skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pointing to low growth and high prices tell us that isn't simple supply and demand pushing the prices up. Berlin even more as large swaths of the city are still underdeveloped after losing 2 million inhabitants since the 1940s-1950s.

How can Berlin, a city with ample free space and free buildings still see a massive increase in housing prices if it was a simple issue of supply and demand? There's undoubtedly something else much fishier going on.
The big issue in northern Europe is private debt, not government debt. Totally reasonable to not know
Ah, yeah, that's a fair confusion.

I don't think Canadian ovens feature the Fahrenheit scale because they are sold in the US. The SKUs are likely to be different and changing the display is easy. Consider cars which are similar. I assume Canadian cars feature speedometers in KPH and external thermometers in Celsius. I am curious what units your engine coolant temp uses though!

Canada is a commonwealth country and the commonwealth didn't begin converting to the metric system in earnest until the 1970s. This is over 100 years later than the rest of the world. Canada paused metrication in 1988. Cooking is likely to have been one of the last things to change because it is so common.

Pre-metrication Canada used the Imperial system and the US used the US Customary system. This means the definition of units like the gallon was inconsistent. Units in Canada seem to be influenced more by the commonwealth than they are by their southern neighbor.
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Firstly I don’t see that, secondly so what? If they have a legitimate grievance, that grievance doesn’t go away if they have other concerns as well.

I don’t think style is even the main issue here, although it’s a significant one. You may be right. Without scraping vast troves of copyrighted art, and using it in a way that is not at all clearly fair use, these models would be nearly as good at almost anything. But if that’s a legitimate concern, the fact that it might severely hamper these models is the right outcome. If these companies want to use copyrighted works to train them, maybe they should need to license it.
> it will never be perfect

This is a straw man.
Landlords don't provide housing, buildings do. If they are taxed out of owning the building, they'll sell it to somebody who can live in it.

Yes, the world needs some amount of rented housing, but a huge percentage of people renting now want to own, just to have stability and control over their living environment.
PitchBook’s new tool uses AI to predict which startups will successfully exit
fwiw 7B is totaly useless for the subset of non english languages i've used, 13B a bit less so, but nowhere near as good as gpt.

GPT's performance in non-trivial translation tasks is unbelievable. all those articles mentioning jobs that are going to be replaced fail to mention translators are probably going to be the first.
One of the things I've picked up reading HSP literature is that the human brain regresses when pushed past its limits. You go into fight, flight, or freeze, and from there everyone starts to look the same - like a petulant toddler. Part of self care is giving yourself permission not to torture yourself. To wear earplugs, prefer quiet restaurants, to ask the host of a party to please stop burning incense like it's Christmas Mass, or to just give yourself permission to pop in and then leave after an hour.

There's overlap between HSP and alcoholism as well. Needing to get smashed at a party in order to 'relax' is more than just decompressing after a hard workweek. Alcohol dulls the senses.
It's interesting that when ChatGPT 3.5 came out - everyone said, this is it! It's ready for primetime.

And now that there's a few competitors in the same league - 3.5 quality is suddenly garbage and only 4.0 is good enough.

Was it good enough before or wasn't it?
EU Chat Control Law
I also said fat profits, which generally encompasses all business activity.
>The education isn't free.

That's just directly vs indirectly, isn't it?
We already have them, they're called product managers /s
What's so frustrating this time around is that almost all of the layoffs by Big Tech are being done on what appears to be entirely speculation with no concrete financial data to support their business decisions.

Google, Amazon, Salesforce, etc. all have reported very healthy quarterly earnings and year-end results. Yet their actions are those of failing companies operating in the red for multiple quarters.

Every company is giving the same excuses --ahem, I mean reasons-- ("overhiring", "economic downturn"), laying off the same amount of people, and making their announcements within days of each other.

Have we ever seen such an industry-coordinated event like this? Especially with no public data supporting their actions?

The real reasons many believe for these layoffs amount to taking back the power & control that employees gained in 2020 until early 2022:

1. Salary correction: Compensation boomed, with major tech companies offering new grads and junior engineers job offers high than employees 2 levels higher. Has there ever been a time that employee pay raised so quickly?

2. Corporate control: Leadership wanted everyone back in the office but employees collectively refused. Can you think of another time where companies had lost this much control over their own workforce?

3. Pay Wall St: The only public financial data to support layoffs of this kind are from the stock prices, which mostly plummeted. However, they did not plummet due to poor performance but rather due to the macroeconomic events out of their control. Even at their present day levels, they are still mostly above their pre-pandemic highs. And guess what? Almost every other company's stock price in most industries fell significantly as well. With the profits erased from the surged stock prices, layoffs are the quickest and easiest way to push up a company's value.

I can only hope that employees continue to band together to know their worth and not settle for less.
The ARM Macs are seriously impressive hardware, even for just the build and tactile quality. But macOS is regressing quickly for professionals, there's too many design compromises to make the OS attractive and safe for 'casual users' but those same features are starting to become a hassle for professional users. Linux is the complete opposite of course, it's a hassle for casual users, but in exchange gives complete freedom to do what you want. Personally I'm still ok with macOS, but with each new macOS release the grass is looking greener on the Linux side ;)
You have way too much time on your hands and seem determined to argue nonconstructively. Have a good one.
Ask HN: Why does HN get unusually hostile towards startups?
I’ve been around long enough to remember the infamous iPod and Dropbox comments essentially calling those products useless. Over the years, I feel the lack of openness has gotten worse to the point of reflexive hostility. So often when people launch their startups here, the comments immediately hone in on picking the ideas and products apart, not to offer productive advice and encouragement, but seemingly just for the sake of criticism. Very few attempt to entertain the vision the founder may be working towards and offer constructive advice on how to get there.

Seems like the hostility hit its most irrational peak with the sentiment here towards startups who banked with SVB. Many seemed to go so far as to almost hope we’d see a startup meltdown.
Most terraform flows are just as trivial as any workflow, create/update/delete of infrastructure. Not like we haven't had a hundred frameworks to accomplish that over the last few decades of onprem. Short term enterprise memory just believes there's only one way/place to do that now.
or a few iteration down ChatGPT will create that UI too.
In the future it will not be a "boring" text chat but an interface that always morphs into the specific task you are asking it about.
Yeah, exactly. LLaMA 7B itself cost $80,000+ to train (82,432 GPU hours). Stanford spent
$100 on fine-tuning compute and $500 on OpenAI credits to generate their 52,000 sample instruction training set.
One of the benefits of a high tax regime is that it’s not hard to not need to borrow money if you’re smart about it.

I follow some stuff about public transit, and Sweden has lower construction costs than the UK by an order of magnitude.
Thanks! Looking at the bright side and grateful to be running my own startup from a laptop, so at least I can still work. Many others aren’t as lucky
Australia's birth rate would have fallen below 2.1 back in 1976. Thanks to immigration our population is still growing.
This is different. It can act just like humans do for most people who skim comments won't be able to tell the difference.

Note this was in 2020: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/08/1009845/a-gpt-3-...

And here's 4chan bot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efPrtcLdcdM

I can tell you that HN is probably already being infiltrated as well.

SPAM can't gang up on you in a forum and downvote you and turn your friends against you and destroy your reputation within 1 hour online. But soon, it will. The web as we know it is soon going to be over.
To answer your question, yes. This is also what I try to hint people at work who refuse to move past the "real programmer" languages, most of their talent is very soon replaceable by GPT.

Idk if you'd call it syntax or what, but what makes Rust pedantic is that you're always worrying about lifetimes, types, explicit errors (as opposed to exceptions), and other things you mostly don't think about in JS or Py. It's like C++ only nicer and safer. It's not that JS/Py is a lower skill, it's that devs don't want to waste time. Of course Rust or C++ makes plenty of sense for lower-level stuff or anything that needs to be especially optimized.
If everyone is understanding it correctly then that appears to be the case. Apparently user-space addresses from 0x20000 to 0x3ffff are not mapped by the MMU in the expected way, but are directly mapped to the same SRAM for every program.

A statically linked "HelloWorld" on my VisionFive 2 starts from 0x10000 and runs up to 0x4ea8e, so smack through that whole memory region.

The only way to make programs compiled with a standard binutils (or on another RISC-V machine, or a standard OS running in a VM) work would be for the kernel to memcpy() that 128k region in and out on every address space switch.

It's really an awful bug (or design decision) if you want to run standard OSes and standard code on it.
It's really not good enough yet, it's impressive for what it is in our current time. But we're looking at the 1980s computers.

They are neat, they are useful, but they can do so much more.
It’s a measure of household debt. Household debt is a general term that encompasses all type of debt including mortgages. Of course it’s general.
> You have way too much time on your hands and seem determined to argue nonconstructively. Have a good one.

Please refresh on the HN comment guidelines. And reconsider who has been "constructive" vs "nonconstructive" in this thread.
I wouldn't be surprised if GPT ends up as the the AskJeeves of LLMs.
There is no reason not to do that, except

i) Distributing large files through torrents is slightly annoying if you don't already happen to have a seedbox

ii) People are still messing around with quantization settings, they might think that they are a few days away from a much better version

iii) No one wants to be sued by Meta. I think the risk is pretty small but not zero.
What seems like bad news for the growth based human world, is great news for the biocentric view of the world. Yes, it is a rough road ahead but long term this is not a bad thing.
This has to stop at some point.
If a recent college grad can't learn rust quickly the rest of us have no hope.
All very true, however, if they still had 14% CET1 capital ... they didnt need a bail out, or to be sold etc.

If however, they required a bail out ... then they cant have had that much capital left. It is not compatible to be bankrupt, but have 40bn of capital, while also only being worth 2bn - one of the statements has to be false.
No, it is a response to a hostile act, it is not emulation because the scope is limited to that country.

> State-level censorship of apps the public can use should not be entertained in a free and open society.

Yes it should. The government is reponsible for regulating commerce, especially by foreigners. The whole point of the ban is that tiktok's owners are not in a free society and cannot take advantange of the benefits of a free society while escaping its responsibilities and their country being openly hostile/

Even within the US the government can block and ban facebook if facebook is in violation of any laws or is acting in aid of a foreign hostile government.

You don't understand free speech or liberty. They both come with responsibility and commerce is a regulated privilege. Tiktok can become a non-profit app and sniff all your data all it wants. In a free society, a hostile foreign government has exactly zero rights.
UHC is one of my poster children for how you can structure a corporation to completely absolve both parties of any responsibility for anything.
I play in a big band. These days, performing and composing are both labors of love. My band is by mutual agreement, non-commercial. The money we make goes into sheet music and band expenses.
> You have narrowed down your hiring pool to expert Rust developers even though all you need is a new college grad who can start a Flask server

On the plus side, if you hire someone who isn't an expert Rust developer and they mess things up, it will break at compile time instead of at runtime.

Assuming you still have some Rust developers at your workplace, and assuming the new developer is not completely incompetent, they should be able to get up to speed before too long.
The one child policy played a big role as well
That’s certainly true for people that are relocated to China from overseas. That was my case. But local Chinese citizens working at one of the BAT companies can also be very highly paid at the more senior levels (say L7 and up). My 200k USD reference was for local comp, not imported expat comp.
honestly, probably the same reason covid in general has been downplayed: get people working and get people spending

once the vaccines became available to the general public in early 2021, it was game over for any covid mitigations. At that point, it had been about a year since worldwide lockdowns and people were ready to get back to normal.

From then it was a slow trickle of ignoring the problem and getting people to forget covid, in order:

- if you're vaccinated, you can't get or spread covid

- ok if you're vaccinated you can still get covid but it's basically just a cold

- alright, you can still spread covid, but you're vaccinated so not a big deal

- ok looks like there's some new variants of covid, but your vaccine is still basically as effective

- ok look like there's another new variant and it doesn't protect you as much as the original variant, but only unvaccinated people die from covid

- well, looks like the elderly and immunocompromised aren't protected well even with the vaccine, but whatever they can wear masks

- alright, so it looks like repeat infections might cause neurological and cardiac issues, but those people probably weren't healthy.

you get the picture. I'm being hyperbolic here, but this stuff happened over the course of 2-3 years, not overnight. All in favor of trying to keep a status quo that doesn't exist anymore.
>People don't have to love using it you know? If the guy doesn't like it, why force it down his neck?

It's not about feelings. It's about there being a thing, in objective reality, with some specific merit, and we're trying to evaluate what it is with some accuracy.

Whether someone enjoys it or not is beside the point.
The elites have decided they don’t need a middle class anymore.
You just need a basis for proving your current or expected income.

Also, in CA, you can make an "urgent" application and be enrolled within 2 days. I requires some pressing medical problem, but that doesn't have to be life or death.
The point is that many asset poor Americans saw the inflation as moderately beneficial due to higher wages. These higher wages made homes appear more affordable. The CPI measure underestimates inflation for individuals who need to acquire assets like homes.
I personally find writing apps for myself to be a fun and practical way to learn. That way you might get introduced to a few libraries you've never used before - and get new codebases to dive into and learn from. I have friends who started programming with writing tools to mod games and IRC/Discord bots.

I've benefited a lot from the apps I've written to improve my day-to-day life.

Just to give you an example: I wrote a tool to sync my uni timetable from the proprietary system they're using to my Google Calendar - that way I have all my events in one place and I'm also notified of classes early enough so I can get to campus in time.
Between countries, fertility is associated with poverty. But within countries, it’s the opposite. Higher fertility comes along with wealth and well-being. So if the rich, educated people in your advanced society are not reproducing, that’s a bad indication.
> I honestly have no clue how someone without low level experience (eg. never did systems level programming) even approaches Rust.

I started by reading the Rust Book. It explains most of the low-level concepts. It took me about a week of mostly just learning and experimenting, and another ~3 weeks until I had an MVP of my system. But from there it was just another 2 months until I had a full system written and in production, which it would probably have taken in another language anyway (as the project involved a lot of trial and error reversing a (simple but) only partially documented format).

Perhaps it helps that I came from JavaScript where a lot of the abstractions are similar.
And then there are those of us who deal with nonce daily. I wince every time I see the word, and it's really awkward if non-technical folks hear us talking about them.
funnily, foreigners can never acquire chinese citizenship unless some chinese ancestry and/or enough connection in high places. Legal Naturalizations are a few hundreds a year, on a foreign population of 850 thousands
Cheney is still kicking too. And he did it directly for money.

RIP AB
That’s nuts. Thanks for sharing.
Neat!

Here's one more: https://www.patterncooler.com/ (by Harvey Rayner, who happens to be the author of the SVG logo).
They probably put most of the effort into the 65B model, the 7B model was just trained so they could get an idea of the scaling behaviour. It makes sense to use the same amount of training steps, then.
> represent a movie plot as emoji

This sounded like a really cool idea but I asked ChatGPT to do this for the plot of the movie The Shawashank Redemption and there is no way that I would ever have been able to guess that movie from the emojis it gave me. Perhaps GPT-4 does a better job at it.
Show HN: Leetcode but for front end engineers. Bad idea?
> but.. but.. why?

Compile time verification that you haven't made a typo in your SQL, and that if you have updated your db schema that your code also reflects these changes.

Turning runtime errors in to compile time errors is one of Rust's superpowers.
I think this is a really cruel thing to say.
IANAL but I do believe one of the factors of Fair Use is whether you are competing with the owner of the copyrighted work(s) in question; "the effects on the potential market." So if they're trying to make a case for or against IA's use of the copyrighted material constituting fair use, this seems relevant.
Yes. I know, I work for a telco and have worked with central office switches and telco edge clouds. I know what goes into designing a data center to maintain 5 9’s availability. I don’t think it’s a level of complexity most companies need though.

So to your point it’s how the internet is run. But your midsize enterprise isn’t a telco. They have no expertise with this stuff.
NAT can be a feature or the whole product.

I would certainly hope there are boxes out there that present multiple IP addresses to the 'outside' network and avoid these problems. It's an old technology and there's been plenty of room for improvement. I haven't caught any consumer products (eg, access points, routers, firewalls) doing this, and a lot of small businesses... well sometimes my work network is better maintained than my home network, and sometimes not so much.
The housing problem may be fixed but what about the care for the elderly?
If it's a sign of wealth and abundance that fertility rates are falling, how do you explain that fertility rates are falling in the poorest areas of Africa, too?[1]

[1]. https://www.afd.fr/en/actualites/dramatic-drop-fertility-acr...
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you heal well. I was referencing the point about going so slow you can't stay upright.
Thanks! That's even better haha.
With both of those, the people drilling into and roughly disassembling this equipment mystifies me. I can't imagine the thought process that went into it. I mean, I'm not a 'professional' scrapper either. But I'd like to think that if I were, I'd stay away from pieces of medical equipment of unknown purpose, not try really hard to crack it open like a walrus with a shellfish.

And that's assuming that there were no big fat yellow radiation warnings anywhere on this equipment. Which even in 1977 equipment I find hard to believe.
> Like many companies, our business has been impacted by the current macroeconomic environment

I must be living under a rock because, outside big tech self-inflicted wounds, I don't know what they are talking about. Is it Ukraine? SVB? Chinese housing market?
> They are delighted with public libraries

I dispute that. I did some work with a large book publisher in the UK. They hated libraries and had all sorts of tactics to work against them.
https://www.census.gov/topics/population/migration/guidance/...

This is geoblocked in slovenia, but the google summary says:

> Using 2007 ACS data, it is estimated that a person in the United States can expect to move 11.7 times in their lifetime

If we neglect the student ages for those without student housing or living nearby, most people here move from their parents to their own place, maybe again if they're renting, and then to a "better place" if they can afford one later on. 11.7 times is way above what most people here do.

80 years of life, 11.7 movings, 6.8 years between moving. Realistically more often than that during younger years, since I'd guess retired people move less often.
I hope this is meant ironically.

Cars regularly mount pavements/sidewalks as well, and kill pedestrians who are not even in the road.

The correct response to "cars make cities unsafe for everyone" is of course to ban all but the most essential cars from cities. It is not to suggest that the _other_ forms of transport (including walking on the pavement/sidewalk!) are so unsafe as to be irresponsible, in the presence of cars.
For public doors I use every part of the body except my hands to open and close them.