MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by crazygringo | 2025-07-14 00:18:51+00:00
> and indeed a place where it costs nearly twice as much to rent as it does to own.

Which is exactly where the supply and demand is out of whack. But fortunately, the more people buy places to rent out, the cheaper it becomes to rent.

The renters in your area would love if investors bought a ton of properties and rented them out, increasing supply and therefore bringing down rates! And if rents are really 2x mortgage payments, then there should be tons of people lining up to do so, since it's basically just free money lying around. The invisible hand and everything.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-07-14 00:19:07+00:00
I have a friend who is a real estate broker for a rental property investment company.

His company goes into neighborhoods that are often struggling, buy houses for cash, gut them, then rent them.

They have a lot of buying leverage, because there's no mortgage to deal with. They just slap down the cash.

That's one way that higher interest rates cause problems. It's hard to compete with someone that can hand you a cashier's check for $500,000.
by watusername | 2025-07-14 00:19:52+00:00
Other commenters have already provided examples for other languages, and it's the same for Rust: async functions are just regular functions that return an impl Future type. As a sync function, you can call a bunch of async functions and return the futures to your caller to handle, or you can block your current thread with the block_on function typically available through a handle (similar to the Io object here) provided by your favorite async runtime [0].

In other words, you don't need such an Io object upfront: You need it when you want to actually drive its execution and get the result. From this perspective, the Zig approach is actually less flexible than Rust.

[0]: https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/runtime/struct.Handle.htm...
by glp1guide | 2025-07-14 00:20:03+00:00
Note that right now there's a problem with people staying on GLP1s[0] so it's not quite clear how this could go any other way. Considering the rate of rebound from other lifestyle methods, GLP1 is among the most effective alternatives we have.

GLP1 significantly reduces the risk of many mobidities and is increasingly prescribed to older people.

Also, this is incredibly likely to resolve itself once the drugs become common place after patent expiries, the actuaries will update their tables and the curve will smoothe out.

[0]: https://glp1.guide/content/if-glp1-is-so-great-why-dont-peop...

[1]: https://glp1.guide/content/patent-expirations-for-glp1-recep...
by Xss3 | 2025-07-14 00:21:25+00:00
You find 100 commercials per 11 minutes of gameplay watchable? https://qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-comm...

I always thought that Americans just had the NFL on in the background or something and used it as an excuse to be social. But I'm realising I'm likely wrong about that reading comments like this.

I'm guessing you're just a vast amount more accepting of a high ad to content ratio than other cultures?
by hajile | 2025-07-14 00:21:28+00:00
I started out freelancing.

You have to spend large amounts of time finding clients and being a salesman as you sell yourself and your services to them.

Once you do that, you have to prove that you're the person you promised. Unfortunately, most clients reaching out to freelancers are very....difficult.

After you've done the job, you have to be your own accountant and billing department. I should mention here that collecting from a lot of clients is often a frustrating endeavor and you will almost certainly be scammed at least once (at which point you have to do the math on handing most of your profits over to a lawyer and risking getting a bad reputation as a legal risk).

Because you're contracting, you are on the hook for higher taxes than normal to cover stuff like social security. Unless you are getting bottom-dollar insurance (the stuff with a $10,000+ deductible where you still get bankrupted if your medical bills are bad), you are probably paying tens of thousands in health insurance.

Want holidays, vacation, or just a day off? That means you are missing a paycheck (at least missing a bunch of billable hours) and may have upset clients. If you need to make $100,000 at a corporate job, then you'll need to charge at least $150,000. If you want to work a normal 2,000hr/yr, then you are going to have to sell your client on $75/hr while they're seeing $25/hr or less from some overseas "talent".

Also don't forget that lots of the highest-paying jobs aren't open to freelancers. Even if you contract, you'll be going through an agency charging big money then giving you a tiny fraction of what they take in.

After I got married and had kids, I was busy enough without running a business. I want to spend time with my kids while they are still kids. I may make less as a FTE, but I work a lot fewer hours and have way less work stress.
by another_twist | 2025-07-14 00:21:38+00:00
The problem is with 0.05 criterion. In particle physics, the hypothesis tests are done two ways with the alternate hypothesis flipped to be the null hypothesis and it has a lower threshold of passing as in - we believe when theres very strong evidence else we dont. Atleast thats my read from the Higgs boson paper - https://higgsml.lal.in2p3.fr/files/2014/04/documentation_v1....
by crazygringo | 2025-07-14 00:22:38+00:00
1. Not really? You make money by renting until you sell. What other things are you talking about?

2. And lots of homeowners are cost-burdened too. What's your point? The US is an expensive place for everything. Mortgage rates are crazy expensive now too.

It's not mental gymnastics to say you can save by renting. There are lots of online calculators where you can see the places in the US where it's cheaper to rent than to buy.

And sometimes you have to move for a job, period. And families don't always want to rent an apartment, they want to rent a house with a backyard, you know?
by MBCook | 2025-07-14 00:22:41+00:00
I wonder about that.

If someone’s a billionaire and wants to play around by buying houses? Is that any better than an investment company doing it for the market?

How do you tell the difference between a rich person buying their third vacation home and buying a house they intend to sell for profit in a year or two through speculation?

Of course, on the other side, I’m aware of companies that own some company housing to let their employees use. How do you tell that from investing?

Maybe since they weren’t really doing it to make money they wouldn’t really care that the tax would be high when they sold it if they made a big profit.

It all gets really sticky. No special taxes gains on your primary residence, may be a lower tax (that 75% of what’s er) on a secondary residence.

But pretty quickly if you have that many houses personally you can probably afford to pay a high tax on gains. You’re not really what we want to optimize the market for anyway.

I just guessed at a big number. Maybe it should be 50%. Maybe it should be 90%. I have no idea. It seems like it should be legal, there have got to be cases where it might be useful. Buying and flipping houses from dilapidated neighborhood by turning it into something better.

I’m at the age where I wouldn’t mind a house. But they’re all gigantic, expensive, or both in my area. I have no idea how a normal family is ever supposed to afford one.
by throwaway31131 | 2025-07-14 00:22:50+00:00
I'm not sure how "useful" or "good" the work is. But some one instruction computers have a considerable amount of tooling already in place.

i.e. https://esolangs.org/wiki/FlipJump

Flip Jump is amazing. I understand the theory and how it works but it still amazes me that it does. Things like this is why I love the science in computer science.

And subleq even has a c-compiler and operating system, just wow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-instruction_set_computer#S...
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-14 00:23:10+00:00
I do a lot of "focus group" style conversations and one theme is "why do people think the economy is so bad for them right now?" A perception that the housing market is unfair comes up a lot, particularly complaints that investors are buying up all the houses.

Ithaca recently got an ordinance to encourage alternative dwelling units (ADU, aka "granny flats") but boy was it a knock-down drag-out because so many people were up in arms about AirBNB conversions and Private Equity getting involved in buying and building properties. As I'm seeing it Ezra Klein's "Abundance" theme is closely linked to Matt Stoller's "antitrust" theme both in the sense that monopolies are one reason "why nothing works" and that anger at them is dominating the public imagination.
by xboxnolifes | 2025-07-14 00:23:22+00:00
I don't think they're on a learning curve. I think they're in a worldview bubble they cannot see out of. When something different enters the bubble, it's an anomaly (one of the good ones). It's like doublethink. It can't be a learning curve, because it's completely stationary. They've been in that spot most of, if not all of, their life.

At least that's how I see the "nuanced racists" in my life (I'm white, fwiw, so it's not the other side view you were probably looking for).
by lazide | 2025-07-14 00:23:43+00:00
People aren’t “buying up homes for investing so that prices of homes go up and people can’t afford homes.”

That may be an aggregate and long term effect, but i’ve never seen anyone actually motivated by something like that.

At least not statistically.

People with excess money (often dentists, doctors, middle managers, small business owners, etc), who don’t trust stocks or the banks, are buying houses because they think they can rent them to people for cashflow in the future (aka not have to eat dogfood!), or rent them out now to other people for money. People that otherwise couldn’t be in these houses, or those people would be buying them instead.

Aka put their money to work.

IMO, people doing that right now are going to lose their shirts, but that is risk/reward. I could be wildly wrong.
by jfengel | 2025-07-14 00:23:43+00:00
I can't vouch for what readers are assuming, but the headline is intended to say that more people are renting because more homes are going to institutions who don't occupy them.

The implication is that this drives up the price for renters, because the demand side includes not just money from people seeking a place to live, but much larger amounts of money from other markets.
by throw10920 | 2025-07-14 00:23:45+00:00
There's constant examples of the trend that GP pointed out happening all the time. I'm pretty surprised that someone with so much internet activity hasn't noticed.

For instance, just a few days ago, a very popular TikTokker doxxed a father and asked his followers to report that father to CPS to try to get his kids taken away for expressing an opinion that they didn't like. That opinion? That children can't consent. The TikTokker isn't in jail, and he didn't lose his platform or otherwise suffer any consequences, because even though he did an extremely evil thing, his opinion was aligned with the "politically correct", and the father's opinion was "politically incorrect".

There are many, many instances of this happening - I've both seen them online, and witnessed it personally.

If you haven't seen it yourself, you're probably in a social bubble.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-07-14 00:24:05+00:00
TCM has a lot of wins along just those lines. For instance:

Artemisinin (qinghaosu) from artemisia annua. This won the 2015 Nobel Prize, and is now the cornerstone of global malaria therapy.

Arsenic trioxide, the purified form of the TCM mineral pishuang, now a very common treatment for acute promyelocytic leukemia. Often curative in a single dose: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221304891...

Camptothecin from camptotheca acuminata, precursor of topotecan and irinotecan for solid tumours.

Ephedrine from ephedra sinica -- template for modern bronchodilators and decongestants.

Many others. Omacetaxine, minnelide, and more.

Very often, the first thing a medicinal chemist seeking new drug templates does is look to herbs that are used by indigenous populations or in "traditional" medicine systems. There's an entire journal dedicated to this:

> https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-ethnopharma...
by glp1guide | 2025-07-14 00:24:51+00:00
Liraglutide is now available as a generic, but it is the least effective of the big 3 (Semaglutide, Tirzepatide, Liraglutide):

Basically, Tirz > Sema > Lira

https://glp1.guide/content/semaglutide-vs-tirzepatide-clinic...

https://glp1.guide/content/semaglutide-liraglutide-continue-...

https://glp1.guide/content/another-generic-liraglutide-launc...
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-14 00:25:06+00:00
No... Normal medicine is whatever we know works. It is unfathomably hard to figure out whether something works, ergo it is very specific knowledge (specific isolated compounds in specific amounts).

> well it's something, isn't it?

It's probably not!

If you want to say such remedies produce a placebo effect and that's sufficient for such purposes, IMO that's a valid approach.
by charlesju | 2025-07-14 00:25:22+00:00
I think this is the wrong question.

The right question is how much human code can a human push now vs prior to AI.

Everything we've done in coding has been assisted.

Prior to this current generation of web applications, we had the advent of concepts like Object Orientated Programming and prior to that even C was a massive move up from Assembly and punch cards.

AI has written a lot of code. AI has written very little high velocity production code by itself (ie. for people with no coding background).

In Ruby on Rails, the concept of fast coding has been around for over 20 years, look up this concept of Scaffolding: https://www.rubyguides.com/2020/03/rails-scaffolding/

So to answer your question,

1. AI has pushed a lot of code 2. AI has pushed almost no code without the oversight of human software engineers 3. Software engineers are pushing a magnitude more code and producing more functional utility and solving more bugs than ever before

I don't know what the future holds, but I do think that this is not a new trend to use software to help humans build faster, and I don't think software has the ability to fully replace humans (yet).
by asadotzler | 2025-07-14 00:26:04+00:00
Weasel words. No different than Nadella claiming 50%.

When you drill in you find out the real claims distill into something like "95% of the code, in some of the projects, was written by humans who sometimes use AI in their coding tasks."

If they don't produce data, show the study or other compelling examples, don't believe the claims; it's just marketing and marketing can never be trusted because marketing is inherently manipulative.
by rtpg | 2025-07-14 00:26:25+00:00
> Outside of top tier programs (think Peking tier programs in China or AIIMS tier programs in India), that's nonexistent in most Asian countries, so your department's funding is at the whim of government bureaucrats

That's a bit surprising, after seeing so many people I know in academia who are basically being used as private sector R&D on the cheap (see all the formal methods work being funded by cryptocurrency outfits...), I would have assumed that most large corporations even outside of "innovation" sectors would take advantage of this.

But maybe this effect in places like the US are just downstream of the wild wage arbitrage you get by doing this.
by Jedd | 2025-07-14 00:27:48+00:00
> So I have two dead man switch’s.

I am reminded of an aphorism about having a problem and deciding to use regex.

> Historical data: I’m not chasing down grand mysteries that require fleet-wide aggregate metrics.

Everyone believes this .. until it isn't true, and then you find yourself needing logs from the last two weeks.

For home labs, log aggregation is an easy problem to deal with these days, and a secure sink to send all your logs to has (potentially) more than one benefit.

Anecdote - I've just been tracking some unpleasant FLUSH CACHE EXT errors on my aging pre-owned Xeon box, and having an understanding of frequency / distribution of those errors on the hypervisor, but also correlation with different but related errors presenting in the VMs, was a) very useful, b) not something I'd have predicted I'd need before hand.
by jfengel | 2025-07-14 00:27:52+00:00
Having investment money inherently raises the price of rentals. There is a gap between how much the renters could conceivably pay and the minimum for which the house could be built and maintained. The actual price will be somewhere between the two. But if they are competing against investors, putting more money into the demand side, the price that renters actually pay is pushed towards their potential limit.

That is not what's best; it just concentrates more money in the hands of the investors.
by adelmotsjr | 2025-07-14 00:27:58+00:00
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I can help build: - web applications using modern principles with the latest technologies (Angular, React, TypeScript, Vue, TailwindCSS, HTMX); - services that monitor equipments using telecommunications protocols (SNMP, NETCONF, TR-069); - serverless programs on any business domain to help reduce costs and increase availability (AWS Lambda); - microservices that expose REST APIs for consumption using battle-tested frameworks (SpringBoot, Quarkus); - data processing applications and services that consumes streams of data using common parsing techniques (Rust with Nom); - small CLI apps to help automate common tasks (Rust); - integration of different services using distributed log (Kafka, AWS SNS), WebSocket (with NodeJS) or with simple HTTP requests; - proper documentation for common services using OpenAPI specification and/or frameworks such as Diátaxis (Swagger)
by sensanaty | 2025-07-14 00:29:23+00:00
This is just blatantly false. Source: I have had to work with regulators in various companies in reference to GDPR.

You are given ample warning if you're found to be in violation of GDPR, you are then also given instructions and guidance on what you did wrong and what your next steps are. Depending on the severity, you're given ample time to fix the issue. ONLY AFTER ALL THIS, which can take months, are you at risk of getting a fine, and they start off tiny, like 5 digits usually unless it's an egregious fuck up. If you continue fucking up, the fines escalate yes, but that's how it should work.

Let's not forget that none of this is something that got snuck into law out of the blue, it was known for years it was coming, and yet companies were STILL given leniency and ample opportunities to fix their behavior.

Guess what, no company I have ever worked for got a fine! Fancy that, almost like this is just FUD from people who only give a shit about making maximum money for the least amount of effort, screw the people we're harvesting data from amirite?

Also, jail? Name literally a single occurrence of this ever happening. I fucking WISH we'd be putting people in jail for the shenanigans they like to pull, but unfortunately it's only tiny fines for the most part.
by adelmotsjr | 2025-07-14 00:29:24+00:00
Location: Curitiba, Brazil

Remote: yes (preferably part-time, but I can do full-time as well)

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: TypeScript, JavaScript, Pytho, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Angular, ExpressJS, AWS, Rust, Axum, HTMX and TailwindCSS.

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adelmo-junior-2a576b156/ | PDF on request

Email: development@silvajunior.dev

I'm a software engineer working to help people build products and deliver value to their customers.

I can help build:

- web applications using modern principles with the latest technologies (Angular, React, TypeScript, Vue, TailwindCSS, HTMX)

- services that monitor equipments using telecommunications protocols (SNMP, NETCONF, TR-069)

- serverless programs on any business domain to help reduce costs and increase availability (AWS Lambda)

- microservices that expose REST APIs for consumption using battle-tested frameworks (SpringBoot, Quarkus)

- data processing applications and services that consumes streams of data using common parsing techniques (Rust with Nom)

- small CLI apps to help automate common tasks (Rust)

- integration of different services using distributed log (Kafka, AWS SNS), WebSocket (with NodeJS) or with simple HTTP requests

- proper documentation for common services using OpenAPI specification (Swagger)
by appreciatorBus | 2025-07-14 00:30:04+00:00
If those homes had been purchased by an owner occupiers, then there would be that many fewer homes for rent, causing rent to go up.

The implication of these article is always that investors are somehow unfairly competing against homeowners. But there is only one fixed pool of people competing for housing - something that reduces supply for buyers is increasing it for tenants and vice versa.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-14 00:30:29+00:00
There were a few things I personally found lacking as well, albeit they're fairly minor.

Regarding CRTs, at the vector CRTs section, they mention "they were mostly monochrome and so the phosphor dots could be tightly packed" - this is not true either I believe, monochrome CRTs had a uniform phosphor coat on the inside, no subpixel patches. I'd have also liked if they delved a bit into the decay times of the various phosphor chemistries used for color CRTs, and how they compare to LCDs and OLEDs. It's an entertaining comparison, grounds motion performance related discussions really well.

Regarding LCDs, I missed the mention of multi-layer LCDs, especially since they bring up tandem OLEDs.

Regarding OLEDs, now that you mention, the subpixel layouts were left unaddressed.

Regarding quantum dots, I missed both the mention of QDEL as a somewhat promising future contender, and the mentioning of the drawback of their typical implementation. External light also provides them with energy to activate, which I believe is at least partially the cause behind the relatively poor black levels of QD-OLEDs in environments with significant ambient light (+ something about it not being possible to put a polarizer in front of them?)

I was also generally expecting a more in-depth look by the title, would have loved to learn about the driving electronics, maybe learn about why OLEDs aren't ran anywhere near as fast as their full potential (I'd assume throughput limitations), etc. Overall, it basically only covers as much as my own enthusiast but not in-the-area self gathered over the years too.
by heavyset_go | 2025-07-14 00:30:43+00:00
> Why would little children need to access motherboard firmware updates though?

Because they're interested in it. I was installing Linux when I was 9 because I thought it was cool.

If my parents had walled me off into a foam internet safe-room, it would have stifled one of my lifelong interests that led to my career, and bred trust issues and resentment against my parents.
by roncesvalles | 2025-07-14 00:30:52+00:00
It's still not a vindication of TCM specifically. All traditional medicine cultures have contributed something to modern medicine. E.g. willow bark was used to treat pain for thousands of years, which led to the discovery of aspirin. I believe even cholesterol-reducing statins come from traditional medicinal herb.

Naturopathic medicinal cultures aren't totally bullshit. They're just "unscientific" i.e. they haven't gone through the rigors of the scientific method to establish their efficacy, or often their etiologies and mechanisms of action are completely made-up.