skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
60 years ago housing was an investment in a very different form than it is today. 60 years ago was before Reagan and Trump tax reforms - both of which changed the rules in major ways. (every year the tax rules change in minor ways) 60 years ago also had much higher interest rates than today. Those two are very significant.

Back then deducting your interest from your taxes was very important. The middle class could hardly afford to live in a tiny apartment, but the interest tax deduction meant they could afford to live in a good sized house. Back then you bought a house with the understanding that in 30 years it would be paid for - right about the time you were ready to retire, and then you lived rent free for the rest of your life (nobody considered nursing home expenses).

Today housing as an investment to most people mean do a cash out refinance every few years so they can live beyond their means, then sell to some bigger sucker when they are done.

If you think of housing as the first type of investment it can still be good in some cases. You need less money when you are retired and can live a long life in the place where you made your memories.

Of course when talking about investing in housing it must be repeated "location location location". For some of you your location (and in particular change of location over time!) means buying a a bad investment. For others your location means buying is great. You have to figure this out for yourself.
Forced synchronization should be illegal.
Don't you have the same problem with C?
Just curious, which solvent?
Followup: I can't Google up the studies I read on this, as all the terms I can think of are either overloaded or heavily partisan ("cancel culture"), etc. But I have a strong recollection of seeing quantitative data on number of complaints brought against academics from outside with an attempt to figure out whether this was a left/right thing and seeing a tentative conclusion that the bulk of complaints about academics are that they are "too left".

If this seems tendentious and unlikely, let's remember that Bari Weiss, now advocating for the University/grift that is University of Austin as a beacon of academic freedom, made her reputation attempting to get academics "cancelled" for having the wrong views on Israel.

There are a lot of people with a vested interest in beating the drum to claim that universities are a mess of "cancel culture", but I'd be intrigued to read some actual statistics on this, rather than heavily publicized anecdotes.

I tend to agree with the poster who complained this was some sort of blame-shifting ("he started it, mom!"). But the portrayal of normal academic life as being rife with endless left-wing cancel culture is a project being done for a reason. I don't like left-wing cancel culture either - and some of the leftiest people I know dislike it from a practical perspective (I know people personally teaching at elite institutions whose teaching has become unmanageable from constant weird student political demands). But any analysis of this that doesn't take into account the fact that universities are under pressure from the whole political spectrum is dumb.

It's also worth noting that "right wing cancel culture" sometimes just manifests itself by quietly shutting whole departments in favour of, say, expanding the "trade school" elements of a university. Just nuke the whole history department and double the size of business... obviously an apolitical act, right?
Well, SCP would refer to the cultivation media by name.
"Renting is far more expensive."
A person does not need $50,000 cash to move into a rental unit, let alone the cost of taxes, upkeep and maintenance.
I wrote another relevant post, if you are interested: https://blog.whidev.com/same-features-macos-to-windows-with-...
> It's either illegal tax evasion or operating within the established legal framework

Is someone committing a crime by aggressively reducing their taxes if they don't get audited? Not paying taxes isn't a crime, but the IRS has been decreasing audits of the rich.
I think the same happens for every other language but English, in the past I've reported several abusive attacks/ posts/comments in facebook (in Spanish) and later they've said that they don't see any issue, so clearly they just don't understand what you're reporting.
I honestly think it is very difficult to determine what voters' actual preferences are. I mean think of your standard political compass tests. Or even Meyer Briggs. They can change day to day or mood to mood and lots of questions tend to be leading. While I love the idea, I think logistically it would be a nightmare and greatly reduce transparency. It would also be far more vulnerable to so called experts manipulating the system if they aren't acting in good faith.
Palm oil is a vegetable oil. The production of vegetable oil (read: palm oil) creates an end product that looks and feels like oil, but has all kinds of other bad shit in it. It gets refined, heated, bleached, heated, deoderized, etc...

The same thing happens to flour. We process the living shit out of it, then bleach it, then we have to add-in all the stuff we removed so that it still has some semblance of nutrition.

It's like the deep fried pickle. A pickle in and of itself is a pickle, but when you deep fry it, is it still a pickle? Some will argue yes. Does it still have the same general health characteristics, or more importantly, the lack of negative characteristics as the deep-fried one? No.
Mschapv2 needs NTLM/MD4. Eduroam uses Mschapv2 inner authentication.
I think from the author's shoes it is a lie, but only because the author has a better model of the mind than most. The accurate view of the mind is that there is not just one consciousness in there, but many. The lie is that there is an "I". He seems angry when people oversimplify and say "people have one consciousness and DeBoer's is bad", rather than "people have many consciousnesses, and DeBoer has at least one that is bad".

But I also wouldn't rule out the idea that even if our speaking about people as a single consciousness is a gross over-simplification it might be a better strategy for society at large.

(Disclosure: currently reading A Thousand Brains and Society of Mind and very much under the influence of the many minds idea at present)
I'm not a doctor, but from the looks of the wiki[0], it can be used for other viruses in the pox family. Also, smallpox is considered a major threat for bio-warfare, as multiple nations have it in deep storage. That's why the military is still vaccinated against it.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecovirimat
Time Magazine to Hold ETH on Balance Sheet Part of Galaxy Digital Metaverse Deal
Title was too long to submit, had to shorten it, the current title is "Judge bans MSNBC from Kenosha courthouse after report of producer following jurors."

Note that the judge said both NBC and MSNBC on stream.
Smallpox is still retained in government labs in the US and Russia, and its genetic information is available and could allow for its synthesis from scratch. The fear is that a bad actor could create and/or set it loose as a bioweapon.
Yes. If someone demonstrates a consistent determination to die, when asked at random times, and over a long enough time period to rule out episodic mental health issues, and they've made appropriate arrangements for their family, I don't think they should be stopped from killing themselves.

I disagree with the claim that many suicides are like that, I don't think the suicide from the article was like that, and the word "consistently" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
It’s not just a housing bubble. It’s an everything bubble. Aka inflation
Although true in Europe, the US is less susceptible to this because of our 30 year fixed rate mortgages. In fact, here, it's the opposite: interest rate increases -> decreased housing prices -> decreased tax assessments -> lower total cost of ownership for already-issued loans -> less risk of default for current home owners.

In a vacuum.
If you are going to write about a topic, perhaps you should have a better understanding of it and its related issues than a child would.
One thing that struck me after reading Nikola Tesla's Biography, was how much that guy traveled. He lived between 1865 - 1943.
Meanwhile the ECB is expanding the bubble by leaving interest rates too low for too long.
It makes me question what they’re hiring so many engineers for.
The religious right elected Trump. Without their support he would not only have lost the popular vote, but also the electoral college.

He spent his presidency attempting to keep them happy and in particular working with them on Supreme Court appointments.

I would say that makes them relevant.
Well, you're dangerously wrong in simply assuming it's not smallpox, having zero evidence for your thesis.
Kamu: A Git-like tool for building decentralized data pipelines
You're required to pay a "reasonable salary". So if you pay yourself minimum wage, but collect $100+k in profit, you may get funny looks from the IRS.

Rule of thumb I've heard is 50% wages 50% profit, up until $100k wages, beyond which you can really start milking the profit.
Neither. To an alien they would look the same.

We can't differentiate an anthill in Boston Mass. from an anthill in Gerona Cuba. They look the same to us.

I only pointed that out to show how little space there is between what we call "dystopia" in Asia, and what we call the legal order our own societies. I doubt a completely uninformed but intelligent 3rd party could sus out the systemic differences between the two.
No there isn't. There's a bunch of evidence that the current model used for cosmological dynamics (Friedmann's equations) don't work unless there's a lot of undetected stuff called dark matter.

Until someone rules out stuff like using the full nonlinear Einstein equations vs Friedmann equations, or that the presumption of homogeneity/isotropy is wrong, (there's more stuff here that hasn't quite been excluded by observation) then the best we can say is that "We need some extra matter called dark matter for the standard cosmological model to work"
The main TeXmacs author is a mathematician and the program has a very well thought out document model and editing operations.

You won't find strange/unpredictable Word editing heuristics here.
That is an interesting question and I am inclined to answer it, but I don't want to assume the meaning behind it. Could you narrow it down a little to make sure I don't misinterpret it?
I'd guess for the SEO?
The challenge with this debate is that the meaning of "cancel culture" is too broad, verging on incoherent. Examples of "cancellation" range from people who experienced harsh consequences for minimal or imaginary "offenses", like Justine Sacco and Donald McNeil, to powerful serial sex offenders like Harvey Weinstein.
Can we say that it's bad, no matter which side does it? And that both sides are doing it in different ways, and that's bad?
I feel like there's so much pent-up demand that it's far more likely to "deflate" than burst. Unless we are talking about some sort of major recession in which case I feel like we'll have bigger problems than a sluggish housing market.
The first part of your statement would only apply if most mortgages were adjustable rate. They are not (at least in the US). ARM loans were under 10% of all loans in 2019 [1]. Everyone who locked in a fixed rate loan is fine until they need a new home. I would expect rising interest rates to stabilize or maybe slightly decrease market prices, not cause a massive decrease.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/02/14/adjustabl...
I like Freddie despite his mental problems/communism. His heart usually seems in right place even if his brain isn’t working right.

But when he say his “psychotic disorder is harder on me than it is on you” it sounds a bit like the guy who beats his wife while saying “it hurts me more than it hurts you.”

Destigmatization should not be a license for communism/cancel culture.
If someone feels that one side had a harder path to begin with due to context outside the presentation/debate itself, that can happen. To veer dangerously close to Godwinning, but I think for good reason, consider how much better a holocaust denial argument would have to be than its opponents', for you to agree with that side. You might well come away going "damn, they really did do a better job of presenting their case" while still disagreeing.

[EDIT] To be clear, I picked something extreme so it'd be easy to see that this situation could exist without getting distracted by minutia, and am not equating anti-cancel-culture with holocaust denial. I hope that was obvious, but just in case.
Spritz it on some freshly laundered towels in a 5-star hotel (lots of international travelers) and you have a hot mess fast. Same thing in a Motel 6, you get longer dwell the in the first country before it spreads overseas.
Again, I wasn't commenting on _the case_, but on the topic of this particular thread, which was about news coverage of _the event_ (not the continuing news coverage, but the initial "here are the immediate facts we know"). And that the information I received from that lead me to reach some opinions on Kyle's overall wisdom and that a bad outcome of some sort is not surprising (which has nothing to do with "guilt"). And I still think you're conflating the "claims" I've made with claims/opinions about the court case. It's not impossible to separate the two, but I think this isn't the medium for it.

I know that my opinion of the actual case does not matter, but for the sake of clarification I'll say that I have a decent amount of trust in the system and I hope/expect a fair outcome based on the evidence. And I also trust you, as someone who has followed the case and taken the time to respond to me in a clear manner.

I agree with everything you said about the media.
Maybe it's good to think of "fabric", "mesh", "warehouse", and "lake" as design patterns for data.
Bah, PeeZee! Nothing could ever beat AmIRC2[1] on Amiga!

Especially when you were running "Kuang 11"[2], which developed from a client script into a shared library, written in some compiler language and offering, itself, a script API, in addition to the client's :-)

I don't know how many times some idiots tried to take over a channel and Kuang 11 (or a sister project, it was, I think, which used the K11 API) reacted so fast, that our clients stood rock solid and could not be flooded, etc.

[1]: https://www.amigaos.net/software/115/amirc
[2]: http://de4.aminet.net/comm/irc/KuangEleven3Gm.readme
Biotech companies can create vaccines for new diseases within hours of receiving the source code. Why would pharma pay billions of dollars to get a treatment approved for an old disease zero people have?
These estimates are bullshit. Only in India there are 4.5M excess deaths.
Those two guys seem to be doing just fine.
Try reading it, maybe you can connect the dots!
It seems super unlikely, but can anyone here help reduce my anxiety that this might be related to the recent Monkeypox cases in the US? [0] Like, the timing doesn't work out, and the person who got infected came from Africa so we're probably not seeing something like community spread... And this would almost certainly be too old to infect people.
Anything I'm missing?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29269936
You seem to have a US-centric mindset. The article is specifically about EU prices. Renting, in Munich, Germany for example, is far less expensive than buying an equivalent home. Further, it is likely that the downpayment needed to take out a mortgage is significantly higher, percentage-wise, than the typical American mortgage, which also means people are paying more up front as prices continue to rise.
> COVID is not comparable to the flu. It's 3-20x as deadly

Well, there are you, comparing them.

If you do the same with smallpox you will get unrecognizable high numbers.
They could invest in creating new small businesses?
I agree completely. As the parent says, people are entitled to form their own opinion of his credibility, but I don't see how you could possibly form an accurate opinion without knowledge of his mental state, and if you don't care to form an accurate opinion, then why bother?
If there was literally ANY metric I would want in a HUD; 'How many cameras are viewing me now, and where are they' has got to be the top of the list...
Here is a sample from one particular Forth implementation, line 305:

https://github.com/nornagon/jonesforth/blob/master/jonesfort...

This is fairly typical.
As somebody in a family with bipolar I have to disagree. Someone's schizophrenic episodes should be taken into account in judging their actions, just as one's manic episodes should be as well. This in no way excuses their behavior. Whether or not you want to continue associating with that person is a different matter.
> Dr. Robert Glatter, an emergency physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, said that smallpox can be lethal “even after it is freeze-dried.”

For context, the vials were probably found in a -80C or liquid nitrogen -140C freezer, so they are highly unlikely to be freeze dried (assuming they were properly sealed).

For additional possible context, it's not at all uncommon in the biomedical research world for vials to be forgotten in these freezers for decades. The classic situation is that a student or postdoctoral fellow has boxes in the freezer, and graduates or leaves without cleaning out the boxes. The boxes remain protected and ignored by producing a powerful "Somebody Else's Problem" field [0], usually until the need for freezer space becomes desperately dire (which I'm guessing is what happened here).

Given that likelihood, AND that this was a lab working on vaccine research, and that they found vials labeled "smallpox" and "vaccinia" (virus used to make the smallpox vaccine) side by side, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the CDC's concern were justified.

[0]: Obligatory Hitchhiker's Guide reference: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Somebody_Else%27s_Proble...
in Transformers 3, there is a good example about this.

Sam wanted a job that matters, so he rejects the offer. Then the conversation follows along the lines of: "you want the job after this job, but this is the job standing in the way".

In this context, I understand by that: focus on career progression, and then switch to "save the world".
I'd argue that instant-runoff is _worse than plurality_. It complicates the voting system, makes the wrong tradeoffs (lack of monotonicity is a very serious one), and I'd really like to hear more about why you think approval voting is worse than runoff (instant or otherwise).
> The LTT video hit one specific packaging bug in PopOS that was present for only an hour

The PopOS install ISO was made during when the packaging bug was occurring. and remained up for months. They finally replaced it after the Linus Tech Tips video came out. Anyone who installed Steam without first updating the system broke their install.
Comparing modern death rates to the 1919 flu, and to historical smallpox infection, is not useful. Medical technology has come a long way in a century and so average mortality rates have dropped for all diseases.

2019 and 2020 had particularly dangerous flu seasons and were still significantly less deadly than COVID.
Do you actually look into what this document is stating? The document linked to in this article is not from the FDA, but from the group suing them for the FOIA request. This filing, and others from this group, are only allegations. This is not evidence from the FOIA process nor a statement from the FDA.
Since I cannot find the original sources of these documents, I can only link to these:
Docket:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21087968-txn-42021cv...
Filing 1:
http://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/001-Complaint-10...
Filing 2:
https://www.sirillp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/020-Secon...
I thought oppression matrices were used to highlight the non linearities of groups that fall into multiple minority / categories; i.e. female Christian Dalit living in India.

Using a sociological analysis tool that highlight corner cases of systemic racism to justify a statement that analysis is akin to saying that all white people are racist is in my eyes a straw-man logical fallacy. It is equating emergent behaviour with individual mens rea; one does not follow from the other.
If the authors are hanging out here, and to any future blog authors who reference github links: please don't use "master"/"main" links to source code, because it is almost a certainty that some major refactor is either going to move that file, delete it, or nuke the interesting source line making your citation less valuable 6 months from now

I see that the post does use the "y" hotkey (copy-URL-as-sha) on quite a number of the v8 repo links, and that's fantastic; if it were to use the version tag, it would provide more context about the source version referenced

I do sincerely hope this doesn't come across as "choosing beggars," because it was a fascinating post and it was great that the relevant source files were linked. I just wanted to raise awareness about the implicit 404 danger hiding in "master"/"main" links
I adore Benjamin Franklin and I've read many many books about him.

This is my favorite biography of Franklin: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300095325/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

It is also very worth reading his actual writing -- one anthology is "The Portable Benjamin Franklin" -- it's quite long, but it gives you a much better sense of who he was. Benjamin Franklin himself was a better writer than ANY of his biographers: https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Benjamin-Franklin-Penguin-Cl...

Ultimately he is a very amorphous, playful, and loving individual. In some ways you might think of him as being like David Bowie or the Beatles. A person, who having achieved wealth and fame, used it in the best possible way. If you have read the book "Finite and Infinite Games," he was playing the Infinite Game.

Not that he needs more adulation! But as you dig deeper in Franklin becomes more mysterious & that part of him is not appreciated enough. The icon is not the man, if that makes sense.

My favorite Franklin anecdote: "Did you know that Benjamin Franklin invented windsurfing?" It's not strictly true, but he loved kites, and loved swimming (he was one of the first swimming educators as, in the 18th century many people had a deathly fear of water and many many people drowned) and one day, he was swimming on his back, while flying a kite, and he noticed it dragged him through the water very quickly. "I believe this could be a mode of transport, or of recreation," (paraphrased) he wrote in a letter.
Electrical grids don't store energy. If you wanted to store just 10% of the U.S. electrical generation from summer to winter using lithium-ion batteries, it would cost roughly $42 trillion dollars. Yes, trillion. Storing 10% of the U.S. daily needs for less time (say, one day) is a better story for batteries: only $115 billion.

That's how un-scalable long-term battery storage is. Hydrogen is more so: you can store hydrogen in vast quantities in salt caverns, and move it around. Pumped hydro is best, but sites are limited. Compressed air is another solid contender.
I've had great luck with cold emailing scientists with interesting questions or asking for code, I almost always got interesting and lengthy answers even from famous scientists in the field whom you'd expect to be super busy.
Unless he's being harassed. Then there can't be inner peace.
I would prefer a netflix model run by the gov. You pay 10 Euro a month when having an internet connection. This is distributed based on your activity. Sites you use often are being paid more to run their infra. At the same time those sites are not allowed to run ads or affiliate crap. Also profits should be capped and taxed with 99% above a threshold. \