skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is buying? Affordability is at at the lowest point since the 90s. Look at the age developments...

https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/homeownership-rate-...

https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/06/homes/housing-ma...
That doesn’t address the cause: is the disorder actually caused by being single or do the same traits which are unappealing to potential partners also responsible?
These may be purposeful to backdoor LLM’s using there content. By listing and analyzing them you are enhancing the impact the poison content might have.

Either that or like fictitious entries in dictionaries or trap streets in maps to catch plagiarists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
ya exactly. i liked to treat this whole genre as gardening. simcity is more constrained gardening; you dig your plots and watch stuff grow. transport tycoon is more like guerilla gardening; fundamentally you're in the wilderness, but with the right interventions - irrigation here, a latticework there - you in time dramatically transform the landscape
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To be fair, it seems like all the game consoles that shipped with NV chips in them have been fairly successful, or their failures were explicitly not related to the parts of the silicon that NV designed. Other than perhaps the jailbreak issues the launch Switch had...

And Geforce mobile parts are still quite popular in laptops. It makes me wonder how much of the difficulty is "hard company to work with" and how much is just "weird constraints make integration a pain" - I still don't know if they don't want to open their drivers, or if they can't for IP reasons.
Why not just use msgpack? The advantage of JSON is that support is already built in to everything and you don't have to think about it.

If you start having to actually make an effort to fuss with it, then why not consider other formats?

This does have nice backwards compatibility with existing JSON stuff though, and sticking to standards is cool. But msgpack is also pretty nice.
That't the thing - its not ablut the company, but about building the best network that can get anything and anyone anywhere on the map efficiently, withou trains locking up somwhere. Thats much harder tha just the very simple economy model.
Not really I disagree.

With software that encourages emergent behaviour we are unaware of the abilities the entities take on. So in theory I think we could.
Lol, no! That's based on BU, and was published right around the time I started LARPing. I can't remember if there were tunnels or LARPing in that book, but steam tunnels/walking tunnels are common in the northeast, as is LARPing.
Are the people working for US companies in London not "offshored"?
yes, there's definitely a bandwidth overhead with xml compared to json. that was an important factor in the shift i suppose. but then we have things like graphql, which has pretty much erased all those gains. you can also do tricky things like using binary on the wire and transforming at the endpoints.

it would be nice to see if fundamental xml tech can be improved in a new hardware and software environment. afaik, there hasn't been much if any innovation in that space in recent times. would love to know if there has.
Like in Master and Commander when they swapped out the American ship for a french ship as american audiances dont like seeing american ships as the bad guys.
The bandwidth alliance exists to try to cut into AWS’ business. They could always have unilaterally cut rates closer to their cost but that margin was appealing, until they realized that they were never going to catch up with AWS without being cheaper.
"Nobody knows how to operate this 40 year old kubernetes cluster anymore". Some of you will go billing thousands per hour rewriting legacy Helm manifests for antiquated banking infrastructure.
That’s an impressive word salad, but sorry, no. Egress costs are high strictly to keep you there.

This is why egress is dirt cheap on other platforms outside the big 3 cloud providers.

This is also why ingress is free.
Bandwidth Costs Around the World (2016)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39164152
I don't know if there is a number somewhere but me and most of my peers that live in Latin America that achieve certain level of proficiency we all work for Us or Europe and not for our local economies
Cool program but when visiting your site, people need to 'land' on a sexy screenshot, clear illustration, or animation that shows the functionality explicitly before literally anything else. An image that screams "this is an important presentation" with a person in the bubble confidently explaining it, then maybe something that shows how easy it is to use the iPad to mark things up. This is a communication product, so people expect it to communicate its purpose deftly. If people have to read to see how your product is better than their current solution, or scrub around an explainer video, most wont. Pretty much nobody seeks out solutions for problems they consider solved, and nobody spends more than a couple of seconds looking at a solution they don't think they need. To effectively communicate the purpose of your product to the larges number of potential customers, you need to immediately and explicitly show them how your product works to solve their problem better.
The hypothesis goes:

I want humans to be casually interstellar and expand across the galaxy. I want this to occur in less than N years, N << 10^10.

If humans are casually interstellar and expansionist, then we would colonize the galaxy in M years, M << 10^10.

Humans are not special, therefore if another alien species existed in the past at current human tech levels, then they would do the same as humans would and colonize the galaxy within N + M << 10^10 years after achieving current human tech level.

We believe we can detect such a civilization. Therefore, if we are more than N + M years after a another civilization with current human tech level, then we would see them.

We do not detect any such civilizations.

Therefore one of the assumptions must be wrong.

1. We can not detect a galactic civilization.

2. No alien civilization has reached current human tech level within N + M years of now.

3. Humans are special. Only humans would colonize the galaxy if they had casual interstellar travel.

4. Humans are not special, but we will never invent casual interstellar travel/spread to the stars.

So, if you think humans are not special (3 is false) and you hope humans will spread to the stars in the future (hope 4 is false), then you hope the answer is 1 (humans are bad at detection) or 2 (humans are early).

If you rule out 1 and 2, then 4 can only be true if 3 is true. If you rule out 3 as well, then you must conclude humanity will never spread to the stars for unknown reasons.
Which court filing is this from?
I found I never went back to notes. Getting ahead is the best path.

The one thing worth writing down was exam hints.
reminiscent of life forms, thought, and spoken word
I agree with the author’s critique of maximalist interpretations of the paper.

I’ve built a chess engine in the past so I was less hung up on the “without search” component like a lot of the original thread seemed to be. I don’t care if I have to take an argmax over all possible moves in a position and whether that technically qualifies as a search, or if the model may be doing some implicit search within its weights. What matters to me is that it is several orders of magnitude lower search required than stockfish, and those operations cost much less because they’re being executed in parallel on a TPU (GPU also works).

Optimizing static evaluation for the hardware we have is still a super interesting topic. It’s arguably why deep learning took off: matrix multiplication happens to be really cheap on GPUs.
> This got me also thinking, would operating some sort of spot market for traffic make sense to AWS?

Probably not, except in exceptional cases. I don't know how AWS manages their networks, but chances are they have a lot of spare capacity most of the time. And likely some major customers with location flexibility.

When I was a #1 customer of a different cloud, they had a fiber cut between one of their buildings and their IX PoP, and lost a sizable amount of capacity until the fiber was repaired. They asked us to move a ton of traffic, and we asked 'why us?' and the answer was basically if we moved that much traffic, none of their other customers needed to move anything, and we had the ability to move traffic quickly (and we had our lower bandwidth core service in the affected buildings that really couldn't move). I don't know how much Amazon retail and Amazon prime streaming use, but it could be significant and is almost certainly easy to move.
I am well aware, the united states was issuing credit for gold they didnt have. Other countries got upset and wanted their share of the gold back. Rather than trading under a fair economic system, we abandoned the gold standard. Nixon blamed "speculators", but it was and is plainly evident that we didn't have the gold we claimed we did.
That is what's called a leaky abstraction.

Think, how often do you write a javascript code and think to yourself to debug it by understanding the underlying assembler code. I'd guess it's nil.

But abstractions to html leaks a lot.

Leaky abstractions are never good as now you have to think about your cool framework and the underlying library.
It must be depressing to have to cover these wackos as "news".
And in the ideal world, that's fine, but again- hopelessly naive in the real world. Taken to the extreme, why should we not record all audio? And if someone receives an urgent phone call from home, something extremely personal, should that stay in the company's records? No, for fear that the company will use their power disparity to exert undue control over the employee's life from them attending to the actually important matters in their life. That's why privacy matters.
It’s not inaccurate.
There was definitely both! Man, I should re-read that book. I read it in college, and definitely felt like I was missing out on what I felt should have been a quintessential college experience, like losing a radiation source, fighting off mutant rats, and building my own tank.
One thing we should all have a subtle understanding of: if you are a company selling infrastructure tooling as a service (Vercel, for example). You should probably try to avoid hyperscalers.

The adage is that you should outsource the things that are not your core competence. However if your product is infrastructure for developers then outsourcing that is going to be painful.

You are forced to pass down costs from your upstream supplier, and headroom is necessary (somewhat) because your provider can dictate terms essentially on a whim.

I feel like this is such an obvious statement, but we do seem to be in the gold-rush of avoiding responsibility so I'm not certain.
Not very well, in all honesty.

The function name is pretty misleading, since it looks like a constructor. Even if it's not a constructor, the functionality is pretty far away from the name you've chosen, so it's not a compelling API design either way. How would others use this function? How is this name self-documenting? The decision here is lacking consideration on all fronts.

Also, while I don't immediately recognize the exact language, the style looks off too. The function wetpaperbag is declared in all lowercase, but inside it's calling a function Quit that's capitalized? And, whether this particular language is camel-casing or snake-casing, it's clear that "wetpaperbag" isn't going to pass linting either way.

Overall, strong no hire. Next.

(/s... but only mostly, since the GP's point is that you actually can get a lot out of just asking simple interview questions, which I think we've helpfully proven out here)
Yes and no. You are correct about it being a document protocol, but it has long been set up as a big document protocol.

Most XML parsers are structured to parse and deliver XML in element-delimited packets, in asynchronous fashion. I don't know of many JSON parsers that can do the same. They do exist (I use one, in the backend of one of my projects[0]), but they aren't as common. XML has packet/async built into OS SDKs, but JSON tends to be "The Whole Nine Yards" handling.

With Big Data/ML, I'm surprised that this is still a thing.

[0] https://github.com/salsify/jsonstreamingparser
That speech card seems to be the most unusual thing about the machine, maybe assistive technology for blind users? Impressive that it survived the capacitor exploding.

I wonder if there was some DOS driver already installed on the hard drive that allows "echo"ing text to a character device to make it say something - like he does at the end of this video, but unfortunately without an explanation of what the interface for that is.

edit: the longer video has a short bit at the very end where you can see some kind of menu system is launched from AUTOEXEC.BAT, with speech output. But it just cuts off after that - I'm a bit disappointed, since everything else is pretty much standard hardware for the time, while this card and the software supporting it is certainly rare, maybe even unique!
I'm confused.

The only reason every criminal stepping foot on my property doesn't have their head on a pike is because the state will involve itself in their failure to prevent criminals from committing crimes on my property.

My property would be drastically safer if the state was not involved. You might disagree with my methods of deterring crime, but

1. I don't believe in democracy. My rights are not subject to vote.

2. There is literally no rational explanation why anyone should relinquish their natural rights and delegate them to a state. This is what The Concept of the Political by Carl Schmitt discusses at length. Schmitt is often dismissed by Western academics because of his later association with the Nazi Party, but it's a cop-out for a serious introspection of what his works said about the underlying nature of society and human nature. It frightens them, to put it mildly. Hitler was only able to take power after grasping the implications of his work.

3. I would bet my life savings that if I could get away with leaving the heads of criminals on pikes, along with other unspeakably heinous things, there would be a large drop in crime. Most won't dispute this, which begs the question why does the state allow criminal behavior to prosper when it costs far less to not get involved.
Yes! You’re getting it.
except writing systemd unit file hacks are just as bad. but with the added offense that things don't work as promised.

eg. if your sshd is set after initRandom, but unit random is set after timesync, and timesync depends on network because ntp... if you only have lan and your ntp servers aren't reachable (or offline) you don't get any log out user visible hint at all of why start sshd just hangs there forever.

no matter how bad init hacks were, nothing was this shitty. zero logs. zero hints. just wait there forever.

if you like systemd, it just means you're sheltered and too green.
The former if they are good enough to do the job.
That will be 30% of everything you do.
Appears to be related to this case: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65748302/in-re-apple-da...

The document in question: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40...

Note that the title here is a misquote in a way that misconstrues the meaning, it's actually:

> "Given Apple’s extensive privacy disclosures, no reasonable user would expect that their actions in Apple’s apps would be private from Apple."
Stefan Lederer apparantly deleted the Linkedin post after being called out on X.
> It's a lot of boilerplate to create something that's not actually immutable

How is not actually immutable? How could cfg.opts.name be modified after New() returns?

> It also makes it harder to figure out which options are available

I find it easier, the go tooling helps a lot. For example, all the options are grouped together at https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-kit/log/level#Option

It's also easy to use "Find Usages" in my editor, and filter on return type.
I think you could get pretty far just by learning embeddings for board positions and making moves from similar board positions during a game. Essentially a retriever-only system.
this is on internal apps team
Maybe that something is regulations on renting? You can try to control the free market, but the free market (a.k.a. reality) will always exert itself, whether through loopholes or the black market if need be.
How obscene and perverse our societies have become. All or private moments watched by professional voyeurs.
Show HN: A Sudoku solver in TypeScript's type system
GitHub: https://github.com/RuyiLi/cursed-typescript/blob/master/rand...

Hi HN! I wrote a small file that solves sudoku puzzles at the type level - that is, entirely within TypeScript's type system, with no runtime code.

To play with it, scroll down to the bottom (below where it says "BEGIN TESTING") and check out the examples. You can "run" the solver by hovering over the name of the type (e.g. SudokuEasySolved).

Also, if you haven't seen it already, I did the same thing with Conway's Game of Life: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37438028 :)
Looks like development stalled about 4 years ago, but that looks amazing
Im Polish. 20 years ago my parents were taking 1-2 months of PTO every year to work on German farms. 2 months * 2 people and you could’ve renovated a whole mid-sized flat or get a decent 3 years old car.
Now I’m making 2-3x more after taxes than my German friends. Yes, I’m self employed and yes I’ll need to take care of my own retirement but I’ll be better off after 1-2 years of putting $100k in ETFs than they could ever be with their state pensions.

The taxes will kill the old Europe.

On the other hand juniors at FAANG in California make more than I do ($160k before taxes, $135k after, how much do you need to earn in Berlin to be left with 135k?).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_layer#Oceanic_mixed_la...
Thanks, to clarify, I don't mean that just awk replaces an IDE. I mean that the Linux command line replaces an IDE, specifically the functions like finding references, substitutions, transformations, etc. It doesn't replace syntax highlighting and stuff of course, though I get that from Vim.

It's never going to be as powerful as a specialized IDE would for a specific language, but the Linux CLI is language agnostic and even works on just text files, so it's universally applicable and doesn't change depending on the language of the project. For me it's better than an IDE, but YMMV of course because everybody is different.
Do you have any recordings of how a digital piano sounds to the other side - like if a teacher wants to demonstrate how to play dynamics?
The little toe’s most important function is to remind its owner that even the most advanced being on earth can be thwarted by an inanimate object, such as the leg of a coffee table.
What about that track pad you use with your tongue? [1]

Or maybe some wires implanted into your tongue nerves that activate cursor movement when you think about moving your tongue and shock your throat muscles when you become apneic at night (a la inspire device).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35684828
It's very confusing :)
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65748302/in-re-apple-da...
This looks pretty cool! Would love to see a quick YouTube demo of the product in action. What's the biggest benefit of the MIDI capability, in practice?
> Mr Tomlinson told The Independent he had woken in the middle of the night to find officers banging on his door, been handcuffed, and had guns shoved in his face during the yearslong ordeal. He was once swatted four times in one day.

Are officers and government actually involved in these Swat operations like mentally challenged or something? I mean ... after couple of hours you forget you've just been in the same place and the whole report was a fake?
Estimates range from about 1 T$ [0] to 4 T$ [1] or 5 T$ [2].

[0] https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II/Human-and-mate...

[1] https://moneywise.com/life/lifestyle/financial-facts-about-w...

[2] https://www.whatitcosts.com/world-war-ii-cost-united-states-...
You should exercise your own programming muscles and extend VSCode for yourself, rather than relying on others to do everything for you.
Would it be possible to force the front wheels to turn fast enough when the truck reaches high speed to cause an accident?

That's a bit morbid, but if you can hack the computer or manipulate sensor input to change the car comportement, it'll be easier, more effective and more stealthy for assassination.
I'd love to give some feedback both as a teacher and a student. But I don't see a way on your website to just see what it really does and how it works, beyond just those couple of small animations.

At least a YouTube demo video, or ideally direct access to a real demo interface would be more helpful.

I thought Getting Started might help, but that forced me into a sign-up flow that I don't want to invest in without more information about the outcome.
That unit has been discontinued, GE doesn't sell it direct and where it shows up on a few other sites it's listed as "discontinued" or "not available":

https://www.ajmadison.com/cgi-bin/ajmadison/AJHS08ASC.html

https://slymanbros.com/air-conditioners/air-conditioner-appl...

This is unfortunately common, I've been looking for small window heat pumps (that don't require a special power connection) for a few years now. Actual heat pump units have been discontinued and currently available ones turn out to actually be resistive heaters. You can tell by looking at the current draw spec for heating mode.

This one may actually be a heat pump but according to a review it won't work below 41F and hose connected units are known to be very inefficient:

https://www.amazon.com/MAP14HS1TBL-Inverter-Portable-Conditi...

It seems a few manufacturers tried selling some small window heat pump units years ago, but nobody bought them because they cost more than an air conditioner (they charged twice as much) so they discontinued them. Perhaps poor marketing on the manufacturers part, but it means that now there are none on the market when people might actually buy them to offset climate change.
This is no longer true. Smartphones are the default computing device, and Microsoft has to make an effort to keep people on desktops.
Given california's long record of utter failure on this issue, I am skeptical.I see proposed, how many are actually approved and in construction? Its a decent start if they are actually managing to gwt building started
Of those bugs I wondered how much a type would help. For example is it a misunderstanding of business requirements (nosurcharge bool = iscash
bool) or a “typo” / copy paste error. If the former types don’t help. The latter they might.
This looks cool. If I have a log file with a format that is like `[timestamp] SEVERITY { json content }`, can I use the feature that pretty prints the JSON part, or does the whole line need to be valid JSON? If not could I somehow write a plugin that would allow me to parse the lines in order to accomplish this? That would be really useful.
Bandwidth Costs Around the World ( 2016 ). [1], I am wondering Cloudflare would get another update on it. How Bandwidth cost has come down over the past 8 years. And compare to Cloud Egress, which obviously haven't moved much at all. And the cost per port per Gbps over time.

[1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-costs-around-the-world...
Just imagine if kids can easily swat and break into users telecom accounts all the time, what foreign intelligence services can do. Telecom companies are not taking security seriously at a criminally negligence level.