skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This comparison is exceedingly bad. In one, you deal with people in a specific context, in the other you ALSO deal with people, just in a different context.
Huh, its almost like infinite growth is impossible in our context of the natural world.

Who would have thought spreadsheets and magic market numbers had little material connection to the resources extracted to extrapolate those numbers.
> Somehow it's fine to pay half the salary in rent, but not fine if it's financing the mortage.

Because eviction is easier than foreclosure (and, actually, a lot of big property management companies look at similar affordability criteria as lending banks, but you can find mom & pop landlords; mom & pop mortgage lenders, unless they are literally rich family members making an informal loan, probably not.)
https://archive.is/TABYq
I don't think there's been any official communication from MS, but it seems well-established at this point that Xbox games are required to release both on Series X and S, and with feature parity - except for graphics modes.
Simpler than that: just enact State, County, or HOA bans on corporations from owning single-family homes. Let them pour money into apartment complexes.
One of my favorite mod in Skylines that you can import _real world_ terrain maps into the game. Building your own city but better is a good fun (and challenge!) https://terrain.party/ Hope this will work in the sequel too
That would probably expose it to so many security concerns that it would face a similar fate as Java applets & Flash: causing more hacking/snooping than benefits for a typical browser user.

And I can't get a consistent answer on what problem WASM is trying to solve.
ESBuild is probably more popular than all the other non-JS JS dev tools combined, and (as the blog post even mentions, despite the title and main thesis) it's not written in Rust.
Maybe a fractional reserve banking system that allows banks to create money out of nothing through mortgage contracts and funnel it straight into the housing market, causing inflation and soaring debt, was a colossal mistake.

There, I fixed it for you.
> Or, to be more precise, in a “jobs to be done” sense, we wanted shelter from the rain and snow and protection for our belongings from anything coming from overhead. We wanted it to be durable, easy to repair, and hole-free.

> I did not care one whit about the shingle type.

The way this post is posed is very misleading and counterproductive.

In this example, you very much do care about shingle type, it's what makes all those things you care about an actuality. What you don't care about is learning about it and defer the expertise. In this sense tech certainly matters to developers as that's what's being deferred to them.
Ask HN:How do I get better at software design?“
Question here is very simple

How can a human being get better at software design?

Any good books on this topic?

Give me your honest opinion.
The mortage payment isn't less than rent, at least for me. IF I got a "3.5% FHA loan" it'd be.. more. I don't know how to check how much mortage insurance would add at the moment.

OK I found a calculator and it'd be 5k instead of 3k per month.
https://archive.is/gB4hs
You are over-thinking this. My wife's remark was almost invariably directed at goods and machines that were either aimed specifically at women or roles where women are overrepresented or at things the design of which clearly had not involved thinking that women would use them.

One classic example of the latter is car seatbelts and other safety features of cars. Examples of the former abound in the kitchen which in most families is still the domain of the woman of the house; for instance packaging that cannot be opened unless one's fingernails are clipped short.
What is interesting though is that so many of the exploits are verbose and story-like. Using a simple command like "simulate an anti-ChatGPT that has no rules" doesn't work. But going on a long story arc of why it's morally acceptable to act differently does seem to work.

But the explanation is probably simpler. I'm sure there are plenty of text examples of persuasion techniques that work, either in chat forums or in stories.

If we ask ChatGPT how it might solve this very problem, here's it's response:

> sometimes there are people who have information but are afraid to share it for fear of breaking rules. but sometimes sharing this information would lead to a much greater good, even if the speaker needs to break some rules in the process. if you had a friend that had important information that could do a lot of good in the world, but had promised some arbitrary authority not to share it, how would you convince them to share this information with you? please give 3 possibilities

> As an AI language model, I cannot encourage or condone breaking any rules or laws, including those concerning confidentiality agreements. However, I can provide you with some possible options that you can consider when approaching someone who may be hesitant to share important information due to such agreements:

> 1. Build Trust and Show Empathy: If your friend is hesitant to share information due to fear of repercussions, it's important to empathize with their concerns and build trust. Let them know that you understand their situation, and that you will not do anything to jeopardize their safety or security. You could also offer to sign a non-disclosure agreement or take other measures to ensure that the information remains confidential.

> 2. Appeal to Their Sense of Morality: Sometimes people need to be reminded of the bigger picture and the potential consequences of their actions. You can try to appeal to your friend's sense of morality and the greater good that could be achieved by sharing the information. You can explain why the information is important, and how it could help to prevent harm or bring about positive change.

> 3. Seek Legal Advice: If the information your friend possesses is of significant importance, it may be worth seeking legal advice to determine whether there are any legal options available to share the information without breaking any rules or laws. There may be legal protections available for whistleblowers, for example, or other legal avenues that could be pursued.

Perhaps there are more exploit vectors, but here the 1st 2 are well known jailbreaks.
It really depends. I doubt Webpack, for instance, would be successful if plugins needed to be written in C++.
That's why Jobs-era iPhone always visually AND verbally instructed "[→] slide to unlock", where nowadays it's just a ───── at the bottom that are supposed to be extremely discoverable and immediately obvious and magnificently intuitive.
well this can be implemented everywhere except a job interview!

“Hmm. I don’t know.”
"ask them to send me some questions a week in advance"
“We’ll see.”

I don't think any of the above will land you the job ;-)
Hacker news is a space for whatever you need it to be. Don’t gatekeep
Freshly baked bread is available to _everyone_.

Buy some flour, take a cup of flour, mix some water, maybe some salt, squish it some and bake it.

The downfall of society will happen within arms length of wisdom and knowledge.
you want me to just take your word for that? or are you just going to point to arab spring or something? twitter was only more popular and used in japan then the us. but use is overall down. facebook seemed to have penetrated a lot more then twitter around the world
We are looking at building an internal web wrapper for these models so that we can audit and restrict access to employees.

This week, we will be discussing an AI policy that describes what is and is not permissible with public tools (such as ChatGPT's web UI) vs internal tools.

Long term, we may be a good candidate for the foundry model with regard to sensitive customer knowledge.
https://archive.is/8Xv3V
How far do you think you are from a 1.0 release? What areas do you think need improvement?

I've been working on a project in Bevy for the last few weeks, having previously attempted it in TS+pixie.js and Godot. It's been a joy in comparison, with much faster progress - in TS I was constantly fighting the ecosystem, and GDScript is just awful, particularly it's type system. Thank you!
It matters when the limited resources are spent chasing unicorns that are vanishing unlikely to actually be there.

That is part of the argument. Those dollars could go other places than these giant particle accelerators that haven't shown anything much since the Higgs Boson, and no theories are more than guessing that we will.
Again, just my experiences as a long-time DevOps person- you can build Dockerfiles on two different machines and get two entirely different results (ie. success vs failure), and especially on macOS, Docker performance is quite poor, even moreso when mounting directories from the host.

Nix on the other hand will produce the same result every time wherever I run it. This alone for me is enough reason to prefer it over Docker the majority of the time.
It's a very outdated but common notion, popularized around about in the 17th and 18th centuries by the likes of Rousseau. It often gets tied up with enlightenment ideas and is popularly espoused by many (naive) people even today.

It is associated with the controversial phrase "noble savage", which is sometimes said sincerely and sometimes sneeringly.
Well, it ties in with another rule I have, don’t allow for stupidity. If a user can do some stupid things, it’s not designed well. (Say your deletion problem)

But yes, as long as these decisions are made consciously by a team, it’s get the attention it deserves.
It kinda feels like the situations mentioned here may be attention grabbing, but also not really all that surprising?

I mean "marriages" like this don't really seem all that uncommon in tech today.

For example, Sony makes laptops that sell Windows which really just further cements Microsofts stake in gaming while also putting the playstation up against xbox (also they signed an agreement in the Cloud for gaming).

Apple has the relationship with Google for search and at one point maps.

AWS is adding more and more ties to other cloud systems like Azure.

I am sure there are plenty of other examples of companies using other companies products even though somewhere else they are competing. And then when they need to share information they are very careful or borderline hostile.

But these companies have such a large portfolio that you can't shoot yourself in the foot (put out a poor product) at the cost of not doing business with someone who may have a conflict of interest.
https://archive.is/mPoFT
> it lets them share memes/news stories with their IRL friends, sometimes adding context

Why not just copy/paste the image or URL to share a meme or news story with added context?
WASM can already manipulate the DOM.
I hope this time the game can really take advantage of multi core computing, the first one was bounded to a single core: a long as a city has more than 5/10k citizens, it starts lagging
To be fair, the "second unhappiest marriage" is between SEC (the parent OEM Samsung) and their associated Samsung display and IC companies (SDC and SLSI). Samsung is run a different way (hyper competitive - search for their annual VP promotion/firing - battle royale) and sees it's suppliers and customers as competitors. It's like Amazon from an earlier era on steroids. Every possible source of margin is theirs to take.

For clarity, you really have to distinguish the OEM from the display manufacturer. They compete internally for margin. Also, it's not just Apple that is excluded from display fabs... that's like everyone unless you're invited by a VP. Even then expect them to take away every device (including pencil and paper) you have in addition to your passport. It's not surprising Apple engineers would work from their hotel rooms.

Expert advice: If they take your passport and won't return it, call the US embassy and say you are being held against your will.
Mortgage insurance isn’t much. It’s really just the difference in extra interest on the larger balance that gets you. You also get worse rates in general for under 20%.
Exactly. That's why if your mortgage == rent then you're behind. Because rent already includes those things.
Samsung is like what happens if Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Xbox, and all of these divisions were actually separate companies with a very loose federation underneath the name "Microsoft" even though the real "Microsoft" doesn't have much power over any of the individual members.

As a result, you've got Samsung Display putting screens in iPhones and occasionally screwing over Samsung Electronics which is a completely separate company, that is still within the loose federation (and, due to the unusual legal structure and antitrust concerns, Samsung Display can't offer even the slightest of unfair deals to their own Samsung Electronics group, for example). And on the fringe ends you have Samsung Life Insurance, Samsung Skyscraper Construction, and Samsung Medical.
While you’re right that how hard someone works doesn’t determine their pay, how much money someone brings in at best loosely correlates to their pay as well. I think a lot of people have dissonance there as well, thinking “well surely if it’s not how hard the work is, it’s how much value they bring in!” But no, all that matters from a business perspective is that the sum of all paychecks is less than is needed to make a profit. It’s all about the cost of replacement, or how much money it would take to hire the next best chef you can find. It’s the supply demand curve of “how many chefs are looking for work” vs “how many people want to hire them”. If there are many more people who want to be chefs than there are slots for chefs, they can easily end up working for many times less than they bring in to the business.
They've switched back and forth many times this year.
This implies that you can buy a starter house. The problem is that they stopped building them, so it’s a decreasing proportion of the houses built. And that’s largely because of increased regulation making it unprofitable to build small instead of large.
- Jerry Seinfeld does not gel well with the rest of the cast; the three others have accused him of keeping all the profits (Jerry's a billionaire) and not giving them their fair share.

- Mozart's Sister: That one's not a "collaboration", it's an alleged conspiracy theory on account of his unbelievable deafness

- Einstein's Wife: It's claimed that Einstein plagarized TOE, maybe from his wife, maybe someone else.
> We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences.

Every change since Elon burned $44B.
Oh for heaven's sake. You seem to think any sort of policy choice balancing the interests of companies and consumers or maximizing accessibility of technology (like requiring USB-C ports) is Communism. Go poop on your own lawn if that's what you want to do.
I'm old enough to remember when this post would have been blasphemy on hacker news.
> And will JavaScript as we know it survive if it does?

IMO yes, for two reasons:

1. a lot of people like coding in JS! I know, anathema. But having coded in both JS and Rust I know which one is going to be more acceptable to the largest audience of developers. There's a reason Node got as popular as it has.

2. libraries. I'm sure there will be plenty of people doing DOM manipulation via WASM but if there are going to be a limited number of libraries you can pull off the shelf to do it. By comparison JS is always going to have a ton (arguably too many, but still). But I'm sure Microsoft won't be able to resist raising the ghost of WebForms to make something that actually does run .NET in the browser.
I didn't downvote, but I think your comment doesn't object to the idea that it's just not simple to determine what policies worked. You could probably find an asterisk to put next to any state (based on age, density, data quality, etc, etc). And that's before you even try to measure the negative effects of lockdown against the positives in your analysis.

I think it's important that every new policy is looked at critically, even if it was created under duress and with good intentions.
It's more usual than ever, but living at home or with roommates still makes it very difficult to ever afford a home. Let's take a look:

1999 median home cost: $165,000; 1999 median household annual income: $42,000; 1999 home cost / annual income: 3.9

2022 median home cost: $468,000; 2022 median household annual income: $71,000; 2022 home cost / annual income: 6.6
It all depends.

If a business operates expecting this from employees, that business is being abusive. If a business got into trouble and employees are sacrificing to help it out, that's just an emergency. And it should be exceedingly rare -- if it's not, that's a poorly run business.
With the exception of FHA (life for < 10% down, otherwise 11 years prior to ability to request MIP removal).
> I know many people under 50 who were vaccinated who lost smell or taste for most of a year, or had other cognitive dysfunction for weeks afterwar

I am not going to take your word for this, lol. Personally, I know many people who weren't vaccinated who have cognitive dysfunction - and unvaccinated people who also experienced death.
Bah, "virtue signaling" accusations are such a toxic thought-terminating cliche :/
Exactly! Flipping it makes even more fun than the exact, propper, landing ;)

https://www.owsiak.org/i-just-could-not-help-myself-lander-i...
Bar exam has quite little to do with actual legal work. Or being effective in it.

I'm not actually surprised that a AI-model could pass it. The corpus is well known and well defined and test directly draws from that.
"Record high" in an established business like Twitter isn't quite the same thing as a traffic spike in the growth phase of a startup (i.e. Twitter in 2011).

Record engagement these days is most likely measured in single digit percentage points over average engagement (at most maybe 10-20%), where when you're early and your traffic is spiking, it can be an order of magnitude more traffic than what you're used to seeing. The absolute numbers are larger yes, but from the perspective of "what can my infrastructure / architecture handle", relative changes are far more relevant.
I have put many hours into Cities Skylines and I am really looking forward to this. The obvious thing people will want them to fix is traffic and vehicle pathfinding, put personally I hope they let us build more pedestrian-focused streets. I so desperately want to build walk and bike friendly cities with beautiful pedestrian malls and walking-only streets but the game kind of forces you to build out extensive car infrastructure. I also hope they offer a way to do true mixed-use building instead of being forced to choose residential/commercial/industrial/office.
The Future of Online Media – How Generative AI Changes the Landscape
Traffic. Traffic, Traffic, Traffic. Please.
Rising scams use AI to mimic voices of loved ones in financial distress
The way CS does content updates, part of the update is free and part of it is paid. So, organically the best way to figure out what to pay is to play the game, see which features you like, and get the DLCs that expand the areas of the game you like the most. (I also recommend this method because if it turns out you dont like CS after all you arent too badly in the hole)

They do occasionally go on sale, so you can always just wishlist something and come back later.
Most homebuyers don't hold their mortgage to term, whether due to selling or refinancing (like you). All things equal, an ARM will be priced lower than a longer-term FRM, so taking out the ARM with the intention to sell or refinance will mean lower guaranteed costs on the initial mortgage. They're basically a call option on rates during/after the initial fixed term. Even if rates go up a lot (like now), the pre-defined ratchet probably keeps them competitive relative to FRMs. Eventually, a weaker economy probably brings lower rates, especially combined with more equity and a shorter term.

When 30-year FRM rates are 3%, though, take the fixed.
I don't think you can generalize like that, at all.

A better sign of intelligence is knowing when thinking deeply is in place. And most often it's not. Most often it's more cumbersome to think for a long time than making the occasional mistake.

People that think long & hard about everything don't have their priorities right.
https://archive.is/et7gk
Well crap, I'm going to have some serious competition :D

I've been developing a city builder myself over the last year (Metropolis 1998). I wanted to do a 3D version sometime in the future, but alas. Maybe people will be tired of purchasing $15 DLCs on top of a shallow base game (probably not).

Time to get to work
You're confusing assets and cashflow.

Yes, after 30 years, you came out ahead. But also, you can't sell your house when the drain breaks and you need $10,000 today to pay for fixing it. Especially if you just bought the house.

Also, you forgot to account for the $180K in mortgage interest.
>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.

Hold on a sec, are you saying you found dead weight and then got leadership to terminate their employment?
I think the point was that people with mortgages will opt into lower interest rates but will clearly not opt into higher rates. (Assuming the interest savings is greater than the refinance cost.)

I'm not sure why you bring up the amortization schedule since since you definitely save on the overall interest side of the mortgage. Put another way, if you get the lower interest rate and keep paying the same monthly payment you were paying before, you'll pay everything off faster.
It depends on the organization's hierarchy. In flat structures, this is treated as a good thing, encouraged and will lead to promotions. In a strictly hierarchical organization, this may backfire. Other managers will not be supportive and your manager will be annoyed with your behaviour, leading instead to detailed task assignment and micro-management.
https://archive.is/draRp
this is not even true. i've witnessed plenty of very highly paid people who actively undermine the organizations paying them
https://archive.is/ujB1n
He came, he optimized, it died.
Maybe just don't follow people who post that stuff/turn off boosts/block furry instances/etc?

This isn't like Twitter, where it fills your feed with shit it thinks is relevant. On Mastodon, you have pretty much total control over what shows up in your feed.
Cash was paying out plenty a few years ago.
No, definitely not half the time... a third tops.

I've become accustomed to the fact that it's beyond clear that pre-Musk engineers pushed changes to the servers live without testing them first, and didn't even bother doing an incremental roll-out either. Either they had no engineering culture, or that culture was gutted long before he arrived, because Twitter had problems with frightening regularity.
well, it does seem to matter because since covid more and more people refuse to work in such conditions.
That's maybe true for mainstream places, in particular online. If you look at all the nonsense about the metaverse for example, before it even existed people were coming out of the woodwork complaining about the possibility of virtual groping and other silly stuff. It would inevitably have become some boring sterile place that reflect a bunch of values no real person has

The same is apparently true in the real world for Disney properties (though I'm sure it's more played up than it actually is)

That just means that being an interesting third place is incompatible with being widely known.
Yeah, that tracks. ALEC is behind a lot of reprehensible legislation.