skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think 5% is just the start unless inflation rapidly reverses. I suspect the nominal rate is a lot less important than the effective real rate.
It does affect people who already bought a home, because when interest rate changes, home price will change too. It's not a problem when equity increases, but in the other direction it could be.
Why? Who would this system benefit? You destroy the housing market to replace it with rich landlords owning apartment buildings and charging increasing amounts of rent to more poorer people who accumulate no equity. In your get sick scenario, you are still homeless but owe massive medical bills.

After paying off the medical bills with appreciating uome ownership, your credit is still good, and you can eventually buy another house. All your land-value tax does is punish wealth accumulation. What is the reform you wish to create? How does this help anyone?
Some software tools that might help:

- Otter.AI which is software that can easily capture voice memos; I use this to capture thoughts (helps with getting stuff out of mind) and it is unique in that it captures voice and also creates a text transcript.

- Diagrams.net (free) or Heptabase (paid) which are tools that can be used to represent stuff visually; almost anything can be described in a few words inside squares and arrows between squares. For Diagrams.net, use this along with Notepad to easily expand on represented concepts.
That is exactly why you should put predictions in writing!

Take a look at a project I worked on, Long Bets: https://longbets.org/

The theory is that putting predictions out there is the best way to learn. And looking at the results from this project, I think that's the case. The specificity of the predictions and the description of the reasoning helps us understand both the world and ourselves.

So I congratulate georgespencer for making a specific, testable prediction that turned out wrong. It's very interestingly wrong! Instagram didn't end up being just a photo service. Instead, it's a social phenomenon that uses photos in a deeply different way than we had seen previously. His prediction helps us see how much has changed in the 10 years since. There are a lot of people out there doin' it for the 'gram. There are plenty of people who life for and/or live off of it.

And personally, I suspect I would have agreed with georgespencer at the time. I like photography and like sharing photos. But I really dislike Instagram; it's not for me. So this is a reminder to me that just because a thing doesn't make sense to me doesn't mean it won't be hugely popular in world-changing ways.
The 4th edition of Cormen book got published recently! Now in colour! I think it added a bit to better comprehension. It is slightly thinner than 3rd edition as they removed computational geometry algorithms and added some ML stuff.
Maybe this marks the start of a return to rational pricing of capital? It's a bit too late for a lot of older folks who were counting on interest from savings accounts to fund their retirement, but maybe we can start encouraging saving again for the future?

I hope this brings the price of housing back down to earth. A house is a depreciating asset in any sane world. It requires constant maintenance.
An automatic truck doesn't go faster per mile. If it were really valuable, they would pair people up in trucks and have them alternate shifts driving. And that might be what happens with EVs, because the costs of trucks might actually be the limiting factor for a while.
yeah, imagine what desktop apps would look like without web developers

fast startup time, no battery drain, low system requirements, native look and feel… guess we don’t deserve it
Other reasons to rule out Florida: fire ants, mosquitoes, mosquito spraying, love bugs, huge roaches, spiders the size of you hands, near constant heat and humidity, consist afternoon rain which makes the heat and humidity so much worse, hurricanes, sink holes.
There is some news about it but it tends to be pretty local. The US is gigantic. Where I live there is tons of PFAS in the ground from air force fire fighting practice at a nearby airport. In the past few years its only recently got attention after being detected in ground water samples.
You generally have lots of layers of separation between trash and ground. Usually layers of clay and plastic.

https://www.epa.gov/landfills/municipal-solid-waste-landfill...
(This is an American perspective, but) I wonder how much a punitive strict liability regime could help with such stonewalling. Say after an environmental problem is discovered and publicized, the clock starts ticking on a hefty amount of penalty per day (irrespective of remediation costs and other tortious damages) for whomever is eventually found responsible for causing it. So the strategy of deny deny deny would end up accruing a very large penalty for willful pollution that could have been stopped earlier if the offender had chosen to act in good faith.
No data to back this up, but I think there's no trend back at all. Electron-like apps will continue to be dominant and people will never stop disliking them.

Building for Electron / Web is so much cheaper considering the frameworks, transferable knowledge and virtually free support for all platforms. People have never not hated on Electron though, and that's because it's also always going to be a worse experience.
FYI, you can still finance a house if you make an all cash offer. I just did that myself. You just need to set the closing date far enough out to get the loan settled.
https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Uncertainty/combination.html
What about dismissing them after we understand history? Or is the idea we just simply can’t do something once people decide it is (often vaguely) refuted by history?
Duh? I wasn't literally suggesting that GP walk from a hotel; baggage was obviously implied by the context. I'm just commenting on how taking a taxi on that route is less time and speed efficient than walking.

Obviously a bus would be a better choice, or a train depending on geography. They handle baggage just fine.
"In a prior post, we reported on a decision from a U.S. district court holding that it was false advertising for a company to claim that software licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 with the addition of the Commons Clause (referred to in the case as the “Neo4j Sweden Software License”) was “free and open source” software"

This part is false, also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30712215 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30726286

"That conclusion goes against the intent of the drafters of the AGPLv3"

This is true, but I personally believe that the position held by the court (that it applies only to downstream licensees) makes much more sense. After all the original developer could have selected another license in the first place.

"Any effort to change the terms of an open source license should be met with suspicion because they are likely designed to take away freedoms, or else an already OSI-approved license would have been suitable"

I wonder when this start being true in their opinion (after the approval of GPLv3?). The threats to FOSS evolve and licenses must try to match them. It seems like an attempt to attack SSPL without explicitly mentioning it.

"Sticking to OSI-approved licenses"

There are also FSF-approved licenses which are not mentioned. The last part is pure advertisement.
How is dropping an envelope in a box more secure? It would seem trivial for an attacker to create one or more fake ballots and slip them in the box along with their real ballot.
It seems like macOS is the only desktop operating system that has anything interesting happening on it (I say that as a person who primarily uses Windows and Ubuntu on the desktop). Not a lot, mind you, but there appears to be at least some interesting new things popping up for macOS.

For Windows, I'm not counting games because that feels like its own thing.
...and Akamai compete with Cloudflare, so Cloudflare is not in any sort of rush to fix this...

When you wonder about motivation, you don't have to go very far to see how this is obviously about money.
How is it only more expensive for poor people but not wealthy people? Did you mean less accessible?
In France gardening shops and restaurants are open on sundays

Some small supermarket/stores are open sunday morning.

Some small stores (family managed) are open all sunday (I have one 100 meters from my home which is open 8am to 8pm all days).
Errors do not sum like regular numbers. You want to take the square root of the sum of the squares of the errors.

sqrt(6.4^2 + 6.9^2) ≈ 9.4

You can have a look here: http://ipl.physics.harvard.edu/wp-uploads/2013/03/PS3_Error_...
Really nice homepage, mate...
Voting processes are to a large degree about balancing tradeoffs. The point of mail in voting is to decrease the friction of voting, i.e. you don't need to go to a polling place on a specific day.
You can run any setting in any system you want or make up your own system but it's much easier if you're running off of something close and even better if it includes systems for what you want to do instead of having to make them up. There's a reason there's so many settings book for D&D, saves time having to invent an entire world so you can focus on other stuff.
You claimed the reason why Blu Ray won was mostly because it was bundled with the PS3. I counterclaimed by saying that HD DVD had the same advantage. PS3 sold about 87.3 million while xbox 360 sold about 84 million, the difference is not that much.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_cons...

edit:
It looks like my claim was not correct, a HD DVD accessory was required to play HD DVD content on the xbox 360.
Battery swap is a hard problem. Vehicle design is hard. Dealing with the real costs of shitty batteries is hard (who owns which batteries with how much life on them) is hard. Moving heavy objects safely and routinely by minimum wage labor is hard.
When there is nothing that catches my eye on the default page I sort by new.
It's statistics, government policy and literally the words of people who enacted these laws.

UK doesn't require photo ID to vote as well. No mail-in voting has provisions for photo ID, as well.
>6th most dense city in America

Then both in terms of any arbitrary area in the US or any arbitrary city in the US, it's unusually dense (much more dense than the mean density.)

>Park and ride

Many places in the US have these and both DC and the suburbs around it are full of them.
Exactly right. As a developer I could go further and say that a lot of devs are simply abusing trust of users by claiming their half-assed apps are the best/optimized/ergonomic solution possible.
I'm mostly writing about programming here: https://chidiwilliams.com/
You forgot to link to your efforts from 2 years ago: https://github.com/mikewarot/stoical
This system doesn't feel good especially because they are allowed to "just take the one they want". It feels like an easy system to game with the goal to make sure that people vote what they are told to vote. Maybe nobody even thinks about doing such things in France, lucky you.

This has reminded me what happened on the other side of the Alps in the elections of 1929. People received two envelopes. One with the national flag on the inside and a white one. They left inside the booth the one they didn't like and gave the other one back to the scrutineers. The outside was almost the same but the color inside was visible from the outside [1] Guess the result. Hint: almost 99% to 1%.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Italian_general_election

[2] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elezioni_politiche_in_Italia_d... for more details and pictures of the cards inside out.
That’s about to change. It’s anecdotal, but in Southern California realtors are pushing 10/1 ARMs now.
I use separate and fresh isolated firefox (running within podman container) to make fingerprinting a bit more difficult, it's still fingerprintable and probably this new fingerprint can be easily associated with the other but I like to imagine I make it more difficult to track me. Every little helps :)
I believe it was 3-5 year ARM's they were getting which had much lower rates at the time. A lot where taken out in 2002 and on. When those rate reset higher starting in 2006-2007 things started to unravel fast.
This works until inflation starts stressing enough of the populace to the point they bubble over in fury. I think we’ve seen steps towards this recently as the have-nots stage freedom rallies.

Being house rich on paper but not being able to afford groceries isn’t a trade off anyone wants.
Actually polling stations in France are split, maximum 1000 voters per station.

Technically it’s a bit weird because you can have more than one polling station in the same area, so it might be a bit confusing. But the procedure is such that you can’t put a ballot in the wrong box.

A big detail in France is that there is only one ballot at a time, in the US, my wife had 74 ballots simultaneously last time I checked. The US has an election every 2 years in November, and all the ballots are attached to this schedule. In France we have ballots at random date, when each term is finishing (and we elect far less people)
The variances are additive but not the std dev. Sqrt(6.4^2 + 6.9^2) = 9.4
I made a similar observation when reading the Zas Editor thread. Lately some MacOS specific applications have been popping up here on HN and they all look really good which I think is mostly because of the polished controls that SwiftUI provides.

While I haven't used SwiftUI directly (only reviewed some code recently) it looks like it makes it simple to build good-looking native desktop apps.

Unfortunately SwiftUI is not very cross platform and the other toolkits (Gtk, Qt, Swing, etc) are lagging behind in terms of polish and controls.

My general conclusion is: Native desktop applications are not dead yet as shown by the popularity of Electron and SwiftUI shows that if the toolkit is good, developers will build native desktop apps. Now it's up to the other (cross-platform) toolkits to step up their game and we can get rid of the electron-based memory hogs.
Yea but why do that search in the first place? What if you could just say "I want a brick house in a walkable neighborhood with coffee shops and parks nearby in the city of Des Moines at this price range"? Or just tick off some parameters? Personally I do the same as you do right now, and I keep thinking how is it that this is the best way to do this?
This app is a great example of why you should use electron in the eyes of some: this is Mac only. If it were electron it wouldn’t be.
Here are some of the many of Los Angeles Times’ newspaper headlines that they used to help with their circulations:

1966 - Oil gone in 10 years

1968 - Overpopulation will spread worldwide

1969 - Everyone will disappear in a Cloud of Blue Steam in 1989

1970 - World will use up its natural resources by 2000

1970 - Urban citizens will require gas mask by 1985

1970 - Nitrogen buildup will make all lands unusable

1970 - Decaying pollution will kill all the fish

1970s - Killer Bees!!!

1970 - Ice Age by 2000

1970 - Americans will be subjected to water rationing by 1975 and food rationing by 1980

1971 - New Ice Age coming by 2020 or 2030

1972 - New Ice Age by 2070

1972 - Oil depleted in 20 years

1974 - Space satellites show New Ice Age coming fast

1974 - Another Ice Age?

1974 - Ozone depletion a great peril to life

1976 - Scientific consensus planet cooling; famines imminent

1977 - Department of Energy says oil will peak in 90s.

1978 - No end in sight to 30-year global cooling

1980 - Acid rain kills life in lakes

1980 - Peak oil in 2000

1988 - Regional drought (that never happened) in 90s.

1988 - Temperatures in DC will hit record high (no records broken)

1988 - Maldive Islands will be underwater by 2018 (nope)

1989 - Rising sea level will obliterate nations if nothing done by 2000.

1989 - New York City Westside Highway underwater by 2018.

1990 - Cellphones caused cancer

1996 - Peak oil in 2020

2000 - Children won’t know what snow is

2001 - WiFi causes cancer

2002 - Famines if we don’t give up eating fishes, meat, and diary

2002 - Peak oil in 2010

2004 - Britain will be Siberia by 2024

2005 - Manhattan underwater by 2015

2006 - Super Hurricanes!!!

2008 - Arctic will be ice-free by 2018

2008 - Climate genius Al Gore predict ice-free Arctic by 2013

2009 - Climate genius Prince Charles says we have 96 months to save the world

2009 UK Prime Ministers says 50 days to “save planet from catastrophe”

2009 Al Gore moves ice-free Arctic prediction from 2013 to 2014

2010 - 4G cell tower causes cancers.

2013 Arctic ice-free by 2015

2014 Only 500 days before climate chaos

2019 - Hey Greta, we really need you to convince them this time.

2020 - Australian bush fires are caused by climate change.

2020 - 5G cellular towers causes cancers.

2020 - Polar bears could be lost by 2100

2021 - Volcano caldera ready to wipe out civilization

Ummmm, ok. Should I be unjading myself by now?
That's what the court said which I agree with. But what the OSI is saying was the intent of the FSF and what the court case was about is very different.

The OSI, FSF and what the court case was trying to argue was that if Alice publishes something under AGPL with an additional clause. Charlie gets a copy from Alice, and decides to remove all additional clauses and to ignore them, then it is okay because the AGPL says that all additional clauses can be removed.

The judge said that this doesn't apply to the original licensor, that the original licensor can choose the terms of their own copyright, so if they want AGPL + additional clause then those additional clauses can't be ignored or removed. Only additional clause added by licensees can be removed due to the original terms they agreed too when using an AGPL library.
To be clear, the limiting factor in the US is not will: everyone knows and understands that paper ballots are the gold standard. The problem is that electronic machines are much much cheaper and it’s tough to explain to voters why you saw fit to short the school district’s budget in favor of the elections budget.
Great tip! I hadn't considered using showdead. Tons more to explore!
What sort of "horrible death"? Do you have a dump? As Admiral below said.. you will likely just need to make the changes then hack away at the problems one-by-one.
Right but I think even with "Successful" exits your equity will most likely just get you back to level if you had instead spent the time at Google e.g.
In design, but fully remote for the last two years in both a IC and manager role in different teams. Some of the rituals that've naturally evolved (key word, naturally):

- text chat is huge and where the main form of socialization happens rather than verbally. I gotta admit - to somebody that has bad hearing, it's been a boon.

- sending each other "good morning" gifs a few times a week. It's endearing. :)

- so many gif responses.

- friday music chats.

- "private" watercooler channels with the immediate team where the suits (aka my boss) aren't allowed in, as well as more public ones where they have read/write access. both are needed for very different reasons. not that you want to commit to text anything you wouldn't tell your boss, but sometimes there needs to be an area where you can be snarky about a suit's (bad) presentation and there's no fear.

- I was more hands off at the beginning of the pandemic but really have taken a point to schedule 1:1's depending on the bandwidth of the other person and it's been the glue that holds together the team tbh.
Taking a quick look at the source it doesn't look too bad all things considered. First off, assume that there's going to be some sort of 32bit->64bit issues (likely casting pointers into 32bit words). So, start off on a 32bit setup, get things to cleanly build on -std=gnu99 (no need to cause yourself extra pain if it's optional). Then tidy things up with warnings (-Wall -Wextra on clang&gcc) such that the compiler can help you spot any existing bugs. Next up is the transition to 64bit. You're likely going to have to spot any pointer manipulation and where possible change 'int', 'long', etc into types which specify their length to make reading the code easier (subjective, but that's my opinion) e.g. uint32_t, uint64_t, etc. Then you ought to be pretty close to having all system tests pass on 32bit and the 64bit port.

I'd be worried if the code was old enough you were seeing K&R C notation or if it was a huge codebase, but it doesn't look like either case has occurred.

Of course if you're very much not a C programmer, learn some C. It's a comparatively small language overall (IMO) even if it's a low level one. Newer versions of the K&R book should get you up to speed pretty quick.
I guess its all coming down to mnemonics, aiding our memories and communicating.

Sure this is the "state of the art", but despite the fact that pure language notations might be even worse, i cant help to think that people thinking like the parent might find something even better.

Maybe something inspired by braille notation or something that is invented while trying to understand how our brain works (just speculating here) will be even more expressive.

I actually like seeing an adult be bothered by the fact that the same symbols that turn science more expressive are also the reason that there's a big ladder for newcomers to understand whats being expressed given its all very arbitrary (someone in
the XVI century choose a random greek letter to represent X).

Imagine how much science would improve with more "brain power" being also able to try to solve some problems given there are less arbitrarity..
Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures from Manning publisher: https://www.manning.com/books/advanced-algorithms-and-data-s...

I have not finished it yet, just went through a few chapter, but I can definitely recommend it!
I’d love to see the stats today or closer to today. Prices have skyrocketed since 2014.
Yes, in exchange for removing the guarantees of the secret ballot and a secure chain of custody for ballots. Which, at scale, is a disaster - and basically eradicates trust in elections.

The mass mail in voting thing was supposed to be due to a national health emergency, reasonable people were willing to temporarily reduce those guarantees in the name of public safety. How foolish of us! Now we can see the party in power has used it as a bait and switch to try to make these changes permanent. Why?
There are lots of things to talk about other than the 'climate crisis' and exaggerating it can lead to a misallocation of resources really.
How do you scale it to thousands of ballot boxes across the entire country? One line of code is all it takes for the voting machines.
If both the pointer operand and the result point to elements of the same array object, or one past the last element of the array object, the evaluation shall not produce an overflow; otherwise, the behavior is undefined.

This is that part that says the result of addition is undefined unless both the original pointer and the result point to the same array object (or one past the last element).
I'd like to point out that, while that's a good reason why Electron might have won in terms of developer mindshare, that's not necessarily the reason why it won on in terms of marketshare.

I personally believe that the cause of the latter is a combination of (1) cost-saving through fewer platforms to support (2) cost-saving through a larger developer pool and (3) better branding support, but I've never worked in the business myself.
Tri weekly Gather.town happy hour/hangsouts have helped the remote teams I've worked on a lot.