skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only time I ever used this was a wood foundation was found on inspection for a home we conditionally purchased listed as a concrete foundation. There was nothing wrong with it based on the inspection but I wasn't comfortable so we backed out. Every other case we've used the inspection to get concessions on mechanicals and roofs that needed replacing but I don't think we'd get the inspection or price reduction on an offer today.
Honestly, I wouldn't work a DoD job today. I've thought about it I'm the past and know people who have. The people I've talked to say that a lot of it has become policy/politics above the mission, extreme bureaucracy, miserable zero-trust kept-in-the-dark working conditions, etc. They need to get their shit together if they want to attract and retain talent.

Just imagine if the DoD recruiters were as efficient and streamlined as armed forces recruiters (Might bring some negatives too though).
My biggest concern with an online service is privacy (either bad actors or the web app getting hacked). I used an online mortgage service that was fully paperless with the exception of a single document. Just ran it through a few imagemagick commands to add rotation, noise, contrast, etc. My home printer wasn't working so it was either that or buy a whole new one.
Apple does not offer an equivalent tool, however as of iOS 13, the system hooks exist for one to be implemented. In particular, there is Christian Selig's Amplosion (same author as the Apollo Reddit client)[1], which works quite well. Costs a few dollars up front, but well worth it.

There is sadly not a version or equivalent on macOS, but Christian has confirmed it is in-development.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amplosion-redirect-amp-links/i...

P.S. Pairs well with PiPifier to bypass YouTube not allowing picture-in-picture or playing in the background without a subscription, and a good ad blocker.
I'm only speaking from my own personal experience, but I've never seen bananas priced at less than 1c each in the grocery store. I've also seen people misplace decimal points frequently. So, based on the thousands of times I've been to dozens of grocery stores, I'm using pattern matching to deduce that almost assuredly it's more likely that a banana listed as costing "0.19c" refers to $0.19 not $0.0019. If you ever encounter a true sub-cent banana in a retail supermarket, feel free to reach out to me and I'll be the first to admit I was wrong.
I'll give the positive side of it. I'm sure there's enough negatives too. I find it to be more transparent in many ways.

It's clearer which writer is getting paid for what. On many news sites, you don't know if the money is going to the company and which writer is getting compensated. The focus is to pay writers you like to write more, and is not centered on the writing that gets enough payment from advertisers. You also don't get much in terms of ads from the writers too.

You know what your paying for, what you're getting, and from whom. You know that what you are reading will stay available to you because it is in your email, which cannot be paywalled or taken off the internet because something happened to the business model or to the website. You own the right to read the content you paid to get, and it will always be available as long as you have your emails saved and accessible.
Very much yes.

Whenever somebody compares US to a single Nordic country, it is all about an agenda and not to find things out.

Also: And only deaths are considered. It ignores that we did not know if there was any long term effects on people or if the hospital system would be overloaded if "If things had simply been left to run their course".

(The latter was the main consideration when Denmark closed down: not to avoid deaths, but to avoid hospitals to be overloaded)
> Now that housing makes up 60%+ of everyone's (at least the latest generation of house buyers/renters) expenses

Is that actually true for the median US resident? I have a really hard time believing it. I can believe it's the case in SF and some other big cities maybe.
Waterfall and Agile are tools. If you need to hang a photo, a hammer and a nail. Cut down a tree? Maybe not the hammer and the nail.
> The Canadian government will ban foreign homebuyers for two years, AP reported Monday.

What does "foreign homebuyer" even mean? If I, as a foreigner, register an LLC (or the Canadian equivalent) in Canada, can this LLC then buy real estate or not? What if that LLC is entirely owned by another Canadian LLC which is then maority-owned by me?
> The root cause is the system that is geared to keep houses always appreciating via supply constraints: aggressive zoning, discretionary permitting, NIMBYism.

You're conspicuously avoiding low interest rates and 30-year mortgages from that list.

When people can borrow against their entire life's earnings to buy a home, the price of a home will trend towards that of a person's entire life's earnings.

Limiting maximum mortgage terms to 9 years would do more to bring down the price of homes than dealing with anything else you've listed.
Russian imperialism and revanchism - very simple answer.
In general I agree, that the root cause tends to be a supply constraint. Even if there were a bunch of people buying up houses, at least in theory that should make rents go down.

However, in places like Vancouver people are buying up property as a place to park money and they remain unoccupied. Policies like additional taxes on unoccupied or secondary residences. Seem like one good way of adding supply.
I'm not getting why you wouldn't just use Emacs's customize to do the job?
I feel like anti-cults are never as strong as the cult itself, and will rarely ever be.

A cult is a portion of society following something or someone, and I feel like it encompasses people from suggestible fans to fanatics.

An anticult can't contain people who have no interest, as those who lack interest will be on the sidelines not caring. I also think that there's a larger 'negative opinion threshold' that needs to be crossed for someone to migrate to the anticult, since anticult membership requires opposition and participation.

In essence, cults can be passive, while anticults are active, and whenever you ask for activity, membership plummets, simply because the bar has gone above knee-height.
Not sure about Firefox cutting out AMP directly. I personally use this extension to do it: https://www.daniel.priv.no/web-extensions/amp2html.html
I'm reading the same things and not feeling manipulated at all. The steps are clearly being documented and the reasoning seems sound to me. To incentivize library authors to use GPL don't put the word Library in the name of LGPL. It even distinguishes which one is lesser tainting.
I generally trust the Brave folks, but have reservations about rewriting URLs becoming a new tool in their toolbox.

DDG sounds like a promising alternative.
Agree, but at least brave has the expertise and interests ($$) that if chromium goes off the rails, they could fork and maintain an alternative.
Please see the "Why is AMP Harmful?" section :) https://brave.com/privacy-updates/18-de-amp/#why-is-amp-harm...
The problem is that this private company has a list of words that they decided was inappropriate. By highlighting these words in their monopolistic product (Google Docs), they are influencing discourse and shaping opinion and implicitly educating children that use the docs, by providing them with their opinionated advice and suggestions for replacement.
Safe: A Collection of Comments from Leading Experts
SUSE’s New Linux Release Isn’t for Running Your Desktop – Or Server
Visualizing All the Electric Car Models Available in the U.S.
I think an extension of that analogy is that there are thousands of supermarkets. A few of them are well-stocked while the rest are full of sardines. There are two proposed solutions:

* Let everyone shop at the couple of good supermarkets and hope the supermarket can keep the shelves stocked and deal with the crowds.

* Get those other supermarkets to start stocking stuff other than sardines.

The right answer is probably a blend of those.
Maybe. On the other side, if California puts a 32 hour work week in place, and pays obvious costs from industry reacting to it and being able to easily move operations to other states... it may sour the country on a shorter workweek when we could have all moved together to 36 hours without much issue.
Your comment made me find the book, "48 Laws of Power" by Robert Greene, judging from law 46: "Never appear too perfect". It's not classified as fiction, but it's gotta be satire, I mean, it's good, but sprinkled with many antisocial and toxic behaviors.

I guess the people in power prove these laws are realistic, definitely adding it to my to-read book pile.
UK boilers are rather different from US water heaters. UK boilers run at much higher temperatures and are typically un-insulated or poorly insulated, in order to heat the room that they're contained in. They do make high-temperature heat pumps that work for this, but they're much more expensive than the small units used in US hybrid water heaters. There's never really been any incentive in the UK to switch to more modern types of appliances.
Photocatalysis in living cells: Label what you want
38 million, with an annual immigration target of over 400k, plus foreign students, temporary visas, etc. New construction simply isn't keeping up with demand. Politicians have tried to solve this from the supply side for decades, but many of the issues like zoning are in provincial and municipal jurisdiction, where the incentive is to keep prices high and homeowners happy.

So the federal government refuses to address the demand side of the equation (very high immigration rate) while the the provinces and municipalities block increases in supply. The natural result? Runaway price increases, and the rest of Canada's economy becoming uncompetitive because employees can't find a house within a 2 hour commute for under $1MM in the GTA.
For starters Mozilla could operate with a much smaller footprint, much less projects in parallel and less vanity projects. That would reduce the amount of money required by a lot, which is the big problem in the first place.

Developing a browser isn't easy and requires a few teams of developers, but in 2020 it spent 242 million dollars in software development costs, 137 million dollars in administrative costs and 37 million dollars in marketing and branding costs. I don't live in a lala land where I think you can develop a browser for free, but I think we can all agree that you don't need to spend this amount of money on it either. Are 100 developers enough? 200? How much does that cost? Do they all need San Francisco salaries to develop a good browser?

In terms of funding, they got 440 million dollars from royalties (what they get from setting default search engines on their browser) and 25 million dollars in subscription revenue (Pocket and VPN subscriptions type things - products they actually sell).

Now, can you develop a browser on 25 million dollars per year? Maybe it's cutting it short, but for sure there could be a strategy to invest more on this side of the equation to phase out the need to be Google's bitch in a more intentional way.

Source: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2020/mozilla-fdn-202...
Modern war is no longer military show, resemble more criminal-based guerrilla. Traditional military technique can work or not much depending on combatant motivation more than mere material superiority.

Given that modern war should be centered toward war crimes, witch means using civilian stuff to disguise forces, mass kill people with poisoned water without damaging significantly the infra, use and abuse modern IT crap vulnerabilities do disable infra (like electric grid, connected vehicles etc) without physical damage, spread disinformation with the best possible ability etc.

That's why, for instance, in Ukraine Russia can't really arrive to a quick victory. Such immoral and criminal pattern is nothing new: WWI was a combat between armies, civilians are evacuated before combats, non-combatant on the front line was a bit respected etc, WWII change the game hitting civilians without any morale, hitting ambulances, putting military in hospitals etc. Now we do not even use State's official army preferring mercenaries with formally no flag and no code of conduct, engaging rule: "do what you want but win".

In such scenario try to be civil is not doable, the sole option is show equal behaviors, not encouraging criminals and violence per se, but mastering it to crush enemy forces and push civilians of all sides against the combatant because being unable to distinguish between them any unknown human being can be an enemy so a legit target for all sides.

Reaching such level of brutality means creating just bloodbaths where public opinion will rise at a certain point against the war itself. At that point no gear will work, the force of the crowd could not be stopped.

That's the modern strategy no one admit of course, but many practice shamefully.
GitLab employee here - we list Requirements Management as at "minimal" maturity. I'm sure the team would love to hear more about why the feature didn't work for you - you can learn more about the direction and the team here: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/plan/certify/#requirement...
So what if it saves me a few milliseconds of load time and megabyte or two of RAM? Maybe that has some value a shitty mobile connection, but such marginal gains are not worth conceding even more control of the web to Google. I'd rather websites take 10 minutes to load than have Google MITM my life.
Typically, a bowl of soup is "eaten" by bringing the bowl to the lips, tilting to flow the liquid, and stirring the solid bits into your mouth with the chopsticks.
It does, yes. Seems like they have another product that fixes that issue, but it also sounds toxic. Not something I'd want to play with.
>You could argue that you can just keep building up and up until you cross the threshold of demand affecting the price, but without a market incentive to do that, it's wishful thinking at best.

Tokyo, with its reasonable zoning, seems to have figured out how to build densely without being absurdly expensive. The key here is that the "market" is indeed allowed to figure it out, and not as restricted by NIMBYism.

The best thing the government can do right now is to get out of the way in regards to building more units.
There was actually a scheme a few years ago to get cavity wall insulation for free. I know because I took advantage of it, although the work was not exactly first class.

Insulating the loft ought to be cheap because it's simple and material is cheap. I DIY'd it.

On the other hand, insulating the floor is a b*tch. I did it myself as well and lifting the floorboards of the whole ground-floor was a massive pain but now I have 10cm of Celotex underneath and enjoy warm wooden floor all year long with no draft.
Venice is pumping freshwater back into the aquifer to prevent this.
Don't Go to Art School (2013)
Similar happens in Sydney. There are a lot of foreign people looking for safe havens for their cash. I can't blame them (I'd do the same), but it is problematic for the people living there because it does reduce supply.
> Boring Company. Can go underground

I hope you aren't serious. Maybe a quick shill for TSLA?

Perhaps I missed the joke?

I seem to recall a underground infrastructure that can move thousands of people per hour at great speeds in the city. I think a sandwich company is named after it. I forget what its called.

> used every customer’s trips and every car collected data for Tesla..blurring the line between being an automobile company and a data company…it is such a simple and effective solution.

Ok. There's definitely a joke in there somewhere.

Aside from known problems like route optimization, what would a public transit system need Tesla-like data collection for? What would the AI be used for specifically? Sure, companies like Comma.ai are doing some interesting self-driving machine learning modelling stuff but I am curious as to why you think public transit would need that level of data collection...ofcourse going on the assumption that they don't collect any data at all because reasons.

Ofcourse leaving aside that Tesla's innovation is energy storage packaged in a neat looking sports car. 10/10 would make a great powersource is a dystopian movie.
You mean what people did? They kept doing parties in empty houses.
On that path a lot of people would have died due to building collapses and fires though.
totally agree, but lithium supply may still block the REALLY big volumes, so 160 wh/kg sodium ion being as good as LFP from a year or two back means that isn't an issue. At this point, it should be more mundane factory scaling problems.

The world governments really need to get onboard with pushing worldwide manufacturing of these cells and modules. Tesla's Berlin delays were shameful. If you are running coal plants, you as a government can't say anything about environmental damage from a new BEV or battery plant with a straight face.

I'm thankful that at least science and technology have given humanity a path forward that is clearly economically superior, because it is clear that humanity's collective political governance is incompetent.

The fact you can take decades of global warming science, point out the end state and dangers, and the effective intelligence of worldwide leaders over that time is less than the intellectual and logical capacity of a third grader, even one that has missed their nap, is one of the most depressing things in the world.

I'm loathe to credit the Chinese government with anything based on their current leadership's autocratic and genocidal leanings, but their policies subsidizing battery and solar cell production have been the only effective governmental level environmental policy in the global warming era.
GPS on BenchMarks: crowdsourced data collection for the National Geodetic Survey
Well regarding the Western response to COVID and “lockdowns” - Tell this story to doctors and nurses in wards where young people died gasping for breath (so many I personally know of) - of course we needed to lockdown

Insane that a contagious disease directly killed over 50,000 young people (under age 50) in the usa alone and we are still debating if our lockdown response was disproportionate?

It’s simple - people were dying who should not normally be were and the medical community was overwhelmed - we needed to lockdown untill a we knew that an effective vaccine worked or the effective transmission rate declined, or the virus mutated into a safer variant

Wars and terrorism killed far less and the impact was far greater as well

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1191568/reported-deaths-...
This is such a fascinating interview. The transcript is comedy to read. I'm really surprised this Alan Yeung guy agreed to do the interview, but I guess any promotion is better than no promotion when pushing a new book?

> NP: We don’t even have any questions about tax credit. I am just trying to get to the heart of why you signed up to build a Gen 10.5 factory in Wisconsin, which is a famous cocktail-napkin contract with Scott Walker. All of this other stuff seems like a distraction from that project. Now you are saying you do not think there is a talent base in Wisconsin alone, and you have to bring engineers into short-term housing from all these cities around Wisconsin to help grow a talent base. This entire book is about wining and dining with politicians, getting the deal together, and whether Scott Walker arrives in China and goes straight on the factory tour or stops at the hotel first. Nowhere in this book is there an economic defense of this investment that says, “This is a good idea that we think will return a profit to us.”

> AY: Let me come back to you with a couple things. There were no napkins, okay? The one thing that you published, based on an open record request, is actually what I wrote about in the book. There is a piece of stationery that both Chairman Gou and Governor Walker signed, to make a commitment to reshore manufacturing — that is a fact — but there is no napkin and all that.

> NP: I will concede that there is not a napkin.
Glad you’ve talked with leadership there and can confirm what many suspect but can’t prove
A la The Dice Man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dice_Man
AMP sometimes helps me get past paywalls though.
Only if they really screwed up their licensing agreement.

But if they have, I'm not seeing information that they filed for bankruptcy, so they (or their owning company) may be at risk.
Sure, by the way the prices are roughly the same.
I also try to outcompete them by working on unique features
Hmm I haven’t set JAVA_HOME in years. At least not on macOS or Linux. I use jenv if I’m really in need of multiple Java virtual machines and switch it via direnv.
Tokyo has managed to keep housing prices pretty affordable (and while Japan's population may be shrinking, Tokyo's has continued to grow). Unsurprisingly, they build a LOT of housing and removed most legal/regulatory obstacles to building it a few decades ago.

They issue more permits for new housing units in a year than the entire state of California does, even though California has more than double the population. (or for an East Coast comparison - they issue around 9x the housing permits that NYC does, even though the population is <50% larger).

There have been many articles written on this topic by many publications that you can find, but here's one citation: https://www.ft.com/content/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2fc0c26b3...
All the same, in the recent years wealthy foreigners have been parking their cash in Canadian real estate, and yes, lot of these places tend to sit unoccupied. It's not the sole factor driving up the prices, but don't discount it either.
This is insightful.
Nice animations! It would be nice if you included an _actual_ license text in your repo or source though. Part of the MIT license obligations are that you include the actual obtained license unaltered. In addition it will make it more noticeable if you include it as a LICENSE.md, github will list the license in the meta information in the web ui.
Given that "want to live" is a factor that is fluid and changes more quickly than building homes (which is how we ended up in this situation in the first place), it's probably also good to invest in making existing places that people are currently fleeing more desirable.

The jobs left quickly enough that our physical infrastructure couldn't keep up. That implies that jobs are more fluid than building and that therefore that's probably the easier approach to getting jobs and housing in balance.
Even in a situation where your agent is representing only you, they still have a massive incentive to get you to raise your bid so they get 1/4 of the total commission (and their brokerage house gets 1/4 of it). Their incentive is even stronger than that of the listing agent, because when it comes time to choosing a bid, the listing agent and brokerage is getting their commission one way or another and so a 1% difference in final contract price on a $1M house represents a difference of around $150 pre-tax to the listing agent. A difference of 1% that causes that specific buyer to get the house can represent a $15150 pre-tax difference to the buyer's agent.

If you tell "your" agent that you'd like to bid $1M but are able to and would pay up to $1.2M because you really love the house, you're giving away a lot of information that I decided I wasn't willing to give up and so kept all Realtors at arms-length.
You can and will make changes on the way but every change is extremely expensive so it’s better to keep changes low.
You do know we have kidneys, right? They are amazing organs, they conserve the 0.9% salinity of your blood, roughly 40 grams in total. When you take in too much, the kidneys simply excrete it in urine. When you take in too little, they hold on to as much as they can.
Same. Has always worked.
I am not a native speaker but I think rider is correct? They are riding bicycle, not driving a car.