skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect it to hit 3% within a month or two, along with 5-6% mortgage rates.

Buying a house now has more risk than anytime since the mid 2000s. Though many would surely dispute. Don't need to get into all the stats, but the interpretation of the stats being used to drive the FOMO narrative is a result of stats crime and misunderstanding

There comes a level with long bonds where indebted companies start to fail, and it's not very high. This will cap the 10y from going too excessively high, as bond traders are pretty smart and will buy when they think we're near the cap.

Personally I think zombie companies should be allowed to fail. Kinda like forest management for the economy. It's the better alternative to carrying non viable businesses into perpetuity. The Fed has erred on the side of bailing out speculators far too heavily... creates big moral hazard
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Interesting, did anybody comment on the lack of eye candy and image and video posts in comments? Because I think those are key elements in keeping HN nice.
> it looks like this could have been implemented in any native language.

from the readme: "How: This is written in Rust! (Or any compile-to-native language)."
Tea.xyz by the creator of Homebrew
From the DeLorean to the Batmobile, these are the cars that shaped film history
Yep, exactly. Opensea hosts most of their minted NFTs on HTTP.
I grew up in San Jose and had the chance to visit the Winchester Mystery House many times under different types of administration and tours. I'm not convinced by this story.

The writing seems more focused on conveying the author's belief in numerology and the occult, rather than Sarah's. He uses "ciphers" with values that aren't idempotent, which makes them meaningless. If we say that "8" sometimes means K but sometimes means BANANA, we are off down a pointless, flat-earth style rabbit hole. One can read any kind of symbolism into the design, but that doesn't mean that Sarah was an occult expert with a methodical (or maniacal) plan. It may just mean that she and her suppliers chose pieces in a certain style that was popular and contemporary.

Read as architecture, the Winchester Mystery House is gorgeous and at the same time awful. It's a weird mélange of parts that was built piecemeal, at her instruction, often only to be torn down and modified soon after. Sarah was notorious for commanding large scale and expensive installations in both the house and garden, then later removing them or building over them at whim (hence the appearance of doors over walls and skylights in ceilings). Her employees recalled her as an insane boss who took no input from anyone and fired people for merely asking questions. The only reason Sarah was able to get any construction done at all is that she paid far above the prevailing wages and always had work to do.

I do think from what I've seen and read over years of visits that Sarah was afraid of ghosts, particularly the ghosts of the people killed by her husband's Winchester rifles, the source of her vast fortune. There are many Disneyesque "haunted house" elements which seem like puerile attempts to "fool the spirits," rather than the methodical practice of an expert occultist on a mission.

The spectacular Tiffany window is a good case in point. When first designed, this original window was produced for her in France and installed in a lovely south-facing location in a large study upstairs. Upon later expansion, that side of the house was covered with other rooms, the entrance to the study modified, and its dimensions significantly narrowed. The result was a room that wasn't useful as a study and had a window facing another indoor room. This is vernacular architecture done with high end Victorian materials, not masterful, devilish design.

If Sarah Winchester were a believer with a message, she did a terrible job of communicating it. A famous recluse, Sarah almost never left the house. There is only one photograph of her in public in existence, on a carriage trip to the market. In that instance, the market owner was obliged to build a covered porte cochère to accomodate the carriage -- where she remained parked while store attendants collected her goods. Sarah had no visitors to the house, ever. She was not a well-read person or a lady of literature, and therefore it seems unlikely that she would have amassed the interest or knowledge to mastermind an enormous estate of intentional occult design.
Regarding distances with Kwiggle please take a look here:

https://www.kwigglebike.com/en_US/faltrad-300km

Ok, 300km/d is not for all people, but it show the possibilies.
BitTorrent works great, for transferring files. It is completely useless at transferring money or money-adjacent things. That's the fundamental innovation.
Elements of Great Company Culture
The obvious answers is its easier to post directly and add the edit if you make a mistake just in case.
Thanks for bringing this up, I've created an issue in their github to unblock us
A snap has Ubuntu-specific package dependencies. That's totally not a cross-platform concept. The only thing snap solves is sandboxing, but there are better ways to do that.
Leveraging social currency to obtain free food? I hate to break it to this guy, but women have already found a way to automate this process far more efficiently.
I’m not referring to those people, and I think you know that. Nor am I saying that everyone who looks like a member of an underprivileged group is actually personally underprivileged. And I think you also know that. I’m not sure why you made the above comment.
I read that book. It opens with statistics on the number of photocopies made each year in the USA.

Interesting now that Xerox seems to be dropping the ball on making decent reliable copiers.
Folks may not be aware of HN’s delay feature:

> In my profile, what is delay?

> It gives you time to edit your comments before they appear to others. Set it to the number of minutes you'd like. The maximum is 10.
I believe his point is that these good things wouldn't be possible if it were decentralized
What?

HTTPS, HTTP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, ACME, DNS, NVMe, PCIe, SATA, WS.

WebRTC (used for communication) uses SCTP and TLS. SMTP (email) came out in 1981. SCTP in 2000. There are _many_ _many_ _many_ more examples, but that beats your statement by a solid 19 years.

I could keep going but I think you get the picture.
It adds up. 300ms is pretty good, but that's just starting up a node process, then you get a long process of parsing and executing the script itself.

Which initially is not too bad, but the bigger the codebase gets and the more often you run it, it adds up. 300ms per invocation is something that a lot of CI providers would love to save.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1205/
Thanks - I need to do some research on this!
It also seems to mean stupid in AMOGUS.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AmongUs/comments/iyg093/is_it_on_pu...
Fun thing about early ethernet cards, they had a bad habit of catching on fire. Had it happen a few times.
File this under the evidence that now is, in fact, the golden age of hacker news. In three years when we are all whinging about how 'things have changed around here' consider this thread and an different one from a year ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26278011
Author here. I Use VSCode (with a few monkey patches) and my own theme: https://github.com/mausworks/mausworks-theme-vscode
From HN guidelines:

> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
It doesn't have anything to do with Reddit. It's about being honest and avoiding possible future confusion.
Dismissing a project out of hand because it's written in a certain language because it's trendy is the same faulty logic than choosing a certain language for a project because it's trendy.
I have strong overhead light so I haven't tested it in those conditions.
> Not really. You wouldn't expect good programs from someone who has no idea how a computer works.

I wouldn't expect them to write a good operating system, but for the vast majority of code that is being written you can get pretty far with "your cpu is faster than your memory" as the only bit of knowledge about how computers work.
SSDs are fine, you absolutely don't need an NVMe. A mid shelf 2TB SSD is way more than enough. Processor requirements aren't that high either, but yes it is a noticeable amount of resource usage, so running in the background isn't practical.
Also yes if the edit may affect following replies. But I guess that also counts as a significant edit.
> Ah, I think I understand now — basically what you’re describing is a schema for defining UI code as a tree of c++ structs.

yes :-)

> I literally spent most of the time waiting on the compiler

well, it being a tree of plain structs without 200kloc of header files to parse also means that it's possible to implement very fast live-recompilation, like this: https://youtu.be/fMQvsqTDm3k?t=87
The company licensing around OracleJDK is complicated. OpenJDK remains licensed under GPL.

The only thing complicated here is that people seem to think that OracleJDK IS OpenJDK, it is not nor has it ever been.

OracleJDK is no different than Azul's JDK. It's a JDK vendored and supported by Oracle.

The long and short answer is, so long as you are using a JDK vendored by your operating system or a docker image that doesn't explicitly say "oracle jdk" you are and continue to be safe. There's no sneak lawyer trap that's going to spring. I've seen these claims ever since oracle bought sun and have yet to see oracle act in bad faith with their sun acquired open source software.
The opposite. Interest rates will likely rise which makes the prices of currently held bonds go down. Inflation is so high too that bonds may continue to have negative real interest rates for a long time.
Or airships as well
Completely right. No comments.
Exactly! It’s also still a TI-84 calculator.
I’d be surprised if they had HTTPS support in 1996.
Are E-Bikes Greener than Human-powered Bikes?
There was probably a time when C++ had the kind of enthusiasm that Rust does now, but as C++ was released in ~1984, I don't know that you can quite compare the two.
Stewart Brand Says He’s Still an Optimist
HDL (hardware description languages - Verilog and VHDL the most representative ones) do actually work like that.

They give you access to structural descriptions for bitwise control, but also and mostly behavioural descriptions which allows hierarchies of modules (the blocks you described) and abstraction up to anywhere basically. This last part is generally referred to as RTL (register transfer level) design.

To make a circuit from this RTL description you usually need more steps: synthesis (where RTL gets "compiled" into the actual gates and flops to be used) and implementation (where the logic gates of the previous step are actually translated in the "fabric" you have available - FPGA logic blocks, a foundry's standard cell library ...).
> It's a habit carried over from Reddit users.

It's a habit that goes back decades on e.g. web forums and editable comment sections; some forum software automatically marks a post as edited, sometimes adds a percentage how much was changed, and leaves an edit log for moderators. They add form fields so people can indicate what they edited, or add a grace period (setting) that avoids adding the 'edited' marker if edited within a set amount of time after posting (for e.g. typos).

TL;DR it goes back a lot farther.
Dumping vodka, banning Dostoevsky: some anti-Russian protests are empty gestures
Ruby YJIT Benchmarks
High-speed rail on Mars will have all the advantages of hyperloop (greatly reduced drag from 1% atmosphere) with none of the downsides (the cost of building miles of enclosed tubing and keeping it evacuated). At Marian sea level you could travel by rail much faster than an airplane at 30k feet on Earth.

Only downside relative to air travel on Earth would be building out the track.
It's very rare you'll get personally attacked here.

I had to stop using Reddit/Twitter for the most part. You can't have a reasonable discourse on those platforms.

On Reddit I got called slurs, I've had people tell me I'm a horrible human for saying you can't afford LA on 40k a year. Here people are at least civil.
A torrent indexer removes a porn torrent therefor BitTorrent is centralized. The argument makes no sense.
I wonder if this means we will finally get Apple Cash up and running in the UK
A lot of people use cross-env[0] for that in NPM. You basically turn this:

"start": "NODE_ENV=production node ./index.js"

To...

"start": "cross-env NODE_ENV=PRODUCTION node ./index.js"

I'm glad Yarn supports this natively, though. It seems silly to rely on an external package for something so basic (especially with the security vulnerabilities of the ecosystem as a whole).

[0]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cross-env
This is not exactly true, because the event you expect in software, the loop ticking over, can itself happen at any time. posedge(*) will trigger on _any_ change in the always block, and those changes can happen at the same, slightly different, or much different times.
> ... I'm less likely to choose it, ...

I find I am more likely to choose it because you don't have to be super experienced in Rust to produce fast, reliable binaries. That is not the case with C/C++.
Kaisa becomes latest China developer to delay earnings results
Quite literally: the blog post is from 2019 and the behavior is from 2018.
>It currently offers a cloud-based cybersecurity tool designed to head off the potential use of quantum capabilities to unlock encrypted data.

What? And why would Alphabet want this? It's stuff like this that makes people believe Big Tech is just a front for three-letter agencies.
This is very promising! Congratulations!
> Which one did the creator use? That's the one that has legitimacy and value.

This is exactly the crux. How do I prove who is the original creator? Vitalik's concept of legitimacy is based on EVERYONE participating. Which is simply not the case right now. To use his example:

> Elon selling Elon's tweet is the real thing, and Jeff doing the same is not. Once again, millions of dollars of value are being controlled and allocated, not by individuals or cryptographic keys, but by social conceptions of legitimacy.

> But they could also be a missed opportunity: there is little social value in helping Elon Musk earn yet another $1 million by selling his tweet when, as far as we can tell, the money is just going to himself (and, to his credit, he eventually decided not to sell). If NFTs simply become a casino that largely benefits already-wealthy celebrities, that would be a far less interesting outcome.

Of course. But what if all of the edgelords that love Elon (and happen to also have much of the control of share of wallets for ETH) decide he should make the $1M? Vitalik's view would be "well that's what the public decided". However it assumes that EVERYONE is an active participant with full knowledge of the situation.

And finally he admits himself:

> There are definitely more ideas, but this is an area that certainly deserves more active coordination and thought.

> But this goes far beyond just Ethereum itself. NFTs are one example of a large pool of capital that depends on concepts of legitimacy. The NFT industry could be a significant boon to artists, charities and other public goods providers far beyond our own virtual corner of the world, but this outcome is not predetermined; it depends on active coordination and support.

He's actually just regurgitating the ideas of a direct democracy vs a representative democracy. If the public is not fully engaged and fully informed, then this whole theory essentially breaks down.
It's not a ploy for clicks. Programmers spend a lot of time working with programming languages and so the choice of language is an interesting thing to mention, no matter what it might be.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=written+in+c%2B%2B

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=written+in+python

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=written+in+go

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=written+in+rust

EDIT: There's one exception. "Written in bash" is and will always be clickbait, fight me
Am I wrong in my assumption that centralizing increases efficiency while decentralizing increases costs/inefficiencies but provides security gains. Very broadly speaking

Title seems to be counterintuitive.
Oh, if so I totally misread and apologize.
I don't think that's the case; the telemetry is part of the installer, not the installed binary (that the tarball would contain)
I live in a rural area where we figure it would take at least a day for fallout to reach us. Our plan then is to go to the gas station and buy all the Budweiser we can. (ok... bottled water and soda too.)
>Those are posted signs but do you know anyone who was offered that.

Well this is HN, so I'd hazard to guess that most people don't know many people who take those jobs.

>They could just post that to look like they’re not avoiding hiring.

Seems like a conspiracy theory to me unless there's some sort of evidence that they're ignoring applications.
own credit score system when paying by installments

These are good ideas. Many people have debt from all kind of life issues and it kind of seems insane to lock them out of financing for … a phone or the like.

The credit score system is the OG social credit system that China ain’t got nothing on.
I concede! SLS, the jobs program, was certainly in need of a scientific mission.
Except this is written in Rust because the author wanted to learn Rust.

> I want to try and learn Rust so I made this. Inspired by bun.
It’s kind of crazy how you think free speech takes a back seat to your sensibilities.

No one else has to live in your mental box.
Maybe a small one, but controlling all the software for a device is definitely a type of monopoly - Nintendo has 100% control of what's allowed and permitted to run on the hardware. If I want to sell Switch users software, I can't without Nintendo's blessing because they have complete control of the market.
They're source is the ISW maps and looks like they're now incorporating elements from JominiW

http://www.iswresearch.org/

https://nitter.net/JominiW
Tea – the toolkit that builds the Internet
If anyone is interested in alternatives to Verilog, check out PipelineC. Great for software folks getting into hardware, helps avoid issues like blocking vs non blocking confusion, whats a register, etc. Lots of other features too.

https://github.com/JulianKemmerer/PipelineC/wiki
This doesn't prove that we haven't taken steps backwards in terms of what is allowed as civil discourse in recent years. You're correct that many things were once completely unallowed by virtue of repercussions, which we now see as within the overton window. We've worked towards getting better though and we shouldn't throw that away. What people today are reacting to is that it feels like we are less free to speak our minds, at least on some topics, than we were just a few decades ago. Just because it used to be worse long before that doesn't mean it isn't a problem worth dealing with now. Racism also used to be much worse than it is today, but that's not an excuse for the amount of racism that still exists either.
The problem here is that there’s lots of eyes on the problem, not all of them qualified, and there isn’t a body of work to lean on. Amyloid plaque removal was a strong contender for a bit, and there’s thinking that near 100% memory recovery will be possible when the root cause is addressed, and there’s a TON of attention in the space, but we’re not there yet.
Yeah. Tech (hell, humanity) already has a big enough problem with cults forming around bad or discredited ideas and defending them to the death, but the intrinsic characteristics of crypto make its adherents substantially more aggressive -- specifically the fact that crypto fans are not only emotionally and ideologically invested, but generally also quite heavily materially and financially invested, usually to the tune of thousands or tens of thousands of dollars, if not more. The consequences if they're wrong are so much worse which necessitates a completely different level of self-deception and defensiveness.
Eero's newest mesh routers include a WiFi 6E model
Birdie, Birdie Touring, Birdie Rohloff, ab 12.9kg, 12kg, 13.1kg, respectively. Heaviest Brompton: 11.5kg.

So much for German engineering in this case ;-)
I think it's a habit i got from ol' phpBB forums. I did the same with reddit. Should you? No, i think its personnal preference. I won't downvote if there is no edit disclaimer, i don't think anyone would.
Ah got you. I live in the Scottish countryside where property is cheap. Forgot about insane city prices.
pointless pageantry to make us feel as if we arent all procrastinating some type of work. We can't ALL be waiting on a build to finish.
>Our celebrity role models work very hard: Jack Dorsey ran two companies simultaneously for a while. Elon Musk is worshiped by a massive audience, in part for his superhuman work ethic. Enough said.

Jack Dorsey notoriously got kicked out of Twitter by activist investors for his lack of commitment. Elon Musk is worshipped by a massive audience who he tells he works hard, whilst simultaneously spending a load of time on twitter. It's performative.
...this sounds so plausible. So so plausible.
Sure, but OP asked why the 'EDIT:' string on posts. In my 40+ years of online forum use I've only recently seen this habit on Reddit. I'm sure it exists elsewhere but this was my POV.
If sometime in your thread identifies the typo/minor issue and you edit, then it is common courtesy to call out the edit.
I loved that bit because it was an explicit reference to the Chinese legend of Wan Hu, the mandarin who attempted to do just that.

That's probably one of the reasons why the Chinese animation industry panicked upon Kung Fu Panda's release, judging the West to be doing better Chinese-themed animation than the Chinese were capable of at the time.
I've read the first couple and it's p good mystery literature. It's not "growth" reading, more like fun reading. I'm enjoying the 90s throwbacks too, without cellphones etc.

My wife has worked her way through most of the series and says it gets better.
> yeah just buy an 86TB drive every year and run the node 24/7 to avoid penalties

Lazy, low effort, inaccurate comment. A validator node is <$500 of hardware. A 2TB SSD will be enough for years.

> how many people are actually able to do this

How many people are able to inspect the code running on their machine? I don't really buy this line of argument. Humans are social animals. Information about what software (on or offchain) is safe tends to propagate naturally.
> Instead of waiting 200ms for your npm client to start, it will start immediately.

That seems like a pretty big performance problem on Node's part.

Wouldn't it be better if Node solved this, than people having to use external package managers that may not be so well-integrated into the ecosystem? Thirdly would people even bother using an external package manager because of a 200ms delay? Is that considered acceptable at this point?
I should turn that on. I think north of 90% of all my posts since Covid started have typos. Not sure how that global thing has made my typing so bad or inattentive but it seems to be at correlated.
It’s not unimaginable to think they also perform simple phishing or other attacks to drain bank accounts for their operating funds.