skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and those numbers only ever seem to go one way, with no end in sight considering that (last I checked) insurance premiums are still increasing faster than base inflation.

Between the savings crisis in every generation past the Boomers (worse with each subsequent generation), and healthcare costs going ever-upward, I have a hard time seeing how we're going to have a strong economy in 20 or so years as more and more of our consumer base gets ground into paste by the wheels of The System and can no longer drive the economy with spending, yet we still don't seem to be anywhere near fixing any of that.
This explains why a half assed, poorly maintained, corn crop would randomly pop up in a lot between commercial buildings, across from where I used to live.
I live in a rural area (relatively speaking - town of about 1000 people) - around me if you don't show up to look at a house, ready to buy, and with no contingencies - you are not going to get a house. I know many folks near me who have listed their house, had 40 people show up the first day (open house) and sold it the next day, for cash, for 20% over the asking price - around me, those stories are very common.

I study the RE market in several places that I am connected to every day - I watch houses come on the market, and are under deposit within days. I feel really bad for young people looking to buy their first place (including my kids) - they can't pay cash, and they are on a budget - they have almost zero real options other than to continue to rent and wait for a RE crash. IMO, it's coming, but who knows when.
This is what all tech is like. I remember when having a smartphone with apps was a quirky novelty that maintenance that only nerds could be bothered with.

Also while I dont give a damn about lightbulbs I would really like more sophisticated control over heating.
Can large language models fine-tuned for medicine imitate doctors?
For things like smart bulbs, that's usually set on the device itself. For a smart switch, it's usually just going to be off.

However, with HA you could easily create an automation to set everything how you want it when the power comes back on. It could even be conditional based on the time of day or whatever else you want to consider.
Great points! Here're my answers:

1. Free tier allows you to test for several days without limits and no need to put down CC / payment.

2. Widget to lose when clicked outside: I like this, have put this down on our list. This is something that I'd personally want to see using 1Flow as well!

3. Yeah I agree. Animation should be faster, especially because we load everything instantly so it's just the frontend animation taking time.

Thanks for your feedback! Cool ideas and very practical improvements we could make.
the last 2 years were the biggest wealth transfer in human history and a large chunk of the population begged the government to do it to them
The Recorder app on Pixel phones offers on-device transcription. I'm not sure if it's available on other phones though.
Of course, it's not forever, and Piketty's conclusion that capitalism is not viable is wrong because of that.

But it can last for a really long time, and if something lasts for more than your lifetime, do you really care that it's finite.
How do you flick that switch when you're on vacation and want your home to appear occupied?
There’s also the very likely possibility that the storage is lying to the OS, that the data that was accepted and which is in the buffer has been written somewhere durable while it’s actually waiting for an erase to finish or a head to get wherever it needs to be. There are disk controllers with batteries precisely for those situations.

And, if cheating will give better numbers on benchmarks, I’m willing to bet money most manufacturers will cheat.
https://www.wired.com/2010/02/ff-algorithm/
Fair. I moved from 1Password to Enpass when the former started pushing cloud big time.

Enpass isn't open source but it's open... implementation details? There isn't a formal spec or standard but they were very forthcoming about how their encrypted SQLite implementation works and there are now open source third-party CLIs for it. https://github.com/hazcod/enpass-cli
TDD is just about replacing of manual testing, during development, with automated testing, to improve ROI of automated unit test cases.

> Requirements drive your tests, which drive your code.

It's verification of implementation, not a unit testing, so it's a VDD, not a TDD.
Abstract art with “pseudo-profound” BS titles seen as more meaningful (2020)
My point is that if every company uses real IPs then you can merge networks with no conflicts. 10/8 is fine for home use but not for enterprise networks.
see the section "Different Versions" on this page: https://cryptomuseum.com/crypto/philips/px1000/
You Shouldn’t Download Large Files to an External Hard Drive
If you email hn@ycombinator.com, they may be willing to take this down for you, assuming you can't currently delete it on your own. I understand they do this very occasionally, when there is good reason to do so. Good luck!
Confirmed that I am reading poorly—thanks for pointing out this line, I had missed it.

Archive.today link demonstrating that this isn't a stealth edit by Politico: https://archive.is/etLpm
It also lists two other whistle blowers who blame that journalist.
Hmmm. Two issues stand out for me.

1. If I'm understanding this correctly, it seems like the active control (stretching) performed worse than the so-called passive control (watching a "popular sitcom"). The Cohen's d for the active control ranged from 0.214 to 0.737, and 0.102 - 0.286 for the passive control. So watching a "popular sitcom" is closer to aerobic activity in its effect on recovery?

2. The abstract says the passive control was watching a "popular sitcom", this is weird. Does this mean the researchers picked a show for the subjects to watch? That doesn't make any sense, if I had to watch a show I didn't select that would be annoying and possibly interfere with recovery. But maybe the researchers didn't

A Cohen's d of 0.2 is considered small and the values for the passive controls top out at 0.286, and apparently there's even a negative relationship with restlessness.

My bet is that if someone tried to do a similar study but instead of picking a sitcom for the subject they allowed the subjects to simply watching whatever TV they would like to watch at the moment, the effect size would disappear.

I am assuming I'm just missing something here, but from my fairly basic, non-expert understanding, it's not possible to draw the conclusions that the authors drew. Furthermore, the design seemed flawed from the beginning (although kudos for providing an active control). The main issue seems to be that their passive control wasn't really passive, it was making subject watch a show that they might not normally watch for relaxation purposes.
> I will say it turned me into a huge proponent of massive amounts of protein and fiber in my diet (but kinda turned me off Thai food :/ )

Why?
Do we actually know who these investors are? How many are foreign individuals and entities working through shell companies?
I was cubmaster for 3 years and felt a little bad that my two boys didn’t get near the attention the other kids got…til the last year I helped them with weight distribution, lubrication and axle alignment. The Wife and I ran in Outlaw and had the family been eligible would have taken 4 of the top 7 times. (I think the boys got 2nd and 4th)

I’m looking at 6 of the cars now, I really should mount them in a display or something.

One of the boys is learning chassis fab and welding and the other is learning Industrial Design…so I guess it was a good experience.
interesting new phenomenon that satisfies intellectual curiosity.

And by interesting - anything good hackers would find interesting.

It's a purposely high bar to filter out almost all mainstream news and even most tech news, and definitely most politics, which tends to satisfy emotional curiosity at the expense of intellect.

Unfortunately, it doesn't always work. These stories tend to brute-force their way in.
The analogy imply that things are really good! The price of renting is so low, that even holding the price of purchasing constant people don't think it's enough savings to bother purchasing. People get to experience a wide variety of things, because the commitment is low. Multiple competing services aim to make consuming music (or housing) very easy.

The real analogy is furniture rentals for low income people. Paying 10x what something is worth for low quality alternatives and an inability to escape a cycle of being stuck renting when people want to buy.
Challenges of Being an Afrikan Programmer
You won't see corruption of the filesystem itself, but you'll see data corruption as described in the thread. If the writes are delayed, the write ordering can get messed up. + Zfs has ZIL, which is basically journal equivalent.
I am not a programmer. And I am by far not good enough in any language to spontaneously think architectural enough to create unit tests and do TDD.

I always feel like I should be doing more tests. That this is the correct way to do things.

Being a data/web analyst I have to say that I once created extensive tests for a specific part of custom javascript logic setup by a former agency of my client in the tag management solution they used.

I even had to mock basic functionality from the tag manager (Adobe Launch) to make it work locally.

When I took over it was a mess of code that mapped url parameters to their specific marketing channel logic (you could have done this purely in Adobe Analytics, though - but I was never able to find a way to explain the unnecessary complexity of the implemented solution).

In the end I had created around 60 test cases to ensure this fragile bit was in a way that enabled refactoring. It worked.

Especially when around one year later, a colleague of mine who had taken over the client needed to change stuff in there, had it break and asked me. I thought his solution should work, but the tests told a different story. Within half an hour we had it nailed down, fixed and running flawlessly.

If I ever have such a complex piece of logic anywhere I will surely learn how to write tests in the respective language of choice. Until then I will happily fatfingered stuff on my own amateur projects, though.
It ends with a crash, like always. In 2008 home prices got cut in half. An REIT will overextend, miss loan payments and fail, flooding the market with homes, which will drop the market prices. This will cascade, taking out more REITs.
If that stuff is ever truly condemned a level of government will pay them fair market rate (1), and there will be finagling to ensure that rate is appropriate. You forget that this is a country that has seen the mississippi flood its banks for three centuries, and rather than not develop these flood prone areas we opt to develop them, allow them to be destroyed, and offer federally subsidized flood insurance to rebuild them to be inevitably destroyed again in the future.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sunken_City
Agree, zoning laws here are not meant to hinder new construction just control it's use. However, permitting went from ~30 days to about 6-12 months in Dallas. Supply is still causing a shock and construction just takes longer now as materials get delayed, etc. and it messes everything up. The trades are less capacity. They stayed busy though lockdown, or moved back to their native country to ride it out. I know several that just never came back. There are a lot of contractors turning builders, some delay due to their inexperience, but I don't see that as a widespread issue. But all in all, you see a lot of construction around but it's actually probably less finished goods than what was occurring in 2019. The lack of property and prices means people are building on any dirt they can find. I've seen some insanely horrible tracts of land get developed because all of a sudden, prices being what they are, it now finally makes sense to invest $250K in dirt work. I've seen land that has been for sale for 10+ years due to nobody wanting a 100% flood zone get developed in the last year; again because there's nothing better available and people have the $ to fix invest in drainage.

Dallas itself is competing with it's suburbs, Plano/Frisco etc. The development you see was planned 2+ decades ago and really only a surprise to folks that don't keep up (most people, I know, but I tend to keep up with this stuff and like to buy and hold land ahead of development). Bishop Arts for example has been a 3 decade overnight success, similar story with other areas you mentioned. Many of those areas I felt like they took way longer than they should have to get developed, and it's because all money goes north to the burbs. Uptown is about as far south as most money is willing to go. Design District, Deep Ellum, Cedars are proximity plays after Uptown got kind of expensive.

I don't really do much nightlife stuff. But about 10-15 years ago, Uptown was like the young professional/college kid place to be. Many of those folks moved to the burbs after a certain age. But many stayed. Now the prices are high, it seems like it's more full of those same folks that never married, never had kids, etc and just happen to be 10-15 years older. I think it still has the reputation but realistically, younger crowds (<30 or so) don't seem to spend much time there anymore in favor of Deep Ellum, etc.
> One doesn’t design around tests

No design gets to the coding stage until someone has answered "how will this be tested?"

So, yeah, you should absolutely be designing around tests.
I think two things happened that are covered in that blog post

1) The performance per partition increased

2) The way AWS created partitions changed

When I was at Mozilla, one thing I worked on was Firefox's crash reporting system. It's S3 storage backend wrote raw crash data with the key in the format `{prefix}/v2/{name_of_thing}/{entropy}/{date}/{id}`. If I remember correctly, we considered this a limitation since the entropy was so far down in the key. However, when we talked to AWS Support they told us their was no longer a need to have the entropy early on; effectively S3 would "figure it out" and partition as needed.

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30373375 is a good related comment.
Okay, but how do you know that those weird quirks won't be present in your data? Or what those weird quirks even are? The details of the stuff in that Stackoverflow comment have already fallen out of my head; I couldn't tell you about them now. With Bash there are so many traps and footguns and (subjective) unknown unknowns, it would keep me up at night worrying about it. There's always another maddening fact to discover.

I would just use Python, where strings are sane and lists are sane: my_string.split(", "), boom, done, no jumpscares.
Yeah, the M1 chip is blowing your argument out of the water. The performance and battery life are nothing short of impressive. Find me another OEM that isn't just cobbling parts together and selling it to you in a plastic shell versus actually designing an SoC/CPU.
There was even a SchoolHouse Rock episode about that - how lobbyists represent money, and money represents people, so it's all nice and democratic!
I'm like you with music, but I feel obliged to point out that folks like us are outliers today. So the GP is correct in the sense that the majority of things are moving from ownership -> renting (though there'll always exist some die-hard holdouts).
I’ve replied to multiple days old comments and been replied to in turn.
I think when you do this you’re not performing for an audience but responding to another person or couple of people individually. The fact not many people are going to see it should be irrelevant - is a piece of art (or a notebook doodle) not worth doing because it has an audience of one?
> Woah, didn't expect that one.

Trying to work around sanctions tends to lead to you violating a variety of laws around the world, anything from money laundering to bank fraud.

Why bank fraud? No bank will want funds originating from Canadian-sanctioned bitcoins, people holding these funds will almost inevitably have to defraud someone in order to cash them out.

> I'm not sure what I'm missing.

Regular bank transfers can work around sanctions too, governments have to do a lot of work to track the activities of those trying to work around sanctions.

Sanctions are a tool you use against your adversaries who are usually located in unfriendly countries, they are expected to be difficult to enforce.

In this case the people holding the private keys to the sanctioned addresses are probably located in the US, the DOJ will not look kindly on them.
Tech Interviews are a hazing experiment
What's the point of using end to end encrypted messaging apps if you are going to send the recordings in clear text to third party companies ?
Around Charles village: station north, Barclay, old goucher, Abell, etc. Greenmount is seeing some development now and it's becoming less of a dividing line than it used to be.

We picked up a 2 bdrm/1.5 bath for ~190k in 2019. We're within walking/biking distance to a ton of cool restaurants and things to do.
I come here to learn and occasionally to vent my frustration about the dark patterns and fraud people in the tech industry rely on to make money, making the world a worst place while claiming the opposite. Though more often than not it's the incentives that are wrong, not the people. I'm not a saint, or know everything either.

I think the staple of a community is that you can rely on each other. Commonalities alone don't make a community. Shared belief don't make a community either, only a cult. In a community people must be able to bring together multiple perspectives. In a community people must be able to have differences, and reconcile them through consensus. A community must be able to shine more lights on reality, not create an alternative realities.

HN has a semblance of a community, we strive to broaden our perspectives, and we welcome each other's entrepreneurial efforts.
Thank you, Don!

Did you have a chance to look at CLI 2.0 and 1Password 8 integration:
https://developer.1password.com/docs/cli/use-biometric-unloc...
Or: your friends and colleagues have never lived in poverty and don't fear it as much as they fear losing the other trappings you mention.
It's one thing to just not promote a search engine to your users. That I could understand. It's another thing entirely to intentionally override the user's preference and lie to them about why you're doing it. (Assuming they are actually lying and there isn't some sort of bizarre legal reason why they really do have to do things this way.)
> just like in education space the more the government subsidizes the pricing, the more it gets inflated.

People keep saying this, but I haven't seen any real evidence of that. In education or personal home ownership. Do you have any studies that actually show any causation, or is this all correlation?
I knew that name looked familiar.
There’s an extension for obsidian based off of it.

https://github.com/Quorafind/Obsidian-Memos#obsidian-memos
> What countries will be affected by this change?

> This change will apply to users in all countries who are using an affected search engine with Mozilla.

What a pointless answer.
Speaking of that last thing, what's the best way to implement different brightnesses based on time in HA's yaml? I could do a bunch of ifs in each automation but there might be a better way?
Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered snap-confine(CVE-2021-44731)
My biggest fear with a local password manager is a keylogger stealing the master password. I wished local password managers had a way that they would only disclose a single password when using a yubikey rather than opening/decrypting the whole vault.
Why do you trust your cpu, firmware, OS, and all the layers of code then ?
try searching zigbee2mqtt supported devices: https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/supported-devices/#s=switch
I could be mixing it up with another episode but I think that was the one where he needed to get a permit to excavate a concrete foundation under the pretense of looking for a body (to bait the murderer into subsequently depositing the body there after it had already been excavated and searched).
Not at all. On a tech salary I see people buy homes all the time in Silicon Valley.
Mozilla, please!

I really, really want to use Firefox but I also want to have a home page on my own hard disc and my own choice of search engine that doesn't get switched out at every upgrade.

Please, do better! I'm this close to giving up on you.
The issue is not that the words are "random", it’s that they are exceedingly poorly chosen to tease out more hints.

The third row reuses two letters that were already revealed in the first row to not occur in the solution, and reuses a third letter at the correct position already revealed in the second row, but omitting a another letter whose correct position was also revealed in the second row. That is, it is clear that this can’t be the solution word, because of the two letters already known to not occur, and because of omitting one known-position letter. And if it was an attempt to tease out more letters, then the guess doesn’t make much sense either because only one of the five letters hadn’t been tried yet in the previous rows.

The fourth row again uses a letter already known to not occur, while reusing two letters already known to occur, but one of them at a known-wrong position. (Of course the letter in question could occur twice, but I don’t think there’s an English word matching “pi_p_”.) Furthermore, none of the letters that are new in the fourth row are likely to occur in the solution, given what’s already known at that point (in fact I don’t think there are any potential solution words where they would fit). So again this is neither an attempt to guess the solution nor a good attempt at teasing out more letters.
No one wants liability. Builders wants to build and be gone ASAP. They'll build a $350k home using the cheapest parts and labor they can find and do their best to run away with the profit. 5 years time, after any sort of warranty, their workmanship (or rather, their lack of it) starts showing.

I think your idea would be great, but there would be turmoil while the liability hot potato is thrown around until the industry figures out where that lands (probably some form of "malpractice insurance" on builders would become a thing, with higher premiums on those who suck more, eventually forcing them to be better or quit entirely).
isn't this always the case? not every reporter works for the nyt and even then it's super leaky.

if you talk to a reporter, 100% assumption your full name/full transcript/full video recording is going to be out there.

"off the record" never meant anything.
If you are spiking, then you should be throwing away that code.

Don't productionise prototypes.
I'll try to find the chart I saw on this recently.

But here's home price relative to median income, which is at a record. Then apply logic that mortgage rates are 4.1% now and likely to be 5% soon.

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...

2000s affordability was still worse at the peak, but will shift quickly if mortgage rates continue to rise.

Anyway, will edit when I find
My situation is not so different from yours, and I wonder how common we are. Maybe a pretty large fraction of Americans live a thrifty life and are quietly baffled by our peers' extravagance.
If I'm reading it right, the only mitigation here is updating snap?
Although I haven't experienced this first-hand, my partner has T1D and I can see her reflected in everything you say. I'm hoping for a near future where technology paliates some of the dread of living with T1D. Some lines of research, such as implantable insuling-producing islets [1] seem promising, at least to someone without the chops to judge what's going on.

[1]: https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03513939