skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seveal reactions to this article.

First, thank you Caitlin Flanagan and The Atlantic generally for actually acknowledging that erosion of free speech in the US is mostly being caused by the Left. This is significant because in recent years, The Atlantic has drifted leftward. (Yes, I know all American media not explicitly conservative tend to lean left, but The Atlantic, in the late 20th century, for example, tried to be balanced. Case in point: "Dan Quayle was right".)

Second, I hope people in general are beginning to see that, at the present moment anyway, free speech is being limited by social media attacks and cancellation more than it is by the government. If you complain, for example, about HN's downvote feature, saying that it stifles free speech, you will invariably get some affronted response to the effect that the First Amendment does not apply to private platforms -- or even to the chilling actions of private individuals. But that is just wrong. If we want to enjoy free speech it's a gift we all have to give to each other.

Finally, I'm a West coast guy, admittedly, but what's with the hate against Cornell? I've never heard anything but praises for it (except for the weather there, of course). I think there's even a recipe for healthy bread that originated there.
One REIT's margin is another REIT's opportunity.
Seems everyone that bought a home for anything other than living in it. In the article they even mention:

> The CoreLogic data shows that what it calls “mega” investors, with a thousand or more homes, bought 3% of houses last year and in 2022, compared with about 1% in previous years, with the bulk of investor purchases made by smaller groups.

So most of the percentage increase is done by mom-and-pop investors rather than groups like Blackrock, Vanguard, etc. With that said the article definitely tries to paint the picture that all of these investors are institutional ones, and burying that important lede.

I get the hate against institutional investors going in and buying up entire neighborhoods. But the sentiment that we should just abolish landlords is rather dumb IMO. There's a massive gap between someone being able to afford $1200 in rent and being able to afford a home with all of the added costs.
I don't own any kind of mobile device, and many, many times in my life have I gotten the raised eyebrows with a puzzled "you as a computer scientist don't have a phone??". I usually I don't say it out loud but in my head the answer is always "because I am a computer scientist I don't have a phone".

I've often wondered why I'm in such a tiny minority even among my CS peers...

Then again, at least over here in Europe, new cars will mandatorily have tracking devices built in, so perhaps my whole effort was kinda moot to begin with.
A few more entries that might be of interest:

* DynamoDB and the Dynamo KV store
* LMDB (embedded kv)
* Dgraph (distributed graph db) and its embedded kv store BadgerDB
I think it’s a legitimate counterpoint that could force some changes, but other aspects would have to go into it like intentional communities around this technology such that kids can go to schools, taxes are tenable, etc.

interesting to consider. I think tax status assumptions and making van life work for a 2-child family are the main blockers. Starts sounding a lot like a high-end trailer park idea too.
We have spent decades telling American families that homeownership is the safest investment. We then spent decades enacting policies to ensure this is true. Do we think investors were going to just sit that out and ignore a safe and government protected investment?

Of course the more attractive we make home ownership as an investment, the more investors will flock to the market. We need policies specifically benefiting owner occupied homes or we need to stop treating the basic human need for shelter as an avenue for investment.

Neither seems likely to happen because we have already waited so long that the moneyed interests now have too much to lose and won't allow what needs to be done to happen.
This is fun! Is there any way to animate things in a video, aside from importing another video?
I think the concern is that rents are being controlled (and increased) by investors unfairly. There is always a market for rental properties (who wants to own when they know they will move in less than a couple years?); but there is concern that investors wield too much power.

I think this is only possible when large scale investors 'corner the market' by buying up a large percentage of homes in a given area. They can then control the rents because there is little competition.

On the other hand, if nearly every rental home is owned by a separate investor then each owner is competing with all the other small investors for tenants. They have competition and might be forced to keep the rents lower.
There are ways to disincentivize toxic forms of investment (especially speculation) without banning it. A high land value tax, for example, would simultaneously increase investment and decrease speculation.
Abortion laws affect everyone in this country. Every unwanted child grows up to be a citizen here that you and I and everyone else will have to interact with. The econ literature has shown that about 40% of the reduction in violent crime since the 90's has been due to the proliferation of abortion.
So you are advocating for the censorship of someone who supports return to office based on the fact that it would create a sweeping effect across the industry that would force you back into a cubicle? Yeah, no thanks.
Huh? He’s just a CEO talking-up his product. Safeway has exclusive deals nowhere else has! Kind of… it’s marketing spin but it’s not a lie.

Also having the same data in a database wouldn’t necessarily be illegal, but it would be useless as behavioural data ages-out after 90 days or less.
Apparently some of these operations have become pretty sophisticated in being able to quickly sort and evaluate listings. Individual buyers don't stand much of a chance against buyers who can write a check as soon as a property hits the market.
It's laughable to call the US healthcare system bad, but I feel like that sort of treatment should be commonplace and universal for what we pay here. The UK has spent about 10 percent of GDP over the last ten years. The US spends 20 percent. It's going somewhere, but I don't think it's going towards care at quite the same rate as over healthcare systems. Even 15 percent of US GDP would be $3 trillion, or more than the entirety of UK total GDP.
without streetview or photos on a public website, only people who are actually passing by my house can see it.

otherwise it is visible to the whole world. that is a drastic difference for a privacy conscious person.

or consider for example me posting a picture of my house without giving any address. there is nothing identifying except the building. with streetview you could potentially find my address. why should you be able to do that?

sure, streetview is nice to use, but i think privacy concerns are real.
And it’s just as much the fault of people who demand we don’t build for SFHs, only high density housing that’s highly undesirable to a large fraction of the home buying population. You don’t get to just blame NIMBYism for constraining the supply of the most desirable homes.
You have a sterically strained carbon structure (it does NOT want to make a cube). Then you saturate it with the one of the most aggressive atoms in existence, all without blowing up the carbon structure or your lab.

That molecule would really like to blow up.
>For anyone else still wondering "why" corpspeak still exists, this is it. America has a very work-centric culture. Within a few minutes of meeting someone, people typically talk about their family or work.

Are there other societies where corpspeak does not exist- what are they?
> This is the sort of crisis that brings down nations.

It's really not. This is some pretty sad FUD.

Unsafe to swim in waters. Trash not taken out. Crop failure. Inflation. Low heating fuel reserves (in a country that doesn't even get snow). Strikes. Absent politicians.

This is basically an average week in many countries.
Can it be both? The engineers create a new chat app every year, then the MBAs take it over next year and "optimize" it into the ground and all the engineers flee, but that's ok because the cycle will repeat shortly.
The details of what constitutes an investor are unclear. It's possible they made the mistake of labeling purchases by trusts as investor purposes when many individuals buy houses directly into their trusts for estate planning purposes. I've seen that error made in these analyses, either inadvertently or deliberately for purposes of embellishing the problem.
> There is no path to a green card or citizenship for anyone who immigrated

One thing I find really strange as an American, is that while our immigration system could be improved, in both China and India there is absolutely no way for a US Citizen to get permanent residency.

Not "it's really hard" or "takes a long time", but short of maybe being a billionaire or world famous athlete, a non-Chinese/Indian simply cannot permanently immigrate to these countries. It doesn't matter if you marry someone who is a Chinese/Indian citizen, doesn't matter if you have kids with them, etc there is zero possibly you will be able to immigrate to these countries.
> @returns OFF, ERROR, ON

> ...

> return TelemetryLevel.NONE;

You gotta love how the documented function return value (TelemetryConfiguration.OFF) doesn't match the actual return value (TelemetryConfiguration.NONE).
This is why I can't take the "we just need more supply!" crowd seriously. Building more supply is just sacrificing more stock to the investor class.
This is not limited to the UK

Europe has been in an energy war with Russia for the past year, we have a drought affecting hydro power and the French nuclear fleet is just out of service

The government action up to now has been almost nothing, basically amounting to announcing a few LNG import projects and updated 2030 targets. Nearly nothing has been done to the demand side nearly six months into this crisis

What needs to be done that can help 0-6 month time scale:

Gas supply

* Ramp up of Groningen (with payments to affected people living there)

Electricity generation

* Restart of all possible coal plants (only two have announced restart in Germany!)

* Removal of any restrictions limiting oil and diesel fired gensets from operating

* Extension of the three reactors in Germany, and likely also the three shut down reactors

Demand

* Have utility field forces inspect every gas boiler, starting with the vulnerable population, to set the correct flow temperature on condensing boilers (saves 5-10% !), check for easy fixes (e.g., leaky drafts that can be plugged)

* Mandate utilities to pay for avoided gas/electricity use for people on fixed retail tariffs - everyone need to be price responsive, not only large industrials

* Mandate commercial customers to raise AC setting to 25C

* Mandate everyone to lower thermostat to 18C

* Cash payments to households (at least vulnerable customers), but do not link it to the consumption levels and do not lower the price indirectly by other means (e.g., VAT reduction)

This will also require that permits, supply chains, labor etc. get fixed. Apparently that's stopping some of the coal restarts in Germany. That would not be a restriction if this was a shooting war...
You can crowd out usury private investment (which this specifically is an example of) with government investment. Have the Fed buy treasuries, use federal funds to build and manage affordable housing.

Capital is make believe, a fiction, rows in a database. Physical laws are mandatory, everything else is a shared delusion or a suggestion. The rules can change at anytime with enough will.

Broad strokes, if Capital is primarily serving a small minority while the majority suffers for it, the tool (capital allocation) is broken and it is time to reevaluate the implementation.
In much of the US (read, in the Midwest where I am right now).. mortage monthly payment is indeed cheaper, sometimes a lot. And this is after taxes / repair issues.

Renting is very much a poverty trap where the poor with bad credit get poorer and worse credit.
It worth noting, that the application is written in JavaFX.
For the text-hovering, what you are experiencing, is the default behaviour for JavaFX.
The scrolling is also (sometimes) from JavaFX.

You are right, behaving like a normal website is very important.

Your observation with the scrolling is right.
https://www.jpro.one/ uses the browser scrolling.
https://www.jfx-central.com/ uses the scrolling of JavaFX, which is still a bit slow due to the hight traffic.

The text-selection is actually from the browser. The question remains why it behave different - which is something to improve.

Because we are using normal text elements (and normal links) the site is also indexed by google.
What do you mean by spore costs? Wouldn't most large scale farming operations work with liquid cultures based on live mycelium? Liquid cultures are easy to multiply and inject into pasteurized substrate with needles. Once the mycelium has taken over the growing medium, it also no longer needs to be kept in a fully sterile environment.

I'm not at all convinced a pound of mushrooms is worth that much more than pork. Are you sure it's not the meat industry subsidies that are keeping the price down?
yes, but there are likely other ways to make machines with agency, self-awareness, and general intelligence.
Owning homes you can't live in is as perverse as claiming domain over a patch of the ocean or a chunk of the sky. The very concept ought to be attacked with every legal method.
So you're basically now paying rent to the government.

Want to really address the problem (and many other problem with today's economic system)? Prohibit interest bearing loans.
Non-dispatchable generation sources are just fine, so long as you also consider storage requirements and transmission improvements in the total cost. If we could get commitment to those things as part of generation rollout I suspect the total cost per MW would be comparable to nuke, provide the same base loading capacity (better actually, since it could quickly respond to demand) and not generate nuclear waste. If we aren't able to summon the political will to tackle the storage and transmission issues then I agree nuke is the best option but it;s silly and reductive to paint it as 'nuke good renewable bad'
>Only people who have good enough credit for a mortgage and can afford to buy deserve a place to live

Sounds worse when you put it that way though.
> The problem is when housing is allowed to become a speculative investment

I don’t think the distinction you’re drawing makes sense; there are plenty of ways to speculate in an otherwise healthy housing market (e.g. move to a gentrifying neighborhood in the hopes of moving again in a few years when your property is worth more).

It seems like the common theme for the ills you identify is housing being un- or under-utilized while the owner is expecting or reaping the rewards of capital appreciation. More straightforward policy responses to that could include imposing a surtax on unoccupied property or taxing imputed rent regardless of occupancy.
One thing I'm missing that I'm still amazed the iPhone lacks: an under-screen fingerprint scanner. Behind-the-screen cameras are not ready for prime time, but surely Apple can please the fingerprint fans quite easily? They can even pretend they invented it by placing it on a weird position and saying it's revolutionary because no iPhone user has probably ever seen it before.
You'd be surprised at how powerful squatters' rights are in most states.
A GPIO header will do
Yeah, from personal experience and a few friends who are vegetarian, meat replacements are more about texture and flavor than actual nutrition. It's often the case that people who are vegetarian/vegan aren't so out of dislike for meat so much as other reasons, and these products exist to serve that craving. That said, most people I know obtain their nutrition elsewhere, the meat substitutes are far more expensive than the real thing and mostly just an occasional treat.
* The 1800s of the USA were marked by a large, government program to invent pocket watches to solve the issue of trains crashing into each other.

* There were additional long-term government projects, such as ARPA's Network (aka: the internet).

* Strategic supercomputer initiatives as well.

* The debate over USA's social security is all measured in the year 2040 or later. People constantly use social security as an example of "short term thinking", but policies from the 1980s have been forward looking for at least the next 50 years.

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I dunno much about UK politics, but I imagine that similar forward looking projects and/or decisions / debates have occurred.
I know some cars cost more to get a different color, like Teslas. They come in white, but if you want something like red, that's an extra $1000. I recently wanted to buy a car and [anecdotally also] the dealerships have like 90% black and white cars, and maybe there a couple of grey cars!
I think valid points are bad about typescript being bad, like without a real debugger it's going to be hard to debug anything.

But I firmly disagree with how the article begins.

> In effect, we are shifting complexity from end-developers to library developers.

That is the whole point in creating a library. To hide complexity in a nice easy to use interface/API.
The available options just keep escalating. Brilliant.
In this metaphor, once you have decent funding you are no longer a "middle class kid".
Not all renters are renting because they want to. For some of us it’s the only option. I would have bought a home years earlier than I did if house prices were more affordable.
It depends on how hard it is for us to implement something like that in HN's software. I'm sorry not to have a clear answer for you guys, but we haven't had a chance to think carefully about this and it will be a while before we do.
Yep Millennials, Gen X and Boomers have all been handed a once in a lifetime gift here. Each of those generations made out like bandits with low housing prices until the last few years and low interest rates.

Gen Z and the generations to come have a real reason to be pissed at the rest of us.
I don't know if that's an interesting data point. Humans are terrible at driving cars. AIs are terrible at driving cars. I'm not sure that Tesla is obviously doing a sub-par job here, as it's a challenging problem space.

The main effect of the telemetry in self-driving cars is that we can all Monday morning quarterback the exact defect that caused a particular crash. With human drivers, we don't have as much data to get to the root cause. If someone falls asleep at the wheel and drives into a truck, was it their medication? Their sleep schedule? An emotional conversation they just had? The music that the radio station chose to play? A combination of all of those factors? What actions do we take to prevent it from happening again?
And if you can't wait 12 hours you become excess mortality.

Sometime before the 12 hour period, one must make a choice whether to seek care or not.
This is less true in a world where zoning and other process roadblocks prevent you from building new housing, i.e. competing.
> It's like using potable water or the air we breathe as an investment vehicle.

This is already a very profitable investment. Of course, it can be made more profitable through monopoly through the process of enclosure (conversion of commons to private ownership). The private water companies have even had legislation passed that gives them exclusive rights to the rain falling on your roof so you cannot collect rain water to avoid paying parasitic rents.

> ...a law was passed that appeared to give a monopoly to Aguas del Tunari over all water resources, including water used for irrigation, communal water systems and even rainwater collected on roofs.[68] Upon taking control the company raised water tariffs by 35%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_privatization
Arch Linux ARM can be installed on Android with Termux

I run scipy and numpy on my phone with it. A bit painful because I can only see about six lines of code at a time but I wrote a few thousand lines of ML code with vim on my cell phone in the last two months.

https://github.com/SDRausty/termux-archlinux/
> What is 'red tape' though? No-one ever defines what red tape they would remove.

Where do I begin?

- Stop setting prices by government diktat for medical professionals' salaries and procedures. Stop preventing private enterprise from building competing clinics and hospitals. Enable public health insurance to go towards the cost of private treatments in order to reduce lines.

- Stop requiring licenses for all manner of jobs that don't need them. You shouldn't need a license to cut hair, be an interior decorator, and all manner of work that expensive licensing requirements do nothing to help

- Radically increase the speed to approve new housing and transportation development. Do a single environmental review, get 1 round of feedback, then move forwards

- Reduce import taxes and establish free trade agreements so goods breeze through customs from trading partner countries

- Increase legal immigration to expand the consumer base, expand the labor supply, and allow entrepreneurial foreigners to come in and start new businesses

- Drastically reduce corporate and income taxes to promote productive economic development

Or do the opposite of all this and be surprised when economic activity stagnates and people get poorer year after year
I don't see how a high land value tax increase investment & decrease speculation? If your talking about flipping homes that's one thing but REIT ownership isn't home flipping for the most part...
Twitter signed a consent decree with the FTC years ago. This complaint could result in the FTC investigating deeply whether the consent decree is being upheld. If not, there's likely sufficient regulatory force to hold Twitter accountable.

I agree that, generally, it would be better for the US to have a better regulatory mechanism for large tech companies, but the consent decree is likely a strong tool in this particular case.
Not going to quote the whole paragraph? The paragraph that goes on to say that there's an increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and other issues?

> The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment toxicology review in 2013 found that with regard to positive correlations between exposure to glyphosate formulations and risk of various cancers, including non-Hodgkin lymphoma, "the available data is contradictory and far from being convincing".[11] A meta-analysis published in 2014 identified an increased risk of NHL in workers exposed to glyphosate formulations.[12] In March 2015, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified glyphosate as "probably carcinogenic in humans" (category 2A) based on epidemiological studies, animal studies, and in vitro studies.[8][13][14][15] In contrast, the European Food Safety Authority concluded in November 2015 that "the substance is unlikely to be genotoxic (i.e. damaging to DNA) or to pose a carcinogenic threat to humans", later clarifying that while carcinogenic glyphosate-containing formulations may exist, studies "that look solely at the active substance glyphosate do not show this effect."[16][17] In 2017, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) classified glyphosate as causing serious eye damage and as toxic to aquatic life, but did not find evidence implicating it as a carcinogen, a mutagen, toxic to reproduction, nor toxic to specific organs.[18]

Personally I trust a jury of 6-12 laypeople or the *European Chemicals Agency* over a company with a vested interest in keeping their product on the market.
An in-depth look at how to nail cold email outreach.