skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Here in the UK our housing is in major crisis because people simply cannot afford the insane price increases. Pretty much everyone I know shares their living situation, on their own they would not be able to afford basic amenities.

The housing in UK is in crisis because there have not been enough homes built. My rent has gone up too, but it's not because my landlord is greedy. The cost of maintaining the building has gone up thanks to inflation (plumbers/electricians/superintendent/etc.) all have to be paid higher wages. Replacing broken fixtures is more expensive. If the landlord has a floating rate mortgage, the cost of paying the mortgage went up. For commercial apartment rentals, those companies have debt that now needs to be rolled over at higher rates.

> By your logic there should be an incentive for builders to increase the housing stock, but private enterprise aren't building anymore homes now than they were 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years ago.

So is it a problem that they aren't building more or not? If we agree that more housing needs to be built, then the proper incentives must be in place. And a proper incentive may actually be as simple as eliminating a disincentive (e.g. 4 years of environmental review prior to the project's approval).

> Available rental stock is down 25%, with demand up 5%. It's great for property speculators, buy-to-let landlords and property developers, people are offering above asking prices simply to secure a home.

It's great until it isn't. Interest rates are rising, and mortgages in the UK are much shorter term than in the US. That means the impact of rate hikes is more immediate on housing prices. And if available stock being down is a problem (which it is), the obvious solution is to produce more. Alternatively, I have a modest proposal [0] that would also solve the problem.

> Ultimately there shouldn't be 'risk', this mindset is a big problem.

Risk is omnipresent. If I purchase property, I have all sorts of risk. My building may burn down. My neighborhood may become undesirable to live in. I might not be able to take a job in a new location. I tried to pick examples that aren't about investment. These are risks that the landlord assumes for me.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
>the tricky question is how to balance the two.

I've heard people smarter than me advocate contractualism as a way of finding balance between the two.
That is the exact thing that children get told when they are being bullied. "Stay away from them, ignore them, just don't read it online."

It doesn't work
What does the 5000$ mark have to do with it? Just because rents in Berlin are not as high as downtown Manhattan, doesn't mean they're not overpriced for Berlin wages, especially since skilled and middle class wages in Berlin are nowhere near what they are in Manhattan, so this apples to oranges 5000$ mark is meaningless for your snarky attempt at an argument.
Enhancing phased array antenna performance by optimizing beamforming
New podcast episode from the Space Industry by satsearch - with engineers from Texas Instruments.
> I don't want to tar an entire generation with the same brush, but I have noticed that younger people seem to be really taken in with these very shallow like-farming operations on YouTube and TikTok.

I don't fault them. They're only responding the world that we, the older generation, are implicitly condoning. Fact is, our culture does not teach the benefits of generosity much, and the few instances we see are often highly public: "$FAMOUS_PERSON donates $LARGE_SUM to $NONPROFIT!" Anonymous donors are never trumpeted the same way.

There is a marketplace for virtues, and people need role models.
The arguments are sharpened up a bit more.
Profiling is the source of truth. Try setting up a scenario that exacerbates the issues you think are happening.

I've seen shaders cause problems due to branching logic- I'd try disabling them or making them perform a no-op.

I've focused on 2D with Godot, but often with a very high volume of nodes at once.
> it costs real money and time to build those homes and maintain them.

As a renter of a dangerously unmaintained property, whose owner has never worked because he inherited a bunch of apartments, I can only laugh hysterically at your ridiculously-over-the-top sarcasm.
- Firebolt (Hard fork of clickhouse)
- Altinity
- Gigapipe
- Hydrolix
- Bytehouse.cloud
- https://clickhouse.com/ ("coming soon")
- TiDB (Their columnstore is a fork of clickhouse)

I stopped tracking after this. I saw a few press releases go by announcing a few others as well which I lost now.

The official Clickhouse Inc. is surely going to be under pressure to pull features out of their open source offering over time to differentiate themselves.
Higher interest rates should lower the prices of homes in the long run, which should translate into lower rents.
Completely agree. I think this is part of the hazard of the fsd training ethos that 'san francisco is the hardest case.' It completely dodges the issue that California actually maintains safe road markings compared to most other states.

I think in Japan or China this approach could actually work, but there is zero hope for it to work generally in the US.
Great work! Should we reverse "exec" and "execnative" because the first is more APE oriented (maybe "execape"?)? Just thinking from the perspective of adopting to more Linux use cases.
yes, it's got new stories in it. Also the author feels the arguments are a bit sharpened up.
Sure, but this is totally antithetical to american culture which is extremely selfish, entirely oriented around acquiring money, and obsessed with pop culture which generally leads people to pursue positions that are high paying and locales that are “the place to be”.

When the only values that remain are the acquisition of capital, self-love, and fame, the majority of the population will elect to be in the places that present those possibilities to them, even if it requires making short-term decisions that harm them (absurd renting costs), because they believe they might make it work given time.
Web3 is about introducing yet another layer of financialisation to the web (FT)
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You have probably, unless you’ve been unusually fortunate, been schooled in the wonders of Web3. For the remaining lucky few, allow me to explain. Web3 is the inexorable destiny of the internet — the magical fabric from which blockchain-based decentralised dreams are made and dystopian big-tech nightmares destroyed. The future is bright; the future is “append-only” databases.

The central thesis of Web3 is that because the internet has become so centralised — with power concentrated in the hands of a few, and users powerless over their own data — we need a more distributed, egalitarian, open system. So far, so reasonable.

But the minute you look beneath the surface, gaping holes appear in the Web3 vision. Its techno-utopian advocates say they want to harness the alleged power of blockchains — the immutable databases that underpin bitcoin and other tokens — to create a democratised internet where you control your own data and are no longer reliant on the big tech giants. Web3, the argument goes, will allow you to “own a piece of the internet”. Naturally, the “decentralised” apps and organisations that operate in this brave new world are powered by crypto tokens: all you need to do is buy them.
Your post made me wonder what libertarians think about things like llcs and corporations - the legal shields they provide are a massive government subsidy.
I dunno if the intent of this dataset is to produce bots that can make people laugh. I think (intentional) comedy is the ultimate Turing test. I say intentional because there are things like https://inspirobot.me/ which are essentially glorified Markov models and it's downright hilarious the stuff it comes up with, but I think that's primarily due to absurdist humor and subversion of expectation (and unintentional ironic pairing with the picture). That's very different than communicating something, intended to be a joke, having it land, having it be funny, and deliberately so, not just because it was silly or non-sequitur.

I think it's still valuable to be able to detect when something is joke/satire/sarcasm/irony/slang, especially in the context of content moderation, because quite often it totally flips the sentiment valence. A perfect example is "I'm literally dying" - "literally" meaning in the exact or truest sense, "dying" meaning sloughing off the mortal coil (very bad)- vs "literally" meaning "figuratively, but in an extreme sense" and "dying" from laughter (very good).
This feature actually makes my house uncomfortably cold.
This seems to be a cyclical thing. Every now and then a new solution shows up that is built on new development and UX practices, abandons some baggage that is no longer relevant to most users, makes assumptions in its design that are better suited to the era, etc etc.

Then ten or twenty years pass and it becomes the thing to replace.
Correct objection :)

I don't know the technical distinction, but there is a noticeable distinction in prcatice. I guess that "cheap coating" is made by gluing a film; I see this type of coating very often in budget or even not-so-budget sports (sun)glasses.

Cleaning this type of glasses in an unltrasonic cleaner will cause bubbles to form between the film and the lens.
Haha "extractive relationship" come on man. Poor people aren't vampires, they need to be resourceful in their environment to survive.
Back in the day the most advanced software developers used minicomputers: for instance Gates and Allen used an 8080 emulator on a PDP-10 to develop the original Microsoft BASIC. Infocom similarly used a PDP-10 to develop games like Zork.

A modern computer is a much more powerful machine than a 1970s minicomputer and would be great support for writing complex software today.
(because it's IN)

Seems similar to the problem on YAML's Norway (https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/) and the Turkish Lira (TRY) problem (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190912-00/?p=10...)
Would it be such a bad thing if those artists move to, say, St. Louis and create the next big thriving art hub there?
Crypto Crash Who Saves the Reputation of Founders?
As Crypto rebounds those blamed for the crash are turning to experts in crisis management to hold onto their reputations with false accusations swirling.
Wikipedia is what it is, I managed to get some of the FlexOS page updated based on pointing them to better info, but they're still not correct.

When FlexOS was first created (as a thing written from scratch in C), it was aimed to be released under the name "Concurrent DOS 286" (aka CDOS-286), as a general DOS for 286 based PCs.

This is apparent from the various descriptions of the effort at the time, including the BYTE article. It seems obvious that this use of 'Concurrent' was for marketing purposes, as the code base has no relationship to the earlier products using the 'Concurrent' name.

In that development time frame, the port to the 68k was done, specifically to a Motorola VME/10 device; however some of the media reports on the port are themselves confused, as they reference the old Concurrent not the new C based thing.

That overall effort to create a general 286 DOS was eventually abandoned, when issues with how real mode emulation on the final 286 chips performed, and that the 286 scheme had become a dead end with the 386 being available. Hence how it got retargeted to embedded systems, and renamed to FlexOS.

I worked for a company developing a product based on FlexOS between 1990 and 1997, I had access to the APT and SBK (the former being the application API and libraries, the latter the equivalent for device drivers). The header files have a confusing mix of names in them as the product was renamed.

Have a look at some extracts on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:FlexOS

I once performed a dig of media sources for FlexOS, and found a bunch of obviously confused stuff in terms of PRs, etc. So a random editor on wikipedia trying to make sense of it is not in the best position.

As to the Multiuser_DOS page on WP, and it referring to CDOS-68K as a successor to CP/M-68K that sounds like confused speculation. FlexOS has/had the ability to offer multiple 'Front Ends' (FEs).

It had its own native APIs (which the APT above provided), the intended general DOS (CDOS-286) had a parallel DOS API (Int 21) Front End. The CDOS-68K version had the native FE, and a parallel CP/M-68K FE. The programs in the 68K distribution zip files are mainly written to the native FE, but the compiler (possibly also linker, librarian) are written to the CP/M-68K FE. The version of FlexOS I worked with only had a native FE in FlexOS-286, but FlexOS-386 also had a somewhat improved version of the original DOS (Int 21) FE. Good enough to run Turbo-C at the time.

Frankly, IMO, all of the Concurrent DOS 286 and CDOS-68K stuff on the Multiuser DOS page should be on the FlexOS page, with only a small piece of text on the MU-DOS page to the effect that the use of 'Concurrent' regarding the early form of the FlexOS products was a marketing name, and they had no relation to the other 'Concurrent' products.
Thanks! That looks very interesting. I'll also browse your previous comments.
Study refutes idea that woodpeckers have shock-absorbing heads
> about the people who don't read news

I don't think you're listening, because the point is that these people do read the news. That's what this report is about: they read the news, but they're not willing to pay for a recurring subscription. Lecturing one person (me) about the value of subscriptions is not going to change anything. I do pay for a few subscriptions. There's just far more that I can't read because it's just not worth the monthly cost. And that's the reality of the newspaper business.
It probably would these days, but in 2012 there were no such regulations.
Multilocular o is known only from a single word in a single manuscript.
> Or build smaller cars. Not everybody needs an 80kwh SUV. That's just the current market, which seems to favor stupidly big, heavy, and inefficient cars.

From my perspective, this is a regulatory issue.

Auto-manufacturers have been pushing products and platforms that streamline, simplify, and reduce cost. That means if their premier work truck, consumer truck, and SUV all share the same underlying platform it's a win. This doesn't incentivize the development of multiple platforms that are right fit but rather marketing manipulation to make the consumer think something is the right fit.
> Ah yes, the super profitable US government that still finds itself trillions of dollars in debt

Can't believe I have to spell this out, but am happy to — it's the individuals making it up who are benefitting...obviously the organization has not been benefiting/improving from good leadership for some time.
The first thing I do on an Android phone is to disable animations. Unfortunately it makes some apps to do funny things (broken progressbars), and some animations will play anyway (opening apps from home screen)
At least one of them, the original creator, is full-time (I follow him on Twitter). Not positive about others but it's certainly possible
Tell me you haven’t attended an artist commune without telling me you haven’t attended an artist commune. There’s very little like seeing someone’s performance art in person, or walking through an art installation with other artsy friends, or attending a workshop (the fees paying local artists).
> In the centigrade scale, we can see the difference between negative and positive temperature since the latter corresponds to ice rather than liquid water.

A poor example of real vs made-up with an arbitrarily chosen 0 point. Using Kelvin shows this isn't 'real' however useful.
The high prices in Manhattan are caused by the low supply of other Manhattan-like density and public transit capable cities in the US.
Agreed- my limited Unity usage has been horrible just because of how bloated and massive it seems every time I try to give it a go.

Whereas Godot opens up in literally 1 second and boom I am there.

And for 2D projects, there is very little "lacking" compared to Unity. It's way more clear what is going on.
There is no system that can work in large scale and depend on the good will of all (or the majority of) participants.

If your system only works when everyone cooperates, you don't need the system in the first place. Believing that we can all live in this utopian ideal is more religious than "believing in the market"
> Discord is absolutely terrible though compared to what I'm used to
What are you used to? Genuine question. I've tried many options and to be honest, discord has been the nicest so far. Yeah, it's far from perfect - but I still found it way better than slack, teams, meet, zoom. Although I personally don't really mind the mentions - I spend a decent amount of time in public servers, and have learnt to just suppress what I don't want (I also run windows, not macOS, so maybe that's also part of the "issue"?)
this fairytale may help you sleep at night. But 100 years is almost no history at all, i hope you can appreciate that.
The nest does this, but it's not very effective. We're getting the 'rush hour' stuff right now (it's 100-105 peak right now) and the Nest does the following:

* Sets the thermostat 2 degrees cooler (74) ~1 hr prior to the rush hour time (3:30-5:30)

* Sets the thermostat to 4 degrees warmer between rush hour timing.

Problem is, with the current heat my house cannot be cooled down to 74 1 hour prior, and even still... it floats up to 80 degrees by ~4:30-5PM anyways and the AC kicks back on. Then it takes until ~10PM or so to get BACK to the 76 set temperature.
This is a relatively modern house (built in 2010s), so it has modern insulation, sealing, etc. It's just ACs aren't really sized for being able to wildly swing temperatures and maintain temp. When it's 100+ degrees outside, they're sized so they run basically constantly when the sun is out, so slipping temperature means you're playing catch up for the rest of the night.
or you know, dont live in the desert e.g Phoenix Arizona, or if you do decide to live in the desert then realise that's your choice and dont add to pollution and climate change by trying to cool down a desert with AC.
The Broadcom chip, yes, but the NDA-encumbered firmware has been reduced to such an extent that you can in fact boot this either fully-functional with very few closed blobs, or almost-fully-functional with no closed blobs at all.

All device drivers onwards are just open and can be kept up to date and used in custom kernels all you want. This is the big difference with other SBCs where you can't really use the devices without closed, version-locked drivers and blobs, and there is no incentive for the manufacturer to make a super-thin encumbered shim to give the most leverage and freedom for everyone else to build on top of that.

The popularity didn't arrive before the intent and work was done to make it hackable, it was the other way around. That, in turn, created the mindshare to make community-driven drivers and alternate firmwares for the VideoCore boot stage.

This is also why they kept the BCM lineage as simple as possible across the PI revisions so all the public reverse engineering and hard work wasn't for nothing and was still portable.

None of this can be said about any RockChip, MediaTek or HiSilicon SoC. Those are more of a consume-and-throw-away type of deal, except for maybe the high-end long-life platforms that share IP with Android devices that also happen to have PM-OS or some XDA fanbase to work on it. Even then they usually lack community knowledge and commercial effort to make it worthwhile.

The closest was the TI-based series like the BeagleBone, and that was for precisely the same reason the Pi got a good start. The bad thing about the BeagleBone was that it didn't have a "see something on your monitor out of the box" experience.
I’m starting to believe the idea that long term zero percent rates have made MBAs in charge of almost everything completely careless to the historical realities of business where you have a product and process before investing tons into a system.

It seems to me that with “endless free money” we miss things like “this one input stream will be a nightmare, let’s not do it”.
Probably they want to handle wheat waste and corn waste long term. Seems like there should be plenty of both to go around
Maybe it will be like with China and cedit card usage. China just skipped credit cards and does everything in phone. They were behind, now they are leading the pack. Countries embracing crypto could go similar route.
I wonder if they now support branching. I always thought it was basically a visual programming language until I tried to use it. But it's really more like a visual pipe.
I recently lost a panel to squirrels chewing the wires. Solar is low-maintenance but not zero. Having used a generator also I will take the solar every time.
One of the most odd issues I have encountered was a test case that would fail if one random log line was deleted (which would normally means UB or timing issues) but, wildly, not when the log line was commented out. Turns out it was interaction between the use of __LINE__ in a macro to generate unique identifiers and a violation of the One Definition Rule.
True, you can't eat a cow, but you can chop it up in to smaller pieces.
Only if the housing market is functional and responsive, ie high rents are only driven by "desirability" and so demand can adjust quickly.

The reality is that trends in the rental market are very slow to reverse outside of the collapse of a bubble like in 2008. At the moment it is completely dysfunctional since nearly every city in the Anglophone world is experiencing both a housing shortage and massive speculation in the housing market.

Additionally peoples' housing decisions are much less fluid than their decisions on to say buy a particular product - the entire basis of their financial security is tied up in where they live. Just because rent is lower in a less desirable city that's no help if they can't find a decent job in the less desirable city, or if due to high costs where they already live they don't have the liquidity to finance a major move.

And that's not even getting into the social cost - uprooting yourself from your home can cost you resources that can't easily replaced, such as a social safety net in the form of family and close friends, potentially providing things like free childcare, help in emergencies, rides to work if you can't drive/can't afford a car, interest-free loans etc etc. Because of all this people will stick with unbearable rents until long after they stop being able to comfortably afford them.

Housing responds to market forces, but since the supplier has a far more captive market than most industries the time horizon for changes is very slow. It doesn't really help people to claim that the market will sort itself out so just put up with this misery for 10-20 years - especially when in the past 10 years the market has only become if anything more dysfunctional.
Most of Manhattan is built out to the maximum allowed by zoning, but we could raise those limits
That just means the load peak is now at 6:30, when all the heaters are turned on.
Xerox PARC: the birthplace of many many many PC related technologies. It's so sad that the legend is gone.