skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I 100% find it unethical and I think it's a parasitical thing to be working on.

I'm living in a rural mountain village that has become a little more trendy since remote work became a thing. It was a sleepy relaxed place comprised mostly of kind people.

Of course a wealth property mogul has snaked his way into the village after seeing an opportunity and now hunts down houses, out pricing local people and young families if possible and then sells the houses to the hedge fund he is working for, or buys them with his own personal wealth with plans to sell it later on at a much higher price than he paid for it to another wealth friend who doesn't even live in the same country.

This guy is actually hoping that his money will also drive up prices after other villagers see they could get more money (potentially) if they'd sell to him. Obviously people are free to choose who they sell to. But what a thing to try do? Essentially encourage the destruction of a community by waving money around. He will even interject on previously arranged deals and offer double the money hoping others can't pay and tempts the seller to take his money.

None of this behavior adds value to the community, it tears it apart, they just take. They use money to bully and create stress for everyone who genuinely would like to live here or start a business. Robbing people the chance to live a relaxed way of life and raise a family without too much financial pressure.

I talk with the guy and funnily enough he told me he'd occasionally "gift a house to a local family" rather than some other rich asshole so he looks like a nice guy and presumably older people fall for his cons and sell their places to him. I've also heard him tell me he has had death threats made against him, so yeah, this is what his behavior drives people too.

My only hope is, people, on average choose community over money, but in the world we live in with inflation etc, I can't blame them if they feel pressured to sell to the highest bidder.

I want finish this rant by saying this, everyone else in this community adds value by farming, running stores, running schools, being doctors, mechanics etc. This person adds nothing, he only takes for his own gain. Encourages others to come in and run businesses her purchased at a cheaper price.

He uses the very things people work hard to produce and which make the village a beautiful place, to sell it to other people. Similar to how Uber and Lyft make money out of the roads people pay for through taxes. It's leeching.
I think Umberto Eco distilled much better the characterics of "Ur-Fascism".

https://www.openculture.com/2016/11/umberto-eco-makes-a-list...
"most developers from Asia do not really expect or care about privacy"

-> You did a casual racism there, unless you can back up your claim with non-anecdotal evidence.
Ask HN: What is the hardest part of programming for you?
You aren't permanently consuming a portion of the most important finite resource in a state (the land) by buying a cell phone or a sports car. You're certainly taking advantage of public resources and services on a global scale with those other purchases, which I also think is worth addressing. But in the case of land ownership the correlation is very local and easy to draw.
Quake was the first big game to use floating point for everything and require a FPU, and it was released in 1996. I would guess that by the late 90's plenty of games used floats.
I don't know if it would work on goats., They aren't fond of being rained on though, so maybe? They are really motivated however, and smart enough to figure it out.

The bridge grafting worked great! The tree never lost any leaves or flowers, now has plums on it. For what it's worth, the shoots I spliced are now brown on the outside like the regular bark.

And no, not my kid, but made me laugh.
It's funny how you sweep _trillions_ of investment to get back to 2010 levels of electric supply as lack of political will.
Depends what you mean by deathballs.

SC2 generally does not encourage significantly splitting up your main army in mid-late game. So ya, main armies are still normally moving around as a single blob/body.

I think every race still has enough tools to punish a-move, stacked/bunched up ground armies (lurker, baneling, widow mines, tank/liberator, psistorm, disruptor) that even if a ground army moves as a clump, there's significant pressure to quickly micro and split on contact.

There was a recent-ish period where there was a lot of dissatisfaction about late-game protoss air basically being a death ball, especially against zerg. I think that has somewhat dissipated - they released a patch that made disincentivized getting to that state, but I suspect that dealing with late-game protoss air is still annoying as heck for zerg.
I know this now, but when I didn't and when Postgres returned the same order thousands of times, then changed for no apparent reason, it made fixing flaky tests very tricky.
To all the people saying 'where would the renters go?' - rental units don't have to be supplied by for-profit organizations. We could adapt the co-op system (or have it set up by the local gov i.e. council housing).

If anyone is / would like to work on something to further these ideas about definancializing housing please comment.
Wouldn't that mostly just increase the rents? I.e. the landlords can offload the extra tax to their clients (renters).
To find stuff. If most of the stuff is unsearchable, search engines become useless.
Why do you need solar wind? Just use whatever engine you're using for moving this spacecraft.
That's great. How much does a 25 TWh storage plant cost?
I agree Rust's error handling is better and you can criticize some decisions in Go's error handling. I mean it also has these weird hybrid exception-like things (ie panics).

But the main point is that Go (and Rust) moved away from exception-as-control-flow that C++, C# and Java had adopted.
Ironically the main architect is Eric Gamma from Eclipse fame.
Property taxes dissuade development, because the higher the value of that specific property the higher the tax.

Land value taxes encourage development because the tax is levied on the _unimproved_ value of the land, so you're incentivised to maximize the value of the improvements of the property.

At least that's the theory.
days is already way less than seasonal - and it can't be averaged out entirely even across europe -> storage capacity still needs to be increased when approaching higher shares of renewables across europe
Yes. I have to use a search engine to find YT videos because YT search is so bad.
Use Matrix, Element supports jitsi or whatever the vid/screensharing thing is. Works nicely.
>You can't have historical discussions of Fascism/National Socialism without first discussing Communism.

This is the most baffling whataboutism topic to me (because of how common it is, and how obviously fallacious it is). There are, of course, plenty of cases where you can reasonably have a conversation about fascism or communism without the prerequisite of examining its relationship to the other. You may criticize people for omitting such context in cases where its absence is conspicuous, and you probably should, since I think that's the more realistic goal people who put forward this provocative fallacy are usually trying to get to.
That's wonderful. Now they only need to build another 299,000 of those units to meet the current energy demand in Western Australia.
Yes, that's the reason
Wow, >100k ratings on that simple pan with 92% 5+4 stars.
Real estate has always been commodified. But now there are more people with access to it than ever before. See home ownerships rates in the census [1].

There are real issues around the costs of developing. Building is insanely difficult and expensive now. There's tons of regulation around it increasing the cost, and ironically the labor movement makes it way more expensive in terms of labor (and materials... which also require labor to produce). Then you've got endless numbers of regressive NIMBYs masquerading as progressives who fight development with political means (via zoning), legal means (via lawsuits), and emotional means (via attacking it as gentrification). You face people like professors who decry gentrification, despite having moved into the area, owning multiple properties, acting as a landlord, and then collecting bogus evidence to prevent turning a private dog park into housing [2].

In Philly, you can either spend months or years getting a housing project approved and bribe council people like Darrell Clarke (who stays in office via appealing to NIMBYs and restricting development in blighted areas [3]), or you can build single family homes "by right" (according to existing zoning). Which means single family homes instead of high density or mixed use structures.

Even if land were free, building would still cause housing to be very expensive. Average cost to build a house in Philadelphia (cheap compared to other big US cities) is 300k. There are many places where you can get free land [4] but it turns out people want to live in a limited number of places generally.

1. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/tables/ti...

2. https://billypenn.com/2021/03/29/west-philly-poop-study-feca...

3. https://whyy.org/articles/philly-council-limits-development-...

4. https://www.wideopencountry.com/free-land-in-the-us/
It's counter-intuitive but the majority of housing has to be non-owner-occupied for prices to fall.

>making property taxes substantially higher for non-owner-occupied property.

>but everyone who owns property would be against it because they don't want to see their assets drop in value.

After the initial dip, prices will rise again because residents will vote out every city government that tries to implement zoning that doesn't increase the value of their property.
It's literally impossible to write concurrent and highly-available code without exceptions.

You will be forced to write your own stack bubbling code. It's 2022, please don't write your own hand-made bespoke stack unwinding.
I’ve got plenty of issues with federal judges, but this is a little anachronistic.

My sense is that drug / alcohol issues get handled fairly efficiently now. The biggest problem is just the effect becoming a demigod for life has on the ego.
Carbon steel woks are useless for induction or electric jobs. The sides are so high that they don’t get near to the heat and never season. Then they rust.

I which I could find an alternative to non-stick woks. I’ve ordered a steel aluminium laminate. Maybe that will work.
If you don't want to treat all the sorts of people in a population, don't go into a field of public service. Period.

I don't care if you don't want to help someone because you think being trans is wrong. You still have to treat them if you are working in an ER, if you are a dermatologist, if you are basically any doctor. In a few cases, you might be able to refer the person to another doctor, if it is reasonable (as readily understood by laypeople), not urgent, and you (personally) pay any additional costs the patient might incur, including lost wages if they need to take another day off work, differences in insurance cost, and travel costs.

If you don't want to treat everyone, find another line of work.
And yes, I think the same about other folks in public facing jobs. If you cannot help folks that are different than you, don't work retail. Don't be an accountant or lawyer the general public can hire. Policework, firefighting, and government jobs that deal with the general public would be off limits.

And yes, I think the government should force you to do this. They already do this in a lesser manner, though fair housing laws and fair labour acts and things like this. No, these aren't perfect, but nothing is - an imperfect fix that improves things is better than none at all, after all.
> The other issue is vacancy. 10% of homes are unoccupied.

This is the second time I've seen this number thrown around, but as near as I can tell it's completely wrong[0]. Homeowner vacancy has never reached higher than 3%, and the 10% figure was rental vacancy at the height of the last recession: it's now 5.8%.

Aside from the fact that the number itself is outdated, it also lumps the entire US into a single category. Most of the land in the US isn't suffering from a housing crisis, and including homes in those areas in one big national vacancy rate doesn't help understand the degree to which vacancy is playing a role in the big cities. You need to be looking at vacancy by neighborhood, not by country.

[0] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2022/05/housing-vacan...
If the speculators are wrong the price goes down and people tend not to complain about them. People only start bringing up speculators when they are correct.
$50/ip is surprisingly cheap. 1,000 IPs will cost 50k, less than the cost for hiring a dev for half a year. An entire /16 block is still in the single digit millions.

I don’t know what’s a price that I feel would actually be too high. Doubling it to $100 still seems reasonable, but 200? $1000?

10 years ago they were worth $10 each, I wonder how much they’re worth in another decade.

For the more knowledgeable amongst us, how is this not an investment opportunity? What’s stopping a hedge fund from buying up a /12 block and renting it out?
> financialisation of food has real advantages in ensuring an adequate supply of food, stable prices, etc. There's extensive empircal and theoretcial evidence here.

Would you mind sharing some links or expand on this? I have always had the impression that as a civilization we should be moving towards providing completely free resources to people (limited in quantity and only basic ones, like water, rice, potatoes).
First two parts written in September 2012. That third part is only "2 minutes away" and has been for 20 years.
Polar zones with long winters away from coastlines. Near coasts, wind is really great in polar zones.

When I play with my favorite modeling site https://model.energy/ the place with the lowest cost to get to 100% renewable baseload is... Greenland!
housing is complicated

My bullshit detector went off right here. Housing isn't complicated. It's only complicated by investment money being involved. Having a roof over ones head is a basic human right.

In Australia, the market is so hot, very few young people can afford anything, if you're living in a nice place, you can easily be kicked out after your rent doubles. I know of good, professional people who migrated to Australia and went back to their home country of this behavior.

It's complicated because we've made it complicated. I also think it's why we're living in a world with a lot less creativity. Who can make nice things when all we're doing is racing to the bottom to make ends meet ?
> It's something that turns a basic necessity into a speculative asset

The solution to that is the same as the housing problem - build more housing.

And it's fine if the new housing is "luxury" housing - then yesterday's luxury housing becomes today's not-so-luxurious, etc.
No one needs more than one house period.
> 8-9 diet cokes a day. Holy fuck. That's a lot of caffein (and I'm guessing not good for the teeth)

It's not that much caffeine and it won't do anything to your teeth.

> Agree with him, VSCode is THE IDE.

Nothing in that interview suggests he's ever used VSCode.
I don't think homeliness and aggression are negatively correlated. Look at a cauliflower eared fighter. You have an association of that kind of truck with farmers, but it could just as easily be rednecks with rifles. Doesn't have anything to do with the design.

The front of the truck is sharper angled, the hood is actually forward so it appears like a shark; the grille takes up a larger percentage of the front of the truck.

The modern F150 is rounder, with a smaller percentage devoted to the grille, and has a flat front. If you size up the 1980 F150 to the same size, it would be much more aggressive looking - you can actually see this because the 1980 truck, when lifted, looks positively mean.
That is the difference between an accident and murder.

If you try your best to adhere to all best practices, and still a bad thing happens, that is an entirely 100% different thing from the bad thing that happens when you voluntarily, deliberately, knowingly, do something wrong or unnecessary, and then a bad thing happens.
We have a proven power source on the one hand that's been ready for 40 years.

On the other we have 20 years of missed deadlines and broken promises. Watching Germany head to a winter where people will freeze to death if Putin cuts the gas is hilarious. Here's hoping that it finally cures them of their delusions.
Python is the best second choice for everything.
It's unethical. As unethical firms are powered by unethical people, I wouldn't consider a job applicant with work history in this sector (e.g. AirBnB engineers need not apply if I'm the hiring manager).
That was probably their intention. Why do you think they are idiots? For not sharing identical interests with the U.S.?
I think the “decentralization of work” will only lead to large scale improvement if it also comes with decentralization of other needs as well; having social, cultural, and other needs met outside of large cities.

The decentralization of means that I could live in a flyover state or much more rural area, but there are many things one would still lose easy access to. You’re not going to convince most people to move to a food desert with unreliable internet, a 45 minute drive to the nearest grocery store, and 2 hours from the nearest airport just because their job is decentralized now
Cargo ships are emitting boatloads of carbon (2018)
> I think we'd see pretty insane food prices then as well.

All you are saying is "imagine if food supply was more constrained" with more words. Commodification and constrained supply are orthogonal concepts -- the argument here is that increased commodification may lead to increased supply, so long as the market is allowed to act freely.

> that ear of corn was where your family has been buried for centuries,

This argument of "what if your family lived there before" in housing discussions annoys me to no end. We don't live in a feudal society where the right to a particular village is passed down through bloodlines. The fact that your family lived somewhere in the past doesn't entitle you to anything; you're not a Hapsburg monarch.
Interesting. Do you add heat back before or after step 6?
The Swedish lack of word-wrap.
It looks like you can't see the real issue: too many people want to live in NYC. If you make it cheaper to own, build or rent in NYC even more people will come and the there will not be enough housing. Perhaps people should be encouraged to live somewhere else/in more places? Living in NYC is not a human right either.
«it lists different values that each tool prioritizes, and how "Core values are self-reinforcing. They attract like-minded people, who will then defend them."» https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29159433
And as always, archive today (or an alternative) saves the day: https://archive.ph/hHiCJ
Covid-19 lab-leak theory debunked by Australian professor
Housing is a human right.
I think both are good, Ur-Fascism is a larger read, when Yonatan also gives a good summary, and a more - this is a root thing, and it expands out like this.

Both are good, both are worth reading for sure.
There is no FL in periodic table. And Teflon is not as stable as believed.
Read this before from a previous HN post. Devoured the article again, this one is a gem.
Linux isn't this way. I can understand Windows and perhaps Mac users have this predicament.
I’m able to do in mine, although the texture is better if I do on stainless steel. Still, I’m able to make it without sticking and correct colour.

(It’s important to let it get to right temperature first, which takes longer for cast iron, and should be slowly to get even heat)
Here's one way to think about it:

In many countries, government policy has been (in some cases explicitly) that house prices should always go up. (The calculation is that more people own homes than rent, so this should be worth votes on net.)

If you have an asset class that, by government policy, keeps getting more expensive, then that will be very attractive for investors.

Is this a good policy? No, I think it's catastrophically short sighted. But it's what we've got. But it's important to keep in mind that while a pile of manure may attract flies, the flies didn't create the manure...
Setupsso.sh: SAML SSO in Univention UCS Server
I'm suprised they haven't dropped the offline versions of Office alltogether.
Same thing in the US. Searching for "abortion" is not illegal. Anyone who thinks so is paranoid.
I'm not making an assertion about that. Could be either, imo more likely the latter. There are people I've met who are basically poly but balk at the label.
It's a blog about Japanese food which is why they're talking about "Japanese techniques."

This article places the shapes or cutting techniques described within the context of Japanese cuisine. That someone somewhere else has at one time or another cut a vegetable does not really reflect on the formal techniques of a cuisine whether that be French, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Japanese or other cuisines that put a significant focus on defined techniques and following specific processes.
Black swan events can cause shortages no matter if it's a state controlled supply situation or decentralized market.
That would seriously restrict supply because once people bought a house with the intention of renting it out they would never sell due to the price control. Just like an entailment, this property can never leave the family line.
software can't solve for you not knowing your peers
Germany gas consumption is 90 per year. Storage capacity is 24. It seems that some people think that full storage is what they need to survive the winter. That's not entirely correct. Storage is required to smooth short-time issues. You still need enough supply even with full storage to survive the winter.
I have been following the price history for some time now. It makes me really wish that I bought a subnet when it was $10 per IP as some kind of alternative investment. The ARIN maintenance fees seemed pretty high though.
> Add to it that most developers from Asia do not really expect or care about privacy and are super quick to drop any quality standards to meet deadlines.

Having lived and worked in South Korea for 4 years, I can't confirm this to be true. My Korean colleages were no less diligent than the ones I now have in Germany, on average. It's true that pressure is high and projects are often run in an air of permanent crisis mode to keep the pressure up, though. If corners get cut the decision usually comes from above.

I do systems engineering on operating systems and HMI for consumer electronics. In Korea it was for smart TVs and industrial equipment control, in Germany for cars.
Yes, that would be against the law, and since the data comes from third parties who have to approve each request for which accounts to monitor, it is highly unlikely they could get away with it even if they didn't have numerous internal leaks and declassifications. In other words, your certainty is justified.
Middleman maintaining 100 apartments can do so for less money per unit than the guy maintaining a single apartment.
I don't know if the statement in the article is true. The belief wasn't that acting is better than thinking but that "will" is better than hope, that they would win in their struggle for world domination because they were more determined. Turns out, others were more determined than they were.
1024×768×16m was my default settings for a long time despite higher resolutions were available - I disliked the need to play with font sizes to have a comfortable layout. With Windows 7 and its awesome scaling feature I finally jumped to 1920*1080. I moved to 4k HDR less than a year ago and had some wow-moments in the process.