skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Immigration flow must be governed by wage and employment metrics. Everyone fully employed at living wages? Open the spigot. Surplus domestic labor? Slowly close the spigot except for highly skilled workers (that you can prove are highly skilled an unattainable in the domestic market).

Otherwise, you're just driving down wages and boosting corporate/business profits with imported labor while exposing the government to domestic welfare program costs for unemployed and underemployed citizens.
> research led by Chris Elliott, professor of biological sciences at Queen’s University, Belfast, demonstrated that mice fed on Herta frankfurters (freeze-dried and made into feed pellets) developed 82% more tumours in the colon than those given a balanced rodent feed

> The WHO lists processed meat as a “known human carcinogen” along with smoking, alcohol and asbestos

There are also links to other articles interspersed in the text.

Apparently it’s worrying enough that the EU and multiple countries elsewhere have started to ban / phase it out.
Do you have lossless enabled? If so, try disabling it and see if it still happens (yes, it’s sad…)
The key point is that the plane does not crash in a populated area (and secondarily that a military plane is destroyed if crashing in an area not controlled by the owner); in both of your examples, the pilot routinely does the first if not necessarily the second.
I think the point of the original comment was that in the US we setup a system where the default way to build wealth is to buy a primary residence and wait for it to appreciate in value.

The "financialzing" is just that we decided owning a home was the best way for the middle class to build wealth.

The downside of this is now every homeowner wants their residence to go up in value. So they support policies that encourage that. We've done that for so long, few people can afford to buy a home anymore.

The alternative would be to
1) not have the gov involved in incentivizing homeownership
2) change zoning and permitting policies to encourage much much more supply

Yes, there would be financial instruments involved in all of this. But it might look more like car ownership, where the asset depreciates over time. (Like is often the case in Japan with housing).

But housing would not be something people look at as a way to build wealth.

However, you could still make money building housing, apartments, etc. Or even owning apartment buildings and charging people to live in them.
Potentially useful resource – https://github.com/gajus/liqe
> accelerating permits and zoning, but cities are strapped for funding to assign people to help

Permits are one of the few municipal services where this argument doesn't make sense. Permits aren't free, after all. Permit revenue scales with the number of permit applications. A city overwhelmed with permit applications by definition has more money to hire staff to work the permitting process.
I think Paint.net is largely worked on and maintained by one guy, so I don’t really blame him from wanting to make some money out of his work tbh

It’s a great tool.
Yeah unfortunately everything we tried to achieve that failed AFAIK. But I honestly believe that zoning should be implemented accordingly.
A new version isn’t coming any time soon. Valve already said it will be quite some time. Valve also has a terrible track record for developing new versions of their devices. It’s more likely that they were trying to kickstart the form factor but once there’s a healthy competitive landscape they will lose interest. It’s not a company strong on execution. They have the corporate equivalent of ADHD.

The device as it exits today is fantastic and it will play a giant portfolio of PC and emulated games until you wear out the battery and joysticks.

Go buy it on sale right now and enjoy it.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes (2002) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21859581 - Dec 2019 (87 comments)

NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291404 - March 2015 (51 comments)

NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846189 - June 2013 (85 comments)
same idea as building a callous on your hands or feet. lots of use tends to toughen your joints.
You have it backwards, wages are what determine rent prices not the other way around.

As wages rise, so do rents. This is just a natural effect of people with more money being willing to pay more for the same limited supply apartment.

The only way to reduce rents is to build more apartments or have population decline.
It's not an argument on houses in TV - it's showing that it was normalized enough that popular culture considered this normal.

But whatever. Shits fucked, and you're arguing over what I said was a depiction of the time? Of course it was a TV show. It was also believable in those days, even for lower class people.

What's worse is now, we look at them and we can't even see us owning a house, like a lousy shoe salesman could.

Seriously - can you imagine ANYONE surviving in a house or even an apartment on retail? That used to be true. No longer.
> I think building materials, labor, and land is increasing prices

Denser housing provides more functional housing for a given amount of material, labor, and land. For example, if you're building a townhouse, you just need a 10 inch wall instead of two 8 inch walls. That's less material and labor.

> the demand for housing has crashed, due to the market

The demand for housing that can be supplied within the context of the given regulations has crashed. If you allow people to build more efficient housing, then it could be financially viable again.
It probably makes sense to think about it as base-me and societally-influenced-me.
When I installed Windows 7, I copied the old mspaint executable over and kept using it, as I hate the stupid Office-style ribbon they implemented in the new one (excessive waste of screen real estate, takes more clicks, and the items collapse to uselessness when the window gets too small).
A funny thing about this is that despite being a popular American Dream-type desire it's literally communism, as in it's one of the points of the Communist Manifesto.

> 9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
When people say get rid of zoning, generally what they mean is to move to an intensity based zoning scheme. i.e. One where the zone indicates the "maximum" type of construction that may be built.

i.e. in low rise residential zones you can only build low rise housing and small shops, in high rise residential you can still build low rise residential, in commercial you can build large commercial spaces but you can still build residential, and in "light industrial" zones you can build non-hazardous industrial structures but you can still build everything else. However for full blown industrial you can only build industrial due to the hazards.

In practice that looks a lot like just getting rid of zoning entirely with the exception that traffic management works out a little better and actually dangerous industrial sites are still kept away from everything else.
This is the most important advice for an early stage startup trying to scale.

Being able to automatically build production from a recent snapshot is a profoundly important point.

When we bootstrapped on the cheap we would always maintain a production infrastructure at one company and a test infrastructure at another with a relatively low TTL dns infrastructure hosted at a third party like dnsmadeeasy. Backups would be pushed to the second site. We then would “build our demo” from the backup data (stripping PII at runtime). But the demo served as a second clone production infrastructure. If the primary went down, it was always a quick restore and scale up at the secondary location with recent backups!

Worked really well, but you needed to make sure it was automated or it would blow up.

Definitely cheap and works like a charm.

I’m sure that’s over complicated for a lot of people, but it’s really just a few scripts and a couple of days to set up, and you can be up and rolling with a working system in the time it takes to change DNS.
Apple TV, now with more Tailscale
Microsoft should just replace Paint with Paint.NET. In my experience, it is the best paint tool for Windows. Much more intuitive UI than photoshop or gimp.
We use a mix of SSDs and S3 for storage depending on the workload - as you're right, merging on S3 is awful and we try to avoid it!
cough O, Canada! cough
This one is easy. I say this in spite of the spate of different answers that say otherwise... it should be easy?

You version your apps, of course, and you would publish some artifact that represents the release. Historically this has been a Helm chart, but for Flux we are seeing many people use OCI repositories for this now. They give many of the benefits of Helm repositories without most of the drawbacks, the way that Flux uses them you retain traceability to the Git commit that started your release, and even Helm itself has already adopted OCI repositories in the current version, (just waiting for many chart publishers to catch up, we are getting there!)

The app manages its own manifests in the app repo, the app devs deploy from the main branch or a dev branch on their own app repo, but everyone else that uses the app will deploy from a release artifact. Those artifacts are tagged with semver numbers, so you can automatically move to the next version of the app as soon as its published with a valid signature.

If your app devs are the only ones using the app, then this should not change anything as they are building for production it should be versioned and managed like any production concern – whether it's for distribution or not, you still do releases.

It's not any more complicated than what you are already doing with `docker build` and `docker push` I assure you, it's nearly the same. And since those OCI manifest release tags all logically come from a git tag, there's traceability and it is still GitOps in every important sense of the word.

Automation as policy directives state declaratively that an app is always on the latest published version at any given time, a `spec.semver` with a wildcard accomplishes this very simply with a one-liner addition to your config in Flux.

When you need to roll back app A, you remove the automation (in Flux the easiest way is a wildcard) and pin your gitops config for that one app to the particular version that you wanted in git, the cluster repo, the app is pinned to the one version that doesn't have an issue. Then as the issue is resolved, you may remove the pin and put the automation back in place.

As an added benefit, you get a permanent history that shows when incident response began, how long the automation was disabled, and what version was pinned at that time, so you can calculate metrics like "MTTR" and "MBTF" that we love so much.
Not the op, but one point would be, why did we even pick xml, when we had latex and html? Why is a relational database the right tool for a document format?
The worst is salt because iodine deficiency actually isn't that rare and is increasing.... The cheapest generic salts tend to have added iodine but most of the "fancy" stuff doesn't.
I think there's a huge difference when zoning in broad-strokes ways (ie residential here, and dangerous chemical plants here) and zoning in micro-targeted, social engineering ways, (ie. mixed-use only here, condos here, single-family here, townhomes here, etc.)

The hyper-growth 1940s and 1950s that tore up a century of development across a lot of cities left us empowered activists of the 1960s and 1970s that overcorrected policies and laws and gave way too much power to neighborhoods to dictate all kinds of things they really shouldn't have had the power to dictate.
How to finish everything with the Cult of Done
If anything, I would say it would mark a 're-financialization' of assets if we were to stop doing that, as given that the government owns pretty much all mortgages we're not talking about an actual financial market in mortgage debt as they normally function.
Discussed at the time (of the article):

The joys of maintenance programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2267261 - Feb 2011 (29 comments)
A quick look at the history of the CLI, and an update on a project to re-imagine it with - inline help, undo functions, better security, and more. A very clever approach
It might very well keep it, but either that behavior wasn't turned on by default or it crashed in way where it wasn't recoverable. I know I lost work.
And the Robert Moses biography fills up his life up to age 40 within only the first chapter.
I've tried liqe! I really wanted to love it - and I think it's amazing for the use case you've built it for, but I recall we ran into a few fatal issues (maybe it was supporting URLs or something as a property value?) and had to fork one of the `lucene` forks to get the grammar that we wanted.

Edit: happy to chat more about it as well if you're looking for more specific feedback - it's an area I've spent a decent amount of time on and would love to improve projects like liqe or others based on our experience if we can.
Balancing open core needs is pretty much an impossible task IMO. You will never do enough to placate your open source users, and you will constantly be competing against yourself and spending cycles on non-value add things. Your cloud offering will be a huge time sink chasing regulatory compliance, security, and data sovereignty needs as well. It's for all these reasons that I personally think open core with a SaaS model is no longer a sustainable option.

There's nothing wrong with asking folks to pay for software instead of giving it away via FOSS, especially if you're honest about your intentions and goals. When you choose FOSS to gain traction and rug pull your users when no one converts later on, you end up reaping what you sow.
I love that living in a van down by the river is apparently considered wealthy now. I never realized that Cousin Eddie was such a high roller.
Douglas Lenat trained computers to think the old-fashioned way
> That's not true either. The malware would require privilege escalation to co-opt my browser.

Does it? Sure it can't replace /usr/bin/firefox, but what's stopping the malware from writing a fake shortcut to ~/.local/share/applications/malwarefirefox.desktop and waiting until you click the fake shortcut? Or kill the running firefox and start the malware version? Or add some malware extension directly to ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles? Or something else?

Or are you assuming the malware is running in a sandbox like AppArmor?
Lifetime fees don't make a lot of sense for products that will likely have rather short obsolescence cycles.
> But it might look more like car ownership, where the asset depreciates over time. (Like is often the case in Japan with housing).

This is becoming less true over time. Japanese houses depreciated because they had terrible quality / no insulation / they kept updating the earthquake codes, but they've grown larger and are fairly decent now.

But more importantly, in either place it's not the house that appreciates but the land under it. So the best policy to prevent this is a land value tax, but this very much annoys people who would like to make unproductive use of land they own, ie residential landlords or retirees.
nah. US is still backing NATO, harder than ever, and standing with Korea and Taiwan.

they didn't have much motivation to keep taking casualties in a colonial war that the French drew them into. but actual treaties matter, and the US backs those.

hell, the US tried for close to 20 years in Vietnam, starting with advisors to the French in the late 1950s. and another 20 years in the AFG and Iraq. if anything they're too willing to piss away time and money on lost causes.
R2 is significantly cheaper for egress, but not for API calls. It's still cheaper for API calls, but only by 10%:

- 1M GETs $0.36 (R2) vs $0.40 (S3)

- 1M PUTs $4.50 (R2) vs $5.00 (S3)
>If the latter is the case, then you get better at reading code by writing code. Writing lots of code puts those code-patterns into your long term memory, and then when you see those code-patterns again you'll recognize them.

Let's hope what you write the first time is a good practice.
Could you say more about your claim that zoning exists to keep minorities out of white-only neighborhoods? Specifically, do you mean to say that all zoning laws exist for this purpose, or only some of them? And do you mean that all zoning laws still exist for this purpose, or that that was their original intent? And I assume your claim is specifically meant to apply with respect to the U.S., and not to other countries who've had zoning laws in place for thousands of years. Hypothetically, would you say that the U.S. would have ignored the precedent for zoning laws that came from, e.g., England if they did not provide a convenient way to keep minorities out of whites-only neighborhoods? Would we be living in a zoning-free society if not for racism?
Near my house (Seattle) they recently built 12 townhomes, just as you describe and the prices for them is US$900k. While they are slightly less than a single family home, affordability is not a key word I would use.

These townhomes, are still available and not selling quickly.
Although interesting I always also see this as erase poor people data policy, same as people deleting their reddit comments

In 100 years they'll be investigating the real history of 2023, and most records were deleted, only aggregates survived by CNN and FoxNews, and other billion dollar institucions preserving their point of view

Today you can go 100 back and that John Panini traveled by boat from UK to US on what day and paid 1 cent
Well, people shouldn't be gaming on stock Ubuntu LTS. It would be like gaming on out of date version of Windows with ancient drivers, and expecting a brand new game to just work.

And DIY maintenance on Arch Linux is part of the pitch (especially when running Nvidia drivers).

Distros that pitch themselves as gaming distros (like Fedora Nobara, Garuda, CachyOS) tend to offer a far superior out-of-the-box experience. Windows is in that category too, as Microsoft rather explicitly targets gaming more than, say, base Ubuntu or Fedora.
I've planted all over BC. Seed trees started being a thing early nineties and they don't do it everywhere. Quite often its because there aren't species needed as seed trees that won't already grow back are already slated for nursery production and replanting.

Smaller block sizes act this way too, the boundaries are seeded from the older growth on the perimeter.

Deciduous trees like poplar, Adler, and birch are like weeds and will grow very quickly and compete for a time with replanted trees. Eventually the evergreens tend to choke them out by taking over the canopy and changing the soil with their needles.
> "but you don't change buildings|bridges|towers|dams|... once they're built"

Anyone who's played Factorio for any (un)reasonable length of time knows the folly of this assumption. At best, a player did a lot of planning to avoid this specific problem.
Virtually every astrophotography image is going to be a composite of some sort, the single shots are the exception rather than the rule.
> Because its large profile and low operating altitudes around 7,000 feet (2,100 m) make it an easy target, its close air support missions are usually flown at night.[7]

AC-130 is only effective against a flipflop army... which doesn't have a friend which would supply tons of MANPADs to the gallant people of your country.
By your definition (as far as I can tell), all laws are oppression. Is there any law to which there won't be any opposition by some person out there? No, certainly not. So we must have laws and the debate must be whether particular laws are too restrictive or not.
Yeah, he was talking on old info, probably because when I was hanging out with him he'd just gotten back from five years in <LOCATION_REDACTED>. Microwave, shortwave, and that weird dual-mode laser AOptix thing have been the rule for a bit, although I don't know if the laser thing ever really worked. Maybe enhancing the other things. Probably by now they have their own satellites.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Japan's Hometown Tax (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31152365 - April 2022 (105 comments)

Japan's Hometown Tax - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18256660 - Oct 2018 (249 comments)

(And yes, agreed - such links are solely for those with extended curiosity. Reposts are fine on HN after a year or so - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).
Confronting the Technological Society [pdf]
> building materials, labor, and land is increasing prices

In most high-cost housing markets, this isn’t true [1]. Land value appreciation dominates construction cost factors. In my case, structure is 10% of the value of my home—I could rebuild the structure for 10% of the house’s value.

> don't understand. Isn't this dictated by the market?

Americans treat their houses as an asset. So we vote for policies that increase housing prices in real terms. Contrast that with Japan, where housing is a depreciated asset.

[1] https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-much-do-construct...
I have the DS918+

I would not make the same choices today: I got a somewhat high end one and upgraded it to whopping 32GB of RAM, thinking I'd use it for running lightweight containers or VMs, and maybe a media server. But once I put all my data on it... including 20 years of family photos and tax prep documents and work stuff and everything else... I changed my mind and am using it only and solely as an internal storage unit. Basically, as mentioned, committed to the "NAS" as opposed to "Fun Project" path :-). So I could've saved myself some money by getting a simpler unit and not upgrading it. (the DS918+ also can hook up to a cage [DX517], but I ended up not needing that either, yet).

I have it with 4 WD Red Plus NAS 8TTB drives and RAID 10 currently. I've used RAID 5 in the past but decided against it for this usage - again, went for simplicity.

Just shy of 30,000 hours on the drives, daily usage (I basically don't use local drive for any data on any of my computers; I keep it all on NAS and this way I can use any of my computers to do/access the same thing), and really no issues whatsoever so far.
Auxiliary.

In a society where you graft to buy back your own leisure time never
let what you really care about become a mere job. All the good things
in life happen despite and around the "day job".

And if you care, don’t let them know

Don’t give yourself away - Joni Mitchell
> Get rid of zoning, stop financializing homes as a financial asset, and this problem will go away.

While I don’t disagree with you, you’re saying this like it is the easy part. It’s probably political career suicide for anyone who proposed getting rid of zoning and there isn’t really any way to stop homes from being a financial asset (because what would then be the point of home ownership)? Big building projects can take a decade or more so you wouldn’t likely see enough new housing stock to make a real difference in home prices for a generation or two. Mortgage rate increases have done nothing more than stall and slightly decrease home prices but now you have a higher mortgage payment. Currently, people who have a “starter home” or townhouse etc have no incentive to move up in house size which because of higher rates. This was previously very important for younger or less well off people to be able to afford something to own. I think a new mechanism needs to be developed that could incentivize people to sell their homes.
I appreciate the stability and minimalism too.

Personally I'd like to have some controls for the frontpage algorithm. For example, I check HN pretty infrequently, so I'd prefer to see older stuff (currently I use Algolia for this here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth). I'd also like to see controversial.