skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>- Property prices have shot up 10% during the pandemic, bolstered in part by the Government cutting stamp duty on sales.

Something that is hard to understand is how taxes influence the price of homes and land. People have a fixed budget. The rule of thumb is that they will spend at most 30% of their income on housing. Popular cities usually have an inrush of educated people getting high paying jobs. The existing residents see their % rise beyond 30% as a result but the rule of thumb still applies.

When you have a fixed budget then adding more taxes won't lead to spending more, it means the government siphons money off the purchase of the home. That money cannot be used to purchase homes. When people talk about how taxes make housing expensive they are dead wrong.
Taxation does not change your budget. When the government drops taxes on housing what happens is that a bigger chunk of the budget is being used for actually purchasing housing rather than paying taxes. This means house prices will rise and you will not be better or worse off than before. However, the rise in home prices fuels speculation. People buy houses expecting that they go up. The reduction in taxes created a gap and speculators simply insert themselves in that gap and take their profits.

The problem isn't the speculation in itself but rather the expectation that housing will always go up. It's not only investors that want to make money. Homeowners see an opportunity to create a big gap by voting for restrictive zoning or making new construction a legal minefield. The real problems begin when even grandma and her dog are speculating.
I’m adding this to my business card.
“Ransomware Negotiator”
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It's the externalities of the consumption - the waste left for everyone else to deal with that should be taxed. That tax should occur where the decision to create the waste is made. The responsibility should be on the producer of the product, not at the point of sale.

Additionally, the accumulation of capital should be taxed since it creates leverage that is used to easily make more capital passively (that is redistribution of wealth, which if you are for that then just say so instead of concocting arguments to achieve this ulterior motive). Capital gains tax is one way of approaching that. Even after this increase, the tax is still lower than most peoples working income tax.
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"That doesn't mean race doesn't exist"

Exactly, although not in the traditional sense. There are many many overlapping genetic aspects in humans; We subdivide for political or social reasons, not strictly biological ones. To make the height comparison more fair, it would be as if we divided people into "bigs" or "littles" arbitrarily and formed political parties around it, etc. Height is one biological aspect and even then what is "tall" is subjective.

For example, the US viewpoint of white or black(~=african) is a relatively recent way of looking at race. People don't slot neatly into X or Y buckets.

I recommend reading the wikipedia article on Race [0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization)
Good point regarding batteries
>I really doubt people want to seduce sexbots in a public park

Have you watched the show? It's "public", but it's so huge that the guest concentration closer to rural town than disney world.
Wait how many companies are actually using R in the wild? As I understand it, R is born of academia, great for statistics/analysis but breaks down on data manipulation and isn't used in production/data engineering. Maybe my understanding is dated though?
Pretty impressive performance. It seems web assembly is pretty good tech for writing a performant web app. Is there any benchmark comparing web assembly vs javascript? I mean the same logic executed by javascript code vs the web assembly.

Also curious to know if there are any serious web apps developed using web assembly.
You say this like it's some kind of benefit to the girl in question... IMO seems far more likely to lead to increased harassment and negative outcomes, rather than being a positive.
Is the compute module <4 still viable?
How so? It's normal for incompatible versions to get parallel installations.
This is so true. The other day I spent a good 10 minutes trying to upgrade a gem to > 2.3 when it was already at 2.11
That and Wheelock's Latin are the main book recommendations. Other than that, there are a bunch of subreddits and a large discord which might be nice if you want to get some daily active practice in (including voice chat). Or just see if there are any courses running near you - active training can be handy, but the style of course is very country-specific - every country has their own tradition for teaching Latin (or multiple), and the style/goal may not suit you.

It's super low-effort, but I had fun with the (modern) light novellas by Andrew Olympi and kin - in some sense they're too easy above a certain level and made me over-confident in a way that was damaging to my confidence when I looked at actual classical latin texts, on the other hand it's nice to just be able to pick up a small book and read some beginner-level Latin without requiring any effort/strain.

[ note: I've only been learning Latin for about a year, with very mixed success - I'm very much a beginner still and can't read any classical texts with any fluency/comfort, nor write without a dictionary to help with inflections ]
At the risk of sounding like an idiot, why doesn't this happen when you point two flashlights at each other? Or point a flashlight at the sun? Or when light from one star reaches another? Etc etc.
“That’s victim blaming”

And?

In this case the victims are enabling a whole cottage industry of crime.
Where are they? Making salaries beyond most people’s imaginations. And many honestly believe that “just” enabling communication and engagement can’t be a bad thing.
Current satellite and hotspots can be made to work. Netflix is not actually a necessity for modern life. But it does mean compromises. Hopefully some combination of StarLink and 5G will be able to better fill-in for lack of wired broadband than we have today.

Also, while there are certainly very rural areas in the US, most of "flyover" country is not actually in the 100+ miles from a grocery store, Walmart, or hospital category.
> And on the server front, which I'm sure is what's keeping them in business now, they face an existential threat in the form of ARM.

HPC and inertia. Lots of inertia.
> Considering the head start they had on most of the world and the vaccine supplies this can't be described as anything other than a complete and utter failure on all levels.

That's probably why the GP comment described it as "their"(our) maximum vaccination percentage. The vaccine and virus have both been politicized too much, and too many people are obstinately refusing it as a result.
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The older I get, the cleaner I want my code to be. Reading code is the best way to prevent bugs. If the code is strewn with error handling ceremony then it's hard to get to the essence of what the code is doing, and it makes it more likely that bugs will go unnoticed.
> 'Aliens' visiting Earth would immediately categorize us into groups very crudely resembling the grouping we use today, because our visible characteristics are the most immediately obvious artifacts of our existence.

An alien taxonomist, perhaps.

We humans go "bug! whale! snake! cow!" most of the time even for species found here on our own planet.
Define 'commutable distance', because to me that means 30-40 minutes door to door.

Hitchin is 33 minutes to Kings Cross on Thameslink and I could definitely do my commute from Hitchin station in ~50 minutes, which is roughly 10 minutes more than it takes me from Zone 3, door to door, now.

If you look around on RightMove, 2 bed flats going near Hitchin station (Purwell) are ~£335K and a 20 minute walk away, so my commute would be up to 70 minutes.

Then factor in that you're dropping £5K/year for a season ticket (roughly the equivalent to adding ~£100K to your mortgage at current interest rates), giving up a lot socially, still don't have a garden, still have a pokey little flat, is it worth it?

I respect your life choices, but it's not for me.

> People seem to think they have some sort of God-given right to live in central London.

I think anyone earning in the top 2% should be able to do this, yes. After all, central London contains 2.3% of the UK population. If they're all at the top then by definition it should be possible.

In any case, I don't want to get too personal. My partner works all over London also so being in London makes sense for us. I also respect that this is a nationwide issue affecting a lot of people worse off than me.
Oh my!

I’ve often seen rates given by banks with at least one extra digit and wondered why.

It never occurred to me it was a marketing ploy.
Just like all the other FAANG-ites do, six figure salaries.

I'll admit it, I'd also toss my ethics to the side for that kind of money. Hell, I'd do it for half of that, some people out there would for less, even.
>What do you use for mail/calendar and file sharing? O365?

At $WORK, we use O365 (I use Apple Mail & Calendar for my clients)

My primary customer is 100% O365 (no alternative clients allowed (but I'm running their VDI...so... )

I also use Gmail for personal stuff (again, with Apple Mail & Calendar as clients)

For file sharing ... there's a combination of O365/OneDrive (because of VDI constraints, I have to sign-in to OneDrive every time I login to my primary customer's network), iCloud, Dropbox, etc
Step 2 just isn't happening, at nowhere near the levels necessary.

Instead people are investing in housing as a "store of value" against inflation, maybe not even renting it out and just hoping it appreciates. This is driving prices sky-high.

Meanwhile local politicians and boomers support NIMBYism and oppose all housing developments, leading to a massive shortage in housing. Landlords love this as it increases the value of their properties, and developers don't care as they can sell the fewer houses they build for greater profit.

Whilst at the same time national leaders support mass immigration leading to a huge increase in demand.

Overall this rewards property owners and hurts working people and the economy (when people can't easily move to economically active areas, and have less disposable income). Ultimately harming social mobility and destroying faith in capitalism and private property as a whole (it becomes to resemble feudalism, destroying the idea that you can work hard and have a good life).
> ...an even stronger indicator is that the Biden administration seems to have asked two multi-decade long FDA vaccine approval experts to resign following them authoring this report saying that the evidence didn't support the widespread use of boosters as a public health measure.

What you stated did not occur.

What did happen was that the FDA and CDC got into a procedural slap-fight, and because the CDC gave advice first and the White House signaled public acceptance of that advice before the FDA's panel had a chance to finish two people resigned in protest.

Let's break down why the post above is erroneous:

- "Biden administration seems to have asked" no factual basis.

- "authoring this report" they never authorized a report, that's what they were protesting.

- "report saying that the evidence didn't support the widespread use of boosters" since the FDA's Office of Vaccines Research and Review hasn't published a report you cannot state what is in the report.

What did occur is that the two resigning panelists published a review in The Lancet[0] where they essentially said they felt more data was needed to approve boosters and that the WH approval on the CDC's recommendation was premature (although they also said their view may not match the FDA's view as a whole so YMMV what the final FDA report says).

By the way I actually agree with the two FDA panelists on this one, and think the WH jumped the gun. But regardless of my feelings the "Biden had vaccine experts resign to push through the booster" comment above is problematic.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/health/fda-coronavirus-bo...
An antiviral drug used to treat HIV may be effective against Coronavirus
> Facebook just makes it super easy for people to become obsessed with something by "connecting" with it.

“Just”? I would say this is plenty enough. And this is done willingly. So is it their fault ? Yes (not exclusively though)
They will do it. The 100-year-CCP discourse of Xi clearly stated that he wants CCP to be self-sufficient. He will simply take control of all the West assets in China once he considers that the West cannot do anything against the takeover.

West: in the sense everything but China.
Poop, gentlemen. The bulk matter is poop.
It's like that when I buy a bottle of whisky right now!

And because you can live in it, and don't pay anyone to do so.
I don't blame Facebook (or Twitter, or any particular company) for this.

We can only blame scale. Some things are much more scalable than others, and "beauty" scales. And the "occurrence of beauty" does, too.

Before the advent of scale on almost every aspect of our lives, a local musician or theatre group found easy income.

Now, since after the invention of gramophones, more people can listen to less and less musicians, i.e. numerically.

One movie is seen across the world and then millions of times on streaming services, while your local theatre group starves.

Just like that, before, some people were considered more beautiful than others as it is done now. But one beautiful girl could only make, say, 20 girls jealous and anxious.

Now, with the advent of Instagram, and internet-driven scale in general, one beautiful girl makes 20,000 girls jealous. So the anxiety and jealousy is numeracally widespread. This is where beauty scales.

Also, before, one average looking girl felt threatened by the beauty of one beautiful girl in her area. Now, there is the "feed", where she sees hundred girls more beautiful than her. This would not have been statistically possible in earlier times. This is where "occurrence of beauty" scales. Where, hundred years ago, a girl would see maybe 3-4 girls better looking than her, now she sees 300.

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- I don't believe in a set standard of beauty. I don't believe that beauty is objective either. In this comment, I use "beauty", "beautiful", etc. as a short and logistically convenient way to represent "perceived beauty", "seemingly beautiful", etc. I hope this won't be an issue.

- I am also aware of other sources of anxiety, one simply being money- money buys new clothes more frequently, and people in new clothes and/or makeup look more pretty. Cosmetic surgery is in similar line. Here what scales is display of wealth.

- Filters, editing, etc. also might play a big part. People know this. Hence the popularity of the "Instagram vs. Real Life" meme format.
does your flashlight emit gamma rays
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Agree. Third pounder does not exactly roll off the tongue.
Not sure what style of accounting shows that profit, but it's very possible to be massively cash flow negative and still earn a profit on your balance sheet.

While I wouldn't expect most startups to be cash flow positive after year 1, I would expect most businesses report a profit on their balance sheet. Maybe not tech startups where it's hard to put a dollar figure on what 2/3 of a viable application is worth, but when you're buying things like tractors and land which are easy to value you should do pretty well.

Investing in real estate and farm equipment won't hurt the balance sheet nearly as much as it hurts your checkbook
It’s biologically defined the same way as height is biologically defined, and socially defined the same way as ”tall” (180cm+) is defined.
Running fine on Firefox on Mac OS
Much higher compared to adults? I don’t see it. Younger brains having a harder time breaking out of addiction than adults? I don’t see that either.
Mozilla does really love to milk "Open source" and "free" for Firefox marketing. How about about if they actually gave users what they wanted?
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/571022-to-boost-or-no...

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/31/biden-booster-plan-...

https://endpts.com/breaking-in-a-major-blow-to-vaccine-effor...

These are authors of this report.
What is their business model? This is far from first space debris cleanup company, but regardless of their technical capabilities, all of them are useless until the regulations introduce a requirement for the launch providers and satellite owners to clean their mess.
https://www.textkit.com/greek-latin-forum/

For spoken Latin, there are Corderii colloquia, which are also made into an
audio book.
40-year old dead architectures like Android on 64-bit ARM?[1] Pointer tagging isn't that rare, and as memory expands in practice I'd expect we might even end up wanting >64-bit systems to allow for >48-bit real address spaces and/or >16-bit tags.

The C standard means you don't have to care that there might actually be 2^8 NULL pointers since you're running on ARM with Top Byte Ignore in use.

[1]https://source.android.com/devices/tech/debug/tagged-pointer...
Avoiding something completely can have very negative outcomes long term and can spur massive relapses if enough tension builds up. Realistically one would want to learn to be mindful, do things in moderation, etc...

Harder said than done though.
Admitting reality and statistics into conversations about race is forbidden on the left for an obvious reason.

It would require them to admit two faults they’re unable to —

1. Blacks have been destroyed by the welfare state and it’s the fault of the modern left that the black community is worse off than a few generations ago; and,

2. The reason they talk about things before 1980 is that because since then, the left has purposefully engaged in organized hate against Whites and Asians, in education and employment — and further have encouraged racial privilege, such as avowed racist Nick Cannon being celebrated in Hollywood.

The left can’t talk facts about race because facts don’t fit their narrative.
Interesting that this summary states "[t]he paper comes from Prof. Max Tegmark at MIT’s Department of Physics" and later refers to "the author." There are in fact two authors and the lead author (i.e. the one who most likely did the bulk of research and writing) is Samantha D’Alonzo. Is this bias from unite.ai?
A big shout out to those institutes and universities that teach FP in intro to programming(CS 101). FP is the foundation for computer science theory.
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That and in practice, tiles aren't found in dimensions of 26.25 cm, but 20, 25 or 30 cm.

Calculations with those numbers are trivial to make, and when they aren't trivial those numbers are also easier to type on a calculator than fractions.
This is an error on two counts: it conflates a spectrum on a single qualiry with spectra across multiple qualities, and it presumes the existence of people who are the “most” of their race (the way that there is a tallest and a shortest person). The first isn’t what race is, and the second is absurd.
WHGs next.
That’s gotta be one of the most useless science illustration I’ve seen. Surely they intended to also show the rhinoviruses in the right image, but never got around to it?
It’s easy to use the simplest possible stack on a personal project. You set the requirements and you will probably end up setting requirements that work with that stack.

On a professional level, the requirements may mostly be for a basic CRUD app but it will have a few requirements for interactive or real-time features that are not possible with a static html crud app. The client is not going to want to hear your hacker news spiel about how JavaScript has ruined the internet. Now you’ve got to embed mini SPAs into your static html, and you’ve increased the complexity past what it would have been had you just used a SPA in the first place.
>Post a study where totals are not separated by age / gender even though thats the claim.

Sloppy job.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/israel-detects-link-...
To me it looks amazing, and I was literally about to adopt it in one of my open source Rust-based projects, but then I realized that the Rust version (and only the Rust version) is restrictively licensed under the Parity Public License [1].

I want my open source project to be able to be used in commercial applications, and don't want any of my dependencies' licenses to restrict that.

[1]: https://github.com/kdl-org/kdl-rs/blob/87f836134c1d901ff5ce6...
The average middle class house has more luxury than kings of old available.

Billions of humans died before we got where we are.

I don’t really see a reason to a) push each other as hard as we do; that hard for incremental linear economic gains inequitably distributed? To gain even more minor improvement? Haha b) see the need to do perform harder as much more than a chemical delusion

Billionaires got there by gaming biology, not building the entirety of society. I’d be a billionaire if I had a network of sycophants telling everyone I’m a billionaire too.

Our culture has jumped the shark. I look forward to the bubble bursting.
> Won't a proton/antiproton annihilation also create two photons?

I expect it would make a lot more than just two photons.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilation#Proton%E2%80%93an...

> If so, wouldn't that also work in reverse?

It would have to be demonstrated.
XScale was an awesome processor. Not only was it competitive, but it was 100% completely open and documented.
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I've had painful job searches where I nearly succumbed to despair. Reading Bob Firestone's writings on the subject turned my psychology around

https://job-interview-answers.com/

I have no fear of job interviews anymore.

For me a good side project "changes my life" in about 18 months. For my current project, I started out printing anime characters on a cheap inkjet printer and soon it was art reproductions, then photos I took. I realized I couldn't give them away without explaining where the images came from so I started adding a QR code that links to a "web side" and invented the "three sided card".

Somebody asked me to explain my motivation for choosing images and when I thought about it, 90% of my thinking was about the system itself and the needs of the system. Sometimes today I feel the cards work through me, just because I practice so much when the opportunity arises I can take 70 square inches of vacant space and make it mine.

That's what a "life changing" side project looks like to me and it's how hard you have to throw yourself at it and even possibly lose yourself.
It's not a surprise that race effects how someone looks. It doesn't take a genius to see things like different colored skin, different nose, or height differences...

The question is what about the looks of a chest X-ray are connected to race. I agree with the research here, it's non obvious what is being extracted by the AI.

If I had to guess, maybe something about the quality of the scan itself. Perhaps one race was scanned at one particular hospital, vs a different hospital scanning a different race. Then it's just picking out the different scanner.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/world/covid-cases.h...
looking at the map above tells me people in rich western countries are dying from covid at 2-8x rates of people in the developing countries with some exceptions(Brazil, Peru, Mexico). How on earth do you make any morality based policy calls based on this data?