skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1.5 million empty homes

Where? Source? If you were talking about the recent article about empty Canadian empty homes, it was already debunked since it includes cottages, student rentals, and unsold homes on the market.

It's also illogical an investor would leave empty homes unrented for prolonged period of time if rent could be collected.

> China has a similar problem which is why it has ghost cities - thats where the hoarding instinct channeled wealth.

Real estate in China is only reliable asset to invest in. The government also strongly encourages real estate as majority of public revenue comes from land transfer tax.

Nobody invests in the stockmarket unless they are high up in the CCP since they can literally destroy entire industries without oversight i.e. recent education/tech stocks losing their entire valuation overnight

> Zoning laws are a red herring. They're the worst enemy of the property developer building yet more luxury condos to be shoved into a hedge fund's real estate portfolio but they dont address the underlying cause of not enough property.

An investor trying to artificially pump up the price of an easily replaceable commodity will eventually will eventually run out of liquidity and everything will self correct. Thanks to zoning laws, the rate of new construction fails to meet demand. Even now, the demand for 1br condos are still unmet and why it's the only thing that gets built whenever developers win permits for dense non-SFH construction.

It's almost as if after you waste a lot of time and money fighting NIMBYs you'd want to build whatever provides the highest profit margins.

Without zoning laws, eventually the 1br demand will taper out and developers will need to build other unmet demands like 3br low rises to stay in business.
I never contribute anything relevant
I posted many things to usenet decades ago. Unfortunately, unless the Google groups archive contains it, it's been lost to time.
Yes, but it's only one choice of many. Demand management is less painful than people think. They just don't like being told to turn stuff off, few people actually die from it, compared to price based methods. (I lived through the 1970s miners strike, I know what ubiquitous rolling power cuts in winter are like)

And it has political downsides.

Frankly, buying LNG in bulk carriers might be cheaper than allowing yourself to be wedged by N2.
This article is simply saying things that are wrong. That merits criticism regardless of what other people may or may not be doing. Their company isn't vertically integrated. They are reselling generics drugs online and may build a small factory in the future.
Yelling at rotational hard disks perturbs performance (2008)
> I'm the founder of Arrow, a DAO working to build open-source VTOL aircraft and air taxi protocol.

I don't understand why a startup working on aircraft design is linked to crypto at all. If you have $100M in ETH, the first thing to do is to convert it to USD and put it in a bank, preferably a large one. Then use the money to run your startup. Why would you keep your money in a crypto wallet? Why would you model your startup as a DAO?
corporate cyber security is mostly theatre. But maybe it’s a lesser evil from anarchy and instability.
I’ve been working with biology data. A lot of our older scripts are Perl. It’s really good at this stuff. The great thing is the language is super stable so we don’t have to rewrite them usually.

Our new stuff tends to be in R or python though.
The conversion to random-order and the effect on donkey voting would be fascinating. I wonder if somebody has monte-carlo'd it out.
Olympic gold medalist open sources how to win a 10k skate race
Right after winning his 10k ice skating Olympic gold medal and setting a new world record, Nils can see Poel released a manual on how to replicate what he just did.

The website contains a button to the pdf. If you find that sketchy to press the button, here’s a direct link:
https://www.howtoskate.se/_files/ugd/e11bfe_b783631375f54324...
The only thing I partly agree on is the censorship part. But then hosting it on AWS or any public cloud / server would have had the same problem. You could do good old fashion collocation with your own server. But then Network / DC may refuse you as well.

Otherwise it is the basic argument of Distribution and Discovery problem again. And I mean a lot of Web Forums are dying anyway. Hosting cost aren't going down, forum software are any faster or efficient, requires some scale before Ads revenue picks up. And the hassle to manage the software. Part of the reason why many are moving to Discord and Slack.

The way things are going many Web Forum will be gone without any battle the blog mentioned.
It's cool seeing people coding 'in the wild'. I was on a train in Sydney once, and I saw an older man writing some VBA for a Microsoft Access database.

"What are you coding there?"
"Oh, I'm writing an application to manage patients at my dental practice"
"You're a dentist?"
"Yup"
Why won’t anybody teach her math?
Of course it's possible to name incidents that sound bad on paper after spinning the narrative to serve the purpose of arguing that war=violence=bad. This happens all the time. That's the whole point I'm trying to make.

Any time the military kills a terrorist, a certain group of people will say "You monster! He had kids for God sakes! Look at these pictures of his family! He never got a fair trial!" When a genuine fuckup happens, these same people naturally jump on the opportunity and criticize endlessly. The American population is especially apt for this kind of behavior.
I don't see how it would impact Apple Pay, for example. In Australia, we have instant payments already, and Apple/Google/Samsung Pay is used alongside it - completely separate.
Or they could use a bank. They generally have fine UIs and secure protocols.
> The surplus last month was the first since the $83 billion reported in September 2019 and the largest since the $160 billion in April 2019. April and September are traditionally months with high tax collections....

> The surplus for the month also was helped by the recognition of $70 billion in proceeds from a wireless spectrum auction, a U.S. Treasury official said.

It seems like this is a month to month number that fluctuates widely based on one-off events and things like when people typically pay their taxes.
Please clarify:

Are ubiquitous rolling power cuts in winter one of the measures that are less painful than people think?
If I were using a managed k8s offering + a gitops ci/cd tool like flux, what would I be missing?
What about spending a few bucks to buy some and then trying to use it?
My friends who hunt say that it really matters how terrified the animal is before you shoot it; the longer it lives, the worse the meat is.
Inflation is currently much higher than treasury bond rates and they are selling fine. Your claim is obviously false. Inflation was 7% the stated goal inflation rate is 2%. The 5 year t bill is 1.7%.
if you posted in a subreddit on the new account that one of your older accounts was banned from they would ban that new account
Dunno if they ship to USA, but all of the Canadian online shops shipped to me without sending over any proof.

One province de-regulated dispensing of corrective lenses and anyone could get in the game, and many did!
I just switched from Chrome to Brave. The HN hivemind tends to jump all over Brave with criticisms of their "attention token" monetization scheme, but this criticism has never made any sense to me. I just....don't use BAT, and never think about it at all.
So on one hand, I absolutely hated the writing style as well... on the other hand, its some guys blog and if he likes this style and it makes him happy to write educational stuff like this, even if its not an ideal format for us then should we really judge?
You can read comments on HN without logging in or using an app.
I think Sean Illings’ Q-Anon stories are some of the best Vox content
Sideline question:

> My phone spends four to five seconds trying to tell Google about incoming calls, then raises a notification about its failure, resulting from my failure to configure it correctly, and only then does it activate the ringtone.

What would have been configured incorrectly here?
Ask HN: Is there a manually memory managed non concurrent Go (Golang)?
I like C but the lack of structural interface types and type parameters (generics) makes me feel less satisfied about the constructs I design in C.

I really like how Go (1.18) feels like C but with generics and a great structural typing system.

However, Go tends to ship large binaries and in exchange offers some nice runtime features like concurrency and high level types.

While these are great, I would love to know if there is a language similar to Go but without the runtime and garbage collection.

Here's some pseudo code demonstrating the sort of thing I am looking for

interface IFoo {
bar[T](value: T) T
}

func foobar(f IFoo) {
f.bar("Hello!")
}

class Foo {
bar[T](value T) T {
return value
}
}

func main() {
var f = new Foo()
foobar(f)
}
I miss Perl. I used to do scaled up (for the time) systems management with tools built on Perl4. We’d drop a perl interpreter on the boxes as monitoring and management agents and use another framework to ship data back. Perl4 was ancient then, so we’d backport stuff from CPAN or compile Perl5 for certain things.

It’s definitely a language that was ideal for its user base… admins and early web people mostly. All of my serious coursework in college was C, C++ and Fortran, so just being able to bang out code and get shit done was amazing.
and how are you going to pay when the bank closes your account because you broke their terms and conditions. That is where you need decentralized payments.
Because different people learn differently?

This style reminded me of GEB a bit and I enjoyed it.
Only if you have a tectonic plate fault line running through the middle of your city
Not exactly what you asked for, but one aspect: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

(Scroll down to this plot: https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/grep1p.png
If we tested Attention Quotient rather than IQ, I wonder if we’d eventually correct some of the bias problems with both?
Software longevity is something that I have bene thinking about for a little bit.

At $dayjob, we use Openstack, an open source cloud infrastructure project.

It's a pretty complicated set of projects that interact to each other in order to provide multi-tenancy for virtual machines at scale.

It was initially all the rage, before the cloud starting really picking up steam.

So now, you have a massive project that is slowly losing traction, but also relying on that notoriety to gain developers.

So, I think Linus point is quite valid. These small, low risk, low value patches are essential in having a healthy community around a product.

They help easing your way into a codebase, developpement flow and all the other idiosyncrasies of established tech circles.
Turns out the platform matters less than just having somebody willing to archive it.

Hard to get more open and federated than USENET.
I can see where the author is coming from, and I don't mean to discredit the many negatives they mention, but ironically enough people doing exactly what the article suggests against has led to many people (even my mother) googling things like "best coffee grinder reddit".

Most of the alternatives sound like they would be much less discoverable and encourage much less interaction/discussion, which often is as interesting as the contribution itself.

I do agree that any sort of cohesive, ongoing advice is better organized in a blog or other more permanent form. I also agree that the suggestion about "fixing web-based forums" could be a good idea. And perhaps it's also worth saving your particularly good contributions in storage you own
Spot the irony: India's Reserve Bank says outsourcing and offshoring are risky
This documentary https://www.imdb.com/title/tt16058448/ has a part towards the end where mics are setup deep inside of a remote cave in the mountains. The sounds they picked up were supposedly those of rocks cracking from tidal effects from the moon. Crazy stuff.
This response makes no sense whatsoever, the parent comment was making a criticism for falsely using the phrase vertical integrated which you do not address at all
It often does however buy vast amounts of drugs and terrific lawyers.

(not saying this applies to M. Reitman btw)
Meta's threat to leave Europe hints at waning big tech influence
This is an unfortunate situation but one possible workaround is study groups. I had an experience where a handful of classmates formed a small study group for a difficult class with subpar professors (there were two). We did the homework together, walked through the problems, and as a group we helped each other understand the material. We all did very well both on the homework (as you would expect) and on exams and finals. The rest of the class did not.
Still not alot of money compared to what banks spend sorting out problems today.

So I was the coder for a payroll system for those paid out of the channel islands, in 2008, day after boxing day I was asked to add 3 more digits to the payroll system so a trader could be paid a bonus. That system moved alot of money all around the world.

Another example of costs.
$81million nicked from Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cyber-heist-bangladesh-id...

Here is an example of what has to be paid out when things go wrong, it was made into a film, adjust for inflation and quantitative easing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Leeson#Downfall_and_impri...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0131566/

Best office I have seen is Nomura's directors office in London. You could fit a house in it!
They're more painful than "turn off those lights and turn down the heater" but the point is, less people die than you'd think. If you want to force the issue, there's more ways out than just buying Nordstream 2.

It was demand management at scale. Modern demand management is ringing up a shopping centre and offering them a discount to pull back on their AirCon and heating. Or, classic UK controlled-suppply for domestic hot water which is routinely used to manage load and shed load.

Economists modelled how giving people free jerseys and gloves would work compared to insulation. You need to understand these things. The problem isn't that they don't work: They actually work pretty well. The problem is that people hate drafts, and wearing a sloppy joe inside the house doesn't stop your window causing drafts.

Tell me, do you always ask rhetorical questions? Does it work? Do you always get the answer you expect? What number am I thinking of? Oh wait.. thats wordle...
This isn't a meaningful number.
Is there a pharmacy that requires the use of an insurance company or a PBM? I thought involving them was always voluntary (and someones people would pay 100% of the “cash” price because it can be less than a copay).
So with Reddit. What is your point?
Reminds me of the KeyKit algorithmic MIDI composition language (first version, 1985): https://nosuchtim.com/tjt/particles/talks/keykit.pdf
Ruby on Rails

I wonder why people keep asking such questions instead of just learning some of rails
In case you hadn't seen it, there's a rather well-received video called "Line Goes Up - The Problem With NFTs" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g). It really covers crypto in general and treats NFTs as a crypto offshoot. It's 2 hours long but still feels rushed.

Dan's general attitude is that crypto isn't revolutionary and isn't really trying to be. It's not trying to democratize money. It's trying to build a system with the same power dynamics as the current system, but with different people at the top of that power structure. His take is that crypto doesn't solve any of the problems with the existing systems and just creates a bunch of new ones.

My recollection is that he doesn't spend much time on the energy use (he touches on it but IIRC doesn't dwell on it). He does go deep into the "wild west" state of them. His attitude seems to be "wild west" isn't a transitory phase; it's the end state of crypto.

I don't think he says it in that video, but in a subsequent interview, Dan pointed out a danger with this and all deflationary currencies - they reward early adopters and people with a lot of capital. People who buy in late (either by choice or because they were simply born later) have a compounded difficulty in "catching up". He says he's worried about a future where crypto isn't an option and everybody needs to use it to some extent in day-to-day life. Moms and dads - or toddlers - who didn't "get in early" will be at a significant disadvantage.

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Personally, my main concern is with PoW. It's fine to say that PoS will eventually replace PoW, but that's not the situation right now. PoW is wasteful by design, and that just rubs me the wrong way. It's great that miners tend to use more renewable sources on average than the average utility customer, but they're still using an awful lot of nonrenewable sources as well. I guess I just think about all the other things we could do with that electricity and it seems like such a waste.

My secondary concern is with the hype machine in overdrive. It feels a lot like the dotcom bubble to me - people making all kinds of wild claims about crypto, NFTs, web3.0, etc. Everybody so desperately wants it to be the next big thing because they smell an opportunity to make a buck. But it feels very cart-before-horse to me. It's not clear to me, for the kinds of problems that crypto is trying to solve, that crypto is the best solution to those problems. How many use cases really call for a decentralized, trustless ledger?

This article (https://thecorrespondent.com/655/blockchain-the-amazing-solu...) mentioned a couple of projects that got greenlit due to blockchain hype, yet either don't have anything to do with blockchain or else use blockchain in pointless ways - such as having a small, fixed pool of trusted mining nodes controlled by one entity.
Sorry not sure about the name of the law. But I learned what I indicated on HN. I would search on HN for the word “charge master” or “chargemaster” and see you can see the hits. I think I learned about this in the last 2 months (90% confidence) so to be safe May be narrow your search to last 6months. The word is quite unique so there shouldn’t be too many hits to sift through.

Also looked like hn user aurizon posted google and npr links a few comments below about how this law is being fought.
I can't see a reason why India would need to offshore labor specifically. They have an abundance of skilled workers and don't have to deal nearly as much with time-zone and cultural differences.
Yea. I reached a point where I decided the risk-reward was ok and deleted my local ML archives. I now check headers for the mailman/listserv link to archive and if I see it, I do make the risky decision to rely on it. Probably I'll come to regret that, in 20 years time.
Not really about “winning” but about having everyone on the same page. And yes you can do it async too but it’s more difficult. The result I think is more likely to evolve into either a bdfl style arrangement or everyone pulls in their own direction.
Brings to mind Elements of Style. Place yourself in the background, don't overwrite, don't overstate

"Write in a way that draws the reader's attention to the sense and substance of the writing, rather than to the mood and temper of the author. If the writing is solid and good, the mood and temper of the writer will eventually be revealed and not at the expense of the work. Therefore, the first piece of advice is this: to achieve style, begin by affecting none — that is, place yourself in the background."
It seems that Europes attitude is mostly "Don't let the door hit you on the way out". Good to see Europe sticking to privacy principles.
I figure if there comes the day that I write something of value, that I want my real name on, I could just choose to post it on reddit/HN/etc and my blog simultaneously and get the best of both worlds.
Obviously had I started from an earlier point, I may have achieved a higher overall peak performance level but that isn't the point I was addressing. Nothing reverses entropy that we know of but that isn't the point either. The point is that saying "you can’t do at 50 what you could do at 25" is patently wrong. I point this out simply because many people have an incorrect perception of their ability to alter their fitness via lifestyle changes.
i read your comment as 'conflate our way out' and thought hhmmm sounds about right
No one cares about idea theft -- Except for the people that created the stolen idea.

Official sources are often the least trustworthy for news -- Now that ideas are stolen on a rampant basis.
US Bonds are considered basically the safest investment in the world, so in a condition where they lose you money, they are still better than either not investing (losing even more to inflation) or risking on something with higher returns.
I've heard them called soydevs before.
Still better than the firmware crashing the elevator down 21 floors.
30 of those pages are just his training plan.
How exactly was that supposed to work in the first place?

Was China expected to dictate to various businesses in China that they buy certain things from America only? Was the Chinese government supposed to do the buying?
FWIW I like the bare bones UX and instant feedback. One thing though: it seems to not work on Firefox (stuck on 0.0% success rate). Chrome is fine.
I only know what makes a bad product leader, since that's been mostly what I have dealt with.
For eg here is Stanford healthcare’s charge master in json

https://stanfordhealthcare.org/content/dam/SHC/patientsandvi...
Wonder if anyones re-looked at that origin path of the OMG particle in more recent times.
VMs in mainframes and academic research are too detached from personal computing to be of much practical significance; it was really the 386 and its VM86 mode that brought virtualisation to the masses.
Their gross revenue in 2019 was €15M, with 94 employees. That's €159k per employee on average, not counting overheads. That's pretty good money, but not excessively "greedy" (that's not looking at actual wages... their execs may well be bastards).

They had a much bigger haul in 2020, which is probably fairly typical for online games -- we didn't have much else to do during lockdown, and opened our wallets for games. But that isn't sustained income.
Eg. Here is Stanford’s. https://stanfordhealthcare.org/content/dam/SHC/patientsandvi...

I would just google the hospital name and and the word chargemaster next to it.
Search “hospital price transparency law”. For example:

https://www.cms.gov/hospital-price-transparency
More like a few reddit moderators got exec roles in IBM to help it implement the new digital and social vision in the era of blockchain management. Once IBM gets blockchain enough, those execs will move on to greener pastures.
Thank you, I was going to explain this.

I have seen contracts approve your entire supply though without mentioning it. That would allow the contract to come back at any time, with no user action, to take more coins out.

Just be wary of "Approving" contracts before using them on DeFi apps. That first approval confirmation is the most important as you're basically handing them that much coin and trusting them to give it all back.
> Windows 3.x's 386 Enhanced Mode

I had a 486 with 8Mb of RAM and a 40Mb disk, DBLSPACEd. It usually didn't had enough low memory (because DBLSPACE was a hog) for some games, so... I started Windows and played these DOS games from there.

I don't remember which one game occasionally would drop out with OOM in the DOS (it had 8Mb in the minimal requirements) but run just fine when started from Windows. Virtual memory with swap for the rescue!

I even used Calendar (if my memory serves me well) as an alarm clock to remind myself about the time.