skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically low interest rates. Also, the average percentage of household income allocated towards housing has been steadily increasing.
Perhaps functional chunks could be excluded from the final emitted binary when they're unused / unreachable from main?

How hard would it be to check the AST for a go program's usage of channels, goroutines, etc at compile time? As these are features not used by the go language itself, it seems nearly trivial (no jit or other super dynamicism).
I like to ride my bike quickly. Others like to bike real quick.
From the perspective of my European 100 year mortgage, 30 year fixed seems it cuts down the prices in absolute terms which offloads the risk from the buyer a bit. I wish there were laws limiting the length of mortgages to say 10 years. That would mean I had bought my house at 1/10th the price and thus at 1/10th the risk.

But the question is of course is a mortgage seen as someone "paying off" a house, or simply a rent to the bank? I never intended to purchase/repay my house. The 100 year home loan is how I rent and the bank is my landlord. I take a lot of the risk for changes in the market, but also obviously the reward too (unlike a normal rental setup).

I do pay it back (1/100 per year) but obviously my horizon for living in the home isn't 100 years. It's both in mine and my banks interest that my mortgage is kept at some level which is less than "one bad dip below market value", or say 2/3 or 12 of current market value. Once there, I'd rather invest the money than pay back more on the mortgage. Especially if interest rates are (a deductible) 1.5% and low risk investment yields several times that!
Those 300k covid deaths are not people in the same age band as fentanyl deaths, probably more like 20k.

Your caveat needs a caveat.
I found this review by Demuro to be useful: https://youtu.be/ocHFC03Wmbw - it outlines the compromises they made, such as using the tried-and-true components from the Escape, focusing on function over shiny form, and making a well thought out design. I've priced one for myself a few times and the full msrp including destination charge was under 24k usd after the options that I added. The only reason I haven't ordered one yet is because of the nasty experience at dealers though there is at least one dealer in Iowa that is selling it for under invoice pricing, provided I fly there and drive it back.
> the only thing I really see being possible is if some other technology came along and superseded "Internet search" as a category.

Free natural language search, based on dialogue. A cross between GPT-3 and web search. (https://deepmind.com/research/publications/2021/improving-la...)
I don’t allow myself to have my phone in my pocket at home. I keep it with my keys. Reduces the urge to glance at it a million times. I can still hear if I get a call or text. It makes me more present with my family. So far it’s working.
not GP, but I'd recommend buying to some friends/family and renting to others. it depends a lot on how long they plan to live there, the local price-to-rent ratio, tolerance for risk, and desire to make significant modifications to the structure. but I'd err on the side of renting.
I wonder why the Manli rigs never cane to the US; they have a wider motherboard so you don't need PCIe cables and a real case instead of janky homemade supports. https://www.manli.com/en/product-GPU_Mining_Series-208.html
Intel’s Tremont: Atom Changes Course
Why is it we enjoy bugs from the sea (prawns, lobsters, etc) but we hate even the idea of eating bugs from the land?

Humans are strange beings.
It's a lot harder making everybody fight with one another if all you have is your own website though.
> the entire market grinds to a halt

By which you actually mean "prices come down to earth," which is a good thing, just one that many powerful interests don't want to happen because they have bet against it.
You do know that signed and unsigned ints convert implicitly, without casts?
The import via API failed too often.
It's $10/month or $39/year
There’s a lot that goes into deciding how and what tasks to do, how quickly, at what points in flight, and those numbers change as winds, weather, traffic, and fuel burn changes. Each flight, the pilots need to basically take all the factors going into the flight (# passengers, bags, cargo weight, routing, taxi time, and so on) to figure out how much fuel to use, what particular climb profile they’ll use, and a bunch more.

It makes sense that there’d be a “clean cockpit” magic button to push, but not only would the magic button need to be tested in every aspect of flight, in every configuration, in every combination of working and broken sensors… but airplanes are flippin’ complex, and flying modern airliners as part of an airline is even more complex.
What I (and believe many others) really want is a self-hosted Zotero server. See question has been asked:

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/73721/zotero-self-hoste...

https://www.reddit.com/r/zotero/comments/d270kv/zotero_datas...

https://github.com/zotero/dataserver/issues/105

https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/48335/foss-...

https://groups.google.com/g/zotero-dev/c/9FdSz0kIG_4?pli=1

Unfortunately, there is no officially supported way to do this. The official dataserver package does not have an instruction: https://github.com/zotero/dataserver

There is an unofficial package from 5 years ago https://hub.docker.com/r/facciolo/zotero_dataserver-docker
Oh they earn enough to make monthly payments. They just happen to be paying someone else's mortgage, rather than their own.
Covid-19 medicine kits’ distribution begins in Varanasi
The article mentioned causation isn't shown, but can be inferred. However the inference comes down to "they happen at the same time and are related", so just correlation. All work enabled by new generations of GPUs happened at the same time and is related in the same way. Someone would have to come up with some real numbers of the actual number of cards used in specific scenarios. Mining will be in there, but so will scientific and engineering modelling, design applications, and obviously gaming, as well as some others I may be missing. What percentage of cards was purchased primarily for what applications?
People treat their house as a retirement fund, or just an investment. They won't sell at a loss. If prices go down they just won't sell, which would also make it impossible for bank's to sell mortgages to people buying. Buyers can't buy if there are no sellers. People have to keep buying houses forever or the banking system will fail.
constexpr and static_assert make this a ton easier in C++. If your "unit tests" are static_asserts, the IDE will just highlight the broken parts.

C++17 made this minimally useful, and things got spectacularly better with C++20 and constexpr vector/string. 23 is shaping up to move even more of the standard library to constexpr.
> Dr Rai said, “The Covid medicine kits comprise different medicines for different age group of people. The kits for children from birth to 1 year, and 1-5 years contain paracetamol drops, ORS and multivitamin drops. While for 5-12 years, it has paracetamol tablets, Ivermectin 6 mg and Vitamin B complex.

> Azithromycin 500, Ivermectin 12 mg, Vitamin D3, Vitamin C, Zinc, Vitamin B complex and paracetamol tablets are available for those above 12 years.”
Syncthing and Firefox send both incorporate a 3rd party publicly available server which both parties contact over the general internet.

Airdrop is done direct device to direct device, without intermediate, over wifi.
We passed on buying several houses that would have been perfect for our (somewhat unconventional) needs, but would have been very hard to sell.

Instead, we bought a house that isn't perfect for our needs but will be easy to sell, because it has multiple in-demand features that don't really matter much to us, but matter to a large swath of buyers.

Perfect example is a childless couple who can buy a house in either a good or bad school district, with commensurate taxes and property values. They might think they're getting a steal by going with the house in the bad district... until it's their turn to sell the house.
Sugar isn’t just a problem in drinks.. we thought our kids were lactose intolerant until we talked to our pediatrician, turns out diarrhea in kids is commonly caused by too much sugar and not enough fat in the diet, so we reviewed our common meals and snacks, and found a LOT more than the daily recommended sugar intake in the “healthy” snacks like granola and yogurt, and chewable vitamins we gave our kids every day.. made some changes and the kids are much healthier, and it certainly impacts behavior/compliance at meal time; kids who need calories are a lot more willing to eat something even if it isn’t their favorite treat.
Surely they could just have a system to filter out bad sites?

For example, if I want information about some programming stuff, I only really want

* Wikipedia

* StackExchange

* MDN

* cpp-reference

* whatever official docs

There's absolutely no need to have

* geeksforgeeks

* w3schools

* cyberciti.biz

* random wordpress blogs

This takes all of 5 minutes to code, you could even have a userscript for it.
My 2nd daughter was flagged during our 20 week for something having to do with the way her skull was forming and they wanted to do a series of genetic test. They charged us through the wazoo and everything came back negative. She arrived 3.5 weeks early and contracted bacterial meningitis shortly after birth. We found her code blue in the crib. She ended up having a bilateral craniotomy to relieve the empyema that had formed. CP, CVI, global TBI - every day is hell on earth. This was 2019, so the nightmare of the last few years started early for our family. We've had a number of medical professionals drop hints at the fact there might be something wrong from a rare disorder perspective but we're in a league of our own and that is hindsight - the damage and trauma are non-stop. Anyone trying to shickle a few dollars from the medical system to provide "pre-natal diagnosis" without sound science - they can come burn in the same hell I live in every day.
A long way of saying they are developing their own CBDCs, which again we both know it would be extremely silly to run a Google Trends search and comparison on 'CBDCs' against Bitcoin for something that is also too early, recently launched or still in development to draw definitive conclusions due to the trialing, regulations and uncertainty in all of these projects. (Even already admitted by you.)

So once again, it is too early for both and as this whole thread has revealed, no-one has worldwide substantiative data on this (yet).

> Microsoft credited industry changes and declined interest in the product as the main reasons for discontinuing the marketing of Azure Blockchain.

Dropping your home grown solution and partnering with a dedicated and better one means 'blockchain' in general has failed? So the partner, Consensys (Who is also part of a CBDC technology group in Asia and Europe) has closed down their blockchain offerings too and their customers can't run it on Azure either?

> But i understand, you don't have any resources to show that anyone actually cares outside of the FOMO.

Everyone in this thread has admitted and proven that no-one has definitive and extensive sources on payments with stablecoins or even CBDCs as both are too early, still developing / planning or they are still trialling it? I never brought up or mentioned anything about Bitcoin in this whole thread, yet you cannot and will not ignore it. Everyone is waiting for regulations in all of this.

> Note: if you consider El Salvador that tweets "bought the dip" every month as a serious comparison to the real world, that's pretty silly.

Did I argue that, mention or make a comparison towards El Salvador's Bitcoin buying problem anywhere?
(obviously: this is subjective, so what's significant to me may not be to you.)

Honestly I just created this search engine for myself to find things more easily while programming or studying (I study biology, cs and ai; and philosophy in my free time, so expect results the best results for queries related to those subjects). I think those subjects also appeal to the HN audience, that's why I shared it here. When I'm not doing those things, I just use Google or DDG because they have better results for day-to-day queries.

That being said, I'm definitely interested in helping improve other people's search as well (reason I'm posting at all), so let me know if you have suggestions for sites to add!
Many sheds are built this way. Some even lighter - e.g. the overpriced wood sheds you buy pre-built use very minimal framing. And they all can be moved just fine. I commented because it's somewhat surprising how easy it is and how well it works.
That's what happens without regulation (limits on the size of the loan) or inflationary controls (rate increases). Lending exists to help amortize the cost of a big-ticket purchase so that they can grow and have security, as a business or a person/family. But when you take away the guardrails you have runaway student loan and mortgage debt. At least with the latter there is an asset that has some value.
A lot of these "analyses" ignore one simple fact: you need to live somewhere.

The way I describe this is that you constantly have a short position on the local real estate market. If rents go up, you lose. If house prices go up, you lose. If either goes down, you win. That's a short position.

So I view buying real estate as essentially canceling out your short position. Think about it: if the local market moves, it largely doesn't affect you. You can argue if you're underwater, it's bad. It's not good but your actual liability tends to be limited, particularly in no recourse states. For those unfamiliar, no recourse states give the lender the option to foreclose on the property if it's in default or to go after you for the debt. They can't do both.

The author claims mortgages trap the poor in bad investments. The counterargument to that is you give stability to those who are most likely to be priced out by rent hikes and forced to move. Efforts to avoid that (eg rent control) don't really solve anything and just create the same problems that incumbent home ownership does: first come, first served.

The author bemoans the lack of labour market flexibility with higher home ownership. This is true but is it bad? You have to remember he's talking about the 1930s when people were destitute and were forced to chase work. Should this really be a policy goal?

The lack of the 30 year mortgage would likely disproportionately affect poor people.

Real estate does need reform. I think we need to stop allowing funds and the super-rich to park money in real estate. Cities should be for those who live in the city, not Russian oligarchs who are anonymously "investing" via a REIT. We also need to stop subsidizing ultra-luxury building as happens in NYC (eg 421a abatements).

But the 30 year mortgage? This feels like an attack on the most economically vulnerable to me.

EDIT: corrected "negative short" to "short".
The primary cause of obesity — in my experience, as a midwesterner — is a lack of access to affordable, healthy food. What people can afford (in terms of money/time/opportunity cost) is primarily overprocessed garbage. It’s mostly impossible to maintain a healthy weight in such an environment.

Yes, I’m aware of the twinkie diet guy. Most people aren’t the twinkie diet guy.
Not sure how that proves CEFI is good. If you like tether you can use it. I don't.

USDP appears to be the most sound, with USDC after that. You may use any of those or none of those or make your own. You are free to choose. Your body, your choice.
That is indeed a very good example of why the article is unclear in it's aim: zopfli is not a codec, it's an encoder. And furthermore the 80% figure is probably for the default configuration, as zopfli has an -i argument that can make it virtually arbitrarily slow.

This is exactly what I was arguing: comparing encoding speed (and "energy efficiency") of a codec in the way it's done in the article it's basically pointless and misleading. It can be done, but you have to compare specific encoders and decoders, not the codecs per se, and you can only do it meaningfully by measuring different inputs and configurations, as is done e.g. in the squash compression benchmark (that, note, only deals with lossless data compression: lossy data compression is a order of magnitude harder to compare, and video compression is a couple of orders of magnitude harder still because you have to consider delivery as well when designing your benchmark scenarios)
Where? In the expensive coastal markets the price to rent ratio is enormous; the mortgage is much higher than the rent on the same home.
Genuinely curious — how do you know these stats about the HN demographic?
You have to balance the returns of the market vs the cost of the mortgage. In many cases it makes more sense not to pay off the mortgage and just put excess cash into the market.

I could pay off my mortgage at any time, but I've earned more by putting that cash in equities.

I treat my 30 yr mortgage like a low interest loan. I basically take the risk that the mortgage lender doesn't want.
What it seems like is house pricing adjusts to be affordable for a similar number of people regardless of what you do. Give people bigger, longer term loans and you don’t give more people access, you just make prices higher.

What you need to do is remove the dead weight from the market: i.e. do things to reduce investors and mortgage writers siphoning money out of the economy. What this means is smaller, shorter term loans and taxes on commercial real estate lending and leased land and housing.
They historically have opened source similar protocols, e.g. they open sourced rendezvous. But generally there would need to be an interoperability reason for them to do so. AirDrop seems like a good candidate for this.
I'm convinced you could show data that every single person that received the vaccine died and these people would still say it's safe. Objectivity is gone and health care is now political. The sheer irony that Trump was blamed for everything except for the worst thing that he actually did. Operation Warp Speed rushed the scientific process and caused bad medicine to be released to the general public.
Congratulations, you just invented Blekko! Which in turn was inspired by the success of DMOZ.

Maybe it's an idea whose time has come.
I live in a house that I could afford to buy in cash and are in year 15 of a 30 year mortgage. That bet worked out for me vs getting a 20% rate premium for an ARM. For me, that meant living is a smaller market and limiting my upside.

My aunt and uncle got into a pickle with this in the 80s. They were over-leveraged and underwater in a house in North Jersey. The house value crashed in the late 80s and their arm was going up a few points a year. My uncle was a bank officer and would lose his job if they went bankrupt. The job moved and he was forced to commute to some awful place without usury for a few years. It worked out in the long term but it was very difficult.

It’s hard for the average Joe to treat home like an investment. Timing is everything with investments and you always need a home.
We'd better figure out Apophis in the next 100 years...
What's even the definition of "inclusive language"? I thought the whole idea behind certain groups embracing post-modernism lately was to avoid inconvenient things like reality; meaning is meaningless.
Honestly disappointed at the documentary but curious about the topic. They kept repeating the exact same thing over and over and over again, dripping little bits of info.
The article’s point there was that the average Joe’s actions under the current mortgage system could make sense, if they were based on a deep understanding of financial markets (including the subtleties of options trading) and were betting on increased volatility of interest rates.

If the sentence doesn’t make sense, that’s arguable part of the point: the author wants you to react, “huh, average people don’t think like that, so of course that’s not a rational bet”, which is his point.

But if you want to understand the volatility/gamma dynamic and strategy the author is referring to, this gives some detail. I’ll summarize it myself once I catch up and feel I understand it.

https://seekingalpha.com/article/181382-option-strategy-long...
Ask HN: Sharing the Knowledge
There are many people on HN that have a deep understanding of a tech or an issue. As an average reader you can pick up a fraction of that through the comments and it's great.

I'm interested in a lot of topics discussed on HN, though I'm versed in a fraction of those. If I find a topic that I want to stard dabbling with, I often find I don't know where to start, so I resort to search engines.

For anyone knowledgeable in a field that discuss your field of choice regularly in the comments on HN and you want to share your knowledge. Do you feel there is an outlet for you to do that? Do you wish to share knowledge, but you find current platforms lacking?

e.g. I'm interested in graphics/audio programming (on linux). I'd be happy to pay for some guidance/instructions/course, but not sure where to find people that would be interested in teaching/guiding me. On a well known platform with technical courses the phrase 'graphics programming' returns a list that starst with 'graphic design'.
Yes, it's the optimal strategy to exploit the idiotic game we play and get the best of the others trying to play it. Calling it "wisdom" seems a bit tasteless, though.
The "typical life expectancy" is not a terribly useful number (unless you are considering emigration). A much more useful measure is the life expectancy at a person's current age (which will always be greater than their current age).

And I note it is quite easy to figure out how many people you would expect to die from complications other than Covid---as a first order approximation it will be the same as in 2019 (unless you happen to know of a significant change other than COVID).
You can get an interest only mortgage in the US. Removes the illusion of paying it off. Functional, it would be very very close to a 100 year mortgage (few less dollars per month that goes to principle)..

Remember though, for a big part of the US, paying off your mortgage is the most important / biggest form of retirement savings. Many people make it their goal to pay off their mortgage before they retire, even if their 401k is dry. With social security and modest lifestyle, it's not a terrible decision. You can even reverse mortgage if the well runs dry a few years early..
People might be annoyed by a holiday greeting.

There are many businesses that I love to patronize that want to communicate with me much more than I want to be communicated with with offers that don't seem that special to me.

There is nothing wrong with being focused on the product.
CR today: "After extensive review, LG Microwave model AX7J3498-2 is best avoided"

LG tomorrow: "Announcing LG Microwave model G8A867FL2-B! Also, model AX7J3498-2 will no longer be available"

Consumers two days from now: "Well, there are no bad reviews for model G8A867FL2-B when I look it up, I guess it's ok to buy"

I like the idea of Consumer Reports or in depth reviewing but manufacturers have learned to game it too.
I used to work for GOOG and one thing I can attest to that bias is taken VERY seriously, so it’s not quite that simple.
Unsigned types are supported in machine language.

Any language that offers access to features of the machine will support unsigned numeric types.

No language supports natural numbers. The best you can get is bignums. A language that calls its numbers natural is just lying. (Likewise, integers, and reals.)

"int" is not a lie, it is a hint.
It’s more profitable to run identical clones of the same strategy N times?