skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's household, not person income, which is consisting usually from 2+ people at least in Czechia

the problem with mortgages is that they should be heavily regulated long time ago requiring at least 20-30% first downpayment, cheap mortgages are just pushing prices for everyone including poor people, I'm glad for current regulation, but sadly it's way too late, my apartment in Prague also doubled value in last 5 years, which is insane.

I'm idiot, so I paid it in cash. I am also idiot, I could buy next apartment in cash again without being mortgage slave (I have savings roughly worth 40 m2 Prague flat currently), but nowadays mortgage slaves are preferred instead of people who can save their own money and stupid people happy with cheap mortgages don't realize these are just pushing prices up, instead with inaccessible mortgages prices would be much more stable and you would need to scrap money elsewhere but without greedy banks.

But there are good news, recently prices started to go down and need to be already cut, because they are even beyond of mortgage slaves already.
I flunked kindergarden PE.

Too many times, the class was supposed to line up at one side of the gym, then one at a time each kids was supposed to do the thing.

I was never good at waiting in a "useless" line.
In Norway the median income is NOK 550 920,- and the average income is NOK 609 480,-. The average price for a home is NOK 4 483 328,-. So respectively 8,1 and 7,3 times.
Maybe that 80 years of wealth in bank accounts is largely just a bunch of bs. Money is just an abstract idea we all agree upon.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/k/kondratieff-wave.asp

https://www.bridgewater.com/big-debt-crises/principles-for-n...
Surprisingly, it's a lot more radioactive than the bananas.

Pure tritium is 3.57×10^14 Bq/g [0]

It's being diluted at a ratio of 4x10^11 : 1 so the diluted mixture still has 1000 Bq/g, or four orders of magnitude stronger than the equivalent mass in bananas.

Of course, it gets diluted more after you release it into the ocean, but it would take a lot of mixing to get the water down only to banana levels.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium
So in this space, you might well feel confident that catch_unwind() is appropriate, although I still think the thread solution is more elegant.

I suspect in reality most of the problems this would catch in OSSIA wouldn't end up as panics in a hypothetical "Rust OSSIA" because of the different attitudes to exception throwing/ panic vs "normal" error flow in these languages and libraries - unless you got really happy slapping "unwrap()" on things when you shouldn't, but sure, it would solve this problem.

As to memory corruption - the problem isn't strictly "memory corruption" but unstable system state. If my underlying cause is that somebody's dubious Leslie simulator blows up when I frob the gain control on it too quickly, restoring exactly the state in which it blew up last time doesn't help me on its own. I need some way to say OK, that was crazy, no Leslie simulator until I save the project and then we can take it gently, which again is somewhere the thread solution is nicer.
This depends on on the language of course. In Common Lisp, a generics function called REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE is called. It's possibly to implement a method for this that updates the instance based on the new definition.

By default, any slots that have been added will be unbound. Attempting to access them will raise an error which will drop you in the debugger. From there you can then fix the instance and continue running.
Getting a MSc mid-career usually won't make any significant difference in your pay as a software developer. I've hired lots of developers and the degree didn't make any difference mid-career for the offer but your professional experience. For some niche jobs it might make a difference but for most jobs it won't.
.. we reached the point of needing AI to optimize the price, maybe bare metal is not bad idea :)
> I buy electricity from a monopoly provider in my area, run the government. Is that a market?

It's not a market for you, but it is to your provider. And it naturally impacts the cost that's layed upon you, whether directly through electricity bills or through taxes if it's subsidised.
Looks like an obvious troll but it's because you didn't take the time to look at job offers. It starts to really pick up. Even here in Paris we start to have several startups that pick it as their main language. And I am not talking about blockchain startups.
Such a great site. I need to find out what they used to build it.
Hardware acceleration in robotics news. Open Robotics, iRobot and Clearpath work up to create adaptable complement to the ROS 2 ecosystem, AMD integrate FPGA AI engines into EPYC processors, updating the CUDA Linux GPG repository key, Arm debuts powerhouse Cortex-M processor
In Ireland we've got a cap of 3.5X income (which banks can sometimes stretch to 4.5 income but it's pretty difficult to do due to government limitations) and that hasn't seemed to have helped house prices much (although it was iirc more to stop a housing bubble and crash rather than to keep house prices down). It's just meant that it's easier for investment firms and cash-buyers to outbid everybody else.
> aging makes you dumber in the computing sense at least, and also because brain fog creeps in more quickly on a standard garbage western diet. saying this true thing got zuck some pushback ten years ago precisely because it was true, and it's more true today.

As a big tech worker I find it insane that so much focused intellectual effort of my colleagues is poured into creating "metoo" competitor products and optimizing ad revenue. We finally live in an age where we have the necessary scientific tools to tackle the hardest problems, such as aging, and yet we mostly waste our efforts on rewriting a product that will be forgotten in a few years.

What saddens me most is pretty smart people who prefer to ignore the reality of aging and disease and feed themselves and others with various life-affirming copes.
> I mean you don't have to give it away if you think Google is storing databases of fingerprints for the lizard masters to track you down.

also you

> We leave biometric traces everywhere, all the time. do you cover your face and wear gloves in public? hmmmm...
"is this really such a strong animal? Wouldn't grabbing it and kicking/strangling not be enough?"

If you were savage and willing to kill the turkey, then it's quite easy.

Subduing a wild animal without injuring is quite difficult and messy
This is actually an interesting question.

- If you find £10,000 cash in the street, do you keep it?

- If you find a watch in the street, do you keep it?

- If you bought a laptop from your cousin Vinny for $50 and found out it was stolen, do you keep it?

In my country of residence, all of these are crimes (theft by finding / knowingly handling stolen property).

Obviously, someone could choose to keep their mouth shut... but that would not change the fact of it being a crime punishable by law.
In the end, we wanted a way to keep in touch with them and see where they were as they began driving and working. That's NOT a healthy reason to get a kid a smartphone, BTW. That's just a reflection of my fear and insecurity.

Yep, I went through the same thing.
Quite unnecessary. I’d almost suspect you’re not actually European.
Funny, Google Translate renders “扒饭” as “grilled rice”. Never trust an automated translation if you don't know both languages.
ok, I am pedandic, but they probably mean 'annual'.
>[+] It has 2 SIM card slots, something that seems to be impossible to get in the US.

The 6T and 8T has 2 SIM slots in their retail unlocked versions. T-Mobile 6T and 8T versions can be flashed to this config (but you will need to buy a new sim tray to hold both cards).

It's also pretty common now to see phones that have esim and a single sim slot in the US.
Hell, maybe an Italian goodwill in the 400's.
There's a very good chance that in whatever language you're using you're not testing remotely close to what you'd need to in order to reach parity with that of the rust compiler. It's very Dunning-Kruger of a developer to believe that they are achieving such a level of edge case testing.
Yea here in the SE prices have gone crazy the last couple of years, we're pretty much priced out of our local village now - if we hadn't bought 4 years ago, no way we would be able to now.
> if I had to pick one policy that was the Platonic ideal of stupid, the thing that has almost zero upside and also has the best ratio of 'amount of damage this is doing to America’ versus ‘reasons why we can’t stop being idiots about this’ there is (so far) a clear winner.

> We must repeal the Foreign Dredge Act of 1906. It says, to paraphrase, no underwater digging - to repair ports, or build bigger ones, or fix waterways - unless the boat doing the digging was built in the US, and is owned and operated by Americans.

…

> The direct cost savings (as in, if we did the current set of jobs cheaper and faster) depends on the current size of the market. If we take the 5% at face value and the 11 billion worldwide size estimate here, and assume roughly 50% cost savings, we get $250 million/year. At a 5% discount rate we can value that at about $5 billion, plus the benefits of getting projects done faster, and doing more projects. Already this seems to be approaching the 1000:1 ratio where economic interventions make sense, but the real benefits are in what you do with the jobs you wouldn’t have otherwise done.

> If the estimate of 1.6 million jobs checks out, we are already talking about single digit costs per job created, which should already compare favorably with third-world interventions even without any of the additional indirect benefits, of which there are many. The impact on inflation could be substantial even within a few years.
what is the interest rate in NZ?
Naver, a major Korean website, has its own MT service called Papago [1] which rivals Google translate for supported language pairs. One day it started to translate a URL to Amazon German to an email address of my friend, who is a member of the KDE localization team and presumably his address made into the bilingual corpus Papago used. It took him years and also a governmental intervention to realize the origin of mysterious emails and sort the whole thing out.

[1] https://papago.naver.com/
Raytracing From CUDA to SYCL 2020 via DPC++ (2021)
Are you quoting average income per capita or household?
Only good (original) thing coming out of NF is the first season of House of Cards and Bojack Horseman. Definitely never been worth a monthly subscription.

CMV
Indeed, it would be a tragedy if someone’s taxpayer-provided housing was insufficiently desirable that we must create a bureau to determine how much additional largess they should receive. That system seems likely to end well.
Not many people can actually do that no
VB6 had several positives but i'd put the "mostly live" (e.g. modifying the code while it is running/debugged) features it had - more a dynamic scripting language and less a static compiled programming language - rather than those you mentioned since Delphi and C++ Builder did those better (i learned Delphi just by playing around with it when i was a teenager in the 90s - i barely even understood English at the time, so i'd say Delphi was also easy enough).

> just give me drag and drop, and ideally a python backend

There is Boa Constructor[0] which is a very Delphi/C++ Builder inspired IDE that uses Python and wxPython for the GUI. Sadly it seems to be abandoned with the last release being in 2005.

For a modern (or at least still under active development) approach i'd suggest Lazarus[1], which is essentially a cross platform (works on Windows, Linux, Mac and a bunch of other OSes with Win32, Gtk1/2/3, Carbon, Cocoa and even Amiga GUI backends) open source Delphi written in Free Pascal. To see it in action, here is a video i made with it 7 years ago, making a 2D tilemap editor (the IDE is mostly the same, there have been a couple of minor changes but not anything big)[2].

[0] http://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net/Screenshots/

[1] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3JgeIUo1X0
> But to me the superb thing about exceptions, is that error handling can be done where it makes sense.

Not necessarily. With exceptions, it is easy to be a cause of error and just throw the exception, then expect up the stack to handle it. Which of course has no idea how, it didn't control the cause in the first place.

Forcing error handling as near as where error can happen prevents this.
# rm rm

# rm rm

rm: command not found
A lot of demand for housing (both to buy and rent), and in my experience (live in Wellington) a lot of the newer apartments being built seem very much architected with buy to let in mind, so I think renting is a large part of it, along with limited supply.

The government did tighten the rules a bit several years ago so that effectively (there are ways around it), you needed to be a resident to buy property, but I don't think that had that much impact (although maybe it would be even worse if that wasn't done?)
Not attacking you in particular but responding to a sentiment evoked by your comment, that I think is all too common:

The pathologization of everything is what's abnormal.

So, what happened? Guy went through some grief, had normal emotional responses, understandably reconsidered what's important and felt suffocated in a workplace as an employee, after facing the fact that his dad spent a huge chunk of his life in a similar situation and then was gone...highlighting how many missed opportunities there were in that retirement that his dad worked for and never got to enjoy. It's a completely normal emotional Arc to go through and I think it would be abnormal cognitive processing to not go through those emotions and thoughts in the face of an event like that.

Subsequently the guy probably found a new relationship and then, falling in love and he forgot to some extent about the depth of the sadness, and life began to take on a new hope, brightness and meaning and, like he said, he had a kid and that would have changed his perspective again... and now he's happy what he's doing and appreciative, and grateful.

Maybe him going through the trauma of losing his father did result in him making some sort of subtle internal attitude adjustments or discovering a perspective that ended up with him having more joy in life. That's one way that challenge in life is supposed to work.

Anyway so that's the story: the guy had a completely normal Arc and then what does society make it mean? Society (or the extent to which our culture pathologizes normal experience), makes it mean that it this guy's arc must be abnormal or the guy must be mentally ill or it must be depression.

That's the crazy thing. People come along and say, oh my God that's depression, or that's some sort of mental illness. And it's like, no it's not: that's someone experiencing normal human emotions and living for real in their life and feeling it and thinking about it.

The idea that normal is just a constant smooth tone of some collection of happy emotions and an upward trend and then anything else is like depression or any sort of reconsideration is some sort of abnormal, or mental illness kind of case, I mean that is the sick, crazy thing and I think it's a sickness, it's a mental illness, of our Society... at least the extent to which our society has a culture that views people's individual emotional arcs as abnormal.
..which is the real question you should be asking.

How do 'older' engineers stay upto date and avoid being outcompeted by their 'younger' peers.

Not the question you asked which even if you got answers you won't know if they're fundamentally useful till you're older.
No I think this may be off base (but appreciate your original viewpoint) but also correct.

I think for luxury goods like artwork boats etc what you say is correct, but what I think doesn’t work is property prices. There’s no reason for the majority of the world to be struggling with rent given all the advancements in the world. it is human generated scarcity that doesn’t make no sense except to existing capital owners taking advantage of the rest
Mmm...assuming current stock price already includes forward outlook of 2M additional loss of subscribers this quarter (-200k past quarter), but momentum is usually sticky
https://www.ft.com/content/c3b63a57-0d46-41c7-8f6b-c61d388db...
> HN has been surprisingly me lately in the viewpoints people are willing to say out loud on a public forum. or at least minimally a few vocal commenters.

Me too, except I conclude that HN has finally managed to somewhat pull their heads out of their asses.
Quite possibly, I found the blog post as a link from my ISP's post [1] about the topic and they seem to be doing the bare minimum that could be described as "reasonable". The fines seem pretty large for not complying, but I suspect all ISP's will do something similar to mine.

[1] https://www.aa.net.uk/etc/news/uk-sanctions-law-aa-and-domai...
New Zealand has built more rules. Maybe they should have built more homes instead.
In one of the former fediverse hype cycles (either 2020 or 2018...) I made an account on an instance that was not one of the main 5 ones and followed a bunch of people. Some weeks ago I looked at that account and literally 90% of the accounts I had followed had vanished because the instances _they_ were on went offline in the meantime. Honestly a little surprised the one I chose was still offline, as it's also just a random small one.

Yes, this is probably not so likely for mastodon.social or SDF, but still. It's just like getting a free email account at some random place, it could be gone every day.
Where I live (southern Germany), you cannot find a house under 600,000 EUR. The average net household income in Germany is around 43,000 EUR. That means that house prices here are over 16 times the average household income. Yupp, it's bad.

My wife and I both have university degrees, we have good and secure jobs, and our net household income is above average. But we have generally accepted the fact that it is impossible for us to fully own a house before we are dead here, even with the national or state-wide support programs for families (we would not get much, if any, support because our income is too large). Our parents don't quite get this. When my parents were our age in the early 90ies, my mother was a homekeeper and my father worked as a carpenter at a small company with a completely average salary. Yet it was no problem for them to build a fairly large house in a very nice neighorbood, without any financial support from their families. I remember we didn't go on vacation for 2 years in the late 90ies "because we now have to pay off the mortgage", but that was it. Their house is today worth so much (> 1,000,000) that it would be impossible for us to find a bank willing to lend us the money to buy it.

We currently rent a 4 room apartment, but lived in a 2-room apartment with our daughter for 2 years before because we couldn't find an apartment in a 30 km radius around our home town. The problem was not money - there was simply nothing available. For our current apartment, we were one of around 500 families that were initially interested, and one of 50 families who made it through the various hoops and obstacles created by the estate agent to get that number down to something managable. This is completely standard here. We only got the apartment because we were lucky.

At the same time, we are now starting a legal battle with our local district for a kindergarten place for our 3 year old daughter, which she is very clearly entitled to by law and for which we applied years ago. But their are no free places anywhere, and nobody in our local town seems to care anymore. Our local mayor basically said "well, sue the district". The people in charge at our town hall also regularly quit. The previous person, who has now also left, told us she cannot bear parents in tears anymore who scream and yell at her because they have to both work full-time to pay of massive mortgages, and don't know what to do with their children. Again, this is something our parents cannot even remotely understand, because the situation was completely different 30 years ago, when it was absolutely standard for a child to enter kindergarten when it was 3 years old. You just went to the town, asked for a place, and one was assigned to you.

The situation for families here has become so bad that we are seriously considering leaving the country.
The OODA loop is explicitly as you said

> Observe - Orient - Decide - Act

The "Orient" step is usually done inside of your existing mental framework (Boyd is pretty explicit about this, see the blue box in your linked wikipedia article).

Now if you are a great troubleshooter operating in your field of expertese, your "orient" step (and mental framework) might be sufficient to find and solve the trouble. Think an experienced engineer noticing some issues in a junior's code submission.

But OODA is not so good for solving problems where you need to extend your mental framework.

Your proposed:

> Observe - Understand - Plan - Do

could very well be a good approach, but it is not at all OODA, especially if the Understand phase involves a re-evaluation of your mental framework for the problem.

Hence all the "whys". You are questioning the situation and the way you think about the situation.
What of people who can’t or don’t want to afford to buy and maintain a property? Several times in my life I benefited from renting a room, apartment, or house (in college, just after college, after a breakup/move out, moving to a new city with an unstable job).

It would have been a massive financial burden and personal inconvenience if I had to buy/sell every one of those times.
My bank's website is even worse. They won't let me log in if I had the landing page open for 10 minutes before logging in until I refresh...
Bank credit creation has inflated prices leaving them relatively untethered from housing supply.
Low interest rates and not enough building have causd prices to increase, of course, just like anywhere else but there was another factor.

For some inexplicable reason they decided to remove the LVR requirements for lending in response to covid.

This suddenly caused a huge surge in ability for people to buy houses that were previously not able to.
What does an average home in Prague look like? Is it an apartment or a detached house, how many bedrooms?

In Eastern European countries, the quality of housing varies greatly, from cramped apartments in gray concrete buildings to elegant mansions. I wonder, which of this is worth 16 times annual income.
It could be mental burnout. But you could also get your blood levels checked!

Once in my mid-30's, I found that my mind wasn't as able as it used to be. I could write code fine, but as you, I struggled with learning new things.

It turned out that the hemoglobin level in my blood was low, so my head wasn't getting enough oxygen. The cause was colon cancer. The tumour had been bleeding into my colon for months.
Other causes for losing blood could be ulcer (caused by certain bacteria, stress, too much coffee, fatty food, other stomach irritants), or gluten intolerance (unlikely, but does happen).
I mean... you're extrapolating very hard. The results are not controlled for a completely unchanged lifestyle. Plus, the study specifically shows that people undergoing primary/mental care recover sooner.
Fantastic! I had no idea that was possible. Thanks for elaborating.
> Guess what, if you install a 10 year old version rust none of your code would not compile at all.

Rust was not stable in 2012 yet.

I do agree with your overall point though.
Wild turkeys abound outside the city (just like deer) - so I presume they've migrated into the city (or they're more noticeable now).