skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those without a Medium account, the article is also published on The Atlantic's site.

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2021/09/why-are-eb...
I'll take social housing over the homeless problem you get in countries without large social housing stock 100x.

Maybe some % of people just aren't going to break the cycle. I'd still rather they aren't homeless and causing decay on the streets.
I live in Florida and see black and dark brown tar shingles installed at least 95% of the time. I even live in a hurricane-prone area and it's surprisingly rare to see a metal roof installed.
And many of those roofing tiles will be burned at disposal, or in a house fire; Barium sulfide is poisonous - see carbothermal reduction.
Yes exactly. I was blown away (ahem) and instantly regretted my life choices, which until that point had not involved microns in any way shape or form.

The instrument readout looks like this: https://www.perfectionmachinery.com/assets/item/hires/40961_... except his had adjustable ranges. Every tick on that needle is one millionth of an inch - by comparison a red blood cell is about 40 millionths and the smallest bacteria is about 5 millionths long. This instrument has a read head connected with a cable, that has a finger on it that rests on the part under test. Under normal use you'd slide the part around under the finger to look for variations in thickness - obviously that requires and extremely flat surface to slide around on.
Is this the end of China's experiment with capitalism?
"rampant corporate ownership" - what exactly makes it "rampant"? It is just ownership.

I live in Berlin and for the most part, the houses really just sit there. They are not on a rampage or anything.
We used to have wars and bombings all the time. Now, we have a global economy and international cooperation in space.
Indeed, quite a number of countries don't have a concept of zoning at all, or nowhere near what it is in US.

Most of South Asia lives with nearly completely unregulated construction. Somebody just building a very narrow highrise on their townhouse plot is nothing unheard of, if not quite popular. Google Dhaka, or Karachi.

Most of China's villages near big cities in the south are chock full of self-constructed 5-10 storey apartments.

Wealthier South East Asian countries are starting to flex bureaucratic muscles on that, but I believe rather cautiously. A highrise flat, even completely illegally constructed, is way better than a slum, by any measure.
I can make a hundred million replicas of the original for 10 cents, this is not a preference.
Alternative link, might be easier to read here: https://nitter.net/shahidkamal/status/1436771192892018693
That’s exactly… the problem? Housing shouldn’t be an investment, for corporates nor the government.
I can't talk for all countries, but in Austria the cheapest alcohol you can buy is "Spiritus", and they add something to make it taste bitter. You can use it as fuel, for degreasing, cleaning, etc.

You can get pure, food grade ethanol at the pharmacy.
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Why would you be surprised that you get monkeys when you're paying peanuts?
I like this picture of the GAU-8 cannon outside of the plane, next to a VW bug. Gives a notion of scale that's hard to get in other pictures of the A10.

https://i.insider.com/579a52aa88e4a79f178bb61a?width=1200&fo...
Tempelhofer Feld is a green space where people can meet, exercise, and enjoy their free time without being expected to spend money. Berlin's green spaces is one of its strongest assets. Don't let that city turn into a concrete hell.

I'd much rather see Kleingarten disappear than public spaces.
But still running the A-10 is a good example of where that’s not true.
Or, you could simply allow private entities to build housing.

I am sure especially in those "hot" areas where prices are spiralling out of control, there is no shortage of entities with the "will" to build.

That is usually the point behind markets, rising prices give an incentive to increase supply.
> rent it at below market rates

if the gov't rents it out at "below market rates", a black market would form to take the arbitrage profits (legal or illegal).
Wow, this level of smugness must do great in vaxxer Facebook groups! Let’s just hope there’s no crossover with other religious groups because there might be a slight problem requiring religion to be consistent.
You can just use a simpler land tax system.

Owner occupier properties exempt. Investor owned properties X% per year.
It's a part of the City though. Not sure it's comparable.
Where does this policy of rotating people out of jobs come from? I saw what Rickover was describing at GE and the poor outcomes that result. Everyone had adapted to having new managers every two years...your new manager is always another "lifer." It created a thick layer of pessimism that was hidden from the managers that rotate in. Employees learned to just do what they are told and sit there with their hands folded if no one gives them "direction." They are resolved to the idea of managing a manager that does not know what is going on and never will. All the managers think they are hot shit.
I know some people living in apartments owned by the Berlin. Their experience with state-owned rental agencies is much better than most private landlords. FWIW.
This is inspiring morning reading for my study day. Seeing posts like this always motivates my note taking.
It's a dreadful irony that communist plattenbau now cost more than homes further West.
Many of the job roles in Tech don't need a CS degree. Such as QA, Program Manager, Document writer.
While I can't speak for Berlin specifically, I can say that in most places with very expensive housing this isn't true. You can see this because other problems tend to occur when housing gets very expensive:

- Overcrowding

- People being forced to move out of city centers

- Very long commute times to work

- Reduced fertility rates because people want more room for kids

All of these problems are due to insufficient housing and not just too high prices.
PDF uses postscript, which is Turing equivalent. It's a document format with the halting problem.
As mentioned, there are so many languages for music/synthesis. pd, csound, SuperCollider, max/msp.

I don't know how you can want this so bad an not run into these. I mean I had the csound book like 15-20 years ago.
Rampant:

(of something bad) getting worse quickly and in an uncontrolled way

<https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/rampant>
Sunscreen can measurably lower skin cancer risks even in cloudy weather.

It is recommended anytime you are outside when the sun is out.
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I don't follow your logic. In both cases, home ownership or rental, you need one house per interested party. Why should one be more expensive than the other?

And why should politics decide for people whether they should rent or buy, I mean, why push them in one direction or the other?
It matters where the money goes afterwards. If it goes to a local landlord that spends it in that same neighborhood, improving it, vs going into an REIT that will make their investors, and their board, several states away happy. This is an important distinction that between trickle down theory and practice. Getting one person to $100mm vs making 10 people $10mm-airs vs 100 people to be single digit millionaires? Matters a lot in the long run, for a lot of reasons.

We can't abolish rent-seeking entirely without overthrowing the whole system, so we have to realize that there are different shades of damage done by rent-seeking.
Even if it’s not an investment, housing will likely always have a price ratchet, so it’s still not terrible for the government.
Privatisation was seen as a cool thing 10-20 years ago.
Fake title. That is not a data leak.
There’s always real estate developers willing to build. The problem is that they never want to build affordable housing, only massively profitable housing. Also, an underlying problem is usually lack of land - a limited resource by nature.
> Giant Sequoias typically grow between 4000' - 8000' feet

Wow! I knew they were tall, but I had no idea they could grow to a mile and a half... and typically! ok, ok, jk. You meant elevation not height, to which the really tall ones may get over 300'.
Spoiler: a sharpie mark is about one ten-thousandth of an inch thick (depending on color, because size of the pigments!)

An interesting use of this bit of trivia: when machinists are trying to grind a block square, they may measure a slight deviation from 90 degrees - i.e. they see that each of the two opposite faces are parallel, but the angle they make is out of square. They have a parallelogram.

If you draw it, you can see that if they put it back on the grinder, and shim one edge of the face contacting the table, when they grind the opposite-to-the-table face they can bring it closer to square because they'll be grinding a wedge off the top face.

They use a quick swipe of a sharpie marker as a shim.
I first saw the Digital Press version of this book around 1975 or 1976. I was in detention in my math teacher's classroom, seventh grade. To say that it was influential would be an understatement, this book set me on the path.

I did not have access to a computer at the time, but my dad would type my hand-written programs in on a DEC-20 at his work and show me the results.
Ever since CrowdFlower (now Figure8) decided to terminate its SaaS-offering and focus only on enterprise, Amazon Mechanical Turk has been impossible to use.

CrowdFlower maintained statistics about the accuracy of individual workers. Additionally, they made it easy to include gold-standard "test" questions, which weeds out workers who are not doing the specific task correctly.

Without this sort of quality-control platform, mechanical turk is just unreliable crowdsourced-labor infrastructure. I understand that AWS doesn't want to build too much on the services they provide but, really, mechanical turk sucks.

I'm working with a researcher who is conducting experiments using turk, and he has a half-written shoddy version of what crowdflower offered. It seems that everyone using turk has to reinvent the wheel. Why can't someone provide decent quality control over turk results?
I don't know if I'm really the only one who shares an Amazon account with his significant other? My partner doesn't need Alexa to be notified what's on my wishlist ... she can just look it up. So blaming Alexa to spoil the secret is a bit ... hyperbole?
Satire :) My point is that we shouldn't let private companies act as the protectors of public safety, and should rely on the government systems that were originally designed for that purpose. If Tesla doesn't feel their software can be trusted by all of their drivers, then they shouldn't release it to any of them.
That's a good comment. A lot of people who give advice have never had to live through the long term consequences of their decisions. I have delivered systems that I thought were really well architected at the time but it turned there were a ton of problems and mistakes that cost us dearly years later.
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The quote from George Lucas about how the older versions of SW will be lost to time and the blueray will emerge as the canonical version reminds me of historical criticism of the New testament gospels.. we only have the four, other versions having been excised or otherwise just lost and the current gospels being borrowed from older lost texts
Not to mention, what happens when you get laid off or fired? Ejected from your company town?
I love titles. They're made up bullshit but people assign value to them.

If I meet someone with 8 years of experience that is not confident to tell me they're a senior engineer, I won't hire them.

If I meet someone with 2 years that tells me they're senior. I'll listen to what they say carefully and judge if they can do the job.

Titles are useful labels that compress a lot of info. It's not about how accurate they are, is about trying to differentiate quickly.
We must always remember that this is where the good developers first learned their craft.
I found it strange that the 4K77 summary page doesn’t mention the Harmy Despecialized project at all.
Vast amounts of barium sulfate are used to whiten paper, which is often burned, and no one worries about that.
Very false. It excels at close air support. Period. It's the main thing used in infantry skirmishes. It's incredibly nimble and precise compared to an AC-130. It's also very cheap.

I don't think you'll find anything more precise in terms of air support. You'd be surprised how low they go, and how close the pilot can get.

An MQ-9 is not going give much support, it's great for blowing up an innocent family like recently or proper assassinations, one off hits.

The support an AC-130 gives is immense, but it can't see everywhere and most of it's weapons are too close for some skirmishes.

Sometimes you do need a flying machine gun for those hard to reach areas.

The A-10 is the attachment suction tube on your vacuum. AC-130 would be the main vacuum itself. MQ-9 is the spot cleaner for before or after.
That was a helpful link. Could you give an example of a tenet you find more convincing?
Literally anything coming to kill you from the air is going to be demoralizing. I respect the concept of "the bigger boom" (the concept being that the person with the larger/scarier gun feels like they're winning, and the inverse that if the opponent has the larger/scarier gun you feel like you're losing), but I don't think we should rely on frightening the enemy into submission.
The only way for housing to keep rising at its current speeds is for buyers to spend a greater share of income on housing and for interest rates to fall.

Interest rates are near zero and individuals are spending very large portions of their income on housing. Continued expectations for high returns on housing will lead to hard landings/defaults or pathological cases where renters don’t pay rent and can’t be evicted.
Berlin has been a hot market for a long time, what's been built has been a lot of very expensive apartments. There is actually some leerstand but they are luxury apartments without renters. The biggest thing the market has achieved in Berlin is allowing landlords to rent out shitty apartments at abhorrent prices (25sqm at 600€) without incentive to actually provide good services for the renters
They probably mean that WSL was designed to promote Windows as “the best environment” to run Linux applications. (WSL1 did not even have Linux in it.)
In 2008 the state of North Rhine-Westphalia sold ~93,000 apartments for about 8,500€ each to Goldman Sachs. The reasoning was that the apartments were in bad shape and renovations would be expensive.

It's ridiculous how concerned politicians, especially conservatives, act now.

https://rp-online.de/nrw/panorama/leg-mieter-in-sorge_aid-11... (German)
Yes, the problem with those bare minimums is that they're imposed from rich people (legislative class) onto poor people.

This results in a cut-off point, below which you lose the security of a stable, regulated, lodging situation, and are instead forced to operate outside the protection of the law, into a variety of more or less precarious situations.

Everyone has different priorities and aspirations. I personally would have preferred securing a stable space, even if it's closet-sized, than carrying my luggage between temporary accommodations or sharing my living space with strangers. Some people prefer the later options. There's no fundamental reason the basic freedom of having agency over your living accommodations should be denied to those below a certain level of wealth.
It surely is already very expensive to leave an apartment empty as it is. There also seem to be special circumstances and laws in London.

But lets assume the worst, that it is all just pure evil capitalist speculation: even that is not necessarily bad. They try to anticipate future demand. So they anticipate that in the (near) future, somebody will need that apartment even more urgently than the people looking for housing right now. So it is better to keep it available for those people in the future. Think about keeping ICU units ready for future Covid patients for an analogy.

So what if the speculators are right, and the future buyers really have a higher need than the current ones?

Also I think if there really is just speculation, especially foreign investors, why not build cheap houses and sell them to the speculators for a lot of money? Nobody will ever live there (according to the anti-capitalists), anyway. Seems like a good way to make money for a country.
There are still more planes in the ocean than submarines: About 480 if I remember. But oceans are huge. What would be the correct ratio?

Besides, any nation which doesn’t have control of its airspace, oceans and now even higher and higher in space, is doomed to be controlled by those who have the higher control.
Definitely not the case in the EU.

You can buy it, but it'll be taxed like drinking alcohol.

However, I'm surprised that other alcohols (e.g. isopropanol) that don't suffer from this cannot be used instead of ethanol.
I mean... yeah, pretty much. A massive part of their funding is their search engine IIRC, so if they could make it bigger, they could certainly improve it. Mozilla's financials mean it's entirely reliant on that, basically.
Who exactly are you talking about?
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It's gotten way closer than even 5 years ago. I 'overpay' as an ex-pat in Berlin but my rent is within 10% of the average Munich rent (unless it's risen there recently as well) for a comparable place.
By that logic, the construction of housing by the private sector would never make rents drop either. There’s no difference whether the government or the private sector does it.
I wonder wouldn't it be just simpler to ban private land ownership in cities.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_Singapore

Relevant quote "In 2008, Singapore was lauded by the United Nations Habitat's State of the World's Cities report as the only slum-free city in the world"
Well yes, but who is dying, the vaccinated or the unvaccinated?
Or run the city into the ground, make it unattractive enough to repel the people who want to move there. That approach may even work out - Socialism succeeded doing that before already.
I was reacting to renting, not owning, being nickeled and dimed by modern corporate America.
(keep reading for a less cynical take)

As sold now, nearly all NFTs will end up being a poor investment. A write-off. Some people hope to get rich quick and will punt on pretty much anything.

Longer term, and several rebrands later there's potential here.

The digital economy as it curently stands is a shit-show. Just attention grabbing for money. A race to the bottom. But it needn't be so.

A digital economy based on assets rather than attention could eventually emerge.

Asset licencing may be sub-1 cent per copy. That'd be fine, when the necessary payment infrastructure is in place. High volume, high efficiency, low cost.

Put your money on the infrastructure. Get rich slow.
I'm having trouble finding it on their website but I watched a regenerative agricultural guy two days ago say ecosia was giving out grants to people like himself. He had a permanent polyculture of mostly food, not trees, but it was neat.
The best PDF bug is when the linker between the Adobe character value and the font/language is broken and you get random Unicode like values with no way to connect the two.

Infuriating.
If the Air Force truly wanted to transfer CAS to the Army, the legislation would have happened. They want it all but don't respect the CAS mission. They want fighters that look like fighters and bombers.
Obviously if you are sharing an account nothing is "private". Doesn't this go without saying?
They wanted to build just on a small stripe on the side of it, it is not as if they would have to fill the whole place with houses. But even that was shot down via "Volksentscheid".
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I love Joel.
I have read the The Cyclist's Training Bible 5 or 6 times and I haven't owned a bike in about 25 years.
Low tax rates for existing landowners are not the goal here; low rents for young people are what you want. One makes the city grow and thrive, the other just allows old or rich people to have big piles of money.

I said high quality housing, not crappy housing. No need to relax regulations or fiddle with zoning.
> Hearing the Brrrt of a flying gattling gun must be pretty demoralising for enemy troops though.

I guess that OP's point is that the AC130 not only has two Gatling guns but also a 40mm canon and a 105mm Howitzer.

Also, the AC130 can loiter longer, and doesn't require fly-bys to even be able to target. It just does pylon turns while showering a target with everything it has.

Given the alternatives, people have to ask what does the A-10 bring to the table, and the answer is hard to come by.
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both a and b involve paying more
> MQ-9s great at blowing up innocents

MQ-9s are a tool. They're a very useful/versatile tool for the military, which is why they're used a lot, even though they are easy to misuse and use unethically. We don't hear about A-10s killing people because they're not used for it because they're trash at it.
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If someone in my house is reading my notifications, is the device or the person to blame?
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What's next, muslims who eat pork won't be allowed to enter the prayer room? Funnily enough, being an arbiter of religiousness is blasphemy in islam.
Why? A company where one works, rents office space there. You rent an apartment. You can work for another company there, or move elsewhere.
Medical staff in the US also has much better pay than in European countries with a socialist health care system. And if you are insured, the costs don't matter that much.
Market crash soon.
I think people using Alexa and equivalents might need an explanation or two about privacy in general.
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This article quotes the price for Bitcoin in "2000". Along with a handful of other obvious errors, it makes me think that the editors at Yahoo News are "men who live in America without working"...
My point was they are great (and not so great) for planned assassinations. Not really for providing cover.

An A-10 pilot might even be close enough to see there are children in the car and abort. An MQ-9 you are much higher up and you are relying on intel mostly.
Seconding ProseMirror [1] as the least buggy editor implementation on top of contenteditable I’ve seen yet. It also supports JSON serialization and has plenty of support for complex custom pieces of content in the document.

The ProseMirror API is quite low-level-feeling for many use cases, however, and TipTap [2] is doing a good job of building a friendlier wrapper around it.

That said, neither of these are perfect and there are bugs here and there, especially on mobile devices, but they’re better than any other solution I’ve seen so far.

[1] https://prosemirror.net/

[2] https://tiptap.dev/
Those errors can also be considered and mitigated though, if one thinks about what could go wrong instead of only thinking about what exceptions can be thrown:

1. One must either encode the assumption into a precondition or transfer the incoming data into a sorted data structure. But the gist is to always validate assumptions.

2. RAII’s pretty good at handling resources. Then one can inject failures to test the error handling paths and combine with code coverage measurements.

3. That sounds like an issue in the wider system which may be handled in the subsystem under development assuming that it can throttle back its requests, drop them, etc. But it may just as well be handled in another part of the larger system. It belongs more to the architecture realm, but it’s absolutely possible to foresee such issues.
Agree. I don’t see the purpose or the point of these devices. The only place where voice control makes sense it’s in the car.