skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Homeownership rate has not changed much over the last 60 years. Housing is still affordable overall in the US. It's only some regions that have gone nuts.
This implies that everything is alive since, like I said, we have no way to unequivocally distinguish computation from non-computation. Are the molecular vibrations in a rock actually computing something? How could we possibly tell? What's more, that rock might itself be a processing element of a larger computer and its own processing elements might themselves be computers, so in fact life exists fractally at all levels of magnification.
Space Nerds in Space - spacecraft flight deck simulation game
The issue is that the modern work place markets itself as flexible and fun to blur the boundaries people should be able to maintain.
Before the internet, we were paying realtors for access to the MLS. Not just for sales but for rental properties. My first single-family rental was via a realtor (friend). It was unfindable otherwise.

Beautiful property, near the mountains. Birthed my first son there.
I’m most productive when I’m having fun. There’s always going to be not fun shit. Is on you to find the fun and on the employer to make it possible. Otherwise I’m unable to give my best.
Thank you for sharing your experience! It's awesome to hear what worked, and I see many parallels in our work as well (a manual rule system was key for me to unlock seq2seq and then the rest of the ML chain). By the way, Seq2seq models are still super useful, I've trained and I'm using many in the data pipeline of this project. LLMs are a nuclear hammer and sometimes you just have a teeny tiny nail.

There's also limited commercial value to what I'm working on, but it's a work of passion and I want to be able to speak in my native language to voice assistants (among other objectives).

How did you communicate about it at the time and gather newspaper interest, if you don't mind sharing your experience?
Total taxable income, which depending on your family/health/debt situation can be different from the same base income.
That's essentially what I said.

It's like a knife, it has lots of uses, one of them is to kill people.
Working at Apple was about as fun as I would expect a job to be when I started in 1995. It only got better the first decade working there (as I became more proficient and began to feel I knew what I was doing).

It started to suck though as the company inverted and became top-down again. Management experimented with "agile" development, required a certain percentage of code coverage with BS unit-tests, code reviews became a thing, teams started insisting on style guidelines....

I was just thinking today that I would not recommend to my daughters to go into the software industry. The Golden Age, as far as I'm concerned, came and went. It was long before Covid though.
Here's one idea. Effective land tax drives the sale price to 0, so it may be better to make taxes absolute, not relative to value. When someone wants to give up land because the taxes are too high, they just tell the city government. From that point, the tax goes down over time until someone decides to take the land at the current (absolute) tax rate. The old owner still pays the tax and can use the land in the meantime.
As I understand it, property tax is simple when there's been a recent sale. The complexity comes from a similar issue to land value: no recent sale. In this case it's worse because valuing the land outside of what it's used for is a mess.
Why is this framed negatively as “exploiting”? What is the problem with a business springing up that collects labor pricing information and provides a resource to labor sellers on where the market is indicating more demand for labor?

Right now, labor buyers can buy the same exact information, and as a result, labor sellers are being exploited.
> You zave no idea about energy consumption along a supply chain, if you actually believe any of this.

This has nothing to to with supply chain, but with the fact that the Nederlands and Seattle aren't especially sunny places…
Algaculture
startups are increasingly becoming sources of “small corporate” roles.
> It's a good thing that these are not possible. I want private keys to be non-exportable.

Cool, I guess, but they are never going to be a replacement for passwords as long as that's the case. Ordinary non-techie users are never going to be OK with that.

We couldn't get ordinary users to use real 2FA tokens. You think security people are going to convince them to build a backup system across multiple devices where they duplicate their keys? It's not going to happen.

> The only "transfer" process I want is one where I can use the passkey on one hardware device to authorize in real-time the login on a new device, so that I can then set up a separate passkey on that device. This is fundamentally an application concern and not part of the WebAuthn standard

This is absolutely something that concerns the WebAuthn standard, because a nontrivial number of providers don't support this.

I'm tired of the passkey advocates saying "backup works, you just have to authorize new devices" at the same time they're saying, "it's not our responsibility to ensure that it's possible to authorize new devices." Okay, it's not your responsibility, but then don't pretend that backup works even under the narrow criteria of cloning keys on multiple devices, because even that doesn't actually work.

Amazon above is spitting out an error code that claims it will only support adding one passkey per-provider. If so, that's the FIDO Alliance's problem to solve if the FIDO Alliance is interested in anyone actually using their spec, because my takeaway from Amazon's messaging is that cross-device registration isn't guaranteed to work.
"If a bug crawls inside, a small camera takes a picture and sends it over the internet to a central database. A combination of artificial intelligence software and the human eye confirms whether a bedbug has indeed been caught. If so, a mobile phone alert warning is sent to relevant managers."
With a take home, and honestly any kind of interview, the key is not in the deliverable it's in the discussion about it. To be totally honest as a hiring manager I don't care if a take home was fully written by AI so long as when we discuss the solution the candidate can clearly explain how the code works and why it was written that way. Of course in the case of an AI the why might be flimsy but if it isn't then who cares. The goal is to hire someone who's capable of solving problems and in turn explaining their solutions I don't care who wrote the code.
> Turing-completeness requires the ability to recall an infinite number of bits

It does not. The number of available bits just determines the maximum complexity of the system that can be built.
https://youtu.be/arfEEuf7psc
My parents (and one particular teacher) thought they could improve my handwriting by making me write the alphabet over and over.

It backfired, and my writing got worse. It was painful, not fun, and I didn't care about it. So my sloppy writing got sloppier the more I did it.

Now, I'm realizing that they all failed to teach me to write correctly, probably because they didn't actually know the difference. They all just remembered that their teachers had corrected bad penmanship that way, but without realizing that there was probably additional instruction involved in how to hold the pencil, and how to move the hand and arm properly to get good writing.

I've often thought about working on my handwriting, but there's very little benefit now other than personal pride, and I've got so many other things I want to do.
Transparency also helps to find out that you the foreigner gets paid less
(Misread sorry)
Sharing knowledge, improving code quality, readability and comprehensability, reviewing test efficacy and coverage, validating business requirements and functionality, highlight missing features or edge cases, etc. AI can fulfill this role, but it does so in addition to other automated tools like linters and whatnot; it isn't as of yet a replacement for a human, only an addition.

The better your code is before submitting it for review, the smoother it'll go though. So if it's safe and allowed, by all means, have copilot have a look at your code first. But don't trust that it catches everything.
Down and out: Barclays Bank takes unplanned digital detox, customers not invited
In short: since the EU is trying to introduce legislation to monitor private communication, the author states that it's a moral duty of everyone to start encrypting their communications (instant messaging in particular), as a form of civil disobedience. It works when many (preferably most) people disobey.
Perhaps this perspective varies depending on the market but I don’t really expect the agent to do any negotiating on the price? So long as they’re not actively working with the other side to abuse an elevator or something, I think it’s fine. I just want them to help me get the house. Or sell the house. Do I think that’s worth 3% if my home value? Probably not. It’s strange there’s not flat fee agents.
Because it means I won and everything else lost. "Got mine, fuck you!" Everything is a zero-sum game when you are sufficiently competitive.
https://intuitivejs.info/
I use AI to generate code sometimes but it often doesn’t work as expected. Other times I get just awfully inefficient answer. Someone who has programmed without AI for a few years will spot those things. Someone who doesn’t have any “gut feeling” formed about code and just relies strictly on AI will do awful.

I think your approach is good, I would introduce things that work but are terrible design decisions and have the person interviewing figure out what could be improved.
It will be able to speak http3.
Would you allow employees to subcontract and outsource their work?
This only happens if zoning limits housing supply.

As urban demand goes up, builders are incentivized to keep building denser ...... until equilibrium is reached.

LVT's main benefit is that it helps remove zoning confusion. It makes houses, parking, offices and factories compete on comparable financial ground. And promotes a minimum level of upzoning based on the value of the land. (Usually corresponding to demand for said land)
"Just use passwords" seems too web1-ish I suppose. Having a decent mnemonic solves the problem completely though.
Don't go to Croatian wikipedia. As bad as English wiki might be... oh man.
Sure, they could charge you per view, which is being done indirectly now through ads. You're not entitled to free content no matter how much you think you are.
I want to believe you , but history doesnt seem to follow.

IT is also a rule in many states that independent doctor practices and I believe veterinarians, too, must be owned by the licensed professional (MDs or Vets)

Yet private equity and hospitals are scooping up independent doctor practices left and right

It is a weird concept - you get some kind of medical director, and ownership is never changed, just control changes, the owner charges a management fee to the practice, and voila - you now "own" a doctor's office.

I would absolutely would want to see this arrangement tested, since it goes against the spirit of the law
iTunes doesn't sell lossless music. You can stream lossless music with Apple Music but you can't buy it.
I can’t stand realtors, but even I find this argument disingenuous. The difference is that the “kickbacks” in real estate are all publicly known upfront and offered to any buyer agent, rather than used privately for one agent to get ahead of others like in your other examples.
Hm, reason.com is pretty free speech absolutist...
I was quite surprised when a recruiter correctly guessed my total comp at a medium-sized, private company, with little info on levels.fyi

He got within a few thousand dollars. Respect, you’re good at your job. Also to his credit, I still got a hefty pay bump.
Yes, but more modern. This thing features operating systems old enough that I doubt the protocols it speaks to computers is modern enough to be secure.

I knew these devices were out there, but not every network printer works as well over USB as it does over the network.
From my experience that started long before the pandemic.
Mine hasn't carried it in a couple of years. Maybe they weren't as popular at my store. Next time I'm there, I'll ask them to look in the computer to see which stores carry it.
The structural economy we're creating is one where privacy, autonomy, and software freedom are only for nerds. Everyone else uses services and surrenders all privacy and usually control of their own data.

That's because making software usable is extremely difficult and expensive. If software must be free but services are paid, all the funding goes to make services usable and not software. This results in an ecosystem where only highly technical people can own their own compute.

Is that what we want?

You have to think in a whole-systems way not in terms of single isolated issues. We're making free bricks to build a prison and reasoning that this is fine because bricks should be free and people should be free to build prisons with them.

It might come down to the question of what open source is about. If it's about creating a software ecosystem for nerds to have freedom, I'd argue that it's been successful in that endeavor. If there is any goal of freedom for the rest of humanity, it has been a failure.

Are we a guild that cares only for ourselves and our profession?
Another option:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/04/france-to-depl...
Since they have started blocking invidious instances, I've switched to the Freetube app as a YT client. Work great imo & no dependence on external services/hosts. Hopefully they are not plannign on enforcing WEI soon..
Postdoc career optimism rebounds after COVID in global Nature survey
I have to admit the conclusion I have reached is that threads are the problem not libc.

We really should have embraced a better primitive than "shared memory execution environment"
As a neophyte wordsmith I like discussions of word choice, especially on HN (disappointed to see this flagged).

While I agree in principle, I'm not sure 'confabulating' is doing enough work. My hypothesis is given two words--one more accurate and one less accurate to describe the same phenomena--people will choose the more expansive or imaginative notion. That is, people will choose a word which generates more ideas.

We are in a time of expanding imagination about what LLMs and "AI" will do in the future. By definition 'hallucinating' LLMs are ridiculous, but the thoughts extending from 'hallucinating' label are nevertheless expansive in a similar way to our general overall feelings towards these technologies. Whereas 'confabulation' does nothing for my imagination.
The biggest benefit that biplanes (may) have involves acrobatic flight and wing tricks.

In general one wing wonders work better (and you even say some of the later biplanes not having wings right over each other).
I saw this coming. Weed is basically that - a weed. Plant a seed and 6 months later you have 40-50 pounds at harvest. Plant the correct hybrid seed and it will not spread or pollinate/or by pollinated by another plant. I recall the gps waypoint guy. Canada has huge wilderness areas that have a long summer. Walk in the bushes, plant 3 seeds, set a waypoint, walk on. In ten days you can plant a bunch. Just leave it be, and at harvest time walk your waypoints with an rv and trailer - it will soon be full, and in fact you will have a haul-back and storage problem, and this is where the police used to track these down. Now your 200 way points have given you 10,000 pounds of crop = what now? It has to be dried or it goes moldy.
Currently you can buy assorted weed, dried and sealed in bags for$200 a pound on native reservations. People buy it there(along with cigarettes and gasoline) daily. State police grab a few and scare off many, the smart people use a fat wheeled cart and walk out across the reservation with a cartful to a road 10-15 miles away that is not well patrolled = police eat the easy/fresh donuts of course.
So the aborigines also do online mail order $100 gets you an ounce delivered tax free( an ounce is the max legal private stash) - so the big money market plays all died on the vine. The bootleg crop can match price all the way down to below what the legal ones can match. Just like prohibition - an ecology emerged...
Latest news is Gerard Darmanin, french minister of the interior, is trying to use the latest attack in a french school to ban encryption or at least force encrypted messaging vendors to add backdoors for governments:

https://www.numerama.com/tech/1533652-attaque-a-arras-darman...
Meta (Facebook) actually changed their policy to allow calls for slaughtering the Russians invading Ukraine. It's impossible to set consistent rules on this stuff while satisfying users, advertisers, and politicians.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-facebook-inst...
That sounds ripe for abuse. “Yeah sorry we don’t really want a donut shop” but secretly they just hate the family because they’re gingers.
Some interesting and concerning findings by these researchers. Especially the extent to which this type of intentional distortion remains on Wikipedia due to shortcomings in policy and oversight:

> Even when administrators try to adjudicate on content-related infractions, they often misunderstand the subject matter or condemn the wrong editor. One dramatic instance of administrators completely missing the mark occurred in summer 2019. Icewhiz presented evidence of multiple falsifications to the Arbitration Committee, including Poeticbent's aforementioned insertion of the so-called welcome banner in Białystok, and the fallacies concerning Jewish militias at Stawiski and Radziłów. Icewhiz asked for sanctions against Volunteer Marek, who had both restored the Jewish militia story in the 'Radziłów' article, and defended content borrowed from Mark Paul in the 'History of the Jews in Poland' article. The Arbitration Committee gave this case little attention, tied up as they were with another case (called Fram) taking place at the same time. [...] Moreover, the arbitrators had no expertise in Polish history and little sense of who was in the right. [...]

> The 2019 Arbitration Committee case ended dismally for defenders of historical accuracy. Instead of sanctioning Volunteer Marek for restoring unreliable sources and defending misrepresentations of sources, the administrators accused Icewhiz himself of distortion. Absurdly, they charged him with BLP violations for saying that Ewa Kurek had an 'outlandish interpretation' of the ghettos and that her work was 'questionable from historical and moral points of view,' blind to the fact that these were correct statements based on secondary sources. The arbitrators also claimed that Icewhiz had made an 'ethnically derogatory comment' simply by using the word 'Polocaust' to describe Piotrowski's argument, not realizing that Polish revisionists use this term to assert the equivalence between Polish and Jewish victimhood, and scholars use it to describe such revisionism.

I wonder if this issue generalizes to other topics on Wikipedia, and if so, which ones are similarly adversely affected by arbitration, administrative and policy failures.
I know HN generally discourages frivolous replies, but that was both a good and productive back and forth. Not something you get every day. Thanks!
In the year 2023 tech companies are not "buying" (supply > demand) but "selling" (supply < demand); that means the hiring process should at least be equal in terms of time spent on it. Candidates spend way more time in home assignments (hours to days), while companies spend in the order of minutes to review the assigments. We think this is "normal" because "the company is OFFERING you a job"... that couldn't be less true nowadays, it is "me the one CONSIDERING working for your company". A big difference.
Because that information has benefits for labor as a whole. Conversely, "I want my salary to be a secret" isn't a good reason to keep it private and I don't see any good reason why it nerds to be private. Nobody is asking for what you jack off to, because it isn't relevant for salary negotiations and it's actually something that's reasonably expected to remain private. Nobody is asking about the rest of your life. Why are you so defensive?
I understand that cities will sometimes raise the property tax to increase the affluence of a certain area, but this makes me wonder if insurance companies might do the same thing.
The server can trust that once the user is registered, they’ll be able to detect any key change. After registration, MitM is as you say not possible. And I agree that if the private key came from the hardware token itself, switching back to a password manager without telling the server is impossible, because we’d have to change our private key.

First though, the user must register their key. My claim here is that without a PKI (the sister thread speaks of what I think of attestations) the server has now way to tell where that new key comes from. Could be a hardware token, could be derived from `/dev/urandom`.

This is where it gets interesting: we could generate the user’s key outside the hardware token and copy it somewhere safe¹. The hardware token would then encrypt that key, and we’d keep that encrypted blob somewhere convenient (we don’t care if the blob leaks). Before the token does its end of the protocol, it must first decrypt the blob and extract the key (for internal use only). If we lose the token, we can switch back to a password manager (or set up a new hardware token) by retrieving the original key from its safe location. Since we didn’t change the key, the server doesn’t have to know.

[1] The definition of "somewhere safe" is is left as an exercise for Bruce Schneier. Me, I’ll just wave my hands.
When you are a company that builds core software services algorithms are actually important and not proxies, and can be studied and learnt by heart. For most software companies algorithms they are irrelevant since they are glorified CRUD shops. What google ended up with that workforce, is a percentage of failed projects (in terms of real world business value and longevity)) that would have brought other software companies to their knees. Google produces nice languages and frameworks tho.

They really need to hire less geeky people (disclaimer, also geek but with self awareness). We hire a percentage of people whose first degree is not programming and have formed relevant career paths.
How about ten?
> The commission they get is too high though.

I concur! The amount of work they need to do has declined significantly since the days of faxing and phone calls (now most tours are scheduled via app, and the MLS database is easily searchable), and yet their commissions are still a percentage. Oh, and they are a percentage of assets that have gone up way faster than inflation!
>>right place (like a desert)

The panels are less efficient when it is hot, so at summer Denmark is the right place. They are even using solar on Svalbard [0] with good results 9 months a year

[0]https://nordregioprojects.org/blog/2019/11/28/archipelago-of...
Ftfa “I have been looking for over a year now. 25 years in IT. Sent out more than 900 applications. …”

Just some advice to those starting a career. You need to build a professional network. After 25 years a new job should be a phone call or cup of coffee away. You should never even have to think about applications after two decades in the industry.
many religious interpretations of "living" is that it's magic and beyond the grasp of science. it basically boils down to if you believe that life is an inherent property of matter or if you believe that some magic entity makes things live. i know there's a huge gradient in between for most people, but at least for me, i think that might be the root cause (besides a gazillion other reasons) of being an atheist.