skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of the cost of housing absolutely does not come from land except in massively overpopulated cesspits. Proof: a 1600 sq foot single family home on an acre of land is going for approximately $350k here currently. At current land valuation $30k of that is the lot. I live 15 minutes away from one of Apple's satellite offices so we aren't talking a ghost town in Nevada either. Cities suck, as does the expectation that everyone crowd into one.
A charge cycle is a charge cycle, regardless. The wear and tear that occurs during is cumulative and doesn't just magically disappear when restricted to a certain level of battery depletion.
Let’s not exaggerate here. I’ve been to Golden Gate Park many times in recent months and it is bustling with activity. It’s also a massive area. People are not scrambling over encampments or wading through needles to access most public spaces in the city (though there are certainly some hot spots).
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. What you are saying is correct.

Now yes, society can make laws about private information to reduce the spread, like GDPR, but fundamentally that just stops the data spreading (a bit). The root data is no longer "private" - it's just shared with fewer people.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43066953
A list of online services to regain control over your privacy online
I don't think that's right.
That is indeed a serious suggestion, and an absolutely correct one.

Transparency is a dependency of trust. Neither Google, Apple, nor Microsoft are transparent about the software they offer, the data that software collects, or how they use the data collected. They are in fact quite opaque about all of those things. The only assurance of privacy they offer is their word.
I'm a zoning reform person. I believe that increasing the supply of housing will reduce homelessness. But I have evidence to support my belief that it won't resolve the problem of people shooting up in the CTA vestibules, because I know many of those people have been offered secure housing and refused it.
> I believe Collins is the standard dictionary that British people use

And you would be wrong. They've only been putting out a dictionary since 1979. OED[0] is The Dictionary in the UK, and I've quoted its take on it in an adjacent comment.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary
> ethically hazardous

What's the ethical hazard here? The ethical hazard of inadvertently torturing limitless miserable slaves is a thing, but I'm not sure what the hazard is in this misleading about economic value extraction. Would someone miss out on money or something?
> If you want something private, keep it private

The point is what one wants or needs to keep private can change day to day. Tracking womens' menstrual cycles was a joke in The Office under Roe v. Wade. Today, it's much more serious.
Henrik has a blog post about a SAR radar he made from a couple years ago that goes into a bit more detail about how it works https://hforsten.com/synthetic-aperture-radar-imaging.html
I use my own CSS to override the default look.

I added thumbs up emoji for voting, book emoji for read comments, larger user names, larger headers, and dark color scheme.

https://postimg.cc/f3nmR6DG

https://pastebin.com/zeXGi4WQ
Maybe they view it as offering to their god
I'm all for things to start using SRV records as well!
> I'm not sure how a date in the format YYYYMMDD can have an epoch of 1601.

IBM mainframe Cobol contains builtin functions which convert between YYYYMMDD strings and integers - and 1601 is the epoch they use for that integer representation. I assume the person you were replying to was talking about this fact, just stating it somewhat confusingly

> The epoch for a year YYYY is 1* BCE (since there is no year 0).

Well, there is a year 0 in astronomical year numbering. One can say that 0 CE = 1 BCE and -1 CE = 2 BCE and more generally n BCE = -(n-1) CE for all integers n > 0. Maybe “0 CE” is incorrect per a strict definition of “CE”, but it is correct if we define it less strictly

> * You're not really supposed to use dates < 1582 in ISO 8601 though without prior agreement though it's meaning isn't really defined.

There’s really only two choices: proleptic Gregorian, or Julian. I don’t know why ISO 8601 doesn’t just mandate proleptic Gregorian with astronomical year numbering. But I suppose in the rare cases a computer system needs to represent pre-1582 dates (such as historiography), Julian is the norm. I suppose they could extend the syntax to specify which calendar is being used

> Edit: There do exist standards that default to 1875-05-20 when there's a null date however (GIS-related), but I've not seen anything that suggests the SSA uses it.

Do you know which ones specifically? Would be interested to know this
I had no idea the extent that Kobos allow you to do these sort of things. Heavily considering a Kobo as my next e-reader once my PW3 gives ups. Is there a good starting resource for Kobo modifications like you mentioned?
>”A Trump administration official said DOGE personnel needed IDRS access because DOGE staff are working to “eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse, and improve government performance to better serve the people.”

My bet is that these people think they can feed all this data to a magic AI and presto, out comes a list of “waste, fraud, and abuse.” Otherwise you’d need trained auditors, which the IRS already has.
What a shit show.
4o is going to be better for a straight up factual question

(But eg I asked it about something Martin Short / John Mulaney said on SNL and it needed 2 prompts to get the correct answer..... the first answer wasn't making anything up it was just reasonably misinterpreting something)

It also has web search which will be more accurate if the pages it reads are good (it uses bing search, so if possible provide your own links and forcibly enable web search)

Similarly the latest Anthropic Claude Sonnet model (it's the new Sonnet 3.5 as of ~Oct) is very good.

The idea behind o3 mini is that it only knows as much as 4o mini (the names suck, we know) but it will be able to consider its initial response and edit it if it doesn't meet the original prompt's criteria
SF park workers are closer to 120K from those I know. A lot of labor intensive hand weeding because the city shuns herbicide. However, this is less than the median SF city employee, which makes 150k

https://opengovpay.com/employer/ca/san-francisco
The whole point of open source is that people who rely on the software will contribute to it. The tech giants all definitely rely on Linux; without it their businesses would not exist. They hire engineers by the hundreds to ensure that Linux does exactly what they need it to do. They are cooperating to maintain and improve Linux purely out of self–interest, but in so doing they benefit everyone simultaneously.
Nice story. Thank you share. For years, I struggled with the idea of "message passing" for GUIs. Later, I learned it was nothing more than the window procedure (WNDPROC) in the Win32 API. <sad face>

> However I wasn't sure how to improve further without help, so my mom found me an IT school.

This sounds interesting. What is an "IT school"? (What country? They didn't have these in mine.)
I've used drum brakes in older cars and motorcycles, and their stopping power is terrible, fade is terrible, and they are horrible in the rain.

The only recent cars I've had with drum brakes used them for the parking brake. They tended to corrode and not work well. Also, as an emergency brake even with a pedal you could push hard on, they were beyond terrible, even dangerously ineffective.
the future of colors!
Probationary employees are fired afaik without any severance, as they are not yet covered by worker protections.

Even those who do accept the “buyout” may be unpleasantly surprised in March with the looming government shutdown and corresponding lapse in appropriations.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-firing-probation-workforce-...
Yes I am too. I have no problem with them entering at least facially. I'm saying if we're to provide for them I see even more cost effective options in areas Venezuelans can reside in.
Sadly they're already coming after judges: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/16/impeachment-judges-republic...
My comment was just to help people like me, not smarty pants.
Then don't use words you don't understand fully? Seems stupid to me to use a whole culture as your "aesthetic".
I agree on rockets.

I'm more hopeful about centripetal launchers (can run on electricity). The first prototypes seem promising.
What are the use cases for it beyond the regular .1 address that you dont get from ::1?
Did some preliminary searching and couldn't find anything, what incident are you referring to?
Something about the East African runners is just built differently to excel in endurance running. Probably a combination of genetics and training.
And what about Elon’s tax returns?
HSLuv – Human-Friendly HSL
Speaking as someone who’s pretty happy with his still-working DX — and values hardware longevity — this is half the issue precisely.

(the other half of course being what happens when material is pulled when it’s only cloud-resident and vendor administered)
> Is this not only reductive reasoning

Maybe. Reductive reasoning is usually a good idea.

> devils advocating

No.

> functionally an artefact of the US health system economics?

So what? If and when you manage to fix the US health system for the working poor then it might become reasonable to provide free healthcare to the disruptive homeless, sure. But until then it isn't.
I agree. Also:

> Ctrl+R (instead of up arrow),

Or bind <up> to <reverse-history-search>.
I've used a Mac and linux for 20+ years and never knew about this. Maybe coming to OS X from linux meant I never bothered to ask the official way to set a path.

How did you find out about it? This feels like a hidden secret.

Is that directory maintained across OS updates?
I like this comment:

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There was a time when data structures were made to fit purpose, not compilers. Having a look at the subject, shows clearly the constrains for valid dates:

Social Security was introduced in 1935.
To be eligible for benefits one had to
pay in at least 40 quarters, that's 10 years
be at least 65 years old

This means the first regular beneficiaries of social security payments were 65 in 1945, aka of the 1880 cohort. Virtually noone participating in this system can be born before 1880. Anyone older will not most likely not be a beneficiary, and anyone younger (aka still paying in) will be, well, younger.

So add another 5 years for wiggle room and we end at a nice round 1875 as earliest year for any birthday to be recorded.

A perfect rational base for a date entry, isn't it?

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The "COBOL doesn't work like that" comments are missing the forest for the trees: This is a very old system with bespoke coding to match legislation, not legislation to match compiler default behaviour.

Fundamentally, unless a government employee that has worked directly on this codebase speaks up, we're all just guessing.
However, the MUMPS programming language (which is still commonly used in various medical stuff) does use December 31, 1840 as its epoch. (It doesn't have a separate date type, but it does have date-handling functions which operate on numbers and use this as the epoch.)
Thanks. I've used oauth2-proxy with NGINX. So I could try to set up oauth2-proxy with Caddy in a similar way.
To me Milei is worse because he should know better with his background in economics. Argentina is also a relatively big user of crypto due to their currency being worthless, crypto actually has utility there [1]

Trump has been licensing his name to anyone who asks for decades.

[1] https://www.econtalk.org/devon-zuegel-on-inflation-argentina...
if THIS comment isn't satirical then truly and honestly you should lay off the propaganda pipe.
Social Security started paying out in 1940: https://www.proquest.com/docview/146227490?sourcetype=Histor...

With anyone 65 years or older eligible to start receiving checks.

The 1875 date almost certainly comes from that. I wouldn't be surprised if someone set it as a default for anyone they didn't have a birth date for because you could safely assume someone was older than that if they were receiving social security when it first started _or_ because there are some of those initial payments that truly were never discontinued.
20 kms in 57 mins??? goddamn that is like a km every 3 mins and that too on a sustained run.
Thanks for the background! It leaves me confused since this is marketed for internet lovers yet the connection to a love for the internet isn’t answered. For instance, I see a bunch of Cat6 cable colors as your choices, or perhaps you could’ve selected a ranked collection of the most popular colors used on the internet, or even the colors for best legibility on digital screens. Where’s the connection, what in particular should fans of the internet be drawn to about your particular palette?
I'm confused by the usage of the word color scheme.

To me a color scheme is something like monokai. A small number of colors that go well together. The application (eg syntax highlighting in a code editor) is obvious and easy. This is just...lots of monochrome colors? How would I use this? Not trying to be dismissive, I'm just confused.
The purpose of buying a coin like $TRUMP is not to make money. It is to help Trump. You expect to lose money because the entire goal is to transfer money to Trump.

You and the New York Times seem to have misunderstood this important point.
Wow, that is honestly nothing short of superb, the 3D is a nice touch.
Trivializing other people's concerns and worries is not the best way to get their help - even when priorities are pretty clear. It is very similar to trivializing "oh you shouldn't be an addict in the first place"

We are dealing with humans here, and all of them, including the homeless and people complaining about views, make up our society.
For paying out money it is likely a legal requirement, it sounds like it is advertising revenue this person is cut off from. Google's methods are idiotic here, especially since they seem perfectly willing to share other proof of identity.
In JS, there is == and ===

Some are more equal than others.
Change continent.
It was sad the day I left, but one continent between me and my family was actually healthy.
>> Several hundred employees have been impacted with messages being sent from an ‘exec order’ Microsoft email address, not an official .gov email address.

Can I register doge_exec_official_genuine_super_real_orders@hotmail.com and start firing government staff too?
I agree. A color scheme website should do color schemes right. Beside the white background, why colors are the same in light and dark mode?

A well thought out color palette should have light, dark and low/high contrast variants.
It... really doesn't seem like a lot of effort and thought. I feel like anyone who's implemented a command algebra for anything is already halfway there.
> The implementors* of the SS system chose 1875 as the epoch date for reasons

The problem is we have no solid evidence that is actually true. The claim appears to originate in an anonymous DailyKos comment which contains so many factual errors (e.g. claiming this is due to COBOL), it is unclear why any of it should be believed. For all we really know, the SSA code doesn’t treat 1875 specially at all. And even if it actually does, are these social media claims that it does based on inside knowledge of how it works, or just a lucky guess?

That’s not to say DOGE’s claims about 150 year old social security recipients are right - for all I know, they could be wrong - but, if they are wrong, it could be for some reason which is completely unrelated to “1875 as an epoch”
What do you mean by “without a lick of evidence?”

Every bit of evidence we have shows that what we call “thinking” and “consciousness” only arises in living things and depends on not just the “substrate” but the entire organism. Examples of sentience independent of “substrate” or an entire living creature: zero.

One can’t reason from that to conclude sentience and thinking can’t happen without a living organism — absence of evidence and all that — but so far all evidence points in just one direction.
was the post edited? I don't see any emdashes.
Not anymore. Microsoft dropped 32-bit support and there is no 32-bit to 64-bit upgrade path other than a fresh installation.
He's free to do whatever he wants, it's within the guidelines.

I also found his comment mildly interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(computing) (CTRL-F 1601) Also notice, no mention of 1875.

Also just search "CENTURY-DATE COBOL Epoch"

If you search "CENTURY-DATE COBOL Epoch 1875", it is mostly just recent entries debunking 1875 as an epoch.
The COBOL days since 1601 epoch makes sense. Now that I think about it, if those functions don't work with negative numbers, then I imagine even the YYYY strings couldn't have years before 1601.

> Do you know which ones specifically? Would be interested to know this

This is the only one I've found:

https://docs.ogc.org/is/18-010r7/18-010r7.html#100

Temporal datum with Calendar ... and with TimeOrigin omitted so should be assumed to be 1875-05-20.
From 2020, uses an external 250GB SATA drive over USB, and just tests simple single-file copying. So not terribly relevant if you have a modern internal M.2 NVMe.

That said, it has a very nice overview in terms of ability to extend and shrink partitions with the various file systems.
Can you update from 32-bit Windows to 64 bit Windows? Windows 11 is 64-bit only, so the chain might be broken.
Would be nice. If people collectively refused, the collecting of numbers would not happen. So nothing will change.
Most websites are like 50mb, my dude.
I have no idea what to do with this.
Google is not some black box. It’s made up of people. Are we so used to lack of service online that in-person service is now unheard of?
Again, I said a specific sentence, and I think it's the most important sentence to me. You have to be lucky to be witness to poverty, it provides incredible perspective. I undermine other's concerns about the unsightly view because I believe their attitude is immoral, and I have no issue drawing a red line there.
I'm very aware of these archives. They are very clearly not sufficient to train a model to interpret asl to the standards of corporate america. Let alone the standards of an arbitrary human. Hence my above post.
Looks like we both commented this at about the same time :)
This really sucks. Why is it so important to know someone's legal name, anyway?

They have to know his legal name, because they are paying him. His core issue is around monetization, caused by the personal info screw up. The "Know Your Customer" laws are a nightmare and are the root of a lot of this kind of horrible bureaucracy.
Heh.

I, for reasons nobody will wonder too hard about, have a downloads folder here with a few hundred Kindlebooks in .azw3 format. While non of them is quite as small as 91kb, many of then are around that 468kb size.

And they're whole goddamned novels that some talented author probably spend a whole year writing, not just single "small" webpages.

The modern web is insane.
It's very useful for cooperatively pretending that a single machine is actually a network of machines, without all the madness of network namespaces.

Basically every server program ever supports the notion of "which IP address am I supposed to bind to?" Normally the answer is either "localhost" or "whatever my LAN or WAN address is, for a particular interface". And specifying this (both for servers and for clients) is much less effort than replacing all the standard-ish ports with ad-hoc ones.
and SEA, please! :)
I did try the full text OCR from archive.org, but unfortunately the error rate is too high. Here are some screenshots to show what I mean:

- Original book image: https://imgur.com/a8KxGpY

- OCR from archive.org: https://imgur.com/VUtjiON

- Output from Claude: https://imgur.com/keUyhjR
Simple RAG pipeline. Dockerized open source
Hey guys, just built out a v0 of a fairly basic RAG implementation. The goal is to have a standard starting workflow from which to branch off and customize.
If you're looking for a starting point for a solid production-grade RAG implementation - would love for you to check this out.
I'm talking about HL2, not the episodes. I don't judge HL1 by what was written into HL2 years later, nor do I judge HL2 by what was written into the episodes or Alyx years later. Not least because it's common knowledge that the writers have been following the "Lost" philosophy of writing, making up shit as they go, creating mysteries they themselves don't know the answer to, punting that down the road to their future selves.

In Half Life 1 you start with a dogshit reputation and insofar as you gain any reputation with the NPCs its because you've progressed through the game to earn it. The scientists treat you like base labor in the beginning, then come to see you as useful, as a fighter, after you prove it. The soldiers start without knowing who you are, but after you tear your way through their ranks they start hating you by name.

In Half Life 2, all the NPCs you meet act like you're already a famous hero and there's really no indication in the game that this comes from g-man propaganda rather the vortegants and/or the black mesa scientists. In HL2 both the vorts and the scientists make a point of saying they owe Gordon a lot. The natural read on this, given the context of the first two games and not any later retcons, is that the scientists or vorts have basically deified you. Mossman talks about how she wishes she could have worked with you at Black Mesa as though you were not just a war hero but also a legendary scientist. What scientific achievements did Gordon have at Black Mesa? He pushed samples around and showed up late for work. What kind of stories were the other scientists telling her about you? Also Alyx starts hitting on you right away.

Whatever the plot justifications for it, clearly there was a commercial motivation of pandering to the player. It aged poorly.
You mean Google bought YT and then Google Video existed in a quasi defuct state via the videos search tab until it was all replaced
I switched from Kindle to Kobo and out of the box it would hard-crash within a few minutes of using it, every single time. You have to pry the case off and remove the internal battery hard reboot it. I sent it in, waited 2 months for a replacement, and the new one (with new firmware) does the exact same thing.

I despise Amazon as a brand but nothing comes close to the kindle hardware wise. Waterproof, indestructible, and never had it crash.
Thanks for the info never heard it before, it seems to be an improved 2 channel with 50 MHz version of the older ZT702S single channel version [1].

The Flea-Scope is only 4 MHz single channel so this more similar to the older ZT702S 10 MHz version.

[1] EEVblog 1597 – Zoyi ZT-703S $80 2CH 50MHz Oscilloscope/Multimeter Review:

https://www.eevblog.com/2024/02/07/eevblog-1597-zoyi-zt-703s...
I was going to say "a skateboard" but then I thought of onewheel which is basically skateboard by wire with an (optional) app.

I dislike what the future brings (normalizes)
i dont recall a single instance of someone on here calling it "terrifying" or even bad