skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Percent of income spent on housing, energy, transportation and medical have all increased since Nixon up-ended the US economy - food was the single exception which you cherry picked.

Nixon's actions couldn't have come at a worse time - right at millions of Baby Boomers were coming into the housing market the money with which to build housing was constrained. The supply hasn't kept up with the demand since then. Each decade since has seen housing reach new highs when adjusted for inflation.

Even the looming Boomer die-off won't change the situation much. For one, they're the longest-lived generation in history. The other is there's decades of pent-upped demand for housing. The simple fact now is the majority of Americans will never own a home. That's become our norm and it was policy set in motion over 50 years ago by Nixon that led us here.
Opposite of FI/RE? How to spend to increase work happiness?
I realize that I don't fit in with the FIRE folks, I like my job and want to continue working even if I have financial independence.

I also feel like one of the best investments would be making my job and life as enjoyable as possible, so I want to continue working.

So for example, I've bought a nice keyboard, I like having a decent enough car to make my (short) commute enjoyable. I really like having high end headphones so I can maximize my music enjoyment while working.

What other ways can I invest in making work enjoyable?
In that case prettier will put the code you formatted over multiple lines into one giant line spanning multiple screens. This is especially relevant for method chaining.
Why does this post link to a renamed fork of Paper-QA (https://github.com/whitead/paper-qa) which has made zero changes and is 19 commits behind the original?
I don't know what you're talking about, what company uses that language?
I use FreeBSD as fileserver, serving NFS to linux clients.

What do you suggest as an alternative? SMB/CIFS was -- when I last looked, which was a while back -- much slower for this use case.
This has been happening since ChatGPT became publicly available. For a few weeks I had the misfortune of having a ChatGPT-generated Stackoverflow clone overtake actual SO as the top result for technical questions.

I've read that Google is desperately trying to adjust their algorithms to prevent SEO-optimized GPT from rising to the top, but they seem to be struggling in that battle.
To push the development of the ComfyUI ecosystem, we are hosting the first contest dedicated to ComfyUI workflows! Anyone is welcomed to participate. Why should you participate?

- We have amazing judges like Scott DetWeiler, Olivio Sarikas (if you have watched any YouTube ComfyUI tutorials, you probably have watched their videos).
- All the workflows for the contest can run on OpenArt’s cloud for free (coming soon later this week). You upload a workflow and others can run directly on OpenArt without hassles.
- We have amazing cash prizes - 5 categories and 3 special awards.

Check out https://contest.openart.ai/ for more details.
Ask HN: Channel-Specific YouTube Player?
This is a complete shot in the dark: About a week or so ago, someone here posted an interesting project where they had made their own youtube video player allowing it to only offer up content from a select group of channels. I made a point to circle back to it, but I can't find it anymore. Anyone have any recollection of the project/author?
Brother and Canon are both really good examples of long-term thinking in Japanese companies, along with Nintendo.

All these companies still have their original core competency: Canon still makes optics, Brother still makes home equipment like sewing machines, and Nintendo to this day has not discontinued their playing card products.

Yes, you can buy Nintendo playing cards. I have several sets both modern and older and they’re very good.

These companies think in terms of decades and half-centuries. They may fall trap to occasional trends, but they’re not the ones who rush into a market to innovate; Canon started making a clone of a Leica camera and happened into doing the first indirect X-ray system in Japan, as a single example.
Haha you're spot on. In the codebase I inherited that was everywhere.
Tandy TRS-80 Hard Drive Alignment [video]
All these high precision munitions actually decrease civil casualties comparing to ww2 carpet bombings.
That example is only interesting to the layman. All the big SEO tools let you export the top pages from a website. You can get 20 million successful topic ideas in literally five minutes if you want.

You can go to GitHub and grab a repo that documents Linux manual pages and convert that into 10,000 articles overnight. You can do the same with Wikipedia and their 5M+ articles.

The hard part is getting Google to crawl and index those pages, and unless you’re willing to burn an established site then your other option is to buy either an expired domain or a site, which won’t be cheap and will block a lot of people from even attempting this.

And Google has rolled out numerous updates this year to combat this kind of spam also, from my own research they definitely clipped a lot of sites just this year alone.

But what you say is correct. This will only keep getting worse as more people get on the bandwagon. And that tweet won’t help the situation as it will get more people interested to try it. Nice little black hat marketing campaign for their product.
One of the worst offenses I've ever seen as an example of this is this trend with newer refrigerators (which I'm sure will brick after 2-3 years when the manufacturer stops supporting the software) where they have a camera inside that projects to a screen on the door. Cool, you can see what food is inside the refrigerator!

Do you know how else you can do that? by opening the door. We need to stop "innovating" features that absolutely no one needs, because clearly the result isn't a better product, just a messier, more complex one that is frequently over-engineered and under-supported.
Yeah, the API is free and has no guaranteed SLO.

I think for V2 I'll allow people to enter their OpenSky credentials, since it allows for basic auth

V3 (unlikely unless this takes off, pun intended) I might look into paid services.
> Why not set a bounty to improve Prettier instead of building a competing project just to increase the motivation to improve Prettier?

There are three reasons, I think:

1. Writing a rust compiler is separate from prettier project because of its nature. Prettier is not written in Rust, and Rust has proven to be a robust option to write a formatter, so the goal really is to write a formatter in Rust itself, and it can't be replaced with improving prettier within its current codebase

2. Asking someone to write a Prettier-branded and owned Rust compiler for $20k is not enticing enough. It is essentially equivalent to contracting someone to write some code for Prettier, with an open bid. It would cost a lot more to hire someone to write these code. Great programmer who has the skill to answer this bounty get paid at least $200 an hour (extremely conservative estimate), $20k is enough for 100 hours of work for one person, not enough to finish the project. But getting rewarded for $20k for stuff you write and will own is enticing!

3. Good ecosystem going forward. If prettier owns the winner project, prettier is responsible to maintaining and improving it. The good that the bounty did ends when the project is handed over. Prettier team get burdened with a project that they didn't write themselves, and the original team (the best people for the job) is not incentivized to keep maintaining it. There is no ongoing competition to keep this field active.
If the fix is to disable prettier for an entire file, you're proving your parent poster point.
Most of my git repos are things where I'm happy if someone finds something useful, but for several of them I'm very explicit that there are a whole lot of things I will plain refuse to merge not because I think they're not great or useful, but because I don't want my packages to be everything for everyone - I'd rather people took my stuff and built a "competing" solution with different tradeoffs if they have different needs. I'd happily even offer help and suggestions if people want to do that.

I think that a lot of projects would be a lot better if they insisted on not solving everything, and stuck to solving one problem well, and instead of merging every new feature on offer instead help make it easier for others to "compete" with them by e.g. separating out shared functionality or writing about lessons learned...

I'd love to find each and every one of my projects are no longer needed because there's a better option (now, I may be very difficult about what is "better", so that's a tall order), because my list of projects I'd like to pursue is longer than I will stand any chance of getting to in my lifetime, so if some are taken off my plate, awesome...
I was thrust into a go project after a decade of python.

The most jarring thing besides the 3rd party panics, was the idiom that nils are typed. This was different than python, java, JavaScript, c, c++, etc.

Variable loop scoping is also weird.

Writing unit tests is 10 times harder than python.

Go statically links everything, and just that seems like going back 30 years in software development. Any security in a dependency means a total recompile and redeployment.
In C land you would just update the affected library.
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
It sounds like the Prettier test suite is the most valuable part of the project. Perhaps the original project will just become a test suite with everyone using whatever tool is fastest with the best coverage.
Sorry to disagree, but you can not judge a whole programming language in one day (no matter what your skills and experience in other languages are).
Most likely what made you lose interest in Go are simply things you did not grasp yet in one day.
Are your remote workers more productive? Look at the individual, if they're under-performing or under-communicating maybe set (or at least threaten) in-office, if they're at expectations putting them in-office will only make them worse.

Also, the kind and culture of the remote environment or office matters much more than "remote vs in-office". I don't really care working in-office, but I have a lot of things I do really care about (short commute, peace and quiet, breaks, decent office temperature) which make me prefer remote whenever possible.

But of course these "let all your employees be remote vs. force everyone to the office" blog posts take this "wrong" question and completely miss the right ones. And a lot of companies who are doing RTO are for their own specific reasons like getting people to quit.
Make it part of PR reviews. These are org issues though, not AI issues.
As a non web dev I had to look this up and yeah, this looks like a very sane and clean way to separate concerns and get proper handling from IDEs:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_compone...
Saudi Arabia's grand plan to 'hook' poor countries on oil
If background checks weren't legally required, no store would be doing them. Every flagged check is a lost sale after all.
Does it matter? “Is there a record of a perfectly feasible method of terrorism being used? No? Then it doesn’t happen” ?
And you will never be slow in updating the software (or disappear) so it doesn’t matter you’re essentially creating a mini distro you have to keep updating forever! And also the user magically gets notified that there is a new version or it automatically updates the cd the user is running it from.

And the same goes for the other 20 apps the user uses of course, that all need things like an ssl library. They all have responsible maintainers that can be trusted to promptly regression test, build, package and release every update in the libraries the user doesn’t know they are using. You’d think it is impractical but actually it’s very easy. Apparently.
I just started watching this, and I'm immediately impressed with the production values when compared to today's "creator" content. All of the edits are matched. There are no jump cuts. Well thought out material vs random thoughts attempted to be cut together into something coherent is totally lost, and yet we reward those that smash cut stuff together equally for those that do it well. Generational differences in yet another example of I'm getting old (er, I am old)
My BE CS course in India did have ethics. Which university are you talking about?
Yes. My ancestry is mostly British isles, and it looks like agriculture took hold there only about 6000 years ago. Possibly arrived with the Indo-Europeans?
I've been using vast.ai for a very long time. It is like a GPU marketplace, where people rent and lease GPUs. There are a lot of VMs with 4090, and beasts like 8xA100 80GB are also available from time to time.
What he has done is awesome. Yes, I misunderstood the title at first too, but that was more than made up by the care and attention put into building this app. Building things for your own kids just for the fun of it is what parents do.

Stop dunking on people having fun.
substitute corgi with paperclip and you get another meme becoming real :p
You're assuming some place that's not the internet will exist. At least in the US with our worse than lax privacy laws, devices that turn IRL occurrences into digital data will multiply until there is simply no where left unconnected.

Is your friend running a phone app that's identifying the people around them and the topics they are interested in, all while earning a few dollars?

Where are you getting news from that's not just the firehose of falsehood? Do you really trust the people sending it to you, or are they profiting off of shoveling bullshit in to the feed?
Testing circuits I’ve made on a breadboard.

I have some addressable LED strips that I want to put on my car and make a stream of hearts and stars as I drive past or overlay my car (for one moment) with an Acura NSX or something like that. I got stuck developing a test framework for it (can’t test it fully in motion) and never figured out a good way to set it up in the car but really I should ‘just do it’.
Dwarf galaxies use 10M-year quiet period to churn out stars
Now, please, let’s discover and discuss how TikTok is designed … I think it’s even worse.
Content generated by bots and read by bots.
Lol actually more like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO-DWWFolPw
Same people who say:

1) the ecosystem keeps chasing shiny tech that is constantly changing, not boring solutions

2) everything should be written in Rust
Poes law almost got me.
Reading that thread it also seems to heat the battery more, prematurely degrading it.
> even more dangerous to apply a label like "addiction" to them

my dude, teens leaving school are crossing the street without even looking up, because they're scrolling insta. Ok so they are dumb teens. What about the crossing guard lady ? She is paid money by the school board to monitor the crossing lane so the cars don't hit the teens. Now, the crossing guard also doesn't look up, because she is scrolling insta too. How do you think all this ends ?
It's only considered a 'global sewer' when you can't infringe on the freedom of speech of people you don't like. Very telling.
That sounds like a refreshingly upfront recruiting first impression.

And the winning kid to join the Wonka consultancy was the one who not only chopped up the hypothetical company, like all the other kids did... but then also loaded what remained with debt, while self-dealing (or whatever it is they do)?
Graupel
Yes, and moreover, the important point in the article that some people seem to be forgetting is that Meta itself believed that certain design choices led to addictive products and worked to incorporate those designs despite harmful consequences to children and adults alike. It matter much less that anyone on the outside believes this or not.

Additionally, saying that children and adults should be wholly responsible for this is like saying the Chinese and not the British should be responsible for their opium addiction (see Opium War) and that homeless in San Francisco should be responsible for their Fentanyl addition. They can always just say no, right?

I worry that if nothing is done, this will only get worse, addiction will become the norm, of one sort or another, and you can just look at history of the Opium War to see where this leads.
It is mentioned in the article -- the app uses new APIs in iOS 17 for map annotations.
Nushell 0.87.0
Synology NAS can already do this without any third-party products via the ActiveBackup application. Supports Google Workspace and MS 365. It’s free, assuming you already own the Synology NAS. It replicates data from Mail, Contacts, Calendar and Drive within seconds or minutes, keeps a history of all changes and offers a nice timeline view to show and export data at any point in time.
“Internet is dead. Internet remains dead. And we have killed it. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?”
Why did it have to be Rust? Couldn't have just been "faster"? Is the Rust one actually fast? Does memory safety and leaks etc even matter for a program like Prettier?
Go is verbose. That slows me down when I’m _reading_ code. Especially when it means the chunk of code I’m reading doesn’t fit on my screen.
Because this is the first time I've heard about this contest.

But I'll do it for you, if you put up the 20k USD. Will you?
Companies take advantage of kids all the time - there's a huge history of this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_to_children

The entire toy unboxing industry is built around advertising to children.
> doesn’t take into account that Coke, French fries, and Doritos are all plant-based

By the very definition Pollan gives, none of those are food, they are lab concoctions that have been invented in the last few generations. Like the advice given about McDonalds by all the doctors and nutritionists in Super Size Me, a healthy person should never eat them.

When Pollan says "eat food", he means "real" things that exist naturally. [Note 1]

He also introduces the "grandma test" which is to say you shouldn't eat anything your grandma wouldn't recognize as food. A glass of black fizzy liquid sugar? no. Drink water.

[Note 1] I often think about this like the periodic table. Many of the elements that have been on the table forever (low atomic numbers) can be found just lying around on the ground (Gold, Copper, etc.). They are "real".

Almost all the ones added in the last few decades (nihonium, moscovium, tennessine) (high atomic numbers) never exist naturally and must be concocted in a lab under extremely specific circumstances. Often they only exist for a fraction of a second. They are "fake".

Can you find an Apple, spinach, meat or fish out in nature? Yes - that's "real" food.

Can you find Doritos or coke out in nature? No - that's not food.
I would not say that React won over svelte because of simplicity. Hate what you will about implicit behaviors in svelte, but the syntax is simple and intuitive.

React won by being early and different. Svelte came out three years after React and got (unfortunately) steamrolled.
There is. I was frustrated by all of the chaos and built a solution [1]. Not too far off from an RC1 and then a 1.0 (which is being done slowly so I can freeze APIs and avoid the typical JS rug pulls).

[1] https://github.com/cheatcode/joystick
> great stdlib

Many comments say the opposite of this. I am not too experienced, but I do know that go has a great standard library for web apps.
Honestly they are so dull and lifeless they are not even worth pirating. Like the recent Assassin's' creeds.
That's really clever and likely would have gone unnoticed by a lot of sysops!
Lobbying by whom? The beef industry certainly does a lot of lobbying itself[1].

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2017/03/wheres-the-beef-mea...
plunder and buried treasure == pirate bay?
Ok, it's just such an absurd position I wanted to make sure. So essentially you're arguing about semantics?
I used to have a really nice tie dyed Microsoft DirectX t-shirt that I got as swag from the Microsoft booth at CGDC the year it was released, that I loved to wear to Linux and open source software conferences, to make people's heads explode.
True, but it even looks more like a radar than Flightradar's radar.

Cool tool for a small kid to have.
This is interesting, but what is the application? The debate about insulating or not has been going on for a long time. Anecdotal experience has been that losses have been similar for people who insulate vs not insulating, and those losses vary from year to year. Of course there are numerous other reasons for colony loss, but if this was a significant factor, I would assume we'd see a noticeable effect.
iCloud is not very reliable for me. It did mysteriously delete photos and files. I always use it just as a secondary backup since then, never as a primary backup
Did you wrote the tool? What is the tech stack? Any weird case that was hard to fix?
Don't forget to bump up those page margins.
>For teen girls - the apps are designed to scare them about being socially excluded.

Any female magazine ever.
What are you thinking about specifically? Some examples might help others see your perspective better.
To know which interfaces a Go type implements (and so where it can be used) requires reading more, not fewer files than in Java.
Broadly speaking, I’d say the evidence decently points to yes most trans polyunsaturated fats are probably harmful. But I definitely agree, that lumping various fatty acids, amino acids and carbohydrates into big groups hides their extreme individual complexity.

One possible exception to the “trans fat bad” thing for example is that when I last looked into it several years ago, Conjugated Linoleic Acid (“CLA”) which can be either cis or trans were generally regarded as probably beneficial.

Though frankly I’ve no idea how that would be. Regular linoleic acid itself is considered harmful (at least in the historically excessive amounts we are currently exposed to). It suppresses mammalian metabolism (being required by hibernators to induce the start of their winter torpor cycling), is very prone to oxidizing and generating free radicals and lipid peroxides which cause havoc in lipoproteins and blast holes in cardiovascular tissue, and even without all that it’s breakdown products tend to increase inflammation, though this can be paradoxically hidden by linoleic acid’s ability to suppress the immune system. But somehow when you conjugate three of the things together and get CLA, it behaves differently and can seemingly scavenge for free radicals.
The fact that a clearly beneficial policy is hindered by the democratic process proves that democracy itself has real limits.
I like React but I actually agree with you re: JSX, it helps me to remember that JSX is 'just javascript' - it's a syntactical shorthand for creating a component tree, which then happens to be rendered into HTML.
Hope to try out one of these challenges soon.
Couple relatively recent HN threads that give a good overview of the vector database landscape.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36943318

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38416994

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38420554