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Net migration in Ireland is 2x the number of new dwellings. Similar thing going on in Canada, Australia and UK. Even if I believed you that there wasn't a shortage 3 years ago, there has to be a shortage now by the most elementary logic (pigeon hole principle).

This combines with the trend towards increased urbanization, creating a relative shortage near major cities where the jobs are located, which, no coincidence, is also where there's the rental crisis.

But you then point to vacancies as the explanation. Yet vacancy rate changes are inversely correlated to rent changes in some places. This proves that vacancies do not explain the increase in rents we've observed. What other reason can you offer to justify the connection between investors and rent, other than the vague "financial shenanigans"?
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In SF, all the Waymo rides I've taken are completely autonomous... no watchers in the car. This has been the regular mode of operation here for quite awhile.

This isn't to say you won't see Waymo cars with drivers/watchers, but most of those seem to be transiting areas were they don't operate.
I use the expandable storage on my tablet pretty much only when I travel. Then it's loaded with movies and TV shows.
How do you deal with hardware management? It seems that at this scale, hardware does not break often enough to warrant full-time system administrator position. However when hardware breaks, you need to fix it ASAP, you can't spend time looking for someone on the market for one-off job.
You should go to the gym and do yoga so your core isn’t so weak. If you can’t even pick up a person or move a couch you have some serious strength problems.
> YC will proudly tell you that you are more likely to end up with a billion dollar business if you join them. That may be true. What they’re more reluctant to tell you is that only about 50 companies met that expectation out of the 4,000 or so that went through their program. That’s 1.25%. To be fair, that’s actually quite impressive, but let’s say you have the stamina and willpower to go through YC three times in your lifetime. You’d need approximately 26 lifetimes to hit the jackpot! See the problem now?

No. Those are frankly astonishing odds, and success exists on a spectrum between the extrema of abject failure and a billion-dollar business. Framing outcomes as one of two, mutually exclusive states feels disingenuous. (Also, minor nit: that's not how probability works.)

I'm ignorant of the startup space, so the author's conclusions might be generally accurate. I don't know. But the piece sets off red flags for me, so I'm distrustful of it. Kudos for introducing me to the concept of ergodicity, though!
Runway incursions happen with extreme regularity, if perhaps not every day.

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good to know, I'm new here!
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I’m no game developer but the thought of being able to share unreal engine games without downloading them is really really cool. Thank you for this!
Nazis believed that they would make the whole world better. Both ideologies explicitly stated that the world is better without some groups of humans. And both USSR and Third Reich were murderous regimes with global ambitions and little regard for human life.
Ask HN: Preserving Universal Analytics Data
What solutions are people using to preserve data from Google's Analytics old Universal Analytics?

GA4 is setup, but I'd like to be able to keep the old UA data in a format I can query. BigQuery integration isn't available unless you have a Google Marketing paid account.
I really can't imagine any circumstance where the European Commission is ok with Apple charging competitors for the privilege of competing with them, in a market explicitly mandated by the DMA.

AltStore or Epic complying with Apple's current dubious terms makes no real difference.
sure that's one way of putting it. but the robots definitely get in the way of people, there's turmoil in SF because of robotaxis, and robotaxis have caused severe injuries. so - with that being the risk i would be ok with being a bit slow to the market to ensure that tech is in a better state.

like, you getting access to gmail beta as soon as it came out is a much different risk surface than a 4 ton metal thing going fast on the roads
I think it would be too confusing to have a third state:

- manual driving

- supervised autopilot

- unsupervised autopilot
+1 for running Whisper locally, but check out Assembly AI too: https://www.assemblyai.com/pricing
Far less if the personalization and recommendation system isn’t included.
Should we apply? https://www.movably.com/
You must be new to mobile, and Apple, and notarisation. I can build and install it myself, but even with a developer account it's a hassle. The key problem with iOS app distribution isn't alternate app stores--it's enabling end users to run their own apps on their own devices without timeouts or jumping through hoops, and nobody seems interested in fixing that.
_(President of VideoLAN here)_

The remark here is that AppStores have so much power that they are forcing limiting rules, and few people complain, because they have no choices.

On Android, we can either give Google our private (!) key or not support existing Android versions, and there is (as usual for Google) no one to discuss this with.

On Windows, they changed soo many times the backend of their store, that even with support from the top of the hierarchy, we cannot even update our desktop apps (change a URL, not even a binary…)

Apple, so far, is less annoying, but to support old versions (iOS9 or 10) is an always on battle.

Apple AppStores does not allow GPL, Microsoft does not allow GPLv3 and Unity does not even allow LGPL…

It’s very frustrating and time consuming, but because we don’t make money out of those, and we are on more platforms than anyone, we can complain publically…
Yes, commodity. That doesn't mean anyone bothered to hire for that skill at your employers, but you can go out and hire this skill by the hour from any number of providers.

The same problem of teams lacking ops skills exists in companies doing cloud stuff too - often because they've bought the fiction that cloud doesn't need devops.
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Queue Bugs Bunny saying No with extra sass.
I think by design of the ecosystem it makes the most sense for apps that can't be on the main store.

That would be emulators, uncensored social media, probably apps that do not meet the NSFW policy of the App Store... that kind of thing.

I'm not sure we'll see user-enabling apps for proprietary services like newpipe, because it's still a store, so corporate censorship is to be expected. In that sense, it is far inferior to a true, no store, side-loading ability like on Android, where you can freely install any application you want.

I've managed to get almost all my apps (sans Google apps and banking) to autoupdate through Obtainium on Android. It really feels like the future.
Apple changed the rule to allow Gameboy emulators on the App Store days before the Alt Store went live. So even if you don't install the Alt Store, that's already a benefit for everyone.

Competition is a good thing.
Even then. No one is not sending their kid to college or missing out on a meal because they had to donate to Wikipedia/WMF. The site is free on principle and it’s fantastic. All donations are voluntary. Is it really that big of an issue that some executive bought a sailing boat or some expensive whiskeys from some of this money?
Did they? Can you share the source of this information?
It's neat, but I have a feeling this will result in very large downloads and long load times. Like the Unity WebGL exports of the past.

The car example https://car.tiwsamples.com/ took 120 seconds to load, making 1820 network requests, and transferred 392MB of data / 487MB decompressed.

You can deliver a significantly better user experience by building for the web directly.
I am not an expert on this either, although very interested. Note that delimited continuations, which are a superset of coroutines are identical to effects in the sense of yielding control to the handler, not the caller. In languages like Racket/Scheme which allows associating tags with handlers, you can also model the same function having multiple effects.

In general, coroutines seem vastly easier to understand/type compared to effects unless your language can do a lot of effect inference.
OP has a history of railing against YC, largely for engagement's sake:

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Advassallo%20YC&src=typed...

(I have never applied to YC — my closest affiliation is that I reviewed YC applications for prospective applicants while at Stripe — but I do find engagement farming really annoying.)
No thanks. I've applied every year for the first ten years since I was 20 and have not received any feedback on my rejections. The only times I did not apply, I went on to raise series A & B. I've seen friends get accepted with nothing but an idea and a Stanford degree.
The reasoning is a bit reductive, it makes sense if you think of success as binary (you become a billionaire or you don’t, which in fairness is what yc and many VC firms push).

Obviously you can fail to become a billionaire and make some non life changing amount of money and even make what to a lot of people is life changing, but for this outcome (which is still uncommon) you would be better off not trying to become a billionaire.
> inductive reasoning

Who said anything about inductive reasoning? I'm defending empiricism, not induction. Induction is just flat-out wrong.
For me, it's more like a check and balance that isn't always engaged. When I catch a baseball, it is totally decoupled and the catch is automatic. But if I am composing a class, debugging, and similar, it is heavily engaged in thinking through edge cases, etc on the fly.
Got myself USB pedals on Amazon specifically for Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V and quickly got addicted.
Yes, I agree. I think most philosophers are just gazing at their navels.
The title of the post indicates you should.
My last Samsung with a back-mounted fingerprint sensor (A40) could do that (there was an option in the settings to enable scrolling with the fingerprint sensor).
Kubernetes. No, seriously.

It's an orchestration tool that's common in the real world, and also notoriously hard to learn and "get right". Downtime due to obvious, important mistakes is common, and it leaves both engineers and lower management wondering if it was a good idea to adopt.

The thing is, in your home environment, you have no (or hopefully significantly lower) uptime requirements. If you break the entire cluster for a few days, because you ran into a network problem or upgraded it wrong, who cares? That's a potentially hundred-thousand-dollar learning opportunity at a large organization, for just the cost of electricity in your home.

For what it's worth, I run Kubernetes both in my day job and in my home lab. I've learned more about networking from running my own cluster on bare metal (HP DL360 boxes) than I have from ten years of managing infrastructure for bigcorp's, and it also gives me a safe place to play with functionality that I might want to adopt at work.
lol, sounds like a good thing to me
Seems this requires an AppleID. So is there no way to sideload without one?
There is no need to miss data. Node.ja has enough ways to avoid that.
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You can't avoid learning another programming language if you want to describe your setup in such a way that a computer can recreate it.

But you can easily fall into the trap of having a bazillion underspecified informal languages if you try cobbling together bash scripts, dockerfiles, and whatever other thing you need ad-hoc.

Nix is probably a good investment in that light. My personal concern is that it moves rather fast, and some things should run themselves and stay secure without being touched more than once a year.
Can you please clarify what your problem with that is? I really enjoyed that show, and as long as it's clearly age-rated and doesn't appear on my kid's profile, I couldn't care less if it's under the Disney+ offering.
what does "your distro" mean here? the distro in the container, or the container host, or the client host?

containers are just a packaging/isolation technique. you can keep using an obsolete stack in a container, regardless of what changes outside it. rebuilding containers from scratch is certainly not easier than rebuilding an install via ansible.
Great to see Opus mentioned, it has been my file manager of choice for many years now.
There are definitely pros and cons, just like there is for using web-first 3D frameworks and engines. In terms of Unreal, asset streaming is a must and helps significantly here. Also, these demos are going to continue to be optimized for file size/load time, so you can expect speedups over what we've currently made available.

This represents a way for Unreal developers to export their authored content to the web. It is an option, but is by no means the only way to do 3D in the browser. What web native frameworks lack is the rich functionality that comes with game engines such as Unity and Unreal.
Agreed. YC from my POV is attractive not for the money but the motivation. The peer influence (encouragement, competition, accountability) is what I feel would improve my chances of building something amazing.

But I can’t disagree with the Tweet’s argument that what’s good for YC (swinging for home runs) isn’t good for the vast majority of founders (but it is what those founders want, and why the lottery is a thing).
As the US is pushed out, who takes our place? Russia, China, and autocratic regimes. We're witnessing a shift in the global world order.
I guess community of it died also because of how difficult/rare jailbreaks got, with some significant time of droughts between jailbreaks. Also jailbreaks had too many downsides; some apps would be too invasive, crash the Springboard, some secure apps (bank etc) wouldn't run, iirc updates weren't possible or hard to do, "tethered" jailbreaks required restoring them each time you reboot etc. etc. Too much day-to-day fighting against the system at the end.

Alternative stores OTOH have a lot more promise, if Apple can't manage to kill them through malicious compliance. They have a lower barrier of entry, and most downsides of JB don't apply either.
Pretty sure the references to Bob Lazar were in jest.
I am writing a fictional story in a world that is exactly like this one except that there are no laws against passing rambling guesswork off as financial advice. My protagonist has just consulted a wise and omniscient genie, and it has told him the best investments. What did the genie say?
And a startup doesn't need to make 1 billion per year to be a success. How about one that makes 100 million? or even 10 million? If the company is sold, the founders will be rich (not ultra rich, but have a million or more).

And, for ycombinator, the number of "startup exits" is: 351 (according to this page: https://explodingtopics.com/blog/startup-stats). Am no expert at startups, but this may mean that out of the 4000 that when through ycombinator, ~9% where valuable enough for investors to take profit. That sound pretty good to me.
Check out Proxmox + https://tteck.github.io/Proxmox/ + lxc container snapshots on the NAS and set up Proxmox backup server on the Pi. I find such a setup to be "all benefit, no giving up anything", contrary to NixOS.
> 450GB is 450 TRILLION characters.

450GB is ~450•10^9 B (~ to handle the fact that it might be GiB), which is 450 billion bytes in the short scale (450 thousand million/450 milliard in the long scale).

1B may or may not equal 1 character depending on your encoding, but 1000 characters per byte is unlikely.
If the above article piques your curiosity about Kaprekar's constant (6174), I wrote a blog post[1] last month that goes into some depth and has some nice visualizations.

[1]: https://www.oranlooney.com/post/kaprekar/
I just watch YouTube
The main advantage of using a new and constant token for reasoning is that, while we would pay the full price during training, in the inference phase, we could do most, if not all, the "reasoning" in one shot, without having to feed one generation token at a time.
This. K8s in the small is easy to set up and a great way to abstract your setup n differences from your apps.
I just torrent. Why pay for new shows when there are literally hundreds of great shows and movies from years ago that I never got around to watching?

There is a massive over supply of content. Much more to do with Corporations dumping cash into the content economy to fight with each other over finite Attention, than it has anything to do with content, the creative class or the quality of content generated.

People have not really theorized what happens when Total Available Attention doesn't grow at the rate content does. When supply over runs demand price should drop to zero. Chaos and randomness shall prevail until we have better Attention Allocation theories.
Weird flashback to reading on Ceefax in 1988 that Feynman had died.
With all the retail investor mania of lately and so much money on tech people, perhaps we could do a sort of startup Olympics with bets.

Founders and teams could publish their terms and what they offer in stock. It could be a decreasing function of price of shares with early birds getting cheaper shares. And open source due diligence. Make it a big show to get free promotion for the startups and opportunities.

But the SV VCs would probably try to sabotage it and Wall St. would probably throw their SEC attack dogs. Perhaps it could thrive in a less compromised country like Singapore or Switzerland.
+1 to this. I run Ubuntu 22.04 with microk8s. Keep all my yaml files in a local git repo, figured out how to hook up my NAS to provide storage via nfs.

It's definitely gone down a few times, but I've learned a TON tinkering with it. super easy to spin up a new hobby project, a nice web UI for seeing what the heck is going on.

I've completely borked it a couple times and survived one micro pc migration. Can't recommend it more
Nope, unless you disable JavaScript.
it's hard to argue that it's incorrect.

That is my argument though. Dominance hierarchies are one foundational lens through which to view the world, yes I agree. However, it is not the only one, and if you were to use that lens to try to understand, for example, my motivations and my life choices, you would come to incorrect conclusions. It is possible to interpret my life choices through the lens of ego-driven pursuit of dominance, but that interpretation will not lead to an accurate understanding. You can overfit that model to my life, but it will not have predictive power because it is fundamentally an incorrect model through which to understand my motivations.
> JSON is literally key=value, just nested.

The nature of being nested, and also containing structures like lists, maps, etc. All of which makes it more complicated than key=value.

> The question was "What's not to like [about JSON output from cmdline tools]?" and the answer is that it's cumbersome to read in a shell and all but requires another pipeline stage.

It depends on the intended use for your shell program. If you intend the CLI tool to be used in CI pipelines (eg. your CLI tool's output is being read by an automated process on a computer) and the data it outputs is more complicated than a simple key=value, JSON is great for that. Your CI program can pipe to jq. You as a human can pipe to jq, though I agree it's somewhat less desirable. Though just piping to jq without any arguments pretty prints it for you which also makes it fairly readable for humans.

> so I'm not sure where this hostility in the replies comes from

You're reading into hostility where there isn't any.
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I did too! I bought the smallest size and at $30 it is pricier than some alternatives but it feels nice to buy a real product instead of a knockoff with a random brand name. If memory serves me correctly, most of them also don't go in the "right direction" in regards to how time moves on the clock.
I think everyone in the UK in the 80s and 90s were taking those crazy trips to NYC and Orlando from Teletext. You'd check every day to see how insane the prices had got. I remember people going to just fill suitcases with things like Levi's jeans which were massively over-priced in Europe.
Where do I even start? Let's first reiterate that even when it's technically legal to screw over non-citizens, it doesn't make it right. That's not the standard expected of a free nation.

But let's ignore that for a moment and move on to the next point. Your example is still hoovering up communications from citizens who are supposed to be protected by due process of law. En masse. How does this not run afoul of the law?

The problem is compounded by the fact that the internet blurs geographical borders. Wholly domestic communications can and does end up crossing borders. Also, I'd bet a large part of our communications aren't even between people. The majority of the traffic likely are sent to or from computer programs. They happen without most people even realizing it, but contains highly personal information. The simple telegraph analogy doesn't translate well to the internet.

What's more, there's currently no meaningful system in place to prevent abuse. And no, a rubber stamp court authorizing dragnet surveillance isn't it.
Do you think scooter riders would even be on the sidewalk dodging trees and pedestrians if they could using the road safely?
https://archive.is/bbFJV
Firstly, if you need to fix hardware ASAP, you're dangerously underprivisoned. You avoid that either by having excess capacity - it's still cheaper than cloud unless you ridiculously overprovision - or you pick a provider that also offers managed servers or cloud servers, and fall back on using that for elasticity (this, incidentally, makes public cloud even less attractive cost-wise - being able to tie in VMs or managed servers into your infra to handle spikes means you can run your own servers far closer to capacity, and so the cost per unit of compute drops dramatically).

But when you do need to, any colo provider offers "remote hands" and 24/7 staffing, so if you want you can usually have your server shipped straight to the data centre and just raise a ticket to have them rack and connect it.

I have also been second level support for companies for this - getting people, or companies, on retainer separate from the data centre operator, to handle all your ops needs including going out to the data centre in the middle of the night to fix issues their on-site staff can't, is a service you trivially buy.

But any reasonable setup these days will have IPMI and/or network boot, so you can have it slotted in an automatically boot into an installer image providing remote access to complete the setup, as well as to power cycle servers and check console output, so hands-on access is rarely needed beyond the initial racking, pulling and replacing hot-swappable drives, or eventual removal.

In practice, last time I had racks where we owned the servers as opposed to managed servers where none of this was our problem (still vastly cheaper than public cloud, though somewhat less flexible if you want it to remain cheap), it took on average a fraction of a day per year per rack time spent dealing with anything lower level than our orchestration layer. I tracked the time, and it remained fairly stable over many years, including in cases where our rack costs were so low that it was justified to keep servers in the racks years past the point where they'd been written off.
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