skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can a single, childless tech startup-type person live comfortably walking car-free in contemporary SF, long-term? If so, how much does that cost, and in what neighborhoods?

yes-ish

In SF generally the areas are the most car dependent and the hilliest are also the quietest and have the least amount of bullshit.

SOMA, where you see a majority of those modern apartments, is going to have some of the worst problems. You get what you pay for in the city. Every part of the city is going to have some kind of street problem, but some, like Bernal for example, have them very rarely. It entirely is neighborhood dependent and there's tradeoffs.

Maybe you get a quiet apartment, but it's at the top of a hill. Do you want to walk up that every day?

The easiest way to tell is just to show up and walk around the whole city, it's only 7x7 so you can literally spend a weekend walking around and see all of it and make your own conclusions. Certain places change completely within a few blocks.

e.g. you can go from the Tenderloin which is easily one of the worst parts of the city to the yuppie paradise of Hayes Valley in like three or four blocks.

Edit: in terms of cost? prob 2-4k in monthlies for a good studio/one bed.

The rest is up to your budgeting, eating out and anything in the service economy is very expensive compared to the rest of the country. Including places like NYC.

Very few affordable places survive here, regardless of their quality.

I'd say you could tack on like another 1-2k a month as a single person and be pretty happy with the amount of things you're doing, plus some grocery cost depending on how much you cook for yourself.
I watched Yaccarino's message - she looks and sounds like a hostage (which she kind of is - I doubt she will find another respectable job after X).

Besides the usual confirmation that Musk is going broke / prison soon-ish, and that explains the increasingly erratic actions, I wonder what winning looks like here ?

Let's say they win - they will get some compensation for past damages. But what about the future ? We're going to force companies to advertise on their platform ? Like a % based on users ? It all seems quite absurd to me.
I don't believe you got the memo, did you? Musk is evil and we were all told to hate him. Nothing he is associated with is ok anymore.
> Threads was allowed to pop up. Now threads is around 1/4 to 1/3 the size of Twitter MAU

Main thing I consume on X nowadays is space journalism. Plenty of big name space journalists seriously posting on X (e.g. Jeff Foust, Eric Berger). I had a look at Threads, I can't find any of that content, mostly just people posting silly memes and mind-numbingly misinformed takes on the topic, at best people just reposting stuff that you'll already find better coverage of on X.

> This election season looks poised to further drive long term disengagement as the platform is going to be very toxic and very unmoderated.

I don't find much "toxic" on X. If you only read stuff posted by people you follow, and are selective in who you follow, you can have a pretty curated experience.
Ok, we've belatedly taken 'for free' out of the title. Thanks!
> I just like to fill out the application as a writing exercise, to help me get a snapshot of my own thinking around what I’m building.

I think that's quite rude and disrespectful in itself. People do actually need to read that, and think about it, and then maybe provide feedback on it.

Of course applying conveys no obligation to follow through and you can always change your mind, but if you never intend to do so, then you shouldn't be applying.
I often want the opposite, multiple profiles within the same network
In particular, the every if has a matching else comment doesn't seem reliably true. Many of the unmatched ifs are just simple if (err != nil) { checks, but or other early returns, but outside of those, there do seem to be unmatched ifs.

That said, my experience in enterprise software isn't that extra comments are necessarily present (there was a plague of "// end if" comments in the codebase, but actual descriptive comments were rare).
Do changes in verbosity tuning have a meaningful impact on the average "correctness" of the responses?

Also your about page is very suspicious for someone at an AI company ;).
It makes a lot of sense if I am traveling with more than two, staying more than two nights, and I want to cook my own meals and/or do laundry.

I’m traveling to upstate NY for a wedding during the fall. All of the shitty motels and hotels were $350/night and Airbnb was $400, but I ended up with a lot more comfort and creature comforts as well as it being 20 mins closer than any of the chain hotels; those are the only reason I chose it for a one-night stay.
>You're not mad at ebikes, you're mad at people with unregistered vehicles, and potentially drivers driving motorcycles without motorcycle licenses.

Yeah, but the problem is that they all look the same, many legal bikes even come with easily removed speed limiters.

I'm ok with throwing the baby out with the bathwater -- regulate them all if it's impossible to tell which one is which until they get into an accident.
Cover a baking tin with transparent film and put it outdoors. Micrometeorites have enough velocity to punch through, but windblown dirt rarely does.
Classic grade school experiment.
The new population would have had immunity when the europeans arrived and they didn't.

You write way too much for too little information.
Saving money on a cab fare and getting the suitcase to drive its owner to the hotel either using footpaths or public roads.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41168772.
It's really hard for any true cryptocurrency to compete with stablecoins.
You can get 15TB U.2 NVMe drives and use a PCIe U.2. adapter! Whether it fits in a SFF is going to depend on the specific chassis, but anything larger and it's fine.

You can also use an external PCIe Thunderbolt enclosure for macOS.
After being scammed by host using a "final price" ("tax on top") scheme in 2015, I don't use Airbnb. So even though for a public company the stock price is not really connected to anything except shareholders wealth, I still welcome the recent dropping of their share price. Just considering them allowing many scammy practices (yes, Airbnb support does not help in most cases).
Wow, a product that hasn’t shoehorned AI/LLM into their offerings. Will be following.

Love that you are using rust!
I've seen similar complaints from cities in rich countries around the globe

Basically to have thriving arts scene you need people in the 20s-30s to be able to live on a minimum wage job and do art/music/whatever in their spare time. Even better if it is a part-time job or some sort of government scheme.

If your cost of living is too high then you are restricting yourself to trust-fund 20yo and older people with a bit of spare time. Also high property reduce the number of venues.
No need, you can always just kick your feet on the ground like a balance bike.

Then the motor is only assisting your foot power, which makes it an ebike.
Please don't copy-paste comments on HN. It makes merging threads a pain.

Instead, if you or anyone will let us know at hn@ycombinator.com which threads need merging, we can do that. The solution is deduplication, not further duplication!
Compute is a drug.

AWS gives $100k ($400k for AI).

GCP gives $200k ($350k for AI).

Azure gives $150k.

They'll happily give out six figures in exchange for making millions.
This is too real haha. I do this exact thing.

> But now I’m sitting on this cash, and like Matthew McConaughey says in wolf of Wall Street , they’re fucking addicted

Only point of contention is that when you have a currency experiencing sustained inflation over any medium/long term time horizon, it makes sense people would want to hold anything over than cash. Anyone who saved in cash (even using Term Deposits) from basically the 70s to today in any currency has had their purchasing power destroyed.
Good Eggs sold to San Francisco grocery distribution startup GrubMarket
Do you know this from working in the industry, or are you just repeating what CNBC is saying?
I suspect because it kills creativity. It's the same in the software industry because engineering has a big component of creativity but organizations structure themselves in a way that minimizes this creativity and maximizes managerial control. I'm not saying having an army of managers is necessarily bad, but it does tend to create bad software because engineers are heavily constrained in this structure.
Jupyter notebooks, by contrast, will enter a newline when you hit Enter, and will run the cell on Shift + Enter.
How Tribal Nations Are Reclaiming Oklahoma
There's about 2x more people on the market right now vs pre pandemic around 2019 and at least 1/3 as many positions available.

So it's at least 5 times as many applicants per position.

When you got 10 people to pass step 1, and 5 people to pass step 2, and 3 people to pass step 3, its not that hard to send a "thanks but we need someone with xyz skill".

Now, the reasons are even more random and arbitrary.

Now you might have 100 people pass step 1, and 50 people to pass step 2, and 30 people to pass step 3. So companies are pickier, but also they tend to reject you more randomly.

I've done a few interviews and they would say stuff that basically said "i'm not really listening just browsing reddit while you're talking"

Kinda sad
MS is still ultimately a company that values its profits, so "open source" to them is just "free labour".
I remember some C++ colleagues raving on about the standard library having anything and everything they might ever need. Makes sense in a world without sane package managers and package registries, but that mindset just doesn't carry over.
My fast food experience

* Worked ~9 months at a dunkin donuts

* Start of shift generally 4 a.m.

* End of shift generally 1 p.m.

* 7 days per week although Sunday would only work 3 hr - this was because my boss could provide much more compensation because we were paid 1.5x hourly above 40 hours. He would illegally manually adjust my hours downwards in the computer system to ensure it didn't get too much out of hand :)

* Was promoted to "shift manager" after 6 months (meaningless title)

I agree with nearly all of your points:

* no breaks

* boss monitors waste, quality (customer complaints), service time per order

* regional competitions

* cleaning in downtime

* constant churn training new recruits who would suddenly quit

Your conclusion fast food is difficult seems off to me. The work is repetitive so each individual step requires little thought. To make a sandwhich you put the bread in oven 1 and click button 2 then you put the patty in oven 2 and click button 7. When it comes out you wrap, bag, add napkins, and hand it to the customer. Crucially when your shift is done you go home and don't care. There are no objectives that line employees care about at a quarterly level. You were able to move around the entire day and interact with people rather than being sedentary behind a screen. You didn't have to have any education or work experience beyond completing ~9 grade (compared to CS where the most common path in the US is 3 years of highschool, 4 years of college). Most employees at my location were young, more social, less attached, and better looking than my colleagues in big tech (ok myself included).

I would trade my new line of work for my old in a heartbeat if the compensation and career prospects were comparable.
Good Eggs has been a favorite of ours in the Bay Area for reliable and fresh groceries, so will be interesting to see how this shakes out. Hope they don't change their mac & cheese and their kale & sausage soup, both are awesome.
`dotnet watch` works fine. Why is this current news?
A Deepness in the Sky, hands down. Also worth reading is its companion A Fire Upon the Deep. Both are the pinnacle of SciFi.
I think a formal way to assert that someone will follow those rules/be mindful is a license..
The scientific explanation is that your brain is lying to you. :p

They do that quite a lot, really.
That's a different thing. That's a scooter that fits into a suitcase form factor. It's not really a suitcase.

This article is talking about motorized, ridable luggage.

Examples: https://airwheelfactory.com/collections/riding-suitcase-for-...
The author shows up here from time to time, too.
A piece on the financial markets, which could have included a tweet from any proper financial source, instead it includes one from Austen Allred.
as long as you're ok with everything being public forever! ;-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41060102
From the diagrams alone, it looks like a giant maintenance nightmare, compared to a dead simple rotor, with a simple caliper sitting on it.

It looks as if it may have had some weird dynamics also, that would be confusing to a driver used to regular brakes.

Was there a post-war complication trend in engineering?
Calendar - the kalends is a Roman thing - the first day of a month.

"In essence, their view is that Göbekli Tepe, for which the earliest date yet recorded is 9530 ± 215 BCE"

Stonehenge is from around 3100BC, so this is around 5500 years older than Stonehenge.

I personally think that the thought processes and notions are far, far older than either sets of evidence. However, evidence is king.
I wasn't aware of Tailscale Funnel, but I'll give it a try. It was easy to set up since I already have a lot of things on Cloudflare.
Thank you for the info.

> In terms of security, If you keep your head on a swivel then you're fine. I had the same alertness that I have when traveling a foreign country. You need to be on high alert all the time.

Are we talking only about having basic city street savvy (e.g., you're perceived as a savvy native rather than easy pickings, can spot the usual threats and risks without trying, and can avoid or handle them)?

Or more like someone who has that basic street savvy, but who is also feeling like they found themselves in a rougher neighborhood at the moment (e.g., getting closer to military head on a swivel mode, and looking to not spend more time there than necessary)?
I prefer it frankly, as notifications that my app is not proceeding are not useful for my time and attention. I just keep applying constantly under all circumstances. Job hunting is eternal.
>And the beautiful thing about adaptive attacks is that they look exactly like Hollywood, it's beautiful! Because you see them flipping and going through values, getting it right and moving to the next one, which you all told it was fake, it was not!
thoroughly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qcd_wNjpjQ
Dave just laughs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qcd_wNjpjQ
I wonder if we could get some legislation in place to require that they publish pricing data via an API so we don't have to tangle with the blockers at all.
An open source eGPU for the proprietary XGM connector
let me share the hiring manager side when you’re at a medium sized company without a super organized process - writing that email takes 20 mins of hard focus (to very carefully give feedback without blowback) assuming they even remember the interview, and that the person writing the email even made the decision. most interviews are ambiguous and the hiring manager is doing 3 to 5 interviews over a few weeks, by which point earlier candidates are forgotten, and hiring manager is staring at a list of candidates to reject that they don’t even remember and this is the least important thing on their todo list that day. very easy to just close that laptop and go home
good point! lol
>Somewhat famous for not including arrow keys because Steve Jobs wanted to encourage developers to use the mouse instead

You know, with Jobs, the more I learn about that guy, the more I don’t care for him.
This is a game changer
This model appears to be full of surprises.

The 50% drop in price for inputs and 33% for outputs vs. the previous 4o model is huge.

It also appears to be topping various benchmarks, ZeroEval's Leaderboard on hugging face [0] actually shows that it beats even Claude 3.5 Sonnet on CRUX [1] which is a code reasoning benchmark.

Shameless plug, I'm the co-founder of Double.bot (YC W23). After seeing the leaderboard above we actually added it to our copilot for anyone to try for free [2]. We try to add all new models the same day they are released

[0]https://huggingface.co/spaces/allenai/ZeroEval

[1]https://crux-eval.github.io/

[2]https://double.bot/
gotcha! Thanks for clearing this up
Maybe consider something like:

"Dynamic scaling ML based coordinator to minimize infrastructure resource costs"

Inferring the novelty of your firms value proposition would be more palatable to those that are risk averse to buzzwords. Note, simply dropping "AI" 128 times into a presentation like Intel/nvidia will unlikely work for a smaller firm.

Best of luck, =3
People claim to hate Google but they don't want to use other search engines - Google has above 90% market share despite other options being a click away.
Thanks for all the detail and I’m fascinated by this.

We’re working on fairly similar problems, would love to have a chat and share ideas and experiences.

In this something you’d be interested in?
I feel like YC is a bit like the music biz. They only sign companies which would have a chance without them in the first place.

I think I'll just keep working on my side projects. They'll never be billion dollar ideas, and that's ok...
It's true that in the case of a sorting algorithm it's not immediately obvious how to analyse the time complexity with Big O. However, I feel that you may be getting bogged down in semantics.

Perhaps it is accurate to say that when Big O is used to describe the time complexity of a function in computer science the variable n in O(f(n)) usually describes the size of the input, which may not be common knowledge. But if the question is:

> Have programmers redefined O to specifically mean worst case?

Then in general I would say no. I suppose to answer more concretely I would have to ask: "Which programmers?"
Thanks for the feedback. The cloud option is offered as a way to get started as quickly as possible, but self-hosting is straightforward too: https://docs.plandex.ai/hosting/self-hosting
What kind of reference is a "Kurzgesagt" video please? Not only has the this channel been in more controversies than needed, they seem to also spread missinformation
Frequent AirBnB user here. Never had a problem. Yes some hosts charge stupid fees. Don't rent their places. No they're not more expensive than hotels if you have 4 people and need 3 bathrooms. Perhaps for one person they are.

Perhaps demand is dropping as the pent-up post-covid demand dissipates?
This is really cool! I've had a lot of fun using MiDaS[0] for creating stereograms and also in robotics for depth estimation.

[0] https://github.com/isl-org/MiDaS
For those who have to order online (e.g. elderly), they are paying the fees anyway. They can avoid minimum order fees with bulk purchases of staples. Their bot/app can monitor prices and when a staple goes on sale, they can order multiple items to meet the threshold for a lower fee.
At-grade intersections can be removed.

Melbourne, Australia has been running a project since 2015 – scheduled to continue until at least 2030 – to remove at-grade intersections (or "level crossings" as we call them) on suburban rail lines. They've already removed 83, and by 2030 plan to have removed 110. I'm not sure of the total cost, but I'd say in the ballpark of US$5-10 billion. The removal is done by a combination of elevating the rail line, trenching the rail line, and leaving the rail line at the same level but building road bridges over it – adopting whichever solution is most feasible and cost-effective for any given at-grade intersection. The project is run and paid for by the state government, with the federal government contributing some of the funding.

Australia's State of Victoria: population close to 7 million, economy almost US$300 billion (Gross State Product), annual state government budget around US$70 billion. California: population close to 40 million, economy almost US$4 trillion (GSP), annual state government budget of almost US$300 billion. If Victoria can afford it, California can too.
Count has gained popularity recently and I’m glad it has.

Quite possibly the best fiction piece ever written.
Hey, thanks for creating https://pricewatcher.gr/en/ very much appreciated.

Nice blog post and very informative. Good to read that it costs you less than 70€ per year to run this and hope that the big supermarkets don’t block this somehow.

Have you thought of monetizing this? Perhaps with ads from the 3 big supermarkets you scrape ;-)
When I was at Spotify in the Warfield building, something similar happened, and we dropped behind the windows. Later that day, a can of pre-made Starbucks coffee someone left on their desk exploded from baking in the sun. Caused quite a scare.
Actually, I used ALSA without anything else for a long time until recently. I only needed to install pulseaudio because Microsoft Teams didn't work without it and I needed it for work.

I guess modern apps were developed against those APIs that they've become a necessity now?
Jeremy Rowley resigns from DigiCert due to mass-revocation incident
>the ping from AU to EU/US is so high that it takes months to backup to them

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a jumbo jet full of hard drives flying on the gulfstream?
I can’t help but think Japan’s recent anti tourist mania is going to hurt them significantly. The country already has a reputation for xenophobia and discrimination, and the visibility of social media and news media attacks against tourists over trivial things like this is just going to keep young people from going there. And their economy needs them.
Never used it again after being stranded by a host that canceled the day before new years eve
It's cheap but it's not fast. Try benchmarking it first. I was getting better speeds with a commercial VPN provider then my own Hetzner server (both over wire guard). That's for a single person
Keep your hopes up: they may find entirely new ways of fucking things up.
I found myself thinking the same thing until I got to the hugely nested if statements. I would definitely have created some early-return branches to that thing.

It does feel like the first "make it work" step (from "make it work, make it fast, make it pretty"), and then they just didn't do the "make it pretty" step. I have written code this "ugly" before, with this many comments, when working out a thorny state interaction. But I usually clean it up a bit before submitting for review. Maybe instead I should just put a huge "do not attempt to simplify this code" banner at the top hehe :)

But yes, it's not that bad, for sure.
Anytime I go to urgent care or the ER and don't get out until late, I can count on Walgreens being open 24 hours. Only some medications are a recurring prescription. Many are prescribed as a one off.

I will never get medication or food from Amazon. I don't even trust them to not sell dangerous counterfeit electronics.
The power of defaults cannot be underestimated.
So? "Google is the best search engine we have today" doesn't make them an entity we should deign to like :/... a majority of the things brought up in this article are people hating Google for dominating markets and thereby preventing competitors or abusing other companies in various ways, so, of course we're using them? and we hate them all the more for it?
Manticore is seldom mentioned around here but it seems to be a really good alternative [1]. The fact that is the search engine Craigslist uses gives them a lot of credibility.

This may be a bit silly, but I wonder if the design of their blog and website makes them look a bit "old fashioned" or something.

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1: https://manticoresearch.com/blog/manticore-alternative-to-el...
I can hate something even if there are no better options.