skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are going to get DDoS's by people trying to do this haha.
New development was made illegal in the places people want to live.

It's that simple.

Now, you may agree with the given reasons for making that development illegal (and/or very expensive), or you may not, but that is the undeniable end result of those policies. We made that bed, now we lay in it; we could theoretically un-make that bed overnight, but there's serious money (and political power) riding on making sure this problem never goes away.
Small discussion 9 hours ago (18 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683860
mildly nostalgic though

i fucking miss the friendster days where you can customize how your profile looks with just css
How do you calculate the unimproved land value?

This is an interesting question with the fires in LA right now. Is the land still as valuable as it was before the house burned down, minus the rebuild cost of the house? Or is the value intrinsically tied to the community that was there but no longer is? Or is the value actually higher now that a developer can come in and remake an entire neighborhood?
Yes, when you say things that sound like Hitler, I will tell you that you sound like Hitler. I’m not clicking any of your stupid links or engaging with you.

However, I know a lot of South Africans and will be sure to warn them away from your company.
Do any business schools teach about business school fads and how often they don't work out?
I've built a pet project with LLMs recently. It's rough around the edges, with bugs, incomplete functionality and docs, but I've built it around 4 times as fast as I would have done it myself.

https://github.com/golergka/hn-blog-recommender

Basically 95% of the code is written by Aider. I still had to do QA, make high-level decisions, review code it wrote, assign tasks and tell it when to refactor stuff.

I would never use this workflow to write a program where absolute correctness is top priority, like a radiation therapy controller. But from this point on, I'll never waste time building pet projects, small web app and utilities myself.
Yeah, you have 0.1% of a house, sure. But do that across a thousand houses and you have 100% of the houses. It's that simple.
Agreed. I find such complaints very strange, as most people already follow Python-like indentation rules quite strictly in most other languages, but need to add delimiters as well. Indentation is the clearest indication of code structure, so when it's not significant it still looks significant, leading to bugs like:

if(condition)
do_thing1();
do_thing2(); //not in the if!
do_thing3();
I do know PVC can produce dioxin if the combustion isn't exactly right. Definitely there are some pitfalls with incinerating plastic! They could in theory capture the CO2 but nobody seems to do that. Probably not economical. It's basically an alternative to burning fossil fuel, still not great for the environment but at least you're not digging it up and it's disposed of. Recycling works okay for some plastics e.g PET.
Cities are rarely constrained by the willingness of someone to build housing, it’s generally more an issue of being allowed to build housing.
I was going insane doubting my SSH knowledge, stopped short of creating new keys thankfully!
Thank you for explaining! I appreciate it
Totally anecdotal, but I live in the largest city in Spain, and even in my residential area (as opposed to the touristy spots) every week I can see ads for "we buy your house, paid upfront over market value, Chinese investors".

Posters in walls, flyers in windshields and so on.
In all disciplines you find more not so brilliant people than truly brilliant people. I am a software engineer, but it happens that I cannot understand how our UX professionals have designed our product's UI. Or if I understand it I find it awkward. Now you could say that's because I am so much below average, that I am a hopeless case... But we get customer reports that they are more confused than I am. So having UX people is not silver bullet.
> Taking this chance requires allowing free market rules to apply.

On the yuan side, yes. On the TikTok side, it requires allowing free speech rules to apply. That scares China's current leadership.
people will game the algos

simple as that
Just the info I was expecting to see on HN. Unfortunately (or Fortunately?), a better source for these kinds of things than anywhere else.
> I have evidence of the opposite

Respectfully, you do not. Giving to charity is not at all the marker of morality, and suggesting that is frankly absurd.
Have any of these LLM coding assistant enthusiasts actually used them? They are ok at autocomplete and writing types. They cannot yet write "80% of your code" on anything shippable. They regularly miss small but crucial details. The more 'enthusiastic' ones, like Windsurf, subtly refactor code - removing or changing functionality which will have you scratching your head. Programming is a process of building mental models. LLMs are trying to replace something that is fundamental to engineering. Maybe they'll improve, but writing the code was never the hard part. I think the more likely outcome of LLMs is the broad lowering of standards than 5x productivity for all.
You could put that all in one reply or even used edit. I’m done with this conversation.
Wow I had no idea you could actually “downgrade” things to be compatible with S1. (My units all came with the later app that force updated itself, but appear to be compatible with S1). They had given me the idea the device firmware was ratcheting forward, so once upgraded no way back.

Did this change during all the noise? (Entirely possible I was oblivious)
Access to a CNC mill and a CNC lathe should be a fundamental right.

Being CNC with an enclosure mitigates 99+% of all the safety issues and makes them 1000% more useful. With CNC, the most harmful injury is likely to be a broken bone because you're only in the envelope with servos active but not the spindle. With manual, the spindle or chuck can grab you and kill you or send shrapnel into you.

And I really wish we had a good, open source pick and place. Those still can't handle 0201 components and higher density BGAs even though those PCBs are really cheap nowadays.
Enough that “BIPOC” is a thing that even my retired immigrant parents have heard of.
I think it's really important to press people on this point, because "vacant homes as an investment vehicle" gets trotted out as a thought-killing cliche.

Surely there are some pied-a-terre and vacant investment properties, but vacant rental housing in NYC for example was 1.4% in 2023. I'm not sure how they measure this, but even if you doubled the amount of available rental housing, it would still be an insanely hot rental market.

Places that have stable or decreasing housing prices (NoLa, Austin) have over 10% of rentals vacant.
Average house price in Netherlands is 500k. If you offload your house to the next sucker you can still outbid most people when you move to Spain as a pensionado.
wow okay i want that military badges they look cool
>You can also rob the bad people of the power to hide behind the words and symbols: if only bad people use them, we know the users are bad. It's definitely signaling

No, you are just giving them the power to actually do stuff without looking like they are doing stuff.

As long as they talk the talk, they don't have to walk the walk. You don''t have to actually care about issues, that's what the DEI department is for.
It's just a hub at the moment.
I'm basing this off departmental demographics for CS at Aarhus and Copenhagen Universities.

Scientists and engineers overall include a lot of disciplines that are not CS. Biology in particular is frequently majority female.
I just translated all my build scripts written in Python to straight C due to indentation issues. Not because I don't format my code properly, but because any time I refactored my code, I ended up with dozens of subtle indentation related bugs that took hours to find and fix.

If your language requires an IDE, then you have become Java.
I've been keeping an eye on radicle[1] but the documentation for setting up a peer and web frontend is a bit complex. It seems to offer what you're describing: a "decentralized" Git frontend with issue tracking. Seems to be missing wiki functionality, however.

[1] https://radicle.xyz/
500$ on a 500k house might not seem like a big deal, but I’d still rather have the 500$.
Parent used a single month’s count for the whole year
This would be a perfect time for Apple to step in and offer HomePods for the Home Theater. In a better configuration than "stereo pair".
> I don't think we're near AGI, well any reasonable definition of it.

But wait just hear me out for a second! What if we've also sufficiently lowered the definition of "GI" at the same time...
Fascinating story. Somebody should probably submit that as a top-level HN entry.
>Whatever good you do the planet by using something out of recycled paper (thumbs up on the idea) will surely be offset by all the logistics of the shipping.

The plastic laptop stand you by probably also had to be shipped halfway around the world, so this one is probably a wash.
The GitHub wikis are actually git repos.
It’s certainly consistent with the belief that non-whites have political common cause with other non-whites against whites.
That is narrowly correct and widely incorrect

zen question: what is the "everything" that will "go through"?

That's the core problem: there's no exit in sight. None
I don’t disagree with his definition, not disagree that it’s a problem, but it’s still feels a bit to anti-Wokey in that he calls out things that he just disagrees with. #metoo brought down some terrible people who did terrible things, I don’t think you should call metoo in and of itself woke, not overly moralistic to be mad about sexual assault, there should be some nuance there.

He also calls Bud Light woke for… acknowledging the existence of a trans woman? Again not excessively moralistic to reach out to a constituency he happens to not like.
I don't have anything particularly enlightening to say but I once visited an apartment that was within a few meters of the skytrain track. Thing was loud as can be and made me nope out very quickly. The place wasn't even cheaper than equivalent (minus deafening noise) options, maybe they were hoping to find someone who was already deaf.
People have indeed always been greedy, but the greediest are becoming more wealthy and powerful by the day.
> a complete catastrophe for any foreign investment in Spain from now on

No doubt because

a) all foreign investment always comes with individuals from the investment source purchasing homes in the investment target country

b) Germany is no longer foreign when it comes to Spain, so any money invested by Germany would not count as "foreign investment"

Am I right?
Don't forget the time Matt allegedly attempted to extort the WPEngine CEO into coming to work for him [1]

1: https://www.therepository.email/wp-engine-sues-automattic-an...
The semi-obvious conclusion here is that he had an idea and asked an LLM to write an article about it, in his own style.
Are you saying prices didn't go up because of Chinese investors, or Chinese immigrants? I haven't heard anyone discussing immigration as a root cause
The Information Society (1980) [video]
Gitea works for us.
Not being able to nest multiline lambdas into function arguments where they are called makes you have to read a lot of code backwards.
While there are all sorts of claims about honey, I do think that it's easy to eat considerably less sugar without going totally cold-turkey by buying unsweetened things and adding honey yourself. Most people, I think, will just naturally use less than is added to typical products. A long time ago I decided to try buying plain yogurt and no-sugar-added muesli/granola and add honey to taste, rather than buying the standard commercial sweetened versions. I estimated at the time that it was like a 75% reduction in sugar at breakfast without any real thought or effort, and I never went back.
Sure, as long as I'm willing to do the 90% missing bits manually, RSS does everything else automatically. /s

There is a major discovery problem and saying "out of scope" does not make it go away.
Very cool Product Earl. Do you think this will be able to automate standup updates duration for teams ? I think it can bring down the standup time to minimum to none.
The above post is mega-ranty. I am tempted to mega-rant in return, but I'll try to keep that down and share some material that seems related but solvable by someone making such broad claims:

- The parent article complains about a lot of "meh" responses by engineers. I often feel very "meh" about LLMs and don't use them very often. It's not cause I hate them, but it is because my context window that I'd need to feed into an LLM is just a bit too big to be tractable for having it help me code. What I need is for my LLM code assistant to be able to comfortably accept ~7-10 git repositories, each with a code+comment line count of ~100k lines of novel (not in the training set) code, and be able to answer my questions and write somewhat useful code. I'm working in big, old, corporate, proprietary codebases, and I need an LLM to be even a little helpful with that. Maybe that's possible and easy today, but I don't know how to do that so I don't. I'm open to suggestions.

- When I talk to a co-worker, even a junior engineer, I feel like I can have sensible discussions with them even if they may not know exactly what I'm talking about. I can trust that they'll say things like "I don't really know all the details, but it sounds like...", or they'll ask follow up questions. I do not have to tell my co-workers to ask follow up questions or to tell me about the bounds of their understanding. We're human, we talk. When I try to chat with an LLM about business problems, I feel more like I'm trying to chat with a 15 year old who is desperately trying to sound knowledgeable, where they will try their best to confidently answer my questions every time. They won't ever specify "I don't know about that, but tell me if this sounds right...". Instead, they'll confidently lie to my face with insanely fabricated details. I don't want to have to navigate a conversation with the background question of "is this the fabrications of a madman?" in the back of my head all the time, so I don't. Maybe that's the wrong value calculus, and if so, I'm open to being persuaded. Please, share your thoughts.
Grind leetcode for six months
Update: looks like the problem has been identified.

"We've identified a cause of degraded git operations, which may affect other GitHub services that rely upon git. We're working to remediate."
Fair enough, I don't usually encounter that. I'd probably use a regular knife in that case.
I would not use "prototype" to describe this as he did.
Think about individual incentives rather than of the role, though.

I agree with your assessment, except that an engineer has the incentive to make the product work as specified.

A salesperson is given their goals by management, and they are compensated on achieving that goal - not necessarily what the customer wants.
yeah, so you've gone from walking in to a store and coming out with a single box that you can plug in to power and connect to wifi and get music on, to decision on what amp to buy, and a decision on which of the hundred nearly identical bookshelf speakers to get, a question on whether your amp will drive those speakers. and then you've got to find a store to actually sell you all that stuff. it's an entirely different market from what sonos is providing to customers.

fwiw i did exactly what you're suggesting for my personal use, i've got a wiim pro and a fosi v3 and kanto 5" speakers and i'm very happy with my setup. but i'm a nerd who likes shopping for things like that, and i know enough to know that most people would rather not. and it's not like i saved anything compared to going with a sonos.

edit: and, as i just learned a little further down the thread, you've also got to be careful which model of wiim you buy - the newest and nicest ones don't have airplay.
I used to code in Python for everything in the late aughts and loved meaningful whitespace. Whenever I used a language with braces like JavaScript, for instance, I felt like I was still indenting code meaningfully but now I had the extra hurdle of also caring about the braces. It felt unnecessary and stone-agey.

But back then I was just using vim with a nicely configured .vimrc. Linters weren't really a thing, or at least not neatly integrated into my editing experience.

Nowadays I write Rust in vscode and I love braces. Rustfmt just formats my code every time anyway, so I don't have to care about indentation and braces are placed where they should be. I spend zero time caring about code formatting, outside of configuring rustfmt.toml once per project or the occasional #[rustfmt::skip] for codeblocks which I really want to format in a specific way outside of the linter's configured rules. I also have the benefit of the compiler screaming at me if I forget a brace, pointing to the exact error including telling me when indentation is suggesting a brace is missing! :O

Moreover, I'm much more proficient in vim, and the single hotkey % is reason enough to want to favor braces. Coupled with how often I paste code into Claude, V$%,y has become muscle memory (visually select this whole line, go to the end of the line, then expand the selection to the line matching the closing delimiter under the cursor, then yank everything into the system clipboard with <leader>y)...

On occasion, I go back to Python for some side project and the whole experience feels... weird. If braces before LSPs and linters was the stone age, then Python feels like the iron age and I'm living in the future with a compiler that is incredibly talkative and helpful. I'm never going back.
Yeah, but you can teach your colleagues to get better. An LLM will give you the same crap every time.
> I wonder how passengers back then would have imagined rail travel today, 75 years later (aside from the life-threatening storms, of course). The Overland Route is now freight-only, and the closest equivalent, the California Zephyr, takes about 52 hours to make the journey this train did in just 40!

I don't think people ride the California Zephyr to get from Chicago to the Bay Area as quickly as possible. Most of us spent as much time as possible in the observation car marveling at the Rockies and Sierras.
Literate programming tools that weave/tangle code and documentation don't play well with significant whitespace. Not a problem for me, but I think it's on a valid line of complaints.
I definitely recommend reading Lars Doucet's treatment[1] of this subject. You can skip to section 5 if you want the most direct answer to your question, but the whole thing is worth reading.

The short answer is that there are many ways you can assess unimproved land value. The "Multiple Regression Analysis" method I think is the most relevant here: you'll see from the linked article a table that includes all sorts of factors related to both aspects you mention: factors of neighborhood/community (some positive, some negative) and factors of potential (some positive, some negative). e.g. there is even a factor of "Proximity to natural disaster areas", which would definitely decrease the land value after this LA-area disaster.

In this particular case, I would expect that Land Values would go down after the fires, as there are many more factors related to positive neighborhood features (which no longer exist if the neighborhood has burned down) than there are factors related to "development potential". Though of course it also matters how you weight these things.

Anyway read the article, my summary does not do the subject justice!

[1] https://www.gameofrent.com/content/can-land-be-accurately-as...
Warren Buffett says "Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful." But in the AI space, people are both greedy AND fearful!
Do you have a source for the claim about Peter Thiel? I looked for one, and all I could find were several cases of Thiel donating to explicitly pro-gay-marriage political organizations.
Yes millions have bought into this scam of the decade since 2016 based on the original FSD videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG68SKoG7vE where the driver seat is only occupied for legal reasons...

Alas the scam will continue to sell well into the next decade after buying Trump.
It's odd to me that there's nothing indicating an issue is ongoing on the github.com homepage
They protested Starbucks all year after hallucinating some connection between the company and the Israeli invasion in Palestine. Irrational is a fine description. And a good example of the gas lighting is them saying wokeness doesn’t exist.
Good. I love this for them.
Source: totally not still bitter Remainer.
DJing is absolutely a form of music creation. Maybe not always in the moment of performance but the curation, mixing techniques, resampling, etc. wildly confident takes on this all throughout this post.
Nah. There was this time when egg farms got greedy and raised the price. Then they became not greedy again and it's fine. Similar situation with software engineers. They got greedy and salaries went up. When they become less greedy, like rights now, things go down a little.
What make you think it would apply retroactively? Taxes rarely do, I can’t even think of a single example (but would be happy to learn about one).

Putting someone else’s name on the deed is a very bad idea for several reasons. I really can’t imagine anyone doing that, unless it’s a trusted family member or something like that.
I'm not sure what you mean.

In my opinion, and many others, the type of speech is what wokeness is about. Particularly of the kind that are moralizing lectures explaining how Superior the speaker is.

Concrete solutions are far more preferable.
I believe there's a significant risk window for Tesla (the company) in this

0) irrespective of the data, FSD is sold as a must-have. And so it's released early, and buggy, "move fast and break things" style. The leadership (as publicly exposed) implies what Musk wants Musk gets. If in reality they can push back, this risk could be reduced. If he has authority in voice to push for FSD release, I suspect he will override risk concerns.

1) people believe the upsell, do risky things: accidents happen

2) regulators come down like a tonne of bricks over this, could be road safety regs or could be financial mis-representation of future value.

3) class action lawyers gin up a case, because there will be cashed up car owners who seek redress, alongside cashed up shareholders seeking an advantage.

Not a tesla owner btw. I like lane warning, my partner (the principle driver) hates it and we disable in all hired cars. I don't think I want or expect FSD. I do know people who want it so I know there's a diversity of views here. I tend to think it could work in an unknown future, with the right hedges around it (metaphorical and physical)

If Tesla's FSD smarts were being sold as IPR to other car manufacturers routinely in some senses the risk would be shared. The fact it's being kept as a product uniqueness leader suggests to me risk isn't driving the FSD development process, and so I think might not drive the release schedule.
If you invest in a company and it’s valued at $1,000,000. And you want to make some money. You sell your investment in the company.

If after 5 years revenue doesn’t grow the value is still $1,000,000. Unless the value increases the investors won’t get a return on their investment. Often investment comes with conditions.

So no it’s not as simple as “just needs to stay stable”
Unclear if related, but the Terraform Registry is also having issues serving data: https://status.hashicorp.com/incidents/jypswvyh0h3z.

In a wonderful twist, we are relying on a couple modules served from GitHub!