skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of several different glitches and downtime seen this year.

A revenue collapse of 40% with a surge in fake verified profiles does not make Twitter better than ever. It is crazy to see a sudden sharp 40% revenue decline being described as better than ever.
A "Career Scientist" is very, very bad news!
Publish (in a scientific journal) or publish (on Youtube). No hiding from the invisible freedom of the market.
And the other players could show up at city council subcommittee hearings to denounce your mouse clicks as the insidious, carceral hand of Big Developer, sucking the character right out of the neighborhood.
In a reasonable market where house values just track inflation, you don’t build much equity though.

e.g. If you buy a $200k house with 20% down at 2% on a 25-year amort, over five years you accumulate about $26k in equity not counting your down-payment. In my jurisdiction, standard realtor fees on that would be about $10k, going with the 1% rule of thumb for maintenance would run you another $10k, and property taxes would be another $6k. You’re already at zero net profit before you even have to pay insurance or utilities. (All that isn’t to say that you wouldn’t have lost more money renting.)
Yeah - it's a super weird take.

Almost all the engineers I know get their jobs through random process. They use things like Hired, sending out resumes, responding to recruiters, rooftop slushie (no longer available), and then some actual referrals if they know someone. You use everything available cause you need to get multiple competing offers. You're not going to just interview at one or two friend's places and then get an offer and take it. You're gonna get 5-7 offers and then try to take the best one out of those by making them compete for one another.

This - turns out - requires a lot of companies and interviews and a lot of work.
How's this?

The home page is a setup where you setup your dataframe. If you already have some csv or something, you can read that rather than getting user input.

The app will randomly select 2 rows of the dataframe and display them as side-by-side VS cards. You then pick the winner from the two. Then the app will repeat random selection/winner as many times as you want.

There's a results page that shows the ELO ranking of all the "players" as well as the history of all the "games" between the players.

I implemented not with a "swipe" interface but just with side-by-side cards and you click on one. It wasn't clear to me how swiping would work when you're choosing a winner between 2 objects rather than making a yes/no decision. If you have an idea for how swipe would be useful, I'm all ears.

Live App:
https://compare-and-rank.pycob.app/

Source Code:
https://github.com/pycob/sample-apps/blob/main/compare-and-r...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tub6eEdmjzs

heh... we have over fresh bakery shops IN EVERY STREET so you are no more than 10 house lengths away from one. It has no yeast, around 3% is salt but is made fresh and goes bad in hours so it is consumed HOT. I wonder if stuff like our centuries old tech can be replicated in more "modern" nations?
Is it working for you today?
Not OP, but I see the also in problem with 'every possible entity'.

If you formulate it like that the prompt is decoupled from the LLM capabilities and can be anything. And if you restrict the prompt to cover only what the LLM understands the sentence becomes trivial.

Train a LLM with ASCII and try to get it to simulate anything that is outside of that (ancient sumerian script for example).
If you only input ASCII it can generate every possible output in ASCII, most with very low probability but still.

After writing this, I'm not even sure what 'simulating' means in this context.
Would you say the commonly-used random level generation algorithm in gamedev, Wave Function Collapse, implies it’s using quantum mechanics? Most people would disagree with you, I suspect.
They really should have rendered this graph with the same currency. It is interesting that Toronto and London are so close.
Science may not be "rooted" in this, but it is nonetheless still a pretty good bet that a scientific expert knows things that non-experts don't.
When very few can purchase a luxury suit in a ghost city in china, the infra build costs were high, but the available buyer population is way fn low - its inverse to supply&demand when it comes to chinese real estate.

The buyers would have to fund ALL the infra to power, water, feed such ghost city homes, and where will they work?

I used to work with a guy in SF that had a consultancy that would bring chinese 'students' on tours of the US to various universities to have them pick where they wanted to go to school.

These were the children of chinese oligarchs - and they would land in SFO with luggage full of cash - and, not knowing how things worked in the US, would jusr bribe their way through every transaction at ~$10,000 a time...

The chinese oligarchs own more of america than you may know.
Probably just timing. Hiring is bad right now.

I got a couple of interview requests 3 weeks into my promotion period, didn't take the quizzes.
> At the very least per tweet it’s possible to see really view patterns, which to my knowledge what’s possible before.

Those numbers have been proven to be incorrect, by people who are posting from locked accounts with 0 followers racking up large nonzero view counts within a few minutes.
> Given that they are unprofitable, if I were a shareholder I would be upset if I did not see experiments being run to see how much cost can be cut and where.

Twitter will never get to $44bn market cap again (much less a valuation with a decent IRR) by cutting costs alone. They need to grow way more than they need to cut costs.

If any of those experiments lead to less growth (which I’d argue is true of a broken Tweetdeck), then they are wholly not worth it.
Not only are raw sugar and lard considered food, but they're better for you than refined sugar and refined plant oils. Of course, as with everything, the poison is in the dose.
Police raid homes of alleged hackers who attacked hospital systems
I've refinanced many times to get lower interest rates. Did not pay any "points" or penalties to do so.

> The banks always need their cut before you are allowed to build equity.

I've never had a mortgage that had any sort of prepayment penalty. (Always read the mortgage contract front to back to make sure there isn't one.)
> the small and lower cost place you bought 10 years ago went up in price too.

Exactly, that's the problem. There exist people who did not buy houses 10 years ago, due to personal failings such as being teenagers at the time. Yet the houses continued to appreciate much faster than inflation and are now out of reach.

> Buying a house in the place they feel they deserve to live is. You can buy a home that is a 30m commute by train or bus to NYC for <= $400k.

A: You absolutely cannot.

B: Why don't they deserve it? Why should would-be buyers be forced out of every major city and even the surrounding areas, due to artificial price increases, when that was never the case for previous generations?
I'm making more than that in London. I know similarly qualified people in Bristol who make literally a fifth of my salary yet for some reason do not want to move to London.
I think you're taking it way too literally. The author is proposing a model that [allegedly] does a good job of explaining why we see unexpected behavior, not a description of what they think is happening. I think charitable reading would require you to mentally insert a lot of qualifiers, e.g. "When we give the LLM a prompt, it [behaves like something that] simulates every possible entity consistent with the prompt." That's certainly how I read it, anyway.

edit to add: this is similar to how people discussing evolutionary biology will often use "evolution wants to..." as shorthand for something like "evolution, which obviously cannot want things due to being a process and not an entity, nevertheless can be accurately modeled as an entity that wants to...". Someone will invariably come along in the comments and say, "Nonsense, how can evolution 'want' anything? You must have failed Bio 101!"
>>Which is something they can hedge

Which is precisely what PMI is for.
How often do employers get punished for violating the "protections" built into these visa programs that were meant to fill jobs for which there exist no citizen or permanent resident who would do it at any price?
If one of them claimed to have invented chess, then that claim would indeed be worth criticizing.
Antitrust laws in US/EU make that unlikely. Maybe they could buy Samsung Display though, if Samsung the conglomerate got desperate enough?
No one knows! "Processed" doesn't have any objective definition.
4. Something in between? In short term we'll see some issues but overall nothing important will change and these downtimes and small issues are a justifiable cost for letting such massive cut in the payroll.
This misses the two biggest problems with prices going down:

1) if losses are small, people will refuse to move / sell, reducing housing stock.

2) the really, really big problem is if prices go down enough that people have to start taking big losses when selling, or if it stops making sense to pay the mortgage. People would instead default on the mortgages, sending our economy into a 2008-like crash. This would lead to less construction (again) and more housing capture by the wealthiest people and corporations.

The biggest problem we have right now is insufficient supply. Builders won't build if they can't profit; if they can't sell at relatively high prices, they can't profit.
It would be trivial to print the contents of the nix store that package uses.

It would be pretty straightforward to show only what ends up in the path.
Many reputable ebikes manufacturers certify their bikes for sale in Europe, through the CE mark and related EN certifications, so hopefully the FDNY will accept that as a comparable certification indicating quality.
It's a TV dinner. Looks like turkey and crouton stuffing.
In past 10 year, variable rates commonly used in Europe have even been sub-0%. Meaning effective rate could have been under 1%.
I know, that’s why I mentioned the other companies that won’t interview me either.
I think that's what Topaz AI does? https://www.topazlabs.com/
Bevy 0.10: data oriented game engine built in Rust
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.
The title itself is incredibly aggravating. "Considered harmful" is the most passively arrogant phrase with the exception of Dijkstra's original paper, and it really irks me when authors use it.
I think annual land value taxes are efficient at resource allocation but unacceptably punitive on owners. You should not be penalized or motivated to sell simply because a 3rd party can get a higher return.

Similarly, value gains from land appreciation are taxed at the time of sale. IF I pay annual taxes on land appreciation, I should be exempt from taxes at the point of sale, otherwise I am paying for that appreciation twice.
Around these parts (Maritimes S.E. Canada) they call herring "herr rn" it helps if you don't open your mouth when you try to say it.

They also have a giant vacuum cleaner type thing four stories tall as loud as two jet airplanes. People casually walk the small village as the "herr rn sucker" deafens everyone.
My title is not “software engineer”. I pivoted into “cloud consulting” to get into BigTech. I fell into that role because I do have the combination of skills that the article author spoke of - and I’m an MBA drop out.

But my route was very circuitous and I would never recommend it.

As someone who considers himself a student of organizational behavior and being on the inside informs my viewpoint.

Being that I’m billable. There is a direct line between my work and revenue I generate.
Also, aesthetically, you have to admit, most YIMBY cities are ugly AF compared to NIMBY cities. Aesthetics are very important to human beings; people love pretty things.
That's quite the either/or.
https://archive.is/mtiIq
You're not going to know that impact, because most of the technical problems that Twitter as a company can have aren't even visible to us.

Sure, images and hyperlinks breaking and not paying the Slack bill and Musk having another mental break makes the front page of hacker news, but will a spam and abuse detection pipeline being silently busted for 3 months do that? A reporting backend that was providing advertisers with incorrect data on their ad spend? Some customer-relations workflow that ruined the week of a group of TAMs, and had revenue impact?

Twitter is a big ship. There are more places things can break than anyone, inside or outside it can imagine. But as an outside observer, the only signal that we can act on is 'Has the ship sunk? Or is it floating?'

Observing that binary state answers a question, but not the question of 'Is the ship working well?'
> Interesting to me that when Twitter was ascendant the same predictions of doom were not made so frequently

It could be because Twitter was ascendant at the time as you described.
Prepayment penalties are illegal after three years so there's no reason you would pay only interest for 10 years. If you can get a better loan, you can pay all the principal instantly and no more interest.
Was… the richest.

https://fortune.com/2023/03/02/elon-musk-bernard-arnault-wor...
We used to make more land in desirable places, much of SF's population lives on on man-made land. Scarcity mindset sounds right, but most of that status refute it. Known reserves of pretty much every resource has only increased over time.

If you take the big picture view, then the earth itself has only a temporary lifetime, and thus we should switch to looking outside our planet. For that, optimizing for growth and tech progress above all else is probably the right goal.
why wouldnt you just use their mailing list? ive tried this, to keep up todate with and theres so much uncontrollable noise anything important gets lost.
https://archive.is/MYl9T
But your reply is in a context though so I can only assume it should be taken in context. Still here you refer to them as gullible from your perspective. I don't think they'd identify as gullible in their circle, and they call you gullible. Where can you even meet when that's your view of each other?

Have you ever stopped to think that maybe you're the gullible one?
There is a mod for that but it doesn't work terribly well.
I follow a yeast-free diet to control an auto-immune disease called Hidradenitis suppurativa. Some doctors produced a study a while back where they found anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae autoantibodies in HS patients. When patients followed a yeast and wheat-free diet they would see 100% remission of symptoms. The hardest part of following this diet is avoiding yeast as it is a major flavor component in almost all "ultra-processed foods", especially the "healthy" ones. Vegan and plant-based foods add yeast proudly. The problem is that our bodies have an innate immune system that is coded to recognize and fight fungi. Our DNA even codes for pattern recognizers that specifically target saccharomyces cerevisiae, also known as bread/baker's yeast. It's alarming to me that scientists know with certainty that yeast is innately inflammatory, and that inflammation is the majorcause of chronic disease, but have not put it together that maybe yeast should be avoided as a food additive.
Cities: Skylines is published but not developed by Paradox.

The games Paradox itself develops are the grand strategy games in the Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, Hearts of Iron, Stellaris, Victoria, and Imperator: Rome lines. The flagship games here are the strongest games in the genre, and even among the broader category of strategy games, they're definitely in the most-played games, with the main competitors being the Civilization, Age of Empires, Total War, and Mount & Blade series.
The thing that always held CS back for me was the UI. I reinstalled it again recently to see if some five years of patches since the last time I’d played might have given Paradox time to hire some professional game UI designers, but I left disappointed.

Compared to the sophistication of Maxis' UIs twenty years ago, CS' clunky interactions, awkward visual hierarchy, and downright amateurish typography are indeed a poor replacement.
what do you mean by highly processed flour? whole wheat is not treated or anything, just dehusked if i remember and then ground down. is there something else they do to whole wheat flour these days?
If there's a scientific study behind it, it's pretty important to define the term. Otherwise the results are pretty meaningless.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstr...

Of course, the scourge of paywalls prevents me from actually checking what definition the paper used.
I think there are some factors missing in this piece:

1. Values go up because of density changes related to location desirability. My house is more valuable because more people want to live here, but space is finite. This should lead to it being worthwhile to pay me to leave so an apartment complex can replace the single family homes on my block. But it's more likely that someone will pay a lot to have the single family experience at a larger price.

2. The value of location has increased. I could buy a nice home for $350k in a small town that would go for $650k in my city. But we can't move there because the downsides of working there for my SO are too large.

3. Not being adjacent to a major urban area is in many respects like going back in time some proportion to your distance from one. Finding appropriate doctors is harder. Finding employment that has modern working conditions is harder. Etc.

That said, I think it's reasonable to expect housing to be stable relative to inflation rather than being a high performance asset. And retaining wealth at the rate of inflation minus borrowing costs should beat just renting at the rate of inflation without a need for tremendous price growth. But there's obviously a big issue with supply.
https://archive.is/glLl6
Whenever I try this out in a local VS Code instance, it keeps telling me I’m supposed to add my user to the `docker` group.

But why would I even want to add my user to that group? Everyone keeps discouraging people from running a container as root. It’s widely regarded a poor practice, or isn’t it?
They don't have skin in the game if they borrow 100% of the value of a house - house drops 20% in value, they just return the keys and walk away - heads I win, tails you lose. Banks don't want to play that game and I can't blame them.
Neither Mastodon nor Activitypub has a permissions system that supports that sort of thing. Perhaps it needs one.
Honestly, this is perhaps more of a "talk to your lawyer" thing than an HN thing.
> mortage ceiling is defined as something like 5x gross yearly salary.

No -- mortgages are limited to 50% debt-to-income. The exact principal that relates to income depends on prevailing interest rates.

You can see this fairly easily by using any mortgage calculator, e.g., Google's (in the "Purchase budget" tab).

Keeping fixed: $100k household income, 0% down, California, Google's tax and fees estimates, 800+ credit score (just to eliminate that as a factor).

At 2% interest, Google thinks you can get a $512k (~5.1x income) mortgage (at 50% DTI).

At 6% interest, that falls to $368k (~3.7x income).

At 10%, $274k. You get the idea.

(For all of these loans, your annual payments would be about $50k/year.)
instagram seems to have much better reach then twitter could. throw away updates are popular with stories. i see more people putting effort into instagram then twitter. some dont even have twitter accounts
Bloomberg may regret building an article around Adin Ross when he left Twitch so he could continue his Andrew Tate hero worship.

That's the kind of moderation he is running from.

Kick was primarily spun up because a bunch of rich streamers thought streaming live gambling to children wasn't problematic and they were being oppressed by the woke anti-gambling mob.
Who said they were underpaid?
"Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss" -- and that's a slam on Elon who promised a ton of things like open sourcing the algorithm, etc. All I get now is a bunch of right-wing weirdo crap in my feed that I didn't subscribe to or ask for.

And this thing he was complaining about back in May, he completely f'd it up post-purchase:

https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-fix-twitter-feed-elon-musk/
Yes, but I said "(or if it is, it'll be like CP2077 on the original PS4/XB1)". I simply can't see the game running very well on 10GB of RAM. Maybe I'm being pessimistic, but that's just what I think.
This kind of speculative fiction doesn't work. Usually the template is described as: take some part of the world and tweak it and then press play and see what the world looks like now.

Instead this is just "invert some part of culture" which makes no sense. Culture is the emergent externalized collective intelligence of social creatures. You can't invent a culture which would preserve this property without asserting a global belief in the community isomorphic to the alteration. You haven't altered the culture. You'd just asserted a group of unthinking zombies.

So when I read:

> Imagine a world where computers are inherently old. Whatever you do with them is automatically seen as practice of an ancient and unchanging tradition. Even though new discoveries do happen, they cannot dispel the aura of oldness.

I can't conceive of such a world. Its incoherent. I also can't imagine a world where no one likes metals for whatever reason. You can't just assert a fact like that and press play. It's nonsensical.
Infrared and night vision devices https://www.agmglobalvision.com/ are among the most popular optics for commercial hunting and military use. The military uses them for long-range spotting, reconnaissance, and surveillance purposes. These systems can detect targets in low light conditions and can be used to target moving objects or stealthy aircraft.
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Anyone able to read between the lines and see what features will be coming?
He doesn't say valuable, he says it matters more.

Didn't the pandemic show that those jobs that matter aren't well paid?

BTW
The median salary in the NBA in 2021/22 is $4,347,600, so NBA > Tech
On asteroids it will be harder to obtain. It's been found to be present in iron meteorites at about 30 ppm[0].
[0]https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190647926.013.206
Housing is, historically, a not-so-great investment. It has transaction fees, requires maintenance, and you often do not get back the money you put into upgrades. The article paints an overly optimistic picture of owning. Nobody expects housing to go up like it did the last few years. Invest in stocks or index funds. Spend your weekends on your hobbies, not lawn care or painting walls.