skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I may be wrong, but it seems to me like this is a simple supply/demand issue. Increase the supply.

Yes, that's detrimental to those who already have homes (like me). But if I were a dispassionate judge-of-the-world, and I were weighing these two groups needs, I'd err on the side of supporting those without homes over those who have them.

Also, increase the supply of SMALL homes. Why is every new house a McMansion? Why do we have to buy 50+ year old homes to get something smaller? Those smaller homes are the entry to the market, and seemingly no one is making them, unless you count condos (which I do not).

Of course, I understand builders are building the homes that make them the most money. I'm not suggesting they're doing anything wrong.

But there is an underserved market for entry-level homes, and if the free market isn't going to solve the supply issue, it seems fair for governments to step in, build affordable homes, and sell them at a reasonable (10-20%) profit.
I have a draft up here: https://noelwelsh.com/posts/fp-is-based/

(It should be readable but hasn't had a final editing pass.)
Making your own bread will have it qualify as non-ultra-processed. Now that might seem extreme for most folks or too cumbersome but today to avoid ultra-processed food or generally unhealthy food is pretty hard. And most people won't put in the effort no matter how well labeled it is.

To me it is more counterproductive not to label it as such, regardless that it may be highly nutritional, due to the fact that people like me who are not able to eat processed food and information like this is a literal life saver.
Also those houses are being bought with money being smuggled out of China. For all of the reasons that patio11 gives in https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/money-laundering-and-..., real estate is an excellent investment for money whose provenance you wish to be hard to discover.
I can say from experience it's possible to be in an abusive work environment and not decide to quit (through some combination of unawareness of how bad things are, fear of having given up, not wanting to re-enter the job market, etc)

It doesn't make sense from the outside (or in hindsight), but it happens
> With IPv4, it's very hit or miss […]

It's also probably impossible if you're with an ISP that does CG NAT.
It was even worse than that at the bottom of the market. There were people getting 'nodoc' loans where they did not prove their income. People were inclined to mark their income down as the presumed appreciation of the home value, like some sort of financial Ouroboros.
For people who needed visibility and access to a platform it's actually a quite important tool. I'm not talking about the frivolous uses.
This is the criticism I hear but I think it depends on how you look at engineering and bias in general. I just see different people with different skillsets and pick the best one for the team. I have yet to run into a situation where the ability to code was the determining factor between two candidates. I imagine it could happen but so far so good
Hi, Jay from bluesky here. Actually nobody on the team, including myself, has ever worked at Twitter. We're designing for flexible and composable moderation systems driven by user choice.
In the Netherlands the fishing industry has basically evaporated to less than 1% of GDP. But the loss of jobs has been amply compensated in other sectors.
"I learned from"?
You get a whole class of issues like this making stuff rely on a phone app.
I travelled to Yellowstone National Park. I wandered into the back country office and spoke with the ranger. She was super friendly and informative. One interesting fact she shared is that Yellowstone is almost 4,000 sq. miles and receives 5 million visitors a year. 99.9% of those visitors never travel more than 50 feet from the main road. This means that most of those visitors experience less than 1/10th of 1% of the actual park.

Why do I bring this up? Because this is how most worker's experience their organization. Stay in your lane, get that promotion, best case you get your boss's job. But how did that job come to be? Who setup the training that you took? Most people can't even describe where the money in their business comes from.

It is a tremendous advantage to explore your organization fully. Visit its other offices and learn what your colleagues do and why they do it. Especially as an engineer. You can literally write your own ticket. Last year I was bored and I started to break down our cloud spend. This took me on a little detour. That detour involved a team that was following a process I could not understand. Turns out they didn't understand it either. I little reorganization yielded a $385,000/yr cost optimization. It took me just a couple days. Chances are you swim in a sea of complacency too.
The researchers would probably say breadflour is ultraprocessed as well.
Also, it's a little easier to just scrape by for 12 months of a rental contract than for a couple of decades of a mortgage, and a lot more difficult to repossess a house.

And I think we all saw why banks should be expected to be a lot more cautious in rating homebuyers' ability to pay than some individual landlords might be about their tenants in 2008
Dementia is still not yet understood well enough to identify a single causal factor, even with correlated variables. Personally my money is on HSV (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8234998/). We don't have a genetic predisposition / family history of early onset dementia.

In her case, retirement and being unmarried/socially isolated during COVID lockdowns obviously contributed to a more rapid progression in decline. But you would never say that social isolation causes Alzheimer's. There are many other people with active social lives and happy marriages who get early dementia. The same is almost certainly true with diet.
Too lazy to do the legwork for the actual information, but Japan has, or had, similar mortgages to the US -- even 100-year intergenerational mortgages. An anecdote related to this: when I worked at a Japanese company, one of my coworkers' parents had gone underwater on some commercial real estate in Tokyo after the bubble burst there in the 90s. They had taken out such a mortgage and now the adult children were all working day and night jobs to pay it off.
This is completely ignoring the increase in house prices, unless by "not the most desirable location" you mean "move to the middle of Kansas."

The fact is, in many areas, buying any house at all is not feasible for the vast majority of young adults.
Twitter should not use a redirection service for links in the first place. Let a link be link. Ideally it should also not track click-throughs.
I find it hard to be sympathetic when every other organization that espouses a divergent viewpoint gets the same treatment. MLK and the late 50s/early 60s civil rights people got extensive surveillance. Anti-war protestors get it every war. I suspect a lot of the anti-surveillance people and organizations get surveillance.

Are intelligence collection agencies supposed to give special categories of people a pass because of tradition, or unwritten rules, or because gentlemen don't read other gentlemen's mail? Is it ok to watch Quakers for anti-war expression, but not megachurches for anti-mask sentiments?
Wow, I had no idea about that stereotype, that's a bit sad.
The article seems to be framed from the mistaken notion that Twitter has a responsibility to somehow protect all users from seeing anything offensive. The reality is that Twitter has to eventually turn a profit if it's going to survive and the vast majority of employees who were "decimated" weren't doing anything of commercial value. If some users are experiencing illegal harassment then they should report that to law enforcement.
As soon as the møøse bites Eløn's sister.
The whole thing is a scam. “Less wrong” is more wrong than average, with all the spammy cross postings, trigger warnings, randomly inserted reverence for their leader, etc. Scott Alexander blabbers about Bayes Theorem and the replication crisis but then he announces that GPT-3 is a human level AI based on 5 queries he ran. (Far worse then the genre of frequently low-effort ‘zero shot’ learning papers from arXiv.)
It's funny how quickly #HugOps was wiped from the collective memory after the Twitter purchase.

It's like engineers are demonstrably more immature and childish than the petulant children they seek to deride.
They fixed it :-)
The guy who wrote the article is very clearly neither a computer scientist nor a mathematician nor even a machine learning engineer and it very very clearly shows.

Also where did they all that info on GPT-4? Pure speculation with zero theoretical basis. But then again that’s the sort of stuff you expect from lesswrong anyway
Neat!

Couple thoughts:

* I first played this on my phone and the controls are basically backwards, touching right side of screen activates left booster. May be a subjective preference but when I went to a desktop and used the arrow keys (right key -> right booster) that was way more intuitive.

* Does it consider sideways velocity in judgment? Like 5MPH up and down vs a little bit sideways.

* For the love of Smoot please let me change to metric. Angles in radians would be fun too.

Dunno how much complexity you want to add, but limited fuel would be a nice challenge to add. Or landing spot which is moving (up and down or sideways).
I think the point is I would have enough either way
It sure is. I've talked about this before but there is no reason to have tooling be in the same language as the end user writing it. Python for example has libraries in C and C++ (numpy, pandas, other scientific libraries) and the end user just uses Python to interface with them. Imagine if they were all written in Python instead, and how slow that'd be.

The only reason JS and TS tooling are written in these languages is because V8 is decently fast enough, but at scale, we can definitely do a lot better.
There's millions of affordable homes available but they aren't where you think you deserve to live. 30m or less commute by train in and around Newark, NJ to NYC for peanuts (and they're safe places). But, it's not sexy so you don't want to live in it.
Its not just the "corset of tradition" or social pressure. I mean rituals themselves have a psychological value. Kind of like how membership in an organization is made more durable by initiation ceremonies. Without those ceremonies, members tend to float away because they percieve less value in belonging.
One major mistake in this article is comparing houses to cars or appliances and saying they should lose value. Things go wrong in houses but while cars and appliances can't last forever, houses can last for hundreds of years with regular maintenance costs.
I don't care about more private or decentralized? Better yet, my mom doesn't? I in fact do, and she in fact should!
I’d start by not immediately losing 40% of revenue and loads of users, personally.
As someone who's never sent a tweet, what did you get out of it Pre-SpaceJesus?
Google Reminds Employees: “Bard Is Not Search”
Well, it wasn't easy. I tried many things: searching twitter, cold out reach through linkedin, upwork, broadcasting my availability to my personal network. Usually at least one of these would work. If I was more serious about building a consultancy, I would build a pipline for leads. However, my SaaS products have been my main focus, so I continue to rely on the tactics I just mentioned.
The owner does have skin in the game. It's their home. If the down payment is too high, many people are prevented from owning a home. This causes these people to be stuck in the rental trap, paying >2x what a mortgage payment would cost. Good for landlords & those in the rental industry, bad for everyone else.
"Housing prices only keep pace with inflation. America realizes it totally forgot about a few million homes it built, greatly expanding supply. Housing prices rise only 2%. Alice is much, much worse off for buying. In total, buying costs ~$1.75M, where renting would have cost her ~$1.3M."

Err.

What?

In this scenario, Alice lives in a world where a homeowner is allowed to subdivide their lot and sell homes worth about the same to N more people. Sure, one "home" costs the same, but she'll be allowed to fit a lot more homes onto her lot. She comes out way ahead in this world.
If anyone is interested in talking about the puzzle app itself, I think I found a generated puzzle with two valid solutions (posted on the author's substack -- not sure if it's the same as the submitter). Unfortunately, it doesn't let you step back or even restart once you've solved.

Here's the screenshot -- of the four remaining sixes, either of the two diagonally-opposite pairs should work (top-left and bottom-right or top-right and bottom-left):

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi...
IMO if you're thinking in terms of eventual consistency then that's a very different outlook to the one described above. There is also:

- Extraverted Thinking which is also relatively careful, reasoned and logical but puts more emphasis on external validity than internal consistency.

- Introverted intuition which is faster, more intuitive mode of thinking which some people might see as logical but isn't really. It's logical in the way ChatGPT is logical: it works until it doesn't.

Note also that nobody is using just one of these functions. So it's normal to lead with an intuitive thought and then back that up with logic or vice versa.

But I stand by the idea that you either be fast XOR fully reasoned. You can still be "kinda fast" and reasoned (but you'll never be as fast as intuitive judgements that are close to instant), and you can be pretty accurate with fast intuitive thought (but you'll never be as assured as a more thoroughly reasoned position - sometimes your intuition will lead you astray).
On seeing these errors, for a minute I seriously wondered whether their hosting provider had started turning things off due to those unpaid bills.
One thing I think the article leaves out, that is critical, is the damage done to the franchise image by SimCity Societies (2007), SimCity 2013 was the second bad miss in a row for the franchise (and a big part of Societies problems—on top of radical and not well recieved changes to the basic concept—were performance/reliability problems, which IIRC, included a persistent connection requirement even though it was single player.)
They say ‘high performance’ on their homepage: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/
> But there is a clear difference between quantitative results validated by the scientific method versus "interpretations" from philosophy and the humanities.

True. But that presumes that the scientific method is a superior or perhaps only way to gain understanding. Deciding whether that's true can't be done using the scientific method itself. The humanities (in particular, the philosophy of science) is one framework for evaluating the scientific method itself.

> Physical models like gravity, entropy, motion do not change much because of the scientific validation.

Sure, because atoms are a hell of a lot simpler than brains and societies.
I think the technical term for this is a 5/5 ARM which is NOT a "fixed" rate loan. Most of the world borrows with ARMs.
There's a national brand that makes fresh artisan style bread and then most even slightly upscale grocers will have a couple types in their inside bakery.
A lot of comments here say that Java currently lacks unsigned integer types. This isn’t quite right. Java’s char type is specified and works as an unsigned 16 bit integer.
New growth marketing technique!
Of course it matters but to a point, I would rather feel happy with the short life I live than miserable so I can buy a fancy car
A software programmer will be front of a computer screen, 8 hours, 5 days a week in a sedentary position - they are at risk for problems of eyes, back & neck problems, carpal tunnel, weight gain, anxiety, heart disease, insomnia, deep vein thrombosis just top of my head.
>Someone walking away from a house doesn’t destroy the house.

The experience of the foreclosure crisis seems to differ. I know people who moved into houses where holes were punched into walls and everything was removed that could be, from door knobs to outdoor deck planks.
> Mina Miller Edison, America’s first Home Executive

That doesn't tell me noticeably more than just her name does. It says that she was the first example of something I have never heard of.

> Straddling An Era: the life of Edison’s Partner & America’s Home Executive, Mina Edison

That's much better, it makes it clear that the Edison name is not merely a coincidence. At least it's better for me and I suspect that Edison the inventor is familiar to more people around he world than "Home Executive" whatever that is.

Still, you have piqued my interest; now I'll try to find out what one is.
What strange timing and yet I don't see any incentive for this to be deliberately connected to another outage happening at this time.
You can never know the true impact because people will spin the narrative to say what they want. This hour-long outage occurred because Twitter laid off their engineers. Meanwhile, AWS had a major outage that lasted over half a day and took down Slack among other major internet infrastructure in December 2021[0], but we can't blame that on layoffs so we just ignore it, I guess.

There's really no correlation between layoffs and outages, I suspect.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/message/12721/
Taking a joke too seriously is a form of mental self-enslavement.
I've had several hard drives fail over the years. They all signalled their impending doom by making interesting noises so I never lost any data. When my SSD fails I think I'm going to miss the noises.
There is lots of boring housing in the US. It is not going to be in the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Just like houses in the Alps in Italy versus less desirable places in Italy.
Seconding this, if you dropped OpenTTD because of the simplistic passenger/cargo routing (i.e. take any cargo to any place and pay is only based on how far you took it) then definitely give the CargoDist option a try.

Every passenger (or mail or manufactured good) has a unique destination in your system that you need to get it to. They are roughly balanced based on demand (two stations in large cities will generate a lot of traffic between them, but a small town will only generate a small amount of traffic to and from a large city). It makes the transport routing game way more interesting and more like the routing of passengers in more traditional Sim City type games.
Usually people choose to stay in abusive situations because they don’t believe they’re being abused, or have convinced themselves they have no better option. That doesn’t change the fact the environment is still abusive.

There’s a whole swaths of science and research behind this. It’s why domestic violence can continue for years unknown to anyone, even from friends, until it’s not.

OP isn’t saying they’re being abused as a fact, but if they are — at a workplace that seems as objectively toxic as Twitter right now — many who are still there won’t likely realize they were until afterwards.
But the problem of your friend is not that you treat your house as an investment.

By definition, if people "invest" in goods that can be produced at a certain price, then production should kick in and restore balance. In a functional housing market you shouldn't be able to get a better appreciation of housing than the inflation rate, except for perhaps some very limited and irreplaceble houses in the Hamptons or designed by famous architects.

Housing should behave much like the painting market: a few are worth millions, but everybody can get a cheap painting for their living room because more painters are born every day.

So the actual problem that enables this housing pyramid scheme is the lack of production and the entrenched policies of class and race discrimination in real estate development. Existing homeowners rationally want to exclude builders away from their neighborhoods to keep supply limited, so they are politically fighting for restrictive legislation. This problem can only be solved politically, with the state taking a major role in the supply of housing.
>Mobile app users have different performance expectations. No one bats an eye if a mobile app takes several minutes to download/update, but a website that does so would be considered an atrocity.

Well if it updates in my face I'd be pretty annoyed. The mobile app thing only works when they update in the background/transparently.
There's no reason to want to make it better (or understand it at all) unless you're also thinking about something besides the raw numbers.
This was released half an hour ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdD66WGBVHM
That's what I'm saying. We must reframe our mental models so that everything on Twitter is thought of as temporary. None of it is, or really was ever, stable.
Hello, Tom from Chrome’s DevRel team here with a special focus on Project Fugu APIs! Happy to answer questions Hacker News may have.
There have been strong deep-learning contributions to control, but I wouldn't say control is dominated by deep learning at this point. For instance, take a look at ICRA 2022 awards for "Outstanding Dynamics and Control" and "Outstanding Locomotion".

https://icra2022.org/program/awards
I think the real problem is that we have rigged our the nominally democratic but mostly capitalist system to favor wealth accumulation above all else, and have given most people a crappy deal: provide some incentives (in the tax code and local laws) for most people to use their home as their primary wealth repository as long as they don't make a peep about the essentially untaxed wealth of rich people and corporations. Taxing income instead of wealth (except for homes, which is most of us) is really the way modern society is broken, and until we address it we will continue to pull away from each other.
They’re talking about how it is ridiculous that nothing but pure luck and circumstance of a screwed up housing market/system means they ended up with a sweet deal with affordable quality housing while their friend is forced to deal with living in a closet for much higher prices despite working hard.
Honestly the anecdotes seem like the sort of thing that happens all the time. I don't have access to the article cited but the two have brought so many products to market together that a bit of friction seems unavoidable.

As an aside, I am excited to see what Apple can do when they start making displays in-house.
"Eat food, mostly greens, not too much" -Michael Pollan

Go to the supermarket and only buy things with one ingredient, cook and eat those things.

What qualifies? Vegetables, fruit, rice, beans, meat, etc.

ONE ingredient only.

(Technically raw sugar or lard qualify to be on my list, but I think most people who passed high school know those aren't food)

EDIT: well, yes raw sugar and lard are food, what I meant was you shouldn't be eating either in large quantities.
20% is a huge requirement. The following can help anyone who's a veteran and reading this, regarding the downpayment:

https://www.benefits.va.gov/homeloans/
It's the same people who voluntarily choose to pay top dollar to go to an out of state university when their local university is just as good and then find themselves 100k in debt and with an unemployable degree and complain the system is broken.
Home preparation has even less steps.

Seitan for example, is just plant based protein (flour), veggie stock and soya sauce, maybe baking powder and nutritional yeast for extra flavour & structure. 3-5 ingredients, mix & cook for a while, then use in any recipe instead of meat.

Deli meat? Just tofu and plant based protein, spices, cook & let cool down in the fridge.

Cheese? Plant based milk, starch/agar, spices, cook & fridge.
#1 is what non-tech people said.

#2 is what hardcore Elon fans said.

#3 was always the most likely prediction and is what any actual tech engineer should have said.
Not much to be honest so it's not really a loss