skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you rather hold cash or a home during a period of inflation. Most people wisely chose to put it in a house. With a 7% compound interest rate, your money doubles every 10 years. With a 7% inflation rate, I believe it halves in the same time frame. Perhaps it's not that houses are worth more, it's that money is worth less. A 350k house in 2010 should be 700k now if the real inflation was 7%. And at least where I live, that checks out. However, employers haven't raised wages to keep up with this new reality.
From what I can tell Netflix's catalog includes Stal Trek so you are just backing up his point.
Home prices will fall if rentals fall, otherwise no one will want to sell and low market supply will keep prices where they care. But with rising interest rates, sustained demand for rental can be expected.
All these discussions are very US-centric. Netflix made more money from outside US than US (4477M vs 3350M) and membership went up in Asia.

I agree that the US-made content on Netflix is not as good as it used to be, but the foreign content is quite good. Plus virtually every country except US is used to read subtitles, so shows have a big audience. For example a lot of great shows nowadays come from Korea, and I assume they are much cheaper to buy than the US-made shows.
I don't think it's corruption so much as the public sector getting harvested for parts via privatisation and outsourcing to contractors.

The usual cycle goes like this:

- "We need to decrease costs in public organisation A because $reason"

- "Hey look, public org has growing wait times and growing infrastructure issues. We should reduce their budget because they're not doing their job!"

Rinse & repeat until you're left with Centrelink's current state. They don't have enough money to make the changes needed to clean up legacy systems AND process the work loads they have now AND maintain the current systems, so a choice is made by people in a sinking ship. Around 2014 the amount spent on "admin" was gutted by half with the election of the Liberal party (small govt party in AU), with funding only recovering to the previous levels during 2017.

edit: formatting (bullet point lists and newlines are hard)
I have a more mixed experience with the OMSCS. Overall it's a good program, and if the choice is between Udemy or OMSCS then it wins hands down. For me the central issue is online vs. in-person.

Education is an interactive experience, the value of a good professor and classmates is helping to identify issues when you are stuck and nudge you just enough for you to connect the dots. As an undergraduate I liked attending study groups and office hours. I learned as much from my peers, both me helping them and them helping me, as I did from my professors. This spirit was difficult to replicate this in OMSCS.

The problem is that high tough, in-person communication is very effective but this doesn't "scale" well. I can only imagine how different the world would be if Plato was teaching online. :)

Also I was in the 2nd cohort, there were certainly a lot of "bugs" and issues they were working through. Additionally, the culture of video conference and zoom was also less a few years ago, which could make an impact.
Many of the cash buyers are either proxies (Ribbon, etc) or turn right around and get a mortgage. One of the touted benefits of real estate is enhanced leverage with equity as the collateral. "Cash" on an offer is more of a waiver of financing contingency, it does sound cool though.
Someone break down how they are calculating productivity. Agile story points???
Should you delete your period-tracking app?
Netflix was doing fine as a dvd rental platform, hell netflix was doing great, they then made a jump to a streaming platform and did well there. The movie production studios saw how well netflix was doing and so started making their own streaming platforms preventing netflix from streaming their movies. so netflix in a desperation move said "fine" then we will make our own movies.

And so here we are, despite living in the post movie scarcity future you can never watch the movie you want to because it is on a different streaming service.
How hard have you tried? Assuming antiquities.co.uk is legitimate, I see a Romana-British bronze brooch offered for sale at $44, circa mid 1st century BC to late 1st century AD. There seem to be many small Roman trinkets you could buy for about the price of a pair of blue jeans.
I agree, it's probably healthier to scream if someone is in a situation where they feel overwhelmed.

It just can't be a good thing to have people periodically overwhelmed to that point...
> Documentaries that were more ideological than interesting

I can not stand how every "documentary" on netflix is actually an extremely opinionated political piece or true crime. And I usually agree with the political opinion, it's just incredibly annoying and divisive, and really it mostly feels dishonest.
Have a listen to the episode. It's called "Shots Fired" and looks at the history of the Gweagal shield.

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/stuff-the-brit...
Is the World Getting Worse?
> Something is broken

Say it with me:

> “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon...” - Milton Friedman

It turns out years of suppressing rates combined with dumping many trillions of dollars onto a supply constrained economy causes a rise in prices. Huh... You'd think the trained professionals at the fed would know this by now, but they continue to believe they can defy reality.
It's different these days though. Much more emphasis on whatever fresh sexual and gender identities happen to be in vogue right now, apparently for no purpose other than to preach about them to the viewer.

Whereas in Star Trek, it made sense that a future spacefaring crew would be made up of people with origins from all different parts of the world. This was entirely consistent with the overall storyline.
In other, more conventional, words: Some social engineers impersonated someone and requested that the funds for a merger be redirected.
“All of these studies about how x is a million times worse these days often can be attributed to more accurate data and measurements.”

This sounds like the old ‘everyone was blind back then, but now we have glasses!’
I would love to buy a duplex, rowhouse, townhome, 3 bedroom apartment or condo if they existed and were reasonable.
I'm guessing that is location dependent, though it has changed recently, many people I've known (admittedly college educated or further, corporate tech) have been homeowners since their early-mid 20s. (millenial)
Is this one of the same ratings firms that gave us the mortgage backed securities-based global financial meltdown awhile back? Uh huh. Thought so.
How does it manifest? Is it just poor memory or is it an inability to get anything done?

If just poor memory, then maybe something like Bullet Journal could help.
yes jpy has been devaluing for some time now.. it was coming
Makes more sense to use Win+drag because it's a function for the windows
I recently gave up trying to get a masters (because I couldn't get admission to any program), but I wanted to get one because I wanted to work in research and development. Work on kind of out-there problems. To get hired to do something like that... to even get past the HR screening... you need at least a masters degree pretty much anywhere.

If you don't have a goal like that, and you already have that level of experience, I agree it's dubious what a masters would do for you.
This is an artifact caused by the fact that the house book is thin and so is rapidly depleted by a few moves from a HCOL to LCOL area, but the incomes there don't rise to match.

Essentially, a few hundred rich people moving from SF to some smaller town won't move SF's housing cost but will skyrocket the small town housing cost. However, the few hundred rich won't boost the income significantly.

This is a data artifact made from the fact that "prices" are determined by what's on the book and "income" is determined as a whole. The difference between what's on the book vs. the whole is best illustrated by San Francisco, where most people pay far less for a 1 br apartment than the "going rate for a 1 br apartment".

Even the repeat-sales method for home pricing is not immune to this data artifact because we don't use a new-job method for income. This causes decoupling of the fundamentals when you get the remote-work revolution.
Links:

PODCAST MAIN PAGE: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/stuff-the-brit...

RSS FEED: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/stuff-the-brit...
I think you're looking at this from the wrong angle. A MSc is not supposed to teach you programming languages, because whatever you learn now will in any case be obsolete in 10 years. It's supposed to teach you fundamentals and how to think, which is timeless.

One of the most famous introductory CS courses in the world, MIT's "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", was for decades taught using a programming language called Scheme, a dialect of Lisp that's wildly different from any mainstream language and is used for basically nothing other than this course. This was partly intentional, since it does a great job of shocking teenage hacker wannabes out of their "I already know language X so I'm hot shit" complacency.
We’re just way over due for actual real and universal price inflation on all goods & services. It’s not fun but it’s finally happening.
> Is it a moral crime to simply appreciate a painting, even though it was stolen hundreds of years ago?

Yes. Because your enjoyment deprives the ancestors of the people who actually created it. Try personalizing this to see if it resonates. There's a quilt that has been in your family for centuries, with each family member adding a patch. At some point, your house is burglarized and the quilt is taken. Hundreds of years later, the quilt is around the world, being seen by people who have absolutely no connection to it, meanwhile your great^n children no longer have access to this piece of their cultural heritage.
I disagree. Until now there might have been 30% buyers with cash, but with rising interest rates that will stop being the case if house prices stay up.

People with large sums of spare money always look for ways to park their money. Interest based products (term deposits, bonds etc.) will now become more attractive, diverting some cash flows away from housing.
Why Saudi Prince Alwaleed Reversed Course on Elon Musk's Twitter Bid
Caricatures don’t make for very compelling criticism.
The Case-Schiller price index is at all time highs across almost every real estate category. As my friend would put it, a dollar is not worth a dollar. A pack of gum and a house are going to value that same dollar differently for you but, as you said, you only have so many dollars :(. As it is I don't think many people will ever own a home in the near term.
Brexit has clobbered smaller businesses
The thing that non-Australians don't understand about this is that we spend our energy worrying about things that actually matter. What you may perceive as complacency, is ofttimes actually the observer being uptight when they don't need to be.

As an Australian, I struggle at times with Europeans et al who attach so much importance and stress to such insignificant things. Hence, she'll be right mate.
Same here, this is actually cool!
The HBO section only includes the "max" shows. All their best shows are "hbo originals" so they're actually doing much better than it looks.
C++ isn't exactly known for having good acronyms. CRTP ("curiously recursive template pattern") at least tells you that it has to do with templates. SFINAE ("substitution failure is not an error") tells you nothing about the context, nor how it would be used, despite being fundamental to metaprogramming in C++.
The issue of "this is a convenient thing to think if you want to feel less bad about stuff being stolen" aside, it's worth considering that a world in which these things weren't stolen might also be a world where colonialism didn't run rampant throughout the world and the "destruction" they were saved from may have been a consequence of that colonialism.

Anyways, I think to some extent our civilization is descending into a kind of mass packrat disorder. We seem to fetishize preservation to an unhealthy degree on both small and large scales. Sometimes things break, are burnt down, or are left unmaintained until they die. But new things are created all the time, and maybe sometimes we get a little too stuck on the old stuff and don't acknowledge the new.
If your threat model is "China has backdoored your TPM" then making the TPM more opaque and unauditable doesn't improve the situation. How would you know if your TPM is lying and pretending to still have the original key when actually it has a replacement Chinese one?
People are saying that right now about the new Star Treks. And I don't think most disagree with the politics/social commentary, it's just so in your face/contrived that it ruins the show for many.
For me, RPN is a big one.

PCalc is my go-to, though most days I reach for the HP 48G that's sitting on my desk.
You cannot guarantee "completely unphishable", only that you cannot yet conceive of a way to do it. It's very dangerous to assume that something is completely secure.
> Because your enjoyment deprives the ancestors of the people who actually created it.

My enjoyment itself is what does that? What if viewing the artifact bores me to tears? No moral crime then?
The problem is that supposedly, since 2020, the Fed has printed somewhere between 40-80% of all dollars in existence (The M1).

So my question is, if there is twice as much money in the system, but the same number of assets, why would it be shocking that housing continues to inflate?
Spoken like an experienced software engineer and certainly not the type of person who is well suited for a formal classroom environment. But take a peak inside any of the Fortune 500 and you would surely walk back your assertion that it's effectively over for C++ and Java, regardless of how useful or elegant Rust might be.
I would not. It's not even close either.
Because everyone dies in the end
Thanks for the heads up about universities providing soil testing. Found out that my local agricultural university (Utah State University) offers this too.
Curious, are people suddenly paying higher property taxes now that houses are worth much more in a short time span?
My wife is non-technical and uses Linux Desktop (KDE) every day and prefers it to the sometimes weirdness of Windows. We never used Mac and have no desire to.
Rent has also gone up
Agreed except for your mischaracterization at the end. An I/O mortgage is a leveraged asset speculation you live in, without the “forced low interest savings” of traditional mortgages.
I was wondering who Clevel was before I realized you meant C-level.
>Should the home they deserve just magically appear?

They should have the right to purchase one, or have one commissioned, at the fair market value for materials, labor, and land.
You mean it's extremely hard to hire a full team of competent people when you're tethered to the APS pay scale and the federal government won't let you increase public servant headcount.
Still, icon view is usually a grid of icons, there is an implied order there, also you can set the sort order to any number of properties. I’m not particularly bothered by this, but it seems like you should be able to select a range of icons with shift-click like any other list of items.
Rust is fantastic for some problems, poor for others. If your alternative is C++, or you're doing something where you need to compile high performance code to wasm, go for it. If your alternative is Java and you're writing high level backend services, it might not be worth the cost, especially given the difficulty of finding / training experienced Rust programmers.
Another exception was the housing bubble leading up to 2008

https://www.longtermtrends.net/home-price-median-annual-inco...
It becomes a problem though when shows are catering to what 1% (or less) of the population looks like or is diagnosed with. This is what people are getting upset with. Representation is fine. But when every new show you turn on has half of the cast as a trans person, a non-binary person, and a whatever else it gets old. It gets old when historical shows and films have distorted facts or figures to, again, fill some quota. Having people in key roles where they would have never been introduced to those parts of the world at that time. Or, shoehorning some form of sexuality into a historical figure for no reason other than to check a quota box.
And for that matter, if the people it was stolen from decided it wasn't worth preserving who are you to decide they're wrong? It's the height of colonial arrogance to assume we know better, that we can value the works of other cultures better than they can. That our enjoyment is more important than their history and self-determination.
Energy densities of various substances and/or reactions is pretty fascinating concept.

Some of the most interesting energy analysis I've come across (Vaclav Smil and David MacKay especially) describe energy in terms of area: what are the comparable land areas which would have to be dedicated to specific sources or forms of energy or fuels, and how do those compare? One of Smil's descriptions of petroleum wells is "punctiform", which I love. A hole in the ground, only about 20 cm in diameter, can provide years to millennia of human energy output, per day.

1 litre of oil is equivalent to about 3 days of human energy output (at 3,000 kilocalories/day).

1 gallon of oil is eqivalent to about 11 days of human energy.

One of the oldest oil wells in production (the First Oil Well of Bahrain) produced 80,000 barrels of oil per day initially. That's over 1,000 years of human energy equivalent.

By comparison, the yeild of current biomass production is far, far less. The difference, of course, is that oil is biomass, accumulated, converted, and concentrated over hundreds of millions of years. We're consuming it at > 5 million times its rate of formation. (See Jeffrey S. Dukes, "Burning Buried Sunshine" (2003).)

In terms of radioactivity, the net metabolic rate of the Sun's core is lower than that of a human, measured in energy/mass. Solar metabolism is closer to that of reptiles, about 1/5 of mamallian metabolic rates.

Chemical energy is less productive than the most effective nuclear transitions, but its shear abundance and ease of utilisation tends to weigh in its favour.
The interest on most interest based products will not rise as fast as inflation and so I'm not sure they will be "more attractive" (at least compared to real assets).
Western Europe is both considerably more crowded and poorer than the US.
> So she hired a lawyer in New York who specializes in international art law, Leila Amineddoleh.

> Negotiations began. It was complicated. It takes a long time to figure out all this stuff — even in the best of times. But the pandemic complicated things even further.

The article doesn't say what the legal fees were, but based on this description I could imagine scenarios where they were well in excess of $500.
Only on Android, not iOS, I think. You've always been able to do this, even longer than you could pinch-zoom. Unfortunately, it seems to be going away—Chrome no longer zooms on double-tap-drag, nor do any of the Samsung apps (Samsung Internet, Photos, etc.).
There's only so many times you can rewatch The Office and Friends. It can't be a major ongoing revenue source.

> brainwash

This has been going on forever. Check out "The Brady Bunch". Every episode revolves around a heavy-handed moral lesson. Go back even further and you've got the Hayes Code. Hollywood has always seen itself as morally superior to the rest of us, and hence entitled to preach to us.

Though with all the scandals emanating from Hollywood, one wonders how they hold on to that moral superiority.
I have no idea. I pointed it out because 1) I was curious and 2) to suggest that concern for unintended consequences is given at least some treatment in the actual text of the legislation.
And I've seen idiots with a 4 year degree from your school.
The numbers look very different for healthy young people yet the distinction has never been taken into account for any lockdown or vaccination policy in the U.S.

Anytime these numbers are brought up, it's as if this disease is exactly the same for everyone, but the evidence clearly points otherwise. Imagine just as many children dying as 70+ year olds with co-morbidities, that would have been magnitudes much worse. The survivability rate is usually something to point out for younger healthy people, who are pushed to reduce their risks by thousands of a percentage at the risk of suffering complications from something that apparently (i.e. this post) we still don't know everything about.
> If there's housing scarcity, then prices will rise far ahead of ability to pay.

Housing costs tend toward people's ability to pay, otherwise folks default. That's why the banks ask you about your income and credit worthiness, they want to know you'll be able to pay the mortgage and not default. If money costs increase faster than income, folks won't be able to afford as much money (as high a price).
One major problem I see with comparing housing prices to income is that most homebuyers in the US are using leverage (a mortgage) to buy their home, and the last 15 years or so have seen comparatively low mortgage rates compared to the several decades beforehand.

Housing prices have been able to balloon because debt has been very, very cheap. Whether or not that will continue remains to be seen.
Yes. I mean some places have laws freezing property taxes but in most places yes. My state switched to something like Zillow-based assessments that they did for every house in my county this year.

It’s kind of funny thing that interest rates did but the escrow portion of my mortgage payment is bigger than the principal and interest.
I’ve driven a lot over Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas in rural areas since the 60’s. The number of bug splats now is just a fraction of what it was in the 60’s and 70’s.
LEDs will be around for a while, but effectively are a dead end. They will not get any more efficient. Incandescent light, however, with R&D can get a lot more efficient than, what, 4%? Eventually, incan light will come back and be more efficient than LED.

LED wouldn't and shouldn't be so bad... but it most often is. Cool white, 6500K+ light is horrible, and literally slowly blinds the user with blue light. The other thing that is horrible about a lot (nearly all) of LED is their PWM-laden drivers.

I have some decent HiCRI 3500K LED I like, and some using constant current drivers without PWM, and they're fine. But for some reason the LED market is flooded with cool white LED driven by PWM, and they all suck, every single one.
The gov hires based on a silly points system, and often, having a masters is the only way to get enough points to make it past the first filter.

This would only make sense if you're looking to retire-in-place though.
The question is not of good faith or the competition being overt or malicious type etc. Time is finite - if you are spending on one side, you can't be sending on the remaining sides. Usually the people in your life realize it and adjust for the priority/greater good and so yes, they will willingly sacrifice in that spirit. But the relationships themselves are emotionally competing - if you have, e.g., to choose between relocating for the future of your kids and your ailing parents, those duties are competing, even though the recipients themselves may not be - you will have to choose.
Historically ~30% of all listings were adjusted down. That makes sense when listings are about price discovery. IIRC currently about 15% of listings have a downwards price correction. That is VERY hnusual, and yet still a meaningful portion of secondary market.