skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think 3 is happening but the thing is that can this HC-twitter build knowledge and code back so that site functions stay about same before users leave is the real battle.
I have no special insight into the London market, but the fact that it hasn't happened after all these years of huge differences probably indicates that the arbitrage opportunity is not as large as it appears.
Harder in the current economy, when everyone else is doing layoffs.
Seconding (as a paying consumer) -- sign up for a month and try the experience for yourself.

It shows you the alternative Internet (ad-free, spam free, SEO-crap listicles not on the results page) that everyone here is constantly carping about missing.

If you want this reality, pay for it to help it exist. Else, put up with ads.
This would makes sense if everyone was self-employed. But the demand side of housing is decided by salaries which do not necessarily follow productivity.
Oh it very much is. I’m 49 and joined BigTech at 46. I recognized that a year in and decided not to play the game.

I found out the minimum I had to do to stay at a mid level role working remotely and actively took myself off of that treadmill and used the extra money to reduce my expenses and save so at anytime I could afford to hop.
> Computers are seldom privately owned – they are considered essentially communal rather than personal

This struck me as true of most people's use of computers now. Almost everyone I know who isn't either an old fashioned developer or a gamer uses a mobile phone or tablet merely as a graphical terminal; the actual computer is some mysterious entity elsewhere on the Net.

The golden age of computing when 'everyone' had one of their own that was useable offline is now long past.
I always think of a Dilbert from the mid 90s along the lines of “when working from home, do I owe the company 8 hours of productive work, or just the same 2 hours of productive work I’d do if I were in the office?”

(Found it : https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-02-06 )
Well, in my opinion, it remains to be seen whether big tech compensation for this style of work is sustainable long-term. Of course, if you're already pulling 800k/y in TC at Google/Amazon/whatever, great, you did wonderfully. If you're a brand new engineer starting your career, are there going to be a lot of those 800k jobs that offer you free daycare, dry cleaning, lunch and massages? I wouldn't bet on it. I say this as someone that has also not taken this path, but have nothing but respect for people who make a great living that have.

Otherwise, I think this is exactly how big companies succeed - they build career paths, tools and workflows to bring context to large groups of smart people to get them moving in the same direction. Ultimately there still have to be people to create the bridge, but the lever you get is massive when you have 1000s of talented engineers. You can't expect them all to understand how $x works, but you can pepper teams with extremely smart and talented experts and professional managers who collectively get them working on the impactful parts of the problem.

TL;DR there isn't a linear path, my advice is mainly for people thinking about how to be able to build value. If you can do that, you'll always be able to get a job.
Ask HN: What is the future of “third places”?
Third places would be any place other than work and home. Think like cafes, religious institutions, etc. It's a place where you don't have an identity/label tied to you. You just go there to socialize and be with people.

Is the future of third places online? If so, what are some companies making online third places?
It makes absolute sense, because maintenance costs are non-negligible. I just paid a fifteen thousand dollar plumbing bill. Since rent would include the ability to call the landlord to make him fix that, I sure would expect rent to be higher for the same place than my mortgage is.

Last year I spent twenty grand on a new roof. What's next? Idk, but that's why my mortgage isn't half of my salary. If it was rent, these things wouldn't be my problem.

That's the trade-off.
> it's getting there, so stay tuned

It's nice to see from a theoretical perspective. But my impression is that the ecosystem is moving towards having no checked exception. What will happen to the existing code when generics works with union typed checked exceptions?
There's nothing wrong with this list, but if you also (7) Get into a position where Sales & Marketing look at you as someone valuable, you'll end up far more successful than you would otherwise.
What are you getting paid per hour? I'm sure my wife won't complain if I'm working only 20 hours a week at $250/hr.

But if you're only pulling $25/hr cutting out 10 hours a week is a significant dent in total earnings.

Plus you have kids, and workout -- both uses of your time that I'm sure your spouse probably approves of. You're not working 30 hours a week and then playing competitive Yu-gi-oh for another 30, non?
Medical and Legal are 2 of the last professions that are likely to get automated.

Lawyers are entirely composed of people who can legislate away the threat of AI practicing law (taking their jobs)

And robots aren't known for their bedside manner yet. Also, there's a lot of liability in practicing medicine, which companies would probably be unwise to take on
Same for me, but accessing Twitter links from Google breaks it.

Seems to be related to a query param in my case (if I remove the ?lang=en, the page loads properly).
> Honestly, I'd just quit right now and pour myself an extra-large drink. It would feel amazing after this much abuse.

Unfortunately, there are his blind followers trying to emulate him. Not sure what havoc they are planning to unleash on their employees.

https://www.businessinsider.com/marc-benioff-elon-musk-ceos-...

paywall-less link - https://archive.ph/HbC3k
I've never seen a large company whose entire existence is a single app perform so poorly. It was down for me a whole day a week or so ago. Bugs are pretty rampant, they're small, but didn't happen to me previously. It's just been gradual degradation for months now. Idk how you aren't noticing.
When does the møøse arc begin in Twitter's storyline?
I don’t understand this. There are a lot of places in the US, and certainly globally, where housing prices decrease. There are also plenty of folks who got soaked in 2008 and lost everything, and no one helped them. How precisely does “the government” do this house price propping up? Via loan guarantees to ensure liquidity in the mortgage market? These make houses affordable and accessible to most people. Without loan guarantees people would still be buying houses all cash, and through loans for high credit quality, but primarily by high value entities who can afford to buy and rent many properties. In this world housing would largely be corporate owned rental units. Prices alone wouldn’t be keeping people out, but rather lack of loan liquidity would ensure a lack of lending. What keeps housing values high isn’t loan liquidity, it’s the ability to convert property into cash flow via rentals. Ultimately to stay risk neutral in pricing the cash flow option for renting is what supports home values.

But I’ve seen nothing that guarantees anyone pricing continues to rise or that their home investment will make them rich. What it does do is force savings by allocating a portion of their loan to principal growth. Even if it doesn’t grow at all or even declines, it’ll be worth a lot more later than the latte they forwent 20 years ago.

If you want guaranteed returns, buy treasuries.
>I could grow fox ears and a fluffy tail in the world of tomorrow

Yes, please!
Good news, Cities Skylines 2 was just announced today.
Full OA paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-022-03350-8
I mentioned above, but in Kotlin going from a packed C struct to JVM:

Mapping for C type to ByteBuffer call:

uint16_t -> getShort().toUShort()
uint32_t -> getInt().toUInt()
int32_t -> getInt()

It's not the most ergonomic set of calls, but definitely limits the error prone nature of it all since if you try to pass an Int into a function that needs a UInt, you'll get a compiler error
Yeah, my mortgage is $800 for a 2,000 sq ft house and my son's rent for 1/2 of a 1 bdrm apt is $1700. The situation is completely out of control. (We're both in CA.)
There is definitely capital gains tax on non-primary residence homes. Only primary homes are exempt up to certain dollar.
E-Bike Battery Fires Are Soaring, Especially in New York
"that goes stale when you'd expect it". Super dumb question, but would fresh baked bread placed in the freezer last a few weeks ? I don't buy fresh baked out of concern most of it will get thrown away.
who is the Stephenson whom you are quoting here and what was his context?
A picture of someone sleeping on the ground is not really a good indicator of their work performance one way or the other.

Only the company would really have insight into that.

Pulling a late night and sleeping on the ground does not make you immune to a layoff.
The former you said is in no way implied within this post or its link.

The latter is a kind of anecdotal evidence that does have no value in discussions like this.
The linked post is from the official Twitter account stating that things are broken and it is for many people.
If you don't see it this could be due to many conditions on why it might seem working on your device/client/account.
This does not lead to any logical conclusion that these information might be wrong.
The charts don't call out whether they're showing average base salary, or average TC (including stocks/bonuses/etc.) - I wonder if the actual numbers are higher.
I have a hard time squaring that with 15 year fixed rate mortgages being under 3% for several years in the very recent past and 30 year fixed mortgages being at/under 3% for part of that time.

How would an adjustable rate mortgage be the best choice for consumers in that situation?

I got an initial mortgage at 5.625%, refi’d to 3.875%, then again to some ~3% 15-year. I never seriously considered an ARM (and now wish I'd refi'd a third time back to a fresh 30-year fixed just to keep using that cheap money for longer).
Don’t let the mathematical terms fool you, these are just fan theories. For a real investigation you need debug access. For a good example:

https://clementneo.com/posts/2023/02/11/we-found-an-neuron

For image recognition, machine learning researchers eventually figured out the neural networks are paying attention mostly to textures. Hopefully we will have a better understanding of what language models are doing someday.
Just had the wild idea that Elon fires anyone who's away from their workstation long enough to be potentially interviewing elsewhere. Just crazy enough an idea to be something he'd pull.
I think they did something specific to this example to make it no longer generate the code verbatim. A few months ago when I tried it "fast inverse square root" was enough to get the exact function with comments and no explanation. A week ago that gave me the same function with no comments and

"give me C code for calculating the fast inverse square root of a number, do not explain yourself"

again resulted in the original function, comments included. Today it generates a completely different result and interestingly opts to explain the origin of the technique despite the directive for it to not explain itself.
I would question the assumption that there is a simulacrum of anything in a LLM, not even implicit. Any simulacrum, identity, self-consistency etc. is a projection of the "reader", i.e. user.

(I guess it is an interesting philosophical question whether a convincing presentation of a simulation of a mind is a mind, or at least an acceptable simulation. One meta level higher as the turing test, so to speak. If so, I'm not sure we are ready to accept the consequences. For example, that a "chinese room" would be just as concious as a human, or a human just as non-concious as a LLM.)

What's actually going on is that a LLM is like the language center of a brain, without the brain. Especially there is no world-model, and no inner state. It just goes by context, which works most of the time, but as pointed out that is not enough and it can flip "personalities". The article is still really interesting, because it is a neat way to think about these models. I think it is absolutely not what is going on, but it is a good intuitive model why prompts go bad.
Author here - Sorry for the confusion. The term originated from the Indie Hacker forum launched around 2016, a forum that was dedicated to helping people start small businesses online. This is the website I linked to at the beginning of the article to give people context. I've seen this term used often in the context of startups on reddit as well as hacker news, so I thought it was common knowledge. It doesn't have anything to do with "hacking" computers, though I can see why people might think that.
The median annual salary in Seattle is around $60K. So $80K is, based on the actual data, a high bar.
The pricing is set by the marginal housing. Marginal housing is older tiny apartments that would be considered deathtraps in the US or Europe. Those older 7 story buildings are torn down and replaced with 30+ story apartments (in less corrupt ways than in the past at densities that most other countries would consider too high) which are unaffordable to the people who are forced to leave and commute long distances to newer/safer, but similarly high density housing.

Because ALL of the jobs are in Tokyo (or Osaka, or Fukuoka). Note that Chiba city is growing faster than Tokyo and it's a suburb (same with Tsukuba)! Shin-Yokohama is getting too expensive.
Ha, that page isn't loading for me, but Nitter is: https://nitter.net/TwitterSupport/status/1632792942262747136

Maybe fetching through the API is working better?
Could you clarify what you mean by "renew"? That sounds a mortgage with rates that are reset every five years, which doesn't sound like "fixed" to me.
I just love this quote from Sid Verma:

"A lot of Americans are bragging that in their country they can get a fixed mortgage for 30 years. But it's worth remembering that for cultural and historic reasons, a lot of Europeans choose to reject socialism."

https://twitter.com/_SidVerma/status/1575185906218442752?s=2...

Note that the mortgages aren't even fixed rate, since you can replace them with a lower rate mortgage if rates drop, with insignificant penalty. Nobody will sell a mortgage like that if their goal is profit (other than to hand off to the US government).
Sounds pretty realistic then. I remember reading somewhere that NYC is around ~60% public transportation, and Hong Kong is around 70-80% public transportation. So maxing out around 80-90% in the game doesn't sound too outrageous. Unless you just get rid of roads entirely, which I'm sure would be a popular idea on HN.
> I'm not gonna try to attribute numbers but it's clear to many that the junior members are more prone to not adapting to remote work easily. It's a problem, for which we need to find a solution. Not necessarily going back to office tho.

The issue is with hiring. When hiring remote junior, you need to look out for above average communication skills and debugging abilities. That's often not present for a lot of new grads entering the market because of a lack of experience or relevant work. Think of three month bootcamp grads where each week's assignment was spoon fed by the instructors who themselves are students who couldn't get a real job.

Some places that hired from that pipeline are finding out it's simply impossible to bring these programmers up to speed, but places hiring real engineers have way less issues (because a serious program will include challenging work and select for people capable of debugging and reasoning independently).
good point - I forgot about that. I added my son's account once to access a locker for pickup too.
Housing inaugurably should be an investment. The question is what the return on that investment is optimal, and what are the factors drive that.
> I have nearly zero chance avoiding a sizable portion of what academic scientists label as ultraprocessed.

You can, you've just prioritized taste/convenience over your health. Going into a supermarket and looking at what people put into their carts pretty much confirms this.

> a lot of people are going to struggle to understand what isn't ultraprocessed

Maybe read the labels? Also buying the cheapest thing there (w/o reading the labels) is also not a good idea.

If you're buying nuts and it has nut-x, plus a whole bunch of salt, a whole bunch of sugar, plus a whole bunch of chemicals that one glosses over, then there's a big chance that it's ultra-processed and/or something you shouldn't eat/buy.

Buying nuts in bulk is probably the best. Adding you're own spices/favors will make it super apparent on what you're consuming.

Food companies are trying to maximize profits, shelf life by adding crap to make the cheapest product. It's been obvious for a very long time.
First time homeowners have many special loan options available to them, which you might be aware of if you weren't directing your thoughts towards threats of violence against millions of people.
Not sure why ESBuild is included since it's in Go and there's no working link to learn more about a hypothetical speedup over ESBuild.

Having used both swc-node and Rome after having used ts-node and prettier/eslint. SWC is a lot more finicky than ts-node (which itself is quite finicky) with a lot less documentation when something goes wrong (& often just looking at your setup sideways can cause it to stop working in surprising ways). Certainly I enjoy using ESBuild and I doubt swc could fill that niche right now (too immature I think). Rome is "special" in that it has none of the depth of eslint's TypeScript linting support and has very strange opinionated defaults that make no sense with limited configuration because the whole philosophy of that project is "just follow our rules without any configuration". Rome is to its word quite fast but given that it does a fraction of the linting eslint can do, it's hard to say whether that speedup will win out.

Special shout out to dprint. While it too has Rome's disease of limiting configurability, it does have a sensible amount of it and it is drastically faster than prettier. I will note though that one thing that still annoys me is that two identical ASTs will result in different output formats because the input formatting can affect the output (i.e. it tries to preserve input, particularly around line breaks). I understand the philosophy of it but I'm not sold if I'm trying to enforce a consistent style across the codebase.
You eventually have to do that to show “scope” and “impact”. That’s true.
France has fixed rate mortgages
Ideally then usability test on 50 people to seen if it works!

Might want to run it by the ethics board, though, before subjecting 50 people to traumatic events.
I've heard a non-trivial number of divorces in Japan happen after the husband retires.

Long hours, those guys work, and now they're home all the time. Small annoyances are easy to deal with when they're gone most of the time, but now he's home 24/7.
How common is this? Even breaking £150k seems really challenging - FAANGs aren't hiring in London right now, finance seems to require previous finance experience and/or prestigious education even for experienced candidates (I don't know if they really require it or just like to put it in their job ads); and even companies that pay less (£90-120k) aren't giving me the time of day.
But that's in a world where IPv4 doesn't exist. But it does, so I see an increased number of available IP addresses that many people can't access, so you must keep an IPv4 stack which makes everything more complex and more expensive.

I understand the support of new technologies but IPv6 is 27 years old.
I can corroborate. Videos struggle to load, timeline doesn't refresh unless you pull down multiple times, my current position gets lost multiple times forcing me to scroll down and then scroll back up, tweets showing up multiple times, many more ads than before and so on

It's really been kind of miserable to use the app and I only open it once or twice a day. It had issues before but never all at once like this
Your GP wrote:

> I had to pay PMI

... meaning that they did not have a substantial downpayment. Assuming they bought in Washington state, they probably also had a non-recourse mortgage.
And in that case, what causes the discrepancy in productivity between London and SF?
I think that was the case a few years back, but these days a lot of casual users are accessing it through the official app and getting served tons of ads.

It was a weird moment seeing a reddit comment where someone referred to the site as "this app." Made me feel old.
> but they just can't afford that down payment (especially the 20% needed so as to not need to get mortgage insurance)

Mortgage insurance is not a bad thing. But the FHA loans in the US solves the 20% issue by only requiring 3.5% down.
A lot of restaurant workers I've known in Seattle make like $30K. And no they aren't drug users.
It's the oldest trope since BBS's, if you want free expert information how to do something, just go on any forum and say it wrong, and 20 neckbeards will step all over each other to provide the most correct most efficient most elegant directions.

I'm guilty myself. It's a fine tradition I have no problem with. ;)
Could you explain this a little more? I've worked in early stage startups for almost eight years and had 1 minor acquisition where I got barely anything. I'd love to look into this 'targeted approach' you mention.
Wow, I have never seen the Twitter front-page before.

What a colossal piece of shit. Everything there is information-free and radicalized. The only maybe useful thing is the result of some game, that I assume it's soccer. (But British soccer, why would I care about British soccer? The rest of the page is localized into Brazil.)
You do pay tax on that.

However, you don't have to if you die and pass the property down to your spouse and/or children. This is the step-up in basis and is key to building generational wealth in the US.
It had so much promise. It was rocky to start for sure. The playable area was so annoyingly small and I felt like I wind up in the same pattern every time. I did play it again a few months ago. It has so much promise, still, as a base for the next level. Ultimately it feels like you have to graduate to using megatowers as the cities pretty much could only advance if you included them... and they were limited by count and eventually those would become stagnant.

If they could make the maps larger and improve things like homeless/park issues (I've placed parks like crazy, increase the property values and density, etc) but always wind up having to bulldoze and deal with homeless people which seems like it shouldn't happen based on my understanding.

Go the no man's sky route and give us an infinite world to build on.
It’s not necessarily that housing/land shouldn’t be an investment, but that:

1) it’s a market that is exceedingly difficult to exit. If you still at the top of the market, you generally have to also buy your next home at the top of the market as well

2) because of the disproportionate amount of peoples wealth is tied up in their home, it makes their overall wealth poorly diversified. This leads them to protect this one asset more than anything else
https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

Looks like it's already being/has been fixed. Still, pretty impressive level of brokenness for a short time.
Because it is illegal to innovate in house building.
The main issue is not covered by any of those cases, it'd need to be:

* Allow users to opt-in/out of their posts being quote-boosted by others.
The Shaky Foundations of Foundation Models in Healthcare
How large? Also I'm not sure the gRPC C++ server implementations you've tested are the fastest. If you're comparing to FastAPI (which is more of an HTTP server framework) then you should also compare to what is at the top of https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21.