skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is, by the most recent data I can find, short by between 4 and 7 million homes. But other reports state that there are in excess of 10 million homes sitting vacant. No, the two numbers are not interchangeable due to location of the homes, but they're both pretty low.

That means that the shortage is between 3% and 5% of the total homes available in the US (around 140M). And given there are under 700k homeless in the US (I wish it were lower, but it is lower than I was expecting before looking it up), most people are finding homes to live in.

By most measures, and given how new homes are being built every single day (and are very, very likely being sold as soon as they're up), it's not even remotely close to "woefully inadequate".

And for a moment, let's just say we agree and the supply is woefully inadequate. Two things can be true at the same time. A shortage of housing supply dovetails nicely with landlords colluding to identify the highest possible price point for their housing.
I'm not quite sure how to place this. For general app telemetry there's https://opentelemetry.io and for tracking user behavior similar to how it's explained in your docs it looks like https://segment.io would be the closest competitor.

How is telemetry.sh different from the above-mentioned?
It's Apple who is using their market power in smartphones to dominate search. Apple makes 10's of billions a year out of search. In the search business, they are a distributor. Google doesn't want to pay this money, they are forced to.
Not from what I've seen - I often see people searching Bing for Google then searching on there, not knowing how to change the default.
> Do you work tirelessly to prevent climate change as your day job? If not, why?

Guilty as charged, we could all do more. But I don’t actively work to increase pollution, which is what this company seems to be doing
> I’m pretty sure yahoo is still profitable.

Moving the goal posts within topic, are they relevant though? I see Yahoo!Sports pop up in my news feed from time to time, but that's about it.
Strongly agreed. What makes this hard is not something novel algorithmically or in squeezing the last little bit of performance out.

It's the monumental effort of coordination across many, many entities running legacy software and doing so in a way that doesn't take down critical infrastructure in the process.

It's very, very difficult but in a completely different way to building weather modeling systems.
What you're describing has been known since the ancient Greeks made stories about Tithonus.

The reality is, current research mainly exists as "old age illness is expensive, can we prevent all those things going wrong by slowing down aging?" (Currently: yes, with multiple different approaches, but so far only in lab animals).
> imagine the thousands of dollars you'll save not keeping it another decade and a half!

Uh well, i'm in eastern europe and the fiber i would give up on is in a package with the cell phones and the tv channels, so i think i wouldn't even notice it missing from the bill. And it's all iptv so I don't think I can have tv without the fiber.

The other pipe is business ish (symmetrical, no restrictions on servers) so I'm not giving up on it, I'm using it to give stuff to customers etc.

> I get there's a lot of new acronyms with it digging deep in docs. I get it sounds like there's a million ways to deploy it.

As i said, last time I asked on some forum (maybe hn, maybe ars technica) i got drowned in acronyms. Most of them for extra daemons to handle ... some config for a larger network, i guess.

And believe it or not, I didn't know until today that you can ignore your ISPs prefix and do address translation with ipv6 :) I thought you use what you get and that's all. Because that was the promise of ipv6 wasn't it? No more NAT.
How much of GA accidents are caused by the high prices of training? Like, there are minimum hour requirements to get a license and then minimum yearly hours for proficiency but I can see the high cost of training and flying to cause pilots to just do the bare minimum.

My wish would be that prices go down and we'd see more pilots training more often and becoming better as a result.
I wonder if their exclusivity deal with reddit contributed at all
Cool. Thanks for this! Are you from the linuxserver team?
Neat to see a post here from Dave Farquhar's blog. His Optimizing Windows for Games, Graphics and Multimedia, published by O'Reilly at the turn of the century, was an early inspiration: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1565926773
> I think that problem needs to be solved as well, but it's somewhat separate

How is “we want to get more people to fly private planes” a separate issue from global warming? It’s literally pouring oil on the wildfire
redundancy in sensors, computers, and actuators reduces the probably of a system failure due to random errors/failures and dissimilar computer systems help reduce the probability of a common mode software bug causing a failure.
But your article argues the opposite of your claim.

Your article says that Microsoft themselves were working to move people away from Internet Explorer 6 and encouraging people to upgrade to a modern browser by declaring IE 6 to be at its end of life.

The article says that Youtube displayed a banner recommending users to upgrade to either Firefox, IE 8, or Chrome and that due to concerns by Google's lawyers, the order of the browsers was to be randomized so to avoid the appearance of giving undue prominence to Chrome. Finally the article ends by noting that each of the three options Youtube recommended were chosen equally as opposed to Chrome being the option picked by most people who saw the banner.

This sounds like the exact opposite of shoving it down peoples throats and instead trying to be very careful to move people away from a browser that Microsoft themselves had declared was dead, and onto an alternative option by trying to be as fair as possible.

The significance of your article isn't that Google shoved Chrome down everyone's throat in order to kill off a competitor, it's that due to its popularity and dominant position, Youtube was more effective at getting people to stop using Internet Explorer 6 than Microsoft was, but both companies had the same objective.

Here is an article about Microsoft's own "Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer 6." which discusses Microsoft's own efforts to get people to stop using IE 6. It's about the same period of time as the article you mentioned.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-friends-dont-let-fri...
Fair point, but I wasn't able to verify the claim that most Windows users are not using Edge since its release. I am curious what the actual % is for new Windows PC installs that are not governed by a corporate policy.
Well,
Continental law was strongly inspired by Roman law and Roman law was prefered by Europea law experts when England was an Island kingdom while Roman Empire was ... An Empire.
I don't think you are an expert in law systems comparision and your statements seems to be very broad and unsourced. (random economical number isn't a source)

Some companies like BASF struggle in the American law environment in a combination of jury responsibility (very old concept!), high penalties and jury don't have any clue about science.

I've never heard any such complaint about the European law systems.
>2. On Chrome, we use an extension to change the default search engine and enable search auto-complete etc, but Google has a policy that such an extension can do one thing and one thing only, and recently removed our extension on account of that [1]. We rebuilt it to meet their needs but had a lot of back-and-forth because we included 'search by image' on a context menu item and the first reviewer felt that was a bridge too far. You'll note that Chrome provides such a context menu item for Google Image search out of the box.

I guess this is so that unrelated extension X can't also change the default search while it's at it, like in the good old IE days, so it kind of sort of makes sense. though if the extension is named after a search engine it should probably get a pass, and the context menu thing obviously is also related to search.
Results on those timescales are a bit too much of a Pascal's Wager for my liking.
The deal with Google is not a fixed amount. It has a revenue component (ie a share of Google revenue from that user). So the motivation for Apple to make it difficult is clear - a user switching browser costs Apple money as it does not have revenue share deals with others
That's my hunch too (since you can basically forget anything like 5 digit numbers of alphanumeric due to old DBs that can't be migrated easily).

Probably the issue is that lots of assumptions around AA exclusively being American Airlines is baked in somewhere. That said, it seems easier than any of the alternatives (and recycling seems excessively risky and confusing).
> to give you a 10-year payback, I have to pay you 100% of revenues for 10 straight years in dividends

My understanding is that a lot of (tech) investors these days do not want dividends, they want growth.
Maybe you should, I was trying to find this for weeks now after first seeing and then forgetting the name :)
I’m one of the paying Kagi customer who wants to make Kagi my default iOS search engine, but cannot. It’s maddening that even though I paid for both my iPhone / iPad and for Kagi, Apple for some reason makes it impossible for me to make this choice (that I already made by paying for Kagi).

On Chrome at least this is possible, even if it’s additional steps (I have not used the extension though there.)
Apple could make a search engine but by the same logic, they wouldn't be able to make it default on their devices.
> There are no macaroni lawyers

Why would you believe this?

There is macaroni law [1]. (With a paywalled reference [2].) There is a macaroni trade association [3]. There are macaroni lawsuits [4].

It would be absurd for there not be lawyers who specialise in pasta/macaroni. (They're the same thing under federal law [5].) What would be less surprising is if they all work for the trade body and its members.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/139.110

[2] https://www.aoac.org/official-methods-of-analysis/

[3] https://ilovepasta.org

[4] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/345...

[5] https://fdastorytime.com/2018/10/10/name-that-food-macaroni-...
Show HN: View aggregated traffic data from GitHub repos
As I developed and promoted more and more open-source projects, I frequently reviewed the traffic data for each repository on GitHub.
Since GitHub lacks a feature to aggregate data across multiple repositories, I decided to create a web application that consolidates traffic information from all your repositories in one place.
Did you know that Hackernews' own DonHopkins implemented pie menus for his X11 port of SimCity?
A) If anyone can make music then music has demeaned itself; B) maybe it simply wasn't ever a big deal in the first place.

Intended meaning: A can't be true so B therefore must be true. I probably should have used 'or' instead of 'and.'

Music kinda always has been a utility. I reach for Happy Birthday like I reach for tools in my toolbox - it's birthday time, so let's sing it.

A hard truth about art is that, for "good" art, the artist has often poured intense personal energy into it, yet there is no guarantee that that energy will transfer to future experiencers of your art. When that transfer happens consistently over decades or centuries, it's awesome and that speaks to the greatness of that art, of course (not necessarily the artist). Business models around particular arts such as music have little bearing on this phenomenon, other than possibly giving more people the ability to pursue art. But artists who can achieve greatness (which they will have an innate need to do because it is a personal energy thing) will manage it regardless of any surrounding business model or economic/religious/political system.

"Happy Birthday" is a utility, but also a great work of art, because we are still singing it 100 years later.
> the UI/UX of modern glass cockpits is incredibly unintuitive and difficult to use

Be careful here :)

The current UI/UX is the best that design had to offer ... at one point. That design is then solidified in concrete; It was once considered to be intuitive but the world's design of interfaces always moves on. Touch/swipe based UX drives many design decisions today but those practices can fall over in turbulent situations. That is to say, the "intuition" is not an innate factor of the interface itself. Rather, it's culturally informed.

Any UX design you create will likely seem unintuitive to either the previous or to the next generation. Either way, current pilots will likely just view it as something that needs training to adopt. I don't envy your task of making a new UI that is modern and timeless! It will be fun to see what you come up with though. :)
Hmmm I just flew from Bergamo, Italy to Liverpool, UK and it was basically four hours door to door from where I was staying to where I was going in Liverpool, and for less than €100. The train can’t do this.
Last year in October they changed it to a melting version of the owl to get users' attention: https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/why-is-duolingo-melting...
That ain't do; please consider to just https://stay-grounded.org/
And just like when we force AT&T to do a bunch of stuff, that incentive should be "encourage and fund a healthy and competitive market or be dismantled with prejudice".

We made AT&T basically give away patents to anyone and open up their network to compatibility. People regularly talk about the innovations that came from the labs funded by that agreement. Then they turn around and dismiss government regulation of industries as "stifling competition", as if a monopoly has any desire to compete if they do not have to.
We want to see prices go down too. That will only happen if more people want to fly airplanes and the market grows. So, we are trying to make it more accessible to people who wouldn't otherwise want to fly.
You've got it wrong. The Chevron rule applies to situations where the government/executive branch interprets the laws (not constitution) passed by Congress. The rule says nothing about regulations being unconstitutional, and says nothing about striking down laws or regulations because they are unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court recently reversed the Chevron decision, which, obviously could not be "extra-constitutional" in itself -- if you are right that Chevron was a precedent of judicial restraint, then reversing the restraint just means that at worst the SC is (ab)using its constitutional powers "without restraint" to interpret laws, but it isn't assigning itself "extra-constitutional" powers, and the reversal of the Chevron rule definitely isn't related to declaring things unconstitutional. Again, it's about declaring that the executive branch misinterpreted laws passed by Congress.

I get that people are upset that the un-elected Supreme Court is overriding decisions made by democratically elected institutions, but constitutional law (not quite related here) and administrative law (which is what the Chevron rule was about) can be nuanced and there can be implications that aren't obvious to lay people. The political-affinity of such decisions also tend to cloud judgement.
Social media is definitely making information about inequality more accessible. But that doesn’t mean the underlying issues aren’t real. It would be a mistake to dismiss economic anxieties as just a trendy social media thing. Owning a house isn’t just “trendy”, it’s been part of the American dream that has steadily become out of reach.
Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and Woman
Of course I agree with you on art view point but you see the point: Nobody wants to use an older GIMP version while I play old Pokémon games.
> Quantum particles in a spin-nematic state carry energy through waves.

> “We realised that the properties of the waves in the spin-nematic state are mathematically identical to those of gravitational waves,” says Shannon.

"Gravitational wave analogs in spin nematics and cold atoms" (2024) https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.109.L... :

> Abstract: Large-scale gravitational phenomena are famously difficult to observe, making parallels in condensed matter physics a valuable resource. Here we show how spin nematic phases, found in magnets and cold atoms, can provide an analog to linearized gravity. In particular, we show that the Goldstone modes of these systems are massless spin-2 bosons, in one-to-one correspondence with quantized gravitational waves in flat spacetime. We identify a spin-1 model supporting these excitations and, using simulation, outline a procedure for their observation in a 23⁢Na spinor condensate.
It’s not a question of “worthwhile”, I’m not judging them for writing mobile minigames or whatever, it’s a question of pulling in the exact opposite direction to where we should be going. What’s the point of having people dedicating their lives to getting us out of this pickle, when others are saying “you know what we need more of? Private air flights”
This is a pretty great post. One of its subtexts is the cliche of people taking jobs in offensive security and complaining that all they get to work on are web apps --- web apps are where all the money is, and where most new software is built. Another interesting subtext: there's a whole variety of low-level targets where modern exploit development techniques would come into play, but since there's no market for those vulnerabilities, there aren't many opportunities to get paid to develop the exploits; all the action is in browsers and mobile operating systems, where competition is incredibly fierce.
As opposed to a ground station that costs a lot more and can’t be moved?

I suppose you could have a mobile ground-based launcher though.
Not really. Most banking regulations are about preventing fraud, not making sure you pay your taxes.
What a weird time to come across this blog. I went to the dermatologist today for a biopsy. I’m gonna spend the next week obsessing and worrying about it until I get the results.
Show HN: Dual-Numbers for Python3
The idea that a 0.66% decline in revenue would be insignificant made me snort. Increasing revenue that much would make many careers - it would justify the existence of a substantial origination. That’s billions of dollars annually.
What is "the message"? The video doesn't say.
to whom? Bing? Yahoo? Baidu?
Apple creating their own search engine will likely raise more eyebrows than letting an existing Google competitor buy their way into the iPhone ecosystem. In fact the DOJ may prefer a smaller player turn into a bigger competitor to Google, even if that's Microsoft's Bing.

As others have pointed out, these types of deals haven't been ruled illegal, they only apply to Google for abusing its monopoly.

Apple will want more than zero dollars.
LLMs: Beyond Chat (AI as Software) [video]
And then you are enlightened.
Aha! I've never had c/c++ as a daily driver, so I missed the significance of taking that reference. Thanks for the explanation!
Not just normies, its just the best search engine…
> Thus the meta-search engines like DogPile that would search "all" the search engines and give you a blended result.

There was a brief window where people would look at me like I was some kind of crazy wizard when they saw me use DogPile.

Prior to that, I used Watson[1] to accomplish something similar.

[1](http://www.karelia.com/watson/)
> We want our airplanes to be more efficient than cars, but to get there we need to first scale the market.

Why is it that you think it's feasible to put all this effort to "scale the market", but getting to something like "building efficient passenger rail" or even "offer a comfortable, fast intercity bus" is out of your reach?

The US doesn't "need" flying. It needs a more efficient way to move passengers. To suggest that small planes are ever going to be more efficient than mass transit is delusional. The US needs to move away from "personal" transportation and invest in multi-modal, public mass-transit. And yes, there are still plenty of opportunities for engineers to do that.
There absolutely is a housing shortage in the places people want to live. That's why prices are high. The economics here are pretty basic ones of supply and demand.

> And for a moment, let's just say we agree and the supply is woefully inadequate. Two things can be true at the same time. A shortage of housing supply dovetails nicely with landlords colluding to identify the highest possible price point for their housing.

And yes, they do dovetail. The best way to cut landlord profits is to give tenants a lot of options. RealPage is not a good actor - there's no real upside to it from what I can tell. I'd be fine if they just went away. However, broadly speaking, given more supply, rents fall. There is just tons of empirical evidence for that at this point.
I can envision a gnarly Venn diagram of search, ads, AI, analytics, Chrome. You could easily make this 5 separate companies (ads and analytics were acquired), but you probably just need to split it somewhere in the middle.
Discovery in the mid-90s was excruciatingly bad. Google really did rescue the web in that regard.

I remember searching AltaVista for GNU’s website (at the time, they didn’t have their own domain, or weren’t using it) and I’m pretty sure I had to go to page 2 or 3 of the results to find it.
> The mysterious deaths were often blamed on syphilis to undermine the womens’ reputations, and many doctors and dentists inexplicably cooperated with the powerful company’s disinformation campaign.

What is wrong with people?!
TIL LCDs are in spin-nematic states
No. It will be a slightly warm damp rock regardless of what we do, until in the distant future the nearby star either destroys it or goes out leaving it to gradually cool down.
>2. That sounds perfectly reasonable. Google doesn't want people to bundle other things for users who want to install just a different default search (and not "your hotbar" like the Netscape days).

I suspect it's the other way around. They don't want random extensions to mess with your search engine because they get kickbacks from yahoo or whatever. Though if the extension is named for a search engine I don't think it should apply.
Radium, Lead, Asbestos, Nicotene, R-12 refrigerant, Social Media

Seems like a lot of things that are an initial good, but turn out to be not so hot after a decade or so.
that point also appeared recently in The Guardian, although under a different title.
We don’t actually know that. I do sometimes wonder if that’s the case, but you shouldn’t state something as a fact without anything to back it up.
Reflex (YC W23) Is Hiring a Staff Infrastructure Engineer
How is throughput per watt affordable? Each card has a TDP of 275 watts, and a maximum draw of 375. If you try to run a big model like Llama-3 400B you're looking at a cluster with 1,8k cards, and a total power draw of nearly 500KWs per hour.