skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right that housing supply is an issue, but second homes and investment homes are a major issue as well. Too much housing stock sits empty and the ultimate end result is that a very small portion of individuals get richer, meanwhile millions of people are desperate to buy their first home.

Both problems need to be solved, one with more housing, one with tax incentives.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_holidays_in_Australi...
> Do you believe someone who were to try to take the same path as you could have the same financial outcome today?

Yes, I do believe that, the odds of legally entering the US with a CS degree are still largely the same of when I entered a few years ago and are reasonably attainable with enough perseverance over a few years, there are different academic and worker visas that can all be used to get a foot in the door. Also, the job demand is significantly higher today than it used to be a few years ago. New grads can make $200k+ compensation, my comp as a new grad was like $35k and I still did fine.

Naturally going down this path will require significant sacrifices, as per my original comment. You need to be willing to be very frugal and likely move away from parents, friends and family, and not knowing for many years what your final immigration status will be (as you move from temporary visas to permanent visas to green card etc.). In my case, it also means no kids, no car, etc. (similar life as the author, I assume).

My whole point, let’s please not forget, is that on average people are not willing to make the above sacrifices but they still like to loudly complain when folks share articles like this one.

> How would it change if they couldn't get to the USA?

The odds are good they will, in my opinion. If they won’t, there are other options. Sampling my friends:

- if you are slightly more entrepreneurial, move to another tax-favorable country like Malta (similar tax rates as US) and contract with American companies, with financial outcomes largely similar to mine.

- if you just want a typical employee experience, Canada is also a really good option that many of my European friends who didn’t want to go through the US immigration gauntlet chose, and they are doing very well.

Once again, all these decisions take sacrifices but they are relatively attainable.
Get a full time remote job from a company that treats their employees like adults. You can easily get whatever their equivalent of a "meets expectations" rating is on 4-5 hours of work a day. And ethically you're doing nothing wrong, because the company is formally saying it's satisfied with your work which means they're getting what they bargained for.
Has any American budget airline reached the depths Ryanair goes to make every last cent?

They don't have screens on the seats (too expensive), just a printed advert. But they do play audio adverts on the PA system a couple of times per flight, typically for things you can buy on board.
"being dangerously massive?"

What does this mean? Do you expect a bus to weigh more than a fully loaded truck? Trucks in uk weight up to 44 tons, the largest double-decker bus is 12.
Because everyone (or at least, like 40%) in Europe has what I consider to be a great education.
Am I a victim of satire blindness? This reads to me like it's parodying arguments made by advertisers.
Marketing. I would take everything on this website with a grain of salt. Take it from someone who has actually built an off-grid system, one that is relied upon for 24/7/365 living rather than mere vacation cottage.

For example: OP re lead-acid battery options:

"Heavy, cheap, easy to use and they work! Typically will last about 3-5 years. Slower charge rates than lithium, much heavier, and they cost way more in the long run."

That is just plain incorrect. Lead-acid batteries regularly last a decade or more and are far cheaper than any lithium option at a given capacity. Look at nearly every 12v car or boat battery. You don't see those being replaced every 3-5 years. It is old reliable tech that just works. And, at a given price point, they can charge faster than lithium too.

The downside of lead-acid? There is little profit to make in selling them. All the patents have expired. They don't need software to control them. They are mature, centuries-old technology. A thousand companies are making lead-acid batteries and you can get them cheap. They weigh more, but for residential installation that isn't an issue.

The upside? Whereas lithium packs are a nightmare to recycle, lead-acid batteries hook into an established and profitable recycling system. They are the greener alternative to anything containing lithium.
Using numbers from only top private schools makes your point fall a bit flat.
And $61T got transferred via ACH in 2020[0] with a 0.08% fraud rate[1]

Completely different scale with an incredibly low fraud rate. Not to mention consumer protections put in place by banks (i.e. recoverability). This analog is disingenuous.

[0] - https://www.nacha.org/content/ach-network-volume-and-value-s...

[1] - https://www.nacha.org/news/ach-payments-have-lowest-fraud-ra...
Would you pay higher taxes to avoid those ads?

I think it's hard when our public transportation is chronically underfunded. Politicians and voters see corporate (advertising) funding as less onerous that citizen (taxes) funding.
I think people would be more likely to consent if they were paid for it. Brave browser does something like that
I used to do credential evaluation for foreign tech workers looking to work here. I mean, I still do but the applications have dried up, and it actually started before the pandemic due to the previous administration. Before I would do maybe a dozen a month. Now I’m lucky to get 1 a quarter.

Some of my family are very anti immigrant and glad to hear this. But I’m not sure they realize how much work is getting done in the US due to foreign labor. Combine declining immigration, declining birth rates, and a system predicated on uninterrupted, unending growth and this is setting up a big issue.
Another very good resource is http://www.arrl.org/news/new-book-energy-choices-for-the-rad.... The author is more well known for inventing http://www.aprs.org/
This is what the world needs. "Free" products and services mean you are the product or service.
Approach all my planning from resource (time and energy) allocation perspective. Previously I would just make a dump of all things that I want to achieve, which made any kind of planning unrealistic.

Stay afloat but do not try to actively climb anywhere, save energy for inner work and contemplation. Stay at my current job (ok pay, just got hired), do not actively learn anything technical unless required for work (not interested, tired from technology). Do no work more than is necessary to feel I'm not gonna be fired.

Approach very critically all learning endeavors that are related to programming, and only do things that I absolutely enjoy. Drop at first sign of dissatisfaction.

Spend time on high RoI things (critical thinking, stress management and overall well being techniques). Drop low RoI things (movies, TV series, guitar).

Try to fight news and politics addiction.

Contemplate on how and where I want to spend the rest of my life.
It actually does precisely mean freedom from legal consequences, yes.
Boxing Day: What is it?
On thought #2, I'm with you. While I'm planning to retire early (thanks to software, I will have the money, and not much brain power left), I have yet to figure out what the heck I want to do, and I won't retire until I figure that out.

I also think the "financially independent" life has a pretty wide definition. I don't need a job for an alarmingly long time, but couldn't retire on what I have. It still gives me enough freedom to work where I want, when I want - which is what proponents of this life talk about.
> Then why is Coca Cola allowed to promote their proven harmful sugar juices in that space, but am I not allowed to oppose that promotion in the same space?

You are certainly allowed to. Pony up for the ad space if you want to promote the opposite, or advertise something else entirely.
Frame.io is more of a collaborative review tool and collaborative asset & pipeline tool. It seems potentially quite different from your idea of a collaborative editing tool.

I also pondered starting building a company and tools for filmmaking and bailed out, and I’m glad I did. My background is CG & VFX, so not editing exactly, but talking to people in VFX helped my business partner and I see that VFX software is thin margins, super competitive, and not a good long term strategy in the US.

Anyway, the success of frame.io could still mean your takeaway was correct that editors don’t want many cooks in their personal kitchen, but also that your view of collaborative editing could have been widened into include a broader range of collaborative activity. In some sense, pro filmmaking is almost always highly collaborative already, not with multiple editors, but definitely with multiple people.

Another possibility is that frame.io doesn’t resonate with editors, but does resonate with many other people making films, ads, social media videos, movies, etc. It might not be the editors that are buying it. It also might not be experienced filmmakers buying it either; one problem with interviewing the experts is that they rarely understand the markets for non-experts…
Didn't work Christmas. I will be working some on 1/1 and 1/2 though.
They had Bitcoins, I wanted Bitcoins. It would have been more extra steps for me to first wait for bank transfer and then transfer money to an exchange, buy Bitcoins, and then transfer the Bitcoins to my wallet.
True, I overreacted a little, sorry. Thanks for being a good sport.
There's also no tax on jet fuel.

A high speed train almost always has a lower speed competitor, although it may be run by the same company.
To each their own, but most of the “I’m not gonna have kids and just save all my money” types I know say later they made a poor life choice that’s hard to fix once that realization is made.

You can make the same sweeping generalization with parents who raise kids that are ungrateful and/or complete disappointments.

I know plenty of parents that feel abandoned by their children, who only get a courtesy call once or twice a year. Or worst, children who are continuing to be a financial burden in their 20s/30s/etc.

Very few parents will admit to the fact they regret having children. But the regret is there.
Non-serious answer:

Kill particular countries languages, cultures and laws to create real single market. At least US Congress has sole authority to regulate interstate commerce, compared to EU.
So I'm not trying to defend Banksy specifically here...

>So you called that artist a "vandal". Would you also call Bansky a "vandal"?

He can be both, "vandal" and "artist" aren't mutually exclusive.

>Some people find unapproved grafitti objectionable. How do you feel about that?

I'm not answering for the person you're responding to, but for me, I'd say I feel fine about that. There are people who find nudity in art objectionable; who object to the Mona Lisa; to surreal art; to abstract art; to land art; to a specific artist; to an artistic medium. There's always going to be someone who objects to some form of art, so I'm not sure what you're getting at.
Lithium batteries don’t need to be warm for discharge (generally and with an asterisk), it’s charging. Discharge while freezing causes slower chemical reactions (aka lower discharge current), but that is rarely a huge problem compared to the charging problem.

Any charging around or below freezing causes pretty quick destruction of the cells as the chemistry switches to a more favorable destructive one way electroplating process instead of the desirable (and reversible) ion exchange process.

A common engineering solution to this has started to be temperature dependent shunts that route charging energy to heating pads around the battery until the battery temp gets above a certain safe point.

It adds complexity, cost, and adds several undesirable failure mode however, and Lithium battery cost is already a major factor in these systems, so if you’re in a situation where you can’t reliably temperature control your batteries (cold climate, non-conditioned battery space), lead acid is still a very viable and often desirable chemistry instead.

Round trip efficiency isn’t great with them, and you have to way over provision to get good cell lifespan, but it works.
Except according to (neoclassical) economic theory, real economy is not like Monopoly. In real economy, you can have capital investment (or lack of it), which changes how much real production you have (in Monopoly, this is fixed by the amount of houses available).

So whether increase in money supply causes inflation depends on whether you can increase the production. If it is possible to increase production, the inflation should happen only temporarily, as the extra money from the demand will get reinvested. This should cause the supply to catch up and prices to fall back again.

However, I think the current social inequality complicates the situation a bit. If the investors know that the increase in money supply is only temporary, and the money from the demand will again very quickly end up in the hands of the few (in increase of asset prices), there is no real incentive to invest and increase production, because who will consume, if the extra demand is only temporary? This seems to me like a marxian trap of too low rate of profit (at least for the typical consumer goods).

The general problem with the broad macroeconomic indicators (such as inflation) is that they completely ignore the different classes in society. Unfortunately, the mode american economy is in now (where 50% of it is owned by only a small number of people), this becomes much more relevant.
Link to the work/tourist visa: https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-li...
As an engineer, she's more bound by reality and reasons from first principles. I find that she's right more often than mainstream economists.

Relevant example: They were surprised by non-transitory inflation, she was not. That's a huge miss by other economists.
Just a (hopefully amusing) piece of anecdata: we have a squaredrop trailer, with a set of solar panels to power/charge the 12v marine battery and a pair of Jackery power banks. Most of our camping is done in the eastern woodlands: WV, PA, VA, etc.

There is so much tree cover all the time. Some days, even though it's mostly or fully sunny, we're almost always at the end of some disused fire road on the wrong side of a mountain, and we're lucky to get a couple of % back from all-day charges. I'm considering one of those water-powered turbines, since it'll work all night long as well.
A quick look at the W3C source on the matter only mentions & as a separator, so I think it's correct to say allowing something else is non-standard.

https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#form-co...
529 and megabackdoor are post tax so they won't affect the tax on the 500k (but are nonetheless useful tax planning tools)
The deep bookshelf rings true to me. I use https://audile.app for exactly this - but in music.

A book version would be neat.
I was literally homeless.
> Q: What is the point of Boxing Day? A: It’s a day to give to the less fortunate.

> Q: What do you do on Boxing Day? A: Some people like to go fox hunting or horse racing,

Presumably the less fortunate get loaned horses? Is there an application process?
This reads like it's an improvement for logical qbits, but we still haven't closed in on the holy grail of the completely stable logical qbit. I'm very excited to see progress in the quantum computing space over the next few years, and hope the provability of useful computing can be achieved quite soon.

It's kind of concerning that most of the state of the art research is coming out of private institutions. What is the private timeline executives expect, and what happens to the research if those expectations aren't met? That's partially why I'm hoping to see actual useful application soon, to ensure that private investor attraction stays vested.
It's not just a word, it's a law, from UK's Criminal Damage Act 1971: "A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to another intending to destroy or damage any such property or being reckless as to whether any such property would be destroyed or damaged shall be guilty of an offence."

But whether we should change that law is probably an off-topic here. All I am saying is that we must respect the law. If we don't agree with the law, we must try to change it, and not just go about destroying each other's property.
IANAL but in the United States that would still be wire fraud because you interact with a network to move the bitcoin into a wallet you would control.
You can disprove the other actions by looking at Bitcoin's distributed ledger but for certain transactions if they liquidate the coins it can be a great deal of work to figure out where the money went.
It is a case of the blind leading the blind. Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows it?
You can dig a 2 meter deep hole and store the batteries there. It won't freeze during the winder if left turned off. If you plan to turn it on on the holes, you might need to plan for heat dissipation though.
Looking forward to the article on HOMM2 and then 3!
Houston's housing isn't expensive though. It has few zoning laws and is not land constrained though (unlike NYC or SF).
Why, is the government running football now?
As of 2019 (the last year before just about every financial statistic goes sideways due to COVID), the ACH payment system has the lowest fraud rate by value of any settlement system in the US[1]. I'm not aware of similar statistics for any popular cryptocurrency, but I'm not optimistic about how any of them would compare.

It's difficult to find statistics for the percentage of money recovered from fraudulent ACH transactions, but this industry survey[2] says that 92% of fraudulent transactions are discovered within two months (and 79% within one month). Given that NACHA allows clawbacks within 60 days, that offers a relatively bright prospect for funds recovery compared to an irreversible transaction.

[1]: https://www.nacha.org/news/ach-payments-have-lowest-fraud-ra...

[2]: https://www.synovus.com/-/media/files/business/webinars/2021...
We can extrapolate from what we know. It wouldn't need engine refurbishment, which proved more costly than expected. It could operate in fully automated mode, which would allow longer stays in space. It also had ~30 tons of extra payload, which would offset some of the extra cost of the fully expendable Energia booster.

Would it deliver on what Shuttle promised? No. Would it be more flexible? Yes. Would it be a good match for the other Soviet space gear? No. Had the Soviet Union not collapsed, would it have evolved into a more usable vehicle? That we'll never know.
Except it doesn’t. Go onto the street and hurl racist abuse at the nearest minority in a way that can be considered “calling for imminent harm” and you’ll find out quickly if there are consequences, legal or otherwise.
IANAL but I would be surprised if any jurisdiction didn’t find that was the case.

Difficulty in proving something happened doesn’t suddenly make it legal.

As the thief, you could only plausibly claim you mined it if you stole it from someone who did (as otherwise there would be a history of UTXOs). Depending on the history of the coins in question, it could be used as evidence.

Ie if one of the last prior UTXO was associated the gov airdropping it to Alice, 65yo non-techie, still having those keys on her iPhone, and then maybe sending some to her nephew and spending it on a webshop order shipped to her home address, and then Bob, 35yo CS Phd with addiction problems... I’d say that’s more evidence than what’s needed to put someone in jail in many places. But I think as with many things legal it’d depend a lot on the circumstances in the individual case.

People have been found guilty of defrauding people of cryptocurrency. It’s not that exotic.

This made me thinking, if you want to “insure” yourself for such a potential future situation, construct a hash of an arbitrary secret, sign it with your private key, and publish it on-chain. If you’d end up as the victim in that scenario, you could present the preimage, thereby presenting proof you had control of the keys at that point in time, as opposed to gaining access to them recently.

I wonder if the Lightning wallet they’re using has enough information for its internal database to already have that, considering how Lightning channels and payments work.
Academically rigorous courses are a path for social mobility, both upward and down.

It’s an inconvenient truth that some rich kids couldn’t test their way out of a paper bag. Whenever Stephen J. Gould or other Harvard person tells you they are eliminating standardized tests because they hurt poor people’s feelings, you will really see rich alumni stuffing their pockets with $100 bills.
Don't you pay property taxes that pay the salaries of the mayor and councilors?
How would you distinguish this "bad" behavior from the good? It seems inherently intractable without centralization.
We agreed to use the average price from the most recent day in the past from the CoinMarketCap website price history page for Bitcoin, and I attached a note to the invoice stating the USD/BTC exchange rate that we would use when calculating how much they were to send me.
These concerns are common across virtually any internet facing service.

Yes, if you choose to run a service it will need to be maintained, and occasional issues will come up.
I think there's never an end to it.

A paleo fan will think the same about a vegan/carbs ad, and so would an anti-vaxxer about a conventional health poster.

Harmful ideas can, and will reach those who are susceptible to it. I think the right way to oppose harmful ideas, is by gaining the education that would allow you, and others in society to judge such ideas.

The alternative of forbidding ads in public, is essentially censorship and making society even weaker as one way or another, harmful ideas will reach each and every one of us, and when they do, the less susceptible we are, the better.
It has to be official from now on. There is going to be no potential for a slippery slope of after-hours messages or pizza party overtime. I have even set up a VoIP number with a 9-5 M-F time condition for use with applications and employers.

I don't have it in me to to work in front of a screen all day, although I understand that works for many on this site. I don't care if the workplace is an open office, a cashier's stool at a supermarket checkout, or a train driver's cab.
You should consider another option not possible in Monopoly: what if 25% of the properties are removed from the playing board?

For a concrete example, consider the debate over what caused the recent spike in vehicle fuel prices. Was it the Fed's QE policy? Was it a spike in demand by consumers? Was it a deliberate reduction in supply by the crude oil producers and refinery operators?

For the third option, note that in 2015 the US government lifted the ban on the export of crude oil from the United States. In 2020, several major refineries were closed down. As a result more crude oil (produced by fracking) is being exported to global markets, and less gasoline is being refined in the US. This is a pretty good explanation for the spike in gas prices. This view is loudly condemned by the corporate media, Wall Street, and the fossil fuel corporations... for reasons that should be obvious. They'll instead try to blame restrictions on the import of dirty Canadian tar sands oil for the rise in prices, while deliberately ignoring the 2015 crude oil export law and the refinery closures.
It’s like reading How to Be Rich by John Paul Getty and concluding you should go exploring for oil.
If you're talking about the FDIC, that protects you only in the case that the bank fails. It doesn't have anything to do with fraud against you in particular.