skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, along with autonomous vehicles and EVs reminds me of the theological perspective "God of the Gaps": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps It's essentially that as science progresses, God is responsible for only the bits we can't explain (e.g.: quantum mechanics today)

There is always some impossible chasm that we can't cross when it comes to new technology. For EVs for a long time it was that they were too slow, that batteries couldn't get enough range, that they were way too expensive. Now it's that we're running out of lithium and the electrical grid can't take it.

I think the lesson is that there are always people arguing new technology is impossible. That doesn't necessarily mean the tech will work out, just that there will be people saying that it won't.
Artists already get paid peanuts from listens on Spotify. It's a shame to see projects like this sucking more revenue away from them. If you really want a quality digital recording, they are generally available for purchase and without violating Spotify's ToS.
Interesting indeed - to have gone from a capital starved era that led to the fetishisation of direct foreign investment to an era where there's so much capital seeking returns that it gets turned away. A strange inversion if ever there was one.
That's actually the suggested installation mechanism for a lot of software. Most recent I can think of were some AWS cli tools, as delivered from AWS. Height of irresponsibility imo.
I can just say wow. I didn't know about Rust and its capabilities until I saw his post. Great work!
Thanks. The next step is to migrate from radar elevation data to LiDAR elevation data which should provide a better model (vegetation/fences/etc). Unfortunately I can only find raw data and need to set up a processing pipeline to convert it into map tiles.
What do you mean by humans do not scale?
beyond having one of the best extended fight scenes in a movie, I think that "they live" is as close to Hollywood acknowledging fnords as you're bound to get.
Most European governments look at the simultaneous invasion of Israel by three Arab states in 1948, and statements made about the aims of that invasion, and think "what would we be prepared to do to defend against such determined, implacable hostility?". They look at what Israel does to defend itself and think, yeah, pretty much we'd do that.

They look at Israel and see a democratic, technologically advanced state with a liberal economy much like their own. They look at the repressive, autocratic extraction economies in the Arab world and recoil in horror.

I'm not making any judgement on this, or whether they're right or wrong, but that's just how many Europeans see the situation.
Another interesting project by the same author: https://blog.orhun.dev/introducing-kmon/
> For years now homeowners have used HELOCs (Home Equity Line of Credit), to effectively 100% finance an additional home purchase by using the HELOC for the downpayment, and a mortgage for the rest. Banks hate this, but it's legal.

Banks don’t care, they just sell the loan. If they cared, they wouldn’t write the loan! Cmon now.
Show HN: Airplane for Mac
To focus on writing & working, there are the times where I don’t want my machine to be connected to the outside world, so the idea is what if there is a way to kill the wireless tech anytime & anywhere. This is something not new in the market, there is a great example on smartphones - Airplane mode.

Instead of reinventing something new, just like an iPhone, what if there is an Airplane mode for Mac that turns on/off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and other things.

Here is the quick video where you can checkout how it works:
https://airplanemac.carrd.co/
Another project worth noting is Streamrip[1] which does the same but for Tidal/Deezer/Qobuz, and outputs FLACs.

[1]: https://github.com/nathom/streamrip
Ego is also a thing in a lot of professions :/
> Because it increases the risk of default.

For who? Banks don’t hold mortgages on their books, they sell them to investors. I don’t think you understand how modern finance works.
I don't know how it works in Canada, but in the UK the incentive is that most estate agents take a % of the sale value. They have every reason to push house prices higher. Cartel or no cartel, it is very harmful.
> those who hoard housing should get a kick from a exponential tax.

Yes, but at the same time it should not be possible for them to pass those costs on to people renting the house; rents should be fixed, or based on things like floor space and amenities.

But personally I think everyone should have a way in to the housing market. Renting is throwing away money; it goes into someone else's pocket and it's gone. When you buy a house you pay off a mortgage on the one hand, and (in today's economy) your property appreciates in value. Combine that with the issue that over here, a mortgage is cheaper than rent, and you can see how it's a huge issue.

I've spent something like €50.000 in rent before I finally bought a house; part of that was because I didn't want any longer term commitments, part was because I couldn't afford a house because even then the price of housing was going up sharply already. That's a lot of money that I'll never see again.
When you use corruption in the sense of committing corrupt illegal acts, the US looks fairly clean. But if you define it in the general sense and include lobbying and sacrificing the public interest for private interests as corrupt, then in terms of the dollar values, US legislative systems are some of the most corrupt anywhere.
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Actually you're not quite right.

1) 'Foreign Buyers' are price insensitive. In a market without much rational pricing, it's the 'confident signals' that set the price.

i.e. 'Foreign Buyer' comes in and buys for 5% 'above asking' on Street A. What happens then, is all the other houses on that Street set their prices a big higher, and hold. Other buyers see that sale, and it 'validates' the price for everyone else. More sales on that street, set the pace for sales in the area. etc..

Everyone is 'following' the confident bidders.

2) 'Blind Bidding' just favours the seller.

Buyers will only ever bid what they are willing to pay - not more.

It's just a form of auction, that's it. It's not unethical.

3) Low interest rates

4) Way too much migration

There is actually already enough construction. The notion that a city should expand it's services and population at break neck pace to accommodate the world's population is crazy. It's a 20th century 'body count' growth delusion strategy.
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I don't know about the Netherlands, but in Canada, where you see the same scenario play out regularly, it's common to underprice the listing to attract attention (it's an advertisement, after all). The home is selling for fair market value. It's the listing that is misleading.
Well, this seems to cry for a big coalition. build it and they'll come. Iridium failed because it was too early (too costly, only a few specialized users had the cash for it), Starlink seems to thrive because they can go general.
>This just doesn't make sense. The average American spends the majority of waking hours consuming news?

Oh for sure that's true. Politics/news that shouldn't be interesting to anyone, yet is extremely important to follow. It's practically life/death reality here. You're right though, it doesn't make sense. You get a single vote every couple years at most and can do nothing otherwise. So why care so much, it doesn't make sense?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Tel...

Dave chappelle has some quotes.

"And you know what we have to do. This is a fuckin’ election year. We gotta be serious. Every able-bodied African-American must register for a legal firearm. That’s the only way they’ll change the law.”

“I’m clear that there’s no peaceful way to disarm America’s whites.”

“There’s only one thing that’s going to save this country from itself. Same thing that always saves this country from itself, and that is African Americans.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_police_reforms_related...

US Midterms are going to be extremely important for the USA if not the world.
Personally I find that you did a great job with Kagi. I agree that the incentives are important, and I hope that Kagi will be successful and may prove that a different business model is possible. I'm also inclined to trust Kagi, but that's just that, trust and not much to lose.
Working mirror : https://web.archive.org/web/20220419110330/https://www.mattm...
The tank is dead: Long live the javelin, the switchblade, the ... ?
Same is true for every other aspect of your work. If your code is wrong, then you’re losing too. You’re saying a tautology.

Being able to estimate, being able to market, being able to code — these are all competencies.
A quick look at the data suggests only about 2% of properties in Toronto and Vancouver are owned by overseas investors. Yes, housing is priced at the margin, but this won't do anything at all to prices over the long term.

I'm sure this will be wildly popular politically, because people LOVE the idea that some foreign boogieman is the reason their children can't afford homes anymore.

It's much easier to outsource your problems to some outside "other" then deal with the much harder task of introspection over the poor housing policy that you and your neighbors have voted for over the last 60 years.

Like all cities in areas with heavy-handed zoning regulations, abuse of historic preservation clauses, and filibuster-style city council meetings blocking new construction...the issue is one of supply.

It's the same problem in literally every developed country on earth right now. The industrious, forward-looking people who originally built the cities during the major growth phase died...and then their kids grew up believing that the way things ended up was somehow divinely ordained. Never to be changed or built upon again.
The theory of that, and the reality of it are two different things. As someone who has been on both sides of this in Ontario, I can tell you for a fact that blind bidding results in people over paying, and never knowing by how much. The stress of buying a home in the GTA has lead people to stretch their budgets beyond reasonable limits, and realtors have only made it worse now. In recent years it's started to become normal for the list price to purposefully not reflect reality, causing the true sale price of a house to be left up to the buyers, and after probably losing dozens of bids, people get desperate and throw everything they can, which ends up in homes that regularly go over over $100k over asking.

When I sold my house, I had three bids, and the highest bidder payed over $30k higher than the second place. It was still over $100k over asking, with no conditions. That's just the reality of things right now, and it's not the sign of a healthy market for something as critical as housing. People are desperate, and it's getting worse.
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The intercept brought a lot of this to light: https://theintercept.com/search/?s=pfas
I think the situation is different here since the cultures are similar. Putin probably hoped that the opposition towards Russia is smaller and would just accept the new hegemony. That maybe true for some eastern regions of Ukraine but not for the whole country itself and the war very likely increased opposition to Russia even more.

For Afghanistan it would always have been a permanent occupation, no US or UK citizen was expected to move and live there.

I still don't understand the Z. Apparently a symbol for Russia supporters but it reads like it would make fun of German accents.
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Thanks, I just realized I was also assuming exp to be surjective as well, I stand corrected.

The Wikipedia page[1] mentions the issue briefly but I was curious of the counter-examples. IIUC, matrices in SL(2) with trace < -2 have two distinct eigenvalues, one of which is negative[2], and such matrices cannot be reached by exponentiating elements of the Lie algebra sl(2) (traceless matrices).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_map_(Lie_theory)#S...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL2(R)#Classification_of_eleme...
Most foreign buyers are not billionaires, that said, the foreign buyer loophole seems bad.
Please show me where Corbyn said anything against Jewish people for being jewish? He, like me, is strongly against the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the war crimes it commits against its peoples in exercise of that.

Saying so does not make you a bigot or an anti semite. Israel and it's defenders hide behind these kind of statements and they're nonsense. Labour if elected would not have given Israel such an easy ride and they throw a lot of money around -- thus, Corbyn is an anti-semite and labour has 'issues' around Jews, and surprise surprise; the tories got in and are happy to sell them lots of nice missiles and intelligence.

It's bullshit. They just have ethics. I Would feel the exact same way if it was Christians or Hindus or whatever in charge of Israel and behaving like this; where is the defence then? Criticise us and you're anti-christian? Doesn't have the same ring to it does it?
that's true although that's not a target platform for which it compiles to. Later today I've seen the runtime appears to be written in rust, so it might be possible to port it to many architectures althought at the moment it looks to be a desktop only runtime/embedded library.
Blind bidding doesnt 'inflate housing prices'. the marketplace competition does. itnis neoyher unethical or the rooy of any problem. its the latest boogeyman in a world that seeks to turn other peoples property into public commodities.
That's exactly how it works in Canada too. Both estate agents split a % of the sale value. That's fine on the seller's side, IMO. But on the buyer's side, it's a silly conflict of interest.
> "It is remarkable, love," he said, looking at Nell for the first time, "how much money you can make shovelling back the tide." [ "Diamond Age" by Neal Stephenson ]

What the customer wants here is impossible, but some customers (larger enterprises in particular) will pay handsomely for you to try. Why is it impossible? Change is the one constant in our universe. Long after there is no consciousness left to perceive it, change will continue.

Red Hat are doing the same thing as Microsoft. You have a support programme, and then a more expensive extended support programme, and then sometimes yet a further even more expensive programme. Charging people for their over-confidence is a successful strategy, because every customer believes they are going to get off the old version in plenty of time, and many of them are wrong, but you don't care which ones.

If Enterprise desktop users want to pay $$$ for longer term support they could make it worth Red Hat's money to do this work, shovelling back the tide. But I'd guess that Linux has far fewer cases of "desktop" systems that are actually servers. I know at work there were at least two "desktop" machines sat in empty offices over the pandemic, switched on with big "DO NOT SWITCH OFF" notices because the Windows "desktop" software running on them was vital to normal operations, even though that's clearly very stupid and the software ought to live on a server somewhere.
In Melbourne, this is totally normal. Everyone stands in the street, prospective buyers, neighbours, and people starting their house search. The estate agent stands on the front step, acting as the auctioneer, using the rolled up "Section 32" document like a gavel.

Typically the auctioneer draws out bids in $10-20k increments, then knocks it down with a "going once, going twice, going three times..." call.

Just before declaring it sold, the agent normally stops, goes inside to consult with the vendor, and if the price is above their reserve price, goes back outside and says "the house is now on the market".

Now the auction gets serious...

Usually another couple of bidders reveal themselves at this stage. The increments can drop to $1k. If there is a battle between the last two or three bidders, the final price can go up another $50-100k or so. Eventually the final bid is locked in with a final call of "going once, going twice, going three times, to the man in the blue shirt."

The winning bidder goes inside with the estate agent, hands over a cheque for 10% of the purchase price, signs the contract part of the Section 32 statement, and is then committed to pay the balance in 60 or 90 days. Sales almost never fall through. If the buyer cannot get financing etc, the seller keeps their 10% deposit. The seller cannot back out.

I bought my house like this, and sold it again 20 years later the same way.

It's a totally predictable, well regulated, very transparent process. The weekend auction results are all published on Monday morning, both for every house, and the aggregate "clearance rates" for sold versus "passed in".

This is so unlike UK, where each sale has a chain of buyers, all "subject to finance", and no certainty or speed!
> I cannot really accept a MacBook because it's a rental product where Apple has complete control over your machine.

What are the specific things that you cannot do with your MacBook that are a deal breaker for you?

I'm curious because I was previously a "hard-core" i3wm/Ubuntu user, but after switching to Mac/MacOS, the limitations (not running i3wm, pretty much) were not deal breakers for me, especially in light of the quality of the battery/microphone/speaker/bluetooth as a remote worker.
Where? The farmland boom, which began in 2007, has priced residential sprawl out of the market. That's why the urban areas on arable land have been feeling more and more heat in the city limits, not being able to affordably grow like they once were able to.

There are plenty of markets in Canada where the price of homes have been on the decline for the last decade, namely where agriculture is nowhere to be found, but for someone reason people don't want to live in those places.
Thank you for posting my article. It surprised me to see it here.
Doesn’t that imply that renters are getting extremely good deals?

Is that something you want to change with governmental policy?
Which is an incentive to not sell and instead take out a low interest loan using the properties as collateral. Many cities do have a Homestead exemption which reduces the real estate tax for primary residences.
Meanwhile, we get snuggies and loads of single purpose kitchen tools advertised on TV.
As someone who has a tendency to dislike food that are too salty, I'd love for that to come out, just so that I can eat dishes low in salt prepared for people using this invention but with me using normal chopsticks :)
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I concider TV ads spam as well.

One of the meain resons I have watched
regular tv for nearly two decades.
I dont miss it at all.

Personally I think tv ads and spam in general
to make people dumber.
"In short, people have a mechanism in their minds. It stops them from saying something that could lower their status, even if it’s true. And it propels them to say something that could increase their status, even if it’s false."
This is how it works in Canada and it's absolutely toxic. I have seen Realtors push people up on price when they're the highest bid.
Brazil was a clear example of where it started out legal (until 1999!). After it was made illegal it declined a lot in spite of really inconsistent enforcement.

Where it happened it was perfectly obvious who was doing it, but the cops wouldnt touch them. It was a crime committed out in the open.

A similar pattern played out in America in the 1800s where it was widespread, made illegal, started out not particularly well enforced and then it gradually became extinct.

Everywhere it's been a problem it's basically been officially tolerated. The crime quickly becomes impossible to commit if it isnt.

This is in stark contrast to many other crimes (e.g. drugs) where even strict enforcement doesnt do much.
I would guess that tomrod owns 9 houses.
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for that you would have to know who (as in a single person) owns everything. Great against corruption, great for democracy. Not so great for our ~oligarchs~ ahem, democrats
Well the media is like six companies, you just tell some producers hey no hot shower jokes, nobody can get burned in the shower, no boiling water. And it was a push from all corporate America to claim bitchvictimhood, the whole Fortune 500 and even Fortune 5000000 wanted to see if they could...just shut off...this pesky "justice" thing.

Like Abbott, for instance, like finally a family succeeded in having a baby, so excited, well and the mother had bipolarity, so she took Depakote...and the baby was born without a nervous skull or brain. So then Abbott is like "our profits from selling poison to pregnant woman need to be greater than the cost of them suing for losing a child" so that means the suits have to be smaller right? Media blackout again, Abbott has been "caught" with the baby-skull thing (look up a picture!) like every three years it gets into the news and they go right back doing it.

In fact I would read a lot of Hacker News in the torture ward, this was March 29 to June...6 I think? The torture lasted until April 26 I forensically concluded. Well no that can't be right, they'd do the roofie-all-day Tuesday-today, Thursday-tomorrow thing more times than that for sure for "fine-tuning" and erasing more pesky memories, but back to the point, there was internet access, and I read this forum, and I found an article on the New York Times about how depakote poisoned pregnant woman. The head torturer was really surprised, he had prescribed me that drug the previous year and forced me to take it, poisoned me with it and given me seizures, and I had found it was bad. He thought he had things locked down better than that.
I hope you are not implying that Yandex does not censor its search results.
Farms often are sold in live auction this way with the bidders announcing their bid. Each bidders knows their maximum, but none give that way, all they give away is they are willing to top the previous bid by someone else (even this is a trick - some bidders will pretend to be more/less interested than they really are trying to scare off other bidders)

The auctioneer is typically a licensed real estate agent. The whole farm will be sold that day, sometimes field by field, sometimes as a whole (sometimes both ways - this is complex to understand: they get bids an all fields separately, then for the whole and the larger total wins). Then they sell the equipment and junk. Bankers are on hand to verify financing... For houses most people wouldn't work this way, but for farms it makes sense.
It would be a very sad state of affairs if NATO basically used the Ukrainians to soak up as much damage as the Russians can inflict in order to weaken it, whilst giving only as little support as necessary, and by dragging the war on.

However it's clear that NATO is also mindful of the fact that Ukraine is currently well led by a capable democratic leader, but that might not be the case in a year or 2, so don't give them too many toys.

Saying that, as an armchair general I would like to see Ukraine driving a wedge to the west of Mariupol down to the sea, and a wedge just south of Kherson to surround the forces there. Secondly they could cross over into Russia via Bolgorod and attack the eastern forces from behind, whilst taking out as much military (including propaganda channels) and rail infra on the way.

The land bridge to Crimea should be reduced to rubble and the port at Sevastopol disabled.

Don't know that they have the man power for that, but that should give the old dictator something to worry about.