skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is restricting new construction the problem?

It is a major problem, yes.

> I believe the problem is airbnb

What? No? Short term rentals are under 1% of housing stock. Population growth in the US is somewhere between 0.5-1% per year, so even if you got rid of all short term rentals that solves your housing issues from just population growth for two years at most.

> mega-corporations/banks buying up and renting out homes,

This I don't know about. I think at least 25% of housing rental stock total, something like 10-15 million units, is just individual owners.

I don't know to what extent that forces market prices.

> homes that sit empty trying to get exorbitant rental rates,

The vacancy rate is what like 5% for rentals? 5% rental vacancy for rentals is a little high, but e.g. a 2% vacancy rate would exist if people move on average once every four years and it takes only a month to turnaround to a new tenant. 5% isn't all that high.

> vacation homes and non-homestead homes that sit empty...

Vacancy rate for housing that isn't rentals is under 1%.
Home affordability is about the same now as it was in the early 80s.
This article was intensely interesting to me, and I'm not willing to participate in it. I would have liked a treatment on the other two types of aesthetics mentioned, old money aesthetics and tech money aesthetics. Author is so aware of the fact that this is just another market niche, they've written an article deconstructing that niche.

You're simply having a reaction. Taking it seriously shouldn't be threatening.
> I wouldn't say restricting new construction is negligible but it seems more like an SF/bay area problem.

No - that's really an issue all over. Especially when viewed thru the broader lens of counterproductive zoning.
Perhaps remote work will reduce this disparity. I'd expect it to happen in "waves" as high-paid remote workers move from cities with "tier N" CoL+culture to "tier N+1."

There's already been a significant migration from NY+CA to FL+TX: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territ...
>Just buy a Tesla.

No.
Because of the owner.
People are renting/living in groups or with parents, are unemployed or underemployed, and can't live in the areas where they would want to live. Building more houses is not simply the answer since they are unaffordable to the people who need them.

The problem is the for-profit housing industry.

Skyrocketing Rents & Skyrocketing Homelessness: Why Are US Homes for Profit Not for Living In?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/skyrocketing-rents-sky...
You may be right about that, though I had the impression that less wasteful parallelism was possible because of fixed-size instructions.
Yes, but the best way to wash Lego bricks is to disassemble the build, put the bricks into a washing net (the type you'd use for a bra), and put it in a european-style washing machine together with your regular clothes.

It'll come out perfectly clean without any damage.
What is the line between self-interest and selfishness? (2021)
For the placenta to be able to sustain a fetus, the oxygen concentration in air must not drop below 17% (for humans that have adepted to the Andes and Himalayas). That is way higher then the 13% we need to breath. Also, almost all forrests are oxygen neutral. Only in the high north plant material can not rot as fast as plants can produce it. So the whole article is full of ... less then ideal assumptions.
Well no doubt! Same. You can certainly get better at programming as you get more experience. I'm just saying: the axis that determines this stuff is skill, not seniority. They correlate but they're not the same thing.
I think what you're feeling is a lack of control. Mask, lockdowns, for those who support them it was a way to control and force the population towards your goals. Your ideals cannot easily be attained without government force.

The masks and lockdowns didn't work, they were just tools one political ideology used to oppress the others despite evidence to the contrary. That behavior has been found to be unconstitutional.
The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is not that far away now...
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. Regardless of how right you are or feel you are, it just makes the threads more predictable, and therefore more tedious and nasty. We're trying for the opposite here, to the extent possible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Probably one of the most stable rifles I've ever fired.

Don't use it with regular 30-06 though, you need a special version with less powder (and thus less power).
Why was it such a politically-driven determination? Why is droplet-based culturally more expedient than airbourne?
AI "political" alignment is terrifying.
There's a book on the topic.

978-0672329463
Taxes are a pretty big difference too. Even though the California top federal + state isn't that far off of Ontario the income bands are much wider. At 300k USD(410 CAD) you'll have about an extra 21k USD take home in California. Then sales taxes are 13% in Ontario vs 7-10% in Cali(local taxes).
How so? Can you clarify what you mean?
As a professional pianist that's spent the past couple of years obsessing over questions of tempo, breath, phrasing, movement and musicality, this app really tickles my fancy.

Some casual observations:

- As someone who has delved a little in DAWs and working with MIDI, one thing that struck me is when controlling velocity with on a physical, linear scale, exactly how little extra velocity is needed to voice a melody properly. For example, playing Moonlight on my phone, I play the opening notes as quietly as possible and voice the melody by playing a few bare "millimetres" more to voice it.

- It has really forced me to know the music in a different fashion, as a single, additive rhythm as opposed two hands with two independent rhythms. For example, the first few bars when the melody enters in Moonlight sonata: I wasn't sure if I keep the fidelity of the dotted-eighth rhythms verses the triple eighths, or if I turn it into essential a sextuplet.

- I found that some quicker figures, such as the opening of Mozart's "Alla turca" are best achieved by using the actual fingering I would use in the original. At a certain speed, in order to achieve the rhythmic precision required, I had to use piano technique.... on my phone screen.
I sometimes daydream about building a city, just one, that prioritises cycling and walking over cars.

If you like cars, you can literally live everywhere else.
Canada’s housing market is much more vulnerable to “popping” than the US because everyone’s mortgage rate resets every 5 years.

Let me know what happens to prices when everyone has to pay 8% soon.
Oh neat, thanks for sharing, wanted to add an interpreter to that test
People love coming up with all sorts of ideas trying to find a suitable bogeyman that's the cause of all this - rich foreigners, investors, BlackRock, AirBnB, etc and since There have been many policies actually implemented in many places (vacancy tax in Vancouver, foreign owner tax in both Toronto and Vancouver etc etc). None of them have worked and the housing crisis just keeps getting worse.

The reason people don't want new construction is because it's ideologically comforting. For increasingly large swathes of the population (largely young, urban, leftist), it's far more important to denounce BlackRock, TechBros and Gentrification than to save $1000/month in housing costs. It's pretty incredible.
I have a wild guess that the entire Anglosphere experiences these kinds of housing inflation issues due to a kind of slow moving collective action problem w/r/t which languages to learn to get the big wages. Housing prices in non-Anglosphere cities worldwide rarely hit these same kinds of extremes.
It also works just while plugged in so there is no downtime. I feel like I charge it couple times a year by any random usb-c that is on my table at the moment while I keep using it.
Even if it didn't, it takes maybe 1-2 minutes to charge for the rest of the day so there is no disruption.
Sitting in Amsterdam thinking the same thing. America is practically covered in accessible restrooms in comparison.
Big techs.
The restroom situation in the US is better than in any other country I've visited.
I have seen numerous posts of llm q&a and by the time people try to replicate them gpt4 is fixed. It either means that OpenAI is actively monitoring the Internet and fixes them or the Internet is actively conspiring to present falsified results for gpt4 to discredit OpenAI
The early 80s were easily as unaffordable as now with the high rates then.
If Airbnb was the major problem, we would only have a housing crisis in California, NY and other highly touristic places. We don't, we have it even in mid-sized non-touristic cities in the US, Canada and Europe.
A nation that does not control its borders is no longer a nation. No country on earth behaves that way. Not now, nor in the past.

The world was different, of course, but the USA basically (and I thought rather famously) behaved this way until around the Civil War period, and it remained relatively open until about the First World War.

From the horse’s mouth:

https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/our-history/explore-agency-hi...

And specifically:
https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/our-history/overview-of-ins-h...
https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/our-history/mass-immigration-...
https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/our-history/overview-of-agenc...
Related ongoing thread:

Investors account for 30 per cent of home buying in Canada, data show - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37445732 - Sept 2023 (129 comments)
The fact that society can't even shift to sustainable technologies that are available today goes to show how your point is naïve at best, dishonest at worst.

There are many people dying today from effects of climate crisis that would disagree with this whole affair being easier to manage, if only they could speak.
Related ongoing thread:

The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37446790 - Sept 2023 (88 comments)
Thanks for the feedback! The samples are quite limited so understand what you mean. Eventually would like to have Brands signup and post Photos of all walks of life (every Ethnicity, Age, Gender, Height) including hackers! :)
And in the case of India and Pakistan, where both countries have laws requiring the borders to be drawn in different specific ways? Just don't show borders at all? Make the product unavailable?
One big difference between Canada and the US is tax policy related to housing. In Canada, you don't pay capital gains on the sale of your home. In the USA you do if the gain was over $250k ($500k if you're married). So this creates a huge incentive in Canada to buy a house, renovate it while you live there, and then sell it and apply the entire gain to your next purchase.

It means Canadians who are already in the system can afford a lot more house in their subsequent purchases, especially at the high end.
You may very well be right, but for my money Alan Edelman (MIT) is influencer enough.
If no one ever bought houses to use as investment properties then demand would be a lot lower, making houses cheaper and thus more affordable to families. There are plenty of places in cities in Canada where the cost of renting a house today exceeds what it would have cost for a mortgage just a few years ago. Investors buying houses for rental income (and appreciation returns) compete with family home-buyers to drive up prices in desirable areas, especially near schools.
He's actually a good guy, though it's your choice if he rubs you the wrong way.
You aren’t wrong, but I also want to throw out a challenge to anyone with similar thinking: help us. You might be surprised by the number of people living in deep red areas who crave political change. We can’t do it without political and financial support from the more liberal parts of each state / the country. There’s even the option of moving here and being part of boots-on-the-ground change. Some of these communities can and will change in my lifetime, even if it is a slow process. And the housing is cheaper too.
I've briefly met a couple of the guys who work at Vanta and they seemed smart and variable. Ymmv, of course.
> Yes, I know that people can’t live in the Yukon Territory

I'm not challenging you on this, I'm really curious to know why you said this.

why can't people live in the YT?
As a former staff officer . . . whaaaa???
If Scheme is something you enjoy, BiwaScheme's interpreter can be instantiated from within Javascript and can be used to evaluate Scheme code.

https://www.biwascheme.org/
Deleting inactive accounts is a new Google policy only starting this coming December: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/12418290
Because there's no law preventing it? Ideally there would be regulations making this illegal unless they get the user's consent at the time of purchase as well as allowing users to opt out at any point thereafter.
I am just installing from source on the tiny Linux laptop I travel with. Until recently I always paid for a LispWorks Pro license, but after retiring check out dropped that and am just using SBCL. I like the idea of having a "second Common Lisp" so I want to try out a Emacs+Slime workflow.
You are unfamiliar with the Canadian international student game. For reference, the Unites States has roughly the same number of international students as Canada (~1 million) at 10x the population. This large number has created an industry of “strip mall” for-profit colleges that award degrees which provide a preferred path to citizenship because Canada’s immigration system offers additional points for having a Canadian degree (technically any degree but a Canadian degree is automatically qualified while foreign degrees are not). These people are often not looking to get an education and then get a job in America - they are often trying to immigrate and the cost of attending the Canadian college is just part of the paperwork for them.

America’s immigration system, in contrast, is generally merit-blind. You do not get extra points for a degree and so there is no incentive to pursue a qualified American degree. The US path for an international student seeking citizenship is based on work after the degree: sponsorship by an employer. The Canadian path for an international student IS the degree.

See also https://macleans.ca/longforms/fraud-canada-education-interna... and https://www.politicstoday.news/politics-today/ottawa-signals... in case you care to do some learning of your own.
Well, you're free to study both in detail and draw your own conclusions. But the UART driver in both is pretty uninteresting, and I suspect whatever conclusions one may draw from comparing the two will be generally specious.

Perhaps compare the process code, instead, and look at how the use of RAII around locks compares to explicit lock/unlock pairs in C, or compare how system calls are implemented: in rxv64, most syscalls are actually methods on the Proc type; by taking a reference to a proc, we know, statically, that the system call is always operating on the correct process, versus in C, where the "current" process is taken from the environment via per-CPU storage. Similarly with some of the code in the filesystem and block storage layer, where operations on a block are done by passing a thunk to `with_block`, which wraps a block in a `read`/`relse` pair.

Of course I'm biased here, but one of the nice things about Rust IMO is that it makes entire classes of problems unrepresentable. E.g., forgetting to release a lock in an error path, since the lock guard frees the lock automatically when it goes out of scope, or forgetting to `brelse` a block when you're done with it if the block is manipulated inside of `bio::with_block`. Indeed, the ease of error handling let me make some semantic changes where some things that caused the kernel to `panic` in response to a system call in xv6 are bubbled up back up to userspace as errors in rxv64. (Generally speaking, a user program should not be able to make the kernel panic.)
"Don't be snarky."

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good point, but you may be too charitable. At least according to Wikipedia, a smiley is supposed to be smiling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley
Just like me. ChatGPT really is almost a human
probably because of non-pay related practices? things like differences in healthcare laws, unionization, legal rights as a citizen (of a particular country) vs being a visitor who can be evicted/deported at will.
Microsoft offers legal protection for AI copyright infringement challenges
> it makes sense for them to also help with that issue

They can help.. by getting the hell out of the way. Let people build and the problem will solve itself.

When the government “helps” we end up with situations like college tuition prices 10x-ing.
You tell me they're monitoring the vacciness, but what I asked for is proof of your statement about proven safety.

> Fearmongering about well established safety practices is at the core of it all, IMHO.

These vaccines didn't go through well established safety practices. They skipped them to be put to use as soon as possible. People who pointed this out were outright called "antivaxxers."

> There are forces within our society that are spreading FUD about basic institutions, transforming our society from a high trust, efficient, informed society to a low-trust inefficient corruption-prone society.

There's no need for conspiratorial thinking. Basic institutions proved themselves to the general public to be highly incompetent and corrupt.
Lengthening generations is a way for everyone who wants children to have them and still slow or remove the rate of growth. It would mean reducing/eliminating living great-grandparent/child relations, and make grandparents elderly rather than simply in their 50s.
I too hate videos and didn't watxh this one yet, but the slides seemed clear even without the talk:

- Tazer/Axon makes some kind of police oriented hw/sw platform thats deployed on police bodies and cars
- which uses BLE
- Tazer/Axon has their own BLE MAC address prefix, which is published by the FCC
- The less significant bytes of BLE MAC address are a unique id for the hardware, which usually maps 1:1 with 1 officer or 1 car
- So by listening to or probing some BLE crap you can infer cops are present close to where that MAC address prefix is, and by recording over time and area figure out movement patterns even to the level of individual hardware.

Maybe I'm missing something but it does seem like a nice hack if a little overmarkted: It is technically unremarkable but clever and practical.
> The housing market in the Anglosphere is a gigantic Ponzi scheme.

What? Have you seen real estate prices in Hong Kong and Singapore? The US is pretty cheap compared to the rest of the world.
> New York has 955,437 empty houses ... 4th behind Florida, California, and Texas. Take away renting out houses, short-term or otherwise, and sell those houses to people who don't have a first house, the crisis would away. It's simply greed.

But not this particular greed - only. Maybe not even mostly. Whatever (temp) relief would be found by (permanently) forcing owners of empty dwellings to divest - that relief would be quickly overrun by the issues of an overly-constrained housing supply.

> Take away renting out houses,

I'd be homeless.
Up until the mid-1980's average new construction was 1.8 million units/year, afterwards it dropped off, while the population grew from 240 millions in 1985 to 330 millions today. The fact that household sizes have shrunk, and the rural depopulation only exacerbate the problem. There is a grave supply problem.
It's obviously wrong. It provides information about her brothers, and brothers' sisters. Thus providing information about her sisters.
I think he was questioning Visas and not borders. These are not the same thing. You can have tight borders but easy visas if the jobs are available. That being said, borders are really a new thing. In the past, people gathered in the city, but the "nation" didn't really have much oversight of what's happening in the forest. Many of the old world countries are divided by rivers, mountains and sea.
Phone apps developed by well-known companies such as Google, Microsoft, Uber, banks, etc.? Or just the shadier apps whose developers most people haven't heard of outside of the app store like IoT junk?
I felt it, it was terrible experience, it was so strong that it was felt across wide regions. Luckily the epicenter was a bit far from major cities.
At first i did not realize why my chair was shaking as i was using headphones, then for at least 10sec i couldn’t even stand. We spent the night outside
I remember Whole Earth Access in San Jose once upon a time, in a galaxy ...
Canada is a country filled with risk averse people who have been brainwashed into thinking real estate as the only investment which "smart" people do. The result is a country which severely lacks innovation, has huge problems of oligopoly at every level, healthcare and social nets falling apart at the seams and housing which is out of control. But hey, look at how much the 50 year old risk averse granddad has through sitting on properties for 30 years like some perverted dragon.

It's a shame really. Canada could have been a great country like one of the Scandinavian ones. Instead it is like watching a trainwreck in slow motion.
> Because Google can unilaterally reject valid credentials if it doesn't feel it's certain it's you.

Unbelievably, this even includes rejecting credentials for a non-GMail Google account, even after the user has clicked a link to confirm ownership of the email account the account is associated with.

Ask me how I know!
I didn’t read it that way. Was spirited, but no insults that I noticed.

And it’s not like those “scare words” didn’t become scary for a reason. Your response starts with reverse FUD.
Yeah, the US housing market is just too broad to be talked about as one thing. This used to be the case in Canada, where housing was really bad in Vancouver and Toronto, but alright elsewhere. This is just not the case anymore and the last ~5 years or so the Vancouver/Toronto problem has become very widespread. Small cities and town now have insanely high costs as well.
Welcome to Lemmy.
I would love having one capable of unloading the dishwasher.
Have you tried replicating via the API with a temp of 0?
Yeah, clear goals to rent seek. And eventually dominate the world.

https://westminster-institute.org/events/how-china-sees-the-...
You can signup: https://mitta.us/

The accounts aren't wired up by default to the AI and I am refactoring the templating system right now, but you can definitely start storing and searching things.
It will result in funny twitches once they get the signals from vagus and Co. Chest burster cramps after alcohol.
>This means that my family's wealth has increased by $75,000 per year just from owning our home. That's more than the median income in Canada!

I live in Toronto as well, and did penny pinch from the time I graduated (2016) to buy to buy my 1st condo here in 2020. I keep hearing statements like these, but if we're being honest unless this was an investment property, a 2nd home or you were moving away to a different city altogether, money is only made on paper. While the condo price has gone up, so has the prices of all the other houses. If you were to sell your condo to realize your gains, the next property you buy has gone up proportionally as well.