skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If rent really is lower than the mortgage payment (assuming the alternative return on the downpayment is taken into account, etc) for an equivalent property, then buying is pretty reasonable in most circumstances.

I'm observing rents way, way below mortgages, but it's very location dependent.

When making decisions about where to put my money, I stopped worrying about what other people are going to do and are doing, what the market might do, etc, and instead think what makes _sense_ for me to do. If some expense makes sense for me, offers good value, etc, independent of attempting to prognosticate the future, it probably does for others as well and the investment will probably work out fine. If it doesn't, it doesn't matter, it still made sense for me to do it.

For me, this has meant buying a house when lots of my peers were running scared at what turned out to be the bottom of the housing market, selling one recently, and renting for the moment. In each case, this was just the cheaper and 'sensible' approach. I think people overcomplicated this stuff.
I wonder if all the "hype" from the Ubers and Googles about imminent self-driving is not actively harmful in that it is probably sucking out the oxygen from any perceived need to implement these things.
I have, but Idris feels much more like a dynamically typed language. Just pretend they are saying contract when they say type.
> You could cause absolute chaos by driving down the road broadcasting false messages

Even without self-driving cars, an "attacker" can go into a theater and yell "fire" and cause a stampede.

They can get a high-viz vest and clipboard, and stand in intersections directing cars to take detours they don't need and holding up traffic.

My point here is that society has a lot of trust baked in. We trust people don't just yell "fire" without reason. Just because it's FSD cars doesn't mean people will start broadcasting the equivalent of "fire" constantly. It's already easy to cause accidents.
I mean there's a reason for the slow and steady trend of North Americans leaving small towns for big cities.
Idk, does the job for me. Bought it to make my commute easier and it reduces the mental load required to drive in LA traffic.
Well, guess what:
https://www.reddit.com/r/windowsmodding/comments/ttm0nr/the_...
Aaahhh... Motif!

This reminds me of the time when I replaced Solaris & Motif on my SUN workstation by Linux and KDE. KDE looked much nicer than Motif, to my young eyes.

The workstation felt faster after the switch, but maybe I was biased. :)
600MHz 1MB microcontroller seems a little bit of an overkill for something $0.8 can easily handle https://lcsc.com/product-detail/ST-Microelectronics_STMicroe...
Postgres Indexing: When Does BRIN Win?
Let’s be honest, they were never going to solve the autonomous problem with that anemic R&D spend. Tesla is really bordering on fraud.
You can't "gamble or porn a website" either. But alcohol and nicotine companies have an online footprint, and you can buy alcohol and nicotine online.

Or in other words, there is web content that directly facilitates other 'habits' that are way more prevalent than gambling or adult content, so it stands to reason that if the intention is to break habits, the initial focus should be on the most prevalent habits.
Happened to me once to my company. I signed up for a bunch of porn sites with their fake email as most sites don’t require email verification. The only way to fight scam is by spam. Authorities and others take too long.

The other way I fought back was to create a bunch of fake gmail addresses and keep in touch with them and waste their time. They hate it when you waste their time. But time wasted for them means money saved for someone.
I feel like this was a pretty popular position to take in 2017-2018, but it sure has aged like milk.
My first reaction was "Wow, that looks like the Mushroom House in San Diego"
https://localadventurer.com/mushroom-house-blacks-beach-san-...
When talking about these things there is a meta level we are targetting that you're not understanding. Types exist at a meta level and are part of the language.

Assembly language does not have types. What you can do is create a new language with assembly and have that language have types. The reason why it has to be done this way is because these types of checks CANNOT happen at runtime. It's a pre-runtime check that prevents the code from even running if it's not correct.

Think about it. Can you add types to assembly language without creating a new language? No.
If it's a lot cheaper for similar range, yes. Or if it has better range for same price (ie compared to a small battery electric car).

It depends on your driving profile. For most of the year, I do small trips, below 50 km per day. Then I do maybe 10 200-400 km trips a year.

I could get maybe 80% electric kilometers with a modest plugin hybrid.
Rationality of him trying to buy Twitter is up to debate. I'm talking about deciding what to do when you promise to buy at a high price, and tech stocks crash afterwards. Given that, what he's doing now (trying to pull out) seems rational to me.
"Oh thats interesting, we want to buy it to develop something based on it"

But it's a diet. There's nothing to sell with a diet, so again, what are you talking about?

But you know what let's run with this for a moment because it comes up a lot: you know what happens when a research group has an exciting new X, sells the patent on it and then nothing appears to happen? It doesn't actually work.

This story comes up a lot and frankly, HN should realise it: products are hard, hardware is even harder, try doing bio-anything even more so

There's not a conspiracy, which you are still trying to push with your comments here, the answer is just that it turns out not to work that well. Or that "revolutionary" actually means "minor overall improvement we generally expect from the market".
Most self-driving vehicles aren't just coded; they incorporate some form of ML as well. Categorizing patterns of behaviors is well within the reach of ML algorithms, but my understanding is we have far more basic problems to solve first (Tesla's seems to struggle with object tracking over time, which would be a necessary first step to recognizing patterns).
FSD? The guy promised a robot!
And still Teslas sell better both in EU & China than all those EVs you mentioned
Bonds have been the only thing backstopping my 401k from taking the bigger hit that equities have taken, the Vanguard 500 portion itself is down 21% or something and total I'm still down 16% or something like that YTD.

I'm guessing it's the "real returns with investment" that is painful here... bonds may not be losing (as) much but they're also not keeping pace with 10-15% annualized inflation either.

Due to the way energy prices (which are a massive component of everything else too) are factored out of CPI, even TIPS probably has negative real returns at this point compared to reality. Is there a non-CPI TIPS equivalent, lol?
At least not that long ago the outlook app used to proxy access as it was purchased from someone else rather than being a Microsoft product - it didn't have an imap client but asked a remote machine (in the USA) to connect on your behalf, don't know if this is still the case but given neglect for mail clients I wouldn't be surprised
For many years the GOP platform has called for the end of gay marriage so asking that is valid.
It’s almost as if we should invest in public transportation and try to reduce cars rather than make a train car for each individual!
The effects of sleep debt
7. Need to understand that drunk person staggering along the roadside has been repeatedly slipping off the sidewalk and there's a non-zero chance they trip and fall right in front of you.
John C. Wells has patiently explained to you that intrusive-R pronunciation, while not expected of anyone, is (mostly) not considered to require correction, or to reliably unmask a bounder.
Taking the thinkpad apart is part of flashing the bios, which usually is just clipping an SOIC8 clip to the bios chip and using CH341a SPI usb programmer to flash it. I did the same to my thinkpad x220 to flash it with coreboot.
I don't think it's a scam, it's just a really hard problem that will take years or decades longer than originally promised.
https://archive.ph/4Nr4M
Did you just wave away all concerns and criticisms of an increasingly aggressive surveillance and police state as “ideological purity?”

People use that word because they think their own biases are realistic, but it doesn’t get more ideological than believing that giving police and courts more surveillance power has benefits that are “too compelling.”
It doesn't matter. It was approved calculator option B
There's more to life than programming
This assumes that roads are used exclusively by autonomous vehicles, when our roads are not used exclusively by motor vehicles to begin with.
>I had to redo on a friends windows laptop in half an hour because it failed to display on the projector

What situation would possibly require you to redo a presentation because it can't display on a projector? PowerPoint is cross-platform and Keynote can export to PowerPoint. This seems like hyperbole.
> If they could lose their obsession with self-driving and just focus on their incredible cars, they'd still make money.

They may want to think about that strategy soon. Model 3 is starting to seem dated (not to mention Model S, which is ten years old). There are very competitive alternatives on the market now that have strengths where Tesla is weak, and which are not especially weak in the areas Tesla is strong.
No, but they are titanium and don't scratch. Well, not with towel anyway.
For VW to build 10 million electric vehicles to keep numbers up [1], at 60kWh per vehicle which approximately the midsized ID.3 [2], they need to build roughly 12x this capacity, so ~$240B investment which is about what the whole company is worth today [3].

[1] https://www.best-selling-cars.com/brands/2020-full-year-glob...

[2] https://www.drivingelectric.com/volkswagen/id3/range

[3] https://ycharts.com/companies/VWAGY/enterprise_value
From a physics perspective, there are multiple viable approaches. But AFAIK, they all have huge engineering/materials challenges.
Wow, some of the comments on this are frankly disturbing.

Here is my two cents. If you are worried about how someone close to you is doing, my advice is to sit down with them and have a chat. Explain to them why you are worried and how you feel. Let them talk to you about how they feel and why they do what they do. Try to be genuinely useful.

If you think your kids are being a bit lazy, could contribute more, are genuinely worried about the impact their hobby has on their social life and wellbeing or simply expect something different, well, letting them know exactly what it’s all about always seems a good start.

It’s funny because I wrote basically the same advice in a thread regarding relationships with customers and management just a week ago. Seriously people should talk to each other more before jumping to action.
The biggest concern I've heard for hybrids is lifetime maintenance cost. You have both the legacy ICE and transmission, as well as electrical components to maintain. That's a major hypothetical disadvantage to all electric.

Does anyone have numbers for this?
This sounds like solid evidence for the fact that he won't ever get his hands on a time machine.
I think you looking for entertainment tonight. Different outfit entirely. They got lots if you want hate for entertainment.
You could mount a small laser pointer in your window pointing directly into their camera.
Great turn of phrase, perfectly captures both the state of Unity-the-company and the broader zeitgeist.
Unity must be in more trouble than I thought. There's no way a game engine company that's doing well would merge with a company like this. They're reporting earnings in a month, so it must be pretty bad.
This is a good point. I think the market has to adjust to a reality where electric cars are just cars that happen to be electric, rather than a hyped up techno-dream. Electric propulsion all by itself is pretty great, we don't need to tie it to FSD dreams.
Properly ran it with LILO as the boot loader. Shortly later the "boot from DOS" things started cropping up but I still preferred running them properly.
I have aphantasia, and I also remember songs in multiple parts vividly. I won't go so far as to say it's eichoic--I can't, for example, turn around and just play a version of it on piano like some people I know, and I'm fairly sure I'm recalling an approximation in a lot of cases--but it's a detailed enough recollection I can "listen" to songs that way by recalling them. It's very much in contrast to my non-existent ability to recall even a familiar image.

I've considered cause/effect on this before and personally just decided it was probably coincidence combined with my poor visual memory making the other types seem that much more impressive. There's no particular compensatory mechanism I can think of that would explain remembering sound better because I remember vision worse.

Interestingly, I've never been any better at composition (i.e., imagining novel music) because of this. To the extent I've composed, I still pick stuff out a part at a time and figure out how it fits rather than starting with a finished sound in my head to recreate.
The number of people who report this is ... significantly high.

Perhaps Amazon was instructing their drivers to steal packages until they see a Ring installed.

(Even with a Ring camera you should still get recordings of people noticing you have it ...)
Your personal experience is not something that can be so easily generalized. I've had my Model 3 for 4+ years, and the only real problems I've had are non-mechanical (nails embedded in tires, getting keyed in SF, etc.). See - we cancel out....
> doesn’t seem capable of solving it,

How so?

If humans can master driving with 2 eyes looking forward, why would a car with plenty of cameras in all directions not have sufficient sensory input to master it?

The problem is the software, not the sensors.
Web3 is already dead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTc0IstWISY
I wouldn't count that out because Netflix is facing and will face only growing competition from YouTube, TikTok and other screen time attention apps. But tbh majority of people use "Netflix" as a synonym for movies and TV series. That's the one thing they have.

As far as I understood Netflix revenue moves according to the season cycles e.g. people buy their subscription during Christmas winter time because they want to watch movies during holidays and because it's cold outdoors or during February because of Valentine's Day so they can watch movies with their loved one. The second factor is original content which forces you to buy their subscription because that content is exclusive to the Netflix or in another words you can not watch it anywhere else except on Netflix. Again original content comes in cycles.
There are two main parts to it.

First is that, in his view, globalization is mostly coming to an end. The US protected global trade and borders as a trade for help in containing the Soviets, and has been gradually pulling back from that effort since the Soviets fell. This is coming to a head, and is bad for everyone heavily dependent on the global system, especially if they import critical goods. China imports over 80% of their energy and agricultural inputs.

One reason the US can't afford to police the globe anymore is that the boomers are retiring. But at least US boomers had lots of kids, because the US urbanized slowly and built things like suburbs. Most other countries urbanized more rapidly, and their boomers lived in little urban apartments and had fewer kids. This is very much the case in China, which of course had the one-child policy on top of that. Their population is going to shrink dramatically over the next couple decades.

Russia has similar severe demographics. Zeihan predicted in 2014 that they would invade the rest of Ukraine around the end of 2021, because if they waited much longer they wouldn't have the manpower. This is the first of many trade-disrupting conflicts he expects.
They’re trying to walk a fine line. Maximizing revenue while avoiding regulation.
If you leave your sunglasses in the open in the car, it might be collecting the offgassing from the plastic - that same haze that accumulates on the inside of your windshield. I keep mine in a closed container and it seems to do just fine.
Groundwater tends to be around the local air temperature averaged across the whole year. It is considerably colder in northern climates.

Not literally supercooled though, pipes aren’t that pristine, they will happily freeze.
Agreed, the reply makes me more sure that the comment suffers from non-expertise and that we should remember the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
The other side is: police want your money for their budgets

They have war machines to buy, yaknow
I want to see an emulated hardware design lang to make desktop apps.
I see where you're coming from, but in the US at least there is no legal right to privacy outside/in public. That Amazon can and will turn over recordings - possibly without even a warrant - is horrifying. But that's basically the reality in the UK with CCTV.

Should something be done about it? Sure. But that's where we are.
I remember that microsoft had essentially sunsetted Microsoft Teams while they worked on a complete rewrite to be built into Windows. They were partially through it...

And then Covid happened.

Then, they had to go back and work on the old app, fixing as many issues as fast as they could because now a lot of people suddenly depended on the app.

To their credit, they did eventually fix the most pressing issues (more than two video streams showing at once, push-to-talk mode, etc...), but I do think they'll need to go back to a rewrite that can be used cross platform.
Great news for coal miners
Just repeating disproven mantras from a year ago.

Chip supply is higher than prepandemic. Demand is even higher due to fiscal stimulus. Not even worth discussing, its obvious to anybody that has been following the data closely.

Look at retail sales figures on FRED and explain to me how this is not a primarily demand driven inflation:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RSXFS

You and many others are conflating "shortage" with "supply side issues". Shortages can be driven by excess demand just the same as constricted supply
That's an interesting idea, I would have to essentially build resolvers? How can I pull it off, I'm using react native
I wonder where this is. Europe? I'm in Eastern Canada, and I don't see any of this.
https://insideevs.com/news/570053/tesla-models-modelx-no-rad...

> Tesla has just confirmed that it has removed radar from the Model S and Model X as of mid-February 2022, moving its entire lineup to what it calls ‘Tesla Vision,’ which is an array of cameras that Tesla says negates the need for radar. The manufacturer did the same for the Model 3 and Model Y in May of last year and even though this prompted some questions from the IIHS, the institute is now fine with it after testing.
I was expecting some clickbait/spam (the layout of the website has that feel) but this was surprisingly super in-depth and 100% matches up with my experience doing prompt engineering.

There's a fine line between so descriptive that the AI hits an edge case and can't get out of it (so every attempt looks the same) and not being descriptive enough (so you can't capture the output you're looking for). DALL-E is already incredibly fast compared to public models and I can't wait for the next order-of-magnitude improvement in generation speed.

Real-time traversal of the generation space is absolutely key for getting the output you want. The feedback loop needs to be as quick as possible, just like with programming.
Which groups were you thinking of?
Commodity Challenge is an online grain trading game for corn, soybean and wheat
Many fabs are not in China, and you can't just magically snap your fingers and build a chip fab.

The capital requirements are huge. You need vast quantities of ultrapure water. You need a friendly government that will look the other way to you dumping toxic waste somewhere. You need lots of highly technical staff. You need lithography machines that are some of the most complicated and expensive electromechanical devices made. And...lots and lots and lots of capital.
But they are really good bots. So good that they might pass as FSD AI.
They don't have to build absolutely every battery, they can still work with partners.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhahIwhql_E
My Nextdns filters blocked the link to TFA (edgesuite.net).
Also, as a reminder, oil prices have already been there (and even higher, briefly), between 2008 and 2014.
Just take time with the kid?

I'm not a parent. I was however very involved with popular education (youth camp counselor, science camp counselor, association "the small resourceful" (probably poor translation, but w/e).

Unengaged kids are unengaged because no one tries too engage them (nice repetition here). Because this is tiring to seemingly always talk to a wall and get nothing in response. But you never really talk to a wall. The correct way to go through that, as i learned, is to honestly talk to them in a safe place for them. I know "safe place" seems politically incorrect because of this weird cultural battle in the US, but for teenagers this is a real thing, and also is not really a place but rather a mix time and an atmosphere that you should be able to set. It won't change their attitude, but you will get more honest responses, and they will at least try to play nice.

Ask the kid if he wants to try a new hobby. Any solo sport where the culture is positive and engaging, like most sailing/river sports, but also rock climbing or trail running (i'm not sure if its called that). You probably have sport camp for adults in your country where they let the participant in relative autonomy and just teach him the basics. My favorite would be hydrospeed, catamaran, rock climbing and kayaking (both river and sea, sport in river, guided roaming at sea), but i have not yet tested every existing sports, only a dozen. Surfing/parasailing/windsurfing might take too much time to engage with.

Another way, and my father taught me that early, is to bring them to your job or to your hobbies. (personnal anecdata was useless, too precise and removed). If you can, it might help? This i am not 100% sure, because it only work if you're a parent, and the only anecdata i have are me and my siblings (worked for the 3 of us). The safe place though, it worked 100% of the time.
or a machine that lifted humans out of zero sum game of war & conquer which brought about the biggest increase in quality of life to biggest proportion of people in the world since dawn of time.
GPT3 summary: Assumes P != NP. That's all you need to know.
I'm pretty sure the video limit for teams is 25 simultaneous video feeds (in a 5x5 grid) and anything more than that gets switched in and out as people talk.

Is there a real use case for seeing more than 25 users' video feeds at a time?
Plug-in hybrids are in a weird spot in the market. People who have access to home charging can buy long-range EVs which are much nicer to drive. People without access to home charging can buy non-plug-in hybrids or gas-powered cars. Most plug-in hybrids cost a bit more than the non-plug-in versions of the same car and their battery-only driving range is quite short.

No matter where you are in the car market, plug-in hybrids are a weird compromise, delivering all the slowness of a hybrid and the requirement to have access to charging like an EV, for more money than a normal hybrid car.
Same reason airplanes don't fly by just flapping their wings like birds. There's not always a biological equivalent for solving a problem, especially when you take into account human brain's evolution over millions of years. Sometimes computers need more help.