skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes but 1 is a huge, massive, often insurmountable political battle because there are enough single-issue voters who will turn on any politician who threatens to enable “undesirable” types to share their neighborhood. And 2 is blocked by people who think their aesthetic preferences are more important than others ability to survive (often the same people as blocking 1).

It’s not really the crime that matters, at the core, but rather the perception of “other”. The single-issue anti-housing people don’t want police in their neighborhoods, they want police in other people’s neighborhoods keeping those people out of the “nice” neighborhoods.

Sadly, most people do in fact want more housing for people who are less well off than them, even if it means they have to run shoulders with strangers. But these are the people who work and don’t have time to show up to community meetings about a new apartment going up, and don’t usually decide who to vote for based on neighborhood aesthetics.

Because the problem is mostly political, most of the solution is political as well: identify, train and support local politicians who will vote to build more housing, and help them write new laws that do so. And convince them (by consistently winning at the ballot box) that the anti-housing crowd is loud but not actually large, so there’s little danger in losing their votes.
Top earning UK dev jobs are usually 200k upwards, already. Those numbers don't account for finance and similar industries, which they hire directly and don't use Hired services.
There are no comparable "long-term physical consequences of that type of labor" software engineers do?
We never had these problems when Jack and the rest of the guys was running the show.
> (I'm sure PP is aware of that, I'm using the generic 'you', not the personal)

The English language has a specific word for that: “one” instead of “you”, but sadly this word has become more and more antiquated.
> * Not to mention the SSL certificate appears to be expired too.

Love that detail. Just the icing on the top that says "everybody who was vaguely aware of this particular infrastructure is gone."
Picked a higher number to not be scary. "supposedly" GPT-4 can pass the bar exam
Did you see the photo of the employee sleeping on the floor? I'd link it but twitter is down.
The value of a home is usually land value + improvements. The improvements might see some appreciation as raw material and labor prices increase, but most of the value is in the land.

It is 100% reasonable to assume land prices will increase over time. No one is making any more of it, and the wealth and population of the country (also planet) continues to increase. An increasing amount of resources are bidding on a static amount of product. To put this in another way, if the value of land in the US was the same as it was 250 years ago then we would be giving it away by the square mile.
Sorry, my original intent was to inform that they were not experiencing cognitive dissonance, as typically defined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
Or parquet, for compression?
Are they going to put "fired the people who used to enforce our change control procedures" in the post-mortem?
What kind of observer is 1. able to listen to the entirety of your network's outside communications, 2. interested at all in it, 3. harm you only on the condition that they "map out" your internal infrastructure? This isn't a novel, the goal is not to solve intricate security non-problems.
Yeah, now your wife and each kid will fill taxes by themselves and you crack down on that there - you give the free tax benefit as a deduction on your income tax so if your 3 year old doesn't have income there's no benefit. The trust itself can fill taxes, you allow the tax-free benefit to apply to only single individual tax form and force a trust to pay tax.
most certainly.

another example of dumb and costly mistakes is putting a capitalistic-optimization scheme in charge of medical care

alas, for some reason (many of them, indeed) most of these 'problems' cannot be corrected. for a few powerful interests these aren't problems at all.
One can only assume the system that updates the status page is down.
Neat! I'll have to look this over. Another MPHF-related rabbit hole, which isn't even properly published:

https://docs.rs/compressed_map/latest/compressed_map/

This isn't quite an MPHF in that it doesn't map keys to a unique bucket, but instead maps them directly to an output. So unlike an MPHF, it's only suitable for when you are sure for some other reason that the input really is a key to the map (or don't care about if you get a garbage answer when it isn't). However, for this reason the output can be smaller than an MPHF. The motivating use case is checking whether certificates are still valid, but I'm sure there are others (chess endgames??).

I think you can also use it to build an MPHF with a similar space usage to yours, with constant expected lookup time but slower (and superlinear) construction time.

The compressed_map crate isn't properly optimized for compressing small maps, because it stores a bunch of padding and metadata that's negligible for huge maps.
Not much info other than the fact that it’ll release sometime this year on PS5, XSX, and PC. Teaser trailer is just a bunch of cinematics.
FWIW I just got max level (it's a non-Latin language so the initial exercises are all repetitions of recognizing certain glyphs and their combinations) and it turns out that there's nothing special about it except you get to repeat it instead of moving on to a higher difficulty. So "it's actually not possible to beat it" is probably more of a calibration issue than a blatant money grab. The only reward is more XP.
What about compression - is this part of arrow itself?
Yep, just need work history and you're set. Lot of people don't want to own because it's a maintenance nightmare and they're not work. I'm out about 60k not including refinancing due to maintenance and I'm handy.
The irony is "twitter will provide updates when it's fixed" is about as vague as one can get. If the site is fixed who needs to be provided an update by that time? Until then access is restricted. lmao.
The article says that more research is needed in that regard:

> For example, you could eat a burger and fries from a fast food chain, which would be high in fat, sugar and salt as well as being ultra-processed. You could make that same meal at home, which could also be high in fat, sugar and salt but would not be ultra-processed. More research is needed to determine whether one is worse than the other.
Thank you for the thoughtful questions!

1) We believe that timing is a critical piece of this opportunity. With the recent media buzz around ChatGPT, we have found that leadership in companies large and small are actively considering how to best make use of LLMs in their business. The problems we've identified emerged as clear patterns across hundreds of calls with companies that are either currently managing LLM-powered features in production, or aspiring to. The level of interest was much smaller just 6 months ago, has grown quickly, and we anticipate it to grow only more in the near future.

2) We agree that with OpenAI's current dominance in the space, being provider-agnostic is not top of mind for most at the moment. We are betting that this will become increasingly important as the space evolves. We are already seeing Google investing hundreds of millions in Anthropic (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-03/google-in...), Google working on their own LLMs (e.g. BARD), and Facebook launching their own LLM (https://ai.facebook.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta...). We expect this to become an increasingly competitive space and hope to provide companies with the tools needed to effectively evaluate their options.
7% return on the market is the bad assumption that makes it so you need the other bad assumption to make home ownership worth it.
Researchers Used A.I. To Design a Completely New 'Animal Robot'
That's what gets me about Elon more than anything. It's not the substance of his politics, it's that it's all so shallow, so unoriginal.

There are a million interesting discussions to be had in the world today, but he's stuck on mediocre Reddit shitposting from like 2012.
Author here - Sorry about that. Since I haven't been much of a success, I didn't think people would be interested in my recommendations. But here are a few that I found really helpful:

Indie Hacker Podcast (the forum on the site was also a great resource for me):
https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast

How I Built This Podcast:
https://www.npr.org/series/490248027/how-i-built-this

Stacking the Bricks:
https://stackingthebricks.com/

Books:
The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris,
The E-myth by Michael Gerber,
Running Lean by Ash Maurya

As the other posted said, any resources provided by MicroConf are also great. Basically look up their videos on YouTube and follow all of their speakers on Twitter or subscribe to their newsletters.
That sort of makes sense. When you own a property, you have to maintain it and pay property taxes. When you add all that up, you either need a lot more than rent, or you need the mortgage to be lower than rent so you can afford those other expenses.
The web version of Twitter is an "app" of its own, so you're using an app that interact with API using API key, no matter what. And they messed that up.
Not really in response to your comment, but there is an assumption from those commenting on your post. In that the labour market is a perfect market. When in truth it is far from it. There's systemic issues such as imperfect information, misallocated risk (they don't know what the market rate is for their work/they're too scared to look for another job) , and friction such as monopoly, oligopoly and legislation. And then after all to consider labour isnt your typical resource, people do not simply disapear when they become obsolete, they need to eat.
How do you almost never run in to negative numbers?
> She’s grateful she bought, but her life wouldn’t be much different had she rented.

This completely overlooks the reliability of owning. If Alice rented, she would always be at risk that the owner of the home she's living in would decide to stop renting it, or sell it to someone who didn't want to rent it, etc. The most important piece of owning a home to me is knowing that I cannot be forced out of my home as easily as a renter.
Are there any merchants that are willing to accept crypto?
IPv6 being more secure used to be feature back when IPsec was cool. IPv6 has better integration with IPsec. But everyone is using TLS and other more secure VPNs these days.
I am/was logged in, still get the error.
You are right! For the convenience of Python users, we have to introspect the messages and parse JSON into Python objects. Every member of every dictionary being allocated on heap.

To make it as fast as possible we don't use PyBind, NanoBind, SWIG, or any high-level tooling. Our Python bindings are a pure CPython integration. There is just no way to beat that combo, not that I know.

https://github.com/unum-cloud/ujrpc/blob/main/src/python.c
If something happens to it it'd be alongside some sort of low-probability event that will leave you with more pressing things to worry about than the value of your investments
That is a good point that I hadn't thought of. I lived in an illegal unit in San Francisco—a buddy and I got permission from our landlord to put up a wall subdividing our bedroom in Bernal Heights into two smaller bedrooms. Some of my favorite years ever...

What about illegal additions or illegal buildings? This seems less common to me.
https://twitter.com/home
Ah, good point. Twitter should have been the largest caller.

That 467 error code suggests to me something else is going on and Twitter is emitting the wrong error message (467 isn't a standard HTTP, so I'm wondering if something lower-level emitted a 467 error, it was misinterpreted as an HTTP status, and the error string chooser logic is giving that API access error message due to fall-through).
> The better they scored on the interviews the better the performance reviews they got later.

One possible explanation of this is that people who did well in the hiring process were valuable employees. Here's another: people who were good at gaming an evaluation system run by Google were good at gaming an evaluation system run by google.
A number of games simulates unique agents: Tropico, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Theme Hospital, Two Point Hospital, Ceasar 3 / Cleopatra etc. etc.

Its a different game entirely compared to games like Sim City or City Skylines. I've noticed that these "individual agents" games are very "unstable". They're only designed for a limited number of agents before everything goes to crap.

As such, "individual agent" games tend to be scenarios that you play for a short time, rather than trying to play for months on the same map (like Sim City or City Skylines or OpenTTD can be).

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Tropico Boom/Busts grow too variable and uncontrollable. You'll eventually have an island-wide boom/bust collapse that probably triggers the instant-loss endgame (aka: Soviets and/or USA invades).

Ceasar 3 / Cleopatra are reasonably stable, but definitely a smaller map and designed for scenario play instead.
This is one of the key points the article didn't make; the structures depreciate and the land (for the most part) appreciates because we have positive population and economic growth.

Urban areas experience an increase in population density with population and economic growth and this drives the higher demand for land.

Most likely the way to control individual housing costs is systematically lowering the cost of building vertically including regulatory and zoning changes as well as new construction methods.

There is a bit of a land-value cliff that needs to be smoothed over by socializing the costs as well; as single-family homes are replaced by highrises the immediate property value of SFH drops, and I think this is because housing is priced over ~10 year periods by residents and more instantaneously by the real estate market, so there's a dip in unrealized value for residents who can't sell their home for what it would be worth in their neighborhood until its value as raw land has reached the same level by being squeezed between overly-dense highrises and suburbia, effectively forming a very slow-moving barrier to densification. SFH owners want suburbia, they paid for it, and can only sell at the price they want to folks who can get the same. They're incentivized to wait it out because they already have a home which is also a huge investment. A financial instrument to buy out entire neighborhoods on the expectation of profits from higher-density housing sounds like the solution, and the risk probably needs to be borne partially by the government, and maybe a real-estate tax credit for SFH neighborhoods experiencing lower prices from new nearby dense construction which incentives them to vote for the zoning changes.
The Hellmouth in the Coffee Shop
The timing on this post is pretty funny considering Twitter is experiencing a major outage right now: https://twitter.com/twittersupport/status/163279294226274713... (probably wont load because twitter is experiencing an outage, here's what it says:

"Some parts of Twitter may not be working as expected right now. We made an internal change that had some unintended consequences. We're working on this now and will share an update when it's fixed.")
> If you ask GPT-
∞
"what's brown and sticky?", then it will reply "a stick", even though a stick isn't actually sticky.

Isn't it though?
I was more talking about this comment being so downvoted than the original infraction.
She was fired not long after that all-nighter.
If all homes increase in value by the same percentage, you generate a lot of cash by owning for a long time and then downsizing, or moving to a location which started out with cheaper property (historically, this is the "retire to Florida" strategy).

Or, you're going to pass on your home to your children, so it becomes part of the value of your estate. Or if you don't have any children, you can just reverse mortgage and get cash out that way. It's just like any other illiquid asset.
Any motion can be used to do work. If there are underwater currents, that power can be captured and used.
I was listening to a piece on the local news radio about fish hatcheries in the PNW and the numbers are shocking with the fish that make it back to spawn; Chinook salmon sound like they're barely holding on with all our best efforts.

I have a lot of pessimism about our ocean health, we really need to do anything we can to support fish populations -- if those collapse it's just a matter of time before the rest of the ecosystem follows.
Ctrl+F federal reserve, CTRL+F interest rates-- nothing in the article. Should I even bother to read it?

Housing prices can be "fixed" overnight if we'll stomach the medicine.
twitter is only important if your stuck in the bubble of twitter people. Tons of people dont use twitter, let alone even write on there. to get even like 1000 replies is still an insignificant amount, even though it feels like a lot. there are 300million people in just the US. thinking twitter replies are meaningful or represent enough people to have discourse is disconnected from the real world.
> Did you see the photo of the employee sleeping on the floor?

I’ve done this. I had lots of fun—everyone, from the CEO down, was crunching—and became financially independent after it.

It’s usually a sign of under-resourcing. But almost every start-up experiencing unexpected growth should be ready for it. It’s unusual at Twitter’s scale, but closed to mismanagement than abuse.
I appreciate your interest! We'll be reaching out soon :)
> If fishing was done on land I'm sure there would be much more care about how we fished

viva Las Vegas
https://twitter.com

Is down too, at this moment.
What are the mortgage terms where you're from? In always curious to understand how other countries and systems deal with this but I'm largely ignorant to it outside of anecdotes like this.
This is always the same logic, where a plumber makes a ton of money. The reality is that your trusted plumber is actually a business owner. If you start out as a plumber, you need a ton of work to get to this spot by working for someone else for a bad wage. Meanwhile as a dev, I can comfortably work for someone else and don't have all the risk.
At this rate it’ll be Reddit-tier by EOY
It doesn't imply that. What term would you use to refer to the narrowing of a hypothesis space upon acquisition of new evidence?
The thing is that top-end software engineers in a FAANG company (the equivalent of a master-plumber / master-electriction / etc.) are either pushing towards 7 figures or have already got there - in total comp, not in wages, but still.

I'm an ICT5 at Apple (not the best-paying, but hey, less layoffs) and I reported ~$750k last year. There are ICT levels going up to 9...
Someone walking away from a house doesn’t destroy the house.

The lender’s risk is therefore limited to the difference between purchase price and actual value of the property. Which is something they can hedge or simply not make a loan if they think the property is wildly overvalued.
No... he got the class action thrown out because of an arbitration clause... so each individual case must go through arbitration, and those are all still pending (when I checked a week or two ago).
I mean good luck but the YIMBY movement is a very pro investor movement.

Decrepit old SFH selling for $1.6 million turned into a 4 plex here in Vancouver would see each unit in the 4 plex selling for $1.4+ million (maybe $1.1 for the basement suite). Friend bought in a converted old place 780 sqft attic suite $940k. It doesn't really make stuff affordable.

It was sold here as "the missing middle" and they basically dragged a mouse over huge washes of neighbourhoods like SimCity and said you could do 5 unit conversions. Fixer-upper SFH become gut out conversion SFH and are priced based on the investment of the 5plex conversion and what those can be sold for.
This post has an introduction that is noteworthy of its disrespect towards proponents of unsigned integers.

"Oftentimes it’s a novice coming from C/C++ or C# who has worked with unsigned types before,
or one who wants to guarantee no negative numbers in certain situations."

This is a neutral observation first and foremost. By itself there is nothing wrong with it. I would expect newcomers of a language to miss features of where they came from as well. Although it should be noted that this statement is only a gut-feeling without proper statistics to back it up.
What irks me is what comes next:

"Said novice C/C++/C# programmer typically does not fully understand the semantics and ramifications
of unsigned integers in C/C++/C# to begin with."

Not only does he presume that the newcomer does not fully understand the semantics and ramifications of unsigned values in java. He also asserts that this is the case for the language that they came from. How do you expect a reasonable debate to continue from here on out?
Every disagreement is settled by just stating, that the proponent just doesn't understand the problem.

Now what if they understand the semantics and ramifications and still want that feature? Does a world exist for the author in which this is the case?

Moreover, the article is pretentious as well. The semantics of unsigned integers in java hasn't been decided yet, so you either have to argue against each proposed model or in general. Here, a model in which implicit type conversion from unsigned to signed values is argued against. Other possibilities are not considered. At this point I am inclined to just step away, as there is no information about both the semantics that is being argued against (method: find it by reading it) and, whether it is the only model proposed. There is no insight to be had except that the author doesn't want unsigned integers and is content with how it works as is (with an asterisk for bytes).

I do believe that the people in favour of the addition have to make a case for it. But I also thought that we were beyond arguments of the "you're holding it wrong" kind. As silly as it may sound, an argument like this makes me consider the other side immediately. And I say that as someone who never felt the need for unsigned integers in Java.
I don't disagree with your sentiment and the need for that effort, but the probability path is that since the medieval times or longer this has been attempted with no long term success. Make bets on the most probable until real change has occurred.
Thanks for this recommendation. I'll give CS a retry if this mod puts the traffic and pop sim on par with sc4.
It’s because our federal government purchases the majority of residential mortgages, and therefore indirectly sets the standard for the entire market. It’s a major reason why real estate is such an attractive investment.
And minerals and petroluem
I hate the kind of meetings where there are couple of smart guys, very experienced in a specific domain, talk about a complex concept in few abstract words and talk among themselves knowing that no one else is understanding, and you are not at a level where you can stop them and ask them to unpack what the hell they are talking about and take a whole lot of time from the meeting to explain.
oh wow! we have an answer to the question: where do you go when twitter is down?
Also, isn't this a really common joke? I assume ChatGPT will have absorbed some amount of a sense of humor from its trawls of the internet.
Yeah, man. My friend lived in Capital Hill back in the early 2000s and was able to keep ahead of the rent on his comically small apartment just working part time

Nowadays, though, Seattle residents not making obscene tech money have to either live in a submarine-esque cramped environment or spend 2-4 hours commuting every day
By the way: epage, you are a hero. I am very grateful for everything you build.