skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To each there own — I loved the AI art for about one month but since then it’s become insanely triggering. It’s everywhere now and it all has this same “feel”.

What used to just be an unsplash image that I never gave any thought to is now a serious detractor that can often overshadow the content (for me)

I’ve clicked out of articles and videos many times because of the AI art. I agree with OP that it feels like it’s washing out a lot of individuality at the moment.
> For example, rent control and affordable housing mandates that require a certain % of units to be rented at below market rates.

The issue that we have here - market rates controlled by RealPage. Since everyone uses RealPage, in terms of price for renters it's essentially the same as if every building was owned by the same company.

I'm appalled how long it took for this lawsuit to be filed. We knew about this price fixing for quite some time.
It's not an insinuation, or mistaken - it's stated on their HN profile.

You should verify claims before mistakenly downvoting and linking to site's guidelines.
Ok, now look at literally every country in the world and explain it.
I don't think so, if that jupyter command just runs against your local servers. We register the moonglow remote servers with VSCode through the extension, and my guess is we'd need to do something similar with Zed.
That is, as it says in the title, about the Bash-stage obfuscation. That’s fun but it’d also be interesting to know what capabilities the exploit payload actually provided to the attacker. Last I looked into that a month or so ago there were at least two separate endpoints already discovered, and the investigation was still in progress.
I wanted to stay consistent with the 3-6 digits per number rule to make the challenge easier to figure out in general. There are only two numbers that are actually truncated, so hopefully it isn't that big of a problem.
> USA easily has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world

A fifth of our prisoners are there for drug crimes [1]. We also have more pretrial detention and longer sentencing than the rest of the world.

I can't find good data for arrest (versus incarceration) rates. But I'd suspect we're closer to the median in frequency of arrest. In other words, our problem isn't arresting too many people; it's holding them in jail for too long. (Also arresting people for non-violent drug possession, which is stupid.)

[1] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2024.html
> I think Moonglow's target audience is slightly different than Colab's though because of the tight VSCode/Cursor integration - many people we've talked to said they really value the code-complete, which you can't get in any web frontend!

At the risk of repeating the famous Dropbox comment

I like the idea and that the ease of usage is your selling point. But I don't know if that is actually a reasonable reason. People who are entrenched that much in VSCode ecosystem wouldn't find it a problem to deploy dockerized Nvidia GPU container and connect to their own compute instance via remote/tunnel plugins on VSCode which one can argue does make more sense.

Congratulations on the launch and good luck with the product.
It's been a few years, so I'm going off of memory, but it was mostly best practices stuff (enabling Cloudtrail, rotating older keys, etc). Anything to ensure that once the attackers no longer had access, removing/monitoring anything that would have longer term implications.
Relying on markdown links to local images works well on my machine, but breaks as soon as I'd like to share that markdown file with someone else.

Sure, I can zip everything and send them over, but it's not as friendly for recepient as receiving a document handled by popular viewers, specially if they have to modify it and send it back.

With wide adoption of something like TextBundle, we get to have our cake (keep using plain text) and eat it too (send, view, and edit richer files).
> Poor diet
> Poor choices
> legitimate hormonal imbalance or genetic defect

The legitimate hormonal imbalance and genetic defect is being human. Our brains and bodies were never intended to operate in a setting with a surplus of extremely nutritious food.

To me, it is clear that food can be extremely addictive, maybe even more so than traditional avenues of addiction like nicotine or alcohol. It's obvious that modern day foods are constructed in such a way to ensure this addiction.

They have appropriate amounts of fat, sodium, and sugar to give an immediate good feeling to people, as well as increase their dopamine for a while.

The reality is that the obesity epidemic is the primary killer in the first world. We have moved past the point where we can close our ears and yell "bootstraps! bootstraps!!!"

Clearly this is bigger, more complex, and more sinister than online armchair doctors will have you believe. Look around you. I see a society of sickness. Did everyone magically, at the same time, become lazy? Is everyone just stupid? I don't think so.
You can't just abdicate the monopoly on violence because you feel you've done enough policing this year, any more than you can stop pumping water when you feel like people have used enough, or stop processing sewage and collecting trash when you feel like people have produced enough waste. That doesn't preclude working on root causes of crime or water conservation or reducing waste. But government has to deal with the population-level behavior that it actually has - all of it, not the amount it wishes it had - or we are fundamentally not living in civilization anymore. Water stops coming out of the taps, trash piles up in the streets, and people do crimes with impunity. The Northern European societies people lionize in these types of discussions are certainly not like that.
"price gouging" is not the same as price-fixing. Price gouging refers to raising prices in response to natural disasters: https://www.cato.org/blog/anti-price-gouging-laws-entrench-s...

> Texas’s APGL kicks in when a disaster is declared by the governor or the country’s president. Under the law, merchants are not allowed to sell or lease fuel, food, medicine, lodging, building materials, construction tools, or other necessities at “exorbitant” or “excessive” prices, with those caught facing civil penalties of up to $10,000 per violation, rising to $250,000 if elderly consumers are affected.

There's very specific, and very short-term windows in which prices cannot be raise excessively. It's not even remotely comparable to price controls on rents.
What do rich/ultra-rich people do which others don't even consider?
I wonder if this election will determine if Elon keeps X. If Trump wins then the political influence is worth it, if Trump loses than it was for not, though Mark Cuban just said that Musk’s Twitter influence is greater outside the country than inside. So who knows
The classic way that businesses openly coordinate their pricing is via price matching. Businesses advertise their preferred prices but also promise that they'll match lower prices from competitors. Competitors see these advertisements and set their own prices to approximately match.

The FTC does not consider this type of open signaling to be price fixing:

> Q: Our company monitors competitors' ads, and we sometimes offer to match special discounts or sales incentives for consumers. Is this a problem?

> A: No. Matching competitors' pricing may be good business, and occurs often in highly competitive markets. Each company is free to set its own prices, and it may charge the same price as its competitors as long as the decision was not based on any agreement or coordination with a competitor.

Source:
https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
Elon Musk's lawyers subpoena public interest groups
Sometimes commercial companies have "incentives" to put backdoors, like i.e. secret orders by intelligence agencies. Snowden papers and all related information from that time set a baseline on what you may consider safe.
> near-unimpeachable monopoly

The failures of other companies trying to emulate or capture that market do not a monopoly make. There is no real moat for Steam beyond customer loyalty and the fact that nearly every competitor sought to gain market through anti-consumer moves (exclusivity) rather than value-adds, and almost universally with shittier software to boot. There are a few notable counterexamples (GoG is a good store, value add, respectful of customers; but just didn't have the juice to establish itself beyond indie/abandonware games; Itch.io is doing fine in its niche).

Just because customers prefer a product does not mean it's got an unimpeachable moat.
Quite a bit, but 2M is an annoying size and the transparent handling is suboptimal. Without userspace cooperating, the kernel might end up having to split the pages at random due to an unfortunate unaligned munmap/madvise from an application not realizing it was being served 2M pages.

Having Intel/AMD add 16-128K page support, or making it common for userspace to explicitly ask for 2M pages for their heap arenas is likely better than the page merging logic. Less fragile.

1G pages are practically useless outside specialized server software as it is very difficult to find 1G contiguous memory to back it on a “normal” system that has been running for a while.
Oh, you and I 100% agree this is JUST marketing..
@dns_snek, it's right there in my real name username, comment history, and profile. :)

My entire youth and professional life I've seen nothing but footguns with actual practical use of SSH. The HN community loves to hate, but the reality is that almost no one uses SSH safely. It's near impossible. Especially when it comes to configuration, keys, passwords, and network factors.

I observed the common SSH failure patterns, and I made the most obvious footguns less than lethal. Looking a step further, I made remote terminal access a pleasure to use safely even for absolute novices.

So to your point about being in YC: In doing so, I thought it would be beneficial to join a community that supports one another (YC) so that an option (Teclada) can scale to make a real impact in the world WRT the warts and footguns of SSH.
I don't believe you're engaging in good faith here, so I'm not going to reply any more, but if you're interested in having a productive conversation, try to think about what I might be meaning a little more and then reply instead of taking the least sensical interpretation and responding to that. Or, if you like, you might reply to multiple interpretations of what I said if you're not sure which one I mean, and that way we can advance the dialogue.

Have a good one.
Even without a specific policy to not prosecute crimes, there's a pipeline problem.

Courts are backed up and jails are full. DAs have to prioritize cases so that important cases are prosecuted within the statutes of limitations and constitutional speedy trial limits. Arresting people under suspicion of crimes that are unlikely to be prosecuted isn't very effective and nobody likes doing ineffective work.
It's ideology fueled by fabricated science. Things like drug and petty crime decriminalization have just completely failed at achieving their goals and these policies were backed by studies that have consistently failed to replicate.

The people behind these things are serious hard core ideologues. Remember Chesa Boudin? His parents were literal communist terrorists that murdered a cop while robbing a bank (when I say this I'm not misusing the term communist like many Americans do).

How does someone like that become a DA?
Find someone interested in continuing that business under a long term (royalty or such) or short term (lump sum) financial arrangement that is acceptable to you? I think there will be interested people, maybe even within this community (not suggesting I’m one of them, though).
Errol Morris had some great thoughts to share about the topic some years back:

As I’ve said elsewhere: Nothing is so obvious that it’s obvious. When someone says that something is obvious, it seems almost certain that it is anything but obvious – even to them. The use of the word “obvious” indicates the absence of a logical argument – an attempt to convince the reader by asserting the truth of something by saying it a little louder. [0]

0. https://archive.nytimes.com/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/20...
This is absolutely the thing I most want: it should be trivially easy to create a dedicated API key with e.g. a $5 maximum spend that I can share with a "bring your own key" tool.

Being able to issue those via an OAuth flow as opposed to copy-and-paste would be nice, but the fundamental thing I want is per-app spending limits.
Congrats on building this into a working app!

But as far as I can tell, this is simply a workflow that e.g. ChatGPT and Claude have supported for quite a while now. (It's what I do with my whiteboard diagrams)

Which means you'll probably need to think of a value add to help it gain traction. I'm curious to see where you'll be taking it!
Author-paid publication fees corrupt science and should be abandoned
You do you, everybody has different tolerance. I am allergic to ads in any form since I strongly dislike when others try to manipulate me, dont want the extra mental load of ignoring ads in a place that is supposed to be relaxing.

I wouldnt want such a device in my home even if they would pay me the sum that it costs + electric bills, every year.
A lot of low level stuff is a lot slower on Windows, let alone the GUI. There's also entire blogs cataloging an abundance of pathological performance issues.

The one I notice the most is the filesystem. Running Linux in VirtualBox, I got 7x the host speed for many small file operations. (On top of that Explorer itself has its own random lag.)

I think a better question is how much performance are they leaving on the table by bloating the OS so much. Like they could have just not touched Explorer for 20 years and it would be 10x snappier now.

I think the number is closer to 100x actually. Explorer on XP opens (fully rendered) after a single video frame... also while running virtualized inside Win10.

Meanwhile Win10 Explorer opens after a noticeable delay, and then spends the next several hundred milliseconds painting the UI elements one by one...
> reactionaries framed it as defunding the police department

Couldn't one hit back by increasing funding for the resulting police and traffic enforcement departments?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6ovtLdSbEA

This talk by Denzel Farmer at Columbia isn't a complete disassembly of the payload but it's the best I've seen so far.

Slides if you don't want to watch the video: https://cs4157.github.io/www/2024-1/lect/21-xz-utils.pdf
There is more than just pricing at question here. If you go to your typical local gas station with a 5000 gallon tank and fill up the station will raise their prices above the other stations in the area because they will only have a small amount of gas in their tanks and so they want everyone to go elsewhere until the next delivery fills the tanks up again. (depending on when you fill up the station may not even have 5000 gallons in their tanks.) How much tank is left at any station is NOT public information shared with other stations in the area.

RealPage though has information on how many apartments are empty and uses that in algorithms even though it isn't public information.
Because it's the sheriff's job to enforce the law...
> People have income on a curve, and at a certain point of price/quality will move further out and commute or move to a lower cost of living city entirely.

This doesn't describe the major renter class who has few workable options to choose from. They take whatever they can get.

Once they manage a place to live, they're likely trapped there because they don't have a wad of cash on hand (required to move).

That's average renter difficulty. It can get far worse.

In 2021, the few rentals available here got 400 applications/day. We beat out 50 applicants for one that was advertised for 2 hours (offered 6mos up front).

We beat long odds and barely avoided homelessness (even tho we had good employment history + money in the bank).

Many, many others were less lucky. Every rent-by-the-week hotel filled up, typically with people exhausting their savings.
Sure, I agree in general, but I've found that:

1. If someone is willing to do `as unknown as T`, they're probably also just as willing to do `// @ts-ignore`.
2. It's not only your own code, it's the libraries you use as well. Typings can often be slightly incorrect and you have to work around that occasionally.
I don't think so, the website and reference check out, though clearly bad UI on one of the portfolio projects is a clear indication that the person is most probably real.
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Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
This sounds weird. The obvious solution is to simply cancel contracts.
I imagine a new kind of instant camera, instead of printing the photo they upload to a satellite blockchain, timestamp the time of shooting. Zero privacy but hopefully more truthful representation of the world. Before AI filters of any kind get a hold of it, that is.
You're replying to a chain about how valve got steam started, are you suggesting that the market was existing in a state of monopoly prior to their actual existence of the product you say held that monopoly?
I'm glad the sheriff actually did something, my experience with a stolen Apple Watch has been that police will not act if the location is a multi-floor multi-unit dwelling (e.g. a house converted into a duplex), since they don't know which unit to issue a search warrant for and won't issue one for the entire building.

The underlying issue here is that AirTags do not provide any sort of altitude information. The X/Y resolution is fine grained enough to identify an apartment, but it's not possible to determine what floor it's on without you going in person and using FindMy yourself there, on site, which may be unsafe.

Police may provide an escort for you for this, but you have to be persistent and on top of it, they won't follow up with you.
Why would any of that be necessary? They’re a bank, not your parents.
The most legendary 3-Michelin star restaurant in Japan
Anyone found that paper they are refering to but carefully not citing? "A recent academic paper that looks at 38 developed countries’ experience over many decades says that a retiree who wants no more than one-in-20 odds of “financial ruin” should withdraw just 2.26% a year."
But what does "net.daringfireball.markdown" mean? Does it mean "parse it using the 1.0.1 Perl script from 2004 on https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ "?
Costa Rica doesn’t have numbers on the buildings, and many streets lack street signs, if not names. You’ll have addresses like “50 meters north of the old church” or “behind the banana stand.”¹
> I've come to believe that acceptance of crime is a choice by officials.

I've come to believe people who make statements like this were previously chanting "ACAB".
The allegation would be that they have a monopoly over rental pricing, in which case the relevant metric is the percentage of rental pricing they control, not what percentage of landlords use RealPage.

If Kroger, Walmart, and Safeway decided to collude, they’re probably less than a percent of grocery store brands. They are like 95% of the grocery supply, though.
This is generally considered one of the most well written games of all time. The developers wwre writers, who wanted to have a go at multimedia. This would be their only game.

We regularly talk about it on /r/adventuregames!

I also highly recommend I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream. Similarly psychological horror, excellent writing. Brilliantly voiced by its author.

Both among a small handful of games that have made me cry.
my condo building was hit once by someone who stole a USPS master key...
> continue eating garbage and living a bad lifestyle, and keep losing weight

Easy, you don't. Just like someone on Nicorette isn't as unhealthy as a smoker. These drugs curb addiction, so you eat less.

These people lose weight because they have taken all the steps to lose weight. Less food less weight, it's that simple.
Before the photograph we had no trouble not trusting photos. Why have we needed to trust them since?
In science, 3 independent scientific organisations must reproduce the effect. Otherwise, it's not a science at all. It's just authority.
OpenHome has a great system with good TTS.
since you aren't going to be writing a message per nanosecond, you can always just do `last nanos = max(last nanos + 1, cur nanos)` and then use last nanos for the timestamp. you can even do it in rdtsc ticks and get 1/3 of nano values. Obv the clock isn't nearly that accurate, but it lets you use those fractional nanos to ensure a strictly increasing ordering.
Arthur Conan Doyale was duped by a couple of young girls with a camera and paper cutouts of faeries. Has there ever been a time when it wasn't trivial to trick at least some people with low effort fakes?

People who want to believe what you're showing them will believe even the lamest fabrication, while people who don't want to believe will doubt even authentic photographs with reputable provenance.
The 5600x -> 7600x generation went backwards, dramatically, in power consumption though. The way that I look at, in two generations, we got an 82.9% increase in performance with essentially no power consumption change. That's incredible.

There are also substantial gains in areas that are not AVX accelerated - looking at Python performance, database performance, etc.
I had somehow completely forgotten about this game, but I remember being absolutely absorbed. It was in a separate class of storytelling at the time. Come to think of it, you can probably draw a line from it to Disco Elysium.
Apparently, RealPage only serves 10% of the rental market in San Francisco: https://jacobin.com/2024/08/realpage-software-housing-landlo...

> The company has reported that it provides these services to 10 percent of the rental market in San Francisco.

RealPage doesn't have nearly enough market share to engage in price-fixing. If it tried, its units would stay vacant as other renters flock to the 90% of units that aren't using RealPage.
Arbitration isn't necessarily a bad thing. And you probably still want to have a lawyer involved.
I said, "for a lot of us". I never said it was for everybody.
Would this also apply to credit unions? I feel like a credit union is less likely to give a f*** about what some bank tells them, and a bank probably doesn't want to help credit unions anyway. Am I wrong?
Alexa should just use chatgpt, you would have a trillion dollar empire in 10 minutes. That would useful. Otherwise, alexa is usually dumber than my dog.