skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, with a 30 year it looks like you're paying a lot of interest, and in nominal terms (i.e., the total amount during the loan), you are.

But consider a thought experiment where you could borrow $1m at a low rate of interest, suppose 3%, from a generous lender who requires no collateral and requires an amortizing repayment. You take the $1m and reserve, say, $100k in "no-touch" cash (your cushion) and invest the remainder in the market, and suppose that the market returns an average of 7% over the long run.

In this scenario, you obviously pay much more interest than not taking the loan. The interest you pay is nearly $500k, which sounds like a lot - almost half the loan! Yet you make a tidy profit over 30 years: after paying back the loan, you have a portfolio worth over $4 million, plus the $100k reserve you still have.

While that's just a thought experiment, the math works fairly similarly for a mortgage. So long as the market returns more (over the long term - it'll be bumpy short term) than the cost of money, you will be paid handsomely for assuming lots of long-term, fixed low-interest debt and investing the proceeds.

And this leads to a second surprising conclusion: you should not pay off your mortgage. Once you've built equity, releverage the house and borrow more, so long as you take the proceeds and invest it in an instrument that will pay more than the cost of money over the long run. If interest rates rise, the math might not work.

This is bad advice for some people, because a pile of savings and investments can be a tempting target to use for luxury vehicles, or boats or whatever, and that can upset the math, although eventually you make enough with it that might be OK. But for people who can live as if those investments were illiquid, it's quite a rewarding path.

And for some people, the psychological value of living in a house with no mortgage exceeds whatever financial gains come from continuing to pay for a mortgage. And while there's nothing wrong with that, it does come at a stiff financial cost.
Zinc plates - those always makes me think about ... bitcoin ! XD
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090180
https://www.vox.com/22524829/wall-street-housing-market-blac...
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The difference is that even if it's considered socially unacceptable in the US it doesn't result in fines or imprisonment. Sounds like a much better deal to me.
I'm not sure what "'participation trophy' culture" has to do with not being an asshole.

Being unable to express your opinions without anger or yelling isn't a sign of competence, it's a sign of a mental imbalance.
Unfortunately not everyone has the talent to become software engineers. On the other hand, if you are a software engineer who is underpaid because you chose to work in a passion industry like gaming or aerospace, then you only have yourself to blame.
Now there's one less tool to help the victim of such abuse though.
They already have phones. They’re not interested in your slower than their phone computers either.
They are written in a childish manner: the white knight, the highly assertive love interest, the sociopath who wishes he could be a good guy, and the cowboy. Their personalities are unrealistic in ways that I would attribute to a young teenager. That said, the quirks of these trope-like characters is sometimes amusing. I enjoy the series mainly for the protomolecule plot, despite the characters.
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A new meaning for "political science".
Tesla Megapacks.
I am curious if this holds true at organizations that have high performance cultures (e.g. Netflix).
It happened before: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTc2NTU

Although, true, I suspect their modern stuff will never reach the same point.
A legitimate question I’ve always had when we read such announcements is how can we be certain they’re actually doing whatever they’re claiming / planning to do. Unlike software /OS modifications, it’s not feasible to somehow reverse engineer FB’s backend and find out if anything unusual is happening. At least without any attempt of compromising it.

Considering how powerful these orgs are, with low probability of facing any legal repercussions about potentially false claims, do we have any other option than to take their word for it?
> because of access to the AUR

to those that switch away from Arch, what do you do about this? stop using that software? update/build it yourself from source?
AWS GovCloud is having an outage in us-gov-west-1
Looks like AWS' GovCloud West Region is down. We're getting 500 errors, and you know it's serious because the service health dashboard acknowledges it: https://status.aws.amazon.com/govcloud
Itt: more corporate sycophants a who have reasons for Apple to deny right to repair to their customers

The majority of you work at publicly traded companies and it shows.
I miss 2010.
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My wedding album has like 200 photos in it. I definitely had relatives who didn't want to look through them all and just asked me to send them the photos with them in it.
Another story about Lena Forsén, the woman who consented to selling naked images of herself, but now is being touted around for not consenting to a bunch of nerds using a version of the image that she had sold and doesn't own, which crops out everything but her face. As far as I know, this image isn't even regularly used in most new compression tests anymore. But she's still getting brought up as if she's some kind of victim. So can data die? Apparently not as long as there's false victimhood to be sold. At least the presentation of the page is nice.
Why wouldn't you just buy the house outright at that point ?
> a candidate for the bin after the warranty expired, which can be surprisingly quick

All my all Macs sold for great value after I was done with them or got a better one, even with an expired guarantee. It took like a week or two to sell them. I'm still stuck with Thinkpads because the used market is shit.

My last Thinkpad I got kinda impulsively as a workstation for Ableton is my deepest regret. It was a year ago, the Intel MacBooks where not cutting it, it's a great machine and was like 2600 and now I want to go back to an M1 MacBook Pro and it's impossible to sell it anywhere, I feel I just threw away money. A four year old MacBook Pro is worth more on the Apple exchange program than my Thinkpad, it's really sad.
It's a grid and has a famous APL 1-liner, and there's GPU-accelerated GoL implementations, so one assumes so.
How many SSDs have you worn out? I've never managed it.
This applies to every level, particularly the lower levels.
There's the old joke about a plumber to charges $100 to fix a hot water heater by hitting it once with a hammer. The home owner, incensed by such a bill for a simple action, demands the plumber justify it. The breakdown is: $1 hammer strike, $99 choosing correct location.

Even a decade ago, the rewards for being able to repair computers were pretty substantial. Your computer was likely to have routine failures and you could probably save a lot of money doing piecemeal replacements. I think those things are still true for people who are trying to stay on the bleeding edge of computer hardware or use unusual setups, but for 95%+ of folks it is probably going to be a net loss.

For most people performing most tasks, they are better off taking the "one-screw" computer into the shop because it would take them hours and hours to do the research figuring out if it really is a "one-screw" problem. If you are wrong you could seriously damage your hardware. In addition, because hardware that is sufficient for most purposes and inexpensive is widely available - there is very limited utility in learning those skills otherwise.

If you want to learn about and repair computers as a hobby that's great! I do it and I enjoy it. But it's not a "smart financial decision."
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Then the M1 trounces this laptop in power and energy usage and there’s no contest.
How to define memoir? As a crime procedural
The entire subgenre of military scifi or military space opera is full of stories that would translate well into a visual medium, with plenty of action. I've read many but haven't seen any adapted yet.
I don’t think people are obsessed with ownership for the sake of ownership. There are a large number of benefits to owning which the individual might find valuable enough to pay for:

- more space

- individual outdoor space

- control over your own area. Can paint or remodel however you like.

- Dealing with terrible neighbors isn’t nearly as bad.

- location might be quieter and more desirable

If we compare renting a house to buying a house, the cost just doesn’t make sense for rent. It’s much higher than renting an apartment in cities
I don't know about;"teaching", but I think people can change their nature and it's life experience that causes this to happen. It would be pretty surprising to me if someone acted the same way at 23 and 32. Arrogance in particular is something that often ebbs with age.

OTOH, for software, the most important skill is resourcefulness, and that seems like more of an intrinsic property of someone's personality.
Thanks, it's possible to contribute into https://github.com/motor-admin/motor-admin-rails it's a ruby gem which powers motor admin app - support for new data sources and more data visualization options (cohort) are welcomed :)
And then each guest has to go through every picture in the album to find the ones with them to share?
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Same is quite usual in some Cambridge University departments.

Also worth mentioning Scandinavian and Swiss universities treat PhDs like a regular industry job (job contract, paid at an acceptable discount wrt industry, pension contribution & other perks). This is how it should be everywhere.
The accountability is you have the option to block trolls, leave the site, or just ignore them. Pretty awesome because you surely couldn't so easily be rid of someone in physical life.

There's no requirement for you to subject yourself to a troll.
No mention of the Multiaccounts Containers addon?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers

How about the fact that ublock origin is more effective on Firefox?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24212176

Then there are the other features like TRR, first party isolation, ECH, actual video hw decoding support on Linux...
wait am I banned?
Often at: /usr/include/sysexits.h under Linux.
Outright scams or thefts due to complete negligence.
Good point.

One way to look at this is that a house on a piece of property can be treated as a fungible product for two different markets: it can be an investment vehicle for investors, or a place to live for homeowners.

As its value to one of those markets increases, buyers on that side suck supply out of the other market. You can get a sense of how much this is happening by looking at the vacancy rate: higher vacancy rates implies that houses are worth relatively more to investors than homeowners.
Well, there's Joseph O'Neill's novel Netherland.
Now we are getting somewhere. The owner class tolerates housing price increases because they think they are getting a good deal (but it's just inflation, if the price of necessary goods goes up, that's inflation), and the renter class gets fleeced. It's not a recipe for long-term stability when 2/3 of the population band together to oppress the remaining 1/3, all this with government support.

It's also concerning that housing is a government-supported investment, it's an unproductive asset. That's not how you encourage progress and development. Even if you just have a field you can grow crops but no such luck with housing.

(Maybe there's change on the horizon, a collegue who lives somewhere in the Rust Belt complained that her 25-year old daughter can't move out. She has a regular job, but the rents have become so high that she cannot afford an apartment on her salary. So there's hope that civil unrest will be averted.)
The privacy cat is already out of the bag once someone uploads a photo of you without your consent. That's the root behavior that should be corrected, and it's hard because the onus is on the privacy-conscious user, to get everyone else's cooperation. The facial recognition just adds even more privacy-questionable metadata.

My dream facial recognition feature for Facebook would be to allow me, as a non-user of Facebook, to upload some hash of my face and direct Facebook to disallow any user from uploading a picture with my face in it.
I do not disagree with you, but nothing about humans favors ethics. Human nature, sadly, favors "F-U, I got mine", and when it comes to money, it's even worse.
> Microsoft Loop is a new app that combines a powerful and flexible canvas with portable components that move freely and stay in sync across applications.

Maybe I'm an idiot, but I feel it tells me exactly nothing about what it exactly is.
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I don't know about this one @dang. Respectfully I took a look at his comment history, and while they have some "spicy" comments, it doesn't seem to be for trolling purposes.

I won't disagree that perhaps he broke the rules with the comment and it could be rephrased better, but it does seem like he is a real poster with a legitimate (although unpopular) viewpoint and could use a bit of grace, eh?
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How about Match Group?
As an external user who has found Google's services to be incomprehensible, it's nice to know it is (was) equally as painful internally.
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> Ultimately these things always revert to mean.

Yeah, until they don't...
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I get that the memory bandwidth and performance of the SoC is intimately tied to the CPU, GPU and memory being on the same silicon (grossly vulgarizing the approach).

However, there is no reasonable justification (as far as I can tell) for why the SSD would have to be soldered onto the same SoC, and even less reasonable justification for why the iBoot stuff couldn't be located on an EEPROM or something of the sort, like a secondary BIOS/UEFI.

It just boggles my mind why Apple would go so far to limit storage options and even make a straight up bad architectural decision (SSD gone ? You can't boot the 4k€ machine. What ? You bought it 4 years ago ? Well, tough luck.)
I did this after seeing this before on HN. There were a few processes that were manual that benefitted from the technique in the article.

Learn from my folly: I even called them “do nothing scripts,” referencing this article. However; I was judged by peers for not writing the full automation versions as they didn’t appreciate the idea of gradual automation (programmer hubris?). Saying “do nothing scripts” in meetings did catch the awkward attention of leadership.

As a description, “do nothing” communicates a lot. As a brand, “do nothing” can use some improvements.

My short prescription of turning “do nothings” into “do some things” into “do all the things” didn’t help. We had some new people join the team and they had fun turning the do nothing scripts into a document. * Sigh *

I still build these type of process description scripts still. I usually don’t advertise them to peers until they do some of the things nowadays.
"activists bully big companies"

What's up with this plainly ridiculous usage of the term "bully"? It's almost self-parody. It's something I've noticed in British newspapers sometimes where MPs will whine about being "bullied" by citizens who post rude comments online.

It's really obviously not the right term for whatever point you want to express! Taking points off your English paper for incorrect word usage.
You're assuming the 'unagreeable' personalities aren't hard workers and the people in favor are. There's no guarantee those 'inside the group' are elevating each other either.

I'd rather work with competent strangers who are sufficiently polite than get dragged down by friends who can't carry their weight. No need to mix personal life with work life.
Ask HN: What you do outside technical work?
I spend most of my time reading books or watching videos. What you do other than work or reading?
Yes, but as I said, that's a slippery slope to walk on - you're not there to make friends or have fun - you're there to do work. The whole point of that arrangement is that you do something that something else values enough to pay money for, perhaps something that you don't particularly want to do or something that bores you.

If you start adjusting the workplace to fit the needs of the employee (gosh, how wrong that sentence sounds!) you end up in situations where it's suddenly justifiable to let developers use technologies unsuited for the situation because they're "fun" and "interesting" to use and keeping them happy means they're more "productive". Or letting middle management play politics because it keeps them happy and more productive. Or forcing people into open offices because some boss likes the feeling of lording over his subordinates and that makes him happy and productive.

I guess what I'm trying to say is - some basic levels of courtesy and human empathy are needed for any group endeavor to work but beyond that, decisions should be made in the interest of the business rather than what makes individuals happy.
In the US, cricket tends to be a sport for immigrants from the subcontinent or the West Indies. In the US context it may be exotic, but hardly snooty.
Back in the old days we used to do long term vaccine controlled studies. Cursory Google search finds:

> A long-term follow-up study on the efficacy of further attenuated live measles vaccine, Biken CAM vaccine, S Isomura & all, 1986

> Antibody persistence was measured in 39 children in an open community 12-13 years after immunization against measles with further attenuated live vaccine, Biken CAM. [...] For evaluation of the protective efficacy of the vaccine, matched controls were studied during the same period. Serological examination revealed that 97.5% of the controls were infected with measles and contracted the disease.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3778422/
I watched the first 5 episodes. Looks great, but pacing sucked and the story deviated quite rapidly. I hope others enjoy it, but it's not for me.
Tell them you use Fedora-Linux.
Well I’d change the word intelligence to interests.

My parents are technologically inept but far superior to me in certain areas of life that I can’t seem to catch up in. They instinctively understand it better than I do.
Thanks that's a good point.
It requires to connect to the database (postgresql or mysql) and the tool automatically build an admin UI on top of the existing data.

You can try it yourself locally on macOS, Ubuntu or in docker if you're on windows:

https://www.getmotoradmin.com/installation
I am used to it, but

1. It is rare for the details of how to actually accomplish each of those steps to be both documented and the documentation made accessible.

2. If you can describe it that succinctly, it really ought to be automated. If it can't be automated... then you left something out of your instructions, which goes back to point (1).
What is this exactly?
So sad that we can't have nice things. I like the feature that automatically tags people in pictures.

Sometimes I have trouble remembering people's names (not face blindness or similar, just regular trouble I guess). I would love to have smart glasses that show the name of someone I've met before but don't quite remember. But alas, our society being what it is people will abuse facial recognition, so I can't have that it seems...
Wow, I built a prototype of something almost exactly like at my last job. It didn't go anywhere after that for a variety of reasons, but I remember asking myself "I wonder if this sort of thing would be worth releasing/open-sourcing?" Looks like I won't have to wonder forever, I can just watch y'all and find out.
Show HN: A fast unused and duplicate dependency checker
Hey

I recently wrote a mini tool that servers as a unused and duplicate dependency checker. It uses golang and esbuild under the hood so is quite fast.

It also built to support monorepo, something I found a lot of tools didn't support well.

It is fully open source and you can try it out https://github.com/CryogenicPlanet/depp

Fair warning, it is likely quite buggy and might have some issues and it is very new but it worked decently on our internal codebase
>This weird OCD obsession with wanting to be able to piece apart a device

suggesting that people who embrace "right to repair" have a psychopathology is the only psychological blindspot I see here.

wanting to enlarge your memory or your drive storage is completely normal in the present day as these devices increase in size dramatically well within the lifetime of a notebook computer
You can't build an ecommerce site yet, but we are building the CMS feature that would allow you to do this somewhat. What do you mean by next integrations?

It doesn't support PWA yet. Do you have input on this?

And yes presenting on nextjsconf would have been really cool!!
You agree with all my points and the fact we both have thinkpads, what do you disagree with?

The thinkpads esp batteries from 2013 suck them most. DRM, and expensive, 2012 has no DRM and 2014 and up has way cheaper aftermarket.
Automation != Leverage
What does “serve 5TB” refer to? They expect 5TB of network bandwidth over some time period (a month?)? Or their database takes up 5TB on disk?
Are you manually inserting the ANSI sequences into the stream? Or are you using a library that does this for you?

Often times libraries that let you specify output color will helpfully query the capabilities of the output device, and avoid writing the control codes if it’s (for example) a plain text file.
I don't think it would turn out a plus if I fly over to get it serviced.
I dunno about "canonical", but, as others have mentioned, Stephen Mitchell's version is good. It reads very easily without, as I understand it, taking too many liberties with the text. I'm sure there are retellings that are even smoother, but I doubt you can do much better for casual reading with anything else that's at least fairly faithful to the original.

Mitchell's careful to (accurately) frame his as a new version, not a new translation, though, because he does not read the original language and is leaning on several existing translations to assemble his version. You probably don't want it for, say, deep scholarly purposes.

My copy of Mitchel's version has what's effectively a 60 page retelling at the beginning—which I've not read, so maybe it sucks, I dunno—as the Introduction, then a brief author's note about the book (in which he explains that it is not a new translation, among other things), and ~140 pages of Gilgamesh itself, in largish type. It's very long for a (mostly) surviving pre-classical near eastern story, but it's still pretty short. The rest of the volume is notes.
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