skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it? Or does it have more to do with the massive industry capture of politics? Not to mention the right-wing ideology of, effectively, if you can make money doing it, and hide the negative effects from the public at least a little, you're a Real American Hero.
It seems like a big guess here. Almost all cars sell a variant with ABS. For e.g., the lowest end of Hyundai i10 (D Lite) is $4500 and has no features other than a 46 mpg. The highest variant (Asta 1.2 Kappa AT) has all the bells and whistles with a more powerful engine for $8500 and has a lower gas mileage at 37 mpg. Still a bargain?
Another way to phrase it: marketing identifies with words and examples a problem that you haven't been able to isolate for one of a dozen reasons from inattention to time crunch to insufficient expertise in the problem domain--so they can sell you the solution.

Sometimes, anyway, on the last part. There is marketing (as anyone who's ever studied advertising) that doesn't even try to sell you anything because there's value in the knock-on growth of awareness and an expanding or top-of-mind market (the canonical example being Campbell Soup's "Soup Is Good Food" advertising campaign).
I often wish I had a pet dog husky so I could walk him through some tricky python and have him figure out my bug with me.
For the data-visualization curious, here's a fun map:

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info

Clicking on your location/vicinity shows a tooltip with your "Bortle Dark Sky Scale" number, which can be referenced here:

https://www.handprint.com/ASTRO/bortle.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bortle_scale

Apparently I've lived in a class 6 or 7 my whole life, and only recall seeing shooting stars camping out in the Sierras, e.g. Yosemite, which is still only a class 2!
Sterilization is a big deal.

Doctors make a big deal out of it because of history - forced or unwanted sterilization has been a problem in the past, especially for marginalized people. The difference between men and women's experiences are infuriating and MUST be addressed, but the sentiment is correct.

A successful vasectomy ends in a 50-50 reversal-to-conception ratio, including not just pregnancy via intercourse but by any means necessary (fertility treatments, IVF, etc.). Even this minimally-invasive and "easily-reversible" action is considered permanent. Any permanent sterilization (in CA, not sure about rest of US/world) has a default 30-day waiting period, with the ability to waive down to a minimum 72-hour required delay between consent to permanent sterilization and having the procedure.

Making a permanent decision is not something to be taken lightly, it will be interesting to see what other outcomes of Roe v. Wade change behavior and expectations of large populations.
>Speaking only for myself: Why the fuck would I take on a loan I can never repay?

Same reason startup founders sell equity in their startup.
Yeah it's interesting to me how little this gets talked about now days, but back in the 80s teenagers called it "antimotivational syndrome"[0] to describe what happens to stoners.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amotivational_syndrome
You’re mixing up cause and effect. The investors are reacting to the supply shortage in cities like NYC, not causing it. They’re also jumping in because rising interest rates will shift the demand from buying to renting.

Investors made up 20% of buyers in the last quarter across major metro areas: https://therealdeal.com/2022/06/15/investors-seize-record-sh.... Historically they’ve made up much less than that. Housing prices are skyrocketing where I live in exurban Maryland, and in Eugene Oregon where my wife is from, but there’s no investors to be seen in those places. I’m not certain what the cause is, but I’d suspect it’s two decades of central bank policies dumping cash into the economy.
After getting corrected: It's actually *procrustinators
If you're starving, surviving is more important than scientific goals
4Runner, along with the rest of its related family - Land Cruiser, Tacoma, Sequoia, and Lexus GX/LX, are probably the vehicle of choice for surviving the zombie apocalypse.
Take a break for 6 months, then do whatever comes to your mind.
>All we need is a few people in power to sacrifice short term political gains with regards to homeowners opposition.

The wealth of most of our political class is also tied to their real estate holdings. 1/5 of our politicians are landlords in Canada; our housing minister has multiple properties. Make it make sense.
Agree with half of this. Speaking from experience the weed is toxic. The (correct for you) adhd meds are crucial but make sure you can take a break for a day weekly.
Isn't "cause issue with legal timestamps" just a circular definition?

Sundials being "measurably" wrong become an issue at long spans. For example, no one wants solar noon to be at 10AM -- but that takes a while.
Sadly, we can look at Europe to see what happens. You end up open to someone like Putin, looking to flatter their legacy.

We need to do things like Elon is doing with SpaceX to fundamentally change the economics of scientific efforts like JWST.

I think I disagree on food development research though. That money goes straight to Monsanto and Bill Gates on making copyrighted crops and pseudo-meat. How about we break up food production monopolies and spend our money figuring out how to have farmers compete. Put an end to subsidizing fuel crops. Support food diversity to avoid monoculture vulnerabilities (where a single disease can wipe out giant swaths of food sources). We need less "progress" on agriculture, and more restoration to healthy foods.

Research on food distribution, yes.

Research on fresh water supply, yes.

The old ways for growing food aren't currently being used. We don't rotate crops anymore. We do stupid things like growing almonds in water-poor regions. We need to get back to growing food for people to eat, instead of for giant monopolies to "optimize."
Yes and no. I tried methylphenidate multiple times the last years but I have a hard time tolerating side effects at useful doses.
I don't like this blaming of "the government" as if it's some external entity.

Shadowy "government" is not the problem, existing home owners are the problem. And it's not hard to see why, if someone buys a house, they then have incentive to make their house as expensive as possible after they've bought it (within reason, and this is something land value taxes are meant to address). All this "government intervention" that makes it harder to build is nearly always done at the local level at the behest of the people who live there.

If anything, this shows why, e.g., state governments can be a part of the solution, by restricting local governments from putting in tons of roadblocks that make it harder to add housing (which is exactly what California did, though obviously they still have a long way to go).
Currently attempting Joplin with a self-hosted sync server, and a form of the GTD methodology

https://medium.com/@stoicminimalist/getting-things-done-with...

Ill likely end up where I always do, hoping i saved a gist of something i keep coming back to, but never take notes on, then i look for note taking stuff again
KDE Eco: Measurement Lab Follow-Up
set an alarm and commit to taking a walk around the block each time it rings
Higher taxes on property - and higher taxes on unused, vacant, and especially abandoned lots and non-primary residences would go a long way I think to increasing housing supply.

As it is, it's a good investment because supply is globally constrained. Investors have parked a huge portion of the world's wealth into land. It's obvious when you talk to investors. This investment can spur development, or it can greedily be sat on.
> It's frustrating that programmers want to redefine civil time just because it is "hard". This article glosses over the real world problems that detaching from UTC will cause.

I agree, but I'm also - sad to say - less than surprised to find engineers at a Big Tech firm taking a high-handed, not to mention narrow and ill-informed, approach over the issue and trying to impose their will on a global scale. My worry here is that, Meta being Meta, they carry quite a lot of influence and may actually gain some traction.

EDIT: I'll add a bit more colour here. At the core of our platform we manage a database containing billions of legacy timestamped records (or events, if you prefer), adding more and more every day. Without even giving it a great deal of thought I guarantee you that this proposal will cause us more problems that it solves and will distract us from making more valuable investments of time and effort that would benefit our business should it be implemented. Sure, we can no doubt fix all these problems, but we've got better things to do. I imagine that many other businesses would be similarly affected and would take a similar view.

I wholeheartedly oppose it.
The places where there are a lot of short term rentals are the same places where there is a lot of tourism. In effect your first two points is just killing the states own tourism industry, no?

A vacancy tax can be trivially avoided. Would there be an exception for renovation? Again, easy to game.
> It's more fun to watch her have fun than it is to have fun yourself, if that makes sense.

It's hard to explain this to people without kids (and definitely shouldn't be used to say "hey you should have kids to make yourself feel better!").

That being said, when we go to amusement parks, I can have a joyful day without ever riding a ride. Just watching my kids have fun is sufficient for me.
Y Combinator has a thing for Gen Z founders looking to disrupt the search engine
> Or do you think people really needed to literally spend thousands of dollars on in-game items?

No. But they wanted to, because the games create an endorphin rush.

Marketing didn't cause that. Downright evil game design did, but those are different things.
> You need the Apple Music activated account and trial

That's obviously not accurate. It may be a sufficient workaround for whatever roadblock you hit, but it certainly isn't a requirement; I've never used Apple Music with my Apple ID and had no trouble obtaining Apple TV+ service. A more reasonable hypothesis is that you need to do something with a brand new Apple ID to establish it's authenticity before you can activate a free trial of Apple TV+, and the Apple Music workaround is but one of many options. What kind of error did you hit when trying to go straight to the TV+ trial with a brand new Apple ID?
the gas bill will bankrupt you first :)
There’s really no need to do 1,2 if you can just do 3 + public/private partnership to build more.

Airbnbs are legitimate demand. We just need over-supply now. The government should be able to step in.
Also: ban foreign citizens and non-doms from owning more than one property.
We have this here in Canada. What happens is that investors buy up the entire unit/condominium/apartment-tower and rent it out.

Many of them don't even care if they have 50% vacancy because the investment of the property/land is worth more to them than anything.

Lastly, many of these investors are foreign or even money laundering and just want to dump their massive cash flow into some kind of a physical investment (in this case, Canadian land/property).

We have whole malls that are just ghost towns sitting in the Northern part of my city that aren't even properly built (incorrect piping/HVAC) to function solely for the purpose of legitimizing money laundering and foreign ownership of Canadian land.

Building more housing is good, I won't argue that, but the players in this market are so rich they will just buy ALL of it the moment it appears on the market and our local builders are all so corrupt they would love nothing more than to sign a deal to build 20,000 apartment units and immediately sell them all over to these crooked investors. There are literal video recordings of our 3 major builders bragging to one another about how "they own this city" and "we can keep selling these empty properties forever, the city can't do anything about it" and "if anyone opposes us, we'll show them who owns whose ass".

This is becoming so obvious it's ridiculous here. We have had a 15-30% vacancy rate for both business and residential near our downtown sector for the last 3 years during COVID, yet we have a record high of buildings being built. The foreign investment is so huge that they just keep building even when there is no market for the space. They don't care, it's all about moving money out of foreign assets into concrete assets here in Canada.

Canada has become the money laundering capital of the world:
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/sabrina-maddeaux-canada-bec...
> Statewide bans on short term rentals

Why solve a problem when you can just nuke it, right?

I hang out with AirBnB investor folks. There's a simple solution that works: Require the owner live on the property. Every AirBnB investor will skip the city/county if that is the rule, but still leaves room for legitimate residents to make some money (e.g. rent out the basement, etc). The latter isn't taking housing away from anyone - for most owners it's not economical to convert the basement to make it a long term rental.
I like your use of the words moving parts. Eventually code ends up looping over memory locations, copies, moves, adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, reads, writes data or memory locations.

All the files and code on the way to get this to happen such as Classes, parameters, arguments, variables, functions, methods, closures, objects are ideas of the languages compiler to abstract the instruction stream.

Command line arguments, class constructors, URL query parameters, marshalling, JSON field names, method parameters, function arguments, HTTP headers, cookies, request objects, events are just complicated variations of passing data in the right shape. They are not the above list of "moving parts" or computation that is easy. In other words modern coding is just configuration.

I feel the complexity of modern code is a problem we created. And I feel there's something missing. It's hard to update code.

When I find the loop that does the thing, I feel I can understand the codebase such as the magic +1, -1 or the relationship of objects linked together in a data structure or the assignment to a list or array or variable.

"How does that get to here"
And Behind the Bastards is a hoot to listen to
It makes sense for a peer to peer networking system to advertise its hole punching capabilities in their name. Many people still don't have IPv6 yet so hole punching will remain a necessity for a while.

As long as they don't try to enforce any stupid trademarks over a common term like that I don't see the problem.
How does that stop someone from creating multiple LLCs and having the LLC own a home each, for example?
No, it's not. It's sales, and a bad and (in the long run) self-defeating mode of sales at that. Sales and marketing are different disciplines, with different strategies and different success criteria.
There can also be a problem at scale. A small team getting the word out to people who will be genuinely helped by your product and avoiding wasting time on people who won't be interested is great.

However, at a certain point, with a multi-million pound marketing team, you start getting diminishing returns, hard-selling the brand and inventing BS schemes to justify your cost (Tropicana, Pepsi etc.).

Corporates (or investors?) seem to struggle with the idea that a market can saturate and there is little extra value to find except at a much larger input cost.
My existing laptop is only 6 months old, so no. But I would consider this device when I'm looking to purchase a new laptop (and would have considered this device had I known about it 6 months ago).
>Turning the chief asset for retirement for the retiring crowd into a liability is a non-starter.

This is a bug not a feature (but yes, is a problem).
Exercise, drop the drugs, ensure you have some part of your identity unrelated to work.

I was in a rut for years because my work was my identity and I wasn’t where I wanted to be (thank you effective altruism for the identity crisis lol). When I moved out to California I quit drinking (for a while, quit again more recently), focused on exercising, and set a goal of not seeing my whole identity as a software developer. It helped so much with my physical and mental health, and in turn that helped me with my work life.

Honestly if you just view work as a source of income to do the things you want to do, and get out and be a bit more active, you could get out of the rut pretty quickly.

And if you don’t care for any of these suggestions - just stay positive these things are temporary and you’ll feel better in time anyway :) We all have these moments.
higher wages and lower property prices are beneficial only for the unwashed plebeian masses. the ruling class, with their wealth and income tied to properties and businesses, needs the exact opposite.
So what's the alternative? The leap second is capturing an actual skew between uniformly-ticking clocks based off of atomic decay statistics and the rotation of planet Earth. Stop updating them, and we end up with the sun going down for equatorial latitudes at 3PM eventually.

This feels very can-kicky, even if the can can be kicked a thousand years down the road. I don't think more can-kicking is really the best solution.
"SHTF Survival Stories", despite it's sketch title and cover art, follows some of the Balkans war.

People do cooperate.. just not in the ways you might want.
Pen and paper is the "best". Not for everyone, everywhere. But, for most people most places.

There is nothing as cheap and fast as a pen and paper. That said there are huge drawbacks to pen and paper.

For one thing, in order to use those fleeting notes in a systematic way they need to be organized. And in many cases will need some standard notation system. It could be as simple as writing "todo" at the top of a post it note.

Randomly scribbling stuff on scraps of paper here and there might work for somebody, but even a little system will go a long way.

Obviously once you start using a computer a whole new world opens up.

In my practice I focus on the types of things I need to capture, I make sure I can capture them all using the same tools and also that they end up in the same place.

After I've got them collected, some just stay where they are. Others get processed according to their purpose. For example: I have my tasks emailed to me every morning and my reading list emailed to me on the weekend.
We also get all sorts of aggressive wars and foreign interventions from the US and its allies. Iraq, Libya and Yemen come to mind.
The Washington Post is saying 11% in the NYC metro. Dropping from15% a few years ago. But it varies locally, some areas are a lot higher. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2022/hou...

NYC bans short term rentals in multi family buildings already, unless the host is also staying there and not renting the whole apartment. So the short term rental restrictions probably do help, but it is hard to compare nyc to more suburban and rural areas
We could also...build more housing and eliminate most zoning restrictions.

I also don't know what a "short term rental" is, that would devastate beach areas that rent out homes to tourists. I don't think that's a viable solution.

Housing prices have not gone up in any major way in a few major industrialized countries, Japan, Korea, Germany. You know what they did? They built more housing. Building in San Francisco, New York, etc is near impossible, especially if you aren't connected. Communities often vote against new housing because a) they don't want certain people in their area and b) we've wrongly viewed housing as an investment vehicle and more housing hurts values.
The ending of "L'Eclisse," directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, is one of the most mysterious endings in cinema. It's one of those scenes that doesn't impose a vision on you, but pulls something out of your subconscious, invites you to reflect on events that could have happened, should have happened, but didn't happen.

The two lovers never meet again after promising not only to see each other that day, but also every day thereafter.

For almost ten minutes, while we are waiting for Alain Delon and Monica Vitti to meet up, the camera points at small insignificant structures in the Roman suburbs, then at a balcony, water running on the ground, ants climbing a tree, leaves moved by the wind. A bus stops and one expects to see one of the two lovers appear, but it is only someone who looks like them.

It is a magical ending because it is not an ending, it is a fragment.

It reminded me of the ending of one of my favorite interviews.
Donald Keene, the American-born Japanese scholar, was interviewed by David Pilling in the "Lunch with the FT" series. The interview closes off with a reflection by Pilling:

"Keene’s eyes are moist. He is staring past me or through me. The restaurant is still quite empty but Keene has flooded it with the memories of people, mostly long dead. He stands to leave and is helped up the narrow stairs to the city above. Down in the basement, I am left at the empty table. There is nothing, not even the wind in the pines."

As Antonioni, a director I recommend especially to Americans, who are culturally oriented toward appreciating stereotypical linear stories with unambiguous endings, said in an interview:

"What people ordinarily call the "dramatic line" doesn't interest me [...] Today stories are what they are, with neither a beginning nor an end necessarily, without key scenes, without a dramatic arc, without catharsis. They can be made up of tatters, of fragments, as unbalanced as the lives we lead."

I also cannot but recommend Antonioni's "La Notte" and its less ambiguous but still poignant ending. Do yourself a favor and watch it.
Counterpoint: no.

The hubris of “we’d rather not do this, so let’s make the entire rest of the world deal with it instead” is impressive.
Not sure if it’s the same in the states (but I suspect it is), but in Canada, if your primary residence doubles in value and you sell it, you don’t have to pay tax on that investment income. However you would pay tax on all other investment income (real estate or stocks etc.).

This is an exception to the tax rule and it’s a significant factor behind house prices (artificially low interest rates, and supply being other causes). It actually became a “smart” investment to over leverage for a primary residence because it’s a tax free investment that outperformed interest rates and other taxed investments.
Car touchscreens are the worst. More complicated, more failure states, and I can't feel the volume button, so I have to take my eyes off the road.
Safing SPN – The VPN/Tor Killer?
I'm sure most of you all know about the VPN false marketing and the fact that they really don't make you "private" (https://www.privacyguides.org/basics/vpn-overview/). That's a whole other can of worms. VPNs are specialized tools for encrypting your traffic on unprotected networks, bypassing basic georestrictions, and hiding your traffic from your ISP. Most people don't know this and use them because they believe they are a quick way to hide themselves from big tech. For the few who dig deeper and find out about Tor and true private browsing, many give up due to its complexity. Safing believes they have a solution. Their SPN (Safing Private Network) is something in between a VPN and Onion routing. Like a VPN, it can route all internet traffic through its SPN, including TCP and UDP. However, it also routes your traffic through nodes, similarly to Tor. Here is their whitepaper with more details: https://safing.io/files/whitepaper/Gate17.pdf

On top of all this, Safing seems to be transparent and tinfoil hat friendly. All in all, I am interested to see where it goes, though I have not been able to test it personally.
What do you all think?
Nearly all of my QR usage is untrusted links anyways so it doesn't make any difference to me.
You had 50 years to build housing for those, that's a trivial problem if not for the NIMBYs