skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Adding to the challenge is Vermont’s housing shortage. [Name of large Vermont company desperate for blue-collar workers] has contracted with a local college to use unoccupied dormitories to house temporary workers brought in from other states and — on guest-worker visas — from other countries.

THIS. If your goal is to have actual workers, for sub-$250K/year jobs - then maybe that is in conflict with your other goal, of fast-track gentrification via ever-upward housing costs?

[Added details] From a quick check on Zillow:

> Vermont Key Takeaways

> Typical Home Values: $384,155

> 1-year Value Change: +5.8%

> (Data through October 31, 2023)

...so if $New_To_Vermont_Worker somehow manages to snag a no-major-work needed home for a mere $250K, and wipes out their savings to put 20% down...then the interest alone on their 30-year mortgage (at current rates) will be $16K/year. Add insurance, property taxes, utilities, repairs... Pretty obvious why young workers aren't flocking to Vermont.
As an American, it’s pretty much visa-free everywhere - and my comment is directed towards Americans.
Yup, pretty clearly just a plane that is designed to kind of look like a car. The fact that they're planning to sell as an EAB (experimental amateur built) is also basically a showstopper for any general adoption.
I think it is not so crazy an opinion that surplus value is unfairly distributed.
I really want to understand the psychology of the people who show up and comment like the OP did.

Does he work for Google? For Youtube? More than a few people here on HN must, right? But there are so many like him, it can't be the explanation all the time. Does he worship big tech companies to the point that if he shills for them, he believes that career success will rain down on him, like some sort of occupational cargo culting thing? Is he some amateur Deviant Art person, who shills for obscene copyright maximalism for similar reasons? Is it just that he does the one sort of 4chan-level shitposting that people can get away with on HackerNews, for the same reason the 4chan people do their thing there (whatever that is)?

It's weird. It's both the one topic you can see that stuff here on, where it isn't wished away to the cornfield. And the people doing it seem confident they can get away with it.
Additionally, as long as documentation is made throughout, this can still be valuable.

* Someone else can continue research, where they left off.

* The research they did, can be discussed amongst the team, possibly by a more senior teammate.

* It may reveal that further research isn’t necessary, and this effort should be shelved until a later date.
You asked "Do you have any examples of charges and convictions on theft without a prior claim of deprivation to a good or service from an owner?"

The real question is do you have an example of a judge ruling that someone can't be charged and convicted on theft without a prior claim of deprivation to a good and service from an owner? Because I'm pretty sure you are wrong.

If you were correct about your belief, I'm sure you can find an example of someone charged with murder and theft, and the theft charges being thrown out because the victim is unavailable to say something was stolen.

I guess in your imagination I can steal money from the wallet of a person in a coma in front of a cop, and get off scot free, since the victim can't testify against me?
Pro-Trump is anti-democracy, anti-business, anti-prosperity and ultimately anti-American.
Building app: mix of whiteboard/drive/note-taking; looking for feedback/advice
Hi, building an app!

A mix between drive/cloud,
Whiteboard/mind-map,
Note-taking, bookmarker app.
Mostly for pc for now, phone version to come.
Gives user great freedom and power to build and design their space for getting organized digitally.
Trying to make it as easy and intuitive as possible.

Released alpha version, have few first beta-testers, who like it.
Looking for more users, feedback, opinions, advice, help :)
There a million ways your code can break downstream dependencies, generic code is just one of them. Breaking stuff when you change things is just in the nature of it, which is why not changing APIs is so important. But I'd rather have the compiler errors you describe as something my IDE can jump to, than to spend hours poking around in opaque macro black boxes, because half of every library is a huge chunk of copy pasted code and macro magic to get around the type system.

Rust as is, is a de Bruijn criteria fulfilling proof language, with the macro system ending up as the meta language.
That very much depends. In browsers, the interface most users use nowadays, that is the complete opposite, where HEVC is not widely supported while AV1 is.
AI Librarian – AI book recommendations with wow effect
After being called out lol
Yeah but then you write out a spec that costs you a ton of time, that won't be read, or won't be followed to the letter, and you'll be known as someone who obsesses over specifying things. If you spend that much effort communicating what's needed, you might as well just do it yourself.

(I have no idea what your generalized statement is in relation to btw, so I could be talking out of my ass as well, lol)
One of his early novels. The writing was still a bit clunky, but the plot holds up. I haven't played the game, but the book is classic Lem: He uses the freedom of science fiction to explore interesting philosophical ideas, rather than using space merely as a backdrop. Though I'm unsure how they managed to convert it into a game. A lot of the book is inner monologue, if I remember correctly.
> Nail down what the requestor wants and be sure you both agree.

I don't want to nitpick but the change of a single word is going to make significant difference in the outcome, time spent, satisfaction, next steps, etc.

Nail down what the requestor *needs* and be sure you both agree...

I wish I had $20 for everytime the initial "I want..." followed by a couple of questions - or even the famous The 5 Whys - evolved into the true (business) need.
Carrots were originally purple, not orange
> I've watched direct reports operate as a "human command line", requiring precise syntax before they'll act. Don't be either of these type of people.

I've had managers give stupid orders, and seen them immediately backpedal when asked "would you write that down for me, please?"

So yeah, I'll definitely act in good faith but unfortunately I can't assume good faith on the other side, I occasionally need to be a human command line.
Ask HN: Anyone have success selling domains on Namecheap?
Hello,
I have two domain names (turbolink.io and cavern.space) that I would like to sell via the Namecheap marketplace.

Has anyone had success selling their domains on Namecheap? Is there a better way to sell these domains?
It's not acceptable and part of the reason I close many articles otherwise. Have you seen the crap Medium does?
> It seems like trying to go about the cat-mouse game in this fashion in a losing battle, because all google needs to do is just change up the names a bit each day.

That's exactly what they are doing, well I don't know about only "change up the names" but they update the script multiple times per day and uBlock Origin devs are trying to catch up.
It's death by a thousand cuts. If everyone says that their contribution isn't going to change anything, nothing will happen.

If the population of California drinks one less cup of water for one day that's 9.3 million liters saved.
Show HN: How to test ideas in 20 min and $20 with Notion
If you want a really good translation of something: the Dutch translation of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien himself praised it[0]. Max Schuchart rewrote a lot of things completely to get the exact same vibe across to Dutch people that English-speakers would get from reading the English versions.

It depends less on puns, though. Those are always hard to translate. The Dutch translation (the one book I've read the translation of) Terry Pratchett is okay, but not brilliant.

[0] Edit: I thought Tolkien praised it. I'm sure I read that somewhere ages ago. Wikipedia tells a different story: that Tolkien hated it. Personally I think it's genius that names with a clear English vibe (like many hobbit names) get translated to names with a similarly Dutch vibe. Schuchart did not mess with the Elvish or other other languages as far as I know.
No its actually that those cars sell better. Specially if you look to China its even more true. Even in the US pickup trucks turn into luxery cars with lots of tech and gadgets.

I love how tech people always believe that what they dont like nobody likes and consumers are forced.

Most people simply don't give shit if things go over local networks or clouds. People like opening an app and seeing if somebody is stealing from their car. To prewarm the car from whereever they are. And so on and so on.

And its not actually what traditional car companies want. In fact, they are in panic mode because new companies like Tesla and car makers from China have interduced these things and costumers prefer prefer it.

So now they are rushing to catch up and often doing it badly.
There are plenty of alternative teaching methods for instruments. (TBH, I don't even know what you are referring to by "classical music", but yeah, some places can be quite oppressive.)
> (And if you think women have all the leverage in the average relationship, just wait till you get to over 45 and the kids are all old enough).

“It’s cheaper to keep her” is also a saying. So it looks like she still has the leverage.
Or it's a relief because the request will get watered down and / or expanded upon the more management layers it goes through. Are those layers of management even needed? I've read some anecdotes from people working at google and co where it seems a massive management party and nothing of value is done.
Improv Theatre GPT
That's a relationship not a marriage.
Then watch PBS lool.
Example then:

GPT+ data analysis gives GPT4 access to a jupyter back-end.

I was dealing with a noisy sensor in a factory production line.

I asked GPT to remind me which averaging functions might be usable to smooth out the noise, within the constraint of a PLC with limited memory.

I got GPT to simulate the output from the noisy sensor, apply each averaging function, and supply graphs of inputs and outputs. It was then pretty easy to eyeball which function was most suitable for the task.

I then gave GPT a code-style example and asked it to provide an (IEC 61131-3) Structured Text implementation using that code style. Which it did. This turned out to be pretty close to the final implementation (after careful reading and testing.)

Because it's so cheap to do (time and money wise), I used GPT to generate quite a lot of throw-away code to get to the final result. I probably wouldn't have considered this particular approach if doing it by hand.
Question – How did you hire and pay freelancers?
My co-founder and I are looking to bring some freelancers from either Pakistan or the Philippines to work with us on an extended basis. In the beginning they will be working on the landing page, and some other front-end projects.

My question to the HN community:
- How can I hire good freelancers? I checked Fivvr, Upwork - but I don't want to pay per project, but rather have them work 15 hours per week.
- How do I pay the freelancers? My co-founders and I are W2 employees in the US. I could transfer money on Wise, but wanted to know if there is a better way.

Thanks!
I was thinking that would be a great witty to add “A.I.” to project management tools. I mean, there are so many developers that hate writing estimates that they wouldn’t complain if an LLM built into the bug tracker made something up.
At this rate, it's going to take over 700 years before we get Blake's 7
Generative AI eats search and Productivity
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Thank you Germany for forcing Netflix, and all of their users, to waste more electricity and exarcabate global warming.
Using multipart/x-mixed-replace for multi-modal chat streams
A deep dive into using the seldom used multipart/x-mixed-replace content-type for streaming combined text, audio and JSON from an LLM API.

It was a fun experiment that I think could be useful for many projects. It seems highly likely that as a tech community we are going to be building a lot of software on top of LLM APIs. It also seems highly likely that more LLMs will become multi-modal AND that no matter the speed improvements there will be many use-cases where you want to stream the data to your application rather than wait for the full response.
I'm surprised nobody seems to have caught on to the obvious sarcasm in your comment
Show HN: Whisper v3 API
I'm working on making it easier to use open-source AI models by providing simple APIs. Last week, OpenAI released Whisper v3, which showed improved performance across all its 100+ supported languages. We tried to optimize it as much as possible to be able to offer it for $0.0028 per minute (vs $0.006 on OpenAI).

I hope it's helpful for someone: https://www.lemonfox.ai/apis/speech-to-text
> It is "patent free" only because Google claimed it was

You're confusing two separate issues: patents and the licensing of those patents.

AV1 is not "patent free" at all. There are plenty of patents that pertain to AV1 owned by the Alliance for Open Media. AOMedia gives you a patent license to use AV1 royalty-free:

https://aomedia.org/license/patent-license/

https://aomedia.org/press%20releases/the-alliance-for-open-m...

What's happening separately is that patent licensing organizations are forming their own patent pools in an attempt to seek rent from existing and future AV1 users. Their claim is that they have patents essential to AV1 and you must pay them a licensing fee.

Sisvel is trying it on: https://www.sisvel.com/licensing-programmes/audio-and-video-...

And so is Avanci: https://www.avanci.com/video/

They characterize this is as providing AV1 implementers the "opportunity" to minimize the risk of being sued:

https://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?Art...

These grubby patent pool organizations are the practical reason why it's better to stick with royalty-free formats and protocols on the internet.

And why more work must to go into making sure internet audio and video formats are and remain royalty-free.
The other pitfall of trying to clarify all assumptions is that your message then becomes too long. Then the reader actually will skim over the main points, which makes it worse.

So yeah, it takes a lot of works to communicate efficiency, no matter the length of the end results
The engineers of ASML, TSMC and others wake up every day, shoot lasers on liquid lead to generate light with extreme short wavelenghts, to make smaller and more performant chips.

And web developers wake up every day so that no one notices their work.
Probably sexual selection, but not just that. Many people like to have some basis for feeling that they're better than others - they're smarter, or better looking, or stronger, or richer, or a better cook, or something. Well, the elites have defined a game of social status (specifically status within their circles). This is a game at which they win and we lose. This lets them feel like they are better (literally "our betters").

But if you think about it, they defined a game where they not only get to write the rules, they also get (collectively) to be the judges of the contestants. And, no surprise, they keep coming out the winners and everybody else keeps coming out the losers. For everyone else, the only winning move is not to play. Let the "elite" play their narcissistic status game by themselves. Instead of trying to imitate them (and failing), find something real do and to be.
I think a big part of the problem is that maintaining an expert community is expensive. In addition to hosting costs, moderation in particular takes a lot of time and effort to ensure quality of contributions remains high. Eventually, the people who host such a community need to get paid one way or the other, otherwise they simply won't be able to keep it up.

Such communities will eventually die due to poor moderation (because moderators aren't compensated, so don't bother moderating at all or are driven by ulterior motives such as ego) or due to attempts to monetise the platform which kill the user experience.

In that context HN is different in that it has a lot of resources dedicated to it, including a very diligent moderator, without any apparent need for the site to break even or turn a profit. I'm not sure how YC views HN in the context of their business model, but it seems that HN is effectively subsidised by its broader business which IMO is why it has managed to thrive for so long.
I'm not entitled to free anything, and I find that a disingenuous framing.

If a monopoly uses it's monopolistic powers to squash all competition, then forces model a don't want, then the idea of a free market and my choice in provider is a deliberate illusion.

So no, I'm not entitled to free stuff, but neither are they entitled for me to play by their rules. You're on the web? Great, good luck in the adblocking arms race.
I don't understand really why these patents are granted. Software is math and math formulas are not patentable.
The patent (and copyrights) system today is actually subverted by greedy players and instead of promoting progress and sciences is serving to enrich the middlemen by artificially SLOWING the progress.
> Never understood this comment, if you use keyboards instead for shortcuts the trackpad is hardly something you care about. this seems like a comment from Apple users who justify the trackpad

Or as shockingly as it seems other people might have preferences which are different to yours and which are not somehow inherent inferior to yours.

> else, even though the rest of the world has no problem not using Apple trackpads.

If you go few years back same could've been said about appalling battery life, poor screen and build quality and a dozen other things. I had not problem using computers back then because I didn't know it could be better so just had to deal with it. Going back to something objectively inferior is not that easy (e.g. I almost always used an external mouse until the first retina MBP, I haven't really felt the need to since then except occasionally for gaming).
No, that is precisely the point.
i remember a friend of mine had falcon for the amiga 500. i don't think he EVER managed to take off without some "cheat" being activated.

a rather difficult game.

f16 however was a joy. happy days
My xz2c works fine with a cheap splitter. They break once a year or so. The latest one works with PD which is nice.

But. A few years later the usb port is almost unusable.

Also note that, at least for this old phone, Sony updates stopped two years from when the phone was released which is pretty bad, especially as I bought it a year after it was released.
No, that's not true. As I said, that depends on where you live. For example, in Ireland, for children born outside of marriage, only the mother has an automatic right to guardianship. The same is true in the UK unless the father is added to the birth certificate. The same is true in most US States - no automatic parental rights without marriage.
Point #2 is correct, but there’s no good reason it _has_ to be correct. Why can’t we tell management that a question they asked is non-sensical? The answer of course is that you don’t buck the hierarchy. But this adherence to hierarchy doesn’t actually help the business. It seems like this is a value which needs to be more easily discarded.
Seems HN changed the link. the developer of the extension explains it on the home assistant forum. They are using firebase app check which uses remote attestation.
3000 km back and forth is 20 ms.

The web software I've seen has multiple layers and parts with much larger latencies than that. Requests going through all kinds of layers that are geographically distributed, spammy responses, slow database queries etc. (Postgresql by default doesn't even log anything under 10 ms).

Maybe for FPS games it doesn't make so much sense but for everything else...
How about a link people can actually read?

https://archive.li/69gz9
Saving folks a googling: TRC is "TPU Research Cloud" (https://sites.research.google/trc/about/)
Moissanite is also irrational if we push on this. Why does it get a complete pass?
First time I read The Lord of the Rings, I was 12 or so, my dad was reading The Two Towers, my older brother was reading The Fellowship of the Ring, so I decided I should just start reading The Return of the King.

So my first memories of LotR are Pippin riding Shadowfax behind Gandalf.

When my dad finished book 2, I dropped book 3 and switched, and then to book 1 when my brother finished the first book, so that was a bit of a fragmented experience.

Maybe there's also a lesson here to read books with your kids, or at least where they can see you read. It's contagious.
60 is a 'highly composite' number (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number) - it is the lowest number with 12 divisors.

30 has divisors 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15, 30 - eight divisors. But 24 is lower and also has eight (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24), making 30 less 'special'.

60 is the lowest highly composite number with 5 (and therefore 10) as a factor, which makes it a strong attractor when choosing bases for measuring systems.
You do not have the right to stream video for free from YouTube.com.

That they offer an ad-supported service does not entitle us to an ad-free service.

Limiting playback without ads is not beyond the rights of the information service provider.
Are you sure it's decriminalized for selling? Selling and consuming are not the same thing.
Yeah, the high-capability outliers are used to coast in any subject and may or may not have time to adapt to the laborious requirements before failing.

Also, anybody with "street-smarts" can see the cost-benefit ratio and perceive the benefit is kept much smaller than some other, easier subjects, while the cost is artificially inflated.

What it does select is people that really love the subject. And is at least a little bit smarter than average.
>That's hilarious if people think any marketing company would go to the effort to brainwash people, if such a thing is even possible. Marketing companies leverage what is already there.

Just compare today's problems with problems from 200 years ago and you'll see how many of them were created ad hoc.
> Either way, nowhere here are patents helping or protecting citizens/consumers

Patents are for not for helping or protecting citizens/consumers. Patents are solely for protecting intellectual property.
If I use Ad Nauseam, Google gets to deliver the ad on their website, the ad buyer gets the click so their marketing department can show how successful their campaign is, and I get to control what is displayed on MY computer with the side benefit of poisoning the data profile that attempts to track me around the entire internet regardless of whether I am paying for an ad free experience or not. Seems like a win for everyone.