skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate Nickelback because they're music is whiney and has a complete lack of dynamic range.

And in the early 2000's, when I still listened to radio, it was as if every 4th song was Nickelback. Being forced to listen to music you dislike creates utter hatred and contempt.

Nickelback does have ONE song that I actually really like, and it sounds nothing like anything else they made: Animals

https://youtu.be/yAWo0DV03Ng (Lyrics are NSFW, but the video is work safe)

If all of their songs sounded like this, they'd be one of my favorite bands.
A few more steps and we’ll have HN over NNTP. Which would give me a reason to dust off my slrn config from god knows where it is now.
> they also would have been invented a 3. time if necessary

Not sure what you mean? Romans would have had great use of Newtonian physics, they made a ton of machines, but they didn't manage to invent the math/physics to do those calculations at the time. What do you suggest would replace this for making calculations for machines?
When I search for a title- movie/show- it just shows me info about it. I thought you would suggest other relevant titles based on the input.

Consider linking to where you can view the content - youtube/networks, and good luck!
I should have added that I really dislike the usage of "the alternative form" in (US-?) english texts in general.
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I really enjoyed Flexbox Froggy and felt like it helped me a lot better than Grid Garden. Maybe my brain just isn't a grid-oriented brain— CSS Grid never seems to stick.
At the macro level, landlords and property owners stand on one side opposed to developers on the other. Developers are incentivized to add housing supply and the others are incentivized to secure it against competition. Tenants _should_ stand on the side of developers but I’m not sure that’s true in general, given the anti-developer sentiment in some of most dense and progressive cities in America.

It’s zoning, it’s environmental review, it’s historic/landmark review, it’s good neighbor agreements, it’s disorganized and/or corrupt permitting departments, etc. All of this gets weaponized against new supply. Ultimately. City electeds answer to voters, not builders, so they get the government they deserve.

Some places are building, adding supply, and consequently lowering prices. Austin is a prime example.

From JosephPolitano on X:

Last year, Austin MSA (population: 2.4M) permitted 21,300 units worth of 5+ unit apartment buildings—more than LA (pop: 12.8M) and SF (pop: 4.6M) combined.

San Francisco permitted 1,151 housing units over the last 15 months. Austin permitted 1,248 in January alone.

Austin averages 28+ units per day this year. San Francisco has allowed 15 units total in all of 2024.
Nah, you put that as thumbnail, you deserve your channel banned.
At that point you're more of an investor than a landlord, since you're farming out all the hard parts to someone else.
Not yet, because the reliability isn't there. You still need to validate everything it does.

E.g. I had it autocompleting a set of 20 variable#s today Something like output.blah=tostring(input[blah]). The kind of work you give to a regex.

In the middle of the list, it decides to go output.blah=some long weitd piece of code, completely unexpected and syntactically invalid.

I am still in my AI evaluation phase, and sometimes I am impressed with what it does. But just as possible is an unexpected total failure. As long is it does that, I can't trust it.
> "No, you really can't just look at people from above," that's gonna have serious consequences for how we make maps in this day and age.

it would potentially make looking out high windows illegal? I can't imagine much changing in this regard
No. The right to privacy should be inviolable. This is no different than the state trying to shove client side CSAM scanning on everyone. "Think of the theoretical children" / "think of the theoretical slaves" doesn't move the needle.

I don't know how to square this with satellite imagery, etc. But intentional surveillance from the sky is pretty messed up.
Using an algorithm is not what makes it criminal, facilitating large-scale collusion is what makes it criminal. Here is the FTC and DoJ's explanation of algorithmic price-fixing: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/YardiSOI-filed%...

Some quotes:

> concerted action can take many forms—including, inter alia, competitors’ jointly delegating key aspects of their decisionmaking to a common algorithm, because doing so “joins together separate decisionmakers” and thus “deprives the marketplace of independent centers of decisionmaking.”

> As technology has developed in the 133 years since the Sherman Act created a federal prohibition on price fixing, firms have evolved the mechanisms they use for reaching unlawful price-fixing agreements. In-person handshakes gave way to phone and fax, and later to email. Algorithms are the new frontier. And, given the amount of information an algorithm can access and digest, this new frontier poses an even greater anticompetitive threat than the last.

> The question in this case is whether the defendants have violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act by allegedly knowingly combining their sensitive, nonpublic pricing and supply information in an algorithm that they rely upon in making pricing decisions, with the knowledge and expectation that other competitors will do the same. Although not every use of an algorithm to set price qualifies as a per se violation of Section 1, taking the allegations set forth in the complaints as true, the alleged scheme meets the legal criteria for per se unlawful price fixing.

(emphasis mine)

> To begin, the complaints allege that RealPage’s proposal “contemplated” and “invited” concerted action among the landlords. In fact, its “intent to create coordination among users,” including its “aim” of “increasing revenues by raising rents,” was “transparent to all.” Among other things, RealPage required each user to submit real-time pricing and supply data to it, and RealPage’s marketing materials allegedly “touted” its use of “non-public data from other RealPage clients,” enabling them to “raise rents in concert”; as well as the algorithms’ ability to “facilitate collaboration among operations” and “track your competition’s rent with precision.”

> Indeed, the complaints also contain ample allegations on how RealPage directly constrained the “deviations” from its suggested prices, including by enforcing and monitoring compliance with those prices, so the landlords effectively delegated aspects of their pricing decisions to RealPage.

> Indeed, RealPage allegedly touted this feature—stating in a press release that it gives clients “the ability to ‘outsource daily pricing and ongoing revenue oversight,’” such that RealPage could “set prices”
as though it “own[ed]” the clients’ properties “ourselves.’”

You can think of RealPage's role as a facilitator that gathers competitors together and says "let me set all of your prices, if enough of you agree then you won't need to compete and we'll all make a lot of money together." That is illegal under antitrust law.
I honestly prefer the Spotify app from 7 years ago to the one we have now. It's not innovation, it's just bloat.
Take them apart.
Housing should not be a way to make investments at scale.

Not while there is a housing crisis

One thing is owning your house and wanting it’s value to appreciate, another is cornering people to bleed them dry leveraging the fear of homelessness
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> Getting to the v8 performance is IMHO such an example.

There's no doubt in my mind that Andreas could achieve that by himself. He's worked professionally on webkit, and implemented a JS interpreter, a JS bytecode interpreter, and a JS JIT all by himself after all. Also let's not forget that V8 is open-source, all their optimizations are available for others to see and implement.

But to be clear this isn't a one man project, he hired a few contributors to work full time on it. Sure, it's a small team, but as said in sibling comments a small team has much more velocity.
The unveiling of Nepal’s budget for the fiscal year 2081/82 (2024/25) marks a significant milestone in the nation’s economic trajectory. Presented by Finance Minister Barshaman Pun on Jestha 15, 2081, this budget outlines the government’s strategies and allocations to propel economic growth, enhance social welfare, and bolster infrastructure development.
Indeed.

* Paper - coming soon.

* Github repository - coming soon.

* Details about how it works - coming soon.

* Hype - here now.

This is so retro. I went through Stanford CS in the 1980s, just as the "expert system" boom was collapsing, and the "AI winter" was beginning. This is very close to the hype of that era.
Many of the Stanford faculty really believed that artificial general intelligence via expert systems was close. If you could just hammer the real world into predicate calculus...

It might be worth revisiting, though. Embedding-based AI may be reaching its limits. If you need to plan or subgoal or compute, it's not quite the right tool for the job. Some other representation may be needed.

(Consider EMACS "org mode". It probably isn't that hard to get an LLM to translate a question into "org mode" form. Then you need a strategy module to decide which subtasks to work on, notice when progress is being made and when it isn't, work on the problem as a tree of subgoals, and combine into a result.)
https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/priva...
Just seems like what the other PMA apps do too, e.g. Yardi, Buildium, Appfolio

Not saying it's okay, just why do we only hear about Realpage
Agreement is problematic as well as requirement that they get all this non public data.

If they scraped apartment complexes websites and got public facing pricing data available there, that would be one thing. It's the fact they get all this non public data is extremely problematic part.
And that is the tradeoff. 99.999% of the time the person is lying, confused, or crazy.

I doubt it was lack of attention, but lack of trust instead.
Bullshit. Trolls suck. Good luck.
This reminds me of the scene in which ever Cheech & Chong movie where their blue tarp "roof" gets a hole in it, and he lays on a ladder to make it look like a swimming pool just to fool the aerial viewers.

However, I do appreciate the logic that the judges apparently used. No, this is not the same thing as Google Earth type imagery, as it's not real time capable. Also, I have around my yard a specific type of fencing called privacy fencing. I would absolutely expect a sense of privacy in my yard within that area.

Conversely, every single argument presented in the article by the police just reeks of desperation and bottom of the barrel scraping for any justification for their actions.

I'm just happy that there's an actual supreme court somewhere within the country that seems to have gotten it right.
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Not one of them but I expect they will justify it in the same way as anyone else: bills, food, mortgage, kids, etc etc.

Do not blame the exploited, blame the exploiter.
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A friend of mine manages money for a multi-billionaire that made his money in real estate. He told me once they were walking by a block of brownstones in Manhattan and the guy didn't even know he owned most of the block.

So you don't even need to know what you own as a landlord, you just pay other people to know it for you!
It’s possible to have a genuinely bad RCA cable:

- It could be unshielded. Yes, this is a thing. It can pick up all kinds of easily audible noise.

- It could have no contact or intermittent contact at one of the terminations. A bad shield contact will result in a cable that mostly works but can buzz horribly.

- It can be hard to connect or can fall out by accident.

But the real reason I made my own is for length. A cheap $1 cable is probably fine for, say 2 feet, but if I needed 11 feet, that cheap cable wouldn’t reach. Even the least audiophilic listener can tell the difference between music and complete silence :) Making an RCA cable from coax is easier and compression connectors is faster than making one from solder terminals, especially the cheap ones with un-tinned cups and fiddly stain relief.

re: HDMI cables: that gold plating is indeed useless, but HDMI cables are built to different standards, and a cable of the wrong type won’t do what you want it to.
I intentionally have avoided saying "open source" as it's not yet. Please let me know where it says it, as I may have made a mistake. I just haven't seen enough demand from current or potential users to justify the effort. If you feel strongly on this, please leave a comment here to help justify the effort: https://github.com/timeseries/qstudio/issues/43
Why do I have flashback from crypto days?
It's definitely flatter. But I feel that the modelling techniques you need for successfully using these tools are no less rigorous than the design techniques you need to make 3D CAD work. They are just different.

I grappled with this idea of the stack/tree hiding complexity in FreeCAD but I've come to understand that once you get more confident thinking about design, it is more or less obvious where a given driving constraint should be derived from.

FreeCAD's expressions are no more complex than CadQuery paths, and they are certainly more expressive than OpenSCAD variables.

I would never diss the sheer coder-accessibility of OpenSCAD, which helped change my brain for the better, but GUI CAD models real-world thinking in often a very accessible way.
It's not about what is or isn't a public thoroughfare. It's about what is or isn't "a reasonable expectation of privacy." It just turns out that, because people are expected to walk/drive on streets, and people are also generally expected to have functional eyes, your front yard doesn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Health care has a similar provider that tells insurances how much they should pay for out of network providers. We really need to reduce the data that entities can hold. There is way too much power in having so much data.
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What standard of care are you proposing? Please be specific.

Auto mechanics frequently misdiagnose problems, especially those caused by electrical or software faults. But in the worst case they can usually just keep following the manufacturer's service manual and replacing parts in a trial-and-error process until the vehicle works again.

The human body is orders of magnitude more complex and there is no service manual. We have a few evidence-based medicine clinical practice guidelines but those cover only the simplest of cases. For anything more complex, physicians have to fall back on theory, intuition, and experience. It's not surprising that they sometimes get it wrong. And sometimes there's just no way to make a definitive diagnosis for the root cause of a patient's complaints and so treatment is necessarily symptomatic; this can be tough for patients to accept. I'm not trying to defend clinicians who make preventable errors or dismiss legitimate patient concerns but we need to be realistic about what is achievable given the current limited state of medical knowledge.
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I'm not suggesting gender is solely and entirely The Reason. I don't think I should have to say that.

But it's a factor generally for women. Which doesn't assert men always get fabulous results every time, nor does it in any way "rebut" points other people already made elsewhere in this discussion.

I was just going to ignore the ridiculous pile on to my comment, but it's not stopping. Folks are blowing it out of proportion.

Which may not stop but now I'm on record with that observation.
I think erring on the side of needing warrants for law enforcement can help with some of the incidental vs targeted surveillance debate. Law enforcement driving past while on regular patrol and noticing something vs spending time and resources to launch a drone, fly a plane, or stake out a property for surveillance has a distinction that feels neat enough for a court to rule on.
NXP runs a USB VID/PID Program [0] for small production designs (<10,000 units) that use their MCUs. They’ll give you 3 PIDs for free under one of their VIDs. I use this in my side projects (~200 units) and works pretty well!

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Imagine a job where you only undergo a performance review and the risk of not having your contract renewed once every two years. You have to be George Santos levels of untrustworthy to get ejected by your fellow legislators.
Something to consider: subjective good isn't objectively good, and objectively good things are hard to locate.
We are going full circle now.
They can't be human too and make oopsie whoopsies with no repercussions while demanding unlimited deference from society.
> today where you have to be a perfect cinnamon roll of a candidate who ticks all of HR's required-skill checkboxes before you can move on to the grueling 5-6 rounds of interviews

HR does that so they can empire build. If it takes 200 hours of HR work to hire someone instead of 20, then the director of HR has 10x the staff and can command higher prices.
Rent Control Creates Communities

No Rent Control Destroys Communities
Good elevator pitch. Raising a seed round on this?
They are actively facilitating dozens of companies, who are meant to be competitors, into using the same process for deriving prices to ensure that all these companies have increased profits at the expense of the consumer, i.e. removing competition due to price fixing.

It'd be one thing (still not good, but less problematic) if it was merely informational. But you also have RP requiring 90-95% compliance with their prices (including mystery shopping), requiring landlords to get RP's "approval" to go against the recommendation ("you mess with everyone when you don't", which if you're actually competing in a free market, why would you care?), and even up to and including advising their customer's execs of "problematic" property managers (those who are not complying).
Not taking a side one way or the other, but what you linked to is literally the definition of "correlation is not causation". They noted that in a handful of cities that over a 5 year period housing prices increased and homelessness increased. There's a (weak) correlation. That does not imply causation. There could be any number of explanations for why two things increased in the same time period without one causing the other.