skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think if the corporations/foreigners but to rent, this is OK--the house is on the rental market and doesn't sit empty.

The problem arises if ppl park money in the real estate and the units are empty:
- This is often "luxury" housing which prevents a more regular buyer/renter-friendly housing units to be built.

Another problem is that some units are converted to airbnbs, and they start to compete on the hotel/business/vacation short-term rental market instead of being rent out for long term for people who live/work in the area.

I'm based in the EU, and this is what I've seen in some of the cities/neighborhoods here. I know very little about Canada's real estate market.

In Poland another phenomenon (not sure how widespread outside of PL) is that ppl buy large-ish apartments and split them into multiple rooms or studios and rent them out to students or ppl early in their career. This inflates prices (as the capital that would have been invested in the stock market goes to housing), but otherwise the number of units increases, so probably less of an issue in the grand scheme of things.
How can one use Nix to manage project-specific dependencies that typically store Dotfiles in annoying locations like the home folder?

I am aware of home-manager but am not sure how (or if) it would work for per-project dot file management.
Because it increases the risk of default.

I say "banks hate this" as unsubtle shorthand here. Obviously they don't hate it enough to refuse people additional mortgages (it's all secured by tangible assets at the end of the day) but they certainly aren't as happy about it as if people had a 20% downpayment in cash rather than pulling it from a line of credit.
In Norway a kommune (local authority) can institute a boplikt, a duty of residence. This means that if you purchase a house in that area it must become your principal residence.
Putting aside that trains already pretty much run on eletricity and some city buses are already hybrids...

I'm more surprised at your ignoring highly technically capable firms that have decades of experience and practical know how when it comes to mass transit "people movers".

Why did you specifically choose Tesla Motors? It's neither a small player startup nor is it an experienced big fish. Why Tesla?
I appreciate an effort, but how can a student afford a house ? Is it possible that a rich parents can invest in properties through their kids on a student visa?
I took their meaning to be that successful disinformation includes enough truth to provide some level of plausibility. That doesn’t mean that truth is at the core of the smear, or even that it’s a “whole” truth.

Epstein had many rich and powerful friends. Epstein was a pedophile. Epstein died within an inexcusable lapse in custody. These are all truths. Combine them together into the Q narrative, and now you have a massive conspiracy that is mostly wild speculation but contains some kernels of truth.
Once we have performant desktop riscv64 ASICs, qemu won't be necessary anymore.

No toxic IP (Intellectual Property) tied to risc-v like with arm and x86.

I'll be glad if risc-v can pull that off and free the CPU ISA (and GPU?). This would open the open source software stack to the possibilyt of getting rid of those toxic compilers and from the fanatics of languages of absurd and grotesque complexity (for instance c++).
> Zoning denser housing or placing limited restrictions on square footage may proved smarter in the long term.

Perhaps, but Canada has no ability to enforce that. That would fall under the purview of the provinces, who have likely passed that down to the municipalities.
Yeah, a random blog which references Russian state media. Got it. (y)
No, caste is derived from the Portuguese word "Castas" which was widely prevalent in Europe and very rigid as it was from the church.

1. Nobility

2. Clergy

3. Landowners & Merchants

4. Artisans

5. Outcasts - butchers, sanitary workers, undertakers ....

Some European countries still legally protect a lot of family names, which you would have to buy if you need a fancy royal name.
People in solitary confinement start having hallucinations, it's actually very common. After a summer in the woods with nobody but cows for company you might have similar effects

Sending kids into the woods for a summer by themselves to watch over livestock is a cool idea though, I wish I could have experienced something like that.
I’ve ended up buying multiple machines the last several years.

One thing I’ve noticed is that nearly every damn laptop I’ve had the past few years has power management issues.

Usually it’s some issue waking from a sleep state, but I had a modern Thinkpad just give up and die recently after months of continuing getting stuck in sleep states.
We need this so bad in the Netherlands right now!
Listing price of a house in Amsterdam 525K, bidding price 641K, someone else with 660K comes and takes it away.
Cries in pain after 10th bidding war lost :(
>How could they have controlled the outcome?

By providing Ukraine with a shitload of weaponry before Russia invaded. I think the West made the same assumption Putin did: that Russia will squash Ukraine in a few days, and all the western weapons would then be studied and duplicated.
I love how you can almost hear the researcher's bamboozlement from their quotes alone.
Based little animals :3
Is this drawing a distinction between "you can run any code you build yourself and sign using the elaborate Apple toolchain" vs "you can run arbitrary binaries"?
I saw an Australian sitcom where the house went up for auction. It was a proper live auction where everyone showed up to bid on the house. I was flabbergasted as I had no idea things were done in any other way than blind bidding as that is how it is always done here in the US.
This one is 50%, and quite tasty:

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/308475536
There is a point being totally missed in this thread and that is the UK government basically ignore all security common sense and do absolutely incomprehensible things like discuss national security over WhatsApp and Zoom, as a British citizen, in my eyes this absolutely amounts to treason as they're knowingly potentially giving away state secrets, anyone else would be instantly jailed.

UK government and any departments discussing sensitive matters (or everyone, really) should not be using a) off the shelf phones, and b) should not be using public communications networks full stop, nevermind foreign communication platforms.
The vampire squids are usually busy doing M&A and securities underwriting.
For the uninitiated what are transition systems?
> I’m sure we all could eat a bit less salt

We could but there is some doubt about whether it is necessary, and if necessary, for whom.
The country is ruined for non owners and it will never get better. The only options left are moving to the prairies or living in a neo-feudal shithole. This is only being introduced so they can officially give up after pretending to fix anything.

Quality of life has almost nothing to do with income anymore so it’s impossible to work for a better future. Being born 5 years later is the difference between tax free, 6 figure equity gains every year, or renting forever. Boomer janitors are richer than a new Dr. will ever be. The system is broken.

Pray for the collapse
off-topic:
Under Windows 11 MS renamed "Snip & Sketch" to "Snipping Tool" and replaced to original snipping tool with it.

Feels like the gave up to overcome muscle memory. At least i continued using the og snipping tool under windows 10 because in german the new tool was named "Ausschneiden und Skizzieren" and that didn't map to me searching for "sni" and pressing enter.
If that is your definition of "being gay" then I doubt anyone was "born gay" as many claim.
The recent survey on Neurosymbolic Programming is a great introduction to the field: https://twitter.com/swarat/status/1474105098401943555 (pardon the Twitter link). I don't think the full version is publicly available, but I suspect you might be able to get access to it if you DM someone involved.

Other than that, here are some names of people working in this field that you might be able to find representative work from:

- Mayur Naik, UPenn (whose group I think were behind Scallop?)
- Swarat Chaudhuri (and maybe also Isil Dillig), UT Austin
- Luc de Raedt, KU Leuven (whose earlier work on Statistical Relational AI is very similar to the Scallop style of neurosymbolic work - I think there's a good textbook available on this)
- Guy van den Broeck, UCLA
- Armando Solar-Lezama, MIT

If you're more interested in the logic side of things then maybe some of MIRI's (https://intelligence.org/) older work may be of interest.

There's also a lot of people who are interested in neuro-symbolic stuff in the wider sense. You can find out more here: http://www.neurosymbolic.org/index.html. If you sign up for the mailing list, there are monthly (or bi-monthly? I can't remember) talks that are open to the public. You can even find recordings of past talks on Armando Solar-Lezama's youtube channel.

Hope this helps!
that's a user problem. they granted the extension permission to access the data. that's on them. You will never be able to solve that problem. after all a user can just hand out their credentials if they want to.

Facebook's issues stems from the fact they allowed apps in their market to access data they didn't need to function / hide exactly how much access these applications are granted.

the reality here is auth is the solution; for browser extensions we need better UX. if a extension is asking for access to your navigation / page data that needs to be flagged and warned about during the setup flow.

many of these auth systems make the risky API access grants appear extremely benign.
I love notion. Evernote keeps renewing my subcription and keeps charnging me for it. I send them email to cancel it after my cancellation didnt work but no one responds. I'm not sure if any humans work at Evernote.
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtubedl%20cheat%20sheet&ia=cheat...

"This Instant Answer was made by the DuckDuckHack Community."

> There’s a lot of hate in this thread

You would do yourself a favor if you tried to engage with criticism instead of deriding it as hate. If you think something is wrong you should be able to come up with convincing counter-arguments.

> towards a company trying to do the right thing.

A company that claims they are trying to do the right thing.
> Foreign investors simply don't belong in that space at all.

How much is this a problem?

Further, this does not (IIRC) apply to folks to have permanent residence status or folks here on things like student visas.

So how many never-set-foot-in-Canada people are buying properties?
This the answer. The rate of population growth in major cities like Toronto isn't keeping up with the housing supply. Our cities should be building more high- and medium-density housing, and public transit to support this population.
That's not true, John Olivers show is extremely well researched. Sometimes his lack of references make it hard to use him as a source, but you can use the show as a starting point and validate his claims from there. They hold up very well.
> Hopefully in 2-4 years we get the following

IMO, current LFP batteries are already "good enough" and "cheap enough" for 80% of car sales. Reportly in 2021 China, 5000-cycle LFP at ~$70/khw. Chop off 1000 cycles, add 20% price margins, and it is still good enough.

If you could conjure up x10 manufacturing scale, you would still sell every single cell.

It will be easier to improve charging infra, that to improve NMC or stablize sodium.

/end of rant
You can't have enough supply of housing, because for housing location matters a lot.

There's only so much room in the center of the capital, and making more costs a titanic amount of effort. Even that runs out eventually, as you can only build so high.

Otherwise, why would we be having a problem? Move to Serbia and buy an apartment for $40K.
Sure, 0.25 Gbps, it’s not like your ISP is lying. I had 0.1 Gbps before Google Fiber came through.
im not sure if its the same in magic, but when I played yugioh how well made a deck was was also just a indicator of how much money you had
All that seems to be posture: DDG looks more like a $soft proxy funneling money to $soft advertisement company and generating traffic for bing.
Apple challenger Nothing’s first smartphone is coming this summer
Piecewise Notes: Literally Connect Dots. [pdf]
For some time, I’ve been scribbling and doodling some maths here and there as my curiosity in and around piecewise functions has massively exploded. For a few years now I’ve been pretty obsessed with how we might go about representing piecewise objects in different ways and finding systematic methods for manipulating them with ease. While I’m still very much not even close to finding a complete system, I’ve come up with some various techniques to wrangle these things under control and do some nifty stuff in the process.

The notes I’m writing don’t follow a chronological order of my realised ideas, rather, we build from the ground up and quickly escalate into some higher-level ideas like interpolation. They’re also non-rigourous and pretty much a first year uni student if that could understand the notation used in these notes; pretty much on par with my level of knowledge. I’m still working on them and there’s still so much to be added, which I’m very excited for. It’s only recently I’ve got them to the point where I feel comfortable sharing at least these, even if they’ve not been proofread by anyone just yet (WIP!)

I’d absolutely love and appreciate feedback, advice and anything else if anyone has the time. One of the things I’ve found is simply no one has the time to context switch into these ideas and tell me I’m a crackpot or not (and why, obviously). Even if you don’t give feedback, I’d like to thank you for reading, if you do.

As an excerpt from the introduction—
As to a preview of what's to come: we develop ideas and formulations for elementary function based formulations of typically piecewise-denoted functions, do some probably piecewise algebra, interpolate points and other functions, construct squares, shapes, re-develop the batman equation but continuously, paint some graphs, think about what happens when we mix in complex numbers, and more.
> IMHO blind bidding is an unethical practice that should be outlawed regardless of its impact on housing prices.

Why? There’s no special virtue ascribed to the purchaser v.s. the seller.

Nothing stops the purchasers from standing in front of the property and publicly announcing their bids (outside of game theory). If they’re bidding less than they are willing to pay, then de facto they’re low balling the seller. There’s no gun to their head to purchase a particular house.
PolicyFly (YC W22) Is Hiring a Senior Back End Engineer (Remote)
I'm a Debian desktop user for both principles and stability. I try to use free software only, but I use the non-free ISO when installing onto a new machine, because I need it to work in the first place.

The Web has plenty of tutorials explaining the installation process and the difference between the official ISO and the non-free ISO, even though I would love a better Debian Wiki.

Maybe it's a bit of gatekeeping, but popularity by itself shouldn't be the goal for Debian. You don't know how to install Debian, you don't want to search for a tutorial first, you won't let someone more knowledgeable to help you? Well, I believe this is not the best place for you, you'll face worse things on the road if you keep using Linux.
The Beaverton has been hitting it out of the park recently.
In Vancouver, the problem is rampant NIMBYism.

We have single family homes in ton of places where there should be low rises but zoning doesn't allow for it.

Indeed, the solution would be to take away zoning power from the city into provincial or even federal hands and let housing be more dense where the taxpayers already paid for rapid transit. Look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmonds_station_(SkyTrain) this is not even a particularly busy station and it has 4M passengers and these two https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_station https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renfrew_station together has barely more than half of that.
> the M1 Mac Mini is not a low end desktop

It's literally Apple's entry-level desktop machine.

The fact that there are even lower-end options doesn't mean that that it isn't a low-end machine. It is a very large spectrum, from a Raspberry Pi on one end to dual-cpu 2x64-core Threadrippers with gigabytes of RAM on the other. The Mac Mini is certainly on the lower end of this spectrum.
It has kinda always baffled me, why some people think web scraping wouldn't/shouldn't be legal.
I mean the second you put something out on the internet, you should expect it to be public, and as a consequence of that, to be scraped.
> After another quick look, seems like they may just be targeting executives at existing successful companies

May I ask how you came to this conclusion?
A student is not meant to purchase a house. They can live on campus or rent. I don't see any reason for an exception here.
I don't think anything serious would happen. No one wants to bug the middle-upper class. See HK.
Also, from what I've seen from previous similar previous projects, they get removed from Github pretty fast by Spotify
A quarter of a century ago, the Xorg config was indeed the major problem of any Linux installation.

Nevertheless, now that is extremely ancient history.

During the last 20 years, I have been using Linux on all my desktops and laptops, without needing any Xorg config.

The only exception is that now I have a couple of lines of Xorg config, which describe how my 3 monitors must be positioned.

Without an Xorg config all would be OK, except that I would have to rearrange the monitors after each power-on.

Of course, there was no need to write those lines of Xorg config, I have just given the command to save the current monitor configuration.

So I cannot imagine what problems still exist nowadays that may require "to redo their Xorg config".

All the problems that I have seen in recent years with Xorg had been caused by either a kernel compiled without some modules needed by the hardware, or by an Xorg server that was installed without some X device drivers needed by the hardware.

With a complete kernel and X server, things should just work.
I appreciate your summary. I wonder if something like metacontroller aligns with this problem space.

https://metacontroller.github.io/metacontroller/intro.html
there are thousands of pre-seed investors at this point

The advice I got, which helped me: Series A intros come from Seed investors. Seed intros come from domain specialist angels. So start with angels who know your niche.

If you don't know how to do that, join a pre-seed coaching program like https://www.lindsayt.com/ this costs $1000 for 6 months of weekly calls and comes with tons of training that you don't realize you need, and will put you into contact with dozens of other founders.

Another one - https://www.primary.vc/firstedition/posts/cohort-four-primar... this is free, there is an application but you can still have a job
The real estate agents operate as a cartel and wouldn’t accept offers this way.
I appear to be unable to edit the original comment, but I'd say that you're quite on point.

I was trying to say that how people think, how good they are at putting those thoughts into words and how they put it into words is different from person to person.

Quite often when I try to give an example of something I pick as obvious of an example as possible.

Example of how people have different definitions for the same words:
Word: evil.

Hitler probably wouldn't describe himself as evil, but a vast majority of people would use the word evil to describe Hitler.

That would mean that Hitler's definition of evil would have to exclude the things that he did.

When I gave that example in a different community the moderator deleted my message saying that supporting and glorifying Hitler is not allowed there.

While I do have faith that here on HN people would actually read what I wrote and understand that I did no such thing. Such misinterpretation of comments still happens even here, which ends in a negative outcome.
We should never consider any voting system that is not simple to the point of being almost-trivial. Anything even slightly more complex than necessary will lead to accusations of cheating which are enough to create massive instability - even when they are provably false. We see this even with the current election systems!

Since there's no simple way to explain 'blockchain' to non-tech people, any voting system using it is irrelevant - and will end up discarded like nearly all the other attempts invoking blockchain hype.
This sounds like something David Byrne would make up. "In the future..."
Someone posted another link to Scallop on HN a few days ago. I am looking forward to the next version that will have interop with Python and PyTorch.
It will inflate housing prices
Docker to me is a proof that distro package management has failed. People would rather bundle a snapshot of an entire operating system with every application they use, instead of trying to install a compatible set of packages on the host OS.
Ask HN: Take the easy job or the hard job?
After working for 16 years, I’m at a crossroads in my career where I want a change and have a few different opportunities in front of me. I have 3 kids and am very dedicated to my family (like to be a big part of their lives). One of the opportunities is new and challenging whereas the other is more familiar and cushier (roughly same comp and upside). How should I choose?

Wondering if anyone can shed some guidance or personal stories about having a really challenging career and the reward that came with it.

My gut feeling is to run towards the challenge because it makes you stronger and you generally feel better when overcoming them. My example is being a parent. It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done and it’s by far the most rewarding. I seem to look back and find myself most proud of the difficult challenges. Would love to hear your thoughts.
you also have to be approved apple developer to do that
Digital yuan isn't a dollar replacement: Former central bank governor
Presumably they are buying up houses to rent. If they buy too many they can’t rent them out, they lose money.

I’m not convinced it’s a problem.

Again, all roads point back to supply. Build enough homes and the issue is moot.
> Are you certain the devs getting 2x more points than the average dev weren't just consistently picking the easier stories?

Your objections make no sense.

If a story is easy but the number of points is not reflecting the ease, then the estimation is wrong, period.

If there is someone on a team with such an estimation superpower so that they're able to know which tickets are easy, then just make this person estimate all the tickets. Problem solved.

You either accept that someone is more productive, or you accept the estimation you performed is wrong by a factor of 2x. You can't have it both ways.

> Or estimating story points vastly differently than other members of the team?

In all the teams I worked the estimation was done by the entire team. If it's not being done by the whole team, then there's no real baseline to compare the work being done by two people, period.

> In my experience, story points can be worse than no estimation. They give the illusion of insight, but in reality there's so much noise and inconsistency in point estimation, that they're almost never accurate measures.

The point of story points is not to give extremely accurate measurements, but rather to inform you of the amount of work a team is able to do in a period of time (often a Sprint).