skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This view is always super weird to me; aside from ~2008-2020, the current interest rates should still be considered pretty reasonable. And remember that rates were also on their way up pre-pandemic, but got slammed back down to 0% once the pandemic hit. (I mention this bit to counter the belief among many that our current rate situation is solely due to poor management of pandemic response.)

And -- this is certainly a bit of a gamble -- but I know people who have taken on higher rate mortgages now with the expectation they'll be able to refinance within a few years at a lower rate. That's certainly more expensive even in the meantime than having a lower-rate loan to start, and there's always the risk that rates don't actually come down, but it's an option for many (admittedly not all).
You are not wrong. By February 2025, 90% of Republicans will start believing that the economy is thriving.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/briefing/economy-inflatio...
To each their own. When K8's is managed it's awesome.

I would like to do without the headache of dealing with K8's installation or some orchestrator layer. I can "schedule" my on application instances at the size I'm working with.

Also, I run this setup on cloud vm(multiple actually). So it's not restricted to running on a single machine running in a closet.
Not where I come from. I grew up in the area, not far from the first Trader Joes and down the street from the second, and it’s always been considered an upscale store because it had so many cheaper competitors a few miles away. It was founded to supply the wealthy neighborhoods of Pasadena and South Pasadena.
I wish more people in the US believed that, it'd make my retirement planning so much easier. Incidentally if that statement were even vaguely accurate private equity would most likely not find residential real estate an attractive investment, which they most certainly do. All of my real estate has doubled in value over the last 5 years and through the magic of depreciation I'm on track to get back more in taxes over a 20 year span than the original purchase price of my investment property. Home ownership: shit makes perfect sense to me.
Well the facts don't care about your feelings. A lot of people seem to want to feel bad about the economy and are searching high and low for reasons to feel that way.

Most of it comes down to politics:

https://www.fisherinvestments.com/en-us/insights/market-comm...
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I believe it was some mortgage calculator and it jumped by 10k steps.
Are the servants better off?
Exactly. There's a lot of talk about trade and other countries "ripping off he US", but almost no mention that the US pay significantly more for the same drugs sold in other countries.
Square Enix Appears to Be Using the DMCA Takedown Process to Silence Criticism
> When taxes and mandatory contributions are subtracted from household income, the result is called net or disposable household income

I don’t understand why Americans always have such a fetish about bragging about their disposable income. Once you allocate for payments into the welfare state, the difference becomes a lot smaller.

And that’s not even mentioning the stark difference in quality of life, beyond “quality of life” graphs. Those graphs don’t account for having to wait 25+ minutes for the store to unlock steaks or vitamins from a security case. Or for mass tent camps in cities. Or Mmss drug deaths. Uncertainty of potable water. Access to and education on safe sex, abortion, etc. Walkability of cities.

Whenever I meet Americans traveling Europe, they virtually always rave about how much better life seems over here.
I don't see how it improves or gives me anything, no.

See, the `AuthenticationFilter` sits outside of my REST resource. I could not care less that someone configured it and that at runtime, based on some configuration that can change without even needing a recompilation, this filter will either be there on the stack or it won't.

My resource does not interact with this filter in any way and when an error happens somewhere down in another method I call, then I don't care that I was called with or without the auth token having been checked by said filter. I might care whether the method I called threw a `SQLException` or a `JSONParseException` but very probably I don't even care about that at all because I can't do anything specific in either case and will just throw it further (i.e. not handle it, other than potentially logging it).

Java actually tried the whole "specify all error situations with checked exceptions and otherwise the code won't even compile" and it failed miserably and you are hard pressed to see anything new derive from `Exception`. Everyone uses `RuntimeException`. It does come at a cost, because now I no longer have the hassle of explicitly knowing and deciding what to do with these exceptions and I may only figure out that a particular type of error can happen once I "see it in the wild" (e.g. in my logs, coz something failed) or I'm lucky enough to have actually read the documentation and handled all the exceptions I wanted to handle.

But that happened precisely because it was just too much to have all your code specify these exceptions when everyone figured out that 99% of all code just threw them further up the stack. You call one new library method that specifies an exception and you suddenly have to adjust 127 other files and the only thing you do is to declare all those methods will also just throw the exception further up the stack.
The article referenced the Oxford semantic entropy study but failed to clarify that the issue greatly simplifies LLM hallucination (making most of the article outdated).

When we are not sure of an answer we have two choices: say the first thing that comes to mind (like an LLM), or say "I'm not sure".

LLMs aren't easily trained to say "I'm not sure" because that requires additional reasoning and introspection (which is why CoT models do better); hence hallucinations occur when training data is vague.

So why not just measure uncertainty in the tokens themselves? Because there are many ways to say the same thing, so a high entropy answer may only reflect uncertainty in synonyms-- many ways to say the same thing.

The paper referenced works to eliminate semantic similarity from entropy measurements, leaving much more useful results, proving that hallucination is conceptually a simple problem.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07421-0
Unfortunately it's very hospitable to the vast majority of smaller animals since it doesn't get very cold on the south end of the island and there's a fair amount of food available. Rats live comfortably outside of cities here, and you'll find them out in the woods where they can eat insects, seeds, nuts, berries, etc for most/all of the year.
Nice, would love to know how it goes. What kind of storage and DB's are you planning to work with?
they probably just forgot to tell it humans are 1 indexed and to do the friendly conversion for them.
> how does this track against consumer debt?

It tracks pretty much as one would expect had the pandemic not happened, following a well-established longer-term trend: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CCLACBW027SBOG

> I feel like we were all doing a lot better before 2020

There we go again, going by "feelings" rather than the data.
Trump picks Musk ally Jared Isaacman to head NASA
Yes, I would like to see more games like this!
You should use an en-dash for a date range, not a hyphen.
There are only 5 tools it has available to call, and that isn't one of them. A GitHub (forgot the url) stays up to date with the latest dumped system instructions.
That’s a pretty rosy view of the world. If that were true, the 2008 housing crisis wouldn’t have been nearly as bad.

People get taken advantage of all the time because they don’t understand what they’re signing—and society’s conditioned us to agree to whatever’s put in front of us, from cell phone contracts to software usage to major investments.

Plus, lawyers aren’t everywhere, and they’re not cheap. Most people can’t afford to just hire one whenever they need help.
NixOS OCI containers are a powerful way to run apps that are not packaged for Nix or NixOS. And because they’re ultimately systemd units, you can customize virtually everything without having to fiddle with the container runtime.

If you want to take this a step further and migrate or run a Compose project on NixOS, I maintain a tool that makes this pretty easy to do :)

https://github.com/aksiksi/compose2nix
It sounds like you live in a rural area. In those places, the providers are drying up as the doctors get old and retire, and there's no one to replace them. This has nothing to do with Obamacare; it's like this in many places, including here in Japan. They actually offer more money here for people to work in the medical field in rural areas, but people would rather get paid less to live in Tokyo, because no one with an education wants to live in rural areas these days if they don't have to.

Basically, if you want really good healthcare, you need to live in or near a very large city. (Albuquerque is not a very large city.)

Another thing that's probably changed in the US is larger healthcare companies taking over doctors' practices and enshittifying them to increase profits. Doctors are happy to sell because they're getting close to retirement, and/or tired of dealing with all the administrative hassle on top of actually being a doctor and caring for patients. I've read about this type of thing greatly affecting veterinary care in the US too.
Does Amazon S3 Tables (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/features/tables/) affect the usefulness of this approach?
Instead of "kep", if you want something that visually stands out, there are also lots of fun little symbol-like characters you can use, even when you're dealing with a language where identifiers are limited to ID_Start/ID_Continue (e.g. Javascript, Rust). My favorite collection :)

ⴵ ⵛ ꘜ ⵣ ꕤ ꖜ
ꘖ ꧮ ⴲ Ⰴ Ⰺ
We also have the “dormant commerce clause” as a key protection. Europe doesn’t have anything like that AFAIK
consequence? As in unintended consequences.
A well-maintained structure will also increase in value because the cost of material to replace it increases over time. It should track inflation pretty closely, but that's not always the case.

It also sounds like you're basing your statement on your tax assessment, which implies that your tax assessor has correctly allocated the value increase to the appropriate category. That has not been the case very frequently in my personal experience.
Is Zuck a climate change denier?

Louisiana is on the front line of climate change effects --- extreme heat, sea level rise, flooding, increased hurricane number and severity, etc..
I'm fairly out of my depth here, but the birthday paradox is a harsh mistress.
That looks exactly like Plausible
Making a Tiny E-Paper Status Display for the Raspberry Pi Zero
How do you check it?

Take the example of case law. Would you need to formalize the entirety of case law? Would the AI then need to produce a formal proof of its argument, so that you can ascertain that its citations are valid? How do you know that the formal proof corresponds to whatever longform writing you ask the AI to generate? Is this really something that LLMs are suited for? That the law is suited for?
GCM is like 4 billion messages, which is not astronomical at Facebook's scale.
The time when a large portion of low wage workers were unemployed due to a pandemic? Probably not a great data point to use as your baseline.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42294836

and not open source since the vanity license files both say "well, yes, but I place additional restrictions on your rights"

https://github.com/jyjblrd/4-Axis-Polar-3D-Printer?tab=Licen...

https://github.com/jyjblrd/Radial_Non_Planar_Slicer?tab=Lice...
Please don’t take this rudely. But if you haven’t used a language or looked into in over a decade perhaps you shouldn’t comment on it?

That being said you should really check out how streams, records, switch expressions, pattern matching and all of the recent additions in the last 5 years have made Java a magnitude less verbose than Go.
my employees have no problem doordashing Chipotle or tim Horton or Starbucks.

It's 5 mins of driving. It's also not having any financial sense.
It's one of my big issues with lots of things, even outside tech.

What's that? Oh, so it's like this. Why not call it that?
> So you want to live in what would be an extremely desirable area but also have the cost of living be very low, and feel like you have a high quality of life while you have a tendency to exaggerate the negative aspects of your community.

I don't want a super low CoL, but I realize that housing prices have gone up in excess of what they should have due to restrictive housing policies.

Seattle used to be 1/2 the price of the Bay Area, or less! Engineers here earned less than in the SF, but we were OK with it because the QoL was great at a much lower cost.

But the city and surrounding areas refused to upzone, to such a degree that the state legislature finally had to force the issue, but even then the laws passed are too little too late.

The reason for the high CoL is lack of construction, plain and simple. Getting simple residential permits can take half a year or more, environmental regulations have limited what even homeowners can do with their own houses, and the majority of the city is still zoned for only single family homes.

The high price of building means that daycares can't open (too expensive to justify), and workers in all fields demand ever higher pay just so they can afford rent, which drives up the cost of everything.

For the last decade we've built 1/2 as many houses as we've had people moving to the city, and a large percent of new dense construction is rental only, which means money leaving the city and residents not building up any equity (or long term stake) in the city.

Bad policies lead to bad outcomes.
> You've made the, "If you don't like the oppression here, move to Somalia" argument

Errr, yes, this is a very valid critique. My argument was based on the assumptions you seemed to be coming from, which fit the same pattern of conjuring up new structures out of thin air:

>> If black neighborhoods are underserved, go make a fortune in black neighborhood grocery stores or their suppliers.

You then continued on about "men with guns" and willfully ignoring that actions on one piece of real estate can affect someone on another piece of real estate. All three are common tropes of right libertarianism.

Hence my:

> not somehow having high population density without any conflict-resolving regulations.

because I thought this is where you were coming from. But if you're really just arguing for "Merely liberalization", that's fantastic! Argue away, and you will get no argument from me on this topic (I don't live in a dense area, and I still recognize that the high cost of housing is strangling our society). But perhaps reformulate your arguments so they don't come off as dead end right libertarian tropes.

(Although I will say, completely independently of the rest of this exchange, and obviously not as a replacement for liberalization - if we could figure out a way to bootstrap new [non-car-based] cities in this country, that could go a long way as well)
Trudeau has been PM for the last 9 of those 8 years. Do you think his policies are at least partly responsible?
Excellent point; I think there is also an analogy to be made with the linguistic distinction between synthetic and analytic languages. Broadly speaking, analytic languages feature longer sentences with lots of brief, generic words, whereas synthetic languages have shorter sentences in which each word encodes a complex idea (for example, using prefixes or vowel changes). English is towards the middle of the continuum, with both analytical and synthetic characteristics.
I know you are half-joking, but it shows how worrying things are related to public discourse where you need such a disclaimer at the start of your argument.

The scenario you describe is rather frightening. Let's hope the "CEO class" (for lack of a better term) and the general public will allow reason and ethics to win out.

One thing that is for certain, there should be better legal limits to what companies can get away with. We need our justice system to get involved well before vigilante's start running amok. The US government should have stepped in a full decade ago to reign-in United Healthcare's misconduct and fraud.
Being a grinder/grifter makes sense. That's how you climb the corporate ladder.

Being a coaster/believer also makes sense, you are essentially trading status for a job you enjoy doing. They are not suckers, they will accept to do more work for less but only if you give them the job they want, otherwise, they won't do it.

Grinder/believers are probably the most likely to be exploited, but it doesn't mean they are suckers either. These are the kind of people who have standards, break their standards and you will find yourself with a surprise letter of resignation. If they are an essential element, as they often are, they will be more than happy to see you struggle as they are now working for a company they deem more worthy, they may take a few fellow believers with them too.
I feel like that complaint is somewhat addressed by the blog post itself:

> Obviously don’t go crazy with it, but it’s a tool I’m happy to have added to the toolbox.

It sounds like your company culture has gone crazy with it, which, yea, I would think it would make it hard to reason about.

I think this kind of naming approach could be...reasonable in a shared code base, if used very sparingly and well documented.
and also in all kids of fabrics/building materials to prevent McMansions going up in smoke on the regular.

Formaldehyde isn't used for fireproofing. You may be thinking of brominated ethers, which are used as flame retardants:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polybrominated_diphenyl_ethers
> The trouble is that we software engineers have spent so long working in an artificially deterministic world that we're not used to designing and evaluating probabilistic quality control systems for computer output.

I think that's a mischaracterization and not really accurate. As a trade, we're familiar with probabilistic/non-deterministic components and how to approach them.

You were closer when you used quotes around "AI Engineer" -- many of the loudest people involved in generative AI right now have little to no grounding in engineering at all. They aren't used to looking at their work through "fit for purpose" concerns, compromises, efficiency, limits, constraints, etc -- whether that work uses AI or not.

The rest of us are variously either working quietly, getting drowned out, or patiently waiting for our respected colleagues-in-engineering to document, demonstrate, and mature these very promising tools for us.

Everything else you said is 100% right, though.
Embodied cognition is a core theory for AGI; this would enable a vast array of bodies, environments, and situations, that high level of diversity can empower AI adaptability.

For a straightforward example, this could help Waymo rehearse driving in various cities and weather / traffic settings
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This encapsulates a misunderstanding of how vaccines work. They do not float around in our bodies for years. They work by (hopefully) training an immune response from our own bodies. The vaccines themselves rapidly breakdown. They do not last because there's no need for them to. As a result, vaccine testing - for all vaccines - pretty much only needs to cover that period. While side-effects (ranging from minor to serious and rare to common) from the vaccines themselves do occur, what's not clear to me is how well we understand/appreciate the second order effects of an altered immune system response e.g. "my body now knows to attack X, but in attacking X, it also impacts Y" - kind of thing. Where Y may be something that only becomes apparent much later.

Speaking for myself, having lived and worked in SE Asia for a while, I've had almost every vaccine known to man (the only one I'm sure I haven't had is the HPV). I've had 5 COVID shots (got COVID once in 2021) and get an annual flu-shot. The only side-effect I've ever had (that I'm aware of), is a sore arm at the injection site. I have no idea what that says about me. My mum reacts badly to most (not all) vaccines - especially the flu shots. People vary and I suspect our immune system (which I believe is poorly understood) has complex effects on the response to some vaccines.
I have a feeling that exposure to harmful particles to the brain (the full spectrum, low to high harm) is heavily correlated with political preferences, among other believes, it would be controversial even before executing it but I think it could give important insights.
OECD disposable income per capita numbers already account for the benefits of the European welfare state vs. self funded ones in the US.
But how do you discuss code issues verbally with others?
I wish people would stop arguing about what's causing climate change and focus on slowing it down or reversing it. In the US you can't discuss solutions without it devolving into a gaslighting debate about reality and statistics. I can only hope those who are reaping rewards from ignoring the problem are really getting their money's worth.
Touche. I meant to say "lenders" - but they too were pretty dumb with sub-prime mortgages in 2008
Advent of Neovim
Accompanying code: https://github.com/tjdevries/advent-of-nvim
Nah, I'm basing it on market value of comparable properties in the area. I am deeply grateful that nothing's been re-assessed yet.
Renting a 2b2b in the middle of Manhattan probably costs 100k a year, but that is very far from a "moderate-cost area".
Egress charges for migrations hasn't been a problem since 2024 March.

from https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/free-data-transfer-out-to-i...

We believe this choice must include the one to migrate your data to another cloud provider or on-premises. That’s why, starting today, we’re waiving data transfer out to the internet (DTO) charges when you want to move outside of AWS.

If you need more than 100 gigabytes of data transfer out per month while transitioning, you can contact AWS Support to ask for free DTO rates for the additional data. It’s necessary to go through support because you make hundreds of millions of data transfers each day, and we generally do not know if the data transferred out to the internet is a normal part of your business or a one-time transfer as part of a switch to another cloud provider or on premises.

We will review requests at the AWS account level. Once approved, we will provide credits for the data being migrated. We don’t require you to close your account or change your relationship with AWS in any way. You’re welcome to come back at any time. We will, of course, apply additional scrutiny if the same AWS account applies multiple times for free DTO.
> Apartment in a moderate-cost area is about $70,000-$100,000/year.

That doesn't even pass a minimum-effort sniff test. I live in one of the most expensive cities in the country, and I'm in your quoted range for a 4-bedroom condo.

My sibling lives in a more affordable, but desirable, area and spends a little less than half of what I spend a year, for a single-family home with a good-sized yard that's more than twice the size of my condo. (And they bought last year when interest rates were high.)

Your own stats don't even make sense. You claim it costs $70k-$100k/yr for housing, but that to afford a home, a family needs to make $107k/yr? That doesn't make sense. If housing costs that much, that family needs to make north of $200k/yr to afford it.

Where are you getting this information?