skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comparison is to the rhetoric used to ignore bigotry (see the absurd defence of Corbyn in the comments). The alleged sins of a country are irrelevant to that issue.
I'll agree that slow pipelines are irritating, but you should really take the extra time and fix your e2e tests. In a project I was on recently, our e2e tests were extremely robust and played a key part in re-architecting a fairly large backend for a site we were maintaining. They don't have to be flaky.
I'll add to your original thread too, and say that disengaged product owners combined with changing requirements and/or scope creep have been some of the biggest sources of annoyance for me.
Why would it be hard if they are foreign? They literally have a substantial asset in your country.
It should be possible to make home purchases economically irrational for undesirable purchasers. For example, you could impose a draconian property tax on all non-owner occupied residential properties.

Financial investors and money launderers look at homes as illiquid, stable assets. They expect that they can extract their millions with a few week’s time, perhaps with gains from continued inflation. If they lose a significant portion of that value over the duration they hold the asset, it stops making sense.

A punitive tax like this should be pegged to some other “safe” asset. Perhaps a basket of national bonds from the G20. Ensure that taking residential inventory off the market produces a substantially worse return than those other options.

If you don’t want to kill domestic land lords, make it trivial for a citizen to apply for a waiver. Just know that the investor types will be motivated to subvert this system. Strongly recommend you have real jail time penalties for doing so. Financial folks hate real prison.
"we have no reason to believe that they still exist"

In the article, he's asking why we give so much importance to the bones. If we have 40 eyewitnesses, that would be enough to win in any court. An eyewitness account is evidence, just like a bone is evidence. His essay raises the question, why don't we put more weight on the eyewitness accounts?
Yep, given that the world is aging, especially (but not exclusively) in the 1st world, I wonder what the implications for labor are in the future.
If you tax them 100% you can take that money and build equivalent government housing on the next lot over.
I’d be very interested to read an analysis of this. Seems like the best solution to me.
For the hottest market in Canada, Vancouver, the hottest communities had single digit foreign ownership. That doesn't explain why Halifax, Nova Scotia has double in price.

But regardless, not sure why travel restrictions would matter. You don't need to see a house to buy it.
I wish it were possible to view those installation counts as a percentage of systems which are non-virtual!
… the last digital camera was a phone.
Canada has comparable housing supply with many other places that don't have the same skyrocketing unaffordability. Most parties are advocating for increasing supply, but it's definitely not the entirety of the problem (particularly when additional building carries it's own problems like sprawl and destroying farmland / ecological preserves).

Also the federal government doesn't have a ton of jurisdiction into increasing supply, that's largely a provincial concern.
Local small-time property ownership encourages land liquidity (that isn't our current issue, but is an issue). That model currently looks good up to a 4plex.
There is also a general belief that

1. Sikhs & Gurkhas are warrior class, they are overrepresented in the military.
2. Parsi's are extraordinarily successful businessmen, they are among the wealthiest Indians.
3. Brahmins are extraordinarily successful academically.
4. Jains are successful businessmen.

Let us remember that 1-3 were co-opted by the British as loyal troops, given special concessions in business, and employed as loyal servants in clerical tasks.

In the case of [4] it is survival bias, being a true Jain is very hard and only the rich elite could adhere to it.

Some communities in India have had a head start or rather the barbaric colonial rule had pulled down much of the population to abject poverty and gave few people not in abject poverty a head start.

Equally there is a special hate campaign against Brahmins emanating from church as they are seen as guardians of high culture and scriptures.

As a vast majority of Indians have not converted to Islam or Christianity in spite of the hostile foreign occupation anywhere between 400 to a 1000 years, I can safely say we are all warriors and the last surviving major ancient civilisation.

The caste-debate is a two way street and is mostly kept alive by few vested interests. Among the youth it is mostly the "reservation" that exposes them to "Caste politics", as online education & private sector picks up it is going to be less relevant.

To be fair to Brahmins, as non-brahmin with a brahmin-like first name from Tamil Nadu I have been at the receiving end of the political-church driven hate campaigns that even teachers take part in.

I think we should not tolerate any kind of hate especially hate campaigns, esp. for the younger generation.
Heh ok time for my Ralfy rant. Ralfy is ... odd. He'll argue about the price of whisky being too high one day then another that supermarkets are lowballing the price and ruining its prestige. He speaks very authoritatively on many subjects but occasionally you'll catch him talking about a topic you're familiar with and you realise he's just talking shite. An example being his review of Bulleit Bourbon where he waxed poetic about it being this little authentic Bourbon, or something along those lines, then obviously he got called out and followed it up with a rant about how he had been deceived by Bulleit when really he should've just known better (the issue is that Bulleit use a fairly common model of having a large distillery in Indiana called MGP to make their whiskey, which you then bottle + brand yourself. It's not dishonest or sinister, but it's certainly not some cosy family business).

At times it's quite painful to watch him glassy-eyed, half-drunk, sorta slurring and struggling for words. If you've spent any length of time in Scottish pubs you'll have met guys like Ralfy and they're tbh quite annoying :D
ThinkPads are definitely nice but +1 to getting a Ryzen one. Work supplied a T15p Gen 1 with Comet Lake (GTX 1050 so GPU isn't a heatmaker) and it's basically "factory-throttling". Every single one we have just turbos to 100C (not even max clock rate) and self-throttles. There's also some critical Thunderbolt PnP bugs but I 100% blame Intel for that, it's their chipset after all.

I had to make a custom power plan and send it to everyone to keep it at sane temperatures and prevent throttling (at which point it's decent). If you look at it & the T15p Gen 2 you'll see Lenovo realized their mistake and then overcompensated on cooling by doubling thickness (blech), even on non-Quadro models.

But the keyboard is definitely nice and it's one of the sturdier Windows laptops I've seen, even has a neat hardware switch for the webcam.
public housing will probably have to be the major accomodation provider.

Since the economy is a scam, expecting it to house everybody in a decent and sane way is just utopia, no better than communism.

I heard about Singapore (80%?) and Vienna (65%?, Austria), I am unable to check that or find other places: this information is really tough to get. In my country, it is extremely opaque and _very discret_ (secret?) in the fear of massive abuse from foreigners.
I mean yes but then you'd also hit your population, unless you restrict the tax to non-citizens, but then foreign investors can still use some sort of a front man or other loopholes.
If there was enough supply there wouldn't be a problem. No one hoards cars, boats, airplanes or anything else because they think that they can corner the market and raise prices. Housing is only special because not enough is built. It's only possible to "hoard" because every 1 off the market is less for everyone else. A fixed pie. Like bitcoin. If the bitcoin supply was infinite no one would think about collecting them.
I can't hear it. I have Sony-1000XM4 headphones, in a silent room.
The typical workaround in UK is that instead of selling the house, the corporation that directly or or directly owns it is sold instead, usually on a tax haven.
Ukrainian fArmy Game
> 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.

If banks actually hated it, they would simply not write the loan. Why do you think they hate it?
It was last summer. I bought one of the recommended laptops for running Linux just for the purpose of switching. It sucked hard.

(rant following so please don't read the rest if you don't like ranting about linux desktop)

I could probably live with trackpad not being great. But the sound stack, bluetooth stack, driving displays with different dpi (hidpi and non-hidpi) etc. are all terrible. Managing multiple displays (xrandr, xinerama etc.) even without the dpi difference is also just bad. If you like to tinker it's great but I just couldn't make the switch. It didn't give me the confidence that it will work when I need it. I tried all major distros and read almost the entirety of the arch wiki (it is so good). i3 is one of the things that would make me try again in the future. There is nothing like it on macos (some wms try but they always feel duct-taped). And systemd is good.
Also known as map of targets that should be spared if only for ecological impact.
>Also, you can’t forget that every search actually costs them money, as every single search incurs the fee from Google and Microsoft for their APIs. I think there was an idea around having a $5 trial plan with only 10 searches a day or something. Unlimited searches for $5 would be "We are losing money on every customer, but we are making it up in volume"

Are they really querying Google and Microsoft for every search? This seems highly inefficient. Then Kagi is basically just a fancy wrapper. I thought their ambition was to build out Teclis and TinyGem to serve more and more content and rely less and less on other search providers. At the very least, I don't think they need to hit Google every time someone queries "games." This is hopefully queried once per period and stored in Teclis/cached.

To be blunt, if this is just a fancy wrapper/aggregator then there is no reason to use this over you.com.
It doesn't boot directly on it, but you can at least run Windows 10 ARM64 VMs on Apple Silicon. With Parallels you also get some decent GPU virtualization.
The tax could be an "empty house" tax, so there would be an incentive to get a tenant.

Alternatively, the tax could be targeted at negating profit from value increase, so that you pay higher tax on profit from sale of property (possibly with a deduction you can apply when buying another one within some reasonable timeframe, so that normal homeowners aren't affected).
EU decision to restrict bee-harming pesticide causes tension with US
Show HN: Ayy: decentralized Linux package management
Because eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable? There’s not a shred of physical evidence?
I prefer using (neo)vim, but I find it a bit disingenuous to ask such a question. LSPs wouldn't exist without the investments made in VSCode. I'm grateful for this technology aimed at bringing IDE features in any editor (instead of being silo-ed), and don't really care if most people prefer the comfort of integrated environments.
It is still common to add a couple of drops even if it's already at 40%
Wow. So if this is universally true - that all non-macs are garbage - why is it that review sites like Notebookcheck rate some non-macs machines close to (albeit not matching) a Macbook?

For instance:

2021 Macbook Pro 16" gets a rating of 93
(https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-16-2021-M1-P...)

Lenovo ThinkPad P1 G4 has a 90 rating
(https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-P1-G4-laptop-r...)

Are the reviewers just not evaluating machines on any real world basis? Grading on some ridiculous curve?
Vendor limitation maybe? Some manufacturers just don't want to certify configurations above X GB but if you install the DIMMs they will boot.
The Cult of Musk
Amazing story :) Though I am left wondering if there are ever any circumstances where minorities don't get used as leverage somehow
If I may ask, why do you believe that having more users and profit would undermine your ability to stay independent and sustainable? I would have thought that more users and profit would do the opposite: secure Kagi's ability to stay independent and sustainable. Intentionally reducing users and profit doesn't make any sense to me, given your stated goal.
>That is confusingly incompetent

That’s a common pattern for Russian armed forces.
Americans are exempted!

But it hasn't always been 40% Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty (ABSD), the government will ramp it up and down to control the private market.

It hasn't seemed to had that big of an impact. A small, 2bed condo on land with a 99-year lease costs S$1.6M ($1.2M USD) outside the central business district.

But if you really wanted to gain control of home prices and development, just adopt Singapore's 99-year lease policy of land. Once the 99 years is up, it goes back to the government you get $0.

Singapore isn't old enough yet to truly see the ramifications (plenty of people are betting they'll get bought out), but the government has said they will stick to it and have stuck to their word in a recent situation where there were 60 year old leases.

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/all-191-units-at-geyl...

"All 191 units at Geylang Lorong 3 have been vacated and ownership of the 60-year leasehold land has returned to the State, said the Singapore Land Authority (SLA) on Friday (Jan 1)"

That land will be cleared and then auctioned off for another 99-year lease to private investors who will build new housing. It's a semi-Georgian policy where the Singapore government captures all of the increased land value and then turns around and uses it to subsidize new public housing or other public benefits.
I mean, having been to Japan, and having a decent knowledge of their culture… This is such a Japanese invention.
It's easier and cheaper to produce more cars. Boats are irrelevant since they're not a necessity, a house is, a car is in certain cities.houses being already scarce, and hoarding them makes it worse, because it makes them even less affordable.
Lots take up physical space. This space is not infinitely extensible. The next lot over will be farther from the city center.
Could a better thought out measure achieve the same goals? How would you do it?

I feel a strong tax on houses you don't personally live in (because you rent them or because you're a company) could be efficient, but I'd love to hear other people's take on the subject.
What Living with Long Term Inflation Feels Like
Efficacy of Resveratrol Supplementation on Glucose and Lipid Metabolism
I'm a homeowner in Toronto and I don't think this will help. They've eliminated a small number of buyers from the market but have added other incentives like a first home buyers tax credit that will only fuel the fire - Australia tried this with tragic results.

>> working with provinces and territories to develop and implement a Home Buyers’ Bill of Rights and bring forward a national plan to end blind bidding.

Blind bidding is where multiple parties submit a sealed bid on a property. The realtor and seller review these bids behind close doors and then often request subsequent rounds of bids from the bidders *without telling them the current winning bid, or who's bid is winning*. Bidders end up out-bidding themselves.

IMHO blind bidding is an unethical practice that should be outlawed regardless of its impact on housing prices.
Yes but it will be an empty desert with anything below 10m users, because only then would an average user would have 100 friends and 10 posts per week.
Not Zoom. They haven't the budget to buy fluffy, "this totally isn't a paid advertisement really" articles.

> Using the Microsoft Hololens Kinect camera and a personal computer with custom Aexa [sic] software,

I wonder if it's paid PR or just reflexive; the author has been a promotional slave so long it doesn't know how to do anything else. Or perhaps will be fired if it does venture out of the realm of hagiographic horse shit.
> You can't even take a screenshot of a Netflix show, thanks to DRM;

The windows snipping tool (which got renamed to "Snip & Sketch" at some point) takes screenshots just fine even when Netflix is running in full-screen mode.
If market increases 20% a year clearly there isn't enough being build. Housing really shouldn't be appreciating asset, maybe stay in line with inflation and improved quality, but 20% a year is unsustainable.
Dweeb is an actual slang word that predates weeaboo by several decades.
This doesn't record port-forwarded traffic tho, and warpgate does
Yes: I was unwilling to subscribe to Google Play Music (as then was) because something like half of their classical music collection—including all of Deutsche Grammophon— was unlistenable due to watermarking. It was so bad that I actually reported it internally as bug against the GPM player before I learned that it was a watermark thanks to Matt's article. Much griping about it persuaded someone on the GPM team to get fresh, supposedly-fixed recordings from UMG but to no avail: the new audio seemed to be as bad as the old.

That was a few years ago, and I lost track of what happened after that but evidently UMG actually fixed the problem at some point because YT Music seems fine now, and I no longer notice the problem on other streaming services that were also formerly affected by it.
The sale of investment properties is already subject to capital gains tax.
China wedding photographer sentenced 14Y for sending military photos on WeChat
You don't have to keep just one account. Find a community that doesn't refuse to federate with the instances you're interested in, or make another account in the instance you're interested in, and log into both. IIRC you can even mix the news feeds in some apps.

At worst it just becomes good old fashioned forums. Remember the 10s of forums & associated accounts we all had?
I switched to simply using clear text notes, synchronized with standard cloud sync. You can then pile emacs, VS Code or even Obsidian on top of that, but the actual notes are in a directory structure consisting of clear text.

I already pay for cloud services, so no reason to add another subscription to the pile, with yet another login/password that may expose my information.
In the end, all decentralized solutions for problems have the same inherent motivator; a token that is supposed to have and/or gain value as the system gets used. As crypto-tokens are mostly a zero-sum game, where the strongest, bestest coin takes over the market completely (in the same way gold took its predecessor's position), I can't for the life of me understand why most of these solutions are implemented in native tokens or tokens on a blockchain that isn't either Bitcoin or one of its upperlying layers.
She might want to use the property for herself from time to time.
UK property prices surged a lot in the past year, especially in smaller cities. I wonder if the UK government is going to do something about it
Sooner or later you end up at eugenics and racism, just with a more scientific, “just following the evidence” veneer.
Chomsky denounces this since at least the 70's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model#Ownership
I wonder if this would be a way to passively search for calls of the possibly extinct ivory-billed woodpecker; even with a small number of audio recordings in existence.

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/15/1093006040/the-ivory-billed-w...
When I used it for ruby. I was totally fascinated by it. Wow. It was a horrible experience. Lack of proper support made everyone hard.

Loved the concepts though.
> he was found providing 384 photos of Chinese warships and military ports to a person overseas that he met via WeChat

>He was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment and deprived of political rights for five years.
The story provided by Michael Zinchenko[0] (Team Lead at «Wargaming», Kyiv, Ukraine) on Twitter:

> One good man from the Ukrainian gamedev made a great little game about tractors and tanks. Well you know this story.[1,2,3]

> And this person asked me to share this story with you.

> https://ukrainian.itch.io/ukrainian-farmy

> You can just play the Ukrainian fArmy. And you can donate a a bit of money. And every hryvnia / dollar will go to the Ukraine defenders. Because the is war here. And I personally vouch for the person and the money too.

> P.S. Even a simple sharing of a link to a game "is not much, but it's honest work".

> Keep yourselves. Glory to Ukraine!

UPD: Ministry of Defence of Ukraine just tweeted this game intro screen:

> Ukrainian tractors in action. They do not require long bureaucratic approvals, unlike other types of heavy weapons and military equipment from our Western partners, which we so desperately need to destroy the enemy.[4]

> Image by Ukrainian fArmy[img]

[0] https://ua.linkedin.com/in/michael-zinchenko-2929214

[1] https://twitter.com/AkaTigra/status/1516066008485740546

[2] https://twitter.com/AkaTigra/status/1516066012982034432

[3] https://twitter.com/AkaTigra/status/1516066020863221760

[4] https://twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1516395858765524998

[img] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQtR_pHWQAoUR5-?format=jpg&name=...
Does telegra.ph clean up posts?
In my recent search for simple blogging platform, I came across telegra.ph. After writing few posts, I love it but question looms in my mind - will they keep these posts forever? Will the post be one day deleted? Anyone here know if they do cleanups?
Thanks for this! Simple enough to type out even.
2012-01-10 with updates in 2013 and 2015
It's a shame that there's barely even a conversation about fixing the problem of the ever growing pile of proprietary firmware blobs; more and more often people seem to just accept the situation.

There isn't AFAIK an organisation or project dedicated to producing free firmware to replace the blobs. The most you see is the occasional project for making firmware for a single chip. Debian's page lists these: https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Open
It's a depressingly short list.

I guess the problem is in part that there's no money to fund anyone for doing such (very hard) work, and no incentive for companies to pay for it.
Yep totally it's not our place to say - if they are enjoying our national drink and like to add ice to it, then all good with me :D I just have a teaspoon of water if anything and don't use ice unless I'm having an Old Fashioned (but that would be made with non-Scotch and is effectively cocktail anyway)
Same path here. 2 years using Credit Karma, then jumped through hoops only to see that Cashapp couldn't locate my prior returns, so I just used Freetaxusa.