skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not of lesser importance, because who owns the housing (whether houses or flats) has implications for the politics of building new housing. If the owners are individuals, they often go the way of NIMBY, which in turns slows the (social and economic) development of the area. We can also think of housing prices (or rents) as taxes, which if the pace of new buildings slows and the area is still in demand is rising.

But if the owner is the city or state, they can plan and build accordingly. So in the city I live in after the fall of communism almost all of the state-owned flats were sold to tenants very cheaply which was great, but now it's very hard to build anything new. Even old flats are horribly expensive, which is great for sellers like me, but not great for people that want to come here to work and live.

On the other hand, we have cities like Vienna where a siginificant part of the housing stock is owned by the city. They are able to build new neighbourhoods. As a result, while my city is much smaller and less economically interesting, the price of housing is now near Vienna's levels, if not even higher. That's not good for the economy of our city either.
Jargon an technicalities help creating bubble and loosing focus on what matters for humankind.
I would direct message you, but since you have decided to be completely anonymous with no contact information in your profile, I have to make this public.

It’s not removing context. It’s conversation drift, which frequently happens in online conversations. The post I was replying to mentioned Twitter, and it’s well known that some Twitter users will go though someone’s old blog or what not to find “a juicy, negative soundbite”. There’s even an expression for it: “offense archaeology”.

Please do not make bad faith accusations without looking at the full context of the conversation, which includes the post I was replying to. I don’t know what your intentions were making that reply, but it comes off to me as rude.
It's not much, but if you click on the domain above you get https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=p5stamper.com, which has marginally more information.
Drivers and security would be my guess.
In addition to that, efficient city is in contrast to what psychology says humans need for happiness, ie. space, access to green land, low noise, low pollution environment. Maybe we should convert to many small cities, allow telecommute instead of piling people on top of each other?
Because being "100% employee" and having no free time is SO MUCH FREEDOM and as it is already public knowledge, "work sets you free".

But, i know, those few dicks.
Not. The. Company.
Fair enough. Special relativity was published in 1905, which suggested that enormous amounts of energy were potentially available from small amounts of matter, so the possibility of making a bomb was probably on the back of people's minds for a long time before someone actually built one. But yeah, as you say, they didn't really figure out the mechanics of how to build a bomb until quite a bit later.

1938 to the Trinity test in 1945 was about seven years.

Going by the wikipedia article on RNA vaccines, people have been experimenting with them since 1989, but there was a major advance in 2010 on getting mRNA into cells without triggering an immune response. Even then, there were a lot of attempts at treating various diseases and viruses that didn't pan out. So, it sounds like mRNA vaccines were kind of a long slow slog of running into problems and fixing them, whereas in the case of the atomic bomb, the idea was around for a long time but no one really knew how to get started until suddenly they did, and they immediately got busy building it.
Overall population growth is leveling off, but urbanization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization) continues, cities keep growing and rural areas keep shrinking, at least relatively.

There's possibly a degree of causation too, people delaying or avoiding having families because they aren't affordably in the cities that their jobs are in.
IP-enabled bulbs (or rather, 2.4GHz controlled Bulbs, by whatever protocol) have a bit more nuance to them. A controller could probably at best hope to control a dimmer hooked up to the light bulbs. I've setup my own apartment with the IKEA LED bulbs, which is great for giving more individualised lighting (I use the colored LEDs to provide a dimm red light in the evening to simulate sunset more closely aligned with my actual sleep schedule).
I rarely visit their website as they allow you to save your favourite stations as a play list for your preferred media player.

Will have to check it out, thanks for the heads up.

Are you aware of their other sites, https://www.jazzradio.com/ and https://www.rockradio.com/

Your di.fm subscription gives you member access to those two as well, last time I checked.
Recent and related:

No one was in driver’s seat in fatal Tesla crash - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26866754 - April 2021 (79 comments)

Two people killed in fiery Tesla crash with no one driving - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26852399 - April 2021 (706 comments)
> Adding to the confusion, Musk himself has appeared on “60 Minutes” and Bloomberg TV behind the wheel of a Tesla with his hands in the air. He’s been talking about Tesla‘s fully autonomous technology as if it’s imminent since 2016. That year, Tesla posted a video showing one of its cars running in autonomous mode through Palo Alto. “The person in the driver’s seat is only there for legal reasons,” the video said.

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-04-19/tesla-on-a...
Unfortunately, Athens became economically irrelevant two millennia before we had the technology to try this experiment.
Owner occupation of property vs rent seeking ownership are 2 very different paradigms.

The former results in community, and investment and a large number of beneficial economic effects.

The later is simply an economic parasite

Only have to look to the past to see what happened with farming. Substance farming and feudaliam was inefficient and disincentified investment.(why improve land you don't own and someone else reaps the benefits of what you sow?)
If you're talking about any other company then yes, but Elon is known to be the PR/Face person (when he wants it, which is often) and at times... get very personal.
Explore Zettlekasten and Anki. And make them a habit.
I believe the majority of new development in Vienna continues to be market rate and targeted at moderate income and above households. However, the backstop of state run housing encourages development generally and gives all people a stake in the land.
In the tweet from Elon in the top-level comment.
Yeah, it's clickbait. It's not homeownership that's the problem, it's the regulations (tbf, put in place mostly by homeowners) and the always ongoing concentration of the population.

Housing prices in/near cities is a worldwide problem. Renting could be cheaper, though, but that can be done without social housing imo.
As a single data point, I live in one of the most dense european cities and home prices are insane. Probably a mix of speculation, tourism and other policies.

While density might play a part it's not a silver bullet. As with everything, the solution is probably custom to each city and region
I like that people uses the term MP3 [1] player to mean Music player when most of their music are AAC.

I suppose Apple Watch or some other Wrist Band like are sort of a replacement if you are looking for smaller portable music player that is not a bulky phone?

[1] Now MP3 is patent free, even AAC-LC is patent free. How time flies.
No, because not everybody wants to live in the same city, country, climate, culture, whatever.

But what we do have today are cities that economically dominate their region with people commuting an hour or more each way just to make ends meet. And even if those people were to quit and try starting a business 5 minutes from their home, there's a good chance that some zoning regulation, lack of infrastructure, or other issue would make it rather troublesome for a normal person to do a startup.
... unless you do it by also setting up "an IoT home". of course, that's probably more expensive than 5Ghz hardware or de-auth.
why does this rant start by talking about optimising things for the user, and then end up talking about optimising things for the developer?

I get that they're talking about productivity tools for developers. But missing the point that optimising these tools for developers will mean they're not optimised for the actual user. We're not the customer. The stuff we write should be fast when run in production. Having it be nice to develop on is a bonus.

Having generated configuration that the developer doesn't have to think about means that the system can't be tweaked for the particular use case to make it faster in production. Yes, it's easier. No, that's not better.

Our job is to handle the complexity. To take "simple" business requirements and deal with all the complexity that is needed to make those work. That's the gig.
The idea of "web applications" is almost as old as the Web itself. Java Web Applets, Flash, Silverlight,... were all attempts to bring application functionality to the browser. Billions have been invested in this strategy.

Why?

Because desktop computing used to be a battlegrounds for commercial vendors in the late 20th century, and the goal was establishing market dominance. Being able to control who can run what on a platform was / still is part and parcel towards establishing that goal.

Web browsers changed the game. They are a threat and an opportunity at the same time. A threat because gave anyone a chance to escape from a native context and run whatever you want in a browser regardless of the platform your on. No more having to compile and distribute the same application for a dozen potential targets.

Microsoft was so adamant on having Explorer bundled with their OS in order to establish control over the future evolution of web applications on the information highway. And they got famously burned for it in that 1999 anti-trust case.

Application delivery as you know it today is convenient, but that came at a price. Vast amounts of resources have been poured into Chromium over the past two decades to bring that experience to billions. And it didn't happen out of sheer altruism on the part of Google.
I remember Niall Ferguson was pro-China. I guess his new paymaster gets to pick which tune is played.

And paying your kid 25 USD for doing the dishes (which is then spent in an online game). Is that normal?
Sure. Signing away your free time to make it work is fine. Signing away your free time into some limbo where it's still legally your free time, but your employer claims it's not yours, is not.

When free time becomes work, that should also entail a lot of responsibilities on the part of the one paying for the work (such as, for example, paying).

Re the market solving it: maybe it does solve it for you and me. The skillset we're likely to have just based on the fact that we're hanging out on HN means we have a lot of relative power. I for one want a society where also the less fortunate (=a looooot of people), and the far less fortunate, can live worthy lives.
The main driver here (IMHO) is that Singapore's pay-as-you-go pension system is/was quite patchy, particularly for the self-employed, who were exempted a long time and even today only need to contribute to their health insurance. Many of the elderly workers never accumulated a pension, so they need to work in menial jobs to support themselves.

In 2014 and 2018, the government finally introduced a set of meager benefits for those born in the 1940s and 1950s, but it's almost entirely focused on medical expenses and far from a "real" state pension.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Generation_Package

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merdeka_Generation_Package
I just had a look at your comment history. These are (of course) just my own opinions ...

You appear to have mostly commented on 'controversial' topics - you are more likely to be downvoted (and maybe also upvoted) in such discussions compared to more technical topics.

Also, you had multiple typos/errors - this always makes me think that you did not spend so much time and thought on your posts. Why are we spending time reading something that you did not spend time proof-reading?

When I consider posting, I usually ask myself - 'does my comment really add value to the discussion (or, in this case, sub-discussion)?' If not, then probably I ought to just keep reading. Heaven forbid that one writes comments just to get some points!
> to repeatedly remind the reader that you went to Harvard

Correct. A Harvard graduate can't wait to slip that into conversation. I don't even know how to respond when they mention studying CS there - I mean, there are better universities for that, but I haven't responded with, "Oh, you couldn't get into MIT?" :)

(I worked for a Harvard CS grad once. He made sure I'd never forget it.)
> because how else can citizens know about the laws and their application.

Through their elected representatives.
For those outside of these bubbles, it’s almost unbelievable how much the housing market has completely exploded the last two years.

My family is squarely in this situation - bought our home a few years ago in an extremely fast - growing area, and watched prices climb to levels that we didn’t believe at first. Imagine purchasing a home in 2019 for $500k and selling it today for $1.2M. That’s the reality in some of these cities.
VPN, of course.
How do I turn on my phone
This is one of the reasons I love to ski.

Sometimes, when the conditions are just right and my legs are in good shape and my mind is in the right place, I have one of those amazing ski runs that is just perfection. And it’s great.

But other times, I also have fun. And I don’t end up with a score telling me how I did on each turn or anything like that.

I log most of my trips on Strava, mostly as a way to stay in touch with friends around the world, but intentionally avoid the run-counting and speed-tracking gizmos, to help preserve this “did I enjoy myself or not?” metric.

Relatedly, I’ve intentionally slowed down when skiing on lift access. The ride down is more fun than the ride up, ans the lift is a fixed cost. So I get a better ratio of enjoyment by turning more, and thus sitting on the lift less.
In practice, speculation maximises value extracted by speculators. But yes, "maximum bearable" price is stable.
This generates much better patterns than any other music web project I've tried. Awesome work.

If you had no music experience, snuck into a club, impersonated a DJ, and just pressed play on this, I think even without touching it, no one would notice anything's amiss. If you messed around with it occasionally, you'd probably get hired back. (And that's a compliment to the app; definitely not a diss of acid techno.)
>In this age of jet aircraft, high speed rail, and high speed internet, it is a shame that we still cannot spread out the economic opportunities over larger areas.

Actually, this only makes thing worse, because your boss gets to decide where you live. After all, you can easily reach all your customers from a single location thanks to these technologies.
> a generation of young people who cannot easily afford to rent or buy and think capitalism has let them down

Thats not some irrational misconception- capitalism has indeed let these people down.

Capitalism, a set of social policies that prioritises the needs of capital over the needs of people, is literally a system that is designed to concentrate ownership. Under capitalism the best way to make money is to own, or have access to, capital: therefore if you want a house, the best way to do that is to already have another house.

I'm not going to pretend to have the answers to this problem (although they probably involve some combination of tax relief for owner-occupancy, and a relaxation of planning regulations), but it is important to recognise the housing crisis as a negative outcome of capitalism, just as technology should be recognised as a positive outcome.

The more people have access to capital, the more popular and sensible capitalism becomes. Home ownership is the best way to promote capitalism, and government should do its best to encourage it.
If you want to be a good neighbor, disable support for "legacy" rates in your access points. The periodic beacon frames are transmitted at the slowest supported rate so that the least capable client devices can receive them. For 802.11b, that means something like 1Mbps. At such a low rate, the beacon frames consume a non-trivial amount of bandwidth. Each access point you see could be consuming over 3% of the channel. Turning off 802.11b/g support (if you can) will significantly reduce the cost of each access point broadcasting. If you're really nice you could decrease the frequency of beacons, but that's not really worth it due to buggy clients sometimes not coping well.

The channels around my house are so busy that in order to make wifi reliable, I have three access points, each one on its own non-overlapping 20Mhz 2.4Ghz channel. Two of them listen in on 80Mhz 5.8Ghz as well. I have them all set to the same SSID, so that my devices just choose whatever they think has the best signal strength. I also ran cat6 to my TV and desktop so that they don't need to go over wifi. I disabled 802.11b/g on all but one of them to keep the amount of overhead down from all the beacon frames.

This is why the Comcast SSIDs everywhere are so annoying. They make the spectrum tangibly worse just by existing. Same thing for wifi printers that broadcast their own AP. Something like 30 APs sending beacon frames is enough to completely trash 20Mhz of 2.4Ghz.
this does seem like the most plausible explanation. doors aren't guaranteed to work after a collision.
-I actively tried to avoid IoT devices when I recently built a house, but wound up with quite the handful still.

a) Fire detectors. 13 units including the central. (Basically one in every room where something may conceivably catch fire.)

b) Leakage sensors in any room with faucets or washers in it - 7 units.

c) Kitchen appliances - 5 (Cook top, two ovens, fridge, freezer)

d) HVAC - 7 units (Central ventilation. Heat pump. A handful of electrical panel heaters.)

It quickly adds up - at least if you live in the boonies where land is effectively free.
Subsistence farming? That just means that most of what you farm is used to feed yourself and your family.

It's not really that subsistence farming is inefficient, it's just that subsistence farmers (by definition) are not selling food on the market.
It would be great to have some statistics on who's using the autopilot and for how long.

I myself am driving one for a year now and it's so often the Tesla suddenly breaks (at least once in a trip) because it thinks that's on some parallel road or an overpass with a different speed limit that I would never trust any additional feature.

I'm curious if trust builds up over time or gets eroded. Or if this completely depends on the person.
Maybe true of typical residents of said locations, on average.

But tech transplants by and large should not be considered typical residents.

What you say definitely does have elements of truth to it, but I’d wager the effects of parenting and income are, on average, much larger than your direct setting when it comes to succeeding beyond the median of their peer group.
Stupid jurisdiction if writing code on your free time with an explicit disclaimer that it has nothing to do with Company can be construed as hurting Company's image.
Cutting the bullshit and getting back to the essential marketing strategic tools
Half Windsor is still more in fashion and still produces a neat, symmetrical knot. Beware, though, after learning a good knot you will see the four in hand knot everywhere and it will annoy you.
I prefer the "feel good" story of the US - ruled via democracy rather than the "feel good" story of China - ruled via an unelected communist bureaucracy. I suppose if you take a world-wide poll, most folks would agree with me.
You could regulate the market. 1 house per person perhaps? I can only sleep in one bed at a time. It makes sense to have only one.
What if renters could have a way to pay more to gain partial ownership of their property? E.g., could progressively own up to 10%. That woulf allow for more of the feeling of ownership and allow renters to participate in the appreciation. That would mitigate some of the negative impacts of gentrification.

Has anyone given this sort of renter-ownership blend a thought?
Refactoring your machine learning code with einops
Experts say Instagram for kids is a terrible idea
Show HN: Shepherd.com – Discover books in a new way, like wandering a bookstore
I should clarify - it wasn't clear to me how DLC for disc-based games was going to be handled, so I erred on the side of caution and obtained it all now while I knew it still worked.
That system is base 10, although like a lot of Western languagea it has remnants of when it was in a different base.
Exactly. People think that Jobs and Gates succeeded because of dropping out(from the ivy league schools nonetheless!) and not despite.
>Lain does seem quaint when viewed today.

I don't agree, personally. The visuals seem a bit dated, due to it being released 23 years ago, but I watched it for the first time a few years ago and found it very thrilling and memorable.
I would love it if those down-voting this comment would explain why. Is this comment untrue? How? Does not metal siding end up grounded, however weakly, by rain downspouts anchored to the side of the house then contacting the ground. Does not a relatively contiguous grounded metal sheet around the exterior of a building attenuate 2.4 and 5Ghz?
> snuck into a club, impersonated a DJ, and just pressed play on this, I think even without touching it, no one would notice anything's amiss.

That very much depends on the club.
Singapore is one of the least corrupt countries in the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Singapore
Seeing the knot-making process in a flow diagram is certainly interesting, seeing that we (humans) can tie certain knots with our eyes closed.

When did we learn this behaviour? Does it indicate higher thought/intelligence? We teach our children to tie knots at a very young age, so knots must be important right? Which other animal can tie knots? Is knot making just another form of weaving?

And lets say we do build an AI that resembles human nature/consciousness closely, can it tie knots? Maybe an AI is only valid if it can introspect, love, hate, philosophize, do math and.. tie knots! What about knitting/crocheting?

Maybe weaving (knot-making/knitting etc) is/was just as important as discovering/understanding fire. Imagine our primate ancestors, just chilling in a jungle somewhere and weaved some pieces of plant fibers together and some lightbulb went on in their heads.. and they continued making them and adjusting them and found useful uses for them (or maybe they just enjoyed the pattern or the effect of pulling one string and the whole knot comes undone - Wow!).

Knots sure are interesting!
Well, if you talk to them first and negotiations break down, they'll immediately suspect you if you start a deauth attack :D
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