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JS IS fast compared to many languages. In general use, it’s about as fast as Haskell.

Yeah. It’s in the order of 4x slower than Java for most things, but it’s also like 100x faster than Python.

It’s all a matter of perspective, but in general, JS is probably about the slowest language I’d be inclined to reach for for long term solutions.
Does it matter? If the ban is established, the US TikTok audience essentially goes to 0.
This is an incredible site that I've used multiple times over the years when planning European train travel from the US. Lots of practical advice on stations, routes, seating layouts, parking/walking, how/where/when to buy tickets, etc. An invaluable site, straight out of the late 90s/early 2000s when people used to build high quality websites that actually solved problems for people.

No idea how all the data gets kept up as well as it does, but I hope this site can continue for decades into the future.
but tourist could use a hotel, no? landlords are using actual houses to service tourists, whereas a new hotel would do just fine as well and not take 100s of units out the rental market. If housing affordability is a function of supply/demand, then lowering demand - e.g. by not allowing tourists to stay in houses that could be rented out - should certainly help just as well as increasing supply.
Do you think that well capitalized corporations (which, as non-humans, require no housing) are playing on a level playing field with regular people?

I think it's possible to formally model this, but if there are no caps on rent and no attractive alternative investments, it is always the efficient and rational move for a firm with excess capital to buy real estate because they can simply raise the rates until they get the return they want. People will require houses and you can see that in historically high multi-job holding statistics. People will work themselves to death to have a roof over their head.

In my life, larger scale single unit residential REITs are a new phenomenon, and the concentration of wealth that has happened this century has made single unit housing and rental and investable alternative asset class.

This is a really bad situation, it has too many parallels to feudal systems, or more recently, company towns in early 20th century America. This is a tragedy of commons dynamic that requires external intervention.

I'm worried you don't have a good handle on the number of houses and the excess lumber, copper, concrete, and steel for new properties and infra supporting them. That is just ignoring geographical scarcity, and the fact that not all geographies support building up. Just "building more housing" is usually not as easy as it is to sloganeer and blame nimbys.
I think you misread the comment, no? The comment isn't about Epic, it's about Apple being temperamental & emotional & digging themselves into deeper and deeper trouble.
Yeah, but nobody cares about the losers /s
Show HN: Wallstreetlocal – View investments from America's biggest companies
Hello Hacker News! My name is Anonyo, and I am a seventeen-year-old from Southeast Michigan. This is wallstreetlocal, my passion project for the last year (and a half). I've posted this before, but I've finally open-sourced this entire project, so I thought I'd post it again.

Heres the short pitch.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) keeps record of every company in the United States. Companies whose holdings surpass $100 million though, are required to file a special type of form: the 13F form. This form, filed quarterly, discloses the filer's holdings, providing transparency into their investment activities and allowing the public and other market participants to monitor them.

The problem though, is that these holdings are often cumbersome to access, and valuable analysis is often hidden behind a paywall. Through wallstreetlocal, the SEC's 13F filers become more accessible and open.

By exploring the website (and the code), you can see the resources I used, check out some notable money managers I listed, and download any data that suits you. All for free. (Note, the mobile site likely needs work.)

I made this project to better democratize SEC filings, and also to get some experience on my hands. I love computers, and one day hope to get involved with startups. In the comments, I'd appreciate any and all advice, as well as feedback on how to improve the site.
There’s no such thing as a demand issue. Canada should consider importing immigrants who can work in construction in addition to the billions of dirty Chinese money. Problem solved.
Seems that would mean its a supply issue? I mean sure, Airbnb does suck as in a lot of areas they skirt under the normal hotel rules/taxation but wouldn't building more help this problem?
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Reminder: this is the thing I'm responding to: "Everyone of a certain age knows at least one of their schoolmates or college friends that died in the war."

I didn't come up with deaths as the metric. Notice that only one comment mentions people being wounded: mine.
If I vacation in the US and use my EU payment method to pay for a coffee in the US, am I doing business in the US or in the EU?
How do you think the tax nexus plays out in that case?

Do you think the coffee shop owes income or sales tax to the country where the bank issuing my payment method is established? What if I am from EU country A but my bank is located in EU country B? Is A or B going to claim nexus?

I think there’s no need to be coy here because we both know that that merchant isn’t going to have to pay a dime to a government entity outside of the US and neither would I in this example, at least not insofar it is related to my purchase of the coffee.
Tired of these articles. 10 years ago they blamed wealthy Chinese investors and empty homes. They added the empty homes tax, limited foreign ownership and added a bunch of bureaucracy for everyone (at least two extra filings per year if you own property). The problem has gotten much worse despite this.

It’s basic logic: explosive population growth to few major cities with supply that has no hope of keeping up.
There are all sorts of ways for AWS to raise prices without explicitly raising the price for an r7g.x64:

1) Starting charging legacy fees like the MySQL 5.7 fees
2) Start charging for hits, IO, etc
3) Tier out fees like with Aurora IO optimized to increase revenue
4) Push support levers
5) Stop reducing prices for older instance models
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> Canada is building plenty of housing.

Canada is adding less housing stock than new residents (births plus immigrants minus deaths) every year, and the housing stock was already inadequate for the population 5 years ago.

I love that Canada is known as a welcoming country to people from diverse backgrounds, but the fact that the government treats housing and immigration policies separately is absolutely unhinged.
since original topic was about attack aircrafts, my estimate is that NATO without US has several hundreds ready to use attack aircrafts. Specifically largest contributors: Germany, GB, France have 150-200 aircrafts each according to wiki(many of them old and outdated), with half of them likely not ready for combat.

If you put various trainer, transportation, support role aircrafts, maybe it will be few thousands.
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If your government creates artificial demand - that's a demand problem.

The demand isn't real. It's synthesized from unsustainable government policies.

Set interest rates to -100% - see what happens to housing demand.

Is that a supply problem? Should Canada build 800 trillion houses to fill the appetite for free government money that will eventually implode? Or is it a demand problem because your government is dumb?
What about affordable hotels with reasonable living conditions?

Maybe the hotel industry needs disruption?

Every hotel I've been to was incredibly wasteful.
> This paper provides an overview of the cyber-attack on the British Library that took place in October 2023 and examines its implications for the Library’s operations, future infrastructure, risk assessment and lessons learned.

For a report from British--and a library, no less--the lack of Oxford comma cocnerns me.
This is good to teach programming.
I have used IBM Cognos before and may be biased, for complex logic text programming will be better than visual programming.
Higher success rates for web games using video based playtests
The whole prescription business is such a grift. Doctors deliberately give you max 2 years of a prescription that you know you will need for longer (such as allergy meds, eye prescriptions) and then you have to waste your time and spend money just to renew it.
50% of the workforce could be involved in construction, but if the product being built is slowly-approved with intensive white collar labor permitting single family spec development, not many new units will come out at the other end. A measure like workforce input needs to consider productivity.
Or "contains _ of EU and non-EU origin" (which I always interpret to mean probably 100% non-EU, but I wish they would at least say which countries)
I’ll agree, but it’s important to remember and consider grass-fed cattle cannot scale to any level resembling societies current beef consumption.
Ok, now I'm learnding some interesting and/or valuable shit.

I'm familiar with compiler intrinisics (e.g. __sync_add_and_fetch), but I just assumed (incorrectly) that "#pragma omp_parallel_for" was just a macro that adds pthread API calls into a for loop to create new threads and join when finished.

>Syntactically OpenMP is a really good fit for Fortran.

I can get on board with Fortran for the niche of scientific computing, although again my qualms are with using it in C++. Too many people say they know C++, but then write "C++" code with raw pointers. I don't use C++17 for performance, and most "zero-cost abstractions" are a lie; I use it for type safety. If you buy into the modern C++ way, you'll catch a lot of stuff at compile time that systems programmers using C and web devs using a litany of other weakly or dynamically-typed languages catch in their production environment.

>syntactic horror show of C++

Other than "string" not being a native type, I'd reckon what you really hate is not the syntax itself, but the compiler errors. Granted, if you hire the kind of people who post on Stack Overflow, you can get wacky shit like this:

template<typename Testicle, typename... Diseases>
static std::optional<std::tuple<Diseases...>> deeply::nested::namespaced::classes::suck_balls(const Testicle& left_nut, Testicle&& right_nut) noexcept; // Is "classes" a class or another namespace?

But I've had to fix other peoples' spaghetti code in 4 other languages, so I stopped blaming the language many moons ago.

>what drew me to implementing OpenMP originally, CUDA is a problem

Did you try Vulkan Compute, and if so what problems did you run into? 200+ lines of "setup" code, similar to OpenCL programming?

I ask because the entirety of my systems programming career was not speeding up number crunching, but reducing IPC and making things run asynchronously.
I worked on research that built machine learning models to take that 'entropy' or sensor pattern noise and to match it against photographs, to trace image lineage when EXIF and similar are stripped out.

For a practical application: as you can imagine, there are certain crimes where it really makes a difference if an image is just on a phone, or if it was verifiably taken by that phone. Possession-of vs. Production-of...
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Depending on what you're doing, a hotel can be a poor fit for your needs. I've spent weeks in hotels at once, and for me it got absolutely miserable quickly. A studio apartment instead was much, much better.
Fuel dump or burn it off by circling. Going elsewhere would be inconvenient to passengers unless they had a replacement plane and/or crew in LAX which was likely. Unless you're Delta flight 89 and then you dump fuel over populated areas at low altitude.
IIRC, there is (or possibly was) a "The Man in Seat 61" book. I made good use of it when travelling around Europe about 15 years ago.
AirBNB provides a service to out of towners who want to arrive, use very little social services, spend a bunch of money, and then leave. How is this bad? I don’t understand.
Well, RIP. You shaped my childhood.
> Unlike residents, tourists do not vote...

Do landlords vote? Are they residents? Many normal people are landlords. You will never be a billionaire. Some people will never be guilded professionals or make it to the Ivy League. Many of the normal people who "make it" in life will be landlords.

Everyone's income is someone else's expense.

In San Francisco, where I live, the idea to drive out the "techies" couldn't be more boneheaded. Where are those agitators now? Careful what you wish for.

I don't know how to convince people to lean less into the aesthetics of a political position. If you feel like you are saying something that boils down to, "the right people get all the things, and the wrong people got nothing," it's an easy position to take when charts are going up, when interest rates are low, and when you happen to be part of the group of "right people."
Yes that only but you can install a GUI + a web interface
I work mostly with functional programming languages where the function is the basic unit of code, what you say is true but is also true for "abstract entities". Not all classes need robust error checking if you control how they are being called.

> The basic unit of code is the procedure

I think ultimately this is where we think differently. If you are okay testing a whole class in an OOP context and calling that a unit test, then a test that calls multiple procedures (because one of them creates the input for the main procedure I want to test, for example) can also be considered a unit test.
HTML is not for non-technical people. The angle brackets alone are a stumbling block. I often point people to Google sites. Easy to set up a site and free. What it lacks are features and customizability, but those are the opposite of what non-technical people need. If the person is willing to pay, then I suggest SquareSpace.

Any solution that requires that something be installed or configured is not appropriate for non-technical people.

I should add that, in my experience, technical people are not well positioned to recommend solutions for non-technical people, which is why computers have not become any easier to use in 40 years. Those who regularly support or teach to non-technical people are in a much better position to understand what's appropriate.
No it is naive to favor employing citizens of a foreign adversary. There is no argument for this that isn’t based on emotions and “not being mean”
Of all the things to do in the world, why would this be worthwhile to Stability? Seems like a ridiculous accusation.
You've explained your value proposition vs. celery, but I'm curious if you also see Hatchet as an alternative to Nextflow/Snakemake which are commonly used in bioinformatics.
My city is popping up condos at a rate I haven't seen since I was in China in the 2000s.
I think TikTok's main problem is China, not Meta.

Many countries ban them because of that relationship and this hindered their ability to grow before Meta could go after them.
This is why people say billionaires have become so interested in space and luxury bunkers recently. They'll need places to go after they throw out Earth 1. If they can't find Earth 2 in time, they'll retreat to their isolated subterranean compounds and watch in comfort while the surface burns and the rest of us eat each other for survival.

I can't say how accurate that theory is, but I know that one way or another, we're going to need an Earth 2 if the species is going to survive so I'm glad we've got people funding space exploration. NASA sure as hell isn't getting the budget to do it.
I've been working remotely since 2012. I even lived in Asia for a couple of years (while working remotely). After my first couple of office jobs after college, I told myself I never wanted to work in an office again. It's worked out pretty well.
Tourism is a plague for local populations. The same exact thing was happening long before Airbnb in more touristic locations. Airbnb has acted as an accelerator of the same phenomenon to bigger cities.

It is not just about "supply and demand". We are talking about different markets. When you profit more from real estate by renting it to tourists vs renting it to long terms residents you are gonna throw residents out and get into the tourist business. In this, supply is largely irrelevant due to the huge difference in margins. Unless the tourist business becomes oversaturated you always profit more from tourists. And outsupplying the tourist demand is extremely hard.
In my experience, homelab means high powered or at least a lot of compute. People like me who have tiny, power saving devices are in the selfhosted communities.

There's no definition like that, but it happens to turn out that way.
I kind of expected that they wouldn’t push through with that silly ban.
where did you get this 50,000 housing units number from? This article quotes that New York got 15,000 units from their ban. Are you saying that Montreal has 3x as many short term rentals as New York?

https://www.wired.com/story/6-months-after-new-york-banned-a...
We can’t agree to disagree about something that is a fact and you’re wrong about.
Parsing floats faster in Java using SWAR
Surely with something as concrete as a substance, you accept the paper to give it a priority date, and then you wait on publication until an independent lab has verified the claimed properties? It either is or it isn't a room-temperature superconductor.

Of all the problems in science, this seems like one of the easier ones to fix.
Each task in Hatchet is backed by a workflow [1]. Workflows are predefined steps which are persisted in PostgreSQL. If a worker dies or crashes midway through (stops heartbeating to the engine), we reassign tasks (assuming they have retries left). We also track timeouts in the database, which means if we miss a timeout, we simply retry after some amount of time. Like I mentioned in the post, we avoid some classes of faults just by relying on PostgreSQL and persisting each workflow run, so you don't need to time out with distributed locks in Redis, for example, or worry about data loss if Redis OOMs. Our `ticker` service is basically its own worker which is assigned a lease for each step run.

We also store the input/output of each workflow step in the database. So resuming a multi-step workflow is pretty simple - we just replay the step with the same input.

To zoom out a bit - unlike many alternatives [2], the execution path of a multi-step workflow in Hatchet is declared ahead of time. There are tradeoffs to this approach; it makes it much easier to run a single-step workflow or if you know the workflow execution path ahead of time. You also avoid classes of problems related to workflow versioning, we can gracefully drain older workflow version with a different execution path. It's also more natural to debug and see a DAG execution instead of debugging procedural logic.

The clear tradeoff is that you can't try...catch the execution of a single task or concatenate a bunch of futures that you wait for later. Roadmap-wise, we're considering adding procedural execution on top of our workflows concept. Which means providing a nice API for calling `await workflow.run` and capturing errors. These would be a higher-level concept in Hatchet and are not built yet.

There are some interesting concepts around using semaphores and durable leases that are relevant here, which we're exploring [3].

[1] https://docs.hatchet.run/home/basics/workflows
[2] https://temporal.io
[3] https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/08/12/state-machines-to-...
The point is supply does not match demand. Immigration is unlikely to ever be low enough to counter the housing demand at this point - every single corporate/lobbying group in Canada is pushing for more immigration, and every single relevant political party is very clearly signaling that they will always bow to these demands.

And I agree that a lot of our economy and workforce is already dedicated to building housing - increasing this is not a realistic solution.

The only realistic way to improve the supply/demand is to disincentivize the investors from gobbling up the majority of our new housing supply.
>> small-scale hunter-gatherer or agrarian communities

The key is "small-scale". On the other hand humans are closing 10 billion, sorry but I don't see how such a number of people can live on the dole.
Canada would need to increase housing faster than population regardless; Airbnb is just a red herring.
for real. small time landlording is a drag, living under damocles' sword, one bad tenant or calamity away from getting months of your life ruined. small time airbnb renting is just gravy in comparison.
Why do you classify his death as a murder and not a suicide? To me it just looked like a foolish act.
Do you have a source for that? (it's not that I don't believe you it's just that I wanted to find this and couldn't).
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It sure felt that pronounced the first time I tried to follow a Tesla up a freeway onramp while riding my motorcycle and it just ghosted me. I had never seen a four-wheeled vehicle move like that before.
Failing to perform a piece is not a mistake, it's a failure. The word simply means "an attempt that did not succeed". Failed attempts are a natural part of progress and learning.
Think you can find any of those discussions? I'd be curious to read/browse.
More of a reallocation

If a small inventory can break supply even worse that’s an under supply issue not just demand or Airbnb.

Markets will prioritize around profitable transactions.
Four new models that are benchmarking near or above GPT-4
Airbnb isn’t really that cheap anymore especially for full places
To an extent, why not? When I was child, it was expected of me. I failed in that, but I realise that I'm the only person to blame for it and it means I wasn't intelligent enough.

If it will take me 50x tries to do something and someone else of that same background will do it in 25x, that means I was doing something utterly wrong.
Also an increase below inflation/wages is a drop, particularly if sustained over a long period of time.
AirBnB means the income a property can gives is based on worldwide incomes. This is incredibly dangerous for somewhere with lower wages/cost of living (which the article says includes Montreal), as now basically every property can make more as an AirBnB than it could renting to local people.

When tourists can afford more than locals, the "efficient" market solution is to ensure the tourist market is fully supplied, even if the local market is not.
absolutely unhinged

It seems less than ideal, or maybe even illogical, but calling it "absolutlely unhinged" feels a bit dramatic. I'm not from Canada - how does Canada currently relate housing and immigration policy, and how would you propose they change it?
How many political parties rule Canada? Fun with statistics