skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Fed screwed up by keeping rates too low for too long which juiced home prices such that a huge chunk of people who would like to be able to buy a home are priced out of the market.

I disagree: if Jane first home buyer has an income of $50000, and can only just afford $30000 per year on their mortgage, Jane will bid on a house the maximum she can afford. I agree that over the long term, with everybody acting the same as Jane, then the price of homes is mostly controlled by the interest rates. However interest rates, per se, do not affect the affordability of homes very much.

There are secondary effects that do change things. However the primary market dynamic of bidding as-much-as-you-can-afford means that affordability doesn’t change much. (It also means your population is playing a zero-sum bidding game of how-much-can-we-pay-the-banks, which is bad, especially in New Zealand which doesn’t own most of its banks).

Secondly, the usual answer is to increase housing supply. That would work only if there can be a super-abundance of new supply in a suburb. Think of a desirable locarion, and let’s magically create 20% more homes there. Would that fix supply? No, because the latent demand is far bigger than 20%. Why? Firstly, in my circles in Christchurch NZ, relatively well-off people own multiple homes: their primary home in the suburbs, sometimes a second home or an investment property (rented or Airbnb), ideally a holiday home somewhere which is often empty, perhaps even a town-house in a city. Secondly, in my other circles there are a lot of people sharing a home (one home split into several flats, flatting, still living with parents), so there is a huge latent demand for people that want their own home.

I think that in many desirable suburbs, you could double the number of homes and prices would not shift down in the slightest. For people to own their own homes needs something new to happen.

We have had a housing boom going on in Christchurch for say 5 years now, and house prices went up and up, because people bid what they can afford. Projections are for housing to increase faster than population in Christchurch, but that is not fixing affordability. Statistics: “Christchurch City's most recent population estimate was 392,000 (June 2021). The 2010/2011 earthquakes resulted in a net loss of around 21,000 people, but by 2017 the city's population had recovered to pre-earthquake levels. Projections suggest that by 2028 the population is likely to be around 417,000 under a medium growth scenario.” “In 2018, there were an estimated 148,000 households in Christchurch city. Projections suggest that this will likely increase to around 161,000 households by 2028 (medium series).” https://ccc.govt.nz/culture-and-community/statistics-and-fac... I don’t understand their projections, because on the same page they show a graph with more than 10000 new homes already. Also we have massive housing growth outside of Christchurch - I have seen recent large subdivisions in: Rolleston, Lincoln, West Melton, Amberley, Methvyn, etcetera.
Very nice system.

I too prefer a graph paper hard bound notebook and I follow the Ryder Carroll's bullet journaling format. Currently its just a daily log of tasks but I am planning to expand to be a dev log too.

> For long projects, I use Apple notes to capture the plan. When ready to be worked on, I switch to paper.

Interesting, I generally write everything in a notebook transfer it in Trello and generally transfer daily tasks back to daily log as and if needed.
This would be unneeded if PHP wouldn't have case-insensitive identifiers, right?

But such a breaking change would of course be too much to ask
I'm not saying we need to rewrite SQLite and I'm not sure why everyone is assuming I suggested rust.

But people need to consider how much testing SQLite did and still hit memory vulnerabilities when they consider picking up C for a new project.
Kerrr-chinggg!

Dontcha love it when a plan comes together!
As a painter, yes, putting paintings behind glass makes me significantly less able to evaluate and appreciate them.

What these protests will accomplish will be to make art harder for common people to see.
But does it get attention to what they want to get attention for? At the moment, most responses have been "God these guys are idiots" and "what's the point of this?", not "damn, climate change is a problem we really need to do more about now"
How will Bitcoin fix it? If I buy a video card with bitcoin, but get sent a brick instead, how does "Blockchain as Arbiter" get my bitcoins back?
What are the other option(s) for AWS credentials which would be more secure in this scenario?
This is an incredible collection. Thank you so much for keeping it
Well it crashed ~10 years ago, so there was your chance.

But lucky for you there’ll be another opportunity soon
Does MagSafe charging cause a Macbook Pro to heat up in the same way that USB-C charging on the left side of the device does?

When I saw that on my new M1 Max, I assumed so, so I never used it. (Also because I had USB-C charging for everything else...except my iPhone.)
Spare Book – One of the most awaited books
do you still have to go to asciinema.org to view them? that always rubbed me the wrong way, whether it was a requirement or just the dominant preference.
Tbf if the grip can alter the distance between the blades you need to recalibrate them by adjusting the middle screw (unless they're riveted in which case welp) that holds them together. Well maintained scissors ought to cut perfectly well in both hands.
> Having an SSH client in your browser join your VPN violates all the principles of modern computing.

I think that's a compliment? You're welcome? :)
It's noticeable enough that, as a lefty, I learned early on to use scissors with my right hand.
Are you running the incrementality study, or is your provider (e.g. Google)? Because one of the points here is that providers also have an incentive to fudge the numbers - they're not in business of being accurate, they're in business of making it seem their services help you.

To riff off the average height example - you can get a pretty darn good estimate based on sampling and good statistical practice... unless the people doing the sampling have a reason to bias the measurement, or - if you're sampling on your own - people who control where you go and who you meet...
I really prefer the act of physically writing notes, but not being able to search them is kind of a deal breaker. Physically writing them helps me remember, but I'm always going to want to look back and reference things on occasion, that's basically half the purpose of writing them in the first place.

It's the only reason I'd consider getting an iPad, but it just seems so wasteful for that express purpose.
I've been planning to have this guy make my submissions to HN but I haven't flipped the switch yet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_(character)#/media/...

I try to always wait until my last submission is off the top of the page so draining the queue on cue is imminently automatable. Then there's the problem of developing a predictive model for how many upvotes a story will get...
USB-C is only a connector spec, and the actual USB protocol it supports could be one of many different versions and options. Or it can be Thunderbolt 3 or 4!
We certainly can use solar, wind & batteries to eliminate fossil fuels from our electricity system. Estimates are that we'd need about 300TWh of batteries, which is on the edge of feasible. Pumped storage would be a lot cheaper, though.
Neovim Notebooks
Agreed, though it would have been necessary to deploy the vaccines globally, especially in the least-wealthy parts of the world.

In the case of Omicron, there's a good chance that the vaccines would have needed to reach a community in Botswana ahead of the initiation of the chronic infection that may have produced BA.1, BA.2, etc.

First-world extensive deployments would have killed off the first-world propagation of variants through Delta in short order, but everything changed with Omicron.
What makes you think they wanted to switch sooner? I get that this gives them cover, but what competitive/cost benefits would they have gained by switching?
Interim Report Analyzing Origins of Covid-19 Pandemic
An alternative is for people to blame themselves, the consumer. Oil companies won't produce oil if no one is using it. Everyone is blaming and pointing fingers at other people to do something.
Yeah, it's kind of funny reading this. Disregard others. By which we of course mean disregard Rosalind Franklin's foundational work on the structure of DNA.
> Unbelievably credulous predictions that the Chinese government is going to topple on its own in the next few months are just plain out of touch.

Isn't that just a straw man? Most serious reporting on China are just predicting a substantial slow down in growth (or even recession), which is what is playing out right now. Chinese emigration rates, which were dropping for many years before, are actually growing again (mostly due to zero COVID and lagging economic growth).
I have done this with other parties by brute force for crypto.

You usually have a ring of people and need 3 out of the 7 to open the box. You simply encrypt the box in whatever combinations you want, and people run their keys against each layer of the box. You end up with a few different files but in the case of keys, and a small number of sharers this is not going to be a big data issue.
Thanks for the feedback—I’ll adjust the tour points and transitions in the future to try to prevent this.
No, right-handed, but left-handed were readily (read: overly) available at school so I recall trying them thinking surely it's just a comfort thing at most how could it possibly make a difference, and the paper or whatever just flopping up parallel to the blades instead of being cut.
Tesla's Model Y tops new car registrations in Europe in September
lets you decide who to trust to have the power to approve chargebacks instead of defacto trusting the fed
And when you wash them, hang them dry afterwards. That fuzz in the dryer lint trap is your clothes disintegrating slowly.
We became experts on Google Play Store policy violations
Specialist – visual representations of CPython 3.11's new adaptive interpreter
https://archive.ph/BLIpI
sts:AssumeRole or its friend sts:AssumeRoleWithWebIdentity
with the normal browser?
How the FBI Stumbled in the War on Cybercrime
It would be hard for housing to crash unless the current supply and demand situation changed dramatically.

An increase in supply so large that it would cause prices to crash would take years to build. In fact, inventory is lower than normal in some areas because people who might otherwise sell are holding out for better times, sometimes by renting out their properties and capturing today's unusually high rent prices instead.

A drastic decrease in demand is not going to happen because of mortgage rates. High mortgage rates have already taken a chunk out of demand yet housing has not crashed. The only way I can see demand dropping so much that prices crash is a major recession with mass unemployment, which knocks a large number of potential buyers out of the market entirely because they lost their incomes.
They are not. Cash was built using unlinked refunds over visa to do direct deposit onto visa debit cards. For ACH, it uses normal ACH rails.

Zelle…was built by the big banks…
anything some random employee at PayPal in SF DECIDES is racist
> Did it? Apple moved their last Lightning product (outside of iPhones & their accessories) earlier this week.

Apple’s Mac peripheral accessories (keyboard, trackpad, mouse) are still all Lightning.
Ehhhh... is right to repair the right phrasing?

I worry about requiring switches in the same way one can require a universal standard for power delivery. (The EU did that recently... good move IMO, though I can understand the delay since discussions about amperages and whatnot do take time.[0])

Maybe requiring anyone who wants to contract with the US government to offer such a model, and that said model be available for consumer purchase as well, would be a simple solution.

They sometimes won't let say, Russia, buy the same stuff as say... Canada... but that's usually stuff like night vision goggles. The exact same phone or laptop, just slightly larger with more switches shouldn't have any... I think the word is "export controls"?

Please keep in mind, I am not a lawyer, and I'm very stupid -- I only have a master's degree -- so sometimes the things I say are wrong... please only credit me for the times I'm right. Thx!

I'm off to do more drugs now... have a nice Thursday!!

- Greg from Pennsylvania

[0] https://www.npr.org/2022/10/07/1127543116/eu-mandate-for-a-s...
The target account would need to allow explicit access to our account via an AWS policy. See the docs: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/cross...

This is actually the approach we take for connecting to Google Services.
It definitely has also to do with the force applied. If the blades are setup for the other hand your default grip will puah the blades apart and you can get the paper between the blades
Thats why as a lefty I had major issues with the cheap scissors (which had a ton of play on the hinge) we had in school, bit if you have a decently made scissor the issue is much less severe.
Sorry, I guess it's been just long enough for me to forget this stuff. I'm wrong! I forgot. There are standard symbols for flowchart diagramming. Honestly the Wikipedia article on it will cover just about everything you'll want to know.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowchart

[2]: Flowcharting Techniques GC20-8152-1. IBM. March 1970.

[3]: Schultheiss, Louis A., and Edward M. Heiliger. "Techniques of flow-charting." (1963); with introduction by Edward Heiliger.
full title limited by HN form.

Specialist uses fine-grained location information to create visual representations of exactly where and how CPython 3.11's new specializing, adaptive interpreter optimizes your code.
There are all kinds of people doing serious climate change research, politics, business, etc.

Other options certainly do exist.

This ridiculous and ineffective protest only serves to make people fighting climate change look ridiculous.

That only hurts the movement.

It would be better if these individuals had done nothing at all.

Better yet - if they don’t know what to do about climate change, they can do any paying job, and donate their money to someone who does.
The link in the submission doesn't look clickable for some reason so here it is again:

https://nyx-ai.github.io/stylegan2-flax-tpu
Shocking to hear because it can’t even do OCR so you can search your own notes.

So, you flip through page by page to find your notes?

I’d rather buy an iPad for GoodNotes which lets you search your hand written notes
Because you subconsciously push the blades togheter in the right way, so the gap gets narrower and the cut sharper. While if the scissor is mirrored you pull them apart.
I’ve heard good things about GCP, but I would think AWS open more doors since it’s more popular.

Personally I stay away from Azure, IMHO it just seems clunky. (Just my personal opinion so take it with a grain of salt.)

BTW, if you’re new to cloud stuff this resource might come handy: https://cloudresumechallenge.dev/

Best of luck!
Opportune day you picked to share this, given this nasty cold front. Very cool.
The data just does not seem to line up with your assessment. Labor force participation rate is down 1% since pre-pandemic. It's not earth shattering, but it is quite a drop.

Also inflation is hardly a few percentage points of catch up. Look at the chart below and tell me you still believe that.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-pri...

Not to mention food/gas is worse which is what hits people in low to mid income ranges the most.
There was over 6T in aid, not even fully counting mortgage or debt pauses/deferrals. Or eviction moratorium

Maybe look at the numbers. What’s obvious today will be even more obvious to historians. You can look it up in 5-10 years if you prefer
> there's no gain from my perspective

Maybe this'll broaden that perspective a little: Apple devices since the iPhone 8 support USB-PD with C-to-Lightning cables now, and it's much faster. Decent USB-C chargers are a noticeable quality-of-life improvement.
Intuitively, I would say that we have passed peak online surveillance dystopia.

People have kind of woken up to the topic, but of course are still not really protecting themselves and the monopolies have not been broken up yet.

However, looking at the things that Facebook did when thing went well for them, makes me worry about the thing that Meta will do when things don't go well for them. Their share price just tanked to the level of 2015.
Dunno, maybe it's the stockholm syndrome talking, but I like Java.

The most glaring problems with the language are actually being addressed, and beside that, the tooling is amazing and the ecosystem is very mature and stable.

I only wish they would hurry up with the foreign memory API. Because only being able to memory map 2 Gb at a time is a pain in the ass than yesterday's vindaloo.
Making sense is a high priority for legal arguments. You may be unfamiliar with the context in which things are meant to make sense though.
> So exactly what did it accomplish?

https://www.privacyaffairs.com/gdpr-fines/

> Total Amount of GDPR Fines: €2,040,213,207

> Largest Fine: €746,000,000 Amazon Europe Core S.a.r.l. on July 22 , 2021 - Luxembourg
Public debt is a strange thing. The gross public debt of the US is 135% of its GDP[1] but Japan has it at 266%[2] and they've done okay so far, too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_St...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_Japan
I've always used right-handed scissors as these are simply the default, but a year ago I bought proper left-handed scissors (one general purpose and one for fabric) and now after almost 40 years of using the wrong type of scissor I can't imagine ever suffering those again. You can use the wrong scissors, but you're constantly compensating and getting a cramped hand in return. It makes a huge difference.
Regardless of the passionate feelings against Spotify, it's hard to dispute their basic premise that Apple is deliberately creating a bad user experience just to preserve their walled content garden.

The same thing applies to not being able to buy a book using the Amazon app. It's ridiculous and there is no valid argument against it other than greed. Not a fan of overregulation, but in this area I can't wait for Apple to be reined in.
In practice, electrical heating is is often spot heating in one room or even aimed directly at a person - a niche that isn't really served by indoor gas-fueled heating appliances.
I paid only slightly more than that in Québec, Canada. The province is blessed with a superabundance of hydroelectric potential and thankfully the infrastructure is in well-managed government hands.
Right. I speculate the employer is coercing, in this case. The words were not clearly an opinion.

The complaint:

> "interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed” in the National Labor Relations Act

The law:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/158

My take:

The fact the CEO said that bad things MAY come if employees joined a Union, suggests to me "bad things" is the planned action by Amazon.

References:

- Best practices for EMPLOYERS (See "T" for Threats): https://agworkforce.cals.cornell.edu/2019/10/23/what-employe...
I love apple products but I hate this stuff. They're cynically kneecapping competition and hurting consumer choice, like they're not rich enough already. Would class action be a to do thing here?
I use Obsidian. I have a template that lets me pick an existing project (also just a note) and then it creates a log file for that project. Then I just keep adding time stamped entries to it. It’s not so fancy yet that it automatically adds a link from the project to the log file but the other way around is added.

That way I can easily find all log files through the back links.

It works really well because it gives me a space where I can add stream of conscious stuff which is incredibly useful for later on writing blog posts or documentation where I still remember the various pain points.

But it also separates these logs from the actual project note so I can keep that space tidier.
PayPal doesn’t have a monopoly anymore so this just seems bizarre. Visa, Google, Apple, etc run similar services on a massive scale. Then there’s of course crypto.

For how rarely they are likely to actually enforce this, it just seems like a rather stupid hill to die on. Not just the initial decision but the attempt to try and sneak the terms back in.
The sight issue is true (but in my opinion not the major difference).

Have you watched little kids learn to use scissors? You really do need to apply force to bring the blades together or they won't cut well. You likely do this unconsciously. I didn't think about it until I was teaching my children how to cut with scissors and noticed that they would generally end up folding the paper were I could cut it (toddler scissors aren't very sharp, so it's even more important to push the blades together from the side).
There are a ton of profiles I've seen over the years. A few seemed to have lifestyles so independent and idiosyncratic that they'd put the Unabomber to shame. Many were involved in fascinating and helpful projects. But I find the assumption that the overall tone is of venture capital, digital nomadism, gentrification and so on to be fairly sensible as well as the idea that as whole the community greatly contributes to increasing authoritarianism.
I miss how CPAN required that you name modules. they were named according to their capabilities, and they were narrowly scoped.

these days, you just pick a word from the dictionary, and that's your software's name. now I have 1000 names to remember.
It depends, I guess. I'm left-handed and sometimes I like to hold the object I'm cutting with my left hand, rather than the scissors.
You do realise that money was created to deal with a lack of trust, and that every time you ‘transact’ in money you’re actually expressing your lack of trust in your counterpart’s ability to “make good” on a barter?
No it isn’t. Most apple users rely on apple to protect them from threats.
Hangouts functionality basically still exists, just under a different name. It's still integrated in Gmail, with the same contact list, and all the previous conversations from Hangouts were still there. It's so similar that I bet many people don't even realize anything changed.

This is unlike, say, Reader, which was canceled with no replacement to this day.
I don’t agree to 100% but you sure have a good point.

Containers can be hosted on a 100% open source software platform, which is quite a nice feature indeed. Unlike Heroku, Lambda, SQS, Aurora, etc etc.
That depends on the service or app. Some accept both, and some only take RSS. Apple Podcasts used to accept Atom feeds, but they don't anymore for new podcasts. All the feeds

Edit: do you know any podcasts that use an atom feed? None of the 80 feeds in my podcast app are atom feeds.
Thanks! Will get a fix out for this
> Cash was built using unlinked refunds over visa to do direct deposit onto visa

That sorta sounds like violating visa tos?
> Joswiak also claimed that the proprietary Lightning cable and the USB-C cable would not exist if Apple had agreed to the EU original demand of using the older Micro USB charging cable which had poor reliability and could easily be damaged.

So... what happens when USB-C no longer makes sense anymore? Will they have to keep using it no matter what? Wait for the law to change?
MagSafe was introduced in 2006 and has had exactly three iterations. “Every few years” is a bit of a stretch.
I learned to interpret wind speeds in m/s on a visit to Iceland and found it to be an intuitive unit for hiking and other outdoor purposes. And 1m/s is pretty close to 2 knots so it's easy to convert.