skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's take SF as an example. If a significant number of new units were built (somehow without detracting from the character of the city), would it really lower prices much? Likely not - instead prices would dip just enough to make it viable for large numbers of high income people from outside SF to come to the city (which by massing effect may make SF even more desirable, so actually higher prices!)

Wealth taxes are not a fairly tale, though of course they are a nightmare for the excessively wealthy! In the UK we used death duties to finish off the aristocracy.
I long for the days of the Netflix Instant Streaming disk for the Wii
> because of unregulated capitalism

Where on Earth with a housing crisis is "unregulated capitalism"? It can take years simply to get development approval in Australia. If it's anything more than a single family dwelling get ready for a long lengthy process with hundreds of submissions, some even from suburbs over demanding it doesn't get built.

The entire system has been captured by vested interests who know how to drive their own unproductive asset prices up at the expense of society.
> extraordinary passion [...] for their [...] livelihoods

How entitled and decadent of them.

This is a pretty good demonstration of the danger of making yourself dependable on certain platforms.

Developing games is still an extremely high risk endeavor and using a more widely known engine can reduce parts of it. Especially on large developer teams or those were developers change. This behavior introduced new uncertainty.

Some might remember the DRM measure of limited installs, I hope we don't get back to that.
Nope haven’t seen this.
Apparently this is possible. I didn't know. Didn't mean to mislead you. Sorry.
Not good for a company to receive funds from investors that we now know stole and grifted from their customers.

Wonder if this company is all just smoke and mirrors at this point. Never heard of this company prior to the Amazon investment.

Kind of reminds me of the Amazon and Rivian partnership. This nobody EV company gets an investment from Amazon, interest/hype boosts potential revenue/preorders. Valuations spike to billions. IPO debuts at ~$120/share. Insiders sell shares. Hype wears off. Now it’s trading at ~$21/share.
I think the problem is price. Traditionally VW has been cheap, reliable cars that are almost as good as the 'fancy' brands, but for a lot less money. However when it comes to EVs, the ID.4 costs just as much a Tesla model Y and I guess when given the choice between a VW and a Tesla for the same price, people choose Tesla.
One minor nit, people in their 50’s and early 60’s would be GenX not boomers.
> > Regulations are not building for high capacity, preferring to sprawl and build monster homes that house few, wealthier people.

> So you’re saying regulations are blocking new home construction. Got it.

Oh come on, new home construction is doing just fine ... but the homes are 5600 sq ft, $2+ million and 30-40 minute drive from city centre. And it's not regulation requiring it, developers prefer to build condos and monster homes because the ROI is much higher. Regulation is allowing it.

> What you describe is exactly what people mean when they say you “can’t build housing.” In reality you kind of can but only a few homes and only at the very high end.

New housing starts in the US[1] have climbed steadily for the past 10 years until inflation and interest rates in 2022 caused it to drop.

What you are saying is not happening. Maybe some housing development you wanted to happen got blocked, but we ARE building new housing and when we do stop ... it's not regulation that stopped it.

[1] https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/housing-starts
Unless you get China and India on board this whole "emission reduction" feels like a giant theater.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-...

Since 2006 the US reduced emissions by 1B tonnes and China added 5
Regulatory capture would be a better description.

The point is, you can be frustrated about zoning laws being abused for protectionism by people who want to increase the value of their asset by limiting what can be done by their neighbors, and not immediately go off and claim the actual problem is that people are freeloading off the government and that regulation is keeping the "few people" who want to work from rising to the top.
We can’t alter Brexit deal to appease car industry, says European commissioner
Neither is much plastic wasted on DVDs.
To be fair in the Animal Crossing game on the original DS that basically happened (People could drop glitched items spawned with an Action Replay that would effectively brick your game).
By how much is the total number raw number of homeless increasing?
Here I am one worker supporting three. I am not retiring.
This is the web we want
Actually I will disagree, regulations are very much blocking development of the type of housing that is needed, at least in my experience.

Whenever a dense block of housing is proposed, people abuse zoning regulations here to shut it down. They add on tons of extra costs (mandatory parking etc) and then complain about how much the houses cost.

Go look at your city and see if it's actually legal to build a new mid rise apartment in the city center. I'm guessing, if it's anything like every city I've ever lived in, it's not.
This is a necessary step if they are to continue the system:

Next they will tell unemployed what salary they can request.
There is even a "Technician for cooling and ventilation systems" Opening

https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CERN/743999929693353-techni...
Correction: Geforce (GT) 730 is PCIe 2.0 (Fermi or Kepler). Mine is Kepler. It works fine, I can CUDA+ run a few other things quite well.
If it is, it's not flying.
If it works temporarily, but gets consumed by induced demand, then do it again. And then again. And then again.

This is a good thing. If SF is so great, many more people will be able to go there.
> Selecting text

> (...) there is a completely new gesture, double tap. Wait, there is actually a third gesture long press, which also works.

TIL about the double tap -- always used the long press to select text. It is interesting that the author refers to long press as an alternative. Do most people use double tap for that?
> async Rust was 2x faster than threads

This phrase alone is utterly incoherent.
It is an entry-level salary. So if it is comparable to most other Swiss salaries for higher education, it will be able to increase by at least 70%.
I think it’s better than nothing, but ultimately not helpful for job seekers working to learn how much a position will pay them.

I work in a very regulated organization where all pay rates are published with postings. [0]

But the ranges are $20-40k for each grade and it’s hard to tell what you will end up being offered and accepted.

I think it helps prevent some mismatches of people confusing $20k and $200k positions but I frequently see people with work history in the $30/hour range applying for very high pay jobs. I find it hard to accurately peg my market value.

When I worked in smaller orgs I would frequently see variability of 100-300% for the same job title. And even in really large orgs with big HR there might be a $100k pay band before bonuses.

So what do I do with a job posting that says $110-250k? If Im senior, do I apply and expect $250k not knowing if there’s a single person who is amazing making they amount? Or if Im junior do I ask for $110, knowing I could get more.

What I do is network to find what the actual pay is and negotiate around there. Or discuss with multiple offers.

Id like to see something like the IRS releasing more anonymized data from w2 for employers that will let you look up quartiles by employer, broken out by employee filing address.

This also has severe limitations but at least you can see how many employees they actually have and actually pay based on taxid. But self-reported pay data is so bad I don’t think it’s actually useful for stuff like “does this company I found on the internet actually hire people?” Unfortunately titles are so useless that I don’t think anything more than number of employees and distribution of their pay is better than what we have now.

The privacy implications are serious and need to be accounted for. But I think only releasing for orgs over 100 or something. Or only for publicly traded. Or only that receive public funds, etc etc

[0] https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
Good. Hiding income only works for the company to exploit their workers.
How much of the increase in Indian and Chinese emissions is accounted for by increased manufacturing of products being sent to the US?
If by excessive typing you mean complex trait bounds and the like, it's really something isolated to the most generic libraries, and reasonably rare. Most application code is simply typed - take a struct or an enum, return another. So it's not been a problem.

We don't use Copilot or any tool that sends our source code because of our security posture, defense in depth, etc. If and when there will be an offering that lets us run the server component and provides significant productivity improvements, we will subscribe.
Hey man, thank you for creating Bitwarden.

I'm just a normal tech-lover guy who works in the marketing field. I have made my family & 2 agencies switch to Bitwarden and they all love it.

I have stored more than 400 passwords and more than 30 debit + credit cards in it. Though I don't need a paid plan but I'm paying $10 per year just to support the developers.
When Taking on Google’s Monopoly, Don’t Settle for Less
The original LinkedIn post with some interesting comments: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marslan_the-grand-rewrite-of-...
>I am not anyone that understands the industry and the markets in the way that you do. And so I take seriously when companies are telling me that if this gets disclosed, it’s going to cause competitive harm.

Wait. What? An "anti-trust" trial against one of the five trillion dollar company in the world abusing its monopoly power is taken seriously on its claim it could cause "competitive harm"? Catch 22.

I guess the competitive harm is political in nature. The real competition seems to be China. The rationalization one of being a "strong" united front against an authoritarian system. So, the judicial system needs to subordinate itself to that power constellation. Ultimately succumbing to the authoritarian logic.

By excluding the public in order to not produce "clickbait" just furthers the growing mistrust in institutions which then in turn necessitates more "secrecy" as to not to "confuse" the public ...

This mindset exemplified by the likes of Eric Schmidt reminds me of Edward Teller's role in the nuclear arms race. Surely, brilliant people with a lot of valuable input but I wouldn't fully trust their judgment.
People should just make up their own mind by reading a publication, instead of adopting another publication’s opinion about a publication.
> so do you not claim that a student learning off textbook

No, these are not the same. A student has mental faculties that ChatGPT does not. The understanding-free predictive text processing of ChatGPT is the whole deal of that software. A student does not require 10 thousand textbooks as examples in order to understand a concept. Students do exhibit originality and reasoning that is not in the training data. You should not equate them.

> assuming the training data is paid for via a one time fee

Why would you assume that, when the links provided make it clear that this did not happen?
reinventing hybrid electric cars
I bought a new car in April of 2020

2020 hardly counts as "these days"
Claude 2 is probably the closest competitor to GPT-4 at this point. If you haven’t heard of them before it’s because you weren’t paying attention.
Real Indian Cooking but in miniature : https://www.youtube.com/@TheTinyFoods
Can you maybe touch a bit on the intended relationship between you and the VC? Are there plans to do aggressive monetization of Bitwarden?

As a long time user, I'm a bit concerned as well.
I agree with the first part of your statement, but how do you access an encrypted keepass file from mobiles?
This is a really good blog post. Wow.
Does it have WiFi sync? Seems like all the big players are committed to removing that, and that’s like the one single thing I want from a password manager: don’t store all my passwords in the cloud.
> The reason for this massive wealth distribution is the inflationary monetary system

Inflation serves to reduce wealth (if just stuffed under the mattress), and encourages investment (to beat inflation). The real problem is that wealth begets wealth - if left to it's own devices the capitalist system will ensure wealth becomes concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. The only way this can be counter-balanced is with government regulation (e.g. anti-monopolistic laws, wealth redistribution).
Thanks for an excellent product. I'm a long term paid subscriber, and very happy with Bitwarden :-)
Posting a large, unreal range will also cause headaches internally with your existing employees. Skip all the hassle and just use a valid range.

Because of the laws getting passed in other states, many postings already have ranges and they have looked reasonable to me.
Ask HN: Is there a way to ask a question to several LLMs at the same time?
Say I have a question I would like to ask to a large language model. I'm not sure which to pick: chatGPT, Bard, Vicuna...

Is there a simple way to ask them all, or rather a selection of them, the same question and get all results on the same page, so that I can, at a glance, pick the answer that seems to make the most sense?

Kind of like having not just one, but several advisers around and being able to listen to them all when I need an advice.
I also feel that it is unfair that each LaLiga footballer does not have his private Boening 747, like Neymar. We need to do something with those pesky pirate apps to make sure footballers earn more money, as their torment of poverty is unacceptable. Maybe United Nations should step out to fight this clear violation of human rights?
If by “aging 1981 apartment building” they mean an apartment building built in 1981, it is so frustrating to me that American buildings are essentially designed for a useful life of ~30 years before they need to be replaced. Though there are maintenance costs to maintaining older buildings, other things being equal isn’t it better to maintain rather than rebuild? My personal preference for older buildings aside, aren’t some of the most desirable and high-value apartments well-preserved older buildings?
I realize I played this card first, but maybe, just maybe, railways should not be for-profit infrastructure to begin with.

Japan, for example, has a similar problem with the bullet train. There are plenty of sleepy towns that would make little sense to stop at between Tokyo and Osaka.

They still have about 15 stops on that line anyway, and you have to take the slowest bullet trains to get there. But the stops have totally changed life in these cities.

Perhaps there's a similar case to be made for Northern Nevada?
Fun to see the Aubrey-Maturin series mentioned here; that was indeed the first thing I thought of.

Killick's use of "which" always struck me as odd. I'm not entirely sure if it's the same grammatic construct as the one in the article. Here [1] is a discussion about it. The top answer argues it's just a meaningless discourse marker. It was also covered in Mark Liberman's Language Log [2].

Apparently the conjunctive "which" is increasing in usage as a discourse marker [3].

[1] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/245363/what-is-t...

[2] http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000118.h...

[3] http://colinmorris.github.io/blog/which-discourse-marker
199$ is still quite expensive for many though. I believe common repairs for inexpensive parts (back glass, USB-C port, battery) should be below 100$.
Keeping Foxish alive for 13 years
We are beginning to roll out new voice and image capabilities in ChatGPT
Intent and reasonably foreseeable outcomes probably matters here.

If that company in Belgium advertises worldwide and somehow hires many people who live in New York, you bet NY will argue (successfully) that they have to follow this law, at least prospectively, as it affects residents of their state and the DoL has jurisdiction over protecting the labor rights of its residents.
You enumerated it yourself.
I have used https://github.com/openobserve/openobserve in several hobby projects and liked it. It's an all-in-one solution. It's likely less featureful than many others but a single binary and everything in one place pulled me in and worked for me so far.

Not affiliated, I just like the tool.
It also doesn’t sound like he has to drop to 1200 cals to lose weight! More like 1500-1700.
> Most Metro areas do not have enough affordable housing.

There's no such thing as affordable housing[0]. Just housing. You can certainly argue that building a house is too expensive -- and due to NIMBYism, discriminatory policies, and anti-density regulatory environments, this is often true -- but affordability is not an intrinsic value of a building, and the problem is generally that housing stock simply doesn't keep up with demand in places which demand lots of housing (e.g., San Francisco, Seattle, NYC, London, etc.).

0. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2023/1/3/theres-no-such-...
TV Networks’ Last Best Hope: Boomers
I'm not sure if the version in use at $workplace is out of date or incorrectly configured, but it is a dreadful prometheus client in that it doesn't use labels, it just shovels all the metadata into the metric name like a 1935 style graphite install, making most of the typical prometheus goodness impossible to use.

The little dashboard thing is nice, though.
Main problem in Linkedin is recruiters approaching you without telling the company name and specific position within the company. Like why would I even bother responding if I can't lookup anything about the company?

Trust me, I have a vested interest in applying through the recruiter because I know the recruiter will poke the company when I need him to. So I won't just apply to the company behind your back, but don't waste my time please.
To beat China and their unacceptable values we must become china

PS: this was Sarcasm people
Stop buying from them then ?

Oh wait you can't because we sacrificed most of our industries in the west
It might need less mirrors, but it’ll still need mirrors, and the whole stack of technology around reflection based reticles. Do they plan to develop that themselves?

EUV isn’t just ASML. It’s a whole bunch of companies from all over the world delivering the most advanced technology within each of their fields. It’s like the whole world coming together, contributing their best minds, companies and technologies for one purpose.

Even without US sanctions, China seems to be moving towards doing everything themselves. They’re also increasingly isolating the country in all aspects of life (great firewall and all that). I’m not so sure it’ll go well in the long term. For any other country it’d be a doomed project. China has a small chance of succeeding due to their sheer size. But the chance is still small, and they have a small window to achieve their goals, as the demographic collapse will make it increasingly harder with time.
Using Docker to run in seconds is like saying using a Windows VM in Qemu and you got Office running in seconds on Free BSD.

It’s still a mess, but it’s hidden now.
It's definitely the most year 2000 website I've seen in a while.
I wonder where all the bricks go. I still have the lego bricks my parents got for my older sister which I inherited. It’s a huge box, most of it was passed down to our family from other families .

My daughter has already a massive brick collection just because of the sets she was presented with.

By now she very child should have no need anymore to buy Lego bricks so many should be in circulation. I just fear they are being thrown away.
One Big Header File
As a casual football fan I find it hard to stream some matches. I don't want to pay for another streaming service that I know I'm not going to use, but more and more of the matches aren't streamed on live tv...
> He added that it would be "a very sad day" for policing if armed troops were being forced to step in to help.

Personally I see it as a very sad thing that it's required to have so many armed police in the first place. I don't know the solution but it seems like addressing/ focusing more on the underlining cause would be a good place to start.
Thank you for the details and hints, much appreciated.
Ah ok, the post didn't mention trading, and that use case didn't occur to me.
> Actually I will disagree, regulations are very much blocking development of the type of housing that is needed, at least in my experience.

We might just be disagreeing on terminology, there is a difference, in my mind, between regulations that require something bad to happen and regulations that ALLOW something bad to happen. If the regulations ALLOW something bad to happen that's a "lack of regulation"

> Go look at your city and see if it's actually legal to build a new mid rise apartment in the city center.

This might be a US vs. Canada thing ... we are building mid-rise and high-rise in multiple cities around me right now: Toronto, Kitchener-Waterloo, Cambridge, Hamilton, Burlington.

What we are NOT building is a lot of apartments. Developers want to build and flip if they are allowed to.
Agreed that the original comment did not add to the discourse but this response does come across as a bit harsh.

Is elpais like a national major? Is it similar to seeing an article from lemonde on HN?
> There's no natural rights to anything, and it's the law of the jungle.

Except the crowning achievement of our civilisation is the realisation that there are natural rights (see UN Declaration of Human Rights, US Constitution etc). Indeed, the Rule of Law is perhaps a greater achievement than democracy, and from a jungle perspective not self evident. The property rights you allude to are also part of this Rule of Law, otherwise stuff would belong to whoever was strong enough to take it!
I welcome feedback or any sort, including both questions and the most trivial typos or errors.
Optery (YC W22) – Full Stack Developer with Node.js Experience (Remote and Israel)
I’m no fan of the people you’re talking about myself.

But once we start going down that road we run smack on into companies with like the sovereign wealth fund in Riyadh or (to my embarrassment) Thiel or any number of people who make SBF look like the clueless, entitled, amoral but ultimately strictly small-change knucklehead he is.

There are some truly scary people invested in important companies. Do we hold all the founders to account for that or none of them? It’s not fair to pick and choose.
I much prefer the n-tower approach https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.10802.pdf
That site has the same aesthetic as the "ninjas have real ultimate power" site

http://realultimatepower.net/

The early internet was an awesome place
I’ve been a happy user of Pass (https://www.passwordstore.org/) for a few years now. Can’t see it being monetized any time soon, which is a Good Thing. So is its strict adherence to the Unix philosophy.
Ask HN: Are UV water bottles worth it?
I've seen many new brands of UV water bottles and some comments like "I now feel safe" even though they have no filters. These are interesting products to use when travelling to certain locations, or for sailing boats with water makers when the UV module fails - but are they effective at all?
Netflix completely lost its original business, which was to deliver hollywood movies to customers. Nowadays they are in the business of creating new titles, just like Disney. I much prefer the old days where I could rent practically any movie in existence. That's why I don't even bother paying for Netflix anymore.
Don't worry, my kid is buying them by the kilo at yard sales :)