skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Plague of Justinian (the first major instance of the disease) in the 6th Century wiped out at least 40% of the population of Constantinople--the largest and most advanced city in Europe at the time.

It's estimated it wiped out 25-60% of the population of Europe over the course of 2 centuries (15-100 million people).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian
Thank you. pandoc may be part of the glue too, I have to think about it. I probably do want my own DSL as none of the existing ones apply to my "domain", "specifically"
Can you elaborate on capital destruction? Who is destroying capital and why?
Fixed-rate mortgages are actually an incredibly bad deal for the lender when rates are low like they were last year. The lender ends up holding debt that - in 30 years - is worth hardly more than what they lent out.
I work in finance and a lot of my job is getting the right numbers to come out of the system in the desired timeframe. To my son that sounds boring, and he asked me if I'd switch to work on VR or something flashier. I told him that there's a lot of challenge in solving the problems that I do, and I wasn't sure that optimizing rendering or something in VR would be more rewarding or not (not to mention I'd have probably been laid off by now anyway). I suspect the challenge and reward is the same but using different tech stacks.
SheepShaver does not run MacOS X, just the classic, while MOL runs both. Been using MOL about at the same time to check out OS X, which led me buying a Pismo, my first and last Apple machine.
> The fact that it produces a single static binary is one of the nicest things about golang.

Not only that it can also cross compile for different architecture and operating systems.
My mind is definitely more focused and at peace if I have recently cuddled or had sex with a friend in the past couple of days.
Programming languages are systems for building abstractions. At least the proper ones.
Yes, the powerful created their own “debt jubilee” at times:

“Due to the precarious position of Jews, some nobles could ignore their debts. If the sponsoring noble died, his Jewish financier could face exile or execution.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_Jew
To take a different perspective on this - why would it make sense to subsidize the purchase of larger than necessary homes because they're able to lock in low rates for a lifetime? It would make far more sense if homeowners had more skin in the game, and had to make rational choices about the size and location of the home they purchased.
Thanks, glad you like it!

One approach to increase the transparency on the client side (and build trust with the organization where the Flower clien is deployed) is to integrate a review step that asks the someone to confirm the update that gets send back to the server.

On top of that, you should definitely use differential privacy. To quote Andrew Trask here: "friends don't let friends use FL without DP". Other approaches like Secure Aggregation can also help, depending on what kind of exposure your clients are concerned about.

My general take is that the best way to solve for transparency and trust is to tackle it on multiple layers of the stack.
> Is it still thought of as OK at all to exploit another area's lower cost-of-living in this way

I think it is only a few terminally online people that object to this. In real life locals object to people coming in and buying second homes or renting out airbnbs, not new people moving into the area permanently.
A. The pandemic created a lot more chronically ill people. This is a condition typically associated with people who are already seriously unwell.

B. Antibiotic resistance is associated with certain metabolic states, such as excess acidity. Some studies suggest it is reversible if you address this, yet this seems to not be standard practice.

C. I wonder if anyone has tried salt as a treatment. (Probably not.)
Probation periods are seen in the US, despite "right to work" labor laws because A) the company is large and has employees in California, or another state where labor laws favor the employees a bit more or B) the company wants to minimize the chance of getting slapped with a wrongful termination lawsuit. Regardless of labor laws, it's universally illegal to discriminate/fire someone for their race, religion, gender, marital status, age, et. al. and I think companies, especially when they want to fire someone who might believe they are being discriminated against, want an airtight defense (usually a PIP). Even though the employer will probably win the legal case, they still would rather not have a lawsuit at all.
In fact real estate prices going down can be good news for landlords as it gives them paper losses they can exploit for tax advantages.
Just a little bit of googling will turn up the most important point. It's not generally a problem for healthy humans but can be dangerous in immunocompromised individuals thus a problem in health facilities with people who are sick.

The biggest problem is that its incredibly hard to get rid off so once you have an infection the whole facility might need to completely sterilised.
they add some information like the current date in the prompt.
In what universe is r/futurology a representative sample of the average person?

Pratchett said it best, the average person just wants that things go on as normal and tomorrow is pretty much like today. They want a predictable and secure existence, not a revolution whereby their years of education are rendered moot at the training of a new model.

With previous technological revolutions, there was some clearly articulable benefit to people. Smartphones help you get around, take photos and brought cheap computers to the masses. The internet helps you communicate and learn and be entertained. Those are human focused revolutions.

The main goal of AI is a profoundly negative one: to replace everybody with machines. Who ordered that? And this agenda is pushed by a small number of people with zero conception of what comes next when they eventually achieve that goal. Only vague notions of “we will have basic income!”

What is more likely to happen is that many will be made destitute by this technology.

I’m not naive enough to think that AI can be stopped. There is too much money at stake. But I don’t see the benefit in accelerating it, or making such technology more widely available than it already is. I don’t trust Microsoft and Google to be custodians of AI, but I trust even less the average internet user if such AI is broadly available. Microsoft and Google are at least answerable to law and democratic institutions.
In my anecdotal neck of the woods I hear people very excited about sitting in their houses forever at (insert mortgage interest rate here).
Yes, climate change is the culprit for all ills, or at least that's what you read everywhere ;)

Climate change was mentioned on "The Last of Us" episode 1, at the start. Aside from fictional references, there are fungi that can grow outside of 70-90F up to 130-150F. I believe COVID and people rushing to the hospital emergency room for everything instead of going to their PMC may have had something to do with this fungus finding purchase to infect more people.
> Ansible can be a big step forward from "just shell scripts".

It can be. It also can not-be. I'd recommend anybody to start looking once they reach more than 2 machines, but yeah, depending on what you are doing it can add value when you have 1 or 2 machines too.
Of course Grover’s algorithm offers a quantum advantage
Ask HN: How can Linux Sysadmins prepare to IA?
That's the question to you guys,

It's really about Linux Sysadmins because I'm one of them.

How can we adapt to the upcoming changes provoked by AI? How can we adopt them, embrace them?

What do you think the impact will be for us, our activity?

Let's talk practical
To some degree; it depends on the amount of multitasking. I mainly care about which commands in which order when I'm looking at recent commands from that terminal; otherwise I use C-r.
ChatGPT << GPT4 when it comes to coding.
> and the fed decided to fight it by fighting workers.

I don't really understand this view (and certainly wouldn't attribute this sort of intent to the Fed). What did the Fed do? What should they have done?
"too much debt" for Person A is "using leverage wisely" for Person B.

With rates approaching zero it was rational to load up on second mortgages, driving up the totality of the debt. If you managed to lock in a sub-3% loan few years back, it's irrational to accelerate repayment.
Lots of natural anti-fungal treatments we don't use. Garlic oil is one for example. The problem comes when you have to ensure the facility is clean after an outbreak. Hard to get rid off the infection.
Zillow estimates for all markets I follow have been trending down since October-ish.
> With those provisos I see the time and place for sexual pursuit as most times and most places.

But if collectively, women are saying, no it is not most times and most places, you're in the wrong.

Look, it's really simple. If you want a better chance of meeting someone who might be receptive to your flirting, you do it when they're feeling safe and secure.
>We'll probably need less and less developers as AI advance.

We've always progressed to needing fewer developers to do what we currently do. Companies like Squarespace, Shopify, AWS, etc have allowed people to do more with less. Long gone are the days an artist would hire a developer to build them a website they could host a portfolio on.

But growth has filled in the voids with more ambitious work.

It's daunting, but you can also look at this from the opposite perspective. Why work for someone on a 5 person team, when you can try and run the same business with 1 person (i.e. you).

The people who should be afraid are actually those that run companies like Meta and Twitter. Better developer productivity means competitors can chomp at their heels with much smaller teams.
Keep in mind that this forum is very competent when it comes to software discussions, while tending to overstate its economic knowledge.

To your question: what it comes down to is that the fed is charged with managing inflation and unemployment. Regardless of the effectiveness of their tools, they are required to do what they are able to do. With that in mind, it’s possible that there is a better course of action.

Personally I find the arguments of MMT to be strong. This forum has charactered the theory as an excuse for profligate spending, however, the actual proponents simply state that budget deficit are ok so long as inflation is under control. Therefore, the theory would posit that the actual resolution to this would be to shrink the deficit spend in order to properly tame inflation.

Take that for what you will.
> I'm dubious that the "Fed's money printer" had much of an effect on inflation. It certainly didn't cause the SVB or other banks to go under. The rate increases did that..

The rate increases were an attempt to combat the inflation caused by the massive increase in money supply during the pandemic due to the government stimulus. There were no new goods or services justifying all the stimulated activity. SVB was drunk on the seemingly permanent zero interest rates (like everyone else) and invested in long term government bonds. Then the unthinkable happens—rate increases for the first time in over a decade, and those investments go boom. This is all about people getting used to cheap money.
Sure, that's the reasoning, but I've yet to see any evidence that it actually does reduce bad hires
No. Saying "I don't know" would still be zero points.
Scientists have sequenced Beethoven’s genome
I guess since it runs does a shell executable, it can simply examine the path.
> IBM’s role in Germany in the 40s was horrific, but it proved their ideas of tabulations and files were promising

source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
I interviewed for a company in London ten years ago (being from Sweden and flew in the day before.)

Interviewer: "How much water flows through the Thames?"

Me: "Well, I sat next to the Thames once, and it's maybe 50 m across. Depth... I dunno 10 meters? Speed..."

Interviewer: "Actually... It's 100 m across and..."

I could see the interviewer realizing this wasn't the most relevant question to ask to someone not from the area. Perhaps they wanted that interaction, I don't know. A silly question that just dealt with local knowledge, and (in the end) very little modeling.

I played along, then sat in my hotel room and shook my head.

However, one of my hard rules is that I don't spend more time on the hiring process than the company does. I'll happily sit and talk to an employee for four hours, but I'm not going to do a "take-home test" for more than 10 min.
> Still, I suspect the AI stuff will be hard for them.

They bought Siri! What stops them from buying someone for "ai"
You seem to have missed that this comment chain focused on daycare to begin with, not school. There's no bus for that.

Daycares vary in size. You can opt for institutions that watch after 30 kids at a time, or ones run out of houses, but one way or another if both you and your spouse work for a living, you need someone to watch your kid, and it will probably require daycare and by extension commuting. If you live in the suburbs, you drive.
He said everyone did, all 8 billion of us.
That was not their reaction. They just wanted to know how it qualifies as “cyber punk”.
And people are using go-bindata since Go<1.0, so Go supports embedding assets since forever.
Is it that bad? No. But that doesn't mean I want to do it.

I'm a more casual python dev. I make small tools, solve unique/corner issues. Nothing fancy. It makes my life vastly easier for many of these tools to be webbased, typically because I want to hand them to someone else to use so I don't need to think/worry about it.

Context switching between languages is very very expensive for me. I used to write a lot of nodejs and Python but I'd find myself either forgetting or adding semi-colons, confusing which for-loop style for which language. Eventually I came to the conclusion it wasn't worth the mental gymnastics to switch and gave up node (aka Javscript). So can I write it? Yes, but I don't want to.

These new entirely python based web apps are really interesting to me. They don't have to be super advanced because I don't need that. It greatly simplifies the process and the time required.

Also, almost no one writes "just javascript" any more. It's htmlx, react, yada yada.... and they've all got some cool new build system. Seems like every time I look, there is a new build system people are using. Which I don't want to learn or deal with.
I'm too strict a consequentialist to care honestly. US tech companies further US imperial interests, as chinese tech companies further chinese imperial interests. The specific incentives and mechanisms by which they do it aren't that important for this case.

The whole argument seems to center on the assumption that the US's imperial interests are better than china's, which I disagree with. They are possibly better for americans, in the same way that china's are possibly better for chinese people, and so I can understand a self-interested support of one over the other.

But I don't think that's a consistent or moral position. Undermining chinese interests in favor of american ones is not actually better than undermining american interests in favor of chinese ones. Both are terrible and both must be opposed; to a significant extent they are expressions of the same evil.
It's kind of annoying that people bring up Japan so often. Japan has had a history of catastrophic earthquakes that destroy everything. Necessarily they feel that physical structures should serve a more transient purpose. Regardless, the underlying land still appreciates, it's just that the structure isn't really that valuable.

Even in the United States the structure depreciates. You can go to any county assessment site and see how the assessed value of a property (structure + land) changes over the years. What you'll notice is that the structure goes down a little, and land goes up a little.

The main issue with United States, unlike Japan, is a culture of investing in real estate. As long as that's true nothing will change.
OAuth allows the use of different scopes for different levels of access. So just because it uses OAuth doesn't mean it has to require major account access.

I assume the problem is that GitHub doesn't have sufficiently granular permissions (OAuth scopes), or that the requesting app doesn't use the correct scopes.
Note these are on-demand costs. Spot pricing or savings plans narrow the gap to more like 3-4x cost difference.
Toyotas used to have that option.
Daily Firefox mobile user. It is buggy as hell. Back behavior is weird in several edge cases (open app, swipe to another app, swipe back, select tab, go back - boom, app closes).

On top of that there is a regression where it loses scroll location on tabs in the background sometimes. Not sure the root cause here and it happens inconsistently for me.

Slowness has gotten worse. I think this is tied to something with rendering because it happens on static sites. I start getting the first paint but the text just takes forever to load in.

We are several years in and they support.. 14? extensions now. If you are not quickly onboarding extensions then let me freely load what I want without fighting collections. Either commit or do not.

The only feature that has been added is a new splash screen on browser updates on desktop. Thanks I guess? I really just want to read my webpages, not pick an accent color.

I am starting to use Brave on desktop a bit more every day. I worry about their previous dabbling in crypto but Firefox is becoming too subpar.
I haven't noticed any issues with it, other than it occasionally just not chiming in. I'm using vs2022 on windows fwiw.

That said, it wouldn't surprise me if vscode is getting preferential treatment
I imagine that a spasm of anxiety went through every lender’s gut whenever a king so much as sneezed.
Because that’s ridiculous and literally the plot of the Last of Us. There are fungi that live in the human body already. What do you think a yeast infection is?
I have been around monks and spent extended stretches of time at Orthodox Christian monasteries, and I'd like to clarify a couple of things: monks can and do get distracted and they can, indeed, just leave their cell and go outside if they want to. There is a passion called "acedia" that attacks every monk to a greater or lesser degree. Acedia is the "spirit of noonday". It's distraction. It's the desire to do anything else except whatever it is you're doing (especially prayer). It's the desire to be somewhere else or to do something else. It can take the form of gluttony, or the form of going to talk to another monk, or the form of just going for a walk instead of praying.

Also, monks are praying the whole time. All the time. They are usually repeating a short prayer in their minds while they work, while they walk, while they eat. All the time. Of course, they get distracted and their minds wander (especially the newer monks), but the aspiration is to "pray continually". They aren't just letting their minds wander around and think about whatever they want. A lot of their effort and attention goes into constantly guarding their minds against distracting thoughts and re-focusing on prayer.

Monks (Orthodox Christian monks, anyway) do, indeed, have freedom to choose something else, but the whole point of their ascetic struggle is to ignore those impulses and to stay in prayer.
Commodity market speculation is also caused by too much cheap money sloshing around with nothing productive to do, and the solution is still to increase interest rates. By the time central banks decided to raise interest rates, wage growth had already lagged behind inflation, so workers demanding higher wages is not enough to offset inflation.
nice head in the sand
https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_monthly_inflation_rate which is partly why inflation is so much better recently. Services inflation ex OER (i.e. excluding housing which for legacy reasons is extremely slow moving average) remains too high, however.
Any source besides "climate change bad"? Plenty of areas have hovered around 98 degrees Fahrenheit for at least some part of the year for a very long time, I haven't seen any correlation between those areas and fungal outbreaks, or even any data that says the global sum person-time in areas that are around 98 degrees is going up.
Your overall point is reasonable, but to take your point about GUIs...we actually lost an awful lot moving from text based interfaces going to GUI. We got universal adoption and more or less zero training required...but we got very slow and inflexible interfaces.
> I love the vehicle

I don't know how you could say this next to the rest of your comment.

How is a car that flat out doesn't work and is a public safety hazard worthy of being loved?
Or get a hardware token and add it to the authorized_keys. Depends on how many machines you have to setup.
I've been using docker swarm + traefik + portainer and I'm quite happy. I orchestrate everything with Ansible [1]. The only manual process I have is provisioning the servers / load balancers.

It provides a super nice balance between going all manual VPS and going all on the kubernetes cool aid

[1] https://github.com/sergioisidoro/honey-swarm
(Small time landlord here) homes are absolutely depreciating assets. On your taxes you can write off the whole value of your home over 30 years due to depreciation - the assumption is that your home will only last your that long and will essentially be “rebuilt” through all the maintenance expenses. Your home is just a pile of scrap wood and nails which rots and depreciated just like your car.

What does not depreciate however is that pesky patch of dirt under your home. That goes up and up in value because folks want to own a piece of this great blue ball and the value on that desire only goes up as population and standard of living increases.
Of course they say that, but then life happens.
I'm not sure this comparison is as clear cut as it's always made out to be.

People can continue to live with their parents. In many cultures multiple generations live under a single roof. You may not want to do that, but it can be done.

None of this is to say that I think people should be forced to live with their parents or that it's a solution, I'm just saying if you were looking at this from the perspective of destroying demand to right the ship then it's not impossible that it creates a situation where a lot of people find a way to make it work in the short term, which might in itself be enough to create a drop in asking prices/rent.

Even then, the problem isn't even remotely a lack of homes, it's a glut of poverty profiteers in the form of landlords, but good luck getting a political class that's on the take to fix that the just way (by taxing rentals enough that it's no longer palatable).
Not to nitpick there, but I wouldn't really call that much variance. That study showed a job happiness ranging from 24-43% by specialty. It's certainly a sizable range, but even the high end of 43% happiness is not what you'd describe as the sort of job people want to work till the day they die.
...a £million every two years and £75k spending money each year.

>1) What does his salary have to do with anything? If he was paid $1 would that change the meaning of his words?

Yes.
German (and most other non-US) companies offer much lower compensations for devs than US companies. This is an aspect that I find most often overlooked in the complaints about tough US dev interviews. The compensation for US devs is extremely high, both compared to other US jobs, and to non-US dev jobs. The FAANG get literally millions of applications per year, so the interviews must be setup to fail the vast majority of applicants.
I initially missed the comma, and read the title as implying that rich people understood InnerText better than poor people.