skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. Root cause is crappy city planning and design; and emphasis on single family housing development. Many cities across North America are designed with urban sprawl and car centric travel in mind. Pedestrian and alternative forms of transportation are a second class citizen despite the ability to move people more efficiently than cars will ever do.

Don’t get me wrong. Cars have their in place in society but their current role is overstated and NA city design shows it (massive parking lots, expensive housing).
Indeed they should set the bar but it is irrelevant to my point. The point is that you can't make a generalized statement about a brand and base it only to a single anecdote about a single machine it manufactured.

Mistakes and problems are everywhere. What matters is the sample size. A single anecdote can't say anything about where the bar is set. It's basic statistics.
We would need some voting system where each person can verify that their vote was properly counted, something like this: secure end-to-end verifiable e-voting system
using zero knowledge based blockchain: https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/466.pdf
I've been saying it forever: prestige is the #1 driver of human motivation, and because of this humans do not scale. The prestige party destroys forward progress with empty displays of acquired crap.
“Wearing a mask cleans nothing:” Florida judge vacates CDC travel mask mandate
Because, depending on local regulations, it can be a PITA to deal with tenants. Receiving rent can also be considered as income, so now you have to deal with the tax authority.

If the main goal is to park the cash somewhere outside the person's country, they presumably have "enough", so they don't want to deal with all this.
I am not super familiar with real estate markets. Has the empty house tax helped in any way?

Even if it is not the best solution, is there any huge downside to that ban?
> "You say that, but UK export law imposes a bunch of conditions, including that you're not knowingly facilitating resale to embargoed countries. And the legality of exports to Saudi Arabia has been litigated - it's legal, but only just."

Both the UK and Israel have export law, complete with conditions and legal frameworks for enforcement. It surely reduces the possibility of weapons ending up in the wrong hands, but it doesn't eliminate it completely. Regardless, it still doesn't imply that the manufacturers themselves or the jurisdictions they are incorporated in should somehow bear blanket responsibility for misuse.

Cyber-weapons and spying are particularly complex from this perspective, because it can be difficult to draw the lines on what constitutes as "misuse". Especially when the operator of the weapon is part of a government (a law-enforcement agency, for example), and when the victim is a citizen of a foreign jurisdiction.

With this out of the way, we're only really left with the "legal, but immoral" argument. I'm not going to argue against that (mainly because this is where things get very subjective and nuanced) - but I will say that the bar for holding an entire government accountable by invocation of "major diplomatic incidents" should be higher than that.
It doesn't seem far off to me to interpret evolution as meaning that specific lineages didn't go extinct.

The common ancestor between us and bonobos, chimps, gorillas, orangs is still around. They're just bonobos, chimps, gorillas and orangs and humans nowadays because some populations simply matched their environments over a (long) time and became more fit in their niche.

The question what constitutes a species, for sake of our classification desires, is also very relevant to this. Populations separating and changing until offspring isn't viable? Why do some of us have Neanderthal genes?
> So many of societies problems can be traced to high housing cost.

While a significant portion of housing costs are due to materials, labour, and regulations that limit how much you can build, a very large amount of house price increases in recent years is found in land price increases, not the house itself.

The Elon Musk for that particular problem is Henry George, and his book Progress and Poverty.
This is the solution but most NA cities are building the wrong type - single family homes.
I love Canada - but our government has always been idiotic. The ban is against 'foreign investors'. But the thing is, Canada has a corporate designation called CCPC: Canadian Controlled Private Corporation. Directors of said corporation have to be > 50% resident Canadians.

A corporation can be created for the purchase of this property, with a Canadian controlling, and being the director. This will literally do nothing other than add about $300 to the cost of an existing transaction. Shareholders can pre-execute a sale of shares at the existing value - to be executed later. This is completely legal.

Canada would have to reform the various types of corporate entities. That's simply not going to happen.
If I need an image with a specific set of tools it's cumbersome to build a whole workflow to build, store and maintain these images. Having a service that can receive a custom list of Nix packages and returns an image that I can instantly use would be really, really, really nice.
Download page has platforms: https://scallop-lang.github.io/download.html

Seems to be MacOS (M1 and x86) and Linux x86.
Foreigners, especially the billionaire type, can and have been setting up shell corporations through which to purchase Canadian real estate. The proposed measure will do nothing to stop this practice.

The measures proposed by the Canadian government are likely just political posturing and indented to "pull the wool over the eyes" of Canadian voters because the housing bubble/crisis has reached epic proportions and everyone is talking about it.
I do dilute, not sure about exact result (no need to get scientific when general approach works just as well for me). I'd say to cca 30-35%, when alcohol taste disappears completely and its own flavors are much stronger and pleasant.

Never understood how some folks drink whiskey basically like vodka, what a waste of potential. Above 40% feels just like that.
This is country-dependent. In New Zealand, you cannot walk away from the mortgage. You might be able to if you declare bankruptcy, perhaps.
Beats me. But I see it everywhere in my home town. I’m actually vaguely acquainted with the agent responsible for the bulk of it. His specialty is selling homes to absurdly rich Chinese. They typically buy sight unseen, his daughter (friend of mine) arranges for some half livable furnishings to be put in place, and maybe 1 week a year tops they’ll visit.

I believe the people are rich enough that the logistic overhead of even having a property manager rent it out isn’t worth it to them. Better to keep it in pristine condition and flip it however many years down the road.
Well then, perhaps you have inside knowledge to share that justifies your claim that Casey hasn't done anything "impressive" enough to justify his take?
>Israel plays the anti-semitism card much too loosely to be taken seriously.

This rhetoric is not any different than conservatives arguing Af-Am play the 'race card'. In both cases there's actual bigotry that some people want to sweep under the rug by a mindless counter-accusation.
BC actually did this (tax empty homes). Did not affect prices.

I suspect the real problem is low supply high demand + domestic speculation, which is why none of the blame the foreigner solutions work
Nothing.

Study: States specific conditions and statistics.

Hacker News reaction post: Interprets the title as maximalists statement.

These studies are tiny information nuggets useful for researchers working in the field. Nobody should change their view based on studies posted here.
Btw, LinkedIn does have an API for things like Sales Navigator. It used some weird partnership program (SNAP) to get into it and it starts at (I think) 1500$/year per user. Still pretty cheap though, I think you’d get the value out of that quite quickly for a >300 people company.
Applications should account for it and measure it themselves, when an application chooses to wait (to persist writes, for example), then it's hard to argue the kernel should take that as load. A similar argument could otherwise be made if an app is waiting on a futex or other resource. I don't think an fsync counts either. The solution there, IMO, is to use IO fences. Tell the OS that async writes and reads may not reorder beyond point X in time for this thread (or all threads, optionally for all FDs or just a specific one).

Then your app, like Oracle, simply issues a fence and can be done with it. If the app crashes before the fence is persisted, then it must be able to resume work from a previous one (a simple example would be that between WAL checkpoints, a fence is issued). The app won't have to worry that only some specific writes completed vs some others not beyond what the fence permitted. Additionally a good mechanism might be a call to wait for a fence to be persisted to disk.

Simple example for the WAL use case:

1. Write new transaction to WAL
2. Issue an IO fence for the WAL file
3. Write new data to database file
4. Wait for Fence from 2
5. Return success

This is roughly equivalent to the synchronous example:

1. Write new transaction to WAL file
2. Issue fsync
3. Write new data to database file
4. Return Success

In case writes to the database file are lost, you can recover from the WAL (as intended). Notably Step 4 of the Async Example is a case where the thread is waiting but it can do other useful work while that is happening. The same thread can offload the work and simply issue more IO in the meanwhile and return success to the client once it sees the correct wait-for-fence returning in the async queue. And it won't have to wait for AIO event completion/checkpoints like currently, that make the system load non-indicative of app load (though frankly, system load is never indicative of app load, apache2 doesn't increase load if it runs out of workers).
This is correct. The Beaverton has a good satirical article that gave me a chuckle talking about this.

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2022/04/canada-to-ban-foreign-h...
With a 20% market increase in a year, you don't have to rent it. Renting a property out always comes with hassle. Many countries have tenant's rights that kick in after a period of time.

I live in Barcelona, and the rental market is crazy. Technically I should be allowed to sign a contract for 5 years, but because of the rights that kick in after 12 months, there's a ton of landlords that only want to offer 11 month contracts.
So to make this familiar, you're probably used to traditional coordinate vectors in geometry. For example a 3D vector [x, y, z]. This seems sane enough, but is actually somewhat ambiguous. Which cardinal direction map to x, y, z respectively (e.g. is z for up/down or forwards/backwards)? What direction do the axes point, e.g. is +z away or towards us? To make it unambiguous, we can define three oriented basis vectors. That is, each basis vector defines what the unit is in that direction, and which way is "positive". So I could write [3, 2, 9] as 3*xunit + 2*yunit + 9*zunit.

Now in geometric algebra we also have oriented basis vectors. So they determine the unit, and the direction of the embedding space (note that this not necessarily map directly to points in your world space, which becomes especially clear when you start doing projective geometry, e.g. in 3D PGA you represent lines in your world as planes in the embedding space). Rather than xunit, yunit, etc, they are simply called e1, e2, ..., en.

The key difference is that geometric algebra has the exterior product, notated ^. For example, e1 ^ e2 is the exterior product of two oriented basis vectors. You can interpret this as being an oriented basis for the space spanned by e1, e2. And similarly for e1 ^ e2 ^ e3 being an oriented basis of the volume spanned by e1, e2, e3, etc. These are called basis blades.

The most general closed numerical representation of an object in geometric algebra is the multivector. Just like a traditional vector is just a bag of K coefficients for K basis vectors, a multivector is a bag of 2^K coefficients for the 2^K basis blades, one for each possible combination of the exterior product of the K basis vectors.
Colour me interested in this library! :)
The complicated politics of crypto and Web3
https://archive.ph/VZZft
In the authenticate function of librespot:

https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/blob/650d41b02069...

.set_system_information_string(format!("librespot_{}_{}", version::SHA_SHORT, version::BUILD_ID));
War of memes: why Z-war won't end with peace
You can take screenshot of Netflix if you are using the software renderer.
It's not about the "economy", it's about people being able to buy a roof over their head. Foreign investors simply don't belong in that space at all.
Would taxing do anything in this specific case? Foreign investors are already willing to pay millions in a single home just for it to lay empty, from what I read in this thread. Why would some fixed (even if progressive) tax on top of that change the demand?
Your inclusion of “without a university degree” is doing a LOT of work in that sentence to make it seem like rural (and let’s admit it: white) evangelicals are anything close to a majoritarian bloc in the United States.
I use Debian on desktop, because it's the most problem-free distro I've used. Once something works, it usually stays this way with no effort on my part. Ubuntu was the opposite for me, which is weird given how it's a Debian derivative.

I don't care about FOSS, so the principles are not a motivation for me.
One thing I found really disappointing about this article was the complete lack of discussion about the economic drivers of this consolidation. You know what happened to the news stations and newspapers that didn't merge to become behemoths? They generally just went out of business because they weren't able to make money. This consolidation doesn't happen through some massive conspiracy, it happens because it's way more economical to have 1 team of researchers and journalist produce content for every small news station rather than having tonnes of independent teams. You can say that's bad, but it's the reality that advertising revenue on local television stations won't fund high quality local journalism. So you can regulate that no company can dominate that market, but what you will end up with is no local news stations at all.

It's also a bit weak to say "Well atleast I know who funds Russia Today", do you want to know who funds CNN? It's a publicly listed company, it's on the stock market. It's not like there's some shadowy owner. In some cases there actually are shadowy owners and we really should be more critical of those situations - the British Newspaper business for example - Metro, owned by Rothermere, Mail - Rothermere, Evening Standard- Lebedev, Telegraph - Barclays. And those owners do have direct private conversations with politicians to wield political power.

But it all comes down to - what is the business model for a large, diverse news eco-system? Because as far as I can see at the moment the consolidation has been driven by economic factors, and so that's how you have to reverse it (if you can).
>That was only very recently codified and was very controversial inside and outside of israel.

Very recently as in 'in the UN assembly resolution authorizing the creation of Israel' (1947) or the 1985 basic law etc.

>Noam Chomsky

Noted genocide denier (repeatedly) with zero credibility on anything.
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Isn’t this an ad? Or, somebody raging against the dying of the light? Who reads physical magazines, as they’re stale by the time they arrive and result in landfill material? An e-magazine solves the waste problem but not the staleness, and the Net or Twitterverse seems to be where good commentary is found.
The core problem is that our money inflates like crazy and we're all looking for something tangible to put it in before the bubble bursts.
I mean the main thing is like a third of people at these schools are legacies at this point so pretending that the screening is for ability to take classes is not 100% right
Having your housing stock bought up as holdings by nonresidents is not great. It hollows out the communities by having choice housing sit empty and it raises the cost of living for everyone who is actually there.

I'm interested to see how this plays out. It seems pretty heavy handed. Zoning denser housing or placing limited restrictions on square footage may proved smarter in the long term. That said, two years is pretty short term in this context.
This is awesome! I would buy them just for the novelty but I’m sure we all could eat a bit less salt. The future would be adapting the tech to fit inside the stick itself so it’s not even noticeable. Then you could use an electric toothbrush-like charger to top up the battery in between meals. Or even simpler, a wireless charging table placemat?

The batteries inside AirPods are about the diameter of chopsticks so we have the battery tech available already. If these really do become a reality, I will probably import some.
Yeah, if both agree to play again! This would prevent random encounters with wait only victory.
What of the far left then, and the far South? And far East! Can I be the one to choose who gets blocked?

Lots of speech is definitely not up to my clearly incredible and most certainly correct intelligence level and should be blocked!

/s
IT outage at Scotland's Heriot-Watt University enters second week
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I have a similar effect with Cannabis. I can see things and recognize their distance but my mind distorts it and says "Hey, wait a second, these 10cm might also be 10m, you never know!"

All while I can clearly see it not being 10m. I know it's 10cm but my mind doesn't "accept" it. I wonder if the drug triggers pathways that might be triggered in 'natural' situations as well, such as fatigue.
I've stopped using hand sanitizer and just wash my hands. Soap and water is probably just as effective. I just don't see the need to bathe my hands in chemicals.

I remember the early COVID days and there was so much we didn't know. People being people, will latch onto any task or ritual to make themselves feel protected, and hand sanitizing is the manifestation of that cargo cult mentality.
Are you able to calculate aggregates, like an average?
This is literally nothing to do with it. It's to do with wealthy foreigners buying properties and leaving them empty basically to use as an 'asset' rather than a home.

London has this problem more than anywhere. Blocks full of purchased and empty while locals can't get a sniff.
No, they where clarifying what you meant, It's your opinion that "this" is the cause.
There is a difference between a foreign investor, and a foreign resident. I would be furious if my right to buy a home in the country of my residence was influenced solely by the fact i'm not a citizen.
>We know nothing about hf. other than through the accidental discovery of their bones.

>it's entirely possibly that they bury their dead, and we'll never find bones.

Ok but most of that accidental discovery of bones is accidental discovery of bones that were buried.
We don't have implementation of the bill yet, just the budget line. Obviously the government knows about this problem, so if they take measures to prevent it, then we'll know they are actually serious.

Note that a corporation is not consequence free. An owner occupied home pays no tax on capital gains. A corporation owned one is double taxed.
That page links to the live test, which is getting hugged to death.
This can’t work until terrorist states, like Russia, are stripped of the ability to block decisions aimed against them.
Doesn't your credit take a major hit though? Then you'd have a harder time buying a new place for some years.
Not sexy, no dopamine hit. Might not be enough of a return as these are markets that are not popular nor catering to pent up demand. There has been a form of self-driving and/or electrified mass or public transit for decades. They have many names: trains, trams, …
Ubiquiti is using VyOS or Vyetta on Edgemax series.
The dermatologists make small dots/arrow markings on the positively identified lesions. What the Nature paper apparently didn't do was remove the small markings in their training. It is probably an innocuous flaw since gradient-based investigation/ interpretation only took off later than their publication (2017).

As a result, instead of positively identifying the lesion based on disease pathology, it identified overwhelmingly based on presence or absence of medical marks. There was following up discussion in a certain paper of this experimental design (I can't remember the exact name), but they did gradient based activation mapping and those pointed to the marks as the identifying feature. It felt quite a revelation of why this worked so well.

More information:

1.https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/fullarticle...

2.Swetter (2020) .Novel Technologies to Improve Melanoma Detection and Care Focusing on Artificial Intelligence

3.ISIC Workshop 2019 at CVPR (Slides online)

4.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8074854/
So it's easier to write insecure software. Wrong priorities.
Nice article. I wouldn't call this approach "1x Programming." This is more about how to be a net-positive member of a dev team.

As a longtime dev and recent dev manager, I hate most self-described 10x coders. I want people who are net-positive. Team players, focused on adding value, doing unsexy work, keeping the build and tests green. Being nice to each other.

Even if they're barely productive, as long as they're net-positive I'm perfectly happy having them on the team.
pre-seed market is $0 until founder is powerful enough to drive it higher. Markets measure power
Wait'll the news gets a hold of it. The same study will probably generate "low salt diets cause heart attacks" and "skipping salt saves lives" news headlines.
If it were a British university, it (the British paper) would name the university. ('University of Cambridge invents 'electric' knife and fork that...'.)

I think it's fair enough, it's just reducing the name of the (likely unfamiliar) university to its host nation.
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From Wikipedia:

> The 2010 and 2012 surveys for the Americas Barometer showed that 15% of surveyed voters in Latin America had been offered something of value in exchange for voting a particular way

> 16% of voters [in Africa] were offered money or other goods in exchange for voting a particular way in the most recent election

And yeah, in developed countries and stable democracies it probably wouldn't be an issue, but then maybe it would eventually be, and it's a pretty big flaw to introduce in order to achieve something that is not an issue

You can already check that your vote is being counted with paper ballots, you sign up as a poll observer or worker and you look at the vote counting operations
Are there any empty house taxes that charge a significant amount of money? 5% would barely get you into the same range as price growth.