skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My counter to this article is that you have to live somewhere. So you either rent a big chunk of money that you can use to buy a house, or you rent housing directly. If the principle, interest, taxes, insurance and maintenance is about the same as renting over the course of a number of years then you are better off buying.

The risk is that you may need to move before you are at the break-even point. And risk is sometimes location dependant (how varied are the industries that provide good employment in your area, etc). And you risk rising costs (I wasn't prepared for property taxes and insurance to outpace inflation 4 to 1, for example).

But the biggest mistake that I feel people make (at least in my case) is getting more house than I needed. I would have been better off getting a much smaller / less desirable property that I could have paid off in 7 years, instead of the 30 year mortgage. Because then after 7 years, if property rates rise, well I can sell and have more money for a down payment on a better house. And if the fall, I can still sell and put the money down on the same better house, which is also much cheaper (assuming similar area / cost of living).
Sorry for the late reply.

I adore Windows 98. I spent most of my time on 95 but 98, especially SE, really polished the experience on a then-modern OS.

I mostly use 98 for nostalgia sake, playing old games, testing old software, and observing how things used to be.

I find it fun to firewall it off and connect to the internet with IE and old Firefox versions - finding what works and what doesn't. It helps provide some perspective and entertainment. It's incredible how interoperable Win 98 can still be with your modern devices.

Eventually I'll upgrade the Pentium II to an AMD K6-2 and see how it goes!
Ferdinand Porsche designed the Volkswagen Beetle!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Porsche#Volkswagen_B...
That is a sexy machine. Does anyone who understands GPUs know if all the NVIDIA do-linear-algebra-really-freaking-fast drivers that everyone uses for deep learning will run properly on the RTX 2070?
Yes. It is all very obvious. For example, suppose a marginalized group uses the hashtag #killallwhitemen to express the disempowerment they feel from the historical weight of white privilege. This, I think we can all agree, is an expression of righteous outrage through hyperbole, not intolerance.

No. MLK's movement wouldn't have willingly allowed something like that. Nor would Gandhi's. Justice is a universal compass, applying to all people, not the convenient and emotionally satisfying direction of the moment. Hate has no place in a true movement of justice. Those who would tell you otherwise are bad actors using the movement for their own ends, usually power.
20 years in the future??

I venture to say it will be less than 2 years.
Even if prices are stable, what makes it the case that the system works so well for those who own land and creates such problems for those who are landless?

We take it for granted that renting is just a form of having your money stolen by landowners, without realizing that this is a choice we make: we could just as easily administer the market so that absentee ownership ceases to be a smart bet.
> Real estate seems to be the only venue where I can make a return on my value, and provide some value to people.

What kind of value are you providing by purchasing a house, not living in it and not selling it? When you purchase 2+ house where you don’t live - you are basically removing it from the market - thus increasing the demand/offering ratio and inflating the prices?
In an efficient market, you'd only be paying someone else's interest, not their principal. If buying is cheaper than renting, as in your example, then rent would drop due to competitive pressure, until buying isn't cheaper than renting.
If I start a company that allows users to upload content over the internet, is it your contention that I should not be within my rights to control what is stored and who is allowed to use my services?
Supercapacitor Conversion of a Tripp-Lite UPS
Ok, interesting. The gravity part makes sense.

I don't understand the difference with magnetism though. Let's say you have a positively charged item and you're standing on top of a large negatively charged surface. You "drop" the positively charged item. How does its velocity over time differ from the gravity example? And how is it different with time reversed? Seems like it would be the same to me... In forward motion, it would accelerate until it collided with the surface. With time reversed, it would start with a fast velocity and slow down over time.

Edit: I googled this. It sounds like the motion of magnetized bodies is time symmetric, but when the charge of the electric field produced by the motion is taken into account it has to be reversed. Is this correct?
Not sure we read the same article. I don't see how anything that you've written is a counterpoint to the article.
Most people don't get housing from a corporation.
> ...its price would need to increase faster than the rate of inflation.

If you don't own a home, you pay rent, and rent increases over time. Even if you never made a dime on selling the home years later, the difference between years of rent vs. the total of your mortgage may still come out ahead. Or, keep the house, and live the rest of your live only having to pay property taxes and utilities. Either way, inflation goes up, rents go up, mortgages go down.

I'm not sure that invalidates the larger points within the article. I just worry about the perspective of treating a home purely as an investment when their primary benefit is to be a roof over your head.
I'm not misrepresenting the other's argument at all. I'm clarifying it.
Learned the exact same thing in a different industry.

We had a landing page that always won the AB test for over a year, but our lawyer wanted us to change the chart on the top.

We didn't know what to replace it with so I decided to test what will happen for a week if we removed it to better understand the value it provided.

It turned out that removing the chart increased email capture by 20% and we now have a bare bones landing page.

It isn't always the case, but often times less is more.
I have been looking at these computers forever and am continuously waiting for them to come up with a nice looking laptop. I don't want to buy something that looks like a Dell I had in 2002. I want something that is comparable to my brand new MBP.

Also, I hate to be that guy, but if you are trying to compete in this market, why even spend time doing a Desktop computer. It is a super shrinking market... the only folks that still buy these are gamers (where sadly you just have to live with the proprietary stuff to squeeze every cycle for performance) or something hyper niche that doesn't matter anyway.

Concentrate on one product (probably laptops) and make something outstanding there. There are some of us that want to buy it.
> For awhile, the Soviets could "deplatform" people from their lives entirely by threatening them or sending them to the Gulags. They held things together for many decades through that continual disruption.

I take the scarequotes there to be you admitting that gulags aren't really deplatforming -- it's a government terrorizing its citizens. Nobody in this conversation is interested in building gulags or putting the undesirables in them.

> Yes, you can coerce people with your advantages, and it will work for awhile. You can even create enclaves where you can keep undesirables out. But no, that never wins in the end.

I don't understand this reasoning. I've presented some research indicating that banning hateful online communities actually does have some kind of positive effect, and your response it that it "never wins in the end"? What is the "end" here? Do we have any sort of evidence or overarching political theory that suggests that it doesn't win in the end?

Most of us are on board, intuitively at least, with the notion that you can't have both a dictator and be a democratic republic. Why are we so hesitant to accept that other entities fundamentally conflict with the notion of liberal democracy?
What about renting it out to people? isnt that providing value?
In that case you'll only have to figure out how to cool the antineutrons down enough to ensure that they aren't colliding with the walls simply due to random thermal motion (remember, neutrons don't stick together on their own, so there's no vibrating bonds to dump potential energy into, all that thermal energy in 1.5kT will basically get dumped into kinetic energy, and they don't have much mass; at room tempature they're whizzing around at about 2 km/s). You'll also run into the issue that regular free neutrons (and also anti-neutrons) are stable for only 15 minutes, after which point they'll decay. Note you'll also need to cool them off in that 15 minutes too (though you might be able to be generate them in a way that they start off cool).

So a fun problem that comes up is how long will it take for the neutrons to collide assuming they're only being accelerated by the mass of the container.
I read a lot but there aren't many people I know who read the same things I do- so I am unable to have deeper conversations about the things I read. Everyone adds something, their own meaning and context so they can see something you're not able to.

Do you agree or disagree? What did you think about this point? It reminded me of this instance. Have you also read that instance, do you agree? Etc.
Yes. Consider the price of any orphan drug that Valeant touched. Syprine went from USD 625 per 100 pills to USD 21000, and despite the combined and very reasonable protestations of Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren, the price still hasn't come down.
> Deplatforming is a dangerous step for a free society, especially when so much power is accumulated in a few platforms

I disagree here. Communities like Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc, have grown to such enormous scales, that their eventual fracture is inevitable. Whether it takes the form of griefers getting the boot, or communities leaving on their own accord, the root problem is the same. You simply can't put a billion people together in a box without any stronger identity or culture tying them together.

Think of how things work in the natural world. We have universities, libraries, coffee shops, pubs, clubs, offices, stores, restaurants, museums, parks, playgrounds, fairs, festivals. Each social setting has its own culture, its own rules, its own priorities.

If you take the riffraff from the pub and inject them into the library, you're going to have a bad time. If you start club dancing on the HR lady at the office, you're going to have a bad time.

The problem with the current crop of social media is that they are meant to be everything for everyone. We mash hundreds of different communities that have nothing to do with each other into the same platforms like square pegs into round holes. Engagement and user count are the ONLY thing the companies care about - but those KPIs aren't what drive healthy communities.

The future of the web is going to be fractured and federated. The pains being experienced by the big players right now are the obvious outcome of trying to apply the same set of standards and rules to thousands of different sets of people. If there is no set of rules you can make to please everyone, the answer is simple: it is time to split.
There is a way you can be of more benefit though; if you're increasing the supply of housing (that is, building new housing) then you're providing benefit. If you can also profit by doing so then go ahead.
Double in 9 years is like 8% annually which is roughly equivalent to putting it in index funds.
APT and dpkg really makes it different. Changes the whole character vs say redhat and their RPMs.
Well, now you’ve seen two in a single thread.

Some of what Kenneth builds is very good, some less so. Sometimes he just pulls annoying stunts that are disrespectful of the community at large, like with pipenv. With all that “Human” marketing, he has burnt quite a bit of the goodwill accumulated with Requests, but he’s also built a critical mass of developers who will basically adopt anything he makes regardless of actual merits; which in turn generates backlash. The two phenomenons tend to feed on each other.
> Does multi-monitor mixed-DPI work in Gnome?

Not by default. I had to hack a script by mixing xrandr scaling and Gnome scaling settings, which works, with some caveats I haven't figured out yet[1].

The reason I stick to Gnome is that plug-and-play works like a charm, remembering my settings with various monitors.

> I restart perhaps every six months due to some problem that could be KDE; I find it very reliable both at home and at work. Granted, both machines are desktops, I use a laptop so rarely that I usually shut it down after use.

Most crashes came from laptop-related actions: monitor hot plugging, closing the lid while being awake, waking up with another monitor plugged in, etc.

> I use focus-follows-mouse, which is incompatible with a titlebar outside the relevant window.

What I meant by "titlebar integration" was when the applications themselves draw UI on the titlebar like in Nautilus or Tilix for instance[2].

The "menu in top bar" feature can be deactivated, so I think you could use Gnome.

[1]: 1. The Gnome UI (dock and topbar) are huge, which isn't much of a problem for me since they are on a smaller monitor.
2. Some applications don't scale properly and are either too zoomed in or out.

[2]: https://gnunn1.github.io/tilix-web/src/images/gallery/tilix-..., https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Files?action=AttachFile&do=get&t...
Depends; if they're only renting because prices have been pushed out of their reach by speculators, then not really.

Some supply of rental property is required, but much less so when housing markets are not out of control.
Housing is f'd up b/c of some combination of Baumol's cost disease and ZIRP. Just not sure how to correctly apportion the blame.
S&p 500 is also worth about double what it was 9 years ago…
Thanks for being so present in the comments :)

I don't know much about ML, but would it be possible to use some kind of attention model to iteratively construct the final colouring? The memory limit of the GPU would then limit the attention region size, but not the maximum image size. Talkin' outta my rear here, though.
>my father sued the company owned by Chinese vice Premier's son, he won the case after fighting it all the way to the supreme court.

If it was only a business issues, I don't doubt you could win. After all it is only money, which I am sure they have plenty of.
You wind up in a monopoly, or a near-monopoly position, and you can practically suppress the free speech of people, then yes.

There is a lawsuit where a company owned this mining company town, including all of its roads and sidewalks. A Jehova's witness won a lawsuit on the basis of the First Amendment, enabling her to walk about that town and distribute her pamphlets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBozijndSLc

Originally, it was widely recognized by US jurisprudence, though property rights and freedom of association are important, the First Amendment was even more important.
A lot of people here are playing semantics and ignoring the message of the article just to be "clever". The message of the article is we can't have our "housing values are always increasing" cake and eat our "housing is always affordable" dream too. If we want to keep housing affordable, we'll have to settle for valuations staying pretty much constant in real dollars forever and resign ourselves to be happy with only the savings opportunities everyone here are so cleverly pointing out.
I don't know any numbers, but my guess is that the majority of Red Hat's GNU/Linux subscriptions are for the headless server version.
I'm sure they have some customers for the Workstation edition, but I've always felt that the Desktop features were done more about of employee desire than top down mandates.
When people say toxic, it usually always a synonim for "things I don't like"
No, flagging is not like "downvoting", this isn't reddit.

As somebody else here already pointed out:

> From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it.

This isn't spam and given the interest it's garnered it's obviously not off-topic.

So if you're flagging it you're basically throwing your opinion over it and preventing others from seeing it and from upvoting it. That's imposing your opinion over everybody else's.

If you don't like the post, then don't upvote it or better still, post an erudite missive on why the author is a brain-dead moron, but don't mis-label it as spam or off-topic.
The pressure doesn't stop at any stage in your scientific career. It is bad at the PhD stage (get results or no PhD), at the postdoc stage (get results or no tenure track position), at the tenure track stage (get results or no tenure), tenured (get results or no grants).

About the only point you can actually slow down enough to care about quality is at the emeritus stage, but even then if you don't produce your lab will be moved into a broom cupboard.
My Ubuntu Mate 16.04 often gets up into the several months of uptime before I find some reason to reboot, and none of that has something to do with Gnome/Mate
> administer the market

That’s a scary idea. There are massive unintended consequences to such a strategy of reducing the benefits of “absentee” ownership. Almost every private rental property in existence is the result of absentee ownership. A move to disrupt that would result in a dramatically reduced supply of rental properties. Not everyone has the resources, credit or responsibility to own their own home. The financial crisis of 2008 was trigger by a whole bunch of people buying when they shouldn’t have. The places where people try to “administer” the market either through aggressive regulation or capping rents through rent control have the most inefficient and expensive markets.
I think the reason is pretty simple, the App's original name is 抖(shake)音(music), so the logo needs to shake. :)
Came to this. If "quick thoughts" are to be valuable, author needs to accurately synthezise. Clearly missed the point.
I like the domain
Because being banned from Twitter is totally like being sent to a gulag.
Far too many advocates forget that the messenger is part of the message. The most successful advocacy campaigns carefully pick their messenger to match their needs.

Good example: Rosa Parks was not the first person arrested for refusing to give up her seat, Claudette Calvins was arrested 9 months before Rosa. But Claudette was pregnant out of wedlock to an older man, and shitty or not, civil leaders knew this would be used to attack her and their cause if she was their representative. So they went with Rosa, knowing that her character would be much harder to impeach in the court of public opinion.
You could make the same argument about Visual Basic 6 vs VB.NET

Why was VB.Net & .Net needed at all? Why didn't Microsoft just continue development on Visual Basic 7 & incorporate some of the VB.Net features into it?

Personally I'd still prefer to be on .NET Core than on some hypothetical Visual Basic version 16, with a ton of compromises made for some slowly changing Frankenstein language of various backward compatibility hacks built in
You really don't understand? I also (like you) don't use a DE, and I'm very happy that way, but in order to get to that I had to learn some stuff from scratch. It seems obvious to me that almost everyone who comes from MacOS and Windows needs a DE, at least at first (and forever if they don't like learning stuff).

ETA: Also, I don't know any non-DE setups that have a hope of being usable on shared computers, even though I'm sure there could be one in principle.
it is an interface to start programs. Mate/Gnome gets out of the way so I can work.
I fell to the dark side. (Mac.) Haven't tried it all.
Maybe because i'm a woodworker, but I LOVE the wood trim :D
According to the article the Iranians used advanced Google techniques like the "AND", and "OR" operators. Truly sophisticated work.
IT boss slams lazy Aussies who'd rather do paid work than do unpaid internships
I think the funniest thing is this idea that you can escape to space or wherever and enjoy a free society, as if all the problems didn’t come from humans in the first place.
It is a natural consequence of the marketplace of ideas and of capitalism in general. Capitalism ascribes values to speech. If speech therefore has negative value, capitalism has the imperative to censor or prevent that speech from occurring. I would even hasten to argue that if you don't follow that train of thought you would be inherently anti-capitalist or unable to understand the full extent of the free market.

A great example of this is Elon Musk. Elon has said quite a lot of stupid things on twitter, many of which can be easily argued that as a result has hurt the value of his company. The imperative for his company then would be to get him to shut up.

Another example is companies firing people who go on racist tirades. By doing so, they effectively link the company to those same racist arguments and can cause the company to lose value. Of course every company is going to make a judgment as to how much value they'll lose from firing an employee: That's why companies can and do shield or defend employees who commit sexual harassment or do things that would otherwise create negative value.

Make no mistake. This is a feature and not a bug. People are just realizing that the best way to manipulate companies into action is by forcing them to lose value by association, whether it's linking ads they show in a negative context or painting employees actions in a different light. Those are all examples of consumers in a free market exercising their collective power to influence it. And I am by no means a strong proponent of capitalism at all.
U.S. Navy’s Costliest Carrier Was Delivered Without Elevators to Lift Bombs
Ah, right, thank you. I got it mixed up with off_t.
No the determinant is the isomorphism of the third latent moment of the orthonorm. Duh.
I've presented some research indicating that banning hateful online communities actually does have some kind of positive effect

I'm sure that you can find a Soviet study indicating that certain of their programs had an effect against Bourgeois oppressor thinking and activity for some number of years.

Why are we so hesitant to accept that other entities fundamentally conflict with the notion of liberal democracy?

Conditioning a society to accept the practically suppression of free speech fundamentally conflicts with the notion of liberal democracy.
Why should an investment provide someone ELSE with value? The point is to provide YOURSELF with value. If you want to provide someone else with value, buy some stock and donate the dividends to charity.
I've usually seen it as a synonym for disruptive, hostile and rude communication in a generally bad mindset; this is the impression I get when it's used to describe gaming communities for various popular games (in particular LoL and Overwatch).
this reminds me of rabb.it
Houses shouldn’t grow in value for well established areas, they should roughly track with the population and inflation. If demand hasn’t changed, why should homes change value?

Aside from homes slowly rotting, that is. In fact that should reduce the value of a home over time.
A good investment is raising good kids and the many challenges that come with it.

The rest is talk. Go ask folks in a nursing home how much those dollars, houses and stocks are worth, if no one ever comes to visit.