skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
China's coal plants are a temporary measure until they can get enough renewables built because they don't want to lose all the global manufacturing they do. They will shut them down as soon as they can. China knows it has a lot to lose from global warming since they have so many heavily populated cities built on the coast.
> extremely possible for people to change

American mobility tends to be pretty high relative to other people in the world - meaning Americans are more likely to uproot and move to a new community, even 100s or 1000s of miles away from what was "home".

With WFH the "objective function" has shifted for part of society who can WFH - its less about job location and more about lifestyle, quality of life and cost of living. However, my anecdotal analysis tells me that WFH, while still a strong factor, is beginning to subside. Not so much due to employers demanding employees be in the office but more because theres a shift back to cities after a 3 year trend out of them.

On a tangential topic - here's an interesting Pew Research report on mobility - I believe from 2012. So it's quite dated, but is still a good framework to understand how to think about mobility: https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2011/...
I hear you, it's not a good place to be in (I've been renting my whole adult life). If people can't or are unwilling to swallow that bitter pill, perhaps major shifts are coming.
Ex-Binance CEO Zhao urges judge to allow him to leave the U.S. before sentencing
I assume it’s cheaper in Japan. It’s incredibly expensive in the USA so it’s out of reach for anyone not in the top10%
Well, kind of both. Houses increased in prices until Q3 2022.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS

After that point the 'sale' value dropped, but the interest increase has made houses massively more expensive.
Hah, brute forcing is more complicated than what they even had to do

> Some of them had [PINs] as simple as four zeros. Some of them had the pilot’s birthdate as the PIN, which obviously you can get from open sources.
It's an interesting project, but €4k for a camera without autofocus doesn't seem attractive.
> Nuclear isn't profitable.

Neither are things like public transportation and healthcare either?
An interesting take given your choice of username. CS challenges aside, who gets to draw the line?
I might be projecting just a little bit.
There are a couple of apps that let you detect cosmic rays on your smartphone. (One example: https://cosmicrayapp.com/)

They basically keep the camera shutter closed and look for streaks on the camera CCD.
You can get a digital certificate, such as the idCAT (the FNMT also issues them). I have mine loaded into a smart card because that's just how I roll, but either way it's equivalent to the DNIe; you can use it to authenticate to all the government agencies.
Ironically he is now the CISO for Boom Supersonic[0].

0: https://boomsupersonic.com/
Any whirlpool tub with some alterations to the recirculating plumbing should satisfy this. You'd add a diverter from the jets to another outlet that allows the water to fall back in. The flow rate should be more than enough. You'd want to consult with an custom whirlpool tub contractor to ensure its done right.

While I was writing this I was thinking someone probably has though if this. It's not only autistic people that find falling water calming. The sound and visuals of falling water I think is hard wired in to us at a primal level. So a little Google search for waterfall whirlpool tub and I found some options. They're not cheap and they are the big corner fit soaker tubs but they do exist.
"The arrangement follows loosely the characteristic of the regular periodic table: tools with similar functions in each column, getting heavier as you move down the rows."[1]

I can see perhaps not agreeing with their decisions, so maybe the groupings don't look correct to you, but they seem to have made some effort to be "periodic".

[1] https://home.theodoregray.com/printed-products
EDIT: Something important for the rest of this post. In case it's not clear, the graph is showing your percentile ranking within the group - not your actual score.

Nope, because there's an interesting statistical trick in play. Imagine you take 100 highly skilled physicists and give them some lengthy series of otherwise relatively basic physics questions. Everybody is going to rate their predicted performance as high. But some people will miss some questions simply due to silly mistakes or whatever. And those people would end up on the bottom 10% of this group, even if the difference between #1 and #100 was e.g. 0.5 points. Graph it as D-K did, and you'd show a huge Dunning Kruger effect, even when there is obviously nothing of the sort.

In fact the fewer differences in ability within a group, and the greater the relative ease of a task, the bigger the Dunning-Kruger effect you'd show. Because everybody will rate themselves relatively high, but you will always have a bottom 10%, even if they are practically identical to the top 10%.

You can see this most clearly in the original paper. They carried out 4 experiments. The one that was most objective and least subject to confounding variables was #2, where they asked people a series of LSAT based logic questions, and assessed their predicted vs actual results. And there was very little difference. Quoting the paper, "Participants did not, however, overestimate how many questions they answered correctly, M = 13.3 (perceived) vs. 12.9 (actual), t < 1. As in Study 1, perceptions of ability were positively related to actual ability, although in this case, not to a significant degree." Yet look at the graph for it, and again it shows some seemingly large D-K effect.

And there's even more issues with D-K, and especially experiment #1 (which is the one with the prettiest graph by far), but that's outside the scope of this post. I'm happy to get into it, if you are though. I find this all just kind of shocking and exceptionally interesting! I've referenced the D-K effect countless times in the past, never again after today!

[1] - https://sci-hub.se/10.1037/0022-3514.77.6.1121
The equation depends on interest rates and how liquid you want to be, so it’s a very difficult one to answer.
I mean, you're being downvoted, but you're not wrong.

>Housing can’t both be a good investment and be affordable
Insult or not, well-meaning movements are often hijacked and co-opted by corporations and governments. Women's lib is just one example.

People are often not given a choice, individually or even collectively. For example when Crimea overwhelmingly (94%) voted in 1991 to be independent of Ukraine, no one honored it. Then 6 months later they voted 54% for Ukraine to be independent of USSR, and that was taken as them wanting to be part of Ukraine. Then in 2014, the only choices given were be part of Ukraine, or be part of Russia. They never again got to vote for independence in a referendum, as Montenegro or Kosovo did. Kurds and Catalonians voted for independence in 2017, but none of that was honored. Uyghurs, Rohingya, Palestinians and many others are stateless. In short, people are usually just kicked around by whatever system the governments set up. And similarly with corporations, though it's more voluntary, it's still a system. As a young woman, to declare that you aspire to be a mother and homemaker, is something of an oddity and peer pressure is strong at formative young years. I wouldn't say most young people are really making "their own choices" statistically speaking, and in any case, the choices society has collectively made has led people psychologically to be more miserable across the board, and we are using medication as a way to treat the symptoms.

I could be wrong. Perhaps today's women are actually happier than their grandmothers ever were. But it doesn't seem to be borne out in the data. And I think it has to do with the labor market.

https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/Intel...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/18/womens-...

I should say that the USSR has enfranchised women much earlier than USA, and given them equal rights to jobs much earlier. It's hard to me to gauge whether people there were happier by the 1990s (fall of USSR) than people in USA are today (we may be reaching a breaking point here as well).
When I first encountered this phenomenon, it really annoyed me. Now that practically all of my audio connections are digital, it's so common that I don't really notice it.

Nice when something that's bothered me bothered someone else enough to fix it for me. :)
World population is till going up. Economic growth is still going up. Oil and Coal production is still going up. No sign of a peak to me.
> Truly, economics is the dismal science, and it's wholesale embrace by govt and society is making our lives dismal too.

Yes, I think of this a lot in the context of healthcare; applying market economics to human morbidity and mortality is just grim and macabre. At points it is unavoidable I'm sure, but in the end you end up with unanswerable questions regarding the value of human life. I sort of get the feeling that in that context, "Logan's Run" was basically the optimal economic solution.
Sibling comments talk about living where there are jobs. But people also want to live near family, friends, and the culture they know.

Maybe you need to take care of an aging parent. Or have kids in school and don't want to disrupt their life.

There are a huge number of social network effects constraining where most people live.
Fundamentally this is correct but there are less bad times to do it. In the UK for example, if you have reasonable capital in the bank, high interest rates and collapsing BTL market then buying something immediately is crack smoking insanity which will lose you £50k in the first year you do it with little to no equity return. You foot all the risk immediately.
Of course, if rates are low and money is cheap, max out the loan. But one of the key points of the article was that interest rates are not going to fall for a long time and when they do, house prices will resume their ascent.
Now that is insane. Totally sounds like one of those things that paranoid old people believe about newfangled technology, but nope, just extremely weird protocol design.
That is a TIE, upon which is marked your NIE. There is no certificate installed in it that I know of, just the "normal" contactless biometric travel document stuff like a passport.

The green paper slip is a certificate of registration of EU citizen in Spain, upon which is also marked with their NIE.
People absolutely can choose to change where they want to live, by educating themselves on what’s available in places they previously thought were uninhabitable to them.

Much work can be done remotely, and much other work is done in many different places than it used to be done in, not to mention the possibility of commuting to/from a job in an expanded range as a result of housing scarcity.

Moving is very much a growing option for people, and the data for cross state moves shows that to be the case [0].

[0] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/11/state-to-stat...
Honestly, I only kow this stuff to be a library. I can see some advantage in offloading this to a separate process, so you can update both processes separately, don't trample over the other's heap, etc. (Especially if the original executable can't be modified, as seems to be their rationale)

But it should obviously run in the same container/pod/etc.
Sounds like either you are not in the US and did not have access to fixed rate mortgages, or you are in the US and opted for an adjustable rate mortgage, and somehow missed the unprecedented refinancing opportunities of 2020/2021?
Writing your first one can be brutal. While using pre-existing packages can be super easy the syntax to make a package is not.
I'm in the middle of it right now. It definitely doesn't suffer from pop-history. I also read Andrew Robert's Churchill biography and thought it was excellent. Not quite to the level of The Last Lion, but that's mainly because it's much shorter.
Yes a decade roughly flat per capita but number of people has risen 10% in that time.
Wrong link, I guess
The peak is exciting because it's the turning point, where additional technology and development reduces the problem rather than making it worse.

Its the turn of the tide in a big battle, and we should be excited about it, and not minimize it.
This is a more nuanced issue than this comment would lead you to believe.
"the guy" is probably referencing Allan Savory, check out his Ted Talk about the elephant story. He gets a lot of undeserved aggression.
Here's a link to some of Savory's responses to the Manbiot ("go vegan") perspective - https://savory.global/statement-on-the-allan-savory-george-m...
What's your alternative, government allocation? That hasn't historically turned out much better.

As long as you can mostly buy and sell houses freely it's a market, it being supply constrained just means high prices (which is what we see).
China has also built entire cities and never used them.
The problem in the housing market is land taxes are too low to incentivize land owners to do something (more) productive with the land, like building more dense housing.
Some do, some don’t. Penicillins interfere with bacterial cell walls which ends with the bacteria exploding / dying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin
After raising $600M, proptech startup Veev is on the verge of closure
https://youtu.be/T6JFTmQCFHg?si=cfIs3_mZ9bI_WtX4
What about Steam?
I played an earlier version of Endless Sky but haven't kept up with the recent developments. I agree that combat in Endless Sky is a lot harder than in EV and really is not worth it until you can get a quite decent ship and get good at the game mechanics for combat. The key for me was to start by doing standard missions until you get enough money for trading commodities. Then you start developing trade routes and shipping commodities yourself. You build up a convoy/fleet, monitor prices in different systems, and make real money by buying low and selling high. That's more fun than it sounds, but it is a bit of a grind admittedly. Once you get going you can really make tons of money. This is the easiest way to afford a decent ship (in my opinion). And to me that's when the fun came in. Endless Sky also allows you to own multiple ships (unlike EV), so you can design different ships or even fleets for different purposes (one fleet for combat, one fleet for exploration, one fleet for trade, etc.). But there is unfortunately a bit of grinding you have to do before you can get to that point.

Note that none of this involves the storyline, so you can do this for as long as you'd like regardless of how much of the story you have completed.
https://www.veev.com/

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/veev-6ddd
One thing the government could do right away that would serve to spread out good jobs is move executive branch departments to other states. For example, let's move the USDA to somewhere in the Midwest. Government employees would move there as would contractor staff and all kinds of ancillary business serving the above.

Remote work helps too but the increase in supporting businesses that serve onsite employees is important for an area
Perhaps we need to spend some time working on the mental health of those who bully others. At the moment, we seem to, mostly, turn a blind eye to it, or use “zero tolerance” policies (which, IMO, are even more harmful to the victims than the bullying) to act like we’ve solved the problem.

I don’t pretend to have the answer, but admitting that there’s a problem in the first place is a good step forward.
If it is a "good time to buy" then prices will rise again as demand increases from (presumably) cash buyers or investors buying up things cheap. Unless you mean in minor towns and cities, where prices are only kept up by hope and expectations. Any meaningful "dip" in prices in somewhere like NYC or London and you'll find huge action from foreign investors as they swoop in to capitalise

In my opinion, house prices never "go down" in major world cities - you'll perhaps have a little 3-5% wobble for a year or so, but typically prizes just stay the same for a long time if it is a "bad market". Then when conditions improve they just start going up again. You only ever see major corrections in the xx% range of permanent decreases in places where it was a bubble and no one wanted to live in the first place. You'll very likely never get this in a NYC, SF, London type place unless there is some other huge once-in-250-years mayjor even type thing (e.g. London getting flattened in WW2 etc)
Worth noting that this way of thinking is true in the inverse too — when interest rates were super low, house values didn’t really go up, only credit got cheaper. In other words, the appreciation in costs is not about house value, it’s about the cost of a loan.

But underneath, it really is just under-supply of homes. People are competing for limited housing, but instead of hitting a natural ceiling of affordability, they’ve continued to compete on prices by out-borrowing each other to offer ever-higher bids.

We now seem to be hitting the next ceiling — buyers are unable leverage their bids any higher. I can’t wait to see what “innovations” the financial sector comes up with to create a new ceiling. I’m guessing fractional ownership or something like that.
> Resilient cloud-based applications require features such as circuit breaking, routing, metering and monitoring, and the ability to make network-related configuration updates.

I understand that at different points, you'll frequently run into situations where you need one or several of those, but the way this sentence is phrased, it sounds more like chastizing people for not following the latest fad (the components of which they are conveniently selling too).

"what, your deployment doesn't have advaned metering and circuitbreaking abilities and I have to restart the service to make config changes? get back to me when you have a real deployment..."
Falcon Down: Breaking Falcon Signature Scheme Through Side-Channel Attacks [pdf] (2021)
Funny how back when renewables were expensive, these people said that the cost doesn't matter, but now that public investment has made them cheap, suddenly they're against any energy source that isn't profitable on it's own, even if it has useful properties for decarbonization.

This sort of cynical, tribal behaviour among people who claim to just want to stop climate change is pretty disappointing.
https://archive.ph/sixSq
In 1936 interwar Poland tried to address catastrophic situation with housing market by relaxing zoning law: If you could buy plot of land, you could build a housing there.

Result was few richest poles first race”ing to buy all the land around cities and then build on those plots apartment blocks for rich poles and foreigners to rent units at.

It was post-war communist govt that started building cheap living blocks en masse in ruined cities. Today those neighborhoods have reputation for being some best places to live due to quality of urban planning: a lot of space between blocks and walking distance to services, schools and health care.
guix allows the user to do those things as well. Ephemeral shells with packages made available and specific environment declarations as a file are both documented and mature.
Agreed. My perspective on homes has fallen to "air-conditioned box", and I feel so much less stress this way. I don't care that my SFH in Texas isn't appreciating like $QQQ or $MSFT.

My general rule of thumb today is to not own construction older than 10 years. I look at home ownership in the same way as car ownership now.

It's ultimately a game of hot potato, unless we are talking about transactions via Sotheby's & friends. Homes in the 6 to low 7 figure range are not long-term things in my view anymore. You are never going to get more out than you put into one of those things, unless you are OK with experiencing an incredible amount of stress and expending untold amounts of time & energy fighting market forces.

Making gains on this kind of real estate is mostly a lie. It's the same variety of lie where we claim cloud->on-prem is cheaper by conveniently ignoring all of the other indirect costs.
this is why the housing market is frozen up in the US, until job losses or something else force people to sell renters can't afford houses and home owners have no reason to sell because losing their 3% mortgage would force them to downgrade homes.

Check out Canada housing prices where they only have 5 year fixed rates, 1.3M dollar homes 2 years ago are selling for 700-800K. This is what will happen in the US unless interest rates go down again, it's basic math.
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Sometimes I wonder if Microsoft was actually on to something with their naming scheme.

Something like “Kagi vector search for databases” at least doesn’t leave anything up for misinterpretation.
Right this thing only works if people are aware of it, but the only way for them to be aware of it is to do it every time. This Monzo approach is near useless. The one Sen described sounds quite good.
I don't see how this:

>> You should still be able to avoid a banner by having a footnote below the “add to cart” such as “we’ll set a cookie to remember this according to our cookie policy [link]”?

would count as consent under EU standards. I thought consent had to be indicated unambiguously. Clicking an "add to cart" button only unambiguously indicates that the user wants to add the item to their card, not that they are consenting to (or have even noticed) some footnote below the button.
I said Apple got 1st mover advantage, which is what that means, they got more blind/deaf/a11y needing users than android first. Most never bothered to switch off, because there is no reason to.

> longer device operating system updates and Apple Stores for in person support

That's outside of a11y stuff, irrelevant for this context. Though I agree, for non-technical users, if you happen to live near an Apple store, it's a way better experience than any Android phone when something goes wrong.
What do you mean by "depreciating asset"?

In the US you cannot depreciate your primary residence. Are you suggesting it should be possible?
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What the peak means is that economic growth will now decrease emissions.

There's a bunch of downright wrong thinking that we can somehow stop climate change with asceticism. But we can't. It's not a solution. It can at best do a marginal decrease in emissions, we need to eliminate and then start massive amounts of carbon removal, on the order of 5 gigatons per year.

We need to massively increase economic growth in order to save the environment, because the newer cleaner techs will create cheaper energy and massive economic growth as they massively reduce our environmental impact.

There's some sort of weird religious belief that economic growth is tied to environmental destruction, but it is not based in fact, merely faith. And it's a very harmful belief to actually improving the environment.