skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thin profit margins? Oh, boo hoo! So frickin what?

The free market runs in both directions. When labour is available, businesses use it to cram down wages - “if you don’t like it, find another job”.

But why is it, now that there is a wage shortage, we cannot use those same words back at businesses? “If you don’t like the lack of workers, increase the wage you are offering”?

Because that is exactly the problem. The free market is looking at the offered wages, and are showing businesses that those wages are not high enough in the simplest and most unambiguous way possible - with zero applicants.

And yet, businesses are squalling like spoiled, entitled babies that have just hit themselves with a hammer, and are blaming anyone but themselves.
Would this be the first full scale assault by Chinese hackers in the supply chain that we know of? If so, it is notable that they are aggressively acting in that way (and breached).
Based on checking a 500k house with a 50k down payment, this tells me PMI will be about 2k/year for the first 3 years. Is it really that cheap? Is there any reason to not go for a <20% down payment if it allows me to accelerate my house planning by several years, if it only ends up costing around 6k extra?
For sure, searched cipro and it pulled up Benzyl alcohol lol......
I would have loved to go to the school Elon Musk built [1] [2] [3] [4] had it existed when I was a kid.

[1] - https://astranova.org/apply

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFOEyqqGuEI [video]

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io3TiuJsfLc [video]

[4] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO22X2AV2xg [video]
It sounds like Gen Z'ers are taking their advice from good 'ole Dave Ramsey.
Indian Bar Association Sues WHO Scientist over Ivermectin
Many countries did also provide help, even though they knew the "single US regime" was likely to be lying & fabricating.

This regime has remained in power ever since Bush's 8 year reign of terror. In fact, they were in power even before George W. Bush's administration. The name of the president may change, but the people running the US war machine remain the same.
Neither of those has a vibrate motor to let me know about notifications. They also can't be used to pair to an Apple Watch.

I know this because I used to carry an iPad Mini in my pants pocket.
Huge +1 to this. Don't get me wrong, I've been in my house for 10 years, and I probably won't go back to renting, but I think most people wildly underestimate these things.

In the first couple of years I remember getting so irritated by all the time it took to take care of the house and yard. Nowadays, I've gotten used to it, and I view it as a welcome distraction from work, but that definitely wasn't true in the beginning. Even paying someone to do all these things is a large hassle. You have to be at the house to meet contractors, get competing bids, worry about the contractors doing stuff wrong, etc.

I also think people wildly underestimate maintenance costs.
I bought a 50 year old house, 10 years ago. I don't think I've had a single year where I didn't have to spend 10K on maintenance. I always wonder how most people handle these expenses - and then I realize that most people just don't take care of their houses.
These calculators seem to miss the point for me.

If I spend less overall by renting, I don't care because I can't pass the property as an inheritance to my kids. If I buy, they get a house for free when I pass on.

Also, if I rent, I have to continue to pay the same (high) rents through retirement where my income will likely drop drastically once I stop full time work. The aim of buying is to be mortgage-free when you retire so your pension gives you a decent quality of life.
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This looks great! A couple of comments:

- some (large?) portion of mortgages will not allow PMI to be removed until you either a) inject cash to get to 20% equity or b) get to the time in the amortization schedule when you are scheduled to get to 20% equity. That is, if your home increases in notional value by 20%, you still have to pay PMI. So the PMI line item should probably not terminate after 3 years.

- It would be awesome to include a rent growth factor. When I bought my first house, my annual mortgage was > the amount my next-door neighbor paid to buy his (similar) house. (Which would be driven in part by rents at that time.) Part of the benefit of home ownership is insulation from rising rents, and adding a rent factor would capture that.
It feels like this is more a result of Amazon not being able to connect you with the right escalation path to verify & act on these claims than a considered decision to ignore them.

Those two things are actually the same thing, both are wilfully ignoring situations like this.
Should probably also dig an underground bunker and collect cans of sardines to last for decades.
Then buy an iPhone, and turn off iCloud Backup in Settings, it's not hard to do. Then your iMessages are fully E2E Encrypted.
^This person is wrong. FISA and FBI counter-intel have a low bar to get warrants because that's what congress intended.
Please stop using the term "paranoid" to describe those who desire personal privacy.
> If you rent, you call the landlord and have them replace those things.

You also have to negotiate everything with landlord: color of paint, removing walls, replacing stuff you don't like because of the design alone.

Home ownership gives you almost infinite options to fit the place 100% to your needs.

So I agree that there are things hard to express with money. One can reverse the question: buying could set you back $xx.xxx, is it a fair price to be able to do anything with the property?
Love your analysis. And I appreciate you cautioning me on my approach. The interesting thing is I believe your attempt to find answers based on data here is the biggest trap there is when looking at back pain. Are structural issues with backs the cause of back pain? In Sarno's book he talks about how people will often feel back pain and then search for an answer. As a result they'll get a bunch of tests done and perhaps find that they have a bulging disk or some other abnormality. Then they assert that the bulging disk is the reason for their pain and perhaps consider some expensive invasive surgery. However, a huge proportion of the population has a bulging disk with no pain associated. Sure it's possible that the ones with pain are different from the ones without. Except back surgery rarely cures the pain and instead leaves people with life altering mobility issues permanently. Sadly it's often difficult for people to deal with psychological issues because they don't know where to begin. They might not even notice the things that bother them because they bury them so deep. In western culture it is much more acceptable to get metal rods shoved into your back than to see a therapist.
> they ran some calculations that showed that there should have been some coupling between their object and the water it was passing through, which suggested that there should have been some turning—it was just too small to see. The team has already begun work on a new design for an isotropic helicoid that will demonstrate enough spin to be seen.

So it didn't fail? They're gonna try again with a different layout. Would be interesting to see though.
Nope, because they get escrowed by the other end of the iMessage conversation.

Also, the whole point of disabling iMessage (in this thread) is to close the iMessage-related zero click exploits described in TFA.
One piece of millenial defeatism I hear a lot is "Ugh, I'll never be able to afford a 20% down payment, home ownership is impossible"

I'm not sure where this myth came from, but as a millenial who went through the buying process in 2012 and again in 2016, I remember both times the lender just asked how much we wanted to put down. We could have gone as low as 3%, or maybe even lower.

Yes, you have to pay PMI (private mortgage insurance) for probably a couple hundred bucks extra a month if you don't have 20% equity in the house- but you can stop paying it as soon as you get to 20, and you can count increases in the home value towards that (through renovations or just market conditions). You can even have the interest rate increased very slightly instead of a separate PMI payment if you want to spread out the cost over the entire loan.

The point is, you'll likely need to have 3 months rent for first, last, and security deposit when you start an apartment rental anyway, so the initial costs might be closer than you think.
Bremner, not Brennan; which is odd, because I thought it was Brennan, too. Also, I forgot that he disbanded the army separately from the general de-baathification of the government.

Genius moves all around, the guy was obviously playing 0.3D chess.
Agreed. Between my wife and I we've had a Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 5x, Pixel 2 and Pixel 3 along with a few other regrettable phones. The short support window, even for Google devices, has made us finally jump ship. We both switched to iPhone 12 this spring and so far the change has been easy.

I'm past the age of wanting to constantly tinker with my phone and my wife really just wants a good camera. I don't see us going back to Android unless Apple tightens its grip to the point of making owning a Mac mandatory.
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There is a degree to where you are actually paranoid though, otherwise we wouldn't have that word.

If you are this paranoid, you shouldn't be carrying an electronic device.
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To be clear, I'm personally all in favor of Amazon choosing who they want or don't want to contract to. But the comment I was replying to was saying it's only okay (as in, good for society, I guess) for Amazon to kick off NSO because Amazon thought they were violating the law. I agree most extremist content is legal free speech, but not all of it is, which should be enough reason, by that rule, to kick off extremist content.

I'm simply agreeing with the comment at the top of the thread - all the outcry we usually hear about private companies being too powerful should apply here too. (My opinion is there should be no outcry about either.)
He's not. Artificial sweeteners are one of the most demonized additives on the planet despite being one of the most studied. Because people are so often looking for a reason to get rid of them.

Even the studies of them being bad for "getting used to sweetness" and thus making people more obese through compensatory over-eating are studies that rely on self-reporting and polling.

When properly controlled, physics works as it always has and you can't magic mass or energy out of thin air.
Egyptology?
You're missing the point. There is no plural. There is only one editor in chief who makes final decisions and it's more of a management position. The higher up you are the more directly accountable you are for the bottom line. You don't get to that position by fighting for the truth. You get to that position by maintaining the tone that reliably brings in advertising revenue.
... which is a childish reaction from what is seemingly an adult person.

Yes globally school systems need a massive rehaul, anybody can name easily 10 things that would improve schools for everyone, probably any school. No we shouldn't give up just because its hard and we already went through it.

Its one of the fuckin' most important things for human civilization, if not the #1 item long term. We don't need to strive for perfection, practically all major improvements would be worth it.
India's analog of PRISM, and a complete regulatory carte blanche for domestic espionate is not BJP's doing. The prime majority of India's very, very intrusive surveillance laws were passed in 1999-2009.

The Congress though it will rule India forever.

Everything you do while in power, can be used against you when you loose it.

I bet the Congress leadership is now pulling its hair for letting the 2007 telegraph act amendment go.

Congress was trying to push CMS (a.k.a. India's PRISM) through the legislature multiple times though 200x, but only succeeded after Mumbai attacks.

https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/india-central...

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/in-the-dark-abo...

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/indias-surveillance-p...
This reminds me of the guy who said drop box was stupid because he could set up an ftp server. It’s the exact same argument.

People understand PDFs, they are extremely common in the academic and business world as “digital paper” standalone documents. Hypothetically, anything in memory can be made into a file but in this scenario what matters is the practical goal of people actually using these files.

I think it makes sense for the web to be made up of discreet primitives not only so that the web can be browsed in an intuitive and frictionless way but also because it lends itself to being backed up and easily re-hosted.
The modern rules are largely just a guess, but the rulesets I've played with are... so-so. There is enough excitement, I guess, but nearly every game comes down to 50/50 luck. It's incredibly difficult to gain any sort of strategic edge.

It's a curiosity,. But you should probably rather be playing backgammon.
In my country of 200 million, it's pretty much gas everywhere. I have three gas cylinders and when they empty I have to either wait for the gas truck to come by with its song (like ice cream trucks), or I just take the cylinder to the deposit and exchange for a full one. I the biggest cities here you get gas coming from the ground to your home, but mostly it's still like that, you get your gas by the cylinder. I bet many, many countries still deliver gas to homes this way.
Probably. I know people in my circles who believe without caveats or qualifications that the NSA is evil, that we just shouldn't have spy agencies at all, and wouldn't entertain any sort of abstract discussion of how the work should be organized.
There are a lot of great things about XML but I think it started falling out of favor when developers (primarily Java) started converting their internal OOP data structures into XML schemas and used that for all inter-service communication. It's a quick and dirty way to stand up an API and allowed developers to think of APIs as an after-thought. I work in healthcare and its obvious that this happens all the time. It was just too easy to run a tool to convert your OO classes into a WSDL instead of taking the time to design a proper API.

I think this had a lot of unintended consequences that has hurt XML in the long-run but has nothing to do with XML itself.
Sure; I don't disagree (and perhaps my previous post was less clear about this) that "personal computer" was definitely in common use, particular in advertising aimed at "regular consumers" rather than hobbyists, and well before the IBM PC.

I do disagree with the suggestion that the initialism "PC" was understood to mean "personal computer" in general before the release of the IBM PC. If that's overly pedantic, well, I'm a computer nerd; what can I say...
The AI was reliable. It correctly identified that the individuals in two videos were the same person.

The problem was that one human recorded a name that they should have known was not real, and another person read that name in a report and arrested someone with that name. The story would have been no different if a human had correctly recognized the same person in both videos.
Can someone please explain to me, a mere mortal, what is the big deal with Julia. Why use it, when there are so many other good languages out there with more community/support? Honest question.
I don't really follow. How does this author converting their entire site to PDF help readers/visitors/users?

The original HTML site[0] was printable as PDF, and save-able as both HTML and "Web page, complete", all of which result in a well-formatted & readable offline experience. (It was also responsive: very readable on mobile, but that's an aside).

The new PDF site is not accessible to some, difficult to read on mobile, and interacts poorly with all of the norms web users are accustomed to (back navigation, anchors, etc.)

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20130127175816/http://www.lab6.c...
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I'd like a link if so, I have been interested in why that story isn't more important, given the attention other state-sponsored hacks have received...
Apparently, variants abound.

I grew up on a small island in the Pacific and played something similar[1] called chongka' as a kid as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asian_mancala
Agree that it should've spent more time on the claim that eliminating gas hookups is a necessary sacrifice. I'm also surprised there was no discussion around the personal cost impact of switching from gas to electric heat.

The emissions from gas heating are drastically higher than electric heating, and eliminating gas heating would absolutely have an impact on emissions. However, gas heating is significantly cheaper than electric heating, and I wish the article had spoken more about how environmental groups plan to deal with lower income residents switching from gas to electric. In Massachusetts, for example, a house that spends $1,200 in a winter on natural gas would spend over $6,000 on electric resistance heat (unless you have a newer electric heat pump, which is much closer to competing with the price of natural gas)
I was actually thinking about the details of implementing this after reading the title.
What sorta qanon crap is this?
Yes, exactly. Or maybe you want a guarantee of being able to stay in one place for a long period of time, say to send your children to a particular school, or be close to neighbors or family.
Refer them to the DOJ indictment and CISA advisory

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-chinese-nationals-workin...

https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa21-200a
They are trying to claim that the service is so fully automated that it is the client that does the selection of the target. They claim that their system does not require any fine-tuning from their side, etc.

And that's totally bullshit.
Never assume malice where ignorance and incompetence would suffice instead. Those two things are actually not the same thing at all, depending on how you define “willful.”
The original notice:

Hi,

I'm Musescore developer. You need to takedown this repository: https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader and any other your public repositories with same code. Because you illegaly use our private API with licensed music content. All not Public domain content on musescore.com is licensed by major music publishers (Alfred, EMI, Sony, etc.). Distribute licensed music content from Musescore.com for free you violate their rights.

Therefore, in pre-trial procedure, I suggest you close the following resources:

• https://github.com/Xmader/musescore-downloader (and all your forks and mirrors)

• https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/391931-musescore-downloade...

Otherwise, I will have to transfer information about you to lawyers who will cooperate with github.com and Chinese government to physically find you and stop the illegal use of licensed content.

*Thanks,*

Max Chistyakov

P.S. You can always download Public Domain content for free from musescore.com.

Interesting facets:

Illegally using a private API with public documentation?

Somebody seems to have skimped on the authorization in their API.

Pre-trial procedure? Let's use our big words!
They could be lying, or they could just be trying to use weasel words. "Data" could be referring to collected data, and they consider phone numbers "metadata". I haven't been following the story though, so I don't know which is more likely.
I'm sure that applies to most every service as far as bad guys operating covertly.

I've no problem with AWS or anyone playing whack-a-mole and giving them the run around in the meantime ...
Western governments mostly make their own. Other with less resources buy off-the-shelf products.
In the meantime, you can probably use Open Simplex Noise instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSimplex_noise
Thanks for the laugh!!
> But I strongly wonder how much of these supposed "long-covid" symptoms may be wounds that are partially self-inflicted by society.

Better political action - e.g. following basic science by mandating and enforcing masks, enforcing actual lockdowns, making tests and sick days accessible, supporting poor people who don't have a realistic choice between working sick and not having something to eat, and now that there's vaccines available making them mandatory - would have saved a lot of these wounds!

The differences in coronavirus-caused interruptions between countries with solid leadership and a societal sense of solidarity (e.g. New Zealand, but also many Asian countries for the better part of the last year) and right-wing populist-led or -influenced countries such as the US, Brazil or most of Europe can't be denied any more.

We all need to hold our politicians accountable for their mismanagement and recklessness if we want a chance at restoring our societies and healing the rift.

> May I ask what does an idealogical compliance check add to the conversation?

Simple: I don't want to engage with right wing people and conspiracy myth spreaders in the meatspace and I want to do the same online.
The parent says the EU doesnt actually support the accusations, so I dont know if the others are also true.
I've watched Dr. K a few times, and one on hand I'm sure he helps a lot of people and he genuinely seems to care about his viewers/'patients', so overall he's a net positive in my mind.

But I do get very annoyed personally because it seems like he often makes a lot of assumptions/judgements early on and leads the person he's talking to into agreeing with his original assumption, as opposed to continuing to listen to the other person and keeping an open mind. He'll often ask the same question over and over with different wording until he gets the answer he's expecting, or will just put words in the 'patients' mouth until the patient half-heartedly agrees.

Again, therapy is very hard, and Dr. K is much more suited for it than the majority of therapists I've interacted with, from what I can tell. Some of the ones I've met just absolutely should not be allowed in that profession.
Which kind of math questions?

* If a book and a pencil cost $10 and two books and a pencil cost $17, how much does a pencil cost?

* What are all the subgroups of a group or order 50?

* Integral(x * e^x dx) ?
Chinese astroturfing is rampant on HN. Inb4 toothless spineless mods warning me about this comment. Bought and paid for.
Active discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27881219
> Most managers get promoted into their role with no training. “Oh you’re a good engineer? Great! Now manage a team of engineers and stop coding”

Also known as the Peter Principle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
What's the best strategy? I barely notice any strategic edge, or even penality for making moves that look bad.
This would be better if it included a slider for what yearly investment return you would expect for assets not in a house. If I don't spend my down-payment on a house, I'll put it in the stock-market or something. Those gains are typically a huge part of the calculation when considering to rent vs. buy. I might be mistaken, but as far as I can tell that isn't reflected here.
This is a good read!
But the EU didn't join the war.
I was being polite. In more earnest phrasing, you are coming across as a bit of an ass, and entitled attitude, which, has little to no effect on anything. I was only trying to see if you had a worth while argument, to which I failed. Whether or not you should care how you are perceived is, I suppose, entirely up to your discretion. You do you.
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