skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a combination of many factors. Restricted supply of new homes is one very large one, ridiculously high rents, ridiculously low interest, preferential treatment for tax reduction on account of a mortgage further reducing the net interest paid and so on. Even after 2008, arguably the largest drop in house prices here in a very long time the market didn't drop nearly as far as it could have on account of everybody being locked in to their purchases and unable to move to something else until the market loosened up again.

It's a pretty tricky situation, everybody knows that the market is overvalued but as long as supply is this constrained and prices remain high buyers are left with very few options.

If the interests go up to something reasonable again (5-10% or so) there will be a lot of people in trouble but it won't immediately lead to a price drop unless investors move away from the buy side. This is especially true for apartments which are going for crazy rates because investors buy them up as fast as they hit the market. A typical property is for sale less than two weeks, and usually on the day it goes up for sale there is already a waiting list.
Probably useful, but that page isn't owned by archive.org, and has Google Analytics on it. (It does a client-side redirect)
Gig 'em Aggies!
Yeah the trailing slash in <br /> is legal in HTML, but it doesn't actually make the tag self-closing. For example <b /> is still an opening tag which require a </b>.
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Thanks that makes sense
If you're young and healthy you can get a high deductible policy that will protect you in the event of a disaster for very cheap, in the $150/mo range. These are not the Obamacare covers all your pre-existing conditions without a healthcare screening plans.
That's just not true of modern vehicles and you know it. You can't get a dash display replacement for a 2021 Audi or whatever from anyone but Audi, etc... You can't get an engine control computer for your new Toyota from anyone but Toyota.

It's absolutely true that engine parts can be made in a machine shop by a suitably talented artisan, so there remains a third party parts market for those things where there isn't for e.g. 20nm digital logic fabrication, NMC battery cells, etc...

But that's because one of those things is century old technology and the other isn't. It's not a business model thing, at all.
At some point we need to have a reckoning on home prices, because there's only so much blood to squeeze out of those who don't own homes. Sure, parents that own will help their children continue the ever upward ratchet of prices, but as the disparity grows more and more it will eventually lead to social unrest.

Already in the high demand areas of the country, the land that a house sits on is appreciating at a rate faster than a lot of full-time wages.

There's a massive bubble in land prices that's happened due to suppressing building across entire regions, via downzonings decades ago.

At some point housing has to return to acting like a piggy bank, rather than an asset that rises in value in excess of productive economic activity.
Implanted wireless device triggers mice to form instant bond
If the goAl is reduction of emissions or generic environment friendliness biodiesel is not a solution. Especially if the biodiesel comes from palm oil.
I do research on mesh networking, and the response to Sidewalk in the tech community has been pretty discouraging. People have rightly brought up Apple's Find My network as a similar application; companies are leveraging existing, ubiquitous devices to create additional network transport layers. See also, the proliferation and adoption of the Thread protocol.

This doesn't mean we have to use these networks! But this is one of the first, easiest steps to make progress towards ubiquitous, decentralized connectivity. I understand that not everyone trusts Amazon with their private data, but do you trust Verizon or Comcast more? I don't!

If there are multiple, competing standards that offer heterogeneous connectivity options, we'll be (relatively) much closer to resilient, censorship-resistant communication infrastructure than we are now. Like TCP/UDP, there are methods to guard the contents of a message on mesh networks as well.

Finally, for those who think that it would be better to maintain centralized, monopolistic infrastructure and legislate privacy through legal means instead, I would argue that the arc of government is long, and bends toward control & surveillance. If a government is the only barrier between users and total control of information flow, then if that government wavers in their commitment, regaining the previous level of freedom is very difficult without the ability to communicate freely.
This is a very good post.

I live in East Asia, and I notice that women use social media much more than men. (Is this true in other regions of the world?) The men that I know who are "Über" social media users are the most (conventionally) attractive or the funniest. In turn, they (try to) convert the increased social status into (a) personal branding or (b) dating opportunities.

Are there any serious (Nature?) studies of social media across genders? It would be interesting to read.
It's a heckuva way to collect a lot of personal details though.

Win win.
I suppose the difference is that JSC can only execute javascript (an interface which is relatively self-contained and which Apple can control) and not arbitrary machine instructions?
I've also used `perf` to profile Go apps, and the results can be pretty interesting. For example, the Go profiler doesn't continue out of the process and into the kernel, so are your I/O waits on the network, or are they on the local filesystem? `perf` can show you the difference. (And it does come up in the real world; you can often have Go functions that operate on io.Readers that are connected to the network, or are connected to disk files. A profile that extends into the kernel can show you which case is slow.)

I've been consistently disappointed by Go's mutex profiling. It is kind of useful if you can synthesize the contention, but less useful if the contention isn't obvious. For my most recent contention debugging issue, I was very close to modifying the runtime (mostly sync.Mutex) to emit events that perf could sample on, and build a flame graph for cases like "took the fast path on sync.Mutex". What takes the fast path under synthetic load could easily take the slow path under different load, and that would let you identify the bottlenecks before they occur. I ended up not needing it, so didn't do it, but it's interesting to me that other people have run into the case where the built-in profiles aren't quite enough. There are definitely a lot of improvements to be made here.

(Getting ahead of lock contention has come up a lot in my Go career. When I was at Google, I had an application that computed metrics over hundreds of thousands of concurrent network streams. I used the standard library for metrics, which synchronized on sync.RWMutex, and it was just too slow to synchronize millions of events per second. This sort of bottleneck will be obvious to anyone, probably; you simply can't block all metric-increments on reads every 15 seconds and expect to fully utilize use 96vCPUs that are trying to write ;) No profile ever pointed me at the culprit in a straightforward manner; I had to dig into the time-per-assembly-instruction profile and noticed inordinate amount of time being spent in an instruction incidental to the implementation of sync.Mutex. I ended up switching to atomic.AddInt64, which solved my problem. I think the overhead of a write barrier is actually too heavy and wouldn't do that today; I'd just maintain goroutine-local counters and synchronize them occasionally. You can still fall behind, of course, but your program can easily detect that case and log a message like "we're too slow, buy another computer!" in that branch. Easier than reading the profiles.)
Yeah, this can only end well /s

Reminder: "TikTok Told Moderators: Suppress Posts by the “Ugly” and Poor"

[0] https://theintercept.com/2020/03/16/tiktok-app-moderators-us...
>Since I play by ear I would not consicer myself classical.

>have you thought about an about turn to try the boogie woogie or ragtime.

If you have something concrete some particular piece or place to try those I would appreciate it very much and someone who is reading would too I think.
You need to take into consideration the ROI of your down payment as well. The S&P 500 goes up at a pretty consistent 7-10 percent yearly clip. Your $100k down payment will be worth about a quarter of a million dollars in ten years. Are you going to save that sort of money owning vs renting over a decade? Maybe. Maybe not. It's fuzzy.
This is a bigger advantage for a lot of us that is not widely represented in the usual "pros" of working remotely.

I can go for a springtime walk on the trails five minutes from my new place since I moved out of the Toronto downtown core. I couldn't have gotten out of my building inside of 15 minutes let alone to a wooded trail where I was living before.

I can also take a five minute break and play some guitar and clear my head rather than going to the cafeteria to buy overpriced coffee or just clicking around on nonsense online. And lunch is way cheaper, and less time-consuming.

It's really nice.

That said, I've never been one for so many of the pretences we entertain socially. There's an immense amount of overhead in managing those mores.
Neither is people piling on the maintainer of Babel based on GitHub activity and someone essentially accusing them of embezzlement. Sorry if that makes me upset.

$130k for a senior developer in the United States is nothing. People at FANG are making 3-4x that annually.
Stop looking at the news? lol.
$11k is an unachievable salary in Sweden, as a engineer you will NEVER get paid that mutch.
To me it seems like something has fundamentally changed in the world in the past decade. If you are an information worker and want to have credibility, you need to put things on git. Otherwise you lose credibility. It's sort of like the difference between hearsay and the written word. Anything not backed by git nowadays I consider as hearsay.
Brain Under Anesthesia
Do people really want this? It seems like an extroverts idea, of hell. I'm really glad I was born too early for this.
Yes, thank you for verbalizing my thoughts exactly ;)
Many developers just release new apps as "upgrades", or lock new features behind in app purchases to remedy the no-upgrades problem. I think that only cannot be the reason. I think there's just too many free alternatives in code editors and you have to be really amazing (like jetbrains) to be able to make users pay.
The OSS/donation model is a reaction to how hard it is to sell libraries and dev tools. Between competing open source projects and piracy, it's a race to zero anyway.

The moment Babel actually has to be sold for $1 is the moment it dies and everyone still using Babel switches to alternate compilers.

The project is surviving on fame, and donation's the easiest way to fund that.
for erlang, if you drop down to C you completely lose the garbage collector, but the docs for doing this show you how to set up a hook for your memory to be garbage collected just like any other first-class data in the system.

If you're really responsible, it's possible to use the system allocator to inform the system about how much memory your allocations consume so that the memory pressure triggers have a correct accounting of how much memory is being used.
A data diode doesn't have to be just a one way ethernet port, it can include a pair of dedicated servers.

The inside (isolated) server would poll everything, store it into a buffer, and send that buffer (plus error correction) out through an optoisolator to other server.

The outside (internet facing) server would then keep up with the ring buffer, and serve requests, and do any outbound push of data via any protocol required.

A system to do this could be made with a pair of raspberry pi computers and a little bit of discrete components for less than $150 in hardware costs.
For one thing, a lot depends on what office life in cities looks like. If there are X% fewer office workers on a given day, that's going to put a lot of places out of business that depend on the lunchtime trade.
>>just hoping it stays niche with Tesla rather than other manufacturers joining in.

No chance of that, while most of the others have not gone full Apple in their control like Tesla has

Most of them (Gm, Ford, VW, etc ) have all signaled their desire to start down this path and many of them have removed anything not legally required to be in the ODBII spec into proprietary controls that require manufacturer authorization
Study shows how our brains sync hearing with vision
That's very interesting. I wonder if you would consider doing something like the (unicorn) new Google TV devices which have the ability to turn off the smart features entirely - except with Kodi or stock Android for the UI. Heck, even if it was a Smart TV that could run an open-source Android build instead of the proprietary bootloader-locked stuff there'd be a niche for that too.
I've been wanting one of those electric foil boards for a while. There are patents involved which is why the market hasn't exploded yet, but some folks have been making their own DIY versions with pretty great success:
https://foil.zone/t/filips-budget-3d-printed-hydrofoil/1968
If the front-end build is the key sticking point, then I think there's hope, in at least 2 dimensions: first, people SHOULD mockup their apps using static HTML - is a best practice that has for some reason gone out of favor, but it will come back. Second, native modules are new, but I think they will play a BIG part in eliminating the front-end build nonsense that has saddled the web dev community for too long.
So now it trails two orbiters less than while on the drawing board, hooray! (if we include Buran, which did make it to orbit but has even less in common with Falcon 9 because the engines of the reusable part are upper stage)
If data from TVs is so valuable, manufacturers will just include 5G modem and phone home directly.

This isn’t tech problem. This is legal and regulatory issue.
The question is, has it really become more common?
Actually some things are easy to diagnose remotely. Which is why remote doctor visits are becoming more common. If you feel like crap and only your throat hurts you most likely have strep. Since bacterias attack only one area. If you feel like crap and your nose is running, head hurts and have a sore throat, you have a virus. Yet doctors still prescribe antibiotics for viruses. No wonder we have a problem.
I think successfully partnering with streaming services might be the tricky bit of a "privacy oriented SmartTV" project? How will you get Amazon, Netflix and Hulu on board?
I really hope this doesn't catch on, I hate the idea of the social mediafication of resumes.
Of course. I just bristle at the suggestion that they are "unnatural".
I meant their IronCast display that's designed to be basically just a display that takes whatever feed you want.

But they don't seem to have updated their info for a year.

What I'd like is a 55" 4K monitor display that is minimal bezel and has a bunch of HDMI inputs and support HDCP etc.

Displays should be to video like speakers are to audio. I can connect multiple sources to speakers without the speakers imposing their own idea of what to do other than make sound.
This link is indeed a very good explanation of mRNA vaccines, probably the best that I've seen.

After I read it, I noticed that it was the first time anyone had ever tried to explain _exactly_ how these new vaccines worked, like down to the molecular level.

Most explanations I had seen were usually extremely high level (literally just "the RNA gets read by your cells, which then produce the spike protein, then the RNA is destroyed") or used analogies (as you have done here).

I don't consider myself a conspiracy theorist, but I admit I had been harbouring some concerns/fears over these new vaccines. This link is the only thing I have read that actually allayed those fears.

I think there is a lesson here.

I have a feeling that everyone fears stuff they don't understand, at least a little bit.

I know that the high level explanation is technically correct, but here's the problem: Many conspiracy theories are actually _extremely_ detailed. I have personally seen covid conspiracies that appear to be backed up by scientific papers.

This is what the truth is competing against. A basic, high level "ELI5" explanation is never going to convince a conspiracy theorist who is looking at a stack of science papers.

So I think this link is very important, more people need to read and share it.
> For example, if the job doesn’t provide meaning, that doesn’t need to be said. Give specific reasons, like graduate school or the commute.

I have to disagree. True, "doesn't provide meaning" isn't actionable to the company, but it's no less so than graduate school. And if it forces your manager to think about meaning in their own life, all the better. I'm really not a fan of this "keep everything strictly professional" idea. I think it's dying out slowly, and good thing: putting humanity back in work is exactly what we need, both for ourselves and ultimately the planet.
Did you install docker from their own PPA linked in the instructions above, and are you on Ubuntu 20.04 with WSL2? Those are the only steps I took.

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if that helps

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Everything except the service start, which I had to find in that StackOverflow thread. We've hit the max comment depth, so I couldn't response to you directly.
It seems like most of Europe currently has issues like that. Sweden had to recently pass a law capping mortgage terms at 105 years. The average mortgage term for a time was 140 years.

https://www.thelocal.se/20160324/sweden-limits-mortgage-loan...
Seems like the point? Add a bit of bias laund^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hmachine learning and you're good to go! It's not your fault if "the algorithm" is doing the discrimination, after all.

I'm not sure how it could fly in the US where putting a picture on your résumé is more or less illegal.

Certainly would help the state plonk you down when your social score gets too low too.
> We will be more productive in the office, on average.

This is really going to vary by job description. I'm not sure what the "overall" facts may be, so perhaps you're still right. For certain though, some jobs are much more productive remotely.
> Ultimately this is a distinction without a difference

That is an illogerate statement. 10%, and 1%, and .1% are vastly different and lead to vastly different decision making.
I feel this is more a consequence of angst than a cause.

Overall the world is more peaceful and human beings are better off than they have ever been.

On the face of it, even the Covid pandemic has been extremely mild in historic terms. The large economic drop is due to very strong reactions by governments, which was not really happening before, but the shock has so far been very cushioned (at least in Western countries).

Maybe it is the constant over-dramatization of things that gets to some people, but again not too long ago people were told that nuclear armageddon could come any minute and the world was split in half, so the current situation still seems rather better.
I mean, if you know what you are doing because you have made for instance BBQ many times before, especially even on the same equipment, it's not exactly "completely guessing".

People did make good BBQ for many years before digital thermometers existed, and without using meat thermometers! I suspect professional experts barbequing all day probably still don't use thermometers. They are have the same heat source many times, and know how it cooks and know how to judge the size of meat, because they've done it hundreds of times.

But yeah, for those of us who are less expert, a meat thermometer can get us much better results.
Exactly, and probably for cheaper. This article is a really weird take.
The problem is that many people, even in developer circles like here on HN, are still very negative when it comes to subscriptions.

From a consumer point of view that's understandable: Everyone wants to keep their recurring costs low.

But from a developer point of view, this is an antiquated way of thinking about software. Software that is not actively maintained (which is expensive) eventually stops working. Even more so on platforms like iOS, where you're beholden to the whims of the platform OS. So you need recurring revenue to offset that maintenance cost.

I wish consumers would understand this better.
While sex appeal works, thirst traps have a limited shelf life. Comedy, ingenuity, and creativity go viral.

Also, Remember how the tiktok algorithm supposedly works: if a brand only watches / likes / comments on tiktokers who build things, the "hiring" feed will be full of people building things.
What I didn't understand when I bought was that property taxes actually will make your mortgage payments go up. Mine went up about 1.5% after one year. I'm very curious what it will be this year, as property values have gone way up.
> $130k for a senior developer in the United States is nothing. People at FANG are making 3-4x that annually.

Right, hence my out of touch comment. This just doubles down.
Yeah, genetic constructs often don't work well even when you plan for them to work and are doing something "easy". It's not uncommon to have to try 10-30+ variations of adding a His-Tag to a protein (for purifying a protein product like say, insulin). There isn't a ton known about how prions are formed initially, which would be critical to designing one.
i am not gen z
I quit my job a few years ago to go hiking for 4 months and I got free health insurance from my state since I had zero income.
I know some people doing 2-4 hours of work per day, getting 100% as much done as they did in the office, then playing with their kids or cooking or reading or making art or just watching TV while they leave work chat open. Many not in tech. Office work generally is full of slack and meaningless butt-in-seat time.

There are complaints/observations of this dating back to at least the 1950s (see the wasteful faux-activity pretending-to-be-busy office work described in Revolutionary Road, for instance—it could have been written today, except there'd be more email, and it doesn't read as one bit exaggerated) so it's not like modern office workers are wildly less industrious than their predecessors from The Greatest Generation or the Baby Boomers or whatever. Office work under a modern corporation or other bureaucracy is just largely BS, evidently by nature.

So there may be about the same work getting done, but possibly way less "work".
I wasn't saying not to do administrative tasks, but that they shouldn't be over half your entire company's work-hour allocation. Even with fundraising in there too.

Imagine if you had 3 employees and 2 of them were HR. That is not a good allocation of labor.
there was another thread where people were like "gamedevs make less money because they're exploited nincompoops and don't know how to negotiate" or other i-am-an-alien-studying-humanity-at-a-distance comments like "the game industry somehow is able to pay people less, because people for some reason want to do that work" and talking about how much more FAANG jobs pay as if it is news to people that don't work for those companies but the reality is

the big tech companies are evil and they have to pay a lot because 95% of people know that they are evil and refuse to work for them for anything less than a small fortune, and if you can't see that the FAANG companies are all bad for society, you are in the 5%, so congratulations on being so detached from humanity that you are unaware of the damage your labor is doing to society.