skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sold 500 eth for 12$ a piece after the drop from 20$ and felt like a genius.

Mind you, I make about 30k after tax. (Not in US)
> property prices and rents are basically flat because they’ve built more housing.

> Why does this happen in Japan but not NYC or SF?

I don't think zoning is the complete answer here -- there's a lot of stuff going on in Japan, and in Tokyo in particular, that's very different from the US.

For example, a lot of cheaper places are tiny and have no shower or a shared shower. I don't think a lot of Americans would be willing to deal with that, but Japan has a public bath culture/history.

In Tokyo in particular, there's a huge amount of public transportation options, which allow people to live farther out and commute easily (with the commute costs being covered by work) -- that's not as simple in NYC. Imagine living in White Plains and commuting to the heart of Tokyo every day in a reliable, timely fashion.

Another thing is that a lot of cheaper housing in Tokyo is just old (post-war wood construction with a veneer of modernity) or in just plain bad areas (low-lying areas near rivers, below the water table, on reclaimed land, far from hospitals/fire departments, etc.)

On top of all that, housing here just isn't an investment like it is in America. Nobody's house or apartment appreciates with age.

It's not as simple as pointing at the average rent and zoning.
What is the benefit of choosing an Oracle?
Bypass Paywalls for Firefox: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox

Bypass Paywalls for Chrome: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
Currently the most difficult and most time consuming step in the release checklist is finding space on my desk for three laptops so I can use them all simultaneously. Releasing only takes 1-3 hours, and I unfortunately wouldn't want to spend hours learning and setting up automated methods to perhaps shave 10 minutes off the process.

Manual releasing allows me to iteratively improve the process and spot possible issues, whereas any automation would reduce build reliability.
1. The ability to transit from one place to another is a right of the people of a city, that should not be modulated by one's socioeconomic class (or medical condition or sex etc).

2. If rich people can zoom around the city much faster than poor people, then rich people have more of this right than poor people. Not good.

3. Crucial to this argument is that the price is prohibitive in nature, and that transit by car is a rivalrous good. So other rights, such as easy access to food, don't fall so easily to this argument because poor people can still buy nutritious food from their wages, even if rich people can buy more expensive and better food.
Yeah but you cant jam 1 trillion into any asset vehicle at all, and even if you could, you need to diversify. Portfolio theory 101
Supaplex, maybe?
So...all tech companies are overvalued as long as you exclude the ones that are correctly valued?
I don't understand this obsession with cloud-based deep learning for beginners. It creates this hyper-focus on cost: always remember to shut down your instances! With the occasional slippage which causes psychological (and / or financial) pain... The mood is all wrong for somebody entering a new (work-)field.

Google Colab is decent and free.

But you can do computing on cheaper hardware too. The CPU is good enough for learning and a GPU is not outside the budget of many people that presumably already own laptops and such.

I know a local group that shares an i9 / dual GTX "server" and are learning on this shared hardware. I think it's great!

I had a small budget for this learning curiosity and bought a Ryzen and a GTX with only 4GB of RAM. Got a job offer after a while which I had to turn down as it seemed to actually kill my interest in the field. Doing some small personal project now without much fuss to rekindle the fire. And using the CPU for it since it's so small.
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A lack of a causal relationship wouldn't matter in that case. If something correlates with the outcome then it allows you to better predict the outcome even if it isn't the cause, because it at least correlates with the cause or it wouldn't correlate with the outcome.

Though obviously if it isn't the cause then you're better off taking into account the true cause rather than only the thing that correlates with it -- which would cause the correlation with the outcome to disappear for the non-causal factor when you take into account both.
While that isn't the one I recall looking at when I searched, which was over a year ago, there are multiple low-scoring comments stating that this is a low-quality reproduction of the original. Some speculate it's just being reprinted from the "bootleg" PDF based on what they've received.

> "Unfortunately, this printing is really poor quality. The cover color is off (has a pink hue to every color on the cover), the binding is lumpy, and the pages of the book are so thin the other side shows through. The publishers have obviously skimped on quality materials."

> "Although the book appeared to be new and the dust cover was new, the binding was loose and the paper it was printed on was substandard….my impression was this book was reprinted as in a bootleg copy or something similar. I rated it 2 stars because of the ease of returning the item."

Etc.

I actually ended up just finding the PDF online, I think it was on archive.org, and that's that.

The problem with Amazon is they just throw them all in the same coarse-grained bucket. If I click on "13 new from $53.88" under hardcover, there's just a list of prices with no photos of the actual book I'm buying from the various sources. They're NOT equal, only "new" and "hardcover", it's a total diceroll what you're going to get. If you were to buy every one of the new hardcovers sold there, they'd all be different. I'm sure they'd all be reproductions of the Ashley Book of Knots, but of varying quality.

The copyright is expired on this book, so the market is flooded with random repros of varying quality. And Amazon makes no effort to help the customer assess the provenance and quality of what they're actually getting.
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I have a counterfeit Horowitz and Hill from Amazon. I called twice and go no where with them.

https://artofelectronics.net/the-book/counterfeit-editions/
Worth noting that Langewiesche wrote a book about Sullenberger’s infamous flight on the Hudson. Not a critical one, but they do have a previous relationship at least of some sort.
Just realized that Stackexchange is currently showing only an abridged version of my blurb on the question of "adaption to LFN (low frequency noise)", so I paste the long version below. Links to literature can be found in my other post(s). I don't cover the involvement of the otolith organs (yet) but that's your connection of a low-frequency sound stimulus to the sensation of (whole body) vibration, dizziness, balance problems, blurred vision, changes in peripheral blood flow and breathing problems.

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Very quickly and totally from the top of my head: Traffic noise is in many cases dominated by low frequencies, with the whole spectrum somewhat similar to a distorted 1/f function, with a few tonal peaks for exhaust noise and tyre/tread sounds. Now add the structure you are living in: "excellent sound insulation" in the EU is (still) dB(A)-focused, meaning architects and planners are aiming for a "wow" effect in noise reduction by eliminating that what's easy to eliminate - high and mid frequencies, ignoring mostly the low (and energy-rich) frequencies, which are incidentally the ones the A-weighing of noise is (historically) ignoring as well. As a result, you are basically living in what's known as a low-pass filter, one that is also "drawing" tonal peaks (resonances, room nodes) out of that low-frequency noise mixture. At first, your cochlea's short-term adaption mechanisms will do their job well and tone down signals that are not meaningful (MOC reflex).
Over time however, the presence of low-level tonal, continuous sounds can damage ("wear out") a specific sensor type necessary for this reflex to work. As a result, even inaudible LFN noise can, over time, lead to a distal sensitization effect. In many cases the culprit is actually not the traffic noise itself, but HVAC installations like heat pumps, A/Cs and gas turbines. The effect of "I can hear too much" (being aware of noises) as a result of sub-threshold LFN-exposure is known in the medical literature as a symptom of VAD stage I / II and in fact quite common in the urban population. Certain medications (Gentamycine, cis-platines) as well as organic solvents (acetone) and some disinfectants can speed up this process, which is non-reversible and poses a risk factor for suffering atypical (early onset) hearing loss later on... The "I hear too much" effect has been quite a solid indicator of long-term, low-level IS/LFN noise pollution.
To be on the safe side and to rule out a sub-threshold LFN-problem, you should an have an acoustician do a "LCeq-LAeq" (should not be more than 3-4dB) and an unweighted (FFT) spectrogram to see if there is a constant tonal peak below, say, 50Hz. Also, try to wear good earplugs like UVEX Whisper or UVEX Whisper Plus at night until you can rule out any constant / nocturnal IS/LFN immissions into your place.
Clubhouse.

Very happy with it so far. It's free up to 10 users.
I don't see how it's an excuse. I don't care how they handle their processes internally. If they sell me counterfeit items I will report them to the police.
Differing opinions are seen as an annoying impediment to decision making: yet another variable that needs to be weighed up eye-roll.

Management is easier when everyone just agrees and when Management is easy then Managers are happy, which generally means employees feel less "under the microscope".

Therefore alternative opinions have the appearance of working against both (lazy) Managers and (paranoid) employees. There's only a small percentage of humanity that are either willing, or unaware, enough to potentially get off-side with their boss and peers to provide dissenting opinion. Despite the great long-term value there is in attacking problems with the knowledge of the various angles of entry and exit.

It's sad, but human nature. And here we find ourselves in a world of our own making.
You seem to be doing a little re-writing of history yourself right here:

> Instead Jobs decided business wise he could lock devs into developing native apps in the iOS ecosystem, scapegoat performance and security for the ban, and gain a competitive advantage at the same time

Steve Jobs never even envisioned the App Store model when he decided against supporting Flash in Safari.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Store_(iOS) :

>... prior to its unveiling in 2007, Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs did not intend to let third-party developers build native apps for iOS, instead directing them to make web applications for the Safari web browser. However, backlash from developers prompted the company to reconsider, with Jobs announcing in October 2007 that Apple would have a software development kit available for developers by February 2008

You can also read about an actual iPhone engineer's thoughts on the matter https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-engineer-reveals-real-r...

Interesting tidbit: Apple was actually trying to work with Adobe to iron out Flash's security problems but was rebuffed.

Anyways, the fact is, the App Store was actually an afterthought.... An accident of history that even Steve didn't see coming. The decision to forego Flash came way before that.
Cal Newport has written about experimenting with this; he calls it the Textbook method[0][1].

[0] https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2012/08/10/you-know-what-you...

[1] https://www.calnewport.com/blog/2012/08/16/experiments-with-...
Zoning, building codes, and land use / value capture are all policies from which your observations stem.

Housing itself is never the investment. It’s the land upon which the home sits, and I’d be willing to bet that land in Tokyo is expensive (though not as much as the infamous bubble highs) and probably increasingly so with improving amenities.
I don't like to receive emails like that. I would be happy to subscribe to an RSS though. Is it available?

I noticed an RSS button in the sample issue. Will it work for all the future releases?
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But PE is obviously the wrong metric for Amazon since we know it reinvests all its earnings and has proven ability to convert investment into cash flow.
Neumann invested a big chunk of his money in real estate, so he should be good regardless.
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Strike Commander or bust!

I don't know if there's an actual need or not, but if any reverse engineering work is needed on retro titles, I'd happily donate my time. email is in profile.
Alternative coverage with no paywall bypass required:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/10/finfisher_authors_l...
Finally, somebody talks about the problems with OYO's business model. I personally think it's a WeWork in the making for sure. If I had Softbank shares, this article would be enough to make me sell.

Meanwhile, here in India, journalists just can't seem to write about anything except the OYO's greatest achievement, i.e. raising a few billion dollars.

It should've been common sense by now, that raising huge sums, is actually a liability. Sure, it's an achievement for a founder to convince investors to give them a huge sum for their experiment, but most people are just looking at it as an end in itself (as if the company has succeeded already).

P.S - Just to reiterate OYO's founder's tendency to overpay. A friend of mine leased a hotel to OYO in Mumbai at a 30% higher price than what they would get for it otherwise (~$30,000/mo). And they're still paying the mount, even though rents are down another ~25% due to a slowdown.

Update: OYO's been getting negative news, mostly because of retaliation from hotels in India. Not because of making silly acquisitions, etc.
Why don't you use virtual machines?
I've seen 1-day and even same-day shipping on a variety of items, so I suspect it's determined by some arcane combination of user location and item logistics.
Server machine allocations are not handled. Nexrender can be used in 2 ways:

1. Direct binary form. (creating a start script for a newly launched machine taht will start predefined executable for example)

2. As a custom runtime. Creating a custom executable using nodejs that uses the nexrender as a kind of library, while you handle more high level stuff regarding

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Never heard about OpenCue up to this point, so can't tell you for sure if there is any direct way to implement integration, but I guess theoretically should not be that complicated :)
Cabs are an alternate form of public transit where you pay a lot more per km, especially in cities where the city sets the prices and the number of cabs. There are lots of valid reasons for using cabs over city buses/trains, such as minor medical problems, bad weather, unsafe conditions at night, etc.

Of course, once cabs are available, people will use them for convenience rather than the valid reasons. I don't have a solution for this, but I think the valid reasons are strong enough that cabs should be allowed in cities where private cars are banned/strongly discouraged.
If you haven't seen it you should check out John Oliver's bit on Harvard's MBA ethics pledge from when he was on The Daily Show. Here's a link that isnt region locked - http://dailybail.com/home/the-daily-show-enlists-a-prison-co...
Wow he didn't miss. It's a good example of an interesting change in our information dissemination dynamic. 30 years ago he would have been waving his arms trying to get other news organisations to run a counter-story and then be subject to having quotes taken out of context and having his thoughts filtered through the story the journalist was trying to write or that the editor thought was more compelling. Giving everyone the best possible motives, which was frequently reasonable, it had serious issues.

Now he writes the letter. Publishes it himself very cheaply. Then allows it to be read by a very large number of people directly, un-edited. There are many of examples of this kind of thing nowadays (and it's easy to see it doesn't always work too). When it does work the world is just a little bit better.
You are not disagreeing with what I stated. I said that the book was close to the math of OR (operations research), that is, much of the book is a subset of the math of OR. You outlined some major OR omissions in the book -- I agree fully. So, you are saying that the book does not cover OR, that its OR material is a proper subset of OR. Fine. I agree.

I thought his linear programming coverage was superficial. In particular, I didn't notice any coverage of linear programming for the problem of least cost flows on a network where each arc has a maximum capacity. The nice anti-cycling rule for the version of the simplex algorithm, with strongly feasible bases, is from W. Cunningham, long Chair at the Waterloo Department of Combinatorics and Optimization. It turns out that that algorithm makes a nice dent in the challenges of linear integer programming.

Yes, I saw not much on constraint qualifications. I'm the guy who showed that the Zangwill and Kuhn-Tucker constraint qualifications are independent for problems with only functional constraints -- my work also solved a problem stated but not solved in the famous Arrow, Hurwicz, Uzawa paper on constraint qualifications in mathematical economics.

Any really good book on linear programming is "close" to OR but can be attacked with your objection that it omits lots of OR.
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A long shot, but if I think about an arcade game with a barbarian I cannot think about anything but Rastan (although the graphics was not necessarily basic for the time): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFBs3X2LVAc
thanks for sharing this wonderful story. it would make for a lovely short film.
"Mature locations" are cash flow positive. But lots of $$ being invested into expansion.

SaaS economics are much easier since marginal costs are $0. WeWork has to commit to very large lease expenses and then find tenants to move in at higher rates.
In theory it is. But for most customers (who are small) there's almost no IT department and the average computer literacy is lower than you might think (though improving) so the risk is there. Except for that situation I would happily leave them autofill/save password.
Yes, that’s the one!

Thank you so much!
Definitely not. We require digital images only, and not even an image is required for corporate card transactions under a limit.
I find it very interesting that I can digest the same information and come to the exact opposite conclusion. Our medicine system has been socialized. If you can't afford to pay, the cost is pushed onto the rest of the population that can. The free market had health care costs 10x lower than they are now, so low that the entirety of an average person's health fees with only catastrophic insurance would now be lower than their monthly premium. Our economic system has socialized, more communized. It is impossible to save capital because the purchasing power of your capital is devalued at an exponential rate, taken and redistributed to those at the tippy top. To call off the nonsense would be to move right.
I am not sure if I understand your first sentence. Regarding the second, no, they encourage wearing out shoes quickly and repurchasing often or purchasing many pairs. Two pairs purchased to alternate is something done to maximize longevity, so in the long run it is cheaper than buying one pair and wearing it daily. It is in a shoe repair shop’s interest, though, and that’s where I first heard the tip.
For the information I presented, my qualifications are fine, as you in effect confirmed.
You must mean decent French cheese at a reasonable price? All the big depa-chika have cheese stands with cheeses from all over the world. Seijo Ishii seems to have some selection as well?
What in the world is a biologically consistent pronoun?

A pronoun operates in a purely social context.
You've been breaking the site guidelines routinely by being aggressive on this site. We've given you multiple warnings and tried to persuade you not to, but you've responded the same way to our attempts as well.

Since you don't seem to want to use HN as intended, I'm not sure what there is left to do but ban you. I can't help but feel like you don't really mean to be aggressive, though, and are somehow doing this for some other reason. So, one last plea: if you don't want to be banned on HN, please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and take the spirit of this site to heart. There's no reason why you can't make your substantive points in keeping with those guidelines. Yes, there are many bad comments that get posted here. That's no reason to be abusive and make this place even worse.
,,people with two copies of delta-32 — whom they estimated to make up about 1% of biobank participants — were slightly more likely to die by the age of 76 than were those with one or no copies''

I'm in the 1%, but still consider myself lucky with this gene.

To be honest I'm not using protection as much as I should, though I know that there are other illnesses as well, and Delta-32 gives only partial protection.
Being able to see the tracks and bits in a CD-ROM
Global warming is problem for everyone. I heard about new energy efficient technology. I apply to one company in Los Angeles here https://titanupgrades.com/services/roofing/ and decided to install new energy efficient roofing which is an innovation in construction technology that enables people to keep their homes cool while also cutting back on energy costs.
> If you buy an item at Costco, you can absolutely bet it’s going to be the highest quality item in whatever category you’re shopping.

> prepare to taste an $8 bottle of wine that puts every $100 bottle you’ve ever tasted to shame.

Are you sure that Costco is in the "absolutely highest quality" category? Rather, I'd suggest they're in the "a little nicer than average, and definitely not garbage" category that most regular folks are looking for.

For example, our largest Costco purchase (besides our mortgage - btw, Costco has great mortgage rates!) has been our washer and dryer. The units are certainly not "highest quality in category" but they are pretty nice. Similarly, Costco wine is good, but I have had $100 bottles that were better.
We already have a link, we can click on your profile name.
Wow, yeah. The difference in impressions created between the two links is huge.
WeWork dominates the flexible office leasing business any many large and important markets around the world. It would be difficult and perhaps impossible to replicate what WeWork has achieved. And since it can make money at 50-80% occupancy rates, there's a massive profit opportunity.
It seems to me that this indeed can be done with nexrender. However, most likely you would need a small team of an After Effects template designer, and a junior/middle javascript developer and about 20-40 hours to pull it off.

After that, in theory, you can just take existing template and infrastructure, feed it with needed data, including voice synthesized with a different library (it would be the developer's responsibility to find a fitting one), and generate as many total videos as you would need.
The theory of constraints applied to a software company, part 1
ranger [1] is not mentioned yet. I had never used a console based file manager prior to starting using this 3 months back and I have stopped using Dolphin (I am on KDE) now.

[1] https://ranger.github.io/
What would buying Regus get you besides a slow growth, lousy brand?
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No true. WeWork's business has already moved very firmly into stabler, longer lived tenants.