skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wages are set by a baseline of the cost of living. Young single workers might tolerate having essentially no savings for a few years but eventually they will find a better job or a cheaper cost of living area.

This has a direct impact on what kinds of businesses can operate in high cost of living areas. Businesses need high enough volume or margin to pay the rent and wages of their workers. So far outsourcing has localized the negative impacts of failing low-margin businesses in wealthy nations. But that's also coming into question with national security concerns.
What's stopping you from finding the answers to these questions yourself?

What happens if you prefix encode with b?

>>> b'these are bytes'.encode('utf8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'bytes' object has no attribute 'encode'

What if you don’t prefix decode with b?

>>> 'this is a string'.decode('utf8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

What other possible values can go in the brackets? Can I encode and decode all types of input?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/codecs.html#standard-encod...

Proper Unicode handling is hard for developers because many prefer not to think about it at all. Do you have an example of a language that has a Unicode conversion API that does work for you?
Languages that I work with infrequently enough to remember how to use them - like Bash - are the absolute perfect place to apply LLM tech like ChatGPT.

Prompt:

> Write a bash script "foo.sh" that accepts a required filename, optional flags for "-r/--reverse" and "-s/--skip" and an optional "-o/--output=other-file" parameter. It should have "-h/--help" text too explaining this.

Then copy and paste out the result and write the rest of the script (or use further prompts to get ChatGPT to write it for you).

Could it be done better if I spent more time on it or was a Bash expert? Absolutely, but for most of the times when I need to do something like this I really don't care too much about the finished quality.
I would also not trust that number of 0.3% population growth. Were did you get it from? There are a lot of refugees from Ukraine, for example, which may have given prices another boost in the last year.
My only question is why MacOS initializes the cursor in the top left corner like a neanderthal from the 70s.
> Four in 10 mortgage borrowers in Sweden are not paying off their debt,

I believe this is no longer true. Since 2016 there is an amorteringskrav (amortization requirement) on housing loans. All new housing loans with a loan-to-value ratio of 70% or higher must pay off at least 2% of the loan per year, and if you're below 70% then you must pay off at least 1% per year until you're below 50%. You must also pay an additional 1% per year if you've borrowed more than 4.5 times your yearly salary (excluding taxes).

When you buy a house/apartment it's most common to have an initial loan-to-value ratio of 85% (since you're only allowed to get a housing loan for up to 85% of the property's value).
USSR officially also hated job hopping “litun”
Many of the reactions here seem rather defensive. Observing that mortgages are the main driver isn’t some takedown of the article. It makes the exact same observation.
You could also fuck Mailchimp
Sadly it's paywalled. Care to enlighten me? If inspiration came from smalltalk and not prolog then great, you win.
Yeah I feel like people are missing the point that it's not a 4-tuple thing, it's an ordering issue. Since the source port (sometimes) gets picked before the interface or destination is, you can get an EADDRNOTAVAIL result even when there's technically a potential for it to end-up as a unique 4-tuple. Doing the assignment in a different order or more explicitly can allow it to work by making sure that the kernel always knows it will be unique.
Not to be snarky, but how did humans ever do this in the past without all of those things? I think paternity leave and maternity leave are great ideas, but they’re a bandaid.

The real problem is that society has changed to be hostile to healthy human existence. You need a car to live in most of the USA. Extended families and support are spread out across the nation. Rather than cooking together in your kitchen and playing together on a whim, everything has to be planned around commutes and— often— long distance travel. Societal expectations are that families are small. Nothing is built for large families. The list goes on and on, but over all, I think it’s a long list of things— with economics being one— that underpins this.
The “plain text” spec is in a weird encoding, casing mojibake when I view it in my browser.
It would make sense to correct for home ownership rate. With higher rates of home ownership, a higher debt is justified.

For example USA and Germany seems to have about the same level of household debt, but USA has 65% home ownership rate, while Germany has only 51%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne...

The other interesting thing is that South Europe in general has a longer history of financing public works like churches, than Northern Europe, but in terms of household debt, that relationship seems inverted.
You probably aren't renting further out. Owning a place versus just renting it changes the calculus quite a bit, and you are coming out ahead compared to paying 25% more to live closer in. Working from home also makes a huge difference. A longer commute is tolerable if you only have to do it a few times a week. The days where you don't commute add up to pay rise.
All the rest are the reasons they love Rust.
Elden Ring Vibrator Control Using USB Packet Filtering
Tampermonkey
Because most people are right-handed
Hmm.. I wonder if it would be possible to train Alpaca or Llama or something on all of the available ZX Spectrum BASIC code.. if possible along with descriptions and manuals where available.

I guess you would run into output window issues. But in X months or a few years that could be solved.

You might be able to ask a really advanced model to just write a fully custom ZX Spectrum game. Just remember to start with "think step-by-step" or something like that.

Actually this is probably something you could try right away with GPT-4. Even 8k could be interesting. But especially the 32k model.

If you couldn't find something like Spectrum BASIC that it was accurate enough on, you could define a BASIC at the beginning and give it a few key memory locations or something.

Although there are probably already enough ZX Spectrum programs in a way.

Here is my demo I made of my vintage simulator thing running hundreds of ZX Spectrum instances at a time on a PC: https://youtu.be/BjeVzEQW4C8
It's one of the most installed apps on the planet, hardly a "random app".
Where is "reason" in this model? A chain of semi-related thoughts isn't reason. LLMs need a set of axioms and formal logic to establish truthfulness of arbitrary statements.
An aging population is unavoidable just by the simple fact that population growth has to stop at some point. The huge population growth we've seen is unique in history and we'll go back to a more stable population (it's already starting) BUT with low birth rate/high life expectancy instead of high birth rate/low life expectancy as before.

Socialised (not necessarily socialist) systems are the best bet to cope but there must be an epiphany that this requires drastic changes, one of them being to go all in to maximise productivity.
For Christ sake. There was never any need to memorize fizz buzz, that's the whole point of the damn question. It tests an applicants basic math and logic capabilities (in this case modulo and for loops).
fort derrick narrative
A free and open society gives people the choice to use whatever they want within sensible bounds. I don't think you appreciate the nuances between a totalitarian regime like China, a nanny state like the UK, and an open society like the US.

In an open society, people are free to use apps regardless of who may or may not be behind them. That's the price of freedom: bad actors, unpleasant words, unpopular views, and the freedom to be a jerk.
How do neanderthals from the 2020s hold the cursors?
It's my understanding that the northern European countries have very low immigration rates which means that their existing (mostly native) population is entirely responsible for their economic growth. That population grows old and fewer and fewer young people are available to contribute to the state-funded "welfare" to support their parents retired lifestyles. So the debt accrues and the country eventually becomes a "welfare state" with young people paying 50-60% of their income to taxes.
At its core, this case comes down to "is this fair use" (there's no claims that it's not copyright infringement, IIRC). And while fair use analysis considers the four factors, in actual practice, the four factors are merely a way to explain the reasoning behind the gut decision, which usually boils down to "did the copyright owner deserve to get paid?"

The fourth factor is "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work," which is where the monetary aspect is going to be considered. If the judge is pointing out that the publishers actually saw market growth as the Internet Archive expanded its lending, that could signal that they are going to find the fourth factor in favor of the Internet Archive--and that would utterly destroy the publishers' case here.
Existing compilers for GC'd languages that target WebAssembly today have to use inefficient schemes to make their runtimes work, making the website slower than they would be otherwise, which is pretty much the entire point of OP.

And anyway, regarding "lack of GC in WASM made it appealing" -- support for high level languages with GC semantics was always a long-term goal for WebAssembly and GC was thought about by the relevant parties long before the 1.0 spec was even ratified (the initial placeholders were added as early as 2017, 2 years before 1.0 ratification); it was just not within scope for the earlier versions because it's a pretty big topic, including many things that aren't even wholly GC related e.g. value types. But this isn't surprising either; most of the earliest implementations and concerned parties were browsers, and the interactions between WebAssembly and JavaScript's memory models, along with the popularity of Javascript-targeting compilers (which suffer from many similar contortions), meant that GC was always a pretty obvious "This is a thing we need to think about in the long run" feature.
It is left as an exercise to the reader to find a natural number which isn't arbitrarily large but calculable.
There is time, but no action.
What are the interest rates now? Presumably they are significantly higher than a few years ago. Although maybe there is a delay.
You're being willfully obtuse here.

When somebody says "this algorithm is unbounded" they of course don't mean that they've changed the laws of the universe to allow for an infinite array of memory that it can work with. They just mean that if you could do that, it'd work.

As an example: `while (node) node = node->next;` (in C, where `node`'s type defines a reference to `next` of the same type) will traverse an unbounded list. It will work just as well for zero nodes, one node, a dozen nodes, a billion nodes, and so on, as the number of nodes approaches infinity. Obviously it is impossible for you to ever create a computer with an unbounded amount of memory, but computer scientists can talk about algorithms the same way mathematicians can talk about what `f(x)=x^2` at infinity.

No mathematician, with the knowledge we have now, would ever say, "It's unreasonable for us to talk about infinity. That's simply not possible, ever, now or in the future, so let's limit things at 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999." We settled this debate back in the 1600s.
Let's not mention crypto.

Although, I'm guilty of thinking doordash is stupid. I'm am still surprised there aren't more clones.

With that said. I think HN has a programmer bias that views the world through that lens. under estimating marketing, sales, hr and other business functions and over estimating coding in valuing a business. basically equating building an mvp with execution.
> 80% of Norwegians OWN their primary dwelling

I see your clarification. Question: In Norway, if you pay-off your mortgage, do you still owe annual taxes on your property? If so, how much? What happens if you don't pay property taxes?

One of the things that has always bothered me about home "ownership" is that, from my perspective, at least in the US, you never really own your home. You can pay off your mortgage, of course. However, if you stop paying property taxes you can lose your property in a forced sale.

That is not my definition of owning something. If it can be taken away, you do not own it. We have somehow been led to believe we can own property. I don't think that's the case. If you own your property it should mean that you can live there with zero income and have nothing to pay anyone except for the things you want to pay for (power, gas, connectivity, whatever).

Someone might say: We need taxes to pay for X. Well, sure. I get that. We should get that money through other means, not through a system where people work their entire lives to pay off a mortgage only to discover they will have to keep paying to "own" that home for the rest of their lives. Perhaps the distinction should be your residence vs. investment/rental property. Not sure. Haven't through it through much deeper than that.
> - since then it got worse and now I can’t walk, take the stairs or even sit upright on a chair for more than a couple minutes, else I risk fainting (and my heart beats like crazy the whole time)

As a super simple thought, if you take an iron supplement do you reckon it might help at all?

Asking because when I occasionally get that, it generally means I'm so low in iron that I need to supplement for a while. (Some history of mild anaemia in the family, but nothing to worry about in itself.)

Note, not thinking it'd be a solution here. More a workaround that might help. :)
Maybe over a decade of near-zero interest rates could have something to do with it?

The cheaper it is to borrow money, the more people borrow, unsurprisingly.

This is what’s been driving the massive rises in property prices the last many years. It’s straight out of “Economic Bubble Creation 101”.
You are correct, and this Supreme Court in particular has made large changes to the concept, furthering the degree to which qualified immunity can be applied, and have done so in a time when there is a large, popular pushback to the concept. :)
Cheers, Simon - been seeing your comments around and enjoying your blog and coverage of this stuff.

Is that prompt in your TIL really all it takes to inform it of these 3 actions? That's pretty impressive. I wonder how many actions it can scale to? I kind of expected some kind of classifier layer to predict if an action was necessary!
I think the Language Grammar section doesn't correctly report the grammar you have implemented. For example the "if" and "while" statements lack the condition!
“Northern Europeans” would be more accurate
The housing problem in Japan's big cities did not fix itself with a shrinking population (they're growing) but instead with nationalization of land use laws.
Pimoroni introduces Inky Frame with seven-color 4-inch E Ink display
How accurate are NK statistics?
Putin has been invading his neighbours since 2008 and finally launched a full scale war.

How would you say that is “roping in Russia”?
Isn't a lot of the material there deliberately obscufated and/or wrong but not corrected for the sake of making people figure it out themselves?
You keep saying this, but it's not true: they only allow one borrower of any work at a time.

This really does mirror the Library model, but on the internet.
I asked the AI overlords for an over the top Emacs icon
It's hard to imagine the Internet Archive winning... just CDL on its own is on pretty shaky ground, and the Archive's brief "uncontrolled" version even more so.

Pushing the boundaries is kind of their thing but I think they went too far here.
The problem is that you’ve identified two distinct and non-overlapping sets of people as “everyone”. Everyone who was applauding 3.5 when it came out were industry hype people. Even the critical voices were industry hype people, paid to assume the AI is powerful and write about the possible negative consequences of that assumption.

Now we’ve all gotten familiar with 3.5, and we’ve come to understand its limitations, so the public knows it’s not a “godlike” AI.

Luckily there’s a fresh new model, not technically different from the earlier one but it cost more money to build. The hype group can start again, citing the publicly known limitations of 3.5. But in 6 months we’ll understand what’s wrong with it, and the public will be talking about the limitations, just in time for 4.5.
The macroeconomic trend is 'the stock price went down because the fed stopped printing money'.
The irony of having this discussion on a site run by people who pay potential founders to move across the continent for a couple of months.
Yes?

Most people have a sense of modesty…
Ferrari discloses cybersecurity incident regarding client data
No I am not.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/34902454/265521
> why any company would pay for N different GPT saas

Simple: You do it because you pay for what SaaS does, not what GPT does. A user is not interested in postgres or nginx, even though they are the tools used to build the tool they care about and pay for. If what the new tool uniquely does is not adding enough value for enough users, it's going to fail.
Why is that an issue? Most programmers won't need to do concurrent programming, right?
Are you talking about support under Asahi because MacOS definitely does have support:

> Display Support

> Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display

> at 1 billion colors and:

>

> Up to two external displays with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz at over a

> billion colors (M1 Pro) or

> Up to three external displays with up to 6K resolution and one external

> display with up to 4K resolution at 60Hz at over a billion colors (M1 Max)

>

> Thunderbolt 4 digital video output

>

> Native DisplayPort output over USB‑C

> VGA, HDMI, DVI, and Thunderbolt 2 output supported using adapters (sold

> separately)

>

> HDMI digital video output

>

> Support for one display with up to 4K resolution at 60Hz

> DVI output using HDMI to DVI Adapter (sold separately)

https://support.apple.com/kb/SP854?viewlocale=en_US&locale=e...
I see what you mean. I was referring the half the size in terms of population — SK is 50m vs FL with 21m.

SK has great transportation connectivity so I’m not sure how being topographically disconnected has an effect in modern times.
So it’s not the bikes that are dangerous but the cars around them. Shouldn’t the solution be about how to keep cars away from bikes, not ditch bikes and drive cars?
The "macroeconomic environment" is the evaporation of available VC funding because higher interest rates provide more lucrative investments elsewhere.
I agree, I think it's mostly framed as something Amazon does to screw over employees by dangling stock they might not ever get a few years out. I'm not even arguing about the other points for the parent of my original comment, but the vesting schedule at Amazon is severely underrated in my opinion.
Popularity is orthogonal to organizational approval for the apps they want on their devices.

If Yelp corporate doesn't want Google Maps on their phone for reason X, that's a policy decision.

It's largely unenforceable without MDM enrollment.
Is there some additional meaning you want to convey by reposting this quote?
This is a short summary of the Schrems II decision, yes.
Well, as a happy father of four, I can say that it is a sacrifice. Not in the way the OP suggested, but in that kids require— no question— a lot of sacrifice. Is it worth it? Hell yes. But it’s a sacrifice.
A lot more overt racism? You could always search "white people" and find plenty of dark and nasty things, including from very public people who get plenty of praise for it. Overt and celebrated racism has always had a home on Twitter, and if anything there seems to be somewhat less of it.
Google admits it sent private videos in Google Photos to strangers (2020)
It is how a library works if the books are printed on paper. Or parchment or papyrus, I guess.

But if the books are digital, suddenly it becomes magically illegal to do anything without consent of the publisher because it now violates copyright to give your copy to somebody else. And the publisher is arguing that it's morally reprehensible for someone to attempt to build a digital equivalent to lending for physical books.
Speaking as a Mac M1 users, but not a Linux user (I have played with Asahi, think it's great, but don't need it right now), I think almost no one (or a very small minority of people) buys Mac hardware to run Linux. I think it's the inverse, people buy Apple hardware and then realize Linux is available and want to run it.

Yes, I think the general opinion is that Apple's M1 and M2 platforms are superior to Intel, even at the Mac's (supposedly) higher price point.

Though MacOS is a complete Unix system, it is still proprietary, and there's nothing wrong with wanting to do your work (or play) on a free OS running on an excellent hardware platform. Asahi is giving people the opportunity to do that.

Finally, though I can't speak for the Asahi team, I think also there's an element of "because it's there". Here is a great new hardware platform offering a incredibly difficult challenge to a group of people who live for this kind of thing. Why would they not want to do it?
I’m sure Gilligan’s Island In The Cloud would have an audience.
Parent is asking about threads not GC.
I thought this whole lawsuit stemmed from the brief window of time where the IA removed that restriction.
According to statistics - rich kids squander ALL of their wealth in ~ 2 generations, so dont worry about rich kids. Stupid ones (of which there are a majority) wont be rich for long.

"Approximately 70% of wealthy families lose their wealth by the next generation, with 90% losing it the generation after that." [1]

1: https://fortune.com/recommends/investing/generational-wealth...

in the end only smart ones will have $$$, everything according to their merits/efforts
You didn’t address the “across the continent every few years” part. Moving frequently on average in no way indicates they are moving across the country every few years.
I will only pay half unless you supply the training data as well.