skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For most people who own houses it's probably not relevant that the value has gone up?

If you upgrade you pay the margin, which is higher. Legal/admin/moving costs tend to be a percentage of house value, so costs are higher.

When you retire you might downsize and release a lot of equity, but that's not going to be true for most house owners (happy to be proved wrong) - downsizing is for the wealthy, if I ever downsize it will be to a cardboard box.

Most home owners will have children, prices being high negatively effects them, and finances tend to be somewhat shared (from 0% upwards...) so prices being high is a problem here too.

Maybe I'm missing something about the situation. I guess my kids will be happy for the money when I die, but it'll be easily eaten up by their housing debts.

So people without dependents; people who are very wealthy. Apart from those groups I don't really see how house value changing after purchase helps
What are you trying to say here? People shouldn’t donate or that donators love war? I am pretty sure people donating don’t “love war”. I’m pretty sure Ukrainians don’t love war, but see it as necessary self-defense against hostile invasion.
hahah are implying DUNE isn't historical non-fiction?!! ;) Thank you; fixed.
This is why we buy connector savers. Install them after pre-test inspection and remove them before post-test inspection. It allows the connector savers and test harnesses to eat the mate/demates while minimally impacting measurements.
The main advantage that I see in agrivoltaics is for the purpose of density. If you can get both power and food production in a more dense footprint, located closer to a population center, then that will be much more efficient for purposes of transportation. Both electricity transmission and food transportation get worse across larger distances.
Towards the bottom of this page there is a "join the queue" orange button that lets you control the camera for 2 minutes. So cool!
I tend to assume government employees are a cross section of the population. I don't care about the people, I care about the system.

If you apply the assumption that government employees are better or more well intentioned than the population in general then it makes the government's actions look even worse.
Well if you scroll up to my original point re: gas tax paying for roads, it's not really the same thing.

Because trucks also used more gas. EVs don't.
I haven't ever considered the self grading approach. Going to try that out!
Yeah I like the first book the most. The series went off the rails.
I do it in windows near daily. It’s slow, taking a long time to open and a long time to make them. I’ve tried using the browser, notepad and Word.

I’m surprised you find it fine. It’s more clicks and slower at each step than on a Mac.
China definitely prefers the status quo. With both countries’ rapidly aging demographics, a peaceful reunification might actually be feasible later this century. If Putin and Kim Jong Un are any indication, Xi is more likely to act if he thinks the status quo will be interrupted.
DPRK redoubled its nuclear program and shut down disarmament talks when Kim saw Saddam Hussein get regime-changed after he willingly cooperated with UN inspectors to show that there were no WMDs. They realized that cooperating doesn't get you anywhere and the only insurance is through nukes.

Now Ukraine, which gave up its warheads, is seeing the same thing.

And even Canadians are starting to discuss a nuclear guarantee.

Yes, we are going to see more nuclear states. It may not happen overnight but the status quo won't hold either.
Nice, but he totally hides the lining-up of the rear projector image with the main screen's image, which I imagine is a painful process.
People Are Paying Millions to Dine with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
We are experimenting with some design choices as we try to highlight all the IP metadata we have and move towards being an "internet data" company instead of just an IP location company.

I highly recommend you check out the page: https://ipinfo.io/myip

I understand the data we have for your IP address is not front and center anymore. We have gone through several iterations of designs for our homepage, so if you have any suggestions, I will relay them to our team.
> USA will not have a hostile cuba

USA will, from all signs, not only continue to have a hostile Cuba, but also create a hostile Mexico.

And that's even before considering the internal hostility to the regime that the deliberately-engineered major economic collapse--that is already happening despite numerous policies that will deepen it still being in the pipeline and not yet in place--will create.

The US withdrawing from international engagement, trashing alliances, and trashing its own economy may enable competing powers more space to dominate their own regions, but it doesn't do anything to strengthen the US's regional position, it radically weakens it.
Performance optimization, and how to do it wrong
The Tesla factory in China was closed for a good chunk of January and February to retool for the new Model Y. So a February dip was expected. We'll have to wait a few more months for accurate numbers out of China.

Which will result in similar headlines, I'm sure. Chinese EV's are super competitive, and Trump starting a trade war with China is not going to work out well for Tesla.
The success is that the Green party is now the biggest neocon and anti-Russia party in Germany.
> How about a car that doesn’t spend most of its energy on transporting its absurdly heavy self rather than the payload?

Precious few of these have ever been built, and none available commercially, as far as I know. The total weight of my family is maybe ~500 pounds. Any leads on any sedans less than this that can hit highway speeds?

Yes, I know EVs are heavier. Combustion vehicles waste most of their energy on the process of combustion. I ride a bike to work, which is the perfect vehicle for that application, but it won't work for this scenario.
States report measles cases as outbreaks grow
I guess it's increased/comparable weight + lack of gas tax. There's definitely something thrown off by EVs and the suggestion to tax charging EVs specifically makes sense.
China to build 'deep-sea space station' 6,000ft below surface
It's been a while since I've read them, but I recall Heretics and Chapterhouse being better than God Emperor. Although also weirder.
But we can make one(in formerly unhabitable places). That is the difference between us and slimemolds.
Where do you think the age of being allowed to enlist in the army should be?
Oh. So it can't emulate the game I probably played the most.
DARPA exploring growing bio structures of "unprecedented size" in microgravity
Then ASML gets Nord Stream'd.
Also protocol specific hosts:

https://json.ipv4.myip.wtf/

https://json.ipv6.myip.wtf/

https://json.myip.wtf/
How is that related to the comment you’re replying to?
The tools and knowledge for making music are already unbelievably accessible. Anyone with an internet connection and a decent computer can read about music theory, learn to use a DAW, and get some basic virtual instruments. The same goes for producing art, which doesn't even require anything digital.

This does not augment the music making process in any way, it simply replaces it with what might as well be a gacha game. There's no low-level experimentation, no knowledge acquisition, no growth, and you can't even truly say you made whatever comes out.

It's not a tool for music creators, it's a tool for people who want slop that's "good enough".
I am in group 2)
Well normally they're related (although Obama got one before doing much)
Show HN: Benlink – Control Benshi Radios (e.g. BTech UV-Pro) with Python
Hi HN, longtime lurker, first-time poster!

I’m excited to share benlink, a project for reverse-engineering the Bluetooth (BLE & RFCOMM) protocol used by Benshi radios—including the BTech UV-PRO, Vero VR-N7500, and others. It provides:

- A documented implementation of the Benshi Bluetooth protocol in Python

- A cross-platform async Python API for easy integration into new projects

I hope this inspires more folks to build cool apps! One project, HTCommander ([1]), has already reimplemented the Benshi protocol in C# and is building an awesome APRS/WinLink messaging app. If anyone is looking for a fun frontend project, benlink would be a perfect backend for cross-platform Web UI for Benshi radios. I'd also love to see Benshi radios supported in an alternative backend for the KV4P-HT Android app ([2]).

One part I'm particularly proud of: I built a bitfield serialization system inspired by Pydantic and parser combinators. It lets you define bitfields as Python classes with declarative types which automatically handle serialization/deserialization (e.g. [3]). It's super composable but still works within the limits of Python's type hinting system. If there's interest, I might spin this off into a standalone library.

Lastly, I’m proud to have actually shipped a working, documented project! Too often, I start things and never publish them—Benlink is me turning over a new leaf.

Would love your thoughts, feedback, or ideas for where to take this next!

[1] https://github.com/Ylianst/HTCommander

[2] https://github.com/VanceVagell/kv4p-ht

[3] https://github.com/khusmann/benlink/blob/main/src/benlink/pr...
The subway lines in Japan that are owned by private companies are still considered public transport.
It's such a great movie! The entire story of El Aurens is extremely fascinating.
Nixon would be seen as a woke elite in today's Republican party. He helped introduce environmental legislation in the US, and met with Mao to open trade links and counterbalance the USSR.
Ah yeah, I missed part of my response I think. I was trying to say that he didn't pass away recently, but maybe we just noticed it because the estate (or the executor) just started to manage this asset and left that message in the domain.
There's been a ton of inflation. Apple makes an OK but not spectacular margin on hardware.

These are for Q4 2024:

Hardware: 98B revenue, 59.5B cost of sales, 38.5B gross profit, 40% gross margin

Services: 26B revenue, 6.5B cost of sales, 19.5B gross profit, 75% gross margin

Look on page three of this: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/320193/00003...
Somewhat. They're still significantly more efficient than ICE vehicles. Regenerative braking adds 10-25% efficiency on it's own.

The study behind your article has this to say on the issue:

> The share of kilometers that PHEVs electrify results in a total of 15%–55% less tailpipe CO2 emissions compared to conventional cars. This is much lower than expected from type-approval values.

So certainly worse than indicated, but still better than alternatives.

https://theicct.org/publication/real-world-usage-of-plug-in-...
archive.org is not a US federal agency, and therefore the US federal government can't simply cut off their funding and fire everyone. What the executive branch is doing is highly illegal and there will be litigative pushback soon, but I digress.

Should we stop donating to food banks just because USAID got cut? No. These are the institutions we have, right now. Let's do what we can with them.
I didn't try reaching out, I just wanted to play Shrek Forever After (for a very random reason) and gave up after 5 minutes of choppiness. Like I said, there's probably a fix, and I appreciate that there's community support, but I simply didn't have time. Especially because on the PS3 side, this was after waiting a while for RPCS3 to do its pre-run caching.
Many writers of genre fiction rely on their audience having read fewer history books than they have. I saw people online calling George Lucas a prophet for depicting the decline of the Republic in the Prequels, but he really just read a couple of books about Ancient Rome. And dragons and zombies make the premise of "what if the Mongols invaded during the War of the Roses" a lot more exciting.

Originality is overrated though, so I don't mind. One of my favorite science fiction novels, The Stars my Destination by Alfred Bester, is transparently based on The Count of Monte Cristo.
That's what over building is. It also requires massive investment in transmission infrastructure because your core assumption is that power in one place get get to load in another. It turns out that transmission costs many many times what the generation does
> These are completely unscientific and unprovable assertions.

yeah, that's the problem with philosophy. It's impossible to escape the brain in the vat. But if you permit a jump a logical jump (the one I made in 2) The rest logically follow.

Science isn't required to prove or disprove something.

1) All men can fly

2) Socrates is a man

3) Thus; Socrates can fly

> I would say the judgement that suffering is bad and that preventing suffering is worthwhile, which requires “worthwhile” to have any real meaning at all would be the religious part.

I would go back and read my points again. The logical jump I'm making is about how, if you assume both people exist, and you believe other people have value, the ethical thing to do is improve the existence of all people.

This is a logical conclusion that anyone can choose to make or not. I choose to believe people have value. And I believe that my suffering is bad for me. And I believe their suffering is bad for them. And I believe that my actions can influence their suffering. I want to decrease my suffering, so the correct, and thus ethical way for me to treat myself, is to improve my quality of life, and decrease my suffering. Thus, the ethical way for me to treat others is the same.

Without religion, I'll define worthwhile for me, is just what I desire. Is that controversial? Are you not allowed to define for you what's worth your time and attention?
>I'd love to pick it back up are there other options here?

Higher compression. Scuba is older tech and standardized around relatively low pressures. CNG runs above 3000psi. Paintball guns run air at 4-5000. Carbon fiber tanks are readily available for both as are compressors.
Wiktionary claims it's a UK phrase:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/row_back
"Reading the room" meant "prostrating himself and kissing the ring", which might have been worth it if it meant actual guarantees, but it didn't. You said you don't believe there are huge deposits to be exploited, so what then is the value of a US "soft" interest in Ukraine's security? Especially when Trump could make the same deal with Putin so that he wins either way.

No one in that room recognized more than Zelensky that worthlessness of American promises of security. What value then to humiliate oneself? Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal on American promises of security, and look where that got them.

On the contrary, the display in the press conference did do some good for Ukraine. There was an emergency summit in London that weekend where the heads of Europe agreed to step up their support for Ukraine, increase defence spending, and to work towards total independence from the US in 10 years. NATO is now a vestigial treaty that's a foreign policy option rather than a commitment. Who's responsible now for pushing us closer to WW3?
It is a conspiracy theory. My theory is that big tech and government collaborate to surveil us all, sometimes willingly, sometimes openly.

All governments at all levels. Ever see a government service, office, or bureau talk of an app or show a QR code? That is a carrot for those who already use and stick for those who don't. Sometimes there is a paper form you can get and sometimes not. Do you recall all those covid apps?

Why? Because the government desires to know, for a variety of reasons. The US so they can watch your small payments. Europe so they can watch your speech and carbon footprint. Used to be so they could track you if you had a 1% deadly disease.

[EDIT] Evidence? Snowden's leaks and what I mentioned already
Valley forge area, but also up and down montgomery county, I've never seen a dedicated blood bank. If the hospitals are taking blood they aren't advertising that. The local Y has a mobile blood bank occasionally, but I've missed it every time. I never see blood donation ads anywhere except the Y (I would miss ones in churches and most community centers though).
> A few missed words which would've saved millions of dollars in prolonged admissions and diagnostic costs over the years.

I don't mean to come off antagonistic here. But surely the more important benefit is the patient who would've avoided years of sickness and repeated hospital visits?
British nuclear weapons can protect Canada against Trump, says Chrystia Freeland
The docs say, "one bit is reserved for the OCaml runtime", so doesn't that mean that one of the bits (likely the high bit) are unavailable for the programmer's use?

I mean, I understand "reserved" to mean either "you can't depend upon it if you use it", or "it will break the runtime if you use it".
Well, I create and know a fair bit about the history of music technology. Self playing pianos, for instance, allowed composers to write pieces with new complexities that would be physically impossible to play. Drum machines opened up for new types of music in the 1980s that would have been very unnatural for a physical drummer. In general, innovations in music come as consequences of technological advances and you cannot predict in advance how composers/musicians utilize these tools. The same is true for folk and classical music. The tempered scale, piano, various types of viola-like folk instruments etc etc. AI-generators is just a new tool.

I have used Music AI for what you describe, by uploading a track I have made myself and use diffusion on it with various genres, although I don't think that is the most interesting use case for Music AI.

Fusion is the most interesting use case IMHO.
Nice tool!
Just tried and results are way better comparing to invideo and others!
Generally, no. There’s a risk of unfair competition for work (they can delegate the stuff they don’t want because they have political power) and their code often becomes “untouchable” because few will call it out if the code is bad.

A hobby project to keep current isn’t a bad idea, though.
Bitcoin is vulnerable to 51% attacks, and before China banned it there were mining pools that were intentionally limiting signups to avoid hitting that number.

Then there's the throughput issue, the mandatory deflation, and a ton of other small issues that make it a terrible store of value.

Bitcoin is subject to far more limitations than folks normally consider and certainly does not offer more "self-sovereignty" than a pile of gold.
Those models aren’t in this database. I have an Nw-a45 and agree it’s fantastic.

Cheap, excellent Bluetooth streamer, forever battery life, and most importantly no mobile OS. The downside is you need to manage a library like it’s 2005 again.

If you want to ditch your phone addiction, I can’t recommend it more
Godel explicitly constructs the statements (which are essentially encoding a particular self-referential statement into logic). Penrose makes this more concrete where given an accurate, but necessarily partial procedure for detecting when a program halts, one can use diagonalization to show that a program wont halt even though the earlier process couldn't detect it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43257904

This construction is something that a computer can do, but not the original system itself. Once you augment the system, there is now a new statement it cant see and so on. (so on, here involves ordinals).
We’re getting way of topic. What I said is that capabilities in an extremely limited to ineffective tool for the end user to try to enforce their own privacy and security because it doesn’t offer controlling for the semantics of what happens. For example, it would be very hard to take a fuschia system that simultaneously allowed for the Google assistant feature and not for telemetry / Google storing mic data that was sent to them.

I’d ask you refrain from personal attacks. That isn’t a fair characterization of what I said. All I said is that capabilities fundamentally doesn’t solve the phone home problem in many real world cases. I also highlighted that there are very real economic forces that must be accounted for in terms of understanding why software is architected the way it is. And no, there’s very few applications that have a completely different architecture per major platform which is what we’re talking about with capabilities. That’s very different from abstracting some platform-specific APIs here and there.
Related: why are programmers racing to make the perfect AI coding tool? It's an activity many programmers enjoy, and more importantly, if the pace continues, they will likely be automating themselves (or at least a large portion of programmers globally) out of a job.

Granted, many people are benefiting from these tools (myself included) but at some point a lot of us are going to have to find a new job (assuming the progression continues unabated), and I'm not sure what new jobs are going to exist when LLM coders replace many or most of us.
I’m like this with Mazzer grinders. It’s a niche kink, but I’m addicted to them.

People claim they break, but I’m yet to find one that wasn’t fixed fairly easily. With the intention of selling, I sand and paint them. But then they are so beautiful I can’t.

Best are the models ‘Major’ and above. The air vents look so good. Who needs to grind 20kgs of beans per day? Not me, but I can do this 5 or 6 times over.
Right, the leftists are idiots. Now everyone is going to start a nuclear program and the world will become much less safe.
It’s a two-edged sword for Germany given its Tesla factory.
The US provoked the war, the US can finish the war. It is that simple.

Don't dump your wars and middle eastern refugees on the EU. What if the EU started a war in Mexico, drove 40 million refugees to the US, then left and let the US clean up the mess?
Putin ally against China? He's the one who signed a "no limits" friendship deal with Xi Xinping. China and Russia are intimate trading partners and they have shared geopolitical interests. Why would he object if China wants to take over Taiwan or something?
Never said it's cheaper. What I implied was that if the construction of nuclear reactors had continued in the 90s, today we would be in a position where fossil fuels would be a much smaller part of the energy mix.

In France for example the domestic energy production is virtually free from fossil fuels. [1]

In other parts of Europe, all the capacity that renewables provide has been offset by the shutting down of nuclear reactors. Instead of replacing fossil fuels they replaced nuclear. See Germany's energy mix for example [2].

[1]. https://www.iea.org/countries/france/energy-mix (See the second graph)
[2]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Germany#/media/File:...
My bad. Reposted. Link: https://jdhwilkins.com/mountains-cliffs-and-caves-a-comprehe...
Why I Hope I Get to Write a Lot of Elm Code in 2025
Making Ukraine part of NATO is just something Putin made up, not an actual thing.
Apple is now running out of ideas and releasing a 60hz 'budget' $500 phone with an amazing feature of having USB-C which is highlighted prominently in the ads. They fumbled the Apple Vision Pro with great hardware(except for the fact that it is heavy it really is top notch) being shipped with terrible software( little developer support for graphics). Apple is not trying to use AI grift to market its rehashed phones.
It had 6 hardware threads, but yes pedantically there were three cores.
Ah yeah you just reminded me of the rabbit hole I went down a couple years ago.

Yeah I had to flash the firmware on the Anker dongle, following this guide: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/dp-usb-c-thunderbolt-to...

I just tried streaming 4K through the Apple TV app on my M1 Macbook Pro and no issues, so I'm assuming HDCP works.