skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They’re in a very vulnerable position right now.

Why? aren't the rates locked in for the duration of the mortgage (25/30 years)? The only way I can think of this going wrong is doing your budgeting when the rate is 2.5% and then not taking the rising rates into account, but presumably the bank will cut them off first.
> you can’t actually ask someone to explain their own behavior

Yeah I think that's best done with a therapist who will take time to guide someone through their past. Asking a kid why they acted out, or an adult why they did something crazy, is almost rhetorical. They're not going to know the answer without a deep dive into how they grew up.
Besides the comment about the developer who only used left joins there was also this one:

I worked with a ‘senior developer’ who, on a really big project with lots of different coders around the country, prototyped the implementation in prolog including the JUnit tests (in prolog too).

I think I actually know the answer to this one. I don't remember whether it was while I was still in school or later, but once heard someone say that they always picked a language to implement a prototype in that would never under any circumstances be used for the final system so that it was impossible to try to hack the prototype into the final system.

And for the record I actually like Prolog for certain projects.
> Responsibilities were doled out in a few levels: on-shadow, shadower, and appropriate. An "appropriate" was the highest level of responsibility, trusted to monitor groups and make sure nobody broke rules or talked about inappropriate topics. "Shadows" were trusted to watch other people and help the appropriates deal with new kids and misbehavers. On-shadow just meant you always had to be with someone watching you and you didn't have any of the trust given to higher levels.

It sounds like an extortion pyramid scheme, worthy of a gestapo prison camp. What a thing to teach kids: Comply with the abusers and join the power structure.
I tried this game out but had to return it - they keyboard and mouse controls are just too weird for me, and I don't have VR. It's a shame because I know this is the kind of game I could spend days in, and if I ever get VR it'll be the first game I buy.
Length of use really depends on the user. I typically use any computer system or Phone for 5-6 years at the minimum. Usually with a battery change after year 3 (or 4 if I am lucky).

As for desktops, I use them for even longer. I still use a first gen PPC Mac Mini as a in-home music streamer. I no longer run Mac OS X on it since there are no security updates.
Broadband should be declared an essential service, like power and water.
It's an incident response. That almost always means an error, normally in policy like code review or security. Sure, I expect programmers to be able to write code creatively without having their hands held. But incidents should be prevented with checklists, because that's the best practice to prevent them.
Dutch has the Delft Method, it's a textbook and some additional materials.
Not my fields but.

The Armchair Economist by Steven Landsburg for economics.

The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman for design in any aspect.

Closer to my field of organisational performance/psychology.

The Fearless Organisation by Amy C Edmondson.
Hey, neighbor!

The desirable areas tend to take longer to slow down. Less desirable areas (e.g. when NoDa was just starting to gentrify) have enough uncertainty that small spooks can cause quick changes since you could get a good deal or you could end up in a crappy neighborhood.
I agree with you, it's odd the nature of these discussions.
It's mostly the highly urbanized states. You can't just keep building in places like SF or Seattle without also building major infrastructure to support the highly-concentrated population and commerce centers (compared to other less urban states).
I’ve been looking this the Denver/Boulder area. 15% over asking is pretty much normal at this point, and I’ve seen more than a few places go for 17-20% over. I was approved through a regular lender, but had to find another lender that offered an all-cash option since that’s what’s winning everything around here.

15%+ over asking, all cash, limited to zero-inspection, and increasingly 30-60 post closing occupancy agreements. Rough market.

The strange part to me is the appraisals, I used to worry about an appraisal gap, but I have yet to hear of a place that doesn’t appraise for the final selling price. When places are going 15-20% over asking, and appraising at that, you don’t have to worry about the gap, but I do raise an eyebrow at the process.
Notice: cjk languages often need 3+ key stroke to type a single character.(and sometimes need two more to select the right character). Or you need to remember random letter unrelated to its display name in order to pop it up with one key stroke. It's NOT really a proper alternative. I really hate about the Western centered design firefox introduced in the latest several iterations. It really makes using firefox so painful that I decide to change it on my own using userChrome.css.
I never used Acme for similar reason I have never used Emacs.

I never used Acme because I don't have a middle mouse button. (I never used Emacs because I don't have a META key on keyboard.)
To expand, DLC models for multiplayer either split the community (only people who purchased the DLC can join this lobby) or they inevitably make the game pay-to-win. If I'm going to get shot by a $20 sniper rifle, I'd rather it have the same stats as the one I have access to.

I will say it sucks when the cosmetic item you want is only available via lootbox, but at least for Counter-Strike Global Offensive (another Valve title) you can buy either boxes or the exact item you want. I think Valve is pretty far from the worst offender here.
I did not play Wipeout extensively, but I have perfect recollection of the lesser-known competitor, Extreme-G. That felt very close in soundtrack quality (though unknown, certainly fitting), adrenaline, and just plain fun.
I think a lot of people are completely missing the point if they're recommending textbooks or prescription-like books - it's very likely you were already interested in these subjects beforehand and are really just upholding that book as a great solution.

What really gets people interested is the narrative behind these subjects. What interesting thing happened within that field of study? What are the current problems we can solve and where are we headed? And the less the technical mumbo-jumbo, the better.

Michio Kaku's books - "Physics of the Future", "The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind (", etc. are the sort that would really influence young, fresh minds to pursue physics. He details what happens, and what could be to a sufficient detail without overloading the user with the mathematical rigour associated with these math heavy subjects.
> I was given prescription medication to ease my anxiety and depression, which left me hollow and numb. I was made to answer questions about my life and emotions until, I was told, I got them right, framing things in a way the program and therapists felt more accurately told a story about my deviance that I then internalized. My journals were confiscated, their private contents used against me in “therapy sessions.”

Ooof, this one hits right home. My abusive parents sent me to an institution twice, except in my province it's the state and not private companies and the transporters do not come during the night. For me it was a "voluntary placement", that is one not ordered by judge and they "convince" you it's better for you to be there (or else). It was hell nonetheless. I was diagnosed with depression, took pills for depression and ADHD (wtf). It made me feel buzzed and like I was a soulless robot. I quickly learned how to hide them in the space below my tonsils.

No questions, I was a troublesome kid. But I was the product of my environment, and the "specialists" never asked a fucking single question about life at home. Even shitty kids should not face abuse by their caretakers and government.

I am also an adult bedwetter. The "specialists" there often use "manipulation" as a placeholder of their incompetence. So therefore, since I was wetting my bed to "manipulate", they forced me to stay in my room for 6 fucking months. I could only go outside for school and basic needs.

I looked into suing them all. Turns out they delete records a few months after you leave. And since the "specialists" working for CPS all know and work together with the same lawyers and judges, no lawyer will want to these cases.

The part about medication and your private information being used against you is very real and it really shaped my strong views around privacy and not trusting other people taking decisions for others but I digress. They used to note everything that people hated and liked in a very systematic way to control us, it was so horrible that it has gotten to the point I numbed myself into not hating nor liking anything, or hiding it the best I could; even today I like barely nothing and endure injustice without complaining. Funny story, I wised up to their game and pretended to be antisocial and preferring being alone in my room so I would be "forced" to go outside. It worked. Turns out that the school's psychologist was feeding them information about me from our private sessions.

To this day, I'm in my early 30s, I still have dreams and visions of shame, humiliation and sometimes of dark thoughts of getting back at them (I will leave it at that).

CPS attracts the worst kind of abusive people. Anyone working in this industry should be viewed with suspicion, disdain and should not be allowed near kids or vulnerable people in general.
Off the top of my head, not understanding the implications of the 2 Generals Problem is a really big one. Specifically, time and again, I've seen engineers struggle with distributed sagas (or any kind of distributed coordination really), because they don't know enough about the underlying model to reason about it.

There are also simpler issues. Not knowing the difference between GET and POST, not understanding what a header is, how parameters are passed etc...

Then there are the problems in the middle like not knowing how to correctly configure an HTTP client library.

The purpose of writing the book though is to help people develop a good mental model of the system, so that they don't need to memorize a list of all the things that can go wrong.

Adding a few examples to the intro wouldn't be a bad idea though!
Probably, but even more simply they have the capabilities to just direct intelligence agencies, politicians, and news corporations, and big internet and social media companies to put the blame wherever they like. There is no need for a perfect technological solution.

Hack something shoddy together, go to war/regime change/etc, and worst case if it does come to light that the "intel" was wrong, a well-placed "whoopsie-daisy" is enough to wash hands of all responsibility or scrutiny.
They are voting with their wallets. It's just that not every vote has a value of 1; their vote is the number of dollars they spend.
Hello Helen :) I'm very well thank you.
This is the era where prior art doesn't exist. Why read a book when you can blog about discovering "something new". I could probably make a killing blogging about my "discovery" of the algorithms in the book "Hacker's Delight".
One complaint I've had with RL recently is that it seems like they've put all their energy into new visuals and cosmetics while leaving the game mostly unchanged.

The standard multi ranked map sometimes feels boring and I've wondered why they don't add different types of maps to the mix; spheres, tubes, different physics, goals in the center, figure 8 map(?), embankments (like map in season 1), etc.

I guess it's simple and works but it'd be cool to see new gameplay related updates.
Locking in a great rate seems misguided if the low rates were inflating prices. You can always refinance a high rate but you can’t renegotiate what you paid 5 years ago.

It’s even worse for the all-cash buyers since they’re not sensitive to the interest rate anyway… but they probably have other motivations for parking their cash in real estate.
There is no true radio analogue here in the sense of how OP was explaining it.

At least in a wireless context, CDMA and TDMA are flawed examples because, CDMA uses fancy math to split communications over multiple channels and TDMA cuts the channels up into timeslots. You don't get full bandwidth allotment and utilization.

To make a wireless switch, you'd need to have PTP optical/microwave/radio links which have highly directional antennas. This would give you full-bandwidth per user.
Why do you say lumber is a bubble? It seems to me all of the lumber being produced is being used, and lumber is a limited and valuable natural resource. I don't see how lumber supply suddenly increases or lumber demand suddenly decreases.
I've never seen a politician openly run on a "I will exacerbate the housing shortage by any means necessary" NIMBY platform. They may have promised key donors they would, but how often do the voters know that?
Wait, what? You have to pay for bugfixes?
Here in Japan, FTTH coverage is pretty good but there are many condos that can't sign up any FTTH due to its facility, but provide own crappy internet. Major telco companies are going to deploy 5G to provide better service to such condos.
Flipping implies selling the homes at a profit, which is unlikely in a rising interest rate environment.
What's the appropriate comment after reading about hundreds of children having their humanity tortured out of them?
But what if you own vacation houses? We shouldn't force people to rent out stuff they own.
Yah I'm confused on all the comments on the housing market. Did they read the article? The first three letters of house and housing, "hou", are not even on the website. We can debate on if the market is cooling.... but not based on this article. It mentions the DIY market, but that's still a leap to the overall housing market.
"Power corrupts" may explain the abusive nature of "tough love" programs, but it does not explain how the teen became troubled in the first place. Thoughtful parents and older siblings will not abuse their strength/wisdom against youth because they know they are raising a new generation that may one day make decisions for them.
> Large cardinal axioms are essential to the study of the relative consistency strength of mathematical theories. You personally might not care about them, but accommodating them is not a negotiable detail for anything that purports to be useful in the study of foundations.

It's my understanding that some larger cardinals are needed for foundations, but since the foundations problem was "solved" future work on large cardinals has continued, and that is more "more set theory for set theory's sake", than something needed to accommodate math other "regular" mathematicians are doing.

(With the possible exception of the Grothendiek and Voevodsky line of problems perhaps as the article relates --- separate and ancillary to Voevodsky's desire for a proof checker, and also separate to whether or not categorical methods alone can suffice.)

I actually don't know of type theory having "ways around this". My understanding is that while type theory doesn't appear to face fundamental obstacles here, set theory "has the lead" in making large cardinals (or their equivalents) due to being older, and the type theorists relative disinterest in this area has meant the gap is not closing.
Game trainers exist, at least on PC and Android. I feel no qualms about using trainers to grant myself unlimited in-game currency rather than buying their IAP ones.
I’m not sure what open door is but I’ve been eyeing that market and it seems listings are either pending in 24-48 hours or they stay listed for a good while. Weird time to be home shopping.
I studied with Russ Cox. We did competitive programming together—and, earlier, against each other.

I asked Russ why he didn’t use syntax highlighting and he was like:

“Do you color code all your English by part of speech?”

That stuck with me.
Fortnite's a good example about how your two rules aren't enough, actually. Because of the way the game's designed, it pressures its audience (of primarily children) into purchasing microtransactions, to the point where there's been widespread bulling of kids who don't pay for premium Fortnite skins [1].

For a more detailed exploration of the dark side of Fortnite's monetization model, check out "Manufactured Discontent and Fortnite" [2].

[1]: https://www.polygon.com/2019/5/7/18534431/fortnite-rare-defa...
[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPHPNgIihR0
The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten (2016)
I was really drawn to the topic by reading Origins of Political Order by F. Fukuyama.
A deceptively simple plan to replenish California’s groundwater
I’ve heard this before and it’s such a perverse set of incentives.
Treasury securities are routinely repaid, and by routinely I mean literally weekly.
There are games like Elden Ring that are purely addictive and immersive through great game design.

And then there are MMOs and mobile games that are purely addictive through dirty psychological and immoral tricks.

Just don't play the latter. Those games (like modern WoW, HS, gacha games, etc) are garbage that will be looked at in disgust in the future.
I agree re: Ubisoft. I played through Far Cry 6 and never felt like I was missing out by avoiding the micro transactions.
Suburbs.

I don't understand the doubt. Why does everyone expect that 5G wouldn't work for this case? It's just a way to connect the last kilometer to a fiber network without expensive (and in my case, unavailable) cabling work.
I love solvespace, the UI is quick, minimal and easy to come up to speed with.

I use it as a 2D parametric sketch pad, for 2D designs for laser cutting, making 3D models for kicad, and a few basic 3D printed fixtures, but it is in no way a replacement for even Freecad.

The constraints are feature complete, but minimal. Some basic geometry is often a pain to get setup. Once you hit 3D you’ll realise that your basically limited to extruding and revoking sketches. Still a powerful tool but not suitable for serious mechanical design.

What world really needs is for FreeCad to be as usable is it’s paid equivalents. I don’t understand why free software always neglects the UI. How hard is it to even simply copy the time tested work flows in proprietary software. Once you learn Solidworks, Inventor, or Fusion 360, you can pickup any other parametric modeller.

Code as CAD as an idea I believe is flawed. It doesn’t solve any of the hard problems of mechanical design. Designing physical objects requires good visualisations and iterative feedback. I.e changing this dimension solves this interference in a complex assembly. Besides, most mechanical engineering are not proficient coders.
> Ethernet, and 802.11

full duplex ethernet circuits (eg: a basic cheap 10Gbps 1310/LR carried over two $30 transceivers and a six foot fiber patch cable between two pieces of equipment) and a half-duplex TDD/CSMA regime like 802.11b/g/n/ac/ax are not the same thing.

yes they both enable ethernet connectivity between devices on fabrics of things that can see and arp each other.

the ethernet 10GbE might be shared by many individuals. but it's full speed both directions. one is half duplex, the other is not. one has contention on the shared media airtime, the other does not.

they are both possibly shared in the sense that many peoples' traffic may be carried across the 10GbE full duplex circuit, the the real world implementation is very different.

the real world implementations of FDD point to point (FCC part 101) or similar radio systems are closer to wired ethernet in concept, though with less capacity.

however I do agree with your general point that more people should familiarize themselves with the limitations and usage methodologies for half duplex IP data mediums and the best real world implementations.
Tether is not even like a 'de facto "bank"'. Actual (modern, regulated) banks need to have all their liabilities (i.e. deposits) backed 100% with assets. This includes capital, liquidity assets like bonds and reserves, but mostly loans. Banks can and do originate money by issuing loans (creating a debt and a deposit in equal amounts), but if they don't have at least a decent chance of being repaid (and enough capital/insurance to cover defaults) then they are insolvent.

The difference with Tether seems to be that they appear to be creating the deposits (tether) without any evidence of actually having or creating enough assets to cover it all (either having money in the bank, or writing decent quality loans to back it).
The less is more philosophy isn't new, in fact, it's rooted in some of the world's oldest philosophies, religions, art, etc. It's not something that engineers grasp easily. Engineers see the world in terms of features, and features that increase convenience as a net good. But convenience is often bartered against critical thinking, and that's why conveniences in editing code like syntax highlighting, autocomplete, may not be the clear wins they are assumed to be.
This is insane. If I had any business with repl.it, I'd stop it.

They are describing a web app, with a single ingress point, that they wrote from scratch. And it seemed to have no logging at all!

> Look at the contents of the repl, nothing is there. What the hell?

... and at this moment, you dump the repl's state and figure it out. You don't need to "strap in, teeth clinched", you just carefully analyze this repl and see why cloning it causes the attack to start.

At the same time, turn on the web logging if you don't have it. Use ephemeral system disks if you have to, it only needs to last a short time.

> There is a binary in there -- how do they get it in?

maybe the binary is using UDP now, but it got there via your infra. And your infra only talks TCP, and only using channels you control. So look at your HTTP logs and figure it out.

...

If you are going to provide the free compute resources to the world, you are going to get abused. You should not deploy if you don't have a plan for this.
> This debt is only ever re-financed, isn‘t it?

so what? Have they missed an interest payment? Is their economy unproductive and cannot pay the interest?

Having the debt means you are entitled to a portion of the economic output of the machine behind that debt. Why is it a must for the debt to be repayable in one go? Esp. if the debt was not all issued in one go?

each time a particular treasury bond is due in full, the US treasury has been able to repay it. Whether they repay it by issuing new bonds, or increase their taxes and pay it off, makes no difference to the holder of that bond.
Elden Ring has given us a new hope.
FYI: Just noticed a small mistake. "The Call of the Wild" attributed to George Orwell when it should be Jack London.

Also, my kid is really enjoying the Dragon Masters series right now, seems good for the younger readers just getting interested in chapter books.
> Like you are watching Avengers End game in Netflix and they ask you if you wanna pay 5 dollars more to watch Captain America use his well known outfit instead of regular clothes?

Jesus Christ don't give those fucks any ideas
I'll admit, I automatically upvote anything Marginalia-related. We just like you, man! Keep fighting the good fight <3
Support real independent studios and self-publishing developers, they're the ones with the creativity and freedom to advance the medium.
I think most of the simulations did go along those lines, but one fraction decided to hypothesize about being Clippy. The hypothetical drove the evil behavior of ones that escaped.
What is funny about it? Boycotts do have economic effects, depending on participation. Also, what the Germans did in WWII was far, far beyond what Russia has done (not downplaying at all what Russia has done).