skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every couple of months or so I get really annoyed when I see that someone built something I already thought of but dismissed as not good enough of an idea/problem or as a waste of time.

Don’t pay too much attention to what other people have done. Most people with an idea will never see it to completion [1]. And even if there are large companies already in a space there are very few winner-take-all markets. Even companies like Apple have small competitors (e.g., Framework).

Also, not every idea needs to be original. Most companies copy or improve on others’ ideas. Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Apple, and Amazon might have pioneered new markets once they were already big, but they certainly started out as iterative improvements (or better marketing) over existing products.

[1] in fact, one of the best things you can do is reach out to people who already tried and failed at an idea and see if you can learn about why. Or if they are still in business, reach out to former employees. A lot of people will be surprisingly candid with you.
It’s OpenAI TTS
"I’m an introvert", "I’m a Libra", "I’m Gen Z" - people mention these to separate themselves out of the group, or general population. "I'm a Libra, which is unlike most of you here, therefore my failings are unique and my successes are what makes me special".

When you bring up "being human", you're including everyone else in the good and bad things you attribute to being a human - which is likely to create awkwardness and generate a lot of feelings, most of them not very nice.
This library is my python productivity secret weapon. So many things I've needed to impliment in the past is now just chaining functions in itertools, functions, and this
You Can Optimize Anything
Frameworks Do Not Matter
Singapore police jail woman based on data stored in car infotainment system [video]
> “The next Industrial Revolution has begun,” with businesses and countries converting existing data centers into “AI factories,” Chief Executive Jensen Huang said on an investor call.

No disrespect intended here but it seems like the revenue growth is at vendors who are selling AI infrastructure. What I'm looking for and don't see very clearly is revenue growth from new AI applications. It should be huge--or at least clearly visible--to justify the level of investment.
The theory behind EmDrive is based on his quantized inertia theory. I was under the impression he was the original proposer of the idea. It looks like it was instead proposed by someone else in 2006; however McCulloch submitted a paper in 2013 supporting it (https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2775) and publically advertises about how his theory allows for "an electric rocket" on his twitter https://twitter.com/memcculloch
This load is well handled by a Postgres instance and 15-25k thrown at hardware.
Even better! Thanks :)
The human definition of hallucination has to do with sensory experience, i.e. inputs. Saying that LLMs hallucinate means that we're ascribing them control over their inputs that they simply do not have -- by design.

Or, in other words, if a chatbot really were hallucinating, it would probably start giving unprompted responses.

> Humans can hallucinate, its a deviation from what is observable reality.

What is "observable reality" then, for an LLM? Its training set?
A country of two million people managed to plant six million trees in one day in 2008

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE4AI49U/
> This is a problem of underutilisation in my view. Too many properties are being used as investments and not as a primary residence.

I've believed for a long time that heavily taxing income from second+ properties, similar to capital gains, would help reduce rent-seeker hoarding, to help free up and reduce the cost of properties for primary-residence owners.
Pretty simple indeed
Will it rewrite all my hardware, without it nothing will work ?

No
You'd need a full rewrite at the parser level

As everybody said : ipv4 cannot be made compatible with larger addr space
Thanks! I share it from time to time, but I thinking HN algos doesn't like it, or maybe others don't think it's as cool as you.

Hopefully once I have a full tech stack (or at least an editor+shell) actually working it will get some more interest. In the meantime... you could share it, I certainly won't object!
Author here (of the blog post, not of the literary beauty you linked). This is amazing. I'll add a mention.
aye. Starlink could be, best case, an Out of Band (OOB) management interface.

good for getting into the other side of a connection or doing some management tasks like back-up telemetry -- but we're talking SNMP, SSH connections to routers, etc, not GigE levels of data.
Good make em play the war.

I bet a certain number of hiring companies would look favourably to their entire inbox being spammed with 100 different variations of one candidate bypassing the system in 100 different ways. (seems like a better chance to get an interview than complete un-reasonable disqualification)
That's smart bro, thanks for the suggestion. I'm sure OP will appreciate it. Will those sort of simple changes even be able to make much of a difference compared to those heavily SEO optimised blogspam sites though?
It's a simple thing to check. If there is a theory of evolution, what's the theory of evolution? Likewise, if there is a theory of dark matter, what is the theory of dark matter?
You'll want to store your user credentials that they traded for a JWT somewhere. The point of using JWTs is that most of your requests don't have to hit this database.
>Google's AI panic

There was an article on this topic recently:

>Former Google employee says company's AI work is driven by 'a stone cold panic that they are getting left behind'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40429041
If all you factor in is the average daily work commute, then most car owners don't need a car to begin with - even in the US. There's usually some public transport, or work-provided transportation, or opportunities to carpool with a neighbor.

I don't know if this is true. For example, I live in San Francisco, one of the densest cities in the US. Public transport for my typical journeys (kid's school, Costco, doctor, dentist, visiting in-laws) takes twice to four times as long as the same journey by car. I wish it were not so.
Yes, this article is marketing. They've just made a prototype smaller filter.

YIG filters have been around for decades. They are electrically tunable. However, they are slow to change frequency and can have an odd phase response.
1000%. I will never get tired of teaching people (it's news to every single one of them!) that at any given time, there are more than 20 empty housing units in the United States for every single homeless person on the street (https://www.self.inc/info/empty-homes/). There is not, nor has there ever been, anything resembling a "housing shortage". We live in a post-scarcity world as far as housing is concerned, and have for centuries. There is absolutely no barrier to housing every single human being beyond greed.

The entire framing of the issue as a false NIMBY/YIMBY dichotomy is a distraction from the reality that there is not and has never been a supply issue. The only issue is artificial demand from speculators who choose to withhold and deny a basic human right in the hope that it might magically raise in value for no reason instead of depreciate like every other asset.
That’s not my experience at all: me, my friends, everyone I know that lives in a city lives with housemates. I don’t know anyone lucky or well-off-enough who can possibly afford a place to themselves that isn’t a minuscule studio.
If you can't get a job in arschfick nowhere then it doesn't matter there are a million houses there, because you can't afford them because you need a job for that. Never mind people have family, friends, children (with friends, school, etc.) and things like that.

So no, it's not a matter of "nicer places".
Same thing happens to homeowners with eminent domain. No one has unlimited entitlement to where they live.
Leverage in finance is the concept of buying an asset with money that's not yours (i.e. a loan).

So suppose you have $100, and you believe a stock will increase by 10% in value, then borrowing $900 and buying $1000 of the stock, will leave you with $1100 if your prediction is true. When you pay off the loan, you'll be left with $200, and you will have doubled your money.

The loan thereby acts as a leverage multiplying the 10% return on investment to in this case a 100% return on investment.

Now imagine that instead of having $100, you have $50k, and instead of borrowing $900, you borrow $450k, and instead of buying stock, you buy a home with the 50k deposit and 450k mortgage. The same applies, the home appreciates 10% to 550k, but your equity increases from $50k to $100k. Again, the mortgage loan acts as a lever.

The difference is that most consumers do not have large and cheap capital available to them, say to borrow $450k to invest in the stock market. But most people do have such opportunities to invest in the real estate market with a mortgage.

Anyway, wether it's a good investment really depends on many factors. The NYT buy or rent calculator is still one of the best sources to get an intuition on what is best for your circumstance. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/buy-rent-cal...
If they will never upgrade then they can't use 240/4 either.
> You don't need to be Facebook or Google to have more than one service in your infrastructure that needs to authenticate a user's existing session without forcing the user to log in again.

Thank you. This middle ground between hyperscaler infrastructure and super simple web apps is where most of my career has been spent, yet the recent trend is to pretend like there are only two possible extremes: You’re either Facebook or you’re not doing anything complicated.

It has an unfortunate second order effect of convincing people that as soon as they encounter something more complicated than a simple web app, they need to adopt everything the hyperscalers do to solve it.

I wish we could spend more time discussing the middle ground rather than pretending it’s some sort of war between super simple or ultra complex.
Why Employers Are Relaxing Some Tenure Requirements
> So yeah, in this context, some shapes are more likely to form (randomly) than others.

Again I think you are confused. Assuming random distribution, 'We Are Coming' is just as likely as any other similarly long structure to form. You just happen to care about that structure more than others - however that doesn't make it more or less likey to form.

That message, in morse code is .-- . / .- .-. . / -.-. --- -- .. -. --..

There are 200B to 2T galaxies in the obeservable universe. If you found lines of galaxies and interperated them as morse code, I'm sure you'd find some interesting words/phrases being said.

You'd expect that phrase in every 2^28 = 268,435,456 random 28 digit binary strings - which is not very many. Keep in mind a galaxy could be part of many, many strings (different index position, different orientation of string).
You really think investors like sequoia and a16z are dumb enough to fall for Elon hyping things up? They know who he is and They’ve seen him operate at levels basically no other entrepreneur can snd are betting on that
Ask HN: User signup with OAuth has become insanely complex – is it needed?
You can have a simple email based signup/signin system - I'm pretty sure most users know how to drive this ok.

Your application won't be too complex - it's reasonable to implement from a development perspective.

OR

You can go down the path of oauth using various "Login With" systems such as "Login with Google". And if you do this then your development complexity just went through the roof - god forbid that you should expand to multiple providers.

So how much does it really matter to provide third party "Sign in with Google/Twitter/Microsoft whatever"?

Is it just crazy featuritis in which "gotta collect em all, gotta do all the things" style of development?

Only having email based signup no doubnt will result in developers and stakeholders tut-tutting "Well we will lose users if we don;t provide ever possible way to sign up/sign in!". But is that really true? If users want to use your system won't they just use email signup/signin?

BTW I do understand that your application may need to use the APIs of that provider, in which case it is unavoidable of course.
Scribd, the leading digital library, is thrilled to announce the launch of Everand, a new app dedicated to providing users with the best audiobook experience. By separating our content into two distinct products, Scribd and Everand, we are making it easier for our users to find exactly what they want, when they want it.
This looks great.

Usally, I'd cast my arrays into a pandas DF and then use the equivalent dataframe operations. To me, pandas and numpy might as well be part of the python stdlib.

How should I reason about the tradeoff of using something like this vs pandas/numpy ? Esp. with Numpy 2.0 supporting the string dtype.
Worth keeping in mind that the typical measure of the home ownership rate is really a measure of the proportion of people living in a home with the owner. So a 25 year old living with parents counts towards and not against this. Likewise anyone else sharing the house (boarders, etc). I suspect that the number of people in this situation has increased in the past couple of decades due to housing affordability.
I didn’t say you shouldn’t buy if you need a place to live. I said they’re a terrible investment. Also keep in mind that while you may be paying down the landlord’s loan when renting, you are also paying a massive amount of interest when buying. At today’s rates, you’ll give the bank $565,000 in pure interest over 30 years to borrow $400,000, making your total outlay $965,000. Either way, a large amount of money is going up in smoke.
> People intuitively jump to the conclusion that the problem is caused by a lack of building.

In my experience, people "intuitively" jump to basically every conclusion besides this one. "Greedy landlords" or "[favorite scapegoat] collusion" are intuitive conclusions which are far more common than supply and demand.

> Ask yourself, do Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the US, Britain, Ireland, etc, all have the same inability to build or is there maybe some other common cause?

Yes they do, to varying degrees. The Anglo land use regime is a disaster.
No it doesn't. Simple and targeted solutions are not bad code. For example, start with a single postgres instance on a single machine, rather than Hadoop clusters and Kubernetes. Once that is maxed out, you will have time and money to solve bigger problems.
In my state, they're building new supply, the population has decreased, and housing prices have increased.
Yes, it was indeed unethical and there are many moral and legal arguments that the skeleton should receive a burial, but the stealing was arranged by a Scottish surgeon and not the British government. It was removed from display last year. There seems to be some additional legal issues too, at least for the board of the museum: "since 1799 its trustees had been legally bound to preserve the collection of John Hunter – the pioneering Scottish surgeon and anatomist who the museum is named after – in its entirety" [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20231127211244/https://www.thegu...
That was my experience as well. But who is paying $2,500 for a room? These stories always seem to feature folks who are trying to live alone while saving for a home in a Tier 1 city.
DDoSGuard has a reputation for being The Crime CDN, disproportionately serving things like phishing campaigns, black hat forums, piracy sites, etc, so the fact that they are merely the second most popular CDN amongst DDOS providers after Cloudflare speaks volumes.
It would be a fantastic form factor. After all, such a device wants a decently large battery, focusing optics, and an emitting surface at the focal plane big enough to dissipate the waste heat. This sounds a lot like a small digital camera with the sensor removed and an IR LED array put in its place.

Anyone aiming such a device across the venue would be extremely obvious, as everyone else’s inadequately filtered camera would see it :)
People overestimate because underestimating means you just wasted 50k+ on something that doesn’t meet your needs. That’s why normal people don’t buy EVs, cars are usually the most expensive thing someone owns outside of real estate and you’re going to have a hard time convincing someone to buy something that is a worse value.

It’s why so many people own pickup trucks and large SUVs. People don’t buy vehicles for what they need 95% of the time, they buy vehicles that will do whatever they want it to do 100% of the time.
Makes sense, thank you! Actually that would go in line with my suspicion that 'the market' predicts/trends towards a 2 USD = 1 EUR rate within one or two decades.
>I love Michael Pollan.

The footnotes in his "Entangled" are [even] better than the main body =P

>use less salt

I purchased exactly one can of unsalted black beans — they are inedible.

>it does appear to affect me

Unfortunately I think salt intake is Top3 contributing factors to high BP (smoking and being obese also). I'm working on my chunk, and stopped smoking because I couldn't shake the salt...
RAG makes LLMs like ChatGPT more accurate and Chance The Rapper
Exactly. Learned this the hard way. JWT is good for “this token is legit and has XYZ role or group”, and letting it go to the next layer. The next layer should do some addition checking that token has legit claims on modifying a resource or taking other actions, however that might be.
Until a while ago, I didn't realize that the Linux Mint Mate desktop was named after the tea, not as in "hello mate".
Anything can be anything else tomorrow, which is why we must criticize what's in front of us today.
> Housing can't both be an investment and a basic need.

Yes it can, and it was for large chunks of the 20th century. Imputed rent can have high yields and therefore imply good "investment" income for households with long term stable housing demand.
Openkoda: Open-Source Property Management Software
means motive opportunity -- 3 for 3

given the use cases re: satellites on the island, and the continuing cold-yet-increasing tensions with Russia, it's absolutely reasonable to make that assumption

maybe they'll try to blame this on Ukraine like they tried with the undersea pipelines that got blown up, too
I don’t think they’ve been horrible stewards. And the British Museum is delightful to visit. I’m just pointing out that it’s a bit rich to loudly proclaim that you are the best stewards of antiquities (that other countries might otherwise have better claims to) and then not do simple things like properly catalogue your collections.
I've downloaded many csv files that were mal-formatted (extra commas or tabs etc.), or had dates in non-standard formats. Parquet format probably would not have had these issues!
Increasing the supply by building will make the value of their investment go down and encourage them to rent or sell to someone who will.
> This paragraph is something you wrote

Yes?

> something pedantic most people don't agree with

How so?

> Obviously the author considers Clojure a Lisp

The revised paragraph still insists that Clojure is a dialect of Lisp, like before.

> ridiculous to say Clojure is confusing people into thinking all lisps are functional

I've witnessed it first hand a number of times now, from people whose only exposure to the Lisp world is Clojure.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40461580

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40448074
Yes, any government that was serious about addressing this issue would take measures to decrease the incentives for property investment. Instead in most of the countries I mentioned property investment enjoys benefits that other forms of investment don't (tax, leverage, etc).

Personally, I think LVT would be the best approach.
You could have just extended the IPv4 header in such a way that the routers in between you and the server didn't need to understand the extended protocol, and could continue to route IPv4 packets as-is, since they only see the upper 32 bit of the address. Then network inside LAN and the server need of course to understand IPv4-extended (let's call it IPv5) packets, but still you only need to update the endpoint devices, and not the core of the network (fare easy, since that evolves more quickly!). You could also implemented a mechanism "similar" to NAT, where the router did for outgoing traffic compose the extended "IPv5" packet by combining the local IPv4 and the external IPv4, and did the opposite operation for incoming packets. That way really only the router needed to be updated, and not individual devices in your house. Thus being backward compatible in both ways.

Also adopting IPv6 these days would require to maintain still IPv4, this means that for example firewall rules must be made both for IPv4 and IPv6, something that adds a lot of work to IT technicians (and they thus disable the protocol that if you disable the internet still works, that is IPv6). Extending IPv4 would mean that the same firewall rules can apply, just considering again the upper 32 bits of the address.

Finally IPv6 is in general more complex, it has some obscure things like SLAAC or the fact that an interface can have multiple IPs, that not all IPs are routable, etc, even simply the notation for IPv6 addresses that is not even consistent among software (in some software you have to put it between [] to disambiguate with port numbers, in some other not), DHCPv6 implementations that are still these days quite broken, etc. Compared to IPv4 is quite a complication...

I'm the opinion that we are slow to adopt IPv6 since it's too different from IPv4, and requires maintaining a network with two protocols, since everyone completes the migrations, this is unlikely to succeed in the next years (for example in my country, Italy, most ISP, even the most important one, don't even bother to provide you an IPv6 address! I think that because it does increment the problems and thus the requests to handle in the customer service, thus they decided that you just get IPv4 that works reliably).
ifconfig is deprecated for years, and this has nothing to do with ipv4 nor ipv6
Checkout iproute2 and its impressive feature list
The OECD link you’ve provided shows the complete opposite of your point.

The UK, Ireland, Canada, and New Zealand are at the bottom of % vacant dwellings indicating the opposite of underutilization.
The denominator in this graph is houses, not people, so adult children living/not living at home would have no impact.
> Conforming to this incentive or belief is not unusually irrational

Agree. But if that feeling of security is all it’s about, it’s still irrational. Even if it’s conditioned and thus common.

If you’re buying a home to feel good about yourself, you’re making a financially ruinous decision.
How Wi-Fi 7 Sensing became usable to track indoor movement of people
I think this is partly because there is not really an alternative once you run out. Getting a jerrycan of gas from a gasstation is possible, a reasonable expectation can be made that if that happens a good samaritan will help you. Or a friend can drop by with one.

The same thing cannot be said about electric cars, unless you have a good friend with a fuel generator. Even then you still have to wait for it to charge. More likely you will be towed, at least in The Netherlands they will tow you to the next parking place. If you are lucky it will be one with a charger, if you are unlucky you are once again on your own.
These aren't incompatible. Household sizes are falling and number of homes is an input to population, so you can have residents moving out on net while prices increase due to the remaining residents being more wealthy. California is an entire state of ~40 million people where this happens: low and middle income families move out; high income families move in.