skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who hasn't heard of the famous trickle down effect in housing...

Where I live, building affordable housing for low and medium income is at the moment financially unattractive, so it isn't undertaken in the numbers required to meet projected demand. Offering luxury housing for the small segment of the population able to afford it, won't make a difference.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/german-housing-shorta...

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/german-home-building-...
Look at any small car. Hard to find any green.
If you have to stay at that company (for whatever reasons), it'll take time or it even may be impossible.

I once myself was in a "disengaged" state :-) What motivated me most was a co-worker, that just MADE STUFF HAPPEN, I never thought was possible by just doing it.

"Migration from svn to git? Impossible with this codebase and deployment strategy" everyone thought. He made it happen by tinkering around with tools and somehow he got it working.

"Establishing a CI? No way that is possible within our worktime"... He invested some time and made it happen.

"Code Reviews? Who needs that?" He convinced us to try it out and it was the best and most wanted Meeting we had in our whole week.

So, maybe you could try to be that guy. Make things happen, don't try to point your finger on others, just pick a problem everybody has and try to solve it. It may not work, but at least you learn something on your way. But prepare to have stamina, it needs time (about a year).
In C (and your Python conversion), the i < Random(1, 100) part is evaluated each time through the loop, not once at start of the loop to determine the limit.

So, it’s 1% that the loop ends at i = 1, if it takes that hurdle 2% that it ends at i = 2,
if it takes that hurdle 3% that it ends at i = 3, etc.

The calculation is easier if you phrase that this way:

It’s 99% that the loop continues at i = 1, if it takes that hurdle 98% of the rest that it continues at i = 2,
if it takes that hurdle 97% that it continues at i = 3, etc.

So, the probability to make it past i = n is

0,99 × 0,98 × 0,97 × … × (1 - n/100)

Note that this isn’t necessarily the case in all languages. Pascal, for example, has a real for loop where the limit is evaluated once and the index variable cannot be changed inside the loop, so that the compiler can determine the number of iterations before starting the first iteration.
Gnuplot 6.0
Isn't this just the changing composition of families? If divorce becomes more popular and marriage becomes less popular there are more single adult households which results in a smaller population density
Any reference for this? I would have guessed Copilot and Tabnine were both making money.
Thanks, that looks good. I will trying! I already have a good eMacs setup with GPT-4 APIs, and a VSCode setup, but in the last few months I have 80% moved to using local LLMs for all my projects where LLMs are an appropriate tool.
The Hack That Made China a Superpower: Operation Shady Rat [video]
In other news: Four (allegedly Houthi-) motor boats attacked by American helicopter; one escaped, three downed with full crew killed.

Consequenses for Maersk are hardly as dire as that.
This thing looks like the most inefficient vehicle of all time. You can see with your eyes that it's poorly engineered. Why did anyone believe any of the positive claims made about it?
Buddhism seems to lend itself well to all kinds of cults and abuse. If all is one why shouldn't life and work be one? Compare to the abrahamic religions with their clear separation between the sacred and the profane.
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”

Mark Twain
He's effectively writing a minimal git client in Python.

"Fun" is a good reason for this sort or exploration, but it also has its practical uses. For instance, I use `isomorphic-git` (a git client written in JavaScript) to include a comment with the relevant commit hash in my bundled JavaScript. I can run it on any machine with Node, without opening a shell or trying to find where/if git is installed locally.
I agree. But those are not social media platforms. Which I'll reiterate my point: People do not use social media platforms just to share things with friends. You don't need a social media platform to text your friends. There exists other motivations for people to use social media platforms. Without those other motivations being satisfied, the platform is no better than email/group chat/etc, which are all easy to swap to or from, making it useless.

The fact that people both use social media and have off-platform group chats should indicate that they serve different purposes.
The drop within a song is what happens after a build up.
Brexit does help with what?
No, it's dead. It has completely vanished from public conscience, I literally forgot it existed for weeks until I saw this post. People don't even bother linking to it as an alternate platform on Twitter anymore, even bsky is way more popular in that regard.

People claiming it would be a huge success and would replace Twitter when it launched were already clearly a bit out of touch, anyone claiming it still has a chance to grow now is straight up delusional.
Not sure that adds up, I translated the right side of the equality into a Python statement and it returns a number I am not sure how to interpret:

1/99 * sum([(i-1)*i for i in range(2, 100)]) # 3266.666666666667

Both the median and mean are around 12 for 10K runs of the loop.
> Note that employers often still put unenforceable restrictions on these things in their contact which I think sucks. It confuses employees who don’t know their rights and chills valuable work on open source.

This is a big reason why I think clauses in contracts with individuals should not be separable. The entire agreement is either valid or not, you can't stuff it full of a tenuous wishlist of rights.

Lawyers are far too expensive to ask every citizen to hire one every time they want to find out which clauses are blatantly unenforceable.

Maybe it made sense when the sum of laws that apply to everyone was a reasonable quantity, but at this point even lawyers only really know the parts they specialize in.

There have to be millions of pages by the time you include all the case law that set precedent.
Bizarre. The dropdown should show a list of devices Spotify is open on, and should throw an error if no devices found but activate is clicked. Does the rest of the metadata load right? Maybe the link you pasted wasn't what was expected. Your link has to come from clicking Share->Copy Song Link on Spotify.
Away from main pc so throaway account used. Happy New Year everyone - even or maybe especially those I disagreed with this year. You guys make this place worth coming back more often than productivity dictates. Woo. Lets do this.
I stayed here rather than relocate to the Bay Area because I couldn't afford the same (good) lifestyle in the SF area that I can here in Cambridge. I think your list of "old building" problems is a list of city problems and "poorly maintained building" problems more than old building specific.

I'm here in an old (1926) brick house in Cambridge and we have noise and might have asbestos inside the old boiler. (And surely have toxic residues from various items, but so do brand new buildings, possibly in greater amounts.) Noise is a people and density problem more than an age of building problem.

The rest of that list of problems can be addressed by proper maintenance/upkeep/pest control (and asbestos can as well, but intact asbestos is best left undisturbed if not required to be disturbed). Lots of rental properties are probably not maintained the way an owner-occupant would maintain their property; that's hardly shocking.
Yes, that's true. I don't want an average of 50. My initial guess of 50 is wrong. I am trying to understand why the average turned out to be approximately 12.
Yeah, but for first time users I maintain it'd be better to risk potential slowness than "fast but unacceptable user experience".
It was an English error in this case, but if you're curious, that's how you lose your tires : https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/tire-blows-immediately-aft...
This. Understanding what the kernel does and the behaviors maps to any technology. What happens when you hit memory pressure? What causes it? What things are global or local to your cgroup?

Being able to answer questions like that transcends your container runtime. At that point it's just reading the docs, looking for the the label on the knob you already know needs tweaking.
I miss using the word tarballs, I really like that word.
> Unfortunately it's an extremely poor country by European (both Eastern and Western) standards

Yes. Which is still pretty far from "failed state". Somali, Afghanistan and Venezuela are failed states. A lot of countries around the world are just poor. But in case of countries like Argentina or Ukraine, you have to keep in mind that they can at the same time be very cheap — and thus offer a much higher standard of living to their citizens that you would imagine just by looking at dollar figures.

> IIRC those developers paid(pay?) approximately no taxes which would partially explain the below subsistence level retirement pensions?

It also explains suspiciously low official GDP stats in Russia, Ukraine and other countries in the region. A lot of economic activity is completely invisible to the government and, therefore, statistics.
As someone who works in the music industry, this Snoop Dogg streaming thing is an obvious straw man. I genuinely hope people stop using it as evidence of, well, anything.

For that low of a payout on 1 billion streams, you'd have to (as you said) have a lot of people on your split sheet so your royalty percentage is very low or have a terrible deal on percentage with your label, distributor, or both.

Snoop Dogg isn't living off Bic lighter endorsements. He definitely makes a lot of money on music.
Not OP, but interested: can you deploy on a vps having only bun and not node?
I agree that vates would not make sense in the current state post conflict and invasion.

Im talking about what what could have been an US position pre-invasion. Alternatively, the US could advocate for return to Ukraine followed by a vote, or UN adminstration pending a vote.

>Not to mention that Russians in Ukraine don't have any legitimate claim to sovereignty in the first place. International law does not recognize the right of a random group of people to declare sovereignty. Otherwise Koreatowns and latino neighbourhoods in every US city would declare sovereignty and stop paying taxes to US authorities.

What about Ukrainians in Ukraine, do they have a right to sovereignty? Americans in US cities?

I think all legitimate resident citizens have a natural right to self determination. After all, they aren't serfs or slaves. I agree there are some practical limitations on the minimum size, given the current state of government and technology.
No big deal.
Please also appreciate that as a cadet at the Air Force Academy, you live and breathe these stories day and they out because they are real and absolutely insane. They are also taught as the types of things expected of us as military officers.

Worth reading about some of the insanity that Lt Lance Sijan went through before his
Completely agree.

Have you my chance come across a good SQLite vector extension that works in the browser? I haven't found one yet.
Test UFO
Won't make any difference at all? Or won't make enough of a difference for you to care about (or to support) it?

To the extent that someone in a less expensive form of housing vacates it to take newly built luxury housing, it seems like the marginal effect from that luxury unit existing is to increase the supply of total housing and of more moderately priced housing by exactly one unit.

(To the extent that new luxury housing exclusively attracts outsiders to migrate into the city who otherwise wouldn't, it doesn't help. I doubt that this exclusivity holds.)
I don't think it makes sense to justify this via insider exclusive about how 25% of Facebook's revenue would come from it in 5 years..when the comment was 5 years ago.
“Chapter 1: The Milkshake Dilemma” from “Competing Against Luck” (Christensen 2016) cited in the article is one of my favorite nonfiction book chapters of all time. The milkshake case study perfectly illustrates the jobs-to-be-done concept that the vertical axis of the disruptive innovation graph measures.

Coincidentally, I listened to the Competing Against Luck audio book on a long walk today. Fun to see it on HN.
Boom in A.I. Prompts a Test of Copyright Law
I remember taking a look at mdbtools and not using it... can't remember why now, but I'll take another look. Thanks!
The internet was a different place back then.

Everyone, especially regulators, have seen on many occasions now what vendor lock-in looks like and the benefits of open standards.
Indeed. I meant to imply both if I managed otherwise. This is just a casual warning - Linux gaming is great [as much as the industry allows]

I didn't really want to start itemizing things. Most competitive Counter-Strike anti-cheat isn't supported.

I've had some luck with the Windows VM approach instead. One may have to disable quite a lot (ie: Hyper-V enhancements) to truly trick them.
Ancient Mummies of the Tarim Basin (2016)
> the US or other nations

These vehicles do typically not "belong" to a traditional nation state. They are typically operating from (= registered in) some tax haven (Bahamas, Caymans, etc). This particular ship, I don't know.

It can be argued that the owner in this case is Danish (the Maersk Company has it's HQ in Denmark), but then again they are a publicly traded company and as such the ownership has multiple nationalities.
PTSD is under treated if you can actually believe it.

I only recently realized I had it and just had decades of coping mechanisms. So there’s often a lot to unpack especially with high performing people before you can even start looking at it.
How old are we talking about? 10+ years ago I was running Gnome3 on decent hardware of the time, and everything was snappy[0]. Now all the OS software got faster since then, so everything is still snappy on that thing despite that hardware now being old. Similarly that laptop came with Windows 7 and that was snappy, and the Windows 2021 LTSC on it is also snappy[0].

0: I care about responsiveness, so I've always disabled animations on every device, so I have no experience if some animations can run at 60fps on some hardware and 30fps on others.
> they just grow and grow and grow as necessary. 100x in 20 years if needed

Unless you want to have a livable city, and want nature nearby, yes sure, just grow, and grow, and grow. Btw, Shangaians f.e. want a word with you.

Perhaps Lisbon, as many other cities, should impose a limit on newcomers / population and area growth. It would help conditions and feel a lot.
One of the great leaders in the tech community
You can buy those though. They may be harder to find in physical retailers, but there are plenty of options out there.
I'm not using straw men or hyperbole. I'm merely pointing out that there are arguments which are structurally the same as yours which are absurd.

I'm happy to learn you don't embrace these absurd arguments - it's hard to guess what an internet stranger will claim.

Sounds like you need to ask Elon to fix his terrible safety implementations.
This article reads like someone with a single focus. If you're just optimizing for available housing units, you're going to end up creating a lot of other problems as a result. Unfortunately, we have to balance a lot of competing requirements and constraints if we want to do things the right way.
Unfortunately this is also an issue with the QR Code format which is underspecified, and this extends to a bug we've been begrudgingly waiting for apple to fix here.

The QR Code format is something like this
```
type = 'WPA'
return `WIFI:S:${_ssid};P:${password};T:${type};${hidden};`
```

So the long standing bug (feedback id 9991042) we have filed with Apple is about a downgrade issue with QR Codes. If an iOS devices connects with a QR Code it will successfully connect with WPA3. But when the device goes to reconnect it has saved the SSID as a WPA2 network only and will incorrectly only authenticate with WPA2. This is very unfortunate because the zero-knowledge aspect of dragonfly in wpa3 is a huge step forward for wifi security. Although I guess it's all still resting on AES CTR at the end of the day :-)
> It’s just not very fun to negotiate when there’s a large power imbalance.

Indeed, which is why people may choose to band together in a bigger bargaining block to improve their position and possibly even achieve greater power than the other party. For example, they could choose to form a single block that represents the citizens of an entire country.
Sure, but now you're perpetually stuck with the visual noise of unnecessary brackets _all_ the time. Maybe it's because I use vim, but I don't see this use case as terribly important because I can easily reindent with >> and << of a selection.
Well said. I was struggling to identify why this article felt short-sighted to me, and this is it: NYC has massive neighborhoods that could be rezoned into blocks of rowhouses, but are simply ignored because the subway doesn't reach them.

If we're serious about building a dense New York that people want to live in for the next 500 years, then we should probably be looking at building another half dozen subway lines into Southern Brooklyn and Eastern Queens.
> The main way to make money (and my bet) will be enabling creators to connect / monetize / build community directly with their audience rather than get disintermediated by the likes of meta and tiktok.

Do artists actually want that? It sounds interesting in theory but how much time do they want to spend on their art vs monetizing their fans?

Something similar is happening in book publishing where authors are getting deals that have less up front and higher revenue share. On the one hand, if there’s a breakout success then they make more money, but on the other they’re now forced to focus a lot more on monetization than the craft.

There are positives to the traditional publisher model. Maybe this is still better, I don’t know, but there are certainly tradeoffs
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The (beat) "drop" is genre term for a buildup of tension, sharp pause, and then suddenly resuming at greater intensity/tempo. Usually associated with EDM/dubstep.

E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db5f-A-vSyw (drop at 0:45 seconds in the video, thought the countdown to New years that takes up most of the stage should make that obvious anyway)....

Thought it's certainly not a new thing - plenty of classical music has similar moments, e.g. the 3rd movement to Beethoven's 5th symphony: https://youtu.be/xAQFJ1YpFaI?t=279 ("drop" at 5:05 when the horns blast their way in...)
People want rapists and pedophiles to burn in hell. They don't feel the same about bad check writers, and first degree murder already carries the death penalty in the relevant jurisdictions, but sex crimes generally aren't punishable by death.

It's probably because sex crimes are extremely hard to prove. If there is a murder, somebody is dead and somebody killed them. It's not that ambiguous. Consent can be extremely ambiguous. It drives people mad because you want every rapist to be six feet underground and every falsely accused innocent person to be free but there are all too may cases, plausibly the majority of cases, where there is no way for the system to conclusively distinguish them.

And then we hesitate to kill rapists because we're uncomfortable about that when it's so easy to get it wrong, but if we don't, people feel the guilty ones are being insufficiently punished. This is kind of a recipe for ending up with bad laws.
How often do we plan to spend time without getting something?

That might be fun, catching up, sexual attraction, familial obligation, or religious duty... but it's something.

Better to be intentional and up-front when asking others, rather than expecting a reason to materialize out of the ether (and them to agree to spend the time without knowing it).
The title of the article is "Copy, Acquire, Kill— How Meta could pull off the most extraordinary pivot in tech history". The submission title is just the title of one section of the article.
Let's go round again!
Sure - leads more to my point of... check the games you care about for support. I didn't really want to start itemizing these things.

Most AC used in the competitive Counter-Strike community isn't supported, for example. Only first-party VAC.
We can use an objective measure of legibility — WCAG 2 AA — which HN fails miserably.

Downvoted comments (very light grey over very light beige) are illegible. Unfortunate, because sometimes they contribute to discussion, they just aren't popular.

I meant "responsive" as in "responding to different viewports widths" which HN barely does at all.
Blown tire. Dude liked speeding and drifting but no clue of physics.
Good point, but neither of those cities are on an island.

Also in the case of Tokyo, well its Japanese, the housing is tiny (relatively), and dense. There is also a culture of tear it down and build new, unlike the states. (Japanese housing is interesting in this regard, all value is in land not the home on it)

Shenzhen is just sprawling new construction. It will be interesting to see what that looks like in 10 or 50 years. I suspect much of it will be falling apart due low construction standards, low will to maintain standing structures, 100 year lease terms not actual ownership.

Us, Japan, China, and your country of Portugal are all facing declines in population (with the US propped up by immigration). Does building more make sense? Is the decline in construction a harbinger of what's to come? It's going to be an interesting few decades.
Half of high school seniors won't apply to colleges costing more than $40k
A lot of people prefer the visual noise of { and } to having to manually fix the indentation of code and still having the visual noise of :
Didn't they start with xmpp? Going from nothing to an established standard gets you going quickly, and then modifying that past the point of compatibility is a reasonable (if potentially cutthroat) business decision. Going from a custom standard to an established standard seems to signal that they actually want to embrace it, though of course doesn't rule out that they also want to extend/extinguish it later.
What makes is more expensive is insisting on 10GBase-T. 10G over SFP+ is not that expensive; the cheapest 4 port switch (Mikrotik CRS305) is ~130 EUR.
I didn't comment about the voting itself, I asked what was wrong with my comment. There's a difference between "oh, I'm getting down-voted, this sucks" and "what's wrong with what I said?" The former is whining, while the latter invites discussion. If telling someone else what you think about their comment counts as "meta" discussion and is therefore boring then that kind of kills the purpose of a discussion forum.
Regular bios updates rub me the wrong way. Wife's lappy recently decided to update it of its own volition too. I was livid, but thankfully nothing broke. I hate that OS can do it, but I hate more the fact that bios is clearly less reliable..
Does this mean that Meta is going to build a whole set of nodes, and possibly a blockchain to implement their own app.net app network, where facebook, whatsapp, messaging, will just be apps on their own platform?
Wrap everything in systemd-run. I documented some of it here on my shitty site. Some of the memory limits have changed over time, notably the browsers unit

https://pallissard.net/2022/06/27/limiting_application_resou...

Edit: I like your user space oomd idea though, that would be killer
My 4x4 RadioShack remote control car from 1989 would beg to differ.
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