skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any data to back that up ("significant effects on prices")? Otherwise it may just be news-hyped outrage mongering.
An ipo isn't the only way to exit successfully.
The Endless Facebook Apology
Had Cuba and Iran not been sanctioned it would have been a lot worse.
Immigration is likely a much larger driver of housing price increases than foreign ownership. Canada admits 300k immigrants per year, 2/3 of those are economic/skilled entrants who will be looking to buy property 3-5 years after arrival.
I lived in Vancouver for 6 years.

> Nice, this will curb the unacceptably high 4% of home buyers who are foreign who are definitely responsible for driving the market prices up.

These 4% are driving up prices of the most elite real estate, and crowding out rich elite upper-middle-class Canadians, who invest in real estate, and live in big cities (read Toronto, and Vancouver.) That's the real problem for them.

So, these unacceptably high 4% is mostly visible on West Georgia, and Cambie, and then DT Vancouver, and Toronto.

Most people unhappy about it are rich recent immigrants wanting to buy a house themselves. Please make a distinction in between migrants with Canadian passport, or PR, and foreign buyers without any relationship to the country.
> An amateur can, with care, skill and some money, work to microns.

I love how you can start with really rough tools (like wood and stone tools), and iteratively create more and more accurate tools, to the point of rivaling commercial tools.
Both New Zealand and Finland have very low population density. UK and France have 10 times more people per square mile.
Like Protonmail, but less sketch.

https://tutanota.com/
yelp is shifting their engineering office to canada for the cheap talent and friendly immigration laws.
If all companies do this, then interviewing at 5 companies eats 5 weeks of time.
Having worked in telemedicine, it is extremely susceptible to fraud. One examples in one of my old clients is that "family members" of the actual patient would call in vs the patient themselves. Sometimes drug seekers, sometimes good-intentioned wives pretending to be their husband because the husband himself was too stubborn or ashamed to seek out care directly (happened with older patients with constipation). We generally would have the MD call back and demand to speak to the patient directly.

The loosening of the telemedicine reimbursements during COVID were necessary due to lockdowns but even at the time when they were happening, it was in the back of my head that this was going to correspond with an uptick in fraud.

Sobering and rehab centers are NOTORIOUS for being hotbeds of fraud, reminds me of the recent case of a chain of them in Los Angeles where a provider stole over $175 million.

https://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/owner-los-angeles...
I like Eleven Table Tennis in VR. I am still fat but I believe it has helped my cardio a bit.

There are also a ton of other things on Quest that are great for a workout. I stick with table tennis because it's the most fun for me and so more sustainable as a habit.
Europe and China are much more naturally aligned in not wanting to see Russia as a dominant military power. Review the history of the cold war if reference is needed.
Why Rust for this application, though? You don't really need to be "close to the metal" in the frontend (and there's wasm overhead in any case), so it seems like it'd be better to go with something a bit higher-level, with GC etc, rather than fight with the borrow checker.
If there are no people on board, couldn't the air pressure be boosted to match the external water pressure?

If the pressure is balanced, removing the need for a pressure hull, the sub could have a more rectangular cross section, allowing it to be packed full of regular shipping containers.
Yes, and not to say, Canada grants PR, or Citizenship very fast. 2-4 years in most cases.
Open Sourcing Metaflow, Netflix's Machine Learning Platform
I'm not expert is any of this, but what worries me is that political pressures, conflicts of interest, profit motives, rushed timelines, experts who have misled to get a reaction, and many studies with either short terms or small sample sizes are making it so that the average person has no idea what to believe.
I am currently not set up to read RSS feeds, but I want to set up Newsboat [1] for a machine connected to a real VT terminal and RSSMii [2] for my Wii connected to my tv.

https://newsboat.org/

https://wiibrew.org/wiki/RSSMii
Waterloo mourns the loss of Dean Pearl Sullivan (2020)
Elasticsearch is famous for slow indexing. This is basically because it is trading off slow indexing for fast search later.

And data to be indexed was incredibly complex and rich. So every detail of every car you own, family member information, addresses, phone numbers, emails, identification documents, details of your contracts, and so on.
You have the same problem with fire fighters. If you want a quick response time you need to have trained people that can be deployed quickly in the case of a fire.

The solution is neither to have full time employed 3-4 people every 5 miles, nor to accept multiple hours of response time for someone to drive all the way from the nearest station. Some might think air travel solves it but even that would generally too slow when minutes can be the difference between a managed fire and an out of control fire. Instead what we have is people who get paid to be stand-by and are positioned close enough that if they get a call they will deploy and be at the area within reasonable time, but who otherwise have an regular job like being a farmer. It not optimal but it is distinctly faster compared to the alternative.

This is actually the model used for animal control in rural areas. The person being hired is generally a local hunter (ie, many who are farmers themselves) who gotten some training and hopefully get some compensation when there is call. If a car hits an animal and you need someone to track the wounded animal down, it would most likely be a local hunter.

I am honestly a bit surprised by the attitude in this thread and how this model is not more well known.
> Is it really practical?

Not sure. One application would be the last stage of a robotic manipulator (at the end of an arm), but I suspect it's really too big for that.
> The are very well aware of the fact that I am probably not able to handle this alone and let me know that they know the value of what would need to be done. The also acknowledged that the current pricing plan won't work for them and essentially they are willing to pay $$$$$$

IMO, if they want your product this much, they should have no problem paying you up front, at least enough to hire help. I'd only hire help on a contract / temporary basis, because this whole deal could blow up in your face at any time, and because they are much larger than you, you can't do anything about it, even if you have a contract.

I wouldn't release source; too easy to steal and you have no leverage.

What I have often done with large customers (Ford, IBM, others) is to charge an hourly rate to help develop a project plan, including milestones with dates and payments you both agree on as well as acceptance criteria for each milestone. As you meet milestones, they pay you. That way if they decide to back out, you have at least been paid for the work that's been done.

Also make it clear in the contract that any work you do remains yours and they don't own anything.

Good luck!

A short PS: I have had billion dollar companies try to screw me over more than once, so plan for that possibility. Sometimes you can take a hard line - "Yes, you will honor our contract through blah, blah, blah. You can cancel it after that but not before." - and sometimes that works (it did for me once) and sometimes they just ignore you. Going after them legally is almost never practical, so don't think just because you have a contract, you are protected. Make your milestones short, like a month or two - no longer.

No, Ford and IBM never screwed me over. They were both great to work with.
"protecting existing long-term home owners" is another way of saying "reducing available supply" which is absolutely going to have an impact on prices.
I understand that this is the narrative, but show me what markets specifically. Even if ownership is 10%. That means 90% of homes that are bought and sold are NOT to foreigners.

The fact is that inflation has eroded away the value of $$ and houses that should cost $50,000 now cost $700k.
Well yes, there’s always been more desirable properties. Location, location, location, and now especially? SFH.
> but I wouldn't be shocked in the next 20-40 years to see free movement of trade and people between the US, Australia, and the UK.

I doubt that is going to happen for full free movement of people. I think Australia especially doesn't want to allow anyone from the US or the UK to move here. Professionals with degrees–doctors, nurses, lawyers, accountants, engineers, IT people, etc–I think the majority of Australians don't have a problem with that. But a flood of British retirees–or chavs–searching for sunny beaches?

I can foresee agreements to streamline the process of getting a visa for university-educated professionals and make it easier and simpler and faster, but I doubt Australia will want to agree to doing away with the selectivity and just allow anybody, even American or British unskilled labourers with no particular qualifications, to immigrate.
That is true, but someone could probably persuade me it's also for the greater good.
That’s something that the public would do. It’s not up to the corporations.

Govt says take that down, the company takes it down, public outrage ensues, govt takes a step back, the company brings it back.

The good thing about governments is that you actually pick the management. Even in not so democratic places it is common and acceptable to take down poor managers through any means.

With companies, you only can hope that the CEO is capable and ethical. That’s why it’s not OK for them to go extralegal. They are supposed to function within the law and their obligations are to the shareholders.
> Which country's citizen are not banned from traveling to the US? Russia!

That's technically true, but de-facto entering the US is almost impossible if you need a new/renewed visa - the US stopped issuing those in Russia, and even for people wealthy enough to fly to a different country to get a US visa, that is also nearly impossible with wait times of 6+months.
We shouldn’t downvote contrarian views in general, no matter how much we oppose them. Only when they get preachy or smarmy should we consider it.
Having few skyhigh priced McMansions on property listing just to fish out these 4% of rich foreign buyers definitely makes most realtors to put extra efforts to cater to them, and hold out on locals.

Having foreign buyers buy very so-so, if not shitty for the price houses with 20% 30% premiums is a story which many realtors in Vancouver can talk about.

Although, I admit, the root cause is still the understudy of housing in big, fast growing cities.
This is where DuckDuckGo shines. I never go to the YouTube homepage since I just search `thing i'm looking for!yt` and it takes me straight to the search results for "thing i'm looking for."

Granted, I've never watched much YouTube, but that curbs it even more.
I wonder why they didn't post the database to Github. That would have been very hard to block and data could then be exchanged p2p.
In 1000 years the religion is that Larry Wall invented the computer in three days.
I doubt they will use 95% uranium. [This guy](https://theconversation.com/how-do-nuclear-powered-submarine...) says it is about 50%. Still that is the level Iran is being sanctioned at.
No one is safe from degenerative leftist. Not even Tim Cook. It never ends.

"On Friday, Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, answered questions from workers in an all-staff meeting for the first time since the public surfacing of employee concerns over topics ranging from pay equity to whether the company should assert itself more on political matters like Texas’ restrictive abortion law."
The most newsworthy part is that it was approved for some, and that is in the headline.
> Let's not pretend that France is going to go to nuclear war to over these territories.

Who is going to conquer them?

And if someone tried, I think it is likely that other regional powers would help – Australia, New Zealand, the US – not for any great love of France, but rather because they'd see such a conquest as a threat to their own national security, so they'd want to help France out of self-interest.
As other have suggested, Nebula (https://github.com/slackhq/nebula) is pretty elegant. It has groups-based access built in which is extremely convenient.

You can bolt-on SSO fairly easily - just create a certificate signing service. I created https://github.com/unreality/nebula-mesh-admin in a weekend, so its fairly easy to add a SSO flow in.
I'm also using tutanota.
Don’t need data to prove basic economics at this point. The question left is, does it happen with enough frequency to be a major factor?

I’m not that familiar with the market in Vancouver, however they did pass a law regarding vacancy I believe. Perhaps a local could chime in on efficacy.
Thanks a lot for the feedback. I live near a traffic artery so I've always known there were trade-offs, but the frustration does mount after a while. My #1 beef is when the traffic is paused but you just missed the light change when you hit the ped xing button, and now it's not safe to rely on the light staying green while you dart across.
It’s so crazy, the government just has to get out of the way of developers and then the problem will just sort of solve itself. We are sitting on the biggest economic opportunity thinkable because there is 30+ years of pent up construction demand. Simply letting that happen would unlock so much prosperity for decades.
New Managed Prometheus
Show HN: Monitoring ProductHunt upvotes throughout the day
We launched on ProductHunt yesterday and when I was going to bed, I thought when I wake up I want to know what went on during the night! So I used my product to check every product's upvotes every 2 minutes and add it to a Google Sheet with a chart. You can see the result here.

Do you think I should turn this into a 1-click automation or maybe even a standalone product for ProductHunt makers? Do you know of any alternatives?
I support this! Curbs the transfer of dirty money by the robber barons in China.
You might try this paper (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673037.2020.1...). From the abstract:

“Using new data from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP), this paper provides a basis for an integrated account of the Canadian housing market in the last two decades. It shows how the housing markets in Vancouver and, to a lesser extent, Toronto have become de-coupled from local incomes due to significant flows of foreign capital.”

Regardless, is there a case to be made why a country should allow its housing supply to be treated as an investment vehicle, instead of the more beneficial purpose of housing its citizens? In cases like this, where a state’s obligation to the welfare of its people seems self-evident, the burden of proof is on you to to show that the massive and widespread foreign investment in real estate leading up to a housing affordability crisis somehow was not a factor.
This is such BS on so many levels.

First, how is this still an issue given affordable housing was his platform in 2015?

October 5, 2015
Infrastructure:
The Liberals want to invest $20 billion in public transit over 10 years, almost $20 billion more over 10 years for affordable housing, seniors’ facilities, early learning and recreational facilities; and $6 billion for green infrastructure over four years. They would also create various tax incentives and other programs to encourage the construction of both rental market and social housing.

Next, all this will do is encourage the use of "numbered corporations" to do the buying. How many homes in Canada are already owned this way?

use the existing anti-money laundering laws and stop the using Canada as a means to launder ill gotten gains.
Dunno 'bout you-all but for this US ex-pat, all the metric stuff is very much okay EXCEPT for them pesky Celsius degrees. After umpteen years, still doing mental conversions.
Geopolitically Europe is much more important to the US than Australia ever will be. If US wants to contain China technologically European cooperation is a must. Maybe this is a sign that they are giving up on that. Or this is just a short sighted move.
Pilot unions result in overpaid staff, forcing money from the rest of society’s pocket. During any airline downturn, the pilots always come out with minimal salary impact, even after substantial taxpayer bailouts. The press complain about airline executives keeping their million dollar salaries during a bailout, but never mention the thousands of pilots making $500k/year. Getting rid of the leverage of these parasitic taxi drivers would be good for society… except on the flights I’m on. Then I want two.
Percentage of the total market is not the issue. The issue would be percentage of sales. If a large chunk of them are foreign cash offers, this would have a massive impact.

Assuming they don’t work around it through straw purchasers…
> I'll feel that I have job security and a team that I will enjoy being part of for a long time

the sale is fairly orthogonal to how secure your job is. The team could change, leadership changes, etc, can cause your security to fail. It's merely a feeling of security.

So you're essentially buying (with a reduced salary) the feeling, but not the reality, of security. I would not make that trade, if i were in the same position.
What? By literal definition refactoring is fixing things without changing functionality...

> refactoring the old things we produced into the new technology stack.

You don't see how that could fix things?
I'm not saying the ban on foreign ownership will fix the housing problems, nor am I really disagreeing that the primary issue is just a lack of housing, and of course banning foreign ownership is an easy political target because foreigners don't vote.

But just because foreign ownership is only 4% doesn't mean it can't have a sizable impact on home prices. Prices are always set at the margins, and since foreign ownership, especially in Vancouver, is really treated as a "safe place for cash" from foreign buyers, it can cause prices that are out of whack with the intended purpose of a home as being place to live.

Also, when your primary use of a house is simply a store of value to park your cash, you're likely going to want to put it into areas that are already supply constrained, because that means the risk of prices falling is lower.
they also use this to jump to the head of the line for their PR.

https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=653...
And what percent of those are six months after their second dose? I expect Pfizer to have phase three booster trial data on hand before any significant portion of those people become eligible under the coming EUA.
Java exceptions build stacktrace at construct time, which makes for the fun fact that instantiating an exception is the majority of its cost. At least the last time I checked. Actually throwing it is some fifth of the cost.

This is relevant in the log-and-throw-e situations.
In case you weren't joking, no, that's not "better" at all. Even when it's about your own life at stake, and therefore an argument for overriding your decisions may have a better standing, you are still allowed to refuse treatment even if it comes from professional people that even took the (Hippocratic) oath to make your well-being a priority. Now let's get back to the personal computing and what's happening here with these forced updates, which is more akin to breaking and entering, when are not being authorized by the owner. How the hell did it come to this?
Well, let's hope this admission of a horrible mistake brings the 7 children back to life...
Unhook is a godsend. I'm still spending too much time on YT but at least I am not sucked in by the endless Algorithm of never ending videos.

Unhook for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...
Four percent can have a larger effect when combined with scarcity from other factors. This is just one constituency that comes last due to their lack of voice. And probably working as it should.
I had TAMU as my first system, in 1993 I think. I didn't have a very effective internet connection but managed to get a copy on a pile of floppies. After that, I maintained it for years by hand by updating from individual source packages (I remember the upgrade to ELF being quite painful).
Hoping for conflict.
I mean, that's how we got here. In the grand scheme the time from using rocks to make fire (flint) to putting electricity into thinking rocks (silicon) to throwing refined carbon into space was very short. Amateurs stacked on amateurs from only 1600 mothers ago!
I got the touring and it’s definitely nice. The problem is that you can’t replace the head unit since the Harmon Kardon speaker system needs an extra amplifier. That means I don’t have CarPlay. Makes me sad.

The ACC is a bit spiky. Could use some easing. But with everything on it’s not too bad in rush hour traffic when I don’t feel like taking the motorcycle out. Feet on the floor and it takes care of everything.
I think you're about ten steps ahead of where we are now - remember that _the Internet_ is not considered a utility, at least not in the US. How could we consider a capitalistically created internet property a utility when not even our publicly-funded Internet infrastructure is considered a utility?
Not much to lose. Very few interested in self hosting are probably the type who are going to pay anyway! :)

So worst case they help with the open source code or bug reports or they get sick of self hosting and pay (or use our hosted one for free).
“To what extent is defense spending about enabling upward redistr. of wealth?”
"You'll own nothing, and you'll be happy"
I got fascinated by this experiment and read the paper about it a while back.

To me it is haunting what it implies, on the other hand I also have to believe that humanity are not rats and are more capable smarter and able to reason in ways rats cannot.

Ultimately whenever I enocunter these apocalyptic Malthusian predictions I also try and remind myself that the original Malthus was wrong, so was everyone else that predicted the end of the world and collapse of society, thus this prediction is likely wrong as well.
My local dealer (pre-covid) had a deal where basically you paid $1000+ a month, and got your choice of which luxury vehicle you wanted. Swap em in and out like old school Netflix. No idea how successful it was, but I don't hear anything about it anymore.
Why did you leave? Money or fulfillment?
First east coast YC company to IPO?
Looking at the similar moves by politicians in the US (e.g, a package of bills to incentivize housing development by eliminating single-family zoning passed in California), Hong Kong (some measures to help people afford property by increasing land supply) and elsewhere, I can't help but think that the millennials are finally coming into their own as a political constituency.
They are using housing to jump the queue for immigration : https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=653...

it gives them a place to flee later in life. many of the houses bought by foreigners are vacant and have never been occupied.

For a gimps into this, look at Meng Wanzhou’s Vancouver mansions

How many mansions does a chinese national need in Vancouver?
Well it's in the name. It should only be your first 3-6 months of training.

After that, you can move on to a more sustainable style of programming.

The usual recommendations are one of Wendler's 5/3/1 programs, or maybe Hepburn style programs.

If you're interested in both cardio and strength, the first two Tactical Barbell books will show you how.