skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very infrequently. They are definitely useful, though. Rigor and an editing process really helps.

They can be a slog, but the effort is worth it since the information is reliable.

I want to read the newer RFCs around JMAP next.
Why I never get writer's block (any more)
What does the expression 'plugged in with local polls' mean? Is that a New Yorkism?
Everyone thinks the lowest price in the past 10 years is the "normal" price.
I am super ignorant about vector databases, but don't they store n-dimensional vectors, and aren't they used to answer geometric(ish) problems, getting the k closest entries to a particular point?

This sounds a problem more similar to what 3D physics engines can do, but generalized to higher dimensions, as opposed to traditional text and key-based database stuff.

The algorithms and data structures in physics engines (bounding volume hierarchies, kd-trees, etc.) are quite different from how a traditional database index (B-trees and skip lists are popular there, if I remember correctly) is searched and stored.
We are literally using LED lighting because it saves energy over conventional light bulbs.

And now we're going to put a screen on the wall that we don't even look at 99% of the time?
Arc has been my default browser for a few months, and I love this as an idea. Implementation kinks will need to worked out, apparently.

5-second previews don't give me much beyond the page title and maybe a subheading.

Ask on page told me it encountered an error 3 out of the 4 times I tried it, and the one time it worked it told me the article was long, so it only read 32% (I can do that! that's why I'm asking you!). But it did answer the question I asked (then errored on the follow-up).
Pistol Shrimp and the importance of owning what you make
Unrelated to this post, but you suggested (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381390) I use your company hydraulic.dev for my electron build. I ultimately gave up on it, then someone from node-gyp comment on an issue I opened about it, and provided the solution:

https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues...

Just wanted to let you know in case it's a gotcha you might not be aware of that might help you out if you run into similar problems with some of your customer builds.
A Computer Fit for the Amish
> I strongly advise not carrying around lots of cash,

It's a dumb idea to carry loads of cash for many reasons, but this shouldn't dissuade you from using physical cash as a tool for many day-to-day purchases.

While it has some bad properties (can be lost/stolen/damaged, can't be transmitted digitally, government can inflate it at will) it also has some properties that are also very valuable (relatively private, easy to trade and interact with compared to crypto and other forms of money, and can be relied on when the power goes out)
Plenty of water in space! One of a few things you don't need to bring from home- just mine it up there
There's journalism that challenges the status quo, and there's muckraking, which is the degenerate form. This seems to be the degenerate form.
I can confirm NYC was the starting ground and biggest market place for AirBnB. I had access to data from https://www.airdna.co/ in a former role.
FTC's narrow market definition unjustly targets Amazon, ignoring broader retail competition that could dilute its alleged monopolistic status.
Yeah, I don't believe democracy is the solution, just that dictatorship isn't either.
Airbnbs also make sense in this scenario:

- you get more space, a nicer room, for cheaper than an equivalent hotel

Which I'm not sure about NYC specifically, but has generally been true everywhere in the world I've gone
The counterargument is that you have to pay for AppleCare. I don't pay for anything for my phone

From another standpoint is that you're adding to a pile of e-waste
The problem is that it’s essentially illegal to build new hotels in NYC.

This is because NYC’s hotel labor unions successfully lobbied to enact a law requiring city council approval to build new hotels in the city. Effectively damning any new developments to endless hand wringing and grandstanding from NIMBYs and other interests.

Many new hotels in recent years were staffed with non-union labor, this was their way to secure leverage in perpetuity.

I’m sympathetic to the union’s position, but this law is going to damage the city’s economy and make NYC unaffordable for many wishing to visit.

https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2022/12/09/how-special-are-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/nyregion/hotels-tourism-n...
They sell the F4 with /e/OS
The hotels have always been overpriced, especially in New York City with all of the fees and extra taxes. New York City has nearly destroyed Uber and other ride sharing services in favor of taxis, and they will do the same to Airbnb to satisfy the hotels. Protectionism by another name.
Greylock secures $1B for its 17th fund
The new Google Earth is built with Flutter
Interesting fact: the first commit is 2 years old and is entitled "Boilerplate for new Google open source project".

Either they rewrite git history or it took about 2 years to get approval on making this repo public.
We had a problem with high school kids buying drugs from homeless encampments near bus stops...which is why we no longer allow homeless encampments near bus stops...because fent kills these kids (which even the most "drugs are harmless" advocate doesn't want happening).
It's funny Brian compares NYC to Paris. If there is one thing the French love is to create rules and regulations. I think the team in Paris realized, probably early on, they could work with the marie or against the marie. And work with some well-meaning regulations. Parisians were concerned about affordability and flat supply early on with Airbnb, VRBO, and PaP. NYC city hall was not and figured the market would sort itself out. Year after year the calls were growing louder about landlords evicting tenants for short term tenants, and the council continued to ignore it. People are angry, they vote, and if you piss them off long enough they can do leverage it in unexpected ways.

I was an early proponent of Airbnb, when it was just geeks renting their flats out for the weekend. But growth meant it had to take over more housing. Taking it away from residents and turning it over to tourists. I wanted it to "Live like a local" but when you have entire buildings dedicated to short term rentals none of the locals are around.
> price of rent will go down.

airbnb has been banned and regulated heavily in a lot of places already. has this happened anywhere? all i see is rents keep going up
I think you're applying a metric of well-to-do corporate workers over the needs and wants of folks who are less fortunate and don't work for a big company like you clearly did.

What about poor folks just trying to keep their phone running and quite literally can't afford to buy a new phone because they live paycheck to paycheck?

Or lets look at it more self-serving from your corporate perspective. Say, your company is coming under hard times. You need to find places to cut. With repairability you can opt to just replace batteries, no upgrading, save some cash across your fleet of thousands of phones. Your boss is happy and you save money to survive another day.

This stuff doesn't have to only be for power users, that's just how it's marketed to you.
> Self driving cars will reduce the rate of accidents which is the important part.

So says the people trying to get various municipalities to sanction the experiment. How do you think the first Walmart was sold to a town? Do you think they said up front that it was going to be a giant fucking rugpull?
Expended when and where energy was cheap, providing its benefit when energy may be expensive. Think of it as a kind of multi-year storage and long distance transmission.
Indian firms are importing Russian crude oil at a discount, mixing it with crude from unsanctioned places, refining the mix and selling it for full price on the open market as unsanctioned oil.

New Delhi is confident the US is so desperate for an alliance against China, it can't afford to do anything about it.

That's also why it expects no serious repercussions for assassinating a Canadian citizen in Canada.
Dunno it was obvious to me that s/he meant it in a half ironic jokey way as in "I don't like exercise and I say this to justify the dislike but I know that it's not really true".
You don't need to doubt, simply check booking.com: hotels are already more expensive. It's practically impossible to find anything half decent on Manhattan below 350USD/night. Before, AirBnbs (and hotels), there were many sort of half decent options around ~250.

Meanwhile, office rental space are in trouble, such an irony.

Also, while this may not apply to NYC, I will never ever book hotels on a long term basis but apartments because I just don't want to eat out but instead feel at home with kitchen etc. Airbnb or booking.com flats are my go to option wherever I go. Again, not particularly relevant for NYC simply because it was already too expensive to stay there for an extended amount of time.
This has me pumped up. Will be trying it immediately
And here's a link to the new version for convenience: https://earth.google.com/
Killed by Ken Olson? That doesn't really make sense? They still had the PC division in like 1994 long after Ken was gone? Or am I getting the timeline wrong? Maybe just slowed it.

I haven't yet listened to those Oral histories, but thanks for pointing out another that's focused on DEC.

Love those oral histories. I wish sometimes they were longer and asked some more in detail question about certain things. But I guess you can't keep people for 10h straight.

Edit: Where the hell is the video for Part 1? Doesn't exist?
Ideally it would; in practice, zoning and planning prevent supply from keeping up.
Click on something else. The Internet is a mood organ.

https://www.tor.com/2015/05/21/that-was-awesome-the-penfield...
I'm not buying this math:

"So, let's look at the math. Say a conventional single family home that's up to code costs $400,000. A similar passive house would run about $40,000 more."

Tell a builder you want a "passive home" and the price will increase 50% not 10.
Society works better if every exploitable loophole is not considered a valid excuse to steal from your neighbor.
I'd just snag some off the asteroids being mined to supply all of the other construction materials.
I rented a unit in a prewar in Hell’s Kitchen. The basement and trash chutes were roach infested. I had to go through absurd lengths to not get a roach infestation in my apartment. Taking out trash every night (into a roach infested chute), never keeping any cardboard lying around, caulking all gaps around (a surprising number of) pipes, plugging drains at night, applying bait and IGR every once in a while, having monthly exterminator visits (if the guy ever showed up), and then spraying a special insecticide I got every other week.

Even then, I used to occasionally see roaches in my unit. I can’t imagine what it’s like when you have an AirBnb with some very transient tenants and no pest control.
Even in languages with named function arguments you still end up with the same problem very often. The person who wrote fobricate(True, False, True) in python knows what order things are and probably didn't bother to name each one. You could force naming all arguments, but that gets ridiculous as well in a different way.
Cos people don't want to talk about it because it would mean admitting these sanctions don't really work as intended.

Within another 3 months we might have mainstream media finally admit that Azerbaijan and/or Turkey are reexporting large quantities of Russian gas for the foreseeable future.
Back in blackberry days a new phone would support stuff that wasn't even dreamed of on the previous device. Do people not remember the original iPhone didn't have an app store?

Back then things moved so fast
> He also routinely cites "the archives," and every single time I've checked the source he's referencing his grossly misstating things (if I'm feeling generous).

Can you give an example? I've never found a gross misstatement when checking his citations.
While you will always find stories of people who've overcome great difficulties, there is no virtue in suffering for no reason, and when possible, we use medical interventions to prevent or avoid it. The success scenarios shouldn't imply that the state of suffering is itself desirable, even if it does sometimes lead to inspiring outcomes. There are plenty of examples of the opposite, with suicides providing a counterpoint at the extreme.

The way I see this, suffering is part of life, and isn't something we can entirely eliminate. When suffering happens, there are better and worse ways to handle it, and good can come from it. But most of cultural/societal evolution is focused on finding ways to reduce or avoid it, and that's a good thing. Obvious examples like improving food security and reducing the impact of previously debilitating illnesses come to mind. I personally grew up not knowing where the next meal would come from some days. That early experience influenced the person I am today. Poverty/starvation are still situations we should continue to try to solve.

So the question really becomes: what differentiates the standard ways we avoid unnecessary suffering from preemptive options that are on the horizon, if anything? i.e. if you have a bad knee, it makes sense to see someone and fix it. Given the choice, there's no reason to choose immobility. If an embryo has a high chance of developing lifelong congenital issues and a future parent has the option to choose an embryo that is significantly less likely to suffer the same fate, why not make that choice, especially if the affliction leads to high child mortality rates?

So yes, I think there is a presupposition that suffering should be avoided when possible (it is often not possible). And I think most of the world runs on this presupposition. This should not be conflated with believing that suffering is inherently "bad", nor should the possibility of positive outcomes lead one to believe that suffering is "good".
> To me it seems to be much more trouble than it's worth.

I'm glad that use case works for you. However, an inability to imagine a usecase where that could be of value than shitting on people who say they have that use case isn't a great look.

I meets the needs of my usecase and my family. We were using plex before but since it required central login for of network use it has been on the deprecation list for me. But the exact solution is not relevant to the need and use case that makes the quite a bit less work than other options for us.

I spend quite a bit of time with my family moving between locations so, yes we have internet for that. The timing isn't always pre-planned so offline media consumption can be tough. Additionally, we may leave with a couple hours notice and spend a week or more before we come home. In which case, we'll stream media from a different location than our primary residence.

Additionally, we record/watch things off our digital tv antenna to stream when we are out of range. Which gets a little tougher for a generic fileserver.

So for us, it's quite a bit less trouble than it's worth. It's all the same things that setting up a local media setup involves with the addition of an authenticated streaming frontend that can be setup to work with multiple clients in multiple locations and multiple times.
This is always such a weird argument to me, because you know who else adds to an economy? People who live and work there.

Forcing people to commute in from Jersey City is a huge net drain on NYC's economy.
They weren't more expensive before Airbnb. If they do get more expensive now, that'd be Airbnb's doing, in the sense that they might have forced hotels to reduce capacity to offset the traffic diverted to Airbnb.

But honestly, I'm skeptical. You have something like 60+ million people visiting NYC every year. Airbnb's inventory was tiny in comparison to that. Also, tourism absolutely cratered during COVID and hasn't fully rebound yet, so there's likely plenty of spare capacity.
I thought I heard shift sounds in the demo video?
Hi Adam,

Thanks for creating and sharing this. I was using my notes to keep track of it since GoodReads was not a viable option anymore.

I have a couple suggestions/questions:

1. Is there a way to bulk edit a list? I want to most of my Want to Read books and going one by one is slow.

2. Related to the first one, when I click the "Want to Read" big yellow button, it takes about 100-200ms for something to show or be clickable. This is very annoying and probably worth optmizing.

3. When in Airlist (not sure what it means, but appears to be a more advanced view of regular list) when I click manage, nothing appears. This appears to be a bug (and maybe the bulk actions are here).

4. This is a suggestion, make it possible in the settings to configure what the home page is. E.g. I do not like feeds in any application. I would prefer it to be the blog page of hardcover.app or my library, instead of the feed, and have the feed reachable elsewhere.

5. Do you think it will ever be open source? It appears to be an amazing Ruby app, would love to see it's source. Of course the book data could be private (or public even better), but the application source code open source (or even public source with a private license, but ideally open source).

That's basically it. Very grateful for the alternatives that have been popping. Hardcover looks amazing overall.
If not then why is the city and hotel industry fighting so hard to shut them down? Airbnb was competition.
Not even Apple sells reasonably-sized phones anymore, I'm hoping my Mini 13 will last until they start making them again but there's no guarantee they ever will.
https://archive.ph/WylGW
Given TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, it's actually a question of "Would you prefer it if we took these (TypeScript) things away?"
"The measure is believed to have eliminated as many as 15,000 — or about 70% — of Airbnb's listings in New York City, Wired reported using data from housing advocacy group Inside Airbnb."

I hope this means lower rent for New Yorkers, 15,000 apartments possibly going back to the rental market seems like something positive.
How much battery life do you lose if you always fast charge? I thought batteries strongly prefer the kind of slow overnight charging that needs a garage.
Douglas Hofstader, the author of Godel Escher Bach, thought the task of creating fonts could only be solved with general AI.

https://www.m-u-l-t-i-p-l-i-c-i-t-y.org/media/pdf/Metafont-M...

The Letter Spirit project aims to model artistic creativity by designing stylistically uniform "gridfonts" (typefaces limited to a grid).
Swift doesn't have garbage collection.
> This has already happened.

Except it hasn't. Hotel prices are the same today in NY as they were when Airbnb was going full blast. Again, NYC has always had excess hotel inventory. There is no shortage that would effect pricing. You can check right now on Expedia and see that prices are roughly the same as last year and the year before that.
DC takes 8.5% of anything over 60k. That's just one city. You could live in Yonkers and pay through the nose for city and state income taxes. If you have a family and pay for health benefits, that comes out of your paycheck, too. All that is before federal income tax. Some states tax your health benefits as income, too so your state-reported income is higher than your federal.
Is this possibly an exploit of a card skimmer installed in the pump? There's an article on sparkfun about REing some skimmers:
https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/gas-pump-skimmers/all

Maybe another option is to use bluetooth to replay someone else's card info into the pump. Extra funny if the one exploiting the skimmer for gas is completely different from whomever installed it to steal CC numbers!
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Wow, some of the armchair analyses here are just so lacking in understanding beyond people's own individual experiences ("My AirBnB was dirty!"):

1. Of course hotels will get more expensive. This is basic supply and demand at work. As another poster commented, the total amount of AirBnB inventory in NYC was material. Saying "hotels still have to compete with each other" is just missing the absolute basics of Micro-econ 101.

2. Of course, as others have posted, the whole point of these AirBnB crackdowns is to make more long term rentals affordable. It's really just about shifting supply from STR to LTR, so you'd expect prices to go up in one market and down in the other.

3. Regarding AirBnB, "It might be cheaper, but you will wish you spent the extra bucks" has to be the most eye-rolling comment I saw. Many people simply don't have "extra bucks" lying around. I certainly remember when I was younger thinking there were many trips I just wouldn't have gone on without AirBnB. It's the same reason budget airlines are so popular - people know they suck, but especially in a city like NYC the expectation is you are hardly spending any time in your room besides sleeping in the first place, so people are willing to accept the tradeoff. Plus, access to a kitchen can by huge in terms of cost savings while in NYC.
IANAL, so I genuinely can't answer that, but in this particular case I'd hope so, yes. More generally, I suspect circumstance dictates. Prosecutors' responsibilities under Brady do seem to be a topic of conversation in the context of "Big Data Policing" [1].

[1] https://www.uclalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/...
Of course it's covered. You can insure anything (with very few exceptions protected by law for obvious reasons). An individual case is likely not worth claiming when considering the deductible. 800 gallons might be. But, it can definitely be covered.
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As other people mentioned, the money of owning a gas station comes mostly from the convenience store attached to it. This isn't going away, quite the opposite. "Fast" charging is quite slow by gas station standards, which means more time for the drivers to go in and shop.
What happens when 116 makers reimagine the clock?
Stick to finance, you'll get richer than doing grunt coding.
In other words, all these airbnb units will become long term rentals. Thus, residents of the city will now be able to afford to live there.
My point is that if accidental incompetence is allowed but purposeful incompetence isn't, it becomes makes it a goal to try to seem genuinely incompetent, which seems like a bad thing
You could just use the old 'ed' line editor which is already installed on any Unix-like system, including Linux and Mac OS. ed was written around 1970 to
support printing terminals like teletypes.

It's easy: at the command line, type ed draft.txt (or whatever file name you want). Then on a line by itself, type the a command (for append). Then, just type your draft. When you are done typing, type a period . on a line by itself. Then type w to save the draft in the file. Then type q to exit ed. Your draft is in the file draft.txt.
In the old days, you would then have a scroll of teletype paper with your draft on it, that you would tear off and take away to review. Nowadays, you can use another command to print the draft.

Later you can do ed draft.txt again and use other ed commands to make corrections/revisions if you like.

Or, even simpler, just use the cat command. At the command line, type cat > draft.txt. Then type your draft. When you are done, type ctrl-D. That's it. Your draft is now
in the file draft.txt. You can use cat draft.txt (without the > ) to see what is in the file.

To append more text later, type cat >> draft.txt - be sure you type two >> , if you type just one > you will erase what you have written and start over.