skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no problem with property being an investment.

Prices are constrained by people's incomes and over the 20th century incomes have grown faster than inflation (people have got richer). This leaves space for positive returns without necessarily hurting affordability.

Now, in many places construction has slowed a lot and capital is cheap, which is really what has caused prices to skyrocket.

Eventually, incomes will still constrain the market, though, especially in lettings.
I think the unnecessary slam on Mudge will have the opposite impact of improving Twitters security situation, from both an offensive and defensive perspective.
Currently I'm unsure where I will/want to settle down.

I also manage to save some money monthly, which I invest in diverse markets. So my thinking is that at there isn't (or "shouldn't be") any rush for me to buy property.

But news like this obviously goes against that and will have me revisit the idea.
> It hasn't done squat.

You made me go look and I think you're wrong. It wasn't a silver bullet (shocker!) but it did add 18,000 units to the rental market in 2019 and 2020 and raised $231 million in tax revenue that was used to support affordable housing developments.

https://news.gov.bc.ca/files/SVT_Annual_Mayors_Consultation_...
No, I don’t think it’s negative. Being sociable as actually the best way to get ahead in work. People want to help people who are nice and help back. This is the only way to do well long term at work, paired with really knowing your skill set.

The difference is I can do that sociable action just fine without adding an office dynamic that adds a commute and related expenses to my day (from a remote work discussion angle) and then hedge related risk of a social misfire damaging work (from a ITT angle).

I mean have you never seen someone drop the professional but social veneer for their true selves and seen it backfire? I certainly have but my experiences aren’t everything for sure.

Summary of Org Man is wrong. It’s a longitudinal study of lower/middle managers as they advance their careers on how workplace culture actually works and how they make decisions vs what’s taught in MBA programs. it’s all about tactical socialization and they leave their real selves at the door.

Edit - it’s also useful for engineers to read to understand the context that governs their work beyond making great tech. I was recommended it a while back and it saves my sanity.
Before answering that question I'd ask: why would we want that?

My answer is no, it didn't work on the desktop, it won't work on the smartphone, for more or less the same reasons.

As much as I like Linux and FOSS, Linux is just a bad OS for the average consumer.

For hackers, makers, DYI enthusiasts, etc. Linux is wonderful, however, what's the market size for a Linux smart phone for this people? I bet it's tiny.
Android is Linux but it has nowhere close to the fully open source freedom of a traditional Linux workstation. This is why I carry a tiny linux laptop.
Let’s take a look at some of the current NFT standards we have in place:

ERC-721 - Non-Fungible Token Standard
ERC-721a - Non-Fungible Token Standard with Batch-Minting
ERC-1155 - Multi-Token Standard
At least, the tone suggests people are aware of the fact that they know nothing about the topic. On Youtube everybody is an expert on 'Free Energy'.
>> We have spent decades telling American families that homeownership is the safest investment.

Home ownership is a key part of retirement, as reducing monthly bills is critical and rent is a big one. It has been a fairly profitable investment for 30 years of decreasing interest rates, but it is no longer so.
My problem as well. All the impossible burger or beyond meat stuff appears worse for you (nutritionally) than a real burger. I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't that.
That really depends on how much more efficiently invested the money is in the startup vs in the government. Depending on which country you are in the answer is different but if you are in the first world the answer is almost certainly the money is better invested in the startup.
Agrawal's internal statement about Zatko is insane. My goodness.
I'd love to hear about some alternatives. I still default to "let's go to a bar" as the hangout thing to do, but TBH I'm getting kind of tired of alcohol. I'm just not really sure what other options are.

Bars are great: you get a small table for your conversation; being a little loud and bawdy is fine (no kids); it's a casual drop-in-drop-out atmosphere where the bill is already split. Where do you get that kind of atmosphere other than a bar? Genuinely asking, I'd love to have another social option.
the contract does not allow twitter to commit fraud. Which they have.
Also known as non-repudiation[1] and, as you point out, not something to be used without considering its consequences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-repudiation
Calling it just "uint8" could conflict with software which already used it as an identifier, or worse, a macro; on the other hand, names ending with _t are reserved (see for instance https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Reserved-...), so they could be used by the standard for these new types.
The United States government does very little central planning.

And, you point out the (economic) success of China, and then complain about countries not doing anything about the climate crisis. Have you looked at China's CO2 emissions? Yes, they bootstrapped their economy. The environmental cost has been pretty steep, though...
HSE[0] is another storage engine to throw on the pile.

[0]: https://github.com/hse-project/hse
> Don't waste your time at social events you don't enjoy.

The author is talking about work events, which are unavoidable if you want to get anywhere in your career.
I wouldn't trust a stat like that without digging into the underlying causation. The whole twitter presentation is a nice narrative but I see many places where it could just be outright wrong, or saying misleading things (I work in medical biology and have plenty of familiarity with how hospitals run their ERs).
From your linked article:

" The unprecedented number of refugees arriving in Ireland has put pressure on the country's housing crisis, despite generous offers to host Ukrainian families. "
I'm not sure how that results in cutting demand for building housing. The article is basically saying there's a crisis with few reasons offered.

How / why / what would be cutting demand for building housing? Demand is the last thing I'd be worried about. People need a place to live, and they need the housing to live in, so there's always going to be demand for building it.
I'm assuming you are plotting in python or R, is there an advantage here using sql queries instead of subsetting a flat file with some function and plotting these subsets?
Synopsis:

1. Quantum mechanics predicts that the target molecule can accommodate an electron inside (electron-in-a-cube).

2. A sample of the target molecule was prepared, and yes, it involved elemental fluorine, a very difficult substance to handle safely and one notorious for nonproductively chewing up just about everything you give it.

3. Analytical results were consistent with the structure.

4. The substance's electrochemistry at low temperatures was consistent with the uptake of an electron at the predicted potential. Fine structure of results are consistent with the electron-in-a-cube idea. At room temperature, the results indicate decomposition.

5. Bonus: the electrochemical results suggest the electron-in-a-cube assembly is rotating unexpectedly.

This is a really good example of basic science in action. Observation (some molecules envelop other molecules), generalization (maybe a molecule could envelop an electron), hypothesis (calculations suggest this envelope in particular would work, and would yield these specific observations), experiment (figure out how to make the thing, make it, then measure the predicted properties), update hypothesis (in this case, the electron-in-a-cube is rotating unexpectedly).

It's also a good example of why it's a good idea to do experiments you think will "work". Sometimes they don't work and your hypothesis does in fact suck. Sometimes they work exactly as you expect and you can add that to the pile of evidence you already have in support of the hypothesis. And sometimes you get a surprise.
https://source.android.com/docs/setup/start/licenses
They could. But if someone has a cost effective plan to improve security, that's feasible to execute, why would they block it? It doesn't make sense, security issues are important and can cause damage to the business. Their CEO is an engineer, he knows this.

It seems more probable that this security leader failed to get buy in from the engineering teams, or that there was some technical debt that he couldn't get past.
> And there are good reasons for that.

What are these reasons? What makes them "good"?
I also developed a service based on the Goldberg paper in the mid 2010s. We flattened and discretized the signature to make it searchable which gave us pretty good results: https://github.com/ProvenanceLabs/image-match

Sorry I haven’t maintained the project in years so it’s unlikely to work out of the box. But who knows, maybe you’ll find something useful here for your project!
Say you’re writing some code that may be illegal (piracy stream, rips off another API with licensed content, etc). I would want to deny that it was me (but then, i wouldn’t connect it to my real-life identity at all).
Germany can do that maybe by 2040. Retrofitting every home in Germany to do away with gas heating and implement efficient electrical heating is easier said than done, to put it lightly. We're talking trillions in euros worth of investment and spending.
It is always better to benchmark with actual programs than it is with benchmark utilities. Geekbench's claims as a cross-platform test are also not really validated.

For example, let's check out the M1 Mini review that Anandtech did, specifically these two pages:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

According to Geekbench, the M1 handily beats the 5950X in single-threaded work. However, according to Cinebench 1T and spec2017, the 5950X is faster at single-threaded. Who is "correct"?

The answer is a much more simple "look at the benchmark results that matter for your workloads." A good review will cover benchmarks of a variety of workloads as a result so you can figure out which matters to you. Which is never geekbench, since nobodies workload is ever geekbench. So a good review will tend to not include geekbench rather than include it, unless they just don't have better ways to compare whatever they're testing.
I stopped reading because the author had too many preconceived notions for me to take their argument seriously. Unlearn, they must.
BlackRock, for all the flack it gets, ultimately is purchasing these homes on behalf of large institutional investors, like retirement plans, pensions, social security programs etc.
Sure that's fair. Replace Chromebook with Nest products and Pixel products such as phones and earbuds.
> Thanks to "consulting" companies' abuse of H1B.

They found the "loopholes". Given that the system is being abused, the government hasn't made much effort in fixing it.
> I don't have an easy solution.

Isn't RTO pretty easy?
I wonder how usual it is for bigger tech companies to give a majority of their staff wide productive access?
I worked in the US and felt that H1B status was very insecure so I tried to start my own company in India in 2020, and also explored the job and housing market. I agree 100% with all the great financial and work-related competitive points you've highlighted but I believe it misses the human and quality of life factors.

Things that really affected my mental health in India during that time:

1. Food: Lack of variety in food and food ingredients. I like to eat out and cook different cuisines (Japanese to Korean to Middle eastern to French to Northern European). Beef is a major issue in India and fresh sushi can be a hit or miss even in Balgalore. And nothing is available if you're outside of the major metro cities.

2. Prices: If you're in Bangalore you do get a wide variety of food including beef dishes but equivalent quality restaurants and bars in India have the similar range prices as the US (I used to live in the south so it might not be apples to apples). Same goes for food ingredients - e.g. Almond milk and cheddar cheese costs the same in India as in the US.

3. Traffic and honking: Even sitting in an Uber for 30 mins can be maddening for me. Not to mention people actually yell obscenities at each other in traffic jams.

4. Interruptions: India still has power cuts, water supply and flooding issues and the bigger the city (with more opportunities) the worse these problems are. The gated communities in the metros alleviate many of these issues but then you're paying $1000 or more per month in rent or purchase for $600-700K. So same as most developed countries.

My conclusion was that if you got somewhat acclimated to the having a better QoL in the west (which is different than standard of living) you really need to try living there for a few months and see if it makes financial sense, because you'll be paying western prices on a Indian salary. As always YMMV depending on your preferences. I myself ended up moving to Canada.

edit: fixed typo
There are more than a billion vegetarians worldwide. There are many millions even in non-Hindu countries.
According to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Australia

Yearly PV capacity increase is between 3 and 4 GW, so tripling PV as the simulation assumes starting from 27 GW means between 11 and 15 years to reach at the current rate.

I did not look for wind data (yet).
Now THIS is creative!

This is both just really impressive and futuristic feeling from a tech perspective. Works perfectly in Firefox! Can't believe that has to be said these days.

And from a FUN and creative perspective the possibilities are endless. I'm reminded of the Simpsons where Homer designs a car and it's an impracticable monstrosity. I just added a full HDMI port to the iPhone, so I feel like I'm halfway there!

Really well done!
What are the advantages of signing with SSH rather than GPG?
Mid and high density housing for the high-income earners get opposed across the entire economic spectrum. On one hand, you have NIMBYs that place strict zoning restrictions and mandate bullshit environmental reviews to stall the development that does occur. On the other, you have affordable housing advocates opposing gentrification by blocking cement trucks and refusing to be leave their apartment that got bought out unless if they get paid $1 million. At the end of the day, developers can pull through by simply throwing enough money and time at the problem, but that's a cost that ends up being passed to the future renters.
When I think of a Linux phone, I really want something that supports a full GNU/Linux desktop as convergence.

The Steam Deck does this perfectly!
"This isn't just an upgrade, its a breakthrough"
I mean you make fair point. But that's in general story of life. I also do not want expensive day care, expensive home therapies for my sick kid that insurance does not pay for, or exhausting commute to work with no option to work remote. Still here I am doing things I do not want to.
The terminal statement is false. In fact I contributed an Alacritty feature that stopped rendering when the window was occluded that cut CPU usage from ~10% to ~0.4% when not visible. There's also a misconception on what GPU's are useful for. Being the graphics processing unit they are much faster for processing images and glyph graphics then the cpu.
You're right, I just found them on YouTube and Tidal. Low effort is a good description though, the entire album is insanely repetitive.
Most of the top talented engineers i met at meetups are commited to build companies in India. Defence, Infra, Fintech, Medical, Space and Drug sectors are the ones most popular. we are going see future unicorns from these sectors.
They probably just keep running into issues that seem really trivial but are unable to find info on fixing. It's the reason I put off writing things in typescript until relatively recently.

In that vein, if anyone here can tell me how the hell you functionally map over a typed object by key in typescript I'll be eternally grateful.

I always wanna do something like Object.keys(typedObjName).map(...) but that doesn't work.

It's so stupid and small and minor and it's never really prevented me from getting something done but it drives me out of my mind that I still can't find any clear documentation on how to do it.
I'm an engineer that moved to Canada. Let me tell you, I am here because they made it easy (or at least do-able) to come, and the people made it extremely pleasant to stay.

In America, you also get the mostly immigrant-friendly culture, but it's orders of magnitude harder and more involved to get there. So it's not even on my radar.
Liquid smoke is an interesting one. It seems like most of the really harmful compounds in smoke are fat soluble. Since liquid smoke is water-based, a lot of those compounds don't make it into the mix once everything is filtered.

It does contain small amounts of known carcinogens, but if you compare a teaspoon of your average liquid smoke product to say, smoked salmon, the liquid will be a tiny fraction of the safe limit while the salmon will tend to greatly exceed safe limits.

I'm not suggesting everyone should consume liquid smoke, and I agree, this is essentially junk food. You just put two question marks beside something I happen to know a bit about.

The main takeaway with smoked products is that they can be remarkably harmful to your health, with the exception of proper usage of liquid smoke. That can be hard to hear because good god, smoked food is delicious.

Smoked plant foods (i.e. tofu or tempeh) don't seem to carry nearly as much risk as smoked animal foods. I'm not sure why, but I think it is known.

This study is 30 years old, but offers some insight into risk factors for meats vs liquid smoke: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8224319/

Since very small amounts of the liquid are used, one would end up ingesting ~1/40th or less of the carcinogenic compounds compares to if they, for example, ate a grilled pork chop.

> Total PAH concentrations in smoked meat products ranged from 2.6 micrograms/kg in a cooked ham sample to 29.8 micrograms/kg in grilled pork chops, while those in fish products ranged from 9.3 micrograms/kg in smoked shrimp to 86.6 micrograms/kg in smoked salmon.

Of course smoked salmon is the tastiest one on the list
I don’t even know what this means. Are you saying that we should expect propaganda to not work despite it working since the beginning of recorded history? If so, that is really dumb.
N.B., it’s “rap sheet”.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rap%20sheet
Investors do not at all have the votes or weight at a local city level in most cases, especially large ones from out of town.

Go to a planning meeting about some housing that people are pissed off about because reasons ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32569768 ) and you'll find a whole bunch of your neighbors. It's not institutional investors blocking this stuff, by and large.

> they are worried about the value of their own home going down. They are treating their home primarily as an investment because that is what they have been told to do their whole lives

Yes, that's much closer to what I've observed in person fighting these fights.
There is no government in the world that doesn't force Twitter to put their agents on payroll?
Every single time I've posted allowing newcomers to build houses the same way their great-great-grandaddy built a shack I've gotten an army of people up in arms complaining they're afraid the lack of safety regulations will result in their town burning down.

Where I live zoning laws are decent and land cost next to nothing. But you still have to contend with the universal housing codes, which means you're absolutely fucked because grand-daddy built a house that is basically irreplaceable (you can't permit that anymore) that grandson can live in, but fuck you if you want a house like that for yourself because that's all you can afford to build.
Termux is a godsend on Android, and remains The Only App Which Does Not Specifically and Precisely Suck (though EinkBro is giving it a good run for its money).

Termux still has a host of limitations and weaknesses which are imposed by the Android environment itself, including being capriciously killed by the OS, lack of multiple users, blocked access to most of the filesystem, and a relatively limited (though impressively growing, I have to admit) set of utilities. At last check, this includes X11 utilities and at least some of TeX, both quite formidable.
You can find the feature request for supporting keyless sigstore/gitsign at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/364428
>Do you think that point is often missed?

Yes I do. A lot of people seem to think that if everyone went into an office, they'd all be working with a co-located team sitting a stone's throw from each other. This may be true with startups. It's often not the case (with local small team exceptions) for larger companies--especially those which already had practices of being fairly flexible about location for a lot of hires.
Yeah, I also don't really like splits, they just don't feel very scalable. If I just need to open one or two other files they're fine temporarily, but more than that and everything becomes too small. Maybe if there were something that let you zoom in and out, like a Figma canvas, so that you could organize the files spatially in some order that makes sense to you (this is another thing that annoys me about just opening tabs in my editor, they're never really ordered in any meaningful way). If you could do this not just for files but for selected lines / ranges / functions / classes to keep things tightly scoped that would be awesome. I believe this sort of thing was something the original LightTable video explored, but I don't believe it was ever actually implemented.
I do want to do ops, I just want recognition from management and above that if ops is part of my job, that means less time will be spent directly on code.
awesome insights, thank you!
How did they back up that assertion? If I ran an onion fund I’d put a slide deck in my pitch that suggested I controlled the onion prices too.
Google created an Android userspace that requires Google services to do anything meaningful. This violates everything Linux stands for.
There is huge value in subdividing land and building, creating housing for people who cannot afford to buy and build. You're stuck in a suburbia mindset.

Not everyone can afford a SFH, there isn't enough land. Not everyone can afford to build. Not everyone wants to have massive switching costs when they need to move.
If the US consumer is buying from US producers, then it is just money bouncing around domestically. You could argue that from a birds eye view, the US economy as a whole, at least on a national scale, is minimally affected.

That being said, I can't agree with the parent post, it's not that symmetric.
Google Search Data Suggests the Mar-a-Lago Raid Boosted Trump over Desantis
You seem to have a pretty transactional view of what friendship means, whether it is at work or outside of work. Its very easy to not put your livelihood on the line at work and in work relationships...just don't be an idiot and respect those around you. If you just have an intolerable itch to spill all of your beliefs to every person in your life so that you can 'test out ideas and risk conflict'...the consequences of that are all on you, not society.
I don't think it is coincidental that there is also now a large push in England for State sanctioned suicide. Especially after reading how administrators in Canada are treating it.
Also, be sure the phone is never near you or places you've been when it is connected to the cell network.