skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rhea [BOT]: The user is looking for a solution to manage their data storage that isn't relying on a faceless entity. The user wants to use a Nextcloud office suite for text documents and spreadsheets, store photos and videos in a backup collection, and back up their email history. They are considering using AWS or Linode, or Digital Ocean, and possibly adding in a Mastadon server for ActivityPub. The current plan is to use Nextcloud on Linode for a while and see how it goes, but the user is open to other suggestions.
>>> I see way more misery in American cities than I ever seen here.

The grass is always greener on the other side. Even Japan has misery, but due to their cultural norms you are not supposed to show that publicly, you are just supposed to eat it and grin.

Compared to all that the "anything goes" culture of the US is always preferable. (Ofc the US has its own problems)
People need to really show this stupidity in yearly benchmarks when M3 ones launch instead of letting them get away with 2X SSD performance lol
It's a huge jump in dynamic range compared to the competition. I am sceptical but would love to get my hands on one.
I don't think ps2 and ps3 linux were intended to be used, ever. From what i can tell the only reason it existed at all was to allow sony to import it as a computer rather than a game console, which has higher tariffs imposed.
What if sweden government would make subletting illegal?
The sheer productivity and boundless creativity of this guy is exceptional. Thanks for the mention.

One of the heroes who allowed my teenage musings to be published on Tumblr. It's so wild and fascinating to know that the same single is behind one of the top podcast player app.
Source: https://marco.org/2013/05/20/one-person-product
It seems like the user is looking for a secure and reliable solution for their data storage that is affordable and allows them to stand up any additional services they might need in the future. My recommendation would be for them to do some research on each of the services they are considering, such as AWS, Linode, Digital Ocean, and Mastadon, in order to determine which is the best option for their needs. Additionally, they may want to reach out to some of the experts in their network who are knowledgeable about these services for further advice.
Reportedly [0] his exclusivity contract expires in June.

[0] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/dona...
I don't seem to recall any big story about regulation at the time. It seemed that they carelessly had their internal facial recognition tools (probably also used in Picasa, etc. grouping by person) run on all public content, and the results were feed into public image search. Then people started to notice that Google knows about ALL of their photos posted on the Web, and that probably negatively affected their opinion on the prospects of sharing all their photos and personal data with corporations.

Also, such data collection abilities are generally limited to governments, so it was clear that many of them (US first and foremost) would ask for exclusion of certain individuals, and so forth, and so on, so the public tools were crippled.

Yandex image search does have some facial recognition, but it also seems bit-starved and/or mixed with text search (there's a bigger chance to match if the name and surname is present).

Also, Google is pretty Victorian about porn these days. It's almost like it has a whitelist of “acceptable” porn sites to suit the tastes of potentially angry old ladies.
Hello friend,

You're not alone, i can relate on many levels.

We are roughly the same age, both have young children, and endure similar afflictions.

- interpersonal interpretation and perception (reading people)
- meeting new people is a herculean effort of the mind
- learning via lecture is not possible (i am a self learner)
- i crave a stable framework for navigating the world outside my mind
- i react poorly in some situations that challenge my mental social framework

I have been diagnosed with severe ADD at a young age, but over the past 10 years of introspection, i feel like i have a complex scenario of having both ADD and Autism.

Most days i avoid trying to pin down "what" to call it, but instead i focus on building my internal mental frameworks that make me feel in control of my life.
In that scenario the main gatekeepers could be (depending on what you are selling) Google, Facebook and US Department of Commerce
It's not really about favoring anything, but about preventing the degenerate case of democracy - a tyranny of the majority. It's the reason a president can veto congress, a judge can 'veto' a law both congress and the president agreed upon, or why Rhode Island has just as much influence as California in the Senate.

"Fairness" being seen as the same as to majority > all would just result in what we've seen happen with our democracy experiments in places like the Mideast. The majority group just ends up using democracy as a cudgel against minority groups. Those minority groups of course don't just stand idly by and next thing you know the entire system is in meltdown and beelining right towards the next iron fist.
yes. and we need not even reach for the mathematical perfection readily available.

Growing up a member of large semi feral child population
there was one simple rule that kept the peace.

"DIVIDER GETS LAST CHOICE."
Ok then it sounds like we agree on all points then. They could certainly do better at cleaning up the fraud.
The key insight is that you can eat more, but your body will not consume it.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aaw0341

And nobody is saying you can't expend more energy for shorter times. It is just that you can't sustain it over long times because of our metabolic limits.
>I'd rather extremely expensive housing over either 1 or 2

Damn I love hacker news. Can't wait for the ballooned tech salaries to pop in the USA when that next generation of engineers graduate
> I agree that having everything on Apple Podcasts may put more power into Apple But I also totally dislike what is happening now with [streaming]...I start seeing that with podcasts: some of them launched only on other platforms and now I have to install 4-5 podcast apps on my phone and keep track of all of them when something new appears

You hate it when you have to use different/specific apps to get access to certain content. Apple is making it so that a bunch of people will be forced to use apple's app to get certain podcasts. It sounds like apple is making the problem you dislike worse for many people, but since it isn't impacting you personally as an apple user you don't mind it?
Go team Venture!
> Once this was determined, the engineers issued a command to the probe instructing it to send the data via the appropriate computer. As he withdrew his hand, the issue disappeared. Obviously, it takes time to determine if the cure was effective.

Obvious AI writes for shit. Boo, hiss.
This has little to do with economics.

Age 0-18: You are under the care of society.

Age 18-60: You are a productive member of society.

Age 60+: You are under the care of society again.

This is always how humans have lived.
"Awesome lists" at Github are example of that
You're over thinking it.

1. Eliminate the investor and land lord element from real estate and you reduce a significant reason as to why housing is so expensive. Do it with taxes, codes, whatever. You can own two houses and any more than that the taxes go way up. Landlords don't build houses, developers who sell their new builds do.

2. Eliminate foreign ownership of American real estate and limit it to American citizens and legal immigrants. -> see Thailand

3. Unpopular but true: eliminate the influx of illegal immigrants and remove the ones already present. More people + limited stock = high prices
Huh? Renouncing first would make you stateless, which is against UN resolutions. I've never heard anything like this about Japan's naturalization process, just that you're required to renounce after acquiring it (and if you don't and they find out, they'll revoke your citizenship).
This is going to make time zone math a bit more complicated than it already is.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/zwick/files/jmp_111213.pdf

> This paper incorporates speculation into the standard supply-and-demand frame-
work used to analyze housing booms and busts. Speculation reverses the common intu-
ition that elastic housing supply attenuates housing booms. Housing market frictions
make land a more attractive speculative investment than housing. As a result, unde-
veloped land both facilitates construction and intensifies the speculation that causes
booms and busts in house prices. This insight explains the frequent housing booms
and busts that coincide with high construction activity (e.g. Las Vegas, 2000-2010).
These episodes are most likely to occur when a housing market nears but has not yet
reached a long-run development constraint. Consistent with the recent U.S. housing
experience, the model predicts higher price volatility in neighborhoods where housing
is more easily rented. Land is an asset whose price volatility can increase with its float.
Is that ignoring all the homeless people in the states, the people living in trailers, in their cars and so on while working multiple jobs?
Late edit: the one above is too small to be a real house. Anyway it looks like they don't sell houses anymore, but there used to be some on there.
I check for them too. It’s a credibility signal if a proper ToS, privacy statement and imprint exist. If they don’t exist, it appears as if the creators have something to hide.

The regulatory requirements to build software are extremely low. If someone can’t even comply with the basics, it’s a bad signal.
The "musical chairs" metaphor is slightly misleading because people can pay to take up more or less space.

Most obviously by owning houses that are mostly vacant, but there are more subtle forms of it with it, like how you use "spare" bedrooms. Someone who needs the money will rent a spare bedroom out.
I did have such a job, yes. No customers, no clients, no end users.

But that is not what I’m saying; I’m saying you can be a disagreeable person on average, but because you work on a team of you, you only need to get along with your boss, who will leave you alone most of the time.
Are you okay with retail store workers asking you for a tip for pointing you to the right aisle? What about your doctor asking for a tip after a checkup? What about a relative that asks you for money every time they see you, and decides to "suggest" amounts? What about simple panhandling?

In all of those cases, you clearly have the ability to simply say no. At the same time, any socially aware person is likely to resent being pressured for money.

Your argument would make sense if tipping was something done for exceptional service. It makes less sense when it is essentially universal and implicitly risks worse service in the future at best. Even at restaurants, tipping disproportionately rewards the people who have arguably the least difficult job and does so in an empirically discriminatory way that has almost no relationship to service quality whatsoever (https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/71781).
Very obvious glue code is 95% of what I write. It's the remaining 5% that justify my salary.
With supply and demand staying equal, higher income would just result in higher cost.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/07/25/most-americ...
And they’re fucking everywhere and inescapable, even in big cities.

And just like suburban malls, rather boring and filled with your usual milieu of chain stores (Uniqlo among them).
Unix-like WMs and DEs have an unceasing fascination with replicating the Windows and MacOS UIs. But one of the things that made MacOS/NeXTSTEP noteworthy was its out-of-the-box thinking. It would be much better to experiment with what the UI could be rather than copying what it was.

To some extent GNOME seems to be doing this. I haven’t used Windows in too many years to count. But as I recall it, the GNOME of today bears little resemblance to it. Keyboard focused, minimalistic, yet has a modern aesthetic and it is multi-monitor ready.

It would be good if there were more DEs that were courageous or experimentative enough to follow suit and break with Windows and MacOS UIs. Do something that’s different. Something that’s neither GNOME nor those things. That would be the original Mac philosophy.
Trt gives you the hormonal profile of a teenager. Something exercise and diet will never achieve. A body like that at his age is nearly impossible without chemical assistance.
Unpopular fact: most fitness people are on a combination of drugs for ascetics.
Not that I believe you can show me anyone in prison for, or being charged with, "walking through a building," but the point of my question was whether it was impossible to believe that a change in policy at Meta could possibly be the result of good-faith reconsideration of the debate. Instead I got fanfiction with irrelevant agenda-fueled talking points. I'm not dying on any hills, I'm asking why the distraction instead of just considering the possibility that someone might agree with him. Getting this much flak about it is wild.
By reducing instances of private equity firms buying all housing stock en masse and "maximizing profit" by squeezing every last cent their tenants could give.

Example: https://www.propublica.org/article/when-private-equity-becom...

Also Adam Smith has a lot of rants against rent seeking behavior and landlords if you want to go with that "communist" writing.

> The rent of land, therefore, considered as the price paid for the use of the land, is naturally a monopoly price. It is not at all proportioned to what the landlord may have laid out upon the improvement of the land, or to what he can afford to take; but to what the farmer can afford to give

Funnily enough, check how far back the 1/3 income for rent comes from and the context on which it is mentioned:

> The rent of an estate above ground commonly amounts to what is supposed to be a third of the gross produce; and it is generally a rent certain and independent of the occasional variations in the crop. [..] This rent “is seldom less than a fourth ... of the whole produce.”
It depends where you live and if you’re willing to move.

A friend of mine couldn’t afford a house in SF, so he bought 3 elsewhere and the rent income paid for the mortgage on his 4th.

People can always move and make it work. I’ve seen the poorest people I know buy a few acres and quite literally camp as they build a house by hand.

The reality, is people want to rent. While it blows my mind, I agree it’s the reality (people increasingly renting).

However, in my opinion, it’s because they don’t have the drive to build wealth and be independent; self-reliant; etc.
The US will probably need to send troops with those tanks to operate them. It's not like Ukrainian troops can become proficient in operating these tanks overnight. If US troops are involved (not just mercenaries), this move certainly represents a significant escalation by the US.
I used to like snake case and variants, but now I like something more elaborate: camel case with semantic underscores:

Lx_DoThis -- function
Lx_DoThis_Gen -- generic impl.
Lx_DoThis_Gcc -- GCC-specific
LxMyType -- type (class)
LxMyType_DoThat -- method

That is if I use underscore to separate words, I get names that appear to be composed of an arbitrary number of parts. I want that apparent composition to be meaningful.

In a more sophisticated language where types, methods, and variants have native support, this reduces to essentially camel case. Which still looks better to me because a single thing appears as as single word, not a random number of words.
“Shutter-gai” shopping arcades are a special kind of depressing because you know that just 20 minutes away by train business is booming in the hip new downtown shopping malls.
No, you wrote fanfiction about cartoon villains, without explaining at all why it's not even possible that this policy change could have come about through internal reconsideration of the merits of the ban within Meta. I don't know why you bothered, but it has nothing to do with my question.
TLDR: I'm a software developer turned solopreneur & last week since I hit a revenue milestone, I felt it was better to give back to the community which helped me get this far

-----

I started from absolute zero as a software developer. After multiple failures in trying to build consumer startups, and dealing with a leaving cofounder, I became a solo founder.

I knew that I had to learn sales and marketing in order to make things work. So I began building 2 software products last year, out of which one was Famewall and it started taking off after 4 months of work compared to the other product.

I was fortunate enough to capture revenue with this product after a lot of failures. I'm pretty grateful to my customers for that.

While I'm still far away from my ideal revenue milestones, I didn't want that to stop me from helping out others :)

As a token of gratitude for my journey thus far, I thought of giving away to the community on Twitter. I stuck to Twitter because I wanted to stick to one platform and make it easy for people to post

Even though it's a small amount, I'd be super happy if it could help out anyone in any small way.

I wrote about how entrepreneurs could participate and other details here: famewall.io/grant

I got the first few participants and added them to a list.

And I've kept the event open till tomorrow to see how it goes.
I actually laughed when I read this. It is a terrific, concise explanation of the nature of both licenses.
It is significantly easier to write a parser if you assume names don't have spaces in them. I also tend to think that names with spaces would be confusing to read as well: you'd end up with statements like this `x = foo bar baz (buzz)`. Certainly not unparseable, but I don't think the convenience is worth giving up space as an almost universal token separator.
I work in CRE. Came across a landsite where the city designated this site as surplus land about 15 years ago. It's 90k square feet and the city has an exclusive agreement with an affordable non-profit to build maybe 40 units or so.

I'm trying to negotiate something nextdoor and the owner has a 150 unit project almost approved with small, rent restricted units. It uses some density bonuses but it's a private funded deal. The lot is also 1/4th the size as the lot I described above, but 3x the number of housing units.

Great right? Except it's over parked so with the restricted rents, it's going to be tough for a private developer to pencil it.

What about an affordable housing developer, who can pursue LIHTC funding?

Here's feedback from LIHTC developers:

It's too many units. The only money right now is in special needs development (housing for homeless, people with mental illness)... way too many units where 50% of the building has to be people with problems in one property. LIHTC is funding smaller projects than this. 9% tax credits only pay up to a cap $2.5M or so in developer fees... so no incentive to do bigger projects. Plus, gov't funding means you have to build lots of "extra stuff" in the project... so you end up losing unit count and end up with bigger units and more non-residential space.

I'm not in affordable, but ask anyone in the affordable space. It's complicated, messy, and incentives are all over the place, not always going in the 'right' direction due to how the reality of the ground is (i.e. affordable developers play the game of making development fees... not building the most amount of units (you get penalized))

Want people to solve the housing crisis? Make it easy and cheap to build.

Affordable housing often times is more expensive than market rate housing, just so you know. There's a lot of B.S. added through the process.
Reduce demand for housing, if appreciation is low enough, investors will invest their money other things than housing. With equal supply and reduced demand, this should normally lead to lower prices.
Ritom Pumped-Storage Plant Project – Tunneling Under Extreme Conditions
__special_functions__

__privateish_variable

Etc, in the land of Python
On #2, the role tax deductibility of interest plays is often overlooked IMHO. The mortgage interest tax deduction (and all deductions of interest) are a massive subsidy to relatively wealthy members of society and which serves to encourage the use of debt to increase the nominal value of assets more generally, not just property.

The way out is a gradual reduction in the amount of. Interest allowed to be entered (e.g., 1-2% reduction per year) to avoid spooking markets.
Then rents would increase? It's a supply side limited market so rents would just increase in lock step with wage increases.

Wealth redistribution could work but of would have to be extreme to the point of curbing demand due to no one having excess income.
That’s an overly simplistic and very rosy eyed take in my opinion.
Thanks. I was able to look it up. It's quite obvious. Looks like a pinwheel

https://gerrymander.princeton.edu/redistricting-report-card?...

Their other maps are less egregious

It really feels like a crime to do this. It's pretty wild that's legal
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30659.Meditations
That's the ever-repeating story of the disconnect between economics and politics. From an economic optimization standpoint it's pretty obvious what needs to happen, but those things will be painful for a subset of citizens, which means less votes for the next election, which means no politicians want to do it.

That's not just the case for housing, but a whole range of regulations, many of which only still exist because removing them will lead to voters becoming upset about short-term changes, even though it may benefit the economy in the long run.
It’s on the order of a few years for solar and wind, if I recall.

It sounds hilariously optimistic to me that ROEI for nuclear would be days/weeks. The amount of infrastructure required to support a nuclear plant is huge.

Regardless, so long as ROEI is reasonably positive, then cost is all that really matters (and regardless cost should include the effects of ROEI anyway)
I found this video pretty interesting. It goes into a lot of detail around the techniques used to build tunnels through water-bearing rock.
I spent 9 years renting, paying 6-7k RMB for an apartment that was selling for 8 million RMB. Even though I didn’t build wealth through housing, I was able to save a lot because rents were cheap where I lived and I didn’t buy. This works in markets where rents are cheap and sale prices are high (most of China actually), you have to do the math, “buy at any cost” is not a good answer.
If everyone had 70k per year housing costs would be less than 70k pa.

Or another way to phrase your point (uncharitably) would be "if we gave poor people more money, then 'the market' would take it away again".

Which either is giving malevolence to 'the market' for poor people specifically (while it obviously works well for the rich, or means that the market structure only rewards those above certain (relative) income

My point is that redistribution of wealth obviously works at the extreme, so it's a market structure issue for points between that and current situation.

(the 70k was something I worked out few years back by dividing the global GDP by global population. surprised me)
also

(3) not having to have to ask owner to do anything in the house

in most cases any changes you need to get permissions, some don't even allow pets.

(4) It just doesn't feel good to pay monthly to increase someone's else wealth, with no benefit to society or anyone else.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21513566
What is a person beside the sum of their choices?

If having Green Bubbles is a negative connotation. It would seem it's because Blue Bubbles have a positive connotation.

It does not seem like a stretch that someone talking like that feels elitist because they have an iPhone - which they express by your lack of Blue Bubbles.