skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A little insight on Vancouver: PRC investment firms decided that the steady growth of the North American real estate market looked to provide great returns on investment. So, these firms started buying up large numbers of single-family homes in Vancouver. I've heard a few reasons for why they chose Vancouver: (1) the large amount of PRC nationals in Vancouver, (2) geographic proximity to the PRC (relative to other North American metropolitan areas), and (3) the closer relationship with the Canadian government (relative to the US).

Now, the investment firms took a different approach. Many ordinary people and even real estate firms will try to rent out their secondary properties, particularly if the property is in a major metropolitan area. Here, the firms didn't rent out the properties for any reason. Their investment strategy decreased the total available housing supply (for anyone, including renters) while demand kept increasing, so the home prices naturally skyrocketed. They sat on the properties and rode the tide.

The issue that Vancouver started encountering was that single-family homes on a regular residential block may be only 50% occupied. The end effect is you'd have families living on a regular ol' city block but with half the properties vacant, which destroys the development of community in that neighborhood. Also, because the Vancouver housing market pricing exploded, property taxes blew up, yet many residents' neighborhoods became a worse place to live. The housing market wasn't growing because of newfound desirability (e.g. Austin) or fresh industry (e.g. Atlanta and entertainment); in those cases, the new economic activity will provide benefit to the community in a variety of ways. The Vancouver situation only benefited the investment firms with no tangible benefit to the community.

Residents became understandably upset. Hence, the empty home tax was passed to disincentivize the investment firms' predatory investment strategy.
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I think it's just equating the two, which probably isn't wrong, considering the record profits made even as inflation has skyrocketed.[1] Making less profit is not an option for all of these businesses (because of greed), so they pass 100% of the inflation on to the consumer, and then some.

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/02/13/1080494838/economist-explains...
Ask HN: Why are books still alive, but magazines are dying?
I have always loved magazines. But, as with many others of my generation and older, I lost the habit once phones became ubiquitous.

On a Gary Vee podcast, he made a point about how a lot of people who enjoy magazines today remember the experience they had 10-15 years ago. This is an experience absent for many in Gen Z.

The inevitable conclusion for magazines is that they will perish, though of course, never completely. I know that it is a tired argument, like those who say print is dead, but the numbers seem to add up for magazines. If you discount digital readership, the habit of reading a magazine has visibly faded.

Perhaps the numbers may not agree. Circulation numbers appear to be going up in some countries. But having worked in the space, I think there's a big element of fakery or irrelevance in such numbers - old readers who renew subscriptions, or bulk orders from institutions that will simply leave them lying around. There is a clear failure to find new readers, to build a magazine reading habit in people who never had one. The exceptions may be only for the well-known premium mags, like The Economist or maybe Foreign Affairs.

Magazine-reading may be dead, but the habit of reading books, it not. I think there's still a thriving community of book readers, enough so that the typical best books list on Amazon will have thousands of reviews.

Magazines, notably a more transient and temporary form of writing, will seldom get more than 20 reviews on Amazon. Magazines, unless digitally available, appear to lack the community they had before. They are simply not talked about anymore.

This is not to say that magazines suck (I love niche-based compilations of reportage) or that they are uniquely enjoyable. It's just that they don't seem to fit in the modern life cycle. Boredom, before, was addressed by picking up whatever you had yet to read in your house. With a smartphone, it's always the second or third option.

With books, people seem to make a more conscious effort to take out time to read, even turning off their phones to do so. With magazines, I see little evidence of similar drive.

Why are magazines dying or dead, while books are alive and aliver?
Ah, I see. That makes sense! Although not all timezones are +/- an integer number of hours.
That specific workflow precludes reviewing the patch via quoting and making inline comments, which is the normal way to review patches when sending them via email.
You are correct, this is America where we do A LOT of things that are bad for us because they are profitable.

I'm writing a long form article about this idea, how in America we do stuff like private prisons, allow pollution, the "family" court system and social media for kids even though some countries can easily fix these problems we refuse to address them because just TOO much money is being made (at least that's how the divorce industry was explained to me).
You are forgetting the Sega Model 1 and Sega Model 2 arcade platforms. So many great 3D games (Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing, Daytona USA)

Sega's problem wasn't that it didn't see 3D coming. They did, despite the common claims on the internet, the Saturn was designed to be a 3D capable console, with dedicated 3D hardware.

Sega's problem is that they bet on the wrong 3D technology. Like Sega's arcade systems. the Saturn was designed for quads, and could only do forwards texture mapping (which doesn't allow for UV coordinates).

While the playstation went for triangles and inverse texture mapping. It turns out that was the correct direction, and the whole industry settled on that as a standard. All game engines and tooling would assume triangles.

To make things worse, the Sega's hardware 3D implementation wasn't that good even at the techniques it was trying to implement.
This is a good article that has almost nothing to do with the title. The title implies that once you put your plastic in the recycling it isn't actually recycled—this may or may not be true, but the article doesn't say either way. Unlike what would be implied by the title and the comments here so far, they actually have a pretty positive view of recycling programs, they just argue that they're not sufficient.

What the article is actually about is how recycling programs don't actually end up receiving most of the plastic that is consumed, and how even if they did it wouldn't be enough to solve the problem. We need to actually use less plastic in the first place, not recycle it once only to have it enter a landfill on the second use.
> My worry is that this is not something a big part of Israel even wants to attempt — or maybe they lost the faith that this could ever be possible — so they want the Palestinians to just be gone.

Which sides wants the other "gone" ? If the Gazans had the power to do it I have no doubt they would kill hundreds of thousands of Israelis. I don't understand how you can even deny it. The only thing stopping them, for now, is lack of ability.
Hmm. I don't suppose you happen to know what a social imaginary is, do you?
No major real estate investor has a thesis of pure speculation. That would be insane and banks would never underwrite it. (If anything, buying for speculation is almost entirely the business of individual households who get huge subsidies to do so.)
Part of the problem is that the LSP protocol & model simply can't work with systems that aren't text-file-based; like a Smalltalk, say. Or stored procedures in a database. Or other heterodox models.

It makes the (probably reasonable) assumption that all development happens in file-based text editors, and imposes the text editor model. That's fine, but there are other ways to organize code objects, and the LSP ecosystem is mainly useless to them.

Which is frustrating for the people working in or on that model, but maybe of no concern to others and probably no reason VSCode etc would want to have focused on the possibilities of that alternative.

But it means people doing the heterodox will have to reinvent the wheel completely instead of partially.
Places like Vancouver, Canada do this through a vacancy tax. It doesn't appear to do much as those leaving the unit vacant are the extreme wealthy and just factor in the tax to the cost of maintaining the house.
There is some nuance here, PLA is not a petrol based "plastic". It has the similar proprieties than regular plastic but is made from organic material.
I was only referring to petrol based plastic, but not all bio-plastiscs are recyclable either.
Seconded. Nice, concise volume that helped me setup hosting for multiple sites on a single VM with different requirements (some reverse proxy, some CGI, some static).

Really looking forward to the 3rd edition of Absolute OpenBSD.
I've added a contact email to my user page, feel free to message me there.
I've had tinnitus since a few years ago. It went away since maybe 9 months ago. It came back this morning in the same second I read the title of this post.
Model building, at large, is the thing I regret being bad at. Model your problem and then throw inputs at it and see what you can see.

Sucks, as we seem to have taught everyone that statistical models are somehow unique models that can only be made to get a prediction. To the point that we seem to have hard delineations between "predictive" models and other "models.".

I suspect there are some decent ontologies there. But, at large, I regret that so many won't try to build a model.
I agree that Microsoft has no part in this. But, any computers which run Microsoft Windows has GPUs made by these Manufacturers: Nvidia,AMD,Intel and Qualcomm and all these Manufacturers have good Vulkan Drivers in Windows.

Thus said, even though Microsoft doesn't support Vulkan officially, you can tell that Vulkan has first class support on Microsoft Windows given that all GPU drivers have good first class Vulkan support and all Vulkan Applications run just fine on Windows.

> In reality, Vulkan doesn't matter much except on Android and Linux.

No, it matters. Vulkan is the first modern cross platform Graphics API which can run across Linux,Windows,Android,MacOS,Switch to name a few. No similar API does exist currently which offers high performance along with being portable.
Ultimately it's clear that we need to accept the disruption and lobby our governments to just ban single-use plastics entirely. The amount of microplastics we're seeing in samples across the world in addition to the general pollution and hazards they cause poses a problem.
Does it mean that a half (87% minus some losses of plastic material after melting it and forming again) of the brand new plastic bottles in your country are from reused material?
If property prices are going up 10% per year and price to rent is 30:1 (Vancouver) - to some it's not worth the risk of renting out the property.

You're just banking on leveraged appreciation.

Take a $2M condo. The rent is will be ~$60k for a year. The appreciation will be ~$200k, and the the principal (@ 3% interest - which they have if they're leaving it empty - is $35k).

You're getting an expected $235k if you leave it empty, and $280k (after vacancy and management) if you take on the risk of renting it.

Why go through all the hassle when the government is doing everything they can to pump up prices on leverage?
Have you considered using mimalloc? I gather it has a similar design to snmalloc, but mimalloc is written in C.
> get great earplugs. I have westone custom molds

I recommend using ear defenders whenever possible in louder environments. They're much more powerful than earplugs and much cheaper. A 30 decibel reduction for $30 is quite realistic.
Hyouka and Zombieland Saga are both really good shows. I especially loved Karatsu in Saga prefecture when I visited it back in 2019.

Apart from Yuri no Ice, Karatsu is also very aware of Zombieland Saga. I walked up to the tourist information desk at Karatsu station and asked if they had a map with spots for Zombieland Saga, and the guy not only got me one, but also marked a few additional spots while guiding me like "You know that scene in episode 1 where the girl was walking in the rain? That's this bridge right here", and lots more which even I didn't remember! I was really impressed how much knowledgeable he was.
Yes. Or more likely over half of every new bottle is reused plastic. Multiple European countries where this is the case.
if a property is empty for one month every two years, that's a 4.2% vacancy rate. That seems plenty reasonable - places need to be cleaned between tenancies, sometimes refurbished.
I never understood LSP in a good manner. Can someone explain it to me and how it differs?. Shouldn't the protocol be a standard way to implement things like completions for different languages?
I'm not sure if it's still the case since we moved away a few years ago, but the 24th St BART escalator used to be in a constant repair loop. It would get fixed for a short period, operate for about a month, and then go back to being out of service. Made me question if a similar scheme was in operation.
Do you know of any validation studies with Advanced Data Analysis (formerly code interpreter) in chatGPT? I think it can be excellent as a teaching tool.
Easy. Housing is not a commodity.
Well, Yugoslavia did cease to exist as soon as the "Soviet era" had ended.
London is about 1%. I'm looking for a rental now, it's brutal.
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> A metric minute is broken into 100 seconds.

> A standard minute has 60 seconds. There are 2.4 standard minutes in 1 metric minute.

Surely it should be 1.(6). I hope they didn’t change the definition of a second. It’s an SI unit.
You don't have to subscribe to send a patch to a mailing list.
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

> On topic: things people can run on their computers or hold in their hands. For hardware, you can post a video or detailed article. For books, a sample chapter is ok.

> Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.
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Same, I have had tinnitus since a child. The more you focus on it, the worst it gets. Best to accept that you have it and once you do the issues goes away (mostly), I still wake up sometimes noticing it, but it goes away.

I think this is a good approach to many mental & physical ailments, however it is easier said than done.
We're nowhere near the end of it, in fact the industry just doubles down on this model every year.

It's just the lowest common denominator, and it will always be that. Revision control tools, editors, compilers, the entire world is built around this. And there's no single alternative that could take its place.

The reality is that systems like a Smalltalk image or stored procedures in a database, or a fancy IDE, or whatever are just going to have to bundle tools for good interop with filesystems at that level, and that's just how it goes.

In the end what we have in text files is a mediocre, but universal, interop system.
Thanks to the author for the book and making it open access. I always admire these efforts.
> incinerated with energy recovery

Turns out the amount of energy recovered pays for the whole process.
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The more you believe that the more you should expect the stock price to move on announcements like this one.
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Read the actual article rather than the comments here. The article doesn't say that your recycling that goes to recycling plant doesn't get recycled. It says that most plastic doesn't even make it to the plant, and even the plastic that does can only be recycled the one time.

The article does not argue that we should not bother recycling, it argues that in addition to recycling we need to stop plastic at the source. It just has a bad title that sparked an unrelated conversation on HN.
This is always posted and it always irritates me for some reason. It isn't even worth the effort and it makes me more anxious knowing the tinnitus will return in seconds. It never works longer than that for me.

The only relief for me is to accept, ignore it, and do no further damage. Healthier living (lower blood pressure) and time (8 years) seems to has lessened the symptoms.
> Insurance is a similar market - and big earthquakes might wipe out a whole decades profits.

So not similar but reveres. Big earthquake is an "expenditure event" for an insurance company, not an "income event".
It seems odd because I did share Google Doc private docs very often in Slack in the past, and Slack would tell me that this was not a public document so it could not show a preview. So I wonder if something changed.
There’s quite a lot of non-packaging plastic being thrown away though.
> Use the “Following Tab” if you want to avoid the algo

This only works if all of the people you follow are also avoiding the algo; otherwise you will see its works in their retweets.
You can get 30 dB out of earplugs too.
I believe the Prohibition on the Purchase of Residential Property by Non-Canadians Act went into effect this year, it's going to be interesting to see if that does anything to help the situation, I'm cautiously hopeful. Fun story: When I graduated from college (20ish years ago) I moved to Toronto, one of my school buddies was a Chinese guy who mentioned he would be able to get me decent rent on a unit in a new construction condo because of some family connection. I took him up on it and lived there for 2 years. Over those 2 years I lived on a "ghost floor" - I was the only person on my floor and nobody was on the floor above or below. A family office had bought up 3 floors in the building and I was living on one of them. It was surreal to say the least.
From its design/specs, it looks to have very similar capabilities as a Sinclair ZX80/ZX81. And the lesser-known Jupiter Ace.

Read: ~3/4 of the time the CPU cycles through some tightly-coded ROM software, and character data from ROM + a bit of circuitry generates the monochrome video signal.

Roughly ~1/4 of the time (vblank) the CPU can work on user programs.

Given the constraints of composite video timing, the Galaksija must be doing this in similar fashion. So with a Z80 at 3MHz it would perform as if at ~0.8MHz. Slow (even by those days' standards!), but useable.

ZX81 is rather flexible in how it produces graphics (esp. with 16KB RAM). And has a "FAST" mode in which the video generation is skipped, giving full CPU speed @ the cost of a blank screen. Dunno if Galaksija can do this.

ZX Spectrum added dedicated video hardware (no CPU work needed to generate image), color, sound, and more extensive BASIC. So from programmer's perspective, a very different beast.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the very few people who re-implemented the ZX81's "ULA" chip (a kind of semi-custom gate array) in a CPLD. So I know a 'little' about how this works. :-)

If you want more info just ask. Not familiar with the Galaksija design though.
If you go to the my profile page and the click share button it gives you a link, which ends in the profile id number.
Have you seen this unix time clock? https://retr0.id/stuff/2038/
Given the studies on microplastics i.e. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34484127/ I don't think it's necessary to minimize the situation. If anything it needs more attention.
Thanks for the thought-out reply!

I am very interested in alternative models. For lack of a better rationale, I feel like journalism is a space with many problems, and as-yet unexecuted solutions, making it ripe for a good ole disruption. Easier said than done, surely.

I feel like its fundamentals just need to be translated. I like the idea of crowdsourcing - I personally think more newsrooms should crowdsource editorial, ask the reader what they want to read about and do a damn good job of writing it. This doesn't have to mean you will pander, or that you will be dumb. It just negates the problem of being a 'gatekeeper' of information, a problem so many people take issue with despite misunderstanding the fundamental nature of information creating
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I think books and magazines serve different demands. Books are infinitely re-readable and the reader has to really engage the content to enjoy it. Physical paper helps with that engagement.

Magazines are mostly short form, cheap content (excluding periodical literary magazines, indie 'zines, etc.) that are usually meant to share the latest news on some subject. Paper is an unnecessary medium with magazines, whose point is to convey contemporary information very quickly, so that people can gossip about it later and then forget about it when the next issue comes out.

In short: It's very difficult to replicate the experience of a book using technology (somehow books have survived the rise of e-readers), but social media optimized magazines down to their most fundamental elements
Yes, the F1 engines have pretty low volume 1.6 liters, V6. They burn around 140 liters of fuel during the whole race. Pretty easy to fit a big enough tank into the car.
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intercalation took millennia to get right and was driven largely by starvation due to crop failure.
FWIW, I haven't done that kind of setup for years because modern iOS/macOS does email server discovery, where you enter "bob@example.com" and then it does discovery and figures out the right imap.example.com:587 etc for you by looking at DNS.
> rsyslogd is not a default install item now, and when you install it, there is no init script.

It’s in the orphan-sysvinit-scripts package.
What are some ways to find libraries that issue cards to non-residents?
Martha Stewart: Convicted in 2004 for insider trading related to the biopharmaceutical company ImClone Systems.
Raj Rajaratnam: Founder of the Galleon Group, convicted in 2011 on 14 counts of conspiracy and securities fraud.
Jeffrey Skilling: Former CEO of Enron, convicted in 2006 for insider trading among other charges.
Michael Milken: Financier and investment banker known as the "Junk Bond King," convicted in 1990 for securities fraud, including insider trading.
This would mean that not too exciting results never get published. Just because a topic/finding is not earth-shattering now doesn't mean it isn't useful information for the future.
I work in applied ML and stats. Whenever a client gets pushy about getting a prediction and would not care about quantifying the uncertainty around it, I take it as a signal to disengage and look for better pastures. It is really not worth the time, more so if you value integrity.

Competent stakeholders and decision makers use the uncertainty around predictions, the chances of an outcome that is different from the point-predicted outcome, to come to a decision and the plan includes what the course of action should be should the outcome differ from the prediction.
Like. Absolutely. Because communist dictatorship. Like China. With differences (and perhaps more freedom), but still.
Eu is a complex entity, there's no such thing as “EU don't like it”.