skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the one hand, if the government helps to lower mortgage interest rates, which they have, then they are acting to increase the price of housing some amount, given the laws of supply and demand. In Canada and the UK people will have to refinance every few years in this rising interest rate environment, which will put downward pressure on housing prices.

On the other hand I agree with what you said about institutional investors being difficult to compete with. This is the downside of housing being prioritized as an investment. Investors know that supply is constricted, so they are taking advantage. I would address this by taxing investors and making it easier to increase supply, not subsidies that inflating the price for everyone trying to put a roof over their head.

> the bond market seems to be a peace with 30 year mortgage terms

I'd be pretty easy-going about a government backed loan, too. That's a lot less risk. That means the interest rates are lower than they would be if the government was not guaranteeing them.
Daminion Standalone is pretty good. Been using v5.x for a while, haven't needed to try a newer version:

https://daminion.net/downloadstandalone/
> A world where people in power have an imbalance of intelligence over regular people is bad.

People in power invest in sourcing, curating, and interpreting information into intelligence and wield it for gain. Regular people do not seek intelligence that they can use to affect a large part of society, for they anre content with smaller things.
That’s exactly the opposite way I read the article.

“Simply holding shares while you sleep will do it. So for buy-and-hold investors, these findings are particularly encouraging: Get your rest, ignore the temptation to trade and you can do just fine.”
That’s very interesting. I see several per week in my neighborhood in DFW. Same in my past DFW neighborhood. I’m guessing it’s much more localized than just metro/city. Certain suburbs might be much more suitable.
> After that, I will just run the software & servers teams

TSLA shareholders probably not thrilled to hear that he's not going to focus on the plummetting share price, and not even stepping away from Twitter at all, just moving into the role of middle manager there.

No one with any ability is going to want the CEO role either, knowing that the owner is still going to be lurking, micromanaging, and second guessing every decision.
> You clearly haven't bought eggs, beans, rice, etc. at the grocery store and been on a budget.

Food inflation is real but not experienced the same way by many Americans who consume mostly processed foods, which are less vulnerable to commodities shocks. So I can't be too surprised the HN crowd hasn't noticed. But eggs are apparently specially fucked[1] due to an avian flu outbreak, so you're kinda cherry picking. Cherries btw, have seemingly doubled in price, but pre-pandemic was the cheapest they'd ever been in the past 30 years.[2]

More importantly, I think you're missing the point the article and OP were making: dollar store supply chains for these goods suck compared to grocery stores that are optimized for this. Whatever inflation has done to raw goods is amplified at these small dollar stores.

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/11/why-egg-prices-are-surging-b...
[2]: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WPU01110203
Related:

Number Stations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30496873 - Feb 2022 (23 comments)

Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342120 - Sept 2020 (66 comments)

Using KiwiSDRs to locate HF radio transmitters and numbers stations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17414699 - June 2018 (9 comments)

There must have been more threads about these...
Do you not completely lose faith in the country by saying only middle class and above can have healthcare? Or that healthcare is tied to full time employment in order to keep the masses grinding for the capitalist machine? Is that not fundamentally evil when there are better solutions out there?
If you think people ever "had it easy" you're mistaken.

The recent run up in housing prices is nothing new, it's happened at least twice before that during my life time.
I've been in thrift stores in both neighborhoods. Found lots of nice stuff in the poor one.
Voltage is always an alternative to MIDI’s limitations.

Of course it is not a free lunch.
> Time is a luxury poor people do not have

I know a lot of poor people and I assure you that many of them have plenty of time. There are certainly many hard-working poor who desperately need time back in their day and would cook if they had the time, but time alone would certainly not solve the phenomena of poor people not cooking. What many other poor people do not have is executive functioning skills, the ability to plan ahead, or impulse control, and some of them also have addictions or expensive recreational drug habits, or live in unsafe scenarios where cooking would be an absurd afterthought.

Furthermore, many of the poorest people are recent immigrants (Mexican, Indian, Middle Eastern, African) and those households often rely on home cooking even more than many affluent households do.
Depth Guided models are amazing for game art texturing:
https://hackaday.com/2022/12/18/image-generating-ai-can-text...

I already incorporated this to Houdini to generate 3D distance meshes and it works wonders. If anyone is interested in experimenting with this, I really recommend Hugging Face diffusers library.

I wonder when we will be able to generate studio quality 3D models from a single 2D image. I know there are solutions that can do this but it is still nowhere near professional quality.
Straw man.

The FBI is not "paying" twitter to censor.

The FBI is reimbursing twitter for the costs associated with censoring on their behalf.
A swallow could grip it by the husk.

Will you tell your lord and master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here?
Same. I've given it a spin a few times now, usually when it crops up here on HN. I guess I'm just not a huge note-taker.
Lots of other uses. Almost all lighting rigs are running MIDI, for instance.
'software and servers teams'

So, like everything? Surely development and operations covers the majority of what Twitter actually does
> This is not always true.

Its usually true in urban areas especially given the somewhat global housing shortage that seems to plague most of the big cities around the world right now. Definitely true in mine, renting is way more expensive here and now rates have risen and landlords have sold up its spiking even more due to lack of supply.
Human interaction mediated by high-leverage technology will always yield disaster.
> This is exactly his point. If he can't make it with what he has going for him, who can?

Presumably they are living in a HCOL area, so definitely not indicative of life in America in general.

I know a few folks who live in the mid-west (typically derided as "fly over country") who have blue collar jobs making $70,000 who bought a house in their twenties.

You're not going to get too much sympathy from them when you're making 3-5x their salary and complain you can't afford a $1.5M single family home in the most expensive cities in the US.
My argument is that nutritious, affordable food exists. We live in a capitalist society. Where there exists demand for a good, supply materializes.

I'm open to other interpretations. But I would need a compelling, non-demand reason why affordable food, which exists in surplus elsewhere, can't be sold in certain neighborhoods.
Common food dye can trigger inflammatory bowe – EurekAlert
What it’s like to use Bitcoin in El Salvador
>> But beyond that it's up to you

It's up to you, but please be aware that you will be playing a rigged game.

In this game, those with money will be competing with you. They will also make the rules. In most situations they will also be referee.

Therefore please make every effort to be born into at least some money. That is, by far, your best chance of success.

Of course we are not heartless. We let a tiny number of previously poor people rise up to serve as both inspiration, and example to the rest. This helps re-enforce the idea that you too can rise up if you just worked "a little bit harder."

Unfortunately we cannot raise the standard of living for everyone - since most of you simply don't deserve it. Plus your cheap labour is necessary for our current comfort levels.

But I sleep well at night since my life is completely deserved, clearly we all had the same opportunities, I just worked harder than you did.
I enabled captions to watch the AppleTV series Slow Horses. I’m a native English speaker without hearing problems, but something about the slurred fast dialog and oddball slang made it hard to follow.

I really enjoyed having the captions for so many other reasons that I never turned them off. It’s great for multi-tasking and avoiding interruptions from environmental sounds like barking dogs, loud annoying children, phone calls, et cetera.
http://web.archive.org/web/20221221003434/https://www.reuter...

https://archive.ph/s50uH
Hi! I've been working a suite of tools purpose build for job searching. Our goal is to take all the varied tasks that a job search requires and wrap them all into a single integrated solution. The platform is called Teal, would love feedback if you're up to it.
There are further aspects that speaks against home ownership:

a) The money one puts into a house is an investment whose future value depends on the increase or decrease in the value of the property. If a person puts most of her or his money into this investment, this means per se a high risk, because the person's investments are not well-diversified.

b) People run the risk of overspending early in their life, because many of them want to build or buy a house for life, which means building something larger than they would rent at that age, thus generally spending more money on housing (via interest rates).

c) When people have no heirs or their heirs are already well provided for, it makes little sense to own a more or less mortgage-free house when they die. The money could have been spent during their lifetime.

These aspects speak, of course, not absolutely against home ownership. Point (a) cannot easily be avoided, when the property's value is high compared to one's savings and income. But it also means a commitment to saving, which can be a good thing. Point (b) can be mitigated by starting with a small property, selling it later and then buying or building a larger property. Point (c) can be mitigated by a mortgage on the house, if this is possible, or by another financial instrument where the house is (partially) sold but one retains a right to live there until death. -- All in all, however, the danger of overspending is real.
Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboa...
Might be time to start a petition / gofundme campaign to withdraw their license? Not sure how that would work but I'm sure there are people who do and with some monetary support can shut down this massive corrupt bank forever as well as (hopefully) put some execs in jail.
Previously submitted with a direct link to the Tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34074344

[edit]

Context: He posted in November saying he would be an intern at Twitter for 12 weeks for the cost of living in California and would come fix Twitter search. Appears to have joined in the last ~3-4 weeks, and is now leaving.
There is a widening gap between "perfect credit score" and "able to afford a down payment on a mortgage".
I can say with 100% certainty there was not 30 minutes to cook dinner alone.

At a certain point you’re balancing how much sleep you need to perform at work (4-5 hours) and the amount of time you’d spend commuting and working (~16 hours a day). When you throw in errands, cleaning, maintenance, and maybe 30 minutes in passing period leisure, there really isn’t time to cook.
Which is why the general sentiment in this thread is not to solve the poverty problem, but to solve the unaffordability problem, ie. living paycheck-to-paycheck with no liquid assets, and still having less than $50 at any point, maybe going through periods of high credit card usage and paying minimum payments to get through things like vehicle repairs.
Potassium chloride is used in lethal injections to the tune of 75 mg/kg. For a typical adult, that's an injection of 4-6 grams all at once. You could never eat that much in a sitting: it would taste horrible and probably cause immediate vomiting, and still it's not so readily absorbed through the gut anyway. See:

https://research.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SOP-KC...
> Always.

Not always. Around here, there were several years where house prices rose faster than rents. The owners were renting them out for less than the mortgage.
Semantic search using OpenAI and Pinecone
The article describes an initial test where people ate 2000 calories of potatoes every day and lost weight. The potassium experiment was a follow-up.
You might consider applying to Apple. Accessibility is definitely a priority.
OpenAI needs to feed all of Wikipedia, Reddit comments, stack overflow, GitHub, textbooks, IMDb, hacker news, books, news, yelp, etc.. into ChatGPT. That’s pretty much the next step to out googling google unless google does it first.
Musk says he will step down as Twitter CEO after poll
And yes, to your point, you will eventually rack up a ton up health problems with this lifestyle… to the articles point, being poor is expensive. It you have the option to not be poor, definitely take it!!
> Those kinds of loans are a huge government subsisdy, contributing quite a bit to the unaffordability of housing.

Not really.

Everyone bids as much as they can afford to pay on interest payments, which means that if you earn less, you miss out to those that can pay more than you. The interest rates and some other factors are mostly irrelevant to affordability. Change the interest rates, house prices move accordingly to just be affordable to those that bid, because people bid as much as they can to get a home. Things work a little differently in the US compared to New Zealand, but the gross mechanics are the same.

The mechanics of the bidding process, means there is a minimum price wall for most of the housing market in New Zealand (almost independent of the “worth” of the property) because there might be 30% of the population who can’t afford the mortgage payments at that price, so there is a lot of unmet demand below the minimum house price.

I also suspect houses are the engine of middle class working hours: buy something you can only just afford, work your butt off, upgrade to something more expensive if you have more money. Paying the principal is also enforced savings. Without those dynamics I am not sure how many people would retire in any form of comfort, or how the economy could get younger people to work so hard to support the number of retirees we have.
I was also raised by a single Mom and can attest to a similar experience. Although I don’t remember a great deal of fast food. It was a kind of luxury thing we had a few times a month. I remember my Mom trying to avoid it. We were also on assistance and ate out of food pantries a lot. We had lots and lots of canned food e.g. soup and various kinds of vegetables, and they gave us ridiculous amounts of cheese. You basically take what you can get. My Mom used to trade excess cheese blocks with my grandmother for laundry detergent.

I’d have to ask her about time and sleep but I remember it being more hectic than it was strained. This may not have been as true without the assistance we were able to take advantage of. I remember being woken up very early (around 4-5 AM) to be taken to a baby sitter. I must’ve been 4 or 5 at the time. I would sleep in the car along the way.
Why the need for another step? Just have it auto save/commit/merge/push in the background once you finish typing.
That’s what drives me crazy about calorie counter apps. They demand perfection which is just totally unreasonable in the messy world. I can’t tell you exactly how many cups of fries are on my plate, or what that sauce is made out of. So you have to guess, but they treat that guess as exact. It would be nice to have a fuzzier counter which keeps track of how sure you are and produces error bars.
Of course lawyers ask questions outside of courtrooms and court filings, though you're right that they would send private investigators rather than lawyers to... investigate.
This is my reality as well with a family member. The only real option is to move to a state that has more effective mental health laws. The self-destruction that takes place during episodes isn’t fun for the niece either. Similar to my situation the government doesn’t make conservatorship easy to obtain. The practical solutions (10 day forced stays with up to 180 days involuntary) are nowhere to be found. Instead the govt thinks the best option is for the person to go bankrupt, burn all social relationships, and put themselves on the streets for a few months every other year.
> A poor renter often can not walk away any time as easily as a home owner.

Consider how much it costs to have your house sit empty for a year looking for a buyer. There's nothing "easy" about it.
Have you tried Free Plane(freeplane.org)? It's a great mind mapping tool.
I'm really tired of such analyses.

Money, money, money. Quality of life is not measured by money per se.

We've made money into an excessively big issue in the US. Money is just supposed to reduce friction in trade so you don't have to make ten trades to get the thing you really want.

Poverty is not about money. It's about all the myriad ways we say "Fuck you" to "the wrong kind of people."

Wrong skin color.

Wrong gender.

Wrong sexual orientation.

Etc.

I don't even know where to begin. You can't solve a problem from the same mindset that created it and actively keeps it alive.
Speaking of DBeaver - does anyone have any good themes that they might share? I really like the interface but the stock look is lacking.
>In conclusion, breads fermented by the traditional long fermentation and sourdough are less likely to lead to IBS symptoms compared to bread made using the Chorleywood Breadmaking Process.

Further evidence that white bread is bad for you.
Big tech divided and conquered to block key bipartisan bills
Yes. Tons of pasta and chili too. Hamburger is (or at least used to be) pretty much the cheapest beef you can get.
> Musk's Tuesday tweet also said that, once he steps down as CEO, "I will just run the software & servers teams."

This is the bigger news than the headline. Musk has been clear about intending to step down quickly as CEO, but sticking around as the engineering manager means he's not actually stepping away from Twitter. I imagine Tesla shareholders won't be too happy about this.
It's not reasonable for someone to assume liability in a country they don't operate in.
came for unsafe, was disappointed
Has anyone got Canvas to work on the Android client? Any canvas files won't show up in the vault.
You're not negotiating with the appraiser. You're negotiating with the buyer or seller.

> you're completely at the mercy of the market

I hear all the time people saying they cannot negotiate. They can. You can. I can. There are many books on it if you need an introduction to it.
Its not that A.I. software is smart, but that for the most humans are mediocre and uncreative. Humans are stuck in their mental ruts. Given a large enough A.I. and large enough sampling of total human knowledge, an A.I. can predict much human activity.
Doesn't this also assume there aren't any more legal extensions?
There's already related human evidence where FMT between elite athletes to those chronically ill show remarkable improvement in strength and endurance.

Important to realize that things like probiotics cannot do this alone, they are not robust enough in diversity and don't colonize.

Microbiome is really the "next frontier" in medical science.
I think this represents an honest take, but it illustrates why there is such a chasm between the people applauding this kind of thing and those that are horrified.

You must understand that not everybody believes that this is the role of society. Are we living in a free country or a glorified HOA?

A progressive might applaud this - seems very smart, actuarial, fair, etc. And might put down a conservative that keeps harping on intangibles like freedom as being crude or simple minded or worse evil or in concert with evil things (as decided by the progressive) like Big Tobacco. Of course cancer sticks are bad.

But don't assume - it could be that some people see the problem not about tobacco, but have thought about three moves ahead about several ways this can go very, very wrong. This kind of relationship with the government, well meaning at the beginning or not, will end up going only one way.
Not sure why it mentions C++. C++ has std::string which is far superior to this.
Nobel laureates Doherty and Zinkernagel on life beyond the Covid-19 pandemic
gofmt can do that! What I’m still looking for is an easy way to bubble up go contexts, adding as first pagans. Perhaps IntelliJ is useful here?
6f 6e 65 20 69 66 20 62 79 20 6c 61 6e 64 2c 20 74 77 6f 20 69 66 2e 2e 2e
The VIC-20 was the first computer I could call my own. It was a near perfect toy for a kid, just the way it worked when you were entering text seemed to encourage exploration. You could use the cursor keys, color control keys, and graphics keys to paint a picture without actually programming and when you did want to write a program, you could workshop your PETSCII on the screen before coding it in.

I love how the manual encourages you to experiment, and how it portrays error messages as the computer helpfully flagging up mistakes so you can fix them.
Most authors have zero big hits. But authors that get one hit are more likely to get future hits.

Most people have to work until retirement age. If you happen to get a big hit that earns you enough money to retire at age 28, then congratulations, you're one of the lucky few. But society doesn't owe you the right to make a lifetime worth of money off of a single book. You can work until retirement age like everyone else.

Also, long copyright terms only affects retirement age for a very small percentage of authors. Most authors aren't well known, have no big hits, and each of their books gets most of its sales in its first few years. These authors have to work their whole life regardless. Authors with a really big hit, like J.K. Rowling, have enough money to retire after that one book, regardless of whether copyright is only 20 years or longer. It only makes the difference for those authors who have a small hit that won't quite earn enough to retire in 20 years, but will earn enough over 40-60 years. That's rare. Books usually earn the vast majority of their profits in those first 20 years.
Anyone who is willing to take on risk for a large payback.

After all, those sort of people settled in America and made it the most prosperous country in the world.
Ideally, before mass producing alternatives, they "close the loop" on replacements life cycles. Otherwise we'll just be reading a new variant of this article in 20 years.
I think you missed the point of their comment, they're making a comparison.
I agree. There is so much more talent the higher you ascend. Reminds me of an article about the struggle for someone to make Olympic qualifiers.

I would also like to say that you must be quite athletic and talented to be playing with former ATP 500 tennis and D1 and youth professional football players. Congrats!
We got this working in Three.js - it works great for painting scenery and backgrounds.
… unless you live in a food desert, in which case that capitalist society is failing to provide for basic needs.

This is a complex problem. Your reductive takes don’t really address the issue at hand and instead seek to wave it away.

“I already believe our system is great, so I’ll blame the poors before applying critical perspective to the system itself.”