skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you want to have a functioning "landline", why would you choose to use one bundled with your internet provider compared to a much more competitive independent voip provider?

So much this. Even the local Cable co. charges more for residential home phone than competitors like Ooma do, and of course if I wanted to go the whole way with deploying small SIP PBX in my house I could do it for less than a couple bucks a month getting a DID from Flowroute.

I guess getting it bundled by your triple-play provider of choice means you don't have to worry separately about battery backup because regulations usually require they provide that with their CPE; but it's not a big deal to hook your equipment up to a UPS either.
Pillars of the Earth is one of my all-time favorite epic tales.
It's way to simple to look at a number and say "oligopsony". You'd need to look at how the market functions and how actors on it act.

In this particular market: players make razor-thin margins (low single digits as mentioned before), and have regular price wars to fight over market share.

It seems 5 is enough to keep players from making excessive profits.
I thought it was neat until I pressed the "Preset" button on the left. Do yourself a favor and try it.
Only Twitter is an unusable mess nowadays, it's unstable and you can't post anything there without receiving bot spam. That was very rare before.
Just feed the bullet to the artist. Then it's art and 'safe'.

Does anyone know if ingesting and excreting a (small) bullet is particularly unhealthy?
One strange thing the older among us are pretty sure to notice is how in average the tech industry worker moved from a quasi-hippie political point of view towards boot-licking default.

In the old slashdot times, such a comment would probably have +5 insightful badge attached, here in HN in 2023, it is downvoted to hell.
Why? It's their work.
Not like railroads, though.
Yea, to avoid this I run tbis device(kindle non-touch v4) unplugged and get 3 months on a charge with a fairly new battery.
Rentals are more accessible to poorer people than buying somewhere so I'd be surprised if that led to homelessness.
I did kind of the same thing with a LilyGo display, and it looks amazing:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/making-the-timeframe/

I had to turn it into a generic signage platform first (it lets you show any image you want), and then screenshot GCal onto that image. It works really well, though.

Nowadays it's an electronic power meter, which also looks great.
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One of my greatest frustrations over the past few years was seeing any class of workers in the US gaining significant leverage over their employers for the first time since the 90s, and then spending all that leverage towards making it easier for companies to replace them with cheaper options abroad.
I applaud Lego for caring about actual impact as opposed to virtue-signalling. A lesser company would have gone ahead for greenwashing brownie points and hidden the findings.
Sometimes, sure, but more often than not, I see salary range: 80k-180k depending on experience.

Not very useful, that.
I know many people in this database, including myself. I'm not sure what the big deal is.

https://transparentcalifornia.com
Every time I hear "smart guns", all I can imagine is some redneck yelling at their gun, "Alexa, turn off the safety!" and a little Alexa voice coming out of their smart gun, "Now playing Turn Off The Safety by Some Gen Z Artist Nobody Has Heard Of".
The market for auto workers & meat packers was great for a long time after businesses started viewing those workers with disdain.
I meant brain to brain API using tachyons. As in particles not frameworks.
agree - it seems also that they are going to build it, whether customers want it, or regulators object
The context is that guns are much harder to come by in the UK and as such the armed police in the UK are much less likely to be met by an armed individual. So you would expect there to be far fewer times where they were actually required to open fire.
It's still people who own vs. people who earn. Those people on 400k are on the same side of the capital divide as people who work at Starbucks.

Hedgies are trying to take a cut of both of their wages so they can buy more cocaine.

Obviously theyd prefer us to think we're special little creative snowflakes who don't need union membership like a common old factory workers. Or Tom Cruise. Or the hollywood writers who just won a massive victory.
I hope to be moved over to passkeys before the password manager enshitification begins in earnest.

https://passkeys.directory/
I'm starting to wonder about the debt and housing matter more deeply of late. I don't know what avenues investments should pour into but it seems like propping up housing as some trustworthy investment return seems to be an indicator of no one knowing where else they should park their money productively. Somehow housing investment is like an admission we don't know of any future productive and lucrative prospects any longer.
> tell that to the residents of Vancouver. We've had countless luxury condos made year after year

Developing in Vancouver is outrageously expensive. Its voters chose a lengthy approval process for new housing. High housing costs are a political choice.
Not if they say you "intentionally damaged" the port. Given I only tried the charger once, this was pretty annoying.
Then why is everyone so insistent that the future of house building and nail nailing the saw?
They hire very smart people and then make them use things like Google Cloud

Use google cloud? as opposed to what exactly?
Would you mind sharing some threads where you thought ChatGPT was useful? These discussions always feel like I’m living on a different planet with a different implementation of large language models than others who claim they’re great. The problems I run into seem to stem from the fundamental nature of this class of products.
I agree, but also think it's important to remember that the federal government didn't used to just leave it up to the private sector. The government used to be a major source of homebuilding. Had the federal government not abandoned the project of building public housing supply would be higher. They're much better equipped for overcoming local zoning limitations than a land developer.
I have a hunch that companies paying $50k over to turn a house into a rental and governments paying the rent of immigrants are not things happening in a vacuum.
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https://www.duckware.com/tech/wifi-in-the-us.html#wifispeeds
> The only way you’ll get > 1 GBPS on WiFi is on a device with 3x3 or 4x4 mimo WiFi.

At 160 MHz 802.11ax (5 GHz) should be able to get 1200 Mbps at the PHY layer with a single spatial stream:

* https://www.arubanetworks.com/assets/so/ReferenceGuide_80211...

Two streams gets you 2400 Mbps (PHY).
>get an EPA-estimated 36 mpg highway,

Highly commendable, but still lower than est hwy MPG for certain compact vehicles under production way back in 19 freaking 76.

Also, here we are 50 years later and the 100mpg carburetor is still apparenrtly under lock and key in a secret high-security vault somewhere.
For some background, the old wiki was hosted on Fandom. All the major volunteer contributors are moving to minecraft.wiki, but the old page will almost certainly stay up, frozen in time, throwing trackers and ads on kids not savvy enough to locate the new link.

It is interesting to me how many games, Minecraft in particular, rely on wikis - they're very different experiences, sometimes almost unplayable, if you don't read up on how to make progress.
I know this, FTA, was part of the reason for the delay -- something to do with face recognition: "We’ve also taken technical measures to significantly limit ChatGPT’s ability to analyze and make direct statements about people since ChatGPT is not always accurate and these systems should respect individuals’ privacy."

Anyone know the details?

I also heard it was able to do near-perfect CAPTCHA solves in the beta?

Does anyone know if you can throw in a PDF that has no OCR on it and have it summarize it with this?
A recent hiring posting here from a YCombinator backed company had salary ranges of $10,000-$1,000,000.

Extremely helpful. /s
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Germany has a very good charging infrastructure. Fastned and Ionity networks are along all major routes, and have tons of 300kW chargers.
I've set up my own DIY version of this. It pulls a new image via a cron job and repaints the screen with it. I've not invested time looking into it but by default if the device sleeps, which it does very quickly after loosing wall power, the cron job will no longer run and the display gets stuck. You need to poke the power button to get it to wake again.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pillars_of_the_Earth

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Without_End_(Follett_nov...

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Column_of_Fire

4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evening_and_the_Morning

He does move characters on, because time moves on. Things get bigger, but themes remain very similar in at least the first 3 books. Similar to your description of The Wheel of Times books, I found the Pillars of the Earth very good, but the sequels were less exciting (I still read books 2 and 3 and bought the 4th one).
I dunno, Twitter demonstrated that a company which has failed to grow and achieve its goals can drop a lot of staff and ... do significantly worse than before but without totally dying. It hasn't shown that the resulting skeleton crew can succeed and pursue ambitious goals. Their performance since all the layoffs is not a story that people necessarily want to recreate.
Ok, it seems you are right. But it is not as obvious as you make it sound. I looked into this a little bit more. So, apparently software and audio recordings cannot be rented out and are excluded from the first sale exception to copyright. Movies studios tried to do get congress to do the same for movies but were unsuccessful. So, movies can actually be purchased and then rented out as you stated. But one can still not do whatever one wants with a DVD e.g. public performances (even free of charge) are not legal unless one buys the appropriate license.
"Ow! Please help me, my face is being eaten by leopards!"
Thanks for bringing this up.

I was told that there's no "shadow banning," which is obviously not true.

There's also no excuse for letting people type out a lengthy comment or question and THEN rejecting it with a throttling response. If we can't reply, the Reply button should be disabled. It's deliberately and monumentally rude.
It goes into deep sleep and only wakes up once a day after midnight. It gets about 3 months on a charge.

I use to leave it plugged in but got sick of looking at the cord.
It's like induced demand, but for houses! "Just one more house!"

At some point the market would flood and there wouldn't be as much demand anymore, but if every single person in Canada wants to live in Vancouver everyone is in for a world of hurt until Vancouver has 30 million dwelling units.
Working class means that you are earning a wage/salary and you don't own the means of your value production. Small businesses typically aren't working class, whereas sports professionals typically are working class.

If you want to talk about income levels, "working class" isn't a term you should be using; it's too big of a bucket.
I haven't looked at much of Project Gutenberg's source text recently, but in the past I found a lot of formatting issues. Strange line breaks and spacing artifacts from OCR were pretty common, and may be the source of some of the weird pauses that were in some works, but not others.

I'm a fan of Standard eBooks, where they take the extra effort to proofread and clean up the OCR results, They make works available as well formatted epub files with attractive typography, metadata, and cover art.

https://standardebooks.org/
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I wish more wikis would take this step - Fandom (ex-Wikia) has become so ad-infested that I honestly avoid looking up stuff there as much as possible (which is a shame, because lots of fans put a lot of work into building those wikis).
The Path of Exile wiki made a similar move a few years ago. Fandom was such a limitation for the community and the ads and page speed were awful. Now the Minecraft wiki will have to spend effort beating the Fandom site on SEO so that people get directed to the actually updated wiki. For Path of Exile there was a browser extension that would hide the Fandom from search results and redirect you to the new community wiki.
> That office was your moat and now it’s gone.

I don't think sitting in an office somewhere, with my headphones on is any kind of 'moat'. I'm judged on the quality and speed of work that I do. I'm also paid for understanding the underlying needs my company has for the application I'm building. I'm paid for the ideas I contribute, the work-culture I share, and for being present and consistent during work-hours - even though I work almost always from home.

Twice in my career so far I've been involved in projects "paying someone across the world" for "the same output" and they were both total disasters: ending multiple-times over budget without even being completed.

The time-difference alone would have been bad enough (where the feedback loop was often a couple of days even for the smallest change), but we found that the coders you were supposed to be dealing with would regularly be replaced, simply disappear altogether (sometimes reappearing in the project weeks later); the new developers would need to be re-briefed, and altogether the coordinating project manager halfway around the world would spend most of their time either bullshitting or stonewalling us.

Payment, taxes and other problems all just added to the headaches.

I don't mean that these developers were producing code that was lower quality (we barely saw enough to really judge), it's simply that working with someone "locally-remotely" is (almost literally) a world away from expecting to be able to just export that job to a low-wage coder in some other part of the globe.
As Italian, with half of the family from Naples area, yes, that one.
> Everyone in the industry (except apple) was doing it so nobody wanted to go against the wisdom of the collective.

The main reason. Same with the hiring boom, same with the firing boom.
Fantastic, I'm really interested in how it goes since the fandom wiki might be the single largest fan wiki project I've ever seen. I'd be surprised if they ever hit parity, but assuming people don't keep updating fandom (why would they?) then it'll be _the_ resource in no time at all.
> a vast improvement over the current situation.

Personally speaking, this only seems to be a very marginal improvement over the current situation if you consider the impact of legislation in a vacuum and magically wish away any possible unintended consequences.

Does your analysis consider that at least some employers will not want to deal with employees affected by this? You might wish that this wasn't a thing, but it is.

Maybe this legislation isn't as questionable in good economic times where companies are rapidly hiring as many people as they can wherever they can, but it seems particularly self-destructive in a market where employers have the leverage to look anywhere.

What are you going to tell those increasingly desperate New Yorkers who start getting sad feedback like the following? "Thank you for your application to our company. Unfortunately, this role is not currently eligible for New York State residents. Have a nice day."
What counts as a major city?

When you start looking in cities that are under around 400k population you start to find plenty of price points under $2k.
another example: Apple added camera continuity for latest tvOS, you might want make video call with 4k at 60fps - sure you probably want to compress it but still you want to reduce latency.

Also with smartphones that have 1 TB of storage would be nice to use it as fast wireless hard drive
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Very helpful reply.
Her art sure is provocative. If her performances were just someone staring at a wall for 8 hours there would be no wikipedia page on it. We'd be talking about some other outrageous performance artist instead.

> As Abramović described it later: "What I learned was that ... if you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you ... I felt really violated:

Putting a razor blade, a metal bar, a gun, and a bullet on the table and inviting random strangers to do whatever they like, it shouldn't be surprising what happened. One can appreciate that it tells a story about "what people are really like" or a commentary on "conformity" or "morality". But after witnessing all horrors of history, and modern day, did we really need another confirmation? Perhaps she thought the people of Naples in 1974 had reached some enlightenment and wouldn't be like that?

All in all, not trying to criticize her. I appreciate performance art, I even went to see "The Artist Is Present" in NY in 2010, but at least this particular piece seems mostly a provocation for the shock value and to gain attention.
The second amendment is not a credible deterrent to government violence. Those gun nuts can bring every weapon they like, all 400 million of them, to a battlefield and they will be wiped out in a couple weeks by the US military. They are not Afghanis who have spent generations surviving in war, they are fat fucks on blood pressure medication with gun fetishes.
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I think it might be because they want to diversify their infrastructure and reduce the risk associated with relying solely on one provider. It's interesting to see Anthropic switching cloud providers from Google to Amazon. I think it might be because they want to diversify their infrastructure and reduce the risk associated with relying solely on one provider. Additionally, AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips could offer specialized hardware support that aligns better with their AI workloads. This move doesn't necessarily reflect poorly on Google Cloud's future, but it does indicate that Anthropic wants to explore multiple cloud options for their AI projects.
If a link to /classic were on lists I would just start my HN journey there every day.
I still maintain an independent Futurama wiki from Fandom. Back when they were called Wikia, they wanted to merge with our wiki, but I insisted on a no ads policy. So talks basically went nowhere. They still have a Futurama wiki, and ours is still online. Though, these days, it's mostly other editors filling in the content, I am just a system administrator at this point.

I am still happy with our decision, because Wikia/Fandom has since then just gotten worse.
More discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37635939
Our labor market is completely different. There is no loyalty between employee and employer anymore, so job switching is far more frequent here. The hiring culture is similarly bonkers: you have to apply to dozens or hundreds of jobs to get a callback, even when unemployment is low and employers are whining to anyone who will listen that it's hard to find workers, even for low-wage restaurant and retail positions. Employers take a long time (days, weeks, months) to get back to you, they interview you multiple times, and they ghost you entirely at every stage of the process.

Imagine going through this, just to be told "You're hired, and the wage is $x/hour", where x is far less than you make now or would need to pay rent.

Salary transparency laws are necessary because workers, especially lower-wage workers, have finite time and cannot go through this process and receive multiple offers. Employers can hold out for desperate workers, but workers need to eat and pay rent, and are thus forced to take what they can get. In this hiring culture, lower-wages workers are often forced to work for far less than they could otherwise get because of the high time and effort cost of finding better paying work.
Lexan is a brand of polycarbonate.
I love Pillars of Earth too, and he has turned it into a series (the Kingbridge series) with the fifth book expected this year. I've read each book and overall enjoyed each, particular his detailed research attempting to accurately depict everyday life for each historical era, however it does feel like the same plot with new characters 200 years later with each release.
>I was a stress eater up until late July when I started with strict OMAD/keto. I lost 8kg and reduced waist circumference by 11cm.

Wow! Congratulations. That's an incredible feat. As someone re-starting this journey, I know it's not easy. Good luck to you :)
you wouldn't have seen a video its not been released yet.
This is an interesting point. So the housing problem is (at least partially) a crime problem? Because I don't think there's anything that makes low income housing _inherently_ unpleasant to live next to; it's more a question of how the people who live there tend to conduct themselves, and to what extent that behavior is tolerated by the local authorities. I don't often see people complaining about living next to affordable senior living centers, so it's not really the income level of the residents that's the problem.
I’m with you on all that. Web 1.0… so he has a fundamental understanding of how the Internet works? And was successful before blockchain nonsense came around? Sounds like good qualifications to me.
> You could make this argument for any product.

Yeah you can, because the vast majority of products are built and priced for the middle class, including

> Of course it’s more profitable to cook steaks for the rich

Food, which is why we have vast areas in the USA where it is impossible to buy groceries without driving 40 minutes or more, which means fresh food is basically out of the question, which is fine anyway because those people probably can't afford anything but over-processed calorie dense foods that store well. Because again: producing food is not done because people need food, it is done because it is profitable. Or in the case of food deserts, it is not done because it is substantially less profitable. Much like building low income housing.

And Americans being rich on a global scale doesn't mean shit when median expenses for said "rich" Americans are getting more expensive all the time. Cars are basically entirely a poor tax on Americans, so yes, we all drive enormous and ridiculous vehicles, but those same vehicles are also slowly driving us all into fucking poverty because a century ago, the car companies killed any decent public transit in the vast majority of cities, and people like Robert Moses used building highways as a way to fuck over black people on a scale not seen since the abolishing of slavery.

Our houses are certainly nicer than most people's too, which is why we're spending upwards of 1/3-1/2 of the money we make on them, oftentimes not even earning equity in the process: half the money you make, just dumped in a damn hole, never to be seen again. And each time the housing market crashes more of the supply ends up in the hands of banks and hedge funds, ensuring it'll be just as expensive in the future for us to pay to live in. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer, almost like everything is doing exactly what it's supposed to be doing.

You could live a comfortable lifestyle on an American full-time minimum wage in the Republic of Vanuatu, that's fucking irrelevant to everyone because no one who makes that wage lives there.