skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not wrong. Yes, the composition of our population growth has changed, but we've had constant population growth (more or less) for decades. Sometimes it runs a little ahead, sometimes it runs a little behind, but on the whole it's a remarkably straight line.

Our house building has always kept up with our population growth before - immigration isn't a sudden surprise that nobody could have seen coming, it's literally business as usual, and the failure to build enough houses for the entire population is a failure.

If you want to be a bit higher-level about it, government has pursued mutually exclusive policies (underbuilding and high immigration) and now the consequences are starting to bite. But IMO, if immigration had been cut, housebuilding would have been cut even further - house price inflation has been popular with the electorate, historically.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/281296/uk-population/
And here I was talking about consequential stuff, like helping impoverished communities, adding guardrails to prevent old-boys clubs and enable skilled individuals to enter fields without prejudice for “being black” or “being gay”.

Who cares about criticism over inconsequential stuff? Is it that difficult to care about impoverished people?

The meals for kids at schools is a “dei” program, and republicans axed it, well done! The repubs are also sending kids to work overtime and during the night, effectively gutting their future, and of course it’s the impoverished kids who will have to do that.
Where did they call the constitution racist?
Training object detection models for imgproxy
I built a site using D once, I almost forgot how instant websites could be.
What are you referencing specifically? I'm not aware of due process or other rights violations during Biden's term and am curious what you mean.
There is still some activity on the fandom wiki. So for any casual observer, it doesn't look abandoned.

NetHackWiki (somewhen around 2010 or 2012?) moved off fandom when it was still called wikia. It took several years to overtake the older wiki in search results even though the old one was completely abandoned and vandalized by humans and bots, and active engagement by users to change links to the new wiki location all over the internet.

Expect a marathon not a sprint.
Thanks for the heads up!
But that's what I figured, based on how they dealt with the other trackers and overlays.

I am planning to open source it (when I am at least somewhat happy with the implementation) but without any references to the bazaar.
It just so happens that it uses items with cooldown and similar systems that deal with burn, poison, haste etc. ;)

You can then bring your own items and play out the simulations and maybe your items just so happen to be based on the bazaar or maybe you create your own custom items based on lord of the rings or whatever.

Right now, the project's primary purpose is to be an interesting problem that needs to be solved and helping me learn new things.

Btw. your tool looks great! A shame that team tempo is against these kinds of community driven tools
French Court bans far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running for office
Sorry for the late reply, but I'm wondering if you can explain why you tip for delivery?

In my area, pizza delivery drivers (read: not DoorDashers, etc. I am not sure what they make since I refuse to use those services) make about $12 - $15/hour and get paid for mileage (usually between $0.50 - $0.62 per mile.) I'm not seeing a reason to tip them. They are making well above minimum wage in my State, unlike the restaurant servers/bartenders that only just barely crested $4/hour as of 2025. The latter is in a position to rely on tips, the former is far from it.

I ask because we don't seem to have an established "hard line" on when tipping is appropriate in the United States, and when it is not. This extremely fuzzy understanding is allowing companies like DoorDash, coffee shops, etc to under pay their staff by off-loading part of the cost to the customer, which makes your $7 latte cost $10, or whatever. It's steamy bullshit and needs to be shoveled into the bin.

If we had a hard line on when tipping is justified, we'd quickly see a change in the other direction. I've always felt that the hard line should be "if you are making less than minimum wage, then tipping is justified." That's it. No soft maybes, no washy-washy justifications.

That being the case, if a barista (avg $15/hour in the US) is not happy _without_ the tips, then they have two options: demand more from their employer, or find a different job that pays better. Either way, the employer is left to consider either raising wages to keep people satisfied, or doing the same just to keep people in the door and stay in business. The barista is, in essence, the face of the company. They do the work the customer sees, which makes them important to the sustainability of the company. Ergo, the company needs to put more resources in the barista's pocket to ensure quality work.

It sort of blows my mind why everyone else in the US does not think this way, but I have tried to dissect my own stance on tipping (from the standpoint of having spent nearly a decade working front-of-the-house in restaurants), and I'm really having trouble poking holes in my own logic. So, I'm always interested to hear other people's takes on why they tip the way they do.
Working on ARC-AGI (2). Trying a few different approaches including gradient descent mechanisms to construct programs in DSLs. Was really inspired by the recent differentiable logic gate networks work from Google, and believe there is a way to adapt it to generate programs instead of cellular automata rules.
To be fair, although important, these comment threads do not gratify intellectual curiosity.

If anything, it just depresses me (and yet I keep going to /active to find them).
I think you're conflating the desires of businesses with the desires of people.

Every local shop seemed to have a Polish person on the till back then and it was a real culture shock for most. Would they have been worse off if the position went unfilled? Perhaps, but I can also say as a then teenager looking for summer work I lost access to starter jobs.
I think this is like the 7th or 8th WhatsApp MCP implementation.

I really have zero understanding why people think this is something crazy. It’s not. It’s importing the official MCP packages and wrapping basic API methods with an MCP tool decorator.

You can even ask Claude or ChatGPT to make your MCP tools for you and they will write this same code in 1 minute.

I can’t wait until the community realizes that MCP servers are literally just regular methods with a one line decorator and these posts just get downvoted for being incredibly low effort.

It’s basically the same as upvoting someone saying “hey guys, I wrote a method which connects to the WhatsApp API”, that’s it, really.
Yes, people come and see all the workers and their various works.
If I find out someone pipes my chat messages into a LLM, I will not converse with that person anymore.
Well first, no it’s not a hard requirement that every kid has their own separate bedroom. Sharing bedrooms for kids is a thing.

Second, if you started your family with a three bedroom house, kids 1 and 2 (or more, with sharing) are accounted for.

Third, you’re ignoring the “on top of births” point. Those immigrants who need housing TODAY are ON TOP of births, and the number never slows down. That absolutely creates massive additional housing pressure.
The official unemployment figures hide a lot of detail, though. It looks like youth unemployment is roughly 3 times the overall rate, plus anecdotally there's a lot of under-employment: intelligent young people with decent degrees working minimum wage jobs etc.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotin...
I’m slowly (on free time) working on my first commercial game for Steam in my spare time, using my open-source 2D engine named Carimbo.

See here: https://imgur.com/a/e3Xo9Io

Carimbo source code: https://github.com/willtobyte/carimbo

More information: https://nullonerror.org/2024/10/08/my-first-game-with-carimb...
Starling Bank as the bank, and FreeAgent as the accounting software - it'll handle personal tax (self-assessment), corporation tax, VAT, and payroll. If you need an accountancy practice, I very much recommend Maslins - they'll provide FreeAgent access in that case as part of their fee.
Small houses don't need a signal that travel through many walls. Probably no roof and floor too. So you can trade speed for range and have no overlaps with neighbors.

Instead large houses need signals that go through roofs, floors and walls. But they probably also have a lot of family members inside, each one with their one, two or three wifi devices that interfere with the rest of the family. Maybe one repeater per room and 5 or 6 GHz would be good there too. 3 different video streams to people of the same couch could still be challenging.
The grades are explained at the bottom of the page.

Regarding Startpage, It's not mandatory to show the cookie banner if you don't track. Startpage doesn't track you at all, so it's grade A.

Wikipedia has that all the bad things happen to your account except for the tracking, but you can still use Wikipedia without using an account. I agree that it's a B.

I'm not familiar enough with Tor to answer that grade.
I'm curious about where you moved from to put your comment into perspective. Would you mind sharing? In understand if you don't want to.
It's even better in Italy. There's a law called Modem Libero (Free Modem) [1], thanks to that every ISP must give you all the connection parameters (for free) so you can install your own modem.

P.S. thanks, now I know why Iliad (Free in Italy is called Iliad) names their router "Iliadbox" :) that naming is not common in Italy

[1] https://www.dday.it/redazione/51863/modem-libero-e-ftth-tutt...
Does COBOL have undefined behavior and lifetime or aliasing issues like C? I have never heard that it does, but don’t know enough to say for sure it doesn’t.

Rewriting in C seems like a dodged bullet. Better for it to stay on older safer languages.

Most COBOL rewrites I have heard of went to Java, a safe language.
Great idea - although the website is struggling with comment SPAM https://edit.tosdr.org/points/10493
Tips for a Better Conference Experience (2023)
The way to absolute dominance of WhatsApp with the Normies has't been sufficiently analyzed, I reckon.
Somehow, WhatsApp managed to become extremely popular and heavily used by people who have trouble switching on a desktop pc. Even senior citizens have no trouble using it.

Is it because they have a high motivation to use it? The UI / UX of WhatsApp surely isn't great, I'd even say it's quite bad. Where am I wrong? What am I not seeing?
Right-Size Your RESTful API: More Flexibility Without GraphQL
Not OP but there are a few open source options. GNU cash is friendlier for beginners due to the GUI. I like plain text accounting, specifically beancount.

As far as integrations, GNU cash lets you import from various formats like quicken while beancount has lots of plugins from the community like importers for various banks. I don’t believe either offer invoicing but you could integrate it yourself or just manually record.

IMO, the hardest part of keeping your own books is learning double entry accounting.
You can get an objectively good but objectively useless qualification by studying hard. The trick is to pick something not objectively useless. My daughter did and jumped into a high salary job straight away.
> but my experience with people with great material wealth is very different and not easily generalizable.

Same here, just FYI. There's a reason that I couched it in terms of "I have seen..."

I know multimillionaire high-school dropouts, and dirt-poor people with multiple advanced degrees from Ivy-league universities.

But the community of which I'm a member, stresses the importance of getting our own house in order, before looking to others, so people with means can do a lot of good (or harm).
You know why: MCPs are still a hot topic, and WhatsApp is ubiquitous (unfortunately).
It will become your problem
I do hate the long form filler. Are there a lot of people that will only consume information if there is a huge article around it? I'm not saying I like tldr either, but there's an optimal middle ground somewhere.
Fyi the three dots menu popover for the documents opens up mostly off screen to the right.

Firefox android
There are two competing approaches to secure DNS.

1. DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC).

2. DNS over HTTPS (DoH)

Both are kind of works but it seems that second approach is more practical, because it does not require reconfiguration of the billions of servers and just requires modification of client software which is usually easier to implement for software vendors.
I mean, leave aside whether today is uniquely bad (I doubt that it is although I'm sure it's worse in some ways and better in others). But, I'm pretty sure young people of most eras have worried about work and money more than cultural conflict or macro global concerns.
I definitely had cassette based games on the TRS-80, but most of the "wireless" transmission in my youth was via BASIC printed in the back of computer magazines. You had to type in the entire app yourself. I did this for basically every app they listed. Sometimes it was like tax prep software, but I didn't care, even though I was like 9 at the time. Yes, it took a very long time. Yes, you could easily introduce typos and bugs.
I agree, but Luigi only killed one. The insurers murder many and by default torture the entire country constantly. The reason Luigi exists as a positive figure in our zeitgiest is because government is captured by industry and doesn't represent the will of the voting public.
You will need 2. BUT, and here is the rub. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

I am hoping Jevon will keep employing me. He has been a great boss for the last 25 years TBH.
Also

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43372271 ("Is our universe trapped inside a black hole? This JWS Telescope discovery (space.com)", 56 comments)
I guess you are not being serious, but obviously, they come for the usual sorts of attractions offered by large cosmopolitan international cities. London has its flaws, but to describe it as a “work camp” is just completely divorced from reality.
Who is delusional here? Dulles did explicitely support political murders. It maybe was a different time, but without other evidence what would make you suggest that this isn't in a realm of possiblities?

This was and perhaps still is the modus operandi of some public figures. To ignore it is strange at least.
there was "live streaming" of concerts over special phone lines in the early/mid 1960's
and sending photos over a dot matrix phone line system in the late 1940's
first "drone" flight of an unmaned aircraft, steered by radio control was in the late 19teens
old technical books and album covers, reveal the oddest stuff...
so we are kind of living in an "alternate history"
where everything that could of happened, actualy is happening, all at once, right now
A tool for using Python in OpenSCAD:

https://pythonscad.org/

to make DXFs and G-code:

https://github.com/WillAdams/gcodepreview

The next big step is a house-cleaning one, need a vendor-agnostic system for numbering tools:

https://forum.makerforums.info/t/what-tooling-are-folks-usin...

Been learning a lot in the process: brushed up on trigonometry and so-forth using _Make:Geometry/Trigonometry/Calculus_[1] and various other books, some of which I am still reading through; lots about programming, esp. useful was John Ousterhout's _A Philosophy of Software Design_[2] and the next stages are Bézier curves/NURBS, a system for single line fonts (which may get extended into an interactive METAFONT programming system), and a mastery of conic sections _and_ algorithms sufficiently efficient that the 1" x 2" x 1" test case which took ~18 minutes to calculate on an i7 and which generated a ~127MB toolpath file can be done a bit more reasonably.

The big thing it makes me thing about is whether I should try to get a Master's and then go on to get a PhD (but that's a hard sell w/ the finance committee when I'm 59 and still making house payments).

1 - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58059196-make https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123127774-make https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61739368-make

2 - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39996759-a-philosophy-of...
While I agree that many organizations, families, and communities don't have strict direct, one-person-one-vote democracies, I do think countries that have more democratic governance tend to have behaviors that are more involved and participatory and not strictly top-down command-and-control hierarchies.

For example:

> Families don’t function democratically-the parents negotiate things between themselves and the children don’t really have a choice in it until they get old enough to leave the family home and fend for themselves.

Not all families operate this way. If a family is choosing where to go eat dinner, sometimes the father (or mother) always makes a decision and no one else gets to choose. Sometimes the father and mother negotiate. Sometimes the kids are the ones who almost always make the decision. Sometimes the parents consult the kids and have a group discussion and decision. Sometimes there's actually a vote amongst all family members and majority rules.

I believe a similar pattern happens in communities. Maybe a little less so in companies, as they tend to be the most top-down structures I think in even the most democratic societies, and yet even there, I think there are culturally varying levels of involvement in the decision making process.
In the UK transfer to the last wireless transmitter in radio are almost always wired (ISDN or similar back in the 80s). Wireless repeaters were used in the early days of TV, but rare for radio
Why the hunt for reality is an impossible burden for physics
DoH is for far more than HTTP
I just don't agree with any of this.

This is a difficult time compared to what? The black plague? WW1?

This is the easiest time ever to be alive.

I would say on a 200 year time line though, the way the black plague broke the power of the Catholic Church, the internet has broke democracy.

The idea democracy is ascendant is pretty delusional IMO.

This professor is still living in the unipolar moment that has passed.
This is very cool but who is installing Win98 so much that this is useful?

That said I am all for this project, I just don’t know who would use it.
At this point I'm open to believing our Universe is in a black-hole-like structure.
That's a completely reasonable boundary. Privacy and consent are critical, especially when sharing personal messages or conversations. It's fair to expect that your interactions remain private unless you've explicitly agreed otherwise. If you'd like, you can communicate your stance clearly to others in advance, ensuring they're aware of your boundaries regarding the use of your messages with AI tools or other external resources.
> It's more important for them that they keep their sovereignty and not hand it to corrupt unelected bureaucrats

Joining EU doesn't hand over sovereignty, and the UK has now shown that leaving again isn't just a theoretical option.

Norway is already part of EEA and has to implement basically every trade related regulation that the EU passes (a veto is theoretically possible, but it doesn't make sense to use it if Norway wants to stay part of EEA). So joining EU would mainly only change one thing: Norway would have a voice and a vote in the EU.

There are other pillars of the EU, and Norway has some genuine concerns related to fishing and farming which have exceptions from the EEA. But I'd say it's really worth trading those exemptions for having a stronger voice in regulations around literally everything else Norway trades with EU.

I also disagree strongly that EU is a shitshow (even if there are many issues as with any large system). What the EU has accomplished is unprecedented in the world IMO. It strikes a better balance of what it does and doesn't legislate compared to the US federal government, and is arguably a more mature and functional political entity. There are some powerful things the EU can't do that the US federal government can do, but that's not due to any flaw of the EU, it's a conscious choice related to keeping the member nations sovereign.

Another comparable entity may be China. I don't think I need to argue that China isn't a model worth following. I think it says a lot that people in China arguably has less freedom to move/work across provinces than EU members have in EU countries.

The positives that the EU has achieved far outweighs the negatives. From the very big (managing to economically integrate a very diverse set of countries, without sacrificing sovereignty, and arguably securing long term peace in western/central Europe) to the small (pushing Apple to allow third party app stores and USB-C)
Working on (mostly weekends) <https://pluswhois.com> (part-time) – a tool to simplify brand name research. It checks domain availability, allows one to monitor taken domains, checks social handle availability, and links to basic trademark search tools.

If a domain is taken, it shows full ownership data with great UX — not just a raw JSON dump. Clickable links to social profiles, business info, tech stack, DNS records, and more.

Built it to streamline my own workflow for naming and branding projects. Still early, but already saving me time. More features coming!
The insurers are genocidal torturers who exploit everyone who's forced to interact with them. They're backed by all law enforcement.
> This preferred direction of spin might be due to one of two reasons: either our entire universe exists in a black hole, or astronomers have been measuring the universe’s expansion incorrectly

This is the subtitle of the article. It’s such a great summary!
> The former is a bubble that eventually collapses

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. There's lots of incentives from everyone involved (all the way up to the government itself) to ensure this bubble never collapses, bending the rules and everything else around it if necessary - not too dissimilar to how the speed of light remains a static constant regardless of an observer's own speed, with space and time adjusting around them as needed to ensure this.
The Best AI Model Doesn't Run on Nvidia Chips
Now if only we could see inside a black hole.
So lovely. Thanks. Now i can answer all my friends and spouse immediately instead of ghosting them for days.
> Anytime Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, or anyone else announces another AI bit barn, a juicy power purchase agreement usually follows. Meta's mega DC being birthed in the bayou was announced alongside a 2.2GW gas generator plant — so much for those sustainability and carbon neutrality pledges.

Ouch, I grew up where Meta created its first data center and while it is very efficient (https://engineering.fb.com/2011/04/14/core-infra/designing-a...) I remember a more recent article about how they are zero net emissions (https://tech.facebook.com/engineering/2021/11/10-years-world...). I wonder if they have kept that in this AI rush (along with most of the datacenter companies).

EDIT: a direct link to net zero for Meta: https://tech.facebook.com/ideas/2020/9/facebooks-path-to-net...
Thanks for sharing. I watched some of canbus video and came back to say it looks really interesting. I am building a prototype diesel electric autonomous vehicle for farm applications at the moment so the videos are somewhat relevant to me.
BPF Performance Tools by Brendan Gregg
I'm not proficient in Rust, but API wise I'd conceptually define types like f32xn or f32s, which have the number of elements that fit into a vector register for your target architecture, so 4 for NEON/SSE, 8 for AVX and 16 for AVX512.

I can recommens lookig at the highway library: https://github.com/google/highway