skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More surveillance, more noise, the generation that grew up on the internet finally is willing to spend money on it for quality content.
> Magical, not magic - I really don't want it to feel magical either. I like explicit behavior and I think that is my problem with the whole wrap everything in observables approach. It's too magical.

Don't worry - they hint that they're gonna change it again in Svelte 5 anyway, so the suckers using it can throw away their code and start again with slightly less magic ...but hey, vibes!
> approving more units through this program in the last 13 months than all affordable housing approved in previous three years combined — without dedicating any additional subsidy.

oh, so it was NIMBYs all along!? pikatchu face
What is “affordable housing”? All housing becomes affordable once you build enough of it. Is it just the politically correct way of saying “low-quality housing”?
Agree 100% with all points. I love contract-first. Better for producers and provides multiple tooling options and better docs for consumers.

I was agreeing with parent that some spec formats frankly suck to write by hand and openapi yaml is IMHO one of those (as opposed to say .protos which are nice for humans to read/write).

I use LLM as glorified interactive autocomplete to speed up writing the yaml specs (not the code! Use deterministic generators for that!) and it works great for me, personally (n=1 anecdote).
i’m skeptical to try it if the contact is gmail:
“contact.jdgenerator@gmail.com”
It's for fun. I just want to have them making the effort to realize that they shouldn't drop physical menus altogether.

Also some times I didn't feel like doing the theatrics, and upon asking for a menu, they'd say "it's there in the QR code, please scan it" and leave me to it, as if they had done a good job. Not on my watch!
Your poetry (we don't have a good set of concepts to make this stuff prose, yet) reminded me of this[1].

1. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/17/the-premium-mediocre-l...
Bedbugs are my valued business partners and I feel it's only right I should give back sometimes.

I do a quick bedbug check (headboard, nightstand, boxspring) in hotels I visit and mostly don't worry about it.
Not really, there are different forms and OSHA recommendations for how much of a safer form should be in the air if you are possibly breathing it your whole working life..

Pets and very small children might get much higher doses being curious and near the floor though.
Amen. There's about a half dozen sidewalk activities I would want to stop before I got to looking at a phone. Talking loudly, walking multiple people abreast, stopping without "pulling over", using any kind of vehicle (unless required for mobility), walking out of a door into the sidewalk without paying attention.
Usually it is expected that you ask yourself what is the expected traffic, but I usually answer with a number that technically one box could handle.
My account through work uses SSO. I didn’t make my account, it authenticates through AD. If I leave the company, I lose access to the account.

Telling employees to make their own personal account to do company work seems like a bad idea.
Spend some time setting up OBS and then control it via an Elgato Stream Deck. Really nice way to do pre-scripted things via easy buttons.
Same. The thing I had to learn very late is that you have to do the homework. Always. That's something I never had to do up until college.
I'm not following what you mean by likelihood of being hassled?
React and NextJS, although technically part of the same sub ecosystem, have very different approaches to DX, backwards compatibility, marketing and commercialization...
LLMs and their derivatives will be completely neutered (AKA censored and useless, unless you go the illegal route).
Same, I'd rather spend 3 hours working with the potential team than spend 12 hours practicing leetcode. If you want to see my code, I have plenty of public domain projects freely available.
I think programmers and technical people are mare likely to think the rules are defined by whatever is written down in the rule book, as opposed to the rules being living practices of a group of people that are summarized in the rule book.

I think the main problem is not agreeing on interpetatoons, which humans have dealt with forever, but the particular undemocratic processes on the main platforms we have today (corporate controlled generally).
I wouldn't chat with strangers sitting on a bench with or without a phone. I say this as someone who often walks in parks without taking out my phones. If there's a claim that my not talking is affecting other people's health, I'll counter claim that such a burden of socializing is a kind of peer pressure, and it is negatively affecting my mental health.

> We are simply wired to function in social groups.

A stranger on the bench is not my social groups. I have my friends and circles to whom I talk, and that's good enough for me. Talking with utter strangers on random occasion is stressful to me; I'm quite certain that I'm not wired to do it.
PX4 does: https://github.com/PX4/PX4-Autopilot/blob/main/src/modules/m...
If you still want to use some AWS services, you can get an AWS Direct Connect fiber cross connect from your data center rack to AWS, just like you do with your Internet connections. They operate Direct Connect in lots of third party carrier-neutral data centers. AWS egress over Direct Connect is $0.02/GB instead of $0.09/GB over the public Internet. You can serve customers through your unmetered Internet connections while accessing S3 (or whatever) via Direct Connect on the backend.
Hello Michael, fellow former-Canonicaler!

This looks super interesting, and might be a useful alternative to the OBS setup I currently have for work calls.

One thing I would really like is for there to be a clean preview feed rendered in a separate window, so I can screen share that window into Meet/Zoom/whatever. I've tried before to share content through the webcam feed to those systems, but generally the video quality sucks and the audio quality is even worse (since they all try to filter out anything that isn't voice).
I also think that might be true. Adding friction filters out candidates who have more choices, which are likely to be the top performers. Hardly anybody wants to work specifically for one particular company, so the people willing to continue despite friction may be more likely to be middle performers.
And 82, just to complete the data.
Subsidized housing, through vouchers or rent control. At least in my city.
Perhaps the same reason there are trolls on the internet. The game you are playing and want me to play is not the game I wish to play, so I shall do my own thing in your game space.
Putting a few thousand dollars into a retirement fund in my 20s.

Besides giving me a break on my taxes, my employer also matched the contribution. And then on average a good fund doubles in value about every 10 years. (Do the math -- every $1,000 becomes $2,000, $4,000, $8,000, and then $16,000 before your retire.)

Also, you can tap the money for health emergencies, education expenses, and even first-home purchases.
Changelog for version 14 beta, with full list of changes: https://cdn.openttd.org/openttd-releases/14.0-beta1/changelo...

The numbers refer to pull requests and these have more details; e.g. description of the infinite money mode: https://github.com/OpenTTD/OpenTTD/pull/11902
This housing is deed restricted to certain income levels.
Or, seeing as how it's kind of important, we could subsidize building more housing.
> Try opening https://kmaasrud.com/blogroll.xml in a new tab (Ctrl+click or whatever), and observe the correct document title

Loads absolutely fine for me on Firefox Nightly and on Firefox 122.0.1 stable on Linux.
> The JSON syntax is nearly a strict subset of the popular programming language JavaScript.

What JSON isn’t valid JS?
GPU's are already closer to "in-memory compute" compared to CPU's. It's just taking the existing pattern of NUMA (non-uniform memory access) to a greater extent, as a principled approach to the so-called 'Von Neumann bottleneck'.
Interviewing a Startup [video]
That's not what I read from the article. Instead it seemed to be fairly arbitrary government regulations such as required shrubbery and facade articulation that make the cost of building prohibitively expensive.

Now, you may be saying it's NIMBY for the LA government to require unnecessary (or mildly necessary) stuff to keep the neighborhoods beautiful, but it's I'd guess it's probably more "just because I can means I do" typical petite bureaucratic power flexing.
I’m sure the rust version is more ergonomic. It’s great you can do it more safetly. But it’s a bad application design from the start.
> Blatant advertising is an article or a page that's created, worded, and designed for the sole and intentional purpose of selling or promoting an idea, product, or service.

Well, no wonder these people have a problem. They defined the type of content entirely in terms of the creator's motivation. Meaning the only means of detection is mind-reading.
wait, you still pay your S3 storage bills, right?

just with DataBricks. you don't pay when you don't use their software, cool. but then you pay for per core per second for the license in addition to running the VMs, right?

sure S3-like storage is 'cheap', but if you want up-to-date data pipelines you'll end up running these things for many hours each day. and plus you pay for each bucket operation, and so on.
OBS can do this: It can capture a display (eg, the whole ultra-wide monitor), crop that capture to just the desired area, and [optionally] scale that cropped area to be sent at whatever resolution you wish as a virtual camera input to whatever conferencing system (Zoom, Slack, whatever).

Works fine. It's kind of a pain to configure, but it only needs done once and saved as a scene (which can then later be recalled with a keyboard macro or whatever, if one wishes).

(To receive bonus nachos, set the desktop background to include a 16:9 rectangle of the captured area for your own visual reference, and automate it so that this background is displayed when OBS is running. For fancy nachos, have more than one such area with one scene for each.)
To be clear; what I mean LA as in LA city not the county. LA and Miami are similar in they have some neighborhoods that are walkable (the most popular parts), but the majority of them are not and they’re not very walkable between the two. Little Tokyo is walkable but then there’s a gap between there and downtown, then you have a huge Hollywood stretch then a huge gap around ktown if you go between them. Miami has the same issue, Brickell is walkable but as soon as you leave it has a bunch of impassable areas to go to downtown, same as if you were to leave wynwood. The worst part of Miami city’s unwalkability is once you leave those neighborhoods it pedestrian hostile like Shendahdoah or Little Havana.

SF and NYC do have neighborhoods like this, but those occupy very tiny portions of those cities comparably to Miami.
Affordable is easy in Cali... you just have to charge 200% of what is reasonable.
Are they more dangerous than driving?

Genuine question. I know that flying in general is safer than driving — the question is whether these planes flip that equation, or merely lower the margin.
"So what scale are we talking about? A few million monthly users? So like hackernews? I would use a single server... "
Chauvinism might play a role in some rare cases but it's often just that we don't dare to speak English and risk making mistakes, because of how languages and actually everything is taught at school here. We also somehow focus a lot on grammar, which I personally loved, but that just blocks a lot of us.

Outside a large city it might also be that occasions to practice English are vanishingly rare and when you have never really practiced outside school, it doesn't quite work out.

Now, I'm still a bit surprised. Many, many people can speak some English just fine here, especially younger people.

Are your experiences recent and where was it?
The problem with "shall approve" is that sometimes the best answer really is "no".

A lot of ecological disasters are averted by processes that seem long and drawn out, but which actually are just companies not understanding that "no, we don't want you to burn down the planet around us". Residential is obviously somewhat different, but not entirely.
> There are dozens of building code (not just zoning code) requirements that add cost and complexity to housing projects in cities like LA. Street trees, front setbacks, off-street parking, roof decks, façade articulation — these are nice to haves, yet LA requires these features in many cases.

> Without these goodies, some ED1 buildings will be ugly. Some will be poorly designed. Just about all of them, by definition, will be “out of scale” with their surroundings. (LA housing activist Joe Cohen has a great thread of renderings of ED1 projects.) I personally think all of that is ok. A housing emergency is no time for aesthetic perfection. LA, like San Francisco, is finally acting like it.

If "low quality" just means "ugly" then... Yes? But if "low quality" means "unlivable" then no.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. I worked at Amazon for a few years and a Tenets section was common in our documentation.

I still use them. Defining the DNA of your project in this way aids in decision making.
Or seeing as how it's kinda important, we could stop regulatory capture for housing.

(There is an article here on hackers news not too long ago that said that while most industries had had huge productivity gains in the last 30 years, construction had been flat or decreasing - mostly because of increased regulation)
Social grooming is great for group cohesion. But that's others you know, not total strangers. Monkeys don't have to constantly deal with strangers.
Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
Courts only care about cases that are brought before them. They're not out looking for cases, that's what law enforcement does and LE is going to look at the context. If the ambulance is being driven by a carjacker they will cite it for being in the park even if it caused no damage. If the ambulance is driven by a medic and responding to a call they will likely overlook it. And of course they'll drive their own cars in the park whenever they want.
Are those easily accessible for the random person?
I think the "fake product" interview is a great format, but it can be done poorly if the setup is unrealistic. I've been on the receiving end of a couple of very bad attempts.

In one, which I have described here before, an interviewer asked me to design a system for selling concert tickets. After half an hour of confused back and forth, it emerged that they wanted a network service that replied to requests with unpredictable random integers, which did not repeat, unless the service rebooted and then it was okay if there was an accidental repeat. Needless to say, I started with a lot of assumptions based on the idea of selling concert tickets, and I don't think it reflected poorly on me that it took so long to figure out that the real problem they were judging me by was so radically different from the one they asked me to solve.

I had another interview recently which had a similar wrinkle. The interviewer asked for a system to solve a very particular problem, which because of the particulars of the problem would involve receiving very small amounts of data from systems in the field. The interviewer asked multiple times about the cost of data ingress and data storage, and each time I deflected them, saying that it wasn't significant compared to other costs in the system. I was so focused on solving the problem as stated that it didn't dawn on me until later that the interviewer likely had a different problem in mind in which the data was much bigger, and they were evaluating whether I could be sensitive to those costs and design an economical system.

Interviews like these are very frustrating, and I don't think they will lead to great hires. You will end up hiring people who solve the problem you have in mind even though you told them to solve a different problem. These programmers will have the same biases and preoccupations as you, which might make them easy to incorporate into your team, but they will probably have the same blind spots as well, which means your team will be less prepared to solve new problems in the future.
Zig Runs ROM FS Filesystem in the Web Browser (Thanks to Apache NuttX RTOS)
That's very similar to how good product management interviews are conducted.
I'd try watching the intro YouTube series by MasterHellish and concentrating on a particular industry to start with, it can get overwhelming when there's lots going on.
Good to see this happening.

That said I strongly dislike when there's a conflation of "affordable housing" (lower-case, the general concept of providing for people on lower incomes) with specific schemes you have to qualify for (often "Afffordable Housing" upper-case) - in this case it seems to be deed restrictions on income that are required in exchange for floorspace bonuses and building code relaxations?

There's a big problem for me in the latter building inefficient bureaucratic systems and being able to be gamed (e.g. If I'm rich maybe I can still buy a lower income unit for my children or perhaps my wife or mother and then rent it out. I could lower my income for one year just to qualify etc.)
It's mainly to save time.

I don't remember exactly how long it took but I remember it being something like 30 minutes of purely waiting for the find / replace to finish on a 4 CPU core / 8 GB of memory machine. Memory wasn't an issue fortunately.
Some Karens call cops for all kinds of reasons and cops often believe their interventions are backed by law when they aren't. What counts to answer "is it allowed" is what a court would rule I think
One of the easiest ways to do this is to use a HDMI display emulator [0]. Set the resolution to 1920x1080, move the content or presentation you want to share to the 'ghost' monitor and then share the entire second screen in your meeting app [1].

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=display+emulator

[1] https://youtu.be/RA-XXvFHgEs
Show HN: Interact with Google's Gemini AI over a video stream
I recently started testing out the Gemini Pro models since Google is currently offering free access to their API and I ended up creating this AI Stream Interact library which allows for interacting with the model over a video stream out of your web cam. Curious to hear thoughts and gather feedback from those who may be interested.
You have to go out of your way to get to this game space, so that's pretty rude and hard to defend.
I'll save you a click: no.

Here's the thing: housing in dense cities will NEVER be affordable. Never.

What happened recently (and is happening in other cities like Seattle) is companies pivoting from building "luxury" crappy condos to sweet state-subsdizied housing. These kinds of projects are great for them, they don't need to care about the market demand.
Play online, there's a small community running regular public coop games.

The downside is the games are typically pinned to an exact nightly build. I got tired of that, but it's managable for a finite duration to get you started.
Expecting ourselves to be special has a poor track record. The same evidence is compatible with lots of loud aliens yelling on channels we can't hear yet.
> required shrubbery and facade articulation

Isn't that appeasing to the NIMBYs who don't want their property values to drop?
I’m a fan of them too. Their pricing gives me a “we will punish your success” vibe. I suppose that’s preferable to paying through the nose for not scaling.
Like New New York in Futurama?!
"Ecological disasters" is covered by putting in objective instead of subjective rules. The point is to make objections like "doesn't fit neighborhood character" / "blocks the view" / "would replace this extremely historic run-down laundromat" hold no weight in the process.
Hetzner charges $1/TB. Oracle charges $7/TB, AWS $90/TB.

Oracle has probably really good margins on egress costs. With AWS/GCP/Azure the costs are absurd because for a lot of their customers it's not a big cost during operation, but makes moving data off cost prohibitive. It's simply a vendor lock-in mechanism for them.
People are under no obligation to follow the instructions. They're free to pick the answer that appeals to them regardless.

I mean that in a serious way. It's very clear people lie on much more serious polls than this.
Spark – A web micro framework for Java and Kotlin
It also forces downstream vendors that ingest a lot of data (e.g datadog, snowflake) to maintain cloud presence because their customers will not to want to pay egress fees
You missed the demographic situation. 1.5 children per woman[1] is below the number required to maintain a population. Germany has very clearly failed to invest enough in integrating immigrants and making them productive.

In terms of population, infrastructure, capital plant and equipment, and institutions, Germany has been eating its seed corn for decades.

Edit: the same applies to national security, as Germany's ineffectual support for Ukraine shows.

1. https://population.un.org/wpp/Graphs/Probabilistic/FERT/TOT/...
Your statement is so hard for me to understand because quality, or lack thereof, is a function of modern construction and cost saving practices, and laws around what constitutes a livable dwelling. McMansions!

These practices either save or cost the builder, not the buyer, because the value is all locked up in land. And the extra layers of scarcity we impose around building on said land.

In other words, what are you talking about?
You really need two in physically different locations (ideally ASes) with some form of failover, assuming you want a reasonable guaranteed uptime
It's pretty simple. Excessive egress costs = vendor lock in, and yes, forcing third party services into the same cloud (the walled garden), and limiting customer choice.

Just another reason so many orgs are getting heartburn from going too deep too fast into the cloud.
What are your ideas?
Yeah, the kind of question that I'm not comfortable giving a vague nonanswer to because I'm not familiar with all the intricacies they spent months ironing out. Which then turns into "what do you want me to say" whackamole of endless questions to gain the context needed to actually answer their question. Usually asked by people who cannot provide the context that actually led to the answer but still believe they understand why it was chosen.

It's a pretty specific scenario but it's happened to me
It's funny to whine that, "redefining the reality of others is literal brainwashing," but you obviously feel quite comfortable redefining the reality of the people you misgender for them.
This is an oversimplification, but! Dumping postgres to a file is one command. scp the file to a different server is two commands. (Granted you need to setup ssh keys there too). I have implemented backups this way.

With sqlite you only need the scp part.

You can even push your backup file to an S3 bucket... with one command!

Honestly, this argument mystifies me.

Of course you can make it as complicated as you want to, too. I've also worked on replicating anonymized data from a production OLTP database to a data warehouse. That's a lot more work.
For simplicity, software must be well built. Unfortunately, the software development practice is perpetually underskilled so we release buggy crap which we compensate for in infrastructure.
Yup. It’s a fine powder that will get into the air if walked on or near, and causes nasal and lung irritation if breathed in short term - and silicosis if breathed in long term.

Unlikely this length of exposure would result in silicosis probably though.

[http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/degen.html]