skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it was just investors why would rent be as close to mortgage payment amounts as it is? The vacancy rate is low. Demand is high. Demand is high even among people with more money than me so there are a lot of places that both sell for more than I can afford, and rent for more than I can afford.

People are competing for the more desirable neighborhoods, whether renting from an investor or buying outright, that's what makes it an attractive investment in the first place. They'd still be competing, so the prices would still go up until an equilibrium was reached. Maybe just slower?
Wasn’t this already “debunked”, with the investigators having to basically retract the conclusion as a result?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/books/anne-frank-betrayal...
What happens if you guess wrong? I didnt get the pleasure.
“metamate” is a straight up embarrassing thing to be called. If I worked there I don’t think I could get that out of my mouth without gagging or heavy sarcasm.
I'm partial to email lists, generally. They're still the open-standard leader, and offer the additional benefit that the directory is open, even to members, at least for active participants.

I'd also strongly recommend setting up an independent blog, with an RSS/Atom feed. If nothing else, that's a contact and notification point for further communications.

There's interesting stuff going on in the Federated space, but I don't see the options I've used (Diaspora*, Mastodon) as sufficient yet. These might be worth spinning up as an experiment though. See also Friendica and Hubzilla.

The D Language discussion is based on, of all things, NNTP (Usenet), though it also presents a Web-based front-end. That might be worth looking at. I do have concerns over Usenet at scale, but within a closed organisation and with a moderated newsgroup or groups, it should be viable.

Depending on your user-base, mobile support may be essential. That's ... something of a concern, though a good website design might be sufficient.

Otherwise, I'm not really enthusiastic about much of anything at the moment.
What is the AWS fork called again?
Huh, I realize I don’t know the answer to this seemingly simple question. Are all 256 bit vectors valid sha-256 hashes?
1 btc is worth more than a car and people are still calling it a ponzi scheme. I find that very amusing for some reason.
That's a great theory but it doesn't explain the Judge's appearance in the revival tent early in the story.
I'd use something like this:

body { max-width: 640px; margin: 0 auto; font-family: system-ui }

<details>
<summary>FAQ #1</summary>
<p>Answer to FAQ #1</p>
</details>
AWS never hosted MongoDB, under AGPL or SSPL.
In passwordle, the input is a 14 character password made up of letters, numbers, and punctuation, chosen with some bias. There's less than 92 bits of entropy (the bias shaves off a few bits of effective entropy but I'm too lazy to calculate it).

That is-- out of the range of current brute force, but if it were just a few characters shorter, it could be attacked with this oracle technique no problem.
Yep. I don't think people over 40 are more enthusiastic about Zuck's metaverse than the under-40s, probably less if anything.
Ditto, except s/several/a couple of/
While I agree that people generally think of version control (and git) in terms of diff and patch, I think it's important to note that git itself doesn't have diff and patches. The fact that git doesn't have diffs is one of its defining characteristics.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-What-is-Git%3...

It makes git significantly faster (because it doesn't apply sequence of patches when checking out) and much more robust than a patch and diff system.

I think it's an important point here because it does play a bit of a counterpoint to the OP's argument. In fact, the git storage system is precisely very simple because it's content addressed only and has no notion of history or difference,

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects

In the article, the author mentions something about Alice and Bob sharing only differences in JSON has a way to simplify changes. If anything the lesson from git's success should be that the aurhor's approach (the diff/patch way of Subversion etc.) is exactly the wrong one. Communicating only with full, valid JSONs and showing diffs only as a convenience to the user would be the actual "git way".
Really nice client, but unsupported AFAIU.
What Pundits Don’t Understand About the San Francisco Recall
That is true, there is a physical footprint for the infrastructure. Bitcoin the system requires physical energy and compute and network resources. bitcoin the currency unit does not.
> Just like influencers in any other field, developer-influencers often describe a reality that is aspirational even for their own companies. It may be true that people writing about ideal processes live in an idealized situation where it’s possible, in which case they’re the exception that provides the rule. But most of the time — even if it’s true in one part of an organization or at one moment in time — this reality does not hold across their entire company and forever more.

BINGO! This really resonated with me. It's a good reminder that developer social media is going to have some of the same things going on as regular social media, like unrealistic comparisons to idealised snapshots.
One thing I really hate about electron apps (besides performance in many cases) is the extreme branding they do. Every app looks differently, not fitting in with the rest of OS.

As a user, theming is a powerful feature to make things look somewhat consistent.

Though I use KDE and Qt apps as preference, and very few gnome apps. They tend to cope with this pretty well.
Fascinating that Colorado right now is Finland.
I agree that they are clearly different houses.

That said, I think the difference is overstated. I have lots of friends who live in craftsmen homes. They resell at basically the same price as similar sized houses built 25 years ago (even with single pane windows ect) . If somehow you got one that wasn't upgraded since 1920, you are looking at a few tens of thousands to put in electrical, plumbing, and appliances.

Still, you are right that that they are not the same. But a lot of people today would kill to own a beautiful new craftsman home for 40k! I wouldn't trade out my car for a horse, but I would trade 40k a year rent for a craftsman home!

The point is that even you wanted to replicate an original craftsman home today, you wouldn't be able to do it for that price, even ignoring regulations. Labor costs have gone up, wood has gone up, minimum cost of every material used has gone up.
Blood Meridian is my favorite novel of all time. It's one of those books that changes the way you think in a profound way.
Did they actually promise a policy change around student loans?
There is a blind post on the new pay bands floating around somewhere.
> You can't seriously believe this.

That, in general, assholes rise to the top? There have been studies upon studies upon studies upon even more studies of how socio-/psychopaths have what it takes. That's not to say that Zuck is a sociopath or psychopath, but I'm pretty sure there's something going on, for which we don't have a word/diagnosis, that is a sibling of the former two.

Scraping the college yearbook website to populate a website for voting on the attractiveness of female students (which is what Facebook started as) isn't all that impressive. A marginally gifted 12 year old could not only code that up in a week, but would also have the requisite lack of emotional maturity required to plaster women on a website for voting.

He identified the very worst, and most vulnerable, of what we are: how we count likes, dislikes, and friends (when "friends" become nothing more than a token economy). Instead of desperately trying to connect with humanity (like the rest of us neurodiverse individuals), he chose to disconnect humanity as a whole.

> You can't seriously believe this.

And the inability to seriously consider what your fellow human is warning you about is just the tip of that iceberg.
> 'no such thing as morality in markets'

Is it okay to sell people? Do you own your children? If you own land, do you also own anyone who lives on that land?

At various point in history answers to all of the above were yes.

Should we have a market for organs? There is a market for intellectual property, but what is intellectual property - maybe there should be a patent for everything that exists, say a pencil, and they should never ever expire. So noone except that owner should be allowed to make pencils.

Should we have laws against Dumping, self dealing, wash teading, antitrust, insider trading, tragedy of the commons, negative externalities, collusion, cartels, misselling?

All those behaviours arise naturally from markets.
Ya know, Amazon stock is the same. Is that a ponzi?

Maybe it’s a super ponzi because unlike BTC, Amazon can keep issuing common stock, which pays no dividend. BTC is capped at 21M.

Non-dividend stock is shuffling funny tokens between investors who hope it will be worth more in the future.

So either lots of things are ponzis or maybe they are not ponzis at all, and the definition doesn’t work.
It’s a brand new company. Give them a chance to work these things out.
just talked about a bit earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30361677

Made a month or more ago, but blew up about a week ago
How is the AWS situation different to the money made by companies using the Linux kernel or the Apache web server or PHP?

(Of course, for the Linux kernel, many companies don't comply with with the license either).
Amazon didn't implement an entirely new database. As you can see on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_DocumentDB, they just built an (admittedly clever) PostgreSQL plugin on top of Aurora PostgreSQL.
My biggest regret from the first startup I joined was waiting six months to quit when the warning signs were apparent and obvious in the first week after I started.

Talk to the executives, but they clearly know the “founding engineer” is a problem and they tolerate it.
Paid accounts can add any custom RSS feed or newsletters.

Reuters and AP killed their RSS feeds, and charge to access to their APIs. Once sumi.news earns enough revenue, I will consider purchasing their news feeds.
Is multiple screen readers a thing?
im building a house and i got a bid from a foundation guy. he wanted 40k for a job that costs 10k in material. and i can easily do it myself. once i finish the house i will be able to offer a full breakdown of just how much you can save by doing it yourself.
AWS would just write their own compatible implementation from scratch and still win against the original creators.
I have a medium-sized collection of vintage 6502 assembly language books. I pick them up whenever I see them cheap. Some of the more sought after ones (like for the Atari 6502-based machines) are quite pricey.
That legitimately surprises me. When I worked there a few years ago, the big thing was removing gendered language (such as “ninja” and “pirate” and “Jedi”).
You can't quote a paragraph out of context and simply claim it's wrong. Whether their claim is wrong depends entirely on the global invariants their analysis ensures.
Love Temporal. Hope you solve the infrastructure and cloud story with this.

The biggest pain point is still deploying and configuring a production environment. I started suspecting it was so awful and poorly documented to push us to using the cloud offering, but then I couldn’t even find a link to sign up for cloud.
My personal recommendation is to do some self reflection on what things are most important to you when it comes to spinning up a new project and build your own kit. This is your tool bag as a developer.

I have seen a lot of people try this and fail because they aren’t building a personalized kit, they are putting together popular dependencies. That is radically different.

When you build your own kit it is tiny and extremely portable. You dig into the nuts and bolts to see what works and what plays well together. Since it’s all your personal preferences you maximize on productivity every time you use it. The best part is that you only have to build it once. Then after it’s a few hours of maintenance every six months as your requirements and preferences evolve.
Meet as many people as possible. Try out different friend groups. Fail often. In different ways each time. You'll never have this chance again.
Do we work at the same company or is O365 that bad? We just had a big discussion on Slack as to what that checkbox actually does, because it's apparently nothing...
Awesome. It might get boring after 194 days though.
Easy solution --- prepare in advance by creating a random, fake email account that you have never used and will never use for anything except for verification and password recovery.

Create the MS Account and use this fake address when requested.

What personal info does MS gain from this?
Sure, I guess I wasn't being specific enough. Once of the reasons to use SHA-256 is because that's hard to do.
See my prev comment. Happy to share more by email.
They're doing all this to distract from regulation for their bread and butter businesses. That and they see not owning the platform their apps run on (iOS and Android) an existential threat.
I don't understand how this works? It had a picture of _____, and the correct answer was ______. Is it just guessing the country name based on the shape?

edit - hid my answer in case it wasn't as obvious to others.
This guy has made it: https://twitter.com/fintanytwalsh/status/1492466778370453510
Many houses built 100 years ago were incredibly shoddily built / assembled. Have you ever looked at the foundations on old houses? Wooden piers that are lucky to last 40 years were very common. You’re seeing survivorship bias at work.

Also 250/sq ft is far from cheap/shoddy quality in much of the US. And with proper maintenance just about any house built to code in most places in the US will easily last longer than the average house built 100 years ago.
> s it just guessing the country name based on the shape

Yes, and you get hints on distance and direction when wrong.
It's a bit frustrating that it changes daily, the first country was too easy so I missed out on all the mechanics and now I have to wait until tomorrow to try again.
you pass around a time provider module, which you can (and should) mock in tests to ensure that nothing catastrophic happens if time drifts in ways you don't really expect.
So far every venture that's tried this has failed due to the lack of smarts. If their smart speakers are even remotely as smart as their XR, this is dead in the water.
Hope not. A culture of self-harm, suicide, and toxicity permeates on it, at times being worse than 4chan.
What happens after 194 days?
A somewhat disingenuous article discussing a problem as old as the entertainment industry and painting it as Twitch being somehow uniquely exploitative.

> I hope I convinced you to mentally categorize the average hard-working streamer’s career hopes accurately — well into the lottery ticket territory.

98% of channels on Twitch aren't monetized. They don't get revenue share because they don't generate any revenue. The bar for monetization on Twitch is very low. So low that "the average hard-working streamer" should be able to meet it pretty easily. Among monetized channels the percentage making minimum wage is closer to 1.5% - very low, but not what I would call "lottery ticket territory".

It's also worth noting that at the time of the leak about 50% of active channels on Twitch were about a year old. It takes years to start seeing any sort of "real" money from entertainment, and that's not unique to streaming. The chart in the article showing distribution of earnings seems to show a pretty typical power distribution, which is to be expected in entertainment media.
This is an incredible analysis of the current culture divide that introduces a new concept of Physical vs Virtual worker classes into the our social structure.
It still boggles my mind that, in an age where K8s is huge and K8s's reconciliation loop pattern is well recognized, Temporal has yet to put "reconciler" or "state-machine" in their documentation or descriptions.

I say this as someone who loves using Temporal and see a big future for them.

Temporal is a managed state-machine. If you're familiar with K8s, you can think of it as a dedicated reconciler. Plain and simple.

Do you want a resource to go from one state to another (i.e. user orders food -> food is delivered) regardless of transient errors and other hiccups? Temporal handles the plumbing of driving your resource to it's desired end state.

Do you have a workflow that has multiples steps? Can anyone of those steps fail for whatever reason and you'll need to figure out how to do retrying/cleaning up? Temporal handles that.

Essentially you can write your business logic without the worry of including the (often) boilerplate retry, cleanup, scheduling, etc logic. If you're familiar with K8s reconciliation and how it retries failed operations again and again until it reaches the goal, it's much like that.

Temporal can do much more than that, but that's its bread and butter and I'm trying to describe it simply so that people can understand. It is a bit of a paradigm shift and has a bit of a learning curve when you first start using it.

But like others have said, it's very powerful.
Do you any recommendation(s) (books) for marketing, advertising or both?
The fourth dimension: Toward a geometry of higher reality (1984)
> It is durable, portable, uniform, and divisible.

That's exactly what crypto is too though isn't it?
gtk-rs has a book[1] which has setup information for windows. The install was easy on windows following the instructions. I have yet to build an app with GTK4 so I can't comment on the writing and building of apps just yet.

[1] https://gtk-rs.org/gtk4-rs/stable/latest/book/
Sumi.news started free, then had a lifetime deal, and last month I started charging yearly. There's about 20 grandfathered free users, a handful of lifetime deal users, and since last month I've gotten 20 paid subscribers. I've done zero marketing, except to post here and on Reddit.

Ideally, I'd like to compete with Google News (I assume they will kill it off eventually). When I reach enough ARR I will be able to add more robust categorization and local news sources. A lot of news sources also require a paid subscription to their API (Reuters, AP, various local news sources).
Presumably, once enough keys are lost, the market will dry up. After all, how many times is the average person going to buy into a system they keep losing everything in.
Mark has an ability to execute that very few people have (whether or not you think he is executing a good direction).
The comparison is meaningless without knowing the needs of the two districts. Are the students in the thriftier district from wealthier households, for example, needing less support from school? Are there more ESL speakers in the costlier district? More students requiring special education? Are the buildings older, requiring more expensive upkeep? Some expenses don't break down to per-student or per-teacher. It's nice to say "trim costs and increase performance," but if a constellation of needs makes improved learning more costly in that context, you're stuck with it.
> I hear all the Canadian banks are down and there might be a Bank run.

Exactly. The banks are rubbish at this. It's obvious to see how a proper stablecoin being used for the same purpose in Canada, or any other country. After all, it isn't affected by Bitcoin's volatile price in any way which that is also my point.

> Let’s see what happens next.

I'll tell you what happens next: Bitcoin being likely to lose its value once again due to its extremely volatile nature.

Sure, it may go up briefly too but in every scenario (including the Bitcoin donations), they will always want to cash it out to USD (or even a proper stablecoin) rather than 'hold it' or use it as a currency.
Really cool site! After playing with it for a while, could the CSS gradient for MIX could be changed to use the same number of color stops as there are steps rather than just using the start and end, to better match the chosen interpolation mode? I had a great gradient in LAB space, but the CSS version interpolates through ugly greys in RGB.
The idea was basically 'I would rather upgrade a well-built 1900 house than try to fix a poorly built, possibly structurally flawed modern one'.

I am not sure it would be easier, but my genereal experiece is telling me the outcome is usually better.

I think the new 'buy to let' phenomenom makes it possible to sell shoddy construction as premium houses to investors based in tax heavens becuase it looks shiny and htey don't give two shits.
> After the invasion of Okinawa but before the atomic bombs, Japan was a country that was clearly militarily defeated, but not close to surrender.

The Japanese themselves knew that they could not win the war in 1944:

> Rear Adm. Soichi Takagi, who was attached to the ministerial secretariat of the Naval General Staff, made a study between 20 September 1943 and February 1944, of the war's battle lesson up to that time. He conclude that Japan could not win and verbally presented his findings in March 1944 to Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai and Vice Adm. Seibi Inouye. Takagi's study, interestingly enough, was undertaken at the end of the second year of the war--the time beyond which, the Japanese Navy's top command had estimated before hostilities, Japan could not fight a successful war. Takagi's estimate was based on an analysis of fleet, air, and merchant ship losses suffered to date, the serious difficulties in acquiring essential imported materials, the internal confusion in Japan, and a growing feeling among the "intelligentsia" that Tojo should be let out. It seemed clear to Takagi that potential long-range air attacks on the home islands and Japan's inability to import essential materials for production had created a situation which dictated that Japan should seek a compromise peace. In Takagi's view Japan at this time should have envisaged withdrawing from China and giving up both Korea and Formosa as part of the peace terms. His study in any case documented the fears Yonai and others held before the war and lent support to the increasing but still carefully guarded concern of their fellow Jushin that all was not well with Tojo's prosecution of the war.

* https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading...

Yet they continued to fight in the hopes of grinding down the US' will to fight and get better terms.
A lucrative ponzi scheme is still a ponzi scheme. Pity the sucker left holding the bag worth everyone's cars who exited successfully.
I soemtimes forget to forego clickbaity titles.
Even regular cars get to the point of renting being too expensive vs. buying. Quite regularly.

I've been using carnextdoor.com.au for years when ever my motorbikes weren't enough to get around.

But if you're renting a car even for 1-2 days a week, it quickly cost as much it would have had for running costs and purchasing a car outright. The numbers below are all AUD.

I'm about to pick up a new Ute (Dmax XTerrain) thats going to cost $238 per week over 5 years for finance. With running costs on top of that I'm budgeting for $400 per week.

That's a rental car for 1.5-2 days.

Carnextdoor and rentals made sense when I didn't need a car weekly, just monthly. The new Ute is relatively inexpensive to run (4 cylinder turbo diesel), it's big, big compared to cars from Europe, not big for the US I'm sure.

But for me it definitely made sense to get a 4x4 that services all my needs rather than a 4x4 and another small car.

Admittedly I go camping a lot so my needs are a little different. And I have dogs now so going camping on my motorbikes isn't much of an option now.