skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not wrong.

Check out the graphs on this page: https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...

The Home Price to Median Household Income Ratio is higher than it's been in 70 years.

Between 1965 and the year 2000, it fluctuated between 3.5 and 4.5. At the top of the housing bubble in 2008, it hit 6.8. Right now it's at 7.6. And I don't believe the housing price data this index uses (from S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index) considers the cost mortgage interest rates, so the actual cost of ownership is even higher (relative to a low interest rate environment) than this data shows.

The Home Price to Personal Average Income Ratio is a bit different, but tells the same broad picture.
As always there’s a relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/221/
clicks link

"Wittgenstein does not present his arguments in a succinct and linear fashion; instead, he describes particular uses of language, and prompts the reader to contemplate the implications of those uses. As a result, there is considerable dispute about both the nature of the argument and its implications. Indeed, it has become common to talk of private language arguments."

Yeah, sorry, I don't have a hundred hours to spend on some dude who decided to write half of an argument in ten different places. Maybe a link to plato.stanford.edu would've been better.
This is a fantastic research paper, better than 90% of the "real" ones. It's natural science in its purest form, grounded in lived experience.

1. Introduce novel stimulus

2. Observe response

3. Hypothesize about cause

So much of the statistical significance and p-values and citations is oppressive bureaucracy at best, cargo cult busywork at worst. This is the good stuff.
Every image is immediately deleted by the modal after generation
You still have to mess around with a bunch of spaces when you're editing or copy/pasting, and not having exact even numbers makes for ambiguous situations.

Especially if something is 5 levels deep, it's really hard to see if you have 12 or 11 spaces (so 5 levels + 1 space or 6 levels) indentation.
I'm currently building this (plus more) - the happy path of what you're talking about is almost complete. There are fundamental issues preventing what you're talking about being used as a complete replacement for NixLang: you'd need every possible language installed/available on the builder machine in order to build packages, and lazy evaluation would completely break (merely evaluating all of nixpkgs takes hours). So you do ultimately need a primary language. That being said, for devops-like stuff there is no reason to have that limitation.
If 66% of households are in owner-occupied housing, how small is this middle class that can’t afford homes?

Is the median (or even 40th percentile) household not middle class?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
I think that assuming that the people waving Chinese flags are not Chinese without any evidence to support that is a bit of a logic leap.
The NSA Furby Documents
Growing Fruit and Veg in Urban Farms Isn't the Green Choice We Imagine
"We dont need to worry about that because it like a 1 in 100000 chance of occurring"

Proceeds to do millions of transactions a day.
Completely agree. I think the unofficial Steam Status[0] by xPaw[1] is a great example. I never go to the site unless I'm having issues. Between the service stats and the page views section it is really easy to confirm my suspicion that something is on fire at Valve. If it wasn't for this post I wouldn't have known that they had a minor connection issue a few hours ago.

[0]: https://steamstat.us/

[1]: https://xpaw.me/
in approximately 7.5 acres of parking ( assuming 2000 spaces, which is not likely enough, going by 1776 apartments alone )

it may be hard to get that in a below-grade deck
Did you see the authors of the paper?
I think it's just actual assault. Not sure what an attempted assault would look like.
California has approved new zones for Waymo in LA and SF [pdf]
Feedback systems with long delays are going to be easier to destabilize than systems with short feedback cycles.

There's a lot of "memory" in housing prices.

Houses are just about the hardest item to build in America today. You need land, and you cannot make them in a factory. All cost cutting measures have been in materials (to the point where quality is degrading).

Regulations push new players out of the market - increasing prices.

Housing is a social prestige item like health care and education - so that will drive costs up too.

The US will have 100m more people in the coming decades no matter what - so demand will always be high.

Solution? There is none. It's how the power elite want it.
40 years ago: Steve Jobs Unveils the Macintosh
Been patiently waiting here in Sweden to be able to order one.

You got an AMD option now, this is the last hurdle.

(An ergonomic and programmable keyboard ia a dream. Maybe I could mod it myself.)
How is your isp provided router doing the heavy lifting? You’ve turned off IPv6… you won’t be able to reach IPv6 resources.
> Then we hit interest zero, there was nowhere left to go.

Not really. We just had impetus to raise them.
Except you need to build 'boring' 35-50 floor towers that are pre-designed and already have built versions of themselves. That way you can just buy the design and have a few people with prior experience building them to help out.

Not a unique tower that has never been built before, and will have an absurdly high price per square foot.
It's because they can't, the value has been extracted up
The specifics depend on the country you're hiring in.

The cost of working out each country's requirements is significant enough that it's often a lot cheaper to use an employer of record service instead of setting up your own entity.
Wow, that's a great way of describing this! Definitely noted for future use.
Kayak allows customers to filter out Boeing 737 MAX planes
Hiring: Founding Engineer
Hi, hiring for a Founding Engineer / CTO for a stealth dental start-up. Please see JD here - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v63ulhkVerFcAhycmNt0VdXlDNoUh_JiBWujvaaSsWw/edit?usp=sharing and email miles@ivoryguide.com if interested.
That’s a really slow review process. It also prevents reviewers from seeing the bigger picture of how step 1 manifests in step 2. In practice what I’ve seen you end up with both reviews simultaneously referencing each other in the description and once approved you merge 1 and update the pointer in 2 to point to the new merged commit if it changed.

That’s a lot of annoying and sometimes error prone manual bookkeeping that has nothing to do with the engineering work itself
> If the local council and zoning procedures approve it, then maybe, just maybe the people of the city don't mind too much

How are these related? If people in OKC were polled and 90% of them said they didn't want the building in their community, do you think that would stop the building from being approved? That is not the typical relationship between developers, councils and zoning boards, and community members.
I've been saving up for the past 8 years and have got a pretty decent deposit built up but the costs of houses in my area are just so expensive that the deposit barely makes a scratch in the overall mortgage costs and I wouldn't be able to afford the mortgage, seems like the more I save up the higher the housing prices go. It absolutely amazes (and infuriates) me that some of the houses I see going for 400-500k now went for 150-200k 10 years ago.
As opposed to real pictures that have nothing to do with the article like we have now? Right now the pictures in the vast majority of news articles, including most in print, are actively misleading. One hopes, with AI pictures they'll go through the trouble of using a prompt related to the article ...
I've seen other projects that market themselves as "wafer scale". https://www.cerebras.net/product-chip/

> I guess it will have to be able to route around broken cores?

Yeah, but you'll also have to route around broken routes, and that starts to get a bit too much chicken-and-egg problem for me.

I guess you could design something akin to error correction codes, meaning you're resilient to X failures. Ex: a 64-bit bus could have physically Single Error Correction, Double Error Detection, which IIRC would be 72 physical wires.

That means any wire can completely fail, but you still have a 64-bit bus (indeed, the 8x error-correction wires could all fail and you'd still have a 64-bit bus).

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At some point, it makes more sense to cut the chips out, test them for reliability. Then cut the router out, and test those for reliability, and then finally glue them together.

On the other hand, doing it all on one wafer has cost savings / manufacturing simplicity. The math is likely difficult for optimizing over costs, production speeds, and so forth.
> I think I know the junctions you’re talking about, near the ASDA right?

Exactly that one, yes.

> I avoid going near Old Kent road in anything except a car

Yeah, I used to cycle it a fair bit 10-15 years ago but I wouldn't bother these days either (plus there are decent cycleway options for avoiding it.)
Is the idea that big players will get tired of paying a license to a company like Qdrant and write their own database? I just don't really see why they would do that - if Qdrant is similar in complexity to any standard DB, it's like asking why doesn't Apple just rip out MySQL and write their own Apple DB.

I can see them replacing it if Qdrant isn't able to scale to their needs - thats why we ended up with Dynamo, Spanner, MyRocks. However its likely that its probably easier to just acquire the team - like Apple did with Foundation - and become project stewards than trying to invent a new datastore to save pennies.
Sounds like if the code is in JavaScript, it would be already broken anyway
This is the problem with terms like this. There are definitions in academia/industry that differentiate between awareness, consciousness, qualia, intelligence, sentience, and more. But these distinctions require some pondering to understand and are divergent from general understanding which treats them as roughly the same thing. For example, consciousness for me is the ability for something to take directed action to affect their surroundings. This means that a robot can be conscious. But now the question for what we’re talking about here is: is it aware? It is possible to display consciousness without awareness (see blindsight studies), but to my knowledge it is not possible to be aware without consciousness. And then we get to sentience, which is still very slippery, and often relies on definitions involving “qualia”, which is also quite slippery.
Because they can't as a result of private equity firms and hedge funds buying houses for investment purposes. Without legislation, people are going to be renting for the rest of their lives like modern day serfs.
No, just follow the guidelines to use the original title, and downvote the "in mice" comments as they are shallow comments that don't add value.
There's a recent Redfin analysis on this. On average, only 16% of homes were affordable for households earning a median income [1]. It's wild how broadly these affordability numbers vary, and just how much less affordable homes are today than they were just 2 years ago.

Ohio must either be a very undesirable state to live in, or they're doing something right to keep house prices relatively reasonable: 3 of the top 5 most affordable cities are in Ohio!

[1] https://www.redfin.com/news/share-of-homes-affordable-new-20...
People jump to interest rates but also forget to include skyrocketing property tax and insurance rates.

You need at least another 200k on top of the home value to have recurring income to pay those bills annually.
Middle class is anybody who is not poor and not rich.

So it is clear from this definition that the lower bound for it is income of $48,500 from what you are not considered poor anymore and upper bound is income of $145,500 from what you are considered rich.

Now the most important consideration is - if a person can't afford a home, then can they really considered to be not poor?
Intro to Embeddings, Vector Databases, and RAG
Hanging on the telephone: Maguire Museum tracks America's disappearing payphones
An intro like this would have been helpful when I was beginning to look in to these subjects. For some reason these topics seemed really disconnected? Hopefully this helps someone out there connect some dots, or approach the subject.
BF Skinner slept in this:

https://archive.org/details/bf-skinner-his-own-best-subject-...
tldr: the article proposes a new way to understand the origin of life. It combines two scientific ideas to explain how life emerges naturally as a part of the universe's evolution. Key concepts include how chemicals interact and support each other to create life, and the idea that life continuously explores new possibilities. The article challenges the traditional view of separating the physical and informational parts of living cells, suggesting a more integrated approach to studying life's beginnings and development.
"As software has eaten the world, it has become integral to every industry and nearly every endeavor in our society. As a result, the governments around the world have become increasingly interested in the implications and how they might regulate the technology.

We believe that advancing technology is critical for humanity’s future, so we will, for the first time, get involved with politics by supporting candidates who align with our vision and values specifically for technology."
I honestly don't get why console makers get a boner at the thought of disallowing third party software.

What do they gain out of this?

With proper security protocols you can sandbox your application well enough that hackers shouldn't be able to get to the OS.

And if they do find an exploit, the vendor can always force an OS upgrade, and prevent downgrades with hardware fuses, with new games requiring the latest OS.

It's not like console vendors aren't doing all this right now.
Yeah I'm in a similar boat on one of the islands and power outages are a much bigger problem for me than the internet speed.
I expect this would still be a problem for this .deb. The package manger is doing the updating which is what causes the problem for Firefox.

The restart notice provides a way for Firefox to signal to the user that the binary on disk doesn't match the binary running. Without the warning Firefox used to randomly crash when creating new processes. The warning allows the user to perform an orderly restart (not great but neither are crashes).

As the parent states the tar.gz will avoid the problem as it uses Mozilla's update process that is used across platform. A minimum set of steps to use the tar.gz are

* Extract tar.gz to somewhere like /opt/firefox/

* Set the permissions so that the user or a group can read, write and execute /opt/firefox/

* Create or copy a Firefox.desktop file [1] and place it in the correct folder [2] so it shows up in your launcher

[1] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/de...
[2] https://specifications.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ar01...
I can afford to buy a house, and I'm middle class.

The trouble is, that house would be in the middle of nowhere, with Starlink being the only viable internet option. Nowhere else is going to have house prices under $200k for something family-livable.
I love them, I have one at work and three at home. I end up standing about 80% of the time and I feel that I'm more productive when I'm standing. When I sit at my desk, I tend to try to get comfortable and slouch a little in my chair, which makes me want to be lazy.

A big plus I found is that at work, it is much easier to show someone a coding problem or something I'm working on if the desk is at the standing height. It's kind of like working on a whiteboard.

Both my wife and I have adjustable desks for our home offices, and my wife doesn't even have a chair with hers, she's always standing.

I was able to get a used one from my last job after they remodeled our offices. I'm going to use that one for my garage workbench. I weigh 230 pounds, and just for fun, I wanted to see if the desk could lift me, so I sat on it and my desk had no problem going up and down multiple times. That made me have the idea it would be a perfect workbench for working on my motorcycle or car parts.
React and Node here.
There's a surprisingly large cohort that believes a matrix layout is ergonomic—as in, "I have an ergonomic keyboard". From my personal use, it's a wash at best—some keys are easier to reach, and others are harder. The worst part is the layout promotes ulnar deviation even more than does a standard keyboard, and ulnar deviation is a major contributor to RSI. (A split matrix-style keyboard would negate the ulnar deviation concerns.)

The Atreus layout, while not a personal favorite (way too much chording, which I found unpleasant and uncomfortable), would seem to be pretty ideal on a laptop, though it does take up a good chunk of space.
I put the tube under a weak stream of water from the sink, so the water pressure blows them out. Then I send the grounds down the drain.
But if they give me the source under the MIT license then I am free to redistribute it.

So while they would be in their right to make a proprietary port it seems like they wouldn't be able to legally release it under MIT. (Or at least not the whole thing, as code that touches Nintendo's API would need more restrictions)
Not literal, unless I've misread this story more than usual.
Core vitals:

Vanilla JS

CSS

HTML

--------

Frameworks:

HTMX[0]

Tailwind CSS[1]

Cash[2]

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Backend:

PHP

NodeJS

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For quick mockups & landing pages:

Webflow[3]

Carrd[4]

--------

Also some no-code SaaS solutions for dealing with tricky stuff like forms

[0] https://htmx.org/

[1] https://tailwindcss.com/

[2] https://kenwheeler.github.io/cash/

[3] https://webflow.com/

[4] https://carrd.co/
I've always wondered why we seem to have implemented a whole programming language in yaml or json for so many CI/CD systems rather than just writing quick python scripts to describe the logic of a particular build step, then MAYBE using a JSON or XML file to enumerate the build steps and their order, like:

build: src/build.py
test: src/test.py
I'm also pretty against DSLs, although they do rarely have uses cases. For an example of why DSLs can be bad, look at Dockerfiles contrasted with Buildah. The former makes tons of assumptions, especially when to perform layer checkpoints. The latter is just a script in Bash or whatever your language of choice.
The notion of "middle class" is a convenient propaganda piece. Turns out most folks consider themselves middle class. So as a politician, you can score easy points by saying scary stuff like "the middle class is disappearing" or "I'm here to help the middle class". The moment you start using more meaningful classifications (for example proletariat, which has a precise definition), you alienate some part of your voterbase. I guess with a term like proletariat there's also the fact that it's one of the scary words that the bad people use, which might turn off voters.
Their scan viewer software now works on mobile devices: https://app.lumafield.com/project/a5a9c7ef-d1c9-426e-9e2a-63...
That's the best thing I've read all day: thank you!!!
$2716 is still 40% of your pretax household income at the median household income of $78k annually. Post tax, if you include all the other home ownership costs (taxes, insurance, upkeep), this comfortably exceeds 50% of your income, which is unaffordable at that income levels.
Unity so much more polished

Unity has Timeline (and Cinemachine)

Unity has Entity Component which is superior for many coders to Godot’s node system

Unity has better 3D

Unity has large bank of answered questions

Unity exports to WebGL

Unity Asset Store Assets are high quality, abundant and cost effective
No, not in my experiences at all. Road rage against non-car traffic seems to be mostly based on the fact that they mildly inconvenient and easy targets. Unfortunately, psychopaths and people with poor impulse control live amongst us and are allowed to drive. Let's be absolutely clear about what's going on here: motorists murder cyclists all the time.
It is not a problem with tech hiring in general, just hiring where there are millions of people lined up down the street vying for the same position. To be sure, the job will still most likely go to a friend or relative, but if you are willing to jump through insane hoops you might also be considered. But it is to be taken as a hint that says: "Unless you are extra super sure that you are so special that we can't turn you down, don't waste your time, or ours."

Most other jobs, including Mom & Pop Tech Co., are happy if anyone applies at all and will take what they can get.
> We're going to have to have a cultural shift towards housing as shelter, not investment.

We can't have this, because a huge fraction of household wealth is tied up in people's houses. If you stop protecting them as investment accounts, you nuke the retirement accounts of 100 million people.

To be clear, I completely agree with you that this system has to be dismantled before it gets worse, and a lot of this supposed wealth is illusory anyway: if your house has a "market value" of $750K but no millennial or zoomer can ever possibly pay that, it's not actually worth $750K. But making it actually happen is going to involve a huge, ugly political fight which you can't just handwave away with "we need to have a cultural shift". There are real material considerations at play here, not just culture.
You're acting like the people posting here don't know that about theories. Language works within contexts, and the context for "confirm" in science reporting tends to be finding strong supporting evidence. Since the discovery of the CMB ruled out a large chunk of the other theories and left the Big Bang as the leading candidate, it obviously fits the finding strong supporting evidence case.

We see similar titles every once in a while when someone does a new kind of test for relativity too.
For further reading this is called the Variability hypothesis, that male ability has higher variance (but not necessarily a higher mean) than female ability: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis

(Not making a judgment as to whether I believe this is true or not)
Hi! I wrote this description. Happy to answer and questions. I'll also comment on the comments!
If you use the metric "price per square foot per person adjusted for inflation" it's not as bad. Part of the problem: household size has been shrinking and house size has been increasing steadily. That effect combined with the decrease of "good blue collar jobs" causes the crunch.
Now that Cerebrus has proven it works, I would love to have an x86 / ARM / NVidia do this. And for best results, onboard one of the memory maker as well. Cerebrus seems to have underestimated memory requirement of LLM. So imagine, 16 H200 GPU along with single digit TB HBM memory stitched together on a single substrate wafer. It seems doable with correct technology.

Go for it China. You are in good track here.
> Then we hit interest zero, there was nowhere left to go

Europe went to negative rates while USA did QE rounds actually.
So we're all agents of Entropy, spinning our circles until we die all in the service of heat death? I don't like it!
This likely doesn't apply to the Switch version due to platform restrictions/technical issues yet to be resolved.
No doubt they used breach corpuses, but the question is how Trello knows that that was all that the attackers submitted to the endpoint.
Making piracy more difficult, primarily.