skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure how this would work outside the Netherlands where I live, but there seems to be a relation between the housing market and the interest rates...

We currently see the interest rates go up rather quickly. This has a great effect on your monthly mortgage payments, and (at least here) the amount of money the bank is willing to lend you.

While the EU had interest rates close to zero percent for the past decade, buying an expensive house was not a problem: your monthly payments for interest were almost zero. With the interest rate climbing, the number of people that still can buy this expensive house reduces significantly. And so the prices of the houses start dropping as well.

Of course, as long as you are happy with your house and all is well there is no problem. But when you get unemployed, decide to get divorced or otherwise have to sell your house but the bank still owns it, you have an issue. Where you bought it for 600.000, you now get 400.000 - and the bank really wants the 200.000 back...
This should be a wake-up call for all Russian Github users. If Github suspects you're Russian (e.g. like me you sponsored using a card with Russian billing address), today you are frozen out from all paid features, tomorrow your acc may be gone.

And since creating more than one acc is against Github ToS, the best move is to stop using it ASAP except if required for work.
I always hated automatics because I had only driven cheap rental cars with automatics. My family got a Mazda 3 with automatic a few years back, and it's so much better. I still prefer a stick in some situations, but it's not constant misery the way an Aveo or a Versa or a Yaris were.
I doubt the difference in the maintenance cost is more than say 5%. Most of the maintenance doesn't involve transmission.
obviously Firkins / 1,000,000. Unless Firkins aren't in sane decimal universe for grownups but one of those feet-to-inches (or miles-to-yard, or feet to X) magical constant ones
Tornado is specifically run to obscure cash flows, something which is specifically illegal.

This equivocation is as saddening as it is predictable.
How effective is, say, movfuscator against this?

https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
Yeah, like abortion or drugs.
Okay but now the argument has switched from "Use your standard library, because its datastructures have been optimized to the extreme and are better than anything than you'd make yourself" to "use your standard library because it's fast enough, you probably don't spend enough time in hash table algorithms for that 5x performance improvement to be worth it".
Nothing stops these folks from hosting their own Git repo somewhere. It’s supposed to be decentralised after all.
EnBizCard: Self-hosted application to create interactive digital business cards
Processing 4.0
> To get into the market, most people need to put in all the money they’ve ever saved plus a good fraction of all the money they’ll ever earn in the future.

This is only true in the most expensive metro areas - nobody forces anybody to live there except for rare combinations like NYC + investment banking, which also tend to be very well compensated. There are plenty of low profile metros with tons of amenities and reasonable housing markets (especially now as home prices will come back from orbit and after some time, rents along with them).

My fiance and I bought 3-4 months ago and mortgage + taxes is approximately 13% of our take home pay. We make good money but nothing astronomical (no FAANG salaries for sure, for either of us) and by every reasonable metric we make 2-2.5x what we need to in order to afford this house without dumping our entire lives into it.
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We're looking for some to primarily work on backend services in C#. Some of this is going to be API work, some is going to be ETL. Don't fret if this isn't your exact tech stack, we're flexible and will consider any experienced candidates.

The job is remote with monthly in-person meetings in Charlotte, NC.

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Replies to the tweet saying "we need a decentralized git" strike me as bafflingly dense. Do these people think that the website, Github is the only way to interact with a repository?

Are they entirely unaware of git's default decentralized nature, or even that there are other central repository sites?
Venture capitalist alignment and alignment in general are indeed things you should be very worried about.

AGI in particular could just pay for its electricity bill. The main problem with AI alignment is that you can't tell it's aligned. So your AI seems very helpful right up until the point it has enough power or has convinced some of the people it has access to (doesn't have to be direct access) to do what it wants.
This x100!

I have an S8 and although I am a Dev, I am really a Luddite on my phone. I have some random apps, a Google account and things like WhatsApp and Telegram but otherwise not really anything of note.

However, I find things like the share photo button sometimes taking 5 seconds for the list of who to share with to come up. How? Sometimes I click an app and it sits there for as much as 10 seconds before something comes up, tbf, that might be the app but I fail to see how compiled apps can become slower and slower over time by this much.

I suspect the enemy at the gate is tracking/metrics type apps that are sending a constant stream of drissle to the internet to try and get "actionable data" for their Lords and Masters but just make everything appear crap. I also loathe the need to fiddle all the time. Google Authenticator, absolutely fine until they decide that we need to press something to reveal the code, now it's 2 clicks instead of 1 50% reduction in productivity! I think they have reverted it but honestly, leave things alone!
This should be the top comment and the title should be changed. The title and other comments made me wonder if GitHub deleted the account of all contributors to that repo, which is more serious than deleting the account of members in an organization.
You are willing to give up 1-2 hours of your personal time a workday (avoided commuting time) to gain the supposed efficiencies of working in an office? I find it hard to believe many people are willing to make that sacrifice anymore when there are now options to work from home.
Serving on a SAGE Combat Crew [pdf]
Just wait to see just how little principle you pay at the beginning. Interest rates make a huge difference.
Yeah, because making a good footprint suitable for upstreaming is so laborious, and categorizing it is just as important as making it in the first place, most folks who find themselves needing a footprint just whip one out for the job at hand and it's "good enough" and they reuse it forever, even though they'd be ashamed to share it.

I'd love a Footprint Club that looks at what people have been making for themselves, accepts submissions, and cleans them up the popular ones for upstreaming. Hmmmm.
Virtually all of the CO2 output growth in my lifetime has not been "the West":

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/04/Global-CO2-emissi...

and no party seems to push for shutting down imports from Asia, etc.
You've clearly never lived in Utah. A cult is not the same thing as the American Government.
I mean super high rates lasted more than a decade, so if you add up all the interest paid, it was a horrible deal.
It was pretty much like this in 1976 (yes, I'm that old). We've had localised droughts too. 2003 sticks in my mind - Faversham held the record for just under 100F, and the London Jubilee line had everyone clustered round the windows, and no-one holding the rails as they were too hot (the trains stand outside at the depot near West Ham). My part of the world had lots of crispy grass, burning fields, and dried up streams and ponds, pretty much like now.

I suppose this is probably the second significant drought I've experienced in SE England. It's something like 3 months of sunshine and no rain. Given our summers are usually wet and mild, careful what you wish for...

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/press-office/news/weat...
I wish to see a simple RPG on the command line. There be games like Nethack, but those require far too many keys to be enjoyable for that medium. I would like to port this, if you don't mind.
Worse many crypto investors have profited off of Iran and North Korea money laundering. A portion of which is being used to fund terrorism.
Yes sir you just explained in a paragraph what I said in one sentence haha
A palm tree, speared by a piece of lumber during Hurricane Andrew:

https://imgur.com/a/3f77mEa

I was in Miami for Andrew. My dad owned a one-hour photo lab. After the storm, there were tons of insurance adjusters needing their photos developed. My dad and I got his lab open the day after Andrew and ran it on a portable generator for two weeks till the power came back. This was one of the photos we printed during that period. Fun times.

The palm trees did fine. Miami also has ficus trees planted all over the place. Huge canopies. Huge root structures, but the roots are very broad and shallow. In my neighborhood, every ficus tree was toppled with its roots pulling up sidewalks and grass. This is not from Andrew, but it looks like this:

https://cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net/v1/static/56181...

It's hard to convey the destructiveness of Andrew to folks who weren't there, but this gives some idea:

https://historycollection.com/31-images-hurricane-andrew-des...

Apparently that tree is a celebrity. I didn't realize there were a bunch of picture of it on the Internet till now:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hurricane+andrew+palm+tree&ia=imag...
Apple M2 vs. AMD Rembrandt vs. Intel Alder Lake Linux Benchmarks
You face a very real short term trade off between manufacturing at a higher cost in the destination country (thereby saving fewer lives) and manufacturing at a lower cost elsewhere (thereby saving more lives but contributing less to the local economy).

I would argue you want to do the latter because both net and medicine manufacturing are capital intensive - a small number of people are employed despite the large cost of setting up a factory. Most of the local economic contribution is going to come from hiring people to handle distribution.
This is a good resource of information if Rust is your thing:
https://www.areweguiyet.com/#ecosystem
> the idea that crops would fail from climate change

There was a massive drought in England about 10 years back, where farmers had to change the types of crops back then to accommodate for the drought, which was then proceeded by a large flooding. Why would say this time is different from 2012? Especially given that there had been talks (and sometimes actual) hosepipe ban every single year since.
Some vehicles not supposed for being used on roads like ЗиЛ-131 have first and reverse gears settled on a line against each other for making rock the car as easy as possible.
Depends on which kinds of assets. You don't even need AI; plenty of games feature procedurally generated levels, art and even enemies.

This hasn't put game developers out of a job.
To be clear, I am not saying anyone should use std::unordered_map. I am saying that if one has a go at it, one may be able to go 5x faster *again*
Surprisingly loud.

A tree next to my house snapped in half during some freak 90mph (145km/h) gusts and it sounded like a small explosion, though not as fast since it didn't all happen at once. But I really though something had exploded until I noticed the tree out the window was no longer quite as tall as it used to be. It was a large, live tree too, but can't remember what kind it was. It was on a lot next to my house that was undeveloped for at least 100 years, and farmland some time before that.
Perhaps a proper addressing of "Should this law be a law?" be considered, before the case is presented?

That way, the jury can decide, without any evidence, if a law is just. And that should be with as many biases removed, including things like sex, gender, skin color, clothing, etc.

There's always a disconnect in republics between the populace and the representatives. Reps may pass laws the populace doesn't want, and the reps say "we know your best interest". And, getting laws to legalize illegal things usually end up in its own malthusian trap of "politician is soft on crime!"
But, as the article points out, centralized ops teams many times do not have the capacity to handle all the requests coming from the dev teams.
Russia is a completely different situation though - they invaded another country and are perpetrating genocide, which means that anything that hurts Russia should be a fair game. A full data leak would be even better - but sadly in this case we have Apple caring more about PR than morality.

This of course ignores the strategic needs. First, it should be a priority to get as many Russians to migrate to the West, to starve the regime of manpower. Second, losing could be Putin’s eventual aim, to make sure Russia gets cut off the outside world, to make it possible for them to shape the society however they want - and in that case preserving the means of communication is even more crucial.
Agree. I bring my phone oversees, but don't have an international plan, so I usually purchase a local SIM card and swap it out. But all my mfa fails then, because it is trying to text my US number!
We switched to stitch for the endpoints and an in-house Google cloud function to consume events as a webhook.
The ‘Nonsense Language’ That Could Subvert Image Synthesis Moderation Systems
Free in the sense you don't pay a penalty.

In Canada, if you refinance before your mortgage term end it's typically to pay 3 months of interest as penalty or the difference between your new rate and the old rate until the term ends.

It's pretty damn punitive.
The problem is direct democracy is everyone needs to show up at the same time. It is impossible to do this for any modern community of more than 100 people and even going that large is only possible if you limit who has a vote to [white adult males] or some such subgroup that allows someone else (women and children in this example) to take care of everything else that can't be ignored while in the meeting. Once you get larger than that someone has a conflict and they won't be able to show up, and now they have no input.
You need to ban all on and off ramps anywhere in the world. If you can't buy or sell USD with BTC, but you can with EUR, and you can convert USD to EUR, you're back at square one, and I would argue making USD weaker in the process. No sane US government would risk losing its economic hegemony in that fashion.

Some say it's by design, but I think it's just because of how our global economy and the Internet itself works. It's fine to hate Bitcoin, but it's got this viral quality to it that it is not to be underestimated in the macroeconomic and political scale.
I keep getting the "Game Canceled" error.
For an asset you should theoretically be in for a minimum of 5 years, if not decades, a few months shouldn't make a big difference one way or the other.
Obviously I don't wholeheartedly mean that. Everyone, even owners of EVs and urbanites, understands that people have a different set of requirements and needs. If you see everything as an attack, then perhaps you're just the one looking at it the wrong way.
I'm curious if you've seen the work coming from Dr. Smalley's lab in Texas (don't remember which school ATM). They're using cellulose with light trapping techniques to simply move particles in the air and reflect light off of that.

I don't have any links on me at the moment but it shouldn't be too hard to find details on Google.
> When almost everything (except food) that you need to buy comes from China

When almost everything (except food) that you want to buy comes from China

I'd love to buy UK-made stuff but the country sold out to cheap sweatshop nations decades ago
quark / sciter isn't OSS, and I've never used it, but they claim they can bundle something like electron (JS backend, web frontend) into a 5mb binary
We have a pool of MacOS hardware to run tests, and another pool to perform signing. The latter is a security risk so very tightly controlled and locked down. They are a pita to maintain.

Being able to sign on Linux will allow us to re-use the existing signing infrastructure we use for literally every other platform other than MacOS. It'll be more secure and much less maintenance.
In the story,
The storyteller is tasked with maintaining Mel's code.
He can't do it. Mel hadn't left any documentation.
All sort of tricks.
No explanation of what's going on.
Living closer together: How urban density can make our neighborhoods better
Yep and because housing is completely unaffordable without betting a third of your income over 15 years housing prices won't go down this just fucks you with no recourse.

So yayy! We designed a system where having shelter requires leveraging yourself to the chin in an asset market (if you're renting you just happen to not be playing, but your landlord is) and then putting the blame on the people who didn't have any other option.
Not saying you're wrong, but it leaves the question of what the point of life is to the universe.
I haven't used it myself (yet), but https://tauri.app/ looks very promising as Electron alternative.

It uses the OS's browser so it doesn't have the bundle size issue you describe.
> seems ridiculous that the sanctions should apply retroactively

Anyone contributing to Tornado after it became public knowledge that it was used to launder money put themselves at risk. The sanctions are the enforcement action. A wanted poster. The crime, laundering money, was committed a while ago.

> does this mean that anyone who has previously worked with them or bought their electronics has done so illegally?

If you knew they were doing sanctionable things, yes. If you didn’t, no.
> People who used Tornado Cash aren’t getting screwed.

Incorrect, as per sanctions putting the onus on private entities to get things right, circle has blacklisted any USDC address that has been owned by the tornado cash protocol, which means anyone using tornado cash for legit purposes will lose every dollar they had in USDC. I'm really not sure how you came to the conclusion innocent people weren't getting screwed here, but it's irrefutable that they are, unless of course your definition of guilty is someone that used tornado cash, which would be a silly definition. I've used mixers plenty for completely legit reasons. I don't want people knowing how much crypto I have and I don't want to manage tons of addresses so when I transact in open ledgers I have at times had people pay me via mixers to hide the addresses I own and thus hide how much crypto I own from people doing business with me. All completely white market business dealing with buying/selling electronics too, for that matter.

> People laundering money through banks get sanctioned and jailed. When banks make a habit of laundering money, they too get sanctioned. There is ample historical record of all of this.

Incorrect, they pay fines that rarely even cover the profits they made to begin with.
I think that article misrepresents it a little, makes it sound like they had no product. Both the current and previous startup I worked at has been a paying customer of theres, at scale, making it about 6 years total
For example, from the Presidential Records Act:

> Allows the incumbent President to dispose of records that no longer have administrative, historical, informational, or evidentiary value, once the views of the Archivist of the United States on the proposed disposal have been obtained in writing. (emphasis mine)

> Establishes that Presidential records automatically transfer into the legal custody of the Archivist as soon as the President leaves office.

https://www.archives.gov/presidential-libraries/laws/1978-ac...

I'm hesitant to entertain the idea of a chief executive who could do anything with impunity.
What if it's a virus that targets politicians?
I've been wondering about olive oil. The biggest producers are all around the Mediterranean. Olive trees can live in very dry areas, but I'm sure they can't survive fires.

South America is going through a surge in olive oil production, but it will take a long time to reach Spain alone.
you can't expect most consumers to make these same decisions — the vast majority of people are nowhere near as savvy as the typical hacker news commenter.
Show HN: Implementation of time-series features as a PostgreSQL C extension
I wonder if we're better at conserving the water we have (more reservoirs, less leaks, etc.), which avoided those frequent hosepipe bans. Until now that is.
Good luck when key collision happens and wrong value comes out causing errors in other part of your code...
If you bought a house to raise your family in the past couple of years, you're toast! You're still on the hook for the absurd loan the bank gave you, interest rates are going up so your payments will too, and your house is worth less.
The headline sounds bad, but all this means is that Ferrari will install a new brake fluid reservoir cap on every vehicle.
Or rich people can pay for poor people to industrialize in a climate-friendly manner. It's going to cost a lot, but the alternative is worse.
Only if you know who owns the wallets and both parties reuse their wallets.

You can then use a lawful nft sale on opensea to your “dirty” wallet to make the money look legitimate. With your defense being you merely sold the nft. You don’t know who the buyer is.
> and nothing was done to stop it.

What could be done to stop it? It's just a contract run on the blockchain. I suppose they could limit throughput, but not much else?!
Similarly, what could the Monero or ZCash developers do to stop money laundering on their blockchains? Here, not even throughput can be limited since amounts of transactions are completely hidden.
What does the addition of a capacitor do here?

Does it just give some buffer for the PSU in those high load situations?
This is a fantastic question that doesn’t get asked enough by new managers. Great to see you’re actively trying to build the management skill set!

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More engineering-specific, The Manager’s Path (book) is fantastic.

Radical Candor (book) is excellent when working out how to build relationships, coach and communicate effectively with your team.

If you’re working in a multicultural environment The Culture Map (book) is very helpful.

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Good luck, and welcome aboard!
I 100% agree. The US recently added additional sanctions on China for chip making technology simply because China has improved their domestic chip manufacturing capabilities. There is no possible justification for the US getting to decide what products other countries are allowed to research and manufacture.
> I brought one that someone else wrote for me on my first date with my now wife.

Why would you bring a poem someone wrote you to a first date?