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> Airbnb has in fact ruined communities and destroyed the dream of home ownership for an entire class of people: those who would already be buying at the limits of their budgets to stay where they were brought up.

The thing that's "ruined communities and destroyed the dream of home ownership" is the incapacity of the community, "where they were brought up", to actually change and accommodate increasing demands.

In reality these individuals from these communities are using Left rhetoric to advocate an extremely conservative position. That is for the community to remain as is, in the exact way such people were "brought up", such that no progress, no change, no additional value is added to the communities.

What ends up happening because of this confused policy is that the individuals in these communities both lose out on their hometown, the community ends up changing, and it becomes impossibly expensive for everyone in the community. IE the worst of all options.

Instead. Build more. Build vertically. Build better infrastructure. Provide for local residents an opportunity to "buy-in".

This kind of cloaked conservatism, masquerading itself using leftist rhetoric ends up being confused from a policy POV.
Yes. I think $0.05/min is a high multiple of what other agent-oriented realtime TTS products are charging.
Generally a pre-condition for a market to exist is scarcity.
It’s my game plan for keeping my brain active in retirement. Been heavily involved for the past 7 years. Been at the 100% solved level since summer 2023, though I’m back to one away the past couple weeks - PE910 is _hard_
> Didn't even know they were a ycombinator company and now that I do I like them a lot less.

You didn't know it, because they aren't.
It really doesn’t, absent a few key games. I’ve just built a new gaming PC and I’ve gone straight with Arch. I was worried the compatibility I experienced with the steam deck may be isolated to the steam deck but it’s shocking how far it’s come.

Is it perfect? No, of course not. But my god it definitely is good enough to cut myself free of MS’s terrible decision-making the last 5ish years.
So…did everything they are legally allowed to do? I get Redis and Elastic Search are mad at Amazon, but that’s what happens when you release code under an open license.

Also, the recent ACF business would show that WPE were being stewards of one of the backbone plugins of the ecosystem.
On one side is a big corporation that doesn’t give back very much to the open source community on which it profits. On the other side is an executive who will do everything in his power end the aforementioned abuse, including his nonprofit directing money into his for-profit, and even destroying the entire software ecosystem and individual developer’s livelihoods.

Consensus seems to be that the Matt/Automattic is worse than WP Engine, if only through stupidity and hubris.
What if you never believed that in the first place?
That description of the process is quite concise I'd say? Here's how it goes for me:

1: I'm delayed by more than 20 minutes somewhere along the trip upon which a new section 'request compensation' appears in the travel schedule.

2: If upon arrival I'm delayed by more than 60/120 minutes I select that option or log in to bahn.de where I select the option from the relevant itinerary.

3: it asks me when I arrived, if this ends up being more than 60/120 minutes later than the intended arrival time it asks me if I was able to use the booking for the whole trip or whether I needed to arrange alternative transport. It also asks me whether I had extra expenses like a hotel, in the latter case it tells you to submit proof of payment - a hotel bill, a taxi bill - so they can reimburse those costs. I have never done this but my daughter has had 4 hotel stays paid by DB by now. Proof can be submitted digitally, i.e. a photo of the receipts.

4: I need to fill in the details on how I want to be reimbursed - voucher or bank transaction. I always select bank transaction and fill in my bank details (IBAN - a single bank account number which works in most of Europe).

5: I confirm the submission, get a receipt via mail and one via snail mail a few days later. It usually takes about a week or two for the money to appear in my bank account, the quickest it has ever been was 5 days.

I don't consider this to be a bad process, it works and can be completed in a few minutes at most. Yes, you can send in paper as well - this is Germany we're talking about, they love paperwork - but I've never bothered with that. I do get all those confirmations via snail mail but those don't bother me, I can watch my bank account to see when the reimbursement has been completed. I have never had any problems getting reimbursed, they always paid.
For a while "written in Rust" was sort of a "trust me, bro" label. The hivemind asserted that something written in rust must be automatically good and safe, because rust is good and safe.

Thank god everyone wisened up. The tool maketh not the craftsman. These days the "written in rust" tag is met with knee jerk skepticism, as-if the hive mind over corrected.
It also may come down to silly factors like how nice was your shirt, when you interviewed? We in nerd-world like to think candidates are objectively measurable without bias, but traditional wisdom about how to get a job will always apply. Did one candidate have a better haircut than the other?
A lot of skids are posting them on the popular hacking forums like Breached or OGUsers.
Actually fake ones will inevitably show "(c)" because they couldn't get authorization for the copyright key. If you zoom in you can see the gaps in the circle betraying the deception.

To be extra cautious, select it to make sure it's real text and not a screenshot of a real copyright notice - this is a common workaround. There is also one known proof of concept exploit using false glyphs in web fonts - this is why many security researchers disable the loading of fonts.

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“Vortex is […] a highly extensible & extremely fast framework for building a modern columnar file format.”

It’s a framework for building file formats. This does not indicate that Vortex is, itself, a file format.
Agree, except the product price could be right on the buy button. Now the analytics won't tell you whether I clicked on the buy button with an intent to buy, or did I just want to know how much it is.
Does that mean they merge the actual code from upstream? If they do that, I wouldn't call that a fork. I'd call it a mirror. I'm not exactly sure how that provides any of the benefits the author suggests.

Do they look at the changelog of upstream and have engineers re-implement the same things only with original code? That seems like a significant waste of resources just to try to duplicate someone else's efforts.
> You could create an equivalent repo off of one of the existing mirrors or put it together yourself off of the codebase.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AspirePress/
This is similar: https://deepgram.com/agent
That’s 12 times cheaper than the OpenAI models though. Those are already very good, so I can’t really see myself using this.

I really want a good on-device model though.
I mean, you definitely need people available to intervene even for a L4 or L5 autonomy, because they will get stuck (Tesla is not serious about robotaxis until they start staffing up a team to do that on a full-time basis). But actual driving? This link is way too high latency for that to be safe. The robot needs to be maintaining its own SA, and just calling the human when it doesn't know what to do.
You have a pretty odd definition of "specialized". A jack is a jack. Yes, I use a big one for my truck since it weighs many thousands of pounds. I use the same jack to lift small cars and anything else I want, within reason.

A torque wrench is a specialized tool...for torquing a fastener. I use the torque wrench to torque fasteners on my truck, my motorcycle, some random piece of equipment I want to repair, etc.

I have seal drivers for driving seals on my motorcycle. I also can use them on hydraulic cylinders, or any other random seal I want to drive in.

The only truly specialized piece of auto repair tooling I have is a tool that is cast and machined specifically to fit inside the engine head to remove a portion of the valvetrain for maintenance. It's a very boring once you understand how it works, but I'm not using it for anything else.

As for a spring compressor, I've been doing suspension work for about a decade now and used one zero times. You just don't need it for routine maintenance. I guess if a spring breaks, you would need it in some weird circumstance possibly.
Definitely possible. Blood pressure fluctuates during the day. Activation of the sympathetic nervous system causes the BP to increase. So technically the measurements were "correct", but it was misleading because when talking about BP we normally mean "resting BP".
Mine does it every other year. It does show cavities. I agree overuse is borderline fraud and should be put in check.
Didn't work when I tried it, while other jailbreaks still work.
I feel like these sorts of articles come up every so often, but still don't buy it.

While I agree that disk usage is no longer a driver for shared libraries, memory usage still is, to some extent. If I have 50 processes using the same libaray (and I do), that shared library's readonly data sections get loaded into RAM exactly once. That's a good thing.

But even if that problem wasn't an issue, security is still a big one for me. When my distro releases a new version of a library package to fix a security issue, every single package that uses it gets the security fix, without its each maintainer having to rebuild each package against the fixed version. (Sure, some distros manage this more centrally and won't have to wait for individual maintainers, but not all are like that.)

I don't have to wonder what app has been fixed and what hasn't been. I don't have to make sure every single AppImage/Flatpak/Snap on my system that depends on that library (which I may not even know) gets updated, and possibly disable or uninstall those that haven't been, until they have.

I like shared libraries, even with the problems they sometimes (rarely!) cause.
The "tab to next change" feature is amazing and I would love it if it worked reliably.

As it is though, I suspect whatever model Cursor Tab is using under the hood has a fairly small context window, so the range of that "tab to move" feature ends up being pretty limited.

Overall my takeaway after months of using Cursor is that it has some really promising features but their LLM engine is too underpowered to deliver.

Hopefully that will change over the next few years. The potential is definitely there.
I've generally assumed the simplest explanation is that many of these weakly-supported procedures are regular, consistent income streams for the people who perform them in the US: my four wisdom teeth (that were causing me serious issues at age 19) cost $2k to remove nearly 20 years ago, and I know colonoscopies are billed to insurance in the thousands. There's not much incentive to move to cheaper tests or wait-and-see, when you can just do it to everyone who reaches a certain age by default.

Presumably flu shots are good business for the manufacturers, though I'm not sure about the science. After having the flu as a healthy late-twenty-something a while ago, which was...intensely horrible, I've chosen to get it ever since.
This guy infamously has a problem with each and every HN user and chooses to display an NSFW image saying such if your request's referrer header has news.ycombinator.com. Don't click.
Interestingly, this "official" Pomodoro site doesn't offer a physical timing device on their shop page.

It looks like the inventor of the technique is now based out of Dubai (allergic to taxes? The governments that you lean on to enforce your reigstered trademarks need to be funded somehow).
Mine recommends the same, but it’s not because I need them out now, but because by the time I’m elderly I might be more likely to need them out, but by that time the surgery might be very difficult for me. As he pitched it to me, “get them out now while you’re young and it’s no big deal”.

I haven’t decided yet since they cause me no problems now and so far I’m to keep them relatively clean, but I have known several elderly family members who eventually needed molars removed because they hadn’t/couldn’t clean them well enough and it was a very difficult surgery for them.
I have dozens of clients on WordPress and I've not heard from a single one. I'm pretty worried personally, though.
Thank you. I do generally agree with you.

In this particular example with Uber, I see "powerful actors" many decades ago breaking our social contract by using the force of the government to implement a monopoly for their own profit and everyone else's expense. Legal, yes, in the strictest sense of the word, but certainly against what I value about my particular republic (USA).

So Uber here is more "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" than a company I actually admire.
It only samples heart rate every 5min? While I can't get disappointed over a $20 device, that really limits the utility of the heart rate data.
Had a mobile mechanic unable to change the timing belt on our 10 y/o Volkswagen Golf because the balancer is now secured with a proprietary lock-ring instead of four hex bolts.

He said this sort of thing is getting more common and even if he did want to buy all of the required bits and bobs he wouldn't be able to fit them all in his van.

Even in the 'good old days', you weren't getting very far working on your car without things like gear pullers, timing guns and feeler gauges. All things that technically you could be using for other things, but not exactly in the average toolbox of someone that doesn't work on cars.
More like billions of dollars. Automattic themselves supposedly have half a billion in revenue — the entire pie is much bigger than that.
it reminds my that crypto "genius" who kept saying: "are you still poor?", then was taken to prison
Agreed, I apologize that I wasn't more clear. It's just that the electrolyte composition forms the basis of safety. In an environment where end users are handling bare cells, you need to assume the cells are leaky/ruptured.

For example, if you have ever changed out old Duracell alkaline batteries, the white stuff on the contacts means they leaked.
This has been a very long time - 60-70 years - but there's an urban legend of a well-recognized professor of physiology who was carrying out experiments that involved tiny voltages. He couldn't get a good enough ground to wipe out noise. So he bought a 4'x8' (1200x2400 mm, roughly; the size of standard drywall) sheet of copper and had it buried outside his building to provide a nice, steady ground. Soldered to a big fat cable going up to his lab.
nuclear literally takes 10x the time to build as renewables+batteries. That's like the whole reason why it doesn't get built.
What a sad state for humanity that we have to resort to this sort of OCR/scrapping instead of the original data being released in a machine readable format in the first place.
Hey, they have a new logo !
But isn’t it mathematical computing? I feel like leetcode DSA is closer to your average HN user
There is no doubt in my mind whenever I hear about these things or “tic tacs” and the like that it’s probably one agency testing new tech on another.

Whether or not it’s used for budget inflation, who knows. Looking at the backchannel communications and reactions has value. If you can fool the best military in the world, you can fool the next best too.
Isn't the nuance / difference that wordpress hosting between wp engine and wordpress.org are competitors v. creating a platform/environment like rails that is by default meant to be used to create other things?

It would be more like if rails had an arm that made money and someone cloned it and also tried to make money? I.e., the whole company was about rails and rails hosting and not about creating things with rails (basecamp) and worrying about other people who create things with rails (shopify, etc.) - that's a very different thing. I can see how then there'd be more pressure to look at trademark differences when the service provided is more similar? Or am I missing something?
Hopefully we get SteamOS by then.
Just wait a few more years for Windows 11.1 and hope the pattern of every other release being good holds true
You're right in that the type of people hammering RMS with this crap are definitely the same sort that spend their days trying to enforce worthless, harmful and intolerant CoC nonsense. This is all the more reason to ignore them.

As a measure of how trivial the charges against RMS really are, over on Mastodon the post for this report is being replied to by people getting working up about "enbyphobia", of all the who-gives-a-fuck complaints. And being boosted by the account that published this report. No-one should be taking their crap seriously. It's absurd.

At this point it's nothing more than crowdsourced bullying of an old, cancer-stricken man who doesn't deserve any of this. Shame on everyone participating in this mob.
Considering that there are no commercial-scale operating MSRs, I am guessing there are some pretty significant difficulties. Like graphite pebble reactors, molten salts must be perfectly desiccated, which is impossible to guarantee under Earth operating conditions, and nobody knows what kinds of materials to use for the salt containment, or how it might be changed by a few decades of operation.
The problem with the hair splitting is that it requires differentiating between different brain states over time where the only difference is the content.

On Jan 1 2024 I "know" X. Time passes. On Jan 1 2028, I "know" !X. In both cases, there is

(a) something it is like to "know" either X or !X

(b) discernible brain states the correspond to "knowing" either X or !X and that are distinct from "knowing" neither

Thus, even if you don't want to call "knowing X" actually "knowing", it is in just about every sense indistinguishable from "knowing !X".

Also, a belief that we had the knowledge that relates to X is indistinguishable from a belief that we had the knowledge that relates to !X. In both cases, we possess knowledge which may be true or false. The knowledge we have at different times alters; at all times we have a belief that we have the knowledge that justifies X or !X, and we are correct in that belief - it is only the knowledge itself that is false.
No. Didn’t you hear? There’s zero benefits to working in an office, at all. It’s all lies because of commercial real estate or something. /s
> In practice, I've seen breakage from shared library updates be much more common than breakage from display resolutions.

You'd be surprised, specially when I'm thinking 30 year old software. Again, usually I can patch around it thanks to dynamic linking...

> Many modern software development paradigms are simply not compatible with ABIs or dynamic binding

This is nonsense.

> Dynamic binding also likely means you're leaving a bunch of performance on the table, since inlining across libraries isn't an option.

Again, why set the goalpost here and not say ISA level or any other abstraction layer? I could literally make the same argument to any of these levels (e.g. "you are leaving a bunch of performance on the table" by not specializing your ISA to your software). How much are you really leaving? And how much would you pay if you remove the abstraction? What are the actual pros/cons?
I wouldn't swear to it but from mine it looks like there's a grid of light guides between the led PCB and the front screen to prevent any cross bleed. The front screen is translucent but not transparent (think heavy tinted window) acrylic which gives it the muted look.

It's pretty good hardware wise, it would be hard to knock up DIY for $50 even just in BOM.

Edit: teardown in German https://youtu.be/-Dn3A5V8ZPo @ 04:30
Steam OS can't come soon enough
Additional discussion is on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41839864 which directly links to the blog post
In this context, what is a "modern grid"?
The human crew members made it.
>contribute zero funding or resources

Demonstrably not true. Matt may not be happy with the amount of resource, but people associated with WPE make all sorts of contributions to the Wordpress community.

The Wordpress license does not require any contributions. If they wanted that to be forced they should have licensed accordingly. To demand payment to Matt's for-profit company and withhold access to the non-profit Wordpress.org is a shakedown akin to demanding protection money, full stop.
I find it odd that they force you to sit with other people. I walked into a nearly empty Empire Builder dining car and was still forced to sit with people. Why not ask for people's preferences?

During that trip, the company at breakfast was a nightmare. I sat across from two very drunk young men who were traveling on there father's money. At one point they started a fight with our waiter. Thankfully, our dinner companions made up for it by being delightful.

I completely agree about the quality of the food. For dinner I ate the steak, and it was quite good.
> Some of us have deep understandings of algorithms, linear algebra, and CS theory, and others know how to style a button with appropriate margins. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide which of these is more difficult.

I have the former, but 95% of the value I bring to FAANG is the latter.

My job lately is to double the revenue of various products that were built by a thousand deep algorithm workers but got no attention in the attention economy, by identifying and improving which button color (eg) would direct the traffic.
My simple work gets all the money directed to the company, but was far easier than the hard work of making The Thing. Because algorithm nerds often have no idea what is appealing or valuable to human customers.
Spliit by the Stats: Usage, Costs, Donations
Yes, flossing cannot be proven to help. But it cannot be proven to hurt, either, so current recommendations are to do it anyway.
Very simple if you flash it with awtrix, it has a neat JSON API.
My what an uncharacteristicly quiet comments section.
That’s a pretty good point.

Are there any, at least somewhat credible, unicorns that have appeared over the last 5 years?
The jailbreaks are not doing anything worthwhile right now. They're fun to toy with and they give us insights into how LLMs work, but they don't unlock any superpowers. It's just a brand safety bypass, you can get the model to praise Hitler or something like that.

The way to make MDMA is easy to look up on the web. The government is not trying to keep a lid on it; instead, they're restricting access to key feedstock materials. In this case, safrole and isosafrole are on DEA List I, so no one is gonna sell it to you. If you ask an LLM for more novel and dangerous chemistry, you get plausibly-sounding nonsense, not superhuman AI.

Now, the hacks will become useful once models are given more agency, for example when fully automating customer support. But the existence of trivial bypasses is precisely what's holding these uses back.
I can't speak for everyone, but I've been using WhatsApp since ~2010, mostly the official client but with bouts of unofficial client usage, and I've never been banned.

Probably not very detectable for Meta since it uses a wrapped webview, but I've been using ZapZap on Linux for a good while now and I haven't seen a ban yet.