skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is precisely 1 country on the planet that accepts jews from where ever

It is difficult to discuss the history, which is part of the history of anti-semetism. I think it was that anti-semitism and the Evian Conference that directly led to the British Mandate. But if attempting to understand these events, it is difficult because even attempting to talk about what these leaders and many others believed, their belief in stereotypes, draws accusations of anti-semetism. But I am going to risk it, not because it is a valid perspective, but because it happened, it was a common belief that Jewish populations put economic strain on a country by nepotistic practices and hoarding wealth, and this belief was behind the reluctance of the Evian Conference participants to accept refugees; to avoid accepting Jewish refugees, the British Mandate created Israel. The British just grabbed hold of a pre-existing dream of some Jews (Zionism) to return to the "Promised Land," and promoted it. But I think the truth behind this detail of anti-semitism is that the lazy envy the industrious and successful, and unjustly those among Jewish populations that were successful and wealthy became representative of all Jews. The fallacy here is hasty generalization, thus the sentiment was always invalid.

The British Mandate was a very weird thing because it handed victory over the current residents of the area to a conquered (effectively) alien nation. But Israel would not have been able to exist if not for the sheer amount of backbreaking labor and the terraforming of non-arable land by the original settlers (of the 20th Century, but migrations of Jewish populations to the Four Holy cities predated the British Mandate by about 4 centuries).

Contrasting the horrifying treatment of Jewish populations with the horrifying treatment of Native American populations and the horrifying treatment of African populations reveals what is distinct in anti-semitism compared to other forms of racism. It was and is all very very bad, so it is a bit of a shock that anti-Palestinian racism is also a thing and rampant. It seems for every identifiable culture there is a particular flavor of racism. Fundamentally, racism is ignorance and hatred overpowering the ability to reason.
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I've had a good experience with SanDisk clip MP3 players. Still have 2 of them, although I don't use them anymore. You can still buy various models (new) on Amazon.
> No need to expose yourself, possible anonimity and most important one

That is an advantage if you're going to engage in behavior any reasonable person would despise you for.

> the absolute lack of need of a third party

If you're scalping tickets, you are the third party.
We’re not currently using RISC-V, though you never know what the future may hold.
I mean most Boomers did this transformation and it didn't really have anything to do with their life trajectory.

It's just a very solipsistic generation culturally.

When they were in their 20's they thought everyone should pay attention to them and that their drug use and weekend music festivals were unusually profound.

When they were in their 40's they thought everyone should pay attention to their property tax bills.

When they got to their 60's and 70's they thought everything should just stay exactly the same as the way they remember it and that everyone should consider their fears and confused elderly outbursts as valid expressions of reality.

Not sure it's generalizable.
Also for real estate the debt landscape is different- larger down payments and DTI ratios. Increasing interest rates/mortgage rates are going to drive prices down IMO, but I don’t see a collapse like 2008 because people won’t be forced to sell their homes due to foreclosure/ARM resets and mortgage backed securities are unlikely to collapse. Plus inflation is driving up nominal income, so buyers will increasingly be able to catch up with house prices even if they don’t drop that much.

The one wild card I don’t know about is the increased institutional/investor based investing in residential real estate. I’ve got no idea how those deals are structured overall and what a price drop combined with a mortgage rate shock would do to them and what size the overall market exposure is.
What cloud provider does better status pages than AWS?
Given the state of their military hardware on display in Ukraine, I wonder just how many of those nuclear weapons are actually in a workable state.
The VR headset really simplifies the Channelwood first puzzle, where half the challenge, I'm sorry to say, was understanding if you were coming or going as you moved around the node network of walkways and shunted water back and forth.

... but simplifies in a good way. I'm not a fan of the sort of artificial challenge that a viewpoint more limited than my avatar should have in a game induces, and I considered that complexity in the original more bug than feature.
One would thought when they got acquired by Microsoft that the number of incidents would go down considering all resources Microsoft would provide but no.
Looking at the "GitHub" prefix in the title, I was half-expecting this to point to a report explaining the outage a week ago... But rest assured, it is a new outage!
I see. All right, I put oxygen at some pressure on one side, and nitrogen at the same pressure on the other side, and then remove the barrier. Now there are no oscillations, just mixing.
This comment seems to violate at least a few of the HN guidelines for comments with the "Hardly anything surprising and new here sherlock" quip.
I've been using NixOS for several years and one of the pain points was frequently updating software - the updates don't come out until the package definitions get updated. Last year I just started using Flatpak for those packages and it works a treat - plus, I can keep the proprietary, non-free software that I need out of my system config, which I like. Snap is a non-starter, and while I hope more software shows up properly, reproducibly packaged for Nix, Flatpak is the next best thing.
Ask HN: A Good Idea?
What if I built a system that correlates ADS-B tracking of helicopters around Wall Street and the major news stories, then compared that with historical trends. Using this data to predict what big moves/problems could be coming? Obviously this would miss smaller things, but could be useful for off-hours sensitive meetings. Almost like the Twitter sentiment tracker, but for the Wall Street executives.

No idea if this would work. Good idea?
Well Heroku is overpriced garbage so that's not surprising. They rely on lock in to keep you stuck paying egregious fees for services that are relatively unreliable.

After migrating an entire startup infrastructure from Heroku to AWS I'm even more against Heroku given how easy it is to use something like Elastic Beanstalk to do the same thing without many of the same downsides.

I've been burned by Heroku, though, so I have a strong negative opinion.
Well, Redis for some reason tried to position itself as a Reddit plagiarism attempt too. So it's poetic.
They will be well positioned to buy however when prices collapse.
it seems we attended very different universities :)
I lost 3/4 my money (it wasn't much) when I was 20 in 2008 since I decided it was time to start putting my savings into the market like a responsible adult (August '08 is when I did this).

The traumatic psychological fall out from that completely destroyed any innate faith I could have in markets and I still suffer from it today regardless of how illogical it is. I basically lived the "...And it's gone" meme.
Because this is approaching the web horizon, for those who don't know, Ken and Roberta Williams are pretty close to the SoCal version of Shigeru Miyamoto.

They founded Sierra On-Line in 1979, which published pretty stellar titles until its sale in 1996 (and subsequent mismanagement and outright corporate fraud by the acquirer).

Here are a list of the things they published, among which some were developed inhouse, among which some were developed by one or both of the Williams.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sierra_Entertainment...

PS: And on a personal note, I can't imagine my teenage years without Sierra. From King's Quest to Dynamix to Valve's Half-Life to Relic's Homeworld to Gearbox's initial Half-Life console ports, they survived far longer in an industry where so many don't... while putting out amazing stuff over decades.

Or to put it another way, when they first started writing and publishing games, there was no Internet (in the modern sense) and Intel had just released the 10 MHz 8086 built on a 3000 nm (3 µm) node.

By the time they left the company, the web and JavaScript existed, and Intel had just released the Klamath 300 MHz Pentium II on a 350 nm node.

Crazy times.
I think the best middle ground would be a full touch screen phone with camera loaded with an OS that restrict all the apps and no browsing but allows basic features like calling, texting,clicking pictures, playing music, and using maps.
Pretty much.

https://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/civil-rights/214857-w...

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
Only if you believe those numbers mean anything. What are the errors for? Github has been adding lots of features and subproducts over the years, becoming a bigger and bigger platform as a result. What you want is the error-per-component, which may very well have actually gone down, with error spikes coming from "when github adds a completely new feature and it goes through a slew of incidents in its first year". The bigger the feature, the more incidents.

Without more detailed numbers, there's literally no conclusion to draw here.
I feel like I may be an outlier here, but I loved the walkie-talkie feature on Nextel. I wish this was a standard feature on phones and across providers.
For anyone looking I found two manufacturers that make folding bikes with full size components and wheels:

Montague

Changebike

There is also a third that looks newer and I could not find any info on but looks promising from Finland:

Fubi
http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/finance/fm081010.htm

This is what it took to reverse 2008's recession. Every time I read this single page document I get a little shiver.

Item #2 is by my interpretation has "any and all means" finality.

("2 Take all necessary steps to unfreeze credit and money markets and ensure that banks and other financial institutions have broad access to liquidity and funding.")
It would be preferable to own a home in retirement so that if all else goes to shit, you have a roof over your head.
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all of them.
IonQ, Rigetti, D-Wave.
You just made a few Openstack consultants raise from their graves.
I don't agree. We're in a supply crunch right now, more houses == lower prices, and low income folks can always get government subsidized housing (or should demand more of it if none is available).
In general, you pay enormous interest on unsecured credit.

House? Mortgages have single-digit interest.

Car financing? More complicated, but often free, or even negative (I bought my car for less with financing that it would cost me outright).

Credit card? Tens of %.

I guess a "line of credit" is essentially the same as a credit card. A bank can in principle recover your credit card debt off your house, but it's difficult.
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I understand the appeal, but dumbphones aren't as good as they used to be. These days the typical dumbphone has some version of Android or a web-based OS like KaiOS shoehorned onto a poorly spec'd device with no touch screen.

Dumbphones used to have real time operating systems that were built with the limitations of the device in mind. Many of them were quite snappy and responsive.
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The writing is on the wall:

If you value choice and open ecosystems, do not invest in a future where you rely on Google apps any more than you need to.

Big G will burn you and not care at all.
I read this and it doesn’t mean anything to me. It’s like that crappy AI bot that writes IT marketing phrases built the whole site.
The 'most vulnerable' rarely are living in single family homes. They are living in either public housing, a trailer, or crammed into illegally over-occupied studios.

That said putting more restriction on housing (even more taxes!) isn't going to improve the situation. Housing needs deregulation, not more regulation to distort the market even more.
Back in the day you could get a dumb phone with 2 week battery life and a screen viewable in any light from total darkness to direct sunlight. That combination of features seems to be a lost technology. A lot of places have or are in the process of shutting down 2G so you can't just keep using an old phone even if you can somehow find a good battery for it.
Caffeine, a chemical stimulant, increases the biological processes in not only humans but plants as well. These processes include the ability to photosynthesize and absorb water and nutrients from the soil. It also decreases the pH levels in the soil.
Come on, don't be so dramatic. This is not a 911 call center, people will survive these minor outages.
In that respect, the mention of family made earlier is also really more like an oligarchy. One member may have the final say (historically the man of the house), but other members of the family (notably said man's wife, historically speaking), can wield power to try and sway the opinion. That distinction from dictatorship may not be all that significant.
To be fair googling for an exe is even worse. At least the weird apt incantations can be easily audited and understood by a proficient user, whereas on Windows you're running a binary downloaded from the Internet that you know is going to ask for superadmin permission to do its thing.
(Render founder) Hi HN, we built our managed Redis service for people who already use Render to host their apps. You can of course use it from outside Render, but ideally you'd use the Redis internal URL (e.g. redis://red-longuniqueidhere:6379) in your code that's also running on Render.
There's also the aspect of the new guy who doesn't know what others say is impossible, so he tries things others don't even attempt. And sometimes, that leads to success.
"the resulting prototypes were always slower, mostly because of impedance mismatches between guile and elisp"

That may be technically true, but I think the real problem is that there was only one guy working on the project.

A lot more progress would probably have been made if there was a team of people working on it, but apparently it's just not important enough for most Emacs users. Some would like to see it happen, but not enough to actually contribute to the effort to make it so.
This website seriously bombed their first impression.

Oddly unspecific name? Check.

Low contrast? Check.

Generic illustrations like all hipster startups? Check.

Expects me to trust some random website with a root shell? Check.

"Decentralization" & "Governance"? Of course. True crypto bros.

"Whitepaper"? You bet.

And I still have no clue what specifically they plan to do. It's something about paying for open source, but then again we've seen many unsuccessful attempts there recently.
this statement is embarrassing. specialization and division of labor is not due to "laziness"
Ask HN: What was that research paper about choosing which task to work on first?
The question was how to choose what task to work on first (either as a person or for a computer). I think it may have come from Stanford, not sure.

It went through various strategies and landed on the counter-instinctive strategy to do the most uncertain task first.

I found the paper quite interesting and insightful, but I can't find it... anyone know which paper I'm talking about?
It's basically a hedge against rent and cost of living. In many markets rent is now higher than a mortgage. The goal is you are over a lifetime net-zero in housing cost or maybe make something back. Flippers and builders usually make 30% b/c they have cost advantages.
An admirable idea, but I'm doubtful it would work. Happy to be proven wrong though.

Another idea on this topic:

Someone should try an open-source license where any company with more than, say, 500 employees need to pay a small tribute, for example a fixed $1000 / year. Small enough of an amount that any large org could pay for it, and large enough that if you have 10+ large companies you'll get good money from your open-source project.

500 dependencies would be 500 000 a year, which should be sustainable for most 500 employee the company.

Don't really know how to enforce it or build an org around it, and there are likely several hurdles to overcome.
If you didn't throw the email out the window in disgust, could you forward it to me... jgc@cloudflare.com
I spent a couple weeks finding a similar bug, a one instruction window where a hardware "wake up" register could get a stale value if an interrupt-and-reschedule happened at just the right instruction. The fix was to swap two instructions, so a register write happened in the correct order.

I still remember the moment of clarity when the very thorny, complicated problem resolved into something obvious and simple, with a trivial fix. Hard problems seldom resolve so easily. You don't get these very often, cherish them :-)
Fred and Matt formed Credit Kudos in my cohort in https://joinef.com back in 2015.
Reasonably is a meaningless word in IT.
Putin says Russia will start selling gas to 'unfriendly' countries in roubles
I feel that having a certain amount of physical and liquid cash assets is almost mandatory for basic financial survival. I use credit cards for most purchases('selling' my data to the card companies for reward points, too), but cushioning matters.

If life were 100% predictable, and I never had to worry about a sudden expense, or a bill being higher than expected, or gas/grocery prices rising, then I'd totally be down to invest my entire net worth and live off of a portion of my paycheck, maintaining minimum balance in my checking account, and sweating bullets whenever the market dips.

I went through several weeks of unemployment last year while I was between jobs. I was fortunate enough to receive the covid+standard unemployment payments, but still had to supplement that with cash from my savings to skim by. The alternative would have been to break my lease to live with my parents, incur bad credit, potentially have my car repo'd, etc. It would have set me back several years, and wrecked my self image.
Wow, this app is great. It unlocked the audio setting on my external LG display (which im running my speakers through), and lets me control with the keyboard keys! Thanks for making this.
It’s worth it for me just to never see a Liberty Mutual ad ever again. I will never be their customer, ever. Not after DJ Liberty.
If you look at the article data, the lower income bracket have FAR less confidence than higher income brackets.

Also, I think it actually doesn't all go in an instant. I've worked with local businesses that are over a hundred years old and seen many market turns both positive and negative. During recessions they'll make a reduction in employees or other costs and be able to stay open on that until profits rise again... or worst case, they sell the business or real estate and pocket a huge amount of money even though it closed.

The folks that have it all go in an instant are the ones living paycheck to paycheck who get laid off at the first sign of trouble. Their losses insulate the businesses and owners.
Even worse about the title, lower income people all had the same drop. They just did it earlier. Really bad analysis and narrative building by the author.
> As of right now, due to licensing concerns we have been unable to supply some libraries and headers provided by SciTech Software for "The Universal VESA VBE" However, this was only used for the Tomb raider port, in order to tell the PCX hardware the details of the framebuffer.

Fair enough - who can we contact to try and get UniVBE open sourced? There's a lot of early graphic card info locked in there.
FIIO still makes MP3 players. They're aimed towards higher end listeners, but they're available.

The Fiio M5 is one example.
> we are the downslope from a relatively high-water

Thing is, I'm not sure that's true. When do you think that high-water mark was?
Pretty much all package managers work the same. Learning dnf when you know apt isn't that big of a deal.
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Pfft. It's ATM, everywhere, for all the things.
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I saw that post too and immediately ordered the iFlash Solo adapter. Coincidentally I had just run across an iPod video in a drawer that wouldn't boot up... it was about a 20 minute project to replace the hard disk with the adapter and a big SD card, and the iPod is working great now!
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>I don't "trust" them, because I don't trust any small group of extremely smart people. It's easy for group think to occur, and for the group to construct brittle systems that go horribly wrong.

I should say "trust" in the sense that I trust my doctor to be infinitely more knowledgeable than myself with regards to health, to the point that I am able to confidently outsource my decision making to him. Not "trust" in the sense that you would blindly trust a family member or friend.
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If we were people like us, how would we solve this problem?

i.s. What does an MVP consist of?
I've seen this kind of boom become bust twice already; we'll have to see how this one pans out.

I will note that technology-wise, the hardware is better than it's ever been and I think it has a fighting chance this time previous iterations lacked. For all their simplicity, mouse and keyboard have a level of accuracy and precision that VR does not. This is partially due to their simplicity (keys are binary devices, and a mouse can track position to near-perfection with optical flow modeling, or even the old wheel solution from days of yore). In contrast, VR not only has traditionally had lower-resolution on the tracking signal, it's tracking far, far more degrees of freedom (at least six, but if you want to accurately represent the user's kinematics the number explodes). Plus, the biological sensor fusion we humans use to determine our position in the world demands accuracy from the virtual hardware because we can be very sensitive to input error (and we feel it as nausea, disorientation, or vertigo).

The sensor fusion of modern cheap accelerometer tech with the absolute tracking of either lighthouses or whole-room flow imaging has had amazing consequences, but it's not yet perfect and I don't know if a critical mass of users will demand perfection or not. We'll find out. But, I've never seen better hardware taking a stab at the market before.
Three homeless people: a trans woman, a teenage girl and a man.

I also recommend Kon's work.
It is sad to see how Heroku has been totally abandoned by Salesforce. I mention as it's probably Render's closest competitor.