skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea is that two people on an average London wage should be able to afford to live in an average home in London. The truth is they can - if they can get the deposit together (which is trivial if you have parents you can live with for a couple of years, but if you've moved to London for work and your family lives 300 miles away your deposit savings go on rent). Perhaps they can't live in the most desirable parts of Chelsea, but there are affordable houses in the London area for a couple of 41k each.

Personally if I had to work in London, I'd look at buying a 2 bed house somewhere like Leighton Buzzard (30m Euston), Gravesend (22m St Pancras), Tonbridge (35m London Bridge), for about 250k.
They compared across breeds ("51 dogs of various breeds", 9 of which were pugs or 'small' [1]), but some breeds are... dumb as hell. I'm skeptical the statement holds across all breeds. My friend's pug will run full speed into a wall for no apparent reason, hardly the most perceptive of creatures.

1. https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...
> you'd be crazy to live in London when there are far more reasonable places to live just half an hour out of a one 1 station and far far less cost

How much cheaper would it be? I've just moved to London (living in zone 2, going a bit further didn't strike me as much cheaper).
If I look at EU legislation (not only GDPR but in general) then it seems that the needle of public opinion with respect to privacy is already there and well known to the legislators.

A problem for places like USA is that the legislators are unwilling to regulate against the interest of big companies unless the needle of public opinion is very, very, very strong to the point of it becoming the primary issue (which IMHO is not going to happen, privacy is important but there are and will be other priorities as well) - but if we're simply looking at the preferences of the population, then the public opinion is already there.
So we can just make more. We simply have to spend a prohibitive amount of money and some time that’s longer than the current election cycle.
Refreshing to see this conversation play out while the silicon valley neoliberals are fast asleep. I want this in my city. People in my life are struggling to keep up with housing prices. It's obscene.
Nah, I just meant it as a humorous reference to the well-known cognitive blackhole properties of TV Tropes.
> an investor that does not live in their property can rent out it whole

There's a flip side to this. An investor that does not live in their property doesn't care about the property as a place to live. So...

> If a house can fit 5 people that means a living space for 5 students.

But what actually happens these days is the house gets renovated to turn those 5 living spaces into 8 or 10. Students don't have any leverage on the market, so investors will densify houses over time, until they health and safety limits, and then some (the rents, of course, don't drop proportionally). Not enough students anymore? Fortunately there's AirBnB now. What about people who actually want to settle in the area? Nah, they're too needy, literally the least efficient bunch to extract money from.

Elsewhere in the thread, some people say that the problem is with people who want to settle in expensive, wealthy cities. But perhaps the main reason those cities are expensive is because of property investment? That is, all those high salaries cancel out with high rents. Get rid of high rents, salaries may drop, but so do costs of living, and the whole market settles at a more approachable and sustainable level.
I mean surely they know this was coming?

Their marketing was starting to get to me as far as being the privacy company. I was really considering buying my first iphone. They had to know they were throwing all that marketing/effort down the drain.

There is no way they are going back on this. They will just wait out the collective short term memory to move on to something else. In a year this will just be normal. In 5 years all the other things that have been added to scan for will also just be normal.

For me, I am old and just accept we will live in an ever growing dystopian surveillance state. I am so grateful I was able to live my youth the way it was. If you are young? Yea, I have no answers.

May you live in interesting times? At least we have that going for us.
Yesterday I tried another project names 'docker-wine', my goal was to run Frontpage 98. It didn't work so well. I guess I'll have to run a Windows 98 in a VM..
No, it was just rhetoric to say that ANN do not work as the layman may expect, in the terms of "small children know about the permanence of formerly perceived objects, but ANN may not".
> It increasingly looks like we live in a region in the universe that happens to have a significantly lower density than the average in the visible universe. This area of underdensity which we live in has been called the “local hole”

that sounds really weird, if the cosmological principle is invalidated, does that mean that we have to reject the Copernican principle as well? the text seems to imply that there is something "special" about our location in the universe.
Young minds have less systematic tunnel vision.
Wish they'd do this in the town I'm residing, so many houses are vacant, it's really hard to find something to buy, its very annoying.
I recall a "meme" from USSR times that goes something like this:

Don't think.

If you think, don't speak.

If you speak, don't write.

If you write, don't sign.

If you think, speak, write and sign, don't be surprised.
I work as a scientist, and I never download pirated papers. Why? Mostly because I don't have to - almost all relevant papers are accessible to me straight up, either because the authors / publishers have made the paper available for free themselves or because I have access to the publication through my university's library.

But I am in Computer Science - I know that the situation is not at all the same in other disciplines.

I think if you want to be cited, it is kind of silly to publish at a venue where your paper is not immediately accessible - there's usually enough other papers to cite, so it's in your own interest to be available.

That said, regarding the original question ("why would anyone not do this"), I know from previous discussions here on HN that I'm part of a small minority, but I wouldn't do it because I find it unethical. There's lots of things that I wouldn't mind having / owning but I cannot afford them. Just because they might be available through non-official channels for free does not mean that using that option is the right thing to do.

In this line of thought, I also think it is irrelevant whether putting publicly funded research results behind a paywall is ethical on the publisher's side: two unethical acts don't make an ethical one.
Read the whole article, his tone changes.
Sometimes government, sometimes the individual. It’s a balancing act. My neighbor might think it’s in his best interest to dump toxic waste on his property because he needs/wants money. In this case, thankfully, government is there to look out for the benefit of society as a whole.
I guess this is only for new sales. The point is that there is plenty of people wanting to buy a home in Netherlands, they just can’t pay the same price as investors. With this law the seller will have to lower the price till some person who wants to live there can afford it
> It's owned by Amazon, but Amazon basically didn't touch it since the acquisition almost a decade ago.

This is a good thing. In the recent year they updated the design in subtle ways to make it nicer to use and less rough around the edges too which was a nice surprise.
I think, everybody forgets one thing with C OO systems - no matter how primitive or advanced they are, they integrate much easily with languages that are sharing C libraries, than e.g. C++. Take, for example, GObject [1] from glib.

C++ had, for a long time, problem mapping classes and objects in python or ruby, and usually, that was done via C wrappers and hacks. In recent years, things are a little better thanks to clang, but there are still tons of template hacks and C workarounds if you want portable code between compilers. Even then, you often rely on compiler specific stuff.

Other languages are much worse, so the only solution, frequently, is to use a virtual machine, like JVM or .NET.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GObject
11M is a big number. 3% isn't, that's actually pretty good; there's a tradeoff between vaccinating slower and not wasting doses.
The first three sentences of the abstract contradict your comment; the scientists started with a question, not an assumption.

>When dogs interact with humans, they often show appropriate reactions to human intentional action. But it is unclear from these everyday observations whether the dogs simply respond to the action outcomes or whether they are able to discriminate between different categories of actions. Are dogs able to distinguish intentional human actions from unintentional ones, even when the action outcomes are the same?

It is newsworthy because new evidence has been found.
Reminiscent of Ted Rall cartoons. But funnier.
> During my time in college there was a clear division: those who prioritized studying lived in the quiet rental apartments, those who prioritized socializing lived in the dorms :)

And I wonder who ended up better off :).

The longer I live, the more I realize that I made a mistake during my university years. I focused on learning where I should've been partying - because as it turns out, knowledge is the easy part. The hard part - and the important part - is building a network of friends and connections, which happens at parties, not in quiet rental apartments.
If you go with Oracle Cloud, you can get an 4-core, 24gb RAM aarch64 server for free. I've been using it for minecraft and it performs excellent, especially combined with PaperMC
The point is that before there existed an ecosystem. That “peanuts” is what the business owner was able to afford to pay which was enough for the employees to make a somewhat decent living. Now that isn’t possible anymore. The objection is to the change/disruption of a local ecosystem by outsiders.
This baker would not have sold a cake for a gay wedding to a straight person.

It was the cake, not the customer.
100% this. Collecting and validating data should be so easy that you don't have to think about it. Otherwise I find I can't stick to any solution/tool for too long. If discipline is required, then it's too complicated.

This is why I've started looking into tools which automate the data collection. In the UK (and EU more broadly), after Open Banking got introduced there are many apps popping out which basically connect to your accounts (Credit Cards, bank accounts, etc.) and combine all data into a single place. Does Plaid not enable this in the US?

It's not "100% accurate" but most enable you to do auto-categorisation, smart reporting and budgeting as well. They are not open-source but do much more than I'd ever be able to do with PTA (not because it's not supported but because it requires effort). Of the 2 bad solutions, they seem to be the less bad for me.

Some example apps: Emma, Yolt, Lumio.
I'm not sure society is going to break down if a few empty rich investor properties actually get used.
The commenter's point was, I think, sarcastic; the average member of the public thinks of themselves as qualitively different from animals, and indeed our ethical systems are built around that.
What's the deal with landlord hate?

If I buy a lawnmower, pool, or whatever else and rent it out you all are ok with that.

If I buy a house and rent it out suddenly I'm an "enemy of the people".
Way too long of a post, I don't care your position anymore and maintain mine.
Judging by the actual pace(not hyped version), self-driving vehicles should be coming around then.
> Banks don’t get to create money

Literally every loan a bank gives out is mostly made up on the spot, everywhere in the world.

In some countries, banks are subject to reserve requirements — typically from fractions of a percent to some percents of their liabilities to depositors. Basically: banks need to cover the savings of people.

In the UK (and many other countries), this is not the case; banks are not required to have cash on hand in relation to their liabilities to depositors.

Instead, they are subject to capital requirements, which means they need to have sufficient equities (cash, securities, other financial instruments) with sufficient liquidity in relation to their risk-weighted assets (credit and loans). In effect: banks need to cover the investments of the investors.
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ALiBi – Train Short, Test Long: Attention with Linear Biases [video]
Question for the crowd: any time I’ve heard somebody say the name of this project out loud (e.g. history videos) they’ve said “em-kay ultra”, but wouldn’t it be “mark ultra” like how “MK2” gets read as “mark two”?

Same with post-Snowden discussions of “XKEYSCORE” / “ex-keyscore” / “cross-keyscore”, like how the “X button” on a playstation controller is actually the “cross button”: https://twitter.com/playstationuk/status/1169651442027827200...
"ML-based FSD is a dead end, always has been from the beginning"

To be fair, Google's (Waymo's) FSD is most definitely not fully ML-based, and afaik neither is Tesla's. Sure some people may speak like that's the case, but the technical approaches these companies take are not so naive.
ML News – Blind Chess AI Competition – Graph NNs for Traffic [video]
Don't know about EU in general.. but my articles published in Springer is open access with the German initiative DEAL. I don't know if that counts as open access as the German government is the one paying for it.
This seems like a bug, even a security relevant one?

The article doesn't talk about it, but I probably would have at least tried to report this to Google - maybe the Author did as such and just didn't write about it.
It is not clear that these measures will reduce actual criminal activities in the first place.

Then, same as anyone can plant heroin in your apartment, anyone can plant "evidence" on your iPhone. Possession laws are extremely dangerous. In the simplest case, someone sends you a spam with an attachment that ends up on iCloud.

Physical problems need to be addressed at the physical level, even if that means that the authorities have to get up from their comfortable chairs again and have to stop staring at monitors.
New yorker
Nyt
Harpers

There are tons

The nyt has stories that are just beyond

When you think of the amount of resources they need to pour into a single feature story not even a story story

Its beyond

Then you realize well at least they're using some of that bajillions in subscriber revenue to get real stories

You still have to wade past dumbass Paul krugman and their nazi writers

But thats the cost of finding the good stuff unfortunately

You could prob filter out the nazis/opinions if you made an effort
I think there is a distinction we can make here. What sets anti-debugging apart is not denying something -- after all, the point of cryptography is to make things impossible for adversaries -- but whom does it serve. In the case of anti-debugging it serves the manufacturer and third parties first, and user only gets secondary or tertiary benefits. Whereas things like full-disk encryption or encrypted messaging serve the user first. (Of course, not all crypto serves the user: imagine using MPC to bypass the Fourth Amendment protections.)
A straight couple could purchase a cake for a gay wedding.

And the baker wouldn’t have sold it to them.

Therefore the baker is not discriminating against gay people.

The baker won’t sell cakes for gay weddings to anyone, regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation.
> By suppressing easy-to-detect errors and passing through only the hard-to-detect errors, rigid type enforcement can actually make it more difficult to find and fix bugs.

I don't follow the logic here. If a more rigid type system produces an error, wouldn't that surface the error, not suppress it? What am I missing?
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They might be referencing the two shots you get to be considered vaccinated in this context?
Depends how often you need to be in London,

2 bed terrace, £270k https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/111488087

40 minutes to Fenchurch Street (little less for Docklands), £65 per week//£2600 per year.

2 bed 230k https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/112846073

22 minutes to St Pancras, £127 per week//5k per year

If you can get a 2 bed house that close to central London at those prices that's great.
> I'm a senior engineer, my wife is a neurologist, we are currently not able to afford a pretty normal house in the city.

I don’t understand why people think having a certain job means it’s more of a travesty that they can’t get a house.

Everyone should be able to get a house. Whatever your jobs are is irrelevant.
More like your suppliers can’t keep up with changing (increasing) demand. A bit like the chip factories that caused this whole thread :)
I used to have access to papers via my university, but I never used that access. The UX of scihub is infinitely better. Anything else just added unnecessary friction to my research process.
What do you mean? Just use a git repository as a source, but you may as well create a hashed folder containing your source files, but that is not the primary function of nix.
Agreed though probably not with everything in your list, but it is true that it's the hype, typically originating from the executives of giant corporations that are capable of buying small startups in bulk. That's the source of some good things and some bullshit too. Then the investors follow suit, fund startups that can be potentially acquired and it doesn't even matter to them whether the thing works or not.
Wastage is bad obviously, but 3% is pretty good. I've heard it's at or below the wastage for similar drugs.
The main challenge for fsd tech is they do not have the tech that a human naturally has, anticipation, hearing, interpretation, all integrated into vision, we see good at dusk, daylight, dawn, night to a degree, we know how to deal with rain and snow and ice.
In other words, humans don't need a human fallback system like the self driving systems do.

The thing that self driving systems can do, lane keeping and stop and go traffic in a straight line could be done by a human Hild within a few hours of training, less if it's an auto gear box.

The fsd software is plain infantile compared to a human driver, it might keep a lane better than a human who does not have any business driving a car in the first place(blind, on drugs, sleepy , alcohol).

In the beginning, cars didn't have good brakes or suspensions and that led to accidents as well, but once cars where road safe, it didn't take humans long to accumulate the driving skills.
In Europe, people get a driver's licence after 12-30 observed hours of driving practice and a theory test and are deemed road worthy, it works more or less.
Fsd tech is now 10years old with God knows how many dev hours and collected data behind it and no hope for full fsd on the horizon anytime soon.

It's quite simple, if machines were better, they would have replaced humans, but the human brain and body is quite far more sophisticated than any of these fsd systems.
Sure, for some tasks, machines are better suited and the change has happened.

Call me authoritarian or whatever, I would prohibit the sale of these systems for the time being.
If the companies want to raise money for it, do it, don't charge the buyers upfront. And most importantly, don't release your beta ware to the streets where my kids are walking or are in another car. I didn't sign up for this last time I checked. The regulatory bodies are suspiciously quiet on the matter(slow is normal).
A whitelist approach should be deployed, hell, in most of Europe, if you change as much as an exhaust system or use tinted windows, or different wheels, it's illegal unless there are homologation papers.
Maybe they will go to smaller metropolitan area instead?
There are plenty of people starving in the UK. Food banks can't keep up with demand. There are also the "new homeless" who once had stable jobs but are now part of the gig economy. Some are out on the street but most are couch surfing somewhere.
*her mentor :)

Source: https://ewintang.com/
I'd argue that if the gun is shown to lead the audience on, but it not beeing fired is a twist to the plot or a relevant conclusion, then in the sense of the metaphor it still "has gone off"
Housing vacancy is essentially a red herring when it comes to the housing crisis. Vacancy rates are still low overall, and reducing vacant housing would barely make a dent in the issue. The real issue is that there isn't enough supply for a given level of demand (i.e. how many people there are who do or would like to live there). Cities have added way more people than they've added housing units over the past several decades.
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To expand on my particular use case for Azure CosmosDB, I have a Python web app built with FastAPI. I find it super convenient to dump Pydantic data models of our primary domain objects to JSON and save them into Cosmos, tagged with the model name.

Then on rereading the Cosmos records, my model registry automatically imports the required Pydantic model and reconstitutes the live Python object.
As it looks, it does not cost more than a couple dollars.
Advantages over sox?
HTB is a disastrous policy that did nothing but to increase the prices of properties.

People could borrow much more than they could because the government covered 40% in London and 20% outside of it.

Look at the new developments in London, the price is well just under the HTB limit for the handful of HTB flats, then there is the shared ownership racket too.

And commuting towns aren’t that cheaper either, and that is even before you account for the insane costs of rail passes.
The problem with HTB is that it sustains inflation. Essentially it subsidises continued property prices' growth, which, in my view, is rather nonsensical economically.

As for saving for a deposit, I think an issue is also that many people seem not to have been educated about the benefits of saving at all. Bluntly, many young people I see find the money for short term consumption and don't save anything.
But the "plan the vaccinations" doesn't happen in countries that are at a point where most people who can be bothered to make an appointment already got vaccinated and they rely on making it easily available for walk-ins in as many places as possible to reach the rest.
One of the really day-to-day useful uses of Boric Acid (I believe borax is also effective) is to add it in powdered form to shoes to kill any bacteria growth.

I started doing this a few years ago after watching a video from Big Clive where he mentioned it, and it has really made a difference. No more smelly shoes, socks or feet and no fungal growth.

Seems silly but living under the tropics and macerating in closed shoes all day does have these rather annoying side effects, and whatever shoes you wear, sweat and a warm environment are a breeding ground for bacteria.

Adding about half a teaspoon of powdered boric acid to each shoe at least a couple times a week makes a huge difference.

Best is in new shoes, they will smell like new even a couple of years later. I'm not even exaggerating when I say that at the end of a long day, socks only smell of fabric softener and feet smell of well, nothing.