skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can put some perspective on this. We got priced out of the market in Feb. According to the bank, we can't get a mortgage where the overall cost of the payments on all our debt can't exceed 41% of our pre-tax income. Given that our student loans eat about 20% of our pre-tax income, that means we only have 20% of our income left for housing. Rising interest rates means that more of our house payment goes to interest which means less of it is left for principal, so we cannot afford the same home we could last Oct. The tax incentives used to mean that we could deduct a good chunk of our housing costs from our taxes and use some of that money to live, bringing it inline with what we would pay for rent. However, that changed and made renting easier on us financially.

High student loan payments and high mortgage rates means that the only thing left to give is the price of the home. Or the bank can be cool with us leveraging ourselves to 50+% income.
OK, I read the paper, I was hoping for a repeating sequence of Theorem, Proof Motivation/Explanation, repeat... English word salad motivating the strategy or approach, but proofs for each claim.

Perhaps they have proofs, but they're not in the paper.

Now it's just impact factor jello :(

Moreover, it seemms that the initiator of a transaction chooses its own inspector, who then chooses the next. What prevents the united 99% conspiring malicious from selecting each other as inspectors, and underwriting each other?
The screenshot in question cut off the explaination of why. I'm one of the Pony developers and I took it to be mocking.
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Agreed, but these are planned events where you won't have connectivity, so you can copy the files to a local folder prior to the trip. I recognize that might not be as convenient as having the system perform a push to your machine to sync it. I think in those cases I'd probably just run rsync against the keybase folder.
True, but they can compromise the machine that runs VuePress (or at least, run arbitrary userlevel JS code on it).
> What are the numbers like for other cities?

Those numbers aren't collected in a national and standardized way. Even if other cities collected data about this question, please don't compare the numbers without also comparing survey methodology.
This was tried in the UK before with generally positive results eg In 1982 in the Wirral, 400 addicts

>...93 per cent drop in theft and burglary. ‘You could see them transform in front of your own eyes,’ Lofts told a newspaper, amazed. ‘They came in in outrageous condition, stealing daily to pay for illegal drugs; and became, most of them, very amiable, reasonable law-abiding people.’ He said elsewhere: ‘Since the clinics opened, the street heroin dealer has slowly but surely abandoned the streets of Warrington and Widnes.’ https://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/05/the-case-for-prescriptio...
Wholly under rated.
The post is not about whether this is a good choice for its users; the post is about whether there are nathematical objections to it. The author even writes that they don't agree with the engineering decision to define it like that, but they can't object with an appeal to mathematics. It lists three valid choices for handling division by zero and Pony picked one of them. My personal favorite is to shrink the domain but that's not supported in most languages and those that support it are often not meant for number crunching.
You can't define your own in Pony but,

/?, *?, +? and -? are coming to Pony. We call them "safe math operators" and will error on integer overflow, underflow, and division by zero.
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Wow this is surprising. With all due respect to the plaintiff and the suffering that he and his family are going through, my (limited) understanding is that there just isn't enough evidence to show that his cancer was caused by exposure to Roundup. If there is anyone more well-versed on the subject who would like to make a case to the contrary I would be interested in learning more.

This ruling, and the recent $4.7 billion ruling against Johnson & Johnson that baby powder causes cancer must have chemical and pharmaceutical companies terrified.
Budget airlines fly with a fleet of modern airplanes, maybe even more modern than larger airlines. Is there any evidence of increased risk of safety?
Hmm but Norwegians have probably the highest standard of living in the world already. It's a super rich country with a generous welfare state.
Why does this link say Google?
That was pretty enlightening and I found it amusing that people can paint a character from one piece of evidence, however far fetched their conclusions might be. This is why I keep anonymity on the internet.

If you meet me in person, you would come to the complete opposite conclusion - I thrive in design, arts, and creative/craftsmen subject matter.

I don't have a problem with creative/design things. I just want it to be good. In the words of Paul Rand - "Don't try to be creative or original. Try to be good." In the case of Cartography, in my view Cartographers just don't use aesthetics for the sake of aesthetics or in your words "prettify" things. Their purpose is to communicate geographical data to their audience in the most precise unambiguous way possible. Have you ever looked at an FAA Section chart?

I urge you to dig further into my comment history, I hope you like it!
Or treat it like methadone where you must consume it on site. Not that hard.
I do not think Internet forums are set up well for physchological safety. Aside from forums being hostile places for quite frankly everyone, tone is difficult to perceive in a forum post. I think it would be better to newcomers to the site to have some training about the sites rules, culture, and what to expect posting there. We really need to push development communities to more human to human IRL contact.
To elaborate on the 'nice little shortcut' you mentioned, here it is:

If a==b and N≠0, then x==y

EDIT: Formatting
Jeez what do you expect? This is interesting news and comments are pretty thoughtful as well.
That actually seems a good deal less than the ratio of non homeless folks that are not from San Francisco (much larger than 31%)
Being a heroin addict already sucks - the main disencientives are that you will probably die, that you’ll get dope sick, that you’ll lose friends and family. People who get into heroin don’t do it because of some cost benifit analysis, but because they are truely desperate.
I don't think the plan is to rehabilitate them. I think the plan is to mitigate the consequences of addicts taking harmful actions towards others (robbery, assault) in order to get their fix. The theory is it's cheaper and safer to society to just give addicts what they need so their addiction doesn't harm others.
Why would real addicts buy it if it is available for free?
Yup, that's how they got me hooked. After I was in, I understood the advantages of making bundles.
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How does free heroin rehabilitate anyone?

When did Norwegian taxpayers sign up to fund a global heroin haven?

It's pretty simple...if you are a heroin addict anywhere in the world who can afford a one-way ticket to Norway...

Of course much of the free heroin will end up being resold elsewhere, and causing misery elsewhere.

Norway could end up causing a heroin epidemic as their high-quality drugs flood Europe. This is like Christmas for organized crime...a government manufacturing a potentially unlimited supply of quality drugs.
Look at it this way...

Standard definition of division function, d:

d(x, y) = x * y⁻, for all x and y EXCEPT 0

Author's modified, piecewise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piecewise) definition:

d(x, y) = x * y⁻, for all x and y EXCEPT 0

d(x, y) = 0, for y = 0

He's just adding 0 to the domain of d(x, y) to extend the definition, and deliberately not using xy⁻ for that particular element of the domain. No inverse needed.
Models for opioid based opioid addiction treatments already exist, such as methodone
Housing is only an 'investment' because of how expensive it inherently is.

However, my opinion has been that housing /has been/ in a bubble since at least the mid 2000s (pre recession); and it didn't actually deflate (at least in the area I live in) /during/ that recession.

It would really be nice if some way of fixing this bubble chasing nonsense happened. Maybe if healthcare and retirement were fully socialized this would be less of an issue.
MacOS mouse acceleration takes some getting used to, and there was OS-level mouse input latency (since fixed) to contend with for a while also.

The SmoothMouse utility fixed the latency issues and made the mouse cursor move like it did on Windows. I was very disappointed when Apple deprecated the APIs that made it work.
Not trying to say misogyny in tech isn’t an issue, but I saw no “blatant” examples there?

I honestly don’t understand the whole fuss over SO being (apparently) unwelcome, though I’ve had one negative experience: my answer was downvoted by another poster, only later to be accepted and voted over his. He then angrily commented on my post. Sure, it’s anecdotal, but every other experience has been positive.

I think it’s also worth mentioning how much more toxic other communities can be in comparison. GitHub issues can get pretty heated, and the Mathworks boards are notorious for being rude.

At the end of the day, I’d bet the majority of new users getting flack do so because, well, they just asked a bad question.
> But you're going to "infect" everything that 42 touches in the process

How so? Remember that, e.g. ∀x . 0x ≠ 1 still holds, and it is not true that 0((1/0)(1/42)) = 1 because associativity doesn't apply, because associativity for division stems from the existence of a multiplicative inverse exists, and none does even though 1/0 = 42.

> You won't compromise arithmetic, but you will compromise the definition of a field.

Not at all. Formal systems of mathematics define fields (in general, not just in arithmetic) specifically with 1/0 = 0. Can you show a single field axiom or theorem that would be affected by this?

Perhaps you could if you insisted on stating a theorem by using an informal term such as "wherever foo is defined," but 1/ those theorems can always be stated in more precise terms that don't make use of the informal notion of definedness, and 2/ very few formal systems formalize definedness in a way that means an undefined value must not be 42 (i.e. where you can actually prove 1/0 ≠ 42 or where 1/0 is ill-formed) -- see Feferman https://math.stanford.edu/~feferman/papers/definedness.pdf -- and AFAIK, such systems are very, very rarely used in practice.
I mean, it was a rhetorical question, which by definition is a question asked not to elicit an answer but to make a point.
The stereotype joke? Objectified woman and a weird comment on top of that?

Misogyny sort of requires an actual women being treated in a way a man would not have been treated.

My best guess is that taking offence to this joke requires priming, driven by ideology, someone explicitly telling you that you should take offence out of principle.

The better jokes exposes our biased generalizations and makes you think though.
$6-9k a month for research internships with the ability to extend them beyond 3 months.

It worked out well since I would be doing basically the same research whether I was at the company or at my university.
It also encourages debt and is effectively a subsidy to banks
Absolute numbers matter too.

SF and LA have higher absolute numbers of homeless because both cities tolerate it.
I was summoned for jury duty on this trial but not selected. It would have been very hard for me as a juror to be without bias against Monsanto (as I assume many SF residents would agree with).

This is a huge verdict. I'll be interested to see how this is resolved as I'm sure Monsanto isn't giving up. This could open the flood hates for hundreds of similar trials.
Yes but why pay more for it if not technology?
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If they were assuming that because I turned 30 this decade I'd suddenly become interested in owning a home, they were wrong! If the financial pundits believed all the articles the culture pundits were writing about millennials they could have known.
What about for really large values of zero?
Not minimizing the horror - but the _What if it was your city_ maps drew circles that were somehow quite a bit smaller than I imagined.

Maybe it's precisely because it's so horrific that it loomed larger than life in my head, who knows.
Just in the last few months BinDeps was broken by a "deprecation fix" that was completely wrong and using a name that didn't exist, and it got merged and released by the patch author before anyone else could look at it, breaking many downstream packages.

Refactorings and major changes in ZMQ.jl and the web stack similarly get merged and released immediately with zero review, still. This is a major problem.

Features in the base language have been deleted during 0.7-DEV because a single core developer didn't like them, despite multiple other core developers voicing disagreement that the features were useful and removing them was not urgent or necessary.

It's not a development culture I would rely on when products and money and jobs are at stake. Even the startup you were working with abandoned julia, correct?
How does free heroin rehabilitate anyone?

They stop spending all their time doing whatever it takes to get heroin. They can do other things with that time. Get jobs, for example. It's basically opening the door to rehabilitation.

If by "rehabilitated" you mean "not addicted to heroin", sure, not so much. If you mean "no longer a danger to society", very much so.
I'm a homeowner and I think it's an absolute crime my mortgage interest is tax deductible yet rent isn't. If we believe, at a philosophical level, that interest payments should be tax deductible, ok, then make ALL interest paid tax deductible - credit cards, personal loans, auto loans, payday loans, etc.

It's shameful.

That being said, with the new tax bill, 90+% of both owners and renters will be taking the standard deduction this year. It is my opinion that's a good thing, it's my opinion the standard deduction should truly be standard. However, moving all the middle and upper middle class into taking standard deduction makes the mortgage interest deduction basically exclusively for the very wealthy.
I'm not sure if it allows custom user-based stuff.

There's things like react-scripts-ts that do things like add TypeScript. But they are actually forks of react-scripts, a whole series of packages.
> Norway could end up causing a heroin epidemic as their high-quality drugs flood Europe

From a quick wikipedia search: Heroin assisted treatment is fully a part of the national health system in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, and Denmark. Additional trials are being carried out in the United Kingdom, and Belgium.

^I feel like you missed the boat on this one.

> How does free heroin rehabilitate anyone?

I don't know if you've noticed, but the current norms of tackling addication aren't working well at all. Countries that have experimented appear to be achieving good results. See https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...

On portugal (from https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/norway-parliament-...):

The Norwegian Health Committee is planning a trip to Portugal in February, which decriminalised personal possession of drugs in 2001. The country made the move following a heroin epidemic and the highest drug-related Aids deaths in the European Union (EU).

It now has the second lowest drug-related deaths in the EU.

> When did Norwegian taxpayers sign up to fund a global heroin haven

Here (ignoring the other part of your loaded question): https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/norway-parliament-...

The GP asked for alternative strategies, which you have not provided, and which would be helpful.
I think what he was trying to say was that if you knew for a fact yesterday that your static site didn't have malicious code on it, then you know it for a fact today, assuming you didn't rebuild the site in the interim. You can't say the same for dependencies on, say, a web server, since the web server may have rebooted and did an install or whatever overnight.
Weird, works fine on my end.
So lets get this straight. The whole world of heroin addicts will flood to Norway, but then the people nearest to Norway (who likely don't have to fly) are going to be impacted by this illegal trade?

Selling something that is free is not a lucrative business for the Mafia. I think you have to make up your mind about the exaggerated scenarios you're imagining.

Here's two straightforward policies that would ameliorate these concerns:

1) Dole out the drugs on site. This is done already all over the world all the time. No take home doses.

2) This is a last resort of Norwegian citizens who have tried other methods of recovery. If you read the article, you'd see it will affect about 400 people. This is a good start, hardly a global heroin empire.
Yes, 75% of rent can be used. It is called "market rent", according to Fannie Mae. Remaining 25% is used for Vacancies, etc.

In California markets, rental properties are not profitable, when you consider 20% downpayment, 75% rent, etc.

There are 4 kinds of buyers in this market:

1. First home buyers: renters becoming buyers.
2. Second home buyers: thanks to the appreciation of their primary residence, people have bought second homes for "retirement nest egg", "return on equity", etc. Borrow 80% at 4.5%, expect 15% return.
3. Moving Up: same like (2), but they sell primary residences.
4. Flippers

It is kind of hard of flippers to get conventional loans; they have to use portfolio banks, banks that keep loans on their books. A bank I know of, offers 6% fixed first year, variable rate for the next five years. Flippers get these deals, after putting 20 to 30% down.
I was thrown by that too, maybe it was a typo?
But... they aren't just 2D numbers. That would be vectors. Yes, they behave like vectors under addition, but they also have a ton of other behaviour that '2D numbers' doesn't help with at all, like what it means to raise a number to a complex power.
Though the MLS is pretty distrubuted, these days you can consider it as a single entity for the most part, though the shenanigans from the early 2000s still happen every day.
Any shortcut you take you are no longer running an ancestor simulation. The reason you don't memoize breakfast is because the entire point of the simulation is the simulation of the conscious beings you are simulating. If you memoize away their decisions and actions, you take that away. And I strongly suspect retrofitting reality to match countless decisions is going to be more expensive than simply running it in the first place.

> I honestly probably wouldn't do anything differently if you swapped gravlax and bagels for eggs and toast.

That is unknowable. Maybe in making the eggs and toast, you leave the house a second later, and a driver that ran a stop sign that would have hit you passes in front of you instead.

You're not wrong that you can skip breakfast and take all these short cuts. You can do whatever you want in the simulation. But if you do, you're not running the type of simulation that is called an 'ancestor simulation'.
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State and local taxes should also not reduce your federal taxable income at all.

High tax states can tax themselves all they want to, but that shouldn’t reduce their federal tax burden.
Based on the title, I had assumed that Google somehow reprimanded the engineer, but as far as I can tell, Google has nothing to do with the story -- he was kicked out of Caesar's Palace while at Defcon.

Well, I wouldn't have clicked on it if the title was "Man Banned From Caesar's Palace For Defcon Tweet", so I guess Wired knows their business.
This is probably beside the point, but shouldn't the center-of-mass of a massless object be everywhere simultaneously? With no reason to prefer any location, over any other?
last years appreciation, the lost deductions, rising rates have really stretched the limits of demand. how many households are really out there who can afford a 10k/month mortgage or 300k down payment that you need for a house in upper middle class parts of Bay Area or Seattle.
These maps are designed to be informational for casual tourists driving between landmarks and taking short hikes on accessible and well marked trails, not for serious hikers going off trail into the forest or whatever. The parks should also have more serious topo maps available.

For example, for the park whose map was shown in the article, USGS offers: https://store.usgs.gov/product/518738 https://store.usgs.gov/product/518520 https://store.usgs.gov/product/518727 https://store.usgs.gov/product/518422 etc.
Yawn, so sick of news about the enlightened twitterati.
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I have literally worked putting paper into boxes for $13/hour. Granted that was decent money, but it definitely made me a lot more loyal and willing to look the other way when the company needed a favor.
This is a case of poor abstraction. Many commenters in this thread explain why, in their application, 0 is a good fallback for division by zero.

But, falling back to 0 is not the correct error handling result for all situations. In other situations, an error is the correct result. The language designers should include proper division, and this style of division should be labeled a "safe" division; or, a division that throws an error should be labeled an "unsafe" division.

I have serious doubts about a language if it chooses one-size-fits-all error handling like this.
I think the issues start when you try and build high performance abstractions over opengl.
Not sure why you're acting like that's a bad thing. The idea we should live to work 40+ hour weeks isn't a good thing.
It just became $11 in 2017 and that's only for non-service workers. Tipped workers still only make $3.75 and STILL have to pay taxes as if they were fully compensated. Tipping needs to go.
Some states do permit tax deductions for rent. Indiana, New Jersey, and possibly others.
> I consider it infinity because the limit as the denominator goes to 0 is infinity.

Note that this only works if the denominator approaches 0 from a positive side. Otherwise it's 0. This is the idea behind the extended real numbers.
Your reputation will be out of the window if you ran a crypto miner without notice and even if you get rid of it saying it was "hacked", people will hardly believe it.
It's really depressing how capitalism has taken automation and data and bastardized it into a toxic weapon.
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Sorry. Mere jest.
I was assuming there was some limitation on the amount you could get for free and that some addicts would want more than their allotment.
"Misogyny sort of requires an actual women being treated in a way a man would not have been treated."

This is fundamentally incorrect. One can be a misogynist (ie, exhibit misogyny) without any "actual" women being present. In much the same way as saying "i am attracted to my own gender" is to be homosexual (ie, exhibit homosexuality).
Yeah, that made me laugh. Is it really a relief to have a config file you can't see instead of one you can?
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US wasn't surprising.