skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As another commenter said, its not a get-out-of-jail-for-1b option. Thats a contingent on factors outside of Musks/Twitters control. Once you walk away and get into the realm of negligence it opens it up to a lot more in terms of damages.
I don't care about votes. This isn't reddit. I just have discussions on this site and that's all I care about.

But on the topic, I think I'm getting down voted as an emotional reaction. I clearly said I don't want to pretend to know if he's legally right or not, a position which if most of us are being honest we should all be taking. But people aren't taking that position and they're reacting emotionally to words they don't want to hear. All I've said in the above comment was that Twitters lawyers did indeed contribute to the current state of affairs when they participated in the creation of the agreement in question. This is true by definition.
This comment is like someone saying they’re eating pizza, and responding “you’re only eating a few slices”
It's a risk though, because you may not be able to refinance for a long time. In that time, the interest you paid will also compound.
I suspect that the “institutional investors in single family homes” are going to get caught out bad.
I agree. My town has a certain saving grace: it’s really old. The initial town plan was made before cars, so it was, at one point, a sort of walkable place. It isn’t anymore because of redesigns that favor cars and incredible sprawl, but there are still some of those bones in there.

“Modern” car dependent suburbs are beyond saving. We should save the towns we can and resist this suburb-style development in and around cities.
I'm not sure why you view Argentina as a "better model". They're in the middle of (another) currency crisis right now which is causing their economy to collapse and social unrest:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/argentina-names-new-economy-min...

The annual inflation rate in Argentina is ~76%. It's basically impossible to do business in Pesos when it's devaluing so quickly. Every contract programmer in Argentina is doing business in Bitcoin or stablecoins because they would lose ~40-60% if they were paid in USD from abroad. People are stashing savings dollars (and Bitcoin) to keep it out of government hands and protect it from becoming worthless.
This is my experience completely - also minecraft runs pretty well
In Romania we have the First House mortgage which has lower rates than a normal one. It might make sense to have special rates for people who don't own a house yet
Tactical fighter aircraft are a bright spot but they aren’t long for this world.
Telling the customers this story would be a cheap way of piggybacking off the Cisco brand.
I believe this is a Russian hack. Some group took credit for it.

It's an act of war.

I'm wary we may not find out for a long time.

Debit cards were out, huge swaths of wireless and internet, this was a huge failure.
I have an M1 Air as well. It's the best laptop I've owned, but in hindsight I should have sprung for 16GB. 8GB isn't enough.
>Yet without great freedom, great innovation like Silicon Valley is impossible

Nah, I disagree. First, individuals who were educated across the globe, money from across the globe, and access to global resources are all necessary (and a fundamental part of the history) of Silicon Valley's success.

There really is no argument that Silicon Valley-like innovation do occur in distinctly non-free environments.
For example;
The Soviet Union's part in the Space Race,
the current entrepreneurial and technological development in China,
the British component of the Industrial Revolution.

Each of these demonstrate scientific innovation in otherwise less-free societies than California. I'm sure there are many more examples if you wanted to extend the historic timeline further.

Not an endorsement of the CCP.
Why not use another word instead of redefining an existing word with an agreed upon and well understood meaning?
Housing in the USA has been relatively cheap for a very long time. I think those times are over.

The local news has been reporting on this bust in the Seattle area but median prices are barely down from a year ago. People are still lucky if they can get pre-purchase inspections. Californians, Texans, Midwesterners, Southerners still moving here in droves. My sister in law back in the midwest just spent 400k on a house in the middle of nowhere in Southwest Michigan. Welcome to the new order.
It likely only works with credit cards.
People seem to completely forget how valuable having a secure place to store your things is.

If you travel to the White House using public transportation with a baby carriage - well, you can't. There is no place to leave it, and they won't let it in. (Same for your purse, or a backpack, or even a water bottle.)

If you take a car you can leave all that in your car. Of course it's not easy finding a place to put your car near the White House. What I did is drive almost all the way, to a parking lot, then take a train for the last couple miles.
The overall median for non-supervisory workers in the United States, not just tech. I'm sure that there is some industry that has had hard times in the last eight years, but overall we've seen growth.
Cloudflare’s view of the Rogers Communications outage in Canada
Must admit it was really hard to find out what was going on. I stumbled upon a twitter link somewhere deep down a list of search results. Doe HN have a status page of any kind?
Yes, that's enough reason. Higher interest rates makes house affordability even worse. Given that interest rates aren't likely to come down something else has to give and that's price. Also, once people see prices falling they get scared and are less likely to buy so the prices fall further. Add to that the likely job loss and you have the makings for a housing bust. How deep? No one knows.

Interesting enough, this is what the FED is looking for when they increase interest rates to reduce inflation. They can't control supply but they can reduce demand with higher interest rates.
Also Yue, with bindings for C++, JavaScript, and Lua: https://libyue.com/
I haven't used it for Gtk or Windows, yet, but macOS support seems at least as good as the other targets.
> Being down for hours is unforgivable in this day and age with cloud providers.

Wasn't cloud flare down for a few hours recently... Cloud providers don't magically fix outages...
As someone who has been in FAANG quite a while, I can afford a house. But in Silicon Valley I can only look at 50-60 year old neighborhoods where the original owners were postal workers, grocery store managers, truck drivers. People that today couldn't qualify for a fraction of the necessary mortgage. This sure doesn't feel like economic progress.
> The USB ports are, AGAIN, so needlessly close together that you can't use two adapters next to each other.

What kind of adapters? I have usb-c -> usb-a adapters that fit side-by-side just fine.
These knock-offs of Cisco 2960X's definitely fall into category B. They'd be next to impossible to identify in the field:

https://www.servethehome.com/fake-cisco-switches-in-the-supp...
You have convinced me to never use Stripe and I will share this story to people in the future as to why.
Does Canada not have strong antitrust laws? As far as I know, this is explicitly illegal in the USA.
>"Rent for a year or two. Then jump back in when it hits bottom. You'll pocket a ton of cash and then have the same or better property at a significantly lower cost."

It's my understanding that this is what a lot of people who sold their homes recently at the top of the market are doing exactly this. And this is one of the things that is driving up the prices of rents. If you pocketed a substantial windfall you are probably fine with paying an inflated rental price while you wait out the market. It's hard for me to imagine anything will be different in two years if all of these same people waiting out the market plus first time home owners all attempt to get back in to the market at the same time. Isn't it just the pandemic housing rush all over again?
sorry, I didn't mean to refocus the discussion to voting itself, the focus should be on the fact that elon is extremely untrustworthy and thus his bare assertions are worthless and not worth considering absent any evidence

I mean, yeah, twitter's lawyers were definitely involved in drafting up the contract between twitter and elon, but that doesn't really have any bearing on elon regretting signing that contract which mandates his closing the deal -- sucks to be him
Not sure that I see the point of this. Such ascii art seems more trouble to create than an equivalent diagram in an svg editor?

And if I want pretty output from a textual input wouldn't mermaid[1] make much more sense?

[1] https://mermaid.live
Caffeine is already a fantastic drug for me. What does this mushroom do to enhance it?
> A daily fine for contempt?

Probably a large one.

But if Tesla shares tank, and the other investors bail out, perhaps he just doesn't mechanically have the funds to do so.
The M1 and M2 macs have excellent performance and battery life, but beware of the fact that they don't work with Virtualbox. Virtualbox combined with Vagrant is great for declaratively spinning up a quick vm without using any proprietary software.
Alibris is really great, and I've gotten a few hand written notes from bookstores I've bought from. Even if they're fake I'm a sucker for these kinds of things.
yeah nothing to do with entry-level summer jobs
Yeah I've built with, wet, dry and new and old snow without issue. You have to pack it into the form and let it set a few minutes when it's really dry before moving the form. Takes about six hours for two people, maybe ten the first time to build an eleven foot diameter igloo.
Please, let the man walk away from the deal. We do not want the world's richest man controlling his own propaganda system.
> high median wage growth

Wages are noticeably down since 2020.

WSJ and others prefer to report nominal wages (unless the article is about business costs), but you don't have to fall for the scam.

https://jabberwocking.com/wages-continue-to-plummet/
> Rails being slow is usually not something that the user can perceive.

It’s good that you used the word “usually”, w.r.t Gitlab it definitely feels slow. It’s not just a cost problem.
It will be interesting to see how China fares over the next 40 years. The US is currently going through a time of a large cohort of 60+ individual, but nothing like what China is projected to experience.

The closest comparison I can think of is what Japan is currently experiencing, but that is a drastically different country with a drastically different government.
This was never in doubt. He made a foolish decision to buy Twitter with his stock and then immediately regretted it the moment the stock market tanked. Tesla itself went down by a lot and it made it almost impossible for him to finance it. He wanted out and made up reasons. Twitter will try to enforce the purchase agreement. It will be interesting to follow this case.
Wondering if it handles system audio well.

Screen recorders for OSX often have trouble doing both system and external audio. The best two I've found (as someone who does a fair amount of screen recordings) is Loom and Screenflick
Especially in email, the clear name is rather a comment. Showing just the comment instead of the real data is negligent, at best.

(It's actually quite the opposite of what is going on with URLs, where everything is suppressed but the core domain name. Here, the originating domain and user is suppressed. It's more like showing the document title in the location field.)
omg I didn't even know about that. How could that be allowed to go through
This isn't "your country," this is one state--one of fifty what-would-be-countries-in-Europe.
This already exists in the US. My guess is many financialization programs in Europe are modeled (or improved) off of existing ones in the US given that we were the loan/financialization innovator for most of the 20th century.
You could also set whichever operating system you wanted as default, then you didn't even need to hold Option.
The way to get mortgage on vacant land is to buy some with a house on it (bank often won’t care if you’ve combined parcel, etc) - then they consider it a house.

Even if the house is on a hunner acre wood.
The Babylonians used based 60 for at least some things, but even that seems unwieldy, and even taking everything in between as equally useful provides only 58 distinct sequences of digits in pi.

The control implied is basically the power to create all the universes laws (and the math we can learn in it) from scratch.
The “Internet Radio” you wouldn't expect
> it's extremely hard to do at those data rates.

?

> if it wasn't there would be existing examples.

Let's see. NASA downlinked from the moon to the ground, through the atmosphere at OC-12 rates back in 2013-- so about 100x the distance, with the added penalty of traversing the atmosphere. NFIRE did 5.6 gigabit/sec LEO to ground (again through the atmosphere) in 2011-- shorter distances but higher angular rates which is the "hard part". And EDRS does 1.8gbit/sec over longer distances in geostationary orbit. Both flown and proven.
Great post.

Re: housing inventory, go use google news to read articles from 2006 on the housing supply. They said the exact same thing to justify the prices. Then 2008 hit and suddenly we had plenty of supply.

I think there is also a tremendous amount of leverage in the system, albeit different from 2008. Now you have people who followed internet financial gurus and built up large portfolios of rental properties(>$100M in many cases). These folks may soon face issues servicing their debt as vacancies shoot up and their cash flows dry up. We're really in the very early stages of the correction. Remember, 2000 took 2 years to crash, 2008 took 18 months. We have no idea what the next year will bring.
I can’t help but think investment funds are eyeballing those little war chests and wanting to capture those funds and the economic productivity that produced them.
There is no reason that self-driving will create a transit modality that is more conducive to smaller vehicles. That is an energy cost “problem.”
The Nested Corner Case
Do you miss a touchscreen?

I use a surface laptop 4 as my mobile workstation, and I like it overall, but the battery life leaves a lot to be desired. I'm OS agnostic, so the M1s caught my attention, but I use the touchscreen so much I'm not sure how happy I'd be with it unavailable to my workflow.
As an M1 MacBook Pro owner, I'd say the experience is quite frankly superlative. Oodles of power and battery life. Sadly, the RAM isn't upgradeable. So try to get as much as RAM as you can afford. Should help with longevity.
Wine and Ambien is his goto..
Ask HN: HN is gone, now what?
In a hypothetical scenario where HN would disappear for whatever reason more or less permanently, what alternatives would there be?
Where someone could find similar quality of commenters?
So, you don't see a conflict if Musk criticizes Gates for shorting TSLA (because Gates thinks it is overvalued) and then turning around and selling billions of dollars' worth of TSLA? I do. I think that qualifies has hypocrisy.
I love using Google Maps but I always use it with a North-up orientation with a 2-dimensional slightly-zoomed out view, so I can have context about where I am and where I'm going, so even though it's telling me where to go, I have an idea of the path I'm taking.

I used to have a strong opinion that spell check was harmful, but I've relaxed on that somewhat.

I wonder how language geeks feel about the recent rise of inline grammar checkers like Microsoft Editor or Grammarly.
Is difficulty finding financing capital the major barrier for new development?

Seems to me the best way to get markets to allocate more capital towards housing would be to eliminate costly restrictions on building.
Right, Brain, but where are we going to get all that cream cheese?
I think you mean the benefit of technological advances from a mars trip.

A mars trip itself is only for those going. Most people don't get a part of it unlike pizza which can be divided
“Elon Musk _tries to walk away_ from Twitter deal”
6 doesn’t work anymore, and I’m hearing rumors that 9 may actually be an upside down six.
great question. following.

maybe bring good old'school forums back. man, i miss those times.
It was definitely a poorly and lazily written article. I think the big news is really the NAR's affordability index. Another article from today in the same publication has a bit more data:

https://archive.ph/N6Ys7
"not bad" is a weird bar to cross for a language that:

1. decided generics is not needed
2. went on for a decade
3. implemented a version of it that is not performance-sensitive
3.5. $$ by google
If you had one early on consider it again. The first 6 months was abysmal for me, but ever since https://github.com/lima-vm/lima has been locked down I have ways to compile everything and run any container I want. `nerdctl` has taken a tiny bit of effort to learn but it's been well worth it.
"Fantastic Fungi documentary" and "Fantastic Fungi" documentary mean quite different things. The correct one here is the latter, or 'Fantastic "Fantastic Fungi" documentary'. Yes, I'm in a pedantic mood, and I'm glad I caught my 'fungy' spelling mistake before I hit 'reply'.
Any plans to take this to mobile?
Not really. Most Canadians live near the US border and concentrated in high density. There's no correlation to what you are proposing. Income levels are good. Looking at developing countries, they have cheaper and better plans than Canada.
I think the point is that given typical demand, the amount of supply would have been sufficient to not cause meteoric price increases. Demand exploded due to incompetent monetary policy driving a speculative mania, and that demand was what gave the appearance of a supply constraint. Until recently housing starts were at a 10 year high, and they are still on the higher-end of the past decade: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=Rzky
Not a problem if you can service the debt. Sure, you could be missing out on other investments with that cash, but if you buy conservatively it's not a bad plan. One thing I haven't seen anyone predict is sustained high interest rates. More than likely, rates will be back down below 5% in a couple years as the fed tries to restart the economy it crashed.
Would Starlink work in Canada during an outage like this if the base stations don’t have internet?
IME when supplementing Lion's Mane I can enjoy rather large amounts, like multiple quad shots of espresso in a day, without getting too jittery and impatient/agro/short-tempered.

It also seems to largely eliminate the withdrawal symptoms of quitting caffeine cold-turkey. So I'll go on it hard for couple weeks, and as it starts becoming less fun/useful thanks to tolerance developing, I just stop. There's one day of lethargy just because I'm off stimulants, but no persistent headache/hangover, nothing. Dry out for a week or two before riding the caffeine train again.

Without Lion's Mane in the loop I get miserable multi-day headaches and hangover-like effects when I quit caffeine cold turkey.

This was all just accidentally discovered, but it's highly repeatable for me and honestly is the one interaction that clearly demonstrates Lion's Mane is not just a placebo.

It feels like caffeine is part poison, and Lion's Mane delivers the antidote for that undesirable part. Back when I first started using the combination this way, searches revealed that I wasn't the only one - there's even mushroom-adulterated coffee beans marketed now.
isn't it amazing that 350 people died and years later no one has been put in prison yet?
Mental Models to Understand the World
> $177M in revenue for Linux Foundation (2021)

> Linux Kernel Support: 3.4%

I suppose this is not entirely accurate, since this was a forecast, and this isn't really news, apparently, but this is news to me. And I find it quite telling. I mean, obviously it must have been this way, how else could it be!
These talking points are all lies, especially Prop 13. Look at the home prices and the home sales, all of which are getting sold at ridiculously high prices. The turnover is huge across the state. Demand for housing is still strong despite the interest rates, despite your Prop 13 BS.

What Prop 13 does is stop retired families from being forced to move out. The retired families in my neighborhood would have to pay $4000+/month in property tax. What will it be in 2030 or 2040? The only thing keeping things sane are things like Prop 13.

And don't forget, Pelosi, in all her glory, was trying to add back in the SALT tax exceptions to the Biden bills earlier this year. Why would she do that except to reward all her rich donors in CA?
they are not an order of magnitude lower. when you make comments like that you're not trying to have a serious dialogue.
I've noticed this is only for mobile browser mode.
100% of active users on Mars are bots!
> the difference between the fair current market value (~20B$?) and the purchase price (~44B$)

Why would the current market price have anything to do here? Twitter want him to be forced to buy for $44B, not a penny less.
And people often forget that rates go down at the same time people get laid off and the market crashes and house prices go down.

If you're unfortunate enough to be out of work, you won't be able to refinance your loan. And if you're upside down on your loan, you can't refinance either.
Your sample size is 2.
The replacement*s* would not arise until after the original died; if that was a sudden and final thing then they'd pop up quickly and try to transplant the community as a first focus. If it changes more subtly then there's a long process of new communities growing and nothing quite like the original ever happens again.
Ukraine-Russia: Hidden tech war as Slovyansk battle looms
Why do you say that? I'm quite happy paying what I do renting in Vancouver. I usually find that people who actively want out of BC either desperately want to own property and can't, don't have any hobbies that suit the west coast, or can't make friends
while Mozilla has dropped official support I've had no issues using FirefoxPWA addon for similar functionality
Getting self published books into local bookstores is more of a challenge.

I know a few 6-7 figure authors who only sell from their own store. (Not that this prevents someone from posting their content on Amazon).
Maybe re-examine the foreign ownership rules for telecommunications companies...

"As it stands now, foreign ownership of a telecommunications company is limited to no more than 20 per cent of a company’s voting shares and no more than 33.3 per cent of the voting shares of a carrier’s holding company, and an effective total limit of 46.7 per cent (as long as the foreign entity doesn’t have control). On top of that, at least 80 per cent of the board members must be Canadian citizens." [0]

(Although seems not to apply to small actors under 10 percent of the market share anymore)

[0] https://financialpost.com/telecom/tight-reins-leaves-our-tel...
There are. There are also rules about how subsidiaries can and can't cooperate, self-deal, and collude under various circumstances.