skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In many locales the house is the least valuable thing on the property. When you buy real estate you’re buying a location above all else. As the population has grown and high paying jobs have increasingly consolidated into fewer urban areas, the demand for real estate in those locations has increased.

So it’s the land and location you’re investing in which is certainly not a depreciating asset. Where I live it’s an old town that doesn’t have anymore room to build and way more people want to live here than there could ever be homes. So prices continue their rise even if you invest very little in the home. Saying that, you’re right that owning a house means taking care of it which costs money.
Your cell is Data only? I have never seen that as an option. How do you take calls on 3GB/mo? What VoIP service do you use for receiving calls?
I think its wheels are designed flat, where normally rail wheels are angled. This means they're always in full contact and have to slip when going around a bend because trains don't have differentials. Not sure why they designed them flat.
What programs?
Thank you for everything you do, dang. Us geeks are an incredibly diverse set of people so, by design, a forum that lets them communicate with each other is always going to have its challenges.
You're probably not going to be busted, but FRS is very much not ISM band
Rabbits do actually love carrots.
Already thanked Dang here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026736

But it’s worth noting per Dang that sctb played role in building the data recovery system before it was needed — and mthurman helped deploy HN to AWS. Thanks sctb & mthurman!!

Dang’s comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031158

For who sctb & mthurman are, see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32033413
> Individuals with depression are prone to maladaptive patterns of thinking, known as cognitive distortions, whereby they think about themselves, the world, and the future in overly negative and inaccurate ways.

I am convinced for many reasons that social media is a major player in many mental health issues, but I wouldn't pin 100% of the blame there. For a start, the effect predates mainstream social media. But more importantly, the financial and political rewards for making people think negatively have never been higher. I think once the corporate/government/activist influencers caught onto the “make them feel bad, then offer them an alternative” trick, we were destined to see the hockey stick even if Twitter had never happened.
HN isn't Amazon or Facebook. It's not a for-profit operation relied on by millions for their business. It doesn't have a blog where its engineers document the latest way they squeezed a few percent more performance. It appears to be a shoestring operation run in a frugal fashion.

Why anyone would expect people to have the same attitude towards that as Facebook is beyond me.
I have been tracking my time for 4 years, and here is what I learned
Is this VB for the web?

If it is even half decent I am very excited about this, lock in and all. Webdev has been a haven of incidental complexity.
I'm not sure how this relates to the fediverse itself; as in, how does the technology affect the way people behave. I'm not sure federation ever claimed to be a balm for these sort of social media ills. What federation wants to accomplish is, well, decentralisation in the ownership of the servers; no?
Aren’t a lot of smaller ISPs going out of business right now because of the CRTC’s decision to allow the big 3 to charge more for wholesale rates? I recall TelSavvy being going outspoken about this.
There's also Teddit[1], which I use most of the time I want to look at Reddit now. It's been discussed on HN before[2].

[1] https://teddit.net/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25310206
They have been super transparent about the HN stack and both outages. A disk failed in their collocated server. They migrated to their backup server, and lost a disk in that server in the same manner.

They temporarily stood up an AWS instance from a backup, and are working on a permanent fix.
> Unless you have a business license or an amateur radio license, you are not allowed push the Transmit button on a Baofeng.

So absurd to read this, as "not allowed" to does by no means translate to "cannot practice". You can do things you're not allowed to do.

There might be consequences for you if you get caught, but choosing to ignore a law is always a choice that can be made.
Option 3) seems to be more fun and natural. Would go for that.
What actionable steps can Canadians take?
Hm, that's fair enough for a more complex desktop build in my opinion (except for the unfortunate fact that you often end up with paying a premium for worse hardware that way), but in this case the NUC is an off-the-shelf standard barebone that is widely available - the only thing you are adding is RAM and storage. You can do both of those (for reasonable prices) via Crucial's part picker, for instance - and in fact that's what I based my $200 estimate on.

It feels like an odd target market for me considering I would expect people deliberately opting for Linux to already be more adept with that kind of thing - but maybe I'm wrong!
This is so much more important than people realise. The same applies to things like: what happens if you click a button, but change your mind, move your cursor off the button before you release?

This is a nuance that has to be implemented by the UI developer, otherwise you're essentially stuck in a multi-step process you cannot get out of, no matter how many steps you have left to change your mind about. This is mostly implemented in a bad way in custom non-native-UIs like browser JavaScript where a button mouse event might be scoped to a click regardless of when the mouse down event and the mouse up event happens.

Native elements have (usually trough decades of legacy development) this down to perfection (in my current OS at least), even here on HN where the "add comment" button really is just the native button, it works flawlessly. But as soon as someone tried to 're-implement' it, things go horribly wrong, and something that looks like a familiar UI element suddenly behaves completely wrong.

With so much time spent interacting with UI widgets, any time you have to take a moment and think about how some new thing might work differently from the millions of other times you have used it is just painful.
Real estate is a field where you can succeed on hard work and hustle without much expensive professional education. A good real estate agent in a nice area can make as much as a dentist, but they didn’t have to go to expensive school for years just to get started. The required training is relatively minimal.

There are certainly “corner-cutters” in real estate just like any industry. But to make real estate a sustainable career, it really does take a lot of hard work, hustle, and integrity. Most long-term agents live off of referrals and repeat customers. Or have enormous marketing costs, which also takes skill to manage.
Ask HN: Non-money lovers, what do you hope to achieve for retirement?
I worry more about loving money than making money. I am 50 and just paid my mortgage off. I have a year's worth of salary in savings. In 17 years I will get a UK state pension and then some.

Does anyone coming from a similar perspective have a framework for saving? In particular what you hope to achieve for retirement?
Yes there is comparison, but not with Lenovo, Lenovo is crap.
A store is the worst place for discovery. They want you to buy what makes them the most money. This isn't just an Amazon problem it goes for every retailer.

You cannot get good independent advice from someone who wants to make money off you.
The "back links" and curated directories (Yahoo) worked just fine in the early internet. It made discovery actually a lot of fun. There was magic to it that is long gone.
The linked court filing (https://www.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Morford...) is worth reading
Why a shame it only has a 1080p screen, there's no way I could go back to low resolution.
Demand-side economics:

Low mortgage rates create a shortage of affordable housing by increasing demand. For example:

-Speculators buying things and selling them for higher price later, that is a rational thing to do.

-Normal folk who simply want a home rarely think long term, 50 years into the future, during which rates may vary and only look at what they can afford to pay monthly, right now.

In a high interest rate, high inflation, high wage growth world houses are a BAD INVESTMENT because of erosion of value by inflation. What happens to bad investments? Their prices collapse, investors seek targets elsewhere. The only people who buy affordable housing in a high inflation environment are people who don't mind the deprecation in value and have a steady income to afford it.
Which also comes to full stops outside of stations, because it shares tracks in Connecticut
After seeing how the telecom infrastructure was targeted in Ukraine, No sane government in the world can afford to maintain an oligopoly telecom infrastructure anymore; Ironically often in the name of national security.

I think the best way to address it is to open the industry for disruption by encouraging new players(without Billion dollars in market cap) by removing barriers for entry, With stringent monitoring/punishments for anti-competitive behavior including backroom deals among carriers and mobile ecosystem duopoly.
What is it with the weird RAM configurations? It looks like they have 8GB embedded (soldered) to the motherboard.

The choices for RAM configuration come down to 8GB, 2x8GB, 8GB + 16GB and 8GB + 32GB.

That makes the second option the only dual channel configuration. Going past 2x8GB is not a real upgrade but more like a side-grade.
Since I couldn't understand the article on The Guardian, here is one where what happened is understandable:

https://lawandcrime.com/live-trials/johnny-depp/amber-heard-...

It seems like an ID error:

>Heard’s attorneys said they have discovered new information that the person who showed up for jury duty was born in 1970. But the person who was actually summoned for jury duty was born in 1945 and would have been 77 at the time of the trial. Both the person who served and the person summoned live at the same address and share the same name, according to the supplemental memorandum.
> quiet, forgiving, and reflective about the HN outage and its cause.

If Cloudflare, AWS or Google goes down, it affects millions of people directly and often financially. If HN goes down, we simply find another way to waste time.
Only for the route to Marin, which Marin didn’t want and was never built.
Thats a very good point. It reminds of me the first time I pulled out bear spray, thumb off the clip, and prepared to use it. I didn't have to because yelling, making yourself big, and stomping can go a long way. When it was over I noticed I was actually holding it backwards. Embarassing but this was because of exactly this: I've never practiced using it and the situation require reflexived actions.
Falling interest rates for 40 years wasn’t the problem. If anything there has been less demand for money which is why rates fall. Things are far less capital intensive than they used to be in many cases.

Falling interest rates have been great for people as more people own homes than at any other point in history.

But printing trillions more last year was a flaw. At least got physical proof that MMT doesn’t work.
You can. But the story would imply that all that money is in receivables; it's hard to seize a big pile of debt, I assume even in Europe.
10 bit per color channel instead of 8.
Well dang. I've certainly enjoyed the site over the years. I know you're compensated for your work. But, I don't think you're quite well-compensated for your work. I would like to offer a humble thanks from those in the community that I've learned from over the years and for dang and company's moderation.
Renters are so much less likely to be voters that this has little impact.

In Seattle, for instance, municipal elections are on odd-numbered years. As a result, get out the vote operations that tend to increase renter turnout during presidential elections don’t have much impact on local elections.

We had a vote in the 90s that reduced housing supply considerably, “Citizens Alternative Plan.” It was a February special election with 23% turnout. 15% of Seattle voters downzoned the city.
I'd get that if it was a full desktop build, however in this case it's an off-the-shelf barebone that you plug two standard things into - but to each their own I guess.
Right. My view is: Go brings back a lot of the great traits of languages like Pascal and Modula. Fast compilation speed, a simple static typed language, a modules concept. Adding a few nice things like GC, high order functions and some more.

I feel, programming too often lost productivity with quite a few modern languages. Go brings that back and adds a good amount of modern features, but doesn't get too much distracted by them.
> There’s a level of distrust that employees have for their organizations, almost like an old dated image of like fat cats sitting around counting their money.

Because it is broadly true, as the nonsensical, obfuscated-with-bullshit layoff announcements prove - and there is always someone waiting in the hacker news comments to bleat about how corporations must be this way because of “shareholder value”.

Executives need to learn that they can’t have it both ways.
Also it's incredibly annoying when a language uses `<=` for something that's not a comparison.

Julia was right in allowing developers use unicode for variables and operators, so if you want ≤ you simply use that directly (or type \leq in your editor).
Went to order because it sounds great. $10,000. Nope
We weren't quiet. There were lots of questions about the cause of the outage... along with detailed answers, and discussions of those answers: [1][2][3]

You just missed them.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026571

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32030400

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32032235
Any bill to ban junk mail would fail in Congress because the postal workers union here is very cozy with the Democrats and would never support it.
Yeah, I hate this too. Either solder both in a sane dial channel configuration or have both socketed.

What is it with this 8GB soldered, one socket free thing?
As an array language developer I may be a bit heretical in the community for my view that array languages are a domain-specific tool, not a general-purpose tool. They are the best by far in their niche of working with arrays, but they can be harder to fit to some other kinds of tasks, especially when it comes to more semantic programming.

That's why my APL compiler, April (https://github.com/phantomics/april), can be called within Common Lisp with CL data structures as its input and output. It's also trivial to port functions from CL and its libraries into an April workspace. You can see an example on page 2 of this paper: https://zenodo.org/record/6381963

In this way April puts the entire CL ecosystem at your fingertips. If you want to do something like making HTTP requests or ingesting XML files, you can write a function to do it and express the specific parameters for your use case in CL, and then have the function available within April using a simple monadic/dyadic argument API. This can sidestep the need to port every necessary library into APL itself.
If you are able to position yourself at a safe distance down to the centimeter, you probably also have the super power to move when the officer shifts weight.

The easy solution is to post up at 15 feet and vigilantly adapt. If you are filming an intense arrest, I would hope you would maintain that sort of situational awareness anyway.

I certainly understand your concerns about abuse of power. However, giving officers room to do their job is not “very strange” nor is the premise “ridiculous.” Indeed, moving bystanders back to a reasonable distance might reduce tension and the likelihood of misbehavior
I hope that the strikedown of Miranda Rights will not be as much of a shock to people as Roe was. They are going to have to back-edit thousands of episodes of Law and Order.
here’s the deal:

HN is a tiny forum which basically runs on a single machine with a single backup. There are surely only a few people monitoring it. It’s used by about ~1 million people a day, and nobody really “relies” on HN.

GitHub, Facebook, Google, AWS etc. are massive clusters of over 1000 servers spread across continents, with multiple failure modes and run by many DevOps. Many people and services rely on them being up. They’re used by billions each day.

Yet HN has more uptime than these behemoths, and way more uptime than e.g. Slack. It’s also faster, even though it’s only one server. HN went down for 2 (?) hours. HN also promptly posts why it went down. In this case because both the main and backup server failed.

Of course HN is definitely more reliable because it’s only one server. But it’s still impressive and shows that you can reach a large audience with a simple setup and few resources. Maybe if Google, Facebook, AWS, etc. found more straightforward solutions they too could have more uptime.
No you can’t. There’s a Direct Marketing Association that will let you “opt out”, but it’s purely voluntary and only a minority of junk mail senders are members.
It really doesn't matter if they have the evidence to convict you. They can arrest you and put you in jail for a night or 2. You have to pay for an attorney to fight the charges or use a public defender who will probably just advise you accept a guilty plea. You could potentially lose your job. If you have a security clearance that's potentially gone too. Your life can be ruined and when you get to trial a year or so later and you present all the evidence, maybe you are found innocent. At that point the damage is done and it cost the cops nothing.

Also another fun fact is cops in the US don't actually have to know the law they can just claim they thought they were enforcing the law. So they can do pretty much anything up to a pretty arbitrary line of egregiousness and just shrug if told they were wrong and walk away career unscathed.
> intense Bay Area winds

the Bay area has intense winds?
Once seen as fleeting, a new solar tech proves its lasting power
> Twitter gets a 1y revenue for virtually no cost.

This is not between Twitter and Musk. This is between Twitter shareholders and Musk. Twitter board is just working on their behalf. Shareholders don't care about Twitter's future now when they have very tight agreement. There will be judgement against Musk almost certainly.

Musk made $44B deal. However this ends, Musk is in hook for tens of billions. Either he pays $44B and gets Twitter or he pays the difference between $44B and current valuation when the deal is made, say $20B and current owners keep Twitter.

Musk has no upper hand. He made a huge mistake.
OVH is not playing in the same market as the big cloud providers - its primary business is doing commodity dedicated servers with the primary selling point being low cost.

It's hardly surprising that low cost options are more prone to failures in many markets.
That's true, but I think it's important to take the encryption approach, I understand how it works vaguely and hope I don't get burned.
The most popular piece that used coffeescript was atom and github recently killed it in favour of vscode, written in typescript afaik.
Pretty much every capital asset depreciates. Even with basic maintenance everything wears out over time. Only legal entities are immune from the ravages of time.
Simulation shows tsunami as high as 42 feet could hit Seattle
Once you are being arrested, you are no longer a bystander, so you may continue filming.

I understand your fear of the chilling effect this may have, but I would guess there will be just as many people who now feel empowered to say “This is my right. I’m 8 ft away.”
>the (permanent?) switch to work from home

Don't know where you live but where I do (Austria) nearly all companies, big or small, have employees back into the office.
I've never had more than minor inconvenience with a mouse. Unlike terminal, where I've accidentally wiped a(Thankfully unused) windows partition with dd.

GUI software typically has confirmation and undo as high priorities. Most software that doesn't is throwing away a lot if the benefit of GUI.
Would that even work, though? It’s not like he can’t afford it; his money is just tied up in TSLA. Presumably the court can force him to liquidate his shares if his lenders somehow back out.
> It is a discovery, a study of the feedback mechanisms that lead to certain distributions of resources.

and who makes those feedback mechanisms? are you saying that property rights and other rules of trade are not human inventions?
Yeah, really... HN has been instrumental in generating good publicity for YC.
I think the law excludes the restriction when filming in a confined structure. I don’t know if a car qualifies, but as the intention is to prevent interference, it arguably could qualify.
In the US, I think people still mostly buy homes primarily to live in them.
Every modern bank loan is "printing money" because there is no amount of corresponding money that the bank is actually loaning out. The bank must survive stress tests, but not have actual deposits on hand for the amount loaned out.

However, even if the bank needed to have deposits or collateral on hand, to stop the "printing money" aspect of new loans, this same thing could happen because homes are collateral on mortgage.

Really I think it mostly driven by the supply demand mismatch, and in particular a belief that local governments will not allow the supply to meet demand.

There's a great recent Fed paper that shows the absolute huge correlation between prices and the supply/demand mismatch. It further shows that demand volatility has been higher than supply volatility so recent effects are explained by that demand volatility.

The only way to solve this is to out build demand and shock prices down. IMHO.
Regarding your question, I believe it's mostly down to corruption basically. Local businesses have huge markups because they have to deal with theft, paying off customs officials even if they have all the paperwork etc as well as the taxes. As others have mentioned, these freight forwarders have figured out ways to get around that, probably with more bribing, not paying import taxes etc. It's a never ending corruption cycle and the customers are part of it.
Why should they get more rights than the populace they enforce the laws over? More importantly this is not a formal policy they simply commandeered the space and forced the plebians out. If you don't think people should lose their jobs and be prosecuted for abuse of power over this I don't know what to say.
Huh !? No one said 'the difference is not there'.

I said the difference is not meaningful enough (for me and many other ppl, if i read the comments) and that stating that 1080p 'is simply a none starter' and it 'cannot' render text 'correctly' it not true. It can render it more correctly yes.

To be really annoying even 8k wont render text 100% correctly since if there is a circle like section example 'p' or 'b' no pixel based device would be able to give a 'true rendition' of the symbol since you need basically infinite precision to correctly display a circle like concept on gridbased scheme(i.e pixel based display)

Sure a 4k or 8k will approximate it better but(and this is really my point

4k or 8k wil be better(yes) but 1080p it sufficient for a good subset of ppl.

Not really sure how the blind man helps either side of this discussion ?
It looks like the steep upward curve starts about when the Internet and social media became broadly available. That could be involved, though it could also be something less obvious like changes to use of language or acceptability of bearing emotions in public.