skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's look then at the Turkish Lira, which had a massive fall because of crazy monetary policy and other problems. It now stands at 0.057 USD, compared to the most typical value of 0.11 USD in 2021 - it has retained ~52% of its value. In contrast, BTC stands at 20k USD, compared to its mean value in 2021 of 47k USD - it only retained 42% of that value.

So, someone who had put all of their savings in Turkish Lira would be better off today than someone who did so in BTC (and if we're comparing to the peaks for each year, it gets even worse - they would be left with only 39% for TRY, 29% for BTC).

Are there even worse currencies than the TRY? Probably. But the vast majority are actually doing much better, and even the TRY beat BTC as a store of value.
> Where I'm from(Poland) you always list the salary per month and that's how people talk about it.

Depends on the type of contract. I'm also from Poland and unit I use most often is the daily rate because it's the only reliable way for a contractor to calculate earnings.

Job listings indeed still use monthly, but their understanding of a month is usually "20 workdays", which is obviously off by at least 10%.
This doesn't seem to be related to GoDaddy locking out derivatives of Chrome and is probably Brave / browser extensions blocking certain JS scripts. I can access my account fine with Brave.
It's crazy how responsive the UI looks in the video (for an 8-bitter):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T14dL9MeMHE
If the pavement is clearly marked i would give it a good chance. We have a 6-way intersection with similar lighting that it succeeds at... Other than completely and recklessly disregarding the clearly visible "no turn on red" sign.

We also have a road with a reversible lane in the middle. Thankfully it recognizes the red X sign for this. Unfortunately, if it's driving for 11 seconds without seeing anothee, it will suddenly decide to merge into the incoming lane to make an upcoming left...
> Historical revisionism is also when those are uncovered later. First obviously, politically you get accusations of revisionism. And also quite literally, you are revising previous history.

I don’t think any serious person has ever objected to updating history based on a new archaeological discovery, and that’s not what “revisionist history” refers to, at least as I understand it.

> Then you are doing politics and not history.

I’m inclined to agree, and in a certain sense it’s easy to say this about Putin, a politician, but what about when a historian is doing politics under the guise of history? How do we exclude their work from the histories which at least aspire to minimize bias?
What is an average place that costs $5k a month in Paris? That sounds like way too much.
There is no objective history of video games
NYS doesn't really recommend yearly inspections.
It seems impossible to get an actual breakdown out of anyone. Every asshole wants to spit out some "number" that makes their favorite solution look good. Nobody wants to give you a breakdown of the environmental cost of various power sources in terms of site prep/construction, continued operation, etc.

Intuition says hydroelectric dam is almost carbon free for a century or more after you build it (not counting watershed disruption). Solar is basically free up front but the panels wear out quick and so the supply chain must run. Nuclear and wind seem to be in the middle with nuclear being closer to the damn and wind being closer to solar. But there is no good way to actually get the numbers and other stuff you need make the comparison.

Hell, even just trying to compute the amount of diesel used per kwh over a given timeline (and this should be a really easy thing to quantify in a demonstrably honest way) is basically impossible because you wind up having to sift through reams and reams of material written by people who are just lying with plausible deniability.

I don't care what my power source is. I just want to be informed. And the amount of lying I have to identify and discard on my way to being informed is too damn high.
Per month?
There's a pretty long (4-part) discussion on Andrew Gelman's blog[0] about Guzey's article and the book. In the end I was pretty convinced that many of the book's claims cannot be trusted.

[0] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/27/why-we-sle...
Ah yes, the old “what will we do in 10000 years when the Uranium runs out” problem.
>CAES plant capable of storing several days of energy at the same capacity, and the same capacity in a combined cycle gas plant, and a redox flow battery with 12 hours of storage, and a hydrogen electrolyser capable of producing enough hydrogen or methane to run the gas plant with change left over

None of this have ever happened beyond "research" projects at extremely small scale. You can't take nuclear "actually cost after construction" - which in some countries like Korea or China is maybe 20% more than original estimations - and apply assumption that anything of this is actually able to scale, not even talking about cost of this.
This is monthly rent, not yearly...
Sort of. Sometimes it goes wrong. I've seen a primary SQL Server go down because WUA took up enough CPU and interrupts to stop the cluster service health pings leading to a BSOD. This happened outside any schedule.
The effect of [first name] in email subject lines
<script src="https://example.com/js"> is not an experimental web platform feature.
>To meet the requirement of many landlords to earn in excess of 3x rent, one would have to earn 15k a month after tax, or 180k a year after tax. To earn 180k after tax in NY, you need to earn 300k pre tax.

But that's household income not individual ?
> But hey, let’s focus on windows hate instead.

I think GP acutely points out that one of the problems the author has with RabbitMQ is actually a problem with (a misconfiguration of) their underlying OS, MS Windows.

If you've been bitten by this, I understand the hate completely.
Those are mostly corporate landlords in large buildings. Many smaller landlords don’t have such stringent requirements.

Source: rented and invested in NYC apartments for more than 20 years.
> while it should be 2% points over inflation

Do you really think we solved central banking in 1992 [1], and if only you were one of the central bank chiefs we would be fine?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_rule
Presumably "per month"? Still cheaper than central London though.
Indeed. And I'm very interested in the core tech as I say elsewhere; for instance I've written my own ZK rollups for Ethereum as a project to better understand the tech. There's some bits and pieces on my GitHub if you're into that kind of thing.
If You’re Scared You’re Winning (2019)
Yrs, but that is planned maintainance which can be coordinated with industry and neighbouring countries. You cannot plan for when the wind stops blowing, plus the wind is likely to have stopped in neighbouring countries too. Countries which use primarily wind rely heavily on neighbours with hydroand nuclear.
people have taken on all this cheap debt and are just realising they have to pay for it
I mean if you go the single table route… https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/creating-a-single-table...
That's the point? That's what I did using a calculator: https://smartasset.com/taxes/new-york-tax-calculator
We need some kind of a code review system (peer based?) to review JS code that is allowed to be enabled.
It's $5k a month, i.e. the same as five thousand euros a month. In rent. Now, I haven't rented in Paris, but in Munich, that would be a castle.
NYC uses much lax requirements:

Your yearly gross income (before any taxes, in aggregate, including other sources) must be greater than 40x the rent price. The example of 5k would require a gross income of 200k or higher, making it much easier to qualify for than what you're assuming. Is it a good idea to spend 5k on rent when you earn 200k is a different question.
I need to add this story: Our Oracle database on Windows NT was fast then always slow (in the 90s, we could not afford an IBM/SUN for Oracle). When I went to the computer it was fast again. Back at my desk it got slow. Reason: Pipes software rendered OpenGL screen saver.
For .pl the transfer is free, but it also does not extend expiration period (it stays the same).
That sounds waaay too expensive. GDP per capita is 39K USD and 18% of the population lives in Paris. How would that work?
A lot is transferrable to NoSQL and key-value in general, though DDB has plenty of quirks of it's own. Understanding your problem really is the key. A lot of problems turn out to be quite relational after all

You definitely can build just about anything with DDB, it's often just not worth the time when most can be solved by existing tools
I wouldn't call it fraud.

I bought it knowing it was in beta and with no timeline for production release. They haven't represented it as anything more than that.

Being along for the journey is a big part of why I decided to pay.
I thought the median had to be significantly lower with those ultra luxurious rentals distorting the average, but I was wrong. The median is $4000 as of a few months ago: https://www.elliman.com/corporate-resources/market-reports
Landlords in NYC require pre-tax income of 40 times the monthly rent.

For $5k monthly rent you need $200,000 pre-tax income.
Yeah, there's a spike on downdetector's chart: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
> That's why I don't participate in any business activity that isn't 100% legal.

That's not always a choice for many people. Well, you always have a choice you might say. If your choice is to pay the protection racket or have horrible events occur to you or your family, do you have much say at all, much of a choice??

> I even quit my previous job because of a kickback scheme my employer was pulling off in my project, despite promising me to not do it.

Promised from employers mean shit if not in writing. Even then you need to assume the worst.
For a 1-2 bedroom apartment ?

Those prices would mean a software engineer in Europe would not even have money for rent after paying taxes, much less anything else.
There was this museum in the city of Mariupol that went destroyed.

https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/retro-game-museum-in-uk...

It would be great if collectors like you teamed up to recreate a new and even more exhaustive one.
> People regularly think they need a message queue, when they really need a job queue, or message bus

This is one of the reasons I am a really, really big fan of Google Cloud's Task Queues. It allows the stupidest, simplest temporal execution of HTTP invocations.

Currently working on a project in AWS and it's stunning how complicated it is to achieve the same simple need of "I want to execute this HTTP call at this time in the future". It's either AmazonMQ -- using either ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ with plugins -- or hacking around SQS's 15 minute delay limit. In our case, we are going to end up wrapping our messages in an envelope with a delivery time and if it hasn't met the delivery time, we put it back into SQS.

GCP is highly underrated for how it simplifies control over execution of code. Pub/Sub and Task Queues both have HTTP delivery built in. Couple that with Google Cloud Run and it is a recipe for building almost any type of execution model with much less complexity and overhead
Was there an uptime guarantee on that Elon deal?
Oh man I remember Calmira from back in the day! Thanks for the blast from the past.

IIRC it was written in Delphi which I was using majorly around the same time so had fun poking around its internals and customising it even further.

I believe it started out as something called Calypso...those memories are vague though.
Ouch! I like to rely on the ternary operator as a cheat for if/then just as much as the next guy, but that qualifies as abuse, lol!
They should definitelly add zulip thread model.
You probably are talking about yearly amount, not monthly.

In Warsaw you would get top tier places with private pool and cleaning service for no more than 2500 USD per month.
I’ve had this thought floating around in my head for a while, and it seems wrong, but I’m not completely sure why. I’m hoping someone more knowledgeable might be able to set me straight.

Prices on the coasts — like 5k rent — are astronomically high compared to prices in, say, the midwest. This shocks many people.

You could easily make the same comparison between the midwest and some non-developed nation. The difference is, nobody is shocked about how prices are higher in the USA midwest compared to an arbitrary less-developed country. Why is that exactly?

I loathe these insane prices, but my question is: could it be reasonable to view these high prices as a /good/ thing, as a sign of development?
It's not clear that the data shows an increase in rent with interest rates (https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-4f3dc7c9b86908d1c41fb...)
I would think those doing it the 'long' way are spending more time and energy thinking of returns.

What actually are these legitimate reasons for SPAC, other than apparently nebulous instant increased returns for early investors?
But with that logic you could bury the wood, not build a hydro plant and then plant new trees.
Obviously. But because price change is so small over so many years, i am inclined to think it's average of existing contracts, not of newly signed ones, and vast majority are regulated rentals signed 30-50 years ago, that are super low maybe 1000-2000 per month, and drive down the average.
Strongly agreed
That’s the thing. You can’t turn Pokémon Go into a franchise because you don’t own Pokémon.

Trying to build your startup on an IP you don’t own is a trap.
Nice, also: I'm totally amazed by SymbOS for Amstrad 8bit computers - https://www.cpcwiki.eu/index.php/SymbOS
Atorable is not faster, I tried the demo video on their site and wow its bad.
I’m assuming there a very few who can deliver the amount of video advertisement that Netflix needs. And the main contender is YouTube/google which I assume Netflix sees as a competitor.
No. The ratio is pre-tax, not post-tax.

> To meet the requirement of many landlords to earn in excess of 3x rent, one would have to earn 15k a month after tax, or 180k a year after tax. To earn 180k after tax in NY, you need to earn 300k pre tax.

The ratio is on pre-tax income. To pay $60K/yr in rent, you need 3x that in pre-tax income, or $180K/yr pre-tax. To earn $180K/yr pre-tax, you have to earn $180K/yr pre-tax, no calculator needed.
What? $5k a month is absolutely not something you pay for an above average place in east European capitals, nor in old European cities. Check e.g. https://www.expats.cz/praguerealestate/apartments/for-rent for a pretty expensive central european capital - around 20k CZK for studios, or 800 euros/usd. There are only 16 out of 1042 properties at over 120k CZK (~5k eur/usd), and they're huge (around 200m^2 and central).
Not according to this:

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/find.html?locat...

I guess it depends on your definition of central London.
Do you understand that you’re claiming that if the money flow was reversed, the IT departments wouldn’t fix this issue in, say, three years?

Because I have seen many people, and they do the tasks asked of them. They are “stupid” on tasks not prioritized, but their employers are perfectly happy with that.
Show HN: Visually edit any tailwind CSS website/template by simply importing it
Yep, seems like it!

The occassional existential reminder that it's Very Bad to be so dependent on a single platform....when Twitter goes down, my first instinct is to frantically search Twitter for information on the outage, putting me briefly into an unfun recursive loop.
We Need Non-Interactive Post-Quantum KEMs
Thank you for your reply. Could you give an example of what kind of process is being documented? Is it something like "how to process a customer refund"?
I've worked in places where there were a lot of internal document for different workflows. Each workflow is supported by a set of features of a in-house developed tool. The same set of documents is used for on-boarding new joiners and auditing. Are these the set of documents you referring to?
If there is a tool that serve as a "no-code editor for internal processes", do you think it is serving any particular pain points?
Bring back the fail whale.
Ask HN: Are you worried about the state of the “West”?
I wonder how people feel about their western countries (EU, US, Canada etc) vs. India/China - what seems to be the rising powers.

Are we on the decline? Demographics seem to speak for the China/India/South Africa alliance versus US/EU.

Are you thinking in terms of that or how do you asses the future of your country for you and your family?
Yeah down for me in Germany too. Looks like a bigger outage?
It's because Pokémon Go was a product designed for manipulating people. One of the first attempts at mass behavioral modification.

Most Google products make sense when you think in data extraction terms & behavioral modification. Its products must either gather data from the users, use that data for better manipulating (personalized ads, "ads" for bars in the case of Go etc) or facilitate those two functions.

That's Google's business, not game development. And from that point of view, Pokémon Go was a huge success.
From the article:

> If those numbers seem low — after all there are headlines about 40% rent increases — it's because the CPI measure includes renewal rents, the price you pay when you renew your lease.
Agree I think 5-6 is more likely

3 years was my minimum, assuming they scrap their current model and begin working on one with real geo-spatial awareness now.

They have the data for it already.

To over-essentialize the problem with their approach, you simply cannot safely drive in Atlanta as a person who has never seen the streets. Humans are no exception. You have to know how each road works, and remember that for next time.
Maybe we have different definitions of posh, but 5k gets you very far in East Europe capitals. That’s a lot of money that can get you 6+ bedroom villas in downtown Bucharest.
I think the best comparison would be to other developed countries with strong economic growth
The headline made the Friends theme song pop in my head.

But their huge apartment would have been over $5K back in 1994.
What ? Your numbers sound 2x above what I'm seeing casually browsing ads. Or you have super inflated expectations of what's "above average but not posh" - like penthouses with views and things.
Down in the Netherlands too.
You can’t get any better than Cloudflare, they sell domains at cost and have really good DNS tools.
If you have a database access layer then structuring your application shouldn't be that different. I wouldn't deal with the database directly unless I had a really good reason or the abstraction layer didn't support the query I was trying to run.
Probably worth adding "(javascript)" to the HN title - for non-JS see @nivertech's excellent comment here.

I may be wrong but I actually think the explanation can be a little simpler than the article posits: an expression (in JS) is something that returns a value. That's it. The value can be undefined/void, but it's still a value being returned.

One important detail the article seems to miss that I've come across whie explaining JS syntax to JSX-learners is that, while statements usually contain expressions, expressions can also contain statements. This is because a function definition returns a value (the function instance) & obviously function bodies can contain any JS syntax. This is useful if you (for some odd reason) want to embed a statement in some JSX code (since JSX only supports JS expressions).
This is average apartment rent. In the mid-2000s, that was our rent for a five bedroom house in Sugar Hill.
Anybody experiencing issues with AWS as well?
Down in London
FizzBuzz is FizzBuzz years old (and still a powerful tool)
EVs are indubitably miles ahead in terms of being simple to maintain mechanically since it's a sealed fixed gear system (the software is another matter, but let's disregard that for now), but I don't believe those numbers for the PHEV for a second.

You're maintaining both an EV and an ICE at the same time in one car with both needing to interface with each other in complex ways. There's bound to be in the range of 4x as much that can go wrong compared to just one or the other. You'll have the mechanical issues of the ICE coupled with the software problems of an EV.

It's an absolutely stupid idea to even consider doing these sort of overcomplicated hybrids, but unfortunately it's also the only way to get around the abysmal battery capacity we currently have.
Housing and land is a non-transable good, and therefore there should be heavy state intervention on it, preferably by doing the same as Vienna, which is holding >40% of the renting stock and charging according to income, and renting to a representative distribution of tenants so to prevent guettos.

Rent is the main detractor of disposable income which hurts the rest of the economy, and property owners provide almost no value, but to provide access to housing for people who has no capital for it, which is service that could be perfectly provided by a state entity.

The current setup creates guettos by default, by siloing people with different monetary and social capital into different building and areas, hurting social mobility, which could be improved by the setup described above. Many attempts at public housing failed because they just tried to provide housing for low-income people in separated and/or undesirable areas, with a predictable outcome.

CMV
"Doomception"
You also know very quickly you have a package at your door, or someone has entered your drive way. If you are home, you can “greet” them which usually scares them off. Even if aren’t home, you can greet them with the speaker. I wake up pretty quickly at night when my nest person detected alert goes off. I live in the back town house, so fortunately I don’t get much random person passing by traffic to set off false alarms.
Plan B for UUIDs: double AES-128
It’s been acting weird for days. A significant percentage of accounts I simply couldn’t ever reply to. Always the same accounts. But I could always reply to others.
> You could easily make the same comparison between the midwest and some non-developed nation. The difference is, nobody is shocked about how prices are higher in the USA midwest compared to an arbitrary less-developed country. Why is that exactly?

Because there's no freedom of movement, legal or cultural, between the midwest and the large coastal US cities.
Thanks.

And thanks for all the great work as well.
this is bullshit. big time
That's odd, I've been using cryptomator on arch for like 2 years now with no issue.
I think the comparison with other places makes no sense if you compare nominal prices. What I think you have to compare is (among other things) how much of your salary you spend on rent. Yeah, a non-developed nation you may get a 3 room apartment for 400 USD - but your salary may be not higher than 1k USD per month.

If the average salary in Manhattan would be 300k per year I think no one would care. But it is not.
The 90s is the most popular decade for music
> Win 95/98 UI was pretty ugly

I disagree. I find it much better looking than modern UIs.
There is an elephant in the room that people refuse to look at when it comes to rents: Airbnb.
Not that I want to get into an argument on this (both cities are fantastically expensive), but the first property on your link when I accessed it (so basically at random) - GBP 5590.00 pcm.
Comdb2
Wind? The 24% hydro they have will help bridge demand and supply just as it does with nuclear today.

What do you see as the problem with that?
API status still all green: https://api.twitterstat.us/
I suppose the chain gun shoots spinning tops now. =(
Really bad security. They still enable broken ciphers like RC4 via ssh on their shared-hosting web servers. BTW - these servers use CPanel, which runs on CentOS 6 (or a derivative), which is EOL. If your company uses any security scanner, it will flag a lot on GoDaddy.
Yes, for me.