skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wouldn't we intuitively expect this to be true? Especially given that wealth accumulated over time and is usually measuring capital assets, which young people as a rule do not have yet.

As an example, let's say a person starts at age 20 now, adds $4k into an account every year. At the end of the year they get 4% interest on what's in the account. By the time they're 65, they should have about $507,482. Let's now assume that from 65 onward, a person depletes their savings by 4% every year. By age 85, they now have $224,408

If we now imagine a world where there is exactly one person for each year along this same path, we have a world where under 40 years old has a total combined wealth of ~$1,096,920. By comparison, over 54 (why skip the 14 years in between?) has ~$11,230,880. That puts under 40, at ~30% of the population at 7.12% of the total wealth, and over 54 at ~47% of the population at 72.97% of the total wealth.

That doesn't seem out of line with what we're seeing here, and if you bump that annual return to something like 7%, with the same 4% draw down, now you're looking at a split of 4.1% of the wealth vs 80.2%

And this doesn't account for other forms of wealth like property ownership or even business ownership. It's just a basic investment account.
He raised the alarm, but... I scanned it with VirusTotal. Nothing. Should I post the CRC so you guys can verify that its the very same binary?
I second https://css-for-js.dev/ by Josh Comeau! Josh does an excellent job at tying seemingly disparate concepts together. If you're interested in advanced animations, https://frontendmasters.com/courses/css-animations/ is really good!
After WWII, the US government made it a point that returning service members needed a place to stay and so they subsidized the building of homes across the country. If landlords have decided as a bloc that they need to gouge the living crap out of their tenants, then the government should step in and either put in price controls or spend a few hundred billion a year to subsidize new housing. If we can throw $50B at Israel and $60B at Ukraine, then we can spend $100B on homes for our citizens.
If we grind down humans into fine dust, we could fit trillions of people into San Francisco.
Same. I tried a bunch of alternatives over the years. Dropbox, Syncthing,...

Unison is easy and consumes 0 resources in the background. It won't drain your battery scanning your folders for changes because there's more files and folders than you can get notified for by your OS.

`unison -auto` on the command line is all you need to get a convenient list of changed files and whether you want to sync them.

I have all my systems set up to sync with a low power mini PC that runs some other services.

Hasn't ever failed and deals with lots of small files and big files and everything in between without hickups or surprises.
The language and all the libraries are open source. The storage layer API is open-source as well though the implementation is proprietary, as is the implementation of other parts of Unison Cloud (like the part that actually hosts your Unison code on AWS).
Our ADHD might actually be an advantage for meditation. Just not in the pop-culture mediation format that is commonly used here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvuVhCIQgfQ
I just started dabbling with Nix a couple weeks ago, and I'm loving the declarative style configuraation. Switch to unstable version, switch back, try a new windowing environment and revert when I don't love it. You get grub menu items that let you boot into a rootfs of older configurations. Pretty slick!
I looked this up. Raichik's tweet links to a blog post. The first paragraph ends with "And kids were reportedly present."

Further down, there are pictures of the event with the caption:

> Feel free to take a look at other photos from the drag show fundraiser, where at least one child is pictured.

Based on this, I don't think it's a slam-dunk case of her lying. It's possible that a child was present at some point but not for the spanking.
Related:

Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30545544 - March 2022 (9 comments)

Memorizing a programming language using spaced repetition software (2013) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21481461 - Nov 2019 (43 comments)
This isn't related to the linked page, but taking a quick look at your noisli.com homepage, I'm fairly certain there are some low hanging accessibility issues you could address. Off the top of my head:

- Your text on that background colour does not provide enough contrast, my guess is that it won't pass WCAG AA requirements

- Keyboard navigation using Tab causes focus to jump down the page's content, skipping its navigation and CTA links

You can use extensions such as "axe DevTools" and "Accessibility Insights for Web" to run some quick automated tests to uncover more issues.
Honestly, that would be great, because we could eventually reverse that connection, and take over heaven.
> For UB there is at least runtime diagnostic.

I have no idea what you mean by this. A couple types have diagnostics, but so do overflow and wrapping. Most don't. In general, it's much easier to have runtime diagnostics for arithmetic than for UB.

I guess if I squint and "silent" implies you're not allowed to install diagnostics, then it's worse? But that's so artificial of a comparison as to be silly.
Yep, I'm fighting this battle at the moment. I got the required 3 sales, but then they rejected me a few days later. From the rejection email "Your website/app did not meet our content standards as the content on your site is insufficient."

There's clearly precedent as I know Jeremies diskprices qualifies. Fingers crossed that Amazon play fair...
Companies (not banks) that can now settle payments almost in real-time rather than wait a day to confirm that the payment has been received makes them more competitive global-economy wise.
The vast majority of Toyota hybrids cannot be powered by electricity from the grid. I'd say that's a significant difference.
Sounds good to me, but I don't think that such cars are legal in the US any more.
> If in those cases, altering brain state creates/affects behavior and mental states, then there isn't really a place for a non-physical-stuff consciousness.

This does not follow. The altering of brain state affects behavior; from this we can deduce that there is a correlation between the two, and that there is a causal link between the two. We can't deduce from this that they're the same thing or that one is reducible to the other: this is illogical.

More generally, it is illogical to claim that brain states are the same as mental states (thoughts). There are several reasons for this. One is that reducing thoughts to brain states means a thought cannot be correct or incorrect. For example, one series of mental states leads to the thought "2+2=4"; another series leads to the thought "2+2=5". The correctness of the former and the wrongness of the latter refers only to the thought's content, not the physical brain state. If thoughts are nothing more than brain states, it's meaningless to say that one thought is correct -- that is to say, it's a thought that conforms to reality -- and that the other is incorrect. A particular state of neurons and chemicals cannot per se be incorrect or incorrect. If one thought is right (about reality) and another thought is wrong (not about reality), then there must be aspects of thought that are distinct from the physical state of the brain.

If it's meaningless to say that one thought is correct and another is incorrect, then of course nothing we think or say has any connection to reality. Hence the existence of this disagreement, along with the belief that one of us is right and the other wrong, presupposes that your position is wrong.

No amount of neurological study will undermine this argument. More generally, describing one aspect of reality in greater and greater detail doesn't gainsay those who claim there are other aspects. You can describe the inner workings of the brain in as much detail as you like -- it is nonetheless logically certain that human thought is not reducible to brain states, even though it obviously correlates with them.
> https://i.imgur.com/Bydq6Hb.png

Looks like an inflation graph to me.
For all the ADHD people saying that we are unable to meditate, just know that ADHD might be beneficial in some forms of meditation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvuVhCIQgfQ
This is disgusting, I love it!
I think the size helps, but there's Renault Zoe with an ok-ish 52kWh battery. ID.3 has up to 77kWh, and is still relatively small compared to SUVs.
> This has been disproven so many times. There’s more vacant homes in the US than homeless people.

It hasn't been disproven. There being more vacant homes than homeless people just means that the market isn't clearing, because the minimum price acceptable to the landlord is higher than the maximum price acceptable to the homeless. This could be from any number of reasons, none of which "disprove" the fact that the laws of supply and demand do in fact apply to housing.

As an analogy, there are always jobless people even when there are vacant positions to fill. Why? Because of a mismatch between the price of labor, which is artificially inflated by minimum wage laws and another hundred laws and regulations that make it costlier to employ someone, and the economic value generated by that labor.
Yeah because she has an extensive history of taking things completely out of context, distorting them, and outright lying about them, as well as a stated belief that clear people and organizations are inherently groomers regardless of the context or evidence, like when she accused the Trevor Project of Grooming kids. So even by her own admission she would call things grooming that no reasonable person would, so if we are presented with a case where she is calling something grooming and other people are saying that it isn't, it would be directly in line with everything she's said in the past for it to not be.
And that's essentially the only place you can. So all the homeless make a trek to Vancouver?
Paying more just doesn’t work if a chokepoint is clogged up or closed. Chinese ports locking down, congestion at LA/Long Beach, Panama running dry, Suez being blocked, the Red Sea crisis, etc. It is making just-in-time inventory untenable.

Canada and Mexico have multiple entry points without as severe risk.
The more I learn about SVG the more amazed I am at its capabilities. Realtime updated SVG charts/images is a very interesting idea. I wonder what kind of component model you could build around SVG? If the SVG JS can determine the SVG's document origin, you could parse GET parameters to dynamically render the SVG based on the URL.
Related ongoing thread:

Scriptisto: "Shebang interpreter" that enables writing scripts in compiled langs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39272890 - Feb 2024 (14 comments)

There's nothing wrong with the current submission in principle, but it's best not to post follow-up links [1] as top-level submissions—rather, they should be comments in the original thread, as you did here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39292955.

The reason is that frontpage slots are the scarcest resource HN has [2], so we want to keep them as uncorrelated with each other as possible. When they aren't, readers soon start to complain about the repetition [3].

Not a criticism! Just want to get the word out.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
I tend not to trust CEIC - they have had issues converting data over time periods, which is critical for the NTW as it has been extremely volatile over the past decade.

For now, let's use Monthly Household Income sourced from the Taiwanese DGBAS and in NTW [0]

In 2016 it was NTW 84000 but by 2022 it was NTW 99000, which isn't a significant change, especially factoring the craziness the NTW has had since 2016.

> stagnation from 2011 to 2017 is due to the pro-China president ... That reversed in 2016 with the Pro-Taiwan president

It wasn't a DPP vs KMT issue. China had a stock market crash in 2015-16 [1], and Taiwanese companies were heavily exposed, as China is Taiwan's largest trading partner by a longshot. On top of that Taiwanese companies were already facing the brunt of the collapse of the CSSTA [2].

[0] - https://tradingeconomics.com/taiwan/disposable-personal-inco...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015%E2%80%932016_Chinese_stoc...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-Strait_Service_Trade_Agr...
I usually watch my desktop background or other art. The more you watch an art piece the more interesting nuances you tend to discover. This could also ruin an at first perfect looking art piece once you see discover some very disturbing details ;P.
"Sadly, we're closing our shop... :( The whole inventory is 80% off while the stocks last."

Oldest trick in the book.
Everything about Mojo is suspicious to me. Maybe I'm paranoid, but Modular has made wild performance claims in the past without releasing much information in regard to implementation [citation needed], plus leaning so far into the AI stuff smells of a marketing-first project IMO.
California is even more screwed up with property tax laws which essentially subsidize boomers (who have property taxes locked in based on the value of a home purchased in the 1980s!) to the detriment of anybody buying their first home (who pay tax based on current value).

I live in the Bay Area and know multiple households making well over $250k who rent largely due to the fact that those who bought 10-20 years ago are paying about 1/3 of the property tax of a new buyer today (even setting aside interest rates).
Even if you price CO2 emissions in, both electricity and natgas rise - because of how much electricity is generated by gas - and how inefficient thermal generation is.

1 metric ton of carbon is about 19 Mcf of gas burned.

19 Mcf of gas contains about 1.65MW of electric power (assuming combined efficiency of generation and transmission of 30% - if you can provide a framework for better electricity efficiency I'm open to it).

It'd add about $121 to the price per MW or 35 cents per 10,000 BTU

It'd add about $10 to the price per Mcf of gas or about 10 cents per 10,000 BTU

Assuming that 50% of your power has a carbon surcharge on it, we can halve those numbers - 17.5 cents per 10,000 BTU.

So once I plug those into my HP Calculator - that raises assumed electricity prices to 90 cents per 10,000 BTU and gas prices to 24 cents per 10,000 BTU.

The heat pump still ends up being more expensive over the entire operating range - note that HP efficiency goes down with temperature.

So at 40f it costs 35 cents on my 5T HP to generate 10,000 BTU of heat, at 10f 65 cents per 10,000 BTU of heat. Gas however is steady at 29 cents per 10,000 BTU of heat - no matter the operating temp.
I can't afford a bigger ssd every few months
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/02/lgbtq-t...
My answer would be to memorize useful facts that can't be derived from other knowledge. But put the most effort in building up fundamentals that can synthsize most usages.

Arbitrary things like obscure names, weird parameter orderings, mutated inputs, etc are all the sorts of gotchas that can be learned up-front if you care to know them before being bitten.

An example for Python is the del statement `del d[key]` which I find arbitrary and non-intuitive.

Actually when learning any language I usually learn the collections usages early--these would be good to memorize rather than repeatedly looking up and learning case-by-case as a time saving (non flow state breaking) measure.

For Swift it was all the weird call forms with keyword/symbols that move around rather than being additional parts of a complete form.
Guessing ChatGPT and Co are the culprit here. Can’t imagine what Grammarly offers that Large Language Models can’t provide. I’ve never used their service though so I might be missing something.
How? Our industries are being hollowed out. More and more engineering jobs will go to China, Taiwan, Ukraine, Poland, etc. where they are paid half of a westnern's salary and perform nearly as well if not better. This trend will only continue until the U.S is cut out of the equation entirely. Sure we're doing better than Canada, but Canada is the prime example of a country in decline. They won't need to wait 50 years to be Argentina. Same with many other Western countries.
My point is specifically that saying "pedophilia or something" is disingenuous. "Or something" could be completely innocuous.
You hit the nail on the head here. The simplest way to solve this problem is a stepped increase in property taxes for home which are not the primary residence.

Just as an example:

Assume a baseline property tax level of say, 6%.

Primary residence - 2% discount to 4%
Non-primary residence, in same region (county/city) as primary = 6%
Non-primary residence, not in same region as primary = increase 2% to 8%

Non-primary residence owned by a corporate entity rather than a citizen = increase 4% to 10%.

You do that, it should make doing things like this much harder.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/how-wall-street-bought-singl...
Sometimes I feel like I'm staring at a wall in the middle of a muddy field...
At that point, you can get a complete mini PC with a higher end laptop APU with a raised power limit anyway.
For what I tried is like rclone bisync but without cloud awareness. Useful in a LAN context and with all maturity one can ask for. Rare it hasn't got more good rap.
The same applies to New Zealand. Lots of families would own a 'bach' in some remote area near a lake, river, or on the coast. These were typically very basic - what you might call a cabin in North America.

Nowadays though, it's common to own that second dwelling in a city or other built up area.

Just last week I was talking with a family member (mid-60s, about to retire). They are planning on buying a small apartment in the city their son and grandchildren live in. They are not selling their existing house in another city to do this. They plan to use it only while visiting and have explicitly stated that they see it as an investment. They are by no means 'rich'. 30 years ago this would have been unheard of for people in their position.
'Let's now assume that from 65 onward, a person depletes their savings by 4% every year'.

But this shows that in fact, you do need other forms of wealth...at least to retire at 65.
That's too bad. At first sight NZ has great geography for mass scale EV adoption. Temperate climate and distances not exceeding 1000km. Why are they flopping this much? Are there no significant savings to be had by switching away from gas to electric propulsion in NZ? I'd love to hear some Kiwis comment on this situation.
This is really cool. I have a pretty fast BM25 search engine in Pandas I've been working on for local testing.

https://github.com/softwaredoug/searcharray

Why Pandas? Because BM25 is one thing, but you also want to combine with other factors (recency, popularity, etc) easily computed in pandas / numpy...

BTW phrases are the hard thing. There are a lot of edge case in phrase matching. Not to mention slop, etc. And you want to compact positions into as little memory as possible

https://github.com/softwaredoug/searcharray/blob/main/search...
For California specifically, there's proposition 13 which caps the rate of increase of property taxes for housing to a rate that's below inflation.

For areas like the Bay area where the cost of living is high (making city employees expensive), zoning for residential instead of commercial means that they're limiting their future tax base while having to provide services to these houses, so cities avoid building housing as much as possible.
Agreed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39293808
And what happens when we run out of places to build? Or when we build so much it will take an hour or more to go to the grocery shop to buy milk?

Simply “build” is not the answer. “Building smart” would be a better answer. Build “vertically” instead of “horizontally”. Build 10+ stories residential buildings. And build shopping malls vertically too. Build walkable cities so that people don’t have to rely on cars. Etc.
Yeah. Sadly the WAF can't solve organizational problems.
Your solution to high rents is to increase taxes?
The problem with Django simple history and similar is they use Django signals and aren’t transactional. So if you have any bulk updates or things that don’t trigger signals, your SOL, and your history starts missing things

A more robust solution would use triggers or an ORM with more transactional guarantees (aka not using signals)
Even if the system is definitely twos complement, it's bad for i+1 to sometimes be less than i.
This looks to me like some real innovation.
I am looking forward to digging into this.

Combining a custom language with a custom cloud,
seems to be something they have leveraged to make
some great strides.
Each publisher account can decide whether or not to show that.
Whoooooa, did not know this
The homes aren't where the jobs are, though.

Who cares if there are vacant homes in downtown Detroit for sale or rent? If you moved there you wouldn't be able to get a job
The 15-minute city can work in the US
Again, that is not the same as claiming the mayor or any participants are pedophiles.

As far as children being present, see my comment elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=39293774
Campfire is SaaS without the aaS
In a parallel comment I ran the numbers - and you're absolutely correct here.
My heat pump defrosts itself under its own internal control.
Based Anna, absolute queen.
I got scammed on a Facebook group (not marketplace). It was a surprisingly sophisticated scam but now that I'm aware of it I see it constantly in every group that has people posting wanted to buy posts.

I was searching for a hard-to-find car part. I asked in the group and got a reply saying "try this page" with a link to another Facebook page that appeared to be a business a few cities away selling car parts. The posts on that page all looked legit, with listings for vehicles that make sense for my region, real-looking photos of parts laid out and labelled, etc. The posts had timestamps that made sense, not just hundreds of posts made on one day.

So it seemed trustworthy, I messaged the group and got an immediate response (should have been a red flag, response was "yes I have that part" within seconds). We negotiated a price ($200), he sent through bank details and I transferred the money. About an hour later someone else responded to my original post with "that's a scam".... sadly, too late.

I dug into the page a bit and found Facebook has a "view post history" feature. Every single post on the page had been edited. The original posts had all been a rabbit enthusiast posting pictures of their rabbits. They had been edited to be pictures of car parts with descriptions matching the pictures. Clearly someone's credentials had been stolen and their page hijacked.

It's unbelievable to me that Facebook can't detect this kind of fraud. Surely someone logging into an account from a new location, editing every single post on the page then spamming Groups with links to that page should set off automated alarm bells. As mentioned, now that I'm aware of this scam I see it in every single group that allows "wanted to buy" posts, constantly. Like, in every thread.
Maintenance, sewer, trash, mortgage and taxes have doubled or tripled. Get out with this nonsense.
tesla fans defending how easy it is to find a Tesla in stock is a new one. grand.
Send me some gift cards and we can solve this.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lgbtq-book-bans-librarian-vir...

These examples are not hard to find
“it’s no secret, we are jacking up the prices. It’s what we do for a living.”

And as with many other ways to make a living at the expense of society - such as fraud, theft, and abuse - it should be illegal.