skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not sure I agree they're any more unhealthy than the non-MMORPG games full of microtransactions

I didn't say they were
Aircrete, Hempcrete, & foam housing are alternatives. All are inexpensive, have good insulation, & can form interesting single story houses.
Couldn't agree more. I'm tired of the HN crowd that espouses the benefits of building more supply, yet consider the AirBNB and rental-afflicted homes to be totally untouchable. Even worse are the ones that seem to strongly believe in environmentalism, yet have no problem tearing down forests to build more supply on them...for AirBNBs and rentals.
Chemistry-albedo feedbacks offset up to a third of forestation's climate benefit
I think the person you were replying to was being sarcastic, but tones hard to read on the internet
> This is not new, Apple wasn't the first to do it

Microsoft got pretty far, up until "the inquiry".

> And you know you can sideload apps on Apple devices right? Even before the EU ruling.

If by sideload you mean "repeatedly sign apps until your face turns blue" then yes. If you mean "install software like a normal person", then no.
> Filling the cavity with solid wood variously solves such problems.

Solves some problems, sure, but not heat/cold. Wood has just over a third the R-value of fiberglass batting, IIRC. Better to increase the cavity size and uncouple the inner and outer studs.
Made my first $10 – MAD MBA
Hello Indies/Hackers, On 2nd Feb I purchased domain MADMBA.com But before that, I conducted poll on X to gauge interest in a Mobile App Dev (MAD) MBA program.

The results were promising: 12 votes with 75% indicating interest in the MAD MBA program. Following the domain purchase, I created a simple landing page and shared it on X and within several communities. However, I only received two early-bird signups.

Realizing I was missing a crucial element, I added a clear call to action (CTA) in the form of a "Grab Now for $5" button. Additionally, I incorporated social proof by including screenshots of tweets and posts from individuals who expressed early interest in the MADMBA poll.

The impact was immediate! Sharing the revised landing page on X (Twitter) resulted in two sales totaling $10 within just 4 hours. super happy!

Now I'm never going to launch anything without CTA and social proof. Do you have any Launch tip which we can try for MADMBA.com
For me, it's probably not going to make sense since I already did the work. I think you should pitch it at people that don't want to bother to figure it out (could be several days of engineering time).
OpenAI Made Me Crazy Videos–Then the CTO Answered (Most of) My Questions [video]
I don't think there's much, if any, of an over supply of apartments. The people I've seen who try to teach vacancies show that new buildings get to nearly full occupancy within a year or so. That's pretty reasonable if you need to rent a few hundred units at once.

If anything, there's a massive under-supply of 3+br apartments large enough for families, due to double-loaded corridor designs that are almost required to meet fire codes. The only good spot for 3brs is in the corners, so you get at most 4 per floor.
Except we know it's a building issue. Housing starts are lower than they were in 2000 despite adding 50 million in population.

Vacancy is good - higher vacancy is related to lower prices. Vacancy rates are the lowest they've been in decades.

We just need to build.
Huangs net worth is $80 billion. Hes literally one of the richest people in the world and arguably the least qualified to address the public in any form.

The mans completely detached. Nothing, none of what anyone experiences in the real world impacts him in the least. The man wouldnt be able to empathize with the sufferings of predatory college lending if he tried. his stratospheric wealth makes him practically undefinable in the context of actual hard work or labor.

Everything hes made in life came from the hard work and excess capital of people like Stanford students.
You don't even have to do that - a lot of 3/4/5 story style flats (can be owned or rented) that are not concrete soviet blocks would do wonders in most cities. See: western Europe.
Put another way, I would think that individual engineers would be better off learning the underlying tech and the tools provided that go with them. I think it's very possible that Flox (or devenv or...) reaches EOL, or ceases to track nixpkgs appropriately, or any of the other ways that software rots. Where nix develop is going to last as long as Nix Flakes do, and there's incentive to provide a migration path to whatever's next.

Even more important: every abstraction is going to leak. Maybe the Flox CLI "looks" cleaner or whatever, but in the end you'll still need to learn Nix to use it effectively. Why learn twice as much stuff as you need?
Can someone educate me why insurer should not know one's driving habits? I'd imagine that the risks calculated from one's driving habit will be more accurate than that derived from only past accidents, car color, user profile and etc.
Databar: The Monthly Bar Code Software magazine for the Oscar bar code reader
Unless the only thing you want to do with the robot is talk, you need to do a lot more reasoning and execution planning first (= multiple LLM round trips; tool calling) before you even know whether talking is the correct action to take. So the naive time-to-first-chunk estimate will be way off.
There is absolutely not an oversupply of apartments in my city, nor in Seattle proper. it should be non-controversial to let the market supply as many apartments in the locations people want to be as people are willing to rent. Especially any regulatory changes that enable family sized apartments to be built at relatively lower cost should be encouraged.

Even if there were an “oversupply”, if someone could build new apartment buildings at 50% the cost with larger, safer, more comfortable units than most apartments nearby, it would drive rents down for existing buildings while still allowing the developer to make a profit. We should be enabling these opportunities as much as possible.
[dupe]

Some more discussion on the official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39691783
> He didn’t import an invasive species, he imported PARTS.

"It's OK, I killed the endangered animal first!" isn't likely to be a successful defense argument.

> I do not see any victims of his actions.

As with drunk driving, you are not required to; we're allowed to act before widespread ecological disaster ensues.

> This exact thing is perfectly legal in Texas, happens all the time, and causes no problems.

The Endangered Species Act applies in Texas too.
Not just a net importer, but also the main exporter of algorithmic feeds. If the US bans TikTok for fear of China manipulating public opinion via their algorithmic feed, lots of other countries might think twice whether they want to allow the same influence from the US via Twitter, Facebook, Threads, Youtube, Instagram, etc.
In case you are wondering, this is using https://tauri.app/ which allows it to be web based inside a native app. I was not familiar with that project, but taking a peek at the Activity Monitor, it seems to spin up 2 processes, one for tauri itself which I presume is a small static file server (around 60MB memory), and one for the main UI window (around 30MB memory).
I do not understand the usecase. If I need a particular environment I will install it in LXC.
a reasonable person would expect the requirement of a payment.
once you discover it, continuing to exploit the effect to gain merchandise and not pay would be intentional
Maybe, but I read it as wormholes at the application level. Which would be awesome for me.

I do a lot of work on remote servers for heavy data processing (large files). Sometimes I need to get these files back to my local computer, or just view figures I’ve generated using remote data. I have a small reverse tunnel daemon setup where I can (in my remote terminal) send arbitrary files or data back to my local computer.

$ rtun send file.txt
$ rtun view data.pdf

It is a daemon that listens locally and when I setup SSH, a reverse tunnel is configured from one Unix socket to another. These are multiuser servers and Unix sockets handle authorization easily. The same setup could be handled similarly with a zmodem like process and aware terminal.

However, this setup is a bit cumbersome and I can’t just run `ssh host`. If I could have the same setup with an in-app wireguard tunnel, with no other setup, it would be amazing.
Yeah, not sure the 80 pills a day plus injections are keeping him quite as youthful as might be.
Employees are tempted to use TikTok at work (and some employees are even addicted to TikTok) so the TikTok app has access to internal company networks, which is the most difficult part of attacking a company's systems.
Did American TikTok users want this?

No?

Then it needs to die.

It's fascinating watching the government interventions sans voter support that HN celebrates vs eviscerates.
Ask HN: Is AGI 'computable' on transistor substrates? Is consciousness?
Are transistors enough to simulate a general intelligence? Maybe, but I have some doubts (and I kind of hope they're insufficient ~ a nice hard tech barrier to stop us before we get there, or at least slow us down, for a while).

Are they enough for consciousness? I doubt that. I don't think consciousness is 'computable' on transistors. I think we need something else. But maybe I'm totally wrong...maybe it's never "computed" on the substrated, but rather just attracted to the substrate (panpsychia / universal consciousness field), in which case it's probably possible. In that case, then the question becomes are transistors 'an expressive enough' substrate for a consciousness that we (=humans) would want to build? :)
A product you consent to is hardly the same as the government cutting off the ability to use your phone and it sounds very silly to compare the two.

By no means do I agree with the walled garden, I just think cheering for such an absurd idea of the government disabling your phone to fight something most users don't even understand or care about is bizarre.
There's plenty of land if it were legal to build on it, and the permitting process didn't take forever.
I presume you don’t recall directly. I wouldn’t suppose your mother would tell you that “yeah, I let you run amok on flights”. Notwithstanding that the general point was a tad broader.
COVID made its way to Antarctica. I have no doubt 4 years later that it would find its way to Paul Alexander's home.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with allowing someone to rent a unit for $30k per month - even if there are thousands of them. If we're collecting 100k in property taxes earmarked for certain programs - that would effectively fund building an entire ADU on a property per year for that expensive rental to exist.
I bet there are some single story houses with glulams. Certainly plenty of two-story houses do. I have a 30 inch tall glulam that spans 35 feet across my garage holding up a good chunk of the second floor.
Are you opposing the divestment law? If so, and you think TikTok is a real security threat, what is the alternative measure?

I don't agree that this is security theater. Divestment will put the entity which controls TikTok under the jurisdiction of U.S. law, and no, it isn't obvious that the company would still legally be able to export data to the CCP. I also don't understand arguing against a measure on the basis that it won't work well enough - you have to argue that the measure itself is bad.
There are two other big issues with math notation that I see:

* The tendency of math to have many different notations to express the same thing. My calculus textbook started by apologizing for the like seven different notations for "take the derivative of this function". Would it kill mathematicians to just pick one notation and standardize on it?

* The number of times the same notation can mean two different things. I've always been particularly bothered by stuff like implicit adjacency is multiplication, except when it's not. Is "a(b + c)" supposed to mean "add b to c and use the result as the argument for a" or is it supposed to mean "add b to c and multiply it with a"? You'd think it should be obvious, but functions are a ring, with multiplication corresponding to composition...
In other words they have content restrictions in their country as with TV and other media, while the international version is more similar to its competition in Instagram?
> Fiddlesticks

After some brief research, it seems that most any wood can be used, so it's possible there were redwood bows made sometime. The preferred wood is pernambuco. (From the Brazilian paubrasilia echinata tree, now an endangered species so difficult to get new sticks from.) Other popular types are snakewood, sandalwood (cheap), and brazilwood (cheaper). But lately the trend is to use carbon fiber which has become less expensive than wooden bows of the same quality.
Yes, you read it correctly. We have an honest disagreement on this. I'm not sure what makes you think I am assuming others agree with my take. I'm just describing and arguing for my view on it.

Indeed, I assume my take on that trade-off is the less popular one amongst the commenters, and perhaps also the readers, of this thread. But I do think it is the far more popular view among the population at large. And part of the reason I'm commenting here is to point that out.
EU AI act passed through Parliament
Got to love ByteDance's insistence that they wouldn't hand over US data if asked to by the CCP. They're not even trying to hide how fucked they are anymore.
Is it just me or are people easily impressed by these robot demo that moves nothing like humans and doing the simplistic tasks like passing a large object. The freaking Apple is within his arms reach and he asked to pass the Apple. I almost laughed out loud.
Let's imagine we have no time zones and the article is trying to make fun of introducing them.

Before introducing time zones

I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. When does the evening start there? Google tells me it's 8:00. Better not call right now.

After introducing time zones

I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. When does the evening start there?

It's 20:00, same as it is here, of course! Same as it is in New York, Bangalore and Hawaii, at the South Pole and on the Moon.
Well, hold on a second. First of all, we need to straighten out some terminology. What does 20:00 mean exactly? It's strongly deprecated now, because now it refers to the position of the Sun, not of the clock.

And then it goes on like this for 5 pages...

Imagine we had universal time across the globe and someone tried to introduce time zones. It would seem like a batshit crazy idea to everyone.
This feels mostly right. Although, it may not make it past the senate, and it might not get signed if it goes by the president. Especially since he's campaigning on TikTok.

What amazes me is how people's view in these threads are for a ban. For a counter point, the EFF thinks congress should not ban apps[0]

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/congress-should-give-u...
Very clever and sneaky how they positioned "Dev Mode", think I'm the only person on my team who realizes it's a new thing and not just what's always been there and that it also costs extra.
I don't think the claim is true in quite as much generality as the author claims. Some deterministic data structures use much more space than time, for example, the deterministic implementation of a Van Emde Boas tree.
I was wondering what it meant to "organize less acreom".
I was just thinking how well could it play StarCraft II vs say DeepMind's AlphaStar, if I'm giving the high-level directives and SIMA is executing them.

Then I got the creepy feeling that this is likely the kind of wargames that are already being tested. We'll probably also need reverse safeguards where the AI raises concerns and requires confirmation before carrying out some requests.
What is the nature of that commerce? I don't think you can ablate the 1A concerns this easily.

(Note that I am sympathetic to the idea that TikTok is a source of foreign influence. But it's not clear to me what precedent allows the US congress to control their ownership without doing the same to every "US" corporation that's incorporated in Ireland.)
Specifically meant in-person chess clubs as opposed to only playing lichess from home for hours every day. I'd probably have a less negative view of "time wasting" if video games were played more in-person too.

I have fond memories of LAN parties growing up, where socializing was as big a part as the actual gaming - it's not like we were sitting there harvesting wood for hours on end!
Changing San Francisco Foreseen as a Haven for the Wealthy and Childless (1981)
> Anyway, with AI characters, I expect it will actually be more frustrating and boring than not if they have realistic lives and schedules. All the littler irritations that we deal with and accept form real people just become friction in a game.

I remember Ultima V in the 80s had this. NPCs had their own daily routine and went here and there throughout the day. A couple of side quests relied on this mechanic—you had to learn their schedule and catch them somewhere at some time.
just add a hmmm before every response
To add,

- Make it illegal for corporations to own residential homes / any property in residentially zone locations

- Generate policies to eliminate real estate parasites (illegal to have percentage profits off of sales, open data, low friction technological avenues to remove those jobs altogether)

- Marginally increasing second / third / fourth property taxes on individuals (first home untaxed, second taxed at 20% market-rate valuation per year, third taxed at 50%, fourth at 100%, etc).

- Create avenues to easily demolish HOAs when they go off the rails

- Multi-unit housing can no longer be owned or managed by a for-profit entity (rent goes exclusively towards building upgrades and paying works for upkeep & administration, all transparently visible

- Limit Big Lumber's ability to export Lumber outside of the US -- trees grown in the US should stay in it to house people.

This would be a start to fixing the issue. The objective being, of course, to utterly collapse the housing market, and make houses homes again.
Except this is not about commerce. US wants to ban TikTok for the same reason Russia has blocked BBC. Russia believes that information from BBC can harmfully influence people's mind.
There’s plenty of land, it’s just typically zoned and used poorly, designed to accommodate cars instead of people.

49% of San Bernidino’s central city area is dedicated to parking.
US national security adversaries are platform neutral. If TikTok is banned, they'll just put more resources into the things that aren't banned. Twitter is owned by Elon Musk, who by all accounts spouts Russian propaganda daily, and changed the algorithm to where it makes up a solid 50% of my "For You"...and I have yet to see many, if any, Republicans or Democrats saying we should ban it, or even yank Elon's security clearance, or sever his government contracts. I don't see how you can have it both ways.

TikTok shouldn't be banned, and if it is, it could eventually open the door for US owned companies without "direct" ties to also be forced "divest." Some of Facebook and Twitter's biggest investors are not exactly US allies. To me, it's a slippery slope. The "tit for tat" argument also falls flat to me, the US shouldn't try to mimic being China. China's attempts to wall itself off from the world have hurt it more than helped it.

If we really wanted to address this, we'd just have legislation on personal data in general, not this company targeting nonsense; but we'll never do that because Facebook/Twitter/Google/Microsoft/etc all have their hands lining the pockets of plenty of lobbyists in DC. They just maybe don't realize, or care, at the moment that eventually their own allegiances will be called into question.
Forging documents should be illegal, yes.

And there are numerous reason why there are restrictions on transferring genetic material and how it’s used. Doing something wrong can greatly disrupt an ecosystem.

You not understanding why something is illegal doesn’t mean it should be legal.
There are so many people that think drugs or poor decisions are leading to the homeless tents all over the place. The drugs and poor decisions are things that come AFTER going homeless. The studies are showing that rising housing costs have directly caused the homeless crisis. WE neeed to do something fast.
Furthermore, the third prong is:

> Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Some people prefer to effectively exclude "porn" from this by definition, but I don't think that aligns with mainstream use of the term, and I also doubt that those people are using a similar standard to what would apply in a First Amendment case.
>we are (used to be?) a country that believes in democracy and the will of our citizens

We either need to mass-educate everyone on the whole Edward Bernays subconscious manipulation thing (which we won't do because it would catastrophically break PR, advertising, political campaigns and more) or do it ourselves, do it thoroughly, and prevent others from accessing our citizens eyes/ears, which is what we're trying to do except for that last part.

We're far, far beyond "we'll just let our well-educated citizens decide for themselves", and it's weird to see someone act like that's how anything works. That idea's been broken for closing in on a century.
I don't drive, I walk to get groceries and take the train to work
I think you actually have to worry about your soldier not having any metal objects on him because I don’t know what use he’s going to be naked
Devenv and devbox are completely different. Devenv will merely automatically install envars into your env from a plugin (one of which handles nix). If you aren't using devenv you are missing out, irrespective of whether you use nix. Devbox is a direct alternative to Flox.

Edit: all incorrect, I got confused. There are indeed to many of these Nix wrappers.
Bill Cheswick is a cool dude. In the 80s and 90s, he ran the Internet Mapping Project, which was an attempt to collate the complexity that is our routing stack into something approachable. It also produced some really cool graphs: https://cheswick.com/ches/map/gallery/index.html

As a young engineer, I had the opportunity to meet him at one of the tech conferences my dad was attending, where he gave me one of his printed copies of the internet map (and signed it). Hung on my childhood bedroom wall until my parents moved. Lovely piece.
> Please do save me the suspense and share the punchline now!

Apple hasn't finished their setup! You might be able to guess where it's going though, we've heard this one before.
Do the cops “breaking procedure” know for certain if the accused are guilty? How can they?
> Well, weird movements in games should be a thing of the past in the near future, as we can begin to extract motion capture data from videos of normal people acting normally.

I think you misread my posts. We don't have awkward animations because our mocap isn't good enough, we have awkward animations because typical human motion looks awkward - our brains just mostly ignore that.

People are awkward; we don't actually want characters in games/movies/etc to be like real people. Very few movies, for example, would be well served by conversations frequently and for non-plot-related reasons being interrupted by loud noises, having people talk over each other and nonverbally try to figure out who gets to speak, having characters ask "What?" and then begin to reply without waiting for the answer because their brain caught up half a second later, etc.