skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very particular perspective and I don't think it tells us a useful truth. While big cities definitely have this game of musical chairs, they already have lots of housing per sqkm. Yet, they all seem to have a housing crisis.

Also, housing has a lower price limit. Adding more housing is expensive. Building new housing will always be more expensive than, say, ten years ago. It will also be the more expensive the higher you build. This premium needs to be paid for by rent. Thus, new housing will never filter completely to the bottom, unless the owners go bankrupt.

Cities attract ever more people and that's the core reason of the housing crisis. Ironically, housing, and generally the lack of space, is one of the few factors that actually repulse migration into a city. Ease it and migration will increase, worsening the space (and housing) problem again, probably to a new level.

I would argue that it's pointless to try to "solve" that problem, as long as cities profit from ever more people living in them and people economically profit from moving into or close to cities. Any attempt to mitigate the problem will only lead to more migration into the cities, forming a vicious cycle.

One "solution" would of course be to let housing become completely unaffordable (e.g., just stop increasing or even actively decrease housing). Areas then become uninhabited by normal people. For certain areas this seems to be largely accepted: I don't think anyone has complained lately about the housing crisis in London's financial district.

Another option would be to make it completely unattractive to actually live in a city. One could, for instance, restrict all buildings to single-bedroom apartments by law, move schools to the outside if the city, etc. People might then spend the night there, but will hardly live there.

The interesting question should be: Why do people pay as much as they do today to live inside a big city? What makes it so much more attractive than living 5km further outside with 5-10 times the space per person?
makes me think of how to count with the base 60 babylonian number system.

You'd use the thumb of one hand to count to 12 on the phalanges of the other 4 fingers, and keep track of every 5 passes like we would do with the second hand
Interesting. I thought I saw somewhere that Apple stopped applying macOS for some certification, but it looks like the latest versions of macOS definitely have UNIX certification.

Maybe what I saw was about POSIX certification, but it's shockingly hard to find definitive info on that online. I can find the list of UNIX-certified operating systems, but not the list of POSIX-certified operating systems, at least not from an authoritative source. The latest version of macOS is POSIX-certified but I can't tell if there were any gaps between 10.5 and now.

Maybe the info I saw was total bogus.
Keep it undeveloped for what, you ask? Interestingly this featureless wasted space is likely the home of a rich ecosystem evolved and evolving right here. And this very ecosystem may well support human thriving too in ways that people whooshing past won’t begin to understand.

> People would rather have unemployment and opiate addicts instead of development and progress.

So that’s our choice - big box stores and Amazon warehouses or opiate addicts and unemployment? In this formulation, the more progress, the fewer opiate addicts. So if we roll the clock back to, say, the mid 1500’s the whole continent would have been full of opiate addicts. Or possibly the directionality of the relationship is wrong. Or opiate addiction and unemployment are a little more complicated than that there’s “unused” land around.
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Benefit is distance focus, avoiding eye strain from convergence (think "cross-eyed") when focusing on closeup objects.

Distant object
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| | Close object
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Minimum eye-monitor distance for retina-equivalence based on monitor size & resolution: http://www.tools.rodrigopolo.com/display_calc/
If I understand the comment chain correctly, they first tried a random "not hosted by Apple" podcast and could get the MP3, as expected. They were then directed to a "hosted by Apple" podcast and could not get an MP3. So the workaround does not work.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't do this.

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You can save money but what are you going to do with it? If there aren't enough young people providing the goods and services the retired people need in retirement, the prices of those goods and services will skyrocket and many who saved won't be able to afford the goods and services.
Did you post the right link? Didn’t see anything about state machines in that website? Seems like some kind of product tour thing?
I think this is an overly dogmatic way of looking at Open Source. I think this way of looking at Open Source, and more largely OSI's stances on the term are out of touch with the realities of successful open projects and the challenges their developers face from the current software market and further out of touch with how the term Open Source is colloquially used by a large amount of people.

You should be able to share source, allow individuals to use and modify your work and build a community around that work without worrying that same work will be co-opted by an entity seeking to undermine the effort you and your community have done for years, by slapping a different name on it and hosting it, competing directly against you with your own work as a business.

I'm fine if "Open Source" can't be used to describe these projects which are working with imperfect situations and looking to protect themselves while still providing their software with generally good intentions, but by the same token I then hope the software community will come up with a new good name for these type of projects, it becomes the common name, and the dogmatic definition of "Open Source" fades into the relative obscurity I think it deserves from being so divorced from reality.
The actual source code is on the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/asteroids-src
>Just imagine it works.

I can easily imagine that, there is already similar things out there.

>Would you actually use it? As a consumer, not a creator.

Yes as a consumer absolutely. As a creator too, why not asking as a creator? You mentioned in the first sentence :

>where you host a stream or upload a video

I would happily do both consume the content and upload my own content.

>Why or why not?

Well in my case, "why", simply because :

1. Youtube eventually runs out of daily content.

2. P2P in my experience offers a lot more 'niche' content. The big outlets for any media (video music or text) usually offer mostly popular and america-centric content. When you are looking for uncommon content that isn't in english you have to look for underground channels to get it.

3. geolocalized P2P would offer local creator more visibility in within their communities. It could greatly help for local culture.

4. Youtube or any other centralized sharing services (meta, twitter, ...) simply have too much power nowadays. P2P allows to share content freely and makes censorship very difficult.
> The opposition to these climatic manipulations is based on the fact that there are currently no international agreements that address or supervise solar geoengineering activities, which represent an economically advantageous way out for a minority and risky for the supposed remediation of climate change.

> We agree that there are no alternative technologies that replace the need to reduce emissions to remediate climate change.

Smells like dogma. Anyone know what’s going on?
Show HN: Coder Guard – Protect Your IDE from Malicious Extensions
There is a growing problem with VSCode extensions:

- they're not sandboxed (yet) - just like double-clicking an .exe file
- they don't have a permission model
- they auto update
- they have built-in persistence
- they are installed on developer machines with high-value credentials

The recent CircleCI and LastPass incidents were both suspected to originate from a compromised developer machine - which is becoming every organization's Achilles heel in terms of cyber posture

So I've been working on a way to help mitigate some of these risks

Right now, only an MVP of a "CLI" is available:

$ code --list-extensions --show-versions | curl --data-binary @- https://coderguard.io/scan

Which will list your installed extensions with some enriched information to vet their trustfulness

But much more detailed threat intel will be shown in the upcoming website and extension, including
- Behavioural data gathered from running the extension on an instrumented sandbox environment
- The ability to define policies to allow or block extension installs/updates, based on your specific risk appetite

For updates, sign up at https://coderguard.io or follow https://twitter.com/coderguard

The reason I'm posting this now is because I'd like to get some feedback in order to course-correct to make sure what I build actually solves people's problems

I'd be happy to read any comments, or answer any questions
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Kind of related, but the slightly odd thing about a lot of Japanese commentary is that people forget the suburbs exist.

And these suburbs are very car centric.

The major difference is that the suburbanites will not visit the major city by car, and most young people do not become stuck in the suburbs and instead leave for Tokyo or any of the other big cities.
I think this is correct only for the right size of company. There’s also a long tail of businesses out there in the $10m to $100m range where the balance of responsibility between the C-suite and the top technical talent makes it much less clear that the two should diverge in comp quite so much. I suppose it’s ironic that the big tech companies are also the ones that give such big pie slices to their engineers, and the smallest businesses are the ones where the tech ICs are replaceable while the C-levels are uniquely brilliant.

How many businesses have we seen slowly fade away as the tech team ebbs one by one leaving only a remnant core of mostly non tech roles?
Could be symlinked (or hardlinked?) from a central cache, though.
From my experience, looking solely from economic point of view leads to extreme optimization on wrong aspects.

Yes, we might move to smaller homes in much denser housing models to increase housing. With that perspective, we can just build glorified chicken coops for humans too, however no one would like to live that cramped.

Optimization for economic indicators tend to erode the things humans enjoy. High quality goods? Too expensive to produce and lasts too long to be economically viable. Low-density neighborhoods with nice, open spaces? Inefficient land use, long commutes, etc. In return, when a person wants to enjoy life, it becomes impossible, because enjoyment becomes economically not optimal (or viable).

The current system is a trade-off between comfort and economic indicators. There can be other ways, I think. Maybe increasing working from home to reduce commute where possible, moving work to neighborhoods instead of moving people to work, etc.

I do not know dynamics of USA very well in this regard, but it looks like this situation is the result of "money first" philosophy (i.e. strong capitalism), instead of being human first.

When people see people as "expendable workforce", they can normalize "putting" people into glorified chicken coops.
> Emphasis on Tokyo, which was basically the only place in Japan that's still growing, until it too started shrinking during COVID.

A few days ago I commented the opposite of this: most of Japan's major cities ("Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Sendai, and more"), per Wikipedia, have been growing. The inaka is shrinking, but that's part of the same migration away from rural areas that's happening across the developed world. Are you basing your claim that everywhere in the country - besides and now including Tokyo - on data that contradicts Wikipedia, or is it just intuition?
So when I joined ADS-B Exchange as a feeder, it was an Inc., owned by a single individual. Airframes.io is also owned by a single individual.

Make your own conclusions.
> Make Sunsets was planning to launch three latex weather balloons that would release anywhere between 10 and 500 grams of sulfur dioxide […]

Is that enough for any observable effect?
At most it's an error of 'a-b' not in scope. Unless you have dynamic scoping or somehow have a variable 'a-b' and also want to perform 'a - b'. I think the rule that binary operators must be separated by spaces is much easier to reason about then not having certain characters usable in identifiers.
(2) make housing an unattractive financial asset

I think this should be revised to "make housing an unattractive financial asset if you don't live there"

Both would be be highly unpopular for the majority of existing home owners.

"Homeowners" as a concept needs to be substrated. Is Blackrock Capital a "homeowner"? Yes, the corporate entity owns and rents out domiciles people think of as homes. Are they the same as the person(s) wanting to "buy" the enclosure that provides privacy and puts a roof over their head in a neighborhood with a decent school for their kids[1]? No.

For this particular niche of economic policy, we need to start talking about things as a "homeowner-resident class" and a "land(lord/owner) class" and crafting public policy around that.

[1] I'm trying not to pigeon hole this point to single occupancy dwellings, it's part of how they divide us ;)
> The tiny startup Make Sunsets, which had been experimenting with releasing sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to reflect sunlight in order to cool the earth.

This is the mechanism in Neal Stephenson’s _Termination Shock_. The book’s plot depends on a future US government which is non-functional, thus no one can shut them down.

These folks were planning to release 500g of sulfur dioxide — that’s completely insignificant, right? Just a POC?

(I wouldn’t recommend the book. Even compared with his later work it’s unfocused and dull.)
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I assume that it is harder for Rust, because it needs to deal with `features`, with cross-compilation, with the developer using `nightly` for some projects, `stable` for others, pinned versions for yet others, etc.

That being said, harder doesn't mean unsolvable.
Your (2) proposal is never going to work without an authoritarian government, such as the one in Singapore. People like owning and passing on their homes.

Also, one thing that I have never seen being talked about that has increased the demand for housing many fold in the last 50-100 years is the fashion of people leaving their family homes in their twenties. In traditional societies, it was common for at least one child to continue living with their parents for their entire life. It was thus very common for every household to include three families - a pair of grandparents, one of their children with their spouse, and one of their children with their spouse.

Instead, today, people tend to live with their parents only until around 20-30. Getting married while living with your parents is virtually unthinkable. This means that the supply of houses has to be at least three times greater than in a traditional society, with a higher percentage of temporarily occupied housing as well (since even though you can eventually reuse your parents' and grandparents' home, you need to live somewhere while they are still alive.

Of course, there are tradeoffs, and I would be extremely hypocritical to claim that I'd like to live with my parents and grandparents as an adult. But, such preferences are formed by fashion and social expectations. The millenia of this being the norm at the very least show that it is workable.
Study the NBA basketball players who drink coffee before games.
Like i said, it favors insiders not outsiders.

I come from the anglo saxon perspective, so I can see the huge advantages for 100s of thousands of people in the city that are insiders and can have great quality of life.

If you remove the system, you have a grotesque transfer of wealth from workers to a rent-seeker class. Like 30% of people's disposable incomes, based on how it is in other countries.

There are also lots of fallacies above in your response.
1. you do not have to live in the nicest part of the city - you have no right, so the 20 year wait is for entitled people.
2. you are not allowed to sublet at market rates - you can be brought to "court" (ockerhyra)
3. the decision to make or not make more houses is a govt decision, it is not the fault of the housing cooperative or the system.
> semiconductor foundries: Why should Japan have excelled here vs any other country?

Japan did have a thriving semiconductor industry early on but key Japanese companies made wrong choices wrt technologies and obviously TSMC ran away with the market. Nikon was a competitor to ASML until the EUV revolution, etc.

see:

https://asianometry.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-peak-of-japa...
The locale in which I live had several developments with "affordable housing".

Lucky people moved in, and after meeting the minimum term, were able to sell off their properties into the regular market, pocketing a cool 750k per home profit.

Our local subsidized housing is also notorious for having highend Luxury SUVs parked there. The sweet old ladies that live there, well, their sons and grandsons often do too, exploiting the situation. No party affiliation specific to this issue, just bad systems and laws that didn't work properly.

Maybe I am in the minority here, but I view affordable and excellent mass transit systems as part of the cure for this.
You don’t have to, most people buy their apartment. If you don’t have the money when you’re young, parents tend to help out with the down payment. The more you get from your parents, the closer to the city center you can live.

I can see why this doesn’t work for everyone, and I wonder what kind of social effects it will have.
A Simple Air Suspension Demo with Lego Technic
> the same way large numbers of South Korean and Chinese students try and opt out of their similarly hard exams.

Chinese university entrance exams can be hard or easy, but in either case it doesn't really matter because admissions are done on a quota system. When I was looking at score data a few years ago, the threshold for being admitted to a second-tier (二本) university was around the 40th percentile, which is to say that if 55% of people in your province are better than you, you're still comfortably going to get into a university.

Individual schools may of course apply much higher thresholds (for example, there's also a first tier!), but at that point you really have to admit that the difficulty of the standardized test is irrelevant. What matters is how you score relative to everyone else. The point of the test is to have a high enough ceiling ("be difficult enough") that you can tell the difference between someone at the 99.9th percentile and someone at the much higher 99.98th. The optimal test for that purpose is infinitely difficult, but you need to balance against time requirements, testees getting demoralized and giving up, etc.
You are correct. Any bit of property that you aren't personally in physical possession of is a social construct.

Social consensus is the only reason that you can leave your car at the curb, and come back to it a week later, and still expect it to be yours. Social consensus is the only reason that you can own land that you don't personally use. Social consensus is the only thing that prevents people working at your widget factory from deciding on Tuesday that its actually their widget factory, and that they would be better off by cutting out the middleman.

There are very rare, very extreme situations in which this kind of social consensus is very prominently broken.
Applying the Pareto principle, most of the cost is marginal improvement. If someone on median income spent thousands, it’d be more relatable.
But we don't live by a purely utilitarian principle of ethics. "I'm sorry Mrs Jones, I know your son had an expectation of crossing that pedestrian crossing in full daylight in a residential area without being mown down by a machine learning algorithm gone awry, but please rest assured that overall fewer people are dying as a result of humans not making the common set of different mistakes they used to make".

All sorts of other factors are relevant to the ethics: who took the decision to drive; who's benefiting from the drive happening; is there a reasonable expectation of safety.
So much cherry picking ("women workforce participation in Japan is bigger then in the US... surely it can't be that backwards of a country") and ad hominem ("this guy who says Japan is stagnated admits he doesn't even speak Japanese that well").

A lot of time spent on perceptions and very little on hard facts...
That's not a comparable situation. Spotify sign contracts with successful podcasters who they pay(> $100 million in one case) to produce content for their platform.

The argument here is that by offering a "Click here to start your [not really a]podcast" button, Apple is suckering in people who don't understand how Apple's iDevice-only offering differs from every other podcast hosting service.
I was shortly chasing that mythical composef whose plural the composefs might be, to no avail.
I spent about half my year in Japan and half my year in Sweden and I speak both languages. It's always shocked me how many expats feel it's not necessary to speak the language but the justifications are totally different.

In Sweden they say "Everyone here speaks English anyway"

In Japan they say "All of my friends are expats anyway"

I think if people don't want to learn a language they will come up with any excuse.
I wonder whether making multiple scans on a decent and more accessible scanner with a small physical shake after each one and stacking the images can get you acceptable higher resolution results. After all, all smartphones do it today for each photo, and the astronomers have been doing it for decades.
Some self promotion.
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Do I really have to elaborate on the difference between movies and reality?
It is not allowed for the most part in rent-controlled housing.
It is also illegal to charge more than the actual rent for subletting, even if you can sublet.