skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are plenty of data explorers for other databases, especially SQL DBs. I don't think it being built into the DB should be a make-it-or-break-it feature.

I used RethinkDB back in the days because it was the first DB that had pretty good replication and sharding - it was zero effort. I felt the functional programming model to be strange, some stuff got executed locally, other parts remotely and it was not very straight forward when things didn't go as planned.

By the time the RethinkDB company folded, CockroachDB emerged and has been my go-to distributed DB since.
Also, the more expensive cars get, the more boring the color options become. Small cars are sometimes available in fun colors, but big cars are only available in shades of grey.
TypeScript is terrible for library developers
Hawaii does that and it wrecks the housing market, because it creates two tiers of housing: leased land and owned land housing. All you will end up with is all the expensive property is going to be on "purchased land" and all the cheap properties will be on leased land.

Hawaii has a good reason for doing this because land is scarce and there is no place to go. Basically anywhere else this would be idotic IMO.
Aren't most mom-and-pop investors getting real estate exposure via their Blackrock holdings?
I don't think "freedom" is to blame. Freedom in varying degrees has been around for a long time, and attempts to exploit it failed to produce results for the enemies of freedom. They have however recently identified a weakness, (not freedom) and have exploited it to devastating effect. If we continue to fail to identify and make repairs to that weakness, well then that's on us and we deserve what we get.
High property taxes based on land value. This makes the land itself a liability that is offset only by the owners to extract value from the property by improving and using it.

This property is still an investment via improving the property to enhance income potential, but less of a speculative bet on the overall state of the market.
How about shaming the advertisers who use these services? They're the ones who are paying for these systems to be developed.
Elephant in the room: monetary component of inflation. US printed and gave away a load of money in the past 2 years.

How much money people have on hand in aggregate and how much of it they ready to pay for rent matters!

People on the supply side always adjust their prices to maximize profits (price * quantity). Prices are climbing because some tenants agree to pay.
Every field does this trolling in some form. The sentence "The proof is trivial and left as an exercise to the reader." should be familiar for everyone who studied Math.
> As there is nothing to gain for the author of a commit by signing it.

All of the recent focus on supply chain security could result in signed commits becoming more routine.
First brush with coronavirus could affect how a fall booster works
For interiors, you have to be a little careful; bold color walls can end up sucking in light, especially at night. At one point a relative's house had a red bedroom that they described as "the inside of an animal's mouth".
Buying a house to live in while you save for something bigger is different from buying property for the sole purpose of renting it out.

The latter are financial vampires, sucking money from lower classes, pushing housing prices higher, locking more people out of ownership.
What constitutes an 'Investor' in this article? If I see a distressed home for sale in my neighborhood and decide to buy it, fix it up, and rent it out; this article seems to put me in the same category as institutional investors who come in and buy or build entire communities of homes.
I started being silly and just adding wheels and whatnot. Then at some point I decided to try to build exactly the phone I'd like. Turns out it's pretty close to the current iPhones, except:

* Replace the apple logo on the back with the touchId/home button. It can still be shaped like an apple, but please let it read my fingerprint.

* Move the power button to the top.

* Change the lightning port to USB-C (not designed here)

That's... it. It's really not that much, but it would make such an improvement.
> no infrastructure investment

I think one could say anything about UK these days, but lack of infrastructure investment? Seriously? UK compared to the US, it's like 50 years of difference. And I'd argue it's still ahead of most of the old EU, too.
There’s nothing wrong with local autonomy, why should I be ruled by people who don’t share my values thousands of miles away.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's not allowed here, regardless of which ideology you favor. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Razer Blades look good on paper but be prepared for bloated batteries. Between the 5 Blades my friend and I own, all 5 had bloated batteries within a year, some catastrophically. I'm personally on battery number 4, in just 3 years of use.
Is there any other Git host/platform that supports it? Gitea/GitLab?
Apparently $74m x 0.36 = $26.64m
QUOTE: When it comes to viral infections, past is prologue: The version of a virus to which we’re first exposed can dictate how we respond to later variants and, maybe, how well vaccines work
> The CoreLogic data shows that what it calls “mega” investors, with a thousand or more homes, bought 3% of houses last year and in 2022, compared with about 1% in previous years, with the bulk of investor purchases made by smaller groups.

Re: Zillow, it actually did well in the flipping business when relying on its models to make the buy decision. It got into trouble after tweaking the model to say "buy" on more (and more expensive) homes.
Hilarious sure, but also sad and concerning. I'm tentatively alright with the idea of renting forever and never owning property... but with rent increasing and investors buying up more and more property, it looks like things will get uglier and uglier.

I am not alright with paying absurdly high rent.
I'd argue if a company depends too much on "spontaneous hallway conversations" for information flow/exchange, that should be treated as a problem to correct. Most places I've worked that relied heavily on word-of-mouth had similar problems:

- Terrible written documentation

- Major and minor decisions not reaching everyone affected, resulting in a lot of people not knowing what's going on

- Perception of decisions getting made in secret or without transparency

- Other non-verbal communication channels get neglected, e.g. the only way to get in touch with Director ABC is to physically accost him in the hall

- Remote workers are frequently forgotten or treated as second class citizens

- Favorable treatment for in-groups and cliques, based on extroversion rather than job performance

These all seem like objectively bad problems for a business, and I'd argue many of them stem directly from overreliance on face-to-face.
Wow. Tons of Courage(tm) on this one
This is certainly a factor, but there are additional factors, too, that mean demand has been increased.

In the UK mortgage application controls were increased after 2008. This meant it became particularly difficult for first-time buyers to get a mortgage, locking them into rental properties for longer, and further increasing demand.

In London and most cities in the UK we have an extraordinary amount of foreign investment in property. Entire blocks owned by foreign faceless corporations (many of which are probably offshore shell companies for wealthy entities in the UK) who are happy to let their properties remain empty in order to maintain the average price(s) and sit on the capital gains with little to no maintenance requirement because they just don't have any tenants.

For decades now, "buying to let" has been promoted as the easypath for those fortunate enough to invest for their future. Ultra low interest rates, coupled with ever increasing property prices, and charging rent that covers your mortgage repayments, and maintenance, _and_ some extra passive income on top, means it's certainly an attractive option for those who can afford it, and by God has it been taken. News articles of landlords with _hundreds_ of properties in their portfolio is not uncommon. Entire towns owned by a single landlord in some cases.

And our political parties treat "house price" like a hot potatoe through fear of being the ones to pop the bubble, cause lots of defaults, and ultimately lose the homeowner vote. In fact most MPs are landlords themselves.
> Congress retroactively legalized some of the spying

Extensions of §§ 702 and 215 didn't roll back the reforms in the USA Freedom Act [1], which was a hodgepodge of intelligence reauthorizations and admittedly minor reforms. (But reforms nonetheless.)

> House of Representatives passed the College Transparency Act (CTA) on Feb. 4, 2022, by slipping it into a much larger unrelated bill called the America Competes Act

Anyone claiming CTA was slipped into the ACA wasn't watching the ball. I first heard about it around 2021 [2], which was itself a re-introduction of an earlier bill. It went through discussions across two administrations. The only opposition was from higher ed, who didn't want the record keeping burden.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act#Title_VI:_FISA...

[2] https://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassi...
Due to rising interest rates, a lot of people who would've gotten a mortgage are now looking to rent. Not a single mention of this in the article.

Also the article mentions "rent control", something that terrifies landlords. So they hike the rent to protect of a possible future rent control. Landlords paid for the property and took a huge risk with a possible real estate bubble and rising rates (in case of variable adjusted mortgage).

People like this make me think it's on purpose to make half the population hate the other half. And then double down. Divide and conquer.
How about sports themed prizes? Not everybody enjoys football, (or even agrees on what it is!) so how horribly divisive of someone to offer season tickets as a prize for a raffle, eh? Or you could just sell it off later to someone who values it more.

Perhaps we need to be more accepting, individually, of the joys of others which we do not share. Even if you don't drink yeast are easy, fun, and rewarding pets: perhaps the brewers' discussions need more microbiology geekery.
>> A lot of Americans tie up a lot of their emotions in work success.
> America has a very work-centric culture.
> Why are people so afraid of direct conversation?

I feel like the "emotions" side is just as important as the "work" side, here. To be able to (1) be emotionally invested and (2) have those emotions hurt from time to time can be just fine, as long as you can also (3) process those emotions in a healthy way. I feel like a lot of Americans (and humans in general, to be fair) have trouble with (3).

If I could magically fix it, I think I would be less interested in "make people more able to maintain emotional distance at work" and more in "make people more able to deal with emotions when they come up, in general".

Just my 2¢
Medieval friars had clean water. So why were they riddled with gut parasites?
Build more housing (remove NIMBY-style policies that lead to less housing being built).
Yet so many people in Toronto choose to complain about:

* Foreign ownership
* Greedy landlords
* People who own more than one house
* AirBNB
* etc etc

When the solution is much like you just said, it's a policy decision that is limiting the housing supply (well that plus record population growth in the GTA). https://www.scotiabank.com/ca/en/about/economics/economics-p...

If people spent half the effort on holding their provincial and muni reps accountable for this rather than belly-aching online about all the other items I listed above (which are really symptoms not causes) maybe something will change.
US will lose most nurses and other non-tech, but essential talent
Surfactants are essentially soaps, right? So surely their safety profile is well understood already and glyphosate is the more important component to be researching anyway?
Krugman was right that most people have nothing to say to each other. He just didn't realize that it wouldn't stop them from talking, incessantly.
I really like your idea but I don't know how you'd reconcile it with organizations simply forming a shell over many smaller companies with a few properties each.
Your framing is a piece of the general principle as far as I am aware. It's a multipolar trap that is hard to see because we're embedded in it, and in the short term a lot of actions appear rational, but have externalities that are only felt in the long term.

SSC's Meditations on Moloch is one of the best (and longest) essays I've read on this maximization issue.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

https://www.worldanvil.com/w/parastellis/a/multipolar-trap-a...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
What’s remarkable is that everyone recognizes that “the disagreements over solutions have become” “intractable” but thinks the solution is to handle more things at the federal/EU/UN level.
With used car prices sky high, the average age of vehicles on U.S. roads (cont)
That's their point though, it's not the same across musical industries.

Pop music? Yeah people don't care about the composer credits.

Classical music or a jazz standards band? You want the performing artist and the composer.
It hasn't hit yet.

The CCP hasn't come arrest me for speaking against a government official and the Saudi government hasn't arrested me for dancing and the Australian government hasn't arrested me for participating in a protest, etc...

One day soon all Americans will start facing consequences for even benign actions and then they will care.
The more people assume housing prices will crash, the higher rents will go until they do, as more people opt to rent instead of buy.
Creating more spores from mushrooms is incredibly easy and cost effective, so is creating liquid culture which is a process that allows you to create huge amounts of mycelial growing base you can then introduce to more growth medium(corn syrup and water that's been sterilized).
SPOT is fulfilling the requests but they're still through Apple. It is an officially supported means of getting parts, manuals, and tools from Apple. It's not through a third-party.

The OP's complaint was that people can't go to Texas Instruments and get parts. That's not the same and what I was pointing out.
The convention '_t' is to unambiguously indicate that the name is a type.

Some people also use '_e' for enums, etc.
By posting this, you are becoming a person that enjoys life and is unlikely to get burnt out.
Another elephant in the room:

Eviction moratoriums and increased renting risk being passed down to the renter.

So many tenants were taking advantage and abusing the system, but a few bad apples creates an outsized perception, which results in skyrocketing rents.
Of course deplatforming works. The point is that it only works in your favour when you're privileged enough that the establishment at large agrees with your views on who the heretics are and what should be done to said heretics.

As a thought experiment I'd encourage you to think about how causes you agree with might be deplatformed, and which groups would jump at the chance to do so.

Bonus case study: censorship by various middle eastern governments
I really hope that battery technology, EV technology, and self-driving technology lead to a tremendous boom in full-time RV / vanlife popularity and make it a better quality of life than traditional fixed housing and all the people who bought up housing as an investment vehicle see their money go poof.

It's like using potable water or the air we breathe as an investment vehicle.
1. Cheap, easy debt.

2. People with access to #1 take it and buy properties (either as rentals or AirBnB).

3. From #2, use properties for collateral on other loans, rinse and repeat (even scarier, banks will rehypothecate that collateral).

4. Charge what you want because there's no competition as everyone needs a place to live.

The implosion of this will be when a combination of new debt not being available to service old debt collides with properties being left unoccupied due to exorbitant costs.

I'm currently renting while I build my house and the development I'm living at was fully rented last year (near a college), but this year I've been counting and there are ~3-5 empty town houses for rent here and the school year just started. My rent went up ~$150/month, too, arbitrarily with no improvements/added services.

I view it as a short-term cash grab that will find a lot of Grant Cardone types scrambling when it (predictably) blows up in their faces. My bet is that if you can live modestly and squirrel away cash, things are going to get super cheap for a short period and then the dollar will hyperinflate when none of the debt can be serviced (assuming this drop off triggers a massive QE run). Then: CBDCs and a new serf class will be born.
What we need, and this may already exist, is away to sanbox apps with the ability to firewall of incoming and outgoing http request.

Does this exist?

What would be even better was a solution that had profiles for common usages and apps, and the profiles could be created by all and shared via a community or repo and could be extended and tweaked.

Does this exist, is it feasible, or does anyone have a better simpler idea?
I appreciate the juicy center of good humor in your comment of rage. Maybe the following will help.

You're right, of course. It's just that there are competing values, so we have to make a tradeoff. One value is usability and having web content be less annoying, intrusive, abusive, and so on. No disagreement there. I think most HN readers share similar feelings about these things; certainly I do.

The other value is curiosity. Curiosity likes new things, different things [0], unexpected things—things it can learn from. It doesn't do so well with repetition [1], indignation, or genericness [2].

These two values conflict because complaints about the former tend to be repetitive, indignant, and generic.

How to decide the conflict? That question actually has a clear answer, because we're trying to optimize for just one thing here, namely intellectual curiosity [3]. So that value has to win.

This is one of those cases where it's super helpful to have just one thing you're optimizing for and to know exactly what it is. It's not that this is the 'right' decision, the 'correct' guideline, or anything like that—it's just correct relative to what we're trying to optimize for.

[0] Diffs are what's interesting https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
From an energy security standpoint being net neutral or better is good but is the US insulated from fossil fuel prices?

From a market perspective I would have thought a decrease in supply (say sanctions on Russian oil) would up the price of oil. This would effect domestic oil prices as well since either the domestic producers also participate globally or other sources of oil available domestically are also available globally (higher global price would decrease domestic supply and thus increase domestic price).

If domestic policies are put in place which limit access to the global market then that would change things.
Lol there's another post right above this titled "Investors Bought a Quarter of Homes Sold Last Year, Driving Up Rents"
Not if they did the PIP and everything, collected evidence to cover their ass, and now have the ability to use this in what's already a very public lawsuit.
I totally agree here. It only becomes noticeable when you don't drink, but when you do, it's painfully obvious the bias inherent in people around alcohol consumption.

I have no issue with people drinking around me and will happily go to a bar and order a virgin mixed drink, but when major team-building activities revolve around drug consumption, it starts to become a bigger issue. Not to mention the fact that alcohol lowers inhibitions and makes people do really stupid things -- like make inappropriate jokes or much worse.
“Sell to the highest bidder” and “fair” rarely belong in the same thought.
So, the defense is that he's lying about having access to illegal goods, but selling them anyway.

I went down to Safeway yesterday, and bought a kilo of cocaine. It turns out it was ground up sudafed and talcum powder.

The cops were like "lolz. that's all on you; it's just how they market these days".
Are you not an investor in that situation? The person who wants to own a house to actually live in is the only one not being an investor.
Somebody like Sara could get to negative equity if the market crashes like in 2007. They would lose all their savings.
How do you see it as a free market when there are artificial limits placed on the supply side?
I thought of the RCS as in the Revision Control System, which was sort of the git of the 1980s, and wondered why anyone still cared about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_Control_System
As far as I'm aware, MySQL does not use RocksDB under the hood by default. MyRocks is a distribution of MySQL that uses RocksDB.
It's not a free market if the government can prevent tenants from paying via rent/eviction freezes.
I just looked through the website and I’m struggling to understand exactly how it works - how do you have signing / verification without the risk of key compromise?
When shopping for a bike, I take it down a steep hill to see how it handles at speed.

Not every bike does well.

Don't know about the bike in question. I do remember the hill.

Anyway the manufacturer's lawyers will point out that the bike was not properly assembled (and I bet there's plenty of lawyer approved language about securing the wheels). The other kid's parents will be joined to the lawsuit for improper assembly and supervision.

I remember school safety lessons telling us never to ride with another kid on the bike.

The extra weight combined with the lack of strength (to control and apply brakes) in the kid driving the bike put the situation beyond the kid's capabilities.
The mathematical definition of "integer" is unbounded above and below.

The "numbers" used in computing systems are not mathematical numbers in any way.
Considering a journalist was murdered and dismembered due to their lax security not to long ago, I would consider it definitely worth looking into.
A lot of my vegan friends really enjoy the meat substitutes- I am a meat eater and the meat substitutes tend to make me pretty nauseous.
> Unfortunately it will not become popular because Twitter will not force celebrities to use SSH keysigning to earn a blue checkmark

I mean, if you heard the horror stories of how a particular ex President's twitter password was incredibly insecure without even two factor auth you'd understand that users just don't care about anything even close to security.

I still long for the old days of tech when you at least had to figure out how a 56K modem worked to use it. You at least had to respect the ancient wizardry or incur the wrath of the Code Gods.

The amount of people using 1Password / Elliptical Curve Encryption / MFA in 2022 is effectively zero because everything has be ultra optimized for ease of use.
Is this the one time people should be calling it GNU/Linux?