skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I lived for years in a private property in the center of Tel Aviv. 2 min walking distance from Disengof center. While there are a few high rises in the area there's still a lot of low rises and old buildings. There are still single story houses right in the center. (Edit: my point here is that there's a lot of space and people don't build enough).

The problems are multiple. You are correct, I over simplified and interest is a huge reason for this bubble.

1. The local government doesn't allow construction in the areas people want. They're afraid that the influx of people will reduce the quality of life since the school system, sewage, policing etc. needs to be updated. They also lose on residence financially. Businesses fund cities and municipalities go bankrupt if they allow too much construction.

2. Traffic to Tel Aviv is terrible which makes even the outskirts less attractive. There's no parking either and if you choose to use public transport then it's closed in the weekends. I hope the light rail will change this but I think it's too little, too late. I'd keep a close eye on the prices in Bat Yam and Jaffa. If they go up there it might be due to the rail.

3. The government is the biggest landowner in these parts, it sells lands using a process that values return rather than the price to the consumer.

4. The rent market isn't regulated at all. That means investors push up prices and then overcharge on rent. Rental properties have a lower tax bracket than stock market investments. My accountant has 10 apartments for rent and this isn't an exceptional scenario. People are hoarding properties.
Surely this won't end with racism. Surely this time it'll be different.
DSLR (and now mirrorless) will always prevail because of the amount of glass they can work with.

But there is a saying more important than the above fact: the best camera in the world is the one you have on you in the moment. And that will - more often than not - be the smartphone in your pocket.
Legal in Colorado now too. Although unclear if the Feds would intervene.
I mean, you'd also probably want to shoot at something other than 26mm. The image quality from the "telephoto" lens and wide lens on the iPhone (and any other flagship) is so bad it's distinctly noticeable even on an iPhone sized screen, compared to just the iPhone's main shooter, let alone a discrete camera.

Traditionally, the "default" focal length, for being close to the amount of distortion the human eye has, is 50mm - so quite a lot tighter than the iPhone's main shooter.

The iPhone look is a combination of extremely deep depth of field, not particularly pleasing bokeh, and digital sharpening and smoothing. Image stacking can make up for the lack of light on a tiny sensor with a slow lens, but it can't make up for the depth of field.
It sounds like you're pretty biased, and that's fine. You do you.

But I'm pretty sure that code pre-dates reliable access to vertical sync from applications. Either via XProperty notifications from the compositor, XPRESENT, or actual glSwapBuffers() and/or equiavalents.
This is true but you're also living in a significantly less developed environment/society. And the widespread corruption/crime in society is depressing - you're competing for high quality realestate with these people and they will be your neighbours/social circle.

Also a lot of work capable population is moving to higher standard countries (brain drain). 1/3 of my childhood friends already left.

Like you said a lot of stuff is still cheaper, income tax is insanely low if you're contracting (~22% tax total).

It's definitely a trade-off.

TBH if I didn't already have a child I'd be moving west - and even now I'm seriously considering it instead of doing an "upgrade" here like you say.
A Disk Usage Mystery
https://archive.ph/7S8Pu
I accidentally left my silicone spatula at the bottom of the sink too long with some potato skins. It is a potent weapon now.
How many crimes were prevented? Thousands of guns per year were accidentally or ignorantly (or even defiantly, but nothing happened) brought on board before 9/11, too.

The TSA makes rules and then enforces them. Their ability to enforce their own rules doesn't make them effective.
these comparisons are always amusing. no one takes their DSLR everywhere, so the "real world" comparison would be iPhone vs nothing.

heck, even if you had your full frame DSLR in a bag with you all of the time. Unless you're photographing something "slow" like a sunset, you would lose your shot by the time you get to your bag and pull out your camera.
I was going to suggest comparing it to other developed countries' practices vs their rate of high profile terrorist attacks, but then I realized it correlates the other way. Spain and Italy hustle you through an old-school metal detector, but going into Israel I thought I was about to be beaten down with a rubber truncheon when I forgot the piece of paper I had in my pocket.
They also get hot after microwaving, which for inpatient people like me is a deal breaker.

E: obviously I can spend extra effort to handle a hot glass container, but I'd rather deal with container without that property. Even with plastic containers there are some that gets suspiciously soft / weak after a few minutes in microwave, and then there's ones that stay sturdy and cool enough to handle. Half the point of microwave is convenience.
Every field is filled with technical literature that is complete bullshit. The entire point of consulting an expert who has been in the field is they have spent enough time to sift through that.

There is significant literature on functioning perpetual motion machines in physics as well. If you were to read it and report on it, that would make your reporting shit.
The containers may last forever but the lids don't.
Your misrepresentations of my argument and assumptions about my feelings aside the no true Scotsman is this in quotes:
“Don't know about Amazon, for all I know about their disfunction they could be actually running the company without any performance statistics.”
The counter example you are discarding is the fact that the Amazon ceo said that it was simply a gut feeling and not based on any data and they are a successful company who is willing to do rto based on control with no consideration for productivity (all of your speculation aside those are the facts we have to work with). You are trying to disqualify this data point based on your assumption that something is wrong with the company and no “non dysfunctional” (or no true company) would allow wfh. You then point to Goldman Sachs as a “true” company that did rto and should therefore be considered in place of Amazon. This assumption is not supported by your example (Goldman sachs) which actually has research supporting the opposite but that’s beside the point of you attempting to protect the assertion (companies will not do rto for purely aesthetic/control purposes while it may decrease productivity) by discarding the example of Amazon which is just that: a company pursuing rto without (as far as we know) knowledge as to how it affects productivity whether negatively or positively; it was done based on a gut feeling of management.
Nice set of assumptions about someone you don’t know though, I’ll be disengaging now.
It's from a language called BOOT which is parenthesis-free Lisp!
> Yep x2, for a website built around startups a huge number seem to be against a solo founder bootstrapping apps successfully

x3

Solo bootstrapper as well, ~20K ARR on one SaaS app about to launch another.

It's clear to me there's money to be made, and yes engineers tend to overweight engineering effort and underweight distribution.

Make something that makes someone's life better, saves or makes them money, and ask a fair amount for it.

That's what I've done and have modest recurring revenue after only 6-8 months or so.
This website is surprisingly useful. Recently I had to decide whether I could bring my ezpass transponder on the plane, and a quick search revealed a similar page answering exactly that question. Compare that to flying in Europe where afaik most airports won't have such detailed lists of ok/not ok items, to say nothing of the national differences.
Totally agree that it’s a social problem. But it’s getting worse, not better.

There are hard security rules that you should always follow, for example, never click on links from an unknown sender. In the last five years I’ve noticed a trend of bureaucracies in every institution now want you to violate generally accepted security rules for their own convenience.

For example, I got a text from a new number saying (sic) “we’re your dentist office and we’ve changed over to a new system, please click this link and provide some sensitive PII for us ahead of your visit.” Although I had a dentist appointment coming up in a week, I called their office to confirm the appointment, no one over the phone asked me to do anything different, so I ignored the text.

When I got into the office, the receptionist politely told me that I did not fill out the patient forms ahead of my visit, and that I should have received a text message, and now they had to print the forms, which is a problem for them because they’re trying to go paperless. It was a very polite interaction, but the subtext was that I violated an implied contract with their office to engage regularly with them.

As members of the public, we’re asked to click on links from places we don’t recognize, to support the functioning of bureaucracies. Everyone engages in this behavior. I’ve found financial and insurance companies to be the worst offenders.

Regardless, institutions in authoritative positions are opening up massive avenues for social engineering by requiring the general public to ignore security best practices to interact with them. It succeeds in reducing administrative costs from them, but introduces systemic risk that the public is paying for in the form of security breaches.
Or it's because she is often fishing for a contrarian position to take. I can't remember the specifics but when discussing electric cars for example she just comes across as whinging to own the eco people.
You can swipe left/right to go from one full-screen window to another. So it's good to know the order.
>Sometimes these artists also forget they are entertainers.

That's exactly what I (and many others) expect from artists. We don't want sing-and-dance men and women to amuse us.
I see your point and I think you’re right. Notation is more limited. To clarify, notation is more precise for me due to my limited ability to differentiate well enough by ear.
It is perfectly plausible. Plenty of musicians enjoy playing live for lots of factors other than "wanting others to enjoy". Whoever else is on the ride gets to enjoy too, but that not the main goal. Also, this is how most artists make money, so there's that. This argument is like saying that pro sports players wouldn't/shouldn't play in stadiums if their main goal isn't the consumption and enjoyment of other people.

Also more on topic: it is also not implausible that he enjoys playing his current songs for an audience, but doesn't really enjoy playing older songs.
It's about preventing mistakes and everybody makes those. If your company or institution is a target for spies, you want to avoid anything that makes it easy for an attacker.
Did you know you can install GBoard (Google's Android keyboard) on iPhone? I would never be able to use an iPhone without it.
Because, ironically, a show that only rich people can afford to attend will be pretty terrible. Rich people tend not to loudly enjoy the show, so the atmosphere isn't there. This is bad for the rest of the audience and for the performer. It's hard to put 100% in when all you can see is a bunch of people staring solemnly at you.

It happens in football (soccer for my American friends) for clubs like Man Utd (and probably Man City now) where ticket prices are out of reach of working class fans. The visiting fans make a point of trying to out-sing the local support then insulting them for only being there because the club is winning trophies. All football fans know the song "where were you when you were shit!"
Yeah I guess the sensible thing for every other western nation would’ve been to watch the innovation of “plane hijackers are now both murderous and suicidal” and not make some changes to their security regime.

Also, yeah, air travel is a global system. Are you proposing that we just let people fly from other countries with no security infrastructure to the US? And your view is that this somehow makes sense?
"Look, idiot, if you do not perfectly follow all of this op sec, your money could disappear at literally any moment. In which case, sucks to be you. Oh, and also those crypto exchanges where people leave their money - those also have a good chance of disappearing in the night. Best to keep it under the digital equivalent of your mattress."

I will stick with a bank which is regulated to protect my money, and heads will roll if funny business happens.
> The vast majority of photography now is being done by people who aren't photo gear heads, because almost all of the gear is more than good enough.

And Chelsea said in that video that for around town her phone makes more than adequate shots, and it's an easy way for to simply capture a memory.

But given that they often frame pictures of their trips to help remember them, they won't be printing and hanging up any photos from their Italian trip from their phone.
It kept producing more idiots when we didn't treat them like this and this is easier so fuck it.
I think that the author was trying to stand in the same position for both photos, but didn't have a wide enough lens on the DSLR to match the iPhone. It's actually much weirder if the two photos were taken from different locations to approximately fill the same amount of the frame with the subject.
If you don't know how to sell, There's no point in worrying/focusing too much on the engineering side. While the engineering side is Important, People have to buy the product first for you to be able to earn anything.
Why would Tony want to get into YC? He's already making enough money that he "hit the brakes" while answering to no one. Sounds like a better deal to me than being some tech gazillionaire's sharecropper.
It takes 1 minute to heat up many meals and there is no cleanup or gas in the air.
I thought their goal was collecting vendor certifications.
Amazon-KDP-Automater: Automate Book Uploads to Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP
The scope of use is very underspecified. If your program is disconnected from the internet, all remote execution bugs stop being security bugs. If you can provide specific input to run arbitrary code into a program that already requires you to have elevated privileges to run, it is not a security bug. Etc, etc.
The surprising bit is that anyone would think there was room to swing a golf club. I can’t even stand up on a plane, and I sure as hell can’t sit properly.
And author of this article is happy about #1 on front page of HN https://twitter.com/tdinh_me/status/1705597632876626166

And there is one with critique of HN comments, like https://twitter.com/LBacaj/status/1705601091981754482

> @LBacaj This top comment on HN, to this post on getting to $45K/MO, captures everything wrong with the developer mindset today.
> ”everything has to be crazy hard technically or it’s not valuable.”
> You’ve all been duped into delusions of grandeur, only so they can take advantage of you.

> @circleseer HN has become the old man yelling at the cloud meme

> @madmaxbr5 A pizza shop is just a thin rapper around the agricultural supply chain and restaurant equipment industry. The recipes are centuries old. Zero actual innovation.
An ideal test would involve tough situations (poor lighting, low shutter speeds, high ISO), and post processing later to be professional. For better or worse, they'd only be one winner in such a test, and by a long shot.

Personal anecdote, when I got my first google pixel I was enamored by all the power of GCam I had heard about, especially at night. Unfortunately 20 minutes into my first photography night out I quickly learnt all about the hardware limitations of my Pixel 5. Still a great camera, but by "smartphone" standards.
>Anyway (off on a tangent) the point is that people go to Lou Reed concerts to remember when they were in college making a mix-tape including "A Perfect Day" for their boyfriend.

I think those are precisely the type of audiences someone like Lou Reed would hate to have.
That sentence does not mean that.

That sentence means, we (the hackers) have no idea what BambuLab (the company that makes this printer) is going to do in the future, so please don't do things that would help them make it harder for us to hack these RFIDs in the future.

Yes, but what ink jet printer did you buy?

In this case, this printer prints 4x as fast with 2x the quality of all the competitors on the market. Would you then still not buy it based in this theoretical, hypothetical, future con?
I don’t think that all my choices are always the best choices for everyone.

Sometimes I don’t even think they’re the best for me, but I try anyway.
What makes them a joke in this situation?

They have pretty clearly outlined on their website, and in airports, for years that weapons--even toy versions of weapons--are not permitted in carry-on baggage.

A lightsaber is not a real weapon, thus, the TSA allows lightsaber toys in carryons. (Note: this assumes the lightsaber is plastic. TSA agents are treated to assume metal rod-shaped objects as batons or similar, so metal lightsabers generally can't be in carry-on.)
I've heard various things about VTE over the years including:

1. They "like" xterm because i get value out of screen tearing and feeling like they can catch what is scrolling by (even though it's literally seconds slower)
2. They don't like the 40 fps cap it currently has because it predates reliable access to vertical sync information in applications.
3. They are using the GTK 4 port which draws with cairo and uploads surface data on every frame update.

The patches I put together for VTE this week (while having some down time with Covid) address a portion of that by making it render fonts/rectangles/emoji/etc on the GPU using GTK's OpenGL renderer (which I also wrote a large portion of).
Are there theories for how it proliferated in this area? The article didn't mention anything.
> “you cannot sell medicine X for more than $Y”

This leads to shortages.

I am speaking from experience here. I'm an anesthesiologist, and with three exceptions I can think of, our drugs are all off-patent, so their prices are basically a function of production costs. But the federal government of the US, which buys a lot of drugs under the VA and Medicare, has a rule that you can't increase the price by more than X% per quarter (or year, not sure). Now, we all agree that this sounds like a good regulation. Right? Nobody can just raise the price of insulin by 40000%?

Except that generic drugs really don't make much money, and when one company leaves the market for a given drug (there are usually only 2-3 manufacturers per drug), the remaining corp(s) can only make up the shortfall by moving to 24-hour operations (in the short term). Staffing that means hiring more people and paying overtime. So the cost of production... doubles, at least.

The part that is missing: it's a drug that sells for twenty cents for a sterile ampule. Doubling it to forty cents is not going to break the bank. It's cheap, it will continue to be cheap, and yes - in the long run, someone will set up a line to make it for ten cents and sell it at twenty. But in the short run? You run out of drugs. I've seen it in almost every category of anesthesia drugs (induction, opioids, paralytics, paralytic reversal, etc.) in the last ~20 years. You'd think that "not being aware during surgery" would be one of those things that people would care about, but it isn't.
I am not an indie hacker and I find this story great. The author is genuine and shares interesting insights. The tone is humble. He recognizes himself that MRR is a risky metric and that you need to keep building new products all the time.

Finally, the "sheer obsession with money" is not at all what comes across in the post. A lot of it is about lifestyle topics, making news friends, etc.

Honestly, I find your comment completely out of touch with the article.
Most non-VC founders I've ever met start with the humbe goal of earning a living and feeding their family (and, of course, building a product that the market needs).

Definitely see more greed on the VC side and in more mature companies, especially when PE or acquisitions come into play.
> I don't think I've ever encountered a problem where terminal emulation would be too slow.

You don't notice it until you get into a situation where the terminal (emulator) insists on showing you everything flying by, instead of just skipping to the end, in which situation you may be waiting a really long time. Some emulators also cannot deal with, say, 1 million lines of scrollback and searching.
What’s the size of a photon? You seem to be suggesting that the limiting factor is the physical size of the sensor, which is totally absurd. Photography optics are not even close to approaching the limits of physics.
"Susceptibility of Angiostrongylus cantonensis Larvae to Anthelmintic Drugs"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9255552/

> The macrocyclic lactones (ivermectin, salamectin, moxidectin) and the imidazothiazole levamisole, were the most effective drugs, with IC50 ranging from 2.2 to 2.9 µM and a rapid onset of action. Albendazole, the most widely used anthelmintic in humans, had a slower onset of action, but an IC50 of 11.3 µM was achieved within 24 h.

Also mentions "pyrantel pamoate," which i think may be available in pet dewormer formulas.
No shit, but the article is making the unreasonable claims that:

1. This hack is not a result of a device vulnerability.

2. That whatever technique is being used to install spyware cannot be defended against (i.e. with an OS patch).

That is simply impossible if an actual executable is installed on the device.
as a contented xterm user, none of these "modern gpu accelerated terminals" really excited me. But the care shown in correct output by the author really grabbed my interest. I probably won't change, as I said I like xterm, but I am going to try it out.
NYPD 'robocop' to patrol Times Square subway station
Do you feel the TSA makes you safer?

My issue is mainly that the security crap is applied when there is no connection to the US occurring.

If that poor security theatre stayed within US borders it would be more palatable to us outsiders, then we could make adjustments for that and carry on.
Are there any no plastic microwave containers that doesn't get hot?
The recommended shelf life may be three years, but the meals can almost certainly be used long past that point, with only modest degradation.

I'd agree that a month's supply is excessive. Three days to a week would be far more reasonable in most cases. The goal is to tide over until other resources can be found, which in most cases will be a few days.

Where longer-term nutrition is required, far more conventional long-lived foods will be more appropriate: bulk grains, dried beans, canned goods, powdered or dried foods, and freeze-dried foods. These can come from normal household stocks, and simply be rotated as part of normal food purchase and preparation.

Refrigerated or frozen goods will of course spoil quickly without power in most cases (though could be viable for cold-weather climates where cold storage ... comes with the territory).
>but the prosumer photography market is as alive as ever,

I don't think you can really mean 'ever' here. Compared to the 1990s? The prosumer market might finally be starting to bottom out, but a lot depends on how much further smartphones improve.

Analog photography is popular, but it is not making large amounts of money for camera manufacturers, as most people are using second hand gear.