skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Progress in the space is at breakneck speed. Check out this comparison of 5 months (!) of midjourney progress [0].

[0] https://twitter.com/lopp/status/1595846677591904257
What hasn’t? USA has been transforming itself with technology for the last 200 years on an amazing pace. Cars, telephones, radios, television, airplanes, computers, Internet, smart phones, social media. The whole social fabric has been upended several times.
“The 30 year fixed-rate mortgage and mortgage interest deduction (now capped, and less impactful given higher standard deduction amounts) have been a large contributor to housing values being distorted from normal market prices.”

I’m not sure how much of a factor that is - here in Australia our house price : household income ratio is, if anything, even more deranged than it is in the US, and 30 year fixed rates are unheard-of here - maybe 2 year fixed rates at certain times, but usually most mortgages are variable (and usually at higher rates than in the US).
While I respect your common-sense position, expressed in the pithy comment above, you are sadly going to fall afoul of the site rules thereby (1)

It is probably more useful in the long term to read those rules and suggestions, and learn how to use that system instead.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yeah, but with one word messages you can pass it on the command line without quotes:

git commit . -m fix
I used Nokia 6300 J2ME for TOTP generation around 2017. Less likely to get a zero-day there. Or rather more likely but less likely that someone would want.
So you are under the belief that the written output of one man born in 1564 was of greater quantity than all “good” writing prior to his time? Are you sure you thought this through?
You can wear waterproof breathable pants, shorts, or pants that get wet but stay comfortable. Unless you’re biking or doing a similar activity or it’s raining very hard, you probably don’t get that much water shedding onto your pants.
(1) They literally reopened a natural gas plant in New York, where were you? [1] the broader point is this fossil capacity can just be turned off if we stopped wasting it on a bitmask lottery. You don’t have to bring on new capacity to cause harm (although they are doing that too).

(2) burning flared methane is better than not but not flaring at all is best? There’s no such thing as stranded power, there’s only missing transmission infrastructure which is being incentivized not to come online through profitable waste at point of generation.

(3) raising the baseline usage level through waste then turning it off when there’s a brownout level crisis is just an asinine plan to manage load that costs everyone money. Active demand management is an actual solution. So is grid storage. Also, “some states” is Texas, famously the worst energy grid in the US, home of the blackout. Meanwhile New York is banning wasting fossil fuel energy on miners.

Anyways you seem to bring no data to the table other than a “nuh uh” and some obviously flawed apologism.

No word on the ewaste?

It appears to me you’re using the “facts u dislike” acronym expansion for FUD.

[1] https://grist.org/technology/bitcoin-greenidge-seneca-lake-c...
1:1 volumetrically is about the ratio I use as well with great success

1:1.5 sounds like a very mushy rice. Horses for courses I suppose.
> If it were actually efficient we'd see less issues. I'd say the Korean economy is hyper-competitive but fairly inefficient.

I remember once visiting the head office in Seoul of a major South Korean firm – they had a rather large development team working on some rather quotidian internal corporate needs (identity management, corporate intranet/portal, etc). And yet, they were being subjected to the kind of limitations one would expect only on some classified national security project – e.g. Internet access blocked so they couldn't access StackOverflow/etc, personal electronic devices had to be put in lockers at the building security desk, etc. The restrictions were very obviously impeding their productivity. It appeared that the company's management was very paranoid about corporate espionage, to a degree which seemed out of place given the actual business this company did.

A Korean colleague told me that a lot of South Korean companies were like that. His theory was that senior management at many firms is dominated by retired military officers, who take from their military background a culture of secrecy which may well be justified in the military, defence contractors, super-high-tech firms such as leading-node semiconductor fabrication, etc–but isn't appropriate for your average business, and this particular firm wasn't doing anything like that. What do I know, but his theory seemed plausible to me.
From an economic standpoint, perhaps. Consider the hobbyist.

If these tools had been available when I was a kid, my tile based RPG could have had the graphics I always wanted it to have. Instead, it never got anything more than map tiles (primitive ones at that). I had no talent or skills for asset creation.

Nobody played that game other than me, and (once) a couple other people I knew. That was fine, I made it for me, not others. But I would really have been happy to have access to assets.
I professionaly used Delphi in the past for some specific Windows system administration tasks and I still use free pascal as a successor.
I was wondering on this recently and without going into specifics it appears to me as if some aspects of science and learning are purposely anti human or at least designed to be as inefficent as possible.
The effort required to produce 1 particular "bored ape" or any of their many many knock-offs tended to zero. They were technically unique, sure, both by url and by content. But also mass-produced, low-effort, cookie-cutter variations, cheap and ugly. As to the last, "ugly" - without getting into "But is it art?" - if it is; it's really bad art.
Or just leave well enough alone on something that has worked just fine for quite some time now.
> Feel like XY Problem - there's probably a simpler, better solution for a slightly more specific (or even just attempted-to-be-specified-at-all) problem statement.

Problem:

Share content between two random devices without having to install an app, having to share the content with a third party or having to have a verified (by third party) identity.

Or alternatively, what's a quick way to share a file with a random person that I meet on the street without unnecessary friction or leaving unnecessary traces.

What's the best solution for this?
Finally! I've been wanting something like this for ages- generally speaking I don't consider myself an idiot, but I'm forced to pull that into questioning every time I test and debug ci/cd actions with an endless stream of pull request modifications
US bans sale of Huawei, ZTE tech amid security fears
It's interesting that the article's thesis is about reading, but most of the article is actually about writing. And I think that's an understated point. I myself wrote a blog piece about "Blogging as Structured Thinking" earlier this year.

I think that actually plenty of people do reading in various forms of content. The real challenge is getting people to do more writing.

If you want to be a thinker, you have to write.

It really forces you to address your ideas more formulaically and concretizes your theses.

Start a blog! If you're reading this chances are you know how to buy a domain and spin up a blog in less than 30 minutes. Try Wordpress, or hugo with templates if you want more control. And if you don't know what to write about, this link was recently shared on HN, I thought it was pretty useful: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/

And yes, it's important to publish it. It makes your thoughts real. And ideas were meant to be shared.
> Do people just push them and hope they work and push more commits with “fix” as the message until it works?

Unironically yes. It's awful, it's ugly, but it works with no extra setup, effort, or cost (other than feeling dirty for a few minutes).
The 30 year fixed-rate mortgage and mortgage interest deduction...have been a large contributor to housing values being distorted from normal market prices.

That should be easy to test. Hardly any other country has 30 year fixed rate mortgages and lots of countries have far lower mortgage interest deduction. Would be interesting to measure the distortions in those countries and compare to the US.
Excuse me if this is rude but there is an irony to using others' words to argue one should think for themselves more.
People who price high usually will have to wait longer for a buyer. In a hot market, the times will be less, in a cold market, more.
Because mathematics, like most tertiary disciplines, has always been taught in a teaching style suitable for the 5% of the audience who aim to go on to be mathematics professionals (who then teach mathematics).

> But it hampers understanding and excitement at the nascent stages

Ultimately, self motivated learners dramatically outpace anyone else. A genuine interest will overwhelm any other factor, because the self motivated learner will not need to invest additional time finding excitement.

Artificially motivating learners is a difficult, time consuming, and often marginally effective task.

The only way I've seen consistently work is to have truly interested and fascinated public speakers.

Who then teach to the 5%, and perpetuate the cycle.
> We could stop right here but this suffers from overflow limitations if translated into C.

FWIW, the final version also suffers from integer overflow limitations. If the difference between an and INT_MIN/INT_MAX (depending on whether you floor or ceil) is <= b/2, you will have integer overflow.
> shouldn’t you find it unsurprising that most people think that ignorant employees or contractors didn’t do anything wrong, especially below the level of executive?

We aren’t the first generation asking these questions. Most of this is settled law. Profiting from perpetuating fraud generally involves clawbacks. Where the thresholds lie is a matter for courts. But everyone involved will be drawn into that process. If you find that distasteful, consider whether you are profiting from fraud.
In uni I never met a single prof in math/compsci that was passionate about teaching the beauty of the field. Neither had they had training in didactics or something else. They are too removed from the student to even understand their problems.
No need to take it personal. I don't think the "you" OP used referred to you specifically.
Don't fall for retrospective bias. I agree, Europe should have acted when it became clear that Putin is no saint (to be euphemistic), but Russian gas was cheap. It was a trade, give us your energy cheap and we shut up. Europe profited, households and industry had real savings, and Russia profited, invaluable money and power (especially the latter should have made Europe think, but again, retrospective bias).

In other words, Europe and Russia both had gains for a long time. Now the dreams have crashed.
> draw us a line

We have centuries of case law on this. If I lose money in a fraud, you can be sure as hell I’ll sue everyone who took cash out. Naïveté is not an excuse for misconduct.
Well, as you point out, assuming the SF stats apply to the entire US is a stretch.

But regardless, do you think the only reason why people are homeless is because they can't afford a home? They did a survey in SF and 60%+ were homeless due to mental health and/or drug and alcohol issues.

Building more houses won't fix that.
There are still a few message boards that I frequently go to, not as many as before, but they have their active community. Having their own Discord channel also helps boost activity.

In particular in a hobby like PC building, using a message board for build logs makes sense given the format. And probably other "log/project tracking" sorts of coverage. Like Reddit, you get a free captive audience that requires less effort than blogging about it, but unlike Reddit you can post build updates to bring your topic back to the top without making multiple threads.
fascinating! please do go on, or if possible maybe you could suggest some keywords or links for us, i want to dive deep on this.
Doesn't seem very trustworthy either. Meuller was probably one of those "Elon managers" and I don't see any merit of doing public denial on his "genius engineer" narrative. And overruling low level eng decisions which don't make business sense is a typical CEO job. Every single competent tech CEO does that everyday, Elon is not a special case.

Although I have a decent level of respects for a businessman Elon Musk in that he made several successful long term bets based on his physics/economics backgrounds, but this doesn't necessarily mean that I have to agree with his own narcissistic narrative. We also need to draw a clear line between the reality and his narrative as well as recently developed anti-Elon rhetoric.
One funny thing is, Math requires too much definition. I always laugh at the fact that, in order to define a theorem, i must learn a bunch of intermediate definitions, and it said: Yes, it's a must. So i think, math theorems lack ability to "shorten" a theorem by bypassing all intermediate definitions (too many).

It's that "intermediate definitions" that causes too much indirection, just like you read a codebase with too much abstraction and redirection, you've lost.
This can be traced back to Bourbaki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki

Due to some reason (I'm not sure why) their work made a huge imprint on how math is taught around the world.
Citations are needed for such bold claims if PG wants to be persuasive.
Actually, bike commuting is ine of the hardest scenarios for GoreTex in my experience.

Biking in general tends to put Your heart rate pretty high. It depends on intensity of course, but a brief 30-60s sprint to overtake someone or clear a traffic light will take You from a comfortable aerobic zone well into anaerobic. That means "a lot" of sweat eventually. Walking/ hiking does that a lot less.

At the same time, on a bike commute You need durability under mechanical stress (backpacks with laptops can get heavy real quick). Aaaand on top of that, ideally it needs to be reasonably cheap (or last for decades) to be economically viable.

Personally, for bikepacking, I found that the only Goretex that works is the Shakedry membrane. This is their most barebones slimmed-down membrane. Super breathable, great water / wind resistance, but it's so ligh You look at it sideways and it tears. Definitely can't wear a backpack with that one.

On the other hand, my hiking jacket is a 3 layer laminate Goretex Pro that I've used for about 8y now with 25+kg backpacks. Great, durable, waterproof, but You are right- it's not breathable enough for bike(unless You open up all the pit zips, which kinda beats the purpose of a waterproof membrane).
Please forgive me for a potentially dumb question:

Is there a reason something like the scheduler, which should be mostly algorithmic, should lack unit tests? I can see an argument against some aspects of device driver testing, but the scheduler is in a different class of code, right?
Can this be used to emulate github actions to a git server other than github? e.g. gitea
The woolen blanket is not a precise example: you like one more for sentimental reasons, but you agree that both are blankets. If you had said "I don't think that a factory-made woolen blanket is really a woolen blanket" the discussion would be different.
Not very volatile but the USD/Euro parity changed lot during the last five years. The BCE is obsessed with the stability of the currency, but I find that the FED is doing a much better job with the USD or maybe it's also the US economy being more resilient.
Same way you avoid them directly in JS. I don’t think Nim claims it’s easy to do.
The wait just means there is low liquidity i.e. the spread is wide. They could sell it this minute if they offered it for 100$ but they are in "no rush" so they are willing to wait. Opendoor is trying to solve this by pretty much being a market maker for homes. This comment is independent of "should the housing market be more liquid" just a general "markets" comment
Moniker.com have a handy online notepad kinda thingy, beware as it auto wiped after a year of inactivity, but that’s fine for most users. I used it lots in the past, mostly when mobile, less so when home or office based.
Those are all unique projects, not forks.
The Netherlands has essentially the same system. It's not broken, it's by design.

The system is meant to benefit long-term residents at the cost of everyone else. It's not there to provide a general housing subsidy.
Thanks four your reply - just had restful services in my mind when writing my response.
I/O is no longer the bottleneck
If a married woman gets raped in Qatar, she cannot report it to police, as that would lead to her getting the death penalty for adultery. That country is absolutely fucking horrible. Like, even places ad bad as India where men regularly attack women with acid pale in comparison.
Any plans to add support for docker-/podman-compose?
Poking a Mobile Hotspot
Bonus tip: set `display: block` on a style tag and add `contenteditable`, then users can even edit your page styles in real-time.
Why not? Does anyone deserve such homes if there is people who could permanently live in them? Or maybe some reasonable cost involved let's say 20% a year.
I don't think it's the same people. What's happened is that in the last few years is he's become famous in the mainstream, and the new people (including new grad software engineers) have only ever heard the emerald mine hot takes on social media and take that as gospel. I doubt anyone (geeks especially) who is actually familiar with his history would say any of those things. Many people who previously liked him dislike him now due to his politics and public persona, but that's a different story. You can dislike and respect someone at the same time.
I don't consider myself a cynic (1), but I am forced to pull that into questioning every time I see how many paid worker minutes are wasted by such endless streams of pull request modifications.

(1) Who am I kidding, of course I am a cynic.
The requirement that payloads must be able to survive such brutal acceleration does initially appear to be a limiting factor for this kind of technology, but it does have compelling advantages too.

First, there's the brutal tyranny of the rocket equation[1]. Not only must a rocket burn fuel to lift it's payload into orbit, it must also burn fuel to lift all the fuel it will burn on the way plus the rocket parts to contain that fuel and the engines to burn it. With a gun, you only have to put in enough energy to accelerate the payload and capsule to escape velocity. This is far, far more energy efficient! Also, many alternative energy forms are possible to use in such a gun, including electricity.

So what? What about that brutal acceleration problem? Although complex electronics, etc. can be built to survive such stresses, it's a huge design requirement for payloads that might never face such forces again once in orbit or beyond. However, this method of launch is ideal for getting raw materials into space for use in orbital fabrication. Getting big things into space is massively expensive because rockets are so horribly inefficient. If we fire the raw materials up via space-gun and then use them to fabricate things in space, those things could become orders of magnitude cheaper. Mining materials in space is obviously the way we eventually want to go, but that's going to take a while. Space-guns could be a crucial stepping stone.

The Babylon project, had it worked, might not have been terribly useful for Iraq in the 1980's. However, if space fabrication takes off before space elevators are a thing, kinetic launchers will likely have their day.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsiolkovsky_rocket_equation
I add a workflow like this:

- write the main job in a Python/PowerShell/Bash script that runs locally,

- write a workflow that sets up the environment (AWS login), installs dependencies (using GitHub's facilities for that) and calls the script (often passing values using GitHub Secrets),

- push the workflow with a "push" trigger on a feature branch (for fast testing),

- push 30 fixup commits to fix all the small syntax errors, logic mistakes, and GHA idiosyncrasies I hadn't thought of,

- remove the push trigger,

- do an interactive rebase to squash all the fixups,

- force-push and merge.

It works pretty well and can be easily used locally or in other CI/CD systems.
git add […] && EDITOR=true git commit --amend && git push -f […]

(You don't have to open a PR / the usual history rewriting consequences don't apply if you're just pushing to Actions to see how it reacts.)

But alternatively, if you find yourself doing this a lot and it's really the code of the step that you're debugging (vs. debugging how the workflow interacts with Actions itself) I try to keep my jobs' steps pretty simple:

- run: ci/thing.sh

… specifically so that I can run the step locally. It's usually much faster. (And on a MBP, doesn't incur the costs of virtualization, at the cost of needing to port to macOS. Usually worth it.)
Interesting: two conflicting reports from inside Google (assuming they are really working for Google). Perhaps only some departements are affected from reduction in workforce.
That's how it goes. As someone who never liked Elon Musk and was sceptical of the guy from day one I could tell you about the discussions I had with otherwise reasonable people (reminiscent about the discussions about cryptocurrencies).

Maybe it is because I directed actors and have an eye for human beviour and manierisms, but I instantly knew that Elon Musk is not the kind of guy I'd like to have around, have to trust or even admire.

Not that he is not without achievements as the richest man on the world. But it cannot buy him happyness, resolve or confidence, all of which this man has a lack of.

Rich men with holes money cannot fill are dangerous.
“But I think debt avoidance strategies will win out in the long term, on average.”

I agree with you, but you have to be prepared for the long term being longer than a human lifespan. For example, house prices in the Netherlands were arguably at bubble levels for almost the entire 18th century.
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Unfortunately act is only capable of running very simple workflows. I've found this action to be more useful against the endless PR stream: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate

You drop it in your workflow and get an SSH shell into the worker, figure things out iteratively, then push when it's working.
If you're moving, it's kinda hard to buy a new house the same day you sold the old house.

In the car dealer business, cars usually sit for a month on the dealer's lot before they sell. Car dealers hate that, because they borrow money to put the inventory on the lot, and pay interest on that money.

It's the same for house sellers. Leaving a house vacant cost thousands of dollars a month. Sellers aren't letting it sit vacant for fun. When I've sold a house, I was painfully aware of the vacancy costs, and always tried to price it to get it sold ASAP.
The lowest rate of tax increase only happens after 2 years. Are people taking 24 month holidays normally?
Musk is no doubt on the extreme end of CEO spectrum but I don't think this is as unusual as this person makes it seem.

e.g. Bezos liking his info presented in essay form. And I bet the "S team" around him is quite skilled at Bezos management too.

Sometimes I think at this scale of the biz spectrum you're by default dealing with slightly quirky/insane people...
Asimov had a nice short story about taped knowledge, "Profession".

It's a really good read.
Is it your proposal that any house going on the market should install a homeless person in it until it sells?
What is the connection with forests?