skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Powell's been clear that the purpose of the rate hikes is to destroy demand until it matches what the economy can currently supply – this is practically a direct quote from his last press conference.

Supply and demand are always interchangeable when it comes to prices. We might compare supply (real GDP) to trend, and find it's been low, and conclude there's a supply and not a demand problem.[1] But the Fed is a bank and can't do much about supply.

Another question is whether inflation is actually high. There was a sharp change in the CPI last June.[2] Measuring from February 2022 still gives 6.0% but measuring from June gives 3.5%/year. There's also the question of inflation stability (2nd derivative of prices), and things have been pretty smooth since June.

So should the Fed crash the economy to try to bring stable 3.5% inflation down to 2%? Probably not. But the bigger question is: What can we do to increase supply?

[1] 1.7%/year 2022Q4/2019Q4 versus 2.6%/year 2019Q4/2016Q4 or 4.7%/year 1999Q4/1996Q4 etc.

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CPIAUCSL
We could just create "mortgage perpetuals" where you perpetually pay an interest on the land value without ever paying the principle on the land itself. For the improved structures above the mortgage period could be the expected life of the structure itself.

There's room to squeeze people a lot further than they're already squeezed.
I agree. I also use a few specific threads on other forums where I know the posters generally post decent, informative subjects and otherwise shoot the shit.
Is that a standard — that all browsers are forced to use the Freetype library, or to be bug-for-bug compatible with its glyph+hint parsing semantics? I've never heard of anything like that.

But also, even if they did, AFAIK browsers still mostly lean on OS text-drawing APIs for font rendering. Text in Chrome on Windows looks different than text in Chrome on macOS, etc. The same pile of beziers, and the same pile of hints, converts into a different set of hinted pixels (and sub-pixels!) when fed to each OS text-drawing API. Especially when those APIs are configured by user settings around subpixel hinting / "font smoothing", and when those APIs are aware of the device being rendered to and so render subpixels differently for high-DPI vs low-DPI screens, RGB vs BGR displays, etc.
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Agreed. But we could remove some of the economic incentive for investment properties and short-term rentals. No reason they should benefit so much from inflation AND rent. Drawing that line is a difficult one, but I think it's clear that right now there are way too many incentives towards rent-seeking to the point where it's actually hurting folks who don't rent-seek.
Property values is just one part of the problem. A lot of the xenophobia is also due these migrants bringing their political opinions (and votes) with them.
That's not surprising and not unreasonable. If you're doing layoffs, you probably don't want to hire all that much.

But you'll probably need to resume hiring. People still quit. Prior job openings are still open. The people you lay off are not necessarily the ones you need for the position.

You don't want to lay people off just to immediately re-hire them. Some days there just isn't a particular job for somebody to do. But you keep them around, so they're ready when you do need them.

That's just the practicalities of running a business. A recruiter ought to know that.
That's a hilarious response from a Russia apologist. You think telling other people they're naive about the CIA means you can ignore all the bad stuff about Russia but that's not how the world works and you are either paid to have say this or are doing it for free and I'm not sure which is worse.

I try not to put myself in the hands of any spy agency.

"Other team bad so my team good" is reasoning barely worthy of the human mind.
A lot of the money sloshing around started in 2017 with tax cuts and increased spending on DOD
> Instead we define the direction, the purpose, the reason, and a few specific "must haves" up front. The rest — all the rest, which is mostly everything — is determined during the project, by the people on the project.

If you think people are motivated when they get to own the whole project, wait until you see what happens when they get to own their direction/purpose too!
We hear this ALLLLL the time. I've heard it for nearly half a decade as I waited and waited and waited forever to buy a house, and yet through all of the disasters, house prices just kept going up and up and up.

The assumption is, since almost no one can afford a house, prices MUST fall.
Here's the thing no one gets: the "almost" part is very important. If, in a city of 100,000 people, only the richest 100 can afford (less than 1% of the population) a house but there's only 10 houses on the market, then prices can still continue to skyrocket.

Overall demand does not need to be super high for prices to go up. It's Demand relative to supply that matters. And in markets where supply is really really tiny then demand doesn't need to be very high in order to outstrip supply.
The accessibility potential of AI is vastly understated. I expect this to fill that niche perfectly. The difference would be life changing for millions of people.
What about MPC + DP? Are you planning to integrate any SMPC algorithms on flower or do you find any limitations for not doing so.

I'm trying to apply federated learning to the medical domain too and I'm trying to define the best "stack" that guarantees privacy and compliance with regulations like the GDPR
Considering they have several third party editor logos in full display on their main landing page, I'm going to believe Microsoft and OpenAI over some random naysayer on the internet who didn't even bother to check.

https://github.com/features/preview/copilot-x

What benefit would they even gain from locking it to their free editor? If anything, VS Code is a way for Microsoft to push other services like Copilot. The strategy has been and continues to be to bring these services to where the developer is.
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Do you happen to have any link where I can read more about this?
Usage suggestion: can we please call this material a 'turnstile'?

"All I have for you is a gesture, in combination with a word. Tenet. Use it carefully. It'll open the right doors, but some of the wrong ones, too."
> innerText is pretty much always frown upon

Ugh, and here I was thinking this one was the 'better' one to use than innerHTML (if you can get away with it, when needing just unformatted text and not needing the convenience of HTML tags being automatically formatted for you)
> In the 90s it was typical for a house to be on the market for 3-6 months before selling. Sellers generally received 1 offer.

I wonder if there's been a material shift in who is making offers that won't revert to 90s behavior. Specifically, investment firms specializing in single family housing, who might have more incentives to make a lot of lowball offers and not worry too much whether they win or lose a specific bid.

Obviously you have imitators like Zillow trying to edge in as well, and step back after taking heavy losses, so its hard to say for sure where the new equilibrim will end up at.
> They had one landline phone - no cell phones, and certainly no computers.

I have no idea why those are mentioned. Do we somehow pay for development and manufacturing of those with exorbitant rents and mortgages?

When people talk about standard of living they talk about living, not various forms of entertainment brought on by sheer technological progress.

If you want to mention technology mention things like washing machines, dryers, dishwashers and fridges. Those contribute to standard of living. Not whether people figured out how to do astral projections or whatnot cheaply.
Neal Stephenson's In the Beginning Was the Command Line speaks quite favorably of BeOS. He described the Windows world as being a kind of car dealership that sold clunkers, Linux as a place where anyone could walk in and buy a US Army M1 Tank, and BeOS as fully operational Batmobiles.

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt
While we have seem some huge leaps in AI, robotics is still far behind human capability. Things like food preparation are not anywhere close to being feasible right now.

So perhaps in the medium future humans will be "stuck" doing only physical tasks, while AIs take over everything that can be done virtually.
Simpler but small updates, like say openssl, become massive distro updates. There's a reason why everyone went with shared libs when they became stable.
Not when the reactor is melting down or exploding, it doesn't. :) People don't really have much of a problem with properly-functioning nuclear reactors.
I think people will complain about newcomers of any type. That's just how it goes, all the way back the stone age. My opinion is that it does not matter. People will migrate, communities will change no matter who grumbles about it. It's a delusion — very likely a harmful one — to think they ever static in the first place, or should be prevented from changing.
First, it doesn't "often" attack anyone

Candida species are isolated with high frequency from cystic fibrosis patients...

https://academic.oup.com/mmy/article/48/Supplement_1/S114/10....

Granted, not specifically about candida auris, but the pattern stands.

If you are immunocompromised and they stick medical devices into you, this is a good vector for such things to take hold.
I disagree, but it seems that mere evidence isn't going to sway you, so I doubt anything will.

Basically every home computer had a better BASIC than the C64, including GW-BASIC, and most people I knew personally didn't use C64s. It was built as a games machine and nothing else, with a poor BASIC, poor, slow, low-capacity and very expensive floppy disk drives. And the machine was expensive too in the early days.

Maybe your family and your friends' families were rich. Mine weren't. We couldn't afford £500 American toys. We had sub-£200 machines, with better BASICs, and we loved the things. Kids of rich British families had BBC Micros and looked down on us.
Thing is, me personally I used to be a better “scribe”.

Meaning I did know how to be a good enough “scribe”, but lately I feel like I’m doing a poorer and poorer job when it comes to getting it done. And most of it is related to the ability of focusing on the job at hand, or, to be more exact, to the decreasing ability of doing it.

It could be that I’m getting older (I’m in my early 40s), could be related to post-Covid effects (as pretty much all of us have have Covid at least once), could be that with “experience” (i.e. with getting older) I’ve begun to realize that it is not worth it to do certain things the way I did them before, I can’t really tell which is which, but the difference with before is there.
Yeah but a lot of those 08 mortgages had much higher rates and even variable rates in the subprime division. Labor market is holding strong rn so even if it happens it’s gonna take much longer than a few months
Isn't that just renting with all the maintenance downsides of ownership?

You should consider a career writing dystopian science fiction. This is pretty brilliant material.
I work at a smaller department, that was a company bought by Adobe. Can't speak for every part of the company, but it's been pretty nice so far. Competitive pay, good benefits, for American standards it has great time-off (https://benefits.adobe.com/us/time-off/vacation-and-paid-hol...). It seems very supportive to employees, and has a bunch of "employee networks" for supporting employees (https://www.adobe.com/diversity/strategy/employees/employee-...) with events and help and stuff.

No complaints so far really, that's always subject to change, but so far it's been a nice place to work.
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It is most likely to avoid it becoming like CS Career Questions, which is inundated with students who haven't even started their first job yet.
This looks great but the whole Office 365 suite is loaded with apps.

So now for projects there is Teams, Planner, Project, Tasks, To-Do and now Loop?

I guess Loop is like a wiki/documentation and a planner/tasks app rolled into one.
And then Teams for chats and meetings?

I WORK in 365 all day, and I'm confused!
> The GitHub Next page clearly indicates it is (C) GitHub Inc and the blog post makes GitHub's control clear.

This is not clear at all. Phishing websites always say (C) Bank of America. That doesn't make it legit.
I left the Bay Area in 2020 and started working remotely because I didn't want to enter the real estate market at the top, right before a crash.

I've never believed in doing something just because everyone else thinks its the default thing to do. Putting 1.5M to 2M into a small average house didn't make sense to me when that is enough money to retire in many different beautiful places in the world.

So I left. Switched jobs and started working remotely. I now live in a MCOL area and things are about 30% cheaper than the Bay Area. Better schools. Nicer environment. More diversity (including economic diversity). More access to activities (like gymnastics) for my kids at a reasonable price. More free time.

I make a little less money in cash. And a lot less money in equity. But all in all its a better life.

I hope more people open their eyes and realize these tech hotspots are actually hell.
Yes, that is exactly what I meant by my concluding line.

If you use RasPis, why bother to learn any other knockoff?
So now I remember.

The car refuses to connect unless I give it phone permissions.
Yes. Of all the comments I've made on HN, that one most deserves to be down-voted. Jr. Devs I know are motivated and reasonably intelligent.
Home prices did fall though after 2008. In some areas by as much as 30-40%. The real difference between this time and last time is that the Fed was trying to prevent deflation in 2008. That's why the cut to zero. This time, the fed is trying to prevent further inflation so they can't really cut without setting the economy on fire.
> remember FSB is NOT KGB because Russia now is a democratic country and not a communist USSR

Secret services in a democratic country being better / worse than their communist counterparts aside, "democracy" is a bit of stretch when describing Russia.
That hero image makes it looks like a carbon copy of notion. Seems that Microsoft's "business productivity strategy" is to create a walled garden of apps that do what mainstream apps do. You don't need to sign up for Slack because we have Teams, you don't need to signup for Notion because we have Loop. If I had to predict, Loop will turn out to be an inferior app to Notion just like Teams turned out to be inferior to Slack, though it will still have wide adoption because it's bundled in.
- Applications and DBs run in docker containers. Deploying is basically git pull && docker-compose up --build -d

- Apt auto-upgrades, other software updates are handled in docker. The only software on the machine is haproxy, git and docker for deploys, newrelic and vector for monitoring.

- Haproxy runs on the server to route requests to docker containers. Cloudflare loadbalancing routes to servers.

- Scaling is avoided through over-provisioning cheap Hetzner machines. Adding new machines is done so rarely that a bash script is fine.

- DB backups are done in docker.

- Ufw locks down to ports 22, 80, 443, and DB ports. Because docker can interact with firewalls in surprising ways, I also replicate the rules in the Hetzner filewall.
This looks like a parity to Notion's feature set. Chrome wasn't a copy of Internet Explorer because it was a great leap forward in web browsers. Call of Duty isn't a doom clone because it has a storyline and semi-realistic weapons and graphics.
idk how you got bored. theres so much to do! so much to learn, classes to take, places to go, books to read, chores really never end. the possibilities are endless.
Well, the problem is easily solved by just amplifying the amount of places built. Unlock some massive economic and human benefits.

Everyone has one pet peeve or the other that is predicated on a false belief: that the amount of housing is limited.

If Airbnb people will buy everything, you could build one million units vertically and sell them for $750k each and you would have almost a trillion dollars to build homes for others. Just farm those people for money.
There is a conspiracy theory that recent open sourcing of Yandex tech and to some extent even a leak is a preparation for global Yandex exodus from Russia.
If you bought property in the late 1970s, you had to wait until the 1990s to get a lower rate.

When dealing with inflation, sometimes when rates go up, they stay there for an extended period.
You don't need a Shields Up button to have a little self control on the internet. Seth is energized after a day on the internet. This blog post is about "we" being exhausted aka "you". Not Seth. If you are reading this, you can do it.

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine
Intel's chief dGPU architect departs to start a new generative AI company
So Notion x ClickUp but part of your office license?
Fed chief was afraid of losing his job so he kept rates too low before pandemic. Timing is everything.
Microsoft teaches a powerful lesson. Being no 2 and diversified can be much better than being no 1 and no diversification for large tech businesses. Its perhaps the most diversified tech business and isn't the best in a single product but has an offering for every product you can imagine for enterprises - Cloud offering, Office suite, CRM, Productivity suite etc.
Totally agree. I did the same double-take with some stuff at Universe and I work here. As Idan said back then, there are lots of reasons that we want Next to be separate from GitHub proper. But you’re absolutely correct that we should make it more clear that anything from Next is not a rogue org and also part of GitHub.

Thanks for the feedback.
> If the fed loses appetite or ability to continue increasing interest rates

How does the Fed lose the ability to increase (or decrease) interest rates? I was under the impression that (ignoring the consequences of doing so), they can set them as they please.
My mate says that “if they built bridges like we built IT infrastructure a lot more people would die”.

If people regularly died because of IT infrastructure, we'd be regulated and licensed like civil engineers and we certainly wouldn't be writing software in C/C++/nodejs. We'd all be coding in stuff like Ada and Erlang and most of our day wouldn't involve writing logic at all - it would involve filling out documentation and forms around the occasional bit of logic that would get written, probably by someone else.
Death is when houses go on the market and add to the supply. People live longer, when they die their children are already established with their own houses or they are drug addicts, either way the house is going on the market. Or the offer of rentals are to increase a lot.

Worst scenario is inheritors will prefer to let the house rot rather than sell, like how it is today.
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Mozilla you remember has disappeared long ago. One look at their financials tells you all you need to know about what they care about nowadays, which seems to be to pay leadership large salaries.
In California the problem is mostly that over time if you've held property it's become insanely cheap to be a landlord. Prop 13 applies to every parcel in the state. Even Florida tackles this more sensibly. A person's primary residence can get a homestead exemption and that's it.

John Paul Stevens on Prop 13[1]:

In comments from the bench, Blackmun called California’s tax system “distasteful, unwise and not likely to be copied by others.”

Justice John Paul Stevens, the lone dissenter, called the state’s longtime homeowners “squires” who voted themselves “a tremendous windfall” at the expense of young people and new residents.

“Simply put,” he said, “those who invested in California real estate in the 1970s are among the most fortunate capitalists in the world.”

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-06-19-mn-704-st...
Although he made it up, there's an argument that the value goes up more than linearly. But as the network grows, every node doesn't necessarily need to talk to every other node except in rare circumstances, or they can reach each other through an intermediate point. So maybe O(n log n) would be closer.
Idaho has been and continues to be an insanely hot market
A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece
It's not necessarily getting worse everywhere, which I would guess is the point.
Ah, I didn't realize you could use oneOf with refs or objects, I've only ever seen it used with primitives. Thanks!
Yes, that's precisely my point.

If we care about preventing bad behaviors lets prevent bad behaviors . We would all benefit. The answer to bad behavior being pervasive is not to throw up your hands and just pick special cases to ban, it's to fix the behavior.
> Microsoft was also a long time anti-commandline and against scripting, they tried to made everything clickable, with wizards and s*,

I'd categorize this as incompetence, not malice towards developers.

Specifically: Microsoft thought that code-creation wizards and UI would offer a better story than command line and text. Those attempts were misguided, and MS adjusted. The command line culture at MS has been pervasive for a long time, despite the quirkiness of DOS, so I must object to your categorization of MS being anti command-line and anti-scripting.

[disclaimer, MS employee, my opinion only.]
What is the average selling price? Median for my county is ~$325k and our experience matched yours exactly up through and including the $800s. You really had to be looking at stuff 3-3.5x the median price to have a reasonable experience where you could do an inspection or expect them to replace the 19 year old furnace (or at least credit most of a new unit).
Money makes people do strange things.
I would hate that and do terrible myself. I need to focus to do my best and having another person around to interact with would be a huge distraction. Plus in 25 years of working on software I've never produced anything of value working that way.
"get back on the horse"

no, you are the horse.

i don't understand people who get bored in retirement. 7 years in and no hint of it. My dad's been retired for 12 years and he's the same.
If you want a more local example, the same type of bureaucracy that stops nuclear reactors is the same one that stops multi-dwelling units in California.

Fixing the regulations is nearly impossible. So much of alternative energy projects, nay ALL natural resource projects, are hindered by frivolous "environmental justice" lawsuits, regulatory demands, and outsiders with personal agendas; such as people lobbying to stop a solar farm in a place they don't even live or have any financial stake in, simply because they disagree with solar energy.

Regulatory burden is IMO the single greatest impediment to American environmental, energy, and manufacturing progress. It's simply not worth it anymore for developers given how heavily the system is unfairly tilted against them.
> I hope more people open their eyes and realize these tech hotspots are actually hell.

Wouldn’t that make the other currently nice places hell again :^)
Maybe applying recent AI in other fields is more like low-hanging fruit.
Russia now is a democratic country???

Only a complete idiot would think that.
I'll just move outside the environment.

https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM