skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but one thing causes the other and it's not in the causal direction people intuitively think. Foreign speculators and investment firms like Blackrock are only entering the SFH market because supply constraints mean ever-higher prices. It's not like nobody thought to buy up houses 40 years ago. You don't have to be a genius to think of it. I can remember being a teenager and thinking, why don't big firms buy up all the housing and rent it back? The answer is that in most markets homes aren't naturally a good investment. It's a capital-intensive business and you end up with a depreciating asset, small margins, and lots of hassle.

But if supply gets constrained enough that prices complete detach from those fundamentals, then, sure, why not jump in? These investors are only in this market in the first place because of supply constraints, so it's not just that low supply is a more important factor than the investors -- the investors wouldn't even exist if not for the low supply!
>I don't think these drive up prices higher.

It's a demand-side policy to what is a supply-side problem. If the demand is already there, and you induce more demand by providing subsidies, prices will go up. If you want to reduce prices you must either increase supply (building housing) or decrease demand (remove someone, hopefully speculators, from the market).

However, given housing has become a defacto investment asset for Americans and Canadians, I don't see this issue ever being resolved without a political revolution or an economic depression.
If humans were at peak fitness, I think there would be more promise in this hypothesis.

But with the explosion of health issues like obesity and heart failure, confounded by everything from diet to endocrine disruption, it's hard to conclude that we should be leaving stones unturned.

Also, longevity is only one metric. End-to-end quality of life seems to be more revealing to me about the state of our health, not just how long medicine can prop us up despite our issues. For example, why are 26% of men under 40 suffering from erectile disfunction? Why are more people on medications for mental health? etc. To what extent does any part of the system, including microplastics, impact these issues?
We went from people disappearing at Starbucks to people disappearing on Slack.
Stolen as in you literally cant build a home on your own property because the government with guns wont allow you to. The price of homes is not remotely the product of fairness or any kind of free market.
Others have said it but I'll say it again. You need to recalibrate what you think of as meaningful change.

Contrary to popular belief, history was never written by great men.

You might associate a few individuals with the great movements of history, but the people you know by name only echoed the popular opinion of their time.

The real wheels of history inch forward when common people influence their neighbours and children to strive for something a little better than the status quo.

Do something. Take the smallest step that is recognisably in the direction you want society to go.
Docker SBOM: A step towards more visibility into Docker images
Your example really clicked with me, having written a substantial quantity of JS in a "memory managed" way to avoid GC, and avoiding memcpy by passing buffers in place of pointers.

My initial instinct is that putting such considerations behind a preprocessor syntax has the disadvantage of making them more opaque and magic, and that I personally would continue to do such things more explicitly - which I realise is an ironic thing to say about an untyped, interpreted language, it's probably just the little pseudo "grey beard" on my shoulder which occasionally whispers silly things about "building their own computer out of rocks and twigs".

I guess the point is that there's a balance to the cost vs benefit: making it more convenient (what you call ergonomics), making it more accessible to those that were less likely to manually use that technique, and perhaps resulting in an average of more performant code; but at the cost of more obscurity, and more "magic", perhaps resulting in less educated programmers.

I'm probably overthinking it. Ultimately this argument even applies to for loops, but it's worth being conscious of that cost - it's likely a good idea.
Lol. L6.

Look no further folks. This guy Dominic was clearly LARPing a startup.

Leveling frameworks before traction is a joke to me.
As an electrical engineer I am curious how russians get their hands on the mil spec Western electronic components. I mean even in Western Europe I must fill few forms to obtain potentially dual use components. Mil spec Xilinx FPGAs or SiGe transistors aren’t available in every grocery store.
The people writing the laws are all about the scarcity, and they aren’t on HN and you can’t take any shots at them or tell them to f*ck off. They’ve gotten this far by diligently min maxing and if you think they are going to have a change of heart, you’re way off base.
But working at FAANG is not much fun. I think a mix of both startups and Big Tech leads to a happy life.
A T cover letter is pretty helpful. If there are a list of requirements in a job description, comparing yourself to them gives a very good overview, probably even better than a CV.
>Wait, it's yack shaving all the way down?

Always has been..
That's really fascinating information.

Dashboards are all the rage as a way to get teams aligned around "critical numbers" (the metrics that matter).

But, if your dashboards start telling a story of impossibility, your best people are going to leave earlier rather than hang on.

A definite downside to the dashboard cult.
>It is amazing seeing how some monstruosity of a full-length, full-heigth cards were replaced by, essentially, a single chip solutions.

Yeah, I'm surprised SGI didn't see the tides turning as the ground shifted beneath them and the rest of the industry leapfrogged them.

But that's what made SV great, young visionary companies could come out of nowhere and eat the lunch of old dinosaurs who lacked the vision.
> Stop championing scarcity by blaming scapegoats. Either we limit Canada's crazy-high immigration rate (1% of population every year) or we build more homes which is mostly gated by illiberal zoning laws passed by municipalities. But both of these policies are very popular so you'll be swimming upstream, politically.

I'm all for building more houses in cities/high demand areas, but doesn't Canada only have a population growth rate of around 1%/yr? It seems like you could easily build your way past that without giving up the advantages of immigration and a little population growth.
There is no "yet". NATO consistently refused repeated requests of Ukraine to join. Even the Ukrainians themselves weren't too much interested before Putin started the war in 2014 (<30% in 2012, almost 70% five years later).

The situation of Ukrainians is simply tragic, they never had any real choice. They could either become Putin's slaves or face a bloody war. They made their choice hoping he would not attack but were mistaken, and now they have to pay. After the war is over the whole Europe will start rebuilding their country, but nobody will revive the ones killed by Putin's army.
BC/Vancouver did this. Wasn't a silver bullet that made housing affordable overnight, but it add thousands of units to the market and there's evidence that it influenced the sort of housing that developers built more toward apartments for renters.
It is because Realtors are crooks. That's about it. We also had to tack down assignment clauses so that realtors wouldn't re-sell their client's houses for more and pocket the difference.

I also want to see mandatory home inspection, seems common sense.
But I prefer to write other languages, so a compilation target is perfect.

So it's either wasm or something like scala.js or fengari.io (lua on the web)

(Worry not, I am paid to write JS and TS these days... But my rate increased due to the pain it causes ;))
Yes, you are right, the problem with the game I played is the ladder system. And yes there is definitely not an end. There will be always a better player than you.

Problem is video games with defined endings don't really appeal to me at all. I'm not really into video games in general, it was just something particular about this game that got me hooked. Will try sports now
https://shapeyourcity.ca/vancouver-plan

They're trying to fix it, please join in the discussions and open houses... too many NIMBYs with free time available are participating.
People were being taxed 90% income tax when this shift happened in the 70s.
Wealth needs to be earned, not redistributed by some central party. Unless you choose to live in a communist regime.
Re other comments. I'm just going to put this [1] here for easy access. Write to your congress person! It's by far the most effective way to support these kinds of cases and motivate change.

[1] https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representati...
Open-Source Lawn Mowing Robot with ROS
Seems that you're getting the HN hug of death right now. The site is unusable.
Very cool. It is always nice to read foreign newspapers to get a slightly different take or opinion on topics. I am quite happy that it is only 2,49€/month for a digital subscription.

I considered subscribing to a German newspaper or two, but their digital prices are quite high, often coming in at 10+€/month. NYTimes is only $4/month, but I imagine their subscriber count is higher.
I so wish it was as simple as this. Unfortunately limited time means that doing something implies not doing something else.

Time is the bottleneck and not motivation or whatever. It's finite and we run out of it before we even realize it pursuing ephemeral things.
You're completely right. That was reductive of me. I'd probably edit my comment, but I don't think I can now. Thanks for the feedback.
This is fantasticality fortuitous. I was just discussing this very thing with somebody close to me.

He's worked for many years to become the number one in his field — let's say he's a performer of sorts. He's a _very_ hard worker and it's all paid off for him, he's the top hit for when you search for what he does. So naturally, he's frustrated at paying what he says is about 10% of his income to advertising.

I said he could probably get rid of the ads now, if he's already at the top, but then we began to wonder. I wouldn't put it past Google to start pushing his results down, just to get him to spend again.

I'm well aware all the negative terrible things Google has been doing in the last years has likely just left me a little paranoid, but what do you guys think?
> JS engines probably have tens of millions of dollars of dev effort poured into them by now

And JS engine JIT codegen modules are put to good use compiling wasm.
Probably doesn't help, but for me, just plain being bad at games has definitely saved me (ish) from this kind of addiction cycle, even though they interest me a lot.
When they shoot the missile they point those canisters up in the air. There is a cold gas system that ejects the missile up into the air, it then ignites, then it takes off in some direction like

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ministryofdefenceua/3189460316...

if the engine doesn't ignite then the missile falls back down on the launcher, resulting in this genre of Youtube video

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=S-300+FAIL

Sometimes the fuse goes off when the missile hits the launcher and usually blows up the other missiles in the launcher. Other times the fuse doesn't go off but then you've got an awful unexploded ordinance problem. (Who knows when it will go off?)
Yes, that's the plan. Why do you need a friend for cycling btw?
Yeah but you didn't do it via the ad if I understand correctly. I would never ever do that, regardless of the price or any other fact. As mentioned above, I never click on them by principle, same as I never watch TV programs full of ads. Firefox with ublock origin blocks 95% of ads, for the rest I see if there is quick X to remove them or ignore them hard. If its too annoying I leave the page and go for competition.

The best ad could theoretically achieve with person like me is that I would go to ie skyscanner and check current situation.
The article only speaks of small, single family properties in urban areas.

What about farmland or ranch property or commercial buildings?
> If you’re going to write a terse, incorrect response, at least include a misleading source.

I appreciate that you take your own advice.
You don't understand how these forms work. Both passive and active investors can file a 13G. Why are you just making stuff up?
Whenever I see his name shortened to "Zuck", it makes me think of this from I Heart Huckabees, where the most sacrilege thing a Huckabees employee can say is "Fuckabees". I've always imagined it's the same way at Facebook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJNVwpjU2RY&t=0m58s
This week I got a new MacBook that was setup clean. I spent 45 minutes trying to figure out how to use literally anything other than Vi to make a Mercurial commit. It was extremely difficult to specify what text editor to use. And no, don’t you god damn dare reply with any sentence containing the word “just”.

I’m a life long Windows user (game dev). I’m fully convinced that Linux and macOS are both garbage dumpster fires for development. Linux and Mac users are fully convinced that Windows is a dumpster fire for development. I’m not sure who’s right and whose wrong.

There’s a lot to be said for the devil you know.
>as the physical limit is the size of the "dots" that make up the phosphor layer.

Another physical limit was the weight of the glass. The larger the display, the glass got thicker and thicker to "lens" the beam correctly so the edges/corners were straight. We had a Sony reference CRT for our film transfer/color correction suite that was a 32" HD monitor. MSRP was >$30k for it. (Sony's reference monitors were roughly $1k per inch in pricing.) The thing was stupid heavy requiring a minimum of 2 people if their names were Arnie; otherwise it'd take at least 3 maybe 4 typical post house employees. All of the weight was in the front.
SMB1 can now be removed from the Samba server code
I think the most applicable warning for engineers when it comes to the actual work, as opposed to whether one should join a particular startup, is this:

> Engineers calculated the load Fast had in needing to serve their traffic. The Fast button was rendered less than 500,000 times per day - rarely needed to ever serve more than a few requests per second.

> One of the few warning signs engineers noticed is how Fast spent far more on infrastructure than the scale of the operation would have called for. Engineers sometimes brought up suggestions to scale infra down, and save costs - given there was not much revenue generated.

Sounds like the whole thing could have run on a single cheap VM, perhaps with a second one for redundancy.
Just wanted to let everyone know about a milestone in
coding achieved by David Mulder from SuSE.

David reconfigured our codebase to allow the SMB1 code
inside smbd to be removed using an option at configure
time !

Configure Samba using:

configure --without-smb1-server

and smbd will now no longer include any of the SMB1
legacy protocol other than the minimal "bootstrap"
code needed to allow a Windows client to first contact
the server via SMB1 "negotiate protocol" and then
immediately switch to SMB2 (when the smbd server
tells it we no longer support SMB1). This is the
same way a Windows server behaves once SMB1 support
is removed.
> 3dfx came with their Glide API

As a teenager/young adult in the late 90s/early 00s, I was so glad to see 3dfx fail. I hated how popular the Glide API was since you could only run it on a 3dfx card. I had asked for a 3dfx Voodoo for Christmas one year, and my dad got me a Rendition Verite 2200. It supposedly had better performance than a Voodoo while having a lower price, but it couldn't run Glide, so couldn't play half the games I wanted a Voodoo for.

I didn't want to feel ungrateful to my dad, so my frustration got targeted to 3dfx for making a proprietary API when OpenGL and Direct3D existed.

I eventually got a Voodoo Banshee, but by that time Glide was falling out of favor.
this will be looked back at in the same way as Lobotomies a few years from now
That's a late-in-the-day paper from this year that discusses treatments. In 2020, there wasn't anything to do at all until they found the steroid so you'd need literature or databases info re: fatalities from Italy or the early US sites. Given various immunosuppressant drugs, the risk of cytokine storm is (greatly?) reduced. That's why everything that was approved for humans and might work in that arena were tried in 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus_(computer)
> staff+ engineers, eng leadership,

How does this even exist at a company with essentially no revenue? This should be at most 1 person in "staff+ engineers, eng leadership"
Filed chapter 11 twice.

Bad management made the wrong bet, thought Itanium and Windows would take over the world.

But what really broke all UNIX workstation manufacturers' backs was the unwillingness to cannibalize their products with affordable machines. SGI workstations were not affordable to students, so they got x86 machines instead and installed Linux. Google was built with x86-based Linux boxes because that's what the founders were using and could afford. UNIX workstation manufacturers lost an entire generation of young engineers that way. Apple eventually offered what they should have: Sleek, affordable machines with a rock-solid UNIX underneath a polished UI.
Didn't the UK also sell a large nuclear plant located in the UK to the Chinese and is now paying them to operate it?
If you self-admit it was an unhealthy habit, then I'd be cautious about going back to it. Addiction is not something a person should be willing to edge into, and if you think it's an addictive behaviour, then it probably is. Definitely make sure it is not affecting your marriage or job, that would be a key metric to know for sure if it's an addition and not just a source of entertainment.
Usually, in the 'modern' panels, either scroll to the bottom or look for 'related settings' on the far right and go from there.

I am most familiar with the sound panel, as I keep having to tweak my inputs and outputs cause windows likes to forget I don't want sound coming out of the speakers, for example.

Right click on the volume widget in the tray next to the clock -> sound settings -> related settings pane, "Sound Control Panel". This gets you the tried and true sound control panel we know and love.

You can also short circuit this, by selecting "sounds" from the right click menu on the volume widget, as this brings you to the same XP era sound control panel, just on the sounds tab rather than playback or recording. Its all such a mess.
They did have some degree of connection with France up until 2014 so maybe they might have gotten some from there. Also, sanction busting is a thing and the FSB probably has some way to get some components in a shady manner
Landlords are the biggest issue.

Where else can you buy a house for $x/mo , slap a rental on it for $1.5x/mo , and keep .5x/mo AND get equity?

That's a fucking scam no matter how you look at it. And they're adding in NOTHING to the economy. They're parasites that inject themselves on reasonable costing houses and arbitrarily inflate them for their own profit.

And who's predominantly doing this scam? Boomers are. They're the ones who have access to this kind of money and equity.

And who's getting screwed? Millenials and GenZ are.
> you should at least have rebooted your PC 65 times

Really not every CVE in the kernel applies to every system and configuration. You can compile the linux kernel in all kinds of different ways and a decent number of security vulnerabilities found in any given year only apply to unusual configurations.
That could be a driving force, but I’m not convinced that it’s the main driving force. I think it rather has to do with challenges in managing a remote team/remote departments. I’m not saying those challenges are insurmountable, but the challenges there are at least somewhat different from managing people in the same office.
Literally my brother's retirement plan. Good luck to anyone who doesn't have a well off family!
> Cosmic insignificance therapy

Heh, reminds me of the Total Perspective Vortex.

https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2theguide/Index/t/114333

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUJuv6qL_HA
It isn’t secure against the attack because the oracle uses the same key.

The oracle is a tool used to formalize our definition. You’re right that the fact that OTP isn’t CCA secure doesn’t matter in practice because the key is only used for one message so such an oracle doesn’t generally exist.
That first article is incorrect. Look at the source. Even the picture they include contradicts the headline, saying "there will be a battery OPTION by 2024 for all models". Great, but far from majority electric by 2025.
We could always find a causal mechanism mediated by microparticals.
Time to ring up some VCs, buf xD
> Also, if you have anyone WFH with school age children then velocity drops come summer time like clockwork.

Why?
I would not even attend an interview if it's not clear that I can work on Linux in that company. I was forced to use Windows daily for 8 years. After that I got a chance to move to Linux development. I'll never want to go back. Not that Linux is free of problems. But the feeling of being in control cannot be replaced. If I don't accept the wart I can patch it. If I don't want to invest the effort to patch it I live with it. The choice is always mine.
Idk man maybe it’s my own psychological mess of associations but like “fireside chat” just makes me envision a parent with children on their knee. So to me it just seems suuuper condescending.
> one-click checkout scaleup Fast

a what now?
If people were angels, there would be no need for government. Unfortunately, the fossil-fuel industry is going to pollute unless they're prevented by regulation. The industry selects for people who are willing to put profits over moral responsibility, so society can't rely on them not to pollute any more than we can rely on murderers not to murder.
Short-term greed + "someone will figure it out"
Amongst a sea of negatives, that they continued to share these numbers with employees is a positive mark for the culture at Fast. Sure, it's easy to say with hindsight that Fast employees should have seen the demise coming. On the other hand, they also watched one of the founders raise $100M+ from Stripe. Perhaps they thought the burn could continue and eventually the product would reach traction.
Instagram DMs rife with misogynist abuse
I think powershell is considered a scripting language. Even though the version that is included with windows is outdated you can still do quite a bit with it.

And if you can use WSL you basically have all the linux cli stuff available to you.

And if they don't blacklist all executables you can probably just download and run zipped packages -- powershell core, python, go, vim/neovim, and probably emacs can all be run as if they were portable apps and for most things you won't need admin rights.
Most of the land is useless and completely unviable for building anything. Seriously.

Almost all of British Columbia is mountain. We flooded many of the river valleys for hydro power in the 1950s. Can't build on the side of the mountain that easy.

Huge swathes of Canada are muskeg bog and tundra. etc.
I’m still surprised the discourse at HN is reasonably decent still. I do think we end up with majority issues where a cultural bias from a larger population will define “how it is”. But it isn’t too bad.