skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Only 30% of people have mortgages, why should the remaining 70% care

Because the remaining 70% rent, with many wanting to own a property someday.

Higher mortgages mean higher rent.

Australia has very little social housing.

Renting for families is an unpleasant experience. You can be forced to move with little warning, and finding a new rental in your area can be very difficult and sole destroying. So many would love to own if they could, if only for the stability it brings.

We have many problems!
I had the same experience buying a charger for my razer. I created an account to buy this very specific charger from a Chinese seller and my account was immediately closed a few hours later. After constant back and forth with their customer service, they basically said that my account was permanently banned from using their service and that I wouldn't be able to use eBay ever again. I kept asking what I did wrong and they wouldn't tell me. The representative that I was speaking to even knew that I did nothing wrong and was telling me that they were sorry because it was beyond their control and that their manager was telling them not to pursue the matter any further because they themselves could get into trouble.

Fast forward about two years after the incident, I randomly remembered it and decided to ring up their customer service to see if they'd unban my account. The customer service rep unbanned with no problem and when I asked what the issue was, they told me that they sometimes ban new accounts with suspicious activity and that fresh new accounts have a very high chance of committing some sort of fraud.

While it's nice that I got unbanned after two years, I will never be using eBay ever again if I can help it. Even if they offer the cheapest price on a product, I will purposefully pay more elsewhere.
Beware: he has limited decaf left, so if you really like it, make sure you order a couple extra pounds! Hope you like it. Give it a couple of weeks rest after you get it if you're getting whole bean.
Right, i forgot. Meat is the cheap nutritional option.

/s
It is a pretty common concept among economists. IIRC it is even covered in Mankiw's Introduction to Economics textbook.
If someone is fired, then Upper management just used rank and file employees as a shield to escape legal liability.

But if no-one is fired, then what? Responsibility just disappears?
Wild that people still browse without adblockers.
And then we have UK's child Canada trying to their spin on the internet with bill C-18. Apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
The plane was at 70,000 feet, the balloon at 60,000. So that's about 2 miles below. My cellphone does not take photos that good from 2 miles away, how about yours? So no, not a cellphone.

The U2 plane travels at about 500 mph and can't change that. (Look up "coffin corner" for why.) So even once you carefully place it to cast the shadow just right from 2 miles away, you have less than 0.2 seconds to get the photo with the plane's shadow placed on the balloon.

That's a very, very impressive photo!
Thank you! I'll buy a bag or two, love trying new roasters. :)
Yes, that and keeping the lid open to eyeball the pressure of the liquid pouring up, so you can lift the pot slightly off the stove and/or turn down the heat just right.
> Unfortunately, that means that you are very unlikely to know whether the answers you are getting are at all correct.

For large multilevel GLMs I have found Rhat and posterior predictive checks to be sufficient to diagnose HMC sampling issues.

But, of course, these might not fall within the category of difficult distributions you mentioned.
I highly doubt they're using aerospace-grade solar panels. If they were installing them on a permanent satellite, sure, but this is on a presumably disposable balloon. Even accounting for higher solar radiation and degradation of the panels, the lifespan of regular terrestrial panels should be plenty sufficient.
That's a good question, because I don't tend to re-read books a lot, I'm a slow reader, but I've read the thousand page Cryptonomicon 3 times and listened to the audiobook once. It is long, but it doesn't feel like it to me.

I'm in the same boat for Daemon+Freedom(tm)
This. She seems entitled and vain. Or only is attracted to vain narcissists herself. Either way, it’s a her problem.
I've been sailing since the age of 10, and teaching it since the age of 18 (on a volunteer basis, not as a career); I'm now 36. I didn't grows up near the coast here in the UK so a lot of my early years were spent sailing on lakes - it's worth seeing if you have options like this near you. It's not a terribly expensive sport to get started with; you certainly don't need your own boat!
I like how we assume that programs running with the full rights of the user is normal.
Missouri was 57/41 Trump over Biden in the 2020 election. You can't gerrymander your way into a statewide election gap...
I'd say Wild Turkey 101 wins that by a nose. Or a beak. Nothing wrong with OGD though.
IDK I can buy excellent specialty coffee for like $11 for 300g (15-20 cups of coffee) + shipping. How does that qualify as privileged? (I am absolutely privileged I just don't think this counts).
Might be better than nest, which has kinda sucked lately
This project made me realize how sad it is that most generic/basic consumer electronics (think display input switching, or speaker input switching, or standing desk memory, etc) don't support zigbee.

I think I mentioned this somewhere and someone pointed out that zigbee is patent-encumbered and has per-device license fees. :/
Clearly a signal that search is about to go through a massive change. AI chatbots will compete with Google search and take market share. The company is boarding up the windows
> Nowadays, there are quite a lot of classes that you have to sit in (depends a lot on the university and courses)

Higher education institutions are bound by the "freedom of study" ("Freiheit des Studiums") derived from the provisions on academic freedom in the German constitution (Art. 5 Grundgesetz) and explicitly formulated in the Framework Act for Higher Education (§ 4 Hochschulrahmengesetz). Also it is not directly mentioned, the legal interpretative tradition of these provisions tends to be that the freedom of study implies that compulsory attendance is only permissible if a certain study content cannot be acquired autonomously (e.g. for laboratory courses or seminar discussions). As this is not usually the case for simple lectures, compulsory attendance may not be required for them. I myself was involved in drafting study regulations in the late 2000s in which this had to be specifically taken into account. I am aware that not everywhere such attention is given to this and that there exist different opinions about the exact limits of the freedom of study. However, study regulations that include extensive attendance requirements run the risk of not standing up to legal scrutiny.
I wouldn't have made it through my last consulting gig without headphones/earbuds and a 45" (114 cm for the more enlightened measurement connoisseurs among us) ultrawide screen to block 95% of my view that I bought and brought in to the office.
That’s true but it assumes it can get within ~40 miles as the crow flies of an interesting target, even then you are going through a LOT more dense atmosphere for your photos.
You're off by orders of magnitude what "reasonably pricey" on means in this context.

For reference, the US plans to spend about 7 million per day over the next five years to build new satellite systems.

https://spacenews.com/dod-satcom-big-money-for-military-sate...
Classic "get into espresso to save money" lol. Espresso is definitely a pretty expensive hobby (tho doesn't NEED to be). But coffee can be cheap. $100-200 BIFL hand grinder, and like $50 for a brewer + tons of paper filters.
What is AAS?
One way of knowing is, y’know, trying.
High five, I also got iPad + PaperLike screen protector combo and it really is super nice
This is amazing, thank you for sharing.
I dunno, I never sat down to learn vim, just used it every day for a couple years. I’m not one of those wizards who is, like, answering stack overflow questions or writing wiki articles, but I get the job done. Is it necessary to learn Vim? Seems like a chore.

Is the text editor really a bottleneck for anyone? I find that no matter how slow I type, I need to spend more time thinking of what to type anyway, if I’m doing anything interesting.
The word "startup" is used for multiple different things.

One is funded by VCs, pays you a healthy salary, and gives you a shot, if you're lucky, at wheelbarrows of money from stock options.

Another is a pretend job you do from the age of about 23 until 37, mostly by yourself, bouncing between "accelerators" and "mentors", paying yourself a wage that a graduate student would feel sorry for, slowly getting old, and eventually realizing, as you approach 40, that you are now actually unemployable.

They're not the same.
Is that something you can reasonably prepare for as a company? Like just keep a bunch of extra support people on payroll in case there's a catastrophic event?
Radio waves.
Looking at using drone seed bombs to imitate natural farming from one straw revolution.
> State governments, local governments, and property development, basically colluding to not build cheap and affordable high density housing.

australian taxation is already one of the highest in the world. In order for the gov't to build affordable housing (high density or not), it would take even more tax revenue to pull off.

I for one, will not want to pay more taxes.

The free market works for food, so why not have it work for shelter? The key sticking point is zoning issues, and approvals. These decisions are made at the local (council) level, and the existing residents overwhelmingly dislike a high rise going up next to their house/backyard.

The other issue is that a large portion of real estate buyers want land ownership - ala a house. The thought of living in an apartment is at best a stopgap for them.

Therefore, the capital appreciation of an apartment is meager at best. This also causes chronic underinvestment in apartments (esp. quality ones), and exacerbates cheap, low quality shitboxes that people dont like much (and reinforces the idea that they don't want to live in an apartment in the long term).
Well, the idea is that there is a beneficial impact on the giver. In modern Western terms, it would be the equivalent of thinking that the act of giving to monks has a positive impact on your self-image and your idea of how to relate to wealth and the community, which is true even if it turns out that, for example, due to an accident of some sort after you leave the food has to be thrown out. Of course, there is usually an assumption that supporting a monk in their holy work also has a beneficial effect, and if they're all meth-addicts that might not be the case, but there is some non-zero benefit to the giver, regardless.
I disagree. She seems entitled and vain. I’m sure many of those 100+ men would have been great matches if she would have only put the effort in, been more tolerant and less judgemental.
Eric Adams on Remote Work: 'You Can't Stay Home in Your Pajamas All Day'
> I'm missing though the jump you're making as to how that would result in more births

Did I say that it resulted in more births? I don’t think it did.
I go even further - I OWN a car I don't drive every day. I don't even split it with my neighbor.
The state forced him to undergo chemical castration.

Same state kept his achievements and contribution to the war effort a secret up until after his death.

Crazy to think he was convicted in 1952. Same year Elizabeth became Queen and head of state. She could have simply overturned his conviction. The man saved women, men, children, of all races and orientations from an horrible end. Had he not cracked the enigma's cryptography, there would most likely remain nothing today of the crown that persecuted him. Blown to dust by the Luftwaffe.

If only the British government had extended the same humanity to Turing himself.
Yes, but not totally.

If I own an investment property, then I'm going to want a return on that investment.

I want the rent payments to cover the mortgage, and to see capital growth over time.

When you don't get decent returns on your property investment, you'll just move your investment elsewhere.

However with a lack of diverse investment opportunities, housing is a decent play that people understand. So even if returns are low, it's seen as worthwhile, especially over the long term.

This is especially true when you get the much hated "Boomers" and older X-Gens buying properties for their children as it's seen as a better use of money than their kids renting.

I've seen queues of people down the street for open-inspections of average properties, and "Boomers" literally signing offers on the kitchen table at the open of any decent apartment.

If property investors art investing, then builders will stop building and we'll deepen the housing crisis. We've already seen a few major building firms go under in the past 18 months. It's not easy to create a building firm capable of sizeable construction project. It takes years to trade school investment to actually train and qualify people to be able to build houses, and we've under invested in trade schools.

There is a general sentiment on Reddit and elsewhere that if you cant afford the mortgage rises then you shouldn't own an investment property. This just doesnt make any sense, and isn't a useful way to think about it. I get that people are angry with the situation, but it doesn't help change society and housing policy when the younger millennials don't understand all the policy issues or motivations of those that own Rental Properties. :-)

I see regular calls to ban AirBnb as if thats an easy answer... :-/
> They can be if the policy was that individual employees needed to self enforce retention on XYZ topics and employees were provided training to that effect.

Whatever the policy is, the company is obligated to preserve evidence. Internal policy does not change that.

> The Feds can not say a company must retain all records going forward

Not only can they, that's literally what the law (federal law for sure, and separately the law of every state, to the best of my knowledge), does require regarding evidence related to ongoing and reasonably anticipated litigation. There is an unconditional requirement to preserve evidence that is known, or reasonably should be known, to be relevant.

> There is no mens rea element to having system constraints due to an existing IT infrastructure budget

The legal requirement to retain evidence once litigation begins or is reasonably forseeable is not conditioned on “so long as that is easily doable within your pre-existing IT infrastructure budget”. If you don’t have a sufficient budget to meet your obligations when you become aware of them, you are obligate to take any steps reasonably necessary to meet those obligations, and if you fail to meet the obligations, there are legal remedies within the relevant litigation for simple failure without regard to mental state (though willful failures have more significant potential remedies within the case, up to and including instantly losing the case without trial.)

Mens rea also matters a lot for whether additional civil and criminal penalties beyond sanctions in the immediate case are available (such as criminal charges of destroying records or documents to obstruct a federal investigation under 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1519), though.
To be clear, if you’re not taking alcohol/ethanol etc then TUDCA seems fairly safe for short term use
The author is their own worst enemy, and their article makes it abundantly clear. Hopefully, someday, they will reread what they wrote and see it as the postmortem that it is.

On a broader note, maybe dating was never sustainable in the first place. The concept of dating is, for the most part, a 20th century invention. In any earlier time, it would have been considered low-key prostitution. As a man, the expectation that I pay for anything regardless of how well I know the other person or how the date goes always felt kinda dirty. Which is why I stopped doing that a long time ago, even before I quit dating all together. Dating can't be untangled from the inertia of technology, and it was inevitable that dating just wouldn't scale well.

We're never going back to some hypothetical time where dating actually worked, but I do think there are pathways that can at least lead to better tradeoffs:

1. Far more people should be open to making acquaintances offline and be willing to introduce friends they think would be compatible.

2. We need to drop the pretense that the only places left for men and women to meet each other after college is at bars, and any context outside of that would be harassment.

3. Everyone is unique, but people need to consider whether their idiosyncrasies are ultimately working against them. As far as the United States is concerned, we've gone way too far in the direction of everybody thinking they can get everything their way, yet few actually do. For instance, if you're perpetually single but you're turning down people for liking Starbucks, maybe you should rethink whether you're the fool for not just accepting the coffee others like.

4. Call a spade a spade and just start calling all dating apps "hookup" apps, because that's what they're best suited for. We should reject the idea that there isn't something inherently salacious about apps like Tinder, and that attitude needs to be a part of the culture.
You're onto something: "middle path" -> "mid-path" -> "mipath" -> "meth"
It would help to say a few words in the submission about what bun is supposed to be and why anyone should care. The name sounds like a recipe app or something for my culinary experience.

From the docs [1], "Bun is an all-in-one toolkit for JavaScript and TypeScript apps. It ships as a single executable called bun ."

[1] https://bun.sh/docs
These layoffs are actually great for clearing some of pool of H1B recipient who, white frankly, shouldn't have been granted visas in the first place.
Keep in mind that If I want to hire: A smart graduate from EPFL, Polytechnique or ETH Zurich who interned at CERN and has contributed to the Linux kernel for a software engineering job at a unicorn startup or

A grad from a second tier "technical college" in India with a visa refusal rate of ~90% for a job doing manual UI testing and QA for a body shop [0].

my only path forward is H1! They'll both be listed as "computer related occupations" and apply for the same visa in the same quota. Does that make any sense to anyone?

Of course, my odds of getting a lottery spot for the former are dramatically lower, since we all know body shops and consulting firms won't hesitate to file 4-5 applications per seat they plan to fill out (so one can hopefully get a spot in the lottery and not get any RFE).

[0] https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/silicon-valleys-body-s...
Sadly, many of my sources, including the story of a western woman who was asked by her Japanese doctor when she wanted to schedule the abortion, are no longer googleable.

Even specific very specific queries aren’t returning anything.

It seems search engines are focusing more on what they want to show you, rather than what you want to see.
Agreed. Put another way, she’s acting entitled and vain. If she could practice some tolerance, gratitude, empathy, and non-judgement, she might be able to find love. As it is, I read this as an entitled woman expecting the world to come to her.
Trashing open source developers publicly is in poor taste.
I mean, it could also be that she is just fantastically bad at prescreening. It's easy to find a hundred garbage single people - that's why they're single, remember?
Earthsea also has plenty of material. It may be too refined for Hollywood, LeGuin's writing is on a whole different level. The only decent adaptation was "Lathe of Heaven" (1980).
Coles brand has never worked for me. Try the Aldi tablets. They are very cheap and Choice scores them as the best.
Strangely, we get flooded with resumes from England and Canada here in America.

Yet the reverse almost never happens.

Surely, these laws will help reverse this brain drain...
Anabolic steroids, it’s popular in that community as a harm reduction supplement for liver support.
"I know you're really attached to the energy imbalance theory of obesity. "

It isn't a theory, it is a fact. It is basic thermodynamics. The human body requires a constant amount of energy for basic operation and activity. Any excess is stored as fat for future use. Creating fat requires calories that HAVE to come from food. Eat few enough calories and you WILL lose weight. Eat zero and you WILL die. Eat 20,000/day for a year and you WILL get very fat.

A good example of this is this man went 382 days without eating

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blog/2018/02/story-angus-barbieri...

He had a calories surplus for long enough to weigh 207kg. While not eating his body consumed energy in his fat to stay alive and he got down to 81kg. ((207-87)kg * 7700 calories/kg)/382 days = 2539 calories/day, which is a very plausible number.
So how do you know they are funded by the Greens?
Yes traceability is a thing.

I’m more surprised it’s put in a “this is wild” light. This is in the same direction as declaring gifts you receive from your clients, or reporting the expenses of these lunches you’re having in a business setting, along who were there and how much you paid for them.

My take on this is, if it’s a business act (a task you did on company time, with company money) it shouldn’t be in a grey “we were just chatting” area and you should be able to report to your company what you did and justify the money spent.

I wouldn’t expect full recordings, but at least enough to explain why there was a meeting in the first place and what was discussed. Now I totally understand the SEC wanting more, but they’re probably doing so to move the window and not actually expecting it goes through.
The question isn’t really answered with much confidence. Perhaps a premature post.
Cloud tops are quite good. I’ve enjoyed using them.

Run a mbp as your carry around, and then everything else runs on an overbuilt server vm with a direct connection to shared storage.

I’m able to sync to head + rebuild 100k+ files in < 5 mins
There are millions of lonely guys in decent physical, mental and financial shape who would make devoted husbands and fathers and are actively and obviously looking for a mate. I am sure there are millions of women are like that too, but back when I was looking online around two decades ago, I have never met a normal woman who would give a normal guy some patience to see if initial meeting would grow into a friendship and then a relationship. It always has to be immediate butterflies in the stomach and swept off the feet, meaning that a minority of hunks get all the dates, overwhelmingly without any hope of long term future. I finally met my future wife by accident when I was not looking for a match at all.