skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought in 2010, when interest rates were low, and my payments are almost comically low by 2024 standards. BUT - the taxes are going up so fast, they've almost caught up with the actual mortgage payment (I pay as much in tax & insurance as I do for the house payment itself), and there's no end in sight.
Actual link: https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1778153659106533806

It's not a thread, no nitter needed.
Kudos to the developer, and thanks for sharing this.
China are working to build nuclear reactors that don't need water [0] by the Gobi desert (well, have built, but it isn't a commercial reactor). Project cost of around $450 million so far according to Wikipedia. That seems like a more energy-efficient approach to the low-water problem - avoid using any.

Still $75 million over 5 years is small biscuits and it'd be nice tech if they come up with something, although I'm not sure if the US DoE are really the people to be capitalising on it.

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-28/china-thorium-molten-...
A macbook is cheaper though
It's become impossible to find a coffee maker where water doesn't come into contact with plastic. There used to be a pretty decent one: Gourmia GCM4900. It had some subtle design flaws, and only lasted 5 years. (If I can buy another one, I probably can somewhat mitigate that and make it last longer)
I've seen promotional material from the stimulant industry that makes it sound that by writing a prescription a doctor is doing some magic transforming a dangerous drug (as it would be to kids who shook you down for your meds) into something health-giving, much like the priest magically transforms bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ.

Whatever else might be true about those drugs it is true that they are performance enhancing drugs for most people in many respects. There's probably nothing wrong with taking a Dexedrine and taking the day to clean your whole house from top to bottom but taking it for a lifetime is something else.

I have a friend who was one of the earliest adopters of ADHD medication and he gets a bottle of pills each month that looks as much like a small trash can as a large pill bottle and has had his teeth all rot out. He says he can't get anything done without his meds but he can't get anything done with his meds.

I'm certain he has problems of a wider scope than "ADHD" but so long as there is a system to tag kids that don't fit in with a label and that profits from a solution, other diagnoses will be neglected.
> What if the standardized tests aren't administered by the teacher? That seems like it would be an easy solution to get around the cheating problem.

In order for the test scores to be granular enough to be used as measure of performance of individual teachers, the testing would have to be done fairly often. The schools and school districts that are already lacking funds for basic stuff like maintenance and teacher and staff salaries would have hard time to pay an additional subject to administer the test.

With the frequency and volume of testing, it would likely be too costly to do the testing in an external testing facility (which most districts do not have), so it would have to be done on site. I remember my kids telling me that every time before they took a standardized test (it happens once a year around here), the teachers told them basically "we cannot give you the answers, but look around, the answers may already be there, there may be a poster hanging on the wall or something else like that that may be helpful."
Chapeau !

Proper nouns are also a good entry into newspapers; once you've read the stories reported in your L1 the parallels are easier to spot in the L2. When coding, I play pop music in languages I don't actually speak, so if you ever have recommendations (Mandarin or Cantonese, for me they're 一模一样) please send them my way.

In the old days, HK cops came in pairs, and at least one always spoke english and the other cantonese, and this was labelled somehow on their uniform. A blonde friend used to amuse herself by approaching the Cantonese partner, during which time they'd usually frantically gesticulate towards the other, and then ask some innocent question — in slangy cantonese.
Even in a fully public, NHS-like system, they do. Come to X hospital, no need to go to [big city] for your [surgery] when you can have it here - well, if they don't do this, people will go to the [big city], and if it goes on long enough, the NHS-like system will cut their funding and possibly reassign surgical specialists away due to lack of activity. That leaves the smaller city with less access to healthcare, even if it's free to the user at the point of service.

[EDIT: my karma is now 667. Would someone please remove their upvote just for a bit? A screenshot of "devilbunny (666)" from HN would be a great little digital memento.]
the guy who made it said that he found it reprehensible but wouldn't remove it, so yes promoted pedohilia by turning a blind eye in the name of "free speech"
Which elites would you say looked the other way during the French Revolution?
That doesn't quite help with the vulcan bots in the first Descent game as much because their weapons actually are hitscan, they aim ridiculously quickly, and they're often waiting behind corners or behind doors already facing you so they can pretty much immediately hit you when you open the door and/or pop out behind it.

Circle-strafing is a must in general, though.
Hello this is my first post here. I wrote this a few months ago when many in the crypto industry were speaking up about the industry getting away from its cypherpunk roots.

Arweave is a smaller community in Web3 but I believe is building web technology that stays true to the cypherpunk ideals for a decentralized web.

There is some very exciting projects in development on top of Arweave including the AO computer which will make Arweave more scalable with parallel compute.

Would love to connect with people interested in Arweave and web3.
Yikes. The lack of emotional and social maturity in the tech industry will never cease to impress me. Vlad is coming off as a big narcissist and the OP as disingenuous. If you don't want someone to email you, just block or ignore them and move on. Don't publish your private conversations for the terminally online peanut gallery.
How do these people monitor the heat output of the heatpump? Is that something you can get from the device itself?

I recently installed a Nibe S2125 in my house, it's been running great except I don't monitor electricity consumption of just the heat pump, nor do I know how to get the heating output.

I somehow doubt all these people have a specific electric meter on their heatpump, or do they? Mine runs on 400V and the meters are a bit expensive to get just for the data.
Imagine you stated online that you don't like the fact that your Uber ride data is being sold to Facebook. Then imagine someone said, "If you don't like theZuck or Googs knowing where whereabouts and who you are visiting, just walk when you need to go somewhere." Hopefully you'll realize why you are being down-voted.
I'm not an astronomer, but I believe the "mottled red" features are distant objects that are redshifted. Note that they're almost all red no matter where you zoom in. That's the evidence that space is expanding in a nutshell.
Maye people simply have fewer vacation days.

Objectively, vacation days have declined and home ownership happens later in life and people have fewer children (and more have fewer children than they want).

We're doing the same work and getting less for it.
I was thinking (and trying out) exactly the same, thanks for posting!
There are many reasons to reinvent the wheel, so I have no specific feelings about this one. In my case I will certainly stick with GNU date. But there is one command line tool which complements `date` in a very helpful way: https://www.fresse.org/dateutils/
I'll stick to using a Linux firewall.
Fascinating! Didn't know that Go was based on OSM.

This sounds like a really cool project. Thanks for your hard work.
Related:

Llm.c – LLM training in simple, pure C/CUDA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39973467
> Insulating walls had much less effect than I anticipated.

I wonder if that's due to air already being a decent insulator and walls have sizeable air voids. As long as you cut out the drafts, the air in the walls should remain a decent insulator. It's also my understanding that the draft treatments are at least as important as the insulation work which is done when retro-fitting insulation. One reason attic insulation would make a much larger difference is most homes with attics use vented soffits designed to encourage airflow. They are built to be drafty and you can't seal up those drafts without redesigning things.
When trying to close a rhetorical trap on someone, it is useful to first be sure they stepped in it.
>If the system errs on 1% of boarding passes

On a large plane that would be 2-4 people per flight.

Honestly an error rate of even .01% would be enough errors per day that your average gate agent would order ride pretty commonly.
The bag your pasta comes sealed in, was sealed by machine lubricated by PFAS

How do you buy pasta now?
It can always get worse. Lots of counties live with price to income ratio of 20. The USA is 6.
Counterpoint: a friend of mine grew up in LA. His family, consisting of his parents and his brother, took a month long road trip vacation every year. They owned a home that is now valued at around $2 million.

They did all this solely on his father’s income, which he earned as a public school teacher.

The middle class has been gutted in the past 40 years.
That sentence was right after this paragraph:

> Talking over phone is the most reliable way to announce the party, send reminders and confirmations, and to coordinate during the party. That way, there's no question of "didn't check my messages/email".

Maybe it’s different in India but here in the states, when you tell most people that you’re not coordinating with imessage/sms (or fb messenger or whatsapp), you’ll get blank stares. I’m reminded of this: http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/fault-tolerance.png
I came here just to look for this comment.
South Texas here and I have to say that the whole low-tax red state thing seems very oversold. We sure get the culture war stuff good and hard though (and even a few years ago I would have said that Texas was actually governed by the more pragmatic wing of the Republican party, but no more).
I grew up with it in Germany, dubbed of course. Late 70s.
> its a fascinating little tech-anthropology quirk that front-end/web developers use the term "CDN" to mean a different thing from how devops/sre/infra people use the term.

Do they? Same to me.

> in the strictest sense, unpkg is not a cdn. unpkg is a javascript library hosting service that uses cloudflare as a cdn.

This is just arguing over semantics. It even says on the website that unpkg CDN is powered by Cloudflare.

By your analogy if a website hosted on AWS is down, is the whole of AWS down? If I provide managed kubernetes on GCP and my service is down, does that make GKE or GCP down? No.

A CDN is a CDN just like a website is a website, whether it's backed by Wordpress, NextJs or any other thing.
I've heard that SMB-fs is "better" than FUSE. More cross-platform, can also be implemented in user-space, and less likely to get jammed up/deadlocked by slow network calls inside the kernel.
- Localized search is not a great experience

- Business listing search via maps is not a great experience. Maps and searching on maps are a more important endeavor than browser and email when thinking about the ecosystem.

- AI is definitely important but so far none of those features (afaik) have trickled down to non-ultimate users. From what I have seen, features have been removed from the regular plans.

- Remove reliance on using bing/google searches.

- Search is not a one and done operation.
_Thought_ they got high? I have ADHD and you still one hundred percent get a high from it. Maybe if you’ve been on it for years it will be hard to notice or you’ll have grown accustomed to it. But c’mon.
So basically you want to extend the luck/financial privilege that those people have had to be able to study in the US to extend to additional advantages for future visa applications. Not sure that I’d clasify that as fair, personally. As you mentioned, they already get multiple chances at a H1-B already.

Side note: my understanding is that there’s already a secondary lottery for people who hold a US masters (the advanced degree petition). If you are not selected in the first lottery, and you meet that condition, you get placed in a second lottery which has much better odds as there are far less people who meet this criteria (it also makes up almost 25% of the total H1-Bs granted). So basically each year you have 2 chances, and there are better odds for one of those chances.
Oh nice, where are these 250K houses?
Wait, one can file fraudlent applications for visa sponsorship, get caught and will not be banned for like 5 years from the system? Why? It makes no sense
ADHD meds, while they did give an amazing ability focus that I have never experienced before I took them or after I stopped, were most definitely euphoria-inducing stimulants, and they can most definitely be addictive.
As with anything, paper voting must be done correctly. There are literally hundreds of years of tweaking, bugfixing if you will, of process and method around paper voting.

Proper paper voting cannot be gamed by ballot stuffing. Voting paper has serial numbers, is guarded like a currency during creation, and like currency during transfer, has checks and bounds at both ends, is counted by representatives of all parties, the list is endless.

For example in Canada you vote, fold the form shut from prying eyes, take it to the lady with the ballot box (usually a retired person), and she detaches the two parts of the card, one she keeps, the other you deposit into the sealed ballot box under her watchful eye.

There is no chance to stuff anything extra, again members of all political parties are present, and any trickery is made doubly difficult by unknown serial number ranges at the voting station. A serial number you are assigned when your voting card is taken off of the randomized stack.

I assure you any "but... what about..." has been thought of, and any security hole you perceive is likely just me missing facts.
I have been searching[0] for something like this, so thank you!
It doesn't quite parse my original example, `14 december 11:20`. but it parses `14 december 2024 11:20`.

I was not aware GNU date could do this as well, but that also doesn't parse my original example.

A small configuration of adding your preferred timezone or reading the system timezone would be nice. The code seems simple enough that I may try to add it myself.

[0] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/79703
Dateutils
One of the main selling points of Kagi is privacy. It's featured on the main landing page, they have a page dedicated to it, and it's mentioned in pretty much every sales pitch they will make. Kagi's audience is also comprised of people who have that value as paying for a search engine means divesting from adtech surveillance.

So, it does not matter that "all search engines are problematic in terms of privacy"-- this one is marketed to not be. That's why people have concerns about how serious they're taking that committment and why people would hold them to a higher standard. It's also why a sale to a company which does not respect privacy is potentially a major issue, especially if current customer data isn't being handled in the manner they had expected.
Hey! Thanks for the feedback. The app also supports German or Turkish -> English. I’m planning to add more languages but I’m prioritizing them based the feedback I receive. When it comes to the example sentences, I can add more but I’m also waiting for WWDC24 because Apple might introduce an on-device LLM since I don’t want to have any network request from the app.
I'm just going to say it, at this point given the way these talks have gone, but Discord is a vague amorphous blob of binary code that cannot be meaningfully forked to strip out and remove unwanted functionality should the end user not share the preferences of those who populate its servers, the appeal of something like IRC being based on extensions that can be added or removed at will at the IRCD level is that in essence, It's left up to the admins to pick and choose what features their users get access to. If you don't like this, you can always create your own IRCD and configure it differently. The frustration as a Gentooist that I feel towards Discord could be summarized as That's nice that people prefer things like code snippets and the photos displaying by default but if I did not share these people's preferences I would have no means of actually stripping out this unwanted functionality from it, which is also as it turns out the appeal for me of compiling my own binaries in that GCC can be configured in such a manner that functions that you lack the hardware to support or simply realize you will never actually use can literally be stripped out of the resulting binaries, but with Discords closed source Proprietary nature if these end users had radically different preferences than I did I would not be able to meaningful with their platform opt out of being dragged along into implementing features I actually didn't want, simply because they increased the resource drain and load on my system.

These kinds of things make loathe closed source for the simple fact that with a black box you are left in a situation where, like I said, if most of the users want a feature, but you don't because it would be too demanding on your computer, you're fucked. You cannot meaningful opt out of it being implemented
we can't, you know, fork a discord lite. Because of how this works.
British plugs are humongous and unwieldy compared to all the others.

The reason that British plugs have fuses is to counteract bad decisions upstream like ring circuits with huge current capacities instead of brand circuits with small capacities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_circuit
There are some areas where it doesn't make any financial sense to own real estate in comparison to renting for the purposes of having a place to live. If you owned a few years back that would be different since you might have a 3% mortgage and have bought for 50% less than today's prices.

Many people compare a mortgage to rent but that's not a fair comparison. Homeowners should calculate an additional 10-20% of their mortgage to save for maintenance, repairs, etc. At some point major systems of the house will fail - HVAC, roof and windows are big ticket items. When you're renting you just call the landlord and say "the upstairs bathroom or the water heater or something is leaking water into the ceiling" - you are inconvenienced. If you own the place, you are acting as the general contractor attempting to triage the problem find a plumber or maybe an HVAC person, maybe they are flakey and don't show up, maybe they do good work, maybe their quotes are outrageous, etc.

Then there is just general maintenance and upkeep on top of the redecorating that most people like to do like paining rooms different colors and having more space, typically, that gets filled with stuff. You go from 3 rooms in an apartment to 7 rooms in a house and you'll definitely spend more money on filling the 4 extra rooms, maybe with stuff, maybe with people (kids) or both.
I Messed Up My Taxes. How Long Does the IRS Have to Find Me?
presumably, post US Civil War. the "Gilded Age" and all that.

Also the age of actual snake-oil salesmen and literally blowing smoke up your ass. excesses of which are best exemplified by The Jungle, the Pullman Railcar Strike, or the fact that union leader Eugene Debs got ~3% of the US national vote -- the highest ever for a socialist candidate, even now -- while in federal prison (or leading labor riots).

Or how John Company managed to take over most of India, etc.

There is an attempt to create a narrative that this is a new thing, but it's been a thing forever.
Minnesota's $500M Bus?
In other words they managed to successfully recreate most people's experience on upwork.
Thanks for that. After reading both, I'm fine with Kagi and somewhat more annoyed by the author.

Perhaps Vlad is a little excessively enthusiastic and protective of his baby. But then you don't do something frankly crazy like start a new search engine from scratch in 2023 without being a little bit off. If we actually want a viable alternative to the advertising-funded search monopolies, we've got to be tolerant of some personality quirks.

And perhaps the T-shirt gambit is a poor use of limited resources. But have any of the startups that ended up making it big not make a few poor investments on the way up? I'll forgive it.

Meanwhile, Vlad's response does spell out several ways in which this lori exaggerated or misinterpreted things. Which of course are not acknowledged or responded to at all, despite lori's self-important tone. If you want to take your ball and go home because somebody doesn't take your concerns seriously, well you can, but don't expect me to follow you.

IMO, Vlad would have been better-off making his response his own blog post somewhere rather than an e-mail exchange. But eh, at least it's out there.
what numeric metric do you use to assess that it is "working well" in Germany?
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> Sponsored green cards take like 1.5+ years to process, so someone could be OPT the whole time but the employer would have to get the application rolling quickly after hiring or else risk their employee having to go back to their home country for some period of time when OPT runs out and the green card is approved.

Add to that:

1. Some (many?) companies do not file for green cards right away, because they like to keep their employees tied down with an H1-B. I think my employer has a policy of not applying for a green card until the employee has 5 years or service or something.

2. IIRC, there are country-based quotas for employment-based green cards, so it could take very much longer than 1.5 years to get one. E.g. I think it can take 10+ years for an Indian to get one. Though I think having an active application for one is enough to stay in country for H1-B holders (though I'm even less sure about OPT holders).
There's a weird twist of fate lately -- I had a lead on a Rabbit base station and handset recently that I'm importing into the US, now this discovery? ;)

I already collect weird "personal cellular" stuff in my house -- probably one of the only running PHS home phone base stations incl. data, a bunch of NTT Personal handsets, and now this Rabbit.

It'll be very fun to make a call from a PHS handy to a Rabbit handset and vice-versa for probably the first time in the world very soon...
Not sure what you are looking for, but perhaps these thoughts can help. Better geometry understanding helps with spatial tasks. Better probability theory, discrete math, and linear algebra background helps with algo development. More broadly, being better at things that a mathematician is good at, could help tackle complicated tasks in finance, science, or engineering.
> I would have thought the risks from 3rd party production dependencies would make devs do all in their power to minimize them.

Tell that to any developer (not just web) that outsources everything these days e.g. authentication, storage, analytics, database, etc - you name it.

They think it's less risk (and this includes managers and directors in larger companies). Apparently in-house would take forever, cost more and be unable to maintain anything these days.

I don't get it either but it's the current train of thought / trend and is not tied to individual developers.