skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say 25% of the townhomes here in Ballard are row homes that share walls, the rest are townhomes with footpath sized spacing between them. It isn’t a matter of heat here in Seattle, heat pumps are efficient and insulation between homes is pretty good.

Besides cost savings, you can fit more in if you don’t have those foot paths between, but the market isn’t into it.
Basically: yes.
They could probably even just parse all comments and rewrite them. Then remove the redirects. If this feature is being used as intended these files should all be just linked to from comments and they parse the markdown anyways.

While they are at it maybe they can expire some old files that aren't referenced...
So if TikTok is forced to be sold to American conglomerate, which company is likely to take over?

Google? Great, an even larger company gets free data

Microsoft? Yuck. Pass.

Apple? Probably not a good idea to lock it behind the Apple Wall. It might have worked for Instagram in 2009-2010, but the ecosystem has lost its desire.

Twitter? Doubt this company has enough capital left to absorb the ecosystem of TT. Not even sure if there’s engineering talent left to absorb it, let alone perform the transition.
High rents are being caused by investors, which is why plenty of stock is sitting vacant. When the developer or PE purchaser financed the building they did so based on an estimate of what the building can generate in revenue. If average rent drops to 70% of what the estimate had, then the loan goes completely underwater. However, if the landlord simply refuses to rent those units at the market rate, they can pretend that the forecast value is still legit since they don't have a market signal indicating otherwise. When the loan comes due, they can maintain this fiction and roll over to another loan. Thus rent stays high despite market forces - the landlord can't afford to rent it at the actual market price or they won't be able to roll the loan over when it pops and they are forced to bankruptcy.

We have to unwind the low-interest financial ponzi schemes the Fed has propped up since 2007, otherwise there is a huge incentive not to fix the problem. Maintaining high interest for another 4 years will probably be enough to force the issue, since most commercial RE loans are pretty short.
./some_command | jq '.memory_use'

vs:

okay, run it once with head (assuming we have a --dry option...) ah, that's the column. okay cut -d"," -f0, ah whoops it's starting at 1. ah, damn, there's a weird comma in the name/quote. oh weird, that one's null, ah heck.

schemas are cool. JSON extends and builds on the UNIX idea of having things pipe and plumb well together.
Line-oriented formats, like most traditional Unix-style tools, are for human consumption. JSON is bad at that, thus gron.

On the other hand, structured output formats, like JSON, make it easier to consume with other programs. Standard formats have readily-available and commonly used libraries, whereas line parsing tends to be one-off for every program. Whether JSON is the best format for this is certainly debatable, but it is quite ubiquitous, which is a huge advantage. I doubt many folks would propose XML as a general recommendation.

Tools should have both options on their path to maturity -- both human-consumable and computer-consumable output format options.
Don't upgrade unnecessarily. Then you won't get backdoored by xz releases.

Same security industry convinces you to upgrade every 15 seconds and then sells you solutions for when those upgrades fuck you over.
I only have experience with Kobo e-readers and there you can connect the e-reader over USB and just put the epub files in the root folder.
Jesus, not only do people seriously use this but somebody bought it? The world is insane.
Buy local also data center space.
How does that works if you're just reusing off the shelf bluetooth component? (that's likely already certified)
Same as the version on their website, so it seems the TFA issue is about a future issue.
Which countries have banned TikTok and why: https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/03/14/which-countries-hav...
Hbbtv only embed the URL into the stream. The rest of the JS part came from internet still.
I find it interesting that you are so bullish on AI to replace doctors. Similar to fully autonomous driving, I think we need a leap towards GAI to really replace doctors. At the moment we see way too many failure modes that seem to be inherit in how ML systems work.

Don't get me wrong I think ML systems will be great helper systems but I don't see them replace doctors any time soon, if not for the simple reason that a person is much more likely to trust another person than an electronic system and that is actually part of both diagnostics and treatment
I’d rather use JMES Path (or jq even tho it’s messier) to restructure my data rather than some mixture of awk, sed, cut, etc.

Line output often needs restructuring in my experience, though JSON will always need it.
It's important to be aligned with your partners before you start because people rarely change what they want.

Many people are happy running a small business without much pressure.
Unix tools on newline delineated list like objects work great, but try them on dict like objects and it becomes clunky really fast. Parsing `ip` output is a good example where the data naturally lends itself to iface:attrs. Plucking the value you want by `.[.name | startswith('eth')].addr` is way easier than pulling this out with grep/awk.
Last time this happened it was either Walmart or Oracle
Lumber mill closure leaves Seeley Lake wrestling with a timberless future
If anything, cloud is shinier resume building than handrolling.

Handrolling: "wrote a few systemd services"

Cloud: put the EC2 in the VPC with an ENI and attached the EBS to connect to the RDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j0xzuh-6rY
[TikTok in China versus the United States | 60 Minutes]

This was around the time I decided that I didn't care what happened to TikTok.
It is likely that the modern optimized broiler or layer chicken breeds are much dumber than the breeds that were common earlier. It is known that most domestic animals have smaller brains than their wild ancestors and this is likely to be even more so for the more recent breeds. (Even the recent humans have smaller brains than their hunter-gatherer ancestors, presumably due to the less challenging modern life styles.)

The chickens raised by my grandparents, with which I was playing when I was a small child, had very distinct personalities. Each one of them was easily recognizable. Some appeared to enjoy to interact with me and they were very curious, while others were shy and they would run away from any human.

They were roaming freely over a very large yard with abundant and varied vegetation and insects. They were exploring it all day long, finding various kinds of food for themselves. They received from humans only a food supplement, a shelter for the night and some nests for laying eggs.
I lost my kindle (gen1, I think) recently (Someone in my neighbourhood now has the best curated collection of free fiction ever, so I'm not too sore about it).

I'll probably get a new one, but it occurred to me, with all the current excess electronics I have now on my desk (everything from PIC18Fs, esp32s to SBCs running Linux), the only thing I am missing to make my own e-reader is a large and cheap e-ink display.

Any recommendations for a large-ish e-ink display that doesn't cost an arm and a leg?
It is a bad thing bc it stifles innovation and ultimately hurts everyone but incumbent shareholders and their pocket legislators. And on the latter point it is also unlikely to be “fair”
You don't even have to go that far. TikTok isn't available in China. (There's a Chinese app that's similar, but it isn't TikTok.)
My samsung phone has the fingerprint scanner in the side power button (the only location that makes sense, IMHO). Software should be able to read gestures from this same sensor, no?

edit: Sorry, thinking out loud. A quick Google search confirms that my phone already has this feature in settings. Unfortunately, the gesture is mapped to showing/hiding the notification panel, instead of screen scrolling.
I agree completely. Anyone who has had multiple pets should be able to tell you about their individual personalities, likes and dislikes, behavioral quirks, etc. and I feel like that has to be an aspect of consciousness.
{Montana, North Dakota} --> {Washington}?
This was brilliant, I played with it longer than I really should have
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA)

https://bja.ojp.gov/program/it/privacy-civil-liberties/autho...
Thank you for bringing up metabolic psychiatry. It's an intriguing area that certainly merits further exploration. Could you share more about why you believe this approach should be prioritized?

Meanwhile you might want to take a look at our research: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01650...
Dang going around saying, "no no apply anyway" says to me that even if it is in that state, that's not what they want.

As a unknown university dropout (2001) I wouldn't feel intimidated to apply, and may well go after the next batch (have just found a cofounder). I have to trust that they'll evaluate me on merits rather than prestige.
you are an outlier and the stuff you wrote is marketing fluff
Two different issues. None of those will be great for privacy, but they’d likely be better for national security than funneling all that data straight to the CCP.

Congress sadly DNGAF about our privacy rights, but they are rightfully concerned about espionage and psyops.
Looks interesting. I'd be interested in hearing how it shaped your thinking, or what parts of your thinking.
Now do it the other way round - open up the Chinese market to American companies instead of controlling/banning them!
People generally vote for the incumbent if they happen to claim the same party affiliation. They complain for 4-6 years, then when it comes to what box they tick on the ballot, all of that is out the window. The lure of an incumbent is that they might have acquired enough markers and enough seats on various committees to help the state, when it often seems the reality is that they've probably just acquired more lobbyist friends and more incentive to stay in office no matter what. Sure, they may be corrupt and incompetent, but they've got so much influence!
It's suspicious in this single instance to suddenly care about reciprocity, having never really had a concern in the decades prior.

These people would audibly gasp if you suggested in their presence that tariffs should be equal to what China taxes US firms. Why this? Why now?
Why would it be to a conglomerate? It’s more likely that existing US investors raise extra money to just buy it and run it locally. Existing antitrust environment would make it extremely unlikely an existing consumer tech co will be allowed to buy it and non-consumer wouldn’t make sense.
great. now lets ask the other 97% in YC what school they dropped out/graduated from.
> either we give them our private signing keys,

What is their thread model exactly?
Are they aware that Android and the PlayStore is made by Google?

Besides, giving Google the keys to sign the APKs allows Google to make tailored APKs for devices with exactly the right ressources, saving bandwidth and disk space for users.
I just had a look and right now I see that VLC is shipping hundreds of KB of pngs that are going to be unused, because they are shipping pngs for all the DPIs.
A 2 year old probably means very little sleep at nights and very little quiet time in the house.

I was in a very similar situation and going someplace else to work (cafe,shared working space, wherever really) helped me a lot. It's a start. Getting out of the house helps.
Interesting read - there's a lot of progress in the open map styling scene and OSM maps with good data can make amazing maps and it has many different features [0].

It's also interesting to make maps directly from raw data (in this case that would be aerial imagery with mostly elevation data). E.g. if you find good training data you can easily make "land-cover" maps and although my example (of Austria) [1] does not have annotations (addresses, etc.), it's still nice to look at and has the benefit of being extremely compressible (compared to aerial raw imagery).

[0] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_features
[1] https://turmfalke.httpd.app/test.html
Some ideas...

> 2 years ago I had a child

Build little games and toys using JS and Raspberry Pis, or focus on spending quality time with them showing them Italy - collect bugs or leaves. There is probably a lot of overlap between what you know how to build and what a kid would love

> I am home all day long and I do not find enjoyment for what I do anymore

Do something else. Get into skateboarding or surfing or hiking or biking. Action sports can be done solo and have a built-in progression system, it can be addicting and it's nice to have a physical/active complement to your tech/computer side. It will open up more communities to you and give more content to your life, you'll meet new people too, some friends, some not! It all adds more spice to life though.

> JavaScript

Has been stagnant lately, especially with the rise of AI. This leads to my next one:

> I will be replaced by AI

Help AI replace you and then sell your solution to the AI companies, because they're actually nowhere near replacing people and the industry needs technical help bad. The JavaScript ecosystem could use a lot more AI tooling, even if they're just wrappers around Python libraries, or more examples of building LLM-based apps in JS. As someone the same age as you, with also the same number of years of professional experience, I've found the AI/LLM trend really refreshing and interesting compared to typical full-stack dev, which is so corporate and boring now.

TLDR: You seem bored more than anything, yet it sounds like you're overall taken care of and living in a pretty awesome location. You have a lot to be grateful for considering how many people are roughing it, and you have a lot in your life already that is exciting and that you can work with - you just can't see it. If you don't have coffee normally (in Italy yeah right) try having good coffee in the morning, or try a psychedelic to help you see things anew, sometimes we just need to be reminded of who we are, what we're doing.
I live in Cambridge MA near a busy arterial road that is 100% residential, with heavy of walking, bike, etc traffic near the Charles River. The speed limit is 25mph. I can sit at the intersection linked to below and watch at least 3-5 cars per light cycle run red lights. The light cycle is short and every one who commutes it daily knows that. They speed up to 40mph about 1 block to try and make the light. For every light cycle, I can count at least 1 red light run, usually 2-5. Sometimes 10+.

At this intersection: https://www.google.com/maps/place/42%C2%B021'51.6%22N+71%C2%...
It doesn’t have to be owned by a US company, it just needs to not be owned by a CCP backed entity.
Some old (pre-smart, pre-camera, chunky ones with small B&W LCD screens) cell phones had a side scrollwheel that was used for menu navigation. I think it was clickable too.

The only more modern take on that that I know of was Marshall's "audiophile" Android phone [0] from 2015, which had a side scrollwheel for volume, but not sure if it was used for navigation.

0: https://m.gsmarena.com/marshalls_new_smartphone_is_every_aud...
Codeberg: Partially Degraded Service
Indeed congested urban areas are their market. That's exactly why they are in two of the largest taxi markets (SF and LA) where it doesn't snow.

I'm not sure about barriers to entry lowering soon. First off, this is an incredibly hard problem no one else seems to have cracked (and even Waymo has a long way to go). Second, they could help influence regulation that requires extremely high safety records, mandatory sensors, etc. which could make it harder for others to compete. It's all very early though.
Yeah but what would have been the point? There were several of these, like DR-DOS and 4DOS etc. They were modestly successful but without Bill Gates' ambition and cruelty and connections, were never going to go anywhere.
I often use ChatGPT4 for technical info. It's easier then scrolling through pages whet it works. But.. the accuracy is inconsistent, to put it mildly. Sometimes it gets stuck on wrong idea.

Interesting how far LLMs can get? Looks like we are close to scale-up limit. It's technically difficult to get bigger models. The way to go probably is to add assisting sub-modules. Examples would be web search, have it already. Database of facts, similar to search. Compilers, image analyzers, etc. With this approach LLM is only responsible for generic decisions and doesn't need to be that big. No need to memorize all data. Even logic can be partially outsourced to sub-module.
Surface Dial's mutant cousin.
Honestly, of you're doing docker, might as well go full retard with k8s.

The most simple setup is a some git repo software (forgejo, gitea, goes, etc...) with hooks and client side deploy script.
Can't get more simple.
You have systemd watching.
You don't need docker at all.

Even 100Mbit/s is enough when you have nothing to show for.
There's a sufficient number of people personally doing targeted surveillance or pulling the trigger on weapons - and I'd assume that the barrier for building the tools for something is even lower than doing that yourself.
Here is the quote:

“Moore’s Law’s dead,” Huang said, referring to the standard that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years. “And the ability for Moore’s Law to deliver twice the performance at the same cost, or at the same performance, half the cost, every year and a half, is over. It’s completely over, and so the idea that a chip is going to go down in cost over time, unfortunately, is a story of the past. Computing is a not a chip problem, it’s a software and chip problem,” Huang said.

What we are seeing now are software engineers offloading computationally expensive workloads to AIA's, more and more. This is enabled through the use of libraries like PyTorch and access to HPC levels of compute that were not broadly accessible before.
I think before one knee-jerk reacts to the article, they should evaluate how their response benefits the targeted audience, small and emerging startups where (1) someone in the team is actually capable to set up the described infrastructure, and (2) there's little prospect to reach 100K monthly users (at least in the short term and to be conservative).

That's a lot of startups.

From reading comments in this thread it seems that many are completely oblivious to the complexity that the cloud can bring to an architecture. It's as though it doesn't cost any time. AWS documentation for everything that you opted in? Downloaded at night in your brain? What about Kubernetes? Just a pill away?

When I hear someone say that they're choosing the cloud for their new project because "managing" their own infra is too much, as someone who is familiar with what the author is pointing at, I wonder "what exactly is there to manage?" Are we talking about the few Python or PHP scripts that speak to Postgres and Redis? Scaling up and down? What are we talking about?

Getting to PMF first as a criteria to not consider the simpler alternatives suggested here is also a premature optimization. The author of this post is boasting a bit by saying that he can show you how to do this in less than 15 minutes and for less than 200$/m. I think it'd still be worth it if it took an entire day to set up. What kind of product are you building that can't spare a day to address your infrastructure?

If the cloud is so seamless and your project becomes so successful that it actually ends up needing all its toys, then you have nothing to worry about. When the time comes, you'll simply turn those magic keys and enter paradise.
Say more about this. I can't figure out what this means. Are you referring to the person you're responding to, or to Congress? I don't know about the parent commenter, but trade wars and economic punishments seem to be in Congress' toolbox already!
Yeah I thought of Haxe immediately. I've never used Haxe for anything serious, I know some people were using it to port Flash games, but I'm not sure if its used for more than just that.
It seems less horrible on Android than iOS at least. It is still relatively easy to sideload stuff, even on Android TVs. I manually installed ScummVM that way, it wasn’t hard.

What’s still concerning to me in the US is how the courts seem “just ok” with no reasonable ability to sideload on iPhones, giving Apple more or less unilateral authority to squash competition if they want.

I know it’s technically possible to sideload on iOS if you have a Mac and directly compile the App yourself in Xcode, but Macs are pretty expensive, and that requires understanding dev tools and the like.
Windows Store is needed for users On Windows 10/11 S mode and Windows on ARM I believe.
Are you really asking if being unconstitutional is worse than being codified and legal?

I’m not the one here cheering for demise of constitutional republic…
It's two different sets of creators -> two content pools. Also, there are many, many users outside of US or China, with their own regional content pools.
The parties only have "disputes" on a short list of wedge issues, and either side winning on those removes the that issue as a cudgel that can motivate their base.

If you look at their donors, you'll see the lines. The people who voted for it make money from the defense and intelligence industries, and the people who didn't, don't. Voting for for something majorities of the voters of both parties are against is expensive (in terms of being re-elected.) That price is paid by donors, and the media control that those donors will exercise. Which again, is why the wedge issues are needed: you're going to have to vote for those people who voted against your civil liberties if you want Democrats to pretend to protect abortion rights for another 4 years, or Republicans to pretend to end them.
Twitter was taken private at like $44B.

I've seen estimates that TikTok would be valued at $250B.

Bytedance (parent company) had $120B revenue in 2023.
They are concerned that China will weaponize the algorithm to promote anti-Taiwan, anti-Ukraine, anti-Israel, pro-China narratives, and other socially divisive content (and other future issues)
From the horse's mouth:

"I had some input on our open source policy but I had no direct technical input on Llama-3"

https://x.com/ylecun/status/1781749833981673741
I think you're missing the point of my comment. When HIV and AIDS were first spreading, nobody knew what it was and it took quite a long time before there was even any acknowledgement that something was wrong. There simply wouldn't be time to invent countermeasures if HIV were airborne, because all the scientists would be dying/dead already, because AIDS doesn't kill the patient immediately, or quickly. If it had been airborne in the early 1980s, it would have spread far and wide quickly, and practically everyone on the planet would have had it within a few months or a year. And we didn't have the same medical tech back then that we do now.
I’m not comfortable with this.

I understand that TikTok may represent a national security concern but it’s also a platform that younger generations use for protected speech. What’s the message that we’re sending to this group?