skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
House values are driven by what people can afford, which is heavily influenced by the interest. If you can afford $1k/mo and 10% of that is interest, 90% is going to principal and you can figure out the math on what your total principal would be. If 20% of that is going to interest, you're still paying $1k, but now your initial principal is much lower, which at scale will drive housing down to some equilibrium where, to be a bit reductive, average people can afford average houses.

My parents bought their house in 1979, for $33k. ~10 years later, when rates had lowered significantly, it was worth $150k.
> I eventually realized my motivations for developing open source software were rooted in vanity.

Bingo. The hard-earned wisdom of this insight right here almost completely explains all the internal issues the OP was feeling when he wrote his rather over-the-top post.

Yeah, it sucks to realize that your just as human as the next guy and that your motives aren't always as pure as you wish they were, but there is nothing at all wrong with being proud and wanting to be noticed for abilities.

Figuring out what path works for you AFTER realizing your motives aren't pure is how one solves the open-source user issue.
Over half of America can't cover a surprise $1000 expense: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/19/56percent-of-americans-cant-...

You are not looking at the reality of the situation if you think the average American has a "gigantic amount saved up". The average American is working paycheck to paycheck and is lucky to have a couple hundred bucks for a rainy day or unexpected car repair.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/10/05/mit-cancels-professo...

Is one to come to mind. Students and other teachers are deprived of a lecture because a small vocal minority of students are upset that in an unrelated interview, the professor expressed a fairly mainstream view of preferring "equality" over "equity".
has MMT worked. it remains to be seen
I use and pay for Nova primarily because it's a fully native app, even though it is lacking features compared to Visual Studio Code. Even on the new MacBook Pro with a M1 Pro, simple things like resizing a VSC window is just so much laggier than Nova. I personally value the native implementation of Nova over the features of VSC.
The use of nuclear weapons would be... obvious: if an explosion in the 10Ktn or bigger happens, it's a nuclear weapon. There aren't enough nuclear powers to make the use of nuclear weapons plausibly deniable.

The use of chemical weapons might not be as obvious if they are slow acting. And the production of chemical weapons is much easier than that of nuclear weapons. Though, the dispersion of chemical weapons is non-trivial.

The use of biological weapons need not be obvious at all -- "it's a naturally-evolved pathogen, this happens!". The development and production of biological weapons is much easier than that of nuclear weapons. Human and animal bodies can be made to help spread biological weapons, so their dispersion can be trivial. The only thing that a bioweapons user might need ahead of time is treatment / vaccines, unless the bioweapon is weak and the real weapon is psychological.

Sobering thoughts.
You will die and be forgotten. Everything you do will be erased by entropy. Billions and billions of years, endless collisions and mutations, a cooling down of the universe until time itself stops.

Human beings are very sensitive because we all live on top of a foundation of delusions which protects us from the life-invalidating truth.

I've come to believe that every single person is insane. When you look into minds and see a humanity dripping with delusions spun up by life seeking a way to avoid confronting its futility...you can't help but feel this way.

I was only able to see it after I had a near death experience. Those who have never gone beyond the threshold won't ever get it until the very end.
Presumably it's an inside joke of some sort that the submission title has different capitalization than the article?
It's in the article:

> The "spike" structures were a function of the design of Webb's primary mirror, explained Prof Mark McCaughrean from the European Space Agency (Esa).

> "The shape of those 18 hexagons imprints a faint diffraction pattern that makes bright stars look like spiky snowflakes - this isn't a problem for the science, but will give Webb images a very distinctive look," he told BBC News.

> "Indeed, the fact that we can see those spikes so crisply also confirms that the mirrors have been perfectly lined up - this is brilliant news."
I was curious what's the situation for Colima. It like like fs sharing is being discussed a lot over the years, but virtiofs depends on Mac's virtualisation.framework and can't be used in qemu currently. https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/20#issuecomment-10686...

Instead 9p experimental support got there a few days ago: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/20#issuecomment-10660...
> Do you think that is the way that a professional should act towards others in their profession?

That's beside the point, since not being rude to others for no reason is very much part of mainstream professional norms. The question you might ask yourself is rather: "is this one person acting violently towards the meetup organizer by not using their preferred pronouns and updated name". There are people who would answer this in the affirmative, but this implies a pretty loose understanding of what qualifies as "violence" in the first place, which leads to all sorts of unforeseen implications. There's a very good reason why etiquette is generally regarded as trivial when compared with more tangible ethical challenges, and "use the correct pronouns, styles and honorifics when addressing So-and-so" is the quintessential example of etiquette.
Would current white supremacists be for or against being conflated with Nazis of times past? Don't they still do the whole swastika thing, even? Do they reject the label? And if so, is that only because of the baggage that comes with it?
Shouldn't there be an "invisible hand" at work to settle this problem automatically when Fed over-raises or under-raises? With the invisible hand and free market arguments, this should have been a non-problem at the first place. But... since the initial move was not natural (lots of cash injection), the natural final move has to be sudden and forceful. These analysis-paralysis rate hikes seem like lots of pawns to be lost before the final blow. It just opens a window of opportunity for ahead-of-the-curve retirees to save their wealth, not helping to avoid the final effect.
How Many Tanks Does Russia Have in Ukraine and How Many Has It Lost So Far?
That’s the one! I had no idea it had its own Wikipedia page.
Current rate, which is nearly 0, is also an important consideration.

What this means is if you borrow at 0.25% interest rate yesterday, and it becomes 0.5% tomorrow, your cost of borrowing just doubled.
It's not professional, it's abusive and it's harassment. But it is literally not violence by the common definition. Slogans like "silence is violence" are designed to provoke attention to an issue by intentionally shifting semantics from where they are normally understood.
I don't think mortgate rates ever broke 20% but were in double-digits.

At that time, though, you needed about 20% down payment to qualify for a mortgage. So you weren't borrowing as much, and houses were smaller and cheaper. It was very difficult for many people to buy a house in those years.
I'd include Backblaze
> >>Conceptually the answer in the theory is to suck up the excess money with taxes

> Govt spending is already 45% of GDP, so there's not much room to increase it more.

Taxes (government income) is not all that related to government spending, as we've seen recently.
I first realized the usefulness/minimalism of row level security when playing with the [ihp-backend](https://ihpbackend.digitallyinduced.com/) package. It's a really lean way of moving straight from your data definitions in a schema to your application logic written in react.

I thought it was interesting because it was a change from the usual authentication cycle of storing some session information and handling all the authentication through sessions and restricted queries.
Your face structure may be different than mine but I found this sleep mask stays put and works well at blocking out the light — https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07D3M5TTZ
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It sounds like you may have had a bad time with EHS in the past. I found that by making friends with everybody involved ahead of time, I suddenly had excellent service.

sadly, after 30 years of training to be a superhacker on ML, my greatest value is actually in dealing with intra-organizational politics.
That brings up the question of whether these social media platforms' terms of service are themselves censorious and intolerant to some degree. The first answer to that would be "yes", since otherwise terms of service wouldn't even exist and no one would ever be banned for anything they said or did in or out of the platform. The second answer would be "maybe", especially for platforms that pride themselves on being paragons of open discussion. (I think that "maybe" should be a permanently ongoing, self-reflective maybe.)
Good thing I didn't come here for informed economic commentary. Now back to the blogosphere.
I totally agree. There are multiple definitions of success, and "we became the most popular <blank>" is just one. It doesn't say anything less of someone that they don't reach that goal, or don't set it in the first place.
And around 30 years of progress of all other countries. Same as Afghanistan, Iran, Yugoslavia etc.
> I do not envy the position the Fed is in.

Let's not be naive. The Fed put itself in this position. You're correct. Most of the rest of us will - once again - take a massive shot to the wallet. But to The Fed and its "fan base" it's simply another cycle in the process of moving more from the bottom to the top.

Put another way, you or me are simply not The Fed's priority. I'm not sure why we voted for them.

That last bit is sarcasm.
NPM package compromised by author: erases files on RU / BY computers on install
> The Beatles sang with American accents. Programming languages worldwide are in English.

Soft power, culture and language, in particular, is an often overlooked aspect when it comes to dominance.

Soon, Mandarin might become the world's most spoken language by number of speakers (it already is if you only count native speakers).

Still, in a global context it's mostly irrelevant because it's the official language in only five countries (if I counted correctly). Contrast that with English, which not only is either the official or the dominant language in 50+ countries, but also - and more importantly - is a truly global language in that it is spoken at least to some extent in pretty much every country in the world.

That kind of influence can hardly be overestimated. More broadly speaking, in terms of culture in general rather than language specifically, Japan at least used to be more of a superpower than China because from Japanese martial arts (which, of course, for the most part have been derived from Chinese origins; they're mostly perceived as being quintessentially Japanese, though) to manga, Japanese cultural exports are ubiquitous.

China seems to be catching up - or at least trying to do so - in that regard (e.g., through movies).
You're suggesting that people bypass official procedures and/or laws in order to save time. This is a bad path to start down. The fact that you're posting this as a throwaway indicates that you don't want your HN account associated with these proposals.

Here's a relevant software-related analogy:

I work in a situation where if we receive certain types of data, we have to go through proper procedures (including an official incident response team). It would be very easy for me to say "I've verified that nobody accessed this data, and we can just delete it," instead of going through the proper channels, which are VERY annoying and require a bunch of paperwork, possibly meetings, etc.

Maybe nothing bad happens. But next time this happens, one of my junior colleagues remembers that the 'correct' thing to do was what I did (clean it up myself after verifying nobody accessed the data). Except they screwed up and didn't verify that nobody had accessed the data in question - and now we are in legal hot water over a data privacy breach.

And then people go back through the records, and both the junior engineer and I get fired for bypassing the procedures which we've been trained on, all because I wanted to save some time.
Sure. There have been numerous mainstream articles as well as a recent segment on John Oliver that liken teaching CRT to teaching about the fact racism exists. This is becoming a mainstream viewpoint, that "banning CRT" in classrooms is banning talk of racism.

None of these articles mention any of the more controversial CRT viewpoints that you can find by...reading the wikipedia article. It isn't exactly a hidden secret that CRT purports that any racial disparities must be due to systemic racism, though we can use some logic to quickly falsify some its main beliefs.
Right, and I think that's what makes it viable at all. A similarly pretty editor without an API would be a non-starter, at least to me. It's not that hard to make something that can let you edit syntax highlighted text. Well, I couldn't do it, but judging by the number of working text editors on the planet, it seems like there are plenty of people who can. I think the more important part is that other people can make it act like they want it to, and without having to patch the editors internal code themselves.
is this anti-science, since microwaves are non-ionizing therefore cannot cause cancer or any other ill effect at low doses?
Isn't this where the ideas of zero trust networking come into play?

It doesn't matter that you've authenticated to the network, you still need to authenticate to the application. SSO and the like become increasingly important in this kind of world mind.
I'd say the reasons you say it's vintage are the exact reasons I'd say it's timeless! It's a fictional assembly language which is at the level of abstraction he wants and something that won't age because it never existed to begin with.
A certain Middle Eastern nation has infiltrated the US government far more successfully than China could ever dream of, and they barely hide it.
> Navy's top pilots

Relative to what? Other pilots who fly the same aircraft? All fighter jet pilots in the Navy? All pilots of all types of navy aircraft?
employers have much more power than individuals. even if the public is mostly opposed to wokeism , companies, fed. govt., and universities still seem intent on pushing it.
Now I am not sure where you are going.

To circle back to the topic at hand, any anger stems from fear/insecurity (which may or may not be warranted); when it happens unexpectedly when discussing a random topic, like in TFA—no one wishes death to anyone, and yet someone gets mad—then it is a useful indicator.
True, but almost every society expects its elders to still do some kind of work, usually house work and child care, which helps free the healthy adults to do the more difficult work. Those who can't do that are usually very close to death.
Ask HN: Are card payment fees so high outside the US?
I was surprised to learn that US merchants pay a baseline of 2.8% interchange + markup on debit card transactions, where the merchant accepts all risk if there's a chargeback.

Is this the case in other countries? My friend is Danish and he says most use MobilePay—which seems to charge per transaction rather than as a % of value (it's hard to tell).
Exactly. This whole essay seems to provide no way to distinguish between moral fashion and actual morality.

Is he trying to say that there's nothing moral under the sun? That there are no evil ideas? Do I even need to put forward examples?!

And providing no framework or tools to distinguish between the two and just telling everyone "go for it" is dangerous. I'm mad at the idea. And no. I don't think it's because it might be true.
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> You can log and style CLI output the same way you do it in the browser’s developer tools: using what you know with console.log

> console.log("%cHello World", "color: red");

TIL, neat! If anyone else did too - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/console#sty... looks great

Using alert/confirm/prompt for CLI tools is nice too, makes a lot of sense to build that in and use the web APIs for it.
No argument from me. I prefer Lisp, but hey, we all have preferences. What I meant was that regardless of preference, there are a lot more JS users than Lisp users these days, so leveraging that as an extension language makes a lot of sense for new editors (even though it means I'm personally less likely to make an extension for it).
According to Google, they havent offered free GSuite accounts since 2012: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2855120?hl=en.

Grandfathering in old ones for a decade after that seems about as generous as businesses get.
I swear it’s like some companies want to remind us how little the care.
VESA Local Bus supplemented ISA. It did mostly see use as a graphics card expansion slot, but you could get various I/O cards. I saw a couple of boards in my lifetime that had those slots, thankfully didn't need to support them.
Yes. Anecdotally I have noticed (in real life and online) some people view being "cancelled" (deleted) from a Social Media as a badge of honour and will gladly enumerate the accounts they have had that were banned but their ever-important message that got them to boot is never mentioned. If you dig deeper it's usually some form of TOS or hate-speech.
Depends. If you plan to draw down your savings to 0 to survive retirement maybe. But if you have enough saved up for a safe withdrawal rate to survive retirement, why not keep it invested normally and have more for your inheritors?
> What I mean is that if policies are are supposedly linked to increases in crime, then we should be evaluating them at a policy level, not a partisan level.

Yes, I would totally agree, but that isn't the nature of the prevailing narrative.

> The surface debate is just a bunch of partisan finger pointing and strawmanning (especially for the point of politicians getting their comments on the news), which covers up the real debate about underlying policy.

Bingo! You've hit the central point of the article.

> I don't know, but I feel like wanting to have articles that report meaningful information and analysis on the policies is not confirmation bias, but a desire to have informed debate about things that actually matter.

Agreed, wanting to have more meaningful information & analysis is not about confirmation bias. Wanting to have more meaningful information & analysis before accepting/repeating a narrative is confirmation bias.

The article isn't trying to suggest that Republicans or their policies are causing an increase in crime. It's trying to show that if you're looking at national trends in the data, it doesn't point to anything supporting the prevailing narrative. The natural next thought is, "what is the data supporting the prevailing narrative?", and the answer to that ought to raise at least as many questions about the prevailing narrative as it does this article.
Far fewer young people have any possibility of retiring. You can't build retirement from gig labor and shitty service jobs.
Book'em Danno.
Openly mocked? Definitely not.

I know someone who knows someone who ran an art gallery on the west coast. Most of the artists were black and the gallerist was a white man. At one point he made some offhanded remark that "don't worry, the white artists have an area over there..." Guess what happened to his career after?

These stories are everywhere, and are why people think things have gone too far.
It would have made sense to never remove them in the first place.
Hypersonic glide vehicles are measures that strengthen MAD, not try to defeat them. And yes, they did beat the US to it. The purpose for HGV development was to evade ballistic missile defences.
Also, returns from other investments tied to interest rates were higher. I seem to recall seeing CD rates >10% in the '80s. I know I had a CD paying >6% as late as the mid '90s. This world where basic banking investments are pointless and pay ~0% is a historic anomaly.
My big issue with dart is how it has closures and first-class objects, but still insists that objects everywhere is the answer to life.
> otherwise it will behave like a really, really fast typewriter — it’ll go from left to right, letter by letter, until it hits the other margin, then start again on the next line.

Or until it is switched to a different writing mode, which I would have loved this article to address since a lot of work is happening in the internationalization of layout design to acomódate that the left to right top to bottom is not the default for everyone across the globe
a) higher taxes enable the government to apply deflationary pressure on the economy (by removing currency from circulation)

b) Reducing taxes without cutting spending (because it will "pay for itself in growth") leads to a larger deficit, which requires increased debt to cover, which triggers the money-printers.
I work in a regulated software space, and my experience is that treating quality and regulatory folks as adversaries is a great way to have your projects take way longer than they should and cause immense frustration. Understanding the hows and whys of the way things work makes life easier for everyone. I haven't worked with EHS in the past, but I imagine it's much the same - if you're seen as somebody who's trying to cut corners and take shortcuts, yeah, you'll probably have a bad time.
Here are the first two paragraphs on the MMT Wikipedia article:

> Modern Monetary Theory or Modern Money Theory (MMT) is a heterodox[1] macroeconomic theory that describes currency as a public monopoly and unemployment as evidence that a currency monopolist is overly restricting the supply of the financial assets needed to pay taxes and satisfy savings desires.[2][3] MMT is opposed to the mainstream understanding of macroeconomic theory, and has been criticized by many mainstream economists.[4][5][6]

> MMT says that governments create new money by using fiscal policy and that the primary risk once the economy reaches full employment is inflation, which can be addressed by gathering taxes to reduce the spending capacity of the private sector.[7] MMT is debated with active dialogues about its theoretical integrity,[8] the implications of the policy recommendations of its proponents, and the extent to which it is actually divergent from orthodox macroeconomics.[9]

Regarding this being a "test" of MMT, I don't see why. The first part of the first sentence of that second paragraph, MMT says that governments create new money by using fiscal policy and that the primary risk once the economy reaches full employment is inflation, which seems to be precisely what has happened, no?
yes, though you should make sure you are allowed to install such software on your office laptop.
One of the things I love about Deno is that since it implements standard web APIs, many libraries built for the browser just work. For example, I recently made a simple static site generator with Deno to make my blog, and I found that I could use Marked for markdown support simply by importing it like this:

import 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/marked@3.0.7/marked.min.js';
// now I can use window.marked()