skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly the hands down most useful product across my business is Google Sheets. From tracking stuff to automating stuff, it's always a tool of first resort. Later on projects or operations will "Graduate" to a more specific saas solution, but it almost always starts in Google Sheets.

Other than that, Vercel and Figma.

I like open source/self-hosted but most of the time fiddling with running my own servers for random tools is not a good use of my time when I could be expanding or automating my business elsewhere.
Related. Others? Pretty sure there have been others...

I saw RealPage's crappy rent-jacking-up software so you don't have to - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34926683 - Feb 2023 (403 comments)

DOJ will examine whether RealPage helped landlords coordinate rent increases - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33744136 - Nov 2022 (123 comments)

RealPage and landlords illegally created a 'cartel' to set prices, lawsuit says - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33633541 - Nov 2022 (3 comments)

Lawsuit filed against rent-setting software RealPage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33317414 - Oct 2022 (50 comments)

Rent going up? One company’s algorithm could be why - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33224502 - Oct 2022 (279 comments)
Electron serves the developer not the user.

It also looks shit on every platform then.

And eats all your RAM
Musk likes to take credit for things he at most participated in.
Electric cars where already gaining traction by the time Tesla got their production in order, so if he had an impact there, its only in marketing a product you could only buy from other companies. The charger network maybe? But wasn't most of that heavily subsidized?

SpaceX's success is massively overstated, every time it's brought up. Their rockets are still not stable and if you actually tally up all the money they've received from the state, it'd be way more expensive - even adjusted to inflation - then the space shuttle launches from the nineties.

What other impact are you thinking of? The hyper loop? The solar rooftop's? His vaporware robots? The boring company? Everything turned out to be pure hype with hilariously overstated success. Or maybe the autopilot which is still only usable by people that enjoy gambling with pedestrian lives?
I thought MTIA v2 would use the mx formats https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.08007.pdf, guess they were too far along in the process to get it in this time.

Still this looks like it would make for an amazing prosumer home ai setup. Could probably fit 12 accelerators on a wall outlet with change for a cpu, would have enough memory to serve a 2T model at 4bit and reasonable dense performance for small training runs and image stuff. Potentially not costing too much to make either without having to pay for cowos or hbm.

I'd definitely buy one if they ever decided to sell it and could keep the price under like $800/accelerator.
You have completely missed the point, which is that the way in which accountants use these words is unnecessarily confusing because it does not align with the common English definitions of the words "credit" and "debit".
> The main benefit of a color eReader is for (some) PDFs, comics, etc., all of which benefit hugely from a larger screen than the Libra's 7" display. I hoped Kobo's first color reader would be at least 8", and preferably 10.3"

Same. I'm visually impaired, which means I use large print for my reflowable content. I'd love to read comics or PDFs of print magazines, but for that I'll need a display that's larger than what those are normally printed on!

Afaict there are no decent vendors offering genuinely large color e-readers— just some GPL violators' whose devices run Android.

If I can't get a super-magazine-sized e-ink display for fixed-layout content, the next best thing would be a very large one that I can put in landscape mode and fit to width, scrolling only vertically. That wouldn't be too bad, especially if refresh speed is okay-ish. For that, though, I'd still prefer something larger than my Clara 2E (which I love).
Not that it really matters I guess, but electron apps are chunky. Huge bin size and large memory usage.
Mine has no outgoing air…
People rage about Electron being insecure and bloated, but by Jove it’s a godsend for consistency and portability.
> This system was designed to last 20 to 25 years. SFMTA's director Jeffrey Tumlin said upgrading the system will take another decade and cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

This is the problem, not that they're using a floppy. This isn't web dev where you get to rewrite everything every 6 mos. Systems have to have decades long life cycles BUT THEY EVENTUALLY NEED TO BE REPLACED and that's not happening quickly enough here.

Edit: It was last updated in 1998, so it's due now not a decade from now.
I didn't "accuse" him, I said it was worth the DHS investigating. I think you understand that and are pretending not to. I feel like if I actively tried to hinder a war effort from either side, it would probably be a good idea for the DHS to investigate me. I really don't think that would be controversial either. It's not an "accusation" to investigate someone for doing something weird.

>based on no evidence

An investigation is a process in which evidence is gathered.

> You can't believe anything Elon says because he is a liar and lies "all the time

The liar part doesn't really need me to document it, you can look at nearly any keynote he's given and see a million cases where he just makes shit up. The easiest example is him talking about when self-driving cars are going to be here, or when he says "this is something we can do now".

ETA:

It's kind of uncool to add multiple paragraphs of extra text without disclosing it.

> Apparently the US media convinced people like you that Ukraine could actually win the war,

What in the fuck are you actually talking about? It's not about "winning" or "losing", where did I say that it was about Ukraine "winning" anything?

I said it was very concerning that a civilian decided to intervene in a war effort. This isn't hard, and what you're saying is verging on dishonesty, I think because you're having trouble trying to figure out justification for Elon's actions.
In all of those markets, both buyers and sellers have access to the asks and bids. For your analogy to hold, I think the market data needs to be freely available.

Does RealPage give this info freely to renters, or is it hidden behind a subscription or fee and meant for landlords only?
Not quite sure if you aware but another AI music generator just lunched today https://udio.com/
How do you rename files?
I find this type of car way more attractive than the bigger ones.
This struck a chord too, it looks so similar to the Suzuki Swift (that the guy quotes in a video), which was my first car (and I loved it)
We spend more than any nation on public services and goods. We also give the most in foreign aid.

Govt inefficiency/corruption squanders this money. E.g.,

https://www.ktvu.com/news/california-hasnt-been-tracking-hom...
I dont really see the issue?

The technology works, there is a replacement outlined, there is no shortage of floppy disks - even 5 1/4 ones.
This space is going to get very full, very fast. Udio just launched and improves upon "SOTA" Suno. This will just keep coming.

Focus on product. Give actual music producers something they'll find useful. These fad, meme products will compete on edge model capability for 99% of users and ignore serving actual music producers.

I'd like a product with more control, and it doesn't appear Suno or Udio are interested in this.
Yes before drying my clothes I'm sure to blend them to a consistent mush.
You’re right, I didn’t even think about these! I still wouldn’t include them in end-user facing features, but try are certainly necessary to be a valuable product at Twitter-scale.
I don't really know how one would be able to learn very much about writing from this book other in the basic sense of "hey: creative things can be a fun pastime, and can be relaxing if you are feeling burnt out".
It's not just healthcare though.

> paid for childcare

Plus it may be that the healthcare requirements are beyond what the market would typically provide.

Almost all employers offer some kind of healthcare benefit, but many of those are completely useless plans.
Tesla FSD v12.3.3 still runs down child mannequins. Unfixed for 1.5 years [video]
Just to get ahead of the standard comments:

1. So-and-so Tesla Youtuber/Blog/News/Influencer said that they pressed the accelerator/manipulated results which invalidates the results and shows the test are untrustworthy.

Let us examine that claim. Why would pressing the accelerator or other manipulations invalidate the results? Nobody would argue that turning on the windshield wipers or setting the cabin temperature would invalidate the results. What is special about the accelerator or other stated manipulations? The answer is that they could change the results which would invalidate a test. The actual claim the Tesla influencers are making is:

"The only reason the car would run down a child in that situation is because the accelerator was pressed/car was manipulated."

The video evidence for the last year has proven that is a bold-faced lie. Every claimed manipulation that can be caught on video has been thoroughly proven to be a outright fabrication. The car will run down children while FSD is enabled in simple circumstances when operated normally and has demonstrably done so for over a year.

The videos the Tesla influencer community point to are earlier videos that did not have sufficient clarity yet to disprove their lies so they thought they would not get caught. The newer videos with increased clarity prove them to be unrepentant liars who will fabricate whatever is convenient as long as they think they can not get caught. If any of the Tesla mouthpieces show up in the comments here to regurgitate the newest "manipulation" I will show what I mean.

2. The clearly visible child facing the road stepped out into the road at the last second, which children never do, so the laws of physics make it impossible for a car, that did not show caution and slow down when clearly visible children are by the road, to stop. So, the car had no choice but to run down the child and then continue for a few seconds to roll over the child while it is on the ground.

I think I will let that point speak for itself.
Good luck!
I just tried it and the interface was a bit confusing. It allowed me to only fill the last input in the form, which is usually a bit counterintuitive.

I presentes this prompt "Noir detective music from the 60s. Low tempo, trumpet and walking bass" and got back a one-note only song that has nothing to do with the prompt if not for some lyrics that were a bit ridiculous.

This is just feedback, I'm passionately expecting something like this to surprise me but I know it's really hard!

Happy to share the song/project/account, if you tell me how to :)
What's the ETA for the Google Drive Linux client?
Yes I did, thank you!
Aside from the lack of volume control (what is this, bandcamp.com?) I find this extremely user-friendly.
Baby Jubjub
Don't see how this can work. How would you encourage collaboration between projects when they are kind of competing for resources? How to track the 'contribution' of certain projects?

Some projects may be more important to some and less important to the others, does it mean they need to pay a subscription plus a donation to support that a specific project?

And it feels like this will become a paywall, like those academic publishers, with most of the money going to 'administrative fees' as well as legal fees.
I wonder what the “standard and widely believed computational assumptions” are. Presumably, probabilistic approximations to NP-complete problems are not polynomial-time? Or the derandomized versions would still be just approximations?
> the screen is glossy, not mat

Would a screen protector fix that? Not ideal but it might be an option.
they ain't making $$$ by scoring touchdowns -- they can't, because college ball rules.

but they can flex on endorsements, and that means having a face and body that sell.
Mechanical kitchen timer will suffice. You usually know the duration of most used programs. Doesn't need a hundred taps in the phone to get it working. Mental effort to set the timer is lower than with phone timer. You dial it and carry in a pocket. Zero distraction when you set it up or get notified -- you won't sink into the timer scrolling for half an hour. And in the end you'll get the notification.
My parents live in a village next to Fingeringhoe, which never fails to amuse my inner 8 year old, no matter how many times I’ve been there.
A comment doesn't conform to my worldview, so it has to be satire, right? Your solution is what? More government?
were talking about a tiny desktop app that wraps ffmpeg CLI. this is the perfect use case for it, over, say, VISUAL STUDIO CODE.
A nice note to not put anything you don't want other folks to see in software, even in testing.

We wrote a system for a client once. And there was a particular functionality that I had to iterate over quite a bit, trying to nail down evasive, frustrating bugs.

Needless to say, later, when the client was printing out some invoices and discovered one with several notes reading "F** F** F**!!!!", we got a phone call. We, clearly, didn't managed to scrub the DB properly when we installed it. We were graced by the fact the clients children were in during the weekend, and they felt maybe one of them had managed to add commentary to the data. "Yea! That's what it was allright! It's all fixed now!"

Anyway, software never forgets. Version control is forever. Be gentle when adding commentary to code.
You don’t, stop adding the term “engineer” to any new trendy phrase, like “prompt engineer”! It lost its meaning and it doesn’t make you look professional either, it’s like calling yourself “phones doctor!”..
At the end of the day, it keeps coming back to land values and land use. Over and over and over again. Land value tax fixes almost all of these problems - YIMBY is just a good alternative that solves some of the problems while being more easy to sell politically than a rewrite of our entire property tax system.
Hah, this reminds me of one of the first programs I wrote for personal use. My Macbook at the time had an accelerometer or gyro of some kind. So I made a program to monitor the output from that sensor, and it would send me an email when the motion stopped. I'd run the program, set the laptop on top of my running dryer, and go upstairs. In retrospect it was probably not smart to leave a laptop on top of the dryer for an hour :)
LessWrong used suno.ai , but the typical song quality is not there yet, so they had to generate 3,000-4,000 songs to get 15 good ones
Opposition to a law mandating the use of certain safety equipment is not the same thing as opposition to the safety equipment.

Here in Seattle, there used to be a bicycle helmet law. Helmets reduce the severity of injury in a crash, less severe injuries are obviously better, forcing people to run less risk is therefore justifiable: it seemed to make sense, and it was a popular law.

And yet, it was repealed. Why? Disproportional enforcement, partially - tickets were inevitably handed out primarily to poorer and more marginalized people - but the law actually made things worse for everyone by reducing the total number of riders on the road. There is safety in numbers for bicyclists, who are less likely to be hit by motorists when they are a more common sight - but the health benefit expected from riding a bicycle at all, helmet or no, is actually greater than the health benefit expected by adding a helmet. It is therefore better, both collectively and individually, if we remove every possible barrier to bicycle riding, even though some people will choose not to ride as safely as we wish they might.

Unintended consequences are a real thing, so a person can quite reasonably believe that the SawStop is a great invention which everyone should use, and that a law mandating the use of SawStop would be a bad idea.
I sympathize with Perens but I don't that this is the right approach. At least not yet.

The recent moves by the EU and the DoJ to regulate companies like Google and Apple fill me with hope that we can fix the problems that these monoliths create.

We shouldn't have to destroy something like open source to stop them from taking advantage of us.

We should just regulate away their ability to take advantage of us.
I think of it as: in 50 years it will be obvious to everyone that these things fall in the category of "health problems", because they are, similar to junk food, and we'll have a way of societally regulating the danger that is aligned with our ethics.

But we're presently in the middle of the long transition in which not everyone has figured that out yet, and in which we don't have a widely-agreed-upon moral stance on the subject that reconciles the need to do something about it with our existing value systems.

We're going to have to find it one way or the other, so the question is "when", not "if".

No doubt in 2174 we will have a bunch of new issues that are at different places in the pipeline. We'll probably be debating the ethics of mind-control implants or something. But in the meantime this one will solved.
exactly. the exact mentality i described is behind most of the government corruption. "fuck you, i got mine."
Clippy, the Fucking Clown
Nice try rvnx... or should I say... JiaTan! /sarc
> Even not so good TWS headphones are more expensive than pretty good wired headphones.

I would expect so, it's just a more complicated and expensive product to make. Even so, nowadays the difference is quite small.

> Unlike Bluetooth which you have to pray to god that it will pick the best codec, wired connection is already lossless.

I don't have to pray, there is a toggle switch for lossless audio, I just have to select it. It's easy to verify which codec is being used too, it's right there on the app.

And while a wired connection is already lossless, you can risk having a crappy amp on cheaper devices, and often you also have to deal with microphonics from your cables (especially those that have a mic built in). So while it can be as flawless as a lossless codec, it's not always.

> ... until you enable microphone, then it turns into a potato 16kHz mono stream. A successor codec was only finalized in Bluetooth 5.2 and I don't believe there are major earbuds that support LC3 yet.

Sony's headphones do support LC3 as of last week (it came in an update), but yes that's still a valid point as it's only recently being addressed.
Where I live most people have special pulley systems in their bathrooms for drying clothes. Sth like this: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61sYCKX1U6L._AC_UF1000,1...

You put your clothes there, and the next day they are dry.

Other common solution is collapsible drying racks on your balcony: https://images.morele.net/i256/12998234_0_i256.jpg

Or just clothes lines (but usually people have some backup in case it rains).

I've never seen people use powered dryers for clothes. And we get our share of rain, and in the winter it gets to -20C sometimes.
Please let's avoid repeating the most obvious flamewar for the thousandth time (if not the 10,000th by now).

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39991316.

Edit: I suppose I need to add that this is not a muskpoint, it's just the principle of HN to try not to repeat things this much. Especially when the repetition is indignation-fueled.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Nothing quite like ending with “smart move morons” to reinforce how one’s perspective is a thoughtful critical analysis, and not reactionary culture war buffoonery at all.
Thanks for the explanation, but why? Is drawing a proper button that hard comparing to a rectangle?
That is absolutely fascinating and probably why Gates and Microsoft are so heavily invested in fusion.
yeah, Sounds pretty bloodless to me.
> iOS it's in beta

And was last updated 9 months ago. I'm still paying for it but have had to switch back to using Tresorit while I wait for them to update it.
Check out what Udio can produce. It's so far ahead.

https://twitter.com/nasescobar316/status/1777481957774872704

https://twitter.com/apples_jimmy/status/1777905772384678149

https://twitter.com/HalimAlrasihi/status/1778118063138673137

https://twitter.com/AngryTomtweets/status/177811764524768059...

https://twitter.com/AngryTomtweets/status/177811769943385715...
> security needs to be the easiest path

Depends on your definition of “easiest.” It will become the easiest path to conduct business activities by throwing roadblocks into the insecure path. It will not be the “easiest” to use.

It’s the equivalent of lowering all the speed limits on every road to 10mph “out of an abundance of caution” instead of doing the hard work of determining the appropriate limits.
Yeah randomization in algorithms and crypto serve different purpose. But overall introducing randomness can allow you to do amazing things that deterministic algorithm/schemes cannot do.
It very well could be price fixing based on much of what has been talked about over the last several months about this. If RealPages is managing all of these prices for properties in a given area they are in a position to inflate prices gradually over a period of time.

It is a natural feedback loop of an algorithm like this. If it is designed to look at the properties around your location, and you try to get the most money for your property, over time those prices will go up as the algorithm tests what people are willing to pay for a given unit/building/location.

You could argue that this may have already happened with humans, but at a different pace and the algorithm is literally feeding its own inflated prices into itself.

Let's also not ignore that we are talking about housing here, there is a strong ethical side to not trying to price people out of places to live.
But all of Chrome doesn't take 6 seconds to start
I think the earliest anyones walked is 7 months.
From someone who's seen the other side... every time the engineer has to quabble over email with the permitting departments over matters such as "you sent it to the wrong bureaucrat so I'm ignoring instead of forwarding it" or "the permit admin wrote the wrong 1 of 50 Comcast subsidiaries on the paperwork so now I have to get a skip-manager's signoff" it's billed at $400/hr.
Exactly. It's insane.
Professional sharpeners have tools for testing blade conditions. We had a guy who would drop by the shop once every couple months and pickup all our used blades to service.

This is really standard fare with professional carpentry. I don't understand why so many people here are in shock at the concept of blade servicing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34074344

His resignation four weeks later.
Doesn't seem to work worldwide just UK.
One of the things I do agree with, and personally struggle with, is that the attention economy makes it incredibly easy to fill gaps with things that spark the good brain pleasure chemicals, but do not create any positive outcomes. Removing the space to process complex information, or think about ourselves and our needs/wants/desires seems to lead to a lack of capacity to think critically, at least in my own experience.

It sounds like you made more space, and that allowed you to invest more in things that interested you, which translated to being able to make a career change. I imagine that could be swapped with "thinking about how to improve one's mental well being" or "engaging with other folks to discuss things that bother you".
You just described one of his interests though. Video games and their DLC content.

Why is interest in video games not a valid interest, or somehow a worse interest than a few that you listed like wasting money, drinking, smoking, drawing dicks on wall?

Is there no chance of interest in video game modding or content creation?
Childcare is ridiculously expensive to provide too especially when you consider the infrastructure isn't there either and would need to be built.