skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be curious to see analysis for what home prices would be with 0 Fed intervention.

It is an interesting thought experiment. From what I've gathered, any intervention by the government to make housing more accessible, just gets priced in pretty quickly, removing the benefit.

For example, FHA offering 5% down payments instead of a standard 20%, just means every first time buyer can now pay 15% more (approximately) for a house. In hot markets, the prices rise quickly to reflect that and everyone is in the same position as before.

It obviously benefits buyers in non-hot markets. It's pretty nice to put $7500 down in the mid-west for a house.

I assume that without any federal intervention, the housing prices would be as accessible as they are today, prices would just be lower so that that the same number of people could afford 20% down and 5-year term mortgages with the resulting interest rate risk.
I would have a hard time trusting other people to store any more than useless garbage I don't need anymore anyway.
What are the plans of the company to deal with possible huge amounts of theft complaints?
> I don't think you really grasp just how much having children robs you of your "self" and your down time.

Most adults without children grasp this perfectly fine, and it's one of the primary reasons why they have chosen not to have children.
Yes - we noticed that about the hardcoded http graphics! Need to fix. Thanks for that and the typo spotting.
There's still room for lightweight, functional webapps. Some of us still cringe at additional dependencies and frameworks.
Ask HN: What would you make if you had 1000 hours?
I'm just thinking about it. I used git-hours to sum of the parts of a project I worked on and calculated it worked out to over 1000 hours, which roughly correlated with my own estimate of how much I'd put into it.

I'm wondering. If you had 1000 hours, what would you build?
The problem is the speed at which the reactors can be ramped up and down, this is very limited. Also, if you have enough capacity to cover all peaks, most of the time the reactors are not running at full power. That increases the cost of operating the reactors, which is far higher than you claim. Currently, projects building new nuclear reactors are challenged by their costs. Never mention the safety concerns and of course the waste problem.
A lot seems to fall into this false dichotomy of “we must act with drastic measures else people die” mindset where said measures is just a bizarre cargo cult. Sad
> they are de facto aligned against the mission of continuing the human race

Holy hyperbole, Batman!
The pandemic is the “act of god” in this analogy.
Rational geopolitics usually lead to war. Because rationality, the kind you talk about, is a farce, a rationalizing, that hides the true motives. When these are not acknowledge you can't critic the actions on the correct terms. Thus these "rationality" usually spirals out of control.

Friendship, joint ideals empathy, are not strictly rational.
By lock in he is asking if the rate can change. In the USA, the rate is permanent.
Thanks - will put in the link.
Will it?
They will dump them because they will need the liquidity.
Kids this is how one does cross platform properly since the early days of computing, without Electron fat.
Core Aspects of the Human Resource Cycle
as long as you can still make a film that moves you rather than for the "themes and narratives" that others want. we shouldn't make films in order to win awards or approval anyway.
Ask HN: Can I keep using the MIT-licensed version of Handontable for my SaaS?
In 2017, I made a very niche data-analysis side project with an excel-like UI powered by Handsontable (https://github.com/handsontable/handsontable) which was MIT licensed at the time. A friend in consulting suggested I turn it into a subscription business and I made a modest income from in starting later that year. I had issues with mental health, so I took a lot of time away from tech, and had the friend answer support emails for about a year. During this time, revenue grew modestly but I no longer actively maintained or marketed it.

I recently returned to work / computer related activity and found out that Handontable went from an MIT license to one that requires payment for SAAS use. There's actually a HN thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488642 .

AFAIK, I haven't even run npm update since early 2019 or late 2018. If I continue using the code as is, do I still require a subscription as per the new license? I don't actively plan on maintaining the business unless something breaks (it is a very simple product and paying hosting fees is about as far as my daily involvement goes).

Thank you in advance for you advice - I am really curious on how to resolve this.
For the record, chrome on android is ~60MB, less than half the size of desktop chrome (~150MB). Android chrome supports the same set of javascript APIs. Clearly that isn't the whole picture.
In case of Reddit, lack of Personalization of content.
In some cultures (and countries), taking care of your elderly parents is also not voluntary.
Pour into the automatic system update tank and the personal
A single household salary from one of the tech companies named in the article, many of whom pay starting employees six figures? I think 100% of the country could survive on $100,000/year, if they adjusted their lifestyle to match. What percentage do you think?
Storage units are fairly cheap and common pretty much everywhere (At least where I live) - so what is the advantage of using this?
Another interesting aspect of Victorian railways: Originally, passenger coaches had compartments spanning the full width of the coach with doors on both sides, typically with room for 8 passengers. While this puts a maximum of passengers in a coach, each of the compartments is totally isolated and there is no shared infrastructure, like bathrooms or a chance to collect any sort of food, etc. Hence the train has to increase halts at stations to allow for any passenger needs (which may also collect a bit of extra profit at the stations). At some point, coaches with corridors where introduced, now offering room for just 6 passengers in any of the compartments. A drop of 25% in capacity! on the other hand, based on average speeds and frequency on your network, you may more than compensate for this by less frequent and shorter stops, by this increasing overall throughput of the system. Where is the exact point in the evolution of technology, of your system, and of market acceptance that this becomes a viable option? (Include any losses on side business at the stations in your considerations.)
Are you talking about the website, which gives a warning due to some http graphics (which we need to fix), or the cert issue when connecting to the console of TerminusDB/Hub? The first we can fix quickly (and is just on the community page I think). The other is a bigger issue with certification and the reason we moved to electron apps as the standard delivery.
I assume that the vast majority of people with children make the choice to have them, something that can't always be said about being childless. And having children is hardly comparable to having cancer.
The headline isn’t correct.

There is $17T in US mortgage debt. The Fed has backed $2T of that via mortgage backed securities, up from $1T pre-Covid-19.

That’s ~11% not 1/3.

The article itself mentions this, but decided to use a misleading headline instead.
Then combine with carbon from air and store methane.

Pumped is great when you have the geography for it but most countries don't. And building dams is pretty harsh on the environment too, just in different ways than CO2 emmisions.
Yes, your impression is correct but D is still a young language compared to Python, and it just has been around for 20 years now (18 to be exact).

For comparison, at the age of 20 years (around 2010) Python was still playing a second fiddle to Perl, and at the same time Ruby was fast becoming popular due to RoR.

The good news is that now D already passed the growing pain problem regarding the transition from D1 to D2 (e.g. Tango library issue), very similar to Python transition from 2 to 3 that happened fairly recently, or perhaps it's still happening now.
> For example, FHA offering 5% down payments instead of a standard 20%, just means every first time buyer can now pay 15% more (approximately) for a house.

Assuming they had the same deposit available they would theoretically be able to pay 300% more. Of course they probably wouldn't be able to demonstrate their ability to service a loan that large.
I love how the couple act and argue like 7 year old kids; crying, saying they didn't know it was wrong, and bargaining for forgiveness and a lesser punishment. Welcome to adulthood! There's a term for the way how late 20-somethings nowadays still act as kids, combined with childhood education awarding undeserved "stars", I wonder how much that's contributed to the rise of Karen-like behaviour in society.
I use markor for android markdown note taking. Apache license, simple, works on files, also useful for todo.txt

https://gsantner.net/project/markor.html?source=inapp_more_h...
There is a vast supply of mom & pop local self-storage (to say nothing of the giants like Public Storage). The US is flooded with modestly priced self-storage units. The market is hyper fragmented, which prevents prices from rising very much.

I don't understand where this tag line is coming from:

> Traditional storage units can be far away, overpriced, and have contracts.

Contracts are ideal, you absolutely want contracts. It's crazy to store your stuff with someone without a contract (that both spells out a period of time that you are guranteed to have the unit space, and makes clear all manner of liability and security issues).

It's unlikely that you have to go very far to find local self-storage, anywhere in the US, short of an extreme scenario like being in the middle of nowhere Wyoming. Even the smallest of towns in Appalachia will have numerous self-storage providers at a fair price.
I’m not exactly sure, I didn’t identify a clear pattern. One thing I noticed is that emails with French or German accents/umlauts in their subject line fail to be imported. But others don’t have that characteristic.
Taking care of elderly parents, siblings, or other family members.
Cab Application (Login Module with HMS Account Kit and AGC Auth Service) Part-1
Oh, and XMLHttpRequest and Websockets, so we don't have to rely on META REFRESH in hidden frames...
Me too more or less, I’ve got an iPhone because it mostly just works and I can expect to get 5 years of life out of it, which makes it more affordable than most android phones, flagship or not. (My last Android was a nexus 5x.)
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So should we just do away with trials in cases of homicide? Discard any outdated ideas about reasonable doubt or self-defense?

Did https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Frank_Garrett, executed for a crime that DNA evidence later tied to someone else, also get "the same trial as the one he gave his victim"?
He didn't say that there are negative effects but that he sees no positives. Surely anyone who's carefully considered a position would be able to point out at least some positives.
The brain instantly rewrites itself when the kid pops out. Such a weird experience.
> It increases the security of the server, which is good for everyone

That is exactly the point: it isn't good for everyone. In particular, it is suspicious that a move in the name of security just so happens to negatively affect the secondary market. A market that by definition doesn't net AMD any money.

If AMD had released this exact same feature and said "we are doing this because the second-hand market is bad for our sales", regulators would immediately jump at them for anti-competitive behavior. And the fact that there is no option to disable this check at all makes it even more suspicious.

It is possible that the benefits outweigh the downsides. But I wouldn't give them a pass that easily.
I am still using Paint Shop Pro 7.04 Anniversary Edition from 2000. It is fast and very intuitive and has all the functionality that I need from an image editor. I tried several newer versions and other programs (yes, this includes Gimp) but always came back to my beloved PSP 7.04.
This is so cool. I like this guy's work. I want to see this stuff in a gallery. I mean that, I'm not being flippant or facetious.
Oh cool, downvotes!
Play Developer Support just DMed me on Twitter to tell me that they'd accepted the resubmitted app without the problematic description.
What value is in such a PR?
Interesting idea.

Why would this be better than a set of railway lines down a hill side into a forest pulling up standard goods carriages full of rocks?

You get a forest (which buffers runaway carriages and does all the other lovely forest things) and energy storage on the hill. All using largely commodity items and you can build it anywhere there's a spare slope.
Do you have some data to back up your claim about childcare workers being less concerned? And also, that "less concerned" translates to worse education?

When childcare closed across Europe due to the pandemic, I've seen a lot of my friends with kids turning from oh so "concerned" parents to people in survival mode who suddenly don't mind their kids having sugary food in the evening or watching yet another TV show if that is what makes them happy:

It's one thing to hand the nanny a list of things to do or to avoid, it's another thing to prepare gluten-free, vegan food 3 times a day while also making sure the little one does the preschool-level introductory course to quantum physics.
Word perfect 5 and 6 in many respects are still vastly superior to any version of word, especially when it comes to aligning text left and right, which are properly treated as line flow instead of a properties of a tab stop.
Without leaving the keyboard I could easily align text on the same line to left aligned, centered and right aligned.

For typing / journaling the non-wysiwyg was a feature. I honestly think wordperfect 5.1 is a big reason why sublime is so popular now.
The pyramid scheme isn’t a new thing, sadly. The chart for median home prices shows it starting at least as far back as 1997. Maybe as far back as 1976.
> we don't routinely talk to our computers

That's perhaps because doing so in an office or cafe environment isn't great.

Kids are using text-to-speech more while doing their homework. Word has been beefing up its transcription feature for a while now[1].

I got to see this happen during lockdown, where teachers I know recommended transcription for younger kids who don't have touch typing skills and were still expected to turn in work on a computer. Talking to your computer is much more natural while doing your homework in your room.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/25/21400623/microsoft-transc...
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Well, the security key of VM is stored in the CPU, so you can't replace CPU unless you can enter the console, copy the data out and re-encrypt it with key from another CPU.

While if you can do this, you don't need to replace mother board/CPU anyway because you already pwned them and copy/modify the data whatever you want.
We live in a cyberpunk universe. The only think it got wrong was aesthetic.
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https://twitter.com/obra/status/1303581115647549440?s=19
Why not use water ? Is it not heavy enough ?
Because the US is the biggest debtor in the history of humanity and is supporting (in a symbiotic relationship) all those countries you listed who are also at risk of collapsing.
By encoding hir works in the classical #0000FF but manipulating the alpha channel, the artist subverts expectations of the chromarchy in a personal journey of inner emigration, exploring the liminal space between transparency and obscurity.
Intel has ME, AMD has PSP.

Intel has Boot Guard, AMD has this.

Either one may have seemed the better choice at one point in time, but it's clear they're really going down the same path.
Yeah, JK Rowling has said that she wrote like twenty drafts of the first chapter of the first book and if you had read all twenty of them, you would basically know the entire story line. She has said the story came to her fully formed and then she spent ages trying to figure out the right way to tell it.

She used to walk her kid in a stroller until the kid fell asleep, then duck into an eatery of some sort owned by friends and write while the kid was sleeping. She would joke "When I'm famous, I will tell the world about your place!" and then did that after she actually got famous.

I think it took her like five years to get the first book written and published.
AstraZeneca puts leading Covid-19 vaccine trial on hold over safety concern
$300 for an above ground pool? Where do I sign up?
Because 99% of people will choose the option with better UX instead of E2E.

I can grab any device (laptop, phone, tablet) and continue my group chats in Telegram.

E2E would require me to use only one device for that specific chat, which is makes it really hard to explain to a layperson.
Robot dogs join US Air Force exercise giving glimpse of future battlefield
Seamlessly Swapping the API back end of the Netflix Android app
I've tried a few. But got really frustrated when I had to select the paid option to enter my mortgage information, just to be told that the standard deduction was higher than an itemized deduction anyway, but no way to switch back to the free version.

So last year, I just filled out the forms myself. For me at least, it wasn't actually all that much harder. Sure the UI isn't as nice, and the questions are a little bit harder to understand, but when it comes down to it, I need to fill in the same information either way.
So you want us to quit or be fired?
Not looking to go back. Just forward in a different direction.

Some institutions were never trust worthy, others were for a while. But the assumption of no institution is trustworthy is a self fulfilling prophecy.

Why would an institution want to be trust worthy if no one would believe it? And if it actually hurts it?

We need to demand our institutions to be trustworthy, and make those that aren't pay for it.

We shouldn't just say "fuck it, everybody lies, I guess I'll lie a bit too". Or say "of course they lied, it's the rational thing to do"

That's what we do when we opposed the very idea of being honest for honesty's sake.
> It's more like military service and jury duty -- an essential service that some people perform to ensure that society as we know it can continue to exist.

I like that analogy a lot and it has me switching my opinion to an extent. While having children is a huge responsibility, many parents don't actually treat it as so. (I would like to think the vast majority do). Is there a way we (socitey) can reward for responsible parenting? Can we decide as a collective what makes "good parenting".
Data democratization and modern data management
The App Store generates nearly 10 times as much revenues for developers per device sold as Google Play. How is building a safer walled garden that attracts the highest spending customers and makes them extremely comfortable with buying apps and subscriptions not a massive amount of utility?
It’s 10 times the $25 from Google Play, and is per year. That’s in addition to the $100 that you have for the Apple store as far I understood their documentation.
You run half marathon with no previous exercising except 15-30 long HIIT and 5km runs? Frankly, bullshit. There is quite jump from 5km run and half marathon. Half marathon does require serious training investment. This quite apparent nonsense. Even as you are trying to make analogy, you are just showing how absurd the theory is.

And also, people dont spend as much time exercising as they spend gaming, not unless majority of that gym time is pure socialization. Body would not handle it for majority of people.

But yes, the few individuals that do exercising related activities all the time do have those interfering with jobs and families. With families complaining about about that and with people who decide to cut down on exercising for that reason.
I was surprised when I saw the Chef numbers, ouch. I think they must have been simply running out of money and options. If they had a strong balance sheet, you would have expected them to at least be picked up by a reputable PE firm. I hadn’t even come across Progress As a software co till this announcement.

On Puppet, I think they are a different beast to Chef at this point. They seem hyper focused on the larger enterprises rather than SMB or startup land. I came across them at both of the banks I recently contracted for, for example. Whilst I wasn’t hands on myself, there was a big project to roll out Puppet’s impact analysis and CD product at the last place.

I also ‘think’ Puppet are about double the size of Chef and saw their BlackRock debt round announced. You don’t get money from someone like that unless your at scale and you don’t get debt (especially at a time like this) unless you can afford the payments+interest. So, they must be at least growing if not profitable as well.
If you don't like their launchers, don't use their apps, it's simple as that. They're free to create a software in a way they feel appropriate. You're free to use or not to use that software.
it's not just that phenomenon.

Daniel Dennett mentions an experience where a painting , with very little detail up-close, appeared to him to have all the detail of a photograph when viewed from afar[0].

It's not quite the same thing as the uncanny valley effect, for him it came about from his naive expectation of up-close detail being blown apart by his experience, when getting closer and closer to the painting, of realizing that the painting itself was almost incomprehensible up-close -- the detail was created by the way the abstract shapes created the illusion of detail from afar on a very large canvas.

It was sort of an artistic physical version of rendering LOD tricks.

He expresses it much better than I do, I recommend the TED talk or the Google talk where he highlights this example as a way to gain insight into what consciousness may be.

[0]: https://youtu.be/fjbWr3ODbAo
Correct, I mixed “enterprise” and “organization”. Thanks for the clarification and additional details
No, the article demonstrably and provably shows you why you're wrong.
You bought a phone whose major customer value is it’s walled garden, but you don’t want a walled garden? That doesn’t seem right.
Suppose you know everything, why would bother to help others? with altruism(a fool?), or for money(a poor?).
Suppose you know nothing. Could you sell what you don't know? And if it sells what would you deliver?
I believe if you are good enough you won't waste too much money selling.