skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or _any_ form of rental.

It should be punishingly taxed to own more than 2 homes * (some people are really attached to 'summer' homes), and I will keep saying, the best way is to only exempt a home the family (if married/single/etc) has lived in for at least 35% of the year exempt. (Allows moves, up to 2 homes, etc).
You can get a very close analog by comparing English numbers (base 1,000) to Chinese numbers (base 10,000). The terminology coincides (with a couple asterisks) for numbers below 10,000, but above 10,000 it's essentially impossible to do mental conversion of numbers even though all the digits are the same.

Trying to operate simultaneously in a base 20 system and a base 10 system would be much worse than that, since all the digits would be different between representations.
Barndominium? Didn't know it was a thing until I saw it on youtube.

Pretty much everyone is worse off since the pandemic except for pfizer. The decline continues, but the gaslighting intensifies.

Soon ...follow up articles:

"There's No Such thing as an Affordable Big Mac. " and
"You will eat the Bugz"
> Its never clear if a point of sale terminal accepts Apple Pay and where to hold your device so I avoid using it since chances are I have to get out a card anyway.

This is actually kind of antithetical to your point. Apple Pay interoperates with all conventional point of sale systems. It's a PCI compliant, certified, contactless EMV payment device. You can use it anywhere you see the contactless EMV logo. There are standards actually about where that logo should be placed on the payment terminal to minimize confusion.

As for how to hold it, you're going to actually have less trouble figuring that out as compared to a passive card since passive cards have to be positioned a lot more accurately within the field - because physics.

There's a lot of examples of what you're describing but this isn't one.
Yeah it's kind of depressing because at least a few key points the vast majority seem to agree on but it's just totally untenable to implement. There are a lot of choices nations can make that serve as a sort of one way valve with no going back and I fear this could be one of them. Another example of a bad mistake we made was our voting system which assures two parties, and that can never be undone because the parties will never vote to alter the representation system in a way to suicide their own parties.

I've pretty much resigned myself my game plan is to suck all the capital I can out of the united states and then play the same game somewhere else where I can be the big bad foreign investor buying housing.
Suggest you get involved with local politics. That’s not how it works. Otherwise nearly every gerrymandered seat would be occupied by an extremist.
Probably just pure logistics. No one thought of it because getting to Japan in any kind of reasonable time frame was physically impossible.

Even today, a flight from the US west coast to Japan is ~11 hours one way and involves losing a day due to the international dateline. So you lose about 3 days just flying back and forth. And costs nearly a thousand dollars for economy class.

For most people, it’s not really an easy trip in the same way a hop to Lisbon from London might be. Now imagine that with prop planes.
The Overcast feature set is great and it's my podcast app but the UX & UI is just atrocious.
We're using our home appliances wrong. Some energy-saving tips are myths
When writing those witty comparisons, do you ever stop and think about the millions of human beings that were murdered by actual fascism, or do you pretend that you actually give a damn and are fighting an internet fight against fascism?
Note that Yandex currently seems to be made of “Yandex teams relocated out of the country” (say, 1/5th of the company, I don't have exact numbers), “Yandex teams inside the country”, and “Yandex brand services sold to other company”, so the internal access situation is complex.
It's difficult to take the author of the article being repudiated (Wingfield-Hayes) seriously when he has lived here for over 10 years and doesn't speak the language.

Any other person who lived in a country for a decade and can't converse in the language would be (rightfully imo) shamed for it.

Idk, say what you like about how journalists operate but living somewhere for a decade and not speaking the language doesn't sit right with me.
This is wonderfully terrifying and devious.

Everybody, as far as anyone could tell, in complete agreement with the regime, all the time.

Signing and encryption will come in useful. But not sure of much good it will do under an authoritarian regime.
> Ah, I didn't realize this was a safe space for perverts who hate women. Cool. Cool cool cool. Very cool.

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
This makes so much sense
> This is misleading.

No it isn't. The term "open source" is unpopular with Stallman and his acolytes, but is in common use and has a very clear definition stewarded by the Open Source Institute: https://opensource.org/osd

Whether that term or that definition is or is not aligned with your priorities isn't relevant to the fact that this term is in common use in the IT industry and this definition of it is the most commonly accepted.

In other words, nobody claimed it was free software, and Stallman doesn't get to just "declare" open source to be a non-movement like Michael Scott "declaring" bankruptcy.
On average Americans make an income of 2-4x their European counterparts (depending on industry). The houses in the US cost less, taxes are less and opportunities are greater.

You can look this all up.

While there are homeless and people in trailers, on average it’s because (a) they’re drug addicts who don’t want to live by their own rules (b) people living cheap, trying to get ahead or (c) Elderly, often inept, people who get trapped.

Trailer parks are particularly bad as they lock you into (effectively) renting. Outside of a few major(poorly run & corridor) cities, eg Chicago, SF, LA, NYC, etc the homeless rates are relatively low.
The shortage of cheap housing has more to do with land prices, and very little to do with the cost of making houses safe to live in.
Building more luxury housing only creates vacancies in lower-tier housing markets if the wealthy people who bought the new luxury housing (a) move into the new luxury housing, (b) move out of their old housing, and (c) put their old housing on the market.

Sadly this doesn't often seem to be the case. Sometimes new housing is purchased in order to have an additional permanent residence in another state, sometimes the new housing is purchased as an investment and kept empty. Sometimes housing is rented out (literally an economic rent) where the wallets of those less well-off are squeezed to line the pockets of the propertied class.

There is a fundamental mismatch between real estate and housing. The feudal lords of centuries ago may have been far fewer in number and with far more day-to-day power, but the effect of private ownership of real estate being the lever of economic power is still quite real and true today.

This isn't an argument for public ownership. Transportation and gridlock aside, suburbanization, where middle class people owned a small parcel of land on which their sole residence lay, was an enormous boon to those fortunate enough to access it. A modern approach that prioritizes density and modern transportation approaches while keeping that inherent formula - one residence for one family, with no other real estate holdings - will fix the housing market.

How does this look like?

* New development may not be purchased by private people, but by a public sector entity only, single-payer style. This public sector entity is then responsible for putting long-term housing on the market via rent-to-own at an auctioned price, i.e. the public sector entity establishes a price and holds an auction for the monthly rent, the person who bids the highest gets stable rent at that price for thirty years, after which the person becomes the registered owner of the property. If there are no bids, then a new auction is held; whether the price drops in the new auction or not are subject to market and political pressures.
* Private sales of older developments are still legal, as is inheritance. Private renting is illegal.
* Maintaining multiple residences incurs heavy property taxes at the federal level, with a three month overlap grace period to permit people to move into a new residence and put their old residence up for sale. Property owners may purchase adjacent properties (or buyout adjacent rent-to-owners) and combine them into a single property without incurring the tax, and subsequently may decide to parcel off some of their property and sell it (which would be tax neutral), but still may not rent out any portion of their newly-combined property. Property owners may decide to privately pay for redevelopment on their own, sole property, which would be tax neutral, and a grace period would be extended to ownership of a second property if that property is under redevelopment, for a maximum of one year, to not force people to live in a house that is under construction.

If that could be enacted, watch real estate prices crash.
> It used to be common to count by scores (twenties) in English, though this has mostly disappeared

Counting by scores isn't enough to be base 20. The special quantities designated by the system are still 10, 100, and 1000, an obvious sign that the numbers are conceived of in base 10. If the system pivoted around 20, 400, and 8000 (as the dozen/gross system you mention does), then you could (and should) call it a base 20 system.
Yeah figured fair enough though, the pics had a bathroom so at least it's designed as guest house/ADU type thing.
I’ve been impressed by what both Stability.ai and the open source community have been capable of achieving in terms of performance gains.

Truly remarkable.

I wonder how OpenAI will cope on it’s own… unless Stability strikes again, with it’s own LLM?
ML experiment tracking with DVC extension for VS Code
I've lived here for over ten years and generally agree with you. I love it here, but I also feel that some westerners treat Japan with a "specialness" or "exoticness" that it doesn't quite deserve.
It certainly seems that way. Guido wasn’t interested in solving it and it was probably one of the things, like a gradual typing system which he was interested in, that he should have made a core issue because of its centrality.

Curiously, I wonder whether current leadership are unwilling to acknowledge that the current problems are essentially a leadership problem. See for example my short conversation with Pradyun on Mastodon (https://mas.to/@maegul/109726564552419983) where I’m not sure they were being open and rational (though they clearly know more than me).

This thread was in response to their blog post in Python packaging: https://pradyunsg.me/blog/2023/01/21/thoughts-on-python-pack...
Please don't break the site guidelines like this. I realize the parent comment was provocative and a borderline guidelines violation in its own right, but going full flamewar is exactly the wrong way to respond. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Note this one:

"Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead."

Edit: you've unfortunately been doing this repeatedly lately. Comments like these are not ok on HN, and we ban accounts that make a habit of it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34504794

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I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review the guidelines and correct this, we'd appreciate it.
The tanks aren't going any time soon. They are going through a different process that involves a "purchase" rather than being taken directly from storage. And like other platforms, Ukrainians will travel to other countries for training. We probably won't see these for 6 months and we will not see active US troops in Ukraine, unless something drastically changes.
I have a friend who buys lots of used stuff, and sells it the moment he stops using it.

He's extremely patient and waits for a good deal, and usually makes money on the resale.

It lets him go quite deep into a niche hobby without breaking the bank, then when he inevitably gets bored and picks up another hobby it's not a waste.
>One of the big worries about the Japanese economy is a sense that Toyota has massively missed the bus on electric cars. Especially after building the first really successful hybrid, how have they fallen so far behind the likes of GM or Mercedes/BMW/Audi? Why are they still pushing hydrogen decades after everyone else has realised it's a failure?

But are lithium-ion skateboard cars a success? People are rightly fretting about the lithium supply chain and the sheer weight of these cars raise eyebrows for many observers. We’re not completely in established territory yet — it’s still a frontier out here.
Apple Pay is super useful for a US-based person while traveling internationally because Apple Pay supports CDCVM. This means that if you have a card that ordinarily requires a signature at the point of sale in the US, you can can use that card in Apple Pay, in Europe or anywhere else, without signing. If you use the physical card, you have to sign. If you try and use the physical card at an automated terminal that doesn't support CVM Signature, you can find yourself in a position where only the Apple Pay version works.

CDCVM also generally doesn't have a contactless floor limit meaning while a contactless card may have a $100-200 cap for transactions, Apple Pay usually doesn't have a cap. Even when local contactless cards may be declined! I say usually because the terminal has to have been updated over the last few years to negotiate CDCVM, which they will in time.

I would highly recommend starting with Apple Pay abroad and only if it doesn't work falling back to a physical card because you will have a far better experience.
It didn't mention in the article that the treat was written mentioning High School students. In my son school only the high school department was allowed to go home early and the younger students stayed because they were not included in the treat. They sent a message that they tightened security for the remaining children on the school.
I'd suggest running Windows in a VM since USB passthrough is pretty dependable in that scenario. Presumably Firewire has similar transparency.
I wouldn't trust this advise on face value, qualified professionals are fallible.

First trust your own assessment, then gather the advice of others.

No one is more qualified to assess yourself than you
The long division example in there is a massive WTF, getting towards the level of the inverse square root float/int thing.
> If you’re using a 15- or 20-year-old machine, replacing it will almost certainly save cash — and emissions. Even today’s inexpensive dishwashers are more efficient than top-of-the-line appliances a decade ago.

... true, except that the new appliance that is cheaper and more efficient will last you 5 years at most (and then the main board that need to be replaced will cost as much as a new machine).

Planned obsolescence at its best.
No, that's irrelevant.

Lisp will treat (a - b) as 5 tokens, just the same way it will treat (- a b) as 5 tokens. Infix operators are completely unrelated to this problem. What lisp is doing is determining tokens by reference to spacing (the parentheses don't need to be spaced; I believe they are reader macros but in any event they are special-cased) and then acting on the tokens. What C is doing is not that; the concept is that you eliminate all spacing before you decide what the tokens are.

So in C, there is no such thing as "a - b", only "a-b", and that's why "a-b" cannot be used as an identifier.

If you want to write your lisp in infix notation, you can, but it will remain true that (a - b) is a list with 3 elements and (a-b) is a list with 1 element, which is what matters here.
Netflix crackdown on password sharing to begin in coming months
There's no such thing as affordable housing because humans are breeding animals. If they have available habitat, they will reproduce until they fill that habitat. Building houses decreases housing costs like building highways reduces traffic. It doesn't; it only makes the problem worse. High housing prices are a signal that humans are reaching equilibrium with their environment. Housing, food, educational and other costs are really the only things that can check the growth of humans, who have no natural predators.
Tooling: Not only CLI and classlibs. The debugger in Visual Studio follows calls to c/c++ dll:s over pinvoke withhout a cinch. (Same as C#). If you wrap complex entities in e.g. Protobuf then writing hybrid applications is pretty straighforward and on solid ground.

All of the GUI stuff is missing of course. I would not advice to implement a GUI on top of F#.

The main feature of F# imo is it's succint type system where one can wrap everything in a type without much bureaucratic cost, but in a way that makes program structure so much more obvious. "If it compiles it's correct" is prety much how it goes.
The software becoming source available is great, but calling it open source is still misleading. Open source implies an expectation that everyone is able to use it without restrictions, possibly on the condition that the derivatives should also remain under the same license.
It's been mentioned indirectly in a few other comments, but: I think you should consider an ADHD evaluation; you may be surprised to hear that problems like impulsive emotional outbursts are common ADHD symptoms.

The reason for the evaluation being especially worthwhile is that ADHD, unlike autism, is extremely treatable with medication.
The Ninth Circuit Upholds a Wealth Tax
Spike Japan is great. He needed an editor though. It's a great reminder of the collapse of rural Japan- that's still ongoing today. Those parts of rural Japan should never have had the development that they did have during the 80s/90s bubble years.
SD really shat the bed, and a bunch of projects appear to have stuck with 1.5.
Disassembly of the Asteroids arcade game firmware
Cormac McCarthy comes to mind
> Any other person who lived in a country for a decade and can't converse in the language would be (rightfully imo) shamed for it.

You haven't been to Sweden then.
Of course it's usually not just one commenter contributing to these downslides, and the GP arguably started it, but your comment was noticeably more flamey than the GP. That is exactly the wrong direction to respond. Instead, what you should do in response to a provocatively wrong comment (or one that you feel is wrong) is either (1) correct it respectfully and patiently; or (2) chalk it up to the internet being wrong and just not respond.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
Those motors are just closed-loop steppers. I'd say they're inappropriate for robot arms because they can only apply their specified torque when the angle happens to be in proximity to a full step [0].

Proper AC servo motors like the A3 series from Delta are - as far as I understand - able to apply their specified torque with "infinite" resolution, in practice limited primarily by the encoder.

In robotics though, BLDC motors are often used. You might want to look into ODrive [1].

Make sure you're choosing an appropriate gearbox too. A planetary gearbox has some amount of backlash associated with it, often around 10 arcmin from what I've seen in data sheets. If that's inappropriate for you, look into harmonic drive. Much more expensive but for a reason.

[0]: https://www.machinedesign.com/archive/article/21812154/micro...

[1]: https://odriverobotics.com/
I could pitch a yurt here on a deck all in with land included for about $150k.

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/1882-Quesa...

What's the cheapest legal free standing residence in san francisco? I couldn't find anything under half a million. That's an easy 1/3 the price of any legal freestanding structure.
> typing "ABC" Ctrl+Space gives me code completion for AsynchronousByteChannel

that's clever. I suspect you could add editor logic to do that with underscores too.
NYSE Tuesday opening mayhem traced to a staffer who left a backup system running
https://archive.ph/UoMr9
I don't think anyone has answered the question yet.

Revenue/cost = profit margin.

There's usually three ways to increase profit margin: economics of scale (sell more units), economy of scope (sell more to the same customers), or innovation (lower cost/increase prices)

All these three are usually linked to revenue in some way. 3 customers and 3000 customers may be roughly the same hosting cost. If you can sell someone a $100 item, you can sell them a $1000 plan later or simply a $1 item for very little marketing fees. Or if you're outsourcing something that could be built in house, it makes sense to hire a team to build and maintain that process once the cost gets high enough to justify new hires.

The other more common answer is revenue is hard to manipulate, while profits are very easy. Buy and furnish a new office and then your cost suddenly hits $3m that month.

Anyone who takes any kind of venture capital is expected to have negative profits. They can hire contractors, outsource social media marketing to agencies, outsource hiring contractors to agencies, and so on. Uber used to buy cars and then sell them to their drivers, to get more drivers. Grab gave out free phones so taxi drivers could download the app.

Startups aren't about profits, they're about growing an asset as fast as possible and then selling it off to someone who can utilize same asset for higher value. e.g. YouTube and WhatsApp don't bring in money themselves, but work very well into Google and Meta strategically.

It's also common to seed "marketing cost" into unsustainable coupons/discounts and such. That's unhealtht revenue, but it's also why unit economics (the cost of one unit sale) is another metric. Turns out it's bloody difficult to fix unit economics. But this is why people check that unit economics are positive and then read MRR.
There's three questions for every product - "Why?", "What?" and "How?"

> I've been a software engineer at a few highly regarded companies for a decade now, at none of them did I have the ability to make large product or design decisions as a software engineer.

IME, even the highest engineer at the company has little to no ability to make even small product design decisions.

I'm not saying whether I think it's a good thing or a bad thing, but the truth is there's a role at every organisation who's job it is to decide what the product should look like and what it should do. That role decides all the "what" questions.

Engineering is all about "How?"

Even the product design role doesn't have all the power - the "Why?" is decided by someone else.