skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regulation cannot be completely discounted, but the bigger issue is labour. If you can even find someone willing to build you a home, they won't even entertain doing it until years into the future. There is no capacity to build more homes.

At least not without paying construction workers a whole lot more in order to compel the software developers away from developing software and into building houses, but then that only drives the cost of housing even higher!
> Because frankly nobody gives a sh about throwing resources and finding just better (not globally optimal) solutions to synthetic benchmarks.

This does not align with my experience of people working in OR.
I wonder if the answer is along these lines. Eg. a star path relative to the horizon from some reference point…
Im amazed your friend didnt come up with a swift solution, and what would the squatters do? call police and say they were squatting? show their rental agreement??

wouldnt have happened to me
It's besides the point what I think is morally wrong or right.

There is a legal difference between "occupying" someone's primary residence, and occupying other types of properties. The first isn't considered "occupying" here but rather "breaking and entering", and the local police are very quick at acting on those types of crimes, especially if the criminals are still inside the property.
Maybe it has to do with the duration, with there being a chance that the ECB could reduce rates again within a 3 month span?
Not endorsing the view, just sharing lines of reasoning I've seen.

Paying money to the bank implies you financed your purchase of a home. This is not necessarily a morally-neutral activity, it's in fact nuanced but we've done a good job of handwaving away the nuance in the last 4-5 generations of Americans.

A small vignette to explain: financing allows people to leverage their credit history and income to make larger purchases than they could otherwise afford. This increases the sticker price of purchasing a home, which prices out people with low credit or income. Anything that increases the price of housing effectively increases the price of rent, which limits peoples' abilities to save to actually purchase a home – it's a nasty cycle. One could argue that by participating in that system of financing, you're perpetuating it, but most people immediately dismiss this idea, ymmv.

Building a house, and paying people to build the house, is not a problem. You're exchanging value for labor and assets. You're de facto increasing the supply of housing.
Yes, if you assume people won't destroy the free houses, I totally agree.

I think it is remarkable that people argue for theft from others instead of donating their time, effort, or money to building those houses.

The underlying hypocrisy is that most people argue that others should pay, but won't act individually on their own beliefs
Going from 79.5% up to 84.2% is a -23% error rate for example, it's quite a huge difference.
You’re asking for it to happen sooner because you don’t like your job.

You’re not the only inhabitant of this planet, and it would be much better for the rest of us (and you!) if you found a job or career you can better tolerate. You’ll be happier and there won’t be any rush anymore.
One nerd to another, I'm rooting for you here, and just want to write a note real quickly that it's very easy to get sucked into this topic. The dopamine circuit we're playing with is a quirk of homo messageboardicus. A couple days ago I did a bunch of conscious things to keep me away from this topic on HN, and with a day or so of detox I've regained my original perspective that this is a deeply cursed species of HN thread. There's lots of other stuff to talk about!

I got very lucky, and the very next day someone started an argument about the futility and/or propriety of user-mode TCP/IP stacks and WireGuard. I wish for you a similarly irresistible nerd snipe for whatever nerd topic lights you up. Good luck!
> a single giant spill that had significantly bad effects enough that it would force change.

That's the premise of the Brian K Vaughan/Marcos Martin comic "The Private Eye." Unfortunately, the premise is more of an aesthetic than anything else. Still, it's a beautiful aesthetic and a fun read.
How do they recover the booster? It doesn't sink to the bottom of the sea?
I feel the same sometimes about people's opinions. Alas, people can say what they want.
> That is an ahistorical perspective. For most of human history, you could be killed for putting a yurt or hut in someone else's land. Even chimps will kill others for infringing on territory.

I don't agree with you, there are books such as The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity that counter your rhetoric. Private property norms did not exist for most of human history.

> Even chimps will kill others for infringing on territory.

On the other hand Bonobo is not so territorial and is too one of the species that is the closest to us.

>This is reverse reasoning. people lacking resources doesn't imply it was stolen from them. The alternative is that they simply didn't start with any.

Why then some people usurp land and natural resources and not let others use them?

> Rights don't derive from wants or needs.

From what they derive? If you agree that there is no natural rights, then how do you justify private property rights?

> The zapititistas did not acquire all their land, people, and resources through free choice, nor were people free to stop collaborating if they chose.

Please share your sources for this statement.
Just want to say a huge thanks to the dev(s) here, you've basically solved my major pain points with macOS window management (especially around apple's infuriatingly broken implementation of virtual desktops). This stuff has been gnawing away at my sanity for years
Re: S-Expression Database (2021)
> Or not to invest into it in the first places which results in even lower supply of housing long-term

Even better - the state can easily construct subsidized housing and make housing even more available. No need to rely on private profiteers for housing.

> House prices in Spain haven't yet recovered to their pre 2009 levels

A lot of things in the world have not recovered to their pre 2008 levels. That doesn't mean that profiteering is not going on.

> I'm not sure if its necessarily the soundest long-term investment.

Hopefully its not, and there will be even less investors. Housing should not be something for profiteering.
USF using AI to help combat malaria in Africa
The first link in the article is https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/processors/the-full-snapdra... -

> Qualcomm has just taken the wraps off its new Snapdragon X range of laptop PC chips, giving us the full details of its first flush of ARM-based CPUs and a new lower-end model, too. The NEW Snapdragon X Plus processors will sit alongside the higher-spec X Elite chips, bringing the ARM architecture to the traditionally x86 dominated Windows desktop.
xterm supports sixel, so surely anything that sets TERM=xterm256-color or similar will be compatible… right? ∗cough∗ gnome-terminal ∗cough∗
They give this book out to all the new hires at Flexport, or at least they did a few years ago
So much random numbers and units and so little critical thinking or understanding. Frustrating. Journalists fail basically every time they write.
Walking and biking around Paris always seemed stressful with the narrow sidewalks, hectic traffic, and mopeds going the wrong way up sidewalks. Maybe it has changed, I was last there in 2022, but if so this must have been a dramatic change.
Nor for me, but I'm old enough to have seen re-runs of things like Flash Gordon in black and white which I'm sure had rockets landing vertically. (This could be the Mandela effect though).
this is amazing. My kid sent me a video of me dancing from just a photo.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ao8xTuodcrQ

source image:

https://i.imgur.com/Uszevqx.png
Ellipse, circle, parabola, hyperbola - all so called conic sections - are orbital trajectories; when you entering the atmosphere (which means you're technically not on a strictly circular orbit), you're initially following the part of that curve which is closest to the planet.

The curve is such that if you don't lose enough speed, you're going to start moving way from the planet.

If you're still on parabola (technically you never are, it's infinitely thin case between ellipse and hyperbola, physically not really possible) or hyperbola, you're not comping back - so if you need to get to the planet, you have to be on elliptical trajectory.

Even if you're on ellipse, you don't want that ellipse to be too elongated - e.g. the elliptical trajectory from the Earth to the Moon, which is rather close to parabolic one, takes about 4 days one way. You don't want to spend that much time when you're landing, so you need to lose enough of speed in the atmosphere. Which means you need to brake relatively aggressively.

This means there's a "reentry corridor" - not too steep, not too shallow, and the spacecraft needs to survive the reentry, and going from the Moon is harder than going from LEO because coming from the Moon the spacecraft has higher initial speed entering the atmosphere. It's still possible to balance various approaches, but you can't have (correction: it must be particularly hard to have...) zero fuel use, relatively fast landing (without long ellipses between reentries), speedy planet approach and low heating at the same time.
Not to downplay it or anything, but I'm curious why webgpu is receiving so much attention? There have been many low-level cross-platform graphics abstractions over the years. The bgfx [1] project had its first commit ~12 years ago and it's still going! It's much more mature than webgpu. I'm guessing being W3C backed is what's propelling it?

[1] https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
It won't. Amazon kind of when that angle with MistralLite[1] (a 7B finetune), and it was barely passing in terms of being an effective summarizer. 0.5B are pretty much useless.

https://huggingface.co/amazon/MistralLite
In German, or Englisch, I know how to count down... und I'm learning Chinese, says Werner von Braun.

Written in 1961. Wild.
It’s a shame that some media still call this a disease where it is clearly not a disadvantage in some contexts for some instances. Where’s as the words disease doesn’t conjure up any impressions of upside.
Their older fairing reentry plasma also looked really cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke_QI7_UtA8
Maybe but depending on the time frame something like this might be more feasible: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/11/dancing-molecu...
You should try game jams! I found the external pressure really helpful. Shipped half a dozen (tiny) games this year.
I'm on a work computer currently, but search on youtube "everyday astronaut starship ift-4" or similar.
Def super successful. Crazy how the flaps held given how they seemed to disintegrate on re entry. They said they’d try and catch the booster for flight 5 if the booster splashed down successfully this time and it did so fingers crossed. That’ll be a pretty wild thing to see. Could happen soon too. Next flight might be within about a month.
These OR APIs (in my professional experience working at Google Cloud between 2015-2023) is that they're 1) academic, and 2) used commercially as a way for Google Cloud solution architects & engineers to build customer-specific solutions that use these optimization APIs as a part of a business solution running on GCP. Case in point would be Route Optimization API, which was published just like this has been by the corporate OR team. Then, on top of that was built -- with input from a few alpha customers -- the Fleet Engine solution.

Until any of the OR APIs are exposed via Google Cloud, they won't have SLAs or any reliability guarantees and should not be used except academically. Just my $.02.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/transportat...
Anarchist Catalonia had this type of property norm for about 2 years during Spanish Civil War and it indeed had an economic growth.

>Trying to form logical arguments that refute completely absurd and irrational ones is not particularly productive...

It's not, but my arguments are not absurd and irrational, they are rational.
Maybe retraction is something that should be something done in competitive fashion with negatve points awarded to researchers, universities and journals.
Watching a movie takes too long. We just need an AI movie-summarizer that'll convert a 2 hour long movie into a bite-sized 60 second long TikTok for human consumption.
I like how these people think the checkmate move is assume the person they’re talking to is a blind supporter of the USA for some reason, and have zero response when they realize that rationally applying the same rules to everybody really does mean Israel doesn’t pass the bar for a democracy.
Like all variation in traits, going beyond 2 standard deviations tends to not be beneficial.

We don't get to have variation without also having the potential for too much of it.

Welcome to the messy stochastic search algorithm that is online approximator for Causal Entropic Force.
Not too long ago, some luxury cars had an optional built-in night vision display, but as far as I know, they've stopped offering that feature, not sure if it was just ineffective or too inexpensive. As I age and my night vision degrades, I'd be really happy for a car with night-vision built-in, even if it meant wearing a headset or goggles.

https://www.autobytel.com/10-vehicles-with-night-vision
Rome had the advantage of access to essentially unlimited forced labor in order to build and maintain their infrastructure. Modern engineering is absolutely superior to Roman engineering, but we do have to contend with budget constraints, at least in part because we're not using slavery to build our roads.
It's shocking just how many kiosk manufacturers expose the underlying OS. Ariane isn't the only one.
As an ex-army guy who never misses a launch, I was both surprised and delighted to choke up and almost cry while witnessing today's historical launch. Thank you SpaceX for reconnecting me with my inner child.

Thank you Flap Norris.
> surveillance

That's how they got the Harvard bomb threat suspect. Even though he was using Tor, he was one of only a few people directly accessing it from the university's network at the time it was sent, and they had logs.
'Washington Post' publisher tried to kill a story about allegations against him
Meta: title is weirdly truncated "te" should be "terminal".
There are good reasons any company Google's size should devote resources to operations research. Google is really good at the research aspects, and has used the outputs to -- in some cases dramatically -- improve its own supply chain operations.

https://research.google/teams/operations-research/
Anarchist Catalonia had an economic growth during it's short existence during the Spanish Civil War and it operated on those types of property norms, so this falsifies your argument.
> Which helps who exactly?

A seemingly simple question, but not really.

> Even squatting means that those houses will no longer be maintained and fall apart sooner or later which is how you end up having even more expensive housing long-term because of lower supply.

I would like for humanity to get together and figure out how to genuinely pursue an optimal experience for all people, but it seems like the most wealthy and powerful among us are "not very (genuinely) interested" in that. Okay then, Plan B it is, I say.

> Higher taxation for uninhabited housing seems like an infinitely more sensible option...

Agreed. That's a bit slow for my liking though, we've been kicking that can down the road for generations. I believe fear to be one of the most substantial motivators in existence, and there are a lot more of us then there are of them.
Could you please stop posting like this and these?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593805

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593787

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593761

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593688

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40593664

We don't want generated comments on HN, or even human-generated summaries. They are too generic to produce interesting conversation, besides which we want people to actually look at, and perhaps even read, articles.

Fortunately your earlier comments look fine so this should be easy to fix!
> This is such an obviously false premise that I don’t understand how you even arrived at it

I didn't arrive at anything. Its the actual reality of what happens here on the ground. You not being able to imagine something like that because of your cultural bias does not make it any less real.

> Real estate is expensive to maintain

Not as much as the value appreciation.

> If you think the US housing crisis is due to investors letting houses “rot” then you clearly don’t understand the situation at all.

Speak for yourself.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/housing-crisis-u-flipped-upsi...
You don't need to invent something that makes you a billionaire to survive. Plenty of dumbass people out there survive just fine.

Survival to me means having a happy life with friends and family and passing your genes on, not being a quirky, lonely tech billionaire.
Someone on the Everyday Astronaut live stream named it "Flap Norris".
I don't think Firefox caused the breakup.

This tells the story of a cheater who got caught out by their poor opsec.

On a side note, I really appreciate the 19 year-old incel comment[1]. It's disappointing to see the society hasn't /really/ changed all that much in 20 years.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330884#c21
I think you mean Trump wants to implement Agenda 47. There is overlap with Project 2025, but they are different.
> Had a very good experience simulating K8s cluster with QEMU aka studing K8s hard way once I figure out how networking actually works between virtual machines and domains can be assigned with external proxy.

This is an awesome use of QEMU! I'm both interested in learning K8s and what goes on under the hood at the kernel level because I do cloud connected IoT stuff, so I'll definitely use that!

Is there any kind of "build the kernel from scratch" project for that kind of stuff?
I’d guess a lot of Americans can look at a globe and eyeball 100 miles or 1,000 miles. At least American adults with a lot of driving experience. When you get into the millions of cubic miles of water, I think the best way to visualize it is a cube sitting next to the globe.
It feels like you're stretching to fit this into some memetic narrative of "poor" when most people are time poor until you get to the upper class. While middle class people are more likely to pay for things that need skilled repair (due to knowing fewer people who can do such work informally), they're not paying for things they can do themselves like housecleaning, landscaping, etc - paying someone else for ongoing large chunks of time is an indicator of being an upper class.

The point isn't to discount anyone's struggle, but rather to look at the actual mechanisms that hinder adoption of libre software. And apart from some relatively affordable table stakes, I don't think the financial cost is really one of those. The attention cost of self-actualizing and the ambiguity of using a non-advertised solution are though.
Wow I actually got served the Elon crypto deepfake scam as an ad on that video.
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Text-to-speech is AI, but we used to stop calling things AI once they became practical. AI used to mean "things computers can't do yet". That was actually the main reason AI never took off.
> maybe even an RFC

I really should try to pull together my proposal for back references.
A big problem in Rust is that if A owns B, B can't have a static reference to A. If you want to do that, you have to make all links to A be Rc references, and have B contain a Rc::Weak reference to A. Then there's a run-time check if you try to make the weak reference into a strong reference temporarily. Usually, the program is set to panic if that fails.

The question is whether a static analysis can determine that such a weak to strong raise will never fail. If that could be proven at compile time, the reference counting would be unnecessary. And Rust could have sound back-references.

If all the places where a weak link is raised to a strong link are bounded by scopes, this is probably do-able. But hard.
The reasoning process from their perspective is (I don't agree BTW) that "China and India won't cut emissions so it doesn't matter if we do, so we should just say fuck it."
> It doesn't make sense to have the limits as low and the fines as high when every single person that goes over the limit can be fined

Surely this is only reasonable for large, out of town roads. Within cities, you definitely still want low speed, high fine.
I have been reading Outlive by Dr. Peter Attia. I believe this research is used in the book to talk about Alzheimer's. I'm guessing the book will have to be revised. Gonna have to check in the acknowledgements of the book now.
Netflix's approach has also had criticisms

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/oct/20/netflix-film-b...
I don't think there is a clear "N amount of days away from the residence means you're not actively living there", the court would look at many factors.

For example, if it's evident the owner is intending to return, there is personal belongings, utility contracts in the owners name and such, courts would (probably) consider it your primary residence even if you take an extended leave from it.

On the other hand, if you're away for several months, there is no clear intent to return and you've removed all furniture/personal belongings, courts can think it looks like it isn't your primary residence anymore, especially if you own other properties that it seems you might be living in instead.

Like most issues in society, there isn't any clear dividing line and no guarantees. That's why we have the legal system we have after all, so nuances can be taking into consideration.
Following that logic, wouldn't HN be a runtime for anything written, from assembly to Python? Which sounds... not quite right?
If you used multiple Saturn V rockets to launch and dock a multipart craft we could maybe have made it at least to orbit around Mars but landing would be a massively different story.
This is the future of all online communication: the sender uses an LLM to expand a few sentences into a few pages, and the receiver uses another LLM to summarize it.
Most anarchists are feminists and they are against anti-semitism. Historically a few theoreticians were anti-Semites, but most were not. You seem to just be dehumanizing other people who have different views than you, which is disgusting and not something you should be proud of.
> IIUc in a lot of cases, they can now know speeding was a factor because (ironically given this post's topic) the black boxes in the vehicles involved plus nearby surveillance tools the vehicles passed or had an accident in view of give hard evidence someone was speeding.

Base rate matters though; for example if literally everyone is speeding because speed limits are too low then every accident will involve someone speeding.