skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Back when I was debating between buying a triplex and ending my gap year, that fairytale land was the northern Twin Cities suburbs.

Looking at current stats, a pizza driver could still do that today (working 60+hr/week since you can't get ahead of rent on a reasonable timescale otherwise, saving for 1yr if you go with a low-down FHA loan, 2 if you need 20% down). It's not ideal, and if that high school student has a kid or anything it won't be an option, but a 4/15 schedule still left me with a 3-day weekend, a full night's sleep, and I just cruised around listening to the radio and eating free pizza. It wasn't harder than college by any means.
this was announced a year ago https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/07/new-imessage-apple-id-s...
> Hundreds of millions of people around the world somehow manage to live perfectly decent lives dedicating themselves to the personal purposes of their choice and to giving their loved ones a bright future. Much of this is what you might deride as "consumerism". It's generally a good thing to aspire to, and without having to have some collectivized state-level notion of "purpose" crammed into one's life.

Citation? Haven't we seen a rise in despair and loneliness (and ultimately in people dying of these things), even as people's material condition got better?
> One of my hard requirements was property with a separate physical building for a home office.

At one place I lived where there was no room I could dedicate to being an office, I ended up buying a standalone wooden 8x10' shed, insulated it, ran power and ethernet to it, and it served me very well for a couple of years.
https://archive.is/K58Zz
Tourists only go to the beach areas, north has mountains and can be quite cold
I mean sure, owning it obviously has a lot of cons. But it also has a lot of pros:

- You know when you pick it up that it's going to function well, because you maintain it

- You know it isn't going to have sticky handlebars because the last person to use it was eating a candy bar

- You know it'll be charged, assuming you keep your devices charged
The crazy thing is current is pulled, not pushed.

Give something 1,000 Amps and if it needs only 5mA, it'll only pull 5mA unless something is bad wrong in its power handling
I worked for a company that provided such software to auto manufacturers, and I assume we had competitors, so yes.
What about just a divider? I got this wonderful free standing curtain rod that uses extendable floor to ceiling rods to keep it in place. It’s really good at breaking up rooms
Or make each pin a robot, that can standup and bring itself to the correct spot
Here's a disc golf app idea:

Film yourself in slow motion from front and back angles throwing a disc, upload the video to the app.

App then overlays you with different pros so you can see what you're doing right and wrong. You can compare angles of arms, torso, etc.

I would pay for an app like this.
>This was already discussed and debated to death some time ago, but you must have been sleeping or something

Or, you know, living my life. Didn't know we're supposed to keep tabs on everything written on HN everyday, thanks for letting me know, and in such a polite tone to boot!
As mentioned in other comment, it was announced well before this month: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/07/new-imessage-apple-id-s...
Markdown's complexities reside almost entirely within its syntax, sure. There would have to be some kind of formal grammar, or a very, very deep suite of test cases. Without a formal grammar, you introduce risk through ambiguity. But, Markdown's scope is relatively limited, so that risk is unlikely to result in catastrophic failures (as long as you disregard that whole "embedded HTML" thing).

generating Markdown is tricky, but that's fine. In this scenario, Markdown would be hand-written and machine-read. There are plenty of use cases where Markdown wouldn't (and shouldn't) replace HTML, and "computer-generated web pages" is one of those use cases.

I think the biggest hitch would be metadata. A lot of Markdown parsers have support for a YAML header, but that behavior is heavily implementation-dependent (even relative to other markdown features). Coming to a consensus on this could get ugly.
https://security.apple.com/blog/imessage-contact-key-verific... is from October 27, 2023 though.
Ah hope it was clear enough in the answer :D

What your see in the link is the copy paste of a discussion between me and the model in question, that I pasted into gpt4 with the instructions to evaluate it.the answer with the votes in 10/10 is gpt evaluating the chart between me and the smaller model. The smaller model is producing the text after ASSISTANT, the question that I do as USER is part of a fixes script that I run with every new model so that I have a sort of a validation set before doing some more rigorous testing.
Yep, very same. Mine isn't technically a separate building anymore but it was built that way in the 1950s. The second owners combined them with a second garage stall.

The privacy implied by two locking doors between me and the tiny children is immensely valuable to me. The short walk to and from work helps me clear my head between contexts.

The space doubles as a guest space when we infrequently have them. It's great for guests to be able to just leave for the night without having to drive to a hotel and dealing with all that implies.
My first thought was: Renovated shotgun house.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_house
I live in probably one of the most culturally diverse and unique areas in the US and it’s not even on the West coast.

YMMV :^)
This seems somewhat similar to Matrix's (and other apps') approach of comparing keys to verify identity (plus with I guess some extra hardware requirements and attestation).

I'm interested to see what the uptake is among users, because even though Matrix has done a fair amount to smooth this process, verification is still a pretty large source of friction from what I can tell, and I'm not completely sure how it could be made easier. I guess the idea here is that once you verify a contact that syncs to their other devices, but in theory Matrix also does that, and in practice I still see some friction.

It's possible Apple's implementation will just be better, or that they'll rely on attestation to such a degree that they'll be able to skip some other friction points. But even with the public verification setup (which gets rid of the problem of needing to verify devices at the same time as the person you're talking to), I'm still slightly skeptical that users are going to copy and paste a code into their messaging app to verify contacts. My experience is that even popping up a button and saying, "do your friend and you see the same emoticons" is too much work for a lot of users.

Maybe I'll be wrong. And I guess ideally if iOS users get used to doing this, they might be more tolerant of doing the same thing in other messengers too.
This sounds very much like QGraphicsScene (https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qgraphicsscene.html#details)
I've played with creating some chest x-ray images using diffusion.

I almost gave my ER friend a heart attack after I sent him X-rays with flipped hearts and even missing organs. He was very confused (these was early in the year when GebAI wasn't so mainstream)
There's a 25% tariff on Chinese Autos right now. The volvo ex30 is actually made in China (Volvo was bought by Geely). But the ex30 is highly reviewed in previews, coming out for $35k after the tarriff in 2wd model. This compact suv apparently has great quickness and is a fine car. It's the harbinger of doom.

I'm sure the us will pass more protectionist legislation, in Europe they is at least early talk of blocking Chinese EVs because they can't compete too. Volvo has a plan for a Euro based factory for that reason.
PuTTY 0.80 released, includes a fix for the Terrapin vulnerability
I personally love Oxygen, but it depends on what you're after.
This. I also use open source self hosted LLMs for exactly this reason.

Sure, I use OpenAI APIs for certain heavy lifting tasks that don't involve sensitive information, but for anything sensitive it's self hosted LLMs all the way.
Funny you mention that. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2023/07/20/robert-shiller-says-ri...
No, this feature has been in beta builds for quite a while.
I like text-based editing but found plantuml lacking in this regard, so I created my own thing. It's basically a html/css template engine with a library of (hand-drawn-ish) components. You can use it as a VSCode extension ('WireText'), featuring a live preview.

https://gitlab.com/saxion.nl/42/wiretext-code#wiretext-vscod...

A (non-text-based) alternative I kind of like is Quant-UX: https://quant-ux.com/
Captivating. It's very nice to see new Wikipedia pages I would have never visited before (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_informatics)!
>I don't see the business-customer aspect as essential for enshittification to happen

If you don't make this distinction, then "enshittification" is no different from "P/E-style value extraction" which has been around long before tech industry. The destruction of Sears was done purely on a profit motive but did not happen in the same manner of tech platforms today.

Furthermore, I don't see how a bowling alley is now a "platform". These are individual businesses taking cost cutting measures to keep the lights on because the sport is dying.
I think that's a great analogy, because yes, if you have a live sample of Ebola in a sealed glass jar then that will very much help you. (I would not recommend leaving the lid open by giving it SYS_ADMIN, but that doesn't mean that glass isn't a fine material for containing pathogens.)
I imagine the wind from the ball passing through would disrupt a sheet of fog too much to see the pins bounce around, but it would be cool to see 10 narrow columns of tightly collimated fog with pins projected on them.

Maybe there's a big sheet of glass suspended at an angle around the last quarter of the lane. The ball rolls under the glass into darkness and is visually replaced seamlessly by the virtual ball shown on a screen hanging on the ceiling, facing away from the bowlers- a Pepper's Ghost effect.

The first issue with this of course is that it would only work from certain angles; the possibly larger issue is that you'd have people rolling bowling balls at a giant sheet of glass.
I even looked into those but I think they start in the thousands, and are targeted at corporations with actual offices.
Kata containers would like a word
I was in the same situation as the author and the purpose of my comment was to share my experiences. It’s hard working and raising kids. So I fully appreciate their position.

And that’s the last I’m going to say on the topic.
Heh, never heard it pronounced as "viz code", that's unique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO9yHm8zKsk&t=23s
You could build or purchase a prefabricated shed-style office (with AC, power, etc) in your backyard without a permit (<120 sq. ft for CA) in most areas.
Noise cancelling headsets only help isolate yourself from the outside world and won't help to cancel noise for your audience. Good microphones are built to pick up every tiny sound around them including all the background noise - that's what they're meant for. And buying a crappy "noise cancelling" microphone is just going to ruin the good quality sound that you're looking for from a standalone mic - you might as well just add a noise gate (which also sounds a bit jarring and isn't ideal). One option is to instead buy a shotgun mic but that's also not an ideal option for a live stream where your head is probably not going to be in one location for long periods of time.

Basically, no amount of hardware or software can fix a bad sound environment.
I think for many the decision to live in a HCOL metro area has never really been about proximity to work.

I moved to Los Angeles without a job simply because that’s where my partner and I wanted to live. We were both made remote, but that doesn’t change anything.
How did the U.S. achieve a soft landing? Four simple theories
This was a hoot to read. Thanks for sharing it and popping into the comments.

I was laughing all throughout because you have so much space but are still stuck with a difficult optimization problem.

My partner and I are semi-Digital Nomads and over the years of working from “home” I’d guess we created makeshift office space in about 30 different temporary homes. We are usually somewhere between a 1br and a 3 br, so it always takes a ton of creativity to wrangle the desks, chairs, noise isolation and manage to keep out of the way of your living space. We’ve worked in kitchens, bedrooms, living room couches, closets, woodshops, unheated out buildings, cabins, chalets, hotel rooms (with the furniture against the windows during a hurricane), poolside, and basements during heat waves. Probably my favorite was a 14 person camp bunkhouse in a national forest that I had all to myself with a little space heater to get me through the fall chill before hiking over to the main house after work.

My biggest trick is to make sure at the end of the workday you can close a door, shut a curtain, or throw a big sheet over the desk so that you have some physical separation between work and home.
> God forbid a flash mob storms the Capital again and writes a slur on the wall without killing anybody

They took a calculated and premeditated swipe at the seat of power. Even a liberal democracy built on loftier principles than Machiavelli's cannot afford to let this slide.

The mob's purpose in the the plan devised by Eastman and enacted by Trump [1] was to serve as a distraction / excuse for Mike Pence to launch a contingent election with fake electors who would certify Trump as the victor, thereby terminating our democracy and ending the American experiment. Pence refused to do this and that's why the peaceful mob started chanting "Hang Mike Pence, Hang Mike Pence."

I have to admit, before that point in time I saw Pence as the diametric opposite of every political belief I ever held -- because I did not realize that a basic belief in American democracy was up for question. I thought it went without saying that we all shared that value. We did not. But Pence did, and he set an example of "Love Thy Neighbor" that I will not soon forget.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot
You mentioned that SOS still has a niche. What examples of current RF devices are using SOS?
When ever I see CAD mentioned on hackernews it's always 3D and never the more ubiquitous (in the construction industry) 2D documentation CAD. I wonder if this would be able to generate 2D vector files.
We went from 5 bowling alleys in the area down to 1 in the last couple years. They took out of lanes and put in axe throwing, ticket dispensing games, and bumper cars.

They got rid of all the pool tables, too :(
> When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. Meaning that a profound analysis on data is a must.

Weird to see these notes on the front page of HN, just literally two hours after I spoke about the exact point mentioned above.

I've watched the Lex-Bezos podcast a couple of times now, and that is the point which really resonated with me.

Perhaps a simple example: API monitoring shows no issues. Isolated reports of a specific failure type, such as a gateway timeout or something that could just be a one-off. Then more of the same type of (customer-reported) failures occur within a short time-period, say within twelve hours, and all monitoring still shows "all good".

Nah, the customer is (mostly) always right, and there's very likely something bad happening somewhere in the stack. It's quite natural that the watchers would rather dismiss the whining coming from places higher up in the hierarchical chain. But when the whiner is correct, the reverence of said whiner levels up and some other telemetry gets added for better alerting improved platform robustness.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm not a Bezos fan, and I think anyone who is fine with having accumulated that much wealth, should perhaps think a bit harder about, things, to say the least.
If you only have one or two zoom calls per day, I suggest doing it in your car. It's likely quieter than anywhere in your house.
Laminar fog curtains show visible disruption, but it recovers surprisingly quickly. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV4C_I0yCX8
Back in the early 2000s, I spent several years working a remote job while living in a studio apartment. Maintaining the habit of leaving the "office" at the end of the work day, running an errand or just walking around the block, and then returning "home" again really made it clear which mode my brain should be in.
Shameless plug, semi-related game I made some years ago based on Wikipedia links, where the goal is to find the page that’s _not_ linked to the others. https://havarnov.github.io/oddoneout/
I think what you're getting at is that principles (and systems) are only as good as the individuals tasked to operate them. I too saw a lot of the same of what you mention during my time there -- people parroting the surface level jargon and really abusing the concept without ever cutting to the core of what the concept should have lead them to if they faithfully executed on it. Unfortunately, I don't know if there's a good way to solve for this as a company scales to Amazon's size.
Great info, I had not heard that, it was needed. You cost someone years of their lives by that. The "authorities" always try to burry the details of the actual improper behavior behind the scandal of the leak, usually successfully.
Wikipedia cites 'Clicks to Hitler'
Lol, good question. The house is from the 1950s and originally had a detached two-door garage, without the office space. Then they turned the two-door garage into the office + storage room (which still has the door opener in it!), and added a single-door garage next to it.
I think the obvious thing to do is to replace the new temporary curtain track in my bedroom with an actual wall, so that we can walk to the office without going through bedroom, but we don't need to do that yet. It'd help with sound though, if I keep with my office in the bedroom.
Went from Vercingetorix to Olivia Rodrigo in four hops.
That’s fair. I quite enjoy the quieter pace of life in the suburbs but I do get that isn’t desirable everyone
Yay! Maybe in a good Five years(TM), I, a blind person, will finally be able to drive! Um, be driven? Ride? Anyway, whatever they'll call it when one isn't actually driving a self-driving car.
It's fascinating to me that "work from home" for many really means, "work from anywhere but the same place your coworkers are."

Comments about "separate buildings" and "renting office space" kind of underscores the real value wfh provides; less human interaction. The only problem with that is human interaction actually ends up making much work easier, not harder.
Yea, that's another excellent choice! In fact, that was my first idea before deciding to move. I bought a set of plans[1] and lumber and built a 6'x12' shed in my backyard, planning to electrify it and run networking out there. Moving happened before I got around to it.

1: https://www.icreatables.com/sheds/6x12-B-backyard-shed-plans
I see it funny when this behavior is assigned as one of symptoms of quite quitting, and Allies advice to rebellious German workers in WW2.
Well to be fair they stopped selling them until they got it corrected and were open about it. That’s a big difference.
Apple Ramps Up Vision Pro Production, Aiming for Launch by February
Despite the changes, the site still leans heavily Democratic. The party’s senators have 50% more followers than their Republican counterparts (though that is well below the 85% lead they had in October 2022.)

But these may be bot followers. In terms of actual human engagement, I see a definite right-wing bias. It seems like the stuff that goes viral and is algothrimically- recommended on Twitter leans right or center-right.
If only you told me this back in September! I'll be looking at the FRC teams solutions from back then! Thanks!
And deaths resulting from cancer and a whole list of other ailments. The act of living itself carries risk.
Did you at try to lower the noise near your partner? Looking at the picture, I think a carpet and curtains would help. (I do realize that the picture was taken by the realtor before selling to you.)

This might help to remove your partner's remaining voice from recordings at least in your current situation.
High schools in my area called the course before calculus "pre-calculus," analogously to "pre-algebra" coming before "algebra" in middle school.
Having a backyard in the Bay Area is a major economic hurdle. It’s still good advice for many people.
Sam Altman invested in age-reversal startup with "imminent" results
As far as I know, Docker still punches through your firewall by default. I consider that a pretty big negative against assuming secure-by-design.
JW, how much was the total cost and where are you located? did you need permitting?
Couple it with a nifty Peppers Ghost effect, good sound effects, and you'd have a damn compelling product.
That second point is personally the sticking point for me. No reason the less-well-off should subsidize those who have the ability to purchase a new vehicle.
Which is why leasing almost always require you to upfront decide how many miles per month you pay for.
Yep, I suggested that as well, but I assume it'd be at least 10K, since the "storage room" still has its garage door from when it used to be part of the garage. So that whole wall would need to be re-built, and the room would need to get ducting, vents. Extra 5 or 10K for that conditioning?
Soo, it might happen one day, but I'm not ready to go all in on that yet.
When dealing with a person who consistently won’t admit when they are wrong, it is better to assume they are generally wrong and act accordingly.

I didn’t try FSD, only Autosteer. There is a glitch on the road to work where Autosteer will jerk the wheel for a split second. It’s extremely alarming and it always occurs in the same spot, so it feels like bad road data.

I’ve learned to hold the wheel with a certain tension by default, leaning the car to the one side of the road. That negates this jerk.
It’s trivial to take a 2D image DALLE3 or midjourney generate and vectorize it (illustrator etc.)
The embedded db is cool, but what's the security boundary around UDFs?

I figure running "standard" SQL is safe, because it's just some functions implemented in the database (SPJ). It's not malware (maybe only slow ;-)). But UDFs that could be python or worse risk a binary are more of an open ended danger.
it's standard in France, Germany, Hungary Slovakia and Switzerland, at least.
Yes, indeed. Thank you for the additional context!
The sound would be unbearable. We are both really loud. We need some sort of door or wall between us at the minimum.

I have used those dividers just for visual backdrops in the past though, they're handy.
One thing that most people don't realize is that (full parameter)finetuned models are costly unless you run it in batched mode. Which means unless the request rate is very high and consistent, it is better to use prompts with GPT-3.5. e.g. batch of 1, mistral is more expensive than GPT-4[1].

[1]: https://docs.mystic.ai/docs/mistral-ai-7b-vllm-fast-inferenc...
The laws regarding child pornography, which were likely drafted by moral entrepreneurs[1] who created a moral panic out of it, are completely insane. Such persecution belongs in the 17th Century, not the modern age.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_entrepreneur