skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangential: I highly recommend exploring the parent site https://wiki.xxiivv.com and the associated http://100r.co the author is working on with their sailing boat partner. Yes, they're living on a sail boat in the Pacific Ocean.

Some cool software they've developed:

- http://100r.co/site/orca.html

- http://100r.co/site/ronin.html

- http://100r.co/site/uxn.html

It's such a deep rabbit hole of talent, passion and intellectual gratification. I'm not affiliated, just a fan, I really love their stuff.
IMHO it was expected, although iPhone will be completely wireless in a near future.
$800M is just the payment due in six months. There’s lots more behind it. Hence, they said medium term, not short.

There are significant differences between the US and El Salvador that raw debt to GDP does not capture.
But, how on earth is someone in their 20s able to afford a mortgage for a decent house in Western Europe?

Even for us, developers, who are supposed to be the top 10% earners, it's rather difficult to afford a mortgage. Let's say you are 28 and live in Germany working as a software engineer. You probably earn around 60K euro/year which means (for singles) around 3K/month after taxes. If you want to afford a house (not a flat) then prices start at around 600K EUR (unless you are OK with going to live to a town in the middle of nowhere in your 20s. There prices lower a bit) and usually mortgages are for around 30 years.

In your 30s, you have some more money saved and probably earn more, and probably you don't care anymore if you have to go to live in a town (you are not in your 20s anymore, so the exiting city-center kind of life could not be so appealing to you anymore)
If we're going to look at supply-demand, we can't just say "just add more supply" without knowing where the demand comes from. If we add supply of houses and it gets eaten up by demand from people that want them not to live but to hoard them as financial instruments, we're not solving anything.
The inflation number is specifically high because used cars got expensive due to the chip production supply crunch, it’s not those other things. (Except insofar as those other people want to buy used cars, which some of them do.) You’re reading as if it applied to the entire economy just because you’ve been given a single number.

My rent hasn’t gone up either. Which is kind of weird since I don’t think we have rent control here.
‘Garbitrage’
Some good points. However some of your suggestions are not like the others, they are too extreme/populist/socialist.
Sorry, it’s early and I’m dumb… GFC? Great financial crash?

If so, then I agree. No money down plus predatory loans combined with some greed for some staggering wealth destruction
So management is employees with worse legal options?..

(A quick search seems to say that managers can't join most unions, but there might be some they can join. There seems to be no legal barrier, but rather that existing unions don't want them, and that managers seldom ask to join.)
Also, how will we ever deal with population growth?
Ilbert Bill
Tesco Mobile advertising campaign offensive, watchdog rules
> thought that using a different collateral (e.g. US real estate)

All that was old is new again:

“The newly created Rentenmark replaced the old Papiermark. Because of the economic crisis in Germany after the First World War, there was no gold available to back the currency. [Minister of Finance] Luther thus used [economist] Helfferich's idea of a currency backed by real goods. The new currency was backed by the land used for agriculture and business. This was mortgaged (Rente is a technical term for mortgage in German)…”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentenmark
Military spending in the US is dwarfed by entitlements spending.

Even then, much of that military spending has been going towards the defense of allies that underinvest in their own defense.
I may be wrong, but as far as I know Buddhists dont typically use "focused thinking" to give themselves permission from the almighty to bang a choir boy.
especially considering the more proportional voting system used by the EU

What do you mean by that, exactly? Because EU votes are only proportional by country; each country is allocated a fixed number of seats based on its population, and each country only votes for its own representation. A UK vote has zero effect on the Hungarian MEP distribution.
An increase in supply of housing would also dampen the demand for renting, thus decreasing the willingness of speculators to buy new rental units.
> If not… holy crap can we please stop repeating articles like this???

Is there really a world-stopping problem that requires this to be fixed?
Prioritizing demand from people who need the house to live instead of letting people buy housing as a financial instrument?
Same, just wrote my own billing system that supports Stripe and a few other payment methods (e.g. bank transfer), still very painful to get it right though.
>If you upload your videos somewhere else—as many people do—everyone will still be able to see them.

But people would not be able to find those videos that are uploaded to the competing service/s because Google controls 90% of the internet search and on top of that YouTube is the second most popular search engine on the web after Google itself.
It's a false sense of urgency most of the time.
Mysterious Memset
To consider houses as a basic human need and not as a (good) investment.

In theory an huge increment in supply should balance the market. The problem is that in practice, you can't increase supply enough to "fix" it. Houses are a safe investment, so when they devalue, they are bought right away.

E.g: Portugal is one of the countries in Europe with more houses per inhabitant but the housing market for locals was completely wrecked by Airbnb and foreign buyers (good climate and cheap prices). And I say this as a centrist or even leaning right.
Seeing that for my employer too, it lists tech like Elasticsearch, Kafka, Kibana etc that we're 100% not using and would have no mention of either
The space is ripe for a quantum stablecoin
One can hope, right? I wonder what the story behind this is. Current copyright terms are ridiculous.
FIFA and EA split after 3 decades
http://ecopulpack.xyz/cl/0_pt/7/53118/1501/0/0
Notably people who have eyesight damage normally don't notice any effects unless the damage is major. You can have a pretty big area of your retina totally nonfunctional and not notice.
I believe it is ordered by popularity :)
If it were actually better than humans, they'd likely accept it. After all Waymo and Cruise are already offering driverless rides.
To the puzzled: 'Smishing' = 'SMS' ∩ 'phishing'

> Signs that you are getting "Smished": [...] when you receive a message from bigger service providers, (f.e. banks, post offices, or delivery services) they will mostly have their company names displayed instead of their numbers

The formulation in the article may lead to a very bad advice: in some areas, scammers do display a "company name", regularly. So: a numeric sender string increases the chances of the SMS being a scam; an alphanumeric sender string /does not/ decrease the chances of the SMS being a scam.
Just letting you know you're not alone,
It's gonna bite me and bite me badly, i know it. And still, I'm in the dark playground all the time.

I used to have discipline. Don't know what happened.
Thank you for your very in deep explanation!
> I don’t wanna be callous but on a scale of 0=I stubbed my toe and 10=children are starving in [insert location] this seems to be a -3.

The scale is a measure of what though?

> My theory is every so often someone stumbles upon it, thinks “oh that’s interesting!” and submits it, not realizing it’s a duplicate? ..and then tons of readers in the same boat upvote it? (Similar to how urban legends about dog-sized rats taken as pets in Mexico keep circulating and will forever)

I'm not sure this is a theory, this is literally how the site works, is it not?

You know what I do when I see an article title that I've seen before and it's something I don't care about? I don't click it. Most times though, I do click into the comments to see what a 'new' audience thinks about it.
Ok, what’s your solution, exactly? When there’s a food shortage, you subsidize food, which is exactly what virtually all governments do.

When there’s a housing shortage, I guess not building is somehow the solution?
Probably because it would be just a sticky plaster. You want to hold on that liquidity for survival, particularly in a situation where you can't borrow anymore - so at least you can keep the lights on by paying cash for the essential transactions (petrol, food, etc).

> As a comparision US debt to GDP ratio is 133%

The bigger and wealthier the country is, the more markets are willing to cut them some slack. Japan is at 263%, France 112%, etc etc. It's something of a fraud but that's how it is. Capital markets are often very bigoted, to be charitable.
Yeah. Over here in Finland plenty of people look at images like this https://nordregio.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/0376_Nordic... with great jealosy, but perhaps some amount of financial conservatism isn't such a bad thing always.

Only time will tell, of course. Sweden's model has worked pretty damned well so far and this threat has been visible for a long time.
Do you still believe pay is directly correlated with how much "value" you deliver?

Maybe in an alternative world, it would... but in my experience, salaries are almost entirely based on market demand and supply, local regulation, and how much money the particular industry you can find jobs on can make, divided by how many people they need to make it happen (which changes how much they pay when they get desperate for experienced workers).

How much value you actually deliver depends not only on your skills, but on the company you're working on actually creating value (which depends on not only the product, but the marketing, sales, local conditions, competition etc.)... and even though that will affect your salary, as I mentioned before, the real driver of salaries is supply (more specifically, how many capable people could do the job besides you, and how much other companies would be willing to pay them)...

For example, we know lots of companies that made billions of dollars while only employing a few dozen engineers... I'm pretty sure those engineers were only getting the minimum possible salary to keep them from leaving for another job... despite them each arguably producing several million dollars of company value every year.

On the other hand, lots of companies make losses for year while still paying good salaries to thousands of people... would you rather see those people getting no salaries until the company turned a profit??

Now that we've established that there's no real correlation between the value an individual salaried employee produces and how much money a company is actually willing to pay them, let's look at the social aspect of the problem as well.

When everyone gets a decent pay (by us increasing the bottom relative to the top), society is fairer in a greater sense, as more people will have the means to have a good life regardless of their education or skills... those with greater skills will always be more highly appreciated and better compensated in a free economy (specially those willling to start their own business - which allows them to extract nearly ALL value they produce at the cost of high risk to themselves... by the way, that's why those who do it are not willing to give their salaried employees ALL the value they deliver). That has great benefits to society as a whole as there is going to be fewer people that resent the "smart asses" making 10x more than themselves, the economy becomes more vibrant as there's more people who can afford to spend money on fun things, and so much more... imagine your son turns out to be a bit dumb (it happens, unfortunately)... should he be doomed to a life of misery?

Finally, you assume you deliver 10x more than someone else but I bet you have zero evidence to back that up. Developers specially are extremely hostile to actually having objective measurements of anything, so we can't really know for sure.

So, that's why I think that no, it's not very fair for anyone to make 10x more than anyone else.
I assume one of those frames includes the megaflash. But they didn’t tell us which.
Imagine if one day humans could catch and store that huge power and reuse it afterwards.
This sounds like a good, iterative approach!
Do you have your .vimrc file in a repository and download it from there when you are switching your workstation? Or how do you handle it?
Ask HN: Patent Attorney on Commission?
Dear HN,

I know that when you've been wronged by a competitor, you can book a case insurance and/or hire an attorney on commission where they'll get paid as a percentage of the settlement that they win. That's also why attorney sometimes try to drum up class-action lawsuits.

I'm now wondering if anyone knows a similar system for patents, where you effectively team up with an attorney to patent your invention/product and then sell the rights together, meaning the attorney gets a cut of the revenue that he/she enabled.

The reason I'm asking is because I see a catch 22 situation otherwise: To pay for patent coverage, you need investment. But disclosing your technical moat to get investment is risky without patents. And to financially prove the usefulness of a patent, you need to manufacture the product. But if you do that without patents, you're going to compete with a copy of yourself on Alibaba.

Also, I've heard that there should be public funding for technology research and resulting IP in Europe, but I can't seem to find any "starting point" position to contact.

In general, how would you approach securing a product before you send the files to China for manufacturing?
How do you update later if the tech stack changes? Also, if the job listing is packed by HR with irrelevant technologies, is it included?
That's exactly how you profit from a short position.
Some things they found offensive

> "They're taking the pistachio."

> "For fettucine's sake."

This is hilarious.
Keep in mind that you get different results looking at income distribution vs wealth distribution.

Also keep in mind that because so much of the wealth of the very rich is tied up in assets like shares, the wealth share of the very rich takes a (comparative) nose dive whenever the economy enters a recession. Their wealth and income drops dramatically more than that of your rank and file employee, or that of someone on government handouts.

Absolutely, the rich are still rich and the poor are still poor in a recession. but on paper the gap between, say, average and top 0.1% narrows.

And, obviously, recessions are bad for both poor and average people. But you wouldn't get that from looking at inequality.

Just another reason to focus on absolute numbers, instead of whether the Joneses have more.

Btw, why do you want to focus on where the gross money is, instead of what you can buy after taxes with your money? People don't eat money, usually.
More specific, it's the outstanding debt to disposable (i.e., after tax) yearly income.

Even more specific, I it's probably the total outstanding mortgage debt in a country divided by the total disposable household income in the country, including incomes of non-mortage holders and renters. If you think that denominator doesn't make much sense, I largely agree, but it's fairly standard to calculate it that way in macro-economic reports. So I believe the article writer actually misinterpreted that number, writing that it's 150% of homeowners income.
then: statically linked bins into /bin, all the others in /usr/bin and 2 symlinks /sbin -> /bin, /usr/sbin -> /usr/bin. It requires duplicate binaries: one version statically linked and the other not: I still want "env" to exist as statically linked, but tons of scripts start with this horrible '#/usr/bin/env MYPREFEREDSCRIPTENGINE'
At least on Spotify, ‘the algo’ has put me on artists that have less than a thousand monthly listeners. I don’t know how much more obscure you want it..
Bertrand Russell – Interview (“Face to Face”, 1959)
Too bad there's no chain rule for derivatives of (weighted) regular expressions!
When your country temporarily blocks people from buying foreign currency, and that "temporary" restriction becomes a 50% tax on all foreign currency transactions 10 years down the line (thus killing the tourism and services industry) you might think differently of this kind of tax evasion.

Keep in mind the local currency (which is the only legal way to save money) dropped 97.8% compared to USD since the block started.
GNU Stow provides this facility to all unices. I use it as a secondary package manager to keep /usr/local under control with self-compiled programs.
Narrow =/= Easy

The fact that you cannot see that is what I mean, you take what I said as a personal insult while simultaneously having the collective view that if 'poor people want to stop being poor they should learn to code like me' around here.

It's cognitive dissonance and the part that I don't get is how you think people with other skills would want to do this even if given the choice were it not for the money.

I'm a self-taught coder and don't regard myself highly. I will be honest, I never thought it was easy but it's also not difficult in the same way that biochemistry, nuclear chemistry or organic chemistry is difficult either: it's more tedious than it is anything else. It's all relative to what you've done before, I suppose.

It's a lot of grinding, searching and revising and a war of attrition. All while putting up with people who quite frankly have the social skills of a lamppost and not giving into the urge of wanting to just quit and leave it all behind and start a hobby farm--as is so common in the tech circles towards the end.
saying that a new organism created by two humans wasn't itself human

If this is your idea of an open, honest debate you can keep it.
My point is that people feel the way they do because they see their goals become less achievable (even if maybe they were not very achievable in the first place).
From my experience it never was simple in USB-A days either. The cheap hubs or the one mounted on the desk just didn't provide enough voltage. Sure, it might work to run your mouse (if it's not a fancy one with LEDs), but good luck connecting an external HDD to one.
That column would make for pretty depressing reading.
> There is literally volumes of the absolute best music being made on YouTube, but it never sees the light of day...

For many (most?) people, the most important role of music is participating in a shared culture. You want to be able to sing along with the same songs as your friends, to get the references made in conversation, to share moments together with a soundtrack in the background.

To the extent there is absolute quality for music, it is secondary to what people want. The thing where most everyone in a group listens to the same stuff on repeat is an important feature of the process.
To get the conspiracy theorists going: Ad41 has been considered as a (basis for a) vaccine vector

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2584667/
Are you talking about portable CD players? I've never heard of an MP3 player that skipped.
For lots of people, owning a home is a trap: It means if the local area has an economic downturn, you're stuck with a worthless asset.

Making it difficult for anyone (corporation or individual) to be a landlord will hurt the poor more than it will help them.

> * banks should be banned from requiring deposits

The purpose of deposits is to reduce the risk of default. Banning deposits will simply mean that banks will give fewer loans, and loans which are granted will have a higher interest rate. This will only hurt the poor.

> The goal is to crash house prices as far down as they possibly can be crashed.

I'm pretty sure the best way to accomplish this would be to actually build a lot more housing.

> I welcome the economic conditions that will lead to housing markets being ruined and will party and celebrate those investors who own multiple houses suffering ruinous losses - I'll laugh.

People owning multiple houses aren't primarily the cause of society's trouble in this regard: It's people owning vast swaths of the stock market. FWIW I'd be happy to have the price of our housing assets collapse if it would mean making the world a better place. I can't really benefit from the high house price anyway, since I have to live somewhere.
Yeah, pretty simple. Home should be affordable to the average person. It should not be a speculative asset.

I hope all those leveraged landlords get totally bankrupted.
Super curious about the recent jump to ~50¢ [1], particularly given LUNA is almost monotonously beelining for zero [2].

Is price discovery quivering? Or is someone actually buying UST?

[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/terrausd/

[2] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/terra-luna/
Read it again more carefully. They were suggesting, perhaps not directly enough for some, that these long trains are too long, and increase derailments. Because:

- they are harder to start and stop, because size. One mistake.. Shorter trains are easier to control, physically

- Crews are exhausted by these trains because they take too long in infrastructure not built for them (1940s yards), and adding to waiting time, making it much slower to add / move carriages / trucks around, and other logistically disproportional wastes of time

- The trains are too long for communication purposes too. radios don't have the distance. Safety and important messages get missed

...among other things.
I've made a few diagrams from code over the years using graphviz, draw.io, debugmode wink, plantuml to show a logical or physical software architecture.

Yet I have only been able to animate data flowing through any of these systems by recording myself drawing on a PowerPoint and having that play back as a video.

Does anyone know if there is a way to create offline animations of these tools, including the ability to have steps with explanations of what's going on at each step? (preferably in code)

Besides my poor man's video files, I'm mostly only aware of traditional animation tools or these software as service subscriptions.
I mentally set the bar pretty low before I clicked the link, but this was a lot worse than I expected. Holograms are notoriously difficult to implement in a pleasing or large format, this was neither.

The Instructable takes a video of something filmed from 4 different angles, and then uses a slightly reflective material (plastic sheeting) to reflect the 4 images off a screen around a central point.

In almost total darkness you can then view the resulting 'hologram'. Except it's just 4 2D images around a messy piece of plastic sitting on your phone/tablet screen. At no point is there even an illusion of a 3D hologram. Perhaps if you were locked to 1 of 4 different viewing angles and no degrees between you could call it a hologram, but even then with 2 eyes you'd know each angle was 2D.
"WebView" in software should be preferred over electron, but why it's not the case today?

Because it is bloated, more complicated, and require an insane amount of preparation to get started in a cross-platform fashion, specially for windows: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/get...

Then you understand why nobody wants to deal with that stuff and choose lowest common denominator (electron)

Just look at what you have to do to get started with WebView2 on windows

Hopefully this community group will lead to a better story for webviews in desktop software
Birkbeck. Yes, I would recommend it - although as with all these things you get out what you put in.
Another case of slimy headlining: writing "as" and hoping people hear "because".

This problem is widespread these days.
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