skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With a greater supply the clearing price will be lower. That's a trivial statement.

The real problem is elsewhere - by constraining supply landowners are inhibiting economic development. Newcomers have a choice, if accommodation is too high they'll go elsewhere, so economic growth in productive industries will take place elsewhere.

Man, not too long ago I shitcanned a new job 4 days in over the insane housing prices. A good number of my colleagues had a sideline in Airbnb, that asset inflation machine.

There's far too much capital sunk in real estate, where it could not be more unproductive.
In France making 100k a year (pre taxes) put you in the top 3% of income. In the US it's around 10%. It's a smaller gap than I expected, but on the other hand I don't know anyone that makes 100k after college. It seems like the answer for people not in the US is to go to the US, work 10 years and then come back in your country of origin.

Thanks for making this article and sharing all of that, it's precious information.
I think most of those scooters were destroyed in quick order in my town. I'm sure a bunch ended up in the river.
That graph, and "social mobility" analysis in general, shows the movement from low income to average. This is good for a country overall, but it's irrelevant to the discussion that people are having in this thread. Most people here are more interested in the median to rich movement. Unfortunately this movement is practically impossible in countries like Sweden and NL (for an employee).

Let's take a typical profile that HN users would be interested in, a top10% engineer working for a big company. This person would never become rich in NL, but almost always become rich in the US.
I can imagine such a world. It would be cable TV with heavy region locks. The poorer parts of the world wouldn't be on it at all.

Paying for things online is still a terrible experience. You need a credit card, which isn't always easy to get outside of the rich western countries. I would never have used websites like reddit, HN, Twitter, YouTube or Google if I had had to pay for it. As a kid I wouldn't have been able to pay even if I had wanted to.

>No more clickbait, "this video is sponsored by ShitVPN", chumboxes, etc.

No, you would have even more of this, because this type of monetization is not linked to cookies.
This doesn't directly concern you but how do people who transact in Bitcoin keep track of their tax obligations? When you buy Bitcoin for X and then the value goes up to Y you have to record the exchange rate that was used to pay the invoice and then include that in your tax return. It sounds really bureaucratic compared to paying off a credit card with Bitcoin.
Some Norwegian research (reported only in Norwegian IIRC) suggested that up to half was treatable using a strenuous fitness regime. Strenuous meaning one that involves considerable discipline on part of the patient and many working hours for the medical staff. This suggests to me that at least half of the fatigue is new and as as of today untreatable.

(Of course a few people will have happened to catch something that caused chronic fatigue at the same time as they caught covid, just by chance. Coincidences happen, sometimes.)
The lockdowns taught me how much money I was wasting each month. After the first month I had enough left in my bank account that I panicked and briefly thought I missed a mortgage payment or something. No, it just turned out that going to restaurants, bars, coffee shops, malls, etc., was just a lot more money than I was mentally tracking. I've completely cut them out of my life and have been putting an extra $700/mo into my Roth. It made me realize just how much of the economy is unnecessary and really just convenience-based, and largely invisible if you're engaged in the habitualized behavior. After looking at things through that lens, I just spend a heck of a lot less than I used to as I basically now categorize everything into "necessary" or "unnecessary." I don't see that changing. I now really enjoy cooking for family and friends and my freshly burr-ground coffee is perfect, every day, without a line.
Note that the intern in question was close to finishing their PhD in a related area.
I second that, my worst problem is spam filtering. The rest I have set up, except DKIM and DMARC which are not worth bothering with.
It's very easy to argue that Fed QE (aka 'money printing') had nothing to do with current inflation, just look at when the QE boom began, i.e. right after the 2008-2009 subprime-mortgage-fraud-triggered collapse. Inflation wasn't an issue througout the decade after that, it wasn't even mentioned in the analysis of QE at the time (2014) [1] nor does it show up in the data until this year[2]:

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-29227597

[2] https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infl...

So if the Fed dumping $4 trillion into the economy from 2009-2014 didn't jack up inflation then, what's the argument now? Sounds more like a basic supply and demand issue due to frail global supply chains, plus monopolistic price manipulation by centralized power in corporate America.
It sounds to me like you are describing a situation where supply is constrained, rather than one where the price is not set primarily by supply and demand.

I feel this distinction is important because it could guide whether the solution is based on encouraging more capital investment to do things like increase density, or whether the solution is essentially to ban outside investment.
You didn't explain how Socialism is worse, much worse. It might be but you assume we know this to be a fact? Many in the U.S look envious to the social support that is offered in European countries.

> and let the welfare to help those truly indeed

That's more like Socialism than Capitalism, that's for sure.

> use tax as a way to mitigate the gap

This is Capitalism?

> It's imperfect, but nobody has designed a perfect system yet.

You could just as well be defending Socialism with that comment.
The postcard copyright lawsuit, not the vandalism case.
I wouldn't call it completely painless when I tried it a few years ago. Compile times can be very long for some packages (try installing pandoc and all its required dependencies) and there were definitely a few package that just didn't work, though I don't remember which ones now.
wow, that's bad.

I don't know if the "trend is going in this direction", because I would never go to that gas station again after seeing that once. I'm sure most other people would too.
Love that game. Might play it again today after years and years. Glad I saw this post.
Just curious. How does live develop in such case? I mean working at a FAANG isn't that bad at all, even if you don't have to work any more. Love the idea of "doing" startup's, but guess even with 1-2m$ you have only few shots.
If you filed to become a non-profit could people "donate" their engineering time as a tax write off? If you find out the legality of something like this and make it easy to do that could inspire a lot of collaboration on the project and I can see a bunch of other areas (outside of search) where services could be provided like this. I'm also sure having a non-profit would also make it easier to find cheap hosting which is a large part of the cost there.
Because mass death, displacement and dramatically reduced immigration.

I expect it to get worse as we face more pandemics and the climate crisis worsens.
> And ethically you're doing nothing wrong

We don't pay firemen to put out as many huge fires as possible all day long, because that would lead to very peculiar and unwanted behavior incentives to max out those metrics. Firemen hiring pyromaniacs to make them look good, etc.

Plenty of jobs out there where the metric you're trying to maximize is internal/external customer satisfaction, usually something like maximize service uptime. If your assigned responsibility is the accounting dept, and the accounting dept loves you because when they report a problem its rapidly fixed, then you're doing what the company needs.

Some companies refuse to metric stuff like implementing change, because it results in I (heart) change for the sake of change. I quickly close a ticket to tweak the background color on an internal app but that doesn't make the company any money.

There are jobs like mining coal or farm work, where paying you to not produce makes the owners very angry. Sometimes being in a non-productive cost-center has its privileges. "You're paying me so IT is never in the way of production dept" or IT never gets in the way of accounting so accounting never gets in the way of the production dept, etc.

Big industrial factories usually have a maint department whom do nothing but fix machines. If none of the machines are fixed you don't punish the maint dept LOL. Usually they have pointless busywork if nothing else is going on "go repaint the milling machine". Such things exist in IT "go update the reverse DNS records".
Headline in 6 weeks: Vaccine Passport Microchip Validated Automatically Using 5G.
Sao Paulo made all billboards and ads illegal. It's a thing. People can do it if they want. I'm pretty sure they don't allow billboards in some states in the US.
Misread the title as 'antiemetic'. Went in expecting strategies for keeping food in your stomach when consuming 'counter-cultural' substances.
On a tangent, if you are interested in Takeshi Kovacs's universe, do yourself a favour and skip the diluted and emasculated product made by Netflix.

The books have a raw and anarchistic edge that is not present in the TV series.
It is actually a freer market, because it counterbalances the government paying banks to keep the financial treadmill going.

I'd love a sane economy where the government isn't distorting the market with trillion dollar stimuli and artificially low interest rates. But we haven't had that for many decades! Spending on social programs isn't some brazen giveaway, rather its mitigation for the ill effects of extreme giveaways to the financial industry that "both" parties solidly agree on.
I don't want to join this argument, but clicked the link just to see out of interest.

$10 is a little misleading, as that's the very topend places in USA. Check out El Paso, it's closer to $6.
So you mean the only thing funding the subway is ad revenue? Not, for example, taxes?
I don't have a personal relationship with you.
I concur, a very well crafted and maintained project.
Don’t forget healthcare, property insurance, rent, and autos/transportation.
Is It Snowing in Portland, Oregon?
How do you connect to it from your side, RDP?

Is it peer-to-peer or it goes via some 3rd party server?

Do you setup a tunnel on your end?
“People who use X report enjoying using X“ does not imply that X is enjoyable. It may simply imply that everybody else has given up.
Why is it called v11? I always see version numbers like 2022.44.6.
What's a "healthy" amount of advertising?

IMHO I would argue that 0 advertising is a healthy amount.
Suppose I wanted to use the namespace clash here with "anti-meme" posts on reddit/etc. in order to boost the concept of "anti-meme" posts, with the goal to eventually take over the name in the popular consciousness. E.g., the way that Uber ate "ride sharing," Bitcoin/blockchain is attempting to eat "crypto," or how current Ripple literally paid to take over the name from the old Ripple.

How much money would that cost me?

I guess the easiest starting place is-- how much would current Ripple have paid the original Ripple guy to buy the name?
Compensation has been stagnant, even regressive with respect to productivity for four decades now:

https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
There are plenty of scenarios where you're given money for doing nothing. Child tax credits. Unemployment insurance. Redundancy monies. Investment income. Social security. List goes on.
The quote is more Sean Tejaratchi than Banksy.

Tejaratchi originally wrote the essay "Death, Phones, Scissors", published his zine Crap Hound in 1999. Banksy adapted it.

Tejaratchi is OK with that, and yes, it is a great rant.

https://archive.vn/DD4ny
The amount of ads packed into an NBA basketball game on TV is startling:

- each player's jersey
- arena walls
- courtside walls
- projected onto the court floor (updated each minute)
- on the side and top of the backboard
- most TV graphics ("Taco Bell play of the day")
- split-screen ads during free-throws
- traditional commercials during time-outs

Monetize all the things! It's exhausting.
> I have always had disdain for the show Shark Tank and all of its many derivatives.

Shark Tank is itself a derivative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons%27_Den
> It's the same from an econ perspective as long as people are interested in being alive.

A lot of people downsized during the pandemic. It turns out full time work has a cost and relaxing that has a huge benefit. Also, for a lot of us, there is remote work where we can work less time, have no commute, and live wherever the reduced income can afford a better living.

I (living in Ireland) am seriously thinking about leaving Dublin (a high-cost region) and move to perhaps Galway or Mayo and just continue to work the same job.
Perhaps one direction I can spin that along is that those forums support free, open, and (albeit to a limited degree)civil discussions on highly politicized or sensitive matters, moreso than parts of the web that operate tied closely or even firmly grounded to real world identities. I only have had experiences in other *chans, though.
Set yourself a discriminating target.

A friend’s kid asked me for some advice about his startup. It is a SAAS in the elder care space; he’d developed it for his grandmother and had a few friends using it as well.

He asked this same question (except it wasn’t a side project). I suggested, “If you can get 50 people whom you don’t already know to use this product for more than a month then you might have a winner.”

The three keys here are:

1 - more than a month meant they actually found it useful. For his SAAS it would imply they’d stick around after a starter period month.

2 - people he didn’t know: his friends and their parents might take extra effort to use it. He had to find people with actual need

3 - 50 is arbitrary but not terrible; a dozen or so doesn’t tell you a lot while 250 probably doesn’t tell you a lot more than 50 or 75

In the past six months he’s tweaked his product based on feedback from this effort and has gotten into the high 20s.
Automation and robots.

Think about what Universal Income is all about.
HoMM2 is one of my all time favorite games. I’ve spent countless hours exploring all the corners of every single map in the game. Sometimes, I would deliberately not defeat the last enemy, just so I can reveal all the places, monsters and castles on the map.

With its amazing soundtrack, there never was another game for me that would immerse me so deeply in a world of fantasy. HoMM3 was great, but the artwork was not quite to my taste.
Test TLS/SSL on any port using only OpenSSL and Bash
This is on the disclaimer and several other comments already, but I can't help commenting.

Unavoidably: US based, 6 figures right from the start. You're pretty much half way there already.

Just happen to live in the US, work and don't be stupid financially. I guess it also helps not having a big "student debt" (that's also not US exclusive but US typical, since in many other countries education is cheaper - subsidized and you don't gradutate with a debt. ATL not a personal debt). But since there's so much tech demand in the US irrespective of education, you can often skip college and follow a different path. But not if you have to immigrate with a student visa to go the H1B way, haha!

The casualness with which you can earn those amounts of money and then lecture (not this particular post, more like the trend) on "retire at 40" or "financial independence in 10 yrs" is a bit tiring (from an outside perspective, and in a harmless-envious way) but all the best to those that are in a position to make it. Yes, casualness in a relative sense, not implying you don't have to work or anything like that.

Congrats to OP.
https://4dayweek.io/
Practice algorithms and read about software design in your spare time. Apply to tons of companies, be prepared to be rejected from almost all of them, and to be asked questions that you have no intelligent answer to. Remember what they asked you, learn the problems you got wrong, and repeat. It may be brutal and embarrassing at times but if you keep at it you will eventually get a job. The only thing I can say about maintaining any sense of morale is to take some pride in the fact that you’re pushing yourself, and that tons of people have had the same shitty interviewing experience but gotten through it and realized it was 1000% worth the pain.
Just some anecdotal experience from talking to several French people that worked at the USA company I was at on visas, USA is pretty much the hardest (of the desirable places) in the world to emigrate to.

Several of them ended up going to Canada because it was significantly easier and had a reasonable tech scene in the Toronto area
Tldr is a standard part of any scientific paper, with a nicer name (abstract, summary).
> In order to eliminate cars, however, it will require a drastic readjustment of our urban planning policies.

(Emphasis added)

The idea that we can eliminate the use of cars with urban planning policies is a clear indication of someone who has never spent any significant amount of time outside a city, or at least has never seriously thought about what it means.

Most of the land in the world is not urban. Many millions of people live outside urban areas. That's not going to change. Probably ever. Though I'm a strong proponent of massively increased public transit systems, including both high-speed rail corridors and normal-speed rail branching off into smaller areas, cars will remain by far the most efficient means of point-to-point transport outside of well-planned urban centers (even in good rail corridors, outside of the very common cases they solve) for the foreseeable future.
Microchip implants have long been a staple of dystopian fiction. At the beginning of this latest round of usurpation of civil liberties in the name of emergency, we were repeatedly assured that vaccine passports and implanted vaccine passports were deranged conspiracy theories.

Let's see how this trend continues to evolve. No, the Swedish government is not mandating implants at this time.
You are making an argument here, that the other person didn't make an argument; that means you were applying logic.

Your logic is that there's nothing stopping you from breaking societal norms and doing whatever you have the physical capability to do. Therefore, you can destroy property you don't like (advertisements). You can extend that logic to say that you "can" abuse humans.

But your logic totally misses societal context. When someone says "can", they aren't talking about pure physical capability. That's why no one in their right mind will say "I can stab you".
> In this case, he initially presumed that the problem would be with Flask, Bottle, and Tornado still honoring a semi-colon as a separator in a uri

Flask (or rather Werkzeug what it's based on) removed implicit semicolon support for URL 13 years ago: https://github.com/pallets/werkzeug/commit/0ea28bbc6f5f05eef...
> AppStore is the default package manager in macOS since 2008

It's not a package manager

> Homebrew is worse than forgoing package management and just using git

So you're using AppStore as your package manager?

> Homebrew is pure hype, and without the hype, it has nothing.

Ah yes, the well-known decade-old hype that everyone keeps advertising.
The fraud rate is probably fraud against ACH members where SendBank and ReceiveBank both lost the money and ACH members had to collectively bail it out (or a bank had to eat it).

Arguably, for bitcoin, the fraud rate could be said to be 0%. Every transaction was requested in accordance with the terms of request and was sent where it was expected to be sent.

PayPal used to boast of a fraud rate of something like 0.6%, but that was fraud against PayPal, and excluded payors or recipients being defrauded when PayPal just sent the money back to other.
Believing something is the best past for an individual does not mean believing it to be "scalable" or that it would be good for society (or even possible in a society) for everyone to adopt that path.

Socrates was executed for corrupting youth. He never denied it.
Ads making a city more beautiful…?

How about some landscaping and art instead?
Is Kubernetes Betamax?
Referrals don’t mean much if more than a small fraction of candidates have one
> The vast majority of states and employers have no vaccine mandates at all.

This is a super misleading statistic, because people aren't evenly distributed between states or employers. Consider 100 restaurant companies, only 1 of which imposes the mandate. If the 1 is McDonald's and the other 99 are mom-and-pop restaurants, the fact that the 99 are the vast majority is irrelevant.
I'm not going to dis the OP's hypothesis, but he missed much of Girard's point. It's not that children mimic the desires of their parents or individuals mimic the desire of society writ large, it's that desire is embedded in the perceptions of reality transmitted to children and reinforced by society.

That being said, I like the article and maybe the author was just side-stepping complications by presenting Girardian desire as being consciously culpable. But that is a complication in and of itself: desire is often unconscious and accessible only to the hidden self of the subconscious.

That the desire the author describes may be a meta- (or pata-) desire is worth noting when reading the text.

Or at least that's my 2 bit commentary.
Quantitative easing doesn't drain anything except treasuries. It just swaps treasuries for liquid reserves. Banks may lend more but that is a different question.
>Rust editions are no different from selecting language versions

Aren't they? Can you choose to compile Java 17 with Java 7-8 syntax, but still make use of Java 17's other features which don't break backwards compatibility? As far as I have understood, that's possible with Rust (though I might be wrong, I've never really tried using an older edition).
I get this is your usual testikg case for search engines, but if you've read their README you'd have seen its inaproppriate for the project at the current stage.
> How many people can honestly and explicitly articulate their purpose, or mission, on social media? Is it to gain followers? Sell books? Build a Substack list? What?

This line resonated a lot with me and some of my goals and anti-goals when I started working on Haven[1]. I don't want to support any sort of commercial or brand-building goals on Haven and I explicitly send those people to Wordpress on the features page.

[1]: https://havenweb.org
Interesting, in real estate we are familiar with "buyer's markets" and "seller's markets".

Seems like in the labor force, a "worker's market" only comes around once in a lifetime. For most of my life it's been an "employer's market".
I'm a big fan of Mark Fisher's work but I must say that I didn't read this piece in this sort of light. Seems like quite different to the usual co-opting of wisdom in the service of capitalist hegemony. At the very least, more insightful and wiser than a lot of listicles.
Sorry to self promote but you might find some of the blog posts in my site helpful: https://CareerSwitchToCoding.com

One of the main things I would say is that nothing can really prepare you for the jump because a large web app made by many developers over years is a very different kettle of fish to your own small projects.

That said, making and deploying your own things start to finish gives you a great foundation to build from, your core skills will be fine, you will just need to learn how to orientate yourself in a big app and that’s a skill you learn through doing.
But why didn't they improve it at all during the past 50 years?
Technically, it snowed last night. Currently it's clear.