skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The presence of leverage means that appreciation still favors you. Assume you buy a $100k house, with a 30 year mortgage at a 6% interest rate and a 20% down payment. You then buy an equivalent house.

Over the course of those 5 years, you will spend $28.77k in principle and interest, reducing your loan balance from $80k to $74.44k

At 0% appreciation, you sell, giving you $25.56k in equity, then buy another $100k house at 20% down leaving you with $5.5k in cash.

At 2% appreciation, you sell, giving you $35.96k in equity, then buy another $110.4k house at 20% down leaving you with $13.88k in cash.

At 4% appreciation, you sell, giving you $47.22k in equity, then buy another $121.66k house at 20% down leaving you with $23.00k in cash.

At 6% interest, the difference between the 80k loan and 97.328k loan is $103.89 a month, or about $1.25k a year. Set asside $6.23k from your surplus to cover the marginal P&I cost for 5 years and you are left with $16.77k cash. Subtracting the $5.5k of equity you woupd have had at 0% appreciation, and a 4% appreciation rate netted you $11.27k over just 5 years.

Given your 20k initial investment, that is a net return of 56.35%. Which is an annualized return if 9.35%.
They aren't the only 'ATI Technologies' that could be involved. For example, https://www.ati.org/. I dunno if that's the case here, tho.

Yeah...Voodoo was awesome.
With laying off the 600 folks involved, has Apple learned anything?
This is why I'm so against the government forgiving education loans. All that will happen is the money will go to colleges, and they'll raise tuition.

Instead put the schools on the hook for the loans - if someone doesn't pay, well, it's the school that has to eat the cost.
I believe Harvard also guarantees some students (from families below a certain income level) don't need to take out loans.
Really cool! chatellite.space
I've always deeply resented this "personal expenses" cost being lumped into tuition prices. Yeah, living and existing as a human being for a year costs about that much, whether you are going to college or not. It makes no sense whatsoever how that got conflated. And that's exactly how a huge portion of our entire generation got to enjoy a four year free for all party sabbatical in the prime of their lives, as the rest of us struggled at entry level jobs through global recessions, for which they now want forgiven on the backs of taxpayers.
I THINK that’s exactly what this product is?

https://www.jetbrains.com/qodana/

Edited: Oops, should have refreshed. Someone beat me to it
> That was the entire spec

To be fair, that's how most ideas start off. Your boss gave to free reign over a new project. You should have been happier than you seemed.
Yes, he is related to Geoffrey Hinton
Looks like a tale of people who've eaten up Elon's hype meeting Elon's reality... topped with an Elon apologist in the comments ;-)

I clicked on one of the links in that article, and this article[1] with a rusty Cybertruck shows up. Geez, looks like something out of a dystopian movie, and this model was launched how many weeks ago?

[1] https://jalopnik.com/why-tesla-cybertrucks-are-rusting-despi...
The same warning was given for Google. Except those people added that it would reduce problem solving ability, too. People would get used to whatever simple, instant content rose to the top. They'd gradually lose some or all of their ability to figure out the same things on their own. One submission here was a tech guy at a school saying that was already happening where he worked.
As long as you have been paid for that "useless" project, you should be happy about it. You learned something...plus..you can showcase that "useless" project on your profile or something to get new work.
So you looked up the paper cited in the article, right? Since you understand there are confounding factors right? Since you're a competent and knowlegeable human, right?
It’s not a comment on the value of the treatment, the headline is just wrong. Saying “cancer vanished in every patient” without further qualification is ambiguous, not too different from saying “illness was cured in everyone”. The correct title should have been “Success using a targeted anti-cancer therapy”.

Btw, there is still research that tries to find a general mechanism for interventions. The other day I looked at interesting work that hinged the delivery of disruptive payload on telomerase activity. Telomerase is expressed almost universally in cancer cells and in stem cells; therefore somatic cells would be spared, and it’s hoped that stem cells would be able to recover.

Anyway like you said, both approaches are meaningful, which is why it’s important to tell them apart.
I'm not here to talk you out of rabbitmq now that you've already added it for this project, but IMO it's worth taking a look at PG notify/listen and keeping it in mind for simple use cases.

It's not nearly as powerful but it can be a pretty good starting point before pulling in more dependencies.
I end up seeing a lot of these discussions and you can always tell the difference between a person who doesn't know much math but works in the field, to somebody who knows a lot of math but doesn't work in the field. Experience and wisdom matter a lot wrt drug discovery and cancer treatment.
All the Jetbrains IDEs have their own custom linter. It's pretty good, but my complaint has always been the inability to use it in CI/CD and to generate reports. The way I read this, they pulled their custom linter out of the IDEs and made it a standalone tool that can be added to CI/CD, which is great.
Would you consider it lying if he made optimistic promises while knowing they were impossible?
On the other hand, hung lines have a tendency to fall down, get tangled in trees, and start forest fires, so the cost of above ground lines is also high...
I think it really depends on what your goals are. If you're just aiming to get a job or make as much money as possible, then yeah I think college is often overrated. But as somebody who took the nontraditional route and is now interested in the "harder" aspects of computer science, there are absolutely gaps where my formally trained colleagues have a leg up. Formal academic bodies of knowledge, and getting exposure to them, absolutely have a use. But you for sure don't need them in many day-to-day jobs or to advance as a professional much of the time.

EDIT: this response assumes a good program / department. There are absolutely subpar college programs that are a giant waste of money and time.
Remember, if you're not embarrassed by your first release, you shipped too late... [https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5039437.Reid_Hoffman]

EDIT: of course, that's a silly motto.
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Guessing here, but I suspect they are referring to the revocation of the enterprise signing certificates used by gray-market iOS app stores, since native app emulators could only be distributed that way until now.

It's whack-a-mole- the stores sign their executables with a new certificate, Apple finds out about it, revokes the certificate. When that happens, I imagine the software signed by that certificate will no longer run on the devices the software was installed to.
Do Kwon and Terraform Labs found liable for $40B fraud
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Here is an example removal (2021): https://www.imore.com/apple-going-remove-idos-2-emulator-app...

It seems that they considered loading game images as "running executable code". So in particular what was banned was running code downloaded remotely, meaning any emulator that could download game images from the web or load game images from the filesystem was banned.
They've already been beaten to the punch by BYD and their multiple cars under $20k. They even have a small hatchback for less than $10k!

https://electrek.co/2024/03/06/byd-launches-cheaper-seagull-...
You need to create more of a value prop if you're going to ask for contact information to generate leads. A GPT wrapper doesn't provide anything I cannot get with Chat-GPT.

My results:

"Thanks for completing the form! Here are your startup idea results:

It seems you've entered 'pop' on all categories instead of including
your interests, skills, issues, and profession. Can you please specify
the accurate information? I'll be happy to generate ideas tailored to
your particular parameters once they are given."
I was at one of SGI's competitors and we had teams doing cheap HW - ATi and other cards, like IBM's GPUs at the time - and yet the company as a whole was like "ALL GOOD LET'S KEEP BUILDING MASSIVE CUSTOM GRAPHICS SYSTEMS!"

They were as dead as SGI in the same timeframe.
All depending on an ambiguous ’Retro’ requirement. Would an out of production device be ‘retro’? If so, then Switch 2’s ~2025 upcoming release would retro-ify many games.

I guess we’ll see soon based on what passes app review.
One way this happened is that schools are including all sorts of useless, but expensive, frivolities.

Why do school have ultra fancy sports areas? Why do they need 15 different restaurants?

Go visit a college - they are basically little resort towns, or cruise ships on land.

Instead they should focus on education, and let other companies do the rest of that, if students want them.
When the taxing authority disappears notes and coins drop to their commodity value which may then appreciate like classic cars if they become rare - as the old Reichmarks have done.
I assume they’re referring to when the App Store revoked everyone’s emulator apps. For Apple to break these they’d probably need to remove standard web APIs.
114k isn't going very far in an expensive city. Plus a ton of people aren't doing great.

For example in LA the average income is only 76k.

https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/losangelescityc...

At that point you'll never be able to afford to buy a home which used to be a Hallmark of the middle class.

It wouldn't be possible for a family making 300k to pay a mortgage in LA and send a kid to Harvard.
This is a great question.

- Why would college tuition decrease?

1) College tuition would decrease if it led to increased profit for the college. This could happen for many reasons including the case that they can't find enough students willing to pay.

- What's actually stopping the elite schools from doubling their tuition in a single year?

2) Mostly the fear that it would reduce profits - for example through bad publicity, increased regulation, or an inability to find students willing to pay

-What forces would actually cause colleges to lower their tuition?

3) market forces - on the demand side a decrease in students willing to pay, or maybe on the supply side an increase in competition for students. Or maybe government/regulatory interventions. Or possibly even a reduction in the costs of providing education.
Wells Fargo has something they call a "digital branch" which, despite the name, is a brick and mortar location, just with fewer services. Like, you can't get change, and they don't have real tellers. They have a few ATMs and some people who must be there to walk you through some things, but overall it's pretty useless. It's one of the reasons we're moving our banking to Chase.
I was hired to design and build a loan platform from scratch. The company that hired me was a marketing agency that build WordPress and Magento sites, not scratch built platforms. but they took the bid from a large company and hired me to build it. I came in and started developing various microservices, and asked for more developers to assist. I got freelancers in other countries who usually build WordPress themes. I worked hard to keep these people building the right projects for months. then I was asked to help out with a couple of WordPress tasks for other clients. More and more of these, and finally I was called into the office and told my project was cancled by the client. They got bought out and was told that they were spending too much money on this platform before it even went anywhere. All my work got scrapped. I believe most of my code has been deleted.
A travesty it's missing blink support.
Apple has been user-hostile on all possible fronts in their efforts to enforce renting model over media ownership.

Some 10 years back iTunes had an option to stream or share media over network. It was cool to stuff iMac's 3TB HDD with audio CD rips and have all this music available on an iPhone or any other iDevice connected to the same local network. I had a VPN connection from iPhone to home network and all CD rips available anywhere.

To avoid confusion: I'm talking about iTunes-specific functionality, not media files sharing. When iTunes was opened on an iMac, all iDevices in LAN automatically had all the media available through local iTunes apps. And then they "renamed" iTunes to Music...

But even during the iTunes era they made it artificially difficult to own own media. One would think (or maybe I was delusional?) that media library fully synced from desktop iTunes to iPhone iTunes serves as kind of a backup. Nope - turns out that when desktop disk dies, one can't sync media from iPhone to the new desktop disk. Desktop iTunes was happy to suggest wiping iPhone media as a sync method.
We've been waiting since holidays last year for one of our updates to be reviewed.
No that's not the better question.

If private universities are truly spending so irresponsibly and profligately that their sticker price isn't covering their expenses, then their entire administration should be thrown out and replaced. It's only incompetence or corruption that could excuse such costs.
Started my career on ATM. Good way to develop an enduring cynicism about industry hype.
I was talking to a college professor I know a couple weeks ago about this exact thing. And what they said comprised a substantial amount of the expenses of their 4 year private college made perfect sense, because it's happening to every business.

Health insurance costs.

Now, add to this:
salaries and other benefits to both staff and educators.
liability insurance.
increased food costs.
I'm certain facilities have increased costs also, from new construction to utilities.
*Plus anything else I've left out.

Let's face it, everything has become more expensive. The Five Guys meal of a little cheeseburger, little fries, and regular drink which cost me $12 4 years ago in March, 2020 (I keep records), would cost me $17-18 today (I checked the prices today at noon and walked away). That's a 40-50% increase.

Why would we expect higher education to not be effected?
I spent the better part of a year re-documenting a piece of medical device software that was going to be taken over by a different division of the company. We didn't build any new code, just documentation. This was originally supposed to take 3 months and was going to be done by a single contractor who was supposed to just update documents with new templates.

When we were just a month from completing this project, they laid off everyone involved in the project except for me. I don't know for sure how much this boondoggle cost, but it was at least mid-single-digit millions of USD just based on the number of folks involved.
> there is little reason, even as a not-profit-seeking institution, not to raise tuition

Except the well-being of the students? Not for profit institutions are supposed to be immune to this kind of behavior.

Also I agree with you that the way to stop this is to end student loans.
Docker and Test Container Waiting Forever Fix
For many developers, testing is something that is taken as something less relevant and is an area where in general, most people don't want to think about. For these people there are always many reasons to support this and hardly any of them is a good reason. When we think about tests, unit testing, regression tests, E2E testing, integration testing or "jupiter testing" (as I have heard one day someone say), we are trying our best to make our application reliable for current and future changes.
The current justification is that children WILL be IDF. So, this would be an upgrade, no?
I don't understand how any of you can see this as a lack of will from police rather than political policy coming from above them.

Here is thorough documentary outlining over and over again police prevented from enforcing law by politicians, who also don't charge or incarcerate criminals who cops arrest repeatedly.

https://youtu.be/bpAi70WWBlw?si=yovLyNLoQzjHmomo

Similar policies exist in other cities like San Francisco.
Consulting:

If you're not part of the solution, be part of the problem.
When you load an app on your own iOS device with a free developer account, that app will fail to open (as in be revoked) after seven days unless you refresh it from a Mac (or Windows system with AltStore or similar).
Need I say it?

AI
Or…

# Your customers hate MVPs. Make a SLC instead.

> Startups are encouraged by the great Reid Hoffman to “launch early enough that you’re embarrassed by your v1.0 release.” But no customer wants to use an unfinished product that the creators are embarrassed by.

https://longform.asmartbear.com/slc/
First of all you respond to my really-existing-things-that-happened/happen by asking about a hypothetical what-about for the other side. I’ll just note that.

Second of all, where is the symmetry? The common thread here is that some countries wanted to self-determine and use their resources for themselves. But then America/American corporations didn’t want that because they wanted those things for the corporations. National-level socialist ambitions thwarted by corporations. Is then the supposedly (hypothetical) evil of a Soviet Union thwarting upstart capitalist corporation in its backyard? Hmm, if that makes sense to you, whatever.

EDIT: I realize now that this is another commenter. But the same applies.
It would be great for Rust to have a Linux target that doesn't use libc, but from what I've read, not many people are interested in this.

Found this as well: https://github.com/sunfishcode/mustang

Some discussion here: https://github.com/bytecodealliance/rustix/issues/76
Salaries are the primary cost not health insurance. There are more administrators than students. Also there is no excuse, the educational institutions are incompetent at managing their finances.
It already could, using tool code and the API!
I recently got into it with my son. I bought an arena starter kit from Amazon and it came with two 60-card decks, which seemed to work pretty well in play against each other. I bought another one long – same result. No focus on the commander format at all. I would suggest that route.
Someone once told me "as a current BMW driver, the whole 'BMW drivers don't use signals' is complete bullshit, I didn't use them before I drove one!"

So I wonder if someone not using turn signals in a non-BMW is a leading indicator that they may buy one in the future.

Shower thoughts.
I’m old enough that any reference after 2000 doesn’t even make me feel old, it’s damn near recent memory.
German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating
I think some free-for-open-source-projects licence or so would make sense here. Or maybe make this completely free? It's good advertisement for their IDEs.

Note, I basically have scripted the same functionality as Qodana for our CI, but using the already existing capabilities of the IDE: https://github.com/rwth-i6/returnn/blob/master/tests/pycharm...

This script generates exactly the same warnings as the IDE does.

It downloads some PyCharm Community version and installs it.

It uses the bin/inspect.sh tool which is provided by the IDE.

The IDE bin/inspect.sh needs an existing PyCharm project (all the XML files etc), so this script creates the project files automatically.

This also needs the Python stubs, so this script can create those as well, in the same way the IDE would create them, or alternatively it can download them (I created them in advance for some PyCharm versions).

But then, bin/inspect.sh does not generate all the warnings you see in the IDE. The IDE additionally runs pycodestyle, and so I do the same in the script.

So, as you see, it took a bit of effort to get to all that within the CI, but now it works and I get the same warnings as in the IDE.
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I think what you're seeing there is Jemisin actively foregrounding and exploring a difficult fact, which is that people who were abused are more likely to turn around and be abusers.

Often times books turn abuse into the catalyst for a noble struggle and cathartic improvement, when in fact that often isn't the case. There's large swathes of human history where oppressive regimes were powerful enough to quickly and brutually suppress rebellions. When violence and abuse are normalized in a culture, it can take a long time and a lot of failed struggles to truly unwind the violence.

I think Jemisin is actively trying to explore that mentality, which is pretty brave because it does make the characters off putting. As the reader you want so badly for them to rise out of the muck and take on a noble struggle, but they're caught up in the cycle of violence.

I say this with respect for your viewpoint, I think you're being very fair about expressing your response, and I completely see where you're coming from.
I tend to agree with you. But things that seem obvious to us techies may not be that obvious to laymen. Also, legal interpetations of a situation may be abstracted a lot from the underlying facts. So if this goes to court, the likelihood of a very bizarre ruling is not 0.
Dogged a bullet for being blamed for something that probably would have never left the ground anyway.

Or, missed opportunity to develop and sell the next Rocket Mortgage Platform.
Yeah, this idea was pretty obvious -- both at LANL and JPL I worked in labs that were doing perching drones and we talked about landing on powerlines and charging inductively. The LANL work was 2013 and the JPL work was 2018. I think most "good ideas" are going to be thought of by thousands of people before they become a useful reality. Ideas per se really are pretty worthless and patents are only useful as a means of proxy warfare between large corporations, I'm afraid.

Ever since I was a kid I've wanted to build a hanging chair something that latches onto powerlines and travels along them :-)

Also reminds me of how I actually built a burrito delivery drone for fun that lowered a burrito on a winch a couple of years before the "tacocopter" story started doing the rounds on the news (early 2010s). It's interesting that drone delivery never made it beyond rural pharmaceuticals.
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It seems everyone uses the term wrong around here - I live in the area and when I had my home repointed, every tradesman called it tuckpointing. Probably a regional thing.
Or they believe that something will happen if they don’t have it.

If I impose a tax on you in Simolians, and I have the power to enforce it by confiscating all your assets and your liberty then you will obtain whatever amount of Simolians I demand as that is almost certainly the cheaper alternative.

Then the exchange value of the currency is down to what you have to do for me to get me to issue Simolians.
He’s been wrong about self driving timeline a lot but do you really think he doesn’t believe it himself? I feel like this is actually typical of ambitious engineering projects, they are always over time and budget and whoever proposed it almost always turns out to have been over optimistic. I have been in this position myself a bunch of times, albeit at a much smaller scale of course.
I guess a fallback career for SWEs in the future is generating some fresh low-background code for the right price.

Maybe we'll get stickers like non-GMO plants for organic code.
This reminds me of the book The Soul of a New Machine.
Gen Z are increasingly choosing trade schools over college
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