skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://twitter.com/moshik_temkin/status/1637033761794674688

>> The thing that people don't understand about these elite, neoclassical economists from Harvard, MIT, etc. is that while their whole brand is being "empirical" and objective, they are as ideological and politically driven as the most ardent Maoist who ever existed
Edited: price decrease.
where variable rate mortgages (for example following Euribor) are the default

That seems so reckless. Why would anyone risk the largest part of their budget spiraling out of control at the whim of the market?
They are referring to The Last Of Us.
And yet the entire thread is people wanting to guilt trip Google.
a bit of a misleading of a title, its comparing full time work with self employment.

i was half way through this thinking, wtf? you miss anything about working full time? im in a similar position and going back to work, i don't miss any of it. its miserable thinking about going to full time work again. looking at job listings after months of freedom, it hurts, almost a physical pain haha
It would be inflationary to anyone who doesn't get a payout, I think. That means, any country which does not get that payout and then distribute it.
Copilot definitely makes me much less productive, since it breaks my flow on every line. I give it a -50%. It is both very dumb and very loud. It feels like I'm pair programming with a 1st year CS student who pipes up on _every single line_ trying to predict what I will type next and getting 95% of it wrong.

I found ChatGPT however outputs good code when I want it do simple things. Writing unit tests is tedious, and ChatGPT is pretty good at that. Optimizing a SQL query, etc. Things that used to take some time are now either instantaneous or get me 90% of the way there, and I can do the final edits.
IIRC that's what oneOf is for. i.e. a discriminated union / sum type. My experience with oneOf is that tooling support for it is terrible.
I think the NYT's argument is that allowing obscure words drains excitement from those who don't know the word. They can't get a perfect score. So they have a choice of annoying you or annoying them and they chose to play to a broad base.
The thing is that writing professional email as a non-native sucks.

I'm a non-native English speaker myself. My level is typically considered very good (C2 CEFR level, which is the highest measured level in the European framework). If I need to write an email to a colleague whom I know and trust, that's easy. Writing this message in HN? Also easy, I'm just improvising it as I think it, not much slower than I would in my natural language.

But writing an email to someone you don't know... that's very different. When you write in a non-native language, it's extremely easy to get the subtleties wrong: to sound too pushy about what you want, to make the matter seem more or less urgent than it really is, to sound too blunt or too polite... this doesn't matter with people you know or with strangers in an informal setting like this, but it does matter when emailing strangers in a professional setting, and it's extremely difficult to get right when you are non-native.

Sometimes I used to spend 15-20 minutes brooding over an email in this type of scenario, making and rethinking edits while hitting the submit button... not anymore. ChatGPT: "Write an email reminding this person, who has this role, that the deadline for thing X expires on day Y. The email should be polite, assertive but not too pushy". Check the output, maybe make some trivial edits, because the difficult part (the tone) tends to be fine, at least for my standards. Done.

Non-native speakers aren't going to renounce that luxury. It just makes too big of a difference to not use it in that case.
Hi guites, Thank you! That is undoubtedly something relatable. We have it on the screen and plan to provide helpful material and presentations helping to convince stakeholders. If you are up for a call to share the specific challenges, we could ideate with you.
Happy that yours works well. Many problems don't show up until you hit larger numbers.

We deployed over 1k RasPi's for a particular customer. We averaged about five reboots per day. On top of that I had to deal with the RasPi Organization's insistence that they were not an ODM. Though these were the RasPi B's and RasPi2 B+'s. I'm sure the reliability has gotten better over the years.

I'm not a big TI fan, but everything I needed I got in a BeagleBone: they're more reliable than RasPi's, you can actually get the firmware source code and they have a "normal" returns process.

I don't have the data for the BBB based cube-sats running Kubos (which was the project after the RasPi project) and there were less than 50 deployed, but I've never heard of any of them rebooting themselves unless the ground told them to do so or there was a battery failure.
What I like about Ansible:

- It provides a standard procedural format for my shell scripts
- It comes with some level of type-checking when I play a script
- It makes me actually test that my procedures can bootstrap
- The playbook style helps me keep scripts organized
- It lets me start from "You have a server." without questioning where it came from.
- Ansible, while "bottom-up", lets me bootstrap "top-down" systems like Kubernetes, container registries, etc.
Very interesting! Do you know about any longer public write ups about the matrix management style and organization of engineering at Nvidia?
I still think that what you're describing would sound like the vague passive general corporate-talk that everyone complains about. I personally don't find any problem with it, since if I were in their shoes, I'd write the same thing. But I'm always skeptical when people say that they would do it differently as the CEO. Once you actually have that responsibility, your perspective changes. There is no point in doing anything different than what pretty much every CEO writes, and that's because they do write the most optimal thing from a business perspective, as "lame" as many may find it.
Sure, but, at least in my experience, new hires are ALWAYS on probation. So to me the status quo is this: you get vetted "harshly" in the interview process, then you have to clear the probation period. That said, I think it's pretty much a given you clear the probation period if you don't clash with coworkers, and write decent code. During your first ~90 days, you're ramping up, learning the company's procedures and coding conventions (and code base itself), and getting to know your coworkers... so I think the only time probation really bites you is if it's a bad fit culturally (which I would think you're at higher risk for the smaller the company - those startups are selective as hell about who they hire).
These seemed like a humble brag by upper class jet-setters who get to crow about the "commute" and sacrifices they are making while patting themselves on the back for saving a buck.
Bill Gates increased inequality by having a giant amount of money relative to almost everyone else.
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That's what I've seen anecdotally too. Not on the west coast, but in a major metro area on the east coast that has traditionally been seen as "expensive". I'd occasionally get sucked down Zillow rabbit-holes where I'd look at cheaper areas in the middle of the country and daydream about the palace I could buy for the price of my modest house here. But these days, the enormous differential doesn't seem to be there. I certainly won't say the middle America prices have caught the coasts, but they've grown at higher rates so that the difference isn't what it used to be.
It's probably way too late to get my two pennies into this discussion, but this is FANTASTIC news. Individual developers that want access to OPEN models for their building purposes shouldn't be beholden to a new corporate overlord. Here's hoping that Mozilla can rally the makers in the community with real dollars to spend toward models that all people can use.
I actually ran into this. I was considering two companies, both about equivalent in terms of being "places I would want to work for", but one was quick to turn around with an offer and the other dragged their feet. I went with the company that made the offer. The other company I never heard from again, despite their engineering director totally assuring me "we get back to every candidate".
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if anything you're doing can be described as mission critical there was never a real argument for using raspberry pi unless there's no consequences to losing the mission, in which case what does mission critical really mean?
Probably not actually, but nice concern troll.
Why WhatsApp is a terrible place to conduct important political conversations
I'm in the US and the last few jobs I've had all came with a probation period. All were salaried positions.
I see that the AI bot has already down-voted this comment.
If that's the case, would co-pilot be useful anyway? Or are you off the range where suggestions wont help?
So… a junior developer?

I (mostly) kid but some seniors I know struggle at those things.
It makes a lot of sense depending on what side you are. The Fed never was a friend of the working class and unfortunately politics has been paralyzed to a degree that they defer most of economic policy to the Fed.
That’s companies preparing for the artificial recession the fed is launching us into to ensure Twinkie’s don’t cost $0.05 more.
> Real estate prices going down does not affect the costs to the landlord (assuming it is an investment property), their mortgage expenses are fixed

Silly question but the fact that their mortgage expenses are fixed works to their benefit unless they bought at the peak, right?

Talking specifically about the big US city I live in - most landlords who already owned property since forever still jacked their prices up many hundreds of dollars in the past couple years because the market would bear it, not necessarily because they needed it to cover costs.

I'd imagine that the renters paying the largest rent (a few thousand, let's say) would be the likeliest defectors to buying a house. So buyers in the the top end of the market collapse, and those landlords begrudgingly start lowering prices - they can still make a profit. Maybe the low end stays the same.

I have zero understanding of the economics involved here, just pontificating.
Who called you crazy?
This is a wildly ideological hottake on the role of the central banks. Right at the outset you've got this:

> After tightening Bank of England monetary policy and raising rates in February, 2022, the £575,000-a-year BoE governor, Andrew Bailey, was asked whether he wanted to inflict more pain on workers? His answer was direct:

>> "Broadly, yes - in the sense of saying: we do need to see a moderation of wage rises. That's painful - I don't want to in any sense sugar that message, it is painful."

Powell said more or less the same thing. This is misleading because:

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

2) It leaves out the key point of the rate hikes, which is that this is a necessary pain to prevent inflation from rising out of control. What does the author propose: printing money forever? Let inflation keep rising? Apparently yes, since she brags about eliminating $100B of debt in her bio some 20 years ago.

3) It maliciously assigns the primary reason for the hike to "hurting workers", as if Andrew Bailey gets his rocks off at night based on how much pain he causes the working class, and not to crushing inflation back to normal levels.

Nothing after this is worth your time reading.
From tort law to cheating, what is ChatGPT’s future in higher education?
I use them all the time with success. For copilot it’s very useful for writing tests and autocompleting repetitive code. Like writing a Typescript interface that matches a JSON object, or listing properties of an object into an array. ChatGPT is at worst a good rubber duck, and at best a superpowered documentation tool. If I ever get confused by docker or some popular JavaScript library it’s able to give me a custom tailored answer that usually solves my problem on the first or second try.

Neither of them are any good at just writing a ton of code (unless the code is mostly boilerplate). But they’re amazing keystroke savers and a next generation stack overflow.
I would say I’m 36 and still a PhD student but as far as marginalized people in graduate programs goes I think the process of transition of power from an advisor to a student would be and is very difficult for people for marginalized groups who aren’t used to that kind of slow motion power struggle ending well for them.
What does cgi-bin get you? What does it run on? If I already have a single-file web server, do I need to introduce extra cgi-bin technology also?
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I think you want to look at cost, not price, i.e., you want to add in that interest rates have risen to the equation. Does the decreased price more than make up for the increased mortgage?

Given the Fed's stated intent with interest rates is demand destruction: raise interest rates, make mortgages more costly, which (to them) hopefully causes some people to not pursue mortgages, and ultimately not buy houses. This would lower the price of homes (less demand) and there would presumably be some new equilibrium.

But people gotta live somewhere, and if they're not buying homes, then there's a chance they're renting instead. So if there are more renters than before, I'm not going to hold my breath on rent going down.

Although,

> “Surprisingly, we are finding that the buyers are still out there,” despite the increased mortgage rates

IMO, the housing crisis is a lack of supply. Fixing it will require more homes.
The point is that it takes minutes to refuel an ICE vehicle but much longer to charge an EV, and that you are more vulnerable during this time.
> It should be noted that the author takes a very heterodox view of economics.

Of course. The author has been writing about economics for a long time, for example: https://www.amazon.com/Coming-First-World-Debt-Crisis/dp/023...

> Expert consensus does not agree with her perspective.

The author is an expert, but in any case, the consensus can't exactly take victory lap at this moment in time.
Simply put, no. Ultimately all Machine Learning methods are extensions of gradient descent. The "gradient" of the space of inverse hash functions is intentionally a fractal hellscape that is basically impossible to traverse.

AI fundimentally can only do a sunset of what educated humans can do given time, it just does what it does cheaper than the humans. All things it enables are a matter of resource and time cost savings, not of other capabilities.
> Imagine how ridiculous and insulting it would be for a seasoned lawyer, a doctor or a CPA, to endure this nonsensical, pointless scrutiny when interviewing for a job.

Good examples, because lawyers, doctors, and CPAs all have formal exams and licensures, and a board that certifies that you have the qualifications to do your job. So when a hospital interviews a doctor, they don't have to go over first year anatomy to understand whether the doctor knows where the appendix is. The process certifies a base standard of knowledge.

Software engineers don't have this, and every time it's brought up in conversation, it gets poo-poo'ed. So, 1. Companies have no idea if you know how to even turn on a computer, and 2. Candidates have to start from scratch every time explaining what a linked list is.

Wouldn't it be great, both from an employer's POV and from the candidate's POV, if you could show that you passed the exam and received your license from the Coding Board, therefore you have some very basic set of skills? Then, you could both skip the fizzbuzz part of the interview and interview about more domain-specific questions. It would cut the interview time by probably 50-75%. But for reasons, HN commenters hate this idea, it's imposing "gatekeeping" and infringing on their freedom to pick up a Raspberry Pi and call themselves an engineer. So..... we all have to live with these incredibly inefficient and capricious hiring processes.
Or they were a good king and didn't let debt build up.
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Ask HN: How do your find your itch to scratch?
After being a user of open source software for many years (with a sporadic contibution here and there), I have the urge to start my own project. I have always read about "finding an itch to scratch", which I am having trouble with. For the most part, I'm pretty happy with the software I use and I don't frequently have complaints that need solving. Its very possible that I have too much tunnel vision and don't even see the things that could be better anymore.

How do I break through this, or are there any general approaches to finding a need that many users have and aren't solved a dozen times over?
I think you’re letting good be the enemy of great here though. Even if the debtor has to use all of the cash to pay to the lenders (who also got money), it “removes the yoke” of compounding crushing debt they’re currently unable to get out from under.
> Perhaps our first contact with an alien will be with one we created ourselves.

Man, that is some food for thought. Beautifully put.
People did. But it was things like instead of going from some of the mid to upper parts of the east bay just taking 880 across the bay bridge to instead take the San Mateo bridge and go up 101 instead. A longer trip that took more gas.
Moore's law is still going , or so I thought. It's Dennard scaling that stopped around 2006.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/transistors-per-microproc...
Sort of - higher interest rates make your monthly mortgage payments higher, so if there's a fixed monthly payment you can afford, higher interest might offset the lower price and actually make it harder for you to buy in. This of course depends on how much the house prices and interest rates change and how much you have available for a down payment.
You found the one sentence in the article that mentions the environment. And it is there to mention the authors surprise that it is not the primary driving factor of people purchasing behaviors. As it turns out, people can care about things that they are not willing or able to personally affect.

I too will answer that I care about climate change in any opinion or political poll. However, I am currently emitting CO2 to heat my home, eat my lunch, and post this comment. I simply do not have the practical means to do otherwise.
I agree but part of me is also starting to think that for many people having a big chunk of their wealth tied up to an illiquid asset is not a terrible thing because otherwise they would "invest" it in JPEGs.
In markets with housing under-supply, i.e. London, rents increase independently from real estate prices.

The only way to reduce rents, is to have more (affordable) housing being built.
I mean, welcome to 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis
While all of this is true, it is such a latent second-order effect that it may not materialize.
Didn't this just leak?
There is no ppc970 emulator that I know of that can run Mac OS X 10.5 with "Quad Core" PowerPC (64-bit) 16 GB RAM specs. https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/index-powerma...

qemu-system-ppc (2019) can run Mac OS X 10.5 PowerPC https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/PowerPC

pearpc (2015) can run Mac OS X 10.3 PowerPC with caveats https://pearpc.sourceforge.net/

SheepShaver can run Mac OS 9.0.4 PowerPC

Basilisk II can run Mac OS 8.1 68k
Well, loving "tldr"[1] and smashing the tab key for my autocompletes that Copilot CLI thing kind of sounds like another level of laziness and less Googling.

[1] https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr
Why should we be civilized? we should be happy, and choking down our instincts is not how we get to be happy.
OpenAI disclaims ownership interest in the model output. If a subscriber (who has a contractual relationship with OpenAI) chooses to generate outputs that could be used to train a competing model, and chooses to share those outputs with third parties, that is not prohibited by the agreement. Further, the data being shared belongs to the subscriber and can be licensed however they desire (though actually, model outputs may not be copyrightable at all). If a third party who does not have a contractual relationship with OpenAI chooses to take this data and train a competing model, they are using the data under valid license and have breached no obligation to OpenAI.
Doing it under a liberated domain under GitHub.com sounds like it would work (still a separate org but it’s a signal that this is from main GitHub)
Super powerful assistant that works automatically on things when I am doing something else. That is, long-term workflows that use old A.I. techniques to define the workflow and new A.I. techniques to execute some of the nodes.
The Fed has monetary policy powers – they can essentially modify the supply of money. Their primary tools are that they can raise/lower the Federal Funds Rate and can purchase/sell financial assets (quantitative easing/tightening). These tools primarily influence demand (e.g., raising rates makes borrowing money more expensive, quantitative tightening decreases liquidity). Congress controls fiscal policy which can take more targeted action to address supply-side issues.
Absolutely. Happy to help!
> If you had a friend that kept telling you about their trips to restaurants that didn't actually exist, or a junior developer at work that made up fictional APIs when they didn't know the answer to a question, you'd tell them to stop, and if they kept at it you probably wouldn't care to hang out with them. ChatGPT seems to bypass those natural defenses for now.

While this is a reasonable thing to hope for, I'd like to point out that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been making things up for his entire career, repeatedly getting into trouble for it when caught, and yet somehow he managed to keep failing upwards in the process.

So even in humans, our defences assume the other person is capable of recognised the difference between truth and fiction; when they can't — and it is my opinion that Johnson genuinely can't tell rather than that he merely keeps choosing to lie, given how stupid some of the lies have been — then our defences are bypassed.
Why would something smarter than us be our pet?
Can you describe how you use it? I struggle to imagine how it would even be done. Ie do you write prompts? Just code as normal but frequently hit a "copilot" button? etc

Though i do wonder if it'll improve my ability to read code. PRs are a pain because i find it easier to write than read. I'd pay for Copilot in a heartbeat if it was good at spotting PR errors/etc.
Rents will inevitably decrease.

Landlords won't willingly drop their asking rate, and in most cases wouldn't be able to do so as their mortgage is separate from the market value of the property, but that cuts both ways - the market doesn't care about the landlord's mortgage any more than it cares about your ability to make rent in a month. The asking rates for rent will drop when landlords are forced into it or repossessed.
pool and ocean

"Swimming hole"

much less than 1/2. It's a fun toy. One more:

bread and cake

"Braike"

Oh dear, you're hallucinating again.
With Vollgelt Initiative passed they would be not able to print money at will. Without it, they will just print missing 109 billion Swiss francs.
A professional barber's razor is flexible through its simplicity. Zig's errors are not flexible due to their separate syntax rules, which seems like the opposite of one sharp blade that handles anything.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism By Max Weber

OK fine, it's a slightly different thesis but it's the correct one ;)