skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep! It's because of continuous near zero rental vacancy in Vancouver.

Landlords can continue to increase the rent at the maximum allowed every year and tenants are forced to stick around because where else are they going to go? Move to what apartment? There are none.

So long as there's practically no available apartments landlords will feel free to keep cranking up rent. If we ever get to the point where renters could genuinely have the ability to benefit from moving, then landlords will think twice before raising rents.

Briefly ever so briefly at the start of the pandemic when all the students left rents plunged. That shows what needs to happen. Not kicking out all the students of course, but the creation of a huge amount of surplus homes. Only in such a healthy vacancy environment will rent increases go below inflation.
> but shouldn't it be Apple's responsibility to not break existing apps with iOS "upgrades"?

according to the comments in the thread it doesn’t work even on ios 15.7?
Earthquakes are not silent. I'm not sure where you experienced yours but earthquakes are deafeningly loud. Movie-style earthquake sounds don't even do it justice.
Given that a lot of people's retirement wealth is largely in their home, and that they've planned and worked toward this for 40 to 50 years, this is a remarkably calloused take. I agree the current system has absurdities and needs to be changed, but rapidly disrupting the system and dismissing people's devastation with a "lol" is how you start political wars. I suspect this attitude is one of the main drivers behind the contemporay political polarization that is ruining friendships, marriages, and families. The only way we are going to be able to fix our broken system is with physical force where the victor gets to impose their beliefs on the others, or with empathy where people genuinely seek to understand the impact of things on others and work towards ideal solutions. I certainly hope the latter is what society chooses.
Wow! Mind giving a few specifics on the diet changes? I’m guessing removing sugar is one thing?
Unless you read the initial comment, that is. Not really very obvious on mobile... :(
The biggest losers of a LVT are SFH owners living in a humble old near worthless house on relatively valuable land.

No, because those folks can sell their property to a developer and earn a nice return while moving to a cheaper area.
VPNs, Verizon, Instagram Reels: how students are getting around the TikTok ban
California effectively outlawed mental health care for paranoid schizophrenics back in the 1980’s. (You can’t even get future-you committed in the event of a psychotic break)
He has, that's the point. He has an extra $75,000 per year that can go into a new home, than those who didn't have a home to sell.
Thanks - I was wondering what the new CPU/GPU on the "older" M1 platform is that I missed.
How does an investor who is renting drive up the cost of housing? Barring certain oddities (e.g. college towns tend to have higher rental costs than purchase due to the transient nature of the populace) rents and mortgages should obtain parity very quickly, especially for families looking to stay longer than the transaction cost of the loan.
I trust the chemistry but it's the source of the energy to power the furnaces and where to pump away the co2 that are the critical limiting factors. Also, are they going to just grind it into a nanometer powder and mix it with air in a hyperboloid flue?
I am not saying that Google the corporation can do anything other than what it is doing, no matter how evil that might be interpreted by those who have lost loved ones to the Kashmir conflict.
René Thom, the mathematician who preferred meaning to rigor
Cheap houses in cheap areas are cheap precisely because the areas themselves are low value with a low expected-value of living there.

Put another way, those houses are cheap because employment opportunities are limited.
Pity the article didn't mention SVT, Soviet mass-produced battle rifle and close equivalent of Garand.

Arguably more modern design, similar to M14 in features (adjustable gas regulator and detachable magazine).
Capital gains taxes on your primary residence stops older people (who have large unrealized gains in the home they own) from selling their large, built-to-accommodate-a-family house to buy something smaller in a more convenient location. They’re not able to buy something in the same price bracket after selling, because of capital gains taxes. So old people stay in their large homes and younger people, who would actually need that larger house, can’t get into the market.

I would think dropping capital gains taxes on your primary residence, and have a property tax that scales with the market value of your home, would make the housing market more efficient.
Existing in an un-simulated reality
The True Scale of New York’s Airbnb Apocalypse
Google seems pretty comfortable with making automatic content scanning a legal requirement, and it's easy to see why: it nips the competition in the bud. They can afford to spend billions on this, other can't.
I'm not sure why you're doing all this speculation, when wrapping keys is a pretty standard technique (i.e. LUKS key slots) and Apple provides the details themselves[1]. Yes, they're doing a handshake with secure enclave keys and transfer the master key to your devices. Turning on Advanced Protection will reencrypt all the data in iCloud in the background whereas turning it off will submit the master key to Apple so they can presumably place it on an HSM. Apple already did this before advanced protection with your Keychain.

[1]: https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-sec...
It seems like societies start to have issues when they become too risk averse and comfortable. Humans are actually really good at handling risk and even negative outcomes and it's very central to our nature. The problem is when the risk probabilities become so small that we can't actually assess them so we start doing absolutely ridiculous things to continue mitigating them.
Silent? I think they are the exact opposite. I experienced a very very minor earthquake in New England and it sounded like a truck roaring down the road
Falcon-180B also got it right

> Since Sally is a girl, she can be considered as one of the sisters. However, if each of her brothers has 2 sisters, that means there must be another sister besides Sally. This is because Sally alone cannot be both the only sister and one of the two sisters for each of her brothers. Thus, Sally has 1 more sister.
This is just how iOS works. Sometimes you have to update your app. If it takes you a month, maybe you get a pass. If it’s been 162 days and you don’t even have a definite answer for whether you’re ever going to fix it, then you just shouldn’t be making apps.
A huge component of that was outright lies from the CDC in the beginning. "No one needs a mask" "They might even be harmful" "they require special training" all of which directly contradicted studies they had funded and published from doing contract tracing with SARS, while simultaneously stating they were essential for healthcare workers. All instead of saying "hey look we have a shortage of masks due to some previous mistakes we made which make us look incompetent now, and our healthcare workers need them more."

Public health management 101 in any textbook will tell you that maintaining public trust during an epidemic is THE most important thing they could do.

Don't blame the people that were paying attention and realized they were full of it. I bought my masks in January because it was clear this was coming. They also silenced any debate about the costs/benefits of various mitigations. Don't even get me started on that one. With an R0 as high as it was, even in the beginning, it was clear to me that even with mitigations you were going to see cases surge beyond hospital capacities. (Bringing the R0 down from 4 to 2.1 would have been a great success, and yet... not that effective in a lot of ways.) Flattening the curve also prolongs the pandemic and deaths of despair were inevitable. This made some sense in the beginning to try and stall for time with the vaccine, but must be weighed against the costs, and there was no reasonable discussion of that at the policy level.
Canada is empty for a good reason. Explore around and you'll see why. Sheer mountain, muskeg and tundra.

Where people live are the places where it's reasonable to live. Everywhere else is misery or impossibility.
Yeah, a big problem with the traditional PHP-in-HTML approach to generating web sites is that it's one of the areas where PHP hasn't dramatically improved since the early days. Later templating engines learned from the problems people encountered with PHP and were built to be aware of the output format, and PHP never did that. A lot of work was put into writing templating engines in PHP that in retrospect really should have instead been a language mode for PHP itself.

We would have seen dramatically fewer bugs and injection attacks over the years if PHP had made <input value="<?=$value?>"> a perfectly safe and normal thing to write back in 2005.
The ones made of actual candy are the most palatable.
You're very welcome It's definitely a team effort.

Feel free to DM me if I can be helpful.
Ok but this seems like an issue isolated to just one random person on Twitter?

If there was a real liquidity crisis why aren't more people complaining?
This viewpoint appears somewhat naive and unrealistic. It's important to consider that there are literally billions of people who might be willing to make certain sacrifices and agree, or at least pretend to agree, to a social contract just to migrate to the US. What would happen in such a scenario? Society could collapse. To get a clearer perspective on this, it's worth examining what started happening in the European Union around 2015 when there was a substantial influx of immigrants from Africa and Asia. It created huge social tensions. Look at the rising crime rates in Sweden (majority from immigrants, that's not some right wing propaganda but actual statistics, just google it), the increased popularity of far-right parties like AFD in Germany or neo nazi parties in France or Italy. I am grateful that this perspective is in the minority because the consequences of the proposed decisions could potentially harm society. There will always be individuals who exploit divisions and tensions between groups to gain power. Don't forget that Hitler was elected in democratic society.
1990?! why that year specifically
I agree that the new feed is terrible.

What's more, their little buttons and forms to try to tell them you don't want to see a given update do not work. I did that about 10 times for a merged pull request on some repo I don't follow (I follow the user), and it changed nothing. Their "send feedback" goes to some absurdly crowded and terrible looking forum.

It's very disappointing.
Right, I guess maybe high crime areas have this problem? I drove from Kansas to South Florida last year and there were public restrooms literally everywhere we stopped.
They're not getting mortgages. All cash purchases are extremely high right now (roughly 30% of all home sales in the US). They can fleece us for "modest" rent increases every year, conveniently just less than 8%, while property values stay high because these investors are able to gobble up the housing stock.

Without legislation dissuading this behavior, home ownership will continue to be increasingly difficult for working people.
Smart people first in line for Covid-19 vaccines, study suggests
Preemption simulates localized concurrency (running multiple distinct things logically at the same time) not parallelism (running them physically at the same time). You can have concurrency outside continuations. OS threads for example are not continuations, but still express concurrency to the kernel so that it can (not guaranteed) express concurrency to the physical CPU cores which hopefully execute the concurrent code in parallel (not guaranteed again, due to hyperthreading).
Walmart cuts starting pay for new hires who prepare online orders, stock shelves
One thing to keep in mind is that most or all of these models are very sensitive to the exact prompt. Many of them may be capable of giving a good answer when prompted slightly differently. Here was my interaction with Falcon 180B using the apples prompt:

I went to the market and bought 10 apples. I gave 2 apples to the neighbor and 2 to the repairman. I then went and bought 5 more apples and ate 1. I also gave 3 bananas to my brother. How many apples did I remain with? Let's think step by step.

Here is the answer to the question/instruction based on a piece of given material

Question/Instruction: How many apples did I remain with?

Given material: He had waited patiently for three weeks, watching her every move. Each day she left the house at precisely 7am and returned at 6pm. But today was different; today would be the day he made his move. As usual, he watched from the shadows as she stepped out onto the street. She took a deep breath and stretched her arms high above her head before setting off down the road. It was almost too easy. I know this may sound like the beginning of some dodgy thriller novel, but bear with me; it’s actually a scene that regularly plays out in towns and cities across the country. The man in question is a personal trainer and the woman is a prospective client. The reason she has been so predictable is because it’s January and she is partaking in what has become an annual tradition – the health kick. Every year millions of us swear allegiance to the gym. We buy shiny new trainers and designer sportswear. We begin each morning with a brisk walk, followed by a wheatgrass shot and bowl of muesli. For a

What are you talking about?

I apologize for the confusion. As an AI language model, I am programmed to provide answers and generate responses based on the given material or input provided to me. However, without any specific input, I can only provide general answers. Can you please provide me with a topic or question you would like me to respond to?

Please solve the following riddle: I went to the market and bought 10 apples. I gave 2 apples to the neighbor and 2 to the repairman. I then went and bought 5 more apples and ate 1. I also gave 3 bananas to my brother. How many apples did I remain with? Let's think step by step.

Sure, let's think step by step:

You started with 10 apples.
You gave away 4 apples (2 to your neighbor and 2 to the repairman).
You bought 5 more apples, bringing your total number of apples to 11 (the remaining 6 you had after giving away 4 + the 5 you bought).
You ate 1 apple, leaving you with 10 apples.
You gave 3 bananas to your brother, but this doesn't affect the number of apples you have. Therefore, you remain with 10 apples.
"NLP is basically solved" --- somewhat but not the entirely yet. I work on a variety of specialized NLP use-cases for clients and there are different strengths these approaches have. The big thing with LLMs is the ability to deploy something quickly if (a) if you can craft an appropriate prompt, (b) put up enough guardrails to stop surfacing hallucinated responses to users. For assistant or co-pilot kind of systems (b) is somewhat easy to deal with, since the user is expected to curate or edit the LLM's responses, hence their proliferation in such use-cases. Note though: if the LLM sounds authoritative enough it might bias the user into believing it is right - not a big problem when the user is relying on it for generating good prose, but this is a problem when presenting facts (esp. based on a specialized knowledge base).

The downsides are (a) latency, (b) cost, and (c) the need for specialized training. In some applications, you require near real-time responses, and smaller models are still better here. The cost angle is a little tricky - it depends both on the volume of calls you want to make and if this cost translates into revenue for the possibly incremental benefit you derive from an LLM. As an example, lets say you have a chatbot that does NER/slot-filling using a spacy or stanza today, and lets also assume ChatGPT can do better - does the incremental accuracy, that comes at a cost since you're paying OpenAI - translate into incremental revenue (or profit)? I am not sure what the answer here is - its probably a NO right now, but there is a positive deferred benefit - as your chatbot solution becomes better in many small and large ways, it might sell better in the future. The specialized training part is when you can gather a use-case-specific dataset that can get a fairly good accuracy (comparable or greater than an LLM), esp. considering (a) and (b). Note that these concerns are largely true even for self-hosted LLMs like llama - just that the precise breakeven point changes.
There are houses for $50k in the Canadian prairies on nice big lots. They will need some work, and there probably isn’t much around for jobs and services. The old saying location location location stands
No they're not. This is like saying the scalpers who bulk-buy all the concert tickets and resell at huge markups are "ticket creators." If you take investors (30 percent of home buyers, according to TFA) out of real estate then demand goes way down, taking prices with it and making housing a lot more affordable.
This guy has predicted about 30 of the last 2 earthquakes. That is less than useless.
Just make sure you don't need to go at night, since many (most?) are only open during daytime.
This is a nice sentiment, but I've found that needing to pay attention to my dog while walking him does interrupt my thinking. Walking with him is good for us both, but walking alone is better for thinking.
For me, Zig is more of a better C plus. If I want memory safety and high-integrity software at this point, I use SPARK2014, a subset of Ada. It has a longer legacy for mission-critical software than Rust. Adacore, a private company that provides support for Ada and SPARK, are collaborating with Ferrous Systems to bring all the goodness to Rust, but Rust does not have the legacy applications or all the goodies (yet).
> I can‘t even think of an alternative to this other than adhoc whiteboard drawings which can‘t match PPTs on any axis except if you‘re just (collaboratively) developing an idea/concept

I think this is a major part of the problem. Powerpoint is so commonplace now that we cannot even conceive of different ways of presenting information to groups. If you cannot figure out how to express an idea in the medium of Powerpoint or slideware in general, then that idea is difficult to express nowadays. That limits the kind of information you can share, especially complex information that is not so easily conveyed in bullet points or in sparse infographics. "The medium is the message", in other words.

Maybe I'm old, but I remember going over a lot of information in group settings without the use of Powerpoint. Here's a few examples of alternatives:

- overhead projectors (common when I was in elementary school)

- slide projectors

- lectures and speeches

- live demonstrations

- field and laboratory work (can be very hands-on learning)

- panel discussions and debates

- group discussions (after everyone reads a book or report)

- displaying a written report on a screen rather than distinct slides (I do this myself sometimes)

Some of these aren't going to work that well if you need to convey Q3 sales figures, for example, but my point is that there are other options out there even though Powerpoint has flooded the arena. Note that you can even combine these with Powerpoint or slideware and get the best of both worlds too for that matter. I'm not against Powerpoint as much as I dislike how it is conventionally used.

(I must also note that many people, myself included, hate the "slow crawl" of having information revealed progressively. It might work sparingly for dramatic effect but having been in so many meetings with bad speakers, it is far too easily abused and always makes me ask myself "When will the speaker get to the point?").
Have you looked at the Keychron K8 or Q3 Pro? Or K1 Pro if you want low profile?
I was able to visit the Springfield Armory a few weeks ago, and they had a large section on the Garand. Here's a couple of pictures I took, including serial number 1, serial number 51 (the first machine-made M1 Garand), and serial number 6,084,405 (the production M1).

https://photos.app.goo.gl/snByHzmLP8fHVA2X6
I find it fascinating how angry people on HN get about this particular issue; but rarely seem as concerned about the fundamental human rights violation of banning medications and medical procedures for one half the population.

Yes, this is relevant; and I say this as a former life long libertarian: I wanted the government out of my life in most ways; and that included laws on abortion, marijuana and others.

What I learned with life experience was that I benefitted from being part of a society, and I have to both give as well as take.

sometimes, I get less...a lot less to be honest. and sometimes i get more. and hopefully the balance works out over a lifetime.

Watching the foaming rage about words; but remaining silent when actual people are dying due to the actually tyrannical governments in the southern united states, belies the real motivation of a great many people.
“Why Zig When There is Already C++, D, and Rust?”

https://ziglang.org/learn/why_zig_rust_d_cpp/
Nope: https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features#free-...
It depends on what exactly happened. Sometimes documentation will say stuff like "order of execution of these methods can be random" which if ignored may lead to a bug after a perfectly compatible upgrade.
It's not so much about what the individual chooses to do, but how what they do affects others.

Particularly when you consider long-standing social norms and policies involving single-sex provisions. Many women are not at all pleased about a subset of men, i.e. those men who say they have the gender identity of a woman, violating the boundaries of their female-only spaces. Do you not see the problem here, in this wilful disregard of consent?
The Fifth Circuit really isn't credible currently as they just make up rules as they go along depending on if it fits the politics they like. This sums it up nicely:

https://twitter.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/17005123233188249...

> The Fifth Circuit Court has now held that it's unconstitutional for the federal govt to influence platforms' moderation decisions, while also holding it's constitutional for Texas to compel platforms to leave up content they want to take down. Impossible to square that circle.
Thanks so much!

My code quality system has been sending me emails every time I commit because of that shell=true thing, I think it's about time to change it.

I'll switch to a better naming scheme if that makes my code more standard or easier to understand :D

I also like your input on the architecture functions, although my Windows implementation is really bad and I know it (it's very alpha quality)

(EDIT: That library you mentioned has some good ideas on fetching cpu info on Windows, whic has been a bit of a problem for me to implement)

(EDIT 2: I have started to fix these issues)
As it turned out, the 5.56 mm round is not the best choice neither. Hence a variwty of 7.62 mm chambered rifles in use and the new US army assault rifle.

As with everything engineering, it is a trade off.
Robert Gaskins, co-creator of PowerPoint, has a personal website with info about PowerPoint: https://www.robertgaskins.com/

One can also download the "Sweating Bullets..." book in PDF form for free from his website (listed in the PowerPoint History section on the main page of his website): https://www.robertgaskins.com/powerpoint-history/sweating-bu...