skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the informative and thoughtful response. My comment and question was certainly not intended to be combative. I was genuinely curious for a perspective quite like the one you provided above, because it seemed odd that a claim so strong would not have a counter view given the active area of research. I think the original article would benefit from some perspective like the one you provided. While you're aware of the relevant threads of research that balance out the view in the original article, for someone not familiar with that even things that one would consider "well known" will not be so.

The view you provided helps understand the counter argument of why competing factors (e.g. losing mass) result in more sophisticated outcomes than "we would expect lighter galaxies orbiting heavier ones to be slowed down by dark matter particle". I still don't know enough about the subject to understand if the original authors claim and expectation is still likely. But your context helps me understand other factors that are in play.
Sorry, I meant you could see the source code not the source code's license.
Very interesting! https://allfed.info/
Not a landlord but doesn’t it make sense to be kind but still charge as much as your can? Everything else is priced that way.
FTC, IRS, and the whoop whoop sound of da police
Was this translated from original Russian? Honestly, it really does sound like you're for dictatorships.

I think all that diversity - sure, even competing bases on the Moon - is the sign of a healthy society. Monoculture is much more perilous. Centralization gives you NASA, market chaos gives you SpaceX.
Probably because phones are massive now, and the side is the only place the power button can be pressed while holding the phone with one hand.
With RockSet's converged indexes and an SQL query optimiser you can build an SQL database.

https://rockset.com/blog/converged-indexing-the-secret-sauce...

Rockset's converged indexes + denormalisation means you can have fast querying.
That's exactly what the title means, no? If you constantly just work, you don't become the person you want to be. You don't become the person who enjoys life. If you are in the spot that you're not spending time as the person you are, then you'll probably want to change, and framing every action as a vote is a pretty good way to think about it.
The communist answer is to not allow anybody to purchase real estate.
HN just doesn't get why LLMs are a disruptive technology
> If I see a distressed home for sale in my neighborhood and decide to buy it, fix it up, and rent it out

Buying something to rent it out is clearly investing.

Buying something to fix it and re-sell it is usually also seen as investing.

Buying something to use it (live in it) could also be an investment but usually isn't seen as such because it's assumed that you only live in one place.
Or just increase property tax across the board. An increase in property tax will drive housing prices downwards.
What is 'red tape' though? No-one ever defines what red tape they would remove.

Also, surely the problem at the moment is that energy prices are controlled by series of regional monopoly energy providers, the only thing stopping them from putting bills up astronomically is price controls. If you removed the regulation stopping them from raising prices energy bills will be so high that you will have rioting in central London that would make the poll tax riots look like a church fete. I think that would be a rash move.
In 2012 I was looking at investing in REITs. One REIT's pitch was that they owned such a large percentage of the rental housing in Tampa Florida, that even though vacancy rates were high, and rents were going down throughout the nation and other areas in the state of Florida, they were able to keep rents high in Tampa.

Disgusted, I realized the harm that REITs and private equity are doing to housing markets, and wanted nothing to do with it.

We need legislation that discourages housing as investment if we are to maintain housing as shelter. Unlikely, as wealthy folks who make money with the status quo run things.
What does that do for an existing single family house that someone inherited / moved into as their parents moved out? It wasn't bought as an investment - its a place to live.

A high property tax based on land value would suggest that all the places people need to live would need to be generating income, have a high income for the family, or they'd need to move into a place where that land value is distributed across a wider base of households.
It’s really funny you think the MBAs have less sway at Apple than Google. Apple is a penny-pinching company literally run by a supply chain exec with a Duke MBA. Google is a freewheeling engineer-led culture with zero interest in cost control.
Interest rate is 2.25%, inflation rate 9.1%. Housing is where you park your money.
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.
Fair enough. Just threw it out there quickly as it may resonate with what op was looking for.
Exactly. The dynamic websites need to pull the data from somewhere as well. There's no magic behind it. Either all the data is in the initial payload in some form (not necessarily HTML), or it's downloaded later, again, over HTTP.

Headless browsers are useful when the servers are protected by anti-scraping software and you can't reverse engineer it, when the data you need is generated dynamically - not downloaded, but computed, or simply when you don't have the time to bother with understanding the website on a deeper level.

Usually it's a tradeoff between development costs and runtime costs. In our case, we always try plain HTTP first. If we can't find an obvious way to do it, we go with browsers and then get back to optimizing the scraper later, using plain HTTP or a combination of plain HTTP and browsers for some requests like logins, tokens or cookies.
> Land in places with jobs is scarce

The part that I don't get is with the pandemic you heard about folks moving out of the major cities. With that said you would think that prices in the cities would go down because there is more supply; however, looking at the numbers it seems quite the opposite.

I heard of many folks my age (mid 20s) moving to "lifestyle cities", places like Miami, NYC, LA, etc. These people aren't coming there for work, rather they are just there for the lifestyle. I can't really feel bad for this group of people because they did it to themselves. No one is putting a gun to your head and telling you that you have to live in NYC, LA or Miami with some of the highest cost of living in the country.

Don't move to a HCOL city and then bitch about the HCOL.
As someone who’s had his elderly parents renovicted, it really makes me think about owning one day.
All fake meat products that I can find here in Bulgaria are considerably more expensive than meat. I an not saying impossible burger is more expensive than kobe stakes, though.

It's mostly speculation, imho, as people are willing to spend more on these products.
Some of these things are just as bad, if not worse, than cheap real meat. Back in the before going full veggies, I've tasted some horrible things that should be illegal. I am baffled people are willing to eat factory chicken, pork, etc. Shit is disgusting even if you don't care about the horrible lives of all the animals
I don't want it to be harder for someone to buy their first house (I also want to buy my first house haha). I want it to be harder for some thing to buy it's 10,001st house.
I think the concern is local investors keep the money in the local economy, whereas 'foreign' investors are extracting value from the local community.
yet the people flipping homes and own multiple properties are local canadians, so are immigrants to be blamed for wanting to buy a home? why is there no focus on corporations purchasing multiple units in bulk to flip it? I feel like this blame the immigration policy is an old trope that I been hearing since the 80s.

and this just highlights the issue in Canada: we can't even agree as to what the underlying issues are, instead we scapegoat minority groups because it has worked since the 80s.
I think they conflate GNU with Linux kernel.
In a competitive market (I'd say even the biggest investors own <10% of the markets they operate in), rents are bounded by competition. The bigger reason rents are going up is there is not enough supply for people to live in. Things like environmental reviews, zoning policy, mandatory low income units, and "historical" buildings make it very unappealing or impossible to develop new housing.

At the very least, replacing all SFH with townhouses would give 2x density increase. Removing the height limit on new construction and allowing rebuilds of old apartment buildings without excessive permitting would probably give another 3x increase.
if you happen to cover a portion of the street leading up to your property you are breaking the law

in germany too.

why is that absurd?

you can monitor your own property, but don't record me when i am walking along the street please.
It depends on what the constraints are.

It seems that the construction of most new housing is blocked by people who have a clear interest in maintaining the status quo for mainly monetary reasons, as well as not wanting new people to come in. Here it seems that current residents have every right and reason to maintain the form and substance of their current housing situation until they, their children, their grandchildren, and who knows how many generations after them, decide it is time for a change.

The "people must accept" can also be used to keep supply limited ("you want to be a lawyer, but we, current lawyers, don't want you"), wages low ("you don't want to make two dollars an hour? Get another job") or anything else that is currently regulated or unregulated, depending on what the people in power currently want or don't want.

There is no Bible, nothing is written in stone. It's an ongoing struggle—-and I'm not speaking from a Marxist perspective, please, just a human one--between people who have power now and other people who would like to have a say and currently don't have one, and who, after they get some power, will probably block other would-be newcomers to the party.

There is no perfect "market-dynamics".

Where I currently live, there is no reason to have entire neighborhoods scarcely populated, or areas that could receive hundreds if not thousands of new units not developed. They are not because there are people who fight tooth and nails to keep housing limited for the reasons I explained above, and the city is either kept hostage or is in cahoots with those who do not want new housing.
Google has good security practices, can implement those in any big corp as they are very straightforward. Mudge previously worked at Google so I'd assume he was hired to help Twitter security get better by implementing some practices from Google. But maybe he was just hired to look like Twitter cared and they didn't really want to change anything.
These errors foretell the quality of work you can expect from them. Senior people usually know what to do about the red squiggly line under words and phrases in their editor of choice. Beyond that most basic use of technical knowledge and lack of attention to important but simple details, their inability to notice how poorly they communicate indicates that you can expect a LOT of problems comprehending complex requirements and communication with other staff, and the business as a whole.

So no, it is not unfair. It is quite diligent.
Look at the video in the link. It's straight from the horse's mouth.
The 'poisonous garbage' was deep in the earth previously, and there are naturally occurring pockets of gas that are arguably even more dangerous.

Given how distributed knowledge now is, it's pretty ridiculous to think that nuclear will be completely forgotten.
> I am not alright with paying absurd rent.

Then you should either:

1) Buy a house to live in

2) Buy a house to hedge against rents going bananas

The 30-year fixed rate mortgage at negative real rates is the biggest handout the world has ever seen.
IIRC Zillow did "too well" to the point that they felt their model wasn't gauging the market correctly and was going to inevitably fail them spectacularly. The fact that it did well, better than it should have was just good luck... but also a bad sign because the model predicted a different outcome.
A nation is, technically speaking, it's rulers and the rules they impose (on others and themselves). So bringing down a nation would imply a sea-change in rulers & rules. Considering that authoritarianism is humanities Default form of Government, it stands to reason that "bringing down" a democracy means reverting to that default. This will happen with the alternative is worse. (The situation in Somalia is arguably worse than authoritarianism, for example). Authoritarianism might also serve, at least in theory, as a kind of "boot loader" for something better - although the transition always seems to require a great deal of blood.
I live in a city that's zoned for %80~ single-family homes. In what way is that a free market?
Data driven opinions are not facts. An opinion may be driven by incomplete or wrong data. I don’t expect people to only believe facts, that’s not fair, and I’m no impartial arbiter anyway.

As for what data drives my favorite color, that’s actually a super interesting question.

All I know is Orange is the best color, fact.
I was trying hard to search ways to share the video and found out that the "Download video" button is only visible in Chrome or Safari and not Firefox. I love everything about Neal's site but I wish supporting the three major web browser engines shouldn't be the big deal. I've seen the writing on the wall now and I should probably jump ships off FF to anything based on chromium.
On MacOS you can use Little Snitch [1] to do exactly this. You can watch all network connections per app, even grab a pcap of traffic just for the app as well. You can setup restrictions to block incoming and outgoing traffic. It basically is a per-app firewall.

[1] https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html
I mean sure, but we’re nowhere near capacity in most places.

Say I could ignore zoning laws and had a billion dollars to blow, I could just buy up a bunch of the $1.2 million 1200 square foot single family homes in San Francisco, bulldoze them and roll out a bunch of 10 story apartment buildings and I’d make an astonishing amount of money.
Why the mention of forward secrecy? You can't be off the record when the whole point here is to make a record.
For reference, 16.7% of adults aged 18-25 and 55.1% of adults ages 25-34 are living with a spouse or other partner as of 2018, down from 39.3% and 81.7% respectively in 1970. By my math that alone is responsible for an increase in demand of close to 10 million housing units. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2018/11/cohabitation-...

Of course, young adults living with roommates or parents have absorbed some of that difference, but I'm sure many of those people would live alone if housing prices were still at 1970 levels.
I get a pork belly, salt cure with regular salt, then cold smoke and slice. There is more process in chopping the wood than making the bacon. Where do you guys get this stuff?
You twist carbohydrate and you get hydrocarbons. It is just linguistically accurate :)
single family housing is not an investment in japan, they tear down and rebuild. https://robbreport.com/shelter/home-design/japanese-homes-ar...
>Is that true though? When Apple made tracking opt-in, pretty much everyone refused. I think that's a clear indicator that the overwhelming majority do want privacy, and if they're actually given a choice, most will probably take it.

That option already existed in the settings. People couldn't be bothered to go set it because they don't really care.
I've never understood this complaint that software uses all of the available memory and the implication that that is somehow a bad thing. That's the whole point of memory. To load up as much of the software or user data as possible into a fast-access cache to reduce wait times on paging to storage. I'd be concerned if my applications weren't using all that's available. That'd be a huge waste of money. That's a lot like buying a house then being mad when you actually use all of the rooms.
It says _start (crt0.o) comes from libc. But note, if you run nm on a binary you can see _start is part of the binary, not libc.so.
> How can you make housing not an investment?

I think if it's an investment, that's fine. The problem is when housing is allowed to become a speculative investment, and the investment activity on housing begins to seriously threaten the actual housing activity. So for example you could do one or more of the following:

- Adjust mortgage rates on homes owned but not lived in (eg: triple them)

- Completely ban owning more than one home

- Implement a sliding tax on rental income (the more units you collect on, the higher the tax you pay)

- Bring back (or implement) rent controls and have them geared to cost of living

Basically anything that makes it less feasible to profit off of people who just want a safe place to live.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Re-framing how you see things.
Why leave it in a car instead of using a Faraday bag?

Example product, no affiliation:
https://www.amazon.com/Mission-Darkness-Non-Window-Faraday-P...
I mean the simplest solution would be to tax the holding company as well.
Ask HN: What happened to the “car loan calculator” tool on Google?
Google used to have a simple built-in tool for calculating the cost of car loans.

It used to show up when searching "car loan calculator" or "auto loan calculator" but now I'm not seeing it.

The only relevant thread I can find is this: https://support.google.com/websearch/thread/156391283/auto-loan-calculator-not-coming-up
Pretty sure this is the desired endpoint. Church-goers have long noticed that "sending kids off to those dang colleges" means that a lot of the kids get ideas and don't come back to church. Public libraries also cause the exact same problem.
you're not eating mushrooms??
Firefox. I googled "robots.txt forbid all robots", there was a blog post from Google. Opening that page would crash my entire browser.

Applications not often, but video games hard crash all the time.
JCCPCB is amazing, and spooky fast. It's cheaper to use their service than by pre-built breakout boards from sparkfun even in many cases.
Oh, I thought that was a hanger for the receiver:

https://imgur.com/a/0I8Ng0s
i don't think there's a high proportion of transplants complaining. rather, it's those that were already there and already struggling who have now found themselves in deep or deeper water.
Living in a van is only possible if a small percentage of people do it. The infrastructure for sewage, parking, trash disposal, utilities, etc are all designed to handle a bunch of houses that stay in one place.
I wouldn't paint with too broad of a brush in this instance, however. Yes, mudge is the ur-hacker, but also: he worked at BBN and DARPA (where he was extremely effective) and elsewhere. He probably has the most experience of any technical/hacker on the planet of working with executives in large organizations.

Agrawal's memo, in contrast, reeks of insecurity. The combination of how he's treated mudge and Rishi Sunak and the potential consequences of this complaint (particularly if FTC investigates and finds Twitter has not been following the consent decree) boxes him into a corner -- he won't be able to recruit the talent to solve these security problems and will be seen as an impediment to compliance/mitigation. I could easily see the FTC et al insisting on his resignation as part of a settlement. It's an own-goal.
More for families, many state programs which added to this, hundreds of billions of federal funding to states for responses.

And much expanded unemployment payments, +$600 and +$300 *weekly on top of normal unemployment for long periods, as well as significantly expanded eligibility for who could get it and for how long.

Plenty of people made more money unemployed for significant amounts of time than they did with their jobs pre-pandemic.

Something like 10% of the population was on unemployment for a good while.
Update: yes, it is possible to buy just a battery. Great!
How do you reduce your bet size when you're betting years of your life?
Is this really a change for the worse compared to the status quo?

Compare this with the home-ownership rate graph here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home-ownership_in_the_United_S...

Remarkably steady at around two thirds over the past ~50 years which of course is less than three quarters.

(Not an american, so I may be confused by some terminology.)
Why not make it a web app, though?
Maybe the word "loyal" is confusing here. I'm not aware of any legal requirement for loyalty. There's a legal prohibition against fraud and such, though.
The curators have put a lot of work into it to make it resemble our old home. A very friendly UI and community.

It's the successor to a Kinja site that used to be closely affiliated with Jalopnik, before it was detached (when one of the contributors misrepresented themselves as a Jalopnik author for borrowing cars for reviews); eventually all of the unofficial boards were entirely kicked off Kinja by the new G/O Media ownership.
I tried the Beyond Meat ground beef substitute once to see if it would work in tacos. Stunk up my house with a weird smell, tasted off even with all the spices, and made us all feel a bit sick after. No wonder their stock is tanking. Humans are meant to eat real meat, we evolved this way.
It's been more than e decade since the first cultured meat stake was served in London.

If I have to wait for much longer, my body wouldn't even want it anymore
Feel free to send an e-mail to the moderators and suggest it.
I'm sure they could add a no-notch option (for $200).
LA was not really a HCOL city for much of its history.

Also these cities could be much lower COL with better housing policies - that’s the point. It really does not have to be either or.
Do auditors care? All the ones I've dealt with just want you to log everything and rake your face over the hot pavement for their stamp of approval, actual security be damned. I'm surprised they even require 2FA at all.
You wrote: <<I stayed in San Diego for a month last year and didn't pay a single penny of income tax to the city.>>

Where is your citizenship?

If you had young children who attended local schools (even for one month), do you think that is fair? (Assume pay low/zero tax.)
If you ever played Monopoly; you know that available housing is limited by physics, conglomerates and local laws, therefore supply is capped. Global housing demand cannot adjust because people need a place to stay. Supply and demand (elasticity) works great for certain goods, housing is just not one of them.
The places where there are housing shortages don’t even have “sell to the highest bidder” they have miles of red tape that make the land have absurd prices because 20 story condominiums should be being built there instead of a two bedroom bungalow with granite countertops and a pool.
> Lots of people buy a starter house with the intention of selling for more when they, for example, start having kids and need a bigger house.

This is the problem though. Capital gains for the seller represents inflation on an equivalent lifestyle for the next buyer.

First time buyer programs, lower mortgage rates, etc, are all just smokescreens to try and grow the pyramid one more level before it becomes evidently unsustainable. Exponential growth is too powerful: if housing is a good investment for long enough, it becomes unaffordable, period.
Very fine point. GNU runs on many operating systems, and so to conflate GNU and Linux seems absurd.
That's not the process used for a package of bacon from the supermarket, which is the relevant comparison.