skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Curating the past is 99% wasted effort since looking back is rare.

This is the worst kind of self-fulfilling prophecy. It is exactly the same as 'tidying your home is not worth it because you will need to search for things anyway'. For it to be useful, you need to have proper atomic commits and useful messages, same as a good organization, otherwise looking back would have little added value. And it's also something with little overhead if the discipline is integrated into your workflow.

The only reason you wouldn't need a good history is if your git repository is 100% bug-free. Then you don't need to understand why or how the bug was introduced, if some weird piece of code is handling a very specific edge-case or was just poorly written. Is the bug generalizable? It's also something you'd probably see fast by knowing if it was introduced in a local commit or a refactoring one.

Code-wise 'history-obliviousness' (or proper Git hygiene) is among the worst banes of programmers, I believe.
Well with somewhat justified mockery for his metaverse vision. Meta's reality lab isn't doing too good. minus Quest/Quest2, the execution for XR is just really sloppy, even John Carmack can't stand the pace of Meta[1], fixes takes 6 month(!) to push through.

Even if Zuck wanted, his team doesn't seem to be able to pull that off, be that of tech limitation or just too many value-extract in the team. It doesn't seem XR is the reality. at least from forseeable futures.

[1]: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1626389610635923457
if this is an argument about MS forcing DX and killing OGL, I remind you that Vulkan had/has Apple's support.
Please identify this "huge class of people" who own more housing than they can possibly live in.

I don't believe they exist.

If you are referring to corporate owners of apartment buildings, that's one thing. But to say there is a huge class of people who are landlords is just unrealistic. Very few people own more than one home, and even fewer people own more than two.
Many asian have white or fair skin.

People of Color mainly refers to people with darker skin.

But ofc it depends who you ask.
“Bowel Movement” seems more appropriate
https://archive.is/xp5eL
The Morning Brew #3659
If letting was illegal the cost of housing would move to reflect that.

Possibly to the point where a mortgage would be cheaper and easier than a rental is currently.

Governments could set themselves up as a monopoly landlord for those people unable to afford even cheap homes.
Posting on mastodon is called microblogging for a reason - cause its a public blog. One can host a single-person instance and quite literally have a mastodon based blog site. Some people seem to confuse it with private messaging. User confusion about what an application or service does or does not is not a good basis on which to base a technical design, though it obviously hints that the particular app was not exactly "self-documenting".

One can only speculate about how the confusion came about, but privacy advocates posting... publicly on mastodon may have unwillingly contributed to a sense that this space is "different" and "better" in every possible way. Yes, the fediverse/mastodon is different and better but in specific ways: it doesnt use algorithmic timelines, it doesn't push ads, it doesnt use dark addiction patterns etc. (though all of those might be reversed for particular instances or new server types).

Unbundling the different issues and educating the broad base of users about what is going on is not just healthy and honest towards users, it may also contribute to having more well defined and stable user requirements about different types of online platforms.
I think it's more about the prevalence of iPhones amongst young people. If most of your friends don't have iPhones, then it makes more sense to use a messaging system everybody can use. US has ~60% iOS market share, European countries have 20-40. Especially for group chats, if you have 10 people in a group, there is very little probability everybody will have an iPhone.
> How would you distinguish money from "income"?

Mortgage underwriters are very good at doing that.
>it’s mostly due to the fact that higher mortgage rates made the listings hitting the market less affordable

House prices didn't appreciate faster, mortgage rates went up. A great transfer of wealth from the property tax man to the banker is afoot.

>Only 9% of homes for sale last year were affordable for the typical Black household, compared with 28% for the typical white household and the lowest share of any race in this analysis.

That seems expected when you account for the fact that blacks have larger families. I don't know why every article on housing has to bring in identity politics when it's clear that having more children raises your housing cost, independent of race.
McDonald's drive-thru robot made a mistake. Then it all got ridiculous
Bugs, lack of functionality, incompatibility with clients. Also I realised that there wasn’t any need to - Mastodon will run for a single user on pretty much anything so why do I need something that runs twice as fast?

Also, I completely understand maintaining open source software is hard, but GoToSocial’s approach to addressing this was to entirely disable all issues and pull requests for a month over the holiday period, and I think that’s the wrong approach. I didn’t report any of the bugs because I was unable to do so. I would have understood not receiving a response for a few weeks, or even at all, but to not even be able to post them was a strange choice. It turned me off the software a bit, what if someone wanted to report a vulnerability?
It's also awash with radiation from Jupiter. If there's life, it won't be as we know it :)
They're a bit more pricey than I'd like but have used it multiple times (London, New York, Venice) and have zero complains.
Wikipedia helps keep the internet open
How We form and defend stupid opinions
Comedian Bengt Washburn shows how we form and defend stupid opinions about controversial topics like aging, global warming, racism, and swallowing spiders in our sleep.
C++ 23 language standard declared feature-complete – InfoWorld
The game in easy/intermediate is very fun and satisfying! However it doesn't seem to scale too well beyond this - it feels unless you get 'lucky' with one row/column having a very low total, you end up with many many degrees of freedom for each move, which scale, I suppose, quadratically?

Sudoku at the hardest difficulty also has this, but usually the errors manifest a bit more quickly. It feels in this mode you could end up finding your error 'at the end' and have an absolutely diabolical time debugging your error?
I have explicitly seen twice now a manager to come in and make everything toxic purely by herself being toxic. And I have seen a leader to create non-toxic environment. The fact is, managers sets the tone. And when the culture is toxic, the rot comes from the head. Individuals on lower levels can be toxic too, but that spills on others only when management fails.

That thing "the effect was most pronounced in case of a new managers". That is a manager coming in, creating toxic environment and people who are under his/her power adjusting to the situation or leaving.
Fascinating. I wonder how soon it’ll be before it can do the devops for you too.
Most landlords actually spend more than they make, and they hope the long-term appreciation on the property will make up for the expenses.

Property developers only build things because they know they can rent them out directly or sell them to landlords who will. None of this exists without a market that will demand it.
Researchers Use AI to Generate Images Based on People's Brain Activity
Of course, but that is exactly the point that GP was making: we either have this sort of safety for the majority of people, or we have a lucrative investment opportunity. It is fundamentally impossible, or or at least deeply unlikely, to have both.
I have always been very skeptical about AI being just a pile of hype, but this is the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back for me.

I don't know what the AI will or will not be able to do, but what's clear is that things are not going to be the same any longer.
Haha I can’t even correctly type my online rants given how busy I am now. I meant to say … anyone deciding to use Zoom should be fired. Search for the security history of that app, particularly as it pertains to their macOS version …
> I hear this a lot, but fail to see any hard evidence that killing short-term rentals would fix this problem. I don't doubt that short-term rentals are contributing to housing unaffordability, but there are much better solutions than banning them. Which brings me to:

The market for long term rentals doubled in Dublin during the pandemic due to lack of tourism. If you can't see how bringing all that supply (over 1000 units) back to the market won't help long-term rentals, that's on you.

AirBnB is a cancer to cities and locals, and needs to be banned for good. Tourists aren't locals, they're not entitled to live like them, especially at the locals' expense.
There is no proper pattern matching / destructuring in either Java or Kotlin.

There is a discussion about it in Kotlin, see https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-186/Support-pattern-...
The thing is that many countries use the same symbol for their national currency (eg Australian, Canadian and Eastern Caribbean Dollars, just to name a few). Not all people are aware of what all currency symbols are (maybe except the popular $,€ and £, just look at your keyboard). What about ¥, ₤, ₩, ₫, etc.)?
Yes, and that's why housing is unaffordable these days.

An investment which increases its value at the rate of inflation or worse is a pretty poor investment. After all, you could probably make more money by simply buying government bonds.

If the housing price increases more than the rate of inflation, it will eventually become unaffordable. After all, salary increases at the rate of inflation - if the housing price increased faster it'd take up an ever-increasing portion of your salary, meaning it'd become less affordable.

Housing was affordable, but its price increased in such a way that it is now unaffordable. This made it a great investment for the people who already owned housing, but newer generations no longer have access to housing and can't invest in it.
> Only ~9% of mortgages in the US are variable-rate mortgages

At the start sure. But if you have a 2 year fixed rate and then it switches to variable, then you have a variable mortagege for 90% of your 20 year mortgage.

> People love to blame corporations and "foreign investors" for bidding up the price of housing.

They 100% play a significant role on the problem.

> Canada has banned that in various ways multiple times in the past few years and it has had no noticeable impact on the price of housing.

Not in any way that fundamentally changes the status quo, certainly not to reverse it, and also housing has been in a downspiral of accesibility for 70 years, 3 local laws in Canada is not gonna fix it.

> just like anyone else who has their heads screwed on straight, don't overpay

Housing is a need, overpaying or homelessness is a real junction for a sizeble part of the population.

Look at singapore, they are more capitalist than the US and has banned private landlords. Their results speak for themselves, cheaper mortgages, more space per person, shorter commutes, possibilities for larger families to find enough space.

If you prefer to have a building "for billionaries" empty like New York does instead of close to 0% homelessness then thats your choice, but do not pretend it is to help hard working people be rewarded for their labour. Landlords are a remenant of aristocracy, a way for rich tophs to keep living large from their estate. Adam Smith called them parasites for a reason, they are a negative GDP engine.
InfluxDB do not provide cluster version in open source and I know user who has been reported that InfluxDB droped its data for the last year - that's why he to migrating to VictoriaMetrics.
> And that most people take many years, and many failed ventures, to eventually build a sustainable, profitable business.

I'm not sure how to parse that.

Sometimes people need to hear that it's not going to be easy, and they have to stick with it. (How I've sometimes put it, something like: "You know how, when a startup person is telling the story of how they succeeded, and the hardest part was when we thought we wouldn't succeed? This is one of those times. And if we can pull it off, someday we'll tell the story of how we didn't know whether we'd succeed, and no one will really understand until they experience it themselves.")

But other times, people need to know that many people will never succeed at building a viable business, no matter how many times they try. There are many factors, including dumb luck. Someone trying to start a business can lose a lot. They should go into it knowing that odds are that they will probably fail to build a viable business, that it's harder than it sounds, so they should take it seriously, and cover all the non-luck bases that they can.
The Walmart in my area also switched from 24 hours to 6-11, I doubt theft was the primary factor. The store was always practically empty when I would go there overnight.

I suspect COVID made it clear staying open those hours didn't increase their profit, as several other local stores open late made similar changes.
> For it to be a clear indication those programmers would actually have to learn to effectively use Haskell's abstractions and compare it to a version in their former language that doesn't utilize the abstractions.

No one tries everything, there's just no time to try all the possible alternatives.

Lack of popularity may not mean that the unpopular thing is bad, but it ain't a indication that further study would reveal it to be good.

In this particular case, Haskell isn't selling painkillers, it's selling vitamins. Few who have tried it go on to adopt it - it clearly isn't solving any immediate problem.
> After all, salary increases at the rate of inflation

That's quite an assumption there. Specifically, it assumes no increases in per-worker productivity.

By your logic, housing never would have been affordable. But we know that it was!

> This made it a great investment for the people who already owned housing, but newer generations no longer have access to housing and can't invest in it.

Actually about 43% of new homebuyers are millennials, and that could not happen if new generations could not afford housing. https://www.nar.realtor/newsroom/nar-report-shows-share-of-m...
I have a narrative generation system in development - the hardest part of developing it is not just stopping and talking to the characters for hours. They surprise me time and time again. This feels like science fiction.
It's the inevitable result of a rapid population increase and endless roadblocks to building more housing.
I dunno, considering that Dublin has more AirBnBs for let in a five km radius of city centre than, at one point, there were houses to let in the entire country. That's a problem, especially during a housing crisis. AirBnB is a cancer, as are the entitled tourists who feel they should live like locals at the locals' expense.
Agreed fully. You might risk slightly more downtime, but the overall benefit of owning it yourself is well worth it long term.
For a developed country where housing is not a safe, lucrative investment, look at modern-day Japan. The zoning codes are loose, allowing you to build far more housing, and the urban infrastructure makes much more efficient use of space (without nearly as much parking, for instance), which enhances the availability of housing. This, combined with the overall declining population, means that houses are viewed as a depreciating asset, much like cars. While the land may still grow in value due to various development occurring, it is not nearly to the same extent.
It is already happening and with the availability of the tools like PyO3 [1] (it allows Python developers to write performance-critical code in Rust and then expose it as a Python module) the Rustication of the Python will be progressing while some controversies will appear [2]. Adding new language adds complexity to the python code base but it is always good to have at least choice and decide case-by-case if use Rust in Python app or not.

[1] https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3

[2] https://safjan.com/rustification-of-python/#drawbacks-and-co...
Why not just apply at companies that focus on take-home problems?
> but why the hell are people marking the receipts for things they bought as spam?

I'm someone who often marks receipts for things that were bought as spam. Note that I said things that were bought—not things that I bought.

I have the rare privilege of having an e-mail address which is ${common_first_name}.${non_rare_last_name}@gmail.com, and I am sick and tired of businesses that do no e-mail verification of the addresses of their customers. I will simply delete good old "Click here to confirm your address", but I have no patience for the hundreds of emails I receive because either businesses keep asking customers with my same name who do not understand what email is for their "email address", or because businesses ignore the email confirmation/verification step out of sheer incompetence or out the product-cult of "conversion" rates. Those I mark as spam, because I want them to pay the price.
That's just not the case even though the net cash flow makes it seem like landlords are often just breaking even.

If a tenants rent only covered the the monthly mortgage, that's still a 5.5% ROI assuming 20% down, 30 year mortgage. Accounting for interest rates, then the ROI is 5.5-(R*0.8)% returns.

But rents go up yearly to match market rents so the actual returns are closer to 15-22% (though it tends to scale poorly which is why REITs pay so little IMO). Even after accounting for loan interest & costs, real estate is a very attractive 8%-15% investment with very favorable tax incentives. E.g. gains gan be deferred as long as they are invested in other real estate, positive cash flow is typically tax free due to depreciation of property - despite it's market value going up!.
Homeownership cannot be both affordable and a good investment because a good investment has returns that at least beat inflation. That implies housing costs for new buyers will become increasingly expensive in real terms.

Think about how cars generally depreciate over time such that a used car becomes more affordable. During the pandemic, this trend broke to supply side disruptions and used cars actually started to appreciate. Housing always has supply side constraints to zoning regulations to guard the entrenched interests of existing homeowners, and thereby housing generally appreciates in value.

The closest that we can come to balancing both affordability and investment interests in a growing area is to constantly increase housing density. Then the land itself can appreciate in value as larger buildings are built in a fixed footprint. Yet the price of an individual unit of housing can stay roughly constant in real terms due to the ever increasing supply.
it could probably generate some terraform if you explained the task to it
I hate it, but I love having a place to live more, and giving other locals that chance. AirBnB directly ruins this for many locals trying to live in an area, since landlords can easily make more via AirBnB, removing a lot of supply from the market. It's just plain entitlement "I should give to live like a local, who cares if they can't afford housing? I'm gone in a week anyway!"
Everyone here watches Curious Marc on YouTube, right?
All companies I worked in for the last 10 years used squash-merges exclusively, combined with trunk-based development and small commits. I don't see anything wrong with that, it's nice to have a history where every other commit is not a merge commit.
I hate this, and in my field (social sciences, organization studies, management sciences) several papers/books are blatantly misrepresented. I still struggle to cite a book (or several!) for a single point. To be honest, often it is really confusing, because science moves so fast nowadays, and these original papers contain so much unintentional historical cruft, or implicit messages to be untangled.
Yeah it definitely requires an AI to make sense of some of those k8s deployments
> My father has owned a house for 29 years and when he’s gone I don’t care about cashing out or making a profit.

Too bad, I have bought every house around and put them on the market for 1000% what your dad bought it for. Your taxes are calculated based on market rates, and therefore your housing tax is now completely unaffordable to you. You gotta sell the house you grew up in because I decided to fuck the market in your area.

Also because I own 30 houses and you only own one, I can dictate the price, doing things like marking 28 above you and one below you so yours doesn't get sold. Then 27 above you and 1 below you, and keep doing that while you pay taxes on a house you can no longer afford nor sell.

Welcome to your new nightmare of having me as a neighbour maximising my investment, meanwhile 27 people are homeless because the houses are not on the market despite the demand being there, but if I make them desperate first my return will be higher.

Even people like you, with the right idea, to use housing as a house, can be caught up in the never ending bullshit that is the current housing model.
Battlefield developer could look now for a new job.
Their "innovation" could be done bei ChatGPT as well ;-)
Not really. Outsourced manufacturing to China provides cheap stuff and zero environmental cost. All the rich who got rich bcz of the manufacturing industry move their wealth to the west mostly USA and UK.

UK provides safe and smooth system for ultra rich to get their money out of developing nations. Even dirty money is welcomed.

USA has golden visas, who do you think they created those for?

I supported Trump on taking manufacturing back bcz it's good for developing world to protect their environment.

Americans who think it's the developing world that took your jobs. Remember the real culprits are the riches in your country and those imigrated riches.

Btw no one in their right mind thinks America's debt will ever be repaid. Again developing nations will have to foot the bill.

PS: thanks for the service sector jobs though
Zeta Alpha, of course ;-)

https://search.zeta-alpha.com/
thats a pretty dang good head. thank you!!
You don't believe individual landlords exist? They have a whole, entire subreddit, r/Landlord. Voilà, quod erat demonstrandum.

To wit:

> Of the approximately 50 million rental housing units in the United States, around 41% of the rental units are owned by mom and pop landlords, also known as individual investor landlords. That means approximately 20.5 million units are overseen by mom and pop landlords.

https://getflex.com/blog/landlord-statistics/

Also, from the same site, the average landlord has 3 properties. That means there are more than 6 million individual landlords in the US. I'm not going to nitpick whether that's "huge" or not; the point is proven.
Use sci-hub
> At the start sure. But if you have a 2 year fixed rate and then it switches to variable, then you have a variable mortagege for 90% of your 20 year mortgage.

Ok, you just don't understand how mortgages work in the US.

Fixed-rate mortgages, which represent 91% of the mortgage market, can be had for terms of 15 or 30 years.

This is not like Europe where you have to re-mortgage every two years. You can, right now, lock in a rate for the next 30 years in the US.
I think it's only gamed in the Goodhart's Law sense. The original intention of hard CS brain teaser questions was to filter for people who can reason through the questions on the spot. Now because everyone knows the questions and answers, the filter is probably more likely to net you people who put in the memorization hours than high IQ folks.