skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was all excited when I saw on Zillow a decent new apartment complex in town with rents that were actually reasonable... until, after hours of studying photos and floorplans and neighborhood, I noticed a statement on Zillow, near the bottom of the scroll, in one of the tabs in right column, that the building is subsidized, and there's a permissible income range.

While some of us could qualify while on early startup salaries, I don't know how I'd feel about subsidies as a techbro, and I know I wouldn't feel good about having to move from a nice building (big time investment, moving monetary cost, and quite possibly moving to a crappier building) because the startup was doing OK.

I was disappointed, but not surprised. As a middle-class techbro, this is a very lite version of a much bigger problem that has affected many low-income people. News has long had stories about low-income people who are trapped with subsidies they need (housing, food, support for children, etc.). They make a lousy wage, and can't afford to get much of a better wage, because the societal safety net on which they depend would be ripped out from under them before they could afford it to.
> Having to switch the DE completely over one simple thing like this is, frankly, ridiculous.

And who is forcing you to switch DEs over one simple thing? The parent comment is merely suggesting that we use the DE that we like the most (or--I'll add--hate the least).
I am planning on seeing that one, too. It doesn't seem as far away as it used to.
It's too bad income "cut-offs" even exist. Shouldn't it always be a smooth function?
I think you underestimate the amount of people with high school education doing very precise, skilled work right now. Do you think skilled machines tend to have PHds or even bachelors?

Im not saying its as simple as CNC. I am saying that I doubt you need an IQ of 130 or a PHD. Start investing in the people whose labor were undercut. In fact a skilled machinist or technician seems like a much closer match (in terms of skill and willingness to do the job) than some with an electrical engineering PHD or something.
Keeping a loved-one's skull around seems downright tame compared to how some people treat their dead in modern times. How about the Indonesian tribe that digs up their dead every year [0]?

[0]: https://htschool.hindustantimes.com/editorsdesk/knowledge-vi...
Be careful that you yourself or some of your relatives don't end up in jail for white collar crime with that approach. You know less about others than you think.
> The point is to never put Lithium-ion batteries inside buildings

Missing word?

Because I have dozens of 'em inside this building right now...
Can you not use Letsencrypt locally? I think I actually saw something about that recently here on HN.

What is the difference between this and LE if true?

I would like to use a .test domain. I use that currently and just click "proceed anyway" whenever the warning pops up and It's pretty often lately.
can't speak to the actual service, but can confirm they have excellent bananas (not kidding)
So various crime groups are coming together and leveraging the synergies.
> In the future, the ideal time to eat a burger won’t be when you’re hungry and really hankering for one. It’ll be the oddest, most awkward hours — late mornings or afternoons, the middle of the night on a Tuesday — the slices of time when prices will be lowest

Huge misunderstanding of "ideal".

Ideal is not just about price.

And no, cost is not incurred at time of eating, but at time of purchase.
They said the device was unlocked when they stole it.
Hmm not sure about this. Ive been self-hosting websites since the early 2000s. Have had several sysadmin jobs managing hundreds of servers. With that experience, I still wouldn't be able to protect a website from a serious DDoS without CloudFlare or similar.

This is the history of specialization of everything. You could argue there was a time everyone knew how to grow some of their own crops and look after some farm animals.
Is there a way to visualize a dataframe like a spreadsheet, as RStudio does, but for VSCode?
Vocally seconding this. I wanted to not like Gnome (longtime wmi/wmii/i3 user) but its application launcher (and actually everything to do with the super/three-finger swipe/hot corner system) is superb. I'm amazed how equally highly usable it is via keyboard, mouse, and touch.
It’s organized gangs that have found a loophole: commit “greasy crimes” at scale where the individual crimes are below a threshold. This is similar to the epidemic of small hit large scale online scams and mail fraud, but in person.

It’s a new kind of organized crime enabled by digital technology.
Unless there was an edit, the GP says the phone was unlocked. I'm guessing the recent iOS changes about not allowing Find My disabled when it is away from known locations was made specifically for this situation.
I think the parent comment's fix is to not use btrfs and warn others about how risky they estimate it is.
... Cancer cells? This is about HIV. What are you talking about?
> it has no commercial intent.

Under what possible analysis does art sold at a convention, by full time professional artists, not count as being done for a commercial purpose?
It was unlocked. Still, you typically need the iCloud password to disable Find My.
Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data with over 1,500 Companies
This is why people don't want to pay taxes at all
Worth adding that gpsjam does the exact same thing with ADS-B data.
I'd make the case your viewpoint is symptomatic of the power of bad ideas. In this case, specifically accepting the idea that individuals do not have responsibility for their own actions or for how they relate to the people around them.
It all comes back to the fact that government is a low accountability sector, despite what many people seem to think.
hey, a vouch is a vouch!
That's pretty good though depending on what "greater Paris" is I suspect it's a bowl - trending to 99% ownership the further from the center you get.

The goal shouldn't be "car free cities" it should be (at least in the USA) "first get it so households feel one car is fine".
True, but if you want to grow in the desert, there are more efficient methods and crops to grow, like in closed greenhouses, that keep most of the water.
This award isn't about innovation, the best way to do things, or job requirements.

This about supply chain security and national defense. So many of our components are made overseas and under governments who are not close allies. This is in order to operate things in our country.

When you have the FABs in the US and under US control you can handle international foreign policy and the security of the nation differently.
The post PC era of big expensive hardware you can't even buy if you do have the money is upon us, and mercy this is a scary scary time in computing for me/us.
You cannot turn off Find My without entering your Apple ID password. The option to turn off Find My is disabled if stolen device protection is enabled.
You're partly correct - people are getting more desparate and hopeless because their prospects are grim, and nihilistic because they feel their lives have no meaning. That's a problem and crime will continue to get worse as these feelings pervade American society.

But also, we need to arrest and prosecute criminals, because not doing so encourages crime. It accelerates the downward spiral.
Mozilla Firefox has put a lot of time into their PDF reader.

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/browsers/
Zotero's V7 reader is great, built on pdfjs (Mozillas pdf reader) and adds neat things like notations and dark mode.
>I know I wouldn't feel good about having to move from a nice building because the startup was doing OK.

Subsidized apartment buildings in the US don't make you move out if your income goes up: they just take away your subsidy, i.e., your rent goes up to what HUD calls the apartment's "contract rent". Then HUD (statistically speaking) directs the money they used to use to subsidize your rent to building more subsidized housing. HUD wants successful people living in HUD-subsidized buildings, at least the ones with children in them, to serve as role models.
Equity over Accuracy in Kidney Care
Usenet, a platform once esteemed for its contributions to online discourse, is now inundated with illegal content and child exploitation imagery. This cannot go unchecked.

There is a petition urging Usenet providers to take decisive action by implementing stringent content moderation measures or, if necessary, removing the alt.binaries.* discussion groups entirely.

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The author of the marathon paper explains the phenomenon he is observing, and then goes on to "reject that explanation" without attempting to do anything to control for it.

>For example, the 2013 Chicago Marathon provided pace teams for 3:00, 3:05, 3:10, 3:15, 3:20, 3:25, 3:30, 3:35, 3:40, 3:45, 3:50, 3:55, 4:00, 4:10, 4:25, 4:30, 4:40, 4:55, 5:00, 5:10, 5:25, and 5:45.T he institution of pace teams then could provide an alternative explanation for the bunching we observe at round numbers.

It would be easy to do, even. Restrict to marathons where the pace team spectrum is known to be of a specific type and see if the other spikes disappear. The author certainly has the data to do this, and isn't. That is suspicious.
> But is subsidizing people to be service workers for wealthy Parisians a good public policy and good use of public funds?

Given that each of us is allotted exactly 8,760 hours in a year: Is it good public policy to force non-wealthy people to spend so many more of those hours in commuting than those who can afford to live closer to their jobs?

I live in a small, separately-incorporated city, a few minutes from downtown Houston, that has become increasingly wealthy. For several decades, the affordable bungalows built in the years following 1930s have been torn down and replaced by big houses. (Yes, my wife and I did that to build our house, more than 35 years ago.) Nowadays, though, many really big single-family homes are being put up on what used to be two-, three-, and four single-house lots. I get disgruntled every time we walk by one of those giant houses, because every one of them is, in effect, forcing two or more less-wealthy families to live further away — they're hoarding the space.

(My own thought is that for big, space-hoarding houses like that, property taxes should be progressive, so that such a house might be taxed at 2X, 3X, 4X, 10X the per-foot rate of houses on smaller lots.)
Specialists Do Better Than Generalists. But Deep Generalists Do Even Better
That's completely undiscoverable.
Ugh. We're forever pinned on 3.8.1 since they broke task cancellation in 3.8.3. The handling of that is frustrating, we won't be using aio http for new projects.

https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/issues/6719
Why I Built Slick Deploy
Mercia Relay Computer
> but almost zero roles required even actual engineering background

Small anecdote: pat gelsinger, intel ceo, started as a technician at intel (iirc) at like years old or something like that.

That entry level job paid enough that he could have a roof on his head and i guess covered his university tuition?

I’m not making this up: it’s all in his book he wrote about his life (not sure I recommend the book)
My pet Mitred Conure (Leonard) loves to mess with my iPad while I'm reading. On the other had, Leonard >hates< my iPhone. If he's on my shoulder he'll engage in a agressive display waving around and violently biting my shirt. If the phone is close enough to him he will attack the phone. I'm an extremely light phone user so its not like I ignore him when using the phone, but I do expect it is the size makes it competition for his bonding with me.
take a black pvc pipe,stick one end into seawatter,add destillation collection crevices and overflowholes,put the other end up high on a hill
I find myself echoing the sentiment of Peter Woit - why on earth do people microblog technical stuff that would be infinitely nicer to read on a regular blog?
Global Founders doesn't have the capital to uphold their side of the deal this size.

Intel is investing 75 billion.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES entire market cap is 25 billion.
> Gnome is a DE designed to be used by distributions.
>
> Gnome doesn’t have an opinion on a desktop application launcher because it expects the distribution to add it.

I don't think this is true at all. Where have you read this? If GNOME intended for distributions to customize it, I can't imagine why they'd keep harping on about how custom theming is awful. See: https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2021/09/18/the-truth-they-a..., and https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2018/10/15/restyling-apps-a...

I'm honestly surprised they still support adding extensions via extensions.gnome.org.
I think white collar crime should be prosecuted, even if it might æffect me or my relatives. Is that controversial now?
Sure. On the other hand, arresting 11 specific people reduced bike theft by 90% in London: https://www.itv.com/news/2024-02-26/a-police-sting-uncovered...

When crime gets to the point where a police tactic as simple as "putting out a bait bicycle, waiting for it to get stolen, and then following it to a warehouse of stolen bicycles" results in a huge reduction of actual crime committed, then maybe the solution isn't purely about wealth inequality.
It's balanced out by laymen getting exposed to science media that constantly hypes up how mysterious, unknown, and downright magical everything is, rather than appreciating how rich the literature has become.
right, there was no country called Iraq until recently. What I meant was not a political entity but a region where the modern state of Iraq resides, so you can call it Assyria/Babylon/Roman Empire/Greek Empire/British Mandate. Same for Iran, with countless empires but the region is the same.
>However, according to him, he did not attend his graduation ceremony to receive his degrees, and therefore, he does not technically possess a BA or an MA.

Oh wow, he's probably lying about his education.
Amazon says its plastic packaging can be recycled. We found it usually isn't
That’s fine. If they can’t deal with my real opinion it’s better to end that working relationship anyways.
It's not about just ad revenue though, is it? Many thousands, if not millions of sites rely entirely on Google Search for their revenue. You cannot simply replace all of them with a chatbot - there are massive consequences to such decisions.
I'm not sure that's correct. When you install openSUSE (this was a clean install) there's a checkbox that asks if you want snapshots, which I did not enable. But either way, a fresh openSUSE install with XFCE on Btrfs rendering the computer unusable for, at least, 2 days is not okay in my book, even if snapshots were enabled.
It also, in a weird way, infantilizes and removes agency from marginalized people. You can in fact be both marginalized and honest, and most marginalized people are.
> which defines the symbols and methods exported by the package

Which are all dumped into the one single global namespace regardless if you want everything or not.

I can't remember the exact number, but tidyverse package imports literally thousands of things into your global namespace on package load, coupled with any other dependencies and you have a hell of a time figuring out where any function or constant came from.
Your pricing in absolute numbers matters more than your profit %. But your reliability, performance, S3 compatibility, customer support quality, compliance with privacy regulations matters even more.
When they originally announced tiny corp and the tinybox, the entire pitch was that AMD hardware were great, but their software was bad. [1] Now they're giving up on AMD hardware because the software is bad. Wasn't the whole point to solve that problem?

I'm hopeful for tinygrad as a piece of software, but I'm skeptical about the future of the tinybox if they keep waffling on the hardware so much.

[1] https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-t...
It is hard to set up. Creating a cert and trusting it is easy – a Powershell script can do that in 3 lines.

But then, trouble begins. You have to configure every server to use the certificate (or use a proxy) and every client to accept the certificate. Sometimes the proxies eat headers, or they have trouble with WebSockets and hot reloading or whatever.

We also use IPs instead of domains to find our locally running prod servers so that our customers don't have to configure anything DNS on their maybe-offline WiFi network. We also have to test with external devices, such as iPads. How do you automate getting your certificate onto them?

..And then your IP changes and all is lost again.

Yeah, if you have a 50 line Svelte "app" that you serve as site it's easy. But who does that?
I've replaced Lottie animations with Rive, and am pretty happy doing so thus far.
Smooth - definitely not. Continuous - yes. (SCNR.)
Show HN: Hands-On Data Engineering with a Real-Estate Project Guide
Hey HN community,

I recently pushed an update to my GitHub repo titled "Practical Data Engineering: A Hands-On Real-Estate Project Guide". This open-source project aims to tackle real-world data engineering challenges while exploring various technologies. It guides you through building a data application that collects, enriches, and visualizes real-estate data, potentially helping you find your dream property.

This project covers web scraping with Beautiful Soup, processing data with Spark and Delta Lake, visualizing with Apache Superset, and much more, all orchestrated on Kubernetes for scalability.

I started this project back in November 2020, mainly to learn and teach data engineering. Three years on, I'm fascinated by the fact that despite the data engineering space moving extremely fast, the core of my project, powered by carefully chosen tools from the Open Data Stack, remains relevant to this day. This project is my most searched blog post on Google, which motivated me to update it.

I updated to the latest versions of tools like Dagster while exploring new additions like delta-rs, which allows direct interactions with Delta Tables in Python.

https://github.com/sspaeti-com/practical-data-engineering

I look forward to your thoughts and seeing what you would build differently. My future plans are to add Rill Developer as a code-first BI tool and add DuckDB or Polars to the mix.
Well a lot of the sub-$500 petty theft are done by junkies trying to get their fix for the day, and with opiate addiction getting worse, not better, in the US, there are many of these types and the day-by-day thefts add up over the years. Throwing a repeat offender in jail for a couple weeks is often the only time a junkie will kick, so it kind of does solves the root problem for these individuals. Even some hard-ass jurisdictions have half way houses.

Source: me, an ex junkie, and had junkie friends. Go ahead and write this off as an anecdote, but it's an anecdote repeated thousands upon thousands of times.
+1. I worked remotely the past 2 years. I just RTO'd (new team) and it's life-changing when you actually want to get stuff done quickly.
I'm not sure if you're actually suggesting that the author expound further on the concept of pseudocode, or if this is just humor.
I suspect a judge could compel you to do so, in the same sense that they can compel you to not divulge that you received a warrant.

But, I guess we won't really know until a warrant canary event makes its way to the courts.
Does Nvidia have any real competition that’s already shipped?
Yes, they should have a GPT that runs other GPT's, an Universal GPT we could call it.

They do use some sort of automation according to the article

> We use a combination of automated systems, human review and user reports to find and assess GPTs that potentially violate our policies.
Looks about right, if you look at pre-covid numbers. Post covid Germany still had 60k visitors per month from Japan, and covid slashed tourism by around 80%.

https://www.tourism.jp/en/tourism-database/stats/outbound/
Don't bank apps require logging even explicitly even if the phone is unlocked?
Right? Also one "hack" I use quite a bit is to subscribe for when I need a tool and then unsubscribe when I don't. I use privacy.com to create virtual credit cards that can only be charged once, or a certain amount, or for a certain period of time.

Of course you'll need to backup your data, but honestly that's good practice anyway. I just search Google to ensure the service makes it easy to unsubscribe and easy to export your data.

Many projects have phases where you use certain tools extensively—no sense in continuing to pay for say an online video editor on the months you aren't, well, editing any video.
I get this is largely a semantic debate, but find it a little ironic so many programmers seem put off with the idea of a line count that starts at “0”.
That graph needs [citation]s. The source it cites does not mention how they obtained the figures for childcare, and a questioner in the comments asks for, and does not receive, a source for that information. The source article itself doesn't even seem to be the source, it links to yet another article. That article also doesn't seem to be the source, the source appears to be … a politician.

The childcare part — the largest and most problematic benefits cliff in the graph — appears to be specific to PA. But PA doesn't offer a monetary childcare benefit: one would have to be arguing that this is the specific dollar amount that the care is worth … which … IDK. I'd like to at least see that argument. But the vesting cliff, as depicted, doesn't line up with any of PA's cutoffs, either.

So, this graph smells of statistical lies.
> One reason people were looking for ways to lose money was that, in the U.S., there's a hard income cutoff for a health insurance subsidy at $48,560 for individuals (higher for larger households; $100,400 for a family of four). There are a number of factors that can cause the details to vary (age, location, household size, type of plan), but across all circumstances, it wouldn't have been uncommon for an individual going from one side of the cut-off to the other to have their health insurance cost increase by roughly $7200/yr. That means if an individual buying ACA insurance was going to earn $55k, they'd be better off reducing their income by $6440 and getting under the $48,560 subsidy ceiling than they are earning $55k.

Except that in real life there is no /dev/null that you can immediately pipe in exactly $6440 to hit your target.

You have to spend your time in order to achieve this reduction in AGI.

And discontinuities being discontinuous means that the number of people who have the necessary training/experience to confidently achieve this in, say, three hours, is probably in the same ballpark as people who can successfully set up encrypted email in the same amount of time.

For everyone else, it's going to take at least a week's worth of time to plan, double check, execute, triple check, etc. (And realistically double that, or more.)

At 55K, you've already spent that savings in the value of the time you gave up to get the savings.

People often make fun of free software developers for failing to properly value their own time. But at least that's not their domain of expertise. A financial hobbyist spending $2 of their time to save $1 is professional grade irony.

Edit: clarification
Hear hear! Anytime someone argues something like "I could never give up my car and live in a city! They're so noisy!" I feel like a version of that Goose meme. "NOISY FROM WHAT?"