skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Housing as an investment here references the idea of owning the home you live in being a great source of capital gains.

But why would you even want that?

Possibility 1: You want to invest $500k in housing, and live in one unit. You get one unit, pay the entire $500k plus interest yourself, receive no rent other than imputed rent, and then can't sell at the end because even if your property is now with $1M if you sell you get a huge capital gains tax bill while still needing somewhere to live, so your "investment" has left you stuck in a place where you can't afford to move because the capital gains tax would prevent you from selling your house and buying an equivalent one, or even selling it for a smaller one at a profit because the difference in their values is lost to tax.

Possibility 2: You invest $500k in housing, get multiple units for that price, live in one of them, receive rents from other tenants that compensate for a lack of capital gains while holding an asset with a stable value, can easily move out of your own unit because you're not trapped by capital gains tax.

Possibility 3: You have $500k to invest, put $25k into a house for yourself and receive the small imputed rent, put the other $475k into an ordinary investment fund because you don't actually like investing all your assets solely in real estate. You now have a more diversified investment portfolio that isn't heavily exposed to volatility in the local housing market, are still getting the market rate of return, are getting actual returns from the ordinary market instead of paying a huge amount in imputed rent and once again aren't trapped by capital gains tax if you ever want to move house.

The first one is clearly the worst one.

> The reason people care about this type of 'housing as an investment' is that it helps sell people on high mortgages, so more people can own rather than rent.

High mortgages are the counterargument. If you were taking out a $25,000 mortgage, that could be a good investment even if the value never goes up, because you get a place to live, and are insulated from (and indeed benefit from) potential increases in local real estate if there were any. If you're taking out a $500,000 mortgage for one unit, the imputed rent could be the same percentage of the investment if local rents are high, but now the potential upside is blunted and replaced with risk of value loss because you're buying high instead of buying low. That's a bad investment -- you're getting the same percentage ROI in terms of imputed rent while exposing yourself to the risk of a housing crash with a disproportionate share of your net worth in an undiversified investment, and further increases in value are long-term unsupportable by local wages.

And if you're talking about a matter of policy (we want to encourage home ownership) then there are obviously more people who would qualify for a $25,000 or $100,000 mortgage than a $500,000 one. Even for the smaller number of people who could make the payments on $500k, you don't have to convince them to take out a huge mortgage if you can supply them with the same house with a smaller mortgage.
That's a good point. I withdraw my criticism and admit my error.

> Why wouldn’t you want to listen to them on a nice system?

They just aren't my cup of tea.
It doesn't have to be literal bunkers. Just look at the structure of your average "third world" city -- glass towers and luxury condos ringed by miles of shanty towns and slums -- and then a barrier and villas and luxury estates out in the countryside.

This is, in fact, how the end of the western Roman empire looked. No bang, just a long series of whimpers as the elite retreated to armed estates with private armies, taxes stopped being collected, overall trade declined, cities declined, and the agrarian peasantry became bound to lords and estates out of need of protection, etc. etc.

When civic institutions and the taxes that support them are openly attacked and predated upon, weakened and then combined with environmental, disease, or security crisis, one needn't think hard to picture the kind of eventual world that results.
No one could have seen this coming. Why didn't anybody warn US voters at all!
Why wouldn't this remote cabin be better off with wind or solar?
I think the appeal is having audio you made or sourced on a medium that is normally reserved for record manufacturers doing a large volume production run...
At the start of 2022 it was. He stated it over and over. Go watch his Youtube videos from that period.
(1) “American economists” only. (2)Also I am sure looking at the political/institutional affiliations of the responders would be interesting. (3) The responders comments show very different reasoning for disagreement. Some focus on stat derivatives, some on model incompatibility and some on more anecdotal evidence. (4) Some answers are bat-shit crazy like “not sure wealth inequality has risen in the US”.
This was controlled for as stated in the article:

> The researchers compared outcomes for patients within the same hospitals who were cared for by doctors with different exam scores. This allowed the researchers to eliminate, or at least minimize, the effect of differences in patient populations, hospital resources, and other variations that might influence the odds of patient death or readmission, independent of a doctor’s performance.
> It predates our species

People will really say this and then still be mad when I want to marry just a couple of my cousins
>Mr. Thompson was among the party’s tech operatives meeting in Puerto Rico.

sweet gig. Evidently funding is not the issue.
Exactly what management wants to hear so they can lay off hundreds and push salaries down.
Stupid, pointless destruction. No part of this is efficient. 18F and the USDS were effective tools for modernization.
They also turned the US into a liability. I don't think any western nation will rely on the US for anything for a long time.
I never experienced that but some people do enjoy it, and it's fine as long as it's not a temporary obsession (but that's still my debatable opinion).

I remember my aunt saying that she went to a Santana concert in the 70s. She only remembered that "there was a lot of smoke in the room." Did it change her forever? Maybe not, only she knows. But even single experiences can have long-lasting effects that, I'm sure, we'll never be capable of sharing fully.
Yes! The longer response is that the closer you stick to standards the easier of a time you will have. VMs are a standard with cloud-init and image formats, etc.

i.e. in 2025 managed Kubernetes is not _that_ different between providers
I'm clearly not the target audience for this, so excuse me if this is a dumb question: what is this tool used for? Who would usually use it and for what purpose?
- I prefer to own vs rent music
- I prefer physical to digital (albums often come with digital downloads)
- I enjoy listening to full albums
- I enjoy the album art, liner notes, posters, special releases, etc

Not all the music I want to own is available on vinyl, but at the same time, some of the music I listen to is not on streaming services. And some isn't available on CD. Nothing is perfect. I choose vinyl as it provided the best set of trade-offs for how I enjoy music.
It’s actually a noun, in this case, being used as a pejorative to imply “infantrymen are stupid”.
gary marcus = automatic thanks but no thanks
Perhaps you should add a few smaller versions of the samples in https://seaofus.com/home to https://seaofus.com/ I needed (too much) time to notice that I can just click "Start reading" to see some samples.

Do you have a blog about the tech stack or any interesting problem you had while writing this?
There is a weapon that younger generations have virtually forgotten, but we re likely to see it making a big comeback in the short term: strikes.
> I have my music on vinyl and that is how I listen to it.

If I’m reading this right, he owns vinyl music recordings for the purpose of playing back music.
Rent in Barcelona is still way cheaper than NYC.
> Donating via GitHub Sponsors is better for Servo than donating via Open Collective

https://servo.org/sponsorship/#donation-fees
Has there been a single transformative technology that was any good 2.5 years after mainstream public buy-in?
The most important defense that the EU can make at this moment is to block off Russian access to European Internet and regulate all social media to stop Russian propaganda

This is the culmination of 10 years of hybrid warfare via disinformation and propaganda.
> Is it unprofessional to "move fast, break things"?

Most of the time it is. The sorry state of software in general is a testament to that.
Visual Studio Code Setup/Use on macOS for Jetbrains Users
I also used this tactic for questions about certain products, but I no longer use it in general because reddit has become riddled with bots, AI stories, astro-turfing campaigns, etc. It's hard to come across something genuine any more. This has been the case even before the AI craze of course, but now it's virtually unavoidable. The whole platform has become a giant shit hole.
I have HH and donate regularly with Vitalant, who has a monopoly on donations in Colorado. When I was originally diagnosed 20+ years ago, I had a prescription and they discarded the blood. After some research I decided to monitor my own iron levels and decide myself when to donate. Without a prescription, they are able to use the blood.
No one thinks that's a "threat", they just rejected the party that's pushing the Big Lie that men can get pregnant. The people didn't get tricked into voting for a party that hates them.
From zen and the art of moto: ‘There’s no fault isolation problem in motorcycle maintenance that can stand up to it. When you’ve hit a really tough one, tried everything, racked your brain and nothing works, and you know that this time Nature has really decided to be difficult, you say, “Okay, Nature, that’s the end of the nice guy,” and you crank up the formal scientific method.’
Yes really. Like I said - even AAAA though better than it was isn't as reliable as A, the "Happy Eyeballs" tactic makes that tolerable, maybe 90% of your customers have IPv6, get the AAAA answer quickly, reach the IPv6 endpoint, awesome. 9% only have IPv4 anyway, get IPv4 endpoint, also fine, but 1% the AAAA query never returns, a few milliseconds later the IPv4 connection succeeds and the AAAA query is abandoned so who cares.

I'd guess that you if you build something which needs SRV? to "Just work" in 2025, not "nice to have" but as a requirement, you probably lose 1-2% of your potential users for that. It might be worth it. But if you need 100% you'll want a fallback. I suggest built-in DoH to, say, Cloudflare.
There was a good thread on reddit a while back on this topic. Post was simply a request for opinions on Appium, but virtually everyone ended up recommending Maestro instead: https://www.reddit.com/r/QualityAssurance/comments/1771ca7/o...

Honestly, I'd just give it a try yourself - you can get started in minutes
To add a bit to what layer8 correctly said: it's also for displaying the original provenance of the article (i.e. the domain it came from), and for making the /from pages that list submissions from a domain work properly. That may not matter when there's just one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/sollenber...

but it does when there are lots:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/karpathy.
line must go up forever or infinite free money scam stops working
Hard to? Missed the part about Mozilla basically being an advertising company nowadays, and "a global band of activists"?

Something Chrome-adjacent, like Chromium or Brave doesn't have the stain Firefox and everything close to it now has. That is not a position that is hard to maintain.

Firefox has come so far from what it once was. I did once cheer for it, but it simply has become its own worst enemy. Almost nothing is left, crazy to think they're the only competing browser engine independent from the chromelikes.
There's a MR open:

https://github.com/mozilla-services/syncstorage-rs/issues/49...
There's some detail in the Apollo Masters wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Masters_Corporation_fir...
Right, he's just moved from taking people's money to stealing their attention. Grifter til the end.
> poorest are still getting richer in real terms

Perhaps. So what? Their wealth/incomes were increasing much slower than worker productivity. Technological progress compensates for the massively increasing inequality to some extent.

Also other figures show that median and bottom 10th percentile incomes were almost completely stagnant between 1967 and 2014.

https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2015/demo/real...

Of course real median income increased massively (compared to previous decades) in the last 10 years but it's not clear yet how sustainable is that
Donald Trump just turned the USA into a liability. I don't know how anyone can think this is a good idea.

Like people thinking killing USAID was a good idea. Guess who is going to pick up to collect the good will USAID gave? China, or possibly some other country that thinks the US hegemony was a bad thing.

How can people not see that Trump is weakening USA?
It loads fast, but it's slow and stutters (3090 24GB + 12c/24t 5900X + 128GB RAM), so it's not my PC...
OK, but Piketty's thesis is about the cause of inequality, not just that it exists and is growing. So, economists agree that inequality is growing, and disagree with Piketty's thesis.
(setq org-agenda-include-diary t)
Wiktionary has quite comprehensive lists of those as well:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_prefixes

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_suffixes
This can’t be right. Tape decks with a separate record head allow you to listen to the currently recorded track and quickly switch between the track and source feed. Apart from the hiss, the difference in quality is rather subtle for most people.

Now, whether the store-bought tape from the 90s was recorded well, that’s a different story.
This is the upside of doing what I did yesterday, which is to realize Mozilla cannot recover from this, which makes such follow-on mistakes easier to bear. The shock has been absorbed. I have installed a few alternatives and will be deleting FF as soon as possible. I will also continue to advocate for privacy and user-rights preserving software - a set that does not include anything from Mozilla. The bridge is well-and-truly burned. They had a 2% marketshare based on goodwill with privacy rights geeks, and managed to destroy it overnight. There is no recovery for them.
Exactly. He has a dishonest and predictable schtick. We need skeptics for any industry, but he is just grifting in an ecological niche as a knee-jerk reactionary. There is near-zero value to anything he writes or says in that role
The sentence immediately before the one you quoted:

> (A few years ago my students and I found a bug in the protocol, but Apple fixed it quickly — so I am very personally confident in their encryption.)

Which has a link to a post explaining more about it.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/03/21/attack-o...

Their bio on the website also states:

> I'm a cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins University. I've designed and analyzed cryptographic systems used in wireless networks, payment systems and digital content protection platforms. In my research I look at the various ways cryptography can be used to promote user privacy.

Maybe this person deserves the benefit of the doubt that they’re not just talking out of their ass and know at least a bit about the subject? Sure, have some dose of healthy skepticism, but make it informed.
Co-author of Maestro here - really appreciate that support jztan! If you get a chance you should also try out web support which we recently released! And always open to feedback, so please let me know if there's anything you think can be improved!
I wonder if we reached the limit of what a single-shot large models can do? Or we're just waiting for another breakthrough? If it's the limit, then probably the chain of thought is the answer. I think models are so good now that given the right context, tools and time, they can pretty much do anything.
The latter is a pretty high bar. Even Google doesn't do that.
Not sure what you mean but yeah basically everything, cars, computers, bitcoin, the internet, airplanes...
Thats a load of bull. more like they are just doing Putin's bidding by dismantling the US federal government
> it should be taxing land heavily, and income less.

Wouldn't that inflate housing prices even more? Which disproportionally affect those in the bottom 90% or so.
I didn't get the point of the article (it starts saying that there were some performance limitations, not mentioning exact what, then something about porting, then some debugging of basic API calls), plus the page is non-responsive at times from the included demo I assume.
Trying this out at work and so far it has been leagues better than other mobile automation tools. I have just gotten started but it has been encouraging.
So the alternative to Firefox is some cryptocurrency software?
> My objection is precisely that the important thing is to stop abuse, and that blocking just hides something rather than tracking down and stopping the abuse.
(To be clear, I do also think it's important to go track down the sites hosting such content and take down the sites. But at the source, not blocking at the border, which is a capability that shouldn't exist.)

I don't think you've justified that objection any other way than saying "stopping it at the source would be better" (which is unambiguously agreeable).

Teaching a man to fish is obviously better than just giving him a fish, but if tuition is not possible due to resource constraints, a fish distribution system isn't a terrible idea.
I think this is true, but the fact that it’s even possible is the problem. The US will probably develop an immune system against such manipulation in the future. In fact, that effort may already be underway.
IF this is the beginning of the bubble bursting, I welcome it with open arms. Burn baby burn.
They never wanted a deal. If they wanted one it would have been negotiated and done before Zelensky stepped on American soil.

I don't want to fall into the conspiracy trap, but I can't help thinking this was planned on advance. Especially considering how couch man acted. Trump was wandering around aimlessly until Vance took command.
They were a well-regarded, non-partisan tech team. What was possibly "unreliable" about them?
Tesla Feels the Wrath of Anti-Elon Musk Backlash
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-02-26/tesla-sal... | https://archive.today/SUc9O
"...allowing the value of money to outstrip the value of labor is a travesty..."

I am NOT an economist, and wonder what you mean here? It feels contradictory to me, given a system that makes labor fungible with money.

I've armchair puzzled over this aspect of capitalism and human nature. It seems to me that we, as individuals in this system, most fundamentally want to be able to use capital to time-shift the fruits of our labor, i.e. for rainy days, retirement, and unforeseen events. We need to be able to convert labor to capital, hold it, then convert it back to gain benefits of someone else's labor later.

But it seems inherent that this ability to make labor and capital fungible will enable some to amass and wield much more capital than others. In a population with differing wages, lifestyles, life events, and appetites for risk, it seems inevitable that the integral of these net savings effects will be divergent.

If you introduce a "reset" or leveling function, it seems like it will contradict this stored labor feature. It pushes us back on the continuum towards living hand-to-mouth, since our stored efforts are diminished in the future. And, I think human nature is such that we will "optimize" to stop trying to store effort that we can't expect to get back...

Is this an inherent feature of economics (or of society)? Do we need a fiction of security and potential future wealth to motivate our contributions, yet eventually need discontinuity to terminate the outcomes of this fiction?
RFP automation software has existed for a very long time. Anyone who spends lots of time on RFPs has this.
Yeah I miss the Schmidt days!!
> How can people not see that Trump is weakening USA?

Yes, but once income inceeases beyond starvation levels, relative deprivation predicts misery more than absolute deprivation, so in a relatively developed country, that's still a bad thing.
No. I think coupling OpenAI's fortunes and the prospects of LLM-native applications is a step too far
Until you have an AI manager that calls out your bullshit and fires you without having to worry about the messy human empathy aspect.
The pressure to hit quarterly targets seems to, in this case, caused quite the opposite outcome intended. Gotta love corporate America and the overvalued AI sector. (:
I was thinking it makes sense to tax land with productive assets and don't tax those without. Housing is not a productive asset so it shouldn't matter how much you fix it up. If you tax productive land there shouldn't be an incentive to not do anything as there would be nowhere to "escape" to that has a greener financial pasture. The problem I see with this route is the tax payers with productive land will start making a case for them being the only ones who should vote.
These are powerful building blocks, they're just not the be all end all. The building blocks up stack that use these as part of a broader architecture, that shape these and many other traditional techniques in software... this is where the real value will be unlocked.

This layer itself will inevitably see its cost come down per unit of use on a long road towards commoditization. It will probably get better and better and more sophisticated but again the value will be primarily up stack, not accrued primarily from a company like this. It's not to say they couldn't be a great company... even Google is a great company that has enabled countless other companies to bloom. The myopic way people look to these one size fit all companies is just so disconnected from our economy works.
I think the compression format is what people point to when they say that digital music isn’t as full or “analog” sounding, and that would be true for vinyls made from a source that uses the same format, but there’s also the potential to use the raw WAV file which wouldn’t have this issue even if it’s digital.
Thank you! I clearly didn't have a very good grasp of the situation, and this is definitely what I was thinking of, and it's much less serious than I had thought.

> With the destruction of Apollo Masters, producing lacquer discs fell solely to a small Japanese company, MDC. This caused a significant strain on the industry, as Apollo Masters was responsible for 70-85% of lacquer production.[4][5] As a result of the strain, orders became backlogged and delayed, (...)

> With a decrease in lacquer production, some vinyl pressing plants turned to alternate means of producing records, including direct metal mastering, a costly method of producing records with copper instead of lacquer.
> What does this even mean?

For a short period after the collapse of the USSR, the world used to have only one superpower (which was the US), but it's not the situation anymore.

> The world was working just fine

I guess you missed the rise of Chinese GDP from 3% to 20% of global GDP, their military buildup, and their advances on the neighbors and the sea.
Yup, I agree that's a problem with this approach.

In practice, there's a grey area - see my recent post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43179132 (specifically the 3rd and 4th paragraphs).