skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, but crucially it's actually land that's valuable, not the housing that sits on it. The worry that allowing more density will tank home values is misguided. Land prices will keep going up as long as the land underneath the houses remains desirable. In fact, upzoning means more allowed uses, which means higher land values, which means more money for landowners.

There are two implications of this: 1) NIMBYs need to realize that allowing more housing isn't going to tank prices; if you're worried about prices tanking, you need not be; 2) YIMBYs need to realize that NIMBYs aren't exclusively motivated by greed. When they tell you that they don't want their neighborhood to densify they actually mean it. It's not covering for racism or greed. People genuinely don't want their neighborhoods to change.

There's hope in this. If the state forces upzoning, then people are going to grumble about it. And some of them won't be happy no matter what. But the average homeowner isn't going to be that upset about it once they realize there's money to be made.
Creepy video shows Tesla detecting people in empty cemetery
I've always wanted a social network where I get dropped into a group with 149 random other people (with replacement from attrition). Just to see what happens.

I would do it myself, but unfortunately, it seems a lot harder to play with experimental concepts today. Or, at least, maybe I'm overthinking the amount of work that would be required to implement something as simple in functionality.
This looks awesome! I've already played around with pyodide and coldbrew doing the same thing for CPython. I use it for an in-memory playground [0] of an open-source desktop app I build [1]. I've been waiting for Ruby, Julia, and R support to add them in too.

That said, I am not seeing a link in here about how to actually use this code. Is there a good tutorial/example somewhere?

[0] app.datastation.multiprocess.io

[1] github.com/multiprocessio/datastation
That's a story that I've heard a few times so far (and seen in person a couple of times as well).
The linux kernel updates every day, yes, but unless there's a security issue, you don't _have to_ reboot into every new kernel your distribution pushes. Certainly no one forces you to.
every single teenager whose parental units asked where gaming skills would come into use later in life as an adult. at least the were hoping for something like that.
Showing up prior to the Reconquista in Europe with a working knowledge of 0 and the Hindu–Arabic numeral system would go a long way. You could probably also figure out distillation. If you aren't too early you could probably invent telescopes, microscopes, and germ theory. And that's without bringing anything other than knowing that those things could exist.

There's probably a good book on practical engineering stuff that would really come in handy. Simple recipes for things like clear glass, gunpowder, interesting properties of coal, navigation, etc.
Canada, famously a country with no free space. Even if the problem was a lack of space, building denser is always an option and none of the big Canadian cities are really overflowing due to population density.
adding a direct link to the screenshot since it hit the limit https://p42.f3.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/QwuLL0NW/aa3989b...
There is just something about large multi axle transport trucks, they look so cool.
No. That’s why I said that people “challenge it to show that it’s science.” Why are you bringing up string theory as if I’m defending it?
> realized they can replace all those expensive discrete RISC chips SGI was using for their 'reality engines', and instead design a custom ASIC from the ground up that does nearly the same things SGI's workstations were doing

This one. It is amazing seeing how some monstruosity of a full-length, full-heigth cards were replaced by, essentially, a single chip solutions. I would recommend something akin to a computer museum to see exactly how it came to be.

On mobile ATM, if someone is interested - leave a reply, I would provide some links on the most interesting ones.
Shock result in particle experiment could spark physics revolution
Capital gains on primary residence is a non-starter. 65% of households in Canada own their homes.

It would be political suicide.
has openai tried their ideas on music ?
I am happy to use linux and run a VPS and a basement server with some of my posting history describing my projects. The reality is it needs constant tinkering and I think most of us don't realize it the same way someone that has a hobby of fixing up their old car doesn't realize they spend many hours in the garage.
That doesn't matter. It increases the amount the first-time buyer can bid from $x to $y, which just means the investor has to bid $y + 1 instead of $x + 1. Since $y is higher than $x all that's happened is prices have risen.
Sure I'll explain myself.
This is Elon's 13G filling. Where does it say anything here about him being a passive investor?
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465...

It's amazing how jumpy the hackernews crowd gets without even reading the document in question. As if Elon's team of lawyers that did this paperwork for him overlooked such a trivial detail.
I knew a guy who would serially impulse buy things off Instagram. I don't know about plane tickets, but his apartment was full of random shit he bought off his feed. Just alone he was probably covering the bandwidth cost of his entire town.
Android phones toyed with the navigation ball for a little while, but it took a lot of rolls of the thumb to get a small movement on the screen -- it should have felt like a trackball, but ended up being useless compared to flicking the touch screen. The last Android phone I owned that had one was the HTC Magic.

I'm hoping physical controls will make a comeback, but they're often incompatible with water resistance. Maybe some day a touchscreen will emerge with good haptic feedback? I can dream.
I assume the OP is referring to Knative[0] which is the framework powering Cloud Run behind the scenes.

[0] https://knative.dev/
The problem with “capital” vs “foreign individuals looking to buy a home” in my mind - is that capital will find a way to camouflage as domestic capital if foreign capital is no longer allowed. It will move the money, register a subsidiary etc and buy a billion worth of housing while we are celebrating that a foreign family couldn’t buy a vacation home.

I am sure banning that wealthy family from China will do “something” to help alleviate the crisis, but I think putting restrictions on capital being used to buy up homes that aren’t primary-residence should be a priority and will have much larger effect.

And to be clear - as it stands with the situation in real estate being what it is right now, I am in favor of massive taxes on real estate investments that are to be used to finance affordable housing to be made available exclusively to first-time buyers and primary residents.
Supply chain protection and security is making its way into thoughtworks radar as well: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques
Is there an actual source for this or is it just the article author's speculation?
Ridiculous ageist policy. If you don't have a home and you're above 40, I'd argue you need the benefit even more.
Helmut Sonneberg: A spellbinder's story of survival, no longer kept secret
apt will tell you the file was changed and ask you what to do (keep current, use new, show diff & merge). so you must've chosen to replace it, or used some gui updater that made the choice for you.
The main purpose of documenting is to show HR that you are documenting, which may get them to reconsider sketchy behavior. But beyond that you are right, suing for being fired rarely works and usually is worse for you than them.
They only lose credibility when they state things as indisputable facts. They should have been saying "based on current research this is our new best guess."
https://keke.dev
I think you might want to make the 'Learn More' stand out against the white background. I didn't see it at all and almost closed the tab until I noticed it.
One alternative is LCC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCC_(compiler)

It is half way in complexity between TCC and GCC or LLVM and was created to be educational. I think there are major differences between more recent versions and what it described in the book.
There's a semi-easy way to spot a Trinitron if you knew where/how to look for the tell. There were 2 horizontal lines that were shadows from some bit of wiring that could be seen when viewing the screen when certain images/patterns like solid colors were displayed.
And if you dislike that, you can work on solving that! It doesn't take grand gestures. Start by reducing the level of plutocracy where you work, for example. People will remember what that feels like and bring it over to their political opinions.
Funnily, I'm almost exactly in the same situation right now, having recently switched jobs. With the exception that I don't have admin rights, and our sys admins as a matter of principle refuse to install any additional apps.

Windows does not come with any compilers or scripting languages installed out of the box (or so I thought. Thanks to HN - see below - I've now learned that there are some for .NET). But luckily, I discovered HTAs, and so now I'm happily implementing a small Emacs clone in it to get out of Notepad hell and back onto a path of sanity.

Also, I'm looking for a new job.
In other words, people will be forced to weigh options and tradeoffs, just like they have to do with everything else. If you want a SFH very near to an urban core, then you'll have to pay what that's actually worth relative to alternative uses for that land.
I’ve found that while I did spend a lot of time at first figuring out how to write testable code, I now am so much better at writing in this way that I am much more productive since everything has great test coverage. Saves me going back to modules I wrote 2 years ago to add features.
Well I share your feelings toward the whole situation for sure but I'm not sure that just building more will do much of anything. 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.

This outside competition detaches local prices from the local economy. Likewise the speculation sets an anchor(comp) for neighboring homes when they go to sell. One investor overpaying by say 100K.. well now next month if Average Joe wants to sell he can now ask the same or more. Rinse and repeat just a few times and you get to where we are today.
Now that there are cleaner alternatives we don't need new nuclear anymore to save lives.
I agree with you there! I do think the risk of an update breaking your setup is much more likely than with macos or a windows machine.
That’s not going to happen. We have had this discussion on HN for a decade now. People are misled by “it’s simple, solve for X.”
This might be crazy talk, but simply advancing when clicked/tapped would have obviated all these workarounds, as it is a basically a slideshow where you advance by scrolling X distance instead of clicking.
Somebody is wrong on the Internet.
vote.
A bit random, but, the guy on the left must have been nodding or something, and the camera being used had a slow shutter speed. I did a double take in seeing two mouths.
Yeah, component cables with 5 BNCs RGB+Hsync+Vsync. Good times!!
I've always wondered how things would have played out in the americas if someone had invented something like the Chinese wheelbarrow[1] which is meant to work something like a human powered cart.

[1]https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbar...
Yes I also think I have a personality prone to addictions. For example I've never touched WoW because I know the theme of the game, I know myself and I'm pretty sure I'd get hooked to it, probably to never come back to real life :D

Good luck getting away from the car stuff. Maybe try sports, it's something I really want to start this year. Even if we get addicted to sports too, at least it will be healthy!
I'd assume it was on purpose, given the obviousness of the pun.
> you can also pipe output from a PowerShell command to a Linux command.

Agreed - PowerShell <-> WSL integration is pretty nice. Just remember (mostly for others reading) that PowerShell has a nasty habit of automatically appending a trailing newline when piping to external commands like WSL. So you often need a "tr -d '\n'" in the WSL part of your pipeline.
I agree with the maddening UI and library inconsistency on Windows.

I disagree with the non-composable software comparison. Comparing Windows GUI composition with CLI composition is apples and oranges.

Let's leave GUI tools out of this and compare the Windows apples to the Linux apples. Windows has PowerShell and what's even better: it's about robust object-oriented composition rather compisition by fragile text parsing. In PowerShell, you can pipe well-formed command output (objects) as well as tell which information you want to see and in which format. List, tabular, JSON... You can also use this shell on Linux because Powershell Core is cross-platform.

Sure, there are strong arguments in favor of the more Unix-like shells too but I strongly disagree that Windows commands lack composition. It did for a long time, but that's many years ago now.

Environment Variables: I honestly find I'm updating env vars mid-session and wanting them refreshed immediately pretty rare these days. But if you must have this, I hear Chocolatey installs a helper utility to re-read them (refreshenv) that can also be grabbed "stand-alone".

Bad Terminal: The much improved Windows Terminal is preinstalled with the latest versions of Windows and can be set as the default terminal.

Clipboards: Try Microsoft PowerToys for multiple clipboards and much more. No computer enthusiast should honestly be on Windows without PowerToys.

SSH: So this is no issue as Windows has Powershell, in turn with a normal SSH client. I don't really understand this one. I'm confused over which Windows version he is comparing to.

Map Win+Enter to open Windows Terminal impossible?? Interesting one, because the Windows key is normally off limits due to being reserved for system shortcuts. But that just makes for a fun challenge. Two tools involved to achieve this: Windows enumerates shortcuts via the task bar area. The first icon activates with Win+1, the next Win+2 and so on. The aforementioned PowerToys allows reassigning existing shortcuts to new shortcuts. See where I'm going here? Put the Windows Terminal icon somewhere in your task bar. Assign Win+(position) to Win+Enter in PowerToys. Done!

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This article really highlighted to me how deep the Windows ecosystem in fact is, and how it matters to stay on top of things. Especially since Satya Nadella took Windows out of its slumber and straightened out past misdirections since the Ballmer era, things have moved pretty quickly forward. Today, I find Windows to be a pretty strong development platform with the mature Powershell, as well as the smoothly integrated WSL2.
Tweeted about it here: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1512136581867458565
> nuclear power plants can not follow load, they just generate constantly

nuh-uh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-following_power_plant#Nuc...

Modern nuclear plants with light water reactors are designed to have maneuvering capabilities in the 30-100% range with 5%/minute slope, up to 140 MW/minute.[7] Nuclear power plants in France and in Germany operate in load-following mode and so participate in the primary and secondary frequency control.
US vs Europe approach difference was nicely visible right after brexit. US lobbyists for agro sector were trying to persuade UK government to ease EU-based laws on quality of food, farming etc.
> Experts regularly rate it as one of the most efficient health systems, so whoever you're talking to is ill informed.

Maybe.

> Probably listened to too much propaganda from people who want to adopt the widely hated and less efficient American system instead.

Brits don't have much propaganda for the American system, and I doubt the British psyche frames every aspect of British life in reference to American life. That said, your zeal for the UK system and passionate distain for the American system are duly noted.
Thanks. It's a serious answer. Seriously.

If you don't have kids, and not extremely enthusiastic about your work, you will end up having a life purpose problem. Having kids really solves that.

I do feel raising kids well is the most valuable thing I do with my life. Of course I am just a regular guy with a professional job which I do love, but not extremely successfully or something.

You will understand more when you get older. Just think what you will do when you are 40, 50, 60 years old.
Sorry to hear about your issues, and good for you you have enjoyed, and feel assured you can maintain, good paying work fully remote. I indeed assumed full disclosure, both ways. When you have explicitly agreed you will never come in, this should definitely not become an expectation later on.

For the vast majority of jobs though and in the vast majority of cases I still feel it is very normal for people to expect to see each other every now and then in person. Even when the work itself can be done equally well remote and even when there is a significant effort involved.
Really wondering how the Indy has this hagiographic reputation. It was, as far as I could tell at the time, the slowest and generally worst workstation you could buy. People bought them because they were waiting for unix technical software to be ported to Windows NT on x86 and didn't want to spend $100k per seat on RISC workstations they knew were already obsolete.
This is great! let me know if you'd like to integrate this as the reddit option in our desktop extension.

https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch
Books Every Senior Engineer Should Read
Obligatory link to JBR's Ranto. Quite fittingly, it starts out with a Bad Language warning: http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/index.html
Sure. Did you think this was a counterpoint to my comment? Or what's the relevance?
Details about the query syntax you can play with at https://codestat.dev/explorer

Basic format is:

content:output((REGEXP) -> $1)

For example, this query will find all `License: <word>` instances in code/text files across all 2 million repos. It selects (`-> $1`) the first regexp capture group `(\w+)`:

content:output(License: (\w+)\n -> $1) count:all

There are some options you can add, like `count:all` (get all results it can find, will timeout after 60s), `repo:github\.com/myorg/` (regexp filter to just your repos)

Can use this for code mining, too: to find out what the most common delimiter passed to `strings.Split` in Go is, for example:

lang:go content:output(strings\.Split\(.*, (.*)\) -> $1) count:all
It's only considered a provincial responsibility now because the Fed Liberals of the 1990s completely got out of housing involvement with their big austerity budgets of the era.

The Federal government was deeply involved in funding both for-profit and non-profit housing in the 1970s, the last era where Canada built a lot of housing.
> NIMBYs need to realize that allowing more housing isn't going to tank prices. ... When they tell you that they don't want their neighborhood to densify they actually mean it.

Ya, a lot of NIMBYs don't care about housing prices since they aren't thinking about selling anytime soon, they just don't want the traffic and (perhaps) crime that goes along with density.

I get what they mean since I became home owner. I don't want my view to go away, and crime is already a problem (having some random person come into my drive way to check if my car doors are unlocked is quite unnerving when you can see it happen in real time through your cameras). I bought in an already upzoned area, however, so I'm more concerned if my son can get in the local choice school (which is heavily oversubscribed given the density).
They said they received a demo. That is to say they were among people who got a few minutes to witness the $250k worth of hardware in action.
Cool, do yourself a favour and read this to understand what a 13G form is for: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/schedule13g.asp
Seems like 2 years is about the time it takes to wake up hehe
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4S
The App Store hasn't allowed this for years; only someone who has downloaded or purchased the app can review it.
How do you foresee region/country playing a part in the startups you choose to invest in?
The unconventional guide to AWS EC2 instance types
> Is it possible that you have no goals and see no point in anything you do because you have nowhere to go but down? You are safe. You are fed. You did it. Maybe it is time to kick your feet up and enjoy.

I think that's quite possible. In my view to go up now the cost is very high, either energy-wise or time-wise, with little benefit. As an example I could get more money but not enough to retire in the short term (unless I'm extremely lucky).

Looking at expectations put on me from where I came from, I'm light years ahead, so I should be feeling like "I made it", but I don't.

> Maybe it is time to kick your feet up and enjoy.

Haha, I have to find a way to enjoy it somehow. Unfortunately I have this crippling feeling of not doing enough that seems to drain away enjoyment of the moment.

Thanks for the reference, I'll make sure to check it out
That's 13D... we are talking about 13G
They made most of their money on expensive hardware. Their workstation market was killed by Windows NT and OS X (later Linux too) running on mass-market CPUs once graphics accelerator boards became good enough. Their server market was killed by Windows and Linux running on mass-market CPUs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics#Decline
Only helps for M1 macs. Intel T2 laptops are in a particularly bad spot when it comes to Linux support and things haven't really gotten better. You still need to add drivers to get the keyboard/trackpad working (AFAIK not supported on all kernels either), you can't have audio AND suspend just one of them, WiFi is a pain. I tried on my 2018 just had freezes every five minutes on the 1/3 of times it would boot correctly.
Previous discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30888708
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30896217
Same for my Windows servers.
I think micro-commits would make me overthink my commit messages even more. I'd love to keep snapshots of my code in different stages, but without having to put a label on X part of Y feature at Z stage.
i guess everything was fast
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Windows has File History, which I sometimes use to restore a file or directory to a prior state.

Also, some editors/IDEs have a file history function (separate from version control).
If we're going to get into it, coding with git makes you more of a trad climber and less like a free soloist. Sometimes you run it out when the going is easy, sometimes you put in some extra protection when it looks sketchy. It's all about knowing your limits and taking calculated risks.

No one ever forces you to pull out all your gear and free solo the route, just like no one is going to delete your git repo and ask you to rewrite your code from scratch. These are just things a tiny minority of people do, sometimes with disastrous results.

That said I like the analogy. But maybe the take home is that we don't all need to be Alex Honnold, where one mistake means certain death, and can instead settle to be the guy who takes the occasional 15 foot fall.