halfdan | 1 year ago | on: 5.6M vacant homes and counting: There's a housing crisis brewing in the US
They mean to cover their loan payments they need to pay >50% of their income.
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halfdan | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker
Portfolio Performance (http://portfolio-performance.app) does just that.
halfdan | 1 year ago
I'm not quite sure how to place this. For general app telemetry there's https://opentelemetry.io and for tracking user behavior similar to how it's explained in your docs it looks like https://segment.io would be the closest competitor.
How is telemetry.sh different from the above-mentioned?
halfdan | 1 year ago | on: ICQ will stop working from June 26
In the purest sense of those two words it was a social way to interact with a network of people?
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Superconductivity scandal: the story of deception in a physics lab
The big problem in academia very often is that you cannot simply take your research and finish your PhD elsewhere. With jobs you mostly can switch without losing much. Obviously depends on the situation.
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Heads up – effectively offline for now
Ok: How do you charge your device?
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Spotify starts divesting from France in response to new music-streaming tax
They basically killed off all the other minority languages they had in their country (like oxitan) and homogenised on standard French. Some irony in that.
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Indexing a billion pages
Except then it needs to be 30M pages/day. 3M * 30 days just nets you 90M
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Watsonx: IBM's code assistant for turning COBOL into Java
You’re looking at salaries for COBOL programmers in the UK which is a small subset of an already small market.
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Uber raises its minimum age for California drivers to 25
Ah yes, hence why Americans get their drivers permit at 16 and can shoot weapons and deploy to war shortly after.
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
This seems a US centric problem. No one in Europe has carried checks since the 90s and large bank transactions are really a non issue as they resolve within a banking day and for a small fee you can usually do real time transfers too.
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands
And you clearly want to carry 3000+ EUR in your pocket than paying by card? Europe is safe, but I will definitely not walk around with that much cash on my person.
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Federal Judge Upholds Finding That AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable
What’s with the burden of proof? How do you prove that something was AI generated in the first place?
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Californian Roads Could Soon Have Speed Cameras Issuing Tickets
The way it works in Germany is that the fine will go to the owner. The owner can then accept the fine or identify who was actually driving when the offence was committed. In case this ends in the dispute the owner can be made to keep a record of all rides - with hefty fines should they not be accurate when a later offence occurs.
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: A conversation with a newspaper owner raided by cops
It’s ambiguous and I also read “him” as the police chief being raided.
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Automatic music playlist generation via simulation-based reinforcement learning
Add to that having kids at home that sometimes listen to Paw Patrol and you will end up with a daily mix that consists of (in my case): Death Metal, news, random clip from paw patrol, German rap (I only like one artist not that genre in general).
I’ve been longing for a “kids mode” for a long time.
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: When were flagged submissions/comments added to the profile page?
I think you misread the latter part of the sentence - OP said they provided the raw text in a comment. This is no different than some other paywalled articles posted here where the first comment usually just links to the web archive for a non-paywalled version.
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://geekmonkey.org
Fifteen years of on/off blogging. Took it way too serious ten years ago and published anything I could and nowadays I just blog when I have something useful to share. Working on a couple of Elixir posts currently.
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why Discord instead of a public forum?
> I don't really understand how anyone thinks a forum is a viable alternative to Discord.
That wasn’t what OP asked though. They asked why Reddit communities are replacing a forum like website with a real time chat where there’s no easy way to search through history.
halfdan | 2 years ago | on: Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings
My guess is that their assets are similarly exposed like SVB or First Republic's. Any long term asset they hold has just lost a massive amount of value and so they need to make up for it by taking the ECB rate and not passing it on to customers.
The fee banks that do pass it on will only do so for newly deposited money.
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