skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When my wife was working on her PhD in linguistics she ran across a highly referenced source that she could not find. She followed the chain of reference and reached out to the author who cited the source the first time. He replied that this citation was a typo in the original article and give her the correct source reference. He said that he was chagrined to have seen this typo cited in scores of papers with apparently no one bothering to actually look it up.
By cultural I meant American. Just to be clear I am not American.

I'm not quite sure what your point is. You seem to be supporting what I'm saying which is you can get by perfectly well with various choices. You made choices (poor or not) to not go after the biggest paying jobs and you're doing great. Why does a new grad today have to go work for Google?

In the US there are lots of really good paying software jobs that aren't with the biggest tech companies. I've worked remotely for a small US startup many years ago and got paid really well. The current market is tight but over the last decade if you had a pulse and could code you could get pretty decent job.
You're confusing interest rates and inflation.
Read the whole paper! Seriously, do it. The author is being cheeky with showing how an academic urban legend gets made and it takes the whole paper to get the punchline.
That’s your argument back? A completely unrelated comment? ::facepalm::
Part of the 90%. True but not particularly insightful.
This doesn't exclude theft as the reason of the performance.
On Betrayal
Yeah I realised after I made the comment. Thanks for the spot.
> You would miss out on trying one of the most significant innovations in a decade because of a phone number?

Yes. It's a mater of principle.
The US has been subsidizing global trade for the better part of a century, while not actually getting all that much out of it economically - geopolitically, sure, it's been great, but economically it mostly just decimated domestic low-end manufacturing and resource extraction.

Let's see how happy you'll be once the US turns entirely inwards and the rest of the world has to secure their global trade routes. The US will be fine. It can be largely self sufficient, despite the hysteria over our inability to manufacture things, we can redevelop the low end stuff fairly easily, and we're re-shoring the ultra-high end with even TSMC making chip plants here. It'll be a bumpy road, but all indicators are that the US is re-shoring manufacturing, developing energy independence, and turning inwards.
yea, uninstalling it would make it unplayable.
This was a really good read! It strikes at the heart of some frustration I feel when people get smug about "the science" as if they have checked anything for themselves. Seriously: be less confident.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics - Twain

Key observations:

* All else being equal, we would expect 50% of homes to be unaffordable to a median buyer. This is the reasonable base figure (not zero). We would expect 2 in 5 if everyone were buying homes they could properly afford.

* But they're comparing median county incomes to homes in a metro area. For example they call out Boise, ID but use income from Ada county (already 20% lower!). This issue alone could account for the difference.

* There is also an issue of counting homes for sale, vs homes in general. If more expensive homes are sold more often (or, are listed for sale longer - say years - because they're unique) then we will see a skew towards more expensive homes being listed more frequently. It won't accurately represent the actual underlying home inventory.

I recommend not reading too much into these numbers.
isn't that expected for a 4 core?
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When was the last time you took ownership of a multi-million $$ contract? It actually happens quite often. This is business, not a Netflix subscription.
Ahh that's awesome. I wished so badly I could attend MacWorld Expo back then. My parents went a couple times, but I didn't get to join. I still have some super cool swag they brought back, though, at least! Those were fun times indeed :)
probably??
A 3-4 year newer CPU architecture, and a 2 generation improvement on FAB.
Yes.
Especially, provided that this actually a good old tab interface. Not that there had been a time when we knew how to make tabs unambiguous that anyone could still remember, but… Ok, on closer inspection, is this rather a horizontally laid out select (or radio group)? Does the content below change with options? Is there anything, so we could tell, whether it's tabs or a select and what the consequences are of choosing either option? Is the vertical white space a functional divider/separator or just flat UI design? I guess, the transaction business is just a leap of faith…
I would like to see more distribution in jobs. Starting with remote jobs and continuing with distributed work locations for non-remote jobs (to smaller cities and towns).
It looks a lot like attempting to use default as a strategy in contract negotiations, but it is 100% default.
also Scala, which I'd take over Java any day
Shakespeare feels more like it's due to language drift and the changes are necessary to make it accessible.

The Roald Dahl fiasco feels more like editors out of 1984 making edits to control thoughts.

Or, without reading conspiracy into it, it feels like some current "writers" using someone else's name to push their views on how things should be. Whatever is going on they seem to be changing the story itself. I don't think language drift can be blamed, because it is an active, intentional act to change our language.

Or maybe it's just a bubble wrap the children issue.

This is why we each choose a book to memorize, just in case.
This certainly plays into it. From my understanding, part of "owning" a brand is actively protecting it from generifying (generification? ... keeping the brand name from turning into a generic designation). If a term becomes synonymous with a class of product, it's no worthy of trademark protection.

That's why companies are fairly protective of their brand names and insist that you use phrasing like "Scotch Brand adhesive tape" and avoid using the verb "to google".

Terms like "Escalator" and "Zipper" fall under that category.

On the other hand, even though you may think "Kleenex" is a generic term, good look trying to sell facial tissues under that moniker.
You might read the rest of the article, which is actually about why people believe statements like the one you quote. In other words, that quote is a trap - the decimal point story itself is an urban legend.
It's a good idea to have a plan if you will fall into long coma, be unconscious and unrecognized in a hospital for months, get falsely imprisoned in a foreign country etc. For backups it's a good idea to not rely on providers that charge your credit card every month, but instead have a wallet, or you can pay for multiple years (yes, there is at least one that allowed me to do that) in advance.

For webapps... Given that in that time there will be probably many vulnerabilities discovered, maybe it's better you just have backups and restore it from them once your credit card declines, given e.g. GDPR - or equivalents - implications. Assuming you don't have employees (if that, see below).

And if you die.. if you don't have dependants, who cares. If you do, that's basic business continuity operation.
But keep in mind, you clearly have a lot of experience using zoom. Whoever set this up may not have done it very often. If you're new to it, none of this stuff is obvious.
My favorite thing is gmail or chat telling me about some new feature using an overlay instead of, I dunno, emailing it to me or sending me a chat message.
Nice list. What does "Distanced from themselves and their source code." mean?
Yeah but there are way fewer rich people than there are typical people. Even if an every wealthy person owns 3 homes, wealthy people are not 33% of all homeowners(or families trying to become homeowners).
Sorry, yes - I meant the myth about high iron content of spinach, not the myth about the decimal point error. People may or may not "know" about the decimal point error - that issue is at the heart of this article indeed. But my point is almost an aside about spinach itself.
It doesn't agree. Read the rest of the article.
“This will be the norm until we get more inventory in the market."

I can see how that would be one analysis in dense and growing cities, but I wonder how much of this holds true in less densely populated areas where there are homes available, but they are unaffordable because of insufficient wages.
This is completely expected in a higher interest rate environment. Home prices are sticky and don't change very fast. A good example is the financial crisis of 2008. Housing prices didnt bottom out for 2-3 years.

Were basically at the start of the price reset that will likely take years.
I've wondered about this a lot. My understanding is that VS is still on .NET Framework WPF too; it will take some effort to move it onto .NET Core WPF.

My wild speculation: they'll put some effort into a .NET Core WPF migration and also build out some new features piecemeal in web UI.
> To me, FP in modern functional languages provides abstractions that enable much more straightforward problem solving and understandable code with fearless refactoring.

Maybe, but they remove other abstractions. The lack of Haskell's popularity is a clear indication that the abstractions added are not as valuable to programmers as the abstractions removed.
Maybe if you're the leading provider of meeting software used the world over, you should work to ensure that it is incredibly trivial to host a secure meeting
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You are right to feel insulted, because this relationship is upside down. The founders of "the land of the free" were aware of this problem and that's why everywhere in the founding documents they talk about "the people" that must have liberties, vs "the state" that must be kept on leash. The civil forfeiture problem shows just that: the state has insatiable desire to control the people, and it finds way to do so despite an elaborate framework to keep its tentacles short.
The comment just above you says that if we build things to last, we don’t find anyone to work on that old tech after the initial 5 years.

The software industry is stuck in a rolling thunder: We engineer things to last for 5 years, precisely because programmers expect to have to prepare their resume for the 5-year-newer-tech.

Only Linux and Postgres beat this doom.
Housing speculation is going to be the downfall of western-style capitalism. Outside of a small percentage of upper-middle class and rich people, there is deep frustration about the housing situation among most people.
I think the first bar graph in this article is excellent. I was actually pleasantly surprised that you only had to go back to 2013 to find a situation where 50% of houses for sale were affordable on the median income, which is what you would expect in a balanced situation.

In terms of "where this ends", that graph actually made me more hopeful, because it highlights the transitory nature of the current situation. The reason for-sale inventory is currently so unaffordable is you had a ton of people who paid top dollar for houses in the past few years, but at rock bottom rates. Now rates have skyrocketed, but unemployment is also really low, so at present few people are forced to sell. So you have a ton of people who just refuse to sell right now, because the price would be drastically lower than what they paid when they bought, and they're sitting on long-term mortgages with rates that they'll never see again in their lifetimes.

At some point, either inflation will catch up with home prices, or people will eventually be forced to sell (not just due to job loss but for tons of other reasons that people are putting off right now because they don't want to sell at a loss). The overhang could easily last years, though.
…And that is the difference my friend.

This is life.

Life is inequality.

Not everyone is meant to be an entrepreneur or has the desire to do what it takes to become one.

Trying to convince someone to become an entrepreneur is like trying to convince someone to become a professional athlete or musician.

You must sacrifice frivolity for excellence.

But excellence can always dabble in frivolity.

The choice is ours to make.
Just offering up a food for thought, as I recently did some research in the cost of construction (for the Bay Area, California): I see a lot of comments denouncing NIMBY-ism for the lack of construction or other reasons to answer the question of "Why not just build more housing?" but I suspect this, as true as it is, is the most popular talking point because it's politically a juicy topic to talk about. However, at least in HCOL places like the Bay Area, there is also another very basic economic reason: Construction is simply too expensive.

The cost per square foot of standard construction (wood frame, slab foundation, nothing fancy in terms of doors and windows) is about $450-$550 per square foot. This sets a real hard lower bound on the price of net-new housing. If you're talking larger buildings (more concrete, steel frame, drilled pier foundations in consideration of soil conditions and structural weight) the costs start sky rocketing to unbelievable numbers. Sure we can point at bureaucracy and the permitting process, but when we're talking about large scale construction of SFH and multi-unit residential buildings, the permitting and legal barriers are a small slice of the overall cost pie.

In the Bay Area, and I suspect soon in various geo areas, labor is simply too expensive. (And labor is an input to a lot of costs along the supply chain as well, like wood, concrete, steel, and glass.) In a culture where we all strive to be white collar workers abstracted away from the real physical reality that our world still runs on physical objects, most importantly housing, perhaps "learn to code" is not the universal answer and there needs to be just as much "learn to plumb" or "learn to concrete". And I know this last point is politically touchy, but big buildings housing hundreds and thousands of residents simply don't get built by an all-middle-class society. You need cheap labor (or better yet cheap automation?) so that this housing problem is tractable at an economic level.
I'd rather use JS than python, since at least JS doesn't actively try making programming in a functional style worse
Well Stevie Nicks might disagree that it is less prone to abuse.
I remember seeing this in a store back in 97 and being blown away by the idea of Windows Games running on a TV. I cannot remember the game they were demoing but I remember it wasn't the most amazing demonstration. I think it was just the difference between the bright colours of Mario 64 compared with some very muddy looking racer.
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Good point. I wonder about self-checkouts instead of cashiers, also.
haha! well, my [not-so-great] Performa 5260/120 came with a 1.2gb drive and System 7.5.3 installed, so it's definitely not implausible! In fact the PowerTower Pro 225 came with a 2gb or 8gb drive as standard (and System 7.5.3). Too lazy to search others, but yeah, by the time OS 9 came around, drives of that size were very typical.
They're a company focused on international money transfers...

Did you even read the

> In lots of countries, you have to get at least an AA rating by law.

part? Or what about this part

> there are approximately 300 million people with colour blindness worldwide
The base PS4 and Xbox one are essentially two netbook cpus taped together with a GPU on top. The cpu in Steamdeck is about 2x-4x faster than the one in those consoles.
Do you have a source to backup your claim? USCIS is telling me different. There is currently a 4-year wait on secondary green cards, in which 2021 there was a 2 year wait.
According to the Center of iImmigration Studies, immigration has doubled since Biden took office: https://cis.org/Report/ForeignBorn-Population-Hits-Nearly-48...
1) I would expect that the typical buyer isn't maxing out what they can afford just on a home. So all else being equal I would expect far less than 50% of homes to be unaffordable to a median buyer. Well maybe not "expect", but definitely hope.

And you're writing "median buyer", when the article is talking about "typical household".

The rest of what you wrote are good points. I would like to highlight the article headline: "There Were Half as Many Affordable Homes for Sale in 2022 as There Were in 2021". Hopefully this is temporary.
HN and similar forums are particularly prone to this behavior. We see two messages:

* Message A: X is true

* Message B: Message A is false

Based only on that information (which often is all we have), there is no reason to believe message B rather than message A, but people seem to love a 'debunking' (it seems to make them feel smart).

I seem to remember that it matches a cognitive bias, such as believing the more recent message. Or, maybe we just fall for whoever acts more confident - a literal con game: The person communicating B is claiming to know more than the person communicating A, and for some reason we believe them.
The same is true in computer science. Everyone cites the SHARD paper when discussing database design. But no modern researcher has read it. It does not appear in any archive.

I spoke to several academics who had mentioned it, none had read the original - they all relied on someone else's referencing of it.

See https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/06/where-is-the-original-overv... for more details.
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I'd imagine Starry Night (my favorite!!) would be one of the more complicated ones? Randomly generate the buildings and then gradually draw the dots for them (with the dots eventually twinkling out, alternating)... Most of the screensavers on the site are relatively straightforward from a web/CSS perspective :)
I knew how to write code, not how to make money. Thanks for sharing that article because it's a good one. I'm in good company. For example, Mark Twain blew most of his money on inventions that were never going to work. Nikola Tesla died penniless. And so on.

I just want to add, when you are born in the upper classes and you strike it rich, people around you will recommend you get a wealth manager and hand you business cards. That doesn't happen when you are working class. Your friends and family are equally clueless.
What's happening to lower middle class kids in Iowa? I'm honestly just confused here. To my knowledge, they're getting decent lower middle class jobs and doing fine. Maybe going off to college and moving to the coast, probably not unless they want to leave. I don't think of that particular group of individuals as disadvantaged, at least not in the context of getting into a good college.
> western-style capitalism.

It's happening in China, too.
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It's not about wowing anyone it's about making their app usable to the 300 million colorblind people out there
on a long enough time frame, the odds of finding something useful approaches 1;)

On a serious note, I first heard of the covid pandemic around new years, still in 2019--a few months before it got on any other news sources' radar
> All else being equal, we would expect 50% of homes to be unaffordable to a median buyer. This is the reasonable base figure (not zero).

Not so. In a market where new homes are produced until prices fall below the construction cost and construction costs are modest, it's possible that a large majority or even 100% of local homes could be affordable to the median buyer.
A good rule of thumb is that if it has ever been an infomercial product, it's very most likely fake.

Kevin Trudeau used to advertised speed reading courses that gave you mega memory. He advertised a lot of other snake oil the same way, along with it. There was a whole kit that took years to pay off, but they were all self-delusions and self-fulfilling prophesies since what they promise would happen even without the techniques described if you are primed to expect yourself to achieve the end points.

And they're always half-assed just enough to convince you that it's working, but you just need a little more time to really get it. You never do, though.

I don't base my opinion on him, but he's by far the best example. I just expect that you'll speed up your reading a little bit, and eventually have to go back to normal after realizing how much you don't actually retain.
there's a solid chance said jobs don't pay equitably either
Ha, I thought this was a great line, I guess I always assumed you'd spend all your time building the products you were selling. But I can imagine there's a ton of customer support, unplanned features requests, talking with tax people and other business owners in the space etc etc

"Starting out, I thought bootstrapping meant freedom from the messy complications of building and maintaining relationships. Turns out, it's just the opposite."
I mean while it's harder to support dynamic stuff in rust than say in python, it's certainly not impossible to add dynamic rules in principle.
What part of pet ownership is bad? Seems to me like my dog enjoys life, and his presence has certainly saved me from suicide a few times.
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That’s business. Running a few EC2’s is a lot different than a multimillion dollar contract. Both sides have a little power to swing around.
This is done on a daily basis in all industries worldwide.
Python lambda syntax is ugly as hell.
Apparently the timing isn't tied to the framerate, so after I ran the game on a faster computer I got 2 seconds quite consistently

A smooth… wait… you crashed

Score: 28.7 point crash
Speed: 80.4mph
Angle: 178.4°
Time: 2 seconds
Flips: 0
Max speed: 80.4mph
Max height: 185ft
Engine used: 1 times
Boosters used: 2 times
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There is also profit in diagnoses. For the diagnoser.
It's sort of Q adjacent and appeals to a similar set. Thus the 4chan-like signifiers (every author writes as "Tyler Durden" and the topics tend to be paranoia inclined).
I've seen anywhere from 20%-50% on large, fully-GPU-saturating models (that are transformers. And the one that Hotz was reacting to was a tiny CNN (< 10 MB) that still used the GPU pretty efficiently in the end.

I think that's roughly the upper limit, I think your contributing factors are going to be: 1. How much can you use tensor cores + normal CUDA cores in parallel (likely something influenced by ahead-of-time compilation and methods friendly to parallel execution, I'd guess?), 2. What's the memory format someone is using, 3. What's the dataloader like? Is it all on GPU? Is it bottlenecked? Some sort of complex, involved prefetching madness? 4. How many memory-bound operations are we using? Can we conceivably convert them to large matrix multiplies?, 5. How few total kernels can we run these calls in? 6. Are my tensors in dimensions that are a factor of 64 by 64 (if possible), or if that's not really helpful/necessary/feasible, a factor of 8? 7. Can I directly train in lower precision (to avoid the overhead of casting in any kind of way?)

That should get you pretty far, off the top of my head. :penguin: :D :))))) <3 <3 :fireworks:
> More like, this is the state of software in 2023.

I don't believe it's ever been any different.
> to add to the CC docs you have to submit.

The only time I made a charge back the CC company actively told me to not add any documentation.