skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This can be very simple:

1. A bored male person opens the site and types the first thing that comes to his mind in the search box.

2. Website records this as a new search and suggests it at random to new visitors.

3. Curious people click it, interested to see what the site will respond.

4. Website notices it is a popular suggestion! Suggests it to more people.

5. GOTO 3.

I have seen similar bizarre (though not offensive) suggestions in google search.
My colleage typed: “how do I” and google suggested “how do i make my girlfriend hold her hand in front of a screen and pretend she’s a dinosaur”. (Or something like it). Someone typed it once, and if it is a random suggestion it gets clicked by about everybody.
I do not think we can trust a computer to decide whether something is true or false. These kinds of august deliberations are best left to the new Disinformation Governance Board!
TIL that there are adapter chips from HDMI to CSI, never thought that to be possible... might be worth a try for a project I have in mind. Thanks for pointing this out!
Most Euro countries have capital gains tax rate that's mostly flat and significantly under 50%. By the time the progressive income tax rate starts to exceed the near-flat capital gains tax rate, people start finding ways of converting their income to capital gains.
I love that there are people far more educated than me who are also paid to explore these topics.

A while ago I was pretty certain that gravity was emergent and was caused by Gluon Colour Confinement. Here was my incredibly naive rationale:

Assumption for the purposes of this idea that gravity is not an absolute, gravity is an emergent phenomenon.

My logic

Gravity around a black hole
Photons can't escape
Heavier particles and even molecules can't escape

Gravity around a planet sized mass
Photons can escape
Heavier particles and even molecules can escape

Gravity is not a force that acts at a distance (absolute)
Spacetime is being dragged into any object with mass (emergent)

---

We are not being 'pulled' into the earth
We are being 'kept under' by a shower of space time being consumed

---

What causes this 'consumption' of spacetime around objects with mass?

Gluon color confinement

https://gist.github.com/TheMightyLlama/135fd67eb0577c34093ca...
Their children's content is excellent, and prevents my kids from seeing ads.
There is no reason we have to pay for anything. Money is not a natural construct and is a leaky abstraction. Our ancestors built housing long before currency was even invented.

Public services are not a "natural monopoly". They are a deliberate political choice (that was paid in blood by the lower classes, see also Haymarket Affair for example). We could very easily make housing free for all, or just affordable (see also HLM program in France).
If I go to nl.aliexpress.com I get "neukende vrouwen naakt bikini" which translates to "fucking women nude bikini" which is the game-of-telephone version of "panties for sex". OP got a shorter version with the "naakt bikini" missing.
> Fossil fuels might have served as a bridge resource to a sustainable track. To date, this has not been seriously persued or attained.

That's why I'm pretty stoked about Germany's push to become renewable and sustainable in earnest (at least for energy), even though it's going to be brutally expensive, extremely difficult and the outcome is not at all certain (not quite the kind of move you'd expect from Germany, actually). But at last someone's giving it a shot, and if that gamble works out, wow. That might completely change our collective trajectory in a crazy good way. And Germany might just be able to pull this off, with its deep pockets and highly innovative engineering base. I have high hopes that a few decades from now, there will be renewables, storage, grid tech that'll make the current stuff look crude and primitive and crazy inefficient, like what has been achieved with CPUs/SoCs since the 80s.
and the lazy way to do this is via "panel" apps (on Genome KDE whatever). I prefer this way since it helps me switch between different modes (such as if I want to do something resource intensive).
Here is something I would like to get opinions on -- whether this is a valid historical viewpoint. Talking very macro here.

We (the world) have spent the last 80 years in a period of relative prosperity, peace, and general building up of countries' (and people's) wealth and productivity. Currencies -- stores of value -- have not defaulted generally, and as everyone engaged in producing more over the last decades (real physical goods and services representing raw materials and labor), we have accumulated all those years worth of output and stored value. Any properly operating controller of currency has to issue more currency as physical output increases (money supply, etc).

As long as there are things that do not grow as fast as wealth or people / population grows and are finite in supply (land, housing), that accumulated 80 years of wealth has to go somewhere, and we are seeing it go into rising prices of finite housing by people and institutions searching for where to put it. Everyone is actively seeking ways to spend / invest it for a return and not sit idle.

So much money seeking a return has exhausted the growth of demand for capital, and returns are pretty much 0% these days. (think of it as, how could so much capital all earn 10% interest like it did at one point?) And that money seeks out wherever it can find appreciation -- housing.

Gripe as much as you want about wealth inequality, etc. and debate/tinkering around the edges of who in particular has more money or power to purchase. There is no escaping this fundamental buildup of 80 years of postwar resources in the average person's bank account or that of governments and institutions.

Is this off base? Is my interpretation wrong? Are we just seeing the fundamental force of wealth accumulation manifest into the one place that it finds value? This is a long-term problem, isn't it, if we can't escape this truth? Especially for someone born today, who finds that everyone existing already has tons of money in the bank and you're trying to start on that ladder too, but have nowhere the same resources to compete for limited supplies of the hot item?
> The last few months I've started to learn Clojure. Man what a frustrating journey it has been !

I think calling this neuroplasticity is excessive. Clojure isn't trivial.

For a young person who doesn't know how to code it will also take significant time.

Knowing how to code means you have to re-evaluate/re-categorize a set of root assumptions which is objectively hard and there is not really a curriculum fine-tuned for your exact set of existing knowledge.

Maybe you're just more aware of the potential improvements you haven't achieved yet.
I suspect a big part of it is that many people who would have built a new house during the covid years (people are always building) instead changed to buying an existing (since building was reduced/restricted).

And if you build a house you're adding to the housing market (assuming it wasn't a teardown/rebuild) whereas if you buy it's just shuffling existing stock around.
Most recessions are over in 1-2 years. A 50% price drop in house prices won’t go back up that quickly
Which Uni you had the masters from? Would you suggest them?
To me, it's divide and conquer.
Almost every major city in Europe has the exact same problems. Or arguably worse, depending on your socioeconomic status. Where this myth of "European cities are great" is coming from I don't know, and I would love to know.

>Due to excellent renters rights meaning the majority of people rent long term

This backfires spectacularly once you realize landlords continue to hold the reigns and put up huge demands to avoid "bad renters". As long as the rights don't cover the entirety, landlords will continue to pressure renters in different, more obscene ways.

And in today's society, renting long term also isn't as great as people make it out to be, when your long term rent is a glorified broom closet and there's a great job opportunity a few cities over.
I like the APIs but every 90 days is too many lost users I bet. I think it would be nice if the renewal worked like this -> 1st permissions -> 90 days, 2nd authorisation 180 days, 3rd 365 days and then every renewal after that is a year. Would reduce churn from this by probably 75%...

Even better it would be best if it just emailed you every 90 days asking if you wanted to remove/continue with permissions and did token rolling automatically without the user being involved.

Imagine if you had to renew your account for Facebook every 90 days, I think they would never have built a business.
I obtained a MS in CS online from DePaul and I really enjoyed it. I got it as a backup plan as I wasn't working as a programmer at the time (but I am now a FT programmer). To be honest the course work felt like a glorified BS degree but it served its intended purpose.

Honestly I would love to get another MS in data science and/or statistics. I could go the self-learn way but I need the structure and accountability that is required to obtain a degree. Otherwise I get side tracked in my self-learning path ... SQUIRREL!
Similar or worse situation is here in Prague, Czechia, person working in Prague needs about ~16 yearly incomes to buy average home here, it's insane, see:
https://www.idnes.cz/ekonomika/domaci/praha-byt-cena-bydleni...
Also Czech National Bank just increased the base interest rate to 5.75% this week, you can imagine how expensive regular mortgage is currently.
Once on a kayaking trip, I experienced an angry bird encounter. It was a swan, not a turkey.

The lake was small and really muddy. The only viable path through it was through the small patches of reasonably clear water by the east side, but not having noticed that, I and my partner rowed ourselves into the mud.

The swan was large, female and obviously protective of her herd of cygnets, squeaking somewhere from within the reeds. She got real close and made angry noises at the kayak, waving her wings at us. She would swim away and then start an aggressive run at us, literally running on the mud, braking just inches away of our bow. We protected ourselves, the person in the front holding the row as a weapon, the one in the rear trying to frantically row ourselves back to clearer water.

In the end, we were towed out to safety by another, more experienced duo of our group. But I learned to never underestimate a swan.
As European - wow, that cheap?!

Though still with horseface management...
I don't want to sound negative but "I code since I was a toddler" articles are one of the main reasons I've took a long time to work on proper coding skills.

Being from a poor family we didn't had access to any kind of computer while growing up. For some miraculous reason I still managed to secure a good career around system administration but my coding necessities never went beyond simple bash routines. Living on the field you read lots of these stories about how marvelous it was when the author as a child got his first computer and started coding basic. And I thought... "I'm in my 30s so I'll never be able to have the fraction of skill of that guys so why bother".

I was in my mid 30s when I needed something and just started doing it. It was good and it felt good. It wasn't that bad. Why did it took me so long to start? Because everyone who writes stories about coding has started since they were like 10 years old!

Sorry to rain my ramblings on your story. In the end I have no-one to blame but myself. The article was good and interesting.
The average house price in south east in UK is about 500K and the average salary in the same region is about 30K. This is more like ~17x.
> Widely known because the token names were surfaced to users in error messages, so some common syntax mistakes would produce deeply unhelpful "Unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM" errors. Hopefully they eventually did something about it, but it was like that for years and was one of the many things that put me off PHP for life.

One can like or dislike PHP for a variety of reasons, but surely being put off it for life because a non-English string is exposed to the end user is a bit much.
Depends, if those fonts are used in a galaxy far, far away the angular size will still be small.
Well they certainly have lawyered up!
No, this low-high level axis is not really “permeable”. You can maybe get as productive in rust as in some managed language at the first time you write the program. But later maintenance will simply drop your productivity as any refactor will likely alter your whole memory/ownership model and cause much more refactor recursively. Sure, you may say that “but it will be correct in the end while in python you have to hunt down the newly created bugs” and you might be right, but it is not a small price to pay. Managed languages let you get away with many many unanswered questions that you have to meticulously answer in case of low level ones, and I think it is a fair tradeoff depending on use-case. But as much as I love Rust, I won’t choose it for some database-mangling web service.
Hilarious how your system gets more and more complex requiring more and more rules.

You’re basically taking a market that has an artificially constrained supply and trying to replace it with an entirely planned system.

Why?
(2005)

Follow up from 2008 is this: https://bford.info/pub/net/rfc5128-abs/
AT&T made it apparent that acquiring/retaining customers by being a decent service wasn't a priority. Instead they acquired companies to bundle like Directv and got on the government Firstnet corporate welfare scheme.
And the UI elements were all proper Win32 UI controls.
I learned to program on VB6, and almost peed my pants when I got ownerdraw menus to work.
I'm gonna stick with scihub to be honest
I see no mention of bandwidth pricing.

Some time ago, I evaluated the pricing for someone who was thinking of moving a web server from a traditional private server to AWS. It seemed that the monthly cost would be lower, until I looked at the bandwidth cost. The monthly price of that traditional private server, which included a fixed bandwidth limit, ended up being lower than what it would cost just for the bandwidth on AWS.
Not so bad for a machine, I once met a French Telco guy in charge of buying/selling minutes at a large operator who thought that "billion" meant "two million"
> he suggests that this new form of warfare is so civilized that it has reduced our incentive to stop fighting.

There's that and there's also:

1) A complacent and complicit media. Compare the amount of coverage of Iraq or Afghanistan to Russia in the Ukraine. There's no comparison. Afghanistan went on for a record length and barely anyone noticed. But Ukraine is embedded in the news cycle.

Along the same lines, the media (and the gov) conveniently rarely discusses costs - lives and dollars, nor opportunity costs (e.g., would the monies spent in the last 20 yrs gotten us closer to say nuclear fusion?)

2) Improved medical procedures. Soldier - and civilians? - who might have died from their injuries previously are now surviving. Are extreme burns and other crippling conditions that undermine the quality of post-war life civilized? Are taxpayers aware of these obligations?

3) And the most famous and powerful of all: The Military Industrial Complex. It's real. It's not a conspiracy theory. Yet again, most US citizens are unaware.

Simply put, you can fight and sustain a war without public approval. The answer to that is: Out of sight, out of mind. That's not civilized. Unless of course you believe 1984 was civilized.
> Palmerston North ... always high skill Jobs going and not enough people

? links to good job boards ?

I know several people (stem MSc / PhD)s who are on and off looking into migrating. They would come with around NZD 0.8-2.4M net capital from selling their current houses.
> I feel like you have cause and effect reversed there.

Perhaps you read "reversing cause and effect" on a blog and assumed it was just a very smart way of saying someone is wrong. In fact it has a specific meaning.

In this case the cause and effect I was positing was that Star Trek et al were a product of techno-utopian optimism. The reverse cause and effect would therefore be sci-fi producing techno-utopian optimism rather than the other way round. This reverse relationship does seem plausible since there is an unmistakable sci-fi influence on the outlooks of Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos and others.

> I think this especially stands out with your example of "techno-elite fantasies of colonizing Mars" as somehow being exclusive from solving problems on Earth, despite both being fairly beneficial to each other.

No one is saying that Mars dream-chasing won't have any benefit to real problems on Earth. The objections of scientists, economists and environmentalists are instead based on a concept called "opportunity cost" as well as feasibility and priority.

How much work have you done to try to understand the costs and physical quantities involved in terraforming and transporting people to Mars?
How have other countries dealt with that? In Norway, the cap you can borrow is 5x your income. This cap is total of all loans (student loans, mortgages, limit on your credit cards etc)

Not sure of the effect, but perhaps it has cooled it somewhat You notice certain "bands" on apartment prices. An apartment for a single person is capped at ~5x what a single person makes, then there is a gap until the next band etc. One problem is that normal people are capped, but someone with upper class parents can get help to win the bidding round by bidding just above what most people can. So it can feel unfair, at the same time one probably shouldn't be liable for that amount of loans as well. Dunno.
I get the feeling this is not meant to be implemented. It's a gesture
that has political value only. The UK can say "We blocked these
Russian sites". The author is taking it at face value as a technical
prospect. So long as ISPs nod along and say they are blocking some
Russian sites everybody will be happy, regardless of whether any
traffic is actually stopped.
Most mortgages (At any reasonable %) will require more than 10% these days... you're looking at 20-25% in many cases.
.. or go bare metal?
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I'm currently looking into this area (for similar reasons as you :)), these weren't on my radar at all. I'm EU based and flexible in what I'm looking for so they sound appealing. I'm curious what the "several others" you refer to are? I want to look into those too
I don't disagree - I do it, but rarely. I find it does seem to activate every single muscle in my body.
BBC documentaries are really high quality and not so biased as American documentaries.
It annoys me when people don't realize that just because Euro States are taxing at 50%, it doesn't mean that the US is cheaper. We're paying for the services that Europeans take for granted while someone else makes a profit off of these services. The US is more expensive and US citizens are getting less for their money.
Haskell and Rust both support linear types already.
I did the same! It fitted well with a career break I wanted to take, and it's been helpful in rounding out some of the more theoretical parts of my knowledge. I suspect it's viewed positively by some employers for some roles, but mostly not as positively as staying in a job for the two years instead. Not everything has to be viewed purely as a career investment though.
It's available on the wayback machine [1]

1: https://web.archive.org/web/20220329143949/https://abseil.io...
Can you explain what the cause of this sharp rise is? The linked article has nothing on that. It even feels a bit alarming without much depth. And is anything being done?

In the Netherlands, many investors, big and small, are buying up houses to rent out. Airbnb renting was a part of this as well. Many local governments are now creating rules, like, you have to live in the house when you buy it. Also, some taxes for investors have increased a lot. What is happening in the last few months is that less investors have bought houses and more have been bought by people buying their first home. The sharp rise in prices has been more normalized.

Still, there is a shortage of housing and the low interest caused over-bidding by people in a rushed market. The result was that only investors and people which had financial support from their parents could buy houses. Of course somewhat to their own detriment with paying too much and having too big loans.
> There is no reason we have to pay for anything. Money is not a natural construct and is a leaky abstraction. Our ancestors built housing long before currency was even invented.

As you note, there are other ways to pay for things than money. Whether it's "paid in blood" or other barter system, there is always a cost to pay.

> We could very easily make housing free for all, or just affordable (see also HLM program in France).

Would love to hear your very easy solutions. Affordability is relative. If you have more demand than supply (as we do with housing) the only way to increase affordability in real terms is to shift the supply curve. This shift is not free, and somebody has to pay for it. This is where the "omg it's so easy" arguments typically fall apart.
Creating an Easy Mode for Rust
No comparison of bandwidth? Often the most expensive element...
I did my degree online with a "day" job and young family. My kids were 6 and 3 at the time. But my job wasn't a 9-5 so I didn't have that burden. Also, it got to the point where the day after lectures were posted, which were around 9 pm to midnight, I would get up at 3:30 a.m. to watch a 3 hour lecture.

The old adage "where there is a will there is a way" is definitely true.
I keep hoping that someone would do something similar with Lua or Python, but I think that we reached peak OSS RAD with Gambas and Lazarus.
I know I'm gonna get downs for this but they could've just written that they want the degree for free, without doing anything that is required for a proper Master's. All in all, it looks like the author wants convenience and the cake too.