skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the chart shows an absolute surge? Are you we looking at the same chart? also, if we are thinking from first principles here... there's no way to actually count that... Maybe you can give a sample area, and go around counting that specific area? and just do that for every major city? still pretty shaky data at best... so in this case i think anecdotal evidence is better evidence. There is obviously WAY, WAY, WAY more homeless, and they are WAY, WAY, WAY more cracked out.
cybersyn is just a dashboard if you ignore all the communist aspects he incorporated. it was a dashboard and organic feedback from the production itself. if you see production as uneducated workers and managers, then you fail to understand cybersyn. the human component is the focus. the rest is just communication improvement.

but no mba will write this
This is far beyond Oasis. Oasis had approximately 0 continuity, and the generated world was a blurry mess. This on the other hand actually approaches usability.
Screenshots anyone? (Or anywhere)
I can appreciate your perspective, but I also think the populist notion that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge" (to paraphrase Asimov) has already done even greater damage to our society.

It must be stopped, and that can't happen if we're pretending that all people being worthy of respect also implies that all opinions are.
> It's usually just the inverse of saying most people don't have ready cash savings laying around; because there's no need to when you have credit every which way all the time

This is quite a precarious situation to me. People should not need nor be encouraged to rely on debt to live life, especially month to month.

The default mode should be working people make enough to, if budgeted moderately well, can pay for everything plus save money away post tax[0]

Anything less and you’re only growing systemic issues over time

[0]: including tax exempt savings like 401Ks is ill-reflective of people’s ability to save money aside for emergencies and unexpected costs
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Ubuntu comes bundled with NVIDIA drivers and snap store. Would you say they are not open source either?
Show HN: Chatten – Interact with SaaS products through chat
Hi HN!

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First, the story;

In my previous startup, I was the head of product of a grocery delivery app similar to Instacart. Our main competition was people sending orders to the stores through WhatsApp.

Ordering groceries on WhatsApp is very difficult, especially large (10+ item) ones. Our app was much more convenient because the whole UI was curated for grocery ordering.

However, when it came to small orders of obvious items, e.g. an order consisting of 1 kg tomato, 3 eggs, and 2 breads, consumers preferred WhatsApp over our app!

When we asked why, they said "For a simple order using WhatsApp, all I have to do is send a voice message or a short text to the store. But on your app, I have to open the store, open categories, find each item, add them in the right quantity to cart, open cart, confirm location and press order. A lot of clicking and hassle!"

They were right. Our app contained a listing of 1000s of items all arranged in categories with advanced search. What made it great for browsing the store items and placing large orders also made it inconvenient for small orders of obvious items, which were actually more common.

I couldn't merge the convenience of unstructured WhatsApp-style ordering with the structured experience of our app. This problem is inherent to the GUI and every SaaS must have it. It wasn't fixable, or so I thought.

Enter Chatten...

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Chatten fixes exactly that problem. Chatten makes it possible for to users read and mutate data, and navigate through a SaaS through chat commands.

It maps the user command to a series of API requests and frontend events that are performed on behalf of the user. The user does not need to do multiple high-precision and attention-demanding clicks on the UI.

Watch the demo to see a PoC in action.

Chatten is currently very early stage. I appreciate all kinds of feedback. If want to be an early adopter, or wanna connect, reach out on my LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammedshahoe/

Thank you
> Maybe I'm actually the only conscious being in the entire universe and everyone else is a P-Zombie. Somehow, to me, that makes more sense than consciousness appearing out of nowhere.

That's because you live in Plato's cave, we all do.
from your source above:

>New Hampshire saw the highest increase in the number of homeless people.
> But is the majority of the population thriving?

It's important to understand that the stock market is a leading indicator.

Everyone doesn't immediately get laid off when the stock market tanks. Everyone doesn't immediately get a raise when the stock market is roaring.

A lot of people are just now experiencing the stock market mini-crash of 2022, when the pandemic helicopter money dried up. In two years a lot of people are going to be experiencing the investments that are being made in the market right now. Most of them are going to wrongly ascribe those good times to the person holding high political office even though that person had nothing to do with it. This won't be the first time it has happened.
For what reasons?

Why would they all start behaving like charities?
I don't think you know what dictatorship means. Anyone living in a real dictatorship would be offended by your comment.
I thought maybe mruby had a mostly ruby stdlib - but I guess it's c ported over from mri?
Getting messaged is different from opening Anki, which I often avoid for months at a time. I imagine I'd be much more likely to respond to a notification just because of how strong of a habit that is.
I find this work much more exciting. They're not just teaching a model to hallucinate given WASD input. They're generating durable, persistent point clouds. It looks so similar to Genie2 yet they're worlds apart.
> Robots don't need to guess what they can't see, they would have sensors to tell them exactly what is there (like a self driving car).

Self driving vars have cameras as part of their sensor suite, and have models to make sense of sensor data. Video will help with perception and classification (understanding the world) with no agency needed. Game-playing will help with planning, execution, and evaluation. Both functions are necessary, and those that come after rely on earlier capabilities
Readwise also has this feature. I get a daily email with a random assortment of highlights that have been pulled in from multiple sources (Reader, Notion, Kindle, etc.)

The product benefit in their case is that it's kind of like Zapier, but for notes.

https://readwise.io/
Yeah. And I'll just add, so often the success of a project is not in its technicals, but the smoke and mirrors that are used to sell it. Be that to upper management, clients, regulators...
Lean and focused execution, quick iteration, over promise and under deliver (yes, in business it pays as much as engineers hate it), most people are actually a drag to productivity. Specifically with Twitter he drastically cut the head count and cost and all the people swearing how irreplaceable people being fired were and his Twitter is going to collapse any minute now were all wrong.

Unlike most people praising the idea of egoless I don't need to like the guy to learn from him.
If you want the parameters to be indented the same amount (why you'd want that, I don't know, but whatever floats your boat):

blah(
blip,
blop,
bloop
);

And anyway, 'you see the code the exact same way I saw it when writing it' has the following problems:

1. It doesn't help because you were writing the code, I have to read it.

2. It doesn't help because the way my brain works most likely isn't 100% interchangeable with how yours does.

3. It may even not be true because I may be using a different editor, a different editor theme, a different font, or, by golly, an entirely different monitor resolution.

That being said, I will agree with my sibling comments which recommend the combination of tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment.
Ironic that you would post this to a digital forum, the very concept of which would never be found and nature to the point that it would be beyond fiction and magic only a few hundred years ago. Nature has no inherent will and very often does things that are awful, like cancer. If anything it's our obligation to correct its failures where we can.
There has certainly been huge GDP growth in China but their specific claims about GDP can't be attempted to be believed. Their numbers have never been independently verified and most of the raw data is treated as a state secret. There is reason to suspect that some of what they're reporting is just made up. Party officials are evaluated based on meeting certain economic targets so there's a lot of incentive at the lower levels to falsify data. The same thing happened in the USSR before it collapsed (I'm not suggesting that China will collapse any time soon, just pointing out that this is a common pattern in single-party authoritarian governments). External estimates based on resource utilization indicate that real GDP might be significantly lower.
The comments here remind me of the HN comments when Dropbox launched!
There is no such a thing called “we” in terms of the financial consequences. If you own an IP is because you acquire it through a contractual piece, also an artist, if he works for a company he also receives the loyalty stated in the contract. You can argue the artists might not be fairly paid which I agree. But it is obviously worse to live in a world not only one CERTAINLY won’t get paid and the work can get plagiarized into something he/she does not even like. If that’s the case I think it is the end of innovation.
Someone claimed health insurance companies came up with “death panels”, I provided evidence and logic to the contrary.

No one is ranting, but there does seem to be a lot of “I feel like this could have happened, so I am going to choose to believe this happened because it confirms my priors”.
Cool idea! What were your other 3 projects this year?
Perhaps I am not using it right, I wanted to see if I could get a list of sources for "policy roadblocks to timely court justice" for the last 7 days in the UK.

I get some interesting articles, but only really one was relevant

even then it was only tangential.

Its kinda useful as a news cutting service, but its really not precise enough to replace a decent PR summary report.

for housing policy It either over indexes on hansard (good source, but not for policy) or the daily mail (would have been a good source for conservative policy, but not labour.)

What am I doing wrong?
I think GP meant that stigmatizing the idea of a coomer is regressive and shaming, in that it's sex-negative -- if someone wants to masturbate excessively, there's nothing wrong with that, as long as it's not negatively impacting other aspects of their life. Not sure I agree with that take, but I think that's what they were talking about.
Same here, I've even lived in the States for a while. For me, Europe is the place to be. While we might not have as many opportunities as our counterparts in the States, life is generally pretty great over here for the average Joe. They have more money, but we have more free time for ourselves. Since life is short, time is more valuable. At least for me.
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That is very close to my point. It is very easy to focus on a shady cabal and ignore the plurality of our countrymen that actively think and want something different.

It is like there is a deep denial that real humans often want something different, and that we are forced to share a democratic society with them, which means losing on issues where we think we are right.
Honest question: has the software profession not been democratized to the point where "neurotypical" people have come to overtake these jobs from those stereotypical "basement dwellers"? Or would you argue that being on the autistic spectrum provides one with abilities that their unaffected counterparts cannot possess?
Google blog post: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/gencast-predicts-weath...
Parsing Resumes with Llama 3.1
You're not learning html when you write react horror shows either.

it's a space that broke <A /> because they're too useful and needed a broken react special version.
> and using the city as a shield

A shield against what?
It's a feature if you're neurotypical
> you can't spend what you don't have

Yes you can, just borrow more [1]:

[1] https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/08/26/us-credit-car...

> Your argument falls apart when you consider why UK or French consumers consume as "strongly" to maintain their lifestyles

They don't have access to cheap credit as the US consumer has, and being smarter than Americans they refrain from going into more debt.

> There's no one way to calculate inflation

Yes, there is, it is just different for lower income earners. Economists just don't want to measure the impact on people who have to spend large part of their salaries on rents, health care, cars, all things with prices that increase higher than official inflation.
The problem is common g-code asks for things which violate physics. No amount of engineering or materials science can turn a moving printer head at a right angle with absolutely zero deflection. Even giant many millions of dollars CNC machines do all sorts of tricks to make corners (and a million other gcode problems) handle more gracefully. Most such big systems actually read ahead in gcode dozens to hundreds of steps to modify it in flight to get the best performance from the machine.
Why would you think you have a monopoly on understanding of Jesus' teachings?

There are thousands of varieties of christianity or Christ-followers, all with different understanding of Jesus' teachings. Many of which are mutually incompatible.
When will you feel like you all have won the war here? What is it that you need to happen? Is it simply a matter of removing academics you deem too woke from their positions, or is it more a matter of public opinion becoming less woke? Just really at this point trying to get a gauge for how long we have to live inside this particular discourse.. Because it just structurally is such that it cant last forever, for I hope at least to you somewhat obvious reasons... (Although I wouldn't be too surprised if this is truly a gnostic battle against darkness for you personally. There are some variants here.)

I just miss when yall were simply libertarian and talked about taxes! We can go back to that one day right?
IBM terminals are a completely different thing than what the popular minicomputer systems had. From what I understand, the 3270 wasn't a simple serial device. IBM had the advantage that they had control of the entire ecosystem, so their hardware and software worked together much like Apple stuff does today.

Minicomputers (and some mainframes) generally used the kind of terminals as described in the article. Those things were everywhere.
> but homes are bought with wealth, not income

What do you mean by this? In the US, over 60% of people have a mortgage [1], which almost always means it's coming from some percentage of their income. When you get a home loan, the banks only real concern is your credit score and income. Anecdotal, but I don't know a single person that doesn't have their monthly mortgage scaled to their income, since I don't know a single person under 60 without a mortgage that's coming from their income.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/percent-homeowners-have-mortgag....
Crafting of US legislation has absolutely no basis in efficacy or data, it's entirely driven by the news cycle. Something attention grabbing (like a Mandalay) happens, something extremely specific from the headlines but largely secondary to enabling the actual crime (like bump stocks) are banned, then the whole thing is forgotten about
So you felt like living in Canada gave you a clear understanding of the high cost of living and low wages in the US (we'll ignore how wrong you are about this for the moment), and your example of a more affordable place to live is... Tokyo?

Thanks for making it clear I should treat your posts as a regurgitation of terminally online zoomer talking points from here on out.
You did (not your fault). Usually a Western country is used, often the UK. That doesn't really matter, though, as long as a sufficiently similar scale is used when comparing. Tests can be (and are) recalibrated sometimes.
US Federal Reserve studies indicate that the percentage of US households with no excess income after necessary expenses (as distinct from "ordinary expenses" as a term of art) is on the order of 10-15%. This definition roughly matches most people's intuition of what "living paycheck-to-paycheck" means. That isn't nothing but it implies 85-90% of Americans are not actually living paycheck-to-paycheck.

There is another 25-30% of households that spend all of their income on ordinary expenses beyond necessary expenses. This includes things like car payments on a new BMW or a mortgage on a big house; "ordinary" is determined by expense category, not expense necessity, so a lot of spending on luxury goods is classified as "ordinary". By implication, there is effectively no ceiling to ordinary expenses.

By contrast, the median US household has >$12,000/year in excess income after all ordinary expenses. Technically these households could have expanded their lifestyle to consume that income, but in many cases they are spending it on things that are not classified as "ordinary" and therefore not saving it. The categories of "non-ordinary" expenses (which have a sensible objective criteria) are almost entirely obvious lifestyle flex things, so not particularly controversial.

The implications of these statistics are pretty wild. The median household can easily accumulate a million dollars in inflation-adjusted net worth, not including their house, over a 40 year career. And they can do it without being particularly thrifty, since ordinary expenses covers a lot of luxury spending.

Americans have very high incomes, both in theory and practice, they just would rather spend it than save it.
Please don't try and redefine terms like "grifter." It is a very important word, especially in today's political climate.
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Looking at the numbers the interest rate is almost 7% making most things very unaffordable for people who can't buy things like houses and cars with cash. Until that number dramatically goes down, regular people will suffer.
What is preventing every other state in the US from building tech winners? The majority of large tech companies are headquartered in CA and there are a few others in WA, TX, NY, and ID. There used to be quite a few in MA and even FL was in the running for a while. What caused them to fall behind within a few decades, while other states never really got started? Some are hopelessly handicapped by horrible geography or low population density but others like CT or IL would appear to have all the necessary ingredients.
I use my own router on Gigaclear, no V6 and no sign of them supporting it. At least it's not CGNAT.
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This is an under appreciated problem with inequality.

Ideally, others success should be net-positive/neutral for others.

In practice, inequality has these perverse impacts at least:

(Wealth is a spectrum. “Rich” and “non-rich” below stand in for any significant relative difference.)

1. The non-rich often put unrealistic pressure on themselves to keep up with wealthier lifestyles.

But beyond that self-inflicted wound:

2. The rich can afford outsized amounts of critical or survival type services and assets. Like land. Fresh vegetables. This imbalance raises the cost of meeting basic needs.

3. Markets respond to more rich by creating higher end services and products. Some have subjective value (fashion), some are luxuries (massages are beneficial, but not critical for most), but many are practical.

For instance, computing hardware, internet access options, expensive healthcare interventions, medications, private transport growth relative to public transport, etc.

4. And the rich also perversely put unrealistic social and employer pressures on the lifestyles of the non-rich. I.e. dress and personal technology shibboleths, etc.

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It is worth pointing out that the large role of real estate as a passive wealth compounder, tracking up with the product of increased overall economy and inequality growth, is perverse enough.

But the common arrangement of property taxes that tax both land (the limited and exclusionary asset) and its development (the non-exclusionary asset we should not be disincentivizing in any way), adds another perversity to land economics.

When a problem compounds already, it doesn’t need any more perverse incentives!

If property taxes were replaced by just land taxes (renormalized to be revenue neutral) it would:

1. increase the return on development, and

2. increase the costs of holding (absolutely or relatively) undeveloped land!

Which would both increase development (i.e. housing, multi-housing) and increase supply of (relatively) unused land.

This would be a net win for those who are impacted or concerned about inequality, but also those with a libertarian or capitalist viewpoint. As it removes a wealth tax. (Which isn’t just a double tax, but an unlimited repetitive tax on the same already taxed/unrealized non-exclusionary wealth!)

Whether rich or poor, improving one’s property with already taxed capital or self-supplied labor, would not perversely raise one’s taxes.
Talking to myself but... I just don't understand the downvotes on my comment. Saying cheap film is shit offends people? It's still shit. Get over it.
> It's better than taxing the output of hard work - work, unlike hoarding, is generally something we want to encourage.

To what hoarding are you referring?
Wonder if many of the people who'd "fail" at this level would instead be able to process and use Youtube (and similar) videos instead?

If that's the case, then maybe the difference is less important these days than it once was?
The interest rate is hurting everyone who can't buy houses with cash. High interest rates have also helped crash the real estate market, so even if you just own a home, you've taken a bath since the high interest policy has been implemented.
the 4060 is an "excellent" nvidia product where they managed to release something slower than the cheaper previous gen 3060
Ah thanks, I can read it now.
Can't we consider the cost of energy as a general tax on the economy? If all economic output is N% cheaper in the US, we'd expect compounding effects.
Keep coding then. Pity, but this is the world you live in.
> "Yeah hierarchy is so cool man" said no one ever.

Perhaps not in those exact words. I'd argue that an implicit desire for hierarchy pervades a lot of right-wing thought. E.g. wanting a strong leader, a harsh penalty system, and traditional paternalistic social stratification.
what is this post? are you under the impression that you get to choose your health insurance provider in the US? your job picks for you
I think your definition is completely reasonable, but it's not how people answer the question (again, based on reading the report, which has a lot more detail.)