skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On average, this is not true. Citing this example is like looking at a specific stock (TLSA) and saying that the entire stock market quadruples every year. Looking at the broader picture, most REITs give returns similar the S&P 500.
Would be cool if Mineraft went this far. At least I can play that with my kids and I’m not haunted by that feeling that I’m building something virtual and useless. I can actually enjoy it, through my kids. Yeah it’s weird.
It could be three times as populous by developing its existing residential land to Paris or Barcelona proportions, neither of which have Manhattan’s physical form. The vast majority of residential land (nearly 80%) is unremarkable single family housing.
https://archive.is/I4O0E
A Framework for Prioritizing Advice
I don't understand, would Putin ordering the purchase mage it illegit?

It's of course possible that Abramovich got his riches by illegal means. Nevertheless buying a football club seems like a normal thing to do (for rich people).
>especially if you're in a rural area

In a rural area wouldn't it be more convenient to just pee roadside?
Reminds me of a couple of years ago when Starbucks made a big public relations splash saying that it would no longer require people to buy something in order to use its restrooms, or to charge their devices.

Where I live, a week later, all of the Starbucks bathrooms that were previously wide open suddenly had locks on them, and the public electrical outlets were covered with metal plates.
I recognize that labor laws are a complicated subject, and I recognize that their advocates don't always have the best interests of workers at heart. Nevertheless, I do wonder how far things have to go before we collectively agree that Amazon treats its workers inhumanely.

- Paying people so little that they resort to living in tents? No.

- Union-busting? No.

- Requiring near-total abnegation of basic bodily functions? No.

So where's the line? Does someone have to die of exhaustion? 10 people? 1% of workers?

A hallmark of totalitarianism is when a government deems itself to have power over the bodily functions of individuals. It may be useful to apply this analysis to private entities as well.
For housing, a lot of people in tech seem to come down firmly in the "build, baby, build!" camp to increase supply. I think demand should also be suppressed. Specifically, I think there should be a policy barring people from owning more than, say, two housing units. Our society should not support parasitic landlords buying up huge swaths of housing then renting it out to people for the right to half their monthly paycheck. Berlin is headed this direction and I'm very interested to see how it shakes out: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/berlin-landl...
I don’t know about where you live but where I am I know of a project that can’t get built because construction companies are charging at a premium and their intention to provide median housing will instead jack up the averages in the neighborhood so much that several different interests have allied to fight it.
Thank you! No blog post yet but your comment has inspired me to write one :)
Specific to books, "Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13" was pretty good from Gene Kranz and as I recall covered many of the incidents in the US space program. I don't think I ever found a copy of the Chris Kraft one but heard it's pretty good as well.

And as others have suggested, reading flight accident reports, or watching the videos made off of them tends to be valuable.

Also, I think NASA published a bunch of research on human factors at one point, but it's been a long time since I've looked it up.

And last, specific to our industry, the SRE Books have a couple chapters on incident response: https://sre.google/books/
Absolutely not. They can still take bathroom breaks, they just risk being fired for missing their quota.

It is ultimately a personal decision when someone places retaining a job over their own personal human dignity. That is not and cannot be placed on Amazon; to do so is a fundamental misattribution of responsibility for the individual's choice to a) work at Amazon and b) submit to these unreasonable demands.

Amazon isn't the only employer.
I've noticed that sometimes Google had updated flight information before the displays at the airport.
You can also allocate a small hash table at first, and reallocate it in a large virtual memory region once it about the size of a page (4k) so you won't have to reallocate it later.
I wish I could own a home, that I put equity into, and have a reasonable assurance of getting that equity back out, without having it be a highly speculative, leveraged investment. Alternatively, I wish renting was affordable in any place worth living. Instead I'm all in on another home purchase right now, which if the market doesn't totally tank I should be able to turn into a 300% ROI in the next few years. That's great if it all works out, but I'm comfortably upper-middle class in a desirable area, what the hell is everyone else supposed to do?
The sticky notes of meaningless delusions/motivational words younger grade schoolers may be urged to think and write about how they feel of them seem oddly reminiscent of pictures surrounding Kanye West in recent years. For quite some time, and still, I believe he's going to end up at the center of the next cult shootout we see in the US.

I was lucky to have met Tony twice, having a decent discussion one time. What happened is really unfortunate, and I feel as if we're going to see very similar situations unfold with many of those who are new money making a fortune from tech. I imagine it's got to be unfathomably hard to stay grounded and find meaning after acquiring so much money. All the syncophants in the world will come after you, and as it's been seen with Musk, many others will attempt to bet against any future endeavors of yours just to make a quick buck.
Buildings made with fungi could live, grow, and then biodegrade
My wife wasn’t a gamer before she met me. There are a hundred little things that gamers take for granted that non gamers don’t know to expect. You have to explain things like “there are lots of places you can go here, but if you’re a gamer you know it’s all fake: there is only one way to progress and there will be green lights at that spot. Why green lights? Who knows, green is just a standard message games use to say go-here, you know about it because of all the games you played in the past. Also, for some reason there will be items hidden if you wander around”
> but interviewers are really just selecting for people that think like they do.

No. We don't care how you get it done, but that you try in a way that would be worth paying you for.

My job isn't a calm safe place, it's the chaotic result of two departments and the proverbial rubber hitting the road in one spot. It's not intentionally bad, mean, hard, or long, and we weed out people who don't cooperate well, but every crazy thing you can imagine has happened.

But even in previous, easier, positions people were still put on the spot by being assigned to work with customer support on some issue way up the stack from their normal job, which required to be on a call with 20+ outsiders, from CEOs to SREs, and representing us and our department properly. The people on HN who talk about giving people calm interviews to see their true selves don't get it, the performance under a small amount of stress is far more interesting. Do you get mean and snappy, get entitled, shut down, or what?

If being asked, kindly, to solve a basic leetcode is too much then there's no way you'd be suitable for anything else we do.
I don't think the situation is as bad as coreboot: Both the vendor firmwares and OpenWRT are Linux based so there is already some base for compatibility. And OpenWRT is not fully objected to blobs in drivers, so they don't need necessarily go digging down every smallest detail. Finally e.g. Asus has been publishing their firmware "sources" (containing gazillion blobs) so you don't need to do full blackbox reverse-engineering to reuse stuff there. There is this whole asusmerlin project repackaging the Asus firmwares: https://github.com/RMerl/asuswrt-merlin.ng

Ultimately lot of the issues fall down on Broadcom and Qualcomm being what they are and not even trying to upstream their drivers and other bits.

I don't know if we ever will see another wifi chipset that will have as good and long support as ath9k.
At least in urban areas covid is a big hit.

One of my friends was paying 3600USD per month in a brand new luxury building for a one Ben in the heart of Manhattan. After covid he’s paying $2600 per month in the same building same apartment. The apartment also paid the moving costs for new tenants to move in.
Just don't use cloud, get a cheap dedicated server and never run out of disk space
A few techniques which involve adding something to the food:

* Salt

* Vinegar

* Alcohol
Earlier this month there was an interesting op-ed in the New York Times lobbying for more public restrooms:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/opinion/sunday/public-toi...
Woke Elementary
I think that's outdated information. Most houses are built in big lots, with each house being mostly a copy-paste of the others with some cosmetic tweaks. Hell, they probably have software to mix and match cosmetics too. Then the housing lot is likely a clone of a lot the company has built in dozens if not hundreds of other locations.

That said, prefabs would help greatly. It's too bad that prefabs would have to travel over the open roads, which limits the size. If houses could be lifted via helicopter to the destination, we would likely see costs fall greatly, through the power of the assembly line that Henry Ford invented oh thousands of years ago now.
Jeff Bezos on Fast, High Quality Decision-Making
Not sure why you would think blender overkill for this. It seems perfectly suited to that, and can be scripted in python, albeit with mostly the same caveats as GIMP.
Sure, we have anecdotes about how not every property is a profit bonanza, and that there are often a bunch of surprise costs.

That's why there are big development companies. The advantages of scale apply here as much as anywhere. Lose money on one, make money on others to offset the risk. What you call a "simplistic fantasy" is a century-long phenomenon in the US at this point of increased population in major urban areas leading to rising land values and the conversion of empty fields into developed areas.

There's no guarantee that population growth will continue to increase demand, or even that demand in developed areas will stay high - there have been a lot of cycles in that time as well, with extreme examples like Detroit to balance out the SFs of the world - but that's a very different argument than "we need to increase development so that we make housing less of a good investment," which I'm claiming is a blatant contradiction when it comes to the value of the land that is being developed. A shitty house in NYC is worth more than a nice house in Austin not for the building, but for the value of the slice of land it sits on, because the area has been developed more which has resulted in more demand.
It seems like a logistical problem and lack of public restrooms. There is no easy solution. Let's say you are driving in an urban area, where can you go? Maybe there's traffic too. Where are you going to park? Or you are in a rural area and the next gas station is miles away. Your options are clearly limited.
You're calculating the raspi 4 power consumption based off of recommended USB power supply current rating. The actual expected load power consumption without peripherals is 1/5 to 1/3 of that (3-5 W rather than 15 W).

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry...

https://www.pidramble.com/wiki/benchmarks/power-consumption

https://raspi.tv/2019/how-much-power-does-the-pi4b-use-power...
But if you don’t have those fancy planes, guns, tanks, etc. but your enemy has, that first week will (somewhat) be of the “when the wars are fought against poorly equipped insurgents & rebel forces.” type for your enemy.

After a week, they will still have many of their fancy planes, and, likely, will have destroyed a lot of your infrastructure, killed your pilots, etc.

I think you need both fancy planes and the ability to rapidly ramp up production of less advanced weaponry.
The S-500 is meant more for ICBMs and cruise missiles.

The S-400 variant is claimed to be effective against LO aircraft, but since only Russia, China and Turkey operate the things, we cannot say either way. We definitely cannot claim it's ineffective against LO aircraft.
You sound like Paris Hilton addressing poverty by saying, "Why don't poor people just get more money?"
This would make sense if Amazon were the government, and they were the only game in town.

The workers in question voluntarily opt-in to Amazon employment.
The reality on number 2 is that people in the US actually do benefit from elites in other countries viewing the US as a place to exfiltrate the wealth they've acquired in their origin country.

We are basically a fence for the plunder of the developing world.
Do you mean https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=exzappos?
You're never too young for thermite (2012)
> as it comes from competitive programming competitions whose primary demographic were who? Those smart people from Stanford or MIT.

I mean, it comes from every intro to algorithm and data structures classes at every serious CS program.

> Not to mention that crowd is least likely to have any experience communicating with, say for example, Black folk, amongst other demos, as peers

Not sure what you are insinuating here... That folks from these schools or who do good at algorithms don't see black folks as their equals? That sounds incredibly racist.
Obviously it isn't but Amazon is the third largest private employer in the world and it make sense making sure they offer reasonable working conditions for their employees.
These people are forced to accept inhumane treatment (namely: workloads so large they have to abnegate basic bodily functions) because the alternative is homelessness and hunger.

If that doesn't qualify as coercion, I don't know what does.

I'm frankly astounded that you would pretend not to understand this.
In many countries supermarkets don't keep eggs in a fridge, whereas in others they do.

Apples can be kept for months in a fridge. Salads don't last long outside of one. Supermarkets don't keep them in fridges (unless they've been processed).
I don't think this is true. In the circles I run in (which are as nearly as "woke" as you can be), your family and closest friends have carte blanche to tell you you're full of shit.

I know I rely on my family and friends to do so. Conversely, I know I'm able to do so with them and they love me just the same.

I mean, it's a trope at this point in American media where your loved one can slap your face hard to give you a reality check. I've never personally had that happen but to say the culture is a culture of enablers doesn't seem well supported.
Wild, how was it constructed out of curiosity and what materials?
But also, haggling for example. It is something incredibly common in probably most Islamic cultures, markets/shops without prices are common place.

I think the unwillingness to set a fixed price that can be judged fair or not by either parties, and the need for a back and forth or a ripoff is a related part of the mentality
Given our enormous homeless population, that would seem to apply here.
An employer-employee relationship only exists by mutual and voluntary consent.
Christ, how is this not /s?
After Failed IPO, WeWork Will Go Public Through a Merger
The problem is being 15 or 25 minutes from the gas station and having lots of packages to meet a quota. The average pay-for rest stop isn't going to end up being closer than the nearest gas station.
Apollo Domain/OS was great, innovative, and opinionated. It wasn't just another BSD or System V, and they rethought a lot of things.

Apollo's heyday was a bit before my time, but my first real job was working on technical software at a company who was a big-ticket technical software developer on Apollos (and I even once saw marketing brochure with our badge on an Apollo workstation). As an intern, I set up a pair of them for porting (though we preferred SPARCstations), and later, when I moved to headquarters, HQ was still doing the master SCM and (what's now called) CI, for all platforms, on Apollo DN10k pedestals. We got the DSEE descendant Atria ClearCase on non-Apollo workstations, in a new-tech R&D group I was in. I bought a couple retired Apollo workstations just to play with them at home.

Apollo did a lot of innovative stuff in Domain, and it's one of the few platforms I'm sometimes tempted to buy again, just to play with it and understand more of how they approached things.

When it had been years since I'd seen or heard of Apollo anywhere, I bumped into someone from there, who mentioned that Boeing had done some documentation using Apollos, and part of their very serious configuration management process involved them physically archiving an entire Domain network. (I'm guessing they used the very nice Interleaf software, which seemed to be popular on Apollo, and, by that time, had long also been available on other platforms.) It was appealing to think of an Apollo Domain network preserved in stasis, should humanity ever need to call up Apollo for duty again.
UAE to Unleash Hordes of Cloud-Triggering Drones
Finally someone who understands this! All modern weapons are no doubt very effective, but they are also very complex ,take long time to build, need specialized factories and skilled workers and the result is that there aren't that many stockpiled. Because that's not only expensive, weapons also deteriorate and might malfunction if stored for extended period of time. Most of the fancy toys would run out after 1st month of actual war (assuming non-nuclear conflict, of course).
In the early 90s there were various nascent systems for essentially public database interfaces for searching

The idea was that instead of a centralized search, people could have fat clients that individually query these apis and then aggregate the results on the client machine.

Essentially every query would be a what/where or what/who pair. This would focus the results

I really think we need to reboot those core ideas.

We have a manual version today. There's quite a few large databases that the crawlers don't get.

The one place for everything approach has the same fundamental problems that were pointed out 30 years ago, they've just become obvious to everybody now.
Every area is frothy. You live where you have to live to work where you can find work. The assumption of this saving period is also fairly strong. It only makes sense if you're earning $60k a year or more, and actually can afford to spend less than a third of your income on rent.
Japan's zoning is interesting but:

1. There are definitely reasons for many of the types of zoning rules in the US beyond what the author recognizes in that article. Zoning isn't just about measuring nuisance level.

2. The US definitely does have mixed use zoning.

3. The foundation of property law in the US is fundamentally incompatible with a standardized system. The US government already did the extent of what they could practically do when they suggested a standardized system in 1920s.
I'd rather just pee in a bottle than make even less money to take care of a basic human need.
It's easy to overgeneralize. If you want to believe that everyone is disconnected from food, you'll find confirmation of that. If instead you point to the farm to table movement, and the huge popularity of authentic/artisanal foods among anyone in the US with disposable income, and you'd come to the opposite conclusion. Both are painting with too broad a brush.
You're talking about Google Flights, which is completely unrelated to flight status.
For one there isnt a single housing market, there are a lot of segmented housing markets that only partially overlap. In high demand areas, land is already limited.

For another zoning restrictions are severe in the US, with most residential land zoned for single family housing with large lot sizes.

With high upfront costs, limited land, and political issues, developers would rather build high end housing, which has led to over supply in the high end market, and under supply in the low end market
I don’t use OpenWRT (just a plain-old Linux distro), but PCEngines APU2 is pretty cheap and fast enough to run on a 1 Gbps WAN connection.

https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm
> The workers in question voluntarily opt-in to Amazon employment.

Voluntary with a threat of hunger, homelessness, healthcare loss, etc if not.

This isn't obviously just a problem with Amazon, but employment across low-paying jobs isn't voluntary. They're all shit (some more than others). This is an overarching problem with employment in general.
Run Debian stable on your routers. Use APs as dumb APs.
This. Ruby’s syntax sugar makes it easy for newcomers to miss the elegance of what’s actually happening with everything being an object and every expression reducing to passing messages between objects. When you dig in and really understand what’s going on, the lightbulb moment is very neat.
After dark, yes, go anywhere. During the day when people can potentially see you that would be a bad idea. If you can use the vehicle to block line of sight then that could also work.
if you ever have the chance to visit new orleans, there is a turn in the river near the public boardwalk and it is simply amazing to watch giant ships (though not nearly as big as the evergreens) take a drifting bank through that turn at what looks like 15 kts, maybe more.
o/t but what the hell are they doing to scroll on that page? I move my fingers a centimeter on my trackpad and the page is already scrolled all the way to the bottom.

Hijacking scroll like this is one of the biggest turnoffs a website can have for me, up there with being plastered with ads and crap. It's ok imo in the context of doing some flashy branding stuff (think Google Pixel, Tesla splashes) but contentful pages shouldn't ever do this.
That insane memory leak for Safari in the new Reddit design is insane though, so I use Brave. You get up to 1GB+ RAM usage in just 5 - 8 minutes and it just keeps going from there. I don't prefer old.reddit.com because the left-aligned design is annnoying.

If you're a Reddit engineer, what is the deal there?
Exactly it could be sitting by the pool reading a book or watching Netflix relaxing. In other words people who can afford leisure are happier.
The alternative is homelessness and hunger. This is not voluntary; it's coerced.

And we know you know this.
I wonder what it would take to get plain Debian to run on the device. OpenWRT made lot more sense when routers had like 8/16M of flash and not lot more RAM, but these big modern routers are far more powerful so bigger OS shouldn't be as much of a issue
> The primary, most obvious driver is historically low interest rates.

This doesn't align with the last 20 years of housing prices, which have dramatically risen/fallen/risen while the interest rate has barely budged.
The average 30-year mortgage rate in 2000 was 8.05%. Given a $2500/month target payment and 20% down, someone could buy a $423,870 house.

The average 30-year mortgage rate in 2020 was 3.11%. The same $2500/month payment with 20% down buys a $730,892 house.

Ignoring down payments (which differ greatly between the two examples) and other expenses like property taxes, the 2020 mortgage rate allows someone to buy 172% as much house as they could in 2000. This doesn't translate perfectly to rental prices, but property affordability via low mortgage rates is heavily correlated with increasing rent prices.

Not a perfect comparison, but it shows how much mortgage rates are driving the housing price boom. Scary to think what's going to happen when (if?) rates start going back up.

Source for historic numbers: http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30.html
So was it Israel?