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Ask HN: Is it a good time to buy a house?
We are contemplating purchasing a house as our primary residence. We have been life long renters but fortunately now in a position where we can afford the downpayment and monthly mortgage even at the current higher rates. However the macroeconomic numbers and tech layoff news are making me uncomfortable. On the flip side the house prices have come down ~20% in my city. The prices might go up and outprice me from purchasing a house in a desirable location. Am I making a hasty decision in the current market?
This might be one of my favorite Neal.fun projects yet.

Like GeoGeussr but without the guessing and everywhere is an interesting place. Would be nice if I could click on the location name and it would take to to it’s Wikipedia page.

The top of Mount Everest was incredible.
Given that he owns Twitter, would this title imply that he works harder than his subordinates?
It works, I was watching some "normie" youtube creator using Chat-GPT in a face-off with him over some domain specific question and answers. He was new to the LLM thing you could tell, but said how it was an open source right in the intro. Probably a common mistake for a company with "Open" in the name
Hey!

Convoy Founder here.

The way we think about it is API Gateways are the entry point to your API. Webhook Gateways are the exit point to the API. Hence the name. :)
When I was on a support team that was part of a development team, the support people always used Kanban. We were fortunate that management never had a problem with this. We still had daily standups, just to keep in touch with each other, but we did no sprints.
I appreciate the feedback and I think that's the most critical question for me to answer right now. I think Web Factory is more customizable so you can change the majority of the styles to create unique designs. I hope that as I continue to iterate on it, it becomes easier to use than alternatives and it's slightly cheaper than Webflow and Squarespace. The AI part of it is still a work in progress for future updates, but I'm building a system that can convert Figma Designs into source code to automate web development. I think updating the landing page and finishing the desired features is a great idea. Thank you!
Ignoring the case of the TFA license that actually requires you to rename the files, renaming packages is normally enough, and is rather straightforward, which is probably why there isn’t much existing tooling for batch-renaming classes.
I thought the Spy Who Came in From the Cold had a more straightforward plot than some of his other books, if you want to give him another try.
This is amazing! It's exactly how I remember them in my head!
New Study from Ioannidis: Covid IFR in 2020 Even Lower Than Previously Believed
The COVID vaccine was designed to make an astronomical amount of money in a time of extreme inflation.

If it made society better by "preventing infectious disease" that was a side-effect.
This occasionally happens to me, and a restart fixes it for a long time.
> The "smallest meaningful unit of distance" stuff is nonsense.

Why?
I think callling it a gateway might be slightly correct. For example an API gateway acts as a reverse proxy to accept all API calls whilst handling traffic authentication and authorization and even things like A/B testing capabilities.
A webhooks proxy that supports both sending and receiving might be classified as a gateway.
Flaw in Signal Desktop ≤ 6.2.0 allows threat actor to obtain attachments
> Basic stealth addresses can be implemented fairly quickly today, and could be a significant boost to practical user privacy on Ethereum. They do require some work on the wallet side to support them

So how easy is it realistically? I hope it's not going to un-ergonomic like PGP where novices are sometimes seeing to be pasting their private key into e-mails and sending things in plaintext which should have been ciphertext, or otherwise leaking info.

I imagine you have to be really careful not to mess things up here.
It is also not a popular fact.
Really good article.

One extremely minor grammatical quibble— the first “not” in this sentence in the final paragraph of the article, renders the sentence confusing. It should be removed.

“It’s impossible to not dive into the history of Netflix and not come away with a deep appreciation for everything Hastings accomplished.”
Was it hard to get into freelancing? How do you find projects?
> Edging, which releases dopamine and helps you focus

Hopefully you work from home.
How much influence did franchisees have on the corporate decision making?

I can definitely see how, as a franchisee, I would rather ride the brick and mortar video rental business into the ground rather than try and transition the business, given that a retail franchise is a dead end either way
Because of politics (see RFC 49, 134, 136), I don't see this actually happening that soon.

There is agreement in principle to carve out a store only Nix so the no-flakes crowd can build their own UI on it which is held by them as a pre-requisite to any stabilisation of flakes, along with some bad blood of it being announced by blog post. But it's slow because the project maintainer and chief flakes advocate doesn't want to adjust the project just so an alternative frontend specifically to avoid their view of an easier Nix should go ahead.

People are still working somewhat constructively towards this in 134, but because their goals feel fundamentally opposed, it seems likely to go on a while.
> A gear aqusition syndrom is bad desease...

For my Nikon 35mm cameras... I have a 16mm f/2.8 fisheye; 17-35mm f/2.8 zoom; 35mm f/2.0; 50mm f/1.4; 85mm f/1.8; 105mm f/2.8 micro; 135mm f/2 DC; 70-200 f/2.8; 80-400 f/4-5.6 VR; 200-500mm f/5.6

The 80-400 is very nice and I used it for a long time but when I got the 70-200 (I have, though it is in the car bag rather than hiking bag) the 80-400 just doesn't have as much of a place.

The 16mm I'm not even sure where it is now - it was too easy to make mistakes with it ( https://www.deviantart.com/shagie/art/Fisheye-Oops-2767240 ) - the 180° field of view means that straight down is straight down - lean out and do funky tripod setups to avoid having what is straight down show up in the frame.

And yea... Nikon... I've also got a Maymia 645e with 3 lenses, Hasselblad XPan with 2 lenses (I just couldn't justify the price tag on the 30mm f/5.6), and two Horseman 4x5 (one field, one rail) and I typically have the Nikkor 210mm f/5.6 on it though I've got a shorter lens too - just that one doesn't have the image circle allowing for useful movements... I think it's a Schneider 135mm f/5.6, but I'd have to check. The common design for a 135mm has a 200mm image circle while the Nikkor 210mm has a 295mm image circle - and that's a big difference.

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Another thing to do with the shallow depth of field is to get some extension tubes. I've seen photographers use the thinnest extension tube for some shots so that it reduces dof (it gets into macro equations), but not too much that they loose too much distance focus. And since there's no glass in there you're not degrading image quality with another refraction (compare teleconverters).

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/375238-REG/Kenko_AEXT...

https://www.diyvideostudio.com/do-extension-tubes-cause-shal...
Eh. I'm an an antique Schedule II drug. The literature notes that people with my condition don't seem to end up addicted to said drug (or its pals). Probably because we're just glad to take the edge off the pain. It's already rather potent, as painkillers go, as it previously was given to women in labor.

However, as my condition becomes more severe, a time will come when I will have to "graduate" to something stronger. The end of that choo-choo train looks like fentanyl or something very much like it, assuming I don't just up and die first. I'm glad that there is something there.

A friend of mine, his mother died of the same thing many years ago, when it was poorly understood and largely untreated. She was kept in a distant corner of the house so that the screams were less bothersome. Raving in pain, she would curse his name for not helping her to die. That's what it looks like at the end when there's not enough painkillers.

So I guess if you get your way, can I bunk at your place?

I joke, but only a little. You don't have a lot of skin in this particular game. Consequences are far away, third-order at best. I dunno, maybe listening to someone howling away might bring it home, maybe not.

To someone like me, it looks like someone who won't really be affected at all just trying to yank one of the few solutions I have left away, and for no good reason at all.
My point of confusion is still my initial question. It was actually the description of the mechanism, as given, that had me questioning it's effects on the overall toxicity/danger of ingesting the drug.

"Our vaccine is able to generate anti-fentanyl antibodies that bind to the consumed fentanyl and prevent it from entering the brain, allowing it to be eliminated out of the body via the kidneys. Thus, the individual will not feel the euphoric effects and can ‘get back on the wagon’ to sobriety,” said the study’s lead author Colin Haile"

They clarify that this causes a user to not feel the positive effects of the drug, but I would assume that if the drug was also able to prevent overall mortality, they would be excited enough to mention it.
> would love to see a discussion from somebody who really likes Nix on why it isn't ready for prime time yet

The daemon needs to be run as root root in a standard multi-user install which rules out HPC-like envs where Nix would actually shine. There are workarounds but none of them official.

Tooling and documentation are on the same level as for a random esoteric programming language. I love Nix but have been hesitant so far to push it at work despite immense productivity gains.

Similarly to HPC, Nix looks like a perfect match for CI/CD pipelines on the surface. In reality the only easy way to get it done is to use additional non-foss software [1].

[1]: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/recommendations-for-introducin...
GP may not speak for you, but they do speak for 99.9% of users. How’d the whole Mastodon migration go? Seems to have fizzled.
By you staying away from reward cards doesn’t reduce your costs.
I haven't seen anything on chess.com's stack before. For gp, previous hn discussion on lichess and scala 3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33865932
Low interest rates can mask poor business decisions, or make it cheaper to place bets on new products. Higher rates change the IRR calculation and perhaps overall business strategy too. So yea probably re: 0.25%
These CVEs both need local access. A quick input into a CVSS calculator rates them as a 7.0
Just curious here—what sort of things were on your list that you couldn’t find? If there were better templates, what kind of trips would you expect to be able to plan?
Pumped hydro (water) is about 81% efficient and easy enough to build with centuries of experience at this point.

There's also battery systems outside of Lithium Ion formulations which have other use cases. Thermal batteries are an interesting alternative in some use cases, particularly where fast access to heat in addition to electricy is handy (such as in collaboration with building HVAC and water heaters).

But also in general as we keep finding new density scales in the Lithium Ion formulations (and as we have hope to potentially discover even more formulations beside that) the number of use cases where batteries are infeasible keeps shrinking.
Fragmented documentation. Flakes are still "experimental" and their interface subject to change, but they're also widely acknowledged to be the better way to use Nix. There aren't that many Flakes-first docs, and many existing documents describe things that don't really work with Flakes, so the already incomplete & fragmented docs are even more incomplete & fragmented than it seems at first!

AFAICT, there's no way to use the Flakes-based tools (`nix develop` and such) in the shebang of a script, so you have to stick to legacy Nix when making a shell script or Makefile or Python script that uses Nix to set up the environment. That means no lockfile, which is annoying.

Troubleshooting errors can be a horrible exercise in frustration.

Making derivations for particularly complicated build processes can be a massive pain in the ass.
Oh of course -- I just meant that I can envision a scenario where a judge is essentially writing out a thought-experiment as he or she is trying to figure out how to rule on a case -- and then that is leaked, etc.

Even if it's a late-stage draft that's leaked, that comes with its own host of problems.

Imagine a world where drafts are trotted out by lawyers seeking to argue their interpretation of an old opinion. "The Court originally was going to hold something like my opponent suggests, but that bit got deleted, your honor!"

That would be another level of the problem of what we might call "arguing the changelog," using pieces of floor debate transcripts in the legislative history of a statute.

Justice Scalia analogized that to "entering a crowded room at a cocktail party, and looking over the heads of the guests for your friends."

And that's a concern on top of the potential for a chilling effect on the judiciary.
I made a cross platform desktop app for people who upload their photos and videos to microstock agencies called Xpiks (https://xpiksapp.com). Initially I was selling one-off forever licenses but last year started moving them to subscription. So far progress is steady and I keep working on it. The app is made in C++/Qt and I’m looking for people who might be interested to join.
> We simply make it more costly for the bank -- if anything, discouraging them from issuing such cards.

No, you aren't making it more costly for the bank. Banks would be stupid to offer such a setup. The banks pass that cost on to the merchants, who have no choice in the matter.
> In Canada, we finally passed a law to allow merchants to add a credit card surcharge. People accustomed to getting free rewards will be paying up to 2.4% for the privilege. And yes, they're crying about it.

Didn't the CTRC ultimately reject this? Or are you talking about broader legislation? https://www.canada.ca/en/radio-television-telecommunications...

Either way, it's a bit tone-deaf to say that people are crying about not getting free rewards. Many people are upset because companies like our notoriously anti-competitive telecom industry already factor merchant fees into the costs; adding on a separate charge is essentially double-dipping in a time of record inflation and profiteering.
> The Iraq invasion wasn’t a question of not knowing

The United States government exists within a democracy, and the general public certainly doesn't know what's going on, and much of what they think they know is incorrect.
As it should be for $1300. The M2 (non-Pro) models still ship with 8GB. Kinda sucks when you browse Amazon and see loads of Ryzen mini-PCs shipping with double the RAM and storage (or more) for roughly the same $600 price and they're socketed too so you can add more down the line if need be.
> Some people seek it out.

who's seeking it out? The article doesn't mention it, and the parent poster explicitly say that people are NOT seeking it out.
Neurogene Receives FDA Approval for Gene Replacement Clinical Trial for Rett
Doubled since December, and held there? Unreal.
I have no idea, but do you believe that this is a valid counterpoint to my proposition?

A similar question is: how are all the unjustly killed people (and their surviving family and friends) doing? And, how will Americans that may suffer blowback from this be doing if that should come to visit our shores (say, maybe by power stations being taken out with a simple rifle)?
Usually the "society" issue is framed as some sort of welfare crisis. I have a more-than-one-hand-full of friends and acquaintances from earlier in life who ruined or ended their life with drugs. And so I don't know anything statistically, but I have seen what caused the people near me to fall into it, and it wasn't some welfare crisis.

The number 1 reason I experienced is because some social circles fetishized it. It was a very cool, tough, and a superior lifestyle. Anyone who didn't do drugs was a loser, drugs were for winners.

When there is a strong cultural-current of this attitude, it can draw people in and ruin their lives by the time they realize it's all wrong.
I think of optane not so much as a mass storage device, and more as a fast scratch space. The perfect place to put your swap partition, to use as cache in front of slower storage, the scratch space of an algorithm that starts using disk space to save memory, or the intermediate output of your compiler.
One thing that wasn't mentioned was that Netflix has a monstrously large catalogue at the time, and the user ratings and content recommendations made their offering extremely sticky.

Switching to Blockbuster's competing service was a bit painful because you'd lose all your movie ratings, often stretching back years to the DVD-by-mail era.

While Blockbuster could acquire brand new streaming subscribers by pricing their product similarly to Netflix, it was really tough for them to poach existing Netflix subscribers.
An object exists prior to being named. If the act of naming (or "counting") the object is all it takes to move it to a different set, then the paradox vanishes, no?

What does it even mean to refer to a "set" of named/unnamed objects or counted/uncounted numbers?
Lichess.org does everything Chess.com does but more, without needing to pay.
Wake at 9.30am or 10am, hit the on button on my laptop straight away. Quick skim of emails and chats. Then go greet my dog and family. Make a coffee and go back and reply to emails. 10.15am standup. That decides whether my day is spent helping other people or working on my own tasks. Work for about 2 hours (getting more coffee during that time) and then have lunch anywhere between 12pm - 2pm depending who has put in lunch hour meetings. Shower during lunch time if I need to. Go for a walk during lunch time if I have the time and the weather is agreeable.

Back at (or before) 2pm for more meetings and work. Get more tea or water throughout the day. Work until 5pm or 6pm depending on what I need to get done.
Half the season is an amazing heist story, the other half an amazing prison break story.

It was truly excellent. For a complete surprise, do not watch Rogue One first.
Understood. I wasn’t trying to address lisper’s directly as such. My poorly stated goal was to point out that intuition regarding uncountable sets is shaky at best. There are weird results regardless of one’s views because of nonstandard models.
I'm mostly curious where they parked to hike Muir Woods on a Sunday.

This is a cool article and seems like the author had a great stay with the Host. Just leaves me feeling like it's a sponsored ad in a way, though.
https://github.com/Misterio77/nix-starter-configs is probably the closest to that right now.
“Therefore, Netflix needs to do what it can to retain / attract subscribers, but essentially can wait until the other services have to give up due to cost”

Much as they did with Blockbuster as he described in the article, correct?
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I don't use twitter or mastodon, so I consider it a significant sign that I keep seeing so many of my peers and people whose content I read showing up on Mastodon. I consider myself impartial. That's just n=1 from my perspective, but it's a datapoint nonetheless considering I'm the least likely to be exposed to this.
> but what's the problem in Google flagging this bug as "won't fix"?

You do not get to sell hardware as "100% google" AND shitcan a kernel bug. you only get to do one of those two, and you must pick and stick with it.
I had to read these comments twice, because I had assumed the "families" were the immigrants and the "four working adults" were yuppies, both in line with my own experience. It's not immigration that has screwed over family formation - it's the housing racket itself, backed up by oppressive monetary policy that sucks real wealth into the financial industry. Making home ownership into a (guaranteed) investment combined with the individualist ideal of everyone needing their own house has done the equivalent of making everyone start off life with significant debt, and the time to pay it off becomes ever longer.
Mastodon doesn’t speak for decentralization
May I ask how difficult this was, in terms of paperwork and so forth, and (if you're not Japanese) getting to know your new neighbors? Thanks.
Your arguments would be more compelling & discussable, if you had any support or contentions you made.

As such, all I can say is: I disagree. We've had difficulty emerging a resillient reliable & compelling path, but we also have spent so many many orders of magnitude less trying, since inherently most creators want & seek control & arent interested in expanding the viable modes of compute.
> The real issue here that people don't seem to want to face is the WHY.

Drugs get you high. Ants get drunk, goats chase psychedelic lichen, and dolphins pass around puffer fish like a dutchie.

> Why do so many people want to check out of life completely by abusing medicine

The short term benefits always outweigh the short term costs, but we're moving to a point in history where even it even seemingly outweighs the long term costs. There's no real disincentive anymore.

I think a case can be made that Martin vs. Boise had the most to do with this. That ruling was meant to push cities into creating the necessary facilities and number of beds to correctly address their homelessness problem; instead, it seems that many cities have used it as a way to entirely ignore the issue.

Instead of building the facilities, they're just throwing up their hands and allowing the kind of "public camping" that quickly turns into public open-air drug markets. Unsurprisingly, the population and markets grew.

> A lot more empowering than just "submit to a higher power" which is clearly not working for the majority of users.

The twelve steps are about quite a bit more than "just" that. They're also targeted towards a person that is at a specific stage of addiction _and_ willingness to address it. It's not general purpose and you can't force people into it, particularly when their drug of choice is so easily available and socially acceptable.

You have to reduce the inflow of drugs. You have to stop drug markets from forming. You have to convince addicts to seek treatment.

On the last point, I think the most effective strategy would be confiscation. If you are caught with drugs for personal use, they should be taken and destroyed, and you should be given information and transportation to a treatment center if you desire. Otherwise, you should be free to go. If the state doesn't interject itself at some level then I don't think you stand a chance.
Who do you mean with people? Customers?

If we forget about the web for a second and imagine a mostly analog world, people running small businesses have a ton of things they do without having to rely on centralized services. The reason for that is that there is a ton a small business can do themselves with just a little research. People don't choose centralized over decentralized because they carefully weigh one against the other, they choose centralized because it is the only way they see themselves skinning that cat.

If you ask me, the sole reason for people not running their own services is because the whole world fucked up education around how to actually do that. Someone invented the typewriter and it got a teaching subject at schools because offices needed people who were able to type. We failed to do the same for how to actually use a computer to solve problems. Sure, there are benefits to hand writing, but given that in 2023 much of the correspondence and work happens digitally, surprisingly little thought goes into how to translate this into an adequate education on a big scale.