g. taxation, education and defence are not part of it. Being part of the Euro zone does bring certain obligations.
Not right now, but it's a good idea. I'll add that later this week.
Text classifiers are an underrated application of LLMs
Since October 2020, the entire future roadmap of Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency, has been heavily based on verifiable computation, in the form of rollups.

https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/a-rollup-centric-ethereum-r...

In 2023 alone, maybe 5 or so fully functional proving systems for running verifiable compute in the Ethereum Virtual Machine have been launched, and are currently live and operational. It's still early days, and there's a lot more work that needs to be done to fulfill the vision, but progress is happening faster than anyone expected.
That’s not true. CBC mode with a repeated IV immediately reveals equality of plaintexts or any common prefix (modulo block size).