skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Airbnb has destroyed tons of communities and worsened the already terrible housing crisis.

Doordash/Instacart/Uber Eats/etc are just market solutions to the problem of everyone being worked too fucking hard and not having the time to exist as people anymore. And while in principle the idea of "hiring someone who has nothing to do and having them do your grocery trip" is perfectly fine, even innovative, in practice what it amounts to is someone making less than minimum wage while putting mileage on their vehicle and burning fuel while a startup in the bay area collects the lions share of the fees from the customer. My gripe isn't with the business itself, the concept is fine. My gripe is that Instacart takes the money that should be going far more to the person actually doing the work. They should of course collect some: what they are doing is not devoid of value, for certain: but they should collect significantly less.

Incidentally that's the same problem I have with Uber. Matching people who want to work with people who have tasks they need to do is not inherently evil. What's evil is doing that, paying the people working peanuts, and charging out the ass for the service anyway so you can pocket more profits for being a middle man.
If there is one universe, and we're the only life, that's remarkable.

If there are many universes (multiverse), then it's plausible only 1 instance of life forms in a few of them, and we might be the only life in the entire visible universe.

Is there a name for this theory?

I share this because I frequently see assumptions that there must be other life somewhere.
I'm not sure about your point about "leveling" vs "leveling up", because for me, "leveling" means making a surface level/flat and does not have any video game-related meaning, but the "on" is probably coming from the phrase "to read up on" something (meaning to study/read about something; there's also a slangier variation, "to bone up on" something).
Startups Squeeze Room-Size Optical Atomic Clocks into a Briefcase
Seems like HN's title rewrite did a bad job in this case, it should be "These 19th century lions ..." or "Two 19th century lions ..."
Apple introduces iPad mini built for Apple Intelligence
This historic story has even inspired a movie with Michael Douglas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_and_the_Darkness
> If I made up a new, niche meaning of already-existing words, and tried to claim everyone else was using them wrong, you would think I was crazy

People do this all the time, though it makes me feel old rather than crazy.
Would be nice to have the option to download it as an epub to read it on my e-reader.
On this subject, I’d recommend Richard Osman’s lecture on nuts for “The Unbelievable Truth”: https://www.reddit.com/user/pfobwpfo/comments/18ohqi2/nuts/
This weeks Minecraft server! Nice!
> Whatever you think of the accuracy of the accusations against him, the general perception of him is clearly negative

Which is why we should support him even more:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22299156
In fact the recommended way to do SSH fingerprint checks is
with a CA.
> If we could find a safe way to eliminate the need for sleep, we would theoretically unlock vast reservoirs of hours previously devoted to rest, transforming them into opportunities for personal and societal advancement.

While in practice, what would happen is that we’d be doing more of the same. Bosses would be demanding more time in the office, people would be spending more time doomscrolling, nothing would change. It’s a pipe dream to think that if we had more time in the day we’d suddenly start using it more respectfully and responsibly.
>By the way, the player stub adds about 200 to 250kB to the MP3 file size.

Yikes! There's plenty of room for improvement then. An MP3 decoder fits into 15kbyte: https://keyj.emphy.de/minimp3/
> The decline in the United States is driven by increasing numbers of deaths because of conditions such as diabetes and heart disease in people aged roughly 40 to 60.

People are asking if we should be surprised by the headline but are missing this. As suggested in the article by the researchers, there is something dragging down the average since the 2010s. Not even hitting the general expectation of ~75 years. We don’t have solid answers yet, only theories.

So yes, generally while going up against the process of aging is going to create barriers (eg can we get to 130 years old), we are also failing to raise the baseline which is the bigger issue that people might not grasp when it comes to “life expectancy rates”.
This is a really good comment thread and got me thinking.

However here in the UK I'm not sure your point about virtual subsidy quite computes. Most of the free to use parking in valuable areas is street parking outside homes. Seeing as housing costs are just a big sponge that absorbs any surplus productivity, I suspect if people had to rent or buy those parking spaces to use them then you would see a corresponding drop in house prices/rents.
Used in WhatsApp on iOS the last frame didn’t stay, it seems to stop instantly and/or loop back to too early. IIRC I used 20 frames, 250ms between frame and 2500ms for the last one. Seems to have a similar problem on Telegram.

Otherwise incredible. The customization options are much appreciated.
Show HN: Duc – "Dude where are my bytes?"
Duc is a collection of tools for inspecting and visualizing disk usage.

Duc scales quite well, it has been tested on systems with more than 500 million files and several petabytes of storage.

Release candidate 1.5.0-rc1 has been released for testing too: https://github.com/zevv/duc/issues/333 and we would love to have some testing and more feedback.
The main point I was trying to make is that adding the prompt "think carefully" moves the model toward the "riddle" vector space, which means it will draw tokens from there instead of the original space.

And I doubt there are any such hidden capabilities because if there were it would be valuable to OpenAI to surface them (e.g. by adding "think carefully" to the default/system prompt). Since adding "think carefully" changes the output significantly, it's safe to assume this is not part of the default prompt. Perhaps because adding it is not helpful to average queries.
> The opinions I trust the most are the doctors that have previously told me that no treatment is necessary and the problem will resolve on its own.

This applies double or even triple for vets. There is a lot of cash to extract from pet owners who would “do anything”, no matter how unnecessary or ineffective, for poochy.
When I was at the University of Maryland in the late 70s, Schwartz visited the Computer Vision Lab and gave a talk. Sadly, I don't remember much about the talk but I did enjoy meeting her and discussing computer art.
All of those knowledgeable people were beginners once, made those mistakes, and came out the other side as knowledgeable people. You'll never do anything if you don't start somewhere. This is a fairly simple electronics project, with relatively easy soldering.
Can this get me the lyrics of rap songs or not?
Imagine if someone said "this chair is an object", and you told them they were wrong, because in Object-Oriented Programming, an "object" is an abstract entity in a computer program, not a thing in the physical world.

They have never heard of object-oriented programming and yet, they're not wrong. You're the one who is wrong by assuming the terms made up by a niche field override common language used by everyone.
I searched around a bit and it seems they have been gone from the Loch since 2011: https://inflatableboatjourneys.blogspot.com/2011/07/kyles-of...

Or maybe they are back? There aren't a lot of sources I could find.
We came to this conclusion from a different direction - feature implementation teams are focused on subdomains, but defensive teams are spread across the entire ecosystem.

Additionally, defensive devs have brutal SLAs, and are frequently touching code with no prior exposure to the domain.

They got known as "platform vandals" by the feature teams, & we eventually put an end to the separation.
If not forever, but if 200-ish becomes a norm, it would be super awesome. Now, it is like, “Awesome, I know this, I know that. I need to learn that.” “Hold on, time to die.”
You can't fake your way into the upper class in the UK, because they all know each other already. As for behaviour, dress and speech, the standard books are:

* Noblesse Oblige[0] Mostly about vocabulary, and very outdated (1950s)

* The English Gentleman[1] Only about aristocratic men, and comedic in style

* Class: A View from Middle England (Jilly Cooper) Very 1970s

* Watching the English[2] Not specifically about social class, but class comes up a lot.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noblesse_Oblige_(book)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_English_Gentleman

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watching_the_English
I never really understood the 3 body problem. Am I correct in saying that given three bodies that attract one another, there is currently no known way of predicting, at arbitrary time, where they'll end up at, even though it is possible to simulate to reasonable degree of accuracy for a limited time horizon? If that is the case, is this an example of what Stephen Wolfram regularly calls as computationally irreducible? Also it is so interesting to me that the jump from 2 to 3 in different domains herald such unfathomable complexity. 2SAT for instance is polynomially solved whereas 3SAT is NP Hard. If I were a competent mathematician, I'd definitely investigate the link between NP Hardness and Computationally irreducible chaotic process like 3Body problem.
"Rent seeking" requires that you own ("control") a thing people want/need and will/can pay for.

"Value extraction" almost implies non-ownership, and represents more of a contractual arrangement whereby you provide X to a set of transactions that would happen without you, and in return you receive Y. Obviously if Y is universally of less or equal value to X, nobody is harmed. But if Y is of significantly more value to a given demographic or particular circumstances, then it is not clear that this is a win for society overall.

Where they overlap is if you have managed to create sufficiently high barriers to entry in the field of "providing X". This is tantamount to ownership of a resource that people want, and you're the only provider (or one of just a few).
My guess is the dental practice was owned by a private equity firm and the young docs were "just following orders".

Highly capitalized, expensive leasehold improvements plus obscure pricing and surprise charges seem to be the typical playbook of that business model.

Reliable doctor-owned dental practices seem to be increasingly hard to find, at least here in the urban Southeastern US
> What's the point of getting to the top of the search results if you are unable to monetise it?

Promoting your product/service, see brand astroturfing in Reddit.
Cool Edit still exists! Though it got bought by Adobe and is now Adobe Audition!
Proposed Nutrition Competencies for Medical Students and Physician Trainees
WP article : https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/10/14/doctor-nu...
There have been proposals about shortening much further: in fact, the long-standing practice in the PKI community is that renewing certificates every 7 days is short enough that no revocation service is necessary at all. However, trying to move the entire IT industry to a 7-day renewal window is a bridge too far at this point!

Instead, I would surmise this is the first step in that process by introducing a window short enough to act as a forcing function on automating certificate issuance & renewal. It's short enough to strongly encourage leveraging automation everywhere possible, but not so short that one could argue it's impossible to do manually for things that still just can't do this automatically, of which there are still a disappointingly significant number.

Once we begin to get below 30 days, however, I suspect there will be a lot more scrutiny around the data suggesting exactly how small a window is sufficient. From a risk standpoint, if we're arguing shorter-is-better, then we should go as short as possible: someone will need to pull together the data that suggest exactly how small a window appropriately balances the various risks involved. (And then 15 others will need to argue about the validity of the data, whether the data actually suggest that, whether the data were assembled with an agenda in mind, etc., etc., etc.).
https://archive.is/2LoxE
Requiring something to be "uniquely British" to count as British cuisine seems like a pretty high bar. Are burgers and apple pie "uniquely American"? Not sure – and who even cares?
> wanting to kill an unborn child and wanting to protect it

As I've already stated, a pro-life position doesn't actually save any lives in the long run. It actually costs them. The so-called "unborn children" will die no matter what. Abortions happen all around the world, including in undeveloped countries where they're extremely dangerous. Banning abortions just means the "unborn children" still die, but now also some women die who wouldn't have before.

As such there does not exist such "pro-life" position. Rather it is made up for moral leverage. The reality is such a position, if anything, costs more lives. The correct terms are anti-choice and pro-choice. The "life" or "protection" arguments are emotional and moral manipulation.

> You missed the point

No, YOU missed the point. If you don't understand what a chilling effect is than take a class on law and come back. Again, 100% intentional, 100% predictable. Should not be shocking, unless you aren't aware of those affects.

> solve rape

Grand idea, right after all the homeless people get homes and all the murderers become saints. Don't be stupid. We need real solutions, not whatever delusions you're talking about. I know you know that what you're suggesting is not possible - so why be dishonest and suggest it? I have very little patience for those who choose to play stupid.

Rape will exist so long as humanity will exist. The solution to solving rape is nuclear warfare. We both know this to be the case, so don't bullshit me.

> you’re conflating an anti abortion stance with religion which is flawed

Once again with the playing stupid. You do yourself no favors with such arguments.

I'm not "conflating" anything - I'm correlating them. Because they ARE correlated. I don't think a soul in America could possibly argue otherwise. But, surprise surprise, the brigade of "know nothing" type argumentative amateurs will pull up and pretend we live in an alternate reality where this is not the case.
Played conkers as a kid around age 7-9. We had several horse chestnut trees along our road and I would search in amongst the leaves everyday on the way to and from school. Drill a hole in each and thread about 18 inches of string through the hole and tie a knot so the nut cannot fly off when you swing the nut at your opponent's conker. Challenge others in a duel to the death of one or other of the conkers. Draw lots for who gets first swing. Loser holds the conker out dangling vertically at the end of the string. Other player takes a shot by holding their conker in their fingers well above the other players and pulls down sharply on the string releasing the conker from the fingers in such a way that it hits the dangling conker hard. Assuming both conkers survive you reverse rolls and continue. Winning conkers names increment so a one-er, two-er, three-er and so on. I once had a seventeen-er but the accumulated battle damage eventually spelled disaster.

The World Championship seems very fishy to me - firstly someone involved in setting up the conkers (inflating the footballs) should not be a competitor. Second having been caught with a steel imitation conker in his pocket how can he be cleared? He can't prove he didn't use it surreptitiously and so should be disqualified.
Looks like I really have to buy into React in order to choose this... Kind've a non-starter.
It depends on the office culture. The last time I worked in an office, I used a red/green busy signal like this, and people would generally respect it.
> We don’t have solid answers yet, only theories.

The exact quote you gave had a pretty solid answer, certainly not just "theories".
I’ve been thinking a lot about this. There seems to be an “optimal” scale for tech — Google used to be amazing and wonderful about a decade ago, until it reached a certain scale. So were Facebook, etc. And even the positive effects of darling unicorns like Uber and Airbnb are actually more in the business model they pioneered, rather than the app itself. In Eastern Europe I use Uber alternatives which are usually about as good as Uber or better. Only Airbnb is a “naturally” global company by its very nature, because it is for travel.

Maybe the natural limit to scale should be state sovereignty (i.e. protectionism). I actually believe that consumers benefit if countries ban or tax the likes of Uber and promote a homegrown alternative. (Imagine if each country had its own Google customized to the local language and culture, it might actually be a better experience for everyone). I’ve heard that Baidu and Yandex are better than Google for local content.

Too bad the EU didn’t catch on with this. Europe could’ve outcompeted the US by playing a different game on quality and boutique charm instead of scale. Instead of pathetically trying to become a large homogeneous market like the US (and then failing badly and then regulating “privacy” out of spite), the EU should’ve actually been protectionist in favor of its members and it would’ve been interesting to see what marvels could originate.
$375 per box doesn't seem bad to me at all when you probably only need a couple per school?
this is great. feature request: DEAL WITH IT caption and relative options
Smart gardening firm's shutdown a reminder of Internet of Things' fickle nature
Try it out, you get free credits on signup. Worked surprisingly well for me on this example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxkeOkaVRLo
Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can't?
Back in the minicomputer days, we encouraged customers to defrag now and then. I spend one long night at a customer's in Utica, New York, defragging a 25 MB disk.

The whole doctrine of defragging seemed to lose popularity somewhere in the 1990s, though.
You're failing to see the secret that is exposed by the fact that their Chief Engineer comes from hyperloop. They're going to dig tunnels connecting all their destinations and run the airships underground in a vacuum sealed network. No atmospheric drag at all! Bingo!
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I think there was this report from IMF or something about middle income trap. It says once India reaches middle income level in next 10 yrs or so it will likely to stay there for next 75 years.

So to your point they can develop little further but not too much. Growth will be self-limiting very soon.

Economic growth will be far more energy intensive then we had so far in last 3 decades. A sign of this we saw last year as thousands of A/Cs were exploding because they couldn't operate in extreme heat conditions in northern India.
What is their GFX toolkit?

Because there debian, android? What is the bottom of it?
Isn´t this also an issue with World War's 1 and 2? They both dented life expectancy fairly significantly, and that cohort is now aging out of the figures. If the rate of increase is being measured, then that would presumably play a small part?
This is neat I guess, but the most important factors are how much they cost and the rate at which they can be manufactured. Drone warfare is going to be a numbers game.
Getting a massive haul of conkers was almost as important as the game itself. So, that might add some context.
Frustrating that an article with a title like this doesn't include a single graph.
How do you know the output has anything to do with the input? Hint: you don't. You are building a castle on quicksand. As always, the only thing LLMs are usable for:

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112006855076082650

> You might be surprised to learn that I actually think LLMs have the potential to be not only fun but genuinely useful. “Show me some bullshit that would be typical in this context” can be a genuinely helpful question to have answered, in code and in natural language — for brainstorming, for seeing common conventions in an unfamiliar context, for having something crappy to react to.

> Alas, that does not remotely resemble how people are pitching this technology.
Except for the very online, I think meaning 5

> (slang) Crazy; crackpot.

is more common in every day use than meaning 4

>(slang) Extremely good at something (usually a video game).

Neither the Merriam-Webster dictionary nor the Cambridge dictionary[0] list meaning 4, further hinting that it is a use that is mostly occurring in niche online communities. Note that I'm not saying meaning 4 is incorrect[1]. There's no such thing. Words is words. Usage is meaning. But I think I am justified in my belief that it is still relatively uncommon.

[0] The OED wanted money to show me their list of meanings.

[1] Although it is almost assuredly a mishearing of "crack".
Good tech documentaries/interviews/footage to watch
I know this question was asked before, but I'm compiling a list of tech (software/internet mostly) documentaries and sorts of content. I find online these lists with only the obvious ones.

Current list: https://makefiles.xyz/lists/good-tech-docs-to-watch.html

Suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Avoiding Fallback and Cold Paths (2021)
> Sleep, which consumes approximately one-third of our existence, represents a significant barrier to maximizing our time and productivity.

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." — Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky (1943)
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I am not sure what gap you mean, since troubleshooting is part of the learning process. If someone expects to always get it right the first time, they are a bad student. Problem solving is relevant to all learning.
I rely on this one a lot. Can save a ton of time that would otherwise be wasted.
I found a great dentist that’s on one of the local boards and he stays really up to date with everything. We do yearly 3d scans of my mouth, has helped them determine that my teeth are not in fact moving despite missing some. Old knowledge would be the docs pushing for implants so the teeth don’t move. But knowing mine are stable for now has allowed us to defer since it isn’t causing me any issues. We still do yearly X-rays but that’s more of an insurance play.
Not that I put any credence into the idea in the article, but for your particular question, the same way it occurs now at airports - bonded warehouses.
This is my experience as well. When I'm looking for a new dentist it usually takes me 3 appointments, each with a different dentist, before I find the dentist that tells me "the other two were ripping you off."

It's frustrating but I agree that new builds or expensive locales seem to amplify this effect. Established shops in less fancy areas tend to leave me feeling much better and are almost always quicker while being more thorough.

Another part of the problem, as it has been described to me, is that so many dentists are perfectionists, and they find minor non-issues to be glaring. Like if I have a discoloured filling in a molar... is replacing it really warranted just for cosmetic purposes?

I will also add that, a visit to most dentists where you clarify up-front that you have no insurance can be a very different experience.
Depends greatly on where you are. London is great for food. I can see how someone from say, France or Spain, would find the average standard of food in the UK as a whole to be pretty bad. However, when this kind of critique comes from the other side of the pond I am a bit baffled, as food quality also tends to decline precipitously outside of major cities in the US (with exceptions, obviously).