skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As an engineer, my view on days/hackathons is pretty simple: you don't pay me enough for my good ideas.

That depends on how you interpret hack days.

A lot of great hack day projects I've seen aren't introducing a new product line, they're "what if we used this new framework, what's possible?" "What if we used transformers to replace our convolutional neural network" etc. - things that aren't a new product, but have a shot at improving the development flow/end user experience by 20+%, but are speculative enough that are hard to get scheduled in normal flow of development.

> At our most recent company hackathon, we focused on a new way to do the old thing.
A lot of what great hackathons are.

Most hackathon projects are not something you'd be able to start a company around, if they are, maybe you're doing it wrong and overindexing on demos to PMs rather than potential company impact.
> no data collection to share nothing with governments who seek for data,

That isn't true anymore and hasn't been for years. Signal collects your data and keeps it forever in the cloud.
I would rather they make a plan to phase out social security.
Sounds like there is an opportunity for disruption there.

Australian model is much better because it forces the brokerage fees to a minimum because the landlord is wedged between the renters wanting a cheaper property and their desire for more income.
Well, they have a lot of money, and if you're morally flexible, as anyone who's played the banker in a family game of Monopoly can tell you, you can just take some.
Don't forget about the contract renewal fee if you want to keep living in the same place for more than 2 years!
For better or worse, that's how a movement starts.
OP talks about having fun 8 hours a day at work, building friendships and social life with coworkers. Your idea of social mechanisms for productivity are valid, but I don’t think that’s what OP meant.
Oh, if this snippet is just a search and replacer... would it be possible for this to be a preprocessor as well? Would allow for noJS websites.
Random daemons running amok and using 100% CPU is a tale as old as Mac OS X. I've encountered them from time to time on every Mac I've had since I first installed 10.1 "Puma" on my lime green iMac DV in 2001. Sometimes you can just kill it and it'll stay dead, other times it'll respawn and continue its misbehavior. Sometimes a restart will permanently fix it, other times it'll happen occasionally until it just doesn't anymore. Often there are people asking about it on forums like this post, but rarely does anyone have any insight into what's going on.
But why doesn’t this happen in a city like San Francisco that also has a constrained supply?

Many cities have this same fence - but only Boston and NYC have a culture of broker fees.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/2721/what-is-the...

> Remember that voltage is always expressed as a "potential difference." You can't measure the absolute value of voltage because everything is invariant when you add a constant voltage everywhere. That expresses a symmetry just like time translation invariance.

> When you bring in the magnetic field this invariance or symmetry can be generalised to a bigger gauge invariance transforming the electromagnetic potential as a vector field. Charge particles are also described by fields such as Dirac spinors, which are multiplied by a phase factor under the action of this symmetry, making it a U(1) invariance. Electric charge is the conserved quantity that Noether's theorem gives for this symmetry.

It sounds like violating this would mean that there was an observable difference between "zero electrical potential" and "nonzero electrical potential".

Temperature is another quantity that is usually measured solely in terms of the difference between two states, but -- apparently unlike electrical gauge -- in that case there is an absolute zero point which is distinguishable from other points.

It might be interesting to ask what would be conserved, but isn't now, if there were a temperature invariance analogous to gauge invariance.
Sure, but how does that address GP's point tho?
Yeah, it's definitely not ready. I agree with everything you are saying.

Though, the industry is aware of this and working on it. There is at least one company (Chia Network) where the on-chain language (ChiaLisp) is both capable and secure enough to allow for the sort of management needed to allow for self-custody to happen in a safe, sane manner. GUIs for this sort of thing aren't ready for the general public yet, but are definitely on the way.
Another insidious element of these broker's fees are "good faith deposits." In my case, this was the full brokers fee paid via zelle,lease unseen, and with no contract in place other than an email stating that I would not be refunded the money unless my application was rejected.

I gambled and got away with it relatively unscathed. There's no way though that an exorbitant good faith deposit should be legal.
It does, vapor pressure.
Its a bit ironic. Just this week Ive been doing the calculations for a converging diverging nozzle for work and I realized that I must be breaking the speed of sound everywhere around me anytime there is compressed air.

It only takes a chamber with about 30 psi to get supersonic flow!
Talk to a historian. I think there's an Ask an Historian subreddit, where you'll get excellent, nuanced, reasonable perspective from actual historians.
The global economy has become a massive scheme which incorporates the worst elements of capitalism and communism.

Everything is done in the name of 'maintaining stability.' New York real estate owners (and those of other big cities) don't want to allow remote work because it would tank their property values and rents... So they conspire with the media and government to craft false narratives to bring people back to the office... The costs of renting there are so high however, that they have to artificially inflate salaries of people who live there in order to make it add up... But then with such high salaries, this increases company operating expenses and this makes them vulnerable to foreign competitors who don't have to pay their employees such high salaries, so they need to lobby the government to come up with regulations to block foreign competition and they need the government to keep printing tons of money (pumping it into big cities) to keep the scheme going. They also need to reach secret deals with foreign states to agree not to compete in certain industries... Again, all in the name of 'global economic stability.' The amount of wasted human potential is unfathomable.

Most of the population's mental capacity is focused on keeping this artificial centralization scheme going which harms almost everyone and destroys economic value... But they have a solution for that too in the form of 'Global warming' narratives 'worst than we thought'... Even if you can see through it all, the controlled demolition of the economy is fine because 'Everyone needs to make sacrifices to reduce CO2 output'.

The scheme is so complex and intricate... So many bureaucrats working on it... Reality has become some kind of fiction. Every white-collar worker is contributing to the fiction in some way but almost none of them realizes it because their own manipulations represent a tiny piece of the whole scheme. A scheme which involves millions of individuals concurrently crafting and maintaining a massive illusion. Engaging in monetary manipulations, regulations, cultural manipulations (e.g. DEI, ESG) and of course algorithm-based media filter bubbles to ensure that people are kept in the dark as much as possible...
Looking at Oxide, aren't hyperconverged computing solutions a product category? Looks like Oxide's yearly revenue is on the order of $15M/year with about $45M of Series VC cash. So these folks might be smart but they've not shipped very much product yet. At scale (1-10K servers) I'm not sure why I would tell my CTO or CIO to buy from them instead of a larger, more established vendor?

Definitely agree that you can easily pay too much for cloud services and that the hyperscalers have every incentive to put as much margin in their pockets as they can get away with.
You said "perf and price". Benchmarks show they are not beating Apple hard at performance. For price there is no straightforward way to compare since you can't buy standalone Apple CPUs.
Do you have rent control where you live?
going on 15 years of macOS/iOS dev:

I'm not sure if this is 100% equivalent, but, you can use Sample Process in Activity Monitor to get a stacktrace.

Generally, you expect Apple provides nothing, other than binary libraries you can link against and headers.

Of course, from there, there's decompilation etc., but I'd wager 1 in 1000 used that, even in the iOS early days where you had to work around the framework if you were serious about solving a problem.

Probably ~1 in 10,000 now Swift is predominant & harder to do runtime magic in, the platform API surfaces have stabilized relatively, and private API scanning is rigorous and serious.
I like “handle”. It’s short and conveys some mutability.
The term "Chesterton's fence" implies there's a good chance that something will break in an unwanted way if you remove the brokers fees. I'm curious what would break for the other parties in the transaction.

"building owners can pay brokers less if brokers pass on overhead costs to renters" could just as easily be "owners could charge $10,000/year more in rent if brokers didn't capture it".
"The speed of sound does not depend on pressure, only temperature"

Of an ideal gas
There is a workaround described in the thread.
All symptoms of burnout. Too much attention to detail.
AI Webcam Effects: new screen recording feature
Our team has completed the development of screen recording and low light features.
With Screen Recording, you can record video from your webcam, a Chrome tab, an app window, or the entire screen with or without audio.
The low light filter will brighten your video if it is too dark.
For an ideal gas. Get close to the triple point of the gas and you better upgrade your equation of state
I am trying out a new stack I’m coining “SLAP” for small web apps.

SQLite, Linux, Apache/Nginx, PHP

It’s reminiscent of LAMP, so it’s very easy and cheap to deploy and maintain. I do wish the P stood for python instead of php, but Nginx integrates so well with php and doesn’t require a long running process like PM2 (nodejs) or Gunicorn.
I wanted a switch+router capable of 10 gigabit speeds and everything in the market was expensive.

So I got a commodity PC ($400 Dell PowerEdge T30), put Linux on it, and then stuffed it with a 4 port 2.5GbE card (X8 slot, $150), a 2 port 10GbE card (X16 slot, $150), and a 4 port 1GbE card (cheap). Plus the built in 1GbE port.

It is capable of routing to the Internet at 2.5Gb speed just fine and then switching the rest of the ports at 10Gb speed. Getting a dedicated router/switch with this many ports would have been north of $1000, and probably a lot more of a nuisance to administer/maintain than Linux.
The lifespan of large appliances is shrinking
What makes those anti-American? What does it have to do with the US in particular?

And who are you to tell other Americans what's American or not? That assertion is what is fundamentally un-American. It's everyone else's country as much as yours.

> 4. trying to block roads and otherwise impede people from going about their business

That is the fundamental nature of protest, stopping people from going about their business. The whole point is that the issue is being ignored.

Suddenly, all protest is suspect in our great democracy.
I think this was what compass originally intended to disrupt but then realized it was way more profitable to just make tools for real estate agents.
The more realistic lesson is don't apply programmer logic to legal contracts where the courts will apply reasonableness tests, side with the landlord, and stick you with a many thousand dollar bill.

It's like how pricing mistakes on websites are in the consumer's favor when they're small but in the sellers favor when they're large because it's unreasonable to assume someone would be selling a $450 item for $4.50.
>signal

>Hide-Your-Number(tm) option!

>still need a number

LOL just install Session and SimpleX (and, for 'droid Chads: Briar). If P2P voice/video skeeves you then get mullvad or proton or something vpn. Why is it the normie will do all kinds of torturous steps like phone and identity verification to install instacoom...

... but they just refuse to install Session and copy/paste an identifier to add contacts (assuming non-locality, else there's QR), complaining it is "too hard whine mew!" Normies make dragnet surveillance so easy!
This is a great example: most of the fraudulent transactions were blocked by the NY Federal Reserve – $850M – and of the remaining $101M, a significant amount was recovered:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank_robbery

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-57520169

Not perfect, but 90-something percent better than no recourse. More importantly, it’s also not a given that individuals lose everything as opposed to higher operating costs for a bank. The kinds of crimes we see in the cryptocurrency world tend to leave individuals with no recourse other than very expensive private investigations, whereas a major financial institution at least had the resources to go after the money without going bankrupt.
Agreeing with everything and then being trained like Pavlov's dogs to hate a word is not the red scare.
Can you explain why you'd want plain HTML over the wire?

I happen to be working on a standardized protocol (braid-http) for sending diffs over HTTP, and have been thinking about applying it to hyperdiv. I'd love to understand your use-case and what about plain HTML you like here.
So now you say on your webpage your pricing is $1/TB or something. Great. But there is a caveat: the amount you pay depends on some complex factors such as the size of the table or the duration of your code. If the factors are so simple that no more than grade-level arithmetic is required to calculate my costs then that would be fine. But what if it gets a little bit more complex than that, such as “table size is 1PB and cost per 1TB is $1”? Did you know 1PB=1000TB rather than 0.001TB? What about “you need another $10 query to figure out the size of the table”? Or “the cost depends on number of function calls that your code makes and if you accidentally recursed yourself too many times you can’t limit it”? Or “The server is $5/mon but IP is $1/h and outbound traffic is $10/GB and if someone download something 1TB on your server you will pay $10000 within 2 hours”?
At some point the factors related to billing is going to become non-trivial and every sentence in a long 10 page document could have 100x’d your costs, what makes this service different from a scam? You could have allowed me to set a billing cap so I won’t have to pay anything beyond $10, so that “$10” is everything I have to care about, could you?
What is 'pro-American' and 'anti-American'?
> I'm not sure why Python web scraping is so popular compared to Node.js web scraping

Take this with a grain of salt, since I am fully cognizant that I'm the outlier in most of these conversations, but Scrapy is A++ the no-kidding best framework for this activity that has been created thus far. So, if there was scrapyjs maybe I'd look into it, but there's not (that I'm aware of) so here we are. This conversation often comes up in any such "well, I just use requests & ..." conversation and if one is happy with main.py and a bunch of requests invocations, I'm glad for you, but I don't want to try and cobble together all the side-band stuff that Scrapy and its ecosystem provide for me in a reusable and predictable way

Also, often those conversations conflate the server side language with the "scrape using headed browser" language which happens to be the same one. So, if one is using cheerio <https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio> then sure node can be a fine thing - if the blog post is all "fire up puppeteer, what can go wrong?!" then there is the road to ruin of doing battle with all kinds of detection problems since it's kind of a browser but kind of not

I, under no circumstances, want the target site running their JS during my crawl runs. I fully accept responsibility for reproducing any XHR or auth or whatever to find the 3 URLs that I care about, without downloading every thumbnail and marketing JS and beacon and and and. I'm also cognizant that my traffic will thus stand out since it uniquely does not make the beacon and marketing calls, but my experience has been that I get the ban hammer less often with my target fetches than trying to pretend to be a browser with a human on the keyboard/mouse but is not
It's the equivalent of a payment processor claiming a dog ate their homework.
In the past 1-2 decades we've seen so many things get hyper-monetized which used to be free - playing sports at the park, restrooms, cups of water with a meal, shopping carts that need a quarter to unlock. Ubik was written in 1969; I wonder what trends Philip K. Dick was exposed to between 1945-1969 which led to him imagining a dystopian world not too far beyond where we are today.
citation needed. care to elaborate on this?
Do not use Prettier with HTML. We can't use Prettier at work because it doesn't reformat HTML but actually rewrites it, taking liberties to insert new closing tags where it sees fit and where they were never present before. We found this because it actually led to things breaking in practice. A code formatter should never add meaningful new code to your project which changes its behaviour and content. That's no longer a code formatter but a random bug generator.
Having talked to credit card issuers about this, what they told me was to close the account. They said they had no way to ever stop the charges from coming in.
Sounds like they already had one, so they saved $90 by not having to buy another garage door opener by using something they already had.
I sort of suspect that the broker may be paying kickbacks to the landlord in these cases.

Many building in New York are rent-controlled such that the allowed rent is far below market. Everyone wants one, but there are not enough for everyone to have one. And there will never be enough by definition because the rent is below market. So the market steps in to correct this imbalance.

Tenants are willing and able to pay a (large!) one-time fee to access those below-market rents… like buying an annuity. Landlords on the other hand are only too willing to accept an upfront cash payment which offsets part of the below-market rent (and could be used to buy an actual annuity to supplement rent).

In this case I believe the broker is simply playing the boogieman (like how Ticketmaster “resells” tickets far above the face value to launder high prices for musicians) to give the landlord and tenant both plausible deniability about what is actually going on.
If an idiot landlord gets into court because a tenant took their contract literally, they're a fool who has hopefully learned a valuable albeit very expensive
lesson about writing contracts.
I wrote 'proposition', not 'fact'. Jeff made a simple proposal, then I, as the customer, can evaluate it, accept it, or reject it. 0xide doesn't have a simple proposal. They have a constellation of nitpicks and tastes, but that's not good enough. The typical consumer in this space wants quantifiables.
Here in Thailand it's the same but phone numbers get recycled and expire very aggressively. I just got a new phone number and I can login to many platforms of some 20 year old guy who really likes pc gaming.

Phone numbers should have NEVER became an ID. Incredibly hypocritical of Signal to claim "privacy focus" when the lowest layer of the system is literally the least secure identification method we have.
In conclusion...

I find, in data engineering ,the goal is not to prevent everything, it's to be flexible and prepared to handle lots of change, even silly changes, and be able to audit it, observe it, maneuver around it, and keep the mean-time-to-resolution low.
Well. I guess there is more than one way to address the cost of health care and lack of motivated medical students in the US.

"US citizens need less care".

Not the blatantly artificial cost of this care, exorbitant cost to earn the education necessary to deliver it, nor of course - the full-throttle capitalism that drives _profit_ above human life.

Thank you WSJ!
Pure speculation: this post might have been selected under HN’s second chance pool[0]; perhaps comments are re-timestamped based on when the post was resurrected.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
Boundaries are healthy and people are free to associate with folks who draw similar lines.
Rent control ends when the apartment is vacated, so there’s nothing relevant for a broker with that.
I don't see how this broker system isn't literally rent-seeking. It seems like a totally useless middle-man scraping some cheddar off the transaction for no real value added.
Do you need a link to actual historians discussing the breadth of historian opinion on particular topics and the evolution of thought over time on interpretation of historical events?

Such things are commonplace and easy to find.
I unfortunately haven't had time to benchmark against more than tesseract.
The reason it's going to the brokers is that the landlords are legally prohibited from charging higher rent.

It can't go to the customers for the obvious reason that the whole point of the system is to allocate a smaller number of apartments to a larger number of customers.
More like "Most Big-Tech and VC-funded companies spy on users. That's how exploiting customers for profit works."

Many of the privacy apps and services I use explicitly set out to collect as little information as possible. It's sad that people have been conditioned to think spying is appropriate or that it has to be this way for the internet to "work".
>There are several European monarchies still running but ours is a bit madder than the others. For starters, our monarch is many monarchs.

Holding many titles in itself isn't strange, it's actually normal. Yes, that includes holding multiple King titles. If a noble holds multiple titles of the same rank, the most prestigious of them (in this case King of the United Kingdom) is the one preferred for general use.

>Our King isn't an old school tyrant (Greek thing again) nor a dictator. He really acts as another governor - he has influence with the elected government.

The idea is that the King is granted the authority to govern from God, and the King's government aids him in putting that authority into practice.

Remember that the King of the United Kingdom is also the leader ("Supreme Governor") of the Church of England, and elsewhere kings are usually coronated by the Pope of the Catholic Church. That is all to signify the King is a representative of God, acting in God's stead because God is busy with godly matters I suppose.
Japan bets $67B to become a global chip powerhouse once again
Unfortunately there’s spare mental capacity in spades to go around
That’s crazy. I once lurked in the IRC of the project. I knew the creator. He was a family friend. I was a silly teen kid toying with Linux he was a dev who worked at redhat and lived in the same town as me.

I wonder what he’s up to these days?

Update/edit:

Ahh he moved on to Ampere: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-worth

Also I was a bad fan: the library had a co-founder too I thought it was a bespoke creation of Carl’s own making.

I remember building a bunch of stuff from source back in the day and a lot of Linux applications had Cairo as a dependency.
It can run CURL!!! And OpenSSL! This seems possibly like a big deal.
This. Although at this point I want to watch it crash and burn entirely as opposed to the slow and annoying death it has been taking.
Sports scores and stocks. If kagi inlined those results I would be very happy to not need to use the Google bang.

Additionally, the google bang destroys suggested terms and with no kagi history I'm typing the whole query.