skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In my view this is symptomatic of a more fundamental issue - global asset price inflation driven by a broken financial system (i.e. a system being artificially pumped up with cheap credit).

Maybe? 2008 happened. At that point, there was a policy choice: allow a deflationary collapse, or prevent it. If we allowed it, there would be a lot of ruined businesses and ruined people. There would have been a lot of people who lost their houses. Instead, we chose to prevent the collapse, and we wound up here, where people can't afford houses. That's almost the same place, except that 1) the numbers are higher, and 2) it happened gradually rather than in a shock. That is, people didn't lose their existing houses, but new families can't buy their first homes.

So is this better or worse? My impression is that, for all the problems, it's still better than a collapse in 2008 would have been. But given the situation in 2008, some damage was inevitable. This amount of damage 16 years later is actually pretty good, considering.
> Where I am there’s been a huge increase in houses being bought for cash by equity hedge funds, like 25% of houses going on the market.

Is this increase in absolute number of sales, or increase in the percentage? Because, if the house affordability due to high interest rates goes down, one of the only buyers with money that remain are hedge funds. So, in the past you had 1000 homes selling per year, 100 of those going to hedge funds, now you have 400 total sales, with 100 going to hedge funds. The relative percentage of houses bought by hedge funds increases from 10% to 25%, even though the absolute number remains flat.
Fun idea. What are common use cases for this? The Chrome Web Store would be nice to make it easier to try out.
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Would the increase in productivity not happen to almost all people if they were given the interesting work and the direct support of a good leader to help them focus? At least, I feel a difference like night and day when working on things I am interested in, as opposed to when I am doing chores. This includes thinking about the problem when I am on the toilet, during sports, on walks, on the bus, and so on.
> What exactly gives Egyptians an exclusive claim to an ancient culture that’s as foreign to them as anyone else—blood and soil?

Extend this logic and then any country who want to consider inclusive claim on this matter to abolish inheritance law. Why do you have exclusive claim to your dead relative wealth? Is that because you maybe lived together or only blood?

Or why only ancient world, let's treat the Modern world like that as well. And then let's distribute the wealth.

> Maybe I’m being naive

I do agree with you.
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The throughput of a charger is a lot lot lower. A single pump can maybe serve 20 cars an hour if it’s got a credit card reader. Most petrol stations in the UK have this and maybe 4-12 pumps depending on size. So just ball parking, if the average needed duration to charge is 10 mins on a supercharger, you need 4x more chargers than you would pumps for an equivalent.

The obvious difference is that you can’t pump your car at home, and by installing chargers in ordinary car parks you can mitigate the need the specific infrastructure of petrol stations, but the number of total chargers needed is still high, they are just not in the same places.
I appreciate you pointing these out—thanks!
dup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40473060
now that apple have to allow other sources for software, what is preventing Mozilla, chrome, vscode from actually running in ios?
https://observablehq.com/explore

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Ah, here's but two interesting and well cited papers regarding an optical "shannon limit", both published in IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology.

The old idea of a "Shannon Limit" has been split into many types, including linear (old tech) and non-linear (using more modern tech). Both these papers address the non-linear limit (which is not a limit, as both papers show, but more of an artfact of modern tech):

[1] "Approaching the non-linear Shannon Limit" : From the abstract "We also discuss the techniques which are promising to *increase* and/or approach the information capacity limit."

[2] "Scope and Limitations of the Nonlinear Shannon Limit" : "It is shown that this is a limit (if at all) holding only for conventional detection strategies. Indeed, it should only be considered as a limit to the information rate that can be achieved with a given modulation/detection scheme"

These are extensively cited, so use google scholar and read up to see that there is no "Shannon Limit" except for a particular channel technology. The concept has been split into a million directions depending on the underlying technology, each with a different value for "Shannon Limit".

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5210179
[2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7637002
> You now know why libel and slander laws in the UK don't allow the factual truth to be an absolute defense.

Let’s revisit the original comment.
The real question is why would anything allow you to use an illegal hostname?

I first ran into this problem 20 years ago, and have constantly over the next 20 years. Usually *nix Bind DNS servers warn you against self-inflicted gunshot wounds, but Windows DNS lets you do so gladly. I've managed to figure out over the years this was largely due to silly Windows NT4 admins that built domains, hostnames, and other things with underscore, that when evolving to Active Directory with Windows 2000 that used real DNS, and if Microsoft didn't let them use an underscore, they'd have forced (and should have) admins all over to have to rebuild their domains from scratch to conform to DNS RFC's.

The easy (Microsoft) answer: "Extend" the standard to allow underscores for AD DNS... And allow bad habits to extend perpetually and indefinitely, world and standards bed damned. As usual, thanks for all the fish Microsoft.

I've run into several organizations over the years that use Windows domains that have underscores, and every time I laugh, usually explaining to them about how that's technically illegal and breaks compatibility with, oh everyone but them. It's usually shrugged off that because it's "internal only" they don't have to. At least until they setup external partner and extranet networks outside of their own.

Any unix/linux folks that have ever setup a bind server themselves has probably run into this fact, but windows admins tend to remain still blissfully ignorant about the evils they do.
Why are 30yr fixed rate mortgages 7% and up so massively from just a few years ago? Shouldn't the interest on the mortgage be about the expectation of average interbank rates for the coming years, plus some margin? Sure interest rates shot up recently, but did banks go from believing we'd have 3% long term average to 7%?

My mortgage (not UK) are just fixed in various parts on various semi-short terms (3 months, 1year, 3 years etc). The shortest ones are basically the current interbank rate plus 1%. The 3 year one is the banks expectation of interest over 3 years, plus a small margin and so on. For 10 year or longer the current rates are 4%.

Why are interest rates so much higher for mortgages in the UK, despite often demanding longer fixed terms? Is the risk massively higher? (My loan uses the home as collateral but also future income, meaning if the home becomes worthless I'm still on the line for repaying the lone for as long as it takes, I can't just leave the keys and let the bank eat the risk).
Binder predated (significantly![1] Depending on how you count, it predated D-Bus itself[2]) both Bus1 and kdbus projects, and unlike either of them included some extra features for more efficient IPC (like mentioned by me elsewhere ability to pass CPU quanta from caller to callee and back).

Making it available from before init formed properly was, quite possibly, considerable part of why it never got merged. Kernel team had spent significant amount of work pushing out things to userland for cases like configuration et al. There's possible issue of applications failing when non-kernel-managed resource goes away, but honestly that's going to be a problem even for handling loss of service on the other end of the bus, too.

Funny thing, IIRC, ultimately both kdbus and bus1 had same userland requirements as binder does, which is userland component to set it up and IIRC provide management information too.

[1] Binder was mainlined (as experimental, but present in mainline) code in 2012, and made it into stable in 2015. kdbus started unnanounced development the same year, and was proposed for inclusion in 2014

[2] OpenBinder which became Android Binder had 1.0 release in 2005, a year before D-Bus' initial release. And that's not counting original Binder, which shipped for the first time to public in 1995
Physical and mental health are affected here, agree. Anxiety and depression are just some of them.
Ask HN: Is anyone else migrating to self-hosted tooling because of LLMs?
My tinfoil hat may be tighter than usual this morning, but I'm looking at migrating my startup's tooling to self-hosted. GitHub to self-hosted Git is among the first. The risks of my code ending up as LLM training fodder is starting to outweigh the benefits.

After all, LLM training on customer data is already happening. Slack is a recent example. [0] OpenAI is another -- they train on your private chats unless you opt out. [1]

My code has been in a GitHub private repo for years, so clearly, I have some trust in Microsoft not to outright steal it. But LLM training is different. Companies have been giving that a pass.

As a bootstrapped startup founder, having my code in some LLM's "knowledge update" could sink me if it could produce enough of it, even with alterations (hey, knowing my coding abilities, they'd probably be improvements). The same goes for docs, processes, and chats.

Copilot currently says it doesn't train on user data, but EULAs change. Some "we updated our terms" email could be a gloss on "heads up, we now train on your private code."

Is anyone else doing/thinking this, or do I need to take in my hat for alterations?

[0] https://www.techspot.com/news/103055-slack-has-siphoning-user-data-train-ai-models.html

[1] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7730893-data-controls-faq
Yes, they both run on the Beam VM and you can seamlessly call the code directly or pass messages between processes written in Gleam or Elixir (or Erlang).
Don’t ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to incompetence
Binder has been mainlined since a bit before kdbus project started, and can be in fact utilized with alternate implementations, as the kernel interface is explicitly not married to any specific content of the IPC.
There are no* 30 year fixed rate mortgages in the UK. The typical one is 5 years. I renewed last September for 5 years at 4.49% with about 80% LTV.

The problem buying a house for me was always getting the deposit together while paying rent. Most people in the UK seem to rely on gifts from parents.

* very few -- there are some very specialised brokers
Orjson: Fast, correct Python JSON library
1. If you switch the default SDK you still need to understand S3 to some extent. At least creating buckets, bucket policies, IAM, CORS headers and a few more. The complexity of S3 comes from it's architecture, not the SDK. In fact I believe the v3 SDK of AWS does a good job at what it is.

2. Feature extensibility. This way FILE0 is not restricted by S3 API limitations. One example being: the AWS SDK doesn't support advanced filters for files (like ends with .png). This is a feature FILE0 has, but not supported by the s3 api.

3. If the goal is to provide a smooth DX, you cannot start with "Go to your aws account and create a bucket, and add this configuration to your bucket".

A package like this would be interesting but it's not what FILE0 aims to achieve.
Hackernews, it never disappoints.
You're still giving it away by which merchant you're transacting with.
What is the other meaning of "Root your docker host" which is disambiguated by adding "for fun and profit"?
Even if you can afford to buy a home it isn't necessarily economical accounting in the opportunity cost of capital. This ofc varies across different times and situations regarding interest rates, regulation on mortgages in your jurisdiction, house prices and rent prices.
superb_dev was asking about the 2 people joemazerino called BLM activists probably.

Marilyn Mosby is not an organization. I found no connection to any BLM organization. It seems some people call her a BLM activist because she prosecuted the police officers involved in Freddie Gray's death.

Barbara Furlow-Smiles is not an organization. I found no connection to any BLM organization. joemazerino copied a sentence Andy Ngo wrote about her. Why Ngo called her a BLM activist was not clear.

Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is not in charge of the BLM movement regardless of how many politicians or reporters they confused. And The Movement for Black Lives raised more money.
Note that mail domains are subtly different from hostnames:

- fully qualified hostnames can have a trailing dot; mail domains must never have a trailing dot

- hostnames can be unqualified (dotless), but RFC 2821 accidentally forbade dotless mail domains so they are even more of an interop minefield than you might expect

- NETBIOS hostname conventions (- forbidden, _ allowed) tend to leak into internet hostnames more than mail domains

Both are subsets of domain names. I have found it useful to be pedantic about the differences, but I have worked as a postmaster and hostmaster …
Relevant for OP's requirement of AI: https://github.com/khoj-ai/khoj
I don't think any of them achieve anything. You can bring a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. It's easier to forcefully hydrate a horse (IV fluids) than to make someone learn.

If they're deliberately missing from class then chances are high that they wouldn't be productive in the class either.

I would say that option 4 would achieve the most, because it avoids the harm that the first 3 create.
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I agree in general, but non-profits themselves have very little to do with the argument, which seems to be that the outsourcing of what should be rightly considered government services for the common good results in gross and unpunished waste. Whether the organization receiving the public largesse is for-profit or a non-profit seems beside the point. Government administrations, at all levels, have abdicated their responsibilities to the citizens, by indulging in this form of wasteful theater. A perfect and horrendous confluence of neo-liberal and faux-progressive ideologies has led us to where we now stand.
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Thank you - the link appears to have been changed from that originally submitted.

That's quite disturbing.
Do you mean table(s)?
Depends on the topic to be honest and the quality of the post. I consume more varying topics now than i did during the blog-era.

But sure - a well crafted blogpost is wonderful and I miss that. But there was a lot of crap back then aswell.
I got the best results with the google camera app and using the astrophotography mode (may be something limited to Pixel Phones?)

The mode gets activated when your phone doesn't move for a few seconds while you have the 'Night Sight' tab open.

In this mode, the photo will take 2-5 minutes, but the results are worth it. It feels like you can see every single star with it. It also (sometimes?) creates a timelapse, which was really cool, when I photographed to aurora, as you could see it moving in the timelapse. (It was very faint where I life, so I couldn't just take a video to see it)
https://archive.is/wXx8D
ChatGPT says: In astronomy, ELE stands for Extinction-Level Event
Perhaps you mean 'table'?
You are confused. The denominator is the number of households. The homeless obviously don’t have households.

You could at least read the comment you’re replying to before calling its poster a liar.
Yes, the confidence interval on the model which assigns the probabilities is so large, any confidence on derived conclusions here is pretty meaningless.
Initially, I thought this was an old HTML page from 90-ish/early 2000-ish.

Then I noticed this:
Updates to this DOS site
As of 2024, March 6th
https://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/DOS-Head.html

Interesting.
“Building enough housing” is actually a concept that we can apply everywhere in the world. My city has a million fewer people than it did 50 years ago and inflation adjusted rents are an order of magnitude higher. It’s not because the ability to build enough housing was lost to the sands of time.
Serving a kilobytes static file over HTTPS at around ~1k rps shouldn't be too hard for a modern server in the year of our lord 2024 right?
We've covered Israel's actions being illegal in the eyes of the world, immoral in the eyes of the world, and unhelpful to peace in the eyes of the world. I appreciate your offering of another viewpoint, because a diversity of viewpoints is good, and indeed your viewpoint is valid. Valid enough that the world has heard it, and took it into account when forming the above consensus.

> [consensus] just doesn't seem necessary when discussing morality.

That would not be an entirely unexpected claim from any given person who doesn't like the humanitarian consensus, Just like it was not entirely unexpected to see Israel claim that international laws don't seem necessary when violating international laws they don't like.

I think we're both smart enough to realize what would happen if each person on earth decided that they were the true arbiter of law and morality, and had the right to do whatever they wanted, regardless of the law or what anybody or almost everybody else thought. So it is good that the consensus is that consensus is indeed necessary when writing and enforcing and judging the laws we wrote, around such moral standards as "don't genocide people".

By rejecting the concept of this consensus, which you call an "appeal to authority", it seems this topic is indeed being reduced to whether Bibi will say "whatever, I do what I want" like Putin or Cartman or Kony or Sinwar, while his country continues to spiral into international pariah status. So, I will submit a bet that he will, and leave it at that.
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My pet theory is that open source is very much about packaging things.

I remember being amazed when I discovered that there was this a system, called GNU/Linux, where everything you need was already packaged and easy to install.

Then came the Maven, npm & co.

Docker (and containers) is basically an universal package manager that was fulled by the success of open source, the arrival of a lot of new people (working on Mac and Windows) in that space and the adoption of the cloud.
Docker Hub became the open source "app store".

The crime is the misleading term "container" because I bet a majority of people assume there is some security guarantee by design, what is absolutely false.

Actually container security is pretty hard and a most people don't really care because it doesn't run on their computer but in the cloud.

My guess is something like Kata containers, compatible with the container standards while leveraging hardware virtualization technology will prevail. Or a cleaner system, similar to NixOS/Guix but easier to use, will appear.
The iPhone 15 pro could be a general purpose computer, but Apple doesn’t want that.

Imagine plugging your phone into a Lightning dock and then it is running full macOS or Ubuntu in a vm, with Bluetooth keyboard and mouse support.

This is possible from a hardware perspective (look at Samsung dex), and would actually bring innovation to the smartphone market, but we allow Apple/google/friends to lock down our hardware bc of profits.
KYC is not so much about removinh ambiguity. It's about risk mitigation and proof. Not only about a specific user, but also the connections of a company or a person. There is also a lot of rules and laws behind against AML and PEP checks.
That's the thing though, at the time it wasn't supplying gas. Gazprom said it was having 'technical difficulties' (that the German equipment manufacturer denied) and had reduced the flows over time to zero to put pressure on the Europeans through high winter gas prices and low supplies.

Your broader point is correct though, admitting to blowing it up would be bad press to any party.
It’s a multitude of factors - limited supply in certain (most?) markets, “cheap money”, supply chain factors with certain common building materials, “corporate owned homes”.

One thing that has definitely not helped is hostile building codes that prevent density. In some cities in the US, building height is constrained by the nearest single family home. Then there’s the parking minimums for buildings that allocate more space for parking than for building space for people.

In Austin, TX (USA), you frequently see buildings with massive amounts of multilayered parking but a smaller fraction of the building used for residential or commercial space. Some “clever” developers have tried to disguise the parking structures as part of the building itself to hide this fact from public view.

Problem with America is that we think this is 1950 and we can scale by building more deadass suburbs, expensive regional highways, and further strain our limited pool of resources (water, sewage, electrical infra) to support suburban living without any consequences.
"...reduce reliance on air conditioning" - that's gonna be amazing. But it is still hard to get fresh air...
Correct, it would be better read as P(app start) * P(infra ok|app start) * P(first dollar|infra ok and app start). That's just a mouthful so I elided the "givens".
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The empty properties are they owned or rented? If they are rented, are the tenants paying rent but just not using them? If they are owned, are the owners people who just used them for passive investment and don't rent them out?
Otherwise I don't understand how rents can be so high?

If there are places owned that aren't in use then the political solution seems pretty easy: tax property ownership massively when unused. Make unannounced visits to properties to see if the owners claim of having a property that's lived in is true.
I hear you, I'm not an ops person and my goal was to showcase the native otel integration. I guess that's not a supported scenario.
Part of the problem is that NETBIOS allowed _ in hostnames but forbade - and Microsoft didn’t address the incompatibility by doing any hostname character translation between the Internet and NETBIOS worlds.
My father was in his late seventies when he underwent surgery for back pain. Unfortunately, they discovered that the cause of the pain was that his multiple myeloma had spread and that there was really no turning back. When he woke from surgery he couldn’t remember who his children were. He was a completely different person.
I don't understand the framing of your comment. You act like the LLM's feelings are going to be hurt if you say it isn't a real AGI. "Well, you can't do basic math expected of fifth graders, but there are dumb fifth graders too, so here's the 'human-level intelligence' participation trophy anyway."