skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can hardly be said to benefit 'ordinary people' that anyone can find out a person's home address, birthday, salary, workplace, the size of their home, their family, children, and so on.

These databases are generally available not to benefit 'freedom of expression', but so that neighbors can easily spy on each other, or the newspapers can print-on-demand lists of "The richest people in YOUR area!".

Whatever else, the truly richest people have fixed the system so that their wealth isn't accessible in an online database.

Aside from the fact that Sweden is the most opinion-conformist country I've ever lived in (so that 'freedom of the press' is farcical at the best of times), when it comes to true freedom of speech the police will crush it mercilessly: literally shooting people in the streets, followed by kangaroo courts that rubber-stamp fake police evidence to convict peaceful protesters with draconian sentences.[1]

Governments, police and the authorities are all protected by extensive secrecy. It's only the ordinary 'sucker' who has the 'freedom' of exposing all their most private affairs for everyone to pry.

[1] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göteborgskravallerna (in Swedish)

PS: for once the multiple downvotes are themselves an artifact of the discussion- I'm betting from affronted Swedes lol - because being negative about Sweden isn't allowed to be stated. But Swedes are all very proud of freedom of expression
Look at the incoming class numbers. Harvard/MIT/Princeton/Yale are all within 2% of 50/50.

I don't know how they do it legally, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And yet, https://borgenproject.org/homelessness-in-sweden/
Yes, because AirBnbs with shady host, hidden fees, no housekeeping, you’re expected to have the space spotless, no support of the wifi is bad, half the time the Airbnb is not legally suppose to short term rentals, etc.
If your net worth is less than $5,000,000 and you are currently working for a paycheck, setting up an alternative income stream that can someday hopefully replace your W2 income is one of the best things you can do for your long term financial security.
I either hotspot my phone, or use the [included] hotel wifi+vpn

Carrying yet-another-piece-of-equipment is added complexity and confusion I have neither the time nor inclination to deal with
To each their own. Some people love it. I have noticed that people, especially older retired folks, love the interaction that arises from being a subject matter expert.
I saw someone point out that this interest rate hike will effectively nullify any bubble breaks. House prices could drop over 30% (the amount it dropped in the last housing bubble popping) and the monthly mortgage payment will still be more than it was before.

A terrible time to be looking for a house.
Making derogatory remarks is not bragging.
To me those are synonyms, but I'm not a native speaker. When you're allowed to do more things, such as taking open source code and using it without ever contributing anything back even if you distribute compiled versions of these people's work for exorbitant fees, aren't you more "free" to do what you want than if this were restricted in any way?

I'm not saying I morally agree with it, but that's what I understand the word to mean.
Or, this has everything to do with safari because surely Apple wishes that every experience with the web was through apps so they would make 30% of all e-commerce revenue.
Health insurer Medibank's data breach diagnosis keeps getting worse
Sure, but class loading only changes assumptions in one direction for example — in the aforementioned example it would cause only one deoptimization after which the code won’t be worse off than the AOT compiled one. So the JIT case before class load may perform better, and afterwards will perform the same.
This just gave me a realization...

I'm a person with way too many hobbies. I like to pick them up and drop them as it suits my interest. Some days I'm very excited about electronics, other days I'm more interested in reading or woodworking. Some hobbies truly demand regular practice and study, but even those I often rotate just on longer timescales.

This brings me to the realization. Many of my hobbies which require software change dramatically by the time I revisit them. Kicad updates, or changes to the way my DAW works. Not to mention the need for a subscription which commits my interest for a month or more! What if I'm just trying to jot down an idea and then drop it again for a year!?

Software services with subscriptions are like joining a club that has expectations of you. Useful in some cases, but altogether way too overbarring for my hobbies most of the time.
You call it pedantry, I call it "field of work". I've managed to avoid working on apps built around databases for my entire career, instead focusing initially on operating systems, device drivers and OS-level tools; then later on software for pro-audio/music creation workflows. Literally no aspect of this work is "fully automated".

Yes, the productivity of modern day "stored-in-the-DB/presented-in-the-browser" project teams can be astounding. But that's only one type of software.
You are very correct. HELOCs, however, are not as big a factor as they used to be. They will become more popular though.

Wolf Richter shows some nice graphs in the article linked below. He states that mortgages in Q2 were $11.4T and HELOCs a mere $320B.

https://wolfstreet.com/2022/08/04/trip-back-to-reality-start...
At most companies, part of what they're paying you for is to be engaged during business hours. You're not just a contracting service who accepts requirements and tosses results back over the wall; you're a human resource, meant to be available for your coworkers as needed.

In a hypothetical case where someone only has 10 hours of stuff to do a week, I'm sympathetic, I'd be pretty bored by that too. But when I see a SWE describe a scenario like that, most of the time they end up meaning that they have 10 hours of coding tasks a week, because they don't consider anything else to be a real part of their job.
>The underwritten currency of human society is violence. Using it, you can take what you want and the only way to stop you is more violence. If you are part of an ideological tribe that wants to protect humans from each others' petty brutality you must seize land, establish the rule of law, and murder or expel people who challenge your regime.

I don't think any progressives deny the state's "monopoly on violence". Of course the state must establish the rule of law, and possibly murder (or is it not murder before the rule of law is established?) those who seek to overthrow the state.

>it sometimes frustrates me that so many westerners who believe in "human rights" are convinced these problems can be solved with a light touch.

But do you really need to murder scammers and slave owners unless they try to resist with insurrectionery violence? A light touch of a long prison sentence can work. I feel you want the state to gun down these people immediately without a trial or anything. I don't think that's right, and you haven't argued for why it's right, just ranted on barely related things.
You would be surprised.... a lot of flippers and even non-flippers betting on the ability to easily refi 5 years out.

Publicly reported data:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/27/adjustable-rate-mortgage-dem...
I don't get it everyone and their VCs is forcing you to build native apps because they can extract more data than from an PWA or website. They could allow every rendering engine and they would still force you to install the app. The only exception might be telegram their mobile pwa is quite nice.
So it was at renewal, not out of the blue? Did the landlord actually mention the pay raise?

One should always do as good due diligence as possible before doing a major change in life such as moving to another country. No matter which country it is.
Yay, more code repos that will rot somewhere by engineers who thought they were "changing the world and making an impact".
The man standing on the shoulder of the giant claim he's statue is different than the giant who is standing on the mountain peak, etc. etc.
> Though in doing so they will be notified that you have done so.

No. Depends on how you look it up, but you could just send an email (from anonymous account if wanted) to the tax agency asking for someones salary. You get an answer back in a few days without them being notified.
They definitely will, this is after all the intended purpose of these firms, and some of the more professional among them are producing cGMP APIs at scale in a completely legitimate context. Although if you have a need for ACE2 inhibitors (not sure which kind of binders you need for which purpose ...) that are marketed and formulated it may be more convenient to just source a large amount of the pharmaceutical product, though I can't comment on the legality of doing that.
How can you get all your stuff transferred over. songs, apps, games everything else you bought and already paid for.
Absolutely. This is why I laugh when republicans who support all republican actions try to consider themselves libertarians. I guess it's the trendy term to be now.

If you're a libertarian, you vouch for liberties across the board. Not seesawing utter power against the other side every election cycle.
You say "one of the larger contributors upstream" do you have a source for that? Because I took a look at the contributor list, and couldn't find any evidence of that.
Do you mean kayak.com?
All billboards are by definition untargeted ads, and they are not at all only for "megaa-corps and erection pills". You can still use context to target an ad at a particular audience e.g. a hosting provider advertising on StackOverflow.
Java isn't cool and most HN'ers aren't interested in it.
That's sensible? I do not think that word means what you think it means...

I mean, yes, having functions in a different namespace may be sensible, or at least defensible. That example is ridiculous.
Usually I roll my eyes when someone posts their own website to HN and it crashes under load. But given the nature and complexity of yours I think there's room for understanding and patience :)
One great example of this is "the war on drugs." It was noted that marginalized and poverty-stricken communities (typically consisting of people of color) were the predominant users of recreational drugs. This worked out exactly as designed, allowing slavery/servitude to be unceremoniously reinstituted: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/incarceration-rates-by-r...
Not a day goes by where I don’t miss my Blackberry.
Olive and avocado oils at least are not seed oil. But they are indeed vegetable oils. In both, the oil is made from the fruit.
There's hundreds of thousands of people that stream on Twitch. Most of them don't think they'll be the next great thing, but they also might not promote themselves because it's just a hobby.

So I'd argue that, most likely, you don't see the hobby work because if it's a hobby you won't dedicate several hours to promoting it.

I had a hobby of hacking around in Hadoop to download SEC data and make visualizations showing the relationship of the language used in their filings to their Morningstar ratings. For example: The lowest 10% of rated companies referenced bankruptcy a lot. The 11-40% range or so (which basically means they did NOT performed well, but they were not the worst) actively avoided avoided saying the words more than any other group.. and bankruptcy curved back up as an more commonly used word in the top 70-100%, where companies did outstanding.

This was a complete hack job (in my opinion) improperly using Hadoop's mechanics because it was an easy hook to distribute jobs. This was entirely for fun, and I even had nodes running on old laptops because I had them sitting around.

Sure, I had thoughts if it had amazing revelations I might redo it properly, but I didn't advertise it or try to sell it. I had a friend at first with this project, but he eventually got a job at a mega company that worked him 60 hours a week and he didn't have time for the fun project anymore... And I eventually decided I needed a partner with those skills, but didn't know where to find one, and again, didn't want to go advertising my hobby and looking for someone.

I also know several people at my workplace that have hobbies in with IoT'ing their house with custom arduinos and Pi's, and hooking them into custom databases and dashboards... Though my workplace has a (fairly) strict 40-hour/week limit, and our commutes are generally <15 minutes, so we have more free time then, for instance, when I worked for a private company in Northern Virginia, which worked 45-50 hours/week, and had another 10-15 hours of commute time/week
Your comment raises some really good points, one of which is that address information is actually public information. It is interesting to me how in the last say 30 years this information, which used to be just considered a basic fact, has become highly sensitized. I'm not saying it's right or wrong. But consider that virtually all municipalities make property records public by default, which was historically as a matter of public interest. Historically they made voter registration records public as well (this now varies by locality or state) which covers renters.

If you think about it, it didn't used to be very practical to keep your address highly private because so much information came by mail, so you'd end up sharing your address more widely with friends but even acquaintances. Without mobile phones it could be onerous to set up a meeting away from home if there was any likelihood it would need to be rescheduled at the last second. I believe (with no hard evidence) that "swing by my place and we'll go from there" used to be much more common, by necessity. It was routine for personal home addresses to be listed with the name of the occupant in widely distributed phone books. You could opt out of this by the time I was a kid. These days it might be considered doxing for a company to disseminate this information by default!

I do not think we should have to keep those norms forever, of course, but if we are going to start treating addresses as highly privileged maybe we should more intentional and methodical about it. It would mean trying to answer the question of "how do we preserve the public interest in knowing who owns a piece of land in a municipality, particularly when there is a complaint, an environmental concern, a tax policy question that is hard to answer without knowing who owns all the land in an area, etc."

Another good point you make is that SSNs are dangerous not in and of themselves but because of how they can be used. Like you said, they can be cross referenced if overcollected to build tracking profiles. But also, in the U.S., they have been improperly overloaded as an authentication token, so they have been made dangerous by misuse. But ideally we'd have a system where there is little/no danger in having your SSN exposed.
Not the last 5 years - the last ~8 months.
> I still don’t get whey they need to enslave their workers though.

They work for free until they prove they can get results under such a system. I think most orgs would like to only pay for employees that actually generate revenue and given the lack of regulation of the black market they have that opportunity.

Also trafficking in people from elsewhere means that the local police are much more willing to co-operate because they're not getting as much hassle from locals about the foreigners suffering as they would if locals were being treated as shittily.
In most states, lenders have recourse. So if you stop paying your mortgage, the bank will foreclose on your home and then come after your other assets to make up the difference in what you owe vs. what the home is currently worth.
That doesn't mean that I'd charge individual users :-)

Heck, I'm not even asking for an email (and I had to do extra session management coding for that).
Yup. I play guitar in a sleazy rock band, make wood and linocuts, potter in the garden, visit European cities for long weekends, go to the gym, read books.

None of these things I want to monetize or hustle. Sounds incredibly tiring.
> Freedom of expression is actually relatively limited in Sweden

I was curious about this so found https://www.riksdagen.se/en/how-the-riksdag-works/democracy/...

In it they write: "In Sweden, you have the right to have an opinion on anything and say almost anything you want. You have the right to express yourself freely on the radio, TV and the Internet. The Fundamental Law on Freedom of Expression sets out these rights. It also describes what is not permitted, for example defaming or publicly insulting another person."

Being prevented from publicly insulting another person seems not only silly in principle, but impracticable.
Thats why, even if I hate the company I work for, I always do my best to keep a good relationship with them. Thats not always possible of course, but having former coworkers being able to say good things about you helps take a lot of worry off my back.
Looks like you have a good business idea about curating unknown quality blog posts ;)
Cars are a bit different, considering they are physical objects that can easily kill people and you can't exactly manufacture a car in your room with a $50 computer - entry prices are a tiny bit higher there.

Meanwhile, i don't think i should have to ask permission from the government to make something like, e.g. a map editing tool for a 90s fps, like i did yesterday[0] (the tool, not requesting permission) or a sprite editor[1] or a quick-and-dirty wiki server to take notes in games[2]. Or really anything that doesn't have to do with areas where lives are at stake (which AFAIK is already being done anyway with programs needing to pass conformance tests - something i'm perfectly fine with, at least in theory, as i don't know in practice if these tests really work or are designed to help existing actors stay entrenched).

[0] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/chasmfe/

[1] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/mseditor/

[2] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/cppwiki/
"Losing every single customer" doesn't have to be as dramatic or unlikely as you make it sound. Consider the possibility that they could introduce a new product that supersedes the current one and they stop adding new features to the old product, and all customers eventually switch over. The old product has lost all of its customers, but it's just because they switched products. The escrow deal here is for the specific product, Dyalog APL. It wouldn't cover Dyalog NewThing. In this situation, the escrow never pays out.
No, you don't. Read help about MENUCONFIG, MENUITEM, SUBMENU.
Kind of a crazy assumption to make of an entire population of people. Idk how you could even stretch such a claim. You’re stereotyping an entire cohort of people based on a very, very small percentage of people.
It's a known bug that Google seems unwilling to address. This happens on a months old Chromecast v3 by Google. Unfortunately they disabled the (standalone) login feature on the Chromecast so you cannot prevent this by logging in.
Ads show on the next video when autoplay is on. Unless you play from a playlist. All in all quite annoying.
Isn't there "midterm" elections coming up in two months in the US? Aren't moves like spiking the rent to induce mass unemployment likely to benefit the Republican party? It can't be a winning strategy.
OP could add an optional online mode where you occasionally see other drivers cruising around and make it so that you'd just go through them as if they were ghosts if you tried to crash into them
Oh trust me, I know where you're coming from. I'm one of "those guys" who was really hyped up about netbooks in the 2010s.

But its performance-per-watt that people want today, which leads to smaller batteries and longer laptop-time per charge. You can't just buy low-power chips from 5 years ago and hope to keep up with today's technology, the process advantage from smaller transistors is just too powerful to keep up with.

As today's laptops reach 24+ hours per charge, its less about "compute power" and more about "battery life" for most people. The fact is, today's laptops get you both.

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This is actually why I'm intrigued by Intel's P+E cores. The E-cores are from the Atom-line, meaning Intel has effectively made all 12th gen / 13th gen laptops Intel Atoms to some extent. So you have the "netbook" portion of your laptop offering incredible battery life, with the P-cores if you need to run Blender, video games, or some other high-compute problem.

If you're just gonna surf the web and watch videos, the E-cores are more than sufficient and will last over 24 hours (ex: LG Gram)
Most of the people I speak to who locked in <3.5% are not planning on selling in the next 10 years or more. Then to consider the scenario of renting throughout this period; how much cash is being torched compared to a mortgage payment? How will they save for a down payment during a period of inflation like this?

Current renters will have lower potential to save on a monthly basis, only to get 30-40% off on their first home with a >7% interest rate. If you sum the lost savings from rent plus the additional interest payment, it is uncertain whether that is the best strategy. That is also assuming real estate prices in certain regions wont hold stronger value, which they probably will. Some areas in the South East, Midwest, and Front Range will likely not see such a drop in value with respect to interest rates and mortgage payments. The demand is just too high.

Not to mention that rent is collected by people who are now in a better position to purchase newly discounted real estate without loans, further fueling price demand by competing against each other and shortening supply.
> If you had to sell it, you would get much less back, and you might have more taxable gain if you don't qualify for §121 exclusion.

This is a separate calculation of how much one can sell their house for relative to purchase price, unrelated to preferring low interest rate/high purchase price or high interest rate/low purchase price.

But based on decades of interest rate history, it would seem prudent to bet the Fed will lower rates again in a few years and you can refinance to a lower interest rate.
>A terrible time to be looking for a house.

This has been a true statement since like, what, 2008?
Good point, and I wonder if the term "jingle mail" (mailing the bank your house keys instead of a monthly mortgage check) is going to make a comeback.
I've been good at avoiding money and studies.
I own one. 5.6 kWh I think.

Its amazing. Been using it for like 2.5/3 years now and it has really helped in becoming energy independent.
Don't have batteries yet as the tech is unproven here, but on grid-off grid without batteries already has given us more usable energy during the day when the grid goes.
Vr headsets are not replacing phones this year.
EU legislation is built into the constitution of EU members, so I'm not sure either what they are talking about.
my power company installed one of these devices on my water heater this year as a pilot program completely free.

so far i haven't noticed any difference, but i think that's the point.
You are preaching to the choir, I type exclusively using the Workman layout and very old keyboards, but I do it for ergonomic reasons.

Fatigue may be involved, but I'm not buying the rest of the argument. Most programmers are not touch-typing wizards, some of them still hunt and peck, and a few of them have an issue using a keyboard in the first place. People can adapt, and programming is not a typing competition as I said, it's a thinking and talking one.
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