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> The 2008 bubble-pop never happened here.

I live in the Netherlands and that seems to be roughly what happened here too. ~~I mean, yes the prices have dropped a tiny bit around 2008, but in 2009 they were at an all time high again and have not come down.~~

EDIT: This was a lie, turns out they bottomed out around 2013 at ~25% below the 2008 peak.

I live in a 'provincial' city, where prices are ~40-50% of what you might see in the big cities (i.e Amsterdam). With my income, which is well above median, only about 20-30% (2 to 3 % at median income according to the news iirc) of the homes that go on sale are within my mortgage limit. And to solve the on going housing shortages they are building a few new neighborhoods where, surprise, surprise, all houses start at 2 or 3 times that limit...

I have read that one of the reasons this happens, is that _everyone_ expect the buyer is better of if prices are higher. Thus brokers, appraiser and sellers all keep driving up the prices. As long as there are more buyers than houses this will keep driving up prices.
And the big building companies, that do entire neighborhoods, are quite happy to keep the market scarce.
Also not good for the business. It means you attract people who pretend to care about it. So, people who can tell a good story, not those who will talk honestly to you.
People were able to afford food in 1950, when wages were lower and poverty was rampant.

I recommend rereading “The Grapes of Wrath”, to get a taste of what poverty in this country had actually looked like, and what it actually was like to not be able to afford food. Then compare that with what currently passes as “poverty”: you get much more than that already on SNAP benefits.

I am very sympathetic to people in poverty, having grown up in it. However, let’s not pretend that poverty in today’s America is about “affording food”: everyone, no matter how poor, is able to afford food, and poverty today is less about the hunger, and more about the lifestyle you can or are forced to carry out.
Then the iPad isn't for you. Over the years it has picked up a bunch of new capabilities and fits a wider range of tasks, but it's definitely not a general computing device.

Like the Porsche 911 is a great car, but it can't fit a family of four. That doesn't mean it's a crappy car, it's just not for me.
"If they're angry, then I'm right. But if they're not angry, then they're actually secretly angry and I'm still right."

It's so funny honestly.
Can someone explain the constant reference to nerds in PG's essays? I feel like it's a concept straight out of a 1970s-90s low-budget movie and hasn't been accurate or relevant since...
Nobody ever writes Maxell's equations using "components", the title sounds like a straw man argument.

The rest of the text is well written, but hopelessly useless without a comparison with the typical way to write Maxwell's equations using differential forms (which turns out to be essentially identical to geometric algebra).
Thank you! The ideology of this post is so harmful. "Hire workers who care more about your interests than their own!"
> "I have a genuine question and I'm not trying to be snarky -- do people actually think this way in real life, or is it an elaborate social game of pretending to be more "passionate" than the next guy?"

The instinct for tribalism is strong and that tendency is aided by the cheerleading that's done at all-hands meetings and other motivational internal meetings. I have met more than a few people who were long term employees who were genuinely gung-ho about their employer but they had a rude awakening when the the business needed to do layoffs for the first time.
I think if he weren't famous, PG's essays wouldn't get much reverence. But as an icon for he's a great figure. He uses his social status points to offer messages of optimism, self-improvement, hope for rebels that is socially important and feels good.

The fact that we tear him down so much is testament to the regard we hold him in. I'm sure all of us who poke at his logic could just as easily shred the Pope, the Dalai Lama, the president...
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> do people actually think this way in real life

Having had many interviews and a couple of jobs where my passion for the company seemed to be far more important than the quality of my experience, etc., yes.
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An increasing proportion of software includes some sort of pre-trained neural network. These also fit the description.
For those talking about wanting to wait till docker support is 5x5, there’s another work around you can go with.

Buy the M1 and switch to a fully remote development experience. Spin up a DO instance, wire up VSCode Remote, and run docker on that machine.

While it does require an internet connection, I’ve found remote development to be really fantastic as an option on a personal “underpowered” laptop. Especially if you are running a cluster of services or large databases, I find it’s far more productive to offload the running of my code to a VM in the cloud.
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The fact that a country as large and sparse as Canada has to contemplate tiny homes to address housing is ridiculous. Never mind that the speculative construction market has been churning out tiny condo equivalents.

I lived in _much_ denser cities with their own speculative real estate market, but the developers haven't resorted to "optimizing" units as aggressively as the micro-condos I've seen in Toronto. The one bedrooms / studios are about as large as apartments in Beijing / Shanghai. But 2-3 bedrooms new constructions feel dramatically smaller. Being Canada, these units will negatively impact generations.
If that’s the case, why wouldn’t they invite a subject matter expert to debunk this analysis and clarify why the numbers seem to suggest there is no pandemic? Why take the video down?
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No, not really. You can't 'disagree' with pedophile politician rings any more than you can disagree with the moon landing having taken place. The one is reality, the other is not. That's what the nonsensical stands for.

It is quite interesting what people are willing to believe when individuals in power state these things with great certainty. But personally I prefer to have my fiction and real-world views separated by a healthy dose of skepticism.
I think the biggest problem we have today is that people have become so out of touch with themselves and their own intrinsic needs that they ended up resorting to simply wanting what other people want.

We can blame advertising. Successful advertising is all about inducing as many people as possible to conform to the same imagery.
Microsoft maybe?
Check your browser font settings. Most browsers let you set a minimum font size I think so you don't have to fiddle with this per-site.
Are Pixar and ILM really using workstations as you describe them, or render farms?
It would only imply that if the tangent was a linear function of the angle, but it is not.
For those reading this article who might be tempted to a company like this: stay away! You’ll not get any meaningful equity, what you have will be quickly diluted, and as the company either starts its death spiral or “March towards profitability” you’ll be asked to work inappropriate hours and your commitment to the company will be questioned.

Go for an early stage startup with meaningful equity or just go for a more stable, profitable company.
I got a kick out of the sample interview questions...if I were asked them, my answers make clear the worst part about this kind of culture:

>>> What’s the hardest you’ve ever worked on something?

Lead-up to the holiday season as an employee of an ecommerce startup.

>>> How many hours were you working a week?

Way, way, way too many.

>>> When were you the most unmotivated in your life?

The entire following year!
Is there a way I could contact you privetly ?
Maybe it's not exactly necessary to have the old managers in the transition. Instead I would enhance HR by hiring counselors dedicated to assisting teams self-resolve internal issues.
Watch out, DDD is taken/ already has a different, widely-used meaning.
Particularly demotivated people, or regular employees with 11-4 equity?
I have seen contractors do things like put 1000 lines of enum declarations for every integer from 1 to 1000. That's an extreme example.
Technology always does for technology products. But my point is that pursuing technological excellence as product goal often leads to unsuccessful products.
I don't know, there's no paper, it's just powerpoint slides.

I have previously poked around NYC-area death statistics and it looks like 1) a massive spike in deaths by any cause that looks like several 9/11s followed by 2) a regression to the usual rate of deaths once COVID was largely brought to heel in the summer months. I can't imagine that the total number of deaths in NYC this year could possibly be the same as in 2019.

But I'm not an expert.

Ed: glancing over the CDC statistics, when COVID-attributed deaths go up, all-cause mortality goes up, too... by approximately the same amount. If a large proportion of those COVID deaths were mislabeled heart disease deaths, why is that? I made these graphs with the same CDC data:

https://imgur.com/a/YejafCE

And of course, there's the CDC's own dashboard on excess deaths, which lets you slice this more finely.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
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How about commuting? Pollution? School, hospital and other public services capacity? Crime arising from simply the rich place being affordable, inviting undesirables?
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Why is it suspect? When someone dies of influenza in a year, but has heart disease, do we say they died of heart disease or influenza? I suspect influenza is the cause of death. Statistically, over the past 100 years we haven't HAD a pandemic, but wow here we are with one and everyone is fast to say "ignore the covid numbers, the real data is heart disease because it's been that way forever." Well, forever just got pushed outta the way.
If you initiate a public dialogue with someone specifically for the purpose of making a show of rejecting the possibility of engaging in any dialogue with them, forgiveness of clichés is IMO a big ask.
I'm not sure anyone every took this seriously. Here in Anglo-Saxon Essex, my uncle married his (1st) cousin in a Catholic ceremony some time around 1980...
I believe Microsoft, it started when personal computers were just a niche hobby.
Dude... it's pretty transparent that defining success only in terms of the top .000001% will lead to 99.999999% of people being miserable. Depression lies to people and puts their priorities out of whack, but even your depression must be able to see that this doesn't make any sense.

The science and philosophy of the meaning of life is hard, and I'm not going to feed you easy answers. But you can surely see that you've got things pretty messed up, and you need to talk to a therapist, a doctor, or more likely both.
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I believe HN User "motogpjimbo"'s point was that it's very likely that groups like ISIS are started by high status men. And now that he got me to contemplate the matter, I think he may be correct. I think it is the high status men and women who generally start the wars, and the low status people who are forced to fight the wars. I think this is how things generally work.
> PG sure has been on a kick about how brilliant of an independent thinker he is in a sea of conformity.

The feeling I get essay after essay is that he's struggling to stay relevant. It's kind of sad to watch tbh.
>Hi, I'm the author of the extension.

You've saved hours of my life. I get dramatically fewer captcha requests with Captcha buster installed than otherwise (it's a fact.)

Downloading anime without installing Universal bypass and Captcha buster is masochism - recaptcha would just go crazy infinite loop mode.

Thanks a ton.
>I think you can have both technologies used for different things, you know the best tool for the job

Hydrogen industry is already a mature industry. Nobody is saying don't use hydrogen. The challenge is that people are proposing hydrogen in replacement of electricity and it's a needless extra step.

>Maybe you have a ton of electricity that you just have to throw it away or pay people to take it because batteries are still not as good, if you have too much electricity you could attempt to transform it in chemical energy and store that.

Certainly. The better use for said energy would be say desalination or many many other options.

>I am not sure why some people think there is a Hydrogen conspiracy that is attempting to sabotage electric energy, the issue is with batteries and storage.

I think you misunderstand. I care about climate change and people who think they are getting into 'green energy' via hydrogen will be wrong. The vast majority of hydrogen production is from fossil fuels.

I'm not suggesting 'green hydrogen' is a conspiracy in the sense that fossil fuel folks know hydrogen is still fossil fuels and are pretending it's green.

I'm saying there's a very huge chance that it won't be green and even if it is. It's no where near as efficient as other options.
"Employers" as a group have the upper hand currently, but only because they were willing to kill to get it. Union busting up to and including a bunch of murders got us where we are now. In a democratic system with one vote per person, workers would have much more power than employers.
Trader Joe’s calls their almond milk “almond beverage” because of lawsuits from the dairy industry.
The medical community does not consider artificial sweeteners to be worse than added sugar.

The common artificial sweeteners are generally considered safe for consumption, and moderate use instead of added sugar can help achieve a healthy weight to reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes, as well as better dental health.

Artificial sweeteners have been studied for decades, and there is no sound evidence they are carcinogenic. There are some other potential negative effects on health though, which are being studied. One concerning correlation is that people who consume diet soda regularly are more likely to be overweight. These articles provide a good overview:

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[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/artificial-sweeteners-su...
I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA
I’ll be here for the next 2.5 hours and then again at around noon until the end of the day. As usual, there are countless possible topics and I'll be guided by whatever you're concerned with. Please remember that I can't provide legal advice on specific cases for obvious liability reasons because I won’t have access to all the facts. Please stick to a factual discussion in your questions and comments and I'll try to do the same in my answers!

Previous threads we've done: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=proberts.
The problem with a comment like this is that there's no detailed rebuttal. What you've given here is more of an aloof dismissal which is implicitly judgmental. If you're willing to bucket peoples' minds into greatness or smallness based on a single observation of their message board activity, how is your response substantively different from the thing it's criticizing?

This is to say that I reject the premise; your comment would put a chilling effect on frankly discussing other people, as though the only way to do so is through irrationality and gossip. People can critically discuss other people in an intelligent way without having "small minds", and you shouldn't attempt to infer a person's overall "mental state" from this kind of commentary, in my opinion.
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Not a native speaker, but for me "giving a shit" doesn't sound like you really care for something. Ok, it's (maybe) better than "not giving a shit", which is nothing at all, but it's not much more than the bare minimum...
What’s more fun is being American and intentionally misinterpreting the captcha. Select all street lights? Then think of how that question could be translated and misread in another language. Then select everything that would qualify as a light on the street: lamps, car headlights, crossing signals, et al.

Sometimes I select a square that I think the machine placed in the set to get more certainty but doesn’t match. For example, “select all chimneys”. If it presents me with an image of a house in the distance that has an object infront/behind it that is not a chimney but due to positioning and image quality it appears to be a chimney I will select it.

Captcha is a game.

- For Alphabet/Google the game is: mine the public for image recognition data so we can automate a car/drone and sell it to said public.

- For me the game is: can I play captcha chess with Google’s AI?

And if Google flags me as a bot, so what? At any point I know that I can quit playing captcha chess by giving it what it wants for a round or two and I’m trusted again.
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But to the same markets. NeXTs were being sold both to the workstation and to the personal computer market. They were cheap but underpowered for a workstation, making them not very good for worksation-ish things, because you couldn't scale up. For a personal computer, they were very expensive, so they didn't do well there either.
> I would hope that most people's production images are being built & pushed to an image repository in CI, not from somebody's laptop.

That's not really the point. Cross-compilation is no problem these days, especially for targets like x86-64. The point is rather that devs will be running the code locally in a completely different environment to production which defeats the purpose of using Docker for development.
I don't think the person you are replying to is actually confused about what someone would do with more space, but instead, making a point about cultural standards.
I guess the "infinite" part is the load time.
Crosswalks are not necessarily marked. For many jurisdictions they exist at the corners of every road intersection.
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Or we could stop putting everyone’s jobs in the same 10 towns and use a bit more space
Did you read the article? The point of the study is to say that statistically this doesn't add up. Well, Covid is a once in every 100 years pandemic. Heart disease, influenza, and pneumonia occur every year. Trying to use statistical analysis is the wrong approach. To those who think this is your proof that covid was overblown, you haven't read the article.
It's not a matter of operator precedence for two reasons:

1) "in" and "is" have same precedence, and group left to right (see https://docs.python.org/3/reference/expressions.html#operato...)

2) you'll have runtime error:

In [1]: def c():
...: return (1 in ([1,2,3] is True))

In [2]: c()
...
TypeError: argument of type 'bool' is not iterable

It seems related to CPython bytecode compiler implementation, the two functions are parsed in a different way, parentheses make the compiler go on a different path... but I'd like to understand why, without diving into CPython source code :) Anyone?
And the M3 is reliable? BMWs are famous for being leased since repair costs will kill you once your warranty is up.
I also live in the Netherlands. I am starting to believe there is something a bit more nefarious at play here.

Anyone who is in power owns a house. Anyone who owns a house profits from house prices increasing. Who benefits if house prices go down? A select few, who are currently unable to buy a house. There is little incentive to actually start building affordable housing. Actually, most people who already own house(s) are probably very happy with the way the market is currently working.
Nobody is willing to live outside of a few major cities and everyone here demands a detached house. There is a very strong stigma about living in anything without a lawn after 30ish.
4 NH3 + 5 O2 → 4 NO + 6 H2O

A subsequent reaction leads to NO2:

2 NO + O2 → 2 NO2
I wonder what the participants in such ceremonies actually think of them.

Are they genuinely that enthusiastic about their company and their superiors, or are they just conforming and putting on a show because they feel they have to?
That's not making them inherently unhealthy.
Not all implementations follow the specification. The real world is more like IOT, not compilers.
Housing pressure in the few "tier1" Canadian cities like Toronto will only rise, especially with immigration and presumably inflation from covid debt. Simply too many transnational millionaires and too few cities in Canada with opportunities.
No, he is not hinting that. In fact society would most benefit of certain percentage of conventional thinkers and certain percentage of independent thinkers. And society should have different kind of people and personalities to fulfill different roles. No role is necessarily morally superior or whatever.

But he is focusing on how to live better as an independent thinker and how to get maximum out of independent thinkers. He is not stating that being independent is superior or that everyone should be this way.
If everyone, minimum wage and white collar alike, is bidding for housing in the same, limited market, it hardy seems surprising that “housing with more/extra rooms” might be bid out of reach of those least able to pay.

I don’t see people arguing why you shouldn’t want extra bedrooms so much as lamenting that some can’t afford two of them.
As someone with almost 100% visual impairment, I'm having a hard time dealing with CAPTCHAS. I find it more difficult to slove hCAPTCHA than Google reCaptcha.

Most of the times I can easily solve Google reCaptcha. However, If I don't know the meaning of the object being displayed / any difficulties seeing it, Google won't let me switch to audio mode ( It'll display something like "This feature is currently unavailable" or "We have detected unusual traffic from your network"
I care about my team and our product, because that’s in my sphere of influence.

I work hard to be a good engineer, and I work hard to be a good employee in the way I interact with and support my coworkers.

Recognize where you have influence and where the best place to make those investments are. It’s usually NOT for the whole company.