skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need to stop treating real restate--especially residential real estate--as a mechanism for creating wealth.

there are enough homeowners that they vote for politicians and policies that will increase the value of their "investments". All this does is simply steal money from the next generation. Our entire economic system is designed to transfer wealth from the young and poor and the old and wealthy.

There is a distinction here to be made between "private property" (what we have now) and "personal property", which would be a far more ideal outcome.

Personal property simply means that you're allowed to own your own home. You're either not allowed to buy up huge tracts of homes to restrict supply and jack up prices or, if you do, you're taxed punitively for it.

Landlords. We need to get rid of landlords. 50+ years ago, the UK came close to this with a surprisingly simple solution [1].

This alone isn't sufficient but it's an important part. The other big part is to have a supply of social housing [2] so the private sector simply can't manipulate hte market.

Unfortunately, when Americans in particular hear a term like "social housing" they lose their minds and they immediately go to ghettoes or projects. Don't think that. Think Vienna [3][4].

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/19/end-of-...

[2]: https://www.allianceforhousingjustice.org/us-social-housing-...

[3]: https://www.politico.eu/article/vienna-social-housing-archit...

[4]: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/10/the-soc...
My sister has kids, and their school exclusively uses whatsapp to broadcast events and other things happening in the school, despite repeated complaints from many parents. There's millions of little things like this out there. Many small businesses like repairmen or such only do Whatsapp. It's quite literally unavoidable in some countries.
> left for personal reasons

Afaik he was hired by Microsoft and didn't have the time to do Gentoo with the new job, so the Gentoo Foundation was setup. When he left Microsoft year or two later he asked to come back but there were disagreements in direction with the Foundation so he created Funtoo instead.
I'm not insulting people who hate risk. For the stability and health of society, it's good that most people are that way. We need people who shake their fist at anything new or different to keep us sane (people like you it seems, from your laundry list of frustrations).

But we also need the people who do like risk taking and new stuff, and there's less of them. So innovation is much more of a fragile thing than stasis.

Even if you think society and human life in general can't be improved in any way, to just maintain the way things are now...will require many new innovations and people taking risk on new stuff. Your welfare, lifestyle, and security depends on the risk taking of others. So we should probably be careful about making it too hard for the folks taking risk (it's already hard enough).

Trust me, the risk-averse folks will still be the dominant voice either way. Even this forum--which started as a community of risk-taking entrepreneurial types--is now dominated by the risk-averse majority.
Here's the explanation from someone less wise but with a better memory: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8441292

:) the only extra bit of info there is that the seed was found by brute force over a few days
The App Store review provides protections which are not a technical protections. Earlier someone talked about the failing of allowing a $50 subscription flashlight app into the store (dunno if they’d be able to find a citation). This was a failing of the expected business controls. There’s nothing technical to even be done to prevent these sorts of abuses.

One example from a while back was banning an internal Facebook enterprise developer account because they were using it to install a VPN onto users devices for the purpose of monitoring user behavior for competitive market analysis. This is not anything that can be prevented by technical controls, and was only able to be published because enterprise profiles can deploy apps outside the store.

Apple wants their customers to be safe. Third party marketplaces take that responsibility and control out of their hands. Apple stopped that VPN abuse immediately upon finding out about it. How long would it take for European regulators to force Facebook to turn off such a self published app of their own accord?
Snaps seem to have made Ubuntu worse.
(I'll continue to jest)

Yeah, at least the civilized British took great care at carefully taking all the artefacts and bringing them to safety in the British Museum
I suspect that was the intent. Clickbait without being obvious.
The comment I replied to included, "also ban parking of cars in neighborhoods and most car traffic". Read my sibling comment and the issues should be very clear.
I love how some of the photos in their site are sideways. When you've been providing stuff to the film industry for sixty-something years, you don't need a good site, just word of mouth.
> Untargeted ads pay less than 5% what targeted ones do.

Even assuming that is true, companies are bidding for user's attention and against each other. What do you think will happen to prices for context-based advertising if targeted advertising goes away?

> and the one billion YouTube viewers would likely be quite upset about it

Great example. Many of the ads that finance the YouTube ecosystem are context-based and not targeted.
The two approaches are completely different. gdb singlesteps the program and, before each instruction, records the state of registers and memory that will be changed by that instruction --- an undo log. Then you can reverse-execute an instruction by restoring the state from the undo log. This is incredibly slow because singlestepping requires a full context switch for each instruction executed.

rr, on the other hand, intercepts all system calls and other sources of nondeterminism but regular CPU instructions execute normally with no overhead. The details about rr are here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.05937
> It's so clunky, IMO, because bluetooth is a dumbass protocol with things in the standard that should not be there

And yet GP has no issues on Windows...

> Why you may struggled could be anything from the firmware blob for your bluetooth device, to the kernel driver installed, to bluez, to the sound server you are using. Any one of those things messing up will lead to a bad experience.

Ah, so actually the complexity and instability of the Linux audio stack _could_ be at fault after all. But let's blame the protocol instead, even though it works fine on other operating systems.

To be fair, I agree that BT is a mess. And I've personally also had bad experiences on Windows with it. But the insanity of the Linux audio stack is indefensible. It's a major part of the problem, even if BT were a flawless and simple protocol.
I agree. This is article reads well. It has flow, good punctuation and pacing. Apart from the message that we will eventually pay Tithe to our new overlord tailscale, it was great.
You’re still missing the point. Regardless of how much you like your neighborhood, 50% of Americans would prefer to live in a suburb. Even if there were no constraints such as money or family obligations, they would choose a suburb consisting entirely of houses over your neighborhood which mixes residential and commercial uses. Your neighborhood might be great, but it isn’t what most Americans would choose. In fact, only about 20% would choose it; the rest want to live far out in the countryside with as few neighbors as possible.

That’s the key fact that folks like you miss: you’re the minority. And when you denigrate the suburbs, you are hurting your cause. You are insulting the people who see the suburbs as the ideal place for them to live.

Instead of going on about how the suburb they live in is not the dense urban city that they prefer, the folks who wrote this article should move to an existing city and then advocate to make it nicer. Don't try to turn a suburb into a city, turn a city into a better city.
Link _references_ must be enclosed in brackets. Only _inline_ link URLs use parentheses

See https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link
We should definitely take the word of an infamous welfare queen (Ayn Rand) on how to run society, indeed
How is apple impacted if Vision Pro fails? You think they care about the lost R&D cost? Or do you think others will leapfrog them in the VR/AR space?
FWIW, OpenRC has a new developer who's interested in adding features that Gentoo and Alpine Linux would like it to have. They were in the Alpine Linux devel IRC channel a few days ago talking about adding support for user services, socket activation, readiness notifications, INI-like declarative syntax for services, etc.

https://github.com/navi-desu/openrc/
There is some capacity in the primitive brain that allows some birds to mimic what amounts to a simplified audio file, storing and replaying it like data without any real understanding of the data or how they do it.

Others seem to genetically have a song of the species whether or not they learn from the birds of a feather.

It can remain in storage for who knows how long, it's in their brain cells of some kind, and memory is what they do.

Some of them sing pretty good and as nature intended can be heard from quite far away. So the other ones can recognize them by their song starting in the most prehistoric of times. Familiarity acts like it's built-in from the get-go too. How long have living things been recognizing each other by their song?

Like a digital file, it's the same data regardless of the playback tempo.

What other kind of place would you want a time-series abstract data file to be stored in higher life forms? It would be good to have a part of the brain inherently prepared for flawless memorization since before anybody could possibly figure it out.

Plus there may be other parts of the advanced brain that are bigger and more capable if suitably engaged, even if not comparable in terms of effortless, flawless memorization and recognition of things as abstract as frequencies, timbres, and their patterns across time.

Put it all together and that could be a virtuoso or something.

One of my late partner's grandmothers ended up with Alzheimer's and when it progressed to a point, it became difficult to communicate because there was so much hesitation and loss for words. She had been born a Louisiana Cajun and graduated from the first school in her town in the early 20th century. Same textbooks, radio programs, TV shows (when they came along), as any other grandmother from that generation in other states, so she was a regular native US English speaker and nobody ever thought she had a real Cajun accent at all. Nothing like her parents or grandparents but she was born into it and still was exclusively spoken locally for her early years.

Well she left the backwoods behind when she married a Texan and moved there, and hardly ever spoke French again. Sounded like she was from Texas when she had all her faculties, that's like 60 years later. Then years after that there was serious decline but you could play her a Cajun song and she could sing or speak perfect French and tell you what it was like getting ready to go to a high school dance back on the bayou. In detail.
>Otherwise we'd be stuck with blurry fonts

Things have only gotten worse as Pango has killed off bitmap font support. We already had crisp, clean, sharp, beautiful fonts, and apparently that upset some people who have more power than they ought to. Back in 2014 everything was grand. You have to choose your terminal emulator and other programs carefully now.

It's insane that people get monitors so pixel dense you can't use them normally, and post-scaling you have equal or less usable space to the monitors of old, just to avoid blurry fonts that didn't even need to be used in the first place. Then people try to use circular logic to justify it all.
> I don’t think this is anywhere close to an accurate account of history.

This was my thought also. I've been building software systems since the early 80's and I've never been part of a project that looked like waterfall, but I've also been in small to midsize companies, not large.

The approach on projects has been somewhat consistent for my entire career which is just a pragmatic look at the project and approach the problem based on the nature of the specific project. There are some projects or parts of projects that really require up front design and planning (e.g. when coordinating changes in multiple external systems that must all play nicely together) and some other parts of projects where the best approach is to iterate (e.g. we've never done something like this before and can't use our experience to guide us very much so we need to try some stuff). Projects are typically a combination of all of the above and more.

When I originally read the agile manifesto my thought was "ugh, ya, this is all pretty normal common sense, sounds like these guys must be working in some large corporations where the bureaucracy has taken over and they are trying to push back."
100.64.0.0/10 is a reserved IP block for carrier-grade NAT.
Python Chat Using the Substrate API with Llama3.180B and Vector Storage
Or you just have an idiosyncratic inventory and serve largely institutional clients arriving with all sorts of different and complex needs, and therefore recognize that the most price- and time- efficient approach is to personally review their needs and prepare a custom bid.
what exactly prevents them from giving me a dropdown with links to apple maps, kagi maps, bing maps and google maps and my choice gets saved to my google account as the default? Instead all they show me is a useless javascript map which is still google maps but I cant do anything useful on it and it's super frustrating trying to get to a map for a place search
Fascinating read, thank you
So back in the 1970s I had a job working on an IBM mainframe computer. Not multicore, no cache or instruction pipeline that I was aware of. A coworker had the idea of writing a timer interrupt to see what kind of instruction was executing at the instance of the interrupt; eventually it accumulated tens of thousand of samples. What kind of instruction was most frequent, was it addition, multiplication, bit-logic, or what? If I remember correctly, at least 90% of the samples were moving data from one place to another (memory-to-memory, register to memory, memory to register, register to register). Computers don't "calculate" most of the time the way I had previously thought. They mostly just rearrange bits, copying this to that.
> evolution is a change of species no?

No.

Evolution is "gene characteristics surviving and being passed down"
Tracking stats of your customers using the data they willingly gave you and making marketing decisions isn't the problem. Neither is making sponsorship agreements with content producers who make relevant content.

Creation of global markets with interconnected networks to track and share detailed personal information about mental states, political alignment, sexual life and more is the problem.
It's absolutely true that regulations can be written by corporations to keep out competitors. Regulations are just tools. They can be used to protect and benefit the majority or to further enrich a small number of wealthy and powerful individuals. I haven't seen anything to convince me that the Digital Markets Act was written to hurt competition at the expense of the public.
Agreed it's biased, but no one working for a fortune 100 company would doubt Java's relevance
Ask HN: How generative AI made a difference in your job/life?
More info about Carrier-Grade NAT (for others who, like me, are only encountering this term for the time):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT

Can anyone elighten me regarding what is different or special about 100.64.0.0/10 vs say, 192.168.0.0 or 10.0.0.0.

Edit: Answered my own question by digging into more wikis, there is a helpful table of reservations and intentions here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses
ROFL. Good find. I'd forgotten I left it running that long, I thought it was probably just overnight. Nowadays when I want to brute force something like that, I just rent a couple hundred cores for an hour.

(and pray to the gods I don't somehow leave the instances running by mistake)
Also in Vinge's Deepness in the Sky, there aren't really "programmers" as we know them anymore, but "programmer-archeologists" that just search the archives for code components to reuse.
DMA was specifically designed to be flexible i.e. ambiguous:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4411743
Another MIT course that I absolutely love (went through it twice) is "Environmental Technologies in Buildings" [1]. It covers a very wide breadth of topics, like sun radiation, photo-voltaics, wind, insulation, human perception of heat and lighting, etc. Just all around fascinating. Professor Reinhart is a pleasure to learn from. There's also and Edx course with lecture recordings for it [2].

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/11-350-sustainable-real-estate-s...

[2] https://www.edx.org/learn/sustainable-development/massachuse...
Didn't US lose most of its production capability for the same reason? US protected its workers' rights, but there are other places with cheap labor treating the workers like shit, so businesses are using factories in other places, which then build massive expertise at production.

This is similar. EU is trying to protect the rights of its citizens for good, but there are also places like US where rights are less protected, or not at all. (and frankly, a sizeable amount of people there don't even give a crap about rights that seem ephemeral for them, like privacy). So naturally businesses go to those places.

It's not poorly designed laws, or at least not just it. It's also a tragedy of commons in a global economy, moving too fast vs too slow, and many other things.
True, but you mostly can't play quests or events on private servers, so they're pretty useless right now.
Why not? Normal backups for hardware failure and stuff would cover that.
>> Now when Zen 5 has two threads active, the decode clusters and the accompanying fetch pipes are statically partitioned.

This sounds like a big boost for hyper threading performance. My Zen1 gets about 25 percent faster due to HT. Has anyone tested the newer ones in this regard?
WhatsApp though?
they also move them by trucks.
How does your comment read if you replace "crypto" with "foreign currency"?
Copper is distance limited. Copper oxidizes. If you are ever going to have any data transfer copper requires powered equipment at very close intervals. Metallic cabling and any equipment on the ends is vulnerable to nearby lightning.
In my little buble hanging around the Berlin start up scene (not founder) I've never heard about complains for DMA, Ai Act etc. (only GDPr for medical stuff , but that is tackled by new laws... With less privacy).

Current stuff (other mentions): Germany's state of digitalisation and bureaucracy, investments.

So this guy clearly gives an lousy tech lobbyist .

Giving his initiative DMA is certainly pro market oriented. Why does he have a problem with it?
> The real problem is that the requirements for a social platform are getting very onerous, to the point that it takes at least several engineers working full time on the problem.

There are only 19 companies in the world that are required to comply with the strict rules. I think they can pay those "several engineers" from the money they make in EU. This is not about startups, and this is not about launching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act#Large_onl...
An incredibly long ramp up to complaining about centralised control by rent seekers (a very reasonable complaint!) which gets bogged down in some ostensibly unrelated shade about whether client-server computing makes sense (it does) or is itself somehow responsible for the rent seeking (it isn't; you can seek rent on proprietary peer to peer systems as well!) to then arrive at:

> There’s going to be a new world of haves and have-nots. Where in 1970 you had or didn’t have a mainframe, and in 1995 you had or didn’t have the Internet, and today you have or don’t have a TLS cert, tomorrow you’ll have or not have Tailscale. And if you don’t, you won’t be able to run apps that only work in a post-Tailscale world.

The king is dead, long live the king!
being locked in a futuristic car thats the most first world problem of all first world problems lol
As an Australian, I kicked the tyres on a few of these products and quickly realised that I didn’t care.

Didn’t care about my supposed tax liability in Saudi Arabia. I think I owe those guys $7. Come and get it.

Or in Serbia. Or the EU, more broadly. Or in the province of Saskatchewan. All of which I theoretically owe sales tax.

I’m registered for GST in Australia. I live in Australia. I will slavishly follow Australian law and submit my GST on time.

The rest of it? For a one-person business? Utterly unfeasible.
If you had to move off of tailscale, what would you move to?
Netwrkd Snipr Pod Will Let 4th-Generation Fighters Create 'Kill Webs' with F-35s
India, a country with 1.4 billion people and growing, overtaking the EU with 0.44 billion people in 26 years (!) isn’t the flex you think it is.
People do have to exit the garden as much as people have to buy apple devices
https://ollama.com/blog/tool-support Ollama enables tool support for a variety of models now as well, including Llama-3.1.
That's not as bad as MaxMind deciding that US IP addresses should default to geolocating to the middle of some Kansas farm, in the absence of more data. (38°N 97°W)

Original article: https://web.archive.org/web/20160410172437/http://fusion.net...

(I see others have also linked to other related posts)
For anyone else reading, take time to write down the stories the older people in your life tell. We did storyworth with my 102 year old grandpa. It was cool, but really just asking questions and receiving answers would've been okay.

We did it when he was 90, and happy now that he's getting a little demented.
I learned about that proof from a YouTube math video, rather than my Computer Science degree or minor in Mathematics.

People expect genius in interviews all the time. They just don't realize that's what they're doing. They think what they're asking about is an obvious concept, forgetting that (insert renowned genius here) came up with the idea.
> C) wow page 11 bothers me. Why, why, why… the grid is there for a reason!! Just make it line up with the grid, oh my god

Make what line up? LOL! I'm sympathetic to the outrage, but happy to note that measuring the world should never cross over to wishing the world fits a unit measurement.

The grid is a ruler, not a form-factor.

The ruler's unit is 1/3 of the stroke width, as explained in the caption on pg. 11.

Why the stroke width? Presumably because it's a constant for the logotype. From the stroke you can build the grid and describe all the other dimensions.

You could choose any multiple for the stroke. So why 3?

Zero-one-infinity = 3

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_one_infinity_rule

(I'm being glib)

Because it looks right. Because 0 is not enough. 1 just begs for a sub-unit. 2 is merely twice 1. More than 3 is gratuitous.

"Three is the number thou shalt count and the number of the count shall be three..."

Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk
How to Improve PS5 Wi-Fi Speed
CDC 6000 was a barrel processor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel_processor

Mill CPU (so far only patent-ware but interesting nevertheless) : https://millcomputing.com/