skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it possible that a rich parents can invest in properties through their kids on a student visa?

Yes, I’ve met many people who do this. The father works in China and sends money to their kid (and sometimes wife) in Canada to buy real estate. Then since the family in Canada is technically low income (no job) they maximize every possible government benefit as well.
Cite your sources, because there's plenty of sources that indicate health risks with high salt intake, especially later in life.
Genesis 2:5 begins with: "When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up...". "Bush of the field" and "small plant of the field" were not part of the list of vegetation created on day 3 in Genesis 1 ("plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit"). The explanation can be found in Genesis 3:18. As part of the curse for eating forbidden fruit, the Lord says to Adam: "cursed is the ground because of you [...] thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field." The bush/plants of the field were not created until after man was made. We can conclude that these plants did not produce food in the form of grain or fruit like the vegetation created on day 3. Because of man's sin these plants became thorns and thistles. There is no need to assume a contradiction between Genesis 1 and 2.
> it is unable to exist peacefully with other countries.

Have you heard of the US? It is that country that keeps starting fights to maintain the petrodollar so they can print money out of thin air. They have shown that you can commit numerous crimes and still be seen as the good guys. They can even do colonization in the 21st century without anyone blinking an eyelid. Russia certainly needs to work on their PR.
TCP is a bad example; since its actively being supplanted by quic simply because TCP is such a inefficient protocol.
I think it really boils down to American exceptionalism and righteous indignation. American’s don’t admit they’re ever wrong, and the culture rewards dogma, so people are becoming culturally incapable of agreeing.
They are translating between a lump sum and an income stream. They are making a six-figure asset available for the low four figures a month, without someone needing to bring six figures of money, or five to six figures of down payment and closing costs and five times as much debt. If the six figure asset actually falls 50% in value, the tenant is not stuck and does not lose a penny.

In short, they’re offering homes to rent. You can live in the home without buying the home. That’s the value. It’s kinda huge.

And to some extent it becomes class warfare to deny this to renters.
These investors are betting big on the houses’ value going up, and expect them to go up a fair bit. This is essentially a bet that the housing market will fail to add new supply, and that anyone who does not own a home yet will suffer greatly from increased rent. And if we’re fighting over is rules on specifically who can buy, instead of doing things to actually make new homes, it seems a fairly sure bet to me.
I for one like to taste my food before swallowing.
Increase the taxes until there is an effect?
Yes, but weeb makes a lot more sense in this context. It's not a weird suggestion here IMO.
Plus you want to encourage models like a housing co-op - they're pretty good for keeping people's housing costs down and building community relations.
status is used as a proxy when forced to make a judgement with insufficient time for doing your own research. the more fundamental resource here is limited time. So you can blame the laws of physics for that.
Ammonia produces NOx when burned. You think CO2 is bad that stuff is absolutely nasty. I don't know why that would be an improvement.
Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210515132130/https://www.mattm...

Website is down at this time for me, but web archive works.

There is a listening test up here that trains you to hear it. I couldn't hear it at first.

http://mattmontag.com/audio-listening-test/
Original librespot author here.

Trying to pretend to be an official client was a game I never wanted to play. There's so many tiny differences in the way I've implemented the protocol it would be trivial for Spotify to notice this if they wanted to. It then becomes an whack a mole game between them and us.

Spotify is fully aware of librespot and has tolerated it so far. If they change their minds are try to block it it would be the end of the road for librespot. This is why, despite repeated requests from users, librespot has never supported free accounts nor downloading files in order to avoid pissing Spotify off. I always knew it would be trivial for anyone to implement this using the librespot source code, but it makes me a bit sad someone actually did it.

(That being said, I personally don't contribute or use librespot anymore, so really I don't care)
I'm currently running a small scale project that's extracting and reducing CO2 from the air with the current concentration. You can do it now it's just a matter of doing it for less than the current price of gasoline which I haven't managed to do (yet.)
How to make $2K/ month selling an automation script
That reminds me of this monstrosity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinavia

It largely stopped me knowingly buying anything associated with Sony.
Funds from the tax could be used to incentivize new construction.
As you said in your comment there is a market for renting. I think in an ideal world, housing prices would not increase so rapidly. I remember a time where houses went up a lot more from quality renovations than just waiting a few months. A situation like that would increase the demand on rent and make it less appealing for slumlords and give them more incentive to keep quality tenants happy instead of viewing them as a space filler until you can cash out in a year.
Probably something like "limited access" or "authenticated users". Could also include micro segmentation.

The basics are pretty straight forward, but every vendor has stretched to include their key capabilities which makes the idea murky.
Because GrapheneOS supports a handful of devices (https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices), where LineageOS supports hundreds of devices (https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/).
It’s how the Roman republic became the empire as small farmers were bought out by huge landowners, financed by the spoils of war which went mostly to the 1% at the time. Then family farms became replaced by slave labor. History doesn’t repeat but it often rhymes.
I used to think that is an issue with old non-technical generation and therefore it is argument for new blood. But.. new blood is about as careless about sharing all sorts of information online as old blood. I don't know if there is a solution to this. I am starting to wonder if it is one of those 'best not to think about it' things.
They don't conflate the two. They say you can taste the umami without the downside of ingesting too much salt in the process (due to the high salinity of typical dishes with umami flavor)
More commercial b2b ecomm sites will sometimes not have product pages and instead just have one page that looks like a spreadsheet that you fill out and submit, the idea being the customer needs to order in bulk and is already aware of what the product is/doesn't need to be marketed to. You basically go down the lines on the spreadsheet and just put in quantities for each product.

That's the closest I can think of. There are ecomm sites that have been around since the 90s and haven't changed much but those either still have the product page/cart/checkout structure or are functionally just catalogues and require you to place an order by phone.
The vast majority of houses are not going to foreigners or corporations. Some do, but it is only a tiny percentage. We need to build more housing, in the end housing costs are about supply and demand.
Yup, I use Standard Notes for its privacy features. Got the 5 year plan some time ago, looks like they discontinued it.
> all they did was follow the advice given to them by the market

The market doesn't give advice, it's risk and return. Don't take more risk than you can handle is investing 101. In any case, if the market is unsustainable (non-productive assets appreciating several times inflation is indeed unsustainable), these people are going to get screwed regardless. Either completely later, or almost completely now.

Maybe in the future, after the smoke settles, governments will be more wary of moral hazard. Probably not, but one can hope.
My guess would be yes. They will pour more fuel on to the fire...
The one thing I'd like all spotify like services to have is a way to export play/like history in a standard format.

I've listened, liked and disliked so many songs in so many services like pandora, rdio, grooveshark, last.fm, spotify, tidal. But all that information about me is locked and I cannot use it.

If these companies offered exporting of this data in some standard JSON format, we could develop open source apps that analyzed the history and provided recommendations.
Modern features like screenshots? Wayland is a nightmare of second system syndrome for most users.
The world-wide waste web
In the end what is a home that you own if not a public commodity best used in the service of the state...

The foreign boogiemen help deflect attention from this element of the argument.
You're spot on about the 5 year difference. I never thought I would see my shit box I bought a few years ago for more than I ever thought it was worth triple in value. It's literally the difference of 5 years as you said. I want to be part of the pray for the collapse team but I know good honest people who would be devastated by it. People who are just victims of the system.
> created a GPS black hole

Many navigation systems exist beside GPS...... which is itself one of four Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS).
I like the idea but it is clearly incomplete. It gets the fact that there are 3 versions (and that it wants you to generate a 4th) but it misses the important thing which is that you want to see the differences. This option basically leaves you to do the diff yourself. Now the sinple option of just showing the two diffs probably isn't optimal either as the context will be duplicated noise, but I think that is already better. In fact I think the merge diff representation would work well here except for the fact that you want to be able to compile and test the code which you can do with the diff markers.
>> Australia tried this with tragic results

Australian living in Canada here - unsure what the tragic results were? It’s helped a number of my friends buy their first home - with a small (~$10k) credit /reduced stamp duties and taxes on the first home owned and lived in (ie not an investment). Negative gearing has been far more impactful in increasing the cost of housing, with people buying multiple homes for investment purposes.
It could also be because the on paper rental value is higher than the actual market rate of rental. By renting out you decrease the on paper value which limits your ability to use it in collateral for further property loans. It's why in some city's some commercial property will sit vacant for years without the owner decreasing the rate to get tenants in.
I mean a strong yearly tax on home ownership with an exemption for primary residences.
I wasn't able to join qoto so I gave up. The join screen never got past the display name/email/etc form but also showed no error. (This is with the official iOS app, I can only assume it's no better or worse on other apps).
This was on full display re covid over the last two years.
Could you give some evidence for that? Could you reference specific inconsistencies and contradictions?
This is mostly for show, it won't do much at all. Nimbyism is Canada's only true national ideology and is strongly supported by all major parties across all levels.

Here the feds want to be seen as doing something, but have little actual power so this is a good way to say the did something. Ontario is ruled by a conservative government that's up for reelection this summer. There was a big housing affordability task force that recommended building more houses (shocking!). The government will not be implementing any of its substantial recommendations, but will fiddle around and say they're "cutting red tape". Municipal governments like Toronto are obsessed with controlling development, from suburban conservative councillors trying to outlaw rooming houses, to downtown progressives decrying gentrification. Any correction will come despite all these efforts.
Alpine Linux containers can be as low as 8MB in size. Virtualisation has a cost, that decreases every year. I disagree - many people want an efficient system where the package manager handles it - Arch linux.

In my use case - I started running Arch Linux and installing the packages I want - however aarch64 w/ prop Mesa drivers = bad time. too few AUR packages has aarch64 binaries - would end up compiling nearly everything. eventually I snapped trying to build my own PKGBUILD for printer drivers (that worked on my arch/hardware) instead of just using the provided install script that had ubuntu aarch64 support.

while a sleek minimalist system, ticking smoothly, is really nice - to get to that "happy place" on many bits of hardware can be tricky. this constantly getting stuck and having side effects across different programs on my system led to me taking the same approach I take deploying in production. just install stock os, get docker, then run docker compose pointing to your persisted config/data.
Multiple accounts are allowed, sure. That's not the issue.

The issue is trying to use multiple accounts as a kind of loss mitigation strategy. If Google knows about your multiple accounts, and one of them gets banned, they're _all_ at risk of getting banned just for being associated with the one.
Doing 12-8 with some cheat days where I cannot control where I eat.
Somewhere a Ruby installer developer cries silently...
In the same spirit but in the form of a readily-usable command (rather than a service), 'guix pack' can produce application bundles in a reproducible fashion, in the Docker format as well as in other formats:

https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Invoking-guix...

Hopefully the smart layering strategy that Nixery uses will eventually make it into 'guix pack'!
Agreed. OP doesn't understand the situation.
> Imagine a car with a 900 - 2300 km range on a single charge.

Imagined:

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/mercedes-benz-vi...

The Lucid Air can do 804 km which is pretty close to your target range:

https://insideevs.com/reviews/562511/lucid-air-range-test-re...
You have to be much more wary: don't sign with a label that at some point in the future gets bought by a label that gets bought by Universal
Over the years I've tended to like to work in a very specific way:

prioritized and documented requirements.

sit down with users to discuss and refine.

build small. test small.

quick iterations.

daily stand ups our nice for getting to know what's going on. helps the team find blockers.

everything should be a task. if you can't get it done in 4-8 hours it's too big of a task create a task to break it into smaller bits.

if you're connecting to another system build tests to verify their system is online and working. Why this isn't a thing when publishing an api is beyond me.

priority and requirements should be constant in the middle of a sprint.

developers shouldn't be coming up with test data.

the team and management should understand the value of QA as a second set of eyes and a different way to interpret the specs.

leave enough room in the schedule for support and other outside issues.

schedule tasks for technical debt and other improvements that improve the long term values of the system.

some tasks have a high chance of failure and that's ok. some experimentation is good.

extra points: add post mortems to improve the system. also, post mortems need follow up to make sure tasks are added.

so any variation in this kind a gets annoying.

don't get me started on smart objectives and other wish lists that aren't broken into manageable tasks and added to a sprint.
> fail to manifest in any meaningful way

To you. If someone doesn't speak to you and doesn't respond "meaningfully" to your input, does that mean they do not have complex thought patterns? With that philosophy, it's probably for the best that you don't take care of sick people :)
Canonical has a commercial ESM (extended security maintenance) thing which gives 5 more years of security-focused backports of key parts of the distro if you want to pay for that.
It could just be that as a technology community we collectively are still currently getting our heads around what containerization is really essentially about. Maybe as most of us in the technology herd grok it at a deeper level, it will later become more obvious how tools prior to containerization can achieve the qualities we think we can only get from containers.

As a brain collective it may be before that we weren't conceptualizing our systems at an atomic enough level that containers introduced. Containers in service to our isolation mental models may be the true benefit of the trend. Even if the underlying technology dies or falls out of trend, the ideas will surely survive.

For my career I have learned to appreciate GNU/unix more by using containers.
That makes it even more scary. In an aircraft, you usually get a few minutes to determine the problem, disengage autopilot and correct it manually. Autopilot is also disengaged during periods of uncertainty like takeoff or landing (unless it's very well proven). In case of a car, you get mere seconds to react. And that reaction should come from your intuition or mental model of the autopilot. That implies that you should have faced a similar dangerous situation before hand, so that you know what may go wrong.

Another way I read it, it's like you being a standby driver ready to take over when the inexperienced driver makes a mistake. I've been in a similar situation with a driving instructor before. While nothing bad happened, the time it took for him to react convinced me that humans are bad at this. The only reason I find autopilot justifiable is if it's quantitatively better than the human driver.
A Grand New Dam on the Nile
California considers a shortened, 32-hour workweek for larger companies
This requires premium account to work so for this aspect it isn't any different than downloading for offline usage in Spotify app.
I think he was referring to this part of the article:

"The psychology professor Geoffrey Miller suggested that as intelligent species become technologically advanced, they spend more time entertaining themselves than on interstellar space travel. Rather than actually going to Mars, they spend more time pretending to go to Mars via movies and video games and VR."
And everyone else thinks America is what they see on TV.

It's not important, unless there are wars about it.
Lobsters are over 350_000_000 years old. Their place in the dominance hierarchy gets signalled in the same way in our brain, with serotonin. The parallel to serotonin deficiency in depressed people is intruiging.
660k is cheap for a SFH these days sadly
I can see a resurgence of social democracy coming soon as the problems with things like real estate investment and unrestricted emissions come home to roost. We've already seen a little bit of that with Bernie Sanders.
https://twitter.com/who/status/1243972193169616898

In hindsight they were sort of wrong, there are some unusual cases where it is airborne. In reality covid is nearly entirely spread from something you touched.

The problem is that it was then considered misinformation and censored. Everyone was forced to wear masks for no reason at all. If you tried to simply repeat what the WHO said... you would be censored.

Now that we are doing away with harmful masks its remarkable to see everyone opposing it.
> The chopsticks work by using ... a mini-computer worn on the eater’s wristband.

Impressive, most minicomputers would probably break your arm if you tried to wear them on your wrist.
It is actually the opposite. If you choose your pile then low cost decks are better because you can choose to spend fewer draws on land. Expensive cards are better if you get a draw from each pile each turn.
You have a similar problem with police. If you day to day see instances of crime and you have a lot of contact with criminals, you develop preconceptions towards people. You view gets skewed and you start to see crime everywhere. The same happens to security agencies that deal day to day with the spy game. This is why external observers are necessary. Not primarily to punish people stepping over lines, but to provide support and reasonable boundaries and context. People with a strong sense of duty are especially vulnerable to develop a wrong perspective.

Then there is the other dimension where corporations just help the worst dictators for profit or provide surveillance capability against the population. Almost all major names in tech are guilty here to certain degrees. Some more than others, but there are no morals in business. Especially not with investment mechanisms like ESG or similar constructs to provide wellness to rich investors, but that is another topic.
Pretty sure this would just drive up rental costs.
Federation doesn't mean you are forced to accept all inbound and outbound connections, only that there is a common protocol to do so if you desire.
mandate remote work. many office workers in Toronto would sell their homes and move out of the city, even out of the province.
Unofficial Windows 11 upgrade installs info-stealing malware
Intended outcome: lower home prices

Actual outcome: higher rent
The Realtors are (transparently disclosed as) working for the seller. Why wouldn't they do that? It's literally their job and everyone knows it.

It's certainly the case that the agent who knows that a particular bidder is the highest/most attractive offer is working for the seller.
>Having 35 "actioned complaints" against Jewish members does not sound like a purge from the Labour Party

35 isnt a purge. > 1000 IS a purge. The fact that being an Jewish made it 5x more likely you would be purged simply underscored the fact that it was exclusively a project to purge anti-racists who were critical of Israel.

This point was underscored again when the party hired an ex Israeli intelligence agent.
When ever this topic comes on people are like “ohh it doesn’t work”

Well it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work. It’s stopping something that shouldn’t be allowed to begin with.

In NZ you could go on a website and buy a house despite the fact you had never set foot in the country.

Even if this is only 5% of all buyers they are ruining the market for 90% of buyers because they cause prices to go up when they pay above market rates because they are wealthy.

The irony of this is if you’re from Thailand, Japan, China, India, etc. you can buy property in NZ. But I cannot buy property in these countries.

Thankfully NZ put a stop to this. And I believe 2022 saw the first actual drop in prices. Maybe one day I can afford to buy a property in NZ.

Edit: someone replied pointing out you can buy property in China which is correct. If you live and work in China you can buy but you’re limited to 1 property and I believe you need to sell if you leave China.

Thailand you can kinda buy but it’s done by a company that buys for you and you pay them a fee so technically they own it.

Japan I don’t really know. All countries in asia are different but it’s all better than what was allowed in NZ.