skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But every house that is on the market IS being sold, even at outrageous price, because buyers don't believe the price hike will slow down anytime soon (why would they? this segment of the market is guaranteed to be protected by any government who wishes to get re-elected)

So you, the realtor, will sell every house you got anyway, so why not bump the price while you're at it?
It will increase the cost of labor (that is, hourly wages, salaries). In other words, UBI sets a floor to wages. As one transitions from non-UBI regime to that of UBI, in this transitory period cost-push inflation occurs due to the increase in the cost of wages; and this is the first order effect.

Second order effects: upper class (not super wealthy) owns rental properties, and jack up the rents in order to suck out whatever wage increases due to the UBI floor. This vicious cycle will continue.

UBI is good, if healthcare and housing don't steal whatever wage increase one sees. UBI can be implemented in the developed countries, whose currencies (nominal assets) are swapped with real goods (raw materials, commodities). A country like US, UK, EU, Japan can run UBI; however, India, South Africa, etc can't run such schemes due to the balance of payments constraints, despite whatever MMT folks sell.
I quit flying because I found that I didn't want to go from A to B without having a car on the other end, that "just flying" was pretty boring, that aerobatics was real fun but also a huge commitment, and that I did not care that much after the initial success.

I have about 175 hours, some 25 or so aerobatics (Attitude Aviation, Livermore, under the original owner), most of the time in and around the SF Bay Area. One hour in a glider (Byron)

I started flying at WVFC (West Valley Flying Club) while working at a nearby software company. Mostly during work hours actually, I was pretty bored at work.

I had already done some skydiving - during pre-military training in East Germany. I had had glasses when I grew up and in East Germany you did not fly casually, same with the skydiving, if you were young the goal always was the military career. On the other hand, the state paid for it all. Because of glasses I was under the impression I had no chance to ever be a pilot so I never even tried. Later I stopped needing glasses but never revisited the issue, despite some heavy longing (during youth I subscribed to a monthly East German flying magazine.

When I worked in my boring software job the Piper and Cessna aircraft kept flying right over our lunch area on their landing approach to the airport just two or so miles away. So some day while having lunch, looking up, it finally clicked in my head - I now had actual money and all the East German restrictions where gone, why couldn't I...

Anyway, I really enjoyed it, not just the flying itself but also the system and the discipline it required. Even things like approaches to airports without tower and radio and other procedures.

I increasingly felt that it became too much effort for less and less gain. A whole Sunday afternoon if not more was gone even for less than an hour of aerobatics. Advantage of that type of flying, even if it requires something with a higher hourly rate than a Cessna or a Piper, is that an hour or less is all you need, so in the end you do significantly more "flying" than during cross-country, but you actually safe money and time. During cross-country, as far as the flying is concerned, you mostly just sit there. The processes and procedures can be fun. Still, as I said, I did not really gain anything from flying to some other place, another reason for aerobatics, where you end up at the same airport you started from.

Two images from a relatively cheap but modern positive-G-only acro training aircraft, back then one of Attitude Aviations:

https://i.imgur.com/Rd5VW3R.jpg (trying to take a picture while flying a loop - so I ended up with a terrible loop, but I got the picture)

https://i.imgur.com/4bwJn13.jpg (view of cockpit of Grob 115C acro)
Yeah, it's an interesting relative of the CAP Theorem space, from what I can see of it: In theory Windows has most of the raw engineering tools to do hot-patching similar to Linux. In practice Windows seems to prefer for interactive users a Consistency/Fewer "Partitions" over Availability and shifts that position for server SKUs. Arguably an interactive user is much more likely to have problems with an Inconsistent OS state and see more "weirdness" from partitioning/splits in the OS state than a server app in a (relative) steady state with well known to the OS dependencies.
JSF (renamed Jakarta Faces)

I know JSF might sound dated but it is actually thriving, with rich component libraries like Primefaces.
See the latest:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-7310-4

And check Primefaces:
http://primefaces.org/showcase/index.xhtml
Sure, their primary problem was extravagant hiring, but I think this is still an important warning for developers working in fledgling companies that are appropriately cautious on the hiring side.
Holy shit. How do you even spend 10M/Month?
Ask HN: What is Marc Andreessen talking about
I saw Marc Andreessen tweet "Buy physical copies of any book you plan to read in the future. Do it now." and thought there was a solar flare coming or something.

https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1511929365264805897

He's also been non-stop tweeting about "current thing", is there some SV drama that's gotten him worked up?
One of the problems with this line of thinking is the baked-in presumption that a black justice on the SC is relevant for the lives of black kids in bad neighbourhoods.

I find this presumption rather suspect, because earlier heavily racialized schools of thought that assumed a deeper bond between people based on their skin color didn't achieve anything either. Ethnic groups are huge and thus very loosely connected, if at all.
>I am saying they should be cut down to size.

I've heard that a countless number of times and yet nobody has been able to come up with a good way to do that or even demonstrate that it needs to be done, or demonstrate what it would accomplish, or demonstrate that it would not make the problem worse. Every congressional hearing I've seen has ended with a failure to even explain the basic reasons why it's being done. It all seems to eventually revert back on a list of personal grievances that some individual or group might have with the company, which do not require antitrust action to correct, and the judges notice this and throw the case out.

I would be much more in favor of something like GDPR, but the US has no political will to enact something like that, it's all personal grievances all the way down, on both sides of the aisle.
There's a bug in your sidebar's CSS on large screens

https://imgur.com/a/eSMPtiR
I have no desire to be vindicated. I'd like a peaceful life. That involves minimizing fights.
Can Backblaze B2 be paired with Cloudflare for similar effect at a lower storage cost? Backblaze does support an S3 compatible target [1].

[1] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-b2-s3-compatible-ap...

EDIT: Thank you for the reply!
I should be a part of a cockroach team, in my estimation.
Not sure how much this would matter, given that there are plenty of feature stabilizations and other planned and/or proposed language changes in the pipeline.
> BTW there have been several publications that performed modelling on large integrated grids that found there would be very little overprovisioning needed if we have a Europe wide grid (it always blows somewhere).

I tried for a long time to find such publications (for or against renewables). Could you like a few of these? Thanks.
I bet I can stack boxes in a truck better than any pre-Tetris playing person before me!
Ahh...not hot dog.
> Yes, list prices are intentionally below market but you know what ... houses are going for crazy amounts because we are in some sort of a bubble

Why? The last 40 years interest rates have continued to decline and inflationary pressures have hurt the value of every currency. What reason is there to believe this won't continue indefinitely (low interest + ~2% y/y inflation) and that the market is simply pricing things well?

Clearly all these homes are being bought so it would appear people have the money.
Exactly. Why can’t we focus on the ideas and not the person?

(Unless the person is relevant to the idea but in most cases this is not true).

Everyone is so eager to pile on. It lowers the quality of the discussion.
As a contractarian libertarian, I agree, and in fact I am in favor of open borders. And Canada's age-demographic profile is terrifying, given that the baby-boomers are heading into retirement. We can use as many tax-paying millennials and gen-x'ers as we can get.

Perhaps you and I should get together and we can explain to a group of detached-house-owning baby-boomers/empty-nesters why liberalizing or eliminating zoning laws would lead to optimal land utility and that they should be ok with allowing row-houses in their neighborhood. And that would be an interesting conversation.
An important lesson I learned while working for a startup - pay attention to the revenue stream and pay attention to expenses. The two will not stay out of alignment for long. I've talked to start-ups not paying any attention whatsoever to their revenue stream, they seem to think the bonds are the revenue stream. Many of those startups are quickly gone. When looking at a start-up make sure they have a good grasp of their revenue, their expenses, their revenue forecasts, etc. If they start hand-waving or show numbers that are out of whack then you're better off passing on their "opportunity."
An Ask HN analysis: How Hacker News users host and build their sites
Beautiful work, and I'm sure very encouraging to someone with unrealized talent.

"For all that could have been" has a real Gustave Dore vibe to it. This was done with a paint brush, not digitally? How long does it take you to produce something like that?
Well, there are fixed principal payments - it depends on the term on the loan, and is weighted in various ways when it gets paid, but generally it’s set when the contract gets written. Otherwise, how would the lender know how long the cash would be out of their hands?

Interest rates are supposed to cover the lender by compensating them more than they lose by writing the loan (due to things like the time value of the money, inflation losses, etc).

If no one pays interest worth writing the loan for (aka they get more money than they think they would lose at the end) then who is going to write it?

Maybe the gov’t as a policy thing? But ugh. Talk about a recipe for bad loans.

And if Germany writes themselves a bunch of Euro denominated loans for $20 trln worth of electrical equipment and infrastructure that would certainly bottleneck on a few, often foreign manufacturers? Then you’ll see that trade balance get weird quick.
“There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair.” --John F. Kennedy
Yeah I guess you can even say at what point is "communication" actual communication vs a response to stimulus? We can communicate with humans through speech. We can partially communicate to animals like dogs through speech. Is exerting a force on an insect an act of communication? How about excreting some chemical near an amoeba? Then back to mycelium, does stepping on a forest mycelium carpet constitute communication and thus consciousness?

It's all very fascinating but it seems to break down very quickly as the definitions mean nothing.
So is 600k
> It's too late to avoid the consequences

What _are_ the consequences?

I'm legitimately unaware of any macro side effects of plastic pollution aside from it being ugly.

I know microplastics are found in everything and that seems bad (I don't want to eat plastic) but is it actually harming me? That fact that it's so persistent leads me to believe that it's just passing right through animals and not really breaking down and polluting the environment (again, aside from being plastic in a place I don't want it).
>Dozen of decade+ billon+ customer contracts at this point make shutting GCP down a silly thought.

Really crappy that the demos sucked tho, sorry :(
> Quantum Computers are no more powerful than Turing Machines

They are more powerful in the sense that P-time for quantum computers (aka BQP) is hypothesized to be larger than P-time for Turing machines. That is different from every classical model of computation (RAM machines, etc.) that we usually talk about. It's hard to call something a cellular automaton if it has to expand exponentially in size as it evolves. Thus, 't Hooft concretely predicts that if his CA model is right, then quantum computers can't work. Idk whether Wolfram addresses this issue.
I was diagnosed with cancer at 30 and the initial prognosis wasn't great. Turns out it wasn't that bad and I easily beat it but it certainly changed my view on life. My 30's have been great. I get a lot of satisfaction from my family, my social life, my work, etc. I've made peace with where my life is at and I feel like I have control (to a degree) on where it's going.
The only reason you can't run a plane jet engine on random crap you pulled from fat trap diluted with some solvent is that a lot of the parts are designed to be lubricated with kerosene, so essentially fuel is also piped for lubrication in many places.

The actual burning part tends to work so long as you can 1) push the fuel through the atomizer efficiently enough 2) it will burn "well enough" at the pressure provided (you don't want unburnt fuel fouling up turbine).

I believe some turbine engines have been demonstrated to operate with coal dust mixed with ethanol, and similarly with wood dust - engines that normally operate on diesel.
They don't have air supremacy, and even air superiority is iffy and region dependent.
SAMs also require ground support or they get overrun, captured, and potentially used against your own aircraft. I'm guessing this was a consideration for Ukraine's placement of air defenses.

Many things in the military are rock-paper-scissors considerations:

- SAMs beat planes.

- Planes beat ground forces.

- Ground forces beat SAMs.

Within the ground forces themselves:

- Infantry beats tanks.

- Tanks beat artillery.

- Artillery beats infantry.

Examples of this kind abound.
> I know someone who commutes from Kitchener to Toronto on GO, so they don't even have to put up with driving, and they're debating moving back home to Winnipeg for a 40% salary cut just to not have to put up with it any more.

Isn't this a good thing in some ways or maybe many/all ways? Now wealth is less concentrated in one or a few locations. Every dollar not spent commuting is a dollar spent at a local coffee shop, or money that goes into the tax base of the other city.
Well...maybe. I will say USG is super on top of their shit when it comes to passports overseas. Total adhesion to protocol, and well thought out protocol at that, I have to recognize that in the face of your accusation of incompetence. You could be right too, not saying you're not. But I feel obliged to vindicate them.
Ketanji Brown Jackson was raised by well-off parents, attended a top high school in Miami, went to Harvard. She personally has not at all suffered from past injustices. If you think that society should be structured so as to remedy past injustices by helping the disadvantaged, then do that. But help the people who are actually disadvantaged, not those who happen to have the right amount of melanin.
I'm slightly confused. How does relying on multiple third-party moving parts improve your supply chain ?

A quick glance through the blog post shows, for example:

- A reliance on github runners to compile (rather than in-house)
- A reliance on a third-party signing service (rather than own CA)

I'm probably missing something obvious, but I just don't get how this helps ? In my mind it seems to add extra places for security issues to be introduced ?
Scrypted Named as Integration Partner for Cryptoart's Forthcoming NFT Project
I fell into the trap this year, down overall but had a couple wins. Some thoughts:

Watch out for your downside. Reflection-generating coins pay out based on transaction volume, there's always a lot of traffic at first but then they die out. Dead coins make no payouts!

Nodes are a little safer cuz they "guarantee" payout, but gotta watch for an ecosystem that has trustworthy players and wont collapse in a month. Also Nodes have transaction fees when you get the payout, so if you have a bunch of small nodes that translates into lots of fees. And ETH fees during the day are insane right now.

Staking seems the safest but that's the lowest rewards

As always if the base coins crash (i.e. due to a european war) then the payouts are gonna crash too.

Nothing is as valuable as sitting on a pile of ETH that you can flip into a good deal when you see one.

Dont forget to calculate Buy and Sale taxes into your decision making. I made a lil spreadsheet I can plug values into, basically need at least 2X on the sticker price to make any overall profit. And forget about selling the top/buying in after the crash, fees eat up all your margin.

Oh yeah, then there's real world taxes. Conservative approach is to count payouts as income in the year it is earned.

Bottom line, treat it as entertainment and budget accordingly!
yea that friction is good. i wrote some code. someone liked it and added a dependency of their app on my app. i needed to update my code - all the sudden i was responsible for updating some other random app and ensuring it kept working - behavior we considered a bug and they didnt, so both code versions needed to work. the monorepo let them make an api where one was never intended to exist
I don't follow. The title seems to capture the essence of the article.

"I once opposed efforts to create a classroom climate in which students are protected from speech they find emotionally upsetting"

"Now I think that ... we need to take the comfort of students far more seriously."
Your last line is pretty much my exact opinion. I'm an idiot, but I struggle to see how significant taxes (and I mean SIGNIFICANT - something like having all rental income and cap gains on secondary residences taxed at the highest rate ~54%) in these cases wouldn't have extremely broad appeal. Make the sector unappealing as an investment class and you should stop seeing unfettered speculation. The idea of housing being an investment in general is warped.

The principal residence tax exemption is also a joke but I also understand it's political suicide to try and get rid of it and at this point, since so many people have their life savings tied up in real estate, you'd probably be causing more problems by removing it.
In exchange we get population mobility; without this tax break homeowners would be very reluctant to ever sell their house and move someplace else. Also, housing capital gain isn't completely tax free; we all pay increasing amounts of property tax as the value appreciates. Although those taxes are baked into rents so maybe that's a wash depending on one's point of view.

Policy is hard and unintended consequences are around every corner. For example, I could see an argument for changing the scheme to a special rebate. So you pay your capital gain tax when you sell your primary residence but then get it all refunded when you buy another one. But then this scheme would wind up dinging senior citizens with a massive tax hit just when they're trying to put together cash for some end-of-life care.
To their credit, US and EU funding agencies agree with you! Back at the start of 2016 or so, the NSF started adding clauses to grant contracts requiring that all research supported by new NSF awards be deposited in its open access repository: https://par.nsf.gov/ Results from there don't seem to show up in major search engines, neither academic (Google Scholar, DBLP), nor general (DDG, Google). Nevertheless, many ACM articles from the past 5 years can be found there. Similar repositories exist for other funding agencies.

Also worth noting: Many ACM publications will be cross-posted on ArXiV (https://arxiv.org) or faculty webpages. It's an open secret that many faculty will publish "preprint" versions of their articles there after the paper passes peer review, but before they sign any licensing agreement with a publisher.
Bidding is a total red herring. Bid what you value the property. Go low if you have patience. If you aren't the best bid, look somewhere else.

Steering is a problem.
It's a fair term for supplying software to other organizations. Where there's chance for it to be tampered with between the two orgs.
Densification is absolutely not unpopular with municipal voters!

My current city, Hamilton, is currently fighting with the Ontario government over this matter. The mayor is a regular feature on the local news and speaks to that often.

Their major push is for more density and resources for urban development. The provincial government has pushed for developing in Ontario's green belt and watershed instead. They've faced massive backlash over that to the point where they had to capitulate in some cases.

The current provincial government is the one pushing for downtown to be filled with parking lots and low-density housing developed outward. They're also responsible for nixing various transit and green power initiatives in favour of highway expansion. It's infuriating.
Posting public data from the county Covid dashboard. “It’s dangerous” I was told.
Yes!
I've been using Windows as long as I've been a developer, and the combination of WSL(2), Terminal, and VSCode (running as Windows process) has been solid for me. I don't use Windows without WSL anymore. PowerShell just never did it for me.

Early in my career I "ran Linux/BSD at home", so it was a natural transition to Windows + WSL.

And on Win11, WSLg gives you gvim as an easy option.

EDIT: But :) There are still plenty of Windows (specifically Win11) things that aggravate me still after so long.
...are you?
No amount of SAM system can gain air supremacy alone: such systems are pretty much useless against planes flying very low (below 500 feet, or 150m) just because the plane is hidden by the terrain.

To get air supremacy, you need to have planes flying in the enemy's sky, but to do so you need to destroy the enemy's own air defence, with what is called a SEAD campaign (which stands for “Supression of Ennemy Air Defense”) and from what is happening in Ukraine it's pretty clear that the VKS doesn't know how to do SEAD (pretty much like the US in the Vietnam war, where they've learned the hard way).
I've tested Backblaze B2 as a storage option, and I found that with the level of traffic a typical map backend incurs, there were enough 503 errors to cause problems. This is an intentional trade-off of the B2 design that allows them to set an aggressive price point: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/b2-503-500-server-error/

I'm constantly evaluating all of the different deployment combinations and new features on cloud providers, so part of the service I'm offering is advice for your specific provider and this workload.
Escalation clauses are dumb anyway. If you tell me “I’m willing to pay you up to 100k for your house” then my offer just became $100k.
It's interesting that there's a ground-mobile Russian successor to the AEGIS SPY-1 radar, the 64N6E. The SPY-1 is a very good radar, but it first came out in 1973. It requires a huge amount of support electronics, restricting its use to larger ships. There have been successor US systems, but none good enough to replace it. Squeezing that down to truck size is real progress.
I don't own a Chromebook, but my understanding is that the monitoring would only run for the user with the CPS account, rather than for all users, is that wrong?
Some insist that it causes infertility issues, but the scientific jury is still out on this one.