skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The boom in housing prices starting in the 70s was the result of the baby boomers coming of age and buying prices.

> when mortgage packages started getting sold on the stock market

That doesn't cause prices to go up. What it does do is make prices more accurate by reducing transaction friction.
> I decline to answer that question on the grounds that it might be used to incriminate me
We use it at www.cxplanner.com for a mix of micro/mono-services. Statically typed and good compile time combined with really fast code makes Nim perfect for us.
Unreal ][ by Purple Motion for the Future Crew Second Reality demo is my favorite of all time.

https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...
>and food

Perfect, so bake it into cookies.
Musk-hatred as a pop ideology is certainly one of the weirder ones. It's a baffling hybrid of conspiracy theorist, self-serving gatekeeping of engineering licensure, not-invented here extremism, technology "realism," billionaire rage/envy, angry politics, and a need to feel superior to the engineers who work at the Musk companies. Altogether, not a look becoming someone who is on a web site devoted to technology and innovation.

Look, it's fine if you don't like the guy or his companies. But some of the ridiculous talking points listed elsewhere in this thread are unhinged.
Palm OS was designed for the hardware of the time. It was very simple but ran well. Compared to Microsoft's approach of building a stripped down clone of Windows NT that barely ran on the hardware of the era. But in the long term Microsoft's approach was more successful because as hardware improved they had an OS ready to take advantage of it.

Of course, what Microsoft wasn't ready for was the hardware getting so good that Apple could just port their existing desktop OS and software over.
I think so, at ~50:22.
> If incomes were keeping up with productivity and cost-of-living

Something's got to pay for all that increase in government spending. With all the government spending and government pensions and all the people on the government payroll, sometimes I'm surprised the economy isn't a complete basket case.
Unfortunately, seems the author already thought about you.

> Do you just click different blending modes until it sort of looks right?

> Well, that probably won't change after you read this but at least you probably won't use Lighten or Darken again.
Some years ago, I had a dream about meeting someone playing a button box accordion which had a qwerty keybaord in place of the usual buttons.
> What will you do if I rob you? Who will you report this to? What stops me from burglary?

In yesterday’s discussion about getting mugged in San Fran, virtually every comment said “the police did not help”.
Rather more than a few. Managed to save a few, instead. Expensive lesson.
> Electronic health records of 2.4 million people in the UK from January 2020 to April 2021

I don't know when the UK rolled vaccines out en masse, but I'm guessing that most of these people were not vaccinated when they had COVID.

Also, if they're looking at records only through April, that means they would have had to have had COVID weeks/months before then, for the follow-up symptoms to be recorded by April 2021. That would make it even more likely that the people were not vaccinated before infection.

My understanding is that people who were vaccinated before infection are at somewhat lower risk of long COVID, so it'd be great to see a large study like this of vaccinated people.
The drug is know about and had published details how to test - https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do...

OPs entire point was the journey to find drug is what's interesting.

The fact they had not entered the known details into their database is not interesting.

That fact the Australians named CanKet after their capital is also funny. Because Canberra is a hole.

User review of CanKet - https://old.reddit.com/r/noids/comments/wv5q04/identificatio...
That does not really help here, right?
Hair loss? I must of had Covid 35 years ago…
That is unfortunate. You're probably not the first person this has happened to and won't be the last so it may be possible to file a class action lawsuit against PayPal for closing legitimate accounts and not providing a reason. If this is happening on a large enough scale then there is a business opportunity here by using DeFi techniques to make a decentralized remittance network.

I'm not sure if there are PayPal brokers but it's probably possible to use a blockchain to verify fund transfers and keep track of trusted and untrusted brokers. You might also just be able to create a volunteer network. I don't use my PayPal account for much anyway and wouldn't mind being a broker if there were instructions for what to do.
The response to incentives created by EU legislation were predictable. Are governments not responsible for the outcomes of incentives they create?
Walmart Still Doesn't Accept Apple Pay in U.S. Despite Many Customer Requests
I think you’ve assumed that I agree with tagging people for protesting, which isn’t stated or implied in my comment. I was commenting on whether or not their protest was justified or useful.
I think you’re trying to make a joke, but it’s hard to tell for sure (Poe's law strikes again). Your comment seems like a parody of those “you wouldn’t steal a car” PSA ads trying to discourage copyright infringement.

In case you are serious... Fare evasion vs. stealing library books are clearly categorically different. Routine health checkups should be free for everyone; the US profit-focused healthcare system is totally fucked up: outrageously expensive for society, outrageously ineffective, and outrageously unjust.
That doesn't apply in California or New York. I heard California is trying to bring back the grace period.
A nvim plugin which searches a file and runs a command on it
I initially wanted to quickly find and run tests. Just made that functionality a little bit more generic. Happy to share with the world.
EDIT: the version I pasted below is not what I originally typed into the site. I made several errors while copy/pasting and modifying the code to run locally without a channel.

It told me I have an error ("what happens at zero") when i do:

func below(n uint64, to chan uint64) {
for n; n > 0; n-- {
to <- n-1
n--
}
close(to)
}

but running that function with several test inputs produces what I expected. Note, I removed the channel (replaced with println) as that doesn't add anything to the problem.

Note: I've been programming (including C and C++) for 3+ decades. I make mistakes all the time, but.... what exactly are you looking for here if my solution is not ruight?

EDIT: the pasted code is also incorrect, because I didn't complete converting the for loop into a while.
And then there's RTK (I like to talk about https://centipede.fr ) that measures the offset between GPS signals and litteral ground truth and proadcasts it, enabling centimeter-level precision.

The more systems, the merrier, even if they aren't all accurate, you can use them to increase precision (kalman anyone?).
Someone mentioned multi band. You can also use signals from multiple systems at different frequencies.
become_programmer(Y, L) :-
forall(years(Y), learn(Y, L)),
make_more_money(update_resume(Y, L)),
true.
Took the words out of my typing hands! (Yeah, and I have kids too!)
> All DNSSEC gives you is a false sense of security as you merrily validate signatures on spoofed records because they're generated by the same people who own the DS record responses.

As opposed to the current system, which also gives you a false sense of security while being vulnerable to exactly the same .COM attack, but also to even more types of attacks?
A few years ago I tried Plane9[1] in VR. It does music visualization too and has a VR mode. If I recall the effect was not so much you were in it, but you could see it playing out in front of you. But there was depth and stuff to it. It hasn't been updated in quite sometime I feel.

Another one I tried is DMT: Dynamic Music Tesseract. It is designed from the ground up for VR, however, I feel the animations were more responsive than reactive, if that makes sense. The animations tended to go faster or slower, flash brighter or darker depending on the music. It was fun to sit in and listen to music with but definitely not the level of MilkDrop

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[1]: https://www.plane9.com/
[2]: https://store.steampowered.com/app/648890/DMT_Dynamic_Music_...
People often overestimate the universality of their tastes. Our sellers assumed that one of the first things we'd do would be a kitchen remodel, but we actually love the kitchen the way it is, and are just doing minor appliance replacements. Meanwhile what we actually did was new windows, solar, and a bunch of energy efficiency upgrades, which had been totally off their radar screens. If they'd gotten a different buyer it probably would've been a very different set of upgrades.
Your comment reminded me of a restaurant we frequented growing up https://www.waysiderestaurant.com/history/. Founded in 1918 and still operating today!
abxytg made a list of their experiences at Apple, but that list is empty.
Well our best emulator writer in decades killed themselves over harassment for being non binary via kiwi farms murderers (not the right word but nor is simply troll) so why risk the attention if you don’t want it?

It’s tough out there in the culture wars.

Rest in peace Near you magnificent person.
Very neat!

I haven't done a proper writeup yet and there's no retro-computing involved, but perhaps folks will be also be interested in a demo of my homemade accordion. (MIDI controller, technically; sound generation is on a laptop.)

https://youtu.be/4ZueoLaISdw
I would imagine many more satellites to choose from.

(I'm uncertain, lower orbit might give you more satellites, but I don't know how many would be in view - many more or fewer)
It seems you missed the gist of the top-level comment, which was "Susan wasn't talented enough to have earned the right to wear ostentatious jewelry". There were certainly people who diminished Steve Jobs, but not one of them questioned his right to wear whatever he wanted.
> No one likes being poor.

I tried that. Lived on ~$15k/year. It wasn't freeing, it was awful.
The meat of the question is, "where do you go when don't know how to do a thing?".

The answer could potentially be "the docs", but that's not necessarily sufficient like you point out. However, you could ask follow-ups, e.g., whether the docs have multiple facets like user guides in addition to low-level API guides.

OTOH, where you go when don't know how to do something doesn't necessarily have to be the docs, and info here can still be valuable to understand. E.g., are questions typically discussed in public forums or is it discussed in private DMs? The former is typically a better signal in my experience.
You are throwing money away.

If not in the principle building (mortgage payments are commonly less than rent and 20+% goes to principle year 1 - assuming 0 price increase over your term).

But also in the US + state tax code and credits - first with "homestead exemptions" - but especially if you make over $100k (yes, roughly 2x median household income, but applies broadly to hacker news and it's a home worth the "average"city price as you get to deduct the property tax and the mortgage interest (so rough savings of 25% on the remaining 80% year 1). For icing on top, you also get credits on energy efficient upgrades.
It's quite strange to have a great RS to lead _strategy_
If you have a phased array, you can point it at a series of sats in rapid succession, or even all at once with more electronics.
Apple App Store Down
Cannot install or update apps. Pretty sure this is wide-spread. Called support and they were no help. Every Apple device fails.
Vitess for the Rest of Us
... with friggin' lasers.
Boy have times changed
This is hard though because culture often isn't very legible.

I'd easily trade pay (within reason) and any tech stack for a truly great culture where I felt driven and engaged and was doing meaningful work, but the latter is really hard to understand ahead of time.
Note that the vacancy rate is attributed to "rent-stabilized" apartments. Something else is going on here that is peculiar to that particular form of rent control.

For one thing, rent-stabilization may mean that if a landlord lowers the rent to fill a vacancy, he will not be able to raise the rate again. This creates a very powerful incentive to not lower the rates. Another pernicious effect of government price controls.
A slump is likely. Or specifically a correction followed by a period of slow/no growth, but I don't expect a crash similar to 2008. The last housing crash was primarily due to a combination of overleveraging and overbuilding. The cost of nails, wood, and labor hadn't increased to the same degree.

The recent asset price increases have been supported by broad inflation. I don't see how prices drop significantly without monetary deflation. If we see deflation at scale, then everything is in trouble.
Have to stipulate definitions about what "learn" means. It's neither binary nor mastery. I would say syntax counts if you can do things that didn't happen on their own beforehand without copy & pasting.
It's an open secret it's a rough place to work, even as a programmer.

The Seattle Times and others have articles about it. No shortage of people talking shit on Reddit, either; NDAs don't last forever.
Better defense planning could use statistics to try to see into the future
Obviously with dense housing policies people would be building their artisanal condos by hand in utopia
Agree. My intent wasn’t to suggest otherwise. I was trying to give more depth to my question of what the parent could mean when they said Musk’s number may come up.

On the topic of FSD, I think that could be a fair answer for “why is Musk a fraud?” but that would require a follow up question: is FSD fraudulent, like the people working on it inside Tesla, or maybe just Elon, know it won’t ever work and are lying when they say it will? If yes that seems like fraud and therefore the parent comment would end up being right about Elon’s number. But if he genuinely believes they’re going to get there and they’re wrong about the timing? That’s not fraud in the legal sense, is it? If he’s constantly wrong about the timing?

It could be unethical to keep on saying it’ll be here soon and not delivering, and based on some of his behavior you can certainly make the case he may be unethical, but I guess I think the bar for being a fraud or even called a fraud is or ought to be higher (like Theranos or Nikola or Enron or MCI, the list goes on).
both. and walking, rollerblading, skateboarding…
Who in the world is Albertina Geller?
Private mode allows me to read it all. Not so for you?
I remember finding out some companies had SO many VPs. how can you have that many VPs? isn't it like making everyone a senior engineer?
I don't think this is generic eGPU support. AFAIK, Nvidia's render offloading is baked into their driver. Not sure if it has an AMD/Intel equivalent.
I imagine marginal costs of occupation like wear & tear, utilities carried by the landlord, and so on would increase that loss of revenue you mention, and push the calculus even farther towards letting it sit unoccupied.
Those cases are completely different from each other.

If McDonalds coffee lady was buying coffees everywhere, checking them with a thermometer, suing because she could have burnt herself, and then used the proceeds to hire more people to do the same in a profit sharing scheme then her case would be comparable to the current ADA abusers in California.

Instead, the McDonald's in question had been repeatedly warned by health inspectors, was in violation of corporate policy, and the woman was an actual customer that was hospitalized as a result of the business violating the law.
Exactly, also I typically layer a ton of different colored gradients on top of each other while clicking through each blending mode for each layer.

There's no way I'm going to compute in my head "Well this gradient with three colors is going to look like this after I mix it on top of these 3 bottom gradients each with different colors, oh and an image underneath"

Clicking a button beats computing an image in my head in terms of mental energy cost.

Speaking of energy, a physical dial, or scroll control, would be nice to cycle through quickly.

Edit: I do really admire this author's technical deep dives though, very beautifully made
If this were to be fake, it would be the cruelest video on the internet, IMHO.

This is such an amazing display of talents, it requires and analysis video of its own to go over the geekery, the music, the time and effort, the creativity, the whys and hows. I was speechless and awed throughout the video and reading about the project. I feel so lucky to have seen this!

Happiness.
Retail is getting hammered and a lot of industries have a glut of supply, esp. after COVID threw off global logistics.

Demand went up like crazy for some items, and they went hard manufacturing em, and now that the world is mostly back to normal the demand dropped and inflation is crushing spending.
After all these years being confused, finally I saw some explanation that actually makes sense, thank you.
no i'm saying there should be a basic level of fluency in the material beyond regurgitation. saying every course should have people able to write a paper on some assigned part of it, or to prepare a presentation, or to take an oral exam with a previous idea of what the material will be is reasonable and essential.

i think you're making this out to be way harder than it actually is, before almost any exam i can discuss pretty well the material behind it. half the time i end up explaining something to a friend who is wondering about something. it's really not that hard.

the only thing that would make it hard is if somebody was bad at speaking and communicating effectively. but just like being unable to write well will hurt your grade in a non-writing course, being unable to speak well should significantly reduce your grade or make you unable to pass.
Chip and demo music is my only experience on the receiving end of cultural appropriation. When mainstream artists started using SidStations and arpeggios and blip blop in their music, there was definitely a part of me that felt Hey! That’s _our_ sound!

But I’m glad the innovations and aesthetic of the scene are circulating, and not just to be found in archives. It makes me feel just a little less old to hear even just a little hint of this style on the radio.
Seeing color(qualia) does not provide any additional information. They are just a tool your brain uses to speed up processing. Treat is as quick tagging system. It's done inside your head, we don't even know if all people tag colors in the same was(is your red, my red?).
Qualia are derived information. Your senses get information, and you get some processed result. There is nothing added(beyond what your mind may add, but that's not part of the original information). You could swap red for green, green for blue and nothing changes.
Imagine a wall of text, a very big one. To read it you have to carefully go line by line, focused on the content. It takes a lot of time to do.
But now imagine you evolved to read such text walls. Now it's not hard, because nature developed special structures to process them, and now you have dedicated, and optimized region in the brain to handle them. You just glance at that massive text and "see" all the content, it sings to you, you understand it instantly, maybe even feel parts of it.
And seeing is the same. The mass of color information hitting our eye, that for someone without innate ability to process it would look like a bunch of hard to plow through data, for us is just instant. We process multiple frames per second, detect objects, project movements. All of it without even thinking about it. Incredible.
All thanks to specialised machinery in our brains. The specialized part does the heavy lifting so we can see our qualia. But it's just a tool, it does not provide additional objective information, as it's only your subjective view of the information that other parts of the brain push to you. It's processed information, enriched, but because of that, it's subjective now.
I worked at a place like that before. A lot of people were grumpy that they were not progressing. Some of them were probably right; some were probably wrong. But it was clear to me that having a concrete thing to aim for (a new title) mattered. A lot.

I take it that wasn't the case at Palantir. Since I'm convinced that all humans are status-seeking, I'm curious how Palantir satisfied that urge, if not w/ title differentiation.
At some point you have to question the effects you have as an individual on the rest of society. The implicit axiom that "doing what's in your own best interest is not unethical" clashes with the fact that this often means seeking unfair advantages or worse, normalizing them.

Eugenics at scale seems inherently unethical to me because its purpose and effects are contradictory under any moral justifications I can think of, except that which basically say "I deserve this power because I have it."

If we can't distribute a vaccine universally and equitably, we definitely can't eugenics. It will always boil down to who has the most proximity to the resources.

On the individual level the purpose of eugenics is to make your life better. But if it's done on a societal scale, then that reason becomes increasingly meaningless. It's all too often co-opted into nationalistic, corporate, or blind structures which you might not even notice as an individual.

I hope this sort of thing will be treated like high-tech weaponry, even if not weaponized. On the individual level I want the most protection possible, but I'm not allowed to get a Sherman tank, at least not very easily.
(2018), but mostly timeless.
The latency on the Air is quite low, but it's half that again on an iPad Pro.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pl_vIkMgtI
The theory made predictions that could be - and have been (read the article) - shown false. Do you have some other definition of falsifiability?
I'm using functional css approach and I cannot be more happy than ever. I even use most of the new features without having to even use SCSS.
Every company has disgruntled employees but I guess they were all paid too well to say something. It seems like a code of silence existed like the mob.
try to `fetch('https://www.google.com')` from console on a few different websites and you'll see either CSP errors or the same CORS errors that come up in restfox. all the extension does is send the request with the runtime api to get around the (good and reasonable) security constraints on web pages loaded over http: https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox/tree/main/packages/b...
here is a basket-weaver :

----- B--- (Hupa) received a BA from Stanford and wrote her 2017 Berkeley PhD dissertation Wailaki Grammar on a Dene language spoken along the Eel River in northern California. Now an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at Humboldt State University, her research focuses on Dene languages, and on historical-comparative linguistics for language revitalization within the Wailaki and Hupa communities. While at Stanford and Berkeley she also worked with speakers of Karuk, Yucatec Maya, and Sereer. B---- is a coauthor of "Xo’ch Na:nahsde’tl’-te: Survivance, resilience and unbroken traditions in northwest California" (2019, with Cutcha Risling Baldy, in Ka'm-t'em: A Journey Toward Healing), and has contributed to the Hupa Online Dictionary and Texts project (at UC Davis). She is also a traditional basket weaver and singer from the Xontah Nikya:aw in Hoopa Valley, and a member of the board of the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival.
> mostly timeless

Which is kind of crazy in a small way, right? These techniques could have applied even back in the late 90’s early 00’s. They’re effectively just mechanisms for warping a forum, which is to perhaps claim that forums are a withered technology, perhaps without enough lateral thinking.