skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can usually send the author money directly. It may not be "click a button" convenient but lately rarely is doing the "right thing" so easy, annoyingly. But it's not so bad.

I recently read Adrian Tchaikovsky. If I wanted to send him money, I google his name, end up at his website, and at the bottom is a contact page: https://adriantchaikovsky.com/contact.html there's his agent's address at the bottom, where I can easily mail cash. This works for most authors.

In the past I've emailed small creators, such as authors or music producers, and simply asked them for their cashapp, paypal, or venmo, and sent them money that way. Many small producers already have this info on their website or instagram for this exact reason.
That's funny because I don't think Netflix is that different from Disney in terms of content and preventing their creators from going outside the box.
Wow some pretty pointed responses that ignore important context around the collapse.

SVB had about $7b venture debt, and the total venture debt market ballooned during the pandemic. VCs and banks like SVB were hyper-inflating start-ups with venture debt (which is totally worthless unless it can be flipped) and they continued doing this into 2022 and 2023 despite inflation and rising rates.

10 years ago venture debt was a fraction of what it became because it’s stupid-risky, especially for a bank. But with crypto and especially the rampant fraud within crypto, VCs found a few friendly banks and created a bubble.

That $7b might as well have been a hole in the balance sheet, just like what FTX did. The banks and VCs had 12-16 months to de-risk and all they did was cut deal volume. Blaming the collapse in any way on the Fed is as specious as Musk trying to walk out on Twitter because of “bots.”

Here’s e.g. one article on the SVB loanbook
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2023/03/19/silicon-v...
Why didn't they make the post after they made this immense additional investment for more cables?

Yeah...it's not useless for their and Apple's marketing department. For everybody else, it is.
Personally, I love top-of-HN Wikipedia article submissions. Often an entrance to an interesting rabbit hole and thoughtful discussion.
Well it could be 10% on 2 years or less?
You dont want fuel efficient V16 engine of Chevy Goliath? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI7Tq6sRxE4
"if NSA is your threat model" sounds like something somebody from the 1980's would say. It's been a long time now that we've known they spy on everybody and that they share the data, and they Five Eyes the data they can't get. NSA is everybody's threat model and it has been for a long time. Intervening in electoral politics, getting private companies to do their bidding... where have you been?
A disgustingly horrific perversion of the human spirit. We'll look back on these perverted practices as we look back on the flagellants of the 14th century, and the executives responsible should be prosecuted.
Same here, I think? Months to me are just numbers. Even remembering the order of them was hard. I think I'm just barely starting to get the hang of it now
It's a very interesting time indeed for the housing market! These next 6-12 months are going to tell us something very big about the economy, crash or no crash. If anything, however, the Fed has built up an ability to drop rates if things go awry, so there's padding in the cushion if a fall does happen.

An interesting stat: We're almost back to our 2022 quantity of _new_ listings in October [1]. That's substantial because we've hovered around 20% below last year's number for just about every other month this year. One of the big stories of real estate is that sellers don't want to sell because they all locked in killer rates on their current homes, and buyers can't afford to buy with home prices AND mortgage rates what they are.

So, seeing even a slight increase in new listings (or the lack of a seasonal dropoff) is maybe an early indication of an easing of that stalemate. At the same time, time on market is still really low, which means that sellers are tapping into the high levels of demand that still exist. As a result, overall inventory isn't increasing.

All told though, even with those slight indicators, it's still a really tough time to be a buyer, and for the real estate market overall. The best hope that most have is that the dam leaks more, or even breaks on listings, and of course, if prices start to fall meaningfully, folks will want to cash out high, and you might get a proper "crash".

I personally don't really see it, but anything can happen, and we'll know soon enough!

[1]: https://www.redfin.com/news/data-center/

(Disclaimer, I work at Redfin)
Nuclear power only ever existed because of the military applications of the technology.

In 1950, if you were a Great Power and wanted to remain one, you had to have nuclear technology tout de suite. Electricity generation was a sop to pacify the masses. There were all sorts of overt and covert subsidies.

Nuclear power only continues to exist for those military applications.

Back in 2008 or so China had an ambitious policy to grow its nuclear fleet about twentyfold in the next two five-year plans. Last I looked, they had only nearly doubled their fleet and the rate of growth is utterly anemic compared to growth of PV and wind.

If China can't do it, with its ability to ride roughshod over everybody and anybody, why would things be better here?
glad you enjoyed it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary has some enjoyable advantages over more conventional number systems; numbers are a lot shorter than in binary, but arithmetic is nearly as easy, and it accommodates negative numbers naturally and inherently rather than through a length-dependent hack like twos' complement. under certain plausible assumptions about your available hardware, it has about a 5.7% device complexity advantage over binary (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy), though those assumptions often do not hold in practice

so i thought it would make a good example of path-dependent divergences: this alternative system is arguably better than binary, decimal, vigesimal, or sexagesimal, but not by enough to make it worth the incompatibility in the real world

an extraterrestrial society with a different history, and thus no need for compatibility with c, ascii, ttl, and synchronous-logic eda platforms, might have taken a different path
I don't think that's even remotely true, I think you're in a bubble.
The CT will likely be a bit cheaper than the Rivian or Lightning. Beyond that, probably the same reasons why more people buy Model Ys instead of Mach-Es.
And, in turn, developers never just, thereby ensuring it.
People buy houses with cash is what they’re thinking.
Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine
Fellow OCD-ish charge watcher here. Has worked great for my aging iPhone.

What grinds my gears though is the AirPods. I have AirPods Pro that I want to last a long time, but out of the case the earbuds are always 'on' and drain battery relatively quickly (much faster than a phone left idle); put them in their case and they're almost always* charged to 100%. I want to be able to leave them out, off, and disconnected. I almost never need 100% battery in my day-to-day use and there's no replacing the batteries in them once they're worn out.

An 80% max charge limit would be great.

*They do offer 80% overnight charge protection, but that's irrelevant as I don't keep them plugged in overnight
Author again, “I question the whole premise of the article”

What? You got tripped up on my wording, sorry. But the article's premise is valid, and it's not cool that the top comment on this submission for its first three hours on HN has totally lacked curiosity and come to a sensationalist conclusion. Do you have any actual problems with the article? Could you list them? (You responded to others but not my previous comment)
Not me, but I have been looking for a self-hosted CDE; anyone have experience with Eclipse Che they would share?
I'm personally excited about LLMs becoming more number-fluent for regression tasks, e.g. read this paper and give it a grade 0-100
Question from an Australian(ish) here.

If you Americans buy a house with an 8% mortgage today, can you remortgage in the future if/when the rate drops. Is the buy-out penalty of remortgaging somehow higher than just selling / repurchasing?

Do people get locked into higher mortgage rates for long periods of time that are uncompetitive is my question. Is there a significant downside? Is 30-year fixed normal in the states?

30-year fixed rates don't exist in Australia. You'll get a 5 year fixed rate from ~6% or so, that's about it.
> Legacy auto gave up their UI to Google and Apple, they gave up a lot of value

Define "value".
I love this question-- my "normal" view is a circle with December on the right (3 o'clock), and the year going counter-clockwise. I have some vague memory of a calendar laid out in this way, and it's colored my mental image ever since.

Another cool thing I've noticed is that my visual perspective of the year shifts with the year. During the first quarter, I view the circle from outside the Q1 portion of the ring with the distinct understanding that I'm viewing it "upside down". And as the months go by, so does my position in the circle and my perspective on the rest of the year.
You could equally criticize BBC for talking about the UK implicitly, or NHK for talking about Japan.
Thanks - this will take me a while to digest :).
What Germany did, and they were far from the only ones buing from Russia, was two things:

Buying from a cheap, reliable (the USSR delivered gas since the 70s) supplier of an energe source Germany needed. Nothing stupid about that.

Tying said supplier closer to the West, assuming, rightly so for a very long time, that close economic ties will keep communication channels open. And that the likely hood of a war will be reduced. That approach worked very well until Russia annexed Crimea (nobody did anything about that, incl. the USA). And then it was a potential way to prevent a war (econimic ties help mitigating that risk).

That in the end it didn't work out hardly makes this appriach "stupid"...

And electricity prices... Welly gas is not really used for elelctricity generation in Germany, we heat using gas (for consumers, that is). That electeicity prices in Germany are higher than elsewhere has different reasons. Industry prices are competetive so, and much, much lower than consumer prices. And the latter are important for the economy.
glad u asked for more context! for example, a fertility service provider can use Pier to launch "pay later" & financing for its patients. fertility treatments like IVF, egg freezing are typically $10-25k, not covered by insurance. another example, tiktok can provide working capital to its influencers based on predicted video quality, # of viewers, frequency of postings etc
Then don't buy a macbook, adding ram to a laptop isn't that expensive. You can get a 64 GB stick of DDR5 for $150.
Suppose he did block it in Europe? Some people will make the effort to use VPN to access it at endpoints in another region, and some people will move on. The number of VPN users will give him a bragging point, while the number that move on will show its unimportance. Possibly some number will agitate for the law to be changed, if that was a substantial number it would be interesting.
Even with experiments with just adding additional fine-tuning, we've seen models gain these capabilities!
thank you!! interesting to hear similar pain points from all diff parts of the world!
I can't tell you how frustrating it is to see new cloud IDEs come up that don't adopt the containers.dev standard. It's published, it's open, please don't NIH this.

Devpod did this right. Gitpod is actively working on supporting it. No I one hundred percent do not want to use your coherence.yml files instead.
are you saying most startups including VC backed ones have no IP on their balance sheets?
> This kind of thinking essentially says that anyone whose primary product isn't software should not be writing software

In the absolutely vast majority of cases yes, they shouldn't write their own software. Especially user-facing software.

> Full Disclosure: I worked in infotainment writing software for several years.

I've yet to see one that doesn't count as an unmitigated disaster
https://www.bankrate.com/real-estate/capital-gains-tax-on-re...

"For the 2023 tax year, you are not subject to capital gains taxes if your taxable income is $44,625 or less ($89,250 if married and filing jointly). If it’s $44,626–$492,300 as a single filer, or $89,251–$553,850 if married and filing jointly, you would pay 15 percent on the $250,000 profit. Above those top amounts, the capital gains rate would be 20 percent."
The rest of that was,

> about 1/3 the price of the phone by the time you need it replaced

So that sounds plausible if iPhones can be purchased for $150-300 at the age you'd replace the battery. (Though that does strike me as a little low, still? Depending on how long the battery lasts...)
This also was what stopped me from ever completing the game, even back in the 90s when it was still Star Control 2. I am not really a fan of games that force an arbitrary timer on the player, it feels like a holdover from the bad old days of coin-op arcade machines.

A while back I discovered a fork of Ur-Quan Masters which includes a time dilation feature that seems like it might make the game more fun to play, although I haven't tried it yet simply because I don't want to start playing and realize once again that I'm being punished for exploring and forced to start all over again: https://uqm-mods.sourceforge.net/

At least in Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mass Effect 2 when this same thing happens it's based on a trigger, so as long as you know the trigger you can go do the mission immediately. Alas in Star Control 2 the timer is counting from the beginning so the game leaves you little choice.
As in clear "employee 1" transfer and then move to "employee 2". So in case you get frozen, you only get 2-3k instead of 40k.
Have you explored Magic Wormhole - https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
30 year fixed and 15 year fixed are very common. There is also 5 year fixed then variable, but those burnt a lot of people in 2008 so they have a bit of a bad reputation with some. There are generally no early payment penalties. Refinancing is easy and considered worthwhile whenever the rates improve by 0.5 percent or more.
I see, I had a feeling that was the case, but I never knew the exact policy. Thank you.

Here's me hoping that sideloading with one day be a first class citizen.
Why is it surprising? How do you imagine a rear view mirror would work in a van/truck?
Yes you can refinance at a lower rate if/when rates drop.

You have to pay some money to do so, but it's insignificant compared to the cost of interest if it's over a percent lower or so.

There are usually no pre-payment penalties.

I imagine a lot of people buying houses right now are counting on mortgage rates dropping in the future.
If rates drop, you can refinance immediately, assuming your credit score/income are still sufficient enough to qualify for a new mortgage.
you can refinance when rates are lower. The question is when they will be.
There are workarounds for this change now. I don’t remember the details, but there is a way to strip drm from 2023 books. It’s a relatively recent development I think. Did not even require a physical kindle. (I think for a while the only method did require one)
Police aren’t going to help you with bank issues, and the courts don’t care if there’s a local branch or not, as the hypothetical lawsuits are filed against HQ . It’s just not true.
It makes people like OP _feel_ better because they have someone to yell at, but it doesn’t help.
Related earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37931893
Yes, you can refinance to a lower rate. It’s easy and people do it all the time. There is some cost overhead so you don’t do it everytime rates drop a tiny bit. But if they drop more than 1% it’s easily worth it.
Little Russian Mathematics Books by David Singmaster (1996)
I think they were just poorly designed. I'm kind to cables, exactly what you said is what I do. I've had maybe one Google USB-C cable fail on me across many phones and many years, cables in cars, etc. But I had two Lightning cables fail. And I only ever had one iPhone, used only for a year or two, only for work. The OE cables were just junk.
I think you misread my comment. When I talk about "piracy" here, I mean "removing DRM from a thing I paid for (or otherwise had free access to)". Being able to buy a DRM-free copy of something is far and away my preferred method of getting something. Unfortunately, those opportunities are few and far between, but I take them when offered. Failing that, I'll buy something and pop the DRM.

In each of these cases, the creators are getting paid. I'm just getting an actual durable file out of the deal, not DRM garbage that I'll hopefully still be able to use later.
Garak is one of the best ST characters, ever. And the acting is great. What I like about Garak is, the character is consistent and yet develops.
Adding link: https://github.com/schollz/croc
There's also an open source version: https://github.com/harness/harness-cd-community
I strongly disagree about connectivity being inherently required by software development and therefore an implied part of the job. To take it a step further I believe most developers would benefit from being offline some parts of the day, unless some exceptional circumstances make that unproductive.
> i dont consider "not using a database" as a "best practice".

Neither does the GP. In fact that's the point of the comment you replied to - not using a database despite using one being considered a best practice.
As opposed to getting a bit of hair/dead skin from you, they rather hack into some digital system?
This is Andreas Olofsson at ZA, ama...
What's interesting to me remembering this is that back then, even that late into Google's life, Google had enough people to actually be pissed off about this and try doing something about it. Google of today? I have the sense that management would just shrug its shoulders and let the violating by any nation-state-backed group that pleases continue.
Very cool thanks for doing this. Keep up the good work.
Nokia to Cut Up to 14,000 Jobs to Lower Costs in Weak Market
Unfortunately, the parent commenter is making huge leaps of logic and exaggerating the results of various studies. The Reddit source they linked to is from a telehealth medical provider who has invented a new condition and named it after himself. Skimming his writings gives strong pseudoscience / alternative medicine vibes.

For example, Cushing's syndrome is a disorder of extreme excess cortisol. The incidence is estimated to be somewhere between 1 in 100,000 and 1 in 26,000. In other words, it's an extremely rare condition. Suggesting that a congenital form of Cushing's syndrome is behind Alzheimer's wouldn't make sense.

There's a trend in alternative medicine to take a large collection of studies, reduce them to overly simplistic this-causes-that links, then to string them all together to generate misleading conclusions.

In this case, the comment is trying to claim that lifestyle factors combined with an extremely rare 1-in-100,000 condition from birth results in a set of hormonal changes that lead to damage to the insulating layer around your nerves. It's extreme speculation, not indicative of the actual science.

In general, be wary of anyone who claims to have solved complex medical conditions like Alzheimers that are still elusive to actual researchers. I hope it goes without saying that a random Hacker News commenter hasn't figured out what countless researchers have been working on for decades.
If you click anywhere on Google Maps it enters the address as a search query request.
ECB starts preparation for digital euro in multi-year project
Problem with this is it means you are giving money to providers that sell with DRM, that restricts the rights of those not technical enough to circumvent it.

Piracy is more ethical than buying DRM media.
One solution to mitigate malverising is as transparency. Each as should contain the legal contact details (company name, country) of the advertiser. It does not solve the issue fully, but consumers will surely avoid East European suspicious companies advertising. It will also make it easier for the security researchers to track down bad actors and will bring some liability to the ad platform (Google).

Facebook already does this for political ads, so it is doable.
Edit: it seems like archive.is is unable to archive this article. Sorry.
For individual play, exploration, and edification certainly do it, but sharing such software is careless. Consider keeping it to yourself, otherwise label it clearly for what it is: an experiment, a joke, or a personal challenge. Otherwise it clutter the ecosystem, divert newcomers from battle tested tools, poses security threats, deludes perception of quality by sending message that thoroughness and quality control aren't essential, diverts community to spent time on "useless" projects instead of addressing real-world challenges.
4k video isn’t exactly quick to transfer over Bluetooth
Have you ever created a GUI interface in Visual Basic, and seen if you could track an IP address?

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU for the younguns)
This seems like hyperbole.

I'm not particularly worried about Google stealing my credit card number and making fraudulent purchases. But I am worried about criminal organizations doing this.

There's so much FUD on HN about big tech companies, but I'm skeptical that their wickedness actually lives up to the hype. I suspect it is more of a clickbait miasma (journalists hate Google because they took revenue from the media industry) than anything based in fact. Google provides free and useful products (Google Search, Gmail, Android) to people across the world. Billions of people use this stuff voluntarily -- why?

If Google is "about as user hostile of an organization as there has ever been", it should be easy for you to come up with at least 3 examples off the top of your head (no searching for "14 ways Google is evil" listicles) of them being at least as nasty (on a per capita basis relative to the population of people they have relationships with) as the literal mafia. It should be no trouble at all. So, could you please do that for me?
Reimplementing classic games (Pong, Tetris, Snake) sits at a great spot along the effort-to-reward curve.
The four different types of ML Systems
You can also make kefir with fruity water if you’re not into animal products.
[dupe]

Large piped thread over here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37911989
I love how people just skim over the situation and are like no DRM no DRM! without asking why DRM exists. It exists because of me. To eliminate DRM you have to deal with people like me who very much exist. A discussion is worth more than lying to yourself and voting me down. Plenty and I mean plenty of people responding and reading this thread is Exactly like me.
People eating is not a software problem, it's a capitalism problem. Code just sits on a server, and in 99% of circumstances the costs of retrieving or modifying it is negligible enough to copy it.

What you're describing is where the interests of commercial users and free contributors diverge. When that doesn't align, commercial users have to tow the line. If they can't make that work, that's not Open Source's fault.
I would think in most cases some sort of lock would be fine - whether that's switching to a getty, calling xscreensaver/gnome-screensaver/whatever, or whatever your platform's equivalent is.
It's still painful. Maybe it's improved, but my day-in/day-out with it is horrible.