skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nope, if every person does things completely differently, that's just a lack of technical leadership. Leaders pick an approach with tradeoffs that meet organizational goals and help their team to follow it.
Something conceptually similar exists: Shock Clock - The Ultimate Silent Alarm for Heavy Sleepers, Hard of Hearing, Couples, and Shift Workers - Wake Up on Time, Create Better Habits

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EZ77IOY

I've been able to train myself to wake with a much less expensive simple vibrating wristband.
DDoS attacks are usually volumetric attack. Send more bits than the pipe the website has to the internet.

To combat this you need to buy enough pipes to the internet for your regular internet traffic, as well as an extra 500 Gbps or so. That is a lot of unused bandwidth to be paying for every month. Then once the packets arrive at your datacenter you still need to buy dedicated appliances to scrub out the bad and let the good flow.

Google is constantly under attack, but their normal daily traffic volume (multiple Tbps) is large enough that just the extra capacity they keep on hand to deal with traffic spikes the World Cup or a popular YouTube video is larger than what most attackers can muster.
One mental health problem not mentioned here is schizophrenia. Having a family member afflicted, I don't think having a label makes things much better. The schizophrenia treatments available just make me feel that we understand so little about it. The drugs used are such blunt weapons that can be debilitating in themselves.
My buddy was working on exactly the same project around then in Austin tx. He was trying to make it as a web app with access to location permissions, where the page's background color would change for each individual pixel in the virtual display. Concertgoers would visit the url and their phone would become a pixel in the screen. He was trying to figure out how to get better location resolution when we talked about it, sounds like you guys had similar ideas and both discovered the implementation was trickier than it initially seemed it would be. I wonder how many other folks worked on that idea around that time?
I've never seen that. With the right protection circuits it could work safely. However, most garages seem to only have one branch anyways, so might as well add a 20amp+ 220v branch.
In the U.S., only about 30% of homeowners are subject to housing associations.

I get how that seems odd if you live in a big city, a multifamily building, etc. -- associations and their problems are ubiquitous there. But it's not the experience of most American homeowners.
Parquet is not HDFS. It is a static format, not a B-tree in disguise like HDFS.

You can have compressed Parquet columns with 8192 entries being a couple of tens bytes in size. 600 columns in a row group is then 12K bytes or so, leading us to 100GB file, not a petabyte. Four orders of magnitude of difference between your assessment and mine.
But household formation has increased, by a lot:

https://oregoneconomicanalysis.com/2023/10/26/household-form...
In Swedish big cities, prices are also ridiculously high despite investment in properties being much harder than in Australia or the US due to some strict rules regarding renting out. I live here now but lived in Australia before. Prices in Stockholm are more or less on par with Perth or Brisbane I think (i.e. crazy, but not at the completely off-the-charts Sydney prices, at least... when I lived in Sydney like 20 years ago I remember you already needed half-a-million to get just an average house... today it's like well over a million to get anything at all).

Can confirm that as interest rates went up, people just can't afford the enormous loans anymore and prices of houses (and apartments to a lesser extent as they're a bit cheaper overall) fell, up to 20% at the worst, I believe. But as soon as interest rates are expected to go down, prices already shoot up again (even while interests are still high as people and banks estimate how much they may expect to spend in the near future).
> same thing cannot be said about electric cars

Gas cars need a jump all the time.

If this is really an anxiety of someone’s, they can carry a capacitor in the back sufficient to be charged somewhere and take the vehicle to a charger. That should work in 90%+ of situations.
And unless your property is Freehold, you don't own the land at all.
[Search + LLMs] aka RAG is the new interface to information, capable of transforming it according to a query.

Agentic RAG can proactively collect missing pieces and iterate till a task is completed.

All your knowledge, especially professional, should be united by a semantic layer of one app.

That's why we started bootstrapping http://iki.ai with my co-founder Max Orlov and our indie team. Seeing that this vision resonates with our audience is pretty empowering.

Product vision video: https://youtu.be/-VL1bp1kyD8?si=AzrmR9kQoQ9DRs7V
The app is live at https://app.iki.ai
You are welcome to try it!
You pay property tax either way, it just might be rolled into your rent. You probably have years to pay missing property taxes, while landlords will wait nowhere near that long. Eminent domain is only exercised rarely, and doesn’t even compare to how often rents are increased, or how often people are evicted.
Feed the RPI data to https://www.civtak.org/ and send some to Ukraine...
Saving lives was never so cheap.
Ok fair enough. Certainly you should be careful when sourcing.
And for large chunks of the 20th century family farming fed the nation. Not sure what the 20th century has to do with the issue at hand.
I have found that "access" gets confusing from an audit perspective, and have had to explain to many people that the list of people who have accessed something is a subset of those who have access to something.

I like "permission" for the concept of "allowed by the system to do".

I like "activity" or "actions" for things users have done.
I’m curious about how these empty homes are distributed? Take California for example, where there are 19 empty homes per homeless person according to the link provided. But where are these empty homes in California? If they are disproportionately located in areas far from employment opportunities, then this suggests that we still need to build more housing near employment centers. But if there are plenty of vacancies in areas close to job centers, then this is definitely something that needs to be looked into more closely.
The issue is always lack of building. Higher interest rates just mask the problem and hand more money to rich people for no effort.

The problem is that the private housing production system responds to increased credit availability only at the margins and does not over produce. That’s largely because houses are still hand built and not really substitutable like a vehicle. You don’t generally have a choice of two houses on the same site.

However if you produce houses publicly then you can force private housing to compete outside the margins. At which point you get excess supply, as we see with cars and then house prices start to stabilise and even depreciate. At which point the “investment” hoards would start to liquidate.

We need the housing market to behave like the production car market, not the classic car market.

The fix is public policy producing housing in order to force a situation of excess supply.
A surplus of housing in Madison, WI is irrelevant to someone living and working in NYC, which has a severe housing shortage.

We are still subject to space time.
Shows you the total lack of imagination in public policy that is the UK.

Currently there is no apprenticeship route in archaeology. Simultaneously there is something like millions of objects uncatalogued at the British museum (note cataloging is not simply recording, it is more like expert annotation). So you could literally keep an army of apprentices occupied and rigorously trained for at least three generations by just maintaining the British museum catalog.

What is annoying is that the main imaginative policy that will come out of it is a politician giving a full newspaper spread on how they intend to use AI to solve the cataloging issue and, to rub salt on the wound, by outsourcing the AI system to Microsoft/Accenture.
no shadows, no blur, no animations ...
Is this genuine or sarcasm? I can't tell.
Nobody is saying this.

> who actually has unique data needs

We are saying this is probably not true, and you just want to play with toys rather than ship working systems.

Google search, cannot be built in Postgres.
Because the U.S. doesn't actually have a supply problem, despite this often getting repeated.

U.S. construction of homes has actually kept up with population growth and moves, by every conceivable metric.

What IS happening though is that landlords (private and corporate) "warehouse" units constantly to artificially restrict supply and demand, and they do it in collaboration with each other.

Every single city and state in the U.S. has a vacancy problem. We DO have both houses and apartments that are ready and able to be rented and owned.

The problem is simply the price, and the prices aren't being driven by legitimate supply and demand.

You can see this effect happen where prices increase NOT to match population (and often in SPITE of it), but they increase to match the upper bounds of regional income.

You need a place to live more than landlords need a few months of rent. This strategy to prevent downward price pressure from the market allows them to justify the current prices while setting up a "baseline" for the next few years.

Some free reading:

* https://www.construction-physics.com/p/is-there-a-housing-sh...

* https://reventureconsulting.com/the-myth-of-the-us-housing-s...

* https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-problem-is...
so could this be resolved by having a high tax (~50%) on second/rental/investment homes?
Agree. If someone's productivity is negative, bringing it closer to 0 is an improvement. That means keeping them busy with a useless AI is actually helpful.
> sustainable

> adjective

> 1. able to be maintained at a certain rate or level.

It is quite literally what sustainable means. Maybe don’t go around correcting people on the meaning of words if you haven’t bothered checking a dictionary?
How about self driving cars as public transport?
I recently kayaked a stretch of the Tennessee River, between state parks, and within an hour of paddling I passed both a homeless riverside "tent city" [technically "public camping" on TWRA/state land] and then the most-expensive house for sale in our entire metro area (just around the same peninsula).

These inholdings, both impoverished and not, were each having their respective parties (cheap beer in common) along the lakeside. Titties abounded - "howdy neighbor" - the no-betterness of being "commoners, enjoying this day upon the lake."

Interestingly, the poverty beach camp seemed to be having more fun; but obviously the multi-million $$$ homeowners are in much easier/better situations (likely).
yep, that's hynix m-die.

not sure what the status quo is, but you used to be able to buy a cheap kit as long as the timings indicated hynix, and they'd manually overlock quite high without issues.
Have laying chickens that free-range, and have eaten a couple of incidental and aggressive roosters. They are immensely tougher than the typical grocery store Cornish Crosses. Soup or braising is highly recommended. Coq au vin recipes meant for store-bought chicken (nearly all of them) will need to be adjusted back to add the required cooking time to make the meat tender. Plan on several to six hours of cooking.

None of the hens have aged out of laying thanks to the efforts of the local predators. Should that ever happen, it will surely require resolving the question of whether the hens are livestock or pets before I can tell you about how the cooking process varies from a grocery store bird.
I'm very open to dark matter alternatives. It sucks, everyone hates it. But there are a vocal segment of people who are unable to accept that it might possibly be true anyway, who believe it's some kind of mass delusion by physicists rather than, as it actually is, the current simplest explanation of a whole lot of observations that look just like matter which is dark. Have you really not seen these people on every thread where dark matter comes up?
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I certainly find that standard wall outlet charging at 240v is enough for me in Australia, altho the US power system is lower voltage/power. I don't even plug in every night, usually every second night.

The problem is that I need to move and I can't afford a house, only an apartment. I may never afford a house. So I'll be relying 100% on public charging. Not because home charging is too slow, but because I will have no access to it.
I thought this is obvious (also the text size is 4, hard to spot in any case). How is this relevant in the context of the grandparent comment?
It's the difference between 2011 and 2022 that I was highlighting.

Unfortunately the document doesn't show changes in vacancy rate.
As I said, it's not always the case. But in some cities there are shuttered properties, in sometimes prime locations, that are held by non-residents. In some places, like London, it's literally a money laundering who's who. Carrying costs discourage just holding on to property. (I don't know if Portugal has taxes on real property). Increase the carrying costs and the incentive is to rent or sell. That being said, you can't do much about the location of the mountains or the sea.
Are you ”teaching” that because some 2% of housing units are empty we don’t have a shortage? Because I don’t think any of economy, capitalist or not can reasonably obtain 100% use of any resource. 98% is pretty dang efficient and I think is actually a counterpoint to what you’re trying to argue.
https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/22/docs/api/index.htm...
When you set up NAT64...

... :-( ... goes to cry in a corner
> it’s a mix of both

How do you make that work? Can we create multiple share pages with different purposes? That’s not clear to me from the website.

> What do you suggest?

Create a couple of live real examples which showcase what someone will see when visiting one of these shared pages. Then make the examples accessible from your homepage.

I also suggest you create an area where one can create those pages without having to sign up first[1]. Make it editable like a real page and warn users that’s an example and that they will have to create an account to save and share it.

In other words, let people see what the product really is. Half-cut screenshots and words only take you so far.

[1]: I (and many other people, particularly the tech savvy) am not going to give my email to yet another service that I’m not sure will fit my needs. It’s not even worth the effort of signing up with a fake email.
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I used to use tree explorers all the time, but once I discovered fuzzy-search file explorers, I never used a tree explorer again. It’s been too long for me to remember why I liked tree explorers before or why I stopped using them, so I’m curious, what are the benefits of a tree explorer over a fuzzy-search file explorer?

I’m not questioning the usefulness or validity of tree explorers. I’m just trying to see things from a different perspective.
People who walk out every morning to an EV fully charged up on a home L2 charger (the "high power plugs" mentioned above) very seldom have to think about charge, and definitely not "every day".

How would you feel if your car automatically had a full tank of gas every morning? Even when near empty the night before. It's described as the complete opposite of "worry every day".
The pipe used to drink it is made of silver and the thing is really hot. Drinkers believe it sterilizes the liquid, unfortunately, the Hep-B virus is tolerant to both. Brazil's Minister of Health records frequent outbreaks of the disease in Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, where this habit is more common.
> But even then the proper current profile that a fuse is supposed to accept or block is far from obvious or intuitive. Reading the spec helps.

Right. This. Even if you shove the standards in front of their faces, most engineers don't know what fuses really do (prevent fires) or what they don't (save circuit boards) or how fast it happens (not very). Asking your typical engineer to test a fuse lot is not going to give a useful result.

This is why there are so very many safety agency marks on fuses and why even the Chinese often skip the BS and just pay for name brand fuses.
> and paying a lot more for it

Do you have a low electricity rate?

A petrol car would use around 0.03 gallons per mile (33 mpg). At $ 4 per gallon that's $ 0.12 per mile.

A Tesla model S does around 0.3 kWh per mile. So to get to the same cost per mile your electricity price would have to be below $ 0.40 per kwh.

In a lot of places electricity isn't (much) below $ 0.40 per kwh.
I have never received a meet invite from someone that isn’t required to use it by their organization.
If this was true you should be able to build a new house for much less than the asking price for existing houses but unfortunately that is not the case either.
It's infrared, not bluetooth.
College can be immensely valuable for those pursuing fields that require formal credentials and rigorous training. However, with the raise of blended/bootcamp education and significant financial burden of traditional degrees, it's critical to weigh the costs against the potential benefits.

The traditional 5-6 years of studying one core subject makes me a bit worried these days due to the speed of change in the current job market.

Ultimately, education should be a strategic choice, not an automatic one.
> look at the numbers for each of the countries I mentioned in the first chart

The number is irrelevant - people want to live in desirable areas where's there are jobs, and are constrained as such. Rebuilding high density in towns and cities is an issue, as well as maintaining decent services ( hospitals, roads, public transport, post office etc).

You say that houses are being treated as investments, that's why these crises happen; but then why are building materials and tradespeople also at sky-high prices (in Ireland)? Is it all competition on investment building?
Depends when. A home is a leveraged investment, plus often exempt from capital gain taxes. If you bought it at the beginning of a large real estate bull market you probably did better than an unleveraged investment in the S&P.
To be clear, this is a 38kHz modulated IR system, and it’s not likely to work like a DMX light.

38kHz IR is an extremely mature technology. The transmit and receive sides are made in huge volumes, complete with integrated modulators and demodulators. There’s a receiver in basically every piece of consumer A/V equipment and a transmitter in almost every remote control. You used to be able to buy them at Radio Shack!
relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/664/
Another relevant Arabic saying: ham-eeha, haram-eeha.

The guardians are the thieves.
Looks like Incus/LXD/SystemD-nspawn.

All nice if you need a system to try something quickly. But nowadays I just want to use infra as code. With Nix(OS) and docker/podman compose a system is clean and comprehensible. I feel like I don’t really need VMs anymore.
> That’s not a realistic benchmark though

Yeah, that why i mentioned that benchmarking features is always contentious and it's easy to devolve into semantic argument... but here we go.

I guess it depends on what you mean by realistic and what is the benchmark trying to do. If by realistic, we mean "representative" in a sense that this code captures a good approximation o real work code, then i would argue that the original benchmark is completely wrong.

My version focus on being precise : measuring one thing (exception handling) in isolation as much as possible.

With that perspective :

1 - The cost of error handling also depends on the amount of information being reported. In the orginal benchmark, on one side the author is sending basically one bit of information and the other a full string. Pre-allocating the error was a way to normalize for that.

2 - I looked at the code, and most of performance delta between the two version came from the error code being vectorize, no_inline was a way to normalize for that as well.
My theoretical point that high rental yields can imply houses are a good asset to own without price spirals stands regardless of time period.

The 20th century is relevant because it had long periods of time where homes could be bought at high rental yields because there was lots of new construction in the USA.
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Pretty sure you wouldn't find many circles containing galaxies all at a similar approximate distance

There might be some, so it could be lucky and just random chance, but the stats seem to say that it's very unlikely
There are many Chinese and European cities where the majority of buses are now EVs.

I'm sure there was some investment in chargers, reconfiguring the depot etc, but it's evidently not insurmountable.
Thank you for the detailed reply. I have very shallow experience with some of what you said above, and the way you explained it makes the 'stuck' feeling make more sense.

I've treated it, in the past, as "you've gotten over it before, you'll get over it again, try not to take it out on other people in the meantime", which is treating the symptoms not the cause.

I'll re-read this a few times.

Thank you.
Given the awful nature of doctors handwriting?
Got any numbers to back up this claim?
You can think of a full-text index as being like a vector database that's highly specialized and optimized for the use-case where your documents and queries are both represented as "bags of words", i.e. very high-dimensional and very sparse.

Which works great when you want to retrieve documents that actually contain the specific keywords in your search query, as opposed to using embeddings to find something roughly in the same semantic ballpark.
So first of all, JWT is part of the OpenID Connect specification. So if you want to be either a service provider or identity provider for OIDC, you need to use JWTs as an authentication token in at least some cases.

Secondly, you don't have to hit the database on every request. Unless you have really strict security requirements, you can have a short expiration time on the jwt with a refresh mechanism, and then you only have to check the database say once every 5 minutes.

Related to the above point, the database you check for the "session" token isn't necessarily the same as the one used for other data used in the request, even if you are much smaller than Google or Facebook. It might not even ve the same type of database.

Finally, even if it makes sense to use a "traditional" session cookie for brower sessions, that probably doesn't make sense for an external API, where the client may not have persistent cookies at all, and there may not really be a concept of a session.

So as was mentioned in another comment, I think the answer to the title question is a solid "it depends".
Yeah, problem is that we’re competing with ~99.99% for IPv4. So until IPv6 gets in that ballpark, most Internet servers (HTTP and friends) will still need to IPv4 addresses. And as long as that is true, many companies won’t bother and their service will be IPv4 only. Meaning ISPs must continue to offer IPv4 connectivity to their customers.

A true chicken and egg problem.

At this rate, we’ll be struggling with IP-shortages, CGNAT and other fun things for decades to come. And it’s all so unnecessary.
Since you mention by the way, he was followed up shortly after by Rep. Luna's quite competent UAP transparency questioning of DoE Sec. Granholm:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xwx5pLoDXIg&t=5656s
Specially since the middle is way larger than people think.