skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A cash-flow negative house that doesn't appreciate and become ever more cash-flow negative is a TERRIBLE investment compared to the S&P 500.

In the simplest terms, take a $100k house. 20% down = $20k downpayment + $3k closing costs. Generally, this is a house that would rent for at least $800/m.

Your payment is $337/m. Of that, only $143 is principal. If the house is even 5% cash-flow negative - that means you're only getting ~$100/m in principal.

You'd get ~$145 on your $23k downpayment in the S&P 500. And instead of being cash-flow negative and taking money OUT of your investments, you could instead ADD to it.

Add to that the fact that you'll pay an additional ~6%+ transaction costs at closing -> And even a 5% cash-flow negative house with 0% appreciation is likely to come out negative.

This only works because the Fed pretty much guarantees that house prices will appreciate >3% per year for the last 20 years.

3%*5:1 leverage => Crushes the S&P 500 average. Even if you're 10% cash-flow negative, it usually beats the S&P.

Add to that the fact that $250k of the capital gains are tax free -> And that pretty much eliminates the 10% transaction fee and makes it better tax-wise than the S&P 500.
>What if instead of paying Bezos paying more taxes, he has to pay his workers more? I think it's wrong to just force Bezos to give away his wealth. However, I also think that some Amazon workers should be payed more.

Amazon already pays the most for this type of work. So how much should they pay?

>We call these workers "essential" but their pay doesn't reflect that title.

The work is essential but the workers are easily replaceable, with the exception of medical staff whose pay is appropriate.
So that's why the NHS website is down
I see it as natural selection.
The same is true with phone numbers. You can migrate a phone number between carriers via Local Number Porting.

The percentage of people that register their own domains are in the minority, and probably are a very small minority. The bulk of the public use domains controlled by their email provider, and they have need of something like LNP.

If email had a process similar to LNP to migrate addresses between providers, I'd agree with you, but it doesn't and nobody is pushing to do that either. Technically it would not be that hard to do. I'd love it if there was a redirect mechanism where attempts to deliver to a ported email address returned an SMTP code telling the sender to deliver a given address to another MX record. Email forwarding as currently implemented is absolutely awful as much of the information about the original sender (like IP address) is lost.
This would not really solve your "crap laptop" problem when it comes to cost. The service will cost you more than simply buying a really powerful laptop that will lead to much a better experience.
I switched to BitWarden and haven't looked back. You can use it on the phone and pc (browser). As well as a desktop client.
Nanostructures enable record high-harmonic generation
It still works in offline mode. You can’t update passwords, but you can retrieve them.
Canada? Mexico? China?
How dare you! Now you’re just being xenophobic! Racist!

/sarcasm
That’s great, except most of the targets’ “crime” was simply being a thorn in the side of powerful politicians in their country.
Still a very problem. In pre 1800 California, Forests burned every 3 years and summer was a perpetual haze. Historic burn acreage was around that of 2020. The intensity of these fires is what is new
Resolving “Long-Haul Covid” and Vaccine Toxicity: Neutralizing the Spike Protein
"Increasing concern has focused on the continued presence of the spike protein in the blood by itself, unattached to a virion, following COVID vaccination. Supposedly intended to initiate an immune response to the entire virus particle, the spike protein injections are disseminating throughout the body rather than staying put in the upper arm at the vaccine site while the immune response to it evolves. Furthermore, it also appears that these circulating spike proteins can enter cells on their own and replicate themselves without attached virus particles. This not only wreaks havoc inside those cells, it helps to assure the indefinite presence of the spike protein throughout the body.

It has also been suggested that large amounts of spike protein are just binding ACE2 receptors and not proceeding any further into the cell, effectively blocking or disabling normal ACE2 function in a given tissue. Additionally, when the spike protein binds a cell wall and “stops” there, the spike protein serves as a hapten (antigen) which can then initiate an autoimmune (antibody or antibody-like) response to the cell itself, rather than to the virus particle to which it is usually attached. Depending on the cell types to which such spike proteins bind, a wide variety of diseases with autoimmune qualities can result.

Finally, another very worrisome property of the spike protein which alone would be of great concern is that the spike protein itself appears to be highly toxic. This intrinsic toxicity, along with the apparent ability of the spike protein to replicate itself indefinitely within the cells it enters, probably represents the way in which the vaccine can inflict its worst long-term damage, as the production of this toxin can continue indefinitely without other external factors at play."

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Notice that mRNA vaccines have two proline substitutions in its sequence that should make it incapable of binding to ACE2. This may not necessarily prevent binding to other receptors it has been speculated to bind to: CD147/Basigin, Neuropilin-1, even integrins and bacterial lipopolysaccharides(!)
You can get them used for 100-130
Not sure how your school is relevant, but this kid apparently bought it weeks before. Again, we’ll planned and probably considered for months.
idk. It could turn out to be a very bad idea (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome). And it still hasn’t proven it self to be better then traditional infrastructure. The last mile connection problem can much easier be solved with a 5G tower then a constellation of satellites.
I'm cold. I'd wake up with sunlight. It's unsightly.
Most likely the base/server tool "calls home". i.e. there is a client loaded on the target device, there is a server at the gov agency. The server has number of uses and targets. When the uses are exhausted, it phones home to NSO Group.

This is very much the model for other spyware tools, forensic tools, and phone repair tools.

This would also work well with the objection that they "don't have servers in Cyprus".

It also explain how NSO Group would know how many targets the tool maybe loaded on, but not actually have the list.
I won’t, but what?
Thanks for such an insightful comment, wasn't aware of that!!
> What role does Akamai Edge DNS play in normal internet traffic?

Clearly a big one.
> UI design isn't really art

Who are you to say what is and is not art?
That doesn't really address the underlying issue that OP pointed out.

People that have infrequent issues where they need to juggle money around could use this. They could also simply save money, since the implication here is that they have enough money but not at the right time. This is a nice option for them to have, though. I would also expect people in this category to have access to non-exploitative methods of financing. If they don't have savings, they probably at least have assets for use as collateral in a loan to get the interest rate down.

For others, they have frequent issues where they have to juggle money around. Their problem is cash flow, not the timing. They're going to continue to fall behind on their bills. They get a $500 paycheck, and have $450 in bills. They need $250 to fix their car, so they take it out. When their paycheck comes, they get $250 and can't pay the other $200 in bills. The late fees on their $200 bill they can't pay are going to stack up to eat the $50/month they could have saved. They're still paying financial expenses, they're just in late fees instead of interest.
Identifying Shared Tabs Using Capture Handle (Elad Alon)
I don't have links but read a lot on this years ago. There were multiple UK studies that connected genetic predisposition to mental health issues to increased drug use. They're just self medicating until it doesn't work anymore. IDK why it would be dramatically different for non-genetically predisposed victims.

IMO, drug use is a symptom and not the cause. That said, we didn't have 75% THC vape back in the day and now everyone is doing CBD with wonderful new Delta-8 and there's not a shred of research on it.
how much available bandwidth can starlink support? I thought the primary users would be remote users, or mobile users or sailboats but apparently people here are considering it an alternative to cables
Oops, someone unplugged the DNS machine
If you need these kinds of advanced metaprogramming capabilities then I feel like that's a sign that maybe plain C isn't suitable for your project and you'd better off switching to Zig, Rust, D or C++. These all provide powerful compile-time execution capabilities and the ability to expose C interfaces.
He should have said "If I'm not a criminal, don't be afraid"
If starlink doesn't satisfy, you can stop paying them or get a refund.

If the autopilot kills you, the market doesnt have a mechanism to make you whole again.
Yeah, that may be right when you live in a first word country, but why don't you try living in a third world country under the rule of the military where the law is only used to incriminate innocent people because they spoke up against the tyranny and corruption.

Here in Algeria, there are 200 [0] innocent people in prisons because they shared their opinions on the Interwebs. Being a criminal is no longer an excuse, dictators will do anything to stay in power, they don't care if what you're doing is illegal or not, they will silence any individual who stands in their way and you're providing them the means to do so.

[0] https://www.algerian-detainees.org/
There was one point, C++ won't warn you by default .

But tooling that is incredibly common, that beginners will run into even if they take the path of least resistance, and experts will use because it enforces standards at the very least, covers it.

Like Js without linters is a minefield, but everyone accepts you should lint your Js. Why does that change when C++ is involved?
Many bank systems are disrupted by this in the Netherlands
The Strange Case of the Climate Scientists Fighting a Wind Farm
> Does web advertising just not make sense unless you can amass lots of private user data and track people across the web?

It does make sense, but it has to compete with the invasive-style advertising, and it will always lose. If you want the "good advertising" you have to kill the "bad advertising".
aren't short DNS TTLs great?
The trend these days are DNS TTLs of 60 - 300 seconds, to allow "Cloud agility" or something, so sites are exposed to a much larger risk of authoritative nameservers going down.
They still are. The lower orbit only means that the satellites themselves deorbit within a few decades at most.

Debris from a collision, however, goes every which way including higher orbits and can still damage other spacecraft.

The satellites in geostationary orbits will stay up there for millions of years, but there's much more room between them and there's orders of magnitude fewer of them.
"Development teams should not have to spend a lot of time on devops. That's something that should just work that you buy from someone."

This is the fundamental disagreement. DevOps was a reaction to developers that build software that was nearly impossible to operate because they treated Ops as servants that paid to do the dirty work, rather than peers with a set of valuable skills that cover a scope beyond what many Dev teams have. And it was a reaction to Ops being ground down into becoming the "department of no", when really they should be at the table with the development team as a way towards a collaborative reality check. A model where one team gets to completely ignore the complexities of operational reality is a broken, inhumane, and unsustainable model.

That said, it's also unsustainable to expose all complexity to dev teams that don't have the skills or incentive to manage this. Progressive disclosure and composable abstractions are the tool to remedy this. Kubernetes was never intended to be exposed directly to app developers, it was a system developer's platform toolkit. Exposing it is misunderstanding + laziness on the part of some operations teams. The intent was always to build higher PaaS-like abstractions such as Knative (which is what Google Cloud Run is based on).
Huh. I had no idea, but makes a lot of sense, thinking about it.

Thanks!
My experience and opinion are similar to yours. A typical stoner isn’t really there, and when they are there, it’s more of a questioning or socializing activity. Alcoholic behaviors are what I would describe as arrogance and extreme impairment.
Yes, was trying to do the same. Getting this 2nd jab has been a nightmare. Places listed as walk-in having Moderna, don't and they ran out of it when I went to get my secheduled jab. Ringing 119 just ends up in a dead line, then this outage. Fun.
Depending on what point you draw the line of "single point of failure" you could use multiple providers for your dns.

GOV.UK for example uses both aws and gcp for DNS
Who detects if Down Detector is down? Is there a isdowndetectordown.com site?
Agreed. It's like, imagine being out in public, in a town square, having a conversation with a group of people while others mill about. Suddenly, you're hit in the face with a rotten tomato. You have no idea where it came from, or who threw it, or why. But you are now covered in the stinky remains of an inedible food, and everyone around you recoils in digust.

Somewhere, retreating into the crowd, is the coward who threw it at you because he didn't like something you said. He doesn't have to argue against you, nor does he have to put his name and face to his position and action. But he's effectively taken you out of the conversation.

Now multiply that by thousands of people and thousands of tomatoes, usually thrown by a certain kind of person on a certain side of controversial issues. Eventually the people on the other side get tired of being hit by rotten tomatoes, so the conversations cease, and the Heckler's Veto has won again.

At least in real life, there's a chance that the troll will be seen lobbing fruit, be confronted, and be discouraged from doing it again. But online, with anonymous downvoting, they operate with impunity, silently sabotaging conversations everywhere.
Apparently it’s “the former guy,” used to refer to Trump
This line of reasoning of 'finding examples where ethnicity fails to provide the boundary distinction' doesn't make your case.

I know about 'Switzlerand', thanks. Which is why I brought up USA/Australia/Brazil etc..

Nobody is going to argue that there are many factors that drive boundaries (aka natural boundaries) merely highlighting some counter examples doesn't deconstruct the fact that ethnicity is the primary marker.

"No. I don't know why you would think that. "

Well I don't know what to say because to me, it's 'very obvious' that ethnic boundaries are strong - I don't know how anyone could think otherwise.

In fact, if there is 'nuance' it's probably the things that you are stating that are 'less obvious'.

Here is a map of Rome in the year 0 [0]

Here is a map of Europe today [1]

They are incredibly similar.

By pointing out 'that there are differences' doesn't deny that fact.

Again: "Yeah, no. The old Greece western borders stopped before that (linguistically at least), the northern border reached higher, as were the eastern borders."

That borders have shifted materially, doesn't change the underlying fact that 'Greece is strongly related to Greece'.

I think that's the clearest example of where your argument does not cross the threshold you think it does. You say 'the borders have changed' - fine - I say 'it's still pretty much Greece', which it is.

The Duchy of Savoy was mostly a political organization, not an ethnic one, and guess what? It doesn't exist.

The fragmented borders have mostly collapsed - along the lines of ethnicity, crudely. And of course, within those borders, it's fragments like a fractal (great analogy by the commenter above).

And finally, yes, 'natural borders' are obviously a framing reference, because they keep people apart, which allows groups to develop, we agree there.

[0] https://www.conformingtojesus.com/images/webpages/map_roman_...

[1] https://geology.com/world/europe-satellite-image.shtml
And then there are Cloudflare and other Centralized Downtime Networks as another point of failure.
Many banks in the Netherlands are affected by this.
For a chat bot product to succeed, it has to be indistinguishable from a real human in every way. Otherwise the user will know its capabilities are limited, but won’t know in what way exactly they are limited. This is a perfect recipe for endless frustration as you slowly uncover every way in which it does not work how you expected it to, impeding whatever simple talk you wanted to complete.

If I had nickel for every time a chat bot or phone bot told me to speak to it like a human, and then was completely incapable of handling that, I’d be rich.
1. Accents are evidence that the speaker did not fully acquire the phonology of the language. A French native speaker will speak English with a French accent because they haven't acquired the full English phonological inventory. Children who learn a language don't have this problem.

2. Children will learn colors and shapes just fine without explicit instruction. They do it all the time. In the pre-developed world, children didn't get taught how to speak. There were no flash cards or toys for learning numbers. They just learned by observing.

3. Letters is something else. The orthography of a language -- learning how to write it -- is a different beast from learning how to speak it. Education is necessary here. So we agree about that, for sure. No one will passively acquire how to write.

4. Children make errors in production all the time. As they learn a language they make generalizations -- generalizations that actually make sense, like "mines" -- but which are considered "wrong" by adult speakers. They'll correct themselves over time without instruction.

You might want to check out reading Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct," it has a lot of ideas and research that might be new to you.
Cloudflare seems to be struggling too. Not sure if they have some dependency on Akamai or if this portends something much worse
Sounds like a nice theory, but I haven't stayed in an AirBnb in a major city where that wasn't the case.
Possibly related .. Verizon peering issues / ASN701 at Equinix NY2 in Secaucus NJ
> of which the PI even calls for reproducibility

You mean like every study I've ever read? I can't recall the last time the conclusion didn't say something like, "In our study X appears to be associated with Y, but more research is needed to understand the relationship."

You're right, though, that this article leaves many questions unasked. We know that people who are schizophrenic are far more likely to smoke cigarettes, but there is evidence to suggest they're more likely to smoke before their first episode as well. So is tobacco causal? Probably not. Instead, there are probably precursor symptoms to diagnosable schizophrenia that drive tobacco use: anxiety being the main one. Anxiety and marijuana has already been studied with conflicting results, probably because it's hard to determine out whether people with anxiety are drawn to marijuana (or heavier usage) or whether heavy usage causes anxiety.

There are reasons to think marijuana use can cause schizophrenic episodes - sometimes a first episode - but that use may not increase the risk of developing the disorder when viewed in a 20-year window. In other words, it happens sooner. So according to the article the number of schizophrenia cases linked to cannabis use disorder increased by 4x. I'd like to know whether schizophrenia diagnoses overall changed significantly.

I am not saying there are no risks. But I am agreeing that the article does a bad job of analyzing the science.
I believe this was always the plan, from the US perspective?

https://www.salon.com/2007/10/12/wesley_clark/
Your competitors' products are relatively improved when you deploy a chatbot.
Reminds me of the opening to this article by a journalist having a casual chat with this wife (a psychiatrist at a state mental institution) one evening where she stated in passing: Of course he’d been smoking pot his whole life.

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/marijuana-mental-illness-viol...

I've been meaning to read further about that connection because like the author I had never heard of that idea before and everything before it was like taken to be Reefer Madness paranoia.
Only a tiny number of people in the world can read Sumerian or Akkadian, even for them the process is slow and error prone because we are missing a lot of the original context, and they have better things to do than skim through piles of delivery receipts.

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It would be pretty neat if someone could figure out how to OCR all the cuneiform tablets and turn them into something searchable.
I am surprised financial institutions don't have any regulation for redundancy. The one that stuck out to me is the Navy Federal Credit Union website being down. I have not had any issues logging into mobile though for some of the reported sites.
I agree, for most day-to-day apps the downloading and decoding of the video stream definitely takes longer than running the processing locally. Most apps that you are using daily are also idle for like 90% of the time, not actually doing anything, unless you are playing a game, compiling code or rendering video or 3D stuff.
That's even worse if true; despite HNers creating a storm in a tea cup on DOSing a blog of a service not using K8s when having a blog is not their main service. [0].

Either way, the joke's is now on the HNers in that thread.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27893482
It’s crazy how often Nintendo is criticized by “hardcore” gamers for their hardware not having the latest and greatest silicon and game style when to them hardware is just a means to an end and games are about the experience not the visuals. I feel like some people just play games for the feel good of knowing they can run it at 300 fps. It really misses the point.
Is fidelity outage related to this as well?
To enable offline mode, I had to turn on airplane mode on my phone before logging in.
I use this sort of app, have for years. The idea of using a chatbot as UI is completely unappealing. So I think it comes down to there not being a need for this new take on this concept.
Yes but services like Akamai or Cloudflare etc. centralize quite a few things. They go down, DNS being decentralized doesn't matter much.
The half-assed intervention leading to a protracted conflict in Syria has arguably been much more damaging to American interests than Iraq was, not to mention screwing up Syria a lot worse than it already would have been. Unless there was some pretty crazy stuff going on beyond the public eye to justify it, it's a strong candidate for America's biggest foreign policy blunder of the century (so far). Actually, I'm struggling to think of something definitely worse since Vietnam, in those terms. It's been (very) low-cost in American lives & money compared to Iraq and Afghanistan, but just horrible for US interests and for general international stability, in the Middle East and Europe, especially, and it hasn't even done Syria any favors to offset that.

Iraq and Afghanistan—either one, on its own—surely did more direct harm to America itself, however, but in sheer foreign-policy terms? Our actions in Syria look really bad from that perspective.

I write that as an Obama voter, and Iraq war protester.