skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Giving individual citizens/permanent residents a one time benefit to buy a house will at least give them an advantage over second home buyers or foreign speculators. It would definitely drive prices up (to be honest, tax exempt $31,900 isn't enough to do much though), but it should be a net win for those that have it vs. those that don't.

A more extreme version of this is the public housing Singapore sells at a subsidy to each citizen (as long as they get married, and there is still a waiting list since supply can't keep up with the benefit).
Get a computer that you can't play it on and put your gaming rig in storage (or have someone get rid of it for you). Then figure out something to fill the space.. build a new habit for example... exercise (walking/running)
I think you and I are in agreement. By not focusing on mass market appeal, raspi isn't reliant on massive (traditional) ad campaigns.

I see this as a feature, not a bug.
If you are stuck in such job, set up openssh server on the Windows laptop, then get a Linux laptop and use Windows laptop as an annoying but necessary network router. That reduces the need of dealing with Windows.

I wouldn't want to deal with Windows as a daily driver by any means.
Haha thanks! I took the simple route that saves a few keystrokes.
> Note however that US academic institutions basically cut all research into these subjects due to political and industrial pressure. It started with Republican attacks on USGS funding for environmental pollution research in the early 1990s, and continued with NIH cutting funding for environmental carcinogen research in favor of inheritied genetic explanations for cancer. Hence, 'little firm evidence'.

Other nations aren't researching this?
I agree NIMBY is definitely not a Canada-exclusive thing. I would say that it's far more prevalent in western countries.

Japan's zoning laws are at the federal level so despite growing population in Tokyo metro, they have comparatively less affordability issues. It's crazy (as a Canadian) to think that Tokyo's central wards have roughly 3x the population and same land area as Toronto but are still able to have sub $1 million detached homes.
Here’s something I don’t get about Wolfram and insisting on a computation-like underbelly of the universe.

Computation is built on the idea of Turing machine. But what is reading the tape in Turing’s analogy? A human! The tape and Turing machine are designed so that every human agrees upon its formal validity.

It’s not a statement about mental states or computation based “reality”. More than all of those and first, it is a about how society can use social rule-following and basic step-by-step processes (using language) to create formal systems.

A human reading the tape or even a human with pencil and paper. That is the main analogy.

So why do so many like Wolfram think computation is reality? It seems from the get go he is headed down the wrong track.

You and I are computers and computers can think according to Turing. But TM’s came about to develop formal systems.

To me Wolfram and the Churchlands seem to have completely unjustified claims.
Part joke part truth: become a game developer. Since I started to make games I spend much less time playing them. Also sometimes I just have to play more diverse set of games to use them reference for my game design job.

Okay now here is serious note.

> Is it possible to have a "healthy" amount of playing?

Talking from experience - even without taking real drugs into account it's certainly possible to get "unhealthy" amount of anything: reading or listening books / podcasts, or digging into Linux, or even swimming.

Instead of "fighting" some "gaming addiction" you need to try find other interests be it front of PC and in real life. Make it a goal to find something else that also make you happy be it books, DIY, sport or social danding.

Once you have healthy number of interests other than games then not wasting all your life on single thing become so much easier. My personal take on issue of addiction is super simple:

1 - First of all I have a queue of all interesting things I wish to do: films, series, anime, books, podcasts and games. And I add things to this queue once I find something that make me curious.

2 - Also I have a rule to go and check some new things from said queue so I don't stick to one single thing for way too long.

3 - And when it's come to games I also try to honestly ask myself "Am I really enjoying every second of it?" Because some games specifically design to take you into grinding and enjoyment-frustration loop. So why continue to play if game no longer make you feel good?

I understand that some people might have worse problems with self-control than I, but I hope this small piece of my own experience will help someone!
It seems to me that 'crackpot' is a bit strong. Even if one thinks Wolfram's foundations of physics project will never bare useful fruit, it's undeniable that he has made progress in other fields that are of interest to many people.

A simple case in point: the study of logic has been a interesting human endeavor for thousands of years, since at least the time of the Greek and Vedic schools. After thousands of years of study, a major breakthrough was made with the first formalization of propositional logic (as Boolean algebra) by George Boole in 1854. Since then, there has been a search for the simplest foundational formal axioms from which all of propositional logic could be derived. This project ended in 2000 with Wolfram's discovery of, and proof that, [1] is the shortest possible single axiom that can be used as a foundation for all of propositional logic.

[1] ((a⁍b)⁍c)⁍(a⁍((a⁍c)⁍a)=c, where ⁍ is NAND
Regardless of what a license says when the lawyers come knocking on your door it's going to cost you the same in the end.

With the inclusion of the verbage that they are licensed as apache 2.0 a freely usable, that generally shows intent of Google on how they are to be licensed regardless of if they are using a boiler plate or not.

As they say consult a lawyer. Because if there is any kind of dispute it's the lawyer who would be defending against that dispute and so they would make the judgment of how defensible the position is. At the end of the day regardless of how clear a license agreement is when the lawyers come knocking you better have deep pockets.
This is an interesting question, what is worse for buyers, blind or open bids?

Blinds bids prevent bidding wars. They use them in Scotland. Not sure if buyer or seller is better off using them.
Welcome to Atlanta. There isn't an easy way to get from Gwinnett to Alpharetta.

I did try it via bicycle, and it did take about the same amount of time. But the streets here are vary narrow and southern hospitality ends when you get in a car.
Functionally extinct is when the last remaining individuals of a species are too old to reproduce or don't have any place suitable to live anymore, or all the specimens from one sex are gone and is not a clonal species. Californian porpoise would be a good example.
really, really beefy dual socket xeon probably, or amd epyc, with 2TB+ RAM
Surely intergalactic mathematicians already know that the only time is now? =)

> As Prigogine explains, determinism is fundamentally a denial of the arrow of time. With no arrow of time, there is no longer a privileged moment known as the "present," which follows a determined "past" and precedes an undetermined "future." All of time is simply given, with the future as determined or as undetermined as the past. With irreversibility, the arrow of time is reintroduced to physics.
Git has abhorrent user interface / experience, thank God some people with fine taste in design made Magit, only way I can keep my sanity if I have to use Git.
Until the local government cuts funding to the nuclear plant. Then maintenance goes undone, and eventually you're leaking radioactive waste into the local environment.

If you build a wind farm in the desert, and in 40 years it's abandoned, it's not really a big deal. I guess you're unlucky, one of the turbines might fall on someone, but you're not going to have dangerous nuclear waste to dispose of.

>How antiquated, you ask? In Washington, there is a pipe break every day. And according to EPA data, thousands of water and sewer systems across the country may be too old to function properly -- so old, in fact, that some were built during the Civil War.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/despite-civil-war-era-pipes-am...

Assume that anything you build today, may be abandoned in a few generations.
It wouldn’t ruin lives to reduce wealth that was stolen from people unable to buy homes. It would also help their kids. Something lots of modern homeowners don’t give a shit about at all.
Weirdly I loved The Witness and really didn’t get on with The Outer Wilds. The story didn’t grab me, and the controls were unbelievably janky.
Monkeys eat fruit containing alcohol, shedding light on our taste for booze
This is no realistic majority attack against Bitcoin today, and we must ensure that it is not possible. It is impossible to prevent State fuckery in PoS, this is by design.

There already are state actors using this as their future battleground. The future of war is hashwar to inflict economic turmoil on the enemy.
Thanks for doing the work. I'd do it, but, don't want to risk have my google account banned for life, only to wind up making a thread here begging for a human to review it.. I'm sure they've badlisted things based on previous campaigns.. and now it's just stuck in the badlands forever.
interesting idea about blocking reddit...
You would make good money by just peddling the bottle themselves for majority of history. Glassware, fine China and other vessels that can contain your dyes are not cheap before the industrial revolution.
As someone working on the most popular Zanzibar implementation[0], I think this article is a pretty good introduction to the idea that both policy engines and ReBAC databases have their use cases, but it doesn't offer great recommendations for what those use cases are. The article recommends policy engines where you'd want to apply global roles, but this is actually a commonly expressed pattern for schemas in SpiceDB and not something that requires a policy-forward approach.

I use the following as my "rule of thumb": ReBAC databases want to have deterministic computation for your permissions. In the default case, this should be your ideal as well as it is the most understandable/scalable/testable/auditable/debuggable. But reality is that there will be places where you'll want _some_ non-determinism and in those scenarios it makes sense to leverage policy engines.

The SpiceDB community is exploring what it might take to support adding lightweight policies to the Zanzibar-like model to have the best of both worlds. If that sounds interesting, you can participate in the proposal[1].

[0]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb

[1]: https://github.com/authzed/spicedb/issues/386
I recall CRT monitors were capable of some quite high resolutions (often with a compromise to refresh rate), and it took a while for LCD panels to overtake them.
I think everyone goes through this to some extent. Kind of a melancholic vibe which makes you feel you're at the wrong place at the wrong time.

If it happens too often for your liking, or it bums you too much, it might be worth to talk to a therapist about it. Maybe all you need is for a professional to tell you it's normal, or maybe it'll reveal something deeper that you'll want to explore with a therapist. In any case, it's worth investigating if it bothers you.
The SGI Indy "pizza box" was also a VFX and 3D animation classic in that era.
>In 1995 I think there were 16:9 aspect ratio japanese model TVs but I am not sure about monitors, might have been more like a 4:3 1600x1200 display

Nope, it was definitely 16:9, but I was mistaken, it was an Intergraph[1], not SGI like I originally thought, but still connected to an SGI workstation.

Just look at this beast[1]. Also, the monitor is in the photo as well :)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/crtgaming/comments/gxvm99/legendary...
Sizzler promotional video from 1991 that served as inspiration for Severance
I seem to recall that some manufacturer's have been found to programmatically alter behaviour of hardware & background programs/services when a benchmark is running, creating results that are not achievable otherwise in other programs.
I teach kids this, "you might not be able to make the whole world better, but you can make your neighbors life better."

I also heard something like, "everybody wants to help the world, nobody wants to help mom do dishes."

Enjoy the little things and do what you can to make the people around you a little happier. That's the secret to a good life.
That's not complicated, it's a second negative externality. Foreigners buying and not-occupying large amounts of valuable real estates drives up the cost of new housing, with no benefit the city, even if you squint really hard. A lack of new housing means high prices for the existing housing that the locals are "just bidding against themselves" on. It's a practice that should be taxed into oblivion.
> It's the opinion of the (pro nuclear) ex energy secretary Ernest J Moniz

He's talking about carbon emissions and non-proliferation goals which involves decommissioning weapons. There's 1 paragraph in the whole 38 page document about needing a reactor to produce tritium domestically to keep weapons functional until universal disarmament. You don't need anything more than a research reactor for that, and the DOD could probably just build one if they wanted to.

Trying to connect civilian nuclear to weapons is FUD.

> You do see how that isn't exactly cheap, right?

I literally never commented on that. I was refuting your claim that it was a hidden, which it demonstrably is not. You completely made up that "Keeping a nuclear industry around is still a good way to keep a lid on nuclear arsenal costs." That is provably false, as demonstrated by the CBO publishing the costs.

> The fact you're comparing nuclear to the fastest disappearing form of unprofitable dirty energy kind of says it all, really.

You could say the same thing about natural gas, nickel mining, lithium mining, and on and on. Nuclear mine tailings are mitigated to the point that they are less radioactive than the background levels of the areas in which they are found. If dams had the kind of regulator scrutiny that nuclear receives, none would ever be built especially near centers of population.
Google's search result quality has been abysmal for years now, cheers for this.
I was looking up vintage race car prices recently (like the kind I'd only dream of affording) and saw a banner ad for an individual selling a collection of his. I clicked the ad thinking it would lead me to a website and it was just a phone number that my phone asked if I wanted to call! No info on what cars he had for sale, just his personal phone number. I wonder if he's ever made a sale through those ads. I considered calling to see what would happen but it was 3am
5% can do a lot of damage considering how prices are set based on "comps", and the fact that a lot of this foreign capital comes from illicit sources, and they are more than willing to pay above market rate to secure the purchase.

Canada has always been a paradise for rich crooks worldwide, and government has always chosen to turn a blind eye.
It is interesting to me that the tens of thousands of people that work at Amazon with their obsession of solving customer needs are not worried about solving the problem of customers not being able to trust where the goods are being sourced from.

Leaving aside the efficiencies of commingling inventory, even the simple filter option to only show sold and shipped by Amazon.com search results was deemed not to be a customer need. In fact, it was removed. Quite a puzzling “culture” of solving customer’s needs.
“Last year, a study by the UK’s ISBA found that almost half of every advertising dollar spent on tracking-based programmatic advertising is eaten by the adtech ecosystem before it reaches a publisher”

https://www.euractiv.com/section/digital/opinion/advertising...

https://www.isba.org.uk/knowledge/executive-summary-programm...
I can't even imagine what that might have cost, it was probably sold for high-end CAD and similar...
> massive investments made by hedge funds, private capital, REITs

I can't recommend this article enough on that subject:

https://www.vox.com/22524829/wall-street-housing-market-blac...

"The role of institutional investors is still being studied, but the popularity of the narrative strikes at something dangerous: People want a convenient boogeyman and when they get it, they often ignore the structural problems that are harder to combat. Housing undersupply is the result of decades of locals opposing new home building. It’s not something that can be blamed on Wall Street greed and the nefarious tinkering of a private equity firm. And that’s a much harder truth to stomach."
Reddle ftfy
The ruling liberal party is out of touch here like many other things.

Key problem here is that the inventory is super low, part of it is due to everyone wants to settle in places like Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver due to high job concentration along with NIMBY attitude among the existing suburbs. There is an inflow of 400k immigrants every year who mainly tend to settle in the big cities such as Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver, putting upward pressures. On top of that, the liberal government flat out does not want to impose tax free capital gain from primary home sales, and wide availability of credits with as low as 5% downpayment which can be used with equities from first, second, third homes.

This is just a political move to show they did something. The liberal party minister once said they don't want to entertain any crush on house prices because that would be detrimental to new home buyers. When buyers get the signal that Government has their back and there will never be a crush [1].

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/housing-canada-policy-marke...

https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal-election/2021/08/24...
Yeah, I used to get very pissy about everything in windows being stashed in the registry but...how is that different from everything being hidden inside systemd, or in a /etc/config file that is silently changed by services?
ML messing with you is an important consideration when you are trying to run this sort of experiment on a platform that you don't understand very well. The most simplest reliable way to run this experiment is to give the ad network an HTML creative that looks like:

<script>
var treatment = readTreatmentFromCookie();
if (!treatment) {
treatment = Math.random() < 0.5 ? CONTROL : EXPERIMENT;
writeTreatmentToCookie(treatment);
}

if (treatment === EXPERIMENT) {
showAd(PRODUCT);
} else {
showAd(CHARITY);
}
</script>

The creative is opaque to the network, which means it's not going to be able to do anything fancy like you're describing.

Many networks offer the ability to run a fully supported incrementality study, where they effectively use one company's ads as a control for another's, but this is a version of an experiment that you can run even if you don't trust the ad network at all.
But it _is_ OK to suck at something as long as you enjoy it.

What does "suck" even mean in this context? A composer might still "suck" if they compared themselves to Johann Sebastian Bach, but is that the most important question in the scheme of things?

The one thing we can all become experts at is being ourselves. Nobody in the world, in fact, can do it better. I think it's best to focus on that.

The anxiety you're describing, I think, is endemic in modern society, especially among the professional class. Whether or not we choose to adopt it is up to us.
TLDR:

> Mozilla will no longer accept 'proof-of-work' cryptocurrencies, which are more energy intensive.

> Mozilla will accept 'proof-of-stake' cryptocurrencies, which are less energy intensive.

Very unsurprising. So they are still accepting cryptocurrencies then, especially non proof-of-work ones which align towards Mozilla's climate change goals, since I and many others said before [0], there are cryptocurrencies that exist that are more eco-friendly than others. So use those ones instead.

Looks like I'm going to watch the outrage on this policy as now they realise that one can accept other cryptocurrencies that are not burning up the planet.

> Mozilla will develop and share a list of cryptocurrencies we accept by the end of Q2 2022.

I can tell you that it will be one of those ones in [0]. It certainly won't be Bitcoin, or Dogecoin.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30271714
>The RAM on these machines were not industry standard — they were proprietary, 200 pin SGI RAM modules available in 16MB, 64MB, or 256MB variants. The memory board (known as MC3), had slots for 32 memory modules — and could handle up to 8 GB of RAM. 16 GB in the rackmount version (yeah, there was a massive rackmount version).

>Think about that for just a moment. This was the mid-1990s.

Let's pose the more theoretical question of what is the most powerful computer that could be built if enough recourses were summoned to make it. We're talking a single rackmount. What about a rackmount the size of a city.
I always wondered why they called their organization the Association for Computing Machinery. It sounds like an association for computers, not people.
Meta takes down Brazil environmental disinformation network tied to military
As much as it pains me to say it... In my experiences if the recruiter email has an Indian name, it's going to be an uttar shitshow.

They will lie to you, blatantly.

They'll use non-standard English that will have tons of ambiguities and brokenness. I believe this is a benefit to them, to provide ambiguity.

The remote/hybrid/in-person status is whatever you ask, and will be updated to the real answer when talking to the client.

The job will flip/flop from to w2 and c2c by whatever you seem to express.

Pay is whatever they think you will like.

There's "benefits" until it flips to contract with no benefits.

Now, that's not to say that a standard American recruiter is somehow good. They're also pretty sketch as well. But so far, in 2y of looking for a new job, 100% of the Indian recruiters have not "did the needful" for me.
We are at the point where foreign and Canadian speculation in housing is making housing totally unaffordable for the vast majority of Canadians. In a country of less than 40 million, it's pretty easy to swamp our markets.

We need to take speculation out of the marketplace.

I'd also like to see a ban on corporations purchasing private homes and significant tax increases on non principle residences.