skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's insane to me that my hometown of 1M people in Brazil has more tall apartment buildings than Philadelphia, with incredibly better amenities.

Would you mind sharing what the amenities are that you are referring to--both the in-building and neighborhood amenities? In the US I've seen gyms, swimming pools, shared hosting spaces, and some child-friendly spaces, to name a few.
There was a diesel-powered express passenger line [0] that ran at an average 69 mph between Chicago and Denver... back in 1936. The Florida one in the OP also averages 69 mph [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_Zephyr

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightline

- "The first Zephyr service to Denver began May 31, 1936, with the trainsets of the Pioneer Zephyr and the Mark Twain Zephyr, trains 9900 and 9903. This new service was known as the Advance Denver Zephyr and operated on a 16-hour schedule."

(1,109 miles / 16 hours = 69 mph (112 kph))
There is no verifiable way for you to make that claim.
I don’t think houses should be used by anybody to build up wealth.
You only perceive corporate landlords as the greater problem because we're not living in the counterfactual reality where there are millions of new apartments that are inexpensive, tiny, safe, quiet, modern, clean, dignified, and well-located.

In pretty much every major city in North America, it is illegal or there is too much red tape to build the affordable housing people actually want.

Why is it that living in a tent on the street costs $0/month but the entry-level apartments cost ~$2k/month? Why are there no price points between $0 and $2k? The answer is bad government policy.
You say you're more of a techie than the average person, so it follows that you have no use for a DVD drive. What about the millions of other people that have had a perfectly fine DVD player in their homes for several years?

It isn't just DVD players. I've never purchased a standalone player, it came built in on my Playstation. It's only in the most modern generation of consoles that you have a choice to buy a disc drive-less version.
Excellent article.

I did not realize that PostgreSQL now supported MERGE
Archive: https://archive.ph/T1qgB
In french these 2 usages are distinguished through "que/qui/quel" vs. "lequel". This phrasing is often seen in legal texts.

You'd translate "The appellant made a motion which is now granted" with "Le requérant a déposé une requête qui est maintenant acceptée".

vs.

"The appellant made a motion, which motion is now granted" with "Le requérant a déposé une requête, laquelle motion est maintenant acceptée".

("granted" might be translated differently than "acceptée" but you get the point).
They have by far the longest support historically compared to the rest of the ecosystem. It’s not even close. A while ago my parents bought an android device that SHIPPED one version behind and was never updated. Totally pathetic. I’ve seen fixes for surprisingly old iOS devices and even new features often go back some generations.
The broader point is that I think a lot of successful tech figures get a pretty unfair rap on HN. Few if any of these folks are stirring candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize, but Bezos or Mark or Elon or even Gates being uniquely bad?

Altman, with the full weight and backing of YC in its prime and a clear first-mover advantage got bailed out of the Loopt debacle [1] in a deal with Green Dot that maybe scraped above the “fire sale” line and is trivially the most celebrated person in the program to not merit an “I made something people want” shirt. pg helped, Conway helped, they got it sort of cashed out in a way that didn’t exactly fuck anyone sideways (other than Green Dot). He proceeded to fail upwards through preferential access to pre-IPO AirBnB shares and shit, became the leader of YC, and is now busily turning the world into Blade Runner 2023.

Seibel was running Socialcam at a time when anyone working at or near FB knew it was a ranking glitch, pawned it off on Autodesk for 60MM [2] saying with a straight face it was the next YouTube, and promptly started inconsistently replying to emails titled “Where the fuck are you?”. Also ran YC.

Are these guys uniquely bad? Debatable, this is how the game is played apparently. But it would be nice to enjoy your ill-gotten gains without a relentlessly resourceful [3] PR campaign about how we’re dealing with some real humanitarian visionaries.

All I’m proposing is that if we trash Elon, then Altman doesn’t get a free ride.

n.b. A lot of that is me claiming things (that I heard from people in the room) that are merely alluded to in primary and secondary sources, so it’ll be up to you to judge if it has what they call “the ring of truth”.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopt

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialcam

[3] http://www.paulgraham.com/relres.html
And then people wonder why none of us are having families. You’re too poor in your 20s, then you aren’t able to biologically by the time you’re in your 40s. But by then everyone in their 40s has the “I’ve got mine” mentality so nothing changes.

We live in the stupidest timeline.
FWIW, I read the corrected comment and still read it as "text-to-speech". Then I saw the replies and scrolled up, and realized that my brain had read it wrong!
I highly recommend "How to Read Nancy" by Mark Newgarden and Paul Karasik, and "Three Rocks" by Bill Griffith. They're both massively creative and brilliantly constructed books about Nancy and it's creator Ernie Bushmiller.
He gave a SkyTalk at DC30 on the same topic with a few more years of knowledge
What would make it dystopian would be if this humanoid robot was then granted rights. As a servant, it could be useful.
> Mark Zuckerberged them

As in? MZ as a verb can be interpreted too many ways
What was the point of feeding Google all my location history data if it can't even figure out which Wegmans I go to?
The clients are fully FOSS, and there is a FOSS server reference application, too. What could go wrong? (Famous last words Inc.)

FWIW: I've been using this application for the past years. I pay 12 USD or so a year, though I self-host. I just pay as a thank you since I still use the FOSS client, and the price is very reasonable.

1Password is hardly even a competitor as it is a completely different price range, and different product. It isn't FOSS at all, there's a vendor lock-in (in contrast to Bitwarden), and it is 3x as expensive at the very least. They're miles apart.
These are automatically generated bindings. Someone could go over every typedef and correct the spelling but I doubt any Rust developer would have problems with using a few capitals here and there.
At what point to you go from startup to not when you have 10 billion invested and countless employees and is practically a sub branch of microsoft. Sounds cooler though I guess
The thing I feared most

Was receiving your letter

And then it arrived
Oh wow. Thanks for sharing this.
Well this means the idea might be solid, but I guess it will be tough to do it better than Ansible's creator.
My megacorp operates in at least 3 states with these laws now, so all our postings include a pay band. The band is lower than practically every person's offer...
Didn't say it's working :-/

Canada has two major problems with immigration right now:

1) the rapid increase in numbers is a shock that the immigration systems (including immigrant community resources) can't handle, that shock is exacerbating the housing crisis (and health care crisis and ...)

2) the family reunification program defeats one of the major purposes of immigration, increase the ratio of working age citizens to elderly citizens.

I say this as someone who has traditionally been pretty gung ho about immigration.
Well, last time I booked a car last minute (from one of the big ones, I think it was Enterprise), they confirmed my confirmation but didn't have any car available when I showed up the next day. I'd imagine the train is somewhat more reliable.
What make you assume that this is the case or that the data I linked to would answer that question?
Imo it seems this is what generative AI currently optimises for — cutting the humans out of the creative/similar processes. It’s depressing, and I fully understand why artists of all sorts get upset about it. Especially because many tech people often seem to be okay with ignoring copyright/licensing and arguably hurting people’s livelihood right up until GitHub ingests GPL code for Copilot and suddenly copyright and licensing matter.
Of course you are correct. I tried to keep as much of the original title as possible.
Content is volunteer, but I believe the company's infrastructure and software (I believe they use a modified MediaWiki based on an HN comment from an employee a few years ago) are all from a for-profit company. Wikipedia and the Wikimedia foundation are the non-profits you may be thinking of.

From the Fandom Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fandom_(website)):

> The privately held, for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. Fandom was acquired in 2018 by TPG Inc. and Jon Miller through Integrated Media Co.

But note that Jimmy Wales was a founder as well.
Funny that, WSL2 on Windows 11 with Linux containers works nearly perfectly for me (I think the only thing that'd make it better is another 8 GB or so of RAM), with using devcontainers, building images and running Docker compose - it's the Windows containers that cause the trouble, mostly with networking
lisper, it sounds like the only source you've consulted on Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) is the Mayo Clinic website. SBS is a subject with a very long history and surrounded by great controversy [1]. I urge you to look a bit further and make an effort to understand why there is controversy.

For example, the Wikipedia article on SBS has a section on "Legal Issues" that gives some details. Or you may find informative Wikipedia's article about Waney Squier, a doctor who was involved in SBS cases as an expert witness:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waney_Squier

The "Legal Issues" section on the SBS also mentions Waney Squire's case.

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[1] Btw, this is a "controversy" in the sense of often acrimonious debate between experts and not in the sense of the "controversy" that Young Earth Creationists demand be taught in schools. It's a controversy about methodology and medical and science ethics; the kind of thing that gets up some scientists' noses.
I use at least 3 separate runtimes: tokio and 2 no_std runtimes (rtic and embassy). The latter would probably not be possible at all if there was an "official" runtime, because the official runtime would inevitably require allocation, and if it existed they wouldn't bother writing async in a flexible enough way that you could use it without an allocator.

The way async is implemented in rust is actually technically quite impressive, and would almost certainly not exist if there were some official green thread solution.

You could solve async/non-async polymorphism via the introduction of HKTs (and monads) - perhaps eventually they will be forced to do that.

In the mean time, if they can make a few changes like stabilizing TAITs and async traits, that would go a long way to improving the ergos of async.
I generally just don't say what my current role pays when interviewing. I ask what pay range they're targeting, and if they need a number from me, I'll offer a range where the low end is what I'd actually like.
In my area, the Malt-O-Meal knockoff version ("Tootie Fruities") is $5.99/30oz ($0.20/oz).

I point this out because it always seems weird to me that discussing housing / utilities / healthcare / education costs somehow get boiled down to grocery store pricing disparities, when grocery stores allow you to comparison shop (and real estate / electricity / oil / etc don't).
Additionally, compute has the unique property of becoming cheaper per-unit at a rate that isn’t comparable to any other commodity. GPT-4 itself gets cheaper to run the moment the next generation of chips comes out. Unlike, for example, Uber, the business environment and unit economics just naturally become more favorable the more time passes. By taking the lead in this space, they have secured mindshare which will actually increase in value with time as costs decline.

Of course bigger (and thus more expensive-to-run) models will be released later, but I trust OAI to navigate that curve.
Show HN: Scanline – open-source AI PR Reviews
Sharing the PR Review CLI tool I built with 2 friends recently. I have found that it's surprisingly capable of finding bugs, logical errors, and typos before pushing.

You can use it on your own branches or to get a second "opinion" on colleagues code - just check out the target branch and run `scan`.
> someone in their 20s might be able to live with their parents

They also might not? Why are we structuring access to fundamental needs around this assumption?
IANAL, but I started googling and here's what I found...

I've heard of "mens rea", which means in order for a crime to be committed, you need to have a "guilty mind".

From what I can tell, ignorance of the law can be an excuse. If there's a law stating that wearing purple on Tuesdays is a criminal offense, and I wear purple on Tuesday, a prosecutor would have to prove that I knowingly & willingly committed a crime (e.g. showing a social media post where I saw "I'm going to wear purple this Tuesday. I dare you to arrest me!").

In the case of a traffic offense, ignorance of the law is typical not an excuse because a traffic not a criminal offense.

Can a real lawyer comment here?

Sources for my amateur legal assessment:

- mens rea: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mens_rea

- Actus Reus vs. Mens Rea vs. Strict Liability: https://shorylaw.com/actus-reus-vs-mens-rea-vs-strict-liabil...
A scratch is at most an eyesore. A crack is at least an eyesore. Most people I know have their phones permanently in a case and half also have a glass screen protector. Together they’re guaranteed to protect from scratches but still not from cracks.

Thinking of the impact and likelihood of either, in the real life usage as described above, I would have imagined people focused more on impact resistance rather than hardness. Was still surprised to read the comments on the original Ars article. If people who understand tech better than the average put that much wight into aesthetics, why would any of the majority of regular buyers think past “glass must be premium and good”?
If I create a new login on mobile it never syncs to the vault/desktop correctly. I have so many empty vault items that then sync back to mobile. Nothing seems to fix it.
So you're saying we should lower the quality of our life so we can protect the interests and assets of the wealthy?

Fuck that shit.

We've been let out of the cage that we didn't even realize we were in. Now we know. We're not going back.
almost as if it isn't avocado toast that's making millennials poor
We'll if you already have the code, you should be able to get farther with it. I think :-)
You should use Vaultwarden if you need self-hosting it https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden.
Redis Enterprise Flash Database Architecture (2017)
Whether or not you’re profitable has very little to do with how valuable others think you are. And usually having competitors is something that validates your market.
> But other than zoning it seems it would help more if the government would step in to disallow large leasing companies buying up giant swathes of the housing stock just to flip into rentals.

There was a timely video about this yesterday from Oh the Urbanity: https://youtu.be/BRqZBuu_Ers?si=NlavrFpm8sNTUcYp

Summary is that Rotterdam did just this, and the effect was that the price to purchase a house did not measurably decrease, and that rents rose. The neighborhoods regulated in this way had fewer immigrants and skewed wealthier than those that were not.

So, not the effect we're looking for.
> Part of the problem is government regulation.

And not just too much regulation, but the wrong kind of regulation, and a lack of regulation in areas that need it.

Someone in the article was forced out of her home because her landlord suddenly raised her rent by $500. That shouldn't be legal. Corporations buying up homes in order to drive up prices shouldn't be allowed. Lots of things are allowed that shouldn't be.

And yes, restrictions on building the kind of houses that people really need are also a problem. It's not a case of too much or too little regulation, but the wrong kind.
If you want to use "software engineers" to describe everyone in the US who writes code, I don't think #1 is accurate at all. Half of the developers in the US make less than $100k/yr. Most of these people work for banks, small mom-and-pop companies that have 1-3 developers. Public companies with bigger teams who don't give stock to anyone below the VP level.

If your entire exposure to software development has been startup fantasy land where profitability doesn't matter yeah most of those companies are giving everyone stock down to the person at the front desk answering phones. That's the minority by every metric - number of companies, number of developers, total revenue, everything. I don't think anyone expects stock compensation unless they're artificially limiting their search to that type of company.
Historically brendangregg's since AIUI he basically invented flamegraphs

https://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html

So if you can make your tool eat whatever https://github.com/brendangregg/FlameGraph is fed with you're going to support a lot of existing tooling across OSes and languages.
> Well they are a private company so you are going to have to evaluate it on that basis, but reuters is generally considered credible.

well that would be good if Reuters were the source of the figure

but they're not, they're simply reporting on what SimilarWeb has estimated

https://www.similarweb.com/website/chatgpt.com/#technologies

and that estimate is essentially based on nothing
I found the Google link useful regarding the design.
There's a lot of truth in this comment and a lot that I wholeheartedly agree with.

When I spend time on something that turns out to be incorrect, I would prefer it to be because of choice I made instead of some random choice made by an LLM. Maybe the author is someone I'm interested in, maybe there's value in understanding other sides of the issue, etc. When I learn something erroneous from an LLM, all I know is that the LLM told me.
Thats not what the analogy means. 200mph refers to funding.
How Long It Took for Popular Apps to Reach 100M Users
I just looked at Tildes.

I can see why people go there.

It's not for me.

Just like Twitter, just like Reddit, it would encourage me to type the sort of comments that I try not to write on topics I try not to engage in in ways I try to avoid.

Your mileage varies of course and I am glad there is a place where you get what you need.
> Why would an investment ever be "returned"?

Because the money used for the investment was stolen.
OP: Submitted URL has "/" at the end and it's throwing 404
Just to add on to this, a number of older buildings in my city in Canada (say late 1960s to mid 1970s construction) even had woodworking shops as common amenities! Today there are pet washing stations, EV chargers, outdoor rooftop patios, movie theatres, etc. It’s incredible.
Well there's one massive factor, at least until the kid is weaned, the mom is the easiest food supply for the kid. It's vastly easier than pump and bottle or even formula and bottle. Beyond that phase though it's true it's mostly societal, once the kid is eating real food there's little reason for a particular parent to be the primary care giver.
Thank you! The title is updated to address this and the "Metro Police" reference.
That only happened in Java 9 after Oracle acquired Sun. I'd say Oracle was way more remove focused than Sun ever was.
>Inflation serves to reduce wealth (if just stuffed under the mattress), and encourages investment (to beat inflation).

Inflation, in the current form, transfers wealth to the first people to receive/spend the newly printed money (the financial system) from the last people to receive the newly printed money (this is termed the Cantillon effect). Since the end of Bretton Woods in the 1970s there's been a massive increase in USD inflation coinciding with a massive increase in wealth inequality, as would be expected from a system based around systematic transfer of wealth from the real economy to the financial industry. Technically inflation doesn't have to act like this; if it occurred via helicopter money airdropped equally into everybody's bank account, there wouldn't be a wealth transfer. But with the current system it's a systematic source of inequality.
Cool now I'll get "There was an error generating a response" in plain audio!
Easy to use...for computer professionals. Try introducing pass to your family, even 1Password is not easy to set up for regular people. We have a long way to go before everyone is using passoword managers. The more realistic alternative is probably passkeys.
> 404 Media is not naming the account because TikTok has decided to not remove it from the platform. TikTok told me the account does not violate its policies; one expert I spoke to said TikTok should reevaluate that position.

One expert in what??? Expert in facial recognition technology? Expert in TikTok's terms of service? Expert in social media? Expert in having opinions which support the article?

Why would anyone be more or less qualified than anyone else to make that statement? It's almost like the author is just injecting their opinion saying it comes from an expert to give it weight...

I realize this seems nitpicky, but it's emblematic of what a poorly written article this is. Unsurprising given the source, though.
>> "There are a lot of services here if you're sober so I suspect they swooped in and found her."

> If someone has just had a run of lousy luck,there must be services to help them get back on their feet.

For the most part, there aren't. Not in most of the US. Housing waiting lists were years long for decades. In the last few years it's gone from difficult to impossible.

My boomer sister just learned her long-time lease won't be renewed next year and she is planning for a transition to homelessness - because she can calculate simple odds.

In 2021, me + adult kids nearly joined the growing group of homeless people with money in the bank - because there was nowhere to go. Every available rental had hundreds of applicants. Since then, rents here are 50-300% over what they were 3 years ago (we're paying >2x).

There's no detail about modern housing that supports the notion that vulnerable people aren't at risk.
No it doesn't, hence why there are best practices guidelines written by the .NET architects, and there was a research project to add Go/Java co-routines as well.

https://github.com/davidfowl/AspNetCoreDiagnosticScenarios/b...

https://twitter.com/davidfowl/status/1532880744732758018?lan...

https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/2057

https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/2398
>given all the videos online of kids beating up teachers and getting away with it

I don't think I heard of a single such story in my life. Is it a thing?
Absolutely a power issue.
My current employer has been reasonably lenient on RTO, however..

They periodically keep asking people to come in more while actually not even having enough desks in 2 of our major offices.

The desk shortage is bad enough you have to beg for consultant desks and every couple months we get a mass mail ordering everyone to stay home next week to accommodate some visitors.

So on the face of it, would seem that our company is at full utilization of office space given COVID era remote hiring & hoteling, and yet they still want to nag. They really just want employees in "how high sir?" mode, with tears in our eyes.