skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s way more economically efficient to combine households but I don’t quite get how people individuate in such a culture.

I moved out as soon as I could, and if I hadn’t I don’t think I would have had half the life experience. It’s just hard to do that without any privacy.

It’s not that my parents were tyrannical. It’s more like a chilling effect.
All we had back in my day was our imagination anywars
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/dynamic

China is listed at the #2 dynamic economy and it is common there.

Singapore is listed at #6 and it is common there. Singapore is also substantially richer than the US.
LLMs are going to make a lot of code. The tool will often not be able to fix problems with that code. If anything, this is classic automation expanding a field, we’re going to end up with more programmers and more software, not less.
> It's significant that 20% of that group haven't been able to move away from family.

They may not have wanted to?

It all depends on the individuals, one family member still lives with their parents and everybody seems to be just fine with it. Not everybody wants to start a family of their own and not everybody looks to get away from home right after they turn 18.
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Price discovery of everything Google has yet to disclose to investors. The deals suggest search is much less profitable than indicated in SEC filings.

But also price discovery for competition and content. E.g. Google feeds a ton of Wikipedia content to iOS users through search results. If Wikipedia knew how large the private Apple-Google deal was, maybe they’d ask for a cut or throttle usage.
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Sounds like you just need thicker walls
Ask HN: How to manage autistic developer?
I moved to a new team and after a few months, this coworker that reports to me can't stop giving me trouble. It usually of the communication kind but there are other issues not worth discussing here. We all work remotely.

The point is that, by asking a few people that are close to him, I discovered he has been diagnosed as autistic. These people tell me HR knows it but everyone is afraid of getting sued or something so it's a don't ask don't tell situation. People simply ignored him.

I will be honest, he drives me crazy on a daily basis. But I want to adapt and accommodate his disability to the best that I can. It's not a situation that I ever experienced as a manager but I think I can make it a useful learning experience that works for both sides, hopefully.

Have you been in this situation? Do you have any advice for making his and my life easier?
The Immaterial World: Why Materialism Is an Incomplete Picture of Reality
Throughout my education, I was told that the natural world is a collection of molecules mediated by physical forces. Adherents to this “materialist” view may acknowledge that some dimensions of reality remain hidden, but the governing idea is that we are things. This was certainly the teaching emphasis in medical school, and is is also a common perspective in contemporary philosophy, under which notions about the "soul" or the "spirit" tend to be deprecated.

We will pass over the objection that materialism leans heavily on the laws of physics even though those laws are themselves not physical. How to account for the existence of the laws is left out of the picture. The fact that our inner lives also remain unaccounted for under this scheme is an even bigger objection, but doesn't seem to bother its supporters much (see Daniel Dennett's attempt to argue consciousness away as a sort of epiphenomenon).

Before considering living beings, we can ask: Are physical objects really just a collection of molecules and the forces that bind them?
I don't know anyone who was kicked out of their home at age 18 if that would have made them homeless, so I think you're painting with a broad brush. It definitely happens, but it's not as commonplace as you're making it out to be. I doubt there's much difference between the US and northern Europe on this issue.
So now you are going to give a better citation than the former CEO of AWS and the current CEO of Amazon…
Are you saying that you honestly do?
Of course you are not personally responsible but Jefferson said “The government you elect is the government you deserve.”

With the current political circumstances in free fall, you’d think we would have hit “enlightenment” by now. It can’t be long!
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We don’t, though. See the generational stats in the article. Still living with family at age 22 appears to be more common than not, back to and including the “Boomers”.
This is just unthinkable to me. It seems so cruel, too. I'm the child of an immigrant and the expectation was always: "live at home as long as you need, even if it's forever."

And especially once adult children have their own children, it seems unthinkable to have a baby and a recovering mother in the house without help from grandmother and aunts.
I will forward these to the team.

Sorry for the late reply.
> People keep saying this with zero proof or evidence.

There is so much available data on this subject I assume at this point it is common enough knowledge people don't feel the need to cite sources.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/09/18/you-wat...

https://tv-watches-you.princeton.edu/

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/how-to-t...
Much like how many people predicted we'd all be driving flying cars, the people predicting that coding will be replaced by AI just isn't realistic. Primarily because these AI models can literally only exist as long as there's humans constantly creating code for it to read (see: steal) in the first place.

AI cannot sustain itself trained on AI work. If new languages, engines etc pop up it cannot synthesize new forms of coding without that code having existed in the first place. And most importantly, it cannot fundamentally rationalize about what code does or how it functions.

The more you use it or try to integrate it into your workflow (or worse, have others try to integrate it on their own) the more the inherent flaws of the LLMs come into play.
It’s not the state of the entire economy. It’s one thing: housing prices. Most other economic stats are fine or even good.

Tuition and health care are also problems, but housing cost disease is the one that is most pervasive and affects the most people.

The root cause is mostly a supply problem due to bad zoning, bad regulations, and NIMBYs. This is exacerbated by prolonged extremely low interest rates flooding a constrained market with cash.
It's great seeing all the different approaches people can come up with to do similar things!

I recently worked on a similar side project but took a very different approach. It pretty much was just:

1. A bash script in a Raspberry Pi W that ran `bluetoothctl` once per minute and wrote the raw output for that minute to a file.

2. A systemd process that would ensure the script would get re-run if the process crashed or machine rebooted

3. A separate script that parsed the logs and pushed them to a local sqlite DB that tracked the minute the bluetooth id was found.

4. A daily push to my backup server that stored the sqlite DB

I decided to use systemd and a simple(10loc) bash script since I faced a similar issue to the OP where my pi would crash(although it was purely my fault for messing with a bunch of cables) and I wanted a way to get it running again with the lowest overhead. I also wanted as few dependencies as possible.

I went with SQLite because it made querying for trends and building dashboards simpler and more interesting(and because the real project was the sqlite interface I was building :) )

One thing I learned from running this which also may answer a couple of OPs questions: Apple devices like hiding themselves. The only way I could get my Apple laptops and phones to show up was to keep the bluetooth settings menu open on them. Otherwise, they wouldn't appear to the bluetooth scanner. I can't speak much to whether android devices are 'noisier', but the lack of bluetooth feeds for Apple devices alone cuts out a significant part of the value of bluetooth scanning for crowd sensing, given the market share for Apple devices.
As a philosophical zombie, I believe consciousness is just a myth.
I'd go a bit further with this claim. Most of what's being done in this space is about inventing new retro aesthetics, not about faithfully approximating how things worked in the 1980s and 1990s. For example, color TVs of that era didn't really have pronounced scanlines. They also didn't have thick, lightly-colored, reflective bezels.

I get that it looks cool and makes old games more aesthetically pleasing. But the reality is that we liked these visuals back then because we had much lower standards, not because CRTs had some magical properties that made the games look awesome.
If you believe that's what it actually does, go for it. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/fisa...
I think more people in these comments should read the whole article before responding. The author intentionally takes several turns to arrive at a nuanced view, with a final statement that I think most here would agree with: "Hacking is forever"
I was raised in the American South and grew up knowing it to be normal. That has changed as a norm though, and now when parents get old they move in with/near to whoever can take care of them best.
I don't know what you mean by favor, but I'll take your comment with grace.

I would suggest to anyone that growing up in an alcoholic family doesn't do anyone any favors. My parents so neglected their health that they both died before I turned 20, and before they reached 60. Unfortunately for me, neither had any savings, retirement, or life insurance.
Because if Google doesn't, then it could see its search monopoly evaporate.

The vast majority of rich people in the world use iPhones. In the US/Canada/UK/Australia/Japan and many more rich countries, the iPhone is the most common device - and even within those countries, the iPhone's demographics skew wealthier. iPhone users are a ton more valuable to advertisers than Android users - they have more money and they're willing to pay for premium things.

Let's say Apple switched to Bing. Most users won't know how to change their search settings so Bing will now get 90%+ of iPhone search traffic (and the most valuable search traffic). This puts rocket fuel into Bing's ad business. Advertisers don't just think Google and nothing else. Suddenly, Bing is potentially more important since iPhone (and Mac) users that they want to reach are going through Bing.

This has big implications for Google's ad business beyond just traffic loss. When we're talking about bidding, more bidders push up the price. It's not just about losing the iPhone's traffic. It's also about losing the ad bidders on the other side. If you're a monopoly on search ads and you lose 30% of your search traffic to a competitor, you are probably losing a lot more than 30% of your revenue. This is because part of your revenue exists due to people getting outbid. Let's say that you and I are bidding for the "laptop" keyword. You bid $1 and I bid $2 to outbid you. Google gets $2. If I decide to move my bidding over to Bing, you get the laptop keyword for $1 and Google's revenue is halved for that keyword - and they're only getting 70% as much traffic on top of that. As traffic shifts, bidders will shift. As bidders shift, the amount paid for the traffic still coming to Google could decline in addition to their traffic declining. So it's not just the loss of Apple-device traffic. It's the loss of bidders that drive up the price of ads even when they lose.

And this has knock-on effects for Google's businesses. If Bing's search ads get this rocket fuel, they start getting the attention to take on Google's ad business for publishers. Google has been steering searches to their properties, but all of a sudden Bing could start steering searches to Microsoft owned properties. Maybe LinkedIn figures out how to get people to post videos in a YouTube-competitive way - and with the most valuable traffic being steered toward those videos. Yea, LinkedIn is supposed to be professional, but it's kinda lost a lot of that over time with random click bait already.

Being the default search engine is a powerful position. You might say that you'd use Google no matter what and we're on HN so you probably know how to change the default search engine. Most people would just end up going along with whatever the default is. Google rose to prominence via their search results, but people aren't feeling as happy about Google's search today. Google has kept their dominance by paying to be the default search engine for almost everyone - either by paying Apple and Mozilla or by paying engineers to create Chrome (and putting a lot of marketing money behind it).
Is driving a craft? Is plumbing a craft?

Coding to me is the same to those 'crafts', with GPT it will be done faster and more efficient, that is it.
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At this moment, it is still not possible to do away with people in tech that have "senior" level knowledge and judgements.

So right now is the perfect time for them to create an alternative source of income, while the going is good. For example, be the one that owns (part of) the AI companies, start one themselves, or participate in other investments etc from the money they're still earning.
so, does your sister have plans to have husband and kids?
I know it sucks now and I agree GPT-4 is not a replacement for coders. However the leap between GPT-3 and 4 indicates that by the 6 level, if improvements continue, it'll reach the scope and accuracy we expect from highly paid skilled humans.

It's only a guess people make that AI improvements will stop at some arbitrary point, and since that point seems to always be a few steps down from the skill level of the person making that prediction, I feel there's a bit of bias and ego driven insecurity in those predictions.
I kind of agree, though to be fair, "instant settlement with no protection" is how cash works. There is no mechanism with physical cash transference itself to claw back the money from a scam. You can go talk to the police and they might be able to help, but nobody can go talk to the Lords of Cash and convince them to magically teleport the currency back into your hands.
It is very common here in Gujarat, India. Most of them are employed and live in a joint family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Gujarat
That's part of it. Regular car break-ins and robberies down the block from the gleaming HQs of some big companies are another. Hm, what else?
I've always found it strange that American parents immediately kick out their children at the age of 18

I'm not sure where you got that idea, but that's an inaccurate, incredibly broad generalization. I would say that the historical impetus for kids moving out at 18 has been due to graduating from high school and "going off to college".
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Google's core product is advertising, not search.
Yeah well I don’t get the comparison either, I mean I agree that it is a bit of hyperbole. Gotham City at least has Batman and we don’t have the Joker or The Riddler, but you’re making an intellectual argument against a mood when the city both feels like and is in decline and it isn’t just the crime that has people down although that’s the most visible face of it.

The Mission might be doing a bit better compared to 20 years ago, but three things: 1) neighborhoods concentrated around Market Street feel a lot worse, like the feeling in the TL spreading both northeast to the Embarcadero and southwest towards the Castro worse. 2) The City today is different than the City 20 years ago, as in who is living here and in the workforce is different. People retire, their sheltered kids that barely knew anything except the street outside their door and the route to school grew up and started living on their own with a bunch of roommates or whatever (if they moved out, plenty of them haven’t, a lot of my old schoolmates aren’t doing so great) and people moved in, like a lot of people moved in between 2000 and 2020 and you can see it on the Census. 3) Depending on where you were in the City ten years ago, things were definitely looking on the up and up. Mid-Market was never exactly great, but when new construction was going up and new businesses were entering the area, it felt a lot better than it does now. Now it feels like it’s as bad or worse than 20 years ago, and as I covered in point 2, not everybody here is either going to remember or have been here 20 years ago.

EDIT: Meant to include another point but I forgot. Another major difference between now and basically anywhere 20 years ago too is that 20 years ago, little 0.3MP camera phones were starting to just barely come onto the market. Nowadays everybody has a 4K camera that can capture CD-quality audio so you can hear in HiFi the guy screaming in the background while playing back your vacation in SF. There has been a substantial shift both in the resolution in which we can capture information that’s leagues above what you would have heard from friends at the Office who lived in different neighborhoods and the sheer low latency bandwidth with which we can transmit it.

You can just about doomscroll SF car break-in TikToks as your 9-5 if that’s your jam.
Encountered a paywall so apologies if missing some context, but when you say free time do you mean they live far away and need to drive distances to parks?

I’m American and I’m outside all the time. Walking the dog, or walking with my family, taking my daughter to the playground. I work full time and have a family but easily have time to walk every day.

But maybe “outdoors” here means activities like hiking? If so I think I understand what you mean. That would be something most people could only do on weekends.
Probably since 99% of websites don’t need to pass an “audit”, whatever that means
Here’s an article by the Financial Times demonstrating its real-world impact today: https://archive.is/hlcL2

More capable systems will have a larger impact still.
It's not about that man.

It's about the sacrifice, and what that represents. It's about the tradition.

I would do (just about) anything for my wife, up to and including working arbitrarily hard for an arbitrary rock that she arbitrarily thinks is meaningful and awesome. I don't care about any of those details, and neither should any partner. You should be caring about what she wants.

If your partner wanted a diamond for all those other reasons, and you explained they aren't those things, then your partner wouldn't want a diamond anymore. That's not the case in this hypothetical example.

As the commenter upstream said, be aware of what you are buying, do your research and be knowledgeable, but for God sakes get her what she wants!
Stepping on someone's land marked as "no trespassing" is one thing (and a big thing) in the USA, just walking into someone's house, is B&E if the person wants the yokels to press charges and you didn't have permission. I assume the same is true for cybercrime, especially if you're using the system in a way it wasn't meant to be, especially if it causes damage of some sort.
Most people who are deeply technical and want to work at a startup either already have ideas they're working on, or want to be founding engineer at after a company raises because of a (perceived) lower risk
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Many popular houses in 1920s L.A. were part of a scam
"cos(e) = 1 - e^2, sin(e) = e. I don't know how to justify these values other than the power series identities for sin and cos..."

Isn't that from the definition of cos and sin, even geometrically?
Yep. My mom would be happy for her and any future husband to raise their kids in her house if my sister chose not to move out.
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The whole, “my kids need to learn independence” idea is basically because parents are under financial duress. They’d rather be seen as strict than poor, because it makes them appear to have some power over their lives. Scarcity explains a lot of the policies in poorer areas. Every man for himself brings out the worst in people.
But for hundreds of million people?

Have you ever considered why car ownership increases as countries are getting richer? like in China or India. Car isn't only status symbol, it allows people to move more easily. Public transport is nice but not enough. Car plays an important role, regardless of how negative it's being perceived on HN.
I think that was a product of the post war era (WW2) and is coming to an end. I hope my kids stay with me, I don't want to get too lonely.
Aren't most DEs not solvable analytically? i.e. only a tiny subset are neatly solvable - like precisely manufactured puzzles. In general, for any real problem you encounter "in the wild", numerical methods are the only way to find solutions (which are approximate).

DE theory is still useful for designing frameworks within which numerical methods can operate.

At least, that's my understanding.
Yes. Hotwire is an incredible productivity booster. There can be some lag on waiting for the server to respond in some scenarios but I just drop into Stimulus and perform some manual "optimistic" UI updates -- usually in a just a few lines. I create all my new Rails projects with Tailwind and esbuild and have had no issues whatsoever. The new authentication stuff (generates_token...) is also a huge time saver.
As the son of an alcoholic father: I'm really happy that I didn't grow up there and if he'd have kicked me out if I did that would have been doing me a favor.

So yes, that was meant in a sympathetic way. And my dad too died young, but not quite that young.
its actually another hit on them: they have to chose college nearby so they can live with parents, and not necessary good one which accepted them because of rise in education costs.
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> If they start shrinking development budgets

the outcomes aren't controlled by a reality warping field from these CEO's and CTO's. If dev budgets shrink without actually being justifiable, the software suffers. Those who are made redundant still have their skills, and can offer competing products.
The one that I use it the most for is writing ActiveMigrations while integrating with some of Postgres features. There's a lot of settings that get pass-thru to the DB, but aren't clearly documented. I know it's possible, I just can't remember the syntax.

Same thing with some of the more advanced Model relationships. I just don't write _that_ many relationships, so I tend to forget how Rails wants certain things defined. Since a lot of things rely on config, rather than "normal" runtime code, it can be frustrating to debug. ChatGPT just gets me to the right answer.

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It's also pretty useful at gut checking DB design. There's been a few times where it's suggested a different approach than what I expected and I've preferred it's suggestions.
From what I understand working poor and those on government assistance may not have a choice in keeping adult age children at home. The children might feel pressure to move out because of privacy and limited resources in the home. If they are working their income is included in calculating the amount of assistance received against the household.

There is also the societal pressure to find a place of your own for privacy.

Also if you’re in university you might only have guaranteed room and board first year. I know I didn’t have a choice after my sophomore year. No matter how much I protested I was required to find off campus housing.