skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only a small number ever get the opportunity to go to university at all

In 2022, 56.4% of people living in Germany of a yearly cohort started university (including universities of higher education/Fachhochschule). 51.7% of males, 61.5% of females. 473,665 people (this number includes some foreign students, though) out of a population of aprox. 84 million. All in all, 2,915,700 people studied in Germany. I would not call that number "small".

The student quotient for the US is somewhat higher, but German and foreign systems are often not well comparable, because there are a lot of advanced vocational training programs in Germany outside of university that are equivalent or even better than many university programs in other countries.

[1] Source: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bildun...
The 20-30% of demand you’re citing is your own claim that it’s driven by all cash buyers. I’m not seeing any reason why they would possibly disappear. That class of homebuyers may comprise a smaller portion of demand, but only due to demand growth from mortgage wanters, which again implies lower interest rates.

You’re also conflating demand with quantity demanded, so this chain of reasoning is not correct.
Maintainability is a concern that I haven’t figured out yet :) Right now my plan is to replace my DIY thermostat with off the shelf device suitable for my boiler when we sell the house. All the advanced features will be lost, but this still is the average expected level of automation in the area :)
Yeah, capital accumulation is an inherent quality of capitalism, and accumulated capital then controls the state making so-called regulation impossible. It's only a matter of time.
In Ben Macintyre’s The Spy and The Traitor he goes into detail on Aldrich Ames, a double crossing CIA agent who sold out US soviet assets to the Soviets (which led to 10 being executed) in exchange for Soviet cash. I think Macintyre called it one of the largest betrayals in US history.

He did this because he was struggling with personal debt and his new wife had expensive taste.

Feels like there should be a lesson in there somewhere.
If you are traveling 80 in the left lane while the right lane is locked in at 60 (trucks who are limited to power speed limits), it is simply impossible to travel in the right lane. You are constantly overtaking vehicles, so it works out legally, but, yes, if someone wants to go 90, there is a conflict. Ideally, you wouldn’t cruise in the left lane because there would be room to cruise in the right lane, but higher traffic situations don’t really allow for it (well, not so high that you can’t go 80 in the left lane).

This usually happens when you are approaching a city and are going to get a new lane or two pretty soon anyways.
There is no way to solve the problem without taking out what is causing it somehow. But it should not be the only measure taken.

Saying so, if the problem is money, the groups that made themselves astronomically rich putting directly or indirectly that CO2 there should be the main component of that economic equation. Essentially they created a problem, got rich doing that, but all the rest of the world is the one that should get poor trying to fix it is a bad pattern.
I think now EU member states are allowed to abandon DST if they want to. Nobody has so far, though.
I would probably explicitly ask if they want to know what the episode is about. But only after seeing their confused reaction to the silence after the first answer. And that's a maybe.

If you want to know something, ask it. Not everyone wants (or is able) to bother with deciphering what you think internally.

The person in the article has many issues. But I don't consider giving straight answer to a straight question being one of them.

People expecting others to conform to their way of communication without making an effort to meet others halfway are the main issue.
The most extreme example the world has to offer is not representative of what would happen if the US legalized housing. HK has almost 200x the population density of the US and almost 100x the population density of California.
Sure, but do you have any reason to believe that Firefox has become more secure relative to Chrome since then?
I tend to prefer OnlyOffice, if only because it's open-source (unlike SoftMaker), and has better compatibility with MS Office documents.
There's a desert hiding in the heart of France
Playable works of art.
> There's actually a lot of doubt regarding that

This is the point where you should be providing quality evidence of your opinion.

https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/evidence/

> Sure, so if the CO2 nuts were really serious about helping the planet they'd be organizing to plant massive amounts of trees. Not standing in the middle of highways yelling at people.

I suspect that you haven't really thought through the best way of effecting change and are instead just putting forward a political opinion.
The numbers I’ve seen for this technology are currently it’s about $100/tonne CO2. And it would take 6.9% of global GDP to go net zero.
The root cause is the state or local govt preventing new housing. If there were enough housing, rent fixing wouldn't even make a dent.
The world has many more people like them than you think. The reason for that is the media’s propensity to raise people on pedestal over the smallest things and crash and burn that made-up image. Some people find new tools in that kind of experience. Some people have learned how to raise anyone by crafting a narrative for them with money. And some people become addicted to it and the attention they never got as a child.
It's the first for me. The only way I will ever be able to retire is if I somehow come into a lot of money. As it stands, my retirement looks less like golden years and more like taking matters into my own hands.
The question is then, why not use the native language, or a language where the binding are well-established (and not buggy-as-hell, as is the case with JS)?
A 'low budget' mainframe computer may reach ROI in months
I was counseled years ago to be VERY careful about these conversations. You can’t encourage, or come off as encouraging, any employee to exercise or not — if the bet goes the wrong way (company succeeds but empmdidnt exercise or vice versa) you / the company could be sued and it’s an SEC violation.

One thing you should do is support early exercise (meaning exercise any time, even before you’ve vested; company can repurchase and the same price any unvested shares if you leave). This is especially good for early hires when the price is extremely low and 83(b) means you avoid a tax bill until you sell. In later stage companies this doesn’t help as much though.

I do agree with the author that comp secrecy is not just stupid but destructive.
thanks for the reply！

> Using ollama run llama2:13b on my mac will allow converting in this fashion

okay, i'll have t try this out

> It might not be the best code, but this is true of machine translations as well.

true, one thing im hoping for is some local version of copilot/chatgpt for code where its trained on local libraries and the local project and such (and can translate them in some scenarios)
Yeah, NYC is more like 10x compared to somewhere like New Mexico.

It’s a typical gov’t employment issue. It’s also why so many military bases and gov’t centers (except for HQ type areas) tend to be in the middle of nowhere - the folks who man them can actually afford to live there.

It’s also a huge kickback to Congress/house members (especially conservative ones), since military tends to vote conservative, and those areas also end up quite dependent on military/gov’t funding (Military Town, or industry town).

So they can lock in votes by keeping relatively well paid jobs/income in areas dependent on them doing so, and those people will be relatively happy because compared to other options they do pretty well. Most officers end up owning multiple homes (and renting them out) as they move around the country, for instance. Not sure about now, but even E5s can end up with a house in many of these places, and that’s only like $42k/yr.

The ones that get screwed are the ones low in the totem pole who end up in high COL areas, but those folks are usually pretty ambitious (hence why they are near the HQ/exciting area) and low overhead.
People wonder why there's a lot of people doing that, or they get angry and blame the homeless for it, but here is an example where wages don't cover costs.
Then why are rents going up drastically all over texas, even in small towns where damn near anything can be built?
There certainly are, but I’d recommend making the first priority to look for who is actually going to be your most valuable business partner, their location in my opinion doesn’t really play any role in it. And in my experience a VC with conviction in your business will find a way to invest.
More supply often helps that problem too. It's easier to engage in price-fixing when there are only a few items of supply that are controlled by only a few. Once there are more options, it's much harder to obtain or maintain monopoly control. It's also much harder to hide illegal price-fixing schemes when you need to have tens of thousands of co-conspirators.
I have created a simple geogebra Applet applying your method step by step:
https://www.geogebra.org/m/enztf4s6
> Is this not obvious to others?

Unfortunately it isn't. Most people still need to get from A to B and can't afford a Tesla.
Someone else's info on the issue.
I would think domestic bribes would be far more likely. Less risk to the agent due to less exposure to a high profile failure. If an agent gets pinched for taking bribes from a business owner or a local sheriff, it's not as big of a scandal as if they took foreign money. And probably easier to set up in the first place.
Regulation is the culprit, though. Even if you banned Blackrock, foreign investors, and multiple investment properties, rents would be unchanged because the housing stock is simply deficient near people's workplaces, and it's regulations that prevent that from changing.
Nothing like a little non-sensical writing on a Sunday Morning....
"First, the pigeons pecked most when doing so yielded immediate, rather than delayed, rewards. Second, the pigeons pecked most when it rewarded them randomly, rather than every time"
> they fail to understand that daylight lights don’t have a rear light

As someone who drives in the UK, I didn't know this was a thing. Front and back lights are on at the same time.
If you liked this, you may appreciate much of Einsturzende Neubauten's newer work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einst%C3%BCrzende_Neubauten

(The older stuff involves mutilating shopping carts with power equipment and is more of an acquired taste.)
No. Just accessed it through Norway, Luxembourg, Germany, Finland, and Romania. Not a single problem arose. This is more probably what happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40004163.
Rho-1: Not All Tokens Are What You Need
You: Dynamic programming means saving the results of computations

Me: That's just normal programming, there is no reason to use a term that someone made up in the 60s to as intentionally nonsensical.

You: That will blow up your memory and slow down your program!

What are you talking about here? All I said was that what you described was normal programming. I didn't come up with anything different, we're still talking about whatever you wrote. Somehow now storing data, something that happens in every program ever made, 'blows up memory'.
He's basically trying to say don't fully put your trust in any LLM, even one of the top ones. As you can see from an adjacent comment from someone who speaks the language, it's a closer translation but still not quite right.

> Seems so. I typed in a lowered version now, gives good translation "частный машинный перевод, работая локально на вашем устройстве". (The one you got is a little clumsy ~ "translation of machines")
Could these nix files just become yaml like docker files are? Seems a short stretch from functional to declarative no?
It's also caused by the idea that housing should be an asset to make someone else money, rather than solely a place in which a person/family can live. This leads to the AirBnB culture, the landlord culture, and compounds inequality whilst driving unaffordability.

I'm sure the idea is abhorrent to the USA, but perhaps removing incentives to be a landlord at every step should be considered... mortgages should be punitive on second properties, taxes exorbitant for rented properties, insurance should be unavailable, etc. Housing should experience disintermediation, those in the housing should be the ones owning the housing.

On this site my karma will suffer for saying this out loud, but a persons fundamental right to shelter, food, health... are just not valued in the US above someone else's right to profit from depriving some of shelter, food and health... at every level it's wrong, but yet capitalism seems to demand it.
Sigh, it is always supply and demand. If demand is higher than supply, prices rise.

It is a universal law of economics that people pretend doesn't apply to housing.

In these towns, do you have evidence demand is stable and yet prices rise?

https://scott-wiener.medium.com/yes-supply-demand-apply-to-h...
Wow. I’ve been driving for 20+ years and never realized this is how some people think.
Even the folks working on the specifications now think border-box should have been the default behaviour:

https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes

The only reason it's not is because of backwards compatibility.
> According to the new report by research firm Rhodium Group, the US needs to spend roughly $100 billion a year on CDR in order to scale up to a level that would help the country meet its climate goals.

That's not expensive. That's less than $300 per person per year.

The US spends $800B on military. If $100B were to make a dent in climate change, that's a bargain.

I'd consider the US spending anything short of $1T / year here reasonable, sustainable, and likely economically-beneficial. That's about 3% of GDP, for reference.

The reason for having a military is to be disaster-ready. Even medical spending is something like 1/3 of our GDP, and reducing pollution would help there. Any way you run the numbers, $100B is not much here, and critically, those costs would go down as we invest and technology improves.

I'm very far from the far-left fringe in terms of believing in some of the horror stories around climate change -- the discourse is polarized -- but even taking relatively right-wing estimates of impact, it's hard to see how a spend on that order is not justified.

The problem here is people don't see the difference between large numbers. $5M, $5B, and $5T all simply look "big."
Think of this problem in terms of how many people would need to change the way they do things.

And how many financial interests (with the resources to actively lobby against change) would be affected too.

If you have an obvious answer that takes those two things into account I'd love to hear it!
Equally, reports say that without actively taking CO2 out of the air, we will not meet our climate goals.
This is fallacious.
That blog post is all very sensible until the drive-by on f-strings at the end, I can't begin to understand the rationale for hating them
It sounds like you need a hobby, or some kind of activity that isn't work or to make money. Others suggested volunteer work, but it could be joining a hobby community or developing a hobby for that matter. I have colleagues that train for big sporting events, know nerds that organize get-togethers for their nerdy activities and work on outfits, and perhaps a previous generation, but people would go to the pub after work to chat shit and watch sports. A third place, as it's also called.

The article mentions a lot of family, I believe that's one thing my grandparents did as well; with seven kids, most of which who have kids of their own, that's a lot of birthday parties to attend.
Taiwan to set up first overseas IC training base in Prague: Minister
Only in certain regimes, like when labor competition is high.

The challenge is houses are the product of both capital and labor, so even if real capital returns are negative, you get stuck with high prices for construction.
NPR running sympathetic stories for Big Brother, including the last paragraph framing opposition as supporters of Emmanuel Goldstein. He does not like MiniLove - you would be agreeing with him if you also did not like it just fyi.

NPR could have talked about the current size of the FBI budget, the costs associated with this request, the size of the current deficit - nope, straight to Goldstein.
If externalities were factored in, they shouldn't be able to afford gas either then...
There is no salary level that can guard against this kind of thing given “expensive tastes” can ruin even those who are perfectly well-off.
LLMs Are This Close to Destroying the Internet
But if such things are avoided across the board as policy, exactly to attain the result of reducing that attack surface, then there are few such possible examples, and so you can't just say "it could be anything" you have to show that there is actually much pool of "anything".

What's an equivalent example that could actually happen in openbsd?
Simple and easy Heroku telegram bot in Python
A Python Telegram Bot is a simple, easy-to-use tool that allows you to send and receive messages through the Telegram app. In this article we create telegram bot which is a chatbot that uses the Telegram protocol to communicate with users. It can be used to send and receive messages, as well as to manage channels and users. Further we host python telegram on Heroku.
> Brazil is part of the BRICS

I wonder why people include Brazil in that group to this day.

Brazil is the only country in that group without a real high tech industry. It's the only one which never developed nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles. It's the only one without a real space program. It's not even got much of an economy these days.

Brazil is basically the world's soy farm and natural resources depot.
Sure, but that’s like saying the simplest way to solve water shortages is to just stop drinking it.
Cost effective, maybe. But not simple. Far from it.

In fact, might turn out to be not so cost effective either if it's almost impossible to force billions of people to change their habits.
Hm, I missed that one.

Maybe Liz is her younger half-sister from a temporarily estranged parent. :)

I realize I'm plumbing the depths of statistical likelihood to support my intuition of a female author.

Two other things occur to me. In the 1980s, there was a wider variety of what was considered "ordinary" in the expression of stereotypical male traits within gendered males. It was much less expected for any in the gamut to follow a non-stereotypical path, of course, and for better or worse.

But more directly relevant, the author is "anonymous" but certainly not "unknown", so it probably makes sense to assume that the auction house / article writer got it right in the first place!
if that were the case, cars would just casually accelerate up to near Mach 1 without any issue.
Comparing Anti-Cheat Bypass and EDR Bypass
Absolutely and electric cars and heat pumps powered by renewables are great but it's nice to have when we still want to have air travel or meat while maintaining net zero.
That's basically it. Encryption is a little like 2 factor auth in that way, if you really only have one control to reading the data, the encryption isn't a solution for that particular risk.

The way I see it -- what I want to protect against is an attacker being able to slurp up all of my online, potentially accessible protected data, while at the same time, I generally want to access it for legitimate purposes. And that's difficult -- so what we wind up doing is making it expensive/time consuming/audited to access the protected data.
Some/much of this may be just inflation and the devaluing of the dollar.
No real doctor will be caring, because he has no time for that, the way the system is currently.
I think everyone understands that but it’s cheap and the world depends on energy. So it’s not they people don’t get it, it’s that the world is working toward getting renewables cheap enough to fulfill current and future energy needs.
Computer work is so far outside the realm of what we as humans have been doing as “work” since the dawn of time. I wonder how significant that is? Could we be evolutionarily or culturally ill-suited to working this way?
BlueWave Labs Aims to Simplify the Process of Gaining Canadian Experience
Yes. Short of a tech breakthrough, the cost isn't dropping quickly enough.

Although we humans are known for tech breakthroughs.

Ironically, afforestation is one of the cheapest and most effective ways to install air purifiers at scale.
Also there is no reason to do it as it's not a man-made "climate change". People need to adapt, not fight it.
I agree with you, but the externalities hit them 30 years later, and the majority of the population are trying to figure out how to even make it for another 6 months (financially).
Just off the top off my head I can think of

1. student loans
2. alimony
3. child support
4. back taxes to one or more governments

that can cut the net income of someone in half quite quickly
I think we both learned from COVID that shoving links back and forth on the internet does nothing to change someone's mind.
I personally think that I only get worse at programming when I drink even a little, and quickly stop caring.

On an unrelated note, some folks started a distillery in Lakewood, Colorado, and they named it Ballmer Peak after the XKCD. :)
I think the only truly carbon negative way of doing that is through plants, possibly including burying them. I don't trust any carbon capture company to be truly negative, there is always too much hand waving with their math.
Downsize the FBI and redistribute their budget to the few who remain.
To a certain extent, you’re trying to do things that are not strengths for the language ecosystem.

The available libs and its intended purpose line up nicely when you go to create little system utilities, tools, backends, etc. You generally have to define your own data structures and implement your own algorithms.

For the above activities, I’d go to Python. To create a tool from the ground up, Go.
I took me a long time to realize it, but the "right" answer here is to focus on living one day at a time, regardless how far or close you're currently setting your aim towards.
Right, then they can’t afford to live. Telling people to stop after all this time is a non-starter unless you’re willing to militarily stop countries from burning oil.
It’s also worth noting where the money is going. It isn’t evaporating into the air.

Everyone talks about increasing numbers of parents helping their adult children from the angle of a moral failure by the children. Why doesn’t anyone stop to wonder why so many older people have so much money in the first place?
Beautiful indeed. It still baffles me how some people have a such gift with words. They can tell stories and make you have feelings, just magical. I know it's a lot of hard work to write like this.

I can write code alright, but I couldn't write words like the author, even if I practice for 100 years.

It has to be a gift.
At the macro level, everybody got rich from burning fossil fuels. A thousand or so billionaires who got extra rich doesn’t really make a dent on the activities of the other billions of people.
Orifice.ai
Ask HN: Are you on the new Airchat yet?
Everyone on Twitter/X can't stop talking about it. What do you like and dislike about Naval's Airchat so far?
There is more at play than simply equal rights. Housing supply hasn't risen to keep up with demand. Education and healthcare costs too have grown significantly compared to pregnant-and-barefoot-in-the-kitchen eras.