skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...but I'm not sure that just building more will do much of anything

<sigh>

As long as we have folks buying with the intention of parking money or using homes as an "investment" you're going to have competition with much deeper pockets

Why do you think foreign investors want to overpay for a Vancouver Special? And what do they do with it once they buy it?

Do they live in it? If so, what you're upset about is population growth. Sounds like scarcity!

Do they rent it out? If so, that's a social good in a city with a 1% rental vacancy rate and sky-high rents are as bad as high housing prices. Sacrificing the rental market to save home-buyers sounds like scarcity!

Do those foreign investors leave the house empty? Who cares if we can just build more? And we know (https://doodles.mountainmath.ca/blog/2022/02/14/unoccupied-c...) that Vancouver doesn't seem to have more empty homes than most cities it's size. But of course we can't "just build more". Scarcity!

The truth is that we've seen developers market condo pre-sales in China playing-up the region's dysfunctions - pointing out our 2% population growth rate and the difficulty in building new housing. Investors come to Vancouver because they know the game is rigged - they know that housing prices are mostly one-sided and hedged by political interference. Canada's real estate is "too-big-to-fail" and is mostly up-side.

Don't talk to me about housing prices unless you deal with scarcity.
CRTs had limits on how quickly the beam could scan across a line (and return to the other side of the screen for the next line), which imposed a tradeoff between the number of lines per frame and the number of frames per second. Within a line, the number of pixels per line was often limited either by the speed of the graphics card's DAC or the analog bandwidth of the VGA cable. But sometimes it wasn't, and you could take a monitor originally intended for something like 1280x1024 and get it to display 1920x1080 with acceptable sharpness, after adjusting the picture height to compensate for the changed aspect ratio.
Apparently you don't understand economics. Without the massive investments, housing will be even more expensive.
We're in the middle of updating the org syntax document. I've been preoccupied and haven't gotten a chance to take another pass, but there should be a new version out in the next month or so. See also [0].

0. https://github.com/tgbugs/laundry/tree/master/laundry/gramma...
I also want to refer you to this http://fpgacpu.org/ especially the XSOC links. Jan builds a complete SoC-on-a-FPGA in really 'ancient' fabric (4000-series Xilinx) for Circuit Cellar (articles available on this site). He also hacks a C compiler to emit code for his 16-bit RISC machine (which is very clever).

This is historical, but a 'must read' if you're new to this stuff.
The overhead of going to JS from Wasm these days is very small, and the DOM is relatively slow. So doing DOM operations from Wasm is not much different than from JS; the vast majority of the time is spent in the actual DOM API calls.
BMW still making advancements:
https://www.bmwblog.com/2022/01/14/bmw-working-on-new-combus...

The first article says "Daimler has previously announced plans for Mercedes-Benz and smart cars to offer electric versions of all car models by 2022."

Has that come to pass? No. So their claims of maybe making most cars electric by 2030 should also be suspect. And that's definitely not 2025.
Serving text/HTML from your API
Thank you so much for sharing all these links, they are so useful!
> or integrate with the existing players and add some value

Since 1973. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RE/MAX
Note that the linked article is a critique of the underlying study.
Whether the reason is true, the behavior seems more or less consistent with my experience. Mobile Safari caching seems forgetful on surprisingly short horizons (especially when low power mode is on). Mobile Firefox seems better but sucks down battery life on the order that Google / Apple Maps in active navigation do.

If you have a reason to believe the reality is different, though, happy to hear about more details beyond "this sounds made up."
I really appreciated the concept of "epistemic legibility" as a virtue. Arguments are most valuable when they are clear and concise. It makes them easier to refute if wrong and easier to extend/apply if correct.

As far as I know, the phrase was coined here: https://acesounderglass.com/2022/02/07/epistemic-legibility/
Well that's definitely subjective but in terms of Pay and WLB I think big tech beats startups generally
I've been looking at the Toronto real estate prices a bit, and I'm convinced the real issue is primarily interest rates, not immigration, or construction. Don't take my word for it, ofc:

Immigration:

- Rent has not increased like real estate: https://www.zumper.com/rent-research/toronto-on

- In 2020, immigration dropped by half to 184,500. Real Estate prices went up. https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/ne...

Construction constraints:

- This is probably hyper-local, but in Toronto for example, they are building over 1 new housing start per year for every 100 residents (https://ycharts.com/indicators/toronto_on_housing_starts). That's not bad, it's not the CA Bay Area's situation.

- Anyone in Toronto can tell you there is a lot of home building going on with construction everywhere.

Canadian mortgages don't have the typical 30-year fixed rate that a lot of US mortgages do. Instead, typical mortgages reset every 5 years, and in fact many are month-to-month variable rates. In fact, the percentage of new mortgages originating as these variable rates in Canada has been rising and recently broke 50%. The majority of homes are now financed using a month-to-month variable rate which is set to some profit above Bank of Canada prime rate.

Until March, it was possible to get a mortgage with a 1% or even lower interest rate in Canada. Take a look at the average: https://www.ratehub.ca/5-year-variable-mortgage-rate-history

In Mar 2020, Canada dropped the short term bond rate from 1.75% to 0.25% overnight. In 2008, they did something similar from 4% down to nearly zero, and had only just started raising them back towards 1.75% right before Covid. Only in March 2022 did we see the first rate hike and it was very mild.

Canada Real estate is basically a bubble driven by aggressively low interest rates. The problem now is that inflation is causing the interest rates to rise, and that could pop this bubble, so we might be seeing some of these laws designed to shift the blame.

More sources:

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_property_bubble

- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-15/world-s-m...

- https://betterdwelling.com/the-toronto-real-estate-bubble-no...

- https://seekingalpha.com/article/4477223-canadian-housing-ma...

- https://financialpost.com/executive/executive-summary/postha...
> What about sex? Have you had sex? Do you feel the need to seek out crazier and crazier versions of it?

For porn and sex it's different though. Some people are attracted to things that are deviant and taboo. That's the part they're looking for. As pornography has become more widely accepted, a market has developed for more and more extreme forms of it. This has been documented. It's not the content per-se but rather the nature of it that is found attractive. So the idea is to find a line that's reasonable so the people that feel the need to get close to that line can have that urge fulfilled without damaging society.

A market will form for more and more extreme content as soon as the line moves and what was one taboo no longer is. An Overton window of sorts for pornography.
Ukraine has S-300, Buk, Tor and other Soviet-era anti aircraft missile systems, those are dangerous to Russian air assets. (Many of the USSR's most famous weapon systems were built in Ukraine, the Ukraine has pretty much the same tanks, missiles, etc. as Russia -- that is why Russia has to paint a Z on their vehicles otherwise they couldn't tell them apart.)

The S-400 is an improved version of the S-300, they upgraded all the parts (radar, missile, launcher) but it is the same architecture (which is basically the same as the US Patriot but in most respects better)

The S-500 has insane range, can hit low earth orbit satellites and more relevant it can hit this kind of aircraft hundreds of miles away

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_E-3_Sentry

An aircraft like that can light up the battlefield with radar from far away and let stealth aircraft operate close to the enemy without switching their own radar.

Anyhow, Russians don't believe in "air superiority" (control the airspace with their own plane) but instead they have anti-aircraft missiles to defend the anti-aircraft missiles that defend their anti-aircraft missiles. They might not control the battlespace completely but it will be a dangerous place to fly.
You have some slight misunderstanding.

AES does not need to be a one way function. It’s trivial to compute the preimage of a ciphertext. Just choose any key and decrypt it.
Good feedback; I should add a TL;DR. Basically this is a proposal to create a language that sits somewhere between Typescript and Rust, and which you can incrementally adopt if you already use Typescript.
Simple.

Rendering 3D graphics for games and the supercomputing used by AI/ML/research both need the same thing: Embarrassingly parallel math calculations with little or no branching in the code.

For example, a feed-forward neural network is just a whole lot of multiplication and addition. Transforming a 3D vertex in space to a 2D screen coordinate is matrix multiplication, which is just a whole lot of multiplication and addition. If you've already designed silicon to perform those operations in a single clock cycle, making it do HPC/SC rather than gaming isn't that big of a switch.
I will remind the gentle reader that the originator of the lobotomy was awarded a Nobel Prize for this.

From Wikipedia:
"The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses", although the awarding of the prize has been subject to controversy."
And there's always Tony Robbins, Jordan Peterson, and a wealth of other self-help types. Picking any system is better than nothing, and gives you context for selecting good ones once you're familiar. Coast on other people's wisdom until you earn your own.
Google is one of the few companies that can get away with this due to the overwhelming backlog of talent they have lining up for jobs. I doubt they lose much from this process, but at a lesser company it would certainly have a far more damaging impact.
Okay but no formalism (formal system) should take up the purpose of metaphysical or physical ontology.

That is a very clearly a mistake.
Canada is a big country. But immigration goes where the jobs are, and those are concentrated in 3-5 large cities which are hitting the limits of sprawl (congested highway commute time) and geography (water and mountains).

Densification is unpopular with existing municipal voters, and bankrupting CPP would be unpopular with federal voters.
I had a Sun workstation with a beast of a 19" Trinitron CRT in the late '90s in my apartment (working remotely for a California startup) and remember it fondly. The lines you're referring to are called "damping wires" in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_grille
Would love to get your input on this Ask.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30948201
Why many experts aren't impressed with the UK's energy plans
> sys admins as a matter of principle refuse to install any additional apps

This is one reason why Excel is a popular programming environment!
I thought elephants did this as well, eating fruit that had fermented, etc.

https://ucalgary.ca/news/elephants-get-drunk-because-they-ca...
My guess is the property tax rates are lower. If you have tons of money and want to store it in property, you will naturally pick the place that offers the lowest % fee.
Good points. I agree that choosing the abstractions wisely is key here.
I work in advertising and know how the sausage is made. However I don't have equity in an ad agency, I don't profit off of promoting advertising. I participate in these conversations to help people understand. Also because they often piss me off.

> The reasoning of "if the system is fundamentally broken, then why are so many people participating in it?" is easily dismissed with any of the major financial crises we've seen.

The financial crisis was about companies making money, which they love to do. Advertising ad spend is about companies spending money, which they hate to do. Unless someone can explain why everyone wants to subsidize advertising agencies and ad platforms.

> Personally I don't know anyone who works on the "how the sausage is made" side of advertising that isn't at least somewhat skeptical of the whole system.

Skeptical of what, exactly? If you use 3rd party impression and click tracking tools, attribution modeling software, and statistically significant testing, I am genuinely confused as to what there is to be skeptical of.

I think the people who say they know "how the sausage is made" and still hold skepticism of "the whole system" are maybe not as knowledgeable as they may think.

In good faith, I am definitely skeptical of a few things. Whether ad platforms are really trying to prevent spam. How 3rd party DSP audiences are built and why they think people are ok with using them having no idea how they are made. Whether or not apps and devices really are spying on people. Whether people are aware of what "privacy" means from an advertising perspective.

But I'm not skeptical about the users that come to my site or which marketing efforts are working or not working.
This connects nicely with Dan's article from yesterday [1], if only tangentially. I think a good habit is to instill a mindset whereby there is a single metric for cost, possibly associated with your main product, and keep track of that cost as it relates to your infrastructure spending. I've seen it before work well. For instance, if you sell computers, the cost could be, we spend $100 on infrastructure per computer sold, and engineers can then argue for spending more effectively.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30936189
Is it? Maybe it's good if the decision to abandon ship is distributed over more people?

It hinges on one thing that I don't know: How likely are already failing companies to recover? Probably with the added condition that incoming help is not foreseeable, because if it's failing but people know help is coming that takes away some of the negative signaling.

I suspect that most of the times struggling companies won't get better, or at beast will continue to struggle and never make it big.

If that is the case, it will be better for both parties, not just the employees but also for the founders, if the life of this failed attempt of a business is cut short. I know first hand that when you are heavily invested pulling the plug yourself is really hard. I have no data, but I would not be surprised if the problem of staying too long - for founders too - is larger than the opposite, pulling the plug too early. Not that the latter is easy to show, since even if you get a large sample, you will never know for certain for many of the data points what would have happened if the plug had not been pulled without parallel mirror universes.
Meritocracies Are Unfair – and That’s the Point
Lets see. Assume I am a realtor, I earn outrageous commissions of 2.5%. Does it make sense for me to jack up price of 1M condo by say 15% above the market and spend a month trying to sell it or to lower the price by 10% below and possibly sell two similar properties in the same month?
Fixed Frequency, crafting an X mode line on a cheap 14", no text readable during boot, fingers crossed if X came up ok, if not, swap monitors, boot with "init=/bin/bash" and goto 1...
FYI if you're treating git as a durable place to save your code you might want to set 'core.fsyncObjectFiles = true'.

I've personally had my git repository become unusable when my laptop lost power too soon after making some commits, before the background periodic sync occurred. (XFS)
Statically Typed Context in Go
Not the angle I’m going down. I’m purely talking about don’t confuse how to engineer a formal system with ontology.

That is the hype about formal systems. They are formal, they do not model the world!
Biden said numerous times that his Supreme Court pick would be a black woman. Sex and race quotas for jobs are a bad thing and contradict the ideal of equal opportunity.
If you cut off foreign buyers then you absolutely will have cut out some competition for the purchase so I don'd see how you can possibly say what you're saying? I mean it's a basic economics principle.
China?

I think China makes Russian AD built under license, so from the local Chinese suppliers.
I don't think it's because of the milk lobby (which didn't exist until early 1900s according to other posts) because I once browsed a cookbook from the 1800s and noticed that many of the recipes called for an amazing quantity of butter. The recipe for bread, which made two loaves at once, called for 1 pound of butter. Pound Cake also uses a pound of butter.
Robinhood Releases Crypto Wallet to 2M Users
Law of shitty click through rates.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/andrewchen.com/the-law-of-shitt...

The best marketing comes from strong value props in an area people are open to hearing them. The magic of Facebook (and Google although now less so) is the ads are extremely relevant, to people who are open to hearing them.

The backlash against ads is because they work, when done properly.
Could this be what the Higgs or dark matter is?
I'm just suggesting that Wolfram's "theory" belongs in the same category as string theory. On some level it is probably a useful tool to understand something about science, say, beyond Deepak Chopra-esque woo-woo ("We are all energy, we are all vibrations", etc.) But it's not currently obvious that there's a there there.
"Humans have always been the same"

It may be true that modern life (be it Industrial age or Information age for your demarcation) is evolutionarily short, remember that the rules of environmentally-triggered gene expression can effectively result in "evolved behavior" faster than actual mutation gathering.

If gene expression is adaptable to social conditions, and social conditions produce the same pattern of gene expression across generations, then the functional organisms: shape, weight, aggressiveness, psychology produced by the pattern of gene expression WILL change on a large scale.

So you could do psychological/anthropological behavioral studies for "modern" humans in "modern" life, if they aren't doing cross-cultural comparisons, and "universal psychological truths" won't be universal.

The big question to me personally is if you have sustained centuries of, let's say, "capitalism-based selection", how much drift is there? Capitalism undeniably rewards certain sociopathic traits that really are only applicable to modern times: plenty of resources, availability of technology, etc. We're probably at the tail end of a long run of "plenty".
Sorry if this comment sounds out of place, there is not bad intention from me... but do you also have a daily set of short and long term expectations for your wife and does she meet them as diligently as you seem to meet her expectations of you?
Cliff – Command Line Interface Formulation Framework
Yup I have his books and am old enough to have been around for all these games back in the day although I didn’t start modding games until Duke3D and Quake. I was actually poking around in the source of Doom the other day to see how it handled vector normalization in fixed point (answer convert the vector to direction vector then to angles then back to a length one vector by virtue of the conversion). It’s very fun to go back and pootle through.
And chocolate, which several European countries adopted as a tradition!
Microcoded CISC has been state of art method to implementing CISC cpus since ... 1960s?

The one x86 that actually had a RISC core inside was AMD K5, which essentially used 29050 core with an x86 frontend slapped on it (in great simplification). Am29k architecture is still used and produced by Honeywell for their avionics systems.
I just decided to restart 'from the bottom' in a ladder game, but this time not trying to progress up the ranks but rather play more conscientiously than fast or good in other ways, or by trying out different ways of playing. So far I've been finding this to be a more pleasurable pastime. The irony is that I'm still climbing the ranks and will at some point reach a ceiling where I'll be grinding again. So far though it's like replaying an old favorite and doing all the side missions.
What kinds of state laws do you have in mind for making a big difference in quality of life?
It's documented well already. The Overton window for pornography has continued to move to more and more extreme forms as what was once considered unacceptable and taboo becomes socially acceptable. It's because there is a market for deviance. Some people are interested in what's taboo and off limits and so long as they are approaching or just crossing that line, they're happy. As we've moved that line these people are no longer happy with the status quo and want content that is taboo, so a new market forms around that.

Pornographers know this and talk about. Read David Foster Wallace's essay on it.
Oof, just one of our customers pays about the same as their full revenue, and we're a cockroach team.

The real thing here is they're not that surprising. A lot of companies with their kind of funding use enterprise sales to force say $5-10M ARR, but there's only so much VC money can force for a leaky funnel, broken product, and overall incorrect market + fit. I didn't appreciate this until maybe a year or two ago. Valuation multiples in 50-100X range are super common (and even wackier numbers in seed/a). Think make believe stories like "well with another 12-18mo of growth this really just a bit over a 30X on some future forward revenue multiple...". The cash almost always leads to overspending, and it's highly unlikely the next 2-3 raises won't blow up and everyone goes home. I'm actually super impressed by the Docker team because they've been one of those rare cases of crawling out of that trap, even if with a lot less of the team.

We get job candidates with high competing offers for companies I know to be rotten inside, yet there's only so much I can say. "Our new hires are getting paid from customer revenue and with equity that doesn't have $50M-$500M of investor thumbs on the scales already cutting you out in 95% of the likely scenarios" generally doesn't punch through the kool aid.
Congressional pressure mounts to pass $52b CHIPS Act
Wow, HTAs. I didn't remember the last time I heard that.
Do it. If quiet introversion is your thing then I think you've got a good plan.

You don't have to be a Manager, and you don't have to be rich. Focus on being happy instead.
But why would they bother? Everyone and their grandma is using Windows anyway, and most people don't even know (or care) there are alternatives.
It's crypto. It's going to be hacked and stolen, the only question is when.
> I don't know if it's just doing better internal QoS-like things at an OS level, or if I got lucky?

Quite a few linux distros do have QoS on network interfaces by default - eg my current linux desktop has fq_codel on physical network interfaces out of the box.