skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not being adjacent to a major urban area is in many respects like going back in time some proportion to your distance from one.

This whole conversation devolves into this single point, in my opinion.

There is land out there that is cheap as fuck-all. Lots of places will flat out hand you the deed if you promise to live there and build a house.

Some places will subsidize you moving into a house for $1. You just have to do it. Vermont and Ohio will literally PAY YOU to have you move into some areas (10k).

The problem is that young folks generally don't want to live in those locations.

So while I'm certainly a fan of increasing housing supply in existing metros, I think as long as metro populations keep rising, prices in those areas will continue to to beat inflation because demand is rising.

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If the US wants to alleviate housing costs, the most effective route I think we could go is to simply make it more appealing to live in rural areas. (ex: force those cable companies we paid billions to for rural broadband to go actually install rural broadband)

The whole "Californian diaspora" effect we got during covid is actually a wonderful example of the right way to do this.

If the high price metro is roughly equal in appeal to the lower cost areas, people will exist the high price metro in favor of the lower cost areas, working to equalize costs across the two (prices fall in SF, prices rise in the small towns around it).
>> Alice is much, much worse off for buying. In total, buying costs ~$1.75M, where renting would have cost her ~$1.3M. Because her finances were tied up in the house while the home value has gone up so little, Alice has minimal savings.

The only fallacy here is that most renters I know do not pocket "all that money I am saving renting not buying", AND, the article assumes in 18 years the rent price does not change. But the fixed mortgage would have _not_ changed. Interesting.
My instance and my timelines have zero loli and zero furry porn.

Clearly your experience of Mastodon differs significantly from mine.
The whole story related to Rowling supposedly being transphobe is crazy. All that canceling because she stated in a twit that "person who menstruate" is a stupid circumlocution around the word woman. Then, like religious taboo, it extended to whatever was linked to it. The irony is that all these cancelers are acting very 10-100 worst against whoever is the target of the anger than what happened to the people they are supposedly defending.
I absolutely believe in property ownership. And that land is such a unique and important asset that it is utterly immoral for anyone except society as a whole to own it and tax those on it at close to its full value.
You're relaying something I said earlier because you didn't read my comment that you responded to. "The comments are arranged based on score and time posted. They're not going to be the same for every user who visits the page."
I cannot understand why it is so hard to get people interested in our current genetic diversity and how it may change out comes in everything from diet to disease.

I became a bit of a amateur nutritional geneticist over the last ten years it I have cured my self (mostly) of schizoaffective bipolar disorder as well as my anklosing spondylitis through a mixture of genetics, diet and supplements.

Our genes are shaped by our environment, and that was true even back 30,000 years ago. They say in that article

"Despite broadly similar hunting and gathering lifestyles, people in Western Europe remain genetically distinct from those east of the Baltic Sea."

Hinting and gathering what? Fish or plants? That difference will change FADS1 and FADS2 genetics in a few generations.

And we all carry genetics older than our great grandparents from divers places and everyone things we should all be eating the same food and living the same life.

And in he end they lay it down to population mixing! MAybe it has more to do with environmental pressures.
I would argue that SWC is more mature than esbuild as SWC is on a version 1+ release (the author on their site says that is “late stage beta” and vite still doesn’t use it for production builds), has been around for 2 years longer than esbuild (going by github histories) and is being made by more than one (very capable) person.
Twitter was definitely better at keeping the weird porn siloed off the front pages, but this is a weird thing to twig on given the massive number of commissioned "art" collectives drawing naked fox people on twitter?
>even if it's at the cost of their own health. It's why ultraprocessed foods became so common in the first place.

Agreed.. A thought pattern I've tried to adopt is "Best time to fix your health is today rather than when you've had a heart attack or diagnosed with type-2 diabetes"

Too many people are getting health related diseases (because of diet/exercise)
Clifton, NJ is 30m by bus. You can get a Cape Cod there for 400k. Harrison,NJ and other places around Newark are cheap and close. Maybe not door to door but you’re at Penn or WTC by then. Most people that live in NYC aren’t 30m door to door to work.
Getting Started with Nvidia Instant NeRFs (2022)
Rails was never meant to be run on such a massive load. It was the perfect framework to get twitter take over the market but once that goal was reached a rewrite was unavoidable with a tech stack that can sustain such a load.
But in this case there is almost no difference. Basically same payloads with a slightly different "command" format.
You're essentially saying Seattle is too expensive for chefs to live in, which means it's too expensive for nice restaurants, which means it's too expensive to function.

Now extend your own logic to teachers, service workers, etc.
The people that advance these notions generally don't understand how computer arithmetic works and are lost in a scholarly fantasy world where they think integers solely exist on an unbounded number line. Anything that violates this predicate must be wrong because it forces them to be careful about edge cases.
My bad, I meant OP in regards to whom you directly responded to (emphasis mine)

> they will _probably realize_ years later that they were abused.
>should

Why?
One of my colleagues keeps repeating “reliability is our number one feature”.

I’m not sure it is for 100% of early stage startups, but I guess it is once you exceed some minimum usage threshold.

That said, definitely appreciate the detailed explanation.
An >100 year ship still in active duty naval use:

Kommuna is a submarine salvage ship in service with the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet and the world's oldest active duty naval vessel.[2] A double-hulled catamaran, she was laid down at the Putilov Factory (now the Kirov Factory) in St. Petersburg in November 1912 as Volkhov. The ship was launched the following year, and commissioned on 14 July 1915. She was renamed Kommuna on 31 December 1922. Kommuna has served in the Russian Imperial, Soviet, and Russian Federation navies through the Russian Revolution and two World Wars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_salvage_ship_Kommuna
Plus, if the waste is someone's pet project or initiative, you might get into trouble if you imply they had poor judgement in green lighting it.
This is one of those areas where the "proper channels" are heavily compromised though
There are so many great changes here, especially the API simplifications and parallelization improvements- but windows as components is huge.

This was a particularly thorny area for me personally, and pretty excited to see this change.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/twitter-manager-dail...
I hope they don't go again with a car-centric idea of city building, but seeing the steam page screenshots I'm preparing for disappointment.
I wonder if this will still use Unity
That math is my favorite example of economists not living in the real world. It doesn’t account for the ability to refinance.
Always Be Closing: https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-y...
"Risk-free" is a common term you'll hear in finances that basically means, no risk aside from a governmental collapse. That's still a risk but falls outside their scope.
This article had huge influence on me when I first read it. It helped me to understand that I'm not alone, and that there are people like that in the world. That thinking slow is not a mental deficiency or lack of something, but rather different way of processing information. There was nothing wrong with me. And it gave me the hope that people who think slow can be successful too. You just have to play your strengths and cover for your weaknesses.
Do you know that Cities Skylines introduces the services after you reach certain population milestones? It starts with just Power and Water. https://skylines.paradoxwikis.com/Milestones
PMI is held buy the purchaser not the lender. It’s one of the few financial transactions set up like this.
Your comment is murderous, I don't care particularly about your woes.
I'm a new immigrant to the US, and housing is my single biggest worry together with my work visa.

Our household income is north of 300k, but housing still seems unaffordable. It might sound like whining, but we only achieve this level of income recently, so our lifelong savings are in the low 6 figures. We got no assets or property abroad, and no family that can help us to get in the property ladder.

Even old, basic houses in our suburbs outside town go for ~$1M. I spend an inordinate amount of mental energy calculating how we can jump into the property ladder as quickly and safely as possible. My current plan involves saving for a few years and dump a good chunk of cash into a down payment; it doesn't seem we could ever afford a property otherwise.

I wonder how property prices affect "the american dream". It's baffling to me that I'm so worried about housing while making a top ~5% income.
Interlisp Medley open source project
Interlisp is a major branch of Lisp out of Xerox Parc.

There is an effort to recover the project and make it widely available.

If you're interested in the project contact info@interlisp.org

The source code is available at https://github.com/Interlisp
WebGPU support?
Weird how it changes over time. I still get very introvert periods where I can't stand being around other people, but now also a longing for company sometimes.

I think part of it is that I'm better at being around people now - I've learned how to avoid being socially inept (well, mostly), and I'm less anxious around people.
For me, selling means traveling, but virtual discovery calls are also the norm - traveling is expensive (both money and time) and I'm not traveling to meet a prospect until I've qualified them. And sure, if you're in financial services, you probably ought to live in NYC... maybe you wouldn't ever even need to leave. But I'd wager that in most other industries which are a bit more distributed geographically, as long as you're willing to hop on a plane at a moments notice, you'll be okay.
If you can't fit all of that in four and a half thousand dollars then I don't know what to tell you. I'll repeat myself - someone who has 4.5k left after paying rent is not struggling to make ends meet by any definition of the word, in Seattle or elsewhere.
I stopped using the client software on Mac (work provided) for the web client this year and haven't looked back.
To me that's a whole different game, since the fact of being in a truck greatly limits the quality and variety of food and service you can offer. But I think it can be a good business, with less costs. The main problem with food trucks is that you can't sell alcoholic beverages, so you'll lose the most important part of your income.

Edit: To add to my previous point: A person who can be a successful food truck entrepreneur would probably make a much better return investing his skill and money into a non-food venture. Food trucks are expensive, for the price you need to pay to get that business going, you could buy the equipment needed to start a more lucrative business.
Nobody, but you must see how this can be abused to do so. A system that can be abused will be abused given the right incentives. As it stands companies are incentivized to pay as little for labor as they can get away with, and if they are allowed to “allow” workers to work excessive overtime, they will. And it will cost every other worker our free time.

If you enjoy your work, that’s great, just do your work during work hours, don’t use your free time to undervalue other workers in the industry.
What is TFA in this context?
The main problem is inflation, and the second problem is that most houses are owned by people (boomers and silent gen people) who already have a lot of wealth (not millionares or anything but they got the opportunity to buy cheap and save for longer time) so there is no real incentive to make housing prices go down and make the net worth of that demographic plummet (you must also remember that almost all politicians belong to that same demographic).
So basically us young and poor people are financing the wealth and comfort of the older generation through inflation.
I haven't seen anyone blaming the engineers. Everyone knows they're completely overstretched.
I've seen two or three bursts of the porn popping through, mostly communities moving on to Mastodon from twitter that get pretty immediately defederated / blocked.
They have a ton of in-house counsel too lol. Little of it would be incremental spend.
Arrow looks super complicated.

Are data types useful for data to/fro web/mobile clients? Encode type into the column header?
Most people are not willing to move away from all of their family, friends, and career. Software engineers are uniquely privileged in that we can work remotely, many, many other careers cannot do that
The Ken Burns effect is a type of panning and zooming effect used in film and video production from still imagery. The name derives from extensive use of the technique by American documentarian Ken Burns. This technique had also been used to produce animatics, simple animated mockups used to previsualize motion pictures, but Burns's name has become associated with the effect in much the same way as Alfred Hitchcock is associated with the dolly zoom.

Documentaries relying heavily on photographs were boring, and Ken discovered that by slowly zooming in, out, or panning sideways it gives the illusion of motion and makes it seem more interesting.

He made a documentary about the civil war that became such a phenom (shown over five nights in 5 parts, 10 hours in all) that by Wednesday everyone in America was rushing home to watch it.
One thing that annoys me about the first game is the way the commute times are not factored in at all to happiness or whatever. People literally go from one side of the map to the other for work and you aren't punished for terrible transit design (and cars magically disappear). I think the AI is too crappy for commute times to be a feature, but I hope they improve AI and add it for the sequel because it is just one of the most important aspects of city design.
The trick is to start small, like a country town with farms and a small downtown. Build from there.

There's also the flip side which is just sandbox building a city to your specifications and ignoring the city building aspects of it. Almost like building a model of a city.
and Java 8.0 /s
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Bread takes hours to make and lasts for one day.
So unless you wanna wake up at 3 am (or have a dedicated stay-at-home person making bread every day) it's not really a realistic option for many people.
> This sounds a _bit_ far-fetched? It's really, really, hard to imagine a phone-scale MicroLED being practical at _any_ price _now_, never mind when the iPhone X came out or at a price anyone could afford.

This sounds a _bit_ far-fetched? It's really, really, hard to imagine a phone-scale LiDAR being practical at _any_ price _now_, never mind when the iPhone 12 Pro came out or at a price anyone could afford.

(For reference, LiDAR cost tens of thousands of dollars and took a ton of space before being miniaturized in iPhones)
The studio is worth it if you're walking to your restaurant 6 or 7 days a week and checking out other neighborhood hot spots. If you're commuting to an office tower a few days and on Zoom or hiking the rest, it's not. And of course if you make it easier or harder to drive to the office (and consequently worse or better to get around on foot) the prices would shift to reflect that, a good example of how the crisis Andre Cooper is writing about hamstrings unrelated things like transportation policy.
3 was the most likely, third party changes slowly breaking stuff
Yes that's the same person I quoted, "papito".

Their "probably" was about them probably realizing, not probably being abused.

OP was absolute in their accusation of abuse in his above post that I quoted.

That's why I asked them for specific examples.
And it's not just the home you own. For decades now, the tax and financial system, at least in the US, has incentivized being a landlord even if you are below middle class. Everything you put into a rental is deductible, low down payments, rising rents made it very, very easy to at least break even against a mortgage payment.
Particularly excited about AccessKit integration. As Bevy's announcement says, as far as we know, this makes Bevy the first general-purpose game engine with first-party accessibility support.
not news, well known, easy to infer.
No, you get pre-built binaries. Of course you can compile everything yourself if you want
I feel like it works well but supports so few mods that it's limiting.
> Last year I was bored and I started to break down our cloud spend

I read it thinking they meant to their cloud platform bills.

But you bring up a good hypothetical regardless. This is why people are not necessarily overjoyed to have folks from other teams sniffing around... if they think you are looking for "inefficiencies" all the more so. Getting laid off isn't the only threat, making their job a lot harder/more unpleasant is also one. Or just being blamed for being bad at their jobs.

To the organizations bottom line, and perhaps to your bosses, it's all the same either way. Hey, you saved money. To your co-workers, obviously not.

You've got to build up trust, that you're looking to make their job more pleasant, not more unpleasant, or non-existent.
First Principles on AI Progress
But if you do any sort of math on those sizes then you probably want them to be signed anyway to avoid -1 rolling over to UINT_MAX and bugging out your system. Automatic signed to unsigned type coercion is extremely bug prone, so better avoid using unsigned integers entirely unless you never want to use them in math formulas. You avoid many more bugs by limiting collections to 2 billion than by mixing signed and unsigned integers. I have never had a bug related to signed collection sizes, but I have had a lot of bugs related to unsigned to signed casts.
Most of these costs (saving for retirement, insurance, subscriptions, car) would be consistent across the US and is not unique to Seattle. $100k in a very expensive city is not much by any means, however what's more concerning is the costs you outlined are consistent and rising for even those living in LCOL or making even less than $100k.
$90k salary and $2k rent was my situation when I moved to Seattle many years ago. It definitely was comfortable.

My wife was able to also get comparable work and that money wasn't at all needed to help make ends meet, so it went right into student loans and those got paid right quick.

I moved from the Midwest and people warned me about the CoL etc. But you just gross more even if the apartment etc is a bigger percent. And cash is king especially if you have debt or just like buying nice things or both.
Show HN: New Moderation Model for UGC and AI Generated Content
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As a first step, we've developed a model that can identify both safe and unsafe content, as well as artificial images. Given the rapid growth of AI-generated content, we anticipate that companies will face significant challenges in keeping their platforms safe for users, and we believe that our approach is well-positioned to tackle these problems head-on.
> ... I have nearly zero chance avoiding a sizable portion of what academic scientists label as ultraprocessed. ...

Can you explain a bit why? Isn't what you eat your choice? What's the problem, exactly, I really don't understand why you have nearly zero chance.
At the national scale, people can build. Despite this, a house can be a good investment if a certain area becomes sought-after, and there are reasonable limits to how much can be built there.
> In general, I'm pretty sure that in the vast majority of cases, people who sleep on the floor at the office do not end up financially independent for it.

Doesn’t matter. In the context of software design it’s a well known trope and most who do it enjoy the work:
>maybe betting against human lives doesn’t feel right

This is an inappropriate emotional appeal. Real estate is dependent upon the price/value of labor. It's betting for/against labor prices.

Labor is not your life. You are more than your job.
In theory sure, but 20% is an arbitrary regulation not some measurement of risk.
The majority of homes in America are occupied by their owners (this is what home-ownership rates measure). It is not true to to say the majority of American adults are homeowners - that ratio is a lot lower.
You can see Bevy's release history here: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/releases where you can see that there have historically been releases with breaking roughly every 2 months (although the last one was back in Nov 2022)
Only because it is now hyped and cool to do so.

Having an improved JIT, or compiled managed languages like Go, D, Java, C#, Dart is a much better option than a language for doing kernel stuff.

Leave Rust for kernel and device drivers, that is where not having any kind of automatic memory management kind of matters.
Thanks for mentioning this. NAM is really a requirement for Sc4 at this point.
There's another plausible theory that the just implemented it by counting database reads. So of course a locked test account will have more reads every time you look.
I was referring to second para or statement.
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> If I rented all it costs me is a phone call to my landlord.

Do you think your landlord would be fine staying in the red when all of these expenses creep up? Why wouldn't they just increase your monthly rent by 1/12th what they've spent upon lease renewal? Or is is that they actually get their Homeowner's Insurance claims taken seriously because they have n > 1 insured homes with the same provider?
A trivia vending machine made with a Raspberry Pi
Using a Raspberry Pi to replace the coin box on a food vending machine is a stroke of genius.
New Horizons was the probe that went to Pluto.
I'm having trouble following you.

> What is appreciating is the land underneath the house

> Imagine if we could buy a 3d printed home for 50 percent of current costs.

Why would the latter make much difference if the former is dominating the price of the house?

We can already test a version of this in the real world. Home builders are building largely identical houses now as they were 10 years ago, but the houses cost three times as much. I don't believe for a minute that my builder pays 3x for the people he employes to build the homes, or the materials, as he did in 2012. I also doubt very much he's just pocketing a huge amount more profit. He's paying a lot more for land now than he did in 2012.
Aren't condos basically illegal in many places? That's at least part of the problem, since obviously single family homes can't sprawl forever
No, it didn't
Coding: A simple but not simplistic approach