skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While true, check out this demographic map for the US: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta...). The majority of people are over the age of 30, and most of them live in owner-occupied homes. In fact, 66% of all Americans live in owner-occupied homes. I imagine these statistics look similar or even worse in the UK.

There is a real demographic advantage for the elderly, and those who own homes, even if we ignore the propensity for young people to fail to vote.
I mean to avoid using it, the parent could have rephrased it as an "I don't want to offend anyone". That's not "woke", that's decency.
To summarise:

- Lack of political willpower either due to competing priorities, or lobbying

- Banks and economy are tightly coupled to UK housing market

- Lots of people aren't willing to move to less desirable areas

- Lots of people want a McMansion with little/no maintenance

- Since WW2 we have been dependant on lumber from outside the UK for timber frame constructions. Its less so nowadays, but still a reason.

- Immigration + low supply = demand = profit!
As much as I hate giving NIMBYs any credit, it's important to remember that developers don't want to lower the price of housing - they want to make money, but the higher the cost of housing the more profit they make.

For instance, suppose they build 100 apartments in the suburb of X. They know that for every $1k the price of housing in X drops, they lose $100k. So weirdly, they tend to leave housing vacant and sell it at a drip-feed so that they're always selling less houses than there are buyers - there is a huge difference between selling 3 apartments to 4 buyers, vs selling 4 apartments to 4 buyers. This particularly bad when there are few, large developers instead of lots of small developers, as the few large developers can collude to price-fix much easier.

Please don't interpret this as contradicting the fact that California needs to massively overhaul its zoning/construction permit system - the fact that it can take years to receive permission instead of weeks is a big reason for the price of housing (and raises capex requirements which results in fewer but larger developers, see previous paragraph). Ditto for all the zoning that mandates exclusively single-family homes, and other such pointless exclusionism.
"AI safety" is just folk who were too incapable to build LLMs themselves trying to be relevant. Of course, it’s all bull. If computer does bad, you just pull the plug.
That's absolutely not the case for the most part, depending on the bar and the time. Go out to a city centre on an evening, especially Friday or Saturday. Most bars and pubs will be busy, noisy, and definitely playing music.

There are absolutely quieter pubs available, but you need to know where to go.
That is very impressive!

Up to a few years ago I was constantly hosing my TM drive and starting fresh.

TM has supported multiple destinations for a good long while, so in the past I was always running two TM destinations.

BTW, side note, with SSD prices crashing, I should be able to get rid of the spinning-rust and the luxury of silent local SSD TimeMachines running!
But each has to do a lot of stuff. People on such big servers build farms with hundreds of mobs dropping thousands of items which then go through redstone sorting systems.
Welcome to the beautiful world of empty, overconfident political promises that are smashed against the rocks of reality 30 years later.

This is why I plan to finance my own retirement and consider a minimum social security pension a happy bonus.
No, what's the point of that? It's not hard to recognize unsafe code.
“I guess I always assumed that making your best customers slowly deaf surely wouldn't be very good for business. I mean, they're already poisoning our livers and making us hungover, they certainly wouldn't also make us deaf, would they?”

Same reason I still smoke
Baidu Claims Its Ernie Bot Now Beats ChatGPT on Key Measures
> US is now an obese country, how cool it would be if we can turn obese into jacked.

Sure! Ask David Copperfield! ;)
Hi, the Cradle to Grave Welfare state has existed since the 1940s.

Were people not willing to work in the 1940s?
This might be too cynical ... but those that engage in resume inflation and all the other games get the interviews and get the jobs and become the interviewer. Thus git cloning a repo and running scikit-learn on some toy examples without even understanding any of it == Worked on a complex ML problem.

As for the CV that says took an online class that involved git cloning a repo and running scikit-learn on some toy examples is a CV you should discard as they probably just went for a cup of coffee and looked at the clouds for an hour.
Let's all remember that Notch didn't want any multiplayer and purposefully did everything he could to make it painful.

Minecraft would be dead without the community devs and artists.
False sharing perhaps? At least that is my shoot-from-the-hip response.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22766191/what-is-false-s...
>Immigration

Impossible! Brexit was meant to fix that. /s
Sorry to self-promote, but, Angeldust (https://angeldu.st) is a single, persistent, real-time voxel world going for about eight years now. Can handle 300+K players on a single server due to massive parallelism. Unfortunately we don't get those player numbers right now, but hopefully in the future!
This is true!

I do rest my index finger on the edge, and I do sometimes get a false micro/jerky scroll movement!
Wasn't it all messages ending with "heil hitler"? I mean that could be the operator's sweetheart in a way.
If the government giveth and then taketh away, those are just two sides of the same coin. Electricity providers in Germany can go bust at any time, and that's fine, there are hundreds of them.

Our electricity bill is currently 60 a month (used to be 50), and we usually get a tiny bit paid back. Heating (warm water in general) is gas, but everything else is electric including cooking which we do daily. There was a price cap of 40c per kWh (or something like that) introduced recently, but other than that it's "what you pay for is what you get". A transparent system where you have the true price stimulates energy efficiency. People that want to waste energy are free to do so, but should not have the rest subsidize the behavior. There are dozens of tiny things that you can do every day that have no effect on your life, yet save a lot of energy and money: avoiding being straight up wasteful, e.g. leaving things on for no reason; paying attention to energy efficiency of the devices you buy and run; paying attention to what you do, e.g. when you boil an egg, put a lid on, boil the water and switch it off, it will keep boiling until it's ready since the stove is hot (this becomes mostly irrelevant with induction). On a level beyond that, is your fridge normal sized, or does it store food for three weeks, that you then buy with you gigantic car in a huge shop 15km away (and the shop is there because the land is cheaper, and the energy spent on having that system work is massively subsizidized). Etc. etc. A lot of things you think are tiny, but as a whole end up being significant.

We spent a few months abroad a couple years ago, and there you'd get a note on your bill comparing your consumption to the same month the year before. We were routinely at 50% of the previous tenants.
You can only be price sensitive when you have a real choice. And I'm talking oligopoly here, impossible to shake in just two years since covid hit with the extra pressure.
"not a single word about the safety implications of such a system"

Oh please. Not everything has to be regulated-to-hells before a use case is even found on this. Autonomous agents have existed for decades.

If it can automate agents like huginn[0] with natural language, I'd be very happy. Autonomous agents doesn't mean it's going to take over the world autonomously. Let's lower the fearmongering a bit.

[0]: https://github.com/huginn/huginn
I won't claim to be a zfs expert, and most of this is based on my interpretation of using zfs for the past ~5 years. If I'm wrong, hopefully someone will correct me. ;-)
As a side note, I think even a lot of the data/process isolation stuff could be better mitigated by capabilities-based technology. It's kind of crazy to me that stuff isn't used more.
Pretty sure that a real 1940s Nazi would never use an Americanism such as Zzzz.

https://www.plushbeds.com/blogs/green-sleep/how-did-the-lett...
My original motivation in posting was really to spread the understanding that ETHZ and EPFL are sibling institutions; I knew both institutions from some comp sci bits but never made the connection until a while ago. And then I noticed a bunch of other people didn't connect them either…

(I mean, it's not super important to understand these two are related, but honestly I feel like it makes them even more impressive. ETHZ already has a MIT-like reputation, with EPFL not far behind. The Swiss are clearly doing something right with their technical universities. And it's a 100% quota too, these two are the only ETHs/EPFs.)
You said clean and dirty. I would say these are proximate measurements meant to be indicative of danger. That means they should be very, very, very similar things. If there's very little overlap you have a maladjusted view of what is dirty.
That's actually how we visualize 3D with our 2D retinas and monitors. It is a perspective projection: objects that are far away (in 3D) appear smaller (in 2D).

Making a perspective projection from 4D to 3D, and then from 3D to 2D for display is simple mathematically, and it could be done in wireframe mode instead of what is currently, I think, a simple orthographic projection. In fact, it is very possible that the author tried it but didn't like it enough to include it.
Why change the actual headline from "1,000" to "1k"?
I feel like all the blogg...uh, 'journalists' have just moved to "NO NOT THE AI" after whatever the last thing they were focusing on.
What for you seems like inappropriate touching might just be bonding for them. This is what the other commenter meant by bonding better when drunk - what is inappropriate sober suddenly becomes appropriate, and that makes people feel more connected.

Nothing wrong with not drinking, but alcohol has its pluses and minuses. I myself barely drink these days due to having small kids and getting the worst hangovers at this age, but I can't imagine I'd be the same person socially if I hadn't had alcohol when I was younger. I would not have had as good discussions with friends, nor met a fraction of the people I did (including of the opposite sex, including my wife). No health problems as a result, maybe I would have been slightly more focused in my studies, but it would hardly have made a difference to where I am now. The gained social skills vastly outweigh the lost study potential.
I think people who lack understanding about the internet may prioritize privacy because they don't truly comprehend it.
Please correct it if I'm wrong.
Does NixOS work on a FreeBSD kernel? I'm apologize if this is a dumb question; I haven't had a chance to explore Nix as of yet (it's on the list).
I use Vivaldi for work-related browsing (one profile per client, thankfully not many clients) and in general it's very good. Vertical tabs, tab tiling + grouping, the built in markdown notepad, that's all great.

Their mail implementation is frustrating though. Servers that need OAuth (MS, Google) seem to require re-authentication every couple of days, and I've never managed to achieve outgoing mail with them.

The way the mailbox view works like an ordinary browser tab (but the folders are in a sidebar) is pretty annoying too. Normally when I'm doing email I want to refer to something else, often a web page, but if I try to make the mail tab a separate window I just get a "Mail is in Another Window" message.

Easier to just use webmail, honestly.
because restardness
Hyperbaric chamber is the only thing I'm aware of against tinnitus. But you should have the first session within 24h
now compare how many people are in age of 18-35 vs 35-90
"I've watched enough documentaries about Africa, I probably know more about it than the people who live there"
The question isn’t: does grandma get to keep living in the home, there’s no one that’s against that.

The question is who, if anyone gets the million bucks, that she didn’t pay for or earn, when the house is sold.
> It's a fine line between data collection for commercial reasons and spying

No there is not. Your permission is the line
>consumption by just anyone.

ah yes, the only people consuming such things should be The Big Corporations and Big Governments?

---

Snark aside (Sorry, I'm just a bit tired of people having a kneejerk reaction to this without even thinking),

we're talking about autonomous agents. Huginn and the like have existed for years. If they can be even somewhat better automated with NLP and the sort, it'd be excellent instead of having to actually manage and configure/code individual agents. and Guess what, these agents have ALREADY been connected to the internet. For years.
‘Mind-boggling’ palm that flowers and fruits underground thrills scientists
> It seems like maybe they didn’t pay in enough - baby boom demographics meant there were relatively more productive workers paying for relatively few old people, so each worker was paying a fraction of what it would cost to carry themselves through old age.

Right but manufacturing technology better and more efficient, we produce far more "per worker" now
RouterOS has a steeper learning curve, but I find it very comforting that it is predictable/boring and I run it on hardware that is easily replacable. I have a cheap Mikrotik 1U unit.
> There is no way for an iOS application to just say "turn on GPS" and be granted granular location access without user intervention.

Damn. Just like on Android.

The permission to always have location access(while closed) exists. Important for apps like Find My, etc.

But that has to be manually enabled per App in the settings. Apps can't even prompt for it, the location permission dialog only lets you allow usage while in the foreground. Also everytime your location is used in the background you get notified about it. So yeah, op either uses outdated android or enabled it manually.
Stable Diffusion takes 3.9 seconds to produce 8x 256x256 images (so about 0.5 seconds each), or 2 seconds to produce 1x 256x256 images. That's with DPM++ 2M Karras sampling with 20 iterations on a 3090.
Anti fragility is just a fancy name for 'ability to learn'. Erlang error handling philosophy enables learning by keeping thing simple and transparent. It's easy to see some component keeps failing, it doesn't bring your whole app down and you can look into it and improve it. Adding tonnes of third party machinery may be robust or even resilient, but if it makes things more opaque or demands bigger teams of deeper specialists, it precludes learning. Thus is not 'anti fragile'. You can keep your ability to learn healthy without Erlang, and you can use it without learning much over time.

It's not the tool, it's how you use it.
> Can’t we figure out what we actually want as societies, and make policy that matches it?

Not in a democracy, not when respecting free market and property. But they are able to do it in China.
Sure. And if the "bad" program has spread as a virus, you just pull all the plugs of all the computers, right?

Of course, you will kill modern civilization by doing so (and many millions of people as a result), but at least the AI is back in the box, so there is nothing to worry about.
Sure but most people just want to live in that house, not capitalize on it
Ask HN: Access indie films after film festivals
I'm a huge fan of indie/foreign films and the best place to catch them is at film festivals the year they are released. Unfortunately, if the films aren't picked up by a big player for further distribution, they essentially vanish from view.

Is anyone working on a Netflix-like service for these films? It seems like a no-brainer, so usually that means there's something I don't know about the industry.
This list is full of excellent points. I especially agree with this:

> 32. don’t confuse a steep learning curve for bad UI. don’t confuse something that

> is just similar to what you’re used to for good UI. Don’t confuse the level of

> pain you went through to learn something with its intrinsic worthiness. The

> only “intuitive” interface is the nipple.

>

> (not actually true, there’s a whole job for teaching babies how to breastfeed,

> but that’s the catchphrase for this one, sorry.)
I hear you, and I've seen these videos and claims around, but I don't believe them. They don't make sense. I've seen the public financial statements of my suburban county (which, again, has no big city in it), the average income and funding source of roads, schools etc in my county/state.

The numbers don't add up to the city subsidizing the suburbs - quite the opposite instead. The rich suburbs pay a TON in state, local and federal taxes. So while I suppose it's possible that the cities pay relatively more than they should in the road construction category, all other categories are subsidized by the suburbs on a per capita basis (roads are just a small fraction of overall state expenses, which are dominated by health services and other type of welfare vastly subsidized by the richer suburbs).

Interestingly, this just reminded me of the situation in a nearby county that includes both a large city in a wealthy suburb. The suburb at one point wanted to secede from the city and create their own county because of the massive transfer of funds within the county towards the city.
Correct. In summer the main window façade is not in direct sunlight.
Nintendo Switch Update Appears to Block Words Like ‘TERF’ and ‘Titler’
Ask HN: Is Microsoft's Phi-1 model available for testing somewhere?
> People on such big servers build farms

~Normally, yeah, but Folia is based on Paper which, AFAIK, is known for its unreliability when it comes to the technical aspects of Minecraft (ie redstone and farms.) Even your bog-standard simple item sorter is apparently a bit hit-or-miss on Paper.~

Edit: Possibly outdated info, things sound better re: technical Minecraft support on Paper now according to 'ocelotpotpie.
Do you think a minecraft server (and multiplayer game servers in general) can benefit for running on a soft-realtime OS like Linux with the PREEMPT_RT patch?

Games often use their tick rate (iterations of the event loop per second) as a quality metric, and an rt OS should favor preemption and low scheduling latency over throughput... so maybe that should give a more fluid experience?

But the bottleneck for minecraft seems to be in memory allocations, so an OS that can schedule threads rapidly may not change much after all.
I would say out of those, Paper, mainly due to lack of crazy toolchain complexity or unusual concepts like mixins -- while still being quite capable at more advanced things, including an 'escape hatch' to access raw Minecraft objects in the rare cases where that's needed. It's a very intuitive API. I'd say it's a great introduction to Java.

But other things you should also be looking into:

Skript provides an interesting easy-to-use DSL language for Paper/Spigot servers - https://github.com/SkriptLang/Skript

Scarpet provides an interesting easy-to-use DSL language for Fabric servers - https://github.com/gnembon/fabric-carpet/blob/master/docs/sc...

Opencomputers and Computercraft are mods that adds computers to Minecraft, running Lua. OpenGlasses2 lets you code your own augmented reality glasses in Minecraft, because why not? https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/opencomputers https://tweaked.cc/

Pneumaticcraft, Psi, and ProjectRed are three other very logic-heavy Minecraft mods

Minecraft Pi Edition was an ARM-only release of Minecraft Pocket Edition that is scriptable using TCP sockets, with APIs for various programming languages. Unfortunately, it was dead by the time it was finished, as it never got any updates after the initial release, doesn't have ARM64 support, and is a very limited version of the game https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/edition/pi

Minecraft Education edition has a Scratch-like programming system, but it's only available to teachers and is another thing they sorta dropped the ball on https://education.minecraft.net/en-us/resources/computer-sci...
Yes, if the discrepancy is a few seconds - in this case I needed an extra minute or so of music, and the customer had already requested a specific slide duration so I had limited leeway there.
To be fair, Nim isn't dead either. It's steadily coming along, with new developers, features, and libraries all the time. Sure it hasn't had the meteoric growth of Rust, but it's still climbing.
What stops insurance companies from doing that now? Car insurance companies could ask if you have a bike and give you a reduced policy.
We now have a couple of vermouth bars in Copenhagen, and I even noticed one of them had a "pop up bar" at the metal festival.

The bar you visited was just ahead of its time.
Data Solution Architects: The Future of Data Management
I would love an ebike and even though I work, could not afford to pay the price they are here in Finland. Scooters are much more affordable, but I don't feel safe riding them in the winter, even though we have the best cycling infrastructure in the world, here in Oulu or so I hear. We are also the bike theft capital, or so I hear again. So that would really sting as it's usually not a matter of if, but rather when your bike gets stolen.

Luckily I have the sisu and can endure the daily commute whole year on my single speed granny bike. It's so beaten up, no crack heads think they can get a good price for it on tori.fi
Great, as a person with a disability, I am used to patronizing people like you. Go ahead, and get lost.
I understand this is easy for a developer, but I think it is not responsible security-wise: that container is a whole toolbox at the disposal of whoever may breach in it.

On top of this, as some sibling commenters were saying, it is a waste of bandwidth, time and disk space.
Historically, that hasn't happened when worker's wages increased. Prices do tend to go up (they always do) but not to the degree that it makes the wage increases worthless. When minimum wages go up, workers lives improve. Also, when companies don't have an excuse, consumers simply won't pay $12 for a dozen eggs. Every consumer has some idea of what things are worth and if a company tries to jack prices up for no reason consumers feel cheated and stop paying.

There's zero reason why companies can't all just triple their prices right now, except that if they did, people wouldn't pay and their profits would drop. Companies constantly test consumer's acceptance of price increases and usually only increment their prices slowly so that the next generation they rip off doesn't know any better having always grown up with the slightly higher prices.

The supply shortages of the pandemic broke the system. It gave every company an excuse for price gouging, and at first, much of that was legitimate supply/demand and consumers were understanding. Then as the supply of goods came back they started using the inflation narrative (complete with "printed money" excuse) to justify further increasing prices, but now we have a growing pile of evidence that they were lying and were just pocketing the extra money. Naturally, and rightly, people are starting to feel ripped off.
Always use [[ and ]] where possible in conditions. You could also use set -x and avoid the echo
Yeah, in all micro service architectures I have worked in people have taken shortcuts which ended up in concerns spread all over different services.

This misstanke can be done there just as well as in monoliths.