skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the market determines the rent but the government determines that building houses is mostly illegal.
No, not with that attitude!
As someone that was dealing with my domain being squatted on, I can say I know more about DNS today than I did yesterday.
Land Value Tax: Make it financially unfeasible to speculate, to withhold units from the market, and to withhold unused land from the market. Let prices freely fluctuate with the market. Increases in rent derived from externalities (i.e. Amazon HQ2 setting up shop nearby or a new subway station) go back into public coffers, while increases in rent derived from landlord actions (i.e. renovations, building bigger, better units that command higher prices) go directly into their pockets.
If you look this from a statistical point of view it turns out that people agree a lot. Out of all the 2**26 (~26M) possible sets of opinions only 9432 different opinions are generated. We have data for around 37k users, so if users opinion was so special we would expect around 37k different opinions, but we only have 4k.

It would also interesting to see how many different opinions are there if you allow fuzzy matching. Users disagreeing in only 1 or 2 questions probably have the same idea of what the rule means.
Lenny Bruce, John Belushi, Sam Kennison, probably Andy Kaufman if cancer hadn't killed him first. Anthony Bourdain.
46% of Americans didn't read a book in 2023
Not sure if your comment was meant to be sarcastic, but basically, yes, ever since the EU instituted freedom of labor movement, and Eastern countries joined the EU, there have been overall huge amounts of labor migration from Eastern to Western bloc countries.
Yeah. We had an in house report generator that was epicly slow (about 7 minutes to gen a single report)

We frequently have strange issue come in cause fucking vendors can’t stop making changes, then saying “nobody changed anything that would cause that”!

Anyway. I told my boss I’m going to spend a day optimizing this, and got back “we had people try, it’s not really a valuable use of time”.

Long story short, I know that processing 10,000 lines of data should absolutely not take 7 minutes and now it doesn’t. Now we can run our entire day in 30 seconds. No threads. No async. Half a day of optimization.

I think part of the problem with optimization today is that people are completely clueless about how fast computers are, and thus stay happy with being slow just as a matter of ignorance. The FP community pushing that all optimization is premature optimization doesn’t help either.
For mildly cold places, heat pumps at reasonable electric prices is the best choice by far
It would be cool to see a screenshot.
I use Jupyter and vscode together. I'll be write new snippets of code in Jupyter then move it into .py stand-alone files when I'm happy it. I'll use vscode to work on already established code. The extension for auto reloading in Jupyter is super helpful.

Notebooks are just plain awesome. Whenever I use a new api or service, I'll make a notebook with cells showing how to call/run each operation and commit as a sort of executable documentation.
The idea that "performance" is the big problem, is the same as saying "performance" is why you don't use an IMAP server as a queue. Hey, you've already got an email server somewhere, and that means it's simpler, so that means it's a good idea. Based on the logic in this article you should be using your email server as your application's general purpose queue.

I feel so bad for the poor engineers that will believe this crap and later regret it. If you're going to advocate doing something like this, you should be forced to be honest and explain all the reasons it's bad idea. The fact is that people are lying about the problems of using Postgres as a queue, because they just don't want to believe that the world is really more complex than that.
Dashboard for SonarQube and SonarCloud Projects
I am launching an app for engineers and tech leaders who is working with sonarqube and sonarcloud. The aim of it is to see all code analysis metrics in one place, making sure projects' code is reliable and safe.It is shipped via docker image, so you are able to host it on you laptop or premises and keep all your scans secured.

Demo link: https://demo-sonar.itbusina.com/projects.html

Install instructions:

docker run -p 5000:8080 -e SONARQUBE_HOST=https://sonarcloud.io -e SONARQUBE_PROJECTS=ecoAPM_StatiqPipelines --name sonarqube-wallboard -d kbahdanovich/sonarqube-wallboard:latest

I'd love for you to give it a try and share your feedback.
I find it frustrating that the Mach guys have this great write up, but don't just say what the "signing" is.

Anyone paying attention in the article to that point knew it had to be some basic hash or similar, where even in your worst case someone has to reverse engineer some assembly.

After all that effort, just out Microsoft, particularly when we're talking about opensource code that anyone that cares to can just dig through and find (thanks for that, msk!).
I also started baking during COVID and now I'm obsessed. I wish it paid as well as software, I would do it full-time.
Sadly, HN was not able to help you understand what premature optimization is.

What the SQLite team did was systematically measure the performance of their system, identify potential bottlenecks/inefficiencies, create and measure improvements to these bottlenecks and choose the better option.

This is what we call optimization. Premature optimization is when you have no idea how your system really performs, but spend time trying to make it "better" without having a way to determine whether your change made any difference.
I think this is the real point: it's not a test of whether people agree on what is allowed, but on how pedantic people are in an abstract setting.

I think agreement would be much higher if people were told to evaluate the "spirit" of the rule, and not the "letter" of the rule.
One of those things that the end users won't ever give half a shit about. Same thing when installing some linux distros: "dO yoU wANT To doWNloAd AND iNStAll 3Rd paRty driVers"

Yes. Yes I want my GPU, wifi and bluetooth to work. Get over yourselves and leave that checkbox checked by default.
This is cruel and heartbraking. Didn't expect this to happen in any European countries the least in Poland where they have strong unions.

Retaliation is pretty common in the US - I announced to HR that my wife is expecting (Tue) and was fired on Friday.
why is the court ruling "nonsense"? because you don't agree with it, or? seems biased to me
> ... overblown claims about how it's going to make people's lives better.

That sounds exactly like how they did Cortana too -> "It'll be GREAT!!!". Fast forward a few years and they're ripping it out of everything as it's actually not useful.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
In my experience, PyMC leads to models that are orders of magnitudes slower than equivalent models written in JAGS. Profiling is also extremely tedious, and there is no section in the PyMC docs that touches upon model performance.

I really like PyMC's API, but as soon as you move towards bigger datasets JAGS or Stan seem to be the only practical options.
On the flipside, it takes way longer to get things done on .net. There should be a balance here, but it's not going to happen. There will always be a fair amount of users installing packages for everything.
My point is they had no way out. It was a glass cliff. Only regulations can stand up to competitors as powerful as Google and Apple.
This doesn't answer how you got the apartment, which is invariably either luck, knowing someone, or having rich parents (in which case you can buy one of those income-controlled units that make zero sense for anyone except a nepo-baby -- e.g. need to earn <$30k as a household, but have $250k for a downpayment).

I also had a time in a rent-stabilized apartment in NYC (East Village, probably not far from yours) and the answer of how I got it: luck. It happened to be available when I was looking and I happened to beat everyone else to the seller's agent by physically sprinting with my deposit check in hand.
Author describes "massive" differences between 14" & 16" MacBookPro displays... while I sit here on my 43" primary screen thinking "even 27 inches seems small these days."

My secondary screen is "only" 28 inches.

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I'm currently working with an elderly macular degeneration client, a former painter, who is quite rapidly growing fond of the freedoms AVP proposes to offer.

Her only resistance is the frustration of being eighty-plus-years-old. Computers surprisingly understand her parkinsonianisms well.
It's almost impossible to use public transit outside of Brickell.

Miami-Dade is very sprawly, like Los Angeles.

This is unsurprising as Miami is a relatively new city that expanded post-WW2, like LA.

The cities I listed above were already fairly high density before the automobile was invented
it's true though, younger folks need like 1 gram/kg of weight in protein daily or so. When you're female and over 40 that goes up to 1.6 grams up to 2.0 grams/kg.
If you think you can get that from lentils, you might wanna look into bio-availability.

AND if you have any problems with absorbing nutrients in your gut, you are probably not getting enough of everything, no matter how healthy you eat.

Protein needs
https://health.gov/our-work/nutrition-physical-activity/diet...

bio-availability
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6723444/
On a related note, it’s one of my biggest irritations how it’s becoming more and more difficult by the day to find the RSS feed underlying any given podcast.

To me, a podcast always just was just an RSS feed of type audio. If you don’t provide that feed, you’re not a podcast. You’re something else.

These walled gardens are rolling in and claiming territory over what was a beautiful bastion of freedom. I hate it so much.
New DNA testing reveals who made ancient stone tools
As much as this turns my stomach, this is neither new nor unexpected, and honestly this is fairly benign to many of the things that companies do such as precision location tracking throughout the building, using company-issued phones, and using normal security surveillance to monitor "watercooler" talk and things like that.

We had our chance to push back against company surveillance well over a decade ago, and nobody except privacy advocates like me seemed to give a shit. Some very close friends actually told (after the company for "saftey reasons" started using RFID tracking to track our movements throughout the building using our ID cards) that I was being "paranoid" by suggesting that at some point it would be openly surveiling employee activities like bathroom breaks, watercooler conversation, etc.

Please don't misunderstand, I'm not saying that it's too late, that we've lost, and that we get what we deserve (although such might be true), but I am pessimistic that we could ever reverse this at this late stage point. The cancer has long metastasized and buried itself deeply into every nook and cranny.

I don't know if it will work, but this is what I think we should do:

1. Refuse to work at companies that do the most invasive surveillance. This means a lot more of your options are gonna be to work for yourself or for a startup.

2. Spread the word in conversations and stuff (when appropriate. Don't be obnoxious and shove people's face in it cause that won't serve any purpose except alienating them). Seek to educate and inform, not to evangelize or argue (though such things do have their place, but use discretion).

3. Shame the companies who do surveillance. I'm not saying be obnoxious or in-your-face about it because that won't do anything other than make you an asshole, but it's absolutely worth bringing it up in a reasonable, fact-based way when appropriate. I've told recruiters that I won't work for <big tech co> because of this.

4. Live your values and try not to do business with these companies, though such can be hard when many have near-monopoly status or a hard-to-avoid position. A full boycott is admirable, but you gotta live your life too. Just try to continually re-evaluate alternatives and vote with your $.

Anticipating someone dismissing me as an "r/antiwork" person (yes, people on the internet and even Hacker News do routinely make ridiculous assumptions about people based on zero knowledge other than one comment they just read), I actually think ignoring this helps the antiwork people by giving them valid points about the abuse. If you don't think they're right, then you should be very much on my side here because if nothing happens, they will eventually be right.
I have my cookies autodeleted on a regular basis because I prefer my browsing sessions and activity to not be linked for surveillance purposes.

The use of a password manager makes re-logging-in effortless.
How do you feel about shareholders voting on things to act as one coordinated block? Would they be better off each individually bargaining?
I once got a quote to sling a 1500 lb load 5 miles from an airport to a remote area. $10,000.
Body-weight exercises are very good for population health. They can produce muscle growth sufficient to look muscular, much less the sort of maintain-mobility goal that should exist for almost everyone. Losing muscle mass is one of the largest factors in the reduced mobility we experience as we age.

Body weight exercising is much more than just pushups, crunches, and pull-ups. In addition to a large number of unique exercises, there are techniques to decrease the challenge or increase the challenge of most body weight exercises that should be taken advantage of. Over the entire fitness community the knowledge of how to make a body-weight exercise routine work is spread thin.

I honestly think we need more of the aging (55+) community taking good calisthenics classes. My elderly father (70s) visits the outdoor calisthenics park often when he is staying at my house.
Did you stop using AWS? Amazon's retail costs them money, AWS nets them profit. If you think about it, buying from Amazon is kinda like stealing from them.
The database should never ever become part of a public API.

You don’t share a DB for performance reasons (rather the opposite), you do it to ensure data integrity and consistency.

And no, not everyone needs to know every use case. But every team needs to have someone who coordinates any overlapping schema concerns with the other teams. This needs to be managed, but it’s also not rocket science.
How did they not notice this immediately themselves instead of having a landscaping crew notify them?

When I was a broadcast engineer, we were required to constantly monitor the on-the-air signal. In addition, that tower is live. How did they disconnect it without serious shock?
REPL 0%
JupyterLab 80%
Pycharm 20%

The reason is that Jupyter environment is lightyears more powerful than REPL. Feels like REPL is for those who don't code / only those who don't code would use REPL. I don't even use that after the first day.
>Really? You can’t set up more than one monitor in your field of view?
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Just because we can see movement on the outer ends of our field of view to see predators, doesn't mean I can also comfortably stare at code via the side of my eyes. Filed of focus != field of view. Yeah, I can see nearly 180 degrees, but I can only comfortably focus for work on what's in the center of my FoV.
How we teach front-end development using vanilla JavaScript
I'm only talking specifically about what a court ruling in your favor means.
Ask HN: All Roads Lead To?
We have heard of the proverb "All roads lead to Rome".
In a similar fashion, what do you associate or identify with this in your domain of expertise?
Any concept or experience that resonates with this?
I’m not against DI, but I don’t find your argument convincing: having dependencies modelled directly with the simplest language constructs (variables and arguments) and validated by the compiler makes “debugging” a ton simpler than dealing with DI errors, even in a good DI framework. Having an error just means I wrote invalid code: even a junior can easily figure it out.

DI still has other advantages, but that’s not one
Yes wanting to preserve musical history or be able to recall something you once liked probably falls into the rockist vs poptimist debate. Even listening to tracks in the order they were intended is either radical or primitive to the defenders of streaming.
Looks expensive at $20/month if you want GPT-4
I moved once, out into a desert area. The microbes in the new environment were so virulent and horrible that my starter was instantly destroyed.

Every new starter I tried would flare up into great bubbles after one day, and would just stink to high heavens after 3. It looked like a great starter, but exuded the most revolting rotten smell.

I tried bleaching all the containers. Changing flours. Storing it in a different place. Nothing. Something out there in the desert was ready each time.
What’s the point of saying something’s impossible? Why frame it that way? Should we keep trying, or no? Perfect isn’t the goal, and “impossible to make perfect” isn’t a useful summary, right? It seems like that’s what you saying, and I agree. The only reasonable question is whether it’s possible to improve, and the answer is yes it is possible to improve.
read the last paragraph ...
> Nyc is the worst

I love NYC. I don't mind going into Boston or such for the day, but there's nothing like NYC on east coast. It's fantastic.
Rent control ideally wouldn’t need to exist. But since no one is fucking building anything - you need it to prevent landlords from just extracting more money from the pockets of laborers without having done any labor themselves.

My landlord didn’t provide any more utility this year even though they jacked up my rent $1000/month this year. Nothing about my place got any better and I’m not getting anything out of it. They’re doing it purely to extract money from me because they know no one else is building and we just had 150k+ migrants move into the city to compete for a fixed supply.

End of the day, landlords don’t deserve more money and I don’t know why anyone here argues for it. It’s like you want bezos to have even more money - it’s super weird.
"Corporations don't have emotions and only act in the interest of profit."
“ Bash is great, but when it comes to writing more complex scripts, many people prefer a more convenient programming language. JavaScript is a perfect choice, ”

I am not sure you can call js “convenient “.
Why did you announce it?
Wouldn't that just consume absurd amounts of storage? Almost every device in my house constantly does update checks and many other connections, keeping track of every connection sounds extreme
I use the default prompt template which is defined in the tokenizer.config https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-33b-instru...

No special flags or anything, just the standard format. Do take care of the spaces and end of lines. sharing a gist of the function I use for formatting it: https://gist.github.com/theskcd/a3948d4062ed8d3e697121cabd65... (hope this helps!)
Hey there. How do you host your sqlite dbs??
That's why the prefix "modern day" is added.

Being worked to the bone while getting paid barely enough to survive affords only a very theoretical freedom and capacity for personal development.

We know this from every UBI pilot ever ran: People do start businesses and better their own situation if you remove them from the threat of poverty and homelessness.
it lacks flexibility but i really enjoy grpc-gateway for 99% of my work

https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway
Can you locate the paper you're alluding to?
>> Representatives are a function of the electorate.

Not in America. The essentials of our representative republic make it not especially representative. It's badly in need of reform to make the legislature actually representative: much larger house of representatives, 3-5 member districts, ranked choice voting, 18 year terms for supreme court justices, etc. etc.
I still find it hard to write transformations nicely in normal programming languages. I actually even used it to transform structured formats and always am quite happy (using [0]). Also generated spreadsheets and docs (actually via markdown and pandoc) just 2 days ago. xsltproc is for me the awk/sed of structured.

[0] http://www.ananas.org/xi/
Wait so hydrogen is just petroleum with extra steps? Was this whole thing a scam by the oil industry?
This reminds me of [1]

[1]: https://archive.ph/tOuMU
what is your alternative proposal and what problems would it solve better?
Wow Sun blasts X3.4-class solar flare – See it in 4K [video]
> The sun erupted with an X3.4-class solar flare on Feb. 9, 2024. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the fireworks in multiple wavelengths.
Maybe you can organize your life and get a better job.
>>>> Using the anonymized data in Aware’s analytics product, clients can see how employees of a certain age group or in a particular geography are responding to a new corporate policy or marketing campaign

>>>> “It won’t have names of people, to protect the privacy,” Schumann said. Rather, he said, clients will see that “maybe the workforce over the age of 40 in this part of the United States is seeing the changes to [a] policy very negatively because of the cost, but everybody else outside of that age group and location sees it positively because it impacts them in a different way.”

QFT. It's always the over-40 who are under suspicion.

Disclosure: Old.
You can figure out _a_ way to make a pencil, but it may not be as efficient or clever as they did it the first time. Or it might be a lot more practical with modern abilities that were impossible at the time of the first pencil.

If you started today, you might not use graphite, or wood. That's ok for pencils. But it might mean we've forgotten a technique they used for making pencils that's also useful for tiny gear shafts. But we don't use it for gear shafts anymore because somebody invented the Swiss lithoscropy process.
but but but.. I need a valid excuse so I can tell myself about why I can't start a startup.
I was blown away when I found out a couple years ago that there were major corporations still using that as their primary communication platform.
I used to live in PA and have several family members on both sides there. No matter the topography the rates are still around that.
not really copying the whole files, but I work in an editor which has keyboard shortcuts for adding the relevant context from files and putting that in the prompts.

Straight up giving large files tends to degrade performance (so you need to do some reranking on the snippets before sending them over
Pgcopydb: Postgres Dump and Restore on Steroids
and much of rural america is increasingly depopulated. not only would nobody notice, there is nobody there to notice.
Presumably because he wanted to take paternaty leave after his child was born. Also why wouldn’t you tell coworkers you’re having a baby? It’d be really weird to keep that a secret.
Oh good tip, I’ll check that out! At the risk of getting stuck in the rabbit hole again…
Just a small loan of a million dollars.
Blizzard of all peoples site in the late aughts was all XML with XSLT. It was kind of beautiful.
Why wouldn't you communicate ahead of time that you're going to be taking a chunk of time off in the near future, specifically for something so important?
If landlords are scum the brokers can be dragged out to the street and shot.

If a politician wanted to score major brownie points, breaking the broker cartels would be a major win.

Put up with this sheisse in Boston. First, last, security, and broker fees. It's the reason I left the east coast and never looked back.
That story doesn’t make any goddamned sense.