skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wealth is only useful if it increases the net options of the wealth holder. In the case of housing wealth - if base level housing is expensive - then owning a home is less of a measure of wealth than it is a balwark against the cost of renting and a bet on the ongoing increase in the cost of housing.

If you sell your house the only option is to re-enter the housing market through a different, equally expensive, door. You can't repurpose the money for any other purpose.

The only time it becomes "wealth" is when parents die, leaving their children with a suddenly valuable asset.
Not all humans have genetalia.
Like most property articles it confuses cause and effect.

For the housing market: the cause is high borrowing and the effect is high house prices - not vice versa.

From article:

Six per cent compound annual growth in the value of houses over the past 23 years versus 3% annual growth in average incomes has meant that household debt has had to increase from half to twice average disposable income

That explanation makes no sense. Houses are in short supply. That means that individuals who want houses are competing with each other to bid as much as they can. The amount they can bid turns out to be as much as they can borrow. The amount they can borrow is a function of their income and interest rates. The more we can borrow the higher we bid. The economic winners are those that get paid the mortgage interest (appears to be banks at first glance but is more complex than that) and those that sell a house without buying another the same. Feels a bit zero-sum for the economy as a whole - but house buying and status upgrades are a major driver of our economies.

The original Ponzi scheme. Fucks people that don't have a good enough income to borrow the market clearing price for houses (mostly neither can they save enough for a deposit).

I'm in New Zealand where our previous lefty government made some positive steps towards making access fairer. Unfortunately our new government will probably undo those changes: giving an advantage to the wealthier.

I saw a lot of strange pricing edge cases in my city after the earthquake in 2010 because years later there were houses that could not get a mortgage. There were as-is houses you could buy cheaply for cash, compared to a similar property with a mortgage costing a lot more.
Interesting conversation on healthcare security, shrug
I'm pretty sure this has always been the case and is how the desktop standardization stuff works now in X11.
Some will but not all, more importantly sending water high up and it doesn’t stay there. The stratosphere is dry because it doesn’t retain water not because nothing is introducing water into it.

Heavier the molecule and the lower it stays. You only see oxygen and a little carbon dioxide at the base of the exosphere, it’s mostly hydrogen and helium.
Your comment is entirely factual and fair. Unfortunately the Lennart camp is never here to discuss.
I don't see how it's a more complicated game than poker, which has a huge tree of possibilities at every potential street of betting. Not just in future streets, but also in the past streets that influence your future decisions.
> In the apothecary system, the base weight was derived from the weight of a grain of barleycorn.

My god. So not only is shoe sizing done in barleycorns, so is medicine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe_size
You asked in the poll “are we living in a simulation?” but here in this post you say “computer simulation”, is that what you meant with the original poll? Because I might say yes to this being a simulation but no to it being run by a computer.
It is probably a wash anyway. The big money that bothers the author (e.g., coaches salary, admin compensation) ends up getting taxed as income. If you taxed it on the way in, you'd probably just see it offset with lower salaries and less tax collected on that spending. I don't see a big tax collection potential here.

According to the same NCAA analysis of Power Five schools, only 15% of expenditures go to student athletic aid at Power Five schools, while 22% goes to “coaching compensation” (and an additional 20% goes to “administrative compensation”)
I find the simulation argument is little different in nature to the argument that because something exists, someone (a god) must have made it.

And I think humans are highly susceptible to creating explanations without evidence.
Not your coin, not your nation state
Basically all ice is fresh water.

Ice that forms from sea water (sea ice) will be composed of fresh water ice and pockets of salt water (brine) which generally drain themselves out reasonably quickly.

Ice that comes from glaciation which I believe this iceberg is would just be fresh water from the start.
Could you point me to the printed card deck you used, I assume it’s not the app?
Linux vendors and lots of FOSS apps do collect telemetry, for eg:

https://popcon.debian.org/
https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues

Advertising is indeed much less common but is being explored. There have been some HN posts about the backlash that occurs when it gets introduced.
Never made such an absurd claim, you did by strawman. There's plenty of room for different things. There are too many boards already in high and low niches. That's the point.
It's unlikely to be half of all internet users.

* The 4 million internet users that self selected to answer a philosophical question on Matrix type simulations are unlikely to respond to general questions in the same manner as, say, 4 million K-Pop fans.

* Neither of the above groups are likely to be a good and true representation of the mean responses of the 5.3 billion internet users worldwide.
> The real reason people invest in real estate is because they can walk into a bank and get a low interest rate 30 year loan to buy that investment

This is true in the US but it's not true in other Anglophone nations with high real estate prices such as the UK or Australia.
In the context of Australia, voting is mandatory if you're >=18yo.

We also have very unusual tax laws around owning a rental called negative gearing- if you're a landlord and your rental property earns less than it costs to run it, you can subtract the difference from your taxable income and pay less tax, as if having a tenant pay off most of your mortgage wasn't enough of a free lunch.

A political contest vowing to get rid of this nonsense was annihilated when we tried it one election cycle around a decade ago.
Super cool!

How did you get your son to do Anki? Has been doing it daily? Are you using some Anki app for kids?
That's when you move to the Philippines and retire
I don’t seem to get anything done when my desk is in standing mode. it just feels unnatural, stupid.

I reward myself by switching back down.
One tiny irritation for me on Wayland+GNOME is the lack of an Unclutter alternative. Is there any Unclutter alternative that works on Wayland+GNOME?
You're thinking of I-bonds but anyone can buy TIPS in effectively unlimited quantities.
> Are these the bonds where you can only buy $10k to $15k per year?

No, they're bog-standard Treasuries and, if you're particularly paranoid about inflation, TIPS [1].

Modern currencies segregate the store of value and medium of exchange functions. For the dollar, that means Treasuries and deposits.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Treasury_securit...
> Upzoning or splitting parcels is only really a solution in cities. IMO, it will also just skyrocket the cost of existing SFH which are what people actually want to raise their families in.

Plenty of people will happily raise a family in a smaller but more central apartment with better services rather than a SFH in the suburbs. And worst case upzoning doesn't mean we have to use that zoning capacity - if it turns out people would rather build SFHs (and are willing to pay what they cost) then they can still do that.
I'm personally agnostic on whether or not we're in a simulation. However, some say the "Double-slit experiment" is perhaps proof we are in some sort of simulation. Particularly the part where particles/waves behave differently only when they are directly being observed.
> They absolutely never have the solution and it will still be marked as problem solved.

This exactly, it's the most frustrating thing ever as a user, and makes me wonder what the point of these forums even is.
Pretty good chance it is this DNS issue, or related to it.

https://gist.github.com/ardislu/b2f2b4b439c5da2f7ccb6bb42e7a...
China dumps $21B of US stock and Treasury bonds
Because philosophy, computer science, and cosmology aren't taught anymore. It was a fad for a year because of the big mouths of certain billionaires.

tl;dl: There's no way to know so it's a thought experiment that has no pertinence to reality.
And what about everyone who did not end up in your position. Are you going to claim the moral and ethical victory, or is it more logical to apply the survivorship bias?

Do you truly believe that across entire societies there is limited mobility because of a lack of talent and drive, or is it more likely those societies are not setup with effective merit channels and proper reward mechanisms?
Preparing for big sanctions? As well as divestment from US real estate etc.
I recognized that name! https://sive.rs/srs
Others have noted this.

> Every time a new Pixel phone comes out, we make a whole article summarizing all the problems people have with them. We don’t do this for any other manufacturer. Google has proven over the years that its phones simply have way more issues than others.

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-biggest-proble...
> I don't want to download 3TB of dependencies from git.

Oh you didn’t read the post. Got it.
I fully respect this guy's method but I'm with you on the screen avoidance. Something always feels off about that.

My son was reading / doing arithmetic by the time he turned three and we did it screenless. All I ever did was point to everything I was reading while I was reading it.

And for whatever it's worth as a parent of a kid way above his grade level doing math and reading I highly suspect that it's not that important ultimately. I just feel like teaching them stuff is more fun for me personally than listening to them watch paw patrol.
Mostly around usability and learning curve. I wasnt sure if the post was meant as a total endorsement of rusts strings or just the encoding aspect of them
I've never had a problem with sound clarity at loud concerts with ordinary foam plugs. I wouldn't use anything else when cranking an amp.

Flat frequency response in plugs is nonsense, because due to factors like the Fletcher-Munson curves, there is no correct profile.

Foam plugs attenuating more of the high end means that you hear a lot of bass: and in one way that is subjectively pleasing, because due to Fletcher-Munson, the unattenuated loud sound sounds bass-heavy. Thus some of that aspect of the sound is preserved.

People who are cork sniffers about flat frequency responses should be going to Bach concerts, not rock concerts.

I heard Chick Corea's Electric Band (with Gambale on guitar at that time) via foam plugs. They sounded fine. I heard every note clearly from every instrument.

Most people don't give a shit about flat response. Just about every time I've ever rented a car, I had to correct the stereo from cranked treble and bass, reduced middle, back to all zero.

No two speaker systems sound alike in the first place.
I always get Access Denied errors when using dark reader on pages hosted by Akamai
Sounds like parents too tired from work making up reasons why being exploited past the point where they can care for their kids is actually a good thing.
I think that's because Google teams are failing to engage properly with the community volunteers. When I was at Cloudflare I engaged directly with the external community moderators on Discord and made sure they felt comfortable DM'ing me or mentioning me if they wanted to escalate a thread to my attention (this is separate from them having formal community manager contact points which I'm sure Google does). Google engineers just don't care & there's no incentive structure at Google to improve things + Google management probably views this as "these people aren't paying us enough & engineering time is expensive". My counter here is that I viewed the entire class of non enterprise customers (free tier or tiny customers not paying for support) as a whole class that's 1 enterprise customer in aggregate. Yes it costs some money, but in practice not that much & there's non-monetary value you can extract doing that that offsets that cost.

That being said, I understand what the Google Drive team is going through here & as long as they are aware, the support threads aren't going to be useful until they root cause the issue & hopefully fix what happened.
The author just described the religious life. For me, not going to church is about as real of an option as not exercising or showing up for work anymore. It isn't a real option. The cost of not going makes it a faux-choice. So I always go to church Sunday morning, even when I worked all night, and I'm always glad I did.

The author figured out what really matters, and once you do that there really isn't a choice or a trade to be made anymore, is there?
You get to sell and it and capture the gains when you retire to somewhere outside of the city. It might even let you retire much sooner.
Not if you end up having to help your children buy their house(s).
In very simple language. You had a loan for just under a million and now when you sell you have an extra $500k equity which you can use as a deposit to secure better terms on the next house, or have the next jump be bigger. In the hypothetical environment where house values did not increase it’s very unlikely you’d be in a position to make a large jump after just a few years because you would have barely made a dent in the loan through your monthly payments.

Because you own the house via loan, house prices going up 20% could easily mean your equity going up 100-200%. That’s the key thing that means you’re in a better position than the static house price environment.
> Storing your dependencies with your code ensures you will be out of date, vulnerable to whatever vulnerabilities have been patched since then

I missed the part where having a copy of the dependencies you last built with means that you are required to never ever ever make use of any bugfixes that have come out since the first time those dependencies were committed.
This is from my experience as a parent.

It's kind of common sense that spaced repetition is simple enough to be mastered by pretty much anyone. I mean dude, even orange cats can learn by rote repetition.

My son has memorized letters and numbers at least since 1y3mo, and at 2yo now, can sight read many words and verbalize arithmetic that I'm sure many children are doing intuitively in their heads at this age anyway but just cannot express to adults. There's no Anki involved.

We have a grandma caretaker who has the energy for half a day with him and teaches him all this stuff. His afternoon babysitters are very sharp. Like they're expensive, and I've gone through at least 10 babysitters. They all deeply teach the children they've taken care of, and I teach him, and his mom teaches him...

Are you getting it? This is a cultural issue.

Out of the 10 middle class or rich families I know in my community, by comparison, 9 send their kids to daycare; or the family has, shall I say, a kind of nanny that does not value education at all. These are equally educated and distinguished people as my wife and I. The one exception like us, while the parents are very gifted and the child is obviously thriving, the reason they chose not to use the typical, let's say California nanny or daycare situation, is for an ultimately very rare and fringe reason.

People here are going to litigate these specific methods. Dude, go watch what daycare is like for a 1y6m-3y11m. Do you comprehend what an utter shitbox of a time wasting experience it is, and how 1-2 parents per child isn't at all comparable to 4 children per daycarist? I think you agree with me, but Larry Sanger could have definitely nonetheless set back his precocious children through some very common, mindnumbingly stupid experiences adults subject their kids to for the first 2-3 years of their life.
Made up the term, but didn't invent object orientation. The real inventors were more generous.
I tried to teach my kids reading when they were 3, after hearing about early readers on HN. I gave up after a few attempts because they didn't seem to grasp the difference between the letters I started with. I felt like they just weren't ready.
Anyone feel there is a significant UX issue with the way we consume newsletters?
- I don't get much context from the subject line about what to expect from a newsletter edition.

- Managing emails becomes overwhelming - the volume and clutter make it hard to navigate and avoid constant notifications throughout the day.

- The consistency of reading all newsletter editions - maybe this one is just me.

- Most newsletters have a peak for their best content, then they go downhill. But we still have those newsletters coming in our inbox - because of their weird unsubscription process.
> A 2014 study found that conventional U.S. Treasury bonds were persistently mispriced relative to TIPS, creating arbitrage opportunities and posing "a major puzzle to classical asset pricing theory."[22]

You seem to know things, is that arbitrage hustle still producing?
There’s a counter argument from my physics undergrad brother that I found convincing.

We already do have a law of physics that is relevant here. We know that the information capacity of space is finite and fixed. A centimeter of space can only store so much information before it becomes a black hole. That means that to build a simulation in our universe you can only ever subdivide a fixed pie of information. That means the more relevant thing to ask is if a quantity of information is more likely to exist in the base reality or the simulated one. Because we have to assume that the base reality is not carpeted over with simulation super computers it seems safe to assume a random bit of information is more likely to be part of the base reality rather than a simulation all else being equal.

I think the idea of the universe being a simulation is just more fun
> For 90% of users, it's better than X in most ways that matter

What ways specifically?
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> But what's the point of it being worth $1.5m? Because now if you want to move, the house that you have to buy is worth proportionally more.

But if you move to a cheaper area, say because you now work from home, or for whatever reason you don't need to be in the expensive one anymore, the difference has also proportionately increased.

I also think the situation is crazy (specifically in France, where I live, too). But I don't see an easy way out. Regular people owe way too much to their banks to be able to accept a drastic decline in prices.
In your example, the bulwark against rising cost of renting leaves optionality for the net $$$
is this site just as edgy as reddit when it comes to religion? genuine question
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but how could tax exemption, or a lack thereof, impact coaching salaries? They would be wage deductions, and the coaches salary is taxed as income for the coach anyway.

IMO this line of reasoning doesn't make sense, there are no shareholders getting profits, all taxation would do is convince the schools not to retain any yearly profits. They would just spend all of their revenue to avoid the taxation.
One way to think about this is about how the fruits of everyone's labor gets split, much like a tribe deciding who gets what part of the animal after a hunt.

By creating systemic housing shortages that enable rampant speculation and incentivize hoarding and "investment" in non-productive real estate ownership, we are deciding that real estate owners deserve a bigger share of the output of our labor.

When a majority of the voters in a country have most of their wealth in housing assets, this is merely those with the greatest vote deciding to use regulatory capture to enrich themselves, directly at the expense of those who do not own.
> As of English, we come to funny question here, as in it the mapping from graphemes to phonemes is extremely irregular.

IME, it's mostly regular; there are patterns (pronunciation of "ou" in the middle of a word, "tion" at the end of a word, adding "ing" to a word), but there are also exceptions (plural of mouse vs plural of spouse).

Just by pattern recognition alone you'd likely cover 90% of common English words. Of course, that involves recognising the pattern: "lon" in "alone" and "along" is not the pattern, while "lo" is the pattern ("*[aeiou][^aeiou]e" is a pattern)

They way I've explained it to my toddler is by giving the middle vowel a different pronunciation when a word ends in a consonant followed by 'e' (lace, eke, fine, alone, mule) than when the 'e' is missing (can, ten, tin, don, pun).

I've also switched a little to teaching syllables: 'tr' and 'am' can be pieced together. So can 'tr' and 'ai' and 'n'.

Still using the distar alphabet though.
Mechanism (Philosophy)
Yes those free loading kids need to be paying their mothers for all the labor they provide.
People don't want low end housing built in their neighborhoods.

Further, the cost of development has gone up rather drastically. In some cases, 10x in as many years, making building low cost homes financially impossible.

Then there's the issue with tax collectors (politicians) preferring to have expensive homes built instead of low cost housing so they can collect vastly more tax to spend on themselves.
Yes exactly, tiling window managers frequently ignore applications trying to set window geometry. It need be no different for exotic VR wayland compositors or whatever else anybody has in mind. The existence of a protocol for setting window geometry and positions obviously does not mean every compositor must respect those requests.
It's also surprising to me how much cost of construction has increased. I look at a new house plan, and I consider our centuries of building experience. Is this really the best value we can provide? After all the advancements in process and technology, and scale of resource farming, we now build houses from wood and plasterboard at 10x the cost of a bricks and mortar home from a few decades ago?

Land is expensive for sure, but why isn't building dirt cheap? You could wax about the market, but does that matter if we as a society are this terrible at building homes for our citizens? There is a perversion of the economics, and society suffers for it, but it is still a social problem to solve. Something we could write policy to fix. But we are slaves to the dollar so we won't do anything until the market breaks entirely.
There are other support requests indicating missing data:

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/245534268/a-spreadsh...

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/245524854/data-in-go...

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/245596891/5-months-o...

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/245661673/disappeari...

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/245407620/i-can-t-fi...
Half of the internet probably believes in God. Does that surprise you?
I always wondered why people store information on 3rd party computers, specifically big tech companies that sell their info to advertisers, go figure...
> If people are willing to pay a price for a home

Poorly-regulated lending means that it's the banks who are willing to lend the money. Home owners pay what they have to out of necessity, not willingness.

(speaking as someone who owns a house in Sydney)
One argument I've encountered says that if, in the future, we are capable of creating a simulation where the laws of physics are pretty much the same as of the 'real' world and the entities within it are conscious, then it's probable that we are already residing in such a simulation, operated by someone else.