skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But is the majority of the population thriving?

Objectively? Yes. People are living better than before the pandemic.

However, incessant propaganda works. Fox News and AM talk radio convinced people that the prices went up by like 10x and the country is on the brink of collapse.
The US is still definitely one of the top places for creative work. China might be coming up fast on that due to the sheer vertical manufacturing capability they possess.
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If you like a Roguelike that doesn't need a keyboard, then you might like our Amiga game Roguecraft, which is a Lovecraft-inspired coffee break Roguelike for the Amiga. We have plans to port it to the Switch, but it is easy to get it running on an Amiga emulator. =)

https://thalamusdigital.itch.io/roguecraft
Other discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42318483
So is your argument that there's no "affordability crisis" in the US?
The article refers to upcoming versions of Ruby. For the curious, looks[1] like ruby 3.4.0 will be released this Christmas, and ruby 3.5.0 next Christmas.

Also, I'm wondering what effect Python's minimal JIT [2] has coming for this type of loop. Python 3.13 needs to be built with the JIT enabled, so it would be interesting if someone who has built it runs the benchmarks.

[1] https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/releases/

[2] https://drew.silcock.dev/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-ab...
> Nice... I'm sure it's real(ly) fun to read our/your code, man!

How did I do?! :D
"Hey man, I pulled the latest changes and I'm getting sideways Lego brick is undefined, followed by cannot read properties of undefined when reading squiggly prongs."
How could creativity in AI not get better?

Sure, progress will likely not be linear or without challenges, but we already have the human brain as proof that it is possible.
How does the brain interpret computer languages? (2021)
> over the dominant anecdotal narrative

> updating priors is hard

[Upthread commenter edited his comment removing some stuff]

It’s trivial to find complaints on the epidemic of security cases in American stores, and especially the fact that there’s not enough personnel in stores leading to long waiting times.

In a similar vein, are you really going to claim with a straight face that America isn’t extremely car-centric anymore?

> As someone who actually moved there, I can tell you the numbers are also anecdotally felt on the ground if you go outside of wealthy tourist capitals.

Then you should travel more. I got these remarks even in smaller Croatian towns. I live in The Netherlands myself, and I’ve heard similar things said in mid-sized cities in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Gdansk, Poland, Denmark, Sweden Bulgaria, hell even in Italy in a place like Naples.

And if you’re gonna claim that wasn’t small town / countryside enough, do you really think quality of life is going to be higher in a hick town in Mississippi rather than a countryside town in Portugal?

Not to mention the sliver of vacation days Americans have.

Money isn’t life.
Dungeons of Dredmor is kind of ideal: not ASCII but very functional. Same with the Shiren games I've played.

Even if the graphics are clearly better than ASCII, what makes something feel like Rogue is that there's no attempt to hide the artifice. The grid is clearly a restrictive grid. Simple icons are used to represent various types of items. There's something very clearly "programmed." An unidentified item can be broken down into a handful of variables: item type, cursed or not, effect, etc.

In fact, I wonder if Rogue is one of the reasons I got into programming. The first real thing I tried to code was a version of Rogue. The rules are so clearly defined. Playing it is kind of zen.
> Can you find a single prominent Christian or Jewish scholar, theologian, saint, etc who lived 1000 years ago who believed that Jesus was allowing suicide?

The debate on whether jumping on a grenade to save others is suicide or self secrifice, et al has passed you by?

Is it your claim that not a single prominent Christian or Jewish scholar / theologian has wrestled with that conundrum and if they had they all fell in line in unison?

> because some Christian churches have gone off the rails and have rejected the traditional views held by the Church.

There's cetainly less church sanctioned burning of Catholics and Cathars alike .. I don't believe there's a uniform monolithic corp of "traditional views" prior to modern times .. even the implication of a singular Christian "the Church" appears to be an ahistoric over simplification.
There's room for splitting hairs in there though. Even fiction, for instance, can succeed or fail at being internally consistent, is or is not grammatically correct...

Calling everything an AI does a hallucination isn't incorrect, but it reduces the term to meaninglessness. I'm not sure that's most useful thing we can be doing.

Atoms are not indivisible, yet we use the term because it works. I anticipate hallucination will be the same.
Apparently he went to Starbucks a few hours before the shooting. They have a surveillance photo of him, but he was wearing a mask. If he was dumb enough to do that, he might have been dumb enough to pay with a credit card. If this isn't the case and he keeps his mouth shut, he'll be awfully hard to find, especially if he doesn't live in NYC. We know he was a white male and that's about it.
> The US certainly does not subsidize drugs for the rest of the world.

It literally does. The costs of producing drugs are mostly borne by the US market, allowing drug manufacturers to charge less elsewhere while still investing the billions of dollars necessary to develop the drugs.
This isn't bad: https://github.com/sqlpad/sqlpad/tree/master
I only hear that from people on Medicare and Medicaid, and certain areas if they’re covered by the VA.
Maybe ACA plans if they’re low income.

I definitely don’t hear that from the middle. I definitely don’t hear that from travel nurses or truck drivers. No one has ever said that about COBRA.

And this isn’t getting into average wait times for specialist appointments (though other countries deal with this too.)
That thinking is very location-dependent. Cities and counties across the US vary wildly on the ratio of cost-to-rent to cost-to-own, and that number is sometimes less than and sometimes greater than 1, depending on where you are.

A big problem with renting is the capriciousness of the rental market in many places, which you can't solve with "basic math". That plus the availability of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage in the US means that rental costs can be much more unpredictable than buying. Some people will -- very reasonably -- pay a bit more for peace of mind. And that's before we get into the topic of no-fault evictions, and how that can wreck a family's housing situation, sometimes with not too much notice.

Renter protections in the US are not great compared to in many other places, and that can make renting unpredictable and more "costly" in other ways.
Apache Authentication with Auth0
I would never make a moral judgement on a cube.
Based on this entire thread it did seem necessary to state.
Understanding Code Understandability Improvements in Code Reviews
A bit technical:

Automatic and semi-automatic weapons work the way the do because force of the round (recoil) pushes back the bolt carrier, which a spring will then push forward again. Shot is fired, bolt carrier goes back, spring pushes it forward.

Subsonic ammunition have less charge than regular ammunition, to reduce the velocity. This also means less recoil. Combined with the spring now being too stiff, the bolt carrier will simply not move back far enough to successfully chamber a new round. So you have to manually chamber a new round between each shot. One solution is to use a light / less stiff spring that is adjusted to the force of the subsonic ammo.

Same principle for when shooting blanks.
Nix is more about package management (and a OS) while docker is more container focused.

But because the individual software on nix is so well separated / encapsulated it carries similar benefits to containers. So they’re different but with overlap
Maybe we bring it up because non-Americans (and low income Americans with a lot of free time, i.e. young people) do nothing but describe America as a hellscape online, and it's hard data that demonstrates the benefit of our economic system instead of just debating about a wildly inaccurate caricature.

You don't probably meet many Americans raving about the quality of life in rural Romania, and they may not be so enthralled with the European lifestyle once they saw their paycheck and the living situation it would provide.
My wages have increased 30% since 2020, exceeding the 22% inflation I got from that calculator.

The data shows that far more people are in my situation than in your situation. Do I need to spell it out for you? People are acting like they are doing better in the numbers, responding on polls that they are doing better, but they all think everyone else is doing bad or the economy in general is doing bad.

Can you imagine how bad it would be if our actual economy did as poorly as the rest of the world? We went through a mismanaged global pandemic, and came out smelling roses when it comes to the US's economy. We are in a fantastic position for world domination. China and Europe shat the bed. India is up and coming and may be an economic rival, but they are not there yet.

If you think this economy is bad, try going back to 2008. To 1992.

So please, yes, spell it out for me. The facts do not care about your feelings, no matter how strongly you have your feelings, or who told you to have the feelings and to feel helpless.
This falls down when you're talking about internal components of products that don't have brand names though.
There was a special counsel dedicated to Biden's document investigation and the person leading it was a Trump-appointed lawyer who said there was a clear difference between the two cases[0]. You should note that Biden was not charged by that counsel as there wasn't enough evidence that he willfully retained the documents.

> Hur’s report says the differences between the two cases are “clear.” Unlike Biden — who cooperated with investigators, agreed to searches of his homes and sat for a voluntary interview — the allegations in Trump’s case present “serious aggravating facts,” Hur wrote.

> For instance, prosecutors say, after the Justice Department issued a subpoena for the records in May 2022, Trump asked his own lawyers if he could defy the request and said words to the effect of, “I don’t want anybody looking through my boxes.”

> “Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?” one of his lawyers described him as saying, according to the indictment.

I do not care about what Jon Stewart says either, lol.

0: https://apnews.com/article/classified-documents-biden-trump-...
I think GP was talking about owning a primary residence, not owning investment properties.

(I still don't agree with GP's thinking or math, but I don't think you're arguing against what they actually said.)
Slowing Down to Cook
>Tech workers are paid highly because their employers are generating huge revenues per employee and the cost of living in these coastal hubs is exceptional

These are factors common to all (e.g.) Google employees. But the folks cleaning the toilets aren't getting paid as much as the software engineers. So there must be a bit more to it than that. I'm not saying that the factors you listed aren't factors, but they aren't the whole story by any means.
Chinese scientists rush to climate-proof potatoes
Less trucks, more trains. Pulling a random internet quote:

The Association of American Railroads estimates that on average, a freight train can move 1 ton of freight about 484 miles on just one gallon of fuel.
Dog domestication happened many times, but most didn't pan out
Depends on the state. Even if they can't take it directly, you still have to pay the mortgage, the property tax, the insurance, all the maintenance and upkeep with a new $200,000 bill and probably not having worked for a few months for recovery. I'm not sure how sustainable that is for regular people.
Monday Americans Spent $13.3B in Biggest Cyber Monday
No, it's not just the computer world.

Affordable housing where I live is a specific thing. Below-market-rate housing purchaseable/rentable with specific income requirements. Some number of units in new builds are usually required to meet this requirement. Your example sounds similar, it is also specifically defined and not just housing that is affordable but rather it meets specific requirements.

A cross-country flight to a pilot licence is a flight that goes greater than 50 nautical miles one-way. During flight training you need some number of these so you talk about them a lot during that training and it's mentioned a lot in the regulations.

And as I guess you're aware secure computation is also a term of art in CS for a specific thing.

I'm sure every field has terms of art that overlap with things whose words don't precisely describe. A chef's knife is a specific shape/class of knife, not any knife used by a chef. Law is full of them. There is a wealth of examples.
That sounds great! From the *.gov site [0], it seems like testing will begin in 2025. I just wonder how long it will take to actually roll out to charging station and vehicles? Will this be for CCS, NACS, and J1772? CHAdeMO?

[0] https://driveelectric.gov/news/universal-plug-and-charge
Why would you expect wages to track productivity in an environment where automation increasingly drives productivity gains and the means of automation are provided by employers?
Not really. S3 tables provides storage & catalog for Iceberg tables, but is not a query/transaction engine. We'll definitely look for ways to take advantage of it as it matures.

I wrote a bit more about it at https://bsky.app/profile/marcoslot.com/post/3lcj6etdcg22p
Pretty sure half the US isn't living in tents. I feel like I'd notice that, especially living in a city with a larger-than-average homeless population.

I agree that homelessness is a problem, but you appear to be arguing in bad faith. If 50% of the US actually "can't afford housing", we'd have $170M people living in tents, and that is demonstrably not the case.

I would believe a claim that states that a large portion (maybe 50%, maybe more, maybe less) of the country are facing financial insecurity that makes them feel like their housing situation is precarious. But that wasn't the claim put forth upthread.
This is the classic "this meeting could have been an email" phenomenon. As much as I do actually find doing a quick sync to sometimes be helpful (e.g. if a code review spawns a discussion that requires multiple round-trips and isn't resolved, moving the discussion to somewhere more immediate and then updating the thread with the resolution that was picked "offline" can help unblock things faster in some situations), I wholeheartedly agree that this is extremely frustrating to me. Despite often being super energetic and talkative, I'm someone who fits the definition of "introvert" that some people use where interacting with other people (besides my wife) requires spending mental energy, and I need at least a few hours a day to "recharge" away from even family and friends to not get overwhelmed and exhausted, even if it's just retiring to my room a bit earlier when on a trip to visit family and just hanging out for a bit on my laptop it whatever. Because of this, I can't help but resent when someone else squanders some of my "social interaction quota" for the day even when they probably don't realize that's what they're doing.

I'm incredibly lucky that my wife feels the same way as me, and we're so in tune with each other that we can spend unlimited time together without ever feeling spent in the same way, but it's always a mix of amusing and frustrating to me when her family doesn't seem to understand this the same way that we do. I absolutely adore my wife's mother, and she's been nothing but good to me since I started dating my wife, but she loves to text my wife and say something like "can you call me when you get a chance?", only for the reason she wanted to talk to turn it to be asking something extremely straightforward like "is it okay if we don't have cornbread for Thanksgiving this year?" Fortunately, my wife is a saint compared to me in terms of patience, and we love her mother enough that indulging this sort of thing is far more worthwhile than if it were happening from a coworker even if I'm usually friendly with then.
End of an era. Used to go there in the 90s. Now everything belongs to shitty, worthless Silicon Valley adventurers.
I mean I live in America and I have never experienced a store needing to unlock steaks or vitamins from a security case, seen a mass tent camp, or lived near many drug deaths. Our water is top quality, I took sex ed in high school (back in late 90s/early 2000s), and my wife and I walk or bike almost every day in our neighborhood. We don't live anywhere rich or fancy either, quite the opposite. Just a normal city of around 200,000 people in a lower population state.
I am actually working on a scraping API for serps, currently it only supports Google, may add more search engines if it gets any traction, it isn't ready yet, but hopefully it will be in a couple of days, if you want to give it a go let me know and I can give you a subscription in exchange for some feedback.
This rise since 2021 can be easily seen in the graph in the article I posted also, but the catch is that the increases have been relatively flat where they can been found, and that increase followed a lowering in real wages. Whichever way the data is looked at since 2020, it isn't very reassuring to the general public that wages have essentially stayed flat with inflation, when US productivity growth has been going up. I was actually surprised about the article I referenced in the comment above. The figure I'd read of previously was that real wages had cumulatively increased around 2% since 2020, which the Brookings article seems to reference. 2% real increases in wages is strikingly low considering US productivity growth. It was the figure I was originally looking up.
Yeah this is a good shot at using existing verbiage, better than the candidates I came up with at least. Still not entirely self-descriptive, and has some overlap with usage in other parts of the codebase, like in data processing and user onboarding, but maybe that's a fine trade-off to make in order to use a normal word. I'd be equally fine with them being called "steps", but now I'm attached to my Keps :D
No. Cynefin flow is always along one axis at a time. You wouldn't invert both at the same time.

As for why it is a part of my definition of what makes such a diagram "correct" (as opposed to 4 random labels applied to irrelevant axes), it's kind of because that's the only interesting story that can be told in those 2 dimensions?

So suppose you had an hourglass shape of flow; then if you conditionally invert one of the axes (invert y when x is negative) you get a conventional cynefin flow. So if you were faced with a case where intense idealists were turning into coasting pragmatists, it suggests that you would want to just choose a different axis for one of the sides. Say you wanted to keep idealism-vs-pragmatism, but now you have to describe something that's "intense work if you're an idealist, but coasting if you're a pragmatist." And you might call that "mission work" or "evangelism" or something, acting out your most fundamental values. If you choose that as your axis, the one side inverts and the hourglass becomes a conventional fourbox (or 2x2 as a comment above calls it).
Noah Smith recently wrote a good blog post on some of the nuances here:

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/paycheck-to-paycheck-and-five-...

There are too many people living in poverty in the US, or 1-step removed from it, but much less than are commonly believed.
Nix is a language, package manager, and OS. This post discusses NixOS.

While docker-compose allows you to compose your containers with a yaml/Dockerfiles, NixOS allows you to compose the system that all of your containers run on (from userspace down to kernel selection/configs, file system, etc), as well as your containers - all in a declarative .nix file. That .nix file can be used to spin up any number of identitically configured systems.

It's also reproducible, in that you can specify the sources (refined to a specific commit if you prefer) for any and all packages on the system - and build them with Nix within a sandboxed environment protecting dependencies and env configurations (Nix is also a powerful build system).
The TDD and DDD ultimately tell you which inputs are of interest. CDD doesn't, so it's apples to oranges.

People who think that specifically TDD is a programming technique didn't get the entire memo. It can drive you to design and re-design your app's inputs. But that part of TDD is tacit - hard to teach.
>People move from China to India despite the higher prices in America

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Interesting we get so many likes here, as I can’t stand this style. It’s the same annoying pretentiousness Paul Graham’s peddles. Karlsson even calls his blog posts essays just like PG!

These authors have this habit of reflecting on their live experiences and trying to make some sense out of them (a time honed and worthy pursuit!), but then moving into thought leader / self help / linkedin territory by making every other sentence an imperative in second person person singular.

A sentence like —

The context is smarter than you. It holds more nuance and information than you can fit in your head. Collaborate with it.

Could be

The context is smarter than me. It holds more nuance and information than I can fit in my head. I keep telling myself to collaborate with it.

And it wouldn’t annoy me half as much. It would feel as if a peer wants to share experiences with me, whereas now I feel like I’m being shouted at by a middle manager.
Slack was born out of the (second) attempt by Butterfield to build a game. But Slack didn't start out as a game; there was a game being built, and it didn't evolve into Slack—they productized their internal comms (a separate thing that they built and were using in the course of making the game).
I run several services on my home server. For those that are well packaged for Nix, I just use those. For ones that are poorly packaged or not available, I use oci-containers. They all run as systemd services and operate the same way, so it's a consistent interface.
Hi, looks like the page for the included link does not exist? I have extensive experience in developing healthcare applications in .NET (though primarily with C#) and would love to chat and find out more about the role. Please find my contact on my bio. Thanks.
Because the truth is it’s likely that most of these were never meant to be public. People will say that it’s the fault of the user and thus there is no guilt attributable to the viewer, but I sincerely doubt most of these users knew they were making it public and may not have if they knew.

While I don’t think intentionally surfacing these videos is wrong in any legal sense of course, I think it’s wrong ethically.

Exploiting someone’s mistake in this manner is not noble.

It’s the same reason we (good folk) look away when someone’s clothing accidentally reveals more than they intended, though it would be within our right to look.

I choose not to view these because I don’t believe it was intended that I should, and without the consent of the creator I chose to err on the side of decency.