skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is missing perhaps the most important graph, which is median income to some common monthly payment metric (e.g. average monthly payment for a 30 year mortgage with 20% down).

Reason being that the article mentions interest rates, but then just shows graphs comparing to sales price. Ironically, showing a metric that took interest rates into consideration would probably highlight why the current situation is even worse, because rates have skyrocketed but prices have only come down a little bit. Of course, as others have mentioned, that is because overall sales numbers have collapsed. Owners won't sell at a loss if they don't have to, and overall employment numbers are still high. But over time people are forced to sell for various reasons, so in 5 years prices will either go way down or stay flat as wage inflation catches up.
Welcome to San Francisco, where police would not be bothered by cases of theft that are too petty for them, which is below $950.

https://www.hoover.org/research/why-shoplifting-now-de-facto...
Show HN: ChatGPT Plugins
I think we all know ChatGPT Plugins are a gamechanger, and OpenAI's pace of development is mental. So to keep up to date, I created an Awesome list.
Yup. Federal law enforcement uses interstate nexus via server locations to establish jurisdiction.
Lots of people sitting on 2-3% fixed rate 30 year mortgages are suddenly deciding maybe staying in their current home isn't a bad idea after all. If you need a mortgage to buy a house, what you can afford just got a lot more modest.

Sales will pick up a little; some people will need to move for reasons they cannot avoid. Some people who don't have fixed rate mortgages will have to sell because they can no longer afford the payment. But right now, sales are pretty low.
Why bother issuing such a challenge? You'll win today, but lose decisively in only a few more years.
You have no idea.

Before StackOverflow it was PAINFUL. Staring at "Reached end of file while parsing" errors and wondering wtf that even means...

Then finding out after 5 hours that you missed a semicolon.

Oh, and forget rounded borders, what a f@#%king nightmare.
Maybe I should put this on https://github.com/Jeadie/awesome-chatgpt-plugins, or maybe we should spread this
I think a better analogy is that pre-photography there were many portrait drawers who took pride in drawing good portraits for their clients. Then photography came, and the entire industry died a sudden and miserable death.

Portraits still get drawn, but not many, and certainly not for the sake of preserving what somebody looks like.
Maybe I shouldn't put this on https://github.com/Jeadie/awesome-chatgpt-plugins ??
They're excited about the idea of those sites blocking users in general. It's not really a first amendment thing. That comment isn't focused on the broader context.
I would be surprised if bugzilla.mozzila.org has over 5 million users
It's all just a game looking at the charts until the real estate "investment" companies are invaded by thousands of homeless people and the CEOs executed. Are people just supposed to not live anywhere? How long will this last? Just learn from history.
> I declare your house a public good, it is now mine.

No, it's not. Collective ownership is not "hippity hoppity, your stuff is now my property". It's about the management of goods -- land, rivers, buildings, etc. -- for the good of all, not just the one person designated owner.

You are still thinking in terms of ownership, which should absolutely not be a thing for public goods like land. Come back when you've actually read Marx and not some far-right exegesis of Marx.
Some people like getting fulfillment in their work and their spare time.
WASM welds powerful potential of advancement. However is limited to only those to who actually know what WASM actually is.

My mother learned flash at night courses, shes in her seventies and still creates flash galleries of her artwork to take to exhibitions. She wouldn't have a clue on what or even WASM is; nor any stranger in the street for that matter.

Flash gave anyone the ability to do anything with its simplicity. Without it, the way of the web has become limited. A great shame, a corporation playground almost.
Is this ready to add to my awesome list yet, https://github.com/Jeadie/awesome-chatgpt-plugins?
I agree with the first statement, but I can't really say the second statement is reasonable. It is the same on the opposite side. Right now, I may have to apply to 100 jobs to get 10 interviews for one to give me an offer. Just as much as companies have to deal with many applicants, most applicants also have to apply to many places. Both have one-to-many relationships.
> As interest rates rise people will no be able to afford their mortgages

I really wonder how many people in the last 10 years actually felt like buying a variable rate mortgage was a good idea? People on fixed rate mortgages are staying put, and watching inflation deflate the value of their debt.
This romantic affair works only for rich. Pretty sure the man also has maids, support staff and vendors working for him.
It'll be a spike in income, which will look good for IPO purposes.

Then a sharp drop to nothing, as everybody has moved on to RISC-V. But by then the company will be long sold to suckers through IPO. So it doesn't matter.
If Github wasn’t confident that (10)(b)(i)(N) excluded them from coverage, they probably wouldn’t allow Utah minors to use the site at all (and the same would be true of any other covered or potentially covered site) because, even if they are allowed parental access, of the civil penalty and actual damages for “causing addiction” (under the statute’s non-clinical definition of “addiction”), only the civil penalty portion of which is avoidable with costly quarterly audits. It is a whole bunch of dumbass liability that can be almost entirely mitigated by excluding Utah minors, and if that does economic and developmental harm to Utah, that’s not the sites’ problem.
Mind-Expanding Concepts
> AI won't take a thought workers job.

I don't understand how you can hold this position considering not only where we are but also the rate of progress in AI. It has been taking thought workers job and it will increasingly do so in the future until the surplus cognitive workers offer is just so minimal that it's not worth to automate it.
Group chats wouldn't be illegal, that's not an online service where you sign up and make a profile etc. This applies only to sites that would serve you random content from random users... i.e. Social Media.
Don't expect teachers to teach you everything you need to know to become a working programmer. Programmers have to seek knowledge. Best way to do it is to create your own project. Challenge yourself by creating an application that you like but that is challenging enough that you will need to do research to create it from scratch.

The newest recommendation is to make sure you understand how AI will help in programming. It's changing and will continue to change how programmers work.
So all they got was appreciation and measly pay increase, guess you were playing favorites which only human.
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_pr...

That graph places software engineers in the top-right quadrant, suggesting that they are predictable and "grammatical". However, I believe there should be a distinction between writing code and engineering. I would not classify software engineering as entirely predictable. For instance, while you could use a script to handle emojis with ChatGPT's help, it would be challenging to use the same strategy for a solution involving large systems that have multiple failure points and span multiple regions. Moreover, even if such a system were successful, multiple redundancies would need to be in place to prevent large-scale disruptions caused by downstream failures.

On the other hand, the chart places executives and investors on the 'safer' side. However, I think that with the real-time information available to AI, investing as a 'job' could be at a higher risk of being replaced. The same could be true for many executive positions (assuming that we are comparing merit-based positions to those based on nepotism).
That's more like an exception than a general rule, IMO. I've seen a lot of opposite examples and none like you're describing.
Squeaky wheel get the oil.
Lots of "luxury" housing is made with crap materials by unskilled freelancers. There is a ton of skimping on hidden details like missing flashing around doors and windows. You can't trust any home built within the last 25 years.
I'm not conflating them, I was explaining why the word "alpha" is used as it is. Everybody knows its meaning.
Just because you can cite some historical examples it means nothing for what's happening around the world, in all cultures. Almost everywhere the most able human, environment permitting, will always use any advantage to get "the best things" or more than others. You can't cancel the concept itself, or try to shame those who do it. It doesn't work. It's dependent on the environment itself. As long as it permits it, it will happen. It's just game theory.
You can dance around this concept as much as you want, won't change what's happening practically.
The author cites the pew study [0] that claims less than 10% of the "US black population" is foreign born.

I have no idea how things stack in the Bay Area, but I figure that answers your question and implies your nuance likely wouldn't change anything.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2015/04/09/a-risin...
When I was a teenager my screen time was the maximum feasible. Now my average screentime is between 12 and 14 hours a day. I'm yet another gainfully employed software engineer.

I don't think there is any empirical evidence correlating tech addiction to income, but if there was I wouldn't be surprised if the relationship was positive.
Personally I like Flashpoint [0] which is a webgame preservation project with a very sizable catalogue of archived Flash games from all over the web + a FOSS launcher app with support for all 3 major desktop OSs in one. It doesn't use Ruffle by default but there is an extension [1] implementing support for it.

[0] https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint

[1] https://github.com/colin969/FPL-Ruffle
>(F) interactive gaming, virtual gaming, or an online service, that allows the creation and uploading of content for the purpose of interactive gaming, edutainment, or associated entertainment,

So Roblox, arguably quite harmful to children, is specifically carved out. That's great.
> I can see how this could be a helpful reframing for some folks, but IME centering your attention on how to title yourself can have the reverse effect, which is to encourage you to indulge in an identity that doesn’t have much substance underneath.

I agree. Cemented in my mind is the use of the word "activist" by all corners of our political spectrum, and especially among techies in the last decade. At present when I hear the word I have to walk myself through dropping all the gut-reaction feelings attached to that word because of the behavior of people who didn't know what they were doing and acted very poorly. This is an isolated example of one, but I'm sure it translates across subjects.
> Torvalds wanted a UNIX that ran on his 386 PC and Sun wasn't going to ever offer that.

Sun did end up releasing Solaris for x86 in 1993, a couple years after Linus' first post to comp.os.minix.

Solaris x86 was a paid product though.

Linus apparently did not know about BSD, which goes back to ~1989.
As a newcomer to the devops world I was kind of surprised at the general thesis of this article, that companies use docker hub and using something different is awkward. Neither of the two companies I’ve worked for use it (artifacory in both cases) and there is a general taboo around having docker desktop binaries on any company systems (though docker engine seems to be prevalent). I guess I had just assumed that the golden / default path was to use one of the (non docker) commercial registries. So from that perspective, the suggestion that there are some patterns that still use dockerhub by default was actually enlightening.
These AI systems will sound the death knell for the creative culture of openness and sharing that emerged during the web 1.0 era with the Creative Commons and OSI-approved licenses and sites like DeviantArt, NewGrounds, and SourceForge, and which still exists today, albeit in a less idealistic form.

Once people realize that by putting something, even just a blog post, out for public consumption, especially if done so under a permissive, share-alike license, they're helping to train an AI that will eventually compete with them for their job, they will not only be less inclined to share it (under a permissive license or not), but be less inclined to produce it at all.
The definition of a countable set is that it has the same cardinality as the natural numbers set, “aleph-null”.

This is an ill defined concept for two reasons:

1) a set is supposed to be a “collection of items”, but the natural numbers is not a collection of numbers, it’s a method to generate an infinite number of numbers… which technically you could never count

2) it’s trying to use a symbol (aleph-null), to make infinity appear finite - the cardinality of an infinite set (like the natural numbers), cannot be a finite symbol.

So essentially there’s two contradictions in the definition of the cardinality of the set of natural numbers.

But that definition is taken as true, and then used as the basis for justifying other concepts, like comparing sizes of unknown infinities.
So you are saying they are right but they are just a few years off? That is the same as being wrong.
Vector search is still a semi active area of research. You can't get "battle tested" and optimal performance at the same time.
would you have any repo to showcase this?
This is the hierarchy of needs. Western society has been wealthy for a few extra generations over Asian. Paying the bills just isn’t enough for many of us to feel our life was well spent at this point. Possibly it’s decadent and a sign of decay.
>> This is exactly the type of conversation we need to have as a society.

Comments like this always make me wonder: How would that happen? Here in the U.S., there's relatively little appetite for job-saving labor protections and, once you leave the regulatory sphere, everyone -- employers, employees, consumers of products and services -- is consistently self-interested.

Not saying that sort of societal conversation is impossible; just saying I don't have the imagination to see how it could happen with actionable results in the 2023 version of the U.S.
I know I will get downvoted for this as off topic, but this is just the latest blog we've seen in this top 30 of many that show ZERO regard for legibility. Yes, I can zoom my browser, but c'mon.

A 13px font for paragraph text is nearly hostile. It's not that legible to people with perfect eyesight, but then it's not at all legible to anyone with imperfect eyesight. It's like saying you don't care if anyone who reads your blog would struggle doing that. And given how very simple it is to change, it's kind of insulting, specifically given how many years usability has been a thing.

10 years ago I wouldn't have written this comment. But now this isn't how you behave if you have an audience.
Yea, it was actually wild when SO came out, because I'd been teaching myself lua pretty much independently, and by the time I got to high school, SO just barely on its way out and immediately everything was a lot easier.

Old man yells at cloud, but kids these day won't even have to look at code, everything will be filtered through natural language.
What jobs have been totally replaced thus far?
Source or binary?

In both cases - it depends.

PDOS/86 will certainly run some binaries. But if you say "what about xyz" the answer is likely "probably not".

I don't have a lot of interest in 16-bit, so it's there for demonstration purposes mainly.

My interest is 32-bit.

The biggest genuine task I do is getting GCC to compile itself with full optimization, which requires something like 23 MB of memory on the mainframe and something like 37 MB on a PC.

Far far below the 4 GiB barrier (or even 2 GiB barrier), but above even 16 MiB, nevermind 640k.

If it is source code you have, then it will require recompilation at a minimum. I made use of that fact to provide a C-defined API to wrap the INT calls, so at least nominally you need to use those C functions. But you may be able to get away with an existing int86x call (or even assembler instruction), as the interrupts do exist (ie even in 32-bit). If your MSDOS program is C90-compliant then that should work unchanged - but that is the case for any environment, not just MSDOS or PDOS/386.
My point is that sex deeply influences gender. Gender expression and gender roles have a direct line to sex via chromosomes > hormones + body structure > how you behave and how you're treated.

You can of course call yourself whatever you want, but expecting others to adhere to that, or even being bothered that they don't, is senseless.
> How many of us spent time online in forums or chat rooms as teens?

As if this relates in any way to visual social media like Instagram and TikTok, the primary sources of teen discontent. Nerds buried on some internet forum or chat room can hardly be compared to what is clearly a rapidly deteriorating public health crisis brought on by the use of these applications.

I'm overjoyed for all of the parents in Utah right now. Legislators are looking at the data.
Thanks, so if I understand correct the flow is:

1) visible on shownew for logged in members until threshold reached

2) visible on shownew for everyone until (other?) threshold reached

3) visible on Show Hn
Whats going on at Roblox? Curious, as a parent myself.
https://github.com/vishpat/lisp-rs

A simple Lisp Interpreter in Rust
Between the two, on the low end, that looks like a per capita donation of around $100/year to criminals, not including all of the other associated costs related to theft prevention, enforcement, incarceration and so on.
It was super readable on mobile - I greatly appreciated its easy to read format. Presumably other platforms yielded a different experience…
Flash was the OG 2D indie game engine before Unity happened.

Your assets went into library, movieclips were asset + code, themselves also part of library. You would script and combine those into higher level movieclips and those would be aware of each other by parent/children realationships. Those were prefabs before era of prefabs.
Definitely worth a read for the humor value of the nonsensical code that can't work and the uncritical acceptance of it by the author as a "clever hack". All made possible by the human hallucinating what "ASCII emoji" might mean in a parallel universe, but doesn't. A golden age of taking money away from idiot VCs is approaching.
Yeah, my theory is there will just be more shit to do, more startups, more tech, more than ever before. More ways to scale your business, spend your free time, yada yada yada.

Also most western countries have severely aging populations, there’s are big problem there which automation can help with, if it’s applied right.
That's why it's such a tragic loss!

We're still not to a point where we have the same capabilities Flash packaged together, and even if we were, we don't have the easy authorship tools to match.

Flash let you deploy a single file. That's unthinkably easy. No hoops. No transpiler builds. Everything about it was so simple.

The switch from a web where everyone publishes to a web where Facebook and YouTube dominate also helped kill it. I'm convinced Flash was ahead of its time and because corporations couldn't bank off of it, we murdered it.

Flash was amazing and we threw it away.
Can you prove the other way around?
I am skeptical that reverse engineering will be taken over by LLMs. At the very least, most LLMs aren't trained to work in an adversarial environment, which is what reverse engineering is.
Twitch as well
A similar reply to a similar comment. Seems reasonable to me. Perhaps the disdain is simply because you disagree. In which case simply state your disagreement rather then construct a personal attack.
Agreed. All these people that think their "soft" jobs are safe. Nope yours will be the first to go. The last to go will be the ones that require actual physical presence.
Twenty years ago, China was dirt poor. Thirty years ago, most people in China were starving. Why do we expect China's culture to have conquered US?
In past iterations, what ease corresponded to was standardization: we went from multiple assembly languages to a C or BASIC, from addressing specific hardware to cross-platform APIs, and from defining multiple character encodings to standardization on Unicode.

Generative AI throws the switch in reverse, because it's indifferent to standardization: people are formulating questions about data and how to process it in their native tongues, skipping the encoding process and the need to study documentation altogether. There isn't a point where it becomes, "oh, but then you hit a brick wall and have to learn the real stuff to solve your problem". GPT helps relatively less as you go deeper and further away from a SO-type answer, but it's a gradual decay.
FAA.gov nameservers are down and staff claim nothing is wrong
"I finally got ahold of someone at FAA and they said they aren’t seeing any issues. I tried to explain but didn’t get anywhere."

https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2023-March/014699....
slow release oxycontin is safe and effective. except when people abuse it by crushing the pills.
Stop browsing mindlessly and start searching proactively based on mood, taste and choices.
The Docker saga teaches us the significance of default settings, the relationship between free and paid software services, and the need to consider the economic implications of relying on free services provided by a company, as these can alter over time.
You are correct also it's not quicksort as it's not in place array, but needs a lot of memory management
I think the cost of software production should go down so it's accessible to more people, but these quadrants are stupid.

The job of lawyers and doctors are less predictable than software engineers? I don't believe that for a second.

If AI comes for SWE jobs it's coming for a hell of a lot more white collar jobs as well.
SpinRite 6.0: Repair and preserve digital archives – How it works
> A Utah resident connects to a server in California, controlled by a company in California. This seems like interstate commerce to me, and is thus regulated by federal law, not the laws of individual states.

Interstate commerce is generally subject to concurrent jurisdiction of the federal and state governments, except that state laws which discriminate against out-of-state trade are presumptively illegal, state law cannot negate federal law, and federal law can explicitly (and sometimes implicitly) forbid state regulation of the same conduct. It is not the case that the mere fact that it involves interstate commerce automatically, without federal law addressing the subject, precludes state regulation.

OTOH, to the extent that the elements of site design likely to be challenged under this are very closely related to the functions protected by Section 230, which does include a preemption clause, even if this is otherwise Constitutional applying it is going to often be tricky in practice.
so it would be about as loud as something most suburban homeowners do on a weekly basis during the summer, but for a much shorter duration? not really making your point here... that sounds like a fair tradeoff to decrease flight times.
Well, she is post menopausal, but still has in an IUD and we always use a condom. There is less than zero chance of her getting pregnant.
Isaw twice similar comments but I didn't spend time to found it :/
I mean, while we're talking "intentionally deceptive"...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopli...

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Is-shoplifting-forcin...