skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dutch hacker obtained virtually all Austrians' personal data, police say
I don’t think that’s what he’s saying. He says new housing is underpowered. Rather, we need home values to decline instead of rise as properties age. And yet, too many have vested interests in them rising, making that the prevailing political context.
Except that "pod"casts have always been Apple's ecosystem. They've introduced a new product that is less open, but haven't actually stopped supporting the completely open options that have always existed.
I'm not sure that QE has much to do with the shortage. That was started and is maintained by local political forces that want to stop new housing nearby.

And most of those folks had paid off their mortgage or had it close to paid off, and have experienced so much appreciation that their purchase price is less than a current down payment.
I figured the same, but I'm still a little surprised because there are so many major Android phonemakers who should be competing. It's Samsung, LG, Google (Pixel), etc. Though the software is a duopoly of course.
Git security audit: Inside the hunt for – and discovery of – CVEs
I don't think that's an unexpected consequence. That's the intention. Rope off the folks who won't vote for your party into one district and you get to win the rest of the districts. Or run the lines so that your opposition's support is broken up and sprinkled harmlessly amongst your supporters so that their votes are swallowed up by your supporters' votes. Then you've got no reason to actually work to improve anyone's lives and can spend your time figuring out how to leverage your position to make as much money as possible.

The Wikipedia article has a good graphic that helps visualize the strategy.

For bonus points, devise ways to make it more difficult for the demographics that are likely to vote for your opponent to get to the polls.
I've dealt with two large Japanese tech corporations that people here have probably heard about. One thing that I found extremely unusual (on both companies) is that many (most?) people in high level roles got rotated every two years or so to completely different parts of the company. Building good relationships and then having to restart from scratch was complicated.
Curiously the example you mention is exactly what you get by using Linux with KDE and an Android phone using KDE Connect.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading this sentence from the "Oversight Board".

https://www.oversightboard.com/news/226612455899839-oversigh...

The Board found that the two posts by Mr Trump on 6 January severely violated Facebook's Community Standards and Instagram's Community Guidelines. "We love you. You're very special" in the first post, and "great patriots" and "remember this day forever" in the second post violated Facebook's rules prohibiting praise or support of people engaged in violence.

This seems like a ridiculous stretch of "praise of support of people engaged in violence" when right before "We love you." is "We have to have peace. So go home."

It's pretty clear this was a post facto decision - Trump needed to be banned, so let's see if we can come up with something to ban him for.
Do you think we are all stupid?
> we're happy to have you work here for a while, but you'll never really belong here

Welcome to the life of a lot of people on visa in the USA, country made by immigrants which makes it stupidly hard to become a permanent resident!
Did they not have QE in Dallas or Detroit?
Detailed Milky Way map with 3.3. billion stars
USA Tanks Going to Ukraine
Yes. It was not his racist statements or his incompetence. It was what Adam Schiff did. For pete's sake, FBI literally handed him the 2016 election.
it's easy to find it elsewhere (i.e., American politicians aren't the only ones)

The second link below is "fun": seems gerrymandering in France correlates to the French revolution.

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2021/10/21/the-tories-a...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/07/14/what-frenc...
I know it was a thing in middle school, and I'll bet some people never grew out of it. I've never heard an adult directly say that having an iPhone makes you better, but I have seen groups exclude people based essentially on income, and none of those people would be caught holding an Android phone.

It's dumb, I hate smartphones.
Are you saying ssddanbrown should use a different word? ssddanbrown is just using the word from the article title.
As long as there's Fred data, so 2005 [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_St...
Is this satire? I can’t believe having to wait 10 years for an apartment is a good system
Allegedly it's snapshot data, not the actual Git repositories.
As an engineer myself who likes to dig into data/analytics, writing and tweaking some of the complex SQL is not that easy or fun. I am impatient to get to the insights.

I imagine SQL would be harder and more annoying for biz folks. A programmer might be right "expert" to get the SQL working (Usually the programmer itself is a generalist when trying to write SQL for analytics).

A text-to-SQL tool will help create the queries quickly; it is much easier for an engineer to verify the generated queries and the results of those queries.
As linked to from the article: http://decaps.skymaps.info/
They have to find another solution.

But instead of that lasting forever since their situation never becomes so that they can afford to buy a nice home, which is the case for many people, they only have to deal with that for 10 years at which point they get a lot of choices for nice homes at an affordable price.

It’s the same here in Denmark.
Id argue that people are literally a finite resource by virtue of being organic matter. Its just unkind to point such out from my understanding.
I've always wondered what would have happened to Japan if the US forced them to allow EU-style free movement between the two (or more?) countries while they were drafting their new constitution.

Please note I'm not suggesting the US should have done that, just noting it wouldn't have been that wildly different than the US and Puerto Rico just a few decades earlier.

I'm not a history buff and I'm sure it's way more nuanced than that, just surprised US imperialism didn't swing for the fences like it had done before. Considering the atrocities Japanese-Americans faced during those times I can see why neither party would've been keen on opening up like that, I know.
It's the same trick as "access to healthcare" as if healthcare is just the ability to walk into a hospital.

(Now, strictly speaking, one (less common) definition of access is "freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something" but the connotation intented is really "permission, liberty, or ability to enter, approach, or pass to and from a place or to approach or communicate with a person or thing"[0] because in the former "access" could be dropped entierly in sentences like "they don't have access to healthcare" to simply "they don't have healthcare." So it is clearly being used to create a certain (false) connotation)

[0]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/access
> Back in the day...

Depends which day one goes back to.

Web projects I've been involved with since early 90s considered user modalities, affordances, predictability, and frictionlessness. To clients we used utility words like straightforward, coherent, clean, functional to describe the system, and experience words like delight, effectiveness, familiarity, ease, as sensations a user should have using the system.

Not sure when I first recall the abbreviation UX, probably mid-90s.

Mostly we just called it Design, a blend of things one might do making comfortable office furniture and effective graphic design and editorial layout for a magazine.

Perhaps things were interesting then because design was an emerging intersectional craft and interfaces were experimentally evolving. Digital UX wasn't yet the ubiquitous sameness of content marketing scaffolding.
But what specific terms did he break?

https://www.oversightboard.com/news/226612455899839-oversigh...

They said his comment "We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You're very special." and "from great patriots who have been badly, unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love in peace. Remember this day forever!"

As "praising or supporting people committing violence".

He literally said "we have to have peace" and "go home" and that, to you, is "deserving being banned"?
But isn’t this true no matter the first- and second-language combo? I started out writing C and this definitely influenced how I learned and wrote python code. My colleagues that started out with ruby, or java, also program in distinct ways that show their “accent”, so to say.
If it's shared, you don't know what project pulled in which dependencies so you can't clean it up. I guess this is a trade off - 2G that's easy to clean up vs ?G that isn't. The only way around would be some sort of pinning and GC like in Nix.

That said, if it's not an option, I think it'd be reasonable for people to be able to make that choice themselves...
Be homeless or live in an overpriced non-rent-controlled apartment.

I'm surprised he managed to write how great housing in Stockholm is with a straight face as everyone knows how terrible this system is for those who can't get a rent controlled apartment.

Obviously this can work in your favor if you're a local and can get in the que when you turn 18 and hit the jackpot when you're 28 but not if you're a foreigner in your 20s or 30s trying to move to Stockholm.
really all of the NaN behavior is really dumb.

"we gave you enough different NaNs to uniquely represent every grain of sand on the planet uniquely"

how does math work on them?

"we have no idea"

how do we tell what type of nan we have?

"we have no idea"

what should these bajillion values represent?

"I don't know, probably something"

the fact that they didn't just make there be a single NaN and make it equal to itself (and while you're at it make it so the real numbers have a total ordering)
Reading "The Limits to Growth" and having a passing understanding of the consequences of global warming will have you start to ask these kind of questions fairly quickly.

The Shift Project [1] did exactly that for France: they elaborated a plan to completely transform the French economy with the explicit goal of not wrecking climate further, aptly called "Le Plan de transformation de l'économie française" (I assume the name is understandable to an English speaker).

An interesting take of this plan is that instead of thinking in USD (or EUR, being in France), they reason strictly in terms of physical resources available, like land, water, oil, wind, sun, crops, wood, various ores, etc. Resources available within the next few decades, not in many centuries with future techs...

[1] http://theshiftproject.org/en/home/
There are two very simple policy strategies for ensuring housing is affordable:

(1) make it easier to build high density housing

(2) make housing an unattractive financial asset

Many have already talked about (1) but few understand (2) and what types of policies would promote it. This would include

- heavily taxing capital gains owning land (not taxing the improvements)

- limiting ownership to a very long lease (e.g. 99 yrs) similar to what they do in Singapore.

Both would be highly politically unpopular for the majority of Americans and therefore they do not get implemented. What people don't realize is that fixing the housing problem actually requires certain people to GIVE UP something:

- giving up the quality of your nice neighbourhood because a giant complex was built next door

- giving up much of the capital appreciation in your house because it appreciated

Both would be be highly unpopular for the majority of existing home owners. As a result everyone complains but politicians don't actually do anything and nothing changes. There is no such thing as additional affordable housing without any cost. There is a price to be paid. Most are not willing to pay it.
they have done a bad enough job that fakespot has a viable business model vetting their products.
There is no git history in leak. Just a lot of code, test data and occasional binaries / ml train data and few pre-trained models.
> each person show be saving for their own retirement

Saving where, the stock market? I wouldn't be surprised if a shrinking population means a shrinking stock market too.
Tired: work for a decade far from your job so you can earn enough money to afford an apartment close to your job

Wired: work for a decade far from your job so you can wait in a queue for an apartment close to your job
The problem with being 'The only Game in Town' is that the Game is always changing. Most monopolies are short-lived.
What racist statements? Please say "rapists and murderers".

James Comey said a true thing - Hillary Clinton was under investigation for using a personally owned and possessed BES for official state department communications, which she destroyed when the FBI wanted to review its contents because what she was doing was illegal and a huge security problem. She was never charged.

And then the FBI went on to pretend well after they knew otherwise that the Clinton-fabricated Steele dossier might be legitimate.
> Go to any second-tier city, or even much of suburban Tokyo, and you'll see urban collapse in action

And this is different from the old Rust Belt cities in the US, how?

Cites are growing. Anything outside of that is collapsing. There's no bloody in-between.
Sure, but the people saying Japan needs to become more like western Europe, or like non-Japan countries generally, to solve its demographic crisis, are barking up the wrong tree.
Terrible example, Stockholm has one of the most dysfunctional rental markets on Earth.

In some parts of the city the wait time is closer to 20 years, and then you are essentially stuck on the scheme which can be wiped away with the stroke of a pen at any time.

All these people currently on rent control now sublet out for market rates and essentially have free government mandated incomes for being a rent-seeker

It's stifled all new property development and made housing some of the most affordable on Earth apart from a select few who are the minority.

Anyone with half a clue would not be waiting for a rent-controlled unit, it's a trap laced with uncertainty. Rent control has already brought down one government.

https://www.reuters.com/article/sweden-housing-idUSL5N2O51RM
> People are a lot less stressed at work

Are we talking about the same Japan here? Karoshi (death from overwork), black companies etc is not just a Western news trope, and all the Japanese salarymen I know hate the work culture.
So you join a queue, to rent and pay someone to live somewhere…?

That sounds, odd to me.

Most people buy homes because

(1) it financially makes sense (you can sell and profit off the asset, further often the interest is tax deductible- depending where you live)

(2) legacy. Owning a place let’s you pass it to children. Renting means the house goes to the next tenant

The people who often “win” in these situations are the land lords. They now have a queue of people (paying to be in the queue), probably near 100% occupancy, and will make small increases to rent every year or two.
How would (2) change rental prices? Show its effect on the supply & demand of rental housing.
Interesting question. Someone should write an article about it.
Always be careful when shooting your customer in the foot that your own foot isn't in the way too.
Apparently ChatGPT went from zero to a million users in five days[1], at a cost of "single-digits cents per chat."

For perspective the likes of Instagram and Twitter have take from a few months to a few dozen months to get to a million users all while doing less work to service a request for a "page."

Hats of to OpenAI for not falling over more often under a hug of death that doesn't seem to be letting up.

[1] https://twitter.com/sama/status/1599668808285028353
[2] https://www.afr.com/technology/chatgpt-takes-the-internet-by...
Simple, you pay through the nose the first 10 years to someone who already waited 10 years to snatch up something to sub-let out to you. Then you do the same thing to somebody else to get the money back.

That way you can pay the absolute highest rents when you're young and making the least amount of money.
Sometimes I feel these discussions can derail into the realm of being pointless.

Computers do not care. Seriously. I don’t know about others, I have far more important and urgent things to worry about in the course of completing a project than this_case or thatCase. I prefer this_case, probably out of habit. Yet, it isn’t important. I’ll use anyCase if required. My bank account also could not care less.
By what mechanism would (2) make housing cheaper?
> or a search engine

I would guess the crawling to be the easiest part.
That "book" is 20 pages long. Surely it's available for less than $5 somewhere?
It's so refreshing to read this discussion. I've had these thoughts and feelings a lot but this is the first time I see them reflected in other people!
Oh I see, yeah that’s definitely not clear from the site. I don’t use vscode, it had me fooled... classic Microsoft
They sublet off people who have already artificially low price capped rentals.

Not trying to make a joke, that is the reality. Once you get off the waiting list it is essentially a guaranteed second income by subletting.
I don't like the recent development either. With shows it is even worse for podcasts you can usually get an RSS feed that can be used by many apps
Did you read the blog post? By pasting in the sql error, it got better.
Bad case of "computer says no"-ism
https://archive.is/WHbAK
A lot of people never buy a home. And to my knowledge the number of people who will never be able to afford to buy a home is only increasing.

So yes indeed, renting is not my preferred way of dealing with housing in our society, but it is the reality for a lot of people.
And people wonder why Europeans aren't having anymore kids.
> fixing the housing problem actually requires certain people to GIVE UP something

That sounds like just introducing new problems not fixing the problem, I'd rather extremely expensive housing over either 1 or 2
Both India and Germany have much stronger cultures of English usage than Japan -- and Australia and the UK are English speaking countries. Educated Indians learn to use English in a business setting, but this is not really as useful in Japan; and German has a lot more common with English (and with the many Indo-European languages, like Hindi and Sanskrit, that are familiar to people in India even when they are not their spoken language) than Japanese has with either language.
> the same type of license most cloud providers are using these days

Very few pieces of software are attempting to propagate those non-open licenses; far more software is just using Open Source licenses.

If you want to call it "open source", use an Open Source license. If you don't, please use terms like "making the source available" or similar. (But please, consider just making it Open Source.)
I have often heard the criticism that “developers only build luxury housing” and demand local government intervention to require “affordable” new construction.
I'm in the bay area. If you're at all involved in local housing you'll find there's a vocal group here opposed to any housing that isn't "affordable". While they may not actually believe it's intrinsic, the way they use rhetoric implies it is. This group and their rhetorical methods have successfully killed a lot of projects that could have housed hundreds of people (often with 30% of units being affordable).
Ten years ago I paid for some proprietary software to help me collate my photographic archive. The project was very successful but the software is also 32bit Intel only. Since Catalina onwards I have not been able to access the archive at all. It causes me a lot of anxiety.

Thanks Adobe / Apple! Hopefully Lightroom 6 runs on Windows, but I just never seem to have gotten around to trying. I think it’s mostly out of fear that it won’t work and I will realize I am shut out of my collection metadata forever.
It was never million bucks. There were always businesses offering square millimeter of silicon for few thousands euro on an older technology. Design service might go into millions if one can’t do it by himself though.
Maybe this is an obvious question but if you generate pictures using any of these tools, can you create the same picture/character/person with different poses, or backgrounds, such as for telling a story, and/or creating a comic book, or would you get a new picture every time, such as for the cover of a magazine ?

How reproducible would the pictures be ?
By the size of the dump, my guess is that each tarball is a repo with the .git or .svn dir intact. But I cannot download it now.
That's the motivation for Microsoft in a nutshell.
Gotta say, I feel bad for Europeans. In the states just about everyone can afford what you’d probably consider a “nice home” at an “affordable price”.

To put it into perspective; at 20 my friend bought a house in the suburbs — 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 0.3 acres; decent neighborhood, driveway for his 2 cars; etc. he’s not college educated and cuts trees down for a living.
I would add a third which is allow more dangerous housing. You heard it. We all agree to risk, just a little more, we all die in a horrible fire so that the least among us have a better chance of owning a home through something other than charity.
Can you spot a metaphor?
I think it's more about reducing cognitive load. I wouldn't want "+" to be used for anything that isn't adding, for example. Having to differentiate a-b from a - b sounds tedious and error prone.
If buying a home only costs the equivalent of 7 years rent instead 30+ years rent, it seems that would make buying a home more appealing and reduce the market's overall demand for rental housing. And similarly, property owners won't want to sell their property if the price just dropped, so instead they'll be more interested in rental income, increasing the rental housing supply.
Not saying anything about training those models, but I can run the weights of Stable Diffusion without larger problems on a vintage RTX 1080Ti.
The long (=great) hundred is 120, while the long thousand is 1200. It seems pretty understanding, so I wonder if anyone ever needed to use a long hundred thousand and worked out what that was supposed to be.
When you're young you usually have very little income to afford the highest possible rents. It doesn't make sense to me.
I made the big mistake of purchasing a "CZUR Book Scanning solution" the year before last. The camera on it is sooo shit that I ended up just resting my phone on top of the thing and getting better results just using it as a lamp.. Sure there is some laser contour detection of pages and then flattening, if you use their windows only software to with it, but the resolution is so low its only good for black and white text only books.
The obvious other option not mentioned is that if affordability is where cost (rent) is 30% or less of household income, and cost goes up, "simply" increase the household income.

Policy action to force house prices lower might be socially beneficial - but changing the distribution of wealth to a fairer level also works for social good.
The (formerly) official discord group has cut ties with ADSB exchange and is suggesting everyone go to airframes after the recent acquisition. Don't know much about airframes or why they picked them yet though.

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