skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can’t built a “$2k rental”. You can only build a rental that someone will pay for. Landlords are building luxury housing because it’s the only thing that’s profitable right now due to the immensely ridiculous laws that don’t help people. But if an apartment building popped up in downtown SF charging $800/mo, it’s not like only the low income people would live there. Many people living in $3000/mo apartments also want cheaper apartments, which pushes up the price! So you can’t build “cheap apartments” or “luxury apartments”. Only “apartments”. And lots of them.

But if we suddenly built a million “luxury” apartments in each major city, then they couldn’t all charge high prices because there would be a bit of competition for tenants. Prices on the “slightly less luxury but still nice” apartments would have to drop faster.
People basically did remain in the economic class though. The school doesn't have much to do with it. Has class mobility significantly increased since the adoption of mass tertiary education?
Ideally at that income level you’re buying your way into becoming a capitalist. You should be able to make it into the capitalist class in about 10 years with that kind of salary.
It's funny - how the author claimed he got shouted down when he started posting to Blind about the layoffs.

Every single day of the week, people are posting on blind about upcoming RIF's. People have RIF fatigue. It's a case of "boy who cried wolf" and not the fault of the author, that's just how Blind is.
More than once I've copied an entire message, pasted it into Google Keep, selected the bit that I want and pasted that elsewhere, and then deleted the note in Keep. Frustrating.
>Putting a razor blade, a metal bar, a gun, and a bullet on the table and inviting random strangers to do whatever they like, it shouldn't be surprising what happened.

Maybe it's not so surprising that it happened in 1974 Naples, but I would be quite surprised indeed if the same level of violence were reached in, say 2023 Tokyo, Oslo or Bern.

I wonder where all the commenters (you're not the only one) saying this is unsurprising or predictable are from.
Similar experience here. Multiple times, I've pushed an SQL-based queue a couple orders of magnitude past the scale where others say SQL craps out and a distributed solution is an absolute requirement. And the SQL solution is typically simpler, requires fewer compute resources, and easier to support in production.

But, to make it work, you've got to know the database well enough to know that things like SELECT FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED exist in the first place. Which is a kind of knowledge that's getting quite rare these days, because more and more engineers grow up never having known a world where they aren't walled off from their DBMS's true capabilities by a heavyweight ORM.
Kids are using tools like these to learn. Who gets to control the information in these models that are taught? Especially around political topics?

Not an issue now, but maybe in the future if these tools end up becoming full blown replacements of educators and educational resources.
I know this was supposed to be a demonstration of how evil humanity can become. But it failed to show humanity as gravitationally evil. Rather, it was a celebratory joy of how much humanity can be divided, how guilty it can feel, and how courageous or fake are its actions in face of conflict.

This was not art. This was a challenge. And "artist" submitted her life away.
that tends to self-correct. talking to candidates burns alot of time. sure, you can lie and try to get a better outcome. but you also spent precious time buttering them up only to have them walk away in a huff. I'm seeing the same kind of aspirational posts with respect to commutes.
They really have gotten worse and it's incresibly frustrating that DDG seems to ignore the Infosphere (and WikiSimpsons) entirely in favor of the fandom sites.
I would not want to live in a society where governments can enforce desired behavior using Robots.
you can compile with specific plugins and features you need with ./configure and that cuts out most of the dependencies.
The game seems to exist in many countries/languages.

The reason I was including the extension was because these problems people have with websites usually com down to the extensions they use. At least I don't remember a site not working after opening it in private browsing or if that doesn't help a seperate browser with a different engine.
So now we’re playing climate change war?
Ok, that seems like generally a good thing for most of us? His prediction is that employment opportunities will increase, and there will be a much more diverse pool of companies you can choose to work at.
It's likely true. It's also relatively small relative to the amount of money being funneled through the REITs.
Saw a giant billboard with something along the lines of "Apple hosts child sex abuse imagery on iCloud. They are complicit."

Really wonder what groups are putting these up and where they're getting their funding. This was in California. It happens every few years, where organizations try to go after encryption or other privacies under the guise of public safety or "save the kids" type stuff, but I've never seen huge billboards like this before.

Pretty jarring.
The third time this week that I thought about the Roman Empire
Yoko did innovate and this piece might not have existed without her. But that should not take away at all from what Abramovic did. The fact that Beethoven built on the innovations of earlier artists does not diminish Beethoven.
I did not take this path.

I know a Principal engineer who did, and he says it's been very lucrative. This was a guy who ran his own business for many years, wrote a few books and everything, before being hired as principal engineer where I worked at the time. He stuck it out as a principal for a few years before going to sales engineering.

I asked him why the switch and he just said, "You make a lot more money in sales engineering".
The Blackrock issue is overhyped. Saw a post recently showing that the percentages aren’t actually that high, don’t have time to find it now but hope to do so later
>The government should not allow itself to be weaponized against part of the population for the benefit of another.

Great post, but isn't that the definition of government?
I have an old ipad Mini running ios9. there is an app called liveframe and it has integrations with google photos. i have been running it as a picture frame for a couple of years now
Educated at the top schools, perhaps.
I agree, but I also don't want to waste too much of my life chasing SEO. Fortunately, some people find our site.
I imagine nothing happens. It's just an indication of what the company is thinking they're going to pay. This helps people who are bad negotiators from getting into trouble; "And what are your salary requirements?" "....uhhhh... 60k?" "Awesome, we were thinking we'd have to pay at least 100k"
Please don't take my parent comment as a disparagement of your laudable and much-needed effort in this space. I think you and the Element/New Vector team are doing a great job at developing the technology. But if you put aside the federation, VoIP and end-to-end encryption features, Matrix doesn't look great in comparison to other 'platforms' specifically for the user experience of getting a message from A to B.

Even though Matrix is an open protocol, it doesn't even do particularly well for availability of client applications - there are better third-party apps available for various social networks and chat platforms, held to ransom though they are by their centralised overlords. Ironically, after seeing some of the amazing GNOME clients for Reddit and Twitter, for a brief moment I even found myself tempted to register for them just to use the GNOME app! Fractal, for instance, does not elicit a feeling nearly as positive for me, and I've tried multiple times to set it up.

I'm indeed excited about Element X - but it's only available for proprietary operating systems. That's not particularly friendly for OSS communities either, although admittedly miles ahead of Discord.

If there's one thing I would suggest that Matrix does differently, it would be to apply the same philosophy to the whole Matrix ecosystem as Element X: slow down for a year, focus on the polishing the basic functionality of federated chat, and let the third-party clients catch up. I'm proud to have a Matrix ID (@seabass:fosdem.org) and will use Matrix in favour of any other chat system, but it has a long way to go before I will be able to persuade my 'normal' friends and family to join me.
I'm pretty disappointed in this from the Met, although I thought my opinion couldn't go lower of them they have managed it. This is not the US, any use of force by the state against citizens should be scrutinised and if warranted officers should be punished.
There have been alot of FUD about this case from the press and online but the only questions that matters is "Did the officer have reason to believe that their or another persons life was in imminent danger?" A Judge and Jury will decide that as the CPS believe there is a case to answer.
I don't think this is true. The investment value of a house is not its appreciation, but rather its ability to generate income in the form of rent.
Who would be the one to make a complaint about that to begin enforcement action even if that were a thing?
You think even ten years from now, much less 1,000 years from now, whatever LLMs turn into won’t be at least as capable as the best human of following code paths?

We can spin up a million of them and run them at 10,000x speed.
Not managing needs for lots of users because of indecision and/or inflexibility, has always been par for the course in Golang, as they wouldn't and won't introduce greatly requested features without years of careful study and design. And none of that has resulted in an adoption problem (but it indeed did result in a lot of whining). Actually, despite this extremely slow pace to introduce popular features, Go seems to be in very good shape.
She has already performed acts of violence on herself. Acts a good part of her audience most likely has seen and appreciated, why would they go see her otherwise? And among the items were weapons and other instruments of pain. The name "rhythm 0" follows the same pattern as her other performances that involved self-harm.

So yes, I consider it an invitation to harm her.
I place take-out orders as well.
Doesn’t make me a chef.
Yea, this is the only thing I don't like about them, that I can't test them locally.

More generally, is there something like a "on prem cloud" which just replicates say Cloud Tasks (but also other Cloud Apis) using local compute as well as say a local db. For testing / development this would be very cool.
Do any companies use Bitwarden? Are they satisfied with it?

We tried using Keepass but people were resistant to using it. The UI is not very user-friendly for non-technical people.

Keepass also lacks some of the features we would like to have, for example: We would like to push a new user/password to a person's vault (for example let's say IT creates a printer account for a person, we would like to put the account information to the relevant person's vault), or we would like to share a common password among a group of people.

But I am not sure if Bitwarden is a good choice in practice for this kind of things.
We added a steering exception to our Netskope setup for 1Password. All the traffic going there is encrypted twice anyway, once by the app and again my TLS, so inspection doesn’t show you anything interesting.
Caveat: hopefully my experience was a fluke and if I was to repeat it I would get a different outcome. I wouldn't want to judge them based on a single experience.

My last round of interviews they down leveled me, yet I had a lateral offer from Waymo, and other companies upleveled me.

I was interviewing for a specific role, but my interviewers were from areas around the company that gave interview questions relevant to their area but not the area I was interviewing for, and was well outside my expertise. I objectively didn't do as well as other interviews.

Waymo, on the other hand stuck to my strengths in the interview process and was genuinely engaged with me finding a role there that Met my skills (I very regretfully turned the role down).
Yes. Oracle's goal for Java is to monetize it by reducing maintenance by divesting components to the community and focusing on the components that big organizations use (so they will pay for them).

JavaFX was one of the many components that was spun out to the community and now lives as OpenJFX (https://openjfx.io/).

JavaFX would have replaced Swing had it not been for Oracle's change of direction.
Hey, even if it does revert to being finance driven, we still get at least a few sincere "don't be evil" years like we did with Google. I think it's still worthwhile.
That's not a framing issue. The original claim was

> Generally immigrants are job creators and entrepreneurs, and take less from the system than native born people do

And this is (at least in the context of many European countries) not true.

It is not relevant if this is simply because they are poor, and poor people receive a disproportionate amount of social spending.

The observation is that immigration in that case drives up housing demand, while at the same time being a net-negative in financial terms for society.
When you’re done licking Bezo’s boots, go talk to those people you think are “free to become shareholders” (when they live paycheck to paycheck) or free to work elsewhere (when amazon or walmart have shut down the shops that used to be on Main St.).
I feel like this type of language is standard for artists (and startup founders oddly enough). By that I mean they tend to over inflate their scope/impact. This product is going to change the WORLD!! My art is having a huge impact on SOCIETY!!

I think your assessment is correct, but that type of broad/overblown language is not uncommon at all.
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The PoE to USB solution is a "PoE splitter" and they're cheap and very useful. The website says the device has a USB-A connector for power. That's a bit of an odd connector to power a device from (since A is supposed to be a host port). Is that port really an A?
It's currently my 5th result for "minecraft wiki" on Kagi, after I decided to penalize fandom.com's ranking on a whim.

(Also, the 2nd result is an official Mastodon post which mirrors this announcement, so it would be easily discoverable. Not too bad!)

(For Google, it's the 7th result for me, below three different versions of fandom.com).
My impression is that healing from a deeply traumatic episode is much easier when you feel security, openness, and self-love. MDMA provides a big boost to all of these, and therapists were finding it extremely useful in the ~~1960's~~ [edit] 1970's, so it's not surprising that it's finding its way back to serious consideration after years of being pushed to the underground.

BTW the article is a little US-centric; in the UK it's usually called Mandy or MD ("emdee") rather than Molly.
That's explicitly the problem with the definition.

You can "solve" the equation by reducing housing costs, but it is also possible that the "problem" isn't housing costs per se but wage depression, and that the "real" solution is to fix the gross monthly income.
I need to look more into Sanderson's stuff, because the first of his books I cracked open seemed like it was written for an 8 year old. His narrative style is not something I enjoyed. I'm sure he meant it to be whimsical, but to me it just felt jarring and a detraction from the story.
Big fan of cheap.

Main concern: Does it have a Jatco CVT that turns itself into metal shavings? That's supposed to be the issue with FWD Nissans, no?
"Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted" (attributed to Albert Einstein)
Maybe it was about more than just her?
Yea doing that the first time was a pain but FBink is pretty widely supported on these type of devices and really lowers the barrier to entry.
That's not a phone AND she is using a stylus.
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Which performance metric are you looking at for "faster"? Async is cooperative multitasking applied at a different level of abstraction. Much like OS level multitasking it adds overhead, and reduces performance in terms of latency. On the other hand it improves throughput by allowing better resource use.

>don't you havev to allocate that input buffer each time?

Have to? No, you could pre-allocate and reuse buffers. It is less straight forward than the buffer per thread strategy, but possible.
America has commodified every aspect of itself, turning everything into a market. Houses should have strict regulation around who can own them (ie fewer investment schemes), and the fed should have anti-NIMBY laws at a federal level.
I don't think the resolution is the problem with images on e-readers, but the amount of grayscale levels is.

Dithering works brilliantly on these devices. I made a photo frame out of one of these by calling some imagemagick from golang.
I’m having a difficult time finding any mention of rental markets and their impact on housing in the article, as well as the comments here.

Seems like a big part of the context is missing from the discussion.
I don't know about Sam Altman or whatever, but IMO the world is in desperate need of Software Engineers with perspective outside of software.

If your concern is more about whether you can actually get hired, you can.
This is coordinated cost cutting across the largest employers during a time of record profitability. The goal of this is explicitly to use their monopsony power to transfer wealth from the workers to the investors at the expense of product quality (since they will lose some people that they need to keep the lights on).

These firms also happen to hold monopolies in many areas, so the amount of product enshitification the market will bear is practically unlimited.

The wage fixing and enshitification halves of this scheme are probably both in violation of anti-trust law, though enforcement of the law in either way would probably be novel. Here's a long writeup showing how Amazon (accidentally?) pioneered industry-wide wage suppression for minimum-wage workers.

I'm beginning to wonder if twitter was a dry run for the rest of the industry.

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti...

> As one industry analyst noted, “Amazon is almost becoming like the negotiator for all hourly wage workers to a certain extent.”90 It is tempting to argue that this is good for workers. But Amazon is an employer, not a union. While it is true that workers benefit when Amazon enters a labor market, Amazon has every incentive to use its wage leadership to ensure that a cartel wage is maintained rather than the competitive wage.
>>Comparatively, immigrants don’t have the purchasing power to compete, so saying they’re the problem is a weird conclusion to draw.

Who do you think the houses are being rented to? If there is an excess of demand, then it will push up prices or rents or both.
I signed up for Netflix around the time I got my first DVD player in the late 90s. I watched a lot of cool movies I would never have otherwise had access to. It was fun to discover indie and foreign cinema that were not available in my local video rental stores.

When they released streaming it was truly awesome. Not only was the seleciton great, they also had things like the concept of "friends" and you could let your friends see what you watched. The joy of discovering new movies could have gone the way of something like letterboxd except where you can actually see the movies. The Netflix challenge was cool too because it really seemed like they wanted to get you to find the perfect movie for _you_.

But when the studios started to wise up and pull their content they chose the most user-hostile and pessimistic ways of dealing with it. Netflix used to be more than just a content pipe, they added value the form of the recommendation engine and were starting to add value in a social network of sorts. But instead they chose deception to hide the fact that their library was getting hollowed out. They killed off the budding social-media aspect.

I guess content is the foundation upon which you build all of these things and when their content got yanked they had to focus on maximizing viewer experience within those limitations. But a part of me does wonder if I could find something I really like within the huge library of unknown garbage they have. The problem is that they don't seem to care about that kind of experience anymore. So that's why I am no longer a subscriber.
AFAIK most of Google Internal still doesn't run on actual Google Cloud but an internal version that was forked separately.
There is another caveat with swipe in languages that write some words capitalized. The prediction fails to capitalize correctly in the middle of a sentence. The overhead to edit the word to the correct capitalization is so large, that swipe doesn't feel useful at all. A menu entry or gesture to capitalize the selected word would be really handy.
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I can imagine people using these new capabilities to diagnose skin conditions. Should dermatologists be worried?
Very nice. You've made a beautiful looking device. I'll be in touch.
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I've been working on a project pre-ChatGPT, it seems like once ChatGPT was released everyone rapidly came in, explored various tools, and then got frustrated with them and moved on. I even find myself nearly automatically dismissing anything beyond a foundation model.

Is anyone else getting this same impression?

Typically how do environments like this recover long-term?

It seems almost akin to a very publicly failed product launch of a product that ultimately will be the standard.

In situations like this do they typically come back rather steadily or does it take longer to generate public trust again?
> No real consequences

The daddy of no consequences, Elon, himself admits the company is worth way less now. [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/technology/elon-musk-twit...]

Which means the company is probably worth even less than that. [https://apnews.com/article/twitter-fidelity-musk-value]
I'm a dope. And now I can't edit anymore either so it's stuck like this, showing my foolishness to the world in perpetuity :D
The other side of this "scam" is that people are being sold how to "get rich quick" in real estate for $5k seminars (which boil down to "offer people 30% below market value and hope you get people who are dumb/desperate enough to sell").
That wasn't my experience.

I'm a self educated (white male, if that matters) and was actively recruited by Google for a TPM position multiple times.

Honestly, the only reason I'm not working there today is because I wasn't willing to relocate to NYC, and they (strangely) aren't very remote friendly.
Works fine for me and a lot of other people. What other site gets used for official announcements? Democrats still use it
It's not even a "crime problem". It's much more often people expecting their class prejudices to be embodied in the built environment, so that working class/poor/immigrant folks - which has nothing to do with crime, I hasten to add - are not defiling their beautiful suburb.
Other cloud providers.

I did a shootout of 10 vision recognition APIs including AWS and Azure. I had all the other APIs working in under 20 minutes, but Google Cloud took 2 hours just to get authentication working and wound up trashing the Python installation on my machine and forced me to reinstall it.

It’s just not a member of the same probability distribution.

And it is all like that, what is dead easy with competitors is a struggle with Google Cloud because the maze is truly in the mouse.