skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It unfortunately does nothing to prevent creation of a walled garden via creation of proprietary content in a proprietary network fabric on proprietary infrastructure, which... Seems to be all you need, given the popularity of Facebook, X, YouTube, and the multiple cloud service providers supporting something like (depending on who's crunching the numbers) 74% of enterprises.

If the goal was to change behavior... Behavior refuses to change.
Which, isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Modern residential (and small scale commercial) construction is designed for a 30-50 year useful life. The structure may be worth renovating if the location / design remain relevant, but it’s not like there’s a huge amount of wasted value. A larger waste would be encouraging labor to be under-utilized.
Laptop Ports: Is USB-C only fine, or should I get HDMI,USB,Audio if I need them?
I'm on the market for a new laptop (with windows OS) and I've noticed quite a few laptops are USB-C ports only now.

I even saw one laptop that only had 2 USB-C ports, with 1 of them to use for charging. (Dell XPS 13 for example)

It's very important for me to connect my laptop to a monitor, and to use earbuds, be connected to ethernet, and to have a charger going, all at the same time. I have an old laptop with an HDMI output port, USB, and direct audio jack for earbuds.

I'm struggling to accept that dongles are fast enough or reliable enough. What if I get a HDMI dongle or audio dongle and the connection keeps dropping on my video calls? A direct connections feels "safer" to me than a USB-C splitter.

What do you think. Should I still look for laptops with direct HDMI/Audio/USB connections, or are USB-C only laptops still reliable enough even if you need a dozen different dongles?
Thoughts are idols (except for math, those thoughts are themselves.)
As a snake keeper, I imagine the best way to attract them would be with food (i.e. rats), but then you run the risk of also attracting other native predators as well.

But to build on your idea, a trap that a python can enter but not exit without human assistance could be interesting. You can check the traps periodically and free any native wildlife that happens to enter them.
Well I actually read Neel Nanda's writings on it which acknowledge weaknesses and potential gaps. Because I'm not qualified to judge it myself.

But that's hardly the point. The question is whether or not "general intelligence" is an emergent property from stupider processes, and my view is "Yes, almost certainly, isn't that the most likely explanation for our own intelligence?" If it is, and we keep seeing LLMs building more robust approximations of real world models, it's pretty insane to say "No, there is without doubt a wall we're going to hit. It's invisible but I know it's there."
Mondragon is a great model demonstrating the greater possibilities within complementary-industry cooperative economy. Mondragon is partnership between and across industries.

I could see the regional distribution of industry across/within geography, as applied within Mondragon, mapping well to genre distribution across/within industry production tooling/technologies for Subvert.
South Africa’s done great since the end of apartheid
I think their current advantage is willingness to risk public usage of frontier technology. This has been and I predict will be their unique dynamic. It forced the entire market to react, but they are still reacting reluctantly. I just played with Gemini this morning for example and it won't make an image with a person in it at all. I think that is all you need to know about most of the competition.
No (broadly defined). But if you believe in OpenAI, you believe that's enough.
It was such a great game - very simple to just sit down and play, and lots of fun. Sure, there were no powerups, vehicle customizations, no track designer, but it had amazing track/level design. Who as a kid didn't race their boats in the bathtub, cars in the kitchen...
Their business is booming. That significantly overwhelms the concern you're raising.

They have gone from $4.3b in operating income to $14.5b in three years, while their sales nearly doubled. That's an old industrial company boom the likes of which is almost never seen by those types of companies.

By comparison what you're calling catastrophic is entirely trivial. It's not even in the room as a consideration compared to the soaring profits. Nobody is removing a whole board with that kind of profit growth.
I think the real reason so many people don't have children — despite their somewhat socially acceptable stated reasons — is simply that they don't want children.

That's a hard problem to solve.
Where are they going to get that data? Everything on the open web after 2023 is polluted with lowquality AI slop that poisons the data sets. My prediction: Aggressive dragnet surveillance of users. As in, Google recording your phone calls on Android, Windows sending screen recordings from Recall to OpenAI, Meta training off Whatsapp messages... It sounds dystopian, but the Line Must Go Up.
// Bitwise OR the bit flags
tick_input.actions[action] += flags

Why?
Can you make a tool to convert real estate agents' wide-angle photos of homes into images that enable the person viewing them to get a sense of the actual room dimensions?
completely untrue factoid that constantly gets repeated for some reason, there are 3 vacant units per homeless in Los Angeles for example https://gigafact.org/fact-briefs/are-there-more-vacant-homes...

the ratio is about the same in New York City proper, and if you include the entire country, the ratio skyrockets to >27 vacant units per homeless person https://www.self.inc/info/empty-homes/
As you said, Sam didn’t write that. He was quoting someone else and wasn’t even explicitly endorsing it. He was making a comment about financially successful founders approach making a business as more of a vision and mission that they drive to build buy-in for, which makes sense as a successful tactic in the VC world since you want to impress and convince the very human investors
Edited out frustration.

I wrote hospital medical software for 20 years passing on way better pay because I wanted to make a difference. And I gave up because the system WANTS to be how it is today. Everyone in medical is CHOOSING to make it this way, then claiming 'ah it's too big, it's too complicated, we can't change it'. Americans being to scared to call an ambulance means emergency care has completely failed them, not a small little thing to be brushed off. Americans are making hard choices about medical care every day already.
What better error handling can one do without reserved special numbers?

Many (most?) compilers already offer a “fast math” flag that foregoes denormals. You don’t need to remove denormals from the format in order to avoid them.

Having a separate type without specials would probably cause unending confusion and increase bugs. It’s already the case that only people who care about the specials handle them, but it sounds like there are more of those people than you think, if you think only mathematicians care about them.
Funny enough, it makes me think about iTop's way of patching XML files:
https://www.itophub.io/wiki/page?id=latest:customization:xml...
What makes you think MS is trustworthy, the focus on OpenAI and the media that spins things drives public opinions
I've only use JSON Patch once as a quick hack to fix a problem I never thought I would encounter.

I had built a quick and dirty web interface so that a handful of people we contracted overseas can annotate some text data at the word level.

Originally, the plan was that the data was being annotated in small chunks (a sentence or two of text) but apparently the person managing the annotation team started assigning whole documents and we got a complaint that suddenly the annotations weren't being saved.

It turned out that the annotators had been using a dial up connection the entire time (in 2018!) and so the upload was timing out for them.

We panicked a bit until I discovered JSON Patch and I rewrote the upload code to only use the patch.
> This clearly means that the rental vacancy has increased in the last few years which has led to many homes in the nation's largest metros sitting empty, even though some of them are at very reasonable prices.

People moved out of cities. There's less demand, but prices are sticky because you can't risk taking less money than you owe on the unit without defaulting on your loans. There's not really a soft-landing in these markets without some sort of government subsidized refinancing options. But as a nice side effect it would alleviate rent prices in these areas.

Still, I don't think people should worry about economic contagion like in 2007. This effect is geographically isolated specifically to key metro areas, is concentrated with institutional real estate investors, and these debts have not been chopped and screwed into as many tranches of CBO packages as previously.
For bugs, perhaps, but for vulnerabilities, new attacks and techniques are being found. Or just nobody is looking at most things most of the time and it's not really correlated with age that clearly. Imo it's good to have the data of what actually happens
I feel that really should be included in core, yes.

I get why it wasn't, but logical replication has been production ready for a while now, so it really should have at least a little sugar.
the people able to work from home are often incredibly well paid and are eating up real estate in expensive areas

there's no significant work from home initiative at the lower end of the pay scale

if anything wfh has exacerbated the problem, wealthier tech employees are living in desirable cities while people making less and have to go to the office don't have access to local-to-work real estate
When I was younger, I always had 6 months of living expenses in the bank, a cheap life style, and a willingness to work (and a lot of experience of) menial jobs.

That meant that going in to work every day was a choice, not an obligation. More than once, I quit a job and took a break.

These days, with mortgage, kids etc, I still maintain the escape hatch.
Alternative data points:

> Under Project 2025, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would be eliminated, and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) would be privatized

> The Department of Education would be eliminated and oversight of education and federal funding for education will be handed over to the states

> The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would be eliminated and moved to the Department of Interior or the Department of Transportation if combined with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

> The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s many regional labs and entire offices of enforcement and compliance and scientific integrity and risk information would be eliminated.

> The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is to “privatize as much as possible” and close many hospitals and clinics.

> The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would be taken apart and send much of its work to states and other agencies

> The Department of Justice (DOJ) would lose its independence and be under control of the President

> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would be drastically reduced and split into two entities: one gathering scientific data and one making public health recommendations and policies.

Source: https://www.afge.org/article/project-2025-seeks-to-dismantle...
There are also people who write COBOL for a living. What you say is not relevant at all for 99.99% of C++ code written today. Also, all compilers can be configured to be non-standard compliant in many different ways, the classic example being -fno-exceptions. Nobody says all kinds of using a standardized language must be standard conformant.
Something I'm really curious about is what proportion of these vacant houses are in disrepair, if you've done any amount of urban exploring (or watched other people do it) it can be shocking how fast buildings can fall apart in some places. There are entire apartment buildings in Detroit, Gary, etc, with a negative value. The land isn't worth much and the building is in such bad shape the only thing to be done is to demo it and rebuild, which is quite expensive.
It's red ochre.
And every one of these catchup companies have caught up with a small lag.
You should also say for simple games
Sandcastle Helper File Builder has been around forever and started as an internal MS project IIRC, but for some reason few libraries use it.

https://github.com/EWSoftware/SHFB
The product liability directive holds all producers jointly liable for any harm caused by unsafe or defective products - including software. So, people who supply 'software as component' or software service may be held responsible for the safety of the products that incorporate or use the software.
But people can also claim for the loss, corruption or destruction of 'personal data' caused by product defects.
Late reply (i just noticed it but i reply in case you also notice it). Epub is basically a zip file of HTML files and an XML to provide some additional metadata (like a contents tree), though like CHM epub files do tend to limit themselves to basic HTML too as a lot of epub readers do not have a full web engine. It is quite similar to CHM though epub readers feel more book-like in their UX.
When I was first introduced to mental visualization, I thought I couldn't do it because I struggled to clearly picture something as simple as an apple - or any other familiar object - in my mind. But with practice, the images slowly became clearer and more stable. Through continued practice, I was able to visualize more complex things, like text and even music sheets - which is kind of a cheat code, because you can memorize what you can visualize.

Something else I learned is that mental imagery[1] isn’t limited to just visual experiences. As a musician, I use it to hear intervals, hear the strong beat, hear chords, different timber / sound textures etc. You can also "visualize" smells, physical sensations, and more. I clearly see it as a skill that improves with time and effort.

One nice trick is being able to visualize conversations, dialogues, interviews etc. I believe it dramatically helped me overcome stress in those situations, as well as in performance.

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mental-imagery/
So the LA Metro has 8% of the population of the US and 2% of the vacation homes?
This is a common epistemological bias in which you try to fit your narrative into what’s observable rather than building a narrative out of what you observe.

You can verify yourself that cities with rent control have pretty low vacancy rates for example SF and NY are around 2.5%.

And even my claim is not that rent control decreases vacancy. My view is that extremely dense cities with already low vacancies implement rent control as a social measure and usually that doesn’t have a real impact on market dynamics.
> The real problem is laws that protect IP like the DMCA and the patent system.

That is A problem, but that is not the problem seen here. The problem here is trade secrets. Specifically electronic secrets that prevent third parties from fully servicing their own equipment. Like HP inkjet electronic restrictions that prevent people from refilling their own ink cartridges. This is still a problem without patent law, without copyright law, and without lawyers.
So, I figured as much that "one click" had to mean you've got image-manipulation software that will change the look of a photo of my home, as there is no possible way for me to re-design anything myself in one click or any other small number of clicks and brevity is kind of not really the point anyway.

It does seem useful for real estate agents, assuming buyers are going to be sufficiently swayed by simulated photos of what the inside of a house could look like even when they go for a visit and it's empty in reality, plus the photos seemingly wouldn't match the furniture and decor they actually own. The wording for people already living in a home is a bit specious, though, I'd say. Generating something that looks like a photo is not "bringing my vision to life." Life isn't a photo. Obviously, it's too much to ask you to give me a team of robots that can change my actual house as opposed to a photo of it, at least for a cheap price, but let's be real on the limitations of what you can do with this.

Does it have any connections to furniture and decor sellers such that the images it generates are images that even can be brought to life without me having to build everything from scratch? Does it know or try to estimate dimensions and show things that will actually fit? If I give it photos of all of my rooms, can it move furniture I already own between them to possibly give a better allocation than what I've got now?

Obviously, I could sign up and try to figure these out for myself, but I suppose the biggest issue is I have no idea who you are and see no reason I should trust you with photos of the interior of my home. Your entire page here makes not a single mention of data privacy.
this isn't rent controlled real estate though, 0% of it is
The very first sentence of this article is "There may be a massive housing crisis boiling up in the United States mostly centered around the unavailability of homes in the largest metros of the country."
I don’t think the intention is to hurt other people - forced sterilization or any of these things. The intention is probably what parents like me feel: we want to give our kids the best shot at life. And I hope that my children will want to give their kids the best shot at life and having tools like this allows such people the freedom to do so at each generation. I think lots of people will choose this once cost is driven to the floor.

I think the advent of these tools will allow us to master random chance. We need not have women go through 9 months of pregnancy with an unviable foetus or bring to term children who will have terrible congenital conditions that they will have to live with.

Perhaps with the advent of artificial wombs, gametogenesis, and advanced whole-genome sequencing of embryos we could even master time, and reverse our present decline in fertility rates. But that's sci-fi. What we have today is already amazing, and I hope the good it has done my wife and me is available to all as costs drop and the technology becomes universal.

EDIT: Just to clarify since I don't want to get stuck in a back and forth: When I said I'm excited for humanity I did not mean to "clean up the gene pool" or "fix the gene pool" or anything like that that the child comment is referring to. I just meant that people like me could choose for our children that they be born without a random set of conditions. Others, including my children (should they choose otherwise from me), are free to do as they wish, though I would hope that they would choose like I do.
Axiom Space, Prada Unveil Spacesuit Design for Moon Return
Remote workers don't want to live in run down rust belt and rural communities
A story about reverse engineering the Micro Machines v3 format to create an editor… http://bradders.org/MMs/

(not my work)
> replaceable ram is not really a marketable feature these days

A week ago, I helped a family member select a laptop. One of the criteria is either sufficient RAM to begin with (16GB puts them into a price class above what they actually need for other specs) or upgradeable RAM. It's definitely something I look at for myself and for those around me also -- more so than in the past because nowadays it has become a problem...
no reduce price, only subsidize demand
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Many people (including comments on hacker news!) have called farmers the original hackers. The amount of bespoke problem solving needed is tremendous. Uniformity in farming is an extremely recent phenomenon.

eg: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=626534
Gotta keep the Ponzi scheme of the stock market inflated. Without people pouring their earnings into it in the form of 401ks, the record highs can’t be guaranteed - whole thing will collapse.
TCAS averts possible head-on collision in Austin
Wow. Simple user interface, fas and it gives interesting results! It did not find two of my favorite groups, gusgus and subgud, but I added a suggestion. Bookmarking this for later use!
Yes, there is a shortage of housing in the largest metros.

The unoccupied homes are in small towns with declining populations.
Friendly reminder: these vacancies are caused by lack of demand not rent control. Rent control doesn't apply to these 5.6M vacancies, and anyone with even the most basic common sense would say "huh, I know housing prices are skyrocketing, so why would there be this many vacant properties" and read the article rather than just making up anti-government buzzword bingo.

Additional friendly reminder: every rent control law, no matter how badly written, was instituted in response to price gouging by property owners.
Yeah, the only time I need to "visualize" anything while programming is when the output is something visual.

If I code too much all day and night and don't unwind before going to sleep, I dream code... just code text scrolling by endlessly in my dreams.
> successfully sued as per Yuzu.

"Successfully" as in the devs folded before it went even close to court.

Of course the use and development of the emulator continue under new names by new people - just not on GitHub or GitLab...
How/why would I trust "xrdp" and/or pinggy.io? It sounds like I'm allowing them unfettered access into my home network.
That doesn't seem to make sense.

Yeah, it's only a 50W solar panel. The solar power could be upgraded to a 400W no problem and the issue you have will no longer exist.

Often people smart with a small system to get things figured out how they want it before adding more capacity. Seems reasonable, no?

Networking equipment shouldn't be much power, speaking from personal experience.

It can be on a small UPS, even one from Costco to run it all off battery, and then solar to refill.
It is a subset as of JavaScript edition ES2019, when JavaScript strings are now allowed to contain U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR and U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR. Prior to ES2019, that was the only known example of legal JSON that was not legal JavaScript
they "were documented" -- who knows if they're still at their stated location / job / school / whatever.
Pay off debt?
If the ratio is 3:1 in major cities, and 27:1 nationally, wouldn't that logically mean that most of them are not in major cities, per-capita (and perhaps absolutely too, I don't know)? Of course that doesn't necessarily mean they are in areas of "declining population and scarce opportunity", but your premise appears to be that a majority of vacancies in cities would be a counter-example.
It's standard property owner propaganda to support price gouging.
Forgot to mention: I have my laptop connected to a USB keyboard and USB mouse
what is this new trend lately of having aphantasia?

never read/heard this before from the HN audience.

bots are increasing on HN it seems.