skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First let me say that I agree with raising the minimum wage and affording more people a "livable" wage.

With that out of the way, let's start dispelling some myths.

First, building houses inflation-adjusted actually hasn't gotten more expensive [1]. It's basically the same in real terms as almost 50 years ago.

What has changed is two things:

1. Land has gotten more expensive;

2. Houses have gotten substantially bigger; and

3. Real wages have been largely frozen, particularly on the low end, for the last 40 eyars.

So I was curious where the stats for rents came from and in Appendix B of the Full Report you'll see it uses the HUD FMR (Fair Market Rent) stat [2].

I was curious about this for several reasons. A description like "average house rent" raises a lot of questions like:

- What sorts of properties does this include? Free standing houses? Townhomes? Condos?

- What sort of "average" is it? Mean or median? You wouldn't want houses in the Westside distorting "average" rent for LA county, for example.

> HOW IS FAIR MARKET RENT CALCULATED?

> Fair Market Rent is generally calculated as the 40th percentile of gross rents for regular, standard quality units in a local housing market. This excludes low-quality units, already subsidized units, and units that have been built in the last 2 years. FMR rent data is typically taken from recent move ins rather than long-term tenants, as long-term tenants generally receive a lower monthly rental rate. FMR includes core utilities, like water and power, but doesn’t include internet and other optional services.

Isn't this a bit misleading? Like, it's data from recent move ins so it's people who have decided to or have needed to move and what they've been willing and able to pay.

[1]: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/new-us-homes-today-are-1000-s...

[2]: https://www.hud.loans/hud-loans-blog/what-is-fair-market-ren...
Corsair something something. I’ll find the model tomorrow. Might not have been the psu though. My laptop charger is busted too and my laptop trackpad is acting up now. They shared an outlet. Both used surge protectors though
Climate change increasingly affecting people denying climate change makes it more likely they will one day accept it. I don't know how true that is, but that's my view on this particular line of thought.
So we’re supposed to cap the population while allowing people of means to have more kids? That does not sound sustainable. See the French Revolution for details.
I disagree. I think the reason combat veterans often feel like their squad is a second family and rich country club members often feel like the other members are competitors is the difference in the adversity of each situation.

However, I think the type of “bad times” conducive to building strength is fairly particular; it only creates strong people if the problems being faced are external and require cooperation to solve, and the people facing adversity are capable of overcoming their own problems when adversity forces them to face them.

If interpersonal problems are the main source of adversity, and there is nothing external to force cooperation, that’s often demoralizing and more conducive to antagonistic forms of competition rather than camaraderie and self improvement.
it's a rare view to see a site that contains 97.4% html. I can only imagine what's like to build a newer version right now and if it's going to enhance UX or just add a ton of code and unnecessary logic.
What would they ransom for money? Rack and switchport assignments?
> pinball

At least there is skill involved with pinball
In the company I work at, there are telepresence screens in each conference room that appear in Teams.

Projecting something onto the screen is done using Teams, so I can't disable Teams during the presentation. People often connect in from other conference rooms or their desks, by joining the call.

ICT probably wouldn't allow us to make another user account.

I agree that making a second user account is good practice for IoT meetups, church groups, or other presentations, but it might not actually work well in this company. Teams has plenty of other issues though, such as screen sharing in a group call after unplugging HDMI, or microphone input selection issues.
Earth From Above and variations are all winners.
What are the best Alternatives to Producthunt
"Fuckery" aka: government interference. Zoning restrictions, requirements to get everything inspected, rent controls, etc, etc, etc.

Look at other places government butts in? Schooling? Health care? Day care? etc... all more expensive and worse than ever.
At Amazon there are “principal of Amazon” talks every few weeks which broadcasts to the entire company. My previous team has regularly watching party for the most popular talks of all time - they are all super useful. There are many big names among the presenters
Author here. I built https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor that can. generate code. The foundation is solid and I have tested with several cases.

I think web development community is mature enough now and this was my step to help community.

I'd like to know your feedback. I'd be glad for contributors. Come join me, it will be fun.
I would love to see something like this written by someone with a young family. I find myself living JIT subject to the whimsical demands of small children for extended periods, and often wonder if it's even possible to re-arrange life in this context to try to re-capture some sanity.

Usually I just give up and bathe myself in the chaos, hoping that it's just a few years and then some semblance of sanity will return naturally.
Molly was the closest thing that made me feel how it would've been if I grew up different :)
> Wheat yields are doing fine

Your source to support that claim provides 1 year of historical data. The article of this discussion says that since the 1960s, total U.S. agricultural production has dropped by 1/5th due to climate change, negating 7 years of improved yields. Due to increased temperatures and decreased moisture, this will lead to greater diminishment of yields, and it’s possible that agricultural innovation will be unable to keep up.
> It is close to a common carrier…

It isn’t at all. Twitter’s business model is getting people to join and engage with the network, and to that end they broadcast, moderate, curate, promote, remove, suggest messages based on the content of the messages. If we pass some law that forces it to be a simple message or feed delivery platform, twitter as a business is done.

> totalitarian control

Twitter running its business the way it wants is normal western freedom. Forcing twitter to broadcast the messages of the leader of the government would be totalitarian control.
I think GP was exactly right when he said AI is amazing at micro, but that humans could win using macro pressure. Open AI 5 is an incredible achievement, but for Dota players it hasn't solved Dota. The best analogy is probably something like playing a fixed strategy in Poker, but never varying it; your opponents will eventually figure what your strategy is and ways to exploit it.

What you mentioned with having a courier for each hero is actually a well-known tactic called "bottle-crow" and was popular in Filipino Dota from 2010-2015. Each support hero would buy a dedicated crow for each lane and a bottle. Then the cores would ferry the bottle to themselves constantly from base, but this tactic got nerfed to death with the change "crow flies at half speed with an empty bottle". You are right that OG didn't deal well with this constant source of health regeneration, but it was largely limited to the laning phase. After the laning phase ends, humans can use their superior macro (i.e. understanding of map movement) which is a definite weakness of the AI.

Against the simple AI that comes built-in to Dota 2, you can be behind by a ton and exploit splitpushing against the AI, because doing any structural damage against buildings will force the AI (who are gathered up for a push) back, and you will win if you drag the game sufficiently into the lategame. There are indications that similar tactics can be used against the OpenAI 5, which is bad countering invisible items/heroes and playing against splitpush [1]. Deciding whether or not to continue to push and which heroes to send back to defend is one of the hardest strategic decisions to make in the game, even for humans. The finals of one of the TIs, NaVi vs. Alliance, was lost on getting such a decision wrong. Eliminating some key splitpush heroes minimized the probability that OpenAI 5 would have been forced into having to make such a decision.

OpenAI 5 would have lost against OG if any of the following had been satisfied:

- had the entire heropool been available (certain natural splitpushing heroes like Furion, Tinker, Phantom Lancer, etc.)

- had the series gone long enough for them to uncover AI's weaknesses (which were apparent to the viewers and later teams). OG's captain even explicitly said "Give us 5 games and we will figure it out."

- had the prizepool been big enough for OG to take the game seriously enough to warrant picking a splitpushing strategy which is considered "cowardly" in some circles.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/beyilz/openai_live_u...
> March 397th, 2020

It sure felt like a long month.
Cloud hosting providers have a far more vigilant security staff watching things. It will happen eventually, but it's far less likely to happen on any random day.
Here's another good one a friend of mine built:

https://championtraveler.com/travel-weather-map/

Allows you to choose and filter weather preferences then tells you where you can likely travel to find that weather.

Now if only he could get it published on Google.com/...
Many people may not know/remember how common it was for people to use Word to spell/grammar check everything, thanks to Microsoft's strategic decision to only include the functionality in Office. Those little squiggles indicating spelling errors in any (especially browser) text fields didn't arrive on the scene until 2005 or so. As a result, it wasn't unusual to draft an email message in Word and then copy/paste it into your browser. Microsoft also made it an option to use Word to compose Outlook (i.e. corporate email) messages. Microsoft was pretty stingy about features like spell check even in their own OS because they obviously wanted everyone to also buy Office. Word was to text as IE was to browsing in Microsoft's worldview.
is it just Google that owns any code you write while working there or it's just the usual requirement for FAANG
Re: the article title: Isn't "autoimmunity" alone the good thing? -- it's what your body does to fight things off. "Why autoimmune diseases are more..." seems like better title. Maybe I'm just not aware of the common verbiage in medical circles but it seems a little sloppy for Nature.
This article is totally misleading.

They compare top 500 CEOs (S&P 500) vs average worker. How about comparing apples to apples? What's the compensation of an average CEO from some random small company?

Also total compensation is misleading measure, it's not money on the table. Often just stock options that may or may not vest in future.
Just to double check, if you are developing a project in the evening at your own - Google still owns it(How does it work under CA law)? How about other FAANGs?
The ultimate irony here is JPMorgan Chase "generously" sponsoring this study. Yawn.
Mark Rober also made a video about this for a machine that works similarly. Rober built a machine to play the game perfectly, and it still lost: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXBfwgwT1nQ
Me and my hommies talk about politics and other deeper shit. That said, I haven't always had friends around, and some friends aren't good at this stuff.

At work it's different. People whisper and talk in back channels. People form cliques and bully each other more subtly than grade-school. But, I generally believe work should remain somewhat professional (obviously). It gets hard when your boss starts stalking your Twitter or Facebook or even hobby GitHub projects.

Online, it generally feels less like a discussion, and more like spurious reports and one off essays complete with introductions, bodies, and conclusions all packaged into a neat reply.

But in either case, it's about finding boundaries with people and pushing them with purpose.
From my own personal experience living on minimum wage, the biggest benefit would actually be the removal of mandatory overtime pay past 40 hours. I wanted to work more, but had to juggle schedules of multiple part time jobs. I effectively had less time and money specifically because that regulation exists.
In general to claim personal projects as your own, in California anyway, I’ve been told it has to be on your own time and on your own equipment. (and probably a non-conflicting subject matter) By offering hosting for the personal time projects on their infrastructure, Google would make it their equipment.
Trade schools aren't exactly cheap either, and it is much harder to get financial aid or even loans to cover trade school than traditional university education.

I 100% agree that we do a huge disservice to high school kids by pushing this myth of higher education, but that is the direction they are pushed and trade school is hardly in the conversation most of the time.
The keyword is "afford". Can it be paid for with enough money for other things in life?

There's over 100 years of scholarship and research on this if you're interested. You can get college degrees, have careers in these related fields.

American culture in general does not value and it's dismissive of it and that's probably why America's livibility metrics are so out of line with everyone else. (See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_livable_cities)

Or why the life expectancy is lower, suicide is about the same rate as sub-saharan Africa, and polls of satisfaction and happiness perform worse, etc.

Such problems can be addressed
For example, the existing JS GC doesn't need to expose ability to stop the GC, execute on demand, support value types, pinning memory, interior pointers, control GC regions, marshaling to native code to the developer, whereas a .NET or D GC does.

So if a future WASM GC doesn't offer APIs for such capabilities, it is useless from those runtimes point of view.
New land can't be produced. Well, until we start digging.
Land and location are linked. People want to go there. They want to live close to there. Demand spikes and goes up. Yet other locations people don't want to go so demand goes down. At least thats the theory. But now, the prices are just going up. Seemingly everywhere.

Something is certainly going on. Its as if demand is increasing everywhere.
easy money (federal loans), no consequences for bad education (bankruptcy laws), disproportionate emphasis on BA vs trade skills, etc.
On the plus side, this might force some ISPs to get their shit together and add some nines to their 90% uptime.
I don't know if it still works like this but the initial idea with that one was that they would use the bittorrent protocol to help out with their hosting bandwidth any video you're currently watching would be peer-to-peer transferred to other users.
A utilitarian perspective is probably more productive than worrying about who has the moral high ground in any case. The fact is that the situation in Xinjiang is terrible and seems to be getting worse. The question is what can be done about it. For the Chinese government, the answer is simple: Close down the internment camps, and let the people go home. But the Chinese government isn't likely to read this comment, and even less likely to act on its advice. For other countries, the available actions will be more indirect. I think we should focus on getting as many Uyghurs out of the country as possible. This would require other countries to take them in as refugees or immigrants. It would also require some way of getting them physically out of China, which would be easier with the cooperation of the Chinese government. In theory, if China views the Uyghurs as a kind of nuisance, it should easily agree to let them leave for greener pastures, but in practice that doesn't seems to be the case. Perhaps the worry is that they will badmouth China once they leave. It's probably more complicated than that, but definitely worth pondering on with so many lives at stake.
WhatsApp is testing multidevice support that works without the phone
> Construction cost is only a fraction of the housing cost. The majority of the cost is for the location, which is unique and limited.

Then increase the construction budget and put multiple units on the location.
Are all minimum wage earners be pre-family and making a decision based on your personal rule-of-thumb? Reality is that people with families and bills to pay will end up with a minimum wage job after having a higher paying job, and it's not enough for them to support themselves. This isn't code, everything is not happening in the order you designed.
2013: How Congress Quietly Overhauled Its Insider-Trading Law

https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2013/04/16/17749...

Putting in laws are only as useful as them getting actually enforced.
Well, if minimum wage earners can't rent then perhaps migration needs to drop. Or is that sacred because then population won't keep going up because migration is what is propping up population these days?

Multiple demographics are essentially crashing. Plenty are below replacement right now.

Should be interesting to see what happens over the next 20 years after reliance on migration finally changes voting trends.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmunity

” Autoimmunity is the system of immune responses of an organism against its own healthy cells, tissues and other body normal constituents.”
This feels wrong though, most of the value of Office is certainly, at least now in retrospect, in Excel. It is a reactive programming language that powers virtually all of FO, MO and some BO functions (i.e. everyone from people on the desk to the people reconciling books at quarter end) while also enabling Accounting/Audit firms, financial services operations vendors, and people actually trading on the desk to do their daily work to perform simulations and program without needing to remember obscure programming libraries if they are not SWE domain experts.

Hard to imagine Word being even remotely as valuable, but maybe my perspective is too narrow.
I love that the "low" value it shows is not just below absolute zero, but far, far, far below. Its like there is a scientific mystery being unearthed.
Autoimmune diseases/disorders are abnormal immune systems, either being overactive or underactive [1]. It's not generally a good thing and often leads to bad consequences.

[1] https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/autoimmune-diseases
I remember thinking it was super cool to have aspell everywhere in Linux, when Windows couldn't get that outside of Word.
The forest part of PNW didn’t experience 120 degree weather. Additionally the event was highly atypical even with climate change and is estimated to be a 1 in 1000 years event due to various unlucky factors coming together. Climate change only contributed a few degrees to the peak temperatures in this recent PNW heatwave.

More info about how this weather event came about and the misattribution to climate change from an atmospheric science professor who is the foremost expert on northwest climate:
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/07/was-global-warming-ca...
https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/07/flawed-heatwave-repor...
>we have a large quantity of adults without any appreciable skills that would lend them to work which raises them out of minimum wage

Have you applied or know someone who applied for a minimum wage job recently?

The last time I did, the person interviewing me went on a rant/monologue about how she couldn't find anyone who would actually show up and not, like, play on their phone all day. Essentially all I had to do in the interview was agree on a start date.

Then a couple days later, she changes her mind, evidently because I was overqualified (aka wore a tie, probably too old). Which turned out to be ok, because someone else called me back about a ~$15/hr job.

This was a little before the pandemic in a non-economically booming area, not a major global city.

I can't remember when I've seen a full time minimum wage position offered. Stocking shelves at Target paid more than minimum. Answering the phone for an ISP, which was my first job, paid slightly more than minimum.

I may be forgetting something, but I think if any jobs I've had or applied to paid exactly minimum they were probably very short assignments through temp agencies. Where obviously their client is paying a lot more.
This is kind of like a fiscal cliff.
Where can I buy a copy of Windows for my new MacBook Air?
Why is this #1 on HN? Just because of the high-profile URL? The project itself seems really basic, or am I missing something? Also there's a bug when search query contains a space...

I don't mean to come off as super negative. I hate how the Internet is so overly critical. And Twitter is just the worst. I'm seriously asking if I'm missing something. THanks!
I don't think GMO crops can survive droughts: they still need water.
Well I'm not sure this will help from a business perspective but here it goes: my father is reaching 65 and he's retiring in a year or so. He's an electronics engineer (and I'm a comp. eng). He doesn't want to stop working, so an idea is to buy a small, cheap, country side property (around 20000m2) to grow easy crops and have a relaxed but active lifestyle. I'll learn some stuff to help him have an easier time managing said crops (sensors for soil check etc) so I'm looking for DIY easy stuff or cheap things.
| There's some fuckery afoot.

Not really. Inflation is one culprit. And housing is already about the cheapest thing you can buy by weight. Housing isn't more expensive. Wages are less. If the money printer would stop for a few years, the price of housing would stop dead at that moment too.
"No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems -- of which getting elected and re-elected are No. 1 and No. 2. Whatever is No. 3 is far behind". - Thomas Sowell
If you're in the US, Google claims that they own it (even in California, where local law means they can only do so if it "Relate[s] at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer" - they asserted ownership of a Linux driver I wrote on my own time for hardware produced by a company that went out of business before Google even existed).

Google's actually better than many though - there's a process to release your code under an open source license (although with Google's copyright), you can contribute patches to third party open source projects without additional permission (again, under Google's copyright), and you can request that Google assign copyright for a personal project back to you. My understanding is that Apple basically forbid all of this outright. I'm not sure what the situation is at Amazon or Netflix.
Seems he survived twenty years at Apple (till 2009)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenbereskin/?originalSubdomain=c...
Main note: if you work full time you must be able to afford a child. It's a basic human need and absolute requirement for the future of country and economy. Developed countries like the USA and Japan are going into a crisis where there will be no workforce to pay for large aged population who can't work. Due to young people putting off having kids because they are desperate.
The arcade machines in actual Japanese arcades are pretty fair, at face value at least. Though the prizes are typically not worth as much.