skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Add to this the fact that governments (at least in the US, and in many other countries) have made it clear that housing won't be allowed to fall. This combined with money printing means the price is almost guaranteed to rise.

The reason is that for most homeowners their home equity is the majority of their savings, and homeowners vote in higher proportion than renters (on average). Any politician that allows home values to fall too much will be facing the end of their career.

Under these conditions the only way housing will fall in a lasting way is if something so terrible happens to the economy that... well... you'll have bigger problems than housing.

Housing is fundamentally broken and very hard to fix due to vested interests all over the place. "Housing cannot simultaneously be affordable and a good investment," and we've clearly decided that housing is a financial instrument first and a place to live second.

There is one way out of the housing price trap: telework plus ubiquitous broadband via things like 5G and Starlink. That could allow people to escape the housing trap by locating away from price hotspots. If you simply must live in a big city this won't work for you, but keep in mind that you could always live somewhere more rural and visit big cities any time you please.
“Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Windows Store allows non UWP apps for over 2 years now.
So many assertions, so little evidence. Surely there is value added by basic research funded by the government, technology created for space or military purposes, and providing the enforcement of laws necessary for people to want to start businesses in the first place!
Except they control the app that shows you those conversations. Unless you deleted them, they have the technical ability to see them.
Just one idea on what might have happened. If you look at it from the manager's point of view, it is probably something like:

Employee told a potential customer that he will make a home-visit, for free. There is no way that the Apple Store would support making promises like that. But if he made that promise while he was at work, it could be construed that he wasn't doing a personal favor, but acting on behalf of his job.

So if anything went wrong (say, he fried the computer) then Apple could potentially have some liability.
I also spent an extra $100 to buy a Vive instead of a Rift. I didn't predict this exact action but I didn't trust Facebook to keep their fingers off of it
The whole "this code is problematic because... " section on Boolean blindness reminds me of the worst caricatures of left-wing narratives of oppression based on PhD-level Critical Theory.

Look, a lot of the other patterns are interesting but I really think that if you are getting into criticising code because it has "Boolean blindness" you are probably getting a bit lost in navel gazing. Do you really have nothing better to do?
Do I use that window app store to configure my router or internet connection? How about if you have a corporate account and log in through a connector like okta, which display a web page for login? How about when firefox and half your os gets infected and deleted by your av -will a windows install disk bring back your browser so you can download firefox again?

Being able to show a webpage is an essential function of all modern operating systems. the included browser is a part of windows, much like notepad and vi, or a package manager (programs control panel in windows), or regedit. You are free to add a browser of your choice. The one that's part of the base os image is not your choice, and is supported by the os vendor, as part of the os. You want an os interface to let you frankenstein your os with custom parts and make it unsupported? You have one. You, as an advanced user, can remove edge with powershell very easily.
From a consumer perspective this just doesn't entice me. I feel like you have to use Uber as your main form of transport for this to be worth considering at all at this price point. Haven't really run the numbers though and maybe I am indeed not the target for this but from first glance I can't see this working out, especially with our good friend Covid making Uber so attractive!
I think being very specific about language is important here. There's "forcing", and there's "disallowing things if people don't agree to do something".

Forcing would be literally forcibly entering people's homes and testing or vaccinating them against their will, or jailing them or removing them from the country if they refuse. But you could disallow people from entering certain kinds of property or areas if they don't agree to show test results / vaccination status or take a temperature test or wear a mask.

Once a vaccine is officially approved and rolled out, I don't think vaccination should be mandatory for residents of the US, but I also don't think people should be allowed to enter my place of work or education if they aren't confirmed to be vaccinated.
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"Security": https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/publish/store-p...
It does reduce smoking by one smoker.
Key insight for me was learning how to use my freezer. So much stuff freezes well which most people wouldn't consider freezing. For example, I run my own small baked goods business and do a ton of baking. 95% of anything you could buy in a bakery can be frozen and no one can tell the difference. In fact, bakeries already freeze most of what they are selling to people and no one can tell the difference.

I don't expect normal people to make their own puff pastry or cronuts by hand but I really do think everyone should try to bake their own bread at least once a year. Most people don't want to make their own kneaded bread because you have like 15-30 mins active labour plus about four hours waiting time (mixing, kneading, bulk fermentation, proofing, baking, cooling). But you can make three loaves at once, and freeze them. The time and labour involved in making three loaves is very close to making one. But most people would turn their nose up at freezing bread, as though it completely destroys the crumb and ruins it. But most people's instincts are wrong, once again. Bread freezes extremely well.

I was thinking that we really need to teach children how to be poor. Poor people need to cook and be smart about buying and storing their own food, but most people do not know how to do this. We spend so much time teaching children how to find a job in the most shallow way (how to write a resume, etc) but kids need help with knowing what to do when the economy is bad or they just can't find a good job, even if they are trying to. This sort of thing is political suicide because of national pride and this unshakable notion in the mainstream that people are poor because they are lazy or on drugs, their fault basically.

Anyways, I agree with you on all counts. It is shocking when I realized that eating well is actually pretty cheap. If only I learned that at a younger age.
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AWS launches WorldForge to enable AI simulations in its RoboMaker service
Edison made them fashionable. There was also a lot of low hanging fruit to pluck in the 20th century.
I don't know enough about Palmer Luckey to make any kind of statement about him or his decisions but as Upton Sinclair said:

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his [possible billions] depends upon his not understanding it.
> am really glad that you like the landing page! I probably changed it like 200 times in the last 2 months (last change was 2 minutes ago).

Hilarious, I have changed our new home page literally hundreds of times over the last few days and having looked at yours, I see inspiration for yet another change.
Reminds me of one of Ted Chiang's short stories where they can't recognize attractive faces.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50550973-liking-what-you...
Interesting, I'm not impaired afaik but I don't really remember face characteristic if I don't make an effort, apart from really obvious things of course (couldn't draw the from memory). But I still immediately recognize a face (well most of the time). It's like seeing a color and knowing it's blue, it requires zero effort, you just know. I'm guessing having perfect pitch is something like this, just that it's not that ordinary. It does happen that after a long time you see someone familiar but not recognize them.
Sorry to say this, but the name "synth" is terribly misleading and generic. Word "synth" is used widely for electronic musical instrument "synthesizer".
> like opposing anything that might raise property values unless you want to sell

Are you in America? Raising your property values is like a religion here.
I'm sure it's not the whole answer, but given large profitable companies with (for the moment) unassailable market positions, the answer may come down to "Because they can."

Everyone likely agrees that most large companies should have some longer-term speculative projects going on. As those companies get wealthier and fatter, those research organizations want to grow, they help position the company as an "innovator," and they may even have an OK payback over a long enough time horizon.

As to that time horizon, people have been arguing about that and it's swung back and forth at different forms for as long as I've been in the industry.

I think it's also true that there were always a relatively few large true research labs. There's a reason that, say, Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, and IBM Research come up (in roughly that order) and then most people have trouble naming examples.
> They might be the only shop in town offering a Haskell job

I learned this the hard way: Do not let the technology stack be the deciding factor in which job you take.

Skipping the Cobol job is reasonable. Picking the only Haskell job because it is the only Haskell job isn't.
Can you explain what the difference is between C18 and C++ on Unix?
Fine, it's been around since before David Simon cribbed it:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/next-case-on-the-court-col...
If you inductionally apply the argument that you shouldn't increase taxes because someplace else offers a lower tax burden, no place can raise it's taxes. There are other factors in choosing your country of residence (and nationality) than taxes.
looks fine on 79.0 (Windows, w/ ublock)
I've upvoted you, since you are correct. I was absolutely amazed that you had been downvoted.
Is there a lot of work-related material surrounding you? I really just have my macbook and that's it. If that's not the issue, maybe just repeatedly remind yourself at a specific that time that work is over and to relax.
This is totally misleading.

A capitalist-ish economy is designed to create winners. If it wasn't Bezos, it would be someone else. What matters about Bezos' wealth (in this context) is not that this specific person controls it, but that we live in a society/economy where there will always be people who accrue this level of power and wealth. The problem isn't that Jeff Bezos is this rich, it's that we live in a society designed to concentrate money in this way.

ps. I was the 2nd employee at amazon, and worked closely with Bezos for 14 months.
The rules these guys set for others never apply to themselves.
Regardless of what term you use it's a fact of reality that right now no one else but Epic can put content on the Epic Store which is not true of Apple and the App Store.
That's not accurate. Only if you qualify as a professional investor, you'll have to pay capital gains tax.
Yeah its pretty marvelous when you look at a quadrant chart of scalable things you can sell, tokens are better than drugs.

That’s pretty unprecedented.

They are even more weightless, more fungible, cheaper to produce than both legal and illegal drugs and you can pay people from your illiquid premine and deduct that against your liquid revenue. Primarily because people are willing to be paid in the tokens (unlike other consumer products or even shares), and because they aren't illegal like drugs.

Due to their “property” designation and again non-illicit status, donations to non-profits are extremely flexible too, for greater tax benefits at cost-basis or fair market value.

People should look into making them better instead of looking at what went wrong.
"a priori" means "from theoretical deduction rather than evidence or experience", so yes, that's entirely the point of that sentence.

What the author is saying is "theoretically, life could have started on Mars just as easily as it did here".
An earthlike planet is require for earthlike life.

It is fallacious to assume other life couldn't be different -- we can't prove or disprove that. Likewise, we still don't know exactly how life started here; we simply have a few good theories.
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Long-term, you may have a better career trajectory by getting a masters in somewhere like Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, the US, UK, Japan, etc. rather than jumping right into a job post-undergrad.
I personally find it surprising that so many people are still stuck on old, outdated build systems like CMake. Modern alternatives like Bazel (https://bazel.build/) are light years ahead.
hah, I'm 9am (due to morning meeting), to like 2am with kids and work interleaved. Have 1yo and 2yo. man, sounds like I have a lot of this to go lol
I stand corrected, it seems like! Looks like it rolled out last Nov for the named profiles from the RSS feed.

very happy to see work on this front!!
I like Michael Pollan's mantra: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.
Had this clip sitting unlisted for a few months, think it's a neat little showcase of Vim's capabilities.
Oh yeah right click open too. I’ve done that before but thought maybe I’ve disabled Gatekeeper in the past on my machine.
Apple tried to own the software distribution channel back in the 70's (like they do with the app store). I didn't work out, but I don't think they were ever terribly happy with needing to produce general-purpose computers.
"Suppose you start a successful startup in your twenties..."

Suppose you are a spherical cow of uniform density...

"...and then live for another 60 years."

...having converted your stock to greenback dollars and never making another dime...

Suppose you exit your startup with $10,000,000 in stock, that it (or your portfolio containing it) grows by 5%/year, and that you pay 1%/year wealth tax. After 60 years, your value will be about $100,000,000 and you will have paid about $25,000,000. If I'm doing the math right, you could have ended with $190,000,000, meaning a 1% wealth tax would have theoretically cost you $90,000,000.

initial_value = 10000000
growth_rate = 0.05
tax_rate = 0.01

value = initial_value
total_growth = 0.0
total_tax = 0.0
for y in range(0, 60):
growth = value * growth_rate
total_growth += growth
value = value + growth
tax = value * tax_rate
total_tax += tax
value = value - tax
print(y, value, growth, tax)

print(value, total_growth, total_tax)
I know a well known artist/fantasy author/children's author who has this.
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> It's unfortunate that CMake is the least bad build system we have.

With caveats--I've switched to Bazel. Bazel does solve the very real, very hairy problems of compiling C++ programs for different platforms, on different platforms. It is a damn beautiful thing. There are a few places where Bazel really shines. For example, generated sources, multi-language projects, and building third-party dependencies from source (without monorepos or Git submodules--you can get your third-party sources from HTTP, Git, etc).

If my project does any of these things (third-party dependencies, uses multiple languages, or generated sources), I reach for Bazel immediately.

That said--it is also impossible to give an unqualified recommendation for Bazel. The documentation and community is catching up, and a few simple things (like using pkg-config) are a bit more difficult to get working than they should.
*grandson of one of the first nuclear engineers and nephew of one of the most successful musicians of the 20th century, whose parents had nearly a million (2020) dollars to spare to help him get in on the dotcom boom. But anyway.

Those are about the same odds as breaking in to the House of Lords.

Would the explanation that "while it is statistically impossible, it is strictly speaking plausible for an extremely devoted and lucky regular person to join the club" be a good enough excuse for re-introducing a landed aristocracy to American government, in your estimation?
Or just work towards sustainable population, aka dis-incentivize multiple children, greatly lower immigration, etc etc

But everything the governments do right now incentivizes overpopulation.
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> Invoke-WebRequest 'https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-ssl&os=... -OutFile firefox-latest.exe

A majority of Windows users can't be expected to do this. Think of the target demographic which uses Windows.
I see it the other way around. Like, I can't even reconcile how you see the world with the reality around me.

Life is finite and it will end, just like the nihilist faction proclaims. No reincarnation, no eternal life. The eternalist faction got it wrong.

Life is an infinitesimally small spark of light but lost in the infinite darkness.

And there lies its value. Life is unique, every single moment you are alive is the most valuable moment in time, and it is therefore priceless. Carpe Diem.

Also, people always care. Even for trivialities, they always care.

I love being alive and I appreciate every single moment of it. Because I know it will be over some day.
If curious see also

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21039848

also 2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21118633

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12042548

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8019346

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6978274
CMake is a meta programming language designed to compile into Makefiles.

It can compile into visual studio projects or xcode projects. That's how it achieves multiplatform support.

Basically by writing it in CMake rather then make you've automatically written your make file as well as many other platform configurations. Of course the caveat like the OP is that CMake syntax and design decisions are just plain bad.
So what I'm suggesting is sort of "user pays" for property rights. Since billionaires have way more property (and associated rights) it's only fair they should pay more for that.

Since I assume you're not literally suggesting that billionaires will arm themselves and I dunno, patrol their golf courses and beaches with rocket launchers, I suppose you are suggesting they buy some island and hire private forces, and I dunno, next they have to move their factories or offices there, and presumably hire workers and provide healthcare and education and retirement...

I guess if billionaire island seems like a really good deal, workers might move there. Without knowing more about (and assuming it doesn't just get annexed) it kinda sounds like Dubai.

Or sure they could try their luck in some other country if they feel safer there. Maybe somewhere that's happy to provide "inequality services" / free guard labour for them.

Re: billionaires taking over government so it works in their interests, this has basically already happened and these kinds of wealth tax proposals are a way to balance billionaires existing with the effort needed to sustain them.

And seriously when you look at the alternatives 0.5% (say) doesn't seem like such a bad deal.
Still hoping for someone to design a font for J with ligatures so it can match APL's beauty for reading without making it more difficult to type, i.e. automatically rendering /: as ⍋, |: as ⍉, |. as ⌽, etc.
I don't know if it's intentional, but the clumsy character shapes, the haphazard line weights and the "bleeding ink" effect whenever there is a curve or a corner give it a strong "early DTP" aura. Or possibly even earlier, like a mimeographed pamphlet in the late 1960s, when APL was new.
Did you use a browser to get that command? And did you type it by hand, or copy pasting it?
So property taxes aren't high enough to encourage them to rent or sell out the properties?
To compliment Gordons reply, here's a (norwegian) overview of the environmental conditions around the farms:
https://www.fiskeridir.no/Akvakultur/Drift-og-tilsyn/Overvaa...

The last years they have hovered around 95% being very good or good. So statistically you are very wrong. But sure there are some localities that have bad conditions, and those should be closed and new localities should be opened for those farmers. Such as offshore localities when the technology is mature. Many smart people are trying to figure that out with strong scientific backing, but the report from havmerden is avaliable to read if you understand norwegian

In norway there are many environmental institutions following the state of the fjords, so I wouldn't be too concerned.
You can install Win32 apps from the store, UWP/WinRT is no longer a requirement: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bridges/deskto...
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They're not fungible, so that wouldn't even make sense. What do you mean?
What year do you suggest we put in the title above? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21039848 said 2017 but clearly the project goes back earlier.
That's also discussed in the article. The author states that Mars may have qualified before Earth did.

Edit: Also, the article you linked specifically states "Scientists debate a range of ideas about how life on earth began", undermining your first point.
That’s true. But irrelevant. In what way does an Apple employee helping a friend move data when Apple does it for free hinder Apple from making money? Does the guys story even pass the sniff test a little?
Excellently put. And put differently: even if people actually thought that Bezos was just a brilliant businessman, why would anyone think that he's a brilliant social strategist? Or resource planner? Or commander-in-chief? Just because someone knows how to build and run a company that's great at selling stuff tells you absolutely about their qualities as a political/national leader.
Precisely this. “I’m worried about fingerprinting because a malicious app on my machine might open such a website!” sounds slightly out of touch.
Given Microsoft's recent initiatives in the developer experience space they should have a developer edition of Windows. I can see why Microsoft would pull this crap on tech-illiterate Home users but Pro edition should be left alone
Kerning on Cyrillic is pretty much awful with this font. Ever on the example string it looks like there is a space between Ь and Э, and Ш and Щ are almost glued together.
Language is just the shadows of reality, and studying the shadows perfectly still doesn’t give you enough info to understand reality

Cf. Plato’s Cave