skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a dumb investment. In order for the entier country to not descend into dysfunctional chaos there will have to be statewide laws that prevent this sort of brain damage.

When that happens there will be nothing keeping the prices of individual housing units in these areas up.
Not gonna lie, all this makes me want to move to El Salvador now. Strongly considering incorporating my SaaS there now but have to look further into it, but interest is definitely piqued.
Whether they mean it or not, it's sensible. Mortgage amounts correlate to home prices. Consider the most basic idea that if mortgages did not exist, there would be far fewer people who could pay a premium price for a house, and thus the housing market would be forced to cater to the much lower prices and less expensive housing that people could afford without mortgages. I mean, except there's some point where the reality is just untenable, people need to be able to borrow. But the easier it is to borrow, the easier it is for more people to buy more expensive houses and bid up the prices.
I know the original plan was that they were going to shut down Tegel, Tempelhof, and Schönefeld and replace them all with BER.

My understanding is that now BER has finally been finished, Schönefeld has been turned into a terminal + runway of BER, and Tegel has recently been shut down. If so, what's going to happen to the Tegel buildings and airfield space now?
Again, What do we do about the other civil rights of minorities?. Notice how people talk about everything else. Once you notice this pattern, you will see it everywhere and see it going back generations, which is how the racist status quo continues (whether or not that's the intent of the people talking).
It is pretty scary than such a low mass is sufficient to infect a huge group, when you consider that one of its variants could be used as a biological weapon.
Most trivial and ubiqitous example is CAM which finds the path a CNC machine tool should take to translate a 3D model into a real part as efficiently as possible. At this point probably every physical product on the market involves CAM work somewhere in its production, either for the product or the machinery making it.
Because 99,999,999 != 100,000,000?
You can do it like i have been doing in hn and reddit. The moment my account gets enough points, i just delete it and start a new one. I think this is my third in hn or so, but i have been through more than ten on reddit
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Impressive. But a lot of my fascination was crushed by how that site aggressively destroyed my back button, lol.
> I really dont understand the logic of being OK with paying double for a house

Double what? The price someone paid years ago under totally different market conditions?

In the future prices might be halved or double again - act accordingly
The law should take into consideration those cases and not charge them $30k/yr in cash for property taxes if they don't have the money in cash to pay it. One solution mentioned elsewhere is a lien against the inflation-adjusted value appreciation of the house.

The solution isn't to let wealthy older homeowners get away with not paying proper property taxes though, which is how it is now.
> the system noise is dominated by the first amplifier stage.

In radio receiver design you have an LNA, low noise amplifier, as the first stage. It's designed for low noise and to be linear. Idea is take the energy from the antenna and amplify it with as little noise and cross modulation as possible[1].

[1] If the amp is non linear you end up folding out of band signals into your band of interest.
> And why would my opinion change when I get older? Prop 13 won't do shit to lower my taxes

It will, in real terms, since the assessment increase limit is the lower of 2% or the rate of inflation each year, guaranteeing that over the long term the assessed value and tax go down in real terms.

Which isn’t to say your opinion should change, just that the self-interest equation does.
> the person "forced out" would have received a huge windfall of cash, and could ostensibly buy their same house back

Don't assume. That person had to live somewhere, possibly at equally inflated prices. Now add in the the cost of two unnecessary moves.

> and if you sucked it up and paid the state? Maybe you had a sick family member that you were taking care of and the chaos of a move would have been too much to deal with. Sorry, chum. Bad luck of the draw.
ala 2008 jumbo loans
You’re kidding, right? This flies contrary to what I’ve seen. Anyway Newberg is a suburb of Hillsburrito at this point.
Well, Monero is the crypto of choice these days for drug dealers, due to the fact that feds have backtraced BTC transactions to bust people.

Most trusted BTC exchanges are going KYC so even tax evaders have to start reconsidering.
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but houses should not be used as investments.

Every person on the planet has the need and the right to live somewhere.

Unfortunately the way it works today, allow a small fraction of the population to buy more and more houses at the expense of the majority of people who are constantly out bidden and forced to rent, thus fueling this circle. Landlord get richer, buys more houses and so on.

The only way to stop this is taxes! Should not be convenient
to buy houses for the sole purpose of renting them amount, especially for foreigners, see Denmark.
When I was younger I forced myself to learn to sleep on my back. I can only do it with a contour pillow, not necessarily the brand name one, but any with that contour in it. I can't always do it, but when I do my sleep quality is significantly better.
Could you link to the iCloud announcement that says it'll start supporting custom domains? I saw that it will support disposable addresses, but didn't notice anything about custom domains.
> bitcoin's script (smart contracts

I'm out of the loop, I didn't realize bitcoin had contracts yet. Cool.
I have a lightning wallet and it works - please don't post uninformed information.
So why would people like you oppose development of other single family homes in your area? Or go out of your way to oppose development of high density buildings around transit stations? (Don't take it personally, but you know that many people will in principle oppose a mixed density development in not far from their homes - 5-10miles. Or pedestrianization of a street, in the middle of their town)

Look at the map of LA, where there's miles upon miles of low rise buildings... That need not be there, if a few high density blocks were created.

Or the insanity of San Francisco...
Possibly because they're in New England where the sun barely shines, but more likely because they're totally clueless and going to lose money; that page says they have "a power plant capable of generating over 100MW of clean energy an hour," which is incoherent; power plants don't generate more megawatts of energy if you run them for more hours. New York is not really a well-known bitcoin mining hotspot, and for good reason. Though I guess the state does have Niagara Falls.

Still, who knows? Maybe they have some kind of tricky angle on the problem, like using bitcoin mining to convert earned income into capital gains in order to evade taxes, which might make their clients money even if the actual operation is unprofitable.
> This does not imply causality as the author mistakenly assumes. Maybe the bottom 90% have more debt simply because costs are rising faster than wages and ability to save. Maybe the rich can save more because thy earn more.

If it's easier to borrow money, costs will go up. Look at college education over the past half century, or housing vs interest rates.

So if some people start taking on more debt than they should because it's easier, a lot of other people are pushed into it even if they wouldn't have originally when they're priced out by the borrowers.
After getting the middle finger from the UK they are slowly then quickly excising the English out of their lives.
Yeah, good luck with that. Easier said than done.

Brexit makes the case for English even stronger as it is more of a neutral common ground than before (since Ireland and Malta have it as official languages - though not the "first" official language of Ireland, in theory, of course)
debt and credit are zero-sum. The part that isn't necessarily zero-sum is productivity. So, debt/credit patterns can lead to productivity, depending on the details.

But I think the real point here is that when investments are dependent on others' debt and not on other types of returns, there's a whole system that is built on promoting debt, selling people on accepting debt…
Malta has English as an official language, too.
All the trusted mixers/tumblers/exchanges gradually went KYC.
Yet by far the biggest shared language in the EU is english, no contest.
yes, it happens to me most days. Except the ready to face the world part, It's usually more like waking up without an alarm refreshed, and ready to browse HN and watch youtube.

edit: the waking up part didn't happen until I started working from home. I was always over-sleeping when I had to get showered, dressed, and commute every morning.
It's more important to keep in mind that Amazon created hundreds of thousands of new jobs, raised minimum wage in many areas, and brought many people out of absolute poverty. No matter which way you look at it, a net positive rather than a negative.
It probably didn’t hurt that Japan has a declining population, so supply > demand
Up until about 26, I could hear well up to 23khz. Nowadays it's limited to about 16k, and I have a deaf spot around 14khz
I'm currently reading a book about the Congress of Vienna and it's amazing that the Russian Tsar argued with the English ambassador in French. Here were all the rich and powerful men of Europe dividing up the continent and there wasn't a single translator needed.
Peer support line helped 16 “bad trippers” avoid the emergency room
Madcap Flare is pretty popular in the technical writer sphere.
Oops... that was me, my bad everyone
It blows my mind that Google Authenticator still doesn't have a multi-device sync feature (or even a "recover from backup" feature on iOS for that app, because I think they added it recently to Android; just "recover from backup" alone would have been sufficient to convince me not to switch).

All of that made me switch to Microsoft Authenticator, as they do have both multi-device sync and "recover from backup" feature as well, so now I don't need to be stressed about my phone getting lost. Kind of sad, given that I've been a user of Google Authenticator for quite many years until that point.
I'm a bit confused reading this, the argument that the 1%+ echelon are ~= to corporations in an aggregate model, and that effectively corporations are underinvesting?
Or rather that the 1% are under-consuming, and so any evaluations of net household saving/consumption are skewed because there is dramatically more saving on one side and more aggregate debt on the other. I haven't seen what recent levels of corp/household/gov/balance spending/saving are.

I also like to refer to this post for these kind of macro questions. I'm not an economist, but it's interesting to see how all the pieces fit together.

https://nathantankus.substack.com/p/where-do-profits-come-fr...
Are there other countries than Denmark speaking danish in the EU , or elsewhere ?
It makes no sense at all.
I guess the other option is that poor people should just be homeless?
Israeli tech raises $10.5B this year
Do people load remote images in 2021?
Svelte has everything I need to build websites and apps. The performance, bundle size, and DX combo is unparalleled. All vanilla JS libs are plug-and-play. Building production-ready apps is incredibly fast, and done with less code than any other framework.

Svelte's compiler-first approach really fixes all of my problems with the JS ecosystem. Compile-to-JS langs aren't new, but learning a whole new language has non-0 overhead. HTML, CSS, and JS/TS in a .svelte file is awesome, and the syntactic sugar makes the ugly parts of JS (like state management and reactivity) extremely trivial to implement.

The first class support for Vanilla JS & Typscript is brilliant. Vite and ESBuild are incredibly fast and hassle free. The water has never felt nicer for me as a web dev!
Boring, incremental progress is how things get done. "only" expanding factory output is a pretty big part of how you make batteries cheaper and usable in more applications.
I have no idea of what I'm talking about, but, is there really a gene for this, and a gene for that? Maybe for eye color, but I would expect a complex gene interaction for such things as the circadian rhythm. You might find a gene that, if disrupted, might disrupt the circadian rhythm, but maybe it is just one of a million genes that controls that, which happens to be in the critical path?
Sometimes countries insist of fighting wars that have been over for a long time. This is one example. American attitude towards China rise is another example.

Now more seriously, I think what the French are trying to do is just to avoid a complete switch to English in the EU institutions. Since the start of the pandemic, most meetings which used to be multilingual (with interpretation) are now English only and nobody seems to have a big problem with that. If anything, it makes interactions more natural (talking through interpreters is a pain in the ass). French are probably worried that this could be here to stay and are just trying to go back to the status quo.
Tokyo had THE BIGGEST property bubble in the history of the world 30 years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble

It arguably has STILL not deflated.

At one point, the Emperor's Palace alone was worth more than all the real estate in California: https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/news-trends/article/309...

I guess if you believe those valuations made sense, then sure.
By that time - funds will have charged their fees, personnel will have earned their bonuses, etc.
You don't have to be on exactly 24/7. The default delay for spending coins from a commitment txn is 144 blocks in some clients and is usually scaled with channel size. Most clients let you configure it manually too.

That means you'd have to be online once within 24 hours of your counterparty trying to steal your channel balance to stop them. IMO this is pretty reasonable for a cellphone user.

It doesn't follow that this would lead to centralization of custody either. If you want to pay for better liveness you could pay someone to run a watchtower to watch your channels. Basically, it watches the blockchain for bad channel closes and posts the justice txn with the correct settlement for you in case it sees it. I'd be surprised if a service like LN_Strike didn't start using these.

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/blob/master/docs/wat...
What a sick country
Monero is probably used more like a currency than BTC is.
They say they can issue 200 million certificates in 24 Hours https://letsencrypt.org/2021/02/10/200m-certs-24hrs.html
This is the interesting take, while most of the other comments on this thread express schadenfreude because he’s a billionaire.

This is the CCP showing it’s true colours, usually hidden beneath an urbane capitalism-friendly facade.
> the taste and pride of multilingualism

For everybody but the French, that is.

> that ersatz of the English language, which narrows the scope of one’s thoughts, and restricts one’s ability to express him or herself

And the ability to formulate a new policy with a subtle twist in your favor that no-one gets until it's too late.

Embarrassing.
There's also Litmus, which uses a really advanced set of multiple pixels to give data on how long a user is reading an email. Presumably, they insert delays into how long it takes to load each pixel, and if any of the requests get cancelled they can get an idea of how long the email was open for.

The Litmus pixels are usually dropped into another ESP's template, so the data you get would be used to supplement the normal tracking pixel email.
I’d have thought they would have kept English as it’s effectively a neutral language at that point - it would be convenient to avoid accusations of German or French dominance should either push for their’s in English’s place
Why not arabic? French is kind of obsolete.
That would have been Aleksandr I's first language even.
Take cars, no one buys a new car with cash anymore - they are all financed which means people can afford to spend more on a car, which means cars are more expensive.

Cheap finance is the fuel to inflation and corporations love dousing those flames and getting their revenue figures higher.
> Broadly, this means fully leveraging the isolation capabilities of WebAssembly and Compute@Edge to build greater resiliency from the ground up.

So I guess this means it was NOT WebAssembly that caused the issue.
Isn't it pretty awesome that as a bunch of environmental activists, we are ok with golf greens and almond exports? Ok with tankers which spill oil by the lake-full and intense deforestation? But when it comes to proof of work crypto - suddenly it's a veil of FUD?

How can you find fault with someone trying to make more money? This is capitalism at work. Not saying the energy argument for crypto is moot, but it is certainly blown way the heck out of proportion. Let's regulate lithium mining while we are at it, no?

Economic advantage is a like gas in a vacuum, it will spread everywhere it can, until it cannot.
I'm definitely speculating, but I could see banks having a glut of money to loan contributing to the low interest rates that have existed for a while now (thinking of money from a supply/demand perspective). With those lower interest rates leading to more interest in buying homes and pushing up prices (during the subprime crisis, to folks that couldn't necessarily afford it). While you'd also expect a housing construction boom, its certainly plausible that the industry would have to play catch up to demand. (It seems easier to me to hire a realtor to go look at homes than to start or expand a construction business). Zoning/other regulations can also slow down that process. The low interest rates also make larger/more expensive homes more feasible for buyers, due to the fact that a smaller percentage of the monthly payment is interest. I could certainly see ways that the above would lead to an individual having a higher debt load than they otherwise would.
Wise supports 2FA through their app (similar to what Google does, with a prompt).
Even more direct is the link between interest rates and house prices. Lower rates push up prices for everyone, you don't get the choice of borrowing X at a better rate to save money every month instead of borrowing X+Y with the same payment if someone else is out there willing to pay X+Y.

It's an interesting dynamic of the more reckless moving the market for everyone and harming not just themselves, but also others, and the potential link to more money being available for lending due to inequality is very interesting indeed, because it suggests a nasty negative cycle.
I take it that GPs point is that it makes just as little sense, to change the working language to danish, purely based on presidency.
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A bit of advice. When someone clicks on "Pricing" there should be information involving dollars (or another currency depending on where you're located).
The sane thing to do after the Brexit, was to embrace English as main language, since it has not become neutral ground!

According to Wikipedia we have:

* Germany: 56% English speakers, 14.5% French speakers

* Italy: 34% English vs. 19.43% French

* Spain: 22% English vs. 11.73% French

* Sweden: 89% English vs. 8% French

I can't get over how bad this decision is.
How can you ignore these kinds of discrepancies?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_distribution_of_F...
There's no other country in the EU that speaks French, either. And by numbers, German should prevail.
Three halves > 1 full, sounds like a win to me! /s
> 40 years ago a home in the Bay Area cost about 3x median income. Now it is more than 10x.

Interest rated have fallen 10x

> Buyers in 1981 benefitted enormously from high interest rates.

They didn’t benefit from paying more for a money loan. They benefited from being able to refinance on always lower rates, and the corresponding rise in asset price
> when it takes over the Council of the European Union presidency in 2022

So it’s only for 6 months, then back to English.
What if that development was walking distance to transit?
I live in SF Bayarea suburb in a SFH with a wife and a elementary school aged kid. We have 1 car that is parked in our driveway(on our property). For everything else there is a commuter train within 10-15minute walk and uber within reach.

Limited parking does incentivize non-car-oriented lifestyle. Im all for it.
It has always had, it is just much limited than ethereum's.

But you can express things like "if X and Y cooperate they can spend this transaction or Y can spend after 1000 blocks or X can spend if it reveals the preimage of this hash ____"

These logics are what LN uses in its update-transactions
Also try lichess, it's free and open source.
Too expensive to consider
I’m not opposed to people who want to live out in the boonies, but given the extra cost of infrastructure to service them, they should have to pay for the privilege.

They never do though. It’s always the poor neighborhoods close in that subsidize the rich people in the suburbs.
What does Ireland think of this?
I can see the logic, since UK isn't part of the EU anymore, but considering over all amount of people who can speak and understand English vs France EU wide this is pretty silly show of power.

After all even if EU matters were done purely in french it wouldn't be "the killer feature" to make french be taught much more in schools since english is the universal business language. And even if EU states decided that they needed to start teaching another language besides english to their kids to prepare them for future employment I would actually go for chinese instead of french. Because that will be the next actual global language by the end of this century unless humanity nukes it self out of existence.
I bought 4000 J201’s when I saw they were becoming obsolete, I still have most of them. But, I think there are better choices out there anyhow, that’s just what I’m used to using. They’re really easy to bias.
Fair enough. I don't really see the advantage of pins over user accounts, and wonder how long it will take them to recoup the costs of developing a custom solution over just paying for a subscription. But if their requirements are not negotiable then it's understandable that custom software will be required.
Why do you throw the code away? Does it work?

If YES, stop throwing it away.

If NO, then you are not finished figuring the problem out. Keep iterating. The first time you write something that works, start working on another feature.

Once you're working on another feature, you have a choice to either abandon something that is not working yet in order to refactor something that already works, or keep going on the new feature and leave the old one alone. That should be an easy choice ;)
This is a non-story. There are three working languages of the EU: English, French and German. Everyone in Brussels will roll their eyes, use French for six months and then revert to English because it’s the one most people speak.

Would they have done this if Brexit hadn’t happened? Yes, they would. France has a chip on its shoulder about French being replaced as the world’s lingua franca, but stunts like this aren’t going to bring it back. Not even in Brussels.
Can you (or someone else) please explain this analogy? I didn't understand it at all.