skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure, but does it not occur to them that property owners might be performing an important function such that a policy that causes most of them to leave landlording might worsen the situation of homeless people and other poor people?

Yes, actually, that did occur to me, and when I put any thought into it at all I realized it made no sense whatsoever.

Owning things is not performing any function whatsoever. Landlords are leeches on society who remove much-needed resources and provide nothing.

Before you make the tired "but they provide homes" argument: no, builders provide homes.

Before you make the tired "but they make repairs" argument: that's a handyman, and a handyman generally does a better job and is not paid anywhere near as much as a landlord.

Before you make the tired "but not everyone can own homes" argument: the reason not everyone can buy homes is that our entire housing structure is based around making short-term home ownership and home ownership for cheaper than rent impossible. If you remove landlords from the equation, those incentives go away.

> Suppose the government instituted a rule that applies to any game developer and in particular to the developer's office or whatever structure he likes to be inside when he is developing games or meeting with the other developers working on the same game. The rule says that if the game developer leaves his office and fails to hire a security guard to watch the property, then 72 hours after the game developer's departure, anyone (including career criminals) have a legal right to take over the office (even if the developer's office is his home). Wouldn't that curtail -- possibly severely -- the quantity and the quality of new games developed in whatever jurisdiction the rule applies to? Or at least raise the price of games (to cover the cost of the security guards and to compensate developers for the hassle) with the result that some of the consumers who used to be able to afford to buy video games are now priced out of the market?

We have an actual reality we can talk about, we don't need bizarre hypothetical scenarios.

Nobody is saying that squatting is the solution we want. What I am saying is that if you refuse to address the actual problem, i.e. you refuse to get rid of landlords, then you can't be surprised when people whose disfranchisement you support decide to find solutions you don't like.
I would say that for most RSU lots it's better to wait for long-term capital gain taxes to kick in before selling.
Docomo commissioned phone manufacturers to ship phones at half-year cycle. The idea was to sell it like women's clothing. But manufacturers didn't commoditize parts and optimize businesses for that cycle; instead they sped up and staggered development to match that cycle, in the process burning lots of cash and people's careers.

By the time iPhone came out, the tech debts and bureaucratic overheads had grown so much that nothing could be done to save the industry and platform. Everything from devices to institutional knowledge and existing moats all went down the drain until enough was shed off that reasonably usable Android phones could be manufactured, but not much points were left in making those.

> Was it motivated purely or mainly by ...

I'm sure Docomo execs had sane long-term plans, but ideological and hierarchical thinking isn't Japanese forte so executions were counterproductive and/or micromanagement mess. Kanji/kana interface has nothing to do with it, all Nokia phones handled Japanese language perfectly fine, certainly more than adequately for ... a dozen model or so sold over a decade.
Tesla also died penniless and alone.

I guess the whole electricity thing wasn't a very good idea after all.
Yes, communism is when the government participates in bankruptcy court, makes an investment, and gets paid principal and interest on their loan. That’s exactly what Karl Marx was talking about.
> somehow none of the voice assistants managed to improve.

No one has been working on the old generation of assistants for years now. They all basically came to the conclusion that the architecture that everyone had settled on was a dead end and wouldn't get any better, so they directed their attention elsewhere.

Now Google is working on it again, but just using an LLM for better intent parsing isn't exciting enough to warrant attention, so in classic Google fashion they launched a brand new product (Gemini) that's going to run alongside Assistant for a few years confusing everyone until they yank Assistant (which still will have features that haven't been ported).

Apple seems to be working on improving Siri rather than starting fresh, but it's taken them a while to get it ready because Apple never moves on something fast.
The 30% fee is not (only) for payments. It's a royalty for the core platform.
I’m not a catan player but I can’t imagine it’s not a hugely valuable piece of information
Iirc housing is pretty inelastic
Lenny! Expansive is the best word to describe her mind. She was a wonderer, observer, explorer and connector of ideas. …. I hope you are well! - Nicole, Michigan News alum
I don’t think we really know what percentage of loads are time-dependent because we mostly don’t have demand response pricing in the US. A hospital probably needs a backup battery (or a guaranteed slice of the grid’s battery capacity). Everything which could be shifted with minor inconvenience—we don’t have any incentive to try and automate that inconvenience away, so who knows? Perhaps we could see a resurgence in more efficient designs, like chest freezers.
So basically every corporation operating in the US has to follow US law at all times, regardless of the economic/legal circumstances in other countries?

I can see why that is controversial and almost certainly will be extremely selectively enforced.
My gut tells me we need a charismatic pro standup comedian to get out of the political morass. It’s the only profession with an obligation to call out or even transmute BS. Think Jon Stewart, or Gervais at the Golden Globes, but kindlier and bipartisan. In science, its often enough just to publish.
Oddly enough, the term only really took off in the 1970s:

<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fossil%20fuel&...>

Zooming in on the 19th century, the term was already seeing use in the 1770s/80s, and was rising in usage well before 1860, by which time it had reached a peak.

<https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fossil+fuel&ye...>

The Standard Oil Company was founded in 1882. Its predecessor Standard Oil Company of Ohio was founded in 1870.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil>

I call bullshit on EricE's unfounded claims.
Do the Russians have zero-zero systems?

I know the US seats have started taking into account pilot weight to modulate thrust to limit the Gs to what is necessary
It's all over Greek mythology. When Althaea has a vision that tells her that her son's life will end at the point when the log in her fireplace burns away, that's time travel. When Laius learns he will be killed by his own son, that's time travel. When Agamemnon learns he will die with one foot on land and one in the water, that's time travel.
> Current status isn't normal, but no one would complain about it if transaction fees weren't abusive.

This is an oft-repeated misconception.

Even if transaction fees were 0%, we'd be way better off with alternative stores.

You're just so used to how shitty things are that you can't conceive of a better alternative.

Consider that there are plenty of completely free games on Steam that are popular and help those creators find thriving communities. How? They have good discovery.

App Store and Google Play sucks in every way. Discovery is awful. Their approach is awful. Why even show download counts and top lists? Stupid, stupid stupid. But you have no choice as a consumer or developer. So the top developers will not complain. What's the point?

And anyway, you're complaining about a world where alternatives are viable. Why are alternatives being viable a bad thing. If EGS is paying up front for games and giving them away for free as cross-promo for Fortnite, better that than ad supported garbage.

What exactly is the bad thing here, for consumers? The negative aesthetic experience of having more icons? Everyone has to oppose this crushed-in-head line of thinking. One meaingless detail that impacts an extremely low brow part of the aesthetic experience - the fucking home screen icons - should not preclude the gain in meaning from 10k-100k more developers who could flourish in the mobile ecosystem if it were to have working discovery. It has the same energy as requiring Helldivers users to create PSN accounts - offensive only in a strictly aesthetic sense even though successful competition and cross promo benefits everyone. The users' fixation on meaningless aesthetics is wrong.

I mean Apple could make discovery pluggable too, all of it could be pluggable and have fewer "icons," this isn't even a real obstacle. There are many, many ideas in this space, and no permissions to do any of it.

As it is, the App Store and Google Play are glorified install wizards. Open, install TikTok, Google Maps, whatever. Never visit again. That is 98% of people. That's horrible and its Apple's fault. TikTok already does not pay any fees. This is just to show that you are not right in general, even if you are right about the one company you've heard of that went and took these people to court in this country for an outcome that you should be in favor of.
Looks very interesting, but calling it Open Source is misleading. BSL is not "minimal Amazon defense". It effectively prevents any meaningful dynamic functionality to be built on top of it without a commercial subscription.
The JFK admin and CIA were openly committing terrorism on Cuban soil ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mongoose ), at the same time the Joint Chiefs of Staff were begging Kennedy to let them perform terrorist attacks on Americans(!), to be blamed on the Cuban government ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods ); that plan was apparently just a little too far over the line to get green lit
Helmholtz chambers are found on loads of off-the-shelf aftermarket exhausts nowadays (and some OEM ones) - they aren't complex/expensive to manufacture, making them an easy option to tune the exhaust sound of a car. Super common in the muffler kits offered for things like civics, miatas etc to try and get a more exciting note out of a four cylinder.
What are you talking about? The real time component is extremely important to captain sonar. The essence of the game is a rush to figure out your opponent’s location and then capitalize on it while they panic.
One of the things I appreciate about HN is that discussions often acknowledges the pioneers. Way back in the early 1990s Eric Begleiter started Dimensional Foods to commercialize edible holographic technology. He gave a memorable demo at Thinking Machines Corp. where, in addition to rainbows from diffraction sheet molded foods, he showed some simple rendered 3D scenes floating in chocolate illuminated by a slide projector. Very impressive at the time when he broke off a chunk and ate it. The short-term idea was to give a rainbow sheen to breakfast cereals, but I think longer term there was talk of using holograms to distinguish and layer information on medicines. Made quite an impression at the time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150527050715/https://www.nytim...
The challenge of EVs may be behind, but the challenge of Tesla earnings living up to Tesla's valuation is very much in front of us.

Mind you, Musk already sold and cashed out of Tesla more than the cumulative profits of the company since inception. Tesla started burning cash again last quarter (and rather quickly !) and all signs point to a much more severe cash burn for the next quarters.

So if by challenge, we say - hyping robotoaxis, Optimus, EVs dominance (anybody remember how Tesla was projecting last year, a 50% growth up to 2030 ??), then yeah, it's job done. But now is the hard part - delivering on those promises.
That is so cool. Watching those SICP lecture videos as a teenager was incredibly formative for me. I still consider myself a knight of the lambda calculus.
I find it inspiring that she achieved so much despite the vitriol and hatred directed at trans people. When I learned she was trans (after I used her textbook) I tried to learn more about the trans struggle for equality and to be less prejudicial against them.
Yep; for the vast majority of people, the difference between $45M and $50M is not going to change their lives in any meaningful way. With that amount, you can live a fairly lavish lifestyle and still see the number in your brokerage account go up every year.

I actually kinda think a founder that was otherwise already wealthy wouldn't mind this too much, either: say they already have $50M in the bank; the difference between $95M and $100M feels even less of a big deal than $45M and $50M. Granted, the founder with $50M already in the bank probably wouldn't bother with the $500k in the first place, though, especially if they believed in the likelihood (or guarantee, in your hypothetical) of a future larger exit.
> There's not really anything the average person can do to influence this policy, so by saying "of every American", the blame is diluted across the population, instead of held directly against those responsible.

Latin American countries wouldn't have become banana republics without Western demand for bananas. There are different levels of culpability but the rest of us aren't blameless - our collective demand drove these policies and I don't know about you but I've enjoyed a lot of tropical fruit in my life.

To be honest I can empathize. I'd totally support going to war with Mexico if it threatened my year round supply of avocados.
Apple's approach in the EU has been to add a distribution cost if you choose to sell in a 3rd party store. The core technology fee demands that you pay Apple a small fee per-new-install-per-year. I don't know that that equates to the same kind of revenue streams, but it is income.
That's genius from Apple's pov and dumb from OpenAI's... why the hell do they need "exposure" when their ChatGPT product is already synonymous with LLM / "AI Search" in many (non-tech) peoples' minds.
I don’t understand catan’s appeal at all. It seems popular with a lot of people that aren’t at all interested in playing it at a deep level. Which is weird for such as long, involved game that has relatively little emergent gameplay.
"Elon Must"
That will change once legislation gets passed requiring remote workers who are not located in the same country to need to go through the work visa process. The outsourcers are shooting themselves in the foot. Once the law drops and they cannot bring over the cheap remote labor due to visa limits, they will end up with skeleton crew teams that cannot maintain the spaghetti systems that are being built.
I love your site and think you're cool. Keep doing cool stuff!
that sounds like it has got to be an outlying situation though, and things like this tend to work on population averages.
If your argument boils down to "bad engineers use them" then I don't know what to tell you. There's nothing intrinsically wrong or harmful with UUIDs, and they're not really any worse of a footgun than any other feature.

I don't particularly care about your credentials, but it's harmful to preach extremes. UUIDs don't deserve the hate they're getting here.

Credentials: Postgres (and begrudgingly MySQL) for thousands of developers at the TB scale, 100TB scale, as well as PB scale (we don't talk about that one), and all (yes, all) the Postgres-related OLAP DBs, as well as maintaining a fork of Postgres for some time.

The FUD here is unreal.
This is the way. Far easier to understand (and maintain!) than any of the other examples. Temporary variables are abstractions, must use them with care.
Because if DuPont actually is fined for what it has done, it will be bankrupt. And our political machinery (and therefore justice system) is too afraid of letting companies fail because of the harms they have caused.
I don't understand why people purposely miss the point
The issue with a super-capacitor is that it leaks. If you put X Joules in there and wait a while then you will only have X/2 Joules. Wait a little longer and you'll only have X/4.

So on the other hand, super-capacitors are great at charging and discharging rapidly with low loss. So if you want to fire a high powered laser for a few femtoseconds then they work great. You can't get power into and out of a battery that quickly because chemical reactions take time, so super-capacitors have their applications. It's just that holding power for more than a few minutes is probably not it.
> Boeing has been through hell and back ?

Unfortunately, several hundred boeing product users didn't get the opportunity to come back.

After the numerous launch scrubs, this one way ticket to the ISS was already a distinct possiblity. Maybe boeing won't be able to bring these astronauts back either.

From a wider persoective, this really highlights why human space travel should be minimized. Outside of teenage boy spaceman fantasy and various government's desire to start shooting people in space, there is very little reason.
I coined an AI koan that goes something like this:

A novice travelled to the East to learn at the feet of Sussman. As Sussman lectured on writing device drivers with low-level Lisp code, the novice interrupted: "But Master, is Lisp not a high-level language?" To which Sussman replied: "There was once a fisherman who spotted an eagle on the shore. 'Brother Eagle,' said the fisherman, 'how impossibly distant is the sky!' The eagle said nothing, and flew off." With that, the novice was enlightened.

It's fictional, but it's based on a real-life Sussman encounter I had. A hacker (it may have been Dimitris Vyzovitis) was telling me about things he'd done in "low-level languages like C and Lisp". Then I said "But Lisp is high-level!" at which point the hacker paused and said "Let me get Jerry." "Jerry" turned out to be Gerald Sussman, who explained to me, in the most nerdy-enthusiastic Sussman-like way, that Lisp was the low-level language of a virtual machine which he had actually implemented in hardware[0]. And it was profoundly enlightening.

[0] See Steele, G.L. and Sussman, G.J., AI Memo 514, "Design of LISP-based Processors, or SCHEME: A Dielectric LISP, or Finite Memories Considered Harmful, or LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode", https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5731
I know absolutely nothing about math, but... I'm thinking about the history of software, where back in the day you had all these amazing projects like RollerCoaster Tycoon basically being written by one guy. Then software engineering became modularized in a way that sounds kind of similar to what is described in the interview, and now you have hordes of people who churn out React for a living (like myself) and software engineering is now a giant assembly line and the productivity (or skill required) per individual has dropped to near zero.

I guess I have the impression that when fields are in their heyday, the best work is done by some genius fitting like a hundred things in one brain, and when that gets replaced by an assembly line, the field has basically stopped producing anything of real value. Anyone in math (or otherwise) want to tell me why that's completely wrong?
I think it is easier said that done. The GTM completely changes of a product like this. Now you have to build API, DSL and eco-system to support it. I absolutely agree that your take. But building an eco-system is hard.
The examples looked very close to a real device to me. What is the contrast ratio on your device?

The author identified correctly the message colors. "When you send a text to someone, your message floats to the conversation area in a blue or electric green message bubble (depending on whether you’re texting with another iPhone/iPad/Mac user or some other device)."

Many iPhone users make the error you believed the author made. And the criticism would be valid if they never used an iPhone. Please do not use logical fallacies.

Calling the green bubbles not hard to read is your opinion. Opposed by other opinions and Apple's guidelines. Not fact.

The system high contrast mode makes some other apps less accessible. It makes weather icons all white for example.

Your claim about web browsing was false.
Estonian-made combat robots in Ukraine now come with Starlink
... "fossil fuels" was marketing by Rockefeller ...

Where on Earth did you ever hear such a thing?

Update / edit:

Apparently this is a fake meme floating around Facebook and elsewhere, dating back at least three years:

(Factcheck, 2022): "Facebook posts falsely claim US oil magnate coined term ‘fossil fuels’ to introduce ‘idea of scarcity’, boosting oil prices"

<https://factcheck.afp.com/facebook-posts-falsely-claim-us-oi...>

(Reuters, 2021): "The term ‘fossil fuel’ was not coined by John D. Rockefeller to trick people into thinking oil is a scarce commodity"

<https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N2QQ1UK/> Archive / paywall: <https://archive.is/st4q6>

And another debunk from Politifact in 2022: <https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/08/facebook-p...>

I'd strongly encourage folks to improve their media literacy.
Not really. Go stand next to a highway sometime: the vast majority of the noise you're hearing is from tires, not engines. You'll notice the engine noise occasionally: it'll be from some moron who's modified their exhaust to be louder usually. With all the other cars, you're just hearing tire noise.
I think it'd be pretty rare for a bank to accept equity in a series A startup as collateral for a loan.
I'm not on HN to make friends :)

I do spend a lot of time in Japan though. A lot more then most down voters that's for sure.

For most people visiting Japan, their first interaction will be buying a a train ticket for the NEX Airport express or the Shinkansen, it's a horrendous and confusing experience. Their interactions with Japanese software will only get worse from there however.
Is this algorithm guaranteed to terminate?

For the "smooth rounded rectangle" example at the end of the article, what's to stop it from getting closer-and-closer to an answer, but never actually getting there?

I'm talking about idealized mathematical objects, of course. I realize that in real-world computing there's no point continuing beyond some practical precision threshold.
Maybe it depends on the area and kinds of properties one is looking at?

Only a little anecdata, but the few times I've looked (affluent university town, once recommended as a place to do a tech startup)... if one could swing a downpayment on certain places, the monthly costs were lower than rent one would otherwise have to pay, on places not as nice.
I wonder if people who are less adept at non-verbal communication are more prone to believe that telepathy exists?
I'm a skeptic but I still find the article really interesting (currently on page 10 of 43) and a highly entertaining read. Mind you, the paper does not argue that the cryptoterrestial hypothesis is true or even that it's likely. The argument is that it should be considered instead of being outright dismissed like you just did. So far they make a pretty good case IMO.
There's a code example immediately after your quote specifically for addressing your confusion
Plato recounts the moments of Socrates' death in Phaedo.

I'd suggest giving that a read, and then ponder the consequence of angering the state. Your very existence may be questioned by future generations. Your motives relegated to insanity or a fiction by those who remain.
Maybe that’s my daftness.

I’ve never heard of this person. I don’t care what gender they are. I’m not clear why it matters.

Vitriol and hatred is directed towards the entirety of humanity every second of every day, why does that play into anything?