skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The German gov won't give you your tax return if you don't tell them your current place of residence (abroad, in DE they know everything) lol

But yeah, private companies on top of governments is even worse.
Yeah, I think we're in lockstep here.

I'm no fan of Musk (he's truly worked very hard to be the most provacatively pustulent punkass of tech) but that doesn't mean that Twitter leadership is any better. Just not as well PR'd.

Dorsey himself was mostly an imbecile who drank too much of his own Kool Aid. Twitter has for years been the standard bearer for the most opaque, and incoherent content management; from user feedback to bots, just a village with only idiots. It was eventually going to catch up to them, the question now is to whom does the bulk of the suffering land on, not whether it lands or not.
If you don't want salt and processing you aren't the target market for bacon, meat based or otherwise.
And they're taking out much more via rent.

If the owner of the property lives in the community, the rent that is being paid to that owner is much more likely to be circulated locally. If the rent goes to a foreign company, it's removed entirely.

Upkeep and maintenance would also occur regardless of who the owner of the property is, so it's not like they're creating "new jobs" because it's foreignly owned.
Apple Seeds First Beta of iPadOS 16.1, Confirms Delayed Launch
> Meta, formerly Facebook, has officially rolled out what it’s calling Meta accounts and Meta Horizon Profiles. The global launch will be gradual, but both “accounts” are to be used in place of the personal social media account logins — Facebook and Instagram

A step in the right direction, but a far cry from a reality where I can slap on a VR headset without an account at all.
> This is not limited to the UK

Sure, everyone is struggling but there are some unique twists and turns in the UK right now, and some have been made worse by own goals.
I was thinking something very similar the other day when someone came to me extolling stoicism as a route to personal improvement. People need to read a bit of Epicurus or something to level out. Sure grind when it's time to grind, but make sure you set aside time to make friends and enjoy your life. In the end, whether you enjoy yourself or spend your life grinding away, this one life is all we get. No amount of grinding will allow you to vote for a second life after this one.
Full time van life is unsustainable and selfish. The infrastructure does not and should not exist to make this feasible.
The article contains this sentence:

> It is understandable that services/platforms cannot accept every email/domain to keep things tidy.

I don’t understand why that’s understandable. What difference does it make and how does it keeps things “tidy”?
I think a problem we face is that people judge based on simplistic models. We see some comments saying that a petition is worthless. But if that petition succeeded many would have the opposite position. You can't judge purely on the outcomes. The scientists did not control the use of the weapons. These matters are extremely complicated. Simplifying it to good vs evil is in reality dehumanizing. People claim they are criticizing, but it is just pessimism. The world is not simple and often there are no good answers. No one will ever be good enough to be a saint because they are human and all humans are flawed. This makes it easier to bin them in the evil category. Pessimism is thus the easier perspective, but this is destructive. We humans are not the product of singular actions. It is important to remember that you can not condone certain actions but condone others. Scientists, just like any other group, is a non-homogeneous group of individuals. Painting with a wide brush is what we do to propagandize, not how we create a better world.
Yes, it can be a tad clunky and the mobile app for a long time was just a catalog.

However, their new iOS app [1] is awesome. The ability to read and highlight right in the app is what I have been wanting for years.

I had previously been using the ZotFile [2] plugin to achieve something similar previously. ZotFile is also very powerful, I only used a subset of features.

[1] https://www.zotero.org/support/ios

[2] http://zotfile.com/
UK doesn't have 18% inflation, that is just a projection from Citigroup [0] (if gas prices continue to grow it will probably get there, like the rest of Europe). Inflation is at 10.1%.

I'm not sure why you say 'low salaries'. Adjusted by cost of living, salaries are not that low [1]. Median (removes those salaries from 'money laundering industries') salary in London is almost £39.7k [2]. Adjust that by cost of living, and it is higher than median income in San Francisco or NYC [3].

Infrastructure is miles better than the US. Public transport, while expensive, works quite well. The US has virtually no public transport whatsoever.

Housing and renting is expensive in every major city, it is not a problem exclusive to the UK.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/22/uk-inflatio...

[1] https://neilkakkar.com/salary-calculator-by-city.html

[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/416139/full-time-annual-...

[3] https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocit...

Edit: format
Genuine question.. how did you go from “Personally I don’t like a thing” therefore “humans evolved to eat meat”

Personally I don’t like peaches… does that mean humans evolved to eat meat?

Honestly it sounds like you tried 1 product, didn’t like it and used that to reinforce a totally separate worldview that you already wanted to believe and reinforce.

I don’t like beyond meat either, I agree it tastes funny, but personally that doesn’t make me feel like the only other alternative is to eat a cow.. I can just eat something else.
> why such a strong aversion to people improving themselves

crab bucket mentality
All land should be leased from the government. That's what a land value tax is and there are many, many reasons it works much better than our current land system.
So what? That person who wants it for themselves is competing against all the renters that would like to rent the home that OP fixes up, but who aren't privileged enough to be able to put together a down payment to buy a house. So that aspirational home buyer is driving up the price for renters. Should we be angry at the home buyer as well then?

It's not like OP is going to buy the home and let it sit vacant.
the 12 hour wait is once the person enters the doors of the facility. In a hospital, if you walk into the ER, people are observing you closely and expediting people at immediate risk of death. A person who can sit in a chair for 12 hours waiting didn't have an emergency. Instead, they were using the ER for non-urgent care.
> I have to disagree with both. Guns are a constant threat, even in the bluest of cities since there are Red States just a few hours of drive away (if you're not already a Blue City in a Red State which is extremely common). The threat of school shooting is very real. Kids have to go through bs "active shooter drills"... this is not the sign of a healthy society.

Sorry you are buying far too much into the news. I suspect more people are burned alive in housefires from shoddy construction in India, than die in the US to guns.
I think the problem is that there's a lot of people where that 5% non-screen time at work is the difference between a job they like and one that they don't
Worth Googling "Larry Ellison Trump" or "Safra Catz Trump"
As someone that happily rents (I enjoy the increased optionality that comes with this option), the constant push to get everyone to own a house seems weird to me. Yes, we should make it possible to own a home, but it doesn't need to be the only option.

Also, rentals tend to be higher density than houses that are owned. If there is a housing crisis, this seems like a desirable thing. Ex: roommates (yes, possible with a house, but less likely), etc.
1000 is too high a threshold. I wonder what it would look like if you dropped to 50 or 100.

I hang out in RE circles. Anecdotally it seems that probably most of these are bought by people who have just 1-20 properties - regular folks who have regular jobs but are looking for ways to supplement their income and hopefully quit their jobs. Owning merely 5 extra homes is not enough to replace income, and in some markets owning even 20 is not enough.

But without a good study that breaks it down, I have no idea if my anecdotal experience is reflective of the nationwide trend.
I have a work/comms phone and a home/media phone. Don't care about privacy from companies/etc, that doesn't actually affect me irl right now.

People I know affect me and those who insist I have to answer within 10 minutes are the insane ones.
But part of what this article calls out from the whistleblower's POV is that the logging and auditing systems that would be needed to do that don't exist at Twitter. That users can activate God Mode or get into production systems without any logging or accountability
> The 1990s also were the times of software that crashed ‘all the time”

Still a problem. I need to hard-restart my machine multiple times per day, because of two developer tools that spawn orphan processes, all day long. It seemed to suddenly become a problem, when the M1 came out, so I assume that the fault actually lies in Rosetta 2.
Surprised no one has mentioned iBooks or Books.app from Apple. It works great and syncs across devices. You can add personal PDFs if you have a iCloud account.
Because…it is? I’m a senior dev that’s mostly worked with Java and JS and my Java skills are in HIGH demand. Java may be passé in the startup world but so many businesses run on Java.

Not to mention Android development. Cross-platform apps haven’t fully filled all the lofty promises they made. Many apps are still being written and maintained in Java, Kotlin, Objective-C, and Swift.
This article, speaking to your point, is pretty convincing in terms of the data:

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/22524829/wall-street-housin...

> The role of institutional investors is still being studied, but the popularity of the narrative strikes at something dangerous: People want a convenient boogeyman and when they get it, they often ignore the structural problems that are harder to combat. Housing undersupply is the result of decades of locals opposing new home building. It’s not something that can be blamed on Wall Street greed and the nefarious tinkering of a private equity firm. And that’s a much harder truth to stomach.

I'm involved with a local YIMBY group, and what I see over and over again is my neighbors stopping homes from being built. No wonder investors think it's a great place to put some money - other people do the dirty work for them!
From the article:

> To distinguish where employees receive high pay versus low pay, Company X organized the locations into three bins: discount, national, and premium. New York City, naturally, is a premium location. Detroit is a discount location. One of her friends works in Detroit, and something doesn’t sit right about her friend being a discount employee.
> 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.

Having recently bought a home, I think there isn't so much of a gap and in many cases the gap is inverted: it's cheaper to buy than to rent.
This has to stop yesterday... worldwide.
I wonder what the expected value of entrepreneurship is?

I rather suspect it is significantly negative, because most new businesses fail and the venture capital system means gambling with someone else's money.
Wow, that's the exact opposite advice I got doing an internship for an oil company a decade ago. They emphasized shorter (and hidden + animated bullet) points so that audience has to listen and engage with you, the presenter. Otherwise they just read your slides and put their brain in park.

I'd take the oil companies suggestions to heart, not Oracle's.
> But here you have people being irresponsible with what they're willing to spend on rent.

Irresponsible how? Rent goes up the most in places with good paying jobs. As rent goes up, generally the people without the good paying jobs have to move out. This process of low income residents competing with high income residents on housing and subsequently being displaced is called gentrification. It’s an example of a negative externality in a supply-constrained housing market where all players are acting rationally.
The UK is an interesting example given that it’s, effectively, the only country in Europe that cannot take part in the annual GC lottery.
And even then, Northern Ireland is exempt from that.

This has got something to do with the amount of British people who are already in the US, and I expect in the case of your example, that might also have something to do with the number of Indian H1B holders.
That's the thing with all the interesting stories though. I'm in no way criticizing you, just thought about this for a while. If we let ourselves guided by interesting(and thus rare) stories, we are obviously setting ourselves for failure, because that's not playing the game that needs to be played.
Do you think it really is a risk factor for ovarian cancer?
This is a perspective I've been following and cultivating for a long time, and even led to my current endeavor [0]. Code should really be structured to be easy for us humans to understand and change, and we humans are sometimes not as logical as we'd like to believe.

It can sometimes feel like a lot of folks are chasing other priorities and forget to even consider the human aspect of architecture. I also often see people make mistakes on what "simplicity" is, and what kind of simplicity should be optimized for. For a recent example, Rust's borrow checker is based on a simple rule (roughly, a reference can have one mutable reference xor multiple readonly reference) but it can often lead to more complexity than the corresponding program written in a GC'd language. Knowing when and how this happens is an art!

I'm not sure if I have anything you haven't thought of already, but I'd love to contribute a chapter or two on whatever topic, or edit anything that needs editing. If you'd like a sample of my work, I'm particularly proud of [1]!

[0] https://vale.dev/

[1] https://verdagon.dev/blog/yak-shave-language-engine-game
I had a similar requirements some time ago - I thought one nice way would be to write a Markdown file to be read inside VSCode with links to the files' lines/positions, but couldn't find an extension that worked like this. Settled for "Bookmarks" at the time. The "Code Tour" extension can also be used for this.
causes me aggravation every day
Sounds very similar to this, from the original author, in the comments:

The situation is not irretrievable in theory, at this point.

The problem is that in practice a solution requires the political elite to collectively admit the falsehood of the axioms they built their entire careers on.

If an individual political leader defects from the nationalist-neoliberal consensus, then they get treated exactly the way Jeremy Corbyn was. Corbyn was a soft-brexiter -- his distrust of the EU was based on it having emerged from the EEC, as a capitalist institution: what they hated him for was for being an unreconstructed hang-over from the 1970s when Labour was actually a left-wing party.

Neoliberal politicians can't admit that the crisis is rooted in neoliberal policies.
I believe GP is referring to "regular folks with jobs" who buy houses on the side to supplement their income (as opposed to investing in funds).
A very high real estate tax with huge discounts for a single primary homestead makes investment less profitable.
And only quite recently has "billet" stainless steel and aluminium become a "common" material for consumer goods (as opposed to types like die cast which don't have a finish that's usually left unpainted).

Both these materials require fairly advanced techniques to produce at scale. Firstly the actual materials themselves are fairly hard to get good alloys of.

Secondly, they are hard to machine well, especially stainless steel, which really needs extremely rigid machinery and high speed carbine tooling. Not only that, but to machine the shapes of things that would previously have been plastic, you really need CNC, which again, only recently has become economical for many consumer goods.

Scientific instruments and tools meanwhile would be using brass, as it's much more amenable to machining. Milling a brass billet on a manual mill is a joy and results are good, stainless is a misery, and the results are horrible.

And as to why plastic things were so garish a few decades ago? Maybe firstly they were new and it was unusual to even be able to have such colours. Early plastics were ahead of the dye chemistry, so they were much more "natural".

Secondly, it's actually hard to have good silver finishes (you can have grey): many of the high end products were silver, but it was usually a coating which would come off and reveal the milky plastic. White is also hard because UV stabilization was also not as mature, so it would yellow quickly[1]. It was easier to have a solid colour, and the brighter the better in terms of hiding moulding defects.

[1] It also seems only fairly recently that you can get the really deep gloss jet black plastic, rather than the dull, very dark grey like a cassette tape body.
Depends on where you live - this "renting is a poverty trap" only applies to certain places and depends on home values constantly increasing. If home values crash where you live then you spent years putting money towards a worthless asset.
It may have influenced the result of the 2016 US presidential election.

IIRC, the Trump used that data set to send targeted ads to ~90M independent and republican voters. Independents got ads attacking Clinton and emphasizing prominent Trump supporters. Republicans got turnout-oriented ads.

Provided he won by less than 100k votes (and lost the popular vote), the cost to the median US citizen was likely quite large.

I didn’t know the same demographic markers had been baked into the platform. This is very concerning.
Not sure this is feasible. A) People can hide how many houses they "own" rather easily. B) People with 10,000 houses have 10,000 times the economic incentive to run for office and/or press elected officials to make things easier on them.

The best approach is to press for over-development of housing. It doesn't matter if someone owns 1 house, or 1000 houses, so long as there is more than enough homes for everyone.

Idea: have a property tax line item that's based on the ratio of population / housing units. The higher that ratio, the higher the tax. The tax revenue is used to cover the costs of constructing more housing units, which lowers the tax.
This is Mozilla we are talking about. Moh-zill-uh.
This all makes sense at first sight, but remember that we can always take the difference between the address of an array's first element and one past the end, so you run into a lot of issues when an array (or any object) is larger than PTRDIFF_MAX bytes.

https://trust-in-soft.com/blog/2016/05/20/objects-larger-tha...
So glad I bought a house when I did. I was unsure b/c the value seemed inflated, but rent has gone up, up, UP!

A lot of my friends are now paying rent that is $100-$200 within my mortgage payment. And that is for an apartment without AC or a yard.
This might sound like cheap shots, but I say it with love for my friends in the Uk...

If you look at Britain historically...coal is dead. Wool is dead. The island itself is fairly small for much agriculture. There aren't a whole lot of natural resources. They had power and resources through their empire, but that is gone. Their one shot, so to speak, was like many developed nations - services, including financial. But Brexit was signaling, and companies saw that there was little incentive to stay and do business there vs. Frankfurt, Zurich, New York, etc.

So... yeah, a lot of us pre-Brexit saw this malaise not only for what it was, but what it was going to become. It isn't a pretty picture and the utter void of competent political leadership means this is probably a protracted decline.
Housing prices is determined by a lot of factors. The most recent being the pandemic and institutional investors. But we are still reeling from the 2008/9 housing crash. Everyone that went bankrupt couldnt buy a house for 7 years after their insolvency. That caused rents to rise, but also slow home sales. Once those people could buy houses again did, but even those people took time save properly so the buying period was (2008 + 7 years) give or take 7 additional years. Which is where we are at now. Everyone that cannot buy a house right now has the ability to change their lifestyle drastically and save. Move and save. etc.... There is plenty of housing (and jobs) if people were willing to change their lives for what they want instead of forcing the land to bend to their will.
It seems on GitLab this is being working on in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/343879 with part of the work already merged in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/87962 and https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/88693
The concept of credit score isn't something that has always existed in humanity. It's something that we can go on without, even more so given the ridiculous profitability of banks
When I bought my home 4 years ago my mortgage was ~10% more per month than the apartment I was renting. Looking at the apartment complex's website, it looks like the same apartment is now about 60% more per month than my mortgage.
Unix legend, who owes us nothing, keeps fixing foundational Awk code
I believe that they have missed Parfit's point. The problem is not just that the world is fine, but that you are forced to the conclusion that it's better than some other world in which everybody were happier -- but the population smaller.

The paradox is that the world is made a better place just because it has more people in it. Anybody who was sufficiently unhappy would kill themselves, so what's left has a maximum of total happiness but every individual feeling sort of meh.

This conclusion is repugnant not because it's a horrible world, but because it's merely OK and prevents striving for more happiness. You max out the planet's resources at a sustainable rate and then just stop.

It's not about dystopia, but rather about going back to question the assumptions that led us here. It seems to be that the problem is the way it goes about its "more people is better than fewer people" argument, though I personally would step even further back and deny that the notion of "total happiness" is meaningful.
Remote-WSL (and all other remote plugins) plugin is proprietary MS plugin, so no.

You can go a bit different way: run code-server or OpenVSCode Server in WSL and open them in a browser.
Yeah I kinda glossed over the headline and figured, whatever.

Then I clicked through and saw it was Mudge.

Ah jeez.
The baker is a person with rights as well, you can't force him to make a special order cake for something he disagrees with. You can force him to sell standard cakes, and they offered to sell standard cakes in the case, but the customers wanted to force him to make a designed cake, that would be against the bakers individual rights.

Large corporations lacks those individual rights for obvious reasons, so large corporations should be forced to provide services to everyone even though individuals shouldn't always be.
That mainly means that startups are deeply atypical.
If the brand wants to market itself to crypto-bros, it'd be a good publicity stunt

But otherwise I don't see this offering anything that an NFC tag linked to a regular database maintained by the brand doesn't. "Authentically made by this entity" doesn't sound like a use case for trustlessness...