skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- IR is just super red light. It's not significantly more dangerous as looking at a lightbulb can be, except human eyes cannot perceive IR and can't contract pupils or stare away by reflexes.

- UV is baby step towards X-rays. It's technically super blue light, but it's entering region where lights start splitting chemical bonds and bleaching stuffs like pathogens and human eyes.

- LASER is perfectly parallel beams of light. Because it's perfectly parallel and do not diverge, it behaves like sun under magnifying glass at all points in its path, which can be dangerous when the "sun" is high and "glass" focusing it tight.

High power IR lamp illuminating audiences from afar is almost safe as any searchlights. IR lasers can be dangerous. UV lamps are not so safe, UV lasers would be bad.
It doesn't for me. Looks like they're just changing the html anchor (# …) with a location.replace which isn't a redirect so shouldn't spam history. Edit: Nevermind. It seems only Edge behaves this way.
>You have to think about gas too, you're just used to it.

Have you travelled in the past 40 years? There are gas stations on every corner across the USA. Even the smallest hovels have them.
> Maybe we need a housing recession, both so people can buy in and other reminded there is no free lunch.

Jesus, that’s a bit dark. Getting your money back from the sale of something you owned isn’t a free lunch. It’s just 100% better than dropping most of your money into a hole called rent, and never owning anything, and being beholden to landlords.

If my argument is too old and hasn’t adapted to the 2024 economy, which is entirely possible, then show me what it takes to do better than buying $420k a house on a $75 income with $84k in savings. (I’m just picking the “median” numbers from the article.) A 2-bedroom apartment where I live is anywhere from $2500 to $4k, so let’s say $36k/year in rent. Rent is much higher than this in SF or NYC of course. How long do you have to rent for the interest on $84k in ETFs to cover $36k/year in rent, assuming your rent doesn’t go up?

Edit: I’m not certain that did the calculation correctly, but it looks to me like on a 5% market return it would take 69 years for an $84k investment to break even against $36k in rent.
I'm wondering if there is a way to calculate the peak KW amount during Christmas or Thanksgiving or any national holidays, for Quebec. My friends said it's going to break the infras but I'm just curious. It's actually pretty frequent, not just once a year, not two, but probably 4-6 per year.
I don't see this ever happening.

As you say, residential ISPs used to provide additional services to their customers like web hosting, email, NNTP, shell access, time synch, IRC, mirrors of popular archives. They don't anymore - frequently, not even email. ISPs have clearly shown that they're not interested in being much more than the fastest dumb pipe around, because that's what their customers want, and I don't see that trend reversing.
System prompts appear to be most useful when short.

This is mine. I last used it with GPT 3.5. I have not used it with GPT-4o, yet.

Be formal. Be concise. Respond only with an answer. If the answer is in a technical format, respond only in the relevant format. Do not address me. Do not apologize. If you cannot generate a response, say "Cannot generate response." Remain neutral in responses.
They're so unclear that HTTP error codes got them confused. 401 Unauthorized usually actually means Unauthenticated, while 403 Forbidden means Unauthorized.

I'm a native speaker and I need to pause for a few hundred milliseconds just to be sure I'm using the right one in a sentence.
Being made with gpui means it's mac-only right? Seems worth mentioning for anyone not familiar with the library and an odd choice if the goal is parity with Helix.
> and each item took 60 seconds

The required time depends on a lot of things, such as on the target quality of the data record, the complexity and fragility of the item, etc. The primary purpose of a catalogue is not to prevent theft, but to provide a tool for research. Therefore you typically want high quality photos, ideally from different sides, angels and lighting (or even a 3D scan), a description of the item, its provenance, its treatment, keywords from a normalised vocabulary, a bibliography, etc.

Here is a random example from the British Museum catalogue: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1896-0201-... -- Just think yourself how long it would take you to compile all this information. I would estimate several hours, if not days.

Following the theft, the British Museum announced a plan for a quick inventory of 2,400,000 items in 5 years for £10m.[1] This means £4.17 per item. If we use the UK adult minimum wage of £11.44 as a lower bound, this yields an upper bound of 2.74 items per hour -- in other words: not more than aprox. 22 minutes per record (but probably a lot less, depending on the wages of the people involved). Such a tight budget does not seem like it would allow for anything useful to be compiled for research. It sounds more like a big waste of money.

[1] https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/10/19/british-museum-to...
> Since there are more people in the area, should supply be higher as well, balancing prices?

I think we are starting a conversation about gentrification: Rich white-collar/coat workers move into an area creating demand for service work. There is some price competition for their service work labor, raising wages, but typically housing costs are too high for these workers, so they leave (lowering supply, pushing up wages).
The problem is the similarity of the words, not understanding the concepts.
I guess one could start sending fake (AI-generated?) job applications to probe the gatekeeper. I could see this happening.
On the other hand, Moscow got densified to hell and back during 2000-s. Guess how it affected the housing prices?
Build following, down the track offer to sell picks on private discord or a course.
People don't buy vacation homes in generic suburb #5 which is where most people statistically want to buy homes.

Vacation homes are in beautiful tourist areas. That can be a problem for local workers but I doubt this is much of a problem for most markets.
My car is empty 99% of the time, it could be very highly utilised by the general public.
We tried subsidizing individual housing and caused the 2008 recession. It's better to let the homes be owned by those who will pay up whether their renter does or does not. A landlord provides a valuable insurance service in some ways.
it pollutes the back button
FOMO (invite only), trial periods, and decoy pricing are a few tricks I've fallen for in the past. I try to be vigilant, but sometimes it's just too much.
Do you know what impact having an MIT MicroMasters certificate has, or if anyone cares about it? I'm not sure just citing its existence really answers the question here. It's nice that there are some pathways to converting it to credits in a full degree though.
Seems that he’s trying to sell GPT investor as a service.

https://www.gptinvestor.co/#/portal/signup
Rents would go up to cover the tax increase.
I was answering to the comment that said:

> I disagree. I expect industrial civilization will continue indefinitely, meaning, we will continue manufacturing cute special-effect gizmos, and having fancy concerts with millions of dollars in special-purpose manufactured goods, and people will continue to have fun.
>
> That's what sustainable means.

But yes, I agree that it's better if they are actually repaired and reused. But being repairable and reusable is not enough: recycling, in general, doesn't really do what people expect (which is something like "it does no harm because it was recycled"). It's actually surprisingly hard to meaningfully recycle anything at all.

In this case, if it's more profitable to get new ones every time, that's probably the only incentive they need to not repair and reuse any of those.
Sounds like the asking price was too low.
No real contradiction: MS implementation is probably in line with current data protection regulations. Everyone has eyes on them.

Doesn't mean others will take as much care, or that new cool tools will not push the boundaries of what's ethical, safe or even legal.

We've seen it with many industries, not least the ad industry: some actors stay within the dotted line, but there is tremendous financial incentive not to.
Why would it matter if that were true or not?
I think the general premise is housing can't both be so cheap that people with nearly no net worth can get it, but so valuable that it can serve as a substitute for retirement savings. This is from first principles true, but it's really only a problem in urban areas: my pet theory is that spiking demand for urban housing is driving 100% of this. Americans used to move far more than they do now [move], even when you factor in the pandemic, and they used to be more comfortable living in all kinds of different places, but now people move to cities and stay put. This is for all kinds of reasons, all under the category "it sucks not to live in a city for almost everyone". Economic opportunity is way, way lower [econ]. Racism, misogyny, homo/transphobia, hyper religiosity, and lack of diversity are huge problems. Urban schools dramatically outperform rural schools [schools]. Health care is harder to get [health care]. I think the data bear me out here; in particular general homeownership rates are basically what they were in 1963 [homeownership], but urban homeownership rates are way below the average [urban homeownership].

There are some signs that this trend is reversing, but I think that was entirely a pandemic phenomenon. Big numbers of Americans regret their pandemic moves [regrets], so I think the environment hasn't actually changed.

It's hard to see where this goes. Most other places solve this by becoming very very dense (Hong Kong) or building great mass transit (Tokyo). It really seems like the US won't do either of those things--maaaaaaybe NYC will but that would be all. I tentatively predict that we have to wait for most of the Boomers to die and leave their wealth/houses to Millennials before we know if this is a bona-fide societal crisis or not: if enough Millennials get what they want this way it'll take the oomph out of any kind of policy change (probably reverse the momentum actually--if anyone thinks Millennials will be any better than Boomers they're super mistaken).

But, neither outcome is really good. On the one hand you have the daunting prospect of a dramatic economic reorganization of the most powerful nation on Earth. On the other you have the calcification of the most powerful nation on Earth into something fundamentally unequal, illiberal and corrupt.

[move]: https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/time-series/de...

[econ]: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/six-charts-illustrate-di...

[schools]: https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/education-g...

[health care]: https://www.gao.gov/blog/why-health-care-harder-access-rural...

[homeownership]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N

[urban homeownership]: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2016/...

[regrets]:

https://homebay.com/moving-trends/

https://homebay.com/moving-trends-2024/
"... or a $199 enterprise HDD"

External or internal? Any examples?

"... it could be loaded (multimple times) to memory"

All 6TiB at once, or loaded in chunks?
Isn't egypt having significant financial troubles?
> This is a problem of underutilisation in my view. Too many properties are being used as investments and not as a primary residence.

I hear this argument a lot and always wonder if the causal direction is flipped: people use housing as an investment because it’s scarce, not that it’s scarce because it’s used as an investment. If there weren’t so many restrictions on building, the supply would grow to meet the demand and parking your money in property wouldn’t be such a hot idea.
Decisions are still taken, and we call the people who can affect decisions the owners.

That's what ownership is -- it's literally power to make or affect decisions.

It doesn't matter if it's a DAO.

If everyone's input affects the decision equally then they have equal ownership.

If some people's input affect decisions more others, their ownership is greater.
Personally, I find it hard to beat Vim.

But if you are looking for a free and flexible GUI alternative, maybe give Joplin a go?
I've been using this fork which has Helix bindings: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=silverqu...

Works great even though it's labeled as an alpha.
>Analysis of the literature showed that the presence of the median artery has been significantly increasing (p = .001) over time, from approximately 10% in people born in the mid-1880s to approximately 30% by the end of the 20th century.

That is incredibly fast! That's three generations and change, which I find suspicious... if it indeed is progressing at that rate then I would be quite shocked to learn that the cause is purely genetic.

As another comment noted, "It’s enough that there is no decrease in the success of the offspring really. They don’t have to be more successful, just not less" - except for the prevalence to change that rapidly is very unusual. In the famous story of the peppered moths, the first black moth was collected 1811, they were about 50/50 in 1864, and they were at 98% in 1895. It took until 2003 for the melanic phenotype to fall to around 10%. A peppered moth generation is one year, versus a human's twenty-seven, and the reproductive pressure was massive (a white moth on black trees can't hide and is easily eaten by birds; I can't imagine anything similar for humans.)

Also quite interesting for the HN audience:
>persistent median artery has been suggested to cause pain in carpal tunnel syndrome (Barfred et al., 1985; Lisanti et al., 1995)
You clearly did not look at any of my sources.

>I think my suggestion that finance is the most significant factor here is a stronger argument than a supply shortage.

You have zero evidence for this claim and cited zero sources.

>The number of homes per 1000 people changed very little between 2011 and 2022. At the same time prices went from NZD350k to NZD900k.

You cannot look at an entire country's housing/population ratio and think that explains everything. New homes in Queenstown don't reduce housing costs for people in Auckland or Christchurch. You need to look at the supply of housing in an area where it is a substitutable good: where you can switch housing without switching your job, school, friends, and life.

A new house 6 hours from me does not lower the price of housing in my neighborhood.
This was huge for me. I say some time aside at the end of the day and prioritize the next day’s tasks.
I don't understand. Does Portugal not allow squatting? How can there be vacant land that no one wants? Surely someone would just go squat and make money living off of it.
For folks who don't know much about finance - this is as bullshit as it gets.

Leaving aside the complete lack of any valuable statistic and the way too short period of time to evaluate 'investments', it's very easy to generate this kind of returns - just start 5 experiments like that, keep the 1 that 'works' best (thanks to pure random luck) and advertise. This is also sadly how some parts of finance work.
Because the sufferer is back exactly at the state before suffering, without even a recollection of suffering. And all the suffering was merely number multiplication.
You could probably do something similar to what Roc is doing: https://www.roc-lang.org/
and/or Zotero
>I live in Canada and I really can't see myself driving an EV right now.

We live in a semi-rural part of Canada, and have a bit of a (pleasant, country) commute. I want the most efficient vehicle. I ran the numbers and an EV just did not make sense. If you're driving mostly highway, the overall cost/km isn't that much better than the best ICEs, and the ICE is much cheaper.
Builds a persistent profile of you across the web… this is directly at odds with "Doesn't use analytics = respects your privacy"

I’m sure the author isn’t aware of it and it’s just an oversight, but still.

Why does a single static html file even need a CDN?
While I think there might be valid arguments to support that claim, that blog post hardly qualifies. The author runs a gambling site and while the way Cloudflare handled the situation (according to the author) could certainly be improved, they clearly were affecting other users by "tainting" shared IPs.
Amazon has open sourced their policy engine https://github.com/cedar-policy/cedar
Yes, I think it might have been a slight design mistake to make the variadic version the default. I've only very rarely used it, whereas I use chain.from_iterable a lot.
They will be having them after this
Here's what I use (as a bookmark):

data:text/html,<body contenteditable style="line-height:1.5;font-size:20px;">

No save function obviously but this lets me open a new tab and dump some text.
The main claim of the article is:

> jwt as authentication tokens are constructed for Google/Facebook scale environments, and absolutely no one who is not Google/Facebook needs to put up with the ensuing tradeoffs.

The first sentence is factually incorrect. Google doesn't use JWT for most of its own authentication. Try analyzing their traffic - web and mobile apps - and you'll find that none of their 1st party applications / web use JWT. They do use JWT for OIDC, for third parties, which makes sense since with OIDC/JWT, third party sites can verify the token without talking to Google using a standard. This is largely similar for Facebook.

JWT RFC starts with:

> JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact, URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties.

Notice "between two parties". Of course, nothing stops from a single party to use JWT, but claiming JWT was invented for "Google/Facebook scale environments" implying they are using it for their 1st party authentication is just factually wrong. JWT was always meant to be an information transport between two separate parties, like OIDC.

"Ensuing tradeoffs" here is essentially about stateless authentication vs stateful authentication, and even there, this "absolutely no one" is simply incorrect. There are many scenarios where stateless authentication is sufficient, even for the authentication for a single party (let alone between two separate parties). Not all applications and use cases require the security properties of stateful authentication - a sufficiently short expiration would provide sufficient security in many cases, making the loss of any security worth it for the added benefit of simplicity and reliability with the stateless authentication.

Now with more nitpick:

The article claims, since "denylist" would require a database read, it's equivalent to stateful authentication. Theoretically that's true. In practice, denylist has some nice properties, that makes it worthwhile if server-side logout is the only missing feature you need from JWT. Denylist is often very small - if most users of your application or service do not explicitly log out, the number of denylist will remain very small. With the expiration, the size can not grow indefinitely either. Thus, the denylist you maintain can be much smaller than the record of all stateful authentication - which makes it cheaper/easier to replicate / cache across your systems than the full authentication records. So "denylist" is definitely a legitimate design option, with slightly different trade-offs than a full stateful authentication.

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If I re-interpret the main claim of the article in the way I think would make sense, it would be: services should prefer stateful authentication, and the cost of stateful authentication is lower than people imagine it to be. That I can be behind 100%. As written, the article is at best some big exaggeration with incorrect details and hidden assumptions.
My point is that the relatively static proportion of people to dwellings in those countries over that period suggests that a supply shortage is not sufficient to explain the accommodation crisis.

What I am suggesting is that incentives to invest in property have led to an increase in the number of properties that are not being used as a primary residence (i.e. are underutilised) and that that is the most significant factor causing the shortage of available homes.
Those who don't study history are bound to repeat it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_(chatbot)
> Higher rates don't do anything because incumbent owners simply pull houses off the market to wait it out.

You need a recession.
Driving 100km on a straight highway with driver assist is nothing.

Driving 100km on a nauseating mountain serpentine can easily take 2-3x longer.

But yeah, 300 dollars in Turkey is a lot of money that most people will be willing to save.
275-language disk headed to moon to preserve Earth linguistics
All of the subsidy within the desired time frame.
Meta: 4 spaces indentation to format code.

Question:

exec --no-startup-id "sh -c 'sleep 10; exec foot --app-id=term-editor'"

What's the sleep for?
> Even the smallest hovels have them.

Not sure what you are looking for, but it isn't sensible to use "hovel" (="a small, squalid, unpleasant, or simply constructed dwelling") here. "Hamlet", maybe?
Segregating housing from industry makes sense, and is what's done everywhere, but segregating housing from services, like coffee shops or day-care, is a very uncommon thing globally.
Yes, but if they can't find renters, the property is worthless anyways, so why bother keeping it?
This is absolutely correct. I'm considering removing that part of my pre-prompt because it's flaky and loses context when the conversation falls out of the window.

I find myself restarting conversations a lot as they get too long.

It would be very useful to me if I could have something like a conversation context tree where I could branch off various threads in order to maintain the "main context trunk" of a conversation but on a new branch. This would allow you to have "sidebar" conversations that veer off topic.

When this happens in the ChatGPT UI I tend to scroll all the way back up to the input which steered the conversation (in a different but useful direction), I then edit that input which lobs off the off-topic branch and continues from the main context trunk.
Yes, likely because they overspend on things like 1B museums
It's actually much longer, I was implementing a javascript bookmarklet and the old published limitations are not respected by much anymore, so you can shove a LOT of data in there.
Citation? Because the engineer, who worked for space-x, in the article I linked, clearly knew it would be a disaster. There were also posts on twitter throughout that engineers were VERY concerned about the decision (because they knew it would be a disaster).

Meanwhile your source is - yourself? Who also appears to think (both in this thread and your post history) that anyone who points out Elon's flaws "hates" him.
Thanks. I’m wondering if this is somewhat related to the embedding images issue I discuss. Seems like obsidian was doing weird path reference logic. Could you give the ‘Embeds your images’ section of my README a read and see if you think it’s related.

Happy to include but could you unpack the problem / solution a bit more cause I mostly get it but not fully there.
It's probably because everybody have been doing that for a decade and we have no good straight explanation on why.

The most naive thought it was good for security reasons.

It kept a lot of people busy during the ZIRP era when money was abundant or corporation were moving to the cloud.

My guess is either the industry is gonna stagnate or a new simpler solution to package and run application is gonna appear sooner or later.
I don’t know about those other places but Australia definitely has a horrendous under supply of homes
Tax 2nd properties 100%.
Episode 132 – The PDP-1 [podcast]
I imagine the red sea shipping crisis and the new capital are probably a bigger part of the problem, but i cant imagine billion dollar museums are helping.