skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've mistaken me for someone who thinks there's a political needle that can be threaded here.

I completely agree with you - housing prices are high, mechanically, because of scarcity. But scarcity exists because voters like high housing prices. The truth is that most Canadians own property and are perfectly happy with their $1-3 million in equity. And regardless of their stated preferences for affordable housing, the revealed preference for scarcity and expensive housing is clear.

All I want is to shut down people looking for someone to validate their cognitive dissonance.
You can just flag submissions or click the "<x> minutes ago" to open individual comments and flag them.
They even shot a Su-35 with apparently a stinger. I guess it was flying very low
Those trucks are incredibly expensive
Yeah I hear you; and even allude to that in some parts of the article, like this part:

> Another idea to make Typescript–– a bit less restrictive and more ergonomic, would be to use reference-counting of objects, and then try to optimize most away using compile-time reference counting as pioneered by Lobster. This gives most of the advantages of manually managed memory, but makes the ownership model much easier to reason about. It is however slightly less performant, and more importantly, makes performance less predictable, since it becomes more reliant on compiler cleverness.

Even Rust can hide actual performance behind abstractions, and I've already been bitten by that a few times.. Not sure what the right solution is here, but I agree that it's super important to think about this when designing a language like this.
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Lead and mercury spewed out by coal plants ends up in the ocean and is also deadly for very long. I'd rather have poisonous metals in storage than floating around and accumulating in the food chain.
Yeah idk. Lenses are hard.
With respect to aesthetics, to each their own. I do find some mathematics beautiful. In fact, "I am bored" is a real problem and mathematics can be used to solve that problem by being a tool that tickles our brains in pleasant ways.

The "tool" and "problem" here are meant as comments on the metaphysical content of mathematics, not some sort of statement that mathematics is for engineering and that's all.

In particular: I'm commenting on the imbued/latent metaphysics of Wolfram's post, which goes beyond mere artistic appreciation. If his framing were "and look how pretty cellular automata are!" then I guess my reaction would be "yeah they are quite cool aren't they?"

I find Church-Rosser quite beautiful and also think Wolfram puts way too much metaphysical weight into the behavior of confluent rewrite systems. Similarly, some Psalms are beautiful and the story of Jesus is very nice but god does not actually exist. There's no contradiction there -- you can take the beauty and spit out the metaphysics.
sorry, i thought it was clear from my smiley & general tone that i wasn't being serious with that part of the response.
Fun fact: you can waive your inspection contingency … and then still go inspect the house.

Just bring your inspector along to a showing or open house, etc. Owners won’t even be there.
For this reason I don't say I've been playing piano for 40 years. I say I've been failing to practice piano for 40 years (and it shows).
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Probably

Parent post’s point is that there are many levers that can be pulled to alleviate the problem, but that zero of the options are being acted on.

Maybe it’s trivial to stack wood together, but apparently you can’t “easily build your way past” given the political climate.
Agreed. The more SMB your product is the closer the chance ads will work, but further up the size and ACV scale and you are simply wasting your time until you become a brand name in your domain.
If you'd like to keep using a spreadsheet, let me know, I've built something for myself that I sell. Just message me, I'll show you :)

Otherwise, if you don't want to invest in anything pre-built, here's the free version of it, that is still useful in my opinion: https://gumroad.hugohamel.com/l/sheeld-profitloss

(Hopefully that won't be considered as self-promotion, but if it does. Admin/Moderator: just message me so I can change the message, so it's not considered as self-promotion.)
Is there anything more to your comment then a long elaboration of a cash-focused self-centeredness?

Certainly you seem aggressively unaware of anything other than "the company", setting aside other relevant parties, like colleagues, users, and society at large. While also ignoring quite a lot of things that even engineers value in their work besides money.

Econ 101 is an ok first-cut model, but it's pretty bad as a religion. There are more things, Horatio.
Yep, but it doesn't really solve any of the problems that I mention in the article, unfortunately.
Should be under Chrome Settings -> Search engine -> Manage search engines and site search -> Site search.

You can add your custom search with the %s placeholder, a shortcut to use in the address bar, and name.
Agreed, this should be a tax code line with a small number of ORed entry conditions.

- OR - at least one of

* First time home buyer

* Total homes owned plus being purchased will remain at one after the transaction is completed, and net-worth is under 20% the cost of a median home within the home's metro area.

* Qualified for a federal benefits program excluded from the upper 60% of society

The phrasing on the last one is specific, it's the wording required to select for economically disadvantaged individuals in a mechanically testable way. The exact number might be tweaked, this is just a back of the napkin ballpark. Other entry qualifiers can be added to the list. The second allows someone to move homes and if they need the benefit, not be locked out of assistance moving to an economically 'hotter' area that might have better jobs.
I have had the same complaints for a while. I switched to Mac OS X around 2004 because it was just massively better in terms of quality of life for the user. The OS has continued to improve while Windows has been epically stagnant. Even with major pushes to modernize things, it still feels like it's been bolted together with duct tape and bailing wire. It's just horrible.

It seems like virtually any linux distribution you can pick at random with a dart and it would have overall better quality of life on things like a basic terminal app. Microsoft has even tried to improve their terminal a few times and it still totally feels terrible. If I didn't have to use windows for a few work things, I would never go near it again. And in future jobs, me using it at all for work is definitely off the table.
I agree with you that the voting system is letting down Canadians, but I also think you are using an unfair framing with your "20%" figure which risks undermining the legitimacy of coalition governments (and thus efforts to introduce a more representative voting system where coalitions between smaller parties might become more common).

In particular, I want to point out that the NDP have agreed to help the Liberal government to pass its legislative agenda, which presumably includes this ban, as the NDP had pushed for a tax for non-resident home purchases, which is a similar policy.[0]

Considering the government as a two party coalition, therefore, and with the NDP getting close to half the number of votes as the Liberals, that would mean that 30% of Canadians voted for the current government. That's somewhere between Biden's numbers[1] and Boris Johnson's[2], to compare it to other major recent Western FPTP elections.

[0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-ottawa-face...

[1] 34% = 81m / (158m / 66.2%)

[2] 29% = 14.0m / 47.6m
Probably possible to order one of these using automotive process in some foundry in Asia. Nobody will ask too much and it would be enough power for defense applications.
I do! Looking for something new to play. Was it an rts?
This is not only about being able to increase capacity.

A nuclear plant is capital expensive, and it requires to be used as much as possible to be cost competitive.
Acceptance rate to the top HK university for locals is around 10% which is actually not that competitive and easier to get in than the average Ivy league universities (in addition to being cheaper).

There are 14 universities in Hong Kong of which 4 are well ranked. I would say the chances of getting into a decent university for HKers is actually much easier than for Mainland Chinese students.

There are some traditional families who feel the need to do a lot of extra curricular activities and tuition just so that there kid can go into the three prestigious subjects of law, medicine and finance but that's not all families.
>which remains harmful/deadly for thousands of years.

Which it has in common with things like acid mine drainage and waste from a bunch of other industrial processes.

Of course, solving the former "just" requires employing a small army of personnel to make sure that the effluent is getting cleared from those mines properly, maintaining tailings ponds (and fixing them when they leak), and (since this is the perennial hypothetical for nuclear waste disposal) understanding that a bunch of people from the hypothetical neo-Stone Age civilizations are going to die once that goes away because they're necessarily going to be incapable of chemical analysis of water downstream.

Perhaps it's unfortunate for most of humanity that storing waste in on-site casks is an effective enough solution; if the waste was more dangerous, we'd have dealt with it already. Instead, we can just leave it sitting there and tilt at windmills.

I'd rather have an exploded reactor and evacuated surrounding area every 50 years than I would an uninhabitable planet. But maybe that's just my obsolete 1970s/80s optimism showing through; modern humanity is much happier with the historically-compatible "use unreliable sources of power and disconnect the poor quarter at night" strategy.
I have been doing this for months. Didnt know other people did this!
A new analysis from Fermilab measures the W boson as 76 MeV heavier than the Standard Model predicts. The uncertainty in the measurement is 9 MeV.
SGI's days were numbered as soon as 3D accelerator cards for PCs became a thing.
AWS lowers data transfer prices for PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN
I wanted to give a try to YNAB, but I realized that it wouldn't work for me since I deal with both Canadian and European back accounts.
This is a hallmark of a scaleup which assumes it will become a massive company in a short amount of time, and sets up its structure accordingly.

There are times when a gamble like this pays off. Take how Uber built their organization and systems similar to how Google did it, even when they were smaller.

In the case of Uber, their approach, you could argue, paid off in the sense that Uber did get traffic that would have been non-trivial to handle, and complex business use cases that it could handle easier thanks to it's structure.

My view is that this approach is an all-or-nothing setup and it might end up poorly - and spending WAY more money than needed - than if taking it one step at a time.

Also note that Uber did operate in an environment when it could raise ridiculous amounts of money as it scaled up. This doesn't seem to be the case in the current funding environment of 2022, which has cooled down considerably from 2021.
My first job out of college was implementing the image generator for the simulator for the landing signal officer (LSO) on the USS Nimitz.

It ran on an 8 CPU SGI Onyx that was about the size of a refrigerator. The view was from the position of the LSO, at the aft end of the carrier deck. In the actual installation, the images were projected onto curved screens giving a 270 degree FOV. I do wish I could have seen the final product!
In that case I apologize for making a bad assumption and wording my response in an emotionally charged way.
There's a fun model I built once upon the level of monetization versus trust building activities a given YouTuber/influencer should do maximize monetization over any given time period. You can model the decay in audience trust per monetization.
Internet ads are garbage.. I would pay attention to a well-made radio or tv ad, but online ads just the scum of earth!! My eyes skip over embedded text ads and I don't have the patience to see a video ad.. Ad blockers take care of most of that!!! I don't know how this scam "industry" keeps getting away with robbing businesspeople who are supposed to be smarter than the rest of us!!! The only form of advertising I am kinda OK with and believe might work is those sponsored ads by youtubers or affiliate links and the like..
GE burnt me out within six months doing the same crap. In my case I was coming in as a contractor for six months (and then on to FTE) and the original contract mentioned "travel" which I had them remove and they told me no travel ever...not a big deal.

Whole story changed when it came to hiring on as an FTE. Occasional travel was required and no guarantees on getting hired with some wired interview process that they actually took seriously. Total bait and switch trash.

I went through with it because I had already left my previous job fucking six months earlier. I hired in at, as I come to find out, some illustrious Senior Staff level that is nearly impossible to achieve for people starting thier career there. I was soon meeting people who had been kissing ass for a decade who were getting denied senior level.

I spent the next six months telegraphing my lack of enthusiasm for the company and was laid off when the pandemic set in. People were offering me other jobs etc but I refused and took the package...which was very nice at my level. I had just been paid full bonus and I received a bonus the following year for time I spent with the company on the next bonus cycle. A year after being laid off another $5k drops in my account. These people are batshit.
REITs are not buying million dollar homes in Vancouver to rent out. None of the real estate hotspots where you literally can't buy a home on a normal salary are caused by REITs, because those homes have terrible yields. Most REITs focus on either large, 10+ unit apartment buildings, or on cheaper houses in less appealing locations with good yields.

The real issue is that there is not enough supply in desirable locations.
You can buy it over the counter at the SEG.
It's complex. There are two sides to every equation. Buyer and seller. Sellers aren't necessarily sophisticated either. If I sell my home, and the roof is leaking and I don't know about it, I don't want to be liable down-the-road.

Peace-of-mind is worth a lot. Especially if the buyer is sophisticated, I might take a lower offer if it has the right waivers.
I picked up the process when I first read a blog post about micro commits and wanted to try it but my company standards didn't allow tons of commits to clog the history like that. It feels like the best of both worlds to me.

I'll also add that sometimes I do break them into a few commits on "real branch" if it makes more sense to do so, and I use a GUI tool for merging if I need to solve conflicts. I also don't really worry about commit messages being useful in the wip branches. Oftentimes the commit message is just "wip".
https://www.aopa.org/advocacy/advocacy-briefs/regulatory-bri...

Notice "not poisoning children" is not on their list of requirements. No, just that it doesn't cost you any money.

If I just took TEL and sprayed it over your house, I'd be arrested and have to pay tens of thousands for remediation. But do it in a plane? No problem!

You don't have to fly. You choose to poison us.
Where do you do your research?
The TailScale folks caught a bunch of flak for their "do things that don't scale" approach to databases. But, honestly, most startups would be better off following that approach than what Fast did. Sounds like the engineers were just entertaining themselves with shiny toys rather than solving the problems they actually had.
U.S. life expectancy falls for 2nd year in a row
If you want something a bit more complete, have a look at my comment above. Here's the direct link to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30948979
It would certainly not be better to crunch the quality than to remove useless zero bytes.
I've never seen or heard of a company which can have globally fixed priorities for an entire quarter.
I bet zero 90s teenager said "mooom, how do you expect to cure cancer if you stop me from buying nv chips ?? how ?"
I doubt it is one thing. That is probably the single largest factor, but I wonder how large a role other factors play: the internet as social vehicle, male fertility, female fertility, social safety nets, average educational attainment, cultural factors, etc.

A 0.2% difference in birthrate makes a massive difference on the timescale of civilization, so it is a very interesting question to me.
For the past few years, pretty much everywhere I've traveled, either vacationing or living, I've picked up garbage. Three oceans, four continents, I can only offer my anecdotal experience of 500 bags or so, but holy good god damn. Our oceans are absolutely riddled with plastic pollution, to the tune of 8 million tons added annually. That's two pounds of plastic per person added to the oceans every year.

It's too late to avoid the consequences. The planet is riddled with this junk. It's already been sucked up into Earth's massive recycling systems. Earth is just full-on blasting our ground-up waste right back at us and funneling it into our lungs and stomachs.

Whatever the effect of microplastics is on human health, we can't escape the consequences now.

Pretty much all you can do is hope it ain't too bad. And argue about it. Because it's here, it's getting worse, and it's going to be with us for a very long time.
In my experience, people zone out or check their phones all the time in in-person meetings.
Why doesn't our safety matter?
I think it’s worse in the sense that I alluded to when I mentioned “relativistically correct.”
You can go even further. All "natural" processes are completely excluded from primary energy use.

If you include the energy used by agriculture (as in: photosynthesis) you will get a number that human energy use is something like 99% powered by the sun.

If you include ambient heat, non-solar energy sources become a rounding error.
This may seem obvious and silly, but especially in residential heating using the ambient heat with heat-pumps, solar collectors, large sun-facing triple insulated window fronts, will be key for energy usage reduction.

I would recommend the books by Professor Volker Quaschning (well-known climate scientist in Germany), he goes into lots of stuff like this in detail.
I'm not familiar with the phrase "cockroach team" in this context, and the obvious web search didn't help. Can you please elaborate?
HL2 had both OpenGL and DirectX on paper, but the DirectX implementation was notoriously poor such that everyone used and recommended the OpenGL renderer.

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1007962

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=931690

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=987307

Ironically now with Valve's push for Linux gaming, I'd expect that Linux is probably a great platform for HL2, probably even better than Windows. Intel GMA drivers might still be bad though, not sure if that is too far back for the open-source driver that showed up in the Core era.
Who would be happy with that? And who is happy with not being able to afford a house? What does happiness gave to do with it? You made a financial bet on buying your house for certain price. There’s always a risk in that price going down after you buy it. Sucks for you but the price going up for you just sucks for someone else.
Let's be fair - most of Europe a tip is really optional. No one is depending on tips as the source of their income.
And if you think this is undersized for comedic effect I did ops for a company that went from <1mil to 15mil revenue (with the same sales strategy of targeting lots of small clients) on 4 1u white label supermicros. Two app servers and two MySQL dbs. Never in my life had such reliable infrastructure.
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It's too bad they have !r go the the Reddit search page, which is famously bad.

I didn't know about !searchr, wish it was shorter. At least it's better than what I've been doing which is typing out site:reddit.com.
In my experience, "lead deposits" are basically an issue caused by running excessively rich mixture, usually on the ground, and show up as spark plug fouling with engine roughness and reduced RPMs. The fix is just to vaporize the deposits by running the engine at leaner and at a high power setting.

I understand that you can also end up with exhaust valve deposits, but that's not something I've seen personally. Aviation engines (especially those used for training, which is a large proportion of the piston fleet) have incredibly short inspection intervals in any case.
From a technical/programming perspective, there's just so much that MacOS (unix) does right: things like file permissions, the layout of the file system, and having industry-standard tools like vim, make, gcc, ssh, bash (even if older versions) built in. I haven't used Windows for anything other than playing games for almost 10 years, but I remember things like Ruby (especially Rails) and Python programming were a complete PITA in Windows versus Mac (Unix) or Linux. Maybe that's changed...I honestly couldn't tell you.

I agree that it's annoying how much apple tries to hide the Unix nature of the OS. I have no idea why they hide the home folder from Finder by default, it's on my list of "things to change immediately" when I do a fresh Mac install/setup, as well as things like installing newer versions of Bash, Vim, etc (via Homebrew). But overall I think the pros of the OS vastly outweigh the cons. For the most part, all of the things I don't like about the OS can be turned off or tuned. And I value how things work under the hood too much to give that up.

I will admit I have never tried WSL - because I've never had a need to. I've considered trying it, but then I just tell myself I'd rather just use Linux.
> I never claimed this.

You absolutely did. You said it doesn't matter. It matters.

And I never said anyone would have to work on live wires. And I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.

Nevertheless, it does sometimes happen, and being a bit smart about it is a good idea.
Hard question to ask, but what was the workflow used in development? Two programmers sitting at many monitors powered by x different workstations, and a monitor. What are they all doing, say: here?
If you spoke to any growth marketer worth their salt at any D2C company they will have incrementality testing and split tested traffic to prove without a shadow of a doubt that advertising works. The real challenge is scaling without losing efficiency.
A SAM system is quite vulnerable while being transported or setup. I guess they did not properly stage their SAM units? Set up the first on on your site of the border, then one within the shield of the first, then the third within the shield of the second?
This isn’t really relevant anymore, but even Internet Explorer had that feature ("SearchUrl") since IE3 in 1996. While not well-known, it’s a must-have browser feature IMO.
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> we're a cockroach team

I think I know what you mean by this, but I'm not sure. Could you elaborate on what this means? Thanks in advance. :)
Key particle weighs in a bit heavy, confounding physicists
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