skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> eviscerate the wealth of a lot of older Americans who are on the verge or in the midst of retirement?

Using rising home values as a retirement account is essentially just a pyramid scheme.

Like, just think about how this has to work. It only functions if home values drastically increase between purchase and retirement, right? Let's say they have to double, for it to be significant for retirement savings: that means that each generation, houses are getting twice as expensive for the next set of buyers. Literally exponential growth in housing prices.

This can only happen a few times in a market before only people with a lot of wealth already -- intergenerational or otherwise -- can still afford the homes; just look at the bay area for an example. I grew up in the south bay, and hardly anyone from my childhood still lives there: they can't really afford it. To buy a house there, you usually need two people in tech with high salaries (and even then it can be stretching things a bit). Is that what you want?

The current situation in places that have had incredible growth in property prices is that people are funding their retirements, not from saving during their work years, but off the backs of their kids and grandkids, because they got lucky in where they chose to settle down. It's unearned wealth, plain and simple.

The ideal price of housing is zero*.

* okay yes obviously there's caveats there, but the fact that unlike other consumer goods where inflation is obviously held to be bad, people treat increasingly unaffordable housing as a good thing is insane.
> There are ideas that are not allowed here.

It would be more accurate to say that some ideas require more work here. The reasons why are open to debate.
I lost 2kg trying to center a div once.

Jokes aside. Interesting article. I think the title assumes an answer but in reality the article is a gateway to further studies. Worthwhile read nonetheless.
The market isn't perfect. The houses might not be where the demand is or the type/size needed and there will always be some unoccupied percentage due to moves, investments etc.

I would assume 10% unoccupied is the minimum needed.
I recently friend requested a bunch of people I went to high school with who all thought I was a weird loser and I am very excited that I am doing much better than all of them. It’s made me like my social media feed a lot more seeing the school bully who loved ICP post about how “he’s ready to find the right girl and settle down (at 35)

So I guess I use social media for the exact reason you don’t like social media. Nobody’s supposed to like that stuff, but I mean, why else would you care what everyone else is doing other than to compare status?
Just manipulation. I was being picky, when someone says technique is sounds benign or something leanred and clever but not malicious.
I think the exclusivity only applies to the eBook versions. I know Will Wight is able to sell hardcover copies of his books on Kickstarter, but mentioned he couldn't give eBook versions because of his Kindle Unlimited deal.
Neither the list paradigm, nor functional languages generally, ever really gelled in my mind, the way, say, OO did.
Algorithms expressed in functional form in LISP always seemed contorted from their natural form, to me. So, mostly I found LISP to be an awkward, "unscannable" language. I could write it, and read it, but it always felt a little like reading and writing a foreign language to me, not something in which my mind was native.
> Do you find the 'stubbornness' of the compiler frustrating at all?

I actually love it. The more work I can offload to compiler the better. One simple example that frustrated me in Go was adding a field to a struct. You add the field the the whole thing still compiles even though the zero-initialized value probably broke your app logic. In Rust if I add a field to a struct, the compiler warns me about all the places that I need to double check.

> Would you mind sharing some of your experiences?

I highly recommend zero2prod book which is well-written, practical, but still teaches the essential principles (https://www.zero2prod.com/). You basically deploy a CRUD app to DigitalOcean from scratch. The best way to ramp up IMHO.

> How do you find the tooling?

Cargo is sweet. rust-analyzer is all I need. I need less extraneous tooling to be effective. For example, in Go I might use a task runner to watch the repo and run tests when I change a file. But in Rust I can just follow the rust-analyzer highlights and manually compile less-frequently.

> Also, I've considered Diesel for ORM, so was wondering if you've been using that too.

I was not happy with GORM (https://gorm.io/index.html) and never had a satisfactory experience with any ORM. I'm a fan of writing plain SQL, even in Go. It's just that with Rust sqlx I can get compile-time checks against the schema. It's not anything new (see Haskell), but it tightens the feedback loop and I have full control of the performance.
Tesla’s electric motor evolution is an interesting journey that has taken them at this point to the permanent magnet synchronous reluctance motor (PMSRM). Their history is very interesting. The early Model S was RWD using an induction motor. The AWD Model S then got a smaller induction motor on the front, keeping the larger sibling in the rear. They then ditched the larger rear motor and just used the same smaller motors front and rear. All the while they were also evolving the software to optimize for torque split, acceleration, and range. They released a feature that they called torque sleep in which the rear motor would pulse off leaving just the front motor driving the car during low torque conditions. The AWD was effectively FWD during these moments, squeezing additional range.

When the Model 3 was released, it had a completely new motor, the permanent magnet synchronous reluctance motor. Various names and acronyms called it PMSRM, IPM-SynRM, PMa-SynRM, but the main difference was that now Tesla was moving away from the asynchronous induction motor (and no permanent magnet), to the PMSRM. Having permanent magnets now allowed it to have true “one-pedal” driving, where the car can bring itself to a complete stop without using the physical brakes. With the magnetless induction motors, the driver has to induce a brake hold during a stop, then release, which was still better than keeping the foot on the brake, but one-pedal driving was the luxury feature to have if just for the lazy look-ma-no-pedals stop.

Wait there’s more.

Tesla in its genius still had inventories of the induction motor, so at first they created an AWD configuration that had the extra-large watermelon-sized induction motor in the rear and cantaloupe-sized PMSRM on front. Software was used to optimize for power or range. Stomp on the power pedal and electricity went to the induction motor. Cruise for range and this load was tasked to the PMSRM. There was enough combined torque and power to go around that Tesla could make these modulations hundreds of times a second.

They also sold these combinations as the Performance or Plus version. There was also the LR for Long Range, the LR Plus, the Standard Range, Standard Range Plus). You can guess as to which combination of AWD, RWD, induction, or induction + PMSRM each car model had based on the badging. They did this for a few quarters then went all in on purely PMSRM front and rear. Some Tesla old-school purists still scour the used car listings to find the pure induction models.

If you haven’t experienced it you have to try how smooth the Tesla motors are when it comes to one-pedal driving. It’s really good compared to other makers. One-pedal driving isn’t unique to Tesla but there’s something different in their recipe. It’s available in the latest Model S, 3, X, Y with PMSRM. Tesla engineers are a brilliant lot and maybe Robert Sansone can join them and continue the arc of motor evolution and who knows maybe go back to motors without a permanent magnet someday.
Plenty of people "actually live" there. They're outnumbered by the tourists, but they exist.
Are you using NoScript or an adblocker? It is probably blocking a third-party script from loading that the site needs to render the rest of the page.
I loved reading this article. TikTok is perhaps the endgame of all entertainment, from 1920s radio straight to Netflix: monetize people’s willingness to pay for the next bit of entertainment.
Group chats are the last place that is chronologically ordered, advert free and semi private.
TIL that rsync is an algorithm, not just a program that makes it easy to sync content across hosts.
Broken compared to what? Homelessness is an ancient problem, noone was able to solve that yet.

We need to look and take lessons from systems that at least somewhat helped the problem. Of course, adjusting for the US situation, which might be just different.
Compared, to, say Eastern Europe, I feel like US can just afford having so many homeless (e.g. free food and medicine for homeless in California). In many other countries homeless would not be able to survive, so in some weird sense we can call it a luxury, not a problem.
You're confusing sufficient vs necessary.

Knowing them is probably necessary, but knowing them alone is very unlikely to land you a job.
How does that argument lead to more unhoused people having homes?
I was expecting to see idempotent consumer, circuit breaker, and a few others that I’ve used frequently when designing systems. Maybe not interesting enough to make the list?
Still no RISC-V support so we’ve got more platforms yet.
Patagonia. Nothing comes close to them even if you don’t like their politics.
>Yeah, if you're poor you're a lot more likely to be doing your taxes by hand

that hasn't been my experience.

friends and family at poverty levels of income routinely buy TurboTax garbage or go to H&R Block or equivalents every year.

These options, while wasteful, are attractive to them because they're low-effort and they generally offer pay-with-refund financing options.
you are forgetting the largest gaming company is tencent.
> The expectation is that Jimmy Carr is of normal intelligence and awareness. The joke that he is making is that he is not.

I'm pretty sure the joke is that you aren't going to get much done in "a moment" of Cancer Research.

Not that he's too stupid to do the research. He could be the world's foremost expert on Cancer Research and the joke is still funny.
This is all a race to the bottom and we're all going to be worse off for it. These subscription services started off innocuous enough by recycling old content, injecting life and cash into nearly dead (but good!) titles. And the subscriptions ate and ate and ate. And now they sign deals with studios before the game is even off the ground. Don't even get me started on all the acquisitions.

In the modern world of the internet, providing both a platform and a service ultimately stifles competition which ultimately harms consumers.

It's great that small studios are reaping the wild cash injections due to Game Pass, or PS+ or Apple's thing. It can be a life changing amount of funding. I'm happy for them. But it can't continue indefinitely without extinguishing the entire industry.

It's getting harder and more expensive to publish, whether bootstrapped or otherwise. And the publishers are rapidly conglomerating.

The early 21st century was ripe with rampant piracy and unbundling. And now we're practically worse than where we started. We own less, nothing is portable, we are slaves to the recurring subscription, and we must sell ourselves to the platform to put food on the table.

It's all so depressing.
Do you think all of the millions of owned but unoccupied houses are just "whoops it took me a couple extra weeks to sell"? It's ludicrous to suggest it's a significant fraction of the total, or that the suggestion is to require the immediate forfeit of any house when the owner moved out.
although you are correct on their ability to enforce prosecutorial discretion, the reality is that the way they exercise that discretion sets precedents in the court of law. It will be very interesting to see how they go about trialing any of the OFAC cases involving Tornado Cash.
If they become more efficient because they get a larger budget, that would very publicly contradict a lot of campaign messaging.
vine did! twitter mothballed it.
I find it hard to believe that unhoused people would find solace in those words.
Brown bear cub high on “mad honey” is rescued in Turkey
Hats off to Mullvad for continuing to innovate in a space that was painfully stagnant for so many years.
How are these women "sharing" the men? Is it like Monica gets Ted on Monday/Tuesday, Alice gets him Weds/Thurs, and Betty and Sandra split him every other weekend?

Is your assertion that 80% of women are actively in a relationship with a man who is also in a relationship with 3 other women?
My wife deleted TikTok after a few weeks because she just couldn’t handle how addictive it was. All she wanted to do was watch TikTok. Then she started getting Shorts on YouTube now she wants to completely stop watching YouTube even if the old creators she enjoyed are still making philosophy videos and stuff, it’s just not worth it to stick around when the goal has become quite clearly to keep you hooked.
If we had no calorie restriction why would we have evolved.
And Friendster was once the largest social network and the first successful one. Your point?

Bitcoin was a good first prototype, but it is clearly a failed experiment. It's not used as a currency, the "store of value" narrative is bogus. All it took was the first asset bubble to pop to demonstrate how BTC is only correlated with other stock prices.

It already loses to Ethereum in many metrics: transaction volume, number of wallets, decentralization (number of nodes participating in block validation) and so on. Layer-2 systems in Ethereum hold more Wrapped Bitcoin than lightning by orders of magnitude. Even if you really want to use BTC, the best way to transact bitcoin today is by wrapping it and using it on Ethereum.
Malcolm Gladwell's 'Talking to Strangers' Doesn't Say Much
I think it's because you're only hearing from the more militant internet-comfortable commenters who enforcement currently favors. When it's swung back on them in due time--and it will be, as it always is--then suddenly it'll be a grave injustice.
> Turkey’s agriculture ministry used Twitter to urge citizens to come up with a name for the bear.
The people who run the validators can, but validators on the old version will be incompatible with the rest of the network (if the rest of the network did update), and they will not be able to sync. It's no different from Bitcoin in that sense.
I read something once, that questioned whether social media was working to make us happy, or were we working to make the AI more intelligent.
I suspect that that what really ate up personal social networking was very simple: private group messaging finally got good enough.

15 years ago, we’d lost touch with old friends and acquaintances because there are a ton of people in our lives that mean something to us but that don’t warrant much 1-to-1 contact through phone calls or messaging.

Myspace and early Facebook reinvigorated those relationships with relaxed, casual networked update blasts, but then iMessage, What’s App, were able to make the same connections more private, more personally shaped, and more collaborative.

So social networks drifted towards public feeds and commercialized feeds, which is what TikTok — as a well-funded latecomer — had the luxury of aiming for directly.
Except that’s not what consumers want by and large. Most buyers will add more space if they can. Often in anticipation of having a family and needing more space. Easier to grow into a bigger house than move.
Are you ugly - either mentally or physically? Even physical ugliness can be overcome, as long as you're willing to date a 4 if you're a 4, but some types of mental ugliness are harder to get around.
There are absolutely multiple definitions of truth. "1 + 1 = 2" is not true in the sense that "Paris is the capital of France" or "Water boils at 100C" are true.
> Homelessness is an ancient problem, noone was able to solve that yet.

Out of curiosity, you do realize there are lots of countries without homelessness, right?
.NET maui: 1558 open issues after declared GA in May
Neither of you aren't not wrong.
> “Javascript injection” – the practice of adding extra code to a webpage before it is displayed to a user – is frequently classified as a type of malicious attack. Cybersecurity company Feroot, for instance, describes it as an attack that “allows the threat actor to manipulate the website or web application and collect sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII) or payment information.”
Museum of Failure seeks to encourage taking risks [audio]
And I've never seen anyone write time with minutes or seconds before the hours.

Time: hh:mm:ss, never mm:ss:hh or ss:mm:hh

Why should the date format be any different?
A bubble can be less about topics and more about how we communicate - if I ask about sources on HN I'll get links and pdfs in return. If I do that on reddit, I'll get insults.

HN has broad tolerance for a lot of ideas - and a lot of subgroups exist here that don't exist on other platforms. No matter what you believe, someone on HN holds a counter view and can probably give you a good debate about it.
Higher density is more capital efficient, versus what passes for single family homes in the US. It also reduces the per unit tax burden when taxes are based on land use and property value.

If you want to live on an acre of land in a 3k-5k sq ft home, you’ll have to do it in Iowa City versus say, downtown Chicago (or within ~50 miles of the/a city core). Desirable land has a cost, both from an acquisition and upkeep perspective.
Was finally able to check on one of my repos and git 2.34.1 most definitely does ignore . files by default (both git status and git add), unless you specify --ignore for git status or --force for git add. But my .gitignore (either for the clone or global core.excludesfile) doesn't specify that . files should be ignored, so why is it doing so?

I can't see how to do a git add to add all new files, including dot files, except those in .gitignore.
This is incredibly clever. In case anyone else is confused by the order: the ASCII codes for L, S, R are 76, 83, 82 respectively, so L encodes i and R encodes -i as you’d expect.
Bad actors aren’t blacklisted for repeatedly injecting garbage?
Most retail BTC wallets don't offer the option to select UXTOs. The reality is that a large portion of the real BTC users don't even know what a UXTO means or why they should care. I'm hoping that with everything going on with Tornado Cash and the Russia Sanctions, public awareness on this fact will increase enough to justify adding UXTO selection as a standard for all wallets.
Most of our work is about interacting with entities outside the company.

Bots usually take source code that is hosted outside the company do do things internally, such as QA, and then publish the result externally or to some internal channel that is accessible from outside the usual IT systems (IT workarounds). It's complicated to tell you without going into details.
When do you plan on implementing Office365 / Azure SSO?

I would ditch Okta tomorrow and throw money at you. One of the reasons I stay with Okta is their ability to automatically provision accounts with SaaS providers. It's not 100%, but it's more than 80% of the apps we use have integration with them and seem to provision/de-provision well.
White noise generators work great.
Colliding Galaxies Dazzle in Gemini North Image
> They've also drawn a hard line against recruiting from ethnic Russians in places like Moscow.

Interesting. First I've heard of this.

Sounds like Putin wants the large number of casualties to not be in areas where unhappy family members rioting can affect politics.
pay market rate for the house and do whatever you want with it
I used to enjoy YNAB but I think it was change to subscription that turned me off at that time. Maybe I will revisit the service again. Every Dollar offers a free tier which is nice. Mint is hard to beat though.
Chat has not been around since the 90s, not in the form that is used today.
9310. i71185G7 16G RAM, it came with Ubuntu, but I immediately replaced the SSD with a 1TB Samsung (and put the SSD in my Pinebook Pro).
If I were to build my own smart EV charger, the entire point of doing so would be to not depend on any third parties for it to work.
The fact that it's video first was necessary but not sufficient
What are some alternatives to pickling which can handle cyclic references?

I've looked into ORMs but these are invasive in terms of needing to annotate your classes and fields.
This is news to the medical establishment, have you published a paper?

CDC, Mayo Clinic, NIH, etc. all claim that the exact cause of Type 2 diabetes is unknown, although it is known that lifestyle and genetics both play roles. While what you said might be partially related, it is most certainly not "entirely caused by eating excessive bread and sugar".
You’re argument is still trash.

Societies through history have lived healthy lives with little or no meat for centuries.

Indigenous people forever have ate a combination of meat, fish and fruits, nuts, grains and vegetables.

Have you heard of India ?
More: "Museum of Failure" at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Failure
I'm not 100% sure if you are asking for further explanation of why it would seem dismissive, but I'll try to break it down a bit from an NT perspective, in case that is illuminating.

The query "Do you think..." can sometimes backfire if the other party is feeling defensive or vulnerable. It can imply that you've already decided to frame the conversation as exploring their problematic beliefs rather than objective facts.

The negative phrasing "not performing well" unfortunately echoes another idiom where the non-negated statement is assumed to be true and the negated question bears a tone of incredulity. These questions all probe the same fact but carry different emotional baggage: "Should we try to improve the performance of X?" "Does X perform well?" "Does X have performance problems?" "Is X not performing well?" Slight differences in vocal tone or emphasis can dramatically increase these differences too.

Then, by jumping to specifics (about performance), it can also imply that you are assuming that this is the only reasonable motivation for the work in question, rejecting other avenues. A safe way to avoid this type of interpretation would be to start off more broadly and neutrally to establish common ground before diving into such details. That's why "What are the goals?" types of question are seen as positive and cooperative. That you would like to engage in dialog and explore ideas together.

You put all those elements together in one question, and I can easily see how the other party would feel that they are being blocked. It's almost like some martial arts move where a precise combination of movement and posture is turning the conversational momentum against itself.

I'd also like to point out an ironic twist in your closing lament that "getting upset and shutting me down helps exactly no one here". Unfortunately, such implied tone and emotional content is decoded subconsciously and immediately. The emotion hits concurrently or even before the denoted factual information is fully understood. It can be just as difficult for an NT person to _not_ perceive some of these signals as it is for you to recognize they are being sent. Frustratingly, the same experience between two NTs, if chronic, might be seen as abusive or where the idea of "gaslighting" would come up to describe the perverse torture where the one feeling hurt is told they are mistaken in their feelings.