skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The goal of rent control, as I infer from the mechanism, is to prevent existing tenants from being priced out of their current homes (eventually leading to eviction) - at least as I have seen in the US.

If the goal were to prevent rents from rising, the mechanism would do so directly, ie. regulate all rent, rather than limiting to continued rentals on certain types of property. Which would by definition prevent rents from rising, presumably along with other undesirable effects.

Anyways, the whole issue with conflating "bad" with objective consequences is the "presumed goal," which is of course totally subjective.
You offer condolences, and you say you understand. Thank you, but what do you think you understand?

Your analogy that somehow equates car accidents to nuclear disasters is not even wrong, and the fact that in your mind these can somehow be put into the same analogy is a testament that you don't understand.

1. With a car, you make a decision to use it or not given the risk factors. In contrast, the actual risks of a nuclear reactor built by a corporation in a remote area are not born by the company but rather by the town folks who have been living there and their descendants (an entire population) who have no choice in operating a nuclear power plant in their neighborhood.

And as we also see here, for few who dare to raise their voice, they are shut down by the corporation and local politicians with promises of a bright future or blamed with ignorance by some of their peers. Those same people who are not going to take responsibility when the nuclear disaster happens.

2. A car accident can kill a few people and financial damages are small and can be covered by an ordinary insurance company. A nuclear disaster can kill and make sick an entire population, destroy their livelihoods and poison the environment for generations, and caused damages are so great, well beyond the capabilities of any insurance or electrical company. In practice, the burden of the material damages fell upon the citizens of the entire nation.

As I already said, ever-improving nuclear reactors can result in a nuclear disaster, however "modern" they are. You can guarantee otherwise only in the imaginary world of spherical cows. As long as nuclear power plans are run, Fukushima disaster is not going to be last nuclear disaster the humanity has seen.
And again, the question is not "will another nuclear disaster happen". This is Murphy's law. The question is "when it happens, what will its effect be?"

If a corporation wants to operate a nuclear reactor, they should build it hundreds of kilometers away from any human settlement, with proper containment and cleaning mechanism in place that can be deployed right after the failure.

I looked at Wolf Creek Generating Station on Wikipedia, what of it? I don't see a nuclear disaster happened there. I hope the day won't ever come, but I would be interested in hearing your opinion on the matter after Wolf Creek melts down like in Fukushima ---at which point you will actually understand.
That seems like important context that should have been in the article given they are talking globally.

I'm on the USA west coast, and we still have warehouse and outdoor raves here, and people wouldn't use the term rave to refer to a permanent dance club. Many are illegal, and the police do shut them down sometimes, but mostly just tell people to go home. I've also seen the police show up and not shut it down.
Of course, and the human body is full of enzymes that exist to cleave saccharides into their constituent sugars.
> Maybe you are using wifi like majority of gamers and blame the wrong thing?

What does that mean? For most people, the wi-fi is not the limiting factor for internet speed.
https://archive.is/kdPJB
Except that comprehensive studies, in contrast to anecdotes, show that people in countries with public health care in fact DO get good treatment generally. So while maybe in rare circumstances you could have to wait too long, the vast majority of the time your life is not put at risk by a little wait.
Sometimes I dream with a wishful solution like defining areas of "great living desirability" (basically the cities where seemingly majority of people compete to live in), and charge a yearly tax of N% the market value of each home (with crazy high N, like 20), for owners who have more than M units in that area (with a convervative M, like 3 or even 2).
...You'll see how greedy investors flee fast, and the remaining buyers are honest people who don't want to speculate, but to actually own a home where to actually live.
Pay is lower in small/rural towns for the cheap jobs - but your cost of living is also lower. The trick is finding the best compromise for your situation - dense enough to have the higher pay of a city while not so dense that your cost of living is too high.

Where I live in the Suburbs of Des Moines, McDonalds starts at $16/hour. There are rural towns not far away where they start at $14, and I know rural towns farther out where you start at $10 (McDonalds isn't in these towns so it isn't a full comparison but that is the closest I can give). Where I live apartments can be had for under $1000/month so it is feasible for someone working at McDonalds to live on that wage. In the more rural areas apartments might be $500/month but you are making less plus the local grocery stores are more expesnive than the Aldi you could walk to from the apartment (thus meaning you don't need a car though crossing the highways isn't exactly safe).

Of course the real issue is people pick where to live based on factors other than cost of living. They care where their families live.
> but that is not the intent behind this rule.

It does speak to the culture of editing/moderation on SO, though. For many people, myself included, it simply does not work.
Yeah how is rent money different from taxes? For most people, you HAVE to pay rent/mortgage/shelter expenses.

I suppose you can live on the street, or move in with relatives.

On that note, you can also choose not to pay your taxes, but you'll also have to deal with those consequences.
What I have learned after all these years, is either do a Web site that is mobile friendly, or go native, anything else is a kludge in the search of holy grail of cross platform development without costs.

However this is a lie, because after going after the dream of cross platform, one lands on the (N + 1) reality, with team having anyway to master the leaky abstractions of the underlying platforms.
https://archive.ph/2025.01.07-230515/https://www.theatlantic...
Facts are a lot more nuanced than you seem to think they are, especially for the political statements typically being fact checked

It's absolutely trivial to creatively interpret statistics in a way that pushes your agenda and say "hey look the FACTS agree with me!"
... At which point the only new data that chatgpt can reliably scrape is its own answers...
I set basically everything at an inflated price and accept offers. The kind of person who's going to be a pain will basically never pay an inflated price and if they do you can partial refund the amount you actually would've accepted to let them think they've won.
Also, consider paying 404media the $100 for a year. It's just 4 people and I don't think they have many people actually paying. They're doing really good work. I paid.

They also have a podcast - basically the top stories they publish in a conversational format: https://www.404media.co/the-404-media-podcast/
It's like the shift from public mailing lists to discord, it's all unindexed. Sometimes when I'm contemplating a new library or thing-bob I check out a bunch it the SO questions tagged for it. For something decently popular it can give you good view of how others are using it and where they're stubbing their toes and having to ask for help. Skimming github issues doesn't give you quite the same signals.
... also the orbits themselves ideally? Maybe I missed it but in looking at some of the larger orbits it was hard to zoom in and out to figure out what orbit went with what. It would have been nice to more easily click on the orbit.

I really like it though.
Tried fireworks. Looks awesome for my 3.5 year old (he is playing Super Mario Bros snes version on TV these days so not sure but will try).

It's very choppy on phone when bursting, animation looks awesome but need some optimisation I guess.
Agreed, wish there was some place to aggregate what people consider "good" conversations they had that doesn't just suck up the data for themselves and lock it away.
> First of all, consistency does not matter at all, ever. THat's his main thesis so it's already wrong.

Can you say more about this? Because I strongly disagree with your assertion.
That all predates COVID... circa 2017 you could catch me in some Ridgewood DIY with no atmospherics most weekends. My favorite nights are the ones where the only light is the exit sign and it's me and 15 other people dancing all night in an uncrowded dance floor until the sun comes up.

Different strokes!
Boredom might’ve been underrated all along.
Is it just me or whatever "Capabilities" is, is not explained at all?
Same here, Firefox on a Debian machine and firefox just finished updating...
My biggest concern with how fact-checking has played out is that fact-checkers themselves have gotten into an "us vs them" perspective. With "us" being the fact-checkers themselves. This is a problem when they are analyzing claims about how fact-checkers got stories wrong. Such as the year they spent shutting down all discussion of the lab leak hypothesis.

I've noticed this contradiction very strongly across misinformation studies. For example Sander der ver Linden, author of https://www.amazon.com/Foolproof-Misinformation-Infects-Mind..., regularly uses such claims about fact checkers as an example of right-wing misinformation. But it isn't.

Fact-checking as a profession can only work if they figure out how to get past their own internal biases. Unfortunately, they haven't. And the fundamental reason for that is that when our emotions engage, it is easy for us to think we've made a logical decision when we've actually made an emotional one. None of us are immune to this. And the emotional tools to solve it tend to mostly be discussed in professions where it is harder to fool others about your objective mistakes.

See https://paulgraham.com/identity.html and https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-ten-commandments-of-egoles... for examples of how good programmers address their own inherent biases. Programmers are one of the professions that deals with this, because we can't hide when it is our code that has the bug.
Seek operation may be working like "function selection" on that specific device driver. The hex encoding of the seek offset gave me such vibes.
I think we now understand that SO's actual historical role was to generate data to bootstrap the LLMs.
physical appearance is one of the most informative indicators of health.
My 4 cents:

- I like the idea of a multiparadigm programming language (many exists) but where you can write part of the code in a different language, not trying to embed everything in the same syntax. I think in this way you can write code and express your ideas differently.

- A [social] programming language where some variables and workflows are shared between users [1][2].

- A superreflective programming language inspired by Python, Ruby, and others where you can override practically everything to behave different. For example, in Python you can override a function call for an object but not for the base system, globals() dict cannot be overriden. See [3]. In this way you save a lot of time writing a parser and the language basic logic.

- A declarative language to stop reinventing the wheel: "I need a website with a secure login/logout/forgot_your_password_etc, choose a random() template". It doesn't need to be in natural language though.

[1] https://blog.databigbang.com/ideas-egont-a-web-orchestration...

[2] https://blog.databigbang.com/egont-part-ii/

[3] https://www.moserware.com/2008/06/ometa-who-what-when-where-...
I got an email from Bank of America yesterday about a problem setting up my account. I had set up a new account, and this email knew that, and knew the name of the company, etc. There were no links in the email, just a note to call the BofA business number. I verified the number on the BofA website -- it was the same number -- and I called them.

They couldn't tell me why I got the email, and what the problem was with my account. The representative couldn't see a record of this email set.

I'm 100% certain this email came from Bank Of America. There was nothing in the email that was phishing -- no links, no bad phone numbers.

The SPF, DKIM, and DMARC all passed googles's ARC-Authentication-Results. The DKIM key is 2048 bits long.

I asked Bank of America to investigate, and they said "it must have been a phishing message" and sent me a link on how to look out for phishing.

I'm pretty sure this was just a glitch; some system that does some consistancy check ran too early while the account was being set up and generated that email.

However, because they told me it was "phishing" I just sent a FedEx to the CTO with the complete paper trail advising them that EITHER their DKIM keys were compromised and they need to issue a public warning immediately OR their incompetent staff and IT system gave me the runaround and wasted an hour of my time. Either way, I want a complete investigation and resolution.
This is great for something like Git and terrible for something like how to make the borrow checker happy in Rust. SO was the go to platform for questions that require human ingeunity.
This isn't a mod on a power trip, this is you not being familiar with what SO is and isn't and how it's run. Removing irrelevant tidbits has been the rule since forever and once you put your question out there, it's no longer only yours. In short, when in Rome, but of course it's easier to get upset than to familiarize yourself with the local customs.
chills
why are you lecturing somebody on the internet about personal lifestyle choices? as if the whole world doesn't know what they consume can negatively affect their health...
This query has a flaw, it does not count deleted questions at all. You can still query deleted questions via the Stack Exchange Data Explorer, see this example for a rewritten query:

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/revision/188161...

This changes the numbers, but not the trend. The trend still looks pretty grim.
Stack Overflow is a combination of a Q&A forum and a wiki. Both questions and answers are edited all the time for correctness and to keep up with community standards. And there's nothing wrong with that.

As a user just searching for an answer to my technical question I don't want to see flame wars, cultural exchanges, needlessly verbose text, bad grammar, political discussions and anything else that makes it longer and more difficult to get from point A to B. Similar to how I don't go on Wikipedia to experience the article writer's language skills or culture. There are plenty of other forums (ahem Reddit) for all that.
What are you talking about?!? He's not some random dude, he's a specialist and professor, at UCSF: https://pediatrics.ucsf.edu/people/robert-lustig

>sugar is addictive

>>The evidence supports the hypothesis that under certain circumstances rats can become sugar dependent. This may translate to some human conditions as suggested by the literature on eating disorders and obesity.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2235907/

>that fiber somehow mitigates the absorption of fructose

>>Dietary fiber (DF), especially viscous DF, can contribute to a reduction in the glycemic response resulting from the consumption of carbohydrate-rich foods.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9736284/

>that calorie restriction does not cause weight loss

>>Mechanisms smooth out the large day-to-day differences in energy consumption, decreasing the importance of the size of a meal. In the short term a reduction in energy intake is counteracted by mechanisms that reduce metabolic rate and increase calorie intake, ensuring the regaining of lost weight.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5639963/

I'm not going to go on and on... UCSF, which is one of the most respected teaching hospitals in the country, isn't hiring cranks. He specialize in exactly this stuff. Yea, he's a bit more strident than would would expect from a scientist, yes, he deals with the extremes of childhood obesity, which isn't really relevant to most people's bodies, but christ, he's not a crank.
"Clever architecture always beats clever code."

Since the difference between clever code and broken code is often obfuscated and ephemeral, it's difficult to argue with the assertion.

I've so rarely seen clever architecture that I find it difficult to agree with it, though.

I amused myself for a few minutes reflecting on your choice of the verb "beats". Quite clever, to introduce such rich ambiguity!
"Go fast and break things" is a good thing if you're working on stuff nobody needs, or stuff that doesn't make a lot of money.

Breaking a social network that 2,000 people use and makes no revenue is fine as long as you learned something from it that makes it easier to get that 2,001st user or first dollar. Breaking a hospital's IT network could kill someone and should have consequences. Breaking amazon.com costs tens or hundreds of millions of dollars and should have consequences.

GFBT's usefulness, like most things, changes based on the scale at which you apply it. Calling it stupid is reductive at best.
If you plan to hire a photographer arguably you would factor in that time it would take to get the assets delivered and there wouldn’t be this implication that you need the photo NOW. Savings with planning.
I concur, and would suggest that the original question is framed incorrectly.

As with most things, context matters. Right now, recruiting us not broken when viewed from an employer point of view. There's a glut of programmers on the market and it's relatively easy to fill a post.

Of course there are a lot more unemployed programmers than posts, so from the unemployed programmer point of view it seems broken.

5 years ago, and presumably in a couple years time, the equation might be reversed. Then it will be employers claiming recruitment is broken - because they can't find suitable candidates.

I would suggest that recruiting is not broken in either context. The root problem is the FANG type companies that ho through massive hiring and firing cycles. This instability in the market leads to wild swings in supply and demand.

As long as these companies behave like this, the problem will remain. You can fix it for yourself by getting a boring job at a non-FANG (ideally in the part of the cycle when developers are scarce. You will get a lot less money than a FANG job, but your job security will be much higher.

In a down cycle (like now) boring jobs at small companies are hard to get (they're a lot less common) but that's the place uou want to end up in during the next up-cycle.

Getting off the FANG treadmill is how you "fix recruitment" at least for yourself.

"The only way to win is not to play"

(And if you recognize that quote you're likely old enough to have seen this cycle many times.)
I tried to help out on the DB side of SO for a little bit, but gave up due to the culture. Not worth my time.
It's not about 'liking' magic links;

That means you've got all the security weaknesses of a magic link, and the added weaknesses of password reuse and weak passwords.

Is objectively true. I don't really 'like' magic links but I think they're a very easy to implement and simple to use for infrequently accessed systems. Arguably easier than user/pass and certainly more secure.
Programmers are losing interest in programming! I mean, that's partly a reason why
Peter Norton also put his photo on the box of AntiVirus.
Not surprisingly, this is actually one of the main issues with space travel and sending probes almost anywhere. Get slightly misasligned and you have take sightings on star patterns to try to somehow figure out where you are and what your orientation is. Voyager 1 and 2, Pioneer 10 and 11, and New Horizons all had / have variations on those systems.

Spacecraft Attitude Determination, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_attitude_determinat...

Star Tracker, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_tracker
I've heard this sentiment from people on every team I've worked with, sometimes multiple people on the same team.

Everyone thinks they're an above average driver...
Just think about it for a second.
Same issue. I've had university professors put my email address in their sylabus instead of ____.edu, and been carpet bombed by assignments, excuses, and pleading diatribes.

I'm listed as the email address for _many_ utility bills, doctors offices, and more political campaigns than I can count.

Comical how many people mess up their own email address.
makemkv->mkv->handbrake->mp4 is pretty straightforward for saving media, especially if you don't mess with handbrake much (I just use one settings profile for everything). _Playing_ bluray directly from disk is a PITA because of needing to set up the encryption keys and extra system libraries.

The part that eats my time is converting the subtitles from an image format (vosub/psg) to a text format (srt), since the image formats have never worked well for me on plex. SubtitleEdit is good but it still takes manual managing.

Edit: I forgot about the annoyance of finding a drive that works with ripping software, iirc there's only a couple that will without flashing firmware
A social network requires at least being able to "friend" another user does it not? I don't think Hacker News has such features.

It's a forum... And a bloody good one.
It's both a mod in a power trip and application of a rule written to appeal to people who want to trip on power, IMO.
So chatGPT is going to have less stuff to learn from
Its own answers, with feedback about whether the answers seem to have worked.

Learning to predict what word will lead to a successful solution (rather than just looking like existing speech) may prove to be a richer dataset than SO originally was.
Completely wild to me that you are backing out the netlist from the geometry gds.
The OpenAI drama isn't the only reality distortions that Altman has been accused of engaging in. PG himself has said Altman "is extremely good at becoming powerful" [0]. A former Reddit CEO in the past detailed the lengths he was willing to go to get his way[1], in reply to a post called, "What is the longest con you ever pulled", no less. One could say allegedly, but Altman did comment on the former CEO's accusation at the time, and one could also say in his defense that he was being sarcastic in his comment, but it is curious that regardless of whether you take Altman's comment seriously or sarcastically[2] -- in both cases it comes off as a brag that doesn't bother denying the accusation.

I don't know who's right in this case, but parents siding with the more successful and stable siblings doesn't seem too surprising. And if I'm not mistaken, Altman and his sister were both minors at the time, so I don't understand the people who are invested in taking sides. But it does make sense to point out that the parents also have a conflict of interest if something like this happened to two minors under the same roof -- who after all ends up taking the blame (fairly or unfairly) if the minors cannot be blamed?

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...
(he also said something in tweet form after Altman returned to OpenAI as CEO)

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...

[2] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3cs78i/whats_the...
Can you expand a bit on how that simplifies the "call with mechanic"?