skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Post WWII till about 1952, the UK had a 100% capital gains tax on land. In this period two whole new cities were built from the ground up (Homes for Heroes style). After ending the tax, no government ever could afford the cost of a new town.

The idea is that if a farmer has a field it's worth its agricultural value - something like 5-10,000 per acre currently. If government turns up and says this field is where we shall build a railway station, hospitals, schools and permission for 50,000 houses, then the farmer is a fool to sell for 10k, and instead sells for 100k. Meaning the cost of the hospital just became untenable and frankly nothing gets built.

But, if there is 100% capital gains, then the land stays at the agricultural level because no matter who buys the land, the government says "it was worth 10k last month, if you sell it to us for hospital at 300k you owe 290k in tax"

And thus no-one feels a fool for selling at agricultural prices, and capital gains remains normal for non-land improvements (ie actual bricks and mortar)

Of course the towns built was Milton Keynes, a concrete monstrosity of roundabouts and soulless planning. But hey. People live there
64-bit time_t works perfectly fine on 32-bit systems. That is completely unrelated to machine word size.
For students in marketing majors, writing an essay can be a challenge but with https://goodmenproject.com/learning/best-services-to-hire-an... article it's easy. They will need to be sure to choose a topic that has enough information and is interesting. In addition, the text needs to be organized properly and contain reliable evidence.
The Starter House Is Nearly Extinct (2022)
You said "The Intel project is paying for highway development the power and sewer extensions and more."?
I said it favors insiders over outsiders. That's the system the insiders vote for.
interesting that I just read this other front-page article:

"japan has changed in important and visible ways" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34509182

specifically the part about affordable housing:

"In fact, Japan’s fervor for constant scrap-and-build construction is a major reason why rent there is so affordable"...
>limiting ownership to a very long lease (e.g. 99 yrs) similar to what they do in Singapore.

...and China.

I wholeheartedly agree with (2), but this is not the way to do it, for a number of reasons.
Re-focusing works best with larger deltas in focusing distance, rather than a few millimeters of focus distance change due to monitor curvature.

Compare flexing your arms to stretch, vs. moving your hand by exactly one inch. The former will contract and relax arm muscles from their stable position. The latter requires muscle tension to carry out a precision movement.
Anyone who refers to new market-rate units as "luxury apartments", which is something you hear about new developments all the time.
The bizarre thing it isn't even capitalism/money first. The housing system in the USA is far from the optimal free-market capitalistic structure. It revolves around a people first approach of the right people controlling the regulations, the permitting office, and tyranny of more comfortable majority.

If you let brute-force raw capitalism run roughshod I would build a japanese style capsule megavault and trick a bunch of college kids into thinking it's the cool thing, selling them each 100% ownership of their personal pod for $X. I could probably buy a shitty old warehouse and fill it with these capsules and you could own your own fucking capsule in a coop for maybe ten grand and aside from whatever services your coop votes to buy you wouldn't owe jack to a landlord.
tl:dr: contribute to opensource -> learn tech and tools in the real world, forge relationships and expand your network, all while learning.

--

One approach is to pick one (or a handful) of opensource projects that use tech you seem interested in, and start contributing in small ways: correcting typos, testing if patch or merge request X does indeed seem to solve problem Y and report back, etc.

Many projects tag issues that are well-suited for beginners, and many welcome first-time contributions.

Doing this exposes you too a specific set of tools and processes, teaches you collaboration and making things happen, and can create friendship for life.

Also, don't dismiss writing about what you learn. Either as a dev journal blog or helping with documentation, writing tutorial-style forces you to be technically correct and unambiguous, and in turn forces you to learn about things at a level of detail you wouldn't otherwise have bothered to research.
It's because they are dozen of those automation clicky things each slightly different and with slightly different featureset that fits this or that workflow better.
Cities provide concentration of services that people need. No city, no services. They also provide concentration of jobs, and concentration of people. For an extreme example you can't have the full set of services for 1 person in the middle of nowhere without an impossible cost.

So it all depends how independent you are from everything and everyone. If you have complex medical needs or need to be around certain people also in the city, you might have to live in the city.

Homeless and mentally ill get treated by programs and services that can be afforded by major cities (small towns apocryphally throw homeless on a bus to the big city to fix their homeless problems).
For this use I think almost any modern screen will do. Color accuracy typically doesn't matter for developing. And anything over 55" these days will have 4k resolution as a minimum.
such a lazy piece tacked on at the end. they always say these things when it comes to Japan. but guess what my bank told me to use when the Javascript on their website stopped uploading documents...
There might be no reason Japan should have led / captured the current iteration of those markets… but it doesn’t paint a great picture that they got NONE of them after building up into a very competitive position by the 90s, when they were global leaders of quite a few categories / product areas.

By your own account, they led gen1 smartphones, but have ended up with 0% of gen2.

They led EVs but dont have a top 5 maker now (all us, germany and china).

They have innovated some product designs more recently (eg- in social and messaging), but gave up or never tried much to fight for global share.

Startups… sure there are many but have any succeeded globally in the last 10-15 years? Is there a Spotify (Sweden), Shopify (Canada) or TikTok (China)? Off the top, the most successful global consumer launch recently from Japan was Nintendo Switch… but no startup comes to mind.

The point isn’t to beat up on Japan here, but it’s global absence is noticeable after a looming presence for decades.
Idk why this was downvoted?

There's not much pressure to learn Swedish because everyone here is fluent in English.

While doing my Swedish language course I met people that had lived here for 20 years and never learnt it
> 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.

This is the policy in Japan, which is not an authoritarian government… well, not in terms of housing anyway.

You just can't get a mortgage for a used home and they don't let local governments control zoning.
It really was a term of derision. Sure, some may have used it affectionately and even more might do so now, but by and large it wasn't used in kindness.

To cite a reference, the first issue of "80 Microcomputing", a magazine dedicated to the TRS-80 line of computers. See the second paragraph of Wayne Green's editorial "80 Remarks" on page 8:

https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine-1980-...
We’re currently anchoring our messaging around onboarding as a use case. The experiences are highly stateful, but the product itself is a visual flow builder to model the state machines and SDKs that let you reference and manipulate that state while you build. We’re not living at the UI layer at all so while people can build tours with the product, it’s not limited to that.
Controlled by Google
They left all data on an unsecured system on the internet, the description sounds like the classic elastic search instance found by shodan case. Everything is spun as „bad bad hacker“ when in reality it was blatant incompetence and negligence. The real culprits get away, no charges are being filed. The government entity that is responsible for putting the data on the internet is calling this „common practice „.
> published by one of the largest podcast directories on earth

Is there any actual value in this? I was under the impression anyone could add any external podcast to iTunes for free.
- Typing CamelCase is also easier on the pinkies.
> I'm not sure why you'd be willing to work on such a project but then be concerned about putting it on a CV.

He just said:

>> that ended up being used to commit a (arguably) crime against humanity.

What about that makes you think that he knew what it would be used for?

"I'm the civil engineer who designed a large and complicated factory for the mass baking of ceramic products."

...

"I did not know the next government would start a world war and use them to gas Jews."

You seem to assume that everyone has perfect foresight. I assure you, even you don't have perfect foresight.
You could use expensive land much more efficiently if you could build smaller, taller, and worse housing.

SF has both banned new SROs (flophouses) and made it illegal to tear down the old ones.
I have no experience with Sweden, but The Netherlands would also be a counter-example.
HN is over-represented by young people in tech, often immigrants (like me), who are "outsiders" in the Stockholm system. Hence, a lot of the complaints here. Stockholm also has a free-market system - go buy a condo or house. But you can't when you're a young - it's too expensive. Most people can't buy them when they are old either. But the queue means that you will get one. If you are in a rush, you get one in a less attractive neighborhood and then try and swap your way to a nicer place - there is a market for swapping rent controlled contracts (lagenhetsbyte.com).
Is this related to yesterdays Azure outage?
Check out the Ultimate Geography deck [1]. It's open-source and highly customizable. Use the following filter to learn just flags:

"deck:Ultimate Geography" "card:Flag - Country"

[1] https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2109889812
I’m not sure the analogy stands. Getting consistent margins is not as hard as building an AAA game imho. It’s more about building the right abstractions and having consistent attention to detail.
Here's a reference point:

- "Mount Pinatubo’s violent eruption [in 1991] injected about 15 million tons of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. The resulting sulfuric acid aerosols remained in the stratosphere for about two years, and cooled the Earth’s surface by a range of 1 to 2 degrees Fahrenheit."

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/2018-s-biggest-vol...

Looks like they're about 10.5 orders of magnitude short (of globally significant effects).
A lot of people will never make enough money.

Therefore the only way to make housing affordable for everyone in the long run is to guarantee housing. That means social housing or rent-geared-to-income housing in combination with cooperative housing and market housing.

No one solution will fix the problem. For example for the mental health problem if you give an apartment to someone really far gone they will just destroy the apartment and walk outside to live on the street. You need supports for them maybe communal living. So the right type of housing matters for each person. For someone who will never make enough money, the housing has to be free.
Like brace style or a million other nitpicks, I don't care. I'll use whatever the linter says, so set one up. (though I will say I also hate code styles that don't adhere to the general language convention)
Or Finland, or the Netherlands, etc.

English is so widely spoken in these countries that many foreigners manage entirely without learning the local language.

It’s got to the point that in central Helsinki, you often can’t get service in Finnish in bars or restaurants.
Private equity firms are nothing compared to the power of average homeowners using land appreciation as their retirement plan.

A simple rule is that nothing people blame on corporations is ever caused by corporations. People and governments are legitimately more powerful than corporations! And they often use that for evil.
I think this is an overly dogmatic way of looking at Open Source.

Open Source is a functional definition that served us for 25 years. E.g. if software is Open Source, it can be included in a Linux distribution. Most distributions do not accept software that is incompatible with the Open Source definition. Diluting the term open source makes it more difficult to talk about a certain class of software licenses.

And why dilute the term if we have the perfect alternative term source available?
On a related note, for years I had been following ShawnHeisy's wiki notes on Java / Solr. For a long time there was a HUGE warning about G1GC + Lucene (which is the underlying technology in both Solr and Elasticsearch).

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/shawnheisey

Those warnings have gone away recently. Make of that what you will.
Lots of good responses to this question.

The most plausible solution being pushed right now is the one advocated by Lee Drutman and Fix Our House, proportional representation via large multi-member districts:

https://www.fixourhouse.org/

It's more plausible than others because it doesn't require amending the U.S. Constitution. I'm not convinced you couldn't still gerrymander a bit to tilt this system one way or the other, but it's way more robust than what we have now.

My ideal system has the same basic design, a combination of local and proportional representation, and would look like this:

(1) Redistrict algorithmically using a simple algorithm based on population density alone, minimizing a relatively easy-to-understand objective function (e.g., average distance of people to other people in their district). The goal of this algorithm is not to be "best" or "fairest" in any sense, but to be robust to attacks like John Roberts's frightening line about "sociological gobbledygook." Once you have subjective measures of fairness, you open things up to political maneuvering (and accusations thereof).

(2) Assign multiple members of Congress to each district. An election for a district involves picking n candidates via instant runoff voting.

(3) Members don't get 1 vote. They get a vote proportional to the fraction of people that voted for them in the election.

That way, if you have a 4-member district, with the top 4 vote-getters being a Democrat with 45% of the last-round vote, a Republican with 43%, a Libertarian with 7%, and a Green with 5%, they each get 0.45, 0.43, 0.07, and 0.05 of a vote, respectively.

(4) Do this for the Senate too, ha ha ha. Senate still serves a purpose in this fantasy: it's a longer-time average of public opinion with less time spent running for re-election.
> These folks were planning to release 500g of sulfur dioxide — that’s completely insignificant, right? Just a POC?

Yes, that is a practically undetectable addition of SO2.

For reference, the US emitted approximately 2M tons of SO2 in 2019; that's about 1.8 billion kg. The 500g here is approximately one part in one billion.

If the startup added 500g of SO2 every single day for the next 10,000 years, they would add 1% to the total SO2 emissions of just 2019.
Mobility comes to play. Lots of time people have to move out from their family home because they don’t have a job in local market where their parents lived.

Second thing is that they might make much more money if they move out. Which might be much more beneficial strategy - when their parents get sick and need financial help even if they own their primary living space and don’t have to pay rent - than staying and getting what local market gives.
This is very insightful, thank you. I guess for price per kWh, lead-acid is also still unbeatable. And as you mention, deep cycle can give good lifetime as long as you don't go below 40%. I see deep cycle batteries come in all kinds of voltages though - is there a preference? I've seen huge 1000Ah batteries with 4V or 6V.
Is it now? I was under the assumption it was an ideological definition, at least that's how people present every time one of these projects are even a smidge off from the OSI definition.

I don't think most major Open Source projects in the last 10 years have even once considered,

'E.g. if software is Open Source, it can be included in a Linux distribution.'

That is exactly what I mean by "out of touch".

If I had to guess the primary motivator for being Open Source, are the communal and moral aspects of it.
It is widely suspected that was the goal.
If only we could make gerrymandering illegal.
The version for the Model 3 runs on stock hardware as it shipped in 1980. It has a interrupt that fires every second vblank. Thus it is possible to get in sync with the beam but to remain in sync the program must keep track of every cycle it executes.

The Model 1 version does require a hardware mod to get access to vsync.

I wrote those programs and couldn't have done it without something of a virtuous circle of trying stuff on the real hardware and then improving the emulator to more accurately model the hardware and so on.
you spent half a year in japan and speak the language?
There is also Haiku OS.

See https://www.haiku-os.org/
> 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.

I'm German, living in Berlin, and have wonderful friends who fit that description. They live full lives, and I couldn't care less about their German levels. They do enough good things with their time they put their energy into instead.

People should learn languages if they feel a reason to or if they enjoy it. Motivation probably makes it easier. Guilting people by default doesn't sit right with me.
I thought about this, but realised that I don't spend that much time typing when coding.

Maybe when defining a new variable/class/etc. the first time, then IDE autocomplete fills it in the next.
There's no confirmation about the number of machines the script is going to affect?
sccache works really well and there’s only two steps to install it and enable it globally, speeds up compilation time a lot as well:

https://github.com/mozilla/sccache
To use Doctorow's term: the "enshittification" of Apple Podcasrs
> I wouldn’t recommend the book. Even compared with his later work it’s unfocused and dull

Disagree. I do recommend it.

Just don’t expect a Snow Crash or Diamond Age. Everything in the book uses contemporary technology.
Keep in mind that ordinary SO₂ pollution doesn't make its way into the stratosphere. It's a different problem.
N1? You mastered 敬語 in 6 months?
> High quality goods? Too expensive to produce and lasts too long to be economically viable.

I think that's a false dichotomy. Free markets typically produce higher-quality goods and services than non-free markets because quality is part of the dimensions among which firms compete. Throughout history, quality of goods in all kinds of areas have gone up when government restrictions were loosened and competition was allowed.

Preventing a free market in housing benefits exactly one group: Those who are lucky/rich to already have such a nice big house.
Well, you're more than welcome to employ some!
> heavily taxing capital gains owning land

Creating a large disincentive to ever sell it.
I think the logic is similar to why doctors aren't allowed to "just try stuff" on cancer patients without proper oversight, except on a global scale -- if it turns out a geoengineering project has a much worse second-order effect that wasn't considered, people who didn't get a say in its deployment would be impacted.
So if you live in 4 countries over four decades in your adult life you will learn 4 new languages?

I don't think you must've lived more than one place abroad, or somewhere with good English. For example I speak 4 languages, understand another 2, but don't speak the language of the country I've lived in for the last 3.5 years, and I'm not even learning. At some point it's just absolutely not worth it and I'm just gonna occupy memory that will be more useful for work or life.

This is the most common take you hear from people that never lived abroad, only speak one language, or lived abroad in a single place where they learn their first ever new language. Then judge someone who'd be learning their 4th or 5th. It's absolutely not the same thing for a native english speaker to learn one single foreign language when they move once and compare it under the same light.
Why Your Code Sucks: Common Excuses for Bad Programming
I've heard the driver's license test in Japan is quite hard and fails people on the first try just to teach them humility. Maybe they were thinking of that? (whether or not it's true…)
I once went to an investor who did the same business model. It was something they wanted to invest in, but couldn't find the right person, so they did it themselves.

We debated a lot, and learned a lot from his other. We were solving the same problem (groceries), but he wanted to solve it for expats, and I wanted to solve it for professional working moms. Basically, we were fixing our own problems.

5 years later, his startup still doesn't access my area and I never got the funds to make a delivery fleet. So even with all the secrets leaked, it didn't matter.
A thing can have a probability of zero, while being logically possible.
gold. very deep insight into the human nature.

;)
Sounds great

If Midjourney applies this to all their artwork then maybe it alleviates some of the ethical concerns (Midjourney then has a "style" independent of the training data)
(And that’s a good thing!)
It’s a fun question to ponder but the answer is pretty obvious: UTC.

As the clocks very, very slowly drift apart due to relativity, the moon could add a leap back 2 seconds every century to reconcile with Earth.

Or add a leap back hour in 200,000 years.
There is still quite a bit of controversy around the inclusive non-gendered form, because it is non-standard and not approved by the Real Academia Española (rae.es). In Spain, where I come from, the most common non-gendered form is to use the suffix -e, instead of -a or -o. However, in practice, this is mostly use by the LGBTQ+ community and not the general public. It will take a while (if ever) to spread around society.

IMO, genders on objects without a sex are just non sensical and a legacy product of Roman Latin evolution. A simple -e suffix could potentially fix this, but it's incredibly hard to change without a generational change, cause language and habits are sticky. However if you are triggered by a table being female gendered or a car being male gendered, maybe you are overthinking it.

When it comes to human related words, another potential approach is to always use the female form, because you refer to the word person (la persona) and not the particular gender of the individual in question. This applies to groups too, the rule in Spanish is that if a group has females and males, you should use the "male" plural form. Why not just use the female form and everyone is happy?

Just remark that this is a hot topic and conservative and older people usually oppose this aggressively and openly. New generations understand the arbitrary split of society in two based on the presence of a penis more intrinsically though.