skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Super Hot like they were named in Japan in the early 90s
How is it an effective loss (or gain) if they have not sold the asset (which they are currently living in)?
I’ve been living in Quartzsite, AZ, for the last 3 months, and we don’t even have a Walmart. The closest one is a 45-minute drive away.
Adjustable Rate Mortgages destroyed a lot of people’s wealth in the US back in the housing bubble. I don’t know if the laws are supportive of borrowers in the UK, but in the States ARMs have a bad reputation that they probably won’t shed for 2-3 generations.
The original social contract was we'd all pretend we couldn't trivially copy and reproduce "their" works so they could make some money for a decade or so and then their works would enter the public domain.

When's the last time your culture entered the public domain?

I grew up watching films like Star Wars and Home Alone, playing Super Nintendo and PlayStation games. All these corporations have already made a million fortunes off of these things. When is all this stuff gonna become public property?

What about the public? They couldn't give less of a fuck about the public. They don't even care enough to fulfill their end of the bargain which was agreed upon when this copyright nonsense was created. Oh look, our property's about to become public? Better lobby the government and get them to extend the terms. Just pull the rug from under everyone, just move the goalposts, they won't even notice.

They use their fortunes to systematically rob us of our public domain rights. Yes, rights. We have rights to "their" works which they actively deny. They're literal robber barons. Therefore copyright infringement is a moral imperative. We should all stop pretending that copyright exists because the reality is it doesn't, it's completely made up and unenforceable and there's absolutely no reason anyone should recognize it as a legitimate law. Copyright infringement is civil disobedience and morally justified.

This AI stuff is exactly what we need. It's world changing technology. It's subversive. It gives me hope.
J.A. Bayona's Harrowing Andes Survival Thriller Is a Triumph
I can't think of any other example than the Linux kernel; and even then, plenty of people neglect to mainline their drivers.
I would 100% spend an unreasonable amount of time looking at a website that did wind tunnel testing on paperweights.
Home builders operate on borrowed money so high interest rates push up their costs significantly. Worse still, with rates expected to slowly come down they’ll be selling into a market where house prices are likely lower (in real terms). Neither are really connected to how hard it is to build housing (though yes it’s too hard).
We’re in the same boat. We live in an apartment building in a neighborhood we love. Recently, a larger apartment in our building came onto the market. The seller is desperate to offload and the size would really suit our family’s long term needs. However, the double whammy of the loss we’d take selling our unit while paying a higher mortgage at a higher interest rate is just too much to stomach.
U.S. National Park Service API
> Typically yes. There are mortgages that penalize you for paying them off early, but the conventional wisdom is to avoid those.

And these clauses were largely made illegal by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.
It's good as a bluetooth presentation remote, sharing QR codes or NFC contact info at conferences, and jiggling your mouse so your VPN connection doesn't die when your laptop locks up. It was handy around the house over the holidays too (https://some-natalie.dev/blog/flipper-at-home/).

It's a decent multitool. :-)
28% of the Canadian economy is real estate. China’s peak was 22% and people been talking nonstop about how unsustainable it was. Canada is absolutely fucked imo
I agree that this happens, but it’s just a fact of life. We are all born different and those differences make us more or less suited to certain jobs.

I can never be a professional basketball player because I wasn’t born with the right genetics for it. Some neurodivergent traits might make jobs in management or public communication difficult or impossible, but they could be a boost for other kinds of work like programming and research.
So you just take the liberty to turn off someone elses devices in someone elses establishment? That's... questionable.
There was this:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/possible-dinosaur...

but it's been pretty quiet afterwards.
> And if the rate goes up, the banks swallow the losses.

Aren’t the mortgages ultimately guaranteed by the European Central Bank? No actual interest risk for the banks.
> The good news is rates are slowly heading down

Interest rates or the inflation rate?

Interest rates haven't started heading down yet, whilst inflation rates are easing, they're still higher than desired.

https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/fomc-meeting-federa...
We’ve refinanced our previous house 4 times, between 2010 and 2013, bringing the rate down from 5.75% to 3.625%.

We did it as soon as the rate dropped another 0.5%.
> I think we can agree that businesses have the right to "fire" their customers, for (pretty much) any reason try like.

Unless of course the business is subject to a contract which prohibits firing customers for that reason. For instance, if it uses the words

> You may not impose any further restrictions on the recipients' exercise of the rights granted herein.

then no, they certainly don't have the right to fire customers for exercise of the rights granted therein.

(your next few paragraphs say the same thing in different words, so I'm going to skip them)

> It's hard really to see how one can mandate an OSS company to -have- to do business with "any customer" when the moral-principle-premise is so high in OSS.

I don't know what you mean by "moral-principle-premise", so forgive me if this isn't what your saying, but I think it's really easy to see how one could mandate that RH honor the GPL; if they retaliate against a customer for using their rights, then RH no longer has a license to use GPL software and get to be sued into oblivion. This would be much like how employees are protected against retaliation under assorted circumstances; you can fire an employee who alleged sexual harassment, but that had better not be the reason and you'd better have a very good paper trail to prove as much.
Somewhat related to the children's book idea. I've received a Postgres coloring book from an Azure event.
I am glad that I only encountered this after reading the book series that starts with the Three Body Problem.
exams /s
GreatFET One
"Runners?" I've been working in software development for a long time, and currently write mobile apps... but I've never heard this term.

Now hurry and flag this totally innocuous observation again.
That’s tautological though. Rock bottom will always be right before it goes up because that’s what rock bottom means. That doesn’t mean we know when it will go up.
The blood oximeter has been in the Apple Watch for a couple years now it’s just since they stop selling old models once the new one is released is why you’ll read it only affects the two latest models.
If you're male and an absolute beginner (as sitting in a chair all day implies), you can gain significant muscle mass with just 90 minutes a week of strength training.

Can confirm, almost 3 year ago I started lifting and carrying around a weight. I started with a bit under 8 lbs and I lift 32 lbs now, and I've gained about 10 lbs of muscle mass and doubled my upper body strength.

Mind you, it hasn't helped with weight loss. Eating her left overs has resulted in my gaining another 10 lbs of fat. :-(
Or just one of the hundreds of equally capable reasonably priced phones.
> hmmmmm

I said it that way on purpose! Of course I haven't read the majority of anarchist writing, because all the anarchist writing I did read had this same fatal flaw that made it uninteresting. It'd be crazy to keep reading.
No worse than here. ;-)

But not trusting anything you read is a very convenient way of denying the existence of any complaints. How else would you tell?
I'm just talking about that scrumptious little contest winner.

For example, not wanting to fudge around with allocation while iterating is palpable to anyone who can read C.

That contest winner probably squeaks by. But perhaps on the flip side, any memory allocation that takes place while looping over bytes gets flagged for further review? I don't have the numbers but it seems like a lot of security bugs in C have lived there.

Maybe the compiler blocks until you email it your pair programmer and they ACK back... :)
Of course not. Just as use of GPL software isn't a right. Stop using copyleft software and you won't have to worry about those licenses giving your customers rights.
Well, we already have avian dinosaurs everywhere. Just start breeding them with an eye toward creating non-avian dinosaurs eventually.
> What could "value their families first and foremost" possibly mean if the love a family member has for a friend-- and vice versa-- doesn't end up deeply affecting the bond the rest of the family has with that same person

We have many close family friends, since we immigrated far from our biological family. They can be loved and respected. But they’re still in a circle outside your family. Like, if you had to pick between your uncle’s life or your family friend’s it wouldn’t even be a close call for most people.

Frankly, this conversation would come across as bizarre to most people because it’s so obviously true. I think the only reason this fallacy exists is this western individualist yearning for complete self determination. This desire to transcend relational networks imposed by birth and believe that relationships built on choice can be as strong.
The upside is typically that variable rates are typically lower by one percent or more - for example, my local CU is quoting 6.875% today for a 30 year fixed but 5.5% for a 5/1 arm. But that variability and sudden change in payment when the rate adjusts was apart of what caused the '08 mortgage crisis (played a part in people being unable to afford the higher payments and being foreclosed on).
I have 3 foil party balloons still inflated after 2 months and 3 days. I left them by the window as heat from the sun provides kinetic energy to the helium atoms to improve the balloons longevity. These three balloons have provided me with enough joy to keep me inside staring at them all day not outside at risk of injury which ultimately leads to an unnecessary MRI.
Could someone provide more context on what a “candy cab” machine is and why this pretend game was necessary?
"before you work out all kinks and merge the staging branch back into main"

Working out all kinks on an isolated branch is very hard to do. You need to integrate to hear the screams of the team you never expected your change would affect. So your choice is to integrate commit by commit on trunk, or to wad it all up into a single waterfall release from your branch to trunk, and then spend hours/days bisecting to find which commit caused the screams.

As jozzas said, feature flags enable your code to safely lurk on trunk before it's functional.
It's wild to me that folks seem to be unable to figure out how to fix rot at large companies when this is such a toxic set of trials for selecting people to put in power
A worthwhile read about historic oddities with arcade games.
If you shouldn’t have to pay more in property tax, then why should you be a me to realize corresponding gains on the sale price, above inflation? After all, that has very little to do with whatever the owner does in HCOL areas, but is instead drive by the total economic activity that occurs around them. Home ownership is also meaningless if more and more people are locked out of it based on the premises of “fuck you I got mine (20 years ago)”.
The existence of this product inflates prices, making it difficult for people to buy except with a 30 year mortgage.

The real winners are those who own before the government enforces new price inflation policies on the market. (The only reason we have 30 year fixed mortgages is because of government intervention in the market.)
There's no limit to how long we can have low unemployment, and no rule that recessions have any particular temporal spacing or severity. All we can see from your chart is that occasionally there is a recession, that these are spaced unpredictably in time but usually no longer than 2 decades apart (but sometimes only a few years apart, and plausibly it could be longer), and then unemployment rises from wherever it happens to be. But that doesn't mean the recession is caused by either low unemployment directly or by the causes of low unemployment, or that the recession is at all predictable from unemployment data.
Normality isn’t some mask it’s what you get from reasonably typical genetics and reasonably typical environments. Most people have something unusual about them, and the existence of such divination is completely normal because there’s so many different criteria. Similarly, the vast majority of 90 year olds have multiple significant health issues even if there isn’t a specific issue that’s nearly as universal.

It’s therefore normal for people to speak at least one language even if no specific language is universal.

PS: Humans aren’t herd animals, we’re social animals but there’s many kinds of social species. Ants, wolves, gorilla, and prairie dogs all have very distinct social structures from each other while cows, elk, etc have quite a lot in common with each other.
Less than 1% of single family homes are bought by institutional investors. Post pandemic they’ve actually been selling more than buying
There's some interesting research going on using hydrogen instead of helium for radiosonde launches. The arctic ARM site has been using it for a few years:

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-helium-hydrogen-weather-balloo...

Overheard that the hydrogen dangers aren't as bad when something less compressive is used for the balloon, so a non-flex fabric instead of latex.
Is this really the case? I would think there would be a mobile app interface for flipper?
The little link there explains it. The board was included for free with the hardware so that you can confirm that it's working. But the arcade operator will immediately replace it with an actual game.
I've never heard Shake it off. I listen mostly to YouTube, which never recommends her. Maybe she's more Apple/Spotify? I would think I'd hear a song of her around town some where. I don't know what she sounds like, so I don't know if I'd recognize her voice. At this point, I think I'll remain ignorant of Ms Swift in case she is a psyop lol
How we can make drag and drop better for the web [video]
Sharing some ideas of mine on how we can safely evolve drag and drop in browsers to make it easier for engineers to work with, and more delightful for end users
I can't believe it is [current year] and we're still hearing about the helium crisis.
Untrusted? They're from RedHatSourceDumps.onion! A few years back, my mate in Contoso gave me some sources a few years back, and they were identical to the ones that showed up on RHSD the next day; I don't know anyone who's ever noticed a bit out of place. Why would they choose today to start injecting malware, when somebody would raise the alarm within a week?

Back in the real world: binary RPM packages are cryptographically signed, and I'm pretty sure source packages are as well. Who needs provenance when you can blindly assume that nobody's cracked the crypto yet (or, more realistically, leaked the keys)?
My US appliances have a tap cold setting, warms the water 0.

20F isn’t an uncommon water temperature for water coming from the city. Can even go a tad cooler in the winter.
> It got there by challenging conventional wisdom, she adds. Most launchpad air conditioning systems, for instance, cost nearly half a million dollars, but SpaceX execs wondered why it cost so much more to cool an area the size of a conference room than the $75,000 it cost to cool their entire headquarters and manufacturing plant. The company brought the cost down to about $35,000, says Shotwell.

https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring2012/feature/roc... (Page 3)
Ah man, you're making me look forward to winter when we can make bonfire potatoes again, by wrapping them in foil with butter and a few flavourings, then putting them into the hot coals for a couple of hours.

I'm in the southern hemisphere and in general I love summer, but those potatoes are a thing of joy.
I believe there's a lot less then the current production rate. The atmospheric loss rate is 50 grams/second, 1,600 tonnes/year, so the radiogenic production should balance that. The production rate is 169 million m^3 or 29,000 tonnes.

(Should be balanced because we're at equilibrium, there's no other significant source, solar wind is comparatively small, and the atmospheric reservoir is large relative to the short-lived human contribution).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_escape#Dominant_at...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium#Modern_extraction_and_d...
Two points, demand can be specific to a price point. More people would want houses for $1 than $10 million dollars.

Short term rentals specifically drive down demand. No need for a vacation house when you can rent. They drive down supply, but presumably the same number of people what to to live in a house
Not if you refinanced.
Come on now.

Can’t? Really?

Maaaybe it’s against some law or privacy policy or mandatory annual training.

But do you honestly believe companies follow laws and policies if they think they can get away with not?

And even if you can ignore that corporations are regularly -publicly- wrist-slapped for failings in those areas and still believe they are virtuous, privacy-respecting, law-abiding entities (rofl) … are you ready to argue that no executive or other employee ever, (knowingly or unknowingly) uses data to run a calculation or check a theory against published policy?

The only thing that surprises me about the above scenarios is there’s a human alive who would believe their improbabl3a let alone, as “can’t” would imply, impossible.
Ruby doesn't have "instance attributes". Instance variables are prefixed with "@". Anything prefixed by ":" is a symbol.

In some contexts we use symbols to refer to methods by name.

Anything you might thing is an "attribute" is likely a method. E.g. on some_object.name, name is always a method. You might be confused because e.g. "attr_reader" takes symbol arguments, because it's just another method. E.g. "attr_reader :foo" defines a method named "foo" to return "@foo". ":foo" there is a Symbol representing the name "foo".
Nicer apartments, more houses are offered as short term rentals. People's preferences adjust. Resulting demand curve for homeownership adjusts

Homeownership is a far smaller part of the 'American Dream' relative to a few decades ago.
I read many of these blue zones are places where folks have lost everything and lied about their age in order to get old age benefit earlier. This is certainly true of the Japan and Spain locations
Meta, Shopify - both companies reject the Agile + Microservice cult
It's not entirely meaningless. You have a place you can modify to your desire as long as it's allowed by the law and you're earning equity instead of paying it to a lord. Quit exaggerating.

California's laws allow for tax to not reset when passing houses down through inheritance, too. Do you feel this is also fair?
> I opened up my credit card apps and scrolled through the last six months of transactions to make sure there was nothing unexpected. It took 5 minutes while I was sitting on the toilet.

Six months in five minutes? How many transactions? (and did you remember them all?) How many different credit cards? How about your bank statements, other accounts, etc?

I still stand by the statement that 10 minutes is an absurdly small amount of time for a meaningful review of anyone's finances, and find your claim that you did it in 5 minutes very surprising. I would ask you to show me, but not interested in watching you take a dump :)
Huh? You were the one who initially replied to me... verify it yourself here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39035758

This might make sense if I was the one who wanted to engage first.. but it's just nonsensical in reality.
I don't think you've worked in the medical industry, or you'd know just how big of a deal HIPAA is.
Old property gets locked in until there’s something to trigger a change. There’s a couple ways to avoid it a good contractor can work around. It’s not the rate that’s lower on the older property it’s the property value. They have a law that limits how much it can increase per year similar to prop 13 but it can transfer to new owners. Makes old houses worth significantly more than some new homes.
Basically a debugger and utility for hardware and low speed electronics. You can monitor the raw signals directly from the wires, simulate sending them, decode digital protocols and a bunch of other low level stuff. They're like a programmable Swiss Army Knife for hardware.

There are very fancy high end tools like this that an electronics engineer might use, but the Bus Pirate has always been more tailored to things hackers and electronics hobbyists want.
> In my experience, the normal distribution of people I have met are from families that have problems (some more severe than others), yet that is the last thing they would share. They feel compelled to be normal and present themselves as happy, normal families.

I think you are now talking about a third thing – "normality" as an appearance to which one feels social pressure to conform.

In many cultures, it is viewed as inappropriate to "air one's dirty laundry" with acquaintances, work colleagues, etc – "oversharing" – something which should be limited to close friends/family.