skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I doubt it would cool the market. Some would argue the $250k/500k capital gains exclusion kicked off the huge runup in housing prices in the 2000s. Suddenly it was a very tax advantaged, leveraged investment.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2008/200853/

PROP 13 in California probably has similar distortions to the market.
This is unclear to me, I will ask the author.
Not gonna lie, this seems like a reasonably generic article. Many water supplies have these problems. News would be if something new or different or interesting happened. Why is this article even here?

(I’m not intending to be dismissive of the problem, i’m simply stating we all know this already, it’s not news to anyone. How about an article on how changes are being made to work towards a solution, either politically or scientifically)
Because they still make money off ad impressions.
Cool it down, as in, lower real estate prices.
Related:

A 71-year-old Californian explains why she's one of many boomers reluctant to sell their large homes and downsize — and it has nothing to do with money

Eliza Relman Mar 24, 2024

https://www.businessinsider.com/71-year-old-boomer-cant-find...

The gist:

Frieden and her husband are prioritizing accessibility, so they've looked mostly at larger condominium buildings with elevators. But they'd also like a small outdoor space, like a balcony, enough wall space for their art, and a home office and spare bedroom for visitors.

But there are very few bigger units available, Frieden said. Most of the condos are small one- or two-bedrooms without any outdoor space and with modern, open-plan layouts that appeal more to younger people's tastes and lifestyles.

"They feel and seem like they're built for young people," Frieden said of the condo buildings. "They even market, 'the greatest thing about our complex is the gym and the shared courtyard, shared rooftop environment, the bike racks' — all of these things that might not be first on the mind of a senior."
Obligatory article, "I am not a supplier.": <https://www.softwaremaxims.com/blog/not-a-supplier>

Folks that disagree with a maintainer's actions are generally free to fork the project and maintain an alternative -- that's one of the primary features of open source software. And if end users prefer that new fork to the original maintainer's version, that'll probably be the one that survives.

But maintainers have no obligation to make their end users happy.
> The problem is that we won't learn about it early enough for our current level of technology to do anything about it.

And this is exactly my point. We aren’t investing into inventing the technology to do this. Instead we just say “if we can detect a small asteroid early enough then we might be able to divert it” and then count that problem as solved. Even though Bennu is small, we still can’t see the vast majority of objects in the solar system and the advance notice we are talking about is impracticality long.

If this was a software engineering Jira ticket, it wouldn’t pass PR. And software developers aren’t even the most diligent of professionals compared engineers, doctors and scientists. But there’s no incentive for governments to sink money into a theoretical risk that impacts their “enemies” equally. And man do I hate how nations refer to other nations as “enemies” — but that’s a whole other argument.
Lower interest rates are the surest way to fairly warm the market up

That’ll will unfreeze the market but also resume the insane price spiral.

Try building. And not a little bit either. Think Post-WWII.
I'm in awe at the complexity and unknowability of it all, but I also have to chuckle at the thought that some portion may be vestigial.

I'm particularly fond of the "Egg shaped object with no associated processes". :)
Nice theory! That would help explain the Great Attractor. The Universe could actually be a deformed blob of spacetime and the Big Bang and its development just happens to be the result of this blob's movements.

There are rogue blackholes, maybe they leave spacetime deformations behind them that could be observed?
The rising price of a house you own means very little if everything is going up - plus throw in inflation, interest rate, and taxes. If you move now, you are going to pay more unless you significantly downsize.
If your goal is to learn information about a topic, AI can orient you about it quite well, assuming it knows the topic or has access to information about it. To this end, I now listen mainly just to https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/podgenai , although I am also subscribed to regular podcasts to discover new topics.
Speak for yourself. As an autistic person, if I could get rid of it, I absolutely would.
In addition, systematic security scans are performed at the departing airport, and it's generally not a crime to export huge amounts of undeclared cash, only to import it.
Isn't all that the same idea? If you ignore nomenclature and interpretations, DM basically says there's "a thing", opposed to "a law". Like actual trees vs aerodynamics. "There's trees" doesn't explain anything either, but if there's no trees and spacetime just remembers something, that is a thing as well, not a law. Just dark. A thing is a memory of spacetime.
I'll give two series and a movie, since everyone has mentioned Kon. I think these are also going to appeal more to someone who hasn't been intimately involved in anime fandom.

-Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

It single-handedly revived interest in the game for a reason; it's excellent, particularly as a foil to GITS and a spiritual successor to FLCL (which I'm sure you've heard of). The animation style is VERY different from GITS, but no less technically impressive, and while the story is not quite as philosophical, it's still no less complete and satisfying.

-Sonny Boy

Tinges of Nolan, Kurosawa, Carroll, Cheever's The Swimmer. May seem like a slog at some points, but hang on for the sequence during the last episode. You'll know it when you see it. I don't want to give too much away.

-Mind Game

Again, don't want to spoil. I recommend watching late at night, Adult Swim-style. A prime example of anime that can't exist in any other medium.
I honestly don't remember how much I "lost" October 6–10, 2008 or February 24–28, 2020. I certainly won't remember how much I "lose" in the next crash.

What I do know is how many shares I still hold of a broad range of companies with a track record for growth today and how much they've collectively risen in value between October 5, 2008 and May 11, 2024.
me too! :-)
It was garbage technology to marry an SSD with a hard disk in this way. 2010 MBA was all SSD so should their desktops of that vintage should have been free of spinners.
The Man Whose Musings Fuel Elon Musk's Nightmares
Hypocrites everywhere.

Netanyahu’s son was partying in Florida when young reservists were being sniped in Gaza.

https://www.thejc.com/news/usa/netanyahus-son-criticised-for...
You have taken the time to explain this to a further depth. Thank you.

Everyone should read this. The deal is that this is all much more complicated than a short comment could explain.

In agreement with much of what you have stated, please note my previous comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40330379

Regarding PiS, thanks for pointing that out. I certainly voted against them in the last election.
There's already a 250k per person exemption on capital gains from an owner occupied home. If you're married, that's 500k.

Certainly, in a lot of places, that doesn't cover growth from a house bought in the 80s, but it will at least make a significant dent in the taxable gain. And it's long term taxable gains, so the rate isn't too high, even if you've got to pay state income tax.
Our system is characterized by increasingly divergent experiences due to fundamental problems in its design. Self-expression is how we can fix that. Unfortunately many parts of the system are working to suppress self-expression and hence prevent the fix.

Self-expression is only dangerous for the individual who possesses it. For society, it is always a positive. Contrarians are the heroes of free society, this is true regardless of how vile their views are. They are essential for maintaining the right level of chaos to have a free, functioning society. Extreme contrarians define the boundary for freedom within which everyone else can roam without fear. Contrarians are a minority by definition so they are not a threat to a functioning society.

Self-expression and individualism are critical because it's the best mechanism that humans have to prevent their political systems from declining into totalitarianism and poverty. Without self-expression, we get total compliance, an entire society fully compliant to all the whims of the elite; if the elites are good, then lucky for you, until the next regime change. If the elites are bad, then you're in for a miserable time. Not to mention that the people who seek power and who are willing to take irrational risks to attain it aren't usually the friendliest bunch on average.

With self-expression and individualism, society can protect itself against idol worship. The intentions of the elite doesn't matter as much because they can be easily replaced.

Without self-expression, society will fall into one delusion after another... By the time it wakes up from its current delusion, it will be too late, the backlash will be so sudden and massive that it will guarantee that it will fall victim to yet another delusion in the opposite extreme.
Is it unreasonable in your view to distinguish between an intrinsic limitation and an externally culturally imposed one?
If you go on Google Maps today, it works correctly - scrolling up zooms in.
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Until Covid hit, it kind of worked, as long as you sold and moved far enough away.

Now Midwest prices are moderately close to California prices that it’s not as easily done.

And it never worked very well in the same metro unless you seriously downsized - from large house to small condo.
Alright, lets do this. Your comment started with:

> Which is ironic, considering the German economy supporting their education system, healthcare system, and welfare state that gave them that comfy lifestyle enabling them to have the time, money and freedom to protest without starving to death...

This has a clear, obvious point of view in it. When I read your comment, I see an argument that the protest is illegitimate in some way because they're rich and entitled. This is clearly how everyone replying to your comment reads your words too, given how they replied.

"All I did was point out the realities of what's happening" is not a fair description of your comment. You aren't describing the situation "like a news reporter". You're describing it like a debater who's trying to win a debate.

Again, I have no problem with that. Its a comment thread on the internet. We debate things all the time; and its delightful. But claiming that you're "pointing out the realities of what's happening, like a news reporter" is wrong. In my mind, it either points to a complete lack of self awareness or ignorance about what news is.

> Then who's point of view is objective here then, given your logic? God's? Aliens'? Isn't every reported piece out there someone's own opinion and interpretation on the matter through their world view?

There's a spectrum of "truth" to "hot take". At the "truth" end are things where if two people independently observe the same phenomenon, they'll consistently describe it the same way. I'd say "There was a protest against tesla motors" is on the "truth" side of this line. At the "hot take" end is an inference based on some not-widely-accepted set of ideas. Essentially, anything where multiple reasonable people wouldn't all agree about their description of events. "The protesters are entitled due to their comfy welfare state. Any nearby poor country would love tesla to open a factory there." is a hot take. See the difference?

News aims to stay on the "truth" side of that spectrum. Thats the difference between news and a blog post, editorial or an opinion piece.

Absolute perfection is impossible. Its impossible to have no point of view at all when telling a story. (Even the choice of what to talk about is a form of journalistic bias). But, your comment is so obviously not news that its uncomfortable.
Yeah, I generally agree.

That said, there’s a couple things:

1. You’re technically allowed to travel through anywhere with any firearms in the US (I only had a magazine, not a firearm) legally. That includes planes, but you have to check the bags. That said, they can still arrest you and not follow the law.

2. I carry a conceal carry permit with reciprocity with most states for this very reason. I actually showed it to them and it made things much smoother
I like this. I feel like I’m too old, at 45, to relearn and this may help!
> Most vaccines are effectively laced with a chemical or biologic that the body will respond aggressively to

Aluminum, btw

https://www.educate-yourself.org/cn/Aluminum-Toxicity-Is-Wel...
I didn’t realize that gluten could use the internet.
Gift link to get past the paywall - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/health/seniors-home-equit...
BotW suffers for the NPCs having no agency or dimension to them. Why can't I infiltrate the Yiga clan and bend them to my will to help me defeat Ganon? Why can't I teach the villagers in TotK how to fight and fend for themselves against the pirates? There's a whole world that just needs a spark of agency to really live.
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Those articles don’t support the point you made above. They show that minority neighborhoods were razed to build freeways. That’s true—for the same reason chemical plants and power stations are disproportionately built near places where minorities live. But razing minority neighborhoods isn’t the reason people build chemical and power plants. That’s just the easiest way to build things people want to build for other reasons.

Likewise, people didn’t build highways for the purpose of razing minority neighborhoods. They wanted the highways, and it was easier to build them through poor neighborhoods than to build them through richer ones.

Again, European cities did or tried to do many of the same things as American cities in terms of building freeways: https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2016/01/05/motorway-remov.... Cities like Seattle and Portland that had virtually no minorities in the 1960s also built freeways through downtown. The existence of minorities isn’t what caused people to build those freeways. That’s like saying wet streets cause rain.
Then why don't they give it all away for free with that logic?...
Really?

It's literally been decades, but the last I learned about neural networks, a non-linear activation function was important for Turing completeness.
> 15 points [...] 50 comments

If we don't want posts to fall off the front page quickly, we have to remember to upvote when you comment.
> CCD is ancient tech these days.

Their performance at cryogenic temperatures is quite good which is one reason why currently in design/construction scientific instruments are still using them.

And in those instruments serious overload from shiny satellites is not just a little streak that can be easily excluded. https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2020/04/aa37501-...
Scandinavian is the usual example but like the UK for instance lived there for a bit everyone got dental / health through the NHS that would be the equivalent of medicare right? it didn't seem to be as political
TL;DR: Boomers want to eat, keep cake. If only it was easier to abscond with their unearned profits from living in an exclusionary subdivision for their entire lives.
> Is there anyone, anywhere, who doesn't want to be able to say what they want, without fear?

Again, you're speaking for yourself. Many people care nothing for self-expression. But it's interesting to note how easily you universalize your personal preferences.
Sorry, I didn't make my point clearly.

My point is that "free software supported by data harvesting and advertising" isn't more profitable in poor countries than software you buy off the shelf. Advertising revenue scales down just as much as disposable income for apps.
I got so fed up with how unreliable floppy disks were in Middle School and High School, that I started using the 1999 equivalent of Dropbox. Before I left for school, I'd start an FTP upload of the document(s) I needed to my ISPs 20 MB free web space, it would finish and automatically disconnect from the 56k dialup, and then at school I'd download it on the school's 128K ISDN connection.

Maybe I've been exceptionally lucky, but I've never had a USB drive fail or act oddly. The only data-loss flash media failures I've had were microSD cards in Android phones, and an early SATA SSD.
Was it ever seriously alive?
It's always good to hear both sides of the story for making an informed decisions and opinions.

Hasan Minhaj’s Responses To The New Yorker [video]:

https://youtu.be/ABiHlt69M-4

Original HN post based on the New Yorker article:

Hasan Minhaj’s “Emotional Truths”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37622676
This was the cause of the signature jiggly textures that were pervasive in PS1 games
Yeah that’s one of them.

There’s also often mercury - https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/concerns/thimerosal/index....

I actually had a similar theory as to where egg allergies come from. Many vaccines have egg in them

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/how-fluvaccine-made.htm
Well, now I’m afraid about getting ads in audiobooks, thanks.
Not really in this case. In the past it was not a law everywhere (in Europe) that pricing must include taxes, and you could often get the "added tax" surprise. This was then regulated to make it illegal.
It's just that the US seems to take longer to get around to fix things.
could you say more about what makes it a ponzi scheme? in my country there's traditional retirement account you contribute to from your salary whether you work at a private / public org and you get that when you reach 65 is that bad idk much about life but especially clueless about these things
Oh no, hmm! I'm on 2.4.2 as well (build 166897) but on macOS.

> What I wish for would be a mode where "crank position = (mouse screen X or Y) % 360" or something like that, preferably capturing the mouse cursor such that I can't accidentally click outside the simulator, even better if it wraps the mouse cursor around the screen like how Blender does it.

This is exactly what it's doing for me (so hopefully there's a way to get it working for you!).

I took a peek at the help docs and I see this:
https://help.play.date/manual/simulator/#crank-and-accelerom...

> "Double-clicking the crank circle will let you turn it just by moving your mouse."

(When I do this, I can release the mouse button and the cursor becomes 'bound' to the crank. As an indication, the normally white crank indicator turns red.)

Made a quick video showing the behavior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXoFcIHm0qU (Couldn't think of where to host, YouTube was the easiest.)
https://gwern.net/index
Then your one of the good bosses. Usually employees are left in the dark. I wasn't even upset when one of my companies shut down, but we'd been losing money for a while and their wasn't any real warning.

Good luck.
Thank you for sharing your experience, I agree there are so many walls!

I guess for me, I can't even perceive of a state of mind which would not see the walls. And I worry... what would change about me if I could see through the walls? Would I still be me? Because I like me, so I wonder what would happen. My great fear when I hear talks of a "cure" is that it will be used as an excuse to cleanse ahem I mean "cure" people like me and you and your sons. So you can understand why I don't want to go down that road. It's been done before.

Although I can't conceive of a world where I can see through the walls, I can picture a world where the walls are not there, and that's what I advocate for.

> I have never heard them utter a word, or leave the house on their own. They live in a world inside their heads. I really can't see what they have as the same as what I have.

It's true, we often wonder what those people would want. People have opinions as to whether they should have existed at all in the first place. I have a friend with Down's syndrome, and she's awesome, and I'm not sure what she would say in this situation, but I know as far as I'm concerned I don't want to live in a world where she doesn't exist exactly the way she is.

So as far as autistic people who cannot advocate for themselves, I'm not going to make the decision for them, and I don't think anyone else should either.
I don’t understand. A two bedroom for a couple is plenty.

The guest bedroom can also be the office in the 2nd bedroom. Many complexes have a few units for hoteling guests in the building which is very nice.

Balconies have been absent for years, maybe liability risk and more value as usable square feet. But there is usually some nice courtyards, rooftop pools, and of course nearby parks in any city. I guess they don’t want to share the space with others from the sound of it? But places like the villages have thriving 3rd places, and during the workday retirees will have the run of the rooftop pool and courtyards.

Elderly should absolutely be using the gym and pool. Many communities have shared gardens where you can get a plot to grown on.

Are these untenable compromises?
if you don't mind me asking why? won't everyone just get the money they put in from their salaries? in my head it's like a way to save pre-tax am I simplifying it too much
I thought mercury isn't used anymore in vaccines?
Let’s see. McDonald’s sales and income both grew this quarter. Net income was nearly $2B. That’s $2B, after costs, that consumers don’t have in their pockets, but investors and executives have in theirs. I find it impossible to call this “hit hard,” and even harder to keep a straight face when these megacorps think they have a right (or that it’s even fundamentally possible) to grow the rate of profit growth forever.

Turns out when you take $2B from consumers and put it into investor’s pockets, less money is available to spend on consumer goods next month. Who woulda thunk.
I don't care about being hip, woke or cool. It's just my perspective of the World. Also speaking of experience, I don't see how I have a disease for example.

In my view, it's mostly the environment provided that's at fault. E.g. social expectations. I think it's a good thing for there to be variance of the way people perceive the World.

I had a rough childhood, but I wouldn't have wanted someone to change who I am. I had a rough childhood because of the expected standards for how a person should behave or be socially.

Now as I am older, and more confident, successful and have proven that given good environment I can do amazing, I understand how ridiculous people are being with their social requirements. None of it is needed.

Also I find it quite funny how people treat labels in psychiatry as some sort of gospel or an actual thing.
Do you have a personal relationship with the man? We're all well aware of his public persona but that has nothing to do with how it is to actually interact with him as a person. Or any other autistic person. Watch Hannah Gadsby: Nanette and realize that you don't see the failures, only the successes.
So this hit a K-Index of 9, which someone mentioned yesterday was around the same as the Carrington Event. Is this the only relevant metric for measuring the severity of such an event? If so, have we just weathered a storm equivalent to Carrington, without much issue?
+100 for Lazarus and FreePascal
First, let me be clear that no one (country) wants to slow illicit businesses making inflows (and not committing the crime inside said country). Second, while Delaware offers privacy, you still need to bank (or even crypto) and that requires KYC/AML which really makes Delaware nothing more than a privacy tint.

Finally, I don't think any country/regulator cares about all of that; they are just (in my opinion) using this as a scapegoat to remove cash.