skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point I'd like to harp on is that money was extremely cheap last year and it was the best time to buy a home - if you had the savings for a downpayment, that 30 year fixed rate mortgage was cheaper than rent!

The problem is that half of Americans don't have more than a thousand dollars in the bank, and we need to focus less on the sheer cost of homes (when homes were incredibly affordable) and more on why Americans can't save for down payments.
For anyone that does challenge-response with a Yubikey like I do, I'd suggest Keepass2Android Password Safe[1] if you're on Android. I've been using it for years and it's well maintained in terms of updates and features, and it supports the KeePassXC challenge-response method. Edited to add: And it's open source[2].

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2androi...

[2] https://github.com/PhilippC/keepass2android
> they can’t just store a one-way hash of passwords that remains secure even when stolen, they have to store the actual password

Maybe I'm missing something but sure they can't store its hash but they can and do store the password strongly encrypted. Presumably without the master password, at least, it should be close to impossible to retrieve the passwords. Or is that assumption wrong?
Landingpage says „starts at 30$“, pricing page lists „from 75$“ - quite confusing tbh.
Sorry I was just being snarky with the trash app mentioned, I could've done without it I just had a talk [0, fun one] in the back of my head when writing. There must indeed be hundreds (dozens?) of companies which fall in a grey area that Apple wouldn't be inclined to ban straight up at first offense.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Lhqri8tZk
> Even for first time home buyers, the debate between buying and renting typically is about how good an investment buying is.

I think this is true, but is missing some nuance that changes the equation. The conversation is /and should be/ about the fact that buying w/ a mortgage means that the payments you make every month create equity (ownership percentage) and have an end date where you fully and outrightly own the property you live in. Rent is a situation where the payment never ends, you never gain any ownership or equity, and you will never own the property no longer how long you rent. Classifying this as an "investment" is true, even if home values don't outpace inflation, because its an equity asset you can later sell and recoup your equity.

But that conversation is not remotely the same thing as foreign investors using Western real estate to launder money they smuggled out of corrupt dictatorial regimes and Wall Street colluding with each other to buy up housing stock in a rent-seeking bid to extract as many pennies as possible, even if it puts working citizens on the streets.

I think making the false equivalence between them does a disservice to home buyers. While it is absolutely true that resident home buyers should value a property primarily /as a place to live/, their understanding of the economics of renting vs buying does not make them part of the problem. The problem is systemic and starts with allowing foreign corporations or foreign-directed corporations to buy real estate and the existence of REITs.
> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you have some evidence to support that causal relationship? Wealth inequality has been growing since long before current monetary policy in ~2008/2009. And I don't know that low interest rates generally create inequality - everyone borrows, not just wealthy people.

> People dont understand, when you make the interest rate on money so low, people can borrow billions and throw it into new assets, running the cost up on those assets.

People understand that very well: it's the fundamental reason for lowering interest rates, to encourage economic activity. Sometimes you need more economic activity, sometimes you need less.
> Smaller landlords who used to just rent out their vacation homes are getting out of the market.

This is a really good perspective!

I’ve been mentioning to people to remember that their local landlords - their neighbors and existing corporations - are just as responsible for gentrification when raising rents and asks to the highest possible rate their market will tolerate. They always had the option to do so but didnt take the gamble, they still dont have to, so there is an opportunity to point fingers at them more than the out of towners signing or moving in. Pressure might actually work for the landlords since they have a local network, compared to the out of towners who often times have nothing to do with what price is offered to them[0]. The landlords didnt have to raise but the speed at which they all are really could be related to trying to have an investment property during a time when their municipality was not a market based economy.

[0](Although there are also many people buying/renting way over the asking price, as well. Most landlords are just jumping on the bandwagon, hoping to see if the market applies to them too.)
They said those platforms are just as censored, except in favor of the other side.
This is a really good article. I've enjoyed freebsd on older hardware for since 4.x days.

One of the most satisfyung aspects of FreeBSD (really all the BSDs) is the ability
to rebuild the "world". Rebuild as in recompile the entire OS and userland tools. It comes with the installed OS.

Is there even a linux distro that does something similar?
Hi, I'm the lang designer here.

We looked into this. However, there didn't seem to be any benefit to this above just the N-quote version (which fits into how C# does strings everywhere else). In the above case, the `SQL(` and `)SQL` tokens are just akin to N-quotes. Since there's no additional benefit, we went with the simpler approach that solves all these needs, but will look the same across all codebases.
Same here. Been my setup for almost 10 years. Encrypted db file in an encrypted volume. Multiple offline and online backups.
> For something that just needs to store passwords, I don't see why there needs to be monthly updates or anything like that.

Because usability and UI do make improvements (probably an unpopular opinion on HN...) and follows trends, KeePass does look completely outdated, the UX is completely outdated and the – nowadays – most important part, browser integration, is only achieved via plugins.

Don't get me wrong, I still use KeePass, but I would never recommend KeePass to non-technical users (and would think twice about recommending it to technical users) while I would recommend KeePassXC to my mother.
Despite rising wages, 61% of Americans are still living paycheck to paycheck
Hello, I’m the original creator of the Home Assistant iOS Companion App. Just wanted to clear up that Nabu Casa took over the iOS and Android apps purely because of requirements by Apple and Google around a corporation being the only entity that can have a development team. At no time did Nabu Casa pay any money to me or anyone else to acquire the apps. They were transferred to Nabu Casa purely for convenience, since Home Assistant Inc doesn’t exist.
I'm not convinced by this[1]. It is true, if all municipalities suddenly let anyone build wherever they want, we would see prices fall. But that isn't the cause of the current price surge. The _cause_ is a surge in demand, not a restriction of supply.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ETOTALUSQ176N
Tell HN: Can we surface the M1 Mac laggy/choppy cursor and scroll bug?
Just want to surface this to see if anyone has it fixed or so anyone at Apple can give it a look. I remember finding a fix involving editing a cursor file a while back, but it must not work as I've been seeing it again (and can't find that fix searching anymore).

There's a lot of reports:

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookair/comments/pome1y/mba_m1_c...

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/nlbf6w/weird_cursor_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/qtfc2e/lagging_jittery...

https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/qj77mq/cursor_lag_cont...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252777347

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253079227

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252732117

There's this one video with a fix, but I already have shake to locate off and it happens without using any bluetooth mouse:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsPlbpbCiVI
Two space garbage collector in action right there. Maybe all things software need a "move it or lose it" impetus. Features in apps, old data, you name it. If you've gotta keep transferring/translating it, it would definitely pare things down.
I use KeePassXC (strongbox on phone) + Nextcloud. Everything is wonderful except for nextcloud hiccups. I recently uploaded a resume and realized after it sent that the metadata was incorrect and a local file rename must have been overwritten. Embarrassingly, I had to send an email with the right resume. I sent it from my phone. Right after I checked on the sent email and found that the nextcloud file through ios files uploaded 86 bytes of junk rather than my resume, so I had to send another email.
Really nice but... surely 'Squardle'? :-)
The Anarchist's Workbench?

(Freely available to download for anybody who's curious)

https://lostartpress.com/collections/books/products/the-anar...
Tokyo has in fact stopped price increases by building a ton.

NYC is a good example of my original point; NYC barely builds any housing in a proportion to their existing housing stock, and they aren't even that dense outside of Manhattan!
>No door is ever closed. You can do anything! I am a thirteen-year-old kid, and I can do this—if I can do it, anyone can!

For some, doors are not only closed, but they are also slammed in their faces with full force
I believe one of the hosts on the Coder Radio podcast moved into a home with some home automation stuff (light, heating and locks), but wasn't informed about the configuration or how to operate it. He described it as moving into a haunted house.
What Happens After You Raise Venture Capital
16 :) http://www.sedecordle.com/?mode=daily
Looks great and much better than my piecemeal efforts, although I recommend linking to a specific commit of all.txt so you aren't opening up your browser's ublock origin filter list to arbitrary remote control. Like:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/quenhus/uBlock-Origin-dev-...
My main use case for KeePassXC and KeePass2Android is security against obsolescence.

I don't trust LastPass or 1Password to keep working in 2032 or 2042, but I'm certain some version of my personal .kbdx file will still exist and be usable.
I suggest adding

Option "TearFree" "true"

to the Intel video driver configuration.
My house has more than doubled in value over the past 8 years. If you consider a 20% downpayment, it's nearly a 1000% return on the non-borrowed part of the investment, on something I needed to live in anyway. I can't say I'm unhappy about this, and yet it's also totally insane. And I agree with the GP, this is all thanks to city councils blocking market dynamics.
Sorry, I've been so busy I haven't checked into HN in a while.

Zoho mail. Very happy with them so far. The webmail client is excellent. Deliver is fast and without problems. We usually setup users with multiple email addresses. Using email aliasing works great. In other words, you could receive email from you@example.com, sales@example.com and vendors@example.com. This only consumes one paid user account.

Ultimately, we decided to move email for three businesses to Zoho.

The prior host was GoDaddy. I can imagine someone saying something like: "You deserve the problems you had". My counter is that we've hosted email with GoDaddy for more than ten years. No problems at all. Rarely an issue. In my opinion, most of the GoDaddy hatred is truly unfounded. If you are running a more sophisticated infrastructure you need to go to something like Linode (which we use for exactly those applications) or something else.

In the last 6 to 12 months, something changed. Once reliable email delivery became questionable we had no choice but to make a move. They said they could not do much more than request the servers in question to be removed from the various blacklists. In other words, play whack-a-mole with that entire ecosystem. A loosing proposition. So, we moved our business. Perfectly sensible decision. No hate involved. We are buying a service that, in my opinion, was no-longer being offered. Done deal.
Doesn't that 'echo' command go straight to the command history? It would reside in ~/.bash_history unencrypted until I type 2000 other commands.
There's just too many folks here who'd rather make a quick buck then provide some longevity to the nation (at the top and in politics).

China and other nations realize that there is more money and happiness in the long term view, so they're either pivoting or have pivoted. I'm afraid we just don't have the gumption / community oriented view to do that here in the USA. Folks want "freedom", even if that freedom means degrading into massive poverty / wage slavery. I don't blame them particularly, our education system massively touts the successes of USA above all.
I think you're right in pointing out this shouldn't be done without respect to the users. What we're seeing is that many users who interact with our widgets actually appreciate this - they would recommend the app they're using and tell us they recommended the app because they felt important and their opinions valued. You're 100% right that some folks might not want to interact with this and we've optimized our UX such that users who don't want to interact with this, don't need to at all. I wrote detailed answers to why we're different in the original post, so I'd be happy to hear your thoughts on what you think on these points! :)
Why should houses be an appreciating asset?

Cars are an expensive depreciating asset, and the car economy works just fine.
This is why I opted for Shelly on my house build. The dimmers keep dimming and everything works regularly without a hub/HA/Wifi. Leaving the modules inside the light switches. No need for special bulbs and having switches with springs allows any light to be dimmed as long as the fixture/bulb supports it.
I have different experience with v 7.

Vault for Saving in preferences is set to Primary.

If I select a specific vault to view in 1 password, then end up on a website and create a password, 1Password mini has the viewed vault as selected when it asks to save the password, not the vault I've specified as where to save new passwords.

This has been long standing behavior in 1 Password.

Still on 7 because I'm using a mix of vault locations and while I'm using both teams and personal 1password, I have other vaults in other locations.
>Now we're adding {{ and }} into the equation. Yay.

Hi, i'm the lang designer and feature implementor here :)

The complexity of lexing/parsing did not get worse here. We actually just lex/parse this stuff the same way that interpolated strings have always been lexed/parsed. This has been supported in the language for almost 10 years at this point :)
I just did this, and it's... fun. Particularly account transfers--most devices that are tied to internet accounts (like Nest) don't allow you to transfer them to other accounts.

So hard-resetting them is often the only option, which is often a time consuming process in itself (I'm looking at you Insteon) and throws away the configuration.

I didn't even attempt to leave the HomeAssistant-based stuff in place.
Japan has a declining population. Residential real estate inevitably declines with this demographic trajectory.

The Kansai region has an increasing population and real estate prices are still in decline or stable.

Also Japan did not have a lot of nimby mentality blocking new housing, to my knowledge

Yes, they did - prior to 2001 when the national government took zoning authority away from municipalities.
You'll forgive me if I'm critical of using Russia Times's reporting on Russian Disinformation ops. Yes, people in government argue loudly - that doesn't help your case as far as I can tell.

My companies LGBTQ+ spokesperson used to be a rodeo clown. Does this mean Rodeo clowns are being trained in subterfuge and corporation espionage to spread LGBTQ ideology?

No, it means people change jobs.
> Lefty content featuring coordinated politcal violence would also get banned, if it existed.

And that last part is the entire point: There simply is no mainstream-relevant occurency of left-wing terrorism and murders any more in the Western world. The most relevant militant group was the German RAF, which has all but dissolved in the early 90s (there are three still on the run and occasionally robbing a bank but that's it). In contrast, murders and other organized violence and terrorism based on right-wing ideology is shockingly commonplace.

With online-based hate speech, it is just the same matter, only a different medium - and there is so much more content that draws in right-wing hate speech (such as anti-immigration stuff, antisemitism, Islamophobia and LGBT hate) than anything that inspires left-wing hate speech. The only thing that comes close to hate speech from the left wing are the "eat the rich" slogan and Stalin/Gulag memes, and that's it.

As a result, it is obvious from the numbers that the right wing will always complain about "we are getting censored and the lefties are not!!!"... well, duh, how about if the complainers would stop doing the things they get moderated for?!
Similarly with radiator valves; they operate locally. You program them with a mode (normal/off/away) and schedule (given temp at given time) upfront, and then they maintain the required temperature.
Process Orientation
>A second important aspect is that if someone becomes infected with SARS-CoV-2, they may pass the virus to other people, including those who may be more vulnerable to severe disease, so that's another reason that's rooted in social responsibility -- vaccination is the more ethical choice, in our view.

Stopped reading there. Someone vaccinated still continue to spread the virus just as the not vaccinated when infected (Yes, the vaccine does not prevent the infection).
This is FUD to me (again).
Show me a study where someone that has good levels of vitamin d, zinc and magnesium is more at a risk than someone that was vaccinated. I will continue to bet on those than on vaccines, specially after the same interview says this when asked if we should worry that the mRNA from the vaccines can be found in lymph nodes up to 8 weeks after vaccination:

> Lymph nodes contain specialized cells that capture foreign proteins, including vaccine components, and display them for a period of time to the B cells that make antibodies. We suspect that these cells may be retaining the vaccine mRNA in addition to the viral spike protein.We don't have evidence that this is a cause for concern, especially given the very low rates of adverse events in people receiving these vaccines.

Yeah, we have a suspicion of why that is and we do not have evidence that this is a cause for concern, so it should be ok!
“I love Ukraine but I will not die for it”: Locals on risk of Russian invasion
Is it 5 messages every 24 hours per user or on the whole?
This is why the DIA was created, all too often other OGAs (Other Government Agencies) would have alternative agendas and it would get US military personal killed.
Sufficiently advanced home automation is indistinguishable from a haunting.

Lighting controlled by home-assistant is endlessly frustrating. Especially if zwave. The networks are slow, the devices are awkward to configure, and when things go wrong debugging is difficult. Sometimes it takes my lights a good 60 seconds to respond during which time I'll try a few different button dances which all then get lifo queued... End result is light automation that works 95% of the time with the 5% remainder being enough to sour the whole experience.

This isn't home-assistant's "fault," it's the zwave product space being a convoluted mess that HA tries to paper over. Other integrations are better but each integration is a separate plugin thing so quality depends on who wrote the plugin.

My house got a 10% premium due to the home-assistant setup according to the realtor. Lights and music and blinds all easily controlled from an iPad mounted to a thing in the hall. I left all the equipment including the raspberry pi that ran HA, but I took the SD card for privacy reasons. 99% certainty that they don't even know what Z-wave is let alone how to rebuild the network... I'm sure that if I buy a "smart house" in the future it will be beyond my abilities.
> storing passwords in encrypted files

Which you almost certainly access with some kind of software, yes?

A password manager is just a piece of software that stores passwords in encrypted files, and makes it more convenient to edit them, associate them with a website, use them to log in, check them against known breaches, etc.
Thoughts on CashApp’s Lightning user flows
The discussion of how much money to spend on education should not be done based on some expected value of education. It should instead be done by polling various interested parties on how they feel about current the current education system, what resources they are missing (if any), what types of spending are not producing useful results etc.

You don't have to quantify the expected value in order to decide on costs - this is only done as a reductionist homo economicus type model.

For a more direct example, when deciding to go watch a movie, do you do some computation of how much your net worth will increase by virtue of seeing the movie, and compare that to the ticket price? Or are you simply acting on practically unquantifiable subjective feelings of enjoyment about the movie, and comparing the price to entirely different goods (e.g. you probably wouldn't go if the ticket price is 10000$, because you can buy other things you feel are much more enjoyable/important with that kind of money).
The wealth is the ability to live in a desirable place, that is structured so not many others can live there. You could mess with the accounting or the liquidity, but it is still wealth that few people have and most people don't. In fact most such real estate multimillionaires are not interested in cashing out. Only in continuing to live there, and making sure that not too many other people start to live there. Liquidity is worth something so it would reduce the price somewhat, but I don't think it's central.
How do you count users from the EU who send „do not track“ requests via their browser? It would actually be illegal for you to track them - would they count?
Alex Petrov's "Database Internals", perhaps. I know nothing better...
https://www.databass.dev/
I think in this situation, comparing housing to stocks isn't quite apples-to-apples. One of the appeals of owning a house is the money you no longer spend on rent.
It's also creating a situation where the actual quality/value of properties for price is completely out of whack. There are large swaths of the country where low-grade cookie cutter houses in the suburbs that are legitimately worth maybe $350k at the current inflation rate are asking for $850k+ and generally selling $100k+ over ask. I have a $1.25M budget for a house and I can't find anything that's not a trash heap I can afford, and I'm not even looking in a coastal area, this isn't the legendary market in California, this is in the middle of the US.
I though setting up a new iOS device required an apple account and online connectivity.
>If the US returned to a 1950s style tax system

Of if consumers bought 1950 style houses there would be no problem, since they're incredibly cheap.

Massive increases in the stuff people want in a house over the past half century have driven prices more than anything. Triple or quadruple the area, expect triple or quadruple the inflation adjusted cost. And that is the majority of the cost increase.