skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This would have been true when GBP was strong, but it's now trading at 1.18 USD. The glory days of 2.05 USD from 2007 are long gone, sadly!

Even in Kensington and Chelsea, average rent of £2.5K or even £3K GBP is only $3K-$3.5K USD these days.

https://www.homeviews.com/renting/average-rent-in-london-for...
This is a little lengthy, but I wanted to share the tactical details of my use case to give you a full picture:

I use Node-Red for a few scheduled activities: archiving Reddit posts or tweets I upvote and pulling information from real estate websites that match criteria I’m interested in.

I like Node-Red vs. cron-managed shell/Python scripts for several reasons:

- the admin/editor UI is accessible on any device with a web browser (no git, ssh, etc. tooling required)
- the node-based visual flow is easy to reason about and debug (so even after years of ignoring my scripts I can quickly come back to them and grok what’s going on)
- the barrier to entry continues to be low (I can pop in and create a new flow in <1 hr)

I prefer it over Zapier or IFTTT since it’s more flexible. I’ve authored arbitrary JavaScript and request logic to retrieve and filter data in ways these pre-packaged tools can’t.

I run it on an AWS LightSail server for ~$4 per month. I use Ansible to manage Ubuntu with podman + systemd running the Node-Red docker image and TLS provided by Caddy. Roughly ~4 hours to setup from scratch and something I return to once every ~18 months to update/tweak with minimal issue.

To sum it up, I appreciate the grok-ability + flexibility + accessibility. It just works and it scales in complexity as I need it to!
Pokémon is a weird one because you’re a game company licensing a game IP from one of the biggest and oldest game empires. Like really how hard would it be for Pokémon Company/Nintendo to replicate Pokemon Go on their own terms.

Then there’s the other big hitters like you’d be shocked how much of your revenue of a Star Wars themed product evaporates on dumb things like you included the Star Wars music so have to pay the composer X per sale.
As a New Yorker myself I do wonder where this ends up. Me and my relatively well paid friends can afford to live here but we depend on a lot of lower paid folks for the city to function. Grocery store clerks, delivery drivers, coffee baristas, all that sort of thing. Maybe right now they have a half hour subway ride to work and that’s acceptable. But as they get pushed further and further out it’s going to break down somewhere, no one is going to commute 90 minutes for a minimum wage job when there are plenty of jobs available elsewhere.

Wages will need to go up, which means the costs of goods and services will need to go up, and the city will get even less affordable.
This is article is a gem. There are so many quirks like this in various ancient utilities.
chickens are great, but in an apocalypse you are feeding chickens things you could eat instead. You would be better off growing potato on that land, as one the most energy per unit land dense crops.

for comparison, potato yields 40 tons a hectar, while wheat does like 8 tons and requires processing that most people won't manage by themselves.

Apples also give 30+ tons but thats a stranger diet.
Let's be aggressive and interpret this into a worst case and assume that the author is referring to one week and 700 million messages.

That's 100M messages per day or 1157 messages per second. That volume could be handled by a single DB table in an ACID way eliminating the need for a separate cluster
Apart from downtime, does anyone know why soemtimes Twitter doesn't notify me on replies of my mentions or tweets?
Yup: http://downrightnow.com/twitter

Also, it seems like even https://blog.twitter.com was down right now for a moment (but just restored).
Cognitive dissonance is also conveniently ignoring the deaths of many animals that took place so that your vegetables could be grown and harvested. The deaths of the animals that once lived in the spot where your pretty home sits, etc.
Did anyone get a chance to screenshot Dave Troy's tweets from this morning? They were quite sharp, directed at Elon and Twitter Inc. Just a coincidence the platform goes down minutes after these tweets get posted?

Edit - had a tab open and managed to grab some of the points here: https://imgur.com/a/7AlBlXw
I feel the wheel of consent is a wonderful tool for making sense of such situations. Who is actually giving and who is receiving? Did both parties agree to?

https://www.wheelofconsent.coach/what-is-the-wheel-of-consen...
NYC has technically outlawed Airbnb rentals of less than 30 days already. They just need a lot better enforcement of that law.
Depictions of oneself are part of your identity, but the only way to control such things is via copyright, which is assigned to the person filming.

Could really use some new laws here.
This reminds me of Mark Fisher's: The Slow Cancellation of the Future which is a fantastic watch
It’s easy but requires time. Like turning a page is easy but turning a million pages takes time.
Yes, that is a thing in parts of the world.
Been there done that. I had a huge collection of Acorn and Sun computers. The burden of looking after and storing them was less than the joy that I had from using them. Eventually I sold them all and my life was actually better.

There will be regrets about selling some things. But it’s possibly better to have those regrets to focus you on what you really wanted.
I think it’s the phrase “less developed country.” The US midwest and the US coast at the same, developed country.

Sure, they’re long distance apart, and drastically different, but that’s not on people’s minds.
I’ve used nod-red in corporate production for:
(1) Mapping partner leads that could only be provided as an email into our CRM endpoint.
(2) Synthetic canaries for application connectivity.
(3) Other integrations where an existing service provider was not able to provide a modern solution (webhook) and this filled the gap for low volume.

I find it’s a tool that can be used to get something up and running very rapidly and be used for a longer period beyond proof of concept.
While on the face of it, this sounds right, I've started to think there's a chance we are wrong. Can you really prove that industrialised agriculture has a higher carrying capacity than untamed nature?

Supposedly the population of the USA pre-colonialism was comparable to today's population and, whatever way they were managing food systems, they were able to sustain that for millennia, rather than exhausting almost all the soil's fertility in a few generations.

Then there's recent findings that pre-industrial fisheries were often as productive as early industrialised ones[0]. But again, sustained for long periods rather than rapidly leading to vanishingly small returns.

Findings like this really lead me to the question of whether our current approach to feeding ourselves is actually so great or whether we should return to more "proven" methods.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/04/precolon...
DynamoDB is amazing, but not very flexible once you have designed your database. No abstraction layer will allow you to run queries ad-hoc in a performant way.
Is it wrong to say that most financial crimes boil down to scamming and fraud?
Even automation stuff is moving to web interfaces and headless network connected controllers. Unless you're doing legacy stuff or niche stuff you're probably not writing stuff for windows desktop.

Game tooling has also moved to cross platform these days with popularity of MacOS for content creators and iOS as a target market requires MacOS for development tools.
"Paris" is only the small place within the old walls. It's population is under 2M, most of them owners, with ownership lasting since before WWI, who could never afford to buy (or rent) now. Rest are suburbs and don't have Paris on it's address. And sure, rents there are a lot lot cheaper.
This is a big topic but as far as Demographics go, China is by far the worst placed big nation due to their one child policy and inability to support more than one child due to modern costs. If that were the only factor or even a major factor, would be massively negative for China's future vis-à-vis rest of the world.
That happens to me and it’s so detrimental. I end up ignoring people who reach out to me.
i’m consistently annoyed at how useful watching someone fizzbuzz in a REPL can be.

it really shouldn’t be! But i have watched candidates get utterly flat-footed by it time and again, and learn both how they handle being set back on their heels and also that this relatively simple question can do it to them.
Bold of you to assume you won't run out of capacity half a day into your trip lol. At least that's what my calculations usually show.
Short answer: No.

The problem with these insane prices isn't really that you have disparity within the same country, but that a significant amount of people in these places cannot afford to live in there. You can't have a restaurant because you need to hire waiters but you can't pay waiters enough for them to pay the rent. So your service industry is disrupted or alternatively: people need to commute 1 or 2 hours to get to these jobs.

The reason it is not shocking that people in the midwest pay more than people in developed countries is because in the midwest most people have a relatively better life than most people in those developing countries. Whereas, say, a waiter living in San Francisco is not going to live a very different life from a waiter living in the Midwest who will, in turn, be living a much better life than a waiter in a developing nation.

So I think people are shocked because they realise their quality of life is not so different but there is a huge disparity in prices. Same country, similar quality of life, hugely different prices? This is definitely an anomaly!
> Having a team that communicates effectively and and is agile (in the normal sense of the word) and executes effectively is more important than strategy.

Why is this necessary?
Id love to see a breakout of Airbnb rentals by number of bedrooms. 1 and 2 bedroom airbnbs are seemingly never economical anymore compared to hotels, at least in the places I visit.
Quick HN question... I posted this as well (prior to this post) and it was "flagged"? I titled mine "Twitter is down hard". Perhaps my titling made it seem like I was trying to be mean or something? As a developer, I was trying to convey that it was very much down across all apps, sites, services. I thought that was the proper parlance but perhaps not.

To any HN admins, sorry! I meant nothing by it!
When police are incredibly understaffed, they don’t do their job because they don’t have many to do it. Granted, everyone is understaffed these days, so it’s not just a police problem, and prosecutor/judges in my county make things harder for them by auto releasing the property-crime offenders they do catch (doesn’t matter if they have 10 warrants for times they didn’t return to court after being released from previous arrests).

It’s not just the police’s fault that they are ineffective, the politicians (that appoint judges and prosecutors) and the people that vote for the politicians take a lot of the blame also. And even after that it’s just a bad time for labor and crime.
Genius! I wonder how that would look....

Perhaps we should model it after insurance companies. Those guys are great at ruining peoples lives on a whim. And no one has ever once complained about insurance paperwork (at least in your fantasy land this is true i bet).

Or maybe we should model it after agricultural giants. Monsanto would be a good model, they've never done anything to hurt millions of people nor have they ever converided up any evidence that they intentionally ignored the issues their products could cause.

Perhaps you're thinking more in the tech space - this is HN after all. Facebook could serve as inspiration - the idea that they would push propaganda and surveil you in ways that the government wouldn't even think of is just nonsense right?

To prevent leeching we could hire the best hedge fund managers like bernie madoff and the best financial architects out there - accenture (formerly arthur anderson).

Point being, structuring things like a corporation does exactly what? Sure accuse me of cherry-picking but I have backups and backup-backup examples for each one I've named.

So anyway - for your amazing idea, please tell me how:

* this company would make money?

* one share per person == one vote per person, so how does that change things?

* do you handle citizenship changes? A buyback?

* do you handle new people being born? Dilute my shares?

* does this reduce absurd policies from idiots at the top?
yeah for temporary/part time work you'll often have hourly rates with weekly pay, but that wouldn't normally be called a salary
But Twidere[0] app (which uses API directly) has issues right now and can't fetch tweets from any accounts.

[0] https://github.com/TwidereProject/Twidere-Android/releases/t...
I think they just took random screenshots from toasty tech and presented them differently, often mislabeling them in the process.
> should be heavy state intervention on it, preferably by doing the same as Vienna, which is holding >40% of the renting stock and charging according to income

This is great policy if you want to make housing unaffordable. When supply is less than demand, prices go up. Those price increases incentivize builders to increase the housing stock (which subsequently lowers prices). Capping prices prevents the price mechanism from working, leaving a shortage of housing.

> Rent is the main detractor of disposable income which hurts the rest of the economy

I’m happy (perhaps not quite the right word…) to pay rent. I don’t want to own property. It’s a large, illiquid investment with high transaction fees, carry costs, and concentration risk. My landlord takes all the risk of owning the property (prices don’t always go up after all).
Deploying Clojure on AWS Lambda with no compromises
Who’s making the shows and what are the shows?

It’s not as simple as throwing poop at the wall and hoping a bit of it sticks.
loadlin was the tool that would boot the kernel (including initrd) from a running DOS system. You might be thinking of umsdos? IIRC, that's the tool that would allow you to actually run Linux from a FAT partition (likely FAT16).
Long range power cables only cost billions if they're >1000km long.

But this is besides the point. Energy companies spent money on long range power cables because they calculate they can make a profit on the transmitted energy. Nuclear power stations spend taxpayer billions because they can't possibly compete commercially. That's the key difference.
Do you really think that rents in New York are because of cheap debt and not because a tiny island has been captured by billions and billions of corporate luxury development, while at the same time the supply of appartamenti is choked by there being more Airbnb places than places being rented.

Covid has been the greatest transfer of wealth upward in our lifetime, but sure it’s cheap personal debt.
The ultimate guide for writing high-quality Ansible Playbooks
From a little Googling, it seems like an EV battery is four orders of magnitude larger than a smart phone battery, so about 150,000 EVs sold per year is the rough equilibrium point (that’s four orders of magnitude lower than your 1.5B figure), and it seems like we’re selling about a million EVs per month, at least as of the end of 2021.

https://www.ev-volumes.com/
Only that Tyson and others do have a game plan that accountsvfor the fact of being punched in the mouth.
It’s not exactly a language but the Emacs calculator (aka GNU Calc) can do a lot of the things J does for the author. Product of factorials would be:

v M ! v R *

Where the v may be capitalised if you like and the spaces are the way the commands are written but aren’t typed. That decomposes into some easy mnemonics: Vector Map factorial, Vector Reduce multiplication.

It has a bunch of mathematical features, a quick interface for plotting simple graphs (with gnuplot), some symbolic algebra, and it sort-of has the reactive feature too. (I think there’s also a mode for using it in files).

Date handling is ok but simple (a date/time is internally represented as a Julian day so if you add 1 to a date/time you get the next day; times go into the fractional part. Leap seconds / time zones aren’t handled. There is an option to configure when your calendar switched from Julian to Gregorian.

It’s usually fast enough for what I use it for but it can be limited by performance.
Moreover artist communities flourish in urban spaces with cheap rent, like New York in the 1970s, Paris in the 1920s, Berlin in the 1990s and so on. Without that you just end up with Dubai or Monaco with shittier weather.
A properly designed captive portal can make it harder for someone leaving a small computer in the vicinity of your network and reverse tunneling through it for nefarious purposes. Having to log in every day would disrupt the tunnel and prevent remote access.

(Un)fortunately many captive portal are poorly designed, allowing arbitrary traffic to be sent over UDP/53 or ICMP, even when not authenticated. This kind of defeats the purpose of a captive portal, as the tunnel can be operated over UDP/53 (or whatever) and the captive portal can be solved remotely.
Nice write-up from Marc. This definitely hits on the most common problems distributed systems face. I haven't read the paper yet but it is pretty cool they published this and talk about changes over time.

1. Managing 'heat' in the system (or assuming that you'll have an uniform distribution of requests)

2. Recovering a distributed system from a cold state and what that implies for your caches.

3. The obvious one that people that do this type of thing spend a lot of time thinking about: CAP theorem shenanigans and using Paxos.

Reminds me of the Grugbrained developer on microservices: https://grugbrain.dev/#grug-on-microservices

Good luck getting every piece working on the first major recovery. My 100% unscientific hunch is that most folks aren't testing their cold state recovery from a big failure, much how folks don't test their database restoration solutions (or historically haven't).
Wages will rise
do you have the quality filter on?
one gripe is that it is like 15 years outdated
People calling out the poster for presenting an ill thought out, old and long debunked idea is "attacking like a rabid dog"?
> CMV

Rent is high because the demand in large cities majorly out strips supply.

All policies that attempt to address housing costs that don't increase supply are treating a symptom and not the underlying cause.
I use it on a standard spec windows laptop and it works fine… Little bit slow and stuttery in places and definitely a resource hog when screen-sharing but it has a ton of functionality that makes up for it.

From what I can figure this is kind of inherent when apps are electron based to be cross-platform. Similar experience with vscode.
These numbers are wildly inflated. the official corporate rental sector in NYC s actually very small (most properties are condos/coops) owned by small scale landlords. That 5k number is the price that a (often foreign) company would pay to keep an executive for a temporary assignment in NYC. Then you have the students who are burning thier parents money anyways. Anecdotally the landlords are looking to recoup their COVID losses and a lot of these units are not renting.
“Inspector General last year found that of the more than 50,000 ShotSpotter alerts for probable gunshots, only 9.1% resulted in evidence of a gun-related offense.”

Only evidence in 4500 cases.

Still sounds like a lot to me.
I was going to recommend https://gengo.com/sentiment-analysis/

But it seems they’ve been acquired a few years ago, so I have no idea if the quality is still the same.
Nest has the best experience as far as I can tell. The person recognition works fairly well, so I’m not getting alerts for every rabbit or blown tree branch that wanders into view.
Going even further down the DNS tree, you can

dig . NS

to get the root nameservers
Agreed. Housing is as basic a need as food. Either end food subsidies and make farmers rich, or deregulate housing
This is why you need rent control.

100% of this price hike is going into landlord's pockets, it's not a result of inflation.
Which doesn't mean you can afford to have no plan at all. Because: "Failing to plan means planning to fail".
Longer and longer commute for your grocery store workers. See fig. 1 (San Francisco)
We should bring back internet alternatives
To be fair, the people that took on the cheap debt aren't necessarily the ones paying for it.
What’s more important than that is to update your strategy openly when new information arises
As pointed out by someone on Mastodon - this also fails if you try to dig India's ccTLD.

https://hackers.town/@seachaint/108645588430551049
There's probably a lot of reasons building up to this. I suspect that a lot of this comes from the constant reinforcement of equality as broad concept. The idea that all people should have equal opportunities seems to have been perverted by some into the idea that all people should be the same. Then there's the idea of america as "one nation" instead of a massive collection of communities. Throw in the american need to spread out, and you start to get this culture that is far more homogenous than in the patchwork of cultures of europe and africa.

So with that backdrop, it seems the problem is people who think they're the same get shocked to find out they're not.
Corruption plays a large role. And then of course the laundering of any proceedings of other crimes.
Canada Has the Largest Percent of Common-Law Partners Among G7
Or, even better, build less cars and more trains.
Is housing unaffordable in Vienna? If so, your mechanism might explain it. If housing is not unaffordable in Vienna, your explanation seems likely to be missing something.
> You'd need to spend an extraordiary amount of time preserving harvest: drying, salting, smoking, curing, fermenting, and canning.

back in soviet times, we didn't have 365 day a year avaliability of fruit from another side of the planet, and our grandmother used to can hundreds of kilos of fruit and veg in the summer. She would fill up a storage room and that wouod supplement our diet in the colder months.

Its quite a bit of work, like a week or 2, but was normal withing living memory. Also you need equipment: a canning machine, and like 30+ 5-liter glass jars. And this is just one aspect of what you would need.
So you can dodge if someone tries to punch you in the mouth I guess
I don’t see India forming a bloc with China.
Making lighter vehicles is a big strategy to make electric affordable quick indeed. Maybe some companies will manage to find good solution and implement them quicker than car makers? Renault managed this with the Twizy.

I investigated myself plugin hybrid vs full electric, and full electric won for the simple fact that a plugin needs to be charged every day I will drive somewhere. For the electric, I can recharge it once a week or twice a month and it will cover my needs. I don't have an in-house charger so this is a massive difference.
Can you clarify what you mean by development? As far as the apartments themselves, they can range from newly developed, to newly renovated, to very old and needing renovations. I figured the apartments along the coasts, and in particular the Manhattan area are quite old.

I do think that development on a global scale has given people the ability to move to places like Manhattan, and so development outside, as well as within could create the demand for higher rent.

Affordable apartments may not be developing at high enough rate to keep up with demand - but in a place like Manhattan, surely it is difficult to develop affordable housing.
The full list: https://www.iana.org/assignments/dns-parameters/dns-paramete...

I recall (All) DNS Resource Records listed [1], which is another treasure of historical tidbits.

[1] https://www.netmeister.org/blog/dns-rrs.html