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There's certainly different types of people who struggle to afford a home.

For people living in an expensive apartment, they might be barely making rent. Whereas they could obviously afford a mortgage for a similar monthly amount - but since they're living paycheck-to-paycheck they can't save the prodigious 20%. So they're stuck.

Of course perhaps some people have a nest-egg from a windfall or inheritance but then couldn't handle the monthly payment.

The main barrier these days to putting less down is twofold - one, you need to pay PMI which is just compounding the monthly payment problem. Two, good fricking luck getting your offer accepted with <20% down in these times. Sellers read into offers more than just "is this financed y/n" and there's IMMENSE preference for buyers who can put 20% down, because it signals that a) if necessary they could pay PMI and drop down the up-front % in order to close on a contract, and b) they probably have more cash than just that 20% and are only stopping at 20% because it is customary and they could weather unforeseen issues more easily.

To put it in anecdote form: I sold my house in 2020. We had 8 offers presented to us after 1 day on the market. All were for 20% down because my agent didn't even hear offers from people with less down, since we had so many at 20%. In mid-2023, my brother bought a house in a similar sort of area (metro area of a major-for-the-midwest city). 2 days on the market, he was one of 3 offers, all for 20% down and about 50k over asking (the house was priced somewhat low as a marketing strategy, but I'm guessing based on comps they still had to go in about 10k over a non-meme version of the list price). He wouldn't have even been in the running if he didn't have 20% down. And he also had to waive all contingencies which almost made his financing fall through/be late due to something stupid a random inspector said.

It's tough out there. Even if you can nominally "afford" a house, it can be hard to actually close on one in the open market without someone more financially established who is able to backstop you in various ways.
I'm an academic. I think you make valid points but get the effect size wrong. It's entirely possible to contribute to academic fields without intimate knowledge of 50 years of past results. Breakthroughs come from hard work, inspiration and luck in different amounts each time. An outsider perspective can be more useful than being highly trained in the dogmatic status quo as you see things differently. I'd caution that raw intellectual talent probably differs more than you tend to notice in industry. Academic field leaders can be frighteningly smart, and while some people enjoy being the slowest person in the room it can be tough to handle.

Also, you may find that PhD salaries are MUCH lower than 1/3 of an experienced developer salary. If you do the standard thing of 20h per week GTA/GRA work and the rest (nominally 20h but likely 40h) independent study, you might get $25k per year plus meagre health benefits. If you're financially independent this is manageable, but relative to developer salary it's poverty in high COL areas of the USA (which is where the good universities are).
A reaction to the relentless anti-Polish & anti-Hungarian propaganda being spewed by the "mature fully-liberal regimes" of the EU. Enough.

You'd think the people of Poland and Hungary (who voted in their leaders, democratically, repeatedly) have horns and drink baby blood. This undermines your other valid points re/ privacy – who'd want to hitch their moral wagon to someone this naive?

The "Spaniard" part was in reference Spain being the bedrock of fascism (via Spaniards…), and remaining a dictatorship long after WW2. In stark contrast to the struggles of Poland's "immature" democratic republic during the same period. The irony was too sweet to pass up.
Because unions are a counter-balance to the bargaining strength of employers.

And history has shown that you get better outcomes not just for employees but the company and society as a whole. It's better these days but there is still a tendency to think of employees as mindless resources rather than assets.
Once upon a time I wanted to spend new year's eve in Rio. Now I don't want to go because it feels unsafe. I know a lot of great hackers come from Brazil so I know a lot of people still care. That's the thing with countries: they are either getting better or growing worse and Brazil unfortunately seems to fall in the latter category.
Nothing close to 6% of the purchase price though.
Note that she left the Left Party in 1992, and instead joined the Social Democrats. So she's been a member of the national parliament as a representative of the Social Democrats.

This is relevant as the Social Democrats are pro chat control, while the Left Party is against chat control.
> grew too confident, in part because its technological sophistication lulled it into a false sense of security

Yeah, constant monitoring of plain communications of plain civilians do just that - detect gov-himself-induced unhappines and nothing of importance...

In the meantime EU tries to implement spy-tek on all civilians. Which just got even less sensible...

But what actually Hamas wanted to achieve ? Got media attention ?? What for ?? Or someone wanted to use stupid low level Hamas, dead now, soldiers into pushing Israel (and US) into accepting imperial territory gain ?
I assume the review is a pretty reasonable one and thats why the article doesn't detail what it is or why nobody is claiming its unnecessary.
I doubt most responders even believe what they are writing, they are just trying to be contrary for the sake of being contrary, which is 90% of HN
I took an extra mortgage with my house as collateral and went to the casino with that money. I won a lot of money, so that made it a smart decision, right?
I'm surprised by so many people taking offense at it. Very direct and to the point, it's great.

People have become so fragile in the last decade or so. It's pathetic.
Elon being tone deaf? I don't believe it :)
Has anyone had to choose between Mypy and Pyright? Which is "better"?

A couple years ago I was in charge of choosing between the two, and I somewhat flippantly chose Pyright because it felt a lot faster (<5 second to do 30k lines) and had an easy integration with the editors people use at work (Pylance, coc-pyright).

Later, I realized that some popular libraries we use (django, numpy) have dedicated plugins for Mypy that you can't use with Pyright. So you have to look for Pyright-friendly type stubs or roll your own.

I've generally liked Pyright (as a side note, they have super responsive maintainers - ask a question on their GH, and they usually answer within a few hours), but I've been wondering if I am missing out with Mypy.
>The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome, and Crassus took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire; if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them, and often leased the properties to their original owners or new tenants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus
It seems to me that almost all upper management, and even many working as a manager inside the technology or I.T. departments, simply treat their tech workers and departments as arms of the finance department proper. Over time, every management decision is eventually made to only support the prime finance goals which is HIGHLY RISK AVERSE so decisions are made to avoid all risk at all costs -- at the expense of more "human-based" decisions like employee satisfaction, process improvements, experimentation or innovation. When this happens to highly-technical people like doctors or engineers, it tends to impact overall job satisfaction because training, experimentation, and innovation goes away usually because management starts saying "No" way too much.

"Hey boss, can I try this new process? It might make our department happy."
"No that costs too much."

"Hey boss, can I learn this new programming language? It might making our jobs easier and faster to do."
"Nope, there is no budget."

The language spoken from the manager to the team member is "finance speak" which the subordinate employee usually has absolutely no idea how to communicate to the boss.
So when a member of the team asks the boss for something interesting to do, the boss just starts saying "no". Every. Single. Time. This effectively trains their teams to never ask to do interesting work. So they stop asking... and the job becomes mundane and boring. And when the job is boring you start losing meaning in the job. And when you don't have meaningful (or fun) work to do, you just don't care anymore and eventually hit apathy. Then the mistakes start happening, and the employee turnover comes.

I do think we need to figure out better ways to run our companies. Profits (while important) _cannot_ be the ONLY goal because it just isn't sustainable for the long-term at all. We all know that balance is needed. Food for thought.
Anyone can get on Spotify. See Distrokid for example.
My first exposure to Herzog was Grizzly Man, and this scene always stood out: https://youtu.be/wUf0QFFi2Mk
> The DOJ has to start actually doing its job and completely dissolving these corrupt police departments

Hoover's DOJ?

I wish I could believe that your comment was ironic. If it is, then touche, you got me. It's really good.
> I guess you could try to argue that but I still feel like that's going to hurt folks. Imagine a scenario where I live somewhere for decades. Suddenly there's a new subway or some other factor that increases the value of the land enough that I can't pay for it.

I can imagine it.

That is exactly what happened to my neighborhood in India. Small residential condo community where Dad and I grew up. Everyone knows everyone sort of place. Our neighborhood suddenly turned into the hipster capital of India and began gentrifying and taxes started becoming unaffordable.

You know what people did ?

Took a deal to have their 5-storey condo redeveloped into a 30 storey one over 3 years. Everyone gets decent upfront cash, a huge rental allowance for the duration of the construction, 2x larger houses and more luxurious amenities.

Everyone is falling over themselves to have these deals signed. Yes, people waited till the last generation passed away, since they didn't want huge changes for those in their 80s. But, as those in their 50s-60s are heading into retirement, they are delighted to be able to retire wealthier, in a bigger house for 'free'.

The community has not been displaced, since everyone who lives here will still live here. Young families can buy apartments in one of the most accessible parts of town. Quality of life is better for everyone.
Nobody ever talked about beginnings. The question is, even if the universe always was,
why does it exist? It wouldn't be impossible for there to be nothing and never have been anything.
> There is a lot we techies can do to educate normies...

This isn’t something you’ll find universal agreement about. My own position is that we techies are seen as weirdos by most of the population, and what we should do is leave normal people alone. Definitely not try to “educate” them – think about how elitist that’s going to sound to many of them.
Not exactly what you are looking for but maybe useful to others.

https://github.com/microsoft/pyright/blob/main/docs/mypy-com...
You are misunderstanding the dynamic. I mean, sure, that sometimes happens, but usually if they pay us for a report, the recommendations are shared. Either with the target company or the portco buying the target. So what we say is going to the CTO or VP Eng.

Very frequently what we are doing is providing an outside voice with a direct line to the top to recommend things the CTO or VP Eng already knows and wants to do. I have had many technical leaders personally thanks us and say how relieved they were to have diligence done by real hackers, and how much this was going to help.
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The biggest one I've encountered is just scouting out problems before handing them off to an IC, to ensure they're framed correctly and the IC will be able to make rapid progress on them.

Some of the levers a manager can pull to make the IC's job easier are: 1) negotiating with PM/UX to accept a solution that might have 80% of the user benefit but is 10x easier to implement 2) lining up commitments from partner teams before committing their own resources 3) lining up schedules so that all the people on a project are working on it at the same time, regardless of which team they're from 4) arranging to colocate people from different teams who will be working on the same project, to cut communication overhead 5) doing #1 to change the architecture and eliminate the need for partner teams altogether, avoiding #2-4 and cutting communication overhead 6) pointing the report at a potential solution early so they waste less time hunting around 7) answering simple questions from other teams so that it doesn't take your own engineers out of flow 8) buying off-the-shelf solutions when appropriate to scale down the project 9) killing infeasible projects before they get to the engineers.

All of these require time and technical knowledge, though. An engineering manager with 16 directs is unlikely to have time to do anything other than performance reviews, meetings, and reassigning work that comes down from product/UX/sales. A tech-lead manager with 4 directs can devote some of their time to architecture & design, which then feeds back into resourcing and project assignments.
New York is a very well paid police department as New York is a rich city. Other cities are not as wealthy and thus do not pay as well.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-experiencing-police-...
This is cool, Wordpress should have you buy "latinum" up front and that's what you actually use to pay for your toolbar or custom color scheme.
It's corruption all the way up.
I've seen this with NYC nightclubs as well.
I don't see any evidence that this is a bot post. It's the only post in the thread that actually points to scans of the Marion Richardson source materials mentioned in the parent comment.

I guess it doesn't matter now, since it's been flagged… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is going nowhere, eternal growth mentality will get it's backbone broken by nature sooner or later. You will accept that fact too late.

That said, steel f.ex. cannot be made from ore without hydrocarbons at scale. You can recycle it with electric furnaces but at huge cost = no eternal growth.

Academics have never discovered anything useful in their short history on the planet.
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> In some cases it's pushing recommendations for videos all similar to a recent video I had watched, but I'm no longer interested in that topic

If it has already showed you your organic recommendations multiple times before, it knows it needs to grab onto something new to try to get you to watching. Since you watched that recent video, that's the best chance it has of getting you to click anything since you've shown direct interest in it. You can click 'not interested' on these and it's pretty good at following that instruction, at least unless your next video is another video similar to it.
You are amazingly blasé about that fact that this would be using taxation to prevent people from using their own property as they see fit. This is utilitarianism run amok.
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It feels like Elon's companies are being unfairly targeted by the current bureaucracy.

Remember the DOJ's bizarre suite alleging the company engaged in employment discrimination against non-US citizens.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/biden-doj-targeting-of-elon-mu...
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there are a few projects that do this, but it doesn't really matter... not enough people use any single one and most new videos will never really show accurate info
it may well be suspicious, but this is just how news articles are written [these days?]. exciting controversial claim at the front, explanation for why you should feel a certain way about said claim, some dross, maybe a tweet, then—if you're lucky—maybe, languishing at the back of the article will be some facts and a source.
Some do, that is becoming more common. There is, understandably, a huge variety of approaches from funds. Some are very hands on and have on staff technical folks who were previously CTOs or VP Eng, others are hands off and just take care of finance.
Thank you. I have been considering solar for my home too, but this problem is making me hesitate; the investment is still considerable, at least for me at this moment.
I think the specific implementation isn't that hard. The main idea is to provide an incentive to build by not taxing structure value. If you're taxing a territory that is currently half structure value and half land value you can set the land tax that replaces the property tax to double the current rates. Then your city revenue is unchanged. If plenty of land is blighted or empty then the average increased tax on land should be less than the tax of a reasonable structure (SFH for example). Townhouses and condos save by having less land per unit.
Aren't these services (and even adblockers) against YouTube's TOS? As much as I don't like ads as the next person, my Google account is one thing I don't want to risk.

Anybody hear of this happening or think it's a possibility down the road?
That's exactly my point. I'm not deluded to the point I expect people to read up and install all these tools; it's our job to make these tools so ubiquitous that it doesn't take any effort to effectively use them.
Sure, if they also stop harvesting my data after I pay.
The best coding interview puzzle I've ever done involved a (fictional) thrice-cursed data-management system with inaccurate documentation and a couple nasty traps. Instructed to collaborate with the interviewer as if they were a coworker, you had to adapt another piece of software to this system so that they could migrate it. I was awestruck by how many ways it tested your real competence at the actual day-to-day of the job.
I'm sure there are tons of creators lining up to create free content for the add blocking community.
"a gang" implies youth staking out territory, going up against other gangs, etc. Mafia implies it's a lot more subtle, someone coming up to a business going "Nice place you got here, would be a shame if something were to happen to it". Protection racket (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket).
The only candidates are those steeped in the systematic corruption. I have never seen an outsider even run.
> Change your job. Change your relationship. Change the city where you live. Change your primary hobby. Change your friends. Go back to school or start a business. Go somewhere you've never been before, the further away the better.

Agreed. It worked for me, at least, when it came to job. I was feeling stuck in my last job. There was nothing to complain about but something didn't feel right. Switching job improved my mood 100%.

Just a fair warning, after initial excitement of new job dies down, you may get buyer's remorse and miss your old job a lot. It was comfortable, you knew what you needed to do, you had built up respect and reputation. Now you will need to start over; just work hard through this period until it passes. Soon excitement and energy will return to you and you will be glad that you switched your job.
You never considered the possibility he was just being honest?
It says he is a cofounder on his about page.
Then I wonder why Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, etc. who have huge datacenters have not made their own version of YT?
Yes, I reference that table in a deeper comment. I didn't mean that it wasn't accurately documented, but rather that it's not immediately apparent. I know lots of people who were once quite experienced but still not enough to know what the attributes section is and its importance and its full meaning (myself included).

Indeed, surprising and easy to overlook was all I was trying to convey.
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We have a way. In most states the Attorney General can assign a prosecutor to pursue local corruption cases. The AG is an elected office accountable to voters.
The pharma industry has been using a combination of computational techniques and high throughput screening for decades.

I really don't see what's new here (except that they found a promising compound).

The part of the abstract that I have access to doesn't say how far abaucin got in the compound screening pipeline. Has it been shown effective in vitro or in vivo? What side effects have been screened for? Does it reach the infection site? Does it survive the digestive tract? Does it interact with common foods?

Here's a wikipedia article about how high throughput drug screening works. The inputs to these processes are traditionally computationally generated:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-throughput_screening

Choice quote from wikipedia:

The term uHTS or ultra-high-throughput screening refers (circa 2008) to screening in excess of 100,000 compounds per day.

edit: Also, what percentage of compounds generated with this computational technique make it to each stage of the screening pipeline, and how does that compare to existing computational techniques?
"BLM Mustangs" are highly valued by the horse people I know; thin bloodlines are being refreshed and herds with behavioral issues being shown how real horses act.

I recall, when I was a kid, people worried that the program would spread diseases and pollute lines with "sickly midget mongrel horses."

To my eye the public maintenance of wild horse herds and sharing out those robust genetics with the public is an excellent use of Federal resources and a truly great example of how a common good can be enhanced by government action. Tragic there aren't many programs that work as well.
Friend of mine runs a drone photography business (think instagram people on vacation or house photography for real estate). The city requires he hire an off duty cop for $100/hr to “manage the set” and the minimum time per engagement for this rent-a-racketeer service is four hours. The shoots are usually about 30 minutes.
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It makes sense even if they don't. Places like that have externalities, and they shouldn't be offloading their rowdiness onto people who live next door.
Yes you are wrong.
What cache settings? All I see is:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private; max-age=0

Not an expert, but doesn't this imply that the page should refresh but isn't forced to?
LFG..again!!!
That exists, mall cops and bouncers. Nobody should carry a gun.
I'm not defending the practice of requiring that a side project be presented. I think that's over the top and wouldn't do it -- however, if a candidate volunteers one, that does give a huge advantage to that candidate.

> Some people code to live, not live to code.

Totally fair. But there are lots of companies who prefer people who code because they love coding over those that do it just for the paycheck, and that's also totally fair.