skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a little less (more?) than "half kidding". I know it wouldn't be easy and would need a lot of oversight especially at the beginning but for years now I've thought the benevolent AIs (a la The Culture series) are one of the few paths forward for our justice system if not our government as a whole.

I want to be clear, I'm not saying there wouldn't be pitfalls but having so many of our institutions be completely dependent on humans acting in the best interests of the many and doing the right thing feels very much like a failed experiment.
The Chinese CDC's Wuhan epidemiology lab, where they dissected and analyzed bat (and all sorts of other) tissue, is at the medical center a quarter mile from the market.

Trash-loving mice and rats are close bat relatives, and frequently carry diseases from other species to humans.
I. Not having shelter kills.

II. To not be killed is a basic human right.

=> Having shelter is a basic human right QED
I also live in Japan but I wouldn't use the term "kissa" outside MangaKissa or a traditional coffee shop (and who goes to a traditional coffee shop on a normal occasion?)?
Working link

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IKICKcMU3MU&feature=youtu.be
Rather than trusting the editors of Wikipedia—who we often admit in other contexts to be highly ideological—seek out his full statements instead.

Richard Spencer has repeatedly, specifically denounced the enslavement of Black people. Here's an example from Time magazine:

https://time.com/4293564/the-billionaire-and-the-bigots/
I think it's an immense hurdle. Sweating all of the tiny details, and encoding arcane domain knowledge, requires a staggering amount of labor.

Also, the users don't care. I work with a lot of engineers. Outside of actual programmers, most people are ambivalent about open source, or still even think the whole idea is weird.

They're not paying for it themselves. If their employer, and competing employers, are willing to pay for it, they're happy. Also, it creates an entry barrier that protects their value.

Changing to a different app is a hardship -- they even hate it when a new version gets installed and breaks all of their work flows, many of which are carefully documented. The top feature request of all institutional software users is: "Please don't change anything."
You're absolutely right! In this case we're talking about an old feature with known proven value that has stopped working in a new deployment context, and will take some reworking to get going.

That said, I'm not married to the idea of getting it working at all. I'm perfectly fine with scrapping it entirely. That's a business decision I currently don't have the data to judge on.

All I'm saying is that this is something where if we are going to build it, we know are going to have to support it for a long time into the future. So if we fix it, it should be fixed at low added complexity. But it's also an alternative to declare it dead, of course.
Landlords are price takers. Rental supply is completely fixed in the short to medium run. Landlords can’t change supply when faced with a price shock, which means that rental demand is the only factor that effects prices.a landlords goal is to rent all of their properties at the highest rent they can get, a tax hike doesn’t change that.
A second order effect of criminalization of walking is a culture that does not value walkability. People are so accustomed to non walkability and so unaccustomed to groups of people strolling about that it does not even occur to them to think about what a loss this is.
To ask uncomfortable questions is, inherently, to make someone uncomfortable talking to you. It’s in the definition. If you ask uncomfortable questions repeatedly, people will avoid talking to you. This is normal human behaviour.

If you make people talk to you despite being uncomfortable - for example, because you are their manager - they will find a job where they are comfortable.

Potentially your business runs on destroying people. I don’t think that’s a reasonable way we want to run society.

The way /normal/ companies handle this is things like agile retrospectives - what went wrong, how can we fix it. Did we have enough people? How did /management/ fail /the people doing the work/?

If I answer “we would need X more people to get this done tomorrow instead of next week”, does that actually change anything, or do you just respond some nonsense about how you can’t afford that and we should just work harder? Basically: are /you/ willing to make sacrifices for /me/, or is it a one way street?
Found a VS Code extension that does what I need. Auto typing the code
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=eeecompu...
> Landlords don't create added value. I'm skeptical that it is a necessary service; housing is necessary, but is renting housing necessary? Why would that be?

There are many cases where this isn’t true. Many (most) residents in urban areas are transient. They stay for a couple of years, get married, then move to the suburbs or another city to start a family.

There are a bunch of other reasons why someone wouldn’t want to stay in a location for a long period of time.

Rentals absolutely make sense in this situation.
Europe’s rivers run dry as scientists warn drought could be worst in 500 years
Yes, amazing.

The restaurant looks REALLY nice. Singapore is starting to look really nice -- maybe I should visit?

Sure, the chef is amazing. I'm surprised his wok does not have a long handle. So, he uses a towel as a pot holder when he holds the small handle on his wok.

No joke he has a lot of heat. At one point he even has some of the oil in his wok flaming a little!

He seems to have his wok heat source going 100% all the time. So, to pay for the fuel he cooks really fast, lots of dishes per hour, and has a cheap fuel source? Also, he needs to have some good exhaust air flow for his kitchen or soon will also cook everyone in the kitchen and restaurant!

For his heat source, looks like he has repurposed an old GE J79 jet engine, e.g., as used in

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-58_Hustler
> there are 100 housing units out there and 150 people. How do we solve the problem?

Double up or move to a cheaper place

That’s how the US west was populated, it’s how the US east was populated too - migration
Just for reference, start emacs once, run M-x server-start and set your global git editor to emacsclient -t and you end up with an instant in terminal emacs editor for git, that will also leverage magit when necessary.
Something I learn in Japan was that you also need to have friends/people who share the same ideology as you. In Western Europe there would be people who support you making a startup but also EXPECT you to have free time outside working hours. If you work the entire time in Western Europe then you might be considered an outcast.
There’s a link in the post you responded to. That’s the source you are looking for.
A pig and a locust get into trouble with the law: On justice in medieval Europe
This is an excellent and entertaining intro to the world of TTYs and I think the first question is a particularly clever way to introduce it:

> The answer is Ctrl+W. Because Ctrl+W is provided by something called TTY, and the other three are provided by the shell.

My only criticism is a pet peeve of mine: screenshots of terminals. I know it's more work to copy/paste and make sure formatting is correct, and you lose the ANSI colors. But it just feels so wasteful and inaccessible (<img alt="tty">).
> There you go - in order to make it cheap you need a land tax

How would land-taxing make it cheap ?
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft's Maui effort will be able to compete with Electron using a somewhat more native approach. I suspect that it will not.
Because it incentivizes to link to products from which the author can get the most revenue. When a link is an affiliate link, there is a greater likelyhood that the choice of product wasn’t completely neutral with regard to that incentive.
Yep... Maybe they are new to the last 10 years of startup product management? 'operator' makes it sound like they are coming from the investor world, where all you see is hoodies, flashy demos, PowerPoints will YoY growth numbers, and little of the day-to-day behind them

A lot of people in tech haven't collaborated with experienced product managers either, or owned little of the financial/growth side of launching something, where these kinds of questions get ingrained into you pretty fast. Much more of a dark art imo is how to act on them without giving your team whiplash and crushing stress (beyond their comment of 'keep innovation teams small', which means fewer people will still suffer the same problem)
I said this elsewhere but, in isolation there will always be failure scenarios where recovery is impossible. There are plenty of verification strategies to detect failures, and combined with redundancy, you can reduce the probability of application failure in the face of fsync failures or other similar failures. But you can never eliminate failures. If your storage gives up the ghost, it's game over.

Distributed systems are the closest we've gotten to resilient, durable storage. Redundancy, external verification, quorum. Sometimes the distributed system lives in a single box on your desk.
But this assertion was more about racism than walkable cities.
YMMV but either way its for the owners. The rest are more or less in a job
s/judge/senior swe

At least when the senior software engineer becomes progressively less competent, they tend to fail faster. The code doesn't compile, the builds fail, the tickets start accumulating. When it happens to a judge, the significant feedback can take years to return from the appeals courts. And even then it isn't disqualifying.

But there is no compiler for legal decisions, and no instant specifications to fail, and if trouble tickets start piling up, nobody has to notice them. Imagine what would happen to the quality of your code under those circumstances.
Netsurf has also been ported to the Plan 9 OS fairly recently. https://github.com/netsurf-plan9/netsurf
Competent landlords don’t pay income tax because they use depreciation and reinvesting to claim 0 income.
Your statement is false, what Nestlé does is literally the definition of commodification

Commodification definition:

the act or fact of turning something into an item that can be bought and sold:
The commodification of water means that access is available only to those who can pay.

>https://www.dictionary.com/browse/commodification

Nobody mentioned the US. Nestlé does this in various other countries.

>https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/oct/04/ontario-six-n...
The article is saying that there are more effective ways of combatting Nazi-ism than violence. That is an argument against violence.
Electric vehicles are way more energy-efficient than internal combustion
The problem is more fundamental or broad than housing. The problem is that a few groups have amassed way too much money, and they are desperate for solid places to put it (especially in those times when interest rates were negative!).

Naturally, they look to real estate since real estate is famous for being a "safe" place to park money. And as history usually shows, it's a place where your money will grow as the asset naturally increases in value... "They're not making any more real estate", as the motto goes.

If you stop and imagine a utopia where everyone had approximately the same wealth, give or take a "reasonable" factor of less than 10, then the wealthier people could own one really nice home or more than one not-so-fancy home. With their excess money, they could conceivably own and rent out another property. This would be fine, since the person on the bottom of the scale might not like the only home they could afford, or maybe they don't plan to stay put long; so they could rent a nicer home from the aforementioned wealthy person.

Of course regions which were more attractive to live in (coastal southern California, for example), the homes would be more expensive because there would be more demand. But still, there would be an upper limit on how expensive they could be because there wouldn't be people who could afford mansions. You might still find homeless people in southern Cali, because sleeping in the park by the beach in an ideal climate just might be worth it to some people compared to sleeping in a home in some suburb of Dallas, Texas.

Instead, we are on a clear path toward Corporatocracy. As long as you're a member of the elite in a corporation, you'll be fine. You'll have more than enough money to afford a very nice home... and perhaps even at a below-market price thanks to a corporate benefit, since your corporation may own thousands of homes.

I'm looking toward boats. There are beautiful places in the world where only smallish boats can go (so that keeps out the megayachts), and with some training you can relocate yourself relatively as you please, enjoying different parts of the world. As long as we have workable internet anywhere, which we do have mostly solved now, other needs should be relatively small and easy to manage.

A 40-50 foot sailing catamaran costs $250-750k depending on its age and quality. Figure 10% per year for maintenance, and you're still in the range of a reasonable home price. Plus you never have to live near crappy neighbors if you don't want to.
> However, if Logistics showed me anything, it’s that time belongs to the working people of this world, when we can find ways to take it.

So deep. So profound.

> Logistics is the filmic annihilation of capitalist relations to time by a force of ultra-cinematic space. Logistics isn’t a feat of temporal duration, it’s a feat of spatial presence.

Such overwrought prose. Such "forcing everything into a Marxist framework."

Leonard A. Read talked about the pencil and how no one person could possibly make one, in 1958: https://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl.html?chapter_n... and he wasn't the first, either.

The supply chain expands, but the principle stays the same.
Glad to see this silly crypto fad fade away. 0% utility, waste of energy, and has no possibility of every being used as a currency for anything. People will look back on this era and wonder what the heck people were thinking.
Phasing out coal would save the world $78T
($78trn being clickbait speak for '1.2 per cent of current world GDP every year until the end of the century'.)
"weird to single out this person's project."

Just because it was advertised today; you can take any of these projects with funny names advertised during the last few weeks. Please or Buck or whatever.
> Renting is no less valid...than ownership

I think ownership is better because people value securing the shelter where they sleep. Renting is worse because you can't make decisions about how to improve land and architecture. You are only permitted to be there under a limited contractual agreement vs. being able to stay put until you decide to sell.
"DreamWorks Animation announced their intent to release their proprietary production renderer, MoonRay, as open source software later this year.
[...] DreamWorks intends to make MoonRay available under the Apache 2.0 license."

with a Contributor License Agreement - https://openmoonray.org/MoonRayContributorLicenseAgreement.p...
The problem is that the devs decided to use a Microsoft service (Github) which has its jurisdiction in the US of A.

If only they had used Codeberg, this would not have been an issue at all, as Codeberg is self hosted and a free hosted version is in Germany.
To think I used to tell a story about how in college I went to there were 2 primary cad packages being used, One was I think CadKey? The other was Autocad (10ish through 12ish for dos). Cadkey required a hardware dongle to run, autocad required a serial number and the floppies were normal and copied fine.

"Why don't they copy protect that? what are they stupid?"

Everyone in the world (seemingly) had a pirate copy of acad at home for free, and got real good at it, and every small shop that does any sort of drawing even art stuff like sign makers let alone landscapers, architects, urban planers, etc, alllll ended up buying tons of legit licenses because everyone they wanted to hire plus their own selves, all know acad, and no one's even heard of cadkey or whatever that other one was.

I used to tell that story as an example of enlightened self interest, deliberately enabling piracy being not only nicer but also making you far richer than fanatically trying to detect and prosecute every tiny instance of "zomg theft!".

Either Autodesk was never actually that intentionally nice company I thought they were, or it changed.

I have read a few articles from early employees and I think what it really was originally was schizophrenic. It had people with different attitudes at the same time so the company did both good and bad things at the same time, until the douchebags won as they always do and drove the nice guys out.
It takes 2 seconds to wipe the inside of a pan with an oily cloth
So the entire freighter journey is shown in real time, to show how “crushing” (a word used in the article) capitalism is? Because before capitalism, there were no freight ships, or what?
You're quoting an author from the 300's in a comment thread about today's housing market. That's an actual anachronism.
Your last statement is not correct. People like to invest where they can make money and multi residential rent is profitable in most places and we have REITs and other financial instruments ready to grow and invest lots and lots into multi residential rentals to generate a decent cash flow to send back to investors. The problem for them now is that there is so little land zoned that way that these guys are often outbid by people building luxury apartment condos (because that's the most profitable up front thing to build and it is relatively low risk because of constrained land supply). In a land abundance situation it shifts profitability from scarce luxury apartments (because they no longer have to be scarce) to rental units, plus it allows buildings to age out into rental units rather than age out into being renovated or torn down to make higher value luxury apartment condos. All we need to do is force cities to zone land this way rather than allowing them to cave to nimby's trying to push up the value of their single family home.
Agree with the browning. My favorite brussel sprouts are made in a cast iron. They become perfectly crispy.
Huh, I didn't know bulky capacitors were still a thing? I thought we got rid of those with the transition to switched-mode power supplies, most of which nowadays feature inductors to smoothen the output.

The vast majority of capacitors these days are tiny SMD ceramic decoupling capacitors, which are limited in size primarily by what your PCB assembler is able to handle. The odd tantalum bulk caps aren't really a size hog either.

Unless they somehow find a way to integrate those capacitors inside the chip itself I'm not expecting this to have a massive impact on electronics, really.
How Cisco got Hacked – Tracking the attacker steps and the logs it generates
In theory. What we see in practice (here in SF) is a glut of vacant luxury homes next to people living in RVs and tents. Belvedere Island (where Captain Kirk will one day live) is mostly empty. The fancy homes there are almost all investments, few people actually live there.
Nazism can't be forklifted into 2020s USA, _even if_ someone texts his mom Hitler pics. That guy is LARPing, like many do, and killed and injured people in the process. It's awful that this happened but it's still not proof that Nazism is not he cusp of emerging in the US. There are others who are convinced the US is on the brink of a Leninist coup. They are also wrong, since that too can't just be forklifted to another place and era.

It's a strange thing about today: many people want it to be some other time and place and try hard to pretend that it is. It's kind of understandable that much of this centers on WW2, given that a lot of the patriotic mythos in the US comes from that time. Maybe because it's the last time the USA won a major war and got to feel heroic, write history, etc.
Indeed. But you also need the discipline to walk away. If you are going to do startup/work back to back, you must also be able to take a true break on the weekends, or else it's burnout city. You can go a long way on pure passion alone, but your body will check you are some point if you are abusing yourself.
There are both good and bad psychological implications. Personally, for me it allows me to approach my business without the pressure that it needs to be successful. Having a more relaxed attitude prevents me from panicking and making stupid mistakes.
Microsoft has long had a problem with the Tech side not knowing what the Marketing / Legal side was doing

It is not uncommon for this kind of mix messaging
> There are many situations in which rental housing is the solution for people.

Then we can address that via rental vouchers to offset the taxes.

Real estate has the same problem as healthcare, in that it's an enormously complicated system, where any adjustment always has negative outcomes.

However, I agree with parent that the central and most critical failing is -- we are not incentivizing owner-occupied home construction at an accessible price point.

And a critical component of that is decoupling {build and sell to commercial landlord} and {build and sell to occupying owner}. The former will always be able to deploy more capital, and thus drive up the asset price to levels the latter can't afford.

And just to make it explicit: this is independent of density. You can have dense development that is still owner occupied (individual units).
metallic taste == nutritionally available iron. Also rust is trivial. We once put our cast iron through an oven clean cycle by accident. It rusted all to hell, turned solid orange, but re-seasoning returned it to better-than-ever condition.

Eating a meal always implies eating your cookware and packaging. I don't want to eat chromium and friends, or PFAS. Non-stick is gonna get banned eventually, mark my words.
"The people, whose words create a culture, that sort of radifies violence against a certain group...are punchable"
Just let that sink in.

[1]: https://youtu.be/Pjj5SmH2WIk?t=64
Small towns are just inherently unsustainable in a globalized developed economy. Most of our economic activity comes from working with other people, that means the rational move is to move to where everyone else is, ie a city. Remote work can slow that process down, but it’s not reversing.
Fantastic comment, thank you.

The way I put it sometimes, is that people don't know what 'knowing' is. It is an epistemological question. Individuals seem to think 'we' can know something - or that knowing is a group activity! That you can accept authoritative sources without personally verifying it AND call it knowledge.

Really, they are just hypotheses, or beliefs. There is actually no difference between these beliefs and religion that I can see... but people are so adamant that science is not religion!

It's funny to watch.
My name is hard for Americans to pronounce. Don’t tell me to change it
The "land doesn't use resources" argument seems a bit out of nowhere, because we've been talking about people the whole time here - people's ownership of land. That's also why I mentioned valuable land and not large land. Land derives its value from proximity to other valuable things, and will be developed more densely the more desirable it is in that regard, putting proportional strain on public services and resources like utilities, roads, policing, etc. There's a clear cause and effect here in terms of land value and incentive to develop, and it's an advantageous route for taxation because it would be difficult to game.