skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Found the landlord XD.

FWIW, I'm with you, I think rental income ("landlording") and airbnb-ing are both legitimate demand, and the system would work fairly if we didn't have artificial constraints on supply.

Insofar as landlords actively work to constraint supply to artificial inflate rents, it is immoral behavior (but 'muh' neighborhood) and we should not allow it.
> The people who live in the city are the people who work there, bleed there, eat there, love there, etc. etc. etc. They are the city.

Vote there. Obviously, laws will (and should) side with voters.
…which in turn would make people less inclined to go there, driving the costs down, making it possible for the small shops to come back.
An artifact of bad writing.
Model Y was too expensive for me. Took Kia EV6. Trunk is smaller, but I will do just fine with that. BMW iX is super cool, but I can’t justify the price.
This comes back to scarcity as the root cause. If there were an abundance of alternatives in the same price range, shitty landlords couldn't get away with letting their properties deteriorate to such a condition.

The deadbeat landlord problem would solve itself once we build ourselves out of scarcity.
> Or, you know, invested in building games where people retrospectively assess their time spent with the game as enriching rather than exploitative.

The most profitable franchises have not done this. It's all timesinks, pay-to-win, and microtransactions.
In the eyes of the MBA, the ideal business is one whose customers hate it as much as possible while still using it.
80% of Seattle is zoned for single family units. It's not exactly a suburban desert, but it could be much better. Unfortunately, even very limited legislation (HB 1782) allowing upzoning to duplexes/quadplexes ("missing middle" housing) within walking distance of public transit hubs failed earlier this year. NIMBYism abounds.
Famous last words.

Unity is doomed with the malware company merger
At that time, I believe you could see previous work by default, now you have to choose to share it.
Sure, seems like it's worth trying.
The pledge.com command always enables execnative because it needs to be able to call execve() after pledge() is called. It's one of the weaknesses of using pledge() as a command runner rather than as a C API library. In terms of the C API, that's up for debate. Because our implementation of that is primarily intended to cater to Cosmopolitan Libc's way of doing things, where APE is the preferred binary format. It wouldn't feel right to call it exec if it can't execute our own binaries! However we still do the responsible thing by providing a way to opt-out into only supporting the native elf format.
NYC is one of the only cities in the US with quality transit and really the main one where it's easy to live car free in many areas of the city.
That's an ... interesting take.

Another is these people are stuck. It takes money to pack up and leave. If the everything is costing more and more and more, their ability to save and leave goes down and down and down. Eventually they'll be forced to leave (somehow); the haves will see to it.

> "I suffer therefore I'm noble."

That's cruel.
The comment was about all nuclear waste from a power plant. You responded with figures for quantity of spent nuclear fuel, which is volumetrically a mere fraction of the total waste from a nuclear reactor.

Low level rad waste still has cumulative health exposure risks, subject to many requirements for proper handling and disposal. there are lots of materials "not unique to nuclear plants" which do become irradiated once used in a nuclear plant.

BTW in hanford washington each year 10% of the DoE's budget goes to preventing plutonium leaking into a river, a lot of hubris to trivialize the geoengineering involved in designing a "zero risk" containment
Because it is associated with the name "Amazon". Nothing good can come out of it. Just like I wouldn't use an engine from Facebook or Google.
Doing mobile ad IRR modeling spreadsheets, tweaking ad copy to rank higher in search engines, and other business-y MBA crap is easier than actually building a good game, especially if you don't actually like games and are just getting into "e-sports and mobile".
It's not an acronym but yes. It's hard to believe that an ad company is worth 3x a multiple Academy Award winning VFX studio.
Except some Nintendo games, like breath of the wild.
Those are not even the only regulations, but you are absolutely right. Hence the prices.
That's a good point, I can edit that for clarity in the article (especially since I mentioned Godot's Patreon support later in the article). I was assuming that the Patreon support didn't amount to full time support for all the devs that contribute, but I don't know if that's true or not.

Either way, it seems a lot of people have contributed without sponsorship, but the main devs are (hopefully) compensated.
a lot of people living those lifestyles are living off of credit cards or their trust fund
Won't someone PLEASE think of shareholder value
No surprise. This is probably the most useless and mindless generation of leaders the US has ever produced.
That was a free market where the US was the last industrial power producing goods to be consumed by a completely destroyed world. If those are the circumstances you can provide as evidence the free market works as intended you may need something else
I'm reminded of the song 'Creature Comfort' by Arcade Fire

"God, make me famous. If you can't, just make it painless"
Well demand rising is an abstraction for relative balance between buyers and sellers of a good.

Say there’s one free apartment in NYC and two marginal buyers submit bids: Alice and Bob. If Alice offers $1000/month and Bob offers $1200/month, then Bob gets the lease. The marginal rent is $1200.

If another apartment is built then Alice leases it and the marginal rent is $1000. Similarly, if a new buyer Charlie enters the market and bids $1500 then $1500 is the marginal rent.

The number of people with apartments depends only on the number of apartments built. Which buyers get apartments depends on their relative ability to pay. The price depends on what the marginal apartment-buyer will pay. That is the lowest amount offered that still gets an apartment.
The crown as a private entity gives more money to the state than it receives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhyYgnhhKFw

I do not have primary sources but according to GPC Grey in the video the royal family receives £45 millions and gives ~£200 millions

In the same sense that the queen is the richest person in the UK it is also true that almost the entirety of her possession are handled (and profited) by the state.

Quoting Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III

> On his accession, the Crown lands produced relatively little income; most revenue was generated through taxes and excise duties. George surrendered the Crown Estate to Parliamentary control in return for a civil list annuity for the support of his household and the expenses of civil government

I have no opinion on the british royal family and honestly I don't see them keeping the title for more than two other generations, but it does not look like they are (currently) bleeding the country
This seems like a click bait title to me, he "technically" uses those words, but the article seems a lot more sensible to me than inflammatory. We should definitely be thinking through sales/marketing when building games just like we do when building software. Not sure why you wouldn't be.

Edit to add: This rings true even when you decide "not a priority this time", that's still thinking it through
That is a good start, but also:

- exercise. I lift weights and do some cardio. Ease into it as overdoing it can make it harder to sleep. Do in morning or afternoon, not evening.

- comfort. If your bed isn't comfortable get a new matress. It can make a world of difference.

- chamomile tea before bed. I drink two cups nightly.

- I supplement magnesium, and find that taking a big dose before bed both helps my sleep and mild jerks

- Make sure the room is dark. I use a sleep mask as otherwise I wake up at 5-6AM when the sun cracks thru the blinds

- Make sure the room is cool. My upstairs bedroom doesn't cool well via central air so I got a portable unit to assist

- Relax. One night of missed sleep won't kill you and if you can convince yourself of that, you are more likely to relax and fall asleep

- Deep breathing. If you can't fall asleep. Practice relaxation via deep, slow breathing in your belly, not your chest. It takes practice, but works great.

- Pzizz app. Awesome, awesome stuff. I like the relaxed breathing and sleep hypnosis sessions

- If your brain just won't stop, try some inositol. I take 3g (most pills are 500mg, so 6x) and that seems to work

- Some melatonin can help if you just can't get "sleepy". For something stronger, 50mg of benedryl knocks me out good. I try not to take either of these very often though.
I’m surprised that Walmart et al haven’t started pushing for higher wages to kill competition- they must not care much about the smaller competitors.

McDonalds and Starbucks eat a wage increase in stride, small restaurants and businesses just go under.
Why not? I can exercise both because it makes me feel good and because it is good for my health. There is no contradiction. I think people can tie themselves in knots looking for the true cause or intent. I'm not sure it matters or even exists in any way that matters.
Only 16% of the weight of CO2 is the carbon. Since we’re concerned with the greenhouse effect of the molecule, that makes a bit of sense. But it also inflates both the rate of production and the value of capture so it could just as easily have been the other way.
Stripe cuts internal valuation by 28%
My wife and I, individually, and on various occasions over the years, have paid for random strangers' shopping.

We don't do social media, we don't even tell anybody, except for this one time, right now to support your point, so I think it's appropriate in this case.

We've told each other because we talk about our finances and it's reasonably to discuss why the grocery bill was double triple, etc what it would have been for what was brought home.
The city is safer?
The headline is pretty sensationalist. The full quote "Ferrari and some of the other high-end car manufacturers still use clay and carving knives. It’s a very small portion of the gaming industry that works that way, and some of these people are my favourite people in the world to fight with – they’re the most beautiful and pure, brilliant people. They’re also some of the biggest fucking idiots."
> “I’ve seen great games fail because they tuned their compulsion loop to two minutes when it should have been an hour.

A 'compulsion loop' sounds bad to me, I'd never heard the term before. Although if I try to take a step back I suppose this term could be used to describe any game and not just one of the lootbox-mania or idle games.

However, the wikipedia article [1] states:

> A core or compulsion loop is any repetitive gameplay cycle that is designed to keep the player engaged with the game. ... A compulsion loop may be distinguished further from a core loop; while many games have a core loop of activities that a player may repeat over and over again, such as combat within a role-playing game, a compulsion loop is particularly designed to guide the player into anticipation for the potential reward from specific activities

For some reason, all I can think of is that game from ST:TNG [2]. I'd like to say that I am somehow above it all but back when I used to play FPS games, it was probably just the same thing. Nonstop dopamine infusion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsion_loop

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_...
Prior to social media it was demonstrably harder for people with "extreme" (for all values of extreme) views to spread their message and find like-minded people. Not impossible, but definitely not nearly as easy as it is now. Social media platforms aren't the cause of misinformation, they're the cause of the rapid dissemination of it.

I don't think shutting them down will stop it but I think a lot of todays hyper-partisan inflammation of the citizenry is owed to these platforms and their encouragement of any and all "engagement" on their platforms in service of ad dollars. These companies know how harmful these products are but since they're profitable they ignore the findings. I would argue that Meta/Facebook is the Philip Morris of our generation.
Yeah, this is gross. He has a point that when you are selling a game, you're in it for a non-zero amount of profit, so you do have to think about compulsion and keeping people coming back to the game - if people aren't drawn back over multiple sessions then they're going to walk away thinking they spent money for 2 minutes of playtime and they'll be upset.

But the context of the question was moving monetization earlier in the development process. This is something that winds up feeling very broken in most games. You can tell when the game is a fleshed out around a scaffold of "how can we extract payment" and it always feels lame. In fact, some of my favorite games are the opposite - the core gameplay is built out, and then the monetization is added as a cosmetic store.
It's definitely Godot's opportunity to drive a lot of adoption, I'm seeing a ton of disgust from a lot of indie devs I follow, and looking for alternatives to Unity now.
The maximization of profit over everything else is the cause of much suffering.
Committing to a full price game is also thinking about monetization.
feel free to share your thoughts
Did you know there is a market for pre-war steel? This is steel manufactured before 1945 that is uncontaminated by radionuclides:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

There will soon be a market for pre-microtransactions games.

Also: I used to hate on the casino industry for using the term “gaming” to euphemistically refer to gambling, but now they’re not so different so I’ll let them have that one.
Theoretically, at one time maybe. Now - with their rules, it just ain't worth jumping through the hoops.

I know some statements are rubbish, but I can't use my personal knowledge to correct things; and the various 'secondary sources' which one is obliged to reference are themselves often flawed misinterpretations.

I'm not going to bother to create an account, just to get in to an edit fight with someone riding a hobby horse.

WP is basically a bulletin board, from which one has to launch off to find the truth.
The point isn't that a particular closed source car is available, but that there are always a few locally-available models that do the basic things well no matter where you are in the world. With open source cars, this is unlikely.
“Compulsion loop” definitely needs to go in the hall of fame of dystopian phrases.
Lots of records (Billions), low/no relational linkage, The need to query/update records in different ways (IE, you need indexes), The need for HA and scaling (IE, perhaps you can be VERY bursty and read heavy).

It's not one size fits all, but at least in my line of work there are few instances where it's a pretty good fit.
> The only sustainable way to get affordable housing is when the market price is affordable.

And the only way to reduce the market price to affordable rates is to crack down on the demand - there is no reasonable way to expand the offer side in many cities any more since they don't have the space. And most demand is driven by the fact that rural areas have been left in a decrepit state for decades: highways, bridges and other infrastructure is crumbling, there is no public transport worth the name, forget about fast internet (or fast internet offered by a crap monopolist), employers have closed down or moved to urban areas, schools and medical services are constantly closing or underfunded...

To fix the urban rent explosion problem, we need to fix rural areas and make them livable again.
They're really working hard to make godot better.

Appreciate it.
People that want to be conspicuous have to display their success where it's going to be seen. Living in a place that is "central" in so many ways is a competition to see who can hang in there. The only way to stay is to keep winning bigger.
> It's probably more common as the person becomes more familiar with the group -- at least it is for me. That'll make it hard or impossible to identify during interviews.

Agreed.

> I've been trying not to speak at all during meetings, instead following up in chat.

How does that work? I mean, interpersonally?
RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH!!
Mostly. But there are people that have interesting stuff to say but are overworked with anything technical.
The full quote for context:

> Ferrari and some of the other high-end car manufacturers still use clay and carving knives. It’s a very small portion of the gaming industry that works that way, and some of these people are my favourite people in the world to fight with – they’re the most beautiful and pure, brilliant people. They’re also some of the biggest fucking idiots.

Their CEO is certainly not calling everyone an idiot, just that there are some in that group of people. And personally, I greatly prefer this sort of frank talk to run-of-the-mill generic PR speak that usually comes from CEO interviews.

The next thing he says in the interview:

> I’ve been in the gaming industry longer than most anybody – getting to the grey hair and all that. It used to be the case that developers would throw their game over the wall to the publicist and sales force with literally no interaction beforehand. That model is baked into the philosophy of a lot of artforms and medium, and it’s one I am deeply respectful of; I know their dedication and care.
At least it's not eye-watering green and a Medium paywall!
Manhattan is expensive because rich people want to live there. Brooklyn and Queens and Harlem have density and transit but cost less.
This is why I hate it when some services requite me to enter my phone number for "security" or whatever reasons.

It's easy to burn/block a dedicated Spam email for a website. But it's difficult to change the primary phone number I've been using for over 10 years once it's out on some scam list.
She articulates the exploitative nature of this sort of viral / influencer charity incredibly well. His actions, while I'm sure well-intentioned, are sexist, ageist and absolutely dehumanizing. I hope the article helps him and the millions who liked the video check their assumptions and offers a lesson in moral complexity and subjectivity.
There’s no fundamental reason “America is probably not for” people who want high-quality, dense urbanism. The rent in NYC is a clear sign that there’s demand for it.
Right. I would say that these concepts are similar. But "because they're all faces of the same coin" seems to put forth that the two religions are of the same coin which I disagree with.
Article seems to be engaging in a bit of sophistry. Yes you can claim historical revisionism has been "widely applied" when you redefine it in the broadest possible way that mostly ignores the context in which it is being used in modern discourse. I might be assuming the worst here, could just be an instance of click bait. If you changed the title of the article it's a fairly dry explainer piece about historiography and the reliability of sources. With the title it feels like somebody performing transparent apologetics for the politically charged historical revisionism trend.
"Idiot" in this case means anybody who prioritizes anything over money.
ML code generation vs. coding by hand: what we think programming will look like
> just letting them do what they want when it affects me directly

Unless someone straight up breached their contract to evict and give "your" apartment to someone else, you were not affected "directly" by anything.

> I have my desires, which requires placing demands on their behavior

Desires? Is this really the word that you want to use? The more you write, the more you are displaying your sense of entitlement.

> (your post) which tries to effectively say “we tried everything, there’s no possible other solution”

There is absolutely no point where I said anything like that. Please stop assuming things. If you want to restart the conversation around that, by all means let's do it. But if you want to argue by baseless statements, I'm not your person.
ProTip: never take DNS advice from someone who cannot tell you the difference between ZONE and ZONE DOT.
I don't think so. It would make it impossible to talk about deprecated characters ever again, even in a historical context.

Unicode contains even some ancient and long forgotten scripts so historians can keep proper records of them.
As it so happens, I lived in China for 9 years, swam in the startup tech circles, and built a startup around WeChat. I can tell you with authority that you are wrong that WeChat won through market forces. China operates by allowing many startups to flourish, and when a particular industry becomes dangerous or important to their national interests, they shut down all but one, and put state backing into that one. They play king makers. Tencent, and WeChat, while well run and built, is basically state owned software.

I saw this whole ordeal play out with Twitter clones. There were maybe ten with traction. Then the gov stepped in and there were none. And then Weibo rose from the flames as the winner.
There's some pretty clever tricks on that site that I wasn't familiar with. Much appreciated!
To me, only other places that compare to NYC are Singapore and Sydney. Great food in Singapore, great weather (usually) in Sydney. The people can be a bit busy in Singapore though.

Certainly no NYC, but they ticked all my recreation, arts, food, people and transport boxes.

Unfortunately, they’re all so goddamn expensive to live in.
People are falling off buildings in search of the perfect Instagram shot
I had a bad case of this in 1997/1998 for about two weeks, it was terrible. I didn't know the name, "hypnic jerks." Like a fool I didn't go to the doctor. I occasionally get those jerks while just on the verge of sleep now but it doesn't last more than 10 or 20 minutes.
There are insane tax breaks these luxury apartments get, too, on the order of a 90% discount. It's not like these properties are generating huge windfalls for city or state government.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/billionaires-get-lo...
I wish I could. I know what I wrote was kind of a tease.

We hired domain experts to build our protocol. I know there were best practices they adhered to because we were one of several groups all of whose experts independently generated similar protocols. And the language they used to discuss it with each other.

Mostly we hired people with the best academic research credentials in field we were researching we could afford to build the labeling protocol. Which surprises me because it was expensive, but it wasn't "I have Google money behind me" expensive.
Heh. If I had a nickel for every time I shot myself in the foot over the years by dropping a temporary file named "test.py" somewhere... I'd don't know about rich, but I'd probably at least be able to buy myself a coffee.
That’s about 74 billion valuation. FYI.
Technically true. I owner-occupy a duplex, so I maintain exactly one rental unit. Unfortunately for me, I'm too high in conscientiousness to be a cutthroat landlord and I keep dumping money into improvements without raising rents, even though I could easily do nothing and raise my tenant's rent hundreds of dollar per month in this market. What I would like is for my work on this property to mean something and for all my competition to lose their shirts in a market that wasn't artificially supply-constrained.
I think true acts of kindness are difficult to achieve because something that you might find "kind", I might not, and vice versa. I think if you truly want to make people happy and do nice things for them you need to know them, their situation, what they're doing well with, what they're struggling with. Being tricked into holding random flowers wouldn't have made my day.