skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have many friends who have bought homes. Some in Gilroy, some in Mountain View, me in Cupertino, and so on.

None of us were born with money, and none of us bought them 20-50 years ago. None of us were even alive 40 years ago.

It’s doable, and while a number of people bounced during the pandemic, a lot of people took advantage of lower home prices. It’s about priorities.
https://archive.ph/DI1eo
"Responsible" is a highly overloaded word, but if nothing else it's a call for writers to be cautious in how they present things.

I'm working on a story with a (mostly) sympathetic protagonist who does some awful things and ultimately undergoes moral meltdown. One of my beta readers pointed out that my ending, bleak as it was, sort of rewarded the protagonist by giving her catharsis and some vindication, if not an actual happy ending. I took that as the top priority from that round of feedback and made sure to tweak the framing.

Did I succeed? Maybe. Can I absolutely prevent people from taking the wrong message? No. But I can try, and at least cut off the obvious routes to misinterpretation, learning from previous examples (Fight Club is actually not too far off in spirit). I think this is a moral responsibility of anyone making art, especially stories, for consumption by others: you at least have to try, where "try" includes a good faith effort to learn from common mistakes.
Nice work!

I usually like the writing at Quanta, but omg just put "this is percolation theory on a hexagonal grid" in the first paragraph.
"...had "nothing else to do" without their phones."

Now what would they have done before the advent of the smartphone? Turn the clock back and have them do that.
I'm guessing they had to move due to life circumstances, but due to taxes, transaction costs, sunk cost fallacy, hassle, etc, decided not to sell the unit.

Every reluctant landlord capitulates and sells... eventually.
In my experience, it’s always the over-40 group who are trying to implement these features to keep an eye on the young troublemakers.

It’s certainly not Gen Z kids in leadership positions implementing these AI snooping policies at these mega corporations.
> The proposed solution that at least 54% of this village have recognized is that the internet has really eroded societal bonds.

Just under 11% of the village support the measure strongly enough to vote for it. Not 54%. Only 20% of the local electorate voted at all.

On that basis, it's probably a good thing the measure is unenforceable.
Typographic Art of Valto Malmiola
then they should stop complaining about the result of their choices.

what I'm incredulous about is the constant complaints followed by an obvious solution but no action towards it.
Discussed recently here:

Memray: Python memory profiler - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38561682 - Dec 2023 (21 comments)

(Reposts are fine after a year or so. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.)

Also related:

Memray - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31102918 - April 2022 (2 comments)

Memray: a memory profiler for Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31102089 - April 2022 (48 comments)
He’s known to be a perannual doomer of course he will ask us to say no. That’s how he gets attention
There is a reason companies love hiring young college grads.
>muh lag

Every car for the last 150 years has had mechanical connection from the steering wheel to the tires and nobody is talking about the reliablity and safety concerns. The absolute state of hacker news.
In terms of capital ROI out in terms of decarbonization?

We know approximately how much the transition costs per ton of carbon not released. https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/insights/us/articles/6... Is a figure pulled from their consultancy but this is one of many.

Some of the possibilities have a return on investment. Others don’t. The 7T assumes a positive ROI and while fundamental research is crucial to reversing the damage later, I’m not spilling any secrets that we will need 100 dead ends and 1000 incremental improvements before deployment of the next great tech.

So is that investment?
“I can’t afford to fail” is a perfectly valid reason.
Hey, I am happy to see you here! What do you think of the event? I think you might find it interesting how these IPs were submitted. I would love to hear your thoughts.

In our previous interaction, I mentioned that I learned about CGNAT-based web scraping from your article on your personal blog. In this event, people took it to a whole other level. People were churning carrier IPs by the hundreds to win a pair of socks.

> our hosting detection is more advanced

When it comes to hosting detection, we haven't published much of our methodology publicly yet. But I appreciate your article on it: https://ipapi.is/blog/detecting-hosting-providers.html

I am not sure if I would say that your hosting detection is more advanced than ours because we have already productized every aspect discussed in your steps.

Step 1: "Download a List of Top 1 Million Domain Names" → 10 million domain names available for free download here: https://host.io/rankings

Step 2: Lookup the IP address for every Domain Name → https://ipinfo.io/products/hosted-domains-database

Step 4, 5: Obtain WHOIS Records for every IP Address → https://ipinfo.io/products/whois-database

Step 6: Crawl the Website and Classify the Website Text → https://host.io

This is just scratching the surface; a lot is happening internally. We have a team of talented engineers and a decade of experience. I am not trying to be disrespectful; I just wanted to share the information, that's all.

Our pricing approach is that we have an uncompromising approach to IP data, and organizations pay for the quality. However, for developers, small businesses, and students, we provide a generous yet highly accurate database and API for geolocation, which is free to access. We offer 50k reqs/month, tokenless API access, and a free IP to Country ASN database.
> I don't know how hard this sort of thing is to litigate, "at will" employment covers a lot of abuses, and honestly why would you want to stay at an employer who treats you like this? Probably best to spend your energy finding a new job.

It's not very hard to imagine why someone who is expecting a new child would want to continue to receive a paycheck and health insurance.
> you've likely got so much momentum that getting off is nearly impossible as you bleed cash.

Databases are not particularly difficult to migrate between machines. Of all the cloud services to migrate, they might actually be the easiest, since the databases don't have different API's that need to be rewritten for, and database replication is a well-established thing.

Getting off is quite the opposite of nearly impossible.
Ah xarray, both incredibly useful and an extremely obnoxious nightmare
Both heat and cold kill, it just takes a long time at certain temperatures.
Related:

How to Study: A Brief Guide - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202123 - Jan 2018 (58 comments)

How to Study (2016) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14088786 - April 2017 (71 comments)
Not required but it is very likely that if all one does is read papers and watches other smart people give lectures, they are pretty one dimensional and would be an awful dinner guest unless surrounded by other similarly one dimensional people. Same would be true if all one did was watch movies or play video games.
I have read many books and seen many movies that I feel are worse artistic works than the best games, but I also think it's a hard comparison to make.

There is no music that compares to "War and peace" or paintings like "1984", nor is the movie "Alien" like any book. Describing H R Gigers monster design with words will not have the same artistic impact.

I think different creations can be be great artistic works on entirely incomparable axes.
For the confused reader, they probably meant thread, not threat.
There's a reading comprehension portion where you have short readings (about 4-5 paragraphs in length as I recall, but it's been a long time) and several questions based on the reading. The questions themselves are still short, 1-2 sentences, but the context for answering those questions is not.

The "trick" for me on tests like that was to skim the reading and note key items (dates, names, topic terms) and then review the questions. Most of the time I could answer them directly, but if not I could go back to the reading and find the answer. Having skimmed it, I could jump straight to the relevant sentence(s).
I’ve driven track cars with bone shaking suspension from LA to Vegas and honestly don’t recall any difference.
Not at all. This isn't a zero sum game and there's no poetic justice
in letting fools and their money be easily parted. Even if the 7T
never yielded a single "AI" chip, we'd all be much worse-off for that
failure.

For example, the global cost of insecure software is 2T per year. Wrt
to lost opportunity cost, 7T would fund a ground-up secure open
microprocessor and operating system (provably free from back-doors) to
completely replace Android, iOS, Windows etc, with a new-deal style
offering to the entire global technology market. It would pay for
itself in 4 years.

Not so "glamourous" I know, but let's start with the problems we have,
not imaginary ones we haven't even created yet.
I don’t know that it’s possible to intrinsically make real estate non appreciable per se, but you can shift it to be more commodity like and stop treating it special and pass regulations that encourage selling and discourages holding, which as a land value tax, would be a good start. Removing the mortgage interest deduction would be another

Removal of sub class zoning for housing would also be beneficial. Its one thing to zone an area for industrial vs housing but it should not be permitted that when land is zoned for housing they can zone specifically for single occupancy homes for example.
The other joke is, it has also known that car mfgs just let dealers have access to the key databases they hold for cars to make new ones rather than just cloning a physical key...and crooked dealership employees use it behind the scenes.
GenAI isn't listening to me, or is it?
Ask HN: Why does the NSA use Java so much?
What is the unique selling point of Java? I feel like I am missing out on something?

I just had a look at repos from the NSA and alot of the code is written in Java. What could be the reason for its dominance in this context?

https://github.com/orgs/NationalSecurityAgency/repositories?type=all
> I want to walk, not drive, out my front door, and be within 15 minutes, on foot, from entertainment and dining and friends and shopping and groceries and pharmacies and salons and cafes.

I live in a city, you can have all of those things here. In fact, we have an entire stretch down the side of a river that has restaurants and other things down the side of it. The housing in that area is some of the most expensive but still doesn't touch NYC.
I would love something like this targeting a broader category of machines. For example, keeping track of when I last changed the oil in my lathe or pressure washer and notifying me to do some kind of regular maintenance. Somewhere to keep track of what kind of oil to buy (for example) alongside a digital copy of the machine’s manuals as well as the ability to log maintenance records.

I used to use Notion for some of this, but they didn’t quite have the functionality I wanted a few years ago.
My generation drank, smoked, took drugs, hung around in large intimidating groups... I'm not exactly sure being hooked on smart phones is worse.
Yes, the boss can see the company Slack.
In my experience it's kinda the opposite. Realizing that stuff was trauma helped move on from it. Until I had a framework for why a fairly-normal-sounding experience was affecting my personality so much, I just felt like I was going crazy. It helped a lot to realize that ruminating on it was how trauma works: its purpose is to figure out how to avoid a recurrence at all costs, including warping one's behavior in aberrant ways.
"It’s more accurate to say that happiness is akin to calmness or contentment, the lack of strong emotions."

I'm not sure where you got that definition?
Should I Accept Apple's New App Store Terms for EU Users?
Apple recently announced changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store specifically for the European Union, as outlined here: https://www.apple.com/de/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/.

I'm at a crossroads with my B2C app, which has around 10-15k total users (a mix of free and paid). According to my calculations, adopting the new App Store terms would net me an additional 400€ per month. While the financial upside seems clear, I'm considering other factors such as user experience, potential future growth, and any unforeseen implications these changes might bring. I'm mostly interested in the reduced comission I have to pay to Apple and not yet about using alternative app stores or linking out.

The crux of my question is: Should I opt for these new terms? Here are some points I'm pondering:

The immediate financial benefit is apparent, but I'm curious about long-term implications. What will happen if I publish another app, that has a much lower income:cost ratio and I go above a million users (I know what will happen, but how should I weigh the chance and future regulatory pressure on Apple to change terms?)

How might this change affect my app's user experience, especially considering all the EU-specific alterations (including linking out)? Could there be any negative repercussions (taken by Apple against me)? Could Apple reduce my reach in the App Store - charts, similar apps etc.?

What factors should weigh most heavily in my decision? Are there any potential pitfalls or opportunities I might be overlooking?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts and advice.
This quote is always mildly irritating. Einstein was the mental equivalent of an Olympic athlete with multiple gold medals. That man was so far disconnected from the mental limitations of average people that some quotes don’t hold much value because they’re created in context of his experience. I work in a creatively challenging job, and I’m mentally wasted after a full day sometimes, to the point that anything I create is hot garbage until I rest and change my focus. I’ll read my books and play my games thank you kindly.
From my perspective the ban has to be a plus. At least the mesmerized wouldn't be blindly walking across roads whilst glued to their screens and frightening the hell out of motorists who are trying to avoid them.
Some people can kill a man, or lose a limb and not suffer traumatic rumination.

Some other people lose their favorite toy as an kid and it really does become a deep rumination pattern of traumatic loss for them.
Mereological Dialogues with ChatGPT-4 Prove Flaws in Algorithmism
AI can be used to help scholars check idea structures for compatibility. It can also be used to examine flawed logical presuppositions, such as Algorithmism: the presumption that ideas can be meaningfully, completely encoded.
"You agreed with the majority: 100%"

Which proves it's not actually impossible, the majority opinion is actually sensible, and this take is incorrect. Case closed.
That’s like saying “why not hire someone that’s never worked as a software engineer to be your principal?” Why should they be judged for _not_ having a job in the past??
After being stabbed in the back so many times by non-FOSS software I find it hard to trust companies that promote that kind of dependent relationship. I gladly pay to support free software that I heavily rely on like an Android launcher.
People are lying about how much they do read books, and for me, it's not that books are bad but books simply have more competition than they used to.

There are multiple history podcasts, some of which are made by actual historians, which go for hundreds of episodes. It might not be "reading a book" but I really fail to see the big difference between that and an audiobook. Except that it's cheaper/easier/better than using Audiobooks.

I listen to lectures about health from doctors. Casually listening to a lecture simply wasn't something you could just do not so long ago. Is listening to a 2 hour lecture summarising information about a health topic I'm interested in worse than reading books?

I now have access to medical papers which used to be gate-kept by Elsevier with the complicity of higher education. Nowadays it seems like the vast majority of research papers are publicly accessible. Is reading scientific papers worse than reading books?

Maybe I should be paying Audible a subscription fee so that people think I'm erudite though. I don't think there's anything wrong with books but people fetishise them.
I use containerized versions of things, ubuntu and chainguard images mostly.

You can always create containers with init if that's how you want to do that though. Some distros publish images that come that way: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/useful_...
> The roads here are way better than other places with lower taxes

I live in San Francisco and absolutely disagree with this. The roads are garbage. And lest we think that's just a city thing, whenever I leave the city and drive out on local and state roads they range from garbage to ok-ish.

My family moved to Maryland when I was a teenager, and the roads there were pristine (90s, not sure about nowadays). It felt like some section of some road or highway near me was always being resurfaced.
From the commit message[1]:

"dxil.dll is closed-source, so we cannot simply patch it in the same way. To fix
this, we outright disable runtime loading of dxil.dll and silence warnings related
to it not being present / the final binary not being code signed. Instead, once
the compiler would emit a compiled shader blob, we perform our own code signing
algorithm (Mach Siegbert Vogt DXCSA) which results in a bitwise identical compiled
shader, and thus dxil.dll is no longer needed to perform code signing of shaders."

[1] https://github.com/hexops/DirectXShaderCompiler/commit/7a013...
I always marvel at Quanta’s skill in trying to translate these intricate mathematical and physical ideas for a broad audience. I can’t always wrap my mind around their analogies, but I always admire their effort.

Their visualizations seemed especially helpful here. I am curious, though-they allude to this discovery relating to modeling phenomena like fluid perfusing porous materials. Are precise values of constants like this “backbone exponent” a practical barrier to that sort of modeling, or is this a more basic discovery that’s satisfying just in the sense of the completeness of human knowledge?
What happens when the backend worker dies while processing?
Neat project. It’s always fun to see tools pushed beyond their normal use cases.

That said, it should be a criminal offense to write any tool this large and complex in any language that can’t be used in a powerful step debugger.

TBH I’m increasingly frustrated by the amount of code written in Bash. I kind of hate Python for various reasons. But if 100% of Bash was replaced with Python I think the world would be a better place.
The fact that you agreed with the majority answer to each of the individual questions, 100% of the time, does not mean that there is widespread agreement on the rules, which is part of what this article gets at.
I'm curious, what was the job that needed some code but not a dedicated developer?

I'm taking computational biology courses on the side, so that's the application that comes to mind for me.
DoD space /8 is different as it is within the public space of IPv4, even if it was never advertised globally.

Whereas 240/4 was never declared public.

Apples and Oranges.
I suppose for safety reasons, as AM receivers can be easily improvised. (in some kind of critical situation)
> How many popular products have you named and launched?

One, and you often times only need one.
I am not making up a narrative, I am presenting alternatives to the narrative you made up from the start. You're the one who said that Magda might not have been truthful and you offered arguments based on your own narrative about Dariusz being able to choose to quit freely, without consequences, and choosing to work himself to death. I provided counterarguments by showing how there are other alternatives you didn't think of.

As for insults, it was not my intention to insult you and I'm not sure which part of my reply you found insulting. If it was the reading comprehension, then I apologize for the way it sounded: I merely meant to say you might not have understood the sentence properly, which is something that happens to everyone.

If it was the part where I pointed out your bias, that's on you. When I point out that the person you're trying to blame for their own death might not conform to your own expectations -- the expectation that they are free to choose to quit without any consequences -- you're perfectly happy to call that a "fantasy", but you don't apply the same label to your own ideas about people who "want to work themselves to death". If you find the description of your biases insulting, maybe you should re-evaluate them.
I appreciate nuance and not aiming for average and I get the examples you are talking about. But I think now you are the one who’s speaking in generalities vs the case at hand :)

Do you think there’s a better way to connect to people than what is described in the article? I think I am fairly in-average in my interests and yet I am pretty sure if someone came and asked me about something vs started telling me shit about themselves, I’d be much more willing to engage the former.

You are welcome to disagree but what’s your alternative advice?
you can look up historical data about what aircraft were where at what time.
I'm annoyed at this book and others like it. Despite their helpfulness to many people, one side effect has been that some doctors in the USA now use CPTSD or similar to dismiss people suffering from chronic pain. "If you're in pain, you probably have some (childhood) trauma that you haven't processed correctly. Go see a therapist and come back for a follow-up." (when it takes 6 months or more to get in to a therapist, and the patient is in pain right now)

(Yes, this is a huge chip on my shoulder. Like copper thieves have ruined many buildings, doctors handing out opioid prescriptions to everyone has ruined pain management in the USA)
> They are hard workers

Where does this cliché come from? Germans work less than any other country on the planet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_a...
There's overlap, but many traditional NLP techniques are heuristics based. Here's an example: https://github.com/cjhutto/vaderSentiment
Cross from IL to WI on 94. The toll road ends and the reads are so much better. Of course WI will pull over any speeder with out of state plates. They even take credit cards to pay your fine on the spot.
http://web.archive.org/web/20240210155053/https://culture.te...
Amazon is super evil, I appreciate you find value in their services, this can be true and the company can still be evil though. It leeches off opensource, it actively fights against employee rights, it copies most successful products in their marketplace and competes against them. Do you care enough so I should search sources to back these claims?
I agree, but I imagine there either is or will be a js-in-wasm project that can suitably truncate the environment. Not that js is actually not good at this sort of application (triple equals get old fast), but people already know it.

And of course there's lua.