skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there any measures of what percent of those pre-2008 builds were speculative investments vs. occupant-owners? It reminds me of the scene in The Big Short when he knew the system was on a precipice of disaster when the a stripper was telling him about the multiple homes she owns.

It seems to me many bubbles are the result of speculation with easy credit and I’m not sure 2008 can be considered a “perturbation” instead of a correction.
10x isn't terrible, though, is it? Assuming 20% down on a mortgage, if you're frugal, you can save for a down payment in 4 or 5 years or so. Not ideal, of course, but not impossible. In some places in the US folks could save for a decade or more and still not be able to afford a down payment.
It’s almost like there’s an entire branch of government dominated by a minority of land holders
> And the difference between rent and mortgage as a monthly payment isn’t that far for same-lifestyle

That doesn't seem to be true in the Bay Area which has a very high buy/rent ratio because everyone expects housing here to be a great investment. The property tax alone on a townhouse can be higher than the rent on a similar apartment.

And property tax, mortgage interest, HOA fees/utilities like garbage and water, are pure expenses like rent, not investments.
People willing to sell and leave are happy to consider it. People who don't want to leave in the near term are very interested in keeping the riff-raff out and thus in fending off structural changes that would let you make a killing. Thus all the vetos that make it easy to keep your neighbors in line should they start thinking about that money. Accusations of greed destructive to the community are easy to level and rarely require much in the way of substantiation.

Upzoning is both a way for you to make a hefty chunk of change and an affordability issue. It's often more difficult to impugn the motives of people seeking to improve affordability, however.

Look at it in numbers, though. A million-dollar property on a large lot could become two duplexes, each unit $300k-$500k. Or a six or eight story building with multiple units on each floor. There's money to be made there for the likes of you and me. Neighbors who don't get a cut but want to keep the riff-raff away would like us to not consider it.
What's really sad is that XML had a much better ecosystem around this for ages. I'd very much rather deal with XQuery or even XSLT to construct build trees, than the current crop of ad-hoc YAML preprocessors. At least the XML stuff had a consistent type system underneath!
> while we have smart people working for the country who can do it ?

These are state governments, not federal. Very few state governments have pay grades high enough to attract even entry-level software engineers.
Earlier similar case with Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27622100
No. You don't get to simply declare we're on the same team if you're obviously trying to score points for the other side. In this case "the other side" is exclusivity and Gnome keeps doing it.

As a lawyer, I hate to inform you that the entire point of licenses is to put real teeth on ideas that people are likely to renege on. LIKE HERE.
> So they tell us nothing.

You should re-read my comment - I was inferring this was the case (to your point) based on the regional numbers. It's not perfect but it's indicative. I didn't have the time to dig into more data.

> If there were 10,000,000 jobs in NYC and 1 job in Kansas or 10,000,000 jobs in Kansas and one in NYC, the graphs would look the same.

These numbers are irrelevant anyway because they're always going to be correlated in some way to local population (thus per capita is important here)

You should also check housing prices in states like Kansas, they're all through the roof - https://www.zillow.com/ks/home-values/ - in other words people aren't magically leaving these places for major metros (people follow jobs).

Anyway took some digging but here is some data that explains it better:

https://balancingeverything.com/states-with-the-best-job-mar...

For example - Ohio has 231k openings compared to NY's 345k with a fraction of the overall population.

So, no, leaving a major metro doesn't mean there "aren't any jobs". Quite the opposite actually. This has been talked about endless in media for the last 12 months, so it's no surprise the data supports it.
Yeah this entirely. I had a 600 sq ft shoe box in a high-rise in a major city center for $1800/mo. My mortgage a mile and a half away on a 3000 sq ft house is $2000/mo.

I don’t even use half the rooms in my house and it’s still a way better deal. And no less convenient as I still have everything I really need within a 3-4 block radius. And my mortgage will only get cheaper over time — especially if we get a ton of inflation.
Yeah, good point regarding snapping on drop which would allow making the drop zone a little larger.

Drag selecting multiple pieces is interesting. If I add that, I think I would need a modifier key like shift or cmd/ctrl to differentiate between this and a background drag.
Unrelated to humanities, I have interacted with a large number of CS professors (in DS/ML to be specific), many who have no idea how to bring their nascent ideas to production or some sort of preview. Their research lives and dies on graphs & pretty PDFs for conferences. This is a serious problem & not exactly US specific. And honestly, it is pushed under the rug every single time.

The usual excuses that I find are handwaving, delegating to graduate students or 'left as an exercise to the interested'. As an ex-academic, I feel creating something is only part of the job. Making it usable is another beast.

Say for e.g. building an amazing StyleGAN to synthesize novel images. If you can't connect it to appspot/netlify - you are at the mercy of notebooks on Google Colab runtimes to demonstrate your work. Bringing a project to life also touches on several important factors - how to make users connect their own data, schema, preserving compute or bandwidth etc. Each of them is a small engineering optimization challenge by itself, which effectively also draws out lacunae in the research idea as a bonus.

I find it appalling and sad that a large number of tenured academics in CS will have no idea how to get something working end to end, while professing they are making you 'learn to fish rather than feeding you'.
Maybe less useful, but in fiction, Ted Chiang's 'Division by Zero'[1] is a fascinating window into a human response to such a discovery as Gödel's, because it's not /just/ about math. Major breakthroughs in theory often have deep philosophical consequences as well, and the ramifications can readily break whole worldviews for those who actually and acutely understand what they've found.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_by_Zero_(story)
Have you posted your thoughts anywhere online you could share? I'd like to read them just to get perspective of the other side
> The real problem as always is zoning.

If the real problem was always zoning, wouldn't dense cities like NYC and Shanghai be cheaper than average, not way over average?

> Check out Japan housing CPI - a market where supply meets demand thanks to federal zoning rules, and is also centrally banked.

Japan went through a huge bubble in the 1980s. Also, housing (the structures at least) rapidly depreciates in Japan, which prevents them from being used a speculative asset as in countries (even then they still went through a huge bubble in the 80s). It is definitely an alternative model to our own, but I'm not sure how many people will want to experiment with that. Japan also much more strictly restricts immigration than other countries, which makes it, for example, a bad place for Wenzhou house wife real estate speculation.
I think this argument gets confused because some people refer to it as an investment/asset while others refer to it in emotional terms as a means to pursue happiness. They aren’t always the same thing.
Actually, yes, I do. XML syntax was far from stellar, and much of the ecosystem (e.g. XML Schema) was drastically overengineered... but even so, we had gems like RELAX NG to compensate. On the whole, it was better than the current mess.
33% + 20% on all income over ~450k.

Ofc the average is less than this top marginal rate.

But it's quite the disincentive.
IMO businesses selling apps have dug their own grave in the customer relationship department. In the last 20 years I've only had 2 or 3 tech support experiences where someone helped me solve a problem I'd consider non-trivial.

Businesses have cost cut and devalued support so much that it's not worth having a relationship with them. They only want a sales relationship and you're on your own when it comes to support.

What does having a relationship with them get me as a customer?
> How many code reviews did you do(they count)?

A friend who works at Facebook was telling me recently that since he gets judged explicitly on the code review count, he feels like he needs to immediately drop everything when a code review comes in so he can get to it before someone else approves and it gets merged. As you might expect, he finds that very disruptive.
> Really nice book. It contains a very good description of arithmetization.

Which book? The one being reviewed? I can't read the whole article, so I might be missing some context.

EDIT: I didn't realize you were quoting an entire passage from Journey to the Edge of Reason. I thought it was from a part of TFA that was behind the paywall.
53% on all income over ~450k.

Do you agree with this? I don't. So I look at other options.
Some of this is ancedotal from a coworker who has a friend who works in a "support role" in silicon valley. That being something like the guy who keeps the AC going, janitor or working in a FAANG coffee shop. While there is some transportation, the issue is, some of this friends in this role, have to take a 1-2 hour commute (using public transit) since they have been priced out that far.
who's probably known better as Dr Ian Cuttress
I think he's saying that datacenters would not have water sprinklers and would instead use Halon fire extinguishers.

He's wrong and you/Wikipedia are right, BTW. Halons were banned in 1994, before datacenters became commonplace. Argon and other inert gas fire suppression systems (of which Halon is one, but a banned one) are used instead.
I'm far from an expert, but to me it seems that a way the little cores can help is by being more efficient (instructions-per-watt). Even in desktop CPUs there are power and thermal limits, and if the littles can take care of lower-priority tasks, the BIG cores can "Turbo Boost" higher and for longer while keeping the whole processor's power and thermal envelopes the same.
Right. I kind of think like this by default.
Im all for having a more robust ecosystem of shared vehicles. But it does make me think of the rough physical state of shared scooters and bikes in my neighborhood...
.1% of $10 billion is $10 million. His share would be .2%, so $20 million. But that's not factoring in any potential dilution.
I would argue that, in a data markup language, there shouldn't be a syntax for maps. Whether a given sequence should be treated as key-value pairs, and whether keys in that sequence are ordered or unordered, is something that is best defined by the schema, just like all other value types.
> It doesn't really matter if you add new stock at the top end or at the bottom end, people from the bottom move up, and make space at the bottom for new entrants.

Only if the old housing stock isn't torn down to make room for the new housing stock. Thankfully property taxes aren't driven in the potential value of land (rather, they are tied to actual value), but most small scale landlords of affordable housing right in it are in it for property appreciation, not rents. Their exit plans are often to sell to a developer as tear downs.

> This means they will only build the most profitable units, the high end today.

There are costs are too high (to acquire property and build) to justify anything but going after the highest end of the market. Once the high end is say satisfied, money (investment) could simply move away from housing if it can't make any money there. Money chases the highest returns between all of the markets, not just one market.
Killed the Boulder you wanted, which was not the Boulder that the people who actually live there want. If Boulder was actually dead, home buyers would not need to pay $1M to get a 1970s ranch.
Amen. And I think this much simplifies the research project to: Why are humans so arrogant? That seems much easier to answer with evolutionary biology.
Ay, cmon now.
I think we might "go to Mars" in the same way that we went to the moon. But yeah, there's nothing good out there for humans.
On the chart shown at your link, Fed-owned assets go from ~.8T to 2.5T (blue line, assuming the MBS (red line) are part of that.) and then grow as QE takes effect and the Fed buys all manner of things. That .8T was all US Treasuries, no longer true of the expanded balance sheet. If you look at the updated chart (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WSHOSHO), whatever you make of it, it doesn't look like much in the way of loans getting repaid. Whatever you want to say about loans being repaid, I think that the 1.5T (conservative number) that the Fed spent buying non-UST assets was then spent by the sellers on raising other asset prices not on paying down loans.
There’s already a solution to dark patterns: chargebacks. Apple probably makes it worse by taking this avenue away because if you try to chargeback apple they probably just suspend your account.
In the $35 to $70 million range. I don't want to be exact, so as to not identify the company.
Since they’re already in the space, they’ve already agreed to a lease. Maybe in 10 years when their lease is up for renewal, they can try to negotiate that, but it’s very unlikely they can do anything about it now.

The appropriate place to complain would be the landlord. TJ’s didn’t choose the parking vendor and likely has no say.
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I recently had to move to a Mac from windows at work. It's all propaganda, UX for macOS sucks. Apple doesn't know shit about a good UI. Despite the hardware shenanigans of windows 11 the UX was spot on. WSL2 on windows was a really good spot.

WTH should I need a 3rd party tool to do half decent window tile management?
As an additional note: I would love to see such a privacy-respecting third party exist. Ideally, they would collect nothing at all and exist via prepaid value.

Several years ago there was a company similar to this called UltimateGameCard - they were a neutral third party not associated with any publisher that strictly handled paid-in-store prepaid value PINs that collected no personal information and were partnered with dozens to hundreds of game publishers, and supported hundreds of different major games (and several software publishers).

They were available in almost every store, and using them required no privacy violations. Explicitly, their largest customer base were minors (like me at the time), and not collecting PII or even name made it great and a first choice for them.

The low incidence of fraud and inability to chargeback the company (cash only in hand; and you could still dispute the game publisher via the prepaid company to get value added back) resulted in extremely low fees, to the point where games would give you bonus value if you chose this instead of a credit card or other. They had contracts with basically every major publisher - Club Penguin, Runescape, Everquest, etc, and your funds were good almost every game you'd play.

They generally respected both sides of the market: you, a 12 year old, could ask customer service if you were genuinely ripped off or accidentally claimed too much value at a specific publisher but didn't use it yet, and they would treat you like an adult. The game publisher could refund the value if you didn't spend it yet, and not be hit with any form of chargeback or dispute fee or any increase in fees at all. And since it was paid in cash, if you were lying about it or just upset you failed your loot box gamble, you got nothing back. It was also more or less publisher contract based so random IAP trash couldn't just sign up and take money - all the big names were on this.

I would love a system like this again.
I’ve heard someone do exactly that before too! Always fun finding ways to break the rules :)

Others in here are suggesting snap on drop instead of auto snapping, which I’m strongly considering now.
The US isn't France and a set of transfers is a real solution. But I have no doubt that politicians will ignore the gravity of the situation to pander to their voter base. The huge cost of climate capture (likely 50% of our gdp) is probably a policy that won't pass the muster either. The fact is that it is far cheaper to reduce emissions today than try to capture emissions tomorrow.
A number of different factors that vary for people depending on circumstances. My wife is in nursing school. Sure, we could move to some rural town in Montana when she finishes, but its not reasonable if the closest hospital is 4 hours away. Some of the more affordable places just don't have good access to jobs people want or are qualified for.

I myself work full time and am going to school for Software Engineering. Right now job prospects in where I would like move don't look great since the last job fair I attended, I got the feeling most companies are planning to axe remote work ASAP. Which then limits my ability to move in the market place for jobs.
3. quietly accumulate crypto & default on debt. prepare for war. ;)
Is it necessary to turn off SIP to let Yabai do that?
If you're going to use XML, I would consider it mandatory to also use XSDs (W3C XML Schemas).

XSDs is something I think people need to pay more attention to when dealing with XML; the type system that the W3C XSD standard lays out (when used effectively) really does relieve much of the pain that people experience with XML.
My P&I, taxes, and insurance is less than what I paid for rent a few years ago. I get twice the square footage inside, private spaces outdoors, can make any modifications I want.

Meanwhile rents in the area increased 10% while my monthly went down due to refinancing. Taxes are only a small amount monthly overall so even if that doubled (it won't at least anytime soon) it wouldn't be as much of a change as the rental market.
Thanks. He's a few years more senior than a "new grad."
It is a common and understandable error to assume that the linear velocity should remain constant.

If the object goes in a circle, the radial force always acts perpendicular to the direction of motion, and cannot change the linear velocity of the object. The centripetal force does not do any work, the energy of the rotating body remains fixed.

But there is a subtle difference when one does pull the object closer to the axis. First, it is easy to notice that one does expend work. This energy must go somewhere, and there is nowhere else for it to go except into the kinetic energy of the moving object.

But how exactly is this energy transferred? If you think about it, when the object is pulled in, it no longer goes in a circle, but follows a spiral. Its velocity is no longer strictly perpendicular to the direction of the force. If you integrate this seemingly small effect, this is precisely what makes pulling on the sting to increase the velocity of the object.

Ignoring the mechanism, a formal calculation, from conservation of angular momentum or conservation of energy would immediately tell how much the linear velocity of the object would increase when it is pulled closer to the axis.
Yes, I'm curious about this too. How much dilution should be expected? Is there a way to think about this? (OP here.)
>How is it just that I be forced into exile because “the market” says so? I’ve done no wrong.

Capitalism. The market giveth and the market taketh away.

What is the alternative? Nativism? And at what point does a claim to a particular place start? Because I have bad news for most Americans...
It’s not a dog whistle - come on, that’s just an incredibly tired way to dismiss arguments one disagrees with by insinuating something sinister. People have a right to protect what they cherish and the communities they’ve helped build. The entitlement of others who want the same doesn’t justify weird and vague labels like “dog whistle”.

Also, NIMBY is a tired and dismissive pejorative. It’s just an ad hominem attack that is fashionable among “urbanists”.
Suppose someone wants to minimise the total risk of injury and death to themselves and their community.

Is your position the rational position for them to take?

What is the motivation for your position?
It sounds like all three of us are entirely aware that making ammonia requires hydrogen which comes from natural gas which releases CO2.

That's why I said it was unfortunate that ammonia comes from fossil fuels in the first place.
For most people it's both. There's a reason home ownership is often a component of "the American Dream".

Owning land and a house is a huge step in status and financial security. Owning a house is also a huge luxury. It's strange to deny either of these realities. Some people don't want luxuries, okay, but it should be clear that nearly everyone does.
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Starting to see more complaints about subsystems that Linux is not really in control of becoming more and more numerous.

Rumors seem to be that Oxide Computers is trying to make an OS to control many of these but I suspect the end result will be treating the case as a heterogeneous cluster. It's possible that these will continue acting cooperatively rather than anyone being under the misapprehension that they're actually 'in charge', but perhaps a different division of labor will give us some cool benefits.

Would still love to see SQLite or Postgres running directly on a storage subsystem.
People have answered your question but I'll add another aspect: It creates positive feedback loops. The poor get poorer because they have to live where lower paying jobs are. The "rich" get richer because only they can live where the higher paying jobs are. This isn't a society we want.
XSLT is an absolute horror and not something I would want to deal with again. It feels like some weird academic experiment in an XML declarative programming language that should never have made it to print.

If something needs the flexibility of a programming language, why not use a real one that's been well tested for writing other programs? These various config file programming systems always end up creating something notorious that everyone tries to avoid having to work on.
> interest payments from the mortgage can be directly compared with rent, but not the principle repayment portion of the mortgage.

You keep saying this but my mortgage payment for the past six years has been 0. And when I had a mortgage the payment always was comparable with the rent I was paying on a 2 bedroom apartment before buying the house. That apartment would never accommodate my family of four.

If renting works for you that's great, keep renting. But don't pretend it's because it is somehow cheaper than owning - it's not.
>> Or, we have built an Internet where fake/true things are eventually uncovered.

>> Do we have a baseline for how trustworthy print/TV media was before?

> Most people that have knowledge of a news story are often incredulous reading one due to incorrect framing or outright mistakes.

Which makes it even worse for Wikipedia that this kind of sources is explicitly the only kind it allows.