skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Homeownership rate over time has moved around within a fairly narrow range.

I don't think your graph says what you think it says.

The graph shows a time series of the rate of homes which are owner-occupied to those that aren't. When the average Joe buys a house, they tend to stick with it for life. However, the graph you linked clearly shows this rate plummeting from 2004 to 2016, with the nosedive amounting to around 6%.

This means that in a short span of a decade, the amount of home owners living in their own home dropped 10%.

You have a small spike around 2020 which I bet was caused by WFO allowing people to live in places cheap enough that they could finally afford their home, but that stagnated already.

Also, it's interesting how such a meteoric drop happens in an indicator that tracks home ownership, which is something people do for life. You need a very radical change in the people's ability to afford a house to see so many people stop affording them in such a quick timespan.
Decentralized systems, peer to peer, Blockchain, smart contracts, are all important technologies with real use cases. It is not accurate to refer to any of them as simply "crypto" especially in this context.
There's an enormous difference between things you "value", and economic value.

We probably value air more than anything else, but it's worthless.

Economic value = demand / supply. Simple.

It can be useful to think of economic value as a more abstract form of energy - a "monetary energy" - with the same conservation-of-energy properties. For example, if I create a TV that's better than all the existing TVs, the economic value of my TV is sucked from all the existing TVs which are suddenly worth less and contain less economic value.
> The question is whether they should have the right to seize the surveillance footage by force if the proprietors would rather protect the privacy of their users.

If there was a crime committed outside your home and you have surveillance footage that has captured passers by, you would not offer it to the police because you would rather protect the privacy of the all the anonymous passers by when one of them is likely the culprit?

That strikes me as highly unlikely. And if you wouldn’t, I am willing to bet that most people would. Why care about the privacy of anonymous passers by when you can help catch the perpetrator and increase safety around your home?
That's my guess too. Emad teased SD3 while it looked like he was looking for more money, but without convincing rationale for not releasing it already. The samples may have been heavily cherry-picked, we don't know if it's actually a decent model in practice.
Disclosure: I'm a former agnostic, now Christian.

A person could have a well-founded belief in God without seeing him as Abraham did. What if someone in the early church had seen apostolic miracles and talked to an eyewitness of the resurrected Jesus? Would it still be a "leap of faith" for them to believe in God and his promises? I would say not. So I don't think verse 6 "requires some kind of leap of faith" in the sense you're using it.

I think such a person would still need faith, per verse 6, to put their justified belief into action in critical moments, e.g. at a moment when they're facing persecution for following Jesus.

Now, how much of a "leap of faith" is required given the evidence really available to believers then and now... that's the big question about which we presumably disagree.
That’s not what’s being suggested at all though. The problem with sarcasm is it’s boring but feels oh so clever to the person who writes it.
> CSS Zen Garden

Wow, you just stirred some ancient memories!
Never had the chance to use Quickwit at a $DAYJOB (yet?), but I really appreciate the fact that it scales down quite well too. Currently running it on my homelab, after a number of small annoyances using Loki in a single-node cluster, and it's been working very well with very reasonable resource usage.

I also decide to use Tantivy (the rust library powering/written by Quickwit) for my own bookmarking search tool by embedding it in Elixir, and the API and docs have been quite pleasant to work with. Hats of to the team, looking forward to what's coming next!
By 4K (1080) I meant that a 4K screen has a typical resolution of 3840x2160, which gives you at 2x scale factor an equivalent screen estate as a 1920x1080. That's too little screen estate for me.

The screen you referenced would be even less than that at 2x scaling factor: 1920x900, which is even fewer screen estate.
A 4k ultrawide is not retina, so doesn’t cut it.
Free Electron Programmer
Isn't it completely irrelevant for their development how the fuel is produced? My understanding is that E-fuels are exactly the same as "normal" fuels. They are just produced in a carbon neutral way. You can fly a 50 year old Concord on e-fuels.
I moderate a KC community. There's a lot of young people who like them.
I'd recommend you to read on what exactly these tier 1s are doing. Hint: they provide transport. It's technically impossible for them to control L7 for the most of the apps traffic. But that actually doesn't matter in the context of decentralization. Internet networks are decentralized by design. That doesn't mean though there's no control and regulations, but that's irrelevant - something you don't seem to realize.
You are viewing inflation narrowly from a worker perspective. Inflation is there to also spur economic activity in a way that encourages people to keep their cash moving and invest their money in a similar way to how companies start losing out if they slow down and rest on their laurels (e.g. stop innovating or growing). In any other case people would just start hoarding their cash. So it’s a way to keep the economy chugging just like purposefully keeping a couple of percent of unemployment always there (even if full total employment would be possible). It tends to keep people on the edge, active and moving.

But there are other useful reasons for inflation too. It enables stable expansion of currency and funding of deficits, money printing and overall economic expansion (or funding of wars for political ends) despite all the inconsistencies when allocating this added money supply, and particularly the outright morally bankrupt socialistic rescue of large ”systemically important” banks etc. The same governments that create and manage the money supply may also introduce millions of large deviations and problems with the price formation on goods and services or investment such as IRA sucking the world dry to get all the investment and manufacturing capacity back to the US.

It’s a complex topic, but you have to keep in mind that central banks are the mystical force that keeps this whole game running. If you corrupt this system too much it tends to fail and I’d like to remind that the US Fed is the third central bank attempt in the US alone. It’s just crazy how it is all set up this way and people remain fascinated by it.

In the end it comes down to trust and military firepower and compulsion (as well as tax collection in that currency, i.e. legal tender) to keep everything legitimate and workable… I could go on and on but you get the point.
You are just a cog in the machine, so don’t worry too much if your salary buys you a tad less than before, we gotta work with it somehow and that’s the intention. If you upskill and work hard enough, you can ask for more salary. Or if you’re closer to the source, then you have have nothing to worry about (govt. contracts, even something like large venture capital during the zero interest rate time, or just close and cozy with banks).
SpaceX did it but nowhere like on the timelines they have anticipated. They also expected 4 years from start to Falcon 5 flight - which was cancelled and replaced by Falcon 9 eventually - but it took 8 years and then another 3 years before regular flights and another 5 before reusability started to really work.
So where can I download that thing he took credit for?
I'm glad that the article concluded "No" to it's own headline. Calling SQL "syntactic sugar" is an insult to sugar. The "helpful diagram explaining how the scoping rules work" alone should make people blanch. The language is a syntactic disaster that we've been saddled with out of habit and inertia.
And why would they say "for newsletters AND MAILING LISTS" in their 1-sentence description? You can file a bug report if it's not a mailing list at all.
You're measuring GDP in something that's being devalued by half every ten years through supply expansion.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
I guess that wacat will find a bug in your web application. Am I right?
> I'd consider your rights being violated "punishment."

You are wrong. Punishment is when you impose a penalty as retribution for an offense.
Perhaps the hundreds of millions in VC investment and company value?
Considering how difficult it has become (even pre-COVID) for young people to buy a home, your argument flies in the face of reality, doesn't it?
Nothing worked reliably due to constant industrial action. We had a low-level civil war due to the IRA, with bombings being almost routine. We felt like we would be the first to go if the cold war went hot, due to the strategic importance of the radar base at RAF Fylingdales and the USAF base at Greenham Common. The decade was underscored by a pervasive fear of total societal collapse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles#1970s

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Greenham_Common
Faraday bag is never explained. Perhaps its presence alone makes the keys easier to find.

Didn't someone make a delay switch that would shut down the ignition after a few minutes when it was activated? That way, the thief would stall out at some inconvenient point and flee. Faulty memory? Didn't see such a thing in a quick search.
Most importantly, it's measured using something that is halving in value every ten years.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
I don't think you can be considered a programmer if you can't write your own syscall firmware code in assembly.
How does tar take 4.7s in the benchmark, but Pack takes 1.3s (and 1/7th the size)?

That seems fishy...
The "non-paywall link" did not work me.

This worked instead:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240321143551if_/https://www.ny...
My apologies, the text color is barely legible on my machine. Those details are still minimal though; what versions of software? How much RAM is installed? Why is 7-Zip set to maximum compression but zstd is not? Why is tar.zst not included for a fair comparison of the Pack-specific (SQLite) improvements on top of from the standard solution?
The released image generation models run on consumer GPUs. Even the big LLMs will run on a $3500 Mac with reasonable performance, and the CPU of a dirt cheap machine if you don't care about it being slow, which is sometimes important and sometimes isn't.

Also, things like this are in the works:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39794864

Which will put the system RAM of the new 24-channel PC servers in range of the Nvidia H100 on memory bandwidth, while using commodity DDR5.
Not if you borrow against your assets, using nominal gains to obtain more and more loaned money. That's tax free and with hard assets such as real estate, the nominal gains far outweigh the interest.
Apple vs. US antitrust law: Everything we know so far on the DOJ's iPhone case
This is really interesting. I wish their methodology page talked more about accuracy and blind spots in the system.
Fundamentals of Object Storage in Elixir
> What he is good at is taking other people’s work and putting his name on it, or doing stuff that you can’t check if it’s true.

I have to say, this is a quite common ignorant statement that's said about almost every CEO.

I'm not sure if there's more to it in this particular case, but no, CEOs aren't stealing your work. Similarly, marketers aren't parasites. Designers aren't there to waste your time. Many engineers seem to hold similar belief that others are holding them down or taking advantage of their work. This is just a congnitive bias.
> Blackstone was of the position that no innocent person who was not of sufficient suspicion of committing a crime should be investigated

I expect so. But pretending that's what he was talking about in the quote you were referencing is going to undermine your (our, probably) position with those not already convinced.
A design system for a small startup, I’m helping them writing the UI components
This may sound counter intuitive, but I am befuddled with all these static site generators always CLI. Yet, I delight in static sites.

Why is are all static site generators (that I am aware of) are CLI? What prevent simplistic drag and drop GUI/WYSIWYG that generates those clean static files?

All the static generators I have tested are way over-complicated for the "general public", yet I think static sites are probably the best option for most sites.
> The government is literally asking for that data though? It doesn't really matter why Google wants it, the effect is the same

But it DOES matter, because a conspiracy (which you’re arguing is happening) is when parties make secret plans jointly to commit an unlawful or harmful act. They have to make hose secret plans jointly for it to be a conspiracy. Weaving that narrative without evidence is the definition of a conspiracy theorist.
If it is an order by a court, then i think it is ok. Then it is no mass surveillance and for solving a crime it is useful.

I wonder what kind of video it is. Maybe a shared link, so only people who secretly know about it knew about it, and they have become suspects. Is it mentioned in the forbes article?

And i wonder if people abuse videos on youtube by encrypting the content with a key and the key is then shared.
ISIS claims responsibility for Moscow concert venue attack that killed least 60
Forcing everything to be black and white when we have millions of colors is pretentious af.
What is missing from the article (unless I missed it myself) is why inflation would be desirable in the first place.

There's probably a couple of reasons, some already discussed. Like lowering wages without actually lowering wages.

And inflation is a great tool for governments to "pay off" their debt.

But you have to keep the rate at a level low enough not to cause upheavals. Hence the rates of like 1% or 2%.
https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=3321677578490&w=QNU7VvKkbQ...
Lifestyle worsened significantly, people too poor to have a car had servants in the 50s.

There's also a cultural shift caused by propaganda in the 60s which pushed women to work, increasing the supply of workers and thus lowering the value of work and thus salaries.

Thanks to capitalism and innovation, at least we have some technology to pick up the slack and counteract the government and the top 0.01% stealing from everyone else through economic policies.
I had to make an archiver once (commercial) so I did think about it a bit. I am not sure pack would solve anything for me. It obviously solves the authors usecases but tar has some tricks which I don't want to lose;

* Able to write to a pipe/socket - lets you not waste space or time by writing to disc something that you intend to transmit over a pipe or TCP socket anyhow. It's almost a "virtual" archive and it should be possible to make one that is far too big to fit into memory - because as you send each bit of it you deallocate that memory. At the receiver each bit can be written to disc or extracted and then that memory is reused for the next bit - so the archive never fully "exists" but it does the job of serialising some data. An example could be piping the output of tar to an ssh command which untars it on a remote machine.

* Metadata has to be with the file data - not stuck at the end of the file - because you need to be able to start work without waiting till the file is fully received through your pipe. You don't want to be forced to have space to store the archive and the extracted files (may be a huge archive).

* Choice of compression - lzop is super fast such that using it can sometimes give slightly better performance than writing uncompressed data. OTOH that might not be your concern and XZ might suit you by compressing much more thoroughly. Either way it's very nice to have compression that works across multiple files - which is especially helpful when compressing a lot of small files such as source code.

* Ability to encapsulate - should be able to put the packed data into any imaginable container like an encryption or data transmission protocol without insisting that the entire archive has to be fully read before members can start to be extracted/processed. This is essentially the same as the pipe/socket requirement.

I'm not saying that these things matter to everyone - I have just found them incredibly useful in a few critical situations. The world of ZIP users on Windows seems to be sort of blind to them - thinking firmly in that box.
It needs to be retina as per the article's point.
I agree that SQL syntax is terrible, but for some potentially masochistic reason I still like writing it. It could certainly be done better though and I don’t understand how there hasn’t been more innovation in this space.
Call a masochist but I love me good old SQL. I find most problems with systems I have worked with are the result of managements putting people who never paid attention in database classes in charge. Or maybe nobody really cares about doing a good job. In any case, my professors would have given all the legacy SQL databases that I have come across F-.

The worse part is nobody dares changing anything because it would require application code changes. Don’t blame SQL. Blame incompetent people doing SQL badly.
> No they're not. Which ones will live a day less of their lives?

There are cases like the bombing in Madrid where the US agencies cast out a wide net over possible suspects using data about people who converted to Islam and then used a bad finger print match (which everyone told them was garbage) to terrorize one suspect for weeks. They had no evidence that the guy was involved, they had no evidence that any of their suspects was involved, but they had a narrative and where happy about every bit of data that supported it. Meanwhile Spain convicted the actual bombers.
We also mine gold every year adding to the supply, thereby reducing the price of the current supply.
You can also write allocation free Go, by computing everything on the stack. (Use pprof tool to analyze your code's allocations)

If you want smaller binaries without a runtime or GC bundled, you can try out tinygo [1]

[1] https://github.com/tinygo-org/tinygo
Why is it so important to lower wages and increasing the wealth of bond holders?
Wow much of what he’s saying in that video is a lie with regards to the history of latent diffusion, creating an open source GPT3, etc. Just taking credit for a bunch of work he didn’t have much to do with.
No. If the point hasn’t already landed elaboration is futile.
I'd rather deal with many of the issues the op faces than deal with Microsoft Windows in its current iteration. Fortunately, I don't have to do either.
Try https://getpublii.com
The `big' AI models are trillion parameter models.

The medium sized models like GPT3 and Grok are 185b and 314b respectively.

There is no way for _anyone_ to run these on a sub $50k machine in 2024, and even if you can the token generation speed on CPU is under 0.1 tokens per second.
Uses an LLM to compile natural language to… json? Anyways, you pay per token to compile.

> Building code

> Input $0.06 / 1K tokens

> Output $0.12 / 1K tokens

> This is when you run 'plang build'.
>The ISA has no bearing on security vulnerabilities.

Complexity leads to bugs, some of which are going to be security bugs.

ISAs impose complexity upon implementations. To claim they do not matter would be disingenuous.
Unfortunate name:

dnf info pack

Summary : Convert code into runnable images
URL : https://github.com/buildpacks/pack
License : Apache-2.0 and BSD-2-Clause and BSD-3-Clause and ISC and MIT
Description : pack is a CLI implementation of the Platform Interface Specification
: for Cloud Native Buildpacks.
Personally I'd like to use github.com/webview/webview because they have bindings for a lot of languages (including golang) and use WebkitGTK behind the scenes on e.g. Linux distros.

With go you can embed all your assets and serve them on a local network port where the webview points to, which makes this combination ideal for fullscreen/kiosk like applications on older machines.

I am currently also trying out to build an opinionated UI library where I want to be able to reuse the defined structs on the client side (using web assembly), which would make interaction between clients and servers much easier. Not sure if I'm gonna be happy with it this way, but a man can only dream!
France does it too. Paris Proper has about 2 million people; the Paris metro area is about 10 million. China does it in reverse, they define a "city" which includes mostly farmland and rural areas, artificially upping city population figures.
Honestly, it wouldn't be surprising to see the US government manipulate inflation in such a way that once the debt load becomes unbearable, it just simply inflates away the debt rather than do austerity or a debt jubilee.
> We're on a tech forum known to have some of the best and brightest and visited by tech giants. If anyone can solve this problem, it is us. If we are the ones giving up, then who is there to make things right?

You think the world’s geniuses are hanging out here? The world’s brightest are here and you’re going to inspire them to solve what you frame should be a very high priority? There are much bigger problems to solve.

I really think your vanity is warping your perspective.
The 15% increase in wages is in real terms, meaning it's already been adjusted with inflation. Think of it this way: in nominal terms, wage increase would be 715%.
It's more of a city state encircled by greater London. The City of London has a separate government and rights that predate England, inclusive of the right to opt out of any parliamentary law or ignore the mayor of Greater London. The City of London even considered remaining in the EU after the brexit vote, but it wasn't logistically feasible.
Everything is just syntactic sugar for something else. I'm syntactic sugar for the hydrogen atoms in my body.
At least 16GB isn’t the most you can get.
Just awful. CA regulators just reduced the payback to solar homeowners, PG&E raised rates a lot, making electrical usage more expensive, rather than cheaper.

Of course the PUC wants us all to have giant batteries and solar panels, not exactly the ticket for people scraping by or retired.
Sure, it is, but that doesn't explain how it works. Previous generations made it simple, they did SECDED ECC (or sometimes chipkill) one transfer at a time no matter what the transaction size was. DDR5 EC4 can't do that, so what does it do?

And does EC8 do SECDED one transfer at a time, or does it do something more resilient?

(And sure technically it's up to the memory controller to implement, but are different controllers doing different things with DDR5?)
Thanks! I think im not getting enough nitrate/nitrite. Im pretty allergic to plants so i wondered about this
AI + Crypto bull market is a recipe for grabbing tons of VC money