skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The supply is local, the demand not necessarily so. Hence Vancouver's recent tax on foreign buyers.
The more general pattern is that, because of the sheer volume of demand, solutions that merely substitute one material resource for another no longer work.
As you said, I've been here eight years. Ergo, I don't need a lecture from you about HN etiquette.

I politely decline your offer of a medicinal coolant and a perambulation. I shall express myself howsoever I see fit. Good day sir!
>Are there places in Europe and Asia like this? Syracuse doesn’t have a transit network because nobody lives in Syracuse, they live in the sprawl around it.

Well, not quite: "At the 2010 census, the city population was 145,252, and its metropolitan area had a population of 662,577". There are places like that in Europe.

In Greece Athens has a population of 600,000 people and the surrounding metropolitan area is 4 million -- of continuous sprawl in every direction.
No, why? The expat money went into local markets (very unequally but that's another point). Vancouver, London, etc. But even in small towns real estate investors are not necessarily local. My mother just moved into an apartment owned by a lawyer living a few hundred kilometers away.

It depends on what you understand when OP says "all real estate is local", I assume that it's the thing itself and its customers. It can be seen as inexact because yes, the investors often are not and that is that second statement, but we all know what OP meant, so no need to start nitpicking over nothing. I see no merit in arguing over words whose meaning everybody understands just for the sake of it.
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> “Tell me about yourself” is not a question it’s an order/request.

In every question, there's an implied order to deliver the answer. Some people might perceive "What would you like my audience to know about you?" as less demanding, but it's fundamentally the same thing.

This kind of open-ended request for information isn't a good fit for a lot of conversations, but it's a good fit for a biographical interview and similar situations like a job interview or a blind date. I don't think it's rude in these contexts, as the purpose of those kinds of encounters is to get to know a lot about the person in a short time. It might be too intrusive in other contexts.
Thanks for the comment. "What do you do for a living?" is a question my wife dreads. She doesn't fit in a traditional "stay at home mom" (we don't have kids), nor does she have a job. She then has to figure out a way that is socially acceptable to justify what she does at the moment (art and self-education / self-improvement).

This reminds me of the valuable reminder I got while studying to be a math teacher: many students don't have a mother or a father - so telling kids "have your mom sign this paper" would be insensitive. Similarly, assuming a person you're talking to has a partner of an opposite sex isn't very sensitive.

I'm glad for this whole HN discussion!
As an EE undergrad, I had to design a TTL based processor, program the microcode, etc. I have no idea how a compiler works, or anything above assembly.
For anybody watching this who doesn’t know how to use a table saw, he’s lucky he still has all his fingers. I could barely watch that part.
Excellent article. Quotable on top of quotable for us DevOps folks.
A lot of people seem to like the Lemongrass repellent, both in liquid and candle form. And there's locally purchasable incense (organic) that will keep mozzies away, too.

The coil works really well, but I resonate with your sentiment on coil's health effects.
Anyone have any idea of what I am supposed to use as a file opener on OpenBSD?
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Well, it's usually an extra stop to reach Bahamas as compared to a major city in the US/Canada (thinking about people that are "close", let's say North America/South America/Europe/Africa). Hawaii is easier for Asia/West Coast/Oceania and hard for everybody else.
I'm fetching this from 3 year old memory here but I think it was in the race vs Coke Stevens, they had trucks of Mexicans brought over the border and were given $5 per vote or something along those lines. This was in conjunction with votes of dead people, double voting etc.
One year and counting since I've been watching this issue (just to trigger "Next" on the keyboard); it's finally on their "near-term radar":

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/11344
This is good design thinking and implementation. My only question would be the susceptibility to fire, any thoughts on this?
"What have you been excited about recently?" is really great!

Asking people to share what they enjoy / experience they really liked is another opportunity for them to re-experience what they like. A absolutely love questions that allow me to re-live a moment from my vacation, or to share an idea that gets me excited!
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I live in a Christian community focused on in-common living.

Community requires commitment to stick things through. Having a common vision is important. More important is having the commitment to sticking with it, and relationship tools to help keep friendships intact in tough times.

Some key tools:

-right speech: no gossip, slander, or negative humor

-forgiveness: saying I’m sorry when offending or harming someone, and having real forgiveness

-making agreements: specific commitments that, when times are tough or good, the group can rally around.
Internal migration in the U.S. has fallen consistently since the 1980s; more people today live closer to where they were born than they did in previous decades. And in most places in the U.S. -- certainly, the places captured by this loneliness survey -- the number of brand-new migrants is tiny relative to that population of people who were born there.
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Wow, those are beautiful. Very organic feeling. I wonder how much those structures cost...
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And one thing that is said even less is why NAND? You can do it all with NOR gates as well if you want. The reason for NAND has to do with the switching speed, pMOS switches quicker in parallel (either transistor can get the current flowing) and nMOS switches quicker in series (either transistor can stop the current flowing); this is how a NAND gate is wired. NOR gates on the other hand have the worst of both.

The fact that nMOS switches off quicker is why the most common form of dynamic logic (as opposed to static logic) implements, in effect, the bottom half of the CMOS in nMOS and the upper half using a capacitor; which holds the charge and hence pull up for the length of the clock cycle (which is why dynamic logic CPUs can't be single stepped in hardware, the clock speed is too low to hold a charge).
Transience and migration are probably a separate issue from immigration-from-lots-of-diverse-backgrounds, but you often get both together.

The coastal/successful/etc. cities have these problems leading to lack of community; there are other parts of the US (and world, presumably) where it's just despair due to economic and social collapse. Not knowing/caring who my neighbors are in a big city, but we're all doing economically OK, is probably preferable to a town where everyone has been together for a long time but half of the people are unemployed, half are opiate addicts, and no one really has much hope for the future.
> After all LISP is all high level stuff, divorced from the hardware level

Maybe you have not paid attention: but we are talking about Lisp Machines with special hardware and their specific operating system written in Lisp from the ground up. Thus it's not your idea of a high-level Lisp, but a Lisp which runs the graphics card interface, handles memory, schedules processes, as much as it implements the network interface incl. the whole TCP/IP stack. It runs on top of a special processor for which the compiler generates machine code.

And yes, there are various emulators for various Lisp Machines - there are some for Intel + SPARC (Medley, the emulator for Xerox' Interlisp-D) and there is Symbolics' Open Genera (DEC Alpha, and nowadays Intel 64bit and ARM 64bit). Those have been sold commercial. The there are a handful of non-commercial emulators. But this is old software and there are only tiny user groups left. You can use those, but its more like a time-travel to an alternative universe and its state 20 years ago.
How does this make money?
This website, it just hurts me.

The article seemed interesting, but so many paragraphs with images or advertisement in between each, it's just utter bollocks.
I'm sorry, I find your comment pretty ridiculous in multiple aspects, and I'm honestly surprised you truly feel this way about the platform.

What I understand from it, and the parent comment, is that you're simply stuck in the beliefs of "diversity has ruined men", men have it worse, etc. Unfortunately I might not be able to change your mind, but I hope you understand that the idea of the website was to make groups that were less easy to be found on Twitter (I'll ask, how many women, people of colour, LGBTQ+, people with disabilities and many other groups do you follow? Going to take the risk and say that not as many as men, by a big margin...).

If that upsets you that's unfortunate, I am grateful for the people who were happy with the platform and sent me awesome positive comments. If you want to have a men-centric platform, you may make it yourself, go ahead. It's ironic how you seem to be the kind of person who would have benefited from such a website, getting you out of an echo chamber and seeing multiple perspectives.
Virta Health is a sf startup with meaningful results reversing T2 diabetes. If you’re interested in this topic they are a compelling counterpoint to this study.
Just wondering, in terms of value for the business, doesn't clean code always deliver a higher value as opposed to, say, messy code? Being easier to maintain and debug, and also likely to contain less bugs thus being more reliable, do those qualities provide value by themselves?

I realise that, from a business' point of view, how fast something is done may be more valuable than how clean, but at the end of the day a "faster" code can eventually take longer to reach a production-grade reliability... Isn't that true?
And you have "Gay" written on your forehead?
Is it worth that risk exposure?
I think you are talking about a minority of buyers.

Structurally what is happening for the majority?

"In 1991, 67% of British 25- to 34-year-olds owned property; today only 37% do." is the problem. Not how some of those individuals within the 37% came to own their home.
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Do people on HN really believe that people in smaller towns don’t read?
Then you analyze feedback and redo your prototype with what your customers need?

The key thing is understand the underlying desire. Ford is famous for saying that if he asked people, they would tell him they wanted a faster horse. He understood they wanted a quicker means of transportation, so he built a car. That's what you do with the feedback of the prototype. Listen to responses, and adjust or abandon.

As for experience? Not directly, but seriously, this isn't hard. This is literally the standard way every successful businesses operate. They analyze market demand, built an answer, get feedback, and adjust. Only very rarely does an individual's personal itch ever become a successful product.
And they already told you they didn't mean it that way. Maybe listen to them, adjust your expectations, and move on?
Is xdg-open available?
What kind of treatment are they talking about?
I came here to complain about Lenovo's website.
AI, particularly when we consider applications and algorithms that impact policing, medical applications, loan servicing, ad targeting, etc. is inherently an enterprise that cannot be divorced from structural issues intersect with race (among other issues). That scientists from impacted communities are drawing attention is an important step forward.
Type 1 diabetes: the body doesn't make any insulin. Patients need to get it from outside the body or they die.

Type 2 diabetes: this is the one you're thinking about. There are drugs that can be used in some cases (insulin strictly speaking is not a drug.)
You nailed it. I live in a ‘burb castle’. I was grateful to get out of my apartment. The woman in the adjacent unit would burn a dozen candles and stumble in drunk every night. The guy below would scream and break stuff during football games. Another would blast rap music at 4 AM.

Screw apartments. Now I can put up ham radio antennas, have a nice lab, garage for bike, etc.. I could not fathom living in a dense city.
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Following like-minded profiles and hope for a follow back is one way to increase your audience. Another is to let your content speak for you.

To make this easier for the little guy I played with the thought of retweet incentivization. This could start as simple as http://peepmore.43z.one which I put together in an afternoon. Would be interested to hear what others think if this model.
The marketplace gave us PHP and Javascript, Facebook and Google.

The marketplace also gave us the billion dollar computer security industry as a direct result of practices that were 'selected' by said marketplace. We find ourselves operating in an emergent, cascading-effects, all-subsuming space - that we have absolutely no control over - and is now threatening to destroy us.

I would go as far as to say that you are completely out of touch with technology if you think for a moment that the marketplace has longterm memory or stratagem ability. This is validated by the constant re-invention / regurgitation of the same ideas. It seems that abiding by 'greed is good' short-term, is not really a good way to wield the Promethean fire.
That's wrong.

What's about this Python code:

1.0 + 1

Or this Scala Code:

"1".toFloat + "1".toInt

In both cases that's clearly implicit type coercion at runtime.

So according to the above constraint there would hardly be any strongly typed languages… (But quite the opposite is true in fact).

Weakly typed means you can hose the type-system somehow and then perform some "illegal" or completely nonsensical operation. For example that's easy in C, but not possible in JS. In a strongly typed language any value has some precise type at any time. This is true for JS so it's strongly typed.
Not a discussion I really want to have but fewer wars is most certainly not a consequence of 'people becoming better'.

Regarding voting, I completely understand that my stance is not helping the situation at all and is untenable if too many people adopt it, but I truly believe that the perceived value of a vote is so out of whack with its actual value, that I (selfishly, I admit) decide to give it up entirely. Sure, some places are better than others, but I think in all countries that I'm aware of, it's still too bad for me to care about participating.

Reading political biographies will show you the gulf that exists between how politics actually works, and how the general public perceive it and use as their metric for choosing candidates.
Sure, but this was not a response to my post.
For a long time i am looking for a synthetic bamboo equivalent for acoustic properties.

But so far I've not found anything similar. I am thinking, what if I engrave bamboo like pattern on carbon fiber, will it produce similar acoustic?

Can any material/sound/chem engineer help me?
Home prices vary inversely with interest rates. Here's how that works:

1) person tells bank they'd like a mortgage to buy a house.

2) banker asks for info on income, expenses, etc.

3) banker estimates persons maximum monthly payment.

4) banker figures out max loan amount based on #3

5) buyer is encouraged by everyone to spend the full amount from #4

Everyone - the seller, their agent, your agent, the bank, and maybe some others - want you to spend every penny you can. Everyone benefits from higher prices except the buyer. Even if you're immune to it, there is enough pressure that the market as a whole tends toward the highest prices people can afford.

Now lets see how interest rates play in this. At step 4 above, the amount you can borrow for a given monthly payment is mathematically increased by lower interest rates. For a given amount of debt your payment should be lower if rates are lower - that's true - but they'll make up for it by pushing a larger loan.

Ultimately your payment is determined in step 3 and has nothing to do with interest rates or home prices. You will "pay" the same for your house (total payments) regardless of interest rates. The only thing the interest rate determines is who gets the money - the seller or the bank.

In a services and consumption based economy this is the primary way interest rates drive things. Sure, businesses will do their part too, but they're a smaller part of it.
Exactly, forming it as an open ended, permission based question is far better. "Hey would you mind telling me a little about yourself?" Is much more comfortable. It is more conversational.
I am evidently wrong about something, but I'm not sure what.
Where is Evolution taking the human race?
I’m hoping that wasm leads to a unified dotnet stack with fantastic tooling and shared classes for front-end development. Best of both worlds at that point. That said, I resisted getting into the JavaScript front-end ecosystem, but I really like it at this point.
Most of them. All of them?

From some, I never hear any questions. The others, I hear domain specific questions (how do I do X?), or disambiguation (when you say this, do you mean ...?), or what's on the test, etc.

There are few forward looking questions (what can I use this for? where is it used? what is the state of the art?).
While I loved 12 Monkeys story & most of TG's body of work, I must posit "Brazil" is more relevant in our non-fiction world than anything else he has done. I hesitate to note the multitude of similarities to our current state of information retrieval & bureaucracies. Zero Theorem seemed to touch the needle but sorta fizzled out mid-way(IMO).

Yes, I did not RTFA.
At the high end, the money didn't go anywhere, except possibly offshore. A lot of London real estate was being built explicitly as an investment, and the offshore investors - who are now being cleaned out - handed over their money to developer/speculator companies, who were also offshore and/or foreign owned.

So no - this real estate is not local. It happens to have a physical location, but when you understand how the money associated with it does it best to avoid spreading out into the surroundings, it might as well be built on an uninhabited atoll in the Pacific.

At the low end in London the money went to landlords who bought large portfolios with the financial assistance of buy-to-let loans and tax breaks.

The tax breaks are being removed, and interest rates are drifting upwards. This is killing casual landlords, but isn't a problem for the sharks and the rabbit hutch 10-gig-economy-workers-in-a-room slumlords.
I’ve learned that one of the skills needed to function in American society is the ability to answer that question with grace despite one’s misgivings about it. It is a socially conditioned, and for the most part innocuous, attempt to connect, and should be treated as such.

I’ve known people who have tended to respond to that question with sarcasm or hostility. They also tend to be the most socially shut out. And then they wonder why people don’t like them. It’s one of those things where you expect society to be better but it isn’t. The choice then is either to become bitter or to redirect it into something more positive and gracious.

If one is unemployed or one doesn’t have a career a good neutral response is “I’m in transition”. Any number of creative responses will work, and will keep the conversation going. But one responds with hostility because one hates that question, one will invariably pay the social costs and may be killing potential budding friendships. I can tell you, most of the time it is not worth it. The downside is greater than the upside.

On the initiator’s part, a good alternative to it is “what keeps you busy?”
thats absolutely true for america.

he might've been from europe though, and we really did have ... a lot of blood wasted to draw out these lines... we kept killing each other for them
Type 2 diabetes can be reversed. Many people aren't seriously suggested this option by their medical professional or are unwilling to change their lifestyle.

I don't think it's a counterpoint to the study, but rather to the ways the data will drive policy changes.

It's taboo to take the obesity problem seriously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_acceptance_movement
Growing is easy when you start from zero, and reducing is easy when you can easily move your production elsewhere. BP statistical review probably have their numbers right, I'm more concern about the message they want to spread. (I do not say that EU/China should be able to increase their emissions, just that the US is not decreasing its consumption therefore it is impossible to decrease emission)
What influences the willingness of a lender?

Availability of money in the general lending environment, sure, but surely there's a risk component there.

The low interest rates can only persist as long as a lender has a reasonable expectation that they'll be paid back (e.g. that rents remain high enough to sustain the mortgage over the term).

The real world factors like 'how desirable a place is'/'are good jobs there' and so forth seem to be further back in the causation chain to me.

This is probably why we see the sort of "non-linear growth" that we do. An environment with stable, increasing rents due to increased demand _directly_ increases the price of housing linearly, and then on top of that it's a less risky market as a result so you end up with lower interest rates which drive it even further.

A mortgage at 3% is basically a risk-free rate. Lenders are saying "you can't lose by buying here so go wild".
This is a wonderful article!

It gives a very clear and concise example of how we can measure things that are happening at the software level via some simple code, so it also serves as a very comprehensible introduction to how exploits like Rowhammer/Meltdown/etc. function.
> totally with in their right to challenge you on your claims

Yes, and within the limits of common courtesy.

The other utility does only one thing - reports disk usage so there's not much to compare. The dev did mention that `ncdu's memory usage is definitely its weak point`.

> no other performance metric, no other file system nor device types

because lstat64() is at the core of the performance metric of the feature we are comparing here and with the same number of files on the same storage device the number of accesses are exactly the same. The only metric that differentiates the utilities is memory usage.

> Edit: the “multiple contributors” point you made is also rather dishonest too.

Not really, I prefer to edit the readme myself because I want to keep the documentation clean. You will see features contributed by other devs for which I have written the docs from readme to manpage. Regarding the metrics, sometimes I have taken the data and sometimes I have requested someone else to collect it. Or doesn't that count as contribution?