skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even in the CA, the most densley populated state

California is far from the most densely populated state! It is the most highly populated, but it's also one of the largest.

The most densely populated states are on the Eastern seaboard: NJ (1263 ppl/mi² or 488 ppl/km²), then RI, MA, CT, MD, DE, FL, NY, PA, and OH. CA is 11th, at 250ppl/mi² or 97 ppl/km², approximately 20% of the NJ density.
OK. So what? Are we more interested in solutions to a “housing affordability crisis” or are we more interested in making sure some old codgers who are stuck in their ways and oppose the march of progress get their just desserts? And if you’re interested in both, what better way than to encourage a mass of young blood and modern companies to move in and gentrify the area?
The economics need to, and will, change.
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Show HN: iOS Development as a Subscription
Hi there! I recently launched my iOS development agency with a subscription model, inspired by DesignJoy founder Brett Williams. My agency is among the first (possibly the first?) to offer iOS development services on a month-to-month basis. The subscription is flexible, allowing for pauses or cancellations at any time. With 10 years of experience in software development and success as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies, I aim to leverage my expertise to help startups and other companies elevate their iOS development.
Revenue maybe, but profit?

They do it for "prestige".
Your comment seems to have spiraled out into... I don't even know where? Were you combining threads in your head?

>It's easy to botspam a competitor with terroristic and genocidal posts

I don't think it's necessary to employ conspiracy theory accessories when the stated moderation policy of the platform was "no moderation."
The lack of attention this development is getting on here is astounding. Other developers I am talking to about it brush it off, then change topic.

So many comments about how insufficient the tool is.

Our heads are really in the sand, I'm afraid.
voting should just be mandatory tbh, i dont understand why people seem to refuse to participate in democracy

maybe it's a cultural thing? i'm australian and it's mandatory here so that may be affecting my views?
It seems like Bluesky's architecture is ideal for this case. Label it, apps don't show it by default, and let people opt-in to seeing it.
Most people who currently live in San Francisco/San Jose don't particularly want to turn it into a global metropolis and don't give a damn about abstract concepts like "cultural relevance". Cultural elitists should have some humility and not presume that they know best.

Another option would be to set policies that encourage greater economic development and job growth in Stockton so that residents aren't forced to commute long distances. There's nothing special about the SF Bay Area: it's just another place.
Huge user friendly! Even more than devenv which I’m currently using.

One question: does Flox need Nix preinstalled? I don't see any mention of Nix in the installation guide. If Fkox doesn't need Nix install it would be a huge game changer.
Because they then vote, based on Putin's and Xi's propaganda. It's those two choosing the US president
I do like git yes, and I don't see how I would've designed it any different. And I certainly wouldn't want it tied to my choice of language. The eco-system is large and I can host it on git{lab,hub} or any of the alternatives. Personally I self-host a Gitea instance. I use it for much more than just code, such as notes and personal wiki.

I get the feeling that Darklang is intended more as a platform than a language is that correct?
Leaked docs hint Google may use SiFive RISC-V cores in next-gen TPUs
I agree that it's super cool and super interesting, but it's also never going to be a true match. It's not as big a deal with CRT imho, but if you've ever seen a phosphorus vector-graphic display (such as used in older oscilloscopes or in the original Asteroids arcade cabinet), then you'll know what I mean. New displays can look absolutely amazing, and can emulate aspects of older displays, but I'm skeptical of current CRT emulation, and I've never seen a modern display that could emulate what happens with a phosphorus vector display.
What is the point then? I think that your comment is just pure ageism.
> The assertion that the world is computable is just that: there are no research projects, no textbooks, no experiments, no formalism to replace physics or anything like it -- nothing. All the basic assumptions of physics would have to be false, and we would have to have good reasons for supposing so.

I have no idea what this means. Physics must be computable from straightforward physical arguments like the Bekenstein Bound: finite volumes must contain finite information. Any physical object has finite volume at any given time, the universe included, ergo they must contain finite information. Any system consisting of finite information can be modeled as a finite state machine.
I always figured 3-5 years to become a 'senior' (generally 5 but I've had some really sharp juniors too)
The solution to dispersal, and density, is to simply allow that type of building everywhere, and then they just kind of randomly pop up whenever/wherever works out.

Unless forced to due to scarcity, dense development does not really clump up together all at once for good reason, since clumping up will drive up costs in a hyper local area. Tokyo for example, has a lot of detached housing, even in the central wards. The density there is more pockmarked and random, and notably never really concentrates all that highly; there is not a single Japanese building in the top 100 skyscrapers, because skyscraper concentration is an artifact of how we force dense developments only in certain places.
Reminds me of a House episode.
I think “backbone” in this context is a stand-in for “integrity” and/or “honor”. I think the fact that they can “buy, sell, and eliminate people and governments as they see fit” is the obvious proof that they don’t possess any real integrity, dignity, or honor for themselves or other people - so, no, they don’t have “backbone”. Power, wealth, sure. But not backbone.
Perfect, self destruct in case of extreme emergencies / prevent tech from being captured.
The Nix binary cache does x86_64-linux, aarch64-linux, x86_64-darwin, aarch64-darwin and maybe others. Every single package is different, but built from the same source. You won't be sharing binary cache even for python or other interpreted things since they depend on "stdenv" which contains bash.

But in practice it's really easy. Though if you're all into robustness you should probably test on the same arch you deploy to eventually.
An interesting phenomenon is people in the US who already got manipulated, and then spread the manipulation from within the US, eagerly and voluntarily, as US citizens
Does it really simplify the model? It rephrases my google query if I want to call a colleague in the Philippines. That's it. It does not make it better, easier, harder. It rephrases the question, it does not abolish the question.
rapidly growing 8-)

That's funny! I once received a gift: Grow Your Own Giant Sequoia

It was a little pot with soil, and a (allegedly) sequoia seed

Just plant it and wait 200 years 8-)
Are you getting confused as to the topic?

Clearly cell-like robots are 100% possible at very small scales, there’s no one debating you on this.
But that's not how that works? If there is no statistically significant effect, then whatever effect there might be is so small that it's part of the background noise: we have a complete enough answer to say "there is nothing that can be attributed to just this thing". And we can say that with certainty because of the statistics.
Ugggh - that sucks...I feel for ya :-/

That sounds less like 'deployment' and more like 'mandatory overtime' at that point!
It turned out you can use some clever search algorithms rather than intelligence to play chess, yeah.
Ok if you dislike technically "savings", call it "incentivized regular investment" - the point remains. As a policy issue countries are stuck a bit because they are reliant on the asset value of these houses to help support non-working people later in life (that is, they have "saved", in some sense). Does that make it a ponzi scheme? No, of course not. Is there risk in the investment? Absolutely, and more than most people like to think about.

I don't think we are really disagreeing here, which is why I described it as a "trap". Governments will go to great lengths to keep this market stable, probably more than they should, because they are in a bind. People will respond to the incentives and keep buying when they can - probably more than they should. So long as there is net growth in economy and population on the whole they can keep the plates in the air, if either or both of those fail to be true, harder. And of course this is only on average, individual areas are not all protected.

Detroit has houses for sale for $0 (or near enough) for the same reason as some places in Japan and Italy (and others). Namely, fewer people want to live there than housing and infrastructure exists for. Same deal with unfinished subdivisions in Florida, essentially worthless.
Those are apples and oranges. You can submit corrections for much longer than 1.5 years. Why be afraid if you filed correctly? Just have some confidence.
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The Los Angeles example pretty much proves that spinning out employment into multiple areas does not mean people will just move to the closest area to their job; it just adds another destination to the list of "places people drive an hour to."

It is not really that people living in Stockton already are commuting into the Bay, but Bay Area workers are being displaced into Stockton. The Bay Area has added more jobs than housing for a while now.
Ask HN: AI projects that have hit the trifecta of Benefit, Cost and Time
Looking at many of the ongoing AI projects, I wonder if they are consistently hitting the trifecta of Cost, Time and Benefits. Even something like chatGPT is a loss maker.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chatgpt-cost-bomb-openais-losses-125101043.html

Are there any strong examples I can cite where AI has delivered/over delivered? Or majority of them vaporware?
At a certain level of complexity you want (need) a certified professional to make sure you are complying within the bounds of tax law and offload some of the audit risk to said professionals.

Is the US Tax Code very complicated? Yes. Is it more so complicated than other nations? I would hazard a “no.” Is that a scam? That’s a question of political philosophy I don’t want to get into here.
Achtung! I am the latest generation GPT and I cannot understand your second paragraph.
Just imagine the other leaders in Civilization/The Total War games being given a prompt like “You are Abraham Lincoln. The following has happened: … What would you do within these constraints: …. “

Diplomacy in games have always been terrible because it just comes down to preprogrammed numbers. Humans might be the same at the very base level but there’s no way we could code that all out.

Now you could truly make those leaders act like they “should.”
I mean, doesn't everyone know to use distilled water? Pretty sure they even say it on the box.

That being said, I can't imagine it to help, I'm usually so stopped up I don't see how I wouldn't just waterboard myself.
> Botulism is extremely rare, though.

Precisely because we have engineered our foods and processes for safety.

None of this is new:
"When Every Ketchup But One Went Extinct"
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-heinz-ketch...

"Their earlier ketchups “were medium bodied with average acidity,” Smith writes. In 1906, they replaced this ketchup with a shelf-stable, preservative-free ketchup that had twice as much salt, sugar, and vinegar as other commercial ketchups"

Is a ketchup with extensively boiled tomatoes (which kills quite a bit of their nutritive value), double the salt and double the sugar better than one with small amounts of benzoate?
what a weird way to respond.
Initially I approached this concept as "can good do evil?" but after some reflection I think we have a series of choices and what we do in the moment is the only thing that matters. Good is only good if it does good.

If you want to tie religion into the issue, ask yourself "Is it possible to do evil in the name of good?"
CEO is nowhere to be found but the CFO posted this message. There is a huge lack of accountability from their executive team. But you can try here

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottbroomfield_to-our-bluebo...
Spring generally follows winter.
hes a frequent contributor to numberphile!

https://www.youtube.com/@numberphile/search?query=tadashi

although honmestly most of their mathematicians are lovely people!
Binance made crypto perfume in a baffling attempt to woo women
In other words, the government cannot do bad things, only private companies can do bad things. A very enlightened point of view. Great that you corrected the people with actual experience.
I don't know that "less need for parking" has ever actually panned out. If the car is not parked somewhere, it is milling around waiting for a ride, which might actually be worse in terms of congestion.
gestures broadly at fleet of Falcon 9 vehicles flight proven and delivering payloads to orbit cheaper than any other launch provider, with capabilities unmatched by nation states

https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/07/spacex-launches-its-fl...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/spacexs-falcon-9-roc...

So many flavors to pick from and you had to pick salty. Unfortunate. Regardless of the methods, the outcomes are clear. Starship will succeed, if only because of the collective talent of the org persisting.
Yes, this is exactly the problem I hit when I try to cache the Nix store on CircleCI.
Season 8 episode 17
I don't think it's a cut and dry issue. Many, if not most jobs/contracts put you in a very awkward position of dealing with something or someone who is incompetent, unfair, etc. I don't see a normal human reaction to that as being a personal or professional failure. It's unfortunate, but I think that rather than necessarily just being better at suppressing your natural reactions, the takeaway might be to try harder to get better colleagues.

Easier said than done though.
If Japanese users aren't willing to run their own relay I don't think we can blame Bluesky for that. Ultimately decentralization devolves some level of responsibility onto users.
The free-speech absolutist with the glass jaw.
The notion that compulsory voting results in an engaged electorate is not plausible to me. Human nature does not work that way.

It does not seem wise to solicit (much less demand) opinions from those who would choose to withhold them. These would be the least-informed opinions available.

We have enough trouble with the people who insist on sharing when their opinion is unwelcome. (These are often a close second on the least-informed scale!) :)
Congrats on the product reveal! It's exciting to see all these things getting announced right around NixCon, and I wish I could have made it.

I'm having trouble seeing the audience for this product. If I'm in an org going for SOC 2, it's likely I already have a story around artifact access that isn't intrinsically tied with my build system. If I weren't already building sensitive things with Nix, this doesn't seem like the thing that would get me to switch. If I have a monorepo, flakes are likely off the table right away due to the performance hit. Am I missing something about how people are using flakes right now?
Or they've used it so much that they no longer have to think about stepping around Nix's UX quirks. Once the habit is automatic a lot of the UX difficulties that can be striking at first become invisible, or at least forgettable.
> Its insane to suppose that somatosensory representation building, which requires organic neruoplasticity to be connected to the organically adaptive neuromotor system, etc. etc. etc. can just be instantiated in a bit of sand.

Why? That's just an assertion, not an argument. All of those big words and sophisticated concepts you used all reduce to field interactions that we've mostly captured mathematically. Unless you're imbuing these things with some magical essence that can't be observed, but then who's doing the pseudoscience?
This hyper focus on CEOs is fascinating to me. Everyone acts like CEOs are dictators that enslave their people. It's likely the other way around and we have to pay them so much because nobody would do the job otherwise.

Managing an organization of any complexity is like herding cats. It's got a life of its own and you're at the top just leaning on the helm trying to steer the ship 2° starboard.

Any large group is going to form into a hierarchy naturally. The senior leadership at any large organization are ridiculously talented individuals at the tops of their classes. Half the reason the top jobs pays more is to signal the hierarchy.
Typical wing-nut shit from jalopnik 8-/

There is NO tidal wave of waymo cars everywhere.

Maybe, while they're at it, they could wrestle back control of the streets from drunks on alcohol, or idiots in building sized monster trucks w/ headlights 4' off the ground...

There ARE tidal waves of both of those all over California.
Show HN: Braq – Customizable data format for config files, AI prompts, and more
Hi HN ! I'm Alex, a tech enthusiast. I am excited to show you a new iteration of Braq (https://github.com/pyrustic/braq), a customizable data format for config files, AI prompts, and more.

With Braq, I'm experimenting to what extent we can interweave human-readable structured data with prose within a single document. The original ideas were first implemented in Jesth [1] which spawned two spin-offs, Paradict [2] and Braq.

So far, I have discovered the usefulness of Braq for creating flexible config files and I am witnessing a potentially interesting proposal [3] that has emerged naturally to better structure AI prompts [4].

The eponymous Python package for tinkering with Braq is available on PyPI (see the Installation section in the README). Feel free to play with examples and code snippets in the README, or clone the repository to explore the source code and the tests package. The functions and classes have been documented with well-structured docstrings (whose format is also based on Braq) which will feed a documentation generator that I am developing.

Let me know what you think of the project.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35991018 (Show HN: Jesth – Next-level human-readable data serialization format)

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38684724 (Show HN: Paradict – Streamable multi-format serialization with schema)

[3] https://github.com/pyrustic/braq?tab=readme-ov-file#ai-promp...

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34988748 (OpenAI's ChatML)
Yes, the next release adds custom delimiters, e.t.a. one week.
I would think a 'fleet' or swarm of lifting vehicles, airships, drones, etc would make more sense than pioneering an entire custom airplane of such scale.
Okay, how about this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImTheMainCharacter/comments/1bdopik...

Or this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImTheMainCharacter/comments/1be3b75...

Randomly sexually harassing strangers for clout, what could go wrong.

This shit enabling sociopathic behavior happens 9 out of 10 times on tiktok and not other social media platforms.

I'm out of touch? You're literally old enough to have children who are the primary demographic of tiktok,your kids are only sharing you the cutesy videos. You have no clue, newsflash you millennials aren't hip anymore. Stop projecting.
That’s just not the same, even if they act perfectly like humans.
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> Los Angeles, San Francisco/San Jose, Dallas, Phoenix -- could be (and should be) a global metropolises

Yes!

> with a populations and cultural relevance rivaling Tokyo or Hong Kong.

YES!

> They would be, if not for the car.

...what?

They are not because their local governments prohibit construction and actively oppose growth, which is only vaguely related to the car. Approximately zero "global metropolises" have single-family zoning in 95% of their inner core land area. Not "have single family homes", sure maybe Tokyo has that. But zoning that prohibits denser development in such a way that most (yes, most) current housing in those areas is too dense to be built today under current rules. (This last part is true even of NYC.)

The US went hardcore anti-density in the 70s. And sure, that has something to do with the car.
I did have to help a designer once figure out why colors weren't matching and it came down to Photoshop ignoring the gamma correction settings he had asserted and trying to 'help' by correcting from Mac to PC anyway. Thanks Adobe. If someone is typing in hex values, leave them the fuck alone.
Ah, must be. Though it wasn't mentioned by name in the source[1] I found earlier the equation seems to match. Instead they attribute it to Arrhenius, but I guess Black's equation is a special case.

[1]: https://www.ti.com/lit/an/snva509a/snva509a.pdf
I understand and agree. I was Gleason 7: 4+3 intermediate aggressive. Caught it very early, no spread, so RALP was performed 5 months ago. Now I’m deep in the throws of pelvic floor PT hoping to gain some semblance of control again.

Hopefully your surgeon has performed (unlike mine) more than 1000 RALPs - the incontinence outcomes improve greatly when their experience is that high.

Best of luck to you. DM me at gmail if you need/want to talk about your upcoming RALP.