skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Path to understand divergence between rent and house prices?
I was reading this LinkedIn story: https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/a-most-unusual-time-for-housing-4330825/

> The U.S. housing market has been turned upside down over the past year, with home prices and rent rates going in opposite directions. Fierce competition for suburban homes has driven prices skyward, all while rental rates in urban hotspots have tumbled. What's behind the shift?

And I'd love to understand why this is happening somewhat deeply. I don't have any econ/finance background, but I have Google.

I'd love it if someone with a background could just throw resources, key terms, etc at me.

Who are the players? What policies and laws are in play here? What are everyone's incentives? etc
>On a serious note, articles about how for example the gut affects our mental state (all the way to links with autism) were posted to HN many times.

Of course, but that's because our gut is directly connected to the brain. Hardcore embodiment people will tell you that you're literally thinking with your gut. It's not like I'm saying you could just swap bodies and it wouldn't have an effect, it absolutely would, my point is simply that this is due to causation, because of the body influencing the brain, rather than distribution where the body is literally part of the mind.

>And as long as we aren’t there/don’t know for sure, I’d put forward that the mere possibility of a “body replacement” actually destroying personality to an unknown extent is enough of a reason to never deploy it in foreseeable future except as last resort.

Sure, but I'd say it's essentially what we're doing already. We know e.g. hormone treatment as part of sex reassignment causes changes to the brain and definitely influences personality. It's not like anyone is proposing this sort of stuff for fun (I think).
Wait. Why the fuck haven't any of the smart Alecs at Google, Facebook etc. thought about letting people willingly divulge their interests and things they're likely to spend money on?

I mean, instead of trying to guess who I am or what I like, why not just let me TELL you?

Let me provide some criteria (“pixel art”, “chiptune music”) and feed you some examples (Fez, MegaMan) and try to show me similar games. Then I might actually spend some money on a purchase solely because of an ad for once.

For all the BS about personalized ads and shit, I have yet to see an ad for a product that I loved and didn’t discover through chance or word of mouth. Meanwhile if I search for a coffin even once Amazon keeps recommending more to me. This shit ain't working, unless the actual objective is to just track people and build "profiles" anyway.
I don't see why race would affect this. If you're poor, from a poor background, it's likely your friends are also poor, regardless of race.

The only race argument IMHO is 'are poor people more likely to be black'.
But that's not (directly) Youtube's fault, is it?
> Even if only half of engineers think this is true, the other half should be pragmatic and let the go formatter do it's thing.

Why should a group of tolerant people bend to the wishes of a group of intolerant people? That's how I see the whole formatting debate.

Why should people comply with a formatting that is demonstrably worse in concrete ways (let's not even start talking about how it makes the need for ugly line-breaks occur much sooner), and to many is harder to read?

I don't understand why people feel the need to force their obsessions on other people. If you find it harder to read without a specific formatting, please go and develop some plugin in your fancy editor to display it to you that way. Just deal with it on your end and don't make it my problem.
Let's say it's a love-child of ML and C++.
Interesting. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen it written (and “thou” is probably more common anyway), but you’re right and taught me something; thanks!
I wonder the same thing as well. This goes for any sort of screencast. I reckon that it's something that was adopted from the gaming world? The short answer is likely: because branding.
Calling that request for donations an annoying ad is extremist.
Typo in the title of the paper makes me not want to read it.
> it is a normal, customary usage to refer to the government of the country by the name of the country.

And this is more or less fine. Not just in the news, in normal conversation we do the same. Not just "China is doing this" but also "Chinese are doing this." That's also logically true, because some subset (however big or small) of Chinese is doing this.

However, I object to this particular expression - "China is a hostile nation." I don't know why it's even a point of contention. Maybe when people use the term 'nation' they actually mean 'state'? Because 'nation' by and large refers to people the country consist of.
He didn't mention the little problem of the fungibility of money. If a school gets two $100k donations, and one comes with a "no stem cell research" restriction, then it usually isn't a problem to spend the other donation on that, and the restricted one on the road maintenance that would have been done anyway. So a restricted donation is really only effectively restrictive if it significantly outweighs the rest.
There's a difference if the author of the art is the one that minted the NFT.

It's like jack dorsey selling an NFT of the first tweet compared with any random person trying to do the same.
Spending money actually just guarantees you can be tracked, because now you're logging into the same account day after day, and worse you've tied that account to a credit card.

The only way for the average person to browse the web privately is to not pay. Theoretically this might be solved with the right form of digital tokens, but you're going to need anonymous payments (not bitcoin, but monero), and some form of cryptography system that tells the website that you have paid without telling them which person you are that paid. Practically no one does the former, no one does the latter, and the latter would be really difficult to implement if you want to stop people from sharing their accounts with the world at large.
It's almost as if people's thoughts can change and evolve.

I honestly wonder when and how changing your mind became a bad thing.

Show me someone whose thoughts or ideas don't evolve and I'll show you someone who's wasting their life.
> Incredibly, the ZX81 hardware and software scene is still alive.

Indeed. Here the German ZX81 User group:

http://www.zx81.de/

http://www.zx81.de/zxcms/English.html

They’ve managed to turn a ZX81 into a web server:

http://zx81-siggi.zx-team.org/ZxTeaM

(I hope it survives being HN‘d…)
We know since at least 384BC[1] that the best strategy against a bullshitter is to bullshit.

You can’t win against someone who cheats and takes freedom with the rules while you follow these rules.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthydemus_(dialogue)
If game developers provide official support for proton I would be more than happy. If the engine they are using doesn't support an automatic Lnux build I cannot insist that they should do a native Linux build. It's too much work for little gain. However, if they support proton officially I can live with that because the expected amount of work should be insignificant. 99% of the problems I have encountered were because of anticheat, broken launchers and a video game franchise using some weird proprietary microsoft video codec that literally no other platform supports. Fixing a launcher is not much work. Fixing video codecs is not much work. Anticheat software should support proton. It's not too much to ask.
Analytical Challenges in Big Data
This is indeed astonishing: it seems you can dramatically change the mechanical properties of water with only trace amounts of a protein additive, measured in parts per million...

"Astonishingly, to create a liter of slime, a hagfish has to release only 40 milligrams of mucus and protein—1,000 times less dry material than human saliva contains. That’s why the slime, though strong and elastic enough to coat a hand, feels so incorporeal."
(I wanted to read your [1] reference but you seem to have forgotten to add it.)

I agree that comptime is not the same thing as Rust macros, I mostly mentioned Rust macros because I felt it was a gotcha to my argument since my criticisms of Zig's comptime could be levied at Rust's macros.

To be a little more specific in my criticism, the fact that Zig implements generics with comptime is a bit of a red flag for me. I worry, perhaps unreasonably, that it's going to lead to fragmentation in the way generics are handled in various libraries, leading to headaches and incompatibilities. It is a smart solution, but I wonder if it's a pragmatical solution.

It's definitely an interesting approach at any rate, it's great to see all this creativity in systems language. I don't want to sound too critical of Zig, it's a cool language.
The author didn't present the case for "danger"
java and JS are slow, it is how they work, they are JIT'd languages running in a VM, this alone makes the program slow by default

are people in this website not supposed to be programmers? or it's too late to expect programs to be fast again?
Thanks for writing this, I plan to give it a try now. I use imgur regularly but their pitch “use coil and get something in imgur!” really didn’t make sense to me, this write up is better.

Is there a way to pause or speed up/increase or whitelist sites with this tool/process? This will 100% cause scammers to find ways to abuse this system just like scammy ad-filled sites, and there seems little point of contributing if your money will go towards building a new scamming industry.

Basically: how do you avoid abuse here? I don’t want to give a penny to sites that for example make it hard to access content to increase the $ they get from me.
The two may be related. I think it's hard to convincingly bullshit yourself - your brain knows what you're doing. But if you successfully bullshit other people, some of them will start to reflect your bullshit back at you - providing external validation for it. At some point your brain may forget that the only reason people around you believe something is because you tricked them into it, and you start truly believing it yourself.
That you should not be legally required to vaccinate. I suspect this to be a smokescreen for the usual nonsense but, apropos of OP, they may believe it's their real reason.
According to something I read somewhere. The ZX81 floating routines did incorperate some unique math:

(2^32) - ((2^32)-1) did not return 1

And the group of Cambridge mathamaticians that wrote the ROM turned out to be one man.

"ZX81 ROM Assembly Listing"

https://www.tablix.org/~avian/spectrum/rom/zx81.htm
It's like owning a celebrity's autograph. Some people do care, a lot.
Since the releases of Flutter and Fuschia, the development of Dart went tenfolds. Devs post performance improvement reports from time to time.

https://medium.com/flutter/flutter-performance-updates-in-th...

https://medium.com/flutter/flutter-performance-updates-in-20...
> You sell cast iron skillets, I'm a food blogger. You want some ad space. Email me and send me a check.

This totally works, but does have some drawbacks:

* High friction. The advertiser needs to seek out sites, send emails back-and-forth, agree on pricing, etc.

* Cheating. How does the advertiser know that their ad is really being shown? How do they know that the publisher really has lots of visitors, and isn't just sending them back traffic?

* Lower payments. Unless you're writing about something where people spend a lot of money (insurance bloggers, etc) you'll likely make more money if you use something that supports personalization.

The way this works out is big publishers (all the brands you've heard of) make direct deals with big advertisers, but (a) they still make a substantial portion of their money by first checking whether there's a high bid from a network and (b) they integrate various vendors to verify the traffic is legitimate.

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
While I applaud the effort to come up with new business models for the internet because of my distaste for advertising, this still misses the crucial detail.

Virtually of the free "content" out there is only ever consumed because it is free. It is fast food. It is like watching garbage on television. It's an easy choice between getting no free "content" and paying anything whatsoever for it.

The author assumes that some "content" is valuable. This is probably true. (As an aside, I would say that if you're labeling it "content", it probably isn't valuable.). That value needs to be demonstrated somehow and then affirmatively compensated by the consumer. It's on the producer to figure out how to make this happen. But just hoping that people will pay for the privilege of browsing your "content" belies the reality that the "content" probably isn't all that valuable.

Ugh, "content".
American Automobile Names (dissertation, 1995) [pdf]
Have you sold anything yet ?
‘Saluton ’: the surprise return of Esperanto (2017)
Is Stanford the best school in and of itself, or do most of the value come from the selection itself?
Worked in an e-commerce agency that catered to MLM and direct sales industry. I was there for a year before I could not take anymore. They referred to their clients as scammers and their clients’ customers as idiots with too much money. They asked us any and all ways to prevent users from canceling subscription in Magento. Then asked us to make it hard for customer service team to cancel a subscription via internal portal. We had access to financial records in Magento and customers tickets. It was sad to see that we kept charging people for months after they opened their initial ticket for cancellation.

We programmer tried to tell ourselves that we are just doing our job. Sometimes, only way to feel better about ourselves was to believe in bullshit that customers are are rich spoiled housewives with nothing to do. 90% of our end users were females.

I stayed a bit too long, but now I work for a major tech company and it seems we are still using dark patterns except society has accepted these dark patterns as price for free access.
Water currents enter and exit from caves. Aquatic fauna do the same and Nepa can fly easily or enter in crevices if it senses water. That said, the species shown are strange for Europe. I wouldn't discard that there are some misplaced photos (or the authors toke some literary licenses).
Buetify Your Terminal Output
One of the things that distinguished the ZX81 from its predecessor the ZX80 was the fact that the screen didn't go off when your program was running, which made it much more useful. The CPU was still driving the screen but interrupts ensured that it was doing so when needed so actual code execution was limited to times when it wasn't needed for the screen.

This of course made it exceedingly slow. Not helped by the fact that the BASIC - squeezed into 8k - was also very slow.

You could write a surprisingly big program in the 1k RAM though due to the fact that all the BASIC keywords were stored as one byte - and had to be entered using one keypress. Which given the quality of the key (not actually keys) board was a relief.

Truly a machine built down to a price, but with considerable ingenuity!
Not sure I see this as a replacement for my cellphone plan as the author suggests. I regularly stream video which I think needs more bandwidth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArEjvgGxHD8
You’re right - it belongs on a list of universal-scale risks rather than global-scale ones.
Time for me to move away from Ubuntu, then. This and apt randomly installing snaps isn’t what I want. I’ll give Arch a shot, it’s been the new hotness for a long time...
This works on a micro scale or closed system but that is not what happens when providing more resources causes people to migrate to your area to take advantage of the resources without ever needing to be contributing to them. A population will simply be over run by those desiring the free housing and this is obvious is any program created like this to tackle the issue. They always run out of room for these high demand resources and eventually cities may have taken care of the homeless problem for the people it meant to, but thousands of new people show up. If it were that easy as just providing housing and the problem was fixed then poverty across the whole world would be eliminated. Not saying that’s not possible, but you would literally have to do that across the entire world or in an entire closed system to make it work.
Not gp, but the protein structure implies the ability to fold materials and expand them really fast. It might be helpful in designing new space habitats. Alternatively, the proteins could be used to contain liquids in zero gravity. If you have a way to extract the proteins, you are left again with just water.
For LCD panels, one thing a lot of people don't know if that there are several different types, and the cheapest is quite awful. As all the prices come down I'm seeing fewer and fewer of the TN panels, but they can still be found. Terrible for conference rooms.

There's also a cheap kind of panel family where they don't put every color on every pixel. That is, rather than RGB RGB RGB, they are RG GB RG GB RG GB. For most video is hard to tell the difference, but it trashes text. Someone put a TV that was both TN and this reduced color in a conference room.... took me a few months to get it swapped out, but enough people finally saw it and realized it was the TV and not the computer or their eyes that I was able to get it done.
Consider how cyberpunk made people wish replacing body parts was possible. Adam Jensen “never asked for this”, but I bet many fantasized about having his see-through eyes and wall-breaking arms.
I like the idea of mesh networks, but I think they have all the character of do-it-yourself personal data.

So, wait, now I get to bear the burden of understanding how my network traffic is being routed and figuring out when I have issues?

Not keen on that honestly. I might be technically capable, but that doesn't mean I'm interested or have the time to spend on it.
I did, thanks for asking!
The friction of ads is huge, and you pay it when you see them (interupton, distraction, stress, page experience, malware risk), and when you buy things there's a cut that goes to the value-destroying ad/adtech industry.

Web monetization is lower friction.
That's beautiful. It sounds like you were using the standard odds calculations?
> More than 700 thousand human deaths

I don’t think I’ve ever in my 40 and nine years on the planet seen numbers of this scale written in mixed numeric and textual form.

It’s not like 700 kilometers, where you could at least argue this is the case vs the SI unit, but where a kilometer is a useful unit for communication anyway. The natural unit here is a human life, not a thousand human lives.

There are a several other quality issues in the abstract making me wonder if this is a serious effort or a Markov-generated abstract. (“We developed a program for mosquito tracking in real.”)
Not really sure on number 7 there. Can anyone explain?
I've always wanted something like to be commercialized. Some context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
It gives it a "Borat-esque" quality.
> The discussion around this post confuses me. Because in practice it doesn't sound that bad, but the comments seem to be against it. A person pays a subscription to "consume content" [1] and the author is paid for it. But why do I need a wallet? What is this ledger business all about? What's the meta tag for?

The wallet and the HTML meta tag are for people who want their websites monetized. If you just read/watch/etc., only a browser extension and subscription are required.

> In reality how is this even better than Patreon or "Buy me a Coffee" or GitHub Sponsors.

It isn't, it's complimentary, but more widely applicable. You won't sponsor every single blog owner for every single article you found useful or applicable to your use case, because that would be too onerous.
I have a humble feeling Zig has a super bright future. Simplicity, seemingly perfect C interop,...

As a mere apprentice of 'low-level' programming, I have no intention of learning Rust. It's certainly brilliant though and understanding its underlying concepts is something I aspire to.

I think maybe a good deal of people at the same stage I am will also leave Rust aside as a specialized hard-to-use tool.
Our Pentagon certainly doesn't change tactics every new president but hey you got this nice reality going for you where you think one person is in charge of the whole country, I am over here still waiting for a clear picture of Sasquatch. Sucks to see but it's what happens when our voters only get their news from Elite Western MSM. No sarcasm on the elite part, just look at this fairy tale world we got.
> Which means a restricted donation is inherently suboptimal

Maybe so, but maybe it's a compromise as well. If not, no funding at all would have been given which maybe would be a net-loss long-term. Receiving money to do research might not always include research you want to do, but you'll gain more experience overall and do better once you get to the research you want to do.

I'm thinking from the perspective that if I got to choose where my taxes went to. If I could decide which areas 50% the money goes towards, I think I would have been more happy paying taxes and maybe would add more, in order to fund efforts I believe in personally.
This also illustrates how unrestricted donations are much more useful to the nonprofit. Funds that can be spent as needed are very flexible, and so can fill gaps left by restricted funds.
But being "open source" doesn't really guarantee anything. How do I know that anything I send to mysite.plausible.io gets processed the way you say it does? How do I know that the code running on Plausible.io is the same code that's on your GitHub? Hell, even if I can verify your code then how do I know your proxy doesn't syphon it off to a second "secret" service?

Don't get me wrong, I have no reason to doubt your claims and do trust you specifically, but basing the entire system on "I decide to trust Marko from Plausible" doesn't really scale.

I am in the same boat as you as I run GoatCounter; I know I do everything like I say I do, but I also know that there's nothing preventing me from doing any of the above and actually collecting much more from what I say I do. It's not hard to set up and no one will ever find out. Theoretically there are legal limits on this. In practice this is a very weak guarantee. This is a big reason why self-hosting was always a first-class supported use case for this.

Theoretically there are some technical things you can do to improve matters; for example a per-domain device ID generated by the browser (or JS, doesn't really matter actually). But then you run in to legal limits due to the way the GDPR is phrased, even though it's more privacy-friendly and not really in the spirit of what the GDPR is about :-/ We talked a bit about this over email last year IIRC.

The real crux is finding something that's practical, usable, and will actually be implemented/used. We can all think of some idealized system, but if it's not realistic that it'll be implemented then it's a pretty academic exercise. In practice this means that any browser solution will need buy-in from at least the Chrome and Safari teams to really be useful, and I don't rate the chances of that as very high of happening any time soon.

This isn't even because I subscribe to some "Big Evil Google and Their Nefarious Dark Plans" view, but just because they have little incentive to do any of this and it's quite a lot of work to do it well. It's easier to just block the lot and, arguably, this is perhaps better than doing nothing. If GoatCounter is impacted by this then so be it. At the end of the day site owners are not the customers of Safari and Chrome: people using those browsers are.