skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don’t actually need any dependency to do what you want, you can just code it

...Why? Like yeah, you can just write a small amount of code to serialize your state into a file every few seconds. But you can also just write a small amount of code to connect to a db or pull in sqlite, and do it a lot more efficiently without corrupting all your user data the first time you happen to shut down the application in the middle of a write. I certainly understand the desire to minimize dependencies and complexity where appropriate, but this seems like the worst candidate for it.
How about people who enter text into their phone by swiping across an on-screen keyboard to form words? Are we the new generation or the old generation? How prevalent are we among mobile phone users?

I find it quaint to see thumb-typists in action, since I feel finger-swiping is faster and less demanding. Yet also wonder how they manage to do it on modern, nearly-edgeless phone screens where it would seem to be so easy to accidentally touch the edge of the screen while you're thumb typing.

My phone-typing origin story is probably atypical. Though I've used cell phones for twenty years, for most of those years I actively avoided typing on the phone, since I hated the experience so much. I usually tried to wait until I could connect the phone to a computer and a keyboard to type messages or tried to send the shortest message possible when urgency made typing on the phone unavoidable. After swipable phone keyboards appeared, though, I became a little more open to entering text into my phone by swiping. However, I still type in most messages by connecting my phone to a computer with a keyboard.
> "anyone who tries to say otherwise proves that I'm right"

It's super obnoxious when someone says that.

But the comment you're replying to does not say that.
No.

We know how current deep learning neural networks are trained.

We know definitively that this is not how brains learn.

Understanding requires learning. Dynamic learning. In order to experience something, an entity needs to be able to form new memories dynamically.

This does not happen anywhere in current tech. It's faked in some cases, but no, it doesn't really happen.
Fair, ads should be viable, but OP really didn't try very hard on that front. There are plenty of ad networks that could be a substitute, but I understand that they're not as good as Google ads, and OP is lazy.

Buy Me a Coffee is not literal, it's a service to collect contributions.

I like the idea of microdonations, and I think it would be healthy for the ecosystem if sites could implement one-click 50 cent paywalls, but that's pretty far off.
Proprietary? Go is under the BSD license.
Ram Jam??? What about Spiderbait from Oz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU1VfYYKMDk (or even: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqGrzJHDwc4 )

I'd argue that despite the change in pace and instrumentation the original form and song can still be recognised and appreciated, the first version of this I heard was Lead Belly in about 1982 or so .. not a lot of TV in my part of the world growing up and not much time for that in the 'big' smoke at uni.

Going back to the GP assertion I still argue that people that enjoy modern modified forms of music can still recognise and appreciate the earlier forms.

(1930s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLbaOLWjpc

(2020s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdjhPHvH09I
Computing Within Limits
There's not a single instance in the article mentioning the EMS Medical Director being consulted in any of the 94 cases gone wrong (much less being held accountable). Multiple cases where the EMTs were pressured by the police, though.
Britain will need an Israel-style 'Iron Dome'
Might sound surprising until you remember there used to be Lisp Machines.
Fiat currency collapse is so common that it’s more the norm than the exception and property rights tend to survive perfectly well even when the government issued currency experiences collapse and high inflation.
> Buy Me a Coffee is not literal, it's a service to collect contributions.

I know it's not literal, but the size and donator effort required makes it a very bad fit for small interactions.
Another local LLM app for iOS, Mac, and Vision Pro
> Every house owned by a landlord is another house not owned by an owner occupier.

> the renter/landlord system is toxic for healthy society

> Only a fool or someone choosing to would think I am advocating for an end to renting.

I mean, you use terms like "every" and say the whole concept is toxic for society. Its not some misreading of your statements to see you're stating for an end to renting when "the renter/landlord system is toxic". If that relationship is toxic for everyone who is not a landlord, isn't eliminating the whole thing the cure for this toxicness?
Investing in a home is a mixed bag. Whether you purchase a new home or pre-owned, there will always be repairs and some are cause due to the use of cheap products by builders.

Determine why you want to purchase a home. Do you intended to pay it off to establish a level of 'rent' control once retired? Is your home a tax write-off based on income?

Rigth now in the US there is an affordable housing crisis due to price gouging.
The whole mentality around “a home is your piggy bank and retirement plan” has screwed future generations out of a chance for an affordable domicile. I’m a millennial that “missed the boat” on a property prior to the pandemic.

I want to believe this will eventually self correct, but should I be waiting till my twilight years to have a piece of the American Dream?

This is why I do cringe about folks that bought before and got in with super cheap interest rates, and then brag about it like they are geniuses. They simply got ridiculously lucky.

What are we supposed to do about it? Building more homes isn’t terribly economical due to the obsession with large McMansions, and the rise in interest rates caused a chilling effect, where few want to sell, so we are in a deadlock.
Its definitly more serious this time.
SAIL reminds me of SLEIGH, the language Ghidra uses to describe ISA semantics. Cool stuff
https://www.playsuckup.com/
> The goal of society should be 90% owner occupied.

Why 90%? Why not 85%? Why not 95%? Why not 70%? Why not 99.21237%? Where'd 90% come from?

What if 11% of the households genuinely want to rent? Have rental prices skyrocket forcing people into the complications of buying, holding, maintaining, and selling real estate?
Can science find ways to ease loneliness?
Is RISC-V technically superior or is it just about the license?
Usenet was on fire when it came out.
> language models capture the constraints in the arrangement of tokens in streams of communication

Yes but ultimately that includes all of math, logic, science, physics, etc. which as far as we can tell are fundamental truths of the universe. And if there's a large enough LLM that can capture enough constraints, functionally what's the difference between its intelligence and ours?
If you live close enough to the property and you've built the right relationships with your tenants the matter is trivial.

If you live far away and rely on third party managers, the matter is also trivial, but the outcome is opposite.
How how how does a fairly selective and educated group such as HN users come to believe such collectivist nonsense. What a failure of education systems we have. Unbelievable.

History has shown repeatedly that policies to restrict free markets and centrally plan makes everyone poorer and produces catastrophic results.

There is absolutely NOTHING immoral about being a landlord or a real estate developer. People need housing but cannot afford to build it themselves. Capitalists take capital they and create housing for people who need housing. This is a fundamental service to the economy and society. A necessary service.

It’s simply foolish to have this view that landlords are unethical. It’s been shown over and over and over that high housing prices are a result of restrictive supply caused by government regulations and that without such restrictions and regulations landlords and real estate investors LOWER housing prices this is a fundamental fact of economics!
Agreed. Hopefully these sorts of articles will disappear.
Soon to be ex-landlord here. Maybe I'll regret it someday, but I'm winding down all of my rental properties. Being a landlord in Seattle is just not a good idea financially anymore, with how out of whack rents are compared to house values, and how more and more restrictions are making it hard for small-time landlords. So I'm selling everything. Some will be bought by owner-occupiers, and others will be bought by huge property management firms with the analysts and lawyers to still be profitable.
There used to be the 1040ez which is a one page form, but I guess that was discontinued.
Haha sure, that's assuming Google's starting baseline is 9-5, mind you, which is not even close. Many people barely work at Google and "work-life balance" is really a euphemism for not really working.

Google used to be about working smartly and not grinding just for grind's sake, which is totally respectable. At some point, however, that became Google's external brand as well, and went in the head of the people being recruited. The result is, recently, people self-select and optimize for joining Google precisely for "work-life balance." i.e. if you want to actually work and get paid for performance, you are better off joining Facebook. Google ends up with the rest of the folks who join with the expectation of low expectations.
I think you've lost the point of Markdown: it's readable as raw text.

I was excited that this was an extension of markdown but now I that see it I react with horror: markdown is not a programming language. This looks rather like a programming language.
Nvidia is a great example of why a flat rule like this wouldn't work. Nvidia pretty much just does one, pretty specialized thing (GPUs) and trying to break it up into >10 pieces worth <$20B each (approximate median GDP of African nations by IMF) would be completely unnecessary. Just their gaming GPUs had ~$6B in profit in just the last year alone, and we know that their market cap comes much more from the AI market. We definitely could use stronger anti-monopoly laws, but market cap limits aren't the way to do it.
Airline keeps mistaking 101-year-old woman for baby
Seconded. For all the million things we used Makefiles for besides compiling software, Just is much more ergonomic.
As a hedge for tech I have been doing up and flipping houses: I agree with OP mostly for the long term but you can make a few 100k on the side in the eu by flipping if you have cash. I personally hate renting out and having guests which is what most people do here; I buy for 50k, do up for 20k and sell for 200. Holding on is lame unless you live in it imho.
TFA links to the Universidad del Rosario press release: https://urosario.edu.co/periodico-nova-et-vetera/facultad-de...

Both reference the municipality of Socha, Boyacá.
For example when you're on a group chat and somebody sends a video and the quality gets degraded and so somebody makes funny of the guy who shared the video but the guy is like "somebody on the group chat has android". and then my pixel was literally being held together by tape and one of the guys is like, dude, why are you such a contrarian, just get an iphone, and true detective was good!

but true detective is not good, it's good bad.
Point here though is that author shouldn't have had to add the extra stuff.

There was ONE actual core piece of functionality they wanted to monetize, so why not?

By adding random crap, author was able to get it approved.

This just proves how everything is turning into the Internet Of Shit - or Enshitification. I loved how the article exposes this in context of the ad networks --- on which Google has an effective monopoly.

See also https://youtu.be/wVYG1mu8Lg8?si=xaAgN3jx2ZC-GCwr (The Internet is Starting to Break by MrWhoseTheBoss).
That static form plugin sends submissions to Cloudflare KV Storage, I only recently started experimenting with Cloudflare offerings so haven't tried KV yet but does it get populated in the Cloudflare dashboard? If not, then that would be another thing to build.

And about Netlify. If you are getting more than 100 submissions/month on your hobby project, I think it might be time to consider some better serious solutions ;)
Sounds like a power that would be ripe for abuse in it's own rite.
It depends where/how you get your real estate. If you're talking about the MLS (retail) market, then yes its probably not a great investment.
> generations from WW2 to Gen-X constructed a very tightly-optimized society - with no room for their grandchildren in it

Not sure if I agree or disagree. Maybe you can elaborate on this specifically. The rest of your comment seems to agree with my opinion that a ton of red tape killed opportunities previous generations had. This is fundamentally a political issue, not an economic one.
It’s interesting that you read an article that basically outlined all the structural supply and demand issues around why house prices are the way they are.

And then you turn around and blame the “home is your piggy bank” mentality.
if Google didn't make site more appealing, Google2 or Google3 or Google4 or SomeOtherCompetitor5 might

but the problem is that there are no "2,3,4,5' options - there's only one. And it has no incentive for "good people" to leverage
UUCP style address exchanges were banging.
When Whatsapp was released, free text messaging was not a thing for most of europe. The USA had long since ditched charging for sms messaging by that point, so the attractiveness of a free communications app wasn't there.

Also, there are carriers in europe that offer bundle discounts and better data packages for opting out of sms altogether.
Realise that you are in the minority. The majority eventually desire security and stability in their housing for obvious reasons. A system that incentivises a minority with the means to increasingly squeeze potential from those without is not sustainable long term. One doesn't need to look hard now to find sentiment in younger generations that amounts to "what's the point? I'll never afford a home". If you think that's healthy for a society, or justified, because a small portion of the population like the freedom of renting, not sure what to tell you.
> I want to believe this will eventually self correct, but should I be waiting till my twilight years to have a piece of the American Dream?

Right. I expected this to self-correct about two decades ago. The ratio to watch is median home price / median income.[1] Note what happened in 2006-2010.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=n9xI
> However, how on earth do you mount a wheel backwards?

Some wheels have a preferred direction and should be used only on left or right side.

The rubber is assymetric in those. But I don't think you would notice is any way if you get like 3% worse grip.
The thing is..a home and 3y mortgage is worth it even if it doesn't appreciate wildly in value!

Locking in living expenses for years to guard against inflation is great. I pay the same as my Seattle apartment for a 3k sq ft Tacoma home. And having my monthly payment build equity instead of go to a landlord is even better.

I agree buying a house in 2024 is tougher. But man was it easy for all of the 2010s. 2020 pre-craziness was a good time to buy. Sub 3% interest was the norm.

At the end of the day, finances have luck involved but also the saying about preparation meets opportunity is true. It might feel like there's no opportunity now, but that just means you should prepare because it's all cyclical. Don't miss the next wealth-boosting event.

But yeah it's not a piggyback or retirement plan. I would happily just live here forever and use my the rest of my money for that.
The title is objectively wrong. In the nineteenth century, food was the major household budget item, followed by heat and clothing and footwear. That is no longer the case.

The article is also superficial about the causes of fertility decline. The fundamental cause is that children are now seen as a low priority compared to middle class goods like university education, housing in a good neighborhood, and travel. This is demonstrated by the U shape of the curve of fertility vs. household income. Low income women can't afford those other things, so they have children, which is achievable for them. High income women can have children as well as the high-priority goods. Middle income women only have enough room in the budget for one or the other, and they don't choose children.
it's a donation

the whole point is to only get donations from people willing to do the effort - with no downsides to others
The inflection point is 1971.

https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/

1971 was basically the year the government decided it could print money infinitely. Assets prices used to go up and down, now they mostly go up. The last two times real estate corrected, the Fed gobbled up mortgages like they were going out of style.

The 50 years since have been an aberration -- but I'd argue mostly it's been better than before... maybe those good times will come to an end, or maybe they won't. But if real estate crashes hard in the US, so will equities, so don't pretend you're safe.
(The real brief is also linked at the end of the fake one)
> We know definitively that this is not how brains learn.

Ok then, I guess the case is closed.

> an entity needs to be able to form new memories dynamically.

LLMs can form new memories dynamically. Just pop some new data into the context.
Observationally it's less " a home is your piggy bank and retirement plan "

more

" at least seven homes should get you by " with many opting for more.

A great many people I've known from school days in the late 70s | early 80s just kept buying more houses after a long haul getting the first one (interest in Australia early on was tough, then easier).

Enough people got carried away with property accumulation that they're now competing with each other and both snapping up new properties fast and pushing prices for first buyers out of reach.
Most social media is a toxic mess.
And even if the population decreases, still (almost) everybody has to live in one of the big cities or centers of tourism to get a job. The irony is that only wealthier people, who can work remotely, can afford to live in villages where living costs are low. Because there is (almost) no work and (almost) no young people live there (any more).
You are quite right that the document that 'specifies' RISC-V remains a key weakness in the whole movement.

For expediency, the choice was made to not sweat it. So the document is actually called a 'Manual' but is linked as being the specification. Even so, the document needs a real editor to review it. For example, the preferred bit pattern which is to be processed by an implementation as doing nothing but incrementing the program counter ('no op') is called an 'instruction' in some sections but is clearly not in others---a dumb discrepency. A review by a good technical editor would be a great first step in improving the document.

However, the greater tragedy is that a great 'specification' for RISC-V would be an invaluable educational document. This would be a very hard document to write. No document that I could find has ever tried to specify an instruction set independent of an actual implementation. So there is no roadmap towards writing a good spec for RISC-V. This is surely one of the reasons the effort has not yet been started.

After a couple of months trying to imagine how such an effort could be undertaken, how one could argue that the effort was worth trying, and how I might convince the community of the value and need for a good spec, I gave up. The work would require a team combining very fine technical knowledge with exeedingly accurate control of technical english. The work would be a multi-person-year effort, requiring concomitant funding. It is not clear to me how this work might begin.

Also you are entirely right to think about the test suite as a central concern. Specifications are strange documents. Some specifications make requirements which can not be tested; this affects the very nature of what is being 'specified'. Others have tried to root every injunction in the test suite; that approach leads to its own difficulties. The specification will have to make its choice on the matter and the authors would benefit from being very clear with themselves about what stance they are taking on the matter.

So thanks for your argument for a better specification; it would be a wonderful addition to the open instruction set. Hopefully, somehow, such an effort finds its wings.
The thing is The City isn't the end all be all.

For instance, there are a dozen western WA towns and cities smaller & cheaper than Seattle that are full of stuff to do. Bars, restaurants, museums, parks, arcades, etc. And Seattle itself is a 30-60 min drive away from all of them depending on traffic.
In a few (large) areas of the US, Lyme is endemic and most deer ticks are carriers.

I've tested random samples from a few forests in the Northeast, and >75% came back positive.
not OP, but your personal attacks don't engage with their ideas at all. and you also stated a strong opinion masquerading as fact.
Hey, this is neat! Thanks for sharing. I may be interested in collaborating with you on this when I have some free time.
Both times I've bought property it's been expensive for me at the time and worked out to be a great decision. I bought about 80% of one peak and still managed to save a ton on rent even though I'm break even on the property. One I bought at a trough in 2013 but it was still a stretch for me. I've got about 8 times I felt I missed the boat and 2 so far have turned out to be a bad idea. Basically you have as many fomo opportunities for property as you have times you found a house that became more expensive later.

I've been hearing that I'll never be able to buy a house since I've been an adult.
I moved from Vancouver to a rural area due to remote work. It goes both ways.
I lived in an old apartment with a heater thats pilot light would regularly die. I connected a thermoprobe to an ESP8266, connected it to the heater. If it detected the pilot went out it would spam a Telegram chat that me and my roommate were in. Super cheap fix that saved me from waking up frozen.
I think we, as Humana, mentally survive a lot better in smaller local groups. Once a certain population density hits, it seens things go wrong much more quickly.
My understanding of what's happening here in Toronto: it is such a hassle to fight for any new construction, that the only projects that are "worth it" are highrises. This means that 4-5 storey residential condos/rentals are not being built. Only the biggest buildings.
I appreciate your sense of optimism. To be clear, through the 2010s, I was still finding myself and didn’t feel ready to settle down. Additionally, I prioritized paying off debt and being as fiscally responsible with my spending habits, since in my youth, I was terrible with money.

I’m just bummed that by the time I finally had my chance to get a property for myself to live in and… whoops. I got rug pulled.
Yep. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXe-rvXVL-g
They'd need to come in at 1k with something that beats the M3.

I don't really see this happening, but I'll wait until the new laptops come out to buy anything.
Talk was like a WPM contest.
What evidence do you have for that?

Automatic breakup based on stock price is a terrible idea. (Market capitalization is total value of stock in a publicly traded company.)
The "home is your piggy bank" mentality is the cause and motivating force behind NIMBYism. It's not only in the article, it's prominently in the article.