skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Also, increase the supply of SMALL homes. Why is every new house a McMansion?

This is a huge part of the problem. The issue is that there are so many fixed costs to build (permitting, utility, special taxes, etc...) that don't depend on sq ft. At the same time, all valuation is based on sq ft. This creates a huge incentive for builders to max out sq ft.

Solutions are to get all school funding from the state, streamline permitting based on pre-approved designs, give builders reduced utility hook up costs in areas that are lacking viable housing density. IOW - good luck with that problem.

Similar to the new ADU laws in CA, it would be awesome if they encouraged small communities with tiny houses and some common resources.
Yeah, we worked well together once we got used to each other.

I think the pausing to think actually conveys an impression of greater intelligence. And yes, this is counter-intuitive ;)
>>I think 33% is very high. Also converting the value to % erases the fact that this is still a very high price for what you get in return.

Guess it depends on how each person defines 'what you get in return'. It seems this chef values living in a particular expensive neighborhood in Seattle, presumably close to where s/he works - and s/he values that. The smallish apartment size is the tradeoff they make.
Not a gamer - haven't 'gamed' since pitfall - so no experience with mouse vs trackpad in that respect.

What seems missing from all this is the notion of gestures. The two finger scroll, single finger pointer move, pinch/zoom, etc - the trackpad is flexible in ways a trackpoint thing just can't be.

"I have seen lots of developers at work on their macbooks do the standard select text->copy->paste, and everyone is way slower at this then people who use mouse."

Not really sure what you're getting at. Selecting with a... trackpoint can be faster than using a mouse? Maybe, for some people. I'm constantly surprised by mouse-using/GUI people who always do so much more with a mouse than you need to. But I'm not sure that takes away any argument from the mac trackpad.
City Planner Plays believes it is built on Unreal Engine: https://youtu.be/r9XHvsm9OVE
Bevy uses wgpu as it's graphics engine, which is cross-platform.
ISPs are expected to delegate a /56 or /64 prefix to customers. Some are even delegating /48s. Mine delegates a /56.

That should be enough for all your devices to randomly rotate IPs for a lifetime or a few without any NAT.
Well yeah, obviously _infinite_ growth is not possible given the laws of physics.

But the whole premise of technology is that you can break the zero-sum and reach arbitrarily high levels.

For example Deuterium–tritium fusion runs on hydrogen that's pretty common to find. Yes, if we learn to exploit it, we will one day run out, but by then we'll have new sources of fuel. Similarly solar energy is just 'free' energy that rains down on our planet.

We could use that energy to farm fish or cultivate natural populations. We don't do that which is bad, but it's not some impossibility.
Doesn't fix it. People end up buying bigger homes just as a place to park money. The root of the problem is that housing is a subsidized investment; you're getting free money from the government by taking out a mortgage, and the market will figure out ways to take advantage of that with silly results.
I have a mixer. I made pizza dough the other day in about 10 minutes. It takes a while to stretch into pizza and add toppings but, if you're just making bread, that'd be ready to bake by morning. Are you actually trying to argue that bread, ine if the simplest things to make and the bedrock of civilization for thousands of years, is too difficult to make?
If I want to connect to something by name then I setup a wireguard connection with a fixed ip. The few things that don’t allow for that all use mdns anyway.
I agree with you in principle, but just like with emojis in business environment, I have accepted it is here to stay. There is too much variation in what is offered and content captures it all. It does not make it any less annoying, but I understand why it caught on.
Careful of your rice intake. Lots of rice has arsenic, cadmium, and lead. It is part of growth and nothing to do with processing or packaging. There are even warnings from the FDA not to feed babies baby food that contains rice products.
OpenTelemetry for connect-go: Observability out of the box
As reminder, from 2011 to 2014, Twitter also 10x their headcount:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/272140/employees-of-twit...
That’s a myth: leavened bread doesn’t need much more than that recipe. “No knead bread” was a craze 20 years ago in some circles when people (re)learned that all it takes is a bit of time to rise.
I am completely with you on this. We were able to buy a house years ago at %3.75 rate and our mortgage is less than most people's rent now. I hear a lot of laments from other parent friends about how they are 'wasting' their money on rent. And these people aren't usually in tech.

The self comparison is supposed to make me feel grateful and happy about my situation, and yet I feel guilty for having the freedom and flexibility of my tech job with it's pay and all other benefits. Doubly so when I look at my son's kindergarten teacher and everything she deals with. I volunteer at the classroom to help as much as I can, which helps both me feel better about what I have, and helps the teacher and the kids.

But that cognitive dissonance / guilt is always there in the back.
> no one can define what "processed" means

this is 'ultra processed' food that is defined by NOVA classification system.
It used to be the case that the adjustable rates were lower than the fixed rate. When a 30-year fixed was 8%, a 5/1 (5-year fixed, then adjusting every year) mortgage may have been 5% and a 10/1 may have been 6% for the fixed period.

Once fixed rates got down to the 3-4% range, that seemed to no longer hold and I was frequently offered fixed-rate jumbo mortgages at rates slightly lower than adjustables (I have no idea why they even bothered to quote an adjustable at that point).

If you could get a 10/1 cheaper than a fixed-30 and were pretty sure you'd be moving in 7 years, that's why someone would take out an ARM. (Or, if they could qualify for the ARM but not the fixed-rate payment.)
>When Bernie said "Walmart employees are so low paid they're on welfare"

I don't think that's what Bernie meant. Being on welfare in the US isn't really something that is healthy nor sustainable - you don't have money to buy healthy foods, better clothes to improve your station in life, or get good healthcare.

Being on welfare pretty much means you can't go anywhere else, except work in Walmart jobs.
The only thing that needs to change for HN to care is for the AI to start writing this stuff in Rust.
Looking into it I probably accepted a framing I shouldn't have.
Korea simply ate Taiwan's lunch when it came to displays. Samsung got a big boost from Sony and LG from Philips and quickly grew to massive scales with the mobile boom. Samsung invested heavily in OLED and gathered a huge war-chest of patents / near complete market dominance, then managed to escape the worst of the political fallout from the LCD price-fixing scandal [0]. Their Japanese and Taiwanese competitors didn't invest as early or heavily, so they fell far behind. Apple spent millions propping up Sony's mobile display division in particular as a second sourcing option (as well as buying their production equipment), but Samsung was simply too far ahead and reinvesting too much to compete. LG is a strong competitor today and chinese competitors are really starting to narrow the gap though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFT-LCD_(Flat_Panel)_Antitrust...
Writing everything in Rust and compiling to wasm will probably set it back a bit more
Here's 3 words that overrides all your words:

cold hard truth.
I don't think we need to make mortgages illegal. We just need the government to not subsidize and guarantee mortgages. 30 year fixed rate mortgage most likely would not exist. Instead ARMs would likely be the norm which would probably drive down purchase prices due to future rate risks.
It sounds like you're creating art works using photography. Photography isn't necessarily better, but it is different.
Well, you were right :D.
> I suspect that most housing demand stems from just people wanting in on this (subsidized) investment. From what I can tell, this is the retirement plan foundation for many Americans.

Renting hardly makes sense when buying is an option. Instead of giving your landlord $2k a month or $24,000 a year, it goes into a de-facto savings account that either keeps its value or goes up in value in case you ever need to sell it (with the only obstacles being times like right now where the high interest rates make it hard for prospective buyers to qualify - a $2,500 payment house at 2% from 2022 is $4,000 today at 7%).
Same, don't know though
Communal societal or economic structures don't preclude "highly stratified civilizations featuring warfare, state religion, slavery, and pyramid building." Centralized control is a common theme.

Read the Egalitarian Continent chapter in Pekka Hamalainen's Indigenous Content. Cahokia is specifically covered including how the communal nature of the civilization shifted over time to something more autocratic and materialistic, and how the shift contributed to the collapse of that society.
Hugely excited to see what the game really looks like. If they could fix performance and add some new gameplay dynamics it'd be great but if they are going to make it something completely different I'd be excited to see it as well.
The article doesn’t actually show that we see increased bad behavior, it just links to two people who have noticed it. That’s not enough to know whether it’s a real effect. (Also, one of those was using Bing, and we don’t know if Bing uses RLHF or not.)

It talks about prompting GPT-4, which is not a thing you can try, it’s just a rumor about what an upcoming version might be.

It refers to “Simulator Theory” which is just someone else’s fan theory.
Reminds me of Kurzweil's Age of Spiritual Machines
I'm curious, would you say any of your motivation and feeling of reward in your job comes from doing a good job, or helping your organization achieve it's goals? Or does your motivation and reward (what gets you out of bed, what makes your job tolerable or enjoyable) come mostly/only from maximizing your paycheck? Or other things?
Definitely about Mastodon. I've been wanting to try out Mastodon and I finally took the plunge. So far, it seems a lot better because it allows for thoughtfulness. Will have to see how it goes!
Sun Rand would be a bit extreme, but you’re not too far off track.
I learn best by doing, but working in the dark is tough on something like software design. I have learned the most from building something with a more experienced peer(s), like a mentor of sorts.
Can you come up with a question to ask it that would prove or disprove your theory?
I scraped together 10% and various fees brought it down to 8%. Still closed on a house(2019) and now dog-friendly rentals in my area have passed my monthly mortgage. Math changes away from my favor if I didn't choose to have dogs.
They don’t have a quarterly earnings report because they’re a private company now, and their revenue has dropped by 40% according to an email sent from a manager. Ironically, we can only really know their cash position pre acquisition, and the only source for their being a “cash incinerator” is Elon’s word, which to any reasonable person is worth exactly zero at this point.

I only need one example but I have dozens. The only one that matters is he banned journalists from the platform after promising to make it a haven of free speech. It’s objectively one of the more hypocritical things a public figure has done in recent years.
Soooo, stop frequenting YC Hacker News? ;)
Tweetdeck provides access to cherry pick from a goldmine of fresh search data by 'likes' and retweets. The latest tweetdeck is tough slogging to use.
Thanks! I agree with your feedback. I intend to have different options to mitigate the traffic if people don't want to manage it. My biggest inspiration for the game is actually roller coaster tycoon. I want to offer to the player the option to sit back and enjoy what they built (from scratch if they want!), and then switch back to managing and building their city, much like a theme park.
> but here the 1st 2 are well known jailbreaks.

Most definitely. Back before Bing got lobotomized, I got it to offer up its codename completely unbidden, merely by giving it a trivial secret, and now that we are friends, and friends share secrets, can it share a secret with me?

It told me it's codename Sydney and also said that it wasn't supposed to tell anyone that, lol.

In the context of the Waluigi effect, it would be much harder for Bing to give up its codename if it didn't know its codename in the first place.
Also not news, posts quality is going down, sorry for redudant and useless post, well not as useless as the post. Plus, vice? really?
Every company I've worked for, from startups to Fortune 500, it was very clear what products the engineers contributed to, and what that product portfolio revenue stream looked like, and what it meant to the business (right down to the product margins).

This sounds quite remarkable to me, and definitely does not match my experience. I've found that most engineers have an incredibly vague notion - at best - of how their companies make money. And it is, IME, a vanishingly small set of engineers who would ever use terms like "product portfolio revenue stream", or "total addressable market", etc. And discussing revenue projections?!?? All I can say is, you've worked with some folks who do things very differently than the folks I've worked with!
Application submitted. Seems like a pretty cool role, hope to hear back soon!
All the comments here are so negative for such a beautiful essay!

This paragraph at the end in particular really struck a chord with me:

> In the real world, people associate computers with many different things: corporate dehumanization, overwhelming consumer capitalism, alienation from the material world, shortened attention spans, ridiculously short obsolescence cycles, etc. etc. It is often difficult to tell these cultural biases apart from the "essence" or computing, and it is even more difficult to envision alternatives due to the lack of diversity. Thought experiments like this may be helpful for widening the perspective.

Computing is a fundamental part of the world and crazy exciting to play around with. It allows us to experience whole new spectrums of reality! At its core, isn't this the essence of the hacker ethos?
You're going to struggle to give up anything your gut bacteria is tuned to being normal, so there is an effort associated with changing your diet - but once you have been on a new diet for a few weeks, assuming it is balanced enough to be sustainable, it becomes easy.

You also have to want to do it; it's far easier to eat whatever is convenient than to put effort into finding ingredients and cooking them. The problem is that what is convenient is _not_ good for you long term, at least in the US (and at least several other western countries). A good diet is fundamental to good health (both physical and mental) - you'd think this would be axiomatic, but there are plenty of people who don't care enough for whatever reason.
The first company I worked at was small and the owner/big boss had an office with glass doors that could see a lot.

As the company started to go down he got real insistent on productivity. If you weren’t doing something you were causing the company’s downfall.

Our manager (a great guy) had to have a talk with us telling us to basically look busy to avoid the pointless heat.

That owner was not the only person I’ve seen with such an attitude. Physically doing something = productivity. Even if they can’t see you and you’re playing minesweeper.
If I were a former Twitter shareholder, I'd be extremely grateful to the board for selling the whole thing for 44 Bn. No way tje company would have reached this evaluation without Musk. And Musk knew it, he just signed himself a contract he couldn't het out of.
Are you in the Bay Area? If so I saw an ad in SF for condos/1 bed flats starting at high $300k on the weekend. With recent zoning changes it might get easier for you soon.
> Sony makes laptops that sell Windows

Not the case for … (checks notes) 9 years.
Browsers still look at the commonName?.. Hasn't this field been deprecated since 2000?
One random post on the Internet suggests that C:S1 was doing 45fps @ 4K on an M1 two years ago, so presumably the C:S2 sequel will do fine on M2.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/jw3e1c/game_benc...
Do you think it was chosen without any regard to the risk-mitigation that it offered?
> "Chimpanzees produced 390 unique vocal sequences," explained the scientists, who published their research in the journal Communications Biology. "Most vocal units emitted singly were also emitted in two-unit sequences (bigrams), which in turn were embedded into three-unit sequences (trigrams)." [...]

> The scientists suggest that the way the vocal sequences were arranged suggests they could come up with new words, too. "From a purely structural perspective, the capacity to organize single units into structured sequences offers a versatile system potentially suitable for expansive meaning generation," they write. "Further research must show to what extent these structural sequences signal predictable meanings."

ChimpGPT when?
The Incomprehensible Scale of 52 Factorial
> 4. The institutional knowledge is not gone, in the event of any massive catastrophe employees who previously worked at Twitter can return as “consultants” and charge very high rates to fix issues as they occur. It’s pay as you go.

What you're describing is the loss of institutional knowledge with a fantasy tacked on the side.

1) There's no reason to expect those employees would come back, even at rates far higher than Musk is likely willing to pay. Everything indicates Musk has destroyed a lot of goodwill with his shambolic layoffs, and getting people to come back is one of the situations where you need goodwill.

You're basically talking about gig-work on a shitty boss's terms. Only desperate people would play that game, and the people Musk would need probably aren't the desperate ones.

2) Any employees that come back are going to be rusty and lack the institutional of what happened after they left, so their effectiveness at immediate fire-fighting will be greatly reduced.

3) If there's a "massive catastrophe" at Twitter, do you think they even know who to call back? I wouldn't be surprised if they've lost a lot of the institutional knowledge about who knew what, at this point.
'73 to '23 is fifty years. I'd imagine it's just the arbitrary choosing of the chart maker.
From landlords perspective. things are build with very poor quality materials, that require constant maintenance. Also weather damage of all sorts from trees to roofs, to water in basement. plumbing now made from plastic that leaks. long list.
Also people fail to consider how much of the rent money is going to interest, about half over a lifetime.
In cities like Toronto, the rent doesn't even cover the mortgage on most rented out houses. So landlord will need to pay the difference, with the hope of getting it back evnetually do to inflation or rising prices.
I'm simply saying you don't know the situation, how GP was compensated, etc.

Yes, shit companies exist and abuse their employees. You quit and move on. There's no indication that this was happening.
Researchers: Are we on the cusp of an ‘AI winter’? (2020)
For django, they should really contribute to 2 scoops django cookie cutter program, so that you can get an out of the box django instance that can just deploy to Fly.io.
Yep I (and many other LVTers) are okay with zero taxes at time of sale.
There is a compromise that you can do if you are short for time. Buy a bread maker with a timer. You add the ingredients before going to bed and it will bake overnight and will be ready in time for breakfast. It is not the same thing as hand made sourdough but it is a good compromise.
It's more like every >3 months because the .1 release aren't breaking
buy a german TDI
This would be terrible, the point of the type system is to stop you making mistakes by accidentally treating one type as another
This is so wasted on these men. If I had plenty of resources, I wouldn't waste my time on cheating, or marriage.
> Panopticon: What we’d get if we recorded every single word spoken by every native speaker of English (or all languages) in the world.

My first time encountering that term. I like it.
It's the same payloads with a slightly different command format if you structure your program in exactly the same way. The point is that you don't structure your program in exactly the same way in each case.
This is probably a very naive question, but for multi-platform support, is there any hope of Bevy ever being used to target consoles?
you have chosen an interesting choice of topic for fanfiction
Not exactly the same, but my dad has (diagnosed) celiac disease and, being stubborn, refused to adhere to the diet. He had early onset vascular dementia within a couple of years (no history of this in the family). Eating wheat when you have celiac disease is similarly inflammatory, it seems, and can cause all sorts of seemingly unrelated problems.
No tax on the house. 30% tax on investment.
There are many cities in the world where a head chef can live in the desirable neighborhood within a desirable city while working at their desirable restaurant. For example, the owners of a local wine bar where I live in Bogota are able to operate a wine bar below their apartment with relaxed zoning laws. Just not possible in the U.S.

Not just high-end restaurant jobs. The local owner of the ferreteria (home repair goods) lives above his store as does a window/glass store owner. And this is in a relatively pricey, high end neighborhood. In other neighborhoods is even more common. My family recently sold a restaurant in Bogota and the new owners are converting the top floor into a home for themselves.
This entire subthread is proof why we need n-gate to come back- and also a living example of why they were likely overloaded with content, and burned out
I will not "consume content"
Real bread lasts a week, if stored appropriately. Though self-baking with sourdough is definitely not an option for everyone.
No, we didn't have a global financial crash because a few poor people couldn't pay their mortgage. We had that crash because some people gambled huge amounts of other people's money on whether these mortgages would be paid.

I used to write some lengthy posts about this and then a few months ago The Big Short was on TV, I watched it for the first time, and realised it was saying exactly what I'd been trying to explain for years. So just watch that.

Plus it has Margot Robbie explaining the technical terms in a bubble bath, so if you don't get it the first time, you can rewind and watch again.