skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's coming from developers with proprietary backgrounds who want to normalize the running of untrusted proprietary software on the Linux desktop, probably from some appstore with abysmal quality standards like Android and iOS. Contrast this mentality with sticking to Free software you downloaded from the official Debian repos.. why do I need to be protected against that software? I don't. These mobile-like desktop protection schemes are designed to facilitate mobile-like software consumption habits. Fuck all of that!
This is an Australian article, where I am. House prices are, I can confirm, insane.

And I've always wondered whether it isn't a bit of a scam, really. Not a deliberate scam, just one that we've all fallen in to. [0]

People buy a house for $1m and then they're pleased as punch when a few years later it's 'worth' $1.5m.

But what's the point of it being worth $1.5m? Because now if you want to move, the house that you have to buy is worth proportionally more.

So at what point does anyone get to keep the money?! The only ones that win are the banks.

[0]: Except me, because I never bought a house, and now I'm 46 and I rent. :-/
that's a fair point and a useful heuristic
It’s so frustrating when you Google your problem and you read some Google or Apple or Microsoft product support page and see people like this responding. They absolutely never have the solution and it will still be marked as problem solved.
Because the boomers vote and the younger generations do not.
Reading the article, it’s clear this is about a very specialized sort of parasitic buyer looking to reap the residual value from final decline. It’s hard to generalize from this to, “Yay current hot LVT thing!”
Democracy is such an unwieldy, overladen term that it's hard to use in a technical discussion. It means all kinds of different things to all kinds of different people. Sometimes even at the same time.
They still are, anyone claiming we can move away from them is ignorant. They're city folk who have never seriously tried living in a rural area in the US, or had a need for getting to other cities on a regular basis.
> How do you fix it without "fixing" "rich" or "democratic"?

"Democratic" is only a problem under a given set of structural incentives. The problem is those incentives are prevalent.

An example of how to fix this would be to classify zoning restrictions as a taking under the 5th Amendment in the US. So if the government wants to institute a zoning restriction (e.g. on building height), they'd have to pay you the fair market value of the expected rental profits from the extra floors you're not allowed to build but could have if they hadn't taken your right to build them. A democratic government could still enact the restriction, but it would be expensive and therefore rare.

(And it should be expensive because the economic cost is actually that high.)
And we're circling back to these awful thin clients. Man computing is going to suck for worker drones for the next while. WYSE eat your heart out!
I have no clue why, but there are only so many cars and stairs I can identify before giving up.
> That should naturally happen in every democratic, rich society unless it's population plummets right? How do you fix it without "fixing" "rich" or "democratic"?

It will hopefully self-correct as we reach a stage where more than 50% of the voting population can't afford to own a home, which is happening now in the UK. Going to be unpleasant for the people holding the bag when the bubble pops though.

> If you remove "democratic", there will be no NIMBYsm because no one will give a damn what people living in the area want - developers will built as much housing as people will be willing to buy, flooding the market, and prices will fall. Problem "solved".

I don't see NIMBYism as a truly democratic result - rather it's an artifact of our imperfect democracy where only those who can afford to have a registered address in a particular region get to vote there, regardless of how much time they spend there or how much tax they're paying that's spent in that region. There have got to be better ways to get accountability than local vetoes.
If it is possible that to make a simulation which matches our experience, then it is likely possible to make an unbounded number of such simulations. Thus, if such simulations are possible, it is vanishingly unlikely that we are executing directly on the underlying substrate.

If it is not possible, then, well, it's not.

So to a good approximation, the question "do you believe it is more likely than not that we are living in a simulation?" is equivalent to the question "do you believe that a simulation of the phenomenon you have observed is possible?"

And... well, sure, there's not a strong reason to think it's /impossible/, based on the evidence available to us. So, yeah, more likely than not.

Another way of phrasing this: Do you think it's more likely than not that there's some physical law, as yet discovered, that makes high fidelity simulation impossible? Such a law is certainly imaginable (limits on information density, magical-ness of souls, whatever); but if you don't have a reason to believe such a law is likely, then you probably believe we are more likely than not in a simulation.
Japan is a pointless comparison. Their reluctance to expand immigration has nothing to do with their reasonable zoning policies. People try to bash something they got right by bringing up irrelevant things they get wrong.

Your first proposed solution will do the trick just fine. For a long time, NIMBYS pretended that increases in supply of housing would have no effect on rising prices (or worse, somehow raise them!) by labeling it “gentrification”. Now that that argument is defeated, they warn of a crash. But realistically aggressive zoning would probably just slow the rise of prices and modestly decrease them rather than cause a dramatic crash. We know this from the examples of Auckland, New Zealand and Minneapolis.
? Maybe not in cases like this but quite a few times I've googled an issue with a google/microsoft product, found a post on their forums with an answer from a Verified Service Technician or something like that saying "Update your drivers, run sfc /scannow, and turn it off and on again", then run the same search with "reddit" at the end and got an actual answer
PBEM (Play By Email) was (and maybe still is) a big thing in the wargaming space. Long, long ago I was part of a group on USENET and later IRC that organised games of Stars! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars!) with typically a cadence of a few turns per week, or sometimes "blitz" games played onn IRC with several turns per hour.

Quite fun, but needs a community interested in such, and very focused game design. (Specifically, need lots of meaningful decisions to be made each turn, but relatively few turns in a game.)

Stars! was one of many such games back in the day, but I'm pretty sure they're all dead now.
Here’s an m1 guide I found.
https://simonwillison.net/2023/Aug/1/llama-2-mac/

Start with a 7B model then go from there.
I used kobold ai but that didn’t seem too well recommended for macOS.

Raspberry pi 4B can do 3B models or 7B at one question per hour or so for now. Can quantize them for faster but then the answers are worse.
Incorrect. https://sh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sections/piping.html

Just add `_piped=True` to the launch arguments and it'll work as expected where it won't fully buffer the output & wait for the command to complete.
In other words you want to facilitate the bad user habits of Windows, iOS, Android, etc on the Linux desktop. Why do you even want to use the Linux desktop in the first place if you prefer those systems? Stick to what suits you instead of trying to assimilate the niche holdout systems like some sort desktop borg.
“C++ is a language, not a religion.”

I swear Stroustrup said this at the beginning of his EE380 (CS Colloquium) talk at Stanford around 1986. At the time we (grad students) were all C programmers and we were sure that C was the best language evar, at least, better than Pascal, which was the language Stanford used for teaching back then. So we all wanted to see this person who had the temerity to claim that he had improved C and who had the audacity to call it “C++” of all things! Skilling Auditorium was packed. When Stroustrup took the stage, a tense hush fell over the crowd. He said the above line fairly quietly, and everyone burst out laughing, breaking the tension. The rest of the talk was a pretty straightforward explanation of C++ 1.0, and I came away fairly impressed.

Several years later at another talk I asked him to inscribe my copy of the C++ book with that quote. He claimed not to remember it, but he inscribed the book per my request anyway.

I think the quote holds up well.
I'm not replying because I have a solution, but I think what will have to happen at this point is something so catastrophic that we all have to take a collective step back and decide if greed-based economics is right. Lockdowns during Covid enabled us to step back and decide that commuting to a dungeon of an office isn't worth it anymore, and companies are fighting this change tooth and nail. And that's just one tiny aspect of how we live in the West.

For us to get off this mindless hamster wheel of greed, some sort of climate catastrophe has to happen. Something like The Day After Tomorrow will have to affect the world for people to finally sit up and say, wow we let greedy corporations destroy the world we live in. Let's not live like this anymore.

I hate how cynical this sounds but I agree with you - I don't see a positive way out of this anymore.
These conversations focus strictly on the middle class. This ignores the idea that there's always a hungry group from poor families able to earn multiples more than their parents.
Another phrasing I like is 'Bigger Army Diplomacy', from CGPGrey
I'm aware.

Buuttt... you're trying to compare apples (a rack in a DC) to oranges (an AWS Native Solution that spans multiple DCs). And that's before you get into all the AWS bullshit that fucking sucks, but it sucks more to do it yourself.

A Rack in a DC isn't a solution that's useful to people who are in AWS.
And despite some users leaving, is a steady #18 on SimilarWeb.

That's not to say that Reddit has a great, glorious future. But by any quantifiable metrics, Reddit "won."
While this sounds intriguing, I still don't feel great about shoving a screen in front of my two year old--especially when she already seems to be starting to learn to read from books with us. It makes me feel a bit like a Luddite, but I know she'll be hooked on digital devices soon enough.
They should teach one thing to solve in JavaScript (cannot be done in css, useful without impacting accessibility).

Code must pass jslint.com with no warnings. And all the things used like loops and branching should be explained with a few examples.

And you don’t tell them about the other ways to do the same thing. You tell them the one way that uses spaces, double quotes, i+1 and === (they’ll find out about all the wrong ways on their own later). And obviously no Dom shenanigans in these initial lessons.

People must solve something and understand how they did it so they feel good. It’s very easy to teach and nobody does it like this. So people get scared and want typing and OO classes for their this.JavaScript later.
Are these the bonds where you can only buy $10k to $15k per year?

If so, that doesn't solve the problem for anyone who has the problem.
> I think it could also be the case that the adult intelligence level will not be greatly affected by any kind of learning technique or pace during childhood

Judit Polgár’s parents decided to basically test this assumption on their own children - they incorporated chess in their lives from a very early age, and it absolutely shown on their results. Sure, everything has a “nature” element, but the potential from that point can be utilized or wasted, depending on nurture.
In practice, the people that block new housing in the neighbourhood are a handful of crotchety retirees that go to the community meeting and raise a fuss. Most people can’t do that because they have more important things to do all day.

But we know the very vocal opposers don’t represent the true majority because of polling on the issue. For example most people in the Bay Area want to see more construction. And the younger people are and the more they rent, the more in favor they are of it.
Because they are only visible not touchable
Marcus Hutter on his [Marcus' AI Recommendation Page]: "Prince (2023) is the (only excellent) textbook on deep learning."
> So at what point does anyone get to keep the money?!

You get to keep the money when you move to a less expensive area. Or you retire and downsize.
Is Anki just an app or does it mean something else?
Real estate is a very high maintenance investment relative to stocks. The real reason people invest in real estate is because they can walk into a bank and get a low interest rate 30 year loan to buy that investment, which is not going to happen with any other investment class.

People also invest in real estate mostly for the land, not the housing. Land is a scarce resource in growing cities. Demand goes up, supply stays the same. Building high density housing actually makes property more expensive, as it can command higher prices from developers.

If they just wanted to escape inflation on a pure cash investment, real estate isn’t a great way to do that.
The Essential Skills for Being Human
Consciousness is generated when the universe computes by executing conditionals/if statements. All machines are quantum/conscious in their degrees of freedom, even mechanical ones: https://youtu.be/mcedCEhdLk0?si=_ueWQvnW6HQUNxcm

The universe is a min-consciousness/min-decision optimized supercomputer. This is demonstrated by quantum eraser and double slit experiments. If a machine does not distinguish upon certain past histories of incoming information, those histories will be fed as a superposition, effectively avoiding having to compute the dependency. These optimizations run backwards, in a reverse dependency injection style algorithm, which gives credence to Wheeler-Feynman time-reversed absorber theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93Feynman_absorb...

Lower consciousnesses make decisions which are fed as signal to higher consciousnesses. In this way, units like the neocortex can make decisions that are part of a broad conscious zoo of less complex systems, while only being burdened by their specific conditionals to compute.

Because quantum is about information systems, not about particles. It's about machines. And consciousness has always been "hard" for the subject, because they are a computer (E) affixed to memory (Mc^2.) All mass-energy in this universe is neuromorphic, possessing both compute (spirit) and memory (stuff.) Energy is NOT fungible, as all energy is tagged with its entire history of interactions, in the low frequency perturbations clinging to its wave function, effectively weak and old entanglements.

Planck's constant is the cost of compute per unit energy, 10^34 Hz/Joule. By multiplying by c^2, (10^8)^2, we can get Bremmerman's limit, the cost of compute per unit mass, 10^50 Hz/Kg.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit

Humans are self-replicating biochemical decision engines. But no more conscious than other decision making entities. Now, sentience, and self-attention is a different story. But we should at the very least start with understanding that qualia are a mindscape of decision making. There is no such thing as conscious non-action. Consciousness is literally action in physics, energy revolving over time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(physics)
Planck's constant is a measure of quantum action, which effectively is the cost of compute..or rather..the cost of consciousness.
Water vapor becomes ice when you nuke it high enough into the atmosphere.
>The existence of a path forward doesn't mean everybody is going to take it.

Which is not something anyone is even implying?

>This is especially true because the path to long-term success is often the path that's not particularly pleasant in the short-term.

This is just motivational fallacies sprinkled with moral posturing, while somehow ignoring an abundance of mammalian behavioral science.

You may not realize it, but you're already arguing for a caste system.

If you took someone who is "successful" and removed their support structures they would, as has been proven time and time again, fair far worse than their hardened peers in the same position. Inheritors of wealth or people who profit from social networks rarely have the skills and adaptive "augments" necessary to survive in the workplace let alone climb it.

Look at The Vanderbilts as an example. Generations of the family profiteering off workers for literally no constructive purpose, and they lost of all it.

And this happens day in and day out. People cannot climb the social ladder because it is not set up to do so, so a few benefit, even for hundreds of years, while squandering resources. Many people's productive hours and efforts simply go toward enriching some other people, who are not capable of using those acquired resources correctly for many different reasons.

> instead of exercising the discipline/restraint necessary for long-term pleasure.

What's silly about this statement if you took it at face value, and for the sake of argument assumed it was true, the upper echelon of people we are talking about have made this so. They profit from it. And they will continue to push it.
Start writing right before you get eaten by the bear
And from what I understand renters have little/no rights or recourse against greedy landlords (i.e. compared to most G7 countries) who can demand rent increases and/or toss out tenants for very little reason.
This is a very thoughtful and detailed take. Thank you. I was thinking of doing something like client side field level encryption because I personally think the product will be better that way. This type of encryption would protect against data theft even if someone got hold of db access, since they would only see encrypted strings and binary buffers.

It's a good idea to point out to be careful, since getting locked out of your own data would certainly be annoying.
Your civ is not a proper state until it can mint its own coin.

Crypto solve this!

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YMMV but I found sh to be a step function better ergonomically, especially if you want to do anything remotely complex. I just wish that they would standardize it & clean it up to be a bit more pythonic (like command-line arguments as an array & then positional arguments with normal names instead of magic leading `_` positional arguments).
>People don't just get to decide something is an investment

They absolutely do in a democracy in which they (home-owning baby boomers) represent the biggest demographic voting block.
Did they not incorporate it with some of their children? Or what was the control?
I've been surprised that in Chinese education (notorious for memorization) there is no concept of flashcards

I wonder if any Chinese user can tell me what are the standard memorization techniques used

(tangentially, bc of the necessity of learning thousands of characters from what I gather reading levels in children are way behind. Getting to the point where you can read a news paper is a huge effort. Ie. Good memorization is essential to being literate and a functional member of society )
Well put. To extend that — a related reason for me to read is to simply use the author’s thoughts (or a certain flavor of music) as a “prop” for priming me into a certain headspace — so I can actually think about a certain topic. A book might be very useful in this light even if I disagree with a lot of what the author says, if it acts as stimulus for me to develop my own thinking. There isn’t any particular reason to hurry through the book before I’ve had the chance to think deeply enough

Most content is crap and getting through it fast enough doesn’t really increase its value. The right content, otoh, is worth spending a lot of time immersed in.
The answer is that humans have genitalia.

And while that may seem trite, it's really not. you can't separate humans thinking from the underlying hardware.

Until LLM's are able to experience real emotion, and emotion here really means a stick by which to lead the LLM, it will always be different from humans.
Degrees are a lagging indicator. The people who graduated in 2004 started their studies near the peak of the dot-com boom. The trough that followed went below the peak in the mid-80s, meaning that people thought CS less relevant in the mid-2000s than in the early 80s.

And the ambitious STEM graduates (not business/finance graduates) went to finance, because that's where the good jobs were.
i feel this way about twitter since logged out users can't browse tweets anymore. now i can give myself just a tiny bit of friction to break the habit. i still waste time on my phone, but at least it's not quite so effortless now
Only now are we starting to see actual democratic referendums on these topics. For a long time everybody was brainwashed into thinking more construction = “greedy developers”, so nobody treated adding to supply as a possible solution.

But the tide is starting to turn, and in a lot of state/provinces you are starting to see real change it last. British Columbia will soon up zone province-wide for example. And slowly you are starting to see some good initiatives passing in California.
Behaviour by the rest of society is influenced largely by public policy.

In Ireland, investing in Housing/Land is largely one of the best investment assets you can own due to the lack of Capital Gains or Deemed Disposal rules.
Well, I meant individuals don't just get to decide something is an investment. Certainly society as a whole, or even a large bloc of voters can decide something is an investment.
does a snob not turn up their nose? and a snoop is someone who sticks their nose in other people's business. a snake literally sees with its nose... a snare entraps anything that dares to stick its nose in it, and a snack is definitely something you'd smell with your nose (and flavor is mostly scent-based)
So much this. Thinking that only America and the UK matter is something that was forgivable 40 years ago but not today. It’s even more bizarre because of what you point out - emojis don’t make sense if you consider them as single byte arrays. And lastly, even if you only consider input boxes that don’t accept emojis like names or addresses, you have to remember that America is a nation of immigrants. A lot of folks have names that aren’t going to fit in ASCII.

And this stuff actually matters! In a legal, this-will-cost-us-money kind of way! In 2019 a bank in the EU was penalised because they wouldn’t update a customer’s name to include diacritics (like á, è, ô, ü, ç). Their systems couldn’t support the diacritics because it was built in the 90s with an encoding invented in the 60s. Not their fault but they were still penalised. (https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with...)

It is far more important that strings be utf-8 encoded than they be indexable like arrays. Rust gets this right and I hope future languages will too.
I don’t disagree with the sentiment of the author. The runaway cost of owning a home is a huge problem. But what’s the solution? If people are willing to pay a price for a home, that’s what it is worth. Nobody is going to take less for their home. Upzoning or splitting parcels is only really a solution in cities. IMO, it will also just skyrocket the cost of existing SFH which are what people actually want to raise their families in.
> the people that block new housing in the neighbourhood are a a handful of crotchety retirees that go to the community meeting

In suburbs, yes. In cities, it's often misinformed tenants.