skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any more details on that? I'd like to know more.

Either apartments outside of Paris are dirt cheap or minimum wage in France is really high.

A dev from Paris I met in Germany said he left due to how unaffordable housing was so something doesn't add up.
What about real estate? Unlike stocks, land/buildings have some inherent value
I was still using one until recently. We do inbound phone support and had 24 lines on a T1, because I wanted to make sure I had SLA'ed last-mile connectivity. Previous iteration of this was a 24 line PRI directly into a Sangoma T1/SIP Gateway. After a move + installation, I had an Adtran device that was IP based. It is my understanding that that it was more or less VOIP over a data T1, and the on-premise Adtran device turned it back into a voice T1 for the benefit of our T1 Gateway.

Recently I've switched it to a metro fiber ring + SIP trunking.

It's surprisingly difficult to get SLA'ed SIP trunking in the SMB market.
FWIW here's some data from the 2020 Stack Overflow developer survey: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#developer-pro...

To what extent is the survey representative? Hard to say. I'd be interested to see other sources of data.
Doh I meant electricity is only 15-20% of a country’s energy.
Emulated x86 performance is somewhere around 1000 passmark units, roughly like Core Duo Pentium. Native number crunching is very impressive. Price is high to enable embezzlement of money by the top people in the Russian government.
This argument thread about high or low rent misses the mark.

Rent doesn't make housing affordable at all. Ownership does.
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Really hard to do. Not because it’s a bad idea but because it’s hard to identify a vacant apartment. One example using utility bills as proof of residence can be gamed by paying people to go turn on the lights for a while. How can you tell that the property is actually empty?
I revised my code from 10 years ago
At the rate of about 100--350 W/m². More energy -> more radiators. At about 12 kg/m^2 launch budget * $10k/kg LEO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_thermal_control#Rad...

The ISS has 156 m² of radiators, compared with 3,246 m² of solar PV arrays.
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I've found Alexa to be not as accurate as Majestic Million https://majestic.com/reports/majestic-million
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who is going to predict the post covid future of commercial real-estate market?
Asteroids on earth have been changed by the environment on earth. Part of it during entry, part of it during impact, part just lying there for long times.

The Ryugu sample provides an opportunity to check our understanding of the changes that happened to asteroids on earth.
> we've lost sight of the old way of ensuring care for your elders

The "old way" is the current way. It hasn't changed, which is why we needed socialist programs like Social Security. Why? We live in a high trust society that is more individualistic. Families in low trust societies tend to adopt a more "clan" like mentality where you even know your distant cousins pretty well, see your cousins on a regular basis, and it's common for three or more generations to live in the same building. Why? Because in a low trust society, you will lean more on people who are related by blood when it's harder to rely on 3rd parties like the government or anyone not related to you. Conversely, we don't have that issue, so our families tend to be more distant.
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I wrote https://sql.greatenemy.com/ because I needed a quick way to make app generated SQL statements readable. None of the alternatives I could find quickly via search engine at the time included the following features: dark mode, small and fast, works offline, postgres first, not covered in ads.

It is mostly a wrapper around npm's sql-formatter

https://github.com/greatenemy/sql-sapper
I know. I was speaking to the parent, and the 2000-2020 "you have to be in one of four cities" zeitgeist they are talking about.
Rent control as implemented can only make housing just-as-expensive, and rent control cannot make housing affordable for normal people.

Put a plain 2BR in the Mission at, idk, $1500 a month (which Google tells me is a bit over the US median), and you'll have to hold a lottery to figure out which of the ten thousand families trying to get it, actually get it.

Maybe you don't always have a lottery, maybe the big winners are people who were in the right place at the right time as an accident of history. Either way these people are anything but normal. The normal people are the tens of thousands who can't get an apartment at that price. In the end it fails for the same reason that you can't "solve" poverty by running a state lottery and seeing a "normal" person win.

And even if we don't have a problem with this as inherently inequitable, it's just ... such tiny, tiny, small-scale thinking.
Mandatory Simpsons quote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgct3Jn8pFA

Homer: Aw, twenty dollars? I wanted a peanut!

Homer's Brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts.

Homer: Explain how!

Homer's Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
I'm not a Haskeler, but didn't they add affine/linear types recently that could help?
I call it socialist because managers, who otherwise support totalitarian dictatorship corporate structure, suddenly become advocates of democratic and egalitarian principles like voting, cooperation, empowerment, or group discussion when they think it suits their purposes but not a second longer.
I’m certainly not arguing that rising inequality isn’t a bad thing, but your comment wasn’t about this guy, it was about Americans at large. Contrary to popular coastal belief, fly-over country actually has people, and culture, and life. The average American doesn’t live in NYC/LA/SF, they live in a small to medium size town.

It is absolutely possible to live a frugal but reasonable lifestyle on a minimum wage job in most of the country.
Yeah but only using lots of land (more than it would require to run a solar powered electrified transport system) or using lots of energy and money (conservative guesstimate 50% of world GDP where air travel account for ~2% of CO2e emissions).
Wind and solar is less than 1% of the worlds energy consumption. Coal is replaced by gas not by wind or solar.
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The amount we still don't know about the long term effects of being infected with COVID-19 is terrifying, and I honestly don't think it's talked about enough, because we have learned more.

I recall another submission on HN yesterday, talking about how the brain puts on "brakes" to cognitive capacity in response to some viruses/injuries (the article itself was about reversing that cognitive decline) [0]. I wonder if some of the neurological effects of COVID-19 are related to that or something different entirely.

[0] https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/12/419201/drug-reverses-age-r...
Perhaps the innovation here will be regulatory
What you'd really want is a machine you can buy that provides you useful goods and services at almost-zero maintenance cost. The stock market is sort of a proxy for this wish: You have excess capital, and you want to invest it in something that yields a return. Maybe that's a machine producing goods you can sell, maybe it's a machine that produces food and gives medical aid to you, the owner. You don't want to operate such a machine (if it is available at all), so you outsource the responsibility for a percentage of your return.

It seems almost absurd that the world can end up in a state where it is impossible to invest capital in a way that provides any significant return at all. All is relative, but people still want to eat and get shelter from the rain.
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> In an existing city, the cost to purchase land and buildings that would need to demolished, rezoned, and rebuilt as a higher density area with accompanying infrastructure is astronomical

This happens all the time in NYC, though. Anywhere from a several-story small/medium apartment building to a large skyscraper.

I think the limiting factor is much more likely to be air rights and zoning than safety standards.
What I'm thinking is that monetary and fiscal policy will do whatever it takes to make the masses minimally happy.

Whatever the side effects (growing wealth gap, rich making out like bandits), they don't care. As long as the masses have their minimal existence, Netflix, cheap food, etc.
Seems you're not alone.

Currently in my 40's, if that matters, I find it extremely hard to force the language processing part of my brain being turned off, while my ears are listening to spoken words and alerting me constantly about their meaning. It kicks me instantly out of my own context.

Had to quit my most recent job because vast majority of colleagues were talking to themselves loudly while solving their own assignments, and interrupting me from coding sessions too frequently to even enter into the flow. Even noise cancelling headphones I had at the time didn't help.

Therefore to me, not taking colleagues into account while having loud monologues I consider being either ignorant, low EQ, or simply rude.
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As far as I can tell it makes money they same way as any other review website does: Affiliate links (to Amazon)
This is a brief summary: https://www.aier.org/article/trump-is-right-american-toilets...

TL;DR: Toilets clog more with lower GPF. Showers clean less effectively - you only need to go to a country with no "eco" pressure or flow rate limitations to notice this yourself. Washing machines and dishwashers perform poorly with low flow rate and no TSP.

Basically any appliance that people complain about and have a bad time with is only that way because of environmental regulations.

> I don't even know what an "inferior toilet" is

That's because you're used to using garbage and you've never experienced anything better.

Toilets are probably the least acute example, since they have mostly gotten them almost back up to their former reliability. Cleaning appliances, like showers and dishwashers, are the most acute.
Japanese people are also smaller than Americans!

Joking aside, the lifestyle is also different. Tokyo and HK where I live are known for tiny apartments, but they're also cities where residents spend far less time at home, offering cheap options for eating out, many places to hang out outside home, reliable transit, and extreme safety from crime at all times of the day. I'm far more comfortable in a tiny HK flat than I would be in the same size in SF. Thankfully I have the luxury of a decent sized space in both now.
The only really stable, standardized, well-supported ABI out there is the C ABI. Communicating across it is a chore. On the side of the language publishing the API, you need to write a C-friendly façade that translates everything your language has that C doesn't into a much more Spartan semantic space. You'll be losing or having to re-implement pretty much everything you like about that language: any sort of dynamic dispatch, memory management semantics, exceptions, etc. And then, on the client language side, you probably want to write another façade in order to, to the extent that it's feasible, restore all those sorts of niceties.

Direct FFIs are possible, but generally don't happen except in exceptional cases because of the cost involved in writing a new FFI (and accompanying set of gotchas) for every possible language whose packages you might want to consume. The best and worst thing about the C ABI is that it's pretty much the least common denominator.

Even in platforms like Java and .NET that theoretically smooth over these problems, we find that it never works out that well in practice. Scala and F# users end up having to write compatibility layers in order to preset Java and C# friendly APIs, and they end up writing their own versions of just about every possible library in order to have packages that don't feel awkward to use in their language of choice. The only real exception I know of to that pattern on the JVM or the CLR is between C# and Visual Basic, and that is only because Microsoft was very careful to ensure that the two languages' semantics were similar enough to virtually guarantee no cross-language friction.
The point of LVTs is precisely to alter participants' behavior in the market.

The value of LVTs is in aligning incentives so that landlords have an incentive to build more housing and use it more efficiently. It makes vacancy & speculation a money-losing endeavor (the same way that inflation makes holding cash a money-losing endeavor), and creates political pressure to repeal zoning laws and create smart public improvements, ones that will increase the value of the land more than their cost. Its value as a revenue source is secondary, and many proponents (of the geolibertarian sort) actually support lower tax receipts and smaller government.
Unfortunately, WordPress will stop supporting it by the end of 2021.
cost of what?
> More apartments built will not help make housing more affordable for normal people.

Pre-covid, I knew engineers making $100k+ living with four roommates in a somewhat run-down apartment. Sure, $100k isn't that much, but it's enough that they should be living somewhere nicer without the roommates. People who should be in high-end apartments are living in low-end apartments, displacing "normal" people who would normally live there. If you build only mid-high-end apartments, the priced will come down to the point that the average tech worker can afford them, and they'll move out of their four roommate situation. That will free up inventory at the lower end, and prices will drop.

This really is just supply and demand. It does funny things at times (see the backward bending supply curve of labor), but until there's a surplus of housing, this isn't one of them.
So, was that on the second page of a tutorial?

Yes, Haskell has those gotchas like "don't use lazy IO", "there are partial functions on the Prelude", "String is slow", and "code may throw exceptions where you don't expect".

They are there mostly because of history and the language would be better without them. Yet, they are easily avoided and aren't that many (those above are most of them). If you rage quit every toolset that has problems, I have some really bad news for you.
(googler here, uninvolved with this bug though)

It also requires that the user know the document ID- so they would have to identify a document that they want access to, get the ID of that document, embed the document in a website that they can present to a user that DOES have access to that document (which they would be unable to know from the document itself, because the ACLs are only visible to people with view access), and then get them to click submit feedback.

I'll defer to others with more familiarity with bug bounties about the payout appropriateness, not my area of expertise, but it does seem like this would be a very difficult bug to exploit
Is this sarcastic? Rent control drives up rent. It doesn't make housing cheaper, it's just NIMBYism that renters get to participate in
I agree that discovery is far from a straight-forward process, and that many of the cavalier ways in which it happened in decades past would be criminally prosecuted and beyond the pale today.

But I don't think that there was ever much low-hanging fruit to begin with. Discoveries always look "obvious" ex post and almost never ex ante.

I find it best to think of "low-hanging fruit" as a euphemism that polite people have agreed to use in order to excuse the massive failure that has taken place and stop curious people like Scannell from asking too many questions.
Stocks have inherent value as well, due to dividends. Price growth is not the only way to make money in the market.
If you speak Japanese.

I have heard that it is fairly hard for foreigners who don't speak the language. I am still considering moving there but more so due to neo-orientalist tendencies and less because I think it's a good idea...
Great example of excessive government control in the name of "saving you from yourself", or trying to look like they're doing something without actually doing anything.

The UK government is regulating Twinkies. Lol.
This is just a regurgitation of "Making Sense of Sky-High Stock Prices" (Nov 30, 2020) by Robert J. Shiller, Laurence Black, Farouk Jivraj.

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/making-sense-of...
Tyvek is made from polyethylene. No fluorocarbons in there.
Unfortunately it's still extremely expensive to do so. DXR documentation tells you to keep any hit shaders simple.

It's also possible to fix transparency ordering in rasterization using OIT and there is some hardware support for it (ROV), but it's also expensive and can be hard to do right so many games choose rough sorting
Birmingham 'memory cop' Andy Pope spots 2k suspects
It is mixed with most categories of property crime up and most kinds of violent crime down compared to 2019, except homicide which is up a bit but the denominator is small.

https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/2020-...
LVT is a tax only on the unimproved value of the land. Property improvements are not covered: the land owner gets to keep (or pass onto the renter) 100% of the value of such improvements. No tax credit is necessary; it's a natural consequence of how the tax is structured.
I'm extremely wary of a law that would potentially criminalize that. It would almost certainly have to be very vague and prone to being abused by malicious prosecutors. How would you set it up such that it's illegal to sell an exploit to a supposedly malicious actor, but not illegal to sell or negotiate prices with the company maintaining the software or some other company that they deem to be their agent for managing security reports, per current White Hat practices?

Conspiracy convictions usually require proof that the suspect had created a plan to commit a serious crime and has taken active steps towards the execution of that plan, even if they haven't committed the actual crime yet.

We're already perilously close to US Federal Prosecutors being able to lock up anybody they don't like indefinitely. It's so exorbitantly expensive to fight Federal charges that hardly anybody really does, much less does successfully. The last thing we need is more vague Federal criminal laws with poorly thought out evidence and mens rea requirements.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Diomede_...

the US is on the left, Russia is on the right.
You can use something like Publii for this exact thing (creating a static site with affiliate links). No code involved.
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That doesn’t work either. The S&P 500 was only just back to its 2000 level in 2008... and then crashed again.
Or deliberately leave the job half done and only one quarter working, as in the UK
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Farmland isn't going to be developed for the same reason it's not currently being developed, it's either zoned so development is difficult, or too far from the city to be interesting for development.

Also, unless we figure out how to replace all crops with vertical efficient farms, demand for agriculture is going to remain. It will just shift to different crops which can't be farmed this way.
I've been using a similar metric, price to bond market, as it is much better than being a "permabear" just because the PE Ratio you grew up with is totally busted and being ignored by the entire market.

"My 1980s technical analysis hasn't been relevant for 5 years and I just learned how to short sell muahahaha .... but I guess the market can remain irrational longer than I can remain solvent!"

I honestly think this is a natural progression for people studying stock trading on the internet.

But I really find the credit markets illuminate a lot, and I find a lot of traders and investors to ignore that. "Bonds are boring", so they think. They are a leading indicator in stock in a variety of ways. It all does circle back to macroeconomic trends and monetary policy, as they are intrinsically related. Yes, when people are trying to get higher yields there are few options. This isn't that controversial, the Central Banks say so themselves and increase the money supply to transform everyone into a finder to locate the remaining assets to buy. Every time you look at a bank and laugh at their advertised savings account interest rate, that is exactly what the Central Banks wanted you to do.
California requires winning a plebiscite to build public housing. This is not optional.

When it does manage to build public housing, SF spends approximately a million dollars a unit to do so. That's purely to get a habitable unit. It includes none of the maintenance costs, which will increase over time, or the social services required to make public housing work as intended.

With that in mind, giving literally 100% of San Francisco's budget to building public housing could produce 12,000 units. That would mean shutting down Zuckerberg General Hospital, street cleaning, street repaving, SFO, schools, and anything else SF does.

Incidentally, the Supes only actually get to control about $3.5bn of that. So now we're reduced to 3,500 units a year... in a city where population growth averages 11,000 people a year. And we still haven't talked about social services, maintenance, or how allocation of what will never be enough public housing units will work.

I think these numbers lay clear that public housing is unlikely to solve SF's housing woes. Don't hesitate to ask if anything is unclear!
Paying someone based on where they live will only reinforce the regional socioeconomic stratification of our country. Employees ought to be paid based on the employer's valuation of their labor, not based on their living situation.
The standard dex is also quite capable. You can install terminals which have all the standard utils. I was even able to run vs code.
I'm in real estate (rental properties), an IRA spread across 5 growth funds, and maybe 10-20% bitcoin at this point. Edit: Exited my stock positions this year
Well, if someone predicts accurately the future of commercial real estate, that who is likely to be a fair bit richer than they are today.
Hah, it looks like there's more C/C++ programmers than Shell bashers in this thread :-)
Interesting. How would that system work for non-trusted people? I see that it would work for family and friends, but how to publish for the general public?

This reminds me that there is/was a company working on blockchain tech for tracking legislation changes.
The costs of drugs is usually profit seeking. Many drugs can already be produced and delivered cheaply if the economic system would allow it. Trying to patch the drug instead of the economics just gives people worse drugs.
But this is the issue with zero interest rates.

There is no incentive to save, but alternatively, it also pushes interest rates on mortgages to near zero which increases the demand side by opening up home ownership to people that before couldn't afford it which pushes up prices.

The same occurs with stocks, with no returns in other asset classes everyone floods in to stocks and pushes the prices higher.

This is definitely the new normal going forward, because you can't increase interest rates without dramatically reducing purchasing power, which in turn leads to slow down across many areas of the market.
We do not frame our houses with stones in the US. It’s not cardboard it’s OSB[1] (Oriented Strand Board). The US and Canada make most of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriented_strand_board