skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might come out in the wash if you ignore the fact that you have to live somewhere. Property taxes and upkeep on a house tend to work out cheaper than skyrocketing rents over the long run. Home upgrades return value on the property. Having freedom to develop the place you live into something you like is incredibly valuable as well.
The answer to a headline is usually “No”. Some things are falling apart, as always, but civilization marches ahead exponentially through war and famine and plague, again as always
That's how the Third Reich operated.
The Return of the King – The enchantments of a rising illiberalism
because supply and demand matter, and units that are AirBnB'ed are taken off the market for long term rentals, leading to rents for locals rising higher than trend. Even given that in the perfect economy construction would keep up with demand, there is a ~5-10 year lag between demand signal and correction in construction (prices rise, new construction breaks ground, new construction opens, new constructions absorbs marginal demand, filtering from less expensive units to more expensive units, rent prices stabilize/decrease). 5-10 years is a sizeable chunk of my life and I would strongly prefer to not have a 5-10 year chunk of my life with elevated rents due to airbnb listings.
That math is incorrect. Imagine a simplified world with 100 listeners. They are all average listeners and listen to 10 songs per day, for a total of 1000 plays per day.

99 are pop fans and listen entirely to top 20. 1 is an outlier and listens entirely to jazz.

Royalty payments are $10/mo per user. ie every month there's $1,000 to be split between artists.

Under Spotify's current scheme, top 20 artists receive ($1,000 * (999/1000)) = $999 dollars. Jazz artists get $1.

Under my proposed scheme, top 20 artists would receive 99*10 = $990, while jazz artists would receive $10.

In other words, multiplying the income of "smaller" artists by 10x. Artists shouldn't get money from people that don't listen to them.
... arguments which are nothing like the ones made on behalf of, say, "The Greatest Generation" that immediately preceded Boomers.
Competitors often work together when it benefits both participants. Competition is not a death-match.
Well, at that point, it's that old HN adage: there's no shortage; you just refuse to pay enough. There's also a shortage of $15/mo Manhattan Beach rentals.
Sad that this app didn't achieve the scale of subscriptions it deserved. A good reminder that awesome tech isn't usually enough. Do you regret not taking capital to fund marketing and support full time? Or put another way, any other ideas of where you could have spent someone else's money to give you a boost into higher subscription numbers?
Germany for example, requires a "Blocked Bank Account" for certain type of student, work and other kinds of visas.

This account is opened remotely from the students' home country in a German bank, before the visa applicstion. And savings cannot be withdrawn for a period of time.

I had an acquaintance that studied in Germany that had a visa problem for withdrawing more money than allowed from his "Blocked bank account".

https://www.fintiba.com/moving-to-germany/studying/requireme...
Don't worry, JS has come a long way.

During my PhD we had to crunch some numbers and my group usually makes use of C++ with libs for that. I tried doing it in Node using cluster and let it spread through our whole cluster of nodes (funny how it plays on words) and performance was worse obv. but not that bad, it was about 2x slower, but with that I was able to write code and test it in hours instead of days, and it didn't matter to me if a program that was going to take 2 hours was now taking 4 as I was going home anyway and check it out next morning ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. Plus, my experiment had a REST API for free (well, like 8 lines of code) and when I showed that to them they were :O.
And any cargo container that requires stricter temperature tolerances itself be better insulated and refrigerated. That’s already how standard containers pulled by 18-wheelers operate.
https://fortune.com/2022/02/15/musk-brain-chip-company-neura...
Oh yes, absolutely. Climate change is a whole 'nuther kettle o' fish, and it is very, very serious. Nuclear war is also a very real danger. But that's not what TFA was talking about.
hello fellow sg!

yea, if my day job was tech (it was previously), i would be so sick of it and wouldn't touch it when I got home. But now, i don't touch it in my day job and it suddenly becomes a pleasure to tinker with.
> All of the liberals celebrating Disney's imminent "victory" are completely missing this bigger picture.

The optics of this…and things like the Musk/Twitter hand wringing serves a single purpose: It’s forcing the Democratic Party to start making 180 degree public shifts of some of their classic positions on things like large corporate sweetheart deals and limits on free speech/censorship. Right now, the progressive left and the Democratic Party seems to more closely resemble the moral majority right of the ‘80s and ‘90s than the Democratic Party of the last 50 years at least in adherence to a specific dogma with very little if any tolerance for contrary opinion.

I think its sad. Its driving liberals out of the Democratic Party because this new breed of progressive leftist is definitely not liberal.
You're right that the chance that two specific 10 digit hashes collide is 1 in a trillion.

But the chance of a collision between a specific commit and any other commit goes up linearly, so for the Linux repository it's about 1 million / 1 trillion so 1 in a million.

The chance of a collision between a any two commits goes up quadratically (while it's small), and becomes ~50% when you reach the square-root of 1 trillion, i.e. 1 million. So there is a good chance the Linux repository already contains colliding 10 digit hashes, and if they don't exist yet, it'll likely happen during the next couple of years.
> Nobody really wants to work anymore

In many parts of jobs that have public facing people, the perceived increase in the lack of civility has made those jobs much more difficult to accept for any length of time.

The combination of job loss, retraining for jobs that don't deal with the public, and acceptance of austerity (including moving back in with one's parents in some cases) to have an extended duration of no income means that you don't need to accept a job that pays poorly or deals with uncivil people.

I'm going to point to https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate that shows the unemployment rate equal to what it was in December 2019.

People want to work and are working - they've just changed what they're working.

If one wants to place blame on the "no one wants to work" I would suggest reading https://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleystahl/2022/03/03/are-boom... and https://wapo.st/39vvXxP

> service speed has fallen off a cliff

This has resulted in a reduction of capacity in many parts of the service industry.

> staff shortages are still in effect

A lot of people upskilled in the past two years and those staff shortages will remain until a new cohort of workers exists in that area that lack the skills to get the better paying jobs that don't interact with the public.

> nobody wants to have kids/get married

While the marriage rate has dropped precariously, I'll point to https://www.statista.com/statistics/195951/marriage-rate-in-... and point out that the chart ends in 2020 and that weddings weren't things that were easily held in the past two years either. However, the trend that is shown in that graph is one that has lasted for three decades - not three years.

However, https://www.statista.com/statistics/183663/number-of-married... also shows an interesting chart where the number of married people has increased fairly consistently though the recessions are evident in there - I suspect we'll see another one.

The "no one wants to have kids" needs to also be put into context of the percent of the cost of raising a child against the income and wealth for the generational cohort.

https://money.cnn.com/2011/09/21/pf/cost_raising_child/index... shows a substantial increase in cost in the 2000 to 2010 timeframe. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-cost-of-child-care-... puts it in a different light.

Still, if one is paying off their own college loans it is difficult to think of adding to that putting away money for a child's college costs. If a household is living pretty much paycheck to paycheck or has significant debt that they're paying down for whatever reason, having a child with an additional amount of cost would be considered to be unwise for people who have a fiscally responsible mind.
> One hint: just imagine using your digital signature (NFT or whatever you call it) and traveling in space with your VR devices in your browser? Sounds cool?! This is where this project is heading to.

Same bit of confusion as above, and by your name being 'cryptography' I guess I'm just hoping this isn't a planet-based NFT project :(
At least this instance has a workable demonstration. Looking at you battery tech...
You think wrong.
The system is wrong. It already has been corrupted to a very large degree, because, surprise, people who gained power, like to retain it and an average power broker is as willing to let go of it as an average mollusc attached to a rock.

The problem is that workable solution within the confines of the system requires somewhat educated populace. Or maybe not educated given the state of education in US.

I do see signs of hope in the form of push to 'return to office' mandates ( I just threw a middle finger to HR for denying my remote myself simply refusing to come back ). People seem to rediscover that the rules are really 'by the consent of the governed' and there is strength in numbers.
Is there no distinction between teaching children about "sex" and teaching children about families and relationships? Because a casual reading of the bill certainly appears to threaten the latter, where the "this is reasonable" proponents seem to be pushing for the former interpretation.

Classic "disingenuous use of partisanship to talk past each other", but it's funny how the ostensibly "limited government" people are seemingly unworried about the potential for overreach in this case.
>How do escalators even fail like this?

In the specific case it is a combination of lack of maintenance combined with bad maintenance.

It seems like the firm that had the contract for the maintenance was cutting a few corners (removing or disabling existing safeties) to reduce "false alarms" and having a lesser numbers of calls to re-enable the escalators.

I.e. the issue has nothing to do with the engineering or designing, which was fine, but rather with the (poor) maintenance performed.

Via Google translate:

https://roma-repubblica-it.translate.goog/cronaca/2019/09/20...
Android used to support MIPS and x86_64 - in fact I think it still supports the latter. Of course, that might just mean that Google is painfully aware of how annoying that is to handle:)
> SWEs in 1st world countries no longer price-competitive, and they have to either move to 3rd world countries or change career

In the Netherlands we have a lot of outsourcing to India and a lot of Indian IT workers moving here. We still have many IT job openings and some companies have been moving development back from India, because cultural differences and language barriers some times cost more than the added salary of a local employee.

> People in 3rd world countries no longer want to pursue career as a doctor (and other similarly needed professions like law) (expensive, time consuming, etc) and just pursue SWE jobs

This assumes that people pursue career paths only for the money. Of the doctors I know, most people did not pick that job for the money, they did it because they wanted to be a doctor.

Then there's the fact that people have different interests and natural skill sets. A family member of mine, for example, is a doctor and asked me: "do you really like computers". She would not become an SWE even if it paid double.
In Europe, most railways are mixed between freight and passenger trains - in some cases, you have everything from high-speed long distance trains, regional trains, city trains and freight trains on the same set of tracks.

As the railways here belong to the nation states instead of the private freight companies, freight trains are at the bottom of the barrel in priority... and given that it takes a lot of energy to accelerate a fully laden freight train, most operators tend to run freight trains exclusively at night where the amount of stops is minimal.
There's also a simulator
Mash the randomize button
https://mainst.fund/simulator
It doesn’t even have to be trustless, some of this crap is using RAFT (for speed), the assumption being that the participants are all trusted.
Here's how I would rephrase that with "and":

"Usually your code is extremely well documented and ready to go as is and I think your most recent PR could be improved in this area." It softens the blow while still retaining the relevant context.
> Something else people often don't realize is that malloc/free aren't instant.

True, and the costs vary wildly and are deeply tied into the rest of the memory management strategy.

In a copying collector, free() is essentially free: It takes the same amount of time to free 1 object in the semispace as it does 1,000 objects in the same semispace.
This isn't anything against Redpanda, but I'm always amazed how badly all these distributed databases do in Jepsen.

What would one use them for in practice, which wouldn't be better suitable by a (the thing I've used), say postgresql and streaming replication in case the server goes down? (I'm not suggesting there isn't a good application, just I'm not knowledgeable enough to know of one).
One Juul pod roughly delivers the same amount of nicotine as a pack of cigarettes, which makes it very easy and tempting to ingest that much nicotine.

That said, nicotine is one of the least dangerous chemicals in cigarettes. A Juul pod a day is probably as bad as a half dozen cups of coffee in a day: not great for you, but also not really deadly.
That doesn't mean you will get what you were promised if the pension was underfunded[1]:

> If you look at multiemployer plans, those people worked in coal mines, driving trucks, in bakeries — typically physical, difficult jobs, and they certainly earned the pension they were promised by their union. Now, some of them are 70-years-old and in retirement and have the terrible prospect of having their pension cut.

> There’s a government backstop for private pensions, but the government backstop for multiemployer plans is very modest

[1]: https://ideas.darden.virginia.edu/underfunded-pensions
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The last two years have shown younger generations that JIT is not resilient. Some level of self sufficiency is a requirement for stability and resiliency. Past generations learned this lesson with some portion of the population starving. There aren't any farms within 500 miles of where I live. If we can't get shipments from outside people are going to starve. This realization of supply chain fragility is what many people have come to after seeing some items absolutely unavailable at stores. Each community must grow some amount of food locally or their continued survival is reliant on there being enough food to make it profitable to ship food thousands of miles.
I'm a huge fan of instantaneous change, as it instantly sets the incentives, but am willing to have a large transition period.

If we were to do an instant change, the best way to do that is to give everyone a tax credit equal to the value of their existing land, with retirees and others who need public support having a few more options to convert those tax credits to cash.
Are you boycotting operating rooms while you’re at it? I’ve never seen such an overreaction to such a non-issue before. How do people get to a state where they can unironically say things like this with a straight face?
I hope you're correct. Those businesses closing will cool off the job market and people will be left behind. Lots of people never recovered from the 2008 crash.
No, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to obtain our status as a nearly Type I civilization (we are currently 0.73 on the Kardashev scale).

But we do have a lot of what some describe as sludge. For example, in the USA, with the awful state of healthcare, where even with a good job and "good" benefits and being in the so-called 1%, it can be a struggle to obtain certain kinds of medication, and insurance companies will absolutely fuck with you to avoid paying, giving patients the runaround and making them waste hours and days in endless phone call black holes until you give up. Doctor's offices and hospitals will and do double- and even triple-bill you, then bully you into paying by sending you to collections. God forbid you should get a catastrophic illness. There are so many similar and related examples that we could have entire threads about. There was a book recently written about this but I cannot find it right now...will update when I do.

There certainly is the sense that we are losing a lot in terms of core values, especially as technology evolves (we seem to be resembling the movie Idiocracy more and more), but this has also been the case with other, now fallen civilizations. The ancient Greeks thought that books/the written word would bring about the destruction of their society because people would lose their ability to use their memories.
What is the OCaml web development story now? What is it like to use?
They had a Windows emulation exclusivity contract and squandered it for so long that now it’s expired other tech companies like Apple could emulate Windows on their devices.
As someone coding in Go (and having doubts about the language) I find articles like this professionally valuable.

They don't have to be correct, they just need to provoke meaningful discourse, which for me means crowdsourcing the insights of hundreds of fellow devs.
It's either a problem that you have or you don't, but also one that you have to have a specific mindset to even recognize.

To start off with, please read this: https://lwn.net/Articles/889924/

As you start having to worry about deploying to 10^5 scale machines you want your mindset to be more like the longtime kernel development folks. You want minimal dependencies. You want to build with minimal pulls to the internet. You want repeatable static binaries built from a source tree you can reasonably audit.

At that scale of deployment your "business risk" goes up significantly.

Rust's approach to tooling/packages looks very similar to the Node.js ecosystem. It's a total free for all and dependencies are managed really poorly (in the sense that they grow in number completely out of control).
You can't just legally avoid taxes by not letting your employer know. Sure, they prob won't know and you'll get away with it, but you're technically breaking the law and an employer won't knowingly condone that.

So it's not that they have a right to know where you are, it's that if they do notice and not act on it that's a legal risk to them as well since they're enabling it. (IANAL but this feels common sense.)
I had a close friend in college (1992 or so) who spent a few years at the Air Force Academy and she had learned celestial navigation there and was still into astronomy so it was something we practiced a few times for fun.
Ask HN: Should I buy a home?
Please Excuse the title. I need some perspective.

Early Last year I was planning to buy a house in Southern California but ended up taking a job in the Bay Area and moving instead.

Kind of kicking myself for not pulling the trigger on a sub 1m house at <3%. I could have just rented it out.

Instead I’m in the Bay Area paying in rent what my entire mortgage + taxes would have been while my downpayment money (>200k) just erodes due to inflation- which is accentuated in housing.

Now I feel like I’ve missed an opportunity of a lifetime. Housing is much higher across the board and the Bay Area is just nuts.

If I was to buy here With a reasonable commute then I’m looking at 1.5m on the lower end for a 3 bedroom (I have a family). Which I can’t (reasonably) pull off at these rates.

I make more money than I did but a good portion of that is equity which hasn’t done well. My base income excluding equity is 190k and I’m priced out.

I made over $300k last year (it will likely be less than 300k this year due to equity drop) but I’m just as worried about our future as ever.

Part of me wonders if I should just buy further away as I just go into work a couple times a week or even go perm remote and buy something for cheaper a lot further away (or even move back).

One (of several) downside to living further away is access to career opportunities that are concentrated here. Maybe that’s over valued at this point with the shift to remote work.

Or I just put off home ownership for at least the next 5 years. Invest the cash in an index and focus on my career.

But I’m only getting older and have a family to support and want to provide stability and security. Housing is a hedge against ever increasing rents so despite the downsides should I just buy what I can and just move.

I’m so confused and think about this constantly. Would appreciate perspective.

Hope I don’t get flamed. I do feel like I have trouble with perspective and seeing a therapist.
If the residents in an area get together with their local government and work with the railroad, they can often get the crossings covered to a no-horn Quiet Zone.

The main cost is the double-sided crossing guards necessary, and/or closure of some crossings deemed no longer necessary.

https://railroads.dot.gov/highway-rail-crossing-and-trespass...
Not OP, but I can confirm old country made it super hard lately. On the other hand, IL DMV seems to give away DLs like they are candy.

Anecdata only; if anyone has data, I will happily retract this statement.
Arm set to regain control of renegade China unit after near 2-year battle
I have been sending through Ionos (was 1&1) for a decade, with only occasional problems (shared IPs getting on a blacklist). I have SPF working, and in the last few months I am getting routed into Spam 100% of the time. Even when I reply to email from my own family. It does not seem to matter if the recipients move the message out of Spam, you'd think a false negative on a legitimate message would be a wakeup call, ten false negatives should be an alarm. But there's no way to even help this. Google's online support has you set up tools that don't even measure the single-digit volumes I'm sending from my 20-year-old custom domain. I did confirm with DKIM that no one else is sending messages spoofing it, either. The Google monopoly is a real problem.
I'm in good health, pretty happy, and have no wish for material wealth. But as a curious theoretical computer scientist, this is one of the great questions, closely related to P vs NP. Basically, it asks if all of our current public key infrastructure is safe in the absence of quantum computers (which I don't expect to see in my lifetime).