skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Increases in housing demand (without increases in supply) will almost always cause house price increases by pushing more marginal buyers into the buying market.

Without any increase in supply, more people wanting emergency accommodation or council homes increase wait times. The person on the edge of deciding between council housing or private rental will go for the latter. The new renter will have to try and outbid other renters causing rental rates to go up. Ultimately that nudges the person on the edge of deciding between private rental and buying with a mortgage to enter the buying market and try to outbid other buyers - causing an increase in overall prices.

There's suffering at each stage of this process, where high demand forces people to engage in transactions that stretch them financially. Over time many people will just 'drop out' by staying with parents or going abroad.

The only real solution is to build more houses. In the 1960s the UK built >400k new homes per year [1] - enough to comfortably a million new migrants annually whilst also increasing house choice and affordability for people already resident.

[1] https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/12041546940519997... (chart is for England, I've extrapolated a peak of 350k for England to justify a claim of >400k for the wider UK)
Not sure if this is what you were curious about, but heat-shock proteins are extensively studied in other organisms:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_shock_protein
It's really kind of crazy to see. I just checked some of my favorite subs and out of 22 subs I checked, 20 are currently private.

I've seen some people claim that it's just the "powermods" pushing for these blackouts, but that's not my experience at all. Several medium-size subs I frequent (none of them moderated by powermods) made polls and the result was always the same: an overwhelming majority (like 90%+) of users were in favor of shutting down the subreddit.

I really hope Reddit can be saved. It'd be a shame to lose it like this.
rtificial Intelligence, encompassing broader capabilities such as natural language processing, image recognition, and many forms of automation & robotics, has found widespread utility across numerous industries.
> As in, why aren't the black kids seen as the boring, nerdish kids that will get to form the VC crowd themselves in 20 years' time?

That's a good question and if you're sincerely interested in understanding the answer, there's a long history of thought on the topic of black excellence in the context of racial oppression. You could start with W.E.B. Du Bois and the "Talented Tenth"

For the record, I'm assuming your questions are disingenuous, but answering in good faith for other readers who might interested.

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cr...
Engineer here as well.

What is the quality metric?

Does it need to work in an emergency?

Does it need to look cool more than it needs to work instantly? (like an ad)

Also, I imagine most people use like 3 QR code readers, snapchat, the camera app for ios/android. Seems pretty trivial to test for 80% of the population.
Nasdaq to Acquire Financial-Software Firm Adenza for $10.5B
Not making nuclear weapons or banking?
> Perhaps you're younger? It was, at one time, pretty common to base the rage abuse on the recruit's religion, place of birth or induction, personal items/photos in the locker/wallet, observations on what made the recruit react, records, tests and so on. It was not hidden or subtle

Funny that you're mentioning older protocols in a thread about 60s mind control...

The military around that time was seen as a "correctional" institution to turn bad boys into men. Everything you describe about personalized treatment is a necessary step to breaking the willpower of someone with any sort of oppositional/defiance disorder.

You have to figure out their mental weakpoint and rub both shit and salt in that wound to bring them to heel, because they won't listen to reason or respect/fear authority otherwise-- these are the types who'll laugh in the drill instructor's face. They'll do pushups and clean toilets all day out of spite.

All of this should have started changing post-Vietnam.
> Given Fastmail is an Australian company focused on privacy, I was somewhat surprised by their servers being hosted in New Jersey and Washington and nowhere else.

I find that a bit surprising as well. Though my threat model doesn't currently account for state actors, if it did, this would be concerning.
We need the same for the complete 180 on lockdowns. From universally against to forced lockdowns. I think people forget how strong the consensus (including medical) against lockdowns was.

I was in China during the outbreak. All western media and healthcare experts had to say about lockdowns was that they were counterproductive and have never been part of the medical playbook. And that it violates civil rights. A month later this seemed to be completely forgotten.

Personally, I believe this is all a function of the states ability to enforce it. It wasn’t possible before, but they found that it was possible now. But it was summarily rejected on principal prior to that.
Stack Overflow was never intended to solve every single programming question out there, or to help every single person trying to learn.

You also can't show up to ballet lessons and start swing dancing.
https://archive.is/qYKmT
Requires an invite. On a side-note, anyone here who can hook me up with an invite ?
I never believed it was a bioweapon.

Why? Because China was behind on vaccine development, and when they finally produced on it was not only late, but barely functional.

Late is one thing - if you release a bioweapon, it's far too suspicious to release a co-developed vaccine simultaneously.

But ineffective?

When it got out the WHO was parroting China's talking points from day one - it's not airborne, that's just a racist conspiracy. It was nuts.

And from the same group that was ignoring the big red flags from Taiwan's early warning system (Taiwan, who incidentally is refused membership as part of the world's China appeasement policy).

Then China shutdown domestic travel from Wuhan, while still allowing it internationally.

They didn't develop it as a bioweapon - but that did not stop them from weaponising it after the fact.
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1508/
I'm not complaining about 2020, I'm complaining about 2021. I'm not sure whatever it was that led to "transitory inflation narrative", it felt like the Fed was acting like a third world country, like Turkey's central bank, ignoring basic economical consideration everyone knows.

These levels of irrationality caught me and many others off guard. I did not at all expect the central bank to wait an entire year in what seemed like no brainer rate hike. I'm not sure what they were stalling for, but I already lost my trust in fiat then. Inflation isn't going back down until people are sure that central banks aren't going to be weak again. By the way, just look at the markets. They are all calling the Fed's bluff right now. The markets are screaming "the Fed is weak, he'll pivot".

Nobody believes the current Fed has the stomach to fight stagflation. Everybody knows he has to, but everyone already saw him chickening out of raising rates for a full year with "transitory inflation" narrative.

EDIT: A full year isn't "few months".
It's a whole year. A whole year during which the Fed has completely eroded the trust in the central bank. Inflation was already 4.1% at April 2021, continuing to climb, up to 7% in December 2021, yet only in April 2022 the rate hikes started. That's not rounding error. It's a full year during which the problem transformed from somewhat manageable to full blown economic disaster and this train wreck isn't even close to stopping.
Japan is still a first world nation. The world hasn't ended for them.
Can we stop pretending that having a population that isn't exponentially growing is a bad thing.
I’m not necessarily pointing a finger at the pressure or motivation to want mobile app growth. Pre-IPO is a stressful time. It’s mostly about how the team goes about attempting to accomplishing those goals and a management/product culture and talent thing that was likely in place well beforehand. Based on the last redesign and https://new.reddit.com there are plenty of signals of doing things for the sake of doing them or for UI trends, not because it makes it fundamentally better.

It’s easy to miss these failures internally and assume the teams/management are functional and effective when your app keeps growing… via Reddit’s content and existing market dominance.
'Anti-dopamine parenting' can curb a kid's craving for screens or sweets
Yeah there is a solution. Build more housing. It's a political issue and nothing more
Vancouver and SF is an apples and oranges comparison. SF was a tech hub of the world. Vancouver is where China stashes it's money in real-estate. 1

1 - https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.scmp.com/news/china/diploma...
This is an argument to trust developers and business school grads as opposed to a company that I have a 40+ relationship with. If you want developer freedom choose a different platform. Apple is for users and not developers. We all have the freedom to do whatever we want. Why some people choose to constantly rail against a company they think is ridiculous os mystifying. Move on bless some other platform with your gifts.

One should develop for a platform they enjoy.
>Time to go back to reading books and talking to people.

Bold strategy. How is it going so far?
Assuming OP means, "The government will try their best to keep house price increasing" although I'm aware that the use of the word pegged is confusing.

A common opinion is that governments feel that increasing house prices will keep the voters coming in as people work their butts off to get onto the housing ladder (escalator) and then want the bubble to keep expanding as it's their main form of savings. Western society is all in on the Ponzi scheme here.
I preferred Something Awful's payment system, where you could pay to publicly shame other users for poor behavior
The vast majority of users on any platform are passive consumers, they are valuable only as long as they keep scrolling and viewing ads. The ultra tiny minority of users that are valuable to the platform 24/7 are the ones that consistently submit links, generate original content or post comments that bring in a lot of the passive users. The high value users will only leave when they loose the ability to upload to, and interact with, their favorite communities.
I'd rather have a trailer/minivan rather than rent with no chance of ownership.
You're technically correct, but how is this relevant? Most of HN audience works in tech and is pretty affluent, so it is a perfectly good place to discuss problems of privileged people.
Toyota has also pitched actually burning the hydrogen, but that’s even stupider. For starters you still get NOx formation by burning it, plus your efficiency is even lower.

The problem with synthetic fuels isn’t the technology, it’s the economics.

Synthetic fuels, to be remeotely green, need hydrogen created from electrolyzing water. That need to be done with 100% green energy (and new green energy, not simply pull from the grid to cause fossil fuel plants in o come online).

Then you need carbon from someone here other than fossil fuels. Direct air capture is what many look at, and that’s very expensive because of the chemistry and thermodynamics. (You’re trying to pull co2 out of the air, something in concentrations in the parts per million).

At the end of this Rube Goldberg operation you’re left with a fuel that’s going to cost 10x the price.

And the only way the price goes down is if people buy a lot of it so that the technology can improve and so the plants increase to get economies of scale.

Porsche is building a plant for this. But idk about you, but I doubt there are enough people who care enough about their car, and could afford, to pay >40$/gallon for gasoline.
Those people aren't common on the default subreddits, which might make it feel like there is not much community. But in the places that count, the more niche communities that actually have real community, those people are still around.

Besides, its a question of scale. There are loads of people like myself who make effort-post/comments sporadically on a few different platforms. There is enough such people that there can be (and is!) several viable twitter-like platforms at the moment. There's no reason the same can't be true for reddit.
>I believe that these 'nutjobs' were promoted to the forefront of popular discussion for purposes of sensationalism and to discredit more careful dissenting voices by association.

That just sounds like an unfounded conspiracy theory.

More likely is that extreme statements on social media generate more reactions, which is more engagement, so they get more traction in feeds because that is what social media is optimised to do, irrespective of what the content is.

And these nutjobs routinely invoked the term "lab leak", which organically led to an association in most people's minds between the term "lab leak" and crazy conspiracy theories.
How is this different or better than Dash or Streamlit?
- Cache for unlogged users, have a less dynamic front page (let's say 10s cache), that would help a lot

- Cache of most popular topics (again, even a 10s invalidation time) would help

For the logged users you could do something more dynamic, for example, cache the front-page snippets of the main subs + add the ones for the user. And again cache that

(unless the 'new reddit' makes this harder, to which I would say - well deserved! ;) )
> Because you can't blame dear grandpa's death on Russia maybe however you try ?
I am pretty sure 9/11 - War on Terror saw a rise in aggression of muslim looking people even though it concerned less people than covid did.

And yet there was no censorship on conspiracy theories about the CIA being behind 9/11, for instance.
To be fair, a lot of the griping about immigration also reads to me to have racist undertones. (That could be influenced by my American reading, but it doesn't seem 100% that.)
that's so obvious? Even as an American
> Thinking that passengers will get taken hostage is a comical understanding of the situation.

Are we talking about the same Russia that is engaged in a genocide against it's neighbour? The one that purposefully destroys civilian infrastructure to cause death and suffering? Kidnaps children? Did multiple false flag operations against it's own civilians? Murders journalists and dissidents, even abroad, in brutal ways, with nerve agents and radioactive materials? That Russia, right? Taking civilians from an airliner hostage wouldn't even get close to the top 10 of their state organised terror acts in the past 2 years...
Right, but there's a long road for getting to be President. These people need to be elected for lower ranked positions, or in the case of celebrities, spend years in the public eye. There's seemingly no wrong a person can do that money and charisma can't be used to gain influence and power. And at some point it becomes a reinforcing loop that eventually leads them to rule over countries.

I'd like to understand why this is such a foolproof road for many politicians. It must be ingrained in us as a species. This comedy sketch comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3zNLfmDm-0 (warning: crude humor)
I call BS. Look at this map of Canadian hydro power stations: https://hydro.canadiangeographic.ca/

Some of the largest stations by output are in northern Quebec (one of the most "middle of nowhere" regions in the world) and their power gets sold as far away as NYC.

Similarly for Chile and Argentina which have quite a few huge dams in Patagonia, which is also extremely remote.
Hurd should be able to load linux-libre drivers in the userland for a compatibility boost.
I've only had a serious issue once, and 15 minutes later, after a short call with customer support I had full refund and $400 voucher on top.
To be fair, most of that research happens pre-competitively (cfr imec roadmap). That includes working with tool makers to work out the kinks. Of course there is a big hurdle from there to an actual product-scale deployment.
We know SARSCoV2 is not a chimeric virus because similar viruses have been identified from other locations, and the pattern-matching (sequence alignment) shows that SARSCoV2 does not have any insertions or deletions that have a different evolutionary origin compared to its close relatives.
Reddit has for the most part won that battle. Most people create their forums on Reddit these days to get transaction from Reddit.

These smaller forums can’t compete with Reddit on the whole. Sure you have places like hbf forums, file sharing talk, etc which are better for that niche but when dealing with people wanting various communities in the same place there is no viable replacement.
The web puts the user in control; apps (on all significant platforms currently existing) put the company in control.

Yes, Google and (especially) Apple may force Reddit to comply with this or that, but Google and (especially) Apple also prevent the user from doing all sorts of things they can do with an open platform like the web.

Users can't block ads in an app. Users can't block telemetry. Users can't prevent tracking, at least without help from the platform vendor. Users can't easily save their favorite content from your app if the company doesn't want them to. Etc.

The web is fundamentally user-centric, and apps are roughly the opposite of that.

There are also legitimate user-benefiting advantages of apps, such as ability to use the accelerometer or other non-web features, but I can't really think of any that convincingly apply to Reddit's app. Maybe somewhat better push notifications, and "sign in with Apple" but... still seems like another own-goal from team Reddit if they are, in fact, doing this.
> Or we could just build more
> homes, rather than cramming
> everyone into a smaller space.

With a spare bedroom tax, the average space per-person doesn't change, but the median rises and the cost drops dramatically.

> This message written from my
> study, which you'd tax me to
> be in because of course any
> luxury must be eliminated.

A spare bedroom tax only applies to houses with two or more spare bedrooms. It also replaces propert tax, and so in your case you'd be better off financially.
Or maybe, just maybe, people who can afford being close to water are usually better off, with better healthcare and food.
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> The solution is to have a spare bedroom tax rather than a property tax.

I honestly can't tell if this is satire.
This micro kernel vs. monolithic kernel still puzzles me. From a computer science perspective micro kernels make so much sense.

But when I compiled the Linux kernel, I was always baking everything into one file. It seemed much more practical to do so.
This is highly misleading.

The theoretical efficiency for a fuel cell car and a battery electric car are absolutely not the same when you look at well-to-wheel. Not even close.

As for unsustainable. People make a big deal about cobalt in the batteries. Fine, the cobalt is being removed, all that’s left is abundant minerals.

Can you say the same about the platinum-group metals in electrolyzers and fuel cells?
Running things like this is not exactly trivial, even if code works run well as-is 6 years later
He had been prescribed some major surgery, but got a second opinion and found out it wasn't necessary and/ or it had been prescribed in error. He was sharing his experience and providing some sort of general advice.
Maybe people living in their homeland expect people arriving to share their values? When they don't, they wonder why those people are allowed here?
I chuckled a bit when I saw that they market themselves as "faster than C". Is it 2005 again? Do modern developers even have any notion of how fast C runs to use as a baseline?

It's really minor thing but a pet peeve of mine, I remember how twenty years ago every new language claimed to be as fast or faster than C, and every time the benchmark was some ultra-optimized non-idiomatic program in that new language against a naive C implementation, and the C version was usually still 20% faster and use 10% as much RAM with the right compile flags.

Are there even Mojo benchmark in the wild? The FAQ entry[1] just finds excuses for situations where it does not perform well...

[1] https://docs.modular.com/mojo/faq.html#performance
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> But those immigrants are never going to earn the necessary 5%, never mind 10% for a deposit.

Why not? Immigrants to the UK mostly live in wealthier places, and while it's hard to find figures, either earn very close to what locals do, or more. A software engineer in London usually earns enough to buy in the city, and definitely earns enough to buy in the London suburbs.
My bad - I used the Irish figure for the UK! Australia should be omitted from the first claim and NZ claim should be amended to 2019.

> Which doesn’t surprise me, I recently moved from the UK to Aus and AFAICT you get more for your money here.

Houses in the UK are generally smaller than other countries but house prices are generally expressed as per unit rather than per sqft. This distorts statistics because by making countries with small houses seem cheaper than they are.
Almost all that is good on the internet these days are holdovers from the Web 1.0 era. Everything else seems to crumble under commercial interests and withers in sea of ads and IPOs.
And access to more data for analytics and attributions than is available to a web page.
> it's basically illegal to discuss whether there is any substance to them.

Could you elaborate?
Thank God 99% of all the other countries were in on it otherwise they would have looked really foolish as one of the only countries without lockdowns.
Relevant historical note: That's how Reddit started. In the beginning, it was just Reddit. Not much different from HN. Then they added subreddits, and what was reddit became /r/Reddit.com until they closed it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/
The last season was my favorite. I was amazed how well it captured the AGI vibes in my corner of Silicon Valley at the time. These days I think most people would easily recognize OpenAI and GPT, but it was filmed 5 years ago!
This is cool and can’t wait until there’s more accepted steganography where every image has some side channel of info encoded into the image in a way that as a viewer I don’t notice it, but my phone’s camera can discern.
In addition to your points, having a net-migration of ~600K[0] and only ~255,000 homes being built[1] per year (March 2022-2023), we're getting stuffed. Barely enough supply to house the new people coming.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-65669832

[1] https://www.savills.co.uk/research_articles/229130/347070-0/... (Apologies, the correct source is DLUHC)
obviously computers are not totally infallible, solar rays can flip memory bits from 1 to 0 or vice versa -- but those failure modes are not expressed by the source code of the running program, they're triggered at a layer of abstraction well below the compiled and running software

say the probability of a solar ray bit flip is (say) 0.01%, then consider the following function

fn x -> int {
if (randf32() < 0.0001) { panic("boom") }
return 123
}

x will panic with the same probability that a solar ray will flip a memory bit

is this acceptable? can i assume that calling x will never panic, in practice?