skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my anecdotal experience in NYC+NYS the vast majority of buyers are investors, not homeowners. Properties are bought up to be flipped, added to the short term rental market, and/or bought as secondary/tertiary homes. I can think of a few things that would work toward resolving this that would not destroy existing homeowners.

1. Statewide bans on short term rentals

2. Huge increase in short term rental taxes to the point where it's barely profitable

3. Adjustable property taxes based on vacancy. Something like a 5x property tax multiple for 50% vacancy and scaling down to 1x for 5% vacancy.

These proceeds should go toward a public/private partnership to build more housing.
At the point that you're talking about being able to simultaneously fight the next two military powers right in their respective backyards, you're no longer talking about defense.

As for freedom of navigation, China is also in favor of that. It's their lifeblood.
> While comfortable employed geeks may sit in awe of the pretty space pictures, most people have more quotidian concerns they care far more about.

As the great Gil Scott-Heron once said: "A rat done bit my sister, Nell with whitey on the moon."
In a grossly, over-simplified nutshell, aren't people saying this of Clarence Thomas?
A product team without an engineering process can reliably do nothing (but not vice versa). If you don't want to be treated like an optimization that only makes sense in a large money-printing machine, you need to stop optimizing for money-printing.

Communication isn't just about gracefully accepting expected input and feeling good about getting it. It's also about reliably figuring out the logic behind unexpected input to gracefully bridge the gap.

So hacking means creatively staring at unpredictable systems until they make sense. You can timebox how long you can afford to stare at it and then incrementally review whether your staring method should be improved or whether it makes more sense to do something else after the timebox but you shouldn't poll the state of the world every day.

TL;DR: Stop opening the oven door every 5 minutes, you're losing heat every time. Muffins don't like that.
Because time in the real world uses leap seconds. The time businesses open and close. The times reported in news articles. And so on. What facebook wants is for all of them to stop using leap seconds so facebook’s infrastructure is simpler
Exactly. You're not "buying a car with heated seats that you can't use", you're buying the car without heated seats because you didn't pay for them. The difference is that BMW has to cripple the car before they give it to you if you don't pay right now.
Not everything needs to be monetized and microtransacted.
It could just be that we are in a new age. This is largely a first world issue and those raised in these societies for the past 20-30 years have been brought up in a zero tolerance for violence environment. It's also a much less hands-on environment, leading to people without the skills to execute the more complex/impactful violence.

It's also possible, and my favorite theory, that people don't want to be hypocrits. It's a lot easier to be a vegan and hate someone wearing fur than to live a modern lifestyle and not use any climate changing resources yourself (especially ageicultural products). Keying some SUVs just so they can be replaced by cars seems like it lacks any sort of "win" for the perpetrator, and most people see that. It's not an absolute, and extremism is built on absolute positions.
Turning the chief asset for retirement for the retiring crowd into a liability is a non-starter. Excluding them would be an enormous wealth transfer in their favor.
> It's easier to think about adding functionality to a block of code when you acknowledge that at the moment it only does 2 things, rather than using obscure wishy-washy language that implies it could do a dozen things.

This is why Sum Types are so great. They give you an option between "concrete type" and "any type that implements this interface": "one of these specially enumerated types".
Majority of regular/middle-class folks have their equity tied to their home. I agree (I am one of them)
yes, that's another classic.

... when they pass their eggs to each other ...
I hear that a lot, and it's just baloney.

Recurring revenue is the holy grail for businesses, not one-shot revenue.

Stock investors do not reward companies that eat their seed corn. They short those companies.

If you know which companies are sacrificing the long term, you'd be shorting their stock.
And that's why we need to ban encryption /s.
They let people build things.
This is not a case of "computers are a bit hard", it's a system that we've imposed upon ourselves that has been repeatedly demonstrated to be unsafe. because of this, we've ended up with many (many) solutions baked into software that attempt to abstract away the sharp edges of this problem from individual engineers, which leads to inconsistent assumptions about what you need to consider when writing code.

even with the best and brightest engineers there is a non-trivial probability that someone will make an assumption that is invalid based on their understanding of what can happen (ex. leap seconds never go negative!) or the library their using (this ensures monotonic time!) that could lead to disastrous results. and especially at meta scale, that probability is no longer "will someone make this mistake in our code?" but is "how many times will people make this mistake in our code?", so systemic solutions that eliminate this as a class of problem an individual can create is something we should consider.
This at least makes some sense. There are, for example, a large number of properties owned by foreign investors and domestic owners who own multiple homes. Bernie Sanders, for example, famously owns three homes. If these homes were more expensive for investors, specifically, that would dis-incentivize investment by non-occupants.
(Self)Discipline isn't either. From one of self helping courses i learnt that you have to embrace your dopamine addicted inner monkey and make it do useful stuff. I.e. split things into smallest chunks and convince yourself that finishing each of those is rewarding.
No idea about USA, but in Poland a large number of those refusals is due to catholic bigotry. In Poland this is correlated with many fundamentalists choosing this field due to readily available prey. Should be easy to determine comparing the number of refusals between the fundamentalist states and the rest, I guess.
Hacking aside, they are still subject to good old programming errors. Back in November 2019 the kiosk showed a Bacon BBQ Quarter Pounder for $0. You could customize it and still check out for $0. I ordered as many as 6 at once, plus a drink and paid $1.04 total. This worked for about a month.
How can it be a bad decision if it is the decision you wanted them to make? ;P
> I think it’s part of my responsibility to help take care of them.

You clearly think the working people can't take care of themselves. I don't know how to read that as anything other than contempt.
1. find a professional, licensed psychotherapist to talk to. 2. stop getting high 3. if you can, move your desk / work area to a different place in your home.
I believe many companies also incentivize this. Not many people get praise, raises and promos by saying no or simplifying things, much less juniors. Once you've built something and put it in your promo doc, no one wants to remove it or say it was the wrong thing to build.

As an example, I did an spike to explore a request from another team. I wrote a short document with my findings and recommended against it due to the cost/benefit analysis. My manager told me not to use this story in my performance review since "we don't want to display failures".
It is truly weird to me that the standard workflow for submitting a change to someone's project is now to make a copy of their project, change it, and then ask them to import your change. This is inside-out and upside-down!

Surely it would be a million times more intuitive for forges to offer a "submit a patch to this project" feature?
Ask HN: How to find intermediate tutorials?
I've been in the (software) engineering space for quite some time. And when I am researching a topic I often find only beginner or expert friendly content.

This was very noticeable when looking at math related topics. On the beginner side you have the (very nice!) videos of 3b1b or (often not so nice) blogposts on learning sites, on topics that you already heard in university. And on the expert side you have papers or proofs on very specialized topics, that are unreadable when you just start out.

Where do you find tutorials that are in the middle ground? Is there even such a thing? Or is the possible audience just so small that there are no nicely curated or visualized tutorials on topics on an intermediate level?
> Bitcoin doesn't discriminate between green energy sources and fossil fuel energy sources.

BINGO!

If you have something that will buy any left over or unusable stock of product X, the production of X becomes less risky and easier to invest in. This isn't hard. Bitcoin incentivizes energy production and innovation. If you want that energy to be green, bitcoin is still more than willing to buy it from you. Lowering the risk of innovation in the space is obviously good for green energy.
Reminder: Owning a home (vs renting) is not a human right.

Housing is, though. Everyone should have a roof over their head.

Two different things
Gazprom: Nord Stream 1 supply to Europe to be cut further
Lots of similarities to drifting car parts...also: Doesn't look compatible with FWD
Scientists are often very circumspect in how they phrase things, but this particular phrasing in the main article is notable:

>“This is not a real scientific problem, but it is most unfortunate for general science credibility,” Selkoe wrote to Alzforum.

Edit: I should add that the "oligomers" described in the Lesne article have been found by other researchers, see [0]

[0] https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Aβ...
> the government wants computers to stop running programs that break the law

I thought the government was more concerned with surveillance than law-breaking programs. Or were you saying that they want us to stop running things like VPNs?
The irony of seeing this reply in a thread started with hope for "renewed appreciation for the second-order, systemic, and unintended consequences of any action" is darkly comic.
As many people predicted years ago (I can't claim to know k8s that well, in fact I suck at it), eventually we'll go full circle and k8s config will just become its own specialized programming language.

Maybe we should stop moving these things so agonizingly slow and through the path of natural (and did I mention slow as molasses) evolution and just skip to the endgame that most of us know will inevitably come?

Apparently not.

I'd like to see Google being more brave here. They are on the forefront of k8s in many ways (or so it seems, maybe I am wrong?). Just make a specialized programming language with a good compiler / linter and let's all collectively be better for it.
Let the people through governments declare property as parks or preserves.

This "conversationalist" approach is what NIMBYs hide behind. We can't build in Las Vegas because of a tortoise species. We can't go beyond N levels due to "conserving" the history of a district.

Let the public (ideally across a broad area like a state or country) decide what areas need to be conserved for habitats. Don't let private land trusts / conservationlists be the mask that NIMBYs hide behind.
Worst part is, the arguments are a bit silly.

Time may change forwards and backwards, because my computer clock may be fast or slow. The same logic to correct for leap seconds, can be used if my computer is 2 sec fast.

And your code had better handle it, and the os, libraries, it really is only hard ), if you have to support 1000s of novice devs.
Sure, but that doesn't mean it would not be possible to develop such technologies without military research. There's nothing about people with guns that is necessary for communications research.

Having said that, I just posted across thread on why I think we still need the people with guns, so if that's the case we might as well take the incidental benefits where they come.
The same guy who thinks NATO should have been abolished and who fawned over Putin?

The guys like him and Putin are ignorant little boys who will thankfully die off soon. We must try to find a different path.
But doctors and lawyers are upper-middle aren't they?
I can think of dozens of great scenes.

the elevator scene in Usual Suspects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyCSU9yG63Q&t=57s

Carlito's way station scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzzxbe1IsiI

Miller's Crossing shooting scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgz-CKRzs-4

Basic Instinct's Sharon Stone first scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-t9QZgbDwU

Pirates's island scene (I can only find a dubbed version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYLNrnsqoqY

Children of men car scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVg66ndzfpU

Hudsucker proxy board scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FPuyMHo2N8
How would a nuke only army be effective? Your going responded to 911 by just nukeing Afghanistan? Or by saying 911 was not worth any response?
How huge are the benefits, really? This doesn't affect normal operations. The laptop stays cool during most of the things you would do on a laptop. The only time it hits the thermal limits are during large batch operations involving both the cpu and the gpu. Even then, it still does the work but has to slow down by only 10-20%.
All we need is a few people in power to sacrifice short term political gains with regards to homeowners opposition.

Building housing is expensive but we manage to fund the military today. We were able to build a massive countrywide network of roads and highways and train tracks a 100 years ago. So fuck capital too. Of course they don't want to build it, and this is a _necessary_ consequence of making housing not be an investment. It will not be profitable to build. But it will be good for humanity anyways. So it has to be atleast partially funded by taxpayers. That might even mean we all collectively get screwed by high rents and high taxes for a decade while we do that. As long as it actually does benefit future generations, so be it. There's plenty of room for efficiency in building as well so that's not necessarily the only way. Subways cost 10-50x more to build today than they used to and there are hundreds of companies that live off leeching public funds.
It's the central banking system that is broken. Through quantitative easing central banks pushed down interest rates artificially low. Low bank interest pushed up housing prices to the sky. Most home buyers look at the monthly interest payment expenses which determine house prices. Now that we have high inflation(partially created by quantitative easing) central banks will have to raise interest rates. The reason for higher central bank interest rates is an annual is two percent inflation target. High-interest rates will push housing prices down.

Its like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Central banks will have to fix the inflation monster that they partially created.

Another part is globalization was causing deflation pressure but central banks measure domestic inflation on a global wage market. Now that trend has partially changed due to protectionism.
Yeah, the Chinese housing market is doing great, lol.
https://www.angi.com/
Have you studied Economics? Just curious - There are thousands of nuances and reasons this will never work. Life is not so Black & White
Why does ntpd lose the smear on a restart? I would have thought that the current smear could be calculated purely based off current non-smear time, plus the config to say when to smear, which is presumably available upon restart.

Also, why were non-linear smears thought to be desirable? Googling just turns up hand-wavy phrases like "easier on clients".
Are you factoring in the hit in productivity in the production line so that you have to do N variations instead of 1 for all of these things? At some point, if the heating element is cheap enough, it costs them more to NOT put the heating element in.
I agree that it's fairly overstated as the telescope was supposed to be able to work even if the 'wings' with 3 mirrors segments each had failed to unfold. Performance will certainly drop with collisions, but I seriously doubt it would get bad enough for telescope performance to be worse than having 6 less mirror segments.

The bigger concern would probably be how much sunshade damage the telescope can handle, although fortunately there's a good bit of redundancy on that too.
If something is truly valuable to protect it should be done by the government (who can simply nope out of LVT for the plot) rather than some random jerk (or who's kids) that might change their mind.
"wretched hive of scum and villainy"
Are you medicated? I've been getting out of my rut since I got diagnosed. I'm finally excited for the future, and optimistic.
Why is it so important to own a house?
They also never stop building.

And when they do stop, it’s only to tear down a building so they can build another one in it’s place.
Or a 'D' element, I believe Dubnium is still available.
Japan has a completely different view on housing. Houses in Japan are made with the expectation of being torn down [1]. This causes all sorts of secondary and tertiary effects different from the European model of buildings lasting for centuries.

[1] https://robbreport.com/shelter/home-design/japanese-homes-ar...
> A nukes only military is so cheap and effective.

Also mindbogglingly dangerous. Do you really want the only response options to be: 1) nuke the world from orbit or 2) surrender, with no middle ground?
rent is always priced to maximum of purchasing power.

If there was any more leeway to raise rent and keep renters, it would have been raised already by landlord
50 years ago housing was affordable in areas that are now expensive, like Silicon Valley and Vancouver. That outcome did not require land value taxes or targeted taxes on landlords or bans on foreign investment or other novel solutions like a lot of posters here are suggesting. It was just easier and cheaper and more profitable to build housing back then, and the market took care of the rest.

What changed? It got harder to build because the government empowered NIMBYISM and nonsense “environmental impact” rules (hint: nobody actually cares about the endangered burrowing owls, they just don’t want affordable housing near their homes).

The affordability crisis was caused by government.

Any solution that piles even more government on top of the current government-caused problem is a no go — especially pie-in-the-sky solutions like land value taxes.

The only solution is to make it easier to build. But that's politically painful so it’s not going to happen. We even see places like California making it more expensive to build by requiring solar panels on new homes, in order to virtue signal about climate change without actually solving anything. So, invest in expensive areas, they are only going to get more expensive!
Japan regulators approve release of Fukushima water into sea
I wonder if this is actually true in practice. I think many of these countries, especially China & India are incentivized to understate how much they actually spend on their defense. Another factor is the cost of labor and goods is so different that even though the US is spending far more actual dollars, the actual output might not be as big of a difference as these articles might have you believe.
Its an alternative to the new forced birth policies. With abortion made illegal, sterilization is the only way to 100% not have children.

Likely the forced birthers will make sterilization illegal too, so the race is on.
What about folks who don't want to own? Renting has upsides and some people actually prefer it.
Sorry to hear about it...just looking at this from a coaching perspective:

It seems like you are able to write comfortably, or at least at some length, using the emotional-outlay approach. Like--"this sucks, that sucks, here's why..., also I hate things because," and so on.

So let me just say--that's awesome. As a coach this lights my buttons up in ways your typical info-person will probably never understand.

The activity itself might feel whiny or focused on negatives, but a lot of people are really blocked from reaching higher goals and, suspiciously, they can't let themselves go there. Finally they do in some cases, and it always seems to work well. Human progress, and perception of progress, seems directly related to emotional outlay, even if not outright sobbing or cheering or whatever.

So, if possible, and if writing this even felt like a little bit of progress to you, I would keep doing it frequently.

Back when I was trying to overcome severe, chronic depression and anxiety myself, years ago, I kept a "life change" journal. Is life better today? If not, what will I do tomorrow? That sort of thing. Even writing "this sucks, I hate it" was often enough to be helpful.

In the meantime this might sound strange but IMO the way you write makes the game project stand out as a high emotional risk. So for now I think that in your shoes I'd personally treat the game as mainly a metaphorical interest, like a signal from the shadow: Find the joy in life again. And that's a major accountability project which ought to speak directly to your goals, but which is wide open.

Still, specifically related to game dev: I know some people who have walked a similar path in some ways. They were dying to make a game.

So--looking at the way you write, here's a method that I observed working well for people like that, which I'd probably assign to you:

1) Provide programming tutoring to someone you know, but really aren't too concerned about impressing 2) Give little assignments here and there 3) Slowly make coding a small game into a main assignment for them 4) Repeat a few times if possible.

What this does is keep you in the "I know how to do this" box (you're ready to teach people in lots of ways), with a light-touch treatment for the "but still, I haven't really done it before" (game dev) box.

And before long you will have done it, as a de facto compact with another person.

Just an idea.

I'm always glad to see a post by a Seinfeld fan. Good luck to you.

“Frolf: Frisbee golf, Jerry. Golf with a Frisbee. This is gonna be my time. Time to taste the fruits and let the juices drip down my chin. I proclaim this: The Summer of George!”

— George Costanza
> monetizing stranded and/or temporary excess amounts of energy

Please stop saying this. Aluminum refining or hydrogen electrolysis fits so much better and actually benefits society.
Letting "developers build almost any kind of housing almost anywhere they want"
leads to Belgium, famous for its ugly houses, and high on the list in the article. It creates horrible infrastructure problems, and is terrible if you also value nature.
We've actually never left the Feudalism stage IMO. Just with iPhones & Netflix sprinkled in for some light distraction
What depreciation? I'm not selling my car anytime soon. Lack of profit is not loss of profit.
I can understand if someone doesn't agree with the values and effects of Bitcoin but how on earth can this be a HUGE red flag?