skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I think we are heading towards a similar situation here in Spain but for millennials. House built per year are at its lowest point and most of the houses are owned by baby boomers. If you want to buy a house you are competing against not only regular buyers but also real estate investment companies which are almost impossible to compete with, only way is to get mortgages for more years than you will be able to work, so people without good retirement plans will not be able to pay such mortgages
Those are all very good questions, and I can't do them justice in an HN comment. But here's a first cut:

> How do you believe the results you are getting? What makes such a belief justified?

Read David Deutsch "The Fabric of Reality" chapter 7.

> What is the nature of consciousness?

Read Daniel Dennett, "Consciousness Explained".

> What are things beautiful? What makes something ascetically pleasing.

Read Richard Dawkins, "The Selfish Gene" (and, if you want to get deep into these weeds, "The Extended Phenotype").

> Why any of this exists at all?

What makes you think that any of this does exist at all?

> What is the purpose of this existence?

What makes you think that this existence has a purpose?

> Is something ethical? Science can provide answer about consequences of an action but cannot determine if said action is moral or ethical.

Read "The Evolution of Cooperation" by Robert Axelrod. (The Selfish Gene addresses this as well.)

> science is not a book of facts.

That's true.

> It is merely a process for testing a hypothesis.

No, it's not "merely" that. It is a process for producing good explanations that account for observations. That turns out to be tremendously powerful.

> It is not a replacement for philosophy, it is underpinned by philosophy.

No, it isn't. The existence of philosophy (and philosophers!) can be explained by science.
which is probably even harder to use.
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Former President Donald Trump urged Republicans to force a government shutdown if they don’t get “everything” they’re asking for in the 2024 budget negotiations as lawmakers have just six days to come to an agreement before the existing spending plan expires.
Certainly. I see them around here too.

They make 12-15 dollars an hour. That's 2400 dollars a month. That means at 30% of income (rental maximum in most areas), they can afford $720. (This assumes that they can work 40 hours. Their hours are often variable because they need two jobs - places mostly hire part time to avoid needing to give out health care.)

There are only a handful of apartments in the area that will rent a two bedroom for 1400. (I assume a roommate.) So, considering a moderate cost of living area, you are unlikely to ever make it out of sharing an apartment as nearly every job paying more than $30 an hour in this city requires a bachelor's degree.

Look around your job. How many people don't have a four year degree? It is near impossible to make it up the ladder without one.
Just tossing a question out there to more experienced folks. Doesn't it make more sense to use a more robust structure such as Django or Rails for the backend with React or Svelte for the front end, especially for starter kits like these? I think that would be more scalable when looking in the long term, as compared to relying on a single framework. There's the obvious disadvantage of having to learn more frameworks and possibly a language too, but won't it pay off later when you want to scale your SaaS?
And you have to divide the PHY symbol rate by 4 to get the real world TCP throughout achievable.
Sorry for the language but Wow this is incredibly stupid
How did this get allowed ?
I'm so glad Ashton Kutcher just recently proved he doesn't give a flying frack about sexual assault victims, he's just in this for the profit and the regulatory capture.
A non-trivial amount of "property" is speculation at best and concrete money laundering at worst, especially in the largest cities

It's not supposed to saleable or rentable. But it does take up land that could be used for real housing. And it also drives up the perceived value - and price - of both rentals and outright buys.

Rent control may or may not be a solution. But many of these schemes are run through shady shell companies, and aggressive enforcement of financial reporting and taxation would go some way to fixing the problem.
The problem with this definition is that even CEOs at big tech giants don't own the company (in the vast majority of cases).
+1. it's a toxic community and don't believe anything that's said on Blind. Glassdoor recently released their version of conversations called 'Bowls' and it's much better. less anonymous and more user friendly/meaningful conversations.
Every major religion says to take care of the poor. Maybe there's a deep sociological reason for it.

> they've checked out from the system

Everyone checks out of participation in a group that does nothing to benefit them. Rich people complain about taxes taking "their" money, but the system is taking something much more precious from the poor. It's taking their time and their ability to experience the things that make life worthwhile --- time with friends and family, time in nature. You can say all you want that people need to work for it, but they also need to enjoy the fruits of their labor, and that's not happening.
Doesn’t the domain name clearly infringe on Microsoft’s trademark? Even as someone who is knowledgeable, I can see this causing confusion. As useful as this is, I don’t see site lasting for very long at the current domain without an agreement from the trademark owner.
Power line will send Canadian hydropower to New York
> Is there any option to self-host that backend service?

Not yet, I want to support that in future but it's not possible yet.
I have personally decided that I will keep the backend running even if I decide the project isn't worth it for me any more... but of course, I understand the this is no 100% guarantee.

> From a Wi-Fi perspective and workplace deployment does it support 802.1x?
Uhhh, I don't know.. how would I check that?
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I've found it to be marginally worse at some coding tasks than gpt-3.5, but it is all highly specific to the kinds of questions that I'm asking.
> This feature first previewed in JDK 21 via JEP 443, which was titled Unnamed Patterns and Variables. We here propose to finalize it without change.

Likely to be finalized in JDK 22.
I remember in 2009 or 2010, when I first came across Minecraft. It was not hugely popular yet, but it already had quite an active community.

I played quite a few hours of the game, both alone and together with a couple of friends.

One day, after a couple of weeks or something, I learned about a crafting wiki that told you how to craft different items.

At the time, at least for me, it was not clear how you figure out what items you can craft and what items need to be combined in what patterns to craft those new items.

So for me, that crafting wiki became quite essential.

Maybe other people were figuring out how to craft things by trial and error? Or maybe there was something in the game that told them how to craft specific things?
I always wondered why the wiki was so complete yet so shitty at the same time. I though MS was extracting value via ads. I was wrong.

In MCs case a wiki is such integral part of the game it should almost be integrated.
Critically, the developers of PoE also provide hosting for the wiki pro-bono. The service is so beneficial for players I imagine they figured the game would benefit from an ad-free (and therefore more usable) community wiki. Personally I have recently started seeing the correct wiki at the top of searches so I think the SEO battle is winnable with community effort. It helps that Fandom wikis are uniquely unusable without an ad blocker running.
And which developers are going to build past the point of diminishing marginal returns?
A few games I play have DDG bangs that take you directly to the fandom sites, even though the games now have their own self hosted wiki. Perfect exactly would be _minecraft_. If you search for "!minecraft dirt" it takes you to the fandom page. Will DDG update the bang to search via the official wiki? probably not! Maybe now is the time to switch to Kagi
I realize this is a joke, but it is important to remember that Hollywood doesn't produce remakes because that is what writers want to write. It produces remakes because that is what studios want to make. Writers are probably the strongest force for injecting originality into the process.
> Parking for one.

Are you saying it’s too many or too few?
I don't think that was due to firing workers, though. That was more driven by left wing pressure groups like the ADL.
Are you thinking of the "Indie Wiki Buddy" extension? They have already added support for the new minecraft wiki: https://getindie.wiki/listings/

It's pretty incredible that Fandom/Fextralife have driven people to developing browser extensions just to avoid everything they touch...
It's an attack on the human spirit in a way. The message is, "look, humanity IS truly awful." People walk away from it thinking, "Maybe everyone is evil." Now, does that serve a good purpose in this world? Seems a little satanic to me.
If you change "sell yourself into loan slavery for 30 years" with "create pornography" or "drink alcohol" or "enlist for war" or "buy guns" or "any number of age restricted things" suddenly everyone is all up in arms about how the 17 year old cannot be trusted to make an informed decision.

But when it's in the service of the finance industry - bam; all gone!
Your population is booming. You're not building as much as you think you are.
You are 100% correct. There's plenty of land in San Francisco for new builds and high density housing can also fix the issue.

Entrenched property owners and landlords have an incentive to not se see this fixed for a reason and it will be San Francisco's downfall.
I understand your desire to build out an "ecosystem" of app and everything, however, I'd really like an option to go fully on my own and skip your iOS/android app.

Is it something that you plan on doing and document? Or is there an easy way I can ssh into the device and figure out on my own?

TIA!

EDIT : well, 1 minute later you answered part of my question here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37645339. How about ssh-ing?
This isn't hard to imagine.

Imagine you're in NYC, school is closed, gyms are closed, swimming is closed, beaches are closed. You have to work and your kids are home. How do you get them activity? You send your 4 year old down the hall to run around? what exactly?

That's an extreme example, but even in the suburbs I saw a dramatic reduction in available activities & children participating in activities.

Even a 25% reduction in activity for marginal kids (i.e. on the kid of getting type 2 diabetes) would probably push a significant portion over the edge and become diabetics.
You're right that raw $ cost of a unit doesn't tell nearly enough information. The ideal measure is probably % of median income / sqf, or something like that. Even then, it's a very different story for singles looking for a hole to sleep in while partying up all the time vs. a family of 5 looking to have a stable home vs 4 friends looking for a cheap rental while going to school.
>it's really hard to see how anyone would be surprised by getting laid off with no severance after 40 years and complain about not being compensated as well as the company's owners.

No where did I say that he should be compensated as well as the owner. I said it was wrong to lay him off without severance when the owner was making millions on the deal.

My father worked in a small town with few 'good' jobs. This was one of them. It feels kind of inhumane to suggest it's somehow his fault for not uprooting our family every few years in order to not be exploited.

I accepted that bargain when I started working, but I would be lying if I told you I didn't suffer from far fewer ties to friends and family because of it. I've moved 8 times in the past 15 years. That makes it almost impossible to put down roots. I have a much shallower 'support system' because of it, and I've basically sacrificed part of my wellbeing on the alter 'at will' employment.
You make a great point! It's fascinating to see the variations in the valuations of music catalogues. It seems like there are multiple factors at play, including the artist's popularity, the rights they retain, and the overall market conditions at the time of the sale. It'll definitely be interesting to see how these investments perform in the long run.
You clearly didn't look at the list. Most of the items aren't speculative.
Disappointed that discussion has regressed into a naive "class war" narrative while no one is talking about the face value business implications of § 174 [1] now that the handout bankrolled by 2017 TCJA [2] is nerfed and tax code no longer permits outright expensing of software development.

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-26/chapter-I/subchapter-A...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1/te...
Mind Guard
I wish more people were open to being aware of/discussing this.

It's a hard truth that most people under the age of 50-55 will experience another global pandemic in their lifetimes (as an early 30-something I think, "next pandemics" is more accurate).

It's perfectly understandable that no one wants to talk about what the next pandemic will look like and that's why it's so important to.
Well they are leaving them vacant. Both rentals and houses across the country are sitting unfilled. NYC has anywhere from 13-26k rent controlled apartments vacant. As of last year ~16 million homes were estimated to be vacant overall and increasing interest rates have likely increased that. Why? Because these large orgs have purchased them via debt and it's just a line-item on a spreadsheet to them. Just build might work in a world where market actors were wholly rational and the government regulations actually targeted these perverse incentives, but that's not the reality we currently find ourselves in.
Building things you don't need in hopes that you'll need them because things you aren't spending time on will grow to demand them is like hiring an investment manager when you're in debt.
How are airplanes so cheap ? Airplane fuel is expensive, it takes a larger crew to operate and the planes are more expensive too. Who foots the bill for operating expensive airports ?

Are trains mor expensive purely because regulation costs and operating expenses are passed down in entirety to the customer ?
I've been using bitwarden for years and I love it
The people I know making lower wages typically rent or live in places with not such a high expense. Their apartments are not as upscale as others are, but they are certainly livable.
I got an email hours later (maybe via you?) and settled now. :)
Their UI really needs some indication of that...

"Replies: 16 (log in to view)"

Maybe it's obvious when it looks too quiet?
e: oh i misunderstood what you were saying, keeping my original comment for posterity

I think this is poe’s law in action :) I did not read the reply as earnest.
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My co-founder Daniel and I used to work together in our previous AI startup. We had never-ending problems with end-to-end testing. We tried many frameworks and tools and even looked into outsourced QA services. Nothing that wasn’t a pain for our dev teams to write and maintain wouldn’t hold back releases or be reasonably priced.

We have a decent level of experience in baking AI into software products. It made sense to apply it to e2e testing.

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We’ve built Octomind on top of Playwright, which is imho the most advanced framework for end-to-end testing today. We don’t need access to your code, and the generated Playwright code is yours.
We run and host the tests. We report the test results in our app or directly in PR comments if you integrate Octomind with your CI pipeline. To help with debugging, we’ve integrated Trace Viewer and created Debugtopus - an open-source tool for local debugging.
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I think I'm misunderstanding. The device has a captive cable with a USB-A plug on the end (i.e. not a female receptacle on the device), doesn't it?

Edit: I understand. I'm used to devices with receptacles rather than captive cables. Any reason why you went that way?
Houses often are torn down, but not apartments.
Also, they win the war of framing issues, which automatically wins the war by setting context and reality.

Owning most / the loudest media outlets is a guarantee for this.

Whoever frames the issue, wins.

Defining people’s refusal to accept starvation wages as “nobody wants to work” is an example. See the work of George Lakoff on framing for details. His Framelab podcast is excellent.
The fact that they are so succesful despite their low headcount is an argument that there are advantages to keeping the headcount low.

I'm sure we've all seen companies grow too fast become less productive than when there were a ten person startup.
This is silly. There are so many readers, that you can pick most any topic and format and this is a true statement.

Nor is it a refutation that we have shorter attention spans. It /could/ be, but there could be a lot of things there. It is a hard question that will take some nuanced investigation to really get a good answer.

To this particular claim, though, it is always been the case that a large number of people buying literature are doing so for the signalling use case. Authors shouldn't confuse purchases with reads.
And the legal investigation can find as such. That's what legal processes are for.

The fact that the police are protesting the legal process, as opposed to a conviction is terrible.

Also, the fact that the guy was a criminal does not make it ok for the police to use their weapons and kill him. In fact, if he was indeed fleeing then that almost certainly is against the rules they are required to follow in the UK as part of the wide latitude to inflict violent force that is granted to the police.
Stormlight started out so well but it is having the same sprawl problems that all Epic Fantasy faces. The more characters you introduce, the more plot you have to manage and the slower any character moves forward. Too many writers are reluctant to kill their darlings. Even GRRM, who was willing to kill Ned and surprise with the Red Wedding, lost control of all his threads years ago and that is why he'll never finish ASOFAI. It will require too much work to find "satisfying" ways to kill everyone off and lead the plot to an ending.
I have no idea who comes up with the productivity in numbers but I refuse to 1984 this, we don't make anything in Europe anymore. Even the cars have semiconductors and parts from Asia.

Those numbers 100% prove you wrong yet you emotionally brush them aside and you stick to your fantasy that has something to do with only production of physical goods being real and anything else is not real. That's just unfounded opinion. I have no respect for this.

> Its not just IQ or EQ either btw, its more. Like a lot more. The sheer volume of perspectives and level of competence.. its really hard to put into words.

I'm not sure I find you competent at being able to make such an assessment, as I observe so much unfounded emotional adherence to some billionaires (ubermenschen) and the adoration of America + production of physical goods.

The 'chimps' remark basically makes you sound like you believe in Eugenics.
Yet you fail to see the bigger contest, how many people never have the opportunities the rich people have, starting with who their parents are and how much money they have.

Why do you do this to yourself, why adore a person like Elon Musk, who is a walking string of lies and lawsuits + claiming work of others (Tesla) for himself and who is running 'Twitter' into the ground. And most, if not all of his companies are funded by government funding or due to other companies wanting to offset emissions. Tesla isn't doing great.

And this is just the start.

The UK is not Europe (anymore).

The UK is indeed destroying itself by choosing brexit and voting for a right-wing government that is hellbent on destroying all social services and to favour the rich. You project that stuff on Europe as a whole, but nothing could be further from the truth.

What is happening with the NHS is the same story: your Bilionaire PM is destroying NHS, why you guys aren't in the streets preparing a 'french revolution' is not clear to me.

Same for Education.

> I have no idea who comes up with the productivity in numbers but I refuse to 1984 this, we don't make anything in Europe anymore. Even the cars have semiconductors and parts from Asia.

If you contest numbers like that because it doesn't fit your own negative narrative, that's not very rational now is it?

Asian Asian Asian: because the billionaire owners found cheap slave labour in Asia at the expense of local workers. Know who to blame. Your favourite pals the billionaires.
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I rented for a few months in a motel converted to studios/section 8, great niche and I wish it was more common
KSP2 is really becoming the premier example of "Nearly perfect labour of love's legacy ruined after being bought by a larger company."

More on topic: I have no idea why one would want to use the registry to store this information.
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Now drop that in the middle of a larger function, outputing a value computed within that function.
Find the actual source of your inferiority complex and root it out.
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What I really want is a simply end-to-end way to program these devices to display something: basically, something as easy as QBasic, P5.js, or Scratch.

What I don't want is to run a server to host something for them to display. I want it self-contained, so once made, it's alive until the device breaks. My experience is 95% of the cost of these is maintenance, and that goes away once a project is no longer new, glitzy, and flashy.

What I actually want to build myself is a clock which displays time in time zones where my friends, relatives, and family are. Most of the other things I'd like are equally esoteric. I'd like this to be a <3 hour project (so it sustains a child's attention span too).
I don't wonder why people aren't having families because the reason is obviously that they don't want to.

It's not because things are worse now than ever in human history; that's pure rationalization/delusion/cope.
There was not. There is now but for the better part of a decade it was just... Something you were supposed to have learned from a youtube video or a friend or something.
Nah, it’s unnecessary- you can do everything in Kit, adding a pure backend would just add extra work for no reason.

Kit is built for serverless so you won’t have any issues with scaling.