skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yet the federal US government subsidizes 0% down mortgages:

https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/single-family-hous...

>The Section 502 Guaranteed Loan Program assists approved lenders in providing low- and moderate-income households the opportunity to own adequate, modest, decent, safe and sanitary dwellings as their primary residence in eligible rural areas. Eligible applicants may purchase, build, rehabilitate, improve or relocate a dwelling in an eligible rural area with 100% financing. The program provides a 90% loan note guarantee to approved lenders in order to reduce the risk of extending 100% loans to eligible rural homebuyers – so no money down for those who qualify!

https://www.va.gov/housing-assistance/home-loans/

>For example, nearly 90% of VA-backed loans are made with no down payment.

Not far off are 3.5% down payment mortgages:

https://www.hud.gov/buying/loans
I mean, if not for the Trump connection, Trump Social (a) wouldn't exist, and (b) wouldn't be worth talking about even if it did. Its whole thing is the Trump connection; it is inextricable from it.
Historically?

The 1783 Laki eruption comes to my mind. Back then, a 25km long fissure with 130 vents opened. About 14km3 of lava and 1km3 of tephra was emitted. Lava fountains were estimated to have reached between 800m and 1400m.

Some 20-25% of the population died, 50% of cattle and 50% of the horse population perished.

It is argued that this eruption was the catalyst for the French Revolution, as the amount of emitted gasses caused extreme weather patterns across Europe (and the world) throughout the 1780s leading to famine, diseases and social unrest.

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

In contemporary times, there's the 1973 eruption of Eldfell on the island of Heimaey. It destroyed some 400 homes and led to a temporary evacuation of some 5.300 inhabitants. By 1975, some 80% of the population had returned. Moreover, today it's the foremost fishing center of Island with over 1/3rd of the total fish catch originating from its harbor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldfell
This is one of the classic examples where C++ should clearly have picked Unspecified Behaviour rather than Undefined Behaviour but too late now. Nobody wants UB here, and the set of things CPUs actually might provide is enumerable.

Maybe I should suggest avoiding the same fate for Rust's unchecked_shl and unchecked_shr. (These aren't stabilized yet unlike the safe options and the rotates)
They are obviously talking about the bottles and not the contents of them, which you'd know if you'd read the article.
Ask HN: How did you teach coding to a family member?
What methods did you try? How successful were you?
I heard something about a large competitive programming tournament (i.e. a commercial one) happening at a nearby time to AoC, I think it was that for at least one person.

(I also don't think it's unimaginable; lives change, everyone's going to have a point where they played one year and not the next, most obviously illness, but also life changes like marriage, kids, stressful new job, etc?)
> RAG is quite the hack. All you start with is the question, but why should the documents you need for the answer be similar to the question?

I have always thought that a better RAG system would be to let the LLM use the search in the same way that a human would - think about good keywords and search the needed information iteratively until everything needed is retrieved. I have even wrote a proof of concept: https://github.com/zby/answerbot and wrote a blog post (mostly) about that approach: https://zzbbyy.substack.com/p/design-principles-for-llm-base...
But then I discovered that it is very hard to tell the LLM to both use its reasoning and the search - for example if I ask GPT-4 "What is the weight proportion of oxygen in water? Think step by step" it lays out a very good thought process that takes the facts that it knows about the chemical formula of water, the atomic weights of hydrogen and oxygen and does the math to arrive at the good answer. But if I just add wikipedia search functions to the llm call (https://github.com/zby/answerbot/blob/ea792fbc7a84c6683dc2f3...) even without any additional prompting or examples in the prompt it starts searching and rather blindly - it stops any reasoning and tries to find the final answer in wikipedia instead of looking for the intermediate information - like the chemical formula, the atomic weights. I guess I'll find a workaround that problem with some clever prompting - but this difficulty surprised me.
All depends on the accounts that you follow but I agree that the search function of X is horrible.
Some dude said so publicly.
> get good with AI coding tools can be performing at senior levels

No. They are orthogonal modes of thinking. That said, getting good at prompting LLM is already making people better communicators. That will be a big benefit to seniors as they can use their prompting skills to direct junior staff more efficiently. But better at thinking about the trade offs that senior devs need to think about, nope.
Interesting thought, that the process of rinsing off soap requires more time spent flushing with water, however, due to the nature of solubility, while plain water removes a lot, a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfactant will help remove the rest. Not very much is needed. Your laundry will get just as clean if you do not fill the provided measuring cup with detergent.
Even with HN and Mastodon?
That carries a lot of assumptions - e.g. that the workplace a person is in allows and rewards those things. Some do, some don't. If the workplace doesn't, that's not the fault of the individual employee.

It's also a bit weird to look down on "double dipping" at the individual level but we work in an industry that aspires to do as little as possible and maximize profit at the company level as much as possible.

Many of our employers have or want to have business models where they sell software subscriptions and maximize the revenue for writing the software once. If your employer manages to sell 2x as many subscriptions for the same work, then they're smart and have a great business model. If a person figures out how to juggle several jobs, they're double dipping.

Note: I was brought up to believe in 40 hours work for 40 hours pay, etc. I still believe that, and I wouldn't short my employer in order to hold a second job. But I have held full time jobs plus doing writing on the side. If the view is that a salary entitles an employer to every single productive second of my time, that salary better be amazing.
The problem is that under the current system the gains of automation or other increased productivity do not "trickle down" to workers that are replaced by the AI/shell script. Even to those who create the AI/shell script.

The "hit the beach" part requires that you hide the shell script from the company owners, if by hitting the beach you don't mean picking up empty cans for sustinence.
Not treating infrastructure programs as kickbacks or jobs programs, for one
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Andy Klein from Backblaze here. Your point is a good one in that temperature fluctuation can be an important factor. We actually sample smart stats, which contain the temperature attribute, multiple times a day looking for such changes. The Drives Stats data is captured once a day, so it looks static, but behind the scenes the monitoring is more dynamic.
How can a field that is less than 80 years old wane?
Y’all’s recency bias shows way too strongly. Your definition of junior and senior is purely anecdotal and based around what the brass at your companies “award”. Not to mention the arbitrary conflation of algorithm design and the actual process of writing sustainable code. It’s a show fair of “my way is best”, and science waits for no opinions as such.
If the USA lost the technology then it’s seemingly not important to anyone outside of the flag bragging rights.
I believe that the title is expecting the reader to infer that the measurement is about plastic waste, not water quantity, which commonly is measured in distance.
Show the one where the guy gets caught up in an obscure non-state approved religion, falls down on his luck, but the government steps in & sends him to a retreat to get better. Then he enjoys the rest of his life manufacturing goods in a factory as part of his rehabilitation.
The difference between Blender and Adobe is that the Blender folks actually give a shit if their product is good.
What comes to mind is someone with a tremor that is unable to use classic pointing devices and might have better luck using tab/arrow-key navigation to move through the buttons/menus/etc. From my cursory examination of the product I don't see much support for keyboard navigation, though as a professional tool I'm sure there's a plethora of keyboard shortcuts that one could learn.
Please, contribute to discussion at least.
Yeah, I'm disagreeing with some approaches. For example, in real life the engineer usually knows the constraints of the problem, and can add them himself. More, asking clarifying questions regarding memory versus speed will quite often draw blanks from less-technical consumer. Some aspects of the problem seem artificial - do we need exactly two days visits to be loyal? Exactly two unique pages? What one's going to do tomorrow, when these requirements change? And that would affect the design chosen.

I feel that author filtered out lots of great candidates over this problem, which might be something to pause about. On the other hand, interviewing to get a good signal is indeed a tricky business, so I can sympathize.
Great, now do the Dallas and DeSoto, TX police departments who took down my videos of police brutality and violent home invasions with phony take-down notices to YouTube in addition to destroying my computers and cameras and stealing computer discs with video of their misconduct from the US Mail with the help of (then DeSoto post master Linda H. Norwood.
US Confidence in Higher Education Institutions Continues Long Decline
Unity and MonoGame are not really comparable. Unity is a game engine that is also an IDE, whereas MonoGame is simply a set of libraries.
Why not go back to a Filofax?

I mean search only has to be good enough and maybe a Filofax is good enough or you can make it good enough through progressive change to the way you use it.

This is premised on the fact that you have experience with the tool and have had many years to better learn what works for you since you have used it.

To put it another way, a Filofax might be the simplest thing that might work for you because you can pick up where you left off.

And if nothing else, using a Filofax again will give you a clearer idea of what you don't want (learning from failure)...it might be the case that you like the idea of being a person who maintains a diary/agenda more than the fruits/labor of maintaining one (not maintaining a dairy/agenda currently would be consistent with that).

Anyway, software wise, you could do worse than OneNote (and quite likely better) with the caveat that I am the type of person who likes the idea of being the type of person who is organized on paper more than I like the fruits/labor of being organized on paper.

Good luck.
> but he pointed out that this is more of a feature than a bug -- he likened it to buying and selling physical gold as a store of value

This is a lot of cope and ex post facto justification. "Store of value which can't actually be used for real-world transactions" was absolutely not the rallying cry for Bitcoin for its first many years of existence, and people only pivoted to that when it became undeniable that Bitcoin was not fit for its original intended purpose. If it serves the new purpose well enough, then great, but don't let your friend fool you that everything is going completely according to plan.
If you're only using it incrementally then Replicate and Modal Labs have per-second pricing.

Not sure about HuggingFace though.

Sagemaker supposedly has a Serverless endpoint but haven't looked into it and doubt it would be a good deal since it's AWS.
Arq backup. I have used it before in the past(2-3 years ago) but not using it currently.
Tons of choices: Restic, Borg, Duplicity, Kopia

Though Backblaze is pretty good at what it does and you can set your own encryption key, if that's the concern.
> As long as they perform the tasks of their jobs, why shouldn't they be "getting away with it"?

I'd say it depends a lot on the legal framework of employment contracts. I don't know how it is in the US, but in Germany you sign a contract with your employer stating „I will work X hours a week for you“. It's not about the output.

If you work less than X hours, you commit fraud and breach the contract. Your employer can then fire you for an „important cause” and typical legal protections don't apply. If your employer forces you to work more than X hours without compensating you appropriately, he breaches the contract and you can sue him for that.

So obviously, there have been a lot of legal cases like „Does changing your clothes count as working hours“, „Does driving to a client count as working hours“, „How do working hours need to be tracked“,...
A strategy used by some other car manufacturers during the height of the chip shortage was to limit their production to the highest margin vehicles. It increases the price, but at least provides something for it. That's probably the best and most honest way to handle this kind of demand.
There's always an element of time to money, so your argument and the parent's don't contradict in that the romans might have not been profitable in the near term yet what they created was very profitable in the long term
A few largish “flyover country” cities don’t have many outdoor spaces within a half-day travel that aren’t ugly and generally unpleasant. Wading in a stream? Disgusting mud up to your knees, far deeper than the water was, and an odor that will survive multiple showers despite your being quite certain none of it touched your skin. You learn to avoid all water, because it’s simply gross. “Woods”? Short Mordor-like bunches of trees and if there’s not a well-maintained path you’ll be cutting your way through poison ivy, wicked sticker bushes, and cobwebs every step, while assuredly picking up some ticks. And you’ll be covered in mud if it’s rained in the last 72 hours. You learn to avoid wild areas with trees. Drive a couple counties over to a state park with “falls” in the name? It’s a four-foot drop and more “mud slide” than falls. Nice views as a reward for any of this? LOL.

There are parts of this country that make one long for the emptiness of Kansas. At least there’s a kind of stark beauty in seeing nothing until the Earth curves away at the horizon. And biking on those zero-elevation-change-for-miles arrow-straight country roads can be meditative.
You’re right I would be surprised.
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Again, you're thinking in binaries. Justification is a spectrum. Sometimes you have no evidence, sometimes a little, sometimes a lot.

Historians who only have books to go on have frequently said the accounts they're using should be treated as only that: accounts, not facts about what happened.

For example, even a figure as popular as Socrates is "known" only through the accounts of Plato and Xenophon. What do we know about him? The two accounts are in conflict about many details of his personality. So we can attribute very little in the writings of Plato to actual opinions of Socrates. Scholars treat these books as the opinions of Plato, expressed through dialogues of Socrates.
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> eventually form a tax-producing colony

Money is just a medium for the exchange of goods or services. What would the colony export in order to generate the revenue required to produce said taxes?
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There are many places in the US where the groundwater is contaminated by industrial pollutants, even if it is within the safety limits that have been set. I assume many people think bottled water is safer.
Why Do Interviewers Ask Linked List Questions?
They should research how to send a send a signal faster than light/in the same time as we exist. With the speed of light, as we understand it, we benefit so little just understanding "there is other life".
> But I think the bosses of the world are threatened by OE for a deeper reason — one that goes beyond the numbers. There's something radical that happens to a worker's psychology when they have multiple jobs. If your company is putting a roof over your head, it's hard not to fall into a hustle-culture mentality at work, doing whatever it takes to satisfy your boss... But because the overemployed are no longer wholly dependent on any one employer, each job starts to look a little more disposable — which, if we're being honest, is precisely how many CEOs view their employees.

Interesting take. Having multiple jobs makes each one disposable, leveling the ordinary, tilted relationship between companies and workers, in which the company treats employees as fungible and the employee has to take it. In that sense it seems more honest and equitable to me than the jobs I've had.

For me, when I don't have enough work to fill a day, my reaction is not "gosh, I'd better find more work," it's "I'll go read a book, or work on a project". I'm financially secure, with no family to support. I can't imagine wanting to work more in exchange for more money, and if I get laid off I've got savings to cover it. I have no issue with what these people are doing, but I doubt I'd ever join them.
Mail order steaks endorsed by someone who notoriously prefers his steak improperly cooked seems _extremely easy_ to fuck up.
or s/bottled water/water bottles

EDIT: title was changed.
> But no climate change alarmists are proposing that. Why not?

There are plenty of "climate change alarmists" proposing that. Historically both "green" activists and the corporate profit motive have prevented nuclear deployment (and killed extant nuclear capacity).

> stop thinking that governments can solve problems

Idk, it wasn't corporations who voluntarily chose to stop dumping chemicals into rivers or lead into gasoline. Capitalism is probably the most effective tool to solve 99.999% of problems, but it is not a good tool for the remaining 0.001%, many of which happen to be structurally important, and it's not good for managing its own externalities.
> webgpu in a canvas

Internally that's what Chrome/Firefox are, they render much of html/css on the GPU using OpenGL/DirectX/Vulkan/Metal.

> Do you think wasm has any chance of replacing the whole html/css stuff with just

No, you also need the DOM to enable frameworks like React which are used by a large number of sites.
> A helix-like as opposed to vim-like mode as well

Discussed here: https://github.com/lapce/lapce/issues/281
The VA-backed loans are a benefit for joining the military. It's not exactly charity, but they certainly aren't doing it because it's a good financial investment.

It's actually quite hard to get a low/no money down mortgage, even with those programs, there are limits to the total price of the house, for example.
Generally, tap water in the US doesn't have a pleasant taste, often accompanied by a strong chlorine odor. It's therefore understandable why many people opt for bottled water. Improving filtration or treatment methods seems like the best solution to cut down on the number of bottles.
> There are 750 million people around the world who don't have access to clean water.

What does that have to do with bottled water, again?

In fact, isn't bottled water one of those things we typically send in aid to people with access to clean drinking water?
Looks like a Will Law (of DASH fame) pet project. Interesting to see where it will lead. Seems to have sponsorship from some industry heavyweights Meta, Cisco, Twitch, Google, Akamai, Ericson. But notable absentee is of course: Apple (!)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-moq-transport/
What do you consider "sufficient"? If it's paying you just enough so you can have milk and eggs and bread every day, is that sufficient? Do you really think people would be willing to live a monotonous life for the rest of their lives?

The point of UBI isn't to make it rain so that nobody has to work anymore. It's to make it so that nobody ends up on the streets just because they lost their job for a while. And a pleasant side effect is people will be able to invest more time into finding better jobs, educating themselves in new areas, etc. without fear of going homeless or broke.

I'm not claiming funding isn't an issue (it most definitely is, as are a bunch of other things), but you're mixing up the funding aspect with the motivation aspect, which need not be tied so strongly together.
To be trash-philosophical about it, sometimes we forget the aim of life isn't to get a particular number (the amount of money in our bank account) as high as it can be, like it's a video game score...
Putting the first man or person on the moon was a technical achievement. Putting a person of another identity is not a technical achievement.

If the goal is “but X can do Y too” then there are already women astronauts so goal achieved I guess.
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As a European the "X is a foreign Y" trope in your politics has always amused me. Both of your parties are constantly involved in corrupt foreign dealings (that would be decade-defining scandals in some other countries) and there are never any real consequences.

Nixon and Kissigner went behind the back of the sitting president to torpedo his peace talks with North Vietnam. Basically they commited high treason (secretly conferring with the enemy) and Nixon admitted as much. Decades later Kissinger is still considered a role model of a diplomat in some circles.

That example was picked so as not to kick off a political discussion. I'm
I had this from another medium post I tried to access today. Have they locked down everything recently? Sounds like possible enshittification.
They changed both the title and the article? Or did they move the discussion to a different post? It feels a bit like the Post of Theseus.