skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The much bigger problem is that home prices are going down, rapidly, and that's leveraged. Prices are down 16% in Toronto [1]. On the average 5:1 leverage - that's down 80% - anyone who bought in the last 1 year (a record number of buyers) is looking at steep loses.

Combine that with the fact that Canadians - like Americans pre-2008 - increasingly finance their lifestyles with HELOCs [2].

It looks like Australia and Canada might get their financial crisis they averted by kicking the can down the road in 2008.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/toronto-h...

[2] https://www.mpamag.com/ca/specialty/specialized-lending/how-....
Sure. Now tell that to a bunch of immature college juniors. If you read the letters "pypi" in French, it sounds exactly like "pipi".

And wait until you learn what "bit" sounds like in French.
Uninstall the Bose app? I never installed it, and my Bose QC35ii headphones work better than my airpod pros. With the airpods, they will almost always bind to the wrong device until I go into settings and force a connection. The Bose connects to both, and actually works..
If NATO hadn't expanded, Russia would be killing estonians right now. The first and primary reason for this expansion was not NATOs desire for additional members, but Russia's neighbours desire for protection from Russia. And current invasion of Ukraine had proved that they were absolutely right.
Yes, it's pretty much only miners selling, but only a small fraction of them sell on exchanges as apparent from the low volumes.

The original Cuckoo Cycle turned out to be rather ASIC friendly; the Cuckatoo variant even more so. But it's the Cuckaroo variants that saw the most changes to make them substantially more ASIC resistant.
What is "Manifest v3"?
If you're saying such a large proportion of charity money goes towards graft that it is better to donate locally, I would love a source. If I donate to an organization providing malaria nets, most of that money goes to the malaria nets and some goes to funding rigorous verification that the money is going to malaria nets.
Yes, but you must have a nicer iPhone on the same iCloud account that downloads the current version, then you can use the "purchased" page on the old device.
> Since we're on the topic, which is one I have put some thought on, allow me to put forth my theory on how time travel as a business would work:

Sell tickets to hunt dinosaurs.
It’s lucky Python 2 isn’t supported anymore then, and everyone has had like a decade to run 2to3 once and publish a package for Python 3, so that use case becomes meaningless.
I kind of care... I have a binary that I distribute (once and update a lot) to 20k+ servers across multiple geographic datacenters... some of the servers are 100mbit only, so even updating all of them at once, saturates the network and slows everything down.

I use golang with all the size optimization steps that I can use... it makes a difference to make the binary smaller... it doesn't have to be minimal, but 4megs is better than 10megs.
In the original post the author said "As for software, I use mostly web apps and they work great on chromeOS as this is the use case the platform was designed for."

Is this a machine with which you make your living? If so, what is it you do that allows you to do all of your computing with a ChromeOS device?
It still would in this system, the website states that you still need to add "plaster panels" or drywall if you're in the US which means everything will be taped, mudded and painted.

If you want easily accessible utilities then there are ways to build to code where all of that is visible and accessible, it just won't be pretty. Aesthetics or utility, pick one.
alas, an electromagnet in the doorframe won’t help you much these days.
The banks are the sham, not crypto. Crypto is new, it will eventually replace the legacy financial system. Being a Luddite is not a way forward, processes will improve, the systems will mature. this is the akin to the "bagphone" era of cellphone adoption, blockchain technologies will eventually prevail.
Nice to see the MPCNC here!

https://docs.v1engineering.com/mpcnc/intro/
Both of those, actually. As I have become more financially stable myself, my opinions on the nature of wealth have evolved. I'm not the person I was 12 years ago both socially and financially.

I'm lucky my career has worked out, it's given me opportunities to help others and really sit with the question, "what do I feel is right and moral?"

Edit: I think I had read about someone doing this via hacker news, actually, and asked "what would it cost me to do the same"
> If it weren't the case many more would donate to e.g. the effective altruism movement.

Hmm, should I help a human being or spend all my money writing blog posts on why AI will kill us all? Okay, sure, maybe you want to give to a substack for AI alignment people whose sole output is voluminous reams of content on why AGI is around the corner and a harbinger of doom, but I think this may not be everyone's jam.

However, for those who prefer the utilitarian mindset, a friend built https://cosmicbraintrust.org/ so that you can donate to a more worthy cause - an aleph_1 to AI alignment's aleph_0.
I think more secure way of storing data is offline backup, at least 2 geographic locations should be used.
Do spammers not call Twilio numbers?
It looks like I'm going to keep my iPhone 13 mini for the next 7 years, or until it won't receive any updates anymore.
Utterly ridiculous, jingoistic nonsense. This isn't the Cultural Revolution.
US and Canada only.
Despite the recent controversy with coal power and the push toward alternatives that are more energy efficient like electric cars...

Google Translate was at a loss to turn this into sensible English. Anyone?

“Shows even though they aren’t crazy about electric cars they still have a good heart and treat people with respect and would help anyone in need.”

Never mind, I see that there is narrative-supporting afoot. That's like saying oil rig workers aren't crazy about diesels.
This idea is totally from left field, but perhaps Apple hopes to show how successful this program is with search and rescue operations to receive government subsidy? I can’t imagine a company as image-conscious as Apple being okay with the optics of a headline describing a hiker’s death after not paying for Emergency SOS.
> Passkeys gonna be fire

Knowing apple they're going to be another avenue to lock in. Now not only does switching your device been that you have to leave apple's ecosystem, it also means you lose all your passwords for all your websites.

I'm honestly hoping this does not take off.
The opening is already completely missing the point. In Bob's book, the comment is highlighted because the paragraph is talking about the comment. Drawing a red circle around something you want to point out doesn't mean that that thing always needs a red circle around it.
Canada models have a SIM slot, but they don't support 5G mmWave bands.
Are you referring to the minimum corporate tax treaty effort?

Has something like this happened previously before a recession?
That was a pretty good Black Mirror episode!
>That might have a lot to do with me turning bluetooth off on unused devices though

Well, duh!
Some intelligence agency should hire whoever did this writeup to conduct similarly detailed technical analysis and write reports on things of greater importance than donkey Kong.
I suppose you have some evidence of this???
If your concern isn't radiation, then is there a specific bluetooth issue or is it in-ear headphones in general? Certainly anything that can cause a build-up of earwax can result in other issues. So if you're wearing them for long stretches daily, there's a potential issue if these devices go deep enough (I don't know if they do).
It’s complicated, but basically, when audio is playing (I.e. new audio session) that’s when the BT headphones wake up. So you can get horrible initial delay (and missed audio in some configurations), unless you just broadcast a null signal to keep the connection alive.

I’m assuming that’s why all the popular USB “Bluetooth audio with aptX” all identify as an audio device and handle pairing etc. on their own. (Despite Windows’ stack having aptX support)
Can someone post a link to anything on Mastodon? I have never seen it used and never even heard it mentioned outside of HN
We pay taxes wrong. A silly example shows this to be true.

Suppose there's a planetary government and a solar government. Hear me out.

Filing a local, state, federal, planetary, and solar return each year is stupid. The solar government shouldn't process trillions of returns.

We should file local. Local should file state. State should file federal. Federal should file planetary. Planetary should file solar.

Now take away planetary and solar. Clearly the way to traverse a tree is one level at a time.
I felt the same way until I learned that in much of the world, super long (eg 30 year) fixed rate (no penalty for early payment) mortgages just aren't available

This is apparently a weird mostly unique to the USA thing, probably driven by complex subsidies. And that's why owning a home in the USA is such a good deal-- because it's the only way to get a 30 year fixed early-repayable mortgage, which, especially at the rates that were available for the last 15 years or so, is such an insanely good deal it's pretty much free money.

If you really think about it, why would any rational bank take this bet? If rates go up, you have an unfairly low rate and they can't do anything about it. If rates go down, they still lose because you can just repay early through a refinance. And 30 years is a long time to guarantee a rate.

The only reason a bank would offer such a crazy bargain is subsidies.
Yes! Reading programming books have been one of the best choices I've done with my career.

I got so inspired by reading that I created a website just to try and help people read more programming books. The biggest hurdle is usually finding a book that is not too hard or too long to start with.

https://www.programmingbooks.dev
Solar panels absorb light so the screen wouldn’t look so great
I'd bet market share is the explanation ? Though it seems it's 50/50 in the US.
Those inflation numbers can change once more data a looked at.
Buddhism tries to escape from all forms of the existence (31 realms - or dimensions of existance) , not just from this earth or universe.
Does this affect akka.net?
The tens of thousands billed for a frivolous rescue request probably will stop the casual pranksters too, getting a helicopter out to wherever you're stuck isn't a free service. If you're really out in remote places often, you probably know this well enough to get rescue insurance.
This seems to advertise being able to run on GPUs with smaller RAM, down to 2GB - but no such luck here on my laptop 3050Ti 4GB. Does anyone have any clues on the config or setup to get this going on smaller GPUs?
>You've done it at least twice in this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32717674

Sorry, but what guideline did that comment break?
I had the same experience, loved my AirPods but the Pros never fit well and the left side would fall out, returned within the 14-day return period.

The 2nd gen AirPods have a better UI, too: wearing mittens, with a hat over the AirPods, I could tap them to play/pause or skip tracks. This is impossible on newer AirPods. Siri is good, but isn’t as quick or convenient as a physical interface.
Not the same thing by a long shot, but you can turn on "Hide Alerts" for group chats. My wife has all of her long running group chats set to this to prevent alerts all day when her friends are chatting.
Agreed, deposits should be returned with interest at a minimum!

Even better, if the company has increased in value, your deposit should be returned with that increase reflected.
I've been using the same airpods v2 since some time in 2019 and whenever I end up replacing them, I won't really feel much regret at the small amount of e-waste they produce. I mean, I probably come across 2 or 3 e-cigarette things each time I take my dog for a walk.

I don't mean to engage in whataboutism but I've used those airpods for hundreds of hours. Seems like a pretty reasonable lifespan to me.
Show HN: CodeDust
Not to say that this would be a good idea, or that anyone does headphones this way, but you could implement PID control with analog circuits. Capacitors, resistors, and Op-amps.
>as a foreigner, your place of work takes care of your taxes for you.

My understanding is that isn't just the case for foreigners, it's the case for everyone. Companies are expected to just take care of things like that for you, and in return you're expected to treat them with utmost loyalty. I imagine things have changed somewhat in the past decade, but this writeup is illuminating:

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan...
see this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20050173
I'd been building increasingly sophisticated CGI-based web apps at the time (as a hobby) and still remember being blown away with what appeared to be a fully functional email client running inside Netscape. This was before Javascript was commonly available or standardized, and certainly no XmlHttpRequest etc.
His approach is pretty well proven in that some of the buildings have been standing over 40 years which seems long enough to find most of the issues. Insulation/sealing and permitting are the two I know about, at least at house scale, but If I needed a temporary storage shed it would be a great way to build & be able to dismantle later.
I'm betting:

1. This feature is relatively expensive for Apple. Satellite communication isn't free, and Apple don't have their own infrastructure for this.

2. They've signed a 2 year contract with whichever provider they're using.

3. They want to see if this feature is even popular before committing to supporting it for longer at all.
Agreed. Maybe I've had this wrong most of my programming career, but comments are usually for explaining the "why" of code if the code isn't that obvious by itself (and if this is the case, I usually try to refactor it first). It's rare that my comments ought to take precedence over the code itself.

If I do have something REALLYIMPORTANT (which is exceptionally rare), I plaster it all over so that it's practically not missable (esp. in code review). Sure, highlighting _that_ comment might help a bit during development, but I really don't think that use case is worth highlighting _all_ code in that case. But it could be a 'nice-to-have' for syntax highlighters.
The problem with Garmin is that they obsessively fragment/segment/differentiate their market/products.

It's infuriating that such an expensive watch will be unable to do some basic feature because they want to sell a "golf" version of the watch or a "sailing" version and so on.

They'll also release some feature that clearly is possible to implement on even current products elsewhere in the lineup - and isn't even really implemented on the watch at all but just some processing done on their cloud. But you don't get the feature, even if you bought a current model elsewhere in the lineup, because only the new watches get it.

With increased competition, supply chain issues, and consumer spending tightening it's been amusing to see Garmin suddenly drop much of that; the Vivoactive 4 and Forerunner 255 are absent most of their typical segmentation crap. The Forerunner 255 is a running watch that supports cycling power meters, for example, which had been a feature that had been limited to their absurdly expensive, huge, gaudy-looking "Fenix" watches.
Oh you sweet summer child. How I wish that were true.

People hate the police but for some reason think ladder climbing IRS agents are fair and rational. They aren’t. They’re bloodthirsty thugs who will make your life a living hell.

If you don’t believe that to be true then consider yourself very, very fortunate.
The new 1040 is nearly identical to 1040EZ just split over two sheets.
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Eh, they have a dis/connection chime and a low battery chime too. But yeah, no obnoxious maybe-TTS voice.
> Most merchants don’t, and won’t, which is why regulators step in on the customers’ behalf

You're implying that regulators just show up out of nowhere and make tasteful decisions for a market. That's not at all how it typically works, and you should look into the history of the "lemon law" you reference. Customers have remedies of their own that don't require regulation or monopolies to exist.

> Costco, Amazon, Apple, some others, step in on the consumers’ behalf, which creates (as comments you are replying to) consumer loyalty and a kind of “brand halo” of consumer trust that the merchants all benefit from.

Costco is membership based. People have lost their memberships for gaming the return system. Amazon just passes the costs on. And Apple mostly manufactures their own devices. And, I can guarantee you, every single one of them has been sued by their customers at some point because of one of their practices.

Arguing that monopoly power is the "secret sauce" to achieving this is absurd.

> To say the marketplace platform shouldn’t be allowed to empower customers at the expense of sellers

The purpose of a marketplace is to create beneficial arrangements for everyone involved. Amazon interferes in this arrangement and then tilts it solely in their favor at the expense of both the customer and the seller.

> is to say markets shouldn’t be allowed to decide how much service customers can have and how much profits merchants are willing to forgo to be where customers want.

Markets should do this. A single monopoly player controlling a market shouldn't. You're splitting the argument right at it's fundamental point.
It doesn't seem like they're actually controls, but more status indicators? Doesn't look like it's supposed to be an area of high and frequent interaction.
It's straightforward to calculate real estate capital gains from reported information. Remember, real estate transactions (including sales prices) are public records.

> The Tax Reform Act of 1986 required anyone responsible for closing a real estate transaction, which may include the escrow agent, title company, or attorney, to report a real estate sale or exchange to the IRS on Form 1099-S. In addition, they were required to furnish a statement to the seller of the gross proceeds of the sale. In 1998, with the passage of the Tax Payer Relief Act of 1997, an exception to this reporting requirement was allowed.

> If the sale price of your residence is $250,000 or less ($500,000 or less for married sellers) and you have lived in the property, as your principal residence, for the last two out of the last five years, your closing agent will not be required to file Form 1099-S with the IRS. The gross proceeds of the sale need not be reported to the IRS if these conditions are met.

> Be sure that your closing agent has your written confirmation that your sale is exempt from the IRS reporting rule. Most closing agents have a form, called a “Certification for No Information Reporting on the Sale or Exchange of a Principal Residence” which you will you be asked to sign at closing. The form will ask for your seller information, social security number, address, and certification that you have met the exemption requirements.

https://sandygadow.com/will-my-escrow-agent-have-to-report-m...
I turned it off after it kept outputting go that looked feasible but wasn't valid because of the libraries I was or wasn't using. I only turn it on if I'm doing something mundane that it might be able to handle. The fact it overrides intellij's autocompletion was too annoying
> In the event of an emergency, fumbling with my phone to find service sounds like a nightmare.

It doesn't have to be perfect, compared to the current alternative of 1) Having nothing to fumble around or 2) Be one of the few people with a full on expensive satellite phone I think it's a valuable addition.

Similar to how Chase Jarvis said "the best camera is the one you always have with you", this is also the case for emergency equipment.
The only animals that are going to survive are domesticated cats and dogs. In the USSR an experiment with foxes successfully transformed foxes to behave as dog within 60 years. The snout became shorter, curly tail and doglike friendly playful behavior made it possible to keep these foxes as a pet. The last century lions living in the wild decreased from 240.000 to 20.000. You could argue it will take another 100 or 200 years but they will go extinct within this millennium. I wonder if lions could be domesticated by an extensive breading program to save them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox

Orca’s, our equivalent in the water has a hard time finding fish. In captivity we can make them do tricks no human can perform in the water. Orca’s hunt on white sharks by flipping them upside down in which sharks are in a paralyzed sleep mode. The pod of orca’s then snatches the liver out of the shark and leave the carcass for other sea creatures to feast on. Orca’s have not discovered the breading ground of white sharks around the Easter Islands. Would it be possible to transfer this knowledge to them?
> Why is a cyberattack against a random, uninvolved country

It's in the article, Albania hosts a group of Iranian dissidents. Maybe the Iranian 'intelligence' thought it was a great idea to perpetrate a cyberattack on Albanian government websites and services, as this would somehow convince the Albanian government to extradite them to Iran? Instead their diplomats got kicked out of the country.

About the dissidents Albania is hosting:

"It was during 1988, the regime carried out its worst atrocity ever, when Khomeini ordered the deaths of 30,000 dissidents, mainly belonging to the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), who were fervent opponents of his regime, having turned against him when they realized he was replacing one dictatorship for another."

https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2018/08/31/How-Iran-d...
It turns out that long-range sat-to-sat connections are actually really hard to do. SpaceX hasn't figured them out yet, and neither has any other LEO provider. The people who have figured them out are at MEO and higher, where you can have fewer satellites and they can be a lot more expensive, and they don't have any tricks: they just throw money and power at the problem.
Albedo (YC W21) Raises $48M
What is the UK? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10
Wow - this came and went on the front page of HN yesterday and we had no idea.

Thank you to everyone for your kind words - I will personally look over the discussion thread today, a day late, and see if there are any questions I can answer.
WAL was added 2010-07-21, so pre-WAL is over 12 years ago now!
The iPhone 8 only compatibility means that many teams will be stuck supporting Safari 15.6 for a very long time. Anything under "no support" on this page will continue to be out of reach for years to come https://caniuse.com/?compare=safari+15.6&compareCats=all#res...
It sounds worse than current dedicated emergency beacons (which afaik usually are both satellite uplink and lower-frequency beacon), and I'd expect many/most people using them today will continue to carry them. But many people don't, and even if you do it is another fallback.
I was wondering the same. I think it's a new standard for how Chrome extensions work?

I hope it doesn't affect FF users, and uBlock Origin will continue to function same as it always has.