skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(50% of the city is zoned for single family and the rest has height and density limits) "The market will not solve the housing crisis!"

It's the 'stop hitting yourself' of housing policy.
Absolutely, when there is a plethora of submissions about the same story in that sort of time frame ("this week"), the result is repetitive discussion, which is bad for curiosity. We all those "follow-ups" and downweight them (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) and often merge the threads: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....

However, that's really a disjoint case from what we're talking about here, because once enough time has gone by to clear the hivemind caches, an "old" topic becomes "fresh" again for most readers—especially, of course, the ones who never saw the article before, but also for ones who know it as a classic, and so on.

The FAQ defines "enough time" as "a year or so"—we leave some wiggle room there because sometimes it seems to need a bit longer than a year, and sometimes a bit less is ok. This has been the rule on HN for a long time, well over a decade, and it has held up well over time - I think it strikes a great balance.
Sure there is a problem, but the article is literal bs. Obviously most people are not homeless, so they found some place they managed to afford. One clue is that they are looking at "median home prices". Nobody buys a median home, they buy one that matches their needs and budget. If nobody is able to bid on a home for a few months, seller usually lowers the asking price rather than changing their mind about selling.

We can talk of unaffordable as buying a home leaving the buyer with little extra cash to spend on other priorities or unexpected hardships. Or discuss specific drivers of high housing prices, such as NIMBYism, regulation or labor shortage. But it helps to have conversation on non-stupid terms.
Safe system programming was already an issue in the 1960's, ESPOL/NEWP already had unsafe code blocks.
It’s a bad grocery store and an equally mediocre pharmacy. HEB does both better, faster, and cheaper.
Cheap and safe payments are of tremendous utility.

The problem is that anonymous payments are essentially illegal under current regulations designed to protect the large incumbent businesses.

Cryptocurrencies could render paywalls and signupwalls a thing of the past, allowing you to pay a fraction of a penny for a page view automatically in browser without an account.

Such systems are illegal.
disclosure: work at Google

This makes sense if your genuine perspective is that you don't have a monopoly.

Like if I sent a bunch of emails saying "Hey guys, we are making great progress on committing genocide" - people would say "wtf man, we don't commit genocide, we just make software, why are you talking like that?"

Then you're all like "shhh don't say the G word..."

I'm not sure what you did in the company, but unless you had a VP+ level position, how are you qualified to know whether Google has a monopoly or not? Like, how do you have omniscient data on what competitors sales look like? You're just speculating in an unhealthy way. And that's why people told you to be quiet.
Looking forward to the day this becomes common legislation.
Toyota's killer firmware: Bad design and its consequences (2013)
Not to my knowledge. Source: I know a neuro and ortho.
> Price would be definitely something that could persuade me to take the number 2 service

Sure. I guess what I was trying to say and didn't really do a good job of it is that the best network, if they price their service properly, should undercut everyone else. That's basically what it means to be the best, that they can offer global bandwidth for less money than anyone else.
Yeah, clarified that.
thunder isn't open-source though?

you should try REST Client:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
One of the best changes of the last 20 years is the quiet you can have in your home because of the lack of landlines. It was collective insanity to have such a loud device constantly interrupting us.

I'm surprised that my older relatives, some old enough to have grown up without phones in their house, don't leap at the chance to get rid of them
GP - "another way to think about it is that it’s a difference of 16h"

You - "That’s the diffence."
A quick browse just showed me that $300K can buy you:

- A studio condo in Durango, CO with < 500sqft

- A 3-bedroom townhouse in Gooding, ID with ~ 1000 sqft

- A 3-bedroom townhouse in Tremonton, UT with ~ 1400 sqft

- Nothing in Pullman, WA

I don't consider any of those to be overpopulated metro areas. And I do consider $300K to be unaffordable for even above average income starter families.

If you move into overpopulated metro areas like Denver, Boise, Salt Lake City, or Seattle, the prices double and more.
Id say marketing. What this episode has shown me, is that there are actually loads such clients. Many of them look kind of similar (in a good way), and provide much of the same functionality.
A picture is a record of a point in time and you can’t change the past.

I don’t think either of those things are true. Both can be changed, and are often changed. Much of what we ‘know’ of the past is wrong.
Interesting fact, Changi was a fairly brutal prisoner of war camp where allied forces were kept by the Japanese during world war 2. My grandfather's brother was kept there during the war.
Pro: a cool and useful looking technology

Con: it's from Google so forget about trying it yourself any time soon

I used to be a huge supporter of Google's products, now the name is an instant red flag.
This is extremely misleading. See:

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

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

Flagged.
My last four flights used only stereo 3.5mm plugs.
I swear to god, heavy computerization has been a net-negative in 90% of business cases, and it’s only because it’s been extremely beneficial in the other 10% that we have fooled ourselves into thinking it’s a generally-good idea.
You're still fundamentally conflating "aren't logged" with "are logged, but chats expire".

Consider what would happen if a company deployed a system of microphones across their offices such that all in-person conversations were logged. They'd then look at these logs, discipline people based on "private" exchanges etc.

Then when they got into some legal trouble they'd say "oh, we'll keep the microphones and surveillance practices, but expire the records after X days".

That's fundamentally different from the situation of simply removing the surveillance. A court could very reasonably conclude that the company is structuring its affairs in such a way as to avoid court oversight.

I've worked at other companies with similar expiry policies. It's well known in the industry that everyone does this to avoid discovery.

For the employees it's the worst of both worlds: You don't get privacy, and you also can't look up some valuable exchange that happened 90+ days ago.

I think the courts are right to call companies on this particular line of bullshit, and very much doubt that the government could force companies without the proverbial microphones everywhere to install them.
I'm sure they have lists of easily exploitable elders. You aren't on the list. It's still a problem.
> It was collective insanity to have such a loud device constantly interrupting us.

Not to mention all the bruised toes and shins from running for it. Especially prior to answering machines being ubiquitous, at the risk of dating myself.
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You don't need PN junctions for an AM radio. Accidental point-contact diodes might be enough nonlinearity (for mixing) and rectification.

Here's a fun jumping off point for a deeper dive:

http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/
Yes. 100 times of this. Everyone wants to cramp into SF and bemoans it's unaffordable. But what about where the jobs are! It's clearly unsustainable to cramp all the people in the big cities. Instead of working to spread the jobs out but let's have 100 story buildings.

Everyone wants to have their cake and eats it.
but what's the point if those people aren't interested un you? those who don't need the feature, have no reason to buy it, and those who "have a reason" for it will not benefit from it.
Nope but someone could certainly build it (which includes us of course). It would be particularly useful to distinguish interesting threads from posts with zero comments or uninteresting comments.
Some people in certain parts of tech. In the Stack Overflow Developer Survey, the average number of hours worked per week in the US was 42 [0]. 2020 may have been a weird year, but not weird enough to make 60 normal.

I would consider whether your employer is trying to normalize 60 hours to exploit you, rather than it actually reflecting reality.

[0] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#work-hours-wo...
If you would like more info on that topic... Was on HN back in early summer. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36620608

"A recent international research study allows us to quantify the difference between the broad population and the tech elite. The data was collected from 2011–2015 in 33 countries and was published in 2016 by the OECD (the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a club of industrialized countries).

In total, 215,942 people were tested, with at least 5,000 participants in most countries. The research aimed to test the skills of people aged 16–65."

Summary Page: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/skills-matter_978926...

Executive Summary: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/skills-matter/execut...

Key Adult Proficiency: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/skills-matter/adults...

Nielsen / Normal (focusing on computers): https://www.nngroup.com/articles/computer-skill-levels/
Yeah, I am sure poor people prefer to give dozens of billions every year to Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop, General Dynamics, BAE et caterva instead of affordable public housing and public health.

I see the homeless living on their tents, the inner city blacks and the white unemployable rednecks gnashing their teeth in unison: "Don't you dare buy a single F-35 less to give us some fucking stinking doctors!"

That's exactly how it is, a perfect democracy.
Local “Who is hiring?” browser (no analytics) – requires Ruby
I think you miss my point.

I try to earn a competitive salary, as I’m sure you do. Why shouldn’t she? You, she or I may be bad at our jobs. That makes our employers foolish - it doesn’t make you, she or me bad people for trying to make a lot of money.
What's a Base Unit?
For validating the actual values and types in config files, I've been planning to use JSON Schema to define the configuration data and then validate files against it. But I haven't seen others talk about that a lot - is it something I'm missing?
"Multiple marketing calls per hour? Why?"

I imagine answering these calls gets you added to lists of easy marks that those companies sell each other.
I would argue that authentic is a relative term, and actually helped me understand the product more easily. IMO, it is “authentic” because, compared to other image fills, it tries to fill in the data using real data from other photos.
I live in a house that I could just barely manage to afford the payments on when I bought it 15 years ago that's more than doubled in value since. When I drive home from work I drive by hundreds of houses that are two-three times the size of my house that I _know_ I couldn't afford the payments on if I had to buy it for what it's being appraised at right now (based on actual sales of comparable houses in my neighborhood). I'm doing well, too, and I can't help but wonder... who the hell is buying these houses and where the hell is the money for them coming from?
Where are you going to find a home for $5-10k anywhere in most of the world? Even in Kabul - the capital of a pariah state - property is selling for $50-150k [0]

[0] - https://maskanyab.af/property-type/houses/
I'm sorry, but I don't see how that difference is material to the HN title.
Jerome has levers to nudge things up or down to implement policy. But he is not the final arbitor. The market is. It always is.
I can easily generate one every few minutes with a few CPU cores on my desktop, could be a cute dynamic background :) it’s a delicate balance to run on stable enough hardware that has low latency. The Ampere card that’s running this is taking 280W running this in PyTorch and cuda so it’s running a little warm for residential computing
I mean, sure these $10k houses exist in the poorest counties in the country (WV and KY coal fields, Mississippi black belt, etc) but that's not a scalable solution. These counties only have a few hundred houses of excess housing capacity, and very little economic base to keep those houses maintained
I wrote this some years back and used it to help me find a job. It is dead-simple and definitely not as fancy as some of the other browsers. But it is purely local and your data doesn't leave your machine.
When people don't know many facts about an issue but it affects them personally they rely on ideology to form opinions. e.g. They follow what other people on team red or team blue think. Or just apply a pre-conceived notion of regulation being the solution, or de-regulation being the solution. Hence you get counter-productive conclusions like new supply in the form of new luxury apartment construction being the cause of rent inflation.
OTOH, whenever somebody is explaining their multithreaded async code lines on a web page or in a book, there a graph is shown, since it seems to be the ideal metaphor. Just not for implementation purposes...?

There's definitively some hard limitation in dimension, though, so there might be the idea that, if one can only show problems of a certain limited complexity visually, why not do all the lousy (text-based, relational/reference-based way) but universal way that at least can be stored and edited everywhere.

So a central question might be: can we have a universal gain from, let's say, a three dimensional notation that still does not limit the problem space to these dimension.
>Certainly a brass headboard doesn't have a semiconductor in it.

Are you sure?

http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/els/photocell-el.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_rectifier
Kim Kardashian did it pretty well with crypto. Elizabeth Holmes was exceedingly good at what she did. Brian Kolfage did exceedingly well at conning people into millions. Bernie Madoff was only 5'7'', SBF is only 5'8''. This is a short and certainly non-exhaustive list.

I think given sufficient charisma and just enough but not too much mystery around the product alongside short term promising returns anybody can fall for what's being sold.
I have always assumed that is a way for Google to normalize granting the position permission.

You could "pair" apps with devices if Bluetooth position spyware was a concern.
good point. for this money you can order someone to visit you. not in the USA of course
Oh. Interesting. In the US, FM goes down to the high 80s. And while I've definitely been in AM dead zones, there's usually barely any FM stations in those places too because there is no audience.
> When do you get anything personal done?

This is why my stomach drops when this discussion turns into "the whole organization should shut down for another day". That's what I need a day off for. To go to doctor's appointments. To watch a contractor when he's working in my home. To talk to the lawyer planning my estate. Those people need to be working for me to get the full value of my extra day off.
"Low-code is about creating instructions for a computer to execute or interpret. These instructions form a computer program, typically in a domain-specific language (DSL). For instance, low-code is often based on search-based program synthesis, and synthesis usually targets a DSL carefully crafted for the purpose."

If that's the definition (and I agree that it is) then 90% of my code is low code, as that's how much is XML, XSLT, and SQL. In C# .NET 8, another 5% is Linq which is a DSL that I consider low-code.

I have friends who work for a company that sells a million dollar low-code data platform. Business is good.
Hex and Co. Built a Beloved Gaming Community–Now It's Organizing
I'm sorry but I'm tired of hearing "move to South Dakota" as the solution to the housing crisis.

> if you don't choose to live in an overpopulated metro

oh, you mean where the jobs are? Yeah how selfish of people to want to live where they can find work, or where their family lives, or where they grew up, or where there's a variety of food places and stuff to do.

The real problem is zoning. Most of these "overpopulated metro areas" have a pretty low population density because apartments are banned in 99% of the city (due to exclusionary single-family zoning). If townhouses & apartments were actually allowed to be built over the past 50 years in most American cities, there could be easily 3-10x the amount of housing available, reducing sprawl and driving down housing costs. The pendulum is swinging back and zoning is starting to loosen up, but after decades of bad policy, it's going to take a very long time for it to actually make a difference.
Stablecoins came close to moving as much value as visa in 2022 [1].

The use case for crypto has always been clear. There is a lot of demand for digital cash, some from people who operate outside of the law, but also from people who lack access to good banking and payments infrastructure (think activists, sex workers, citizens of nations with unreliable monetary systems).

Now that the speculative mania finally seems to have died down, what remains is what actually provides real value: a robust, modern and reliable financial infrastructure that provides privacy and does not make arbitrary decisions about who has access.

1: https://cryptopotato.com/stablecoins-settled-as-much-value-a...
That feel when you work at a job where you can't work from home.
UTM is alright, but the GUI leaves a lot to be desired, which seems to be a commonality between desktop hypervisors; I have never liked Parallels and VMWare Fusion seems to be rotting on the vine and has its own equally baffling quirks. I would really like not having to shut down all of my VMs and close their windows to get the "library" window back open (shocker, some of us can and need to run more than one VM). I would really like to be able to see the settings of a VM, again, without having to shut down, find the library, and open the settings from there (yes, I know, I can't edit them while the VM is running, I still want to see the things!). It makes troubleshooting and complex configuration such a pain in the ass, that I usually give up.
You might want to visit this link:

https://stallman.org/saint.html

"Sainthood in the Church of Emacs requires living a life of purity—but in the Church of Emacs, this does not require celibacy (a sigh of relief is heard). Being holy in our church means exorcizing whatever evil, proprietary operating systems have possessed computers that are under your control, or set up for your regular use; installing a holy (i.e., wholly) free operating system (GNU/Linux is a good choice); and using and installing only free software with and on the system. Note that tablets and mobile phones are computers and this vow includes them.

Join the Church of Emacs, and you too can be a saint!

People sometimes ask if St IGNUcius is wearing an old computer disk platter. That is no computer disk, that is my halo — but it was a disk platter in a former life. No information is available about what kind of computer it came from or what data was stored on it. However, you can rest assured that no non-free software is readable from it today.

In addition to saints, the Church of Emacs also has a hymn—the Free Software Song. (No gods yet, though.) Hear the song sung by Saint IGNUcius himself."
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I am struggling to find information on this initial northwest Semitic alphabet that you mention.

Your logic is sound, but I’m just not finding any info that backs up what you’re saying.
That’s great news, thank you!

Offtopic nitpick: I think you mean to use ~ as the symbol for approximately. I noticed it in the release notes, as well. I would be mistaken.
In my reply I said the effective gain is 8 hours.

No matter what kind of math you do, working one day less doesn’t give you two extra days off.
sorry. nothing to see here. 4 months for failure to testify. not related to crypto fraud etc.
Pytorch on my M2 max using the MPS backend has pretty decent performance to be honest?

It's significantly faster than CPU. Something like 100x using sheet
The article's title exceeds HN's 80 char limit and so had to be shortened.
Yes, people with decent education are almost never causing trouble, no matter the country of origin. They can find legal paths to improving their lives, while migrants with difficult background (and their children) have very difficult time doing that. Sweden isn't like the USA in the 1800's, you need education and decent language skills for any good jobs. Free education is no silver bullet that suddenly turns masses of illiterate people into doctors and economists, because even under such system there's competition for university spots.

Sweden quite simply took in way too many people who would have required a lot of help to integrate, stuffed them into bad neighbourhoods and gave them free money. I'm sure many companies have benefited from this supply of slave labour, but for the society as a whole it has been a disaster.
IDK, when I think authentic, I think "genuine", and no image generation is genuine by definition. this is not a bad thing necessarily, but it's important to frame these things correctly.

ultimately we oughta think about what we are referring to. if we are talking about a photograph taken by someone, the authenticity is ultimately coming from the combination of the photograph and camera used. so when you think of a genuine photo in this scenario you expect it to be fundamentally taken by the user by a particular camera to create a particular photograph. you can use devices to take a photo without pressing the button, such as a timer, but the photograph and camera are both fundamental to the authenticity of the image. if the camera is no longer entirely involved in the generation of the photograph I would say that it is no longer genuine.

Reference driven as described in the article is more appropriate, but alas it is verbose. normally such pedantry bores me, but in this case it's pretty tantamount to what it is being presented in this case.
Except that the mobile robots don't take video of their own area, but of the public.

A security camera at your home doesn't have wheels.
I answer the phone every time a scammer calls and put the phone back in my pocket without hanging up. Yes this might increase how many calls I get, but that's ok.
> This originally was mandatory during early 2020 COVID-19 economic uncertainty as a way to cut costs without doing layoffs.

I'm surprised I've never heard of this solution before. I think it's brilliant, especially for engineering roles where we can still make rent on 80% pay.

I would gladly move back and forth between the options as I get more or less burnt out with work, or take on a new extra curricular.
we have an overabundance of housing here too, though. LendingTree research pegged it as 16 million empty homes.
Can somebody who works in the industry explain why it's so difficult for telcos to trace and block a high volume of dodgy calls with spoofed caller id that are likely originating from overseas?