MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ghc | 2025-12-01 19:21:29+00:00
Yep. Recently tried to sell my 2BR/2BA in Boston. Exactly 2 people visited over 3 months and several open houses and price cuts. Realtor said it's the same across the board for 2BR/2BA because the pool of entry-level buyers dried up with layoffs.

After I switched it over to a rental listing I was able to rent it out within 3 days at a significant profit. Another unit in my building rented similarly fast at a similar price. I know it's just anecdata, but it doesn't feel like the rental market is cooling down at all.
by hollerith | 2025-12-01 19:21:38+00:00
Box fans are a fire hazard when used continuously to pull air through filtration media. They are not designed for that.

Computer cooling fans also might not have been designed to handle that much "load", but in the case of the box fan, we have an actual report of someone who almost burned down the house:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21382994
by doctorpangloss | 2025-12-01 19:21:39+00:00
well, you didn't answer the question, but it sounds like you are saying $40,000? how much do you think Orchid costs? do you think it even works?

$40,000 cap would exclude all the therapeutics targeting rare disease being developed today. not just pediatric. all. it would exclude tirzepatide, which costs $250,000 to $400,000 for most people. if you want to cure obesity. and by the way, congress expressly banned paying for all weight loss treatments from medicare.

> Newly pregnant friends are spending $$$ on tests in utero to weed out children with such things.

do you think pregnancies at age 40 compared to pregnancies at age 20 are more expensive, or less expensive? define expensive, yes? and what price should the government pay? should it pay 40 year old mothers different than 20 year old mothers?

it's too bad that i'm being downvoted, since you're engaging with the question and hopefully it is really illuminating why there are no easy answers to capping healthcare costs. it starts with people, especially people who think of themselves as being very smart, being unable to specify a max price they are willing to pay, which is conceding that a market-based solution can exist but be very deeply flawed.
by spruce_tips | 2025-12-01 19:22:04+00:00
I agree there is no moat to the mechanics of switching models i.e. what openrouter does. But it's not as straightforward as everyone says to switch out the model powering a workflow that's been tuned around said model, whether that tuning was purposeful or accidental. It takes time to re-evaluate that new model works the same or better than old model.

That said, I don't believe oai's models consistently produce the best results.
by flaxai | 2025-12-01 19:22:37+00:00
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by dasdachs | 2025-12-01 19:23:01+00:00
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by ericpsimon | 2025-12-01 19:23:18+00:00
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by Tcepsa | 2025-12-01 19:23:19+00:00
Net worth isn't equity - mortgage + 401k. Net worth is assets - liabilities. Equity is not an asset; the house is. So is the 401k. The mortgage is a liability. So Joe's net worth is 100k (IRA) + 300k (value of house) - 200k (mortgage) = 200k positive net worth.

(Another way of thinking about equity, specifically, is it is the real estate contribution to net worth, because it is what is left when you subtract the real estate liability (mortgage) from the real estate asset (value of house). That's why you shouldn't subtract the mortgage from the equity: equity is what's left after you've already subtracted the mortgage.)

(Edit: Adjusted sign in first equation to subtract mortgage. It's probably more technically accurate to keep it as addition and consider the mortgage to be a negative value, but I believe it's more straightforward and intuitive for most people as it is now represented.)
by mkl95 | 2025-12-01 19:23:20+00:00
Ruby is one of the most fun programming languages out of the 6+ languages I've worked with, and I was very productive with it. Unfortunately, due to my experience working at a Ruby shop where Rails misuse and abuse crippled the company, I don't enjoy using Ruby anymore, and will never recommend using Rails for production-grade software. Hopefully you've had a better experience with Ruby and still enjoy writing beautiful software with it - hopefully not with Rails.
by spike021 | 2025-12-01 19:23:29+00:00
I'm teetering on the edge of being able to afford a small condo (a small SFH would be nice but not as much supply) in the Bay Area (SF).

However, I keep thinking about how someone I know was laid off last year only two months after buying their first home.

I'm a SWE making OK money here but not FAANG/unicorn-level, so it's tough to imagine buying and then being on the hook for a mortgage without a job even with some savings.
by codewritero | 2025-12-01 19:23:52+00:00
I love to see people advocating for better protocols and standards but seeing the title I expected the author to present something which would be better in the sense of supporting the same or more use cases with better efficiency and/or ergonomics and I don't think that protobuf does that.

Protobuf has advantages, but is missing support for a tons of use cases where JSON thrives due to the strict schema requirement.

A much stronger argument could be made for CBOR as a replacement for JSON for most use cases. CBOR has the same schema flexibility as JSON but has a more concise encoding.
by 6510 | 2025-12-01 19:23:56+00:00
Before one may begin to understand something one must first be able to estimate the level of certainty. Our robot friends, while really helpful and polite, seem to be lacking in that department. They actually think the things we've written on the internet, in books, academic papers, court documents, newspapers, etc are actually true. Where the humans aren't omniscient it fills the blanks with nonsense.
by littlestymaar | 2025-12-01 19:23:59+00:00
> It reminds me, in an encouraging way, of the way that German military planners regarded the Soviet Union in the lead-up to Operation Barbarossa. The Slavs are an obviously inferior race; their Bolshevism dooms them; we have the will to power; we will succeed

Though, because Stalin had decimated the red army leadership (including most of the veteran officer who had Russian civil war experience) during the Moscow trials purges, the German almost succeeded.
by scop | 2025-12-01 19:24:04+00:00
I believe UFOs are mostly an op to intimidate foreign governments, i.e. US trying to say to China “hey we got some stuff you’ve never heard seen” so as to introduce uncertainty into their war games. They aren’t to demonstrate power; they are to introduce a mix of confusion and intimidation. I’m also not saying that all the reports are fake: i believe most of the witness and testimony are being honest. But just because you’re being honest doesn’t mean what you saw or were told are not the cogs of an intelligence operation.
by PaulKeeble | 2025-12-01 19:24:17+00:00
Its such a contrast to the Dell I used to know. Back in 2012 I had the hard drive in my Dell laptop sale and had the Dell small business service contract and they sent out a guy to replace it that afternoon, right there in front of me in the office. I was without my machine for 4 hours. That is what Dell used to be like.
by Spartan-S63 | 2025-12-01 19:24:26+00:00
I find that rent control is a good idea in theory, but leads to a lot of deadweight loss. As a former renter, what I really wanted was a predictable cap on rent increases. For folks who are long-term renters, without controls and predictability, their only option would be to move every few years, which is incredibly disruptive.

From my understanding, European countries tend to have restrictions on what lease renewals can look like and with declining home ownership (and ownership being priced out for many), I think we should look at European models for real solutions to our housing crisis.
by qcnguy | 2025-12-01 19:24:32+00:00
If he really lied so badly they could have just broadcast those lies and held the moral high ground, but they didn't. They had to make things up (not "editing down", they spliced together sentences 50 minutes apart and hid what they did).

That should be a huge reality check for you. How do you even know that any of your opinions about Trump are true? You're getting them from the kind of people who fake videos of him. You should consider the possibility that nothing you know is accurate.
by ben_w | 2025-12-01 19:24:34+00:00
Noticing that an issue has two opposing sides with good points doesn't mean I must pick a side to favour, nor even that I am competent to do so.

I'm in no position to weigh these things even in isolation, let alone against each other.

All I can do is say that I sympathise with everyone in the UK who wants independence from Westminster, and yet I would absolutely abuse the hell out of that kind of sentiment if I was a foreign agent trying to undermine the UK. Divide and conquor, very old technique.
by standardUser | 2025-12-01 19:24:41+00:00
> Rent control is not a great solution long term since it reduces the incentive to build more

It is exceptionally rare for new construction to be subject to rent control laws, unless they utilize special tax breaks or government subsidies. It does nothing more than slightly inconvenience the investor class, who usually aren't thinking past 15-20 years anyway, when rent control laws might theoretically impact their investment.
by sph | 2025-12-01 19:24:44+00:00
Saturated fat is not the problem. Fat with carbohydrates in the same meal is.

The problem with ramen is the amount of carbs and little nutrition which only spikes your insulin and makes you hungry 2 hours later if your metabolism is not great, not saturated fat in a vacuum. I wish popular knowledge about food had moved on from the misguided research of Ancel Keys already.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-12-01 19:24:56+00:00
You don't have to spend $25, of course, and you can make lunch. But microwavable noodle bowls, especially at your price point, are terrible for your health.

Why do people cheap out on food, but spend that money on less important things? We're talking about your health here! It's even worse when people with high incomes do it.
by staticassertion | 2025-12-01 19:24:58+00:00
> both cgroups and namespaces are hierarichal, so you certainly can subdivide the sandbox.

This is true, you can enter a namespace while in another namespace, but it's a privileged operation to namespace.

Docker in Docker does use socket bind mounting already afaik, and it's a trivial privesc because docker runs as root and the ability to talk to the socket means you can run `docker run --privileged --user root image_name -it bash` and get a shell as the host root user.

The solution is to allow unprivileged users to drop privileges, which is how MacOS and Windows work. On Windows you have integrity levels, tokens, etc, all of which you can drop without privileges. On MacOS you have seatbelt.

Linux almost had this with unprivileged user namespaces but that's not viable because 30 years of "root -> kernel privesc isn't a security issue" attitude proved to be problematic.
by taeric | 2025-12-01 19:25:09+00:00
Ish? Look into towns that didn't have a high reliance on tech. In particular, look for ones that didn't ride the rollercoaster of really high wages that a lot of tech drove and is now flattening off.

Looks like shipping is also an industry that you probably don't want to track on this search. Other than that, places that saw modest wage growth saw similarly modest housing cost growth. And haven't seen it fall back, yet.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-01 19:25:31+00:00
So Cable TV died decades ago when they first put ads onto the service that was sold on not having any ads, right?

Enshittification is done because it is so reliable. Customers just keep buying, doesn't really seem to matter how poorly you treat them.

Shrinkflation has gone on for decades and there's nothing stopping it from continuing because what are you going to do, not buy 90% of products in the grocery store? Good luck.

The problem is that businesses reach a sort of escape velocity where you can abuse your customer and they either do not react to it or have no other choice. The entire economy has worked to ensure that every consumer experiences trained helplessness when it comes to consuming, because that's more profitable.
by maximelahy | 2025-12-01 19:25:42+00:00
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by adamwong246 | 2025-12-01 19:25:51+00:00
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by encyclopedism | 2025-12-01 19:25:56+00:00
> Philosophy seems a term generally reserved for the stuff we don't understand yet and so is inherently kind of speculative. Once you have a definite answer it gets called science instead.

As someone has commented earlier, Philosophy applied is given a name but it's a sub-discipline of Philosophy.

> Understanding the world through experiment?

That's a decent enough definition. Science precludes so much of the world we know which I think people really fail to realise. It's why I think it's important for people to understand what Philosophy is and what Science isn't.

For example logic isn't science. Science presupposes it but it is NOT science. There are many such examples.
by fsloth | 2025-12-01 19:25:57+00:00
” how can you explain how megalithic 100-ton bricks structures were build by "primitives"”

How can you explain we can today build structures that are 800m tall or reroute rivers?

Honestly, good ol human craftsmanship multiplied by available labour combined with ’basic’ geometry gets you really, really far.

Industrial processes don’t require individual craftmanship because it does not scale with the speed and velocity required by markets and capital. Hence if you don’t actually care about building stuff you may think people unassisted with industrial machinery would be much more incapable than they really are.

Humans are friggin talented.

My opinion is that said structures are made by humans - a function of basic human psychology, times population, time surrounding available resources. You don’t need to add alien intelligences to the equation.

And aliens per your description - not that interested really because it sounds more like religious conspiracy theories than something actually profoun.

I’m pretty sure there’s life out there (i mean basic chemistry right) but I’m not so sure if it’s anything that would travel here intentionally or that it would have anything to say to us.

I would be happy to be wrong! That’s the most interesting outcome always.
by josh-gree | 2025-12-01 19:26:16+00:00
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by m-hodges | 2025-12-01 19:26:26+00:00
It doesn’t breach E2EE; it gives your employer control over the device. Once messages are decrypted on the phone so you can read them, anything your employer deploys via MDM (screen capture, keylogging, backup/forensics tools, admin unlock, etc.) can potentially copy them.

On a company-owned, fully managed device, you should treat MDM as roughly equivalent to handing your boss an unlocked device: anything you can see on-screen could be captured or exfiltrated by tooling they deploy.
by tavavex | 2025-12-01 19:26:39+00:00
> GET wordpress/wp-content/plugins/demo_vul/endpoint.php?user=-1+union+select+1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,(SELECT+user_pass+FROM+wp_users+WHERE+ID=1)

This is why I tried to make the clarification that I was referring to the address part of the URLs only, not the parametrized part. In my mind, something like /users?key=00726fca8123a710d78bb7781a11927e is quite different from /logins-and-passwords.txt. Although, parameters can also be baked into the URL body, so there's some vagueness to this.

> I think you've reached the essence of it. Now, let's say you just accidentally find an open folder on a bank's website exposing deeply personal KYC information of their customers. Or even better, medical records in the case of a clinic.

I guess if I try to distill my thoughts down, what I really mean is that there should be a minimum standard of care for private data. At some point, if being able to read restricted data is so frictionless, the fault should lie with the entity that has no regard for its information, rather than the person who found out about it. If a hospital leaves a box full of sensitive patient data in the director's office, and getting to it requires even the minimal amount of trespassing, the fault is on whoever did so. But if they leave that box tucked away in the corner of a parking lot, can you really fault some curious passer-by that looked around the corner, saw it and picked it up? Of course, there's a lot of fuzziness between the two, but in my mind, stumbling into private data by finding an undocumented address doesn't clear the same bar as bruteforcing or using a security vulnerability to gain access to something that's normally inaccessible.
by bediger4000 | 2025-12-01 19:27:01+00:00
all passengers who do not present an acceptable form of ID and still want to fly an option to pay a $45 fee to use a modernized alternative identity verification system, TSA Confirm.ID, to establish identity at security checkpoints beginning on February 1, 2026.

This is just a $45 shakedown. Whose account does this .. payment go in to?
by mellowagain | 2025-12-01 19:27:11+00:00
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