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> If you're anywhere near the suburbs of a city, you can add another $500 to $1500/month in property taxes,

$1500/month property taxes would be $18,000 per year. On a $400K home that would be 4.5%, which is significantly more than you'd find anywhere in the United States. The average property tax rate in the US is around 1.1%.

Moreover, most locations have an exclusion for the first $XXX,000 of home value. For example, a city might tax the first $100,000 of home value at 0% and then only apply the 1.1% rate (using the average here) to the remaining $300K.

Assuming a $100K home value exclusion and a 1.1% rate (average national rate), that comes to $275/month, which is about half of the lower end of the range you quoted and nowhere near the $1500/month upper end of your range.

Also, $400/month HOA fees would be several times higher than the average. HOAs aren't actually as common as the internet suggests, but when you get into an HOA in a neighborhood with $400K houses, you're probably going to be paying more like $100-150/month, not $400/month.

> $400k on a house is simply impossible for many millennials

Sure, but so is $2K/month rent. I never suggested that every millennial can afford a $400K house, but rather that it's not an impossible reach for many millennials.

This is especially true for married millennials who haven't had children yet. I think too many people focus on the idea of the single millennial purchasing a home on a single income and living there alone, but in practice it's usually people getting married and settling down somewhere together on two incomes.
Yes totally agree, being liked by teammates helps you climb the ladder.I would say it is a bitter truth .
Oops, I repeated the first URL twice. I meant to link to the following one for the Stoicism guide/deep-dive:

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22990579
Is it really breaching someone's privacy to assist your own memory of the things they've chosen to (repeatedly) tell you?
And that strife will be in the real world. The thing about “real” is that it always wins over “virtual”.
Part of the issue is recognizing adversaries and bad faith. In much of science, disagreements are still in good faith. But engaging bad-faith actors with the same tactics as good-faith ones, and engaging with the journalling public in the same way that you engage with other good-faith scientists, leads to losing the game that they’re playing.
Carrd has a major limitation: it is explicitly a "one-page site" builder.

You cannot create multiple pages and link them together. Unsurprisingly, most Carrd websites I see are promotional of some kind, linking out to a bunch of third party sites, or Amazon affiliate links.
Ask HN: Why won't Firefox switch to Blink at this point?
Yes, they are very not desirable, so much crime, poor working from home experience, poor public safety, everything else the MSM wants you to believe, etc. Definitely don't come here....

Or maybe your sources are more interested in selling fear than accuracy.
Absolutely. This is for secondary houses mostly though, it's slightly easier to expel those from your main accomodation.

But I think in any case your ownership of the property is not challenged. It's "just" that you cannot use it, but eventually you can get it back.
manage complex routing schemes for your projects just dragging nodes and noodles.

100%. I want something that combines the multitrack timeline of ACID with the MIDI, control, and audio routing of a virtual modular synth or console.jp (sadly not updated since 2008). I would work for a significant pay cut on such a project if someone's hiring.

But also a tangent: anyone developing node-based software please give me schematic-style straight lines and angles to route connections! Noodles that look like real cables definitely take the skeuomorphism to 11, and plain straight lines without routing are really easy to implement, but they're both very impractical for more than just a few connections. I'll open source my old startup's Qt implementation of a node canvas if it helps.
> Since Jackson reported problems with Ventavia to the FDA in September 2020, Pfizer has hired Ventavia as a research subcontractor on four other vaccine clinical trials (covid-19 vaccine in children and young adults, pregnant women, and a booster dose, as well an RSV vaccine trial
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Isn't the trick to show a higher offer from another company?
The Pioneer PX-V7: MSX over All?
Wear the VR headset!
How many people spend a lot of time on social media? Billions, this is just providing a more immersive interaction for that. VR is only a tiny portion of that and I'm expecting AR and haptics and a whole bunch of other tech that enable more diverse sensory experiences to play a part here.

I don't really want "Meta" to own all of that largely because what made the internet successful was having no gatekeeper and a very low barrier to entry. Not that that's true anymore, but having no initial gatekeeper let people do crazy things for 30 years while the current gatekeepers were establishing themselves.
I think it’s basic courtesy to ask someone if they want their picture taken or not. This would only automate the process.
(Disclosure: Work at Microsoft, but I work in Azure and some open source stuff, not on or directly with Fluid/Office/etc.)

That's just a trademark clause for Microsoft logos and brands. The Fluid Framework itself is MIT licensed [0] and doesn't require exposing any of those logos/brands when you use it, so the framework itself is fairly open for usage.

I think the main thing that would slow down adoption for Fluid is that the only "production" backend is an Azure service, which isn't part of the open source Fluid Framework. Other open source backends[1] aren't recommended for productions. Until there are some open source ones, I'd assume adoption will be limited to folks in the Azure ecosystem.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/FluidFramework/blob/main/LICENS...

[1]: https://fluidframework.com/docs/deployment/service-options/
Sorry, no not just Canada. We have an office in Indianapolis, IN and the bay area and remote US is an option as well.
Yeah, but this one is missing ALL the features.
It did benefit microsoft. Once the format became an ISO standard, many governments were free to use it. Also, by being "open", they had less chance of being threatened of abusing their monopoly position.
Fair point, I wasn't being precise in my language. I look forward to finishing the books before it at any rate. For what it's worth, I'm sure it does benefit from reading them first but you can definitely piece together the major plot points established in the preceding novels from the dialogue in the book, but they are certainly enhanced by knowing the full background.
$3.5 USD and up
> Introduced in August 1995, the PowerBook 5300 series were the first PowerPC PowerBooks, ... The 100 MHz 5300c, with active matrix color, sold for $3,900 for the 8/500 configurration, and $4,700 for 16/750.[1]

> Announced in March 1998, ... The PowerBook G3 Series started at $2,299 for 233 MHz with no floppy drive and a 12" screen, and cost around $7,000 fully loaded.[2]

> If 2007 had a title, it might well be "Year of the Laptop." The US notebook market boomed in 2007, with laptop shipments rising 21 percent to a total of 31.6 million units. Desktops still outsold laptops in 2007, but the gap between the two has shrunk as desktop sales continue to decline.[3]

Laptop PCs started from $6000 range down to $2000 range over decades up to 2005 or so, not up from zero to there, at which point it established its position as the default form factor of personal computers. So if you go back in time they only gets expensive despite inflation.

1: https://apple-history.com/5300c

2: https://apple-history.com/pg3s

3: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/01/2008-could-be-the-ye...
It looks disgusting.
For people that spend their days reviewing APL code, the concerns of mere mortals are not important.
If you have to ask a message board of random strangers, the answer is no.
When I worked in commercial real estate in a blue state I was introduced to the 'right to counsel' concept, which is just wild. Grifters and professional con artists can successfully not pay rent to small-time family landlords (most rental real estate are tiny, unprofessional operations with 1-2 buildings- lots of recent immigrant owners). And when brought to court, they receive free attorneys from legal aid societies, while the owners have to pay thousands out of pocket. I found the whole concept outrageous. I would never want to be a landlord, the risk-adjusted premia just doesn't make any sense
Overall these are some of the best comments I've ever seen on HN:

1) Recommendations of follow-up reading

2) Life experiences and hobbyist opinions

Just a real great example of the intellectual curiosity we all look for on HN
Still it's "40-60% cheaper" which means it's 60-40% more expensive than it should be. It's exactly zero additional risk and the point of insurance is to manage risk.
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Oh we use SlateJS as well! Mind sharing your experience with it?
There's a huge jump in cost and operational style, to go from two nines to three, because it means you have to have 24/7 support coverage or an on call rotation (and good alerting, or else it's for naught) for nights. Two nines just means you need someone to check their messages sometimes, during the day, on weekends. One nine, and you can forget about the weekends, too—and that's actually sorta OK for certain applications.

Three nines also means you can't afford to intentionally take a system down to work on it, or you'll burn all your "oopsie" downtime. That means a ton more work in infrastructure and deployment processes, than two nines.
Is it at all possible that you quickly skipped through the dialogue box asking about it when you first opened FF after that upgrade? I only ask because I caught myself almost doing that before I did a double-take.
> “Listed”, not sold. Homes typically go for well over listing

In a bull market, about 50% of homes sell above list price [1]... It can change quickly.

1. https://magazine.realtor/daily-news/2021/06/01/a-record-shar...
Additionally, I believe the commenting and suggestion features were added to Docs after Wave was turned down; my recollection is that that bit is one of the main things that changed about Docs after Wave.
I think you have to take into consideration that Apple has been providing their offerings for over a decade now (starting with A4 in 2010) and have their own special license to design their own chips that use ARM instructions, while this is I believe Google's first offering and it is done through Samsung and is sort of like an exynos+ rather than a completely new design.

Maybe after a few more iterations it will be more competitive, maybe they actually get to design their own architecture or they could do the Google thing and just give up a few years from now and sunset tensor.
Yes. Seems like I typed before I really thought about it. :/

I guess what you'd want is to tax the hell out of rental properties, then put that money to first-time mortgage assistance.
> The job of a scientist consists of gathering data, analising results, and help explain and model phenomena so that we learn more about a subject and understand it better.

As part of this job, experiments are made and reproduced, and observations are reported in studies.

As part of this job in areas where experiments can be done, yes. But in many areas of science, experiments cannot be done. Models can be constructed, but there is no way to validate them with controlled experiments the way you can in, say, particle physics. That means our level of confidence in models in such areas should be reduced; we should not even be saying that such models are "correct", because that level of confidence is simply not justified.
I think it's somewhat useful to actually list numbers in these discussions. Hydro is great, but it tends to produce quite a bit less power than most people imagine. A lot less once you consider the relative size of not just the dam, but the reservoir behind it as well[0].

The biggest Hydro plant in the US is the Grand Coulee dam in Washington, with a nameplate capacity of 6,809MW. This is pretty impressive, but it's a heck of a lot more than most hydro plants could ever hope to produce. Only one other dam beats out 3,000MW, barely, and most are in the ~2,500 MW range. Overall America has 79GW[1] worth of hydro power capacity.

Now ~2,500MW per dam is a lot, but it's actually kind of low compared to nuclear power. America's newest operating power plant, Watts Bar, has a nameplate capacity of 2332MW, which would put it at number 6 in the hydro plants list. And Watts Bar is fairly small compared to most other nuclear power stations around, since it only has two reactors. 6-7GW nuclear power plants are far from unheard of[2], and most of the older French reactors hang out in the 3GW range.

In places where hydro fits the geography, it's a great choice. Not without its tradeoffs, but miles better than coal or natural gas. But overall nuclear is still going to beat the pants out of it for versatility, and total generation capacity.

0 - To be fair, this can be a benefit in cases where you need to both generate electricity and store water for later use.

1 - Peak production. Yearly energy measured will be higher, roughly 270TWh, because there are a lot of hours in the year. Still a heck of a lot less than the ~800TWh of nuclear power we were making per year last year.

2 - Japan, China, and South Korea run a total of 5 nuclear plants with >6GW capacity. Japan and South Korea each have a plant with >7GW capacity. South Korea, Ukraine, China, and France run a combined seven reactors with a capacity between 5 and 6GW. The French reactors are interesting because they're all pretty old, from the 1980s, and were built and commissioned on a tight schedule, with an average construction time of 7 years.
Interesting, calling an investment strategy "FOMO".

More likely, people flush with cash see inflation eroding it, think the stock market is already too high.
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> I can't imagine headsets being safe to use for extended periods of time if you're under 10 years old.

Oops. Well the only reason my kids play as much Roblox as they do is only because I don't let them play the Quest2 all day. They would if they could. (Especially the 8yo)

RecRoom is a really well done VR Roblox and my kids would live there if they could. I think we'll see a generation of kids with high interest and expectations of VR.
The whole series is great and he releases videos every two weeks. The shop in that video he was able to use thanks to a nice couple who own it. He's since had to move the boat as a neighbor complained about him and he's in the Port Townsend shipyard.
I can enter at any time and its marginal. So I don't need to control a large share of tokens. For instance, Ethereum's proposed proof of stake requires a minimum of 32 ETH to participate or $144k at today's valuation. This is required since you need to have something at stake in case you're dishonest. And this minimum will grow as the network grows.

There's already been decisions made with this in mind. For instance, during the DAO hack, a big consideration when considering a hard fork was that the hacker got a sizable portion of all ETH. Knowing that Ethereum would move over to proof of stake in the near future, that was simply unacceptable so they decided for a hard fork invalidating the stolen funds.

Ether already suffers from concentrated ownership and has practically no defined monetary policy. So it's very centralized. Switching to proof of stake will further centralize control.

Proof of work however anyone can start / stop mining at any time with no resistance, making it more decentralized.

[0] https://www.gemini.com/cryptopedia/the-dao-hack-makerdao
I have designed brushless motor drivers in the past. But at the time I was fairly busy and I discovered the VESC 4.12 which is pretty good, but the creator moved to a new design that costs way more and the user community fragmented. The 4.12 designs are still for sale and pretty affordable, but I switched to Odrive due to the very active development community. It seems the price of Odrive has gone up though. I mostly use them at work so I don’t care, but this arm is a personal project and I used a couple odrives I had previously purchased.

There’s other new drivers out there that I haven’t tried. And I could take a crack at a new driver again. But really I want someone in China to produce a good design and sell them on AliExpress. Something with open source design files and code, able to handle 2kw power, able to use one or two encoders, etc. You can get a VESC on AliExpress for $75 or an Odrive clone for $95 with two channels. But I guess I feel bad buying an Odrive clone because the newer hardware isn’t open source so they are unauthorized clones, and I know the Odrive team works really hard. I would feel bad showing off my work with Odrive clones.

There’s other options out there though and I may want to try them. It’s been a while since I’ve needed new drivers at home but with this project I sure do!
My experience is with WYSIWIG tools like Dreamweaver and more recently, Bootstrap Studio, which includes all the UI elements of the BS library. Those let you build standard websites where HTML and CSS are separated.

What was the reason for going with React components? I thought those were for web apps with a lot of interactivity and changing states. I don't know much about React/Vue beyong the fact that they use a virtual DOM, so I'm curious.
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Physics used in the service of war/terrorism

Biology used in the service of war/terrorism

Rent seeking of the elite
This isn’t a fallacy because I’m not making an argument or asserting the parent commenter is wrong. I’m suggesting to the parent commenter that they follow their own advice and keep their personal beliefs personal.

For instance, if someone who eats steak tells me that studies show eating red meat causes heart disease, it’s not a fallacy to suggest that they should stop eating red meat.
Mojang would have a problem trying to control Minecraft because it's written in Java, their developers commonly associate with the players who hack the game, and the only control over the gameservers that they have is their authentication servers- which you can disable the use of by editing one flag in your server config files, allowing anyone to play even if they didn't buy the game.
I'm also a lazy person! Which is why tools like this are a PITA to me.

The one exception is Docker. It's not a regular part of my workflow, because of how it makes things both harder to get started (making a working Dockerfile takes a bit of time), harder to debug, and slower to build (I just changed one line! Now I have to rebuild the whole image to see if it fixed the problem... &c).

However, for deployment of the final product? I agree Docker's GREAT. But, consider, in that respect it offers nothing I didn't have at the start of my career 20 years ago. Static linking for interpreted languages. :)
I'm frustrated that everywhere I look I keep seeing "metaverse" and "VR" used interchangeably. All of the things described above are VR, and none of them are the metaverse.

Watching TV or playing a game in an immersive, distraction-free VR environment sounds great, and will happen, and it's not the metaverse, it's just VR.

Working in a virtual home office has the potential to be extremely productive, ergonomic, and space-saving, and it's not the metaverse, it's just VR.

A metaverse involves some kind of shared space and shared experience across a networked medium. Not only is it more than just doing things in VR, a metaverse doesn't even require VR.
The time I spend in Minecraft is either meditation time or social time.

It's an even better experience when there's a modpack on the server with a near-infinite number of things to do, too.
Thank you, whomever did this! I asked for it in a comment recently.

This video basically is making fun of a common situation of Google at the time, where a person wants to serve up some data for analytics, but the sysadmins expect the person to follow a process intended for much more complex and high availability services run by teams of skilled engineers.

It parodies SRE as a BOFH sysadmin, even though in general SRE are quite easygoing and helpful.

It helped poked fun at a number of overly stuffy processes and also helped push people to make hosting modest datasets (like this 5TB one) easier.
What do you mean you can't firewall against PID 1?
Because a complete rendering engine monoculture would be a bad thing?
I'm not even trying to argue that anything is good to eat here. This comment chain, since the ingredient list of a Beyond burger was posted, has amounted to pointing in the vague direction of that list and things like it and saying "Ew! Too many ingredients. Too processed".

The point I'm trying to get across is that, insofar as a Beyond burger is bad, it's because of some specific ingredients or processes. It's not substantive to just post the ingredients, or make nebulous allusions to them being gross or un-nutritious.
I think this is an up-close look at a small part of a much larger overarching concept that most people never really come to grips with in the way that the author does: Life isn’t fair.
It would be very artificial. I love youglish because the words are in context, in the flow of speech, including liaisons with preceding and following words, and for more advanced uses it can be used not only for pronunciation but to see how a word is actually used in discourse.
Its public facial recognition system? For some reason I doubt that they will stop using it for themselves.
>I'm surprise the number is that low. Wasn't enabling this a default?

The first implementation appeared in 2017 [1] as tag suggestions, but the facial recognition feature we know today evolved around 2019, when it was made opt-in rather than a default setting. [2]

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/19/16794660/facebook-facial...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/3/20847650/facebook-facial-r...
Teams on Linux is still Teams, but it works just fine for me. It can't do background blur, but is otherwise feature complete enough for me to attend stand-up on it daily.
Growing up for me it was Runescape.