skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would obviously demand prospective buyer couples engage in a team gauntlet against each other as part of a dystopian championship ladder for housing. Perhaps I'd integrate "ninja warrior" aspects to the challenge, culminating in a couple's cage match. Prospects would train for years to compete in my league: building themselves up; mentally preparing themselves; needing to be absolutely perfect to have any chance of winning. Losers would be banished from the neighborhood, perhaps even the city, forced to live on the outskirts.

Or maybe some economic analogue of all that.

Anyways, the allocation is a matter secondary to the price: the point is that I can find a buyer for the lower price, and there will always be prospective buyers who think any allocation scheme is unfair, especially when they're crushed beneath the matching Ugg boots of Jan and Pat, the couples doubles doomslayers.
Not gonna happen in a million years
Also happening in Toronto:

> Over a 45 year period, 1971-2016, 56 of Toronto’s 140 Official Neighbourhoods had smaller populations in 2016 than they did in 1971 (e.g. The Annex). More than 70% of Neighbourhoods in what was formerly Old Toronto, fall into this category of de-densification. 80% of the City of Toronto’s population growth have come from 20 Neighbourhoods.

* https://www.erikdrysdale.com/DA_kramer/
I really don’t understand the confusion in this thread; it was immediately apparent to me what the purpose of this tool was after reading the headline, the UI elements are sensible and intuitive, it’s use case is unique and sound (no pun intended). Great job OP, a pretty cool project to have under one’s own belt.
The funny part is that the beginning of the EricW talk mentioned by the grand-parent comment is just a summary of the another EdwardW talk, so of course it was hard to follow :)
Well, it was nothing controversial, just a super high level description of the current physics theories (general relativity and quantum field theory).
You got some real natural fireworks over there. Hope the sight is nice (have no idea if Grindavik is still erupting)
They plateaued and then Slack/Discord got popular which further pushed the expectation around group chats and 3rd party integrations. The "web 2.0" style messaging where it's just an inbox with a linear chat history now feels ancient compared to group chats with multiple streams/topics, threads, events, pinned messages, live-statuses that show music listening/gaming, built-in voice/video/livestreaming with bots that can supply rich interactions like select menus/buttons.
Considering that

- Tesla almost went under due attempted over-automation

- Tesla had to resort to rework cars in tents after they left the assembly line with serious quality issues

- Teslas are among the worst built cars according to technical inspection numbers

- Tesla installed touchscreens not rated for environment or use case

- Tesal still has reliably figured out how to install hod and trunks

- Tesla still doesn't know how to keep water out of the interior of their cars

I am inclined to say those PhDs were right. Not that redicule is something to level against your competition, but hiring PhDs to built cars who never did so is just a bad idea.
I love this kind of deep dive into customizing the software/OS on a device you own. Glad that "Tivoization" isn't a concern for the steamdeck.

The most interesting part of the article was the mention of a /nix partition, as I didn't realize the steamdeck supports nixpkgs, after researching it more, they do indeed (not installed by default, but at least it is possible without having to fork an entire os to get it on the device).
I'm so thankful for the mathematicians of HN! Hear hear! Year of Linux!
Ask HN: What are your 2024 resolutions?
What if: We had support for public key e-mail addresses, something like <pk-12345@gmail.com>. But also <pk-12345@hotmail.com>. With online services treating them both as equivalent, so I could login or do account recovery with one after signing up with the other. Google bans me or hotmail goes out of business, and I can go to the other service and authenticate with my private key to open the same account there.

Obviously, we'd want some sort of aliasing process so we can have a convenient name, but we probably want mail clients to map those addresses or at least track them with their public key.

Could even end up being a shoehorn for E2E encrypted e-mail, which never really seems to have caught on in any big way.

This would require some big players to support it to get anywhere, but from a brief thinking about it, it seems solid. Other than that nobody has support for it yet...
This is addressed in the article. As Hacker News readers and expert computer users, we have a bag of tricks that we can reach into in order to make our searches perform better. With a similar level of effort and an expert user's intuition you can get good results out of any search engine. Not so for the average user. In fact, again paraphrasing the article, Google's original claim to fame was that you didn't have to spend a lot of time doing exact keyword matching and fancy tricks in order to get good results.
I second that emotion.
> "no agenda, no attenda" attitude towards socializing

As the proverbial people-networking advice goes, "What is the person whose time I'm asking for getting out of meeting? And what can I give them? And how can I make that a win/win?"

Folks have an aversion to spending limited time to show up and hope something happens. Better to make the something explicit.
I still find it a bit crazy how familiar HN still feels after so many years I've been reading posts here. Most of that time was me lurking and latter me starting to interact with the community.

It's always nice to get your world view shattered by someone more knowledgeable or getting a point of view you wouldn't get anywhere else. Stay the same HN and kudos to dang for keeping up with all the comments and posts being submitted.

Happy new years y'all
What a great story! Glad it has been preserved.
NREL has a great visualization for the research cell (as opposed to module) side of things here: https://www.nrel.gov/pv/cell-efficiency.html
you didn't. but you quoted:

> … tiny handful of creepy boyfriends …

And the person who replied to you was continuing your thought with an additional point, not calling you out.
Instead of faster horses, Ford's mass production process was the product. All those workplace changes were to expand the pie.
I think it calmed down the last week or so but tourism isn't exactly encouraged around that area.

We're in the capital with plenty of man made fireworks :)
> The hardware is much more purpose equipped to store files long term

What hardware would that be, specifically? The low end embedded platforms that don't even support ECC?

> how many recoveries and transitions have you been through

3 or 4, at this point, using the same 2 disk zfs mirror upgraded from 1TB to 3TB to 10TB.
> The quality of the packages available for Arch is what made me move from NixOS.

Can you give some examples of this please?

I generally find the NixOS packages high quality.
Happy New Year!

I hope this year brings (physical and financial) health to you and your family as well as fun times.
My resolutions used to be in 4k, now I'm down to 720p and don't care about it.
WhatsApp lets you use phone number as your ID, and it is very successful.
I have a fantastic feeling about 2024...

HN is somewhere that feels like home to me. As it does for a lot of people. I'm grateful to have it in my life.

All the best.
What makes me say that is the fact that none of the top US trading partners are in that region. Almost all of our overseas trade is on Atlantic and Pacific routes, very little through the Suez Canal.

https://usafacts.org/articles/which-countries-does-the-us-tr...
Honestly, drop is the better word. I read the title with drop and understood what it meant, but I wouldn’t have if you called it moment.
savefrom.net is a crap result.
I think our views are not too dissimilar and I agree with Jobs being exceptional. I also agree that the kind of (only) quantitatively driven science you are describing is not sufficient to predict innovation. However, there are also other, more qualitative, branches of science that work in different ways (I've chosen the phrase "grounded theory" which comes from sociology for that reason).

There has been prior work into multi-touch interfaces and all sorts of things related to ubiquitous computing long before the iPhone. Jobs/Apple was aware of this and built on it at the right time - just like they were aware and built on the work at Xerox PARC before.
I think this is a fair assessment. I agree that Smalltalk is by far not a complete solution to the problem of building and maintaining complex system but "only" an attempt.

I found that message passing is an elegant approach to have interoperability on a very basic level. But when protocols and interactions between objects get more complex, it becomes more difficult retain control and comprehension of the evolving system, thus fundamentally better approaches and methods are needed than what is present in a typical Smalltalk system.

You might be interested in watching Alan Kay's seminar on object-oriented programming, in which he sketches some ideas on how to modularize an OO system, notably, using a kind of specification language to describe the functions/needs of components and letting the underlying system figure out how to hook them up and deliver messages automatically (as opposed to the direct message passing style in traditional Smalltalks). The relevant part can be found here [1], but I found the entire talk worth watching, since a whole set of issues with OOP and Smalltalk (difficulties in finding and reusing components, weak generality) is being touched upon.

Unfortunately, as far as I know, none of the critical ideas have been crystallized into a new kind of Smalltalk - which would be more focused on working on sets of components instead of individual objects/classes (or paraphrasing Alan Kay, making "tissues").

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjJaFG63Hlo&t=5775s
Is there something where a projector needs to be connected to the internet? This seems as silly as bluetooth speakers like Sonos needing an internet connection.

Perhaps someone can share what is needed here and why it's connected.
Just opened the Play store and there are numerous Harmony apps. Could you provide a link, please?
I'm also successfully using Jovian-NixOS on my Steam Deck without issue, highly recommended.
It might prevent you from spending time on a different learning method, which would most likely be a lot more efficient than duolingo.
And to you.
There's convex hull which is how you measure your body with a measuring tape. The tape straightens itself over any recesses like where your belly button is.
I spent some (too much) time trying to get pretty much the same thing running using GOW [1]. Was quite a bit harder than I thought, requiring a hdmi dummy plug to get the xserver config right etc.

1: https://github.com/games-on-whales/gow
Funny. Google tells me those are both Russian developers. Hopefully they are capable of urbanism, unlike, say, the Toll Brothers. But if you really want buildings to go up, don't you actually want Chinese developers? Granted, they will require some supervision to ensure that the buildings stay up! But America has had trouble with its own companies like Bechtel (which used faulty concrete to save money in the Big Dig), so it's nothing new.
No it doesn't "turn out" that way. It is a self fullfilling prophesy where a government either grants a monopoly to a private company or to itself. There is almost nothing that would actually be a monopoly without government protection.

> you eont get to have multiple roads or power lines to your home

Why the fuck not? You are asserting things that you clearly haven't thought much about. But I don't have time to try and change your mind. Your biases are clearly too ingrained.
Great article Ken. I love the chip/die pictures.
Oh! That's very curious. Yep, tried to access using http and voila, it worked!

> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

Ah! I remember this saying. Now I get it.

Thank you!
Happy New Year! This is my favorite community, and in a lot of ways feels like a last bastion for our kind.
Thank you for the feedback. Actually it's the result of a PoC based on SingleFile [1] which can already saved pages as self-extracting ZIP [2]. The innovation is the integration of the screenshot in PNG format.

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

[2] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/blob/master/faq...
Fortunately my (work provided) Dodge Ram allows me to turn steering assist on or off and have it stay that way until I change it.

I actually like it when rarely doing hours of highway driving, but for my normal use it’s absolutely unsuitable on the narrow and degraded backroads where I’m often squeezing by farm equipment. Definitely don’t like it trying to second guess me having to go over the line.
VeraCrypt will not even install. Try
The only thing I've used GPT for is generating commit messages based on my diff, because it's better than me writing 'wip: xyz' and gives me a better idea about what I did before I start tidying up the branch.

Even if I wanted to use it for code, I just can't. And it's actually make code review more difficult when I look at PRs and the only answer I get from the authors is "well, it's what GPT said." Can't even prove that it works right by putting a test on it.

In that sense it feels like shirking responsibility - just because you used an LLM to write your code doesn't mean you don't own it. The LLM won't be able to maintain it for you, after all.
Was the basic research funded by governments? Yes. Is subsidization necessary or even done for nuclear powerplants to be built and profitably run given that basic research as an already-existing stepping stone? No.
Is a better UI always the best choice?

I've often wondered what impact an "enhanced ui and interface" would have on the audience HN attracts. Would more people visit? What demographics? Would it change what gets upvoted (both in content and what's above the fold)? Would there be more comments? Would there be an impact on comment quality?

Poor UXs act as barriers to entry. Barriers to entry can be beneficial depending on the goal.

That being said, I've still changed the HN styles many times over the years to make it easier for me to scan.
If it's like around here (London, UK) the last thing people want to talk about is the day job!
It would be nice to see the research paper to figure out how advanced their model is and what previous research they are referencing.
if you want to be a PITA, FOIA request the information related to the report, where they said they contacted you, which should have times/dates/etc and you ought be able to easily prove there was no contact. I'm not sure right now what you can do with that information, but perhaps the Washington State Police might care?

It's against the law to put false information on a police report. At least if you're just a scrunchie citizen.
IIUC, movies are delivered to local storage via the internet, and those files are heavily DRMd, the DRM is checked synchronously when films are played.
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Wikipedia also has an article on Pardo's Push:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardo%27s_Push

The article addresses a point that occurred to me when reading the Aviation Geek Club article: Air Force planes didn't land on carriers, so why would they have a tail hook? But according to the Wikipedia article, all F-4s were built with tail hooks since the plane was originally designed for the Navy and Marines and was not redesigned when the Air Force started using it.
A new approach to lie detection
DRM and no unauthorised screenings outside of approved show times.

Although you can use them for non DRM showings.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodrigosetti
Do you know what your pins are doing?
I argue Sony doesn’t care as this isn’t the first time they’ve shafted customers (see below), and it sure as heck won’t be the last.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
I've read the website and all the comments and I'm still totally lost. Guess that means I'm not the target audience? To me a "music drop" is when someone releases a highly anticipated new song.
> Did you even bother to look at the figures for the rest of the world?

America might be less fucked than everyone else. But it would still get fucked.

> During the Great Depression

Great analogy. You’re talking about economic catastrophe on par with the Great Depression, which involved a 29% reduction in GDP.
This is really interesting! Do you notice any limitations on input lag or video quality when streaming over a local network this way?
This is my attempt to tick all boxes. Small codebase, two languages (Go and SQL), easy deployment and no frameworks/ORMs, ActivityPub support and a lightweight text-based interface.

https://github.com/dimkr/tootik
>"I spent the first year or two of my career thinking I needed to Do Recursion because thats what the textbooks said"

Being an old fart I've learned long ago to not follow self declared prophets. Recursion is a trade off that comes with the cost. Sometimes it makes sense to use it and sometimes (most of the times) it does not. You do what makes you and your customers happy.
I think the most cited reason they give is diminished developer experience. That is when developers write a recursive function without intending it to be tail call optimized, they loose their call stack. In theory this makes debugging harder. However I don’t—and others interested in JavaScript design—don’t buy this reasoning. There is little—if any—data showing this happens to developers in real life.

I also believe that Google’s representatives at TC-39 (and Mozilla’s to a lesser extent) knows this. Meaning they have other reasons for not implementing TCO. My personal theory is that they are very much against expending the functional paradigm in JavaScript. TC-39 has been very hostile towards any proposals which would expand the functional paradigm in JavaScript. The decision to advance the hack style pipeline operator (which uses a placeholder) over the F# (functional/tacit) operator is a prime example of this.

This, I believe, is purely political.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your comment, but typically companies have teams (architects, developers, etc.) on staff to help solve business problems.
I don't think so. I think it's the inevitable outcome of giving all of humanity the ability to broadcast without curation.

Or maybe we're saying essentially the same thing, but you think search engines should be doing that curation. But that was never my conception of what search engines are for.
Oh it's not that bad, plus it's just an on-disk serialization format. You use it like you would Python's pickle by dumping/loading from NSDictionary/NSArray.

It's ordered, typed, can be validated by schema, and just takes the format you would write naturally and removes the boilerplate because your primitive collections in plist world aren't trees they're dicts and arrays just like in JSON.

<dict>
<entry>
<key>Greeting</key>
<value type="string">Hello World</value>
</entry>
</dict>

<dict>
<key>Greeting</key>
<string>Hello World</string>
</dict>
Yes, the official plugin sends context from recently opened other buffers. It determines what context to send by computing a jaccard similarity score locally. It uses a local 14-dimensional logistic regression model as well for some decisions about when to make a completion request, and what to include.

There are some reverse-engineering teardowns that show this.
2023 was a good one for me, let 2024 be a great one for all!
All of those cities have average or below average reporting of crime, which informs the statistics you're citing from.

But the sum of reported crimes is almost certainly considerably smaller than the sum of all crimes actually occurring.

After all, how many people in SF or Seattle do you think even bother filling out a police report after their car is broken into for the 18th time, when doing so the first 3 times did absolutely nothing?
I look forward to the NYTimes coming to terms with Misinformation they themselves published, whether it was about WMDs in Iraq, their articles about Hands Up Don't Shoot. Their articles about the Covington Catholic kid. Their articles about Jussie Smollet being attacked. Their lack of articles and burying the Tara Reade story. The alleged noose in Bubba Wallace's garage. Their statements about being vaccinated preventing you from catching covid or spreading covid indefinitely. Their misinformation that Hunter Bidens laptop was a fake made by the Russians. The Pulitzer NYT and the Washington Post recieved for highlighting Collusion between Trump and Russia. Running water saying everything was fine in Afghanistan up until people were clinging to the sides of airplane and falling off in a messy withdrawal. And now saying everything is fine in Ukraine now.
When NYtimes addresses these scandals and others, I'll be willing to show some trust. As long as they keep moving onto the new shiny object I shall not
Agree based on my memory. I think the Microsoft store threat is what finally tipped the scale. It took it from "we kind of support linux because we like it" to "we support linux because it's important business insurance for us in case Microsoft goes Apple (or Xbox or whatever example you want) and monopolizes app distribution on Windows.
I'm guessing they were talking about Harmonic[0] as I cannot find anything relevant either through search (DDG) or Play Store called "Harmony" for HN.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simon.harm...
There are registrars that let you pay ten years in advance. And of course, you should choose a reputable TLD. Seriously, this is not a problem in practice if you apply a minimum of diligence.
> it seems outright weird to not include that

If I’m sailing a ship, I want the information that lets me do my job. Not shoehorned political agendas. Given a choice between publications, I’ll choose the concise one.
Juno Images of 30 Dec IO Flyby
Direct link to the high resolution PDF: https://www.nrel.gov/pv/assets/pdfs/best-research-cell-effic...
That's the path TCL initially took, but they added counted byte strings later when it became a barrier. And zsh appears to support them relatively well.
What's the purpose of the icon on the left? It wastes a ton of space (especially on mobile), and other than marking the useless job ads as such, it has no purpose. If job ads need to be marked, add an icon or something only to those rows.

Why are post authors hashtags of all things?
I fully disagree. This isn't about Mercedes' interest in the car, but the legal owner's interest in the car. This whole article is misleading in that it refers to it as "her car" while it simply wasn't. Replace it with "his car" and everything makes sense.

>Mercedes has lawyers as well as network admins, and the fact that the victim had a court-issued restraining order is not the sort of thing that one can simply choose to believe in or not.

It has nothing to do with belief in a restraining order. A restraining order says nothing about transferring the car title.
If you want to handle complex client-side state, you will soon reinvent an inferior react or vue. Not every app is a simple CRUD app that can be summarized by a series of GET and POST requests.
I have cancelled my Fi service, so I looked back and you're right, it's the data (the important part) that gets suspended. Here's the message:

> As a reminder, Fi's Terms of Service require you to use our service primarily in the United States (territories not included), and it looks like you've been predominantly using Fi abroad. In 30 days, we'll need to suspend your international roaming data capabilities unless you start using Fi in the United States again (territories not included). Your calls and texts will not be impacted.