skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming that in The long term individuals get below market rate housing presumes that A) individuals will eventually be able to afford home ownership B) the local economy is stable enough for them to purchase a house C) interest rates/principal are low enough at the time of purchase for this to be worth the opportunity cost D) Once I purchase a home, I needn’t move or purchase another at market rates.

In the post war years the above conditions held for decades leading to relatively steady home ownership rates and ages of first home ownership. However due to the rapidly rising cost of housing since the late 80s home ownership is rapidly changing.

Millennials have famously deferred home ownership, while gen z is starting to believe its is simply impossible to acquire. 22%[1] of all housing sales now go to private equity firms.

Unlike the stats collection used by the Fed of asking private home owners what they would rent their house for - rental rates are now often the subject of collusion through pricing algorithms[2]. Finally, individuals rarely own a single house forever - this would reduce economic mobility and be problematic in and of itself. When a home owner purchases a new home, they are subject to market pricing.

1. https://www.dwell.com/amp/article/ban-private-equity-single-...

2. https://www.businessinsider.com/real-estate-apartment-rent-p...
I like this for testing and quick/simple database, very useful in concept for building a platform for embedded work, where you don’t need to go down the rabbit hole in the whole full stack tech.
(also pretty sure some folks apparently have no idea what the demo scene is, or how much of a compliment that was)
Sounds like an awesome build! It's amazing how flimsy most of them are, even the ones you pay top dollar for. A friend and his wife were doing some major renovations to their house and bought a "luxury" 5th wheel camper to park onsite and live in during the renovation. At some point their heater failed and in the course of pulling it out and fixing it, we were totally blown away by the cheese grade construction of the thing! I'd always thought it was a "cheap campers" thing, but everything was particle board and plastic, except the road frame.
laudable, but meaningless since they are also moving to biometrics such as fingerprints and palm scanners (against every single security advisory). and stores are moving to cashier-less automation.
Your reply is riddled with errors and you don't seem to actually know how the DNS protocol works at all, on the wire or otherwise. It is, firstly, impossible for "google.com" to contain a CNAME record. This would violate standards, and it's simply not done. Query or yourself; there is no CNAME at that label.

Your description of how queries work is not how queries work at all. Your entire comment is a net negative and detracts from the overall knowledge at Hacker News.
> here may be a delay but then the CO2 gets absorbed and stored in the plants, [...] turned into rock, then arguably more oil will be formed.

Yes, the planet and life on earth will do just fine. The problem is can our civilization survive? Like, can our current civilisation survive the next 100 years of worsening conditions? Humans will survive, we are the most widespread species already (from hottest to coldest places on earth). Some areas will be a little too unhabitable of course, billions will die, but who cares, right?
ReactOS has a WordPad.exe
> That's your political opinion [that the US is funding a regime]

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143772

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/palestinian-children-deat...

It seems like a pretty apolitical and objective statement to me. Perhaps not as fast as every 10 minutes but probably not far off.
Robert Maxwell was largely responsible for how scientific journal system evolved
It seems like people in this thread are unaware of the very real threats, harassment, and assaults that happen as a trans person in public. Using a name that matches your gender identity is important for both psychological safety, as well as avoiding being outed and threatened by others in public.

Laws in different states can make changing your legal name incredibly complicated and time consuming. Having an easy process to avoid some daily danger is wonderful for trans people, regardless of the motivation from MasterCard.
I have developed ActivityPub software, I am aware exactly how difficult it is to implement - which is less than what Hrefna's thread would lead one believe.

I think the main thesis of what she is saying is that there are a many places where developers need to think for themselves because the spec has many blind spots. But that's why we also develop tools and libraries to make it easier for future devs to start from a good foundation. She is doing it (as far as I know), and I am doing it.

> Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written.
Seems like a good way to help make credit products more attractive to an under-served market segment at near-zero cost in terms of established legacy markets
Precisely. Being able to show up regularly is the most important qualification. If you can do this, you can get work.
That is explicitly discussed in the text of the complaint. Google produces snippets with a direct link to the NYT and drives readers there.
Dan, an obviously insulting tone was used while inappropriately putting a demand (not request) to me that I have no legal interest nor actual requirement (even under your Guidelines) to satisfy. The allegation that my comments are “unsubstantive” (not having any factual substance) is false and is not proven by my lack of response. I deny that any of my comments were made insincerely or in bad faith. Further, the allegation that my comments are “flamebait” is disproven by the fact that only a few people have ever replied to any of my comments. By the way, their frustration with my refusal to engage and their decision to bring you in to admonish me is not going to help relieve their situation over having such allegiance to untrustworthy Chinese products.

The takeaway for Y Combinator is simple: Since at least 2022, it has been a daily staple of the mainstream news media (6am cable business news, newspapers, magazines, ….) to cover the CCP stealing the intellectual property and hacking the national security interests of the United States and its allies. It is bad for a website calling itself “Hacker” News to allow posts about the virtues of Chinese microcontrollers equipped with China-written microcode and/or American microprocessors with China-written UEFI as if the events of the past few years had not taken place, but many will simply assume that you are slow to react, as so many businesses caught in the crossfire are. However, going further and moderating comments on those posts that espouse caution seems to cross a line that is not a good one for Y Combinator to cross. Y Combinator could easily find itself labeled by the mainstream media as a “hacker website” that is an example of how the CCP has infiltrated its hacking technologies into American infrastructure and that cuts directly to your credibility as a VC to take companies public or merge them with already public firms.

For more general information on the underlying subject, consider typing the name of your favorite Chinese microcontroller followed by the word “backdoor” into Google —you might even find a recent thread here on Hacker News and note that I had NO participation in it! You might also direct your attention to “APT41 MoonBounce UEFI” and follow that rabbit hole, but don’t forget the China-based startups staffed by conscript-aged personnel that have settled on old (6th gen) Intel processors (whose ME unit is known compromised) for their incredibly popular line of micro "servers".

In any case, I am offended and since your Guidelines do not actually prohibit on-topic comments made in good faith simply because some (probably biased) user poses an unsatisfied “accuracy challenge” (maybe out of denial while they neurotically keep sourcing cheap products not unlike those that bought from Huawei all the way up until the final import-restriction here in the US), I believe it would be appropriate for Y Combinator to reset the “downvotes” applied to my comments and remove your admonishment (and this response) from the post.
From the OP:

>but we should stop encouraging and accommodating this “everything makes me feel unsafe” attitude. It harms everyone when we redefine safety to include awkwardness or very minor psychological discomfort.

It's pretty clear that the thing he's objecting to is the inflation of "feel unsafe" to include "awkwardness or very minor psychological discomfort", which might draw attention to the issue in the short term, but over the long term dilutes the term and makes the issue worse. It's like the euphemism treadmill but in reverse.
(June 2022)
As long as from "NoSQL" it is clear that you mean "I can't do joins", then it is OK. I think LLMs (and similar models like Stable Diffusion) are really cool for things like fiction, but to rely on them to tell you the truth is dangerous. So I am not really sure why the models have to be trained on NYT articles in the first place.
To be clear, I expected NOT to find anything that would help accomplish that task. Because the vast opportunities would imply it didn't exist. So, yeah, what I expected to find is crap and what I found was hilarious crap. The dude did have a way with words, though. It's just hilarious how pretentious the books were considering they didn't really impart any useful knowledge.
Mastercard's US card activation service (both phone and computer) were down from Jan 2nd to Jan 4th. As someone with a Mastercard that expired on Jan/2024 this was quite a hassle for me. In the end in order to pay my due bills I had to use bitcoin.
Noted. You're definitely not the only one asking this, so it's top on the list.

Side note: I did start implementing PDF exports, but for anyone curious, it's actually a lot more complex than imagined. There is no easy way to turn HTML to PDF (if anyone knows otherwise, please share) and there are font and language complications.
Go does this really well, too.
> Saying we have "too much CO2 in atmosphere" isn't evidence and historically there was much higher levels, and much more life.

We will have more life, but less humans and probably our civilisation will not survive. Apart from that, earth will be fine, so we should do as we please and put as much pollution as we want to?
I favor the idea that a planet with a moon in a slightly eccentric orbit (earth) you have oceans washing minerals over every grain of sand on every beach, depositing then washing away different concentrations of everything, wetting and drying and applying sunlight and shade, warming and cooling. A billion billion petri dishes over a billion years. Eventually bingo! organic molecules then life.
I'm not referring to hallucinations.

I'm referring to novel relationships drawn between datum in the corpus that are a result of training and inference.

This is apparent in something as simple as a summarization.
> It harms everyone

How is allowing someone to use a different name harmful to everyone ?
A legal name change is quite a chore, not a minor discomfort.
> “Who shall deliver me from this turbulent priest?”

Robert Dodsley
I can't edit my post anymore but since this was downvoted I want to elaborate that I meant this seriously. I wash my hands before using my computer, and my peripherals don't get dirty. I also don't eat at my computer desk.
You should read more carefully. GP wrote "minor psychological discomfort". They're definitely trying to downplay the danger that transgender people sometimes get put in.
Maybe it's not for me, I really don't know what that means. If it only describes itself as "a replacement for <name>" I feel like I'm not the target at all.
The Harry Potter where the villains talk about racial purity, kill people who mix magical and non-magical blood, take over the government and use it to oppress people? That non-political Harry Potter?

(Yes, also the Harry Potter where one of the black characters is named Shacklebolt, the goblins are essentially a loosely tied pile of Jewish stereotypes, and plenty of other problems as well)
not me. I've worked at multiple places where I've warned my manager (and people higher in the company) about a potential disaster scenario...which was ignored.

The disaster, in some shape or form, eventually came to pass. I then had to clean up the mess. Luckily, nobody died.
> But the "MPA to another results page" causing an HTML reload with a flickering blank screen is a jarring UI experience.

This is the worst and dumbest excuse for SPA bullshit. It's not jarring. You'll get over it. It's a fraction of a second where your devices is obviously doing a thing.

Web devs love the word "jarring" like it's some world shattering visual effect. SPAs break all the time in dumb-ass ways that are way more jarring and experience breaking than a page load.
I've been called by my name many times by store clerks after paying contactless, without having given my name, so I assume it does get surfaced to them on the billing UI. It's also fairly common (in my experience, here in southern California) for the name on the card to be automatically used as the name on your order for, e.g., calling out when it's ready to be picked up at the counter.
That’s an issue that can be dealt with by calling the card issuer.
Ooh nice feature, I hadn't realized this before. Thank you!
> I am just skeptical, that we can indeed use that energy safely on a global scale, without causing massive side effects like earth quakes, as the core of the earth is hardly understood

I think we understand the broad numbers pretty well. We're looking to exploit energy and maybe chemistry at a tiny part of the top of many, many deep miles of ever-moving magma. (and all of that thousands of miles from the core).

Compared to our atmosphere - which is frighteningly thin, complex and highly evolved/sensitive - the mantle is primal and utterly massive.
They haven't exactly covered themselves in glory so far, but I'm curious if there'll be any major change now that Bob Smith is no longer CEO.
It's wild to me that they would write performance focused code (unsafe ptrs, memory mapped files, etc) and then still use linq in the main work loop [0]. This implementation could go much much faster. Of course rewriting the parallelism and aggregation from linq is a decent amount of effort, but I'm betting that applying the lazy man's hack [1] would have decent gains.

[0] https://github.com/buybackoff/1brc/blob/main/1brc/App.cs#L12...

[1] https://github.com/reegeek/StructLinq
True, but does having another name on the credit card actually address this genuine problem?

(I think people should be able to use their chosen name on their credit card; I think that adds comfort to their regular interactions and daily life; I just don’t think it will act as an Uno Reverse card against someone prone to bigotry against them.)
If you take the CO2 out of sea water to create synthetic fuel, wouldn't that contribute to the green house effect? (Unless the CO2 is captured when that synthetic fuel is burned, but in that case why not use non-synthetic fuel, for a more economical solution with the same carbon footprint)
Who are you (or OP) to tell someone how they should or should not feel.

If someone says they feel unsafe, maybe we should default to believing them rather than minimising them. A tiny bit of compassion and empathy goes a long way.
I'd rather just have one that works and no hassle of RMAs.
Valuation cool, but are they profitable or still burning money.

As a solopreneur you don’t have piles of cash to burn to make people use it.
If it's about a new VAX, in 2021, one should not expecte that it was DEC hardware.
Ring them? My Amex has just my surname on it after I asked for that, ‘cuz I thought it looked cool. They’re pretty accommodating
> By the standard that someone would need it more, vast majority of consumer spending is a lot more wasteful than just burning money.

No, because burning money is simply deflation, and existing money will continue to follow the same patterns of consumer spending.

The idea that consumer spending is worse than burning money doesn't make any sense -- they're the same.

That's the whole point of why targeted giving to charity is better. That's why the Gates Foundation is a million times better than burning money. The Gates Foudation isn't going to "consumer spending" -- it's helping those most in need, like people who would die from malaria otherwise.
Nowadays nobody ever looks at my cards. I just put them into a machine, and enter the PIN. Or just tap them for a contactless payment. When using Apple Pay or Google Pay there is no name shown on the screen of the phone. Neither is the name shown on the screen of the cash register nor printed on the receipt.

So someone seeing the name on your card is not really a thing any more, or am I missing something?
https://google.github.io/zx/getting-started
that LLM is https://perplexity.ai
amex allowed me to issue additional cards in whatever name i want. so did bofa actually.
Engineers invent octopus-inspired technology that can deceive and signal
> Cutting costs leads to the opposite of an engineering-driven culture.

Not if "the engineers" are cutting the costs? There has not been any big corp. job I've been on that does not have these huge overhead of back scratching upper manager class expenses in marketing, conferences, fancy offices, consultants etc.

The only big flaw I feel I would share with the usual suspects is vanity projects.

Then again, it is probably really hard to run a company with B2B deals with out the implicit "bribing" of the manager class of the other companies.
It’s definitely just for PR points.

In Toronto liquor stores, the point of sale payment terminal is on a stand, facing the customer, and you tap or use chip + pin yourself.

If you get asked, you to have to show your government ID.
A very popular POS used by many order-at-counter restaurants and cafes has an option, configured by the merchant, not the customer (!), to use the name on the credit card as the name called when the order is ready.
This is one of my hopes too, but it's going to threaten the livelihoods/existence of some of the wealthiest and most powerful people in our society. They already very tightly control the reins on who is allowed to "practice" medicine. It's going to take a fighter with very deep pockets and a serious commitment to their principles to make that happen. Alternatively if the people got mad and vocal enough about it, the democratic levers could be used, but the population is so largely apathetic and accepting of whatever we're told that I don't see that happening. For example, many people are being forced into purely artificial shortages of medicines they depend on, and there's no outcry.

What I see as much more likely, is this software will exist but will be gated to use only by a licensed physician, ostensibly for our "safety"
They created the problem by hiding it from their users and disempowering them, leaving them no way to control or monitor the compromise between performance and battery life.

All they needed to do was engage with the user. But nooooo, because Apple.
The terminology makes me laugh and I think of schismatic churches.

If you investigate the seedy underbelly of Eastern Orthodoxy, you will find many splinter groups which claim that the main bodies have committed apostasy and lost the faith. Therefore these small, schismatic groups, sometimes with limited clergy resources, will name themselves "True Orthodox" or "Really Truly Orthodox and We Mean It This Time". Generally these groups will themselves experience schism as they quibble about trivial things, and so devolve into "Truer than True Orthodoxy" and "Old True Believers of the Truth About Cats, Dogs, and Orthodoxy".

It's a bizarre concept that someone should have a "True Name" that's truer than their legally recorded name(s) and truer still than the names which they were given by their legal parents and names which were used for them throughout their lives. A new name that someone takes for himself is commonly known as an "assumed name" or "alias".

As Pontius Pilate was heard to remark, "What is Truth?"
I worked on VoIP before RFC3489. We built our own ways to handle NAT and firewalls, but it always involved something like a directory server that would see both your private and public IPs and share information between clients at call time to connect calls.
When you eat at a sit down restaurant, part of the service is not forcing you to walk to the register up front to pay. Hence you leave your card with the waiter and they disappear with it for up to 15 minutes to process the payment at the terminal.

This is also their opportunity to copy your magnetic strip and/or add a tip without your permission. (Though the latter only happened to me once, I guess the former may have happened a few times over the years it's hard to know.)
Hmm. The only occasion in the past few years I can recall handing a card to any clerk for inspection or payment processing is host-stand restaurant pickup, and never gotten a second glance when presenting my partner's card.
Not sure it qualifies as “nasty”, but performing does seem to somewhat impede expected benefits from exercise: https://peterattiamd.com/metformin-and-exercise-deja-vu-all-...

It also seems to upregulate cortisol in some cases, which is undesirable: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27459533/
Folks often try on these arguments: it'll cost too much (to save all our lives). Or 'it got terribly hot before so somehow it's natural and ok'.

We may survive as a species. But our civilization will not survive the destabilization it causes.

E.g. folks depend on fish for a large part of the planet, from coastal waters. Kill the reefs (which we've made a good start on), the coastal ecosystem collpases (california crab anyone?) and not thousands, not millions but hundreds of millions of people starve.

Then what? Some kind of global rescue effort? Not hardly. Look at the last wave of 10,000 refugees, how every European country was winging about 'we can't accept a thousand! It's too much!'

Now add four zeroes to that number. Get the picture?