skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being from Vancouver and having witnessed with my own eyes mainland Chinese investors in suits on one-day visits driving around in tour buses and buying everything in sight - yeah, this clusterfuck is absolutely rooted in a torrent of Chinese money being parked in Canada.

The ban won't do much, obviously, but the cause is the foreign investments. 100%.
Craig is a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, who served in the Foreign Office for many years. He's since dedicated a lot of his time to following and reporting on the Assange case in the UK.

He doesn't hide his opinions, some of which are quite strongly worded, but I don't think that makes him less worthwhile as an observer. I'd say he is less of a fact-finder/whistleblower and more of an analyser/commenter.

I personally find his articles insightful and nuanced.
This user agent could just be set to the official client's user agent and nobody would see a thing, this is a free text field basically.

Then it would be more of an exercise of finding clients behaving in an odd way that's not mapping to an official client. That's way harder to detect though.
Well his take is a very polite and admirable way of calling Russia's arguments blatant lies without calling them blatant lies, and calling their perpetrators liars without calling them liars.
Pyston versions aren't aligned to Python versions, if that's what you're thinking. This supports 3.x syntax (not sure which exactly, at least 3.8).
The respondents said it did.
> there's actual bigotry

as implied by "too much" - your comment is truly rhetoric as it cheaply dismisses this claim as "mindless" and makes a poor tribal comparison - African-Americans aren't currently occupying another state.
Why can't both be correct? Genesis 2 puts them first because they are the most important creation, Genesis 1 puts them in chronological order.

If one of them was not correct nobody would have put them in the same bible.
Wow that's wild. I have a couple ideas of where it could be coming from. I'll check it out!
If I could magically subtract some 50 years from my age I would certainly consider that :)
I had no idea that was even possible, very cool tech!
Explain how would you tax them effectively then, since they are foreign.

Every time I talk about taxing the rich, I'm stormed by people calling me economically illitterate and telling me it's impossible as the rich will always find a loophole.

So if you think they can find loopholes on the ban, why couldn't they find loopholes on new taxes? They do already and very effectively.
Then the Incans, mayas, and other civilizations which didn't have a writing systems are considered primitive??
War conquers territory, it doesn’t conquer people. They die off or move or give up. The Russians should know this as they participated in “colonial dreams die in Afghanistan” after Britain and before the US.
I was struggling to find an easy way of introducing a weird-ish blog-zine(?) that I stumbled across while doing some 'Joshua keys' research called -

The International Journal of PoC or GTFO (https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/)

(Not Affiliated in any way to either btw)

('Joshua Keys' is a reference to the film WarGames)
Are you weasel-wording strawmen? Maybe, don't do that?

First, who are "all those Jews"? This is handwaving to make it sound like multitudes.

Second, people worrying about anti-semitism in the Labour party in general, either lack common sense (if we accept your argument that is "this attitude" I wrote about above that is their concern), or conflate anti-semitism (as in Hitler, Nazis, pogroms, and co) with criticism of actions by the state of Israel.

In fact, actual jews in favor of Corbyn and the party have been accused of "anti-semitism" (!) - like the Jewish Voice for Labour (jewish members of the UK Labour Party, because they are nonetheless critical about the situation with Palestine).
> Can we pedantic about …

I tend to agree. The country in which it was invented, or the nationalities of those who invented it, are not relevant at all.

You might include the country if it was newsworthy. Such as new evidence that “The Roman Empire invented the table fork”.

I think sub-editors put country descriptors in as mild click bait. Japan is perceived as having an interesting record of niche eye raising inventions. If it was “France invents an electric spoon that makes food seem sweeter” I am not sure I’d be as ready to visit that article as this one.
I'm not making any assumptions, I'm saying we just don't know. Those like the poster I'm responding to suggesting this mean this or that for international relations, and we should be responding this way or that way are making assumptions. I'm pointing out those assumptions are unsupported and somewhat naive.
> I feel bad for the artists and engineers who work so hard only to get their track modified like this. It's like a gallery stamping a barcode onto the middle of a painting.

Don't use Universal as a publisher then. At a certain point, its up to the artists to ensure they publish their music as they want, and any artifacts of making the wrong choice is ultimately them making the wrong choice.
> A corporation owned one is double taxed.

Are the corporations buying for capital gain or for rental income?
"People being able to buy a roof over their head" is the economics of housing
I'll second soft serve. Great company and engineers. Unfortunately, a decent chunk of great team members are stuck in the conflict zones of Ukraine.
Related, I’m concerned about the trend of megacorporations gobbling up single-family homes which appears to be happening in the US and Canada.

I wonder if it’s possible to construct a law that would limit corporate ability to acquire these assets while making it possible for families to do so.

Unfortunately, even if there is, politicians at least in DC seem to have zero motivation to solve political problems unless they belong to megacorps or the 0.01% income class.
They say it works the same way on sodium glutamate ions, so I guess it boosts umami too.

I'm wondering whether it'd work to make something like this myself.
I use Docker Desktop as well and when you don't have to run x64 containers through QEMU, the images work just fine. I have to run containers through QEMU at the moment and while it does indeed have a performance penalty, I honestly got used to it pretty quick. They are also dropping lots of experimental upgrades (some of which have worked pretty well in my case).
Ask HN: What are the things that annoy you daily as a dev?
I start:
- slow pipeline (40+ mins)
- flaky e2e tests (I never know if I made a mistake or just a test fails randomly)
Hologram doctors beamed to space station to visit astronauts
How do you tax foreign investors only, if they can set up subsidiaries and use dirty tricks anyway?

You're gonna penalize the local market as well.
> I live in Barcelona, and the rental market is crazy. Technically I should be allowed to sign a contract for 5 years, but because of the rights that kick in after 12 months, there's a ton of landlords that only want to offer 11 month contracts.

Same situation in India.

The rental yield is low, taxes are high, compliance is time consuming, and there is lack of legal framework in cases of disputes.

A court case will take a decade to resolve if the tenant claims the property.

The only solution I can see is government provide incentives and security against tenant for landlords or government gets into business of renting by building houses.
The root cause in Canada is that a lot of the older generation, existing home owners, have put their investments in buying second or third homes as income properties, and for a lot of Canadians (I read that 1/3 of Canadian home owners have one or more additional properties) that's the nest egg now.

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.

This puts a lot of people in (very self-inflicted) financially precarious situations where they are counting on interest remaining low and the value of their investments going up in order to stay ahead of the payments.

Regardless of how we got here, due to this situation no government will screw all those people over just to "fix" things for those who haven't been able to get into that market yet.

It's a lose-lose.. Leave things the way they are, and you continue to price out an entire generation, which is a huge problem. Make a large corrective change to address this and you potentially force a huge amount of existing owners to sell investments at a loss and face financial distress, another huge problem.

Some folks say "too bad for them for getting so leveraged" but all they did was follow the advice given to them by the market, and follow the rules that our government put in place.

Anyways, it's a complicated problem. Foreign ownership certainly contributes to the problem but it's not the major factor. This is 100% a "for show" measure.
That's exactly how Brave works after you setup the wallet and it gives you two options:

- pay a variable amount to the website you visit, based on how many visits and time you spent on;

- pay a fixed amount to a website of your choice;

Both options can be enabled at the same time, and the minimum number of visit, or the minimum length of the same, is adjustable;

Flattr[0] should be similar with fiat currency.

[0] https://flattr.com/
Singapore enforces 40 percent tax on any foreigners wanting to buy property. Been that way for quite a few years.
> You don't turn down a relationship with a country with Israel's military, technical and intelligence capabilities, and worth $5bn in bilateral trade

Well, that's certainly one angle.

The other angle is, let's face it, Israel is good at playing the Jewish card and portraying that if you're not pro-Israel you must be some sort of antisemite.

There are all sorts of political ties along those lines, e.g. "Conservative Friends of Israel"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Friends_of_Israel
This is becoming even more the case given that Asahi Linux is maturing and you can already run Linux (somewhat stable) on an ARM MBP.
Thats doesn't solve much of the problem tbh. They need to build more homes. Much like the problem in the UK also. But in the UK we need to push back on normal people wanting this property empire and massively over leveraging themselves

> The government will also impose higher taxes on people who sell their home within a year.

Nice!
Well it will not solve everything, but two things:

- It will make it impossible for people without permanent residency to buy property.
- It will prevent people from owning multiple homes in the country.

You could also define a minimum number of days a year where they had to prove that they occupied the property, maybe at least a quarter of a year.
I’ve been using Walling for all my notes. Its fast and fairly flexible, and allows you to arrange your notes in visual blocks and grids, if you wish.
After playing it more, I realized that the tiles that "exploded" are really unclear. They are just hard to look at and they give nothing back in terms of gameplay. The knowledge that a tile exploded in the past gives you no information.
Exactly, and I honestly wish there were measures to fine owners that have empty homes as well. Many people would disagree with me, but to me it's not about economics. We need a way to fight the idea of hoarding homes, a basic human right, as being an "investment".
> Whatever Agile was, it's absolute garbage these days. It largely exists to hold developers maximally accountable to the business, at the expense of technical excellence or even maintenance,

Author here, this was one of the motivations for writing this and the other article linked at the start. I've seen agile actively harming maintenance and quality more times than I've seen it ever help maintenance or quality.

You know things are fucked up when you need to put technical debt, refactors, library updates, etc down as "stories" (erm hello, where is the customer story in "fix that giant performance TODO") instead of just doing them. Sure, we can just carry them out to avoid the wrath of the scrum master and co, but then you have to balance time between doing the stories, and fixing bugs.
Triple or quadruple property taxes after the 10th purchased residence in the state. Encourage tax breaks through high density development of condos with coop property management firms.
This is one of those things that a proper tax structure would do wonders - those who hoard housing should get a kick from a exponential tax.

Like, what value are those corporations bringing to people, to the market, and to a country by hoarding houses other than controlling the renting market for some areas?

How is that a good thing?
Oh no that is dweeb blasphemy. Never ever question or even dare to criticize any little thing concerning the alleged awesomeness of all things Japanese.
Explosive warhead. 100-150kg according to Wikipedia.
I like how you replaced the title with `fnord`.

I'm not young but I found out about the meaning of fnord just an hour ago by randomly clicking through to its Wikipedia article from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation

Undoubtedly I'm about to experience more Baader-Meinhof related to this soon.
People who write an encouraging and approving forward to a book are endorsing what the book says, duh.

That's very different from a general reference to a phrase that a person said (Brown) or mentioning a person as part of an historic development (Clegg) - the difference between say, an historian mentioning Goebbels, compared to writing an approving forward to a new edition that a book that Goebbels wrote.

Corbyn has a long long history of happening to not notice antisemitism by people he has been encouraging.

>People take something that happened (that cannot be denied) and then insist this is proof.

How dare we look into mere evidence?! Apparently the important thing to some is that the guy is left-wing and that covers for everything.
I felt this deeply
When compiling dllup to LaTeX, it is possible to just use \label but I haven't implemented that functionality in dllup to html yet.

You can also consider pandoc's markdown flavor that supports equations and references:

https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#pandocs-markdown
Presumably if it was high enough they would move onto other investments that are comparatively more profitable when accounting for the tax. It would have to be a heck of a tax to keep up with how Canadian house prices have been inflating recently though.
Hypothetical example: Tax it 100,000,000%. Turn a $1 house into a $1,000,000 house. Do you think they'd still want it? That's the power of taxation to change behaviour. (of course a real tax can be whatever is needed to "get the job done", it doesn't need to be ridiculous).
If you don't want empty houses, tax empty houses (though as a distracting aside, the idea that empty houses is a big problem has also been fairly thoroughly debunked, but that's another discussion that it's important rn)
Thanks, much appreciated. Apologies for my limited understanding does this mean learning Dart?

My app is a volume calculator for building materials. I'm aware of similar apps already available on the app store but they're full of advertising and not specific and over complicated for my needs. Plus I want to learn mobile dev, how better than writing my own app.
Prediction: barely anything happens and problems continue to rise as population numbers have yet to peak and the people who are struggling most with this problem, the working class, continues to lose wealth relatively to the upper classes.

Almost every country with these problems has similar symptoms and the problem could've been seen coming from decades away. Tackling these things requires far, far more input from governing bodies. Input they aren't willing to give.
You're correct, but: with modern tech there are vastly more intrusion vectors which are cheap and hard to detect.
This feels like nationalism, in delivery no matter how true it may be.
For quick tracking lookups on DuckDuckGo you can do:

!usps <tracking-number>

!fedex <tracking-number>

!ups <tracking-number>
It also obscures the actual trust relationships in the architecture as deployed. A lot of Okta's clients may be structured to have zero trust in their networking infrastructure -- but as they've delegated identity management to Okta, they have total trust in Okta itself. (If a hostile third party takes contol of Okta, that party can then act as anyone -- and therefore, with any role -- they like.)
I'm just asking about empty house taxes. Which also doesn't really need to be foreigner-only.

Also if a company owns a house then make it pay the maximum penalty rate when it's empty. Subsidiary problem solved.
To me a lot flavours are very noticable in first second(s) and quickly lose their intensity after that. It might not be much of an issue if it only tastes more salty for the short time while the chopsticks are in your mouth, if the brain continues to to think the food is salty.
A % tax on the cost of the property would be pretty simple. Can't buy without paying the tax up front. It's usually the more complicated taxes that have exceptions to rules that are exploitable. It's hard to find exploits in simple rules.
Course they did. The reason is arbitrary. They dislike being inconvenienced and naively think that the economy would have continued as before without their introduction (they are the physical reminder of restrictions). Personally, I think modern media and “running out of room in the morgue” was more than sufficient to torpedo any discretionary activity.

And we’re post truth, right? Although belief has always overcome reason.
Off by a few zeros. Humbly thought I might put that out there in the word problem.
The article states that this device works on Sodium Chloride and Sodium Glutamate, so technically both tastes apply.
> They need to build more homes.

Why build more homes at enormous expense (both financial and environmental), when most countries have way more than enough homes in total?

The problem is two-faced: vacant properties sitting around empty because of money laundering and speculative usage on one side, and on the other side the usage disparity because rural areas have been left behind by modern infrastructure - particularly high speed Internet, mobile phone coverage, public transport and services of everyday living (healthcare, basic shopping).
For color coding try:

seq 10 | parallel --lb --ctag ping {}.1.1.1
When I visited Flores, the most surprising thing about it was that on a 130 km island the inhabitants spoke 5 languages and 80 distinct dialects. Most of the island is remote and has little connection to the modern world, and the various tribal groups are largely isolated from one another even.
> We have how many foreign investment agreements?

Do these agreements say that foreigners have a right to buy houses in Canada?
The Citizen Lab’s core mission is to undertake research on digital threats against civil society. During the course of our investigations into mercenary spyware, we will occasionally observe cases where we suspect that governments are using spyware to undertake international espionage against other governments. The vast majority of these cases are outside of our scope and mission. However, in certain select cases, where appropriate and while preserving our independence, we decide to notify these governments through the official channels, especially if we believe that our actions can reduce harm.
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Last week I got a call from some random recruiter. I was wondering how they'd get my telephone number, because I can't recall putting my phonenumber publicly anywhere. Apparently they scrape profiles from linkedin, then put those through some Google Chrome extension (should've asked which one), and it spills out phone numbers!

Contemplating if I should switch phone number now.
This is exactly what I meant. I thought it was clear, if they read it back it says "but" in that point.
The bad thing is that the cultural weight Japan holds is based on myths, hearsay, misunderstandings, or lack of deep insights due to the language barrier.
The image of Japan in the US and to a lesser extent in Europe is very far removed from reality.
Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 55 of the invasion
Why not progressively increment after the second? (not mutually exclusive with other measures)
> A corporation owned one is double taxed.

this statement only matters for the current conversation if taxes raised through this mechanism helped maintain property price levels where the taxes are being raised.
“Those whacky Japanese” is an anglophone news media trope.
Very true. Experienced this often. Not seeing goals result in anything is a motivation killer.
I would like governments in countries with housing crisis to do something different - soft limit how many properties can a person own by inducing taxes that drastically increase with each new owned property. Most people just want to own a roof over their head without getting into debt for life, but because some people treat housing as an investment and buy properties in bulk - which results in prices skyrocketing - they become unaffordable for an avarage Joe who has no other choice but to rent forever and just make the landlords richer.
At least part of the reason 3M stock price doesn't rise as much is because they distribute a dividend.
Russia Likely Has Local Air Superiority in Donbas, but It May Not Matter
As an aside, bans are also very exploitable. Can't buy cause you're foreign? Put it in your cousin's name. Buy or start a tiny company that will technically own it. Get some kind of visa, maybe one that you can get because you have lots of $. etc.
I don't understand the question. Babies don't use computers. Toddlers don't need them and should generally only watch some videos carefully chosen by their carers under supervision for a very limited time per day (smartphones and tablets don't belong in a toddler's hands at all).

You've got at least five or six years before actually using a computer may become interesting and valuable (rather than just harmful to their development) depending on the child. I take it your question is about introducing a six year old (or thereabouts) to general purpose computers and programming?
I learned that the hard way.

A few non-IRA investments become very annoying to file after a couple years.

The current tax system is absolute garbage.
Zoom is a hologram now?! The western world has been debugging remote medical procedures for years now. Would it not be better to beam the patient to the medical facility rather than the reverse?
High‑impact UEFI vulnerabilities discovered in Lenovo consumer laptops
That is absolutely not what "species" means.
You only have to make it less attractive than other countries.
That is by no means the entirety of the housing problem in Canada. Foreign ownership is a very small part of the Canadian housing market, and with no other measures, Canadian investors will happily scoop up foreign owned properties. I doubt this by itself will make a significant dent in the market.

What we need is foreign ownership taxes / bans combined with heavy taxes on ownership of multiple single-family dwellings and townhouses.
I suppose you meant weeb(not "dweeb"), which is short for weeaboo[0], which in turn is short for wapanese, which, finally, is short for "wannabe Japanese".

[0] Originally used in an unrelated comic strip here: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/weeaboo/
The people who buy these properties are often looking to put their money somewhere safe from government seizure (i.e. 100% tax). A tax is not going to be much of a deterrent unless it is really very big.
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Isn't that literally a DOS attack?
That is one part of the problem, the second problem is that foreigners know that once you buy the property the govt is not going to seize it, so if you want to hide your money from the foreign govt, it makes sense to park it in Canada.
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