skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pure speculation and rent seeking doesn't really do anything but leach of someone's else effort. Wealth doesn't appear out of thin air, it was created somehow. In the case of Cupertino, Asian immigrants from the 80s as well as the obvious tech scene made it a desirable place to live. Not everyone just bought property and sat on it just waiting for something to happen, people had to actually make it happen.

I guess if you want to make money as a speculator/rent seeker, you look for people doing things to improve and then take a bet that things will get better than other speculators think. But you are relying on other people doing the work for you, which is risky.
Yes? Like shitting is OK as long as you do it in a toilet, and not on the sidewalk.
well wholesale copper line rental in the uk is under £10 a month, and that includes capex pay back. So it is possible for an internet service but it will probably not be enough to allow for much if any allocation of the capex payback. (and that is sort of OK if you are able to take a position that they would never of taken a full price service anyway. 1 dollar a month back to the capex of building out to that house is better than 0)
Yep, I agree with that response completely. That whole thread is a great read about the reality of the passkey situation, and what it will take to really make it great.
It is pure Creatine. This is definitely an above average result from the supplement, from what I understand. Probably from some sort of deficiency in the long chain of reactions that make it. My bet is that the sleep deficiency measured in this study is also impacting when of the reactions too. I wish it was easier to measure these things to actually know for sure.
It could be!

But I think one lesson is that internet and other utilities are not quite as functionally comparable as people claim. Per capita consumption of water has not quadruped in the last 10 years, but home internet has! So the case for internet as a public utility will be stronger when the need for constantly upgrading infrastructure plateaus.
This was in 2017 before a lot of tech moved to ATX. Back then it was IBM, Rackspace and a few startups + remote folks. Oracles offers were incredulously low even at that time.
In the UK, you can be held liable for stating a reasonable conclusion based on the facts available to you after reasonable investigation that turns out to be (viewed by a court as) false, while in the US there must in any defamation case be some degree of fault as well as falsity.
Such being the case, a person recklessly endangering your life can and will be held to account. Im afraid human lives perishing because of a bug in the software is less than tolerable. Who can hold the software to account? The court? Internal QA?

If these systems actually did the hard part of driving, avoid crashes with super-human reaction times - then they would be extremely valuable. But that's not the case and they are essentially worthless. Might as well hire a driver for you of you feel driving isn't for you. Save you and the whole planet the trouble until these systems actually do the stuff that matters.
this is a parody right?

they've literally put the group of foxes in charge of the hen house
I think marketing folks like to send emails from a different domain so they can send transactional and marketing emails from different domains altogether (not just subdomains). Not sure if this is evidence based or just plain voo doo / monkey-see-monkey-do but I’ve read this in multiple places. But of course, that doesn’t apply here.
They did

> enough issues to chew on for years ranging from fair use, to copyright, worker's rights, deepfakes, the explosion of misinformation, etc. etc.
Python and PHP weren't VC-funded projects.
Upvoted.

I thought BT was owned by the government (particularly because every ISP ends up renting from them).

I still think that a centralized network that is rented out ends up working better than one that's deployed by different ISPs.
I have never heard a non-electrified bicycle referred to as "acoustic" before and I love that so much. :)
I felt the same way with Ubuntu. It was so frustrating. I was also considering moving to Debian or Fedora but a few years ago I ended up cracking the shits with Ubuntu and installed Mint for my daily driver just to finally move on and I've loved Mint and never felt that friction that makes me want to try other distros. I was originally intending to use Mint as a stop gap until I could be bothered with Fedora oops lol

It's got sane defaults with great configurability, and the familiarity (and popularity) that comes worth being Ubuntu based helps, of course. It has been great for me and all the people IRL who I have encouraged to install it.
https://archive.is/5lyRR
I don't disagree.

Pragmatic considerations tend to win over ideological ones though.

Consider Java's success.
Anarchist Library not The Anarchist Cookbook, silly.
Last mile ISPs bring your traffic between your house and an internet exchange somewhere in the nearest major city. Transit ISPs bring it from there to some other internet exchange in a different city where the opposite endpoint is. The premise here is that the government would handle the physical part of the last mile and then customers would either buy "internet service" from a transit ISP or from someone reselling transit because the transit provider doesn't want to deal with customer support and retail billing.
Drug use is ok as long as you are not harming/impeding the public.

Children shouldn't be afraid to walk down the street because it is filled with zombified addicts.

We don't allow public nudity, hate speech, etc etc.

You should be allowed to do as you wish in your private residence, as long as you are not harming society.
I suppose the underlying modality does not matter too much if it is about learning per se
This seems like a specific feature to NYC.
That’s not contradictory with what I said. I said that when people switch they gain weight.

Vegans and vegetarians are more health conscious than non-vegans and vegetarians so you can’t compare them like that. It’s like when they said that Diet Coke makes you fat because the average Diet Coke drinker is fatter than the average Coke drinker. But it’s really just because skinny people don’t worry about drinking calories.

Most people don’t switch from meat to nuts and legumes, they switch to baked goods.

There is also no scientific evidence whatsoever that switching to plant-based diets is good for your health. You should read outlive by Dr. Peter Atilla. As he points out, the only thing we know for sure is too many calories is bad. For almost anything else, it’s impossible to tease out correlation from causation.
I think outside of silicon valley (and companies emulating that culture), US companies still give coding problems but they're usually not leetcode style, more of just an implementation problem, if that makes sense. Instead of checking that you have some obscure algorithm memorized they simply want to see you code a bit.
As much as the headline leads to satirization, I think this is a good thing. I’d much rather have someone who’s leading the forefront of a technical innovation on the board than not. At least they can participate and inform the board what is being done and what isn’t being done. What can be changed and what we don’t yet have the tools to do.

A board that has Sam Altman on it is going to be much better able to craft safety guidance for the use and misuse of AI than a board that doesn’t have access to such a domain expert.

Just, you know, don’t give him veto power.
It's a cyclical problem.

The people / companies using it to hire will tend to hire people who studied leetcode.

The companies that don't use leetcode / don't use it as a strong signal will continue not using it.

In my opinion, leetcode is a poor signal if used as a binary decision ("were they right or wrong?"). The more important thing is communication and how they worked through the problem. I've heard this multiple places and I absolutely agree: attitude over aptitude. You can teach knowledge, you can't teach attitude or ability to problem solve.

The companies that use them as a strong signal are the ones that will be absolutely demolished in engineering because they are on a fast track for a staff full of rote memorization rather than strong creative problem solving. They'll be handicapped when it comes to solving problems that aren't covered by leetcode because no one there bothered to learn it.
to me, total war today would include all nuclear weapons, which would alter that horrifying scale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Rob_Ford_crack_vid...
Hoping that one of them will be a consumer hit… but will the consumer want it?
There is plenty of hate speech towards non-believers if you look a little bit for it. In fact, I'd even say that as unfunny and overseen atheists memes are, they are the most tame of all religious critic online.
Here's a paywall free link to the article. Enjoy!
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/21/style/scams-identity-thef...
I meant public customer service, but, point taken.
Some company somewhere has mission critical software running on Dos 4.0.
Yeah, meditation as a practice seems kind of this "holier than thou" thing that I seem to not get. I get annoyed, impatient, frustrated trying to follow the guidelines. I have tried different things such as Mindspace, guided meditation, random YouTube videos and other things. They all just feel so boring and frustrating. Is it a flaw with me that I find them so boring? That I can't handle it?

However what I think has helped me is actually observing my negative thoughts or someone questioning those thoughts - in the "so what?" sense. I am worried or having negative thoughts - and there's this idea of "so what?" and reframing it.

I'm scared of failing at something or saying the wrong thing. So what if I fail? This will continue in to further ideas of how the failure might impact my life and "so what's" after that until I can't complain anymore. At certain point I am forced to find my negative thoughts ridiculous.
Would it be possible to create a generic way to script Bevy? I'm sure there are a lot of people who are going to want to use C#, C++, or something else. I could imagine running a runtime in-process and Bevy communicating with it over a socket.
> You just hang out in a room and are generally sad

Without the party afterward? Most of the funerals I've been to here in the Eastern US involve feeling sad during the service and/or burial, and then a reception afterward where the mood lightens and you have a good time celebrating the person.
You are right.

But, let's complete the idea to make it bulletproof.

Regardless of moving goalposts due to changing definitions, the luxury belief still remains:

Reallocate (vs defund) police still moves funds around. Funds are not infinite.

- Less police means more crime. This means fewer personnel to combat crime. Crime strikes directly at the poorest.

- Less police means more mental care. This means more personnel and facilities to combat mental cases. This had been tried already, with no meaningful decrease in mental problems.
Passkeys are a godsend when compared to weak passwords and SMS 2FA. Try to think through how to protect a bank account or retirement account for the average consumer, some banks send you a OTP and have you read it back to prove who you are when you call CS, some think the OTP is sacrosanct and will never be read back.

I 100% agree with you but there has to be something for regular consumers to safely log into a website that may have 10s or 100s of thousands of dollars on the other side of it, and be secure.
I would like to try exponent, but the only free "lessons" I see are the intros to each section. I want to see a real, representative sample of the content I'd get before I'm willing to open my wallet.
Then they see the rest of your browsing history
supreme commanders very high unit cap leads to crazy end games. it allows your economy to grow exponentially for the entire game. which has a big impact on late game strategy
And Spectrum has interruptions all the time.
Totally agree

My unpopular programming opinion: languages aren't that interesting to me

I'm much more interested in the problem being solved and algorithms in the abstract sense
> Or maybe it takes a formal learning path.

I think it's the key. Learning maths isn't something you can do on the side. It's countless hours of intensive active learning and problem solving. I don't see how it can be done outside an academic path. I remember my undergraduate program, we had 14 hours of class of maths alone a week, plus a 4-hours exam every other Saturday, and I was working several hours a day on top of this, most days of the week.

Maths can be fun, but who wants to do that kind of effort for the pure joy of learning?
Love it! Technique is memory, those who espouse abstraction have forgotten their own humble beginnings.
CATL's 1,000-km LFP EV battery super-charges at 1 km/sec
"It's fine, I'm not doing anything wrong, so it won't hurt me"
It's not doxxing to call out people for their public actions. It's attribution.
I haven't answered the phone since 2002. Hopefully that answers the question.
Yeah the point here is how this kind of legislation can also benefit distributed search engines

Otherwise what is actually being legislated here is that search engines must be centralized, cementing Google's stranglehold on this field
I suspect the follow button exists primarily to train the advertising algorithm -- how much more would you pay to show a political ad to someone who "followed" Nikki Haley or show your Honda Civic aftermarket parts to someone who "follows" Honda vs just a demographic match.
> victimless crimes

There's a grey area between 'completely victimless' and 'there was an individually identifiable victim'. Some things harm an undefined number of people by harming a collective resource. e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

These aren't 'half-measures', they're a recognition of nuance.
To paraphrase a well-known saying: Those who don't understand ISO7816 are doomed to reinvent it, poorly.
So a speculator, they are taking a chance that the work of others will improve the community and raise their investment. Got it, morally not right, but also very risky, these people lose their shirts just as often as they make it big.

Ok, then the old couple who bought the "shack" in the 1970s and finally are selling now. Why do you claim they weren't a contributor in the community? Let's say the guy was a garbage man while their wife worked for the DMV. They raised their kids and whatever, in that shack. They never banked on it being worth $2MM, it just happened. They provided value to the community, ok, they didn't create that much value, but its not like they were camping on the land just for the appreciation.

The real problem with CA is proposition 13, which makes the cost of owning and sitting on land relatively cheap over a long period of time. But ya, that garbage man would have been forced out of their house maybe in the 90s without it, but it would make property speculation a lot less profitable because long term positions would be very expensive.

In China, this is even a larger problem because they lack property tax at all in most places, you pay your taxes up front in a land acquisition tax and then you can just leave your apartment unrenovated and market it as brand new 20 years later to make a few million dollars.
Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.
The doxxing campaign is deplorable and unacceptable on its own terms, of course.

However the article mischaracterizes the nature at least of the petitions that some of the students signed, making it out to be more harmless and innocuous than it actually was:

Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine published an open letter on Monday demanding the University to “start verbally acknowledging Palestinian existence and humanity.”

Whereas actually that open letter was basically a standard piece of atrocity denial -- and in essence, it seems to celebrate the events that had just occurred 48 hours previously. Here's the language it used to describe the Oct 7 pogrom:

Despite the odds against them, Palestinians launched a counter-offensive against their settler-colonial oppressor – which receives billions of US dollars annually in military aid and possesses one of the world’s most robust surveillance and security apparatuses. Any omission of this context – any rhetoric of “an unprovoked Palestinian attack” – is shamefully misleading.

Which is a nauseatingly stupid and insensitive thing to say right after 700+ civilians had just been butchered, and another 200+ dragged off into tunnels by a certain militant group (whom the type of people who sign such petitions like to affectionately refer to as "the Resistance") can make some kind of a political point. In my view.

None of which justifies the doxxing campaign. But there's no need to mince words about the nature of the petition campaigns that preceded it.
This feels like the equivalent of mansplaining on this topic, with a heavy dose of gaslighting for bad measure. We were all around for the 2020 riot period, wherein what it means explicitly was made clear over and over and over again.
The frequency is unfortunately not 3 minutes, it’s every 12 usually
Being on the internet since 1997, I can't remember anything liked that needed.

I wasn't having a homepage back then, but I was interested in having one, so I've read quite a few resources about that way back.

What I can remember, is something like website rings (or something like that) where people joined some group of homepage owners and kept a list of links to each other (and / or a "next" and "previous" link to someone else's homepage).
That's true, but there is a big cave-at: Soviet shells and North Korean shells can hardly be called modern and there seems to be a lot of duds fired.

Not to mention that Russia has littered whole landscapes with anti-personnel mines, something which didn't really exist in WWI. Small, plastic mines, very hard to detect.
I don't understand it either really, but this is about drug use in public spaces. In principle the focus isn't really even the drug use, it's the public order issue of having a bunch of people behaving badly in a public space. For some reason we've given all the power to people who want to abuse public spaces in the false name of compassion.
Seems like more of a homelessness problem than a public drug use problem.

Are we going to enforce public drunkenness laws too?
Ok fine, governments are terrorists
> Allowing the catch phrase to distract

It isn't a good catchphrase, I fully agree. But the reason its been derailed is because there are people actively derailing it and deliberately misleading its meaning. They fight any plan that would diminish the authority and power of police. That's the problem here.
Just saw this article about solar balcony railings becoming popular in Germany [0].

Similarly, I saw one a few weeks ago about solar fences becoming very popular in Germany and England because of how cheap solar panels are getting. It's valid to hang them vertically even though it is suboptimal for power generation because the panels are so cheap.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/solar-balconies-are-booming-...
Humanity doesn't change.
The feathers, semantics and raison d'être shifts.

The US is post scarcity when it comes to food already,
Yet many people go hungry.
Not because they have to, but because our society
deems that they need to.

Someday maybe someone will decide that everyone needs
to have [enough] but not more.

Eh someone already did.
At the end it is always "Four legs good, two legs better"
Just to be clear, I agree. Despite its faults, I still think we are quite fortunate to have BT Openreach in its current form as a country.

I can understand that perception. Essentially, Openreach is regulated so heavily by the government that it might as well be considered public, from the perspective of 'what services it must offer, on what basis, to whom, and the prices it must set.' However, it is a private company, being a 'firewalled' part of BT
Activate-Linux
Asian immigration had a lot to do with it also, it is basically the Richmond BC of the Bay Area getting to 63%.
Single file almost local shadertoy with hot reloading
Possibly my new favorite HN reply
Approximately zero percent.
I think everyone should be thought how to sterilize equipment properly. It should be in every third graders textbook.
Investors and owner-occupiers buy for different reasons. Investors are much more sensitive to rates and outlooks.

One way to measure investor vs owner impact on prices is speed of sale. While prices are down 3% in SF, house get pending offers in 18 days on average -- much faster than one might expect for owner-occupiers.

I'd guess that unless houses are taking 45 days to sell, it's probably an investor-driven market.
>This had been tried already, with no meaningful decrease in mental problems

Has it?
AWS CodeBuild now supports managed GitHub Action runners
Tried it out and got it to work within less than an hour. Pretty smooth. Great for use with free AWS credits. Slightly cheaper than GitHub runners. Small bug with few runs never picked up by AWS. Has ARM and Windows runners available as well, but lacks macOS.
Yeah, I guess eventually we'd become conditioned to expecting cheaper food/services at certain hours, and congestion charging at other hours. Maybe we'd even become accustomed to some vendors having large variance and other having small/no variance. I would be OK with there being a large variance as long as the average price seems reasonable.
Related: executeprogram.com is an excellent learning platform that combines spaced repetition with interactive lessons targeted at professional developers.
I've hardly dipped my toe in SV and have almost entirely worked in the Eastern half of the United States.

Leetcode questions do happen but typically they are guidelines for a further discussion rather than the entire signal. By that I mean, they are used to investigate problem solving, communication, and personality.

It tends to be the bigger places have more rote tests. One company posed the "If you were re-making Instagram, design me the ability to handle millions of page views over the span of an hour" or something like that. Apparently CDNs, caching, and load balancers wasn't the answer...

Never bothered to look it up because I spent what felt like an hour trying to figure out why this guy thought a CDN wasn't good enough and whether he was _trying_ to get a rise out of me.

What only made it funnier is this place had nothing to do with images.
The cache thing is a thing I think a lot of people with a more... naive... understanding of machine architecture don't clue into.

Even just synchronizing on an atomic can thrash branch prediction and L1 caches both, let alone working your way through a task queue and interrupting program flow to do so.
I’ve seen this in Vancouver, Portland, and SF. Not saying it isn’t worse in Victoria, just that all these cities have a similar political leaning and policies, and have induced the same criminal behaviors.
There's not any correlation between fitting the standard HN mold and liking The Onion. I'm a barista who just checks in here for the marginal stuff outside the tech professional centered stuff, and I'm a big fan of The Onion.

Honestly, I think the disconnect is that you pay very close attention while you read, while the Onion's style caters more to a quick glance-through. They rarely have every point nailed down completely, because they're expecting you to just be moving on quickly anyway.
These all look like churches that I would encounter with blood everywhere in the middle of a first-person shooter. They also look like total acoustical nightmares. All that echo-ey concrete, yikes.