skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But those only copy the cultural aspects that favor those doing the copying, and since it’s conventional-minded people that copy and the “secret” SV ingredient is putting independent-minded people in charge the whole process is forever doomed to failure…

But it keeps a lot of bureaucrats busy, and (very) gainfully employed.
Property taxes are usually collected as part of the mortgage payment for just that reason. The bank doesn’t want another lien risk lurking there.
Supply and demand is a big issue too. Take Bay Area as an example. The number of newly minted millionaire families every year on average exceeds the number of newly added houses around those job centers. In the meantime, we've been having an asset inflation in the past 10+ years. As a result, the housing cost in the bay area just keeps climbing up. This has serious consequences too, as such ridiculous housing cost drives away excellent teachers, cops, and etc.
this is a much better idea.
Loneliness may have two sides, but it's a powerful tool for self-discovery.
My personal instincts at the time told me to shut down and embrace it, and I don't regret it because we're all the same, yet unique in our own way.
> The difference in you and your friend’s situation is caused by the fact that they are selling labor which has a much lower price than the labor you are selling.

and multiplied by fiscal and other policies: those who couldn't afford buying now need to pay 5-10 times more compared to wealthy who could afford buying house 10 years ago and another 5 years ago and lock loan interest.
But they'd also pay much less for their next house, making up for it. If we all take a 90% pay cut but all products now cost 90% less, nothing really changes, does it?

I guess the exception would be if they sold and then moved to a different area with a very different housing market (or left the country), but at least for domestic migration, I suppose the more rural and the cheaper the houses are, the worse the necessities for the elderly will be, e.g. doctors will be far away, no home nursing services, no local shopping.
RNs already do this.

They're hourly, work three 12 hour shifts, and get paid for 40.

Both of my sisters are RNs. One is now a director at a hospital, the other has a normal RN position. The one who is still performing regular nursing responsibilities fills in at another hospital one day a week. Because she isn't getting benefits, her pay is higher, and she essentially pays her house note with that extra day a week.
Predicted in the Foundation series, except we don't get cool spaceships and such.
I know this is anecdotal, but whenever I hear these stories, I'm curious about the details. A quick search leads me to believe that head chef pay in Seattle typically ranges from about 90k-110k per year. Finding apartments off Broadway in Cap Hill, I can see that studios, though relatively expensive, range around $1.5-2k a month.

An income tax calculator estimates about a 22% total tax bracket and a monthly adjusted income of just over 6k. To me, that means that this person is falling right around 33% of their income devoted towards housing, which seems typical. What am I missing?
I think one of the main issues with pricing is the deferral of taxation for the sale of rental or investment properties. A lot of people are seeing housing as a potential retirement savings account that can be reinvested and also produce income at the same time.

If I had $100k to put as a down payment on a $500k house, and was able to rent at a rate that would pay, mortgage, taxes and upkeep. In 30 years, even assuming the price of housing stayed the same, it would have been a pretty good investment.

What is better though is if anytime within the 30 years the house doubles in price. I can sell it tax free and have enough money to buy an even more expensive house and potentially have a better retirement.

As long as I keep shifting the money from one house to another, I never pay taxes. I am also able to continue to rent the property and bring in a nice continuous income.

The fun little trick to this is you have to find a new property within 45 days of selling the previous property to keep the tax deferral benefits.

I think this 45 day window combined with low interest rates and limited inventory caused most of this crazy increase in housing prices.

Unfortunately, the landlords have increased their rents to correspond with local housing prices, and normal hardworking people are getting squeezed more than they ever have been.

I don't think this is sustainable, and as soon as there is a drop in renters in an area, and the rental properties start losing money. The housing prices will start to fall. The question is how long this will take.
Most people can't even describe where the money in their business comes from.

I find this quite remarkable, and does not match my experience.
Every company I've worked for, from startups to Fortune 500, it was very clear what products the engineers contributed to, and what that product portfolio revenue stream looked like, and what it meant to the business (right down to the product margins). For startups, pre-revenue, at least the "TAM" (total available market) that the product was targeting, and/or expected revenue projections were openly/regularly discussed.
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Ah the Peter Zeihan theory. Sounds plausible but at the same time, it clashes with the Chris Hedges theory: the argument that capitalism is an inherently destructive force that rots and ruins every arena of American life.

The corporate state that presides over this destructive capitalist economic system is ruthless and relentless. “It practices only the politics of vengeance. It uses coercion, fear, violence, police terror and mass incarceration as forms of social control while it cannibalizes the nation and the globe for profits.”

This scourge is all-consuming. Once-liberal institutions, including “the press, labor unions, political third parties, civic and church groups, public broadcasting, well-funded public universities, and a liberal wing of the Democratic Party,” have all “collapsed under sustained assault during the past forty years of corporate power.” Today, there are “no institutions left in America that can authentically be called democratic.”

It is terminal. “Short of a sudden and widespread popular revolt, the death spiral appears unstoppable, meaning the United States as we know it will no longer exist within a decade or, at most, two.”

And it is worldwide. “The malaise that infects Americans is global.” Global capitalism is responsible for all misery and the metastasizing of violent rage from many different sides, from jihadists and neofascists to far-right militias and antifa.
Hopefully the AI is a _trillion_ times better.
Also if your revenue drop, it's easier to move as a tenant than to sell your house.
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I agree that the sort of investment you are describing makes sense - but in practice those kinds of investments are out-competed by ones with better yields. If you are a developer, there is simply no financial incentives to choosing a lower yield financial vehicle. You'll just have more trouble finding funding and have less of a cushion for cost overruns.

I also think there's a strong economies of scale argument that "we" (society) would prefer most people rent (and use some sort of fixed or low-profit system that does maintenance at scale) as it'll result in lower overall costs. However it's absolutely true that home ownership is the best vehicle we've found for building inter-generational wealth so I'm not against it. Also one can simply prefer a society with more individual owners and slightly higher overall costs - reasonable people can disagree.
I am not super familiar with anything south of Dubuque, but Highway 35 between Prairie du Chien and ending with Lacrosse Wi is full of a number of small river towns that sell it (or at least did when I was growing up there). De Soto and Genoa are the two that had a lot of river catfish and carp, both smoked and sitting in grocer's fridge units.
Supermarket bread is the norm, good bread is the exception. I live in downtown Toronto and I have to go out of my way to find good bread, and unprocessed whole grain bread is particularly difficult to procure.
That's the problem isn't it? In most countries in the world (including many in the "first world") a house is something that solidifies your place in the community and is handed down from one generation to the next. What dollar value it can command isn't even a concern for people living in them.
Many colleagues of mine have expressed frustration that domain expertise is under-rewarded. Knowing IT and the organization should get one a double knowledge bonus, but most agree it doesn't in practice; they are still perceived as a replaceable cog.

Part of it is that IT people don't know how to sell their successes. Companies are use to blowhards showing off their alleged grand deeds such that if somebody doesn't, nobody notices. It's why Magic Johnson got a statue long before Kareem, despite being the very top scorer ever (until LeBron). Note that Magic is not a "blowhard", but has more charisma.
I am not sure when it happened but I discovered that every game I played over the last twenty years, reduced to it's bare minimum functional components, was aligning a pointer on an X/Y axis and pressing the correct button within a time window.

The goal of computers, reduction or multiplication of work, is often lost because the output does not last longer that the work required to generate.

Computers are tools. They are used as toys, or at best, substitution of physical activities. Thankfully I only print paper twice a year. Yet why at all? Clearly I'm trusted enough to enter into a contract with companies yet can't be trusted to complete trivial tasks like sending a package without paperwork.

I'm curious if we reserved computers for qualified owners and operators like firearms or vehicles. I personally would love to operate one but without certification or training the ability to have negative impact upon the population or needless self harm outweighs the enjoyment of <current popular social media app>

I started driving at ten. I was also a teen with unfiltered internet over dial up but that isn't the same as personalized curated streaming video aligned to my habits or an exploitative corporate/State.

If we can not determine when we're getting manipulated, can not agree on what truth is nor speak against the authority without being labeled an enemy how we can adapt as a people to the growing power of computers in every pocket?
You said "this point in time, yours is the first comment to mention him"

I took "First" to mean in time, not order of the page. I guess I understood you wrong, because if you're talking about time, their comment was not the first to mention Musk. But I guess if you mean "first" as in "highest on the page", then you're right that it's higher up.

But as you know, comments are not ordered by time, but time + score, but somehow this point seems to be lost while crossing through the wires.
This is why I think remote work will have as serious negative consequence for career growth and "generalist" thinking in tech.

Working in an office allowed me to meet people from related teams. When I worked in operations, I met the network team, the call center team, the server teams, the datacenter teams. In infosec running firewalls, I met the SOC, IAM, audit and governance people. Not only in meetings, but they were approachable. We would banter about common gripes, we would talk about how each other's work impacted the other. And we learned from each other! It made me a better security professional.

Doing that remotely is really tough. I think young people coming into tech to remote jobs will miss that low-friction learning opportunity.
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"and a cap on exports would be the quickest fix."

One complexity with this plan is that the vast majority of the seafood processing occurs overseas. We export fish to China to be processed, then ship it back.
Yes. My family bakes our own bread, and we freeze it all the time. Also, rolls seem to take less skill and attention than loaves, and are super convenient to freeze.
Alfalfa is one of the most water efficient crops widely grown. Considerably more efficient than corn, rice, wheat, etc. And while California may export a lot of its alfalfa, it's the exception relative to the rest of the nation.

> Based on USDA data for 2021, only 3.9% of all U.S. hay produced and 6.4% of all alfalfa hay entered the export market.

[0]: https://www.hayandforage.com/article-3825-Year-end-hay-expor....
Housing is expensive in part because interest rates are high.
Interest rates will come down when inflation is under control.
Inflation is still up because… housing costs are elevated.
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Put a moratorium on publications. It cuts off the oxygen. Most research is done for publications. You need them for tenure and grants. And it stops propagation.
SF dropped from ~75K SROs 50 years ago to maybe 20K now. Even if you were an addict or going to jail occasionally, there was enough turnover to get back in.

All those big cities are probably similar.
Obfuscation? Job security?
And as parent pointed out, more expensive.

You can easily double or triple your food costs if you're getting most of your calories from organic veggies and non-grain-fed animals.
As I said above, the widespread compliance with GDPR opt-out regulations refutes your point. Perhaps there are some people boycotting all sites which offer such things, but I think their numbers are negligible.
Kind of a no brainer.
Monterey's Cannery Row would like to have a word.
Show HN: A simple Nix config for Mac/Linux
Microsoft makes Outlook for Mac free
The article and most of the comments: Wet streets cause rain.
“House poor” was typically having to pay at least 25% of your take-home income on housing.
why do you want to pay off your mortgage so fast?
This is a story, not a thought experiment.

To be an experiment there must be some sort of question to explore, after specifying some sort of condition.

This is a set of assertions from beginning to end.
Here is a picture I found from a grocer in Prairie Du Chien:

https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/11/f...

Here is an article I found about it:

https://www.outdoorlife.com/blogs/cast-iron-chef/ritters-fis...
Certainly. I've been in a poorly run business that did this, and I quit.

But I don't mind working late every now and during crunch time, it gets paid forward, usually with time off later.

It's about your relationship with your company.

My point was from the sounds of it GP had a good relationship and had fun and no-one on HN should tell them what to do because they don't know the situation.
Where I come from some are named for illustrious alumni, some of whom financed the building. But as far as I know it didn't give their offspring an easier way to get accepted as students.
Because email has been so thoroughly decommoditized by Big Tech in the name of "fighting spam" that trying to receive email successfully feels like a trip to the roulette wheel?
What are our thoughts here? Seems like a good competitor for Brother, but Epson has a bad reputation.
Environment in East Palestine contains acute health risks
We had to parse thousands of multi GB zipped jsons for financial data. I don't have any code but it involved (in C++) boost gzip to unpack chunks into 100MB blocks and the simdjson iterate_many function to parse the block into a stream. The json files were not line-delimited but every row had a newline (json: [\n{...},\n{...}\n....\n] ), so we had to clean the commas in order for simdjson to process it as if it were newline-delimited.

Whatever remained at the end of the buffer (few hundred bytes of incomplete json) we would copy just before the boost-unzip block so that there was a continuation of json data. We also reused the parser and string buffer for performance.

Also try to parse the json fields in the right order for fastest performance, if possible.
Is all the financial responsibility on your wife then or did you quit your job because you had ample savings/FIRE?
> It's "difficult" as in it requires an incredible amount of discipline

Maybe at the beginning of this lifestyle it was somewhat difficult and there was some fight inside me (hard not to buy sweets at the store counter etc) but it fairly quickly turned into subconscious, almost mechanical way of doing things.

It's similar to addiction detox: when I ditched smoking (after 20+ years), it was hard at the beginning, there was this feeling of lacking something "important" but it diminished over time. There's no way I'd even consider smoking a cigarette or eating sugary and fatty sweets after few years. I stopped being compatible with those things.
I don't see a contradiction. Were ESBuild already written in Rust, Rust would be the present of JS infrastructure. The author hopes it merely to be the future.
True or not, in the past there was a persistent rumor going around Seoul that every time Apple had scouted out a good location for its first store in Korea, Samsung would mysteriously learn of it and manage to block the transaction. Definitely a scorched earth competitive relationship.
I'm bullish on Rust, but there's a long way still to go. The overhead of passing values across the boundary between JavaScript and Rust is quite high. There are a lot of cases where you want to be able to provide a dynamic configuration to something on the Rust side, ideally from JavaScript, and that's still pretty costly from a performance perspective.

One of my projects (https://markdoc.dev/) is a Markdown dialect that supports custom tags and a React renderer. I recently experimented with implementing a parser for it in Rust in order to increase performance. My Rust-based parser is significantly faster than my existing JavaScript parser, but then I have to serialize the AST in order to move it from Rust to JavaScript. I'd like to implement the entire processor in Rust, but I need to let users define custom tags in JavaScript, and the overhead of going back and forth is far from ideal.

I'm hopeful that the recently-ratified Wasm GC proposal—which introduces managed structs and arrays that don't cost anything to pass between the Wasm environment and JavaScript—will help a lot. But it's going to take awhile for Wasm GC features to land in LLVM and be properly supported in Rust.
You may still need 3.5% down, and there are income limits on the FHA program. It doesn't fix the problems with high housing prices, either.
this is where experience comes in handy. some things cannot fit in blogs, it just takes years of grinding to figure, and see through the marketing bs.
Ask HN: Google Account Recovery
I know this gets brought up occasionally; but I've been locked out of a google account that belongs to me for about half a decade.

It is linked to another google account that I actively use, I'm not sure if I remember the password to the lost account(since google won't let me into the account). But I routinely use the linked account.

I'm denied access to my account on the grounds that I'm logging in from an unfamiliar IP/device, however my parents moved to a new home when I'd gone to college, and since I was at college I no longer had access to the main IP address that I was logging into it from.

My browser settings have been set to auto clear cookies on close for as long as I can remember. So it didn't recognize any of the devices I routinely use to access it.

I'm trying to get access to that account so that I can deal with what I have to, and then delete the account.

What recourse do I actually have for the same? I've recently switched to Posteo since I never want to be held hostage like this by Google ever again, but it doesn't resolve my original issue where I'm being unfairly locked out of my account because google doesn't trust me...

Literally any help would be a godsend.
While I've no trouble believing revenue dropped, where are we getting this 40 percent number and surge in fake verified profiles data from? With Twitter now in private ownership, Musk doesn't need to disclose real data and to best of my knowledge hasn't really.
Ask HN: How do you discuss interesting research online?
Suppose you find a nice, interesting research paper online somewhere (say arxiv) and you’d love to find other people who read the same paper to discuss it a bit (even if briefly). Maybe you want to share a flaw you found, or maybe it made you think of a new idea, or you want to talk about its interesting use of methods, or even advertise that you did something similar. How would you do that nowadays?

I expect answers such as: my own research group (too limited/potential echo chamber); researchgate (too ”social network” for my taste, no focus, bloated interface); twitter (not even sure where to start?).

Any other ideas?
The problem in the US is housing density and dependence on cars. In the average US city a street may have an order of magnitude fewer people than a moderately dense city.
> We are facing 5-10 years of high interest rates

Well then a housing crash may be the least of our worries. The national debt has a weighted average duration of around 5 years

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2022/07/27/projectin...
Title should say "SimCity 2013".
Most people prefer leavened bread, which is far more involved that your recipe.
> No offense at the 'big' thing here, I'm 190cm. But amusingly, I have grey hair, which means I am, by the laws of the universe, no longer allowed to wear jeans.

ehehe I have grey hair and grey beard too.

I still wear jeans when nobody watches, but in all honesty when I wear classic suit pants to go to the office, the pockets are even smaller than the jeans ones, so my phone stays in the pocket of my (suit) jacket.

My issue with swiping is that when phones fitted entirely in one hand, for example the Samsung Galaxy SII or the iPhone 4, swiping made sense, everything was close enough and you never lost grip.

Now that they are so big, there's a lot of lateral movement to cover and it's becoming to be nonsensical. I usually drop my phone 2/3 times a day because of needing to swipe, it never happened so often before.
I have also started to suffer from joint pain on my right thumb due to phone gestures.

I've watched my parents trying to do it with both hands - with one hand they keep the phone, with the other hand they try to swipe-up to answer using their index finger - and the movement 90% of the time falls too short and the swipe fails.

It's painful to watch, I think we should rethink gestures or phones' dimensions.
In Germany, standard terms are to have the interest rate fixed for 10, 15 or 20 years, independant of how long it takes to pay off. Additionally, the customer has the right to refinance at current rates after 10 years. So a longer fixed rate is always an advantage to the customer, and thus more expensive.
I'm not a Python dev, so correct me if I'm wrong, but it is my understanding that Python's language bindings and its dependencies on other languages for major libraries is one of the main impediments to alternative or innovative implementations like PyPy or Jython reaching compatibility.
Thank you! Now you can build it much more easily!