skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>integration has huge costs

The point is whether is has more immediate benefits than costs. My sense is that it usually does (immigrant population contributes more economically that what they cost in taxes), at least in the countries I've checked. The exception might be countries that accept a huge amount of refugees (I dunno, just speculating)

If you have evidence to the contrary, please provide it.
I'll add this little bit of advice.

Sell every bit of real estate you own. Now. If you can.

Rent for a year or two. Then jump back in when it hits bottom. You'll pocket a ton of cash and then have the same or better property at a significantly lower cost.
From the salary and debt levels I’ve observed, it seems as though there will be a lack of demand at the high prices for rent or purchase.
Just got an M1 Mac since I spilled water all over my 2019 16" macbook pro. I was a little worried going in but its super snappy. vs code, gimp port and the overall OS loads faster and is more responsive.
What do you mean? Authors get paid when you view their content on Safari.
I hesitated to be more specific, but figured (probably wrongly so, should always be explicit when stating things like this) that it's implicitly obvious it's about the ~49th parallel border. In fact you can draw the line well below that border[0].

Another way to put it is that half of Canadian's population lives ~between Toronto and Montréal.

0: https://i1.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/c...
If it ain’t Boeing I ain’t going.
FYI Google already does this automatically: https://searchengineland.com/google-using-ocr-to-index-scann...
To be fair, how many single bananas were in their sample?
> Even worse than rude, it would be unproductive.

That’s a value judgement man. Not everyone values turning everything into a productivity improvement over all other values
the government is the reason there is such a triopoly - Bell/Telus/Rogers is a triopoly set up and supported by the government itself. The CRTC last mile service rule (forcing the triopoly to let other vendors use their physical cabling) is the only thing holding back a complete closed market.
I'm not sure I understand the point being made here. Are you simply saying that higher rates means a higher monthly payment, and that the amount that prices have fallen is still not enough to offset the increase in the mortgage payment? That's fairly obvious.... for now.

The old "it's a supply constraint" argument will not age will IMO. FWIW, the fed agrees:https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/volatility-in-ho...
It is unfortunate that you are confused, friend, but I stand ready to answer any questions you have, if you wish to rectify that situation.
The same thing we do every night, Pinky.
I agree that the fix is not to display the full email header for the "tech savvy" people. The real fix is some kind of reliable trust mechanism where the real Venmo account gets some visual indicator (pad lock, blue check mark, etc.)
What Is Nostr?
From a Desktop perspective, Linux always has been, and, I suspect will remain, a ghetto.
The VLA is still there in New Mexico and impressive. As of 4/22 they have not reopened the visitors center. But you can see the miles long rows of them from the road. And if you lucky you may see all of them change pointing in unison to another part of the sky.
https://archive.ph/20220701220044/https://www.wsj.com/articl...
> as long as it doesn't meet the legal standard for imminent lawless action

So there is no absolute free speech then. Which is the point of bringing up the "fire" example.

If you're a visitor in my house there is no free speech at all. If you say something I don't like I'll legally kick you out. Private companies such as Twitter and Facebook have the same right. Their platform, their rules.
What does past success have to do with anything? We need to solve this problem. For crying out loud, it doesn't have to look like something else that someone else did. We can be innovative! It isn't our first time!
> Are we really to assume that they just woke up and decided to turn their brain off? There's clearly going to be some actual change that attempts to satisfy regulators here.

Though I don't claim to fully understand what the genuine legal ramifications would be (partly because the proposal, as described in the Ars article, is quite vague), saying that the only reasons someone would propose this would be if it's Totally Obviously Fine or if they need their heads examining seems quite naïve.

First of all, we've seen plenty of instances of fairly high-profile companies trying to get around regulations in ways that are (effectively) laughed out of the room by regulators.

We've also seem similar instances where we the tech-savvy (and largely non-lawyer) public would laugh them out of the room, but the regulators took them 100% seriously and didn't question their (to us) obvious deception at all.

Given how vague the article is, this could even be an attempt to float this idea through the press to see how people and the DoJ react before making the proposal formally.

I think in short, the problem is that decoupling anything from Google by putting it under Alphabet doesn't pass the sniff test, but if you're looking at things from a super pedantic perspective, you could think it might fly to a court.
This has nothing to do with free speech.
88gb for English
I used to sell large volumes of used electronics on eBay and Amazon. We consistently had this issue with purchases being routed through freight forwarders and 9/10 of the customers would claim they never received the item.

eBay and Amazon would refund them and deduct it from me even when the tracking showed delivered.

I finally got fed up and decided one day to try adding signature confirmation to see what happens. Never lost the case again.
Hackernews, still using ancient tech, what a joke. It's trivial to host on a cloud provider and get 100% uptime for pennies.
Not going to happen as long as energy is cheap in the US.

The rest of the developed world didn't shift back to public transport because they enjoy the company of strangers so much, but out of necessity.

Without domestic production of fuel a transport system is vulnerable to fuel price/availability swings.
that's just a longer, more weaseley, and oddly-specific way of saying "nuance", as in, "people capable of nuance can usually differentiate between a protest and an insurrection"
run vim via https://github.com/tsl0922/ttyd
Jonathan Coulton started by writing one thing a week. Most of them were meh but there were some that were good. Turns out the important thing is perseverance.
I was going to use one with Jeff's face...
Proof that, like most times, consumer sentiment is not in par with reality.
I don't see how you can simultaneously believe that this is some 4D chess move from Musk to allow him to cleverly liquidate his Tesla holdings without tanking the stock - and also believe he is too incompetent to make sure he could actually back out of the Twitter deal which he never intended to complete in the first place.

The fact that his supposed plan here has some flaws is not _further_ evidence that it was planned from the beginning, that's absurd.

It seems much more likely that buying Twitter was just an impulsive decision for him that he is now regretting and looking for a way out of.

I agree with you that many supposed conspiracies require too much competence in order to pull off, and can usually be dismissed as impossible to achieve in practice. But it doesn't follow that, as a consequence, any action that would be incompetent as part of a conspiracy should be considered evidence that a conspiracy exists.
He isn't bound if Twitter lied in the contract. In the contract, they said their SEC filings are kosher (4.6). If they aren't (and the bot calc being materially off would probably do it), Twitter lied and he isn't bound.

Also, if they promise to do something and then don't do it (6.4), he can walk.

The termination letter claims both.
As a user of free software you can hope all you want, but you have no right to an expectation that this is the priority. Your right end with the decision to stop using the software, which is exactly what Don said to the original email
For me, flat Earth. The sheer skill necessary to bribe or convince so many governments to gaslight their population, the incredible optics and geodesics work necessary to fake a curved horizon in a plane window and have consistent flight durations, and the maintenance of shadow power across millenia, paints the picture of a group of people way beyond what human competence can achieve.

Of course, there are simpler examples, like John Titor, or Pierre de Fermat’s last theorem proof that he would have done all in his head.
I stopped going to San Francisco and Oakland years ago, so my odds of death are not anywhere near that. I also wouldn't go to Chicago and several other cities.
When I drove down Baja Mexico, I also avoided stopped at all in Tijuana. If you don't go where the murders are, it's pretty safe out there still.
I can believe he used some of that logic to justify the decision to bid for it...

But in reality his ventures collect way more money than companies of those types normally get because he hit home runs in the early internet era, then started tackling some incredibly ambitious hardware engineering problems and built companies that actually started to solve them, complete with an exciting thesis about them being all being linked to Mars colonies. That's where the "Tony Stark" reputation comes from and why people bothered following him on Twitter in the first place.

Sure, some retail investors follow him on Twitter and end up buying his stocks (or some random crypto thing he has no financial connection with but thinks is funny...) because they think he's great, but if the difference actually owning the platform makes to his ability to raise capital isn't absolute zero, it's closer to zero than $44B. And not necessarily positive, because owning Twitter doesn't make batteries cheaper or ease the technical and regulatory challenges of self driving or LEO mesh networks, but it would take up a lot of his time and resources.
The Linux desktop is great because it doesn't make me feel like a rat in a maze.

Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
"ha ha only serious."
Right.
My point is - "How so many Services across Canada went down as they never designed their Services to overcome the network outage ? "
Everyone keeps talking about this, but I still honestly don't believe it's going to happen. Obviously this is anecdotal, but I just know way too many people who have been holding out, saving money, for years waiting for prices to drop. There are so many people I know with a hoard of wealth just waiting for their chance to get in on a cheaper market.

Just seems like there is so much demand for housing and the fact that investment funds are now buying homes en masse as investments just makes me think the market will remain expensive.

But who knows, I hope I'm wrong!
thanks. couldn't have said it better
with the massive property price increases that have taken place Canada has become even more mediocre than ever before. With the increases we've seen some movement out of Toronto and Vancouver areas into other areas of the country, driving up prices even more. Young people are basically out of luck in terms of hopes of ever owning property. I know multiple immigrants who are talking about returning to their previous country, or trying to figure out getting legal in the US.

There isn't enough housing nor enough being built. Discussing immigration is not allowed, socially speaking.
Also here: http://web.archive.org/web/20220708191653/https://www.vice.c...
Elon has a bad time prediction engine for predicting how much time something will take his companies to achieve. But please let me know of something that he said that turned out to be a lie or actually impossible by the laws of physics. Because I never heard him say anything like that. And he will pay whatever tens of billions he has to pay. He really doesn't care about money.
This is a dynamic of multiple things.

Rising interest rates would reduce demand at higher price ranges, for example, causing a drop. At the end of the day costs are only part of the equation.
Things learned today: HN is not listed on DD ... https://downdetector.com/search/?q=hacker+news
Are you including Japan as part of the "west"?
Don't shoot at the cops.
>Further didn't he get access to the very same data that Twitter relies on to make these estimates?

I believe his claim is that they were not willing to give him all the information they use in their bot calculations because some was PII
Why not? Elon would be snarky to not buy and only lose $1B vs $10B. Clearly after investigation the company isn’t worth that and the public markets will vet forget. The stock likely tanks to < $10 over the next year now.

They should be happy to get $35.
"Always a red flag if "potential benefits" cover a broad spectrum of unrelated symptoms:"

Generally agree. One thing to note here is that this isn't a single chemical that we're talking about. It's certainly plausible that there are several different potential benefits in a food containing hundreds of chemicals. It still needs more research in this case.
On the face of it this seems good - everyone can buy more house for the money - compared to the crazy run-up of prices the last two years, but ... at the end of the day I expect a lot of people to still be priced out even at the low end given the amount of supply and lack of building for decades.
I think the "rv model" supports 12V. It's not officially supported on moving vessels by SpaceX, but you can find a lot of Youtube videos where people have installed terminals on their boats.
> centralized planning doesn’t work.

who said anything about centralized planning?
I have thousands of orders on Amazon and have never received something different than what I expected.

Have I received items that were crap? Sure, because I chose to go with the noname item from the random seller for cost reasons. If it’s unusable I just return it.

That said, I don’t think I have even a 1% return rate. Buy items with a few reviews and read the top reviews instead of only trusting the star system and you’ll get exactly what you paid for 99% of the time (and will get your money back the remaining 1% of the time).
I’d rather lose $1B than $15B. Stock will rank to < $10/share over next year now.
It will take at least a decade to fill the backlog of housing shortages from the past decade. On top of that, it is now more expensive to build because rising interests make loans more expensive and some materials are still expensive after the shocks to the supply chain.

I don’t see any scenario where a home becomes trivial to afford before 2032. People should just start getting used to the fact that it’s going to be an expensive purchase.
People inheriting from boomers, especially covid-dead, landlords, and newly-rich contractors.
Indeed it is different. My point was simply that incompetence is not evidence against conspiracy. My sniff test was simply emphasizing this point. Further, a sniff test is—by definition—not supposed to be your only marker in evaluating a theory, it is merely supposed to be a marker determining if evaluating further evidence is even worth your time.

The conspiracy theory that Musk is using this twitter scheme to manipulate the markets in his favor does not fail any sniff tests that I’m aware of.
> Java can't do this because the primitive types are not objects.

So this excuses the awful Java genetic how? "It smells like sewage in the basement because the basement is full of sewage." In addition, generics over primitive/stack/value types (including mathematical operators) is working just fine in the latest iteration of C#.
it sounds like that'd work where you're from, probably because it's a tiny town. you can probably walk to restaurants, coffee shops, grocery stores and pharmacies, right? so you mostly need transit for commuting to the city, which is cake.

the suburbs are hell. everything's far. walking is dangerous and unpleasant. the city's sprawled, so everyone commutes to a diffuse cloud of points between the cities.

I hate living in the suburbs because I'm a wheelchair user, and walkable places are safer and more accessible. so I like your idea, I just think the burbs are beyond saving.
I had heard that Musk has some seriously aggressive fanboys, and now I believe it.
Type erasure is interesting. It turns out that not doing type erasure (combined with instanceOf-like things, like pattern matches on type parameters) breaks parametricity. Parametricity is a very powerful reasoning tool.

Of course, type erasure isn't the actual culprit in that case, but once you don't do it, it gets very tempting to allow pattern matching on type parameters...
The reason Hummers suck for those off-road and work uses is because so few people actually use them for that
Hey, I appreciate you asking this question. I identify with some of this minus the rejection by women (I’m married) — but if I replace it with something else, I think my advice to myself would be: what’s worse, staying at the local minimum in perpetuity, or risking a regression that you’ve already proven capable of overcoming? That’s a lose, lose there; of course there’s the third scenario where you meet someone and fall in love together.
I've been following this story very closely for 18 months now, via: Housing blogs by various data-driven analysts (conscious of possible bias), Popular news (CNBC, Bloomberg), Industry news (housingwire, therealdeal), Visits to many dozens of homes, Watching listings on realtor and other places, Some YouTube commentators (yes, I know I know), Talking to a couple of agents (one in the city, one in the place-where-people-from-the-city escape to.

Here's what I think so far that's talked about:

- It's gotten too expensive with the interest rates. Even people who can afford it are raising eyebrows - if you do the math, on a 500K loan you're paying 600+ more a month in interest alone. Next, many people cannot afford it anymore.

- People lost a hella lotta money in the stock and crypto markets. I know I did. People feel poorer. Even worse if a fraction of your income is in stock (looking at you, FAANGies). That's less down payment money.

- Sellers have ridiculous expectations. I heard a phrase recently, there are two types of sellers, those who know there's a downturn and they better price accordingly and lower prices, and those who haven't realized it yet.

Here's what isn't often talked about but I believe is true:

- Many, many people bought second homes. Some of these people take advantage of hybrid remote, some of them are taking advantage of Airbnb profits. Alas! Companies are calling people back to the office (there is ENORMOUS pressure from government and business groups due to the economic effects of people not being in the office -- NYC has a ~ 7 percent unemployment rate!). Next - inflation is eating into desire for renting Airbnbs. Next - people who lost a lot of money in the markets may sell those homes.

- If you're thinking about selling in the next year or two, you better list Now. That's the bottom line, and people are realizing that.

- The "historic low inventory" I think is media propaganda. Yes, it's technically true, but inventory isn't all inventory, it's for sale inventory. There's nothing endemic about that.

- The crash appears to be gestating in a few boom-and-bust "remote work is here to stay" hotspots like Phoenix, Austin, Boise...

And there are the institutional investors. Some think they're in it for the long-haul (private equity funds are for 10+ years, right). Some think they're going to dump at the first sign of trouble (appreciation is no longer happening, and yield-wise there are alternatives like bonds now).

Conclusion - I think buyers will have a lot of relief coming up, especially if you're a buyer with a good down payment and a lot of cash cushion.

Edit - I've been here long enough, I should learn better list markup etiquette.
that's partially true. the data rates have a lot to do with frequency reuse, which means more complicated designs. starlink is complicated in the dynamic conditions, but the beamforming is relatively simple.
i3 was pretty instant for me and made me go from casually using Linux at home to making Ubuntu 20 LTS a stable daily driver at work. I think I needed one tutorial to get my config and status bar then I was good to go. It took a little while longer to settle on a Tmux config but starting from scratch I very quickly got the most efficient workflow I have ever had.
You can grow them in autoclavable bags. I'm sure there are guides online, or you can read one of Stamete's books.
There is some logic to the idea that rising rates makes supply-side issues worse across the board because it curtails investments needed to resolve those supply issues.

I don't think that means the fed is doing the wrong thing though. Fixing our energy bottlenecks will take a decade or more(regardless of rates. refineries and nuke plants take 10+ years to build), so pulling back demand to be in line with that supply seems like the right thing to do. It will hurt, but it is better than entrenched inflation and wage-price spirals.

> They usually care about their monthly mortgage payment.

True, but not for me. I care about price, because the price never changes yet I can always refinance. Also, your initial assessed value, at least in California, is a big factor in the lifetime(or more) amount of property taxes you'll be paying. I would much, much rather have lower prices and high interest rates.

Overall I think housing will sort itself out. We already have plenty of units in the pipeline. Also, we're going to grudgingly transition, as a nation, towards more efficient, higher density housing whether we like it or not. Energy prices combined with policies to combat AGW will, over the long term, incentivize more urban living. I'm not a fan of it, being a suburban lover, but it is what it is.
Yes, but there is a service charge for doing homework.
Its a danger to anyone who values its own privacy.
"The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery."

- Bret Taylor (https://twitter.com/btaylor/status/1545526087089696768)

Elon is on the record talking about the 'bot problem' over the years (on Twitter!). He's about to get a very expensive lesson that agreements can't be breached even if you have more money than sense to spend on litigation and you can't just say stuff willy-nilly, because it can come back to bite you sometimes.
> but post fire lower build back levels

wrong Sir, but only in this way -- there are more sq km in California than in plenty of entire countries (not AU). The regulations you refer to are the "Wildland-Urban Interface" which is Federally mandated .. Santa Rosa is a relatively settled place and (mostly) not in that so-called WUI.

On the other hand, Australia does indeed bear some resemblance to California in places due to drought and also, the flammable Blue Gum, here called Eucalyptus Tree. The answers here are multi-layered.
If I understand it correctly the article is simply saying there will be a bust because of raising interest rates. Is that it? The article argues that a sharp reversal and bust will happen but doesn’t provide any rationale for why it would happen. No technical reason given other than that houses are not affordable.
HN was down for hours, no website hosted properly using cloud providers is down for more than a few minutes a year. It's trivial to set up multiple providers, multiple regions. Rather than having a few servers with some admin guy swapping out disks, really embarrassing for a so called tech site.
For all job markets? Or just tech?