skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's a good summary of the bad idea. Again, this is a bad idea because it discriminates against one tiny sliver of the resale market (those that want to buy old houses because they like the area the land is in and tear down the house to build a new one). It's not going to work. What you are going to cause is that tiny sliver of people to say "ok, how much do I have to keep to call this a reno and get it through the system?" and then keep that minimum. You are also going to cause an expansion of the government to deal with this new level of regulation, increasing everyone's costs and making us worse off for no discernible benefit because this deals with a part of the new house pipeline that isn't the problem.

The problem is that in most of these place no matter what one does one is still stuck with low lot coverage and low allowable unit numbers (i.e. in my city the overwhelming majority of residential tops out at 45% lot coverage, 15 meter heights, and one unit maximum (a small chunk of the overwhelming majority zoned this way allows 2 units in a restrictive manner as either garden/over garage or basement suite). So instead of wasting resources increasing regulation, the solution is to decrease regulation. rezone all this stupid stuff to allow much higher lot coverage, height and unit count and then approve everything that fits in the zoning in a short period of time rather than dragging it out for months and months through bureaucracy. You get smaller, cheaper government (big win), faster development of the available land (huge win) and you refocus the large contingent of businesses currently focused on buying old single family in places zoned for 2 units, subdividing and building two units onto building much bigger, higher density things like multi unit walkups in the same space raising the unit count from the current max 2 units to 4-10 units on the same piece of land. This will solve most of the problems while giving people the freedom to do what they want (but the incentive to do what is best for society) vs decreasing freedom for no benefit and moderate harm.
A (very hypothetical) war is not going to be won by AI chips and quadcopters.

Furthermore all of this applies to consumer tech, not military tech. Consumers are not allowed to have military drones, attack fighters, and tanks either.
The more you try to appeal to everyone the less your content is distinguishable from the most boring pap around.

The network effects will automatically power those that are the bland crap you can have on every day to pretend you have friend on the radio.
Well GFC 2007-08 caused emissions to drop more than anything any corporation or govt did since the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1997. So AI or whatever other bubble, the bubble engineers on Wall St have in the pipeline might just do it.
It kinda depends on how you measure.

Basic quality of life went up fast, going from feudal agriculture to an industrial society. But then it stalled. And the process killed literally millions -- some from outright murder, some from overwhelming mismanagement.

Many never wanted the Tsars gone to begin with; agricultural societies can be very conservative. And things had been slowly improving under the monarchy, under the same pressures that modernized western Europe in the mid 19th century. Historians cite a lot of mistakes by that last Tsar that could easily have gone the other way and saved the institution. He really screwed it up after a few generations of improvements.

So... depends.
It was a good product, but it took a lot of iteration to make it the juggernaut it is today. Add bad battery life to the list of flaws, along with slow web browsing, slow processor, etc. With all of those, and the high price, it was relatively niche. The 3G lowered the price substantially, and iirc that plus the faster modem gave it a big popularity boost. And the 4 was substantially more popular than that.

My point is, don’t write off this whole product category because people balked at the price of the first iteration, it happened with the first iPhone, too. Apple grinds its way to excellent products.
That's the on-disk format, you probably updated the actual driver code a lot more recently than that
“Meaningful work” is relative.

It’s understandable that doctors haven’t gone all in on WFH. Their profession more or less requires being hands on with patients, but that’s not the only meaningful work there is.

But my work supports businesses that employ people, see patients, and provide robust tax revenues to local communities. That’s meaningful, and it doesn’t require anything more than my office at home.

I think you’re right about industrial spaces. A friend of mine works for a company that creates building automation technology, and even their hardware engineers have automated a lot of the physical testing infrastructure. Not even those teams are in-office every day at his company anymore.
Node problem detection and recovery for AWS Neuron nodes within Amazon EKS
One problem not called out in any UBI arguments I've read, including this one, is how we even consider this while also arguing about how poorly our borders are managed.

Borders only become a problem when there are incentives to simply being in a country, welfare programs. I'm not saying we should abandon all entitlement programs and open the borders, but it does seem shortsighted to create an even larger entitlement while our borders are such a mess.
> And, again, closer examination shows that it is. You will not find better support for the contrary position if you do your homework.

Can you share some resources for where would one start, if they wanted to do the homework?
Ah, were the Romans to have had antibiotics, eh?
One metric would be body count. 20th century Marxists are somewhere between 60 and 148 million dead. Hard to top that.
The early USSR was at least two orders of magnitude worse than the czars, if you score either by yearly executions or by yearly sent to Siberia.

And that's not evening counting the USSR's millions "resettled" in ethic operations, with about a 20%-25% death rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Sov...

And then we have the epic years in the 1920's of famine from screwing up the agricultural system, and selectively choosing ethic groups to take food from, the dwarf the famine deaths under the czars.
Yep, I ran a short "introduction to the command line" course for the devs in my team. Afterwards, I noticed that their usage of the vscode terminal was much higher, and folks were more comfortable exploring on their own.

Quick outline of the course, in case anyone wants a starting point:

* Introduction
Quick history of Unix

* When you log in
Difference between login and interactive shells
System shell files vs user shell files
.zshenv for environment variables like PATH, EDITOR, and PAGER
.zprofile for login shells, we don't use it
.zshrc for interactive shells
Your login files are scripts, and can have anything in them

* Moving Around

** Where am I?
pwd = "print working directory"
stored in variable $PWD
Confusingly, also called current working directory, so you may see CWD or cwd mentioned

** What is here?
ls
ls -al
ls -alt
. prefix to filenames makes them hidden
. is also the current directory!
.. means the parent directory
file tells you what something is
cat displays a file
code opens it in vscode

** Finding my way around
cd
cd -
dirs | sed -e $'s/ /\\\n/g'

** Getting Help From The Man
man 1 zshbuiltins
manpage sections

** PATH
echo $PATH | sed -e $'s/:/\\\n/g'
zshenv PATH setting
which tells you what will be run

** Environment Variables
env | sort
EDITOR variable

** History
ctrl-r vs up arrow

** Permissions
Making something executable

** Prompts
zsh promptinit
zsh prompt -l

** Pipes and Redirection
Iterate to show how pipes work
cat ~/.zshrc | grep PATH
ls -al > ~/.tmp/ls-output.txt

** Commands

*** BSD vs GNU commands
BSD are supplied by Apple, and Apple often uses old versions
GNU are installed via homebrew, and match those commands available in Linux
KEF builds an equalizer into the radio->DAC->crossover->amplifiers chain, and the default for that is much of what you are hearing.

The other part is that they hugely overbuild the amplifier sections (at least by rating -- 280W for the mid-woofer and 100W for the tweeter.
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Okay, so a "block" is a sequence of instructions that can be executed from top to bottom, i.e. only the last instruction may be a jump.

A 2-ahead branch predictor is a branch predictor that predicts not which block to run next after the current one, but rather, which block should be run after that one.
Not the person you’ve asked but I regularly use it for backends for projects. Connect your database machine to your Tailscale network and have your code talk over the Tailscale IP to connect to it. I’ve served multiple Flask frontends that have talked to backends this way - works great! I use various cloud VMs to host the frontend, and they all talk to an Optiplex Micro box under my desk for their backends.
It's unclear to me what you're defining as real. Coal mining? Childcare? Community centers? Through hiking? Interesting theoretical realms can have enormous consequences in the physical/tangible world, as I'm sure you know :). Maybe it's more of a "presence factor" in relation to this story: a measure of how aware you are of the roles and responsibilities you have and how engaged with them you are.
Java/dotnet pipelines don't have Windows penalty. Both have dependencies as compiled modules zipped into large jar/dll. While even simple node project have 10s of thousands of files inside node_modules folder.
Ok; then why this show-off comment to the press ?
At the compiler’s course in my university we just had the option to use either LLVM text format as the target, or assembly (for bonus points).

Frankly, I don’t see much point in a “special IR for teaching” because llvm text format is just really straightforward, and at the same time teaches the “real deal” (sure, normally you’d likely use bindings, but still).

You can still have your students reimplement optimizations that llvm would normally do by themselves (like inductive variable elimination, const propagation, dataflow analysis, using phi instead of alloc etc.).

At least I was really happy I could play with llvm for a university project.
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Loans are exceptionally easy to get when you have $1M in REVENUE with NO OPERATIONAL EXPENSES. It’s the premise that’s contrived here.
A quick search turns up a TOTP widget for Garmin watches https://github.com/ch1bo/garmin-otp-authenticator
Things like Facebook, Meta, Uber and whatnot are not really innovative technology. Almost none of the tech the DMA regulates is innovative as such, other than some "innovation" to deal with the scaling, and the only reason they need to scale is due to the dubious business activities that allowed them to grow to this size.

The DMA is really about regulating basic common sense free market rules, not regulating technology as such.
> When talking with students about color, I find the HSL space the easiest to employ. [...]

Nod. I was exploring how/whether an emphasis on spectra might be used to more successfully explain and teach color. Motivated by observations of wide-spread profound failure, like first-tier graduate students saying "the Sun doesn't have a color; it's rainbow color", and color instruction content, err, exercising diverse artistic license. So I'd hoped for Munsell-like web interactives, but with principled coupling to spectra. Hopefully as easily understood as HSL, if less convenient as a more-abstracted artist UI. I like implicit curriculum ("things noticed in passing provide insight and invite exploration"), and am leery of science education graphics' traditional "some aspects done with great care for correctness, mixed with others of utter bogosity, with students unable to tell which is which". And so wanted to avoid the high-profile "no, that too is merely a model artifact, not reality" of say CIE 1931 chromaticity diagrams ("such tiny sRGB coverage!", "so much green!", "a prism shaped solid!"). And also its frequently sloppy graphics (incorrect colors, misleading handling of out-of-gamut colors, misplaced white point not intersected by blackbody curve). I had hope for linear-hue absolute-physical-brightness Jzazbz, but meh[1]. Perception-optimized wide-gamut recent CAM16 seems unsurprisingly closest to this vision, but for some "hmm, is that bit real or model?", and "how does this behave with changes in absolute illumination?". A tweaked CAM16-UCS can end up a seemingly unobjectionable swelling blob. The scattered instances of intensive use of Munsell in art instruction suggested at least some hope of clarity and utility. Thanks for the thoughts.

[1] https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/181628/61452533-43... [png] from https://github.com/coloria-dev/coloria/issues/41
> Copy and paste them into the Jira ticket so the junior employee who makes half your salary can run them next time.

Or, more likely: so that you yourself can remember what you did the next time the problem arises. Or your colleague, who is senior, but does not know this part of the codebase or infra well. Heck, you can even write a shell script, automate things and have your productivity increased!

These things will be just as true and useful in some communist FOSS context as they are in a capitalist system.
It's time to stop using TOTP, it's vulnerable to AitM phishing. Use FIDO2 hardware keys or passkeys instead.
This is a guy who apparently knows a lot (he says "we" but I do not know all o that) but certainly not about cybersecurity operations.

I was expecting all kinds of experts to discuss how "this was expected" and "you should have done it another way" after the CS incident, while failing to understand why their monitor does not work when switched off.

I guess that a week in an active organization's secops team would show them how much more we are in control of what is happening on end-user devices today than it was 10 years ago. I wish them all the best in managing the security of a few dozens of thousands of machines with their knowledge about what cybersecurity could be like in an alternative world.
ConfabulAIting, eh?
Historians describe that Russian peasants pre-1917 were basically living in Medieval conditions. Russia didn't adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1918! As flawed as Communism is, it did lurch Russians into the 20th century.

The Tsar and the aristocracy failed at their job. They deserved their fate, to be fired. Maybe Communism was the only way to drag Russian society, kicking and screaming, into the modern era that other European nations had attained, centuries earlier.

Unfortunately, Communism does not have the checks and balances of Capitalism, and it lends itself to abuse by tyrants and dictators.
Great for you for not having to experience it, but that doesn't mean it sucks any less for those less fortunate:

> Our [Native American] tribal network started out IPv6, but soon learned we had to somehow support IPv4 only traffic. It took almost 11 months in order to get a small amount of IPv4 addresses allocated for this use. In fact there were only enough addresses to cover maybe 1% of population. So we were forced to create a very expensive proxy/translation server in order to support this traffic.

> We learned a very expensive lesson. 71% of the IPv4 traffic we were supporting was from ROKU devices. 9% coming from DishNetwork & DirectTV satellite tuners, 11% from HomeSecurity cameras and systems, and remaining 9% we replaced extremely outdated Point of Sale(POS) equipment. So we cut ROKU some slack three years ago by spending a little over $300k just to support their devices.

* https://community.roku.com/t5/Features-settings-updates/It-s...

* Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35047624
Show HN: Heimdall GPT for analysing spend on Amazon, Uber, Instacart and Booking
Heimdall GPT helps you access, analyze, and visualize your spending habits on Amazon, Uber, Instacart, Booking.com & Uber Eats

Works best on Desktop. Built with Gandalf SDK.
Cosmology certainly have theories about the age of the universe.
Hi, Looks good on first try. You mentioned the tool currently searches abstracts only. Searching full papers appears impossible as they are mostly behind paywalls, right?
Show HN: I made a FREE tax & life calendar to calc time spend for govt.
I made a FREE tax & life calendar that shows how much time we spend as a SLAVE of government. try for yourself
It might have introduced some to reference counting, but that is all.

The algorithm is as old as Lisp, and the "automatic" part is a well known compiler optimization pass, when reference counting is used for automatic memory management.
I am commenting on your "I remember mounting in memory drives even in MS-DOS back in the early 90s.". Just to say this this is still a thing today.

I also mounted drives in memory in early 90's :)
Every second a million lbs of coal gets mined? Hard to fathom.
> If you use a fuse mapping to SQLite, mount that directory and access it

Related ongoing discussion, if someone cares to test this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41085856
If anyone here is involved in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, dementia, or similar conditions, then I would love to hear from you. I'm creating open source accessibility software to help people who have these conditions, and their caregivers.

Researchers are asking me about ways to add many kinds of telemetry to the mobile apps (such as Apple HealthKit) as well as alerting (such as "take your meds now") and more. The ending of the Alzheimer's data platform is blow for these researchers, and yet it turns out some of the data is really easy to get, if you can get an app on the person's phone or watch.
>The issue is Defender in sync mode/other AV/other file system filters.

I've had folders take a full minute to open on an SSD.

It got to the point where I went to open the folder, it started loading. I needed the file quickly, so I searched for it online, found it, and opened it before windows finished loading that folder for me.

After exempting that folder from Windows Defender the folder loads instantly. For the life of me I cannot understand why Defender blocks Explorer.
> it’s being used to job screen applicants

Any idea what software is being used ?
You have insanely good financials in this contrived scenario. Raising debt or equity should not be a problem.
The complete payments, tax, and subscriptions solution for SaaS
Of course, there is disagreement on a person’s roles and responsibilities.

To someone, my responsibility might be answering the doorbell quickly when Amazon drops off a package.

To another, it might be how responsive I am to email.

These are in conflict, and sometimes it’s worth missing an Amazon package to finish an important email.
> Those who spend their time flying through imaginary worlds do well to "remember where the off switch is"

If this world is a simulation, and someone among us is the player-character, forgetting that there is an off switch is a feature for them that increases immersion by making any failure to suspend disbelief (which I as a probable NPC suffer from regulary) a moot issue. As long as we think that this is reality, its believability is subordinate to its survivability.
Ask HN: Can a CLI tool be monetized?
I’m working on a CLI tool to automate integration tests declaratively (think: test API calls and their results, manage DB fixtures, make assertions on anything observable you can think of).

I would like to monetize it somehow, because I think it’s a tool that can bring great value to companies, and I would like to generate some passive income from it. My current plan would be to distribute a version with only common integrations, and leave "enterprisey" integrations (Kafka, AWS, xUnit reports…) in a paid version. I still have no idea what a proper system would be (one time fee, company subscription, maybe depending on the size…)

Does anyone have experience regarding monetizing a CLI tool? I have a hard time finding examples of what could or wouldn’t work.
Thanks for sharing, I always think I want to study Calculus & many more math concepts but I just forget the next moment. But this is what I love HN about, sometime I just find links like this which helps me get started.
Call of Duty stealthily experiments with skill based match making
You are wrong, most MEPs know that this will break encryption and are more than happy to go for the ride because they have exempted themselves from such regulation. Surveillance for thee not for me.

Chat control is not just the love child from the Swedish politician, it is being pushed by US surveillance companies that convinced the commission members that CP can be detected and stopped only if Europol has access to all your messages, emails, photos and videos until the end of time without having any recourse as to what it will be used for or by whom it will be viewed.

Then there is also Chat Control V1 which is currently extended each year despite being a temporary measure supposedly. Then there is also the data retention directive which everyone knows was illegal to start with and took 10 years to be overturned.

The fact that people still associate EU with privacy is a joke. The EU wants your data just like Meta and Apple or Google. At least Meta is not trying to gaslight me into thinking that giving my data is to save the children or some other complete BS reason.
Some possibilities: AI aided material design could help create more efficient solar cells or batteries. Google issue a report how AI aided shipping logistics planning could optimize many aspects of the process. Project Starline (AI enhanced video conferencing) could reduce the need for business travel. Broadly, anything being done to improve energy efficiency certainly uses computers in design or planning. Anything using computers stands to be made more efficient with AI.
why were they interviewing game devs for that role?
> I'll extend my argument to suggest that most HNers are familiar with changes that can not be tested in isolation, simply because they require significant changes to the whole platform. [0]

Flag days are still tested in a staging environment that represents production as closely as possible, and the overwhelming view of the kind of change you're talking about on a technical level is generally don't do that if you can ever help it.
who cares lol
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Of the 17 Y Combinator companies that IPOed, 14 have lost money for investors
"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."
I haven't used Airflow for years but it used to be quite clunky, not sure how much it's improved since. I'd look into Prefect and/or Dagster first, both are more modern alternatives built with Airflow's shortcomings in mind.
> For the life of me I cannot understand why Defender blocks Explorer.

I suppose if you wanted to find out, you could use dtrace/ETW.

Explorer has other things going on, though, including other apps that hook into it (shell extensions, like Adobe Reader, TortiseGit/SVN, and so on) which can certainly cause performance issues.
From Maine, hate Texas. 100% agree.
Rules were meant to be broken, I love Adams- but I know plenty of old heads who never allowed Rule 3 to apply.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18783525 has previous discussion on why windows filesystem is slow
This is interesting. I'm already finding the writing style approachable and easy to follow.

Does anyone know of a good way to report typos or grammar mistakes?