skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having thought about this a while longer, I've changed my mind.

I don't really see any purpose in randomization, except anti-meritocracy pro-diversity. It is potentially excusable at the edges to account for the inherent noise of measurement (i.e. is 3.4 GPA really that different from 3.6 GPA) but there's no real reason that someone with 4 GPA shouldn't have a greater shot at admission than someone with 3.5 GPA.

Of course, if your distrust in GPA is so great that you oppose even that, then... what even the point of GPA in the first place? We should be working towards improving the metrics, not eliminating them.

But otherwise, this whole randomisation business is like, "Would you like to be operated on by the surgeon, or by the nurse? Oh, wait, let's flip a coin."
Just because the military establishment is capable to pool together some skills/resources to polish its public image doesn't mean another non-militaristic public service (in whatever definition of the term) couldn't achieve same or better results.
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Most people lack the 'hustle' needed to action any advice let alone boring advice.
Am i the only one to think that the 'id' trick is a plain Chrome devtool bug ?

Either the ids should be queried without side effect or not queried at all without a user action.

The second idea, using 'toString()' is well know and also works in other OO languages, Java, C#, etc.
As soon as you put the intelligence in AI this changes. It is easy to say that current AI systems are “dumb” (although note that the precise meaning of dumb has changed significantly over the last few decades). You can say that about any AI with sub-human intelligence. But if you reach human levels, you can likely reach super-human as well, so you need to start worrying much earlier.
Real life stories are never really done, any small detail can still eventually come back as a main feature.
It wouldn't be, if it did that. Fortunately it doesn't ignore those. In the US CPI calculation, housing has around 42% weight, medical care around 9%. Source: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/tables/relative-importance/2020.htm
Has it ever been possible to buy a house on minimum wage?
Unfortunately, the British press and all the wealthy people with second homes still have Brexit as a scapegoat for why cafes and shops in tourist destinations can't find staff. Never mind the fact that AirBNB and second homes have pushed up house prices and rents to the point that it's impossible to live there on the kind of pay those jobs have, according to the media it's all the fault of Brexit driving away the foreign workers who had to do the jobs because all the Brexit-voting morons who were brainwashed into blaming the EU are too lazy to do them.
Here is a video of what it's actually like to buy coffee with Bitcoin

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I learned German as a kid, but I forgot most of it when I started learning English in elementary.

Nowadays, (I'm living in the Balkans) I forgot words of my own language, and I (and most of my friends) mix English and my mother language quite often, creating a language similar to that in the "Clockwork Orange". Still don't know if that is a good thing or not. I'm trying to 're-learn' German and it is a lot harder than when I was a kid.

There is also a funny story about a baby in Serbia, whose first words were in English due to the media/cartoons the family gave to baby to watch.
> there are as many sides as there are people.

I think you are mistaken, many people completely align themselves with their ideology and the political camp they belong to. It's becoming very uncommon to voice a different opinion that is contrary to the "tribe" you belong to.
Try saying something good that Trump has done (could be anything, surely there must be something) to democrats and tell me how it went.
> spending time in South Kensington - walking back to hotel at night, only about 30% of houses had any lights on.

South Kensington is a bit of a curiosity.

It is predominantly bordered by Chelsea and Knightsbridge.

Chelsea is Russian country, if you are a wealthy Russian, Chelsea is the place to be. Unless you are a Russian oligarch, in which case there are one or two spots a bit further away where you can splash super serious cash on rarer properties.

Knightsbridge is wealthy Arab country, when it gets too hot in the Middle East summer, they flock to Knightsbridge with their imported Ferraris to stay in their London houses.

But South Kensington is a bit different. Its not attractive to the Russians or Arabs. Not many of the properties there remain single occupant, they've been mostly subdivided in to individual flats or re-purposed for office (or educational use ... there are lots of cram-schools, colleges and nurseries round there).
The main problem which this won't solve is the lack of space. There is a little land in NL so you can't grow endlessly and new districts would also put additional burden on infrastructure. People want to live close to major transport connections and/or big cities. You just can't build more and faster without considering the whole picture.
Durban, it’s chilled.

Recent riots don’t count :P
There are some very hard limits to taking students in too. You don't want to be a student after the covid induced decline in demand is over. Especially not if you are not from here. The regulation exempt SSH will put you in a room with another student or two and charge you 800 or so.
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Scarcity was always a problem. Even in 90s and early 00s there was a lot of posters about housing shortage. But prices we’re rather stable. In a healthy housing market, you expect the property values to not grow over real interest rate. Which was the case back then.
Unfortunately not available for purchase anywhere right now. But yeah, were it available I'd probably nabbed one. So, thanks for the suggestions! I'll keep an eye out in the future.
Why should they fold if no government outlaws it.
Wouldn't a land value tax encourage urban sprawling ?

Current ubran policies in the western world, coupled with the normalization of remote working already do this to some extent.
Real estate investors buying existing properties, without substantial capital investment into upgrades/renovations, are exactly the same as concert ticket scalpers. Their business is of little benefit to society.
It seems like a hit piece to me. Nothing is compared to other brain drains that happen through out the global economy. In the EU system places like Prague and Tallinn have grown and reasonable amounts of money comes back with retirees in Europe. In countries with greater wealth inequality how do the brain drains play out?
The point is that real risk is unevenly spread to quoting a stat like that is meaningless
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On the whole, they have no one to blame but themselves - they voted to join, and no one is even trying to leave like the UK did.

They can organize a referendum and leave.

That's unlikely to work for the same reason the US went down the shitter - by now too many voters, but especially all significant political parties, are addicted to various EU handouts. Everyone thinks their chance of stealing more through redistribution are better than striking out on their own.

This will go on until it can't. Which will likely be when next crisis of confidence strikes one of the deadbeat eurozone countries.
This is my story too.
Unfortunately “community barbecues” oftentimes meant “barbecues with people who are exactly like me and who think exactly like I do”, an attitude which has had a pretty corrosive effect on democracy in the near past.
This sounds like a reasonable trade off which doesn’t hVe the risk of uprooting people from their primary residence.
I may be wrong, but all I have seen "federated" resembles one of the worst and most harmful websites ever created (twitter), which is really disappointing and disgusting.
Likewise, the "blockchain" scene talks about innovation all day but the bulk of their creation is boring and dated, recreating the banking/finance scene using new tech with minor changes.
Back in the day, people thought machine guns would produce peace!
There's a history of violent protests and riots about housing in Amsterdam, and a slogan "Geen woning, geen kroning" (No house, no coronation):

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

>Amsterdam coronation riots

>The Amsterdam coronation riots (Dutch: Kroningsoproer) refers to major violence and rioting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on the day of the accession of Queen Beatrix, 30 April 1980. It was one of the biggest episodes of such disturbances in the country since the end of World War II and the most significant event of the Dutch squatters' movement (Krakersrellen).

>Since the 1960s and the 1970s, squatting had become common in Amsterdam to protest the city's shortage of housing. Many of the protesters were youngsters of the baby boomer generation. The 1980 riots were precended by the Nieuwmarkt Riots in 1975 and the Vondelstraat Riots in March 1980, when authorities heavily responded to evict squatters from properties in the city.
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Please try to be more specific and accurate, as you're essentially making sweeping generalizations, while moving goalposts. It's hard to know what is hyperbole, and what do you actually mean and believe. One cannot finitely argue against a changing topic.

> Every bit of plant matter we ship off our farms in the form of food is carbon and nitrogen that is no longer in our soils.

Do you concede this¹ is false?

To be clear, I completely agree the vast majority of agriculture is extractive. What I think we're discussing is whether (or how much) growing crops must necessarily be extractive.

As I think I've said, I agree it's dishonest accounting to include imported plant matter in regenerative farming². Either way, it only reflects on current practices, as do comments about peat. Your experiences and failures, or those of your neighbors only speak of the inadequacies of specific methods. Comments about oil and plastic bear no sway in the topic at hand.

I specifically take issue with the claim that carbon is a soil resource that must be depleted when growing substantial amounts of food. Yes, when taking away crops, we (necessarily) remove nutrients, and some may necessarily require replenishing, but they are not carbon (or even nitrogen).

Carbon it is in fact one of few resources that comes from thin air, and plants can absorb (fix) it by themselves. Forests show that plants can fix CO₂, in substantial quantities. Conversely, forest mining shows carbon is released when you destroy the soil.

When farming, carbon is the one resource that is not industrially added to the soil³. Most of the carbon is in fact burned, either biologically or physically and cannot be returned.

As specific counter-example, in a discussion of soil regeneration, I've read claims of an inch of topsoil growth per year. Whatever they were doing or supplementing, I don't think they⁴ trucked in an inch of carbon/topsoil per year. Are you claiming it's impossible?

¹ As in, it was not present in soil, as your original claim seems to be.

² Imported matter does seem a good and legitimate way to quicken the process of soil regeneration, if it then becomes net-producing.

³ Carbon is only added in small, non-replenishing quantities, or small areas, not materially changing the carbon balance by itself.

⁴ I'm aware there are those that do repeatedly truck-in an inch of topsoil.
Your first point is a misleading anecdote given there's actually data on this. The amount of empty homes in London is at a historical low [1]. Broadly, cities with the highest amount of empty homes tend to have the most affordable housing, because obviously that indicates there's more than enough housing to go round.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/jX1OpmS.png
Yes, depending on where you buy. Many homes are much cheaper outside of major cities.
GPT-3 is better than everything what was achieved so far in multiple metrics, though yes, it's of course not an "intelligence".

However, this is ignoring possible future developments - things may get better and more advanced and that's what AI-safety people are concerned about.
Yes. I even knew welfare recepients who bought a property while on welfare.

Pepperidge farms remembers.
How is this different from closed source software, which constitutes the overwhelming majority of the industry?
I'm not a fan of the whole crypto hype. But I disagree. I think crypto in general is an imperfect solution to a variety of different problems.
There were about 30 rich people who got scammed on tulips and that's it. That's the whole story. The end. They barely lost any money.
The problem is that it gets harder and harder for normal people to own anything ( build up wealth), while building wealth is the best retirement startegy there is.

This is the problem in a nutshell! It’s impossible for houses to continue to be great “wealth building” vehicles and for them be affordable. Politicians have prioritized the former and that’s how we got where we are.

If we want affordable housing for people to live in they can’t also be the universal investment vehicle. Those two objectives are in direct contradiction.
I haven’t gotten around to implementing such functionality. Although I wish I could monetise it, right now it’s just a hobby project and don’t put much work into it.
No, why? The science is mostly funded by public institutions. Academic research belongs to all of us as a civilization.
I do not understand your comment, as it started off sounding like there was a downside of renting vs owning, but then later on in the paragraph, you say that the risks of not being able to pay rent and not being able to pay a mortgage result in the same consequences during an economic downturn.

> Because when the economy tanks and you lose your job, you have to sell your stocks at the low point to make rent.

You should have an emergency fund so that you do not have to sell at the low point. I try to keep at least 24 months of expenses.

In the US, the government also offers a federal taxpayer subsidy in the form of lending people money with no money down or 5% down or some ridiculous scheme advertised as helping lower income people. On the contrary, this simply increases home prices and over leverages them since they will barely make monthly payments and any hiccup will derail them.
how is land value tax any different from a property tax that all homeowners already pay?

If anything, it might end up being lower tax on residential housing, and much higher on commercial/retail.
America fixed it's British Colony issue by doing just that.
Okay, but.. there are good open source drivers too. I am actually incredulous - do you _prefer_ to use proprietary drivers, given a choice? Proprietary drivers are often locked to certain kernels, so this means you can't get updates.
> They buy them and then rent out, thus increasing the supply.

That doesn't increase supply. I'm really not sure how middlemen skimming money could increase supply since that should push the supply curve to the left.

> If the house gets bought by a family, that family moves in, so 3 out of 5 spots are now occupied, leaving only 2 available for rent.

And the family moved in from somewhere else, leaving you with three spots in that some other place plus two spots in the new place, so you have 5 places for students regardless. Not sure why you think this changes something.

The optimal solution is obviously to fix the dorm system. It's well organized, cheap, and space efficient - at least in my country, at about half the price of renting your own place. Surely my backwards country is not more capable than the Dutch in this respect.
Well, this is exactly why it's the open source. You can build everything yourself, check the scripts etc. At the end of the day all these tools are intended to help people find issues as early as possible.
Sorry Devon. Don't feel bad, we all have photos like those. I have worse photos than yours for sure. Welcome to HN.

> You should apologize to everybody by your flagrant misconduct, and promise that you will not do it again, blah, blah, the fires of hell, blah, blah, cancel culture, blah, blah...

Hem, nope. That would feel like being in a cult. I'm free, adult and able to stand my own ground, not a ticktoddler easy to impress to follow the brilliant lights. "Promise that would not do it again [something that you opinate but has annoyed me]" looks totally like returning to witch hunt, public humiliations of dissidents, and totalitarism. Is not acceptable.

[By the way, I kindly suggest you not to use the passive aggressive mode with me. I don't have a lot of patience anymore with this people and those that tried the trick before felt my burnt to the root. Be happy].
That really depends on the used SOC, or how well its hardware features are supported under Linux, by non-BLOBs, preferrably.

Anything MARVELL should mostly do, usually. But that's not the cheapest segment anymore, so the people are hurting themselves by buying the common plastic trash. Or use DD-WRT instead of OpenWRT, because they give a shit about binary-blobs and integrate that however they see fit, because they prefer to be able to use everything the hardware supports, instead of having an almost brick running open-source.
> I think crypto in general is an imperfect solution to a variety of different problems.

Would you mind enumerating what these problems are, and how blockchain solves them?
No, and there are drivers who prefer quiet passengers. Those preferences usually make themselves apparent after some opening sentences. It's still important to acknowledge the human serving you by engaging for at least a few minutes.
Also, sometimes entire movies are made about some of these "inconsequential" details much later. If a gun appears in scene one, but only goes off in the sequel, are we in violation of this rule?
I don’t get the thing with the ID attribute. Why doesn’t the browser engine query it as soon as the div is created in the DOM tree? Otherwise getElementById wouldn’t work.
How would it encourage urban sprawling?
I moved here years ago and was having doubts if it's the right time to buy at these insane property prices. A coworker said "I know some people who've been holding out for fair housing prices since 1949, they are still waiting".
If you think the only logical conclusion of law enforcement is incarceration, then I feel bad for you and your country.
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This would lead to a steep collapse of property prices and force new homeowners who have just scraped together enough for a deposit into negative equity. This would drive a lot of anger against it (all amplified by the media/ultrawealthy who would be furious too) even if it were the right thing to do long term.

The only time I could see this happening would be in the case the value of the dollar fell off a cliff due to externally triggered emergency.
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Oh, I know! We can give them the land for free, but instead we get to collect a tax on their produce. Of course they cannot leave this arrangement without immediately paying for all the land.

I think we can call these people serfs.