skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Japan LITERALLY said to please stop

The article quotes one American expat living in Japan complaining about scalpers. Not a single Japanese person is quoted in the article, and even if there were, one person doesn't represent a country.

It may be a good moment to disconnect from the Internet for today.
Why were they decommissioned if they're still at near-max performance?
I mean at the very minimum there lies a great deal within our locus of control that can influence overall attractiveness. Are you in shape and well groomed? So many are not, and it’s weird that people don’t at least try to hit that Pareto inflection point within their own possible range of attractiveness, knowing, as we all do, that it makes a difference.
Yeah, I spent the money on good quality 12/3 extension cords that can safely pull more power than the circuit will deliver and have been quite happy with them. Being able to run a space heater off them is really nice in the winter.
The reason I didn't like the name when I first came across it is that I think of shaking the tree for harvesting the fruit. The fruit is what you want, not what you want to eliminate.

But it's an ok term overall.
It's interesting how throughout the paper they discuss the actual borrowing cost as the driver of low sentiment but that when it comes time to explain the jump in sentiment for January despite flat borrowing costs they quickly switch to talking about the derivative of borrowing costs:

> In January, after most of the research for this paper was completed, consumer sentiment jumped to its highest level since 2021. Although this is just one month of data, it appears consistent with our hypothesis. If high borrowing costs explain the consumer sentiment anomaly of 2023, then the recent moderation of the growth rate of borrowing costs in recent months could help consumers significantly in 2024, but further rises could prolong consumer dissatisfaction.

Am I misreading this?
Jeebus. Makes me grateful the software in a Tesla car is (so far as I’ve been able to tell in 90k miles driven) so good.
In theory, yes. Someone still needs to compile them and match them to functions etc.
> What’s impressive about bombing an embassy?

They covered that in words 6 through 17 of their comment.
Yeah… the Italian badge has to produce the Milano in Italy… absolutely crazy. Marketing guys who want to sell a Polish car should not be able to use the cultural cache built by Italy to do it.
"Iranian support for Hamas" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_support_for_Hamas
It simple actually, Iran has no impact on my life where Israel has a very negative impact on my life. I barely want to remain in the tech industry because all of the VCs are pro-genocide. My tax dollars, military and political capital all go to cover Israel. I do not think Israel should have ever been created. It does not benefit me, only harms and endangers.
Two extremist nations that will drag the world down with them.
"Internal GPS" here, but grew up navigating the deep Maine woods. Also spent time navigating a single engine over the Alaskan bush and various rally/overland races. I really like navigation, dead reck, etc. It aint wrong, takes alot of practice and interest in navigation to become fluent.
Kerodon – an online resource for homotopy-coherent mathematics
What is it called when two nations launch retaliatory attacks in self defense?
Anyone any good tips for stopping it sounding like it's writing essay answers, and flat out banning "in the realm of", delve, pivotal, multifaceted, etc?

I don't want a crap intro or waffley summary but it just can't help itself.
The current iteration of WebAssembly was always an "MVP." It's got the core instruction set and memory model to run, essentially, C programs safely and efficiently, and just enough interop with the host to get data in and out.

But it was always the plan to expand on that, and make a wider set of use cases easier and more efficient. Working directly with the DOM really requires some amount of integration with the GC that manages the DOM, for example.

The thing that makes this interesting outside the browser is the security model. Unlike typical environments used for FaaS or whatever else, it's capability based and starts from literally zero- everything a WebAssembly module can touch has to be passed in explicitly when it's instantiated. That's a lot narrower, lighter weight, and more flexible than things like containers.
doh. fixed. thanks!
So the drones aren't going through Jordan?
As a landlord, I would not approve of this tomfoolery in any of my buildings.

Safety hazards I see include: Solar panels on the roof that aren’t bolted dow; I don’t care what wind speed they’re rated for. Wires running from them to the inside of the house not in conduit and not secured. A high energy battery pack not NRTL listed. Extension cords draped through the house permanently installed (within the expansive definition of permanently installed used by the NEC)

In addition running the wires in through a cracked window creates an unacceptable risk of water damage.

That said, it’s a cool project. Just do this in a barn you own not a house I own.
Yeah, because without financial incentive, why would anyone bother to create anything?

Even without protections, creators are going to make new stuff. Without theses protections, maybe a dozen fewer lawsuits will be filed because quite frankly, most people can’t afford to pursue legal action, whether or not they’re in the right.
Glad you found out. Good job !

Also usually firewalls are not decreasing packets IP TTL which make them invisble to traceroute.

You are lucky this one does not.
What did a college education cost in 1960?

I would gladly trade WFH to be the one person supporting a family of 6. (Me, partner, two kids, two grandparents.)

The Internet's great and all (although sometimes it seems like it was a mistake), but we're so far from 1 very average person being able to support a middle class life style for 6 people.

Median income in 1960 was $5,600, which is equivalent to $60,000 today, but according to the EPI*, to provide for a family of 6, I'd need to make about $150k/yr to live in Cincinnati, Ohio (in SF it's $280k). Which isn't a lot in the FAANG world, but the point is that a very average not-very-smart person was able to provide for that many people back then.

How many very average not-very-smart unskilled people do you know make $150k/yr; how many smart people do you know that make less than that?

* https://www.epi.org/resources/budget/.
A microcosm of the wasm issue was captured in this thread:

https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git/issues/268

The community had good reasoning around implementing a web based git in JavaScript from scratch instead of compiling libgit2 to wasm.
New tidal stellar stream discovered with Gaia
the revolution option has expired and cannot be enabled anynmore
One point I resonated with is the high administrative overhead of being a doctor. I can imagine the stress of using an outdated EMR system when the time you have for each patient is so limited. I see lots of AI companies are trying to transform the MedTech industry, but I'm unsure how much of their products useful / are actually adopted by the hospitals. Maybe some experts in that space can enlighten me on that?

I also agree that running hospitals like a private business is at odds with the essence of healthcare. However, this trend might be more indicative of a broader societal shift rather than a phenomenon unique to this sector.
I stumbled upon an eerie discovery deep within GPT
Website has stopped working... because it has been posted on HN?
Can we put a massive wall around the middle east?

let them destroy eachother
How the inflamed brain becomes disconnected after a stroke
Maybe, but it's also a bigger philosophical debate between positive and negative freedoms. Do you want the freedom for businesses to operate how they want, or do you want the freedom from unfair business practices? You can't really have both.
Just submit a request, capture the response, and test it for whatever you like. Django has a test HTTP client that lets you craft whatever request you like, submit it, and captures the response. Once you have the response it's trivial to check its HTML content and its headers.
It's 2024. Here in Europe standard customer service would be: sure, need any help packing your bags?

Unless your account has a few million in it
Killing completely random people is easy (and a war crime), killing a bunch of military commanders is much harder (and a valid military operation). This was the second one.
That's some unrelated fairy tale that makes this company look no better.
Thing is, Disney has profited immensely from public domain, and then they have done everything in their power to restrict public domain as much as possible.

Works have to be released into the public domain, or there will be nothing but licensed regurgitation of the same things.
Interesting, Claude 3 Opus has been better than GPT4 for me. Mostly in that I find it does a better (and more importantly, more thorough) job of explaining things to me. For coding tasks (I'm not asking it to write code, but instead to explain topics/code/etc to me) I've found it tends to give much more nuanced answers. When I give it long text to converse about, I find Claude Opus tends to have a much deeper understanding of the content it's given, where GPT4 tends to just summarize the text at hand, whereas Claude tends to be able to extrapolate better.
The extension cord "alternate electricity system" as they call it seems particularly harrowing. You had better make sure that you know what the load rating is on each of those cords and what they are going to be supplying (or better yet, just don't do this). Unlike household wiring, there will be no breakers.
This has little to do with whether you are VC backed or bootstrapped.

The amount of effort to sustain yourself is going to be almost the same regardless of which category you are in. Either you have a category that is popular but will attract dozens of competitors no matter how small your niche is or you have a product that requires effort to market.

These days with so many no/low-code tools getting a product into market has never been easier. And that's both a positive and negative for bootstrappers.
You think of orchard owners, but that's not the image it conjures for me. I remember the neighborhood of my childhood. The fruit trees there were 90% decoration. Usually someone would pick one (1) fruit whenever they felt like getting one. Most of the fruits would never get picked at all. The ground would be full of overripe and rotting fruit, until someone could be bothered to clean it up.
Yes, so I am saying that a median income today could sustain a 6 person household if you were allowed to fix your comfort level to the level of the 60s. That is 3 more than a single median income supported in the 60s.

I am definitely not trying to paint a rose-glass view of the past. I am saying that we do have more prosperity today than we had 60 years ago.

I am also saying that we pay of a lot of time to have things that provide diminishing returns. (Ie. would you rather have flush toilets or access to facebook - style of reasoning). Maybe the famous 80% value for 20% cost is also inflating?
>not sure what the authors of this report's excuse is

Not being good at his job.
.. you're renting out part of your property, it is either a hotel/motel, or it is a rental arrangement.

Either the occupants should be protected by tenancy laws, e.g. you don't get to evict them, you must do all the stuff that comes with being a landlord/lady and ensure the space conforms to the legal requirements for such. Or it's a hotel/motel, in which case the same applies, but for the hotel/motel regulations.

You can't do what airbnb hosts do which is to pick and choose what laws apply based on convenience to them. If you have paying occupants of your property there are only two options: hotel guest (e.g. you're subject to hotel regulations) or they're a tenant, there is no such thing as a quantum occupant.

Also if you are basing your rental/hotel fees on market price, you should obviously being paying taxes (property and income) based on those market values. Why would you not be?
Great take, insightful. Highly recommend.
And mobile device battery life.
Cause you're asking me to consider something? Plus it's a forum. So I considered it and also asked you not to be a presumptuous jerk (intentionally or otherwise). That's all.
I was introduced to monkey management principles at my first job out of school. This was 1982. My boss taught it to me. Has helped me ever after.
That reduces access but it doesn't affect the demand for healthcare.

I'm in New Zealand: not a heap better than you describe. Here GPs are overworked and getting an appointment is difficult. The health system has waitlists to control access to a limited number of procedures performed in each specialty. You need to be healthy enough to pass the access requirements and for acute surgery you need to live long enough to get to the front of the queue.
Tangent: can anybody recommend a hybrid invertor that can prioritize solar over grid _without also_ prioritizing battery over grid when solar isn't available?

Context: I have a solar + battery system for backup power purposes. We have long enough grid outages every so often that make it worthwhile, and I need to keep the batteries charged in preparation for those outages. However, 98% of the time the batteries are charged and the solar power is just being wasted (there is no grid tie back here); I'd like to actually use it. The invertor (which is cheap chinese) can prioritize "renewable over grid" and thus use the solar during the day, but in this mode it then uses the batteries at night, and recharges them from grid when it runs them down; this means lots of battery cycles and also potential for backup to be foiled if the grid goes down at the wrong time.
> Your rationale sounds very much like "we shouldn't include it because the inflation rate would be higher".

What is the CPI actually used for?

To set various levers at the central bank level to manage inflation and keep the economy humming along.

One of those levers is... the Fed funds rate... which in turn influences most other interest rates.

So you'd be incorporating interest into the measurement used to set interest.
> always found the internet, even for going just to Chinese sites, to be really slow

A lot of that is because of the GFW.

MITM/TLS decryption/DPI has a massive performance overhead (and why the first question any agent based security product is ask is whether it is "in the path of traffic").

It's basically a giant version of Zscaler Private Access (ZPA)

The performance hit is a major reason why a lot of edge computing development has happened in the Chinese ecosystem (you can't guarantee stuff works with latency, so how do you solve that)

This is an older investigation (2017) by ThousandEyes about this - https://www.thousandeyes.com/blog/benchmarking-network-perfo...

Note that the infra has changed drastically since 2017.
The best piece of advice here is meta: whatever you do make bold choices. I don't like a lot of the speaker's decisions, and (aside from the memes and gifs where I do strongly agree) go the other way, and that's OK, they're still going to engage me. The number one job of the speaker is to stake out a position that might be contriversial or not universally accepted, and drive deeper thought, discussion, conversation and progress.

And practice. Please practice. That's what makes the timing impactful & the jokes work.
What do you mean by "objects are hashes?"
> Also, as a US citizen I can say unequivocally that I do not consider Iran my enemy.

Unfortunately, Iran may not have the same feelings for you.
Personally I would agree, but it's not uncommon for people to let friends/family stay at their house and contribute to expenses and rent etc, and I'm not sure how you could make a law that allowed that without airbnb changing all their marketing to "meet new friends" or similar BS to try and violate the law while claiming they think it's "legitimate".
Exploding deficits, tent cities, shit covered sidewalks, blackouts, palpable corruption, to name a few. No, I don’t think it’s limited to California, that state just kind of serves as a time machine for the rest of the country.
Do you want freedom from extortion and racketeering?
If you do, are you not against free market?

Do you want collusion and cartels to be legal? If you do, are you not against free market?

It seems the entire distinction of negative vs positive freedom is fictitious.a negative freedom can be a positive freedom when looked at from another perspective
Check out the EG4 specs from signature solar. They have been reviewed a lot by Will Prowse on youtube and it’s what I would buy.
I do not want to fight with the utility or the insurance for such work, but this made me think: Can I set up something (I have a house) in my backyard + frontyard to just charge my EV? Catch the sun when it can, and then charge the car when connected. My PG&E bill says 56% of my usage is from midnight to 6 AM which is just EV + fridge. Although I pay a low rate on that, but imagine dropping half of your usage.

I specifically pick out the EV as an example because by definition my system would never need to connect to the house or the grid, so I guess all I have is a disconnected battery (powerwall) to insure.
Sublime Text, sometimes Visual Studio Code.
If you pay a contractor more than $600 over the course of a year, you're required to file a Form 1099 with the IRS and send a copy to the contractor. That's if the contractor has provided you with a Taxpayer Identification Number (Social Security Number if it's an individual).

However, if the contractor doesn't give you the number, you, as the person hiring the contractor, are required to withhold 24% of the payment and fork it over to the IRS (the contractor can get it back if there's an overpayment at the end of the year).

That seems pretty similar.
Then to rephrase the question:

>At what point does [the poors dying in the gutter when they can't afford care] become a liability?

Never.

That's a feature (arguably the feature) of for-profit healthcare, not a bug.
What? Unchecked capitalism doesn't ensure our freedoms. Quite the opposite, unless you're talking about freedom of the rich to screw over others.
Cheap imitation building blocks are stunningly high quality nowadays and many companies offer extremely interesting sets at a fraction of the cost of real LEGO blocks.
They seem to have a consistent "voice", which is going to please some and piss off others, and that's way better than having nobody care.
It sounds like the author of this piece lives in a jurisdiction without net metering. (The UK, perhaps?)

If you have net metering, being able to push power back into the grid is a major plus.
I live in NJ in the US. The Emerald Ash Borer has decimated ash tree populations here, leaving millions of dead ash trees, many next to power lines. Electric companies are overwhelmed and slow to chop dead ones down.

Add in global warming bringing excessive intense rain storms to soften up the ground, and wind storms happening several times a year, and the result is we lose power at least once or twice a year. Some neighbors in very heavily wooded roads lose power 5+ times a year.
Meat was already expensive a year ago, it isn't unlikely that the price increased about 3.5%.

And then of course, they often report monthly numbers on an annualized basis.
I doubt many readers would know it either, but everyone has to start learning somewhere, however I'm certain almost every visitor would be able to tell it's one of two mandarin-speaking places. Regardless of one's opinions on China, it is becoming more important and wealthy and it cannot hurt to learn the names of important institutions slowly.
As someone living in NC and paying only $0.09/kwh, that $0.55/kwh in SF is just nuts to me! This setup has a 12 year payoff here...
can't you just do quoting?
This is something I highlight with the trend toward dumb phones. The input system on them sucks, it makes smart phone input look eloquent even though it is clumsy.

The idea that a lot of the time the opposite of one bad idea is another bad idea.

The Blackberry form factor is a reasonable middle way that could be explored again. Blackberry input systems but with the expanded functionality of smart phones - just adjust the app quantity/quality to your needs. There have been companies that have tried but their efforts have been clunky and with out native OS support and apps developed with it in mind, it is an uphill battle.
Attend grad school. Questions are almost always a way to try and prove how smart you are.
It is a lottery though.

My partner started a business and literally from her first ad she was inundated with customers. Now it's a $10m/year bootstrapped business. I've done exactly the same thing and had 0 customers.

If you are falling into the Hard Fact / Future Vision categories it can very hard to get customers because no one is ever looking for your product.
0x1E is the record separator, in ASCII precisely for this purpose. Too bad it’s not popular, here we’re stuck with inferior TSV/CSV
While the article probably doesn’t use UL listed equipment, I’ve found that equipment exists that does such as eg4. They run 48v which makes it legal in addition to being Ul listed. It’s typically the installation between solar panels and power inverter/converter that needs to be up to code.
Right. By virtually every metric, the average American family is materially more prosperous than they would have been in the 1960s.

Backwards movement in QoL metrics is mostly on the left tail: impoverished Americans have access to AC and refrigerators, but often live in food deserts or are subjected to perverse policies in our social safety net (e.g. welfare cliffs that punish people for working by taking away benefits that enable them to work).
When I last had a multi-day outage, we hooked our generator up to our freezer. We would run for one hour, then off for 3-4 hours. Also good schedule for making more coffee, charging phones, etc.
You can do that so long as nobody else in the area affected by the outage had the same idea and got there before you.

The last major outage (due to an ice event), I hit the stores within the first hour of the outage and they were already cleaned out of water, propane, ice, and getting rapidly cleaned out of other supplies.
> It's not wired into the meter, doesn't require a permit, etc.

This is 100% a fire hazard and would get your home insurance voided.
Seconded. The thing I’m using here is basically an EG4 knock off and I copied the wiring from the Will Prowse EG4 3000W mobile solar power guide (linked under how to) - which makes me think it’s the same board inside.
I read the title and was like, "what??? you can't do that!" - much to my long-time dismay as my hobby for many years was folding icosahedra out of Sonobe units. [0] I spent much of middle school making these out of post-it notes during class and then assembling them at home, and I explored dozens of different ways to color the vertices or faces. There weren't really any colorings that were nice both mathematically and aesthetically.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonobe
I don't really feel it does. Sure I can see the costs involved complicate things. However, doubling the cap will likely introduce some economies of scale, surely that would reduce training costs. Also capacity would grow to meet training demand; Universities are always keen for more students. Also increasing the working pool will ultimately lead to more "clinically qualified academic staff". All this might become irrelevant with technology replacing GPs/Physicians. Perhaps in 10 years time we'll be examined by robots at our local pharmacy.
Strings can contain 0x1E, so it has exactly the same issues as a tab character but with all the downsides of it not being an easy, “simple” character.