skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are tons of things inflating house prices. The most important for Sweden are

- Deduction of interest expenses from income tax.

- Too long mortgages (100 years or more) means nominal prices are high which add to the risk

- Historically big mortgages (90, 100 or even 110% of the cost could be financed - yes
negativev down payments existed in the early 2000's).

- Rent control of almost all flats, meaning no one will build places to rent, only to buy.

- Extremely low interest rates as the central bank refuses to look at housing costs and interest rates when aiming for the inflation target.

This is the recipe for disaster. Now, it's not ALL doom and gloom, a lot has actually improved. Down payments have been 15-25% for some time now, mortgages are no longer infinite, and banks are using max-multiple-of-household-income caps (typically 4-5x) to limit lending. I think the situation now is a bit brighter than it would have been if we had been hit by a big correction in 2008 (which we were not). Many would welcome a controlled price correction (say 10-15%), and it IS expected since all the above changes have yet NOT changed the prices downward, even though the pool of prospective buyers gets smaller and smaller the more restrictive lenders are. It would be very welcome to see the correction now that both domestic and global economy is decent, interest rates are low etc.
Well, an "and" is possible to the extent that there isn't a sufficient supply of people thinking "or" competing for the job.

There are a number of self-imposed mechanisms that put downward pressure on compensation for developers. Willingness to take what are effectively lottery tickets and rationalizing it as discounted or future potential earnings is one of them.
You are most likely getting downvoted because of statements such as:

> These guys are not honest people, just copycats under the guise of "open".
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Dunno if this is a good value propositon since the layoffs for the people that were working on Unity.
I use XPS 13 (9350 model from 2016) with Fedora and it is mostly seamless. The only thing that does not work neither under original Ubuntu nor with Fedora was a "docking station", the extra that Dell provided that connects to USB-3 port and provided more ports, monitor connection and power. I just could not get it to work with an external monitor without being too blurry.

Hardware-wise the biggest disappointment was screen. QHD+ resolution is nice in theory, but the screen is just way too reflective. Using screen protector helped somewhat to mitigate the problem, but it is still far from what you get with proper mate screens. The screen can be a lesser issue if it could be opened to a wider angle, but the max angle is just not enough to avoid the reflections from surrounding lamps.

Another thing is the touchpad. It works OK but I do not understand why nobody in PC world can match Apple. Even touchpad on MacBook Air from 2013 is better than what Dell provides. And the issue is not the Linux drivers, as I run Fedora on that MacBook Air as well.

On the positive side the cooling fan is very quiet, way better than MacBook Air. Even under heavy load the noise is not distracting.
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Not with the comically low dwpd people have been seeing.
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No necessarily competent. It could be that they are well read on the subject but have no practical experience in it. So they seem able to converse in the subject's vocabulary but if they were to sit down and try to make something they would fail.
You never really pay for Windows. Most OEM vendors make up for the price of the license by installing tons of additional crap on every Windows they ship out, so practically Windows does not make your laptop more expensive.
>Customization is much more important than speed.

Obviously it's not, since the majority of Firefox user base (which used to be very high) jumped to Chrome 5-10 years ago, despite the first having customizations (add-ons) and the latter not yet (and when it added, incompatible ones).

In fact, by mozilla's own estimates (based on telemetry), only about 33% or so of their users even use add-ons.
"Shut down and get off the internet" is what the leaders in these countries want people to do.

The question isn't for individuals, it's for distribution. If you're in these countries essentially the only way to reach the people these days is through Facebook. Any other option and you're handing out a poorly xeroxed zine on the side of the street. The president of the country used to explicitly run the censorship of media in Yugoslavia. Nothing gets published without a tacit sign off even now.

Facebook promised to democratize interactions, got every journalist in the world to go along with it, and then pulled the carpet.
Ah, true. But I thought Rust was supposed to help with more than just concurrency related bugs?
Do you think they'd be better off without Free Basics at all, or more that they'd be better off if it worked differently?
This is sort of like arguing with your gym that Republicans lost Virginia because they played only CNN and not Fox News on their TV, or played MTV.
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> "testing in production" indeed. One of my repos has been stuck in limbo for over 2 months now
> after I attempted to migrate it to a group namespace from my own profile.

Have you created an issue for this on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support-forum/issues?
Facebook was bashed for not doing enough to counter efforts by individuals and foreign governments to spread false and misleading stories in the run up to recent elections.

The solution is not to downplay articles from established news organisations, especially not organisations that Facebook users have chosen to follow.
What is a "mid-level leader"?
Of course!

I tried a few different ways; ordering was kind of difficult. I tried a couple PMs on Reddit which got lost, I tried the order form a couple times from facebook.com/lcdfans but that didn't work out either. Then I sent a Facebook message, Jacky responded and we started emailing. That worked. I think their email addresses are listed on the FB page. Basically the strategy is to be relentless haha.

Ordering itself took more than a month; I think I wired money 10/5 and finally got them 11/10.

I did order them assembled and they were perfectly new, no blemishes, scratches or anything. They're so new it's eerie (because all the parts are new old stock), except it's such a beautiful experience you don't care. I think the shell I got was an X61s; I still have that X60 and there are some small differences (no infrared, for example), but they mod them - ex: for the video outputs - so it's possible they do other tiny mods also.

I ordered 2; one was completely fine, the 2nd freezes with 2 DIMMs installed (works fine w/ 1) and I haven't decided whether or not to warranty it.

All of which is to say that you're right, it's significantly more effort than just loading up Amazon and clicking a few times, but I love ThinkPads so it was completely worth it to me. Even with 1 DIMM I'm super satisfied - so I guess either I'm completely in the tank or they're really great haha.

LMK if you have any more questions :)
Local municipalities have veto rights to block development.
There are also a bunch of rules, often overlapping, than may stop planning. All planning decisions can also be (and are) appealed for years.

There is also a lack of cheap housing, most houses built today are unaffordable to most low/medium earners. This has become an even more acute problem with the recent influx of refugees. This has lead to overcrowding in poorer suburbs.
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The Economist: Blue-collar wages are surging. Can it last?
What was the load time of the page on Netscape Navigator and a Pentium processor over 1996 era dialup?
>This is an existential threat, not only to my organization and others like it but also to the ability of citizens in all of the countries subject to Facebook’s experimentation to discover the truth about their societies and their leaders.

I understand that the author is running an investigative nonprofit which likely does his country a large service. With that being said, I'm having a hard time feeling sorry for an organization which consciously buit itself up using Facebook as a foundation. Facebook is not a nonprofit organization and should be expected to experiment in capitalizing on its users.
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The title needs "[the band]" inserting:

>"Aaron Gilbreath considers the impact a live Jane’s Addiction recording has had on him, and the effect heroin had on the band’s — and his own — creativity."
Much of the support for UBI comes from a segment of the libertarian right which sees it as a way to eliminate welfare bureaucracy and regulation (not just regulation in the public benefit space, but also minimum wages and some others.)

It's not really a “hard left” policy, it's more a policy of pragmatic libertarians on both left and right, opposed by both dogmatic libertarians (because it remains a public intervention, if lighter-touch than the status quo policies it would displace immediately or over time) and those on the left and right with a stronger preference for government control and direction.
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Has anyone used LightStep [x]PM in your software stack? Would be interested in hearing your experiences.
From Debian News (https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/): yes and it is going to be named Salsa (https://wiki.debian.org/Salsa).
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Why? He could very well write it from the POV of the company, distancing himself - in this case using the third person is nothing unusual.
Except that people don't rely on their gym for 90% of their media diet, and their gym's TV isn't controlled by a company thousands of miles away that can change all the screens in harmony.
Much more likely the experiment is from medium itself, A/B testing different sharing UI.
If that was true, you should see significant differences between religions. And at the same time very little differences within religions.

That does not seem to hold. Looks like religions just tend to echo some sort of natural chastity. And that is hardly surprising given how recent things religions are and how old thins STDs are.

"Oh you have tingling feeling in your weewee, it's wrath of God!" and you just explained one thing away while giving more credibility to the god thing your trying to promote.
Is Google limiting freedom because it automatically hides "spam" in mail? Spam in quotes because it's spam that the user has subscribed for. It's absolutely the same concept.

It's beneficial to the users and Facebook owes the pages absolutely nothing. It has to cater to the users if it wants to sell ads, and this is beneficial to the users (or at least how Facebook sees its users).

And while I agree it's not solely a media issue, they were extremely loud about it. Following many pages in the country that is already affected, the media cried out the most (for an individual user, me, they have the same voice as smaller pages).
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> Too long mortgages (100 years or more) means nominal prices are high which add to the risk

That is absolutely bananas. Almost like a Chinese-style 99 year lease. Your kids might be dead by the time it's paid off, you'll never own it.

Edit: apparently the AVERAGE mortgage term is 140 years! Just recently the Swedish government limited the maximum mortgage term to 105 years. That is some absolutely stupid policy.
I've enjoyed Ceglowski's talks but he says a lot of things that just are clearly wrong in this article.

"When you have a monopoly you can’t really have a consumer boycott," Ceglowski said. "People can’t realistically not use Google or Facebook at this stage"

What? People can't not use Google or Facebook? I use Bing sometimes, it works fine, and of course you only really need to use search engines at all if your job requires it. And lots of people don't use Facebook, or used to use it and no longer do. This statement is just so clearly and factually false it is disappointing.

For progressives like Ceglowski, organizing tech workers is ... about pressuring companies to do better on a range of issues, from sexual harassment in the workplace, to user privacy and security, to election integrity

"Election integrity" presumably meaning that he wants the tech industry to control what people see about politics and politicians, lest they accidentally vote for the wrong guy.

As for doing more on progressive agendas ... the big tech firms are all notoriously controlled by an extremist "progressive" agenda already. How exactly does this guy expect Google to do even more than it already does on things like privacy and security, or sexual harassment in the workplace? They fired Damore for having the audacity to point out that years of bending over backwards to recruit more women had failed to make much difference because women don't study CS at the same rate - a verifiable fact that upset a bunch of fundamentalist feminists.

The idea that the tech industry needs to unionise to force tech firms to be even more Clintonite, globalist and to try and control elections is tremendously disturbing. My respect for this guy has plummeted.
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I'm at the point where I don't even notice any more, and can use the keyboard all day. But for the first 3 weeks I was seriously cursing and bringing down the house of hades on the designers for making such curious decisions as to the placement of ; and {} and so on .. however, with practice, I've become very used to the keyboard and no longer even really care. I do have to state, however, that I've been at the computer game longer than a lot of people (4 decades, almost 5), and I've had this keyboard-adjustment-period factor many times in my life, so its not a deal-breaker when things get churlish.
The online fsck support looks really cool. We use XFS at work because Ext4 has issues dealing with too many files. Anyone else use XFS for other reasons ?
Wolfram has always been overblown about mathematica and his own pet projects around cellular automata.
A correction devoutly to be wished
Well, we’re on Hacker News here, aren’t we? In that way, it is "supported", for the people that are frequenting this site.

But sure, for the average user, it’s basically useless.
> Then in April 1995, right after the devastating bombing at a federal building in Oklahoma City, the Unabomber attacked again, perhaps peeved that another bomber was making headlines. A package bomb killed a timber industry lobbyist in Sacramento. Days later, Unabomber threatened to blow up a plane out of Los Angeles; and then he promised to stop the bombings if The New York Times and Washington Post published his 35,000-word, anti-technology, anti-modern-civilization diatribe.

This guy must be really disappointed to see what the world has became.

http://edition.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/topten/una...
Hiding spam is not a threat to the public good.
ehhh..... Really
Yes what could be worse for democracy than people seeing more posts from their friends.

Does anyone know if the views of paid page posts are going to go up, or is it just that the views of unpaid page posts are going to go down? Maybe that level of detail isn't public, but it seems important for deciding how to tell this story.
Why do you think Buddhism is so much better?
With an egregious EULA. I wouldn't touch a dell Ubuntu image with a ten foot pole.
It definitely needs some <marquee>
I remember at open sopurce conferences, people used to give out stickers with Tux or an Ubuntu or Debian logo to stick on top of the Windows key. Not quite the same of course.
Because people rule their life on base of beliefs, maybe ? (beliefs=unproven concepts assumed to be true)
Whether it's a crash or not is independent of whether you even haven a monitoring system, an operations staff, or even if you run the program as a service or not.

Heck, your monitoring system could still notice the program exiting and call your operations stuff in Rust's case too.

And a user with sudo rights killing -9 a program you run might or might not send anything to your monitoring system -- but that wont be a crash either.

I think the important point the parent is trying to make is between a crash and a controlled exit, that is whether you get a stacktrace, things can be called to cleanup, etc.

Merely calling all the cases just "crash" would lose that distinction. It's like calling all vehicles "vehicles". Sure, it's accurate, but I want to know if it was a car, a motorcycle, a truck or whatever.
If Capitalism is your sole guiding philosophy, Facebook is doing nothing wrong. But if you believe that companies (of any size) should seek to "do no harm" in the world, Facebook is coming up woefully short.
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Couldn't find it quickly as the title has changed (for the better), thanks.
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As stated in the article, generating the SVG to use as a placeholder can be very expensive.

I, myself fiddled with the idea in one of my side-projects and ended up using the technique where I save the dominant colors from an image, which I’m using to create a CSS gradient as the placeholder.
The effect can be seen on https://epicpxls.com
They're an unconnected user referencing Kellyanne Conway, I'm fairly sure.
Let me try:

Take the famous example of [king] and [queen] being close neighbors in vector space after generating the word vectors ("embedding"). If you then use these vectors to represent the words in your text, a sentence about kings will also add information about the concept of queens, and vice versa. To a far lesser degree, such a sentence will also add to your knowledge of [ceo], and, further down, [mechanical engineer]. But it will not change the system's knowledge of [stereo].
Well, the touchscreen factor should not be underestimated. I've gotten rid of an iPad, a netbook, and a desktop workstation by having the GPD Pocket serve the same basic functions as each .. where I would comfortably use the iPad for reading, I now use the GPD. Where I would normally have a workstation PC for development, same GPD. Where I would absolutely have had a netbook to pack in a bag alongside the snacks for trips up the mountain, same GPD.

If the next GPD is a little larger, with a moderately improved keyboard and expansion options - its going to replace my MacBook subscription, no doubt about it.
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From that link: Once Mir’s support for Wayland clients is on a par with the support for “native” Mir clients we will likely phase out support for the latter.

Does that mean they want to phase out Mir once they have a full Wayland display server? I thought the whole point for them was to continue to support those that are already using Mir? This still doesn't make any sense to me.

I thought one of the original distinctions was that Mir was going to work with the old closed-source nVidia driver, while Wayland insisted on doing it the "right" way and made nVidia catch up instead of pandering to them. Other than that, I've never heard anything to justify Mir's existence. Why not just start with an existing Wayland server that supports all the features and move on? They'll reach the end goal faster.

I'm not trying to be negative, but if the end goal is to be a Wayland display server then why is it so hard to let Mir die? Is it just pride? Separation Anxiety? ;-) j.k. but really what is it?
Recent topic discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15678139
I'm not even sure that Serbia has "free basics". It's a fairly well developed country with a 110% mobile penetration rate (last I checked, probably higher now), 4G and the prices are dirt cheap and affordable for the vast majority of the population.
The interesting thing about word2vec is that is an unsupervised method that build vectors to represent each word in a way that makes easy to find relationship between them.

There is a video by the creator of Gensim on word2vec and frieds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTp3P2UnTfQ

We didn't include it, simply because it relies on machine learning and we wanted to show simpler methods.
8Gb of RAM really makes the difference between production and frustration. I've had 'all the machines', but this is the first time I've been totally satisfied to the point where I can easily recommend it to my other developer peers as a reference ..
Yup. IIRC he continues to write from prison...

EDIT: removed hasty personal judgement.
Isn't that turned off when you disable "search suggestions"?

I don't like search suggestions even in Chrome. I find it makes the omnibar less useful.

The omnibar was the game changer for me when Chrome did it. I never have many tabs open as I can recall anything I've visited previously by typing a few words. More often than not what I want is one of the first suggestions.

So to help with this, I turn off search suggestions since they are not relevant to my past browser activity. I also got in the habit of frequently using Private window so that my History has more relevant content. It's great and I'm confident I don't need to bookmark a lot.
When will we learn that a "strong" housing market is not necessarily a good thing? High housing prices are great for those who already owned houses but terrible for everyone else (e.g. the entire generations born after prices became inflated). Not to mention people are greedy and will over leverage themselves when interest rates are good. No country should let the "landed gentry" hold them hostage over interest rates or tax policy so that their assets - many of which they do not even actually own - can appreciate.
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Yes, I think this is really about wide-spread availability - there have been other Macbook-killers, but none as readily available as the GPD Pocket so far, imho ..
Hey all, would like to know what do you think about the no-code tools in general and the future of no-code development. Shoot your comment to fire up the discussion :)
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That article said that CK emailed and apologized to many of the women years earlier. The only ones he seemingly didn’t were the two in the hotel room which, according to other sources, agreed to let CK do it. Maybe they thought he was joking but he may not have realized they weren’t okay with it.
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I've followed GPD since the days of the GP2X and GP32 game consoles (also an awesome example of hardware disruption done in a way that the mainstream players can't compete) .. and I do look forward to the next product from GPD. Hopefully they'll build on the Pocket concept and make improvements - if they do, I'll be replacing my MacBook subscription with a GPD signup ... ;)
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Probably this link: http://blog.ffwll.ch/2017/08/github-why-cant-host-the-kernel... ?

In that case, yes, that applies to GitLab too. The main problem is how GitHub and GitLab manage subprojects: GitLab forks are strictly hierarchical in how they manage pull requests and contributions (you can only submit patches from your repo to the single repo that you forked from).

But that may not be an issue for per-package repositories like Debian has on alioth. Debian does not have a monotree like the Linux kernel, every (source) package is a standalone project so the same objection does not apply here.
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Network latency has always been significantly more than rendering time by the browser.