skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer the variant where nobody owns land-- the local government can lease it out on a term basis. Homes might be leased on a long term-- 10-20-100 years, but commercial land should be on 5 years or less.

This gives the local government an opportunity to identify properties that are going into decline and intervene quickly. It also creates an incentive for developers. Any money they put into improvements disappears if they don't meet a minimum anti-blight standard for lease renewal.

My city spent decades playing chicken with the owners of a dead strip mall. This wasn't even "dead" as in "down to a Spirit Halloween and seven smoke shops", it was "fully fenced off and crumbling." This was a decent location-- right opposite a major mall (when they first boarded things up, but finally closed around 2020), 2km from a freeway, 2km from a community college, but the buildings were circa 1979, and the owners really wanted to get the local government to pay part of the cost to renovate it.

Since there was no "normal process" way to regain control of the situation, there were just years of simmering squabbling and occasional legal nastiness, that ended with the city handing out some tax incentive, and suddenly the blight was knocked over for fancy condos inside of 6 months.

Now imagine if that property had been leased from the city. The mall owners close the doors in 1996 or whatever. By 2001, the lease would have expired, and the city could either say "you let it rot, no renewal", retaining an asset with only a few years of decline to repair, or the lessee would have to present-- and deliver-- a compelling refurbishment plan if they expected to keep the lease.
I love these books, my favorite is the Engines[1] one but this one is a close second.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Engines-Inner-Workings-Machines-World...
Sadly this happens to many innocent players, also got permanent ban just for buying this game, I didn't even play it, not even once, I don't know how this game looks like.. I bought it and I received a ban for my account.
... and no-one does that, to a first approximation.
Doesnt matter, gives dudes the testosterone tingles seeing people throw ball and run fast
What I do not understand is the mechanism people are referring to here. What political action was taken, which party voted?

The entire western world shares the same problem, you'd think there would be exceptions if it was just politics.
For Gmail, Google keeps backups of mail boxes and their transaction log. This way they can rewind the mailbox over a period of weeks.

It's basically a continuous backup.
True but really it's part of the Russians' MO to leave traces.

They will scream in your face denying it but at the same time they make sure there is no doubt about who is behind it. After all, it's a message and there's no point to it if it's not clear who 'sent' it.

This is reinforced even more by the fact that their attacks are annoying pinpricks (and many of them) but not really debilitating. Cleverly skirting the limits of an act of war. I doubt they'd actually kill our entire power grid even if they could (and I do believe they could, they have a lot of experience at this, and as the article states our security is still shit).
> they could just have the university own the property and the sports team would rent it from the university and avoid the property tax like that

You don't let them do that. If it were that trivial, all real estate would be owned by non-profits.
> Is there a single growing democracy

I'm an Australian living in Asia. My rent hasn't gone up in 5 years. The state I'm in is growing about 7% annualised and hit 13% GDP growth this year. It accounts for over 30% of the nations export value despite being 8% of the population.

Friends back home have been getting 10-20% annual rises in that time, for houses that are falling apart and they are terrified to speak up for fear of eviction, it's gone completely out of control.

The main difference I can spot is the sheer amount of supply that comes online here despite equivalent population growth. If developers want to build a 45 storey apartment block they can, under the caveat that 20% of apartments must be for low-income earners.

In Australia if you tried to build the same building even a km from the CBD of Sydney people would be up in arms, politicians would be leading rallies to halt development and it would eventually have to go through the courts dragging the process out for years until the builder goes broke from legal fees. It's a tried and true method across the country.
I don't think the parent meant the cost of the actual appliances, but designing a house to accommodate them - the power, plumbing, ventilation, fire & smoke prevention and detection etc
Thanks for engaging. Unfortunately this is still a little bit too handwavy and vague.

I think it would help to flesh out your 3MB/400MB example. Something but not quite necessarily conforming to a set of steps to reproduce would be really reassuring in the, "Look, really, there's nothing up my sleeve" department.

Again, what I'm after is a hypothesis that can be clearly stated and subsequently proven or disproven. We're trying to do science here[1].

> the more dependencies you add to your source, the more you have to keep it all up to date

There's something unspoken here that you're leaving out, because that doesn't follow. (Or, to put it another way, "Compared to what?")

> We use package managers to explicitly say "These things are required to build and run but don't belong to me, my project, or even my organization"

I know what you're getting at, but that is neither explicit nor is being able to "say" that the reason why. (If that were the true reason why, a file that simply says exactly that would suffice. And indeed, continuing to use your existing package.json as-is is not something that's precluded by the commit-all-your-dependencies approach.)

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38427548>
No way. My mom called me today and we spent an hour trying to figure out where her Google Drive files went. I was unable to figure out how this was happening and I'm convinced this must be the cause.
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>Two thirds of adults globally (64%) report being happy

I think the idea that this reality is a simulation gives people comfort that all their problems are not real and there's a reality somewhere else which is more fair?
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Just use typst, way easier to install (single binary) and use (much easier to write directives): https://typst.app

I use the commandline binary, you could use the website as well.
25 as of a report from 3 years ago.
Thought-provoking thoughts. How would an “open and free canvas” work? How would “being out there” work (experiencing something without being an observer)?

I mean, reality might be just what it is even if it feels and looks like a simulation.

How living outside of the simulation would feel? Could we tell it is not a simulation?
> So at what point does anyone get to keep the money?! The only ones that win are the banks.

When they retire and downsize. The housing market is a scheme designed to funnel money from the young to the old. That’s why they keep voting for policies which keep house prices high. It’s not uncommon in many countries for the older generations, who bought their first homes for peanuts, to own multiple homes. They’re doing really well out of this chaos. All while young people are having to delay families because they can’t afford rent, let alone an apartment or home.
That's fair! I, probably unfairly, split up regulations and "regulations" based on who profits and why.
The real question is whether it’s better off in the fireproof safe that you most likely will not have time to access in an actual emergency, or directly in your emergency “go-bag”.
> So at what point does anyone get to keep the money?!
When it's inherited. No doubt inheriting a large sum helps people trade up to a better property, and park a new range rover out front.
The second law of thermodynamics creates the arrow of time, only pointing to the future right? And aren't all other laws of physics time symmetrical? What explains these laws co-existing better than it being part of a simulation?
The weather window for a TW invasion is pretty narrow, the winds and currents in TW straight. No good beaches for amphibious landing. Basically only May and June are available.
There is always the option that humanity eradicates itself into oblivion before the technology for building a simulation has been developed.

Looking at how green/co2 certificates work, looking at politics and misinformation, looking at escalating wars out of stupidity, looking how many countries have been far-right-winged lately into Sharia law,...I think that's the far more likely option.

Humans are petty, humans are irrational, humans forget too quickly.

Always bet on humans acting like psychotic apes wanting more bananas even when their belly is so stuffed that it almost explodes.

Whether you want to admit that this is how the planet works or not doesn't matter. In the end, right wing populism always wins because they bet on stupidity and irrational beliefs, not on compromise and rationality.
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It's an OS inside an OS, you have to setup everything twice (Windows AND Linux) and file system access times always bites you one way or another (with WSL2 it's the IDE on Windows that suffers from accessing the Linux FS). Because it's in a container, localhost does not get resolved to the Windows host, so if you have stuff that's spread across both OS it's also annoying. Also has weird issues with corporate VPNs. And the other day switching to fish shell as default would just freeze the whole container with no way to debug it, WTF? Unlike a real Linux env, it's a black box, if it starts acting weird your best bet is just to trash and recreate it.

I mean, it works and gives a somewhat decent Linux CLI experience but personally I stick with MSYS2 whenever I can so I have a single env to deal with.
No, because animals don't have human rights.

We jail animal abusers based on a real-world idea of "pre-crime". (Unmotivated animal abuse strongly correlates with unmotivated violence against humans. For this same reason cartoon child porn is also illegal.)
I lived in the Inner West (Camperdown and Chippendale) for about 15 years. I felt really lucky that I could walk everywhere (with some effort, and I had reasonable free time) and didn't need a car. It was fun, learning all the routes and being able to see what was going on in all the suburbs around me. I was also lucky that I was pretty near a main road (Paramatta Rd) and buses were easy to catch.

I moved away a few years ago to a much smaller city (Canberra), and find it's actually more car-centric than where I lived in Sydney, which is a shame. I also see my co-workers (still in Sydney) who have transportation centred around their car, although about half commute via public transport.
It could be done with a non-advanced non-AI for decades. E.g. by metrics like vocabulary and simple markov statistics.

You don’t expect posts to be deleted on request. Because e.g. the internet archives will still contain them and have no way to identify you to “comply”. There’s privacy in labels, but not in essence. Just accept it.
Great, more ways for people to die.
Reads like chatgpt gen comment
Because the people who lost files are the product Google sells (to advertisers), not the customer.
They have the video, they have the operator input, they have ground truth from observation drones for 2 years.thus There already is an AI trained on it?
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> most of them are full on charities

Which would still be fully tax-deductible. The portion going to staffing should not be a charitable deduction. They should pay property tax on their performance halls like secular ones do.
To really understand HTMX you need to follow the Twitter/X account

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I can't imagine having any data in someone else's so-called "cloud" like this, let alone important data.
"In some ways, it's nice for there to be a responsive community, but in other ways, I think a trillion dollar company should pay for excellent customer service."

Surely the company must provide customer service for advertisers. Perhaps it's excellent.

Not sure that people using Google Drive for free are customers. They are potential ad targets and potential sources of data useful for an online ad services business, though.
Quote: which is incompatible with every operating system in the world

Should be some, not every, since there are OS’s where string types are utf-8, eg BeOS and Haiku
Oh, I'm interested!
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I didn’t want to say it…but yes. Every time I google something like that I end up on some Apple page with the borg asking “Well why would you want to do that?” to something completely obvious that people should be able to do.
I was Googling Pixel Watch 2 carrier availability for the Australian market and ended up on the Google Support thread where someone had asked when certain carriers will get the watch. The "accepted answer" was one of these support volunteers who was based in Europe and all they had done was regurgitated the support article and pretended it was an authoritative answer. They added no value whatsoever and caused the thread to be over thanks to their "accepted answer".

I was confused why someone had wasted their time doing this, so I snooped around a bit. As far as I can tell it's a CV building exercise for some people and nothing more.
True, but it's always good to have a backup of Google Drive through something like Syncdocs or Duplicati.
There are several more with abbreviated titles,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29829483 ("Beej's Guide to Unix IPC")—Jan. 2022 (54 comments)

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=beej.us/guide/bgipc
> Surely the company must provide customer service for advertisers. Perhaps it's excellent.

Not really. Google is a monopoly with a huge moat, so pretty much everything they do is pretty shit. (But yeah, for actual Google customers there's actually some sort of customer support.)
> Before you get used to it, when you see a time you'll have no idea what time of the day it is. Is it early? Is it late? Is it during lunch time?

That's not a real problem, IME. If someone invites you for lunch, it's going to be at lunch time. If someone wants to schedule a meeting, you have to check your calendar anyway.

> You need to convert in your head "11am here means midnight where I come from, so that's actually really late".

No, you don't. Converting in your head is the wrong approach just as it is for languages. Just get used to when you're going to bed and getting up. (And don't use AM/PM - why would you ever do that? Even within a single timezone it only causes confusion)

> How is using a single time going to help with waking something up because it's the middle of the night for them?

Because you never have to add or subtract a time, which is where most mistakes happen.

> If someone is 6 hours behind you, you'll need to keep in mind that their 10am means what would be your 2am. Even though you both call it 10am, you would definitely not want to call them at 10am.

Right, so you need to know when they go to sleep and when they get up, and not call them when they're asleep. But there's no arithmetic to get wrong, there's no risk of adding six hours instead of subtracting six hours or vice versa.
Having read Marx, it's important to understand that the political economy he discusses although founded on LTV, is substrate independent, ie: it could just as well be affixed on top of marginalism. The reason that no one has done so is that it doesn't matter and wouldn't change anyone's minds.

The interplay between social relations and economic relations are the entire point of the body of work and are entirely separate from any particular conceptualization of economics.

It's a much more mature and honest stance to say, yeah, he was wrong about this minutia, but right on these other things.
This is very very likely. Source: worked on the storage backing Google Drive. There’s layers upon layers of backups.
Japan has a fundamentally different take on housing due to several reasons.

Essentially, the way society view housing is different - buildings are more akin to consumer goods like cars. Housing value is tied to the standards of the steucture and the cost of maintenance in addition to its location, etc. As building codes improve and new buildings become more robust to earthquakes and other natural disasters, older buildings drop in value. In some cases the house would have no value beyond the value of the land.

In large population centres like Tokyo, the effect is not as drastic but it's still evident as housing prices in Tokyo is pretty affordable for an Alpha+ global city.
Any file/directory in Google Drive could have multiple parents by design (this behavior was discontinued a few years ago), so a directory appearing in two separate parent directories doesn’t necessarily indicate a quirk.

Another counterintuitive thing about Google Drive is items with the same name can coexist in the same directory.
Stupid question: can't we just start selling homes to each other at cost? Like, the cost it would take to build that same home again [on the same land], rather than speculative value.

I imagine the price of the house would fluctuate with the price of construction costs, so if you bought a home when construction cost $300k, and now it costs $250k to construct the same home, you'd be underwater if you tried to sell it. So either people would be stuck in the same home forever (which won't work for some people) or the home could be sold at the value that the owner originally paid. Which would mean the home would cost the same... forever... which would lead to homes that are more expensive than new construction. I suppose that would then cause new construction to increase, until new construction is more than the cost of existing homes, in which case the market would get tighter as new construction slows. I can't think of the other potential ramifications, but it does seem like it would get complicated and might not be the solution I'd like (assuming people would ever go along with it to begin with, which they wouldn't...)
That’s because it totally was generated by a large language model.
Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.

Learn to backup and don’t blindly trust a single company. Depending on the data, a single external USB drive might be enough, but if you have important files you’d better have a backup strategy in place (like the 3-2-1 backup rule).
I'm seeing 7.6m km^2 vs 9.8m km^2?
I'm running through Andrew Ng's "Machine Learning Specialization" course on Coursera right now. I plan to do his "Deep Learning Specialization" immediately after.

There's not a lot of formulas and math so far, which concerns me because I eventually want to understand papers.
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Check out Mentava [1] (backed by Garry Tan, IIRC). Their goal is to have kids reading and doing basic math much younger, so that they are ready for high school level coursework by the time they are in late elementary school. I heard about it after my kids were too old for the program, but it sounds interesting.

1: https://www.mentava.com/program
Unless you absolutely force them, their interest is a huge factor in what they’ll learn. I started to read when I was 2 (presumably late 2), and my parents did nothing special but read to me. I just wanted to read, I was really into it, and I was able to associate the letters with the sounds.
The answer was pretty clear: the films were made for streaming and the new CEO doesn't think streaming is a priority and is choosing to write them off to save money.
> North [America] is more than 3x the size of Australia.

A generously loose interpretation of the original claim is that the continental US, rather than North America, is about the same size as Australia. Which is true.
> he was wrong about this minutia, but right on these other things

I totally agree. And in a technical sense, his work is correct. If we didn't do wealth transfers or antitrust enforcement and had prolonged low or zero real growth, what he predicts would happen. (Same with Malthus.)

The point is those minutiae matter. Which is why, as a philosophy, Marxism holds its own. As an economic theory, it doesn't. Calling his theories on capital accumulation undisputed is simply wrong.
> I would love to hear of other low(er) barrier-to-entry ways to use LaTeX.

My FOSS desktop editor, KeenWrite[1], converts Markdown to XHTML, XHTML into TeX, then TeX into PDF. Users may drop into TeX itself for math, if needed. Behind the scenes, KeenWrite passes the document to ConTeXt along with a theme.[2] The theme abstracts away most of the complexities of TeX.

There isn't a resume theme, yet, though there are some available for ConTeXt that would be tempting to abstract.[3]

[1]: https://keenwrite.com/

[2]: https://gitlab.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite-themes/

[3]: https://github.com/BruXy/resume
I do mostly construction financing for a living and can confirm, housing construction costs in BC are ludicrous. A major factor in the jump is the build code changes and new environmental and safety requirements. All those extra electrical circuits and that extra insulation is making houses significantly more expensive than they used to be.
I don't the know the number of hours in 1951 that make up a year's worth of work (today we use 2000 as the usual number of hours), but 1951 US Census data seems to approximately bear out what I wrote: https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1952/demo/p60-01... :

"The average person's income was up by 10 percent between 1950 and 1951, according to estimates released today by Roy V. Peel, Director, Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce. For all persons 14 years old and over receiving any money income, the average (median) income was estimated at $2,200 in 1951 as compared with $2,000 in 1950. The median income of men, which has been rising steadily since the end of World War II, showed a record postwar gain in 1951. The 1951 median of $3,000 was about $400 above the 1950 estimate, and the proportion of men receiving incomes or $5,000 or more rose to 14 percent from 11 percent during the year."