skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Market value doesn't describe returns on a house. Rental income (and thus defraying of the mortgage, and thus effective defraying of the cost of goods sold) significantly tilts that number.
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Yeah, because nothing says "recognize the current scientific understanding" like dismissing hundreds of studies because of a couple bunk meta-analysis. Also, nothing says "recognize the current scientific understanding" like injecting an untested medicine into your veins to avoid what amounts to the common cold for younger people; while ignoring the fact that it does not help prevent the spread, and according to the latest study on this from Israel (the highest vaccine rate in the world), actually enhances the spread, so if the argument is "what about the old people that you're going to infect", then I guess you've answered that question already.

It pays nothing to pretend that you are smarter than other people if you're not willing to follow your own advice.
Ah, it says "Register for Free". So not really a paywall, my mistake.
But democracy dies in darkness!
Thanks, there was also this discussion earlier this morning which linked there as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28613703
It will be interesting to see how these kind of solutions compare with emulators for e2e testing of Android apps locally and on CI.
It's probably both, but why would a doctor risk losing their license over this? Yet another unintended consequence. Doctors are supposed to be able to write prescriptions for off-label use.
Apple Photos manages syncing based on things like network connection and especially battery life. If your battery is below a certain level you have to manually resume syncing. That might be part of the issue.
> - Does it allows me to watch DRM streaming services on my linux box?

It doesn't include a HSM, so if it does allow you to watch DRM content, it'll only be Widevine level 3 content, which most services restrict to 420p or sometimes 720p streaming.

https://support.google.com/widevine/answer/6072714?hl=en
Waydroid has Android use your actual Linux kernel, so on an x86-64 host you’ll run x86-64 Android, and on an ARM host, ARM Android. This means that there will be some apps that won’t run on your Intel/AMD computer. I have no idea at all how common it is for Android apps to be tied to ARM, but I imagine that ARM64 will have helped with architecture-neutrality.
I agree that it is safe at appropriate doses. The issue is that people are self medicating and incorrectly calculating doses, since the product was intended for livestock.
You're better off if you only associate "JRE" with Java.
#2 is for sure bviously preferable, but Good Luck With That.

Once you get below the top N% in intelligence levels (5%-20% in my experience), the ability to 1) understand any kind of complex systems, 2) read, understand, contextualize and retain data, and maintain any rigorous logical thinking structure (e.g., keeping previously eliminated options eliminated) declines rapidly.

The result is that, despite having absolute record numbers and percentages of people educated with college degrees, we have massive anti-science movements that are literally killing thousands of people daily, by ape-ing scientific-sounding terms & distorting concepts & data in order to more effectively broadcast disinformation - and hordes lap it up.

We even have nurses and healthcare workers, who supposedly have been taught and passed tests on basic germ theory, actively resisting and campaigning against safe and effective public health measures.

A related phenomenon is that college degrees are systematically being degraded. I personally know someone who was a visiting professor at a US State University, teaching introductory economics. He found that many of the students didn't even have the math skills (or motivation) to understand and wield the basic concepts on assignments, classroom discussion, and tests, and of course he was recommending them to remedial options and failing them. He was explicitly ordered by the administration to pass them or quit. He quit.

Sadly, it is looking more and more like this great experiment in college for all is not working out as hoped. Instead of a culture of wisdom, we have a culture of sophomores - literally wise fools, who know very little, but think they know it all, and therefore don't have to listen to any expert who actually has real knowledge.

It is considered obvious that at 5'6"/168cm, I was not born with the attributes necessary to engage in a professional basketball career. Yet the same kind of sorting based on intelligence is considered something to not discuss, perhaps getting too close to eugenics.

I strongly believe that the opportunity should exist for any person to get whatever level education they want, without financial or other obstacles. But, with the caveat that it cannot be dumbed-down - either you can understand and do the work and pass, or you do not. The practices seen above, and grade inflation in general need to be reset. The problem is that failing your students is bad for business, so unlikely that most colleges will reform.
I'm totally up for talking about it, what more can we talk about tho? I'm switching vendors and advocating for open sw/hw. Open to more threads!
Alternative investment is of course a thing.

However, you're missing the point. People MUST live somewhere.

Their only alternative investment is with regard to their down payment for money saved, or the amount of money that is (mortgage - equivalent rent), which is usually negative!

The BULK (or entirety) of the money they spend on their mortgage is not money that would otherwise be available for alternative investment.
Many of you know much more about Nordic labor law than I do, but I've been there, and I'll just observe that service in restaurants is generally terrible.

The unions can regulate what the waiters are paid, but they can't force the restaurant to hire them in the first place. Not if the alternative is just making the customers wait.
Meta-analysis have a good place. But they also have known flaws/assumptions.

Often it is impractical to perform large studies. Partially by logistics and often by funding. But if there are lots of smaller studies you can aggregate the data to check for overall significant results. But mainly they are helpful to give a "survey" of the current research instead of having to link to 10 different studies and hope someone else sorts out what the data says.

But as you point out, there are two major flaws in the assumptions. First, that the scientific procedure is sound. Secondly, that the data is handled properly, and thus you can take the summary and back out the underlying data.

Unfortunately trying to fix the first is really, really hard.

The second is somewhat mitigatable. As the Nature article suggests, you could publish the underlying data (anonymized of course). This would help in two ways. First, the meta-analysis could check for confounding variables to control across all of the data. The second major one is it would help people spot fraudulent data.

However, as anyone who handles datasets knows, publishing and wrangling data into a useable state from multiple sources is a serious pain in the neck. Plus a lot of concerns about how de-anonymized the data would be. As we've known, with enough metadata it can be used to identify individuals. And publicly publishing dais data would definitely allow for some serious sleuthing work to be done.
What happens when you type - Winnie the pooh ?
His central point is that the "rent" you pay via the costs of homeownership are often approximately equal to the costs of actually paying rent. Since principal payments are on top of those costs, that is money you _can_ do something else with if you were renting, in this analysis.

Of course, that part of the analysis ignores the potential capital gain of the property value, which is often one of the appealing financial factors of homeownership. But the article also addresses that.
I’ve heard it said that if humanity simply maintains its growth pace, there should be enough human bodies to pile up into the entire solar system just by waiting X number of years.
The fact that Bitcoin is simpler than the US banking system is a testament to how archaic the latter is, not how useful the former is.
I guess it's a good thing for homeowners that there are other considerations than financial ones in their favor. I think the decision to build or buy a house rather than renting has a lot in common with starting your own business rather than working for someone else:

The risk is higher, and the reward may or may not be any good, but at the end of the day you get to make the decisions. I think that has more value than most of HN tends to acknowledge.
> With this new capability, you can now use WhatsApp on your phone and up to four other nonphone devices simultaneously — even if your phone battery is dead.

Does "non-phone" here at least include "iPad"? The use case of "if your phone battery is dead" is just such a non-issue for me, as I have a million other critical reasons to keep my phone charged and online... but having the WhatsApp external client--the one you install on laptops--available for iPads and even other phones would actually open up new use cases for me.
Once upon a time there was the notion that there could be a "system" volume, which could be backed up, restored, possibly even updated, independent of an "applications" volume, which would be ideally something that could be duplicated and proliferated beyond other "systems"... like Docker etc now.

It never really worked but that had nothing to do with policy.
A lot of it is just not newsworthy, too. My spouse is currently obsessed with this latest "random white girl found dead" story. Why on earth is this considered nationally newsworthy enough to be on the front page of every major non-finance news site I've tried? Every single day, there's something about it. Really? This is one of the single-digit number of important topics to put above the fold on every page? It's even on BBC news, so I guess someone decided it's actually world news.

The Real News companies continue to kill their own credibility with this stuff, so it's no surprise that people are seeking out other sources, which tend to be even less reliable/credible.
Are we sure we aren't seeing signs of alien life? I mean so much of astronomy is based on just observation, is it possible some phenomenon we observe is actually the result of an alien civilization and not natural?

Sure, we haven't seen a Dyson swarm, but it's not like we've been looking super hard, and we're assuming that a Dyson swarm/sphere is practical to make and build. If a civilization were to develop a way to, say, directly convert matter to energy, the Dyson sphere/swarm is actually the less efficient option.
I'm on a Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu right now. People some times give examples of things like external monitors not working for them on Linux.

Here is one. Randomly, based on no relevant input from me or changes in the laptop's state, my network connection dropped and the Network Manager UI was telling me no network adaptor could be detected.

Some fumbling around in the Terminal (including various reboots not solving the issue), and managed to enable the wireless adaptor which apparently could be detected and connect to my network, though at the same time the UI was telling me in no uncertain terms that no wireless adaptor was connected to my laptop.

Then later, again randomly, based on no relevant input from me or changes in the laptop's state, the UI agrees there is a wireless adaptor connected after all. This is on a machine currently in near-factory state with certified compatible Ubuntu preinstalled.

I share this example because one can at least comprehend why random monitors or graphics cards or what not do not cooperate without fiddling, can comprehend certain apps failing and crashing, can comprehend other unusual bugs. The UI thinking and acting like there is not a network card for no reason whatsoever, on the other hand, is completely illegible to even competent users.

Someone needs to just commercialise a proprietary and at least initially closed version of Linux (so as to to turn a profit) with good design principles in mind and deal with lawsuits and license issues later. There is plenty of money in it.
WW1 made perverse sense when viewed in the mindset that existed in Europe from the early gunpowder age to the end of the Napoleonic wars. They just didn't account for the rise of nationalism, total war, and industrialization.

China understands that wars of expansion rarely have worked since WWII. They know a single US submarine could cripple world semiconductor manufacturing for months.

But I agree, they might try it for non-economic reasons like reunification. Or maybe cause they think--rightly or wrongly--that the USA would cower and wouldn't support Taiwan at all. Wars can be caused by miscalculation too.
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If you are hiring a 24 Hour Emergency Electrician in East Ham for the first time, you need to ensure that he is properly insured. You also need to check his license before you hire him for any work. There are thousands of electricians in the UK and the majority of them don't have a license. If you need to hire an electrician for a job, make sure he or she has a license before making any arrangements.
I'm a little confused. If you owned the home or condo, you'd have to handle getting anything fixed yourself, including your water seeping example. So you have to pay out of pocket for it, plus handle dealing with the contractor, etc. Why do you think that's a case against renting?

If you have an unresponsive landlord, you can simply hire the handyman yourself, subtract the cost from your rent while emailing them an invoice, and dare the landlord to do something about it. You could even pay yourself a small fee for the time you invested in dealing with the handyman, time off work, etc. The landlord can't realistically sue you for such a small amount of money, they'd have zero case in court, and anyways the court system in blue states is very pro-tenant
You are aware that the mainland's new HK security laws allow extraction out of HK for anyone who "threatens national security", i.e. goes against the CCP and their system. [1]

[1] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/07/hong-kong-nat...
I'm including everything other than maintenance in those numbers. I had a 18 year old HVAC system I replaced earlier this year but I had been saving for it and knew it was coming. I had a new system installed within 3 days of calling out the company which I can almost promise would not have happened if I was renting. Can you get a good landlord? Sure, I know they must exist but I've not (nor have my close friends) ever found one. Heck, even if somehow (it's simply not possible in reality after staying for 5+ years from what I can see) you come out even on renting or buying a house I'd taking buying just so I didn't have to interact with and beg another party to uphold their end of the contract. I won't bore you or anyone else with stories of renting and waiting on things to be fixed or contracts to be upheld but suffice to say, I have no interest in renting again after the experiences I've had. On paper a lot of the places I rented were a good deal (especially for someone like me who doesn't want do most of the work themselves) but in practice it always sucked.
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The new Visual Look Up finds words in the tiniest of corners. A story on how I searched for SOUL and found it in a little Amsterdam bookstore.
Should we stop reading news, or stop reading opinions and reactions to news? One of the things about a print newspaper is the way that it brings in everything from local school board decisions to elections halfway across the globe. Of course, real news is the most expensive to gather, so it has tended to suffer over the years.
That would be really interesting - how do you generate the randomness?

Every so often when Matlab or Simulink won't integrate something simple, probably because of something I did, I wish I had an analog computer to compare to.
The allegation is that the censorship code is there. It's disabled on phones in western markets, but can be enabled remotely by the manufacturer.
Then you clearly haven't read my post thoroughly. I repeatedly mentioned my issues being with Signal not allowing multiple instances on Android devices using the same account, while you're talking about Signal on Apple devices.
If you're feeling listless...
I was similarly surprised when I read about a few ecological downsides of solar power.

What is the best material you found on "full comprehensive costs (including downsides and externalities) of energy sources"?
Depends. Will it actually reduce terrorism? And have no other negative side effects on society? Then sure, frame it that way.

No sane person on this thread disputes that what they said is true - marijuana laws have hurt communities of colour disproportionately. Further, framing it in these terms makes it more likely that change will actually happen and those communities will benefit. But some folks have decided that no one working at Amazon cares about that.

Suppose Amazon actually framed it like some people here want them to. “We want to make the lives of our employees and prospective employees easier.” Who would that help exactly? Would it make it more likely that this necessary legislation would pass? No, it wouldn’t. The only thing it would change is that some people here would be less annoyed. But there was no reason to be annoyed in the first place! It’s getting angry by reflex because you don’t like Amazon for other reasons.
I have installed an AOSP-based rom on my Xiaomi 9T and banking apps (well, at least one) seems to be working fine.
I had a similar experience related to this in the past couple of months. My company issued me a Macbook, and forced an upgrade to Big Sur recently. I'd been working through the pandemic by plugging the laptop into a HDMI monitor using a USB-C-to-HDMI adapter from Anker (purchased on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07THJGZ9Z/). After updating to Big Sur, MacOS refused to recognize the Anker adapter with a notification "USB Accessories Disabled", and a note that it was using too much power. I did a few hours of research trying to figure out what the power draw actually was (with no monitor plugged in) and scoured specifications for other adapters in the hope that I could identify one before purchasing that might work, but found scant information published on the power draw of various adapters.

I never succeeded. I just use the Macbook with only the built-in display now.
They mention that there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists#cite_no...
Waydroid was formerly known as anbox-halium; I believe it was a rewrite of Anbox to use system capabilities more or something, but I’m fuzzy on the details.

(As to what it’s now known as, I’m not actually certain: in most places it’s spelled Waydroid, but there are a number of places where it’s spelled WayDroid instead. Waaaaah! I can’t cope!)
This is fair, and a good reminder for me that a Librarian's prerogative is to follow the means, mode, and preference of the readership with the goal of enabling folks to read. This is a noble goal and it's good that Amazon has contributed something to "accessibility" via a smoother delivery mechanism.
From his call in 2012, the stock went up 10x before crashing all the way back down this year.

As usual, being the short guy is a lonely career.... (and a reminder the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent).
I doubt many have used a full filing cabinet, but I'd assume most have used physical folders.

I'm actually a student teacher in an elementary school right now (very beginning of my training, so I'm mostly just observing). The third graders have brightly-colored folders for math, writing, science, etc, which they keep in their desks and/or backpack.
I'm glad to recently switch to Linux as my primary OS with things like these available. Windows 11's android app integration now doesn't sound as appealing.
From the article:
Relations between Lithuania and China have soured recently. China demanded last month that Lithuania withdraw its ambassador in Beijing and said it would recall its envoy to Vilnius after Taiwan announced that its mission in Lithuania would be called the Taiwanese Representative Office

No one trust China but this sure looks like politically motivated. Was someone else able to authenticate or reproduce the results.
Speed an accuracy are on different dimensions that are somewhat independent.

Another consideration is how much time we can afford for the solution to be wrong and need to be tweaked. For anything that has to work the first time, you want one (two, really) of your more sober and likely expensive engineers on the case, even if they aren't your fastest.

You may or may be able to replace your 10x engineer for this kind of work, but you're likely to be hamstrung by your interview processes.
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TL;DR

You don't need a reason. Just quit.
> Marathon runners run 42 km in like two hours but it would take me days to finish the same distance...

Not really. If you walk at an easy pace of 2 miles per hour, and start at 6am, you'll be done in time for an evening meal. At 3 mph, you might even make afternoon tea.

The world record marathon times are, in fact, only about 4-6x what you can do as a walking human being.
The civil war also had some cannons blasting... but the weapons were VERY different. A well trained soldier was shooting 2-3 bullets per minute in the civil war. WW2 machine guns were 25 rounds per second. There is no comparison of the destruction capabilities...
It backfires though when you go with things like "Masks don't work" in the name of achieving an end and not actually communicating a simplified version of the truth like "Masks are scarce and the majority of the public doesn't use them correctly, so save them for the professionals, for now".
Yeah, I do get that. But I think most of the desire for that comes from having way too much of the opposite. As I touched upon in my last paragraph, we need a middle ground - becoming completely passive in the dialog is just overcorrecting in the other direction.

The real problem is the lack of mediating authority in any of these dialogs. We need some bit of common sense that can say (for example), 1. yes there is a valid concern with previously male athletes calling themselves women and competing in women's events, 2. you have a point with the pronoun thing but you're also kind of a dick, and 3. no thanks to the "Marxism" screed that I can get any time I like from my uncle.

Perhaps we're just going through a societal phase where that type of mediating authority has been distorting the discourse for too long (Aluminum tubes! Yellow Cake!) and so we've rejected them. But without any moderating judgement, debate devolves into extremism - every camp takes their reasonable foundational critiques and uses them to logically infer self-consistent nonsense. Then you either rally behind them or another camp, or you're going to get pigeonholed as doing so anyway.

We appreciate Joe Rogan for exposing us to diverse viewpoints. But without taking an active role in their explanation, is he actually doing that job? Or is he just appearing alongside a presentation that we could have sought out on our own?