skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having FIRE doesn't mean you're ready to retire and build ships in a bottle or whatever. I like programming, it puts me in flow state and keeps my brain young. I want to go out on my own terms. Also good luck with FIRE if you're putting kids through college. And thirdly, for those of us at normal companies the pay has been nice, but not FAANG mid-six-figures nice.
The entity purchasing it has to think they can get the asking price for it.

The bank will not take the risk acquiring it unless they think they can actually sell it for that.

So if the bank thinks they can actually sell it for $2 million and it is selling for $2 million, you’ve just described a $2 million property.

What I’m telling you is that those buyers disappear at any large scale because buyers of buildings like that need ROI. It’s only in really hot markets where deep wallet flippers will tolerate taking a bet on a building that cannot generate revenue to support the note.

What you linked to is a rare case. It doesn’t happen at scale because the system doesn’t close.
First of all I think this article was put together quite well, it was succinct had a great flow and was very easy to follow. The data was laid out to support the case; overall it was great to read.

Understanding a problem requires a holistic view of the larger system. An egg producer may say prices are higher Because supply is lower due to culling. Part of that statement is true. The author then zooms out to better understand the larger system.

The truth of a matter deviates significantly from one party’s assertions.

it’s scary to me that people lack the skills, the desire or incentives to understand and objectively seek understanding of what’s happening around us especially in highly charged US political landscape. This isn’t like pure scientific pursuit of knowledge but a more practical day to day ability to question, understand and gather new information with the purpose of developing an objective understanding of the world.
It's also a common interview question before the standard became movie listings. I believe the bootcamp and university standard is food delivery apps now.

There's plenty of code out there, but the student ones are underengineered and the interview ones tend to be overengineered.
So far I like using LLMs to create nasty scripts to do large migrations. It can churn out regexes that I would never write, but it's more predictable than just having the LLM make a bunch of changes directly.
Poll: How many months to Starship milestones completed?
How many months until SpaceX hits all these major milestones: First orbital flight; First "catch" of both stages; First re-use of both stages; First complete in-orbit refueling?
A good guess but evidently not (see neighboring comment)
Rage Against Elon Musk Turns Tesla into a Target
> I'm just tired of people hiding behind POSIX compliance.

grep exists in base primarily to support shell scripting, as well as the benefits of standardization that I mentioned. That’s not hiding - it’s a basic expectation if you want scripts to run.

Why should ripgrep be on base and what kind of overhead are we adding to install?

> how many of your invocations of grep are not POSIX compliant.

It would be a different argument if ripgrep was compliant with extensions, like gnugrep, but being a completely separate tool with a similar name, it doesn’t fill the same role.

I like it and install it when I need it.
However, nicotine intake through smoking would not be beneficial.

They are speaking generically of course, if someone was genetically predisposed, or showed other signs, it could make sense.
ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia protests, lawyer says
Wasn't aware of this. Excellent resource, thanks!
Here is your success. Putin is unwilling to have a cease fire. To get this you willingly sacrificed how many Ukrainians, and risked how many others by withholding intelligence information (that cost us all of $0 to share about Russian launched attacks and what areas they could be targeting)?

Also, you talk in other posts about assisting in Syria so you obviously have zero actual care about ending violence in long running conflicts and in fact put in great effort/extreme steps towards their continuation.

https://tass.ru/politika/23325211

Russian leader Vladimir Putin and other Kremlin officials explicitly rejected making any concessions in future peace negotiations or accepting any US, European, or Ukrainian peace proposals and the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the possibility of a negotiated ceasefire on 6 March. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offens...
> (P.S. I never understood why Go uses words like "receiver" and "marshaling" that are rarely used elsewhere)

Not sure about receiver, but marshaling has been part of Python's lingo for ages.
In that analogy, it’d be the government burning down Tesla dealerships as part of a false flag operation, rounding up liberals, and sending them to camps.

I haven’t heard of that happening either.

Anyway people stuck with an old Tesla can just get an anti-musk bumpersticker.
For a programming language that makes unused variables a compiler error, I'm surprised there is no clippy/rubocop/black/cargo fmt/clang fmt built-in.
One of the best predictors of a company’s culture isn’t its mission statement or leadership philosophy - it’s whether people feel the need to document things to protect themselves. In a high-trust environment, verbal commitments are honored, and documentation is about clarity. In a low-trust environment, every agreement needs a paper trail to avoid blame.

How does your company handle this? Do people CC managers ‘just in case’? Have you ever seen someone get blamed because something wasn’t in writing?
Sure the general consensus of experts is just like my opinion man.

Numbers never lie, until they do.
Why and How to Avoid the Flipped Quaternion Multiplication
sorry this experiment setup suffers from the photon dual slit experiment problems. How anxious am i really if i am observing my stress levels, noting down pre and post measurements? Placebo or not, this level of mindfulness is probably the biggest anxiety affecting factor so it invalidates the experiment.
Being consistent is the key. When you open up a codebase worked on by 50 people, it's nice when you can't tell who wrote it because of the spelling or whatever. Everyone on the team can see it, think "this looks like I wrote it", and work on it accordingly. That's a good thing.
> The CEO did a Nazi salute on stage. It's on video, and it's very, very obvious.

I think the only people who care about this are people who care about politics in the first place or didn't already like Elon, which isn't everyone and probably not the majority.

Whilst Elon has some blame for Tesla's bad brand image, competition in Europe has made it so if you go Tesla your basically paying a premium for the brand and that's it, Tesla's in Europe iirc have self driving capability much less than the US.
Yes, France have multiple different doctrines. It's most known one is the "Force de Frappe" [0], but the Legion have one, and if you talk about "doctrine d'emploi" every bit of equipment have one (the AMX-10 necessitate a doctrine d'emploi so different than regular MBT than the whole French cavalry have a different general doctrine than any other mechanized troups)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_de_dissuasion
When working with ETL, it really helps to not conflate the letters or worry about them in the wrong order. A lot of the most insane complexity comes out of moving too quickly with data.

If you don't have good staging data after running extraction (i.e., a 1:1 view of the source system data available in your database), there is nothing you can do to help with this downstream. You should stop right there and keep digging.

Extracting the data should be the most challenging aspect of an ETL pipeline. It can make a lot of sense to write custom software to handle this part. It is worth the investment because if you do the extraction really well, the transform & load stages can happen as a combined afterthought [0,1,2,3] in many situations.

This also tends to be one of the fastest ways to deal with gigantic amounts of data. If you are doing things like pulling 2 different tables and joining them in code as part of your T/L stages, you are really missing out on the power of views, CTEs, TVFs, merge statements, etc.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/merge...

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-merge.html

[2] https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLRF/statements_9017.h...

[3] https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/12.1?topic=statements-merge
Repetitive and boring.
I believe Europe ends and the Dniester river on its southeastern-most side.

Unlike you, I don't think the EU had any business participating in this war.

I wouldn't dismiss a nuclear exchange quite easily.
Dupe (362 points, 1 day ago, 107 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301369
The DOJ isn't prosecuting him and if it did he would simply be pardoned.
I've no idea who we is.

For a start the vector is very different. And I don't doubt there are unknown other attacks. But I'm discussing attacks we know about because they put them in policy papers and legislation.

Absurd discussion
Elon seems really unhinged, and there's so much to criticize without reaching for inflammatory labels.

I don't understand the gesture. It's not something I see myself ever doing. But here's Tim Walz doing the exact same thing on video. Evidence of secret NSDAP membership?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qdntrfPInBk
Archive anyone?
Here's why everyone is fat in the US: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-per-capita-caloric-...

It's not "aspartame". It's eating out twice as much as we did in early 70s [1], rise of fast food consumption, and huge portion sizes.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-consumption-nutr...
Elsewhere in this thread there is literally an example of someone who, by their own description, worked at a FAANG company for some years getting good performance reviews, has enough interview experience that even if they couldn't generally code their way out of a paper bag they were surely good at interview-question coding, ... and, under pressure from a pushy interviewer, completely failed to do a straightforward coding task.

I guess they could just by lying "to protect their ego" but in that case why post their comment at all?

It really is the case that some people sometimes completely go to pieces when stressed, and mocking them by saying "muh anxiety" doesn't stop that being true.
Sometimes the maker of the game offers a ROM for download, either for purchase or for free. There are USB devices that'll dump a ROM cartridge, such as the Retrode.
https://archive.is/BNzS2
Well, the US has been the most prosperous country for a long time, so clearly something is working. Maybe the "empire" has nothing to do with it, sure, but I'd like to see you support your position instead of nitpicking other people's.
I’ve worked with people who raised comments like these in PRs and they were a nightmare: always arguing, never listening to anyone but themselves, and generally full of ego. Good developers but often slow to deliver too.

If you’re focused on what character of “GitHub” or “oauth” should capitalised in a variable name, then you really are focusing on the wrong problems of software development.
The term 'receiver' has a long and distinguished history.
Alan Kay used it, Smalltalk used the word almost exclusively.
If Zoomers don't know their computer science history that's on them.
Also, BMW, Rivian, Ford and (until recently; not sure about the new ones) GM. Kia and Hyundai share the same platforms. Subaru, Stellantis, Lucid, Volvo (Polestar) and Audi are shipping too. Toyota and Honda are basically the only holdouts.
Well, I used the opportunity to be present. I was being a bit facetious about being tricked into it; it's a state I like to enter instead of being on a screen to begin with.
Although also responsive, the solution to incorrectly applying models _isn't_ to get more models, it's to understand the mistakes being made in applying them.
Death Stranding 2
Anyone who would rather not be alive is free to make that decision. Why are you still alive if you really believe this?
> who claimed they were acting on a state department order to revoke his green card, according to his attorney

I thought green cards can only be revoked in rather limited circumstances. What is he accused of?
I definitely agree, but on the other hand I think it is cool when they try and do things realistically, e.g. in The Expanse. I don't think it lost anything for not having whooshy spaceship sounds. IIRC Battlestar Gallactica also didn't have sound in space? Been a while though I might have forgotten that.

Still, a camera isn't supposed to show you exactly what eyes would see. I think it's fine in this case.
> exactly same news was posted may be 6 months back.

Well this is the old article (maybe not 6 but few months).
Indeed. So why it should it come by default?
The Democratic Party started working with disaffected GOP at the end of the election rather than their own constituents yelling for representation.
They find this slide in tyranny more acceptable than fighting against it.
headline is misleading, as far as anyone can tell he's been kidnapped, not arrested. allegedly, they:

- follow him in to his home

- refuse to identify themselves

- tell him his green card has been cancelled

- tell his wife they'll kidnap her too if she intervenes

- takes him somewhere

- won't tell anyone where he is, including his (8 month pregnant) wife and lawyer

allegedly they have done this because he's been loudly critical of the policies of a foreign government, which as everyone knows, is not a crime. as everyone also knows, random feds can't just kidnap you even if they think you have committed an actual crime.
This has happened so many times for me.

The latest one for me was a discussion about the Olympic boxer from Algeria. Apparently it was proven through leaked medical records that she does, in fact, have XY chromosomes.

I did some digging. 99.999% of the articles covering this are just circular references to each other celebrating their moral victory. Finally I found the original source which was an online-only French newspaper that as best I could tell publishes like three articles a year from random guest contributors.

Reading the “leaked report”, the only evidence are screenshots of photocopies of… what literally just seems to be a textbook explaining the supposed condition she has. Not regarding her specifically. Literally just a textbook description of the condition.

There are no confirming documents. Nothing with her name on it. Nothing with an actual lab result. Nothing but a random Internet personality pseudonymously claiming that they somehow, out of all the other possible news outlets on earth, received leaked copies of her medical report. And zero receipts.

By all means, read for yourself and determine if this is a credible source: https://lecorrespondant.net/imane-khelif-ni-ovaires-ni-uteru...

Every. Single. Time. that I dive into actual claims from the conservative outrage machine, there is nothing there. This specific topic has the right running victory laps, reposting one another as their primary sources. Nobody has bothered to look if it was actually based on anything real.
The term “receiver” comes from Smalltalk: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/SSL-76-6...
> why is Europe so content to be under our yoke?

Sorry to disappoint, but Europe is not particularly content to be under the US yoke.

Actually, the US has been actively pressuring Europe to keep it under their yoke. For decades.
In order to replicate this, you need to invade countries and conquer them to test out your equipment, soldiers discipline and whatnot.

I don't see EU countries starting to invade other countries around the globe to test out weapons systems and battlefield tactics. The US on the other hand, kind of did this continuously since WWW2 (to mention recent history).
Recent and related:

El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42925210 - Feb 2025 (858 comments)
I used Golang in a medium and large project. To anyone learning or thinking about learning Go, try it and ignore the online opinions.

I say this as someone who is simultaneously impressed by some parts of it, and gobsmacked at other parts.

Just ignore the dogmatic Gopher priests.
> But generally rolling your own has other benefits.

Not for startups it doesn't. The only rolling-your-own they should be doing is their main product.

Once you get bigger with many hundreds of employees, and existing software starts becoming a measurable blocker, then you can gradually build your own stuff once the tradeoffs actually make sense. But it generally takes a while for that to become the case. For startups, premature optimization isn't the root of all evil, but it's the root of a lot of it.
You mean like “go fmt”?

https://go.dev/blog/gofmt
How the Economists Took over the NBA
This just begs the next "why". Why are people eating more now?

Such a significant behavior change across a large population is not well explained by "we just did".

I'm not sure fast food consumption or huge portion sizes is a great explanation. If fast food is the problem, why does that matter if it just comes down to calories? As for larger portion sizes, would even larger portions make us continue eating? Would tiny portion sizes make us all deadly malnourished?
"Modern" .NET (previously ".NET Core" v1, v2, v3 - but now just ".NET" v6, v7, v8, v9) works really well on Linux and in containers etc. "Legacy" .NET, .NET Framework, version 4.X, does not.

If you build something new today in .NET land you are using a version that is compatible out of the box with linux, but there's gazillions of LOC .NET Framework out in enterprises that have yet not been migrated/rewritten.

But I don't actually know if Mono is stable enough to run Framework services on Linux?

I don't know how (if at all) Kudu is related to Mono, but on Azure you can run .NET Framework in e.g App Services (which uses Kudo under the hood). It's probably the only way to host a Framework service outside of IIS on a Windows VM. And Kudo contains references to Mono, and looks really linuxy when I've used it.
It says it in the title, he's Palestinian. Nevermind that it's likely illegal, we don't live in a world where that matters any more.
It depends on which Iraq war they mean. Most people your age and under typically mean the second war, when the US did invade Iraq.

But yes, the first time it was Iraq that was the belligerent and invaded Kuwait.
Sweeteners are processed food. Timeline shows more processed food hitting the market, period. Obesity rises. Coincidence? Doubt it.

It's not just the sweetener itself. It's the whole shift. More processed crap in everything, sweeteners included. Cheaper, easier, engineered to be addictive. That's the real change that lines up with the weight gain.

Focusing just on sweeteners is missing the point. They're just one piece of the bigger processed food takeover. That's the simpler, more likely explanation.
The mods here are some of the wisest people I know and I don't think they would let that happen.
Maybe I'm feeding a troll but please expound on your assertion.
Thanks for the encouragement! I'm working on it steadily and feedback like yours helps keep me motivated
Such as what? An extra arm with a built in iphone?
Money Won't Save You [video]
End-to-end Encryption: How we stopped trusting clouds and learned how to encrypt
Knowing I would be out alone for a meal, I would have carried reading material- book, magazine, paper articles. Maybe a notebook to scribble notes.

Now, I have an internet of reading material via my phone. Or my tablet.

My family and I are close. We talk lots and often and tend to have enough context when a sentence or two needs speaking. We go out together, we chat a bit at the start of a meal, and we don’t need to speak much afterwards. We don’t get awkward, we can be quiet. But my brain continues - write a note, surface-level research on an idea … so we each look at a device for a few minutes. My daughter is keeping in touch with her significant other, my wife is likely gaming or maybe window shopping. If anyone speaks up, we pull away from the devices to talk.

I’m personally not addicted to the device itself. But I’m like Johnny 5 - my intellectual curiosity is difficult to satiate. The readily available access to “input” is what keeps me plugged in.

Back on topic: these art projects, or statements, or whatever that are designed to bring attention to our attention to our phones … interesting, fun, perhaps important. But I’m not a fan of the social nostalgia that sometimes appears in the comments. I never did just interact with strangers. Never had a meaningful conversation with a random person. I would have had my face in a book.

In 2025, my phone is my book.
It doesn’t matter if it’s over or underrated - what matters is if you want to be compatible with existing code and documentation.

I wish C didn’t have strtok, but it’s too late.
> This is at about the time the obesity epidemic took off. Correlation != causation.

Average heights continued increasing through the 1980s. This suggests that a not insignificant chunk of the population was still in caloric deprivation until the 1990s. You can't get obesity while lots of people are still continuously hungry. For this one, correlation probably is causation.

In addition, smoking bans took off in the 1990s. Nicotine is a noted appetite suppressant. Correlation might be causation. You may be trading the problems of smoking for the problems of obesity--probably a decent trade.
A lot of Go libraries are ports of famous libraries from other languages, with "go" shoehorned somewhere into the name.
The bizarre quantum paradox of 'negative time'
I kind of went down a rabbit hole trying to figure out how to do this in the modern era. It might be easier to send it via email or some other method.
there is, gofmt :)
PHP works, quick to build quick to deploy
Desloratadine is considered to have a low anticholinergic burden, and of course not crossing the BBB readily should reduce risks further.

But it is one of the more anticholinergic second gen antihistamines, make of that what you will, still miles behind something like Benadryl. Fexofenadine is apparently a less anticholinergic alternative.
Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)
So you took the generous route in publicly shaming them.

I think their quibble was with a different item being used as evidence there (i.e., having a family), not necessarily with all that was said.
When can I start storing passwords in mine?
If the high tarriff environment sticks around, including reciprocal tarriffs, the issue is either you produce in the US and have good access to the US and poor access everywhere else, or you produce outside the US and have poor access to the US, and good access to much of everywhere else (depending on things).

The US is a big and important market, and for some things, it would be better to forgo competitiveness in the rest of world market; but for others, rest of world adds up to be more important.
I'm a resident of a leftist enclave in the US, and that's what "the left" refers to, unless you have a better definition? I'm not sure what your complaint was, I've been very specific about the groups I'm talking about, but I still have not idea what you consider "the left" to be. If there isn't a distinction between liberal and "the leftl in your view then we have been talking past each other. Liberals haven't turned away from Ukraine, they have supported Ukraine, there's a clear distinction. But the left in the US is aligned with Trump on this matter, and there's also a lot of crossover from the left to Trump in the form of Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr, who both get a lot of yard signs in my town from houses that were "leftist" a mere year ago.
Making statements in support of or in support of the actions of a proscribed terrorist group.