skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly isn't returns. Over the last 10 years, housing in the US has appreciated on average 39%, or 3.4% annually (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CSUSHPINSA). Over the exact same time period, the S&P 500 with reinvested dividends has gone up ~323%. or 15.5% annually (https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/).

To avoid cherry-picking, if we go out to 20 years housing has an average annual return of 4%, and the S&P 500 is at 6%. Go out 30 years and housing hits 5% while the S&P is at 10%.

PS, I really appreciate the Case-Schiller index used above for housing prices. It's methodology specifically targets the change in value of a house, instead of capturing overall price increases caused by house flipping, the expanding size of houses over time, etc.
Political will to redistribute the people? You must know that that's how it worked/works in socialist countries. You still need a permit in China to move to another city, AFAIK.
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> the whole math competition system is incredibly valuable because it's the last bastion of truly meritocratic examination systems in the country. (The other Olympiads are as well, but they're not even 10% as large.) Test prep services for it barely do anything.

This is false, speaking from my experience at a top high school in the Bay Area (I was never +4 standard deviations, but did come close in some isolated cases). 90+% of the people who did well in math competitions were on Art of Problem Solving at some point. It's entirely possible to coach for these, it just requires coaching from people who are extremely talented (and expensive!)
Nope! Which perhaps you could argue makes it not worthwhile if it couldn't help accomplish that.

However, some in our household were worried being targeted because of our position or industry. However, the security camera showed it was a homeless person stealing the mail of everyone on the street which (although annoying) was nice info.
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Yeah agreed. As I've gotten older, my tolerance for putting up with experiences and tactics I don't like has decreased. I dislike Epic attempting to strong-arm me into using their platform while still dealing with ongoing security concerns and adopting anti-consumer behavior, so I won't use them. Just fine to wait and play some of the many other games on my eventual to-play list
We definitely do not meet the demand for programmers in the market. Big software companies don't only look at the number of CS grads since the real need is for talent. Not all of these graduates have the skill required to work in top tier companies, but I'd argue that not all jobs need top tier talent, and that there's plenty of jobs out there that are still looking for the average joe programmer.
The customers have weird IE security tools/firewalls and are not allowed to use anything else.

For some reason they think that IE with very expensive tools to lock it down is more secure than a modern browser.
The other games from this developer, Human Resource Machine and 7 Billion Humans, are fun little pseudo programming puzzle games. They're pretty good!
I've never seen them referred to as BATH before, but it likely corresponds to Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, and Huawei.
Maybe at the graduate level Berkeley should be ranked higher but how are public schools dinged? UCLA has an endowment almost as high as USC’s with comparable student body size. Thinking public schools are dinged because they’re poor is factually wrong.

Also, Berkeley is about where it would be given its acceptance standards and standardized scores outside of EECS are among the lowest in the top 25. The only school where it’s actually getting easier to be accepted year after year.
They tend to also burn a huge amount of calories relative to the regular person
An upvote doesn't seem sufficient here. That was inspiring and heartfelt. Bravo!
Is Biden as Inevitable as He Seems? The State of the Democratic Civil War
We have these sorts of discussion for any positive right. If people have a right to food, what kind of food? If people have a right to medical care, what kind and how much? If people have a right to education, what does that mean in practice?

We also have similar discussions around many negative rights. E.g., in the US 4th Amendment rights are subject to all sorts of practical limitations.

That rights are complicated to implement doesn't mean that they shoudn't be rights.
The idea from the headline should be viewed at a more macro level. A society that views housing as an investment means that we wind up adopting housing policies that lead to people being priced out (i.e. regulatory capture). This eventually means people winding up in subpar situations like moving in with parents, couch surfing or living on the street.

Now your argument about housing on a personal financial level is spot-on, at least points #1 and #2. As for the latter points, the first purpose of a house should be to house people. When we view housing as an investment we start making economically rational (but morally questionable) arguments like, "ban new apartments because they'll lower my home's value."
The middle ground is understanding that the institutions aren't perfect and constantly working to shore them up.

I think you are rejecting the idea of a middle ground completely. Holding institutions to their stated values is table stakes for me.

I don't think you have to reject the ideals in order to recognize that the world is not meeting them. For example, a university could be quite open about the pressure to allow lower merit students from privileged backgrounds. What if they said "look, we can't completely withstand the political and other pressure put on us. So we're going to allow 5% enrollment of students who do not meet our regular thresholds, so long as they pay 5x (10x?) full tuition. This extra tuition will be used to create N full scholarships and M partial scholarships for students that meet the academic requirements but do not have the financial ability to attend. All students will be treated equally academically throughout their programs"

To some degree you cannot stop this from happening (see prep schools, etc.) but you can bring it out in the light.
But it can be played now, so it is at least partially successful.

And new purchasers aren't required for me to get what I paid for, so it isn't a pyramid scheme.

If you don't like it, that's fine, of course. Just be honest with us (and yourself) about why, if you're going to all the trouble of telling us you don't like it.
I've filed a few bug reports and I can't recall one that ever led to a fix. Most often they just sit there and get closed six months later for lack of activity. Some times they're fixed upstream. I found a bug in `dash` (Debian's replacement for sh, AFAIK.) It had been reported back in 2011 (IIRC) and the fix will finally be released with the next Debian release which will likely be out some time this year. :-/

I almost filed a bug against Visual Studio Code for a problem with `git` integration. One of the requirements for filing the bug is to install the latest development release. That was enough to discourage me. I'll just stick with `git` on the command line.

I filed a bug against one of the Visual Studio Code plugins that has not been fixed. (The extension tries to install a program in a system directory w/out getting root permissions and fails.)

If I thought my bug reports were providing any benefit I'd continue to submit them. (And in the case of VS Code didn't have too many hurdles to submit.)
I would argue that security, stability and hedge are all perceived and not actual risks. I don't own but have quite a large position in index funds. I am both financially secure and stable in one of the fastest growing city in the world. My rent hasn't increased in 5 years and I pay half of what I would pay in mortgage for the same property. The property market has put up nearly 20% gain in those years.
Those two are available on the switch as well. I highly recommend anyone check them out. Girlfriend and I love to play together.
The only assumption that matters is the assumption the USA will defend the country and not look away to prevent a world war. The moment that assumption does not hold true...
It's just one of the many lawsuits against Tesla. It doesn't matter what happens with it.

The thing is: Tesla will lose one or more of the many, and the crooked company is already halfway into bankruptcy.

So whether they win or lose this particular lawsuit, it's only a matter of time before they fold.
>The synthesis of these two ideas: It's easier to get fat than ever before, so you are even more responsible to avoid it than ever.

But you should also push society, like the government and corporations, to make it easier to avoid obesity.
Has it? At the margins, but I don't think it's even come close to achieving the type of societal transformations envisioned.

The percentage of African Americans at Harvard this past year was only 15%, roughly comparable to the overall population demographics (~%12 black, ~14% mixed). I suspect Harvard is average or above average in this regard. It's not saying much that the rich are okay with going to historically elite schools with the same demographic ratio as the country-wide general population.

And before anybody brings up Asians as the exception, don't forget that smaller liberal arts colleges and less well known tier-1 private universities (e.g. George Washington) are still very popular with the wealthy, and those colleges are much whiter and richer. Even on HN you still see the trope about how Americans are more "creative" than the Chinese, and someone who claims that such sentiments don't at least partially reflect prejudices against American Asians and don't color college preferences are fooling themselves. I mean, if you don't get into Berkeley you can just wave it off with the observation that it's mostly Asian anyhow--i.e. you didn't really have a fair chance to get in and/or it's somehow less desirable than historically.
It's a pretty common saying among Californians, AFAIK.
That view does have some assumptions baked in, though.

For example, that term, "rent savings," is an assumption in and of itself. In the real estate market I live in, a house can easily offer negative rent savings. Based on the figures I've seen in my area, I'd estimate that the point at which my hypothetical lifetime expenditure on owning a house drops below my hypothetical lifetime expenditure on renting would come a decade or so after the point at which I can expect to die.

That said, I don't want to imply that buying a house is a bad idea, even in my market. Lately I've been getting more interested in doing it, myself. But, at least to me, this is right in line with how the clothing and food that I buy have also changed over the past couple decades: The more money I have, the more I can afford to spend it on having nice things.
Damn, it's been 10 years, I used to follow their dev blog and their little 2d starter code project is what lead me to game development. Now, I left game dev, the guys still. Reading the update bring me back to these days, ohhh
Clearly there's some component of UEFI that's in firmware, right? I don't really know all the terminology and such here, so please correct my understanding, but -- even if you don't have a disk, you'll get some UEFI bootloader. I seem to recall that some devices like many Chromebooks will have some extensive EFI blobs in firmware partitions, at least some of which is a read-only "get back to factory settings if you really screw up" stuff. I don't see what could stop a vendor from putting whatever they want into a a read-only firmware EFI partition, I'm pretty sure they exist in the wild.
Nope, we're focused on getting better technical folks into government.
They aren't using 2014 technologies, and they've invented quite a few of their own technologies along the way. The game looks amazing.
I know I’ll never be able to match the accomplishments of people that got into Duke the year I didn’t, for example.
An important thing that many people can't seem to understand is how to convey boundaries. I feel like the main separator from an unlikable individual from a likable one is how they express their dislikes to others. Tact is one of the most valuable skills one can have.
Wait, so if I sell widgets to people in 50 states from my little website, I might have to file and submit collected taxes for 50 states? That seems like a mountain of work for selling my crappy little widgets.
EMC and EMI – The Issues You Should Never Skip in Product Development
I don't understand why people are lamenting the lack of features on the Epic game store.

I don't need forums or screen shot galleries or any of that junk from my store. I just want games.

If I want to talk about a game or interact with other people who play the same game, I'll go on reddit.
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Costa Rica was the starting point for this thread.

Haggling over medical costs is built into individual financing, but of course most people in the US don’t do individual financing, so my argument is more that arguing over idiosyncrasies of individual financing is usually a red herring when discussing the US health care system.
That's where "leverage" comes in.

Typically if you don't have a house, you can't get a big bank loan either.
See, I really don't think they are oriented much towards merit either. At least, not my idea of "merit". My idea of merit would be purely academic: test scores, grades (though these are very leaky), and academic achievements outside the classroom (e.g. performance in academic competitions). Yet many, if not most, people at highly ranked/competitive universities don't fall into the "academic" admissions bucket: there's also athletes, musicians, people with "quirky hobbies" (many of which are invented purely for college admissions), people who might have had standards relaxed a bit to meet demographic targets, and most of all kids from rich feeder schools + legacies.

Then you get the rest of the students who get in purely on academic merit. In my experience those maybe make up a plurality but not a majority. They're basically there to lend legitimacy to the rich kids.
For old and painful see Accurev. And yes, I believe it is still used.
The Trump Presidency Is Over – Or the Rule of Law Is
Both happen quite a bit, in large organizations. In most cases, the person at the top sets KPIs (e.g. a salesperson should sell at least $10 million of goods), and incentives around those KPIs. Helping oneself means achieving those KPIs by any means -- bribes, kickbacks, fudging numbers, hiring prostitutes, etc.

Some of those are illegal, and some merely unethical. In some cases, that aligns with corporate interests (more sales!). In some cases, it undermines corporate interests (bad reputation). In some cases, the person on the top quietly supports bad behavior, and in some cases, they have just a hard time stopping it.

It's often quite hard to tell all of those apart. But we haven't really found a way to avoid at least some of those happening in any organization above, say, a few hundred people. Even at a hundred people, it's tough.

One of the underemphasized advantages startups can have over big companies is pretty good alignment and protection against this sort of stuff. Everyone knows each other, and works as a genuine team.
Keep in mind that food does not act in isolation. The actual glycemic index of the food you eat depends on the combination of food. So if you eat a combination of carbohydrates, fats and proteins it lowers the glycemic index. Famously, a Snicker's bar has a dramatically lower glycemic index than a slice of bread (though exactly what it is depends on what study you look at :-P ).

Another way to look at this is that refined sugar is the sugar with all the other things that would have lowered the glycemic index taken away. If you add it back, the index will be lowered again. If I eat refined sugar from sugar beets and accompany it with the fiber, etc from the processing, the glycemic index will be the same as eating sugar beets. So it doesn't matter where the carbs are coming from, it only matters if you are mixing it with fibre, fat and protein.
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Sanctions are always painful to both sides. But it's usually one coutry vs most of the rest of the world. Each country only cuts off ties with that one country, so the relative impact of that action is small. The sanctioned country has its ties cut off by most if not all trading partners, culminating negative effects and adding some synergies on top, yielding a big impact for that country.
I got an S10 because of the headphone jack and sd card slot. I uninstalled or disabled any software I didn't need pretty easily. I find it to be a fantastic phone.
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What do users really need from a platform beyond basic social features and the ability to, you know, launch the game?

I've used Steam chat and voice comms all of about 3 times. Discord is better.

Profile pages and achievements? Couldn't care less.

Streaming? There's Twitch for that.

What I really care about from a platform are the games that are available for it. Valve waved the white flag on that a while ago when they abandoned first party game development.
The point is at that all merchant end up adding the 3% in their margin so what you buy is more expensive. You just lose if you don’t use points but, you aren’t actually gaining anything.
This, like many other problems we are facing now, doesn't have a private sector solution. It is a failure of regulation and needs to be fixed by better government.
You shouldn't feel that way at all, there are lots of unsuccessful people from each year's class at those kinds of universities, you just don't hear about them.
Airplanes have differential braking (in some models there's no other way to steer on the ground, in most the nose or tail wheel is turned by the rudder pedals), and the brakes are controlled by pressing rudder pedals by toes (rather than pushing them in by heels which moves rudder). This reduces the need for pedals from 4 to 2.

Never mind that in a performance landing (such as short field) you use not only brakes but also yoke/stick (2 degrees of freedom) for one hand and throttle for another. The exam standard for commercial pilot is to be able to touch down on a designated 100ft stretch of runway with centerline between main wheels). Add to that your usual wind, turbulence, and thermals on the approach path which make every landing different, and you'd realize that what ground drivers do isn't very exceptional, and that one could train to get proficient in juggling a lot more controls at once:)
In potentially the same way that nuclear weapons did. No one can "win" a nuclear exchange, unlike those who thought many of the previous non-nuclear large conflicts would be over quickly (both World Wars and the US Civil War come to mind). Nuclear weapons are still use of force, but provide deterrence in a way conventional forces can not.
After AoE II, Worms, and World of Goo I wish similar update for Red Alert 2.
Some of the idea behind programs like affirmative action is that because of race/class/gender, some people score lower on various exams than they could. They were not given equal opportunities - and so to judge them equally during admissions would not be fair.

I think affirmative action is tricky, because we single out some reasons for 'sub-potential' performance, but we ignore a lot of others. But even if I think it's tricky, I tend to be in favor of it.

My biggest issue with these programs is that they should really have some built-in "off-switch", when the program should be dismantled because there's no longer a pressing need for it. I don't think we're there yet, but hopefully we will get there - and then what?
We (big internet company) still use Perforce. It works quite well for a 20 year old company that never deleted anything.
US healthcare lack of regulation? Good god.
You sound like you have the rarer, nice landlords with maybe a handful of properties that are being rented out. These are the landlords that as long as you pay their mortgage and provide little fuss, they are happy and not trying to constantly maximize their returns.

I'd imagine your scenario would not be the case with a typical management company. While your scenario is attainable for a small amount of people, it would be difficult to see happenning for the masses.
I think socialism is problematic for other reasons, but there's nothing nuts about the link between social inequality and mental illness, which is well documented. This might be because inequality contributes to feelings of isolation and anxiety: https://aeon.co/essays/health-warning-social-rejection-doesn...
I not sure I agree, and read it it is an attempt to map the source material influencing the writing, not the writers eras at all. Steampunk particularly doesn't make sense as a map to writers eras.

At any rate, I understand the confusion now. As you note Cyberpunk proper was having it's obituary written, in some ways, in very early 90s, and the core of it was written well previous to that. So 1990-2000 doesn't fit well as either writers timeline or (in a handwavey sense) technology timeline.
It's not free. They take the enormous margin they get off the sellers and kick you back a few peanuts. Essentially, the sellers pay a tax, and you get a small distribution of the tax, and as a result all products are more expensive.

Points are useless.
Google builds a lot more of its own infrastructure than other companies can afford to do, all the way down to the hardware. They also change things more often internally than you will see with public-facing API's.

What I'm wondering, though, is about why headcount continues to expand. Besides the new buildings in Mountain View and NYC there's a whole new campus planned in San Jose, so there are apparently no plans to slow down. Where does it end?

https://medium.com/gabor/timeline-employee-count-growth-for-...
Oracle CEO says consolidation coming to 'underfunded' SaaS
The blog post isn't about your experience, it's about the blog post author's experience.

Do try to stay on target when communicating with people. It is impolite to suddenly change a topic of discussion to yourself.
Thé AMA is more like a medieval guild than a union.
I can only hope that these kinds of fights lead to a greater analysis of letting major companies have this control over access
>The problem, of course, is that Epic isn't developing original content

And Valve is?
I actually help it every day during my commute. They are not stupid and this isn’t so unsafe as people who have no actual experience with it claim to be.
Sanctions against Russia didn't have much impacts on European/US consumers.

Tariffs against China didn't have much impacts on European/US consumers.

You get the idea.
Subversion for some stuff. GitHub for others.
Maybe Medium or running their own WordPress install?
> it's worked so well for SpaceX.

The only thing that SpaceX has done so far is prove that the traditional space industry was correct that you couldn't cost-effectively reuse rockets.