skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see how home prices can really fall enough to keep the cost of housing equal as interest rates rise. Because don't higher rates also disincentivize sellers and create more of a supply shortage as well, by taking more homes off the market, apart from disincentivizing new construction? I'm admittedly a little daft at economics but... e.g. I've got a fixed rate mortgage around 4%. Suppose I wanted to sell and I think we're at the top of the housing market... my options would be to buy something else now at the top of the market and pay a higher interest rate, or rent for a year until prices come down and probably still pay a higher rate.

Certainly, low mortgage rates drove home prices way up... but does that mean high rates could drive them down? I mean, maybe over a long period of time as existing mortgages get paid off (?) but for now while the vast majority of mortgages out there are lower than the going rate, won't that just keep constraining the supply and prevent the price of houses from dropping significantly?
I think the Mars stuff is the least likely to be BS. There's been ongoing, real advancement towards the goal for over a decade now, advancement serious enough that NASA's picked them to land their astronauts on the Moon with their Mars rocket.

A permanent colony seems like the sort of thing he'd get bored with, though.
Can you explain how "[real] wages ... down since 2020" demonstrates "we have been in a recession since 2008"?
Yep. It's been nice to see a new subset of the population realize the dangers of pervasive surveillance and object to those they can live without. But what about the real dangers people don't want to think about because they're so useful?

It's pretty likely you carry a cell phone everywhere you go and it's always by you. They are literally tracking devices. It doesn't matter what software you run on the userspace computer on your phone. The cell modem you don't legally control will always be broadcasting beacons and the basestations with their shared accurate clocks are going to be multi-laterating your position down <100m. In the USA they're keeping this data for 2-5 years. And they're going to continue "anonymizing" this data that shows you going to work and home over and over for years by removing names and then selling the raw location data to companies which then sell it to government and special interest groups which de-anonymize it easily.

The only real privacy is turning off your cell phone radio.
Not a recession, but something is definitely wrong with the economy when it is completely dependent upon continued stimulus.

Times like this make me glad to be in the US though. As bad as it gets here, it will be far worse in the developing world and Europe.
Recruiting or “talent” often reports to HR.
if you as an owner have a <3% rate loan you are beating inflation permanently anyways, never really need to sell. Hold onto it as long as you can and rent it out.
I don't know if there's an equivalent on other OSs, but in most browsers in Windows if you hold down Alt you can select text in an otherwise clickable link.
It's infuriating
More Kittens Game automation! Just discovered this extremely hackable clicker a couple weeks ago, and now I'm 50+ commits into the JS (Plain JS? Didn't I stop using that a decade ago?), figuring out whether I should build/trade/praise when the prerequisites are just big enough or when they are about to hit max, why the tab's memory use keeps going up, whether there's a nice way to auto-build without being on the bonfire tab, and so on. It's a lot of fun trying to beat a game I couldn't possibly beat manually without going insane.
Uber drivers are just taxi drivers but with worse labor conditions that backslided because of late stage capitalism. If they are a stepping stone to anything, it is to a miserable future.
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I’m surprised there’s no chiming in from Bell customers. I’m on their Fibe or whatever plan, no issues all day whatsoever. My phone lines, however, are all down, as is merchant processing etc etc.

Really strange day but not unexpected. We “know” the telcos are screwing us but we don’t have a way to gang up against them, as people easily buy into their feelgood propaganda.
they are being paid for being recalled from vacations while this developer is doing it for free... that was his point...
Same here and that is more likely to happen.

I'm find it extremely hilarious and I'm laughing at everyone and the whole chaos since I don't use Twitter in the first place and I don't care what happens next.

There are no viable sane alternatives to Twitter. So the greatest action one can do is to just delete their account since Musk will own it either way whether they like it or not.
I don’t know if you’ve ever played chess against a more skilled player. But when I play, I usually think I have a sure way of taking my opponents rook for a knight, only to realize too late that I’m stuck in a trap.

You only need to be competent enough to realize how markets can be manipulated to initiate a conspiracy, however successfully executing one requires a whole new master level of skill set. Off course the people with such skill set exist (as evidenced by the numerous market manipulation schemes successfully executed in today’s business world) and if Musk was smart he would hire such an expert to scheme it for him.

What we might be witnessing here is a business person that is smart enough to realize that market can be manipulated, and see a position to where they can execute such a manipulation, but not competent enough to execute a non-trivial plan without flaws. And worse not smart enough to hire a person with the correct skill set to do it for him.
I've had their service for 4 years straight in the past. it's not as good as cable, but it's nowhere near as bad as you say if you're not playing real time games.

the constrained BOM is the very reason why the terminal cost is reasonable for this business. it's well known that SpaceX is selling the terminal at a huge loss to gather customers in the short term.
>My email is literally filled with twitter emails trying to activate my inactive account to temporary inflate their numbers.

Big if true
> those functions of type 'a->'a

Polymorphism. But note that there is only one function of type 'a->'a for all 'a, and that's the identity function.
I'm mainly a Django dev, and I'm curious how the productivity of Rails compares to Django. Do you have anything conclusions about their relative productivity, given a reasonable competency in both frameworks?
Very few of them have offered decent service at good prices. Usually outside of ~5 major metros you have effectively no coverage and speeds are often subpar compared to the incumbents.
owners will be less likely to sell if they cant make a profit either, further reducing supply
> Tesla is a car company.

Tesla is a very complex financial operation which, sometimes, sells some cars. From Musk's point of view it's working exactly as planned.
Google was trying to get started with the flushable fiber, right?
I am not saying that whatever attempted Mars missions should be delayed, I'm saying you should probably wait to reward the credit until it's a little closer to fruition.
You’ve also never seen a driverless Tesla or a cybertruck, so compare apples to apples. Yes Tesla killed it with their sedans and the model 3.
I love regulations, but there's a legitimate problem that large and entrenched businesses can write their own laws and bribe politicians to pass them and/or appoint their own into regulatory agencies. It allows businesses to put insane regulations in place just to keep competitors away and leaves them to police themselves which works as well as you'd expect.

Regulations are a tool. Useful as hammers, but just as painful if applied incorrectly.
No, it isn't. Those principles are things to be strived for, both when the words were put on paper as well as now. The fact that not all of those who put those words on paper totally embodied all of those principles does not make them any less worthy, they are a guiding principle after all - not a description of the state of the nation or the world in the 1700s. Under that guiding principle the USA has gone from a state which inherited slavery to one which, together with the United Kingdom, abolished slavery as well as the trans-Atlantic slave trade. While this did not totally end the practice of slavery - it existed long before the first slave was brought to the shores of the colonies and kept on existing long after the last slaver was boarded by the Royal Navy, indeed it still exists today in many countries in the middle east, Africa and parts of Asia - it did set in motion the cultural shift which made the concept of enslavement to be something which is unreconcilable with democracy [1]. There have been several ugly episodes in the history of the USA after slavery was abolished but this is one of the few cases where the arc of history indeed has tended towards justice. The wheels of justice may move slowly but move they do - unless obstructed. This is why the rise of identity politics - which aims to derail justice into ${identity_category} justice - is so harmful since prefix-justice is not justice.

[1] this did not use to be the case, the Athenian democracy had no qualms about slavery
In a way it is a good thing. They should be forced to take many steps back and look at where they bungled up. For starters, not trying to fix aerodynamic issues with software patches, and getting honest engineering back at the helm should be on the top of the list.
> The thousand paper cuts with things not properly supporting m1 was just too much to bear.

This was almost me in Nov 2020 - Firefox barely worked, Docker was a no-go, Homebrew choked on probably 50% of packages - but in 2022 I can't recall the last time I ran into a Apple Silicon-specific issue.
Well here's one reason not to retire cash just yet.
At $45 per month, you must only be interested in helping affluent people in HCOL cities.

Otherwise, that's a truly baffling out of touch price point, especially for an app which requires little interaction with individual paying users on the back end.

I've seen you justify it multiple times by saying 'people pay more to see people in person', but, and I mean this in honest good faith, that just reads as you saying:'people who suffer from insomnia will pay us whatever high price we decide because they are miserable and we offer a glimmer of hope.'

That said, I hope it takes off and reaches a scale where you can lower your cost of entry, and this helps many people.
That's awesome! I'd recommend all first-step beginners check out Ableton's Learning Music[0] and Learning Synths[1] resources to start. They're both great sites for getting to grips with the basics, and should take ~2 hours each. They're also super accessible, anyone aged middle-school or older should be able to get something valuable from these guides. Learning Synths is particularly salient because it teaches subtractive synthesis, so (almost) all of the parameters it shows you how to use will also exist on the Prologue.

After that, it's mostly up to you. There are hundreds of niches in both sound design and music theory, all of them with their own unique quirks to learn. Let your sense of curiosity guide you, and you'll definitely find something interesting. You should probably look into getting some DAW software if you want to compose full tracks, and a DAC would allow you to record off the Prologue into your computer. It really is an open-ended hobby besides that.

The only other piece of advice I like to give is to temper your expectations. The process of learning music theory and sound design is long, and everyone makes a lot of garbage when they're starting (much like programming). Unlike programming, I find the process of sound design to be pretty therapeutic, and many nights I'd find myself sitting in front of my modular rack instead of watching TV or playing games with friends. Everyone's relationship with it will be a little different, but nobody should be overly critical of their own work. Do whatever is fun to you, and let the inspiration follow.

[0] https://learningmusic.ableton.com/

[1] https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
Most productive day I’ve had in a while (I kid).
In some ways I like it already as well. Doing things in code instead of XML is nice. My real struggle is knowing what different citizens of the Android lineage are are "current".

Views and ViewGroups are kinda out. But ViewModels are still Good. I have no idea about Fragments and Activities and Intents. It's like every class in the system needs one of 3 badges: "Still a Club Member", "Stinky Poo Poo, DONT use this anymore", "Use if you have to, but we're hoping to make this go away some day, so keep your eyes out here."
Who is “we” in this context? It looks like the Finns figured it out.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_re...
>With no more “cheap tricks” of switching the run-time again, how can we scale the calculation engine 100x, from millions to billions of cells?

>In summary: by moving from maps to arrays. That may seem like an awfully pedestrian observation, but it certainly wasn’t obvious to us at the outset that this was the crux of the problem!

starting about 20 years ago programming has moved to "map-based" programming, coinciding with the hardware availability and the rise of of Java, JavaScript, Python and the likes where maps are much more convenient. Instead of various data structures everything started to become a map. Very convenient. Set/get by name. Good enough fit pretty much anywhere (i remember one of my particular creation using Perl in 1999 where i did let myself to have a go at it and had multiple levels of maps of references to other maps
- the code happened to be widely copied, yet nobody successfully extended/modified it as far as i know :). Comes with the price though, so sometimes people would have to dust off and use the old ones, like say the arrays above.
On a M1 Ultra MBP. It's been mostly great. Battery lasts way longer than my previous Intel MBP. The fan rarely comes on. It's much faster. It doesn't get too hot to touch like the Intel ones do.

Issues I've had, any node project that uses a native plugin has had issues. If you're lucky they've updated. If not, .... I haven't seen if there's a workaround that doesn't require the plugin to update. As an example, the canvas npm package uses a native plugin and tries to download from somedomain.org/foo/bar/<arch>/the-bin and since arch is now arm64 it just gets a 404. Note, that issue might have been fixed but I've run into similar issues on other projects with other dependencies.

I assume most of it will be worked out soon.
Best computer I’ve owned. M1 is plenty for my typical workloads but I’m excited to get more perf everytime I may need to upgrade.
Local-first software – Peter Van Hardenberg
ASCIIToSVG sounds interesting but Markdeep looks interesting.
This should fall under a reasonable right to privacy. They should need to get a warrant for a specific crime to search for specific plates, not blanket access to search all and contrive crimes stridently after the fact.
are you really comparing the moon to the earth with two satellites at much closer distances moving rapidly?
> continued stimulus.

What do you mean by "continued stimulus"? There is no natural rate of interest.
"(If) the Parent (Elon Musk) fails to consummate the Merger as required pursuant to the Merger Agreement, including because the equity, debt and/or margin loan financing is not funded, Parent will be required to pay Twitter a termination fee of $1.0 billion"
Nah, that's not enough, but maybe when it does that twice in 15 months.
"I see you’ve managed to get your shirt off."
— Galaxy Quest
That's the thing about people who aren't "into" tech, they have no idea what all this terminology is. What the hell is an OS, an app, a browser, a website? My grandma was completely shocked when I told her that some $100 phone she saw at the mall behaves exactly the same as her $1000 Samsung flagship whatever. To her, the whole phone is just run by Samsung. If you start telling people like her to always check the domain name in the email sender field, she won't even ask, "what's a domain name," she'll ask, "what's email? You mean the Yahoo button on my phone?"
When I first got my M1, support was pretty rough. These days it's pretty tough to find something that's broken.

The biggest incompatibility to point out is VMs. UTM exists, but is more limited in its capabilities and isn't as fast as I'd like. I've switched to using docker for everything instead of the standard Vagrant/VirtualBox setup everyone else at my org uses.
I try to stay within "ships and sold from Amazon" category. It's more expensive, but it's worth for me. If that's not available, I use "ships from Amazon by the original manufacturer" only. I did not encountered much problems that way. Certainly not with books. The Amazon Marketplace itself is dicey. It feels like you taking a serious gamble. Once I ordered a $100+ textbook from the 3rd party and received a cheap international edition from India instead. On return, the seller asked to ship it back to India for $60 - $80 cost to me. I called Amazon and they just refunded the whole purchase and dealt with the seller themselves. So, in the end, it was still Ok. But I really do watch that I buy only things that, at least, ship from Amazon itself.
> Publishers would put out a book, it'd get popular then cut-rate copies would swamp the market. Copyright was done to protect the publisher from this sort of abuse (and secondarily the author, as the publisher was their only means of reaching an audience).

Stephen Breyer, the recently retired Supreme Court Justice, wrote an interesting article in 1970 back when he was a law professor about that, called "The Uneasy Case for Copyright".

In it he argued that cut-rate copies swamping the market did not actually happen historically. Books made most of their money fairly shortly after publication. Copying technology was slow enough that by the time someone could get copies made and distributed there wasn't much market left for the book anyway. (Also, there weren't huge booksellers with massive inventory, or book on demand services, further making it harder for a book to get much sales after the first printing).

Now copying technology is a lot faster, and we do have huge booksellers like Amazon and book on demand services and we have ebooks so there is pretty much no cost to keeping a book available indefinitely, and so most of Breyer's points are no longer applicable even if they were possibly correct in the 19th and much of the 20th centuries.
actually, at first he said he didn't care about the bots and was buying to FIX the bots issue: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/14/elon-musk-buying-twitter-t...

then all of a sudden he cared, after he had signed.
If Rails performance problems can be fixed with money (more servers) then why does everyone complains about gitlab being slow?
For things like ATMs I think having two network connections is pretty expensive. Companies also like to use "strategic outsourcing" where they use the same ISP for all their locations which results in the systemic outages we're seeing now.
Buying increasingly deadly vehicles to protect yourself from other drivers is antisocial behavior, even if you personally rationalize it as “allowed and expected”.
Thanks! I would’ve liked to see this up front before filling out a really long survey so I could see if it’s something I can budget for after the free trial.
He can't afford to close the deal either. Looks like some of his Tesla stocks will have to be liquidated.
I don't know the LA market, but there is a scenario where both supply and demand could remain constant and yet housing prices could still rise, and that's if the income of housing buyers rises. And if the income rises disproportionally, then buyers with relatively lower income can become displaced by higher income people buying additional homes to rent. Even though base demand remained the same, and supply in the sense of actual houses remained constant, a relative scarcity was created by the inequality in purchasing power between the wealthiest buyers and people lower on the income scale. And this can happen even if the lower income tier has actually increased its income over time, simply because it hasn't increased at the same rate as the wealthier segment.
> They're just trying to hold on to them until the securities they sold mature.

So if those were 30 years mortgages the collapse should be fairly far away?
In my corner of the world abortion is effectively banned - in practice even in cases when performing it would save the woman's life.

Some people cross the border, others buy Mifepristone on the black market.

Statistics still indicate no abortions and that is frequently used as an argument that the ban is effective.
> The utterly inefficient and overpriced Canadian telecoms exist only because we allow one specific behavior:

> 1. A new local player comes to town, builds their own infrastructure (e.g. connects one building to fiber) and starts offering competitive service.

You forgot to mention that whoever is the ILEC in an area (Telus, Bell, etc) and/or the incumbent 35+ year early advantage local cable TV operator (Shaw, Rogers) has an immense advantage in owning and controlling existing right-of-way to reach whatever is the last mile service delivery location, whether it's aerial pole to pole or duct routes.
I still think it's funny that the ruby on rails creator didn't have enough experience for a job in ruby on rails in a jobpost that required a temporally impossible number of years experience.
Sony’s Playstation Store Pulling Access to Purchased Movies Next Month
Gaslighting: The Psychology of Shaping Another’s Reality
Daily Active Users are reported in every earnings call, since that is one of the foundational metrics used to determine value of the platform, and the officers (at least, probably the Board as well) have known the bots were a much bigger chunk of that total than they have been letting on. They didn't "come clean" until Musk moved forward on his offer. I think that may open them up to legal liability from the shareholders. From the outside at least, it looks like fraud.
The tweeting came after signing binding agreements. You may disagree that the tweets or buying a business are the same level of seriousness, but the binding part of binding agreement is the rule of law part of society that makes all businesses work.

Musk not being reigned in by the SEC, when looked at in a vacuum is probably not the end of the world or the US economy, but it’s not in a vacuum. Everyone watching right now realizes that you can publicly enter into fraudulent business deals that you leave at convenience and there is nothing you can do about it unless you have have better lawyers. That is gonna be super degrading towards the ease of doing business
If you look at Twitter's stock price, it never stayed near his $54.20 offer price, unlike other actual legitimate offers for buyouts.

Anyone who took it seriously...I'd like to sell them a bridge.
Here's both real average hourly (red) and median weekly (blue) wages:

https://econbrowser.com/archives/2021/08/yet-more-alternativ...

Helps to show that it's not an effect dominated by the very rich, and thus throwing off the average, and also that it's not that hourly wages have stagnated but people work more hours -- since they're broadly similar, we should feel strongly that it is a real increase in "normal people's" actual wages.

There are more data available if people want to look for it. This is a surprisingly complex subject for something that initially sounds simple, so it helps to get a few different views into it, but the upshot is: since the teens, people have been paid more.

EDIT to add: People are just slow to update on this. If you look at the world in 2014, then it seems a lot more reasonable to be skeptical that normal people will ever get a raise. Then, you'd had basically 15 year of stagnation, before that a little rise, and then more years of stagnation at a lower level.