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Yes, it is an interesting move of the EU [0]. The manufacturers of heatpumps are already lining up alternatives: mostly Propane (R290) but also CO2 (R744).

How does that align with the billions being invested in Hydrogen, a gas with a GWP of 11? This stuff will leak to the atmosphere at a massive scale soon, dwarfing the tiny tanks of f-gases.

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/nl/ip_22_...
I'm not getting it. Does someone have some diagrams?

This line is confusing me: "If the electric field is now removed, order is reduced and the material cools, also in accordance with the laws of thermodynamics." How is decreased local order an decrease in local heat? I think heat engine-like diagrams would help me here.
> Of course you don't. Neither C or Go even have abstractions called "iteration" at all. They have patterns for them.

My goal isn’t “implement an Iterator trait”, I just want to iterate over lines in a file, so I don’t especially care that Go and C don’t have an iterator type.

> Besides, Go has a garbage collector. You should expect all sorts of patterns involving memory/copying to change when you move from a language with a GC to one without.

I’m not allocating, so the GC doesn’t matter. The Go and C versions look essentially the same—it’s only the Rust version that I had a hard time with because of the borrow checker.
San Francisco.

A house that costs $8,000 per month in rent might cost $2M to buy.

At $2M that's $9,500 in mortgage payment at 6% for 30 years, about $2,800 in property taxes, another $300 in insurance, and maybe assume $500 per month maintenance (over the long haul).

That's ~$13,000 per month when rent is $8,000.

You can knock the $1,500 per month off the mortgage payment that is paying off principle, but you'd also need to account for the opportunity cost of a $400,000 down payment at some modest return of say 4% which is ~$1,300, so it's about breakeven.

The you need to account for transactions costs - all the closing fees and the 5-6% realtor fee when you sell.

All in, if you rent in SF, but invest the savings from owning, you're not really far behind someone who buys, but of course it all depends on price appreciation and over what time period.

That's not to say you can't get lucky and buy right before some massive price appreciation then sell and lock in the gains. But unless you have a crystal ball, you can't time that sort of stuff.
Glad that you like it! You might also find my MouseTray utility useful (which I mentioned in another comment), since seeing from your bio that you're familiar with esports you might care a bit more about configurations.
Removing subsidies on meat production and flying are the systemic variants of those individual choices. People would be vegan no-flyers in no time.
> Any mortgage at almost any fixed interest rate, assuming a market amenable to the local prevailing median income, will always beat renting

Yes. One of the smartest finance guys I know says the simple model of taking the landlord's (imputed) mortgage yield and adding four percent nearly always predicts the rental level.

> even in good times 5-8x your salary was a decent price. Now it's more like 20x in some places.

But the causality of this is surprising: that's because interest rates have come down. So the repayment monthly cost has remained constant, but the deposit and salary ratio have shot up.

Now that rates are on the way back up one of two things has to happen to maintain the ratio:

- house prices drop

- inflation increases nominal-income rapidly past house prices

The use of 30-year mortgages hugely slows down those effects, though.
> When interest rates go up, refinance and sell you previous mortgage for cheap.

Can you explain this, because it seems opposite to the rest of the world (and since this is Hacker News, world = USA). You refinance...at a higher rate, and this is a good thing long-term?
If you take a 3% loan over 30 years for a $300000 home and a 20% down payment, you will eventually pay $124265.89 in interest.

This doesn't take into account any work you have to do on the house, the notary and agency fees, and any taxes on the way. Your $300k worth of investment may very well cost you around $500K. If it's worth $800k later on, you earned $300k buy selling it 30 years later.

We can also add the cost of opportunity, since you can't move easily when you have a home to get a new, get closer to your children, follow you the love you just found, discover a foreign country...

And that's in the best case scenario where:

- You found a cheap good home.

- You actually end up liking leaving here.

- Nothing changes to the point you have to flea the place.

- No accident, no fire, no water pipe breaking, etc.

- You can ensure you can comfortably pay the mortgage for three decades.

That's... a lot to consider.

To give you an idea, here is what happen if you take the same down payment, and invest $100 a month and interests into the S&P 500 index for the 30 last years:

You end up with $11 159 316.

With no lock in. And no worries.

I think it's fair to say there is a difference of at least $100 between your rent and mortgage payment.
Someone in the Stable Foundation Discord told me that FreeWilly1 codes better than FreeWilly2. Anyone can confirm?
Just replacing the heating (very common, eg lots of oil heating in Western parts) costs near 10%.
Apple in no way abandoned FairPlay. Every file on Apple Music, and iTunes Match is protected with it. And those greatly outnumber transactional sales through the iTunes store, by an order of magnitude. The customer picked the DRMed version, every time.
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It was a good article. I remember hearing Brand's views years ago and generally thinking they were good (left wing worker supporting talking about the disenfranchised) even though I don't like his public/ acting persona or ability. It sounds like he's just chasing an audience now, maybe that's all it ever was and this is where he ends up once fully optimised.
Sorry, about to go grab a train, so only had time to find a couple of Shell examples:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66108553

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59154930
Mortgage can be evil sometimes but I am extremely happy with mine. I purchased a house and after 3 years I am paying less than what I used to pay for 1 bedroom apartment. In 10 years, my fixed rate will make my investment even more handsome.

Without mortgage I'd still be paying for rent, possibly forever. My house already appreciated over 30% in 3 years and better investment than keeping the money in the bank or even the best years of the market.
I don't think the plebs should taking side hard. Remember it's the dem who sabotage the repair law Louis Rossman fought so hard far. They are both bad, dems are less so. The plebs only have themselves to rely on
This argument totally misses the context of that appointment, which was the tremendous pressure Trump was under from the Democrats and DC establishment after he fired Director Comey. Trump appointed Director Wray, yes, but the appointment was made basically under duress. It was hardly his choice, and he was under immense political pressure to assuage the optics of what looked like a coverup in his firing of Comey. He had to choose someone recommended by uniparty politicians like McConnell.
And that it has been used dozens of times since, by both sides of the aisle.
Linux today is very different from what it was like back then though.
> it's still better than 0 that you are left with after paying 30 years of rent.

You're not left with 0 if you're smart. You take the money you didn't spend on a down payment and also the difference between rent and mortgage (plus insurance, maintenance, and property tax) every month and you invest it. These investments can be diversified and thus far safer than an investment in a single house. You also retain a lot more flexibility to move, which can increase your earnings potential among other benefits. After thirty years of earning and investing you may very well be ahead. The "throwing money away" narrative is misleading at best.
It affected Spotify enough to engineer a solution to stop it.

And five years isn't "fairly recent".

One would also note Spotify is a failing business, and it was failing even harder then.
A house is a lot of eggs in one basket though.
If it takes > 100 years and all the energy of tens of billions of tonnes of fossil fuel to put us in a state of extreme peril then yes, it will at least * take another 100+ years and all the energy of tens of billions of tonnes of fossil fuel to reverse out of that position.

If that's your suggested strategy then I would suggest that we can do better by not going there in the first instance.

* Thanks to the arrow of time, the issue of unbreaking a glass, methane release and other factors it very realistically could take more time and energy to get out of the hole we seem intent upon driving into.

> Technology is for solving problems.

It's not 'magic' though and I have little time for green washing or praying to the technology fairy.
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> been able to live without stress about all the responsibilities that come with owning a house

A lot of renters report that being forced to move house regularly is a huge source of stress.

> rent is money down the drain, mortgage payments is money you keep in the end

Mortgage is paying rent on a house-sized chunk of money which you have to spend on a house. Economically they're similar. Except the US has a big tax advantage which is only available to morgagors. (Does it also have the home capital gains tax exemption?)
Opening up ChatGPT: Tracking openness, transparency, and accountability in instruction-tuned text generators. See also this[0] accompanying blog post.

[0] https://ideophone.org/opening-up-chatgpt-evidence-based-meas...
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To be skeptical they first need competency to understand both sides of the argument. Unfortunately the longer I observe the work of journalists the more I become convinced,except few individuals, most people that become journalists do so because they failed in their primary choice of career.

This is a huge threat to democracy that one of the most important functions in society (to inform) has been "outsourced" to a bunch of random people that landed in this job because they failed in others.

Unless we find a solution to increase the quality of journalism or replace it with something else I doubt democracy as a system will be anything more than a facade over oligarchy or even worse dictatorships.

What is the solution? It has to be country specific, but one common theme has to be better wages for journalists to attract talent and much more strict requirements for professional conduct to filter out those unable to do it right. Both have to happen at the same time.
The key point in the article: "For the individual, the fact that encouraging 30-year mortgages is a bad policy does not imply that getting one yourself is a bad deal."

The criticism is separate from the benefit to consumers. One could argue it's not a good policy to have 30 year mortgages, and it just encourages more risky behavior. I can't disagree with that.

But as a consumer, it has a ton of benefits.
And now our system is full of full of microplastics ahem microservices
How are third-party cookies a security (not privacy) risk?
The comment was about short term trading (eg "day trading") I think. The reference to long term was in the context of regular short term trading over a long period.

Investing in a market spread (eg an index tracker) over the long term with infrequent trading during that time is a different strategy that trusts the market rather than the individual's "skill".

This latter is presumably what your relative was (correctly) advising.
But our oil consumption essentially is our way of life. Changing it will have enormous effects on modern life. A lot of people are going to see a significant drop in their quality of life as a result. This is why it's so hard to change things in the first place, it's not about the companies, but about average people.
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Going online without your AI agent would be like not using a mask during COVID.
The CO2 heatpump needs more than 150 bar, like having a small OceanGate in your attic.
While I too wish for complete build instructions as a packager, I feel this is overstated.

The very first part of the 'Download and Install' section says to check the distribution package manager so that building isn't necessary

These users are better served not even knowing about builds. In this spirit, the bit saying 'if you aren't absolute latest, adopt the build from source pain' should be removed.

Toys like this don't demand the latest and greatest. Save the [complete] build instructions, including the libraries (ideally their package names), for developers/contributors
It sounds like I might be in this case. We're talking decades. You are talking about various investments and even making sure to time the mortgage to beat the market.

I am talking about putting the money in S&P 500 and similar without trying to time, beat or track anything.
Thanks for the feedback, its a great point and I've updated the homepage to have the screenshot.
Weird part about the attention economy, where leaders emerge quite fast out of the blue and are capable of pulling huge attention to issues, is they all end up following the same playbook after getting popular.
These personal decisions make little difference in the grand scheme of things.
In the real world, these people work 70 hour work weeks and that is worth less than $30/hr. If the situation is going to change, it makes sense to change it in a direction that deals with the root cause.

> At what? Capital doesn’t plant seeds, harvest crops, stock shelves, or cook meals.

I'd happily put money on you being completely wrong in the sense that you mean, there are a lot of opportunities for automation now that the vision problem has been solved. And all of those things you list are very capital-intensive activities - farming is highly mechanised and relies on an industrial chemical pipeline. Shopping centres require a lot of capital to set up. Cooking is very capital intensive to if you look around a commercial kitchen.

> ...being a capitalist is just exploiting those people that do the actual real work...

How many people could survive on earth if all the capital disappeared? The trucking fleets alone disappearing would force mass starvation after about a week. There just isn't a way to move the food from farms to cities. Let alone all the other parts of the production chain.

The only difference between 2023 AD and 2023 BC humans is the vast accumulations of capital we have in the modern world. It is making a big difference.

> and being a capitalist is just exploiting those people that do the actual real work.

Connect the dots. What happens to the people doing the work if they are also capitalists?
Sites will just stop trusting that as an attester.

Anyone can write their own EME plug in that writes the files to disk. But it won't have the keys of any trusted module, because the reason sites trust them is because they don't do that. So it won't get accepted by anyone. Same here.
When you rent, you can do the following:

- Move to a better paying job easily. You make instantly more money.

- Move to a cheaper place when times get tough. This gives security because your life is flexible and can adapt to the ever changing life.

- Change the space if you get a wife, kids, a dog, a parking space, or if they leave you. Well, the parking might stay.

- Leave if a neighbor becomes invasive, if they build a supermarket under your windows, if water gets contaminated...

- Get closer to your job so that you save time, energy and transport money.

- In case of divorce, you don't have to share anything.

- The gap between rent money and mortgage payment money can be used for anything. Sometime you can invest it. Sometime you can buy a gift or holidays. Sometimes it saves your ass for tough days.

Selling a house is hard. It cost money, time, energy, and you still have your loan running after that if you didn't negotiated early repayment. Plus, good luck getting a new loan to buy the next place if you are still paying the first one.

A house is a lot lock in, for the money it provides.
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I've seen this happen in my career. In a previous life we hired a person just out of college into a "Senior" developer role. Sure, the person was smart but they didn't have the experience, they hadn't made the mistakes or seen the outcomes of various decisions to be called "Senior".

I've struggled since then describing why I felt this way and I think the essay helps immensely. In my recollection that developer didn't reach a software vocab point and couldn't really understand the difference. The pain point for me was that I could spot the difference and no one (in management) really cared.
Hi there, looks like we got rate limited on an API we were using so I've upgraded. Should be working great now, just refresh the page.
"It can't be perfect, so let's not even try."
What's the harm in giving some sketchy site a unique, random password only used with that site? (In contrast to letting them have your Google profile and all that comes with it)
How does the buy-to-rent market work with those numbers?
Definitely not to be confused!
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It depends on your local housing market, but for example in The Netherlands, there is enough demand for houses, whether to rent or to buy, that when you rent you do pay all of those taxes, maintenance, etc. It is just part of the rent.
I have a hard time understanding a market where landlords cannot recover the cost of those taxes, etc. How you you make money if you can't do that?

Then in The Netherlands, on average prices of houses go up. Fast enough even that for most people it is very hard to save enough money each year to even keep up with the housing prices.

Then we get to the point that with a mortgage, part you pay is interest, that money is lost, just like rent. But in part you repay the mortgage. That stays in your pocket. So even if the cost of renting is the same as the mortgage plus taxes and other costs, then the mortgage is still cheaper.

If you want to buy a house and you are currently renting then you are competing with people who see the value of their current house go up, and the part of the house that they own went up because they repaid part of the mortgage for some years. This makes it almost imposible to compete if you have been renting for a long time.

Obviously, there can be local market where the demand for houses is low enough, that renting a house can be attractive.
Looking to extend, tvOS is a bit technically difficult
They're not responsible for extreme data recovery, but (almost?) all of the customer data volumes on that server were completely intact. They damn well should be responsible for getting that data back to their customers, whether or not they get the server going again.

If you run off a single drive, and the drive dies, any resulting data loss is your fault. But not if something else dies.
This is great and all.

But LLM's are usually very good at following grammars. I rarely see LLM generating code that is OOD. Ofc, this is only true for popular language (JSON/Python/Java, etc), I can see how this is handy for more niche and in house DSL.

You still need quite a lot of prompt engineering to get desired outputs, this just add another layer of output verification IMO. But does it really save much as comparing to get the output then parse and reject the output that doesn't follow the grammar? Might be debateable.

But great work regardless.
Prolog was still being used for the same purposes (handling high-level network configuration and even device state) at least as late as in late 2000s smartphones.
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I hope they also remove USB drives and don't let them connect unauthorized bluetooth and keep their laptops in the office. Most users would just start working on their home pc and then you have their work account compromised on their home laptop. With USBs, you'd be surprised how many air-gap breaching worms there are.
Pretty much everywhere at current mortgage rates. Prices have barely budged as rates skyrocketed. My rent is less than half of the mortgage payment needed to buy my current house at its current zestimate price on a 6.7% 30 year fixed mortgage. And that's not even counting property tax and insurance and maintenance and the opportunity cost of the 20% down payment. You'd have to be insane to buy at these prices right now.
I bet they'll leave it out initially to avoid outcry, then allow websites to disable extensions when it's widespread
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Do you mean like example@something.me? I just tried and that seems to work
It absolutely did, and you can read the executive summary [0] to see the details in just a few pages. I'm not going to copy/paste the whole thing here but start with page 9 (which highlights the contrast of reckless investigations into the Trump campaign compared with cautious refusal to investigate the Clinton campaign), and continue onto pages 11-12 (which describe the origins of the investigation, namely an uncorroborated document containing opposition research created by a paid contractor of the Clinton campaign).

I'm not sure how you can read this as anything other than suggesting clear political bias in the handling and opening of the investigation into the Trump campaign, which - as the Durham report makes clear is its central point - was opened completely without basis in a manner divergent from all proper procedure.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/storage/durhamreport.pdf
Every people is in my opinion eligible for some sane amount of resource usage on Earth - that is not a problem, the Earth is rich and would have enough to provide for the current population.

But we should not have people that travel with private jets at all, neither should we transport locally easily produced goods across the world due to salary arbitrage, should build small, walkable cities, communities. There are plenty appliances/tools we could easily share and thus not opt for cheaper, low lifetime ones — e.g. how often do you use you drill? Or power washer? Wouldn’t renting/lending it between a few houses be more environmentally responsible? Also, multi-generational houses are not a bad thing if the relation between people is not bad — the elderly get to experience the joy of their grandchildren, parents get “free babysitters”, later on the parents can care for the elderly. It’s how humanity has been since forever, and I believe it would have positive effects on everyone, not just ecology. Also, there should be barely any need for single use plastic packaging besides medicinal use — create standard container dimensions for various kinds of products and create dispensers in supermarkets that take in your previous container, and give you your product in a new one. If you break it/don’t bring it back, you have to buy that again. Yoghurts, drinks, huge swathes of supermarkets could be replaced that way.

The problem is the huge inequality — my Western ass is in huge luxury, when my African counterpart is hungry with barely any potable water. Wouldn’t they also deserve equal treatment? But if everyone were to live in Western lifestyle we would be even worse off. We should strive to cut back a bit on the Western side, and bring up the rest of the world in a sustainable way. We have the tech for that, mostly.
At the expense of productivity.

ART also compiles to native since Android 5.

Android 14 is around the corner, time to keep up with the times.
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