skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ummm... It was a bubble in 2005/2006 and prices corrected pretty significanlty from 2007 till about 2013. We bought our house in 2010 (not quite the bottom of the market here) for $186K - 2.5 years earlier a similar house across the street sold for $250K. A similar house on the next block sold for $575K in recent days. So yeah, it was a bubble that burst and now has re-inflated to even higher levels. If mortgage rates simply were to revert to mean (about 7%) that will negatively impact prices. If they overshoot (The Fed could find that inflation is tougher to fight than they thought) you'll see a buying opportunity again. Look at some home sales stats from the early 80s when mortgage rates hit the upper teens.
I think you need to elaborate on this. Law enforcement can enforce the things they have power over, like putting someone in jail. But they do not have power over the blockchain and they cannot reverse a transaction.
Yes before all the joy, colour and happiness of the digital world was sucked out by flat design.
> That would depend on who gets to decide what counts as "a good cause". I can think of worse ways the purchasing power could be employed than distributing it widely among other users of the currency.

Yes, but the dependency on what counts as a good cause also applies to distributing wealth indiscriminately among all holders of a currency.
thats awesome. nice work:) seems like she has a bright future!
There isn't such a thing as readable bash, as a significant amount of its syntax is symbolic (and cryptic, by the way), and it's full of warts and unintuitive quirks.

Writing very simple scripts is certainly simple, but anything even a bit functionally more advanced (arrays, but even strings cycling or splitting is quirky) is a pain. Heck, even something as simple as process substitution is horribly unsafe (I wonder how many devs know how/why).

It's practically impossible to write correct Bash without shellcheck.
There's a far more charitable interpretation (and explanation) of this: broadness.

People who know too little don't know how to get to the happy path, let alone stay in there.

People who know too much know extensively where the happy path lies, it's neighborhood, how to go off-road out of the happy path and the dangers that lie therein.

People in the middle know how to get to the happy path and remain there, and know that steering away from the happy path leads to trouble and ambiguity. As they mastered the happy path then they feel unlimited confidence and arrogance.
For me, it’d be Vultr.
Haha, I'm moving the playing field, but there are no goal posts in this game. We're just talking.
> the sovereign state possesses ultimate power

The sovereign state is a concept. It's not even a real thing and it has no physical power.

> immune to the authority of the state

They definitively are, comparatively. If you are moving across borders, it is much safer to hold $10m in crypto than cash. Actually, you'll need to be legit, pay a bribe or use violence to move that much cash through borders. But anyone can do it with crypto as long as there are no other tips on him.
What's your point? Just because they're health policies doesn't mean they're infallible. They have real impacts on real people.
Yeah, there's a certain irony to the fact that crypto currencies will remain subordinate to the powers that be until they themselves become the powers that be (at which point, of course, any elements of crypto-anarchy and cypherpunk would be long gone).
Here's a uBlock Origin filter that hides downvote arrows:

news.ycombinator.com##:xpath(//div[contains(@title,"downvote")]):style(display: none !important)

I didn't make any extra effort for you; I already had a filter (below) that enlarges the size of arrows (all types), for easier clicking.

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> But to argue that it is anywhere close to 'centralized' today is disingenuous at best.

Ethereum devs have absolute power on ethereum. Things like EIP 1559, or Ethereum 2 illustrate this point really clearly: miners have zero power, neither do full nodes.

No matter what the algorithms (which can be patched anytime anyways) say, power is a social thing and in the case of Ethereum, the devs have literally complete power over it.

The storage is decentralized, the computation is decentralized, but power clearly isn't (and with PoS, it will become more centralized even on an algorithm point of view).
Reminds me of Siemens Healthineers
I do think there is merit in showing disapprobation. But it has to be used judicously and probably 99% of the time [flag] is the right thing, because it heads to "this shouldn't be here" more than "I don't like this"

Unpopular opinion, contrarianism incurs a cost in downvote, but it also has a disproportionate effect. It's often designed to seek attention. Trolling is too, and so it's easy to mistake the two. Some people just live for "devils advocate" and forget the scale effects. Your one "but..." reason is not actually outweighing the 99 "here's the good things" stories oftentimes.

I should add I've been flagged, and I've been downvoted. I think both were potentially unfair in the moment but I also think a Dang intervention is something to take seriously and I've had both good and bad kinds: He has asked me why I deleted a post, as well as telling me I shouldn't have posted.
> One wonders if they will deliver completed vehicles to the real launch sites by ("test") launching from Boca Chica. I don't think you need a Starship on top to launch the booster, although a cone hat seems advisable.

I was just trying to imagine a booster delivery flight path. I'm assuming orbital otherwise FAA has appropriate concerns.

So north of Cuba, achieve orbital speed for one orbit, de-orbit burn to re-enter aiming past Florida, and then landing burn to get you back over Cape Canaveral?

Is it that straight forward? Would that be allowed? Would they need to dog leg to avoid flying over mainland USA?
> what kind of person would want to leave an egalitarian society and live like that, just so they can be at the top of the pecking order?

To play devil's advocate, say it's not about having servants or "living like a king", but about having the freedom to do things that don't make money.

How many bad things are done because someone thought it was "necessary" to pay rent, or to afford college for their kid?

If, instead of optimizing ad engagement to pay a mortgage in Palo Alto, I buy a modest house, outright, in a little Columbian town nobody's heard of, and open an ice cream shop out of the first floor, is that so bad? There's an electrician on YouTube who did that.

Or if I spend my days building strange concrete domes and planting banana trees? There's another guy who does that.

Or running a backpacker hostel that employs (and pays fairly) a local cook and a maid? Probably a lot of us have stayed at such a place.

I had friends who backpacked through South America after college. They ran into an American who, one day in the States, said "fuck it", got in his pickup truck, and started driving south. Eventually he fell in with an Amazon tribe; he doesn't speak the language too well, but he has the truck and he knows how to drive, and that's how he contributes. He's much happier now. Who knows what he'd had to do to pay rent in America.

What if all I want to do is walk around, and drink tea, and chat with people? What if I'm somehow tired and bored at the same time?

What if I get a donkey and work as a traveling children's library?

Do I have to keep my position at the top of World Empire, or can I just take my good fortune and use it to drop out and chill?

I'm no savior, but maybe I can get a well drilled or something. Maybe I need the water too. Or maybe I can do the bushes in the local park, if everybody else is too busy with some other thing that earns dinero.

Hell, there's a white girl on YouTube who met a Maasai dude in Africa, married him, and now lives there doing... I don't know what, but it can't earn much. Granted I think she's going to be a little more independent than is, uh, traditional in that culture. But he's like, "ok, whatever, I have a good wife". Doesn't demand much, is happy.

Surely if you're born inside the harem, with all its advantages, there's got to be a way out.

Hell, if I'm an American, maybe me leaving creates a slot at a company that'll be filled by an H1B, and the circle of life continues. "Have at it, brother; I'm done."
I can make it sound like a Selectric, at least:

https://github.com/rbanffy/selectric-mode
That's what every Our Incredible Journey post says though... In my experience it has no effect on reality, it's just a form letter.
Don't worry, Apple took notice of this and is growing its SE series. Affordable yet not sacrificing quality, which will eventually overtake Android.

Also, why would you support an evil ad company anyways? People use Google because they had no other choice, if not they will change in a heartbeat.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30347719
Would not have expected to see Delta, UT on HN. I spent a significant amount of time there as an undergrad.
Supporting a nation's right to self-defense is neither simplistic nor naive. What's more, my views are informed by years of study in international law at both the JD level and in my LLM, as well as professional experience. Lastly, your personal attacks are in violation of the site guidelines. I strongly recommend you stop engaging in Internet flame war and read scholarly literature on the topic, starting with any of the various sources of commentary on the UN Charter (particularly Article 51) before engaging further. I recommend https://amazon.com/dp/B004P1JFKG/
Humans can also game systems to promote their garbage if they care to. Spammers can hire a click farm to privilege garbage results. Spammers and scammers seem to see enough returns to invest in ways to game the internet’s openness. There would need to be some kind of trust system to make the curation trustworthy.
I have to say I was quite surprised to find my font in there too.
Amazing! This is awesome news. Infinity useful.
I have had multi million dollar accounts with both Akamai and AWS.
Akamai's support was woeful bordering on incompetent.
AWS on the other had has been at a very high standard. And no robots.
Brian Kernighan is not mentioned in the obituary and nor should he be. Can we please change the HN title?
I propose "accidental feature" for this sort of thing.
I've been using Linode exclusively to host my (admittedly paltry) compliment of VPS's for several years now. They have provided me with outstanding service throughout my time with them, including truly being there for me a few times during the onset of the pandemic in 2020 where I really needed a helping hand to keep my business going. I don't have any experience with Akamai, but Linode has earned my trust and loyalty, and that will continue until I see some reason to reconsider that.
seems like they would be doing this with Flex if they could support the old CPUs.
Everything you need to be carpet bombed by Ruskys.
That's silly. Everything is limited by the scarcity of human attention spans, not just websites.

Shelf space refers to the market with which someone competes, not whether people are thinking of a candy bar or finding a bathroom or a facebook post. Your argument commits survivor bias because it's ignoring the millions of other websites that exist and are being used. Being popular does not mean something is a monopoly, nor does it mean there's limited shelf space.

Following your example, if Google spammed Pixel ads on it's home page, the page would become less popular. One of the reasons it became so popular was it's strict adherence to focusing on utility.
"Request early access" is not a valid Show HN. Please see the rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Putin's Motives Pose a Challenge for U.S. Intelligence Agencies
(see also this comment that reads like it could be onto something, although it'd require a bit of digging to determine what that is, if anything: https://www.econlib.org/archives/2014/06/embarrass_me_no.htm...)
> To the entity holding the coins, whether it is a single Bitcoin transaction as per the protocol of Bitcoin, or multiple transactions, makes no difference... ultimately they will or wont be holding a certain number of Bitcoins.

But to the entity who received the coins, it also doesn't matter where the coins went after someone took them by force. If you get paid for a day's work in cash and a robber steals it on your way home, you wouldn't say that your work payment transaction was reversed or that it hadn't been finalized up to the point of the robbery.
Credit card transactions are reversed all the time.
I think this is what Nietzche calls the master and slave morality. Basically, generations of slaves, or peasants, or whatever, develop a morality that is fit for purpose for the life of a slave. Slaves care about things like loyalty, keeping your word, not being a squeaky wheel, honesty, and all that because those traits are adaptive for living and working together with a with a bunch of peers.

Conversely, the master morality is adapted to being a master. A King may lie in diplomacy and betray allies and that kind of thing would be horrible in a peasant, but the King's actions might make his entire country better off and in a utilitarian sense that values only the King's countrymen - it may make everyone better off. But regardless of who is made better off by it the masters, like the peasants, have developed their own sense of morality, closer to ends justifying the means, because it is adaptive for them.

Names like "Master" and "Slave" make it seem like the master morality is the good morality or that the slave morality is bad. But I think those are just value judgments that come from the words. Nietzche says (to my understanding) that the truly noble person must move beyond either the master or slave morality and do what is actually right based on his own understanding and without regarding for the folk traditions of either class of master or slave morality.

Ultimately, what I'm trying to get at is it may be the case that your morality is adapted to being a worker-bee and the CEO's morality is adapted to being a CEO and so what the CEO does can seem sociopathic because the CEO is actually playing by a different set of rules or with different goals in mind.
What other kind of "exit" is there? There's IPO or sale. My problem is VC funded startups is that they aren't trying to build a business.

There needs to be another way for a business to take on investment without focusing on an exit.

The DAO model is really interesting (I current work for one) which allows investors to exit any time they want by just selling the tokens they bought.
Interesting, I disagree but appreciate your perspective. AWS and competitors are just getting way too expensive and they're focusing so much on higher-level products. Some people just need a VM and a DB, and don't want to have to higher an expert just to estimate how much it will cost every month and pray they don't have something go viral that uses up a bunch of egress data.

I don't see bigger companies moving yet (most of them are building their own infra on top of OpenShift and VMware), but I know a few small companies that are.
> Having to have the backend infrastructure adds a lot of costs.

I don't know how much I believe "a lot" for something at this complexity level. Wordle would need a server that stores 60 bytes of data for each user that has enabled sync, and would need to send and receive that data about 10 times a day.
the forum experience has effective been totally replaced by either discord or subreddits, or any other kind of self-moderated social media group you can think of.

Its a plus in minus in a lot of ways but the biggest con is that its just straight impossible to search a discord log effectively.
Mindhunter and House of Cards are incredible shows. I agree with your full sentiment though.
> So many people have learned nothing.

The more I talk to crypto/NFT people, the more I’ve realized that they’re looking at the same historical events but walking away with completely different take-aways.

For example, they wouldn’t look at the Beanie Baby bubble and think of the people who invested a lot of money and had nothing to show for it after the crash. They’d look at the price charts of Beanie Babies and pattern-match that to NFTs with an assumption that they’re early in the game. Just sell before the line goes down and they’re going to be rich!
Hi Ben!

Sorry for writing here instead of emailing :p

I just wanted to say, as per your TODO thingy on github:

> "TELL PEOPLE TO EMAIL ME IF THEY LIKE MY BLOG POSTS!!"

Nice blog! I like your posts! Some great nuggets there! I've been meaning to 'just write stuff' like this for a while now ... but I always seem to get stopped one way or another ... (not least due to my ever-unfinished academic homepage that I always feel I need to finish setting up properly first before I actually start committing stuff to the blog part of it...)

Thanks :)
Taz

PS. Regarding https://www.bbkane.com/blog/short-bash-snippets#get-the-full... : you don't actually need any of dem perl shenanigans; standard linux comes with the `realpath` command which does just that! :)

PS2. Thank you for starring my bashtickets repository! :)

PS3. Congrats on getting married!
> Akamai's support was woeful bordering on incompetent.

Isn't that the point? Akamai's weakness and Linode's strength.

I've no experience with Akamai at all so i'm interested in your's. However support quality and service quality are not always correlated, especially when support has been highly siloed or outsourced. Obviously they affect each other, but are you able to distinguish them? Would you be able to offer us any insight into the quality of the service they provided separate from the support issues?

> I have had multi million dollar accounts [...] AWS on the other had has been at a very high standard. And no robots.

I mean, once you are paying millions you are guaranteed a real person. I was talking about the small scale support issues which from what I hear on AWS usually results in automated responses. This is where Linode and AWS definitely differ.
The hardest problem in software engineering: to close with as-designed or out-of-scope.
Sure. I changed it. I put it there because I expected some pedant to say "She didn't write eqn, Brian did"

There is a very good non-obit by Doug McIlroy, written when Lorinda got an award in 2018. I was going to post it, but it's in a small listserv archive and I think the list members prefer not to be cited into these kinds of thing. I can't find the text elsewhere which is a shame, it has a really good rundown on her time at Bell Labs and the amazing things she did.

I guess i could cut-paste it here, but that would exceed a 10% quoting rule I try to stick to. They're Doug's words, not mine.
How can you store your own?
"for the immediate future, we will continue to operate as we always have." == 18-24 mos of transition, then founders exit, and company starts its merge into larger org.

Happens every time
No we are not "content" to do that, and generalizations like this are notoriously unreliable. I'd like to see specific examples, and I'm sure interested readers would appreciate links as well, so they can make up their own minds.
I'm wondering whether the following line in the article is wrong:

It is still possible that even after 2024, KATRIN will be unable to measure the neutrino’s minimum mass: if the mass is less than 0.2 eV, it could lie outside the experiment’s sensitivity.

The sensitivity's goal is 0.2 eV. So if they report a measurement of 0.2 ± 0.2 eV, they won't be able to rule that the neutrino has a mass. But in fact it would could actually have a mass of 0.4 eV.

Am I missing something? Such as misunderstanding what they mean by sensitivity?
Well, for one, the corvette racer dudes I know aren't at all like what you see here with people telling you you're straight out wrong, dumb, etc. And they actively help each other when things happen. I've cut my track time short to help a dude I didnt know fix his car when it broke (we're friends now). Dude last year crashed his car and caught fire - was massively burnt to a crisp and almost died. People came together and almost $60k to help him. Then, another one of our crew had a stroke. The first guy donated to him (along with the rest of us), despite dealing with his own medical issues.

so yeah, by comparison HN is rude as hell
Subsidies are the symptom. The reason is fed govt ability to create unlimited spending. The reason for that is 3rd central bank known as 'Federal Reserve' which manipulates interest rate on govt debt issuance.
You are aware they removed this, right?

https://searchengineland.com/google-sunsets-search-operator-...

Try it yourself, it does JACK SHIT - they still show me what they'd prefer I have searched for.

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Edit - ok, I'm guessing you are, since on the second read I see you're joking about the google plus timing. I don't understand how that makes this better? Tooling is being stripped away in favor of showing me "popular search content" that google would prefer I see, and ads...
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
Using Linode since it started till today, it's stable and great and its support is also good(only used it twice out of ~20 years), but it kind of got overshadowed by digitalocean.

All the best to Linode, I will keep using it unless something changed dramatically.
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HN posts can show a marked lack of empathy, but overall quality is much better than online in general. I think the moderators deserve the credit for this, so I want to say that I daily appreciate their efforts.

One thing I would criticize is the use of [Flagged]. I've been paying attention to its use for a few months now and I've noticed absolutely no correlation between the presence of [Flagged] and how informative or volatile a thread will be. It is really just noise.
Ask HN: Is it called a launch if you still haven't enabled payment?
So, we are a bootstrapped startup that helps you build, deploy and host your applications on our platform or on your own cloud provider without any DevOps experience.
We call the first services "Fully managed", and the latter, "Managed".

We currently support plenty of application types, languages and frameworks, but still haven't enabled the payment. So, at this point is it called a launch if we tell the public that we're open for business or does is it a launch after we add the payment module?
Putin is pathetic, so are those who supports him.
> The big thing here is the concept of a device doing ONE thing and doing it well. Is there a name for that?

In Alton Browns world of kitchen gadgets, thats a "unitasker"[0], though they may be missing the "do it well" component, and perhaps targetting the wrong layer of abstraction. For example, a good chefs knife cuts, but nobody is going to tell you its not a versatile tool because the utilty of cutting applies to so much kitchen work. The Rollie on the other hand...

[0] https://lifehacker.com/watch-alton-brown-demonstrate-why-uni...
with companies like mine haha AnjaHealth.com - we send parents a kit, they can collect, we pick it up and bring it to a lab, and parents can access it later in life