skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any many of the structural problems are made worse by the “home is your piggy bank” mentality.

If homes are an viewed as an investment, people are incentivized to push for policy that drives prices up faster than inflation. It leads to NIMBY laws, shortsighted assistance to the demand side of the equation (lower rates, special grants/loans), and a reluctance to sell when the market is down.

Home instead should be treated like cars. Big purchases but always a cost. Profit is to be made from production, maintenance, and management. Not from ownership alone.
I Made This AI Tweet Writer/Generator
“Millions” is substantially overstating the impact of the subsidy ending.
Depends on what they are. I don't buy most fashion things. Sure, I have a few nicer pieces of clothes for special events where I'm expected to dress up. But most of my stuff is budget/practical and lasts a long time. I have a winter coat over 20 years old and even my good suit is over 12 years old (re-tailored). Shoes tend to wear out the fastest since worn out insoles can lead to medical issues rather quickly. However, some shoes can be extended with replacement insoles.
Habitat ReStore turned me away multiple times with brand new light fixtures and other new materials after a remodel. Both times they were at capacity. At some point my need to be rid of the excess thing exceeds my desire to do the right thing and warehouse it until they decide they’re ready for it. Into the landfill they went.
Have you ever sat through any diversity training in your career? I have quite a few times and it's... it's really not that controversial or disruptive.

If you have, I'm curious what subjects where raised that you found unhelpful or distracting to your professional work.
Just wait until you see how many people don’t read another book for the rest of their lives after high school/college.
The point is to get donations from people that are willing to donate. Not people that are willing to put in pointless extra effort.

Extra effort is just a negative. So is needing relatively large donations to overcome transaction fees.
True, looks like it's about 300$ less than the nearest AMD laptop with a similar screen.

Here's the full laptop title in case the link breaks.
ASUS Vivobook S 15 15.6 inch 3K OLED 120Hz Laptop Intel Core Ultra 7-155H Evo Edition 16GB RAM 1TB SSD Mist Blue (2024)
Why do you want to own a home? I'm guessing it's something like you want to save/invest money every month rather than tossing it down the drain on rent. In other words, it's the “a home is your piggy bank and retirement plan” mentality. If it's something else, I'm happy to listen.
Thank you. This is exactly my view as well. Folks before me got in when the getting was good, then pulled the ladder up.
Spectre was possible to attack from JavaScript:

https://leaky.page/
Sure, any payroll company (or their hackers) knows your salary.
This is one of the things I think is most sorely missing from RISC-V. ARM provides executable (but perfectly legible) pseudocode for every instruction. You don't have to rely on natural language to understand what an instruction does, which is really important when dealing with very complex ISA features which have many different (and sometimes contradictory) extensions. SAIL sort of fulfills this purpose if you squint but it doesn't feel like a specification like ARM pseudocode so much as a theorem proving language which happens to be the reference for the ISA.
Because outside of deploying your app as a web application there aren’t a lot of other ways to get your app onto Android devices aside from… developing Android apps.
>> and others will be bought by huge property management firms with the analysts and lawyers to still be profitable

Corporate mega landlords should be banned too.

As should foreign owners. Housing should be owned by the citizens and permanent residents of a country, not corporate mega landlords.
Wanting to own a home so you don't have to pay a monthly fee to have a roof over your head so you can save is pretty different from wanting to own a home so it can appreciate in value, thus essentially paying you something monthly, so you can not just save what you don't pay in rent, but also have that passive increase too, aren't the same thing, economically speaking.
This whole thread is bound to be overly emotional to the point of being incoherent.
44% Unicorn Startups in the US were founded by foreign workers
It's simpler than x86/arm, while having a couple improvements compared to minimal alternatives like MIPS based on hindsight & modern chips

See chapter 2: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2016/EECS-2016-...
Hehe that's what Craigslist is for. I've taken stuff like old formica counters and sinks for reuse. I've also sold things like old toilets. If there are people buying old used toilets, there are people who will take anything that is functional.

Ironically I've been trying to sell a few brand new items that I don't need, like a keyboard and mouse, but nobody wants those.
>I'd argue mostly it's been better than before... maybe those good times will come to an end[...]

"And the gods of the copybook headings, I notice outlast them all."
I had to pull out the ol' ungoogled chromium browser for this and for a moment I thought it was still a joke because of how absurd some of the ads were. One of them was a picture of an empty toilet paper roll holding up a toilet seat with the title "Put a Toilet Paper Roll Under the Toilet Seat at Night, Here's Why", and clicking it took me to a site[1] with a bunch of nonsense life hacks probably written by some AI. Surprisingly, the site itself has no ads, yet it does link to a bunch of scam products.

I thought Google vetted their advertisers? Are they just accepting ads from anyone now?

1: https://lifehack.getconsumerchoice.com/ (proceed at own risk)
I could not ask their sons to fight and die for the properties of the wealthy.

Lee Kuan-Yew, the former Prime Minister of Singapore said:

“Soon after separation, I resolved to enable every household to own its own home. If we were going to get the people to take National Service seriously, I could not ask their sons to fight and die for the properties of the wealthy. We worked out a personal savings scheme that allowed them to own an apartment painlessly through installments over 20 years. We sold the apartments to them at below cost to enhance their assets. Today, 95 per cent of Singaporean households are homeowners. It has immeasurably increased their wealth and our social stability. Without home ownership, we would have become like Tokyo, Seoul or Hong Kong, where the voters in the cities are disaffected because they pay a large proportion of their salaries in rents.”

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This is so wrong. US population growth rate, including immigrants, has been trending down for decades. Even the raw number has hovered around 2M per year. While building technologies, number of laborers, and financing has mostly grown over the same time too. We managed to build enough housing to hold the next 2M population generation before, we should absolutely be able to do it today.
Your personal timeline has nothing to do with it. The timeline of humanity depends on now.
There's another problem: the pels in an X pixmap can be 32 bits wide, max. So while ten bits per color plane is feasible, any more is not.

Looks like we're gonna have to devise a whole 'nother display protocol to accommodate larger pixel sizes... unless...
Last I looked they allowed 70% charge. Still, your point stands and I won’t rent an EV anytime soon unless I was treating as an extended test drive where my schedule didn’t matter.
Very promising tool based on a couple of questions I asked it! How did the cleaning of documents look like?
A manager authorizing you to commit a crime hardly absolves you of wrongdoing, legally or morally.
This is a sentiment I share, but with the caveat that a mortgage is the least amount you spend, since you also account for taxes, insurance, repairs, etc. Rent, by comparison, is the most you’ll spend.

But yes, generally, I’d like to have control over my place and not deal with a landlord dictating what I can and can’t do.
I'm not as huge fan of the controls. I have five fingers on my left hand, and there are six buttons there, so I'm constantly moving them around, while my right hand doesn't do much. Maybe figure out a way to use both hands?
I'm not convinced.

People don't say no to increased density because they are worried about increased overall housing supply affecting their house value.

They say no mostly because they like the place they are how it is, and they don't see any reason for it to change because the upside doesn't affect them.

And the rest of the time they are saying no due to a direct downside like having a new large building near them that wasn't there before.

I'm not saying that this attitude should be allowed, but let's be honest about the cause of it.
Nation state backdoor found in Cisco firewalls (again..?) [video]
The problem is that long division and poetry is a requirement but economics isn’t. And even when it is, the teachers skew so strongly leftward, kids don’t get a balanced view.

Ideally teachers and professors would go back to being 50/50 left/right, like how it used to be in the days before the Soviets started their global mindgames.
> Every house owned by a landlord is another house not owned by an owner occupier.

And every ounce of food owned by a company is not owned by a person. Oh right, that's why we allow people to produce more food.

As Communist China discovered, getting rid of landlords doesn't magically house more people. That just makes it harder to move to areas with more economic opportunities and ensures that any home that requires significant renovations will end up completely uninhabitable. You can offset this by asking the state to fund more housing development, but that still requires you to allow for housing development.
Another way to dissolve oil in water is to increase the pressure and temperature. Supercritical water is a non-polar solvent!
It is not entirely dependent on macroeconomic cycle either.

This place is called Hacker News. The application for YC asks about a notable hack of a system. Residential real estate is a very large system.

It is unlikely someone would hand you a free house in a desirable location, but it doesn’t mean everyone must join the ranks of homeowners via a property that anyone can find and “like” on a real estate app.

I’m not saying don’t save, do.

But if you are not looking for special circumstances to get in, you are indeed stuck competing on the basis of capital accumulation and credit ranking.
You can do this at home with a vacuum blender
Zero dependencies seems like a weird selling point, especially since it depends on Clap, Tokio, a Rust compiler...

A neat project, though. I think that this is best solved in the application itself (e.g. your server starts but returns HTTP errors while the database is unavailable), but being able to retrofit this behaviour into any existing application seems useful. Feels like something very similar should be built into tools like docker-compose.
Retro Game Internals: Contra Collision Detection
Inspiration for The Jungle Book?
Yeah I'd think mom and pop citizen landlords with one or two long-term rentals should be the least offensive of the bunch. But we're the ones least able to adjust to the regulations and changing economics. I'm thankful that I'm able to get out without taking a big financial hit, but I'm not sure if the end result is better for society.
Ok, theres only one option.

But let's imagine you're CEO of option 2. What do you think you might do differently which would make this site, in its original form, appealing to advertise on?

Having multiple ad companies doesn't sound like an improvement when the advertising space on offer doesn't seem to be good for advertising.

Or to put it another way, do you feel this space does have value, but Google is leaving that value on the table? If so, why hasn't some other company taken advantage of this value?
> Corporate mega landlords should be banned too.
> As should foreign owners. Housing should be owned by the citizens and permanent residents of a country, not corporate mega landlords.

This is completely insane. Envy is one hell of an evil disease, individually and especially socially.

I have an alternative proposition. Re-zone and deregulate to allow new developments. Lower all permits and taxes. Remove all barriers to capital and investment, foreign or otherwise.

Your housing costs will immediately drop.

Collectivism is the economic equivalent to creationism in biology. A false evil fantasy proven endlessly as failed ideas but fueled by primitive human emotions, envy and pride respectively.
> I've had to ask managers to sign off on shit I knew was unlawful before and I'd do it again in the blink of an eye.

> No salary is worth the risk of going to jail. It's just another job.

If you aren't willing to go to jail for your job, you probably should not be willing to commit crimes just because you have a manager dumb enough to provide documentation implicating both of you in the crime.
You do know that there is software that runs on more than one version of Linux (or even on a *BSD, MacOS or Windows), works with more than a single version of a compiler,...?
“Never” is a long time. I wouldn’t bet on that. It pays to remember that even the oldest SOTA model, GPT-4 is only just over a year old.
When Leonardo da Vinci was a boy, he went to the woods near his home and drew what he saw. He learned directly from nature.
No Capitalism is the greatest force for the improvement of the human condition known. That’s a fact and the problem is you have somehow been taught it’s only an opinion. It’s not, it’s an unambiguous empirical fact.
Seeing people reinvent make every 10 years is very frustrating. Just learn make!
"Dollar collapse" in this context means the dollar is extremely devalued -- something that is already happening in the long term.

It doesn't mean the entire government will fail.

Look for example at the Lira, Ruble or Argentine Peso.
Python is mostly the Perl of the current day. And it attracts tons of beginners, that also means nearly equivalent amount of bad code(Just like in the Perl days).

These days if you are doing serious work, you simply use Java. Especially if you want something running for years. Java is really the only option you have.

A decade back I interviewed at a major telecommunications firm. Python was the new fashion then, they were trying to rewrite a fairly big Java code base to Python. Anyway I didn't get the job. My friend did. After a few years of this they realised, Python was not a serious alternative for an application of that nature. And abandoned it midway.

I know several other banks that have had a similar arc. Python is an amazing glue language and perfect for lots of automation and adhoc glue work. Its just not meant to be a serious alternative for long term, stable applications which are typically written in Java/C++.

Other languages like golang have come up in the past. While they are really good for smaller applications. They are just not there for something serious. 'Simplicity' has different meanings in different contexts. Either way, I think both Python and Java are here to stay and will be used for tasks where they are good at.

But we are now past the 'Python for everything' days.
you can mention those in the descriptions and the data can be updated whenever you like.
Weight-loss drugs are changing the diet industry
> What are we supposed to do about it?

This situation is a smaller economic stage upon which the same script is playing itself out on the larger economic stage. The FIRE economy [1] and its accompanying regulatory capture apparatus that enabled the pricing out of your and younger generations relies upon capturing the value derived from the network effects of aggregating people into the same volume of space over time. There are ways for non-accredited investor actors in this dynamic to get out from under the feedback loop, but they all take more time than most are willing to put in and in some scenarios, more trust within larger groups than is usually culturally feasible.

Some of the backlash is already inexorably unwinding in the baked-in demographic collapse in many areas of the world, but that will take at least a couple more decades to impact housing prices in a material manner (to within 2-3X median annual income). Mass population-scaled solution implementations are still currently quite out of reach, but you can see lots of people reacting with solutions that fit their individual profiles at the margins: intentional communities, co-operatives, vanlife, tiny home, etc.

Anyone who is not directly, daily working in the real estate industry should be commoditizing that complement of their lives, but the real estate industry has successfully convinced most to work for that industry with the "your home is an investment" canard...periodically (on average once every 7 years in the US)...with a ~10% round trip transaction fee after all is said and done (better than 2 and 20 in many scenarios per unit effort, however you want to measure it). Most people cannot stand against the allure of "your home went up in value!!!", but it's a clever trap.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_economy
security or safety is not necessary in many situations and should not be forced onto users.

if your usage requires that fine. don’t place your requirements on other users.

also you are basically saying adopting linux is only for big tech. i don’t think that is in the spirit of open source.
Good 1990 movie about Cold War tension under launch, not a comedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4SiM5uAtTE
By Dawn's Early Light, great role for James Earl Jones.
That was the author's point, but I think it is undermined by the fact that the ads on the page are more obnoxious than the AI-generated content. The AI generated content is nicely hidden away underneath the huge banner ad and the full screen popup ad that the author wanted to include.
Digital Due Process – Casey Muratori [video]
You're wrong.

The reason I gave a specific use-case is because in this use-case, it does work like that. I did not give a use-case which had RF signals, large currents, or much of anything else. I2C "fast mode" is 400 kbit/s.

The reason things like STEMMA work is because everything is slow enough that parasitics don't matter, and power is low enough that voltage doesn't sag. The lumped element model is nearly perfect there.

Even many domains not like that -- let's say audio -- have a lot of places where abstraction break, but where those failures are well-contained. An audio amplifier might have 50MHz gain-bandwidth, and the layout around it needs to be pretty tight, but once that's a block, things matter a lot less. That's why you can have all sorts of analogue synthesizers where people plug blocks together. A qualified engineer needs to design those blocks, but connecting them, abstractions hold pretty well.

No one will design an oscilloscope or a software-defined radio front-end using React for Circuits. However, as much as those occupy a lot of engineer time, they're actually in the very tiny minority of boards people want built. Most things are pretty simple and dumb.

Heck, even many high-performance designs have simple stuff around them. If you're making a radio receiver, the RF might be voodoo, but you know what's not voodoo?

- The controller for the buttons and the seven-segment displays

- The battery charger / monitor circuit (at least as a block)

- The USB-to-RF232 converter for development (at least as a block)

- The power, temperature, and other monitors

- The neato audio spectrum bar display

- The bass/treble filter (at least as a block)

- A lot of the test fixtures needed to test the RF equipment (not all; a lot of the other test fixtures are deep voodoo; it depends on what you're testing)

- Etc.
Sure, I think we can agree that at Google scale the business interactions with me as a potential supplier are automated and soulless.

On the other hand there are several large supermarket chains where I live, and while I have a small artisinal cheese making hobby, so far my interactions with any of them to put it on their shelves have been equally soulless.

Perhaps in this context the issue is not monopoly, but rather that I have nothing of value to offer them.
No, let's be honest about the cause of it: it's because they want their housing value to keep going up. The parade of excuses is much less convincing than the plain, obvious, dramatic financial incentive.
It doesn’t, but also makes the manager not want to do anything as they are usually looking for someone to take the fall.
Is there a conference you would suggest that is the closest to scraping, generally speaking? As far as I know there isn't a scraping conference or strong community anywhere, and I'd like to learn and improve my skills.
That's why I use one of the free options. Both GenuTax and WealthsimpleTax are free to use and user-friendly, albeit in different ways. What extra thing does UFile do to justify its price?
+1 -- Increased density will change the neighborhood, but would also make their property more valuable!
Agree.

I should specifically mention their docs. The docs are easily approachable with plenty of clear and concise examples. I even have a pdf copy of the doc book for quick reference.
I am the post's author, and I was referring to a specific building [1].
My understanding is that the owners bought it, unlisted, with the intent to develop it into something else. The City then suddenly made a case for designating it as a heritage property.

This is an area with powerful neighbours who have a lot of time on their hands.

I actually think there's a strong case for preserving this property. I love the look. The architecture is very unusual for Toronto and it looks striking. But, it is always a bummer when you purchase a property with plans to do X, and then get a surprise designation after you pay the money.

[1] https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2018/cc/bgrd/backgroundf...
Can you elaborate on what the value of the site might be, to say a competitive advertiser, and how that value might be unlocked?
Google knows who the visitor is, what ads they clicked before and so on. They also know the search terms the site ranks for. What is on the site is just one clue as to what to serve.
You have that backwards. Better performance/value => higher pay. Why should we pay people more if they suck at their job? They should be fired.
For the dollar to collapse in this lifetime to the point you can benefit that way, it will take a major event that would also likely decimate the US real estate market.

Maybe for your children's lifetime, if they are lucky. It took Britain nearly 100 years to deflate from its hegemon status. Argubly, with the size and natural advantages the US hold, it will take even longer for them to naturally fall from its top spot.
Let's not forget, AOSP is still maintained by different individuals aside from Google. Google is mainly interested in integrating it's own "GApps" ecosystem, which introduces ridiculous amount of telemetry and degrades the security of the phone