skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would highly recommend watching the youtube channel "life where I'm from". He's a Canadian from Vancouver who lives in Japan with his family and makes some of the best documentary style films on topics about Japan anywhere. He has quite a few videos on housing at various levels, and a great series on homelessness in Japan (including cheap housing alternatives).

Sharehouses are also relatively common in Tokyo and tend to attract young single people and expats. They're basically dorms with a central kitchen and bathroom and quality varies tremendously. But you can live for hundreds of dollars per month ($500-700) pretty easily (once you learn about all the weird fees that sorta only exist in the Tokyo housing market) and be about 35 minutes from a downtown hub area.

Seoul also has similar cheap housing options. An entire market exists for ultra tiny "study rooms" (goshiwons) that are not much more than a bed, desk and bathroom and might run around $250/mo. Seoul also has Share houses and very small single room apartments that can be amazingly cheap per month if you don't mind paying a large (refundable) deposit up front -- for example, a $10k deposit might find you a decent sizes 2 bedroom 30 minutes from downtown on the subway for $500-600/mo.

Both cities of course have Airbnbs which can be surprisingly reasonable and long-term stays are available.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeWhereImFrom/videos
I feel like it's a slippery slope to a world where we can't compile software on our own computers anymore

To me it feels more like going back to the way things used to be. Reminds me of when I used to do my work by pushing buttons on a Wang terminal in one state, and the PR1MEOS machine that I was actually working on was several hundred miles away.

Maybe as our work becomes more complex, it makes sense to return to thin clients.
Sure, but probably not led, funded or conceptualised by them. Anyone who is able to accumulate enough power to start a war wouldn't normally be considered a low status male.
> Perhaps there’s a market for people who want an ebike that’s a little easier to get up apartment stairs?

A detachable battery might also help with this.
@gostsamo on Twitter. I'm not using the account regularly but I'll check it out again.
The price point is comparable to the Specialized Turbo Vado 5 SL, a third-generation e-bike from another American company. The weight savings can make a big difference when you have to carry your bike up stairs or bring it on a train. Keep in mind that e-bikes compete with cars.
What is the best route currently for someone on the H-1b visa to startup in the US? Is raising VC funding a necessity?
A similar anticipatory mechanism exists for thirst quenching. We feel a decrease in thirst the moment we drink water but in reality it takes tens of minutes for the osmotic landscape to change with that newly ingested water.[1]

I also think it is overeager to take this result and run with it to condemn artificial sweeteners. It has been known for long that they can indeed increase cravings and cautioned against for dieters. However, the initial intake of food is only one part of the glucose metabolism. How much actual glucose is left in your bloodstream, muscles and liver (in the form of glycogen) will keep effecting your energy metabolism for days if you've ingested real, bioavailable sugars, with all the downstream consequences e.g. for weight loss.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6014472/
I would absolutely love to see such a thing (e.g. VPRI's 'frank' system), but it's quite a different approach than Scheme, and I wouldn't want to see PLT/Racket take such a drastic course change while there's still so much interesting work to be done in the Scheme world (e.g. Kernel's F-expressions are powerful, but hard to optimise; work on reflective towers and multi-stage programming is pushing languages beyond the traditional AOT/JIT dichotomy; and so on).

From my understanding, Piumarta's main trick with COLA is fast dynamic dispatch through a uniform interface (putting pointers to vtables at offset -1), and implementing vtables via interface (so they can be replaced). It's a cool approach, but it's also a case of 'everything can be solved by adding a layer of indirection'; and I've not sat down and thought through how these ideas might apply to different paradigms, and what might be unique or common to them all.
It is disappointing all the "mission focused company" stuff from Coinbase got plastered all over HN, but this article is getting almost zero attention. This shows why being apolitical isn't possible when it comes to issues like civil rights. Not caring about these issues just allows these problems to fester and worsen.
i'm not criticizing mutt at all here. in fact i am going to try it out for awhile. i never used mutt back in the day, as i was always a gnus user.

what i find fault with in the lwn article is the "attack" on gmail. gmail has its reasons for doing the things it does, good reasons.

i actually liked mulberry quite a lot. especially the feature where 'reply' brings up an interstitial allowing you to select to/cc/bcc for each recipient. another aspect of email completely lost on normies. but it's day has passed.
Minimum bike weights serve 2 important roles other than "it's just the rules":

1) Fairness: While differences between bike manufacturers are large, the competition is about primarily athletics & setting standards allows less well resourced rider teams to compete.
2) Safety: Lighter bikes may compromise on strength/safety. Tours are already dangerous enough as is, a bike breaking poses a danger to all riders on the course not just the rider. Weight minimums ensure that there's not an attempt to drop the structural weight below safe limits.

That said, weights can be decreased over time if there are legitimately new weight saving technologies that do not compromise strength of the bike.
The lights are built in, so the handlebars are irrelevant.
Whenever this is asked the first response is always the facebook spam filter from five years ago, which is should help you calibrate to the reality. People who have been down the rabbit hole of getting haskell to work seem to consistently say that it is very difficult to debug not only logic but consistent speed and memory usage. It seems like the reality is that if you want something fast, C++ is there with a great ecosystem, if you want to hack something together lots of scripting languages are available and if you want a balance LuaJIT and even go might work.
Sure, and the 2020 iPad Pro is better than the 2016 iPad Pro that I switched to initially. The problem on Windows’ side is the software. Unless Microsoft has found a way to get developers on board with their own modern UI paradigm, you get a good tablet experience maybe 10% of the time.

And their tablet friendly UI sucks even when Microsoft does it themselves. For example, the new disk manager, which is objectively worse in every way than the old one except for having big touch targets: https://mspoweruser.com/this-is-the-new-windows-10-modern-di...
I sure am proud of his work, helping thousands of people get better jobs and live betters lives.
In DC they're just Circle. Dupont, Thomas...
I am from India and we would like to start our operations in US. Are there any other visa options for founders other than H1-B?
It's not a moral thing. It's called inductive learning. We classify people and things based on our past experiences. The more experiences you have the better the inductive method works.

It's good to learn about black swans, else you might make the incorrect logical conclusion that swans are ALWAYS white. And more importantly learn that "black swans" is not only about swans. There can be sports-types who also like intellectual activity
While I imagine a stacked parking structure of tiny homes is less efficient than dense condos, tiny homes can probably double units available via urban infilling, like laneway homes in not very dense but desirable cities in Canada.

>land-in-desirable-places crisis

Pretty much. Solution is pretty simple (not easy), sideline NIMBYs and start converting every parking lot and park into homes until supply/demand/desirability resets to something reasonable.
Who is this for? Seems to serve a really really niche user base.

If someone wants a electric drive in a bike, it’s not for exercise, they want it for commute. It starts at around 5k, wouldn’t they rather go for a scooter/Vespa at that price? They are more practical for chores.

The only reason to want a bike is to carry into the apartment if they don’t want to be bothered with parking. So a super niche crowd?
On the supply front, both Toronto and Vancouver have densified _significantly_ over the last 10-20 years, with condo construction in Vancouver completely off the charts. It seems to have done little to alleviate issues.

Immigration combined with net migration into the city is a big part of it, I guess. But I am not convinced this is entirely an issue of supply constraints, as high pricing is no longer confined to the largest metro zones.
I don’t have kids, but I do have a partner. Nonetheless, such large questions no longer consume my spare cycles.

Obviously there are many exceptions, I wonder if on average interest in such questions peaks. If so, does the average peak coincide with an age or a period of life. Do we lose interest in our late 20s/early 30s, on average, because that’s when we have kids or is that just how long it takes for people to get bored with contemplative pondering?

I sort of hope it’s that having kids, a partner, a more challenging career soaks up the extra cycles. But even without those things, I find my passion ebbing. I worry this is an inevitable part of aging.
“Hire workers you can exploit and have no self-worth”
As an American, I’ve never heard of this word. Strange stereotype.
I read it more like: "The way to get this working for the time being is to skip the upgrade for now and use an old banger laptop you have lying around until the ecosystem is ready for the way you work."
How did you get into immigration law and then how did you become to work for a company like YC?
I more than believe that it depends on what your definition of "own" is. Both feelings and thoughts go hand in hand. Chemical state in your body causes negative feelings and also negative thoughts. You could inject anyone with heroin and they would feel happy and have positive thoughts. Same you could inject anyone with something negative that causes feelings of horror and same with thoughts. Same with external situations causing certain chemical releases in your body, for instance you see someone attractive and then you feel aroused and think "wow they are attractive".
Letter to my grandchildren from inside a cult
I'm looking forward to what http://n-gate.com says about this discussion.
Are there good solutions for reliable computation by redundancy?
Or an aluminum frame that can deal with being banged around a little.
How soon after an approved H1B can one start the green card process in current situation, especially with drastic increase in the wage requirements?
A few months ago a friend fell off the wagon and was drunkenly riding his electric bike around town, and called in distress. I picked him up, and put his electric bike on my bike rack. I could barely lift it onto the bike rack, and on the ride home, I took a speed bump and it broke my bike rack. I live on a second floor, and ended up having to leave his bike in the stairwell. I would never use his bike because it was so unwieldy.

I absolutely see a use case for a motorized bike that weighs 26 lbs, and it’s the use case they lay out in their ad copy: it widens the accessibility of electric bikes. Maybe the tech costs too much, and that will hose the project, but the value prop is crystal clear to me.
Yes, and probably many. Here are two:

First Example:

1. In many world states, condominiums / apartment buildings have common building affairs run by a residents' association. While these typically have executive functions assigned to only a small number of people, it's very often that membership in that committee changes frequently, with a a decent fraction of the residents getting to serve on it occasionally, and this executive is never (well, in my experience) perceived as "leading" the residents. These are stable organizations which last for decades doing concrete practical work - with a budget, engagement of contractors and occasional employees, interaction with municipal or state authorities etc.

Second Example:

The CNT, Confedercion Nacional del Trabajo. This is a confederation of Anarchist Labor Union, whose hey-day was during the 1920s and 1930s, but unfortunately got decimated by Francist Fascism. It survived underground and today is active, though not remotely as large as those days. Its structure is a bit involved, but the main ideas relevant to your question is that regional or national bodies cannot make decisions for the local bodies, nor the national for the regional, and their capacities are secretarial and administrative (which of course still carries a lot of power); and even that rotates - regional secretariats assume the role of national secretariats in some kind of round-robin fashion. This in itself does not mean that there's no leadership, but the structure, together with the anti-Authoritarian ethos of Anarchism is a political philosophy and labor-unionism as what's actually practiced contribute to an anti-centralist spirit which (hopefully still today) permeates the organization. It's a "do it yourself together" kind of an attitude rather than "wise people trusted by many have laid out the path for us". Caveat: I only visited with one of the regional confederations once in 2006 and read about them so I can't "guarantee leaderlessness".

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederaci%C3%B3n_Nacional_de...
I'd say the PPP loans offered to large corporations for "Covid relief" are high-grade corruption due to the sums involved, the explicit removal of traditional oversight processes and funneling it through the US banking system even though the banks were only responsible for collating paperwork and not providing any sort of risk-assessment or capital for the loans themselves.
Can you point us towards any resources for general immigration hiring frameworks for early stage startups? Given the current shift towards remote work, I'm interested in learning more about different approaches.
That book is also on Kobo, for those of us who don't want to give more money to Amazon:

https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/real-food-fake-food
You will probably want to use a captcha-solver extension.

What you’re describing is what led me exactly to intentionally give bad results. When I give bad results, I'm not permanently denied entry. Instead, the data is sent back to Google and it notes that decision and I get to try again. If enough people were to always select all 3 squares, or an entire road that you can walk across rather than a painted crossing marks, or whatever false positive, then Google Captcha’s idea of a correct answer is more broad.

I can’t get rid of captcha. However, since it’s a data training game, I can try to eliminate the issues as much as possible by feeding it extra data so that people don’t have the 1/3 tiles question.

That question is difficult to answer because captcha has no rules. This is because it’s not actually used to identify if you’re human or a bot, that’s a side effect.
EB5 program exists if you are well capitalized.
Yeah excellent question. Hot and humid climates make this appealing if you don't need to pedal; perhaps you can get to work without needing a shower. But considering the likely cost due to name, weight and components it feels very niche nonetheless. It's difficult to justify a bike that's thousands when an annual bus pass might be a few hundred.
I have no problem helping my kids but the reality is even with my Googler income I will probably have to sell this place and move somewhere cheaper/remoter in order to have the retirement lifestyle I want. And if my kids are living with me, that will in all likelihood reduce their income potential. And if they're not living with me, I'll be having to fund them living in a more expensive area.
Carbon fibre frames are prohibitively expensive

That's not necessarily true. Most carbon frames are expensive because they are high-end models, not because of the material itself.

I would be worried about durability though, if this is used like other commuter bikes. Carbon frames usually come warnings to not lean them against sharp objects, not sit on the top tube, etc. Unlike metals, the fibers are only strong in one direction. Anyone bumping into this bike by accident, e.g. when locking it against the same rack, might cause damage to the frame.
Most Americans have health insurance. Of the ones that don’t:

1/3 are illegal immigrants. Those folks would be excluded from the universal healthcare system of nearly every EU country. France and Spain are the exceptions, but France is under a lot of pressure to scrap that.

1/3 are eligible for Medicaid but haven’t signed up.

1/3 can afford Obamacare premiums but choose not to buy insurance. The Obamacare premiums are capped at 9.5% of income. That’s about the same as the employee-side healthcare tax would be in France or other countries with universal healthcare.
I think people get hung up on the term "conventional". This is a good essay on how to think right and avoid biases. Just my conventional opinion.
So? The lights are also integrated on a VanMoof, but they're integrated in the right place.

They used to put them in the right place on the Specialized Turbo but in the latest models they moved it up the the bar again, can't imagine why.
"If you follow what this HackerNews story says, you are sure to reach the state of thinking all by yourself!"
Did you read the answer above? You obvious didn't. Also why ask me when life begins and then immediately answer it yourself. Beginnings and ends are points in time not arbitrary time spans. These are the facts.
The Ring Always Home Drone: A Ridiculous Way for Amazon to Map Your House
maybe, it's a rather old account that's never been used before as near as i can tell
The problem is that coronavirus got political. Not only did politicians get involved which means the probability of lies surrounding covid is 100% certain. That's what politicians do, they open their mouth and lies comes out. The problem is worse, the scientists and advisors also got political. Therefore people must question the veracity of the claims. That doesn't bring us to the current problem, the current problem goes much further.

The censorship over all discussion about covid unless it specifically goes along with the politician's story. Then a huge number of tyrannical measures 'for our safety' and it doesn't look quite right. It makes everyone question what's going on.

Want to fix the entire situation? Take the politicians out of the equation.
Digital Tonto in Spanish means "Digital Fool" so the article is well placed
All of what you say is true, and it's stupid expensive but also aesthetically incredible and super light. I'd buy one if I had stupid money to throw away. I don't, so I won't, but the appeal is there.
Fine you go ahead and be proud of employers using the immigration system to make more money for themsevles and shareholders at the expense of employees (regardless of their nationality).
Video games was a different previous study.
At least on the web, this is a feature, not a bug. It allows the user to modify the page as they see fit. For example, ad blockers or "dark mode" extensions would have a much more difficult job if websites were delivered as optimized binaries.

I specify "on the web" because almost all browsers execute the content retrieved from the website with no user interaction besides navigating to a url. Contrast that with operating systems, which all require separate download + run steps (and often a bit flip in between, to mark the file as executable). That's a lot more friction / time for the user to notice if something is not as they expect or want.
It's for the wealthy cyclist who is slowing down but still wants to ride with their crew.

I know a few guys like that, mostly for mountain biking, but they also buy them for their wives so they can go for a ride together.
Using money as a proxy for "dominant thinking" is a good example of SV VC thinking.
Do you think dorms are less ugly than suburban sprawl or endless exapanse of ranches? I mean how many places in the US can you find a 5mi x 5mi square of land unmolested?
Can people working on H1B visa open a company to run a side business such as a mobile application that doesn’t need employees.
> the UI we prefer is so different from the ones we create in our daytime jobs

Probably because we are not the ones who make the requirements

> And it's also very different from the UIs in most "Show HN" posts

... or maybe we are after all
At that price they’re competing with the Specialized Vado SL which weights 33 pounds. I’ve a regular Vado 4.0, which is much heavier, that I use for my 25 km commute. Granted this a lot cheaper than the Creo but you’re getting a known quantity when you buy a Specialized system.
Yes, the Worse is Better thing.
You cannot put a Vespa on the bike rack of a bus. You cannot carry a Vespa on a train. You cannot check a Vespa as luggage at the airport. An e-bike is categorically different than a scooter.
I Tried a Medieval Diet, and I Didn’t Even Get That Drunk (2016)
Very cool tech.
The 8000 default port though, while cute, sounds like it will clash commonly with test setups.
> If we didn't take proactive measures, deaths from Covid 19 would be a huge deal.

Clearly a counterfactual that you can easily say without the burden of offering evidence.
Quantum Computing Textbook
For anyone else ignoring the cookie popup, $4500.
Does it need AWS for it to work?
I think both come from chemical state, but can influence each other to an extent. There is clear evidence in anyone's life for that. Can you think yourself to feel absolutely anything?

If you are in love with someone did your thoughts cause that love? Or did feeling of love, arousal cause those thoughts?
I work as a structural engineer and write a newsletter about, among other things, technology for lowering construction costs.

A tiny house will be cheaper than conventional housing by virtue of being a lot smaller (building costs are usually expressed per square foot or square meter). But as the article points out, these are usually built with fairly high end finishes (wood paneling, granite counters, etc) - their cost per unit area is actually somewhat high. Actual low-cost construction, like the sort used on mobile homes, eliminates most of these expensive finishes, because they’re a major cost driver.

And in the US at least, a house not permanently attached to land has to be financed as property, like a car, rather than real estate, which means the tiny houses attached to trailers will be financed at a much higher interest rate than a traditional mortgage.

Generally I think these are more of a niche lifestyle product, a mobile home for people who don’t want to buy a mobile home, more than any sort of affordable housing solution.
I agree with that. It generally applies to most online forums as well.

We don't tend to have a "thick skin" for ideas that make us uncomfortable.
To be fair, the “h” was silent in UK English when the English colonized America, and then the English began pronouncing the “h” at a later point. UK English deviates from the common ancestor surprisingly frequently.
> I really don't feel like spending 15% of that time doing slave labour for google for free

I routinely click on a false image and rarely get denied
The battery on my bike is perhaps 2 kg with the bike in total perhaps 26 ish. Removing the battery does not help except for hosing down a dirty bike or preventing theft of the battery.