skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those problems of unaffordability of homes is a symptomatic effect of an earlier problem. During COVID-19, facing possible catastrophe in the Economy, Trump presidency pumped money into the US economy. The Biden presidency continued this (despite no indicator of recession). There is a 7% gap between Federal income and expenditure, and this drives up the interest rates, making home ownership less affordable. "Across the aisle" there is no appetite to raise taxes or cut spending so the problem will only get worse. Since the dollar is a global reserve currency, any printing of money is diluted across the global demand for dollars. So the reckoning will come quite late (in contrast with Greece who had to be bailed out following a similar trajectory). But the reckoning will come. Unless spectacular success in productivity arises from AI (which cannot be discounted - the US is a leader here), there will be a crunch where savage cuts and bail outs are needed.

Note US GDP looks great until you realise that it is in dollars whose nominal purchasing power is diminishing. There is no better was of seeing this than in the price of housing.
The only universal way IMHO, is to associate a small cost to every internet request. The cost has to be as small as possible, but it has to be there for million/billion/trillion requests to add up the cost and make it uneconomical to continue the attack past some point.

It is the same problem with email spam. What's stopping someone from sending billions of spam mails?

If we suppose that: a blockchain exists which is fast enough, cheap enough, and spread out enough on the globe (to mitigate latency), then there is no reason, for a tcp packet to not carry with it a small money transaction, in the order of a millionth of a cent. Information gets served back, only when the transaction is confirmed.

In that way, any request with no transaction gets discarded, and only requests with a small cost pass through. Suddenly by sending requests one after another and no end in sight, DDoS attacks and mail spam start to cost money. It is the serving of request that makes DDoS attacks and mail spam to be effective.

The problem however, is that no blockchain is fast enough and cheap enough as of today. But there will be one in a handful of years.
Ask HN: My CEO has been "stealing" money from the company, what should we do?
We're a startup at the pre-seed stage, me and another co-founder just recently found out our CEO has been instructing our third-party accountant to issue themselves advance payroll for like 13 weeks, while we only have roughly 8 weeks of runway left.

They never told us or discussed with us about the payroll advance, would this be considered as fraud or stealing money from the company? Would this also breach the shareholder agreement? And if so, what are the actions that we can take?

We certainly want them out for good due to their dishonest actions and in-actions at work.

FYI, we are all equal shareholders, and we just passed our 1-year cliff, with a 4-year vesting schedule.

--- Edited to add more context here ---

We are currently in a pre-seed program in a relatively large VC firm, and we are about to pitch to our head investor in a few weeks for our seed round. Thus, we have a narrow time window to make an action, and we definitely don't want to blow up our chances with our investor.
> raise every city

raze = tear down
The up to date ABI for x86-64 lives at https://gitlab.com/x86-psABIs/x86-64-ABI
I typically use a service like AWS cognito (using their built-in hosted UI) to handle authentication for my apps. That gives me MFA, Google/Facebook login, email verification, etc for free and has a generous free tier.

I have a template that's backed by terraform and the authentication client is in lambda so the whole thing is serverless, self-contained and practically free. So I just run "terraform apply" and I have scalable auth for my new service.

https://github.com/alshdavid/template-cognito (only 1 dependency on AWS, everything else is stdlib)

If any service I create is lucky enough to break out of the free-tier and cost is an issue, then I can just move to another OAuth2/OIDC provider. The auth mechanism Cognito uses is just a specification meaning I am not coupled to any one service provider (though the user accounts themselves are). Cognito, Auth0, IdentifyServer, or whatever - I can migrate if cost becomes a problem.

The big issue with JWTs are that, if lost, they give permissions to attackers without revocability.

For this reason, I keep auth-tokens short lived and refresh them often. Refresh-tokens are revocable and live for a few days. This means that a lost auth-token is only harmful for a few minutes while a lost refresh token is only harmful until revoked or expired.

Tokens are stored as path-specific http-only cookies so the only vector for attack is if a user physically opens devtools and gives an attacker the token - or if the attacker has access to the computer (physically or via a malicious terminal script).

High risk operations (e.g. delete account, delete content, anything high risk) requires "step-up" authentication - so a user is asked to re-authenticate in those cases.

Overall, when you consider that rolling your own authentication comes with the liability associated with holding user data (companies must announce a breach to users, etc) - if a service provider like Cognito is compromised, you won't be liable or the only one affected.

JWTs have security concerns, but on balance, when used with third party provider, a sensible configuration and considering the risk of rolling your own - they are fine.
Following might work to save as well.

data:text/html,<html contenteditable onload="document.body.innerHTML = localStorage['text']" oninput="localStorage['text'] = document.body.innerHTML" style="line-height:1.5;font-size:20px;">
Reminds me of that old quote about “the difference between average and state of the art is forgetting to turn it off over summer break” or similar.

I wonder if this is why smaller LLMs seem to punch above their weight, are they further along in the process of distilling the data down into understanding?
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

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Yes, sorry. I meant the hypothesis is that that’s what’s causing the cancer.

Didn’t realize it continued after the healing process as well. That logically means that the earlier you got the tattoo the worse it is.
React for Two Computers – Dan Abramov – ReactConf2024 [video]
Our economy is designed to extract wealth from the young to the old and the rich. Home ownership has become a primary method of creating generational wealth and that was a huge policy mistake. Even China has made this mistake. Almost all Western countries have too.

So let me explain somethign that is often misconstrued about leftist sentiment, be in socialism or whatever: leftists generally make the distinction between personal property and private property.

Private property is what we have now. We have wealthy landlords buying up houses to drive up prices. We have single homeowners who think their home value is going up so that's good for them so they vote for these policies. A leftist position is that you're entitled to own your personal residence but there's next to no landlording. Housing is a basic human need. The only way to provide it in a sustainable way is with social housing. For example, the majority of housing in Vienna is social housing.

The UK came really close last century to ending landlording [1] (ie councils simply bought houses from landlords who wanted out).

But if you think about it: there's no way your $200k turns into a $600k house without that money coming from somewhere. You're taking it from the next generation.

Capitalism loves this because a) a bunch of capital owners become even wealthier and b) debt-laden workers and workers who will take any jobs they can get (ie it suppresses wages).

In the 1990s, the average house price in London was ~70k pounds. Now it's over 700k.

Pretty much everything bad about modern society can be traced back to private property, be it intellectual property, housing or whatever.

People need to realize that if your house triples in value, you haven't really gained anything. If you sell it, what now? You still have to live somewhere. That means higher rents or buying an equivalently priced home. Or downsizing or moving overseas. This is why housing is unlike other assets.

we, as a society, have decided to prioritize generational wealth from landlording by literally killing people by denying them housing.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/19/end-of-...
Parent provided a poor link by just using a Google search results.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/top-languages-spoken-in-the...

English is not the most popular 1st spoken language, but it is the most spoken language overall.
Maybe try a billboard.
1) person does not like Siri

2) person does not want to use Siri

3) therefore person wants to disable Siri

4) person also has a car and wants to use CarPlay

5) CarPlay will NOT work without enabling Siri

3 and 5 are in conflict with each other
Right. (Insurance, too.) It's very expensive to let a house sit vacant. There's also the risk of squatters, vandals, thieves, and partyers.
I can't say I see it the same way.

We're born in a year we didn't choose to parents we didn't pick with talent we didn't earn with intelligence we don't deserve with environmental influences we can't control.

The game is Texas Hold em. Play your cards. Bluff if you must. Press if you can. Go all in when you can leverage.

I recently got to know a gentleman quite like myself. His parents and upbringing are quite the same. His father took risks. Mine did not. He's got a million dollar business that he took over. With respect, I don't think he would be any better than me without his father's risk and resources.

I was briefly jealous. Then I realized I was exactly in his father's position. I'm taking risks and building something for my kids. He's one generation ahead of me.

You can get upset about the game or play it.

I took a risk a week ago. Turned $500 into $11,000 with a little effort. My skills let me analyze stuff quickly. I discovered a pump and dump bot network. It turns out I correctly matched the entry and exit signals to the bots chatter.

If i can validate this next week, I will pay off my house in a few weeks.
I _wish_ the UK had zoning. Instead, there is no by-right development, everything has to get it's own individual permission.
Probably not a CDN, persay, but is using Cloudflare Pages as a host. Hosts static HTML for free on CF's CDNs. I use it for all my sites.
If you are in insider builds, it happens weekly once a new update arrives.
Ya, and housing used as an investment doesn’t need schools or any real infrastructure, so we could basically build them anywhere. Planning is only needed if people are going to live in them.
You can always email the mods if you believe you’re witnessing an attack on either a single article and/or the site; they have many more tools to reveal concerted group assaults than we do.
Mega projects seem to be popular lately.
Perhaps MBS set a trend.
No, there is a lot more context than that.

Apologies for not giving a more detailed answer, its late at night.
As you point out, in most use cases a random token will be fine and it all comes down to how and where it is stored.

But that also means that you can have JWTs that are used as "random token" for most of your app, cost to produce them isn't high, and only make use of the additional capacities for instance when

- when you want to check signatures (e.g. reject before hitting your application layer)

- store non sensitive base64 data that you want before restoring the session

Creating and handling JWT is only as costly and complicated as you want it to be, so there's IMHO enough flexibility to have light use with very few penalities for it.
Life expectancy increase has leveled off a while ago.
Is t one of the main problems with used EVs the battery cap? Unless battery tech gets better can it be assumed that most EVs on the used market would also require a battery replacement so they have the original range?
That's about half the price of commercial DC fast charging in my area ($0.40-$0.50/kWh), and, according to the math in another comment, about half the break even price with gasoline.

It's certainly more expensive than what I pay to charge at my house, but I wouldn't be mad about it if I had that available to me.
On the other hand:

There were an estimated 28.1 million households in the UK in 2021, an increase of 6.3% over the previous 10 years. [0]

and:

The UK population at mid-year 2021 was estimated to be 67.0 million, an increase of 3.7 million (5.9%) on the population in mid-2011.[1]

So the number of UK households increased by slightly more than the population between 2011 and 2021.

[0] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde...

[1]https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...
Are you sure? I have never interpreted it this way and it is the first way I hear this interpretation.

My understanding: To use something "for real" on an actual project, not just toy around with it. (What you use can be good or bad, expression doesn't say)
https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=4779130783680899&w=G8egl8t...
I always wondered if the NSA and Cloud flare do stuff like this with websites not behind cloud flares umbrella.

"Make em offer they can't refuse."
This got me thinking... someone should build a local service that hosts a library of static web apps for use cases like this. Essentially, apps that are something between bookmarklets and Electron apps. Might even make Electron unnecessary for a bunch of use cases.

It would be neat to visit /app/notepad, /app/kanban, /app/todo, etc. at a localhost port, with an index of apps at /. There could even be a /get-apps page that connects to an npm-like library of single-HTML-file apps available for download from a github.io static site backed by a public repo that accepts pull requests.

I'd love to see all the VC-funded glorified desktop utilities on the web become unnecessary.
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In the case of “auth”, it stands for two related but often separately managed operational processes.

From an end user perspective, auth is the problem. Users can’t determine what is login vs permission. If non native speakers can’t handle the distinction, it’s a valuable lesson to learn.
Coldplay had similar wristbands when I saw them in Wembley last year and a big thing about their tour was sustainability. They definitely had collection bins for them at the exits, but I kept mine to satisfy my geeky curiosity.
Beijing has cheap rent, at least for foreigners making western wages. That 10k RMB/month 1 bedroom is supposed to cost 7 million RMB to buy, so you are still screwed if you are looking not to rent for some reason.

I hear Shanghai is much worse, but never lived there before.
To be fair, most properties in the UK are freehold.
Lack of building is not the problem - on the contrary.

You cannot realistically build enough so that the rents decrease.

And when you build you just fuel the vicious cycle of people -> opportunities -> people.
Yes, but if a person is manually copying and pasting, they're probably not reading the text much anyway.
> You will never, ever be able to spend any amount of money on any vehicle that will perpetually guarantee a 100.000% success rate for all situations you will end up in.

True, except all they said was that consumers "overestimating" their needs, which is pretty reasonable, not that they contracted pathological monomania leading to psychiatric and financial disaster.
Works where archive.is is blocked:

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Teacher Did All He Could to Keep Kids Off Phones. He's Quitting in Frustration
In between San Francisco and San Jose, almost every underpass that has any underbrush potentially has a homeless settlement. There was an effort to clear some of these out but I saw several on my last bicycle ride in the area. Pre pandemic there were some on ramps that had tents just off the sidewalk for several hundred yards - it's our modern dystopia. There's a railway right of way near Facebook HQ in Menlo Park that had at least four cars parked way off the road in the brush with tents, and a few miles from Apple HQ there are lots of homeless people living on water/railway right of ways and in underpasses.
Still no reason to upgrade from my iPad 3 seems like, maybe next year.
Not only has the owner-occupied rate stayed near constant, but that rate itself is an average of all income levels. If one just looks at the rate of homeownership among those making more than the median income (family/individual) ~$74K for a family (~55K individual), that number jumps up to 79%.

Given that this number doesn't take preferences into account, I think it's pretty reasonable that almost everyone (>80%) making at least the average (median) salary owns their home.
Congrats John, I really liked the idea of video-introducing your SaaS.
In your mind, whats you ideal customer? How do this customers find your value proposition?
I agree with this, but I wouldn’t call it a “god shaped hole” any more than I’d call it an “oilers shaped hole”.
Works where archive.ph is blocked:

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I just fall under the banner that everything we do is natural since we are natural, even if we were to desires nature it self. After all it was natural selection that brought us here.
Where you gonna put the bits for the extended address?
They’re boring, repetitive, and uninteresting with surprising regularity. It’s no surprise that many of them get flagged as a result.
...and both of the links are to pay for it with fiat.

Never change, Bitcoin.
In particular, when people use correct terms of art, it's possible to learn background by full text search for those specific terms.

(The notion that all words in a section of prose ought to be "familiar" carried much more weight when consulting dictionaries/thesauruses/corpuses involved walking to another room, instead of just New Window'ing a browser tab.)

> For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Unlesseth the vocabulary be imprecise; because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, but broad are the recalled results, which from their imprecision leadeth unto destruction. —not Matthew
Reminds me an old story from Steve Yegge:

I gave him the "find the phone numbers in 50,000 html files" question, and he decided to write a huge program with an ad-hoc state machine. When I asked how long it would take to write the program, he said he'd have to hit N files, with M lines per file, so... I interrupted him: no, WRITE. How long to WRITE the program? Oh. He estimated it at 5 days of work. At this point I was 50% ready to throw him out.
I'm curious what the old timey protein options looked like.

I know that modern vegans have a more challenging time sourcing protein.

Old time diets didn't have the same limitations that modern vegan diets do, so they could for example lean on eggs and similar options.

But if you subtract 90% of protein sources from a modern diet, they had to have been eating something to make up that deficit and I'm always in the market for possible ideas to improve my own diet. :)
I’ve always heard DC Fast Charging called “DC Fast Charging” or “Level 3”. I don’t think I’ve ever heard it called Level 2.
I've been doing 120V for just over a year with the Chevrolet portable charging cable. It's mostly been fine, the main issue is that it stops working every so often and has to be unplugged and plugged back in.

My Bolt lets me say that the circuit is dedicated to it at home and pulls 12 amps instead of the 8 amps it would pull anywhere else. It's trying to make sure it doesn't overload the circuit.

We are moving to a newer home and I already have the 240V charger installed there. Looking forward to 25-30 miles of range per hour (running at 32A normally but have a dedicated 60A circuit) instead of the 3 I'm getting now.

At this house, the 200A panel is full so I would have had to add another panel.
> "By default" means the most natural and common way to index an array, namely the [] syntax.

Sorry, I challenge your authority to decide what is "most natural way".
So, how many do you imagine need to be planted for the species to be self-sustaining?
How about a native app collection called "Sidekick", which has a Borland bent?
The first thing I do when porting to a new platform is build an object file format pretty-printer. It's the only way to figure out how it really works.

The written specifications for them are often a bit of a fairy tale. The real specification is whatever the local C compiler generates.

The other gatekeeper is what the linker will accept. That can sometimes be a nightmare.
I think a lot of people still feel burned by the property crash in the 1990s, when you saw billboards on I5 driving up offering flats for $100k in 1997.
Startups nowadays are often Ponzi schemes in favour of the founders. Most startups don't make employees rich; in fact it's usually worse than an established company in terms of conditions and salary. We are far from the idealised startups from the early 2000s.

Now it can be an interesting experience (if you don't burn out, which is frequent). Most of the time you will be on your own technically (or surrounded by inexperienced people), which means that you get to touch a lot of stuff, but at the same time you don't get much (if any) mentoring.

My advice would be to join a startup early in your career (at a point where you are ready to sacrifice the working conditions in favour of an interesting experience). Maybe a couple years in an established company right after graduating would make sense though, to see a functioning company before going into the chaos of a startup.

Getting older, there is probably fewer reasons to join a startup (unless you found it and go for the Ponzi in your favour, that is).

> "You need people willing to jump in and build the future, and startups inherently self-select for this,"

Of course he would say this, as a VC.
Brother, China only just moving ships

The US literally is arming Israel to commit a genocide in Gaza

If you want to play the super hero, start by not being a coward

And they are doing the same with Taiwan, South Korea, Philippine and Japan

Blood on your hands, you choose!
I don't think this is true. According to the FDA's site they could regulate tattoo inks but have chosen not to.

> FDA considers the inks used in intradermal tattoos, including permanent makeup, to be cosmetics. When we identify a safety problem associated with a cosmetic, including a tattoo ink, we investigate and take action, as appropriate, to prevent consumer illness or injury. The pigments used in the inks are color additives, which are subject to premarket approval under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. However, because of other competing public health priorities and a previous lack of evidence of safety problems specifically associated with these pigments, FDA traditionally has not exercised regulatory authority for color additives on the pigments used in tattoo inks. The actual practice of tattooing is regulated by local jurisdictions.

- https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetic-products/tattoos-perm...
Museums are good.
Yes, using X forwarding and XQuartz for instance. However, there are some bugs. https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/issues/2099
Proof of work gateways and really annoying captchas.
This will only increase the risk of startup failure. It really just depends on how much risk you want to take.
I've followed this project for many years now. It's a magnificent building, I'm quite in awe.

If you're German-speaking, there's a Die Welt documentary from a few years ago which features various people from the project.