skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Spirit Airlines of housing. it's hard to know what to think. on the one hand, 400 sq ft is tiny, on the other hand, a tent is much smaller and way worse. But I'm sure we can manufacture better homes and get the advantages of factories/mass production building housing a different way. so this seems like a local maxima for a very specific set of conditions that aren't likely to apply anywhere else in the world.
I'd give this a try if I could find some way to configure it to wrap long lines.

By "wrap long lines", I mean that I will never see a horizontal scroll bar even if there is a very long line of text in the buffer.
I'd kill to see Apple pull out of the world's 2nd largest market over their monopolistic bullshit.

Though we both know the psychopathic C-suites & their shareholders would crucify Tik Apple if they pulled out, so there's no chance that's happening, especially with these pathetic fines.
I'm not defending KYC here (tho I think it is necessary personally). I'm just requesting the author actually try to make an argument.
They didn't implement it, otherwise I would see a browser-level popup instead of a nasty dark-patterns modal on websites. The do-not-track header (at least at places I worked) were generally respected, going so far as to completely disable analytics for those users. However, this is not active consent ... so, no browsers did not implement this.
Voronoi in K (2018)
Ask HN: Best resources on starting a lifestyle business?
After working in RevOps and sales for VC-backed startups for a few years, I'm considering creating a SaaS business that helps solve problems for a particular niche industry that interests me.

What are some resources that are useful to look at while I consider embarking on this journey?

My experience in RevOps & sales the last few years has been that so many influencers are trying to pitch you their guides and resources for a fee. It's made me suspicious of pretty much anyone selling their insights and made it hard to determine which are of actual value.
Between 2016 and 2021 the number of money laundering cases doubled [1].

So clearly AML laws are making a difference at detection at least.

[1] https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/money-laundering-cases-r...
The brand was bought by a low quality clickbait farm long ago, ironically they'll never again publish anything substantive like this. I am surprised they got the archives and not just the brand name.
Did you understand my posting? I never said I got it on a plane. I said I HAD it on a plane. And I said, plane food is basically the least likely to give you food poisoning.
They were never taught American school essay writing style before ever. And while Americans think it is the most natural thing in the world, it come across as completely artificial weird structure with no real rationale for people outside of it. Meaning, they have zero chance to get A even if he gives out super detailed instructions. Because he is asking them too much.

He is not giving them As on purpose. He made grading system that ensures it.
GC changes the performance profile of allocations, specifically. If your code is written to use static memory you won't experience GC pauses, but languages like JS that employ GC intentionally steer you towards allocating to do, e.g. string processing, so you have to go out of your way to make JS fast in this way.

WASM now has GC, since a goal is to support alternative scripting environments and e.g. run a mixture of Rust and Python code in the browser.
Experience on Ubuntu: It opens, but double clicking the header doesn't make it expand. Then `Open Directory` doesn't do anything; no typing, no nothing. So close again, and open from command line with the directory as agument, works. Now I can't see my mouse.
From where did you get that idea?
No matter which side of the debate you fall on, it would be interesting to discuss the practical impact and timeframe of any AI software engineer.

I think a realistic timeframe is about 15 years from the time someone releases a viable tool to complete replacement of the last engineer. About half way through the pressure on salaries will become noticeable. I base this guess on how companies typically operate and how long practical adoption of smaller technology changes take.

In the first half there should be both a downward pressure due to the threat of replacement but at the same time an upward pressure for the same reason. New grads will stop coming and existing engineers can look forward to being phased out and command a premium for as long as they can.

Another possibility is that it doesn‘t quite get good enough, but regardless students start picking other subjects, creating a temporary shortage that sustains existing employees. Employees will just be reduced through retirement with half being retired after 20 years of this process anyway.

Yet another possibility is that a half-assed tool only reduces demand - again that can be fixed through retirement plus less or no new people joining the field.
> Maybe in a few years he will move and rent it out, Mr. Rodriguez said.

that's quite the American dream.
You may lack the background reading to understand him, but he is certainly not incoherent.
Why are ransomware gangs making so much money?
Matrix has a radically different threat model than Signal. They aren't replacements for each other. I think they'd be happy to tell you that if you asked them. I like Matrix too, but it's not going to save you from many of the decisions Signal made that you don't like; Matrix avoids those decisions by avoiding those issues.
I guess it bears repeating, but you can sign up from a public phone booth.

So I do not understand what the problem is with needing a phone number. Is it because it's inconvenient to you?
Iris Murdoch, a Novelist for Now
This is great! I was hooked after the first game. I’m glad these are a challenge, but not mind-bendingly difficult.

Thanks for making and sharing, I love it.
The purpose of KYC laws is to replace difficult to prove and prosecute crimes like human trafficking, terrorism and drug dealing, with easy to prove and prosecute crimes like "lying on banking forms" and "money laundering" and "tax evasion."

Everyone knows that criminals lie on these forms and _that is the point_. They now have an easy to prosecute charge just waiting for them if they ever attract the attention of the authorities. They just need to look into where their money is coming from and there will be a lot of ways they can prosecute them.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...
There is zero way to know that.

When the cheesegrater Mac Pro launched in 2019, I was interested in one. I am also interested in photography. So I loved watching at least 6 or 8 videos from my favorite photography YouTubers unboxing and reviewing their launch day Mac Pro and Pro Display XDRs...

All of which they'd "ordered".

I put that in quotation marks because as I watched and rewatched these videos I noticed something: every. single. one. had exactly the same non-baseline spec: 18 core CPU, 384GB memory, Vega II Duo GPU and an 8TB SSD. And every single one had got the Pro Display XDR with the nano coating and the stand.

And it wasn't a case of "maybe that ships faster", or anything, and besides, that's a $25K setup with the screen.

Also, if you're a photographer, even if you're working on medium format digital, and 100MP images, you in no way shape or form need 384GB of memory, or that GPU - the whole thing was massively overspecced. For me, LightRoom / Capture One and Photoshop all did not break a sweat on my 12 core 192GB W5700X variant (which was mainly specced that way for other reasons).

It was pretty obvious that though they may well have ordered one, that Apple had sent them all a launch day setup, all identically specced. They could substitute theirs when it arrived and send back the other unit, or whatever.

But not one single one of them ever said anything about it.
The Fucking/Fine/... Article
https://www.kbb.com/tesla/model-y/2022/

> Price: The 2022 Tesla Model Y starts at $64,990. A Model Y Performance model starts at $67,990. Fully loaded, a Performance model can exceed $80,000.

Is there any other car, EV or otherwise, that is seeing a 33%+ decline in price over the last two years?

Other EVs are seeing deep shadow-discounts. I'm seeing 0% or 1.9% APY financing, which comes out to a few $x,000 savings over the term of the loans. Its an interesting trick to reduce prices without changing the MSRP, but I'm perfectly aware of these games.

Still, no one is doing the depth of discounts like Tesla is doing right now. Granted, all EV makers (Ford F150 Lightning, Subaru Solterra, etc. etc.) have discounts of some kind, or at least financing-1.9% or other "shadow discounts". But nothing on the level of wtf 30%+ declines like Tesla.
This is amazing and was to be expected. Are there any good solutions that can be used to prove a video is not generated? I guess in some ways we have come full circle and are back to trusting individual journalists and content creators I just did'nt think it would happen this fast.
You do and since the rise of Cloudflare, you need their approval to create your search engine
Let's keep it going :D

Writing a Minimum Viable Cartridge for WASM4 (https://wasm4.org/) using WAT:

https://twitter.com/warianoguerra/status/1748382204508410149

Wasm compilers in a tweet:

https://twitter.com/warianoguerra/status/1576166873296941056

A WebAssembly compiler for a reverse polish notation calculator in 269 bytes of JavaScript:

https://twitter.com/warianoguerra/status/1677271664009138177
> The main thing is people around the world are not that different.

Well yes and no. There are aspects which are the same everywhere, you pointed to one, that most people think what TV tells them to think. At the same time, some aspects are different. For example, as someone who's travelled in Russia I can assure that never anywhere else have I seen such deep indifference to politics. The attitude is "why are you asking questions, do you think you know better than them? (The people in power)" this is the complete opposite of how it is in the western world, and it allows these criminals to keep power with little effort.

So if someone is looking for something different elsewhere you shouldn't immediately try and convince them that everything is the same everywhere. Some aspects of people are the same, some are different.
My kid will simply kill me outright in using a phone as a controller. I never learned those motor skills and my brain probably is incapable of spending the time in learning them. I remember pwning my dad in N64, while I watched him turn in circles.

Further, when you get to your 40s and some "new tech" comes out (like these VR headsets), you have to take a gamble. Is this yet another fad, like the last time ... or is this going to stick around. You have far less time than some teenager to go figure out how things work, on top of that.
> Chat history I don’t know anyone that cares about it so maybe your expectations are just different there

The general expectation of, at a first approximation, absolutely anybody who has ever used WhatsApp, is that things do not disappear and get lost.

I don't mean us geeks, spies, enemies of the state, people chased by Mossad. I mean our grandmas and grandpas, our aunts and parents. I've seen enough tears over lost data and I don't see why this needs to happen.

For people (in other comments) who want to lose data: why not have a setting "do not backup my data, I do want to lose it if my phone dies"?
I made a private repo who's package JSON was `private: true`, `type: module` and `main: src/index.ts` and `module: src/index.ts`. I didn't progress down that route as stated, but I was able to consume that package. Maybe none of what I said here mattered in which case the only other thing that may make a difference was that I was using pnpm for the first time with workspaces.
As context, I’ve implemented a specialized grep engine in C++, with decent performance (not the best, but better than classic PCRE). So, not saying you’re wrong, simply that, I have some background/intuition about searching, too.

Why is the original Rust code slow, though? You say it’s bad code — what’s bad? Why are the data structures bad? I haven’t looked further into zed than this blog post so curious whether you have more insight.

With your Python script, it’s a straightforward state machine and just counts the number of matches. Now, Python is slow. But this should be fairly simple, small pcode all the same and doesn’t compare to all that the original code is doing (ie manipulating the offsets and making selections).

Do you insight into what their selection code is doing? Is that drawing at the same time? Or somehow has complicated nonlinear access times? I’m just learning Rust and don’t yet have good intuition for its pitfalls.

I find it curious that they didn’t present any info from a profiler. I suspect it’s not their search code that’s slow, but, again, not clear about Rust or surrounding code/context of zed and its data structures. Appreciate your comments.
> IMO the Democratic Party has totally screwed up with this extremist "pro choice" framing

100% correct.

> backwards religious superstition that anything growing where a baby would is assumed to be a human baby

This is absolute bullshit. I'm an Orthodox Christian, extremely conservative, particularly on abortion, and a priest's wife I know had an abortion for an ectopic pregnancy, because it was non-viable and would have killed her. It's simply a matter of believing that the unborn are human and then acting rationally based on this belief. I wish more people could get this—rather reasonable—viewpoint through their thick skulls.
Even without that auto-incrementing ID, there are plenty of other options for guessing valid email addresses to use with that exploit. For example, if you're able to figure out the format an organization uses for their email addresses (e.g. first.last@company.com), and you're able to figure out who works at that org (via e.g. LinkedIn), then there's a very good chance you can reset passwords for, say, the company's CTO or other likely-highly-privileged users.

That is: this kind of proves my point. Removing autoincrementing IDs from the equation is of minimal benefit when things have already gone horribly horribly wrong like this. It's a little bit more work on the attacker's part, but not by anywhere near enough for such a "mitigation" to be of much practical benefit.
replicate is also very hard to predict costs on, I've found their salespeople are reluctant to make any predictions since things are changing so quickly. So it might take 5mins to cold-boot a model for a 2s prediction run, but its not clear how much you pay for that run.

Replicate created the cog spec and is a fantastic resource for browsing and playing with new models. They are a social destination too.

But flyIO is nice and simple for docker side projects, I hope their cog deployments are as smooth as there are a few extra pieces involved.
> is the huge binary size

Can you quantify this? How big is too big? Ideally for a real program, and not an experiment to make the tiniest possible program.

On my Windows machine ripgrep rg.exe is just 4.2mb. Making that smaller feels irrelevant.

I’m not convinced that binary size is a real problem. But I’m open to evidence!
> The probability of any particular real number arising from a probability distribution on the real numbers is exactly 0. It's not an arbitrarily small epsilon greater than zero, it's actually zero.

Nitpicking somewhat, but e.g. `max(1, uniform(0, 2))` has a very non-zero probability of evaluating to 1.
How is that bullying? That sounds like a pretty good process to me.
amazing, we need more housing supply
This ended up being the best advertisement for the airline of the impoverished country
I’m in the Penrose camp who thinks understanding is the result of quantum activity. LLMs are really good at making associations, but they don’t make “connections” in the sense that they’re able to integrate an understanding of the world to contribute to it in an original way. Also, the power efficiency of the brain relative to GPU farms. It just makes me think we’re no where even close.

I certainly hope that’s the case. I really like programming and building things for money, fun, and status.
So is a license plate. Privacy is not an absolute right.
It doesn't work but it's memory safe in being non-functional
Windows Kernel Debugging in VMware
My understanding is that while they allow masked textures, the geometry is still fully emitted by Nanite. That means you still need to start with a mesh that has multiple leaves baked into a single polygon plane, as opposed to starting with individual leaf geometry and then that is somehow baked automatically.

This illustration from the page you linked to shows that as well:

https://cdn2.unrealengine.com/nanite-in-fortnite-chapter-4-p...

The alpha masked holes move around, but the polygons remain static. That means if you draw a tree with this, you still have the full overdraw of the highest-poly mesh.
Smaller code, Better code (2017)
I sure hope you didn’t type this on a mobile device, or any PC made after the 2000s.
The problem is policies like KYC are often just corporate CYA (cover your ass) policies. Making the security measures as overt as possible gives corporations plausible deniability.
update I guess cog files run fine on fly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39411748
You can share his name, or at least the name he uses to send similar messages for that. No need to share a document that will be used by dangerous people to impersonate him.
As far as I know Lapce is not business.
Simplelogin has solved this for me. Took a bit of setting up to change over emails but I'm glad I did.
Or *friend, to put it briefly.
For me it came after smoking too much pen and getting crippling depression for which I had to crawl out of. Emerging from it was like a bitch slap of regression therapy.
I was expecting some clever way to find those stories worth reading but that did not make the cut somehow.
There are definitely systems out there that can get away with being built primarily through kanban boards and fungible coders of average skill. The industry has decided that this is the default "best practices" for keeping a team productive. I'd prefer to never work on such a team myself ever again.

The problem is when project leads assume that their project should also be built like that, when actually it's mission-critical infrastructure that has to be architected up-front for scale, stability, security, graceful degradation, testability, provability, etc. and if you tried to chart that in story points and sprints it would be a comical farce. So they just don't do that, they try to wing it like it's a much simpler and lower-stakes project.

Now not only is it a total writeoff technically, but the kind of people that build projects this way are also sold on the idea that you never rewrite a project (thanks, Joel) so they're stuck with it forever. Major refactoring will never be a user story on the board, and even if it did it would be hard to do safely without better testability, and testability can't be improved without that refactoring, and etc. and the project has passed the event horizon of crushing failure from which no light can escape.

I have seen FAANG teams build world-scale mission-critical production infrastructure this way, including by people who claimed to be oldschool and claimed to know better, yet their names are in the git blame clear as day. I take nothing for granted any more.
I also suspect GPT is already using this or a similar method. I have found that for some reasoning tasks, causing it to disrupt its verbose process of explanation when not using COT or any prompting prevents its ability to solve the problem.
I've certainly said nothing supporting police having a monopoly on violence in general. However, it seems unavoidable that cops have a temporary situation-scoped monopoly on violence while carrying out duly authorized functions. What other possible alternative is there that wouldn't also lead to every traffic stop being a shoot out?
I do not disagree that I may lack sufficient background for this. It was clearly written for "those in the know," people who already share a common viewpoint and vocabulary, and only differ on minor nuance. A bit like getting a bunch of mechanics to argue about cars.

In this regard, the writing is definitely rambling and incoherent. It's one big mutual academic exercise (I am avoiding the use of a sexual term here).
It seems image segment AI should be able to bypass the bot detection
Well, not quite -- https://github.com/grahamking/demeter-deploy/blob/master/see... is the Rust version of a program that used to be written entirely in assembly, and it seems that it ends up being the same size. There's a few bits of asm in amongst the Rust, but it's still definitely a Rust program.

800 lines of ASM file reduced to 600 lines of Rust, including comments and constants in both cases. He might be pushing the limits, and everything's unsafe Rust, but unsafe Rust is still safer than raw assembly.
Some of us upvote to read later and I think if the title's interesting enough, you'll get those upvotes.
If this turns out to be true, it's one of the most exciting basic biology findings in years. To discover a new type of organism, which seems to infect humans, or at least infects things that infect humans -- it's just amazing. How many mysterious diseases are caused by these things?
Soaring housing prices bring an era of 400-square-foot subdivision houses
If you're doing serious research you pay for the paywall. It's not unreadable to you, just like a coke isn't undrinkable to you because you have to pay for it.
I find this to be the real strange bit of the "AI art debate". All the management and publishing are very bearish on AI, even though its legality relies on wide-scale copyright infringement. Actual artists are far more skeptical, begging for copyright to become a de-facto AI ban, even though they're way more likely to infringe copyright than to own it. And then you have the Free Software people - i.e. the people opposed to software copyright entirely - who were the first to actually point out that AI training was infringement and trying to sue over it.
The truth is that EVs work very well in China and parts of Europe because they have good public transportation, so the EV is used only for minor or infrequent trips. For anything longer they will use trains. In the US the situation is different, you need to use cars for major trips, which is not the best option if you have an EV.
There's a different between "I allow people to access my data" and "I allow people to create products based on my data"
I didn't remember that act before you posted it, did you think my "thanks" was snark?

in any case, although I like the government's distributed approach to merely incentivizing competition in the semiconductor supply chain in the CHIPS Act, I think a parallel more direct approach is still useful with direct construction and direct ownership of the entire supply chain - a public option if you will - in parallel to the private sector efforts. the way the US government works would still enable all sorts of private sector competition from contracting bids, as opposed to a really nationalized industry, which we tend to avoid in the US.

with that view, all of the world police funding, while our infrastructure is decrepit, is untenable. especially when our world police efforts are stated specifically to deter other actions from occurring, amongst other reasons, while all reasons are selective outrage.