skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends.

On your jurisdiction. On your market.

In my country, renting carries a strong risk of instability. As our rental laws were written in the 60s, when it was something you only did while at university.

After the Christchurch earthquake, I ended up moving house 3 times in 2 years. Why? Because the landlord wanted or needed the house back.

The first one, the farm the cottage was on was sold, and the new owner wanted it for worker accommodation.

The second one, the owner's house was red-zoned[0], and he needed somewhere to live.

The third one, the owners had bought it for their retirement, and were renting it out until then. Not that I knew that up front.

But, 10 months in, they decided to retire.

So how much cheaper was it to rent, considering the costs involved with moving, the cost of cleaning rentals you're leaving, the time you spend finding a new rental, and the letting fee that every property manager used to charge until recent legislation?

And I haven't even mentioned the cost that such instability imposes on you and your family. My oldest son has lived in about 11 different houses. Renting!

> A renter can walk away any time

In my country, that wasn't true on a fixed term tenancy, you were liable for rent for the entire term.

TL;DR - it depends.

Oh, and fun fact, my mortgage repayments + taxes + insurance + maintenance are significantly cheaper than the rents I'd been paying for significantly worse houses.

Which makes sense, when the "Mum and Dad" investors are using your rent + tax breaks to cover the ongoing costs until they can sell for sweet tax-free capital gains, of course you're paying more.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residential_red_zone
I love this.

> This together with the overhead of emulating an 8-bit CPU on a 32-bit CPU made it necessary to overclock the rp2040 from its default 125 MHz5 to 225 MHz. The rp2040 can usually handle this without any problems, but still I would love to see if someone can improve the efficiency of my code to dial this back a bit.

It wasn't clear to me if this was because of the code, or because of the environment.

For the latter it helps to have a dedicated chip doing the emulation, without being burdened by a multitasking OS that rudely interrupts you at all times. Does not have to be an FPGA implementing the Gameboy CPU, could also be a normal boring CPU that dedicatedly does the emulation (it has to be fast enough, but >200MHz seems overkill).

Alternatively, maybe proper use of realtime threads helps already.
I was thinking about a hairdresser having a salon with a single chair for himself.

Full-on co-op wouldn't work if 1 hair dresser is super popular and 2 others are not so popular. It's a very personal business and a big part of it is one's own contacts. Now if only salon is co-op and hairdressers have to decide together how much they charge per chair to split among themselves... That may get interesting. If hairdresser pays a %, then worse performers may get a chunk of better-off profits. If hairdresser pays for chair days, then worse performers may be subsidising the better ones.
Where are you going to do maintenance? In your garage or driveway in the home you own? That's a pretty big privilege.

The reality is a low income person is living in low income housing, typically large apartment complexes. These places have strict rules against doing car maintenance and work in their parking lots. In addition it's a huge privilege to have weekend and free time to do car work yourself, not to mention buying the tools and materials necessary for it.

Working on cars is a hobby for middle class folks nowadays, it's not a solution to the general problem that low income people need reliable transportation in most of America.
3M to end 'forever chemicals' output
Oh, bananas are god tier — I probably ate 2-3 a day for years. But you can’t live off them. 5+ Bananas a day really made me feel sick during some lean times. Nutritionally also pretty poor for sustenance, no fat or protein, and they digest very quickly.
> Yes but almost everything is going to break quick and you will be back buying more soon.

Hence, the entire point of the article. Beginning with the boots paradox.
I searched google maps for the address on the letter, and interestingly... on street view, the house corresponding to the address on Dikjstra's letterhead is blurred out. Interesting.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/6602+Robbie+Creek+Cove,+Au...
Seven planets in the habitable zone? How is that stable?
I just wanted to say, I spent time and thought in composing a comment only to for HN to tell me I am posting too fast (2 comments within 10 min and I spent 10min or so composing the comment).

@dang, this sucks, it is very mean and unkind. If you want to ban users go ahead, if someone is posting too fast let them know before you block them from posting for many hours (mobile browser makes waiting to post impossible at times, i waited so long I couldn't get back to the comment) this has happened many times. Be clear and direct with auto-moderation please.

I will keep complaining like this when it happens unless it is against the rules (it isn't from what I can see).

You can do what yoh want with me or this site, whether not I broke any rules (been in your shoes), I have no complaints about that and I keep posting with or without upvotes so I don't care about "karma" either but either I am allowed to participate here or I am not. This sucks!
Man, those prices are eyewatering, and it wasn't always like that. One of these days it will be major employers putting pressure on the city to allow more construction because they cannot attract employees, except locally.
$0.25 per egg is still a great value in terms of health and satiety.
It really doesn’t have to. I believe this is from Smalltalk. Objective-C has something similar. It’s extremely powerful if used properly.
As mentioned in the article, some low income housing units literally don’t have kitchens or don’t allow cooking.

This blew my mind and is a facet of poverty I hadn’t even considered.

Also, are you actually making the point that food deserts exist because all the people in the area just decided not to buy groceries? I haven’t read such a blatant “blame the poors for their situation” take in a while.
Thanks for the heads-up on GoToSocial! I'll try it.
depth2img is underrated for SDv2 release, probably because AUTOMATIC1111 integration is done only 1 or 2 weeks ago.

Later this week, Draw Things will have a release with depth2img model as well, initially only supporting iOS-provided depth map, but will do MiDaS inferred depth map soon. Going to be exciting to see what people comes up with.
> I don't have to try to guess what something is, based on its name

It's probably just a bad example, but in case it isn't:

Sounds like you ended up at the same place. You went from guessing what is some_api.get_results(), based on it's name, to guessing what is SomeAPIResult, also based on it's name.

If some_api is your library, then you could have just added type hints to get_results() and let type inference do it's job.

If it's a third party library, then using your custom SomeAPIResult means that code is becoming alien to other engineers that worked with that library in the past. It might be worth it, but it's definitely controversial. You probably should've done it with stubs anyway.
If by "people like me" you mean people from South America then yes that's what I said. By the way I said I personally don't care. I was just correcting OP when he said that "literally no one is offended" when I know for a fact many are. Also I never said they wanted to be called Americans. And no idea what your point is with your violence blabber.
A car company that sells low-quality cars that are dangerous is worth less than an oil giant that provides the energy the global economy is powered by? The more you learn...
Musk to step down as Twitter CEO after finding replacement
The labor shortage impacted mechanics available too, it's now a $75/hr job; which inclines one to work more paying gigs.

Even historically, you often got what you paid for. Turns out that the friend that takes beer as payment and doesn't have a shop manual is less likely to figure out the vacuum system correctly in not their car.

Heck, I don't even trust many of the $75/hr oil change place to not bugar up my drain bolt.
Dry beans and fresh food like you described cost a large amount of time to prepare compared to processed food, and time is a luxury poor people do not have.

If you take a bus to work, you probably don’t have time cook.
True, banana + frozen burritos / pizza for protein and fat are an excellent combo in this situation
Right in this very moment there are hundreds if not thousands of musicians making music absolutely terrified that they will accidentally use prior works they can’t get permission for (or can’t afford).

Some are terrified they’ll use “the wrong sample” (is there a list of wrong samples? no), some are even terrified they’ll accidentally “create” a chord progression that someone else already has the rights to.

In these cases, that artist can end up getting a little popularity and maybe even a little income, then end up in debt with the song pulled from the internet, never to be played by them again.
I know fast-food and microwaveable tv dinners are cheap and "worry free" but you pay the price with your health. Consider it like achool abuse. You get away with it several times but eventually your health will deteriorate.

You have to want to eat healthy and set the appropriate mindset. For example instead to order that fastfood crap just eat some simple raw, "spartan" food(bananas, boiled meat or even fried meat etc). I have some good experience with that working long hours on my own startup(s) without distractions.

I doubt you don't have 30 minutes to "prepare" your dinner. After all you don't really prepare much. Just boil or fry whatever raw food you have.

Of course convincing kids to eat not very tasty food may be a different story but it's doable because I've seen that too.

At some point you may start to appreciate the simple food and hate when the chefs put you sugar and all kinds of "flavours" in your food.
I have an extremely useful (for a very specific need) vba module collection for excel spreadsheets - I have often considered rewriting in an app, but the graphing outputs always kill my interest. I use it whenever I’m working after 20 + yrs , there are now a few proprietary packages that do the same, but are very easily misused, so even I use them for clients I still work from my own rather archaic vba assisted spreadsheet. I used vba because the calculations I was doing simply exceeded the abilities of spreadsheets - too many lines, it’s was an unusual discovery when I realised that my spreadsheet wasn’t fully evaluating the data set - handling just numbers and a vba module has never presented a problem.
If you've really fallen out of society and gone through an eviction or foreclosure then your credit is shot so badly you can only afford to live at a weekly rate motel (you'll never pass a real apartment's credit check). Those places don't have or allow any kind of cooking. A mini fridge and a microwave that's hopefully still working is all you have.
I get that (others mentioned this already) but I still feel this is creepy. It's definitely not the expectation people have when they show their faces on their websites. I think this is just going to encourage people to not show their face as much because this is seriously not okay.
Object Storage Backup for Commvault
And only really for synthesizers and other keyboard instruments.
Avadirect. I haven't used them before, so I'm rolling the dice. I've had iBuyPower and CyberPowerPC machines at work and wasn't impressed, so I figured I'd try a different one. Unfortunately 4090s are sold out so the order is on hold.
We don't allow public accomodations to discriminate against protected classes. We have made a decision that some kinds of discrimination is immoral, and rightly so. As it gets easier to make discriminatory decisions on objectionable basis, we may well decide that to expand this rule.
I'm currently using s6 directly. It's actually pretty okay. Going to spend some more time with it as we have some more specific wants and needs than teams with less buy-in
> The problem is the poor areas in the US are exceedingly violent and basically succumb to victimization to explain why they can’t get out of poverty. If they can’t have safety and the culture is to just blame others and not try to better themselves, this is a perfect way to create generational poverty.

I think its more that if you want a straight-forward means to earn proper money without a degree then organised crime has positions for you. That's not a case of a "bad culture", its a case of opportunity.

> Instead of $100B to Ukraine we need to...

everyone knows that one of the two political parties attacks _every_ piece of public spending, not because they wish to re-invest it elsewhere but because they would like to justify tax cuts a few years down the line. So it surprises me every time this line gets trotted out when they're in opposition. Are we not learning?

Furthermore; Funding Ukraine is a very cheap means of gaining geo-political outcomes that fit the aims of NATO. Every citizen of a democratic nation should be celebrating the success of the Ukraine armed forces as opposed to trying to defund them.
Do Americans in that situation serve much pasta? Pasta is generally cheap, stores well and cooks quickly. You can serve it with pesto out of a jar, butter/oil/pepper, or various other tomato-based jar sauces if short of time.

I have children so can empathise with anyone short of time and trying to accommodate juvenile palates, but pasta with some sauce options is one of our fallbacks - the two youngest like pesto. Rice is another (trivial in a rice cooker).
Navidrome should be plenty, but it's just a subsonic server with a simple web front end. You can use any subsonic compliant client for Android, there's plenty.

I had Navidrome hooked up to my Sonos system as a test. Ultimately you are at the mercy of the walled gardens if you choose to use them, some are free-er than others.
I feel like common markdown notes is a myth.

Once you start getting into your notes you quickly run into common markdowns limitations and it's super simple stuff like centering images or adding captions. Then you choose to either flavor your markdown or use HTML and it's no longer common markdown.
In my experience, this is true for just about every type of store. Especially grocery stores. I live on Federal in Denver, and the selection relative to some of the wealthier suburbs is atrocious. The past few years have made me wonder who gets the job of ensuring poor neighborhoods get screwed in the face of nationwide shortages of items.
Your simplified model leads you to the wrong conclusion. You need a better model to understand the nuisances
This letter suggests that Dijkstra's tone was a function of intended audience: the aphorisms which inspired the nano-Dijkstra (as measure of arrogance) were intended for peers, Who Should Have Known Better; the supportive encouragement was intended for a junior, Who May Yet Someday Do Something Interesting.
But people have an extremely poor mental model of calories out.

In particular there is a great misunderstanding with respect to the role of exercise. It’s not the calories you burn during the period of exercise, rather it’s the changes to your body that exercise causes that encourage weight loss.
sed(100+ hours), vim(1000+ hours), perl(10,000+ hours), emacs, jq, XML::Simple(Perl library), javascript console in browser, Ctrl-R(bash command)

If you know Perl you get instant access to many many powers which you otherwise have to use 10s to 100s of tools to get it done.
I voted to have him step down.

But, I do support him buying Twitter. Some people may disagree but the documents Matt Taibbi and Bari Weiss have been releasing is stuff the public has the right to know, even though a few corporations, security state actors, and some politicians may prefer to keep secret.

A world where people in power have an imbalance of intelligence over regular people is bad.
I spent half my twenties driving beater 20 year old cars in non-costal America. Both of which I carried fire extinguishers in - because one of them had a habit of springing exciting fuel leaks in the engine compartment.

The answer to making it work, was of course community. That and $99 per year triple A's free towing. People to get you places when the car is down, friends who look under your car, see that the stick is disconnected from the transmission, and bolt it back on with some bolts they find by the side of the road. Friends with the same model of car who know where the good garage mechanics are.
Unfortunately the simple thing is hard. To the extent that every system that isn’t counting calories works, it works by manipulating appetite and satiety to induce a spontaneous reduction in consumption. People will jump through all sorts of hoops to not feel deprived.
Chemical Compounds That Incite Oohs and Aahs
This is an interesting emotional phenomenon; the more people claim I'm being "racist" by using "blacklist" or "master" the more I'm inclined to keep on using it, as a kind of "fuck you and your accusations".

It's not even that I mind adjusting my language if people object to it; but there's a world of difference between "I really don't like it when you use the phrase [...]" and "you're being racist when you use the phrase [...]".
Car dependence is such a massive drain on productivity and wealth in the US
The last number I’d heard was that around 100/year starve to death in the US, but I suspect that number is higher when including deaths from folks who incur fatal health conditions from insufficient nutrition.
> Doubly so here when asset values are appreciating. If the landlord thinks they're making bank simply holding property, any rental income on top that helps minimize costs is just gravy. There isn't tremendous pressure for costs to be fully recouped.

Maybe with certain small owner groups, but I can guarantee you that any community with a dedicated management company (separate from the ownership group) has a goal of making profit on top of however much their property value is appreciating. Not every owner plans to sell the property within a few years of buying it. This applies to all of your apartment communities regardless of age (well, minus lease-ups in their first year).

Also, most properties run on a bog-standard business checking account for their income and expenses; the owner isn't just dumping money in it every month to support operating losses because "the property is appreciating anyways!". If the manager and management group isn't making money to sustain operations, you'll have both an angry owner and angry corporate management that can't pay themselves for their management fees.
Even my not low-income ($3-$5k / mo) apartment complex forbids this.

If you want car maintenance, or to run your own business, or any number of other things, you need to first own a home, apparently. And that just furthers the article's point…
Renters pay for mortgage, property tax, insurance, repairs, maintenance, and utilities. Along with a bonus middle man fee to the landlord.
eggs are pretty much immune from shrinkflation as well.
There's a really interesting video from philosophy tube which touches on a lot of these topics, albiet throught the lense of trans health through the NIH. A lot of the research she discusses is very relevant though.

https://youtu.be/v1eWIshUzr8
Tesla’s absurd value as a memestock is propped up entirely by Elon’s reputation. Short of Elon going into some kind of rehab facility where he gets serious psychotherapy, dropping all of his commitments other than Tesla, and never tweeting again, I would expect Tesla will in the near future be valued at something approaching its actual value, which means a much reduced share price even compared with the close today.
You don't need a democracy to petition for change. Non-democratic countries usually have some kind of mechanism to petition for change too. In a democracy, the difference is that you get to vote for the political leaders if you're a citizen. If you're not, then you don't have a say in governance, aside from just protesting or petitioning.

Sure, the current law sucks, but the same can be said for many laws in America. The law is the law, and if you don't like it, maybe you shouldn't go there, and should pick a more welcoming country.
pouring water and olive oil into some self-raising wholemeal flour and throwing it on a hot pan to make naans (90 seconds to cook) twice a day, comes in under $1/day and 30min/day with washup. for one person
No, it's not. Dried beans, rice and potatoes are a better value. Eggs are damn luxury now at 25 cents a pop.
Lloyd Kahn Discussing the Whole Earth Catalog
The bus factor is pretty high too.
England didn't take words from French, the French inserted them by force. The French conquered them and they had to learn some French to understand their lords and masters who spoke a different language.

False, it was not the French but the Normans, Vikings who had learned to speak French, who conquered England.

An England made up of Brittanic Celts who had been conquered, ruled over, and had mixed with and learned to speak the Germanic languages of the Angles, the Saxons and then the invading Danes.

French, the language of France, is derived from the Latin language of the Romans who had conquered that Gaulic Celtic place before they were in turn conquered by the Germanic Franks who switched from their lingua franca to Latin. Then the Normans settled in Normandy, just north of Brittany, still occupied by the Celts.

So there is nothing French about the Germanic Franks, nor anything Gaulic or Frankish about the language French, a language the Romans brought to Gaul and the Germanic Normans brought to Great Britain.
It's connected. But maybe not in the way you are strawmanning. The guy is clearly a deranged lunatic and a stalker that followed and intercepted Elons child near its mother's house.

As a driver, with a child of a famous rich person on board, getting out of the vehicle for an altercation is sheer madness. Not saying the guy deserves to get run over, but it's a pretty good outcome considering. I would bet that from a legal perspective blocking a vehicle with a body doesn't give consent to be run over, but that stalking and targeting someone AND detaining that persons vehicle with a body gives full license for bodily harm to escape. Probably not up to and including death without direct threats, a weapon, and threatening action, but certainly assault.

"The man said he was a delivery driver for UberEats, the Washington Post reported, and “made several bizarre and unsupported claims, including that he believed [Grimes] was sending him coded messages through her Instagram posts; that Musk was monitoring his real-time location; and that Musk could control Uber Eats to block him from receiving a delivery order.”

Grimes, whose real name is Claire Boucher, lives in a house near the gas station where the altercation occurred, the Post reported."
Good point. I hadn’t considered that type of housing.

It got me thinking though. My partner got evicted when she was younger (early twenties) because her roommate was lying and stealing rent money. Her credit was shot and she had to live with family for years while getting her record cleared. It’s sad to think that if she hadn’t had family to fall back on, she could’ve ended up in that situation. More people than one would think are just one bad situation away from falling into that trap.
As Clark Howard has been saying forever:

“Wells Fargo is a criminal enterprise masquerading as a bank”
I've wanted exactly this for a long time. I'm really excited to use this!
Fun retrocomputing diversion: Initial Ruby development was done on Sony NEWS, the same type of workstation that hosted the earliest PlayStation development boards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_NEWS