skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the non-US model weird... What are you supposed to do if 3 years into owning a house the rate goes way up? At that point you will have almost no equity and extending the term isn't going to help much.

People actually do refinance frequently if rates go down. If they go up naturally they'll keep their lower rate.

This does create issues when rates go up a lot like they just did, because it makes it harder for people to move.

Fixed rate mortgages do create risk for banks, and some banks have run into trouble recently, although a lot of mortgages are resold by banks and packaged into bonds, either by investment banks or by the "Government Sponsored Entities", Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
But that's exactly what rain is! Water vapor that has condensed and hasn't been in contact with any minerals or contaminants.
I hope they succeed in taking it over, and I hope that they follow through on the idea of documenting the process as TV.

While making good TV will inevitably require editing to emphasise drama, I expect the editor won't have to look far.

I think the evolution of union employees from the point of "brewing beer" to the point of "running a profitable business" (complete with functions like sales, marketing, purchasing, quality control, and yes, labor management) will be both fascinating and informative. It would help other transitions to co-ops go a lot smoother.

I have no doubts it would be a success, but the process would be just as valuable as a learning tool.

Plus the TV would act as marketing (tick).
Check out M Eifler's ongoing #ArtSchoolFromBed series. Maybe start with "How do you get started?" https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tbffPiTlD9k
They fly up my nose at night. We have taken great joy in splitting them in half or flattening them with nerf guns. Pro tip: long barreled guns are the tits.
If you can afford the mortgage then it's within your means. If you take a $7k/mo mortgage assuming rates will drop to make it long-term sustainable...
> I'm not clear on how long residuals can last in a sustainable way

They were possible before, since there was much less content available at any given time. The media industry is in a bit of a death spiral it feels like, with a race to the bottom in many ways.

When broadcast tv was a bigger thing, syndicated shows were licensed to stations, who typically sold ad slots, allowing them to pay the licensing fees.

The problem is in many ways streaming platforms just really aren’t that cheap to run in the US when compared to old methods of distribution and the margin is almost entirely going to the platform, not the people making the content.
They're talking about moving data between two different back end databases. Your production database optimized for your application/latency.

Then you have your warehouse database that you updated once a day with information from prod.
As an American, the width of an Australian dollar coin seems perfectly reasonable.
Why does capitalism have to be your scapegoat? Why not go to the root—the lust for power. In essence that’s what money is anyway, it’s just a means to an end.

Would you also fix the endless human desire for more? If you can, then you’ve got a shot. Otherwise, you don’t.
"I think the evolution of union employees from the point of "brewing beer" to the point of "running a profitable business" (complete with functions like sales, marketing, purchasing, quality control, and yes, labor management) will be both fascinating and informative."

Or an unmitigated disaster. That would also make good TV...
I think you have it all backwards, but I also don't think I'll be able to convince you of anything. There's no law preventing any of these grocery stores you talk about from selling only in bulk. They choose to sell lower volumes of their own free will.
Satellites follow a extremely well known path and are tracked by the operators to a ridiculous level of precision. I can't imagine us needing more than 10 providers of 100K sats each at an upper limit. You could fit them all in a few (10 say) large football stadiums if you piled them up (a sat is probably 5m³ at most, a stadium is 100x100x50m so 500000m³)
Thanks. I would have give with the original link.
Has anyone heard much about the Telesat Lightspeed program?

As far as I can tell, there is no regular consumer access planned for it. It seems like a missed opportunity on their part.
That would be a beautiful story, except that hummingbirds don't eat spiders - they eat flower nectar.
That's much better than cars doing 80mph a few feet apart on the freeway.
You don't need ChatGPT to get "karma" on HN. Most people here are so banal and shallow that 50 lines of well-crafted Perl will get all the upvotes.
If I want resolution above 480p, I turn to torrents.

That said, I haven't had the desire to watch TV for a long time.
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>Every survey I've seen on health care or gun regulation for example shows the will of the public at odds with the actions of the government.

counterpoint: https://twitter.com/davidshor/status/1355186871354200066
For anyone contending with the menace of fruit flies or gnats (and especially if you own a fair number of indoor plants), I could not recommend these more wholeheartedly:

https://www.amazon.com/Stingmon-Pack-Sticky-Fruit-Fungus/dp/...

It's essentially a better looking version of fly paper. They're easy to place alongside indoor plants. Fruit flies and gnats are attracted to decaying organic matter and the moist soil of indoor plants is an often overlooked oasis for them. Gnats are more likely to hang out in indoor potted soils (especially if overwatered) because they feed on fungus, but fruit flies can take refuge there too.

A couple years back I had a months long battle with fruit flies. Kitchen was always clean, garage sealed up tight, no indoor compost, I used apple vinegar traps of all styles but nothing solved the problem until I placed those sticky paper inserts at the base of all my indoor plants. Within a week the fruit flies were gone.
> Kessler syndrome could happen even just with the amount of satellite

Kessler as in a catastrophic loss of satellites. In LEO, it wouldn’t be a denial of space programme, nor even a systemic issue—there aren’t high enough orbital energies.
> It's a very exploitative industry dominated by soulless conglomerates.

Sounds like a good reason to do a worker cooperative where money is important but stability of the whole is key component, so their decisions are often to keep united.
It would improve liquidity but most people selling their homes also need to buy a new one.
>I think it's because capitalism ...

That's why communist countries are known for their carbon neutral economies, and being excellent stewards of the environment, right?
It's crazy that this economically makes more sense than providing the Internet over a wire.

Can we have a law passed that would mandate to lease the last mile to others (kind of like phone companies were required phone lines for DSL) so once again we can have competition?

It is just dumb to require every ISP to run a dedicated line to your house.
More precisely, Big Tech.

There are lots of other smaller players in the tech industry who are against monopoly-building hostilities like this.
You said that like it’s a bad thing?
I will be self-destructively opposing this until I'm dead. I have nothing else to add.
Whenever MiniZinc, or constraint programming, comes up, I post this link to a programming challenge a friend gave me...14 years ago. I was learning J, and the challenge was me in J, her in javascript or php (she never completed the solution). Here's the link: https://gcanyon.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/a-programming-puzzl...

And a person I didn't know posted a solution using MiniZinc. That person happens to also be on HN, so whenever constraint programming comes up, or MiniZinc, I post this story, and Hakan shows up. You around, Hakan? :-)

Here's Hakan's page on the solution: http://www.hakank.org/minizinc/einav_puzzle.mzn
And most debris from a VLEO collision deorbit in under an hour.

Kuiper isn't in VLEO, but any larger constellations likely will be.
Slack and Debian (mostly Debian) were my favorite Linux experience, and indeed Unix experience, until I landed on NetBSD.
> i said "usually"

still false since in addition to the dumbed down web platforms you've included a PC in the set
And your example is wrong - just checked that google images doesn't show an extension (the link is too long to see it, and some links don't even have it, and in a mac save as dialog you also don't see it), so PNG imaginary advantage isn't even "usually" there

> i said "at least"

this also doesn't help you since your reason is incorrect, so it can't be a factor

> this argument isn't productive anymore and i won't be continuing it, have a nice day

lol, you've missed the chance to make it productive by ignoring the core issue that PNG doesn't signal losslessless
Doesn't squid game qualify?
First 16GB RTX 4060 Ti Review Benchmarks: Faster Than 8GB Model, Too Expensive
Gotta agree, i'd prefer to use planetscale or turso, i mean supabase is cool too, but i'd rather have the option, or even just loading stuff to a local db on a webhost of my own.
How did you expect them to get 60 votes in the Senate without moving to the “right”? You think a senator in 2009 was voting no because they thought the ACA was not sufficiently “left”?

Can you list those senators? Without that, it seems like you were dreaming of a fantasy ending.
>They seem to be very hard to keep outside their natural swamp environment...

As the NatureServe status says:

>The Venus Flytrap, a carnivorous species, is a narrow endemic of the coastal plain of North and South Carolina in the southeastern United States. It has very strict habitat requirements which include frequent natural fire, an open understory and low nutrient soils. There are close to 100 extant natural occurrences and between 73,000 - 158,000 total individuals. The species continues to decline, however, and should be reviewed frequently. Threats include poaching from wild populations, habitat conversion, and fire suppression.

There are very few natural areas left where these plants can survive, and these areas are tiny!

>Current range: The range of Venus flytrap is quite localized in scattered savannas of the coastal plain of southeastern North Carolina and adjacent eastern South Carolina in an approximate landward radius of 100 miles around Wilmington, North Carolina (North Carolina Natural Heritage Program 2010). Currently 68 extant occurrences are known from the following counties in North Carolina (the number of occurrences in parentheses): Bladen (5), Brunswick (21), Carteret (1), Columbus (3), Craven (1), Cumberland (4), Hoke (7), New Hanover (5), Onslow (12), Pender (7), and Sampson (2) (North Carolina Natural Heritage Program 2010), and Horry County (4), South Carolina (South Carolina Heritage Trust 1993b).

In a way, these plants have evolved into a dead end. They mostly lost their chloroplast genomes so they can't 'go back' to being regular plants.

Perhaps your mistake was that you don't set your kitchen on fire often enough?

https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.1597...
The Future Circular Collider is looking to switch to niobium-tin from LHC's niobium titanium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Circular_Collider Unfortunately they'll still run at liquid helium temperatures-- while advanced superconductors have higher critical temperatures, the critical field (magnet strength) still goes higher as the magnet gets colder, and that's the figure of merit for collider designers. http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Solids/scbc.html

This is why you see new fusion reactor designs like the SPARC which use HTS superconductors throughout still use mildly exotic cryocoolants like liquid hydrogen-- not as expensive as liquid helium, but still better performing than liquid nitrogen. (Not to mention that liquid nitrogen is annoying in nuclear applications: it's easily activated by neutron radiation and deposits monoatomic carbon dust through your cryocooler circuit)
Ask HN: Best Sales Training?
what are some good resources for an introvert to learn how to sell themselves and their experience and consulting services?
Ha, got distracted in the middle of typing out my comment. Fixed now.

Was saying that I managed to disable admin access for my user, so I had the pleasure of obtaining a recovery root shell and learning about the sudoers file.
Standing over the pot is irrelevant. You still need the time to do it. The poorer you are, and that's more and more of us, the less time you have. The person working a standard 9-5 has just under 4 hours of available in their day. Poorer people have less.
> netflix, amazon, facebook etc might ... lock you out

Is this supposed to be a bad thing? It's almost made to sound like surviving without them would be tantamount to starving, but frankly we might be better served without them.
Hedge funds: https://www.amgnational.com/insights/hedge-funds-gobbling-up...
Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.

—Carl Sagan
security and memory safety are non issues in most embedded devices
We do, it's called nuclear power. We could have had unlimited power for effectively no cost if we'd just spammed reactors but we didn't.
I think this is a chicken/egg dilemma, because if you could peek into an alternate universe where every journalist was a fully qualified professional in a STEM field, suddenly the power dynamics in the whole industry would shift because every journalist could credibly say "treat me right and pay me well, or I'll have a different, better job tomorrow."
> And Republicans are scrambling for answers.

Try this one on for size. Your party's regressive policies that resonated with an older crowd that grew fat and rich off the post-war boom in the US is dying, and the younger generations are starting to see right through your bullshit. No real wage growth, no real improvement in quality of life, no real prospects for achieving the same things that your core constituency got. The tricks you've been playing with electoral districts and gerrymandering are not working as well anymore because the deck is so stacked against you. Now you're wondering why you're losing power after courting the chaff of the electorate.

The choice whether to change, or to be annihilated is yours. Frankly, I wouldn't mind you staying the course to your own oblivion.
>Would you also fix the endless human desire for more?

We could call it the New Soviet Man or something like that
Hakan’s examples have illustrated so many constraint programming principles, his site is a wealth of knowledge!

For the comments referring to examples more complex than Sudoku, his website is the best that I have found! Thanks Hakan.
There's a lot of mickey taking of Dan Brown's work but I found them (up until The Last Symbol) easy-osy reads in between more serious novels. They were something to relax with in the form of boy's own adventure stories from my youth.

Now even if his books aren't anywhere near high culture in a literary sense I do think that if they get non-readers to start reading books then that's a good thing. They can be gateway novels to much better writing. See also JK Rowling, Joseph Finder and Lee Child. Apropos Lee Child, my dad hadn't read much in the way of fiction for many years and then in his 70's somehow bumped into the Jack Reacher novels and he ploughed through them all on his iPad in his spare moments. That's no bad thing.
Nearly 1k reports of suspicious int'l parcels received in S. Korea
I’ve never seen that kind of optimization on a dataset that would fit on a database server of any kind. Tens of PB or EB usually, but sometimes only several hundred TB if it’s high load/in-memory only.
I have no knowledge of Australia or the uk mortgage markets but in America mortgages get packaged up in securities and sold to investors in the market or big agencies/government programs. Most banks don’t hold mortgages on their books for long before selling them off. Some banks retain servicing but don’t hold the debt on their books. It’s all very complicated and feels like a shell game but mortgage markets have only blown up once in memory whereas I’ve stopped counting recessions.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortgage-backed_security

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/08/banks-retreating-mortgage-m...
> AOL had some crazy password vulnerabilities. For awhile "12345678" would validate if your password was actually 1234, 12345, 123456, 1234567. So that means you could speed up your cracking by removing some of those shorter passwords from your list.

I wouldn't call that a vulnerability, even if lets you attack passwords 2% faster.
Right here with you. At my last company, I tried to get the team comfortable “I don’t know,” “that didn’t pan out,” etc. I couldn’t get the lead on the other team to catch on. He’d bullshit an answer over a few minutes in a meeting, and Product and Management would eat that shit up.

That team was no better/worse at failure than anyone else, but apparently non-engineers can’t be bothered with the truth of humans: we’re failure machines looking for the right answers because we just can’t know everything.
Second this, they are amazing at catching all kinds of little bugs that tend to live on your plants.
I'd remark that it has less to do with capitalism and a great deal more to do with a lack of strong guard rails separating policy making (from elected offials) from undue influence (lobbyists and money).

Have distinct silos for military, civil service, law (trials, not police or writing), etc. with harsh penalties for stepping out of line good rewards for duty are things that I rate highly in a government system.

The case can be made that the US took a turn for the worse when the Supreme Court was allowed to go outside its remit of "do the least required" and wrote policy by making Citizens United legalise directly bribing officials.

That was at least a two guard rail jumping systemic failure (IMHO).
This was actually a very nice article! Thanks!

I liked the last line the most .. I think we've all gotten accustomed to zero interests, and this has changed our behavior. My father to a large extend screwed up his (and our family's) life because he lived in an era of high rates. He did not understand the world had changed. We could have bought a house for cash in 1995 but he chose to rent. After that, it was always a bubble, with no buying opportunity like 1995 ever.

It makes me wonder if all of us have similarly not realized the world is a different place post rate hikes. There is this inevitable dogma that "rates will go back down". A lot of people are making that bet and I wonder if it is just history again.

What I don't understand is what is driving the US economy today. It seems to be firing on all if not most cylinders. People I know who got laid off are finding work (I hear negative experiences too and feel for those people). Hiring in tech seems like it is picking up.
Clearly the corporations who took out loans that they can't repay should have been eating less avocado toast, or learn to code, or something /s

A bunch of rich assholes bet that some assets would go up in value; they are likely going to lose that bet. That loss isn't anybody's "fault" besides the people who placed the bet.
Group arrested for selling former cryptomining graphics cards as brand-new
For sure. Nearly all retail traders lose. But it’s primarily a result of unrealistic expectations and low barrier to entry.

If there were YouTube ads for weekend boot camps to become a doctor in 3 days and start making 6-figures next week, we’d ask why 99% of doctors fail.

Aside from luck, many appear profitable for a while, maybe 1-2 years, but even most of those have tricked themselves. They use too much leverage and beat the market until an infrequent correction happens and wipes them out, or they follow scammy systems that have high win rates and a very long duration before they hit a drawdown that wiped out all prior profits. Picking up pennies in front of a steam roller.

For instance, you can pick whatever win rate you’d like, but it won’t necessarily be profitable. The scammer selling the course understands how that works, but the newly certified trader doesn’t.

Determining who “they” are is honestly hard, because luck and leverage can pave a long runway. If someone starts a business, and exits 5 years later with 7-figures in the bank, is there a way to know if they’re successful at business or just lucky? It’s hard to answer that question, good business people still exist.
As seductive as that story is, the data doesn't bear it out. Hourly workers have made huge gains in the last three years at the expense of salaried workers, and flyover states are turning the tables on coastal states.

Look at: real hourly wages and unemployment figures.
Right, the last full year was already back to 60% of the pre covid. This year is already on track to be back to 90%ish, if not back at growth. Such that the dip is clearly more attributable to what happened in the year 2020. None of the supposed "competitors" listed originated that year. So, again, I'm not sure that is showing the evidence of competition to big budget entertainment.
Internet search tips
CC-BY-NC 4.0 is pretty free?
That's fair, but that means it's all the more dangerous to blindly accept things as facts. The field is important too; the more objectively data can be gathered and analyzed, the more trustworthy the research is. There are always issues, of course.

"Have an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out."
Ironically, we’re getting our fertilizer from the same place we get most of our fuel: exhaustible caches in the ground. They may never run out, but they will only go up in price, raising the price of food.
but "Netflix and my bank actually work in Chrome" is Google's endgame.
I'd heard (here, last time this came up) that the Prolog interpreter was removed c. Windows XP time.
I looked it up, and

LEO = <2000km altitude, and

rEarth = ~6300m, so

surface area of a sphere with r=6300km => ~500,000,000 km^2

surface area of a sphere with r=8300km => ~860,000,000 km^2

so roughly 1.5x the surface area at max LEO compared to earth's surface

(feel free to correct me if my arithmetic is off :)
Regardless of how you personally feel about 737Max, hundreds of them are flying every day without issue.
> boom and bust is a direct result of fiat currency

Because there was no boom and bust before fiat…
Great documentary indeed.
>Anyone who relies on selling their labor to feed themselves and their families needs to be advocating for my first scenario, where productivity gains from AI are shared between workers, executives, and investors rather than monopolized by one or the other.

I feel like the only way to effectively do this is to advocate for higher marginal income/wealth taxes that redistribute those productivity gains. Trying to fight for it on a business to business basis is easily a losing battle.

For example, one is going to wonder why they should pay more for groceries if technology can help them pay less.
Immigrants. 95% (made up stat) may be poor but the 5% who are not, can afford to. In Canada, there is a recent narrative which I think is correct that immigrants are driving our inflation. We expanded our population of 30 million by about a million in the last year. That's a million new household formations, and some people bought a buttload of cash.