skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buyers want more house? Or builders want richer buyers?

Starter homes generally just don't get built, as it generally costs more per square foot to build a start home than a larger home (as some of the features are going to mostly cost the same regardless of the floor plan, such as some of the kitchen outfitting). The reduced supply moreover makes it so smaller houses don't even end up costing much less, because there's enough demand for them from people who not only don't need the space, but would prefer not paying the utility bills and dealing with the maintenance.
If you have a great executive ticking all the boxes - splendid.

But there is no intrinsic link between being an engineer and being a good CEO (same holds for other disciplines, btw.). You could have engineers that qualify, lawyers, MBAs, mathematicians, physicists, ...
I really like eBay, I find it is much more reliable and often comparable pricing to Amazon prime. Unlike Amazon though, you can choose what seller you want to buy from, which helps ensure you don't get counterfeit goods. Also, the buyer protection and return policy is comparable if not better than Amazon's, and the rating system is much better since you rate the seller & whether item fits description "used", "new", etc. rather than the item specifically.

The only thing I don't understand about eBay, is how so many sellers sell things for very cheap. You have sellers selling new products at high volumes, at below market price with free shipping.These sellers have 98+ feedback with 1000+ item sales and have a ton of recent feedback. I have bought from them before and everything usually checks out. Are they stolen goods or something? Or are they just buying them from like a surplus or government auction?
Clearly a lot of the old Twitter employees had bullshit jobs.
https://archive.ph/X51Jy
I'm sometimes amazed by how many people work at some of these companies.

Nine percent is about 1,000 jobs. So, a back-of-the-envelope calculation implies that about 11,000 people work there. I don't doubt that running eBay is more complex than it appears, but it's just a web site to buy and sell goods. That's an army of people!
Which part, unSP? There is a PDF floating around the Internet called "unSP Programmer's Guide". Annoyingly didn't find that PDF until after I had already REed everything
Ask HN: Would you deploy my SaaS into your AWS account?
I am looking for feedback on this model of SaaS deployment.

I provide you with a way to easily deploy my software into your AWS. I collect an annual license fee (call it $500) for ongoing maintenance and updates, you pay the AWS bill for your usage. The software itself only uses manages services so devops is largely "free", and provides knobs that allow you to tune your specific usage and cost (data retention, rate limiting, etc).

What the software does is somewhat immaterial, but imagine any of the classic SaaS backends for things like monitoring, webhooks, log aggregation, feature flags, etc.
No, it's not fine, there's absolutely no need whatsoever for Github to be an SPA. What functionality do you think can't be done ... in HTML 4.0 for that matter much less HTML5? Sure, a good editor inside the browser but then let that be a standalone, that has nothing to do with the repository viewer.

(As an aside I hate the Jira UI for being the same.)
Indeed. Better to have worked for a year at Google and then get laid off, than never to have worked at Google at all. You had a year of good pay and a boost on your resume. Win-win. Sure, it didn't last, but not every good thing can last forever anyway.
Oh man, if Southwest defects from Boeing, Boeing is done for.
Many nations have public gene banks. These banks contain many indigenous organisms' gene sequences as well as anonymized gene sequences from people from their respective countries, which is used for national and international medical research. These gene banks exchange information regularly. One of the most public ones is US' own NIH GenBank [0].

A small search surfaces a lot of gene banks which store human and non-human DNA. Use your favorite search engine for this.

Generally submissions are done with patients' consent, but I'm not very sure that some of the blood samples are directed to national private databases for countries' own use and research.

The reasons doesn't have to be nefarious. Knowing your population's genetic weaknesses is a good way to defend it, and having access to a wide pool allows a deeper understanding of genetic conditions and how genetic therapies are working.

Also, earlier comments than mine already cited how law enforcement in US is already using this as evidence.

I'm an ordinary person. I don't have access to more information than you do.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/
Putting in an engineer at the top alone won't fix endemic culture issues. You'd have to do a more in-depth rethinking of all the processes and purge all the penny pinching cruft. But that isn't palatable to shareholders so it won't happen.
On one hand I agree with you that people are likely overreacting, but i disagree that anyone is acting irrationally. Boeing has lost _all_ credibility amongst the public and we're not all aviation experts so we don't know that a 4-bolt-gap is fine or whatever their current issue is.

>But hadn't it been for the issues a few years ago

By "issues" you mean hundreds of people being killed by a known manufacturing/training issue? Where does your faith in these people come from?
The annoying layout shift when i click on a line of code is too much to use.
Cool demo, but "privacy risk" is so overblown that it's into bare-faced lie territory.
New camera reveals life through animals' eyes with near-perfect accuracy
It would seem that GitHub is (was?) not doing that, though? Remember when they announced that they dropped the cookie banner because they didn't need it: https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/
I didn't make a judgement on the fact that it's good or bad for the user in my previous post, albeit my opinion is mostly negative.

Very poorly collected data, analyzed by people without much understanding about ux/product or data, and without any sensibility or intelligence took the place of thorough user interviews.

An example: in an ecommerce I've worked, a much better image gallery was released to show products than the previous one. All data showed users interacted with it much more. But it also showed conversion going down. The old gallery nobody used was then picked again and conversion went up again.

Now, what really happened was that users liked the gallery, what they didn't like where the pictures of the items. Those made them re-think buying it.

Thus, a crappier version of the website was released again, and users ended up having a worse experience, all in the name of the better conversion.

Seriously, with all due respect, I worked enough on front end and data collection to know that the whole tracking is generally harmful towards the user, slows down websites considerably, violates their privacy, leads to a worse experience and only rarely shows anything meaningful that user interviews wouldn't got.

It's mostly snake oil for c-suite, data "analysts" and product people and marketing so they can pretend they are providing any value. They generally aren't.
Meanwhile we still rip custody from many (disproportionately) black dads, auction their children to foster homes, compel them to come up with certain amount of money and if they don't do it for the whip crackers we toss them in jail where they may be raped and malnourished and legally chained in work gangs.
A while ago, I proposed that each downvote should be tied to a comment, such that a downvote cannot be submitted without an accompanying comment. The impact of that downvote is then weighted by its accompanying comment. If that comment is itself low quality, the impact of the downvote associated with it is either diminished or nullified.
This is an excellent problem to have.

Falls squarely into what Jason Cohen describes in this article as "the errors that mean you're doing it right": https://longform.asmartbear.com/good-problems-to-have?utm_so...
There is some work underway to enable removing the backtrace generation/parsing from Rust binaries. It's hardcoded for now though.
The websites are also written badly, and appear to optimize being written badly, because of their lack of goal alignment with users.

If you do a View Source on Reuters.com main landing page, it's script file is a single line that's 1,300,000 characters long. And every time you land on a page it tries to dump 1,300,000 characters of script on you (on top of the multi-MB videos it auto-loads) [and the pop-ups]

Most major corporate websites are that way. All written by algorithms with massive JS downloads and huge 64bit hash keys on every <div>. Tracking 64bit click numbers on each element and dumping all the calculation on the user.
Thanks for sharing my article! I figured that not everyone had heard of Indiehackers etc and maybe even experienced founders haven’t seen the DHH speech at YC?
The type of fastener used doesn’t matter much if the bolt was missing completely, which is still a distinct possibility. Perhaps we'll never know, but at least some information will be disseminated sooner or later from the investigations now ongoing.
WPA3 on Raspberry Pi 3B+, 4B and 5B with iwd
Wouldn't they first downplay the issues then say they are keeping a close eye anyway?

I don't think this is good PR for the airlines as it is.
In a isolated and secure VPC, for sure.
Some of this is also fuel economy regulation. You can't make an F150 the size they were in 1992 without onerous fees because of the gas mileage the engine will get (while still being able to meet the needs of anyone who wants a truck, such as towing capacity). The regulations are written so that larger vehicles are permitted to have lower gas mileage. As a result, we see the ever growing trucks and SUV's on the road when people would kill for small trucks that companies just will not make anymore.
Because they refactored into microservices.
Are you sure? If so then this is awesome news, but I'm a bit confused; the commit in that min-sized-rust repo adding `build-std` to the README was merged in August 2021: https://github.com/johnthagen/min-sized-rust/pull/30

Are you saying that the feature still hadn't "landed in Rust nightly" until recently? If so then what's the difference between a feature just being available in Rust nightly, vs having "landed"?

The Cargo doc page on `build-std` says that it is an "unstable feature" which will only eventually end up in stable once it is stabilized: https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/unstable.html#buil... and Kobzol's linked post above indicates that `build-std` is "sadly still unstable."
A quiet reminder that sourcehut is pretty great, and loads fine in dillo.
I did this for a few months, but I only did it because I was suffering from Burnout (officially diagnosed) - now that I’ve had a chance to reset, I’m back to actively seeking productive things to do with my time and will accept any work that isn’t actively soul-crushing
If you have a great engineer and executive take them. But if not, the choice is by no means clear then.

The CEO being an engineer is not sufficient for success.
Eiffel Tower, the St. Louis Arch and the Las Vegas Sphere.

Yes, these are awe inspiring works of art --- not intended or designed to provide housing for people. In other words, not really comparable to the proposed OKC tower.
GDP is a terrible metric, the usual example is France's being lower than every single state including Mississippi.
the chinese are watching the socialist-communist woke 1-digit IQ morons destroy all the USA education system, watching the US army go so woke they can't even recruit, and meanwhile the chinese are training their army to kill people with shovels in case they run out of bullets by training them to kill animals with shovels until they do one-shovel-hit kills.

go on USA. your path to being weak and past is well engaged.
> Unless you have a problem with your tasting sense.

I mean, there's two comments proposing that already, but why would that be the case only for high-ceremony drinks (coffee, wine...).
> > contributing to 2 to 3 million premature deaths annually

2 to 3 million less carbon emitters annually /s.
I've been trying to find a recording of "proper 56k" as I remember it for years but none of them seem to have the "ding" (or "bong" as I describe it) sound.

My understanding is that it required digital equipment at the exchange end which would make it impossible to do with two standard modems wired back to back. Unless someone has some telco kit laying around, it might be a lost sound.
It’s complex. Demand is outstripping supply in something economists like to call The Coffee Paradox which actually has a book on the subject by the same name:

https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Paradox-Markets-Commodity-Deve....

More information on the short term and long term issues here:

https://financialpost.com/financial-times/peak-coffee-global...

https://m.economictimes.com/small-biz/trade/exports/insights...

But the most pressing issues long term are best summarized by this article which if you read nothing else is probably the best answer to your question:

https://econreview.berkeley.edu/a-world-without-coffee-the-s...

To boot, coffee is a monoculture and deeply vulnerable like bananas.
Old Twitter employees managed to make media on my my timeline take less than 60 seconds to load. New Twitter, not so much.
I wonder if it includes the groups that did all these lousy seller redesigns.

I swear, the new selling pages were made by people who never sold anything on eBay.

It's gone from functional to a clunky buggy mess.

Just simple things - like what qualifies for media mail, is profoundly broken. I'll see things like computer parts getting the option and books not. They're in the right categories, that's not it, it's just broken.

Then there's these comically bad features, like the generic AI description (a book description will be something like "dive into the tantalizing tale of adventure and excitement" as opposed to the condition of the book). It's such terribly unhelpful garbage. Whoever thought polluting the listing with paragraphs of generated bullshit was a good idea?

And the new templated shipping costs interface is thoroughly broken. You have to reload the page sometimes to get it to accept the values.

Then there's the api speed. Updating things like the price has gone from under .5 seconds to more like 5. If you want to do a bulk price update it's sluggish and exhausting now.

They also broke the image widget. Rotations and crops sometimes don't stick nor does rearranging the images. I'll do the work then come back days later to see it didn't actually save the edits.

If you try to void a label, not only is this now multiple extra clicks, if you try to do it from mobile, it now takes you to a broken part of the app.

I don't want to exhaust you, but this is only about 1/3 of the issues.

I mean really, it's a bunch of bugs, system slowdown, and features that will do nothing but kill your sales. New things are fine. Broken things are not.
I'm sure people would complain about most of those on privacy and/or antitrust grounds.

> "You're logging in from a new device. Please check your email for a verification code."

This site is keeping track of all the devices I use, which is not necessary to provide their service.

> "You're logging in from an unusual location. Please answer your security questions to continue."

They are also tracking my location, which is not necessary to provide their service.

> "We've sent you a text message with a code which is valid for the next 10 minutes."

They make me provide a phone number, which is not necessary to provide their service.

> "Press OK on the 23andme app to continue."

They have a perfectly good web site, yet they require me to use their proprietary app (which requires me to have an Apple or Android phone or tablet). This is not necessary to provide their service. They are probably getting paid by Apple and Google to try to force people to have they devices.
Many (most?) people don't need novelty to want to keep working. Many people find fulfillment and enjoyment in the routine of their work.

Think about it, how many people are cheerfully running shops because the shop is also their community? People need to feel useful. They need to feel valued. They need community. Work provides all these things.

Also, many jobs do provide many forms of novelty as one can seek to continually improve at them.
Largely because work force participation is at an historic low.

Retirements, "gig" economy, etc are not reflective in the current government unemployment stats, so they do not paint a good picture IMO.

We still have not returned to pre-pandimic levels for Work Force Participation, or Employment-Population Ratio, which where already in a slump since the 2008-2010 Recession.

The employment picture is not as rosey as people citing unemployment numbers likes to believe, but it supports their narrative that the "economy is good" and it also supports government debt spending which right now what is driving inflation more than consumer demand.

We are in very unusual and troubling times economically, and the people at the switch are not looking at the correct numbers to make good decisions
When my company did layoffs last year, neither my manager, or my manager's manager, or my manager's manager's manager knew before the moment we all knew if we were staying or not. You had to go up to the VP level to find anyone who was involved in planning the layoffs.

When the VP has about a thousand engineers recursively reporting up to them, how are they supposed to be able to decide who stays and who goes. We were told that the layoffs weren't performance related, but at that level of distance what useful signals are there outside of the performance rating?
People also use “on rails” to indicate inflexibility and rigidity.

It’s easier for a reason - the utility is diminished.
Mostly because CPU caches matter a lot. Executing 7-8 different Rust binaries, in a loop, that are each north of 10MB+ is bound to be less performant than corresponding smaller programs.

Never had the time or dedication to actually verify this but I've been bitten by programs and OS-es that trash the cache too much and I've seen humanly perceivable lags because of it. But maybe in this case I am overreacting.
Tubesearch – advanced search and filter for Youtube channels
How ai is influencing this?
Yes, but I was also speaking generally about fractions since that was the context of the comment I was responding to.

For example, consider: 1/1123 < 1/1092. Is that inequality true? The fastest way to check is to compare the denominators and adjust for the way division interacts with the inequality.

You can't really draw that pie chart quickly. You could write the equation down and multiply both sides though.

For 1/3 vs 1/4 yes you could draw it quickly. Or you could fill a glass 1/3 full of water and one 1/4 and compare them. But that's a pretty special case for small enough denominators.
At least you can personaly inspect an item before buying it in a flea market. Last time I bought a tablet in Amazon the seller sent the right box with a completely different cheap product inside that had no serial number anywhere. Since the serial is absolutely required there was no way to return this thing. I left a 1 star polite review with pictures that was quickly removed with an automated message about "focusing too much on the seller", edited the review to remove any mention of the seller and it got quickly removed with no reason at all. What a great scam.
JS code is not processed at audio rate. Would be a total gamechanger if it was
The Gell-Mann Amnesia of Large Language Models
How to Use Twitter
Nothing can be “guaranteed” which is why proper procedure for inspection and maintenance exists. This whole controversy isn’t around random acts of god but the corruption of one of aviation’s most sacred and fundamental rules: that procedures are followed and improved, not stretched and bypassed for profit.
https://archive.is/daY3S
The airlines are one of the few industries where almost everyone comparison shops for each and every purchase. The list of airline bankruptcies is very very long as are the new entrants.

Sure if you fly to some very small destinations you will have very limited choices, but almost definitionally that's a small fraction of the total trips.
I'm really struggling to see why a shopping site, which is inherently interactive, would be less reasonable that github, which displays text. I guess maybe if you're using it as an in-browser IDE, but I'm not convinced that that's how most people are using it.
While 23andMe may not be culpable, they certainly look culpable, particularly to the layman. Their messaging in response to this is terrible.
If inflation was doubling prices every two years and unemployment was low, would you really stay in a job where your salary did not change?
What are the choices? Everyone will have to go renewable sooner or later because of global warming (and if you ignore global warming, you will still to do it, just bit more later, because fossil fuels will run out).

It's relatively easy to put together a package of renewable sources to cover all energy needs anywhere.

In terms of electricity, that's already done in EU - fossil fuels only cover ~30% of consumption now (31.6% in 2023 and falling by ~3% points per year), and will be 0% by 2035, that looks easy today and does not require any new invention nor even existing tech getting cheaper. We currently deploy quite a bit more renewable capacity than needed every year to make it work.

As for all kinds of energy together, that's quite a bit harder and so far, we are not there, but it shouldn't take more than about 5 years to arrive to the necessary rates of deployment.
I'm no connoisseur at all, but I can tell the difference between a Shiraz (fruitier) and a Cab Sav (drier). Mainly because they're the ones I've had more experience with.

Couldn't tell you a Grenache versus Merlot because I haven't reached whatever baseline of recognition is required.

That's been a very slow 20 year journey. I'm not detecting hints of blueberry or oak, that feels like pantomime still.
I started reading Sid Meier’s Memoir not even two hours ago, so when I saw this submission’s title my immediate reaction was to joke “Civilization is a game by Sid Meier in which…”. I brushed it off and clicked the link only to read:

> The ‘Civilization’ game series inadvertently defines the exclusive club of ‘civilized’ people in the world as Western, European, and settler colonialist.

The joke ended up being the coincidence.
Yes we have it too. It's not automatically a "just" cause. The workers have the right to sue to be reinstated. That usually nets them 8-12 months of their salary above what they already got as severance. (And severance is not optional either) If they resign though. It's a clean departure. Company pays nothing and can even get paid if the employee does not work in the severance period. Of course in the current case there would be a deal for resigning.
Maybe not the ad sales department, though.
Manx Language
Stumbled down this rabbit whole when I realised Github recognised it as a preferred language.
Heaps of SaaS works this way! The term of art is "Hosted SaaS"
Stripping debug stuff has always been possible, yes, but that doesn't entirely address the problem of the stdlib being included piecemeal. I want a compiler who throws away everything that's not used in the final binary.

If that means that 90% of the stdlib is unused (which is likely true for many small projects) then it should not be included in the binary.
Pdf-extraction?

Technically it is an interesting problem.

But ... just stating the obvious ... you need to be careful with copyright.
Make sure to clearly indicate the source of each problem.