skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canada had a massive housing crash in 1990. Housing pricing dropped in Toronto by 30% on average (less in the core, up to 50% in the suburbs). Home owners were screaming for relief. If you bought in 1989, you didn’t break even accounting for inflation until 2005 or later.

The last decade has been Groundhog Day compared to the 80’s. Complaints of limited supply, people saying “these prices are the new normal”, people taking on more and more debt.

To me the most obvious indicator of a bubble is the disconnect between wages and home prices.

Toronto has almost the same home prices as San Francisco yet: 1) wages are lower, 2) taxes are higher and 3) mortgages can’t be fixed for 30 years.

Fundamentally it just doesn’t make sense. Sure immigration can drive demand, but the affordability issue remains. What’s driving it is speculation - people think they’ll make a lot of money so they take bigger and bigger risks - fraudulent mortgages, “interest rates have to come down” mentality, “the government will never let housing prices drop” mentality, private mortgages that let borrowers leverage up way beyond government standards.

I have no idea when it will correct but I’m confident that they will - they always do.
If anyone is interested in the history and an accessible, but deep understanding of black holes I highly recommend Kip Thorne’s book “Black Holes and Time Warps” (1994). The first half of this article follows a summary of that book closely.
FYI, the Australian comment is wrong, WA (which uses UTC+8) does not DST (there's a party to add it, and multiple referenda which failed to add it), given ASIS is in Canberra (as far as we know ;)), it probably wasn't them.
> But at the end of the day, the vast majority of people just don't seek to actively harm others. Everything humans do relies on that assumption, and always has.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias ?

> It's symptomatic of the insane Silicon Valley vision that the world can and should be managed and controlled at every level of detail. Which is a "cure" that would be much worse than any disease it could possibly prevent.

What "cure" would you recommend?
I will bet you ten thousand dollars that spacex doesn't file bankruptcy within the next decade. If you want to take the bet, send me your contact information.
What country, if you don’t mind saying?
This research states that old growth forests continue to sink carbon and as I understand it actually sink more carbon than new growth: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12914

It's not what I had expected. Maybe there's a problem with the research, but I think everyone just assumed that new growth was better without studying the issue carefully.
Seems like a puff piece with nothing particular new or something you wouldn't find on wikipedia
Only the elite know the answer to that
This has plausible deniability on it.

There's better ways to hide by swapping in Unicode lookalike characters. Some of them even pixel match depending on the font.

Maybe I'm out of the loop but is intentionality settled here?
The US Naval Observatory has an online calculator which is accurate and time zone agnostic:

https://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/SolarEclipses
This should be considered self-inflicted at this point.

Russia says it's at war with the West, anyone from the West going there is either a collaborator or an idiot.
The correct technique is to replace a duvet cover by going to the store and purchasing a comforter. Ideally, purchase two comforters and alternate the one you’re washing with the one you’re using so that the bed is never without one.

:-)
I’ve been building Packj [1] to detect malicious PyPI/NPM/Ruby/PHP/etc. dependencies using behavioral analysis. It uses static+dynamic code analysis to scan for indicators of compromise (e.g., spawning of shell, use of SSH keys, network communication, use of decode+eval, etc). It also checks for several metadata attributes to detect bad actors (e.g., typo squatting).

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj
Time is not even an approximate measure of productivity. I don't know about you, but everybody I know gets way more work done in early hours than in later hours, just as an example.
Scientists link elusive human group to 150k-year-old Chinese 'dragon man'
Here's my favorite example of a pop song (though arguably second-tier in actual popularity) from the early 90s that, in my opinion, had some sophistication in the music, if not the lyrics: "That's What Love is For" by Amy Grant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPOe8VKqgJM Observe the way it moves between keys, the chord progressions in the chorus, and the way the guitar solo leads into a key change. Contrast that with so many later pop songs that are just a repeating four-chord pattern all the way through. I mean, there have been four-chord songs for decades (there's that famous Axis of Awesome video), but the classic four-chord songs usually didn't repeat those four chords through the whole song.
Mazda implemented "auxiliary ports" in the fb to Fc transition ~85, the 5th and 6th ports were vacuum actuated rotating sleeves that increased intake volume and duration; this was available before VTEC and Variocam.
The jump from Neuroticism to Narcissist confused me.

I'm a bit wary of anything touching on narcissism, there was a big jump in people who loved talking about their narcissist ex the past 2-3 years. (the cousins of body language doctors via true crime YouTube)
https://archive.is/OJTrt
I was forced to read her book in school, I didn't care for it. One wonders what percentage of her readers read her willingly.
Slack's Mac app release notes [1] rotate a few copy pastes, here's the one that shits me the most.

> We tuned up the engine and gave the interiors a thorough clean. Everything is now running smoothly again.

Yeah nah mate, if every release is the first release where everything is running smoothly, I'm not going to believe it this time either.

Makes me wonder if the team has some release quota to fill and will push a build even if nothing meaningful has actually changed.

[1] https://slack.com/release-notes/mac
AT&T notifies users of data breach and resets passcodes
Previous disscussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38743719 (336 points | 3 months ago | 165 comments)
The US has actually managed to shut down asbestos factories? I'm impressed.

Surely it's good that there is one country in the world that's prepared to allow unrestricted usage of any type of chemical, a kind of vast environmental petri dish, so that the rest of the world can find out exactly what the human effects will be?

It seems that conservatives in the US would be all in favour of taking this role. Perhaps it doesn't even need to be the entire country, but just a few conservative states?

Disclaimer: I live a safe distance from the US.
And that’s why your platform should be a website under your domain name. If I want to refer to a particular project, I go to their website first, and use the link there for the source code. There are too many mirrors repo on github to trust the first username I see. For most popular projects I use, I never care about their github page other for checking the code and issues page. It’s either their docs or the cloned version on my computer. The last project I interacted with was Authelia and I’ve not opened the github page once (if they even use github)
More likely correlation than causation, IMHO
No, usually it's sent in plain text to the server, however encapsulated.
cue lightsaber sounds
Weird that you'd say neuroticism is the "only one that mattered". I'm more inclined to believe that for conscientiousness. I gather it's strongly correlated with life outcomes.
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This has been the best one place summary of the Salvadorian situation I've read so far. I've had some understanding of the situation through Salvadorian friends and a few news articles that tried to give a quick synopsis. But I can say that what I read in this post concurs with what I know and expands greatly on it. I suspect that there's got to be a few errors. It's inevitable simply because it's a one-person summary. But kudos to Matt Lakeman, he did a very good job.
You can enable showing whitespace characters in your editor, in PyCharm they are visualised perfectly well as to not distract from the non-whitespace.
What is it about ipv6 that is so difficult for hosting providers to support?
I can't speak to coffee but fast food has already gone up in price sharply relative to higher tiers of food. There's no room to raise prices further without a lot more people noticing that it's absurd to get a combo from McDonald's or Taco Bell now that the contract (worse food but cheaper) has been broken.
No, not if you have any sane linter or formatter involved. They wouldn't let you get away with indenting by a single space, but only by multiples of whatever you normally use in the rest of your program.
At first I thought the site disabled the scroll bar with CSS, then I realized that scroll bar is subatomic because the article is seven miles long.
I wonder why they didn't use a non-breaking space or similar. I guess it's possible a nbsp would stand out even more.
Ask HN: Taking a year off to go deep on ML/AI
I’m currently working at a Big Tech company in a network engineer capacity, but am not sure if this is what I want to be doing for the rest of my career.

Like a lot of people I’ve been pretty taken with recently advances in ML, and am thinking about quitting my job and taking 6 months or a year to go deep on learning the state of the art.

Has anyone done this and can share their experience? In fact, if anyone has done this in any field I’d be interested to hear how it went.
It's because it's not the printer. It's the print head. The printer is super simple. The printhead is a marvelous of modern engineering, MEMs and only able to be made in quantity by a handful of firms in the world. If you made your own printer, it would need to use one of their print heads, and they could lock you out. If you wanted to make your own print heads you would need to build a $100m mems semiconductor plant
Which non-printing characters are you talking about? Whitespace characters are very much printable.

Yes, I agree that Python should just forbid tabs. As a second best, you can tell your linter (and/or formatter) to forbid tabs (and any weird unicode whitespace). That's basically the equivalent of compiling your C with -Wall.
The circle of desirable things does not overlap the circle of profitable things perfectly, so many great ideas simply don't get made or researched as they should.
That level of sophistication is certainly intentional.
the period right there on the left edge? if I saw that in a patch I'd be through the roof, that looks completely intentional
Unless you're the bad actor, you have no way to trigger the exploit, so you can't really do an a/b test. You can only confirm which versions of which distros are vulnerable. And that assumes you have sufficient instrumentation in place to know the exploit has been triggered.

Even then, who actually has a massive fleet of publicly exposed servers all running a mix of distros/versions? You might run a small handful of distros, but I suspect anyone running a fleet large enough to actually collect a substantial amount of data probably also has tools to upgrade the whole fleet (or at least large swaths) in one go. Certainly there are companies where updates are the wild west, but the odds that they're all accessible to and controllable by a single motivated individual who can detect the exploit is essentially zero.
I agree it depends. Everything is that way.

But statistically ordinary people are not active Youtubers, don’t heavily collaborate through drive, and don’t publish apps.

And statistically, I would expect a vast preponderance of Google bans are justified by the specifics of the “it depends.”
On an unrelated note, this malware team has assembled a great dataset for training AIs on identifying security problems. Every commit has some security problem, and the open source community will be going through and identifying them. (Thanks, maintainers, for the cleanup work; definitely not fun!)
> That doesn't make the set of non-whitespace delimited languages empty.

Well, there's also the opposite: Goldman Sachs's Slang allows space as part of identifiers.
Unicode lookalikes would be detected by IDEs and other tools.

There would be plausible deniability in a different situation, but this is the same author who implemented the backdoor and several similar changes that disable security features. I don't think the benefit of doubt is deserved here.
And/or linters.

This issue is no worse that having multiple different variables that look the same and only in their obscure same-looking unicode symbols.

A linter can handle this. As can a decent font, or editor settings.
Which political theory? I think Machiavelli was more or less right. Many old texts are quite wise. I’d agree most political theories from the 20th century on is pretty much bunk unless cynical, oligarchical subterfuge is your goal. But if you dig deep enough and long enough into the past there is a lot of wisdom. Bukele in many ways expresses many of these.
I have no “contractual obligation” to sit in front of a computer between 9-5. My obligations were clearly stated in JD and offer letter. Seems like you are projecting what ever shit situation you are in onto others. I didn’t sign anything about whatever shit you are talking about or making up.

Again, you are very dramatic. Everything you have said hinges on the fact that “yOu hAvE tO be 100% aVaIlAbLe dUrInG 9 tO 5”. This is not the case.

If there are employers out there that do this. Their priorities are not on delivering a usable product but using other people to make themselves feel better (surrounding themselves with yes people, lol)
I believe this is the same breach. AT&T is just finally fessing up to it
it works in civilization (the game) too

switch to democracy for a long time and it's a mess
Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for the information.
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I built this website because I love meeting new people, because I work from home, and I was tired of sitting on big Zoom calls where I couldn't get to know anybody. Here, events are audio only, so they don't feel like a zoom meeting. You get to have one on one time with a bunch of people, so it doesn't feel like you are just sitting and watching someone talk. You will be connected with a random person in the group; when your conversation is done, just hit next to move on to your next new contact.
Harvard Students Just Won 100k from Peter Thiel. Now, They Have to Drop Out
> She's capable of making her own decisions now, but not when, for many years, she thought it was harmless?

The IEEE is acting now, so her current position seems most relevant. It’s not the primary reason - that’s the technical limitations and general wisdom of using pornography in professional publications – but it’s a good third point. Switching is trivially easy, why not do what the subject requests?

Your comparison with HeLa is interesting because it directly highlights the difference: nobody’s work depends on LENNA.JPG - anyone doing serious work is using multiple images, and there are many easy alternatives so nobody’s paper is getting rejected unless they throw a performative tantrum trying to get an interview with Tucker Carlson.

HeLa is different in several ways: it does things which other cell lines could not, allowing some fundamental research to be performed which wasn’t possible when cell lines could only survive for a few days, and the owner isn’t around to tell us how she feels about this. Most relevant, of course, is the reaction in the field: you know about that because it’s been widely recognized as an ethical failure, it’s taught as such in schools, there’s going to be a building named after her on Johns Hopkins’ campus, and there’s a scholarship fund in her honor.

Lenna’s contribution is far less significant from an academic standpoint but I can’t help but notice that none of the people complaining are actually doing anything which would benefit her – it’s all about personal entitlement to continue using her photo without compensation.
Belgium, the Antwerp port is the main entry point for drugs in Europe, and there is high demand for drugs in Belgium itself as well. The gangs used to be 'quiet' but there's been a drive-by shooting wave in Brussels recently, which re-opened the debate about what to do with all this.

I know the situation is in no way comparable with what's going on in South-America, but there are also well known spots in the city where drugs are dealt openly, people even queue, which is a bit of a wtf

Of course the extreme right is riding on this hard and winning a lot of popularity as a result
Great article, but I do have one quibble. The author says El Salvador was not an interesting country to visit to him.

Based on my personal experience the countryside is beautiful, the beaches are great and the people are lovely. Yes, the cities are "ugly" but I didn't mind San Salvador at all. I'm not the type to seek out nightlife though.

It would be a shame to miss it if you're in the area.
It's not necessarily defrauding, depends on if the person in question is paid hourly or salaried, and if salaried the expected work hours.

An hourly employee (several got fired at my last office for this, contractors who were not salaried) who shows up late in the morning and leaves early in the afternoon and claims an 8-hour day, yeah, that's defrauding. A salaried employee without a contractual requirement for 8-hours at their desk, then not fraud (maybe won't win them points with peers and supervisors, but not fraud).
> Edit: oof, though the stray character in question is inside a perfectly legitimate C string, so to catch this, any such diffs would need to Matroyshka down and that seems unsolvable / intractable.

Not sure, you could also just forbid code that's too complex to analyse without going down a rabbit hole. Instead of trying to go down the rabbit hole.

In general, it's hard to analyse arbitrary code. But we don't have to allow arbitrarily complex code when doing code review.
Also pop is now more global than ever and intentionally targeting more global audiences, and so there’s a lot more to average about.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalcy_bias

Indeed, that "bias" is a vital mechanism that enables societies to function. Good luck getting people to live together if they look at passerbys thinking "there is a 0.34% chance that guy is a serial killer".

> What "cure" would you recommend?

Accepting that not every problem can, or needs to be, solved. Today's science/tech culture suffers from an almost cartoonish god complex seeking to manage humanity into a glorious data-driven future. That isn't going to happen, and we're better off for it. People will still die in the future, and they will still commit crimes. Tomorrow, I might be the victim, as I already have been in the past. But that doesn't mean I want the insane hyper-control that some of our so-called luminaries are pushing us towards to become reality.
Why are you so bothered by an arrangement that seems to be agreeable to those actually involved in it?
A dynamically-typed, single-pass, recursive descent interpreter without an AST
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I think democracy needs a “Deep State” to succeed.

This can be imposed by a time of autocracy gradually evolving into democracy - see the UK, imposed during colonialism and then taken over after independence - see the Indian Civil Service, Courts, etc, or imposed by an occupying force - see Germany.

Without that “Deep State” it will degenerate in alternating bouts of violence until people cry out for autocracy - See Roman Republic.
What management is tripping over $18/mo? Per person that expense is closer to zero than any of a dozen other things we're buying for them.
The box contains everything.
This should be it.

It's by far the best, because someone is definitely "LMAO".
The Windows clipboard history tool works with images. Screenshots, at least, but I think others as well.
I'll throw this out based on the comments I'm reading, it seems like doctors don't personalize medical advice sufficiently.

Glad some people were able to find the good ones that did
I've lived in Guatemala for 4.5 years (I'm from the US) and traveled in every country in Central America, and have had only positive experiences. Guatemala is a great country, but difficult for local people because it's hard to make good money. The violence problems are real, but much safer than its reputation, in my opinion.
I wouldn’t blame this on Excel. Williams was just grossly mismanaged for a long time. I have read some interviews with Vowles and it seems the management simply had no clue how to run an F1 team.
I love unified diffs for many applications. You are right that side by side diffs have their uses, too.
Kiwi checking in ... crossing fingers we're not about to enter the crash stage, but certainly the contrast in the past 2-3 years from property just flying out the door (low interest rates) to now (high-ish interest rates, lots of low rate mortgages rolling over) are very stark. Auction clearance rates are well, well down. Lots of houses getting passed in at auction which would have been unthinkable a few years ago.

Still having massive migration numbers which may stave off a full crash as ultimately there is an element of supply and demand - very very hard to get rentals.
Are vegetarians perceived as being bigoted, especially by lower castes?
Well, yes, I can, but unlike ssh which is open to the world, my VPN is only open to me and the family. It seems like that greatly reduces the potential attack surface.
You can also use `--interactive` to do a lot of complicated stuff.
https://archive.is/ZBIqo
> 1) only having one version of crates

Same as any other library provided by the distribution in any other language.

> 2) mismatched features

Same as any other library provided by the distribution in any other language.

> 3) new transitive dependencies that can be introduced at any time without any warning

Not in packaged Rust libraries in Fedora, at least. Please read the aforementioned link.

> 4) only supporting one version of rust

Same as any other library provided by the distribution in any other language.

> 5) packages being noarch and basically glorified distro-wide vendoring

Packages containing only source is a consequence of the Rust ABI still stabilizing, see: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/105586 After ABI stabilization, Rust libraries will be first class like any other language.
That was a no brainer. Great piece of software at an insanely low price.
If the conditions in Seoul are so poor for reproduction, how did its population swell to 25 million? They aren’t all from the sticks.
You’re not throwaway8526! … or are you?

Admittedly Atherton is like the very definition of a top 1% part of CA
Generally speaking you have a lot more diversity in sound.

Latin pop is much bigger and often is present. Kpop makes regular appearances. And now joining their Carribean music cousins are Afrobeats tunes.
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