skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Philips isn't really dying a slow death. The company has been split into pieces. Some of which are very successful like ASML. Some are doing OK like NXP and Signify. Some are struggling like the leftover Philips that only does healthcare now. Other parts have been sold like the consumer goods and the Philips brand licensed as part of those deals.
I'm not sure the outcome would have been better had they not split the company.
This is the strangest thing. Super wealthy, powerful people are upset about paying 8 bucks month for something they use all the time?

Paying for the internet and social media is gonna happen one way or another, and the truth is, twitter provides just as much entertainment as films, tv and books, so I think it's warranted.

To quote Nassim Taleb, "The sad truth is that, under near zero interest rates, it was not the advertisers who were paying for much of your social media & internet services, but investors."

I got that quote from twitter btw.
The house doesn’t go up in value, houses depreciate. Hence why the IRS let’s you take a tax break for depreciation if you use one for business purposes. It’s the land that goes up in value and land will never be a sustainable resource.

As the saying goes- they aren't making any more land. Land (in an area with a growing population) is a finite resource, like gold or precious metals. Nothing about it is an illusion, if you re-zone for dense housing, it will actually further accelerate the increase in price for a single family home since the land underneath is now has more utility.
I can’t think of anywhere off the top of my head that housing could be considered in surplus in the US. Can you? The fact is housing now consumes a much higher percentage of income than it did for earlier generations. Either wages need to catch up or housing prices need to drop.
or Chinese will with the enormous USD reserve they have accumulated over last 20 years maintaining yuan peg to dollar.
Lack of capital.
My 11 year old just drops stuff a lot. Two hands please!
The market optimizes for what people will buy, not what they like. If people begrudgingly buy 3 row SUVs instead of minivans, the bean counters count that as a win.

There are still 4 minivans on the US market, and really I don’t think there’s space for any others to sell successfully. The ones that exist are damn competitive for what they are, and they still don’t sell well.
What a stupid and fraudulent metaphor.

Comparables and greedy corporations inflate the inventory of expensive housing while affordable housing shrinks to nothing.
Exactly, I just want my own place. The land and roof to do what I want with. It’s not monopoly for most people.
I hate the new windows store container method of installing software. Its acts like an untouchable, unreadable, off limits container.
Edit: nevermind, misunderstood
The fact that both humans and LLMs can both reason abstractly is an uninteresting fact if we define “abstract reasoning” to be exactly what humans do, and then create models with the goal of recreating exactly that. This is than simply a statement of an accurate model, and the word intelligence is there only to confuse.

This would be like finding a flower which produces a unique fragrance, then create a perfume which approaches the same fragrance and then conclude that since these are the only two things in the universe which can create this fragrance there must be something special about that perfume.
However, in the end stages of RCA, they engaged in a semiconductor technology sharing agreement with a consortium of Taiwanese companies (that did not include TSMC, which did not yet exist).

At the end of this agreement, UMC had better technology at higher yields than RCA.

This technology transfer had a profound impact upon Taiwan.

"Taiwan managed to persuade RCA to agree in 1976 to transfer semiconductor technology."

https://history-computer.com/taiwans-chip-industry/
As far as journaling I like to use Obsidian. It provides me with a lot of flexibility with the data.
Meanwhile other people are pretty happy with the (r>g) gradual decline into feudalism driven by asset and land ownership accumulating in fewer and richer hands.
> you seem to be stuck squarely in the 1980s.

You know, my main hobby is writing ASM for classic video game consoles, and my opinions and experience involves lots of janky / homemade / antiquated programs, so honestly you're not wrong =p
With respect to writing I've used it for things I know enough to write--and will have to look up some quotes, data, etc. in any case. GPT gives me a sort of 0th draft that saves me some time but I don't need to check every assertion to see if it's right or reasonable because I already know.

But it doesn't really solve a business problem for me. Just saves some time and gives me a starting point. Though on-the-fly spellchecking and, to a lesser degree grammar checking, help me a lot too--especially if I'm not going to ultimately be copyedited.
Not if you keep allowing investors to buy up all the new housing. Vancouver did this: build, build, build and investors bought, bought, bought.

Nearly 50% of all new housing built in Vancouver is bought up by investors. To purchase a place in Vancouver you 10x the local median salary.
Because the inventory of it shrinks and shrinks more. What little existing inventory of AH there is will not suddenly reduce in price because castles appear.
just keep inmind, this, and other phenomenon dont happen in all neurons, or in any particular neurons 100% of the time.

neurons change functional, and structural state, depending on past events [hysterisis] and will shut down/modify state activities depending on feedback from post synapic neurons.

also neurons will get tired and handoff activity to similar neurons in a cohort.
True. We should house the ER nurses for LA in Death Valley. The line cooks at the Jack N the Box down the street can live in the Olympic mountains and the garbage collectors in NYC in the bad lands of South Dakota. Good plan!
We have so many database products out there. But if this book leads to more of them, I'm all for it. I think databases, while old as IT itself, still has room to evolve, especially in the distributed realm, and especially in the multi-master configuration where I do not see many products being offered, as compared to one-writer configurations.
Important technology
"Safety is our Third, no, Fourth priority."
neat concept but the website is just too janky. the controller sometimes gets loaded twice or something so two different instances fight over the UI components and it's pandemonium. also it's just too short to really be useful.
EXFAT is another option these days.
I suspect every time the article says "why's that so? nobody knows!", somebody actually knows and they would have found out if they had researched a little...
IMHO you should engage directly with the reason people are opposed rather than just seeking to label them hypocritical based on implicit reasons. In this case you believe high density housing is more important than their property value; either that or you just want them to accept the label that a political movement brands them with (no harm no foul, I like to argue on the internet too).

My point with the landfill is reductio ad absurdum. There is definitely something that you would oppose if proposed to be built near your home. I guess you are saying at that point you would be a nimby too? And I'm saying that's not a debate that gets us anywhere in terms of where to build things we need built, it just leads to further polarization.
Aah interesting. Here in the UK most “fixed rate mortgages” are actually only fixed for a few years. Fixed for the full term does exist but is definitely less common.
> Florida’s name comes from ‘la flor’ ‘the flower,

And more precisely it means ‘In flor’ (blooming)
> an older couple whose kids have left could downsize, but often can’t afford it due to that generation trying to maximize ROI

Help me out with this. Their downsized home will cost less than their large home sells for.
If this is true, then perhaps we should wire motherboards in a way such that the connections are crisscrossed too.
Yes, those adapters. There are many types now, most recently LLaMA adapter:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16199
Not really. How would you test a rocket engine at low atmospheric pressure? You can't exactly stick a rocket engine in a vacuum chamber and light it. Then once you're launching something into space, you may as well have a first stage to go along with it. Are you saying they should have launched the booster stage by itself? Why? What would they learn from that? Would you ever expect them to launch a booster on it's own in practice?
> And it looks like that Coinbase's listings pass the test? If they didn't, they would've been sued already.

Sued by who? The SEC? Who have told them that they intend to bring a legal action?
I wouldn't blame your kids. I've had several chromebooks (that only I used) go down for various reasons including a cracked screen I could't explain.
One of my kids devices is an old Thinkpad and I don't think we'll ever be able to get rid of that.
NIMBYs are voters and loud voices in municipal elections (and often on the ticket themselves). They aren’t just protesters. If housing reform were widely popular with the affluent, civically engaged crowd, then we might have done something more substantive by now.
Construction techniques are vital, but a civil engineer is employed to conduct the correct QA/QC on those techniques.

This doesn't devalue the effort of the work crew, but it does recognize you need accredited professionals at certain parts of the process to ensure public safety.

To be a bit more pointed: causality isn't difficult here. This legislation and professional practice was deliberately designed as a result of the numerous failures observed throughout the 1900s. The cause: multiple fatalities and unreliable infrastructure let to the regulation of the engineering profession. The effect: we are safer.
Reading this thread is bizarre. You're straight-facedly arguing for an absurd position, people point out how absurd it is, and then you double down and defend the absurdity.
… what? Specific terminology doesn’t obscure reality, it clarifies it.
Because they're not building enough.
The Bay Area is a perfect example. NIMBYs don't want new construction of anything. They might look the other way if it were luxury construction away from them, but cannot have affordable homes anywhere. The rich from all over the world will continue to be attracted to the area, compete with less well-off people already there who are priced out of the market. This is why there are so many homeless and people living vehicles who cannot afford housing. I make $300k but cannot afford to buy my grandparents' home that is $2.5M now but was $30k in 1968 ($260k in today's money, an order-of-magnitude increase in price. $50k is the average income today but it was $74.5k ($8.6k) in today's money then. That's 3.5x housing/income to 50x.).
I don’t think that it would be derivative — sure, for those who go to midjourney, try out a single query to feel good and then never generate another image it won’t be “art”. But these things already have integrations into photoshop and such, and a more collaborative between human and AI approach could easily result in actual art.

Think of something like, I asked for a portrait of a women, similar in layout to Mona Lisa, then click on some area I don’t like too much, and ask the AI to change it to something else. You don’t have to imagine many iterations before it could give you “real art”, especially that you are free to draw/edit/add layers at any step of the process, or even draw the initial sketch.
> Occupy Wall Street was eradicated with terrifying efficiency

I dropped by Occupy a few times. They did themselves in by failing to specify demands. All form and no substance.
Also, it didn't really answer the "why" question.
I agree with you that would be a better title, for a number of reasons. However I would advocate against changing it.

The title here on HN is the same as the title in the original/linked article. Something I personally live about HN is we don't editorialize by rewriting headlines to reframe things to fit our preferred perception (even when we really believe that perception is correct). This is important for cognitive diversity.
It's amazing how we've managed to set up an economic system where schoolteachers drive up their own rent and declared it fair.
> I've never understood how real returns on house prices could be believed to be sustainable. If the value of a house appreciates in terms of purchasing power for some other good at a constant rate, at some point in the far future just a single house would become valuable enough to purchase the entire global supply of the other good.

Isn't this the illusion our economic system gives us though, for everything from goods to companies in general? There is no "top" of the value of a company, so seemingly everyone is OK believing companies can grow forever and always get bigger/more profitable, so shareholders gets more profit.

If this is to believed, why cannot you believe the same for the housing market? Seems to fit with how most people understand the underlying economic model anyways.
This article was written by chatgpt.
Yeah exactly. The experiences around me agree with you: once someone is "out" most managers will look to "eliminate" that person from the group ASAP. I've even seen someone being asked not to come in from tomorrow, which shocked everyone since that person was well liked, a good performer - even had multiple patents associated with him. It was just a power trip from that manager.
We crave luxury, convenience, decadence, and status, with our sole concern being how inexpensively we can attain them. Is anyone still naïve enough to believe that money is the only cost?

This mindset is likely a significant contributor to climate change and numerous other global issues. A fundamental shift in values is desperately needed. We could consume less meat without sacrificing affordability, invest in reusable technology without breaking the bank, and make similar choices regarding cars. We opt for plastic simply because it's marginally cheaper than glass and metal, and we prefer frying pans with PFAs to save a mere 15 seconds of cleaning time. We shun nuclear energy like Molten Salt Reactors due to the inconvenience of waste handling, despite its relatively short duration of 300 years compared to the thousands of years it will take to restore atmospheric carbon levels. We buy clothing and blood diamonds from brands known for child labor, slavery, and bloodshed because they convey status.

Have we stopped buying everything Nestle makes for us despite so much of their vehemently unethical behaviour? Was cheating emissions software not enough for us to stop buying VW cars? How many Foxconn suicides does it take for you to reconsider an iPhone? How many more wars on drugs will we wage before we stop paying pharma bros for OxyCotin? Are there no alternative companies to Bayer to buy from or was knowingly infecting Africans with HIV not a big enough violation of trust in a medical company? Surely if Tesla produced only my car, their brutal lithium mining using children and disposal scandal wouldn't be a big deal.

The blame lies with us. As consumers, we consistently make decisions that go against our best interests in terms of health, finances, and the future of our children. Industries only cater to the demands we create. It is nothing short of absurd to believe that manufacturers would continue to supply unrepairable technology or products that harm us if we simply refused to buy them.
I’m assuming there’s a productive middle ground between “do nothing destructive” and “burn people’s houses down”.
yes cortical in this case is applied to the cortical structure, of the optic lobes of the cerebrum, summarized as optical cortex

field is the informatic state of all the neural elements, involved.

note: these are terms applied in the context of neuroscience.
If you're gluing stuff together and hoping it's not going to fall apart too often you're not doing either.

That's precisely what the majority of "software engineers" are doing nowadays. That's what web development is. Those that are creating tools other developers use and build things using algorithms/data structures in novel ways (essentially applied math as you said), they are the real software engineers in my eyes.
It was never about the chips. The technology is strategic but can possibly be replicated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_island_chain

China is surprisingly confined in its waters. Strange as it seems with all that coast line, China (and thus a huge chunk of world trade) has to transit confined sea pathways before it can reach oceans.

Conversely, should China ever gain control over Taiwan, that fact and the implied retreat of Western navies (US primarily) from those waters would make China's Navy the guarantor of the global (trade) order in its most important economic region. Today, it is the US Navy that fills that role.

Geography remains hugely important in shaping history. Per some views, the very rise of Europe was primarily due to navigational advances. Technologies that allowed circumventing strategic geographical realities that had stood for thousands of years: the land corridors of Asia and the Mediterranian sea & ports.
Yup. I can squeeze the kids in the Golf... if my eldest doesn't use her booster.

I can put them in the Sorrento.... But I have to buckle her into her seat belt while shes standing holding the boosted. Then I have to lift them both to get them i to position.

We want a new car. We were going to buy a Sienna hybrid. But they're ridiculously priced, unobtainium and, frankly, not that big. So Im looking at a low milage Expedition Max or convincing the wife for a Sprinter.
The upper bound would be over 1 billion for Bitcoin (1+ billion unique addresses)[0]. The number of daily active addresses is around 1 million[1]. And that doesn't account for second layer transactions. Where do you get the "few thousand" from?

[0] https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=Addresse...

[1] https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&m=addresses.Activ...
previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34123302
> I’ve never understood how real returns on house prices could be believed to be sustainable

Isn’t this the entire point of the article?

That everybody knows this is unsustainable. They just care about sustaining it until they benefit. Then after that who gives a shit.
I didn't think stackoverflow was that bad. Ba dum tiss. :)
Sort of the opposite, in fact! It is blocking solar energy to 'terraform' the area around solar farms. (Well, first it terraforms the area under the solar farm, then we use that to terraform the surrounding area.)

We are creating a shaded microclimate underneath a field of solar panels, which apparently can be harvested to meaningfully impact a larger area with a different climate.

I wish they'd given figures on the expansion factor: one hectare of solar farm is enough to seed X hectares of desert.

It reminds me of how the Amazon rainforest is fed in great part by a single small area in the Sahara (the Bodélé Depression in Chad). The area is 150km × 500km, but it seems like the relevant area (the winds have to exceed 36km/h to pick up enough dust to matter) may be smaller?
I'm not arguing with your point, but the impact moving a small amount of chip production to the US will have.

"Let's just move TSMC to the US" is a naive solution to the problem most people with little industry experience arrive at. No real effort is being made to move any significant portion of final fabrication out of Taiwan and into the US, and the latest and greatest processes are being developed exclusively in Taiwan. Progress on 5nm fabs in AZ will probably be excruciatingly slow, dependent on significant numbers of Taiwanese worker exchanges, and produce a chip 2 generations behind cutting edge by the time it's operational.

There's some backlash in Taiwan over "piercing the silicon shield", but it looks like it could end up being a way to get the US and Taiwan to cooperate even more intensely than they already do.
I assume it depends on the locale, but where I live at least there are challenges with this negotiating tactic

Like many (most?) municipalities, our zoning codes were largely set in the mid-20th century, and were deliberately designed to prevent Black families from moving in by restricting multi-family development --- this was a direct response to the 1917 Buchanan decision that outlawed explicit racial zoning (prior to that decision, and to the Great Migration, SFZ was almost unheard of).

What that means today is that any new apartment building will be built under a variance negotiated with the municipality; effectively, every new apartment building is done at the individualized discretion of the board.

So you have a couple problems here:

* There's a process by which these projects are introduced and endorsed to the board which doesn't include opportunities to put give-to-get proposals on the table.

* It's probably not a good idea to play games with the board in the first place, since they have other things to do and there aren't really many stakeholders that will hold them to account if they accede to local NIMBYs and just kill a development.

* It puts them in a weird position if their negotiating-position-bid is accepted.
Most of these houses will be inherited by their children. Certainly many homes will enter the market, as the inheritors might be living elsewhere or already have housing they prefer, but I don’t think that will be the cause of a housing market collapse.
Amiga used to have the best file-path convention I've ever worked with: drive:dir/file where driver was not a letter like in Windows but rather the drive's label, so you could have Work:Pictures/HN.jpg.

To go up to the parent directory you had to use an additional slash. So /xxx was the equivalent of Windows ..\xxx, and you could add more slashes to go further up in the directory tree:
Work:a/b/c/d////file was the same as Work:a//file.

Drives could be "virtual" ones, similar to "bind" mount points in Unix, that could be associated with multiple positions. E.g. you could assign both System:Libs and Data:MyLibs to the virtual drive LIBS: so that LIBS:xxx would match a file called xxx in either directory.

Files used to have a comment field to store kind of extended attributes, but was seldom used IIRC.

Wildcards were quite unique, I think ? was like regexp . meaning any char, and # like * but prefixed meaning any number of the _following_ char, so that #? would match anything.

I'm sure there were other niceties I can't remember right now.
Probably not as you will just make it worse by letting them fire you. Which makes for an awkward reference call later.
A compromise is to only enforce pre-commit rules when merging to main or some other important branch. Be as sloppy as you want on your own branches and make stuff proper when you're ready.
>All humans (Everyone with two legs) have a single ancestor 100k years ago

There was a black American that died in South Carolina somewhat recently that gained his Y chromosome from a man older than the common ancestor of most men, Y-Adam.

>Perry did not descend from the genetic Adam. In fact, his Y chromosome was so distinct that his male lineage probably separated from all others about 338,000 years ago [0]

[0] https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23240-the-father-of-a...
Suggestion. Turn 80 acres into housing
Here we're talking about an apartment building, so I don't think the slope you're trying to slip the argument down really exists. We're talking about anti-housing advocacy.
It’s Not the End of Work. It’s the End of Boring Work