skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is programming learnable or you born with it?

FWIW... Programming has been a hobby of mine since Christmas day of 1983, but it literally never occurred to me to go into IT professionally because, for much of my life, i assumed that everyone who works with computers is a proverbial Einstein. In 1995 i rather accidentally ended up at Compaq computers, only to quickly realize that's not the case at all. Some 95% of the company was marketing, sales, infrastructure, and manufacturing, and only a minority of the folks who worked in the software side of things were what i would call "computationally gifted" (and i certainly was not, and still am not, one of them).

You don't _have_ to be born with any particular gift for it. Obviously, it helps (i've worked with many people who do have such gifts, and they operate on a whole other level), but most IT skills are things that most of us can pick up over time without any particular inborn knack. The IT field is broad enough that, even if you find that you aren't a Grade A game programmer, you may well find that you are good at scripting automation for DevOps or server administration or some other sub-field you don't yet know exists.

Despite having very nearly 40 years of programming behind me, i still consider game programming to be largely beyond my limits. i do relatively well at the library-level of programming, though, and that's where i spend most of my development time (primarily in C, but that is, as they say, an "implementation detail"). Games are _hard_ to program. Low-level data serialization, on the other hand, comes relatively easily to me. i can get by, on a technical level, just fine with CSS, but _completely lack_ the artistic eye needed to make it _look_ good.

Explore and find your niche(s). Maybe it's not JS game programming or CSS, but there are thousands of other IT-related skills out there to try out.

0.02€ and all that.
Dual citizenship is kind of gray area in Japan. As long as you don't talk about it, nobody really cares. (And this attitude kind of sums japan as a whole)
The property values may go to zero, but the land values only appreciate.

As land values increase and dominate the equation the house value might as well be zero anyway as it approaches irrelevancy.

(As an aside I've heard mixed things on this, with some saying that this notion of houses depreciating severely is no longer the case...)

I'd really really love someone with real, real deep knowledge of the Japanese housing market (eg. a banker, real estate agent or mortgage broker) to weigh in and go through everything in detail because it feels like all we usually get are breezy generalizations with such low detail that I only have more questions after reading.
Sure, but that's just variations on rent control, or tax incentives to builders to increase density, or whatever else they're using to try to increase the stock of housing. I still don't see how that suggests that the affordability is somehow intrinsic?
I’m not comparing this to a crime against humanity or making value judgments either way.

But if someone told me that they were a senior SRE at MindGeek, I’m inclined to hire them.
Illinois is known for extremely gerrymandered pro-democrat districts, that also seem designed to minimize minority impact within the party. They've cleaned up some of the shapes so it's less obvious recently.
Yeah, a lot of Midjourney images are very clearly Midjourney images. Does Midjourney have inpainting/outpainting yet? I admit it's the offering I've evaluated the least.

Midjourneys upscaled images to their current max offering look fantastic, that's for sure. My wife generates some really great stuff just for fun.
"It doesn’t help that reporting and the prevailing political discourse alike often frame the entire problem as “how to build more affordable units.” (How to add to the 13,000.) Meanwhile, we fail to stanch the bleeding on the private market, where rents keep rising faster than incomes."

People, acting as rational agents, will pay more to live in good neighborhoods and the market is simply responding to this fact.
At least they let their citizens in, unlike Australia!
I’ll take this 10 year bet. You really think nvidia is just gonna stop releasing new revisions? “Moores law is dead” is way over-memed, it’s more of an axiom about how computers continually improve than really being about transistor count at this point.
I've worked as a web developer for ten years on websites with millions of monthly views (e.g NFL, HowStuffWorks, etc.) while living in Los Angeles. I've also hired and managed a remote team of developers while living in Asia.

I'm working on a website for my girlfriend's Chinese teaching business. We paid a premium for branding, logo design, and photography. Even though I've worked in the publishing industry for years, making marketing pages full time for much of that time, the website I'm creating is with a Leadpages template with the company's brand colors.

If you want to brand yourself as an excellent frontend developer, here's what I'd suggest:

1. Skip trying to go the agency route to find clients. Clients want a full-service agency (design + development + managing ad spend) or agencies specializing in specific social platforms. Development is always an afterthought or a cost center in these examples.

2. Find an established company or startup and reach out to their MARKETING team, not their engineering team. Marketing teams are the ones looking for static websites the most. I have a close friend who's a MASTER at CSS. Best CSS person I've met in my life. He's made an excellent career, getting San Francisco salary while working remotely in the middle of nowhere in Canada. He couldn't write a unit test or do a leetcode problem to save his life, but the marketing team loves him more than anyone else.

3. Be EXCELLENT at front end. Invest in some high-quality online courses for CSS. Be able to center divs in your sleep. This strategy will only work if you're excellent, especially if you're trying to get USA level pay remotely. If you're only average, or even great, you're competing with thousands who are equally as good as you.

The good news is being EXCELLENT is incredibly doable. Lots of engineers (including myself) switch from a frontend focus to full stack/backend because they're not fans of design, so their CSS skills deteriorate.
Unaffordable houses are not good for anyone; including investors.

So just about everyone with skin in the game, developers, investors, municipalities, aspiring buyers, and economists almost always talk about affordability.
Not a perfect solution, but Michigan created a bipartisan commission to redraw districts in 2020. (Well Michigan didn't create it, voters did in a proposal during the 2018 election.) https://www.michigan.gov/micrc
At this point I’ve got devices with basically every single usb type and I’ll have to keep cables around for them all. The only one that actually seems to have dropped out of existence is micro usb 3.0 which had the little wing bit sticking out the side you used to get on phones and portable hard drives.
almost anything related to japan will go to the top of HN. is this a weeb board...
a pretty clear tenant of fairness is that it should be impossible to win the majority of people and lose the majority of seats
> Because they used to be a contender.

Yeah and it's easy to forget. Every big Japanese company used to make their own silicon. It was easy for them to make knock-off 6502s and the entire Texas Instruments product line at half the price (See: Nintendo). Japan had almost the whole global DRAM market by the end of the 1980s. Americans, in a panic, formed a quasi-governmental bailout scheme called SEMATECH to re-establish the competitiveness of the moribund domestic computer industry. People seriously feared Japan was going to eclipse the American economy. Their kids, after all, were good at math tests.
I refuse to use SO as either a person asking questions or as a person answering questions.

When SO started off, I was happy to answer questions. But I also asked some questions, only to get hit with the toxicity which was showing up very early on.

So I withdrew my service from the site.

"That is an unsuitable question". Oh really? Now why is is that? Let me guess which of a million possibilities is why you say my question is unsuitable.

"That question has been answered before". Yeah, I thought somebody else might have had that problem before. Oh, you want me to guess which of the millions of answers on SO is the answer to my particular question. Gee, thanks.

"Your question has been closed." Wow, thanks. I suppose my question must have been too difficult for you, and that's why it was closed.

Etc, etc, etc. Rank toxicity.

These days, I ask Google for nearly all my questions. If Google points me towards SO, I might look and read, but I will no longer comment.
Tesla does not advertise in mainstream media unlike Ford, Chevy, Toyota, Honda, and all the others. Therefore Tesla must be portrayed in a negative light so as to help protect their revenue.
I'm failing to train a model off of this in the Automatic1111 webui Dreambooth extension. Training on vanilla 1.5 works fine. It throws a bunch of errors I don't have in front of me on my phone.

Anyone else have similar issues? I loaded it both from a locally downloaded version of the model as well as from inputting in the huggingface path and my token with write (?!?) permissions.

Anyone run into similar issues? Suggestions?
BBC does a significant amount of research and investigation before releasing these types of documentaries - to protect their journalistic integrity.

You labeling it a propaganda means that you're probably deflecting (borderline projecting your thoughts).
CamelCase seems to be preferred by screen readers for the visually impaired. Just recently encountered this on Mastodon with their extensive usage of hashtags...
Let's keep in mind it's a military robot, so it'll just be shooting boxes on the next iteration. After that it'll be houseplants and suspiciously large cats.
> The market forces pushing housing prices stratospheric in California are largely about the state’s severe housing shortage.

I wonder where does QE lay on the list.
Absolutely, we picked the path-of-least-resistance license for the initial release in order to get the code into the open, but we'll continuously evaluate and see whether switching to a license like BSL makes sense. It's been awesome to see the evolution of licenses in just the past few years, and there are a lot more options than when I started this project. Hoping that having the project public will enable us to build a community and gain continuous feedback that will help drive technical, licensing, and other decisions in the future.
You skipped the important half of the sentence:

and it’s also quite far from the home row on the keyboard.

I'm not going to adopt a coding style that requires me to reach that far repeatedly for every name.
At first I wanted to give a serious reply, but then I saw your (very aptly chosen, given the context) username and found myself wondering if HN rules allow parody accounts...

However, I'll give one for those who've missed the irony: It's considered gauche to have ubiquitous non-english comments.

Pretty much the only kosher use case is when you have to warn people not to modify otherwise bizarre looking code because of either regulatory, legal, or domain-specific reasons, and listing them in their native language makes more sense, since developers are not legal experts and translating them into English is not in the job description if the app is solely for domestic market.
Doesn’t really feel like Apple died on this hill. It’s been years now and other than old obscure hardware, there hasn’t been any real loss. Even looking at my steam library, it seems like basically everything made it over in the end.
I think the article is saying that new construction of all kinds of homes, including luxury homes, is the answer. As opposed to the meager handful of affordable housing units cities fund now while making it as hard as possible to build anything at all.
Each apple product is designed this way. It is designed to lock people in and make people conform to the apple certified way. That's what made me leave the eco system. I'll never buy anything from Apple again.
I thought everybody knew by now what apple does.
I don't buy any food sources from China. It's too risky
In orgs where this need is usually present, the data can be massive and it takes some time to understand how it all fits together. There is also the issue of optimizing around indexes or writing queries that are cost efficient (especially if you using Athena/Presto/Big Query). Mistakes here can cost a lot of money or lock up the system so others can't use it.

I love this demo, but I feel like it would be better with a human in the loop because these edge cases can be so severe.
Do you have an example that would be findable via iTunes on PC? This one doesn't seem reachable/searchable there.
Yep always, probably every hour or you will get weak
That's still 1 to 1.
Japanese university entrance exams are also notoriously difficult; if it weren’t for the declining birth rate, the exams would probably be a push rather than a pull factor for students, the same way large numbers of South Korean and Chinese students try and opt out of their similarly hard exams.
"They let 3rd party clients use their directory for free."

But all the numerous other free directories, I doubt they are all sourced from Apple. The non-Apple podcast hosting services provide RSS feeds. Self-hosted podcasts usually provide RSS feeds. Anyone can use these feeds, not just Apple.

Personally I think Apple's directory, as accessed via www, is inferior to some of the alternatives. For example, it does not list all episodes, only the most recent ones.

If I want a definitive podcast index, I go to the source of podcasts for the RSS feeds or just .mp3 URLs, not to Apple. (Apple appears to prefer .m4a to .mp3)

Most podcasts are not hosted on Apple servers. Apple is just retrieving XML files from someone else.
https://archive.is/gK6jb
Feels like the kind of thing you’d be better off renting than buying. I wonder if there are any facilities you can buy a day pass or something and use expensive gear like this. I know there are for woodworking and related hobby gear.
One of the things that makes Stockholm a great city for workers is the large amount of rent-controlled housing. You can get one of these apartments by queuing - the longer you are in the queue, the better the choice you have. Now, obviously this supports insiders over outsiders. And there are problems with having to queue for 10 years just to get an apartment in a nice area - as soon as you turn 18, put yourself in the queue (it's only 50 bucks/year). But the net effect is that the percentage of your income that goes on housing is less than half of what it would be if you bought a house or your own condo. It means people can afford to also own a motor boat, a summer house, and have a high quality of life.
What happened between 2016 and 2020 in the name of making sure people understood that supporting Trump would not be tolerated truly boggles the mind.

For three years they used the FBI to threaten his family and jail his friends under an investigation into what we now know was a political campaign weapon falsified by the Clinton campaign. And the FBI knew that immediately as well. With Adam Schiff out there every day swearing that behind closed doors with the intelligence community he knew of big things that were going to come to light any day now.

But it worked. The political weapon did exactly what it was supposed to do.

Moreso than the right, it broke the left into the hyper-defensive ideological mess that it is right now. Fully embracing things that were mere crackpot ideas of their most wild-eyed constituents in the Obama years.
And there won't be, as long as there's an AirBnB option for investor ownership...
"Affordable" is often used as marketing speak for "subsidized".

In effect, the city is forcing the property owner to select some random poor people and give them monthly "cash" to help pay their rent.

Except that "cash" can only be used for one particular unit, which locks them in, so it's economically much less efficient than real cash.

It's basically just an inefficient tax on property owners that gets redistributed to a handful of lucky people.
I think they also made it dumber after Bellingcat used it to identify a secret service officer. Interesting to see if we can find any trace of that in the git history.
I'm Alon, one of the cofounders at Dopt. Joe, Phil, and I are around if anyone has any questions or feedback!
Interesting! How does it handle credentials for creating pull requests? Do I need to install an App?
mirrord is a tool for backend engineers that enables them to work on a remote environment without needing to deploy there or actually run there.
It makes the iteration time (code -> test -> [review] -> deploy) faster since you don't replace the remote service also, which means many devs can work the same time.

You can read more about it here https://metalbear.co/blog/mirrord-3.0-is-out/
You're both from USA, I assume?
That's pretty much it.

It doesn't matter the wealth or income someone has, there is always something they can't afford. So clearly the existence of "limited resources" is not a good indication of whether someone is wealthy or not.

But ignoring the type of house and it's location - if someone can afford the down payment and mortgage payments on a $2M homes (typical single family home in the Bay Area), the are objectively very well off.
My "chill out" comment was not related to your thoughts on the DOM, it was due to your use of very extreme language to explain things that did not seem to merit such extremity. I linked "anti-human" above but I was able to find multitudinous other comments with words like "repulsive," "reprehensible," "cruel," "shitty," and so on. Your comment history seems filled with vitriol, and it is why I made such a comment. This is probably why your Twitter account is now suspended, on which I used to talk to you before but it appears not recently. It was a DC Tech Slack if I recall correctly by the way, you had some extreme opinions there too and used the same vitriolic language that then got you kicked out. It seems like the same pattern persists, where you were using the words above but then people got sick of it and then you tried to argue that you were commenting in good faith, or that others weren't (even though they perfectly were).

Personally, I agree with you on the role of the DOM, but again, I do not see it as religiously as you do, in my view it is just a technology. I like to read content, sure, and that's where I see the value of the DOM. I also use quite a lot of browser extensions and would not like them to go away, such as adblockers. I don't see them going away though, the DOM is simply too entrenched for content.

However, at the same time, I like fast and rich applications. I do not like using Electron, which is part of the very same web technology you so like. I would rather not have to pull up a browser for every single app I use. Wasting pointless CPU cycles and gigabytes of RAM, now that is anti-human, not to mention anti-Earth, since they consume more electricity and give off more greenhouse gas emissions by doing so, simply to interpret Javascript in a virtual machine. That is why I like stuff like Flutter. I don't particularly care that users can't modify it, because, again, as an app, there is nothing you necessarily need to modify, and on mobile and desktop anyways, people can't "inspect element" and change things. It provides me with a fast, unified programming interface on which I can build apps. You can still have interoperability with stuff like that, such as Mastodon which uses federation, even though users again can't directly modify the source code, at least on their mobile apps.

Your opinion is fine, liminally. I even agree with parts of it. It becomes quite annoying to hear though when it becomes almost religious in the nature of your belief, where for those you disagree, you start spewing vitriol instead. It is especially grating when you are there on almost every Flutter thread on HN, and elsewhere. If you really want people to discuss with you in good faith, I recommend you stop using words like "cruel," "repulsive," "repugnant," "vile" and so on. People can smell the salt a mile away.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31636307#31642018

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32654358#32656825
The macro lens on the 13 and up focuses best at about 1.5 cm but it seems to have issues with being out of focus in the corners.
Create High-density Land Use taxes that roughly force people to sell parking lots and gas stations and other small buildings for tall housing developments?

Enforce super blocks that are equally residential as they are comercial? ie if X job spaces exist in a super block there should be slightly more than X bedrooms available in the same super block.

Target 100x more sqft by 2030? Instead of targeting 1%^7 more sqft by 2030
Which errors are you okay with?
This sounds great... until that 5(or whatever) % error margin kicks in, a bad result is given, a decision on that data is made, and the company loses $$$$$, just to save a few 100k here or there.
https://archive.is/EKRhK
> considered open source

This is misleading.

<quote>
There is the free (libre) software movement, and
there is the open source non-movement: two different viewpoints based
on different values.
</quote>

(RMS, from emails)

"open source" is misleading, since it often refers to proprietary software which is just software with open source code, and you can't do much with that source. I would kindly recommend to revisit your vocabulary.
Ya, and if you report or comment on the scams, Amazon acts to protect the scams. They have to know what is going on and simply don’t care.
Human mistakes also happen. How frequently do humans mess up compared chatGPT becomes an interesting question.
Crushing mom and pop stores isn't the only issue Walmart and Amazon share.
Both have mistreated employees and stole product designs to push their own versions of popular items undercutting the original. Walmart employees weren't peeing in bottles, but unsafe working conditions and union busting have been problems for both companies. Walmart.com is known for selling counterfeit goods, while the physical stores routinely sell dangerous items. It seems that filling your store shelves with the cheapest goods from the third world isn't always safe for your customers.

I do think that fixing a lot of the "quibbles" people have concerning Walmart and Amazon would help make things more competitive and help give smaller stores a better chance though.
Yes, in theory it should be more secure, but they aren't passing that benefit onto the customer in the form of a lower fee or anything, so it's pointless to me.
For Indian migrants, Japan is not nearly as attractive as the US, Canada, Australia etc. Wages particularly in engineering/IT are comparatively low, working conditions are tough, the language is difficult, and Japanese society is known for being xenophobic. Politely so, for most part, but still: you might not get beaten up, but neither nor your children will you ever be accepted as Japanese.

It's no coincidence that the biggest groups of immigrants to Japan are the Chinese and Vietnamese, who have a leg up on the language (Chinese characters for the Chinese, obviously, but Vietnamese has a lot of Chinese loans shared with Japanese too) and blend in better in terms of physical appearance and culture.
The depopulation is not even. You can’t really abandon a few people in a neighborhood without services ethically or legally, and the last holdouts may not move for anything.

Similar issues occurred in Detroit and other Rust Belt areas, and those had extreme population declines but could not abandon services and infrastructure.
What do people do during the 10 years they have to wait in line?
Wasn't the FED buying all the 2.5% mortgages?
QA, devops, networking and system administration and what other IT careers are there?